To Stand Against the Crimson Tide

Random Word · Mar 9, 2024

Sjet & Droplets
S0-0-0

Several warriors fall to Droplet's unerring heartseeking arrows. Once the flaming blade clears her a path through the House warriors, from Sjet's outstretched hand a thousand thousand razor sharp obsidian blades fly forth. The stench of blood and offal mixes with the smoke in the sweltering humid heat and clings like a film to sweaty skin. The screams of the dying are mercifully short lived. Those who survive flee, paler than a ghost and perhaps no more certain they still live. No other warband is brave enough to face you.

Atop the hill the Saint of Valour turns to Sjet and Droplets before pausing, perhaps considering. "Is the enemy attempting some foul sorcery? Would that I still drew breath and had my lance. Still, the enemy has assembled a considerable force to take the Cothon. Dividing our forces may be unwise. If stopping this spell is critical we should escort you, Lady Blood. Unless you are very confident in your ability to destroy the enemy with your sorceries, Lady Sjet. Command is a perilous thing, and lives rest on my assessment, but though you are mighty I have not had time to fully judge your strength."

Sherwood · Mar 9, 2024

Sjet rubs her chin, thinking. She is not well versed in warfare, but she has read enough books that cover the subject to know a few basic facts: you want to apply overwhelming force to where the enemy is weakest. But when you apply the powers of the Exalted to the equation, that is a real force multiplier.

"Hmm. There is wisdom in what you say, but I know my mother would not say she could handle the heretics on her own if there was any doubt in her mind. And so long as I have a clear corridor to cast my spell, it will ravage their forces for you to be able to deal with then decisively. Do not worry about the outcome; we will be victorious."

Random Word · Mar 11, 2024

Sjet
S1-0-0 [New scene!

Sherwood you have no Limit Trigger! Fix that.]

The Saint of Valour nods, confers briefly with the officers amongst the warriors at your command while looking for the terrain and the dispositions of the enemy, then gives the orders for the advance.

[The Blackscale and the Saint of Valour will roll for Strategic Manoeuvre.
BS: 8 + 1 + 2 + 5 re-rolling 6s and 3 non-1 failures = 12 sux
SoV: 9 + 1 + 2 + 2 sux = 10 sux
A victory for the Blackscale, but not a crushing one.]

Harrying attacks begin almost immediately from wind-dancers on the rooftops hurling javelins with eerie precision. Soon your war party has been herded towards an open boulevard leading towards the market, offering little cover.

"The enemy seeks to ambush us, break for the houses. Into the shops and tenements! We will cut our way through the walls, and make for that tower. Our sorcerer will command the heights!"

The fighting continues through looted shops and abandoned apartments until a strange and heavy fog rolls through the halls and the earth begins to shake, causing the building to groan in protest. Give me a Perception + Awareness test to spot and understand a supernatural hazard before it manifests! Essence sight will be a major help here. Difficulty 5.

Droplets
S1-0-0 [New scene! Roll 4 dice for Limit! Droplets acted to save lives, and acknowledged her mortal life through her daughter.]

You can see the fear in their eyes, fever bright in the light of the braziers burning outside the temple, red saris clinging to skin and cinnabar paint on their cheeks smudged with sweat. The temple is a simple single-storey building of volcanic stone, its doors shut tight, the only decoration a carving of a sunrise behind the volcano above the door. The dozen temple guard ready their obsidian spears at your approach at the head of a horde of shambling dead, their resolve unwavering despite the fear. Their captain, a woman with a circlet of obsidian over a battle-scarred face, makes a short sharp gesture and declares, "Purge this abomination from Creation!"

Captain Anais has set up an Ambush stratagem, though she didn't expect to be triggering it on you! Give me a difficulty 4 Awareness + Perception check to see if you spot the ambush, or Survival + Perception at -3.

The Temple Guard will roll 6 dice for JB, and the Captain will roll 5. The rooftop ambushers will roll 5 dice for JB, and are armed with javelins and slings. Your Zombies are Magnitude 2 and will roll 2 dice for JB.

Anais: 4i
Temple Guard: 6i
Slingers: 5i
Zombies: 3i
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Red Shadow Claws · Mar 11, 2024

Random Word said:
Droplets
S1-0-0 [New scene! Roll 4 dice for Limit! Droplets acted to save lives, and acknowledged her mortal life through her daughter.]

You can see the fear in their eyes, fever bright in the light of the braziers burning outside the temple, red saris clinging to skin and cinnabar paint on their cheeks smudged with sweat. The temple is a simple single-storey building of volcanic stone, its doors shut tight, the only decoration a carving of a sunrise behind the volcano above the door. The dozen temple guard ready their obsidian spears at your approach at the head of a horde of shambling dead, their resolve unwavering despite the fear. Their captain, a woman with a circlet of obsidian over a battle-scarred face, makes a short sharp gesture and declares, "Purge this abomination from Creation!"

Captain Anais has set up an Ambush stratagem, though she didn't expect to be triggering it on you! Give me a difficulty 4 Awareness + Perception check to see if you spot the ambush, or Survival + Perception at -3.

The Temple Guard will roll 6 dice for JB, and the Captain will roll 5. The rooftop ambushers will roll 5 dice for JB, and are armed with javelins and slings. Your Zombies are Magnitude 2 and will roll 2 dice for JB.

Anais: 4i
Temple Guard: 6i
Slingers: 5i
Zombies: 3i
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Still new to her 'life' as an abyssal, Droplets could feel her spirit revolt against her course of action. There will be time enough to find a way to learn more about it, but for now, she needs to save her city, lest the Ancestor Worship here will falter, and she's not gonna let THAT happen.

The Temple guards might not waver yet, after all, she is but a lone woman, leading a small group of zombies. But that could well be their downfall, if they underestimated her, which she hopes they have, since it was her first time really taking a battle to others, as a Deathknight, but she was resolute to make sure that she lives up to this title, and bring death to her enemies. She fully expected them to leave guards, and probably hidden troops, after all, such an act of betrayal to the city, if discovered, would result in forces trying to smash through the guards and into the temple. And she learned well from her time in the wild to looks for the subtle signs of hidden predators. And so, she scanned the roofs for the tinniest glint of metal or obsidian to discover these threats before they materialized. She also sent out Thousandfold Wings to see them from above, as they would be observing the streets leading to the temple, and less the sky above.

Spending 6 peripheral motes on Survival Excellency, for 6 extra dice, and with the -3, that comes up to 9 dice,2 extra dice for stunt.

Am not sure whether I can spend the 3 motes for Smiling Prey Feint, which would give the slingers the penalty of subtracting successes from JB for every 1, though they didn't roll any.

Sherwood · Mar 12, 2024

Sjet trusts in her Virtuous Guardian to protect her from the worst of the incoming arrows and javelins, and she uses the time to take a good look around for a place to be able to best use her Obsidian Butterfly spell to cause the most damage to the enemy. She focuses her attention on her newly expanded perceptive ability to try and see what magic might be in use, and if the Bronze Tide is trying to employ the use of dematerialized spirits.

9 Successes

Charms/Spells in Use:
Virtuous Guardian of Flame
Uncanny Perception Technique

The Solar’s senses are preternaturally attuned to the movements of spirits and other uncanny beings. Whenever a spirit or Fair Folk is within the range of the Exalt’s senses, she experiences a strange sensory phenomena; she might hear bells tinkling, smell a particularly strong or unusual scent, or taste something resonant. The Solar gains half her Occult (rounded up) in successes to an Awareness-based attempt to notice such a being. The warning signaled by this Charm occurs even when a spirit is immaterial, allowing the Solar to use Spirit-Detecting Glance.

All Encompassing Sorcerers Sight

The Exalt gazes into the Essence of the world and sees the patterns of magic that make up Creation. For a few seconds after activating this Charm, the Solar can see Essence flowing through the world. She can perceive immaterial spirits, but moreover, she can see the workings of spirit energies around her. If a character is using a shaping action or Evocation, the Solar may make an Intelligence + Occult roll at a difficulty of the effect’s Essence minimum to determine how the power works. This Charm may also be used to identify the presence of ongoing sorcerous effects such as mystical barriers and levitating platforms, revealing not only the presence of magic, but how it functions. This power also allows the Exalt to see places where Creation is thin—the borders of shadowlands and the Wyld appear as hazy, gauzy distortions of light. The Solar may also detect the entrance to spirit sanctums within her range of vision. This Charm does not reveal the working of the Charms of the Exalted.

Burning Eye of the Deliverer

The Solar’s keen eyes burn through deception. This Charm enhances All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight, aiding the Solar in an attempt to see through magical disguises, shapeshifting, or any other magic which allows a character—even another Exalt—to appear to be something or someone other than who he is. This Charm makes it possible to notice such effects with Awareness, adding the Solar’s Essence in automatic successes to the attempt. For the difficulty of seeing through disguises, see page 224. Unless stated otherwise, seeing through all other kinds of magical identity-deceptions is a difficulty 5 feat.

Sorcerers Burning Chakra

The Solar sees all things truly. When she is at the iconic anima level, she automatically gains the effects of All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight for free. Furthermore, using Spirit-Detecting Glance in combination with All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight allows the Exalt to discern the nature and Essence rating of a spirit if she succeeds at an Occult roll with a difficulty of the spirit’s Essence.

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

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33 / (23)
Committed: 10
Willpower: 8

Join Battle: 5 +3i

Dodge DV: 4
Parry DV: 3
Resolve: 3
Guile: 1

Soak
Natural: +2
VGF: +1
Armored: +8, +7 Hardness
Total: +11

Virtuous Guardian of Flame
Parry DV: 6
Per Roll: 10
Soak: 6
Health: 6 -0 levels

Random Word · Mar 12, 2024

Sjet
S1-0-0

The Saint of Valour advances shield first through a wall as if it isn't there, radiating an icy burst of spectral power that's almost refreshing in this heat, raining shattered plaster and rough-hewn brickwork around him. The warriors escorting you have become more comfortable as they witness first hand the efficacy of your virtuous guardian in warding off enemy arrows and javelins assailing them through windows or doors. You emerge with them amongst the water barrels in a fishmonger's shop near the base of the market tower, from which the market guard of House Akechi looked down over the stalls below to keep order over trade. From the bodies in the street, it looks like they fought to the last and made the enemy pay. Burials will have to come later.

The mist is obviously unnatural when it rolls in. It takes no Exalted eyes to see that. You can see more, though. You can see the tendrils of essence running through it, could maybe even trace them back to their source. It's thick, you can barely see a few metres in front of you, but your essence sight can see further. Looming out of the mist, not as a shadow but a glowing bundle of dangerously swollen meridians, is a hulking tower of a man. The sorcery performed on him is artful and terrible. You can see the link to some distant great spirit of earth pouring foreign essence into his meridians to empower him, but at such terrible cost. Every minute he fights like this must be costing him days, perhaps even months of his life. He must have been an incredible physical specimen to have survived the procedure at all. You can see the gates constructed to throttle the flow have all been thrown open, and as he lifts his arms high over his head and his essence flows deep into the ground you realize he means to bring some great and terrible weapon down and sunder the ground beneath you.

Sherwood · Mar 12, 2024

Seeing that man in front of her sends a cool down her back. Sjet sticks to the shadows as much as possible, using them both as cover and tapping into them to hemp power her spell. Marshaling her strength, using the fallen bodies of the defenders as an additional focus of her rage, Sjet grinds her teeth together as the sorcerous power fills her to the point that it feels like sheet is about to burst. Finally, she stands and points her hand at the monstrous man and unleashes her spell! "Death of Obsidian Butterflies!"

Gong for a full Excellency, along with my stunt and the bonus motes I get from being in stealth/shadow I should be able too fire this off in one roll.

Just barely made it. 8 succeeded rolled, 5 from being in shade and cover, one from the hearthstone, and one from my Willpower for all fifteen needed.

Charms/Spells in Use:
Virtuous Guardian of Flame
Uncanny Perception Technique
All Encompassing Sorcerers Sight
Burning Eye of the Deliverer
Sorcerers Burning Chakra

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

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33 / 23
Committed: 10
Willpower: 8 / 7

Join Battle: 5 +3i

Dodge DV: 4
Parry DV: 3
Resolve: 3
Guile: 1

Soak
Natural: +2
VGF: +1
Armored: +8, +7 Hardness
Total: +11

Virtuous Guardian of Flame
Parry DV: 6
Per Roll: 10
Soak: 6
Health: 6 -0 levels

Random Word · Mar 12, 2024

Sjet
S1-0-0

You work miracles, weaving shadows into potent weapons against your enemies, but sometimes even miracles are not enough. In the fraction of a second before you can unleash your spell, the maul strikes home with a force that shakes the earth's bones, and yours for good measure. The ground heaves, splits, and erupts, turning your world briefly upside down in a hail of stone shards and treacherous footing. The soldiers around you cry out in alarm and terror, the scent of blood fills the air, and out of the corner of your eye the man next to you impaled on a metre long stone spike.

Hirom is launching an unblockable withering attack with 12 dice! Everyone standing on the ground within Close range of a line extending out to Short range must make a difficulty 4 Stamina + Athletics check or fall prone.

Only 3 hits on the attack roll! If you don't fall prone, you'll dodge it. If you do, the defense penalty might get you.

Afterwards we'll roll JB

Garret & Pandemos
S1-0-0

Garret, you lead your war party to what seems to be a dead end. The Captain touches a stone, and again the stones slide smoothly away to reveal a small stairway up into an abandoned basement choked with rubble. Clearing it, you ascend through the ruined floor into the little bakery you used to visit for sweetbreads before shift. The family who runs the place fled for the countryside two days ago. You hope they're doing okay, but from the looks of things there won't be much to return to. The building is fire damaged, and stranger still, choked with an unnaturally dense fog that wasn't here when you descended from the Cothon. You hear sounds of battle nearby, the distant chanting of the enemy, and the rumbling of the earth, first rhythmic and distant but closing, then suddenly, violently, and from nearby. Sounds are muffled and distorted in the fog, but perhaps your senses are keen enough to find the way.

Roll Perception + Awareness to identify the direction of the battle! Difficulty is 3, but there's a -3 penalty from the fog. If you succeed, roll JB. Otherwise, you'll try again with a bonus next round.

Sherwood · Mar 12, 2024

Stamina + Athletics roll

Two successes. Sad face

Sherwood · Mar 12, 2024

Join Battle roll

4i

Psychie · Mar 12, 2024

Once Garret makes it up to street level, he frowns at the sight of the fog. It wasn't like this before; it was a cloudy day but not foggy. With a finger to his mouth to signal quiet, he drops to one knee and really listens. There. He could hear the sounds of fighting all around, but where was the closest fight? Using his experience with the layout of the streets, he makes his best guess and points, getting to his feet once more and hefting the sledgehammer.

With as much stealth as he can muster, the big man sets out to find a good target to test his newly found strength on.

Spending 4m on Sense Sharpening Change to reroll any 1's and to eliminate 1 die of environmental penalties.

3 successes

Health Levels
-0 [ ] ([ ] DBT)
-1 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] - [ ][ ][ ]
-3 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
Incapacitated [ ]

Essence: 1
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 38 / 34
Committed: 11
Willpower: 5

Dodge DV: 2
Parry DV: 6
Guile: 1
Resolve: 4

Join Battle: 9 +3i

Soak
Natural Soak: 5 (14 in DBT)
Armored Soak: +11, 10 Hardness
Combined: 16 (25)

Psychie · Mar 12, 2024

Join Battle roll

Total of 6i

Random Word · Mar 15, 2024

Sjet & Garret & Pandemos

Water Aspect DB
E3
Join Battle 9 (+5/5m)
Evasion 4 (+2/4m), Parry 5 (+3/6m)
Black Jade Grimcleavers: 12 dice (+5/5m); 14L/5
Clinch: 8/8
Black Jadescale Cloak: Soak 11/8

Stealth 9 (+6/6m); Senses 8 (+5/5m)

Sorcerously Enhanced Mortal
Evasion 2, Parry 4
Bronze Maul 9 dice; 16/3; Smashing
Clinch 7/10
Soak 12/6

Resolve 4
Guile 2

Can be Distorted by a Sorcerer! Difficulty 3, 10 successes required.

Stoneskin
Stength of the Earth
Tremorstrike

Massive Bronze Construct Powered by a Bound Elemental
E4
Evasion 1, Parry 3
Trample: 10 dice; 22/5; Smashing
Gore: 14 dice; 18/4; Piercing
Soak 16/10

Resolve 5
Guile 1

Legendary Size

Can be Distorted by a Sorcerer!
Extended test, Difficulty 4, requires 15 successes.

Mortal Thaumaturges
Size 1 (about 20)
Magnitude 9
Evasion 3, Parry 2
Soak 4/0

Size 2 Battlegroup of Mortal Warriors
Magnitude 9
Drill Average
Join Battle 5
Movement 4
Evasion 4
Parry 5
Soak 9
Axes 8 dice; damage 13/2
Senses 4
Resolve 2
Guile 1
Appearance 1

Size 1 Battlegroup of Blessed Mortals
Drill Average
Join Battle 6
Movement 9
Evasion 5
Parry 3
Soak 6
Javelins 11 dice damage 13/1 Range Medium
Martial Arts 9 dice damage 8/1
Senses 6
Resolve 2
Guile 1
Appearance 1

Slow Fall + Glide
Wind-Guided Missiles
Wall-Climbing

Sorcerously Enhanced Mortal
Join Battle 8
Movement 12
Evasion 6
Parry 3

Javelins 13 dice damage 13/1 Range Medium
Martial Arts 9 dice damage 8/1

Senses 8

Resolve 3
Guile 3

Can be Distorted by a Sorcerer! Difficulty 3, 10 successes required.

Stormfront Strike (Targets of her ranged attacks are easier to hit for allies this turn.)
Windwalking
Hurricane Shield (Penalty to ranged attacks against her and nearby allies; can reflexively defend other with evasion against ranged attacks)

Mortal Possessed by Mor'du
E4
Join Battle 11
Movement 11
Evasion 4 (+2/4m)
Parry 6 (+2/4m)

Ancient Spear 14 dice (+2 sux/4m) damage 14/3
Clinch 9/Control 11

Senses 9

Resolve 5
Guile 4

Elephant's Might
Inspiring Prowess
Dauntless

Size 2 Battlegroup of Mortal Warriors
Magnitude 4/9
Drill Average
Join Battle 5
Movement 4
Evasion 4
Parry 6
Soak 10
Spears 8 dice; damage 12/1
Senses 4
Resolve 2
Guile 1
Appearance 1

~~Hirom 14i (+1i for hitting, +4i from Sjet, +5i from Crashing Sjet)~~ [ENGAGED with Saint of Valour]
The Blackscale 13i [Stealthed - 10 successes]
Saint of Valour 9i [ENGAGED with Hirom]
Bronze Tide Warband 7i [Action delayed]
Wind Dancers 7i [Action delayed]
Garret 6i
Elishar 5i
House Warriors 5i
Aurochs 3i
Chanters 3i
Sjet 0i - Crashed! (3 turns to reset)

The earth churns and casts Sjet violently to the ground, jagged fragments tearing at her skin but the largest only grazing her. She is down, and bloodied, but not out. Then the war chants begin, and the enemy charges, and that distant rumbling becomes louder and more insistent. Soon it will be loud enough to shake her bones. It can only be the great bronze Aurochs charging, still some distance away in the mists.

That's a problem for future Sjet. More immediately, the hulking man looms out of the mists. His skin is covered in rough rock inclusions forming a hard outer shell except over his joints. His This has extended even to his eyes, which are white and calcified. He's certainly blinded by this, but you can see the essence extending from his feet into the earth around him. He can likely sense anything that touches it. He carries a massive bronze hammer over his shoulder, one end coated in fragments of stone and earth from where he must have driven it into the ground moments ago. He looks in Sjet's general vicinity balefully. His voice is deep and gravelly, and it seems he has difficulty moving his stone-encrusted lips, "I hear you cut the Blue Heron crew to ribbons, little Sorcerer. I am Hirom, Archon of Earth for the Girda Migdon, and I'm going to break those hands before you butcher anyone else."

"Cover her! Get her to the tower!" The strange whisper of the Saint of Valour carries impossibly well even over the din of pitched battle. It's like he's whispering commands in your ear. Even Garret, distantly, can hear it, and recognizes that voice well from the annual festival honouring Mor'du. Those House soldiers who have regained their footing scramble to put themselves between the hulking stone man and Sjet.

Hirom anchors his feet in the earth and swings his massive hammer in a great and terrible arc. It impacts with a sickening wet sound of flesh reduced to pulp and the sharp crack of shattered bones as it cleaves through three warriors before coming to a halt on the Saint of Valour's shield with a great ringing of metal on metal. The blood of Sjet's former defenders splatters her face from where she lays on the ground, a thin layer of cold briny water from the shattered barrels of fish running down into the crater with her, the water stained blood red. She can see the collapsed wall between the fish shop and the market tower through the mist. Up those winding stairs is a prime vantage point for raining spells down on the enemy.

The Wind Dancers on the rooftops across the boulevard from the now completely ruined fishmonger's shop prepare a volley of spears to hurl into the defenders before their warriors charge, but they await their captain's orders to fire. Garret emerges from the ruined bakery directly under the Wind Dancers, arrayed on the roofs above him, their bright green cloaks whipping in the fierce wind surrounding their officer, which does something to clear the obscuring mist. She cuts a mysterious figure in a heavy hood, every inch of skin covered, but her eyes shine an eerie blue under the darkness of her hood, and the tiles beneath her feet are rimed in frost. You can hear the sounds of the Aurochs charging. It will be here soon, but by the sound of it pitched battle has already been joined across the boulevard. You can't see it from here, but you know that used to be the Kuyak's shop, where the market guard often went for lunch. The tower overlooking the market is nearby. You can see a golden light shining through the mist from that direction.

The Bronze Tide warriors are forming up for a charge out on the boulevard, but they're clearly waiting for something before they advance.

Hirom hits Sjet. Her evasion is 4-3 = 1, and with only 4i she can't buy herself enough Evasion to dodge without crashing herself, unless she assigns herself a Defining stunt, spends a WP, and spends 2i on her Charm. Let me know if you'd like to retroactively have done that!

Hirom goes first, attempting to pass through the House Warriors to reach Sjet, but they're a BG so they're Difficult Terrain so it takes two movement actions to get through them. In frustration he smacks them for 3 damage, reducing them to 4/9 magnitude. He regains the 1i he spent moving through a battlegroup with the hit. The Wind Dancers are holding their action until Elishar can attack, as following her attack grants them bonuses.

The Saint of Valour is going to Engage Hirom. This is a mechanic I'm inventing to make Exalted combat more tractable. NPCs can Engage one another, taking both out of the fight unless something changes. They're still valid targets, but mechanically they'll be considered fighting each other until someone intervenes or the fight is otherwise decided. If one NPC is much stronger than another, they'll Overwhelm the weaker one, removing them from the fight. A weaker NPC can engage a stronger one in this way to delay them at the cost of their own life.

Hirom and the Saint of Valour are at Short Range from Sjet, and Medium range from Garret.
Garret is at Short Range (vertically) from the Wind Dancers and Elishar.
The Aurochs is at Medium range from Sjet and Garret. It sounds like it's charging at Sjet.
Who knows where the Blackscale is, unless someone wants to try a Perception check to beat her 10 stealth successes.

Garret is up at 6i!

Droplets

Size 1 Battlegroup of Mortal Warriors
Magnitude 8
JB: 6
Movement: 4
Evasion 2
Parry 4
Soak 9
Spears: 8 dice 12/1 dmg; Piercing

Senses 4
Resolve 2
Guile 1

Size 1 Battlegroup of Civilians With Slings
Magnitude 8
JB: 3
Movement: 4
Evasion 3
Parry 2
Soak 3
Slings: 6 dice 8/1 dmg; Bashing

Senses 3
Resolve 1
Guile 1

Mortal Warrior-Priest
JB: 5
Movement: 4
Evasion 2
Parry 3
Soak 8
Spear: 7 dice 11/1 dmg; Piercing

Senses 4
Resolve 3
Guile 2
Command 6

Size 1 Battlegroup of Zombies
Magnitude 6/14
Drill Poor
JB 2

Bite 6 dice; 17/1 damage

Evasion 2
Parry 0
Soak 3

Senses 3
Resolve 1; Guile 1

Temple Guard: 6i
Slingers: 5i
Anais: 4i
Droplets 4i
Zombies: 3i
Thousandfold Wings: ?i

Thousandfold Wings' keen and multifaceted eyes miss nothing, and you are well prepared for the young men and women concealed on the roof when they unleash their slings and hurl bricks and other detritus down at you and your shambling horde. The obsidian crowned leader of the enemy cries for your blood, already running generously down your shirt and brow, and the warriors charge after the slingers finish firing, a chanted prayer to the volcano on their lips. Some of your shambling horde collapse unmoving in the assault, but plenty remain.

You and the zombies suffer a ranged attack with 2 successes. After that, the spears attack you and the zombies with a whole 1 success, plus onslaught.
Hits the Zombies on both counts, dealing 3 and 5 damage, respectively, for a total of 8.

Psychie · Mar 17, 2024

Garret's attack, take two.

Garret sees that the Aurochs is getting ready to charge the small group of city defenders and he decides they it calls for some kind of distraction. He charges forward at high speed, and with his free hand he reaches out and scoops up a hunk of stone rubble. With a massive roar he hurls the stone with all his strength at the Aurochs and readies himself for its charge.

A withering attack. Using both my Dex and Str Excellencies to try and hit the target, along with a point of Willpower to try and boost my chances.

Dex 4 + Thrown 2 + Short Range 4 + Stunt 2 = 12 dice

Edit: total of 8 successes to hit

Sense Sharpening Change to reroll any 1's and to eliminate 1 die of environmental penalties on hearing perception rolls active.

Health Levels
-0 [ ] ([ ] DBT)
-1 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] - [ ][ ][ ]
-3 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
Incapacitated [ ]

Essence: 1
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 38 / 25
Committed: 11
Willpower: 5 / 4

Dodge DV: 2
Parry DV: 6
Guile: 1
Resolve: 4

Join Battle: 9 +3i

Soak
Natural Soak: 5 (14 in DBT)
Armored Soak: +11, 10 Hardness
Combined: 16 (25)

Red Shadow Claws · Mar 17, 2024

Droplets

The partial decimation of the zombies was a surprise, but then, she never commanded zombies in battle before, and seem to have overestimated their capabilities, and the fear they might instill in their foes. But mistakes like are something one can fix, and she fully intended to do so.
She threw back her hood, revealing all of her hideous form, and gave a smile to those who saw her, before she closed her eyes, to listen to the voices that were implanted in the back of her mind at her Second Breath. Those voices, usually just a whisper, grew to a cacophony as she let herself immerse herself in them. And as they reached a Crescendo, she opened her eyes, that were burning with white sickly light, and realized that as the voices within her grew, so was her own voice, calling on the names of these forgotten titans, and other vile things of the Underworld, and at the same time, her own dark essence, roiling at the audacity of these mortals against Death's Lawgiver.
She was gathering necrotic motes, seeping up from the Underworld, and from the corpses of the zombies, both animate and inanimate, to unleash her terrible spell.

When she sees her spell isn't complete, she points at the captain, and howls at Thousandfold Wings "Bring her down!"

She spends 6 motes on her Occult Excellency to her Shape Necromancy action, and is gonna flurry it with giving command to her Familiar, via Deathknight's Faithful Beast, which cost 4 more motes.

Shape Necromancy - Int 3, Occult 3, Necromancy specialty, 6 dice from Excellency, 3 dice from channeling Whispers, -3 from Flurry, for a total of 13 dice, and adding 2 stunt dice, for a one die stunt, so a total of 15 dice. - 8 Necromantic motes gathered, out of 13 needed to cast the spell.
Deathknight's Faithful Beast - Cha 3, Survival 4, 2 stunt dice from a one die stunt, -3 dice from flurry, for a total of 6 dice. Each Success adds one die to the Familiar's action to follow the command.

Health Levels
-0x1
-1x3
-2x4
-4x1
Ix1

Essence: ●
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 13/33
Committed:
Willpower: ●●●●●

Join Battle: 6

Parry: 2
Evasion: 2

Total Soak 3
Hardness 0

Guile: 4
Resolve: 3

Thousandfold Wings
The creature was biding it's time, not wanting to get caught in the midst of the terrible power it's mistress was gathering. But when the command is given, it flies down behind the captain, sensing the heat of it's body, and how such a body would serve as a good host for it's eggs.

8 Dice to attack normally, +3 from Ambush Hunter, +2 from One die Stunt, and +4 from Deathknight's Faithful Beast, for a total of 17 dice on the Withering Attack.

6 successes, which is 3 more than her Parry. So 13 dice on the damage. I forgot to reduce the damage rolled by her soak of 8. So will count only the first 5 dice, so a total of 2i damage to the captain, and 3i added to Thousandfold Wings, for a total of 11i

Zombies
The zombies try to strike at the humans in front of them, but are rebuffed by the soldiers.

Size 1 Battlegroup of Zombies
Magnitude 6/14
Drill Poor
JB 2

Bite 6 dice; 17/1 damage

Evasion 2
Parry 0
Soak 3

Senses 3
Resolve 1; Guile 1

Random Word · Mar 18, 2024

Sjet & Garret & ~~Pandemos~~