(RP) Transformers: Robots in Disguise!

[Vendetta]

Stickshift rushes forward as the robotic insects leap from the hole in the ground. He moves more quickly than he appears, given his size, and he brings a huge fist across the frame of an insecticon. The tiny robot (compared to Stickshift) rockets away from Stickshift and crashes into a nearby tree and flops uncerimoniously to the ground. As the insecticon struggles to get to his feet, a large crack in his chassis can be seen and energon and smoke pour out from within.

Two of the robotic grasshoppers dive at Jackknife, trying to swarm the enormous Autobot. They bite at him as he shakes them off, flipping them harmlessly away from him.

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Stickshift: Rolled a natural 20 for a critical. Critical damage rolled was an 18, Cracked Chassis; damage reduction is halved. Damage rolled 11 (2d8) +6 = 17 damage. The half DR is figured in for this attack so that you benefit from the crit on this round.

Kickback 1: Rolled a total of 19 to hit but does only 8 damage, which does not penetrate Jackknife's hull. Since Kickback 1 through 5 are clones of each other, your Adaptive Defense will work against all of them, if you chose to use it.

Kickback 2: Rolled a total of 8, missed.

 

[Kalanyr]

Bushido watches the Kickbacks attack and decides that Jackknife can handle them without his katana form. He reaches over his shoulder and draws his energy katana, holding it in a two-handed grip, as he charges at Shrapnel 3.

Attack Bonus 19. (12 rolled +5 (Katana) +2 Charge), 21 damage rolled (4d6+4) if it hits.
+1 dodge bonus allocated against Shrapnel 3. AC is 17 (18 against Shrapnel 3)

 

[rangerjohn]

Phoenix

Phoenix sizes up the battle, and fires on one of bugs not engaged in melee. Breifly looking to Jack Knife he says "gotta admire thier spunk, taking on someone your size, boss."


OOC: +5/+6 if within pb range 3d10+d8 19-20/x3

 

[Vendetta]

“Got to admire their spunk, taking on someone your size, boss.” Phoenix says as he lifts his blaster and unloads on one of the insecticons. A blazing bolt strikes true, piercing the hull of one of the beetle looking transformer. A tiny stream of smoke pours out of it as it turns toward Phoenix. Transforming, the first beetle lifts his grenade launcher and fires. A 30 pound steel ball rockets toward Phoenix then explodes into razor sharp shards of steel. Not expecting the shrapnel, Phoenix was unable to get completely out of the way and a small amount of metal cuts into his hide.

The damaged grasshopper transformer gets to his feet and transforms, then steps behind a tree for cover.

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Phoenix: Roll 18 (1d20) +6 = 24 and hits doing 21 (3d10) + 4 (1d8) = 25 Damage minus Shrapnel 1’s DR.
DamagePhoenix suffers 16 damage – 8 (Large DR) = 8 damage.

Shrapnel 1: Rolls a total of 19 and barely hits doing 16 points of damage.

Kickback 3: Suffers Half DR. Hides behind tree, partial cover, +4 AC.


Up next, Jackknife and Bushido. (Bushido's actions posted)

 

[Vendetta]

After shrugging off the attacks from the Kickback clones, Jackknife starts calculating their attack strategies as he sets himself to defend further attacks, which come as one of the grasshoppers and one of the beetles also try to swarm him. Neither are capable of penetrating his hull.

Bushido charges Shrapnel 3, scoring a hit with his energy Katana, slicing into the armor of the small insecticon. The beetle tries to punch at Bushido but swings wide as the Autobot Sword easily steps back out of range after landing his own attack.

Brawn shouts “I’m here, Jackknife!” as he rushes up and tackles the beetle biting on Jackknife’s leg. The two Transformers tumble to the edge of the clearing where Brawn uses his massive strength to squeeze the insecticon like a constrictor around a white mouse. “I’m stronger than I look, ain’t I, bug brain?”

The last grasshopper leaps onto Phoenix’s back and begins to gnaw at intersecting plates and getting at some of the internal circuitry.

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Jackknife: Uses his Adaptive Defense to gain a 19 AC vs. the Kickback clones.

Bushido: (to hit and damage rolls done in post) Attacks and damages Shrapnel 3.

Shrapnel 2: Attacks Jackknife, rolling a total of 16 and hitting but only doing 8 points of damage, which does not penetrate his armor. Ends up in a “bear hug” by Brawn at the end of the turn.

Kickback 4: Attacks Jackknife, rolling a total of 15 but it does not hit due to Jackknife’s Adaptive Defense.

Shrapnel 3: Attacks Bushido, rolling a total of 12 and misses.

Brawn: Grapples Shrapnel 2 and uses his strength to squeeze the beetle for a total of 9 points of damage, after DR.

Kickback 5: Attacks Phoenix, rolling a total of 20 and hits. His bite does 6 points damage, after DR.

Phoenix: Takes 6 points of damage from Kickback 5

Up next
Stickshift
Kickback 1 &2
Phoenix

Sorry this took so long, gents. Life sort of got away from me the last couple of days. Shouldn’t happen again for a while, we hope

 

[hafrogman]

Stickshift turns to face the rest of the battle, and notices the bug attatched to Phoenix. He strides forward, reaching out towards it.

"Hold on, I got this scrap mongrel."


[ooc - what I'd love to do is pick the thing off his back and hurl it into a tree, but I'm not quite sure on the rules for that. So I suppose I'll settle for grappling it and attempting to remove it from Phoenix. +5 touch attack, then +14 for grapple checks.]

 

[Vendetta]

Stickshift reaches out and grabs the unsuspecting grasshopper robot and, with his massive strength, rips the bug off of Phoenix. With one motion, the Autobot SUV tosses the insecticon into a tree. The insecticon crashes through trees and other flora until finally smashing into the ground.

The first two Kickback insecticons continue their attack on Jackknife, but his battle calculation are flawless and both harmlessly miss with their attacks.

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Stickshift: Grabs and throws Kickback 5, doing 8 damage after DR.

Kickback 1 & 2: Attack Jackknife but miss, rolling a total of 12 and 18, respectively.

Up Next
Phoenix
Shrapnel 1
Kickback 3
Jackknife
Bushido

 

[rangerjohn]

Phoenix

Phoenix nods in thanks to Stickshift, then moves to line up a shot at Shrapnel.

Attack +5/+6 point blank 3d10 +1d8 dmg.

 

[Kalanyr]

Bushido watches the others in battle and nods in satisfaction, as he draws back his Katana to strike at Shrapnel 3 again.

"Your weakness springs from your dishonour."

Attack Bonus 21. (16 rolled +5 (Katana) , 24 damage rolled (4d6+4) if it hits.
+1 dodge bonus allocated against Shrapnel 3. AC is 19 (20 against Shrapnel 3)

 

[Vendetta]

Nodding his thanks to Stickshift, Phoenix takes aim again at the first beetle robot and fires, hitting again with similar effect as before. The beetle shrieks an unearthly, squealing battle cry as it turns and fires a 30 pound ball of steel. Knowing the effects, Phoenix again tries to dive for cover but again, isn’t quick enough as shards of jagged metal both penetrate and bounce off of his Cybertronian armored shell.

The Kickback clone hiding behind the tree also levels his blaster at Phoenix and hits, but the blast catches the armor at an angle very fortunate to Phoenix and ricocheted harmlessly away.

Jackknife looks over the battlefield, seemingly unaware of the three insecticons trying to have him for dinner. But ever the general, he thinks of his troops first and looks to see how they are doing before choosing his own action.

"Your weakness springs from your dishonour." Bushido proclaims as his lightning swift strike of his sword slashes through the third beetle again. The cut is true and pure, slashing through the core of the insecticon. Raw Energon begins to pour out of the beetle and Bushido instantly recognizes the damage that he did to the insecticon’s Energon capacitor.

The second beetle struggles futilely against Brawn’s fierce grip.

The fourth grasshopper climbs up Jackknife’s back looking for a “tender” place to bit. Preceded by a jovial “AH HA!”, Jackknife feels himself suddenly draining precious Energon as the insectile robot finds a seem in the armor where it then bites down on an exposed Energon cable. Automated systems seal the leaking Energon but the damage is done and the loss of Energon is immediately felt by the massive Autobot.

The third beetle transforms and, using his antenna, begins to attempt to draw electrical energy from the sky. So far, he manages only to generate a bit of static electricity.

Brawn wrestles the beetle to the ground and bear hugs it as it squeaks in pain. “Yer not going anywhere, bug brain.”

The final grasshopper transforms after crashing through the trees and, laying prone, fires off a single shot at Stickshift which hits, but does little damage to the large SUV.

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Phoenix: Attacks Shrapnel 1, 20 (1d20) +6 (attack bonus/+PB) = 26 and a critical strike. Crit to “Nexus Generator”. Damage 17 (3d10) +4 (1d8) = 21
Damage taken; Shrapnel 1 does 16 damage minus 8 for Large DR = 8 damage. Kickback 3 does 6 damage minus 8 for large DR = 0 damage.

Shrapnel 1: Total attack rolled 23 and hits Phoenix doing a total of 16 damage.

Kickback 3: attacks Phoenix with a total attack roll of 20, doing a total of 6 damage.

Bushido: Attacks Shrapnel 3 again, attack and damage previously rolled.

Jackknife: Hold. Action pending BS’s post.
Damage; Gets attacked by Kickback 4 who rolls a natural 20 and scores a critical. (Nexus Energy Leak; lose 3 (1d4) temp CON, but succeeds at the fort save and is not stunned (total rolled = 25) Also takes 12 damage minus 10 for Garg. DR. for a total of 2 damage. Additionally, half of your nexus energy reserve is gone until he can rest and regenerate it.

Shrapnel 3: Attempts to call lightning from the sky.

Brawn: Continues to squeeze the life out of Shrapnel 2, dealing a total of 20 damage.

Kickback 5: Attacks Stickshift with his blaster pistol, rolling a total of 17 and hits doing a total of 16 damage.

Stickshift: Gets shot by Kickback 5 and takes 16 damage minus 9 for Huge DR = 5 damage.

Up next
Jackknife (Holding)
Stickshift
Kickback 1&2
Phoenix
Shrapnel 1
Kickback 3