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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patlin" data-source="post: 1845791" data-attributes="member: 17264">Round 1, Part 2Rodimus moves in warilly, ready to pounce if the construct attacks.Morulas delays until after Gorefoot.Nars stays limber, prepared to avoid any incoming attacks.  Taking a good look at the construct, Nars notes that the design appears to incorporate wood as well as metal, perhaps making the construct more vulnerable in some ways than the animated armor, in spite of its heavy plating.  Some of the metal looks to be adamantine, and it will no doubt be difficult to hurt, but it posesses vulnerabilities the metal armor did not.Ishmael follows the example set by Nars, moving up beside him defensively.Fant moves to the top of the stairs and readies an action.  ooc:  Fant cannot incorporate a 5' step into her readied action, as she moved allready this round.  In any case, she's unlikely to be able o do so due to her position -- while I know Fant wanted the party to form a line, in the ensuing chaos of different starting positions and movement rates, the party has not done so.The construct charges straight in at Rodimus, attacking him and triggering his readied action.  Rodimus charges out to meet the construct, moving through it's threatened area to do so, but tumbling around any attack of opportunity the construct might otherwise make.  Rodimus begins a grapple, dragging the construct to a halt and messing up its charge.  [I'm changing its actions to a single move & attack, but I'll leave the penalty to AC in effect.]  Struggling, the construct manages to bring one of its hammerlike arms up and strikes at Rodimus, knocking him loose as it does 12 points of damage and renders him unconcious.Gorefoot is up.[Code]|P|    ________|M|   /     | |  /    X|G| /    | |/  NI F [/Code]X=Construct & Unconcious Rodimus, sharing a space.Edit: Unfortunately, the final result was similar even taking into account the tumble, although positions have changed slightly and Rodimus took a little less damage.</blockquote>

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