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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 4162163" data-attributes="member: 3087">Upstairs[sblock=Beth]Beth moves into the next room. Things are tidier here. There is a small well-tended sleeping mound in one corner (it has some pillows). A dozen long pieces of some sort of leather are stretched and drying on a makeshift drying rack.The altar dominates the room. On closer inspection it looks like it's made of thin stacked stone slabs (maybe pulled off of old sidewalks?).The idol itself is stone, maybe a food high. Mostly it looks like a lump of black stone but, looking closely at it, Beth thinks it bears resemblance to an extremely pregnant female form; half-reclining half-squatting. It <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1563260/" target="_blank">could be some sort of fertility figure</a>.The figures' prominent genitalia have pointy protrusions. Inept carving? Piercings? Teeth? It's impossible to say.[/sblock]Down in the ShopCole slips through the door, pulling the door behind him. It's inky black in the stairwell. Archer looks up at the vertical shaft. All he's got to do is reach up and pull himself up into the shaft. It's probably three feet above his head. He saw Beth do it; in an evening gown at that. Archer reaches up and tries to haul himself up the shaft. He <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1563230/" target="_blank">only manages to get his feet off the counter</a>.He looks over at the door, the approaching men are just outside the shop. One of them, he realizes, is a very large heavily pierced SE Asian. He's half supporting half carrying a smaller the smaller figure in one arm; in the other he's openly carrying a machete the size of a broadsword.Archer decides that he would very much like to be out of sight when the two men come into the shop. aren't vampires supposed to be supernaturally strong? he thinks to himself.Archer feels some sort of supernatural reaction in his body vitae courses through his system. He manages to haul himself <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1563246/" target="_blank">up a few more inches</a>.Archer hears the door swing open and wrenches <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1563251/" target="_blank">himself up a few more feet</a>. He's still half in half out of the shaft when the two men burst into the shop.Diego is trying to haul himself up onto the ledge above the doorway, unfortunately he's doing it without being seen, which involves a one handed haul. He <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1563216/" target="_blank">doesn't get up </a>before the two figures push their way into the room.Through a crack in the door, Cole can see the two figures pushing their way into the room, the larger one snarls, baring teeth filed to points. He gently rests the smaller figure against the table and starts toward Archer massive blade in hand.Diego reflexively dropped behind the door as it slides open. Since only the top of the door is glass he's out of sight.(For now, he'll be visible when the door swings closed).Diego can see the smaller figure is a scrawny south east Asian woman, maybe in her 40s half crouching half clinging to the table in front of him. She's piereced in places he'd never imagine, like the back of her neck, and lines of bone along her forearms. A ratty trench coat she's wearing has several long bloody slashes. He can see open wounds; deep gashes with ragged ebony edges that are slowly oozing blood.The smaller figure is clutching a large, wrapped parcel. Diego is close enough to reach out and touch her.[sblock=Initiative Order]<a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1563269/" target="_blank">Le Roll</a> (yes there were two rolls, the first one had some sort of malformed command, I just rolled again. Since the npcs are going last in the second roll I'm not expecting much in the way of complaints)12 - Diego11 - Cole11 - Archer9 - NPCs[/sblock][sblock=The spending of blood points and Willpower]So I spent some blood and will on behalf of Archer. And even with six dice he's generated precisely 0 successes.I think the new system will be that you should put a "block" on your character if you don't want me to spend Willpower or Blood points for you. (you can block either or, or block whenever you want, like if you get low on blood or whatever).Honestly I was expecting him to get a success (if I have my math right the odds of rolling six dice and getting 0 successes is around 4.66%) -- but them's the breaks.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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