Carmilla lunges vaguely for the big man's back as he passes, but misses entirely, brain still struggling as it tries to deal with a surge of emotion it's no longer really got.

[[22:09, Today: Vampire Dance Hall Girl rolled 7 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+1)7. unshake Carmilla.
22:11, Today: Vampire Dance Hall Girl rolled 1 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1. Carmilla, bite! (-2 MAP/unshake, +2 bite) Carmilla no bite.
init. JS

As for Darla, I need at least a vague idea of what the priest's doing - kicking her out on her arse, trying to hold and talk to her, flailing in shock, staying still like a potential meal to remove that fatigue etc. etc.]]

Inside the church, Father O'Rourke holds Darla close, still a little numb from what he's just seen. "No no...it's alright. You have nothing to be sorry for...you poor dear..." He looks her in the eyes. "Do you want me to end your suffering, child?" he whispers.

((OOC: Father O'Rourke is still On Hold))

---

"Oh for fuck's sake!" Danny gasps as he hears the commotion in the church. He changes direction, and runs around the building. He spots the half-naked girl and the running indian, and gives chase.

"Oi! You! Fuckin' stop!" He shouts, leaping for Itza-chu. He catches the flapping edge of the Indian's torn jeans, but the wild man backhands him across the face, shocking Danny long enough for Itza-chu to pull free.

((OOC: Danny runs to catch up with Itza'chu. He rolls a 4, which is enough to get him within range. He attempts a tackle against the warrior, who still has a lowered Parry from his Wild Attack. That doesn't matter to grapples, but I rule that it will give Itza-chu -2 on his opposed roll.

Danny Boy rolled 1,6 using d8-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 3,(6+2)8. Flying tackle! not bad.

Itza-Chu rolled 5,2 using d10-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 7,4. get off me! He is still burning through my Red Chips, so he spends one to try and keep Danny off him.

Itza-Chu rolled 3 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3. red chip. 8, which beats Danny's 6. Itza-chu is still free.

Danny Boy's next card: 8S))

---

Jake Lawrence is up next! Darla is still on hold, but now has the Preacher reacting to her.

Jake continues to run after Danny Boy, this time making it to the church. The huckster readies his pistol, while he tries to figure out what exactly is going on.

OOC: Running some more!
08:02, Today: Jake Lawrence rolled 3 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3. Running.
that's 9 squares which should put me right by the church.

08:15, Today: Jake Lawrence drew the single card: AH using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative.

Jake'll come up to find nothing but a pair of torn and bloodied knickers and little granules of some hard but spongy-textured substance outside the church. The priest is kneeling a pace or so inside the doorway with a distraught half-clothed woman clinging to him as though she fears to drown, murmuring to her as she sobs.

Darla can't hold O'Rourke's gaze. She shuts her eyes, fresh tears coming from beneath the lashes. The muscles under the soft curves of her flesh are inhumanly, terrifyingly strong, but her attitude is one of surrender. "...m-more'n anything," she half-hiccups, and presses the back of her wrist to her mouth a moment before looking at the priest. "-when I c'n think...but it don't matter what I - we want, mistress fixed it so's we're mostly happy to be used over and over, we don't got much will t'be violated...but them real people...did the Ranger bring in that little girl?" She reads in his face that she did.

"Jes' about broke my heart," she murmurs, leaning in and brushing her skull over his chest like a cat. "Was that big buck an' we mean to get him, 's well as Ranger ordered us to leave the righteous...but I'm still so weak, and holy power can't fix it," tenderly, Darla pushes the priest's sleeve back from the shallow cut over the top of his arm, "'cause Jhh...jeee...'cause He gave His blood an' life for that, an' what I am-" a couple of cautious laps sees the wound cleaned, and the girl looking up again "-is jest the opposite."

Oblivious to her onlookers, Darla shifts, nuzzling at the holy man's neck to whisper in his ear: "Please..."


[[farmer, viper. Roll if desired (does Seduction bonus apply here?):
20:56, Today: Vampire Dance Hall Girl rolled 3,4 using d6-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 4,5. Darla is persuasive.]]
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In reply to Jake Lawrence (msg # 27):

Aside from the remains, Jake also sees Danny facing down a wild-haired Apache man with a gap-toothed, psychotic grin further up the street.

Jake remembers his vision, and the Shaman's words to him.



one look at the mad Apache's grinning face, at the red warpaint with the dots fashioned to look like tears, and Jake knows which one this is.

---

In the chapel, Father O'Rourke sighs. "Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him."

He holds his wounded arm up. "Take only what you must. When you are done with your task, return here, that I may help you out of this hellish existence of yours and find salvation."

---

Down the street, at City Hall, the gunfire had attracted attention. Word passed from the sentries down to the defenders below, and one took up the call. It was time to defend the women and children.

The door of the building flew open, and a huge figure stepped out into the night, eyes fixed on the commotion down the street.

"Hey Injun!" he bellows. "Ya'll oughta run for the hills now, 'cause ol' Jericho Cantrell's here to whip the grey off your skins and leave it black and blue! You think you're immortal, you sons o' bitches? Come and take me if you think you're hard enough!"

---

((OOC: Yeah, the Seduction applies, but I'll mark that as a penalty to his Smarts roll to save time.

Father William O'Rourke rolled 1,0 using d6-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 3,2. resisitng persuasion. Yup, he goes for it.

Meanwhile, Jericho Cantrell joins the action and pulls a card. Would someone like to take control of Cantrell for the duration of this fight, since he's an Ally?))

---

Turn Order:
Jake Lawrence: AH
Jericho Cantrell: QC (If someone wants to grab him for this fight, I'd be much obliged)
Vampire Girls: JS
Danny Boy: 8S
William Pierce: 8D
Itza-Chu: 4S
Father O'Rourke: Still on hold.

Jake levels his pistol on the crazed Indian. Better make this count he thinks as he lets himself slip into the happy hunting ground to deal with the spirits.

OOC: Going to cast a 3d6 bolt with a deal with the devil to make it even more fun!
12:10, Today: Jake Lawrence rolled 4,3 using 1d10,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,3. Spellcasting (3d6Bolt).
12:11, Today: Jake Lawrence drew the 9 cards: 6C, 2S, 9C, 6H, RJ!, AD, 8C, 7D, JS using a deck of 54 cards. Deal with the Devil (2 power points).
Success on the casting and good for 2 power points with a pair of 6's

Damage
12:16, Today: Jake Lawrence rolled 12 using 3d6. Damage.
That should be a Wound

12:24, Today: Jake Lawrence drew the single card: QH using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative.

The screaming, ghostly bullet rips through the Indian's side, spraying blood on the street behind him, but much to Jake's surprise the wound begins closing, scabbing over with alarming speed. The Apache still looks pained from the shot.

Back at Town Hall, Cantrell raises his two massive hand cannons, calculating the range. With a little Kentucky Windage, he should hit the man without hitting the guy tackling him. If not, well...that was just a risk he'd have to take.

His guns bark, and Itza-chu staggers again as the bullet grazes his temple. But the gash heals as fast as it bleeds, scabbing over instantly even as real blood joins the red tear tattoos down the left side of his face.

((OOC: That is a wound, yes. Itza-chu will attempt to soak, because he likes burning through all my chips.

Itza-Chu rolled 3,3 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,3. Soak! Fail. Itza-chu is Shaken with one wound.

Meanwhile, Jericho Cantrell will take two potshots from his position by City Hall. He's at Long Range (-4) but is Two-fisted (no MAP), though not Ambidetrous (-2 off-hand). He's not moving, so he gets his Marksman bonus (+2). Final penalties: -2 main hand, -2 off-hand.

Main hand: Jericho Cantrell rolled 1,0 using d10-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 3,2. Main-hand shooting! Miss.

Off hand: Jericho Cantrell rolled 4,-1 using d10-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 8,3. Off-hand Shooting. Hit!

Damage: 7. That will be a Shaken. Itza-chu has the Hardy trait, so that will NOT be another wound.

Cantrell's Card: 2C))

---

Vampire Girls are up!

The lady with the ragged skirts pauses to help Danny up, cleaver held demurely at her hip. She ducks at the shots, but takes advantage of the big native's stumbling to run up and make a grab for him - one that's quickly seen off with the slam of a spearbuttt.

[[19:24, Today: Vampire Dance Hall Girl rolled 6 using 1d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 4. Carmilla, bite! Nope.]]

Inside the church, the harlot snuggles her back to the priest, drawing his injured arm over her shoulder and settling his left across her partly-bare midriff. Her dampened cheek rests against the exposed skin near his elbow a moment. "No...just an ending. There ain't nothin' left to save an' I was damned before they killed me."

Darla licks the preacher's arm, the points of her fangs just barely brushing the flesh. "I swear I will try, though it gets hard to think when I ain't hurtin', an' if Miss Marina comes back I won't even know you, though you can have me for a couple dollars all the same." Darla sighs, and pulls her dark tresses aside so as not to get in her food, giving O'Rourke a fine view of the slender arch of her neck. "You're a good man, preacher."


[[It'll take Darla at least this round to drink herself out of fatigue, I think.
init. 8H]]
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As the Apache reels from the shots, Danny growls. "Thought I was the only one could do that 'round here," he mutters as he makes a few quick, ineffective jabs at Itza-chu.

((OOC: Danny Boy rolled 2,1 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,1. Fighting! Nope. Danny why are you so useless?

Card: 2H.))

---

William Pierce is up next!

William takes a deep, albeit unnecessary breath to calm himself down.
Don't waste any bullets, he tells himself and briskly walks forward.

As he nears O'Rourke and the girl, he grins in evil satisfaction.
"Remember me, girl?" he growls, then draws his second pistol, the one he took off of Jenny and presses it against her temple.
"You take one drop too much and I'll spill your brains all over the church floor. It's not gonna kill you, I know, but it will be mightily inconvenient."


He waits for a nod of understanding from the girl, then looks after the scarred indian.
"I'll be damned..." he mutters to himself as he sees the other's wounds close.

He looks around, searching for his "friends", as the damn clank... Alouette had called them.
Why don't you stop fucking judge me all the time and make yourself useful? How do I kill something that can't be wounded?

The soft little pleased noises from Darla drinking become a grunt of protest as she gets a gun to the head.

The vampire girl looks up, licking the blood from her front teeth with deliberate slowness as she studies William. There's a terrible vacancy in her eyes...the gunslinger might just remember Vincent's disparaging remarks about the 'hired help' being something less than the kind of revenant he was, the kind with free will and mind intact. "Not a clue, sugar."

Darla bends her head back to her meal, not troubling to bat away the pistol. "...you don't want me dead-like bad enough to break the law of sanctuary, hon, or you'd a done it." She reconsiders, and looks up a moment, all sullen annoyance, blood-red lips and dark curls, exposed shoulder and breast as pale and perfect as the flesh of the newly drowned. "You want to fuck me at gunpoint you're jes' goin' to have to wait, an' don't think that'll make me remember anything about you, either." She goes back to licking the priest.

[[in case you were waiting on any reaction from Darla, since talking is free...]]

The four ghosts are there, near the statue of Christ on the Cross than hangs on the far wall. William can hear them babbling in his mind.



Father O'Rourke lays a hand on the pistol, pushing it to the side. "No, son. Not here. I know what I'm doing. Please, help Danial and Bitter Waters stop that madman."

At William's unspoken question, the ghosts speak up.



They are quiet a moment, apparently deliberating among themselves. Then, as one, they turn to William and say, "Give us your gun."

"We'll talk later, girl." Williamgrowls, then walks toward the far wall to the largr cross. He pushes Jenny's gun into his belt, then flips his other gun, in his right hand, around, holding it grip first out toward the cross, an expectant lok on his face.


09:18, Today: William Pierce drew the single card: RJ! using the Deadlands system. Initiative

Nice!

Itza-chu follows up the spearblock with another quick series of stabs, catching Carmilla in the leg and Danny across the throat. The two fighters stumble, and the wily Apache turns to run.

But Danny boy lunges at him as his back is turned. "Ha! got ye!" he shouts...but Itza-chu catches him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, driving the breath from Danny's dead lungs and sending the boy sprawling.

"Stay'em down! Good doggie!" The Apache laughs, then makes a quick series of mocking howls before running up to the iron fence at the end of the street and pulling on the chain. "Rise up!" he shouts as he rattles the black wrought-iron fence. "Rise'em up, you fiends! Get a move on! We got'em a city to burn!"

From beyond the fence comes the sound of earth shifting, and unearthly moaning...

((OOC: Itza-chu needs to Regenerate the wound he's taken and recover from being Shaken:

After eating through a couple of my chips, Itza-chu gets an 18 on his regen, which puts him back at full health.

Then he goes to work. He Frenzies and Wild Attacks, splitting one attack per character facing him.

Itza-Chu rolled 4,5,2 using d10,d10,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,5,2. Frenzy! (With Wild Attack). That's a miss vs. Danny and a hit vs. The Vampire girl.

Since he's still chip hunger, he spends a red to try and turn that miss into a hit. Itza-Chu rolled 4 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4. red chip. That makes his total 8 Vs. Danny, which is enough to hit but not enough for a raise.

Damage (Danny): 9. Shaken and 1 Wound. Danny attempts to soak: Danny Boy rolled 4,3 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,3. Soak! Success.

Damage (Vampire Girl):  6 rolled, 10 with her weakness. That's a Shaken for the vampire girl.

Itza-chu attempts to run again. Danny gets a free attack. Danny Boy rolled 2,4 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,4. Attack! Even considering Itza-chu's lowered Parry, that's a miss. Why are you so useless!?

Itza-chu moves 6 squares up, and now he's dangerously close to the cemetery gates.

Card for next round: 10D))

---

Turn Order:
William Pierce: RJ!
Jake Lawerence: QD
Itza-Chu: 10D
Vampire Girls: 8H
The 'Glom: 3D
Danny Boy: 2H
Jericho Cantrell: 2C
Father William O'Rourke: On hold

Up Next: A special interlude for William Pierce, and then William Pierce himself. NOTE! Itza-chu is now in Darkness (-2 penalty to ranged attacks)
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The ghosts each touch the gun.

William hears something. It's a hideous sound, felt like unendurable pressure in the skull, a twisting in the gut, harmonics outside the mortal plane scraping like nails down the soul. It's the sound of something that should no longer be able to feel pain in helpless, thought-destroying agony.

Father O'Rourke grabs his head, jerking his arm away from the vampire girl licking him at the sound, which isn't heard so much as felt.

William's own body is wracked with the pain from the sound, which is intense enough to blind him for a few seconds...

And when he opens his eyes, the ghosts have vanished. he can still feel their presance, watching him from...somewhere, but they don't appear to his sight anymore.

And the gun in his hand has changed. The metal has shifted from black matte to an eerie grey...almost, but not quite, the color of Ghost Steel. Fancy engravings crawl across the metals surface, depicting four souls writhing in torment...and all four bear William's likeness!

The gun is heavy in his hand, potent, like a coiled snake ready to strike.

William nods, grimly.
"Thank you." he says, apparently to Christ on his cross, then spins around, past the priest and just out the door.

His eyes glow with an eerie red and he stares directly at the indian rattling the cemetery's fence.

"INDIAN! YOUR SOUL IS REQUIRED IN HELL!"
He yells, his hand already raised. As the indian turns, William fires two shots in quick succession.


Multi-action!
First, intimidation. +2 for Joker, -2 for Multiaction. +4 due to various edges/hindrances. -1 for wound, net total of +3
12:31, Today: William Pierce rolled 8,6 using d6+3,d6+3, rerolling max with rolls of 5,3. Intimidation.

Second, shooting. -1 for wound, +1 for double-shot, +2 for Joker. Unsure about distance, so I'll leave it at 0.

Total shooting result: 14
12:33, Today: William Pierce rolled 8 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+2)8. blue chip to add on, I really want to get a raise on this. Potentially the Intimidation success could give me one, but what the heck.
12:32, Today: William Pierce rolled 6,5 using d10+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 4,3. Shooting.

Damage: +2 from Joker, plus 1d6 from raise. Should've aimed at the head, but forgot.
12:35, Today: William Pierce rolled 23 using 4d6+3, rerolling max with rolls of 4,(6+4)10,4,2. Gun damage. Actually 24, as the double-shot adds another +1 to damage

If he's not going down now, I'm contemplating to play the High Noon adventure card.

Oh, and next round initiative: William has Quick.

12:38, Today: William Pierce drew the single card: QC using the Deadlands system. Initiative.
12:38, Today: William Pierce drew the single card: 2D using the Deadlands system. Initiative.


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Itza-chu looks up at the shout just long enough to look shocked and horrified as William's wailing gun screams death at him. Two massive holes are blown through the Indian's torso -- one through his upper chest near his neck, the other through his belly.

The wounds soak the gate behind him with blood and viscera, and he slumps over. But yet the Apache is still moving, albeit weakly.

The gate behind him rattles. There's a hissing, and a red steam rises from the iron grille, which begins to glow a dull, fiery red...

Itza-chu draws a long, rattling breath. "It's...it's-a comin'...it's-a comin'..." he mumbles, teeth bloody from internal ruptures. Then he lets out a burbling giggle as he lays on the ground and bleeds...

A sign on the iron gate catches fire, and anyone looking can see the words "Rattler Hill Cemetery" on the wood as it burns. And in the center of the gate, just above the white-hot and melting chain holding it closed, William can see the sigil of the Enlightened Society of The Weeping Moon.

((OOC: 03:59, Today: Itza-Chu rolled 3,5 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,5. Resisiting Intimidate. That's a success for William, but not a raise, so William just gets the +2.

Don't forget...your shiny new Grim Servant o' Death hindrance gives you an additional +1 to damage, so your damage total was actually 25. not that it changes things...he's already facing a Shaken and 4 wounds, which will make him Incapacitated if he doesn't soak.

He spends one of my (very few) remaining chips for a Soak attempt.

Itza-Chu rolled 5,1 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,1. Soak! That soaks 1 wound. He winds up Shaken with 3 Wounds from that hit...but he was going to bleed himself anyway...

The blood from Itza-chu sprays on the fence, defiling the ward that had been put in place. As the Harbinger dies elsewhere in Blackthorn, a new abomination rises.

The 'Glom is now dealt in to the round! Card: 3H))

---

Jake Lawrence is up!

Not one to like priests getting threatened, Jake fires at the dancing girl...

Ooc:
Alright I messed up my dice rolls thanks to doing them via my tablet. In the end I burned a white and red chip for a 4 on a head shot with a 3d6 bolt.

Deal with the devil netted me 8C, 6C, AC, 9D, JS, AH, 7H, 4S, AS
3 of a kind give me 5pp, so success!

Now damage ... 9 points

7D for next round
OOC Holding action!
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[[@Jake ...are you sure? I mean, William had her at point-blank just a moment ago and the priest asked him to leave her alone, it should be pretty clear to Jake that their interaction's consensual (or at least as consensual as it's going to get, given she's basically a living/dead sex toy and can't help being manipulative) and not aggressive.

Not that it'll hurt her much, but there're likely better things to do with your chips and action. ]]

((OOC: I'll echo the Vampire Girl's sentiment...she's clearly not a threat at the moment, and the priest is not under attack or being threatened. Whatever is trying to break out of the cemetery, on the other hand...))

In reply to Vampire Dance Hall Girl (msg # 43):

OOC: Missed that... oops.... alright Jake will be holding his action

some mood music

The gate rattles again. It starts to bend from the force.

The grinning Apache lets out another burbling giggle. "And I heard'em noise...of thunder." He babbles, staggering up to his feet. The huge holes William blew in him are beginning to close. "One of 'em four beasts sayin' 'come and see'. And I saw! And I saw..."

He raises his spear, and bashes the blunt end down on the heated chain. once! Twice! Thrice!

The chain {{snaps}}, and Itza-chu grabs the gate and flings it open. "And behold! A Pale horse! Him that sat on'em is Death! And Hell follows with him!"

And then he's grabbed by a half-dozen arms, as the seething mass of flesh and limbs screams three discordant roars from a trio of mouths. Itza-chu joins in the screams as the mass raises him into the air...



((OOC: Itza-chu attempts to regenerate: 00:54, Today:
Itza-Chu rolled 2,1 using d8-3,d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 5,4. Regeneration.
Itza-Chu rolled 4 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4. red chip.

That's a total of 6, so he's slowly getting better. He heals one wound, and has 2 wounds remaining.

He's still Shaken, though.

00:57, Today: Itza-Chu rolled 4,1 using d8-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 6,3. unshake. Well, that's a success. He gets an action, though at -2. he attempts to bash the lock open. It has a parry of 2.

01:06, Today: Itza-Chu rolled 1,1 using d10-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 3,3. Bash! He spend the very last GM Red chip I have.

01:06, Today: Itza-Chu rolled 1 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1. red chip.

That's a 2, which is enough to hit an inanimate object. he still has to damage it, though...the Lock has a normal toughness of 8, reduced to 6 by the heat from the magic of the ward giving way. Itza-chu can't Ace on damage against the lock, but he doesn't need a Raise to break it, either.

Itza-Chu rolled 10,3 using d10,d6 with rolls of 10,3. Itza-chu smash! That's 13 damage, which is enough to crack the chain holding the gate closed.

Card for next round: JS))

---

Everyone looking at the thing make a Fear check (-4 for the Fear Level, -2 for the thing's fear penalty, + Grit))

Vampire Girls are up!

11:32, Today: William Pierce rolled 3,12 using d10-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 7,(6+6+4)16. white chip.
11:31, Today: William Pierce rolled 3,1 using d10-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 7,5. white whitechip.
11:31, Today: William Pierce rolled 3,-2 using d10-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 7,2. fear check.

Out of chips, but cool as a cucumber

William stares at this new horror, shaking his head in disbelief. He looks down at his gun, wondering if it packs enough heat against this thing.
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[[13:05, Today: Vampire Dance Hall Girl rolled -2 using 1d6-6, rerolling max with rolls of 4. Fear!]]

OOC:
08:08, Today: Jake Lawrence rolled -2,0 using 1d8-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 1,3. Fear (+3 Grit,-6 other).
That won't do... burning a white chip to re-roll that mess
08:09, Today: Jake Lawrence rolled 2,6 using 1d8-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 5,(6+3)9. Fear (+3 Grit,-6 other) - white chip.
That'll do it

---

Jake keeps his cool but foolishly reaches for the power he's used in the past. He unleashes a trio of ghostly bullets at the mass but not without some misfortune happening to himself. The spirits demand their pound of "flesh" causing the huckester slump against the church, "Can't be helped..." he mutters to himself as sweat forms on his now paler forehead.

OOC: Alright trying for 3x2d6 bolts
First the spell casting
08:15, Today: Jake Lawrence rolled 6,4,7,1 using 1d10,1d10,1d10,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 6,4,7,1. Spell Casting (3x2d6 bolts - 3pps).
All three successed without issue... now the deal
08:16, Today: Jake Lawrence drew the 9 cards: 3D, 5H, 9H, 6C, 5S, 4H, BJ!, QS, AD using a deck of 54 cards. Deal with the Devil (3 power points).
Well that's crap... going to have to use the Joker to make anything happen, if I don't I suffer the same effects... so damned if I do... damned if I don't. So pair of aces and I'll roll for my back lash after doing damage.
08:24, Today: Jake Lawrence rolled 6,13,5 using 2d6,2d6,2d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,2,(6+3)9,4,4,1. Damage.
Not exactly exciting damage there...

Now for the backlash
08:25, Today: Jake Lawrence rolled 12 using 1d20, rerolling max with rolls of 12. Backlash.
12 is Spirit Sap! Vigor or be incap
08:26, Today: Jake Lawrence rolled 1,5 using 1d6,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,5. Vigor.
Success but still take a level of Fatigue!

08:30, Today: Jake Lawrence drew the single card: 6H using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative.