September 13th, 1880. Evening. Outside Bullock & Star's Outfitters, Deadwood, Sioux nations

By the time Bullock, Han Lee, James Wilder, Jimmy Lonefeather, and Jack McCall make it to "Bullock & Star's Outfitters," the place is a burning wreck. There's chaos all around, and there's a tiny bit of a fire brigade, which makes finding out what actually happened here difficult at best. McCall's limping is noticeable, and it's slowing everyone down...even the man in the space suit moves faster than he does.

((OOC: So...you're here. What now?))

Bullock looks at the heap of fire that used to be his livelihood.
"Sol!? SOL STARR?" he starts yelling, walking closer to the blaze.
He grabs the arm of a man running by him to fetch more water and asks: "Have you seen Sol Starr? He was minding the store."

"I ain't seen anyone, Mr. Bullock sir." The man says. "I just got here." he tosses his bucket on the blaze. He turns and shouts "HEY! Anyone here see what happened to the fella minding the store?"

There's a chorus of "no" and "not sure," until one man pipes up: "The Jew? I think the robbers got 'em! I was buyin' some gear when they stormed in...all dressed in robes and painted purple. Funniest damn robbers you ever did see. I lit on out the back when they came in, so I didn't see what happened, but I think there was gunfire, and then the fire broke out."

Bullock nods, curtly. "Thank you."

Then he turns to McCall. "You said you know where they are?"

"Yes I did, and yes I can." McCall says, looking Bullock right in the eye. "And my price still stands. Have Han the Chinaman fix my leg, and let me take a fast horse out o' town, and I'll lead you to 'em. And you won't never see me again."

Bullock looks at McCall for a long time, grinding his teeth.
Then he pushes the words out, his politeness barely covering his hate:
"Han. Would you be so kind to see to McCall's leg. Then we'll go and look for a horse for him."

James glanced between the two talking then to Jimmy but said nothing. He then took a moment to look around the shop, seeing what he might be able to do to help out.

OOC: Not clue what to do at this point as I'm in a space suit ...

"Before we start rustling up horses for bandits, perhaps we should take a look inside first." Jimmy says. "The guy said the robbers came in, there was some shooting, and then the fire started. Maybe your friend managed to get the drop on them. Or maybe they just killed him and went on their way. We don't know." He pats Wilder's fire suit. "But we have someone here who can find out. Maybe we can find a trail--and won't need that bastard's help at all."

"Now wait just a fucking minute!" McCall protests. "I already know where we're going!"

"Yeah? And what guarantee do we have you won't just ride out and leave us twisting in the wind?" Jimmy asks, his hand sliding nonchalantly to the holster of the gatling pistol at his side.

"Well, what fucking guarantee do I have you won't try to plug me in the back when I ride away, huh? Tell me that!"

"Cause he much like myself would probably just plug ya in the front... now shut ya complaining mouth and let the adults do some work." James said with a shake of his head. "Bullock, give me a run down of this place."

((OOC: Please correct anything you don't like, Marshal))

"When you go in, the store's separated by a few shelves to your right. They're high enough to form make-shift corridors, but most likely have collapsed in the blaze already.
To the left, there's the counter with the register. In the back, somewhat to the right, is the office. We've reinforced the walls with some metal bars because of the safe we got back there. Behind the office is a small washroom. If Sol's still alive, he's bound to be in there."

He grimaces. "There's another door in the back. I'll circle round and meet you there. When you come out of the office, go left, until you hit the wall. There's the door."

Wilder took a moment to get a mental layout but nodded to Bullock before he went inside. The gunslinger wasn't too happy with this hand he'd been dealt, but he wasn't going to let a man burn alive in this building either.

OOC: Talk about out of the frying pan into the fire X_x

Han watches Wilder enter the building, he moved as close as he could to the burning building waiting, hoping that Seth's partner (if inside) would not be past saving.  If he was savable, Han was going to do everything he could to heal the man.

The interior of the building is smokey and while the flames make everything bright, it's still hard to see much. Still, the suit works as advertised, and James doesn't feel more than mildly warm while inside it, and the smoke doesn't bother his lungs in the least.

There's definitely been a fight here, though. There's a streak of blood on the floor, as if something bleeding had been dragged. The drag marks lead away from the office and out the back door. Looking in to the office, it's apparent that this was where the majority of the fighting took place. Files and folders are scattered all over, and there's a pool of blood on the floor next to the safe, which is still closed.

There's no other sign of habitation. If Sol Star was here, he's not here now. It looks like he may have been injured and dragged away, if he wasn't killed by whatever left that pool of blood on the floor.

Bullock waits, anxiously outside the back door, Han and McCall next to him.
When he hears James' news, he nods a thank you, then turns to Han.

"Can you make his leg better, Han? And will you", he asks the Jameses, "accompany us?"

"Of course, Seth." Han says and steps over to McCall. Pulling out a few acupuncture needles and jamming them into him a bit harder than necessary. "Be still." he said and began to chant.

12:00, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 1,15 using 1d6,1d8, rerolling max with rolls of 1,(8+7)15. Healing.

Don't know what his wound penalties are at the moment but that should be two wounds of healing.
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James looked about the space quickly, his eyes scanning as best they could through their portal to the world. "What a mess...", he muttered as he looked. Once satisfied with what knowledge he's gleamed the gunslinger headed back out into the streets.

"Bullock, Whoever was here ... had a heck of fight. Lots of blood and a big mess. No bodies though, looks like someone, maybe your friend, got dragged out, but I'm not sure if they were alive or not."

OOC: Notice?
17:13, Today: James Wilder rolled 2,3 using 1d6,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,3. Notice.
white chip to reroll
17:13, Today: James Wilder rolled 4,2 using 1d6,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,2. Notice - white chip.

The wound in Jack McCall's leg mends at Han's touch, though his power can't do anything about the other wounds McCall has already sustained.

"I'm with you, Marshal." Lonefeather says.

"Where's my horse?" McCall grumbles, not bothering to thank the boy. "Get me that, I tell you where they are, and get out of your life forever."

((OOC: That would heal 3 wounds, actually...even at -3, that's still a 12, which is a success and 2 raises. However, McCall only has 1 wound that can be healed without Greater Healing, so he's as healed as he's going to get.))

In reply to Jack McCall (msg # 17):

"You'll take us there, McCall. I don't trust you half as far as I could throw you."

"Fine." McCall grumbles. "I ain't fightin' on your behalf, though. once I've taken you there, we part ways."

He leads them up the tangled, chaotic streets, past soldiers attempting to contain and focus panicked crowds of people and moving horses, past the shells of business where looters work at stripping out the valuables, towards a great fire.

Several blocks of Deadwood are ablaze now...it looks like the Gem and all the nearby saloons caught fire not long after the Marshal's office went up. McCall leads them to a small hardware store next to the Langrishe theater.

As the group passes the theater, a familiar voice calls out. "Marshal! Marshal Bullock!" A woman with short blonde hair, burgundy dress, and makeup approaches the group out of the alley way, followed by a posh gentleman in a collared shirt, trousers, a fitted waistcoat and a cravat.

"Damn I'm glad I found you!" She says.

Bullock raises an eyebrow, surprised about Jackie's outfit.
"Deputy Wells? What.. why... It's good to see you." He finally finishes.
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The woman acknowledged her greeter rather curtly.

"Where the hell do you think you're going Marshal?  Did you invite all your friends and leave me out?"
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"I ain't his fuckin' friend." McCall grumbles. "Ain't yours, neither." He shifts the rifle in his hands, though he doesn't do anything quite as stupid as brandish it.


"Ma'am, we're on the trail of some dangerous criminals who've struck both the jail and Mr. Bullock's business partner." Says a disheveled half-breed who has a gatling pistol at the ready. There's an ugly scar around his neck that looks like it might have been caused by a noose... "You might want to find a safe place to wait out the trouble."


He obviously didn't seem to know her very well.

Jackie did recognize the man in the strange suit that was bringing up the rear...that was the guy who'd been called up to the stage just before the trouble started, and who had been dressed in that get-up by Hyrum Burns and his "daughter." But The Professor had said Burns was actually a criminal scientist named Reginald Smythee...so who knew what he was really up to...

Was the Marshal in danger, surrounded by these hardcases?

"Good to have you here, Deputy. Are you armed?"
"Some people in robes with purple-colored skin attacked the jail and I have reason to believe they're the arsonists responsible for this fire.
He", he nods at the coward McCall, "claims to know where they are. He'll take us there. In exchange, he wants us to let him go."

Bullock makes a face as if he'd bitten down hard on something rotten.

"The other two have agreed to help."

When the Marshal says purple skin and robes, she looks quite surprised at first and almost forms the first word to a question.  "Doomsay-?"

She stops herself.  They may very well have purple skin in some cases but he did not say purple robes.  She lets it go for now, though it looks strange.  She's known to be a few cartridges shy of a box.

Wells gives McCall a look that could chill sarsaparilla, her solid jaw set forward as if she were contemplating putting him out of her misery right here.  It's clear she does not like this news in the slightest.

"Well I don't know what possessed you to make that promise Marshal, but I suppose you can promise to let him go."

Her current costume notwithstanding, the stern woman looks at the man who was the victim of a particularly cruel necktie like he just ate a bug.  She seems mostly confused by the other would be accomplice.

From somewhere in that ensemble however a locally well known Gatling pistol emerges.

"The safest place is going to be the hell away from those purple skinned weirdoes, and the opposite of where I aim to go.  I got the rest rolled up and stashed nearby, it's on the way.  Let's go Marshal."

Her eyes dart between the three, the strange man who'd been on stage, the strange man who looked like he'd gotten taller and now found it hard to swallow, and the one who ought to be in jail.

The man with the stretched neck grins. "You know, I think I like you," he says to Jackie and tips his hat. "James Lonefeather at your service. Jimmy to my friends. This fella here," he pats the man in the space suit, "is James Wilder. We're bounty hunters. Got caught up in all this."

"You keep your deputies back as well, Bullock." McCall says, "Or I reckon I won't be responsible if'n we don't get there in time to save yer friend."

"Why do we still need him anyway?" Lonefeather replies. "I'm a fair tracker myself. Comes with the job."

"Same thing. You might find where they stashed him, but can you do it in time before they do whatever it is they're planning?"

Lonefeather grins at him. "Yeah? You just threatened to lead us on a wild goose chase if we don't follow your whims. How do we know you aren't doing that already, as revenge? You've shot men for less."

"Only once," grumbles McCall.

"Only once? As if it makes that all better? You murdered a legend of the west in cold blood, McCall. Even if Bullock here keeps his deputy from chasing your ass to perdition, he doesn't have a hold on us. I'm prepared to chase your ass to Perdition if I need to."

Jackie smiles, but only internally.  She wasn't sure if anyone would pick up what she'd put down there, but they did and ran with it beyond her wildest hopes.

Her glance is fixed on McCall, hard and unwavering.  She looks like she just wants to plug him here and dispose of the pretense he's going to help somehow.

Han speaks up quietly but with conviction. "Debate at this hour only hastens death and defeat. We must press on."

James scanned the area looking for more information as was the gunslinger's way. "We'd best get moving ... more time we waste is time your friend doesn't have."

The deputy was focused on McCall.  That ornery snake in the grass was the only one holding things up here, everyone else seemed to be on board.

Wordlessly, she departed to grab the roll of stuff she'd stashed under the skirting in the alley.  And maybe try to remember what she was wearing, and do something about that too.

McCall grunts, and leads them on.

He leads them back behind Ayers & Wardman Hardware, next to the theater. The group can hear the sounds of stomping from within.

"When I was here, there wasn't a whole congregation...just the leader." McCall says. "I'd been looking for...for a place to sleep. He called me a thief and threatened to toss me to his worms. I told him I wasn't no thief, and he said he'd spare me, but only if I did him a little favor first. There was some girl who'd done something to weaken his position among his cult. He wanted me to kill her. Gave me a robe to hide myself when I found her, so she wouldn't know me right off." He leads them back to a cellar door. "This leads to the store room. Go through here, and you can get right under 'em." McCall says, then glares at Bullock. "This is as far as I go. You're here. I done my bit."

The stomping gets louder. "Better hurry, Marshal. Sounds like they's gettin' ready to do somethin' nasty to your friend."

"And did you kill the woman?" Han calls over his shoulder as he looks to make his way under the building.

Bullock seems to not have heard.
"What. Girl?" he forces through closed teeth.

"Some dark-haired, green-eyed cunt. She tossed some cards in my face at the Bella Union the other night. And I didn't touch her. You saw her, though...she was there at the boarding house. She was the one who shot me. She was with that Roger Sebastian creep and the nigger, the ones you paid the bounty to. Remember? I'm guessing all this is because she decided to sic her cult on me and you, cause she figgered we'd be at the jail all night."

Bullock stares at McCall, then nods at Wells.
"I'll be going in first and to the right. Then the next in and to the left. Wells, your last in. Spread out, make sure you got cover close by. Then follow my lead."
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16:09, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 8,7 using d10+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 6,5. Wouldn't shoot a man in the back..

Good, I didn't zap us all!

Deputy Wells, ignored for a moment, had retrieved an odd looking scattergun, the queerest one you ever did see, one of them New Science contraptions, obviously getting ready for the raid.

Unceremoniously, just as the Marshal concluded his orders, she turned the muzzle of the thing onto Jack McCall.  A loud static crackle hissed through the air.

4 charges, plus 1d6 for the raise, +4 for The Drop.  Hopefully I read the instructions right.

16:14, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 24 using 5d6+4, rerolling max with rolls of 1,(6+1)7,3,5,4. ... yeah I would actually.

It's set on stun, Marshal.

McCall lets out a shriek loud enough to wake the dead as the coruscating red beam slams into him. He jerks and spasms as crackling red electricity dances over him, then collapses to the ground, smoking and still (though he seems to still be breathing).

The stomping inside the building suddenly stops.

Han swore in Chinese and drew his pistol and began to make his way under the building.
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"Well? Let's go in Marshal.  That girl he was talking about needs a pair of steel bracelets!"

((OOC: diving under the building isn't quite possible...there's no space to dive under. You have to open the cellar door first...))

"Good Work, Deputy Wells."

Bullock draws his pistol and checks once more the chambers.
Then he grabs then door handle.

"Alright, let's go!"


((Yes, I'm leaving out the part where Bullock opens the door and storms in in case the door is locked.

Initiative, just in case
09:51, Today: Seth Bullock drew the single card: QH using the Deadlands system. Initiative?

))
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James looked from the fallen form of McCall to the deputy to Bullock then to Jimmy. He wasn't exactly sure what had just occurred, but it seemed a rather effective method of putting down someone. "I think we need one of those Jimmy." The gunslinger reached for his pistol but realized his inside this strange suit and can't really get to anything inside it ...

Han nods along to Seth's command and follows.


11:48, Today: Doctor Han Lee drew the single card: BJ! using the Deadlands system. Init.

The cellar door is locked, naturally, but Lonefeather waves Bullock away. "I got this." he says, kneeling and pulling a small pouch of long, thin tools from his jacket. He works the tools into the padlock. "There's a reason they call me Jimmy."

After a few deft movements with the tools, there's a click and the lock falls away.

It's quiet above. Too quiet. "As much as I admire your style, lady," Lonefeather says to Jackie, "I think you made our job harder. I think we're about to be ambushed."

((OOC: James, Jackie, I need initiative scores from you, since everyone is rolling them. I'll keep them in mind for when combat actually does start.))

James chuckled at Jimmy's joke, "So I shouldn't mention that time in Omaha and that pretty little lady who had a thing for ... " The gunslinger let the other fill in the blanks

OOC: Sure thing!
08:33, Today: James Wilder drew the single card: 10S using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative .

"Pfffft.  I am the ambush.  Besides do you know what they guy does if he... never mind."  Jackie switched to her signature Gatling pistol.

19:06, Today: Jackie Wells drew the single card: QS using the Deadlands system. Trusty Initiative Draw.

The dark cellar stretches before them, like the maw of some hideous beast. A chill air from within carries the stench of rot and something sickly sweet, like spoiled pears.

The place is dead silent, the silence of a hunter waiting to strike.

((OOC: Keep in mind, you are walking into a potential ambush. The initiative you rolled will only count for the turn you get to go...if you get surprised, you'll miss a turn.

You are proceeding into a place that is Pitch Dark, so there's a -4 penalty on all actions unless you get a light source going.))

Han speaks quietly to Seth, "You sure you don't want to throw your law enfocring weight around, see if we can cow them that way. They sure as sin know we are here now."

Bullock throws Han an annoyed glance, but it's likerly the Chinese doctor won't be able to see it, considering the darkness.

He takes a few steps to the right, to clear himself from the rest of the group, then calls out: "This is Marshal Bullock! I'm looking for my business associate. I just have a few questions. Nobody will get harmed."

"You know I kind of hope he's wrong."  Deputy Wells muses not quite under her breath.

"Buenos noches, Marshal." A pleasant, if creepy, voice calls from the darkness. There's a muffled quality about it, as if the speaker were behind a barrier of some sort, and there's no real way to determine the direction it's coming from. It's almost as if the darkness itself were speaking to them. "Enter freely, and of your own will. We have been waiting for your arrival. It is good of you to come."

"Then come out where I can see you. You're certainly not hiding in the darkness, are you? You'll have lanterns or something. So light 'em up. Let me see you!"

"Alas, I am afraid not, Mr. Bullock." The man replies. The voice still sounds muffled. "We are in the middle of conducting a service. It cannot be interrupted. Perhaps you should return later, if you do not feel comfortable coming in. But your friend Mr. Star might feel very differently. What do you say, Mr. Star?"

"Seth!" someone shouts. "Get out of here! These people are crazy! Run! RU~!" The shout is abruptly silenced.

"tsk. Enough of that. Well, Mr. Bullock. You have a choice to make. Come to us. You can throw down your weapons and come unarmed through the darkness, or enter armed and take your chances. But I am afraid none of us will be coming to you. And should you have any clever notions about burning us out..."

There another scream, high, shrill, and feminine, that makes Bullock's blood run cold.

"..well, you have more to lose than we do, I think."

"Marshal you'd better go in if you want to be first like you said, otherwise it'll be yours truly."

James glanced at Jimmy with a look that said volumes. The gunslinger then attempted to figure out how to get his gun out from the inside of the silly suit he was wearing.

Bullock grinds his teeth.
"Anybody has a source of light?" he asks, already knowing the answer.
"Spread out, don't fire first! It'll give away where you are. When you're threatened, retaliate. My partner's in there. I will not abandon him. Let's go!"

And with that, he dives into the darkness, turning immediately right.

Jackie held her weapon aloft, set to follow the others in as instructed earlier.

Just to clarify what Jackie is doing.

((OOC: James, you can reach your gun with just an action to slip it out of the folds of the suit. Han Lee, are you following them down?))

Han moved forward into the darkness and stepped to the left. His right hand held his pistol while his left cast about cautiously feeling for signs of danger.

The cellar is dark. The only light comes from cracks in the floorboards, and the faint glimmer of illumination from the open door behind them. Unable to see, the posse of five stumble about, keeping to the walls. Mud squelches beneath their shoes. Occasionally one of them trips over a stick--presumably a stick, anyhow. Jackie kicks something round while moving through the muck that rolls with an eerily hollow sound. The basement stinks of rot, death, and that strange spoiled pear smell.

((OOC: It's Pitch Black in here, so all actions requiring sight are at -4. That includes any Shooting or Fighting rolls you may have to make.))

Bullock strains his eyes and ears to find his way in the dark, toward the "service" of the cultists, searching for his friend.



12:33, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 15,5 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+6+3)15,5. Notice.
Is that one roll, looking and hearing? or two?
Listen would be 15, Looking 11.

Han stopped moving and merely let his sneses stretch out as best he could.  He felt the air around him and was ready to strike out whenever he sensed movement.  However, his youth and impatience wore thin...  he moved to the doorway and half way out the stair chase, he gestures wildly to James Wilder to come near.

"If you don't have a light source, metal man. Can you go in the building and break up some floor boards. We can't see a thing and Srth is walking us into a trap I worry."
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Jackie, as the last one in, suddenly got an idea before entering the darkness.  Everyone smoked in this era.  Well the ladies were more partial to snuff but they smoked too.

Surely McCall was a smoker.  She stopped for a moment to check him for his matches.

Jackie is in luck. McCall does, in fact, have a box of matches on him, along with a pipe that smells of something a sight stronger than tobacco. Looks like the matches were missed when McCall was jailed earlier.

Bullock strains his eyes, and sees the occasional shadow cross the light coming from the cracks between the floorboards above his head. There is the occaional creak of wood from above, as well.

Son of a bitch.

{{THUMP!}}

The first stomp catches him off-guard a bit, breaking his concentration. That sounded like something fell...

{{THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!}}

Nope. It's a deliberate beat. Like someone stomping repeatedly on the boards above him. Check that--a lot of someones.

{{THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!}}

And is it his imagination, or did the muck under his feet just move?

((OOC: Everyone except for Bullock, Roll Notice! Han Lee, since you got that Joker, you get a +2 bonus on your roll.))

While Jack McCall was donating to the cause, she was sure he wouldn't mind if she laundered his shirt.  By burning it.  It was dirty enough.


11:49, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 3,3 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,3. Notice.

Not sure if you mean for the darkness penalty to apply or not, not that it matters with that roll.

Han has no sooner attempted to divulge his unorthodox plan to Mr Wilder than he hears the cultists kicking up a fuss.

10:12, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 23,12 using d6+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of (6+6+6+3)21,(6+4)10. Notice.

I think I notice something...

James followed the others, not sure exactly what was going on but pretty sure it wasn't going to end well.

OOC:
12:04, Today: James Wilder rolled 3,5 using 1d6,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,5. Notice.

Bullock has only an instant of warning...he feels the shift under his feet, and something cold and slimy begins to wrap around his leg...

Han Lee, halfway up the stairwell, sees the walls bulge half an instant before nasty purple worms blasts through the walls, seeking him with flailing tentacles from their tooth-ringed maws...

Jackie, hovering over the prone form of McCall, has no warning when a giant purple worm bursts through the gunman's chest, tentacles flailing, spraying her with gore...

Wilder and Lonefeather, down in the darkness, feel the world suddenly lurch as the muck beneath their feet suddenly boilds with long, purple worms...



((OOC: 21:04, Today: James Lonefeather rolled 3,3 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,3. Notice.

Han Lee and Marshal Bullock are able to act this round. They get to act on the cards they rolled. The rattlers start the fight On Hold and can attack at will.

I'm going to need a Fear check (-Fear level, +Grit) from all of you. The Fear Level of this little slice of Deadwood is 5.

Once the fear rolls are done, Han Lee has an action, and Seth Bullock needs to roll Agility to beat the worms to get an action before them. The rest of you are surprised.))

---

Turn Order:
Rattler Young'uns: On hold to Ambush
Worm Cultists: On Hold to Ambush
Han Lee: BJ!
Bullock: QH
Lonefeather, Jackie Wells, James Wilder: Surprised!

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Han's mouth hangs agape for half a moment but his body seems to know what it wants well before that. He steps towards the worm that attacked him and delivers a swift vicious low kick to it while flicking his Lemat over to a shotgun and blasting away at the critter attacking Janet Jackie.


00:46, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 1,1 using 1d8,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,1. Fear of four.

00:48, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 4,1 using 1d8,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,1. white chip reroll.*

Actually forgot to add the +2 for being a joker this round but it matters little here.

00:56, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 17,4 using 1d10+2,1d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of (10+5)15,2. Fighting atk.
Three raises !!!!! (PS I assume that since I am in the moon light that the darkness penalty is not affecting me at the moment.)

01:07, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 3,30 using 1d4+2,4d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,2,(6+6+3)15,(6+3)9,4. three raise damage!
= 33

01:11, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 5,7 using 1d6+4,1d6+4, rerolling max with rolls of 1,3. Shotgun, Joker shooting roll.

01:11, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 14 using 3d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 5,3,4. Shotgun damage.


01:17, Today: Doctor Han Lee drew the single card: 4S using the Deadlands system. Initiative

^{*Have gone down to three Whites.}
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((OOC: Han, when you make a Fear check in Deadlands you subtract the Fear level as a penalty to your roll, and then add your grit as a bonus. As a Seasoned-rank character, you have 2 grit, and you have the Joker bonus, but the Fear Level here is 5, so you have a net -1 penalty that you didn't account for.

That means that unless you spend a red or blue chip for a bonus, you failed the fear check. This might change the rest of your action (having to deal with being Shaken at the very least).

You only get a single d6 when you get a raise on an attack roll, no matter how many raises you get. I'm going to need you to reroll that damage with the correct value, please.

Also, did you mean Jackie? Janet is a different character.))

What a mess...
First I will spend a blue to add to my roll.
02:54, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 5 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5. Spending the blue.

02:56, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 5,4 using 1d4+2,2d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,2,2. rerolled fighting damage.
=9

And I did mean Jackie.

No more late night posts for me.
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Han Lee's quick reflexes splatter the worm that burst out of the wall in front of him, as well as giving him the momentum to take the thing that had burst out of the wall behind him.

The shotgun blast rips through the worm burrowing out of McCall's body, splattering Jackie with nasty ichor that smells horribly like rotten fruit. She hadn't even had time to blink yet.

((OOC: Yeah, it can get kinda fuzzy.

9 is enough to cause a wound, and the rattler bursting out of the other wall will be caught by your first strike attack. Since you get the Joker bonus until the end of your action, you get the bonus damage with that attack. Which means it also takes a wound. The one hit by the shotgun blast takes 2 wounds. All three go down (I'm saving my chips for the actual cultists). Nice job.

...aaaand you did it again. ;D))

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A note for everyone still in the cellar: It's pitch dark, so you have a -4 penalty to any attack rolls you might make!

"Next time I get a fool idea like going into town or say being helpful ... remind me of this Jimmy" James said as he saw the massive creature rise up from the earth.

OOC:
07:26, Today: James Wilder rolled 2,0 using 1d6-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 5,3. Fear (+2 Grit -5 Fear Level).
Yikes ... reroll w/ a white chip
07:26, Today: James Wilder rolled 19,-1 using 1d6-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of (6+6+6+4)22,2. Fear (+2 Grit -5 Fear Level) WC.
I think 19'll do it :)

21:45, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 7,0 using d6-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of (6+5)11,4. Fear check white.
21:44, Today: Seth Bullock rolled -1,-2 using d6-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 3,2. Fear check.

21:47, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 1,5 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,5. Agility.


Did Han take out all the worms now or are there more?

17:08, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 8,3 using 1d8-2,1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of (8+2)10,5. am I scurred.

Deputy Wells was, well, a bit startled when that happened, because you just don't see that every day.

But apparently she's seen worse.  Much worse....

"But see, amid the mimic rout, A crawling shape intrude!" The demented preacher begins to shriek over the stomping. "A blood-red thing that writhes from out the scenic solitude! IT WRITHES! IT WRIIIIITHES! With mortal pangs the mimes become its food, and seraphs sob at vermin fangs in human gore imbued!"

Worms boil out of the mud in the basement. Bullock, Wilder, and Lonefeather can't actually see any of them, it's so dark, but when the hellishly strong tentacles wrap around their legs, there's no mistaking where the things are.

Lonefeather can't answer Wilder's quip--he goes down screaming as the things yank and tear at him. one of the things gets his head partway down its gullet, nasty teeth from the serrated maw

James Wilder is also hard-pressed to escape the maws of the hideous monsters, which tug and yank his suit, ripping it to tear at the flesh beneath, the hideous strength of the things crushing and grinding his bones in their tentacles.

Seth Bullock also finds himself besieged by the worms, but he's been prepared for this, and though he'll probably have to change his longjohns later, right now the adrenaline keeps him moving out of the lashing tentacles of the things just long enough for him to catch his breath. Then a tentacle whips the side of his head, and he sees stars and hears a ringing in his ears.

Outside, Han Lee finds yet another worm bursting out of the packed earth, attempting to grasp him and pull him under. He's able to evade the thing with a dazzling desplay of martial dexterity, however.

Jackie Wells is not quite so lucky. More worms burst from McCall's body, and though she's faced Rattler Youn'uns before (and worse--wormlings) it's always bad when they get the drop. Tentacles whip around her, lashing her face, and one of the things gets a good grip on her arm, yanking it from the socket in a flash of blinding pain...

((OOC: Oh, there are plenty more worms where those came from, Bullock. There are three worms down out of 15 or so in the immediate area, which leaves a dozen left to attempt to snack on you.

I check to see whether the worms or Bullock go first. It's a Group roll for all of them.

21:10, Today: Rattler Young'un rolled 4,10 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,(6+4)10. Agility. That'll beat Bullcok's 5.

There are 3 rattlers after Bullock, 3 after James Wilder, 3 after Lonefeather, 2 after Jackie, and 1 after Han Lee.

The worms get bonuses for their Burrowing attack. They get no bonus against Bullock or Han Lee (they made their checks), +4 to attacks and Damage against the rest of you (since they not only beat your stealth checks, they got a raise to boot).

Attacks vs Bullock: +2 Gang-up, +1 special ability, no other bonus

21:17, Today: Rattler Young'un rolled 7,19,4 using d6+3,d6+3,d6+3, rerolling max with rolls of 4,(6+6+4)16,1. Fighting! (with Gang-Up). 2 hits, 1 with a raise

Damage 1: 5 (no effect)
Damage 2: 8 (Shaken)

Attacks vs. Han Lee: +0 (his Martial Arts cancels out the special ability)

21:20, Today: Rattler Young'un rolled 2 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2. Fighting! Miss.

Attacks vs. Jackie: +1 Gang-up, +1 Special Ability, +4 The Drop

21:21, Today: Rattler Young'un rolled 11,11 using d6+6,d6+6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,5. Fighting! (with Gang-Up and The Drop). 2 hits with raises

Damage 1: 10 (shaken)
Damage 2: 23 (Shaken, 3 wounds)

Attack vs James Wilder: +2 Gang-up, +1 Special ability, +4 the drop

21:24, Today: Rattler Young'un rolled 12,14,10 using d6+7,d6+7,d6+7, rerolling max with rolls of 5,(6+1)7,3. Fighting! (with Gang-Up and The Drop). 3 hits with raises

Damage 1: 14 (Shaken, 2 wounds)
Damage 2: 18 (Shaken, 3 wounds)
Damage 3: 19 (Shaken, 3 wounds)

Attack vs. James Lonefeather: +2 Gang-up, +1 Special ability, +4 the drop

21:24, Today: Rattler Young'un rolled 10,8,11 using d6+7,d6+7,d6+7, rerolling max with rolls of 3,1,4. Fighting! (with Gang-Up and The Drop).

Damage 1: 9 (Shaken)
Damage 2: 20 (Shaken, 3 wounds)
Damage 3: 25 (Shaken, 4 wounds)

James Lonefeather is Incapacitated with an injury to the Head, but he made his Incapacitation roll with a Raise, so he survives with only the One Eye hindrance for 24 hour or all his wounds are healed (whichever comes first).

Next turn: 3H, 6D))

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Seth Bullock is up next! Remember that you have a -4 Darkness penalty to any attacks you may make against the worms.

James dropped like a sack of potatoes under the onslaught of the creature

OOC: Let' see what I can do against this HORDE of damage.
FC:W4R2B2

First attack - 2 wounds. Spend a white chip to soak
08:29, Today: James Wilder rolled 2,2 using 1d8,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,2. Soak Roll #1.
Fail ... white chip to re-roll
08:29, Today: James Wilder rolled 4,3 using 1d8,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,3. Soak Roll #1 x2.
That's 1 wound, I'll burn a red chip to a +d6
08:29, Today: James Wilder rolled 5 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5. Red Chip for Soak Roll #1 x2.
4+5 = 9 so that soaks both wounds - Down 2 whites and 1 red FC:W2R1B2

Second Attack - 3 wounds. Another white chip to soak
08:33, Today: James Wilder rolled 2,1 using 1d8,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,1. Soak Roll #2.
Utter fail AGAIN ... white chip to re-roll
08:33, Today: James Wilder rolled 5,5 using 1d8,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,5. Soak Roll #2 x2.
That's 1 wound, I'll burn a red chip to a +d6
08:34, Today: James Wilder rolled 3 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3. Red Chip for Soak Roll #2 x2.
That's 8 which covers 2 out of 3 ... going to burn a blue for another +d6
08:34, Today: James Wilder rolled 2 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2. Blue Chip for Soak Roll #2 x2.
And that's 10 ... won't do it. So that's 2 white, 1 red and 1 blue
FC:W0R0B1

I'm going to just go to the incap table from the 3rd attack and save my blue chip for there.
08:36, Today: James Wilder rolled 8,8 using 1d8-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of (8+3)11,(6+5)11. Vigor (-3 WP).
Woot! Raise: Roll on the Injury Table. The Injury goes away in 24 hours, or when all wounds are healed.
08:37, Today: James Wilder rolled 5 using 2d6 with rolls of 1,4. Injury Table.
Guts
08:38, Today: James Wilder rolled 3 using 1d6 with rolls of 3. Injury Tablex2.
3-4   Battered: Vigor reduced a die type(minimum d4).

... well that was fun X_x

16:31, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 1,11 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,(6+5)11. Recover from shaken.

Bullock shakes his head, then raises his pistol and returns the favor, putting a bullet right into the thing's maw.

Then he's spattered with blood and gore and for a second he feels disgusted, then grim satisfaction of killing.

16:33, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 14 using 2d6+1, rerolling max with rolls of (6+4)10,3. Shooting damage.
16:33, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 4,-1 using d10-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 8,3. Shooting.

Bullets: 5/6


16:38, Today: Seth Bullock drew the single card: JC using the Deadlands system. Initiative.

There was a sick wet crunch*pop*.  In her shoulder.  Shoulders aren't supposed to do that.

Okay I spent a white to try to soak that madness.  I did pretty good with a 7 and I red chipped it for an 11.

Sorely tempted to reroll it to try to soak it all but I'll quit while I'm ahead with 2 wounds soaked.

17:16, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 4 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4. Red Chippers for more Soakies.

17:15, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 7,5 using 1d8,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 7,5. White, For Soakiness!

Incidentally which arm did it grab?

((OOC: That leaves you with 1 wound and Shaken, then. According to my random roll, it's the left arm, though since you have only 1 wound and we're not using gritty damage, the dislocation thing is mostly just cosmetic.))

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Turn Order
James Lonefeather: KC Incapacitated
Jackie Wells: QS
Seth Bullock: JC
James Wilder: 10S (Did you want to take Han Lee's offer for use of Hot Iron and Whiskey to remove 1 of your wounds (and Incapacitation along with it) in exchange for a scar?)
Rattlers: 6D
Han Lee: 4S
Reverend Gusano and his cultists: On Hold
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First, can we Unshake!?

23:59, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 6,3 using 1d8-1,1d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 7,4. Shake N Bake.

Indeed we can.

Okay I'm a bit rusty here, but I interpret the Advanced Gatling Gun as being activated with the Shooting Skill.  Jackie has -1 for wounds and -2 MAP, but hasn't moved and can use Rock and Roll!

We're going to spend 3 Power Points here.

00:07, Today: Jackie Wells rolled -1,-2,-2,-2 using 1d10-3,1d10-3,1d10-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 2,1,1,1. hopefully correct roll to use.

o_o And that's terrible.  We're just going to white chipper that.

00:08, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 2,3,-1,-2 using 1d10-3,1d10-3,1d10-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 5,6,2,1. let's try that again...

Good grief Charlie Brown!  Well at least no 1s on the Shooting dice, I seem to recall there's no special consequences for a 1 on the Wild Die.

Deputy Wells doesn't have a lot of options with the worm having her left arm.  Luckily her Gatling pistol was in her right hand before it even grabbed her.

As Jackie attempted to literally shoot the monster off of her, it pulled on the injured shoulder.

"Errggghshitfuuuuuck!"

((OOC: Correct, Jackie's pistol uses Shooting, and 1's on Wild Die don't count for malfunctions.

Card for next round?))

Forgotten in classic form!

00:24, Today: Jackie Wells drew the single card: 2S using the Deadlands system. forgotted.

The luck train just keeps on rollin'.

((GM autopilot))

"Jackie!" Bullock shouts as he fires into the dark. "Deputy Wells, do you still have any of that goddamn dynamite?"

Something squeals as Bullock fires. One more down.

((OOC: With Bullock's player temporarily out of action, I'll take back the reigns of Bullock for a bit.

Bullock will again fire at one of the worms. He will Double Tap for +1 to attack and damage, to help mitigate some of the darkness penalties

11:06, Today: The Stray, on behalf of Seth Bullock, rolled 12,-2 using d10-3,d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of (10+5)15,1. Shooting! (Double Tap). Hit and Raise

Damage: 10 (Shaken and 1 wound, which will take out the thing).

Card: JH

Bullets left: 3/6))

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It's James Wilder's turn!

PM
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OOC: Burning Using 4C - Hot Iron and Whiskey to put me at 2 wounds!

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The gunslinger cried out in pain, gut ripping pain. The Indians had done a pretty good job of beating Wilder up but the Rattler had put them to shame. His eyes shifted about the darkened room trying to get any bits of light they could. He'd heard Jimmy drop like a stone, the gunslinger reached out to find his friend and hoped to get them both to safety.

OOC: So yeah going to grope around in the dark for Lonefeather and move out of the building if I find him and if that's even possible

11:23, Today: James Wilder drew the single card: QS using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative .

((OOC: James, do you have a plan for withdrawing from Melee that won't get you or Jimmy torn apart by the 6 Rattlers that have the two of you surrounded?))

OOC: Wait ... a plan?! Oh right, yeah I should probably have one of those ... mmmm let's see
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses
Figured I'd go FULL defensive and withdraw ...

James attempts to run through the mess of rattlers, but there, in the dark, he's at a disadvantage, and the things grab at him as he tries to escape...

((OOC: Going Full Defense means you roll Fighting (+2) and use the result as your Parry. It also means you can't move. At all. I think you mean the Defend option (+2 to Parry, taking no other actions), which is the defense option that actually allows you to move your Pace.

This still provokes a mess of attacks from the nearest rattlers. The rattlers don't want to let you go, after all (you're a tasty snack). That's 3 attacks, but with the full Gang-up bonus of +4 vs. your current Parry of 7.

10:11, Today: Rattler Young'un rolled 7,7,6 using d6+4,d6+4,d6+4, rerolling max with rolls of 3,3,2. Fighting! (with Gang-Up). 2 hits.

Damage 1: 4 (no effect)
Damage 2: 13 (Shaken and 1 Wound)

Now's a good time to attempt to soak. If you pull it off, you'll be able to get to the stairwell.))

OOC: That's what I meant .. yeah totally!
So burn a white chip to soak that wound

13:18, Today: James Wilder rolled 4,3 using 1D8-2,1D6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 6,5. Soak/Vigor (-2 WP).

Woot!

The worms slither in pace with James as he runs. Jimmy's body slows him down just long enough for the slithering horrors to grab hold of him, and James feels more pain shooting up him as they drag him back down into the dark...

Bullock feels tentacles whipping all around him...more of the monsters have surrounded him, and he feels his strength starting to give out...

Jackie feels the monster twisting savagely on her wounded arm, trying to draw her back down through McCall's corpse...

And Han Lee even takes a swipe from the worm's tentacles, a slimy grip that yanks him off-balance and almost sends him tumbling...

((OOC: So, it's now the Rattler's turn. There are 10 Rattlers left.

The rattlers that James escaped from follow him, while the others turn on Bullock. That mans that there's now 4 attacking Bullock, 3 attacking James, 2 attacking Jackie, and 1 attacking Han Lee.

Attacks vs. Bullock: (+3 gang-up, +1 special ability)

22:51, Today: Rattler Young'un rolled 14,8,7,5 using d6+4,d6+4,d6+4,d6+4, rerolling max with rolls of (6+4)10,4,3,1. Fighting! (with Gang-Up). 3 hits, 1 with a Raise

Damage 1: 8 (Shaken)
Damage 2: 6 (Shaken, causes a wound)
Damage 3: 4 (no effect)

Attacks vs. James: (+2 Gang-up, +1 Special Ability)

22:52, Today: Rattler Young'un rolled 7,5,8 using d6+3,d6+3,d6+3, rerolling max with rolls of 4,2,5. Fighting! (with Gang-Up). 2 hits, no Raises

Damage 1: 17 (Shaken, 2 wounds)
Damage 2: 14 (Shaken, 2 wounds)

Attacks vs. Jackie: (+1 Gang-up, +1 Special Ability)

22:52, Today: Rattler Young'un rolled 4,13 using d6+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 2,(6+5)11. Fighting! (with Gang-Up). 1 hit with Raise

Damage: 13 (Shaken, 1 wound)

Attack vs. Han Lee (no bonuses)

22:53, Today: Rattler Young'un rolled 15 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+6+3)15. Fighting! Hit with Raise

Damage: 7 (Shaken)

It looks like James Wilder is down again...

Card for next round: 5C))

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It's Han Lee's turn!

<small>Spending a white chip to soak.

10:34, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 4,16 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,(6+6+4)16. Soaking.

That'll do it, I guess.
</small>

James tried his best but the critters were better. The gunslinger again fell to their onslaught. He let out a scream which was cut short as consciousness became to him.

OOC: Alright 5 whites and 1 blue vs 2 sets of 2wounds ... let's play!
First 2 wounds - 1 white chip to soak
09:08, Today: James Wilder rolled -1,3 using 1D8-2,1D6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 1,5. Soak (-2 WP).
Blue for +d6
09:09, Today: James Wilder rolled 1 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1. Blue Chip.
White to reroll all of that mess.
09:10, Today: James Wilder rolled 2,0,1 using 1D8-2,1d6-2,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,2,1. Soak (-2 WP) Vigor, WD, Blue Chip.
... wow ... just ... wow ... so 2 whites and 1 blue spent to soak 1 wound.
James is now at 3 wound and shaken

White to soak the other 2
09:11, Today: James Wilder rolled 4,0 using 1D8-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 7,3. Soak (-3 WP).
Not enough ... white chip to reroll
09:13, Today: James Wilder rolled 3,-1 using 1D8-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 6,2. Soak (-3 WP) x2.
All that and I'm going incap anyways X_x

09:17, Today: James Wilder rolled 1,-2 using 1D8-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 4,1. Vigor (-3 WP).
Last white chip to reroll
09:18, Today: James Wilder rolled 3,6 using 1D8-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 6,(6+3)9. Vigor (-3 WP) white reroll.
Success ... I'll just reuse my injury table rolls from earlier
08:33, Today: James Wilder rolled 5 using 2d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,4. Injury Table.
08:33, Today: James Wilder rolled 1 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1. Injury Tablex2.
Broken: Agility reduced a die type(minimum d4)

So now James is at three wounds, incapacitated, battered (for 24hrs), broken (till healed) and out of chips

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Han watches his associates getting wounded and his frustration starts getting to him when a little rattler actually connects with him. His anger and shock caused him to miss his kick at the wurm, so he flicked his lemat to it's pistol mode and took a shot at the creature. He had to shed his attacker quickly so he could heal his friends.


Spending that white chip to remove my shaken status... I have a few to spare.

Kicking the crap out of my friendly rattler...
10:29, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 3,2 using 1d10,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,2. Kick atk.

Ok... then I will shoot the heck out of it then...
10:31, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 4,1 using 1d6,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,1. shooting atk.

10:32, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 12 using 2d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+4)10,2. lemat pistol.

10:34, Today: Doctor Han Lee drew the single card: 3C using the Deadlands system. Initiative.

Turn Order
Bullock: JH
Rattlers: 5C
Doctor Han Lee: 3C
Jackie Wells: 2S
James Wilder: Incapacitated
Jimmy Lonefeather: Incapacitated
Reverend Gusano & the Worm Cultists: On Hold

Okayyyy.... so let me get this straight:
They have Bullock's wife. They have Bullock's friend. They've got, like 10 worms. We've got two men down. And it's dark. I guess I'll just shoot another worm, then.
Or...

"GODDAMN YOU, YOU COWARDS!"
Bullock screams, his anger winning the better of him.
"You call off these things RIGHT NOW or we will blow up this whole building RIGHT NOW!"


Worth a shot, eh? Intimidate!

20:24, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 4,11 using d12+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 2,(6+3)9. Intimidation, Strong Willed.

20:24, Today: Seth Bullock drew the single card: 9D using the Deadlands system. Initiative.

"I do not think you understand our relationship to the worms, Mr. Bullock." Comes the calm, pleasant voice of the madman upstairs. "We serve them. I could not call them away even if I wished to. And if you blow up the building, well, you will lose everything. If you simply let the inevitable happen, however, the worms will be sated. We will not have to give Mr. Star or you family to them. Think it over."

((OOC: 09:44, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 13,4 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of (8+5)13,4. Resisting ToW. Gusano is not intimidated...but there isn't much he could do about the worms in any case. Like he says, he doesn't have any special control over them.))

Bullock plays Out of the Frying pan.

Before Bullock can reply to the madman, the building is rocked by a small tremor. The ground rumbles and Bullock almost falls into the stinking muck. The boards of the hardware store above creak alarmingly, and Bullock thinks he sees, just for an instant, the outline of the trap door above him. It's 12 feet from the floor to the trap door. Perhaps if he can get to it, he could force it open...

Something else happens. The slithering worms crawling around Bullock, James, and Lonefeather suddenly twist away and burrow down into the muck, fleeing away wherever it is they go when underground. Outside, Han Lee and Jackie Wells also feel the shift. The worm nearest Han Lee flees back underground.

The worms inside Jack McCall's body are another story.

The dead bushwhacker's corpse twists and spasms and the worms try to crawl back through it away from the surface. Then the body twitches more, flailing about, bucking and twisting and seizing...and then Jack McCall's corpse sits up, the worms trapped in his gory chest cavity waving around like terrible new arms. The corpse's head turns to Jackie Wells. McCall's eyes shine in the moonlight. He opens his mouth...and begins to scream.

((OOC: And your prize for playing the OOTFP card is...a brand new Undead Jack McCall!

Han Lee and Jackie Wells, I'ma need a Fear check from the both of you (-5 for the Fear Level, -2 for McCall's fear score, + grit). Once that's done, it'll be Han Lee's action.))

Han spits on the ground, unmoved by this new twist. "The evil are never so easily dealt with."

20:51, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 5,-2 using 1d8-5,1d6-5, rerolling max with rolls of (8+2)10,3. Fear the undead.

OOC, I assume since the wurms fled, it is my go. Before I do, how close is my fallen companion James Wilder? If I can make it to him and heal in the same round I will do so, if not I will make my way backwards and fire a shot off at undead McCall.

21:15, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 1,1 using d8-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 5,5. Long Shot Fear Check!

Wow that's actually pretty good, considering.

Screw it I'm going for it.  Red Chip, that's a 2/3 chance to pass this!

21:17, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 5 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5. Better Red than Dead.

That's a 6 after it all adds up.  Hooyah!

Jackie looked back at McCall's twisted form.  "Damn, you somehow got even uglier."

Going to wait on Jackie's actual action until Dr. Han finishes.

((OOC: It is, in fact, your turn. Wilder is down the stairwell, easily reachable. However, before you can heal any of Wilder's wounds, you need to remove in Incapacitated status. This is a Heal check (or Healing power use) that is separate from the roll to actually heal things. If you had any ranks in the actual heal skill, you could attempt a Heal check to remove the Incapacitation and then a power check to remove wounds in the same action with an MAP, but since your only source of healing is your ki, you'll have to take an action to remove the Incapacitation first.  You might want to consider healing Jackie up first, since then she can keep Undead Jack McCall off your backs while you deal with tending the Incapacitated.))

Sound logic, but I do have the "mundane" heal skill, it is just a d4, as opposed to the sexy sexy d8 of my magic healing.  And I think I am going to try and save James, mainly because Han thinks there are still threats down in the basement and unlike James, Jackie is still moving about _{for now}. Apologies ahead of time, Jackie.

"Ms Wells, I must tend to James..." Han says back pedaling to the stair well. "Hold on, sir." the young doctor says as he gets to work awakening and mending the man.

He starts by hitting certain pressure points with the tips of his finger... it's not working. "Come on..." Least not fast enough. He pulls out  some herbs from a pouch and waives them under James' nose. "Come on-" then with a grunt of frustration Han's palm slaps James' across the cheek. "WAKE UP!" he calls and is satisfied with the response he finally gets.

With a breath to calm himself he lays his hands on the man once more. Willing his spirit to mend, albeit it partially, the man's wounds.



21:23, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 0,2 using 1d4-2,1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 2,4. Mundane Heal 4 incapacitation.

Which looks about right given the MAP penalty so I will spend a red.  1 draw for you Stray.

21:23, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 1 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1. red die, gotta try...

Sucks, gonna spend my 1 blue to further help..

21:27, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 5 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5. sigh... blue chip because ... sigh.

So the total for the mundane roll is 8

And now onto the magic healing:

21:27, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 2,1 using 1d8-2,1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 4,3. Magical healing.

Won't stand for that... using 1 white chip

21:28, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 3,0 using 1d8-2,1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 5,2. white chip, magic reroll

And then spend another red to supplement...

21:28, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 3 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3. *corrected* red to add to it roll.

So total of 6.

Finally initiative:
21:48, Today: Doctor Han Lee drew the single card: AH using the Deadlands system. initiative.

Jackie wished desperately she had a better weapon in hand, but this would have to do.  The Deputy was cussing a blue streak through all this as the shiny gun barked its reports and the casings just piled up as the shots riddled the chest of what used to be one Jack McCall.

"Get Some Ya Plug Ugly Sunuvabitch!"

21:20, Today: Jackie Wells rolled -1,5,3,5 using 1d10-3,1d10-3,1d10-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 2,8,6,(6+2)8. The Definition Of Insanity.

Yay, no 1s!  Decent roll!  Should be TWO short range hits?  Or do I have to roll against his Parry?  I'm not sure how assholes and elbows we really are, I'm taking for granted McCall is still a very short distance from Jackie Wells.

21:21, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 5,13 using 2d6,2d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,3,2,(6+5)11. Two damage rolls.

That's 5 and 13 in case that's any hits.

21:26, Today: Jackie Wells drew the single card: 5S using the Deadlands system.

Well I've had worse rounds of combat!

((OOC: That will heal the Incapacitation and 1 wound, which means James is up again.

Jackie has the Rock and Roll edge, so that cancels out the autofire penalty. You do have to hit McCall's Parry, but since his Parry is 5, that doesn't change things. And if you added in the autofire penalty like I think you did, that means that 3 is actually a 5, which is also a hit.))

22:13, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 5 using 2d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,2. Uno mas damage roll per senor Stray.

Also, white chip spent for Jackie to have some 'mite from before.

Jackie's gun, a precision weapon made the finest future technology and built specifically to allow her to combat the murderous Stone, rips into the screaming, staggering figure of Jack McCall. But though the weapon sends McCall stumbling backward, Jackie sees that the wounds are already beginning to seal over.

((OOC: So the damage is 5,5,13. McCall will need to make a Vigor check against each hit to avoid a level of Fatigue, because Jackie's gun is built to damage spirits as well as mortal flesh, but only the 13 actually injures him. He's Shaken.

22:23, Today: Jack McCall rolled 7,4 using d12,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 7,4. Vigor.

22:22, Today: Jack McCall rolled 9,4 using d12,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 9,4. Vigor.

22:22, Today: Jack McCall rolled 13,3 using d12,d6, rerolling max with rolls of (12+1)13,3. Vigor.

No extra fatigue.))

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It's James Wilder's turn! James, you're back at 2 wounds

James came to and felt horrible. It was as though his ribs and abdomen were on fire and freezing all at once. His eyes scanned the area trying to apprise the situation, his mind was still wrapping around the fact that he was awake at all. After the rattle had gotten a hold of him, he had been pretty sure he'd be worm food.

"Jimmy? Where are ya Jimmy?" his voice came out in a low muttered while his hands searched for his friend in the black. He hoped to find his friend a keep moving, what was going on still hasn't quite sunk in yet.


OOC:
Disoriented goodness! I'm guessing my Broken/reduced Agility goes away as it was "until healed" so James is just Battered aka Vigor reduced a die type

08:38, Today: James Wilder drew the single card: KC using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative .

Finding Lonefeather in the gloom isn't hard. He's unconscious, and right where Wilder dropped him when the worms attacked.

From up above, Bullock can hear some whispers and footsteps. The shaking must have worried the madman upstairs. Bullock can hear something that sounds like a prayer, and then the stomping begins again. There seems to be fewer boots, though...and Bullock hears the creak of boards away from the stomping, presumably heading for the door outside...

Meanwhile, the screaming corpse recovers from Jackie's fusillade. McCall's hands scrabble along the ground, resting on the Spencer rifle the bandit had been carrying just before Jackie shot him the first time. The corpse raises the weapon, while the worms flail about. Jackie is able to fend off the worms with ease, but now the dead man is armed...

((OOC: Undead Jack McCall attempts to unshake.

01:33, Today: Jack McCall rolled 7,5 using d8+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 5,3. Recover from Shaken. That will do it, giving him an action at -2.

He will use his action to pick up the rifle he'd been holding just before Jackie zapped him. He also can make an attack with his tentacles. These give him an extra melee attack each round, but count as off-hands for him, so he has a -2 penalty to attack with them. With the -2 MAP from being Shaken, that's a total of -4 on his attack.

01:36, Today: Jack McCall rolled -1,-3 using d6-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 3,1. Flail!

Card for next turn: 6C

Meanwhile, Reverend Gusano takes the opportunity to do something which you will find out about later.))

---

Turn Order:
Han Lee: AH
James Wilder: KC
Seth Bullock: 9D
Undead Jack McCall: 6C
Jackie Wells: 5S

OOC: Does Lonefeather still have his gatling pistol on him?

Han moves up behind Jackie, saying "Forgive my forwardness, Deputy Wells."

His free hand strikes some pressure points and massages some joints. Harnessing his chi and letting it's healing powers flow into his compatriot.

16:53, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 21,3 using 1d8,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (8+8+5)21,3. magical healing.

Yea, that's a raise... so 2 wounds healed for you Ms Jackie.

16:54, Today: Doctor Han Lee drew the single card: 3C using the Deadlands system. initiative

In reply to James Wilder (msg # 109):

((OOC: He has a gatling pistol on him, yes.))

Undead always seem to have a horrible affect on James, his reaction was what came naturally to him ... shot it until it stopped moving then shoot it some more. He looked for Jimmy's gatlin pistol as it was the biggest baddedt thing in he could think of then thought better of it and unloaded his borrowed Peacemaker into the deadman.

OOC: Fannin'
13:58, Today: James Wilder rolled 5,-1,4,0,0,-1,-3 using 1d12-4,1d12-4,1d12-4,1d12-4,1d12-4,1d12-4,1d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 9,3,8,4,4,3,1. Fannin' (-2 Fannin, -2WP).
That's 2 hits unless there's something else to subtract
14:01, Today: James Wilder rolled 3,7 using 2d6+1,2d6+1, rerolling max with rolls of 1,1,3,3. Damage - Gun x 2 AP1.
horrible damage

14:01, Today: James Wilder drew the single card: 5C using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative .

The bullets don't seem to faze the screaming, flailing figure none.

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It's Bullock's turn!

My apologies for holding things up

Bullock looks back and forth between McCall and the trap door. Finally, he curses under his breath and fires twice, in quick sucession, at McCall, before turning and running toward the trap door.

Shooting. +1 for doubletap, -2 for multiaction:
10:21, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 8,6 using d10-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 9,(6+1)7. Shooting.

10:22, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 13 using 3d6+3, rerolling max with rolls of 3,3,4. Damage, bonus die, +1 doubletap.
Actually, that's 12 damage. Should've been +2

Running towards trap door:
10:23, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 1 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1. running.
Soo... movement of 7 this round.

Down to 1 bullet in the gun.

Out in the alley, four hooded figures round the corner of the hardware store. They might have been relatively stealthy and blended with the shadows, save that one particularly dark purple cultist pulls up short at the sight of Undead Jack and shrieks.

"Oh, mercy, it's got the babies!"

[Language unknown: "Dios'prelca korconhou!"]  her shorter companion says in what sounds like exhasperated Chinese, already bracing his rifle.

"Forget sneakin' - we have another problem right there!" The first speaker says, breaking into a run. "Hold on, babies! Mama's comin'!"

[[3, Stove running towards Jack with intent to rumble -> 9 squares]]

The short one looks bemused as she runs straight through his line of fire, and pauses to snap at the other two, gesturing. [Language unknown: "Hisortder sitoas, t unoflomiar estsan-earivesom unmemepe teresserethawasble e Wintio Watheeat, k tiasou se in elto, iv haplet ha larbe le trfion. Poomad earearwhiresdermen!"]

At this, the remaining two figures take off. One stops across the alley from Jackie, considers taking a shot at the wurmnapping deadder then changes his mind and starts waving furiously. "Hey, Deputy Wells! Deputy Wells! Hey! Hiiii!"

[[ Smarts Trick vs Jackie: (ish, Straw really does want to ask her stuff) 2 ! ]]

The other, lighter purple cultist heads in the same direction but shows no sign of stopping, hurling something with purple icing at Doctor Han as he goes. "Blibdiblibdi!"

[[ Agility Trick vs Han Lee: 4 to beat, or get caked by Fawkes!]]

Meanwhile, the shorter cultist takes aim again, careful not to hit the imprisoned wormlings, and squeezes off a shot at the abomination's head.

[[Worm Cultists rolled 2 using 1d8-4, rerolling max with rolls of 6. Rong shot. (headshot)
Worm Cultists rolled 2 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2. blue for drama. -> 4 hit!
Worm Cultists rolled 13 using 2d8, rerolling max with rolls of 6,7. damage can has?

init. QC]]

Han ducks as the cake sails past.

16:27, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 2,5 using 1d8,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,5. agility.

And the deputy somehow managed to keep her concentration on the undead think that used to be McCall.


20:34, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 5,4 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,4. IS me smart?

Bullock's shot is true, striking Jack's lurching body through the breast. The matronly cultist is also a good shot, hitting McCall straight in the eyesocket.

But the screaming, flailing dead man only staggers a little at the shots. Flesh boils around the eyesocket, and within moments the eye is once more whole and undamaged.

The screaming dead man aims his purloined rifle at the shorter cultist, and squeezes off a shot. Death doesn't seem to have done anything to the dead man's aim, and the bullet finds it's mark.

The dead thing then lurches towards Jackie, the flailing worms in his chest wrapping themselves around her yet again.

((OOC: That means it's my turn, isn't it? Bullock's pistol Shakes McCall. The Cultist also Shakes McCall, but since McCall has the Hardy power, the extra Shaking doesn't do anything. And since he's not a zombie, he doesn't take any extra damage from the headshot.

He starts his round attempting to Unshake.

00:03, Today: Jack McCall rolled 20,4 using d12+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of (12+6)18,2. unshake. yeah...that will do it.

McCall can attack with his tentacles AND take a separate action in the same round, and now he's got a couple targets.

Jackie is in Melee with him, so he'll use the tentacles against her. He takes a shot at the cultist who attacked him. He has a -2 to attack with the worms (they're offhand for him), but since he's not moving this round, he gets his +2 Marksman bonus to the shot against Stove.

Grapple Jackie: 00:10, Today: Jack McCall rolled 3,2 using d6-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 5,4. Grapple!

Jackie, roll Fighting to resist the grapple!

Shoot Stove: 00:11, Today: Jack McCall rolled 3,6 using d10+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 1,4. Shooting! (Marksman).

Damage: 6 (Shaken)

Card: 5S))

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It's Jackie's action!

Let's see here...
23:25, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 1,5 using d10,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,5. Them's Fightin' Worms!

I'm going to interpret that as he fails.  Even with an Improvised Weapon penalty 4>3.

Deputy Wells, it turns out, was no paper tiger when things got down to the mud and the blood and the beer.  She adroitly blocked and turned on her heel to keep the monster back.  And when it leaned back just a bit, she took one step back.  But it was just to get into a classic isosceles stance.  Less recoil that way.

All right it's only 3 pp to do this, the real limiting fact is on rolling 1s.

I wound up having to chipper this due to a 1

23:37, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 3,4,0,7 using d10-1,d10-1,d10-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 4,5,1,(6+2)8. pump him full of future lead!

23:37, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 4,7,3,2 using d10-1,d10-1,d10-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 5,8,4,3. mitey whitey.

One hit!

23:39, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 4 using 2d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,1. shot!  In Melee!

Okay I'll have to switch up tactics, I was trying so hard to make that work!



23:40, Today: Jackie Wells drew the single card: 6S using the Deadlands system. I membered!

((OOC: Remember that Jackie is still carrying both dynamite and her raygun. That should help.

Bullock, it doesn't seem as if you've pulled initiative for this round. Do that, and i can get the next round's turn order up.))

07:58, Today: Seth Bullock drew the 11 cards: 9D, JS, 10C, KS, 8C, 8D, 10H, 5D, 3C, 6H, 4D using the Deadlands system. Initiative

Uhm, sorry about that. Posting from a tablet with lag issues...

Turn Order:
Cultists: QC
Seth Bullock: 9D
Jackie Wells: 6S
Undead Jack McCall: 5S
James Wilder: 5C
Han Lee: 3C

The woman grunts as she's taken off her balance and falls back to one knee, but she gets up again almost at once, a light of vengeance in her shadowed eyes.

[[08:36, Today: Worm Cultists rolled 7 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+1)7. Unshake Stove (assuming it was her, not Rong, got shot).]]

[Language unknown: "Butredwheionwitect he aiet isei enofom t erho! Cainei strev!"] the short cultist yells.

"I'm good!" the woman reassures him, returning to the attempt to corral the undead.

"What now, Rong? She don't care none," the cultist near Jackie says, simply pointing at the deputy as she fights for her life with the creature.

[Language unknown: "P to waen ssil miuswi ardtedourvenund ilofel witwheand ulenc reantiwit la ure icatraare neilhi nousilto k m naome e staainout'tioted etbest! Houprehas loomho lessut la, ant u wertioect ore ere m m eehe is whurek nopepl o poni lota, son p een seneul stivha wa alnipo ast. Herainrat! Linundave madi erestiine acwhst, she a u oul me nt k hou hatin pe ine ainesseen ainconall ather, any ma o korectich la utek-ndes tedne evect unnowa in mi u no nethne, wiven iedi set ameesteen tr m osatpa nclaus,"] the short cultist informs him hastily, taking careful aim at the doorway whilst the others pile onto the abomination.


[[Worm Cultists rolled 5 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5. Stove grapple.
Worm Cultists rolled 5 using 1d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 3. more grabbin', gangup, no unshake penalty.
Worm Cultists rolled 10 using 1d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of (6+2)8. ditto.

Rong's On Hold.

init.6C]]

I have to confess I'm a little confused as to who is where...

Bullock hurries over to the trapdoor, sliding open his pistol's cylinder. The bullets drop to the floor and he quickly slaps in a new rounds.

Taking an action to reload.
Bullets: 6/6
13:40, Today: Seth Bullock drew the single card: KD using the Deadlands system. Initiative.

The sudden dogpile of purple-skinned cultists seems to confuse the abomination.

((OOC: Bullock is inside the cellar beneath the trapdoor, James Wilder and the downed Lonefeather are at the stairwell (James is at the top, lonefeather at the bottom), Han Lee and the cultist Rong are up top outside the cellar near McCall, and the rest of the cultists and Jackie Wells are up top outside the cellar in melee with McCall.


09:42, Today: Jack McCall rolled 2,3 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,3. Opposed Grapple!

09:41, Today: Jack McCall rolled 2,2 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,2. Opposed Grapple!

09:41, Today: Jack McCall rolled 1,3 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,3. Opposed Grapple!

McCall is good and held. He's Shaken, which means Jackie can withdraw from him without provoking an attack of opportunity.))

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It's Jackie's turn.

The abomination wasn't the only one confused by the sudden pile up on what used to be Jack McCall.  But Wells never was one to look a gift horse in the mouth.

Finding herself freed of the creature for a split second, she fell back.  Dropping the loud but mostly ineffectual Gatling pistol in the relatively crude (if artful) gun leather she'd procured for it in this time frame, she reckoned that if it dropped him where he stood once, the Raygun might well do it again.

Taking advantage to Withdraw.  I don't see anything in the rules that says you can't Withdraw and draw a weapon, but that might require an Agility roll at a -2 MAP if that would be awkward enough.  Your call Marshal.

19:10, Today: Jackie Wells drew the single card: 5D using the Deadlands system. Initiative, Which I often forget!

((OOC: Withdrawing specifically calls out that the only Action you can take in conjunction with it is the Defend option for +2 Parry, so only free actions, like holstering a weapon, can be done.))

Fair enough, I'll just Withdraw then.  It's either roll at -2 now or at -2 later so it really doesn't impact anything.

The undead thing lashes out as the cultists dogpile him. The unholy thing begins tossing cultists left and right, its hideous strength prying fingers away and its slippery skin keeping the cultists from getting its limbs locked down.

And the flailing worms aren't hampered by the dogpile at all. They drill through Stove's chest with the same power they used ripping through Jack McCall in the first place.

((OOC: Jack McCall starts the turn Shaken. 18:34, Today: Jack McCall rolled 7,7 using d8+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 5,5. unshake. Not shaken no more.

Jack attempts to escape the Grapple. He makes one roll, and each of the figures grappling him have to roll to resist.

18:37, Today: Jack McCall rolled 11,2 using d8-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of (8+5)13,4. Escape!

Also, he gets a free attack with his tentacles. He uses that attack against Stove.

18:39, Today: Jack McCall rolled 7,-1 using d6-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of (6+5)11,3. Fighting! That's a hit.

Damage: 30 (!)  That will tear that poor woman apart.

Card: KS))

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It's James Wilder's turn!

James let's the cultists and other fight, he's got to get his friend out of this place. Slowly he half crawled half walked down the stairs to get Jimmy and tried to get his half-blood friend out of harms way. "Come on Jimmy, ain't gonna leave ya here ... ain't gonna happen."

OOC: Moving down the stairs and back up... yeah exciting I know

09:01, Today: James Wilder rolled -1 using 1d6-3. Running.
09:01, Today: James Wilder drew the single card: 7H using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative .

The female cultist puts her arms around the wormling as it chews its way into her chest with no more reaction than a long, shuddering breath. It kills her within seconds, but at least she looks really happy about it.

[[Not even gonna try and soak that.]]

Han steps into wrong and delivers a kick to the midsection with his right foot.  He lets his momentum carry him around for a full 360 degree turn and as he comes out of that turn he levels his lemat pistol at the man and fires away but it shoots past the cultist.


Rong's parry is not adjusted in any way I assume.

17:48, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 6,2 using 1d4,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (4+2)6,2. fightin damage.

17:28, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 3,4 using 1d6,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,4. Two fisted gun shot.

17:28, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 6,2 using 1d10,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 6,2. Two fist fightin' roll.

17:54, Today: Doctor Han Lee drew the single card: KC using the Deadlands system. Initiative.

((OOC When you say "the midsection," the midsection of who, exactly?))

[[Rong, who was also attacked by Han's spellchecker *points*
He's Shaken and annoyed, I think. Han must've gone round the back of Jackie or something.]]

[Yes, sorry. I thought Rong was squaring off with me while the others were focusining on Jackie. It seems I was mistaken?]

((OOC: Not at that moment, but the alliance between the cultists and the party is only a matter of temporary circumstances anyhow. And I'm pretty sure Rong's babbling would get on Han Lee's nerves pretty quick.

Cultists, before I can continue on the round, I need your roll for the wormies still holding on to McCall. You need a Strength or Agility check that beats 11 to keep hold of him.))

---

Turn Order:
Jack McCall: KS
Seth Bullock: KD
Han Lee: KC
James Wilder: 7H
The Cultists: 6C
Jackie Wells: 5D

[[Oops, sorry Stray.

20:16, Today: Worm Cultists rolled rolls of (6+5)11,1. Strong cultists? That's a tie with one of them, the other really does go flying.

The cultists are trying to free their wurm babies from that nasty deadder, with Rong hanging back to cover them in case someone dangerous pops up from the cellar. Rong's clearly the most dominant personality and giving orders, though, albeit in fluent Crazy, so the Doc would probably target him anyway.]]

McCall continues wrestling with the cultist still glomped on to him.

((OOC: McCall uses his tentacles to attack the cultist still holding on to him.

22:21, Today: Jack McCall rolled -1,2 using d6-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 1,4. Tentacles! Nope.

So he's going to try and shake the cultist off.

22:22, Today: Jack McCall rolled 1,4 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,4. Strength! Really, Jack? Really? *sigh* Cultists, roll 4 or better to resist being shaken off.

Card: 10D))

---

It's Bullock's turn!

[[Worm Cultists rolled 4 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4.]]

Bullock spins the cylinder and pushes the Trapdoor open. He jumps through, rolling on the floor, getting his bearings on where the bastards are holding his wife and partner captive.

Moving up to 6 inches toward the nearest cover.
Notice?
15:42, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 5,4 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,4. Notice.
15:42, Today: Seth Bullock drew the single card: BJ! using the Deadlands system. Initiative.

((OOC: The basement is 12 feet from muddy floor to the wooden trap door, so to make it up there he's going to need to succeed on a strength check to clear the distance))

15:56, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 4,5 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,5. Strength roll.

Bullock's leap carries him up against the trap door, which bursts open. He's able to catch the lip of the door and haul himself halfway up.

The room looks like a stockroom, probably because that's what it is. There are boxes everywhere, most probably containing tools. Bullock can make out three standing figures in the lamplight, and one crouching figure. The crouching figure, sure enough, is Sol Star, who seems to be coughing. A burly cultist stands over him, foot raised for a kick to his midsection. Another cultist has her gun aimed at the trap door.

And the Reverend (there's no one else it could be) stands next to the trap door, smiling beatifically. He's a handsome, if creepy, latino male dressed like a baptist minister, though his skin is dyed purple and he clutches a copy of "The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allen Poe" instead of a bible.

"Ah. I wondered when you would try this." He says. "Did you think we would not be prepared? Kill him." this he says to someone just outside of Bullock's field of view...

((OOC: Make an Agility check to beat the cultists in a held Action contest.

21:08, Today: The Stray, on behalf of Worm Cultists, rolled 1,4 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,4. Opposed Agility.))

12:21, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 7,4 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 7,4. Agility.

I'll see your Agility and not quite raise it!

((OOC: Well, that means you get your action before they go. You have three targets you can see, as well as at least one more coming up behind you on your blind side. What do you do?))

Fan the hammer, of course.... at least I would if I had a single action. Okay, change of plan: Grab the Reverend and use him as a hostage/shield.

Bullock whirls around, grabs the "reverend's" arm with his left and twists it behind his back, then pushes his barrel under his hostage's chin.

"You all stand down now, or I'll paint the walls with his brains. Want to find out if it's pruple, too?"
he growls.


At least I hope I have him in a hold: Attack to grapple.
15:57, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 3,8 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,(6+2)8. White chip.
15:57, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 1,7 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,(6+1)7. Fighting.

"We are all food for worms, in the end." The reverend mutters. "I have no fear of the oblivion that awaits. Proceed." This last he says to the cultists gathered around, who raise their guns and begin firing.

The air fills with smoke from the crack of the rifles and a tremendous roar that leaves Bullock's ears ringing, but the only shot that gets near hitting him is the guy with the shotgun, who actually hits the Reverend instead. Bullock is actually feeling pretty god about himself and his choice of shields...

...until the big guy who had been kicking Star cracks his whip, and Bullock feels a deep, deep gash rip open in his side...

((OOC: 16:37, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 7,1 using d10,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 7,1. Opposed Grapple! Not quite enough.

But the Grapple will take your action, and you're dealing with fanatics.

The worm cultists take their action. You're using The Reverend as Cover, so they get a -2 penalty to their attacks and the Innocent Bystander rules apply. Except the one who is just going to tackle you after the others have taken their shots.

The cultists are armed with 2 El Cheapo Spencer Carbines, an El Cheapo shotgun, and all of them have whips, which the one who was kicking Sol is going to use now.

16:49, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 3,2,1 using d6-2,d6-2,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,4,1. Shooting!

...of course, the only one who hits is the one with the shotgun, and he hits the Reverend.

Damage: 7 (the Reverend is Shaken). Crap damage, but good for Gusano.

The cultist with the whip attempts to whip it good. Since the Reverend has the Fervor edge, the cultists around him get +1 to Fighting damage rolls.

16:52, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 7 using 1d8, rerolling max with rolls of 7. Fighting! Hit.

Damage: 10 (Bullock is <b>Shaken</b> and takes 1 wound. Bullock, if you wind up shaken after your soak roll, you'll also be forced to release the Grapple).

I'll deal with the Reverend's turn after Bullock attemtps to soak. Also, I need your next round's card.))

I drew the joker in msg #140... I assumed we're still in the pre-joker-round?

Soak:
09:44, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 26 using 1d35, rerolling max with rolls of 26. random chip. --> Red Chip.
09:44, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 3,4 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,4. Vigor to soak, 2nd white chip.
09:44, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 2,3 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,3. Vigor to soak.

Bullock grits his teeth as the whip cuts a gash through his skin.
"I guess it's feeding time, then." he growls.

((OOC: Whoops! Why, yes you did. All this action was resolving a bunch of held actions.))

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It's Han Lee's turn!

Dr Han split his focus. Clearly during his travels he had not heard the "Enemy of my enemy is my friend" adage.  He sends a kick at Rong while firing a shot off at the thing that was Jack McCall.

His shot is off but his kick makes contact with the mouthy pie throwing cultist.

I think I can target two different people with my two fisted attack... but let me know.

15:37, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 8,5 using 1d10,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 8,5. two fistin fightin'

15:37, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 3 using 2d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,1. two fistin shootin at 'jack'.

15:41, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 5,11 using 1d4,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (4+1)5,(6+5)11. fighting damage. = 16 damage for Rong

15:42, Today: Doctor Han Lee drew the single card: QD using the Deadlands system. Init.

[Language unknown: "Ous ha...in ithresvensom? Tinicayin ekwi behopeai?!"] the shorter cultist gasps, trying ineffectually to ward off the doctor. Han sends him flying neatly into the cellar doorpost with an audible *crack* of skull on wood. Rong Dun slumps over, dropping the loaded rife in the mud.

[[Gave him their other blue 'cause I'm fond of the aphasic maniac, but a 7 does not soak 3 wounds worth of bashage...two cultists left! Time to stop helping the PCs, I reckon...]]

It's James Wilder's turn!

James ignored the chaos around him, his mind was set on one task ... get himself and his friend out of this place. The gunslinger crawled down the stairs to where Jimmy was and started to pull his friend out.

OOC: So yeah ... more excitement from me.
11:37, Today: James Wilder drew the single card: 4D using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative .

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Wilder manages to get the prone body of Lonefeather to the top of the stairs. He doesn't seem to be breathing...

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It's The Worm Cultist's turn!

[[Hey, I have two left...]]

The remaining dark purple cultist sits up from where the monster had thrown him and snatches up his rifle, seeing how swiftly Rong was put down. Fortunately for Han Lee, his aim is rubbish.

Fawkes' hold is slipping, so he tries kicking the abomination in the shin. It...doesn't work.

[[16:44, Today: Worm Cultists rolled rolls of 3,3. Cultists fightin', shootin'. Nope.
16:45, Today: Worm Cultists rolled 3 using 1d8, rerolling max with rolls of 3. Straw, white chip (Shootin').
...not that they're doing much. Onwards!

init. 5H]]

It's Jackie Wells' turn!

Deputy Wells wasn't exactly sure why the cultists had jumped on what used to be Jack McCall, but she sure wasn't wasting it.

He seemed impervious to mere handguns.  Time to change it up now that she wasn't assholes and elbows with that thing.

Standing there, when any sane person would be running, she reached back into the shotgun thong and withdrew that weird looking scattergun of hers.

She had to make this shot count, this thing didn't have the power reserves to do this again.

Being Stubborn and Overconfident... I got this.  This is a "Here Hold my Beer" moment.

Drawing Crossbreed Raygun.  Jackie... does not have the ever so handy Quick Draw Edge so that's going to be a MAP.

6 charges.  Lethal.  This could be spectacular (as in it could kill us all) or a huge letdown.  I will blow every chip she has left on this if I have to, knock on wood.

23:27, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 5,9 using d10-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 7,(6+5)11. Please no 1s or 2s..

Oh sweet llamas from the Bahamas!  That's manna from heaven, because that ought to be a raise.  I forgot Jackie has 1 wound, but that's still an 8.

So, 6d6 damage, raise -

23:33, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 16,2 using 6d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,1,2,3,5,2,2. C'mon baby make it hurt so good.

18 damage.

Dang, I really needed to do better than that.  Well, easy come easy go.

And in classic form, I forgot again.

23:36, Today: Jackie Wells drew the single card: 5D using the Deadlands system. classic form.
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The dad man staggers as the coruscating red beam of death rips into him, boiling some of the flesh from his bones. The stink of charred meat rises from the screaming corpse-man, and the tentacles in his flesh writhe in what seems to be agony.

But already the burned bits are starting to knit over, regrowing the flesh that was disintegrated...

((OOC: 18 damage is 2 wounds for McCall, even with his high Toughness.

The raygun isn't his Weakness, so it won't be able to put him down for good, but 2 wounds is not nothing, and I'm a bit low on chips already, so I'm not going to roll soak for that. Of course, like Itza-chu before him, McCall has a little something extra keeping him going.

I'll mark down the charges. Jackie used 6 from this attack and 4 from the one that dropped McCall in the first place, so she has 10 charges left.

New turn!))

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Turn Order:
Seth Bullock: BJ!
Doctor Han Lee: QD
Reverend Gusano & Friends: 10D
Jack McCall: 10D
Cultists Outside: 5H
Jackie Wells: 5D
James Wilder: 4D

Bullock holds on tight to Gusano - he was not about to let go of the only cover he had, after all.

Then he half-turns, aims at the whip-cracker's head and pulls the trigger. A tiny hole appears between the fellow's eyes and then his brains and blood spatter the wall behind him.
Bullock already turns back to bring his shield between himself and the other cultists.
"Surrender, NOW! Or you're next!"

Total of 5... gives me +6 to damage
And I'm only doing headshots because the die roller has really screwed me lately when rolling for damage.

18:27, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 3 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3. red chip.
18:27, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 2,1 using d10-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 4,3. White chip.
18:26, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 2,-1 using d10-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 4,1. Head shot, +2 Joker.

18:28, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 18 using 2d6+7, rerolling max with rolls of (6+4)10,1. Peacemaker headshot. +4 headshot, +2 Joker.

18:31, Today: Seth Bullock drew the single card: 7H using the Deadlands system. Initiative.

Han fires off a round at the form that was Jack McCall before shuffling back towards Wilder and Jimmy. He calls over his shoulder. "Wilder, give Janet here a hand with this abomination. I will tend to Longfeather's wounds."


11:42, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 1,1 using 1d6,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,1. shootin.

-1 white chip
11:45, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 9,1 using 1d6,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+3)9,1. white chip to reroll.

11:46, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 7 using 3d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,1,4. damage w/raise.


11:46, Today: Doctor Han Lee drew the single card: 2H using the Deadlands system. init.

((OOC: Bullock, I need to check something with the official boards. I don't think you can do the action you described AND keep a hold on Gusano, but I'm going to go check.))

Edit:

Clint wrote::

Kuni wrote::

Does a human grappler need both hands free to initiate a grapple, or can he have one/both hands occupied with weapons/equipment?

Grappling requires both hands. A GM might allow a character to hold an item while grappling (at a situational penalty), but they could not use such an item (if it required a hand to use) while maintaining the grapple.

You're going to have to let the Reverend go to shoot the guy. He's still in melee with you, but you no longer get a cover bonus from him.
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With Bullocks attention focused on his headshot, he fails to notice the reverend slip his hand into his frock and pull forth a wicked dagger. Doesn't notice, hat is, until he delivers his ultimatum and winds up with a face full of steel as the Reverend turns on him and slashes open his cheek.

The surprise blow sends Bullock staggering back, and the cultists rack new rounds into their rifles and continue blasting away at him while the Reverend gloats.

"The worms, they travel in packs, Marshal. Always in packs, until they grow. The loss of one worm is nothing. Let that comfort you as you die."

((OOC: The Good Reverend draws a ritual dagger and attempts to stab Bullock, because Bullock can't fire his gun and maintain his grapple.

10:39, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 4,-1 using d10-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 6,1. Fighting! Almost. Going to chip it.

10:39, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 13 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+6+1)13. Blue Chip. wow. That's a total of 17, which is a Hit and Raise for the Good Reverend.

Damage 1: 13, which is a Shaken and 1 wound for Bullock.

The cultists also get to take their shots. Now that Gusano is ungrappled, he doesn't provide cover. Only the 2 with rifles can fire (the guy with the shotgun takes his action to reload - it's a single chamber shotgun).

10:46, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 5,7 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,(6+1)7. Shooting! 2 hits

Damage 2: 9 (Shaken, unless Bullock fails to soak the first attack, in which case it's a wound)
Damage 3: 7 (Shaken, which causes a wound unless the Shaken from the previous attacks is dealt with)

The lesson here? When holding folks hostage, you need to actually keep your attention on the hostage.

Bullock, you're facing a potential 3 wounds here, but with a good use of chips you can come out of it only Shaken (or not wounded at all).

The best course would be to soak the wound from the first attack, take the Shaken from the second, then attempt to soak the wound fro the third attack, which would leave you completely healthy at the end of it.

Card for next turn: 8C))

White chip to soak that first wound! Good thing I still got the Joker...
21:32, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 13,5 using d8+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of (8+3)11,3. Vigor to soak.
Taking the second hit, then soak the third, spending a red chip for that.

21:33, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 6,3 using d8+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 4,1. Soak again.

That does leave me healthy!

The undead abomination staggers about. It raises the Spencer carbine in its hands and aims a return shot at Jackie.

The shot kicks like a mule, but Jackie feels a pulse of energy beneath her clothes as the alien technology she'd scavenged during her adventures in Devil's Tower absorbed the attack, spreading it across her torso. She might be bruised later, but she'd have no extra holes.

The flailing worms in McCall's chest took a swipe at Fawkes, but fail to get a hold.

((OOC: Jack McCall is currently Shaken with 2 wounds. He's undead, so the wounds just mark how far he is from being put down and don't affect his actions.

McCall gets to roll vigor to see if he heals. 15:28, Today: Jack McCall rolled 3,1 using d12,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,1. Regeneration. He does not.

I check to see if he Unshakes. 15:29, Today: Jack McCall rolled 8,7 using d8+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 6,5. unshake. Made with a Raise, so he does and gets actions without penalty.

McCall, now free of his grapple, attacks. He uses his tentacle to attack Fawkes, and takes a shot at Jackie. McCall has a -2 on the fighting roll because the tentacles count as off-hand, and a +2 on his Shooting attack because he's got Marksman.

15:32, Today: Jack McCall rolled 0,0 using d6-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 2,2. Fighting! Miss on the fighting roll.

15:34, Today: Jack McCall rolled 8,4 using d10+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 6,2. Shooting! (Marksman). hit and Raise

Damage: 7. That doesn't penetrate Jackie's armor because it's a relic armor from Devil's Tower, so she's fine.

Card: AS))

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It's the Cultist's turn.

Straw tries holding his breath, biting his tongue in concentration, and has another go.

[[22:55, Today: Worm Cultists rolled 4 using 1d8, rerolling max with rolls of 4. shoot the medic. Hit!
22:57, Today: Worm Cultists rolled 11 using 2d8, rerolling max with rolls of 7,4. damage!]]

Fawkes seems to think the thrashing worms are asking him for aid, and eagerly steps in to try and grab a flailing wurm and point it helpfully at the ground whilst McCall's badly held together enough for it to maybe get away. "That's it! Over here, baby, down here, come on..."

[[22:55, Today: Worm Cultists rolled 7 using 1d8, rerolling max with rolls of 7. grapple.
init. BJ! O_O ...it's following me!]]

In reply to Worm Cultists (msg # 165):

The worm squirms, but it good and held.

((OOC: McCall resists grapple: 16:17, Today: Jack McCall rolled 1,2 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,2. Opposed Grapple! Nope, and he's Shaken again.

Doctor Han Lee, you've been winged. You will be Shaken with 1 Wound unless you soak.))

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Jackie Wells, it's your turn!

The shock of that old fashioned lead slug stings, but that's a lot better than taking it like a wrong way suppository.

"You wanna play this game you sunuvabitch!? Mine's bigger!"

And rapidly running out of ammunition.  But she didn't say that out loud.

6 charges.

18:09, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 1,1 using 1d10-1,1d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 2,2. This is my boomstick.


lol so we first start with a roll that could kill us all.  White chipped.


18:09, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 3,14 using 1d10-1,1d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 4,(6+6+3)15. white chip.  Srsly.

That's more like it!  Same shenanigans.

18:11, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 18,5 using 6d6,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,1,5,1,5,1,5. damage, raise.

That's 23.  Just go down dammit!  I know it won't kill him but still, we can't have this keep going.  Jackie's got some neat tricks but they don't last!

18:12, Today: Jackie Wells drew the single card: 3C using the Deadlands system. classic form.

The red beam lances out and washes over the gunslinger. A charred, blackened skeleton is left, which collapses into a heap. Fawkes is left holding a severed half-a-worm in his hands. Meat and muscle begin to spread over the skeletal thing like a fast-growing fungus, but it looks like the abomination is down for the count.

((OOC: 23 damage translates to 3 wounds, and Jack McCall is out of chips. I have GM chips to spend, but the whole McCall bit was just to justify the Out Of The Fire card. I'll just have McCall remain a Long-Term problem for now.))

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James Wilder is next!
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James wasn't quite sure WHAT to do ... things had gotten mighty complicated since they'd started so he picked the biggest nastiest looking person or thing in the room and shot it.

OOC:
09:40, Today: James Wilder rolled 12,3 using 1d12-2,1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of (12+2)14,5. Shooting (-2 WP).
09:40, Today: James Wilder rolled 15,4 using 2d6+1,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+5)11,3,4. Damage (Pistol, Raise) AP1.

09:41, Today: James Wilder drew the single card: 8D using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative .

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((OOC: Er, James, The reverend is INSIDE the building...Bullock is separated from the rest of you. You are outside, where Jackie Wells has just zapped McCall with a raygun and there are 2 cultists about, one of them cradling a pair of half worms, the other just taking potshots at people.

To get to where Bullock is, you'd have to trek back through the cellar and make a leap up through the trapdoor in the ceiling, or spend a couple moves running around the front of the hardware store to get to the stock room.))

OOC: The stairs are outside? Alright ... guess I missed that whole move outside thing. Guess popshotting cultist it is!

((OOC: Yup. The stairs connect the cellar with the outdoors. Which cultist are you shooting?))

OOC: The one who's shooting people

Turn Order:
Worm Cultists: BJ! (only Fawkes is left)
Jack McCall: AS (down for the count, but could still Regenerate)
James Wilder: 8D
Reverend Gusano: 8C
Seth Bullock: 7H
Jackie Wells: 3C
Doctor Han Lee: 2H (need to attempt to soak 11 damage from a shot the cultists made)

Oops sorry.

1 White chip + roll...

16:43, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 4,5 using 1d8,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,5. vigor soak

All good.

[[is it an alive half a worm or a blatantly dead half a worm?]]

((OOC: Blatantly dead.))

The cultist is silent for a moment, apparently unable to process what just happened.

Then his arms shoot out to full extension like he wants to let go of the corpse but can't. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"


He swings the dead worm at Jackie, then tries to hit the charred thing on the ground with it, then finally manages to drop it in horror and just does flailing panic circles.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"



[[fightin' 3. Not hitting Jackie. I think this cultist's broken...
init. QC]]
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More muscles, tendons, and cartilage wrap themselves around the skeleton of Jack McCall.

((OOC: 03:49, Today: Jack McCall rolled 4,4 using d12,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,4. Regeneration. That's really only going to repair the Incapacitation. McCall is still down with 3 wounds.))

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James Wilder's turn is next!

"Oh ... shut up." James said as he shot the last cultist.

OOC:
12:55, Today: James Wilder rolled 7,-1 using 1d12-2,1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 9,1. Shooting (-2 WP).
12:55, Today: James Wilder rolled 9 using 2d6+1, rerolling max with rolls of 5,3. Damage (Pistol) AP1.
12:56, Today: James Wilder drew the single card: 10H using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative .

The cultist's only retort to that is the *thud* of a robed body in the mud.

[[I should probably roll soak on principle, but that's just too funny.]]

"Very impressive." Gusano says as Bullock remains standing after that hail of gunfire. Blood drips from several of Bullock's wounds, but they're only flesh wounds...Bullock has been hurt worse than this. "But your strength cannot save you forever. Eventually, my fellows will score a deadly hit. You will fall, and the worms will feast. You cannot win this. The Princess of Worms has ordered your death, Marshal Bullock. It is a bold act, but you are her enemy. You and the Agency will fall this night. So i will strip you of your strength, and see how well you do then."

He raises his arms and begins chanting something. Bullock feels suddenly feverish and weak, as the black chanting of the reverend (it sounds like he's reciting a Latin prayer backwards) seeps into his flesh.

The cultists open fire yet again...

((OOC: The reverend and his men get to go before Bullock does. He dedices to mess with Bullock by casting Lower Trait on the marshal's Vigor.

22:18, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 9,1 using d10,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 9,1. Spellcasting.

Bullock, roll Spirit to resist. If you fail, he lowers your Vigor by a die type (which also affects your Toughness). If you fail by 4 or more, he lowers your Vigor by 2 types (down to a minimum of d4).

The cultists continue firing.

Mr. Shotgun has finished reloading, the other 2 still have plenty of ammo left in their repeaters.

22:21, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 7,4,3 using d6+2,d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,4,3. Shooting! The shotgun and one of the rifle rounds hit you.

Damage (shotgun): 13
Damage (rifle): 7

how badly Bullock is hurt by this will be determined by whether he resists the spell or not.

Card for next round: QD))

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Seth Bullock, you're up!

08:54, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 16 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+6+4)16. red chip.
08:54, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 2 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2.
08:54, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 5,2 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,2. Resisting the Reverend.
Okay,... total 23. That oughta do it.

So that damage is one wound... the second a Shaken result.
Spend a white chip to soak.

08:56, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 7,2 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 7,2. Vigor.

I take the second and I'm shaken... Trying to unshake on my action.
08:57, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 2,2 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,2. Unshake.

Nope, so I'm spending a red chip to re-roll:
08:57, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 4,2 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,2. red chip.

And I'm fine.


Bullock stumbles and shakes his head, trying to clear it. Then his coat is peppered by the shotgun pellets and the pain brings him back.

He squeezes off a bullet at the Reverend.

"ENOUGH!"

Then he dives for the closest cover.

09:00, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 7 using 2d6+1, rerolling max with rolls of 1,5. Damage.
08:59, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 5,5 using d10,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,5. Shooting Gusano.

Bullets: 4/6.
09:01, Today: Seth Bullock drew the single card: KH using the Deadlands system. Initiative.

EDIT: Actually, since I didn't score a raise, I'm at -2 to the shooting. So I'm adding my last red chip to that roll... and of course it comes out at 1.

09:02, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 1 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1. Adding to the shooting roll.

Still, enough to hit, but not enough to make a difference. Red/blue-Chip-on-top-rolls usually hate me.

Out of chips!


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The reverend staggers, but the shot clearly only winged him.

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Outside, the silence that falls with the last cultist going down is suddenly punctured by gunfire coming from within the building...and Bullock doesn't seem to be among the gathered people!

((OOC: That makes him Shaken.))

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It's Jackie Well's turn!

Jackie's first instinct was to deal with the fact McCall was regrowing before her... but he'd keep.

With nary another thought to do otherwise, she charged into the depths of the building after the Marshal.

So basically, moving.  I can roll running die if needed?  I will go ahead and do so.


19:07, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 3 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3. Running die if needed.


19:07, Today: Jackie Wells drew the single card: BJ! using the Deadlands system.

Fantastic XD

Jackie's dash down the stairs take her right below the opened trap door. She might be able to make it if she leaps...

((OOC: That's enough movement to get down the stairs and to the trap door. The basement is 12 feet from muddy floor to the wooden trap door, but Jackie's been running and the trap door is open, so she can clear the 2 squares of movement required without a Strength roll.))

Jackie leaps for it!

So no rolly or rolly?

Jackie hits the trapdoor and hauls herself up, which is damn hard to do in her dress. The cramped storeroom she enters is filled with boxes and moving people. It's total confusion in here, as she sees Bullock dive behind a crate, pursued by a crazy-looking fellow with purple skin and a preacher's garb, who wields a wicked-looking knife. There's a splatter of red on the wall near a slumped cultists, and she recognizes Sol Star crouching behind more crates, his body shielding some sort of cloth-covered lump. She can't see the other cultists from where she is, but she can hear them racking levers and cracking gun breeches behind her. The air smells of blood, cordite, and, oddly enough, rotten pears.

((OOC: No rolly. You had momentum on your side from the run.

Bullock, you'll be able to take cover from the shootists without moving far, but unless you want to provoke a free attack The Reverend is still in melee with you.))

Since he's Shaken, he can't attack me though, right?

((OOC: good point. yes, you can move away from him without being attacked. I'd forgotten the Shaken.))

It is Doctor Han Lee's turn!

Han backs away from the form of McCall, with Jackie having run off to the Marshall it was just him and Wilder to fight the abomination but Han hoped to change that as he shuffled over to the unconscious form of Jimmy.  With a few chants and some jabs with his right index and middle fingers at the correct pressure points, Han set about trying to heal the wounded man.  "Keep firing on McCall, we need to keep him weak until the Marshall and Jackie get back, otherwise I doubt we will be able to put him down for good." he calls to Wilder.

10:50, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 3,5 using 1d8,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,5. magical healing.

10:56, Today: Doctor Han Lee drew the single card: AH using the Deadlands system. init.

The bounty hunter groans and stirs as the Chinese doctor's magic goes to work.

((OOC: That roll will remove the Incapacitation, and get Jimmy moving again. To actually heal him, you take a -3 penalty for his three wounds. Also, make me a Smarts check. No reason. }:D

Jimmy's card: ))

---

Turn Order:
Jackie Wells: BJ!
Doctor Han Lee: AH
Seth Bullock: KH
Reverend Gusano & friends: QD
James Wilder: 10H
Lonefeather: 8C

Jackie had heard the actions breaking open behind her, but had no idea exactly where they were.

"Marshal!  Where are they hiding back there!?"


Holding Jackie's Action Until a Target Presents Itself or Bullock answers, since Jackie can't see exactly where they are.  I'll pull her card when she goes.

"Behind you, to your left!"
Bullock yells.

Deputy Wells produced a bundle of dynamite from a very undignified place.

"Hope you've got a light Marshal!"

Okay this was the 'mite I chipped to have earlier.

I am going to take liberties and assume I need to roll Throwing to get it to Marshal Bullock.  Jackie has absolutely nothing on her person that will light this.

Which will be interesting, since Jackie has no Throwing.  Okay, the Joker should cancel any penalty to draw the dynamite and throw it on the same turn.

19:06, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 3,13 using 1d4-2,1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of (4+1)5,(6+6+3)15. Throw and Go?

LMAO.

Excellent.

19:07, Today: Jackie Wells drew the single card: 9S using the Deadlands system.

Doctor Han Lee is up.

"Patience, sir. This should just be a moment." Han frowns as he further tries to administer his art. Unfortunately, the events of the evening may finally be piling up on him. His initial attempts proved fruitless.  he redoubled his efforts and still nothing.

But after a redoubling of his redoubling he is able to heal the bounty hunter partially.


14:33, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 2,2 using 1d8-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 5,5. magic healing once more.

14:36, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 0,-1 using 1d8-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 3,2. white chip heal reroll.

14:37, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 4,2 using 1d8-3,1d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 7,5. one more try white chip.

14:33, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 2,5 using 1d4,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,5. smarts check

14:34, Today: Doctor Han Lee drew the single card: 9C using the Deadlands system. init.

The bounty hunter's eyes flicker open at Han Lee's ministrations. "Ouch." He groans. "Let's not do that again."

---

It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time Seth Bullock's turn!

Seth catches the bundle of dynamite with one hand.
"There's civilians here, Deputy Wells!"

Then he turns back toward the crazy reverend who's still swinging the knife and fires another bullet at him.

"Three more, have rifles and a shotgun!"

13:02, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 15,4 using d10,d6, rerolling max with rolls of (10+5)15,4. Shooting.
13:03, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 12 using 3d6+1, rerolling max with rolls of 5,5,1. damage.

13:03, Today: Seth Bullock drew the single card: JC using the Deadlands system. Initiative.

Bullets: 3/6

"Ah, yes." The Reverend grins as the bullet wings him. He begins laughing. "KILL THE HOSTAGES! KILL EVERYONE!" He shouts, and the minions suddenly stop aiming their rifles at Bullock and start moving around the room! The reverend takes the opportunity to stab at Bullock again.

The roughneck with the shotgun yells inarticulately and charges at Jackie, slamming his shotgun into her has he attempts to drop her back down the hole.

Antoher aims a shot at Sol Star, who'd taken cover behind some crates. The businessman cringes as the shot tears a chunk out of the wood crate, but is otherwise unharmed. Sol grabs up the whip of the thug who'd tried to choke Bullock earlier.

The last cultist, babbling and gibbering, heads over behind some crates.

"NOOOOOO!" Comes a scream from behind the boxes. "NO! SETH, PLE~"

{{BANG!}}

The corner goes deadly silent.

((OOC: Looks like it's the Good Reverend's turn.

12 damage is 1 Wound, so the Reverend attempts to Soak.

23:08, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 4,1 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,1. Soak! That will do it.

Gusano order his minions about and attempts to disarm Bullock. That's a Called Shot to the arm (-2 penalty) that will force Bullock to make a Strength check vs. the damage rolled or drop his pistol.

23:10, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 15,-1 using d10-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of (10+7)17,1. Fighting! (Called Shot). That is a hit with a raise.

Damage: 13 (Shaken, 1 Wound, and Bullock needs to make a Strength check vs. 13 or lose his weapon)

The minions split up, going after various targets.

Shotgun Boy, since he'd need to reload this turn, instead focuses on trying to knock Jackie back down the pit. This is a Push.

23:20, Today: Worm Cultists rolled 2 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2. Strength!

Jackie, make an opposed Strength check vs. 2, and try not to crit. fail.

One of the thugs takes a potshot at Sol Star, who has been hiding under cover since the guy who was beating him died.

23:22, Today: Worm Cultists rolled 2 using 1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 4. Shooting!  Miss.

One of them runs over to the area where they've been hiding Bullock's wife and begins shooting at her. This movement negates her cover, and since she's tied up, he gets The Drop.

23:23, Today: Worm Cultists rolled 12 using 1d6+4, rerolling max with rolls of (6+2)8. Shooting! (The Drop). Hit and Raise.

Damage: 29 (!). That's 6 wounds for her. Since poor Martha Bullock is a Townsfolk Extra, that's going to be enough to drop her.

Gusano's card for the next round: QD))

It's James Wilder's turn, BTW.

James wasn't sure what was going on inside, but he didn't care to be part of it. He slowly walked to where what's left of McCall's body is then proceeds to stomp on ever piece of bone that appear to be in one piece until it in a least a half-dozen pieces.

OOC:
14:13, Today: James Wilder drew the single card: 7C using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative .

20:29, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 5,3 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,3. Soak roll.
Takes care of the wound...

20:29, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 1,5 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,5. Strength to hold on to gun.
... and that sends my gun flying.

As Gusano drives the knife into Bullocks arm, the lawman feels the grip on his pistol loosen. He pushes the reverend back, the knife cut adding more blood to the ones already seeping from his wounds.

The fleshy, sinewy skeleton twists as Wilder's boot comes down. It crabs sideways just as Wilder attempts to stomp on it, then lashes out with a bony claw. More flesh covers the hideous thing as it begins scuttling up the damn wall of the hardware store! A pair of ropy purple tentacles with wicked barbs begin flailing about the critter's intestines.

((OOC: Wilder, since you didn't roll for it (and you needed to), I'll make the rolls for you. McCall is at 3 wounds, but not Incapacitated (he healed that). Mccall's skeleton has -2 Parry from being Prone, so his Parry is currently 3.

22:54, Today: The Stray, on behalf of James Wilder, rolled 2,2 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,2. Fighting! Miss.

McCall goes. First, he attempts to Regenerate.

22:56, Today: Jack McCall rolled 0,-2 using d12-3,d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 3,1. Regeneration. Fail, so spending a White Chip.

22:56, Today: Jack McCall rolled -2,1 using d12-3,d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 1,4. white chip. Fail, but within Red Chip range.

22:56, Today: Jack McCall rolled 3 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3. red chip. That's a Success, and McCall heals 1 Wound, leaving him at 2 wounds.

He attempts to claw at Wilder while still prone. That's a tall order, since he's wounded and still prone.

23:01, Today: Jack McCall rolled -1,0 using d6-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 3,4. Fighting!

He uses his movement to attempt to climb up the wall. James gets a free Fighting attack.))
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12:22, Today: Jackie Wells rolled 3,17 using 1d6,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,(6+6+5)17. Try not to go down the hole.

The butt of the shotgun slammed into Jackie hard, but she somehow managed to dig her heels into the floor, defying the laws of physics, and did not give an inch.

"NOOOOO! MARTHA!"
Bullock pushes back: "You son of a bitch! I'll kill you and I'll burn your fucking corpse and throw the ashes into the river so that your precious worms can't feed on ya!"

James flailed at the running skeleton ... man ... thing with his empty gun but manages to catch only air.

OOC:
11:54, Today: James Wilder rolled 3,0 using 1d6-2,1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 5,2. Fightin' (-2WP).
Swing and a big ole miss!

The skeleton skedaddles up the side of the building.

"Well..." Lonefeather grunts, blinking at the side of the wall. "That's certainly something you don't see every day."

((OOC: Putting Lonefeather On hold for now.))

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Turn Order:
Reverend Gusano & Friends: QC (I'll get to this after work)
Seth Bullock: JC
Jackie Wells: 9S
Doctor Han Lee: 9C
James Wilder: 7C
Lonefeather: on Hold

The thug, seeing Jackie defy his attack, starts swinging the shotgun even harder, attempting to break bones rather than knock her back. "Die, bitch! Die!" he screams at the top of his lungs.

Meanwhile, Sol steps out from behind the box, whip in his trembling hands. With a terrified yell, he starts snapping it at the cultist who'd shot at him. The frenzied lashing surprises the gunman, who yelps as the bullwhip tears bleeding lacerations on his face, arms...neck. Burbling, he goes down in a bloody heap.

Sol stares at the bleeding cultist. "I...I killed him." He mutters in shock. The whip tumbles from his hand.

Then Sol himself tumbles, blood blooming from his chest, as the gibbering cultist who shot Martha turns his gun on the now-exposed shopkeeper.

"Seth..." Sol manages, before collapsing in a heap.

"Your allies are dropping around you, Marshal." the mad preacher says gently, as if he were in a confessional instead of pitched battle. "It is time for you to acknowledge that you have lost. You cannot win. You cannot separate me from the worms, either...they are always with me. See."

Then he flicks his sleeve...and Bullock watches the Reverend's hand morph into a glistening purple tentacle, that slithers around him and begins wrapping him tight...

((OOC: The thug with the shotgun attempts to use is as a bludgeon to beat Jackie. It's an Improvised weapon that will deal Str+d6 damage on a hit, and he Wild Attacks to negate his penalty.

Fighting: -1 (improvised Weapon) +2 (Wild Attack) = +1

23:43, Today: Worm Cultists rolled 14 using 1d8+1, rerolling max with rolls of (8+5)13. Fighting! (with Wild Attack). Hit and Raise.

Damage: 21. That's a Shaken and 3 wounds unless she soaks.

The two riflemen continue to shoot at the civilians. Sol attempts to whip the one shooting at him. He's not great with a weapon, so he Wild Attacks.

23:49, Today: Sol Star rolled 7 using 1d4+2, rerolling max with rolls of (4+1)5. Fighting! (with Wild Attack). Hit.

Damage: 9. That will actually drop the cultist.

Of course, he had to come out of cover to hit the guy, so he's open for the guy who shot Bullock's wife to take a shot at him, too.

23:52, Today: Worm Cultists rolled 7 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (6+1)7. Shooting! Hit.

Damage: 9. Shaken and 1 Wound for Sol Star. Star will attempt to soak.

23:54, Today: Sol Star rolled 2 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2. Soak! Not even close. Sol drops, though he might, in fact, live if he gets medical attention while the fight is still ongoing.

Meanwhile, Gusano calls on dark magic to bind Bullock, using his Entangle power.

23:58, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 8,3 using d10,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 8,3. Spellcasting. Bullock, roll Agility to resist.

Card: QH))

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Bullock is up next!

12:44, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 4,14 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,(6+6+2)14. white chip.
12:44, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 2,3 using d8,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,3. Agility.


Death... death and mayhem all around. There is something in Bullock that wants to break down. With an immense effort, he beats this instinct down, his eyes narrowing at the sight of Cusano's tentacle hand.

His pistol was somewhere strewn on the floor.... so the only thing he had available right now was the bundle of dynamite in his hand.

Bullock pulls a match from his pocket and lights it, then ignites a single stick of dynamite, shoving it into Cusano's pocket.

Okay, trying the following...
Lighting a single stick, so that it goes off next round. Then pushing it into Cusano's clothes on the side of his tentacle hand (so he might have trouble pulling it out again), then dive away and wait for the blast.
Sooo... what do I roll? :-)

((OOC: I don't think you can cut the fuse that precisely without any actual experience in handling dynamite, so you'll have to settle for using it as a grenade. To plant it on him you'll need to roll Fighting at -4 (for a called shot to his pocket), which means it will do an extra die of damage if Gusano can't make the Agility (-4) check to throw it away from him). If you fail, you've dropped it, and it will do the base damage, and Gusano only needs to roll Agility (-2) to escape the blast. Either way, you'll need to make an Agility (-2) check yourself to dive out of the way of the blast.))

22:54, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 2,-1 using d8-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 6,3. White chip.
22:54, Today: Seth Bullock rolled -1,-1 using d8-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 3,3. White chip.
22:53, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 0,-2 using d8-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 4,2. Fighting, called shot to pocket.

Not good.

22:55, Today: Seth Bullock rolled -1,1 using d8-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 1,3. Agility.

Even worse.


23:06, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 9 using 2d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,5. dynamite damage cusano.
23:05, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 3 using 2d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,1. dynamite damage.





... or at least he tries to. The match lights up real nice, but the fuse burns quicker than the marshal had anticipated. Panicking, Bullocks fumbles the stick of dynamite into Cusano's direction, but misses the reverend's pocket.
The stick drops between Cusano's feet. Bullock dives down, and the heat of the explosions washes over him.
Lucky for him, it seems the dynamite had gotten wet.
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The dynamite, wet or not, still has enough kick to knock the Reverend back into the crates and daze him for a few moments, but Bullock only has time to note that Jackie is not doing so well beneath the beating she's taking from the cultist. In fact, the last blow hits her square in the solar plexus and sends her staggering back before dropping her down the black pit, out of sight.

The burly cultists grunts and kicks the trap door down, and starts hauling a crate over it to keep any more do-gooders from coming up from below. Bullock has been cut off from his allies. He's now quite alone.

((OOC: Reverend Gusano gets a chance to avoid the boom. He rolls Agility at -2 (because of Bullock's failure to get it where it would do more harm.

02:35, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 3,1 using d8-2,d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 5,3. Agility.

Not good enough, so he takes 9 damage from the blast. That makes him Shaken.

With Jackie back under my control until the player is past RL issues, I'll spend a chip and make a soak from Jackie. since I don't know Jackie's current chip totals, this will be one from my own stash. According to Jackie's bio line, she has 1 wound on her already.

02:40, Today: The Stray, on behalf of Jackie Wells, rolled 0,0 using d8-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 1,1. Soak!

ouch. Critical failure. Jackie is going down.

02:41, Today: The Stray, on behalf of Jackie Wells, rolled 3,-1 using d8-3,d6-3, rerolling max with rolls of 6,2. Incapacitation.
02:42, Today: The Stray, on behalf of Jackie Wells, rolled 5 using 1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5. Red Chip.

She makes the incapactiation roll with a Raise, so she's only going to be injured for 24 hours or until she gets all her wounds healed. until then, she is going to be down to a d6 Vigor. I guess this is what comes of letting me pilot all the characters. :P))

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Han Lee, it is, at long last, your turn. From where you are, you just heard something fall down into the pit behind you, and it looked vaguely like the deputy. You're up!

Han swore, "Wilder, Lonefeather, I must attend to the Sheriff and whatever is left of his family and friends."  Han ran towards the pit and tried to locate the body that dropped. There was a solid chance it was a cultist but he needed to check to be sure.

There's a groan from the figure on the muddy ground, which makes it easy for Hand Lee to find her. It's Deputy Wells, and from the way she's clutching her chest it seems like she might have a broken rib or two.

((OOC: Wells has 3 wounds and is Incapacitated. You need to spend an action to heal the Incapacitation before you can get to work on the wounds, but removing Incapacitation doesn't have any penalties on the heal check (or heal power). All you've done so far is moved, so you still have your action left.))

Han swore in Chinese then in English he calmly said "A moment, Deputy. And I will have you ready to dispense justice again." He pulls out some herbs to shake off the cobwebs while using some pressure points to help urge the body back into some form of working capacity.

11:44, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 7,1 using 1d4,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (4+3)7,1. non-powers heal for incap.

11:46, Today: Doctor Han Lee drew the single card: 2D using the Deadlands system. Initiative.

"Ow..." The deputy grunts, her eyes fluttering open. She looks up at the closed trap door. "...shit. That hurt." Then she looks over at Lee. "No, don't waste no time on me! Help him! He's all alone in there!"

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It's James Wilder's turn!

James notes that his pistol is empty and he doesn't have any more bullets on him - something about having his gun and gun belt taken by indians or the like comes to mind. He quickly looks around for a pistol, gun belt or even a knife to aid him in going to help the sheriff.

[edit]
Seeing a rifle that one of the cultists had, James retrieves the weapons and, after checking it for ammo, heads to down to do what he can.

OOC: I believe James was just given a gun and zero extra bullets - good times!

[edit] Not sure how far James will get move towards Bullock

15:40, Today: James Wilder drew the single card: 9S using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative .
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((OOC: It will take you 2 movements to get at the cultists by going around the building, or one movement and a mighty leap up through a blocked trap door to get in via the cellar pit. Picking up the gun and extra ammo takes your action for the round, so you're down to movement. Which way are you headed?))

OOC: as beat up as James is, he's going to be careful and go around the building

((OOC: So, in the process of collecting cards for the next turn's order, I've discovered that Bullock hasn't actually pulled for his next turn.

Since I want to get this fight over with, I'm just going to have everyone re-pull their cards.

As a special bonus, consider yourself to have the Level-headed Edge for this roll. You can draw two cards and used the best draw))

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Turn Order:
Baddies: 8D
James: Please Redraw. Jimmy will act on your initiative.
Han Lee: Please Redraw
Bullock: Please redraw

OOC: SURE!
12:24, Today: James Wilder drew the 2 cards: 9S, JS using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative .

20:31, Today: Freiherr von Steinhof Seth Bullock drew the 2 cards: 3S, 9S using the Deadlands system. Initiative.

Sorry, that's meant to be Seth Bullock, of course. :-)

23:39, Today: Doctor Han Lee drew the 2 cards: 5H, JH using the Deadlands system. redraw

((OOC: So...you guys go before the cultists do. James, you can burst into the back room where the cultists are with a movement and a Strength Check to kick in the locked door where the Cultists are.))

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Turn Order:
James Wilder: JS
Doctor Han Lee: JH
Seth Bullock: 9S
Cultists: 8D

James did what they always talked about in dime novels and ran towards he door then attempted to kick it down... sadly the only then that went down was him as he bounced off the door and onto the ground. "Oof!" he exclaimed as the air exited his lungs in a hurried fashion

OOC:
14:41, Today: James Wilder rolled -1,1 using 1d6-2,1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 1,3. Strength (-2 WP).

14:43, Today: James Wilder drew the single card: 8S using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative .

((OOC: So no chip on that? Alrighty, then. Han Lee, you're up!))

Han frowns at Jackie but heeds her words, as he too is worried about the Sheriff.

He tries to push the trap door open and if a simple push does not succeed then he prepares to use his extensive martial arts training to do the trick.

Trying a basic strength check before I try to kick thru this floor:

01:32, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 1,4 using 1d4,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 1,4. Strength check.

Han Lee has to leap, but he can make it through the trap door. He finds himself in a cramped room filled with boxes, blood, the smell of gunpowder, and moving bodies...three cultists have rifles drawn, while Bullock is in a knife fight with a purple-skinned man in preacher garb. There's two fellows with rifles and one with a shotgun.

((OOC: You can still take an action. The only guy you can actually reach with the rest of your movement is the cultist with the shotgun.))

And reach him I shall _try to do.

Han takes a quick glance around and sets his sights on the first cultist he sees.  He is long past the point of trying to negotiate with these villains. They have already caused and unconscious amount of pain on this town.

He leaps towards the man, and tries to hit him twice, once in the torso and then across the back of the head.


01:54, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 6,4 using 1d10,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 6,4. Fighting 1.

01:54, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 2,4 using 1d10,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of 2,4. Fighting 2.

So one hit on the cultist.

01:57, Today: Doctor Han Lee rolled 7,9 using 1d4,1d6, rerolling max with rolls of (4+3)7,(6+3)9. Damage.  = 16 damage

01:58, Today: Doctor Han Lee drew the single card: KS using a deck of 54 cards. Initiative.

The thug grunts and collapses in a heap, leaving the other two cultists stunned and babbling as they start looking at Han Lee.

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It's Bullock's turn!

Wild attack on Gusano with the first thing I can grab...
Fists if I don't have anything else.

21:04, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 7,13 using d8+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 5,(6+5)11. last chip.
21:04, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 4,6 using d8+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 2,4. White chip.
21:04, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 3,6 using d8+2,d6+2, rerolling max with rolls of 1,4. Figthing, Wild Attack.


21:05, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 1 using 1d4, rerolling max with rolls of 1. d4 for improvised weapon?
21:05, Today: Seth Bullock rolled 7,5 using d6+2,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,5. Strength for damage, plus bonus die.
--> So damage is either 12 or 13 Either way just one wound...

Bullock rises and grabs the first thing he can find and starts to savagely beat the downed and dazed reverend, his teeth clenched in rage as blood drops are sprayed left and right.


21:07, Today: Seth Bullock drew the single card: KS using the Deadlands system. Initiative.

The board in Bullock's hand vibrates as he brings it crshing down on the deranged reverend, who staggers back. Blood slides down his head, and he laughs. "Good! Good! Some fight left in you yet!" he crows.

The cultists shoot wildly. Han Lee feels a bullet crease his side, which sends him staggering into the crates. A second shot traces a line of fire across his thigh.

Bullock, meanwhile, is able to avoid the first shot of the babbling cultist near him, but the second one takes him in the shoulder, distracting him enough for the Reverend to catch his breath and renew his assault.

Gusano laughs wildly. "The Princess of Worms saw in you a worthy foe, Bullock!" he laughs as the blade tears into the Marshal's belly. He stabs again and again. "When you are gone, her plans will bear fruit! Her power will spread! All of Deadwod shall despair!"

((OOC: I opt not to soak that, so the Rev keeps the wound. On his action, he attempts to Unshake:

04:04, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 1,0 using d8-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 2,1. Unshake. That's a no. The Reverend gets no action this round.

There are 2 cultists left. One will shoot at Han Lee, the other at Bullock.

04:06, Today: Worm Cultists rolled 4,3 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 4,3. Shooting!

Han Lee is hit!

Damage: 6. Han Lee is Shaken.

Card: AD. They get to go before everyone.

Gusano gets to attempt an Unshake again.

04:11, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 3,10 using d8-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 4,(6+5)11. Unshake. Yeah, that will do it.

04:12, Today: Reverend Alonzo Gusano rolled 8,2 using d10-1,d6-1, rerolling max with rolls of 9,3. Fighting! That will hit.

Damage: 7. Bullock is Shaken.

The cultists again take potshots at the two of you, one attack each.

04:15, Today: Worm Cultists rolled 5,5 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 5,5. Shooting! Both hit.

Damage (Han Lee): 7. Another Shaken, which will result in 1 Wound unless soaked.
Damage (Bullock): 6. Another Shaken, which will result in 1 Wound unless soaked.

Card: 6D))

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Turn Order:
Cultists: AD
Han Lee: KS
Bullock: KS
Wilder: 8S