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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 5297400" data-attributes="member: 143">Well, NWN is a 2D-only engine, so things like climbing and swimming in the like were handled by widgets we had that allow you to roll a skill check and send the result to the DM for adjudication. In cases like this I'd hit the player with a knockdown and a few dice of damage. For really bad fails like a 1 I'd sometimes insert an added "oomph" effect that was mostly descriptor. In this case I may have hit Cat with a temporary slow effect (don't remember), but often I just leave it to the player to roleplay out the effects, this group was really good at that. * * * * * Session 27 (November 3, 2008)Chapter 120Vasily turned and tried to catch the falling agent, but he was a shade too slow.  Catalina landed feet first and crumpled, falling into Vasily’s grasp and nearly knocking him down.  He held her up as her face twisted in pain. “For crying out loud,” James said, hurrying over to her.  He took out his first aid kit, and helped Vasily lay her up against the closest rocks.  “Gah, damn surface,” Catalina said, smacking the rocks with her fist as James examined her leg.  “You okay, Cat?” Jane asked. “That hurt… my ankle…”James tested her right foot, easing as Catalina flinched.  “It’s not broken, but it’s a very bad sprain.”  He eased her boot off, and took out one of the X-COM medikits.  He injected that and a syringe of more conventional painkiller into the injury, then quickly put a pressure wrap on it before carefully putting the swelling foot back into her boot.  “It’s going to smart later, but you should be able to put weight on it now.”“Man, they might as well have sent a bunch of circus clowns,” Vala muttered under her breath.  “Come on, we’ve got to get moving.”“I’m starting to dislike her,” Mary said to Jane, as they picked up their gear and started out again.  Vasily helped Catalina back to her feet.  “You learn lesson now, yes?  If in doubt, always tie rope to Russian.”Vala led them into the woods, and within twenty paces the trees swallowed up the Alphas, leaving no trace of their passing.* * * “Look up top,” Vala whispered.  “Battlements, near the right.”Vasily shifted his gaze, his optics zooming the view until he was focused on the spot that the agent had indicated.  “Plasma cannon?” he asked. “It’s not manned, runs off of the sensor array,” Vala said.  “But the sensors run along the entire base of this hill.”“I might be able to disable one, open a gap,” Catalina said.  She looked up as Hadrian and Jane reappeared, hurrying quickly to the vantage where the others were watching the castle below.  “The tank is still there,” Hadrian reported.  “Five guards, four humans, one muton.”  Vasily updated them on what they’d seen here, facing the rear of the castle. “We set off the alarms, we’ve got a world of trouble,” Vala said. “Your choice, do I make the try?” Catalina asked.    Vala shrugged.  “You’re the heroes.  I just work here.”“Go for it,” Hadrian said.  “Is what we bring you for, hah,” Vasily said.Catalina nodded and made her way down the slope.  She paused just out of the range of the line of sensors, then knelt and carefully shimmied down to a low rise where a boulder jutted up under the roots of an ancient tree.  A sensor lay below the barrier, a tiny metallic flange that was just visible sticking out of the soil.  Catalina crawled up onto the boulder, stared at the thing for a moment, then slowly began to lean out toward the exposed sensor.  “If she’s detected, that cannon will crisp her before we can do anything,” Jane said. Catalina had reached the sensor, and she was delicately prodding at it with a tiny tool held in her fully-extended fingers.  “Nasty little sod,” she whispered, ignoring the twitching of her ankle as she held herself precariously balanced on the edge of the boulder. There was an audible click.  “Got you,” she whispered.The Alphas made their way cautiously down the slope, staying in the narrow band of space that Catalina indicated.  “I’ve bypassed the feed, but they’ll probably figure it out eventually,” she told the others.  “Nice work,” Vala granted. “She no ordinary circus clown,” Vasily said. “Careful,” Hadrian said.  “Could be a secondary or even tertiary one.”Vala nodded at the Marine.  “Suspicious, even a bit paranoid.  I like him.”They made their way forward, until the bulk of the castle loomed over them.  There were no doors on the ground level on this side of the structure, and the windows were all high, narrow, and protected by bars, but there was a narrow balcony six meters up, with a recessed door just visible.  The Alphas started toward it, moving slowly in single file, but they’d only just gotten into the shadow of the wall when they heard a deep *CLICK* that froze them. They turned back toward Vala, who was looking down at the metallic plate just visible under her right foot.  “Oh, damn it all,” the agent said.</blockquote>

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