Re: Chapter 5.2: An Occurrence At Deadwood Gulch ((Moses, Art))
In reply to Moses (msg # 87):
"I wouldn't do that!" The bandit growls as he takes cover behind a tree trunk. "You're like to get folk killed, shoutin' like that! Take out the hero, boys!" He hefts his Gatling rifle and lets loose a barrage, which is swiftly followed by a hail of rifle fire from the trees.
The rain clears the smoke relatively quickly, so it's only a handful of moments as the bandits begin gasping and swearing in disbelief--despite the hail of lead, not a single bullet has touched any of the soldiers!
((OOC: All the soldiers except Private Brown are Shaken. They lose their Aim bonus and will need to Aim again to get it back. The soldiers all have Medium cover, except those who can use the lean-tos as Heavy Cover. And the Barrier is still in place. Private Brown has Heavy Cover from the lean-to
Arkansas Tom orders his band to open up on Private Brown, and I roll 27 attacks for the bandits and one for Tom (a Wild Card) himself. However, these attacks are going to be held back by the barrier, which has a Toughness of 10. The damage rolls have to beat 10 to break the barrier, and attack rolls don't get extra raise damage, nor do the damage dice Ace.
Modifiers: -2 (storm), +2 (aiming), -4 (heavy cover) = -4 total
16:44, Today: Wild Bunch Outlaws rolled -2,-3,-3,0,-2 using d6-4,d6-4,d6-4,d6-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 2,1,1,4,2. Shooting! at cover.
16:45, Today: Wild Bunch Outlaws rolled -2,-1,-1,0,5 using d6-4,d6-4,d6-4,d6-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 2,3,3,4,(6+3)9. Shooting! at cover.
16:45, Today: Wild Bunch Outlaws rolled -1,0,0,11,1 using d6-4,d6-4,d6-4,d6-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 3,4,4,(6+6+3)15,5. Shooting! at cover.
16:46, Today: Wild Bunch Outlaws rolled 5,0,-3,0,-3 using d6-4,d6-4,d6-4,d6-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of (6+3)9,4,1,4,1. Shooting! at cover.
16:46, Today: Wild Bunch Outlaws rolled -3,-3,-2,0,-2 using d6-4,d6-4,d6-4,d6-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of 1,1,2,4,2. Shooting! at cover.
16:47, Today: Wild Bunch Outlaws rolled 4,4 using d6-4,d6-4, rerolling max with rolls of (6+2)8,(6+2)8. Shooting! at cover.
5 attacks hit the barrier anywhere that would be dangerous to Private Brown. I check to see if any portions of the barrier that got hit go down.
16:53, Today: Wild Bunch Outlaws rolled 9,6,9,6,11 using 2d8,2d8,2d8,2d8,2d8. Damage.
Only one of the attacks hits with enough force to break through the Barrier, but's that's enough to cause the spell to collapse. It's all up to the Soldiers and Moses now.
Arkansas Tom moves to cover and then makes his attack. He the same penalty as the others, plus an additional -2 from his Gatling rifle (he doesn't have the Rock and Roll! edge, and since he moved he doesn't benefit from Marksman).
16:56, Today: The Stray, for the NPC Arkansas Tom, rolled 0,-3,-1 using d8-6,d8-6,d8-6, rerolling max with rolls of 6,3,5. Rock and Roll! Miss. No malfunctions, though.
Wild Bunch card: 3H
Little Crow continues to crawl. He gets 4 more squares up, and needs to make another Stealth roll. He needs 1 more round of movement to get to his target.
17:06, Today: Little Crow rolled 3,3 using d6,d6, rerolling max with rolls of 3,3. Stealth.
His target is one of the bandits, who isn't a Wild Card. The bandit has a -2 penalty on Notice rolls from the rain.
17:07, Today: Wild Bunch Outlaws rolled 0 using 1d6-2, rerolling max with rolls of 2. Notice. Nope.
Card: 10S))
Moses, it's your go. Note that the rain imposes a -2 penalty on Notice and Shooting checks, and that the barrier is now down.