New OOTS products from CafePress
New OOTS t-shirts, ornaments, mugs, bags, and more
Page 9 of 49 FirstFirst 1234567891011121314151617181934 ... LastLast
Results 241 to 270 of 1443
  1. - Top - End - #241
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    Goblin

    Join Date
    Jul 2016

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Muttering a binaric curse at the sound, Xerros-926 aims his lascarbine at the sound of the approaching footsteps.

  2. - Top - End - #242
    Titan in the Playground
     
    PirateCaptain

    Join Date
    Apr 2012

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Marcella



    Marcella's image flickers and softens, as if she were half-blending into her surroundings with form of ancient stealth technology. Stepping backwards as she did so and drawing out her laspistol, Marcella moved to the rear of the group and knelt next something, anything, for a further degree of cover.
    "Of all the words by tongue and pen, by far the saddest are "I could have been...""

    "The first rule of success is to have a vision. You see if you don’t have a vision of where you are going, if you don’t have a goal for where to go, you’ll drift around and never end up anywhere...can you imagine a majority of people don't know where they are going? I knew where I was going!” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

  3. - Top - End - #243
    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    Beholder

    Join Date
    Dec 2012
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Arl cursed and sprinted for a covered position!

    Once there, he set up, bracing his rifle and waiting for his shot.

  4. - Top - End - #244
    Titan in the Playground
     
    SamuraiGuy

    Join Date
    Mar 2013

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Harl Kandor curses Arl under his breath before moving himself to crouch behind a pile of wreckage for cover. He raises his intricate las pistol, aiming it at the path by which the footsteps are approaching.

    Stalwart, Severine drops to one knee and raises her pistol taking aim.

    Spoiler: OOC
    Show
    So I'm giving everyone a full turn to ready themselves before acting. So some players used part of their turn to move behind cover, and aim, getting a half action aim bonus, while those who didn't take cover will get the full +20 aim bonus. We can assume that everyone already had their weapons ready.


    The footsteps quickly grow louder, and within a few seconds, three gangers of Clan Tora clomp through the muck. One of them is easily recognized as the guardsman with the greasy spiked mohawk and a toothy grin who had taken everyone's weapons earlier that evening. He shouts with a confused look on his face, "What the hell is going on here?" He and one of his companions are wielding stub revolvers, while the third, an older punk with a shaved head carries a ornate though poorly maintained hunting rifle. The three are bringing their weapons to bare.

    Spoiler: OOC
    Show
    So assuming we are not going with diplomacy, which will be a difficult roll in this circumstance, I am going to ask all involved to roll initiative now, and play out your actions.

    I will roll for the gangers and for Severine.

    Gangers (1d10)[7] + 3
    Severine (1d10)[9] +3
    Spoiler: Games I am Currently Running
    Show
    San Francisco by Night (Vampire the Requiem 2E)

    New Bedford by Night (Werewolf the Forsaken 2E)

    New Orleans by Night (Changeling the Lost 2E)

  5. - Top - End - #245
    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    Beholder

    Join Date
    Dec 2012
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Arl lines up a shot on the ganger with the rifle.

    Spoiler: OOC - die rolls
    Show


    Initiative = (1d10+3)[11]

    44 base + 20 (Aim) + 10 (short range) = 74

    (1d100)[72]




  6. - Top - End - #246
    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    Beholder

    Join Date
    Dec 2012
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Quote Originally Posted by Wyndeward View Post
    Arl lines up a shot on the ganger with the rifle.

    Spoiler: OOC - die rolls
    Show


    Initiative = (1d10+3)[5]

    44 base + 20 (Aim) + 10 (short range) = 74

    [roll1]



    Arl's bullet struck the rifleman

    (1d10+3)[5]

  7. - Top - End - #247
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    Goblin

    Join Date
    Jul 2016

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Aiming at the lead ganger, Xerros-926 lets loose a burst of lasfire from his carbine.

    Spoiler: OOC:
    Show
    Initiative: (1d10+2)[7]

    Semi-Auto Burst: (1d100)[35] TN 75 (BS 35 +20 Aim +10 Semi-Auto Burst +10 Short Range)

    Potential Damage: (1d10+2)[10] (1d10+2)[12]

  8. - Top - End - #248
    Titan in the Playground
     
    PirateCaptain

    Join Date
    Apr 2012

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Marcella


    Marcella furrowed her brow, genuinely confused as to what was going on. Why were these guys -

    And then the shooting started.

    Out of reflex in conjunction with her compatriots, Marcella aimed and pulled the trigger on her laspistol, the red bolt lancing through the air to strike the lead ganger with the mohawk.


    *rolls in OOC*
    "Of all the words by tongue and pen, by far the saddest are "I could have been...""

    "The first rule of success is to have a vision. You see if you don’t have a vision of where you are going, if you don’t have a goal for where to go, you’ll drift around and never end up anywhere...can you imagine a majority of people don't know where they are going? I knew where I was going!” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

  9. - Top - End - #249
    Titan in the Playground
     
    SamuraiGuy

    Join Date
    Mar 2013

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    The acolytes unload on the three gangers. The red flash of Marcella's las bolt catches the boy with the spiky mohawk square in the chest, before he can even aim his stub revolver. The punk shrieks with pain, a high pitched cracking shriek, but he does not go down.

    Severine's stub revolver thunders as a gout of black smoke erupts from its long heavy muzzle, and the ganger with the rifle nearly buckles over as a he takes a solid round in the leg. Despite this, the kid stays upright and begins to sidestep to get out of the line of fire.

    Arl fires from his rifle, a shot that just misses the scum with the rifle, as he begins to strafe to the side, despite the solid round lodged in his leg.

    The three gangsters begin to fire back. The two revolvers go off within seconds of each other, creating explosions of noise and fire and gunpowder smoke. But neither seems to be able to hit anything. Severine suddenly cries out and is thrown backwards as if she had taken a heavy blow to the face, collapsing hard on her back.

    The Tech Priest's las carbine erupts in a series of shrieking shots. The first bolt hits the ganger with the rifle hard in the abdomen. A gout of fire erupts from his wound as he gets hurled back, landing unconscious on the ground as a small angry fire starts to spread across his torn denim clothing. Xerros' second shot catches the scum with the mohawk in the chest. The blast immediately immolates the man, his entire body exploding in fire, skin instantly blackening into charred parchment, and eyes popping like superheated eggs.

    Despite, or perhaps of this, Harl Kandor's las pistol shot goes wide against the third and final gangster; a boy with a shaved head and ragged wool clothes that have been studded with stub casings. The kid's eyes are completely wide a the carniage that has befallen his two companion's, and Luis' arrow catches him in his flank, lodging superficially as the shaft drops at an angle. He still yelps in pain.

    Spoiler: OOC: Summary
    Show
    Marcella's shot hits the torso, doing 6 damage after soaking
    Severine's shot hits the R leg, doing 5 damage after soaking.
    Arl's shot is dodged.

    Both pistol boys miss. The rifle man shoots at Severine (randomly chosen on a d6), and she fails her dodge roll. Severine takes 7 damage after soaking with Toughness and armor.

    Xerros' first shot drops the gangster with the rifle down to -2, his second does 28 damage after soaking, ending the ganger with the mohawk for good.

    Harl misses. Luis does 2 damage. We are back to the top of the order.

    Spoiler: Games I am Currently Running
    Show
    San Francisco by Night (Vampire the Requiem 2E)

    New Bedford by Night (Werewolf the Forsaken 2E)

    New Orleans by Night (Changeling the Lost 2E)

  10. - Top - End - #250
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    Goblin

    Join Date
    Jul 2016

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    "The Omnissiah condemns!"

    Xerros-926 roars through his augmitters as his lascarbine obliterates the lead ganger, before turning his attention on the youth.

    Spoiler: OOC:
    Show
    Semi-Auto Burst: (1d100)[50] TN 55 (BS 35 +10 Short Range +10 SAB)

  11. - Top - End - #251
    Troll in the Playground
     
    OrcBarbarianGuy

    Join Date
    Nov 2012

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Now that the fighting had started, it would be best if there were no survivors to carry word back to their masters. Let them be swallowed up by the dangers of the underhive. Luis loosed another arrow towards one of the remaining gangers, wounding him.

  12. - Top - End - #252
    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    Beholder

    Join Date
    Dec 2012
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Arl lined up the rifleman again and fired

    Spoiler: OOC - Die Rolls
    Show


    (1d100)[62] against a TN of 44 + 10 (aim, half action) + 10 (short range) = 64

    Damage = (1d10+3)[13]


  13. - Top - End - #253
    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    Beholder

    Join Date
    Dec 2012
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Quote Originally Posted by Wyndeward View Post
    Arl lined up the rifleman again and fired

    Spoiler: OOC - Die Rolls
    Show


    (1d100)[13] against a TN of 44 + 10 (aim, half action) + 10 (short range) = 64

    Damage = (1d10)[8]

    Righteous FURY!

    Spoiler: OOC - Righteous FURY
    Show


    (1d100)[13] against a TN of 64
    (1d10)[8]


  14. - Top - End - #254
    Titan in the Playground
     
    SamuraiGuy

    Join Date
    Mar 2013

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Severine somehow finds the strength to rise from the ground, blood streaking across her face from under her helmet. Whispering a prayer under her breath, she fired her revolver again, but the shot seemed to miss its target.

    Arl's hunting rifle erupts with a thunderous crack, sending out a puff of acrid white smoke. The bullet strikes the man hard in the chest, spinning him sideways while simultaneously lifting him off his feet to land hard on the ground.

    Perhaps the ganger was trying to scream, but blood from his ruptured and collapsing lung was choking him, coming out in small gouts with every exhalation. Two of the boys on the ground were still alive, though they would likely need serious medical attention if they were going to survive long term.

    (OOC: We'll end combat there, I'll spare Bananaphone to keep things moving, and any character who rolled but didn't get to act because of initiative will just save their ammo)
    Spoiler: Games I am Currently Running
    Show
    San Francisco by Night (Vampire the Requiem 2E)

    New Bedford by Night (Werewolf the Forsaken 2E)

    New Orleans by Night (Changeling the Lost 2E)

  15. - Top - End - #255
    Troll in the Playground
     
    OrcBarbarianGuy

    Join Date
    Nov 2012

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Luis pulled a knife from his boot. With a glance around to see if anyone else was watching, he quickly put the wounded men out of their misery. "The underhive is a dangerous place," he muttered to one of them, not caring if the man could hear or not.
    Last edited by dojango; 2020-07-08 at 09:23 PM.

  16. - Top - End - #256
    Titan in the Playground
     
    SamuraiGuy

    Join Date
    Mar 2013

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Harl Kandor watches on with dark eyes as the Feral Worlder finishes his grim and bloody job. When Luis is finished, he says simply, "Rather ruthless for a group of Credit Guilders."
    Spoiler: Games I am Currently Running
    Show
    San Francisco by Night (Vampire the Requiem 2E)

    New Bedford by Night (Werewolf the Forsaken 2E)

    New Orleans by Night (Changeling the Lost 2E)

  17. - Top - End - #257
    Troll in the Playground
     
    OrcBarbarianGuy

    Join Date
    Nov 2012

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    "Guess you haven't worked with the Specialty Collections Department before," says Luis. "We're very generous to people who help us. Speaking of, let's get going again, shall we?"
    Last edited by dojango; 2020-07-09 at 12:53 PM.

  18. - Top - End - #258
    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    Beholder

    Join Date
    Dec 2012
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Arl polices up the gangers' weapons and ammunition, then searches each one for papers or information.

  19. - Top - End - #259
    Titan in the Playground
     
    PirateCaptain

    Join Date
    Apr 2012

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Marcella


    Internally, Marcella snickered at Harls puzzlement over their treatment of the downed gangers. Was he genuinely surprised that a bunch of bankers were ruthless? What a sweet summer child...

    Holstering her pistol, Marcella once more said nothing, but remained quietly satisfied that she had once more contributed to the groups survival by acting as its human radar.
    Last edited by BananaPhone; 2020-07-09 at 11:13 PM.
    "Of all the words by tongue and pen, by far the saddest are "I could have been...""

    "The first rule of success is to have a vision. You see if you don’t have a vision of where you are going, if you don’t have a goal for where to go, you’ll drift around and never end up anywhere...can you imagine a majority of people don't know where they are going? I knew where I was going!” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

  20. - Top - End - #260
    Titan in the Playground
     
    SamuraiGuy

    Join Date
    Mar 2013

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Between the three bodies, Arl gathers 14 stub revolver bullets and the two pistols, the hunting rifle with a total of five shells, two rusty looking combat knives, a pair of brass knuckles, and a total of 12 thrones. (OOC: let me know what you are taking from this pile)

    Not a single one of them have any ident tubes or papers.

    Speaking up, Severine says, "Should we... try to hide the bodies?"
    Spoiler: Games I am Currently Running
    Show
    San Francisco by Night (Vampire the Requiem 2E)

    New Bedford by Night (Werewolf the Forsaken 2E)

    New Orleans by Night (Changeling the Lost 2E)

  21. - Top - End - #261
    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    Beholder

    Join Date
    Dec 2012
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Quote Originally Posted by Bennosuke View Post
    Between the three bodies, Arl gathers 14 stub revolver bullets and the two pistols, the hunting rifle with a total of five shells, two rusty looking combat knives, a pair of brass knuckles, and a total of 12 thrones. (OOC: let me know what you are taking from this pile)

    Not a single one of them have any ident tubes or papers.

    Speaking up, Severine says, "Should we... try to hide the bodies?"
    Arl pocketed the shells from the hunting rifle, one of the revolvers, the 14 stub revolver rounds, the brass knuckles and the thrones.

    After searching the corpses, he quickly dragged the bodies, concealing them behind a pile of refuse.

    "Back on Kesh, you couldn't guarantee resupply during a long hunt... We best be going -- no telling who they were supposed to meet out here.

  22. - Top - End - #262
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    Goblin

    Join Date
    Jul 2016

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Xerros-926 shakes his head.

    "Negative: It appears nothing more than a common gang murder - leave it at that. Addendum: It would look more incriminating were we to try and conceal the deed."

    Gently stroking his cooling lascarbine, Xerros looks back up at them, then to Harl Kandor.

    "Statement: The Omnissiah condemns."

  23. - Top - End - #263
    Troll in the Playground
     
    OrcBarbarianGuy

    Join Date
    Nov 2012

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Luis removes his arrows from the body as well. "Scavs will come pick them clean soon enough."

  24. - Top - End - #264
    Titan in the Playground
     
    SamuraiGuy

    Join Date
    Mar 2013

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Harl Kandor grunts, giving an affirmative nod, before starting off in the direction that the three gangers had come from.

    The path winds through heaps of rusted machinery and piles of crumbled rockcrete, and mercifully the only sounds are that of the dripping and rushing of toxic waters, and the splashing footsteps of the acolytes.

    The group step out into a wide clearing encircled by towering mounds of garbage, some of which appear to have been re-enforced with makeshift cages of steel rebar and strung up with glo lanterns. Tucked into one of the corners of the clearing is what appears to be a small camp site, with a small flickering fire and three improvised stools where perhaps the three gangers had been just previously huddled.

    Harl shrugs and says, "Well, this is where the fighting took place I believe. It already looks like the Tora have done a bit of clean up since last night." He pauses before adding, "I found the bolt pistol over there, at the base of a pile of trash that likely collapsed over it during the fight." He points over at a small trash heap.
    Spoiler: Games I am Currently Running
    Show
    San Francisco by Night (Vampire the Requiem 2E)

    New Bedford by Night (Werewolf the Forsaken 2E)

    New Orleans by Night (Changeling the Lost 2E)

  25. - Top - End - #265
    Bugbear in the Playground
     
    Goblin

    Join Date
    Jul 2016

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    "Instruction: Spread out and search the area. Explanation: See if there's anything that the gangers missed."

    Moving over to the heap indicated by Kandor, Xerros-926 prods it experimentally with the end of his staff.

  26. - Top - End - #266
    Troll in the Playground
     
    OrcBarbarianGuy

    Join Date
    Nov 2012

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    While Luis wasn't familiar with the strange technologies that these gangers were supposed to be using, he could read tracks well enough. He spent some time trying to see how the battle had played out, and who had come scavenging afterwards.

    Spoiler
    Show
    Visual Calculus: (1d100)[17] v. 25

  27. - Top - End - #267
    Titan in the Playground
     
    SamuraiGuy

    Join Date
    Mar 2013

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Luis begins to survey the scene trying to use his skills in survival and tracking to get a sense for what may have happened during the battle. Despite the fact that the battle scene appears to have been cleaned up recently, he does find splashes of dried blood in several areas of the yard, confirming that there was a large scale battle here recently.

    One area of note is that there seems to be a relatively concentrated smattering of blood flecks and pools in front of and among the rubbish pile, where Kandor indicated he found the rifle. Perhaps direct investigation of this pile might be worthwhile.
    Spoiler: Games I am Currently Running
    Show
    San Francisco by Night (Vampire the Requiem 2E)

    New Bedford by Night (Werewolf the Forsaken 2E)

    New Orleans by Night (Changeling the Lost 2E)

  28. - Top - End - #268
    Barbarian in the Playground
     
    Beholder

    Join Date
    Dec 2012
    Gender
    Male

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Arl stands guard, keeping a lookout for gangers and worse.

  29. - Top - End - #269
    Titan in the Playground
     
    PirateCaptain

    Join Date
    Apr 2012

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    Marcella

    With little in the way of investigatory skills, Marcella kept to the outskirts and "looked" around, using her eyes as her best medium for channelling any sort of result conducive to her groups effort to get to the bottom of this case.

    ooc:
    Perception: (1d100)[35] vs TN 35
    "Of all the words by tongue and pen, by far the saddest are "I could have been...""

    "The first rule of success is to have a vision. You see if you don’t have a vision of where you are going, if you don’t have a goal for where to go, you’ll drift around and never end up anywhere...can you imagine a majority of people don't know where they are going? I knew where I was going!” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

  30. - Top - End - #270
    Titan in the Playground
     
    SamuraiGuy

    Join Date
    Mar 2013

    Default Re: IC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

    While scanning the area, Marcella's ears prick at the distant clattering sounds of metal being shaken. Looking up at the 40 meter high ceiling where the sound came from, she can see that the brick architecture is lined with ventilator grates through which air is allowed to flow, and from which drips the toxic sludge from the mid-hive.

    The sound had definitely been foot steps on grate. Marcella's psychic powers still active, she becomes certain that again there is that familiar presence above. Someone is definitely tracking the acolytes, watching them from afar.
    Spoiler: Games I am Currently Running
    Show
    San Francisco by Night (Vampire the Requiem 2E)

    New Bedford by Night (Werewolf the Forsaken 2E)

    New Orleans by Night (Changeling the Lost 2E)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •