[Date: October 31, 2020. Early afternoon.] [You've reached the bottom of the staircase. Beyond the door is a room with sand for floor. The walls are made of sandstone and have hieroglyphs of people pushing some sort of frilly staff around as well as throwing water.] [As you cross out of the stairway, Tim, Breaker, and Kahlya disappear. Yuri can tell with her sixth sense that they're displaced do to the instability of a dimension under attack from yours.] [Yuri also knows that waiting around for them to show likely won't help, they're most likely to reappear quickly if you defeat a bunch of enemies.] [Currently there's a set of stone doors blocking your progress. As we begin, a dimensional portal opens up on the far wall.] [Yvonne can emerge from that.] [Start] * Yvonne emerges! "Uh... Hi! What's up?" * Ren glances at the hieroglyphs, then gestures at them with a nod. "Make any sense of those?" He doesn't comment on the people disappearing, they can take care of themselves. * Marguerite chaws on a cigarette. "Not a damn bit." [Feel free to make any skill check you can rationalize to understand the hieroglyphs. Only one skill per person though. If you don't have a relevant one, straight mind.] [And, as you stand there, the door to the next chamber slowly begins to sink into the ground. [Awareness rolls.] * Ren raises a pair of pistols, fairly small bore. [And now init rolls. Those that made their awareness rolls get a surprise round.] * Yuri frowns slightly, for a moment, then looks to Yvonne. "Oh, Yvonne." Beat, then back at the wall. "Well--" oh! Interruption. [Those particularly aware note that beyond this hallway is a long stairway leading down. The stairs are rather large, as if you were walking on a ziggurat. There's a whole mess of baddies between you guys and the end of the hall.] * Yvonne waves. This time around she's wearing red shorts, a red halter and her red leather jacket, plus red calf-high boots. Nothing fancy. She does have two swords strapped to her back, though. They've got black blades with serrated edges, and their pommels take the forms of demonic heads. [Fortunately, there's a set of three more gates between you guys and the end. You can sort of see over them, but unless you're a flyer there's a serious cover penalty for firing past them.] * Ren whistles, looks at his pistols, and switches out the pistols for a minigun, taking up position to blow em' to hell from here. * Marguerite looks over. "Hey, fun time starts again." * Ren chuckles. "Time for the jesusgun." [In the first room there's some two male demonic looking priests, one's rather effete. There's also eleven mace wielding standard looking demons. Finally there's a bearded lithe guy with a two by four and an abnormally large walrus.] [There are columns along the side of the room.] [Yvonne (25), Maggie (21), Walrus, Yuri (14), Priests, Ren(12)-Bearded Guy, Maces] * Yvonne peers into the next room. "Uh... Right, fun time. Go to it." She hides behind a column. [You seem to have caught them unaware.] [Surprise round, you only get to go if you made your awareness check.] [Yvonne.] [Maggie.] [Oh, the Walrus is in front of the bearded guy, giving him pretty effective cover.] * Marguerite ratchets Bubba to spread mode and fires at the demons. "Time to fuckin' rock this joint." [ROll it and name your targets.] [Two mace guys vaporized. They don't look like they can dodge effectively and were literally vaporized so they probably aren't that tough.]] [Walrus] * Walrus steps into the room and attacks the two people in front, Maggie and... [Yuri.] Jesus, you'd think he'd have a little more muscle. * Walrus falls on his butt, embarrassing really. "If only this sand were cleared away, it would be grand." [Yuri!] (Oh, he shouldn't have gone during the surprise round. No matter.) (Yeah, really!) * Yuri 's eyes gleam as she grabs the walrus. As she does so she says, "The priest and lumberjacks are the real threats!" * Ren eyes the walrus. "Are ya gonna rhyme again everything to try to do something, bub?" [Yuri should have lifted with her knees, she falls over too.] (well, I'll allow an acrobatics (balance roll) to get back to her feet. [Priests.] [Are surprised.] [Ren.] * Ren makes a hmm sound, the pulls the trigger and sweeps the minigun left! [Another mace drops, down to eight of them.] [WAlrus looks as if he could have avoided that were he standing, but he wasn't and can't roll fast enough.] [However his blubber seems to absorb all the fire.] * Beared guy. "Oh holy warriors, come and walk with us." [Bearded guy and mace are surprised.] [Maggie again!] [Okay, two maces drop.] [Down to seven.] [And the next door seems to be slowly opening. It will probably be open by the end of next round. * Marguerite ratchets Bubba to single fire and shoots at the walrus. Rhyme sucks. [Okay, that hits and does burn him some. Dmg?] [Yvonne. * Yvonne hangs out in the back and tries not to be noticed. Nothing to see here, move along! [He looks a bit burnt by that.] [Yvonne, hide check!] [Walrus looks much more signed then before, but he was apparently able to avoid some of the damage.] [Yvonne pulls some crazy gymnast shit and squeezes herself out of view. Wuss. ;P] [Walrus] * Walrus gets up, attacks again, and then begins to fall back. [Both Yuri and Maggie are slammed by his mighty mass. Give me unarmed rolls, +3 penalty.] [Maggie takes 65 damage, pre-any armor. Yuri manages to leap back just in time.] Oh fer fuck's sake.... Somebody save me from the fucking walrus ass! A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, along the mercenary beach. [Yuri!] * Yuri jumps back from the slam, and then reaches out with both hands to grab the walrus AGAIN, to keep him down. Let's hope that Yuri doesn't hit the 1/4096 jackpot! [Walrus was sufficiently distracted by Maggie's earlier attack that he's successfully grabbed.] [Priests!] [The priests hold for now, not seeing anything they can target.] [Ren-Beared guy.] * Ren moves the minigun right! * Bearded guy takes a swing at Yuri with his 2x4. "We cannot do with more than two." [But he misses.] [Three maces eat mini-gun death.] [That leaves five, that rush out and attack.] * Yuri sidesteps a little, but it's a wide swing besides! She maintains a firm grip on the giant blubberbeing. [Potential hit on Yuri. Four wiffs.] [Yvonne] * Yvonne keeps a-hiding for now.] [Maggie!] [The second door is now partially open. You can see eleven demons with shurikens and two wingless gargoyles.] * Marguerite turns to the bearded guy and fires again. "Jesus, you're rank." [Bearded guy looks nigh wiped out by that shot.] [Yvonne (25), Maggie (21), Walrus, Yuri (14), Priests, Ren(12)-Bearded Guy, Gargoyles, Shurikens, Maces] [Walrus] * Walrus attempts to break free from the grapple and fall back. [Walrus is still grappled.] [Yuri!] * Yuri lifts the Walrus over her head. No, seriously. Her eyes glow brightly for a moment before she throws his bulk towards all the demons, down the hallway, and well out of the way. It's WALRUS BOWLING TIME. ... holy shit. Can we join the league> [The remaining clubs are squashed! The two priests look badly injured. The bearded guy manages to jump out of the way. The walrus lands against the lowering door but looks otherwise uninjured.] [Priests full defense!] [Ren/Bearded guy.] * Ren moves the minigun left! He's making this look easy. * Bearded guy taps himself on the chest and then climbs up the walrus and jumps into the next room. [You can target the next room at a +2 cover penalty. Accuracy helps.] * Yuri grins and replies, "I'm a lot better at Walrus Bowling than normal bowling, that's for sure." Maybe they've got special lanes. [The tap on the chest makes bearded guy look a whole lot healthier. "The time has come, to talk of many things; of taking flight--and ships-- and far off flings.] [One priest drops, the other dives out of the way.] [Gargoyles] * Gargoyles gather energy and launch two fireballs into your room. [They have enough area to risk hitting everyone but Yvonne once. 46 damage defense rolls for half unless you've got a way to speed away.] [Then defense roll for full.] [Walrus looks unhurt by the fireballs. However, the priest is now toast.] [Those of you that did the fighting, e.g. everyone but Yvonne, gain 5 HP to your maximum score. In addition, you heal 10.] [Yuri leaps out of the way of the fire ball bounding up the walls to safety.] * Yuri sees the fireball coming, yelps and runs for a wall, bouncing off it, up a second, and then latching onto the ceiling for a moment, on all fours. "Yai!" [Shurikens!] * Ren disappears in the fireball's explosion. And he's still there afterwards. He just lets out a grunt. [A series of shurikens fly over the mostly open door. They have a penalty from cover, but six are still potential hits.] [Two ranged (defense) rolls for each person in view.] (Everyone but Yvonne.) [14 damage per hit.] * Ren shrugs it off. Puny shurikens. [Yvonne (25), Maggie (21), Kahlya, Walrus, Yuri (14), Ren(12)-Bearded Guy, Gargoyles, Shurikens] [Yvonne!] [The door to the next room is now completely down. The door to the third chamber is starting to open.] [For visual reference, remember that this is ziggurat like. We'll say the steps are about a meter tall.] [Awareness checks to see into the third room effectively.] [First room: Walrus; Second room: Eleven shuriken wielders, two wing-less gargoyles; bearded guy behind the lot of them.] [Those making awareness checks: Third room, bunch of women with tentacles for arms and two very pretty people.] * Yvonne stays hidden. [Maggie!] [Walrus takes more burning damage. * Marguerite spins to the shuriken throwers, ratchets Bubba to spread mode, and fires! "Jesus, fucking ninjas. Fuck!" [Roll it, remember the option to go for extra targets (and half damage) at +2 per] [That option isn't available for walrus or bearded guy] [Oh... also, I forgot, Maggie's attack was less effective than expected against the bearded guy. But even half of that is still a lot.] [That takes out half of them, it's only area one, right?] [Five remaining.] * Walrus attempts to slam two of you and then falls back into the second room. "But wait a bit, before we have our chat. For some of us are out of breath and sad to say are fat." [He just misses though, probably because he's falling back.] [Oh, Kahlya, sorry, I skipped you.] [One gargoyle at each end of the room. You can hit either of them and some ninjas, but not both of them.] * Kahlya mutters under her breath. "Geez, I hate this place. Alright." She frosts the tip of her scythe and shoots out a frozen spread at the ninjas. [Kahlya totally shatters the door to the third room.] * Kahlya tsshes. Her aim must be off from being shuffled between dimensions so much. [Yvonne (25), Maggie (21), Kahlya, Walrus, Yuri (14), Ren(12)-Bearded Guy- Tentacles, Gargoyles, Pretty pretty pair, Shurikens] [Yuri!] [Ren go ahead and take your move too.] * Ren stops with the minigunning. It's too easy. Instead he reaches into his pleather jacket wand whips out yet another gun, this one looks like a modified uzi with a long stock. * Yuri stands up... well, down, on the ceiling, and runs into the next room... on the ceiling. "C'mon, let's keep this going." She jumps down to plant her feet on the ground and grab her favorite walrus again. [Walrus is grabbed. It nearly manages to slip from Yuri's grasp, but she's just too skilled for him.] [Down go the rest of the ninjas.] * Ren just peppers the whole damn group - a series of explosions come shortly after. * Yvonne stays hidden til the session ends! [One of the gargoyles gets hit, the other one manages to jump back and only take half.] [Bearded guy taps the walrus with his 2x4 (thanks to -6 touch attack bonus) and the walrus suddenly looks to be fully healthy again. He then falls back to the third room as the tentacle-bearing hordes rush in.] [10 potential hits. We'll say three for Maggie, three for Ren, two for Kahyla, two for Yuri. -2 defense penalty from flexible.] [The gargoyles wait for the tentacles to charge out and then open fire themselves. These bursts of fire home in.] [The one on the left was a bit too fancy in its trick shooting and misses. The one on the right...] [Goes for Kahlya with a +4 trick shot ranged defense penalty.] [Grapple summary, Kahlya, ungrappled, Ren, two grapplers, Maggie and Yuri, one grappler.] [Three tentacles unassigned.] [Finally, the two pretty pretty demons step up and smile winningly.] [Revision. Ren and Maggie, one grapple. Yuri's fine.] [They were a little slower than I realized.] [Anyways, last action for the round. The pretty pretty alluring smile.] [Mind or soul defense, mind shield helps. One targets only those attracted to males, one targets only those attracted to females.] [I'll give bi people a -4 non-specialization bonus, but they have to make two rolls.] [Kahlya gets hit for 46 damage worth of flame.] [Maggie and Ren are charmed.] [Break!]