(Hunter Hunted) Tracks

[Yumyumcrow]

The Beast is having none of it. Whether because Guru edges that little bit too close as he positions himself for further Scrutiny or because Skye song, while pleasant, is ill-timed and simply becomes noise to be overcome, the Beast does not respond well to the Awakened's attempts at establishing a soothing calm.

The creature is already huffing dangerously as Guru attempts his approach. Once it snaps, the Beast responds! Stamping its feet! Smashing its flailing claws into the sides of the stall to such an extent that the wooden partitions shake.

The Beast lurches forward and roars! Its posture that had been confused, if warily aggressive, switches to purely violent.

  

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2020-06-21 00:09:37		Beast to intimidate rolls 11 to Strength + Intimidation + Speciality + Bonus (10 Again, WillPower)		2, 8, 4, 7, 5, 6, 1, 6, 7, 10, 1, 7		2 successes

The Beast's intimidation is a contested check. Can you give a roll of Resolve + Composure in order to resist the attempt at physical intimidation. You are looking for a minimum of 2 successes to resist the Intimidation.

[Avis]

Did these fucking kids not know how to do magic?

Were they not teaching how to fucking magic, anymore?

Sure, Avis agreed that not every problem required reality to be bent to your will, but come the fuck on!

"Put it to sleep you fucking ding dongs!" Not-Avis yelled, the pictured of composure and wise mentor-ship.

She'd tried to calm the thing herself, but sadly, she was already up to the tits in spells, and it was about time they started pulling their own weight. Nevermind that they'd been the ones to track the thing here.

failure

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-06-23 19:05:56	Avis rolls 7 to Passion Link (gnos+mind -1 tolerance) (10 Again)	5, 1, 6, 6, 5, 6, 5	failure

4 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-06-23 18:57:42	Avis rolls 6 to No be scurred (res+comp) (10 Again)	2, 2, 10, 5, 9, 3, 10, 9	4 successes

Failed Passion Link spell.

[Guru]

Guru held his hand up to try and assuage the beast as it smashed into the stall. His hand began quavering and shaking as he went from the calming presence to a statue once again. His mind flashing back, teeth, and blood, and that feeling of being less than filled his joints and muscles once more.


He just stood there shaking, not registering what was happening around him eyes starring at that beast right into it's gaping maw. Instead of the beast he saw those fangs, heard that wet pop as they revealed themselves and could taste the blood in his mouth.

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-06-23 19:11:37	Guru rolls 5 to Resist Intimidation: Res + Comp (10 Again)	4, 3, 2, 3, 8	1 success

[Skye]

The beasts terrifying roar were more than the young arrow could handle, her minds eyes seeing Guru getting bloodied and dying before her eyes, scenes of the carnage she once returned to playing out in her mind as a tear runs down her cheek as she gets frozen in place, unmoving and unable to act for now.

failure

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-06-24 06:10:34	Skye rolls 5 to resistance res+comp (10 Again)	5, 5, 4, 7, 1	failure

[Yumyumcrow]

The Beast's sudden display is terrifying!

Guru simply freezes in place like a deer caught in headlights - his mind lost once again in another recent incident of bared, predatory, fangs. He is exposed and way, way too close to the roaring monster.

The danger inherent in that moment crashes painfully into Skye's awareness. In a glaring moment of horrid brilliance, she imagines the outcome with Guru broken and tossed aside. Her sense of justice becomes confused as she can clearly see both sides of the situation: Guru offering solace and an angry, confused, brute that cannot comprehend... Confounded, the Arrow simply holds position, her bow lowered, a tear staining her cheek.

The abomination roars again - then lurches into a headlong rush!

Guru is all but bowled over as the Beast runs through the space he occupies. Tripping over the tottering Shaman, the monster careens into the door, bounces off and muscles past Skye in a movement of pure physical strength.

Avis flickers out of her apparition as the chaos erupts and attempts to cast a calming spell as the abomination escapes... she finds herself too stretched, too weighed down with glyphs. Her Mind work fizzles before her eyes like a noisome crimson brain fart.

Once free of the out building, the Beast staggers at pace, running back toward Dry Creek and the comparative safety of the waste ground and water course.

And then it is gone, vanished in the foliage.

  

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2020-06-25 04:46:26		Beast to flee! rolls 7 to Strength + Athletics + Speciality (10 Again)		1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 10, 2, 9		2 successes

[Avis]

Outside the outbuilding Avis narrowly avoided getting bowled over by the beast as it rampaged away, and her face twisted into a scowl of anger and contempt as it disappeared back the way they'd come.

Well, now they were going to do this her way.

Avis let half of her spells fall away, fizzling out and freeing her to attempt a more complicated working. Her hand dipped into her pocket, grasping the bloodied clump of fur that connected her to the beast, and began to weave a new spell, tying all those feelings that came when one was just about to fall asleep, warm and safe, with all of that nice swampy mud that the beast was running towards. Hopefully, it would stop and wallow for a bit and give them time to catch up, if it decide to just wallow now that the fear and danger was gone.

A trickle of blood slid down from her left nostril as she wove the spell, another fragment of the Abyss eating at her as she wove, and while the spell was far weaker than she'd hoped, she hoped it would be enough.

Then, Avis took off running after the Beast, her companions left to fend for themselves.

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-06-26 16:40:20	Avis rolls 1 to Paradox as Backlash (10 Again)	9	1 success

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-06-26 16:43:27	Avis rolls 9 to Passion Link, sympathetic (gnos+mind+HS+WP-4intimate) (10 Again, WillPower)	2, 6, 8, 3, 2, 10, 2, 7, 3, 1	2 successes

Avis DROPS co-location and her sense consciousness+omnivision. Less spells, yay! Then, she takes 1 bashing from Backlash, and casts Passion Link sympathetically on the beast using the clump of bloody fur. She is linking the feeling of SAFETY to MUD. Contested with comp+gnosis

[Guru]

Guru was knocked out of the way like a paper doll, landing on his ass with a gasp and a groan. He heard Avis chanting even as climbed to his feet in a half daze from the sudden burst of action from the creature. He wanted to just let it go, let it be at peace but that armband the magic surrounding it bothered him.


"It's the armband, I need to remove it but I have to touch it." He wasn't like Avis he hadn't mastered the art of co-location, of connection though it would have been helpful here. He took a breath and began after it as best he could. The creature was fast but reckless whereas Guru was like a cat, feet nimble and light on the loose earth, body twisting to slip between obstacles. He'd see if he could catch it still.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-06-27 12:15:14	Guru rolls 6 to Give Chase (Sta: 3 + Athl: 3) (10 Again)	1, 2, 9, 2, 8, 2	2 successes

Guru has Parkour 2 so can ignore up to 2 die penalty for terrain

[Skye]

Falling down to the ground from the beasts sudden charge, shaking her head and quickly getting back up.
Looking how it seems to have become a chase of the beast so was there nothing else to do than to follow suite with the others and run after it, her main priority to keep Guru within sight at all times.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-06-28 05:07:58	Skye rolls 8 to chase sta+ath (10 Again)	7, 8, 9, 7, 7, 1, 1, 1	2 successes

Seeming to be able to keep up with him at least not letting him get to far of, keeping her eyes on the surrounding and at Avis as well not wanting to be suddenly ambushed.
"I didn't get a good look of the armband what kind is it? If I can get a good aim so can I probably try and shoot it to see if that would help get it away."

[Yumyumcrow]

The Beast had escaped them, but had not gone far.
Avis had cycled through her spells, dropping several and as their weight lifted from her Pattern she wove another...

Out in Dry Creek, the Beast slowed and then sank, huffing, to its knees...
Guru and Skye were quick to recover and scrambled after the Beast as it vanished into the verdant foliage of the waste ground. Guru scrambled after the crumpled fence that marked the edge of the farmland; Skye simply leapt over it like she was a champion hurdler. The creature's tracks were easy to follow given its injuries; they followed the Beast as it tracked north along the dried water course.

By the time they caught up with the abomination, it had collapsed gratefully into the muddy creek bed and was... snoring...

And book keeping: -

  

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2020-06-29 05:18:18		Someone rolls 5 to do something insignificant (10 Again)		2, 2, 9, 1, 4		1 success

Beast fails to resist the spell...