(Spiders) A Conflict in the Conservatory

[DrDog]

Truce easily wrenches the dagger from her arthritic and tremorous hands, and does not struggle as she breaks free from his grip.

The spider, on the other hand, takes a different approach, and its pincers latch on to Crowley's head. There is a pause, before a loud snap echoes through the room, and crowley's forehead is ripped off, exposing his brain to a cruel and unforgiving world.
Crowley takes his last breath, and his chest falls still.

Killing blow

8 dice are converted to 8 levels of damage, Crowley dies.

The priestess, still with fear in her eyes from Truce's greater strength, moves to stand near the corpse of his friend. "He will feed the Great One, and become One with the Web." Her voice echoes through the room in the silence of Crowley's breathing.

Truce is up.

[Truce]

Truce is a Necromancer who walks the Path of Doom. He knows that Death is inevitable, a transition that we all must make from flesh to bone to dust. We are born to die. Yet he is not so desensitized to this truth that the death of his friend elicits no reaction from him. His eyes move to see Crowley clearly as the spider crunches through his corpse. He stares, stunned at how quickly things escalated.

"No!" he cries, anger filling him at this injustice, the pointless brutality. The Great One, this nonsense of webs and feeding spiders. This was why they were to be killed? Why they were lured to the slaughter like sheep? Crowley was a philosopher-prince, destined for greatness. Not for this...

He charges at the spider, intent on killing the it and stopping this madness from continuing. But in his rage or ill-practice in combat, the swing is crude.

  Stab Spider, 1sux before Def

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-08-26 09:31:54		Truce rolls 9 to stab a spider [STR+Wea+Eq1+AoA2+WP] (10 Again, WillPower)		1, 1, 3, 6, 3, 7, 2, 8, 4		1 success

[DrDog]

The spider darts to the side, its pincer's unhooking from your friend's skull, as they bare themselves at you. (Defence is 4, no armor)

The priestess attacks you with her bare hands, unfortunately for her, little comes of it.

  failure

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-08-27 16:41:11		Priestess rolls 1 to Str+brawl (untrained) (10 Again, Chance)		6		failure

New Round.

The spider takes the opportunity to stab you back, using its unnatural strength to plunge a bite into you. Or it would, were not the vagaries of entropy itself sapping the creature's momentum of anything of power.

  3 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-08-27 16:39:35		Web's Lancer rolls 8 to Power + Finessee (10 Again)		7, 3, 8, 7, 1, 1, 8, 8		3 successes

Truce is up.

[Truce]

Even through the sapping armor Truce has in place the Spider's bite seems far too close for comfort. The spider has already felled Crowley, how long would it take for this Necromancer too to fall to the spider's bite? He knows he hasn't the skill to fight it, but he refuses to allow Crowley's corpse to become yet another puppet for the spread of these spiders.

He turns to look at the frail old woman. He doesn't know what possesses her to take part in this madness. But if she can disappear at least, it would prevent others from falling for her ruse. "Your fault..." he growls uncharacteristically through his teeth.

He seeks her out with the knife, slashing wildly.

  Slash, 2suxx b4 Def

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-08-29 10:31:57		Truce rolls 4 to cut a helpless old lady [STR+Wea+Eq1] (10 Again)		8, 8, 3, 7		2 successes

[DrDog]

She shrieks in pain. And what anger was there is now gone in pain as her already pale body looses even more blood along the attic walls. She backs away, her previous speed now diminished as she clutches tight to her arm. "No! Get away!" She shouts back at Truce.
She moves 8 yards away to the top of the stairs.

The spider hisses something, and truce almost hears a tone of dismissal, before it bites him again, and this time the fangs sink in, scraping hard against his femur before being kicked off by his foot.

  1 success

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-08-29 17:47:14		Web's Lancer rolls 4 to Power + Finessee (10 Again)		10, 5, 6, 5, 4		1 success

Truce is up.

[Truce]

Truce grits his teeth as the pain of the bite sinks in. He can't even dispatch the old woman without the spider hot on his heels. But is it just that, an overgrown spider? It seems to speak a language beyond the capacity of any simple mind. Nonetheless, Truce is tempted to take hold of its cognitive functions.

It is worth a try. "Be still!" he screams at it as he forms the Imago to compel its consciousness. But whether or not it would have worked, Truce cannot seem to form the Imago without more focus.

  Beast Control, Fail

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-08-30 15:43:27		Truce rolls 5 to cast improvised Beast Control [Gno+Mind] (10 Again)		3, 1, 3, 7, 1		failure

Just a note. I noticed I had given myself 2 Bashing damage that carried over from the previous thread. I just realized those would have healed by now during Truce's research. Just wanted to explain the change. Truce should have 3 lethal damage total now.

[DrDog]

The spider writhes in apparent pain as your spell takes hold for a moment, before the imago shatters like Crowley's skull.

The woman continues rummaging.

The spider wastes no time, and attacks the real threat in the room, its fang's clipping into your arm, as blood begins dripping down your palm.

  1 lethal

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-08-30 18:12:22		Web's Lancer rolls 2 to Power + Finessee (10 Again)		8, 5		1 success

[Truce]

At the sight of its writhing, Truce wonders if the spell might have taken hold for a moment, but he is disappointed a second later when it springs forward to bite him again. He can feel the blood soaking into his shirt, pooling in the fabric. Both arms and a leg now swelling from their wounds. He would not last much longer.

Once more, with feeling. His desperation giving strength to his cause, Truce calls out again his orders to the creature. "Be still!" The Imago forms to his command, but would it hold sway over the spider?

  Beast Control again, 2suxx contested

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-08-31 09:30:12		Truce rolls 7 to cast improvised Beast Control [Gno+Mind+WP-1(2nd try)] (10 Again, WillPower)		3, 3, 8, 1, 6, 2, 9		2 successes

[Truce]

Willpower mention

[DrDog]

Truce's confidence rises, as the creatures freezes solid.

  failure

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-09-01 19:53:34		Web's Lancer rolls 2 to Resistance (10 Again)		4, 6		failure

Only to have his victory dance cut short, as the creature hesitant begins moving again, stalking towards him quite a bit slower, but still obviously not fully impacted by his spell.

The woman crows in Triumph, and withdraws a shotgun from the closet. Obviously she or her husband were responsible gun owners, as she pulls out two shells as well, and loads it.

Crowley's brain begins leaking from the hemorrhage in his skull, arterial blood continuing to pump uselessly to a dead organ.

The spider struggles forward, and bites at him. its slowness, combined with the entropic field, result in it landing far short of truce.

  failure

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2016-09-01 19:56:06		Web's Lancer rolls 3 to Bite (10 Again, WillPower)		3, 2, 3		failure