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[Egan_BW]

"Seriously, why do you idiots love these shitty acid pits enough to die for them?"

Hunker Down! Squak additional nonsense at the fuckers down the slope!

Spoiler: Raven Feathra (click to show/hide)

Description: Raven is a VERY RAVENY GIRL. She has black hair, GLOWING GREEN 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 (5/6) [Contain / Explosive] [Pot+2] loaded with [Clockwork / Ammunition] [Pot+6], 54 spare rounds of [Clockwork / Ammunition] [Pot+6]

Marks: [Permanent / Repair / MarkCaster'sEyes] [Pot+2]

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

Available: FireForward, Crow, AffectUser, Many, Darkness,

[piecewise]

Cosa Nostra

Drink the Scotch. Act like I'm not waiting for an excuse to murder everyone in the building.
((What do you use to make the maps?))

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.
Condition:
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d4
Dex: d10
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:

I use this. Simple and very helpful.
http://gridcartographer.com/

[Questorhank]

Thanks!

[Devastator]

Shadow Alliance
For Rauth:

Ride Big Kitty as it jumps down one level and shreds the goat-creature that got away down there.

Also, I think failed enchants should really cost you words.  After all, failed non-enchanting spells also cost you words.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Character Name: Shade
Currently active effects:

    (Feline, Black Biometal) [10] "You summon up a biometal cat. Ok, thats a bit of an understatement. You summon up a biometal sabretooth tiger the size of an elephant."

Injuries: Minor chest wound (Hopefully minor)

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

Currently active words (7/20): Dome, Mark Whole Body, Darkness, Fist Aura, When Inflicting Damage, Fire, Distortion Dust
Gang: Shadow Alliance

[syvarris]

Roncal Roth _{^{Map Legend}}

First, enchant the ground with "wall", summoning some cover that's close enough to the edge to allow view downhill.  Then, shoot that mage who just summoned a wall.

((I gotta agree, enchanting is already OP and too good, making it not cost words on an int failure just makes it even better.))

Spoiler: Corven Feathra (click to show/hide)

Gang: Roncal Roth
Health: Fine!
Tattoos: Eyes tattoo'd with 8-strength "Repair AffectUser"
Inventory:

• A slaver rifle, with seven magic bullets, and two real ones.
• A concealed knife.
• A Roncal Roth crow uniform, armored with metal plates and thick leather.  Provides fire resistance and a passive +2 endurance vs. gasses and dusts.
• Some decently-sized pebbles he picked up somewhere, for throwing and enchanting.
• Bandages and such

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

Level 3!
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d2
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Vitality: d8 (++)
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): (2/2 levels spent)
     P10 M:6 St:2 D:6 Sp:4 V:8 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): (2/2 levels spent)
     P10 M:6 St:2 D:8 Sp:4 V:8 E:6 I:6 A:8
Nikitian (Kay Vagner): (2/2 levels spent)
     P:8 M:4 St:8 D:2 Sp10 V:6 E:4 I:8 A:8
Pancaek (Gunnery Sergeant James Murphy): (2/2 levels spent)
     P:6 M:4 St:6 D10 Sp:6 V:8 E:8 I:2 A:8
MidnightJaguar (Angelus Pestis): (0/0 levels spent)
     P:8 M:6 St:2 D10 Sp:4 V:4 E:8 I:6 A:6

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, made of silk and armored with metal plates along with thick leather.  All six outfits are distributed among the team members.  They include gas masks styled like plague doctor beaks, which grant a passive +2 to endurance die size vs airborne contaminants.  Additionally, they are highly fire-resistant.
  
• Bandages and tourniquets, distributed among the gang members.

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

(Hexnumber) "Hexname"

• Words gained from this hex
• If the word has nothing in parentheses after it, it wasn't taken by anyone, and is up for grabs.
• If the word *does* have a name after it, that person is currently in possession of it, and has not used it.
• All non-standard words we have are therefore in this spoiler, along with who holds them.

Headquarters: (47) "Impromptu Mines"

• LightSource (Radio)
• WhitePhosphorous (syvarris)
• Darkness (Egan)
• chisel (Nikitian)
• Coal (syvarris)
• Iron (Radio)
• Spike (MidnightJaguar)
• Titanium (syvarris)
• Hammer (Nikitian)
• Mercury (MidnightJaguar)

(138) "Dreamer Gate"

• Container (MidnightJaguar)

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

• PolymorphWholeBody (Radio)
• Repair (Radio)
• AffectUser (Nikitian)
• Crow
• FireForward
• Cloud
• Ammunition
• Wall
• MarkCaster'sEyes
• LargeFirearm
• Clockwork
• Many

[Nikitian]

((@syv I can summon the wall for you, but I can't shoot the guys below and I'd rather not run down there to engage them in melee, so... suggestions for what to do would be welcome?

@enchantment failure All in all, I think magic should be uniform in how it works; and that, I think, would require either non-echantment spells too to be able to fail without using up words (on reasons other than Pot roll deficiency) to make things fair between the two techniques, OR for Int-roll failing on enchantment spells to produce some horrible effects in line with Pot-roll fallout (but obviously different nature/effect) when the words are expended, instead of just no effect at all - for the sake of conservation of magic and believability ("words don't just disappear without taking any effect"). Personally, I'd be fine with either way, and even better if a mix of both is preferred (sometimes enchanting fails horribly and uses up words, sometimes conjuration fails cleanly and without using up words). ))

[Rautherdir]

Shadow Alliance

((Sorry. Things have been keeping me a bit busy. Edit was because I accidentally modified this instead of quoting it like I had thought.))

"Alright, time to get closer. And pick up Thag, too."

Have the Cat jump down a level (preferably onto the goat thing) and then across to the other side so that Thag can jump down to us.

Spoiler: Shade (click to show/hide)

Character Name: Shade
Currently active effects:

• (Feline, Black Biometal) [10] "You summon up a biometal cat. Ok, thats a bit of an understatement. You summon up a biometal sabretooth tiger the size of an elephant."

Injuries: Minor chest wound (Hopefully minor)

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

Currently active words (7/20): (Dome, Mark Whole Body), (Darkness, Fist Aura), (When Inflicting Damage, Fire), (Distortion Dust)
Gang: Shadow Alliance

[Illgeo]

Slowly drink cider, tap fingers to music, wait for non-shooty time to end.

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

(Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive) (11/15)

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: Rifle, 20 bullets, mug of cider.

[Pancaek]

Help Abu with aiming his impromptu mortar. If that's not really an option for whatever reason, hunker down where I am and continue trying to peek-and-shoot enemies

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: freshly healed

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 rifle
2 guard's knife
13 rounds for the rifle + 10 magical round (used first)
1 Spiffy Uniform, now with some added fire resistance

[DolosusDoleus]

Spoiler: Action + Planning Schtuff (click to show/hide)

Break into a wide grin, completely ignoring the fact that the bartender probably doesn't want to talk. "My friend, the Spirytus Rektyfikowany is a most wondrous liquor indeed! Why, I'm sure that if you sold it here, you would make heaps upon heaps of cash! Perhaps, my friend, you would be interested in purchasing some to sell at this fine establishment?"

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: d6
Vitality: d10
Endurance: d6
Intelligence: d4
Awareness: d8

Deck: Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay, Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition, Combine, Thermate, Explosive, #Chest Armor, #Bull, #Rope
(* Denotes a used card. # Denotes a word not in the gang deck)

Items: 20 ammo, Rifle, Chainmail, Leather Armor

Status: Buzzed

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)

Assets: Pile of rifles, big pile of ammo, several sets of leather and chain armor.

[syvarris]

((@Nik
Honestly, I don't see much for you to do right now.  Maybe improve my wall, like Raven did?  I could cast offensive magic instead of making a wall, but these enemies have resistance to my one harmful word, and it could provide them cover from rifle fire to boot.

An alternative would be to try and drain the second lake, enhancing the flood, but I'm not sure any of your remaining words could really accomplish that.  Maybe LargeFirearm could make something tubelike enough to work.))

[Nikitian]

((@syv Ok, I have an idea then. Might be a dangerous overkill, though.))

Roncal-thol Rotheleaod

Lean in from above and enchant the outpouring acid stream (so downstream from our position/somewhat below us, for safety reasons) with [Many] for increased volume and pressure/speed of the acid flood. If the acid pool on our level nonetheless begins to rise as well, hurriedly get away from the acid.

Scream manly if when my fingers start to melt in the process of such enchantment.

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

Name: Kay Vagner

Gang: Roncal-thol Rotheleaod Raven's Roughnecks

Health: Face no longer melting. Minor cosmetic alterations. Eyes watering, throat itchy.

Hand (7/10): Chisel, Cloud, Wall, Cylinder, Hammer, Large_Firearm, Ammunition, Clockwork, Repair, Many

Marked spells: Self-heal eye tattoo (Repair - Affect_Self - Mark_Caster's_Eyes, [Pot+0]). Eyeballs: both.

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

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: 9 (+1 assist)

Notable kills:
  Decapitated slaver guard
  Trepanated slaver guard
  Decapitated acid pools worker

Notable duels:
  vs Scarred Man, leader of the Dreamers - Lost [4v6]

((Woo, updated killcount!  ))

[Egan_BW]

((Yes, don't hesitate to horribly maim yourself, I can fix it. That's a good minion~))

[piecewise]

Sorry for lack of post today. I spent 12 hours working on demon sigil analysis. Some tests on IRC produced the following from player sigils.

Eururvles the hidden Degenerate: A man sized rat made of wax, contained within a glass tube filled with sewage. Its face is utterly smooth and featureless and it is covered in garbage.

Nimanstus The Thunder Pilgrim: A bat which carries a walking stick made of water in one hand and a Taiko drum in the other, which it plays constantly. It is wrapped in chains which are connected to great iron weights.

Isrurvafa The Hidden Prophet: A horse sized shrimp made of wax. It has weak, unsure movements, as though unacquainted with its limbs. Its head is completely featureless and engulfed in an aura of golden fire. 

Douranphus the Cloud Angler: An Anglerfish made of lightning. It is half hidden within storm clouds, though its glowing lure peeks out. Luminous jellyfish hang around it like paper lanterns.


Pretty good so far, I think.

[piecewise]

Spoiler: Big Poppa (click to show/hide)

Big Poppa
Desc: Just one of the guys.
Status: Swell!
Potency: d6
Memory: d2
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d8
Vitality: d6
Endurance: d6
Intelligence: d8
Awareness: d4
Deck (ready): Combine, Thermate, Explosive, Chain, 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: Sword, Helmet, Breastplate, Chainmail, Leather Pants (Armor), Some Strips of Leather, Steel Chain
Gang: Cosa Nostra

Order a dang MEAD. Don't panic.

((I'm gonna be honest with you fellas, I'm just killing time because my massive superbrain cannot comprehend nonviolent solutions))

You order a DANG Mead and then sit around and wait for someone to think of a solution that isn't "Stab the man".

Cosa Nostra

Drink the Scotch. Act like I'm not waiting for an excuse to murder everyone in the building.
((What do you use to make the maps?))

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.
Condition:
Potency: d10
Memory: d6
Strength: d4
Dex: d10
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:

You sip your Scotch and also twiddle your proverbial fingers waiting for someone who isn't you to make a move.

Slowly drink cider, tap fingers to music, wait for non-shooty time to end.

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

(Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay) (Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition) (Combine, Thermate) (Explosive) (11/15)

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: Rifle, 20 bullets, mug of cider.

Did you guys accidentally confuse this for a boy's night out? So far all you've done is walk in, order drinks, and then sit around. I sure hope the fourth person in this freaking crew has a plan.

Spoiler: Action + Planning Schtuff (click to show/hide)

Break into a wide grin, completely ignoring the fact that the bartender probably doesn't want to talk. "My friend, the Spirytus Rektyfikowany is a most wondrous liquor indeed! Why, I'm sure that if you sold it here, you would make heaps upon heaps of cash! Perhaps, my friend, you would be interested in purchasing some to sell at this fine establishment?"

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: d6
Vitality: d10
Endurance: d6
Intelligence: d4
Awareness: d8

Deck: Container, Leather, When near death/dies, Chain, Delay, Steel, Small Firearm, Ammunition, Combine, Thermate, Explosive, #Chest Armor, #Bull, #Rope
(* Denotes a used card. # Denotes a word not in the gang deck)

Items: 20 ammo, Rifle, Chainmail, Leather Armor

Status: Buzzed

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)

Assets: Pile of rifles, big pile of ammo, several sets of leather and chain armor.

"Listen, if you're trying to pitch some sort of product, I'm not the guy to do it to. You wanna talk to the manager."

He points to a guard by the stage "Ask him to bring ya down. You'll have to surrender any weapons though."