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<RobinStamer> (3 Feburary 2153 09:23); Frost wonders what her strange dream was about, what did the floating paper surrounded by a green aura mean?  The group assembles to plan their approach for trying to get a conversation out of Angry Wolf, while they wait for the meeting with Koslov's men tommorow.
<RobinStamer> Arriving at the spot where AW attacked, the party fails to find him.
<RobinStamer> Frost: roll E+WP+2, DC /5/; Anyone else: roll Wits+Surv
<Frost> !e 13
<SwampLing> Frost: 2 [3, 5, 8, 3, 3, 4, 3, 1, 5, 9, 4, 3, 2]
<RobinStamer> (IntLore, Frost)
<Frost> !e 13
<SwampLing> Frost: 10 [6, 5, 9, 8, 0, 0, 2, 5, 1, 0, 5, 9, 7]
<RobinStamer> (Tag rolls plz)
<Frost> !e 2 IntLore
<SwampLing> Frost: 2 [9, 8] IntLore
<AlekseiVasiliev> !e 7 Wits 3 + Surv 4
<SwampLing> AlekseiVasiliev: 7 [9, 3, 9, 0, 7, 0, 5] Wits 3 + Surv 4
<RobinStamer> You understand nothing more about your dream.
<Ivan> !e 5 Hurrdurr sorry I missed the start
<SwampLing> Ivan: 5 [2, 0, 7, 5, 0] Hurrdurr sorry I missed the start
<RobinStamer> (... WTF@both you roll sux == pool)
<RobinStamer> Ivan/Alex: you manage to find two things of interest.  The first is a small encampment of First Nation warriors, most of whom are ghouls.  The second is a locked, small shack hidden in the middle of nowhere.
-*- Ivan heads off to the shack, and radios others about this.
-*- Frost follows along with Ivan, looking at herself with a puzzled look on her face
-*- AlekseiVasiliev heads over to catch up with Ivan; getting seperated is not on his to-do list
<Frost> "...I have grown bigger, haven't I?"
-*- AlekseiVasiliev looks up at Frost. "Yup. I assumed you meant to do that, given the other transformations you've been seen to perform..."
<Ivan> (How huge is frost?)
<RobinStamer> (3 Feburary 2153 09:34); The shack is locked, and appears to have been reinforced with metal bars on the otherside.
<RobinStamer> (0: human 3: Elephant/bear; no idea what 1 would be.  I assume it's just like +8 inches)
<Frost> (Large is around horse-ish, IIRC)
<AlekseiVasiliev> "I wish Bolt was here. I bet she could have got this open the quiet way."
<RobinStamer> (We're using revlid's mutations remember?)
<Frost> (yup!)
<Frost> (wait a sec)
-*- Ivan tries to pick the lock.
<Ivan> !e 8 DexLarceny, right?
<SwampLing> Ivan: 4 [9, 7, 5, 5, 5, 6, 0, 6] DexLarceny, right?
<Frost> "I could try to open it the not-quiet way, but it could be booby-trapped."
<AlekseiVasiliev> "Yeah, let's not. Not without Relentless' x-ray vision, anyway."
<Frost> "And no, I didn't mean to turn bigger like that. It's... Weird. I hope my powers aren't going out of control or something. Give me a second, I'll try to correct this..."
-*- Frost suddenly shifts larger, to her biggest and tallest, and frowns as she focuses her concentration - then shrinks down to her human size. 
<Frost> "Urgh. That was hard."
<Frost> (taking a Shapechange action and spending 3wp to absorb the Large 1 mutation in my library, coming back to normal)
<Frost> (thanks to Hybrid Body Arrangement)
<RobinStamer> Ivan skillfully unlocks the door, despite having no tools to do so.  The lock refuses to reactivate when Ivan tries though, he must have broken it.
<RobinStamer> A bunch of barrels and crates are sewn about the shack.
--> Bolt (4d603a87@cloak-65DD029E.mibbit.com) has joined #exaltedout
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-*- Frost looks around the shack, searching the barrels and crates for anything of interest
-*- Ivan heads inside to have a look through the place. 
-*- AlekseiVasiliev looks around outside the shack for any sign of habitation / people having come and gone
<Frost> (when I said inside, I meant around)
<Frost> (urgh)
<Frost> (when I said around, I meant inside)
<AlekseiVasiliev> !e 7 Perception 3 + Survival 4 vaguely tracking type stuff
<SwampLing> AlekseiVasiliev: 1 [6, 3, 9, 5, 6, 4, 2] Perception 3 + Survival 4 vaguely tracking type stuff
<RobinStamer> The barrels contain a very alchoholic substance, while the crates hold a bunch of strange looking knick-knacks.
<Ivan> "Remind me to get some tools for the job."
<Ivan> "I am good with my fingers, but they do help." He takes a closer look at the various knick-knacks.
<RobinStamer> S1 (PerOcc)
-*- Frost leans over and takes one of the knick-knacks, studying it with her hypersensitive eyes and touch
<Frost> "What a strange collection. Wonder who put it there."
<RobinStamer> S1
-*- Bolt pokes her head around the door, looking into the shack. "Ah, there you guys are! Sorry I got lost." Quickly she files in and rejoins the rest of the group, looking around curiously and poking at things with her eyes.
<Ivan> !e 6
<SwampLing> Ivan: 1 [6, 6, 4, 5, 8, 6]
<Frost> !e 10 PerOcc (3m on Ex)
<SwampLing> Frost: 4 [6, 8, 4, 7, 5, 8, 1, 9, 1, 6] PerOcc (3m on Ex)
<Frost> (well 2m actuallt with the S1 factored in)
<RobinStamer> Ivan: they look mundane, a bit odd, but mundane enough.
<Ivan> (S1 gives you back 2m)
<RobinStamer> Frost: They appear strange, as if not entirely real, light refracts and reflects in ways it shouldn't, or they shine more than the small amount of light in the shack should be making them.
<Frost> "...not quite mundane, those. They don't seem... Real? These are not mundane objects. No idea what exactly is their nature though."
<Frost> "The barrels countain alcohol, and the crates unreal item, and we're not far from where an angry shapeshifter set up a trap. This place is weird."
<RobinStamer> The knick-knacks include: cutlery, plates, dishes, paintings, toys, playing cards, etc...
<Ivan> "Really? Well, maybe a wizard lives here, eh?"
<Frost> "Right. Funny. Funny except this might be the case and a very bad thing."
<Frost> "Unless someone has any means of studying these things more in-depth, I propose we just leave."
-*- Bolt shakes her head, "They look magic-y, I'm an engineer."
<Ivan> "I am not joking. It is a reasonable explanation."
<Ivan> "He will notice we have been here, looking through his stuff."
<AlekseiVasiliev> "Don't we already know there's, essentially, a 'wizard' in the area though? Who we already antagonised by responding to an attack with lethal force?"
<Ivan> "If he is this shapeshifter you ran into, lucky us, we have found his place. We can wait here, and he'll probably show up."
<Frost> "All right, you know what? I'm getting out in the light with a few of those and examining them more in-depth with my spooky witchy magic. Because I have jack else to do."
-*- Frost lifts one of the crates and carries it outside, where she sits in the sun under the best light and examine the objects with all her senses, systematically going through the crates in hope of finding something - and spending considerable amount of Essence doing so.
<AlekseiVasiliev> "Do we want him to show up, though? I thought we were avoiding him, because it's very unlikely that we'll make peaceful contact, and we don't really have a good reason to kill him?"
<RobinStamer> S2
<Bolt> "And I'll examine them with spooky witchy structural evaluation." Bolt follows Frost out and examines the items she puts down for any visible or mechanical oddities.
<Frost> !e 14 PerOcc +5m on Excellency (if the Solar Charms Keen Sight/Hearing Technique would apply, +2 successes; I don't remember if it works only on PerAw)
<SwampLing> Frost: 10 [1, 5, 0, 9, 7, 2, 3, 5, 0, 1, 8, 0, 3, 8] PerOcc +5m on Excellency (if the Solar Charms Keen Sight/Hearing Technique would apply, +2 successes; I don't remember if it works only on PerAw)
<Ivan> "Wasn't this the guy who almost killed Frost?"
<Frost> (turns out it only works on Awareness action, so no bonus sux)
<Frost> "I got better. I had two days to learn how to make myself immune to poison."
<Frost> "Because I am just that freaking awesome."
<Frost> "Also, I can totally give you immunity to, if you can't handle poison. Will only cost me some energy."
<Ivan> "Nice. Does that mean you can outdrink me now?"
<Frost> "Ah ah ah! As if I couldn't before. You're cute."
<Frost> "If you want a drinking competition to be fair though, I can deactivate it beforehand.
<RobinStamer> The knick-knacks are not entirely unlike the Rift-Walkers in composition.
<Frost> "Which I probably will at some point, because drinking is nice."
<Frost> "...all right, looks like what we have here comes from the Rifts, or is related to the Rifts in some way. Looks kinda fairy in the making."
<Frost> "If Koslov owns this shack, and I think he does, this means he might have deals with the Rift-Walkers. Which would be bad."
-*- AlekseiVasiliev shrugs. "At least that would make him more obviously guilty of something. Although, you know, we basically have deals with Rift-Walkers. Didn't you make one at some village not long ago?"
-*- Ivan grins. "We'll do that." He gets more serious. "We should probably not tip him off we know this more than we have. He might slip something."
<Frost> "I did. And I hated it. I wish people would have just asked me to set them free, I would have fought that bastard to death and that would have been so much simpler."
<Ivan> "You never told me much about this. Are you sure the people were not under his influence already?"
<Ivan> "Maybe not very clear-headed."
<AlekseiVasiliev> "So," says Aleksei loudly in an obvious attempt to change the subject, "is there anything we can do to mess with his stuff, or should we try something else? We alrady have a meeting arranged in a couple of days for the ambushing, so it seems unlikely to be worth staking the place out."
<Frost> "...I don't know. What they said made sense, in a way. The fae was powerful enough to protect them, and ensured they were safe and well-fed. He was bound by an oath."
<Frost> "I promised to come back regularly, anyway. There are always a few who are willing to leave."
<Frost> "Yes! sorry about the difression."
<Frost> "I don't think there's any way to /use/ these things."
<Frost> "Maybe we should just go check out the encampment?"
<Ivan> "Sure. Let's put all this stuff back."
<AlekseiVasiliev> "Do we actually want to disturb Angry Wolf's warriors? It seems unwise to kick a hornet nest that we don't have any particular objection to."
<RobinStamer> (You wanted to try and get him on your side)
<RobinStamer> (At least yesterday you did)
<AlekseiVasiliev> (I thought I wanted to, but didn't see any way of approaching that wouldn't make it worse)
<Frost> "I'm for at least trying the peaceful solution. /Again./"
<Frost> "I would say that I am really for going up against him for a rematch, but that wouldn't be very /nice/ and I am a /nice/ person, aren't I?"
-*- Bolt nods, "I'm in favour of peace too."
<Frost> "But I can't help it if he takes my diplomacy the wrong way."
<AlekseiVasiliev> "I'm just worried that trying the peaceful solution will actually just lead to us killing more people. Whereas leaving them alone might mean we at least don't have to kill every one of them when we turn up and they defend their home."
<Ivan> "Well, if they attack us on sight, we can establish pecking order. If they don't, you can talk at them."
<Frost> "Well - no offense to anyone - but Relentless isn't around this time. This diminishes the people-killing potential."
<Frost> "Am I mean? I bet that was mean. I'm sorry."
<Ivan> "He does have sleep grenades."
<Frost> "I guess I am just kind of angry at the way everything went so wrong last time. I want to try and make up for it."
<AlekseiVasiliev> "True. And I suppose I can try out my new trick on them. I'll stick it up when I get closer. I don't think this one has quite the... long-term blast radius of the other one..."
<Ivan> "About time you learned something that doesn't make my head hurt when you use it."
-*- Frost looks at Bolt and raises an eyebrow. "What kind of /radius/ are we talking about?"
<Ivan> "Go ahead, we'll see how it works."
-*- Ivan puts the doodads back, and heads off to the camp.
-*- Frost follows
<AlekseiVasiliev> (at the start of the next scene) Aleksei concentrates for a moment, and gazes skywards, letting the light of the sun settle on his counternance; he is now radiating an air of natural authority, as if he is obviously someone who is in charge, specifically in charge of you. (Authority-Radiating Stance - anyone with MDV > 5 is under unnatural Illusion effect that Aleksei is someone with authority over them, 2W to resist)
<RobinStamer> (3 Feburary 2153 09:55); The party slowly approaches the camp on foot (anyone trying to sneak up there?)
-*- Frost turns on MOE, Invisible mutation
<RobinStamer> (Wait, if their MDV is 6+ they're under the illusion effect?)
<AlekseiVasiliev> RobinStamer: wrong arrow, sorry
<AlekseiVasiliev> less than :)
<RobinStamer> Frost: DexStealth then
-*- AlekseiVasiliev thinks for a moment, remembering the radscorpians, and crouches down, running his fingers along the soil for a moment; when he stands, there's not much of a difference to your eyes... (Friendship with Animals Approach, natural animals don't percieve Aleksei as an immediate threat or target unless he acts against them, and he can communicate as if they shared a common language although they don't get more intelligent)
-*- Ivan glances at Aleksei uncertainly for a moment, then shakes his head and establishes that he's in charge. 
-*- Frost turns Invisible, while still growing her claws in order to face a possible conflict - she does her best to time each step in time with those of her companions, so that even the sound of her movements is concealed
<RobinStamer> S2
<RobinStamer> (Actually, S3)
<Frost> !e 10 DexStealth (contested rolls get -2 External Penalty due to Invisibility)
<SwampLing> Frost: 2 [0, 3, 3, 2, 4, 5, 4, 1, 4, 2] DexStealth (contested rolls get -2 External Penalty due to Invisibility)
<Frost> (S3 means I can get a BP instead of motes?)
<RobinStamer> (Yes)
<Frost> (I'll take the BP)
<RobinStamer> !e 5 -2s
<SwampLing> RobinStamer: 1 [5, 1, 5, 8, 0]
<RobinStamer> As the group approaches, a scout up in a tree yells out, alerting the camp to their arrival.
-*- AlekseiVasiliev continues to walk confidently towards the camp, as befitting someone who is totally allowed to be there
<AlekseiVasiliev> !e 8 perception + socialise - do I reckon that was an 'everyone attack the intruders' alert or a 'greet the possibly-suspicious guests' alert?
<SwampLing> AlekseiVasiliev: 6 [8, 6, 9, 5, 9, 4, 0, 8] perception + socialise - do I reckon that was an 'everyone attack the intruders' alert or a 'greet the possibly-suspicious guests' alert?
-*- Ivan moves at the front of the group, perfectly confident in his ability to take on everyone in this camp by himself and not bothering to conceal it. 
-*- Ivan is seemingly unarmed as usual, though.
<RobinStamer> The camp greets the group with a squadron of rad-scorpion riders, who stand guard just beyond the threshold.  You can't spot the giant radscorpion from before... but you do spot some kind of humanoid... thing.  It crouches as it walks, it's shins nearly standing as tall as Ivan, knuckles linked with razor sharp claws drag on the ground as it moves, armored scales cover it from head to toe.
<RobinStamer> <AW> "So the settlers who survived are bold enough to walk into my camp?  Entertain me with your lewd delusions."
-*- Frost takes advantage of her dissimulation to observe the group and Angry Wolf especially, trying to assert their capabilities, equipment, possible mutations/powers, and anything of interest in the case of negociation or combat
<RobinStamer> S2
<RobinStamer> AlekseiVasiliev: the latter BTW
<AlekseiVasiliev> "I hear you have some problems with a group of people led by one Koslov. We also have some problems with that person. We were wondering if we could come to a mutually beneficial solution, rather than tripping over each other when it came to the fight."
<Frost> !e 12 PerAw +2m (Sight gets +2 success and doubles the total number of successes)
<SwampLing> Frost: 3 [6, 4, 3, 1, 6, 4, 7, 3, 2, 4, 8, 9] PerAw +2m (Sight gets +2 success and doubles the total number of successes)
<RobinStamer> Frost: looks like they're bog-standard ghouls, just riding rad-scorpions and have had a few lifetimes of combat training, their eyes betray age beyond youth.
<RobinStamer> <AW> "Ha!  We will grind him to a dust, his little rift-toys are no threat to us, Coyote blesses us all!  We will crush you afterwards."
-*- Frost moves softly towards Ivan (as he is the main fighter besides her) and takes the risk to whisper in his ear, warning him that the ghouls are old and highly trained, though otherwise mundane
-*- Ivan stands there like a rock between the humanoid-thing and the rest of the group. He sizes up his possible opponent, looking at how he walks, how his stance is when he's not moving, and the condition he keeps his claws in. 
<RobinStamer> S1, S2
<Ivan> (Can I roll something like PerMelee (or PerMA) to figure out his approximate skill?)
<RobinStamer> (PerMA)
<Frost> !e 10 DexStealth +2m
<SwampLing> Frost: 8 [4, 1, 0, 5, 7, 5, 0, 7, 0, 5] DexStealth +2m
<Ivan> !e 6 PerMA
<SwampLing> Ivan: 7 [0, 4, 0, 4, 7, 0] PerMA
<AlekseiVasiliev> "We weren't really planning to be in the area afterwards, as it doesn't appear we're particularly welcome. But if there's anything you can share about his 'little rift-toys' that might help us aid you in grinding him to dust, we're all ears."
<RobinStamer> It doesn't look like his new body is designed to move as slowly as he was.  Nor was it meant to walk.  It was meant to take great leaps, yards becoming inches in a heartbeat.  His claws look likewise concerning, you doubt sharpening them at this point would do anything other than potentially dull them.
-*- Ivan nods slowly to himself, or perhaps at Frost's words. 
<RobinStamer> <AW> "The creatures from the Rifts have aligned themselves with him.  At one point he had as many as seventeen.  He only has three now."
-*- AlekseiVasiliev doesn't immdiately reply, but quietly encourages Angry Wolf to keep talking, looking interested and receptive
<RobinStamer> (Roll ManSoc)
<AlekseiVasiliev> !e 8 manip+soc
<SwampLing> AlekseiVasiliev: 1 [7, 1, 1, 6, 2, 4, 4, 2] manip+soc
-*- Frost looks beyond the threshold, trying to get a sense of what goes on inside the camp itself
<RobinStamer> <AW> "But talking is for the weak.  You may be strange, but you are fewer than before, and we are legion."
<RobinStamer> Frost: it's just a hunting camp.
<RobinStamer> You can hear bowstrings being drawn all around you, as the riders advance.
<AlekseiVasiliev> "Oh, and here I thought we had a common cause. Do your people like dying for no reason?" And with a quick apologetic glance to Ivan, he looks at the oncoming tribesmen. "We have no quarrel with you; we will take no pleasure in your deaths; this is your soil, and we intend to tread as lightly as possible on it. Do not waste your lives against us."
<AlekseiVasiliev> (Husband-seducing demon dance time :) )
<RobinStamer> S1
<AlekseiVasiliev> !e 14 HSDD tim!
<SwampLing> AlekseiVasiliev: 6 [4, 3, 5, 0, 4, 3, 2, 3, 5, 8, 3, 9, 9, 9] HSDD tim!
<RobinStamer> Mass confusion errupts in the camp, everyone knows that they should be fighting, and that they should not be fighting each other, but many try to attack Angry Wolf while others try to attack Alek's group (but not Alek himself), before even laying blows the scism confuses.  Angry Wolf roars in annoyance.
<RobinStamer> <AW> "Whatever blight you have brought on my camp, I swear you will feel the suffering ten-fold."  He stands on his back legs a bit more, as if getting ready to pounce, bringing his standing height to a fearsome seven yards.
<RobinStamer> !e 9 JB I guess?
<SwampLing> RobinStamer: 5 [0, 7, 6, 1, 4, 4, 0, 1, 5] JB I guess?
<AlekseiVasiliev> "The contradiction is within yourself," says Aleksei as he backs away slowly, consciously echoing the rhetoric the elders were using. "You are the one who has embraced violence here - if you renounced it, you would not have it turn on you thus." (And sticking up Majestic Radiant Presence, as we appear to be in combat)
<AlekseiVasiliev> !e 5 JB
<SwampLing> AlekseiVasiliev: 2 [3, 3, 2, 1, 0] JB
-*- Ivan moves into a *lower* position instead, a great golden blade shimmering into existence in a ground-scraping position.
<RobinStamer> S1
-*- Frost frowns and flexes her muscle, while turning slowly to get the perfect angle for her first attack once the hostility begin - she is not going to give him another chance to ruin her day. Now is REVENGE TIME.
<Ivan> !e 7 1s
<SwampLing> Ivan: 4 [4, 2, 3, 2, 5, 8, 0]
<AlekseiVasiliev> The mark of the Zenith begins to glow on Aleksei's forehead as he finishes his speech (Majestic Radiant Presence took him to caste-mark level in peripheral)
<RobinStamer> S1 (Frost)
<Frost> !e 7
<SwampLing> Frost: 6 [4, 9, 0, 2, 9, 8, 8]
<RobinStamer> (... and Bolt isn't doing anything?)
<RobinStamer> (0: Frost; 1: AW; 2: Ivan; 4: AlekseiVasiliev)
<Bolt> (Sorry, people are bothering me. >_>)
<Frost> (I am invisible and have not been detected so far? Do I get the benefits of a surprise attack?)
-*- Bolt kicks her godcannon off her back and starts to move backwards, holding it up as she can down by her hips. 
<RobinStamer> (Frost: yes)
<Bolt> !e 7 JB
<SwampLing> Bolt: 5 [1, 9, 0, 8, 8, 6, 1] JB
<RobinStamer> !e 1 Bolt's stunt
<SwampLing> RobinStamer: 0 [2] Bolt's stunt
<RobinStamer> (0: Frost; 1: AW, Bolt; 2: Ivan; 4: AlekseiVasiliev)
-*- Frost treads swiftly, passes behind the Lunar, and with mercury-like fluidity increases her size and increases the sharpness of her talons, pouncing in the same move on the back of her opponent - hoping to slit his throat in a single swift move.
<RobinStamer> S2
<Frost> (reflexive Shapechange action, 3 motes to get Large 1 + Lethal attack 2)
<Frost> !e 16 DexMA +4 DexEx motes, 3m on Applied Force Technique (HTC-alike)
<SwampLing> Frost: 2 [6, 6, 3, 5, 2, 8, 5, 6, 4, 8, 4, 3, 3, 5, 6, 1] DexMA +4 DexEx motes, 3m on Applied Force Technique (HTC-alike)
<RobinStamer> (DV inapplicable, normally: 6; Soak: 20B/18L/0A -- Hardness: 4B/4L/0A)
<Frost> !e 18 (Attack successes doubled, 5m on StrEx)
<SwampLing> Frost: 10 [8, 8, 6, 2, 7, 0, 8, 8, 9, 2, 8, 6, 3, 2, 4, 2, 4, 9] (Attack successes doubled, 5m on StrEx)
<RobinStamer> (That's post soak?)
<Frost> (no dammit)
<Frost> (doing it again)
<RobinStamer> (Also, you forgot the L tag, unless you can double-count 10s on damage...)
<Ivan> (Looks like ping is happening.)
<Frost> !e 1L min damage after soak, /not/ spending motes on Strength Ex then
<SwampLing> Frost: 1 [9] min damage after soak, /not/ spending motes on Strength Ex then
<RobinStamer> (Somewhat interestingly, a real Deathclaw has higher soak)
<RobinStamer> (+3B/1L though)
<Frost> (Applied Force Technique knocks target back [Strength] yard, meaning 5, in a direction of my choice)
<RobinStamer> (k)
<Frost> (this direction is, uh, towards the camp)
<Frost> (does not make a lot of sense with my Stunt, but we'll say Frost pulls him back and pushes him inside the camp)
<RobinStamer> <AW> "Well, there's more of you all of the sudden.  The wind wounds me worse child."
<RobinStamer> (Assuming speed 5)
<RobinStamer> (1: AW, Bolt; 2: Ivan; 4: AlekseiVasiliev; 5: Frost)
-*- Bolt checks over her shoulder for a gap to reverse into, this is no fight for a sniper rifle. With the butt against her hips the rifle sways as she walks, but she can hold it just steady enough to squeeze the trigger and inject thunder into this confrontation, aiming right between AW's eyes. 
<RobinStamer> S2
<Bolt> !e 14
<SwampLing> Bolt: 5 [1, 0, 0, 4, 5, 2, 1, 1, 2, 7, 6, 4, 2, 4]
<Bolt> (Speed 6.)
<RobinStamer> (miss)
<Frost> (my Speed was 5 yes)
<Bolt> (And generally tryin to walk out of melee range, if we're not surrounded on all sides.)
<RobinStamer> Angry Wolf swats at Frost as if she were a fly.
<RobinStamer> !e 14 vs Frost, Poison tainted.
<SwampLing> RobinStamer: 7 [1, 7, 4, 9, 6, 0, 6, 6, 4, 5, 4, 5, 8, 0] vs Frost, Poison tainted.
<Frost> "Dammit! How are you /this/ tough? I should have slit your throat with this one! No matter - without your poison, you're not nearly as threatening!" she says while dodging out of the way, putting her uncanny speed and invisibility both to her advantage.
<RobinStamer> <AW> "Guess again child."
<RobinStamer> S1
<Frost> (PDV 7, Soak 20B/19L/10A, Hardness 8/8/8, -2 External penalty to others' attacks due to invisibility)
<RobinStamer> (You have to take an action to reapply invisibility; they always break when you attack)
<RobinStamer> (It's one of the anti-lethality rules people forget about)
<Frost> (in which case forget the penalty, the rest should work fine; I spend 2m on a DexEx to raise my PDV to 8)
<RobinStamer> Eitherway, PDV 7 means he misses
<RobinStamer> (2: Ivan; 4: AlekseiVasiliev; 5: Frost; 6: AW; 7: Bolt)
-*- Ivan dashes across the ground, golden sword kicking up a cloud of dust as he goes. He passes Angry Wolf, and With a blinding flash of essence, the blade moves faster than ever before, rising up to feint at his enemy's face and then darting down to strike at his legs instead. Spinning around as he grinds to a halt, the blade swings around to strike at the head. 
<Ivan> (Let's do this! 1st melee 10 and 5, hungry tiger on both, speed 3)
<RobinStamer> S2
<Ivan> !e 24 First attack
<SwampLing> Ivan: 12 [6, 5, 2, 1, 8, 2, 3, 7, 0, 3, 0, 4, 5, 5, 3, 6, 5, 3, 9, 3, 7, 8, 9, 0] First attack
<Ivan> !e 16 second attack
<SwampLing> Ivan: 12 [5, 0, 8, 2, 6, 0, 7, 9, 8, 7, 5, 3, 0, 5, 7, 3] second attack
<Ivan> (DV 6/5 right?)
<RobinStamer> (Yes)
<Ivan> !e 11L first damage
<SwampLing> Ivan: 3 [7, 5, 1, 1, 4, 2, 0, 3, 9, 1, 1] first damage
<Ivan> !e 13L Second damage
<SwampLing> Ivan: 6 [8, 5, 9, 9, 6, 5, 3, 5, 9, 9, 7, 3, 5] Second damage
<RobinStamer> (Jeebus)
<Ivan> (Base damage is 17L, and attack sux doubling)
<RobinStamer> He howls out in pain.
<RobinStamer> <AW> "This.  Is.  Not.  Hurting.  Me.  Child."
<Ivan> (Well, excess sux, you know what I mean)
<RobinStamer> (Yeah)
<RobinStamer> (I know what HTT does)
<RobinStamer> (4: AlekseiVasiliev; 5: Frost; 6: AW; 7: Bolt, Ivan)
-*- AlekseiVasiliev steps calmly to one side of the fighting, and addresses the confused warriors again. "Should brother turn on brother? Should there be discord amongst you? Surely, no, you should look to the madness in your midst - the one driven wild by Coyote's touch, who drives you to this evil - and pull together to restrain him, for the good of all your brethren. Hear the lies and contradictions that he says, and subdue him!" (Fury-Inciting Pr
<Ivan> (Speed 3, that was)
<AlekseiVasiliev> !e 9 cha+perf
<SwampLing> AlekseiVasiliev: 9 [9, 0, 1, 0, 4, 8, 0, 7, 5] cha+perf
<RobinStamer> (4: AlekseiVasiliev; 5: Frost, Ivan; 6: AW; 7: Bolt)
<RobinStamer> (Fury-Inciting Pr...)
-*- AlekseiVasiliev begins to glow ever brighter with the brilliance of the noonday sun (gone coronal), which he hopes simply underscores his point
<RobinStamer> (You cut off on your first message)
-*- Ivan stands ready for more, blazing with a golden light. "Really, old-timer? I must hurt you more next, then. Hey Frost, let's not have this one run away. You grab'im and I'll tag 'im."
<AlekseiVasiliev> (Fury-Inciting Presence - War charm, cha+perf assembles everyone in the vicinity who fails to resist into a military unit under my command)
<RobinStamer> Most of his forces join you.
<RobinStamer> (5: Frost; 6: AW; 7: Bolt, Ivan; 9: AlekseiVasiliev)
<Frost> "Grab and Tag is cool. I love to play. Owl-and-mouse is my favorite game," Frost says as she grows larger, to the size of a rhinoceros, bulging muscles covered in white feathers, and howls a disturbing sound, chilling the bones of all who hear them - lashing out right after with her claws.
<Frost> (manifesting the rest of my MOE mutations: Large 2, Disturbing Wail, the rest of Natural Weapon; spending 5m on a DexEx, and 3m on HTT-alike)
<RobinStamer> S2
<Frost> !e 16 DexMA
<SwampLing> Frost: 2 [6, 2, 2, 6, 2, 3, 8, 5, 2, 6, 3, 2, 4, 5, 8, 2] DexMA
<RobinStamer> (... that misses)
<Ivan> (Hmm. I was gonna wait until Frost had succeeded to do my thing, so I guess I'd guard until tick 6)
<Ivan> (presumably on tick 5 I don't yet know how it plays out)
<RobinStamer> (Hold on, I'm calculating his wound penalties)
<Frost> (that was Speed 6 btw, as a clinch)
<Frost> (also HTT does nothing on Clinch, I am stupid. I wouldn't have activated it)
<Ivan> (That wouldn't hit even with a -4 wound penalty, though :( )
<RobinStamer> (Yeah, it's his action though)
<Ivan> (Sure. And mine, I think, since I was guarding on tick 5)
<RobinStamer> (6: AW, Ivan; 7: Bolt; 9: AlekseiVasiliev; 11: Frost)
<Ivan> (Go ahead and resolve first, though)
<RobinStamer> A swirling nimbus of silver light begins to surround his claws as they being to look sharper.  The few wounds he did take seem to close up.
<RobinStamer> (Speed 4)
<Ivan> (No attacks or anything?)
<RobinStamer> (Nope)
<RobinStamer> (Simple Charm)
-*- Ivan really lays into Angry Wolf now, building on the success of his previous attacks. With a feint toward its legs for distraction, he leaps high, coming down between the monster's shoulderblades and attempting to slit its throat. 
<Ivan> (Let's say one attack, speed 5, htt)
<Frost> "...yeah, the throat things doesn't really seem to work," Frost calls out from the other side of the monster.
<RobinStamer> S2
<Ivan> !e 16: You gotta use a bigger dagger
<SwampLing> Ivan: 0 [4] 16: You gotta use a bigger dagger
<Ivan> !e 16 As above
<SwampLing> Ivan: 10 [7, 9, 4, 5, 0, 6, 1, 5, 4, 7, 0, 8, 7, 8, 1, 1] As above
<RobinStamer> (PDV 7, DDV 6, soak as before)
<Ivan> !e 5L damage
<SwampLing> Ivan: 1 [6, 1, 8, 5, 1] damage
<Ivan> "Ya, seems like it. Fucker's not so slow on his feet as I thought. Why don't you try that again?"
-*- Ivan backflips down, into a ready position. 
<RobinStamer> <AW> "I am as invincible as the earth!  You think that burning her in an inferno would kill her?  She lives on, and so do I!"
<RobinStamer> (7: Bolt; 9: AlekseiVasiliev; 10: AW, 11: Ivan, Frost)
-*- Bolt continues to back away, hopefully there's a rock or a tree to hop into, if not bolt will prone on the ground and aim in. The crosshairs align perfectly with the mammoth lunars heart and it doesn't take Bolt a split second to pull the trigger.
<RobinStamer> S2
<Bolt> !e 14
<SwampLing> Bolt: 9 [7, 3, 3, 6, 9, 0, 9, 7, 6, 2, 6, 7, 9, 9]
<RobinStamer> (PDV 7, DDV 6 Soak: 20B/18L/0A -- Hardness: 4B/4L/0A)
<Bolt> !e 3L
<SwampLing> Bolt: 2 [7, 6, 8]
<Bolt> (Speed 6.)
<RobinStamer> A wound opens up, he doesn't seem overly bothered by it.
<RobinStamer> (9: AlekseiVasiliev; 10: AW, 11: Ivan, Frost; 13: Bolt)
<AlekseiVasiliev> "Frost - Ivan - wait for the distraction I'm about to arrange..." Aleksei calls, and then he turns to the warriors again, moving closer to them and speaking in slightly lowered tones such as not to totally give the game away. "Together we will prevail - on my mark, you will shoot at his eyes, and my companions will pounce."
<RobinStamer> S1
<AlekseiVasiliev> !e 8 Cha + War co-ord attack Frost + Ivan (not mechanically including any troops in case of low successes)
<SwampLing> AlekseiVasiliev: 1 [4, 6, 5, 5, 5, 2, 8, 6] Cha + War co-ord attack Frost + Ivan (not mechanically including any troops in case of low successes)
<RobinStamer> (Good foresight there)
<RobinStamer> (10: AW, 11: Ivan, Frost; 13: Bolt; 14: AlekseiVasiliev [Co-ord attack tick])
<RobinStamer> Angry Wolf grins as much as his reptilian face allows him, charge-pouncing Ivan.
<Ivan> (How many attacks incoming and anything fancy on them?)
<RobinStamer> !e 19 vs Ivan, just the ever persistant poison
<SwampLing> RobinStamer: 11 [8, 3, 6, 8, 2, 9, 2, 0, 9, 3, 8, 0, 2, 1, 2, 1, 7, 9, 2] vs Ivan, just the ever persistant poison
-*- Ivan moves. Presumably. There wasn't much to be seen, but now he's rolling out behind AW, between his massive legs.
<Ivan> (PD)
<RobinStamer> (11: Ivan, Frost; 13: Bolt; 14: AlekseiVasiliev [Co-ord attack tick]; 15: AW)
<RobinStamer> (Suggestion: aim.)
<Frost> (you aim, I clinch, you strike)
<Ivan> (You aim for two ticks first. Let's optimize. :P)
<Frost> (oh wait no we must all do on the same turn for coord, fuggedabadit)
<Ivan> (Nah, we don't have to, there's an extra dude helping me there I think?)
<RobinStamer> (It's three ticks away)
<Frost> (so, I also aim and wait for the Co-ord attack)
<RobinStamer> (Does anyone do anything other than aim?)
<Ivan> (Well, unless you grab him the tick before he'll still have full DV)
-*- Ivan draws his body up into a tightly wound spiral, muscles straining before the inevitable destructive release seconds from now. 
<Frost> (So I aim for 2 ticks, then Clinch-attack on Tick 13)
<Ivan> (And I'll aim for 3 ticks, then coord-attack with that other guy on tick 14)
<Frost> "Oh no. No you don't." Frost snarls in answer to Angry Wolf's last boast. "Don't you dare compare yourself to me! I am not a murderer! I am not a xenophobic, petty tyrant! I am! NOTHING! LIKE! YOU!" She charges at Angry Wolf like a mack truck in motion, shoving him to the ground with all her strength
<RobinStamer> (13: Frost+2; 14: Ivan+3, Bolt+1, AlekseiVasiliev [Co-ord attack tick]; 15: AW)
<RobinStamer> (What?  He didn't compare himself to you)
<Frost> (he said something about a bonfire)
<RobinStamer> (He said he was as enduring as Earth.)
<Frost> (aaaaah wait)
<RobinStamer> (I'll give you an extra minute for a stunt)
<Frost> (it's because he reffered to the Earth as "her" and as the local female Lunar I thought he meant me)
<RobinStamer> (Because you totally lack a titsbot right now)
-*- Frost "The earth?" Frost snorts. "You are just a petty, xenophobic tyrant! You are not blessed! You are cursed with hubris and insanity! And we are taking you DOWN!" she cries out as she shoves into him, pushing him to the ground with all her strength like two titans wrestling
<RobinStamer> S2
<Frost> !e 21 DexMA +4m from DexEx, 1wp to Channel Valor for +3, Speed 6)
<SwampLing> Frost: 12 [7, 3, 5, 5, 9, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 0, 0, 0, 9, 6, 4, 4, 1, 9, 8] DexMA +4m from DexEx, 1wp to Channel Valor for +3, Speed 6)
<RobinStamer> (How the hell do you have a base DexMA of 14?)
<Frost> (it's a Clinch, so no damage is done)
<Frost> (did I made a mistake? Dex 4 + Ma 5 + Spec 1 + 4m on DexEx +2 from Stunt +2 from Aiming +3 from Virtue = 21)
<RobinStamer> (Ah, stunt and aiming)
<RobinStamer> (Alright)
<RobinStamer> !e 11 counter roll!  (He's so fucked)
<SwampLing> RobinStamer: 5 [8, 3, 5, 0, 5, 8, 2, 9, 5, 6, 6] counter roll! (He's so fucked)
<RobinStamer> (14: Ivan+3, Bolt+1, AlekseiVasiliev [Co-ord attack tick]; 19: AW+Frost)
<RobinStamer> (... and now the Co-ord attack bonus is pointless, wee!)
<Frost> (...yeah. That wasn't well though-out.)
-*- Ivan leaps up as Frost's attack brings his opponent barreling forwards. In a moment frozen in time he has time to see her rage-filled face come barreling down under him, and gives her a wink. Then his legs push down against one of the titans, he goes shooting up, and comes down like an avenging meteor, uncoiling his body just in time for the blade to whip at AW's head. 
-*- Ivan then twists it in the wound, for good measure.
<RobinStamer> S2
<Ivan> !e 21 f2 hungry tiger and 5m on each included
<SwampLing> Ivan: 12 [6, 6, 8, 5, 7, 0, 8, 2, 0, 8, 0, 8, 7, 5, 4, 1, 3, 4, 2] 1/2 hungry tiger and 5m on each included
<SwampLing> Ivan: 6 [2, 0, 4, 9, 8, 5, 2, 5, 9, 6, 5, 5, 2, 6, 3, 1, 9, 4] 2/2 hungry tiger and 5m on each included
<Ivan> (Now we're cooking with gas.)
<Ivan> !e 23L first
<SwampLing> Ivan: 6 [4, 0, 9, 2, 6, 3, 4, 3, 1, 5, 6, 5, 0, 0, 5, 1, 6, 5, 2, 0, 2, 2, 0] first
<RobinStamer> (He's boosting soak)
<Ivan> (Ah. What's the soak now?)
<Ivan> !e 3 I forgot the aim bonus for the first attack
<SwampLing> Ivan: 2 [9, 5, 7] I forgot the aim bonus for the first attack
<RobinStamer> A pale silvery disk appears on his forehead, marking him of the Full Moon Castes as a glowing gel coats his already toughened hide.
<RobinStamer> (Soak: +16B/16L/4A)
<Frost> (for a total of?)
<RobinStamer> (PDV 7, DDV 6 INAPPLICABLE Soak: 36B/34L/4A -- Hardness: 4B/4L/0A)
<Ivan> (Jeez. Damn lunars.)
<Ivan> !e 7L First
<SwampLing> Ivan: BOTCH [6, 3, 1, 4, 3, 1, 4] First
<Ivan> !4L Second
<Ivan> !e 4L Second
<SwampLing> Ivan: 2 [0, 4, 0, 4] Second
<RobinStamer> <AW> "YEEES.  Strugle children.  See the might of your elders."
<RobinStamer> (Still waiting for Bolt and Alek)
<RobinStamer> (PDV 7, DDV 6 INAPPLICABLE Soak: 32B/30L/4A -- Hardness: 4B/4L/0A)
<AlekseiVasiliev> "Since when have you respected your elders, Angry Wolf?" Aleksei retorts. "If you would heed their wisdom, and abandon your use of violence as a first resort, you would not have to lose this fight. As it is..." He indicates that there should be another volley.
-*- Bolt continues to aim in, her crosshairs tightening and tightening. The scope that came with this rifle even targets the hearts of a beast, any beast, so her aim is sitting in the dead center of her chest. A shot to the heart should bring this mammoth down, if you pull the engine from a car it stops, so it's time to drop this faulty machine.
<AlekseiVasiliev> !e 8 Cha + War let's do the attack co-ordination again
<SwampLing> AlekseiVasiliev: 2 [6, 6, 5, 6, 7, 4, 8, 2] Cha + War let's do the attack co-ordination again
<Ivan> (Oh, he used instant soak-boosting too?)
<RobinStamer> (Yeah, /both/ Lunar soak boosters are scene-long and reflexive)
<RobinStamer> (He used /one/ of them)
<RobinStamer> Bolt: S1
<Bolt> !e 12
<SwampLing> Bolt: 8 [9, 0, 6, 2, 6, 3, 0, 8, 1, 4, 4, 0]
-*- Ivan looks impressed, despite himself, uncoiling from the attack into readiness and flicking sweat from his brow. "Okay, Aleksei, get your new little army to work here. He's a tough fucker, but death by thousand cuts should do him in."
<Bolt> !e 3L Speed six.
<SwampLing> Bolt: 1 [0, 3, 3] Speed six.
<RobinStamer> (19: Ivan, AlekseiVasiliev [Co-ord attack tick], AW+Frost; 20: Bolt) (ACTION PILEUP)
-*- Ivan takes this methodically now, figuring that this guy probably has some extra-tough protection of the head anyway. He goes to work where he began all those seconds ago, slicing up some leg and serving it hot. 
<RobinStamer> Angry Wolf roars as he rips control from Frost
<RobinStamer> !e 18 StrMA (you can thank Frost for reminding me he can use Strength and Large here)
<SwampLing> RobinStamer: 13 [3, 9, 7, 8, 9, 3, 8, 2, 0, 4, 7, 7, 6, 0, 7, 8, 5, 3] StrMA (you can thank Frost for reminding RobinStamer he can use Strength and Large here)
<Ivan> !e 14 f2 Against DV 0 on this tick, at least
<SwampLing> Ivan: 9 [3, 2, 8, 9, 2, 8, 8, 0, 0, 6, 6, 7] 1/2 Against DV 0 on this tick, at least
<SwampLing> Ivan: 7 [2, 0, 9, 6, 4, 9, 4, 6, 4, 8, 0] 2/2 Against DV 0 on this tick, at least
<Ivan> !e 8L damage (total)
<SwampLing> Ivan: 2 [4, 6, 9, 6, 7, 6, 2, 1] damage (total)
<Ivan> (Stunt for mote regain purposes?)
<RobinStamer> S2
-*- Frost still howls madly, contracting her insane muscles and digging her talons into her prey's back to prevent him from using his own arms, while starting to bite him in the neck ineffectively out of nothing but rage and bloodlust
<RobinStamer> S2
<Ivan> (What are all of Aleksei's minions doing here? Ideally, we'd have them pinging this guy all the time)
<Frost> !e 17 StrMA (+3 from Large, +4 from StrEx)
<SwampLing> Frost: 8 [0, 1, 6, 8, 3, 5, 7, 4, 4, 5, 7, 7, 1, 5, 9, 8, 6] StrMA (+3 from Large, +4 from StrEx)
<RobinStamer> Ivan: he has hardness
<Ivan> RobinStamer: Hardness 4 is pretty trivial.
<Frost> Not for mortals it isn't :/
<Ivan> Yes it is, even they do more than 2 damage and can usually get a big enough dicepool to get a few sux.
<RobinStamer> (Oh right no DVs)
<RobinStamer> (20: Bolt; 24: Ivan, AlekseiVasiliev; 25: AW+Frost)
<Bolt> This thing won't fall, it's annoying, are all battles like this? Probably. Atricion, Botl supposes. Still all that one can do is try and try. So she cocks the bolt on her rifle and aims in, firing again.
<RobinStamer> S1
<Bolt> !e 13
<SwampLing> Bolt: 7 [5, 4, 3, 1, 0, 0, 8, 9, 6, 4, 8, 3, 2]
<Bolt> !e 3L
<SwampLing> Bolt: 0 [6, 4, 6]
<Bolt> (Speed 6.)
<RobinStamer> (24: Ivan, AlekseiVasiliev; 25: AW+Frost; 26: Bolt)
<Ivan> "ALEKSEI, snap out of it and get your guys to hack apart this guy. We need to kill him faster than he can regenerate."
-*- AlekseiVasiliev looks over the arrow-volleying troops - what else are they armed with?
<RobinStamer> <AW> yells out something in what is probably his native tongue.
-*- Ivan tries to shut him up with some well-placed blows to the forehead, circling him and looking for any weak point. 
<RobinStamer> S1
<Ivan> !e 15 f2
<SwampLing> Ivan: 9 [5, 5, 4, 3, 0, 0, 9, 0, 0, 3, 5, 4, 6] 1/2
<SwampLing> Ivan: 8 [3, 5, 1, 0, 0, 2, 9, 5, 9, 8, 7, 6] 2/2
<Ivan> !e 8L damage
<SwampLing> Ivan: 1 [2, 1, 6, 1, 4, 5, 7, 4] damage
<AlekseiVasiliev> "They are helping as best they can, Ivan," Aleksei replies. "You would not be making half the progress you are without their volleys. Would you rather they used some weapon they were less practiced with, and which put them closer to danger?"
<Ivan> (Do we seem to be killing him faster than he's regenerating?)
<Frost> "Claws don't kill you. Swords don't kill you. Arrows don't kill you. If you were a Rift-Walker, this would be one of the most fun fights I've ever had. But you're just a sad, hateful wretch who has killed before and will kill again, and we have to put you down like a rabbid animal. Do you think that makes me happy?"
<RobinStamer> (He's not passively regenerating actually, he did it as an action, IIRC when he activated CotSM)
<Ivan> (Ah, no regen gift. Well, that certainly helps.)
-*- AlekseiVasiliev addresses Angry Wolf again. "Would you force your own people to bring you down, like some mad and diseased animal? Quit this foolishness and surrender - if you have thought left to reason with - and do not shame your people further."
<Ivan> "Fine, keep them on it. Frost, just keep him down, nobody's really immortal."
<RobinStamer> <AW> "My purpose is noble.  You have torn the world assunder and then fled from the fire like insects.  I am her vengeance, and her will be done."
<AlekseiVasiliev> !e 9 cha+perf Heart-Compelling Method - Shame
<SwampLing> AlekseiVasiliev: 6 [5, 4, 1, 2, 3, 7, 0, 0, 8] cha+perf Heart-Compelling Method - Shame
<RobinStamer> (He WPs)
<RobinStamer> (25: AW+Frost; 26: Bolt; 29: AlekseiVasiliev, Ivan)
<RobinStamer> !e 18 CONTROL
<SwampLing> RobinStamer: 7 [6, 4, 4, 4, 8, 2, 7, 4, 4, 3, 0, 2, 7, 3, 0, 4, 2, 5] CONTROL
<Ivan> !e 8 PerMed is he in his -1s yet?
<SwampLing> Ivan: 5 [8, 9, 4, 2, 8, 2, 7, 7] PerMed is he in his -1s yet?
<Ivan> (Assuming I can tell reflexively)
<RobinStamer> Ivan: he's been in his -2s for the bulk of the fight, but the pain isn't bothering him somehow (LUNARS!)
<Frost> "Stay down! Why won't you stay! fucking! DOWN! This could end well! We are here in peace! We bring progress! Cooperation! And you are just yet another blood-mad warlord!" Frost lays into him with claws and teeth, trying to push him against one of the houses/teepees to block his movement while she takes control of the grapple
<RobinStamer> S1
<Frost> !e 16 StrMA (+3 from Large, +4 from StrEx)
<SwampLing> Frost: 8 [6, 6, 8, 7, 4, 0, 2, 4, 8, 3, 0, 1, 8, 5, 2, 2] StrMA (+3 from Large, +4 from StrEx)
<RobinStamer> !e 18 reroll
<SwampLing> RobinStamer: 11 [5, 5, 9, 8, 0, 7, 7, 7, 2, 6, 1, 1, 9, 4, 8, 2, 0, 4] reroll
<RobinStamer> (Yes, he has 3rd Str)
<Ivan> (He wasn't using another excellency before? o_O)
<RobinStamer> He lets out a roar as his remaining allies, and even some of his absconded ones, run up and grab onto him.  He manifests a large pair of raven wings and takes flight.
<Frost> (is he escaping the Clinch?)
<RobinStamer> Ivan: nope, Str 5 + Large 6 + MA 5 + assumed stunt 1 + spec 1
<RobinStamer> (Yes)
<Frost> (I'm gonna take chase after him on my action tick)
<Ivan> (Is he far off the ground already?)
<RobinStamer> (26: Bolt; 29: AlekseiVasiliev, Ivan; 31: AW [35 yards up], Frost)
-*- Bolt jumps to her feet as quickly as she can, tilting her gun up, she's got 500 yards worth of pot shots and she's going to take every last one of them. Aiming in and following his path upwards she pops a shot off as best she can.
<RobinStamer> S2
<Bolt> !e 14
<SwampLing> Bolt: 4 [6, 5, 5, 8, 5, 8, 1, 0, 6, 6, 6, 3, 5, 5]
<RobinStamer> (DDV: 6-1)
<Bolt> (Speed 6.)
<RobinStamer> (29: AlekseiVasiliev, Ivan; 31: AW [35 yards up], Frost; 32: Bolt)
<AlekseiVasiliev> "Frost," says Aleksei urgently, "can you carry Bolt, maybe Ivan? I know you can use those wings - you could take the fight to him..."
<Ivan> (Hang on, checking something)
<Bolt> "He's got a long way to go before I can't shoot at him, take someone that needs to be closer."
-*- Ivan sees his enemy retreat where he can't reach him. Luckily, he knows someone who can. He leaps up on Frost's back without stopping to ask permission. "Can you catch up to him?"
<Ivan> (Guarding for 1 tick, effectively)
<Ivan> (Ah, make that 2)
-*- Frost smirks. "We won't know until we try, right?" She immediately sprouts huge frost-covered wings, her large frame strong enough to bear Ivan without trouble or even slowing her down, and she leaps to the skies with all her might, taking chase after the escaping Lunar.
<Ivan> (Well, actually, I might as well use it on aim action)
-*- AlekseiVasiliev scans the remaining forces for the most confident-looking - and loyal - archers. "Will loading you down more slow you down?" he asks Frost.
<Frost> (lemme check)
<RobinStamer> (Yes, that's what's giving AW the -1)
<Frost> (StrAth+Large = 11, a normal human is 2, so I guess I could bear aloft up to 4 peeps + Ivan)
<Frost> (rms is that right?)
<RobinStamer> (Before pen, yeah)
<Frost> (that is what i do then)
<AlekseiVasiliev> !e 6 per + war to pick out the best troops
<SwampLing> AlekseiVasiliev: 3 [6, 0, 3, 5, 7, 1] per + war to pick out the best troops
<Ivan> "Don't fall now, Frost. Coming down there might hurt a bit."
<RobinStamer> (31: AW [35 yards up], Frost, Ivan+2; 32: Bolt; 34: AlekseiVasiliev)
<Frost> "Fall? Ah! I will carry you there if it the last thing I do! Watch and learn!" Frost says as she rises as fast as she can
<Frost> (how do I determine my flying speed?)
<RobinStamer> Angry Wolf goes up another 41 yards, opening somekind of large door in the sky.
<RobinStamer> Frost: ascension is normal movement + flight specific modifiers (you might have none) all divied by 2
<Ivan> (Dashing is recommended)
<Ivan> (I'm writing up my action contingent on this)
<Ivan> (Since knowing whether I can get there to hit him is good. :) )
<RobinStamer> (fair, exception allowed)
<Frost> (okay, we're not going anywhere)
<Frost> (my Dash Speed is Dex+6, which is 10, I have no modifiers, making it 5/tick)
<RobinStamer> AW escapes.  EoC.
<Ivan> (I can jump... 10+stunt. My reach is maybe 3 yards with my grand killstick.)
<Frost> (unless one of the forms in my never-defined Library has the Fast Flying mutation? We never wrote it down)
<Ivan> (So I can't get within about 16 of him at any point?)
<RobinStamer> (76 y vs 15 + x for a dash...)
<Ivan> (Oh well.)
<RobinStamer> The party has managed to collect 14 riders, 34 rad scorpions, 8 archers, and enough equipment for a war party thrice that size.
<Ivan> "Damn! Another one gets away."
<Frost> "Well crap." Frost says as she lands heavily. "That was awful. Just awful. I'm embarassed."
<Ivan> !e 5 What is that portal thingie
<SwampLing> Ivan: 2 [3, 6, 7, 7, 3] What is that portal thingie
-*- AlekseiVasiliev looks over his hastily converted contingent. "The trickster always flees and returns," he says, "but we will be vigilant. Now, I believe there is a reconciliation to be had - while I know the elders can be frustrating at times, and you may need to renegotiate your position, you know in your hearts that you cannot live long as a people divided."
<RobinStamer> Ivan: What pool is that?
<Ivan> RobinStamer: (AnyMentalStat) + Occult
<RobinStamer> (Do you have elsewhere charms?)
<Ivan> (Yes.)
<RobinStamer> He apparently went into the same state your weapon does.
-*- Bolt pulls her rifle off her shoulder and looks it over, "Hm... I think we need to get you some more power." She gives the barrel a pat before slinging it over her shoulder and rejoining the group.
<RobinStamer> Dragging half his forces with him
<Frost> "Yes. I am clearly not up to my own hype. Or at least my idea of myself."
-*- Ivan whistles. "Impressive escape method. Don't feel too bad. That place he went to is perfect for hiding."
-*- Frost stomps the ground to test her strength, and snarls. "Not enough."
<Ivan> "Yes, not enough. Letting him get away from you, that was bad. But once he had, that trick he used is very effective."
-*- AlekseiVasiliev attempts to run interference so that the riders concern themselves with Packing Stuff Up and Making Ready To Head Back To Where We Left The Nice Elder And Helper And Teepees rather than watching the party bickering session
<Ivan> "Work on keeping people down better, don't worry about the flying so much."
<AlekseiVasiliev> (and the archers, and the radscorpians, which he can still talk to as Friendship With Animals Approach is scenelength)
<Ivan> "I need to figure out how to get past that armor. My best attack only nicked him."
<Ivan> (Btw did that soak charm count as armor, as opposed to natural soak?)
<RobinStamer> (A bunch of his soak, even before that Charm did, also yes.  That specific Charm was the armored soak one)
<Ivan> "But, in the circumstances, well done everyone. We finally met something big enough that we had to work as a team, and we did it well."
<Frost> "He didn't actually hurt any of us, did he?"
<Ivan> "He tried, but you kept him from trying very much."
<Frost> "Ah ah. Yeah, I did that right at least. We put a hurt on him."
<Bolt> "We've at least showed him we're not something he can push over, and next time we'll be better. But I'm sure he will be too."
<Ivan> "Any guesses on how long until we meet him again?"
<Frost> "I don't know. What are we going to do with Alek's newly devoted followers, by the way? It is relevant."
<Frost> "I doubt Wolfie lets his people go away like this."
-*- Ivan sits down on the ground to relax, wiping off his sweat and letting his blade vanish. 
<Ivan> "Well, we can leave them to ask his forgiveness, take them with us, or leave them with someone else. Ideas?"
<AlekseiVasiliev> "We're taking them to our contacts with the other half of their tribe," Aleksei contributes.
<Frost> "I don't think forgiveness is in his vocabulary. Taking them to the rest of the tribe seems better."
<AlekseiVasiliev> "We might move them on from there if it doesn't work, but I feel we should at least attempt a reconciliation."
<Ivan> "Sure, let's try that."
<RobinStamer> (3 Febuary 2153 13:29); The group returns to Wind and Rain, towing their stolen troops.  Wind looks happy as they approach, Rain on the otherhand looks... well it isn't happy.
<RobinStamer> (This should be brief)
<AlekseiVasiliev> "I know that I have little knowledge of your people," Aleksei apologises in advance, "but I would ask that you do not judge these too harshly. We saw from afar that your newly extended lives had brought tension beyond what your ancestors have known. It seems likely that you will need to find some new acocmodation for those tensions."
<RobinStamer> <Wind> "They have already made their choice.  But I suppose I can try to trust them."
<RobinStamer> (... actually, 3BP)
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