Katrine
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Many Shadows
Fight like the Best or Die like the Rest!...
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Post by Katrine on Jun 17, 2009 16:52:21 GMT 1
She would have felt kinda odd about making an offering to Stonetooth, after all he was their guardian and someone might take offence. Waiting and watching till they made their offerings, Kat was relived that Cloud-Dancer choose to run with her, the other guy Erik or Hands of Mercy seemed to carry a mutual dislike for her. “Of course, Cloud-Dancer.”
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Post by Hands of Mercy on Jun 17, 2009 17:23:37 GMT 1
Hands of Mercy nods at the instruction, and shifts down into lupus before heading off after Erik, keeping his eyes peeled for trouble, moving as carefully as the necessary speed will allow and generally waiting for the other Garou to get himself ambushed.
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Post by Shehrazad on Jun 17, 2009 18:28:43 GMT 1
As the three of them offer their Gnosis, the sabretooth absorbs it, visibly growing strong. It's injuries grew less severe and it became visibly more steady and focused. "I am grateful for your offering. I will be able to replenish myself well enough now." As the two groups split off the sabretooth turned and began to stalk through the park, on the prowl.
Cloud-Dancer returned to the gate, with Many-Shadows in tow. They come across the ruined leftovers of the scrag as they reach the gate, that Cloud-Dancer had passed earlier. For Many-Shadows that was another new sight of many, as she also got her first sight of the umbral representation of the wall as they approached the gate. Unlike the bombed-out ruin that most of Berlin was seen as, the wall was vibrant and rigid, remarkable considering how short a time it had existed physically. As they arrived there were no more banes attempting to pass by the gate yet.
Erik and Hands-of-Mercy started their way around the sizeable park area. They found trouble quickly, and both heard some creature up ahead snarling and growling and crashing through the undergrowth. They saw it moments later, another scrag thrashing around in the distance that looked as if it was searching for something. It didn't seem to have noticed them yet.
Cloud-Dancer has 0 rage, 1 gnosis, 5 will, crinos Katrine has 1 rage, 4 will, crinos
Erik has 2 rage, 0 gnosis, 3 will, hispo Hands has 3 rage, 2 gnosis, 2 will, lupus
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Post by Hands of Mercy on Jun 17, 2009 18:34:49 GMT 1
Hands of Mercy moves to a spot where he can hopefully remain concealed from the scrag before relaxing into Crinos, then shifting quickly down to Glabro before beginning to line up his shot.
((Attempting to be stealthy, aim if I have time. Activated shot either when the bugger starts charging me or just before Erik gets to the critter))
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Post by Corinna Cannstein on Jun 17, 2009 18:43:31 GMT 1
Cloud-Dancer stepped around the destroyed scrag and came to a halt near the gate.
"Don't get too close," she warned Many-Shadows. "Do not disturb the wall. You don't want to end up a part of it."
She didn't sound like she was joking.
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Erik
Cliath
Sie bewahrt all ihre Briefe in einer Aktenmappe auf.
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Post by Erik on Jun 17, 2009 18:50:11 GMT 1
Watching his Fenrir companion in his peripheral vision, Erik charges forwards, fangs snapping at the bane, his tongue hopefully out of the way this time. More than willing to play the part of 'obvious distraction', he assumes that the skald will take the scrag down from afar, assuming it doesn't fall in Erik's primary assault. But, knowing his luck, the skald will miss, and Erik will end-upgetting hit by his second arrow for the day. ((Splitting primary action into 2 bite attacks, spending a Rage for an extra bite attack. (Can I abort to dodge if Hands does manage to shoot Erik? )))
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Katrine
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Many Shadows
Fight like the Best or Die like the Rest!...
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Post by Katrine on Jun 17, 2009 21:35:08 GMT 1
As the two came near the wall her eyes widen, that was one heck of a weaver thing and she never seen anything like it. And Cloud-Dancers comment about it didn’t make her impression of it any better either. Keeping her distance from the wall, she started looking around, but so far nothing was to be seen. Torn between not wanting any unfriendly attention and curious to hear about this pack, their sept and what had happened around here, Katrine kept her mouth shut, better safe then sorry
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Post by Shehrazad on Jun 17, 2009 22:02:08 GMT 1
If it had just been down to Hands-of-Mercy, they would of gotten the jump on the scrag. Erik's charge made enough noise to get it's attention however, and it turned on him hissing and snarling. Erik felt the rage being called again as he charged, but it wasn't quite strong enough of a pull to threaten his control. Hands-of-Mercy was forced to take the shot without aiming carefully, in order to fire before Erik got stuck in and made the shot more difficult. The arrow hit, but the darkness continued to make a mockery of his accuracy and he only managed to graze the scrag. The arrow did at least begin to take root. Erik struck a moment later, even as the scrag continued trying to incite a frenzy in him unsuccessfully. His attacks tore into it brutally, but not only did he lack the advantage of a suprise attack but this scrag appeared to have been at full strength. It still had plenty of fight left in it. However that was only the start of their worries. All the commotion seemed to have drawn the attention of the other banes that had gotten loose, and they both spotted another two scrags advancing rapidly through the foliage. They were still far enough away that they had some time to deal with the first one, but not much.
Cloud-Dancer and Many-Shadows were left in peace a little longer, too far away from the park to even hear the conflict of the others. They couldn't see any sign of anything approaching.
Erik has 1 rage left To be precise, you have one turn before one scrag reaches Hands and another turn before the third reaches Erik
And no, you can't change your actions after the dice are rolled
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Erik
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Post by Erik on Jun 17, 2009 23:37:36 GMT 1
As he notices the other scrags, a subconscious smile creeps into Erik's mind.
This is going to be fun... He thinks to himself.
Focussing all his attention on his current foe, he presses the assault, eager to finish the bane off and move on to one of the others.
He was, after all, Erik Prützmann... Sillver Fang... Ahroun... and West Germany's greatest (and most arrogant) warrior.
((Split primary action into 2 actions; bite, bite. Spend Willpower on second bite.)) ((Note: I'm aware that Erik should probably be howling for backup right about now, Erik, on the other hand, is a knob.))
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Post by Hands of Mercy on Jun 18, 2009 6:52:43 GMT 1
Hands of Mercy's attention flicks between the banes approaching, and recognises that this fight is unlikely to end well. He relaxes back into his breed form and begins to move forwards, away from the bane approaching him, quickly launching another arrow into the one Erik is fighting. As he moves, he lets out a short but recognisable Anthem of War.
((1 Rage for an extra action - knock, draw, loose.))
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Katrine
Cliath
Many Shadows
Fight like the Best or Die like the Rest!...
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Post by Katrine on Jun 18, 2009 9:47:20 GMT 1
Pacing back and fort around the wall, waiting and watching with Cloud-Dancer, always keeping her distance to the creepy ass wall.
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Post by Corinna Cannstein on Jun 18, 2009 13:11:25 GMT 1
Things appeared to be quiet near the wall, but Cloud-Dancer didn't relax her grip on the axe. She did spare a moment to talk to Katrine, however. The girl was having quite an interesting first day, after all.
"You have good timing, Many-Shadows," she said. "And a steady grip on that sword. Who sent you to Berlin?"
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Post by Shehrazad on Jun 18, 2009 14:11:08 GMT 1
Erik's first bite fell short, but the second landed firmly and ripped away more of the spirit's essence. Though badly wounded it still came at him, and hacked at him furiously with it's claws. The first blow cut deep into his shoulder, drawing a spray of blood, but fortunately the second only took away a clawful of fur. Despite the darkness and trying to avoid hitting Erik in the back, Hands-of-Mercy managed to land his shot on target. Erik saw the arrow appear in the bane's side, before the scrag collapsed beside him still snarling and hissing as it died. With the scrag disposed of, a small rabbit spirit stuck it's head out from the foliage, obviously the thing the scrag had been looking for earlier. At the sight of Erik it dropped back out of sight again. The other two scrags continued their charge, one coming towards Erik from the left and the other chasing Hands-of-Mercy from the right. Hands-of-Mercy managed to keep some distance from his as he let forth his howl but it still kept coming. The other one continued screaming and thrashing through the undergrowth towards Erik.
Some distance away, Cloud-Dancer and Many-Shadows heard Hands-of-Mercy's Anthem of War. In it he managed to convey that they were fighting a pair of scrags. But it looked like they had their own problems to deal with, on the other side of the wall they could see another figure approaching at speed, flowing over the rubble of the umbral city. It was an unpleasant sight, and they both recognised the rolling ball of reeking sludge as a H'ruggling - a corrupted earth elemental.
I consider howling effectively to be an action, but reloading can be done on a split pool, so I split it in with that. You didn't specify what details you wanted to howl, so I just went with the basics. If Hands continues moving away from his scrag he's going to lose sight of Erik, and if he doesn't continue moving away it'll catch him. Erik still has a turn before the other scrag reaches him.
Cloud-Dancers and Many-Shadows have a turn to prepare before the bane comes through the gate and reaches them
Erik takes 3 levels of aggravated damage, total 4 (-2 penalty, can't run) and gains rage Erik has 2 rage, 2 will Hands has 2 rage, in crinos
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Post by Hands of Mercy on Jun 18, 2009 16:42:16 GMT 1
((The bow only activates for individual shots, so that last shot wasn't doing agg or growing, least that's my understanding. OTOH, I don't believe spirits tend to care what type of damage they're receiving, so aside from description, it shouldn't have made that much difference. And fine with the split actions, I did think I was pushing it a little trying to get all that into 2 actions.))
As the Scrags closed to melee range, Hands of Mercy Drops to all fours, his bow melding into his body as he prepares to engage the banes in melee. Seeing Erik is injured and thinking it best to concentrate on destroying one bane at a time, Hands of Mercy leaps towards the bane coming in from Erik's left.
((Rage to Hispo, split action, two bites on the one that's charging Erik. Or close and do what I can.))
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Post by Corinna Cannstein on Jun 18, 2009 16:53:00 GMT 1
Although she could hear the anthem of war, it looked like the boys were on their own for a bit longer. Cloud-Dancer stepped to intercept the H'ruggling.
"Stay to my left," she told Katrine. "And flank me. Hit high, I'll go low."
With that she raised Medraut and glared at the bane. Then she snarled a low, feral snarl that would have stopped spineless men in their tracks and made them seriously reconsider their next move.
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