2017-08-20: A Metal Demon Migration
- Log: A Metal Demon Migration
- Cast: Yarobeleedt, Malfi, Fenrir
- Where: Outside the Guardian Temple
- Date: August 20th, 2017
- Summary: Three worn-down Metal Demon soldiers (and a loyal Metal Beast steed) decide to head west the hard way through the brewing battle between Aveh and Kislev. One of them has something to prove, on a magnitude and basis that would be unthinkable to the others.
DG: A party led by Yarobeleedt is now entering The Battle Front. DG: Party formation is now over. An Entry Challenge will now be drawn and displayed to the party.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>=================================================
========================================<* CHALLENGE - Artillery Bombardment *>=========================================
|Type: Entry |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 3 |
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The vicinity of the Guardian Temple has turned into a full-blown war zone. A
rush of Kislevi forces and a counter-action by Aveh forces have resulted in
an enormous fight between infantry, Gears, and support vehicles. In the
distance, you can make out where the enormous Kislevi-controlled Golem is
sending huge gouts of energy into the ranks of Aveh's forces. This is truly
worrisome, but a more immediate concern presents itself.
One side has chosen this moment to begin an artillery bombardment. Shells
rain down near your position, huge fireballs and blasts of shrapnel hurtling
at you, posing a severe threat as you try to make your way westward.
=Dungeon Conditions: Slow, Suffer=============================================
<Pose Tracker> Yarobeleedt has posed.
Yarobeleedt tumbles about within his cocoon for a while as so many different Drifters - and even some Metal Demons - and hell, at least one Veruni, what the hell - descend inside the Guardian Temple under immense pressure and heavy weapons fire from the ensuing war brewing all around.
Fengalon's influence wanes at last as the freak windstorm deposits Yarobeleedt a ways away from the Guardian Temple. Some of the others will probably rally at the site.
Which is a good thing, because now ARTILLERY BOMBS EVERYWHERE which is to say explosions, so many explosions.
Yarobeleedt probably jumps on someone's back or something to both burden them and spur them on with sheer annoyance (if anyone involved would suffer him).
DG: Yarobeleedt has used its Tool Clutch Harness toward its party's challenge, Artillery Bombardment.
<Pose Tracker> Malfi has posed.
Malfi has commandered a Metal Beast -- a burly, ursine monstrosity -- to serve her as a steed. She has spent the last several hours repairing herself, at least partially. The internal damage has started to heal, but she still has cracks -- CRACKS!! -- in her exoskeleton weeping quicksilver blood. That last Guardian attack had been a doozy. She is going to need a blood replenishment, and right soon. That, or a safe place to sink into a regenerative torpor. Maybe she will find one. In the meantime, at least she's mobile again, even if her batteries are dangerously low. She directs the Beast to avoid the shrapnel. She really needs to get out of here fast!
DG: Malfi has used her Tool Blackest Coffee toward her party's challenge, Artillery Bombardment.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>=================================================
========================================<* CHALLENGE - Artillery Bombardment *>=========================================
|Type: Entry |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 3 |
-----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >-----------------------------------------------
The vicinity of the Guardian Temple has turned into a full-blown war zone. A
rush of Kislevi forces and a counter-action by Aveh forces have resulted in
an enormous fight between infantry, Gears, and support vehicles. In the
distance, you can make out where the enormous Kislevi-controlled Golem is
sending huge gouts of energy into the ranks of Aveh's forces. This is truly
worrisome, but a more immediate concern presents itself.
One side has chosen this moment to begin an artillery bombardment. Shells
rain down near your position, huge fireballs and blasts of shrapnel hurtling
at you, posing a severe threat as you try to make your way westward.
=Dungeon Conditions: Slow, Suffer=============================================
<Pose Tracker> Fenrir has posed.
Well, the temple was disorienting, but gave Fenrir a new purpose. And also so much rage. Dashing from the temple covered in blood and various wounds of all sorts, from flesh-melting to arrow-holes, she snarls at all of the artillery being fired. She needs to slingshot forward...but then, someone leaps on her back.
It's Yarobeleedt, holding on to her, being weird and blobby on her back. "What do you think you're doing?! Get off of me!" Fenrir would throw him off...buut a shell slams right next to them, and she's forced to react faster. Her single left arm transforms into a claw on a chain, which fires out at another shell that's flying midair, pulling her towards it. As soon as she has some height...she let's go, launching herself towards Malfi's direction. "You better not be afraid of heights!" Stated after the fact.
DG: Fenrir has used her Tool Grapple Claw toward her party's challenge, Artillery Bombardment.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>=================================================
========================================<* CHALLENGE - Artillery Bombardment *>=========================================
|Type: Entry |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 3 |
-----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >-----------------------------------------------
The vicinity of the Guardian Temple has turned into a full-blown war zone. A
rush of Kislevi forces and a counter-action by Aveh forces have resulted in
an enormous fight between infantry, Gears, and support vehicles. In the
distance, you can make out where the enormous Kislevi-controlled Golem is
sending huge gouts of energy into the ranks of Aveh's forces. This is truly
worrisome, but a more immediate concern presents itself.
One side has chosen this moment to begin an artillery bombardment. Shells
rain down near your position, huge fireballs and blasts of shrapnel hurtling
at you, posing a severe threat as you try to make your way westward.
=Dungeon Conditions: Slow, Suffer=============================================
============================================<* The Battle Front - Round 1 *>============================================ ==========================================< Results - Artillery Bombardment >=========================================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yarobeleedt 0 --(3)--> 3 Pass Clutch Harness 3 Agility Effects: Rally ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fenrir 0 --(8)--> 8 Fail Grapple Claw 2 Agility Effects: Quicken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Malfi 0 --(4)--> 4 Fail Blackest Coffee 2 Agility Effects: Resilient -------------------------------------------------------< Party >-------------------------------------------------------- Leader: Yarobeleedt 0 --(20)--> 20 Pass Conditions: Slow(2)|Suffer Effects: Quicken(1)|Resilient(1) ===================================================< Dream Chasers >====================================================
DG: The party led by Yarobeleedt has passed this challenge! The party gained 20 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw. DG: Yarobeleedt has drawn a new Challenge.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>================================================= ==========================================<* CHALLENGE - Battalion Crossing *>========================================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 2 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- Some of the forces arrayed on this battlefield are far beyond what an individual Drifter can handle -- or even a dedicated team of them. As you approach, you hear some shouting ahead of you, and the steady clomp of boots on the ground. You may want to find a way to be very inconspicuous -- because rounding the bend of the large hill ahead is a cluster of some hundred soldiers, armed to the teeth and looking for a fight. =Dungeon Conditions: Bad Luck, Wound==========================================
<Pose Tracker> Yarobeleedt has posed.
"Express express!!" Yarobeleedt shouts as he dangles around Fenrir. The slimy worm-serpent thing screeches as Fenrir effectively saves the both of them as she slingshots off a falling artillery shell (WHICH IS BADASS).
Malfi's ride will find itself with some hesitation as an artillery shell blows up out and around them, but ultimately, the three of them pull through. The three Metal Demons (plus loyal Metal Beast steed) all come together on a hill. Maybe they'll discuss the weather, and how everyone is doing, and otherwise have a nice cup of metal tea or whatever--
Except there are now at least a hundred soldiers in an Aveh uniform moving in. One of them seems to be pointing in Malfi's steed's direction. Uh oh. That's a lot. That's a lot more than probably the three of them could take.
Yarobeleedt falls off of Fenrir's back and proceeds to dig a little hole in the ground that he intends to be for himself. The rest could just force their way in with him, unless they have better ideas!
DG: Yarobeleedt has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward its party's challenge, Battalion Crossing.
<Pose Tracker> Malfi has posed.
Unfortunately being inconspicuous wasn't an option. Even if they'd been human, the three travelers would've stood out. Malfi draws herself up to her full height and roars, along with the Metal Beast she's riding. Maybe they can intimidate their way through this! She was in no shape for a fight.
DG: Malfi has used her Tool Portable Scanner toward her party's challenge, Battalion Crossing.
<Pose Tracker> Fenrir has posed.
While they get across...Fenrir sort of faceplants the landing, which is very uncomfortable. Yarobeleedt's fine, but Fenrir's coughing up sand. When she notices Malfi, she grunts at her. "It's you. Damn this entire place. We need to get out of here and find wherever camp is." However, instead of saying more (which was going to probably be saying something to Yaro), Fenrir notices the guards. Huh. Small numbers - she could tear them all apart! For a moment, she muscles towards fighting them...but she remembers what she steeled herself. Celesdue indicated that she thought Fenrir was capable of nothing than murder, didn't she? Well, Fenrir would prove the Guardian wrong.
And Yarobeleedt's approach gives her just the idea. Firing off that claw to a bit away from the guards, Fenrir grabs a huge clump of ground, dirt, sand...and pulls it up, making a large cloud in the direction away from the one they're heading. She retracts the claw before literally jumping into Yaro's hole, possibly landing on his head or rear. "I'll show her! I can do whatever I set my mind to!"
DG: Fenrir has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Battalion Crossing.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>================================================= ==========================================<* CHALLENGE - Battalion Crossing *>========================================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 2 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- Some of the forces arrayed on this battlefield are far beyond what an individual Drifter can handle -- or even a dedicated team of them. As you approach, you hear some shouting ahead of you, and the steady clomp of boots on the ground. You may want to find a way to be very inconspicuous -- because rounding the bend of the large hill ahead is a cluster of some hundred soldiers, armed to the teeth and looking for a fight. =Dungeon Conditions: Bad Luck, Wound==========================================
============================================<* The Battle Front - Round 2 *>============================================ ============================================< Results - Battalion Crossing >============================================ Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yarobeleedt 3 --(4)--> 7 Fail Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fenrir 8 --(3)--> 11 Pass Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Malfi 4 --(1)--> 5 Fail Portable Scanner 2 Wits Effects: Enlighten -------------------------------------------------------< Party >-------------------------------------------------------- Leader: Yarobeleedt 20 --(15)--> 35 Pass Conditions: Bad Luck(2)|Slow(1)|Suffer|Wound(2) Effects: Enlighten(1) ===================================================< Dream Chasers >====================================================
DG: The party led by Yarobeleedt has passed this challenge! The party gained 15 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw. DG: Yarobeleedt has drawn a new Challenge.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>=================================================
=========================================<* CHALLENGE - A Malevolent Soldier *>=========================================
|Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 3 |
-----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >-----------------------------------------------
As you approach, you find a place where the fighting has stopped. A dozen
soldiers lay dead. One, however, still stands. She staggers, as though she
may be wounded... and then she turns her head to look at you. If you can see
spiritual power, you see the purple, cloying light of Malevolence roiling
off her.
Then, she shrieks, and her form distends into that of a lizardman's. She
lopes at you, rushing on all fours across the battle -- and leaps, swinging
a fist so hard it defies logic. The battle is joined!
=Dungeon Conditions: Wound, Overwhelm=========================================
<Pose Tracker> Malfi has posed.
Malfi assumes a defensive stance, ready to impale the lizard-thing. She cannot see Malevolence unless it is overwhelming.
DG: Malfi has contributed a Combat Basic Action toward her party's challenge, A Malevolent Soldier.
<Pose Tracker> Yarobeleedt has posed.
Malfi's creature's roaring does nothing to dissuade the lot of them on the whole. There's enough scared, angry humans with ARM weapons to start lining up pot shots at them, when Fenrir's quick thinking gives them all the cover they need to keep moving, keep going - Yarobeleedt's tunnel seems like it's only good for someone his size. Maybe the idea of having the other two follow in some form or another is a happy accident.
ONE TUNNEL TRIP LATER
Yarobeleedt comes up, screeching something about sand in places that should not be discussed openly. He sees a few dead soldiers. He stabs them, as though stabbing already dead soldiers are to make him look tough.
"Fufufu! No match. No light!" He wheezes. Like the others, he is wounded.
...One of the soldiers rises, a young woman with a weird look in her eyes as she clutches her chest. She draws a hand out from the back of another soldier, dripping with blood in ways that doesn't look like it ought to make sense.
She screams, and her body structure twists in ways without explanation, before going to all fours and trying to leap at the three of them!
It's a great thing Yarobeleedt has burrowed again, no doubt to turn this ambush into a pincer attack by leaping at her from behind - maybe... any second now would be good, Yarobeleedt.
...Where's Yarobeleedt?
...Well, poo.
MALFI FENRIR DO SOMETHING AAAAAAAAAAAAA
DG: Yarobeleedt has used its Tool Sheet Cocoon toward its party's challenge, A Malevolent Soldier.
<Pose Tracker> Fenrir has posed.
Fenrir leaps out of the tunnel instead of trying to figure out a way to crawl though it, instead following Yarobeleedt's tunneling noises towards his destination as the soldiers are distracted. When he pops out, she moves to grab him. "Why the hell are you stabbing corpses? Stop wasting strength, you already look worn out enough as it is." This is...'compassion', right? Yelling at people to do better? Another human trait! "Can't have you dying he-"
And then, a human soldier comes at them...and turns into a monster, charging at them. Yarobeleedt ducks into a hole, but he's...not doing anything down there, and Malfi's not on the offensive. Well then. Fenrir kicks dirt into Yarobeleedt's new hole to spite him, before turning her grappleclaw into a regular claw and leaping at the lizard, trying to smash it in the face. "Over here!", she shouts to Malfi, "Strike it at the throat! I'll rip the rest of it to pieces."
This one is 'teamwork', which she also doesn't understand. Humans have silly ideas.
DG: Fenrir has contributed a Combat Basic Action toward her party's challenge, A Malevolent Soldier.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>=================================================
=========================================<* CHALLENGE - A Malevolent Soldier *>=========================================
|Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 3 |
-----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >-----------------------------------------------
As you approach, you find a place where the fighting has stopped. A dozen
soldiers lay dead. One, however, still stands. She staggers, as though she
may be wounded... and then she turns her head to look at you. If you can see
spiritual power, you see the purple, cloying light of Malevolence roiling
off her.
Then, she shrieks, and her form distends into that of a lizardman's. She
lopes at you, rushing on all fours across the battle -- and leaps, swinging
a fist so hard it defies logic. The battle is joined!
=Dungeon Conditions: Wound, Overwhelm=========================================
============================================<* The Battle Front - Round 3 *>============================================ ===========================================< Results - A Malevolent Soldier >=========================================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yarobeleedt 7 --(17)--> 24 Fail Sheet Cocoon 1 Combat Effects: Cleanse ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fenrir 11 --(20)--> 31 Fail Fight 0 Combat Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Malfi 5 --(21)--> 26 Fail Fight 0 Combat Effects: BASIC -------------------------------------------------------< Party >-------------------------------------------------------- Leader: Yarobeleedt 35 --(10)--> 45 Fail Conditions: Bad Luck(1)|Overwhelm|Suffer|Wound(2) Effects: Cleanse ===================================================< Dream Chasers >====================================================
DG: The party led by Yarobeleedt has failed this challenge! The party gained 10 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw. DG: Yarobeleedt has drawn a new Challenge.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>================================================= =======================================<* CHALLENGE - Caught in the Crossfire *>======================================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 1 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- Your westward flight is interrupted -- because as you run into this section of the battlefield, you find yourself moving between a line of Kislevi and Aveh infantry. Armed with gunsmoke ARMs, the two are firing on each other, sending bursts of gunfire into their ranks. They are behind trenches hastily dug, but you aren't so lucky. While they aren't aiming for you, bullets come whizzing by your head, threatening to shoot you down. =Dungeon Conditions: Injure===================================================
<Pose Tracker> Yarobeleedt has posed.
There is really no explaining what the two of them are seeing. They have never seen a human fight like this before. They have never seen a human even move like this before. They've also never seen a human look like that before, so, um... what the hell is it? Whatever it is, it proves too much for the three of them. Their only hope is to run, run, run. There are no witnesses to this. They don't ever have to bring this frightening change of pace to light with anyone, ever again.
So basically Yarobeleedt had the right idea all along. Also, the tunnel is a bit slimier than usual, take that as one will.
At some point, the tunneling comes to an end because this part of the battlefield has far too many large solid chunks of rock, and Yarobeleedt is forced to surface.
Bullets fly overhead from a multitude of gunsmoke ARM weapons firing, as Aveh and Kislevi infantry have it out behind their individual trenches. There is no choice but to run through, one way or the other.
So Yarobeleedt leaps on Malfi to have her carry him through.
"Seven and four-fifths of ten?! It is too much sand." ...Whatever that's supposed to mean.
DG: Yarobeleedt has used its Tool Clutch Harness toward its party's challenge, Caught in the Crossfire.
<Pose Tracker> Malfi has posed.
Malfi grunts as Yarobeleedt lands on top of her. She quickly redirects him to a position on the Beast behind her. Unfortunately the Beast isn't wearing any kind of saddle, so it's awkward going. She pushes the Beast into a trot. "Fenrir! Can you keep up?" If only all three of them could ride!
DG: Malfi has used her Tool Blackest Coffee toward her party's challenge, Caught in the Crossfire.
<Pose Tracker> Fenrir has posed.
Oh my god what is that thing. Fenrir runs for...whatever it is, it isn't human so it's okay to not fight back, obviously. While they flee, though, Fenrir continues to not actually go down the tunnel but instead try and track it, especially now that it's covered in slime and she doesn't want to touch anything Yarobeleedt excreted.
And then there's more soldiers. Nothing easy to grapple over...running forward is dangerous with her wounds...and then Malfi calls out to her, carrying Yaro on the Metal Beast. That's where Fenrir gets an idea, as she grabs the flattest, largest rock she can find...and jumps on it.
And then she shifts her arm back into a grapple claw, positions to balance, and fires it to grab onto the rear of the Metal Beast as it gallops ahead. "I'll be fine! Does your steed have the strength to pull my ride?" Skateboarding: Metal Demon Style.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>================================================= =======================================<* CHALLENGE - Caught in the Crossfire *>======================================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 1 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- Your westward flight is interrupted -- because as you run into this section of the battlefield, you find yourself moving between a line of Kislevi and Aveh infantry. Armed with gunsmoke ARMs, the two are firing on each other, sending bursts of gunfire into their ranks. They are behind trenches hastily dug, but you aren't so lucky. While they aren't aiming for you, bullets come whizzing by your head, threatening to shoot you down. =Dungeon Conditions: Injure===================================================
<Pose Tracker> Malfi has posed.
"I guess we'll find out!" Malfi calls, as Fenrir rock-surfs!
DG: Fenrir has used her Tool Grapple Claw toward her party's challenge, Caught in the Crossfire.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>================================================= =======================================<* CHALLENGE - Caught in the Crossfire *>======================================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 1 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- Your westward flight is interrupted -- because as you run into this section of the battlefield, you find yourself moving between a line of Kislevi and Aveh infantry. Armed with gunsmoke ARMs, the two are firing on each other, sending bursts of gunfire into their ranks. They are behind trenches hastily dug, but you aren't so lucky. While they aren't aiming for you, bullets come whizzing by your head, threatening to shoot you down. =Dungeon Conditions: Injure===================================================
============================================<* The Battle Front - Round 4 *>============================================ =========================================< Results - Caught in the Crossfire >========================================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yarobeleedt 24 --(4)--> 28 Pass Clutch Harness 3 Agility Effects: Rally ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fenrir 31 --(4)--> 35 Pass Grapple Claw 2 Agility Effects: Quicken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Malfi 26 --(5)--> 31 Pass Blackest Coffee 2 Agility Effects: Resilient -------------------------------------------------------< Party >-------------------------------------------------------- Leader: Yarobeleedt 45 --(20)--> 65 Pass Conditions: Injure(2) Effects: Quicken(1)|Resilient(1) ===================================================< Dream Chasers >====================================================
DG: The party led by Yarobeleedt has passed this challenge! The party gained 20 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw. DG: Yarobeleedt has drawn a new Challenge.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>================================================= ===========================================<* CHALLENGE - Artillery Flare *>============================================ |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 2 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- As you make your way westward, you find an Aveh soldier who has been shot dead. He has a pair of large tubes, which have the word "ARTILLERY" printed on the side. These tubes hold flares, used to signal artillery emplacements and indicate where they should open fire. Careful use of these could cause Aveh's artillery to hit a point you desire -- to clear the way, perhaps. Of course, doing so improperly could draw fire... or attention from Aveh's soldiers. =Dungeon Conditions: Treasure, Injure, Stupify================================
<Pose Tracker> Yarobeleedt has posed.
As it so happens, there doesn't need to be a fancy trick here. Malfi, Yarobeleedt, and Fenrir are metal abominations long thought lost, now in the flesh and the quicksilver blood. The very sight of the three of them rolling down the center is enough to get both sides to hold fire - and even scatter. Raw intimidation factor plays a fine part in seeing the three of them go through unscathed, as Malfi leads on with her steed, Fenrir surfs from behind, and Yarobeleedt is in the middle screaming and hooting and hollering the entire time.
This continues for a while until they come across an archaic (by Metal Demon standards) artillery tubes. Yarobeleedt falls off of Malfi's steed and comes rolling on top of a dead soldier before coming to a stop before the very tubes.
"Oh? Is this ^Celebration Gun^?!" Yarobeleedt comes upright, sitting atop the dead soldier as to not have to sit on sand. He grinds his forearms together with noxious scraping noises. "Fufufu. Silly, silly humans. Leafing it en garded."
The craven worm already is formulating a plan, as he dumps some loads into the tubes. "Fire ^Celebration Gun^ at stupid humans! Is fault of theirs." This sounds tantalizing - destroying scores of humans by pointing artillery fire at them. There are many targets. It would be a boon.
Is this a tactic that Malfi and Fenrir stand for? If not, now is the time to voice objections... or to use firmer force.
DG: Yarobeleedt has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward its party's challenge, Artillery Flare.
<Pose Tracker> Malfi has posed.
Malfi steps forward and confiscates the flares. "We should save these for later in case we need them. The humans aren't going anywhere." She is prepared to face Yarobeleedt's screeches and squawks of protest. She also takes this chance to allow her steed to rest; it's out of breath after that last escapade! Even though Metal Beasts are considered expendable, she has no intention of pushing it to its demise.
DG: Malfi has used her Tool Portable Scanner toward her party's challenge, Artillery Flare.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>================================================= ===========================================<* CHALLENGE - Artillery Flare *>============================================ |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 2 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- As you make your way westward, you find an Aveh soldier who has been shot dead. He has a pair of large tubes, which have the word "ARTILLERY" printed on the side. These tubes hold flares, used to signal artillery emplacements and indicate where they should open fire. Careful use of these could cause Aveh's artillery to hit a point you desire -- to clear the way, perhaps. Of course, doing so improperly could draw fire... or attention from Aveh's soldiers. =Dungeon Conditions: Treasure, Injure, Stupify================================
<Pose Tracker> Fenrir has posed.
Fenrir sees the flares. Explosives...could take out the humans. Yarobeleedt has a point. One solid strike, and they're down. It'd be slightly dishonorable, however, and...
<"I'll show you! Just you wait!">
Fenrir grabs a flare and puts it in the flare gun, before Malfi can confiscate all of them. She points it, and she aims. But the shot isn't towards any humans - it's towards an empty area not far from them. She's going to lure away both the artillery, and distract the humans from noticing them, as she barks at Yarobeleedt. "Dig a bigger hole, one that'll fit both of us easily. Otherwise, I'll fire the next shot at your tunnel path." Threats! It's better than any other ideas she'd have, because Fenrir doesn't think things through too clearly.
DG: Fenrir has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Artillery Flare.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>================================================= ===========================================<* CHALLENGE - Artillery Flare *>============================================ |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 2 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- As you make your way westward, you find an Aveh soldier who has been shot dead. He has a pair of large tubes, which have the word "ARTILLERY" printed on the side. These tubes hold flares, used to signal artillery emplacements and indicate where they should open fire. Careful use of these could cause Aveh's artillery to hit a point you desire -- to clear the way, perhaps. Of course, doing so improperly could draw fire... or attention from Aveh's soldiers. =Dungeon Conditions: Treasure, Injure, Stupify================================
============================================<* The Battle Front - Round 5 *>============================================ =============================================< Results - Artillery Flare >============================================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yarobeleedt 28 --(7)--> 35 Pass Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fenrir 35 --(11)--> 46 Fail Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Malfi 31 --(5)--> 36 Pass Portable Scanner 2 Wits Effects: Enlighten -------------------------------------------------------< Party >-------------------------------------------------------- Leader: Yarobeleedt 65 --(15)--> 80 Fail Conditions: Injure(2)|Stupify(2)|Treasure(1) Effects: Enlighten(1) ===================================================< Dream Chasers >====================================================
DG: The party led by Yarobeleedt has failed this challenge! The party gained 15 exploration! If anyone needs to use party management commands, do so now. Otherwise, the next round's GM may begin the next round with +dungeon/draw. DG: Yarobeleedt has drawn a new Challenge.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>=================================================
========================================<* CHALLENGE - The Shattered Landship *>========================================
|Type: Final |Dungeon Ability: Brute |Challenge Rating: 2 |
-----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >-----------------------------------------------
The Golem Sado has dominated the battlefield in the distance. A fully armed
and operation Golem is a terror to behold, and the violet, snake-like
machine towers over the battlefield. Gears lay scattered and shattered
around it, and periodically, a beam of energy lances across the ground and
burns something from existence. That happens now, as a land battleship from
Aveh hurls through the air.
It has been blasted through and burnt -- and it smashes into the very ground
before you. It shatters apart into so much debris, and makes a huge mountain
of fiery wreckage. You cannot possibly clear it.
But you must climb, hack, and cut your way through -- because on the other
side is a final escape from the battlefield.
=Dungeon Conditions: Wound====================================================
<Pose Tracker> Yarobeleedt has posed.
Yarobeleedt screeches and waves around his weapon-arms like he might want to claw off Malfi's face as she takes the ammo away from him. A short-lived slap fight later (a 'slap fight' by 'alien metal abomination' stnadards, anyway), Fenrir lays down the law as she says in no uncertain terms that they will be taking another option.
"Y???" Yarobeleedt screams, as the artillery rounds are signaled somewhere harmless. "Butt butt butt butt... k-kill humans?? Why not kill humans?! Is bester plan! Is bestest plan. What words!!" Yaro whines, but they have a bigger problem.
Artillery blows up enough of a nearby landscape that a moving squad now has clear line of sight of a bunch of Metal Demons, and they're lining up to fire. Yarobeleedt has no choice but to comply and burrow, burrow, burrow to get the three of them through.
Abruptly, a short while later, a great shake of the very earth halts their progress, as huge chunks of burning metal and twisted steel stab into the ground them. They can't burrow any deeper (Yaro has tried... many times).
Surfacing, they are now surrounded by great burning wreckage. The only way out... is to punch through the wreckage. Through, and upwards. There is no other way.
Yarobeleedt tries to go under again, though that is already futile. Someone else will need to set that record straight.
DG: Yarobeleedt has contributed a Brute Basic Action toward its party's challenge, The Shattered Landship.
<Pose Tracker> Malfi has posed.
Malfi uses her lance to poke and prod the wreckage, moving things aside as best she can. She sees to it that the Metal Beast keeps its distance: it's not intelligent enough to plot a way through the burning ship. "Careful of the fires!" she calls.
DG: Malfi has contributed a Brute Basic Action toward her party's challenge, The Shattered Landship.
<Pose Tracker> Fenrir has posed.
Yarobeleedt's argument falls onto that part of Fenrir's brain that still sees humans as needing to die...but she has a challenge ahead of her. "What will it serve us right now? What's the point when we're all injured?" She climbs through Yaro's tunnel, and then sees the wreckage. The others aren't trying to burrow through it, but Fenrir sees an absolutely simple plan. She grabs Yaro by the scruff so he doesn't get lost, and then glances at Malfi. "Follow my lead. We're gonna smash a hole through'.
Fenrir's arm starts to grow into a massive claw. Soon, it's as long as she is, and she drops Yaro as it grows only to scoop him up by his upper torso, before looking at the mountain. "I AM CLEVER AND CAPABLE OF DOING THINGS WITHOUT VIOLENCE! PUNCHING MOUNTAINS IS NOT VIOLENT!" Fenrir shouts at seemingly no one in particular, smashing her fist into the mountain. Yarobeleedt's going to feel that, but if he's lucky, he'll be able to squirm out of her grasp as she continues to leap up and punch. Leap and punch. Dig her way to the heavens!
DG: Fenrir has used her Tool Smasher Claw toward her party's challenge, The Shattered Landship.
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>=================================================
========================================<* CHALLENGE - The Shattered Landship *>========================================
|Type: Final |Dungeon Ability: Brute |Challenge Rating: 2 |
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The Golem Sado has dominated the battlefield in the distance. A fully armed
and operation Golem is a terror to behold, and the violet, snake-like
machine towers over the battlefield. Gears lay scattered and shattered
around it, and periodically, a beam of energy lances across the ground and
burns something from existence. That happens now, as a land battleship from
Aveh hurls through the air.
It has been blasted through and burnt -- and it smashes into the very ground
before you. It shatters apart into so much debris, and makes a huge mountain
of fiery wreckage. You cannot possibly clear it.
But you must climb, hack, and cut your way through -- because on the other
side is a final escape from the battlefield.
=Dungeon Conditions: Wound====================================================
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>=================================================
========================================<* CHALLENGE - The Shattered Landship *>========================================
|Type: Final |Dungeon Ability: Brute |Challenge Rating: 2 |
-----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >-----------------------------------------------
The Golem Sado has dominated the battlefield in the distance. A fully armed
and operation Golem is a terror to behold, and the violet, snake-like
machine towers over the battlefield. Gears lay scattered and shattered
around it, and periodically, a beam of energy lances across the ground and
burns something from existence. That happens now, as a land battleship from
Aveh hurls through the air.
It has been blasted through and burnt -- and it smashes into the very ground
before you. It shatters apart into so much debris, and makes a huge mountain
of fiery wreckage. You cannot possibly clear it.
But you must climb, hack, and cut your way through -- because on the other
side is a final escape from the battlefield.
=Dungeon Conditions: Wound====================================================
============================================<* The Battle Front - Round 6 *>============================================ ==========================================< Results - The Shattered Landship >========================================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yarobeleedt 35 --(4)--> 39 Pass Force 0 Brute Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fenrir 46 --(3)--> 49 Pass Smasher Claw 3 Brute Effects: Rally ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Malfi 36 --(6)--> 42 Pass Force 0 Brute Effects: BASIC -------------------------------------------------------< Party >-------------------------------------------------------- Leader: Yarobeleedt 80 --(35)--> 115 Pass Conditions: Injure(1)|Stupify(1)|Wound(2) Effects: ===================================================< Dream Chasers >====================================================
DG: You have overcome the dungeon's trials! This run is a success! DG: The party led by Yarobeleedt has successfully explored The Battle Front!
=================================================<* The Battle Front *>=================================================
============================================<* CHALLENGE - The Lucky Find *>============================================
|Type: Discovery |Dungeon Ability: Conclusion|Challenge Rating: 1 |
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As you tear your way through the battleship, you come to a room that has not
been shattered. The hangar is damaged and burnt, but a small number of Gears
sit here. They are largely unharmed -- though unarmed, and they will need
some repairs before they could be used in combat. However, the engines are
active, and you could use these to force your way out.
OOC: Congratulations! You may each do some +request work to repair these
Gears and make them serviceable for a fight, if you wish.
=Dungeon Conditions: Treasure=================================================
<Pose Tracker> Yarobeleedt has posed.
Yarobeleedt claws at the sandy earth as he tries to fight out of Fenrir's grasp, but it is useless. There is no stopping Fenrir's fiery determination to prove herself. No amount of 'nonononono' will save him. Not even the part where he begs for ^Creature Creature^ to remove him as a feature to this very stunt, as Fenrir releases the snake-worm-thing anyway.
Malfi doesn't need to poke and prod. Fenrir just outright demolishes much of the wreckage. Outside, several Kislevi soldiers looking to pick up a fresh bunch of POWs - no less than twenty men (and women) - halt in their tracks as they see the fires and the explosions mount where someone, or something, completely demolishes chunks of the wreckage.
They decide they want none of that, and flee.
Fenrir smashes through into a (sort of) intact hangar, filled with a number of undeployed Gears in which to take. As Fenrir states, all three of them are wounded. The Gears do not appear to have any weapons bolted on board, but they still yet function. If any one of them knows how to turn it on - or are willing to dumb their way through and guess - they might have themselves a ride clear of the battlefield.
Yarobeleedt wraps himself around one of the Gear legs just to get away from Fenrir.
<Pose Tracker> Malfi has posed.
"You're strong," Malfi remarks to Fenrir. "I saw you fight in the Guardian Temple against Claude and that blue-haired, pointy-eared girl. Could we possibly spar sometime? I need to get stronger." No doubt about that: she was recently defeated by ONE HUMAN. The SHAME! She waits for Fenrir's answer before going to examine a likely Gear to transport her home. She is looking for one that can also hold her steed. She hopes she can figure out how to operate it...
<Pose Tracker> Fenrir has posed.
Fenrir ignores Yarobeleedt's pleas, only dropping him because he's slippery and gross. When she smashes into the hangar, she deshifts her claw into a regular arm, trying to shake off the slime. There's a look to Malfi...and a grin. "Definitely. I need all the training I can get too...I've gotta show everyone." Fenrir begins climbing into a Gear, gets herself into the cockpit...
And presses all the buttons until it starts working. She has no idea how to drive this thing.
<Pose Tracker> Malfi has posed.
Malfi climbs into a suitable Gear after encouraging her steed to board. How, exactly, did one drive these things? She examines the control console carefully. Good, most of the buttons and switches were clearly labeled...
<Pose Tracker> Yarobeleedt has posed.
The Gears in question start to roar to life.
As for Yarobeleedt, he's clinging to the leg of it still. This particular model of Gear has thrusters around the hindquarter area. This means Yarobeleedt is subject to scorching engine exhaust.
His screeches are drowned out by harsh engine noises. It's time to fly.
Which Gear in specific he's sticking to is irrelevant, just enjoy roasting Yarobeleedts under an open fire.
Two Gears blast out the damaged hangar to escape into the unkind desert sun, further and further away from the fighting below.