Splicers - I Am Legion - IC Thread

[Sherwood]

The casting throwers scatter rounds across the heavy robot's force field, but despite the damage done, it has not taken any structural damage past the shield.

Mirgris and Purr are both up at initiative 19.

20 - Toni [1]
19 - Chaska <====
19 - Lance <====
15 - Battle Track - light damage
11 - Jin
8 - Axel

 

[Mirgris]

Lance can't help but grin as he fights, the griffon quickly moves into a dive bomb on the large machine and his lance strikes forward with the speed and strength of his host armor behind it.

He is to the unaided eye a blur, the griffon can dive well above 100 MPH so when the lance hits the forcefield it has speed and thousands of pounds behind it.

{1d20 plus 14 to hit with a lance (4d6), bonus 2d6 damage from charging on horseback)

27 to hit 24 Plus 13 Damage (37)

 

[Sherwood]

The impact against the shield is enough to rattle your teeth, but the field is still up and active.

Purr is up

20 - Toni [1]
19 - Chaska <====
19 - Lance [1]
15 - Battle Track - light damage
11 - Jin
8 - Axel

 

[Purr]

Eonivar Mirgris Psychie Sherwood

Chaska's stares at the Battle Track with a silent intensity while keeping the huge metal monstrosity between himself and the overwhelming numbers of Sky Fighters that fly not far enough away. Sometimes it was possible to evade notice - sometimes fate had its own designs in mind. But when it was time to fight - fight!

Hovering inside Wyldkat, Chaska focuses his sharp mind begins to undergo something of an internal - and very personal - transformation. The time to sneak gone, he allows the martial warrior inside of him to now guide his thought processes, his mind, and his motions. Chaska assumes a martial fighting stance in mid-air. One hand on one of his swords, he looses Woodstock with a whisper to attack the Tracks's shield with his Plasma Breath.

Then rising up to make himself more of a target to the Battle Track, he aims both of his Dual Heat Projection Cannons at their foe. Understanding that this is a race between the Battle Track's destruction or the Splicers' own, he looses both of WyldKat's most-powerful weapons at their full force.

Spoiler: Combat data for Sherwood.

Woodstock's Plasma Breath. 40 foot range. +4 to Strike. 4D12 Mega-damage if successful.
Dual Heat Projection Cannons. 1,800 foot range. +9 to Strike (while hovering). 2D8x10+10 M.D. for both heavy blasts if successful.

 

[Sherwood]

The dual attacks from both Chaska's and Woodstock's attacks strike the heavy force field around the Battle Track, causing it to flicker from the force of the impacts, but only for a moment; it quickly stabilizes and firms up once more.

In return, the vile robot turns and points its left arm at Lance's Griffon and fires a powerful plasma burst. It will hit unless you dodge.

Mirgris has a defense to declare.

20 - Toni [1]
19 - Chaska [1]
19 - Lance [1]
15 - Battle Track - heavy damage to force field - [1]
11 - Jin <====
8 - Axel

Eonivar

There are several people that have dived down from somewhere above you and are tearing into the Battle Track that is hot on your heels. The good news is that you are not alone. The bad news is that there is still a fully armored Battle Track in the area and it is going to take a lot of pounding to take it down. You do know that there is an entrance to the tunnels nearby that you were heading for, and if you do not get there soon, there won't be much left of you to scrape up in a dustpan from all those air units of the Machine out there. Best bet is to help the reinforcements to take down the Battle Track and get the hell out of there sooner rather than later.

Axel mutters out on the bio-comms, "Now's our chance, girl. Time to pull out all the stops and hit that thing before it's too late for all of us."

You see that the robot is firing on one of the newcomers, giving you a wide open shot on it. What do you do?

 

[Eonivar]

The sounds over the Bio-Comms caught Jin off gaurd as her eight foot tall olive colored host armor had instinctually dove to the ground when a when she had felt a change in the air pressure with the heat of the blast flying over her head slicing through trees on the way. The constant "clank-clank-clank"sounds of the treads of the Battle Track continued about three hundred feet behind her as tree tops fell all over causing more terrain clutter for good or for bad. A tree top fell on her, the large trunk maybe two feet in diameter not even affecting her tough chitinous like exterior and reinforced exoskeleton.

Axel's voice echoed over the coms as her hearing filtration adjusted causing his voice to be slightly distorted.

-"Jin! You ok? That last shot looked like it clipped you!"-

The first thing she did was get a bearing on her location and the location of everything else here. She through her motion sensors had felt the Battle Track turn away east from her and Axel, who was somewhere near.

Then the same voice over the comms
-"Watch your targets, Cerberus! We have friendlies in the area!"-
She then heard the buzz of multiple casting guns firing, with the the shots impacting the shield of the tracked robot, and the a cry of a massive beast and a large whoomph sound, and then the distinctive and familiar sounds of heat cannons followed by the continued buzz of the shield on the stout robotic tank.

The fear came, and Jin, squeezed her eyes shut, whispering to herself, purposely not speaking through the comms. "All I have to do is turn invisible and wait this fight out..."

She opened her eyes and looked over and saw the top of Axel's head in a small ravine with fallen trees over it about fifty feet to her left.

How many times had she been left behind by others in the underground of the resistance conclave...it would be so easy to disappear.

Axel's voice then echoed in the Bio-Comms.
-"Now's our chance, girl. Time to pull out all the stops and hit that thing before it's too late for all of us."-

She shook her head as Axel's voice dismissed the memory of her watching her Squad Leader's Host Suit getting struck by many missiles and then cut in half by a particle beam as he bade them to leave was still fresh in her mind. The fear faded into the background noise. "No, I will not abandon them."

She had never heard of Cerberus squadron, but it was nice for the calvary to arrive for once. Over the Bio-Comms Jin's voice sounded.

-"Cerberus, this is Private First Class Jin Li, Echelon-Six of Echelon Squadron. Myself and Echelon-Five are about three hundred feet south of the Battle Track's position. We will engage and flank."-

Jin moves forward slightly and jumps up with a boost of her thrusters, spinning around and then kneeling, bringing her own suit mounted heat cannon to bear on the large tank like machine and attempting to target what she knew was a weaker point in the Robot's shields.

OOC: Using two attacks for this attack using the Vital Points skill, selecting "Critical Strike on a Roll of 18-20".
Heat Projector Cannon Heavy Blast
Range: 1800 Feet Damage: 1D8x10+ 10 M.D. blast.
+8 to Strike (not including sniper bonus since it is not an aimed shot)
Rolling 1D20+8 to strike and 1D8x10+10 for damage

Roll is a NATURAL TWENTY - CRITICAL HIT

Damage is (1D8x10+10) x2 = (1x10+10)x2 = 20x2 = 40 MDC

 

[Sherwood]

Jin's shot flies out with deadly intent, hitting the force field and causing it to drop, exposing the body of the Battle Track to attack!

Axel leaps up from his hiding place and fired a burst from his casting rifle, hitting the robot in the upper back, scoring a solid hit and damaging the armor.

Psychie is up, and Mirgris has a defense to declare or have his pretty bird take the hit

20 - Toni [1] <====
19 - Chaska [1]
19 - Lance [1]
15 - Battle Track - light damage - [1]
11 - Jin [2]
8 - Axel [1]

 

[Psychie]

Toni can feel her heart beating fast inside her chest; it is one thing to be told about how tough the Machine is; quite another to see it for herself, live and in person! At least the force field is down. That is a start! She spins about the air, saying, "Copy that, Private Jin Li. This is Private Toni Cruse of Cerberus of House Artemis! On our way in, we spotted a force of twelve to fourteen Sky Fighters circling and strafing an area roughly [gives direction and range] from us. We need to take this tin can out of action before those fighters can send some reinforcements our way and either get underground or go full-on stealth mode and hide with pride. Lets keep the heat on this bad boy and teach it a lesson!"

In keeping with the comment just made, Toni pulls at the armored chest piece of her suit and pries open the plates to reveal her most powerful weapon; the Omega Blaster. Taking a second to charge it up, she unleashes a burning hot blast at the bot, hoping to do some sizable damage to it.

OOC Using up two actions to use the Omega Blaster. Total of 22 to hit, doing 40 MDC points

Spoiler

MDC by Location:
Arms (2): 117 M.D.C.
Hands (2): 27 M.D.C.
Legs (2): 117 M.D.C.
Feet (2): 37 M.D.C.
Head: 137 M.D.C.
Main Body: 260 M.D.C.
Bio-Force Field: 140 M.D.C.

Combat Bonuses On Foot / In Armor
Number of Attacks: 4 / 6
Strike: +8 / +9 (+2 in melee) (+3 ranged)
Parry: +12 / +15 (+1 in melee)
Dodge: +12 / +4 Automatic Dodge
Roll with Punch: +2 / +10
Initiative: +0 / +2
Perception: +7 / +7
Critical Strike on a Natural 20

Casting Thrower x2 - 1d8+3 single shot, 3d8+10 for a four round burst - ammo 120 / 112
Omega Blaster - 2d8x10
Forearm Blades - 5d8

 

[Mirgris]

Jin's shot flies out with deadly intent, hitting the force field and causing it to drop, exposing the body of the Battle Track to attack!

Axel leaps up from his hiding place and fired a burst from his casting rifle, hitting the robot in the upper back, scoring a solid hit and damaging the armor.

Psychie is up, and Mirgris has a defense to declare or have his pretty bird take the hit

20 - Toni [1] <====
19 - Chaska [1]
19 - Lance [1]
15 - Battle Track - light damage - [1]
11 - Jin [2]
8 - Axel [1]

The bird is a strong flyer, and Lance activates his own wings to help manuever, with biological cable running between them, they are essentially one four winged creature and with a burst of wind they try to dive to the side.

[Dodge(31)]

 

[Sherwood]

Lance and his War Mount are able to evade the plasma blasts from the Battle Track with ease.

Purr and Mirgris are up

20 - Toni [1]
19 - Chaska [1] <====
19 - Lance [2] <====
15 - Battle Track - light damage - [1]
11 - Jin [2]
8 - Axel [1]

 

[Sherwood]

One of Hearts

Pain. Your head is pounding, and you want it to stop. Cracking your eyes open, Gus can feel the world spinning around him, and you are thinking that you may have a concussion from the hit you took from the Battle Track. The large robot was a nasty surprise, and if it were not for the level of protection your Host Amor gives you, you'd be dead.

The past few days have been a real cluster f***. You were a part of a squad of Resistance fighters known as Echelon Squad that was sent out to investigate a large group of missing people in what was called a Ghost Town. Over 180 souls were staying there, hiding out under the nose of the Machine for years with no problems to report. Then a few days ago, silence. You and the rest of Echelon Squad were sent out to see what happened to them. What you found was . . . disturbing. All the people there were gone. Not dead, just missing. There were some traces of blood, but no bodies, no rubble of scrapped robots, nothing. Usually, when the Machine finds a human settlement, it doesn't take the bodies of the fallen. They are either killed on the spot, or they are rounded up for a mass extermination as a message to the other humans in the area. Having them all gone is just not what you expected to see.

Then, as you were looking for clues, a large group of robots attacked you. Your squad leader sacrificed himself to buy you and the handful of other members of the Squad to escape with the word of what happened to the town. As you were on the run from the massive amount of air power that the Machine had deployed against you, you and two other members of Echelon Squad, Jin and Axel, stumbled upon a heavy robot called a Battle Track. There was just no way for the three of you to be able to take it out; it was just too heavily protected with layers of armor and a powerful force field. All you could do was run for the nearby tunnel entrance that would provide you with some cover.

Then you got hit in the head and knocked out.

Right now, you can hear over your Bio-Comms a series of communications between Jin and some other group calling themselves Cerberus Squad. The good news is, you have help and just might be able to take down the Battle Track. The bad news is, the Battle Track is still a tough opponent, and you will have to level your firepower against it fast or else the Sky Fighters out there will swoop down on you and make the Lieutenant's sacrifice to be made in vain.

You are still shaking off the effects of the blow to the head, but you are confident that you can get up and get into the fight soon.

 

[Mirgris]

Ambidexterity means using either limb equally well. Which for most humans is a pretty clear concept.
However Lance underneath all the bone plating in his armor has a connection from his brain to his armor, and from their to his griffon.

When he thinks it, the griffon does it. It is an extension of his body. Which makes it a little less clear how many limbs he actually has at any given time.
It does however mean that due to his ambidexterity, he can strike as both man, and bird at the same time.

The machines shield is down, it is injured and he rides upon/is a bird of prey.

From a smooth rolling dodge avoiding the machines technological ray all the wings of his armor and his bird body work in concert to preform a turn so sharp and rapid it would kill a human outside of host armor, a feat that even the sky fighters could never hope to match.

He feels a feral grin under the armor, and he strikes the machine from behind.

He does so with both of the griffons front claws while turning and kicking off the machine so that the back claws may then strike as well.

[Ambidexterity/Paired Weapon Fighting With griffon Claws]

Attack 1 [26 to hit 78 Damage]
Attack 2 [34 to hit 76 Damage]
[154 Damage, 4 actions used]

 

[Sherwood]

The Griffon swoops down and its claws rip into the heavy armor of the Battle Track. It shudders under the force of the impact, but it is still active.

Purr is up next with Chaska

20 - Toni [3]
19 - Chaska [1] <====
19 - Lance [6]
15 - Battle Track - moderate damage - [1]
11 - Jin [2]
8 - Axel [1]