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BATTLE MECHANICS

This is a turn-based fight. PCs will take their turn, the boss will react, and then the boss will take their turn. Players will react and take their turn, and so on and so forth.

You may take up to six actions in one turn, including dodge. You may attack up to 6 times if you're not dodging, and you can attack even if you are dodging or fail to dodge. If a swing delivers more than one attack (throwing multiple projectiles at the same time) then it's counted as one "action".

With every strike/blow/attack, .roll 1d6 twice (or !2d6. MAKE SURE TO DO IT THIS WAY BECAUSE NADEKO IS A TRAITOR. The first dice determines whether your attack succeeds or fails, with 1-3 as fail and 4-6 as success. The second dice determines how much damage you inflict on the boss. Please include both numbers with your comment on your turn.

Roll for every strike, not for every turn. If your character decides to shoot 4 times in succession, roll a 2d6 for every bullet.

Green text can be dodged, but red text is guaranteed damage. Dodge by using a 1d6, 1-3 as fail and 4-6 as success.

UNIT ABILITY MECHANICS ARE HERE, but please note: this is not the end-all be-all of how these powers can be used, and these are not the only powers that can be used in a fight, these are just the ones that affect rolls specifically. The session's runner always has the final say, so ask if you want to do something cool but you don't think it's street legal. (It probably is.)

Note: characters that are heavily injured may acquire corruptions. There will be heavy maiming.

EFFECTS LIST
Black substance, both sticky and acidic
A sticky substance that seems to cling to everything it touches, and is impossible to pull off. It melts through flesh, but the more it melts, the more it seems to become absorbed. Sufficient absorption of this substance in any capacity (skin absorption, digestion) will result in corruptions that may be permanent. May be removed by severing the affected area, or by bringing the affected area to the deadzone.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[It's on PURE INSTINCT that he's able to warp to another one of the arena swords as his face is clawed and his chest is ripped open. He all but collapses in a heap when his hand reaches the hilt, and it takes a Feint to stab him through the chest for him.

Does this deter him?

STILL NO

and yet it really should have? He tries to fire off another volley of crossbow bolts, but the blood in his eyes makes it hard to aim.

hit 3s across the board folks]

[ There's a kind of grim triumph in her, even as she feels the clinging tarry blood starting to burn through her outer layer of bark-skin. She launches herself backwards off the beast in a tidy flip, just about to stick the landing with a smile for Cardinal... when those few remaining claws secure themselves around her ankle before she's fully clear.

Carrying herself with Nightingale's wind doesn't do nearly as much when she's being literally dragged along by something else's gravity; she feels her shoulder crunch horribly as she hits the concrete.

But she screams in fury rather than pain when she sees what she's arrived to. ]

Griffin! [ heat of the moment; default name. sorry son boy. ]

I'm coming!

[ She skates low along the ground, carried again by wind and petals, though her right arm hangs limp at the shoulder, and (POSSIBLY MORE, TBD). But she doesn't need aim to cut off the demons' sight (to the extent that they still count as one creature, threatening to absorb him).

Then she uses the force of the wind itself to launch itself into the fray, naginata whirling the petals around her as it moves.

(( defense, generally: 4
blinding: n/a?
whirlwind strike: 5/5 ]

[Cardinal hits the pavement of the roof just in time to see Amaranth go over the edge. They tear themself from the ground and fling themself across the distance to the edge. They seem the corpse dissolve, and warp strike to their solid blade, snatching it up in time to gust the petals upward.

Cardinal vaults upward, hitting the top of the draft leaping to bring their sword piercing down into the nearest monster. 6/6 ]

[ Griffin's shots don't do anything—but fortunately, they don't have to.

Amaranth's and Cardinal's blows strike true: they can feel the weight of demon mass cut, and see as the four bodies completely poof.

Though you didn't come out of it uninjured, you defeated the demon. Still, you can see the dark smoke still in the ambient air, heavy like fog. It is, perhaps, less than comforting.

But take your moment of victory. ]

[Nero wipes the blood from his face, still breathing heavily... there's a flicker of gold in his eyes, but he focuses first on drawing a summoning circle in the dirt with his blood. Muttering,]

My honored brethren,
We come together
To unite as one
Against those that are damned.
We show no mercy,
For we have none.

[It's now as powerful as other banishment spells, but it manages to suck up some amount of smoke. Once done, he destroys the circle with a kick of his boots, and slips his wireless headphones back on, fiddling with them to make sure they weren't broken in the fight.]

[Amaranth holds back, wincing only slightly from the pain in her shoulder as Nero works; careful not to interrupt the ritual. ]

Well.

[ Her intonation is flat, and her voice is a bit rough after that fall. There's still a faint trickle of blood from one ear. ]

That was fun.

[ Her acid-eaten shirt chooses this moment to lose any remaining structural integrity, falling away from her chest. The trousers don't look like they're faring much better.

At least Juniper Tree is still up, but soon she'll be.............. bark naked. ]

Looks like that theory was right.

[He's... turning slightly pink and looking AWAY from her, bark be damned, staring is improper.]

Better gear up for more.

About them merging? I'll admit it would have been more convenient to be wrong, all told.

[ a pause, wincing ]

My shoulder is, to put it mildly, fucked.
And I've got to get this stuff off me—it's only a matter of time before it eats through the bark faster than I can regenerate it.

[ One small upside: the tarry blood is mostly just on her arms now, the rest shedding with her disintegrating clothes. So much for dignity; at least she's always liked her figure. ]

Edited 2020-07-22 20:44 (UTC)

[Cardinal looks basically fine except for a bit of blood coming from their ear. They stab themself deftly to get their hearing back, trotting up to the both of them.

They would love to appreciate the sight, but...]

Let's get that junk off of you quick, Amaranth.

[He glances over just enough to peek at Amaranth's arms,]

It didn't like fire much, but I'm not too sure 'bout trying to burn it off you...

[ she grimaces ] Trees don't like fire much either.

...But at least the flames wouldn't be hell-touched. You might as well; I'm going to need a healer before I can fight again regardless.

[ tutting ] Honestly, I can't believe I've got to come out of this looking like the only one to take a beating.
—You're welcome for the save, by the way. [ a touch of a smile ]

[Frrrowns]

Then let's get you to Persy first, at least he can numb you.

You and Griffin's clothes. You managed that last one just fine.

[Amaranth annihilating that thing with a broken shoulder ///]

Let's head to the dorms. I don't want to run into another one with you in this shape.

Edited 2020-07-22 22:46 (UTC)

[ a brief smile for Cardinal: diving off a building to strike the final blow without missing a beat? /// ]

Fire first.

[ her lips tighten ]

...It's not that I don't think Persephone can handle it. But I'm not sure this should wait.

[Looks... vaguely uncomfortable between them because frankly he feels like HE DID NOTHING and that's not a fun blow to his pride, but says nothing and revs Red Queen back to full power.

The fuel injected into the blade lights up with hot, red flames and he holds it steady, level with Amaranth's arm.]

If you're sure. Whenever you're ready...

[ It's okay, Nero, there was a spanner in the works. Her name is whispered in legends.... Nadeko..... ]

Give me a moment.

[ For lack of a better option, she grows one of the camellia seeds that failed to sprout in the demon earlier, then tears off a branch. ]

Alright.

[ Then she carefully ties her hair back, and clenches the branch between her teeth. ]

This is gonna suck... Cardinal, get some water on standby.

[Nero sucks in a deep breath and... once she's ready, presses the flame of his blade to the most heavily tarred part of her arm. It catches fire immediately, producing a truly terrible smell as acid and tree bark alike bun.

Dear god let this work.]

Mmmmnnnnnnfff—

[ Even braced for it, the fire hurts like a lash wielded by Hesiesh himself, and she bites down harder, teeth making grooves in the branch.
Please let it be over swiftly. ]

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