IMPOCALYPSE

[idolpro]

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.

Comments

Re: FRIDAY - 6PM, NEAR HONMACHI SAKURA PARK

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ having finally BUDDY CHAINED EVERYONE--i THINK THAT MEANS SHE HAS "3 MOVES" for attacking. SO SHE DO, WITH HER HEART WEAPON
4 hit, 1+6+2+5+1+3+4+5 = 27 damage
2 <-miss
1 <-miss ]

BOSS REACTION

[idolpro]

[ From above, the creature looks much the same: completely bones, bones that are heads, and also spines and ribs, and also wings. It is, as Nemesis so aptly put it, a Dragon-Eyes Dragon Dragon.

It also seems to be fairly conscious of Blue Eyes, at least a couple of heads turning to look—one of them is distracted enough to be knocked clean off by the power of Man Eater's punch. One of the wings is cut at the joint by Cardinal, while the other is swiped by Amaranth—they crumble into ash at the joints, and the wings begin to fall . . .

In the meantime, several more heads are cut down and sliced apart by Kohime and Nemesis and Lancelot and especially Sabre, whose Hellfire cleaves so cleanly through the bones that it almost seems like she could just cut a path through its body, especially with Hurricane's and Hiryuu's help on its sides. ]

BOSS ACTION

[idolpro]

[ The beast opens its mouth(s)—but instead of screaming, it only hisses out a poisonous gas, of which will burn everyone's insides out if they breathe too much in. (You must roll every turn to dodge this attack.)

Its wings crash onto the ground—maybe that wasn't such a good idea though, as they hit with such force that the ground shakes and cracks, making everyone lose their footing (except for avantes). Hunny will find one of his feet stuck in one of the newly made crevices, only for the ground to shift more and crush his ankle.

The beast rears back a claw, stabbing it into the ground—it uproots the earth, flinging debris into Amaranth, Nemesis, and K amongst others—there's a chance for everyone else to get hit by the debris as well. ]

PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[idolpro]

Re: PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[hissterics]

[ Using verticality to dodge the shaking ground. She rolls a 5 to avoid the poisonous gas and a 6 to avoid the debris -- she dashes from one side to the next, bouncing off pieces of flying rubble in an extremely catlike fashion.

While bouncing off a piece of debris, she twists in midair and hefts the blade at the monster again.

6 (4)
5 (4)
3 (fail)
6 (2)
3 (fail)
2 (fail) ]

Re: PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[soulcarve]

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hit 6 | addtl dmg 1, 2, 4, 5
hit 5 | addtl dmg 1, 2, 6, 6
hit 3 | -
hit 6 | addtl dmg 1, 2, 5, 6
hit 3 | -
hit 2 | -

But the gas corrodes her blade (2), sizzling against her flames and leaving a streak of rust along one crack. ]

Re: PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[crossmyheartandhope]

[He holds his breath when the gas sprays into the air - hits the ground in a forward roll that takes him outside of its reach]

[When the ground shakes, he goes down, losing his footing, and that's about when the debris hits Nemesis and K. He screams, feeling their pain - can't get to his feet again fast enough to avoid the rest of the flying rubble. He gets clipped in the shoulder, the side, the meaty part of his upper thigh - grits his teeth, and forces himself back to standing as soon as the ground stops moving]

[He presses reassurance and determination out toward Nemesis, K, and Hiryuu through the emotional link - darts in, deadzone mud-coated blades flashing, to try and keep this thing's attention on him and buy them some time]

[Hit: 6 Damage: 4 6 2 1 4
Hit: 5 Damage: 3 5 1 1 2
miss (1)
Hit: 5 Damage: 4 2 3 4 2
Hit: 5 Damage: 5 5 4 2 1]

Re: PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[honoring]

[Against the quaking ground-- Lancelot keeps his footing ( 6 ). However he does get a lungful of the poisonous gas ( 2 ) and is hit by the earth debris ( 3 ).

His insides are burning but he's determined to keep fighting. One strike misses ( 1 ) as he tries to regain his bearings from breathing in the gas and the unsettling murderous rage he's feeling resounding in his head through his connection to Hiryuu. But the other four find their mark; attacking the beast's leg ( 4 6 5 2 ) with the mud bonus of ( 4 ) for a total of ( 21 ).]

Re: PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[worthathousand]

[ The debris glances more or less harmlessly off of her Juniper Tree coating of bark (though a few will definitely be leaving bruises), and she catches herself with The Nightingale again (4) to avoid losing her footing.

But the uprooted earth reminds her: ah yes, there are roots here.
Amaranth reaches out with Rapunzel, LiliS magic coursing through the sakura trees, sending their roots twining around the bone dragon's legs as their branches burst into unseasonal bloom, creating a shower of petals for any nearby avantes to run on.

Then she's flying back in with the wind, coming in at the beast's flank for another flurry of attacks.
hit 5 | dmg 2, 4
hit 4 | dmg 1, 1
hit 6 | dmg 4, 5

But Juniper Tree can't protect her from the gas (3), which leaves her coughing blood. ]

Re: PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Luckily he's far enough away to avoid the gas (5). Though he does get knocked on his ass (1) and nailed with debris (3).

Whatever. Pain is just a weakness leaving the body.

Why not just let the close-range DPS take care of this one?

And just Polarize the pieces of it together to stun it/keep it from moving forward. Assuming Polarize does damage.

Some dragon jaw #1: 6 - 6 damage
Some dragon jaw #2: 4 - 2 damage

8 damage total.]

Re: PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[purrrnicious]

[Rolled a 5 for the gas, but a 1 for debris, so she's going to go down hard in a tumble thanks to rocks and dirt when making an attempt at jumping onto that embedded claw.]

TONIGHT IN DRAGON RIDERS OF TOKYO-F

[irregular]

[ 6 + 5, poison gas/lost footing ]

[Not that this helps with the FLUNG DEBRIS.

[Okay. OKAY.

[We'll check for damage later there seems to be quite a lot of it limbs aren't working right ribs are fucked... Fortunately, he's got a Plan B, or Intensity has anyway so:

[He drags himself up and onto Blue Eyes and lets the dragon do the hard work of maneuvering itself up and - whoa - dizzily into the air as he quickly but clumsily busies himself with the petrol bombs. There's enough for three of them, and that's gonna have to be enough.

[K thinks he's got an angle on the thing but Foresight tells him otherwise (1, 1, 3) so he grits his teeth and waits, clinging onto Blue Eyes as the dragon dips lower over the wounded monster, then leaning dizzily over the side to hurl the petrol bombs straight at it--

[ 6 HIT + 5 DAM ]
[ 2 HIT ]
[ 6 HIT + 6 DAM ]

[Wow.

[That went a lot better than he was expecting.]

Re: TONIGHT IN DRAGON RIDERS OF TOKYO-F

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[She swoops in low over where the others have done some serious damage, careful to make sure K doesn't spill over the side.

(Or for any of you that play Monster Hunter, this is a Betelgeuse bombing.)

And then swoops out of range in an attempt to deposit K well out of monster reach]

Re: TONIGHT IN DRAGON RIDERS OF TOKYO-F

[irregular]

[K pats Blue Eyes's neck two or three times before sliding inelegantly back to the ground and dropping to his knees. On the one hand, his everything hurts.

[On the other THAT WAS THE MOST AWESOME THING EVER.]

Re: TONIGHT IN DRAGON RIDERS OF TOKYO-F

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Also taking a cheap shot at the main boss before she finished her dive bomb. Extremely petty. Like her card holder. (5 hit - 6 damage).

Yes, good K.

Praise this dragon.]

Re: PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[presentational]

[ One of his ankles— well— on all fours as a tiger it could be a wrist— is caught and crushed, and he lets out a roar of pain. this is gonna suck when he's a human again

fuck this. he's turning into something without ankles. FORM OF, JAPANESE SPIDER CRAB. (ACTION 1) it has an exoskelleton!! AND IN CRAB FORM, far more slender and 3 feet of spider being still smaller than TIGER, the debris soars over him.

now all there's left to do is to PINCH THIS DRAGON AGGRESSIVELY. the form is very different than human though so his coordination isn't. great. along with the pain from the POISON GAS

(rolls for success: 1 2 2 5 6. 2 successes, 3 failures.
rolls for damage: 5, 6. 11 damage done total) ]

Re: PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[unbr8kable]

It doesn't even have a mouth!

[How do bones have lungs??? --Luckily, Nemesis can scuttle out of the way of the gas and mouth off at the same time (6); it'd worked out to stay out of melee range after all.

But of course boss monsters gonna boss monster, and when it stabs into the ground, it sends cracks through the pavement, a far-too-large chunk of concrete sidewalk getting her full in the face (1).

She goes down like a rock, only barely missing being subsequently crushed by said concrete by a conveniently placed mailbox that takes the brunt of the blow, the metal crumpling in ways she is thankful her skull did not. A quick breath and Warpstrikes out to safety (5 1 5 1), dropping to a knee on the wall on the far side of the street.

With a curse, she attempts to Living Forge at the dragon again (4 4 4 3 = 7pt damage) before lying back against the wall to try and catch her breath]

Re: PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[deicider]

[Cardinal tears their sword out and dives off of Dragon-Eyes Dragon Dragon (dodge 5), stopping their own fall by stabbing into the beast. The first attempts skitter off some hard aspect of its hide, but finally the blade sinks. As soon as the blade has bitten into its skin, Cardinal warps to the Feint's blade, above, ripping their sword along the beasts side as they surge upward. Bursting throug the shower of sakura petals they whip effortlessly past the flung debris (dodge 6), throwing the sword in their hand to the feint as soon as their hand grasps the copy's blade. The feint immediately follows up with another stab to the ruined wing joint. ]

Cardinal:
hit 2 | 4 miss
hit 3 | 4 miss
hit 6 | 2 + 1 dmg=3
hit 5 | 4 + 3  dmg=7

Feint:
hit 2 | 2 miss

Re: PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ Using Verticality to dodge the shaking ground. he tries to hold his breath in time to keep from inhaling the gas, but he's just a second too slow to avoid inhaling a whiff (dodge roll: 3).

he jumps back down from the dragon, giving it a few solid kicks on his way down (attack roll: 1 4 5 3, damage rolls: 2 4 4). ]

BOSS REACTION

[idolpro]

[ Sabre seems to have genuinely gone right into the heart of the demon—inside its spine she can see it's completely made of nothing but smoke.

Hurricane's blades cut through the arm, and that crumbles too—K's petrol bombs help dismember the limb completely. Nemesis and Man Eater are good at keeping the demon pinned the fuck down with their blows, Intensity's Polarity certainly helping keep it stay tethered in its spot, and Hunny's pinch and Cardinal's stabs into the wing joint are enough to have it stall long enough to be unable to react to the cuts to the flank and leg by Amaranth and Lancelot—its leg then crumbles too, barely on its last threads, while the hip starts to come undone too.

It looks like it's falling apart. ]

BOSS ACTION

[idolpro]

[ But maybe that might be a bad thing. The forgotten wings melt into something different—or rather, they join together along with the severed arm, creating not a creature but a living tidal wave that crashes through the street; if you aren't careful, you'll find yourself burning along with everything else that starts to corrode with its sweep. Look at Hurricane—he's swept so quickly that he's rammed into a telephone pole.

Deep inside the spine is safe enough, however, the miasma is more concentrated—Sabre will need to roll a 5-6 to avoid getting poisoned while she's moving further into the demon—she might want to get out, but it seems the tidal wave colliding with the wounded areas seal her inside the darkness.

Hunny will find his arms to be pulled into the leg, as tiny hands reach out to pull him in and try to absorb him.

If you are not Hunny, you must roll for the poisonous gas outside. If you are Sabre, you don't need to roll twice, just for the poisonous gas room you're trapped in. ]

PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[idolpro]

Re: PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[hissterics]

[ Somehow she rolls a 5 to avoid the poison, but even if she hadn't lbr -- she's not going to stop until she's physically unable to swing anymore. ]

Pa~the~tic~~~

[ She just continues hacking away as she moves through the inside of the creature.

5 (6)
5 (6)
3 (fail)
6 (6)
4 (2)
1 (fail) ]

Re: PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[presentational]

[ if he's going to be sucked in, fine, whatever

he's going to be a horrible stinging jellyfish (a box jellyfish) so this is fun for APPROXIMATELY NO ONE. YOU WANT TO EAT HIM, FINE. ENJOY!!

rolls for damage: 5, 3, 3

11 damage isn't a lot but also do you really want to keep this in your mouth!! ]

Re: PLAYER (RE)ACTION

[irregular]

[ 1 + 3, wave/poison gas ]

[Problem is now that he's down on the ground, K isn't sure he can get up again. His leg feels huge and heavy and looks painfully wrong; his shoulder's fucked, just breathing hurts, and then there's--

[Jesus.

[Well, that's not good--]