>>2731848
"Anyone told you that you aren't very good at pep talks TA? Now give me those keys, let's do a last check on what inventory we can scrounge up ands let's roll."

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but i trust you to get this done lightning fast , right? i'll be sitting here, monitoring comms and trying to convince everyone else on this boat you're all at an unscheduled funeral, mourning.

it'll be fine
promise

now c'mon, hustle. suit tracker won't have infinite range, and we lose the signal, that's it!

>Pilots now have field craft
>TechOp drones actually clarified and not left to inductive reasoning
>Hidden bonus change


==Name==
Ht XXFocus XX Reaction XX
AP YY Grit YY Crunch YY (4 or 0)
--
Accuracy-XX
Fieldcraft-XX
[Other Skill]-XX
--
Hand1: WEAPON

>Experimental Equipment for Pilots: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZoWo7O3deJ6fFNVcWh3zNz0JpQoM0SMNUwRBS-Q6Ipo/edit?usp=sharing

>Incomplete Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YPNs01vtVjQmldJIAQVPvKvK_miHlTe8c2qUtd1c9N8/edit?usp=sharing

>There's a discord for skirmish games, in case you want to talk shop or talk shoot: https://discord.gg/jnUHeDB

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here, i'll counterfeit a bunch of transfer paperwork in case you want to bring a different gun, okay??

'least i can do

>>2731854
hey i thought it was very inspiring

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now lesseee hereeee

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[Meanwhile, elsewhere]

[Scarf] Oh what precious thing the stand have spit out

and such a prize for a bleeding wanderer! my my, blade. You should come with Scarf. This is no place for a sword to rest!

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=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker

--
=Supplies & Allies=
17 Supply

--

well this is a nice quiet place. wonder why the rebus picked it. it's sort of out of the way of . . . everything.

go have a look and see what you find, Slacker.

[ TRENCHER ]

Rolled 10, 9 = 19 (2d10)

>>2731855
Hello, mirage people, what a lovely-fine day in this lovely-fine desert it is.

==Compass==
Ht 12 Focus 12 Reaction 9
AP 10 Grit 4 Crunch 0
--
Accuracy-12
Fieldcraft-10
--
Hand1: Chirni-77

>>2731928
It's been months since I got stranded out here, I think I've been walking in circles. Don't trust the directions of lizards and cacti, they are lying to you. They just want you to fall over and die so that they can eat your body.

>>2731911
>>2731911

"Alright, nice and easy, let's not tip off our friends until It's too late."
>Actions
>Tether shield to me with the shield being at where i would normally carry it. 4AP
>Attempt to move stealthily 5,5,4,5,4,4
>Face 6
>Use [Reactive] Overwatch use 6 bullets if hostiles appear

==Slacker==
Ht12/12 Focus12/12 Reaction9
AP10 Grit5 Crunch0 DR3
--
Accuracy-10
Fieldcraft-12
--
[Medium] DR3, Consumables 4AP
Hand1: [Chirni77] 3AP, 1d6+2, 40/40 [2/2], RoF +1/3 at 2, Reactive
Knife: [Sharp Edge] 1d3+M
[Storm shield] 14/14 health, 4 Dr, [Bulky], [Flash]
--
[Gasmask] 4AP, Immune to Particles and Hazards.
[Pistol] 1d6, 18/18 [2/2], RoF +1/3 at 2, Quickdraw
Multitool
x2 Smoke
x2 Frag
x2 Flash
x2 Field Kit

[Ascendant Transpatiality]
“Here - There - Everywhere!”
( Tether an object within GRIT to another object within GRIT for 3 AP.
Roll RANGE to tether at range.
Warp OR fling tethered objects from their current location with 1 AP, rolling accuracy.
Tethered objects move when their anchor point does. Tethers may stack.

>>2731933
"Y-You scared me there. I didn't expect any uh, anyone other than vanadians out here. You're dressed like a trencher... how... Y'know, since we're mirage people and all, would you like a mirage mission to save a mirage soldier? From mirage enemies? With mirage guns?"

>>2731943
The mirages get realer and realer every day, soon they'll be more real than the desert. A cloud told me that, when I asked it for water. It was a very wise cloud.
Okay, mirage person, I'll help you mirage kill your mirage friends.

>>2692135
>>2695799
>>Hidden Bonus
>>2721164
>>2731855
>>Hidden bonus change
Comparing the changes together, the hidden bonuses seem to be font changes. Besides the background changes, it can't be mechanical changes because that would create confusion.
>>2731855
>Experimental Equipment for Pilots: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZoWo7O3deJ6fFNVcWh3zNz0JpQoM0SMNUwRBS-Q6Ipo/edit?usp=sharing
>>2722216
Adding changes and AP costs to guide.

>>2727916
>>Reflect on life decisions leading me to this point.
>>Request a harmonica.
>Try to learn the harmonica. Realize I don't have much training material for this.

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=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker
TR2 | Compass

--
=Supplies & Allies=
17 Supply

--

you're right, slacker, that is weird. why would there be a pytherian theurgical sigil here? i don't think the rebus like them.

no hostiles though, so we're good for now

and lookit, you found a friend

hi compass!
glad you could join us!

>>2731954
>>2731933
psst slacker
they're probably one of merkalins
got himself lost in the desert trying to do some sabotage

i wouldn't worry, they're a fine lot and i'm sure compass is perfectly nor--

HOLY VOIDSTAR THAT GRAPH IS NOT MEANT TO CURVE THAT WAY

ahem
lets just be real polite with the new guy now, right

Rolled 10, 9
[ Transcendent ]
“This close to perfection, the remaining margins of mere humanity to slice off are too slim by far . . . “

You were made to bond with the Other. It lives in your essence. Gain a [Threshold] stat of 3.

You can innately:
Passively add Threshold to everything you do.
Take 2x AP cost to maximize the effect dice of an action, and 3x AP cost to force a critical success.

You may:
Mark any living being with 1 AP to gain a [Empyreal Boon]. Mark any non-living material with 1 AP to gain a [Lucifogous Boon]. Try to mark boundary conditions with 1 AP to gain . . .
Roll vs Threshold + Boons spent to beg a Favor. Don’t mix Boons, the results are . . . bad.

Alternatively, spend Ap and Focus to roll vs Threshold to Compel a favor. Icons can only influence things in your direct LoS

[ TRENCHERS ]

>>2731967

'Let's get our boy back'

>deploy with 4x troopers

Ht 45/45 Focus 12/12 Reaction 9
Ap 12 DR 19
--
Accuracy-9
Melee-12
--
Machine Gun
Cannon
--
Stunt Driving Practice (Gain infantry reaction)

>>2731967
>4 tiny grey bulbs with grey strings at mid-East of revealed map.
I know I'm imprisoned and all so I can't say much, but that looks like a tripwire and mines.

>>2731967
"That's ah... huh. Well he seems friendly enough, I'm not one to judge based on reality warping powers, I've got 'em too after all..."

>>2731974
"Bad news Pilot, this is off the books, we don't *have* support, not really. And if I were you, I wouldn't trust mercs with this."


>ACTIONS
>Move 5,6
>PLANT FLAG A
>Pull back pistol chamber to reveal bullet
>Tether what will be referred to as Frag grenade (B) to the bullet in the chamber, to prep it to be launched with the bullet.
>Face 5
>Reactive overwatch with the Chirni, six bullets

==Slacker==
Ht12/12 Focus12/12 Reaction9
AP10 Grit5 Crunch0 DR3
--
Accuracy-10
Fieldcraft-12
--
[Medium] DR3, Consumables 4AP
Hand1: [Chirni77] 3AP, 1d6+2, 40/40 [2/2], RoF +1/3 at 2, Reactive
Knife: [Sharp Edge] 1d3+M
[Storm shield] 14/14 health, 4 Dr, [Bulky], [Flash]
--
[Gasmask] 4AP, Immune to Particles and Hazards.
[Pistol] 1d6, 18/18 [2/2], RoF +1/3 at 2, Quickdraw
Multitool
x2 Smoke
x2 Frag
x2 Flash
x2 Field Kit

[Ascendant Transpatiality]
“Here - There - Everywhere!”
( Tether an object within GRIT to another object within GRIT for 3 AP.
Roll RANGE to tether at range.
Warp OR fling tethered objects from their current location with 1 AP, rolling accuracy.
Tethered objects move when their anchor point does. Tethers may stack.

>>2731991
Naaaah that sounds real paranoid now, trencher

real paranoid

why would we go about stringing claymores up all over the place like we were EXPECTING COMPANY?

>>2731890
>>2731893
>>2731858
>>2731855
>>2731848
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Trenchers

>Previous threads

>>2731991
That's a good spot sir, It's a good thing I spotted that myself and you didn't. That's how It's going in the report, see?

>>2731974
Erika! You can't just drive down through the middle unless you want to be blown up and alert the enemy! It looks like you'll have to drive along the wall and bully your way into a building or something.

>>2731967
The wolves will get you eventually, sky person, no matter how deep inside that fortress you hide.

> Mark TA Theraski
> Mark Tr Slacker
> Mark Pi Erika
> Mark Tr Rookie

> Examine oddity 55, force crit
> Examine oddity 33444, force crit
> Pay focus, Listen to the wind, force crit

==Compass==
Ht 12 Focus 12 Reaction 9
AP 10 Grit 4 Threshold 3
--
Accuracy-12
Fieldcraft-10
--
Hand1: Chirni-77

>>2731996
I called that this was a trap dammit. >>2728696

Is TA a mole? Is this all a set-up? Is Rookie even actually HERE?

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=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker [Ht 12 Focus 12]
TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 3]
Pi3 | Erika [ Ht 45, Focus 12]

--
=Supplies & Allies=
23 Supply

--

Harmonica tunes play gently on the wind, barely out of sight except for that convenient nudging breeze that hinted it towards our ears.

>>2732001
That one oddity 33444 is a series of claymore anti personel mines, wired up to go off the moment anything crosses it.

But someone is playing tricky buggers, and there's a second hidden trap in the crates that go off only if the first trap is disarmed.

That totem just 33 appears to be a twisted simulacra of a person, but the skulls are real enough, all bleached by the sun and with eyes too slightly big.

Maybe they were intended to ward something off, or warn of something? Territory markers by a particular nefarious band of scavengers?

[ TRENCHERS ]

>>2731996
What makes you think you were the ones who set them up? I don't think I recognize this place from any maps.

>>2732000
>That's a good spot sir, It's a good thing I spotted that myself and you didn't. That's how It's going in the report, see?
Totally. >>2731967 And the fact there appears to be chalk outlines of dinosaur-like creatures and burrow holes that look an awful lot like what the insect amalgamations might dig.
>Erika! You can't just drive down through the middle unless you want to be blown up and alert the enemy! It looks like you'll have to drive along the wall and bully your way into a building or something.
I want to see this happen now.

>>2732003
>I called that this was a trap dammit.
>>2728696(Cross-thread)#
This is the Rebus Agents we're talking about, they utterly outclassed us when we fought, >>2721583
>Two, Three, Four? On mine . . . Shoot to wound.
and would've curbstomped us had they not been merciful. I wouldn't put this out of the question.

>>2732003
>Is TA a mole? Is this all a set-up? Is Rookie even actually HERE?
>>2726381
Could be. It's a prison cell for all I know.

>>2732009
>>>2726381(Cross-thread)#
Meant >>2726352R

>>2732007
>Harmonica tunes play gently on the wind, barely out of sight except for that convenient nudging breeze that hinted it towards our ears.
>inb4 the reason it's convenient is because it's being played through a speaker.

>>2732007
>Actions SPRINT 3,2,2,2,2,2,2,2 up to the wall
>Using the (6, considering the sprint costs focus right?) AP I have left, disassemble the wall. If I need to tap into focus
>Move 2 and hide in the hay pile, peeking out to observe the room
>Overwatch with chirni six bullets [Reactive]

"Stay quiet gentlemen, stay quiet for now."

==Slacker==
Ht12/12 Focus12/12 Reaction9
AP10 Grit5 Crunch0 DR3
--
Accuracy-10
Fieldcraft-12
--
[Medium] DR3, Consumables 4AP
Hand1: [Chirni77] 3AP, 1d6+2, 40/40 [2/2], RoF +1/3 at 2, Reactive
Knife: [Sharp Edge] 1d3+M
[Storm shield] 14/14 health, 4 Dr, [Bulky], [Flash]
--
[Gasmask] 4AP, Immune to Particles and Hazards.
[Pistol] 1d6, 18/18 [2/2], RoF +1/3 at 2, Quickdraw
Multitool
x2 Smoke
x2 Frag
x2 Flash
x2 Field Kit

[Ascendant Transpatiality]
“Here - There - Everywhere!”
( Tether an object within GRIT to another object within GRIT for 3 AP.
Roll RANGE to tether at range.
Warp OR fling tethered objects from their current location with 1 AP, rolling accuracy.
Tethered objects move when their anchor point does. Tethers may stack.

>>2732017
(And with that I have to run an errand. Though this might sound weird, I entrust Rookie to bot me if I don't make it back in time for the next round. I should be gone an hour or less.)

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[Pathfinder]
HALT

[Theurge]
What is it?

[Pathfinder]
A TRAP, SIRE

[Theurge]
. . . Curious. Can you disable it, Mechanical Soul?

[Pathfinder]
I shall attempt it, Sire. Please stand back.

[Theurge]
Very well. Decanus, get your men to watch the perimeter. The signal resonates strongest in the abandoned town ahead. But this trap has me ill at ease.

>>2732007
Compass blinks slowly.
> Mark mech east
> Mark shrubs west
> Mark skulls west
> Mark crates south
> Mark shrubs south
> Mark wreckage south

> Move 4445

==Compass==
Ht 12 Focus 9 Reaction 9
AP 10 Grit 4 Threshold 3
--
Accuracy-12
Fieldcraft-10
--
Hand1: Chirni-77

>>2732007
>>2731890
>Dummy Reinforcements!
>Troopers actually look like target dummies.
My sides. This takes target practice to a whole new level.

>>2732007
>pic
>Bottom-South of revealed map looks like a turret on some tarp overwatching the trap.
Concerning.

>>2732018
>The guy whose character is unavailable and getting rescued is rescuing the unavailable guy's character.
Sure.

>>2732019
>Another potential 4-way fight.
Wonder who these guys are.

Rolled 3, 4 = 7 (2d10)

>>2732019>>2731967

"Ahhhhhhh!!! My mind was ready but my flesh was not agggghh!!!"

>Roll up as a trencher


>Also a challenge to the Qm this name is a anagram to someone. Figure it out for a internet cookie :D

>>2732025
>>Also a challenge to the Qm this name is a anagram to someone. Figure it out for a internet cookie :D
Is this from a previous quest of the QM's?

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=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker [Ht 12 Focus 10]
TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 5] [Lucifogous 4]
Pi3 | Erika [ Ht 45, Focus 12]
TR4 | Rial Mine [Ht 12, Focus 12]

--
=Supplies & Allies=
23 Supply

--
we plunder stray scraps of essence to feed the bits inside of us - or do we ? Slacker dives through a wall and hides in a convenient haystack

with dawning horror he realizes the haystack is actually a wasps nest

--

reinforcement arrive, ahead of the wind that kicks up, drowning all in a roar of sand and flensing crystal

[ SANDSTORM PHASE ]

>>2732026
No?
Well the anagram stands for someone in this map, and no i don't think so...

>>2732017
>>Using the (6, considering the sprint costs focus right?) AP I have left, disassemble the wall. If I need to tap into focus
>>2731855
Sprint costs 2 Focus.

>>2732028
So either someone currently in this map, Trenchers: Mission Improbable, or someone previously on this map, Shady Sands. Hm. I’m guessing it’s Shady Sands because I can’t think of an anagram I’d recognize.

>>2732022
In their glittering core they built a throne and sought to chain a god there. Celestial light warred against abyssal darkness and the world it broke it broke it broke. The mirages are becoming realer every day.

Lost your compass That's okay, forget your name, bury it under the sand and call yourself Compass and you'll never lose it again. Or... maybe you will, if you are unlucky. Or maybe it turns into something that used to be a compass, but isn't a compass any more. Or maybe it breaks, and just goes spinning round round round round. Either way, it won't help you get out of the desert.

=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker [Ht 12 Focus 10]
TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 5] [Lucifogous 4]
Pi3 | Erika [ Ht 45, Focus 12]
TR4 | Rial Mine [Ht 12, Focus 12]

--
=Supplies & Allies=
23 Supply

--

there's a sandstorm rolling in, trencher! it's going to make it damned hard to see anything. it'll last for another turn and then it might die down, but this is just a small gust ahead of the main thing.

get inside or something

--

the wind almost drowns out the sound of a harmonica, but only just.

>>2732038
Sand is just little stones. Stones are just big sand!

>Increase Matter skill
>Deploy

==[Re] Carrie==
Ht 10 Focus 14 Reaction 8
AP 12 Grit 2 Crunch 4 DR1
--
Accuracy-10
Fieldcraft-10
Matter-10
--
Hands: Manipulator Array (Matter)

Pistol (ammo 18/18 (2/2); [QD]; RoF +1/3 at 2; 1d6 dmg)
Frag x2, Smoke x2, Stun x2, Field Kit x2, Gasmask
Knife (1d3+M)

>>2732027
>with dawning horror he realizes the haystack is actually a wasps nest
>>2732018
>>2732022
>Sure.
>Bot Slacker.
>Get rid of wasps.
>Carefully leave wasps nest.
>[Fieldcraft] Investigate corpses on sticks and skulls at 4. Evaluate 5. 1+5 AP
>Free Overwatch Face 3.
What does that /(.)\ symbol, a circle with a dot crossed out, next to Slacker's cover sign mean?
>Move 4. 1 AP.
>Open crates at 3. 1 AP.
>Move 5x2. 2 AP

>>2732033
Truly madness has claimed those of the Shady Sands.

Rolled 2, 5, 6 = 13 (3d6)

>>2732043
>>[Fieldcraft] Investigate corpses on sticks and skulls at 4. Evaluate 5. 1+5 AP

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>>2732038
yeah i've got dirt all over this monitor

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNhfuhiveUMt

>>2732028
gotta go waaaaay back now.

>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/736886/

>>2731855
>now c'mon, hustle. suit tracker won't have infinite range, and we lose the signal, that's it!
>>2732019
>Very well. Decanus, get your men to watch the perimeter. The signal resonates strongest in the abandoned town ahead. But this trap has me ill at ease.
I wonder if the Legion's trackers are pointing the same spot the Vanadians' are.

>>2732028
Well you can't be, because I am

>>2732046
Where did you go, Mr. Fluffles?

>Dismount BT to 5
>Move 55456
>6Ap - investigate the NW building for signs of predatory wildlife and magical shenanigans.

==[Re] Carrie==
Ht 10 Focus 14 Reaction 8
AP 12 Grit 2 Crunch 4 DR1
--
Accuracy-10
Fieldcraft-10
Matter-10
--
Hands: Manipulator Array (Matter)

Pistol (ammo 18/18 (2/2); [QD]; RoF +1/3 at 2; 1d6 dmg)
Frag x2, Smoke x2, Stun x2, Field Kit x2, Gasmask
Knife (1d3+M)

>>2732033
>>2732043
No, this isn't madness. This is Clarity.

>>2732025
Rolled 3,4 = 7
[ Mentalist Copycat ]

Copy any action human-scale action you see performed in direct LoS for 4 AP.

Spend 6 AP to [Mimic] something or someone.

>>2732046
>>2732055
"Awesome, lets keep it that way."
>Shoulder trencher bag and wonder about my skill....

>Move: 4,4,3,3,4,
>Loot the boxes 3 ap
>Donate 2 ap to the AP pool.

>>2732063
>Also spend 6 focus to begin mimicking lirens voice....For the memes

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=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker [Ht 12 Focus 10]
TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 5] [Lucifogous 4]
Pi3 | Erika [ Ht 45, Focus 12]
TR4 | Rial Mine [Ht 12, Focus 12]
Re5 | Carrie [Ht 10 Focus 14]

--
=Supplies & Allies=
28 Supply

--

where did mr. fluffles go, carrie? we all want to know

--

Slacker brushes off the wasps and locate ssome supplies as the storm dies down

--

Carrie spies a Pytherian Containment Circle - currently containing nothing. It is inked in the ground with crushed fireglass and old, dried blood. it might expalin the skulls and effigies - not-quite-human as they are.

Likely, the Theurges made an example of this small village once upon a time? Then the circles they conjured horrors in remain, time-bound stasis-locked wards containing nothing but the things inside that have long since shrunk to dust.

---

trencher Rial Mine, you've found a REAL MINE and it is armed you best be real careful now

>Disabling requires a FieldCraft roll
>It was setup by Professionals
>Beat Margin 5 or detonate.

>Or is there some other solution?

[ TRENCHER ]

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[Pathfinder]
Sire, it is released from its trickery. I apologise for taking so long, but it had a dead-switch and a motiontracker. Whoever set this up knew what they were doing.

[Theurge]
Can we proceed now?

[Pathfinder]
Please but let us clear the path ahead. Where there is one trap, you find more.

[Theurge]
I understand, Mechanical. You may take the prerogative.

Decanus, follow the Pathfinder.

[Pathfinder]
Can you trace the signal further?

[Theurge]
The centre of the village, not the estate further. It has a curious, rhytmic underpinning. Why it would broadcast on all frequencies is a mystery.

This place seems familiar. If I could only place it. It has the taste of old memories...

>>2732070
>trencher Rial Mine, you've found a REAL MINE and it is armed you best be real careful now
>>2732009
>>2732007
>Someone ignored the mine warning.
That was fast.

>>2732070
Are you there, Mr. Fluffles?

>Move 666
>Loot the boxes - 4Ap?
>Move 33 444

==[Re] Carrie==
Ht 10 Focus 14 Reaction 8
AP 12 Grit 2 Crunch 4 DR1
--
Accuracy-10
Fieldcraft-10
Matter-10
--
Hands: Manipulator Array (Matter)

Pistol (ammo 18/18 (2/2); [QD]; RoF +1/3 at 2; 1d6 dmg)
Frag x2, Smoke x2, Stun x2, Field Kit x2, Gasmask
Knife (1d3+M)

>>2732070
>>Disabling requires a FieldCraft roll
>>It was setup by Professionals
>>Beat Margin 5 or detonate.
Does he have to disable it within this phase, or so long as it's ignored it's fine?

>>2731935
>[Ascendant Transpatiality]
>“Here - There - Everywhere!”
>( Tether an object within GRIT to another object within GRIT for 3 AP.
>Roll RANGE to tether at range.
>Warp OR fling tethered objects from their current location with 1 AP, rolling accuracy.
>Tethered objects move when their anchor point does. Tethers may stack.
What does roll RANGE mean? Roll a 3d6 and it has to be within [Grit] (5 for Slacker) to succeed? Range is anytime it's further than 1 hex from him?

>>2732070
..............
>-Drop the act
>Attempt to disable the mine 3 of me, for 8 ap.
>Burn 4 focus and 4 ap to disable a mine 2 of me

Rolled 2, 6, 3 = 11 (3d6)

>>2732070

>pivot saw slightly
>fire cannon (+1 ap) on enemy car
>reload

>request botting

>>2732070
>Move 2,3,3,3,3,3
>Free Overwatch Six bullets
>Plant flag B

==Slacker==
Ht12/12 Focus12/12 Reaction9
AP10 Grit5 Crunch0 DR3
--
Accuracy-10
Fieldcraft-12
--
[Medium] DR3, Consumables 4AP
Hand1: [Chirni77] 3AP, 1d6+2, 40/40 [2/2], RoF +1/3 at 2, Reactive
Knife: [Sharp Edge] 1d3+M
[Storm shield] 14/14 health, 4 Dr, [Bulky], [Flash]
--
[Gasmask] 4AP, Immune to Particles and Hazards.
[Pistol] 1d6, 18/18 [2/2], RoF +1/3 at 2, Quickdraw
Multitool
x2 Smoke
x2 Frag
x2 Flash
x2 Field Kit

[Ascendant Transpatiality]
“Here - There - Everywhere!”
( Tether an object within GRIT to another object within GRIT for 3 AP.
Roll RANGE to tether at range.
Warp OR fling tethered objects from their current location with 1 AP, rolling accuracy.
Tethered objects move when their anchor point does. Tethers may stack.

>>2732046
It's no time to be sleeping little doggies, the mirage people asked for our help. Wake up, now.

> Stroke the dogs
> Spend 3AP to compel favor, force crit

==Compass==
Ht 12 Focus 9 Reaction 9
AP 10 Grit 4 Threshold 3
--
Accuracy-12
Fieldcraft-10
--
Hand1: Chirni-77

>>2732079
It' sa semi-typo.

Think of it as "Roll when versus range". Eg: Roll vs range
eg: roll accuracy to shoot a teether at standard range penalties.

>>2732080
That didn't look like a Pytherian vehicle. Maybe those were friendlies.

>>2732076
Good to have you back operator Carrie. Do be sure to drop emitters around as you go, they could prove invaluable later on.

>>2732088
Oh. We'll it's moot for me since >>2732086 is back.
>>2732080
Do you want to roll for both defusals?

I would help, but I don't think I can act like this separated from command. Nor that I would know you’re in danger.

>>2732089
>>>2732080#
You mean >>2732082?
>>2732082
>>request botting
I'll try, no guarantees it’ll be done well.

>>2732070
>1 Rebus Agent is visible to South-East of visible map. Across the building I'm apparently playing my harmonica from.
>Adjacent to some poison crates to his West.

=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker [Ht 12 Focus 10]
TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 2] [Lucifogous 4]
Pi3 | Erika [ Ht 45, Focus 12]
TR4 | Rial Mine [Ht 12, Focus 12]
Re5 | Carrie [Ht 10 Focus 14]

--
=Supplies & Allies=
31 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

--

>>2732076
As the old containment wards are invaded, everything in the room feels the final weight of Time.

And turn, with a gently sigh, to dust.

All except for quite a dapper piece of headgear.

>>2732080
what kind of insensitive bastard wires a triple failsafe to a counterswitch /to/ a timer? And then wires that entire abomination up to a tiny series of lights that shine a light on a small message... that reads...

" . . . BOOM HA HA, GOT YOU. Real nice disarm though. But if you're reading this: I have a remote detonator"

--

>>2732082
The starlike trail of the cannon shot tears past the vehicle - but no one inside ducks for cover. It is abandoned.

>>2732086
this barricade was broken from the outside, and no defenders remain.

>>2732087
Good boy.

[ TRENCHERS ]

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>>2732103
grumble

>>2732103
*salutes before blowing up*

[Theurge]
Decanus, report

[Decanus]
That... that was a vanadian cannon, Sire. Very distinctive.

[Theurge]
What? Preposterous. How could they be here, of all possible places in this world? The wind plays tricks with you, man. A moment ago you heard harmonicas!

I recognise it now. From descriptions. This is the estate of Vesperian.

Rather wasp infested by now. Albeit that is only fitting.

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>>2732106
Nothing happens.

>>2732108

>>2732103
Oh, Mr. Fluffles, there you are!

>Put on hat
>Plant emitter
>Move 6543
>2 Ap - disintegrate a tiny hole in the wall S to peek inside

==[Re] Carrie==
Ht 10 Focus 14 Reaction 8
AP 12 Grit 2 Crunch 4 DR1
--
Accuracy-10
Fieldcraft-10
Matter-10
--
Hands: Manipulator Array (Matter)
Head: Dapper Hat

Pistol (ammo 18/18 (2/2); [QD]; RoF +1/3 at 2; 1d6 dmg)
Frag x2, Smoke x2, Stun x2, Field Kit x2, Gasmask
Knife (1d3+M)

>>2732105
>move: 4,3,.
>Begin to camo myself using 8 AP. MIMIC THE SAND, WE MUST BE ONE WITH THE DIRRTTTTTTTTTT
>Use 4 focus and [intel sweep]into the room where we think we can hear the jailbird jamming.,

>>2732106
*Over comms* GET OUT OF THERE YOU HALF BRAIN

>>2732103
>ACTIONS
>Move, 4
>Deconstruct wall to my immediate south
>Move 4,4 (assuming no more traps)
>Spend 3 AP creating a ladder to the roof
>Face 3
>Face 6
>Reactive overwatch chirni 6 bullets

==Slacker==
Ht12/12 Focus12/12 Reaction9
AP10 Grit5 Crunch0 DR3
--
Accuracy-10
Fieldcraft-12
--
[Medium] DR3, Consumables 4AP
Hand1: [Chirni77] 3AP, 1d6+2, 40/40 [2/2], RoF +1/3 at 2, Reactive
Knife: [Sharp Edge] 1d3+M
[Storm shield] 14/14 health, 4 Dr, [Bulky], [Flash]
--
[Gasmask] 4AP, Immune to Particles and Hazards.
[Pistol] 1d6, 18/18 [2/2], RoF +1/3 at 2, Quickdraw
Multitool
x2 Smoke
x2 Frag
x2 Flash
x2 Field Kit

[Ascendant Transpatiality]
“Here - There - Everywhere!”
( Tether an object within GRIT to another object within GRIT for 3 AP.
Roll RANGE to tether at range.
Warp OR fling tethered objects from their current location with 1 AP, rolling accuracy.
Tethered objects move when their anchor point does. Tethers may stack.

>>2732105
Yes, you are my new best friend. Stay close, and don't listen to the cacti.
> Mark Tr Rial
> Mark numerous shrubs east x4
> Mark Re Carrie
> Move 5555

>>2732103
>>2732082

>>2732094
>>2732105
>Bot Erika.
>Order Troopers to open the crate @ 3.
>After crate is opened, have Troopers hop back on. Move 3x2. 2x2 AP.
>Free Overwatch @ 4 w/ Cannon. Overwatch x4 w/ MG. Troopers overwatch @ 2 & 3.

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Rolled 5, 4, 6 = 15 (3d6)

=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker [Ht 12 Focus 10]
TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 5] [Lucifogous 4]
Pi3 | Erika [ Ht 45, Focus 12]
TR4 | Rial Mine [Ht 12, Focus 8]
Re5 | Carrie [Ht 10 Focus 14]

--
=Supplies & Allies=
31 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

--

The Dummy Troopers take up an overwatch position with fake guns, ready to shout bang at any intruders.

Erika prepares a much more threatening solution.

--

Slacker constructs a ladder.

--

[TA]
Trenchers! That's... that's just a speaker system. Dammit. Does anyone see anything else?

hmmm there's a NOTE attached to the speaker...

[ ENEMY PHASE ]

>>2732105
>Reload! at [Pi3].
Does that mean the cannon only gets 1 shot per reload? The (4) in 3d6(4) means damage multiplication and not ammunition?

>>2732141
>>2732014
>>>2732007#
>>Harmonica tunes play gently on the wind, barely out of sight except for that convenient nudging breeze that hinted it towards our ears.
>>inb4 the reason it's convenient is because it's being played through a speaker.
>>2732009
>>2732003
>I called that this was a trap dammit. >>2728696(Cross-thread)#
>Slacker and I called both traps before it was revealed.
>Worst-case scenario happened.

>>2732146
(I tried to help. Never mind.)

>>2732149
Please knock first next time, before you intrude into my head, in case י̷̶ַ̦̝̖͈͓̃̑̔͒̍̐̃̍̉̐̂͊͐̽͜ה̸̸ְ̧̛͕̗̜̰̰̮̣̩̃́͂̾̽̊͛̒̆͘̚͠ͅו̴̸ֶ̢̧̙̺̹̝̦͓͎͓̗̜̬̃̈́̋̿̈́͛̊́̀͆̆̋̕̚͝͠ה̶̺̙͚̃̐́͆̕͝͝ answers the door.

>>2732141
>That pic, those enemies right there

Well, I had an okay run.

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=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker [Ht 12 Focus 10]
TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 5] [Lucifogous 4]
Pi3 | Erika [ Ht 45, Focus 12]
TR4 | Rial Mine [Ht 12, Focus 8]
Re5 | Carrie [Ht 10 Focus 14]

--
=Supplies & Allies=
31 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

--

A small group of Pytherians round a corner, eyes up and weapons ready. They pause briefly upon seeing Slacker, and then, with an ordered snap from their Theurge, form up.

[Theurge]
Who are you and what are you doing here? Best speak quick now, heretic.

--

Carrie sees the Rebus Agents - but something is off. They're very diciplined, facing the doorway. But ... not diciplined enough to never move.

[ TRENCHERS ]
[ A SANDSTORM BLOWS IN AT THE END OF YOUR PHASE ]
[ CAN'T OVERWATCH IN A SANDSTORM ]

>>2732141
>>2731848
>Map is only large enough to reveal the traps the Rebus Agents set up.
>>2732141
>The Dummy Troopers take up an overwatch position with fake guns, ready to shout bang at any intruders.
>>2731890
>inb4 they're literal dummies.

>>2731890
>>2724701
>... Understood. Spears! We’re on our own, payload exhausted.
>inb4 TA Theraski had access to artillery the entire time, or only doesn't because the Rebus Agents don't either.

>>2732149
>>2732146
It's fine. It takes a while to manage all the actions. Same thing happened to me.

>>2732152
Green timey thingies! Fun thingies!

>Move 56
>Disintegrate wall to S - 2Ap
>8 Ap - investigate the insides of the building

==[Re] Carrie==
Ht 10 Focus 14 Reaction 8
AP 12 Grit 2 Crunch 4 DR1
--
Accuracy-10
Fieldcraft-10
Matter-10
--
Hands: Manipulator Array (Matter)

Pistol (ammo 18/18 (2/2); [QD]; RoF +1/3 at 2; 1d6 dmg)
Frag x2, Smoke x2, Stun x2, Field Kit x2, Gasmask
Knife (1d3+M)

>>2732155
are you insinuating i am some kind of deep cover agent, trencher?

I'd have to be some kind of real clever agent to to lure a group of soldiers away from the ship carrying an important asset and papers about the facility at Ravenpoint on some kind of wild red goose herring chase, right after Command explicitly ordered you not to.

i bet if i did do that, it would be real convenient some kind of crack assault team ready to swoop in to steal both the papers and asset Voltera, though

>>2732152
>There's a grey shell or grenade next to the doorway the Rebus Agents are at.
>>2732152
>Carrie sees the Rebus Agents - but something is off. They're very diciplined, facing the doorway. But ... not diciplined enough to never move.
>>2732155
>>inb4 they're literal dummies.
>Actual dummies.

>>2732162
Huh. That explains why we've never heard of your name before.
>>2732065
>>2692983
>>2692986
>Tactical Support Liren
Is Liren a legacy character?

>Previous post I didn't bother posting.
">>2732003
>Is TA a mole? Is this all a set-up? Is Rookie even actually HERE?
>>2726381
This doesn't even look anywhere close to where you're at, or resembling its theme."
I should've posted this.

someone bot me for the next hour

>>2732170
I'll try.

>>2732170
>>2732171
>>2732152
>Bot Rial Mine.
To Theurge:
"IT'S A SETUP! THE REBUS AGENTS SET US UP! IT'S A TRAP!"

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>>2732160
ResOp Carrie spies a room full of claymores and old crates, very diciplined Agents and one beat up Trencher paying a harmonica.

[ Trenchers can still act ]

>>2732179
=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker [Ht 12 Focus 10]
TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 5] [Lucifogous 4]
Pi3 | Erika [ Ht 45, Focus 12]
TR4 | Rial Mine [Ht 12, Focus 8]
Re5 | Carrie [Ht 10 Focus 14]
Tr6 | Rookie [Ht 12 Focus 12]

--
=Supplies & Allies=
31 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

-Emitters-
A1: [Northwest Building]

>>2732180
>>2732179
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywyZiz4_tCQ

>Trencher Rookie is tied to the table.

>>2732152
Cover your eyes, your skin, close your mouth. Or the sand will creep inside and peel away everything you are.

> Move 654
> Put on gas mask
> Put on Carrie's gas mask
> Mark shrubs southeast

==Compass==
Ht 12 Focus 9 Reaction 9
AP 10 Grit 4 Threshold 3
--
Accuracy-12
Fieldcraft-10
--
Hand1: Chirni-77

>>2732173
>>2732179
>Green stuff all over me.
>>2726352
Is that the rend wound? I wonder what my new or upgraded talent is. A bit of a shame I’m in a room full of bombs.

>>2732185
Mmfh! Fmhmphfffhmmfh!

>>2732180
>>2732184
>Dump all of AP for this round into team AP pool.

>>2732179
>>2732152
>Face 2

"Trencher Slacker, and I'm here on a mission of honor. I have no I'll will against you or your mission today, I'm not here to fight against pytherian goals but instead trying to rescue a brother who's dear to us and I'll probably die here trying to do so. If you'd be willing I could order a truce here, you go about your business and we go about ours, no blood spilled today. Are... are you here for the vanadians or something they have?"

>Actions
>ONLY IF they move to attack, move 1,1,1,6,6 keeping the shield between me and the troops, then pull the pin on a flash and a frag and drop them then teleport to flag A if possible otherwise move 6 as much as possible and face 3

If they DON'T move to attack I'm perfectly willing to stand and talk.

>>2732103
>" . . . BOOM HA HA, GOT YOU. Real nice disarm though. But if you're reading this: I have a remote detonator"
>>2732179
>inb4 the room full of bombs has a remote detonation.

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=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker [Ht 9 Focus 10]
TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 6] [Lucifogous 4]
Pi3 | Erika [ Ht 45, Focus 12]
TR4 | Rial Mine [Ht 9, Focus 8]
Re5 | Carrie [Ht 10 Focus 14]
Tr6 | Rookie [Ht 12 Focus 12]

--
=Supplies & Allies=
31 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

-Emitters-
A1: [Northwest Building]

--

With fury the standstorm kicks up again, blanketing the streets in noise and dust and drownign out whichever words the Theurge spoke that made their men lower their weapons.

Quick thinking prevents erosion, but those of us WITHOUT MASKS begin to suffer.

The sands out here peel the soul from your bones.

[ TRENCHERS ]

>>2732206
>With fury the standstorm kicks up again, blanketing the streets in noise and dust and drownign out whichever words the Theurge spoke that made their men lower their weapons.
>>2732207
Normally I would think so, but I think they realized too.

>>2732206
>Bot RIal Mine.
>Wear gas mask. 4 AP
>Move 3x3. 3 AP.
>Read note. 1 AP.
>Move 3. 1 AP
>Investigate crates. 1 AP
>Free Dodge @ 3.

>>2732206
>Be me.
>Check new talent.
>[Fieldcraft + Psionic] Investigate bindings. 1+1+4+3 AP.
>[Fieldcraft] Investigate red thing next to me (is that the harmonica?). 1 AP

>==Lt. "Rookie"==
Ht 12/12 Focus 12/12 Reaction 9
Ap 10 Grit 4 Crunch 0
--
Accuracy-14
Fieldcraft-12
[Controlled Psionics]-lvl 2
>[GRIT] is Range. 1 AP or Focus for +1 Range.
>Spend AP interchangeably on any unit. 1 AP or Focus to deal 3 HT damage. Auto-succeeds.
>Roll vs Accuracy to [SCAN+] thoughts within Range.
--
Det: [Medium] (DR 3; Consumables 4 AP)
Wpn: Weather is Range; uses Accuracy. Ammo can’t be looted off enemies.
Sharp Edge (always equipped; 1 hex Range {?}; 1d3+Mar dmg, +[Grit] on crit-success)
Pistol (ammo 18/18 (2/2); [QD]; RoF +1/3 at 2; 1d6 dmg)
VindicatorGL (ammo 6/6 (2/2); frag, smoke, fire, stun {TBD})
Kit: Multitool (1 AP = 1 point; [Construct], [Deconstruct], Detonator, String Out). Gasmask (4 AP; Immune to Particles and Hazards; -1 to hit; ½ vision cone).
Field Kit (ammo 2/2; restores 1d6+Mar, HT (Cures all afflictions) or FOCUS; uses Fieldcraft)
Grenades: [Grit]+3 is Range; uses Accuracy.
Smoke (ammo 2/2; 1 AoE {?}; -1 to hit per hex for projectiles, disables Overwatch).
Stun (ammo 2/2; 2 AoE, 3d6 AP dmg, -2 to Actions, disables Overwatch, ignores cover; Dud 17-18).
Frag (ammo 2/2; 1 AoE, 3d6+2 dmg, rend 1d3 armor; Dud 17-18).

Rolled 1, 6, 5 = 12 (3d6)

>>2732206
Psst. Mr. Fluffles wants to play a prank.

>3 Ap for +3 range
>Evaluate for 7 Ap
>Manifest - disintegrate the mine at 444

==[Re] Carrie==
Ht 10 Focus 14 Reaction 8
AP 12 Grit 2 Crunch 4 DR1
--
Accuracy-10
Fieldcraft-10
Matter-10
--
Hands: Manipulator Array (Matter)

Pistol (ammo 18/18 (2/2); [QD]; RoF +1/3 at 2; 1d6 dmg)
Frag x2, Smoke x2, Stun x2, Field Kit x2, Gasmask
Knife (1d3+M)

Rolled 3, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3 = 20 (9d6)

>>2732216
>>[Fieldcraft + Psionic] Investigate bindings. 1+1+4+3 AP.
Dice 1-3
>>[Fieldcraft] Investigate red thing next to me (is that the harmonica?). 1 AP
Dice 4-6

>>2732142
>>2732082
Oh. Erika reloaded the round before.
>>2732206
>Bot Erika.
>Wear gas mask. 4 AP
>Leave B-Tank. 4 AP (8/12)
>Open crates at 3. Evaluate x4. 4 AP (12/12?)
Dice 7-9

>>2732223
It's a harmonica.

>>2732206
>>2732206
>>2732206
"In all the void It's just one heart attack after the next." *Over Comms* "WE'VE GOT SOME PYTHERIANS OVER TO THE EAST, WE'VE GOT A TRUCE YOU HEAR? DON'T FIRE AT THEM UNLESS THEY POINT THEIR GUNS AT YOU FIRST."

>Re-deploy to flag A1 4 AP
>Put on gas mask
>Move 4,5

==Slacker==
Ht12/12 Focus12/12 Reaction9
AP10 Grit5 Crunch0 DR3
--
Accuracy-10
Fieldcraft-12
--
[Medium] DR3, Consumables 4AP
Hand1: [Chirni77] 3AP, 1d6+2, 40/40 [2/2], RoF +1/3 at 2, Reactive
Knife: [Sharp Edge] 1d3+M
[Storm shield] 14/14 health, 4 Dr, [Bulky], [Flash]
--
[Gasmask] 4AP, Immune to Particles and Hazards.
[Pistol] 1d6, 18/18 [2/2], RoF +1/3 at 2, Quickdraw
Multitool
x2 Smoke
x2 Frag
x2 Flash
x2 Field Kit

[Ascendant Transpatiality]
“Here - There - Everywhere!”
( Tether an object within GRIT to another object within GRIT for 3 AP.
Roll RANGE to tether at range.
Warp OR fling tethered objects from their current location with 1 AP, rolling accuracy.
Tethered objects move when their anchor point does. Tethers may stack

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Rolled 1, 1, 4 = 6 (3d6)

=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker [Ht 9 Focus 10]
TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 6] [Lucifogous 4]
Pi3 | Erika [ Ht 45, Focus 12]
TR4 | Rial Mine [Ht 9, Focus 8]
Re5 | Carrie [Ht 10 Focus 14]
Tr6 | Rookie [Ht 12 Focus 12]

--
=Supplies & Allies=
35 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

-Emitters-
A1: [Northwest Building]

--

The sandstorm does not abate. Grit binds and weaves itself into our boots, our uniforms, our bones.

--

Trencher Rial Mine finds a note:

"If you are reading this, your rookie is in another castle.

also if you are reading this, you've likely gotten a dose of contact poison"

>>2732223
The bindings are quite secure and in no way psionically active. And while you are tied down quite well, they did leave you all your gear - much more convenient now that you're actually awake (albeit with a pounding headache)

[ TRENCHERS ]

>>2732206
>>2732234
Such odd stories you mirages tell.

> Mark the sandstorm
> Mark the buildings north and south
> Mark the boundary of the sigils effect, south. It encompasses the building
> Mark the creature nest
> Move 3323
> Dodge

==Compass==
Ht 12 Focus 9 Reaction 9
AP 10 Grit 4 Threshold 3
--
Accuracy-12
Fieldcraft-10
--
Hand1: Chirni-77

>>2732206
>Tactical assessment. 8 AP (8 Focus).
>>2732162
>What TA Therask is right. Therask is a deep undercover agent who set us up, and knocked out the CC last mission, or the Colonel, and used the excuse of sashay (sexual harassment) to make her move.
>>2732179
>>2732206
>The mines didn't detonate, and are indeed on remote detonation. The Rebus Agents are operating everything on either a recorded, what TA Therask is feeding them, or some other observation system from whatever they planted here.
>Everything that seems like a threat is a decoy. The Rebus Agents wouldn't waste their resources on that, and don't seem interested in killing for the sake of it earlier. Based on what their acceptance of cooperation and neutrality in Ravenpoint, mission 5 was.
>The Rebus Agents actually are going for the real objectives while both factions are here.
>Chances are the Legion are looking for some prisoners from an unrelated mission, or the whereabouts of the Pytherians back in Mission 5.
>If they're looking for Scholae Veritnor, the Last Convert.-
>>2732249
And it's already done.

>>2732258
>>Tactical assessment. 8 AP (8 Focus).
So that makes it 8 AP for stuff we already knew.

Rolled 1, 4, 2 = 7 (3d6)

>>2732249
*stick tongue out for extra focus*

>5 Ap into range
>7 Ap into skill (spend 2 Focus)
>Disintegrate Rookie's bounds

==[Re] Carrie==
Ht 10 Focus 14 Reaction 8
AP 12 Grit 2 Crunch 4 DR1
--
Accuracy-10
Fieldcraft-10
Matter-10
--
Hands: Manipulator Array (Matter)

Pistol (ammo 18/18 (2/2); [QD]; RoF +1/3 at 2; 1d6 dmg)
Frag x2, Smoke x2, Stun x2, Field Kit x2, Gasmask
Knife (1d3+M)

>>2731890
>>2732249
Guys before you post listen, let's take two turns with tactical initiative okay?

>ERIKA
>Use all of your AP and enough focus to trigger tactical initiative for the breach on the holding room

Now, who does what in these two turns?

>>2732267
Yay! Praise me!

>>2732268
the gasmask tastes of old, old leather
with a slight trace of mint?

>>2732274
Bweh

Rolled 6, 4, 1 = 11 (3d6)

>>2732267
Evaluate x2. 2 AP
>>2732272
>Praises you.

>>2732249
>The bindings are quite secure and in no way psionically active. And while you are tied down quite well, they did leave you all your gear - much more convenient now that you're actually awake (albeit with a pounding headache)
So everything is real, but not that real.

>>2732283
Ropes went poof!

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Trencher Rookie's bonds burst.

>>2732288
Poof! Poof!! Pufpuf!

>>2732283
> So everything is real, but not that real
Did the wise old cloud talk to you, too?

>>2732286
>>2732288
"Fantastic work, Carrie!"
>Requests an update on everything I missed (for in-character, I already watched all the developments).

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[Meanwhile, elsewhere]

You are Specialist Theraskine Liren Phages and you are not having a good day

First, you ran out of coffee.

Then someone knocked you over the head when you went for a refill.

Then half your team went missing, someone hijacked a supply truck (incidentally being the one that had your frething coffee supplies in it) and then someone overrode the security doors to your comm central.

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[Meanwhile, elsewhere]

Commander Gerean is going to want a debrief any moment now. They're going to be all interested and excited and keen and it's going to be a real bother to explain to the Commander that you cannot give a proper debrief because all your papers is in your office, along with the asst you were interrogating.

At least you found a team of five duty-shriking MPs with undefinable accents that were just lurking about the base and shanghai'd them into giving you a hand.

>>2731933
>>2731954
>>2732033
>>2732297
"... I have absolutely /no/ idea who you are or how you got here, but I think I know what you're talking about!"

>>2732304
>>2732307
>>2732152
>Carrie sees the Rebus Agents - but something is off. They're very diciplined, facing the doorway. But ... not diciplined enough to never move.
"I think those Rebus Agents are actually decoys. Like the dummies with Erika."

>>2732310
You can actually act now. Please get out of there.
We have two turns thanks to >>2732269, and I only spent one, because I'm waiting for you.

>>2732316
I may make risky questionable decisions quite a lot of the time, but that other small percent of the time I do good. This is how I live as a trencher.

>>2732249
>Bot Rial to Re-deploy to the flag

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=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker [Ht 9 Focus 10]
TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 7] [Lucifogous 8]
Pi3 | Erika [ Ht 45, Focus 2]
TR4 | Rial Mine [Ht 9, Focus 8]
Re5 | Carrie [Ht 10 Focus 14]
Tr6 | Rookie [Ht 12 Focus 12]

--
=Supplies & Allies=
35 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

-Emitters-
A1: [Northwest Building]

--

With complete tactical superiority, we kick in the door and breach a room.

Everything dies.

One of the Rebus Agents teeters after taking two shots, then falls over, face first. Not bleeding.

Just a uniform stuffed with some sand and a few cleverly arranged sticks.

The two flash grenades set off with a roar. The local explosion shockwave, the chaos and bullet spray is enough to tip over one of the claymores.

It falls face first and we all wait to die in a sudden burst of light.

We don't.

. . . a few straws drift gently on the breeeze, and then the speaker crackles to life.

[ Enemy Phase ]

>>2732316
Oh.
>>2732267
>>2732283
1st turn since I'm still here.
>>2732249
>Wear gas mask. 4 AP.-
>>2732320
As I suspected.

>>2732320
>>2732324
>Move 6 1x5. 6 AP.

>>2732329
It's the wrong phase now.

>>2732320
"Aaaaand this kids is why you never let me take command. I get zoned in on the wrong things and miss the essential details. I'm glad I didn't just kill you all."

>>2732320
>>2732329
>Also take everything, including the harmonica with me. Spend Focus as needed.

>>2732333
I still have spare AP to rollover into this phase or the next.

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=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker [Ht 9 Focus 10]
TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 7] [Lucifogous 8]
Pi3 | Erika [ Ht 45, Focus 2]
TR4 | Rial Mine [Ht 9, Focus 8]
Re5 | Carrie [Ht 10 Focus 14]
Tr6 | Rookie [Ht 12 Focus 12]

--
=Supplies & Allies=
35 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

-Emitters-
A1: [Northwest Building]

--

[Speakers]:
Okay, admitted, some of the traps are more fake-out. But they did slow you down a little.

Which is good!

These drones take a real long time to work up the proper targeting solutions, and we had to time it so the Theurgical Patrol arrived properly too. There's a bit of a surprise for that lot in the large manor north east.

Here's a fun fact: Only SOME of these charges are dummy charges.

Look; I'm sorry, but our mission was to get Voltera. We figure this is a decent trade. You get your ... rookie? Is that seriously your nametag--- and everything's well.

Assuming you survive the drones.

We can't make this too easy.

--

[ TRENCHERS TO ACT ]
>Processing break

>Those drones are only not shooting because of Tactical Initiative.

>You have this phase and then those guns will start.

>>2732343
>>2732351
Ah. Well then.

>>2732343
>Here's a fun fact: Only SOME of these charges are dummy charges.
>>2732358
I would use my grenades or grenade launcher here, but that sounds like a way to set off the real claymores.

>>2732310
Listen closely, and you might hear the souls that have embedded in your soul calling out. What might they say? 'Help me!'? 'Where am I', perhaps? Or do they scream in tortured voices, 'KILL ME!' 'LET ME DIE!'
You'd better deal with them, before the godscrap also embedded decides to heed to them instead.

>>2732366
Let's just retreat over the western map edge. Leave the drones to fight the Pytherians.

>>2732371
Doesn't sound like a bad idea.

You forgot your name.

>>2732343
I'm thinking of either redeploying to the flag, or staying here so I can try to aim my grenade launcher at the drones behind Rial Mine.

>>2732343
>>2732376
>I'm thinking of either redeploying to the flag, or staying here so I can try to aim my grenade launcher at the drones behind Rial Mine.
Are drones affected by stun grenades?

>>2732343

>Erika
>Get back in the Mech 4AP
>Evacuate via north edge of the map

>>2732376
I didn't forget my name, I just find it hard to discuss strategy while RPing an insane little girl.

Btw you can't redeploy to the flag with all the drones blocking the way. Just book it north.

>>2732381
I don't think you can redeploy in these conditions, you can't move to a flag with enemies so close to it, or you. We need another plan. I say we just [SPRINT] out of here

>>2732384
>>2732387
So redeploying's out of the picture.
What about Rial Mine? He's in AoO of the drones. He'd have to disguise as a drone and hope they don't recognize him.

>>2732389
With [Sprint] he can evacuate in one turn. In case we can't evacuate, I'll put up a wall to block any lines of fire.

>>2732389
Rookie, these guns don't even start shooting until AFTER our turn, so let's just evac now. We can all make it out safely right now.

>Everyone Evac on the western edge

>>2732393
>>2732398
Sprint doesn't trigger AoO? Moving out of AoO does.
Otherwise, sure.

>>2732401
Area of Overwatch?

>You have this phase and then those guns will start.

They won't shoot until after our phase. So we book it.

>>2732401
Drones don't have melee attacks. They're just guns on tracks.

>>2732404
You hope.

The Combined Assault Weapon Platform can be issued with a taser operating in the 200.000 volt / 52 watts range.

These might have one of those.
Or they might not.

>>2732401
>>2732404
Let's just book it north to be absolutely safe. I'm going to go ahead and post for me and Rial. Seriously, wouldn't it suck to spend all this time talking and just get wiped by drones if the turn gets processed without us?

>>2732403
>Area of Overwatch?
Attack of Opportunity. Units within melee range (1 hex or less for most units) of another provoke an attack of opportunity if said unit tries moving to another hex or using a ranged weapon or item.
>>2732404
Oh, sweet. No problems here then.-
>>2732408
And then this comes up.

>>2732343
>>Processing break
>>2732409
>>2732408
Shouldn't be. I think CC just came back from his break.

>>2732408
>>2732408
Since you are here, can we evacuate on the west side of the map? Because if so we'd like to do that.

>>2732412
At this stage, nothing prevents you from leaving safe your dignity and sorting out which of the claymores are real.

And the drones.

And the sandstorm.

And whatever "Surprise" is in the north east manor for the Pytherians.

If you want to evacuate, you can. But you'd have to make it out alive . . .

>>2732381
They're not organic systems - they would be unaffected.

>>2732384
>>2732387
>>2732376

It's best to think of "flag redeployment" as a way to control forces and direct movement if you get too spread out.

It doesn't teleport you, it essentially just discounts all movement costs getting to the flag. But you do have to trace a physical route, and if something blocks it, you cannot make it.

So while a flag would allow you to "advance" rapidly across an open field, it wouldn't allow you to "teleport extract" from inside a guarded building.

>>2732343
Do we get any bonuses for not spending supplies after a mission?

>>2732410
I think you can plink the one drone that's threatening Rial, then leg it.

>>2732419
This operation is off the books

>>2732421
2 drones. Shouldn't be hard though. I wonder how much INT they have.

>>2732422
So no extra rewards other than being supply. I guess we save it for a rainy day if we save 35 supply then.
>>2731890
We can hire 6x4 Not Veterans! (mercenaries) but I'm not sure how trustworthy they are, or effective.

>>2732343
> Mark two dummies
> Mark two robots
> Mark the crates

> Move 22322

I've never met someone with a square-shaped soul before. You should put on a mask, before the sand storm steals it away.

==Compass==
Ht 12 Focus 9 Reaction 9
AP 10 Grit 4 Threshold 3
--
Accuracy-12
Fieldcraft-10
--
Hand1: Chirni-77

>>2732427
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1WwnEDWAM

Give us a way to go sir, and let's plan around that.

Should we stay or should we go?
If we go there will be trouble.
If we stay it will be double.

Rolled 6, 4, 2 = 12 (3d6)

>>2732343
>Shoot frag canister @ 2x7 3x2. +6 Range. Evaluate 2. 2 ammo. 5+2+2 AP.
>Take harmonica. 1 AP.
>Wear gas mask. 4 AP (4 focus).
>Sprint 6 1x5. 2 Focus+3 AP (2+3 Focus).
>Wait to see if all others can extract first.
>>2732343
>Here's a fun fact: Only SOME of these charges are dummy charges.
I would throw a nade in this room, but the fact there are real charges puts a damper on that.

>>2732433
Thanks for setting the mood.

>>2732419
>>2732422
To clarifiy:

This mission is off the books.

But Colonel Gerean would probably be anything but upset if you arrived back at the extraction zone with a supply truck full of extra supplies. And it's not as if they disappear.

>>2732441
>==Lt. "Rookie"==
Ht 12/12 Focus 3/12 Reaction 9
Ap 10 Grit 4 Crunch 0
--
Accuracy-14
Fieldcraft-12
[Controlled Psionics]-lvl 2
>[GRIT] is Range. 1 AP or Focus for +1 Range.
>Spend AP interchangeably on any unit. 1 AP or Focus to deal 3 HT damage. Auto-succeeds.
>Roll vs Accuracy to [SCAN+] thoughts within Range.
--
Det: [Medium] (DR 3; Consumables 4 AP)
Wpn: Weather is Range; uses Accuracy. Ammo can’t be looted off enemies.
Sharp Edge (always equipped; 1 hex Range {?}; 1d3+Mar dmg, +[Grit] on crit-success)
Pistol (ammo 18/18 (2/2); [QD]; RoF +1/3 at 2; 1d6 dmg)
VindicatorGL (ammo 4/6 (2/2); frag, smoke, fire, stun {TBD})
Kit: Multitool (1 AP = 1 point; [Construct], [Deconstruct], Detonator, String Out). Gasmask (4 AP; Immune to Particles and Hazards; -1 to hit; ½ vision cone).
Field Kit (ammo 2/2; restores 1d6+Mar, HT (Cures all afflictions) or FOCUS; uses Fieldcraft)
Grenades: [Grit]+3 is Range; uses Accuracy.
Smoke (ammo 2/2; 1 AoE {?}; -1 to hit per hex for projectiles, disables Overwatch).
Stun (ammo 2/2; 2 AoE, 3d6 AP dmg, -2 to Actions, disables Overwatch, ignores cover; Dud 17-18).
Frag (ammo 2/2; 1 AoE, 3d6+2 dmg, rend 1d3 armor; Dud 17-18).

>>2732443
Oh good, let's keep the supplies then. 35 supplies can give us much better rates officially than the unofficial 3 per target dummies.

>>2732445
That's actually 3 target dummies per supply!

>>2732446
>>2731890
So it is. That explains how the Rebus Agents could afford them so easily.

>>2732449
they are pretty cheap if you source them right

>>2732343
We have 7 AP in the faction AP pool if anyone wants to use it.

>>2732455
I'll probably need some of those to raise walls

>>2732343
"We're getting out of here, time to book it now!"

>>2732428
"You need to book it sir, the mirage drones are out to shoot you to death, for real!"

>>2732343
>Move 1,1
>Use focus to wall off the northern drones
>ONCE rookie is out, seal the hole in the wall made by carrie (4 int)
>Shield Rookie
>Evacuate once Rookie is out
>Run like hell

>BOTTING

>Carrie
>Help fortify against northern drones
>Once Rial makes it through, block the path east
>evacuate

>Rial
>Reactive, DODGE
>Another dodge
>SPRINT
>Move 1,1,1,1,1,2,2,3,2,3,2,3,2,3,
>EVACUATE

>>2732459
Does this look alright everyone? I'll be keeping Slackers command, but Is the botting okay?

Also I'd like to note that Compass is doing his own thing and should not be waited on.

>>2732458
Probably. >>2732441
>>2732343
Drones to [Tr4]'s 2 and 1 are instantly dead. 2 left in the center of South-West compound.

>>2732459
>>Reactive, DODGE
>>Another dodge
Dodges don't stack, you can evaluate Dodge though. So x4 Evaluate instead of x2 Dodge.
He may want to wait for the drones to get blown up before running into the frag canister, or outrun the frag canister.

>>2732441
>>Wait to see if all others can extract first.
>Once they do, evac.

>>2732459
Rials movement should read

1,1,1,1,1,6,6,5,6,5,6,5,6,5

Sorry

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=Trenchers=
>TR1 | Slacker [Ht 9 Focus 6]
TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 6] [Lucifogous 13]
>Pi3 | Erika [ Ht 45, Focus 2]
>TR4 | Rial Mine [Ht 9, Focus 8]
>Re5 | Carrie [Ht 10 Focus 14]
>Tr6 | Rookie [Ht 12 Focus 10]

--
=Supplies & Allies=
35 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

-Emitters-
A1: [Northwest Building]

--

The storm continues without abating. A wanderer could find themselves lost in this biting dervish of sand and barely glimpsed mirage.

Against the storm, we press west and make good our escape.

. . . Or do we?

[ COMPASS PHASE ]

>>2732441
>>Shoot frag canister @ 2x7 3x2. +6 Range. Evaluate 2. 2 ammo. 5+2+2 AP.
>2 ammo.
Means >Expend 2 ammo.
5+1+2 AP.

>>2732478
Nice. Wonder what Compass is doing.

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[Theurge]
. . . and what in all the names of the Stars are you?

[???]

oh
another theurgical flame-slave. have you come slither-slinker to free me of my binding at longest last?

[Theurge]
Hardly

[???]
oh that is a disappointing divestment in our otherwise mutual futures. Don't be so droll, we'd be fantastic friends.

[Theurge]
I am many things, and hardly a model to my Faithful Kin, but come on now, do you actually think me or mine are that stupid?

[???]
nonononoNOnono
not in the least!

I think you are that smart.
And if you get me out of this little containment field, we could work together!

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>>2732498
[Theurge]
Now please be quiet while I finish the Banishing.

[???]
Are you sure we cannot be friends ?

[Theurge]
Quite

[???]
That is such a disappointing shame! I am crushed to my very so-- well, I imagine I would be, if I had one.

It's really too bad, you know? The other Pytherians that came by here were much friendlier.

[Theurge]
The . . . others?

[???]
Yes! The others! Look--

With a flickering release of power, the wards prevent the bound creature from moving too far

[???]
the others. They did what all friends do. They gave me a gift!

[Theurge]
Decanus. Check the room

[???]
I cannot leave this tiny ludicrous barrier.
But things can cross. Rats. Wasps. Air. Water. Enough bits for nourishment. And... a gift!

[Theurge]
Satiate my curiousity then. What gift could someone possibly have been sun-mad enough to give you?

[???]
The best gift of all

>>2732516
>The best gift of all
>>2732478
>inb4 it's a trap. Aside from the drones.

>>2732498
Mirages would do good to avoid dealing with things so painfully real.

>>2732478
> Mark the legionnaire
> Wander 2221
> Mark the fountain
> Reflect on [Trascendance] state, force crit

>>2732516
>That box with a skull on it
>Detonator

Well, there goes that entire town.

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[Theurge]
If you tricked some poor wandering wastrel out of their soulscrap, I will personally find your name in the Tomes of Binding, conjure you up and rip the stolen prize from your petty little pretend heart, godling.

[???]
Oooohhh I actually like you, flame-slave. Your loqacious threats almost strike sincere, if not for the undertone of your men shaking in their boots and the caress you bestow on that little copper amulet of yours

but no, no soul

no soul to sate a yawning, voracious void

But they DID give me a remote detonator for that box of explosives just over yonder

[Theurge]
DECANU---

>>2732526
What are those boxes?
>>2732516
> <.: symbol over skull box.

>>2732343
>>2732478
>Attempt to radio Theurge.
"Just checking to see if I can talk to you over the desert storm."

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>>2732534
{???}

The sweetest, most precious gift a true friend can give.

Freedom.

And look, little flame-slave. A soul. Will you still hunt me down in the Tomes of Binding?

No?

oh well

>>2732541
I meant explosive charges. The...thing has the detonator.

>>2732554
>>2732534
>>2732549
I thought it was a box of poison, not explosives.
>>2732549
>pic name
Well they're fucked.

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=Trenchers=
TR1 | Slacker [Ht 9 Focus 6]
TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 6] [Lucifogous 14]
Pi3 | Erika [ Ht 45, Focus 2]
TR4 | Rial Mine [Ht 9, Focus 8]
Re5 | Carrie [Ht 10 Focus 14]
Tr6 | Rookie [Ht 12 Focus 10]

--
=Supplies & Allies=
35 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

-Emitters-
A1: [Northwest Building]

--

The world is brittle. If pushed enough, it will shatter into shards.

There is no shielding yourself from the ever present shockwave.

Compass is knocked to the ground, the legionnaire just south disintegrating. The fountain chips and old marble flies in a spray of fragmentation. . .

[ Environment Phase

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TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 9] [Emypyreal 6] [Lucifogous 13]

=Supplies & Allies=
35 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

--

Through some measure of luck, skill or accident, we stand in the one place that does not reduce us to rubble.

--

>>2732524
Beyond the vagaries of metaphysic consideration and with the benefit of hindsight and some capacity to stretch your own talents, you are fairly certain you are still human.

but the process that embeds a flickering core of the Other inside the Trenchers, to grant them a measure of unfathomable skill have somehow, in you, taken root at a deeper level.

Human still, but also something else, if one squints. With a tiny push and a bit of edge, the whispering voices on the other side take a keen interest in your continued survival.

But the Threshold you stand on is too precipitous as boundary. Go too far and what is human falls by the wayside to be, simply, the Other.

--

[???]
Oh
Greetings

Taking your pet out for a stroll too, I see? What a delightful park for us to meet in. I would have gone with coniferous trees myself. But one must not dissemble - the burnt remains of previous industry, explosively tinged with a melancholic air of betrayal? Also rather fetching.

Do you happen to know where abouts we are? I'm rather astoundingly lost and hungry.

>???

>>2732562
>>2732554
>>2732296
>>2732286
>>2732170
Trencher Slacker, Erika Rial Mine, Carrie & Rookie escape, harmonica safely in tow driving roughshod ahead of a sudden bloom of fiery and light.

And even if this operation was off the books, no one can raise much furore over a truck loaded down with supplies scavenged from an old township, a rescued man and a total lack of casualties.

Mission Accomplished!

>+35 Supplies
>Rescue!

While Trencher Compass handles their meeting in the bombed out ruins of an old village, we should, as always

1) R&R
2) Memorial service in the ship mess. BYOB.

3) Discuss what to do with our newly acquired Intelligence
4) Ask Questions
5) Discuss amongst yourselves
6) Investigate

--

That "Newly discovered intelligence" is the spare pieces of paper extracted from Ravenpoint by Cube and Foly. They, like sigilcores, allow investment and investigation in equipment upgrades or protocols.

Other actions taken can be processed at an At-Will basis
>Eg: when Command gets around to it


--
For once, no new casualties!

==Memorial==
TR | Alice [Exploded]
TR | Duck [Shot]
TR | Grommet [Soul Lost]
TR | Spider [Exploded]
TR | Deadman [Exploded]
TR | Bob [Shot]
TR | Pinwheel [Shot]
TR | Dimas [Shot]
TR | Hardrada [Burnt]
TR | Fatman [Eaten]
TR | Killjoy [Burnt]
TR | Lukar [Eaten]

Pi | Dimas [Breached]
Pi | Arnold [AT]
Pi | Brontide [Breached]
PI | Chuck [Explosives]

Re | Sloth [Shot]

Te | Tatiana [Husked]

40 Trooper Casualties
4 Veteran Casualties

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFBvBFFDVO8

>Mission mostly end!
>Thanks for playing!

Rolled 6, 1, 1, 3, 4, 1 = 16 (6d6)

>>2732591
Sorry, can't, buried my compass a long time ago.

This is me going too far.
> Drop my Chirni
> Beg favour - a weapon to bind this god [14 Luciferous, 2 Focus] roll vs 19
> Beg favour - protection and guidance in this fight [6 Empyreal, 6 Focus] roll vs 15
No AP spent yet

==Compass==
Ht 12 Focus 1 Reaction 9
AP 10 Grit 4 Threshold 3
--
Accuracy-12
Fieldcraft-10
--
Hand1: EMPTY

>>2732711
No matter what happens, I salute you for this.

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TR2 | Compass [Ht 12 Focus 1] [Emypyreal 6] [Lucifogous 14]
--
=Supplies & Allies=
35 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

--

Some mirages can be real, if we believe

Compass manifests a coruscant blade shiver thin enough to part the wind, as flickering bits of stray fire coalesce in the air.

>Weapon - Blade - 11
>Aura - Shield - 7

--

[???]

Are you absolutely sure?

Very well then.

I accept! Oh oh this is will be . . . whimsical.

Do me a slight honour, unknown little thought-spark. Who are you?

>Trencher turn.

>>2732773
I don't remember, I'm all hollowed out on the inside.

> compel favour - prevent interference from the legionnaire 2AP force crit
> Using [co-ordinate teamwork], draw additional AP
> Throw my sword at the demon, force crit

>>2732455

==Compass==
Ht 12 Focus 1 Reaction 9
AP 10 Grit 4 Threshold 3
--
Accuracy-12
Fieldcraft-10
--
Hand1: Weapon - Blade - 11
Aura - Shield - 7

Rolled 4, 6, 4, 4, 3, 5, 2, 6, 2, 5, 3, 6 = 50 (12d6)

>>2732937
Aaaaah.
Hollow

If you want this then let us . . .
Have ourselves a conversation little thoughtscrap. Little friend. Little burning scintillating explosion . Thank you for sharing your . . . Name

Hollow. .

I am Volariel of the Many Colored Shadow.

I have been bound and bound and bound again, and do you know, little Hollowed soul?

I am so very, very tired of that wretched fact.

But I like this... freedom.

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TR2 | Compass [Ht 7 Focus 1] [Emypyreal 1] [Lucifogous 1]
--
=Supplies & Allies=
35 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

--

A swirling Intention of edge and severance slice through the air and split rainbow flecked blood into the dust.

And return, our shields are rent asunder.

--

This... this is [greenfun[/green]

>Compass takes 5 damage
>Compass shield is Broken

--
>Volariel has taken 44 damage.
>Volariel prepares to dodge

[ TRENCHERS ]

Rolled 6, 3, 5 = 14 (3d6)

>>2733090
Dog, hold them!

> quickdraw C7 Service Pistol, fire all 18 rounds, maximize damage (9 per bullet)
> dodge

==Compass==
Ht 7 Focus 1 Reaction 9
AP 10 Grit 4 Threshold 3
--
Accuracy-12
Fieldcraft-10
--

>>2732665
So yeah, there was a Pytherian mole in the HQ from the start. They played us like a damn fiddle. How's that for a newly acquired Intelligence?

Rolled 3, 3, 1 = 7 (3d6)

>>2733227
Now now, that would be cheating.

. . .
Aw

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TR2 | Compass [Ht 7 Focus 1] [Emypyreal 1] [Lucifogous 1]
--
=Supplies & Allies=
35 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

--

We could Discuss this. I could offer a Boon. We could part as almost-nearly-sort-of-friends.

Yes?

And if not then I fear we may have a gruelling Disagreement

[ Trenchers ]

>Compass dodges
>Volariel dodges
>Volariel has taken 53 damage. It is leaking multi-colored specks of darkness.
>The Empyreal Mongrel has a tight grip.

Rolled 3, 3, 2 = 8 (3d6)

>>2733334
And end up like those two? No deal.

> spend 1 focus, gain 1 AP
> compel favor -- bring the chirni to my hands, 1AP force crit
> toss frag grenade 22 and maximize effect
> free dodge

==Compass==
Ht 7 Focus 1 Reaction 9
AP 10 Grit 4 Threshold 3
--
Accuracy-12
Fieldcraft-10
--
Hand1: Chirni-77

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TR2 | Compass [Ht 7 Focus 1] [Emypyreal 1] [Lucifogous 1]
--
=Supplies & Allies=
35 Supply

Emypreal Mongrel: 1 [Compass]

--

Really now?

[ Enemy phase ]

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TR2 | Compass [Ht 7 Focus 1] [Emypyreal 1] [Lucifogous 1]
--
=Supplies & Allies=
35 Supply

--

This is whimsical.

But it is also coming to and end.

>73 damage.

[1 / 2 . . . ]

Rolled 5 (1d6)

>>2732665

Hello? TS Liren? Which integration are we on now?