The vampire is superhumanly fast, but it is clear she is not accustomed to fighting someone as agile as Jiro. With a series of flips Jiro manages to maneuver to deliver a perfect blow. The Vampiress goes flying, propelled by Jiro's life force made manifest. She crashes through the pews, and comes to rest against the far wall. She doesn't rise immediately, clearly stunned by the blow.

Father Jack cackles madly at Alex's ineffectual struggles. He lifts her high above the floor and continues to choke the life out of the woman.

[OOC: 21:30, Today: Gamemaster rolled 17 using 1d20+10. Destiny Toughness Save.
21:29, Today: Gamemaster rolled 15 using 1d20+12. Acrobatics.

21:36, Today: Gamemaster rolled 44 using 1d20+30. Grapple Check.
He has Improved Pin, for a -4 to your efforts to escape the pin. Take a DC11 Fort Save.

Destiny - Bruised, Stunned ]

Jiro let himself smirk as he sent Destiny flying, saw her dazed crash landing. Do I finish her off or help Alex? He grappled with the thought for a moment, giving Alex and Papa Jack a glance, then made his decision. Alex's situation wasn't good, but they were tough, and he was confident they'd manage for a few more moments without him.

Destiny, however... she was just vampire-like enough that he was morally certain that if he left her alone for a few seconds, she'd bounce right back and become a pain in his ass. He shifted his ki as he raced for her, following the path her flight had cleared, faked a high kick at her recovering form, then loosed a mighty punch at her center of mass, pale blue ki shrouding his fist.

[OOC: Acrobatic Bluff for 16 on Destiny
18:50, Today: Jiro Koji rolled 18 using 1d20+12. Ki Strike destiny, AoA 5 Power Attack 5. DC 28 if that hits]

Destiny shakes off the effects of the last hit just in time to stumble into another punishing blow. Her head snaps back and impacts the wall. She slumps again, but is not out of the fight just yet.

[OOC= 23:03, Today: Gamemaster rolled 15 using 1d20+12. Acrobatics.
23:04, Today: Gamemaster rolled 20 using 1d20+9. Toughness Save.
Destiny - Bruisedx2, Stunned ]

Alex tore at the monster's unclean flesh as she struggled for air.

[OOC: Can't beat that grapple even with a 20
23:09, Today: Alex rolled 17 using 1d20+12. Fort Save.
23:11, Today: Alex rolled 26 using 1d20+17. Unarmed attack AoA5. ]

Father Jack's arm/tentacle healed it's wounds as fast as Alex inflicted them. He continued to cackle as he tightened his grip. Then he noticed Destiny's predicament. He shrugged and flicked Alex towards Jiro's unsuspecting back.

[23:12, Today: Gamemaster rolled 29 using 1d20+11. Toughness Save.
23:13, Today: Gamemaster rolled 46 using 1d20+30. Grapple Check.
23:14, Today: Gamemaster rolled 19 using 1d20+12. Throwing Alex.
With the all out attack from Jiro that hits. DC22 toughness save for both of you.]
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While the martial artist certainly felt Alex impacting him, he rolled with the strike, unphased. He glanced at Alex, and again at Destiny, then turned to the betentacled Jack.

"Now that was just plain rude, Papa Jack. You're right, you aren't any vampire. Most vampires I've met have far more class than that. Now stay put for a moment." A moment's concentration as he shifted his ki - it had been a while since he'd last done this - and then he made a pulling gesture, and glowing blue tendrils erupted from the floor around Papa Jack, swirling around him and tugging tight. "Playful Trickster's Snare!"


20:19, Today: Jiro Koji rolled 29 using 1d20+10. toughness save from the Alex-throw.
20:30, Today: Jiro Koji rolled 21 using 1d20+8. snare attack on Papa Jack. DC 20 reflex save to avoid it.

Alex rolled with the impact as well. She tried to leap to her feet, but her recent choking made it more a climb then a leap. Alex looked at Destiny and pulled a heavy ball out of her pocket. With one smooth motion she sent it flying for the vampire woman's face.

[OOC: 21:07, Today: Alex rolled 26 using 1d20+10. Toughness Save.
21:18, Today: Alex rolled 16 using 1d20+10. Acrobatics.
21:39, Today: Alex rolled 18 using 1d20+10. Shotput attack AoA 5. ]

Father Jack leaps into the air, avoiding most of the grasping energy. He tilts his head back and laughs. "Child, your petty taunts and playful snares will avail you not in this place of Darkness."

He retracts his arm and turns it into some kind of blade of flesh and bone. He uses it to slice through the few strands that had been entangling him.

Destiny fall yet again, this time to a shotput to the face. She snarls something as her butt hits the floor.

[OOC 21:50, Today: Gamemaster rolled 11 using 1d20+9. Ref Save part 2.
21:50, Today: Gamemaster rolled 25 using 1d20+9. Ref Save.

He saves for half, then fails the save. Entangled. He attacks the Snare

21:54, Today: Gamemaster rolled 12 using 1d20+10. Snare Toughness.
Free

21:52, Today: Gamemaster rolled 18 using 1d20+8. Destiny Toughness Save.
Father Jack -
Destiny - Bruisedx3, Stunned 

Jiro watched Papa Jack cut himself free of the ki tendrils he'd tried. It was worth a shot, he thought. Then he put a grin on his features and charged, ki shifting as me closed.

"Petty and childish it might be, but the snare did it's job." Focusing all his will and power behind it, he loosed a mighty blow against the shapechanging monster.

[OOC: array is in ki strike, charging Papa Jack and attacking, AoA 5, Power Attack 5.

20:29, Today: Jiro Koji rolled 17 using 1d20+12. Ki Strike Papa Jack. AoA 5 PA 5.
20:29, Today: Jiro Koji rolled 31 using 1d20+12. Ki Strike Papa Jack HERO POINT REROLL. Let's hear it for improved crit. DC 33 toughness save, please.]
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Alex nodded in approval as Jiro seemed to be annoying Jack. She'd deal with this bitch first, then double team the master.

Drawing a stake from her jacket, she let fly.

[OOC: 22:19, Today: Alex rolled 33 using 1d20+15. AoA5, throwing. ]

Alex's stake flies true and sinks into Destiny's chest. However, she seems to lack the overwhelming vulnerability to stakes that other vampires had shown. The fallen Slayer pulled the stake from her chest and cast it aside.

"You'll PAY for that." She snarled as she climbed to her feet. "Father wants to show you the truth, but you are WEAK. You can't HANDLE the truth!"

With that she raised her hands. Blacking lightning shot out in every direction, shattering the scenery but missing Alex by some distance.

[OOC: 16:36, Today: Gamemaster rolled 22 using 1d20+10. Toughness Save.
16:43, Today: Gamemaster rolled 11 using 1d20+10. Attacking Alex.

Destiny - Bruisedx4, Injuredx1]
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Jiro's speed would have been breath taking, had any who still drew breath been watching. He felt the ki powered blow go home, felt bones start to break under the force of his strike, only for it to waver at the last moment. The darkness about Father Jack seem to drink up the ki, corrupting it and using it to restore it's dark master (or it's servant. It was impossible to tell)

"DESPAIR! IN THIS BLACK PLACE I AM MASTER! YOUR RESISTANCE IS FUTILE IN THE FACE OF MY POWER!"

Blades of bone formed along Father Jack's hands and he struck at Jiro, trying to drive them deep into his flesh.

[OOC: 16:45, Today: Gamemaster rolled 31 using 1d20+11. Toughness Save.
Just a pretty desc of him rolling a nat 20.
16:47, Today: Gamemaster rolled 30 using 1d20+12. Attacking Jiro.
DC27 toughness save. No grapple.
Father Jack - Injuredx1, Bruisedx1

Jiro dodged one of the blade-limbs, tried to block the other, and bit back a snarl as it drew blood. Okay, this could be bad. But I'm not out of ideas yet.

"You are a master of nothing, you cheap Western Bacillus-wannabe, just a demagog and slaver! I have spent years fighting filth like you - gangsters, drug dealers, and the detritus that accumulates around them. The only difference between you and a common pimp is that you believe your own lies." His stance shifted slightly, taking a slightly more defensive balance in light of Papa Jack's claws.

"You are nothing but another bit of human filth, so vile that death itself could not stomach you, and vomited you up." He darted in once more, ki-wrapped fist seeking Jack's center of mass. "Splatter like the foul mess you are."

[OOC: 15:59, Today: Jiro Koji rolled 24 using 1d20+10. toughness save vrs Jack.
16:17, Today: Jiro Koji rolled 15 using 1d20+11. Ki Strike, defensive attack 1.

Injured 1, Bruised 1, +1 to dodge this round.]

"Shut up." Alex replied, unfazed by the energy bolts. She drew another stake and stepped forward, trying to impale the vampire again.

[OOC: 22:05, Today: Alex rolled 24 using 1d20+12. Stake Attack. ]

Destiny cries out in pain as the stake sinks into chest, angled up under her ribcage. It misses the heart, but the Vampire woman is too distracted by the pain to attack.
[OOC: 20:22, Today: Gamemaster rolled 18 using 1d20+9. Toughness Save.
Destiny - Bruisedx5, Injuredx2, stunned ]

Jiro's words seem to anger Father Jack. He snarls and swings both his transformed arms in a wide arc, narrowly missing the agile man and striking one of the pillars. A large chunk of stone is torn from the pillar.

[OOC: 20:26, Today: Gamemaster rolled 18 using 1d20+12. Attacking Jiro. ]
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At Jack's reaction, Jiro felt a spike of elation. He's not thinking now, he's reacting. Good. That's step one. He let the smile touch his lips as he began to fairly dance around the monster. "Out of lies, Papa Jack? No more slogans or vows or declarations of your mastery? Well, well, well." Then he darted in, landing a solid blow against the man-thing's hide.

[OOC: Acrobatic Bluff for 17 on Papa Jack, array is in Ki Strike.

17:40, Today: Jiro Koji rolled 31 using 1d20+12. Ki Strike papa jack. That's a crit - DC 28 toughness save please.]
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"Thank you. Have another!" Alex said as she pulled the stake free for another blow.

OOC: 20:46, Today: Alex rolled 12 using 1d20+10. Stake Attack. ]

Destiny leapt in the air as Alex tried to impale her again and attempts to land on top of the Slayer. Her aim is off and Alex is nowhere near the landing point. Instead, an innocent bench takes the brunt of the impact.

[OOC: 20:51, Today: Gamemaster rolled 11 using 1d20+10. Attacking Alex. ]

Father Jack seemed to be about to spit a reply when Jiro's Ki enhanced strike sent him flying back through a set of doors behind the stage. The is a crash of an impact, but a cloud of debris momentarily blocks any view of the Dark Father.

[OOC: 20:53, Today: Gamemaster rolled 22 using 1d20+10. Toughness Save.
Father Jack - Injuredx2, Bruisedx2, Stunned]

Watching Papa Jack go flying, Jiro allowed himself a cocky smirk. Got ya that time, you asshole. Now to keep the momentum on my side. Ki shifting, he ran to the door Jack had gone flying through. "What's the matter, Jackie Boy? Can't take the heat out here?" Peering into the dust, he squinted, mind racing as he weighed his options, prepared to either smite his foe or defend himself against an unseen foe at need. "Come out, come out, whereever you are..."


[OOC: Array is in Ki Blast. Moving to the door, then will do a notice check at -5 to not use an action. IF Notice check successful at spotting Papa Jack THEN Ki Blast Papa Jack. IF NOT then Total Defense.

18:18, Today: Jiro Koji rolled 25 using 1d20+7. quick notice roll to spot Papa Jack.

18:22, Today: Jiro Koji rolled 12 using 1d20+8. Ki Blast Papa Jack IF I spot him with the notice check. In the event that that actually connects, DC 25 toughness save.

If that notice DOESN'T spot Jack, THEN Total Defense to bring my defense to 24 for the round.

Status: Bruised 1, Injured 1]
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Alex grabs another stake and lets fly. This vampire was starting to annoy her.
22:42, Today: Alex rolled 29 using 1d20+10. Throwing Stake.

Jiro steps up to the door and spots Jack pulling himself out of a shattered wardrobe. It looks like this room is some kind of changing area or preparation room.

The martial artist fires a bolt of weaponized life force, but it goes wide thanks to the distraction of black tentacle wrapping itself around his neck.

[OOC: 22:55, Today: Gamemaster rolled 26 using 1d20+12. Attacking Jiro.
DC 22 toughness save.
22:58, Today: Gamemaster rolled 40 using 1d20+30. Grapple Check.
Jack Pins, DC 10 Fort save vs suffocation.
Father Jack - Injuredx2, Bruisedx2 ]
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Destiny's eyes widen as the stake flies straight for her heart. She desperately throws her arms in front of her and by some dark miracle deflects the almost perfectly aimed stake.

"Pathetic!" She snarls, sounding somewhat less then confidant. "Your foolish attachment to such crude weapons will be your end! TASTE THE TRUE POWER!"

This time, the black lightning that Destiny calls does not go wide. Alex takes the blast full to the face.

[OOC: 23:00, Today: Gamemaster rolled 11 using 1d20+8. Toughness Save.
23:01, Today: Gamemaster rolled 17 using 1d20+8. Fiat Save.
+1 Hero point to Alex. 27 total on save, no damage.

23:03, Today: Gamemaster rolled 30 using 1d20+10. Attacking Alex.

Crit on the Stun attack. DC 25 Fort Save.]
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Jiro bit back a curse as the black tentacle wrapped around his throat. Desperate reflexes got a hand between tentacle and windpipe, and he held the foul black limb back from cutting off his air supply completely. Well. This is a revolting development.

Thinking fast, he shifted his ki and swung at the monster with his free hand, throwing all his energies into the blow, praying he does not come up short.

[OOC: 20:13, Today: Jiro Koji rolled 15 using 1d20+9. Fort save against Jack's tentacle suffocation.

20:24, Today: Jiro Koji rolled 17 using 1d20+12. ki strike Jack, AoA 5 Power Attack 5. DC28 in the unlikely event that hits.]