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[Draignean]

Okay, well I'm having difficulty writing up the flavor. I'd intended to just slam something out so I could get back to working on Small Mercies, but simultaneous action is bloody hard to write when language is designed for the expression of linear sequences. Essentially, most of what I come up with becomes a rather useless read if it isn't directly integrated into the combat sequence itself. So, instead of flavor, you'll get a summary and the ability to read the details.

Overall, I think I'm going to keep playing with the formatting of the play-by-play options to make it a little better. The creation of the table just takes too damn long, much as I like the ease of reference.




Round Summary

Shorn took 7 Damage from Axe Bandit 2's Light Attack
Shorn has gained 2 Union of the Old Flesh charges, for a total of 2.

Miles took 2 Damage from Knife Bandit 3's Light Attack

Axe Bandit 2 took 11 damage from Mile's combined attacks.
Axe Banit 2 is Staggered (3 Frames Lost)

Nhin has gained 5 power within charges, total 8.

Spoiler: Text Log (click to show/hide)

Frame 1
 
Movement/Dodges
Axe Bandit 1 Moves NW

Attacks/Blocks
Shorn Blocks
Knife Bandit 2 uses NW Spin Slash, Shorn is Threatened.

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H vs B (Active Block!)
To Hit: 1d10+1 vs 1d6+7 (13) = Cannot Hit
Guard Break: 1d100 Vs 50 = 31 vs 50 | No Stagger
Knife Bandit 3 Uses NW Rush-Cut, auto-miss.
Axe Bandit 2 Blocks

Warm-Up/Cooldowns
Miles readies light attack

Dead/Disabled

Other
Nhin Charges Power Within

Frame 2

 
Movement/Dodges
Knife Bandit 3 Dodge Rolls NW

Attacks/Blocks
Miles Fires on (6,9), Threatens axe Bandit 2

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L vs O
To Hit: 1d10+2 vs 1d4+2 (5) = 6 vs 5, Hit.
Damage= 1d3+3 = 6
Knife Bandit 2 uses Withdraw South, Threatens Shorn

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L vs LW
To Hit: 1d10+1 vs 1d2+5 (7) = 4 vs 7, Miss.

Warm-Up/Cooldowns
Shorn Light Windup

Dead/Disabled

Other
Axe Bandit 1 Does Nothing
Axe Bandit 2 Does Nothing
Nhin Charges Power Within

Frame 3

 
Movement/Dodges
Knife Bandit 3 completes Dodge Roll
Miles Shoves Knife Bandit 3

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Shove Check: 1d10-2 Vs 1d10 = 7 vs 5
Miles Shoves Knife Bandit 3 a Space SWMiles moves SW

Attacks/Blocks
Axe Bandit 1 uses Rush. R, SW. Threatens Shorn

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L vs WL
To Hit: 1d10 vs 1d2+5 (7) = 6 vs 7, Miss.
Axe Bandit 2 uses Front Chop

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L vs WL
To Hit: 1d10 vs 1d2+5 (7) = 8 vs 7, Hit.
Damage Roll: 1d7+3 = 7
Shorn Gains two Charges for Union of the Old Flesh
-7 to ACC

Warm-Up/Cooldowns
Shorn Light Windup
Knife 2 Heavy Cooldown

Dead/Disabled

Other
Nhin Charges Power Within

Frame 4

Movement/Dodges

Attacks/Blocks
Axe Bandit 1 Blocks
Axe Bandit 2 Blocks
Shorn uses Right Slash SE, threatens Axe Bandit 2

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L vs B (Active Block!)
To Hit: 1d10-9 vs 1d7+2 (5) = Automiss

Warm-Up/Cooldowns
Knife Bandit 2 cools down
Miles Winds up light attack

Dead/Disabled

Other
Nhin Charges Power Within
Knife Bandit 3 Does Nothing

Frame 5

Movement/Dodges

Attacks/Blocks
Knife Bandit 3 uses Withdraw, NE

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L vs L
To Hit: 1d10+1 vs 1d11 = 10 vs 5, Hit.
Damage Roll: 1d4= 4*1.5 =6
Activates Dead Again, new Damage = 1*1.5 = 2
Does not activate Death Echo
Shorn Uses Left Slash, SE. Threatens Axe Bandit 1 and Axe Bandit 2.

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L vs CH   (Axe 1)
To Hit: 1d10-2 vs 1d4+2 (5) = 0 vs 5, Miss.


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L vs CH   (Axe 2)
To Hit: 1d10-2 vs 1d4+1 (2) = 2 vs 2. Reroll: -1 Vs 3, Miss.

Warm-Up/Cooldowns
Axe Bandit 1 is in Heavy Cooldown
Axe Bandit 2 is in Heavy Cooldown

Dead/Disabled

Other
Nhin Finishes charging power within.

Spoiler: Event Table (click to show/hide)

Names:	Shorn	Miles	Nhin	Axe Bandit 1	Axe Bandit 2	Knife Bandit 2	Knife Bandit 3
Starting Position:	(6,8)	(6,6)	(5,6)	(5,11)	(6,9)	(6,11)	(8,8)
Frame Count	HP: 20/20	HP: 16/20	HP: 20/20	HP: 15/15	HP: 15/15	HP: 10/10	HP: 10/10
1	Shorn Blocks	Miles winds up light	Nhin Charges Power Within	Axe Bandit 1 moves NW	Axe Bandit 2 Blocks	Knife Bandit 2 uses NW Spin Slash, Shorn is Threatened. H vs B (Active Block!) To Hit: 1d10+1 vs 1d6+7 (13) = Cannot Hit Guard Break: 1d100 Vs 50 = 31 vs 50 | No Stagger	Knife Bandit 3 Uses NW Rush-Cut, auto-miss.
2	Shorn Light Windup	L vs O To Hit: 1d10+2 vs 1d4+2 (5) = 6 vs 5, Hit. Damage= 1d3+3 = 6	Nhin Charges Power Within	Axe Bandit 1 Does Nothing	Axe Bandit 2 Does Nothing Takes 6 Damage from Miles.	Knife Bandit 2 uses Withdraw South, Threatens Shorn L vs LW To Hit: 1d10+1 vs 1d2+5 (7) = 4 vs 7, Miss.	Knife Bandit 3 Dodge Rolls NW
3	Shorn Light Windup Shorn Takes 7 Damage from Axe Bandit 2	Miles Shoves Knife Bandit 3 Shove Check: 1d10-2 Vs 1d10 = 7 vs 5 Miles Shoves Knife Bandit 3 a Space SW Miles moves SW	Nhin Charges Power Within	Axe Bandit 1 uses Rush. R, SW. Threatens Shorn L vs WL To Hit: 1d10 vs 1d2+5 (7) = 6 vs 7, Miss.	Axe Bandit 2 uses Front Chop L vs WL To Hit: 1d10 vs 1d2+5 (7) = 8 vs 7, Hit. Damage Roll: 1d7+3 = 7 Shorn Gains two Charges for Union of the Old Flesh -7 to ACC	Knife 2 Heavy Cooldown	Knife Bandit 3 completes Dodge Roll Shoved SW by Miles
4	Shorn uses Right Slash SE, threatens Axe Bandit 2 L vs B (Active Block!) To Hit: 1d10-9 vs 1d7+2 (5) = Automiss	Miles Winds up light attack	Nhin Charges Power Within	Axe Bandit 1 Blocks	Axe Bandit 2 Blocks	Knife Bandit 2 cools down	Knife Bandit 3 Does Nothing
5	Shorn Uses Left Slash, SE. Threatens Axe Bandit 1 and Axe Bandit 2. L vs CH   (Axe 1) To Hit: 1d10-2 vs 1d4+2 (5) = 0 vs 5, Miss. L vs CH   (Axe 2) To Hit: 1d10-2 vs 1d4+1 (2) = 2 vs 2. Reroll: -1 Vs 3, Miss.	Miles Fires on (6,9), Threatens axe Bandit 2 L vs CH To Hit: 1d10+2 vs 1d4+1 (2) = 8 vs 3, Hit. Damage= 1d3+3 = 5 Staggers Bandit 2!	Nhin Charges Power Within	Axe Bandit 1 is in Heavy Cooldown	Axe Bandit 2 is in Heavy Cooldown Takes 5 Damage from Miles, Staggered.	Knife Bandit 2 Does Nothing	Knife Bandit 3 uses Withdraw, NE L vs L To Hit: 1d10+1 vs 1d11 = 10 vs 5, Hit. Damage Roll: 1d4= 4*1.5 =6 Activates Dead Again, new Damage = 1*1.5 = 2 Does not activate Death Echo
Summary Position HP: Additional:	(6,8) 13/20	(6,5) 14/20	(5,6) 20/20	(5,9) 15/15	(6,9) 4/15 Staggered (3)	(4,8) 10/10	(7,3) 10/10

Spoiler: Enemies (click to show/hide)

Knife Bandit 2: 10/10 HP
Knife Bandit 3: 10/10 HP

Axe'n'Shield Bandit 1 15/15 HP
Axe'n'Shield Bandit 2 4/15 HP, Staggered (3)

Spoiler: Bandit Stats (click to show/hide)

Knife Bandit
HP: 10
Modifiers:
-1 Damage
+1 To hit
+2 Evasion
Weapons
Twin Daggers [L:1 H:3 D:2 Dam: 2-5]
Abilities
Throw Dagger: Cooldown 5, Frames 1. Make a light attack with a range of 3.

Patterns:
O->B->WH->H->CH
L->DR>DR->O->L
H->L>CH->CH->0

Axe'n'Shield Bandit
HP: 15
Modifiers:
+2 Damage
+2 Resistance
Weapons
War Axe [L:2 H:4 D:1 Dam: 2-8]
Iron Rimmed Shield [D:3, L:1, Dam 1-2]

Patterns:
B->O->L->B->CL
WL->L>L->CL->O 

Abilities

Spoiler: Miles (click to show/hide)

Name: Miles Twice Dead
HP:  14/20
Archetype: Pistol Wraith
Assets:
Dead Again: If you take more than 25% of your remaining life in a single blow, re-roll the damage and take the lower value.
Agonies:
Death Echo: If you take more than 25% of your remaining life in a single blow, you become staggered.
Inventory:
St. Elmo's Pistols  [L:2 Ra:4 Dam: 6-8]
Hangmans Noose [EVA +4 -Pot: 2]
Charons bribe [Grants Ability: Early Reaping]
Train robbers dynamite [P:5 H:1 Ra:3 U:3/- Dam:15-30]

Potency: 0 (-2)
Precision: 2
Vigor: 0
Will: 0
Agility: 3

Soul:
Hexagram 63: Aftermath
Upper Trigram: Water
Lower Trigram: Fire

Modifiers:
-2 to Dealt Damage
+7 Evasion
+2 to hit

Abilities:
Dead Shot:  Cooldown 10, Frame cost 4. If the attacker is at least 2, and at most 6 tiles away, make single light attack. Attack gains +1 bonus damage per point the attack roll exceeds the defense roll. This can double the dealt damage, but no more. If this ability doubles the damage of the light attack, it is counted as a heavy attack for the purposes of inflicting stagger.
Blazing Doubleshot: Cooldown -, Framecost 5. Aligns weapon with fire and and makes two heavy attacks. This attack staggers you.
Early Reaping: Cooldown 2, Framecost 2. Select a single damaged target. That target has a %chance to die instantly equal to its current health fraction divided by two. (A unit at half health has a 25% chance to be killed instantly). If it fails, you take 1-6 damage.

Spoiler: Shorn (click to show/hide)

Name: Shorn
HP: 13/20
Archetype: Writhing Wall
Assets:
Union of the Old Flesh: Every 3 points of damage taken or dealt gains a charge that can be applied to increase a stat by 1 for a round.
Agonies:
Unstable Form: Abilities have a 25% chance to fizzle and go on cooldown when used.

Inventory:
Writhing Gothic Plate [R:5 -Acc:2 -E:2]
Tower Shield of Eyes [D:4 H:1 Dam: 0-2]
Starmetal Sword [L:2 H:4 Dam: 5-12]
Amulet of Unspeakable Whispers [Grants ability: Insidious Doubt]

Statistics
Potency: 0
Precision: 0
Vigor: 0
Will: 5
Agility: 0

Soul:
Hexagram 8: Bonding
Upper Trigram: Water
Lower Trigram: Earth

Modifiers
Resistance: 10
1d2 Evasion
-2 to Hit
Union of the Old Flesh: 2 Charges

Abilities
Unspeakable Revelation: Cooldown 10, Frames 5. Swap resistance and Potency and make a single heavy attack.
Death Stare: Cooldown 3, Frames 1. Block action. Throw an attack roll on a successful block with the shield of eyes, if the target is struck their Will is reduced by the damage dealt. Reducing a target below 0 Will with this ability deals 1 point of damage.
Insidious Doubt Once per Encounter, Frames -. Curse a single target. That target gains a cumulative 5% chance to be staggered whenever they fail to hit you. Staggering an opponent in this manner resets the counter, as does a successful strike on their part. After three staggers, or if you stagger, the effect breaks.

Spoiler: Nhin (click to show/hide)

Name: Nhin Thalles
HP: 15
Archetype: Vulpine Arcanist
Assets: 
Calculating: If Nhin attacks on the fourth or fifth frame, the accuracy and damage are increased by 1.
Agonies:
Hesitant: If Nhin attacks on the first or second frame, the accuracy and damage are decreased by 1.

Statistics:
Potency: 2 (1)
Precision: 1 (2)
Vigor: 0 (-1)
Will: 0
Agility: 2 (3)

Inventory:
Red Sakura Staff  [L:2 H:3, dam 5-8]
Phantasmal Silk Robes [E:4 -Pot: 1]
Mystic Fox's Mask [Adds Ability: Foxform]
Foxtail Charm [+1 Agility, +1 Precision, -1 Vigor]


Soul:
Hexagram 5: Calculated Waiting
Upper Trigram: Water
Lower Trigram: Heaven (Metal)

Modifiers 
+1 Damage
+2 To hit
+7 EVA
8/20 Power Within
Dancing Blossoms (+2 Eva, +2 Res, +3 Pot)

Abilities
Dancing Blossoms: Cooldown 5, Frames 2. Gain +2 Evasion, +2 Resistance, -3 Potency until discharged or dispelled. Use again while active to use one of two abilities-
-Coming of Winter: Discharge and attempt to freeze a target within three spaces. Increases Resistance by 8 but removes all evasion. Lasts for 1d4-1 rounds. Water type attack.
-Heaven's Garden: Requires 3 frames. Discharge and select any tile within four spaces as the center of a pillar of metal flowers. Central point is a heavy attack dealing 5-15 damage, all adjacent are affected by a light attack dealing 3-7 damage. Metal Type.
-Inevitable End: Discharge and select any adjacent tile. Any unit that occupies that tile is hit with a heavy attack that deals 7-13 damage and cannot be evaded or resisted.

Power Within: Cooldown -, Frames X. Sacrifice any number of frames on the current round to charge this ability by X*2, this ability can hold up to 20 charges. You lose 1 charge per turn when not charging. Abilities can be used without paying a frame cost.
-Inner Light:  Sacrifice 2 charge to gain a +1 bonus to resistance and potency for one round. At 5 charges, this ability can be applied as a debuff to an enemy within 3 tiles instead.
-Nine Souls:  Sacrifice 5 charge and take one ability, either yours or your ally's, and remove up to 5 frames of cooldown. At 10 charges, this grants a 25% chance for your own abilities to not go on cooldown when used.
-Beacon of Glory: Sacrifice 5 charge to add a +1 bonus to resistance and potency to all allies for one round. At 15 charges, all allies within 3 tiles gain +1 potency and resistance passively.

Foxform: Cooldown Once per Encounter, Frames -. Meld equipment, lose given bonuses. Gain +5 Evasion, -3 Potency. Gain Quick asset (1 move action moves you two spaces). Can still cast abilities that don't depend on weapon. Can be negated at any time.

[OceanSoul]

After the second frame, I can use Nine Souls to remove pretty much all cooldown from one of our skills. Blazing Doubleshot and Unspeakable Revelation would be good targets for it, but I wouldn't be able to remove all frames unless I don't use it until next turn. Want to wait another round, or do you want me to use it this turn?

[Criptfeind]

Unfortunately blazing doubleshot doesn't actually have any cool down. Just a large frame cost. Deadshot has a big cool down... But. It's. Really not worth the opportunity cost. Frames are a lot more valuable then cooldown, so trading your frames for my cool down isn't worth it. Honestly we probably don't really have a good skill for that.

By the way, a bit of clarity on patterns, what decides the difference between melee and ranged? It's not being literally in melee, which makes sense given how melee attacks now have a long range now, do they have to pick melee if it's possible to hit someone with a melee attack in that turn if they don't move, or can they chose between the two whenever?

[OceanSoul]

Well, looks like I mixed them up. Guess I'll just "1-5. Charge Power Within" for now. Might be able to spend those points on Heaven's Garden soon.

[Criptfeind]

Is Beacon of Glory permanent? Or, rather, maybe a better question with a less obvious answer is, how long does Beacon of Glory last?

[Draignean]

After the second frame, I can use Nine Souls to remove pretty much all cooldown from one of our skills. Blazing Doubleshot and Unspeakable Revelation would be good targets for it, but I wouldn't be able to remove all frames unless I don't use it until next turn. Want to wait another round, or do you want me to use it this turn?

Blazing double shot doesn't have a cooldown per se.

A cooldown is the number of consecutive frames until you can use an ability again.
A frame cost is the number of frames that must be sacrificed (in total) before/after using an ability, as one would with an attack.

So Blazing Double shot takes 5 frames. You can select one of those for the attack, but the rest are just the charge up/slump down from the attack itself and are not subject to modification by nine souls.

Unspeakable revelation, likewise, takes five frames, but it also has a cooldown of 10. A properly charged nine souls could ensure that the ability would be usable immediately on the next round, but it can't remove the frame cost.

Nine souls works well with abilities that have high cooldowns but low frame costs. Unfortunately, you're really the only member of the party that has an ability like that. Hau would also have benefited rather well, but that's in the same unhelpful basket.

Unfortunately blazing doubleshot doesn't actually have any cool down. Just a large frame cost. Deadshot has a big cool down... But. It's. Really not worth the opportunity cost. Frames are a lot more valuable then cooldown, so trading your frames for my cool down isn't worth it. Honestly we probably don't really have a good skill for that.

By the way, a bit of clarity on patterns, what decides the difference between melee and ranged? It's not being literally in melee, which makes sense given how melee attacks now have a long range now, do they have to pick melee if it's possible to hit someone with a melee attack in that turn if they don't move, or can they chose between the two whenever?

Because of the increased fluidity of combat, I'm probably going to remove the 2 Ranged/3 Melee pattern idea and just go with a 4 pattern system. Most enemies will have a heavy attack pattern, a light attack/defensive pattern, a mobility pattern, and an ability use pattern.

It made more sense before we started using move sets, but now... There's not really a reason for them to exist. Better to randomly select one of their four general purpose patterns and substitute move actions as needed.

Is Beacon of Glory permanent? Or, rather, maybe a better question with a less obvious answer is, how long does Beacon of Glory last?

Beacon of Glory lasts for the round it was activated on.
EDIT: Which is honestly pretty weak for the cost. If it exists later, it'll probably be reworked along with Union of the Old Flesh, which is also terrible atm.

[OceanSoul]

Not sure how I got the two confused. Guess I just misread the text an one point, and ended up confusing the meanings later.

For balance, maybe you could raise the cost a little and make it +3. Maybe make it +2 for 2 rounds, or the same, but only +1 on the next round. As for Unison, maybe make it only cost 1, and limit it to 3 or 4 uses a round.

[Criptfeind]

Power Within as a whole is a very bad ability to actually use, the benefits are small and frames are worth a lot more then you're getting out of it. It seems like it's real use is to pump in dead frames that you have nothing better to do with, and then maybe after like 10-20 turns (which... Combat probably won't last that long) you'll have enough to get some minor benefit. Also it doesn't help that his other natural combo is 2 frames charging into 3 frames to shoot, leaving him no room to actually charge power within.

Edit: I think I need a reset on my position between these two dagger assholes, but Shorns getting fucked by axe guys. Tough position, what you guys think?

[Draignean]

Power Within as a whole is a very bad ability to actually use, the benefits are small and frames are worth a lot more then you're getting out of it. It seems like it's real use is to pump in dead frames that you have nothing better to do with, and then maybe after like 10-20 turns (which... Combat probably won't last that long) you'll have enough to get some minor benefit. Also it doesn't help that his other natural combo is 2 frames charging into 3 frames to shoot, leaving him no room to actually charge power within.

The cooldown is still 5 though on dancing blossoms, which means you need a burst of Power Within in order to combo it properly. 

Power within was meant to be used to eat waste frames and temporarily give heavy boosts to damage. Granted, it's currently only able to deliver a +4 to damage and +2 to evasion checks for a single round.

So, to make it more effective, should it deliver 2 charges per frame spent?

[Criptfeind]

Can't it just give +2 damage and +1 evasion per round? Unless you mean he could burst it all right now for +4/+2, which. Yeah. But that's, I'm pretty sure, not worth the frames he's spent on it so far.

Anyway, ah. Aye... I. See. The high cool down on dancing blossom. Well, that makes that skill worse. I'm not sure if it makes power within better persay...

[Draignean]

Can't it just give +2 damage and +1 evasion per round?

Per round? As in make it a passive ability with no charging, or that it works based on thresholds that stay on once activated?

[Criptfeind]

No, I meant if you spend a round charging it and then expend it it'd give that much yeah?

[Draignean]

No, I meant if you spend a round charging it and then expend it it'd give that much yeah?

Personally I prefer it giving resistance instead of evasion, for both the thematic purpose of the ability, and because it pairs a little better with Nhin. Still, I'm opening to increase the base level buff. So, with 2 pot + 1 resistance, she'd be able to get a max of +20 Damage +10 Resistance for one round if she dropped a full stack.

[Criptfeind]

Sorry, there's been a disconnect here. I'm not making a suggestion for how it could be, I'm just trying to respond to previously when you said "able to deliver a +4 to damage and +2 to evasion checks for a single round." I was trying to figure out what you meant by that, I thought you mean't every round, not after two rounds of charging up. I figured it out a few posts ago and now I've been trying to clarify that.

[IronyOwl]

Edit: I think I need a reset on my position between these two dagger assholes, but Shorns getting fucked by axe guys. Tough position, what you guys think?

I'll be fine. Probably. Lemme try dancing around and going full defense, we'll see what that does. You guys are poking them down fine, right?

1. Block
2. Move N
3. Active Block (Light) against northern axe bandit
4. Defensive Roll 1, Move S
5. Defensive Roll 2

I was wrong about the summary. "You take 7 damage" is an incredibly vague and confusing summary of 5 frames.