(Broken Cycle) Dream Team

[James Turner]

He didn’t have time to pat himself on the back, he felt the dream shift and change. This is the part of the movie where it turned out he was in the boiler room the whole time, creepy twins start singing their nursery rhymes and Freddy’s claw ends up through his chest. Die in the dream you die for real, he couldn’t treat this like a game it’s how he’d lose his edge.

It was doubtful he could hide from a Keeper titled The Huntsman, perception and tracking were likely high on his list of aptitudes but he couldn’t attack him head on he’d barely been able to damage him with a sneak attack last time. All he could do was delay, wait for Rhodes to show up and take his attention again. The longer this went on the better it was for the team in the real world to get the job done.

His mind went through possible solutions, he needed a misdirect he knew that but tricking the fay lord might be easier said than done. Prey Ran right…? He didn’t know if this would work but I mean, it worked in Dream Warriors?

That’s a comforting thought. Your entire strategy is based on a film.
Running and hiding won’t work, might as well go out standing tall?
Not helping.

He shut his eyes taking a deep breath editing the dream as subtly as he could a trap between himself and the huntsman something the hunter might appreciate. Tripwire snare hidden in the leaves in front of him, hopefully his own arrogance would play against him. If not, it was lights up.

3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-09-08 12:49:42	James Turner rolls 9 to Alter the Dream (Wits + Empathy + Wyrd) (10 Again)	5, 9, 8, 4, 6, 5, 4, 8, 3	3 successes

[Saber Sloth]

Rhodes crashes into the Dream, skill and certainty leading him forward, his eyes see the impossible forest, the mile wide trunks, the dappled canopy, broughs and vines, but it all falls to the wayside in the face of the Huntsman himself. Tall, strong. Impossibly solid. He's no longer giant sized but his presence seems...more. Soild. Real. Immediate. Present.

Stalking unhurriedly forward, towards the Darkling, before stopping just before the snare.

To the Lost's horror, the Huntsman nods, smiling in approval.

He takes a knee, and draws his gruesome knife. Sawing the Dreamwoven trap into nothing.

Huntsman Initiative 21 DEF/Armour 11 (1WP Damage), 3 Hounds Initiative 18 DEF/Armour 6 (awake), Rhodes Xadun Initiative 13 (4WP Damage), James Initiative 9 (3WP Damage)

3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-09-09 12:30:54	Huntsman rolls 10 to notice snare (10 Again)	7, 4, 7, 8, 4, 10, 3, 3, 10, 6, 1, 6	3 successes

3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-09-09 13:00:31	Huntsman rolls 9 to Sawing the Snare (10 Again)	8, 2, 10, 4, 6, 1, 5, 7, 4, 10, 5	3 successes

[Rhodes]

The Dread Lord reaches out and lashes forward with his staff. The autumn leaves that spew forth hone to a razor's edge and hurtle towards the wolves.

3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-09-09 14:29:22	Rhodes rolls 7 to Environmental Attack: Wits+Emp+ [Wyrdx2] (Dream Contract Weapon)- 6 DEF (10 Again)	10, 3, 8, 4, 9, 7, 1, 2	3 successes

[Saber Sloth]

The hounds are gone, I'm assuming you meant the Huntsman Rhodes Xadun ?

[Rhodes]

Derp. Yes, I did mean him. I misread the narration. Which means I think the roll is wrong as well.

Sorry Sbaer Sloth.

[James Turner]

James took a deep breath, steadying himself as the Huntsman was just feet away from him. No longer towering but somehow more real. Were we now in his dream and the last was just a poisoned one? Rhodes' probably knew and the detail was irrelevant as his ejection from the dream was inevitable so he'd do what he could to assist Rhodes.


Who showed up just in time to attack the Huntsman as James starred the once-Giant down. "Right on Cue." As Rhodes' attack hit, jarring the huntsman for that second James shifted the dream, the vine in his hand growing sticky and coarse like the worst crab grass imaginable, trying to rip and tear his ephemeral flesh.

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-09-13 10:25:00	James Turner rolls 4 to Environmental Oneiromachy (Wits + Empathy + Wyrd +2 Stunt -10 Def+Arm)) (10 Again, WillPower)	7, 10, 7, 4, 7	1 success

He knew this was his final hurrah here and he had to make it count, he had to help Rhodes' in anyway he could. He was a Winter not a Summer, this wasn't rage, it wasn't about glory. IT was about cold, calculated victory even if the cost was high. Another breath as he looked through the eddies of fate once more, trying to find the Avenue to give Rhodes his best shot.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-09-13 10:26:55	James Turner rolls 5 to Glimpse of Fortune's Favor (Wits + Wyrd) (10 Again)	10, 3, 3, 10, 6, 1, 6	2 successes

Seeing at least an opening in there for Rhodes he poured everything he could into the construct, the vine wrapping it's way up the Huntsman's arm and pulling it down leaving him off balance and more open for Rhodes' attack. James could only look at Rhodes with cold resignation in his eyes and give a simple downward nod of the head expecting to be removed from the dream post haste.

4 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-09-13 10:27:44	James Turner rolls 9 to Teamwork For Rhodes (Wits+Empathy+Wyrd) (10 Again)	8, 3, 3, 10, 8, 2, 3, 8, 4, 1	4 successes

5 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-09-13 10:28:02	James Turner rolls 9 to Teamwork For Rhodes (Wits+Empathy+Wyrd) (10 Again)	2, 9, 2, 10, 8, 6, 8, 2, 9, 1	5 successes

2 Glamour spent for Glimpse of Fortune's Favor, taking the best of the rolls. Rhodes should get 5 bonus dice to his next Attack IIRC.

[Saber Sloth]

Leaves and grass sharp and treacherous slice and snarl around the Huntsman. Piercing Through his resplendent armour, and scoring clean lines upon him. He bleeds whatever the True Fae bleed within the Dream.

Still the monster grins. Even as he draws his bow, and pulls the string taut. Aiming for the Dread Lord and loosing an arrow of unforgiving memories and wild mythological feathers.

The Shot pierces through the Autumn King, and his form cracks and disappears from the Dream, he wakes. Seeing both James lying still in sleep as well as Yamiyo, fast asleep.

Leaving James, the Darkling alone with the Huntsman.

Huntsman Initiative 21 DEF/Armour 11 (4WP Damage), 3 Hounds Initiative 18 DEF/Armour 6 (awake), Rhodes Xadun Initiative 13 (7WP Damage - awake), James Turner Shane Initiative 9 (3WP Damage)

Added the Difference between the Hound's DEF/Armour and the Huntsman's to Rhodes' roll.

And @Rhdoes can add +5 to his next attack due to Teamwork!

As the Attack took Rhodes below 0 WP he will wake with a mild derangement for a single day, Xadun can choose which one you take but please make it thematically appropriate to what happened!

3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2020-09-13 11:37:19	Huntsman rolls 7 to Bow -12 Rhodes DEF/Armour (10 Again)	7, 3, 1, 8, 8, 2, 9	3 successes

[Rhodes]

The arrow hits true.

"No.... NOOOOOOOO!" Rhodes snarls as his form fades out of the dream.

Eyes snap open. Heart is pounding. Breath short.

The Oneiromachy has left the Dread Lord tired and drained. Slowly, he pushes himself up, glancing at the two changelings still sleeping beside him. He glances up into the shadows of the boughs of the tree, trying to spot the spies of the Huntsman. Emerald eyes glance down at the sleeping forms. What were they doing in their dreams? Would James stand, or flee, or lure the huntsman? Would he plea for his life and throw himself on the Gentry's mercies? How could he know? And Yamiyo. Where had she gone? Who had she talked to?

A tiny voice in the back of his mind reminds him of a far more pressing concern. He staggers towards the door of the hollow, and emerges into Edna's. Pulling the Cellphone from his pocket, he calls Sera. He had to make sure she was okay.

Ring Ring.

Ring Ring.

Rhodes has the suspicious derangement.

[James Turner]

He looked to the Huntsman, his head tilting in surprise. Fate held all the answers but only if you could pick out the proper path in the future, he'd gambled and lost. He couldn't beat the Huntsman, he didn't have Rhodes' training. So perhaps it was time to change tactics. Their goal here being to buy time after all. His hand fishing a cigarette out of his pocket, held between two fingers.


"This has been an interesting evening. Have to say I've learned a lot. Thank you for the lesson."

Prey Flees.

Don't know if it's too much considering he used the action to assist Rhodes but besides the talking he's not taking any further action.

[Saber Sloth]

The Huntsman's grin is a pleased, manic thing. Bright and bloody as Rhodes' shape shatters and falls to the nothingness of the awakened. The bow is lowered, but not put away as he turns now to the Darkling.

"Lessons, yes. Would you like to learn more from me, little shadow boy?"

His smile, still an inhumanly ravonas thing.

"How to run and jump and hide...?"

He walks closer, but not too close.

"I already know you can run"

He hisses into the air.

Huntsman Initiative 21 DEF/Armour 11 (4WP Damage), 3 Hounds Initiative 18 DEF/Armour 6 (awake), Rhodes Xadun Initiative 13 (7WP Damage - awake), James Turner Shane Initiative 9 (3WP Damage)