[spirits] 1. Please post within 10 minutes if you’re posting dramatically.
2. There is no post order – but please keep it to 1 post for each of you to every 1 post of mine.
3. Once we go to combat:
– Declares – reverse order, 3 minutes, if you have questions please ask.
– Roll as quickly as possible when I say go – but PLEASE be patient for me while I keep tally of events.
– This is my first major combat scene and I’m terrified I’ll make a mistake.
– So. Yes. Patience.
5. Ask questions in chat – if I don’t see it, you may poke me in IMs.
6. PM me your applicable flaws. This includes stuff like nightmares and phobias and hatreds and compulsions. They may or may not come into play. Maybe I’m just nosy. =)
7. If there are any off-limits themes, imagery or events you do NOT want to see in a scene, PM ‘em to me now.
8. Have fun! We who are about to die salute you!
[Sticky Fingers] (*L* this is so not our first combat scene. :)
And: compulsion: petty theft. SHINY
Merit: Daredevil – gives her -1 diff on any dangerous roll, and she can ignore 1 botch on same rolls per scene.)
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[Sticky Fingers] (Oh and ixney on the reptiles. Heh.)
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[spirits] (puts the dragon away….)
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[spirits] There’s an overcast of clouds. It’s a Full Moon. It hangs close to the city skyline, swollen like the belly of a pregnant wolf, ready to burst at a moment’s notice, it’s bright yellow cadence illuminates the underbelly of clouds with a harsh glow as it’s sliding in and out of clouds like a shark cutting through the surface of the ocean, riding the waves…
It pulsates and calls to the beast so close to the surface. The Ahrouns will feel it, like a tick buzzing at their ears and flanks. Adrenalines boiling close to the fur and flesh as they itch for blood.
A pack hunt, minus a brother, leads the Fenrir Modi and his Gnawer ladies to an abandoned house on the Southside. A message filters down through the Barking Chain to Marni and Indira, asking for some help, a snippet of information, and a clue that may lead to activity that Indira has dealt with before.
The names – Boogaloo and Rattail echo on the fringes of spastic poodle howls. Someone’s looking for that curly haired Gnawer and wanting revenge.
[Sticky Fingers] She’d heard the barkings, the frenzied spazzes of poodles and that one chihuahua on their street that thinks he’s all that and a dog biscuit too. Boogaloo and Rattail… and their fallen alpha. Someone wants revenge.
Alpha dutifully told, she follows him now with Indira, an excitement thrumming under her skin as she smiles… eagerly.
She may be born under the dark moon, but she enjoys the fight as much as any Ahroun. A glance at her alpha for his lead, as they near the abandoned house… Want me to sneak around back? I’ve got my keys…
[Stands in Defiance] The full moon was always a difficult time for an Ahroun, but Max was hit harder than most. It had always been that way. From the time of his first change, every time Luna’s face waxed full, his body and his instincts took on a mind of their own. He was, in effect, a living embodiment of the most common werewolf stereotype. Once upon a time, he hadn’t been able to control this, and would spend a few days every month stuck in his war-form, prowling the penumbral shadows for something to vent his rage upon.
He had more self-control these days, but that didn’t mean that every time he glanced up at the sky, he felt a twinge of aggression try to force its way through his blood. His body wanted to change. Wanted to be something much more monstrous. But he kept it under control – for now. Still, the rest of the pack would know instinctively that something was different about the Modi. He needed this hunt more than anything, so perhaps it was a lucky thing that the timing proved so opportune.
They approached the abandoned house still wearing their birth forms, and then Marni offered up her skills as a scout. Instinct wanted to barge in snarling and tear apart anything that he found there. Lucky for them all, there was still enough thought in Max’s mind to counteract this. He glanced down at Marni and nodded. “Yeah, scope things out. We’ll figure out an attack plan once we know what we’re up against.”
[Going Down] Indira suspects before they arrive based on the nature of the sources of information that this has to do with street dealings: the way the Wyrm sneaks in and grabs hold and warps. Like Max, she is bursting with excitement, with the thrill of the hunt, but she’s trying to temper hers. She’s not here to seek Glory. She’s here to support Max, to protect Marni.
That will have to do for now.
So when Max tells Marni to go in and scout ahead, in spite of her urge to plunge forward, to hunt it down and rend, she holds back and gives Marni a nod. “Yeah. Be careful.”
[spirits] [Dex + stealth roll vs 6, let me know if she’s using any gifts to cloak herself]
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[spirits] (Side note, just tell me all actions in PMs in this chat window :) )
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[Sticky Fingers] She dimples into a grin for her packmates, nudging them each with a shoulder as she moves by before she reaches for the gift of her birth, pulling the blur around her as she moves toward the building – she peeks in windows where she can, and moves around toward the back door, her Lost Key Ring in her hand, just in case…
[First – Blur: Manipulation + stealth = 2+3=5 d8, each suxx adds 1 diff to perception rolls to see her. Then I’ll roll dex+stealth.]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 (Botch x 1 at target 8)
[spirits] [Max/Indira give me a alertness + Perception vs 7, please, Primal urge can be substituted for Alertness whichever is the higher score use.)
[Sticky Fingers] (haha. So much for blur. Sneaky marni? Dex+stealth)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 1, 5, 5, 9, 10 (Failure at target 6)
[Sticky Fingers] (…oh Marni. *LMAO*)
[spirits] Evil things!!!!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 9 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Stands in Defiance] [Per+PU]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 5, 6, 7, 10 (Success x 2 at target 7)
[Stands in Defiance] [Marni goes to the Ragabash fail corner.]
[spirits] [Marni give me a alertness + Perception vs 7, please, Primal urge can be substituted for Alertness whichever is the higher score use.]
[Sticky Fingers] [Can she at least SEE WHATS COMING?!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 6, 7 (Success x 1 at target 7)
[spirits] [Who shall we be making out the baby invitations to, guys? (grins)]
[Going Down] [Perception + Alertness]
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 8, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Stands in Defiance] It was a good plan in theory, really it was. Under normal circumstances, Marni could get herself into and out of the most astoundingly tricky situations… and somehow come out of it unscathed. Compared to her, to two Ahrouns were a bit less than subtle, so she scouted ahead, and they waited, keeping quietly to the shadows as they did so.
Max stared ahead, flexing his fingers and tightening them into fists compulsively.
[spirits] The house is old, built back in the early 80’s. Boards are nailed into the windows and the front door. Gratuitous graffiti covers every inch of the exterior walls, making it impossible to see the rundown color of the place.
There doesn’t look to be a way in, until Marni hits the back side of the house and finds one of the original doors still on it, which leads into the kitchen. Very few windows remain with glass panes – all of which are broken, if not boarded up.
Marni’s nose twitches as the sweet aroma of months and months of compiled feces and waste refuge waft just under her nose, making it a little hard to focus. Sounds like someone forgot to clean up after the party in the kitchen.
Max thrums with excitement, he doesn’t see much out of the ordinary, a scan of the street shows no one loitering about and there isn’t any decent access to other parts of the house without forcing your way in.
Indira – catches something! It is a shimmer, a flicker of black and red that catches the light along the eastern wall of the house. It scurries along on multiple legs a tail flickering behind it with a barbed tip before it vanishes one again into the shadows…
[spirits] (once again…)
[Going Down] “Oh shit!” Indira says, trying to keep the exclamation to Max as hushed as she can. And she points toward the eastern wall of the house, where she saw that shimmery thing, that thing that causes Rage to prickle along the back of her arms and neck.
“Think something’s gonna try to fuck us up in a second, Max.”
[Going Down] [Intelligence + Alertness]
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 9, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Sticky Fingers] (Is the door locked? or can she just go in..)
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[spirits] (locked)
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[Sticky Fingers] (Ok – wats the complexity of the lock on a scale of 1-5? Her keyring roll is:
Perception+repair diff 5+lock complexity (1-5) = 4+2 = 6 (reroll 10s)
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[Stands in Defiance] Oddly enough, it was Indira who caught the first sign of trouble, and her warning sent the hairs on the back of his neck prickling with a kind of… eagerness. His eyes shot toward the place where Indira pointed, but it was too late. Whatever had been there, he’d missed it. Still, the warning he sent out to Marni over the totem link was loud and clear.
Marni, Indira spotted something. Be careful. We’re coming.
A quick glance reassured him that no witnesses were about, so Max shifted to Hispo and ran toward the back of the house, where Marni had disappeared to. Having the pack separated in a situation like this made him nervous.
[Going Down] She squints into the darkness, toward the wall, and then adds, quickly, “I saw it, like…a couple weeks ago. They crawl into your chest an’ burst out, an’ there was a tentacle monster too.” Who knows what she’s talking about, other than some sort of vague horror out of a science fiction movie. Indira isn’t always the most articulate.
And, growling low in her throat, she shifts into Hispo and springs after her Alpha.
[spirits] 2
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[spirits] go ahead and roll
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[Sticky Fingers] She hears the warning, her nose wrinkled up as she’s distracted by the smells coming from the kitchen. Alright – it’s gross as hell back here – trying the door.
Perception+repair diff 5+lock complexity (1-5) = 4+2 = 6 (reroll 10s)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 10 (Failure at target 7) Re-rolls: 1
[Sticky Fingers] (FOR FUCKS SAKE.)
[Sticky Fingers] (REROLL. +1)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 8) Re-rolls: 1
[spirits] The ahrouns are shifting down into their war forms, making a quick dash for the back side of the house, a warning flickers along the pack link. Marni determined to get the door open, has difficulty with the rusted logs, she jingles the key a second time and hears the soft click of a turning bolt.
Hand pressed to the knob, the door starts to open with the gentlest of touches and swings wide open with a loud creak to rusted hinges. She has to squint her eyes against the smell that suddenly bombards her. The soft buzzing of wings sing to her ears as she can hear the flies dancing in the air several feet in front of the entrance way of the kitchen. She can barely make out the dark silhouettes of open cupboards and drawers. A turned over table and chairs – a hairy palm clung to the refrigerator door that’s been gnawed off at the elbow, fingers still clutched in a clawed death grip on the handle.
[Marni – WP check diff 7 against the smell]
[Sticky Fingers] (ew – STINKY)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 4, 8, 10 (Success x 1 at target 7)
[spirits] The Gnawer has resilience as she manages to keep the contents of her stomach and push back the bile that threatens to rise up inside her throat from her stomach with the atrocious scent.
[Sticky Fingers] She nearly recoils at the scent and sights that assault her. She swallows hard, twice, and tucks her keys away as she sinks to a crouch and studies the room. Brace yourselves for the smell…
[Stands in Defiance] The moment he joined Marni at the back door, Max twisted his face to the side, lips pulled back in disgust. The stench of the place was… nigh unbearable, especially in this form. For a moment there, he hung back, attempting to keep himself from vomiting up the last thing that he ate.
Gaia Fucking Christ! That’s the grossest shit I’ve ever smelled!
Still, he was determined to lead them into a fight, and if disgust had ever kept a Modi from battle, then the Fenrir wouldn’t have the reputation that they did. So he pushed forward, breathing through his mouth and squinting against the sting of the air against his eyes.
[Going Down] Indira, moments behind Max, almost gags when she catches wind of the smell that’s within: she hadn’t really taken Marni’s words seriously, at first. After all, how bad could a smell possibly be?
-That- bad, apparently. Her lips peel back, she shakes her head from side to side and a thin ribbon of drool emerges before she manages to quell the heaving of her stomach and continue padding after Max.
[spirits] [Willpower checks for Max and Indira diff 7 against the smell]
[Going Down]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 3, 5, 6, 6, 7 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Stands in Defiance] [WP!]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 (Botch x 1 at target 7)
[Stands in Defiance] [Oh fuck me]
[spirits] The stench is unbearable for the Get of Fenris. It is heightened to unspeakable levels, he can almost see the colored fumes that rise up form the corpses, the feces, the wasted food… it all clings to his nose, it makes his eyes water up, it clogs up the air passages in his lungs, and it makes his skin fur itch – like thousands of fleas were biting him all at once.
Whatever Max had for breakfast, lunch and dinner, from today and the day before, it will all come up at once in a huge steaming pile of doggy puke.
[Max is down 2 to all init rolls for the rest of the scene]
[Sticky Fingers] And they both lose their lunch… Marni shakes her head, and shifts into Hispo, and takes the lead. Chuckling across their link. Told you.
Leave it to the iron belly’d Raggie to keep her lunch.
[Going Down] And oh, it’s bad. She doesn’t suffer quite as badly as Max does, but she spends a good minute or two retching up what she ate for dinner. If a Hispo ever managed to look shamefaced…
Grimacing and trying to work the vile taste off of her tongue, she sidesteps the pile and follows Marni.
[Stands in Defiance] It is an easy enough thing to underestimate the power of a bad smell, but for Max, it proved rather more difficult to get past than he’d thought. The Modi lead the way into the house, but once the full force of that stench really hit him, he suddenly stopped and squeezed his eyes shut… and suddenly heaved as he vomited all over the floor.
He wasn’t used to this. Likely, his Gnawer pack-mates had more experience dealing with odious aromas, and it showed. Indira lost her lunch right around the same time her alpha did, but she recovered more quickly. Max, on the other hand, clearly had to force himself to continue through strength of will. If he hadn’t been itching for a fight and stubborn as all get-up, the whole thing may very well have proved too much for him.
[spirits] [Marni/Indira Intelligence + investigation vs 6, if ya looking around]
[Sticky Fingers] [do I see ANYTHING?]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 2, 2, 6, 7 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Stands in Defiance] [Frenzy check for embarrassed Modi!]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 3, 6, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 4)
[Stands in Defiance] [What a surprise.]
[Stands in Defiance] [Oh the base is 4 – nevermind, I’m an idiot]
[Going Down] [Intelligence + Primal Urge]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 6, 6, 8, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[spirits] (Indira’s making you all look back, just saying.)
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[spirits] The Girls leave their beloved Alpha to wander ahead and investigate the kitchen. They can see the severed clawed hand still clinging to the handle on the refrigerator door, which is slightly pulled ajar. Several feet ahead of them, going further into the kitchen, nails clicks over cruddy linoleum tiles, a sticky wetness clings to the pads of their paws – like walking through over the sticky floors of a movie theater after a show.
Indira is the first to notice the bodies slumped across the floor. Two large and heavy objects, each outlined in a human-like shape, bodies covered in a sickly coat of mottled greenish-white and dark red and neon blue. Their lupine heads twisted at odds angles as if their necks have been snapped.
Marni can hear a soft scuffling noise. Something moves on the counter, a tin can falls onto the floor, rolling across it towards her feet. She can hear the squeak of a rat scurry out the door, the pull of shadows as something blinks in and out of the corner of her eyes. They were not alone.
Max – is not having a good night. The smell of his own vomit hovers in clogs his nose, it nags at him in the back of his mind. That he – Alpha of the Spitfire – is doing nothing but shaking and vomiting like some mewling whelp of a newborn pup that can barely keep his legs upright. The embarrassment fills him quickly, bringing him to anger. What must this look like to the Girls, who don’t seem to give a shit as they continue on without him. He can feel his rage boil up – the beast rattling close to the cage as Luna calls to him angrily, urging him to loosen his fury and give in to the sensation to simply rend.shit.apart.
[Sticky Fingers] She may not look back at Max, but she can feel it – feel the rage spike, and she waits till he comes up next to her again. She presses her shoulder against his, and huffs a breath across his fur – which says two things.
She understands.
Easy, Max.
Easy.
The she caches the pull of shadows, something not quite seen, and furrows her brow. They are not alone – and it’s not just the bodies on the floor, covered in neon…
[spirits] Evil things!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 3, 3, 5, 7, 8 (Success x 1 at target 7)
[Going Down] Aw, shit…
And here Indira wanders close to investigate the bodies. She moves with caution, her heavy paws ready to jerk her to the side at any moment, claws prepared to dig into the linoleum and propel her away. Because she remembers the chest bursters and how suddenly those creatures moved, their quick little legs.
Looks like…it killed some Garou. Maybe Spirals, or maybe one of ours, I can’t tell.
[spirits] Indira is close to the bodies. They do in fact resemble Garou. A pair of massive war forms that have been slain. A large gaping cavity is hollowed in each of their torsos. Flesh and fur flayed back to expose the jagged broken points of ribs, ropes and robes of chewed intestines decorate the bodies and floor like Christmas garland. You can see right into the cavity and make out the details of the spine, there was no meat or organs left. One of them is missing an arm. Markings, like glyphs can be made out on their arms and back, running like swirling green tattoos… [int + occult, diff 6, to identify]
Something ate its way out of the pair.
The darkness surrounding the interior of the house is bane and a blessing. It hides the gore that has happened upon this place, and yet provides the perfect shroud of protection from their enemy. When the Alpha has finally composed himself… it is up to him to decide on what to do.
[Stands in Defiance] There is that… prickle. They’d all feel it. They’ve all felt it before. Embarrassment and frustration surged through the Modi, set his hackles up and his eyes glowing a bright-hot yellow.
They went on ahead… and he… snapped. Fangs clicked together on the air. Almost, it was much worse than that.
Stay together!
He got himself under control and joined them in the kitchen, padding after the pair and looking around as he began to get something resembling his bearings back (though it was clear the stench of the place was still affecting him.) Marni caught his attention as she bumped against him, and the alpha looked at her and… calmed, just slightly. There was a brief touch of his nose to the ruff of her neck (and oh, had a bone gnawer ever smelled so good), then he moved around to inspect the bodies and the damage around them.
He growled. Something not right, here.
[spirits] (ropes and ropes)
[Stands in Defiance] [Int+Occult]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 2, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Sticky Fingers] (intel+occ)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 5, 5, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[spirits] To those that succeed in identifying the markings… wyrm glyphs. Spirals. Fosterns. Electric Boogaloo the 666th, and SSHeieells’ewhhwlll the forsaken.
[Stands in Defiance] They’re spirals. Either that or sacrificed by them. Those names familiar to either of you?
[Going Down] I ain’t familiar, no.
[Sticky Fingers] The ones me and Connor fought – one was named Boogaloo, I thought – but we killed him.. a pause, and a tip of her head. packmates? Whatever did the in is likely still here. We should find it before it finds us…
[spirits] (free posting until I interject)
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[spirits] (waiting to see what you all will do.)
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[Stands in Defiance] Well let’s find it then.
A shame there wasn’t someone with them with better sensing abilities. They would have to make due with what they had, and the only thing left to do, in that case, was to inspect every corner of this wretchedly disgusting place.
But stay together. I don’t want anything to catch one of us alone.
So Max set about searching the kitchen, and if he found nothing there, he’d move out to the other rooms of the lower level of the house, attempting as best he could to look, listen, and (Gaia forbid) scent anything that might give away the position of their enemy.
[Sticky Fingers] She simply huffs her agreement, and moves with Max, searching out the lower levels… eyes peeled for any sight, ears for any sound…
[Going Down] Indira, too, moves about in search of whatever burst from the chests of the two Spirals. She wonders if perhaps this is what brought the creature in the bar into being, if this was where it started, but chances are that the bodies aren’t old enough. That was weeks ago.
She sniffs into corners, noses about, and tries to stay prepared in case they have to fight.
[spirits] [Perception + alertness rolls for everyone, diff 6]
[Stands in Defiance] [Per+Alert]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 5, 6, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[spirits] evil things!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 7) [WP]
[Sticky Fingers] (per+alert)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Going Down] [Perc + Alertness]
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 6, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[spirits] [Marni – roll me Str + Brawl to resist a grapple. Surprise!! Hold for init rolls please]
[Sticky Fingers] Str++his+brawl=7
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[spirits] [Thingie Grapple on Marni]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5)
[spirits] Reroll 10s
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 7, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 5)
[spirits] The Spitfires go searching other rooms, they stay together – fanning out just to leave enough space as they pass down a hallway, which leads them to the back bedrooms. The smell seems to grow stronger the further they go. Indira and Max will notice crawling black and red critters scaling the walls as they blink into existence towards the Ahrouns.
Marni will notice them as well, but not in time to act as one of the red and black face huggers decides it wants to give her a kiss. Literally materializing in front of her as she feels it long talons and a tail wrap around her face and muzzle. The slickness gooey aftertaste strikes her tongue as an appendage tries to force its way down her throat from under its belly.
[inti rolls]
[Stands in Defiance] [+6]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 6
[Going Down] [Initiative, +9]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[spirits] Face huggers! 6
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 8
[Sticky Fingers] A startled growl and grossed out muffled cry as she’s attacked by the face hugger, skittering backwards and trying to shake it free… getitOFF and she shakes her head violently in attempt to do exactly that…
inits! +8
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 7
[spirits] Order:
Indira 19
Marni 14
Face huggers 14
Max 12
post declares.
[Stands in Defiance] [Declare: Reflexive – Activate RP
1a: Rip facehugger off of Marni
1b: Bite it!
1c: Bite the next closest one
R1: Bite..er… the next closest one after that
[spirits] Facehugger 1 – Oral fixation on Marni
Facehugger 2 – Leaping at Max
FaceHugger 3 – Leaping at Indira
Facehugger 4 – Max again!
Facehugger 5 – Indira! Such a perty muzzle.
[Sticky Fingers] Declare – 2 rage, split first action
1a: bite attached face hugger
1b: bite again!
1R: RARBITEDESTROYCLOSEST ONES
2R: AGAIN!
[Going Down] 1a: Pull face hugger off of Marni
1b: Bite!
1R: Bite the next one!
[Going Down] [Dex + Brawl, -2 split action.]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 4, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 4 at target 5)
[Going Down] [Damage, +2 from bite, +4]
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[spirits] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 7, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Going Down] [1b: Dex + Brawl, -3 split action.]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 3, 3, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Going Down] [Damage, +2 from bite, +2]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 5, 6, 6, 10, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[spirits] Soak
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 4 (Failure at target 6)
[spirits] [Facehugger on Marni’s face is off and dead]
[Sticky Fingers] [changing to biting closest face hugger – number 2!]
Bite 1a: Dex+brawl+hispo = 3+2+2= 7-2 for split =5 d5
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 5, 7 (Failure at target 5)
[Sticky Fingers] Oh for the love of… 1b – I SAID BITE!
Bite 1b: Dex+brawl+hispo = 3+2+2= 7-3 for split =4 d5
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 3, 3, 6, 7 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Sticky Fingers] Dam: Str+hispo+bite = 2+3+2+ (suxx-1) = 7 + 1
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 3, 3, 4, 6, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[spirits] Soak 2
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 1, 7 (Failure at target 6)
[spirits] Facehugger 2 – change target to Marni – Grapple. Need resist roll please.
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 5) Re-rolls: 1
[Sticky Fingers] [RESIST!!!! str+hispo+brawl]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 4, 6, 8, 8 (Failure at target 6)
[spirits] [Score!!] damage from thing rammed down throat…
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 7 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[spirits] Marni, take a lethal, need a stamina check please.
[Sticky Fingers] (stamina!)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[spirits] Lethal soaked… weird burning sensation in throat…
Facehugger 3 – on Indira – Grapple. Need resist roll please.
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 6 at target 5)
[spirits] Facehugger 4 – on Max – Grapple. Need resist roll please.
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 4, 4, 6, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 5)
[Stands in Defiance] [Str+Brawl+Totem]
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[spirits] Facehugger 5 – change to Max – pricking with tail. +1 diff
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 2, 5, 6, 7, 7, 9 (Success x 3 at target 7)
[spirits] Damage
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 2, 5, 10 (Failure at target 6)
[spirits] Max Soak
[spirits] (nevermind – Max resisted 4, it didn’t grapple, waiting on indira)
[Going Down] [str + brawl]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[spirits] [Indira] damage from thing rammed down throat…
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 7, 7 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[spirits] will need a stamina/soak check please.
[Going Down] [Soak]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 4, 5, 7, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[spirits] Nice! Max go. Free to change targets, Marni and Indira have their muzzles wrapped as the facehuggers try to get fresh.
[Stands in Defiance] [First split, changing target to hugger on marni. Str+Brawl -3 to grapple and pull it off]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 4, 4, 5, 6, 8, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[spirits] resist
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Stands in Defiance] [Second split, biting! Dex+Brawl -4, bite specialization]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 (Success x 1 at target 5) Re-rolls: 1
[Stands in Defiance] [Damage: Str+Totem+2(hispo bite)]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 5, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[spirits] Soak on 2
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[spirits] Facehugger 2 is not dead… and clings to Marni for another french kiss attempt!
[Stands in Defiance] [Third split, biting the same one again – Dex+Brawl -5]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 2, 4, 6, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 5) Re-rolls: 1
[Stands in Defiance] [Str+Totem+2+2]
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[spirits] Soak 2
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 4, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[spirits] Facehugger 2 is dead and off Marni’s face.
Rage actions:
Indira give me another Resist Grapple roll.
[Going Down] [Str + Brawl]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[spirits] Facehugger 3 resist
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 3, 6, 6, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Going Down] Rage action: clawing at facehugger, +1 diff for changing actions. Dex + Brawl.
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 3 at target 7)
[Going Down] Damage, +3
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 8, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[spirits] soak 3
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[spirits] Marni Rage action
[Sticky Fingers] rage 1: Bite: Dex+brawl+hispo = 3+2+2= 7 d5
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 3, 7, 8, 8 (Success x 3 at target 5)
[Sticky Fingers] Dam: Str+hispo+bite = 2+3+2+ (suxx-1) = 7 +2
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 7 at target 6)
[spirits] facehugger 3 is dead and off marni’s face. Max go
[spirits] Marni killed facehugger 4
[Stands in Defiance] [Rage bite on Facehugger 5 – Dex+brawl]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 7 (Success x 1 at target 5)
[Stands in Defiance] [Str+Totem+2]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[spirits] The Spitfires come under assault by the leaping creatures that want to hug their faces and makes sweet, sweet loving to their muzzles to get’em pregnant. It is clear these things only have one intention, one purpose, and all it takes is a warm, living and breathing body to do that… willing or not.
The shimmery red and black exoskeletons are fragile barriers under the teeth and claws of the Garou. Marni and Indira are eventually freed from their prisons, but the bitter burning aftertaste of whatever appendage had tried to force its way down their throats, is … disgusting. The face huggers lie dead around the trio.
[Stands in Defiance] It wasn’t the kind of battle he might have asked for, given the choice. These things were small and fast, and they didn’t attack so much as… cling, and attempt to do their dirty work on whatever living incubator they could find. Max snapped and tore at the things, jaws crunching down on exoskeleton. One of them tried to latch itself around him, but failed. His packmates were not so lucky, but in the end, the attack was fended off successfully, with no one too much the worse for wear.
But… was that it?
The Modi perked his ears and listened for signs of further skuttling.
We need to check out the rest of the house. Something burst out of those two bodies. Whatever it was… might still be here.
[Sticky Fingers] Her throat burns, and she hacks and coughs in attempt to get rid of the aftertaste, even as she stares at the little nasty buggers that tried to shove their way down her throat. She’s eaten some disgusting things, but DUDE. Gross.
She kicks one out of her way, and then nods, and follows her alpha through to search the rest of the house…
[Going Down] This is far more terrifying than the encounter she had with them before. In that battle, she was a huge, powerful Crinos, doing battle with a creature’s tentacles, hanging on to them and climbing up like some sort of swashbuckler. Here, they’re in the dark, in a house that reeks and the taste of bile is in the back of her throat still, and something is trying to cling to her face.
She gags once more, shoots a dirty look toward the crumpled body of the facehugger, and then turns to follow Max.
[spirits] The Garou continue down the hall. It isn’t very long, 6 feet in length, can fit one large hispo form at a time, so it forces them to a single file. There is a closed door to farthest point of Max down the end of the hall, and a second door to the right, after that a busted in door to what used to be a bathroom.
They can hear a loud grating sound – like sharp claws drawn across porcelain and tile. A heavy creature coils in the bathroom, crouched low on its haunches like it was ready to pounce. The first Garou to poke their head around the corner will see it.
The creatures gleams in the moonlight that pours through the open window. White light glistens off the sleek black skin of its bulbous head, the upper portion of the muzzle and skull formed into a smooth, helmet like shape. There are no eyes that can be seen. Ears are stretched and elongated at the ends like antennae. The lower half of the jaw bore the resemblance of a wolf’s lower muzzle as did the rest of the body… limbs were longer, body thinner, the spine rode up and out through the skin in small wave of bony spikes all the way down to the exosketal black tail that whips and coils in the air around the creature that used to be a black spiral dancer.
[Stands in Defiance] Whatever one could say about Max in this moment… he was anything but afraid. Angry, yes. Sickened by the overwhelming stench of the place. Quite probably eager to get the hell out into the fresh air. But he stood strong at the head of his pack, as any Fenrir would during a battle, and there would be no retreat. Not until he was certain that every last monster in this house was dead.
So they continued their search.
And oh… what they found. Max was in front, so he was the one to get the first glimpse. And when he saw it, he snarled a challenge.
Come and get me you fucker!
And then he leaped in to attack.
[Sticky Fingers] Max dives into the bathroom, and Marni pushes forward to get a glimpse, and to stand at the other side of the door – the bathroom isn’t large, and she gives Max the chance to get in there and destroy – ready to leap in and help at a moment’s notice.. lips curled into a snarl…
[Going Down] Indira, who watched these creatures kill humans inside a bar, who saw the dead face of a Gnawer Kin it attacked, has plenty of reason to be angry. They got away from her the first time, and she’d planned to pursue them with Joey, and yet they hadn’t gone after them yet. This is an opportunity to make sure they don’t get out and harm anyone else.
Needless to say, when Max charges in she’s hot on his heels, a deep snarl issuing from somewhere in the pit of her chest.
[spirits] (initi rolls, keep the small space in mind)
[Stands in Defiance] [+6]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Sticky Fingers] (+8)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 7
[spirits] 7
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 3
[Going Down] 9
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 5
[spirits] Order:
Max
Marni
Indira
Boogaloo666
declare in reverse order
Boogaloo666
split actions:
1a bite on Max
1b bite on Marni
1c tail whip on Indira
r1 Bite on Max
[Going Down] 1a: Biting Boogaloo.
1b: Bite!
1R: Bite!
[Sticky Fingers] [Hey! No biting me! I bite you first! 1 rage
1a: bite
1b: bite
1R: bite!]
[Stands in Defiance] [Declare: (Claiming Totem benefits again)
1: Called Shot Body Tackle through the wall to the lawn outside. Using WP!
R1: Bite
R2: Bite
R3: Bite!]
[Stands in Defiance] [Dex+Brawl +2 diff]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 9) [WP]
[Stands in Defiance] [Dex+Ath to stay on feet]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[spirits]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 7, 7 (Failure at target 6)
[spirits] Max bulldozes it through the wall of the bathroom and outside, pinning it beneath him. Giving the Girls free reign to attack it.
[Stands in Defiance] [Damage – Str+1+totem – bashing]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 3, 6, 7, 7, 7, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[spirits] soak
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 7 (Failure at target 6)
[spirits] (no change in attacks give ya free movement to get to it)
to Going Down, Stands in Defiance, Sticky Fingers
[Sticky Fingers] And they go flying….
1a – change to jump out after them
1b – bite!
Bite 1b: Dex+brawl+hispo = 3+2+2= 7-3 for split =4 d5
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 1, 7, 9 (Success x 1 at target 5) [WP]
[Sticky Fingers] Dam: Str+hispo+bite = 2+3+2+ (suxx-1) = 7
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 5, 7, 7, 7 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Sticky Fingers] (PM? whhat pm. hahaha.
1a – bite!
Bite 1a: Dex+brawl+hispo = 3+2+2= 7-2 for split =5 d5
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 6, 10 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Sticky Fingers] Dam: Str+hispo+bite = 2+3+2+ (suxx-1) = 7 +1
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[spirits] soak 1
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 5, 6, 6, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[spirits] soak 2
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Going Down] [Dex + Brawl, -2 split action.]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 5, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 7 at target 5)
[Going Down] [Damage! +2 hispo bite, +7, 16 total. splitting damage rolls because Damon says the roller is broken.]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Going Down]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 2, 5, 5, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[spirits] soak
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 5, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Going Down] [1b: Dex + Brawl, -3 split action.]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10 (Success x 4 at target 5)
[Going Down] [Damage, +2 bite, +4, 12 total.]
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 8 at target 6)
[spirits] soak
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 5, 5, 5, 7, 9 (Failure at target 6)
[spirits] Dead
[spirits] Like a smart wolf, Max uses his head for something other than fucking or killing. He runs at the altered Spiral – literally throwing himself with such force that it drives the Fenrir and the creature tumbling through the wall of the bathroom.
Tile and porcelain, wood and plaster, splinter like rotted shards as they tumble out. Max pinning the creatures beneath his heavy frame as he allows his pack mates to tear and render the thing lifeless before it has a chance to get out an attack. It writhes and shrills out loudly in its death throes as blood and gore spill out onto the grass, the thing twitching and falls dead.
[Stands in Defiance] Now this… this was more fucking like it.
A night of continued frustration had a way of building tension in an already very tense Ahroun, and what better way to use that tension than to release it all in one tremendous push against the enemy. Max did exactly that, hurtling into the creature like some kind of furry juggernaut and busting through the wall to send them both landing on the ground outside. The force of the blow through the wall, combined with Max’s body weight landing atop the thing set its very bones crunching.
And his packmates were just behind him, leaping through the new hole he’d made in the house and ravaging the monster until it was barely more than a torn-apart mess on the ground. In elation, Max lifted his muzzle and howled.
And then… he took a long, deep breath of the fresh air, as if it was the most wonderful thing he’d ever smelled.
[Sticky Fingers] The thing is dead, and Marni steps back, shaking her head violently once or twice, before taking in deep breaths of the fresh night air – a welcome relief from what was inside.
Max howls, and Marni moves along his side, nudging him, marking him with her scent, pride in a battle well fought. She then moves to Indira’s side, and does the same thing, pleased with her packmate and how well she rent the thing limb from limb.
Then, she’s moving into the house again. running a sweep to make sure it’s empty now! then we should.. burn it ya think?
[Going Down] This is a howl of victory, of elation, and it is worlds different than the sound she made for Curata and Joss almost two months ago, worlds different from the sound she made for the dead people and her dead Kin in the bar weeks ago. This time, no one was hurt – that she knows of, of course, but she isn’t going to speculate on those.
The sound harmonizes with Max’s beautifully, and when its notes die away, Indira noses first Marni, then the corpse for a moment. Pads toward the door and peers out into the hall, just to check and make sure that they didn’t miss anything. That they were as thorough as they could possibly be.
I can cleanse if you guys want to burn it.
[spirits] There are howls of elation. Of joy! They had taken the thing down… Marni turns to to move back into the house, hopping through the hole created by Max in the bathroom. The moment she steps out into the hall… she greeted by the other altered Spiral that had been hiding, watching. It greets the Gnawer in the hall with a lowered jaw that hisses at her like a cat as it towers over her in its crinos form.
[Sticky Fingers] ANOTHER ONE!
It hisses at her like a cat, and she wastes no time – she attacks. Instantly, and viciously…
[spirits] (initi again, you will need to spend an action to reach it, Max)
[Going Down] 9
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 3
[Sticky Fingers] (+8!)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Stands in Defiance] Stay together until we know the place is clean!
The order was barked out, but too late. The second monster dropped down just as Marni returned to the house, and Max snarled angrily as he turned and lunged back in to help her.
[+6]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 5
[spirits] 7
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[spirits] Marni 18
Skehew-fucknut 16
indira 12
Max 11
declare
[Stands in Defiance] [Declare:
1a: close distance
1b: leap over Marni
1c: Bite Skehew
R1: Bite him again]
[Going Down] 1a: Bite!
1b: Bite!
1R: Bite!
[Stands in Defiance] [Oh, there will be WP on that split bite!]
[spirits] split actions:
1a bite on Marni
1b bite on Marni
1c tail whip on Max
r1 Bite on Max
[Sticky Fingers] [RAAAAAAAAARSMASH!]
1a: bite!
1b: bite!
1c: bite! +WP
[Sticky Fingers] Bite 1a: Dex+brawl+hispo = 3+2+2= 7-3 for split =4 d5
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 2, 3, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Sticky Fingers] Dam: Str+hispo+bite = 2+3+2+ (suxx-1) = 7 + 1
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 5, 6, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[spirits] soak
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Sticky Fingers] Bite 1b: Dex+brawl+hispo = 3+2+2= 7-4 for split =3 d5
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 2, 3, 5 (Success x 1 at target 5)
[Sticky Fingers] Dam: Str+hispo+bite = 2+3+2+ (suxx-1) = 7
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[spirits] Soak
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Sticky Fingers] Bite 1c: Dex+brawl+hispo = 3+2+2= 7-5 for split =2 d5
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 4, 9 (Success x 2 at target 5) [WP]
[Sticky Fingers] Dam: Str+hispo+bite = 2+3+2+ (suxx-1) = 7 + 1
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[spirits] Soak
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 5, 6, 6, 7 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[spirits] 1a bite on Marni 9 -3 split
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 5)
[spirits] Bite damage
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 5, 9 (Failure at target 6)
[spirits] 1b Bite on Marni 9 -4
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 3, 3, 8, 10 (Success x 1 at target 5)
[spirits] Damage
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 7, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Sticky Fingers] Soak: sta+hispo = 2+3 = 5
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 7, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[spirits] Marni take 3 agg.
Tail on Max 9 -5
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 2, 6, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6) [WP]
[spirits] Damage on Max
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 4, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Stands in Defiance] [Soak!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[spirits] 1 agg to Max
[Going Down] [1a: Dex + Brawl, -2 for split action.]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 5, 5, 6, 10 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Going Down] [Damage, +2 for bite, +2]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 7, 7, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[spirits] Soak
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Going Down] [1b: Dex + Brawl, -3 for split action.]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 (Success x 1 at target 5)
[Going Down] [Damage, +2 for bite, +1]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[spirits] Soak
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 7 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Stands in Defiance] [1a – closing distance, 1b – leaping over anyone in the way, 1c – Dex+Brawl -5]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 2, 3, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 5) [WP]
[Stands in Defiance] [Str+totem+2+2]
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[spirits] Soak
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[spirits] dead
[spirits] (recapping, no more combat after this, possibly scene gloss over to what they find)
[Stands in Defiance] [Woohoo!]
[spirits] The second altered Spiral moves in for the kill on Marni, hissing as the crinos shape towers over her and lashes forward with a snapping of salivating jaws to sink and tear teeth into the soft bits of fur at her shoulder and back, ripping out chunks. Blood foams along its muzzle. Marni fights back as best she can, barely managing to nip at its flanks. The tight corridor provides little room for movement, keeping everyone nearly confined to the hallway or the bathroom.
Indira tries manages to dent more of its hide, coming away with clumps of fur and skin from its flanks as she tears into it. The creature continues to hold strong until Max gets into the fray, caught in the middle of combat by its swinging tail that batters against the Fenrir’s face in a sharp slap, drawing a line of blood down the left side of Max’s cheek and eye, cutting him deeply.
With a snap of jaws they managed to bring the second and last altered Spiral down beneath them. After some time, the Spitfires stand there, bloodied, wounded, with Marni being the worst for damage and just grin triumphantly. Further investigations will bring no more creatures. They find in one of the rooms, several of those opened egg-shaped pods that Indira remembers from the nightclub. Seven in all that are opened….
and no more face huggers.
[Sticky Fingers] It has seriously not been Marni’s night. Maybe it’s the moon, maybe she’s tired, maybe she… has absolutely no excuse at all – and she doesn’t come away unscathed. When it finally falls and she pushes to stand again, her shoulder and back are bleeding profusely and there’s the sharp sheen of pain in her dark eyes.
She kicks the dead thing one more time, before they clear the house, a little show of ire from the normally smiling and happy Gnawer. She’s tapped out on rage, and only shifts down to her birth skin when they are certain that there are no more left. Then, the little grin returns. It’s not the first time she’ been hurt. She winks at Indira, and chuckles.
“Ouch. Think Ray’ll kiss and make it better?”
Leave it to Marni to decide she needs a cuddle right about now.
[Stands in Defiance] The second time around, they weren’t so lucky. Marni took a wound before either of her packmates could join her, but they were there in short order. Indira squeezed into the narrow hallway and rended the creature’s flesh with a couple of tearing bites, and Max, unable to get past them any other way, rocketed off the floor, leaving deep claw-marks in the wood as he caught the once-spiral by the neck and tore a great, gaping wound into it. Both of them came crashing to the ground, Max now sporting a gash on his face from where the beast’s tail had sliced into him.
And it was over.
He stood to his feet and shook blood from his fur, and this time, he did not howl their victory to the skies. First, he jumped immediately to inspect the state of his packmates. Once he had reassured himself that Marni was alright (hurt, but alright), he snarled and snapped his jaws so that they clipped the air just next to her face.
When I say stay together, do it! Never assume it’s over until we can be sure. Complacency will get you killed.
And he wasn’t going to lose another pack-mate. Not now. Connor’s disappearance had affected him more deeply than he may have let on, and it showed now, for a moment… in the anger and worry sparking in his eyes. The Modi loomed over the Ragabash, hackles raised and tail high in a dominant posture.
Then… gradually he relaxed, and bent down to lick the side of her face once. (I’m glad you’re okay.)
Then he turned to Indira and… inexplicably, licked her too. Because he was glad they were both okay, and there with him to share this.
[Stands in Defiance] [Er… pretend that was spoken.]
[Sticky Fingers] She doesn’t flinch away from the teeth as they snap in front of her face – she deserves the reprimand, and knows it. She instead, bares her throat for him, a clear sign of submission, and apology, too.
and then he licks her, and she sticks her tongue out at him.
All is well.
[Going Down] Indira looks upon her Tribemate with concern when she notices the deep gash in Marni’s shoulder and the bits of fur and flesh scattered on the ground. She’s nearly drained of Rage, and has the presence of mind to sniff at the wound for corruption, nuzzling Marni when it’s clear there isn’t any. Max, too, has his show of affection returned before the tall Gnawer assumes her birth form once more.
She grins at Marni, happy to see her at least keeping up her good spirits in spite of the wounds. “Bet he’d at leas’ keep your mind off it,” Indira says, before she sticks her hands into the pockets of her cargo pants and contemplates how she’s going to make a Cleansing work here.
[Stands in Defiance] He didn’t shift back until they’d inspected the rest of the house. His own rage, too, had been drained, and Max refused to let his guard down until they could be sure of no more surprises. It took awhile, but eventually it was clear that nothing remained for them to slaughter.
Only then did he shift back to his birth form and give the okay for Indira to perform the cleansing rite. When that, too, was over, the house, and everything inside of it, would make for one very large burnt offering. And that… was only fitting.
[Stands in Defiance] [Also, once again, cause it only bears repeating – THANK YOU SHANN! You are the bomb-diggity!]
[Going Down] [Wits + Rites to cleanse! Spending WP.]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 2, 3, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6) [WP]
[Sticky Fingers] (Thanks Shann! :) you’re awesome!)
[spirits] (Marni and Indira … (grins) I get to see you guys in… a week)
[Going Down] ((Thanks so much for running this, Paws, it was awesome.))
[Sticky Fingers] (….wait, what? CRAP.)
[Sticky Fingers] (HEY! Marni has REsist Toxin! :) will that help?!)
[Stands in Defiance] [Oh noes! Ominous!]
[Going Down] ((…D:
[spirits] (Max gonna make a proud papa.)
[Going Down] ((All right, if we are wrapped I am gonna head out. Thanks again for running, Paws, and thank you guys for the scene, I’m glad we got another pack scene in. Good night!))
[Sticky Fingers] ((Night!))
[Stands in Defiance] [Ditto on all counts! Night everyone!]