Paridon: The Dark Metropolis (Ravenloft)

[Rhun]

Perrin sighs heavily. Why didn't anything ever go their way? He kept his pistol and axe handy, and centered himself on the stairs ensuring that 'Ada' would have to go through him to reach her father.

 

[jkason]

Ru Brike, barbaric human monk

(OOC: Ru and Perrin are at the top of the stairs, about 70' up. Pigglemorth is about 10' away, in the clock mechanism, but is approacching the two of them. Darian, Calahan, and Fr. Berman are on the stairs, about 10' below the others. At the base of the stairs is Ada. It is hard to make out just how much space she is taking up down there.)

Ru motions for Pigglemorth to hurry to them, whispering, "Surely you build shutoff mechanisms into your creations? Where would we find this one?"

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

Calahan tightens his grip around his gun.

With the free hand, have waves the others to advance upstairs, and will then follow them, the flamethrower pointing down to where Ada is supposed to be...

In the moment she shows up, he will fire three times, hoping that this slows her down...

By Hextor! We're all going to die here! When was the last time I had a woman...?

 

[kinem]

Father Berman draws his dragon pistol. I don't think I can talk my way out of this one!

Nonetheless he gives it a shot. "Ada, your daddy knows what he's doing and why. He may be saving his soul, and he is going to see that justice is brought to the surviving criminal the fire failed to reach."

 

[InVinoVeritas]

The policemen cluster at the top of the stairs, before the clocktower's mechanism. Pigglemorth throws off his mask and joins the party.

He explains to Ru, "I don't have a shut-off on this one... whatever process was used to make Ada stemmed from my processes on Edditomas, but I didn't build her."

Fr. Berman speaks. Yet, she respond with an inscrutable grin and starts pulling her multi-limbed form up the stairwell. Calahan lets loose with the flamethrower. The flames surge down the tower, blasting her mechanistic form. Her joints glow from the heat, and the wedding dress burns away. Beneath, a large brass cistern sits, fire and boiling blood glowing from the inside. "No more burning," she responds, and unleashes a scalding spray of blood at Calahan (-4 hp).

"Brass..." Pigglemorth remembers, "Brass will harm her. I don't think we have any brass weapons..."

He then turns back into the giant clock, the huge gears, and behind them the sword-carrying statues that announce the hour. "Except for my clock... The hour strikes in one minute."

 

[Rhun]

"So what?" asks Perrin, taking aim with his dragon pistol and letting a round fly, the thunderous boom momentarily overcoming the noise of the clock. "Are you saying we need to lead her into the clock and hope she gets hit by a gear?"



AC 19, HP 42/42

Dragon Pistol +8 (1d12/x3)

 

[kinem]

Father Berman utters a quick prayer as he grabs his butterfly. "Protect us, oh Lady Ezra!"

(ooc: cast prayer; we get +1 on most rolls while enemies get -1 for next 5 rounds)

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

Assuming that the robot is far enough away so I don't provoke an attack of opportunity...

Something wicked appears on Calahan's face.
He licks his blood-stained face.

"Again, it seems time to fight fire... With fire."

He takes out one of the Hellgun phioles and unlocks the trigger...

Calahan will try to through the magazine like a molotov cocktail, possibly
covering the abomination's whole body with the liquid...

Apparently having something he considers a good idea, he shouts to his comrades:

"Move, friends! This bitch is just a big boiler! Let's SUPERHEAT it!"

 

[industrygothica]

"Good God man," Darian exclaims. "Which of you want us dead more, her or you?"

 

[jkason]

Ru Brike, barbaric human monk (HP 36/36, AC 17(dodge))

He explains to Ru, "I don't have a shut-off on this one... whatever process was used to make Ada stemmed from my processes on Edditomas, but I didn't build her."

"What do you mean you didn't... did she build hersel... nevermind. I don't want to know."

"Brass..." Pigglemorth remembers, "Brass will harm her. I don't think we have any brass weapons..."

He then turns back into the giant clock, the huge gears, and behind them the sword-carrying statues that announce the hour. "Except for my clock... The hour strikes in one minute."

Ru sizes up the gnome, and decides on a course of action. Dropping his backpack to lighten his load, he sweeps up Pigglemorth, saying, "She wants you, and you're the only one understands the clockwork well enough to get us where we need to be, so this is two birds with one stone. You navigate, I'll do the running and dodging; it's what I'm best at."

[sblock=OOC]The backpack and it's belongings weigh about 26 pounds, so I think that, even carrying Pigglemorth, Ru can stay at a light load / 50' round move, which has to be better than what gnome legs can do.

So, dropping backpack (free), picking up Pigglemorth as a standard or move action, then if Pigglemorth directs, he'll try getting as close to the brass as he can with his remaining move. I think that works. Plus, it may have the added bonus of getting him further away from another insane explosion. [/sblock]