Any ONE of those rolls can still kill us though. So yes, it still leads to a higher chance of us ending up dead.
What rolls are that dangerous? even failed dodge roll shouldn't be as bad as no dodging at all due to time displacement. I am sure that it's hard to get us killed by one bad combat roll
Have you ever heard of "getting enormous stab wounds in your torso tends to be lethal, you video-game-expecting fool?" Internal bleeding, organ damage, external bleeding...unicorn horns are think and long. It's not gonna be pretty.
And, of course, one injury would probably leave us weaker and ergo more vulnerable to further attacks, as well as hindering time displacement efforts.
Also, any combat related rolls that arn't magic that we make are subject to some penalties. One from being over encumbered, another for being unskilled.
I know. That's why that situation is bad. But we have an ally, an artifact spear and magic.
I still don't understand why at character generation players chose night creature empathy to some combat skill, it was an awful decision
We have only an ally with a freaking wooden sword, an artifact spear we don't know what it does (and it's made of gem--not exactly cutting-edge weapons tech), and magic which doesn't include any defensive magic.
We chose night creature empathy so we could get others to fight for us.
While flinging ourselves forward in time would have a whole bunch of bonus's, including our Eon manipulation (one of our two greatest skills) our tattoos and our greater skill at using magic to fling things forward in time.
I know, +6 to the roll... even if get no penalties then we still need 5 or better to get result above ten... that's 20% chance of almost certain death... even 5(11) and 6(12) may be not enough
You're assuming failure means death. Heck, you're assuming a low success equals death! I'm guessing failure will either mean we don't displace ourself or we don't displace ourself as much as we intend, not that we die or go all frozen.
Let me give you a hint: Out combat bonuses are worse. That's a much lower chance of success. For many more rolls.
I vote displace ourself and run.