[Main IC] MnM 3e - Geneforge: the Created

[Sakuro]

Black death wings down over the forest battlefield as Craze lets loose a disorientating caw, strafing past one of the bandit. He cries out in distress and covers his ears with both hands while the dark feathered avian flies off. After a couple seconds he shakes his head, having weathered through the worst of the horrible noise. The Servile then draws a fresh javelin and launches it at Craze.


Once Pounce bounds off of the Servile, he gets to his feet. Looking past her he shouts at your Shaper, pointing his aged sword at the chittin clad youth.

"These are my woods. You think you can come into my woods and mess with my boys?!"

But he couldn't just run at D'Tan. Pounce had made herself an impediment and needed to be dealt with first. In a flash he is in her face slashing out at her with his sword.


Chip raised to a stand and renewed his attack on the bandits pairing up against him. Slashing at one the bandit pair, then thrusts in retort. While chips is able to avoid the stab the other bandit takes the opportunity to attack while he is distracted and manages to connect with a cutting blow of his own.


The hooded Serviles attacking Meat Shield spread out, each striking form a different angle and direction. Battering at their defenses and dividing their attention. The unrelenting assault proves difficult to ward off as each hits Meat Shield again and again.


Mind feels their psychic lance connect with his target. But it meets with instinctive mental barriers that rise in defense of the immaterial intrusion into the Servile's psyche. Outwardly, there is no visible response. In fact, since Mind only seems too be floating in place and doing nothing now, they appear to be less of a threat. Once of the bandits break away from the melee ... but the other continues to slash, stack, and hack at Mind.


... and the other runs off towards your Shaper, who had is facing the opposite direction. Living weapon pointed in the direction of his recent kill. Shoving his sword forward he makes to stab the young Shaper in the back!

After D'Tan's kill, there is only one not in melee at the moment. The Bandit Veteran that Craze is able to single out gets a good earful but doesn't go down.

The Bandit Veteran that Mind attacked manages to resist without even realizing it.

The Bandit Leader attacks Pounce! and hits. DC 20 Tough.

Two Bandit Veterans attack Chips. One hits. DC 20 Tough.

Two Bandit Veterans attack Meat Shield. Both hit. That's 2 DC 20 Toughness checks.

One Bandit Veteran attacks Craze and hits. DC 19 Tough.

One Bandit Veteran attacks Mind and misses.

One Bandit Veteran attacks D'Tan and hits. If Pounce of Meat Shield use Interpose to take that hit they will receive 1 HP and need to make a DC 20 Toughness check.

Meat Shield and Pounce are up. You may act in any order.

You also have 1 Group HP left that anyone may use.

Mind
Chips
Bandit Leader [Heroic NPC ; HP 1 ; -1 Dmg Res, Dazed. Prone]
Bandit Veterans [x7 ; Tough Minions]
* x1 is at -1 Dmg. Res.
Meat Shield
Pounce
D'Tan [Heroic NPC ; HP 1; Thorns 2]
Craze

[Tony Jones]

Meat Shield
Hero Points: 5; Luck Points: 1; Condition: Bruised -2

Meat Shield takes the two hits from the bandits with little more than a scratch.

Meat Shield Toughness Checks vs Bandits: 1D20+9 = [8]+9 = 17
1D20+9 = [10]+9 = 19

So Bruised - 2.

They see the Shaper about to be hit and leap across to take the blow for him.

Meat Shield takes a blow for D'Tan: 1d20+9-2 25

CoyoteCode.net helpfully failing between making first rolls and this one!

Toughs it out so no extra damage. And has an extra Hero Point!

Meat Shield slashes at the bandit who tried to hurt the Shaper with their long blue claws...

Meat Shield slashes at a bandit: 1d20+7 12

Spending a Luck point to try again...

Meat Shield slashes at a bandit, take 2: 1d20+7 27

That'll do! That's a Critical so DC 27 Toughness to resist...

[kenseido]

Chips
HP: 1, LP: 0; Condition: Bruised x2, Dazed

The Bandit's strike cuts deep into his thick skin.

TOU save: 1d20+7-1 13
Bruised x2, Dazed

[pathfinderq1]

Pounce!
HP: 1; LP: 0; Condition:

Pounce hissed again- and moved like no natural animal, no wild creature ever would, moving into the swordsman's swing, so that he had to twist his wrist at the last moment. It was still a hit, but her move had robbed the strike of much of its energy- it was barely a scratch.

Her move put her off balance, though, and her own attack raked only air...

>OOC:
-Toughness DC 20, 1d20+6= 22; roll https://orokos.com/roll/967467
-Attack with claw swipe at leader, 1d20+6= 13; roll https://orokos.com/roll/967469
(Miss, but still in position to interpose)

[Sakuro]

Meat Shield slashed and their long claws rend through leather armor, flesh, and the bone of ribs. Sinking into the Servile's chest they cut into the organs underneath. When they draw their hand back blood pumps out of the find clefted wounds in pulses. Like a heat beat.

Hearing the commotion directly behind him, the Shaper turns his head to look over his shoulder. A pale blue light begins to seep out of the cracks in his armor. The light grows brighter as it travels up his left arm, which he hold up over his head, palm up and finger splayed. From cracks i the fingers of his gauntlets a pale blue energy, almost fluid in composition, launches out. Like tentacles the energetic fluid whips through the air and strikes not at the bandits, but each of you. The energy oozes into your body. Saturates you. Fills you up. Until you are bursting with dynamic potential.

Meat Shield kills a Bandit Veteran.

Whatever D'Tan does, it gives each of you an additional Standard Action on your turn.

Craze, Mind, and Chips are all up.

You also have 1 Group HP left that anyone may use.

Mind
Chips
Bandit Leader [Heroic NPC ; HP 1 ; -1 Dmg Res, Dazed. Prone]
Bandit Veterans [x6 ; Tough Minions]
* x1 is at -1 Dmg. Res.
Meat Shield
Pounce
D'Tan [Heroic NPC ; HP 1; Thorns 2]
Craze

[mrdent12]

Craze
HP: 2->1
CND: -1 toughness

Through sheer luck, Craze manages to avoid the worst of the attack. "Thats not nice to throw things at me!", caws Craze. "You wouldn't happen to have anymore of what they use to get candies do you? Never mind. When we kill you I'll find it myself.", adds Craze as he swoops down trying to jam his beak into the bandit before going once again into the trees. He wasn't about to get stuck in a melee if he could help it. For good measure, if the bandit was still standing, Craze let out another caw.

Toughness 12
Tougness 19
Attack 18 beak vs bandit who attacked him dc 21 if it hits -/+1 power attack
Second standard is another caw just in case bandit didn't go down. If he does go down, Craze will target any bandits not in melee with the caw.

[kenseido]

Chips
HP: 1, LP: 0, Condition: Bx2, Dazed

Frustrated that he is failing Shaper D'Tan, the pale blue energy fills him. Feeling renewed, he slashes at the two bandits still attacking him.

Blade Hand vs one bandit: 1d20+8 22
Blade Hand vs the other bandit: 1d20+8 18
DC21 TOU

[Doctor Malsyn]

The Mind
HP: 0, Fatigued

Taking in the situation, it knew what it needed to do in order to help end this threat. The serviles threatening it's Shaper needed to be rem/-eeded to remove the spear wielded by the lead servi/-ils needed to be removed/-from the lead servile's hands/-which threatened it's shaper's lif/-t the spear out of it's grasp-

Twin thoughts raged within it in parallel, wholly independent of one another yet intrinsically linked. When it acted at the behest of Shaper D'Tan's magic, it performed both actions at once.

25 Ranged Grab vs. lead bandit's weapon, DC 17
DC 19 will vs. one of the serviles closest to D'Tan

[Sakuro]

A confused looked came over the bandit as Craze talked about candy and killing him to find something. As if a talking bird were bizzare enough.

"What are you ta-AHHH!"

The bandit had begun to question, up until Craze dived in for a beak strike that plunged into the Servile's throat. His cry died out into a gurgle as blood blocked his airway. It wasn't long before he was on the ground bleeding out.

Flying on Craze wing his way overhead and caws down on the pair of bandits that had been battering at Meat Shield. Their legs bend as though suddenly weighed down under the sonic assault and their hands go to their ears. One of them isn't quick enough and falls to the forest floor screaming.

Having felt the pang of Craze's caw, and seen multiple of his comrades fall to the avian, Craze's most recent victim draws a javelin from the quiver on his back and launched it skyward. With a shift of his wings Craze is able to maneuver away from the missile's trajectory.


Chips, going toe to toe with two hooded Serviles swing left and fells a bandit with one blow. He swing right, striking at the other, who deflects the shapeshifters blade arm with his sword. Not entirely, but enough that blow grazes off his shoulder instead of hitting a vital area. The bandit continues with the momentum of his turn, spins around, and delivers a backhanded slash across Chips' torso.



Mind launches a whip of psychic force at the bandit leader's sword and knocks it from his grasp. The weapon topples end over end landing out of sight int he brush. After disarming that threat Mind hurled a bolt of mental energy into the mind of another bandit. No outward sign of the attack could be determined. Except perhaps for blood trickling down one of their nostrils onto their upper lip. But that could have come from any number of things ...

The bandit that Mind had just given a bloody nose continues his attacks, throwing a fresh javelin at the floating psychic creation.


While Mind has relieved the bandit ring leader of his sword, he still had a quiver full of javelins. Drawing one of them he used the light weight spear to stab at Pounce!


As the fighting progresses, and parties run around the battlefield swapping targets, the scene becomes more chaotic. Out from the left, somewhere, a bandit comes charging at Meat Shield, screaming a battle cry. Sword held high. With a shift in the stance and a step to the side Meat Shield evades the wild charge, and the bandit runs past him a few feet before spinning around to face the clawed creature.

Craze takes the bandit out with his beak attack.

Meat Shield moved away from two bandits, leaving them no longer in melee. Craze's Caw will target them. One of them is Incapacitated. The other resists entirely.

Chips lands bother attacks. One of the bandits isn't harmed. The other is killed.

Mind manages to disarm the bandit leader. Their second attack hurts, but doesn't kill the veteran.

The Bandit Leader draws a javelin and stabs at Pounce. DC 20 Tough.

One Bandit Veteran attacks Craze, but misses.

One Bandit Veteran attacks Chips and hits. You are fortunate these guys can't critical .... DC 20 Tough.

One Bandit Veteran attacks Mind and hits. DC 20 Tough

The last Bandit Veteran attacks Meat Shield but misses.

Meat Shield and Pounce are up. You may act in any order. You both also have an extra Standard Action due to whatever D'Tan did.

The group still has 1 HP that anyone may use.

Mind
Chips
Bandit Leader [Heroic NPC ; HP 1 ; -1 Dmg Res]
Bandit Veterans [x3 ; Tough Minions]
* x1 Bandit Veteran is at -1 Dmg. Res.
Meat Shield
Pounce
D'Tan [Heroic NPC ; HP 1; Thorns 2]
Craze

[pathfinderq1]

Pounce!
HP: 1; LP: 0; Condition: Normal

Pounce blinked in surprise at the larger servile threw his sword away and pulled out a pointy stick instead. He didn't seem like he was as skilled with his new weapon and when he poked at her she stepped forward, so that it hit her, but only with the stick part, instead of the pointy bit. Then she did something he definitely wasn't expecting- she reached out and grabbed the stick, since her forepaws did, after all, have opposable thumbs. She pulled on the stick, trying to drag the servile off balance so that she could slash him with her claws...

>OOC:
-Toughness DC 20, 1d20+6= 25, roll https://orokos.com/roll/967729
-Trip attack 1d20+4 (vs. Parry)= 24; roll https://orokos.com/roll/967730 (Since this is an attack roll, that should be a crit
-IF trip attack hits, Acrobatics 1d20+9= 13 (+5 for crit, so DC 18), leader resists with Acrobatics (Improved Trip)
-Claw swipe, PA 2, 1d20+4 (+5 if he was successfully tripped)= 12 (or 17); roll https://orokos.com/roll/967731 If that hits, Toughness DC 21 to resist

[Doctor Malsyn]

The Mind
HP: 0, Fatigued

Using the vestiges of psionic power, the Mind nudged the javelin just slightly off course.

Toughness: 27

[Tony Jones]

Meat Shield
Hero Points: 5; Luck Points (Base 2): 0; Condition: Bruised -2

Due to the great length of their arms, Meat Shield does not have to even move to slash at the bandit Servile (who clearly thought they were safe to stop that far away!) with their claws as the Servile spins to face them from a few feet away.

(Using Reach - 1 on Strength to hit them even though they're a few feet away).
Meat Shield slashes at the Servile: 1D20+7 = [1]+7 = 8

Spending their last Luck Point to re-roll.

Meat Shield slashes at the Servile, take 2: 1D20+7 = [20]+7 = 27

Another critical, so that's a DC 27 Toughness check to resist.

Meat Shield then moves over to the Bandit leader and coming in from a direction that does not get in Pounce's way, slashes at him as well.

Meat Shield slashes at the bandit leader: 1D20+7 = [12]+7 = 19

If Pounce managed to trip him, that'll be 24 to hit.

If that hits, DC 22 Toughness check to resist.

[kenseido]

Chips
HP: 1, LP: 0; Condition:

The blow catches Chip's own shoulder, where his thick hide is the strongest. Only the thinnest cut is made into his skin, without any additional ill effect.

Tou save: 1d20+7-2 25

[Sakuro]

The duel between Pounce and the hooded Servile begins to look like a dance. As she tugs on his javelin, he leans in, stepping close to her with rather than tilting over. As he moved in, he sweeps at her legs with one of his own, but she hops over the leg sweep. As she comes down he brandishes claws at him, to which he turns at the hip to move with the blow is such a way that her slash moves with and past his body.

Not that far away Meat Shield rips through another Servile bandit. After tossing the dead creation's body aside they rush to Pounce's aid and slam that large claws into the side of the Servile she is fighting. He let out a cry of pain as fresh blood washed over Meat Shield's claws. Pulling back, the ring leader back away. He drops his javelin as one hand moves to cover his injury and the other moves to a pouch on his belt. Taking a multifaceted crystal from it he throws the crystal onto the ground. It shatters. As it shatters your perception of the world blurs and bends in on itself, melting into confusion. When everyone regains their senses the bandit leader is gone, but his companions ... dazed and confuse ... remain.

Pounce's Trip attempt fails. Her claw attack also misses.

Meat Shield kill the Bandit Veteran. Meat Shield also hits the Bandit Leader, Dazing him.

The Bandit Leader uses his HP to make an escape.

We're leaving combat rounds. You may finish off the remaining 2 Bandit Veterans narratively, as you see fit.

All of you did such a good job protecting D'Tan that he wasn't hurt. I am going to add a HP to the group pool as a reward for this. That brings it up to 2 HP that anyone may make use of.

[Doctor Malsyn]

The Mind floated back down to ground level as the disorienting sensation vanished, severing their efforts. It's scrying sweapt over the two left behind by their apprent leader, noting their injurries or lack there of. "Please restrain the most intact servile. I will be extracting information from the Creature."