SHOOTER: {Jack, do you want me to shoot at them as they come close?}
JACK: {I was afraid of this. Remember who the captain is, I am just making suggestions. I think we need to combine our attacks on a single target to have the best chance of deterring them from coming back, if not knocking them out. If Tal can grab one and hold it for the others to shoot, we might be able to start evening the odds. I think he still HAS one grabbed, if so, shoot that one. I am going to fight defensively as I move now, since nothing I do can hurt them much without hurting me more.} Jack continues moving toward the bridge as best he can without leaving the group behind, and stays ready to dodge heavily if and when another shadow comes at him.
IANNA: {Shooter, fire if you have an open shot. We need to know our options for hurting these things. Marco, try psionically blasting them. There's very little chance in my mind that they are open to dialog and peaceful coexistence.}
JACK (OOC): I realize that Dasan's uber laser cannon only has a few charges, but I think he's going to need to use them, it's the only thing that's even slowed them down. If we can just stop a couple more maybe they will back off. If they don't, then we have a few less potential attackers.
DASAN(OOC): My plan was to shift back to my laser cannon, because I may have to start pushing my strength to keep standing and firing.
DASAN: {I agree Jake. Marco, let us know when you have one held and where it is. Can you move them to where more of us can get a shot at them?}
ISOBELLA (GM): Just to confirm that there hasn't been a misunderstanding, Isobella struck a shadow with a walking stick, not touching the shadow herself, and still got drained?
GM: That is correct. The black tendrils traveled along the weapon and affected Isobella.
 | DEX | |
| Ianna | 33 | IANNA: When the shadow appears in front of her, the martial artist goes defensive. {Let's keep moving forward as we can but don't get separated.}
TECH: Martial Dodge when attacked |
| Isobella | 33 | ISOBELLA: Isobella continues to move forward, staying with the group while dodging any shadows she can see. She replies on the mental link {I didn't even touch it with my hand, just struck it with my walking stick and it made me feel sick.} |
| Curt | 26 | CURT: Since coming into physical contact with the creatures seems to be bad, I'll do my best to avoid contact with them and continue moving with the group. |
| Tal | 23 | TAL: "Heh. So, they can be hurt after all..."
TAL: Continue to squeeze the Shadow I have a hold of. If it breaks free before Tal's action, he'll use his TK Punch (15d6) to attack the nearest Shadow.
TAL: STR Damage: [rolled 4 3 1 2 2 1 3 2 (3) - Total: 21, Body: 6]
or
TAL: TK Punch Attack roll [rolled 11]; Damage [rolled 6 4 3 4 2 5 6 5 3 5 6 4 6 2 1 - Total: 62, Body: 18] |
| Jack | 20 | |
| Dasan | 20 | DASAN(Tech): Dasan will continue to move with the group and fire when able too. Laser Cannon quick shot OCV 13 DCV 7 [rolled 11] if hit damage [rolled 3 6 2 5 (1) - Total: 17, Body: 5] stun [rolled 3] no KB 14 of 16 charges remaining. |
| Shooter | 20 | SHOOTER: No action until phase 6. |
| Marco | 23 or 18 | MARCO (GM): Not sure if I have an action this Phase, but here's what I want to do next...I'd like to try to contact them, but without telepathy, not sure if I can.
GM: Telepathy can be used to communicate with someone if the target wants to communicate. Basically telepathy is used to pick out mental communications that are targeted at the mentalist. It's academic, however, since Marco does not have Telepathy. His only other means of mental communication is Mind Link which requires that he touch the target, the target is willing and the target is of "human-class of minds".
GM: Beyond that, Marco can attempt one of his 4 attacks: Mental Paralysis, Mind Blast, Mental Entropy or his Svarov Mini.
MARCO: Mind Blast on nearest Shadow (sorry, don't have map tool running on home netbook)
TECH: Mental Attack [rolled 11], Mind Blast [rolled 5 2 1 3 6 6 - Total: 23, Body: 7] END (48) 39-9=30 |
| SHADOW | 24 | Shadow 1 - Attacks Ianna – OCV 10 [rolled 11], Damage 1 [rolled 2 2 (3) - Total: 7], Damage 2 [rolled 1 5 (1) - Total: 7]
Shadow 3 – Attacks Tal – OCV 10 [rolled 6], Damage 1 [rolled 3 6 (1) - Total: 10], Damage 2 [rolled 4 2 (3) - Total: 9] |
Suddenly two more Shadows appear out of the darkness. One stops in front of Ianna and the other in front of Tal.
GM: This happens at the very end of phase 3. Ianna, Isobella, Curt and Marco can all go before the Shadows can attack. The other two shadows are still near Jack and Dasan. The one in front of Dasan is still held in Tal's telekinetic grip.
GM: I already have a mental action for Marco, and Isobella's action indicates she is simply going to move forward and dodge any Shadows. Let me know if Ianna or Curt want to attack.
On Phase 4, Dex 24, the shadow held by Tal flies away, escaping Tal's telekinetic grip. Tal did not feel any pressure, as if the Shadow forced its way out. The Shadow that attacked Jack also flies away while the two new Shadows attack. The first one misses Ianna while the second hits Tal. Tal is drained of 10 points of BODY and 9 points of STR. This translates to -5 BODY and -9 STR.
Knowing that they cannot keep this up, the group attempts to take out the two Shadows. Tal hits one with a telekinetic punch while Dasan hits it with his Laser Cannon and Marco hits it with a Mental Blast. All three attacks seem to have some effect on it, leaving it quivering in place, though not as frozen as the one that Dasan had previously hit. Unfortunately Ianna's warning to Marco proves all too true as Marco feels a mental backlash and suffers [rolled 15] EGO Drain (since EGO costs 2 points per point, the total is cut in half to determine actual EGO drained).
GM: I thought that Marco had protection against mental drain attacks and I was partially correct. He has it as part of his Deployable Mind Shield. Unfortunately it is not up right now because he can't attack when it is up. Next time you get EXP, you should buy a few points of Power Defense with the limitation "only vs mental drains" as it is perfectly in character for Marco).
GM: Go ahead and send me your actions for phases 6 and 7, which is just Ianna, Marco and Shooter.
GM: I moved the group forward. Jack thinks he can see the edge of the platform ahead. He does not see the bridge. Let me know if he wants to turn right or left. |