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  1. Zeitgeist Blue
    @Thevshi Feel free to narrate how all the attacks don't hit their mark/get blocked and what Veronica's doing.
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    Using Well-Informed and Online Researxh can I use Computers to check what Nicole knows of the Red Death and perhaps their modus operandi? Computers: 1d20+15 = 19
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    Paruma's turn done. 23 villagers left. Snakebite's turn @Supercape
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    GM As Snakebite pulled out her whip intent on battle, Kayara turned her head to watch the intrepid explorer run to the village. Snakebite was an ever diminishing figure but everything was unmasked under the moon and when Kayara spoke her voice was carried on the wind. Do what you must but know you run against time. The night is finite and I must rest at the dawn. Come then or not at all. *** Kayara's voice fades as it had come, replaced with the wind and the roar of fire. You see a fire begin, smoke rising in the air and the glow of embers casting a red glow among the huts. Villagers run back the way you come. Families and couples, young and old. It isn't quite a stampede, not with a community this small, but there is a steady stream and the fighting and panic work to make your run harder. In all the commotion you see Neil moving with the crowd. He doesn't seem to be panicking or set to save his own skin. In fact, he seems very composed for someone who knows what befalls this village. He gives you a small nod as you pass each other by. Then he continues on his way, carried by the crowd. You could chase after him but just as you are contemplating to do so, you hear laughter, like rotten teeth cackling on stone. The beast, Paruma, rears on its hindlegs, silhouette against the fire and beset by the brave defenders with both gun and blade. Yet it laughs as the bullets sink into its skin. It is larger, fur shinier and claws longer, Kayara's face draped more comfortable on its skull. It continues to laugh as it grabs a person in its hands and flings the unfortunate into the air behind it. You see them land on the trees. At the show of strength, the defenders falter with a cry of defeat and scatter among the huts. Their movements are sluggish, sapped of the adrenaline and alertness one would see from people fighting for their lives. As the Paruma stalks closer to your position, you too feel your muscles weaken. Your bones turn heavy and your eyelids droop. It has been days, days, days since you had last slept properly, since you had laid down on a soft bed. Why not just lay down now and rest the night away? You fight it.
  5. Zeitgeist Blue
    Notice: 1d20+3 = 11 Wisdom: 1d20+0 = 7 Knowledge (Physical Sciences): 1d20+12 = 31 Knowledge (Arcane Lore): 1d20+15 = 21
  6. Zeitgeist Blue
    Initiative Order 16 minions Veronica: 19 Arcana: 18 11 minions Ouroboros: 10 5 minions Masque: 4 *** 4 minions per PC. All attacks are lethal All miss on Veronica 1 hit on Arcana All miss on Ouroboros All miss on Masque DC 16 Will Save Arcana. 11.
  7. Zeitgeist Blue
    Mostly because Ouroboros was the one who used his senses to scope out the place so this would make slightly more sense to him, Thev. Either way, you both pass. *** Ouroboros and Veronica both notice multiple presences through the door before the nearest ones attacked them. They were still until they sensed you and even those further back still have not reacted to the alarm. These were the objects Ouroboros sensed before entering the sphere, but they were like statues then, inanimate objects, but they seemed to have animated upon your entrance. In any case you surmise your senses better and stronger than these guys but they are a lot. Those incoming are just the first wave.
  8. Zeitgeist Blue
    Initiative Order Isa: 18 Paruma: 16 Snakebite: 12 Villagers: 10 Say 24 villagers fighting the Paruma. *** Villagers Fail Fortitude Saving Throw Snakebite Passes *** Notice result will be in the GM post.
  9. Zeitgeist Blue
    @angrydurf @Fox @Nick @Thevshi Initiative rolls please. And a Magical Sense roll in addition, AD.
  10. Zeitgeist Blue
    Roger that! (Hides the complete failure ending) This'll be my first post when I can, but it may or may not be today. Am on a small vacation out of town so we'll see!
  11. Zeitgeist Blue
    So roll three things. Initiative, Fortitude, and Notice. Oh man, hope you've got a good plan/rolls.
  12. Zeitgeist Blue
    "Jackpot." Salvo walked over to where Dio was digging, making sure to stay clear of the flying clumps of dirt. She didn't want to get any on her armour, not when she had just applied a new paint job. "Yeah, very wrong," she replied drily. "Summers might get pop a vein if we stole that book and we wouldn't want that." She set a knee down and looked over the entrance as Dio opened the trapdoor, her own senses verifying what Dio's had. The tunnel was empty. "You sure she knows about this?" She asked, then realized it was a stupid question. There was no way the headmistress didn't know every noom and cranny in her backyard. She'd been in enough things to know when something wasn't supposed to be. Salvo glanced at Dio beginning his spell then she tapped her faceplate with a clink. "Don't take too long now. If this leads to what I think it does then you wouldn't want to miss it for all the Earth-2 dragon buffets." Then in one quick motion she stood and let herself drop down the tunnel. She didn't bother with the ladder, her armour would make it too awkward clambering down, so she controlled her descent with short bursts of her thrusters, quick fires in the growing darkness. The light from the world above began to grow smaller.
  13. Zeitgeist Blue
    GM The shouts begin anew, more numerous, and accompanying it are more gunshots. Even without your enhanced hearing you probably could still hear the sounds of fighting from the other side of the village. "I was told I was blessed by my people once," she begins as if nothing is happening, splaying one hand over her chest. She grows more imperious by the word, seemingly taller and bold. "Touched. A priestess. But they were wrong as they lived and they were wrong as they died. I am the Moon made flesh. Even after all this time I hold on to that and at my most lucid, when I shine the brightest I understand what I am capable of." Then her voice grows softer and sadder, and she averts her eyes to the ground. "If only... I were to leave this mortal body. Yet the beast within wars against my true nature, crippling me always. I am wretched here and you would not understand the need for sacrifice with what you believe right and just." She waves you away, turning on her heel and she calls back at you. "But I do not adhere to your sensibilities. Go now and return to where I am nearest to the Earth. These people hold the beast at bay but they cannot do so forever." Then she walks back from where she had appeared in the woods, and even with your senses she melts out of sight. The sounds of fighting turn worse and they come closer, into the village you realize.
  14. Zeitgeist Blue
    So that beats the DC by a mile. Yeah, right before it leaps into action you recognize the same signature powering the other doorway is also within the EDS representations. It's fainter but there, as if they were infected and turned but to be powered as such there'd need to be a source, something which isn't present here. You guess the main infection is affecting the power source of these robots. Cut or mess with the power source and you cut or mess with it all. However, the spell doesn't seem to have propogated itself completely. It looks as if the EDS is just rampaging at anything moving right now.
  15. Zeitgeist Blue
    Thus suited within her armour, Salvo stood in the middle of the baseball diamond, watching the dragon stalk around the field. The two cut an imposing scene. The beast of myth and the obelisk of steel, cutting long shadows on the ground against the lights. She could feel the excitement within her chest rise with the promise of the ghost. And the hunt had barely started. Dio was right, this was more fun than the dance. Dio had even less reason to attend the Fall Dance than she had being, you know, a dragon. She grinned at Dio's request, opening her eyes to the sensory suite. "I thought you'd never ask." In an instant, she could see everything around her, like the world was a picture in her mind's eye and she the painter. The Auditorium was still in full swing with the dance and she could see the students mingling and dancing. Leroy kissing Judy before she pulls back. Pan and Zenith dancing on air above the courtyard. She forced her mind away from it all, centering her focus into her immediate surroundings. Then she switched into magic sensors and began shifting through the noise. "How can an Acolyte of Ghorummaz not be able to find the tunnel?" She asked absently as she divided the search area into a grid pattern, determind to search it inch by inch. "You're supposed to be into earthy stuff. Magma and earth and the world beneath us, our eyes, and everything." "Be easier to find it if we had a copy of the records. Summers keeps this up and I'd be even more tempted to bring out my hacking kit again. I mean, I'm already here trying to dig up one of her secrets. What's a few dozen more going to hurt?" Salvo's armour kept stock still as she continued her search, though her visor turned to keep Dio within her vision. She couldn't help but snort. "I get look and feel, but is eternal peace and love supposed to make the world smell like a baby's butt?" An anomaly appeared and she pointed it out the Dio. "Hey, burrow on that spot for me will you?"
  16. Zeitgeist Blue
    GM "Of course you would hate it," Kayara says, absent-mindedly as she lifted her head to the sky. "Neither has any of the previous bearers I had bestowed upon it." "But in destruction there too is creation. Power." Still watching the sky, she reaches out a hand and grips your own with the ring in hers, pulling your hand until you are touching her chest. The ring grows hot, as if she were a furnace. "I see so much greed in your life. A lust for recognition. But tell me, is it merely because of your family name? To live up to it or to remove yourself from their shadow?" She lets go of your hand and lowers her gaze to you. Then she smiles. "You know well the power of the past and it is similar power which my beloved's ring holds. To cut to the truth of all things as the moon's light does on the darkest night. To guide your understanding on why and how they are." "The beast knows this but can do little save deny me my fate for milennia. But you have the tools to complete the sacrifice, yes?" She waves a hand across the air and she almost seems sad as she does so. "The conditions are not ideal but so few things are in this world. Take your tools and come back to me quick for when we begin it shall know and do all in its power to stop us." "As for the sacrifice... Is it not obvious?" Her fingers reach out to hold your gaze on her. "It shall be me."
  17. Zeitgeist Blue
    Okay!
  18. Zeitgeist Blue
    Roll Initiative! Also, @Fox , roll me Knowledge (Arcane Lore). @angrydurf , roll me a magical sense power.
  19. Zeitgeist Blue
    GM As Ouroboros' fixes the last pieces in place, the doorway leading to the Electronic Defense System pulses and shifts, settling into a stable field that simulates a shape of a large door. It is a tempting way in to the nearby dimension, but before anyone could step forward a hand pushes out from the doorway. Clawed and metallic, it grips the lip where the door meets the wall and pushes more of itself out. The whole arm is metal and stripped of much ornamentation, sleek as if straight from a factory. Then a robot's head appears from the door. A sole eye dominates most of its head but you see an oversized jaw hanging loosely from the bottom, teeth ending in nasty points. You see its eye swivel violently between the four of you. It pauses, body halfway out of the doorway, before its eye flashes into an angry red. Its jaw snaps tightly back in place and its warning rang through the room. "Alert! Unauthorized entry! Intruders detected! Surrender or be terminated!" It did not give much time to react though as it sprang into action, leaping for Ouroboros, who was closest. Behind it, more clawed hands reached and pulled and grabbed from the other side of the doorway.
  20. Zeitgeist Blue
    Meanwhile, outside the room and merely a few meters away... "Hey!" Nicole rapped her knuckles on the inside of the breastplate. She was halfway in, her feet dangling in the air as she tried to pry open Bellios. She could hear the sounds of fighting and the screams of the possessor, though from what she could hear she almost pitied it. Almost. Now she only needed to get the hunk of junk working. She tried pushing past the activation wards only for purple electricity to arc outward, singing the hallway, followed by a crack like thunder. Nicole poked her head out, saw the damage, then promptly ducked back inside her armour. "Damn it."
  21. Zeitgeist Blue
    Longer than a full round's kind of vague. How about I keep Salvo back for another round while you guys manhandle the guy?
  22. Zeitgeist Blue
    Actually, how long is long with the Normal Identity Drawback of Very Common by the way? Got no book with me right now.
  23. Zeitgeist Blue
    "Looks like they got this," Nicole said to her schoolmates, reaching out a hand to stop them from moving forward to help. It was a natural response for those with her hobby, but in cases like this it was better to let the experts handle it. The woman currently treating Corinne and taking charge looked like she knew what she was doing. "Poison? Shot?" Nicole repeated as she reached up a phone to dial 911. It didn't take a genius to guess why the daughter of a famous superhero-playboy would get targeted. "But I didn't see anything. Sara, did you?" She asked the White Lioness, sure that if anyone would notice anything it was her.
  24. Zeitgeist Blue
    "Sheeze, I may have dodged a bullet here," Nicole mutters under her breathe, listening to Dio wax poetic about Leroy's treatment of the dragon. If she didn't know any better she'd peg it down as slavery, but she did and it sounded exactly like that! That did not endear the Sun Dragon much to the mage-smith. "But you care about him?" She gingerly poked. "That's why you haven't left him faster than you can burrow through the ground?" In any case, all this talk about Leroy left a bad taste in Nicole's mouth and she was eager to put her mind somewhere else. Like magic, a spirits, and haunting Earthbounds. It made her eyes glow thinking about all she could dissect from such a creature, literally and figuratively. No telling what a vengeful ghost had absorbed for all its time inside a school filled with superpowers. Nicole tsk'ed in disapproval as Dio tapped Bellios' faceplate and she adjusted her glasses with a finger. "If you out it that way, you make it sound like anything's better than staying up here." She glanced sideways at the rooftop door, where Astrid's music was wafting from. Sure, tribal. That was one way to put it. "You're asking for my help, aren't you? And I bet you came here already knowing what my answer would be." There were a bunch of others who wouldn't be sacks of potatoes to carry against spirits. There were certain skill sets that would affect them. You wouldn't look to physical might for these kinds of things. Then smiling, she looked back at Dio. "Yes."
  25. Zeitgeist Blue
    He nods. "Another way to do it, sure," and he throws a thumb back at Healer Anne, who is glaring at the two of you talking instead of working. "But the old woman says it takes hours for one whole serving to be prepared." "Go," he tells you. "I'll stay here and help what I can." *** Traps. Snares. Deadfalls. Improvised bears. Stakes. You do what you can with what limited time and equipment you have. Even gathering the tools and raw materials, there is only so much one woman could add. A few villagers on patrol or brave enough pass by you and one or two stop to help dig pits or fashion holds upsized to the Paruma's size. They quickly leave after their work is done, exchanging with you only a few words. It is hard work and more than halfway through your planned traps you look up to the sky and see that the moon has reached its zenith. It is midnight and the jungle is quiet, unnerving instead of calm because you know the reason for the silence. One could feel more alone than they actually are just looking up and hearing nothing. Indeed, you are at a point farthest from the stream, where the clearing cuts off and the hills begin rolling up again into more jungle and trees. The huts are merely a short jog away but there is not a soul in sight. Then silence is broken. You hear the sound of gunshots off to the distance. They come from the opposite of the village of where you are. They are cut off abruptly. Then running footsteps, shouting as the people in the perimeter run to find out what has happened. You all hear this from where you are but before you can move to see what the commotion, your eye catches sight of a human figure where the hills meet the trees. Kayara steps out from the jungle and raises her hand towards you, as if beckoning. Then she takes another step and begins walking to you. "The explorer," she says, and for the first time you see she is more kucid than you have seen her. More full, more human. More otherworldly and more real. Her hair shines bright like the moon, almost silver. "I find you here, explorer, bearer of my beloved's ring." Her pupils burn bright with fire. Literally, like a video playing a montage. You blink and it is gone. "Bearer of my body and soul, of its body and soul." She cocks her head as if hearing what you are hearing, then she lowers her gaze back to you and she is smiling, a beautific smile fit for a saint. "I gave it all to you and for all that you went through, you did not dissapoint."
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