(Rope Bridge) Crossing

[Circe]

Circe has a situation without a choice. "Fanculo!" She moves back towards Jack and the vines, trying to get closer. She'd no contracts to heal or give him luck to escape. Nor to armor up or otherwise tank more than her armor. Only to dodge and utility. She'd had guns, so why need?


Draw agro maybe? Worth a try followed by Separation if Jack can't get free.


This shit right her was why. So, she charges in, shotgun up and away from Jack. And education of history means she understands the concept of slam firing.

4 suxx B4 armor

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-05 22:55:19	Circe rolls 9 to Long range, -2 avoid Jack, +1 short burst (9 Again)	7, 9, 4, 7, 2, 9, 9, 1, 5, 8, 2, 1	4 successes

Honed combat reflexes lets her slam a single new shell in.

ooc: going by the arithmetic, medium range on Colt but long on shotty, subtract move back, Circe is just over 40 yards away from Jack and the plants...still long range for the shotgun. Or out of range if she uses a flare round.

Jack / ragnarokxg is up, be free my friend!

Circe's Kit

Trench coat. Fanny pack, tactical harness and various attached pouches for carrying her kit. Sling with shotgun 4/9 [3+1] ammo case with shells: 9 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

[Mina]

Finally, she made it to Kray, and a breath was let out.

Turning to look behind her, she sees that Jack is grabbed by one of the vines, that wasn’t good.

They had to get him. But her powers weren’t good for distance, but more up-close. And from where she was now, there was little she could do and the guilt was starting to set in.

Though before it could eat at her too much, and cause her to run back, Kray turns her attention up. And so, eyes look up.

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-08 16:08:36	Mina rolls 4 to Perception (Wits+Comp)-1 Clarity (10 Again)	5, 6, 1, 10, 6	1 success

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

[Jack Violet]

Jack attempts to break the vines again.

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-09 13:09:16	Jack Violet rolls 2 to Break Vine Grasp (Strength3 + Brawl-1) (10 Again)	8, 2	1 success

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.

[Saber Sloth]

Kray attempts to spot anything other than the Summers vs the Spiked Vine and fails. Mina, a little more twitchy after her brush with the vine dogging her steps, notices that with the Spiked Vine chasing them, and now grappling Jack, the other, lower vines have retreated.

Circe's skill keep her from blasting the trapped Jack, while firing on the Spiked Vine.

Jack fails to break free.

The Vine takes the slug, it's body rippling with the effort, but now it's tasted blood, and continues to squeeze, slicing through Jack's elemental defences.

Circe , Jack 2B 5L, Spiked Vine 9L, Mina , Kray


Jack has Strength 2, not 3, with the negative for untrained Brawl Jack would be at 1 die, but as I've also provided opposing strength that is a -3 on top of that. Jack's attempts to break free are down to a chance die! With this continual mistake, even with my very clear explanation and warning not to, I am going to assume that this is purposeful, and I will be adding a Strike to your character.

Also! As Jack is taking damage you will also need to remember Wound Penalties!

3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-09 16:14:34	spiked vine rolls 8 to constrict -1 Jack's armour (10 Again)	9, 10, 5, 3, 2, 9, 1, 3, 3	3 successes

[Kray]

Nothing else grabs his attention so that's something, the giants focus then is on the summers and the spiky vine currently crushing jack in a way not so very dissimilar to how the ogre kills. "Huh. Well then." The situation doesn't look great for the beast, but all of his public disrespect of the Autumn king is equally not forgotten.

Fishing around an interior pocket the giant pulls out and puts on his set of dragon knuckles turning his already devastating punch into a lethal swing of metal spiked knuckles. But makes no move to rush forward.

Kray Equips Dragon knuckles

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)

[Circe]

Bullets may always work yet this is inefficient. Thusly Circe walks forward, reflexively racking in a heavier shotgun shell now. They seemed to be doing better, so until she got close enough for a flare, she'd stick with steel cores.

3 suxx at Armor Piercing 3

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-09 21:18:51	Circe rolls 8 to AP shell at medium range + partial cover -4 (9 Again)	6, 1, 9, 6, 3, 4, 8, 7, 8	3 successes

ooc: Not running lets her focus on the loading and walk to 30 yards, under 40 yards, medium range! Sorry for delay. Took me 20 minutes to post :(

Jack / ragnarokxg is up, burninate the weeds to be free!

Circe's Kit

Trench coat. Fanny pack, tactical harness and various attached pouches for carrying her kit. Sling with shotgun 4/9 [4] ammo case with shells: 9 regular, 3 flare, 4 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

[Jack Violet]

Jack tries once more to break the grasp of the vines before the injuries get to him.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-10 16:27:38	Jack Violet rolls 2 to Break Vine Grasp (Strength2 + Brawl-1 + Wound Penalty-2) (10 Again, WillPower)	10, 1, 9	2 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.

[Mina]

Well that was…odd. Glancing to Kray, she points up, and shakers her head with a shrug.

Why the retreat?

But there was no time to dwell on the why’s, Jack was still entangled with the vine and there was little she could do without making herself a target.

But Kray wasn’t advancing back in, and she felt safer taking her cues from him in this situation.

Thought maybe…maybe there was something she could do. It would take her a moment. Kneeling down, her hands touch the ice that covered her exposed forearms, focusing her Wyrd and Glamour.

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-10 22:58:15	Mina rolls 5 to Control Elements(Manip+Wyrd) (10 Again)	7, 7, 1, 10, 4, 3	1 success

Mina has to take two actions to use her Contract, Control Elements, so it is *not* active this turn. She spends 2 Glamour this round, the other 1 next round, which will activate the Contract

Stats/Equipment

Health:
2/6 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 arms himself, preparing for the fight they'd been called to leave, but their enemy refuses to let! them! go!

Mina crouches, concentrating on her Clause, preparing herself to also aid their fellows.

Circe fires once more upon the Spiked Vine and it shrieks in pain!

Jack once more tries with all his might...and fails to break free!

Even shrieking, the Spiked Vine keeps it's hold, it keeps constricting it's strong body around Jack. It's spikes cutting, it's body crushing. Jack is a bloody, bruised mess. Between one heartbeat and the next Jack looses his battle for consciousness, his eyes fall closed, and his body lax.

Circe , Jack 8L Incapacitated, Spiked Vine 11L, Mina , Kray
Circe the book only lists AP ammo for handguns and rifles, not for shotguns, I'll allow this one shot because I didn't catch the AP shotgun ammo in her kit when you entered, and I assume that Circe crafted them herself, but I couldn't find it listed in Circe's equipment post in her character sheet. I'm also treating it as an AP rating of 2!

With all his health boxes now full of Lethal Jack had fallen unconscious and is bleeding out!

The clock is ticking! Jack only has so long before he bleeds out and dies!

Kray 's up!

3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-06-11 17:38:29	spiked vine rolls 8 to constrict -1 Jack's armour (10 Again)	3, 5, 10, 9, 3, 3, 9, 4, 4	3 successes

[Kray]

And then Jack goes limp in the vines grasp. The ogre had gritted his teeth so to speak and followed the groundskeepers call to retreat, however now if he didn't intervene someone really was going to die, and he didn't dislike Jack enough to wish that on him. "Bah. Excuse me." Mina might be getting left on her own but she was to his knowledge probably the safest of any of the might now. As the ogre begins to move back towards the spiky vine flexing the fingers in the dragon knuckles to make sure he had a good grip.

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)