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<blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 6698916" data-attributes="member: 11146"><p><strong>Round 2</strong></p><p></p><p><strong><u>Initiative</u>:</strong></p><p>Death Otter 26</p><p>Cyril 25</p><p>Thrall 17</p><p>J.R. 14</p><p>T-dawg 12</p><p>Feral 5</p><p></p><p></p><p>[HR][/HR]</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ooc]Thanks, all, for staying in character and interacting with the appearance of the Thrall in ways well-deserving of accolade. [MENTION=12430]gribble[/MENTION], [MENTION=95059]Forged Fury[/MENTION], [MENTION=6763059]Rubberneck[/MENTION], please add +1 action point to your character sheets.[/ooc]</p><p></p><p>Otter snapped at everyone to get out of the bathroom. She eyed the corridors left and right, but saw nothing other than her own crew. So far, the thrall hadn't appeared outside of the bathroom, but she made ready to fire off a shot if it did, and stood her ground in F5. Cyril backpedaled away from the open doorway, to K5. [sblock=Cyril]Where's the Bluetooth headset? Is it on Cyril at the moment?[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Inside the bathroom, J.R. stayed put in G4. Esmeralda must still have been alive because she opened milky white eyes and croaked something unintelligible at J.R.. The thrall's hold on her tightened; J.R. could see that most of Esmeralda's upper torso had been subsumed by the creature. Only the girl's head was now visible. One large and one smaller tentacle whipped through the air and slapped at J.R., but both <a href="http://www.coyotecode.net/roll/lookup.php?rollid=97301" target="_blank">missed</a>. J.R. squeezed off a shot on his downbreath, but missed. The bullet smacked into the tile wall behind the thrall, breaking the tile. The thrall reacted to J.R.'s close range shot by lurching its large tentacle at him, but <a href="http://www.coyotecode.net/roll/lookup.php?rollid=97303" target="_blank">missed </a>(to quote [MENTION=8858]hafrogman[/MENTION] in another game, FMD! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)[sblock=J.R.]The thrall got an AoO because J.R. fired a ranged weapon within the thrall's reach.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>T-dawg barreled into the bathroom, to H4. His face pure steel, he tried to grab hold of Esmeralda. He shot his arm forward through the mass of wriggling tentacles and successfully grasped Esmeralda by the last bit of her he could, her neck and head. The rest of her was already <em>inside</em> the thrall. T-dawg pulled on Esmeralda, and managed to get a shoulder free. Her shoulder was badly mangled and bloody, the skin was pock-marked and pitted, as if eaten by acid.[sblock=ALL]T-dawg has grabbed Esmeralda and has a hold on her. If he wants to continue trying to free Esmeralda in subsequent rounds, please have him move into the thrall's square (this movement is free and doesn't count as part of T-dawg's movement for the round), and attempt to break the thrall's pin on Esmeralda by making one opposed grapple check. The thrall is size large, so it'll get +4 to its check (this might be a good time for T-dawg to use another action point). So long as T-dawg is grappling the thrall, the thrall will lose its Dexterity bonus to Defense against attacks made by the others (but will still get its Dex to Def for attacks made by T-dawg), and the thrall will be unable to move.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Feral low-crawled back down the hallway until he reached the open doorway. He stopped in G5, and took a good hard look at the thrall. It appeared that the <em>thing</em> had mostly absorbed Esmeralda into its body, but T-dawg was actively yanking on the girl to try to free her. Esmeralda, or what was left of her, was still conscious, but she wasn't struggling to get free. Her eyes, which were open and staring at J.R., had blanked over and were a queer white. </p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i57.tinypic.com/qods78.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>[ooc]End of Round 2. Start of Round 3. Please post at will, I'll resolve in init order.[/ooc]</p><p></p><p>[HR][/HR]</p><p></p><p></p><p>[gm]Thrall -4/__ hp[/gm]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CanadienneBacon, post: 6698916, member: 11146"] [b]Round 2[/b] [B][U]Initiative[/U]:[/B] Death Otter 26 Cyril 25 Thrall 17 J.R. 14 T-dawg 12 Feral 5 [HR][/HR] [ooc]Thanks, all, for staying in character and interacting with the appearance of the Thrall in ways well-deserving of accolade. [MENTION=12430]gribble[/MENTION], [MENTION=95059]Forged Fury[/MENTION], [MENTION=6763059]Rubberneck[/MENTION], please add +1 action point to your character sheets.[/ooc] Otter snapped at everyone to get out of the bathroom. She eyed the corridors left and right, but saw nothing other than her own crew. So far, the thrall hadn't appeared outside of the bathroom, but she made ready to fire off a shot if it did, and stood her ground in F5. Cyril backpedaled away from the open doorway, to K5. [sblock=Cyril]Where's the Bluetooth headset? Is it on Cyril at the moment?[/sblock] Inside the bathroom, J.R. stayed put in G4. Esmeralda must still have been alive because she opened milky white eyes and croaked something unintelligible at J.R.. The thrall's hold on her tightened; J.R. could see that most of Esmeralda's upper torso had been subsumed by the creature. Only the girl's head was now visible. One large and one smaller tentacle whipped through the air and slapped at J.R., but both [url=http://www.coyotecode.net/roll/lookup.php?rollid=97301]missed[/url]. J.R. squeezed off a shot on his downbreath, but missed. The bullet smacked into the tile wall behind the thrall, breaking the tile. The thrall reacted to J.R.'s close range shot by lurching its large tentacle at him, but [url=http://www.coyotecode.net/roll/lookup.php?rollid=97303]missed [/url](to quote [MENTION=8858]hafrogman[/MENTION] in another game, FMD! :))[sblock=J.R.]The thrall got an AoO because J.R. fired a ranged weapon within the thrall's reach.[/sblock] T-dawg barreled into the bathroom, to H4. His face pure steel, he tried to grab hold of Esmeralda. He shot his arm forward through the mass of wriggling tentacles and successfully grasped Esmeralda by the last bit of her he could, her neck and head. The rest of her was already [I]inside[/I] the thrall. T-dawg pulled on Esmeralda, and managed to get a shoulder free. Her shoulder was badly mangled and bloody, the skin was pock-marked and pitted, as if eaten by acid.[sblock=ALL]T-dawg has grabbed Esmeralda and has a hold on her. If he wants to continue trying to free Esmeralda in subsequent rounds, please have him move into the thrall's square (this movement is free and doesn't count as part of T-dawg's movement for the round), and attempt to break the thrall's pin on Esmeralda by making one opposed grapple check. The thrall is size large, so it'll get +4 to its check (this might be a good time for T-dawg to use another action point). So long as T-dawg is grappling the thrall, the thrall will lose its Dexterity bonus to Defense against attacks made by the others (but will still get its Dex to Def for attacks made by T-dawg), and the thrall will be unable to move.[/sblock] Feral low-crawled back down the hallway until he reached the open doorway. He stopped in G5, and took a good hard look at the thrall. It appeared that the [I]thing[/I] had mostly absorbed Esmeralda into its body, but T-dawg was actively yanking on the girl to try to free her. Esmeralda, or what was left of her, was still conscious, but she wasn't struggling to get free. Her eyes, which were open and staring at J.R., had blanked over and were a queer white. [IMG]http://i57.tinypic.com/qods78.jpg[/IMG] [ooc]End of Round 2. Start of Round 3. Please post at will, I'll resolve in init order.[/ooc] [HR][/HR] [gm]Thrall -4/__ hp[/gm] [/QUOTE]
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