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IMPOCALYPSE
BATTLE MECHANICS
Note: characters that are heavily injured may acquire corruptions. There will be heavy maiming.
- 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.
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It's so painful, isn't it?
The orb leaves D.va, but it splits and attaches to Ordine and Senpai. Everyone else...everyone else seems fine? Because Kaguya, Req, Ordine, Gladio, and Senpai all put in one final effort and manage to sever the final remaining tentacles.
And then the gylphs go out.
And so do you.
Everything goes grey.
But you don't. Because you have each other, and you and everyone who knows you know who you are.
The words leave your mind. Light returns. You're back at the flooded ruins of the Family Mart and its surrounding areas, either in the sewer or around the hole leading down to it.
And the octopus writhes and screams with the voice of 1200 imps -
- and then it explodes into smoke, and vanishes into the air.
Victory! It's finally over.
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just. curls up for a second and takes a shuddering breath, covering her face.
(through the buddy bond with King, is a pulsing, alarming fear and tentative relief but also PRETTY FUCKING PARANOID what if the feelings come BACK this SUCKS) ]
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She also get to enjoy the pure existential terror just now, like three thousand years in a puzzle-void, like falling through an abyss forever, like being buried alive, like being unmade,
Anyway the bond is mostly white noise now, so there's that. ]
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unfortunately she's a very feelingsy person so it echos back just as strongly, sharp and sparking with alarm and threaded with confusion. ]
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She can't breathe well but now she also just. Is feeling his own terror on top of her own terror and please this sure is going to be a vicious cycle, isn't it? Or now maybe they have all just gone brain dead with white noise? ]
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kinda just, reassuring we're-alive-and-we're-ok vibes]
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and she has never been as not ok...
as she is. right. now. ]
[ b- but ḥ̅ͣ͆̑̀͗e͓̜̜͔̺̜̟̋̇ͧ̒r̥͚͙̻̠͔̳͊o͚̳̞͆̂e̼̝̦̼̖̣̮̹ͫ͑̔͆̂̓̾̓s̬͍͚̼̞̝ͩ͐̎ ̫͎̼̗̦͙͓̙̘̏̄ͬͪn̹͖̯͍͓͚ͦͥͦ̑ͫȇ̟͚̓ͥv̞̟̫̮̖̜̻͓̞͒̃ͪ̆̾̅̊e̗̞̭̩͉͍̯̼̓ͭ̑r̟͇̼̯͉̠͍̹ͫ̾ ̬̰̬̺̜̩̓̃̂̋̂d̖̣̝̂ͯͬ̓͗̉̌ï̩̬̱͚̲̝̤ͧ̽̓̍ͤe̪̳͙̪̫ͭͨͥ̓̈́.̳̲̳͇̮̘̈́̒ͬ͒̎ ]
[ and though she is not actively being made to NOT EXIST she cannot stop thinking about all of the times this place has ripped her to shreds and pieced her back together just to rinse&repeat over and over and over and over. ]
[ the fear she's bleeding through the bond is crippling as being alone and unmade is nothing short of a mcfucken Ṇ̶̡̧̩̙̘͖̙̖̙̠̱̮̪̣̳͉̦̝̾͌̀ͦ̅̅̈̈́̍ͦ͑̃̉̔̕Ḯ̧̤̯̫̗͓̱̄ͬͦ̈́͂̀̒ͨ̚G̷̡̭̭̹̰͓͖̙̯̪̺̫̍͂͐̑͗ͭ̌̉̈ͫ́̀͡H̫̮̱̹̺͓̞̝̩̳̗̜̟͔̺̫͍̪͒̏̐ͣ̾͒ͨ͢͝͠T̢̹͈̰͍̪͙̗̭̜̩̺͆́́̓ͪ͑ͫ͡ͅḾ̸̤̖̣̼̲̣̭̠̪ͯ͌ͯ̂͆̐ͬ̌͂̃̇ͣ̊ͮ͢͠À̴̢̛̬͍͎̠̻̞̰̻̜̬̙͓͔̏ͬ͐͛̃͜͝R̥̬͍̘͍̖̦̲̳̩̥̩̯̻͔̟̈̐ͮ̓̓́͡͠E̛̽̽̎͗͗͏҉̡͕̰̠̳̺͓̠͉̖̤͓̰͓̙̯ ]
[ you can't escape these feelings, because you're caught in and endless loop, since no matter what a part of you is going to p e r s i s t . ]
[ sorry gladio, it's not going to do much, because she is kind of a black hole right now, b- but as soon as she realizes she's still connected to everybody she's going to sever the bond and ruuuun. ]
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He lifts his head and looks up at everyone he was fighting with. They're still in the sewer.
With a grunt, he gets up, offering an assist to anyone who wants to get up to street level before hauling himself up as well]
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Goin' up?
Let's go see how everyone else is doin' yeah?
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...Yes. That's for the best.
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Gladio takes a shaky breath and steadier exhale as he looks around for everyone they were fighting with]
That was... this has been a shitshow of a first week...
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... smalltalk. right. how do you do that, again? everything in him is shaken and twisted and echoing. ]
...This was new to me, as well. It isn't my first week, although... it may as well have been.
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So... that's that, huh?
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It's so, so hard to drag his eyes from the ground as he gets up on unsteady feet, but he does shift his backpack a little, just enough to pull out a still-sealed water bottle and take a swig. If anyone else needs it, well, he doesn't mind handing it off to them, either.]
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Lots of...wheezy noises while attempting and failing to properly exist atm]
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She wants to take it and tries to. She's just pretty sure that she's feeling someone's pure existential terror at the moment which is causing massive amounts of alarm...! Confusion and her own being echoed back since heals haven't worked on her lungs so now she's just.
Not having a great time.
She'll take it but is mostly spilling water. ]
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Somewhat hesitant (nothing he does matters--), he raises his free hand to her once more, trying his healing one more time.]
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Now that the creature is dead it... seems to work finally. She gasps, as though coming up from under water after a lifetime, drinking in the air. ]
Ah--
[ That is so much better. She grips him tightly, while just... getting things under control again. ]
It worked...
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They can just sit here like this for a while, trying to reorient themselves with the current time and location... if that's even a possibility.]
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Even though he doesn't want to think about it--he can't help but refocus on it. Again, and again...
It doesn't stop him from slowly climbing to his feet (everything hurts, but what's new?) and using his sword as a cane to start limping away--back in the general direction that he's fairly certain the hotel is. ]