In reply to Tarkahnta Modelii Akata (msg # 125):

Yeah, okay. Gaiu and Atharryn try to draw off the Sentry Bot while Zu is still distracted with fighting the gangers.
The rolls are as follows:

1. Zu: 16 Driving, 5 Gunnery.
   
2. Atharryn: 18 Driving.
   
3. Gaiu: 2 Driving.

Zu races, hunched over his bike, into a head-on collision with one of the gangers, his maser blasting away in a chattering chuff-whir, chuff-whir, chuff-whir volley, until he screams into a sharp, veering swerve at the last second. Meanwhile, Atharryn circles her bike expertly around and through the sentry bot's legs in tight curves.
"Come and get me, you grothras-tusked pile of bolts!" she bellows with a hysterical laugh.
Behind her, Gaiu tries to keep up but only barely manages to keep from upending his bike when he has to skid to a stop to keep from slamming headfirst into an inconveniently placed wall. "Calaval's eyes!" he curses. "A fat lot of good I'm doing in this fight."

In reply to Dokahlis (msg # 128):

You hit again doing 5 pts dmg. The shadow creature falls over the side of the building. You hear it hit the ground and hear it thrashing about trying to scurry away.

Whats your next action?

In reply to Zu (msg # 129):

The bot tries to take a shot at Gaiu , but the wall takes the volley. (lvl 3 to make a defense roll against debris)

The sentry bot tries to fire on Atharryn but misses as it can't track her.

(The npcs have a lvl 4 to attack the bot)
(Zu needs a lvl 3 for the ganger)

(Zu's cycle control will be his speed at a lvl 3)
(The NPC's cycle control is at a lvl 2 for Gaiu/ lvl 3 for Atharryn)

Modelii rolls a 11 and hits a lvl 3 ganger cycle. Scratch one bike
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:47, Wed 21 June 2017.

In reply to Tarkahnta Modelii Akata (msg # 131):

Rolls as follows:

1. Zu: Speed (Driving) @ Diff 3: 6 failed. Intellect (Gunnery to-hit) @ Diff 2: 16 success.
   
2. Atharryn: Speed (Driving) @ Diff 3: 17 success. Intellect (Gunnery to-hit) @ Diff 4: 4 failed.
   
3. Gaiu: Speed (Driving Dodge) @ Diff 3: 7 failed. Speed (Driving) @ Diff 2: 13 success. Intellect (Gunnery to-hit) @ Diff 4: 6 failed.

As he speeds past the panicked ganger, Zu's maser scores a direct hit on the man's power cell and the vehicle explodes in a blossoming plume of green flame. The excited adventurer watches the show a little too long, though, and he has to kill his speed in a tight braking maneuver to keep from running into a building. Properly chastened, he makes a quick check to see if anybody was watching his embarrassing gaffe.
Back on the other side of the battle, Atharryn maintains her breakneck pace as she weaves in and out of debris and abandoned wrecks to stay out of the bot's line of fire. Her rear railgun chatters away at the enemy, but only ineffectually as the heavy rounds bounce off its thick armor.
Gaiu is not so lucky. He guns his engine to get away from the bot's blast just a hair too late. The shot misses him, but it hammers into the concrete wall behind him, sending chunks of hardened rock flying and the remaining face of the wall crashing down to the ground. Part of it clips Gaiu in the shoulder as he pulls away, and he grunts painfully. "Ughn. There's another bruise." He pulls away from the rubble at a careful pace and takes a shot at the sentry bot with his railgun. The explosive rounds track the target, but its evasive programs prove too wily for them to connect.

In reply to Zu (msg # 132):

Meanwhile, Umbra is pulled back from his trance to see that he is not with the group anymore and has ported somewhere else.

"Guys!"

Umbra remembers the last place he was with the group and ports there. Upon arriving he see Zu shooting at a sentry bot and missing entirely. Umbra knows he is not too late to help as his friends are still alive. Without waiting another moment, Umbra pulls out his whip and charges the sentry bot.

In reply to Tarkahnta Modelii Akata (msg # 130):

I QUICKLY LEAP OFF THE ROOF TOP AND LAND ON HIS CHEST WHILE HE LAYS THERE AND PLUNGE MY DAGGER INTO HIS RIGHT SHOULDER AND AS HE SCREAMS A SHORT GRUNTING SOUND OUT OF AGONY I ASK"WHO SENT YOU TO SWAY ME FROM THE EYE? TELK ME OR I SHALL TEAR YOU LIMB FROM LIMB AND DRINK YOUR BLOOD FROM EACH ONE THAT I TEAR FROM YOUR TWITCHING DIEING BODY."

In reply to Dokahlis (msg # 134):

" I will tell you nothing outcast." It says grinning through bloodied teeth. "The shadowed do not betray their lords that we have sworn to." " To do so is to die by our orders own laws"

[ What do you do? Also make an intellect check at lvl 3 (9)]

In reply to Umbra (msg # 133):

You attack the bot. Roll a D20 at a lvl 4 (12+ needed) you may adjust as desired.

In reply to Zu (msg # 132):

[ Everyone make an intellect check at lvl 4]

[ Modelli cast his cypher on the group, all difficulty lvls are brought down by one step]

Make cycle rolls and attack rolls at lvls 3 and 3 (Modelii cypher added)

The semi attack vehicle closes pushing the entire group in to a tighter battle area with it at one end the sentry bot at the other.

In reply to Tarkahnta Modelii Akata (msg # 137):

Attack roll 11, needed 9

Intellect roll 16, needed 9.

In reply to Tarkahnta Modelii Akata (msg # 137):

Phew. Okay. So. Rolls are:

1. Zu - Intellect @ D4: 5 failed. Speed (Driving) @ D3: 13 success. Intellect (Gunnery) @ D3: 4 failed.
   
2. Atharryn - Intellect @ D4: 5 failed. Speed (Driving) @ D3: 1 failed w/ free Intrusion. Intellect (Gunnery) @ D3: 6 failed.
   
3. Gaiu - Intellect @ D4: 6 failed. Speed (Driving) @ D3: 18 success. Intellect <Gunnery> @ D3: 1 failed w/ free Intrusion.

Aaaaaand I'm gonna take some liberties with those 1s, so apologies in advance and please feel free to pile on some additional pain to make my character(s) overcome even more awesomeness. lol :)

When Zu stops to check the area for potential witnesses to his error, an arrow whizzes by his head to stick in a brick wall beside him. He jerks the throttle instinctively, and as his bike roars to life, two more arrows clatter off the pavement where he'd been idling.
Behind him, a tractor-trailer rig, piled high with guns and custom armor, trundles down the street, crushing anything in its path under the force of a wedge-shaped steel ram mounted on its nose. Two gangers, imposing in their black riding leathers and metal breastplates, aim crossbows at Zu from perches atop the cab, and another one screams and shoots wildly from the passenger's window with a machine pistol.
Slaved to the semi is a grav sled, piled high with an architect's nightmare of steel and synth fortifications, which jut out at odd angles and wreck the occasional building that dares to stand too close. Amid and atop these mobile ramparts stand armed men and women with guns, bows, spears, and all manner of fatal instruments--and each brandishes his with obvious pleasure and deadly intention. Anything this rabble lacks in skill, they make up in sheer numbers and ferocity.
It's terrifying.
Zu keeps his eyes on the road this time as he speeds away, thumbing his rear-arc weapons in a stalling gesture to keep the behemoth off his tail. He doesn't hit anything; but although the giant picks up speed in its pursuit, it doesn't get too close, either.

Two blocks away, Atharryn meets disaster. She dives her bike between the walls of two ruined buildings and slips through them as the bot's thundering weapon blasts a crater in the road behind her. A ramp at the end of the blind alley leads over a short wire fence, and the daring diva takes it at full throttle, shooting high into the air at the end of the alley while another blast destroys both walls behind her in an explosion of heat and sound. As she lands her bike, though, a small animal darts out in front of her, spooked by the noise and destruction, and Atharryn has to juke her bike to the side to avoid running it down.
At that speed, she never has a chance to recover. The bike wobbles and flips, wheel over wheel, in a spectacular and catastrophic end. Atharryn ends up lying, dazed, against the burned-out metal frame of an old car on the side of the road. One piece of her bike ends up littering the side of the same road, while the other flies through the air and takes out the last intact window on the block.
The mighty sentry bot stomps ever closer, leveling deadly guns in her direction as it warns, "D-D-D-Destruction of city property will not be tolerated! If-f-f-f you do not lay down your {grr-nk} immediately and submit-t-t yourselves for ... are authorized to use lethal f-f-f-force!"

At that second, though, Gaiu comes ripping around the corner on his own bike and fires off an explosive shell that takes out the corner office in the building next to the sentry bot. He guns his engine as the machine turns his way and zips underneath its legs, making the thing do a comical, upside-down double take through its own legs as he passes underneath it.
"Pick on somebody your own size, you mulcher-fucker!"
He thumbs his weapons again, but the only reaction from the bike is a whir and a hollow chnk-chnk-chnk sound, followed by another whir and a forlorn beep from the bike's control panel. "Dammit, Modelli!" he cries in sudden frustration. "Why didn't you warn me to check the ammo load on this piece of crap before we left?"
This message was last edited by the player at 13:00, Thu 22 June 2017.

In reply to Tarkahnta Modelii Akata (msg # 135):

I HAVE ROLLED A 14.DOKAHLIS SWIFTLY REMOVES THE DAGGER FROM THE SHADOW AND QUICKLY PLUNGES IT INTO HIS FACE RIGHT IN THE FOREHEAD AND ATTEMPTD TO DARG IT DOWN....

In reply to Umbra (msg # 138):

Ok cool. I am going to assume you are using the maser canon on the cycle. Umbera roars over performing a quick fishtail maneuver. I the middle of the maneuver he scores a direct hit on the bots main torso. Sparks and shattered molten armor blast outward as the masers protons impact on the high density armor. The eyes on the bot flash as its fail safes kick in. It lets out another round of smoke billows  and digitized broken and fizzing speech (You do 8 pts dmg) .

Then you notice a partially exposed fuel pod under the bots arm, (for the intellect roll). If you strike this it will make a big juicy explosion.( lvl 5 diff to hit you may mod as desired)


[ second option]
Modelii fires another round towards the gangers, but the gun seizes up . (Rolled a 1) Warning alarms and  displays play across the drivers screen as the gun begins to go into critical meltdown. "This is not good," says Modelii. He then calls over to Zu and Umbra. "I have a bike that is going critical !, I need the two of you to draw that battle wagon towards me and that metal giant. I am going to have to let the bike go critical hopefully to damage the semi, and jump away before it blows." He turns the bike and guns it head long into the oncoming large semi tanker truck. "I need you to angle it on a collision course with the bot. Maybe the bike will lock the steering. Maybe they are going too fast to turn out of it. Maybe. Atharryn! Gaiu! Run!" he says and guns the engine.

Meanwhile the bot is doing a good impersonation of King Kong punching and kicking at Atharryn and Gaiu's hiding spaces. Blasting away as it sees them scurry from one point to another. " Stop! Stop! Or I will shoot! it says. Still blasting away. "Buy the nuke slush, full of protein ans @@@ *** fizzzz! Pop! Only, Stop! targeting! cat food for kitty! (lvl 3 speed rolls, can mod as desired)

Zu, Umbra,( lvl diff is 4,  you may mod as needed)
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:00, Fri 23 June 2017.

In reply to Dokahlis (msg # 140):

You plunge the dagger into his forehead, killing the shadow beast instantly.
You drag the blade down to the chin.
Do you drag the blade across the entire front of its body? In effect splitting it in two?
If so roll a D20 (you can mod this roll too), you have a diff lvl at 1 (3+ to hit)

In reply to Zu (msg # 139):

Modelii fires another round towards the gangers, but the gun seizes up . (Rolled a 1) Warning alarms and  displays play across the drivers screen as the gun begins to go into critical meltdown. "This is not good," says Modelii. He then calls over to Zu and Umbra. "I have a bike that is going critical !, I need the two of you to draw that battle wagon towards me and that metal giant. I am going to have to let the bike go critical hopefully to damage the semi, and jump away before it blows." He turns the bike and guns it head long into the oncoming large semi tanker truck. "I need you to angle it on a collision course with the bot. Maybe the bike will lock the steering. Maybe they are going too fast to turn out of it. Maybe. Atharryn! Gaiu! Run!" he says and guns the engine.

Meanwhile the bot is doing a good impersonation of King Kong punching and kicking at Atharryn and Gaiu's hiding spaces. Blasting away as it sees them scurry from one point to another. " Stop! Stop! Or I will shoot! it says. Still blasting away. "Buy the nuke slush, full of protein ans @@@ *** fizzzz! Pop! Only, Stop! targeting! cat food for kitty! (lvl 3 speed rolls, can mod as desired)

Zu, Umbra,( lvl diff is 4,  you may mod as needed)

In reply to Tarkahnta Modelii Akata (msg # 142):

I WISH TO STOP THERE AND TEAR ONE HIS LIMBS OFF IN ORDER TO FEAST UPON HIS BLOOD. "I HATE TO LOOK LIKE A LIAR"

In reply to Dokahlis (msg # 144):

When you kill it the shadow energy of its being leaps out from its dead form . A mass of crackling dark energy. Its tentrils touching the pavement and the sides of the street. ( lvl 5 diff) to try and catch it.

You drink it blood and draw strength from it.

In reply to Tarkahnta Modelii Akata (msg # 145):

First roll fail: No explosion.

Second roll fail: cannot leave from imminent danger.

In reply to Tarkahnta Modelii Akata (msg # 145):

D10'S WERE A TOTAL OF 6. D20 WAS 12. ADDED (1) FROM MIGHT, (2) FROM SPEED, (1) FROM INTILECT. YOU SAY THAT GAIN ENERGY, HOW MYCH OF M POOLS HAVE BEEN REPLENISHED AND, WHAT IS GAINED FROM THE SHADOW ENERGY CAPTURED?
This message was last edited by the player at 00:22, Sat 24 June 2017.

In reply to Umbra (msg # 146):

Ditto. Gauntlet is closing. This is going to get interesting. :)

In reply to Dokahlis (msg # 147):

You can regain all your spent energy. Only thing is soaking up that much dark energy will make you a bit more evil. You wish to do so?

In reply to Tarkahnta Modelii Akata (msg # 143):

Rolls as follows:

1. Zu - Speed (Driving) @ D4: 6 failed. Intellect (Gunnery) @ D3: 18 success.
   
2. Atharryn - Speed (Dodge) @ D3: 10 success.
   
3. Gaiu - Speed (Driving Dodge) @ D3: 7 failed.

Atharryn tries to roll out of the way when the bot starts pounding the ground with its heavy fists. Agile as she is, even shaken from falling off her bike earlier, she manages to evade the blow--barely. The metal fist comes down like a sledgehammer inches from her foot and sinks into the asphalt all the way up to its elbow.
Around the arm, the street starts to give way. Atharryn yelps and takes two steps, then leaps. In the blink of an eye, she's standing on top of a building a hundred feet away and watching her enemy trying to figure out where she went. (Far Step: 2 Intellect Point cost - 1 Edge. A @ 15/16 Intellect.)
Gaiu roars as he sees the automaton going after his friend. He rockets his cycle directly at it.
"That's it! Now you've got me mad!"
It's unbalanced with its hand sticking through the street, but the sentry bot raises its other hand and swats at him backhanded. Gaiu tries to duck, but the hand is too big. It connects, lifts Gaiu off the bike bodily, and sends him flying while the bike careens on wildly, crashing into the robot's knee with a bone-jarring crunch. Gaiu slams airborne into a moldering brick wall, which collapses around him and buries him in rubble.

Zu, two blocks away and closing fast, chances a look over his shoulder at the gangers' semi. Despite his efforts, it's starting to close in. Bullets from their guns kick up dust all around him as he weaves left and right to stay one step ahead of their deadly fire. Zu grimaces and considers his options for a moment, then takes three seconds to aim his rear weapon; his maser barks once, and the chattering of the passenger's machine pistol falls silent.
Three seconds also gives the other gangers the chance they need to train their weapons on him, though, and one of the crossbows twangs. An arrow strikes Zu in the left shoulder, a flash of blue light punctuates the impact, and the arrow falls to the ground and crunches under the grav lifters of the gangers' sled.
"That's gonna leave a nasty bruise," Zu grumbles over the comm. "Modelli, I have company for you. Coming up right now."

In reply to Tarkahnta Modelii Akata (msg # 149):

YES. I AM ALREADY EVIL, I JUST HAVE NOT REVEALED HOW EVIL TO EVERYONE AS OF YET. MOOHOOHOOHOOHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

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In reply to Zu (msg # 152):

(They seriously need a like button on posts. Lol)