Pierre is making short work of a long task. Ten minutes in and he's got the old tire off, rolling the spare up to the front, when all at once Everyone hears a russeling; something is running down the road, coming straight for you!
Visibility in the mist is 10 meters
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Sapphire made a noise that roughly translated to 'good heavens' in Elven "A Folk being chased" she called out as she pulled out her sword and started to spell cast. She should have done this sooner, she knew, but she really didn't like spell casting in the Living Land.



OOC
Casting sense life: Takes about 11 seconds casting time
(1 round to manipulate the spell and a second casting time)
Effect: Anything within 40m that has a mind total of 16 or less I can sense, and discern the type and number of creatures present.

Koharu sits quietly in the passenger seat, eyes closed, waiting.  When she hears the sound, her eyes flick open.  Looking out the windows to see Sapphire drawing her sword, she opens the door and slides gracefully out, dropping to the ground and closing the door behind her.  Her head tilts as she listens.

OOC: How big does it sound?  Any sense of whether it's like, one thing, or several, or a stampede, or a good time to stop giving the GM ideas?

Jalia narrowed her eyes as she stepped forward the jungle, trying to get a better idea of who or what was coming to them. She stood here, legs apart, planting feet into the ground for stability, and her long sword clearly ready for use in her right hand, her formidable figure enticingly glistened with persiration.

"Saph' ? let me attract it and cast something nasty if need be." as she was ready to intercept whatever it would be.

This was as good a time as any to see just how difficult operating here was going to be, and Pierre chanted the mantra for his signature buff, the Squad Tactical Boost. "Tactical Diamond Formation, 2 meter spread, execute!"
Spellfire lashed out from him to all the others, AR windows opening on their left eyes as spellcode executed, changing to the welcome screen.

All PC's: *Ping* Welcome [new user] to tactical enhancement v1.14. Your speed, strength, toughness and morale have been improved, duration 250s (this counts down). Now go forth and smite those heathen!
1)Blinklik here to suppress morale boost
2)Blinklik here to suppress strength boost
3)Blinklik here to suppress all boosts.

Spell went easily enough, but as he had feared the reality of the Living Land was much more reluctant to change, and he had to put real effort into it.

Okay, this buff increases Str, Dex, Tou and Spi.
Exactly what it does depends on your base stats.
The Simple Method: Have a +3 to all 4. (this averages out)
The complicated method: Compare the spells effect total (16) to your base stat on the power push table (not the speed push), increasing the stat by the result.

09:35, Today: Pierre De Gaulle rolled 12 using 1d20.  Spellcast.
09:35, Today: Pierre De Gaulle rolled 6 using 1d20.  Ranged Contradiction.
09:36, Today: Pierre De Gaulle rolled 14 using 1d20.  Possibility.
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An attractive young woman rushes out of the mist, her clothes torn, her face a mask of fear. She stumbles directly into the arms of Pierre, sags into his chest, gazes soulfully into his eyes, and shouts, "Hilfe! Hilfe! Die Eidechsen sind hinter mir her! Und mein Vater ist..." as she points back the way she came. She stops mid sputter as the strong embrace from Pierre (possibly influenced by the flow of LIFE all around him) calms the young woman down, she says in accented Englih, "Please help me! I am being chased by those terrible, how you say? I forget the words. Oh, yes, I remember now! Lizards!"

At that moment, the plants in the area start moving to attack.

43 They Hesitate!
S: H Flurry V -
Act: Attack/Taunt
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Pierre's spell casting surprised her a little, but she was pleased to see it's effectiveness. It was very different to the type of magic she would do, but that only added to their power as a group.

When the woman arrived, she couldn't make sense of a single word that the woman said at first, but wasn't actually that worried about her at the moment. That was Jalia's and the other's problem to deal with. Her's was the threat that she suspected only she could sense

"Some people.. Lizard men perhaps. I sense maybe 6... no make that 8 of them. They are ... umm ... 100, maybe 150 feet out. Well past the mist" Sapphire called out "I feel that they can see us, and are trying to circle round. Hopefully the walls will keep them out. I'm trying to count how many there are now..."

And then the animating plant life put a lie to her hope. It was obvious that the walls wouldn't 'keep them out' or at least not all of them. That made everything much more dangerous. Moving with the dexterity and speed that elves were famous for, she moved so that Jalia was between her and the nearest Animated Plant.

"I need to lock them down. I will try and stop them circling and keep them busy" she said "Jalia can you help keep the plants off me..." with that walked forwards in the direction the woman had come from. The same small glowing balls of sunlight that she had summoned when she had enchanted the plant life formed again and raced away from her into the Deep Mist and whatever they were doing was not visible

As she walked she prayed to Dunad "Lord of Honour who risked all to save others I call on you. We know little about these lizard men. We know the woman flees them, but know nothing about the circumstances. I beseech thee from this strange land to grant me the strength that will let me call forth a means to determine friend from foe. In this difficult matter I will stand by thy judgement of who is friend and who is foe"


OOC
Flurry round 1:
Simple action. Walk 15m (Run limit is 10, walking as a simple action is 4 less so 15m)
Simple action. Use the existing Enchanted growth: tell it to grow to maximum effectiveness in the area marked on the map in red. I am assuming the woman 'came from that direction'
Can you let me know if any of the 8 are caught in the zone? I put an S to indicate roughly where Sapphire is
Complex action. Invoke miracle bless.

Flurry round 2:
Complex action: Active defence.
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In reply to Sapphire (msg # 63):

in this case, Sapphire's second action can be assumed to happen after everyone's 1st action, so I have no problem applying it that way.
I would point out, the Player cards are Eternity cards, where possible, so the wording may be slightly different than the Images Sapphire is using, but it's like using a Proxy card in a friendly game of MTG, as long as everyone knows what it does, what the picture is doesn't matter.

Koharu stays quietly where she stands, by the front of the truck, listening.  As the strange window opens in her field of vision, she tenses, startled a bit until she realizes what it must - at least more or less - be.  After a moment she realizes that she has allowed herself to become quite distracted by it, and tries to refocus her attention past the display and back on the mist.

Attacking plants ?This world was definately different from what she imagined. With large sweeps, Jalia stepped in towards the plants, and slashed them to keep Sapphire safe. SHe could feel the joy of exercizing, each muscle of her body working like a perfectly healthy machine.

OOC : what is the difficulty to hit the plants with a melee roll ?

Sita's brilliant mind immediately takes stock of the situation. An ambush. She and her companions, all sitting out in the open, all inside a prearranged kill zone. The attackers, hidden by obscuring mist, protected by animating plant life. The circumstances were not in their favor, and there were only bare moments left to tilt the scales.

She takes a deep breath and looks around at them all, realizing it was perhaps the last time that she would call some of them her friend. In the end, she hoped that they would understand. For it was time, now. Time for all the masks to fall away . . .

She reaches into her other bag, the one filled with corruption and death, and removes a heavy Victorian-era pistol. Rather than preparing to fire it herself, however, she instead drops it at Ben Altman's feet. She knew he was a professional soldier. From his previous comments, probably the most . . . pragmatic of the group. He would do what needed to be done, if it should ever come to that.

Looking him in the eye, in the gravest of tones, she says, "If I lose control, you need to kill me with this when I come back. I'm trusting you to do it. Kill me dead."

And with that, she then breaks into a full-speed run, disappearing into the mist.

OOC:
Taking a full Run movement, 100m movement rate. My roll to disappear into the mist:
00:30, Today: Dr. Sita Chandrasakar rolled 9 using 1d20.
Action value 13 - 1 from roll + 3 from Pierre's buff = 15 vs DN 10, Good success.
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Jason frowned, looking up from the tire situation as a woman came running out of the mist at them, first speaking in another language which he thought sounded like German but wasn't sure. Then she switched to English and mentioned lizards!

He sighed, but didn't see anything yet. His eyes shifted sideways to her to make sure she wasn't trying to dupe them and do something to Pierre. In the meantime, he reached back in to the golf bag on his back and pulling out a baseball bat.

He saw the doctor go running in to the mist and he yelled out involuntarily, "Wait! Stop! Don't!" He hesitated and then took off running after.
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Pierre was not at all displeased to find himself with an armful of pneumatic young woman, in fact very pleased. So pleased in fact that when she pressed close he bent his head to steal a kiss. "Pardon Mademoiselle, but you have quite overcome me, the lizards can wait." There he stood, ignoring them in favor of a liplock. Or so it seemed...

1st action: Taunt. Look how vulnerable and easy to hit he is here, lost in mating rituals.
Taunt value: 13. Players call: the Ed are so enraged that he is taking them lightly that they rush forward to attack him, giving up their mist edge.

In reply to Jason Keller (msg # 68):
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Three months ago if someone looking like Sita would have told him something like this, Ben would have scoff at them for being over dramatic. Three months after the invasion and a tour inside Mobius empire thought Ben better. He picked the gun, made sure it was loaded and the safety was on and tuck it into his belt "I will." he said to the disappearing doctor who had a very good sprinting speed.

That was the only bright spot, the rest was chaos, the Tolkin-fans were rushing like a two-girl army, very girl power but leaving their flanks open.

Pierre found this the moment to make out with the woman that ran toward them, Ben heard tales about the French passion for romance but this was ridiculous. Ben didn't need Spider sense to know they were in trouble but he knew he would need every edge he had so he focused his mind increasing his perception and awareness to the surrounding.

Lifting his Galil MAR he was ready, if anything lizardly pocked its head out it would get the finessed lead Israeli military tech produced.

"Gunner, formed a circle around the truck, keep it in short burst only if you have a clear line of sight. Melee fighters, keep next to the gunners, intercept any melee charge. Civilians, under the truck for max protection... if we get overrun, run back toward the civilization, we will give you as much cover as we can." he didn't expect anyone to listen but he had to say it anyway.

OOC:
14:33, Today: Ben Altman rolled 17 using 1d20.  Awareness.
Final result is 14+4 vs. Target of 14. Success
Resist is 13+4 vs. 14 success as well, no mental damage.
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Matthew hated days like this.  "Of course all of this is happening while all the gods sleep," he thinks to himself.  He has been in many battles before, but he has always felt out of place.  This place has him more "out of place" than any other.

He moves to heeding Ben's orders he quickly moves to Koharu's side at the front of the truck.  "Quickly, we must get under the truck," he says.  But then he notices Pierre and the woman out in the open.  The lizards were after her already, they'll surely be heading for those two.  He tries to see through the mist to find a target as he runs the numbers through his head and releases the energy they posses.

Pooling Willpower

OCC: successfully cast Detect Magic (Mathematics) I am able to detect all magical eminations within 50 feet (magic items, the products of magical engineering, the effects of magic spells, and the effects of miracles).  I'm hoping this can help me target... if not, that's fine.

1st Flurry action: Calculate the influence of Isis and cast Detect Magic
  08:20, Today: Matthew Matherson rolled 11 using 1d20.  Mathematics - Isis.
    Mathematics 16 + 0 (roll) vs DN 10 => Success
  08:22, Today: Matthew Matherson rolled 9 using 1d20.  Divination - Detect Magic.
    Divination 15 - 1 (roll) +3 (influence) = 17 vs DN 12 => Success

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In reply to Jalia (msg # 66):

The plants won't actually attack until the Villains go. They will be functioning as a swarm, so attacking them will not be effective--though it could get you a card this round for Approved Action. You Could declare 1st action as hacking at the plants (DC 7,9,11...One on Many, very small, easy) and second as Active Defense and narrate them both as swinging your sword defensively,

In reply to Pierre de Gaulle (msg # 69):

I read your post as attempting to Taunt all of them, The original OoM rules allow partial success, though they still make all the actions/targets more difficult. You are due a Card, so you know you succeeded, but there's no perceived evidence to say how well or how many.

In reply to Ben Altman (msg # 71):

. This is enough to target with a -4 penalty if that is your choice. Awareness rmains active, but will soon be redundant]]

OOC : Well it is exactly what I was aiming to do so yes :)
1. Hacking plants
2. Defensive stance to intercept the edeinos


04:04, Today: Jalia rolled 19 using 1d20.  Melee Weapons total 13+5 = 18

Jalia sweeps her sword around near ground level, making an effective, if unusual lawn mower; but many plants are left Jalia is owed a card...make your Active Defense roll. She continues to point her blade at the plants as they get more aggressive.

Action Count:Ben 1, Sita Separated, Gavin 0(covered soon), Jalia 2(after Defense roll) Jason Separated, Saito 1(?), Matthew 2, Pierre 1, Sapphire 2...does anyone disagree with my count?

OOC ;
08:12, Today: Jalia rolled 12 using 1d20.  Active Melee Weapon Defense Roll.
Which makes Defense Melee up to 14 with the +1 bonus.

In reply to Apeiros (msg # 75):

OOC: I disagree with my count of 2 actions but I will move this to the OOC channel since my point could get verbose.  And the counter-points could be verbose.

It was a system message that brought Pierre back to his senses.
*Cling* Penis Magnafique requests power divert from Trigon LeGentle for reconfiguration. Permit Y/N?
Why was his... oh right. Damn, but these invaders could be sneaky bastards! Reaching into his personal storm, he brought out a small amount, spinning a Cyberpapacy bubble around himself.
That worked, muting the demands of the local cosm even if it didn't totally stop them. It was worth noting that his storm had gained energy by it though, something definitely worth exploring when he had some leisure.

Breaking the liplock _{(mate, sire children)} he smiled at Didi (Damsel In DIstress). "Ah, very fine. But perhaps not the best time, no?" Turning to place his armored bulk between her and any threats out in the mist _{(protect female)} he ushered her gently towards the truck. Where was he? Oh yes. "Ooda loop execute!" _{(protect tribe)}

All PC's:
*Ping* Ooda loop plug-in active, duration 400s. Your combat response times have been improved. Kill! Kill! Kill!

10:14, Today: Pierre De Gaulle rolled 17 using 1d20.  Spellcast.
Everybody have one extra action per turn. This is both the simple and the complicated method. When casting for multiple characters, fixed effect spells are your friend.
Arcane knowledge is Sapients, Folk Synonymous.
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Ben felt more than saw where the enemy was, he aimed... no aiming is when you see something with your eyes. In this case he guided his rifle toward where the enemy was and released a short burst toward the spot.

OOC:
12:56, Today: Ben Altman rolled 15 using 1d20.  Attack -4.
11:15, Today: Ben Altman rolled 13 using 1d20.  Possibility.
Total toll=29 -> +9

Ben's total= 13 (base skill) +3 (Pierre boost) + 9(roll) -4 (penalty) = 21
Assuming Ben's target is 15 meter away, if it is more than the value drops to 18.
Since Ben attacked, does that mean he can move a card from his pool to his hand?
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Gavin reacts to the upcoming attack in a strange way; he appears to be having an alergic reaction. His whole body starts swelling, and Swelling... until he's grown to a massive size.

As if he just realized what a huge target he makes, Gavin starts bobbing and weaving, attempting to make himself a worse of one.