2018-02-18: Another Year, Another Bar Brawl
- Log: Another Year, Another Bar Brawl
- Cast: Ethius Hesiod, Sephilia Lampbright, Lunata Croze, Shalune Amira, Jacqueline Barber
- Where: Gunsmoke Desert
- Date: February 18th, 2018
- Summary: Just another ordinary day on Filgaia... heck, let's go as far as to say it's just another ordinary year on Filgaia where a bar erupts into an out-of-control brawl. (Happy first anniversary to Dream Chasers MUSH!)
=================================================<* Gunsmoke Desert *>================================================== The Gunsmoke Desert occupies the northwestern portion of Ignas. This desert is different from Aveh's. Instead of rolling dunes of sand, it has dry and cracked ground, and the mountains that rim it also intrude into the interior, forming stunning rock formations that can look as beautiful as they look impossible. The settlements here are hard-pressed to survive, consisting of countless small towns. The lucky few are connected by railways to the Seed Cities scattered about the Gunsmoke. Many are lost to the sands, which cover them and a tremendous concentration of ruins from Filgaia's past. This makes these badlands the heart of Drifter activity in Ignas. BGM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z_CxmE0AkA
================================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>================================================
==========================================<* November City Plant - Round 6 *>=========================================== ============================================<* CHALLENGE - Cutting Words *>============================================= |Type: Entry |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 1 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- It begins the way that it always begins in Filgaia's many saloons. A Drifter, wearing a cowboy hat and with more liquid courage than sense, makes an estimation about the legitimacy of another Drifter's ancestry and the nature of their mother's relations with various barnyard animals. The room goes quiet. A fist is raised. If you move quickly, you can get out of the way before the first bottle or bullet flies. =Dungeon Conditions: Stupify==================================================
<Pose Tracker> Ethius Hesiod has posed.
Ah, a bar in Filgaia. There are high bars for entry when it comes to a memorable barfight. This one, well, if there were a bar exam for this sort of thing... let's bar the present narration from any further jokes here. They'd be awful, bar none.
Like that one.
Ethius sits with that same mug of beer he's had for who knows how long now, never actually bringing it to his lips. The neglected drink sits there as he sits there listening to the local chatter as he was prone to in the times when he wasn't firmly attached to the merchant group he seems to play both as a boon and a curse to.
"'m back!!" Slurs some guy in a cowboy hat, throwing the doors open.
"It's been a year." The barkeep scowls as he cleans out a glass. "Here to pay your tab?"
The newly arrived doesn't answer, instead sitting down at a table where poker is being played. Figures, the barkeep thinks. He's a patient sort, though. If the guy just racks up a bigger tab, that means he gets paid more eventually, right?
He is not a smart sort. But he is a patient sort. He'll wait another year.
As far as the next minute goes, the first minute of this future year is concerned, there's a quick round of poker going on over there. So quick and hasty that the drunken fellow doesn't even bother to check and see that the trick cards he brought have backsides that match the deck in use.
"You cheat!" Scowls a less drunk gambler.
"N'aww, y'all are cheatin', I'm not, 'cuz my caaaards match, yers don't, sooo... whole deck is cheatin'... pay up~"
There's the click of an ARM. Another guy grabs a bottle.
One thing leads to another. And then...
DG: Ethius Hesiod has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward his party's challenge, Cutting Words.
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephilia Lampbright overhears the offending comment and perks up. "Hi, I'm Sephilia Lampbright! My Dad's a famous explorer, and in his journal he talks ab--oh. Uh, maybe...maybe I'll just be...over here...reading." She backs away at the glares both Drifters have shot at her.
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Cutting Words.
<Pose Tracker> Lunata Croze has posed.
It doesn't seem like more than a few mere months ago that you'd see Lunata Croze holding a serving tray and turning with a warm smile as you enter, expressing, "Welcome to the Starfall Saloon!" and a vivid charm as she leads you towards the nearest available booth. Ah, how times have changed...
A ne'er-do-well flies in through the swinging doors, crashing against a nearby table as he rolls over with a droopy groan and murmurs, "Death... Waitress..."
A not terribly tall figure is silhouetted by the sun at the doorway, fists clenched as she hisses, "No one skips out on their tab. No one."
Her face is a little bit red, and she might've had a few under her at this point in time. How did it come to this, you ask? Well...
NOT TOO LONG AGO
"Maybe I'll try one of Jay's drinks? It's not super alcoholic, right? And there's vanilla and such in it--"
NOW
Orochi-Agito is unsheathed as she waves the ornate blade with all of the care of a pirate swinging her scimitar around. She declares in a voice too loud, stomping over towards the poker table, "You're all cheaters, and I'm here to be your judge!"
DG: Lunata Croze has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Cutting Words.
<Pose Tracker> Shalune Amira has posed.
Shalune is giggling to herself. She hasn't stopped giggling for some time. It's not a loud noise, just a persistent one, and her shoulders shake gently as she stretches her arms out on the bar, perched on a bar stool and hunched over a mug she might still be a little too young to really appreciate.
The crash behind her doesn't make her perk up in the least, but the voice certainly does - she blinks and swivels around so fast she nearly tips off, her arms up in a bright greeting. "--Lunie! Lunie, Lunie," she calls over the abrupt silence, bobbing a little from side to side unsteadily. "I realized Ge-Ge would love it here! It's all full of--"
There's a pause, and she's right back to unstoppable giggling, which kind of makes her answer wobble. "--spirits!"
At least Shalune isn't so drunk that she can't perk up in surprise and alarm as Lunata draws her sword, though, some semblance of sobriety spiking through the warm pink fuzz she's been covered in for the past while. "W-wah--" she blurts under her breath, and then whines out an 'aw mannnn...' as her hand drops for her belt.
The advantage of modding your bizarre technology shotstaff so that it collapses down into a small rod is that it suddenly becomes so much easier to concealed carry. Shalune is part of the problem.
DG: Shalune Amira has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Cutting Words. ================================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>================================================
==========================================<* November City Plant - Round 6 *>=========================================== ============================================<* CHALLENGE - Cutting Words *>============================================= |Type: Entry |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 1 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- It begins the way that it always begins in Filgaia's many saloons. A Drifter, wearing a cowboy hat and with more liquid courage than sense, makes an estimation about the legitimacy of another Drifter's ancestry and the nature of their mother's relations with various barnyard animals. The room goes quiet. A fist is raised. If you move quickly, you can get out of the way before the first bottle or bullet flies. =Dungeon Conditions: Stupify================================================== -------------------------------------------------------< TOOLS >-------------------------------------------------------- |Player |Tool |Lvl|Ability|Effects | |Ethius Hesiod |Investigate |0 |Wits | | |Lunata Croze |Investigate |0 |Wits | | |Jacqueline Barber | | | | | |Sephilia Lampbright |Investigate |0 |Wits | | |Shalune Amira |Investigate |0 |Wits | | ===================================================< Dream Chasers >====================================================
<Pose Tracker> Jacqueline Barber has posed.
It was just supposed to be a simple business deal. Meeting up with a jeweler she knew, to discuss the matter of some jewelry she had obtained the other day... Quick and simple. She'd be back before dinner.
Things were going well, until...
The Death Waitress.
"L-Lunata!?" Jacqueline says in surprise, bolting up from her chair. "Wh-what are you...? What happened...?"
And oh hey, Shalune is here, too.
"What happened to you two...?" She says, not knowing that she may indirectly be responsible for this.
Whoops!
And then, of course, all hell breaks loose. Jacqueline ducks under a table and starts moving toward Lunata, hoping she can drag her out of here before anything too crazy happens...
DG: Jacqueline Barber has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Cutting Words.
================================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>================================================ ============================================<* CHALLENGE - Cutting Words *>============================================= |Type: Entry |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 1 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- It begins the way that it always begins in Filgaia's many saloons. A Drifter, wearing a cowboy hat and with more liquid courage than sense, makes an estimation about the legitimacy of another Drifter's ancestry and the nature of their mother's relations with various barnyard animals. The room goes quiet. A fist is raised. If you move quickly, you can get out of the way before the first bottle or bullet flies. =Dungeon Conditions: Stupify==================================================
===========================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) - Round 1 *>=========================================== ==============================================< Results - Cutting Words >=============================================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ethius Hesiod 0 --(10)--> 10 Fail Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lunata Croze 0 --(10)--> 10 Fail Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacqueline Barber 0 --(5)--> 5 Pass Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sephilia Lampbright 0 --(5)--> 5 Pass Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shalune Amira 0 --(5)--> 5 Pass Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC -------------------------------------------------------< Party >-------------------------------------------------------- Leader: Ethius Hesiod 0 --(20)--> 20 Pass Conditions: Stupify(2) Effects: ===================================================< Dream Chasers >====================================================
DG: The party led by Ethius Hesiod 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.
<Pose Tracker> Ethius Hesiod has posed.
It's getting crazy in here, all right, what with the boiling feelings over a terrible cheater and inebriation.
"Pfff, lookit," someone laughs at Lunata. "Girl thinks she's some kinda Lululu Wait!" There is much laughter and knee slapping in her direction. If only they knew.
"Aw, ain't we cute," comes a big burly fellow with a huge bushy beard and a whole lot of missing teeth, who... kneels down before Sephy with hands on his knees, which is crazy because she's not that little. "Where yer ma and pa at?" He seems genuine and sincere enough, as far as bar-dwelling lowlives go...
A bunch of people laugh at Shalune's joke, which is kind of weird, as one of them taps the nearby table to call for attention. "Uh, why're we laughin'? What's a... Ge-Ge? I dun getit." ...Moving on.
Jay will find that the person she's negotiating with is also going under the table. They can continue to deal there.
Bullets fly. Ethius expertly sways and twists himself as he moves towards Jay with intent to try and pull her out from all this, but just as he stretches his hand out, someone beans him on the head with a bottle and spikes him to the ground. He'll probably be okay.
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has drawn a new Challenge.
==============================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>=============================================== =======================================<* CHALLENGE - Broom-Wielding Local *>======================================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 1 | ---------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >---------------------------------------------- Someone standing on a table has decided that he is a master of the Sweeping Broom Style, which no self-respecting country doctor would ever practice. The danger, of course, is not his skill. Rather, his inebriation has led him to feel he is a master of his craft, and he will challenge any who come at him. Such as, in this case, you. He leaps off a table, broomhandle flying for your face! =Dungeon Conditions: Wound, Bad Luck==========================================
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephilia Lampbright is not a child. Insinuating that she is a child is a very good way to make the little urchin get angry. Very good indeed. She's about to tell this guy exactly how she feels about that when she's batted in the face with a broomhandle, flying backwards and knocking over a table.
Everything pauses for a second--that was the cute little girl that just got knocked out of the fight, after all.
Then there comes a strange noise. "Chaunceyyyyyyyyyyy!" growls Sephy. The doll bulges into huge-sized life. Sephilia, clinging to his back as she climbs into the backpack, points at both the guy who thinks she's a kid and the broom-handler. "Those two guys need to learn a lesson in manners! Here's the tutelary folding chair!"
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has used her Tool Folding Chair toward her party's challenge, Broom-Wielding Local.
<Pose Tracker> Lunata Croze has posed.
It should also be noted that despite having her sword, Lunata's suddenly missing its integral component that makes up its black box. Where is Ge-Ge, you might ask?
Well, Jay might, for once, witness an opaque black box shaking in terror underneath the same table her customer is diving under... and, well, when Ethius comes around to save Jay, he would find the cube attempting to hitch a ride on his shoulder too.
"Cheater, cheater! Pants on fire!" is the extent of Lunata's cry in turn, as she starts swinging and--
Pauses at Shalune's joke, and gets distracted for long enough to cackle and say, "Oh, that's a really good one!"
Bullets start flying, and it's by muscle memory that Lunata splits them in two with a hiss. "Thaaat's not sporting--" she stares towards Chauncey, and then towards the guy. "But I'll play along--"
She reaches behind her, and slips the gas mask onto her face with a gasp and a hisssss. She hops on a table, and wobbles for a moment.
"I AM VENGEANCE. I AM... LULULU WAIT!"
Crunch.
"oww i really need to fix this mouth flap"
DG: Lunata Croze has used her Tool Ghastly Gas Mask toward her party's challenge, Broom-Wielding Local.
<Pose Tracker> Ethius Hesiod has posed.
Ethius slowly rises up from the ground as he clutches his bleeding scalp, eyes darting every which way with the expert gaze of someone who must have lived a dangerous life. Where he must account for every angle, every drawn weapon, every person, every movement of a hand, every click of an ARM, every glint of light--
Then he gets beaned in the back of the head by the broom, and down he goes again.
DG: Ethius Hesiod has contributed a Combat Basic Action toward his party's challenge, Broom-Wielding Local.
<Pose Tracker> Shalune Amira has posed.
Shalune started out as a member of the Sweeping Broom style, she'd be the first to admit - and she's only built on it from there. There's a sharp 'clack' as she catches the wooden broom against her metallic shotstaff, and the motion seems to be completely automatic given the way she's too busy gaping over towards Lunata. "L-Lunie, no!! Don't forget about payment plans and stuff like that!" blurts possibly the biggest hypocrite in the room.
She pitches to one side, and for a moment it looks like she's still feeling too wobbly from the drink - except the motion drags the man's broom with her, pivoting both it and him to one side. Judo may or may not exist on Filgaia, but the takedown that culminates with a knee to the torso is surprisingly clean given it's... Shalune, of all people. When did she manage to learn that?
"Jay! You're the only one who can stop her!" she blurts over the sudden and abrupt din of the fight.
<Pose Tracker> Jacqueline Barber has posed.
"I-I'm sorry...I really have to deal with this..." Jacqueline mutters with a sigh. She can't exactly leave Lunata to her own devices, not when she's like, well...
...This.
She soon finds herself accompanied by a familiar black box, which gets a sympathetic pat.
Somewhere nearby, she sees...
"Sephilia?" Jacqueline says, surprised. Oh hey, she was here too...and now Chauncey is huge, and wielding a folding chair. It was as if Chapapanga chose this days, of all days, to mix up the situation as crazily as possible.
Her attention is taken away from this as she hears Shalune shouting at her...and Jacqueline nods.
Right...
Jacqueline takes a deep breath and crawls out from underneath the table, toward the vengeance-driven Lunata.
"H-hey there, Lunata... C-come on, put down the sword and, um...let's calm down a little, hm...?" Jacqueline urges, edging closer to her...inebriated friend.
It's at this point that a fellow wielding a broom accosts her. Which one? Probably both of them. Jacqueline grabs a mug from the nearby table and splashes him in the face, hoping to bring him back to his senses.
But as for Lunata, well...Jacqueline slowly starts extending a hand toward her, trying not to make any sudden movements.
DG: Jacqueline Barber has used her Tool Reliable Repellant toward her party's challenge, Broom-Wielding Local.
<Pose Tracker> Lunata Croze has posed.
Lunie pauses and digests what Shalune says, then states: "VENGEANCE DOES NOT CARE FOR INTEREST-FREE PLANS." Dang, Shalune, you really did a number on that voice scrambler, didn't you?
================================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>================================================ =========================================<* CHALLENGE - Broom-Wielding Local *>========================================= |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 1 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- Someone standing on a table has decided that he is a master of the Sweeping Broom Style, which no self-respecting country doctor would ever practice. The danger, of course, is not his skill. Rather, his inebriation has led him to feel he is a master of his craft, and he will challenge any who come at him. Such as, in this case, you. He leaps off a table, broomhandle flying for your face! =Dungeon Conditions: Wound, Bad Luck==========================================
DG: Shalune Amira has contributed a Combat Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Broom-Wielding Local.
==============================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>=============================================== =======================================<* CHALLENGE - Broom-Wielding Local *>======================================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 1 | ---------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >---------------------------------------------- Someone standing on a table has decided that he is a master of the Sweeping Broom Style, which no self-respecting country doctor would ever practice. The danger, of course, is not his skill. Rather, his inebriation has led him to feel he is a master of his craft, and he will challenge any who come at him. Such as, in this case, you. He leaps off a table, broomhandle flying for your face! =Dungeon Conditions: Wound, Bad Luck==========================================
=========================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) - Round 2 *>========================================== =========================================< Results - Broom-Wielding Local >========================================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ethius Hesiod 10 --(5)--> 15 Fail Fight 0 Combat Effects: BASIC --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lunata Croze 10 --(5)--> 15 Pass Ghastly Gas Mask 1 Combat Effects: Cleanse --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jacqueline Barber 5 --(5)--> 10 Pass Reliable Repellant 2 Combat Effects: Embolden --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sephilia Lampbright 5 --(5)--> 10 Pass Folding Chair 2 Combat Effects: Stalwart --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shalune Amira 5 --(5)--> 10 Fail Fight 0 Combat Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------< Party >------------------------------------------------------ Leader: Ethius Hesiod 20 --(20)--> 40 Pass Conditions: Bad Luck(2)|Stupify(1)|Wound(2) Effects: Cleanse|Embolden(1) ==================================================< Dream Chasers >==================================================
DG: The party led by Ethius Hesiod 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: Lunata Croze has left your party.
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Chauncey lumbers forward, causing shouts of disbelief at the sight, and whacks with his folding chair at the offending brawlers. Then Sephy pauses. "Lunie? Lunie?! JAY? Whoah!"
Bullets fly, are sliced, and people start to panic realizing that oh dear that actually is Lululu Wait; that's a giant fox and...then Lululu chases a retreating brawler outside.
Meanwhile, the brawl carries on around everyone...
<Pose Tracker> Lunata Croze has posed.
Lunata does pause as she listens to Jacqueline's words, and does quiet down because it's Jacqueline and she hinges on her words more than anyone else's... but then some fellow sneaks up behind her to attempt to bash her with a broom--
"VENGEANCE!"
Fortunately, Jay is not helpless and splashes him with water, but she attempts to rear her sword back to cut him--
--and that's when the table caves in under her and she just sprawls on it going:
"Venguuu..."
She climbs to her feet as the people accosting Jay run out, and roars as she keeps chasing after them!!!
DG: Shalune Amira has drawn a new Challenge.
===========================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>=========================== =======================<* CHALLENGE - Table Jumping *>======================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 1 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- The brawl fills the floor, but you see a way out in your attempt to move. If you jump on the tables and hop across a few, you can duck past brawl that has collectively fallen over to punch and kick itself. But, if you miss, you will be back on the floor with an angry mass of people. =Dungeon Conditions: Injure===================================================
<Pose Tracker> Shalune Amira has posed.
Shalune's takedown might have been clean enough, but the man is still about twice the size of your average Lunie, and it's clear that the battle of raw strength is going to be lost. With a yelp, the mechanic totters up and away before her target can get his bearings, squinting as she automatically ducks under a wild punch that isn't exactly meant for her.
"--wait, Lunie!-- uggh," she whines to herself as the crowd presses in to cover Lunata's escape, her hand flicking to one pocket of her coat as she sucks in a breath. The bar is not a tall, high building, and when the Little Dipper erupts out of the crowd at some speed Shalune has to remember to duck low in the scooter's bed. The ceiling scrapes dangerously close, but then she's reached up to the handlebars, revved the strange vehicle, and piloted it directly towards an upper-storey window.
You're supposed to do this to other people, Shalune...!... but it doesn't seem to matter to her, since her focus has immediately gone from 'stopping the barfight' to 'stopping Lunata'. "Jay!" she blurts as she touches down outside, calling back in through the doors. "We're gonna need you for Secret Move Alpha!"
It would help if she'd told anyone what that was.
DG: Shalune Amira has used her Tool Little Dipper toward her party's challenge, Table Jumping.
================================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>================================================ ============================================<* CHALLENGE - Table Jumping *>============================================= |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 1 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- The brawl fills the floor, but you see a way out in your attempt to move. If you jump on the tables and hop across a few, you can duck past brawl that has collectively fallen over to punch and kick itself. But, if you miss, you will be back on the floor with an angry mass of people. =Dungeon Conditions: Injure===================================================
<Pose Tracker> Ethius Hesiod has posed.
Somewhere in the chaos of it all, Ethius gets roughly a third of his bearings back - maybe half - as his left hand touches upon an upturned table for use of pulling himself up. His right hand's back against his bleeding scalp as he considers the situation to a ringing noise in his head. He can see Shalune going up to a window... Lunata yelling in the color red... a giant stuffed fox hitting things with a folding chair... Jay having to cool someone down with a splash from a mug...
High ground. He needs high ground. With decisive movement, Ethius leaps up onto an upright table as he mentally charts his route up to that upper window. His short leaps are deft and sure, nimbly going across a thrown bottle. Someone fires an ARM in the air. Three bullets whiz around him. Dauntless, he tilts his head a bit to the left as a bullet grazes his cheek in a near-miss that he does not dwell upon. With one last table, he crouches down to prepare to leap up with an outstretched hand--
A part of the wooden support structure, damaged by gunfire, breaks apart and falls down to - what else - conk him on the head and send him down into the mass of fists and feet.
DG: Ethius Hesiod has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward his party's challenge, Table Jumping.
<Pose Tracker> Jacqueline Barber has posed.
Lunata pauses for just a moment...but her fury seems to intensify even further as Lunata, angered by someone attacking her, starts chasing them out of the building.
"A-ah! Lunata! Wait...!" Jacqueline says, and starts after her...but soon, the entire floor is filled with unruly patrons, and her path outside is blocked. Shalune, who gets to cheat by flying, yells at her about 'Secret Move Alpha', but...
"'S-Secret Move Alpha'? B-but I don't...!" Jacqueline says. She's cut off by someone shoving her roughly, so she responds by quickly conjuring an earth pillar to carry her upwards and out of danger.
Well, she didn't know 'Secret Move Alpha'...but she could still improvise!
"Excuse me! I think someone dropped their gella purse over there...and it looked rather full! You should pick it up before someone steals it..." Jacqueline says, pointing toward one section of the bar away from the entrance. Maybe, hopefully this would work...!
And from her position she sees...
"Ethius?" She says...right as a support pillar collapses on the man, sending him toppling downward. Jacqueline winces sympathetically.
DG: Jacqueline Barber has used her Tool Rapid Remedy toward her party's challenge, Table Jumping.
================================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>================================================ ============================================<* CHALLENGE - Table Jumping *>============================================= |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 1 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- The brawl fills the floor, but you see a way out in your attempt to move. If you jump on the tables and hop across a few, you can duck past brawl that has collectively fallen over to punch and kick itself. But, if you miss, you will be back on the floor with an angry mass of people. =Dungeon Conditions: Injure===================================================
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephy and Chauncey are just stomping around right now. There's nothing agile about it, in particular. It seems to be doing okay for them? Maybe?
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has contributed a Agility Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Table Jumping.
===========================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>=========================== =======================<* CHALLENGE - Table Jumping *>======================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Agility |Challenge Rating: 1 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- The brawl fills the floor, but you see a way out in your attempt to move. If you jump on the tables and hop across a few, you can duck past brawl that has collectively fallen over to punch and kick itself. But, if you miss, you will be back on the floor with an angry mass of people. =Dungeon Conditions: Injure===================================================
======================<* Barfight (Filgaia) - Round 3 *>====================== =========================< Results - Table Jumping >========================== Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sephilia Lampbright 10 --(5)--> 15 Pass Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ethius Hesiod 15 --(10)--> 25 Fail Rush 0 Agility Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacqueline Barber 10 --(5)--> 15 Pass Rapid Remedy 1 Agility Effects: Cleanse ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shalune Amira 10 --(5)--> 15 Pass Little Dipper 2 Agility Effects: Quicken ----------------------------------< Party >----------------------------------- Leader: Ethius Hesiod 40 --(20)--> 60 Pass Conditions: Injure(2) Effects: Cleanse|Quicken(1) ==============================< Dream Chasers >===============================
DG: The party led by Ethius Hesiod 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.
<Pose Tracker> Shalune Amira has posed.
The mechanic looks surprisingly better off for wear than expected given that she just ploughed through a window; she shakes off the last of the glass, but it seems like the combination of heavy clothing and the Little Dipper's aerodynamic shape have saved her some nasty cuts. Perhaps she's just feeling headstrong, filled with a certain kind of 'courage'.
Inside, Sephilia runs roughshod over people by virtue of Chauncey's bulk and agility, marking a very rough-and-tumble course through the bar; Ethius isn't nearly as lucky, as the collapsing beam gives the brawl a chance to surge over and past him, further blocking his route out of the tavern.
Jacqueline's distraction works about as well as you'd think given the standard of clientele in the bar; there's an immediate chorus of shouts and cries as part of the mass of people lurches in that direction, everyone and their dog attempting to claim the purse as their own. Literally, in one case, because the most nimble creature in the bar right now is a small, yappy thing that scoops the bag up and begins leading several men on a merry chase.
At Jacqueline's confusion, Shalune just pumps her fists. Maybe she really is still tipsy, because it's rare for her to look this grumpy, even with rosy cheeks. "I mean a hug! You need to hug her better! At least that much!" At least??
DG: Jacqueline Barber has drawn a new Challenge.
===========================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>=========================== =====================<* CHALLENGE - Navigate the Crowd *>===================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 1 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- Moving through the crowd is hard. They surge and struggle, punches flying and friends dropping. But, here and there, like breaks in the storm, there is a gap. It is less about reflexes and more about noticing those openings, then diving for them. You can get through the brawl, if you are careful. =Dungeon Conditions: Slow, Wound==============================================
<Pose Tracker> Jacqueline Barber has posed.
For her part, Jacqueline isn't aware that there was actually a gella pouch over there. She had just thought she was making things up! It's probably better that she doesn't know, as her attention is turned toward Shalune. D-did she say the wrong thing...?
"D-does that really count as a 'Secret Move'...? I mean, I'm fine with that plan, but..." Jacqueline starts to recede her earth pillar...but suddenly, a rather enthusiastic patron bumps into it, causing it to break.
"A-ah!" As the earth pillar tumbles, Jacqueline leaps toward safety, which is the nearest table...which also starts to come dangerously close to falling over.
While she's up here, though, she gestures toward Sephilia and Ethius.
"Come on, I think we might be able to get out through this way..." She says.
...She thinks so, anyway.
DG: Jacqueline Barber has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Navigate the Crowd.
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephy waves and nods at Jay. "Dad always said it's important to leave a brawl before it ends! It's in his journal!" she shouts over the din. "I never really got it until now!"
She sends Chauncey smashing his way towards the others.
It might be possible that she hasn't even noticed Ethius in all this mess. She certainly doesn't seem to be sending him after the guy, so probably.
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has used her Tool Dad's Journal toward her party's challenge, Navigate the Crowd.
<Pose Tracker> Ethius Hesiod has posed.
Ethius looks more wretched than usual as he crawls free of the sprawling brawl with fresh crimson staining his white hair. He looks to Jay with an unfocused look that is almost completely indistinguishable from one of his normal stares, as he edges at a slow clip towards this table.
What is he doing here? Who is it that is pointing at him? When did I get here? How long have I been here? Why is my head bleeding? What are question marks? Is it this! Doesn't this look like a question mark! No! You didn't have to shout?
...Um. Yes.
The mysterious Symbologist crawls onto the table as his skull just barely misses an outstretched Chauncey arm, and a brick, and a weird artifact of a heavy black sphere with three small holes in it, and what looks like someone's sink being thrown all about. All of them come just shy of grazing his head.
(He might be entitled to a captured spell card.)
Then a magic carpet of some kind crashes down from the roof and bonks him in the head before it flops over back into the fighting crowd, where it will be torn apart thread by thread.
Seriously, a magic carpet! From nowhere! Come on! Like that would ever happen in a million years, or even the last year!
DG: Ethius Hesiod has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward his party's challenge, Navigate the Crowd.
<Pose Tracker> Shalune Amira has posed.
"Muu--" whines Shalune as she pumps her fists, but not towards the ongoing brawl so much as Jay's response to her. She's kind of fired up today, made all the easier by the fact she's already managed to escape most of the barfight by sheer dint of cheating. "--of course it counts as a secret move! It's not like a regular hug is gonna calm her down! There'd better be, like-- whispering, and maybe some cooing or somethin'!" ... okay, maybe now that she's out of danger and the adrenaline's draining off, she's starting to remember just how wobbly she was...
DG: Shalune Amira has contributed a Wits Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Navigate the Crowd.
================================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>================================================ ==========================================<* CHALLENGE - Navigate the Crowd *>========================================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 1 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- Moving through the crowd is hard. They surge and struggle, punches flying and friends dropping. But, here and there, like breaks in the storm, there is a gap. It is less about reflexes and more about noticing those openings, then diving for them. You can get through the brawl, if you are careful. =Dungeon Conditions: Slow, Wound==============================================
===========================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>=========================== =====================<* CHALLENGE - Navigate the Crowd *>===================== |Type: Exploration |Dungeon Ability: Wits |Challenge Rating: 1 | --------------------------< Challenge Information: >-------------------------- Moving through the crowd is hard. They surge and struggle, punches flying and friends dropping. But, here and there, like breaks in the storm, there is a gap. It is less about reflexes and more about noticing those openings, then diving for them. You can get through the brawl, if you are careful. =Dungeon Conditions: Slow, Wound==============================================
======================<* Barfight (Filgaia) - Round 4 *>====================== =======================< Results - Navigate the Crowd >======================= Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sephilia Lampbright 15 --(5)--> 20 Pass Dad's Journal 2 Wits Effects: Enlighten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ethius Hesiod 25 --(5)--> 30 Pass Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacqueline Barber 15 --(5)--> 20 Pass Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shalune Amira 15 --(5)--> 20 Pass Investigate 0 Wits Effects: BASIC ----------------------------------< Party >----------------------------------- Leader: Ethius Hesiod 60 --(20)--> 80 Pass Conditions: Slow(2)|Wound(2) Effects: Enlighten(1) ==============================< Dream Chasers >===============================
DG: The party led by Ethius Hesiod 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.
<Pose Tracker> Jacqueline Barber has posed.
Very carefully, the party manages to work their way through the crowd. It helps that their attention is squarely on something else, rather than the party...
...For now.
Except for Ethius, who finds a magic carpet bonking him on the head and bouncing off. It does, however, knock him toward the party, putting all of them(with the exception of Shalune because, again, cheating) in a nice little group that they can use to escape from this place together.
...Right?
"Wh-whispering? Cooing...? I'm...I'm not sure how that'd help... What would I say?" Jacqueline replies, unsure.
There...seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding, here.
DG: Ethius Hesiod has drawn a new Challenge.
================================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>================================================ ==========================================<* CHALLENGE - Ten-Drinks Drifter *>========================================== |Type: Final |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 2 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- The Ten-Drinks Drifter is, of course, the root of this fight. A Drifter who explores the bottom of glasses and bottles, rather than ruins, and investigates the depths of the brewer's trade instead of the mysteries of the past. They swagger and stumble, ARMs spinning wildly. They shout and curse. They fight not you, but fate itself. Unfortunately for you, fate cannot be shot, and they are randomly firing their guns in the air while screaming about something! =Dungeon Conditions: Wound, Bad Luck==========================================
<Pose Tracker> Ethius Hesiod has posed.
We've got a good idea of who or what started this, but there's only one figure in all of Filgaia who can truly be considered an elemental, fundamental cause of some of its greatest barfights.
The Ten-Drinks Drifter. So inebriated, it's not that the rest of the world is fuzzy to them (it sure is) - they're fuzzy to the rest of the world. With a hat too wide and askew, a bandanna that hides their face, a build too slight for however many layers of flannel and other stuff on their person, and the smell of... liquor and some other things... they toss aside their mythical tenth bottle. To him, a bottle is an entire drink.
His liver is legendary. Almost as legendary, the speed and accuracy in which he draws his exotic-looking ARMs, slurring as he skillfully shoots wildly at the very air.
What he yells about is beyond mortal understanding. What he sees is beyond comprehension. The very floor of the brawl clears in his wake, as he stumbles back out towards the vague direction of one Lululu Wait. Now, 'Lululu Wait' can take care of themselves just fine. They're just an arm of death, after all, but something about this man - this Ten-Drinks Drifter - does not seem the sort to want to play ball with the rules of life, death, etiquette, or common sense.
Ethius blearily regards the staggering, swaggering man as he sees the flash of metal from their ARMs. He sees how people clear and give space, out of... fear?
Ethius shakes his head and finds some kind of focus to get one of the satchels from his belt, enchant it, and toss it down into the floor in a great big dust cloud of smoke as he all but throws himself upon the staggering figure.
There are the sounds of ARMS fire going off in the obscured cloud. Some of the bullets ricochet very close to where a CERTAIN CHEATER is waiting in the wings, but now there's the problem that Ethius has suddenly decided this is his business and may or may not be pulling the rest into the fight by proxy.
DG: Ethius Hesiod has used his Tool Powder Grenade toward his party's challenge, Ten-Drinks Drifter.
<Pose Tracker> Shalune Amira has posed.
For a disbelieving moment, Shalune stares dumbfoundedly at Jacqueline - and then sags over the handlebars of the Little Dipper, very nearly melting in place as she lets out a long-suffering sigh that's rather odd, coming from her. "Poor Lunie, deary dear..." she muses, for some reason temporarily putting on the very fake and totally worldly-wise voice of an aged Granny before she puffs herself up. "A-anyway, either way, we've gotta go and stop her! Quit fussing over these guys already--"
Instinct makes her jerk to one side, pulling the Little Dipper's nose up to try to deflect the ARMs bullets that suddenly punch through the wall in her direction; she winces, but there's also a slight light of VENGEANCE in her eyes as well as she pulls her shotstaff up to one shoulder and braces herself. Birds of a feather, something something Batman and Robin. Which is to say that she fires, lancing a series of bolts of lights through one of the side windows, peppering the remnants of the fight within.
"--and let's go!"
DG: Shalune Amira has contributed a Combat Basic Action toward her party's challenge, Ten-Drinks Drifter.
<Pose Tracker> Sephilia Lampbright has posed.
Sephilia Lampbright is prepared for battle. Because she's in one! It's a less lethal one than many but...now it's time for The Big Climactic Guy. Sephy wasn't sure who that was gonna be at first, but now it's obvious.
"OKAY, GUY, YOU JUST MADE FOXINGTON PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE!" she yells and Chauncey heads straight towards him, folding chair batting aside anyone in the way.
DG: Sephilia Lampbright has used her Tool Folding Chair toward her party's challenge, Ten-Drinks Drifter.
================================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>================================================ ==========================================<* CHALLENGE - Ten-Drinks Drifter *>========================================== |Type: Final |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 2 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- The Ten-Drinks Drifter is, of course, the root of this fight. A Drifter who explores the bottom of glasses and bottles, rather than ruins, and investigates the depths of the brewer's trade instead of the mysteries of the past. They swagger and stumble, ARMs spinning wildly. They shout and curse. They fight not you, but fate itself. Unfortunately for you, fate cannot be shot, and they are randomly firing their guns in the air while screaming about something! =Dungeon Conditions: Wound, Bad Luck==========================================
<Pose Tracker> Jacqueline Barber has posed.
The Ten-Drinks Drifter...Jacqueline has heard tales of this mystical figure. The terror of taverns and saloons everywhere...with a name spoken of only in fearful whispers.
And right now, he was heading in Lunata's direction.
She doesn't really understand why Shalune seems to wilt from her response, but she had a good point.
"Right!" Jacqueline says, with a nod of agreement. She decides it's time to deal with the matter quickly. She draws three bottles from her bags - one bearing a bright orange liquid, the other a solid black. She pours both of these into the empty bottle, and shakes...before hurling the resulting mixture at the Ten-Drink Drifter.
With Haywire Draught and Reliable Repellant combined into one - Haywire Repellant, perhaps? - ...would it be enough to stem the tides of the Ten-Drink Drifter's fury...?
Either way, Jacqueline wasn't sticking around to find out - she was chasing after Lunata's trail of carnage.
DG: Jacqueline Barber has used her Tool Reliable Repellant toward her party's challenge, Ten-Drinks Drifter.
================================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>================================================ ==========================================<* CHALLENGE - Ten-Drinks Drifter *>========================================== |Type: Final |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 2 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- The Ten-Drinks Drifter is, of course, the root of this fight. A Drifter who explores the bottom of glasses and bottles, rather than ruins, and investigates the depths of the brewer's trade instead of the mysteries of the past. They swagger and stumble, ARMs spinning wildly. They shout and curse. They fight not you, but fate itself. Unfortunately for you, fate cannot be shot, and they are randomly firing their guns in the air while screaming about something! =Dungeon Conditions: Wound, Bad Luck==========================================
================================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>================================================ ==========================================<* CHALLENGE - Ten-Drinks Drifter *>========================================== |Type: Final |Dungeon Ability: Combat |Challenge Rating: 2 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- The Ten-Drinks Drifter is, of course, the root of this fight. A Drifter who explores the bottom of glasses and bottles, rather than ruins, and investigates the depths of the brewer's trade instead of the mysteries of the past. They swagger and stumble, ARMs spinning wildly. They shout and curse. They fight not you, but fate itself. Unfortunately for you, fate cannot be shot, and they are randomly firing their guns in the air while screaming about something! =Dungeon Conditions: Wound, Bad Luck==========================================
===========================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) - Round 5 *>=========================================== ============================================< Results - Ten-Drinks Drifter >============================================ Player Exhaustion Pass/Fail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sephilia Lampbright 20 --(5)--> 25 Pass Folding Chair 2 Combat Effects: Stalwart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ethius Hesiod 30 --(5)--> 35 Pass Powder Grenade 3 Combat Effects: Fanfare ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacqueline Barber 20 --(5)--> 25 Pass Reliable Repellant 2 Combat Effects: Embolden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shalune Amira 20 --(5)--> 25 Fail Fight 0 Combat Effects: BASIC -------------------------------------------------------< Party >-------------------------------------------------------- Leader: Ethius Hesiod 80 --(35)--> 115 Pass Conditions: Bad Luck(2)|Slow(1)|Wound(2) Effects: Embolden(1) ===================================================< Dream Chasers >====================================================
DG: You have overcome the dungeon's trials! This run is a success! DG: The party led by Ethius Hesiod has successfully explored Barfight (Filgaia)!
================================================<* Barfight (Filgaia) *>================================================ ==============================================<* CHALLENGE - Lucky Find *>============================================== |Type: Discovery |Dungeon Ability: Discovery |Challenge Rating: 1 | -----------------------------------------------< Challenge Information: >----------------------------------------------- As you bolt away, you find something: a dropped billfold. Inside are some gleaming gella. =Dungeon Conditions: Treasure=================================================
<Pose Tracker> Ethius Hesiod has posed.
It is a legendary battle, one completely unlike anything the Drifters together have ever faced. The Ten-Drink Drifter's inebriation is so complete that Ethius' seemingly prescient ability to read how one holds a gun and when they're going to pull a trigger cannot possibly apply. Jacqueline's brand new mixed mixture is untested as it is hurled into the fray. Even Chauncey's mighty folding chair may find itself yet parried by the mysterious drunken drifter's ARM. Shalune's bolts of light disappear into the foggy murk of the dust cloud. It's... quite a brawl, something of a running battle where the fight spills outside into the open daylight to some great and final battle between an extension of death itself, and one who has put aside all reason and ambition to find the true bottom of the bottle.
Who wins? Everyone is either drunk, disoriented, distracted, or distanced from the chaos, no matter whose bodies end up lying on the ground at the end of all of this... but the other Drifters are breathing and still in control of their motor functions, so, maybe they won? Someone gets someone's billfold stuck to one of their shoes (why is it sticky? Don't ask), where some loose gella can be collected. Enough for a few pieces of candy somewhere. Maybe another drink.
Ethius, as he staggers off with the rest, brings a hand to his forehead...
A familiar bar, much like the one Ethius just left. He sits with that same mug of beer he's had for who knows how long now, never actually bringing it to his lips. The neglected drink sits there as he sits there listening to the local chatter as he was prone to in the times when he wasn't firmly attached to the merchant group he seems to play both as a boon and a curse to.
Someone shouts loudly as they stagger in. The barkeep, polishing a glass nearby, scowls out something. Ethius recognizes the words. What were they? That someone goes to sit down where some cards are being played... then an argument.
A young woman - very familiar, much like the one he's walking with - moves to dive under the table with someone she's talking to. He seems compelled to move towards her, deftly moving through stray ARM fire with a hand outstretched, when...
Something hits him. He blacks out.
How long ago was that? Ethius wonders to himself. Perhaps if he could piece together his lost memories, the importance of that flash of recognition will become clear... yes. This must have been very important, what he saw. It is clear, at least, he still needs to keep going in the company of those who have taken him in.
He'll keep going at it, then, even if it takes him another year. (He at least recognizes the previous year has been... eventful? If not forthcoming with answers.)