Run by: Illuminant (3xp)

Player: Ledaal Kurnaz

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "Ok I'm still totally at a loss for how to do this...but I guess here goes. You said that theres usually a key of some kind that lets you get past?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "these wretched wards"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "Yes"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "otherwise the guy would have to put them up every time he wanted to get by."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "but it can be anything. "anybody whisling dixie" "me" "anybody with xyz tatoo" "anybody wearing black pants" etc."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "ok...so I guess I'll actually teleport out right now, see whats going on with him. If I don't figure it out I'll try grenades or orphan children"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "maybe both"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "Remember, your suit is warning you not to teleport right now! But that in no way prevents you from doing so if that is what you want to do."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "Yeah... I remember that... but my other option I guess is sitting around"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "which is doable"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "but less exciting"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "Well, you're in a room, ward on the left, door on the right (padlocked on the wrong side) but it is just a door."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "thats warded with an alarm"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "Wood, hinges, not too exciting."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "The alarm spell is 10,000 times less powerful than your suit's stealth magic."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "also: the alarm doesn't go off if the caster is dead."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "thats a good round number"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "right...but I don't know if its him who cast it or some thaum he hired"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "alright I guess I'll kick the shit out of the wood door"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "you want me to roll or just pose it?"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "well, that's true. You have a magicial material weapon?"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "just pose it, the door can't really fight back."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "black jade bane claw"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant thought of a number of possible ways past your current problem! I look forward to seeing what you think of!

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I like the orphans idea. Here kid, take this stick..."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "and do what?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "scratch the wards of course :)"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "Well, if you had like.. 20 orphans that would probably work."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "bah! 20, I expect I'd fry AT LEAST 40 on that ward"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "Marring the runes /would/ work, but this particular ward is silver poured into a groove on the tile floor"

 

Not being particularly strong Kurnaz takes careful aim before placing each blow. He throws all his meager strength viciously behind each strike and the baneclaw digs deep gouges into the hinges before finally shattering them off. Kicking the door out if its frame with a frustrated kick, Kurnaz walks out into the wine cellar. He pauses, listening for any commotion from up above

 

Mmm. Well, Kurnaz is fairly deep below ground, but he doesn't hear anything. It's probable that, assuming the alarm spell didn't activate, nobody heard him.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "hmmm no sticks then. Probably rocks or pieces of glass. I here C-town has a few of those lying around though"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "The ward is also set to species. If you had a god or demon or something they could probably cross it freely."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "(that's just the way wards work)"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "alas I am no sorcerer...yet..."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "wait so if anyone damages the ward they get fried or is it direct contact thing. i.e. what about ranged attacks"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "Well. One thing that /does/ worry you is that the door is forced now, which means that they'll probably empty the vault once they discover that."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "The ward is just a barrier. You get fried if you try to force your way past the barrier, but it isn't a force field, so you can throw rocks or something on the other side."

 

Ledaal Kurnaz creeps along and sneaks up to door leading to the surface. He listens at intently once again, trying to detect sounds of alarm

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "hmmm interesting..."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "and if the wardings on the floor are damaged then the ward goes away?"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "yes"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "ok, well maybe the orphans get live another night then..."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "filthy buggers"

 

Well, there's no one screaming or anything. There's the scraping sound of boots on gravel as a patrol moves past the door.

 

Ledaal Kurnaz listens to the patrols for some time, learning the patterns and timings of their passing by the sounds of their foot falls. Its a limited distance but its still better than nothing. He waits for the perfect point between two patrols and then slips out like a shadow, his enlightened octopus pigments ever masking his movements.

 

The patrols are fairly regular, and the assassin Kurnaz highly skilled. This provides little difficulty.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "good god I need motes"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "you should be at full"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "I thought"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "oh this is after the two hours? ok"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "yeah"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "then I'm fine"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "is my suit still warning me?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "i.e. can I teleport out of the compound"

 

In Ledaal's visored gaze, there is a small red symbol indicating that the pattern spiders are alert for further teleporation attempts.

 

Ledaal Kurnaz curses. /God damn spiders. We'll see whose laughing when I'm done with the project. Well I guess its sneaking out the old fashioned way./

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls 5: [ -1- 3 5 8 <10> ]

 

Resulting in 3 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "ugh then I have to drag the petards back in"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "yup"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "you're fine, by the way, no one has seen you yet!"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "good to know"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I was initially having concerns about how blowing the vault would look. I mean its against the whole "cat burglar theme" but then I looked at my concept and saw that it says "White Veil Terrorist" and I realize this is less problematic"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "heh"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "ok I'm going to scale the wall then, theres no one going into or out of the main gate is there?"

 

The main gate is locked up for the evening. There's a guard asleep in a chair next to it.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "oh wait! Do these guys ever go to the bathroom?"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "Unless they have magical poop teleporters, they probably do, yes."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "well my suit for example obviates that need :)"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "well, yes, but it is a five-dot artifact."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "it is, in fact, a magical poop teleporter."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "bah! they're a well funded consortium!"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "its got a few other minor features as well"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "but really thats why I wear it, for its diaper like qualities"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "the right glove of your suit could probably buy everything and everyone in this compound, plus everything that the guy who hired you owns :P"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "alright I'm sort of stumped but I guess I'll try something"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz ) thats a nice suit

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "ok I'm going to go scale the wall"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "does it have reasonable hand holds?"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "it specifically is difficult to climb, but you're Exalted. Make a climb check, difficulty 2."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "also there are rusty spears to look out for on top."

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls Strength + Athletics + Strength + Athletics: [ 3 3 4 5 5 7 8 8 ]

 

Resulting in 3 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "ok pose it!"

 

(OOC) Ledaal Kurnaz just spent 2 motes of Essence from his Peripheral Essence pool

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I should have posed first to try for stunt dice ><"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "yes."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "but, since you beat the difficulty of 2 by 1, you don't have to risk getting hit by the spears. Yay ninja."

 

Ledaal Kurnaz slips silently up to the wall. He taps into his reserves of essence to enhance his natural abilities and scales the wall with little difficulty. Once outside he makes contact with the team and has them rendezvous in a nearby ally way. "Ok so I've run into something of a problem...The vault is warded, strong enough to block my teleportation. I'm going to need all the petards we brought to blow the wards. This of course limits the amount you can help me by if I launch a flare but you've still got the big guns and sleep grenades so that's something...

 

Your men nod! You are the boss, after all, and they have not been known for their especial capacity at brainstorming. And certainly time is of the essence. They hand over all the explosives you asked for.

 

Ledaal Kurnaz stuffs the bombs into the pod like pack on the back of the suit and and tests the significant difference in wait on his movement. Satisfied that he can compensate for for it he sighs, "Well wish me luck boys."

 

He makes his way back to the wall. Glaring at the red warning light still flashing in his visor and willing it to go away he begins his ascent once again. While not particularly strong, Kurnaz IS extremely flexible and he adeptly makes maximum usage of leverage as he once again channels essence to fuel his climb.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "roll a check! Difficulty 2 again."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "also, then roll stealth since you can't time it to skip all the patrols this time."

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls Strength + Athletics + Strength + Athletics: [ 2 4 5 6 7 7 7 9 ]

 

Resulting in 4 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "easy peasy! They'll need a bigger, better wall to stop the likes of you."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "aaaw you flatterer!"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant forgot to give you stunt dice, but you didn't need them. Take some motes tho

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "praise the gods!"

 

The wall ascent is easy enough! Alas, there is a patrol passing nearby though, will Kurnaz be able to go unnoticed?!

 

Ledaal Kurnaz deftly scales the wall. Being able to pick an optimal route allows him to stick the more mottled, and more concealing, areas of the wall. He attempts to slip past the patrol unnoticed

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls Dexterity + Stealth + Dexterity + Stealth: [ -1- 2 2 2 3 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 7 8 8 8 8 8 9 ]

 

Resulting in 7 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "short answer: yes. Take motes."

 

(OOC) Ledaal Kurnaz just spent -2 motes of Essence from his Peripheral Essence pool

 

Puny mortals can't even see in the dark!

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "its true, we suck that way"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "okay. Now you can time the patrols again, so you can just ninja over pretty much anyplace you'd like to go."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "no one is making a hubbub or seems stressed or anything right, like no sign that anyone thinks the boss is a deader?"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "That is indeed accurate. Of course, the patrolling guards might not know yet, its not like you heard any gossip"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "right"

 

After making his way down to the vault, Kurnaz carefully tosses all of the petards on top of the various wardings, trying to land the things where they'll look like they'll do the most damage. He may not be trained in thaumaturgy explicitly but the ArtsAll in all its over a dozen

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "woops that wasnt done let me repost"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "hmm actually I think I want to scale the house again, see if the fat man is dead, or at least on his way"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "okay! retcon away!"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "well...technically that post was premature..."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "indeed :)"

 

Ledaal Kurnaz moves rapidly across the darkened court yard. He leaps onto the wall of the residential building and scurries up it hand over hand. He peers once more through the second age glass window, to examine his secondary target.

 

Well, something has changed! Nobody is in the room! There's no dead body, either.

 

Ledaal Kurnaz shrugs and thinks to himself, /well thats a good sign I guess/. He makes his way back down to vault as before. Upon arrival Kurnaz carefully tosses all of the petards on top of the various wardings, trying to land the things where they'll look like they'll do the most damage. He may not be trained in thaumaturgy explicitly but the Arts all follow natural principles of creation which he has studied somewhat through his training in the occult.

 

All in all its over a dozen pounds of firedust bombs he's placed in front of the door. He keeps two bombs. He places one, leaving the fuse long, on his side of the warding. He lights the extended fuse and runs like hell, taking cover two rooms away around the corner and behind a pile of vegetables.

 

There is a suitably large BOOM! Dust shakes from the ceiling. Yes. They certainly heard that one. There's no sound of collapsing basement, though.

 

Ledaal Kurnaz moves quickly, time no longer on his side. His visor and its advanced sensory augmentation helps him see through much of the dust, and the suit entirely protects him from its choking effects. He scans the ground closely trying to determine if the wardings have been sufficiently damaged by the blast.

 

Oh, yes. The bombs blew a hole in the tiling down to the dirt, so one can just walk through the crater. In fact, the iron door was even blown off it's hinges by the explosion, and the vault is open.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "you probably owe the God of Setting Charges some worship!"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "what effects do you have up, btw?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "just the distracting breeze method, thats the only scene long I have right now"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "okay."

 

/Fortune favors the bold!/ the insane thief thinks to himself as he offers prayers to the gods of fire dust, demolitions, luck, and whoever else he thinks deserves a piece of credit. He moves quickly past the blown off door, trying to remain alert for the sounds of pursuit despite his rising excitement.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "roll wits+awareness!"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "-2 penalty"

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls Wits + Awareness: [ -1- 2 7 9 ]

 

Resulting in 2 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "damn you!"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "Well that went about as well as I could hae expected ;), let me make sure I don't have an excellency for that"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "nope"

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls 6: [ 3 8 8 8 8 <10> ]

 

Resulting in 6 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "still stealthing though"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "ok, roll stealth then!"

 

Ledaal Kurnaz ever mindful of pursuit, observers or lurking dangers Kurnaz maintains stealth at all times. The roiling dust from the blast helps to mask him, aiding and abetting the the wuld be thief's attempts at stealth

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls Stealth + Stealth + Dexterity: [ -1- -1- 2 3 4 4 5 6 6 7 7 9 <10> <10> <10> ]

 

Resulting in 9 successes.

 

(OOC) Ledaal Kurnaz just spent 3 motes of Essence from his Personal Essence pool

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "ok!"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "that was most auspicious timing for such a good roll"

 

Inside the shadowy vault chamber is the gleam of a few talents of silver. There's also what looks to be religious paphernalia. In the center, on a pedestal, is obviously what you came for, a bronze box decorated with lilies. It doesn't even look that heavy.

 

Ledaal Kurnaz Kurnaz gives the pedestal and the box a once over. He's trying to be quick but he's also trying to not be dead in case this thing is loaded with a poison needle fusillade or something. He hopes the man was confident in the power of the guards, walled compund, more guards, and two sets of warded locked doors, and was impatient enough that he didn't bother adding in yet ANOTHER layer of defense that would need to be bypassed. Kurnaz hopes for this but at the same time checks for traps...

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls Larceny + Larceny + Perception: [ -1- -1- -1- 4 7 7 8 9 <10> ]

 

Resulting in 6 successes.

 

(OOC) Ledaal Kurnaz just spent 2 motes of Essence from his Essence Personal pool

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "You do not believe there are any traps or wards on the box"

 

Not even remotely satisfied but making peace the idea that he might be instantly obliterated by touching it, Kurnaz grabs the box and bolts, stashing it in the podpack as dashes once again the roiling epicenter of the blast. All told he spent probably less than a minute in the vault.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "alas."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "damn..."

 

As soon as Kurnaz touches the box, he learns why there were no traps on it. There was a guard. Speciically, a huge, horrible looking ape swings down from the rafters with a roar, "Gragh!" clawing at him!

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls 17: [ -1- 3 3 3 4 4 5 6 6 6 6 6 9 9 <10> <10> <10> ]

 

Resulting in 8 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "what's your DV of choice?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "parry"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "and how much is it?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "um lets see, 5 dex + 5 MA +6 from the blackjade baneclaw designed specifically for parrying. So I think 8"

 

Ledaal Kurnaz yells at the monster, "get your hands off me you damn dirty ape." He attempts to catch the claws of the beast on his parrying sai

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "that should of course be an ! after ape, not a mere . since I *am* yelling it and all"

 

You paged Ledaal Kurnaz with 'you are lucky I did not decide to make that an Unexpected Attack! It should have been, but you'd be ded!'.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "yeah I was wondering about that :)"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant could roll the, uh, Lots of damage if you'd prefer :P

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "no no, I'm good thank you"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "haha. Let us now do Join Battle"

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls 6: [ 3 4 4 6 9 9 ]

 

Resulting in 2 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I can't believe he noticed me! I guess I was grabbing the box"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "it's hard not to notice the box moving, yeah."

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls Wits + Awareness: [ -1- 3 4 4 ]

 

Resulting in a Botch!

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "for chrykie"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "well he did get the jump on me I guess :)"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "alright. He goes on Tick 2, and you go on Tick 6, is that right?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz ;-;no he goes on tick 0 and I go on tick 6

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "ah ok"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "okay! He'll attack you and use the First Martial Arts Excellency for his claw for 10 extra dice."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "er, wait, not 10, you can only double it"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "unless spirits don't work like Solars?"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "well, demons."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "they have essence as the cap"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "oh! Lucky you then."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "so he can only add +essence dice"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "and pays 1 mote each?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I have been quite lucky so far, the botch not withstanding"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "correct"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "ok"

 

The beast swings horribly fast and horribly accurately, growing it's hate for the Exalted of creation.

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls 20: [ -1- -1- 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 6 7 7 8 9 9 9 ]

 

Resulting in 6 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "holy crap! thats a lot of dice!"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "miss! It is using Principle of Motion however."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "and wow, you just rolled awfully..."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "dex 4, martial arts 4 (claws +1), accuracy 9, excellency +2"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "so, 20."

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls 20 dice: [2 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 10]

 

Result = 12 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "hit! PDV 8=4 successes"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I think the accuracy 9 is the total accuracy of the attack. Like if you look at mortals it says accuracy 8 for their chopping swords."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "hmm, you know, that would make my life easier, and you will be more likely to survive! Haha."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "not the accuracy bonus of the individual weapon"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "I will reroll both attacks."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant thought that was high.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "praise the gods!"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "so 9+2 = 11 dice."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I concur with your math"

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls 11 dice: [1 3 4 6 7 7 7 9 9 10 10]

 

Result = 9 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "still hits but less brutally"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "hits by one!"

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls: 9 [ 1 1 4 5 6 7 8 8 8 ]

 

Successes: 4

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "yeesh!"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "oh, crud, what is your soak? I always forget these things"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "oh right! me too"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "that goes from the pool first, I'm used to OWOD where you roll it vs damage"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "so, that's lethal, so half sta + armor lethal"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "7L"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "okay, two dice then."

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls: 2 [ 8 9 ]

 

Successes: 2

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "man, bad luck fridy."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "okay, you take 2 lethal damage. Second attack."

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls 11 dice: [1 2 2 3 3 4 6 6 9 9 10]

 

Result = 4 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "Parried!"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "lol I've had more good than bad, so I can't complain. I'm still alive right now, and at the end of the day thats what counts"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "that was a Speed 5 action. He goes again."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I have no idea how to spend my hl pool"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant has no idea.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "anyway, we are now on Tick 5."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "ok whatever"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "oh I forgot, I can boost my DV, I'll do that this time"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "with excellencies and stuff?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "excellencies for sure, and potentially stunts"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "okay! He shall attack!"

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls 11 dice: [1 2 2 2 3 4 6 7 7 7 7]

 

Result = 4 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "POM #2"

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls 11 dice: [1 1 2 3 5 5 7 8 8 10 10]

 

Result = 7 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "POM #3"

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls 11 dice: [1 2 4 5 5 5 8 9 9 10 10]

 

Result = 7 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "POM #4"

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls 11 dice: [2 3 4 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 10]

 

Result = 5 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "POM #5 (last one!)"

 

(Judge) Illuminant rolls 11 dice: [1 1 1 5 6 6 8 8 8 9 10]

 

Result = 6 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "oh, wait, Onslaught :/"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "Black Jade Baneclaw: Best Investment Ever"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "are you immune to onslaught?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "no but I'm not sure POM gives you onslaught bonuses"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "it counts as a magical flurry, like iron whirlwind"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "since you can flurry the individual thing"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "that was errata'd, it's one flurry."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "oh thats right I forgot that got updated in glorious divinity"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "yeah I totally forgot about that ok, let me use a stunt and excellencies"

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls 5: [ 3 4 9 <10> <10> ]

 

Resulting in 5 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "yes, do that!"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "that was extraordinarily fortunate"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "is that pdv for the entire flurry or just one attack?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I think its just one attack, I wish it was the entire flurry"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "if it is the entire flurry then he misses you totally!"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "if not you gotta pump some more essence."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I don't think it is ;-;"

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls 5: [ 3 4 7 8 9 ]

 

Resulting in 3 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "2 more"

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls 5: [ 3 3 4 <10> <10> ]

 

Resulting in 4 successes.

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls 5: [ 5 5 8 <10> <10> ]

 

Resulting in 5 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "haha"

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls 5: [ 2 3 3 5 8 ]

 

Resulting in 1 successes.

 

Huh? (Type "help" for help.)

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "well, you're anima is out now I expect, but you dodged everything."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "ok and now i'll try stunting"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "er, parried"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "ok!"

 

Ledaal Kurnaz ducks and weaves, the black jade of his weapon flashing out, absorbing the brtual blows the demon guardian within its infinite depths. He twirls away from the savage attacks, essence flaring through his body and guiding his hand to where it needs to be. Crashing waves begin to rise up around him as his anima flares

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "take the 4m!"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "yeah I think I'm done with stealthing for right now"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "yes, all your stealth checks auto-fail henceforth."

 

(OOC) Ledaal Kurnaz just spent 8 motes of Essence from his Personal Essence pool

 

(OOC) Ledaal Kurnaz just spent 3 motes of Essence from his Essence Peripheral pool

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "ok my turn?"

 

The beast's claws come in at what seems lightning speed! It only tags the Exalt once, and not very deeply, though. Any lesser theif would be gore.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "yes, tick 6."

 

Using the force of the beasts blows to add his momentum, Kurnaz lands lightly on his feet some distance away, spinning on his feet and making with his original plan of "run like hell" As he bolts stashes the box and sprints for up towards the surface.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "in case it matters I'm using the mask to look like a guard"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "what's your speed?"

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls Larceny + Intelligence + 4: [ 3 3 3 4 5 5 6 6 6 8 8 9 <10> ]

 

Resulting in 5 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "um dash is what? Dex +4 -mobility penalties?"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "dex+6 - wound - mobility"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "so 10 yards per tick then"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "which if you think about it is totally rediculous, thats 30 feet a second"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "make dex+athletics"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "there's a crater and 90 degree turns! So difficulty 2"

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls Dexterity + Athletics: [ -1- 4 6 7 8 8 9 <10> ]

 

Resulting in 6 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "yes, ninja speeed"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "lets see if it can catch you!"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "oh, well, it goes again on 10, so no."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "run run as fast as you can you can't catch me I'm the ginger bread man!"

 

The beast lumbers after you - and at quite a horribly fast pace, too! But as it gets to the wine cellar, it bounces off an invisible ward! Looks like the merchant didn't want his demon eating the servants.

 

Kurnaz has run to the relative safety of the vegetable pile. The door to the outside and freedom awaits.

 

Ledaal Kurnaz screams as bolts upwards "Demon on the loose! Demon on the loose! Its casting spells, help I'm covered in some sort of horrible essence!

 

"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! Its free! Theres a demon thats free down there! Oh god it cast a spell on me! My flesh is feels like its dissolving!"

 

That would probably have worked better if Kurnaz wasn't toting the merchant's precious, precious bronze box. Also the anima banner? A complete give-away. The merchant is, in fact, waiting outside the door to the cellar. More to the point, there are thirty-odd guards waiting, too, and all of them look extremely jumpy, and they don't look as frightened as people usually do when they are facing down an exalt. They look like they feel invincible.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I tossed that in my podpack!"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "well, okay! But even if I grant you that, you've still got an anima banner :P"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "though I was hoping the anima banner would be mistaken for the acid thing..."

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "also also: the guard you are duplicating is looking at you."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "yes there is that"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "the invincible thing is somewhat troubling. As is him being alive and all."

 

The merchant does look a bit ill, but not poison-death heart attack ill. In fact he looks quite chipper for the amount of poison you used.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "they are, in a word, high as kites."

 

The merchant doesn't buy it. He knows his guards, they are related to him, however distantly, and they are all right here. He says, "Drop my treasures, imposter, and your weapons as well!"

 

Your suit's red warning glyph still gleams smugly.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I hate you so much!"

 

Behind you, the demon roars in frustration! Even this doesn't phase the guards. Normal guards should be wetting themselves.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "how close is the merchant to his guards?"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "the guards are in a semicircle around the exit, he is about five feet behind him, with that hulking bodyguard next to him."

 

Ledaal Kurnaz takes a running leap, buoying himself with essence to get over the guards heads. Twisting in the air he hurls his remaining petard at the merchants feet as he sprints for wall. /Well he survived the poison, so we'll see how fairs with this/

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "okay! So what is the appropriate combat roll to use that?"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "I imagine it's dex+thrown, does it have stats in a book someplace?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "the petard is a throw, I need to look up jumop to see if its a static value or a roll"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "the petard is from scroll of kings"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "under the grenade stuff"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant sees it!

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls Dexterity + Thrown: [ -1- 2 6 7 8 ]

 

Resulting in 2 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "petards have a -1 acc"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "right but a 1 yard radius area has a DV of 0 and he's within 15 feet"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "oh, yes, I mean the merchant is vapor. What we're rolling for is to see if you hit /yourself/."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "so it lands at his feet and goes off I think"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "he's vapor!"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "oooh"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I thought you meant I was attacking a cloud"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "no. Petards have a 12-foot radius :)"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "right"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "ok looking up jump now"

 

(OOC) Ledaal Kurnaz just spent 1 points of Willpower from his Willpower pool

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "that adds two yards to the jump"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "ok, so how far do you jump?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "can I channel conviction here to avoid the hardship about to get my ass executed ;)"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "I do not believe that any Virtues apply to running for your life."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "its a static value so I need to roll athletics excellency to see what I add"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant read a log the other day where someone asked exactly that, and that was the answer they got re: virtues

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "lol neither do I but it was worth a shot ;)"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "okay, roll your excellency"

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls Athletics: [ 7 7 7 ]

 

Resulting in 3 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "sweet!"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "so how far do you jump?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "ok so it says I can jump a number of *yards* equal to str+ath (with the excellency thats 7) straight up, -wound penalties (-1) and mobility penalties (0), and twice that horizontally. Which is obviously totally bat shit crazy. In a grim and gritty game it says to halve those values rounding up"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "oh and then +any stunt dice"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "so halving that means I clear 3 yards vertically, and 6 yards on the long jump, since I'm buoying my self with essence"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "okay!"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "so, you are jumping over the guards and sprinting towards the wall, pretty much?"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "that is in fact exactly what I'm doing"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "plus petarding the merchant"

 

Well! The events play out something like this; The petard lands at the merchant's feet, and he looks down stupidly. Meanwhile, you run over towards the nearest wall and leeeeap over the guard. It seems unlikely that you're going to make it! He and the two guys next to him are about to try and cut you out of the air! And then the petard goes off! BOOM! Nothing is left of the merchant but two smoking silk slippers. The guards are killed or knocked down like ninepins. Kurnaz.. Kurnaz was in the air, and he is propelled a goodly distance. Instead of the elegant leap he attempted, he is shoved, mid air into an inelegant crash. On the plus side, once all the tumbling and rolling and thumping is complete, he is right next to the compound wall, if a little bruised and dizzy. The guards are in much worse shape, and not in any condition to give pursuit.

 

 

Kurnaz is a little woozy from the explosion and demonclaw, but the guards are in no condition to fight back. Slice slice slice, and their blood drains into the dirt.

 

Ledaal Kurnaz hisses. Drugged up junkies. He'd spit on the corpses except he's wearing a full body stealth suit

 

He slips out of the compound, somewhat less gracefully as he's pretty jacked up from all he's gone through. But barring anything too exciting he should recover quickly

 

And then it is over the wall! A banged up Kurnaz can take his time on it, though it's a bit harder this time, he manages. And now he's back amongst his men, with the prize - the bronze box. What could be inside?

 

Once back at the wicker men's hide out and after having moment to bathe and drink a cup of tea, Kurnaz and the wicker men set the box out. They go over it with various thaumaturgical sensors and when they detect nothing dangerous, pop the thing open.

 

Inside - a small sheaf of papers! Ah, knowledge, how valuble it can be.

 

Ledaal Kurnaz examines the papers, seeing what information they contain, and then sets his men to work copying them in minute detail. Being careful to maintain relative distances between letters and the like, just in case its part of some elaborate multi-tiered cypher

 

The text is coded, but it's noting fancy. A little work determines that the papers contain a variety of useful thaumaturgical formulae (for instance, Wards Against Thieves and Demonic Conjuration). They also explain procedures used to propitate a number of powerful entities referred to as the True Masters.

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls Occult: [ 3 6 <10> ]

 

Resulting in 2 successes.

 

(Judge) Ledaal Kurnaz rolls Lore + Intelligence: [ 2 4 5 5 6 6 7 8 ]

 

Resulting in 2 successes.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I presume I've never heard of the True Masters?"

 

Well, with a solid educational background like Kurnaz has, plus the similarities of the nasty human sacrifices rituals detailed in here, it seems fairly obvious that these papers detail thinly veiled Yozi worship. That would explain the demon working for non-Exalts, certainly.

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "hmmm..."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I probably wasn't supposed to open the box was I?"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "the client specified "unopened." Of course he also said that his cousin was to die from an accident."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "well since no ones ever finding any evidence for how he died without celestial investigation charms I'm none to worried"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "I'll send his brother the shoes along with the box"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "alright! With the papers inside?"

 

Copying everything, Kurnaz returns everything to the box. He has the box delivered to his client along with his former brother-in-laws scorched shoes. He also has a Zeppo draw up an anonymous letter which he sends to Chiaroscuro government, specifically whatever branch is in charge of rooting out demon worship, along with a copy to the Realm Satrap (coincidentally Kurnaz's brother in law). The letters The letter details the contents of the box and includes copies of it, along with mentioning the erymanthoi in the vault. It does not say how this information was obtained.

 

If there's one thing Kurnaz won't stand its demon worship.

 

The government sends you polite form letters. Your brother in law's secretary sends you a thank-you note. The client sends you the main payment and his thanks, but notes that he had to spend your bonus silver on extra security to keep his wife's complaining down to a bearable minimum. Apparently she did not believe multiple explosions and stabbing deaths of a score of guards to be "accidental."

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "oh sorry, I though I said the letters to the government were anonymous, the one Zuriel you're right actually probably wouldn't be"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "doh, I didn't catch that word whoops"

 

-= OOC =- Illuminant says, "oh, well, then they vanish into the bureaucracy!"

 

-= OOC =- Ledaal Kurnaz says, "lol ok"

 

Ledaal Kurnaz sends his thanks the client for his business, but requests the next time he requires the services of the Wicker men he should inform them in advance that their target is a sorcerer capable of summoning demons if he wishes things to go according to plan. He wishes the client the best of luck and offers him the regular 10 discount for repeat customers (to show theirs no hard feelings).