You want rolls? You got rolls. As well as the narrative. Statuses will have to wait, there's a lot of details that need to be considered regarding the exact extents of damage you people sustained.
The narrative turned out... I don't know, I haven't read anything with comparable events. I think's it's good enough, but I'd like it VERY much if you posted your opinions on my rendition of the event.
Also, WARNING: it's rather long.
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Players: [RTTAI:{6}] I help Boksi.
I concentrate on entering a deep trance. Then I try to make my body regenerate all my nerves.
[RTTAI:{1}] I try to evoke the earth manipulation non-power and bring the hill to the convoy.
i open the box, and then as second action ( camp turn) i OPEN THAT BOX!!!!!!!!
I shephherd/carry/force everybody into the truck, including our two new allies. I then grab my rpg and bag of ammo and sit on the roof in a comfortable position to act as a sentry.
I get in the truck
I continue my futile attempting, having nothing better to do.
I work on greatly reducing the pain from shifting. Come on dice gods! Guide me now!
[RTTAI:{6}] I FOCUS EVERY ATOM OF MY EXISTENCE AND TRANSFER MY MIND INTO MY OLD BODY!
[RTTAI:{3}] I tell the two volunteers to get into our truck, and get into it myself. Then I practice using the Rad-Man.
[RTTAI:{1}] I heal myself, and try to steal something from the convoy again.
<Travel Mode: Large Valey Area 3>
Allied NPCs: The dwarf just keeps sitting there.
They stay where they are.
Neutral NPCs: The convoy is leaving very soon. The volunteers are also packing up.
Hostile NPCs: None
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Players:
Chaoticag: Help Boksi: {1}
Jay Kayell: Concentrate: {5}, Regenerate: {6}
Boksi: Earth Manipulation: {5}
andrea: Open box:{6}, Collateral?:{1}(ow), BL explode?:{1}(OW), BL Blow Damage:{1}(O_O), Self:{6} JK:{4}, Kashyyk:{3}, The hill:{3}, Rooster:{1}(Crit:{6}), Chaoticag:{3}, Boksi:{6}, Neo:{5}, Frelock:{1}(Crit:{2}), Zako:{2}(Crit:{2}), Kosak:{2}(Crit:{2}), Bats:{5}, The convoy:{2}, LASD:{6}, Gantolandon:{3}, the truck:{5}, Simon:{5}, Janna:{1}(Crit:{2}).
Kashyyk: Move everybody to truck: {2}, Get on truck: {6}
Rooster: Get in truck: {1}
Neo1096: Continue trying to change body: {2}
Zako: Work on reducing pain: {1+1}
Frelock FOCUS EVERY ATOM OF EXISTENCE AND TRANSFER MIND: {5}
LASD: Practice with the Rad-Man: {1}
Gantolandon: Heal self: {4+1}, Steal: {4}
Korora: Travel: {6}
NPCs:
Kosak the dwarf: Do nothing: AutoSuccess
Boksi's giant bats: Do nothing: AutoSuccess
Simon: Get in truck: AutoSuccess (local move)
Janna: Get in truck: AutoSuccess (local move)
The convoy: Pack up and leave: {5}
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Having lost hope for divine intervention, Jay Kayell decides to get his own body to fix itself. Easily calming his mind in absence of external factors, he tries to achieve contact with his body, and orders it to repair the damage he had done. To his surprise and relief, the body complies! Rapidly consuming nutrients from his rich bloodflow, Jay's cells begin replicating themselves at a staggering pace! Within minutes, his hair grows to four feet in length on every part of the body that can conceivably have hair, his nails extend into horribly twisted claws! This ages Jay's body considerably, but the regeneration stops before a significant amount of harm is done. Having regained all of his prior senses, Jay can feel the familiar pains, and some new ones from his recent activities. He is also an unnaturally aged eldritch abomination of hair and nails now, which is more than slightly discomforting. Kashyyk could have thrown up at the sight of this, if he weren't iron, and if such transformations didn't become common for the company by now.
Above them, Andrea focuses all of his power to open the
damn box. Having run out of sane options, he resorts to using the high-temperature plasma jets in his hands to cut the box open, as if with a pair of plasma cutters. As he channels all of his power into his hands, Andrea's mind is occupied only with the goal in sight, when it should have been minding another business as well. Long hours of frustration this box was causing makes Andrea slightly underestimate the true limits of his powers.
Slightly. A massive burst of superheated plasma engulfs the box, Andrea, and everything around them in a radius of ten meters! Andrea's ball lightning adds energy to the brewing disaster, exploding violently in the center of the forming Nova! The combined explosion of two gigantic sources of energy produces a massive shockwave and an immensely powerful burst of searing light, visible from orbit and beyond! Caught unaware, JK and Kashyyk survive the experience only by luck, as neither the light nor the blast could reach them in the crater in full force. They are knocked down, and have to hug the ground until the wave of heat dissipates.
Soldiers at the convoy notice a brightly shining light near the hill. Before anything can be done, the light flares up into a raging inferno of energy! The air is white, as if a billion lasers have fired upon everything in view simultaneously. The trucks and mechs weather the onslaught, but suddenly an exposed weapons crate on one of the trucks overheats and cooks off! The convoy is blown sky-high as a chain reaction of explosions consumes the nearby vehicles and light mechs!
The heavy hauler, conveniently parked behind a protruding terrain feature, remained unscathed, and so did everyone who managed to get onto it. Simon was the first to board it along with LASD. LASD's attempts at using the Rad-Man brought him massive pain, as the energy discharge overloaded its sensitive electronics. Unable to cope with sensory overload, LASD's brain shut off to prevent injury. Gantolandon hopped in at the last second, holding an ill-gotten souvenier from the convoy. A convoy guard ran after him, but was vaporized in the flash. Unfortunately, Janna hesitated, and was also caught in the blast of light. Her body was swept away by the following shockwave, which also wrecked what remained of the convoy by then.
At the hill, Neo fails to concentrate properly, the powers the body once had are no more. Suddenly, Frelock's eyes flare up white, he reaches out to Neo and a powerful energy spark arcs between them! For a split second, the two share their minds, before parting once more and returning to their natural bodies. Frelock stands up, his white robes glittering in the rising sun... and is immediately fried and thrown away by Andrea's explosion! The hill behind him also begins to disintegrate, with everyone trying to hide as well as they can. Rooster is hit full-force, but his plated body resists the damage, while Zako is blasted off his perch in a mangled heap. Chaoticag's skin is almost burning by the time he manages to hide in a trench, and the shockwave buries him in it. Having nowhere to hide, Boksi calls on the powers of his ring to protect him, forming a shield of darkness before him! Though unharmed by the light, he is still thrown away by the shockwave and is buried by the decimated hill. The bats are blown away, but survive. The dwarf is nowhere to be seen. When all is over, Neo stands up and brushes himself off - the event most definetly used up one of his lives. And as the dust settles and the immense damage becomes evident, Korora finally arrives to the scene.
Andrea wakes up to the rushing of freezing wind, and faint sparkles of electricity around him. His body is nearly immobilized by the tremendous shock it sustained, and what remains of his power is all that keeps him conscious. It pains him to even move his eyes, but he has to look around. What he sees sends him into even deeper shock.
Far, far away from Andrea, a greyish fluffy haze obscures a vast stretch of uneven flatness. It takes Andrea several seconds to realize that the haze is actually a cloud layer, and the flat surface is the surface of the
planet. The thin air rushes past him at supersonic speed, creating pressure than allows him to breathe. A fear more chilling than all the coldness of space seizes Andrea, but his body refuses to fight any longer and he passes out.
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Background: [2] Quite understandably, nobody takes their time to notice anything of use.
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Once again, opinions on the text are very welcome. And not only by players.
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