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Olimar lets out a yawn as he continues to smoke, he stands removing the guard's tabard he had on, revealing his intricately designed dwarven deep delver armor. He brushes his armor absently before taking a large drag from the bottle of alcohol on him and telling the other prisoners, "Don't worry, everything will be OK." He sits back down crosses his legs and tosses the flask of liquor to Figuero, "Have a drink and calm down, lad."
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Nessa shakes her head. "Fine, good enough. Wouldn't mind at least another person coming but either way, gotta go." She heads off towards the flayer. On the way, she pulls her helmet from the sling, smiling at it a little, and puts it on, then starts to wind the device as she goes. Mechanically, run, wind the thing for one round, then run until she can noticeably feel the thing's influence and guess its direction. Then finish winding, and head that way.
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Hecate Hecate looks at Flora and Oreom heading outside the Manor, and then at Vanessa who went towards the Flayer chamber, and is torn between the two. Would she take the easy way out with Bonne? Although it was certain that after this botch job, there was no way to stay on Geareg anymore, and she still didn't trusted Barnabus well enough to be sure if he wouldn't discard her to quell Carbon's rage. And of course, there's always that little thing called... A conscience. For some reason that Hecate couldn't put her hands on, she just felt that leaving Vanessa and the others here would be something bad. Yes, it's stupid to feel that way about these morons who brought it on themselves but... Yes, looking after these people is going to be the real death of her. She grunts while following Vanessa. "I must be a goddamn Saint."
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Feb 28, 2013 03:49
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Vanessa glances back. "You're coming? Wonderful! So tell me about the room this thing's in..." Can probably gloss over the details, yeah?
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Feb 28, 2013 03:57
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"Well, two people unmade part of the sealing that kept the Flayer's powers under check. This is a friendly advice since who knows what he can do if you get too close..." Hecate shrugs before conveying some more data to Nessa. Other details about the chamber mentioned as well!
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Feb 28, 2013 04:05
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 : "If they don't find that squidhead, they're gonna get arrested. If they do, the absolute best-case scenario is they're gonna be slaves... an' as I understand it, that's only a squidhead's second-favorite thing to do ta people.""I was gonna go back an' scrape a coupla shelves inta my pack hopin' we'd get some better evidence of whatever Carbon's up to, but intentionally lettin' that thing outta where it's locked up is suicide, an' I wanna be as far away as possible by the time they let it loose." "Let's get Flora back to her pa, and get them what's waitin' for us, and get outta here before that tank shows up." Lefty is obviously reluctant to do so, given that he just ran away from there and probably couldn't follow through with anything if Carbon decided to raise the stakes, but unless someone else is gonna step up and take Flora back, he does it himself. Anyone (although I guess only Oreom and P'ui are left behind to not kill themselves by brainsucking) who feels like coming with is welcome to do so, this whole "hostage" thing is kind of lousy to Lefty in the first place. Rtwo fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Feb 28, 2013 |
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Feb 28, 2013 04:08
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"Really? Well, if you can direct me..." Nessa finishes winding the device. "Ah, much better. Don't want it getting into our heads." She continues on, into the cell.
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Feb 28, 2013 04:17
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P'ui glances off at the others departing back the way they came and rolls her eyes. "If the apes want to die in flames or be lead away in manacles, that is their choice. She rummages around in her satchel for a moment, pulling out a small index card and handing it to Flora. "The Flora's ordeal will be over soon enough. She hopes there's no hard feelings, yes? If it needs a research partner, apothecary, or assassin, do look us up. She owes It a favor now, mind." "Now, we'd better get It to It's Father, before The Carbon decides to kill Her coworkers, yes? She would prefer to keep It for a while for Her own safety, but options have been left a little slim." P'ui nods to Lefty. "Let's go then, Ape. The Armor draws near."
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Feb 28, 2013 04:23
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 Oreom BonneOreom accompanies Lefty to return Flora; not necessarily out of any sense of good-doing, but more as a token of appreciation for Flora being such a good sport about being his human shield for the past several minutes and never once slapping him for it. Granted, spurning his hand is enough to make him grumpy, but he supposed that Lefty deserved to have a little bit of muscle standing behind him to encourage Carbon to not just shoot him and be done with it, and he figured Carbon would find the rat about as intimidating as Oreom himself did. And you didn't start finding rats threatening after your sixth rat stew, either. He might have been a self-centered rear end in a top hat, but he wasn't actively TRYING to throw the other people on the job under the tank. Mostly.
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Lefty, Oreom, Olimar, Figuero, Thorgeisl, P'ui: Flora stares at P'ui, dumbfounded. After a few moments she accepts the card and pockets it sighing. "... Would that we met under better circumstances." She attempts a weak smile. P'ui, Oreom and Lefty escort Flora up to the front gate of the manor and confront Nick and his group, who have Thorgeisl, Figuero and Olimar under gun point. James and Cyrus make a point to be behind the remaining two Guards. An approaching Steam Tank rumbles ominously closer and closer with each passing moment! Nick strides up a bit. "Right. I guess the best we can hope for here is to exchange at the same time?" He gestures over his shoulder and the Guards bring the PCs on his end up. You can go ahead with a proposed exchange or try to negotiate a bit more or dictate terms of the exchange, but you can hear that rumbling getting closer by the second! Vanessa, Hecate: Stepping back into the secret basement, you progress smoothly until you enter the sewer chamber where the research lab is.  Even with the Anti-Magic Generator running smoothly, a voice penetrates Vanessa's mind. <Arrogance is unbecoming of the lesser races. Allow me to guide you.> It attempts to assert control. Vanessa: Make a Will Save.
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Feb 28, 2013 19:01
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Nessa slows. "What the gently caress?" 1d20+2=13
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Vanessa: You are under a compulsion. The voice continues instructing you. <Set the Device down. Proceed across the railway.> You cannot act or even speak out of turn unless you have an effect that may help against compulsion/mind-affecting. You can visualize a room where stocky, gray-skinned humanoids without eye sockets have been dissected on large tables. In the North of the room is a great and terrible carving of a malicious looking outsider. At the base of the stone is an iron-framed block of a weird gel-like substance with the barest silhouette of an alien something inside.  <Destroy the remaining runic circles.> Hecate: Vanessa seems to be unusually silent and moving with direct purpose, as if she had been here before. She has set the Anti-Magic Generator down at the entrance. 
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"Yes. Yes, of course this would happen." Hecate snarls as she sees Vanessa being turned into the Flayer's thrall just like P'Ui and Thorgeisl. She said to Vanessa to keep her distance, and now she's being played like a fiddle, and worse, the Generator is sure to prevent the Sorceress from using her own magic! She runs ahead, trying to pin down Vanessa, but this might be difficult against someone stronger than her... 1d20=3 on my attempt to grapple/tackle...
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Feb 28, 2013 20:19
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Just pick up the drat thing and get the field to overlap the flayer. Or does the fact that the compulsion pierced the field mean it simply has no effect on the flayer's abilities?
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OOC: Considering it worked on those two before despite the runes binding magic and the fact that the anti-psionic barrier was really weakened compared to the anti-magic one...
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Olimar nods at Lefty as he is led to the line, he trudges up to Lefty during the exchange and says, "Let's make this quick, you fellas want to be out of here before that tank-unit arrives." He digs in his pack, removing one item he keeps in his hand before handing the pack to Lefty, <dwarvish>Take this for me, I need to do something before I can meet up with you. Don't worry about the Dwarves."<dwarvish> He smiles at Carbon and turns, "Come on, Old Boy, let's make this quick, we haven't got all day, them dwarves are a lot more punctual than you humans ever thought to be." He has handed everything except his weapons, armor and the one item he is holding to Lefty for 'safe keeping'. He turns back to Lefty, <dwarvish>"Meet me where we were hired later on. I'll be around when I can. If I'm not, I guess everything in that is yours."<dwarvish> He gives a companionable grin, <dwarvish>"Because if we don't meet again I've died."<Dwarvish>
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Vanessa and Hecate: Vanessa double-moves again, easily evading the grapple. Fortunately, you both move at the same speed or so. Olimar: Your actions are interrupted before you can leave Nick's side of the exchange at all, preventing you from meeting, speaking and passing items off to Lefty. Nick thrusts the barrel of his rifle into your stomach. "Woah there! What the Hell do you think we're doing, you drunken little idiot?" He guides you back to his Guards and grits his teeth, speaking very deliberately. "You hail your friends, they release Flora and she takes ten paces forward. I release you three idiots, all of you walk back to your respective sides and if you're lucky, you can accomplish this before the Patrol arrives, not that I care, but I'm trying to see things from your end." Thump! "Got it? Now hail them!" Doomykins fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Feb 28, 2013 |
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Feb 28, 2013 22:44
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Olimar nods and says, "As you wish." he then hails Lefty, "Let Flora move forward ten paces then we go."
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OOC: Hey-o. Self Reliant: after failing a Will save with a duration greater than 1 round, can attempt a second saving through at the end of the second round. Also, 1 use of Resolve for Resolute: When making a Fort or Will save, can spend one use as an immediate action to roll twice. Must decide before rolling. So... 2d20k1+2=16 Hm. Probably still no. Should've used that Resolute thing before.
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(How does 2d20k1+2=16 parse? In the Orokos it looks like it just rolled once.) Vanessa: You snap out of the compulsion, now standing inexplicably at the far end of an iron walkway suspended over darkness, leading to the autopsy room. You've lost the Anti Magic Generator for unknown reasons!
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OOC: It was a 14 and a 3, the 14 is in brackets. Vanessa glances around, confused. "Right." She turns, waving Hecate forward, and marches the gently caress out of there, grabbing the device on the way.
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"Guess you are actually able to think for yourself now, huh? Can't say i didn't warned you about getting close to the creature..." Hecate sighs as she follows Nessa, staring at the device. "That thing is more of a hindrance when turned on, you know."
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"It's utterly loving useless. We need to leave, now, Carbon's mad." As they leave the room, she fiddles with the device, deactivating it. e: Assuming we're getting away, She slows and stops in the hallway, drawing a piece of chalk, and scribbles on the floor, M FLAYER CONTAIN MENT NEARLY FAIL Then flicks her wrist, causing ivy to grow up and out, wreathing the message and making a collar in the hallway, and trailing on the floor for a while. "There. Hopefully they'll notice that." zachol fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Mar 1, 2013 |
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Unless anyone interferes, Lefty lets Flora go to walk her ten paces.: "For whatever it's worth I was against hostage-takin' from the start. Best of luck to ya."
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Vanessa and Hecate: You retreat back through the secret passageway. You have two choices for your path out. You can take secret stairs up to the Northern Vaults, or to the Southern Barracks. As you recall, Oreom had his duel in the Vaults and they were mostly empty. The Southern Barracks had a ton of unconscious troops in them, but as Hecate knows, also had at least three of Carbon's Guards running around with rifles and what not. Lefty, Oreom, P'ui: Flora ignores Lefty and tenses up, stepping 10 feet forward tentatively. She looks over to Nick's side of the camp. Figuero, Thorgeisl, Olimar: Nick gestures to you to get moving. Assuming you do, you get to move 20/30 feet each, Dwarven move-speed accounted for and all. You guys are able to move another 60 feet and get most of the way across the garden and toward the other party members when Flora moves 30 feet... to the North! She then casts a quick spell while well out of everybody's melee range and Vanishes, turning Invisible! Nick roars out. "RIGHT! Gun them down!" He and his Guards open fire and Cyrus throws his pipe over the lot of them, where it ignites into a roaring fireball that explodes across Figuero, Thorgeisl and Olimar. Bullets fly wide, but some meet their mark and Nick relishes the shot he lands square in Olimar's back. After the gunfire the fire whiplashes across the three! Edit: Reflex DC for the Fireball is 15. Figuero: You were missed by gunfire but take 12 damage from the Fireball, Reflex Save for half. Olimar: Nick's shot pierces your armor and impacts with a whistling sonic projectile that bleeds you good for 11 + 3 Sonic/Force damage. The fireball follows for another 12 damage, Reflex Save for half. Thorgeisl: You're only grazed in the arm for 2 damage by the Guard's shot, but the Fireball whips across you for a searing 12 damage, Reflex Save for half. At this point, you guys can run for it and escape onto the streets or call for Initiative. The Tank Brigade is very loud and close at this point, though! Doomykins fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Mar 1, 2013 |
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Welp, that went exactly as well as expected. How likely are the former-captives-current-targets from decent cover and a chance to escape? If they need cover, Lefty will cover. If they can reasonably get away, Lefty's bolting.
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Edit: Reflex Save DC is 15. The nearest cover and the nearest escape are the same thing: running to the fence that separates the property from the street with one round's worth of double movements/running. The only hiccup is that if Olimar doesn't make his Reflex Save, he'll hit 0 HP and collapse. Then again, he is close enough for somebody to move up, grab him and then move out. Doomykins fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Mar 1, 2013 |
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"We go there, less chances to find people." Hecate says as she points to the Vault, running at that direction.
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 Thorgeisl Whose Laughter Stinks of Killing Thorgeisl roars in pain and rage as the fireball washes over him. He would like nothing more than to retaliate, yet he is in no condition to do so. So he retreats for the fence. As he does so he tries to calculate what good running to the guards with a carefully edited, but mostly true, story about going in for an interview, walking out only to stop at a compulsion, and following the compulsion to where Carbon was holding a living Mind Flayer. And how when Carbon discovered they knew he tried to silence them. Reflex vs fireball 1d20+2 forgot my bonus against fire. 8 not that it mattered
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Olimar fails the save and falls to the ground, he is at 0 HP(But according to rules I can still move at half speed[10 feet a round]) Oli begins shambling, in obvious pain, towards the gate with a growled noise he finally pulls his Dwarven Tank-Police badge from his pocket, hollering out, "You drat human, I'm an officer of the law!" He waves his badge at Carbon, "I never said I came solely with these lot, you just assumed. There's a reason I wasn't letting them hurt the girl. I'm betting those Tank-Units are not gonna be pleased if you loving kill me." He coughs up blood as he pins his badge to his chest as he shambles away.
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Vanessa and Hecate: All's clear in the Vault. However, taking the next set of stairs up to the first floor of the manor reveals that the front door is blocked by Nick, James, Cyrus and some Guards. You'll have to get past them somehow, hop out a window in the adjacent hall or something, or try an outside the box approach. Oh, and those guys at the front door have opened fire on some unlucky sods you can't see.
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Vanessa whispers to Hecate. "We should get to the stables, get out with my horse. Faster." OOC: So what's the way to get to the stables?
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"If you want a Horse, i could provide us with one without having to go to the stables." Hecate whispers back as she points to a glistening ruby ring on her left finger. ...Then again a Pony might not work too well! Plutonis fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Mar 2, 2013 |
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quote:Nessa stood early, as Richard and Barnabus were leaving. quote:Vanessa is the first to approach and receives a casual wave. He gives you a quick look-over and seems satisfied if stoic. "You've heard right. If you could tell me your name and of your service or your Lord's House, we'll have a boy tend to your horse and you can come on in." quote:Nessa smiles. The North Side of the Manor. 
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"Let's try to get out without alerting those assholes. Is there a window or something?" Nessa squints at the Colonel and his group. OOC: So if we came up the northern vaults, we should be on the north side...? Get out a window, see if we can spot the stables, if not just run.
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Vanessa and Hecate: You hop out a window and end up in near total darkness. Fortunately, coming out the North side of the manor you can see a nearby small side building adjacent to the manor lit by some hanging lanterns.
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"See? That's probably it. Be ready, though..." Vanessa approaches the building, heading for, say, larger gates if there are any open, or just a regular doorway. OOC: Can I "prime" the device by winding it most of the way, or do the winding actions need to be all at once? zachol fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Mar 2, 2013 |
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