Salted Wounds [IC], a Deep Black Sea game Options

[Jack_Spade]

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Mage uses astral combat against Anna's spirit:
Astral Combat: 18d6t5 5
Spirit defense: 12d6t5 2
Do you want to roll edge on the spirit's behalf?
Otherwise the spirit is in for 10 DV + net hits
Spirit soak: 6d6t5 2
So pretty much exactly disrupted.

The fog the mage had turned into didn't stop on it's way upward, but delivered a powerful mystic punch to Anna's spirit.

[Gilga]

With a series of defensive maneuvers, Anna's spirit dodged the mage and seized an opportunity to lend a powerful kick to the unholy thing.

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Anna has no edge, but her spirit will go full defense.
Full defense dice: 6d6t5 4

In Jack's words 'Denied!'

Spirits can (and should) play to their strengths. No reason why it'll allow itself to be disrupted.

In her turn, (either initiative 13, or 3) - she'll power kick the mage back into hell.
Astral combat: 12d6t5 7

[Jack_Spade]

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Fair enought, but dare I say: not so fast: That means the Guardian Spirit that followed it's master can act now:
Ini 13: Guardian Spirit
Astral Combat: 14d6t5 3
Anna's Spirit defense: 17d6t5 4

Followed at Ini 11 by the Spirit of Man
Astral Combat: 12d6t5 5
Anna's Spirit defense: 16d6t5 5

After that your full defense Spirit is resolved.
Mage goes to full defense too (forgoing his remaining action)
Full Astral Defense (to Pretty to Hit): 20d6t5 5
Full Astral Defense (to Pretty to Hit) Edge reroll: 15d6t5 4

The astral attack was almost guaranteed to hit, but the massive forms of two spirits and their psychic attacks delayed the spirit just a fraction of a second long enough for the mage to evade again, moving steadily upwards.

[Thanee]

Nova moved into the entrance of the flat, where Battery had gone down, with cold determination. She ignored the other mercenary for now, while her gaze was focused on the one that had been such a thorn to their side. Raising her rifle, she fired a single shot right into his head to make sure that guy would not see the light of day again.

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Poor Self Control (Vindictive): Kill Battery.

[Jack_Spade]

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I need the exact result of your shot, so correct me if I got the numbers wrong:
Shoot Battery: 20d6t5 10

Total of 23 DV AP-8

Soak: 14d6t5 3
Spending edge to reroll misses:
Soak (Edge): 11d6t5 5
15 DV
Full P Track and 4 into overflow.


Assault: Sees his buddy getting executed,
Simple Action: fires grenade launcher at 6m distance directly at Nova's position.
Grenade: 12d6t5 5
Simple Aciton: Vault through the closed window (now shattered window)

16P AP-2 -2/m distance

Assault gets blasted with 4P AP-2
Soak: 35d6t5 13
No damage

Battery:
Soak: 20d6t5 3
Ground zero takes 13 damage (reduced to stun through armor), but still rolls over into overflow, killing him

The cheap walls do not reflect the blast.


Everyone who wants to use run for your live, please calulate how much movement you have left at the end of this round. Anna and Sharkboy are 1 m away while John and Nova are at ground zero.

Despite being shot at, the huge mercenary watches in horror as Nova executes his friend. For the first time in this combat the team can hear the man's voice - a surprisingly high, raspy sound: "Noooo!"
That moment vanishes in an explosion as the man pulls the trigger on the cheap rifle with the attached grenade launcher.
A "Fump" sound is followed by the detonation of a high explosive grenade, that tears through the cheap drywalls and fills the air with smoke and dust. The merc himself is hit by the blast and uses the momentum to smash through the window behind him and vanishing from sight.

[Gilga]

Anna is horrified by the execution and the grenade, but living with the nightmares is for later. She runs instinctively and without much thinking back to the flat she entered, and into the scaffolding. Perhaps she'll have a glimpse of the escaping combat monster, though she does not feel especially motivated to incapacitate him right now.

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I rolled composure to see if she can carry on despite her emotions.
six success so she will.

[Thanee]

Nova stood right next to the grenade, when it went off, but her body was quite resilient and so the blast did not cause much more than some minor bruises.

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Damage Resistance 10 hits + Edge 4 hits => 2S

[Volker]

James sets in motion when his sensors pick up the flying grenade, and does what he really was designed for: move nimbly and quickly.
Quickly, bnJames runs down the stairwell full of gas and keeps their head down.

[SquirrelDude]

"Don't leave before you get an autograph!" Sharkboy yelled as the mercenary as he ran out through the apartment and dove after the mercenary.

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Action: Run for your life, -5 initiative.
Gymnastics, Diving through a window: 17d6t5 2 Well that happened

[Gilga]

Anna is astonished by the fearless James and Shark that run after the mercenary. She fires her stunbolt at him requiring a small hand gesture.

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Initiative 5: (third initiative pass) Compelx action F6 stunbolt, (3 drain).

Stunbolt: 13d6t5 6
Drain:
Stunbolt (drain): 15d6t5 5

[Luckace]

The spirit inside the corridore had swiftly dashed away from the incoming grenade.

In the flat below, Wraith's body sunk into his chair again, as he fully entered the astral plane.

[Jack_Spade]

The mercenary had rolled onto the cold scaffold, still holding his rifle as Anna's psychic assault hit him hard, yet he didn't even seem to notice as blood began trickling from his nose.

Upstairs, Anna felt through her spirit's connection as the Mage errected a powerful magical barrier around him - yet it was extremely focused allowing him to exclude the spirit. His two minions used the opportunity to bash at the spirit but didn't manage to land a hit before they too went to the side of their master, hiding within the barrier.

Small fires had broken out in the demolished flat and bnc had barely time to realize that she would have to clean James really carefully before working on him with all that DMSO Narcoject coating the robot.
A short mesage reached her from Eliza: <<The hacker reappeared a moment ago. I'm keeping him occupied, but I'd guess that means someone has called in reinforcements. My suggestion is: Disengage at your earliest convenience.>>

[Volker]

Ugh, frag! James, darling...
Before responding to Eliza, bnc tries a last time to bring down the mercenary. If they could caught him alive, he might provide vital informations. Besides, the others were slower to retreat than James anyway, so why hurry?
With some quick mental switch flips, bnc turns down some of the more aggressive and more illegal utilitiy progs to gain an edge in processing power she'd need for a clear shot. A blink of an eye, and the camera feed of the drone maximizes in her vision, sporting an aggressive crosshairs somewhere in the middle. With a flick of her hand, she turns the drone around, focusses on the fleeing Assault and quickly - rap-tap - hits the salvo button twice.

[Jack_Spade]

The salvo hit true on the mercenary lying on the ground, but despite the heavy armor piercing caliber, there was no blood, as once again the man had managed to bring one of his heavily armored arms between himself and the bullets.

[Thanee]

Nova moved to the window, where the other merc vanished and seeing him down below, she aimed her rifle at him and fired a shot.

Afterwards, since she heard the warning from Eliza, she cuts her wireless connection to the Matrix.

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Move: Walk to the window
SA: Aim
SA: Shoot Assault (Longarms 7 hits ) - DV 13P AP -8
Free: Shut down wireless connection

[Jack_Spade]

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Defense: 14d6t5 4
Soak: 28d6t5 7
9 stun to his existing 8
Means full stun track and 3 physical

Ok, new Ini for everyone left on my side:

Assault: Ini: 15+3d6 22
Mage: Ini: 16+4d6 27
Bound Guardian Spirit Ini: 14+3d6 23
Ini: 14+3d6 25

Ther merc mec shuddered at the impact and by the dent in his armor had clearly taken a bad hit, but still didn't stop moving.

[Gilga]

Anna's spirit quickly enveloped the mage wiht a mana barrier, and then used a second barrier offensively - but alas the mage's barrier was too powerful for the spirit.

[Volker]

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init phase 31:
Free Action: talk and share ARO feed (I didn't find any rules regarding the image feed required for I am the Firewall, so I just assume it's kind of a Free Action. Also, I'm not sure whether I can still talk when doing so but a single word should always be possible. If not, bnc'd just shut up, as it's not important anyway.)
Simple Action: command van
Simple Action: take aim
Movement: walk to the window

(@team) "Coming"
While slowly moving towards the kitchen window of the flat next to her old room, bnc sends a message to the autopilot of the van to start the engine and steer the car round the corner. She then focusses on her flying drone again, hoping against hope that she can take out Assault before he can escape once and for all.

[Jack_Spade]

Upstairs the fog suddenly coalesced back into the form of a man - which promptly lost it's dual nature and just walked out of the effect of the mana barrier and out of the room.

One of the guardian spirits raised it's fist and smashed it against the barrier

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Guardian Spirit
Astral Combat: 14d6t5 5
Resist: 6d6t5 0
Barrier takes 12 damage and collapses.

Bound Guardian Spirit
Uses Fear on Anna's Spirit
Fear: 14d6t5 3
Fear Resist: 12d6t5 5

Anna's spirit resists

The barrier shattered and the other spirit made a thundering roar meant to terrify Anna's spirit, but somehow failed to do so.

[Thanee]

Since her previous shot hit the mercenary pretty well, Nova continues to fire at the man, hoping to bring him down, eventually.

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SA: Aim
SA: Shoot Assault (Longarms 6 hits ) - DV 13P AP -8

Sorry, 2 dice less, removed from the back (Smartlink no longer has Matrix connection, but the result is the same).

[Jack_Spade]

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Assault: Defense: 13d6t5 4
Soak: 28d6t5 8
Takes 7 Stun,
which is turned into 3 additional Physical Damage

Full Stun, 6 Physical Boxes filled

Another hit rocked the body of the large man, denting his body armor.

[SquirrelDude]

Sharkboy moved along the scaffolding, considered trying to get the mercenary into a cross-face chicken wing or an ankle-lock but instead went for a simple knee to the face.

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Melee Attack: 19d6t5 8 with Reach 1
DV 13P

[Luckace]

The angelic spirit that had just narrowly dodged the exploding grenade never returned from the flat it dashed into - instead, it had dissolved its physical body while its astral form dashed upwards.

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complex action: astral projection
free action: move upwards to start looking for enemies

[Jack_Spade]

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Assault: Defense: 11d6t5 5
Soak: 36d6t5 7

9 Stun
10 Physical stun boxes filled

@Luckace

Make a tracking test with Assensing for your spirit

The knee to the face of the mercenary did possibly the most damage so far, breaking a few teeth despite the man's attempts to evade the attack.

[Gilga]

Anna wiggled her hand and said softly"Up you go... no running away from us".

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Initiative: 18+2d6 24

Anna's action Complex action levitate.
Levitate F7 - (5 drain).
Levitate: 13d6t5 8 Wow --> only 7 hits kept.
drain: 15d6t5 4
1 drain.