Tale Weaver's Vampire: The Masquerade Game Board

[Tale_Weaver]

I-74 Mountain Road

"Amen"

Koln finishes his prayer with the sign of the cross. He then looks in the side mirror.

"Hm... I think I have a plan. Laces, pull over. I will ask if they have any Grey pu-Pon!"

At Koln's request Lacey bows her head in prayer as well "Oh God in heaven hear my prayers, please let us blow the heads off of these bad guys if they turn out to be mountain lions. Also, I would like a shiny red bicycle for Christmas. Happy new year!"

As Lacey does this, the car goes out of control and gets frighteningly close to the edge of the road, which is made up mostly of ledges of rocks and loose boulders. Lacey grabs the wheel after Ruby lets out a shriek and gets the car under control again. "Oh sorry, I thought Koln had the wheel!" Lacey exclaims.

Meanwhile, two of the bikers break off from the pack and head towards the truck. The space between the truck and the edge of the road is just wide enough and the two bikes ride alongside either side of the truck. Just looking at them through the windows you can tell that they are bad news. They are wearing too few clothes in this weather to be human, sleeveless leather jackets revealing deathly pale arms. Their faces are covered in red bandanas decorated with the mouth of some kind of beast with sharp teeth in the front. They both peer into the truck as if scanning everyone inside. Ruby shifts around in her seat in the back and says "I don't like this, they look like vampires."

When the two bikers reach the driver's side of the truck they both draw zip guns. Lacey yells "Mountain lions!" and tries to ram one of them off the road. Both bikers fall back to about 10ft behind the truck. Lacey says "Koln, will you be a dear and take out the boomstick under the dashboard at your feet?"

Everyone roll initiative.

 

[izillama]

Clover screeched and white-knuckled the driver's seat as Lacey swerved around the road. She might have uttered a string of swear words, but she couldn't hear her own voice over the roar of the motorcycles. She had a sudden wonder as to whether it might have been better if she had been driving. She wasn't certain either way.

Steeling herself, she found herself glaring out the window at one of the cyclists. At Lacey's quick maneuver, and scream, she was once again white-knuckling it, screaming herself, "Geez, woman! Easy there!"

Grumbling, she found herself turning to see how close behind all the other cyclists were, and how narrow the road was. After some calculations, the beginnings of an idea began to form in her mind. Fumbling, she checked her seat belt to make sure it was secure, then yelled to everyone over the roar of the truck and cycles, "Ok, safety check! Seat belts on, everyone!" She reached over Ruby's chest, grabbing the girl's belt and belting her in personally.

OOC: Can we get a map? How close behind are the motorcycles? How fast are we traveling? How wide is the road?

OOC: PS, it's not letting me add a dice roll

 

[Tale_Weaver]

I-74 Mountain Road

OOC: Can we get a map? How close behind are the motorcycles? How fast are we traveling? How wide is the road?

OOC: PS, it's not letting me add a dice roll

OOC: I can't make a map here but I can explain a little how this is going to work.

In a chase scene the drivers and the passengers have a certain set of actions they can take on their turn. You can only make one standard action, there are no move actions in a chase. Since Lacey is driving, you only need to worry about the actions that passengers can make. The idea is to either get to the end of the map or if all of the bad guys are wiped out then the chase ends.

Passenger Actions:
[sblock]
Action Roll Distance

Ranged Attack -- Long or less
Melee Attack -- Point-Blank
Leap Aboard (Jump check) Point-Blank
Jump Clear (Jump check) --
Regain Control (Drive/Ride) --
Take Charge -- --
(attempt to take control of a vehicle away from a driver)
Catch It! -- --
(attempt to grab an object as you pass by)
Assorted Action -- --
(do stuff!)
Half a Full-Round Action -- --
(used to make full-round actions)
[/sblock]

Here is a little scenario of a chase scene. Lacey and Alex are trying to escape from two pissed off bikers on the road in Alex's Jaguar. Alex is the driver and Lacey is the passenger:

GM: Okay, guys, your car is hurtling along a narrow road that runs next to a field with some tall grass. Both bikers are currently at Short range. The first biker has the highest Initiative, so he gets to
go first. No obstacles for him this round, so heʼs going to attempt the Close/Lengthen maneuver to reduce the range to Point-Blank.

Alex: Uh-oh. Their motorcycles are faster than my Jag arenʼt they?

GM: They sure are. Close/Lengthen is an opposed maneuver, so you and the biker need to make opposed Drive checks. Remember, the biker has a Speed Factor of 1 against your car, so you take a -1 penalty on your check.

Alex: Okay, I get a... 12, plus my 6 for Drive, minus 1 for the Speed Factor penalty and another for the Speed Category... total of 16.

GM: Not bad, but the bad guy gets a 14, plus 5 for his Drive skill, and he gets the Speed Factor as a bonus on his roll, so thatʼs plus an additional 1. Total of 20. So he closes in on your car, and
is now at Point-Blank range.

Lacey: Itʼs my turn now, right?

GM: Yep. Youʼre a passenger in the car, so you can choose any Passenger maneuver.

Lacey: Iʼve got my pistol so Iʼm going to try and shoot this biker.

GM: Youʼre choosing the Ranged Attack maneuver. Heʼs at Point-Blank range, so you take no range penalty on your attack roll. However, the current Speed Category is Cautious, so thatʼs a
-1 on your roll.

Lacey: Okay. I roll a 15! My attack bonus is plus 7, so thatʼs a 22, minus 1 for the Speed Category is 21.

GM: Pretty good. The biker's Armor Class would normally be 14, but at this speed he gets a dodge bonus of 2, so thatʼs a 16. Too bad for him. You lean out the window and snap off a quick shot through the dust. Nice shooting.

Lacey: Woot! My damage is... 108.

GM: Umm, Lacey, that's a 6-sided dice. And get it out of your mouth! Your damage was 8. He curses as the bullet grazes his shoulder, but stays close. The motorcycle's front wheel is right alongside your car now. And the other biker is closing in, too. Your turn, Alex.

 

[Strider_Koln]

initiative

 

[izillama]

Clover bites Tale Weaver... again...

OOC: Huzzah! Initiative!

 

[Tale_Weaver]

I-74 Mountain Road

Clover bites Tale Weaver... again...

OOC: Huzzah! Initiative!

Lacey laments "I always wished that when I died I would go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather did. Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car."


Here is a map of the road here. You can see that the road is about 20ft wide. The sections aren't to scale and just represent your progress on the chase map.

 

[Tale_Weaver]

I-74 Mountain Road

Initiative Order

Lacey - 29
Ruby - 22
Biker3 - 19
Biker5 - 18
Clover - 17
Koln - 14
Biker1 - 7
Biker4 - 3
Biker2 - 2

 

[Tale_Weaver]

I-70 Mountain Road

Five of the bikers go off the road in different directions as they break away from the pack you notice that they are driving dirt bikes as opposed to street bikes. They ride out of sight on small pathways between rocks and trees.

Lacey presses down on the gas peddle and tries to increase the distance between the truck and the two bikes trailing behind.

OOC: I made a mistake, the highway that cuts through the Rocky Mountains is I-70, not I-74. Just in case Colorado people read this and think we're morons

 

[Tale_Weaver]

I-70 Mountain Road

Five of the bikers go off the road in different directions as they break away from the pack you notice that they are driving dirt bikes as opposed to street bikes. They ride out of sight on small pathways between rocks and trees.

Lacey presses down on the gas peddle and tries to increase the distance between the truck and the two bikes trailing behind.

OOC: I made a mistake, the highway that cuts through the Rocky Mountains is I-70, not I-74. Just in case Colorado people read this and think we're morons

Lacey manages to make some distance between the truck and the two bikes. The two bikes are now about 30 feet away from the truck.

Ruby sits contently in her seat. She'll hold her action until the next biker goes.

Biker3 will try to close the distance as will Biker5.

 

[Tale_Weaver]

I-70 Mountain Road

Lacey manages to make some distance between the truck and the two bikes. The two bikes are now about 30 feet away from the truck.

Ruby sits contently in her seat. She'll hold her action until the next biker goes.

Biker3 will try to close the distance as will Biker5.

Biker5 manages to close the distance a little putting him about 30ft from the truck. Biker3 can't seem to keep up.

Ruby opens the window on her side and peeks out. "It looks like they're too far away to do anything right now. Anyone have any ideas?"

Lacey says "I do keep a small collection of sharp pointy things in my trunk in the back. Right next to my collection of large heavy things!"

Clover's turn. Here's the map.