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I had forgotten about the mote discount. Thank you for reminding me.

Rolling damage.

Total of 3L
 
Once more, the monster cries out as the Ribbon cuts into it.

Random Word Random Word is up

0 - [Insight]
1 - [Monster]
2 -
3 - [Xun]
4 - [Amara], Insight <====
5 -
6 - Shi-vash, Monster
7 - Amara
8 - Xun
9 -
10 -
 
Insight nods appreciatively at Xun, flips her parasol to plant it in the ground, interleaves her fingers, and stretches her arms. Sometimes war is messy and you can't avoid getting blood on a nice outfit. The flames swirling around her ignite into an inferno as she vanishes, reappearing to tap two fingertips on its skin just below what passes for its head. She vanishes again as the impact point blossoms into a baleful crimson star, casting stark shadows over the entire digsite, and then explodes in a shower of rotting flesh and foul black blood. She reappears perched against the wall of one of the nearby ruins, pushes off, and reappears again hurtling through the expanding cloud of blood to drive two fingers into the hollow cleared out by her first strike. Once this nova too has exploded she repeats the process a third time, driving her fingers deep into its flesh in an effort to sever its head completely. Finally she rematerializes where she began, completely covered in blood that immediately begins to boil off from the intense heat of her anima.

That's terrifying. It has VBoS, PMAoC, and CMoS? If it were actually using those I wouldn't be able to pull this nonsense.

4m for two extra attacks from Metal Storm
3mx3 Life-Severing Blow on all three attacks for Overwhelming 10

13 motes spent, 1 die stunt regains 2 motes, total of 11 motes Peripheral spent, anima goes to bonfire. Literally.

Accuracy = Dex 5 + MA 5 + Accuracy 4 + Kata Bracers 5 + SLDS 4 + Specialty 1 + Stunt 1 = 25
Target takes a -2 DV penalty from Flickering Moonsilver Approach

Since it's easy to hit I'm just stacking as much damage as I can.
Three Speed 4 Attacks.

It currently has Onslaught... 2? and it doubles any wound penalties against me if relevant unless it pays 2 WP for the scene.
Attack 1: 11 hits, -4 DV penalty (2 Onslaught) - Overwhelming 10A, if it hits 1A damage
Attack 2: 13 hits, -5 DV penalty (3 Onslaught) - Overwhelming 10A, if it hits 4A damage
Attack 3: 13 hits, -6 DV penalty (4 Onslaught) - Overwhelming 10A, if it hits 5A damage

Terrible damage roll there

Personal 15/20 (4 committed)
Peripheral 22/51 (7 committed)
 
This time, when the monster is attacked, it lashes out with a terrible speed, knocking all of your attacks away from it by using many of the attached limbs that are sticking out from the main body of the thing. You recognize the maneuvers as being consistent with the Violet Bier of Sorrows style martial art! Somehow, this thing knows intimate details of secrets held close by the Sidereals.

jaydude jaydude is up

4 - [Amara], [Insight]
5 -
6 - Shi-vash, Monster <====
7 - Amara
8 - Xun, Insight
9 -
10 -
 
"What...this thing can copy our Martial Arts?!" Shi-vash exclaimed, as she watched the mass of Essence filaments spew out from its mouth. Seeing it rushing towards her, the Chosen of Secrets threw her Switchklaive high up into the air, then crouched down and stretched out both arms, taking hold of a bundle of strands of fate in each hand. The next moment, she sprung up from the ground, jumping while simultaneously using her grip on the threads to launch herself further upward, into the web of invisible fate strands that ran across Creation.

She swung, scrambled and jumped through this web, momentarily looking more flea than spider, as the monster's Essence filaments spread out across the area. She was several yards off the ground when it finally reached her, brushing against her toes but otherwise missing her completely, and Shi-vash used the momentum from her last leap to land on a small cluster of strands crisscrossing over one another like a net. The cluster dropped and shook a few inches as it took up her weight, but supported her, and without even looking at it, Shi-vash grabbed her Switchklaive out of the air as it fell past her, as if all she'd done was an expertly choreographed feat of legendary acrobatics.

The Chosen of Secrets became aware of a flock of crows that had flown in front of the monster's mouth and been hit by filaments meant for the Sidereals. That might explain why she'd had as much time as she had to get out of the way. Moments later, she saw both Xun and Amara attack the monster, Xun sending a blast of fire at it, Amara leaping and attacking with her ribbon. Shi-vash grinned. She didn't plan to be outshone by anyone on this battlefield.

Her caste mark burning brightly, and her body surrounded by a halo of green light, she shed her Resplendent Destiny - there didn't seem to be much point to it now - and jumped forward towards the monster, hopping, leaping and swinging through a network of airborne strands that seemingly only she could see. Once in striking range, she jumped towards the monster, suddenly splitting into three copies that each went in different directions; one copy jumped to the monster's side, just above the filament layer's surface, and slashed at it three times with her Switchklaive. Another copy leapt at the monster's belly and repeated the same attack there. Finally, the third Shi-vash jumped towards the biggest head of the monster she could see and - with a mighty yell and after doing a multiple rotation corkscrew mid-leap - drove her Switchklaive into the top of it.

After the first two copies had attacked, they vanished as suddenly as they had appeared, leaving only the Shi-vash stabbing at the monster's head.

Using Unnatural Many-Step Stride (2m Personal Essence with Perfected Kata Bracers) to get above the monster's use of what's presumably Nest of Living Strands, and move through thin air. Can take three independent actions per tick with Charcoal March of Spiders Form. In addition, each copy of Shi-vash is using 3m Personal Essence on Fateful Martial Arts Excellency - a Combo-OK Charm as per the Errata - bringing the target number of her three attacks with the highest number of dice down to four.

"Original" Shi-vash is attacking once with her Switchklaive, while her other two actions are three-attack flurries. Switchklaive attacks have Speed 4.

Attack 1: 17 successes (Fateful Excellency)
Attack 2: 12 successes (Fateful Excellency)
Attack 3: 9 successes
Attack 4: 9 successes
Attack 5: 13 successes (Fateful Excellency)
Attack 6: 9 successes
Attack 7: 4 successes

Also, what stunt die do I get for this, if I may ask?
Health:
|-0|-0|-0|
|-1|-1|
|-2|-2|-2|-2|
|-4|
Incapacitated

Essence: 5
Committed Essence: 14
Personal Essence: 6/17
Peripheral Essence: 17/46
Overdrive Essence: 0/10
Anima: 15

Willpower: 8

Join Battle: 5
Attacks:
Clinch (Speed 6, 15 Accuracy, Damage 3B, Defense -, Rate 1, Clinch, Natural, Piercing)
Kick (Speed 5, 15 Accuracy, Damage 6B, Defense +3, Rate 2, Natural)
Punch (Speed 5, 16 Accuracy, Damage 3B, Defense +7, Rate 3, Natural)
Switchklaive (Speed 4, Accuracy 18, Damage 7L, Defense +6, Rate 3, Attune 6, Piercing)

Dodge DV: 8
Parry DV: 9
 
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The monster has a DV of 7, so most of your strikes hit. Soak is 20, so go ahead and roll your damage.
 
Rolling damage. Switchklaive has a base damage of 7L. Taking onslaught penalties into account, and seeing as they reset at the start of each new flurry:

Threshold successes
Move 1
Attack 1: 10

Move 2 (Flurry)
Attack 1: 5
Attack 2: 3
Attack 3: 4

Move 3 (Flurry)
Attack 1: 6
Attack 2: 3
Attack 3: 0

None of Shi-vash's attacks are able to overcome the monster's soak. As a result, they all do minimum damage of 1. Rolling six dice at once to represent all of them.

Shi-vash does 4L total damage.

Health:
|-0|-0|-0|
|-1|-1|
|-2|-2|-2|-2|
|-4|
Incapacitated

Essence: 5
Committed Essence: 14
Personal Essence: 6/17
Peripheral Essence: 17/46
Overdrive Essence: 0/10
Anima: 15

Willpower: 8

Join Battle: 5
Attacks:
Clinch (Speed 6, 15 Accuracy, Damage 3B, Defense -, Rate 1, Clinch, Natural, Piercing)
Kick (Speed 5, 15 Accuracy, Damage 6B, Defense +3, Rate 2, Natural)
Punch (Speed 5, 16 Accuracy, Damage 3B, Defense +7, Rate 3, Natural)
Switchklaive (Speed 4, Accuracy 18, Damage 7L, Defense +6, Rate 3, Attune 6, Piercing)

Dodge DV: 8
Parry DV: 9
 
Shi-vash slices into the monster, causing blood to flow and it once more screams out in rage and pain.

This counts as a 2 dice stunt for Essence mote recovery.

The monster flings its ugly heads around, causing the web filaments to fill in the empty areas, making it much harder to move about for those on the ground around the thing. With frightening speed, the thing lashes out at Shi-vash as you were the last person to attack it.

It makes a total of three attacks
Attack one scores nine successes to hit
Attack two scores ten successes to hit
Attack three scores fourteen successes to hit.

jaydude jaydude What defense do you wish to use against these?

4 - [Amara], [Insight]
5 -
6 - [Shi-vash], Monster <====
7 - Amara
8 - Xun, Insight
9 - Monster
10 - Shi-vash
 
Landing upon another strand of fate and channelling her Essence, Shi-vash had a vision of the monster's next three attacks, all of them coming at a blinding fast speed. As it moved to attack, Shi-vash focused on her memories of training in Ebon Shadow Style under her Sifu, and felt her entire body lighten as she channelled yet more Essence.

Bending her legs and letting herself tilt backwards on the strand, Shi-vash sprung away from the monster as it lunged at the space she'd occupied milliseconds earlier, swinging and jumping through other strands to avoid its follow-up attacks.

[Using 4m Personal Essence and 2m Peripheral Essence on Absence (Once per each of the monster's attacks), restoring Dodge DV to 9 for the whole flurry. Using Elusive Flicker Evasion to boost Dodge DV by 5 (Shi-vash's Essence), bringing it up to 14 for the whole flurry, and allowing Shi-vash to avoid all the attacks. Offsetting mote cost for Elusive Flicker Evasion with motes gained from the earlier two-die stunt.]
Health:
|-0|-0|-0|
|-1|-1|
|-2|-2|-2|-2|
|-4|
Incapacitated

Essence: 5
Committed Essence: 14
Personal Essence: 0/17
Peripheral Essence: 15/46
Overdrive Essence: 0/10
Anima: 15

Willpower: 8

Join Battle: 5
Attacks:
Clinch (Speed 6, 15 Accuracy, Damage 3B, Defense -, Rate 1, Clinch, Natural, Piercing)
Kick (Speed 5, 15 Accuracy, Damage 6B, Defense +3, Rate 2, Natural)
Punch (Speed 5, 16 Accuracy, Damage 3B, Defense +7, Rate 3, Natural)
Switchklaive (Speed 4, Accuracy 18, Damage 7L, Defense +6, Rate 3, Attune 6, Piercing)

Dodge DV: 8
Parry DV: 9
 
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jaydude jaydude , please give me a Perception + Awareness roll.

Psychie Psychie is up with Amara

5 -
6 - [Shi-vash], [Monster]
7 - Amara <====
8 - Xun, Insight
9 - Monster
10 - Shi-vash
 
Rolling 5 dice for Perception + Awareness. 3 successes.
 
Rolling 5 dice for Perception + Awareness. 3 successes.
As you are leaping in and out of striking range of the monster, you notice something horrible. One of the faces of the many bodies that make up the monstrosity is your fellow Sidereal, Rory Alexis! According to Chejop, he is the one Exalt that has been missing but not dead. You also know that he is in possession of the knowledge of the various martial art styles that this thing has been using against you.

Psychie Psychie is up
 
Amara grinds her teeth as she watches the punishment that the monster is taking without falling, but is glad to see the ever growing number of wounds on the body, knowing that it can't take this forever. "Keep it up! We have to stop this thing from getting away!"

She lashes out three more times with her Ribbon, smiling in grim satisfaction as her weapon cuts deep.
Performing a three hit flurry.

Hit one: 24 dice - 7 successes
Hit two: 23 dice - 11 successes
Hit three: 22 dice - 3 successes

Health Levels
-0 [ ][ ][ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
-I [ ]

Essence: 5
Personal: 18 / 15
Peripheral: 47 / 20
Committed: 18

Willpower: 8 / 7
Compassion: 2
Conviction: 3
Temperance: 2
Valor: 2

Join Battle: 6

Parry DV: 6 (11 with PKB and the Floating Ribbon, 12 with Fans)
Dodge DV: 7

Natural Soak: +1L/+2B
Armored Soak: +5L/+5B
Dreaming Pearl Defense: +5L/+10B or +10L/+15B when the Form Charm is active

Floating Ribbon
Speed 5 (3 with hearthstone), Accuracy +4 (+9), Damage +8L (+13), Defense +0 (+5), Attune 5
Seven Jeweled Peacock Fans
Speed 5 (3 with hearthstone), Accuracy +4 (+9), Damage +8B/+4L (+13B/+9L), Defense +3 (+8), Attune 4
 
The monster's DV is 7, so the first attack hits with no extra successes, and the second hits with 5 successes. The third is blocked. The soak is 25L, so I am guessing that you will only have Overwhelming damage done.
 
The cuts from Amara's Floating Ribbon don't seem to do very much, but the monster is definitely looking bad.

D. Rex D. Rex and Random Word Random Word are up

7 - [Amara]
8 - Xun, Insight <====
9 - Monster
10 - Shi-vash, Amara
 
With a a knowing smile, Xun takes his stance, pointing a crystalline claw at the horror. With but a thought, he willed the future to be true. He willed his strike to be true. He knew it was destined to be true.

Like lightning, his claw shot forth. And it was as if his arm stretched from the forearm. Growing long and thinning. Like cooling molten glass being pulled and worked. His claws sinking into necrotic flesh, and pulling him towards it rapidly.
[First strike, LR, +Excellency, +Blue Dragon Fury]

In a blank of an eye, Xun was pulled to the creature. Letting go of his grappled claw to sling past, bringing the claws of his other hand to slice thick gouges through the meat of its "neck" like knives of glass.
[2nd attack, +Blue Dragon Fury]

Sailing past, Xun let himself arc toward the ground, and just as his stretched claw returned, he launched his other claw at the monsters head, to pull himself to it once more as the crystal spears that were his claws plunged in once more.
[3rd attack, +BDF]

Dragging Xun forward at a blinding speed, he rakes his claws deep into the beasts back as he is dragged towards its length. Digging his claws in as if he was trying to filet its back with five razor sharp plows.
[4th, +BDF]

This time, instead of being slung past, Xun let go of the grappled claw as he reach it. Digging the claws of both hands into its head, and using the momentum he built up to strike even more gashes in its flesh. Using the claws like brakes to stop atop the creatures head.
[5th +BDF]



Spending 4mt 1wp for an auspicious success in first strike using Fateful Martial Art Excellency. All die converted to sux.

Spending 4mt(20mt total) per attack to start adopting blue dragon fury. Magical Flurry. Each successful strike allows another attack at full dice pool up to Essence attacks(5)

Flurry stops at the first miss.


DV penalty: -2
Speed: 5

First strike: 25 sux -6penalty = 19 sux
Damage: 11 die

2nd Strike: 10 sux
Damage: 12 die

3rd: 19 sux
Damage: 11 die

4th: 10 sux
Damage: 12 die

5th: 18sux
Damage: 12 die
 
D. Rex D. Rex

All of the attacks hit a DV of 7. Don't forget the Onslaught penalty that you get of a -1 to its DV with each successive hit.

Soak is 25, so you will most likely only do Overwhelming damage to it.
 
Fifth attack beat the soak. Does no more than overwhelming. But happy I beat it.

5 attacks. Overwhelming 2. 10 die of damage.

5 successes.
 
Xun's attacks causes several of the bodies that make up the twisted monster to erupt in blood and they fall away from the body of the thing, showing that you are doing some serious harm to the thing.

Random Word Random Word is up

7 - [Amara]
8 - [Xun], Insight <====
9 - Monster
10 - Shi-vash, Amara
11 -
12 -
13 - Xun
 
Insight is shocked as the corpse-dragon deftly deflects all of her blows with the Crimson Palm Counterstrike. Shi-Vash confirms it, but she still has a hard time believing it. What kind of Hecatonchire knows Violet Bier of Sorrows?

She extends her parasol to deflect the webbing and watches the others overwhelm its defenses with an endless flurry of attacks, acknowledging the superior wisdom of their approach. The Crimson Palm Counterstrike is incredibly effective, but too taxing to use against a rapid series of attacks. She joins in the unrelenting stream of attacks, vanishing only to reappear between the strands of the web, tapping the corpse-dragon's flesh where the others have cut through before jumping to the next location.

10m for four extra attacks from Metal Storm
3m for Life-Severing Blow on the final attack. If I incap it I can reflexively shape it out of existence.

13 motes spent, 1 die stunt regains 2 motes, total of 11 motes Peripheral spent.

Accuracy = Dex 5 + MA 5 + Accuracy 4 + Kata Bracers 5 + SLDS 4 + Specialty 1 + Stunt 1 = 25
Target takes a -2 DV penalty from Flickering Moonsilver Approach

Since it likes Crimson Palm Counterstriking me I'll launch more weaker attacks. It seems to have no onslaught negator, so if it CPC's me it's a straight attack rolloff. We'll see how I do on that with no IAM up.

Five Speed 4 Attacks.

It currently has a lot of onslaught, I apply a -2 DV penalty, and it doubles any wound penalties against me if relevant unless it pays 2 WP for the scene. Assuming 0 DV for all attacks, but recalculate as necessary if it boosts its DV somehow.

Attack 1: 12 hits - Overwhelming 5A,
Attack 2: 12 hits - Overwhelming 5A,
Attack 3: 10 hits - Overwhelming 5A,
Attack 4: 14 hits - Overwhelming 5A,
Attack 5: 14 hits - Overwhelming 10A


Personal 15/20 (4 committed)
Peripheral 12/51 (7 committed)
 
The savage attacks that the group of you have unleashed against the monster is more than enough to cause the monster to fall apart, apparently having taken enough damage to destroy it. The many bodies that formed the monster drop to the ground with a sickening thud or a wet splat.

Moving out of combat time.

You are now all alone in the ruins. What do you do now?
 
With the monster seemingly down for good, Shi-vash let out a sigh of relief, panting a little from her exertions. Assuming that the mass of restraining threads was gone, she would slowly descend through the web of filaments and into the pile of corpses that made up the monster, whereupon she'd start searching for the body of Rory. She was sure she'd seen him among the monster's many faces, but wanted her speculations confirmed, no matter how unwelcome her findings might be.
 
Still an avatar of draconic essence, the now very lithe body of Xun walks cautiously between the bodies of the dead. Walking to the hole where the thing came from. Peaking in with reptilian essence enhanced eyes to check for more danger. It had to come from somewhere... and surely those bodies didn't just melt into the earth. And they didnt just come together by themselves.
 
Insight watches with satisfaction as the corpse-dragon collapses and feels the earth shake with its impact. She stands well back from the mountain of corpses as the smell of charred flesh is still sickening after centuries and a raging inferno swirls around her.

"What. The fuck. Was that. Since when do Hekatonchires know Violet Bier of Sorrows?"
 

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