(Rope Bridge) Crossing

[Mina]

As her feet pushed her away from the danger, she could hear the crack of the gun and the snap of the whip. The vines were not letting them go that easily. And she told herself if they all got out, she was buying the Summers a big ass dinner for helping covering her ass.

Then she hears Krays baritone voice, another lifeline in her numerous failures, and focuses on the direction he tells her. Not as quick as before, but she still makes some distance, seeing his giant form and using it as a guide. Someone else to would need to repay. Maybe not with a dinner, she might not recover financially.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-01 14:17:56	Mina rolls 8 to Flee (Stam+Ath)+Temwork Kray 3 (10 Again)	1, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1, 9, 9	2 successes

Stats/Equipment

Health:
4/6 glamour
2/3 WP
Defense 2
Silver icicle lariat necklace (+1 DEF)
Messenger Bag: 4 water bottles, 4 bags of trail mix, band-aides, gauze, small hunting knife, lighter

[Saber Sloth]

Kray returns in time to offer Mina aid, she takes it, continues forward! Circe disengages, yelling to keep to the retreat.

Jack continues to attack. As before, his whip strike fails to connect to the spiked vine, who in turn shoots forward to wrap it's fibrous body around the Beast - it's armour tanking the ambient damage offered by Jack's Armour of the Elemental Furry.

Jack is Grappled!

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-01 18:16:40	spiked vine rolls 6 to grapple Jack! -DEF (10 Again)	7, 7, 6, 4, 9, 10, 1	2 successes

[Circe]

Looking back, Circe skids too a stop, using her training to slam the shell in finally. No time to aim more than avoidng Jack, she sends the stolid steel shell toward the vines, her safety be damned. Her mantle flares in rage as she snarls over her Summer Courtier being in danger!

4 suxx, shell ignores 3 points of armor

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-01 19:19:23	Circe rolls 10 to Long Range AP, avoid Jack (9 Again, WillPower)	2, 3, 2, 8, 9, 3, 3, 10, 6, 1, 10, 4, 5	4 successes

Circe's Kit

Trench coat. Fanny pack, tactical harness and various attached pouches for carrying her kit. Sling with shotgun 4/9 [6] ammo case with shells: 10 regular, 3 flare, 5 AP. rondel bayonet 8L/A1 and light mount. colt [5]+9r +7a +7a +7h +7r. 30 spare colt bullets in ammo box. advanced skin suit 1/2bp +1 stealth in darkness but -1 in well lit areas. gob fruit flasks x3, fa kit +1, glowstick x7, HS multitool. LED headband, small LED shoulder mounted, 2 small LED flashlight, gas mask, water bottle, small water bottle, 8 protein bars, small boot knife 0L. athletic shoes

[Circe]

Jack is at Init top is back!

[Circe]

ooc: Connectivity issues rage baiting me right now (´≖ ‸ ≖), but book keeping Circe burned through WP again in this fight. Sorry for the extra postings. Connection no happy.

[Jack Violet]

Jack attempts to break the grapple of the vines.

5 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-02 12:08:23	Jack Violet rolls 8 to Break Grapple (Strength3 + Brawl0 _+ Willpower) (10 Again, WillPower)	7, 9, 9, 7, 6, 1, 8, 10, 10, 2	5 successes

STATS

Health:

Glamour:

Willpower:

BLESSINGS & CURSES

Beast

Blessing
The wildness that infuses a Beast gives her a supernatural affinity with animals. A Beast gains the benefit of the 8 again rule when using the Animal Ken Skill, and receives a free Specialty for the one animal that most reflects the Beast’s seeming. That same wild nature gives a Beast a powerful personal magnetism. A Beast’s player can spend points of Glamour to add to dice pools involving Presence and Composure. Each point of Glamour spent adds one die to one dice pool.
Curse
Although the Beasts regained their consciousness when they came through the Hedge, their time as beings of thoughtless instinct has taken its toll on each of them, and most find it very hard to make use of academic or trained skills. A Beast’s player suffers a –4 dice untrained penalty when trying to use a Mental skill in which the character has no dots. Further, although Beasts can be very clever indeed, they’re out of practice making those leaps of ingenuity that so characterize human genius. A Beast’s player doesn’t re-roll 10s when using a dice pool involving Intelligence.

Runnerswift

Runs Like the Wind: the changeling adds two points to Speed (cumulative with the Fleet of Foot Merit, if the changeling possesses it).

Woodblood

Fade into the Foliage: in any outdoors area where there are plants growing from the earth (in a garden, for example, but not in a concrete yard with a couple of shrubs in pots), the character gains the benefit of the 9 again rule on dice pools involving Stealth and Survival. The player can also spend a point of Glamour to hide in a place where he couldn’t normally hide, making a Stealth roll as usual. There has to be a reasonable amount of foliage there. The character couldn’t hide using a small patch of moss or a single dandelion, but could use a flowerbed, a lawn or a sapling.

GEAR

Body:

Hedgespun Whip - Damage 2L Size 2J Durability 1
Rapier - Damage: 2L Size: 2L Durability: 3
Bowie Knife - Damage: 2L Size: 1/J Durability: 4

Backpack:

Canteen with Water
5 MRE's (Meals Ready-to-Eat)
5 Road Flares
5 Glowsticks
Climbing Gear
Advance First Aid Kit
Night Vision Goggles

CONTRACTS

Contracts:

Fang and Talon
Beast’s Keen Senses: +2 dice bonus to all Wits rolls relating to perception for the next full scene.
In addition, he gains the chosen animal’s most notable sensory ability. (Fox: Extremely Acute Hearing Ability)
Elements
Armor of Elements Fury: The character surrounds herself with a damaging manifestation of the element. The character does half of her Wyrd (round up) lethal damage by touch, and anyone or any object that strikes her suffers this same damage. The changeling cannot combine this attack with a punch or any other conventional brawling or melee attack. Instead, the character must use the element to attack the target. The dice pool for this attack is Dexterity + Brawling + half of the character’s Wyrd. This elemental sheath also provides the character with one point of armor useful against all attacks, including attacks by the summoned element. The character can cause the element to cover only a small portion of the character, such as one hand and forearm or her head, but attempting to reduce its size further causes the element to vanish and ends the Contract. Otherwise, the element surrounds the character for the next scene.

[Kray]

I don't know why I got skipped over when my 24 hours was not up but getting the post in now.

Well that seemed to have the desired result. And so the ogre continues to wave his arms and shout encouragement to Mina trying to direct her to the best paths. "Uh. Like that." Jack was evidently also in trouble, but Circe probably had that handled. He was her courtier anyway, that was more then enough reason to leave it to her.

Teamwork for Mina 1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-02 13:48:46	Kray rolls 5 to assist Mina's retreat ath 3 stam 2 (10 Again)	1, 6, 8, 2, 5	1 success

stats and equipment

Defence:2
Armour: 1/0
Speed: 12

wp: 1/4
Glamour: 11/11








Bullet Proof Clothing 1/2 Denium overalls and Leather trench coat


Bowie Knife 2L
Trench Knife (WWI) 1(L/B) (doubles as brass knuckles)
Sledgehammer 2B (9-Again)
Advanced Fire Axe 3L/2L (AP 1)
Machete 2L
Dragon knuckles 0L
Strangle Wire 2L (Requires Grapple, then apply wire (Strength+Weaponry-3, no Defense))

x3 murmur fruit

Hedgespun Fedora (0 dot)

[Mina]

The Elemental continues to not only follow Kray’s voice, but keep her eyes on his giant form. Both were a huge help to her navigating the Hedge and direction she needed to go.

Behind her, she could still hear the loud shot of Circes gun, the Summers doing their best to protect them as they fled.

Maybe once she reached Kray she could do something to help. Could her Contracts reach that far? She’d certainly try. But for now, she heeded the Summer Queens words to retreat, and focused on the Autumn King and his deep voice.

4 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-02 22:51:47	Mina rolls 6 to Flee (Stam+Ath)+Temwork Kray 1 (10 Again)	7, 5, 10, 6, 10, 8, 9, 3	4 successes

Stats

Health:
4/6 glamour
2/3 WP
Defense 2
Silver icicle lariat necklace (+1 DEF)
Messenger Bag: 4 water bottles, 4 bags of trail mix, band-aides, gauze, small hunting knife, lighter

[Saber Sloth]

Kray continues to help Mina, who finally, finally reaches the Ogre, and safety.

Circe ceases her retreat, spins towards her grappled Courtier, and lets her skill show as she blasts the vine!

Jack feels the heat of the shot, and the vibrations of the impact....and fails to break the vine's grapple upon him.

The Spiked Vine with it's certain grip, starts to constrict. It's hardened armoured spikes, now turning from defense to offence...and drawing blood!

Circe , Jack 2B 2L, Spiked Vine 8L, Mina , Kray


Please remember to keep to Initiative Order, if 24 hours have elapsed before the person in turn order has posted that's when you can skip them!


Also! Jack Violet your roll to break the Grapple is incredibly incorrect. You have Strength 2, with Brawl 0 you need to remember that is a -1 to your rolls, even with the +3 from WP expenditure I do not understand how you were able to roll 8 dice. I will be using the first 4 numbers, - the Spiked Vines Strength to resolve Jack's attempt to break the grapple.

Spiked Vine's Strength is 3

2-1+3-3=1

With the 1 die left being a 7, Jack fails to break the grapple.

Kray 's up!

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-03 17:56:28	spiked vine rolls 8 to constrict -1 Jack's armour (10 Again)	8, 4, 10, 1, 2, 4, 1, 2, 4	2 successes

[Kray]

And Mina makes it to him, hey that's a good turn of events. Jack on the other hand seems to be getting deeper into trouble. But the vine had changed from its spitting attack to grabbing, why? As a very skilled grappler himself the answer is usually to prevent escape. But why do it now? "Uh. Eyes up." Hoping Mina understands.

The giant does his best to scan the surrounding hedge for more of the vine hobs, the vines had after all multiplied many fold since the first time they had been here and and grabbing some as bait was, well a move he would make.

Look for more vine hobs in the surrounding hedge failure

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-04 09:01:34	Kray rolls 2 to Perception (check for more vine hobs) wits 2, comp 2, -2 clarity (10 Again)	4, 1	failure

Circe Origins is up!

stats and equipment

Defence:2
Armour: 1/0
Speed: 12

wp: 1/4
Glamour: 11/11








Bullet Proof Clothing 1/2 Denium overalls and Leather trench coat


Bowie Knife 2L
Trench Knife (WWI) 1(L/B) (doubles as brass knuckles)
Sledgehammer 2B (9-Again)
Advanced Fire Axe 3L/2L (AP 1)
Machete 2L
Dragon knuckles 0L
Strangle Wire 2L (Requires Grapple, then apply wire (Strength+Weaponry-3, no Defense))

x3 murmur fruit

Hedgespun Fedora (0 dot)