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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vendetta" data-source="post: 1828912" data-attributes="member: 14961">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.  ----------------------==========((OOC))==========---------------------- 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 5Up next StickshiftKickback 1 &2PhoenixSorry 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 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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