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[DolosusDoleus]

Spoiler: Action (click to show/hide)

It’s show time. Shoot the closest overseer many times. Then dive back into cover.

Spoiler: Vencarlo Barvasi (click to show/hide)

Name: Vencarlo Barvasi
Description: A large, barrel-chested man in his mid-fifties. He wears a finely tailored Italian suit and is pretty much always smoking a huge Cuban cigar.
Potency: d6
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dex: d8
Speed: d2
Vitality: d10
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d4
Awareness: d8

Deck: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (*Steel, *Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)
(* Denotes a used card)

Items: Stupidly big and powerful pistol, 15 ammo

Spoiler: Gang (click to show/hide)

Name: The Cosa Nostra
Color Scheme: Black/White
Symbol:
Permanent Words: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)
Leader: Vencarlo Barvasi
Members: Dropshot, Big Poppa, Cyril Morris
Base: (10,11)

[piecewise]

You grab a glob of noxious goo and use it to doodle on the corpse's face. Well...its effective I guess.

Glorious. Now, I'm taking the corpse with me. How much to have it taxidermied?

Spoiler: @ Redneck Rickshaw. (click to show/hide)

Taking the Unreal on would be best from a 'fun and shenanigans' standpoint, so it automatically has Abu's vote.

Securing our home base against invasion would be best from a 'don't lose the game' standpoint. I doubt another player faction will be attacking us this early, but npc's very well might, so having a bit of a buffer between us and the most likely attack vector seems wise. I'd wait a little with taking on the local headquarters, I'm not sure if we're quite strong enough for that yet. Perhaps if we can upgrade our permanent kit a bit more and perhaps outfit some meat shie freed slaves for something like that. Or just cast firearm a few times on a gun and blow their base away with the howitzer we'd get :v

Also don't forget we have an extra set of our permanent words to use. If there's some chaff/spare words I have a use for them.

Spoiler: Abu Hajaar (click to show/hide)

Name: Rifleman first class Abu Hajaar

Description: A scrawny enlistee of vaguely Middle Eastern descent. Permanently in over his head, slightly confused and wondering just how he got into this mess. Will reluctantly but reliably follow orders from his commanding officers and do his best however.

Somehow managed to end up far away from home in 'Nam to fight the commies. This left him confused. Then he got teleported to this world of mystery and magic. This did not help matters.


Gang: Ridiculous Rhomboid

Health: Fabulous.

Magic jazzhands:
Permanent: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many
Temporary: LightSource, Iron, permanent, polymorph whole body, repair


Current Inventory
1 X Guard's rifle
8 X rounds for guard's rifle + 30 X summoned rounds for guard's rifle (use these first)
1 X Spiffy Uniform (formerly bloody guard garb)

1 X Monstrous gun  Given to Sarge.
6 X monstrous gun bullets (more like cannonballs)  Given to Sarge.


Stats
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d4
Vitality: d6
Endurance: d6
Intelligence: d6
Awareness: d8


ARMORY
12 X Guard's rifle
48 X Rounds for guard's rifle
8 X Guard's knife, a big curvy slightly phallic thing
6 X guard's uniform
6 X Spiffy Uniform (formerly bloddy guard garb)

Any word of reasonable value really.

Getting +1 Pot, for them clutch magics.

Give me the Permanent word from that corpse, if syv approves it.

In addition, grab Explosive and Contain.

Spoiler: Raven Feathra (click to show/hide)

Description: Raven is a VERY RAVENY GIRL. She has black hair, dark blue eyes, and looks all edgy and shit. She's really too young to lead a wizard gang, but carries herself with confidence and Murder. She is deadly intelligent, but is lacking in common sense, as normal for teenagers. Also she is obsessed with birds.
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d6
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d6
Intelligence: d10
Awareness: d8

Health: "Healthy"

Inventory: Raven Armor, Rifle

Marks: None

Permanent: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Available: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many, Darkness

Ok. Thats up to leader Sy but ok with me.

Ranged Removers

Spoiler: @Roncal-thol Rotheleaod stuff (click to show/hide)

I'm all for securing the trade quarter - specifically, bisecting it by taking 68(12,12), 69(12,13) and eventually 48(12,11; slaver's stronghold, IIRC, and a good new place for our HQ). This would contain the mobster gang, secure them from interacting with SA gang, and do a lot of other good stuff.

As for the Unreal, the Dreamers seem to have mentioned that they control (or, 'control'; gather local magic) at least some of the tiles inside there, so I'm not sure we would like to foster conflict with them just so soon. Placing an HQ there is... an actually interesting idea, considering the double magic word income, but I honestly worry about the long-term effects of magical radiation exposure on this level to our NPC freed slaves, if nothing else (but the NPC attacks there would seem some of the worst/the most dreadful of all possible NPC attacks, and that's quite something). All in all, it's a fancy idea to take a spot there early, but I'm not sure how good an idea is to move our base there; I'd rather the Dreamers protected us from the horrors inside the Unreal, rather than from the PCs and NPCs outside it (which they may not even want to do, given their "free entry" position).


Also, wow, [CHAIN]!!! Too bad if I try to mix it in with my [Clockwork] enchantment of blades, it won't get me proper chainswords, but something horribly, horribly inconvenient, knowing Piecewise.


Finally, on the new words: if we appear to be unable to take them all, I think it might be prudent to trade extensively, rather than have to discard any.

As the previous mission ends/the new one has not even started preparations, I'd like to take Affect_Self from the corpse and cast [Repair - Affect_Self - Mark_Caster's_Eyes], hopefully before permanent gang words are replenished, temporary effects vanish, etc. (and thus also without it counting as the prep spell for the next mission). Can I do so?

(Also, for the record, can enchantments be stored in spell Marks just as other spells? Is Int pre-rolled like Pot with them, or rolled on the spot?)

Level-up pending.

Spoiler: Kay Vagner, Space Marine (click to show/hide)

Name: Kay Vagner

Gang: Roncal-thol Rotheleaod

Health: Rocking.

Hand (9/10): Chisel, Cloud, Wall, Crow, Mark_Caster's_Eyes, Large_Firearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Marked spells: none. Eyeballs: both.

Inventory: Chain'Gram (clockwork monstrosity re-enchanted blade), Spiffy R-Raven Uniform (armor), backup combat knife (like this one), rifle with 2 rounds
 
Stats:
Potency: d8
Memory: d4
Strength: d8
Dexterity: d2
Speed: d10
Vitality: d6
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d8 (+)
Awareness: d6

Progression: +

Description: A grand-grand-grand-grandson of a forgotten composer of ages past, Kay thinks he is enamored with the music of his ancestor and that his legacy is to live up to those heroic stories of old. Sadly, he doesn't know that most of it is presently misattributed, and the rest is utterly mangled by vagaries of time, not to mention that he isn't really cut out for that kind of life. Still, he has one sick guitar solo.

Total kills: 3 (+1 assist)

Notable kills:
  Decapitated slaver guard
  Trepanated slaver guard

Spoiler: Steve, Supreme Chaos Mage's corpse (click to show/hide)

Hand:

• [Fire_Forward]
• [Cloud]
• [Wall]
• [Crow]
• [Mark_Caster's_Eyes]
• [Large_Firearm]
• [Ammunition]
• [Clockwork]
• [Many]
• [Affect_Self] - pending transfer to Kay (Nikitian)
• [Repair] - taken by Abu (RC)
• [Permanent] - taken by Abu (RC), pending transfer to Raven (Egan)
• [Polymorph_Whole_Body] - taken by Abu (RC)

[3][Pot+0]
Cast. And yes, enchantments can be stored and placed on things with a prerolled INT .

Roncal Roth _{^{Numbered Map Link}}

Spoiler: RR word distribution (click to show/hide)

Here are our new words, with all requests included.  Bolded "Merchant" words are those which I believe are best sold, unless someone wants them.

• Cylinder (Merchant)
• Spike
  
• Titanium (syvarris)
  
• Gold (Merchant)
• Hammer (Merchant)
• Mercury
  
• Chain (Nikitian?)
  
• Explosive (Egan_BW)
  
• Incendiary (syvarris)
  
• Chain (Merchant)
• When unable to act x2 (Merchant)
• Contain (Egan_BW)
  
• Container
  
• Rope (Merchant)

And here are the words from ATHATH's corpse:

• Permanent (Taken by Radio, requested by Egan)
  
• PolymorphWholeBody (Radio)
  
• Repair (Radio)
  
• AffectUser (Nikitian)
  
• Crow
• FireForward
• Cloud
• Ammunition
• Wall
• MarkCaster'sEyes
• LargeFirearm
• Clockwork
• Many

I highly recommend that you don't take any word from the corpse unless you're planning to use it immediately.  As long as we leave them there, we don't need to manage them.

Piecewise, I marked a bunch of the words in that spoiler as (Merchant), and bolded them.  These are the words I'm willing to sell.  My first priority is improving our uniforms, with fire resistance, gas/dust resistance, and acid resistance, in that order.  If we can only get one, oh well.

The second priority is to fund the taxidermy of ATHATH's corpse, because it's a bank.  Third... well, if we have words left over, whatever sundries other people want.

Levelup pending.  Do we have to wait for the other two gangs to finish their missions before starting our third?  Also, check the spoiler below for hex questions.

Spoiler: Hex questions, and RR statements (click to show/hide)

What are hexes 69, 68, 50, 49, and 34?  The first two are my priority.  Also, see the link at the top of this post if you forgot the numbering. -.-

Radio, I'll try and make the next mission more aggressive.  Apologies, but I hadn't expected the gate to be so heavily fortified on this side.

Nik, we don't want to contain either of the enemy gangs, especially not if that separates them.  If we're the only target they can fight... then we're forcing them to team up once the game moves to PvP.  Anyway, Dolossus' gang is south of our HQ, not North.


Also, MidnightJaguar has asked to join our gang.  He's been interested since Chalice started, and we do have the spare uniform, so I'm accepting him unless someone complains.

Spoiler: Corven Feathra (click to show/hide)

Gang: Roncal Roth
Health: Shot in the left bicep; entire arm limp.  The pain is dull and half numb for the moment, but the bleeding has been bandaged.
Tattoos: Eyes tattoo'd with 8-strength "Repair AffectUser"
Inventory:

• A slaver rifle, with two shots.
• A concealed knife.
• A Roncal Roth crow uniform, armored with metal plates and thick leather.
• Some decently-sized pebbles he picked up somewhere, for throwing and enchanting.

Hand (Permanent): Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many
Hand (Temporary): WhitePhosphorus, Coal, Titanium, Incendiary

Level 3!
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Vitality: d6 (+)
Endurance: d8
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d6


Description: An older man past his prime, Corven still carries himself with the intimidating aura you'd expect from a crime boss... except when he's dealing with his daughter, who he's completely incapable of saying "No" to.  That usually works out better than you'd expect, since he managed to get her the formal education he never had, though he still has wisdom on her.  Has something of an unhealthy obsession with birds, though not nearly as much so as his daughter.

Spoiler: Roncal-thol Rotheleaod Information (click to show/hide)

Symbol:

Permanent Gang words: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Unreadable team statlines (mouse over this for ability names)

syvarris (Corven Feathra): (1/2 levels spent)
     P10 M:6 St:2 D:6 Sp:4 V:6 E:8 I:8 A:6
Egan_BW (Raven Feathra): (2/2 level spent)
     P10 M:6 St:2 D:6 Sp:6 V:4 E:6 I10 A:8
Radio_Controlled (Abu Hajaar): (1/2 levels spent)
     P10 M:6 St:2 D:8 Sp:4 V:6 E:6 I:6 A:8
Nikitian (Kay Vagner): (1/2 levels spent)
     P:8 M:4 St:8 D:2 Sp10 V:6 E:4 I:8 A:6
Pancaek (Gunnery Sergeant James Murphy): (1/2 levels spent)
     P:6 M:4 St:6 D10 Sp:6 V:6 E:8 I:2 A:8

Gang Equipment:

• 12 rifles (6 given to members; 6 left with slaves at HQ)
• 48 nonmagical rifle rounds (26 left at HQ; 2 given to each member, except Abu who took 12.)
• Eight knives, one for each member, except Kay and Sarge, who each get two.
• Twelve bloodied slaver uniforms... left with the slaves, unless someone wants one for some reason.
• Six corvid themed gang uniforms, armored with metal plates and thick leather, distributed among the team members.
  

Spoiler: Roncal-thol Rotheleaod Territories and Words (click to show/hide)

Headquarters: (47) "Impromptu Mines"

• LightSource (Radio)
• WhitePhosphorous (syvarris)
• Darkness (Egan)
• chisel (Nikitian)
• Coal (syvarris)
• Iron (Radio)

((See top of post for other words))

(138) "Dreamer Gate"
((See top of post for other words))

(At HQ) "Some dude's corpse"
Words are banked, and if not taken, will stay on the body.

• Permanent (Taken by Radio, requested by Egan)
• PolymorphWholeBody (Radio)
• Repair (Radio)
• AffectUser (Nikitian)
• Crow
• FireForward
• Cloud
• Ammunition
• Wall
• MarkCaster'sEyes
• LargeFirearm
• Clockwork
• Many

_{^{This was all typed on a phone.  Agghhhh.}}

So. Flame resistance can be done in two ways; a coating or changing the fabrics. Many natural fabrics like silk are flame resistant in that they won't catch fire. You would still feel the heat and take damage from it but wouldn't burst into flames and keep burning. Probably. A coating would be like making your clothing into a rubberized protective suit to prevent heat damage to a degree. But it would lose a lot of resistance to normal damage.

Dust/gas could be as easy as filter masks. Not perfect, but they'd give you a bonus against the rolls for those gases.

Acid is harder; you'd need a coating but it would have the same downside of being really good against acid but crap against other things.

ATHATH's corpse can ONLY contain the words that it contained in life, no putting words into it. But getting him preserved could be done with Chain and hammer.

Nah, just do it now.

Spoiler: Secrts maybe? (click to show/hide)

69 is the alchemist section of the Tradesman quarter, while 68 are the looms, leather workers, and cloth makers. 50 is the animal pens and housing, 49 the Thaulm extractor, 34 is the thaulmic machine shops.   

[piecewise]

Shadow Alliance

To the metal man, unless Shade vetos my action:

"Our immediate goal here is alliance. Our extended goal is, as you say, expansion. We intend to bring something of order to the city. A civilized order, one in whihc, we hope, such things as libraries, schools, theaters, and the like can flourish. NAturally, we can see that we wold be a junior player in this alliance, at least for now. It is clear that you have more of power and history than we. As for what we will do with any power we attain: we intend to do as we have done: to advance through the city, to make alliances, to conquer where necessary, and hopefully to bring a better situation to the citizens than what we find upon arrival. You know of our predecessors at the gate. I believe you will find our control of that location to be beneficial to more than just us."

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

 
wall, container, *amber, feline, *mark whole body, delay,
concrete, lock, *shockwave, darkness, aura
when inflicting damage, Black biometal
Distortion Dust

* denotes used.

active enchantments: [mark whole body][amber][shockwave] pot+1

Spoiler:  Chu Sana'me (click to show/hide)

10 Potency
6  Memory (15 word deck)
2  Strength
6  Dex 
8  Speed (8 tile movement)
4  Vitality
6  Endurance
8  Intelligence
6  Awareness

inventory:
rifle, ammo:[2/?]

Shadow Alliance

To the metal man, unless Shade vetos my action:

"Our immediate goal here is alliance. Our extended goal is, as you say, expansion. We intend to bring something of order to the city. A civilized order, one in whihc, we hope, such things as libraries, schools, theaters, and the like can flourish. NAturally, we can see that we wold be a junior player in this alliance, at least for now. It is clear that you have more of power and history than we. As for what we will do with any power we attain: we intend to do as we have done: to advance through the city, to make alliances, to conquer where necessary, and hopefully to bring a better situation to the citizens than what we find upon arrival. You know of our predecessors at the gate. I believe you will find our control of that location to be beneficial to more than just us."

-snip-

After Chu finishes speaking,

"More or less as my compatriot said. Though I would add that in the short term, we don't actually have plans for where specifically to go next. I can infer from what you said that those who controlled the gate before us were considered bandits. Are there any other groups that have gained that reputation? My plans revolve around two steps, for the most part: remove a source of chaos, and then build or secure the infrastructure required for order. If I were to solely focus on removing those who cause chaos, I would in the end become a source of chaos myself. And if I simply maintained a place of order, as you have, then eventually I would fail. Another could eventually overpower me, a concerted effort could be raised, or luck could simply prove to be against me. Those who desire peace cannot be passive. They must strive for it. And yet to become so single-minded in the pursuit of peace would, in the end, bring about its end. My conclusion is a pendulum. To in one swing strike against chaos, and in the return foster peace. I do not claim to have any dominion over you, I do not desire that. If you say you do not want us here, or that you do not want us to use the power this place would provide us, then we will leave. But I am afraid that there is a force that could soon prove to overpower all of us who strive for peace. Although, ironically, I suppose it would bring about peace in the end. Just not the kind of peace the living can enjoy."

Spoiler: Shade (click to show/hide)

Character Name: Shade
Currently active effects: (Mark Whole Body, Binding, Darkness) at Pot +[2/3] (depending on which roll you accepted as final in the end.)
Injuries: Minor chest wound (Hopefully minor)

Potency: d10
Memory: d8
Strength: d4
Dex: d4
Speed: d6
Vitality: d6
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d6

Currently active words (10/20): (Amber, Feline, Delay, Dome), (Shockwave, Aura, When Unable to Act), (When Inflicting Damage, Black Biometal), (Distortion Dust)
Gang: Shadow Alliance

(Also fixed the subject title, quoting posts can change it sometimes)

The man listens to your whole explanation, fingers steepled and eyes set forward, their gaze impossible to guess. After you finish he sits back and considers his words carefully.

"I got to where I am today with two things; knowledge and force. Force without knowledge is chaos, and knowledge without force is impotence. Combined in equal measure they are unstoppable. The Chaos you wish to fight has many sources but I know of two major players whose power far outstrips their knowledge. They are enemies of mine just as they are surely enemies of yours. So I offer this bargain; strike against my enemies and I shall give you what you desire and more."

[Pancaek]

I'll take my levelup in vitality. I also don't want any of the words.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Gunnery Sergeant James Murphy

Description: A big bull of a man, with a square jaw and a patriotic twinkle in his eye. He enjoys swearing and giving people under his command a hard time.

Somehow managed to catch the second plane to 'Nam to fight the commies, even though he was aiming to be on the first. This left him slightly bitter. Then he got teleported to this world of mystery and magic. This doesn't change matters much, Charlie just a look a little different 'round these parts.


Gang: Ridiculous Rhomboid

Health: Great.

Magic jazz hands: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Potency: d6
Memory: d4
Strength: d6
Dexterity: d10
Speed: d6
Vitality: d8
Endurance: d8
Intelligence: d2
Awareness: d8

Inventory:
1 looted guard rifles
1 guard's knife
13 rounds for the rifle + 20 summoned bullets (used first)
1 Spiffy Uniform
1 monstroust gun + 6 monstrous bullets.

[piecewise]

Cosa Nostra

When stealth is broken, run over and cast Small-Firearm on the metal near (3,24).

Spoiler: Cyril Morris (click to show/hide)

Name: Cyril Morris
Description: An average guy in his 20s. He's wearing a fairly nice grey suit and fedora.
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d4
Dex: d8
Speed: d6
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d2
Intelligence: d6
Awareness: d8

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

Deck: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)

Your gang leader dropping off a building and delivering a chained fist to an overseer certainly seems like breaking stealth, so you get moving. You run to the building where the one man was scraping the leather and put your hand on the nearest metal thing. [6][1] The magic pulses out into the iron and it shrieks and deforms, folding like origami into a large handgun. Its not a very pretty looking thing but seems functional.

The man in the building with you seems rather freaked out. Understandable.

Spoiler: Action (click to show/hide)

It’s show time. Shoot the closest overseer many times. Then dive back into cover.

Spoiler: Vencarlo Barvasi (click to show/hide)

Name: Vencarlo Barvasi
Description: A large, barrel-chested man in his mid-fifties. He wears a finely tailored Italian suit and is pretty much always smoking a huge Cuban cigar.
Potency: d6
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dex: d8
Speed: d2
Vitality: d10
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d4
Awareness: d8

Deck: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (*Steel, *Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)
(* Denotes a used card)

Items: Stupidly big and powerful pistol, 15 ammo

Spoiler: Gang (click to show/hide)

Name: The Cosa Nostra
Color Scheme: Black/White
Symbol:
Permanent Words: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)
Leader: Vencarlo Barvasi
Members: Dropshot, Big Poppa, Cyril Morris
Base: (10,11)

[4v6]
You take a potshot at the nearest overseer. The recoil nearly yanks the gun straight out of your hands and a bowling ball sized piece of the building behind the Overseer vanishes in an explosion of splinters. The Overseer spins and looks around in a panic as you scamper away.

Spoiler: Big Poppa (click to show/hide)

Big Poppa
Desc: Just one of the guys.
Status: Fine
Potency: d4
Memory: d2
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d8
Vitality: d6
Endurance: d6
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d4
Deck (ready): Chain, Combine, Thermate, Explosive, Steel
Deck (used):
Gang Starter Deck (just keeping it here for ease of access): Permanent Words: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)
Inventory: Steel Chain
Gang: Cosa Nostra

Wrap my chain around my fist and arm. Climb that building! Then lay down and crawl over to above/behind that guard's head. Then drop down on him! Try to smash his head or face with the chain.

You're already on top of it so that first part is easy. Lets move on to the second part.
[6v1][2]
You drop down from the ceiling fist first and catch the guard right on top of the head with your chain wrapped fist. It doesn't kill him, but it does knock him unconscious. You both end up on the ground in a big awkward pile. Just like prom night.




The sound of Vencarlo's shot is what gets everyone's attention and workers stop working and poke their heads out to see whats going on. At the same time overseers charge towards the sound. Three in the north see Big Poppa and the guard he's knocked out, but the others can't make it far enough or don't see anything.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Egan_BW]

Welp, syv never said no to it, so I'm putting Permanent on my list. Also Explosive and Contain.
If there's funding left for side-projects... I'd like a nice dress, that's still crow-themed but not as obviously so as the uniforms, and that doesn't look quite so combat-focused. Something that looks impressive at the front of some crow-themed goons, but has plausible deniability for just being formal wear for some random bystander.
Social stealth is best stealth. Especially when I can use nearly any word to kill someone provided I can hold their hand or something.

Spoiler: Raven Feathra (click to show/hide)

Description: Raven is a VERY RAVENY GIRL. She has black hair, dark blue eyes, and looks all edgy and shit. She's really too young to lead a wizard gang, but carries herself with confidence and Murder. She is deadly intelligent, but is lacking in common sense, as normal for teenagers. Also she is obsessed with birds.
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d6
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d6
Intelligence: d10
Awareness: d8

Health: "Healthy"

Inventory: Raven Armor, Rifle

Marks: None

Permanent: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Available: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many, Darkness, Explosive, Contain, Permanent

[Ozarck]

Shadow Alliance

"Tell us more about these enemies."

[SamSpeeds]

Spoiler: Big Poppa (click to show/hide)

Big Poppa
Desc: Just one of the guys.
Status: Fine
Potency: d4
Memory: d2
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d8
Vitality: d6
Endurance: d6
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d4
Deck (ready): Chain, Combine, Thermate, Explosive, Steel
Deck (used):
Gang Starter Deck (just keeping it here for ease of access): Permanent Words: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)
Inventory: Steel Chain
Gang: Cosa Nostra

Snatch his sword if I can and run, heading north (I could go south towards the bros but that could end in me getting friendly fired) aim to impair the mobility of overseers who come into range while I flee

[Radio Controlled]

Any word of reasonable value really.

Given the lack of any sort of indication here of what is 'reasonable value', I'll just assume we can make that up ourselves. Convenient!

Get that corpse taxidermied in exchange for hammer, and chain if necessary. Unless anyone else on team flyboy wants them.

Spoiler: Regressed Rhizoids (click to show/hide)

Radio, I'll try and make the next mission more aggressive.  Apologies, but I hadn't expected the gate to be so heavily fortified on this side.

Nik, we don't want to contain either of the enemy gangs, especially not if that separates them.  If we're the only target they can fight... then we're forcing them to team up once the game moves to PvP.  Anyway, Dolossus' gang is south of our HQ, not North.

It's ok, don't worry too much about it. Abu got a new taxidermy friend out of it that I could use for shenanigans, so it's not a total loss!

It's true that we wouldn't want to 'contain' the other teams too much at this stage, since once the available npc hexes are taken over they'll have to attack one of ours (or forge an alliance to secure passage rights). However, splitting up your enemies isn't necessarily a bad idea: if you are certain those teams are/will be allied against you, preventing them from forming up allows one to defeat them in detail, only having to deal with half the total enemy strength at a time. I'd rather have two separate fights against 4 enemies at once than one battle against 8 enemies in most circumstances (barring special situations, like a one-use special weapon). The strategic calculus comes down to questions such as (but not limited to): are the other teams likely to actually wait with pvp until all npc's are dealt with? Are they likely to fight among each other or will they sooner forge an alliance? What is the relative power between the three teams? Is diplomacy an option? What are our own long term strategic goals, aka what is the actual win objective of this game (assuming we wanna actually win, which for me at least isn't as important compared to getting into fun fights and shooting the shit on irc from time to time)?

Also, heeeey midjag! Finally succumbed to the siren's song eh? Good, Abu just needed a new person to haze- erm, I mean, welcome into the team.

Spoiler: Abu Hajaar (click to show/hide)

Name: Rifleman first class Abu Hajaar

Description: A scrawny enlistee of vaguely Middle Eastern descent. Permanently in over his head, slightly confused and wondering just how he got into this mess. Will reluctantly but reliably follow orders from his commanding officers and do his best however.

Somehow managed to end up far away from home in 'Nam to fight the commies. This left him confused. Then he got teleported to this world of mystery and magic. This did not help matters.


Gang: Ridiculous Rhomboid

Health: Fabulous.

Magic jazzhands:
Permanent: Cloud, Wall, FireForward, Crow, MarkCaster'sEyes, AffectUser, LargeFirearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many
Temporary: LightSource, Iron, polymorph whole body, repair


Current Inventory
2 X Guard's rifle
14 X rounds for guard's rifle
1 X Spiffy Uniform (formerly bloody guard garb)


Stats
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d4
Vitality: d8
Endurance: d6
Intelligence: d6
Awareness: d8


ARMORY
12 X Guard's rifle
48 X Rounds for guard's rifle
8 X Guard's knife, a big curvy slightly phallic thing
6 X guard's uniform
6 X Spiffy Uniform (formerly bloddy guard garb)

[DolosusDoleus]

Spoiler: Action (click to show/hide)

Continue shooting the overseers, prioritizing the ones closest to myself and Big Poppa.

Spoiler: Vencarlo Barvasi (click to show/hide)

Name: Vencarlo Barvasi
Description: A large, barrel-chested man in his mid-fifties. He wears a finely tailored Italian suit and is pretty much always smoking a huge Cuban cigar.
Potency: d6
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dex: d8
Speed: d2
Vitality: d10
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d4
Awareness: d8

Deck: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (*Steel, *Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)
(* Denotes a used card)

Items: Stupidly big and powerful pistol, 14 ammo

Spoiler: Gang (click to show/hide)

Name: The Cosa Nostra
Color Scheme: Black/White
Symbol:
Permanent Words: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)
Leader: Vencarlo Barvasi
Members: Dropshot, Big Poppa, Cyril Morris
Base: (10,11)

[Illgeo]

Spoiler: Action (click to show/hide)

Climb on the building. Snipe the closest overseer once up.

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

(Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive) (9/15)

Spoiler: Dropshot (click to show/hide)

Appearance: Figure wrapped tightly in assorted clothes- scarves, bandages and such - with a coat over them, with not a single piece of skin visible.
Potency: D6
Memory: D6
Strength: D4
Dex: D10
Speed: D8
Vitality: D2
Endurance: D4
Intelligence: D6
Awareness: D8
Inventory: .45 Magnum.

[Rautherdir]

Shadow Alliance

"Yes, a deal like that would be appreciated."

Accept details, especially the nature and locations of the two groups of enemies. After that I guess leave?

Spoiler: Shade (click to show/hide)

Character Name: Shade
Currently active effects: (Mark Whole Body, Binding, Darkness) at Pot +[2/3] (depending on which roll you accepted as final in the end.)
Injuries: Minor chest wound (Hopefully minor)

Potency: d10
Memory: d8
Strength: d4
Dex: d4
Speed: d6
Vitality: d6
Endurance: d4
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d6

Currently active words (10/20): (Amber, Feline, Delay, Dome), (Shockwave, Aura, When Unable to Act), (When Inflicting Damage, Black Biometal), (Distortion Dust)
Gang: Shadow Alliance

[Questorhank]

Cosa Nostra

Shoot whoever seems to be the highest threat (to any ally).

Spoiler: Cyril Morris (click to show/hide)

Name: Cyril Morris
Description: An average guy in his 20s. He's wearing a fairly nice grey suit and fedora.
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d4
Dex: d8
Speed: d6
Vitality: d4
Endurance: d2
Intelligence: d6
Awareness: d8

Spoiler: Deck/Inventory (click to show/hide)

Deck: (Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive)
Inventory: Ugly Big Pistol, 15 Shots

[Nikitian]

(( @RC Buuut, I wanted that Hammer! It makes a natural set with Chisel!..  ))

[Egan_BW]

((Just wait till we get Sickle...))