[pnpgm] Game Update #116 - File #817 - Shifter Combat phase 3+4
Wout Broere
broere at powersandperils.org
Thu Mar 16 10:45:27 CET 2017
Unali will quickly grab the dagger and sheath, yell 'Thanks' without
really looking who threw it. Pull the dagger out and charge towards
where Mae is standing with two shifters around her.
Not sure how well her control of Zin is, but she will atatck #4 first.
On 16-03-17 00:12, pnpgm wrote:
> ` Player DS Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex
> -- -----------------------------------------------------------------
> FH.John Haight.......HY..Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Al.. Ma
> ...Kevin Newark..........Dorhak............Warrior.Normal/Dwarf....Ma
> --.Tobie Bonahoom....YY..Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry.. Fe
> W3.Mark Murtha.......HN..Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human....Ma
> W2.David Sanders.....HN..Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human ..Ma
> R4.Wout Broere.......YY..Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human ..Fe
> ...Don.Kerr..............Maelorna..........Dancer..Normal/Human....Fe
> ...Gilbert.Isla..........Mournath..........Sailor..Normal/Human....Ma
> R3 Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma
> R4.Alex Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe
> R3.Fukishtu.Newsome......Npc...............Chief...Normal/Human....Ma
> R3.Lucria.Cegra..........Npc...............Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma
> Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra
>
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> Game Update #116 sequence (file #817)
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>
> Admin Notes: None.
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> [Recap]
>
> From Fremea: [Re: Actions]
> Fremea cures in her head that it doesn't seem like the...
> GM: Ack.
>
> From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions]
> Not having any innate magics Z'leyra is limited to the magic
> she is trained in as her magical tools are not in her reach.
> Without her drum she cannot cast shamanic spells so she tries
> to cast Mind Shield ELmax, then Invisibility EL1.
>
> If she cannot cast spells she will attempt to clear her neck
> of any parasite, then go for one of her weapons.
> GM: Ack.
>
> From Mae: [Re: Actions]
> Maelorna hears the warning from Arawn and before she ...
>
> "I swear, if I survive this, I want a bath." she grouses...
>
> If successful and the creature either falls at her feet or
> perishes, she'll lunge at Zylera in order to reach for the
> nodule and rip it free from the woman's neck. However, if
> the creature resists her embrace, she'll use the dagger in
> hand to ram it home as many times as she can into its chest.
> GM: Ack. Just FYI I told you once but in case forgot. Doing
> words in phases takes tmies. 1 Phase = 3 seconds. That
> speech you gave which I assume was vocal not mental would
> take almost 3 phases. This would mean time from doing
> magic or such. For the future. But not for Innate magic.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [New Stuff]
>
> [Febris 9th, 1635TH]
> [Time: 5:01 pm]
> [Unknown Location]
> [Audience Room - Current room]
>
> Fremea curses in her head that it doesn't seem like the spell
> worked to free anyone else. Maybe those things are not
> considered tame, but either way she has to deal with this damn
> creature now. She thinks about a spell to use, but really right
> now, it would be easier to just use her training to destroy this
> creature, who thinks it better than her. A new creature that
> has tried, and failed, to contain her, to enslave her once more.
>
> Fremea uses her training in martial arts to make this things
> life seem like it wasn't worth going through.
>
>
> [Phase 3]
>
> Arawn considers his options as he continues to touch
> the glowing Cryx. The vibration and energy it seems to
> give off is relentless and a bit addictive. Thoughts
> flood his mind as he considers the options. He could
> use the whistle. At least twice he heard Zin use it
> to free Kiet and then the second shifter forcing the
> party to move in a line. With his intelligence and the
> memorization skills he has he could reproduce it. But
> there is a slight risk. But Arawn knows he has spent a
> great deal of magical and life energy in the last two days.
> He knows he has to escape from this place. He may be
> the only one to do so if this Cryx is for him. He
> may need to conserve his energy for later. He could
> translocate the remaining party to the pile. At least
> two of the shifters would be at the pile in seconds
> and could shred the party. So even if they get away
> some might die still bound by the creatures.
>
> Maelorna hears the warning from Arawn and before she thinks
> to warn him to ignore her, realized she hadn't moved as she
> remains near the altar with dagger in hand. With a groan of
> irritation, she can see Zin ignored her instruction and was
> moving steadily towards her. 'By the court, what the hell was
> he doing?' she grouses and ignores him as she starts to note
> the remaining shifters and those left behind. If Arawn was
> able to work magic, he wasn't helpless, the others, she regards
> and picks the nearest and sadly it's not the braggart who
> warned her to stay away.
>
> "I swear, if I survive this, I want a bath." she grouses while
> she fades from view to all but her intended victim and giggles
> playfully as she flies at the shifter trying to kill Zylera.
> She attempts to latch onto it's back or failing that, land
> behind it and pull herself closer into a lover's embrace.
>
> Mae concentrates and tries to become invisible as she
> selects her target.
>
> Mae flies toward Shifter #4 and tries to grab onto his
> back but the smooth surface is hard to grasp and she slips
> off but is now just a half foot behind him.
>
> All four shifters react first. Shifter #2 in bull form
> tries to twist his head back and forth to get rid of the
> small creature. It reaches up and behind to claw at the
> Faerry but both claws fail to reach as she dodges back
> and forth on his back.
>
> Shifter #3 rears up his tusk and stabs Unali in the
> left side but her armor protects most of it doing only
> 2 points of damage. But in the process she is lifted up
> and off her feet slamming into her stomach still unable
> to move.
>
> Shifter #4 smiles at Z'leyra and draws back both of
> his claws and lunges for her throat. But Z'layha yells
> something Z'leyra doesn't recognize and seems to distract
> the shifter. The claws rip at Z'leyra's throat doing 1
> and 5 points of damage. But the distraction was just enough
> to prevent her carotid being sliced open. So she can
> feel blood flowing down her neck but she would be gasping
> for air if it was her main artery.
>
> Zin frowns seeing Mae fly away. Why would she do that?
> Zin turns around and looks. Then moves toward Mae who
> has landed behind Shifter #4. Zin reaches and now stands
> a foot behind Mae waiting.
>
> Arawn curses the distraction. The Cryx seems to be
> drawing her inward to itself. Arawn withdraws his hand
> and brings the whistle up. He begins to blow it hoping
> it is the correct tune. In the last few second she
> glanced at it and knows it only had 2 holes. The
> odds are good compared to a flute or some other complex
> musical instrument.
>
> All around the room spiders on necks begin to vibrate
> and then drop to the ground in a few drops of blood.
>
> Kell suddenly feels his arms move and lurches toward
> Kiet. "Get a grip!" He begins to shake the acrobat
> back and forth.
>
> Mournath is relieved to be free for the second time in
> days he is forced to not move. But now he bends down
> and grabs his spear and shield.
>
> Z'leyra feels her arms dangle and realizes she has now
> full control. With her left hand she reaches up to check
> her throat and confirms it is a bad slice but she will
> survive. With her right hand she does a forceful slap
> against Shifter #4's chest.
>
> Fuk glares at Kiet and bends down to pick up his sword
> from the pile then turns to face the shifters.
>
> Pyan bends down to retrieve his spear.
>
> Dorhak bends down to gather up his mace and shield.
>
> Z'layha moves toward Z'leyra to help her sister. Not
> with any weapons though she tries to punch the shifter
> but does little effect. As she does she glances at Mae and
> frowns at the new form she is in. Then she sees the
> thing holding her dagger!
>
>
>
> [Phase 4]
>
> "You know, a girl might become jealous, bring her to dinner,
> then ignore her and go for a prettier girl." Maelorna gives an
> evil grin as the voice finally for once isn't egging her on,
> rather, it was singing in jubilant elation as weeks of denial
> are put to rest. She coos softly and caresses the shifter like
> an infatuated lover as she attempts to draw greedily the first
> of all it's energy she can sunder from its shell, wanting to
> see it waste away and fall to her feet dead or dying.
>
> Mae reaches toward Shifter #4 and touches his back and draws
> energy from the creature.
>
> Unali rolls over and does a acrobatic move to thrust
> her feet up and down to repel her body upwards. She
> does a side kick at one of the beasts four legs. Making
> the tusked four legged beast-shifter fall forward. Unali
> then grabs the tusk and holds on looking up to the others.
>
> Shifter #2 figures can't shake the thing off her back so
> turns and charges the west wall. Hoping to slam her into
> the wall itself. Fremea notices this at the last second and
> tries to fling backwards but she is too late and slams into
> the rock wall. She takes one point of damage and falls to
> the ground south of the creature.
>
> Shifter #3 flings Unali away using great stregnth. It
> realizes the party by the weapons pile has weapons now
> and roars. It charges past Unali straight for those
> at the pile with weapons but ends up only about 12 feet
> away or so.
>
> At the same time as the other 3 shifters, Shifter #4
> now is fighting 3 targets. It grows 4 more arms and hands
> with claws. It begins to swing and claw all 3 wildly. The
> two claws at Mae, by two weird arms in his back, miss her
> as she dodges. Both claws do hit Z'leyra but her chainmail
> protects the blows. Both claws at Z'layha fail to strike the
> woman.
>
> Zin stands behind Mae waiting.
>
> Arawn puts down the whistle as it is not needed. He
> considers his options. To get his weapon but realizes
> it is gone to the lava. He then realizes Z'leyra is
> weaponless but it would take time to get her weapon and
> move that way. He then recalls the piece of shifter-metal
> created by Zin and glances down. it is still there In
> the form of a finger shaped object. He glances at the
> Cryx and grabs the shifter-transmuted-metal-thing. He
> places it onto the Cryx and the finger long tube reforms
> into a long dagger sharp object. Does this mean the
> object could transform any Shifter live or dormant? He
> could throw at the tusker-shifter or run to help Arawn but
> considers the Cryx and its mystifying nature.
>
> Kell sees the tusk-thing charge and releases Kiet turning
> his back on him and leans down to grabs his own spear
> and shield hoping it is his and not the others like Pyan
> or Mournath. He braces his feet and raises his shield.
>
> Mournath turns around and sees the scene around him. What
> are these things? One with a tusk and one attacking poor
> Fremea and Z'leyra. He then sees Kell raise his shield
> and does the same. Maybe both men can deflect the creature
> and get it close enough to attack.
>
> Fuk watches Mournath and Kell act as shield bearers and
> realizes this is a good tactic and waits for the tusk
> thing to move close. Then he recalls on the pile below
> is Unali's ornate sheath with dagger in it. He spots
> another dagger but is unsure if it's hers. But the ornate
> sheath is good. He reaches down picks it up and throws
> it at Unali's feet. "Unali!" It lands at her feet still
> sheathed.
>
> Z'leyra grabs her sister and yanks her away toward the
> north west to get her gear. She knows she has left Mae
> but the girl can fly away. Both end up just south of
> the altar.
>
> Mae stabs Shifter #4 with the dagger once again and does
> a deep stab to his back.
>
> Pyan leans down and finds his bow, quiver, sling.
>
> Dorhak looks around and sees Fremea dazed but knows she
> can just fly away. Then he also raises his shield to
> figure out his next move.
>
> [Phase 5]
>
> Actions? Comments?
>
> Next Update.. Saturday?
>
> GM: This was a sloppy update sorry guys. I was a bit
> rushed and some plans had to be redone. This is not
> how I was going to do it but it works for now. Keep
> in mind the shifters move fast so they were able to
> hurt Z and Unali before they could react. Nothing
> good avoiding that. I need to do a project that will take
> a good amount of time. Maybe a week or two. So this
> will take time away from update. Thus I can't guarantee
> when the next one will be out. If I have time I will try
> Saturday but don't keep hope alive. This project needs
> to be done fast so I'm sorry. I'll try to get a head's
> up on it later. For now I've run out of time tonight and
> this is as best I can do. All members can move freely.
>
> GM: Arawn - Will try to email you on things tonight since
> emailed actions changed as warned. Stay tuned. I
> could not figure out what for phase 4 what to do.
> So hope it works.
>
> Fremea - You could fly to get/find your dagger or continue
> to grapple? You are so fast that you could probably
> fly find dagger if lucky and fly back to attack the
> shifter?
>
> Mae - Will assume you stay to continue to leech but
> you are now there with a 6 armed shifter alone with
> only Zin and a small dagger. :)
>
> Z'leyra - I was going to do the mind shield but figure
> based on the posted actions to get the great sword was
> the bigger concern? Did not have time to chat on this
> sorry.
>
> GM: Map - Audience Chamber
>
> 1 Hex = 10 feet
> 1 Row = 5 feet
> 1 Column = 5 feet
> /I\ = North (Maybe)
>
> 1 2 3
> 123456789012345678901234567890123456789
> /###################################### A # = Rock/Cave wall
> \#_```\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \## B @ = Altar (Arawn on top)
> /# ``ERP \__/ \_A/ \__/ \__/ \__/ # C
> \#_/`DKG_/ \__/@@@__/ \__/ \__/ \_# D A = [C18] - Arawn
> / \__/ \__/ \@@@ \__/ \__/ \__/ # E D = [D6 ] - Dprhak
> \ _/ \__3 \__Z \__/ \__/ \__/ \_ F F = [K3 ] - Fremea
> /# \__/ \__/ \N_/ \__/ \__/ \__/ G K = [D7 ] - Kell
> \#_/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \## H E = [C6 ] - Kiet
> /# \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ # I U = [J15] - Unali
> \#2 \__/ \_U/ \__1M4\__/ \__/ \_# J M = [J23] - Mae
> /#F\__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ # K R = [C7 ] - Mournath
> \#_/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \_# L P = [C8 ] - Pyan
> /# \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ # M Z = [F16] - Z'leyra
> \##/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \_# N G = [D8 ] - Fuk
> /# \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ # O N = [G17] - Z'layha
> \#_/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \__/ \_# P ` = Pile of gear
> /##\__/ \__/ \__/ #### \__/ \__### Q
> \###################################### R
>
> Stone 'window' [A11/A12] - Closed
> Altar - 15x10 feet, Arawn's head toward West in center
>
> Exit - E2/E3 - Passage to ?
> Exit - F39/G39 - To Lava room assumed
>
> Ceiling - 8-12 feet high in places
>
> Lighting - mostly from lava room glare for eastern
> party of room. Western side of room is darker but not
> pure dark.
>
> Shifters
> 1 - Zin [J22]
> 2 - #2 [J3 ] Bull Creature
> 3 - #3 [F10] Tusk Creature
> 4 - #4 [J24]
>
> Cyrx - D17 Not shown but NW corner of table. Think of
> a snowglobe glowing white/gray with a small pedestal a
> half inch or so under it.
>
> Whistle - Arawn's hand
>
>
>
>
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