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[Empiricist]

South. Get ready to duck around the corner and fire if need-be.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

 
Name: Joseph
Gang: Shadow Alliance

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

Status: Fine

Inventory:

• Rifle loaded with 2 bullets of "summon face hugging pipe spider"
• steel rod

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

Memory: 11/15

Class 1:
amber
feline
mark whole body
delay
dome

Class 2:
shockwave
darkness
aura

Class 3:
when inflicting damage
Black biometal

Class 4:
Distortion Dust

[Ozarck]

Maunder along. Ascend any stairs we locate. If there are no stairs, or other accesses upward (such as ceiling hatches), have Lizzy drag me outside and start climbing the wall.

Spoiler: active spells (click to show/hide)

[mark whole body][concrete][container][seek nearest living creature]
intent is a mark that, when activated, creates a concrete container around the nearest being other than myself. Basically trapping them inside
Successfully cast with a roll of 4. No pot bonus mentioned.

[Black biometal][lizard] 6, 5. Crocodile. can climb walls - but so can I, apparently.

[orbiting orbs][goo][plant] three one kodamas (plant spirits) orbiting. Succeeded with a roll of 3. (two Kodamas used. Successfully turned my enemies into bloody thornbushes)

[book][contain][darkness][aura] (4) a solid black book Pages, cover, everything is black

[superglue] rolled a 2, made weak liquid stitches to hold my guts together.

[Lock] rolled a [5](Pot)[5](Int) [3]v[3](opposed endurance) used as a surgical repair tool. It went horribly well.

Spoiler: Geiger (click to show/hide)

status: light shoulder wound, minor bleeding. Horribly mangled gutshot wound. Twice repaired with mixed results

8   Potency
8   Memory (20 word deck)
4   Strength
6   Dexterity
2   Speed
6   Vitality
6   Endurance
10 Intelligence
4   Awareness

inventory: Steel rod, I guess?

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

feline
blast wall
blast wall
shockwave
Distortion Dust

*lock
*goo
*concrete
*contain
*plant
*container
*book
*orbiting orbs
*lizard
*seek nearest living creature
*Black Biometal
*darkness
*aura
*mark whole body
*superglue

Spoiler: New Shadow Alliance Word List (click to show/hide)

permanent gang words:

1: amber, feline, mark whole body, delay, dome
2: shockwave, darkness, aura
3: when inflicting damage, Black biometal
4: Distortion Dust

HQ: Fist Aura, Container

LW: sheet

Bioconstructors: arm

[Yottawhat]

Head 4 spaces up to the darken corner to the northwest .

Spoiler: Iron Brian (click to show/hide)

Name: Iron Brian
Descripiton: A large brute of man standing at 6'6 feet tall. His bulging muscles, flat forehead, and menacing demeanor is contrast with his well kept hair, dress clothes and a pair of tiny reading glasses perched on his nose.
Gang: Shadow Alliance 

Health:
-Shot in the lung Patched up by a black biometal tumor.
-Bandaged sliced left arm

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

Inventory:
Iron Sword + {When Inflicting Damage} {Shockwave} {?}
Steel rod

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

Amber
Feline
Delay
Mark Whole Body
Dome
Darkness
Shockwave
Aura
When Inflicting Damage
Black Biometal
Distortion Dust
Rubber
Box
Wood
Lead

[syvarris]

((Thank you, Radio.  Looks like the method to beat this guy is indeed to just double down on our schtick of shooting things.  Despite Piecewise saying that's a bad method for him.))

New HQ is the Dreamer gate.   Acid pits are so much better, but are indefensible.

(There are better methods)

You're gonna have to talk the dreamers into letting you use the gate as an HQ. Remember you don't control it so much as you have an agreement to share it. Moving in might be seen as overstepping those boundaries.

((Unless they take the form of being more clever about our shooting, they don't seem to be available to us, either due to lack of skill or lack of words.))

Okay then, I'm still not gonna head to acid pits instead.  It's just a terrible choice.  In fact, if abandoning the acid pits altogether would get the mage breaker off our ass, I'd be open to doing that--the occasional chemical word isn't worth assult from that monster.

Hum.  If we do need to give an explanation to Mr Dreamer, Corven will be honest.  We got a lot of attention from the king because of our operations in the merchant areas, so we're stopping activities in that area.  We don't want to abandon the gate however, as it both needs protection, and Corven has been intending to investigate where that giant worm monster came from.  Can't do that if he retreats to the slums, and he's clearly not welcome in the merchant district.

If the Dreamers still don't want us there, welp, can we 'retreat' and replace our HQ while attacking a hex?  Otherwise we're just gonna be killed when we transplant our HQ to the acid pits and then presumably have to retreat before moving our HQ.

...Also, Shadow Alliance, are you open to letting us out the gates without conflict, or do we have to attack your HQ to leave?

[piecewise]

I'm gonna say no to that.

Then I'll just try again!

Ask my two puppet penpalls what they think of our inglorious retreat and that Wizard Fracturer.

What did you think of that whole thing?

"Our spirits are trapped in these things, please set us free"

"End our suffering!"

NO! GIVE ME WITTY BANTER,  COMEDY SLAVE!

"No more pallet swaps!"

"I guess you could say your victory was NULL and void."

I don't know if that's really a fair comparison....to that thing I don't know.

"I don't really know if that was a fair anything."

This is more bitter than witty.

"LET US OUT OF THESE FUCKING DOLLS!"

((Thank you, Radio.  Looks like the method to beat this guy is indeed to just double down on our schtick of shooting things.  Despite Piecewise saying that's a bad method for him.))

New HQ is the Dreamer gate.   Acid pits are so much better, but are indefensible.

(There are better methods)

You're gonna have to talk the dreamers into letting you use the gate as an HQ. Remember you don't control it so much as you have an agreement to share it. Moving in might be seen as overstepping those boundaries.

((Unless they take the form of being more clever about our shooting, they don't seem to be available to us, either due to lack of skill or lack of words.))

Okay then, I'm still not gonna head to acid pits instead.  It's just a terrible choice.  In fact, if abandoning the acid pits altogether would get the mage breaker off our ass, I'd be open to doing that--the occasional chemical word isn't worth assult from that monster.

Hum.  If we do need to give an explanation to Mr Dreamer, Corven will be honest.  We got a lot of attention from the king because of our operations in the merchant areas, so we're stopping activities in that area.  We don't want to abandon the gate however, as it both needs protection, and Corven has been intending to investigate where that giant worm monster came from.  Can't do that if he retreats to the slums, and he's clearly not welcome in the merchant district.

If the Dreamers still don't want us there, welp, can we 'retreat' and replace our HQ while attacking a hex?  Otherwise we're just gonna be killed when we transplant our HQ to the acid pits and then presumably have to retreat before moving our HQ.

...Also, Shadow Alliance, are you open to letting us out the gates without conflict, or do we have to attack your HQ to leave?

That seems a reasonable explanation for them, though they'll make it clear that if someone comes to claim your ass, they're not gonna intervene.


Now, do you want to abandon the pits? Because that would reduce the heat on you.

[piecewise]

Check the two guys here for shotgun ammo.  Then proceed into that north room ready to kick ass and take names.  If it's empty rush the stairs up.

Spoiler: Thag Simmons (click to show/hide)

Pot d6
Memory d4
Strength d10
Dex d4
Speed d8
Vit d8
End d8
Int d4
Awareness d8

Health: Minor scalp wound

Equipment:
Cavalry Sabre
Sawn-off Shotgun 0/2
Steel Rod
Chainmail head and torso armour
Gang: Shadow Alliance.

Unsurprisingly they  don't have any, though the guy you have at sabre point does throw a very large amount of random crap out of his pockets at your prodding.

You walk out and head through the north door, walking straight into another enemy.  Probably a scout from whatever force is upstairs; judging by his surprise and the stairwell right behind him. Probably a good idea to take him out quickly and quietly.

[1v6]
You take a swing at the guy but your blade catches the doorframe instead, sinking deeply into the wood and becoming stuck.  Son of a...

Maunder along. Ascend any stairs we locate. If there are no stairs, or other accesses upward (such as ceiling hatches), have Lizzy drag me outside and start climbing the wall.

Spoiler: active spells (click to show/hide)

[mark whole body][concrete][container][seek nearest living creature]
intent is a mark that, when activated, creates a concrete container around the nearest being other than myself. Basically trapping them inside
Successfully cast with a roll of 4. No pot bonus mentioned.

[Black biometal][lizard] 6, 5. Crocodile. can climb walls - but so can I, apparently.

[orbiting orbs][goo][plant] three one kodamas (plant spirits) orbiting. Succeeded with a roll of 3. (two Kodamas used. Successfully turned my enemies into bloody thornbushes)

[book][contain][darkness][aura] (4) a solid black book Pages, cover, everything is black

[superglue] rolled a 2, made weak liquid stitches to hold my guts together.

[Lock] rolled a [5](Pot)[5](Int) [3]v[3](opposed endurance) used as a surgical repair tool. It went horribly well.

Spoiler: Geiger (click to show/hide)

status: light shoulder wound, minor bleeding. Horribly mangled gutshot wound. Twice repaired with mixed results

8   Potency
8   Memory (20 word deck)
4   Strength
6   Dexterity
2   Speed
6   Vitality
6   Endurance
10 Intelligence
4   Awareness

inventory: Steel rod, I guess?

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

feline
blast wall
blast wall
shockwave
Distortion Dust

*lock
*goo
*concrete
*contain
*plant
*container
*book
*orbiting orbs
*lizard
*seek nearest living creature
*Black Biometal
*darkness
*aura
*mark whole body
*superglue

Spoiler: New Shadow Alliance Word List (click to show/hide)

permanent gang words:

1: amber, feline, mark whole body, delay, dome
2: shockwave, darkness, aura
3: when inflicting damage, Black biometal
4: Distortion Dust

HQ: Fist Aura, Container

LW: sheet

Bioconstructors: arm

Gonna assume by "Maunder" you mean murder? As opposed to the literal definition of talking leisurely. As such I'm gonna sic Lizzy on our new friend while you drag yourself along.
[1v7]
You walk in your normal gimpy waddle and are just in time to see Thag seriously menace a doorframe instead of murder the man directly in front of him. Being so out of shape and in such bad condition you decide to send a lizard to do a man's job. You point at the man and lizzy runs in that particular squirming way, past you and through thag's legs before leaping up onto the scout. She wraps her jaws around his entire face and lets her momentum carry her around, breaking the man's neck before a single violent thrash takes the head all the way off.

Move 1 space left, plant greatbow and prepare to ambush.

Spoiler: Isaac (click to show/hide)

Name: Isaac
Gang: Shadow Alliance
Health: Fine

Active spells: [Orbiting orbs][Distortion Dust][4] - 0 Orbs left.

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

Inventory:
Metal Greatbow and many wooden arrows with metal tips
Steel rod

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

Mark whole body
Delay
Shockwave
Darkness
Orbiting orbs
Fire
Fist Aura
Black biometal
Distortion Dust
Blast Wall

You walk forward and plant your bow. Admittedly Thag is the most likely target like this, but it pays to be prepared.

Head 4 spaces up to the darken corner to the northwest .

Spoiler: Iron Brian (click to show/hide)

Name: Iron Brian
Descripiton: A large brute of man standing at 6'6 feet tall. His bulging muscles, flat forehead, and menacing demeanor is contrast with his well kept hair, dress clothes and a pair of tiny reading glasses perched on his nose.
Gang: Shadow Alliance 

Health:
-Shot in the lung Patched up by a black biometal tumor.
-Bandaged sliced left arm

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

Inventory:
Iron Sword + {When Inflicting Damage} {Shockwave} {?}
Steel rod

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

Amber
Feline
Delay
Mark Whole Body
Dome
Darkness
Shockwave
Aura
When Inflicting Damage
Black Biometal
Distortion Dust
Rubber
Box
Wood
Lead

South. Get ready to duck around the corner and fire if need-be.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

 
Name: Joseph
Gang: Shadow Alliance

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

Status: Fine

Inventory:

• Rifle loaded with 2 bullets of "summon face hugging pipe spider"
• steel rod

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

Memory: 11/15

Class 1:
amber
feline
mark whole body
delay
dome

Class 2:
shockwave
darkness
aura

Class 3:
when inflicting damage
Black biometal

Class 4:
Distortion Dust

Done and done.





Total silence from upstairs.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Radio Controlled]

Check up on the corpse of our erstwhile compatriot that we didn't preserve yet. How fresh would Abu still rate him?

[Ozarck]

Waddle to the foot of the stairs. Send my murderlizard to do a murderlizard's job, by scouting to the top of the stairs. Try not to have an asthma attack on the way.


"Well -gasp- ... I think -wheeze ... I think -choke- ... I think that -gasp ... -I think that takes care ... -pant- ... takes care of ... -pant- .... this floor."

Spoiler: active spells (click to show/hide)

[mark whole body][concrete][container][seek nearest living creature]
intent is a mark that, when activated, creates a concrete container around the nearest being other than myself. Basically trapping them inside
Successfully cast with a roll of 4. No pot bonus mentioned.

[Black biometal][lizard] 6, 5. Crocodile. can climb walls - but so can I, apparently.

[orbiting orbs][goo][plant] three one kodamas (plant spirits) orbiting. Succeeded with a roll of 3. (two Kodamas used. Successfully turned my enemies into bloody thornbushes)

[book][contain][darkness][aura] (4) a solid black book Pages, cover, everything is black

[superglue] rolled a 2, made weak liquid stitches to hold my guts together.

[Lock] rolled a [5](Pot)[5](Int) [3]v[3](opposed endurance) used as a surgical repair tool. It went horribly well.

Spoiler: Geiger (click to show/hide)

status: light shoulder wound, minor bleeding. Horribly mangled gutshot wound. Twice repaired with mixed results

8   Potency
8   Memory (20 word deck)
4   Strength
6   Dexterity
2   Speed
6   Vitality
6   Endurance
10 Intelligence
4   Awareness

inventory: Steel rod, I guess?

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

feline
blast wall
blast wall
shockwave
Distortion Dust

*lock
*goo
*concrete
*contain
*plant
*container
*book
*orbiting orbs
*lizard
*seek nearest living creature
*Black Biometal
*darkness
*aura
*mark whole body
*superglue

Spoiler: Current Shadow Alliance Word List (click to show/hide)

permanent gang words:

1: amber, feline, mark whole body, delay, dome
2: shockwave, darkness, aura
3: when inflicting damage, Black biometal
4: Distortion Dust

HQ: Fist Aura, Container

LW: sheet

Bioconstructors: arm

[syvarris]

Now, do you want to abandon the pits? Because that would reduce the heat on you.

Yes.  Do we get invaded anyway, or should I distribute words and select a hex to attack?

[randomgenericusername]

Wait for hostiles to descend the stairs and shoot them. If nothing happens and someone decided to ascend the stairs, follow them.

Spoiler: Isaac (click to show/hide)

Name: Isaac
Gang: Shadow Alliance
Health: Fine

Active spells: [Orbiting orbs][Distortion Dust][4] - 0 Orbs left.

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

Inventory:
Metal Greatbow and many wooden arrows with metal tips
Steel rod

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

Mark whole body
Delay
Shockwave
Darkness
Orbiting orbs
Fire
Fist Aura
Black biometal
Distortion Dust
Blast Wall

[piecewise]

Now, do you want to abandon the pits? Because that would reduce the heat on you.

Yes.  Do we get invaded anyway, or should I distribute words and select a hex to attack?

Nope, you guys got away.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rope
Rain Down
Concrete
Wood
Protect
Binding
Orbiting Orbs
Protect
Spear
Protect

Your words for your new HQ

Check up on the corpse of our erstwhile compatriot that we didn't preserve yet. How fresh would Abu still rate him?

Pretty fresh. Rigor hasn't even set in.

[Egan_BW]

...I don't think Corven would object to me grabbing three copies of Protect and AffectUser from the gang list.

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

Health: Healthy!

Inventory: Raven Helmet, Raven Armor, Rifle (6/6), extra rifle rounds, knife, steel block, firebombs, 'venturing stuff

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

Hand: Darkness(2), Mercury(2), WhitePhosphorous(3), Protect(3), Protect(3), Protect(3), AffectUser(2)

[Yottawhat]

Scoot up the stairs with the rest of the Shady Boys.

Spoiler: Iron Brian (click to show/hide)

Name: Iron Brian
Descripiton: A large brute of man standing at 6'6 feet tall. His bulging muscles, flat forehead, and menacing demeanor is contrast with his well kept hair, dress clothes and a pair of tiny reading glasses perched on his nose.
Gang: Shadow Alliance 

Health:
-Shot in the lung Patched up by a black biometal tumor.
-Bandaged sliced left arm

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

Inventory:
Iron Sword + {When Inflicting Damage} {Shockwave} {?}
Steel rod

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

Amber
Feline
Delay
Mark Whole Body
Dome
Darkness
Shockwave
Aura
When Inflicting Damage
Black Biometal
Distortion Dust
Rubber
Box
Wood
Lead

[Devastator]

Up the stairs.  Clear out anyone in that room.  If there are further stairs up (to the level with the boss on it, the third floor, jam the second floor door shut and enchant it with Stone, to keep that door good and jammed.  If there are no stairs up, don't do that.

If some thug is present, kill him instead of doing that.

Spoiler: Thag Simmons (click to show/hide)

Pot d6
Memory d4
Strength d10
Dex d4
Speed d8
Vit d8
End d8
Int d4
Awareness d8

Health: Minor scalp wound

Equipment:
Cavalry Sabre
Sawn-off Shotgun 0/2
Steel Rod
Chainmail head and torso armour
Gang: Shadow Alliance.

Spoiler: Deck (click to show/hide)

Beastly
*Canine
*Iron
Shockwave
Distortion Dust
Black Biometal
Mark Whole Body
*Come From Palm
*Stone
*Wall

[piecewise]

I was gonna update this today but wow, we have fuck all in terms of turn out. Gonna give this a minute to populate.