Yep

At least the GM didn't do something really bad with this considering it's a critical glitch...

Well, one of Gardner's many spirits is using its Guard power to prevent people from suffering from glitches.

clipping Acson onto my caribiner,
"sorry Tiny, looks like the clock ran out, this rope was strong enough on the way across guess it will hold us on the way down ..
cause as long a distraction as you can and lets Boogaloo !"

Climbing STR 8 +3 SYNTH + 3 SKILL +2 GEAR
-1 STUN -2 carrying person
(15d6.hits(5) =4)

Looks like you'll have no problem. You would actually be able to make it down faster than everybody else if it weren't for the people on the line below you.

Gardner is holding a comm that is broadcasting a Horizon ID.



The Plant Spirit, with the two figures inside not threatening the team will go back outside. It gets 6 hits this time to pass through the barrier. Neither of the two spirits inside have attacked each other directly (melee) for the past pass, so it's up to you if they are still engaging one another in combat.



Yep, and this run is costing me quite a bit so far... those bound spirits' services aren't free.

Yep. Gardner does have a commlink broadcasting a horizon id. But then there is also a horizon hacker doing overwatch on the drones waiting to see if Needle tries to hack one again. And he can tell the difference between a giant holding a stolen commlink and the head of security for tonights event.

The free attack of interception is given when trying to pass by a creature not just when leaving melee. Also remember the ward your spirit will have to push through bit again to leave.

Hey, I don't know if they are running completely autonomous or not.

Also, I did make the check for my spirit to get out. 6 hits, if you didn't notice it before.

It's okay, I remember my decorum and resist the urge to stomp on Mr. Whites head and say "Shift it Whitey!"

That said, I think Acson is going to be about as green as Silas is by the time we hit the ground, as I'll be recounting exactly how I planned to wingsuit down with him attached as a plan B
and that he should be enjoying this almost leisurely ride down a very safe rope.

That's if he can even hear me ... he's confuzzled right ?

Sorry, I read your first post right after i woke up and somehow missed that you mentioned 6 hits.

Well, the air spirit will attack the plant spirit, it gets...7 hits as the free attack on the plant spirit.

The ward rolls for shit only getting 2 hits. So the plant spirit walks on through.

Considering Mr. White's 'skill' at climbing, him shifting it would likely end up with him falling off the building. lol

And yeah, Acson is still confused to the point of having less than 0 dice to roll for perception. I'd let the confusion fail at this point, but he's got no skill in climbing either. So I'm just going to leave it going for now so that he's completely compliant for you guys.

well let's just consider his options here a moment ?

he's hanging on a rope approx 150 metres above pavement whilst physically attached to a blathering Orc who seems obsessed with something called "Sammiches!" and who keeps fingering the release straps on all his gear while day dreaming about flying free from it all ....

his choices are decidedly slim .... though he could "get off and walk"

He is a spellcaster. He could also call up an air spirit of his own to take him away from all of you, that is if he weren't suffering the hefty Confusion penalty.

if he shows signs of waking I'll smack him in the head then, well reminded

The plant spirit uses it's actual action of the pass to full dodge and barely manages to avoid the hit with 7 hits.

The air elemental will follow the plant spirit out on the balcony. And attack again, this time getting 9 hits.

Eclipse can start moving downwards again. So far you've gone down 22m out of 120 to the bottom. I'm only requiring 1 climbing check per combat turn, but if you'd like to speed up your descent with another roll I'll let each hit increase your distance travelled this pass by 1m.

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Following that, Randy Jones, the newly named guard inside the banquet hall reaches a door and activates its open sequence with a quick command from his security commlink. Then uses the door frame for cover and shouts "You bastards aren't getting away with this shit!" He fires at the person closest to him, Gardner. WTF! The gods do favor this guy....He just got 6 hits on 8 dice!
It's the same stick-n-shock ammo. So Base damage is 6S(e).

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Needle, you've reached the bus already and it's now IP2 when your commlink has managed to come back online. What are you donig?

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Gardner after you roll to resist the damage from the guard you can post your actions for IP2.

JEEBUS ! This guy ! he has a name badge right ? That's the secret of his power ! ... Gardner, Grab his name badge and he'll deflate like an old balloon !

My commlink is back online, and I'm at/on the bus. Well...

Free Action: Message to team. "Let's get this show on the road!"
Simple Action: Get behind the wheel.
Simple Action: Start setting a pilot route to the crash zone, near the former Seattle Metroplex Reformatory, in the Redmond Barrens. It's Needle's home turf (she lives in the bus, but it's normally parked near there so she can provide medical services to the squatters), so she's comfortable going there. If possible, I'd like to set the pilot to not activate immediately, instead waiting for a final command from me.

The plant spirit gets 6 hits then spends one more edge to reroll non-hits and gets 5 more. Avoids the attack with 11 total.




I got 12 hits on my resistance roll, so the attack bounces harmlessly off of the armor. (Nonconductivity is a blessing).

I'm getting out of here too. I still need clip onto the rope, so I guess I'm doing that this pass.

The Earth Spirit moves up behind Gardner (blocking the guard's view of him), and uses Binding on the guard (I'm assuming the air spirit isn't touching anything so I couldn't affect it) to stick him in place. Requires a Complex Action to get free.



Sadly, I don't think heading back across the balcony is the best option right now...

How many Edge does your Plant Spirit have left?

Wow, impressive with your damage resistance roll. Considering you have non-conductivity modded armor and resisted all of the damage, I'll say you don't have the normal -2 disorientation penalty from electric attacks.

As far as your Earth Spirit goes. The guard is still on the inside of the building and shooting through an open door, meaning still inside the ward. If he ventures out onto the balcony then you can order the spirit to use it's binding power.

Next the two new drones arrive on the scene and open fire on the only target still there, Gardner. They will simply go full auto narrow, which doesn't give them much chance of hitting, but it at least gives them a chance of hurting a massive guy like Gardner.

Drone3 critically glitches and ends up jamming it's gun to the point where it will not be able to fire again until it gets to a shop.

Drone4 gets 2 hits. That's base 5P +9 from the full-auto narrow if it hits. So 14 + net hits.

That's the spirit's 3rd edge spent. So it has 4 left. I don't expect this fight to go on much longer so it will probably stop spending any soon.

Sorry, forgot about the ward there for a minute. I did think of an idea though. Can the Earth spirit use Binding on the drone to bind its rotor?

And I am long-shotting my defense (Spending an Edge so that I have a defense dice pool). I got 2 hits, so Gardner is extremely lucky and avoids the attack.

Great luck with the Edge roll.

For the spirit's Edge, keep in mind that it's a long way down to the bottom of that rope. I'm going to be letting Mr.White go down at the same rate as the rest of you, but even with that it will still take you guys roughly 2 full combat turns to get to the bottom, then you need to run to the bus and get the hell out of here.

Oh and Binding says you bound the target to a surface they are touching. The drone isn't touching any surface. And it's rotors are part of it. Maybe if you could see the internal gears and what not that are moving, you could argue for binding them together. But you don't have LOS on that. You just have LOS on the drone as a whole.

I know Mr. White usually only gets 1 pass, but I'm giving you a chance to catch yourself and bring your descent back under control here. As long as you get 1 hit on the 2 dice you have, I'll allow you to bring your fall to a stop. 2 hits and you have yourself back under control and descending normally.

And you are welcome to use another point of Edge on this roll if you like.

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That's the end of IP2. At the start of IP3. Eclipse can make another roll to speed up his descent. (I believe I'm still waiting for the one I offered for IP2). Every hit gets you down 1m faster.

Silas can also start rolling to try to speed up his descent, keeping in mind that people are below him. Alternatively, only 1 simple action is being used up on climbing. You could use your other simple action to shoot at a drone (suffering an additional -2 any checks you make for either climbing or shooting due to keeping yourself steady on the line).

Worst use of Edge ever. Much less TWO EDGE.

8d6.hitsopen(5,6) → [2,3,1,5,5,[6, 6, 3],2,3] = (4)

It's not the worse use of edge if it is getting you out of here before the t-birds with heavy assault autocannons arrive.

You handily catch yourself and even speed up your controlled descent. Now that you have succeeded at least once this combat turn, I'm not going to require you to make another roll, though you can during the next pass if you want to speed yourself up a little (no chance of damage on that roll, it's just for extra hits to speed you up).

I am so glad I'm unconscious for this. Seeing the hardened mercenary wet himself is just unprofessional.

....though I have a visual of a Space Marine Land Speeder with an absolutely bizarre amalgamation of a heavy bolter, autocannon, and assault cannon slung underneath it now. I might have to make one now. *sigh*

Well, the Mission says they have two GMC Banshee thunderbirds incoming. It's the last step in the progression of turns. "The thunderbirds arrive and open fire from range with heavy weapons, obliterating everyone. Game over, man. Game over!"

But I'm sure delaying long enough to grab a few some paltry pieces of loot won't keep you here long enough for that....


Joking aside, you guys are doing quite well. And are likely to avoid the actual dangerous response from inside the building.

Makes me glad I'm already on the ground, warming up the bus.

Wait, two Banshees?! Opening up in downtown Seattle??!

Thor's beard, that's so pink mohawk it hurts. Though if that's what ya like...

one of them has a sticker on the back "My other car is a Nissan"

Update:
Currently waiting on two climbing rolls from Eclipse in case he wants to speed up his descent on the rope. There's no injuries possible on these rolls, each hit will simply speed you up.

Silas can likewise make a roll to speed up his descent, and/or take a shot at the drone firing on Gardner. You'd be at -2 for keeping hold of Acson and -2 for keeping your own hold on the rope.

I guess Gardner can post up his actions for IP3 too. You're strapped into the rope and can make your first climbing check if you are heading down.

His turn will be followed by the lone drone's turn (the other drone is still there, but without a functional gun it can't really do much...well i guess it's rotors could cut the rope you're all hanging from, but that wouldn't make for a very fun game).

I've been panicking about that for some time .. but didn't want to post for fear of being accused of being GM's friend or giving you ideas...

Silas will continue on at same speed, and my gun is useless against the mechanical things so I'll try to shield Acson from any incoming fire with my body.

might accidentally dip a hand in it's pocketsies if I think I can get away with it though ... nowt better to do while I have the opportunity

Acson doesn't appear to have anything in his pockets. Mr. White has his commlink already which was the only thing he had in them originally. He is carrying an old leather bag, but I think you'll need to be on the ground to search through that.

Currently Mr. White is 4 or 5 meters below you and actually managing to move a little faster than you are despite the unconventional and unprofessional way he seems to me going about it. You'd judge that it's pure luck that he hasn't accidentally unclipped himself and fallen to his death.

Oh and apparently, Acson is a bit of a thrill seeker too being a young guy fresh out of college, if he did have his senses about him, he'd likely be enjoying rappelling down the building at least.

"Hey Whitey ! ... yous have some Military training ? Me's thoughts only dem UCAS boys rapelled upsides down for speeds ?!"

gonna give him a couple more metres .. just in case... before I try to accelerate last thing we need is me Glitching and landing my arse in his face

I'm heading down, I don't see any reason to delay my descent.

I just barely scraped by with 2 hits on my climbing test.

Can i change my mind ?? <I wanna go faster .. I wanna go FASTER !>

Hey, I suggested we have two ropes, but no. You had to get out now.

You guys are all about a turn ahead of me, so you shouldn't have much trouble. If I need to, I'll wait now that I'm on the rope. But I was taking too much fire standing out on the balcony...

Sure you can make a roll to go faster if you want. You should be ok.

Oh, you could also try and keep the group from getting fired upon by shooting down that drone

Is Needle doing anything this pass? Or is she just waiting for everybody to make it down?

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Really, it's Gardner who should want to go the fastest though. The drone is following him over the side of the balcony as it fires another narrow full auto burst. Bullets fall all around Gardner with glass shattering to fall on everybody below him, but lucky for him the drone fails to get even 1 hit..

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Still waiting on possible climbing rolls from Eclipse but I think people are spread out enough that it shouldn't matter just yet.

So we are about ready for CT6 to begin. What is the plant spirit going to be doing?

Photosynthesizing?

At night? Probably not too much of that.

Hey, I'm a mercenary, not a botanist.

Silas

Free action. : "TINY ! .. Drop me a gun, this pea shooter of mine is useless against drones !"
Accelerate on da ropes
(13d6.hits(5)=4)

Hold actions till Gardners go, if i get a gun great,

if not, i'll retrieve gecko tape gloves from my pouches...
If this rope goes, i wanna be able to at least try and grab a ledge or something
Selfish, but self preservation is suddenly high on my agenda
Coming throoooo Chummers !

Eclipse is most deff. trying to go faster. And so...

9d6.hits(5)=4, 9d6.hits(5)=2, 9d6.hits(5)=1

For IPs 2, 3, and 1 of the next CT to catch me up. That last one looks a bit less than 2...

4d6.hits(5)=1 for soaking, which would mean 3S? Eclipse is now wishing he brought some stimm patches with him (Like say, the dozen he owns in his med kit...). Any true resentment is quickly lost when he looks at TW, however.

"At least I'm better off than this guy..." Whose name he still doesn't even know.

Edit: I don't know how I got those numbers for soak. Bod 4 + Armor 2 = 6, so I'll roll 2 more. 2d6.hits(5)=0 Didn't help. Damn!

Edit 2: I missed this!


So no damage! Muahahahahaha!

Edit 3: But of course the roll I botched is the first one for the CT, not the ones to go faster. 3S it is. :'(

It kinda got glossed over, but TW would have introduced himself as Tundra Wolf. If nothing else, you need to be able to yell something other than "Hey, you! No, the other one! No, him!"

So, not Tiny, Talky man, Coma boy, MEDIIIC and finally "What the holy FRAK .. oh .. no She didn't .. yes apparently she did !" ?
I feel like I'm almost normal amongst this lot .... almost

I like your version better.