(AGTOO) Love, Death, and Robots

[Phoenyx]

Pheonyx snarls as she presses angrily through the narrowing corridor.

It was sorely tempting just to light the whole fucking thing on fire.

Don't want to assume I'm just out home and dry, but Phoenyx is running at this point.

Phoenyx has Life Armour at 2, so 1Armour+1Defence +Higher of Wits&Dex is 4 so 6 dice removed leaves 3 Lethal. Ouch.


Spells: Life Shield, Supernal Vision, Modulate Frequency, Transmission, Tune In, Nightsight. Stamina 2 = -2 Penalty on Spellcasting Rolls
Max Mana (6/6), 0 Vulgars, WP 5/6, 3 lethal/7 max HP

Inventory: Smartphone, Pistol (Beretta M92, +2 lethal), pair of daggers, Reinforced Leather trenchcoat [1/0] (left in dressing room) | 1 dagger (on herself)

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[Kaze]

Kaze twists in the air, if this even really is air, trying to land in the least damaging way! He finds it challenging with not knowing what is real and what isn't, but the impact certainly feels very real!

  3 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2019-11-02 14:36:27		Kaze rolls 9 to mitigate bashing falling damage (Dex 5 + Athletics 2 + Life Armor 2) (10 Again)		10, 7, 6, 5, 1, 7, 9, 1, 9, 3		3 successes

Does he actually apply any defenses or just roll them in the pool? He also has 1 point of Kung Fu armor vs bashing damage, and has his padded leather jacket for 1 armor vs bashing to add to the 2 armor for the Life Mage Armor, so if he is subtracting armor straight off the top, that would be -4?

[Winter]

No, by RAW (nwod core book, page 179), fall damage is automatic, dex + ath is rolled and successes are substracted. I could allow mage armor and kungfu to substract from the pool. In this case, Kaze still ends taking 6 bashing (12 base - (3 rolled + 2 from life armor + 1 from kung fu))
A jacket wouldn't sensibly protecting from a fall, indeed, if I were strictly adhering to the rules, the fall would be lengthier than 30 yards, by RAW I'd have to consider the damage lethal (which I'm not going to do, though)

[Vincent]

Shodan:
The Enigma takes your mind elsewhere, to a place where you can barely pay any attention to your surroundings. It is a code, that much is certain. As it stands, brute-forcing it seems unrealistic.
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And then you snap back to the the hallway; where the corridor gets larger, a small lobby has been carved from the available space. Red Lights dangle from the ceiling, their suffused shine lends the room an intimate atmosphere. Here and there, a few velvet chairs lean against the walls.
Half emptied bottles of alcohol and burning candles lie atop the small tables, radiating their fragrance into the room. A feminine laughter reaches you, catching you by surprise. But when you turn around, you're alone.


Kaze: You don't know how lengthy was the fall. Every muscle in your body aches, and you're sure you must have heard your shoulder pop. On the bright side, you're still alive. Sleepers must have softened your landing with their bodies, and judging by how the mass of flesh beneath you writhes, they too must have felt the fall.
You find yourself in some sort of cellar. Something old, given how moldy the walls are; nevertheless, even with your augmented sight there's little you can discern.


Phoenyx: Mangled flesh, your wounds pulsate with blood. It hurts. It takes some effort, but you make it to the end of the hallway before the meat-grinder catches up to you. A single mote of light beckons, offering your salvation in the form of the flickering button of an elevator. You don't even touch its surface, that the steel maws open with a click. Will you take the gamble?
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Targeting

Init: Something(14) - Kaze - Shodan - Phoenyx
Shodan will be the first target

Spells

Shodan: Unseen Shield, Supernal Vision, Invisibility to Machines, Transform Aura, Influence Sound. Stamina 2 = -3 Penalty on Spellcasting Rolls
Max Mana, 0 Vulgars, Max WP, Max HP
Kaze: Supernal Vision, Honing the Form, Organic Resilience, Night Vision. Stamina 2 = -2 Penalty on Spellcasting Rolls
Max Mana, 0 Vulgars, Max WP, Max HP - 6 (bashing)
Phoenyx: Life Armor, Supernal Vision, Modulate Frequency, Transmission, Tune In, Night Sight(?). Stamina 2 = -3 Penalty on Spellcasting Rolls
Max Mana, 1 Vulgars, Total - 1 WP, Max Max - 3 (lethal)

Inventory

Shodan: Path Tool (golden coin), smartphone, a backpack with laptop, duct tape, multi-tool, rear-view glasses and a bug (from Surveillance Equipment of WoD Core), USB sticks
Kaze: padded leather jacket, smart phone
Phoenyx: Smartphone, Pistol (Beretta M92, +2 lethal), pair of daggers, Reinforced Leather trenchcoat [1/0] (left in dressing room) | 1 dagger (on herself)

Init

Shodan: Init 11 | Target: 2
Kaze: Init 13 - 17(Ambush) | Target : 10
Phoenyx: Init 9 | Target: 10

[Vincent]

Shodan: When it comes to "magic", logic is often thrown out of the window. Try as you might however, you just can't find any sign of the supernal at work. Instead, you're getting that feeling, the one you experience every-time you hazardously craft an imago that is then besieged and corrupted by non-existence. The same feeling you once experienced by witnessing the Sentinel's terrifying nimbus.
The carefully arranged strands of mana unravel under your fingertips, dissolving into the tapestry.
You hear that feminine laugh, again, behind you, again. You turn around, but you can't find anything other than a passing flicker of shadow; one of the neon lights in the hallway to your left has fizzled and is now blinking itself out of existence.
Then footsteps, high heels coming your way.

Sensing cloaked spells is a reflexive action prompted by the caster of the cloak (ie: if there were cloaked spells around, I would have prompted the roll). For actively scouring for glyphs in an area you've identified as a probable nexus of mystic energy, you need to throw scrutiny and score a number of successes equal to twice the potency of the cloaked spell. Alternatively, for concealed sources without prime 2, you'd need to score a number of scrutiny successes equal to potency (if you have supernal vision). The only exception are prime 3+ cloaking effects that cannot be detected without a mage sight spell of a potency higher than the concealing spell, and even then, you won't be able to read the actual resonance until the spell has expired. All in all, those kind of spells are undetectable especially if they're cloaked with prime 2. Nevertheless, in this instance, Shodan just doesn't have the time to throw 4-5 scrutiny rolls around, especially since the room is fairly large, and scrutiny rolls on the same object are capped

Targeting

Init: Something(14) - Kaze - Shodan - Phoenyx
Shodan will be the first target

Spells

Shodan: Unseen Shield, Supernal Vision, Invisibility to Machines. Stamina 2 = -1 Penalty on Spellcasting Rolls
Max Mana, 0 Vulgars, Max WP, Max HP
Kaze: Supernal Vision, Honing the Form, Organic Resilience, Night Vision. Stamina 2 = -2 Penalty on Spellcasting Rolls
Max Mana, 0 Vulgars, Max WP, Max HP - 6 (bashing)
Phoenyx: Life Armor, Supernal Vision, Modulate Frequency, Transmission, Tune In, Night Sight(?). Stamina 2 = -3 Penalty on Spellcasting Rolls
Max Mana, 1 Vulgars, Total - 1 WP, Max Max - 3 (lethal)

Inventory

Shodan: Path Tool (golden coin), smartphone, a backpack with laptop, duct tape, multi-tool, rear-view glasses and a bug (from Surveillance Equipment of WoD Core), USB sticks
Kaze: padded leather jacket, smart phone
Phoenyx: Smartphone, Pistol (Beretta M92, +2 lethal), pair of daggers, Reinforced Leather trenchcoat [1/0] (left in dressing room) | 1 dagger (on herself)

Init

Shodan: Init 11 | Target: 2
Kaze: Init 13 - 17(Ambush) | Target : 10
Phoenyx: Init 9 | Target: 10

[Phoenyx]

Phoenyx dashes into the elevator and hits the "Up" button, seizing the time to try and patch her wounds. She grits her teeth, forcing the wounds closed with a force of will.


Paradox:

  failure

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2019-11-12 15:29:57		Phoenyx rolls 1 to Paradox: Base 2 (Gno3) -1 for rote spell (10 Again)		7		failure

Self-Healing

  3 sucesses

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2019-11-12 15:30:38		Phoenyx rolls 7 to Self-Heal - Dex+Medicene+Life-3 (10 Again, WillPower)		9, 10, 7, 4, 2, 6, 5, 10, 5		3 successes

Phoenyx heals 3 lethal and is back to full health. The Rote means the mana cost becomes zero and Paradox becomes 1 die, right?

Also Vincent , Right now I'm imagining a single door-less, windowless corridor leading to an elevator. If there's actually any choices here, I'm struggling to see them.

Spells: Life Shield, Supernal Vision, Modulate Frequency, Transmission, Tune In, Nightsight. Stamina 2 = -3 Penalty on Spellcasting Rolls
Max Mana (6/6), 0 Vulgars, WP 4/6, 7 max HP

Inventory: Smartphone, Pistol (Beretta M92, +2 lethal), pair of daggers, Reinforced Leather trenchcoat [1/0] (left in dressing room) | 1 dagger (on herself)

[Kaze]

Kaze lies still in the mass, still trying to blend in and figure out what he can and decide how much he can trust his senses. He surreptitiously looks around to see if any of the sleepers were killed of seem in danger of dying from the fall and if they are acting like normal injured people now or still playing the role of extras from 'Thriller'.

  failure

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2019-11-17 10:44:15		Kaze rolls 6 to perception (Wits 3 +Composure 3) (10 Again)		2, 5, 1, 4, 7, 5		failure