Upward from Land's End

[MacConnell]

... Cormorant intends to move around the girl... cut... heat...

... Antapkos leaps... kick... push more...

The girl flinches at her serious wound, though shows no sign of backing down. She spits at Cormorant, with murder in her eyes. "You're a Bender!"

The three boys hear those words as they try to press the advantage of their numbers, but all three are now afraid, which hinders the assaults. It was foolish of the girl to spit those words, but foolishness so often accompanies narcissism.

Spoiler: Speed of Action

Cormorant: 100(bend)
Antapkos: 100(bend)
Girl: 100(bending) + 300(injured) = 400
Aboy: 300(move)
Sboy1: 200(pole) + 230(prone) = 430
Sboy2: 200(pole) + 220(prone) = 420

Spoiler: Mystical Assault

Cormorant: 13(bending) + 16(heat) + 10(d100) = 39
Antapkos: 21 + 14(push) + 19 = 54
Girl: 8(bend) + 8(heat) + 05 = 23

Aboy:
Sboy1: Mind: 4 - 1 = 3 + 1 = 4, dazed.
Sboy2: 14 + 23 = 37.
damage: 54 - 37 = 17% * 6 = ~1. Mind: 5 - 1 = 4, dazed, prone

Girl: 6(conditioning) + 8(fury) + 23 (d100) = 37, insignificant
Body: 4 - 1 = 3, injured

Spoiler: Physical Assault

Cormorant: 18(aggression) + 12(accuracy) + 16(fury) + 25(d00) = 71
Antapkos: 13(finesse) + 19(accuracy) + 15(clarity) + 75(d100) = 121
Others: 21 + 40 = 61

Antapkos: 15(defend) + 19(avoidance) + 15(analysis) + 75(d100) = 123, dodged
Cormorant: 16 + 12 + 15 + 25 = 68, dodged

Girl: damage: 71 - 61 = 10% * 5 = 1 x 3, Body: 3 - 3 = 0, incapacitated
Sboy1:
Sboy2: 121 - 61 = 60% * 2 = 1. Mind: 4 - 1 = 3, dazed

The second barrage of assaults is more awkward by all involved, perhaps the initial adrenaline had been burned, causing a pendulum effect. Both Cormorant and Antapkos engage their first target, almost simultaneously. Cormorant is unable to mystically heat the girl but does draw an additional cut on her as her moves. Being slowed as she is from her previous injuries, he is able to cut her twice more before she can move. The additional cuts cause her only movement to be falling to the ground, incapacitated. She is still conscious. Cormorant turns to see that the Ansylin boy has retrieved his skiff pole but is not yet close enough to attack.

Antapkos manages to push air but not nearly as efficiently as he had on his first assaults. Alternating between opponents, he is able to keep either boy from bing able to stand and continues to pummel on them until they lose consciousness.

Only the Ansylin boy remains standing; and with a look of terror on his face, turns to run. There is really no place to run. Cormorant and Antapkos are between him and further inland. he can only run toward the jetty or out into the ocean. The boy cannot swim.

Spoiler: Collections

2 clams: currency

Marsh Hen Feathers: 2 sets: ??
Marsh Hen Feet: 2 pair: ??
Marsh Hen Skulls: 2: ??
Marsh Rat Feet: 2 pars: ??
Marsh Rat Skulls: 2: ??

OOC: Each character receives 5 DP. State intentions. Provide 2 random rolls.

 

[MacConnell]

OOC: Posting for Player 1

Cormorant realizes, with all due certainty, that he cannot let this boy run. Whether he likes it or not, this encounter must only contain survivors from one side. He takes off running after the boy, understanding that he must end his life. No one can know that he is a Bender. He did not even realize such himself, until the girl spat such words at him, but it is true.

OOC: 59, 75

 

[MacConnell]

OOC: Posting for Player 2

Antapkos sees that Cormorant is going for the boy. Since the two Shimadow boys are unconscious for the moment, he walks over to the girl. He bends waylines to make his hand glow before taking her knife from her and slitting her throat. "Your rein of terror has come to an end, Mala'kio. We cannot let you tell of our gifts. Good riddance."

OOC: 66, 30

 

[MacConnell]

Cormorant... takes off running after the boy... must end his life...

Antapkos... walks over to the girl... taking her knife from her and slitting her throat...

Being taller and faster, it takes little time for Cormorant to catch the fleeing boy. Having reservations about the need to take his life, much more to stab him in the back, he trips him. The boy falls, and Cormorant falls on him, sticking the knife in his belly. He cups his other hand over the boy's mouth and then sticks the knife in his neck. The boy is done.

Antapkos learns a valuable lesson about conscious Benders. Ceramic works as a conduit. Even if no bodily contact is made, when he touches the knife in her hand, the girl bends mystical waylines to siphon life from him. It is not enough and despite his initial shock at the occurrence, Antapkos kills the girl without further adieu. He quickly walks over to end each Shimadow boy, as well. Such is the nature of survival in a city that has become a hostile place to live. The Bird Brothers find themselves standing among the corpses of four fallen by their hands.

Spoiler: Character Data

Antapkos: Body: 10 - 1 = 9, irritated
Cormorant: full wellness

Spoiler: Collections

2 clams: currency

Marsh Hen Feathers: 2 sets: ??
Marsh Hen Feet: 2 pair: ??
Marsh Hen Skulls: 2: ??
Marsh Rat Feet: 2 pars: ??
Marsh Rat Skulls: 2: ??

OOC: Each character receives 5 DP. State intentions. Provide a random roll.

 

[MacConnell]

Far away on the eastern coast some twenty cycles back, in a small Spiofthest village located at the mouth of the river the locals call Downdraft, an unseasonably strong storm had raised concern. It was not the only concern that night. A young mother was to give birth any minute. There was a bright flash of light followed by a loud, thundering rumble. Rains are not usually so violent, not even in the early Drenching Season, and this was the Chilling Season. A cold draft of wind had come down from the mountains for two days before the warm sea air had objected, and the rain started, a cold rain for the southeast of the continent. A day's walk southward and the forest became jungle. Just as the rumbling stopped, the cry of the mother giving birth was emitted. The newborn coughed twice and drew its first breath of air, without any need to force the issue. The storm ceased and all was quiet. For a people not much prone to superstition, it has some portent.

The new baby boy was a bit small, when compared to the normal birth and, once cleaned, rather pale, even for a Spiofthest. These Faethrins are not cloud white like the Shimadow. They are more the color of beach sand, but evenly so. In addition to the unnatural paleness, this child also had freckles across his shoulders and upper back and sporadically about his legs. As it so happens, the freckles did not fade with age. His hair, when it came in, was as white as his skin, so much so that the people began to wonder if the father had been Shimadow. The particular revelrous festival that led to the eventual procreation had its participants masked. The young maiden claimed that it was the Wayward Traveler, but most actually believed him to be a myth, just a story to add to the revelry of the Planters' Festival. The claim reassured rather than disuade the elder, more skeptical, members of the village to believe that a Shimadow had infiltrated their festival. Rather than harbor avarice toward the woman, it was more the nature of these people to be thankful that she was not hurt.

GM: This proceeding opens the possibility for a third player with the introduction of an additional character of the Spiofthest tribe, of either gender. These two storylines will eventually merge.

 

[MacConnell]

OOC: Posting for Player 1

Cormorant grabs the Ansylin boy by the ankles and starts to drag the body back with the others, then thinks better of it. He walks back over to Antapkos. "How do you want to handle this? I don't think it is a good idea to just leave them here."

Once a decision is made, Cormorant will search the bodies, looking for anything of importance.

OOC: 63

 

[MacConnell]

OOC: Posting for Player 2

Antapkos stands and looks around. He rubs his thumbs against the two forefingers of each hand before speaking. "Well, dismembering them and dropping the parts in the ocean seems the best option, but it also seems psychotic, not something I think that I can do. We should separate them. That way, even if discovered, it will happen individually and little association should be made. I am thinking that we carry one of the Shimadow boys back into the marsh, here, leave the Ansylin boy in the surf, take the girl out to the end of the jetty where the tide will take her out, and carry the last Shimadow bot down the beach. We keep one of their skiffs and drift the other where we drop the girl."

Antapkos will help search the bodies before they are moved.

OOC: 51

 

[MacConnell]

Cormorant... will search...

Antapkos... will help search...

The decision being made, the fallen are searched before moved. Cormorant notices a feather talisman, but everything else is non-essential food stuff. Recognizing the talisman as being identical to the ones already possessed, it is disregarded.

Both young men are needed to carry the first boy back into the marsh. Some effort is made to disguise the trampled grass. The second boy is carried into the surf. While dismemberment is out of the question, venting the body so that it sinks is of no consequence. Afterward, the Bird Brothers separate. Cormorant takes the remaining boy westerward, down the coast. Antapkos takes the girl and the third skiff out to the end of the jetty but must wait for the outgoing tide, hoping no fishing vessel comes along. Even if so, not much would be noted of the two skiffs or the people. The girl would appear sleeping, without close examination.

Spoiler: Character Data

Antapkos: full wellness
Cormorant: full wellness

Spoiler: Collections

2 clams: currency

Marsh Hen Feathers: 2 sets: ??
Marsh Hen Feet: 2 pair: ??
Marsh Hen Skulls: 2: ??
Marsh Rat Feet: 2 pars: ??
Marsh Rat Skulls: 2: ??

OOC: Each character receives 5 DP. State intentions for the necessary wait time. Provide a random roll.

 

[MacConnell]

OOC: Posting for Player 2

Antapkos tethers the two skiffs together and secures his to the jetty, so that they will not drift apart or away. When the tide changes, he will vent the girl, loose her skiff, and flip it. In the mean time, he drops his fish trap over to see what he may catch. Thinking about it, he does something never before attempted. He takes a useless piece of seashell collected from the beach and causes it to glow with a red illumination. He uses this for bait.

OOC: 98+1

 

[MacConnell]

OOC: Posting for Player 1

Hoping to find a natural cut from the sea to the marsh or at least a narrow section of beach that mat offer a wash over, Cormorant will vent and deposit the body there. He will also set snares back in the marsh, while he waits for the tide to change.

OOC: 96+40