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hank you. It isn't every day one acquires a pet portfolio of half-lost Pytherian soldiers. Rattle your little memory stocks. What were you doing in the Pit of all places? The poor Addled took Scarf for a spot of spelunking, and none too kind at the grabbing either!

Now we find ourselves in some firewashed spatial uncertainty. Admittedly we are rather lost. Perhaps our quiet friend with the mask can guide us to their local village for a chance of resupply and the warm embrace of civilisation. After all this rope swinging a well-stuffed straw mattress and wicker-chair is high on Scarfs list of desires.

But . . . One would be a poor host at this shadow-sheltered copse if one did not offer a spot of delicacy to guests and wanderers. Share a secret!

What will you do now, little lost sacrifice souls?

And if it takes your keen interest, perhaps Scarf might make a barter or two for the wretchedness the tumultuous hammers of the world has etched into your bones?

[ Name ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 14
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Support 1 [+1, of choice]
@Body
#Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
#Hand2
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

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==Camp==
Recover all Fatigue.
Recover Resist in as many other conditions as you want.

Any Condition can be offloaded to Scarf, who will happily trade it off of you. It may be wise to attempt to barter them for something.

--

You can trade and transfer Secrets amongst yourselves freely. Perhaps someone knows something you would like to know? Of course, doing so means you no longer know - otherwise it wouldn't be a secret, softsoul.

It might be wise to re-distribute gear and align yourselves in purpose.

Feel free to inquire, test, consider, converse and perform other activities. If doing so, simply state what you intend to do. Camp Phase does not spend Alacrity.

>>3331578
A question if I may, how do secrets work? And what is that which lay at the bottom of our hearts kept away hidden from all the others? (Secret soul)
Do we simply remember a old forgotten memory? Or do we experience it as one man once did?

>>3332051
You spend Alacrity on Secrets, getting as many dice as your rank times the alacrity.

Longblades 1 is 1 alacrity for 1d100
Longblades 2 is 1 alacrity for 2d100
Longblades 8 is 1 alacrity for 8d100

Secrets are in essence knowing how to do something.

Depending on the Intent behind what you are trying to do, the base effect is changed.

Longblades to attack is governed by Harm
Longblades to defend by Resist
Longblade repair by Solve

So Longblades 3 with Harm 2 gives you 3 dice for every alacrity spent to strike and when you do strike, your base damage is influenced by Harm.

Secret Soul is all yours and all the strange ways to grow and change. It gives a boost to acquiring expertise and remembering previous deeds.

[Paran]
>Attempt to sense the Wild Chemicae's [Conditional State] (current and prohibited Condtions)
>--Woeheart is 2, Sense is 1

Pain 15, Wounds 12, Terror 5
Shock and internal burns
Hunger 18, Thirst 20
Long hours skulking to avoid the mandibles of the Cerebovorando Killing caste have eroded strength
Purpose 3, Shadows 8
Clay seeks the source of recent pain and agitated predators

>>3331578
Silas sits quietly, resting his head on his spear. Trying to process the events of the day and separating past from present. He had never thought that memories could be such a troublesome thing. But thanks to them he had grown hardier, more accurately remembered how to be hardier.
>Gain +1 Intention (Resist)
>Does the secret we choose to gain have to be one we're aware of?
>Recover Terror 1

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 16
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
Face: Loose Cloth
Body:Stalwart Spear Cuirass, 3 DR Physical, *Warded, Max Speed 1, Heavy.
#Hands 1 & 2: Firewatch Spear, 1 + .66 Harm, Reach 2, 15% Stun. Crit >2: Puncture. ,**Thrust! Hit 2 targets in a line. Roll once.
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
7 Bits
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 1.2}
{Spears 1.5}
==Condition==
Discipline 2
Wounds 8
Misfortune 2
Pain 10
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3332519
You can opt to recover 2 in Wounds, Pain and Misfortune. Up to Resist in any.

And yes - if you are not aware of a Secret, how would you learn it? That doesn't mean it has to be one you currently know.

>>3332810
Alright, thanks. I knew about the recovery, I'd just like to bank those misfortunes for now since I'm nowhere near my limit, they have value.
>>3332519
Silas broke his silence, the pain in his wounds distracting him from his thoughts. "Hey Scarf, trade you in my pain and wounds for any knowledge you have about defense, I'd like to have more fond things to trade than more bloodloss."
>Gain +1 in Spears
>Offer Scarf my Pain and Wounds for any knowledge she has on parrying, or other applicable defensive arts

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 16
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
Face: Loose Cloth
Body:Stalwart Spear Cuirass, 3 DR Physical, *Warded, Max Speed 1, Heavy.
#Hands 1 & 2: Firewatch Spear, 1 + .66 Harm, Reach 2, 15% Stun. Crit >2: Puncture. ,**Thrust! Hit 2 targets in a line. Roll once.
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
7 Bits
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 1.2}
{Spears 2.5}
==Condition==
Discipline 2
Wounds 8
Misfortune 2
Pain 10
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3331577
Sacnite wraps her arms around her knees and cringes against the wall. "P-please don't eat me mister insect... I'm not tasty. Promise."

>>3332881
"Don't worry, that's just...Paran...? I'm not even going to ask how or why you did that and move on."

>>3332854
>Also before I trade those wounds and forget finally rip this stupid arrow out of my side

Rolled 4, 88, 34, 14, 35, 100, 32, 87, 51, 82, 36, 20, 26 = 609 (13d100)

>>3332912
>>3332854
Oh?

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>>3332912
>>3332854
Some says its more painful going in.
It turns out some people lie.

Silas blinks and Scarf is here, looming, somehow crossing the fire-bathed distance unseen.

Scarf
A wanderers walking aid? Scarf once learned a trick from a one-armed warrior in a burning bar at the edge of a starving Reikan city.

Here! Put your hands like so. . .

>Spear Trick:
>Crossguard - Block squares equal to your reach
Scarf elaborates: " ... So others, behind you, get shelter from loose arrows and flying projectiles and you, in front, block a wider field!"

>Spear Trick:
>Stop Thrust - Reaction Strike stops target in its tracks
>Kinematics Trick:
>Roll - Add your Speed to Kinematics, then dodge through obstacles and hostiles. Will move you.

Scarf elaborates: So Kinematics 1.2 and Speed one is 2.2 - which for Dodging with 2 Alacrity would give you 4 dice. But you would also roll at least 2 spaces. "

>>3332906
It's staring at me...
Sacnite glances pack at Paran, then wrenches her gaze up and away. High above, is that a bird?

[ Sacnite ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 14
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 3
@Loose Flowing Cloth
#Empty Hand
#Empty Hand
{Scavenger 2}
{Kinematics 1}
==Condition==
2 Terror
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3333055
>gain +1 in Avoidance
>gain +1 resist
This is a fine rifle, yes. But... not quite my weapon.
Hm. Does anyone want a gun?
Oh, and a sword, too! Very fine smithery, I can tell.
>offer my wounds and terror and misfortune for the arts of disarming and disabling

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 17
Harm 2 | Sense 2 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
@Body
#Pathfinder Rifle "Faith", Range: [8](2+Sense)*2, +1AL/+1 range. 2 + .75Harm [Kills], 15% Pierce, 10% Bleed, 5% Stun. (9/10, rof 1 @ 1)
#Glimmershard [Knife], 2 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed.
Inv:
The Gift [Longblade], 3 + Harm. Crit 10%. *Lethal
{Knives 2.5}
{Avoidance 1}
==Condition==
Wounds! 8
Misfortune! 2
Terror! 2

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Zanshir
!Secret Soul
!Perfect Circle

>>3332881
"Bzzz. I will not. (You look absolutely delicious.)"
>>3332906
"How was simple. Why pursues us. Ate the Knight. (It wasn't at all simple, but was lots of fun.) We must fight it. Soon. (Before it devours enough to be unstoppable. But maybe after I'm strong enough to become it.) Zzz-zt."

>>3332430
"Deal with Scarf. Or ask of Paran. (Oh, not actually a mute? Interesting.) Can you teach the fingerspeech?"

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 8 | Speed 2 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | React 1 | Solve 1 | Support 1 | Attune 1
{Woeheart 2}
{Buzzsoul 2}
{Close Combat 2}
#Manipulators, Crits: +Instinct. 10% Poison.
==Condition==
Instinct 7
==Talents==
!Push
!Secret Soul
!Pathogenic Transference
!Sympathetic Vitae
!Red River
!Layered Mind
!Devour

>>3333055
"Agh...guess that was stuck in deeper than I thought, at least its gone now. Hey Ma...Clay, that's your name right. You going to get rid of those wounds of yours?"
>For clarification, how would I note which squares I block with Crossguard
>>3333089
"Just uh...put the fire between you I guess. Look, it scares me too but I've got bigger mad theurge problems than what this particular mad theurge did."

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 16
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
Face: Loose Cloth
Body:Stalwart Spear Cuirass, 3 DR Physical, *Warded, Max Speed 1, Heavy.
#Hands 1 & 2: Firewatch Spear, 1 + .66 Harm, Reach 2, 15% Stun. Crit >2: Puncture. ,**Thrust! Hit 2 targets in a line. Roll once.
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
7 Bits
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 1.2}
Roll
{Spears 2.5}
Crossguard, Stop Thrust
==Condition==
Discipline 2
Misfortune 2
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3333093
ScarfThat little friend of yours, hidden, away, in the inner pockets. The sharp edged thought-knife.

Give it to me.

Rolled 62, 100, 59, 50, 8, 65, 80, 11, 17, 3, 39, 26 = 520 (12d100)

>>3333126
!

>>3333137
My... knife?
...
No! I mean. You'll have to, uh, offer something. Good. This little shard has served me well, after all.
Like. At least another knife. To replace this one. If you take it.
B-but it has to be a good deal! Did I already say that?

>>3333126
"So...uh...did you leave your old body just sitting there or?"

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>>3333126
Clay takes to their feet on the third attempt. Off balance in a way now wholly alien to your stable platform. It takes some doing to teach, but she starts with the simpler concepts and moves from there.

Now, the real trick of comprehension. Mapping finger-bones to the more hydraulic cleave-scythes of your new forearms...

>Clay loses 2 Terror

>>3333127
>Reaction: Crossguard 7+8 [ x dice ]

Clay shakes their head. Taps the ground. Taps her chest. Points at the fire. Butterfly tree sky river--

She seems adamant in her refusal.

>>3333155
Scarf

Glimmering killing intent fashioned by thought into murder. This is not the sharpest thing Scarf has ever seen.

But only by slim, slim margins.

give it to me.

You have another Blade in your deep pockets and no warrior needs more arms than they have hands. In return, for trade, for barter, for this little scrap of murder, Scarf will tell you a Mystery.

Sssh. Listen close...

>Knife Mystery
>Artful Bastardy: Crit on 1-15 if target distracted.

Is it a deal?

>>3333275
It's... This is a sword.
A Longblade. I...
I don't know how to use it. Not as well as a Knife.
Unless you know something that I don't?

>>3333302
" Yes. "

" One blade is much like any other. You can swing both and they end lives. The intricacies... Only subtly different. If you have learned one, why not learn another?

But that is a different barter entire now give it to me"

>>3333324
Fine.
>trade knife for Knife Mystery
But this longblade best swing the same, or I will be very, very cross.

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Clay moves her hands one final time and then, with a soft wave through the air, stands. The firelight shimmers around her, shifting.

Paran scuttles manifold legs to move into a centre space, and acts as a translator. The chitter cadence of slightly mangled larynx adds an accent

. . . Clay is an archetheologist, thankful you fought off the Cerebovorando ants. The Killing caste was hunting. They have been disturbed lately, pushed to extremes of scavenge as something shifts in the Green. There is an illness in the air, spore laden winds carrying curious dreams.

This is why she does not want to release the wounds, the pain - it keeps sleep at bay.

A village is nearby. She will take us there.

But she wants to know, in turn, do we have an explanation for the Addled? For walking fools tumbling from byways through the Greenspan, turned host for parasitical tendrils burrowing into their souls and coring out their personalities?

>>3333347
As Clays fingers flash through lightning quick motions, Scarf breaks the silence with a long low laughter that rolls across the woods. They are ecstatic. Hands likes claws reach for the glimmering half-real knife of coalesced murderous intent.

Clay pauses her silent monologue to flick a pebble at Scarf. The laughter dies in the folds of Scarfs many robes.

. . . Someone leads the Addled but something else spits out the little winds that carry the dreams. Someone buried a House of the Gods in the mountains we fled. These things in tune are together, you loose-clad band of fools.

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Was trading a knife that cut dreams for the secrets of quiet murder wise? The Gift is a well-made sword fashioned from love and artifice.

But it is not a knife.

Scarf rubs at their swaddled head, pouting in the folds of their clothes.

>>3333371
Silas pulls himself up with his spear and faces Clay.

"I can't quite explain the Addled, but I can explain the latter. That House of Gods, I don't know much about it or that term, but I think I know what you're talking about. When we were in that camp, I remembered that I was a soldier of the Legion sent into the Greenspan who used to reside in that camp. Our Theurges had established a laboratory underground, drilling deep until they hit and drew out the Sidereal, which they used to make those Ironclad Guardians and those horrifying Spitescorps, a perversion of the natural Cerebovorando. I can recall someone, I don't know who, talking about the latter. Anyway, I was sent with a team to find out why we hadn't word from the factory. I've repressed most of what happen, but they were subverted somehow and driven mad, their creations still being made and running wild. Only three of us got out, and only myself and another lived past a day. We tried to shut it off, threw everything we had at it, but given the many corpses of my comrades, the madness of the survivors, and the mess we currently are in, we assuredly failed. That damnable machine's heart is still beating, and I don't know what we're going to do about it."

He sighs, feeling relieved to let that out.

"Is that sufficient?"

>>3333390
>3 AL Recover Fatigue
"Hey Scarf, ill give you my misfortune and wounds in exchange for knowledge on how to heal myself"

Bulvar
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 16
Harm 2 | Sense 2 | Resist 3 | Solve 1
@Loose Cloth
#Scragblade [Blade] Heft 2 1 + .5Harm, 10% Bleed, 1% Profuse Bleed crit >2: Puncture
#Plankfriend [Shield] .5Harm, 20% Stun Block 1.33xAL 12 HP
{Scavenger 1} {Breaking 1.25} {Knives 1}
==Condition==
Wounds 4
Misfortune 1
Fatigue 3
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3333390
There was an odd beauty in the human body the numbered man thought as he took the skull from its place and gazed into it.
The marks of impacted scars that dotted it coupled with the worn marks of past scars and the seeds told him a story of the previous owners life that no other person could quite understand unless they were in his soles.
Gazing long and hard into it the numbered man gave a soft smile, it truly was a work of art, but like any other piece it could be improved, it could be remade, sculpted again to something much grander than it was all it required was the sight to see and the will to do. Something that his compatriots were clearly unable to see as one of them gave a look of disgust as he treasured the raw piece of bone that he tore out of a dead corpse. Flesh was flesh and it would decay and rot but the bone was the revered treasure.
Taking a moment to pick out a sharp rock even if it was the same one he began with the numbered man began to work. This seed worn skull shall shine with the scrimshawed work of a tale, the tale of what happened there and who this soul might have been.

>Scrimshaw onto the seed worn skull a tale of what happened here, the fatigue of the fight, the terror of the beast and of the sacrifices around him. (Use a secret if it helps?)


[1023]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 15
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Support 1 I Solve 2
@Body: Ragged tattercloak 1 Dr *Fragile* *Flammable* *Environment protection*
#Hand 1: Scrapwood Javelin [Thrown] 2x left
-Harm, Sense+4 Range, 20% Stun, 10% Bleed, 5% Impale
#Hand 2: Reinforced Plankfriend
[shield]
.5Harm, 25% Stun
Block 1.5xAL
18 HP, 2 DR.
Seed-worn Skull Pauldron.
1 DR. !Fragile. *Accessory
1x Jagged rock
{Scavenger 1}
==Condition==
6 Fatigue 5 terror?

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

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>>3333581
The greatest trick of all, sought by every physician from Pyther to Pontiers!

Scarf has little to avail you there, Breaker-fist, for self-sufficiency is an art for stoics, ascetics and those who would fashion loneliness into a weapon. Not honest barter-folk who thrive of interdependence! The skittering bug-comrade can taste wounds and curious Clay bottle them for storage and Scarf collect the bone-written ache of adventure but... Scarf has no such art to fix oneself.

Unless . . .

>It appears Scarf cannot teach the tricks of purely self-directed healing. It might be some kind of flaw with the underlying structure of the universe, reliant as it is on Conditions being traded between people. That would imply pure first aid to mitigate own wounds could destabilise the entire edifice. What a cosmically dubious thought

>You throw your mind to less fundamental concerns!

There are those would stride and strive against the malign ministrations of monsters and men. Scarf could tell you the tale of Knights and Dragons and, for a price, Swords in the bargain . . .

>>3333545
She tilts her head to one side, then the other as if trying to weigh the way your words rattle in the space behind her mask.

The silence stretches on. And then she signs with deliberate slowness...

Sufficient, little half-dead steelskin. Your Factory and the House is one. I came to see. But found lost souls in the Roots tainted with Dreams. They try to shed their armor but it is wrapped in their souls. Comrade and kin of yours, taken to a nightmare. Many of them have spread, lost and looting. Your grand assault a failure. Their bodies seeds.

Tsk tsk. Hunted the House. Hunted by the House. Always sky-touched, your worldspeakers.

The steelskins have a little crappy Post, like a tick, in our home. We go there. Maybe find a friend.

>>3333390
Oh... is... that person casting that bird shaped shadow?

>>3334089
It appears so. It might just be a trick of the light, but maybe our alchemically inclined guide dabbles in shadowspinning.

Maybe its... something else.

>>3334083
Silas sighs and adjusts himself.
"Very well Clay, lead the way. I wonder if they got our emergency message. If the forces outside the Greenspan have not already mobilized, it may be too late. I don't know how long I've been in that cave, or when exactly I went unconscious."

>>3333862
Clay takes in your work in peeks beneath her own mask.

Maybe in remembering, the spirited soulscrap of the fallen can find some measure of peace?

>Lose terror.
>Add *Storied to Pauldron.

Rolled 66, 88, 49, 43, 28, 81, 45, 32, 15, 56, 16, 75, 74 = 668 (13d100)

>>3334114
>>3334089

>>3334089
This is a strange place, of bugs and bones and conspiracy. Clay casts a flickering shadow at odds with campfire and in conflict with the sky. And there - just now - it moved, liquid-like, to peer back at you. As if a shadow had eyes.

>Solve 3

. . . And if it does not, why is it looking at you? Something in the pattern . .

>Might reveal a little of the nature of things
>Might teach me something, if I pay very close attention.
>it's probably nothing! Dancing shadows? Preposterous.
>. . . Something else?

With a destination in mind and some time to recover, we can set out when we feel ready.

if not yet ready to travel, then perhaps some final exchanged words and acts...

Well. I find myself slightly less armed now, but my offer for the rifle is still open.
Maybe you, Sacnite, armed with not a single weapon?
Or, uh, Paran? If... if your form is accomodating? I find myself doubting that...

>>3334254
>Using his jagged rock, Silas cuts out a second length of Greedvine to use for rope, good to have backups
>After that, he's ready to go

>>3334246
I-I I think maybe I should get some sleep. Hah haaaah...
>it's probably nothing! Dancing shadows? Preposterous.

>>3334254
>>3334189
The numbered man held the skull to clay with a knowing nod.
“With hope and faith yes, with this act I hope they will be remembered and have their stories carved into their very beings so that they may not suffer their second death. The death of being forgotten never to be remembered, but i believe that it can be alleviated and avoided with acts such as this.”
>the numbered man looks at scarf with the carved skull in hand
“Scarf friend what do you think of such things? Would you care if someone were to carve your tale into your bones so that you or your friends may never forget who you were?

>>3334358
>Found a better way to express it so here is a rephrase.

"Scarf friend what do you think of such things? If or when you were to perish, would you care if someone were to carve your tale into your bones so the living may remember who you were?"

>>3334020
"Deal, are we ready to depart, friends?"

>>3334390
Death is a fungible commodity with high resale value.

>>3334322
The mechanics of light ban awry shadows and bar erratic negative space. The world has a structure.

It is more apt to doubt sensory illusions than the fundamental constraints. Yes. Yes!

( . . . Yes? )

The shadow nods at you.
Great.
That settles it.

>with high Solve and an insistence on order you can learn the secrets of Mechalogistics - the fine, salient art of bending the world to its proper purpose.

>>3336271
The numbered man raised an eyebrow as he looked at the skull and thought about scarf's answer looking at the carvings spoke of the tale and he thought of what interest a collector may have. With acceptance he gave a grudging nod before he returned to carving it noticing a flaw that he must correct.

"I suppose that if I were to sell this to some collector it may fetch me a neat sum. But I am not so inclined to think of such mercantile means, the memories of those fallen should be preserved and remembered not simply carved to be thrown away to some aristocrat. A philosophy I am sure many artists may agree."

Checking the skull again to see if the flaw was corrected he smiled and returned the jagged stone to its place.

"Although I know that many artists have had to sell their precious work for coin and bit. After all a rememberer must be able to accommodate for themselves so that they do not end as the fallen. A memory can only be treasured and considered as such if it is done by the living, not by the dead. Giving it worth far beyond steel or gold."
He turned towards scarf and Clay.
"I am sure the two of you can agree no?"

>>3336333
Scarf
Yes
Clay
No
Scarf
No one to tell is no one told and
Clay
All bodies are stories
Scarf
But no words
Clay
history is silent and all around and still here

They don't seem to agree at all.

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Oh, all the odd things we have learned

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>>3335820
>>3333581
congratulations, Sacrifice. You've changed class!

Acquire 1 new Trick from your new Class.
Because you're a changing into it, intentions and all such stay the same.

You also gain Glorious Endeavour, a Secret, and a rather special one besides - gain 1 Glory Condition whenever you take a turn. You can spend Glory as Alacrity and a host of other small tricks. Alas, Glory has its own momentum and to gain more, you must push yourself onwards...

>>3336700
*sigh*
"Well I guess the two of you are joined by at least the value of memory whether treasured by the living or around us."
>Gain +1 solve.
>No idea what to use my secret on... agghhh

>>3336977
WAIT IDEA
>use secret to gain +1 scavenging :D

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We break camp and make our way. Our guide eats the miles of our advance in silence, each step placed with an odd conviction. Slowed by wounds but bound by some other purpose for speed.

On the wind, a trace of woodsmoke . . .

If you have no more camp activity to attend to, please make ready.

>>3337102
One more thing, really.
>fashion splintershiv out of wood
>maybe make several?

>>3336331
Oh, okay. That's... good to know? Pleasedon'teatmeMrShadowI'llpretendIdidn'tnotice.

>>3337102
>Ready
"Fire? Trouble. (We did blow up a large wooden tower, but somehow I doubt that's the source.)"

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 8 | Speed 2 | Limit 15
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | React 1 | Solve 1 | Support 1 | Attune 1
{Woeheart 2}
{Buzzsoul 2}
{Close Combat 2}
#Manipulators, Crits: +Instinct. 10% Poison.
==Condition==
Instinct 7
==Talents==
!Push
!Secret Soul
!Pathogenic Transference
!Sympathetic Vitae
!Red River
!Layered Mind
!Devour
!Fingerspeech

Rolled 27, 65, 75, 54, 1, 51 = 273 (6d100)

>>3337170
Scarf
Glimmer-friend, trouble-toiler, you seek a knife worthy of your ambition. Scarf has such a blade to trade your secret soul. And at small price besides, this fine instrument of lethality!

>>3337170
The sunsoaked woods of this plane devour the bounty of the land and grow in their quiet majesty to choke out the skies above. Clay nods at small scraps of fallen veinwood. Some vine, some hope and a lacquer that burns the nostrils poured over the scraps make passable blades, prepared on the go for the furtive would-be assassin..

>+2 Fatigue
>+3 Veinwood Splinter: .75Harm, 8% Bleed, 1% Poison [Shortblade] *Fragile

>>3337780
Is it not the very same blade we just traded?

>>3338403
! Ah, Scarf sees it in your stepping stance, your eyes, your avarice. You are familiar with this very hole in the world? A peer in the court of pointed interjection. Suffice?

And all that the cost of . . . A Favour.

>>3338439
Just a favor?
Uh...
This is a mistake. It's a deal.

>>3338450
The numbered man looks at Scryansi as he sells another thing which he does not have.
"You should really stop trying to barter with the merchant for power...What are you going to do next attempt to barter from him using carnal pleasure??"

>>3338450
You are a delight.

#Quiet Glimmershard [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed, 25% Feed.

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It grows bolder as we approach, building into a noxious assault on our senses. Wood and burning vine mix with the char-iron smell of singed corpses. Clay freezes in her steps.

Faint whispers of far screams roll along the deep woods. We haven't heard them until now, plucked from the air by moss and vine and the low hum of life.

=Lost=
1Eater | Paran

--

Smoke and chaos. Longhouses built from sunworn wood are blooming flowers of consuming rage. Addled shift among the debris. Some clutch torches, others bloodied weapons, and all move with purpose at odds with the sluggish twist of those we struggled against before.

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>>3339830
as you approach, notice a soft change in the whirl of the wind.

After a bit of testing and checking, a little functionality from earlier games have been added.

You now have a Proficiency score (it is 1). Take a Proficiency action to automatically get a dicepool of your Secret + Intent. You can add Alacrity to this, if you'd like. There is probably a way to increase this, later.

Alacrity is lowered, but unchanged. And yes, it still multiplies itself with the rank of your secret (should you spend it on Secrets).

This allows a little higher growth on attributes without things getting out of control, reduce your movement a little bit, increase the value of speed, and have a few other, more interesting trade-offs including some operations of Tricks. It also reduces the total available range of most Meta-real Secretes, which can no longer strike you from across the map by taking 9 Fatigue and pumping 9 Alacrity into range.

Your Alacrity should be 5 and your Proficiency 1. This also means Limit is a little reduced - being a sum of all your attributes.

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>>3339843
>Cunning Sacrifices would notice that they now know +1 Secret from base. Congratulations.

>Scavenger is set to 2, but this is to align newcomers with those who have more experience and allow a little initial ability to trade. You do not get Scavenger 2. Scarf is not *that* generous.

>Perhaps you would like to pick up something new? Feel free to move your Secrets around as you Wander In.

>Some secrets are not on this list because their requirements are specific or their description would spoil something. You are still free to inquire about them (Avoidance, Glorious Endeavour, maybe something else...)

>>3339843
>>3339858
"Strange dreams. (Why does reality have to go changing every time I try to learn a new flesh?)"
>Sheet has several situational status elements, requesting update to new ruleset.

>>3337756

>>3339858
The art of not being there, hm?
What does that mean? That I dodge and sneak and do general bastardry better?
>deploy
>gain longblades 1
>adjust weaponry...

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 2 | Sense 2 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
@Body
#Quiet Glimmershard [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed, 25% Feed.
#The Gift [Longblade], 3 + Harm. Crit 10%. *Lethal
Inv:
#Pathfinder Rifle "Faith", Range: [8](2+Sense)*2, +1AL/+1 range. 2 + .75Harm [Kills], 15% Pierce, 10% Bleed, 5% Stun. (9/10, rof 1 @ 1)
{Knives 1.5}
{Longblades 1}
{Avoidance 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Zanshir
!Secret Soul
!Perfect Circle

>>3339843
>>3339858
So like this?

[ Sacnite ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 12 | Proficiency 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 3
@Loose Flowing Cloth
#Empty Hand
#Empty Hand
{Scavenger 2}
{Kinematics 1}
==Condition==
2 Terror
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Are Talents just another name for Tricks?

>>3339898
>>3339858
void, I-
I cannot in good faith see you walk into battle with not a single weapon to wield.
Here. Here. Take it.
>give pathfinder rifle to sacnite

>>3339879
Reduce Alacrity by 2
Add 1 Prof
Reduce limit by 1
That’s that!

>>3339898
Perfect.

And effectively yes. Tricks, talents, tools, trades, trounces, trumps...

>>3339902
Oh it's okay. I'll find something! That's all I'm good at, after all.

>>3339909
Mind the heart, even Scarf makes mistakes occasion.

>>3339898
This is perfect, except of course that 5 Alacrity, 1 Speed, 6 Intents and 1 Prof all add up to 13 Limit, not a mere mortal 12.

>>3339918
What? No, listen. Look.
In my hands hold two weapons.
I cannot anymore weapons, see?
You’re doing me a favor by taking it. Honest.

>>3339885
All the sly cunning tricks of light, of ways to means to ends, of little routes drawn by strange souls down meandering, curious pathways.

It is the innate knowledge of how not to be there. Through pain, through hardship, through responsibility, through attachment, through vagaries of chance, through the flightpath of an arrow intended for your heart, the prodding blind grasping of the Hooded Collector of Souls...

Simply stepping out of the way is something any would-be thug with a blunt stick can learn in the Legio training forts or the warcamps of the Rieks. Avoidance is the very gently absence of your Self.

So yes

"Sneak and dodge" better.

Rolled 31, 54, 23, 72, 79, 76, 74, 47, 60, 46 = 562 (10d100)

>>3339830
>1p2al: Adapt Carapace with camouflage (buzzsoul2+solve1+2al×2=7dice)
>2al: Sneak 1N, 1NE
>1p: Sense conditional state of Masked Corpse East (1sense+2woe=3d)

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 6 | Speed 2 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | React 1 | Solve 1 | Support 1 | Attune 1
{Woeheart 2}
{Buzzsoul 2}
{Close Combat 2}
#Manipulators, Crits: +Instinct. 10% Poison.
==Condition==
Instinct 7
==Talents==
!Push
!Secret Soul
!Pathogenic Transference
!Sympathetic Vitae
!Red River
!Layered Mind
!Devour
!Fingerspeech

>>3339922
Ah, okay. Fixed now!

>>3339926
I'd probably hurt myself if I tried to use whatever that is.

>>3339982
Nonono I INSIST that you have this rifle.
Look, have you ever used a crossbow? Its just like that except...
Just take the weapon. Come on.

>>3340014
....."Why not give it to scarf? or take it apart?"

>>3340017
Yes.

>>3340014
Okay...

[ Sacnite ]
Alacrity 5 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 13 | Speed 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 3
@Loose Flowing Cloth
#Empty Hand
#Empty Hand
Inv:
#Pathfinder Rifle "Faith", Range: [8](2+Sense)*2, +1AL/+1 range. 2 + .75Harm [Kills], 15% Pierce, 10% Bleed, 5% Stun. (9/10, rof 1 @ 1)
{Scavenger 2}
{Kinematics 1}
==Condition==
2 Terror
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3339858>>3339830
>>3339843

>use bonus secret on Scavenger yaaay
>Become the ultimate bone carver!!!!
>remember that i gained a +solve from last time

[1023]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Profiency 1 | Limit 16
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 I Solve 3
@Body: Ragged tattercloak 1 Dr *Fragile* *Flammable* *Environment protection*
#Hand 1: Scrapwood Javelin [Thrown] 2x left
-Harm, Sense+4 Range, 20% Stun, 10% Bleed, 5% Impale
#Hand 2: Reinforced Plankfriend
[shield]
.5Harm, 25% Stun
Block 1.5xAL
18 HP, 2 DR.
Seed-worn Skull Pauldron.
1 DR. !Fragile. *Accessory* *Storied*
1x Jagged rock
{Scavenger 3}
==Condition==
6 Fatigue

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3340044
Limit 14.

>>3339942
The deeper senses pry apart what sight cannot - this corpse is riddled with small parasites that even now grow and twist through its nerve-strands. It is INFECTED (5), WOUNDED (11) and DEAD.

>Albeit tempting, even Hematheurges should stray from attempting to press their essence against Death itself. Some things are not so easily traded or touched.

Cut apart as they tried to flee, a half broken useless spear-scrap lies under the body of this young man. Something has settled into the wounds and are evening now colonising it for inscrutable purpose. Shuffled from the mortal restraints of their flesh prison, there is no pain, no fatigue, no wounds.

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==Lost==
Eater1 | Paran |
Ghost2 | Scryansi | Ha2 Se2 Re2 So2
Sac3 | Sacnite | So3
Sac4 | 1023 | H2 So3

---

In the distance a short shrieking sound is cut abruptly short. Addled waddle near the small fence that marks the entrance to the Wilder village, aimlessly swinging blunt blades back and forth. Some break from the pack to begin a long loop around the area.

Someone burst from the flames further in - weaves past the guards, zigs when fated wanted a zag and goes down with no time to cry out. The corpse twitches once and then is still. The Addled stare at it. One begins to shuffle closer.

Paran grabs a stray speck of light and wills it into a simulacra of grass and rock. The ambush predator coiled in the strands of protein and other gunk that makes up the innards of their soul sends a low spark of profound joy through the bundled nerve-wires of their soul.
>+1 Instinct Condition
>2 Camo activated. Maintain with 1 Alacrity. Beat, as always, by watchers rolling Sense.

--

Clay is too taken by sheer horror to mutter or sign. Scarf puts one bundled hand on their shoulder and Clay raises one hand to brush it off violently.
Then stops. Emits a choked sound of misery.

What is happening here? And are there any survivors?

>https://youtu.be/J0Xhlf2vNHA [Embed]

[ LOST PHASE ]

>>3340283
"This armor's hea...oh dear."
>Deploy

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 16
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
Face: Loose Cloth
Body:Stalwart Spear Cuirass, 3 DR Physical, *Warded, Max Speed 1, Heavy.
#Hands 1 & 2: Firewatch Spear, 1 + .66 Harm, Reach 2, 15% Stun. Crit >2: Puncture. ,**Thrust! Hit 2 targets in a line. Roll once.
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
7 Bits
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 1.2}
Roll
{Spears 2.5}
Crossguard, Stop Thrust
==Condition==
Discipline 2
Misfortune 2
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3340290
A heavy burden to bear the world, or so the Legion recruiters claim.

You can act from the [C] in the [C]entre of the [C]heckpoint to [C]arry on

>>3340299
Do secrets round when using proficiency? How would Spears 2.5 turn out?

Rolled 81, 81, 93, 59 = 314 (4d100)

>>3340283
The numbered man looks at his arms, the wooden masks of the villagers and nods his head.
"Javelins will not be enough, will have to acquire more but not yet."
>Move 2 east and 1 north.
>Take a proficiency action and throw a javelin at the addled who cut down the village 4 east 1 north. (Harm2+2 Alac)

[1023]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 14
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 I Solve 3
@Body: Ragged tattercloak 1 Dr *Fragile* *Flammable* *Environment protection*
#Hand 1: Scrapwood Javelin [Thrown] 2x left
-Harm, Sense+4 Range, 20% Stun, 10% Bleed, 5% Impale
#Hand 2: Reinforced Plankfriend
[shield]
.5Harm, 25% Stun
Block 1.5xAL
18 HP, 2 DR.
Seed-worn Skull Pauldron.
1 DR. !Fragile. *Accessory* *Storied*
1x Jagged rock
{Scavenger 3}
==Condition==
6 Fatigue

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3340341
Add the whole, disregard other bits. That effectively "rounds down".

Rolled 71, 85, 100, 36, 20, 56, 92, 15, 3 = 478 (9d100)

>>3340392
Understood, thanks.
>Adjusting Kinematics to 2.2
>Adjusting stats
>>3340290
"Sacnite, lay down some fire on the archers. How the hell are there this many Addled Legionaries? I doubt that many of my comrades survived. How were they smart enough to patrol their way here? We need to distract them from the Wilder survivors."
>5Al: Move 444,45
>Push 3
>1P&2Al: Stab at the Addled 44 with the Firewatch Spear (Harm + Spears = 4)
>1Al: Reaction: Roll 2 (3 dice, move 1 square in 2 direction)

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
Face: Loose Cloth
Body:Stalwart Spear Cuirass, 3 DR Physical, *Warded, Max Speed 1, Heavy.
#Hands 1 & 2: Firewatch Spear, 1 + .66 Harm, Reach 2, 15% Stun. Crit >2: Puncture. ,**Thrust! Hit 2 targets in a line. Roll once.
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
7 Bits
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 2.2}
Roll
{Spears 2.5}
Crossguard, Stop Thrust
==Condition==
Discipline 2
Misfortune 2
Fatigue 3
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 60, 93, 37, 26, 97, 13, 14, 66 = 406 (8d100)

>>3340283
So you hold it like... this? Sacnite grasps the rifle with two hands around the barrel, sounding unsure.
> 1AL Wield Improvised Club / Rifle
> 8AL Stance: Maximise Stun

But what's the tube on the side for?

[ Sacnite ]
Alacrity 5 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 13 | Speed 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 3
@Loose Flowing Cloth
#Pathfinder RIfle
#(Pathfinder Rifle)
{Scavenger 2}
{Kinematics 1}
==Condition==
2 Terror
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3340413
Fire? Where!?

>>3340426
Silas turns around to see why Sacnite is having trouble lining up the shot to find....that.
"Uh...nevermind. Just make sure that isn't loaded so you don't blow your own foot off."

>>3340283
>1p&5al: assemble camouflage cloak out of vines (avoidance + solve)
>>3340420
Thats not quite...
Hm. Square up a little bit, and move your grip up a bit towards the, uh, receiver.

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 2 | Sense 2 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
@Body
#Quiet Glimmershard [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed, 25% Feed.
#The Gift [Longblade], 3 + Harm. Crit 10%. *Lethal
{Knives 1.5}
{Longblades 1}
{Avoidance 1}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Zanshir
!Secret Soul
!Perfect Circle

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==Lost==
Eater1 | Paran |
Ghost2 | Scryansi | Ha2 Se2 Re2 So2
Sac3 | Sacnite | So3
Sac4 | 1023 | H2 So3
Sac5 | Silas | H2 Re2 So2

--

>>3340459
So many vines layered on the ground, and now one distinctly humanoid version . . .
>You have attained Camo 2 - it is, as always, opposed by sense. Unlike your carapace clad kinsbug, you do not benefit from active adaption to the background but you do benefit from being near the endless greenery.

>That's a finer way of saying that standing out in the open makes you easier to spot but being in a thick morass of vines makes it harder

>>3340420
Ah! Yes! Like so! An excellent weapon, and the curious balance surely makes it better to swing

>Pathfinder Rifle Butt - 3 [BLUNT] + Harm, 9% Stun. Reach 2. *Fragile

>>3340413
The Addled are siddling away but if we let them retreat, they endangers those that have made it clear of the massacre. Some things cannot be. And what is the Legion if not a shield for those in the lands that rely on the stalwart spear to hold the dark at bay?

Have at thee.

>>3340366
Well that's one very dead wall.

[ ENVIRONMENT PHASE ]

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==Lost==
Eater1 | Paran |
Ghost2 | Scryansi | Ha2 Se2 Re2 So2
Sac3 | Sacnite | So3
Sac4 | 1023 | H2 So3
Sac5 | Silas | H2 Re2 So2

--

The Addled response is sluggish. They are violence fed and havoc sated. Blades chop at the air around 1023 but find no purchase, one slash deflected off of the grinning skull of a Seed-cored fellow wanderer. Maybe this is a sign of a respect among them? Maybe they wish not to harm one of their own?

Silas rolls back with a heavy clatter, the Stalwart armor slowing him down to a rattle across the vine-soft ground and, a heartbeat too slow, an arrow finds purchase. But it is a small sting.
>+2 Pain, +1 Wound.

--

A loud voice cracks across the landscape like a whip! The sound of steel meeting flesh is timed to the arrival of Scarf and Clay.

[ LOST PHASE ]

Rolled 74, 14, 65, 46, 42, 65, 80, 84, 88, 41, 21 = 620 (11d100)

>>3340549
"Hm...forgot how much Legion steel slows one down. No matter, this is where I want to stand."
>1P + 3Al: Stab Addled 5 with Firewatch Spear (Harm + Spear = 4)
>2Al: Reaction: Parry Addled at 1

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
Face: Loose Cloth
Body:Stalwart Spear Cuirass, 3 DR Physical, *Warded, Max Speed 1, Heavy.
#Hands 1 & 2: Firewatch Spear, 1 + .66 Harm, Reach 2, 15% Stun. Crit >2: Puncture. ,**Thrust! Hit 2 targets in a line. Roll once.
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
7 Bits
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 2.2}
Roll
{Spears 2.5}
Crossguard, Stop Thrust
==Condition==
Discipline 2
Misfortune 3
Fatigue 3
2 Pain
1 Wound
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 33, 32, 91, 52, 42, 91, 26, 56, 67, 9, 12, 76 = 587 (12d100)

>>3340549
*Growl*
>Cash in my proficiency and using 3 alacrity and gaining 2 fatigue shield bash the addled south of me. (5 alac + 2 harm)
>use 2 alacrity and gain 1 fatigue to attempt to grab the wrist of the addled east of me. (+2 harm+3 alacrity)


[1023]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 14
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 I Solve 3
@Body: Ragged tattercloak 1 Dr *Fragile* *Flammable* *Environment protection*
#Hand 1: Scrapwood Javelin [Thrown] 2x left
-Harm, Sense+4 Range, 20% Stun, 10% Bleed, 5% Impale
#Hand 2: Reinforced Plankfriend
[shield]
.5Harm, 25% Stun
Block 1.5xAL
18 HP, 2 DR.
Seed-worn Skull Pauldron.
1 DR. !Fragile. *Accessory* *Storied*
1x Jagged rock
{Scavenger 3}
==Condition==
6 Fatigue

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 51, 81, 63, 58, 12, 66, 37, 47 = 415 (8d100)

>>3340549
> Stance
> 1AL Step 4
> 1PR Swing the rifle at the addled
> 3AL Swing again, then
> Push 4 Fatigue to dodge behind the rock

[ Sacnite ]
Alacrity 5 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 13 | Speed 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 3
@Loose Flowing Cloth
#Pathfinder Rifle Butt - 3 [BLUNT] + Harm, 9% Stun. Reach 2. *Fragile
{Scavenger 2}
{Kinematics 1}
==Condition==
4 Fatigue
2 Terror
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3340614
Sorry, sorry just double checking, making sure... but it works like this right? Right? Sorry that I am so slow.
> AL goes directly into dice
> 1-40 give Effect, criticals give... something
> Secrets and Intentions also give Effect
> Proficiency giving Secret+Intention dice is *completely different* and secrets/intentions don't add to dice at all normally.
> The proficiency roll double-dips on Secrets and Intentions because they still add to Effect.

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==Lost==
Eater1 | Paran |
Ghost2 | Scryansi | Ha2 Se2 Re2 So2
Sac3 | Sacnite | So3
Sac4 | 1023 | H2 So3
Sac5 | Silas | H2 Re2 So2

--

What fine use for a proper rifle. This must explain why the Pathfinders of Pyther are renowed as brawlers from Reik to Zantishi

>>3340646
>>3340614
Precisely so. It could be more obvious. Will attempt to make it clear.

In this case, 1 AL is spent on maintaining the Stance, 1 Al is a step, 1 PR swings for 1 Harm + 2 Scavenger (3dice), 3 AL swings again (6 Dice, since Scavenger), and 4 Push is banked to React with a Dodge.

Rolling 12 and 37 is 2 hits, which means 3 Blunt + 1 Harm + 1 hit
>wait, +1?
>Yeah, the first hit (12) is what triggers the "connecting blow", so that counts as the blunt 3 + harm.

We see the efficacy of this fine action. . .

Rolled 74, 99, 84, 96, 46, 42 = 441 (6d100)

>>3340549
>move 544
>1p2al: backstab with glimmershard (6d?)

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 9 | Speed 1 | Limit 17
Harm 2 | Sense 2 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
@Body
#Pathfinder Rifle "Faith", Range: [8](2+Sense)*2, +1AL/+1 range. 2 + .75Harm [Kills], 15% Pierce, 10% Bleed, 5% Stun. (9/10, rof 1 @ 1)
#The Gift [Longblade], 3 + Harm. Crit 10%. *Lethal
{Knives 1.5}
*Artful Bastardry: Crit 15% on distracted targets
{Avoidance 1}
==Condition==
Wounds! 8
Misfortune! 2
Terror! 2

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Zanshir
!Secret Soul
!Perfect Circle

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==Lost==
Eater1 | Paran |
Ghost2 | Scryansi | Ha2 Se2 Re2 So2
Sac3 | Sacnite | So3
Sac4 | 1023 | H2 So3
Sac5 | Silas | H2 Re2 So2

--

The Addled clutched in 1023's grasp struggles, pitting strength against strength. It cannot use its weapon when grabbed in close quarters and swings its shield which is taken on the skull - which holds. One arrow from behind the lines careen into the rock behind 1023's head. What a convenient human shield.

One Addled slumps forward to strike at Sacnite who, wisely, ducks behind a rock. This leaves an opening for Scryansi, who glides into the fray - the Addled is left reeling, overcome with pain.

>That Addled is in Agony, pain past limits to endure! Strike now!

Silas feels a dire impact shatter against their spine but the ingenuity of the far factories producing plate to shield and guard is well worth the discomfort that the heavy plate bring. The killing blow is reduced to a mere discomfortable bruise.

[ LOST PHASE ]

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>>3340659
> 1 PR swings for 1 Harm + 2 Scavenger (3dice)
okay
> 3 AL swings again (6 Dice, since Scavenger)
> 6 Dice, since Scavenger
H-Huh?
> 3 Blunt + 1 Harm + 1 Hit
> No Scavenger bonus

I'm sorry that I am so stupid, but I don't understand. Does
'Improvised gear can be used at higher Effect' not mean what I thought it meant?

Rolled 90, 48, 100, 76, 64, 83, 3, 60, 39, 20, 34, 72, 50, 43, 85, 81, 90 = 1038 (17d100)

>>3340691
"Mmm, but that's the value for the speed. Going to have to sleep on my side tonight...You won't escape this blow!"
>P1&Al3: Attempt to use the Firewatch Spear to sweep the Addled at 6's legs (Solve/Harm? + Spear)
>2Al: Stab the Addled at 6 with Firewatch Spear

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
Face: Loose Cloth
Body:Stalwart Spear Cuirass, 3 DR Physical, *Warded, Max Speed 1, Heavy.
#Hands 1 & 2: Firewatch Spear, 1 + .66 Harm, Reach 2, 15% Stun. Crit >2: Puncture. ,**Thrust! Hit 2 targets in a line. Roll once.
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
7 Bits
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 2.2}
Roll
{Spears 2.5}
Crossguard, Stop Thrust
==Condition==
Discipline 2
Misfortune 3
Fatigue 3
Pain 2
Wound 4
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 66, 11, 51, 97, 8, 37 = 270 (6d100)

>>3340691
>4al: strike the addled overcome with pain! (6d, double hits, crit 15%)
>1p1al: react with dodge (2 resist + 1 avoidance + 1AL, 4d)
Sacnite, as much personal enjoyment as it brings me to see you swing around the rifle around like a club, I'm gonna have to, uh.
Ask you. Not to break it. If you can, I mean.
Good swing, though!

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 15 | Proficiency 1
Harm 2 | Sense 2 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
@Body
#Quiet Glimmershard [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed, 25% Feed.
#The Gift [Longblade], 3 + Harm. Crit 10%. *Lethal
{Knives 1.5}
*Artful Bastardry: Crit 15% on distracted targets
{Avoidance 1}
{Longblades 1}
==Condition==
Misfortune! 1

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Zanshir
!Secret Soul
!Perfect Circle

Rolled 73, 52, 29, 86, 37, 57, 74, 36, 44 = 488 (9d100)

>>3340691
>Using my proficiency, 5 alacrity and 2 fatigue try to break the addleds wrist. (total dice=9)


[1023]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 14
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 I Solve 3
@Body: Ragged tattercloak 1 Dr *Fragile* *Flammable* *Environment protection*
#Hand 1: Scrapwood Javelin [Thrown] 2x left
-Harm, Sense+4 Range, 20% Stun, 10% Bleed, 5% Impale
#Hand 2: Reinforced Plankfriend
[shield]
.5Harm, 25% Stun
Block 1.5xAL
18 HP, 2 DR.
Seed-worn Skull Pauldron.
1 DR. !Fragile. *Accessory* *Storied*
1x Jagged rock
{Scavenger 3}
==Condition==
9 Fatigue

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3340707
Oh, like so. That is a bit misleading. We'll have Scarf go shout at the underpaid elves doing all the copy-editing.

The +3 Blunt is the Scavenger bonus! That's the outcome of improvising a solution; it was just accounted for when the action to flip the rifle over and wield it was resolved. In essence, in scavenging a solution from the item, the improvised use at greater effect was triggered.

You then spend Alacrity on Secrets. You get as many dice per Alacrity as your rank. With 2 Scavenger, that's 2 dice per Alacrity. Great bonus! Spend 3 Alacrity, roll 6 dice.

>>3340739
> You then spend Alacrity on Secrets. You get as many dice per Alacrity as your rank. With 2 Scavenger, that's 2 dice per Alacrity. Great bonus! Spend 3 Alacrity, roll 6 dice.
Oh, I had no idea.

>>3340783
It creates an incentive to practice the arts you are good at and allows you to do what you are good at a grandly accelerated rate.

This also is part of what "For greater effect" means. With Scavenger 2 you 2x the dice of someone else, which... Will be a bit helpful.

>>3340691
>1al: Camo
>3al: Climb North (3al×2spd=6)
>1p: deflect attacks (close2+react1=3dice)

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 6 | Speed 2 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | React 1 | Solve 1 | Support 1 | Attune 1
{Woeheart 2}
{Buzzsoul 2}
{Close Combat 2}
#Manipulators, Crits: +Instinct. 10% Poison.
==Condition==
Instinct 8
Camoflage 2 (adapted)
==Talents==
!Push
!Secret Soul
!Pathogenic Transference
!Sympathetic Vitae
!Red River
!Layered Mind
!Devour
!Fingerspeech

>>3340800
Just one 1N, or further? Elevation consumes 2 units of speed.

>>3340691
> Stance
> Catch Breath 4 times
> PR What's that the addled are wearing?

[ Sacnite ]
Alacrity 5 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 13 | Speed 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 3
@Loose Flowing Cloth
#Pathfinder Rifle Butt - 3 [BLUNT] + Harm, 9% Stun. Reach 2. *Fragile
{Scavenger 2}
{Kinematics 1}
==Condition==
2 Terror
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

File: Outside_5A.png (3.94 MB, 2835x2678)

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Rolled 3, 18, 98 = 119 (3d100)

==Lost==
Eater1 | Paran |
Ghost2 | Scryansi | Ha2 Se2 Re2 So2
Sac3 | Sacnite | So3
Sac4 | 1023 | H2 So3
Sac5 | Silas | H2 Re2 So2

--

Manifold legs make light travel, and Paran skitters up the little bank of mud and dirt and lovingly engraved stone that make up this small elevation. Further up, a small wooden building overlooks the village, raised very high. A supremely defensible position.

In the cluster of violence that shrouds the entrance, silence falls following a blitzing shock. Staggered from Sacnites cunning blow, the Addled near the rock sways and then, Scryansi steps in. Shadows part as easily as flesh in a sudden explosion of light.

>The Glimmershard feeds on the Addled! +2 AL this turn

Silas executes a deft sweep, setting up their opponent for a takedown. The spear drives in readily. Something about the spores must make them soft on the inside, bones brittle. 1023 opts for a practical demonstration, twisting grinding wristbones just so. A sword falls to the ground.

The Addled in 1023's grasp attempts a punch that glances off of the pauldron.
> +1 pain from hitting DR

Then its friend? Kin? Associate? Peer? shoots it in the back of the head by entirely fortuitous accident.

[ LOST PHASE ]

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>>3340839
Thick clumps of greedvine are entwined around the emaciated forms of the Addled, as if they had a symbiotic kinship with the soft tendrils you crush underfoot.

But looking deeper -- there -- near the eye, from beneath that ragged scrap of cloth... Tiny fungal tendrils from the spore laden wind that blows around The Pit. And now you see it. The Addled are covered in a fine, barely perceptible moss that shifts with their movements, a replacement for hair. It billows around them. It is easy to mistake for long hair grown by the lack of a barbers fine attentions but... not now that you have seen.

The Addled aren't wearing anything.
The Addled are being worn by some parastic spore that has taken root in their bodies.

You feel an unceasingly strong desire for a torch.

"Hello there!"

[Samsa]

Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14+3
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Support 2 | Resist 2 | Proficiency 1
@Scarred Brigandine, 2DR Physical, +3 Limit
#An Old, Grand Blade, [Longblade, 2 Hand], x1.5 Harm, 20% Stun. 10% Bleed.
#(In Use)
{Glorious Endeavour}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Valor in Arms
!They Who Stand
!Nay
!Secret Soul

>>3340914
Hello there, little soft-scrap wander soul. And just time too - it looks like that Addled over there has a sharper look than the rest. If you wish, you can act from the [C]

>>3340914
"Where did you come from...nevermind, I'm glad to see more unaddled faces."

>>3340864
>>3340874
O-oh...
Sacnite lowers the rifle, forgetting about it for a moment and stares at the dead addled one.
Do I remember any... remedies for things like that?
> PR and 5AL, more information?

[ Sacnite ]
Alacrity 5 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 13 | Speed 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 3
@Loose Flowing Cloth
#Pathfinder Rifle Butt - 3 [BLUNT] + Harm, 9% Stun. Reach 2. *Fragile
{Scavenger 2}
{Kinematics 1}
==Condition==
2 Terror
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 27, 50, 85, 71, 29, 65, 69 = 396 (7d100)

>>3340864
>1al: camo
>1p+3al: Red River through vine East into addled 4E1NE. [Animus] Restrict limb functions. (1harm+2woe+2al×2woe=7dice)
>1al: climb 1N

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 6 | Speed 2 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | React 1 | Solve 1 | Support 1 | Attune 1
{Woeheart 2}
{Buzzsoul 2}
{Close Combat 2}
#Manipulators, Crits: +Instinct. 10% Poison.
==Condition==
Instinct 7
==Talents==
!Push
!Secret Soul
!Pathogenic Transference
!Sympathetic Vitae
!Red River
!Layered Mind
!Devour
!Fingerspeech

Rolled 61, 92, 77, 21, 42, 27, 86, 73 = 479 (8d100)

>>3340864
"Unaddled Legionaries? Thank goodness, maybe I can get some answers."
>4Al: Move 811,2
>Push 3
>3Al: Use Kinematics to make up for my Heavy Armor as I climb the vines 2
>1Al: Move 4
>1P: Attempt to recognize the voices and heraldry of these Legionaries, are they old friends or reinforcements from beyond the Span (Solve + Secret Soul?)

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
Face: Loose Cloth
Body:Stalwart Spear Cuirass, 3 DR Physical, *Warded, Max Speed 1, Heavy.
#Hands 1 & 2: Firewatch Spear, 1 + .66 Harm, Reach 2, 15% Stun. Crit >2: Puncture. ,**Thrust! Hit 2 targets in a line. Roll once.
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
7 Bits
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 2.2}
Roll
{Spears 2.5}
Crossguard, Stop Thrust
==Condition==
Discipline 2
Misfortune 3
Fatigue 6
Pain 2
Wound 4
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3340959
or is it 5dice, because it needs 1Reach to jump from the vine to him?

>>3340945
You consider that you are holding one very fine tool for long range corrective neuro-surgery.

Other means... yes... maybe...

[3 hits, base 3]

Some insidious means have taken root in these Addled. Judging from the poor Legios left at the Outpost of 12th, and the energy these display one solution seeking soul can make the following quick conclusions:

Something here must be leading the Addled to make them display a modicum of Tactics and Ability

The Addled are the Spores, in a sense, not the poor victims caught by the Infection.

This means it may be possible to burn it out, root, tendril and brain-blooming flower all. For those too long exposed, metabolic cessation is the finest mercy possible. For those in early stages of exposure, plucking the seeds out will do. For the intermediary cases... fire, panacea, internal purging, toxins, herbicide, surgery. The trick will be to defray the rot and root without unduly damaging the mental substrate of the person. Had we a SURGERY KIT or a FIRST AID KIT, fine manipulation would be possible.

Can we improvise some other means, then... maybe.

>>3340914
Hello!

>>3340874
>>3340936
"The Winds blow and I'm a tumbleweed, friend!"
>Move 1SE, 4E
[Samsa]

Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14+3
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Support 2 | Resist 2 | Proficiency 1
@Scarred Brigandine, 2DR Physical, +3 Limit
#An Old, Grand Blade, [Longblade, 2 Hand], x1.5 Harm, 20% Stun. 10% Bleed.
#(In Use)
{Glorious Endeavour}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Valor in Arms
!They Who Stand
!Nay
!Secret Soul

>>3340973
"This isn't exactly a good time for plant metaphors, but I see what you're going for."

>>3340981
"Plant troubles be having you, friend? Not to worry, I'm an experienced gardener!"

>>3340989
"Quite, anyone with roots piercing through them put that big sword of yours to. Once we clean up here I'll catch you up on everything, alright?"

>>3340969
5 is correct!

>>3340990
"Of course! Though that's supposing you don't have to catch up *to* me here, if you catch my drift, drifter!"

>>3340970
Okay. What are seeds?

Rolled 35, 11, 94, 71, 30 = 241 (5d100)

>>3340864
"GRAAAGGH!"
>Spend a proficiency and 3 alacrity to shield bash the one in front of me. (2+3)
>Spend 2 alacrity to bellow a prayer to a unseen god while doing so


[1023]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 14
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 I Solve 3
@Body: Ragged tattercloak 1 Dr *Fragile* *Flammable* *Environment protection*
#Hand 1: Scrapwood Javelin [Thrown] 1x left
-Harm, Sense+4 Range, 20% Stun, 10% Bleed, 5% Impale
#Hand 2: Reinforced Plankfriend
[shield]
.5Harm, 25% Stun
Block 1.5xAL
18 HP, 2 DR.
Seed-worn Skull Pauldron.
1 DR. !Fragile. *Accessory* *Storied*
1x Jagged rock
{Scavenger 3}
==Condition==
9 Fatigue

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3341005
"I haven't gotten any sleep for the past two days, can't with all the parasitic spores, so I don't catch the drift sorry."

Rolled 52, 80, 32, 53, 20, 56, 38, 16, 7, 81 = 435 (10d100)

>>3340864
>move 43
>1p5al: another backstab! more! more! (3 + 7.5 = 10 dice, 15% crit, double hits)

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 15 | Proficiency 1
Harm 2 | Sense 2 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
@Body
#Quiet Glimmershard [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed, 25% Feed.
#The Gift [Longblade], 3 + Harm. Crit 10%. *Lethal
{Knives 1.5}
*Artful Bastardry: Crit 15% on distracted targets
{Avoidance 1}
{Longblades 1}
==Condition==
Misfortune! 1

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Zanshir
!Secret Soul
!Perfect Circle

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==Lost==
Eater1 | Paran |
Ghost2 | Scryansi | Ha2 Se2 Re2 So2
Sac3 | Sacnite | So3
Sac4 | 1023 | H2 So3
Sac5 | Silas | H2 Re2 So2
Errant6 | Samsa | H2 Su2 Re2

--

An Errant wanders in, resplendent with righteous purpose.

--

Paran clambers up a wall. Manipulators and instinctual counter-balance ensures a ceasefire with gravity. At the edge of chemical perception is the disturbance of seedborne parasites flowing across the roof, to fire down unto a gaggle of struggling, beleaguered soldiers. Twisting vines, a little jolt ensures an opening for one them. They're quick to seize the opportunity.

>>3340960
There, half obscured by smoke, flags a banner of the 12th. This structure... a small station, manned as a sign of good-will and home for messengers. This Village harbours a little detachment of soldiers, one of the endless patrols cycled through the circulatory system of empire. These must at least report to Fort Scorpspire! Perhaps they have news! But without being closer, each and all are too unfamiliar. It is rather dauntingly hard to get a good look when they insist on fighting for their lives and holding their shields high to shelter against incoming projectiles.

--

In the smoke, someone screams. Not an Addled.

At least.

Not yet

[ Lost Phase ]

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Clay nods and whispers a silent prayer to the Unseen too

>>3341047
"Comrades of the 12th! Legionnaire Silas from the Pit camp reporting, what the hell is going on here?"
>2Al: 44
>1P & 3Al: Reaction: Stop Thrust the first Addled that attempts to attack me. (Harm + Spears)

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
Face: Loose Cloth
Body:Stalwart Spear Cuirass, 3 DR Physical, *Warded, Max Speed 1, Heavy.
#Hands 1 & 2: Firewatch Spear, 1 + .66 Harm, Reach 2, 15% Stun. Crit >2: Puncture. ,**Thrust! Hit 2 targets in a line. Roll once.
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
7 Bits
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 2.2}
Roll
{Spears 2.5}
Crossguard, Stop Thrust
==Condition==
Discipline 2
Misfortune 3
Fatigue 6
Pain 2
Wound 4
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3341063
"You there, mister, you don't look too hot..."
>Move 43223

[Samsa]

Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14+3
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Support 2 | Resist 2 | Proficiency 1
@Scarred Brigandine, 2DR Physical, +3 Limit
#An Old, Grand Blade, [Longblade, 2 Hand], x1.5 Harm, 20% Stun. 10% Bleed.
#(In Use)
{Glorious Endeavour}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Valor in Arms
!They Who Stand
!Nay
!Secret Soul

Rolled 68, 8, 25, 56, 13, 97, 44, 13, 12, 41, 96 = 473 (11d100)

>>3341063
The numbered man gave a solemn nod to clay as he looked over the beaten and swollen corpse his hands swollen and his eyes red with rage are suddenly swept away by the winds of the solemn crafter.
Inspiration and clarity strikes at the worst moment, and with it comes the need for the material for it to be inscribed upon.
She may see but the product he knows will be glorious...


>>3341047>>3341063

*mad gibbering*
>Start spending a alacrity each turn to start gibbering maddeningly while doing the following actions until the last one.
>Spend a proficiency and 3 alacrity to remove the skull from the addled creature that I along with clay had slain and craft a trophy from it. (east if you need clarification and I believe I am rolling 11 dice)
>Once done hug said skull and shed a tear for the man that once inhabited this abominations shell.

[1023]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 14
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 I Solve 3
@Body: Ragged tattercloak 1 Dr *Fragile* *Flammable* *Environment protection*
#Hand 1: Scrapwood Javelin [Thrown] 2x left
-Harm, Sense+4 Range, 20% Stun, 10% Bleed, 5% Impale
#Hand 2: Reinforced Plankfriend
[shield]
.5Harm, 25% Stun
Block 1.5xAL
18 HP, 2 DR.
Seed-worn Skull Pauldron.
1 DR. !Fragile. *Accessory* *Storied*
1x Jagged rock
{Scavenger 3}
==Condition==
9 Fatigue
1 pain

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 92, 70, 12, 88, 71, 28, 10, 5, 30, 45 = 451 (10d100)

>>3341063
Archer's just standing there.
Hey. Check this out.
>5al1p: throw veinwood splinter at archer 3344 (10d, maybe a sneak attack?)

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 15 | Proficiency 1
Harm 2 | Sense 2 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
@Body
#Quiet Glimmershard [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed, 25% Feed.
#The Gift [Longblade], 3 + Harm. Crit 10%. *Lethal
Inv:
2 Veinwood Splinter: .75 Harm, 8% Bleed, 1% Poison [Shortblade] *Fragile
{Knives 1.5}
*Artful Bastardry: Crit 15% on distracted targets
{Avoidance 1}
{Longblades 1}
==Condition==
Misfortune! 1

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Zanshir
!Secret Soul
!Perfect Circle

>>3341063
I can see something big and green and I don't think it's a tree.
> 5AL Move 64444464
> PR Press against the wall

[ Sacnite ]
Alacrity 5 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 13 | Speed 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 3
@Loose Flowing Cloth
#Pathfinder Rifle Butt - 3 [BLUNT] + Harm, 9% Stun. Reach 2. *Fragile
{Scavenger 2}
{Kinematics 1}
==Condition==
2 Terror
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 88, 27, 47, 93, 51, 21, 97 = 424 (7d100)

>>3341063
>1al: camo
>1al: climb up 1
>1p2al: Pull addled archer over the edge. (3+4al=7dice)
>1p: react with deflect (3dice)

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 6 | Speed 2 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | React 1 | Solve 1 | Support 1 | Attune 1
{Woeheart 2}
{Buzzsoul 2}
{Close Combat 2}
#Manipulators, Crits: +Instinct. 10% Poison.
==Condition==
Instinct 8
Camoflage 2 (adapted)
==Talents==
!Push
!Secret Soul
!Pathogenic Transference
!Sympathetic Vitae
!Red River
!Layered Mind
!Devour
!Fingerspeech

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==Lost==
Eater1 | Paran |
Ghost2 | Scryansi | Ha2 Se2 Re2 So2
Sac3 | Sacnite | So3
Sac4 | 1023 | H2 So3
Sac5 | Silas | H2 Re2 So2
Errant6 | Samsa | H2 Su2 Re2

--

Gravity. Why wield weapons when mere physics will do?

--

Samsa strides forward as Scryansi swings an underhanded deadly dart - the projectile shattering into a greentinged shower of fragments coated with vein-burn poison. Samsa, taking the thing on their backplate, feels a slight twinge of discomfort.

>+1 Pain.

Silas vaults forward to deliver a report and, seeing as they are on the spot already, cuts down one of the Addled. As this one falls, a sweeping look over the plaza reveals a gently undulating horde

[ ENVIRONMENT PHASE ]

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==Lost==
Eater1 | Paran |
Ghost2 | Scryansi | Ha2 Se2 Re2 So2
Sac3 | Sacnite | So3
Sac4 | 1023 | H2 So3
Sac5 | Silas | H2 Re2 So2
Errant6 | Samsa | H2 Su2 Re2

---

The Addled clash against a hastily organised ring of worn out soldiers wielding battered shields, protected by scratched armor. A make-shift shieldwall blocks the primary access, but the Addled are numerous and arrows fly from far-off snipers, slapping against the ground in rhythmic cascades.

A young officer paces in the small space afford to them, snapping commands in an effort to maintain some semblance of tactical cohesion. These men look like they have been fighting for days but they go about their task with grim determination.

One spares a quick look at Silas but there is little recognition in their eyes. They snap a quick salute, and take the chance to suck down lungfuls of air to power burn-out muscles.

" RAVAGERS, MAN! ARE YOU THE REINFORCEMENTS??? GET ME OUTTA HERE! "

>Silas gains +1 Discipline

--

Brandishing someone's head (in rather dire need of cleaning) towards the sky, 1023 has just enough peripheral vision to notice the arrow now sticking out of their chest.

Aw.

>1023 suffers +1 Pain

--

Sacnite finds that this area of the village is quieter. Smoke falls from the roof but the fire does not seem to truly take, a preposterous, meaningless notion, as if the house itself resists the attempts at burning. From within the building rolls a subtle snapping sound of beasts barking, growling...

[ LOST PHASE ]

Rolled 80, 31, 80, 28 = 219 (4d100)

>>3341448
>stare at the archer who shot me
>move: 4,4
>throw my shield at the archer in a fit of rage at the archer 4,4,4, 4,6 (2 harm and 2 alac


1023]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 14
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 I Solve 3
@Body: Ragged tattercloak 1 Dr *Fragile* *Flammable* *Environment protection*
#Hand 1: Scrapwood Javelin [Thrown] 2x left
-Harm, Sense+4 Range, 20% Stun, 10% Bleed, 5% Impale
#Hand 2: Reinforced Plankfriend
[shield]
.5Harm, 25% Stun
Block 1.5xAL
18 HP, 2 DR.
Seed-worn Skull Pauldron.
1 DR. !Fragile. *Accessory* *Storied*
1x Jagged rock
{Scavenger 3}
==Condition==
9 Fatigue
1 pain

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 71, 86, 15, 100, 79 = 351 (5d100)

>>3341448
>Attempt to cleave the addled in two with a single, great blow. (Al 5)
[Samsa]

Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14+3
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Support 2 | Resist 2 | Proficiency 1
@Scarred Brigandine, 2DR Physical, +3 Limit
#An Old, Grand Blade, [Longblade, 2 Hand], x1.5 Harm, 20% Stun. 10% Bleed.
#(In Use)
{Glorious Endeavour}
==Condition==
Fine!

==Talents==
!Valor in Arms
!They Who Stand
!Nay
!Secret Soul

Rolled 70, 56, 86, 97, 73, 81, 3, 94, 59, 71, 46, 79, 32, 19 = 866 (14d100)

>>3341448
"No sir, we're survivors who escaped the Addled in the Pit. I'll lend my spear all the same though!"
>1Al: Move 4
>1P & 4Al: Thrust! Firewatch Spear 2 (Harm + Spears)
Push 1
>1Al: Reaction Roll 8 (Speed + Kinematics = 3 Dice)

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
Face: Loose Cloth
Body:Stalwart Spear Cuirass, 3 DR Physical, *Warded, Max Speed 1, Heavy.
#Hands 1 & 2: Firewatch Spear, 1 + .66 Harm, Reach 2, 15% Stun. Crit >2: Puncture. ,**Thrust! Hit 2 targets in a line. Roll once.
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
7 Bits
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 2.2}
Roll
{Spears 2.5}
Crossguard, Stop Thrust
==Condition==
Discipline 3
Misfortune 3
Fatigue 6
Pain 2
Wound 4
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 58, 50, 34, 33, 40, 79, 95, 23, 25, 26 = 463 (10d100)

>>3341448
>1al: camo
>1al: climb up, pounce addled archer
>1p2al: Pin him down. (7dice)
>1p: Sense condition, is the parasite(?) one organism, many, or both? (3dice)

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 6 | Speed 2 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | React 1 | Solve 1 | Support 1 | Attune 1
{Woeheart 2}
{Buzzsoul 2}
{Close Combat 2}
#Manipulators, Crits: +Instinct. 10% Poison.
==Condition==
Instinct 8
Camoflage 2 (adapted)
==Talents==
!Push
!Secret Soul
!Pathogenic Transference
!Sympathetic Vitae
!Red River
!Layered Mind
!Devour
!Fingerspeech

Rolled 82, 10 = 92 (2d100)

>>3341484
>additional 2 dice for proficiency

Rolled 39, 36, 76, 34, 10, 75, 4, 89, 83 = 446 (9d100)

>>3341448
>move 43443
>push 4AL
>1p4al: stab the archer, now that samsa won't be in the way (3 + 6 = 9d, it could be considered a sneak attack)

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 15 | Proficiency 1
Harm 2 | Sense 2 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
@Body
#Quiet Glimmershard [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed, 25% Feed.
#The Gift [Longblade], 3 + Harm. Crit 10%. *Lethal
Inv:
2 Veinwood Splinter: .75 Harm, 8% Bleed, 1% Poison [Shortblade] *Fragile
{Knives 1.5}
*Artful Bastardry: Crit 15% on distracted targets
-Throw: Sense*2 range
-Backstab: Double successes on unaware targets from behind
{Avoidance 1}
{Longblades 1}
==Condition==
Misfortune! 2

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Zanshir
!Secret Soul
!Perfect Circle

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==Lost==
Eater1 | Paran |
Ghost2 | Scryansi | Ha2 Se2 Re2 So2
Sac3 | Sacnite | So3
Sac4 | 1023 | H2 So3
Sac5 | Silas | H2 Re2 So2
Errant6 | Samsa | H2 Su2 Re2

--

An instructive lesson in aerodynamics.

[ ENVIRONMENT PHASE ]

>>3341498
The tendrils coil through the soft meat of this puppet, soaking in nutrients intended for cells and subverting the the thoughts, a soft spike of malice driven through the heart of this unfortunate.

As a fungal colony, each tiny invader is one out of a billion kin. As an entity, they are united in damnable purpose. But for the purposes of your intents, they count as one target (if rather diffuse target)

>>3341581
+>0.2 WoeHeart

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==Lost==
Eater1 | Paran |
Ghost2 | Scryansi | Ha2 Se2 Re2 So2
Sac3 | Sacnite | So3
Sac4 | 1023 | H2 So3
Sac5 | Silas | H2 Re2 So2
Errant6 | Samsa | H2 Su2 Re2

--

An Addled unlike the rest steps forward. Thick plate is wrapped around its gargantuan bulk - survivors from the Pit see it clear, a Greenspan Knight in miniature, all vine-coiled sinew and spore-fed muscle, towering above its smaller kin.

One of the Legio snaps around to bark at Silas but takes a staggering fist clean through their block - they stumble back, down, land hard on the path with a cracking of bone. In the press of bodies elsewhere, one fighter attempts to ward off blows and blows but even exceptional reflexes have a natural limit.

--

1023 is shot by a volley of arrows. The skull offers a. . . odd amount of protection.

--

[Scarf]
Your sword.
Sell it to me.

--

[ LOST PHASE ]

DAMMIT, STOP DYING. DON'T LET THEM THROUGH! I NEED YOU ALIVE TO KEEP THE CIVILIANS ALIVE!

Rolled 97, 93, 18, 80, 87, 83, 58, 19, 38, 43, 11, 94 = 721 (12d100)

>>3341636
>move 6
>push 2al
>1p6al: another unaware target, ripe for the stabbing! (3 + 9 = 12dice)
I quite like this, sneaking about. Feels right.
Is it the cloak, though, or just sheer obliviousness...?

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 15 | Proficiency 1
Harm 2 | Sense 2 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
@Body
#Quiet Glimmershard [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed, 25% Feed.
#The Gift [Longblade], 3 + Harm. Crit 10%. *Lethal
Inv:
2 Veinwood Splinter: .75 Harm, 8% Bleed, 1% Poison [Shortblade] *Fragile
{Knives 1.5}
*Artful Bastardry: Crit 15% on distracted targets
*Throw: Sense*2 range
*Backstab: Double successes on unaware targets from behind
{Avoidance 1}
{Longblades 1}
==Condition==
Misfortune! 2
Fatigue! 4

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Zanshir
!Secret Soul
!Perfect Circle

>>3341636
>move 4,4
>pick up shield
>prepare to block some arrows using 2 alacrity
1023]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 14
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 I Solve 3
@Body: Ragged tattercloak 1 Dr *Fragile* *Flammable* *Environment protection*
#Hand 1: Skull
#Hand 2: Reinforced Plankfriend
[shield]
.5Harm, 25% Stun
Block 1.5xAL
18 HP, 2 DR.
Seed-worn Skull Pauldron.
1 DR. !Fragile. *Accessory* *Storied*
1x Jagged rock
{Scavenger 3}
==Condition==
9 Fatigue
6pain
4 wounds
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3341636
"And what would you give in return, Rags? I can't give up my only weapon, yanno?"

>>3341668
A prize, glorious beyond accounting, worthy of dreams, carefully carried forward by a strong line of worthy warriors to end here, now, at this place! And a Dream besides.

Or this little glowing rock I found in the burning temple in Reikonos

Or perhaps this spool of coiled golden-sheen a young girl traded for the voice of a dying stream?

Uh
uhm
right here look -- this

It's some rope!
Rope is great. Very useful stuff, rope.

>>3341682
"Hmm... are they magical at all?"

>>3341668
No? Not the rope? Not the golden-sheen or the glowing rock? It glows very prettily!

>>3341714
They are all magical beyond measure, esoteric, eldritch and effective. Excepting the rope. That's... Scarf admits that is just rope. But it can be used for magical means!

Sell me your Sword!
I will trade it for a sharp dream and a cutting nightmare! Or... something else?

>>3341725
Can I stab people with the rock?

>>3341735
Yes! An application of precise perforation is possible with a plethora of potential plays. Especially this glowing rock. It has sharp edges.

Rolled 56, 39, 32, 71, 23, 96, 65, 46, 74 = 502 (9d100)

>>3341636
"Damn, my aim is off, I'll get you back up so they don't break farther through."
>1P & 2Al: Thrust! 3 with Firewatch Spear (Harm + Spear)
>3Al: Reaction: Lend a shoulder for Niclas to climb back up to his spot

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
Face: Loose Cloth
Body:Stalwart Spear Cuirass, 3 DR Physical, *Warded, Max Speed 1, Heavy.
#Hands 1 & 2: Firewatch Spear, 1 + .66 Harm, Reach 2, 15% Stun. Crit >2: Puncture. ,**Thrust! Hit 2 targets in a line. Roll once.
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
7 Bits
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 2.2}
Roll
{Spears 2.5}
Crossguard, Stop Thrust
==Condition==
Discipline 3
Misfortune 3
Fatigue 6
Pain 2
Wound 4
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3341761
"Hmmm... You give me all of that, you can have the sword."

>>3341770
There was an or there, friendly errant soul. But very well. Shimersheen, Stingfire and such

shake my hand

>>3341789
"You got yourself a deal, Rags."
>Shake hands

Rolled 28, 79, 35, 63, 33, 49, 61, 71, 44, 30, 81, 33, 58, 32, 44, 17, 42, 86, 3, 83, 79, 12, 86, 45, 29 = 1223 (25d100)

>>3341636
>1Al: maintain pin
>1al: camo
>1p1al6instict: generate poison (11dice)
>push!4
>1p6al: Shift poison into the addle-fungi's {Purpose} (15dice)

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 6 | Speed 2 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | React 1 | Solve 1 | Support 1 | Attune 1
{Woeheart 2}
{Buzzsoul 2}
{Close Combat 2}
#Manipulators, Crits: +Instinct. 10% Poison.
==Condition==
Instinct 2
Camoflage 2 (adapted)
Fatigue 4
==Talents==
!Push
!Secret Soul
!Pathogenic Transference
!Sympathetic Vitae
!Red River
!Layered Mind
!Devour
!Fingerspeech

Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>3341809

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>>3341803
Precious and perfect and pristine

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Gentle artifice, balanced, for cut and thrust and conversation. The duelists art.

And this stone-hewn fountain collecting the gentle rain from the unseen high sky.

>>3341859
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE YOU FOOL!!!!"

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>>3341803
>>3341770
Oh hello seeking soft-soul! You are bereft of a beautiful blade to bend to your brawny beliefs.

Scarf has such a sharp edged purpose to sell, and at a low bargain price besides.

Trade you a fine blade fit for battle in exchange for . . . A speck of your Glory?

>>3341869
"Hmm? Oh yeah, sure!"

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>>3341871
what a preciously prescient companion you are, glory-heart. Thank you.

>+1 Simmerseen Coil
long hair-thin threads of shimmering filament coiled around a spool of a strange, white ceramic material. There is no telling how long this thin wire runs. But tearing at it with two hands, it does not snap.
>+1 Stingfire Shard
An opaque dark chunk of stone which emits, every now and again, a soft orange light. Generates 1 Fire per success
>+1 Viridescent Dreamers Blade
x2 Harm, 20% Cut, 10% Reap, Crits: Cut Limit
[Longblade, 2Handed]. Use: Generates Force.

The blade itself shimmers with a rippling tide of shifting green hues. It feels light. It feels like it has no weight at all.


>+1 4 Length Rope
this looks rather like the rope used to hold together the fences of the village you are in.

>You lose [Valor in Arms]

Rolled 40, 24, 83, 93, 8 = 248 (5d100)

>>3341896
"Don't mention it, Rags!"
>5 Al to sharpen the Dreamblade with the Firestone
[Samsa]

Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14+3
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Support 2 | Resist 2 | Proficiency 1
@Scarred Brigandine, 2DR Physical, +3 Limit
#Viridescent Dreamers Blade, [Longblade, 2 Hand], x2 Harm, 20% Cut, 10% Reap. Crits: Cut Limit. Use: Generates Force.
Shimmersheen Coil (Unbreakable?)
Stingfire Shard (Generates 1 Fire per success)
Rope (4 Length)
{Glorious Endeavour}
==Condition==
Pain 1

==Talents==
!They Who Stand
!Nay
!Secret Soul

Rolled 54, 98, 2, 98, 28 = 280 (5d100)

>>3341636
Dogs? She can't outrun dogs.

> 1AL Stay in cover
> 4AL Duck
> PR What is *Fragile?

[ Sacnite ]
Alacrity 5 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 13 | Speed 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 3
@Loose Flowing Cloth
#Pathfinder Rifle Butt - 3 [BLUNT] + Harm, 9% Stun. Reach 2. *Fragile
{Scavenger 2}
{Kinematics 1}
==Condition==
2 Terror
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3342421
Excellent use of a proficiency.

Fragile* is a reference to the nature of the material and its construction. Some things get a little tag that is a reminder to the world of how they operate. In the case of 1023's pauldrons, carved displays make them *Storied. Some things do care about this.

Meanwhile, Fragile indicates that this object can break or suffer damage at an accelerate rate, or that when subject to conditions it cannot be handle, it has a chance of snapping. This is related to Misfortune building up and may lead to breakages, or if the object in question is used in a particularly stressful way such as parrying heavy blows. If it took more damage in one go than it had stats to resist it would likely be reduced in efficiency or even broken.

(For the Rifle Butt Stock and other parts of the rifle, we see it has blunt 3 + reach 2, and so these count as its full stats for the purpose of resistance. This is because 3 Blunt + 2 Reach naturally give us a Limit of 5)

Because it is also possible to attack, interact with or handle equipment, this is important. Non-fragile equipment has much the same Limit (A Scarred Brigadine also equals 5) but, being non-fragile, any complications and consequences of increasing damage will be less severe or, for the purposes of easy living and smooth universal functioning and a reduction in general despair, not a problem.

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==Lost==
Eater1 | Paran |
Ghost2 | Scryansi | Ha2 Se2 Re2 So2
Sac3 | Sacnite | So3
Sac4 | 1023 | H2 So3
Sac5 | Silas | H2 Re2 So2
Errant6 | Samsa | H2 Su2 Re2

--

An injection of burning purgatives brings with it a kind of clarity and, in turn, stark screaming terror at waking up to the scytching mandibles of a bug-thing.

--

Silas slashes out and there's a shimmer explosion as the spear connects, one Addled reduced to constituent atoms. Clay barks out a short laugh.

--

1023 scoops up a shield just in time for Paran and Scryansi to spot more Addled Archers crowding the roofs. Scryansi has time to see, now, too, beyond the smoke, a gaggle of hounds in reverent pose around a fountain of glistening water. Their dog calls are a cascading heartbeat. Are these creatures... praying?

--

[ENVIRONMENT PHASE]

>>3341958
This weapon is already sharp in a molecularly precise way. You have rather disconcerting experience of needing to find a second whet stone when the first one ends up as two cleanly separate pieces.

Stance: +5 Cut
Maintain with 1AL

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==Lost==
Eater1 | Paran |
Ghost2 | Scryansi | Ha2 Se2 Re2 So2
Sac3 | Sacnite | So3
Sac4 | 1023 | H2 So3
Sac5 | Silas | H2 Re2 So2
Errant6 | Samsa | H2 Su2 Re2

--

Aided by the shoulder of a fellow, Legio Nickas takes his place on the line again and, turning, slams the heavy shield into the backplate the Halberd Addled. Gravity takes over and, from above, in a dropkick worthy of poets, Nickas follows a second time. The landing is softer, in a sense. Beneath him, the Halberd Addled struggles, unable to stand but not looking particularly dissuaded by the course of events.

On the roof, one poor Wilder with tribal tattoes down the length of their arms cough bits of fungus up from hurt lungs and waves their arms at Paran.

The Addled stream forward. 1023 blocks a volley of rough arrows, trading a few scraps and bruises for a nice collection of straight veinwood shafts.

[ LOST PHASE ]

Rolled 85, 47, 80, 86, 99, 98, 31, 77, 45, 98 = 746 (10d100)

>>3342743
>1al: camo
>1p1al: Devour Wilder Archer's Terror (su1+buzz2+2al=5dice)
>-Note: Feeding on his Fear, not his Flesh.
>-Release Hold on Wilder Archer
>1p1al: Animus- did the fungus break the link between this mass and its distributed whole, or does each skin act as its own 'self'? (1solve?sense?+2woe+2al=5dice)
>1p: React to catch incoming arrow (3dice)
"Hello. Clay is there. (You smell so very appetizing, be happy there is so much food around elsewhere.)"

[ Paran Thitecl ]
Alacrity 6 | Speed 2 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | React 1 | Solve 1 | Support 1 | Attune 1
{Woeheart 2}
{Buzzsoul 2}
{Close Combat 2}
#Manipulators, Crits: +Instinct. 10% Poison.
==Condition==
Instinct 2
Camoflage 2 (adapted)
Fatigue 4
==Talents==
!Push
!Secret Soul
!Pathogenic Transference
!Sympathetic Vitae
!Red River
!Layered Mind
!Devour
!Fingerspeech

Rolled 86, 91, 94, 72, 28, 80, 80, 34, 33 = 598 (9d100)

>>3342743
"Don't have to tell me twice."
>1P & 2Al: Stab Addled at 8 with Firewatch Spear (Harm + Spears)
>3Al: Reaction: Crossguard 3&4

[ Silas ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 14 | Prof 1
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
Face: Loose Cloth
Body:Stalwart Spear Cuirass, 3 DR Physical, *Warded, Max Speed 1, Heavy.
#Hands 1 & 2: Firewatch Spear, 1 + .66 Harm, Reach 2, 15% Stun. Crit >2: Puncture. ,**Thrust! Hit 2 targets in a line. Roll once.
Jagged Rock, 15% Stun. Pain. [Fling]
1 x Greedvine [Rope] Length 2.
7 Bits
{Scavenger 1}
{Kinematics 2.2}
Roll
{Spears 2.5}
Crossguard, Stop Thrust
==Condition==
Discipline 3
Misfortune 3
Fatigue 6
Pain 2
Wound 4
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!The Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

Rolled 99, 81, 77, 36, 95, 38, 61, 83, 78, 80 = 728 (10d100)

>>3342743
"It seems that they are targeting me, I shall meet their challenge but I do not know how long I shall last.
Although hmm what are those wolf kin doing?"

>Proficiency: What deity/pantheon do the wolves seem to worship? (Solve+1 alac)

>Hold my shield up and prepare to meet the next volley (4 alac/6 effect)


[1023]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 14
Harm 2 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 I Solve 3
@Body: Ragged tattercloak 1 Dr *Fragile* *Flammable* *Environment protection*
#Hand 1: Fallen foe's skull
#Hand 2: Reinforced Plankfriend
[shield]
.5Harm, 25% Stun
Block 1.5xAL
18 HP, 2 DR.
Seed-worn Skull Pauldron.
1 DR. !Fragile. *Accessory* *Storied*
1x Jagged rock
{Scavenger 3}
==Condition==
9 Fatigue
6 pain
5 wounds
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3342743
> 2AL Move 881
> 3AL Set down the rifle, pick up the knife
> 1PR Examine the knife

[ Sacnite ]
Alacrity 5 | Proficiency 1 | Limit 13 | Speed 1
Harm 1 | Sense 1 | Resist 1 | Solve 3
@Loose Flowing Cloth
#Knife
#Empty Hand
{Scavenger 2}
{Kinematics 1}
==Condition==
2 Terror
==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Quick and the Dead
!Secret Soul

>>3342743
>move 6
>inspect mask. supposedly it filters?

[ Scryansi ]
Alacrity 5 | Speed 1 | Limit 15 | Proficiency 1
Harm 2 | Sense 2 | Resist 2 | Solve 2
@Body
#Quiet Glimmershard [Knife], 1 + .5 Harm. Crit3+: Steal Thought. 10% Bleed, 25% Feed.
#The Gift [Longblade], 3 + Harm. Crit 10%. *Lethal
Inv:
2 Veinwood Splinter: .75 Harm, 8% Bleed, 1% Poison [Shortblade] *Fragile
{Knives 1.6}
*Artful Bastardry: Crit 15% on distracted targets
*Throw: Sense*2 range
*Backstab: Double successes on unaware targets from behind
{Avoidance 1}
{Longblades 1}
==Condition==
Misfortune! 2
Fatigue! 4

==Talents==
!Push
!Catch Breath
!Zanshir
!Secret Soul
!Perfect Circle

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==Lost==
Eater1 | Paran | LI 15
Ghost2 | Scryansi | Ha2 Se2 Re2 So2 LI 14
Sac3 | Sacnite | So3 LI 13
Sac4 | 1023 | H2 So3 LI 14
Sac5 | Silas | H2 Re2 So2 LI 14
Errant6 | Samsa | H2 Su2 Re2 LI 16

--

Such a place as this isn't meant for this violence. What happened to frowning old folk fishing as they comment on the folly of the young?