B.P.R.D. Issue #1 "City of Night"

[Karl Green]

Christopher fails the Reflex save and fails the Damage save by 9; Christopher takes a lethal hit and is Stunned this round
Christopher is thrown off his feet and lands roughly on his back about 10ft back away from the sandstorm.

The Red Knight advances up to the Sterne-Mech…


Initiative Round 4…
Azah – 23
Kongming and Christopher – 17
Andy – 16
Michael – 15
Lia - 13
Mech Sterne - 10
Paul – 7
Red Knight -1
Xavier – 1

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Azah growls something about gnats and forming up a huge fist made of sand, and tries to determine the biggest threat…
Spot roll natural 1, so he is ignoring those closes to Sterne and concentrates on those shooting guns at him; Attack roll against Michael 14, a miss BUT Area Effect again both Michael and Kongming have to make Reflex saves vs. the Area Effect and a Damage Save vs. the Attack

Kongming {depends on his roll, already has 1 lethal so the Damage save is at -1}

Christopher is stunned this round, and comes out of it but is prone…

Andy pops up out of the ground about 30ft away from the Mech and fires a quick shot off at the thing…
Attack roll hit, Mech is surprised; Damage save is missed by 5 (because of 2 lethal already), the Mech takes another Lethal
…and strikes it on the upper arm. Over the loudspeakers the voice curses in German {those that can understand it} “Fool! You will not stop me… I will be a GOD!”

Michael {depending on his rolls, which he will more then likely make BUT…}

Lia jumps out of the hole, and talks with Sterne… he seems to look at her for a second but then seems to ignore her, returning to his chanting…

Sterne-Mech {if he is still up!} continues to chant…

NOTE I am going to hold off a bit here to see what if Kongmind and/or Michael make their saves, such that they can attack Sterne… of course now the the Red Knight is within melee range…

 

[Keia]

OOC: Reflex Save (21= Roll of 12 + base of nine). Damage Save (16, Roll of 13 + 3 Base [+1 Con +2 Vest], Will use a hero point to ignore stun

 

[Karl Green]

Michael makes the Reflex save for half, and misses the Damage save by 3, Michael has a Lethal hit

Continuing Round 4…
Kongming [will edit if anything changes]
Michael – 15
Lia - 13
Mech Sterne - 10
Paul – 7
Red Knight -1
Xavier – 1

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[Assuming Kongming makes his save]
From the ground, Kongming fires another round at Sterne…
Attack roll hits (even with the -4 for firing into melee); Damage save for Sterne misses it by 2, he now has 4 lethal hits
…striking a telling blow against the plexi-glass cockpit that protects his almost corpse-like body.

Michael hits with 4 of the attacks BUT the one that missed have a change of hitting the Red Knight; I roll these, but it misses; of the four attacks that hit have 50/50 blindness check (and if they miss also have a chance of hitting the Knight as he is in melee combat) first attack hit, 2nd attack miss (chance to hit Knight, miss!), 3rd attack miss (chance to hit the Knight… nope!), 4th attack misses (chance to hit the Knight does; the Red Knight needs to make a Damage save of 21 -6 for Protection, so a 15). Sterne’s damage save makes it by 4, no damage[/color]
…and Michael only hears two of his rounds strike metal (next round, with another 5ft step, Michael will be out of the sandstorm and in the clear part)

Lia jumps out of the hole, and talks with Sterne… he seems to look at her for a second but then seems to ignore her, returning to his chanting…

Sterne-Mech continues to chant…
Ritual roll total 15, VILLIAN points to re-roll a 21!
…his words taking on a terrible and twisted… the ground shakes (EVERYONE on the ground needs to make a Balance save DC10 or they are knocked to the ground. Sterne’s Balance check is 16 he is still standing)… worst of all the gates become transparent and start to disappear. Sterne screams in triumph… {translated from German} “Mine all MINE! I am coming my Queen, arise ARISE!”

Paul surges with power and tries to lift up the ground under the Sterne-Mech’s feet! (NOTE I am not 100% what you are going for here, normally you would not be able to do two attack actions at one time. This is really close to an attack action… so I am not sure you can do the fire bolt this round… if you can explain it to me I might let it go though, but for now…)
Attack roll to hit the ground (DC5, but a 1 always misses, Using your Air Attack roll, first one) hits and starts lifting the sand the Mech into the air… JUST barely (Paul is straining at the limits of his weight). Dropping it back down the Mech gets a Reflex save to remain standing (I am treating it like a Trip, as he has to have a chance or something; DC is your Power Ranks so 16; Reflex save is 9! Misses, the Mech falls to the ground…again, if you can convince me that you should be able to attack this round, I will edit
…which he does, only to drop it down and causing the Mech thing to lose its footing and fall to the ground with a loud thud!

The Red Knight (might have to stand as half-actions but as he is close enough can still attack) slams a flaming fist into the side of the Mech canopy like cockpit…
Attack roll hit, Damage save vs. his fist is missed by 13, another Lethal hit AND disabled; vs. the Flame attack missed by 4. Hmm Sterne Mech now has 6 lethal hits AND is Disabled!
…cracking it and releasing rancid gases of rotten flesh and… unwashed toiletry (where does it go?)

Xavier also stands and tries to locate Azah again, to blast him with another bolt of holy energy…
Detect Evil roll 10 +9, makes it; Attack roll 10 +2 =12 a miss
…but while he can locate the fiend, he can’t quit get to it.



Round 5… cause ONE person who is first does something
Azah – 23
Kongming and Christopher – 17
Andy – 16
Michael – 15
Lia - 13
Mech Sterne - 10
Paul – 7
Red Knight -1
Xavier – 1

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(note this is a bit longer then what normally you can say and stuff BUT the shock of the gate falling etc means it happens right now, hope you don’t mind, it is only dialog }

Sterne uses a free action to cry out to Azah {in German} “Azah my servant… attend me, carry me to my Queen!” to which Azah says {in a strange tongue that all can understand} “No, mortal; your commands were that I should bring you to this place, and bring you what you required for your work, and aid you in your siege. Those three commands are fulfilled now, and I am free!” to which, with a great laugh, Azah flies into the city, down the board road in front of him (spending a Villian point to get extra movement, as he flies 800ft inwards). Of course he looks like a small twister or sandstorm to the group (although those with See Invisible can make it out a little better, he is still semi-transparent)

The sandstorm drops, all the sand falling to the ground as if it were dropped out of a truck. Into the city, everyone can now see a board road, paved in brass or gold, running a mile or so forward to a huge doomed temple or palace straight ahead. Lining the streets looks to be a well built, Middle Eastern city, save that the walls all seem to be made of brass – and that there are bodies laying everywhere along the way. The streets are full of skeletons, dressed in fine silks that looked to have dropped dead while going about their normal everyday business…

There is a Thunderclap and within the city it seems as if the sun is starting to rise… Sterne seems to be muttering something and is no longer struggling…

ACTIONS???

[I have spent 3 villian points]

 

[Velmont]

OOC: Because the description of the power doesn't mention any attack roll, so I thought it wasn't one. If you consider it was one, no prob, but in that case, I would have cast again Force Field, so it would have been at lvl 6 until I stop to sustain it, getting profits of the HP on the sorcery.

Too late. Anyone have a suggestion?

If you were less chicken!

If we were less unprepared!

Stop that we are on mission!

Life are at stake if we doesn't do anything.

"Shut up!" Paul says at Stern, and he raise his hand, telling a few words, and sand covers the mech.

"We... are... in BIG... trouble!"

 

[Radiant]

Lia

Then the mech ignores her Lia runs towards it and leaps onto the fallen mech. Her fingernails lengthen into dirty claws again and she tries to crab a hold of Sterne. The spectacle behind her is irritating enough but she keeps enough of her wits together to scream at thing that once was a human.

"What is this and how can we stop it? Your ally has desserted you and whatever he plans I am sure you will not see one bit of the power you want if he succeeds."
note: translated from german

She only barely holds herself in chek. This walking corpse is an abomination and the urge to tear it apart grows stronger every second.
Not to mention that here is one of the members of Ragna Rok, delivered right to her. Even if this city could mean the end of the world it does not seem such a high price for her revenge.
But then Rasputin and Ragna Rok would have won and she just can't allow that.
Who would have thought that I'd try to save the world one day.

 

[Karl Green]

OOC: Because the description of the power doesn't mention any attack roll, so I thought it wasn't one. If you consider it was one, no prob, but in that case, I would have cast again Force Field, so it would have been at lvl 6 until I stop to sustain it, getting profits of the HP on the sorcery

[occ]It seems very close to a trip attack IMO, but I am not 100% sure myself. BUT you can totally get the boost to PL6 for your Force Field. Again I am not really sure... let me re-read the power again...[/occ]

 

[Karl Green]

[occ]Out of combat unless anyone wants to do something different...[/occ]

Lia jumps onto the downed Mech and starts tearing at the canopy. The wrenched corpse like body of Sterne is strapped inside, hooked up to tubes and respiratory machines etc. He looks at her with rather dead eyes and says, without doing anything, just staring off into space {translated from German for those that can understand it} “If you open the canopy Fräulein, you will kill me… I can no long breathe unfiltered air… of course it matter not now… I am dead anyway… Azah fooled me and will now claim the destine that was rightfully mine… all these years, for nothing… but then Azah was been denied Heave and Hell, with this place it may just act as a gateway for him. With all its ancient powers… He probably wants to conquer the world. Or destroy it. He was a prisoner in a block of stone for thousands of years, and he is perhaps a little bitter…hehehe” Sterne has a bit of a coughing fit and then his eyes get a bit of focus and he looks right at Lia “If you wish to stop him, you had best act quickly. The Seal of Solomon must be re-created within the Palace of Gold… the Queen is not yet awake, and if someone could re-create the seal, everything would go back to the way it was… Azah would be stopped, hehehe… my wayward servant will destroy this world if you do nothing… He cannot stand the sight of the seal either… you have a weapon against him… hehehe” any Sterne starts coughing and now spitting up blood…
Azah, flies deeper into the city… a gong sounds somewhere deeper within the city and the nights sky above the City seems to be slipping or breaking up as if dark storm clouds were parting, allowing rays of sunlight to shine into the city…

 

[Velmont]

"What is he saying?"

 

[Drakknyte32]

Red Knight and Christopher

Christopher Jogs over to where the others are gathered around the fallen mech.

"Unless he's telling you how to defeat that beast I doubt we have time for his talk. That creature already has a head start on us and I doubt whatever It's planning is pleasant."

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Kongming, 1 h.p.

Kongming looks up at Christopher and nods. "After this div, then." He walks over towards the gates.