(Rope Bridge) Crossing

[Mina]

Looked like Kray might have been struggling, and she was torn. Stay where she was, or go help the Orge. Who she knows from previous fights with the vines was quite capable of rending the vines useless and dead.

Then Circe calls for a retreat? That wasn’t something she had been expecting to hear, and now she was really unsure of what to do. The broken doll had been taking her orders from the Autumn Monarch, who she had grown to trust in the Hedge.

Still, as the Summer Monarch sends another shot at the vines, they seem to slither off…somewhere.
The one Jack takes a shot at, takes a shot at her with some nasty spit, and thankfully, her armor takes it. Yah for ice armor cause that spit looked really gross…ew. And painful.

She holds her position, figuring Jack was the most injured, but nods to Circe. At least the vines could spit at her again.

Stats/Equipment

Health:
4/6 glamour
3/3 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

Kray is up

[Kray]

And the dam things slither out again and now away. That was frustrating. So is the word coming from Circe. Yet no one was moving away. "Bah. Really?" Is his response. But she was groundskeeper. And he did respect her most of any in the freehold. So snatching up his dropped axe the ogre will very sullenly move over towards the Circe.

Circe is up!

stats and equipment

Defence:2
Armour: 1/0
Speed: 12

wp: 0/4
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]

"They've a horde," she points at the other clusters further away, maybe not so much now. Maybe they can cut the bridge before they get swarmed, but paranoia is a byword for Circe.


And there was the chlorine gas canisters of bug bombs too. Plants might be hurt by it a little, but the Lost without gasmasks would be hurt a LOT of the damn things crushed the duffle bag.


Circe then considers her options on what to shoot. Worth a shot was a saying, as she fires at the right rope of the rope bridge. So maybe they could at least have that done.

2 suxx b4 any durability

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-03-22 12:13:35	Circe rolls 11 to Shoot the rope -4 size (10 Again, WillPower)	5, 9, 7, 1, 7, 7, 1, 5, 10, 7, 6, 1	2 successes

And slams a random shell into the chamber. Circe figures she can come back later, sneak or phantom. With dynamite.

Circe's Kit

Trench coat. Fanny pack, tactical harness and various attached pouches for carrying her kit. Sling with shotgun [1AP+4] ammo case with shells: 11 regular, 2 flare, 7 AP. rondel bayonet=8L/A1 and light mount. colt [9]+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.

Duffle bag

52 lbs of weight, 4.5 is bag. Three 40' coils of rope at 10 lbs each, a crossbow, 3 bodkin bolts with rope loops, 3 regular bodkin bolts, 12 rope pitons, a hammer. gas mask and 2 bug bomb cannisters.

Jack on to your attack!

[Jack Violet]

Jack realizes that his Queen had called for a retreat seeing her go for the bridge Jack taps Mina and motions for her to move,"Go... " Jack then takes aim with his whip and attacks the vine that spit at Mina.

4 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-03-23 09:45:06	Jack Violet rolls 8 to Whip Strike (Dexterity3 + Weaponry3+ Weapon2L) (10 Again)	3, 10, 1, 7, 7, 4, 5, 10, 10, 7, 10, 1	4 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.

[Saber Sloth]

Mina stays to guard Jack, who's whip cracks and slices the wounded cluster into parts. They fall to the ground. Circe takes a shot at the rope, and sees the impact but it does little to the rope itself. Kray reluctantly agrees to the retreat.

The spitting vine moves from it's covered spot next to the tree, winding up for Kray - and his axe....which fails to hit the Ogre!

From above a thicker, more aggressive looking vine, with thorns and other such spikes along its sinuous body appears, winding around the tree and the rope, opening a plant bulb 'mouth' revealing more thorns and spikes acting like fangs to give a blustery improbable snarl.

Circe , Jack 2B , Vines 5 3L, Higher Vines 1, Mina , Kray

I'm going to say that the rope's Durability is 2! But the higher vine has appeared to guard it!

If you want to flee, I'll need a Stamina + Athletics from everyone!

Mina 's up

failure

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-03-24 16:56:40	vines 5 rolls 2 to Spit Attack Kray! -DEF -armour (10 Again)	2, 3	failure

[Mina]

Seeing that Kray moves towards Circe was the confirmation she needed. They were retreating.
Circe was providing cover in the form of another shot at the vines.

And at the tap on her shoulder, and the words from Jack, she nods and will move towards Circe as well. Not wanting to retreat, but when a Summer says retreat, maybe it’s best to listen.

But not before seeing the new vine enter the arena!

What the fuck was that?! Holy shit! Eyes widen as she is suddenly happy for the call to retreat! Eager to get to the Queen of Spring and her guns.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-03-25 10:27:00	Mina rolls 5 to Flee (Stam+Ath) (10 Again)	7, 2, 8, 7, 9	2 successes

Stats/Equipment

Health:
4/6 glamour
3/3 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

Kray is up

[Kray]

What? They had known, it had been clearly obvious when he asked what the plan was. When Circe had she was okay with him swinging the axe. The ogre can't see what has changed, why the call to retreat. This what they had come to do, well part of it. But. Circe was groundskeeper it was her call to make. Visibly unhappy about it even as the spit attack misses him. The ogre moves to leave without another word.

Retreat 5 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2026-03-25 14:34:55	Kray rolls 7 to retreat str 4 ath 3 (10 Again)	5, 2, 3, 3, 10, 10, 8, 8, 9	5 successes

Circe is up!

stats and equipment

Defence:2
Armour: 1/0
Speed: 12

wp: 0/4
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)