OOC: SR4-First Run, Food Fight! Options

[Slacker]

Well he wasn't necessarilly coming after you, he just got to a pont he could see more of what was going on. And, with the majority of activity towards the front of the store, he happened to got to the top of the shelf closest to that. Which just happened to be the one between you an him.

That being said, he easily avoided the first shot (7 successes).
On his defense against the second shot he only got 5 successes, but he used Edge to reroll failed dice and got another 3. So he tied you meaning it was a glancing blow.

The map has been updated to show Bruce's movement.

@netlich: you had said you wanted to attack Bruce if you went before the the Spirit. You are at a -3 from confusion, -1 from wounds, -1 from range, and a -1 for firing from cover, unless you change your position (depending on where you move to, he may get cover though).

[BaronKen]

7 hits and 5 hits! Bruce is one very lucky guy. I want his dice roller! ;)

[Slacker]

That or he has a lot of dice to roll.
Or some combination of the two. :D

[Slacker]

I'm going to go ahead and roll for DarHar to attack Bruce.

He was able to notice you coming so he does get to defend.

On both the first shot and the second DarHar got 3 successes. Based on Bruce's previous rolls, I'd say you probably don't have much of a chance.

Well it looks like his earlier good rolling is gone. Bruce only got 3 successes on the first roll, but that was still enough to avoid taking damage.

On the second roll, he rolled horribly. He only got 1 success and a lot of ones, meaning he got a glitch. With the severity of the glitch I'm going to say that the DV is increased by 2 and he'll fall off the shelf and possibly take damage from falling.

So the DV is 12 (base of 8, +2 for net successes, +2 from his glitch) with +2 AP. I guess he'll go ahead and use another point of Edge to add dice to his damage resistance test....Looks like his luck has returned thanks to quite a few multi-exploding 6's he actually got 13 success and takes no damage. He does however fall off the shelf. With an exception feat of gymnastics, he is able to twist in mid-air and actually land on his feet though.

@gobogen: Time for Taku's actions.

edit:
@netlich: Forgot about the Spirit. It will be running up to DarHar and melee with him yet again. Getting tired of this and wanting to return to its natural plane, it is going to add it's last point of Edge to the roll and do a called shot to increase the DV +4.
Whoa....I don't feel like outright killing you so I am not going to use his first roll which got an amazing 10 successes!!! :eek:
Instead, I rolled again and he still got a good number of successes, 5. But at least you have a chance.
@Whizbang: You can also go ahead and post actions for Zelda.

[gobogen]

"I'll try to bring down the spirit." Taku says while running toward him.

He'll run toward the spirit and intends to make an unarmed attack with his karate (and killing hands) on him. If he doesn't reach him in time for that action, he'll be in full defense in case the spirit attacks him or he's being fired at for some reason.

[Slacker]

@gobogen: Just wanted to double check that you do notice on the map that Bruce is now standing (well more crouching than standing) right next to you.
As far as moving to attack the spirit, there is definitely no way you would make it there this Initiative pass. You would actually just barely make it there next pass.
Oh and don't forget that you still have a pistol in hand, so you will either want to drop it (Free Action) or holster it (Simple Action), or suffer whatever penalty I gave you the last time you did melee.

[Whizbang]

Yet another attack

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6, 6, 5, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 1

[Slacker]

@Whizbang: Looks like yet another lucky roll for the NPC's, she actually got 7 successes!

@Wintermancer: Looks like it's time for Rydell's turn.

[Wintermancer]

Hrmmm. Do I have a clear shot of Spike? Or is he too tangled up with the big guy?

Winter

[netlich]

I don't mind with you being fair - remember no matter how much it wounds me I got 20+ dice for shaking off thew wounds...Plus I am not sure how much damage I can take as I recall this has changed and depends on attributes now (with the Troll obvious greatly enjoying this)...I oinly have 3 points in wounds now...

anyway - let us see what the dice say:

Close Combat

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Reaction:7, CloseCombat:4, wound:-1
1: 4
2: 2
3: 6 !
4: 4
5: 1
6: 2
7: 3

Guess I spoke too soon - gives me one success giving him +9!!!!

Defense

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Ok here's the deal - I recalculated everything and I think am at 22:
Jacket Impact armour : 6,+2 for Dermal Plating II,+1 for Troll natural, +1 for Bone Lacing (Cummulative with armour but is it with Dermal PLating?) : 10
Body 10, +2 Dermal PLating : 12

1: 6 !
2: 5 !
3: 2
4: 1
5: 6 !
6: 6 !
7: 4
8: 5 !
9: 2
10: 5 !
11: 5 !
12: 2
13: 4
14: 4
15: 5 !
16: 5 !
17: 2
18: 3
19: 6 !
20: 6 !
21: 4
22: 5 !

12 successes but how much damage do I soak of is the million dollar question... Damn I could have used a few edges...With a good edge score this guy can shake of a missile launcher :)

[Slacker]

@Wintermancer: Spike?...Oh wait you mean the Spirit, don't you? Spike is the ganger all the way at the front of the store. The spirit is the creature fighting DarHar.
The troll is pretty much completely blocking your view of the Spirit. However, I'll let you take a shot with a -4 modifier for the cover. You'd also be at suffering -2 from wounds and -1 from range. And then another -1 from recoil if you took a second shot. Leaving you with only 3 dice on the first shot and only 2 dice on the second shot.
The spirit will be suffering a -3 on his defense roll because he is in melee, but I'll remind you that normal weapons don't see to effect it all that much. And if you glitch on either roll, you will be hitting DarHar, though that may not matter to you much because he isn't part of the team, he's just some caped freak in the store. :)

@netlich: It's not like it mattered for this particular roll on defence since the last several dice were'nt successes, but keep in mind that you are still under the influence of confusion, -3. It's only damage resistance test that doesn't apply to.
I just double checked and the book says nothing about the bone lacing armor bonus not being cumulative with dermal plating, so I am assuming that it doesn't. So you did roll the correct dice for the damage resistance test.
As to the number of boxes of physical damage you can take, that would be 13 (8 + half your Body).
Ok, you asked for it then. I will let his original roll stand. I was forgetting just how many dice you have for damage resistance. That means the DV was 18!!! Minus your 12 successes!!! (good rolling by the way) Gives you 6 more boxes of physical damage. A grevious wound that would have killed a lesser hero....
That reminds me, the creatures claws struck your kneck/collarbone area and whatever was holding your cape on just got ripped to pieces. So your mauve cape just fell to the floor.

@Whizbang: I guess I could go ahead and tell you what Maddie is doing. She gives you a wink and tosses a scroll over towards you. As you momentarily concentrate at the scroll thinking it my be a new form of attack, she begins to fade away. You look up in time to realize that she probably just logged off, at the very least she just left the node you are currently on.
The scroll does not fall to the 'floor' instead it just hangs in the air in front of you.

[Whizbang]

Well, guess that means I met my objective of getting her offline, assuming she isn't just in the next node...I'll be reading the note whenever my time allows.

[Slacker]

@Whizbang: Just to let you know, it was more than just a simple text message. She actually sent you a file, so it is sitting on your commlink and you can read/analyze it after the fighting in the store is over if you want.

[Slacker]

I've just posted IC to catch it up to the end of the last combat turn. I would have done it earlier (and most likely caught it all the way up to the current action), but my damn laptop has been freaking out and died on me four times in the middle of me typing up the post. It wouldn't be so bad, but Word was refusing to actually save for me.

I'll try to post some more to catch it all the way up later today if I have time.

[Slacker]

General Update: Currently I'm waiting to hear from Wintermancer for clarification on the actions for Rydell.
Also, I had wanted to double check with gobogen that he did in fact want to leave the vicinity of Bruce (possibly provoking an attack) and head towards the Spirit Beast even though he wouldn't get there this Initiative Pass.

[netlich]

Doh! I did ask for it....But fair is fair

Damage is now at 9 points...what's the modifier for that?

Oh and DarHAr is now pissed off! His cape has been ripped!!!

[Slacker]

@netlich: [edit]You're actually at 10 boxes, you had 4 before and you just took another 6.[/edit]10 boxes of damage means that you have a -3 wound modifier. Combined with the -3 from Confusion, DarHar is suffering some pretty hefty penalties on all of his actions.

[Slacker]

@BaronKen: While we're waiting, I guess you can go ahead and tell me what you want Crosshairs to be doing when it gets to his turn.

[BaronKen]

Step back out of Angie's view to O/P-23 and fire a called shot followed by a regular shot at Spike.

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Free action: Called shot +2DV, -2 dice
Simple action: Fire weapon
modifiers: medium range -1, wounded -2
Assuming partial cover for Spike, -2
Total modifiers: -7
14 - 7 = 7
Rolls: 6 5 2 2 6 4 6
Hits: 4
DV: 5P + 2 = 7P, -1AP

Simple Action: Fire weapon
modifiers: medium range -1, wounded -2
Assuming partial cover for Spike, -2
Total modifiers: -5
14 - 5 = 9
Rolls: 5 5 4 6 6 2 5 1 4
Hits: 5
DV: 5P, -1AP

Let me know if my modifiers are not correct.

EDIT: Bah, forgot recoil on second shot. Removal of the last die roll results in same effect though.

[Slacker]

@BaronKen: Crosshairs has a pistol in each hand and ambidexterity so there is no need for a recoil modifier.
Well, it seems Spike is not very lucky, even using 1 point of Edge on each of the damage resistance tests, you nearly killed him although he was uninjured previously.
He got 2 successes on defense and 7 on the damage resistance test for the first shot. So he took 2 boxes of physical damage.
On the second shot he only got 1 success on defense, and a ridiculously low 3 successes on damage resistance considering he used Edge to reroll failed dice and had 11 dice to roll to begin with. So he took 6 boxes of damage from that and is knocked to the ground. He is still moving, but from all of thet blood it is quite obvious that he is almost dead.
Also, he and the floor got spray with debris.

[gobogen]

I'm sorry I couldn't come back to you for a while.. I'll get more active again soon.

As far as Taku is concerned, Bruce didn't seem as a hostile to him so simply avoiding him makes sense. On the other end, the spirit is potentially very dangerous and the troll could give us a hand here too, while Taku is the only one fit to fight a spirit. You guessed my intentions well in IC btw. Tell me if you need any rolls from me.

[Slacker]

@gobogen: No rolls necessary and no problem about the time it took to reply. Stuff happens to us all and its been going slow in the game lately anyways.
Bruce watched you as you moved past him, but he made no move to attack you. Of course that could just be because I made him use up his Free Action to attempt to land on his feet.

[Slacker]

@Wintermancer: To keep the game moving I am going to say Rydell moves out of the spirit's sight like you wanted her to, then she is delaying her actions while she tries to decide on what to do.
I'll update the map tonight. (Reminds me that I need to update where Crosshairs is.)

Now for the NPCs' actions:

Louis saw Bruce's acrobatics and is now fascinated with him. Louis runs up to Bruce intending to grab him, but the kid slipped in the debris and fell to the ground.

After having been splattered with drops of Spikes blood, Catcher looks left and right at what remains of his gang and says "Forget this drek. You two are on your own."
He then runs towards the door. Seeing Crosshairs with two pistols pointed in his general direction, he fires off a quick shot without even slowing down.
@BaronKen: He rolled a glitch, but he still got 4 successes, so give me a defense roll.
Unfortunately for him, he wasn't thinking all that straight and forget to give the automated doors time to open fully. He crashed right through one of them suffering some lacerations and falling to the ground.

Wanda finally just gets up and runs all out towards the back stockroom. At the same time, Johnny is running for the back room also. The two of them run into each other at the doors and Wanda is knocked to the ground on the other side of the door, while Johnny pauses for the moment (standing over her in the doorway) with conflicting thoughts on whether to help her or just worry about himself.

Jack and Angie move deeper onto the aisle they are on trying to be stealthy, but failing miserably.

Under the guise of helping his boss (rather than the truth, which is he just wants to get the hell of there), Spike stands up, and limps over to where Catcher is lieing on the ground just outside the store. He fires off two shots at Crosshairs more as covering fire than actually trying to hit him. The first shot missed completely and he got only 1 success on the second shot.
@BaronKen: Give me a defense roll for that too, keeping in mind the -1 modifier from defending against previous attack.

I guess its back up to the top and time for Bruce to do his thing. He pulls off his hat that had been torn up by DarHar's slivergun. Looks at the ragged wholes, and a very distinct look crosses over his face. As he looks up at the closest enemy, Tempty, he glares at her and his eyes glow with animosity. Tempty may not have been the one to do the damage, but DarHar's warning of his approach on her (and the fact that she shot at him) was all the proof Bruce needed to decide that they were together.
With quiet deliberation he stepped forward and attacked Tempty adding Edge to his dice pool....ouch, he got 7 successes.
@Shalimar: Give me a melee defense roll. And then you can tell me what your actions will be for this Initiative Pass.

[BaronKen]

Going on Full Defense again (bullets are just too hard to avoid without Dodging ;)).

Defense roll for Catcher's shot:

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Reaction 5 + Dodge 4 - wounded 2 = 7 dice
Rolls: 6 3 4 4 1 6 4
Hits: 2

Resistance: Ballistic 6 + Body 3 = 9 dice (remove any dice if needed for AP ammo)
Rolls: 2 4 2 1 2 5 4 1 6
Hits: 2
:-? seems that Catcher shot better than he thought. My poor defense roll added 2 to DV, but my even poorer resistance roll evened it out so I take whatever the DV of the gun is, ugh (modify for AP ammo). In any event, I imagine I'm down hard as I only have 10 boxes in my Physical Damage Track (7 filled in currently).

Just in case I somehow remain able, here's my Defense Roll for Spike's shot:

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Reaction 5 + Dodge 4 - wounded 2 - previous defense 1 = 6 dice
Rolls: 2 2 5 1 3 3
Hits: 1

Spike probably wouldn't have shot at me seeing me drop from Catcher's shot (who goes before him in the IP), so you may want to adjust Spike's actions.

[BaronKen]

Heading to Texas tomorrow morning for a friend's wedding. Will be back late Sunday night.
If Crosshairs is able to move somehow, heh, NPC him for me to keep the game moving.

Man down! MEDIC! ;)