[DH1e] The Damocles Contingency (OOC)

[Necronaut]

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[Mazer Rackham]

Just a note @Necronaut your updated post is in black text. Might want to fiddle with the formatting a bit.

[Necronaut]

Worthless garbage!

[Mazer Rackham]

 

Won't get anywhere talking to the machine spirit like that!

 

Abase yourself luddite! 

[Machine God]

Are we waiting on Falk to use his skills?

 

Or is Round Seven coming into view?

[Necronaut]

@Mazer Rackham As an ordained Tech-Priest Engineseer, I'm a big believer in the Rite of Percussive Maintenance and the Litany of Profane Encouragement Verging Upon Verbal Abuse to Exhort the Machine Spirit.

Edited July 30, 2023 by Necronaut

[Mazer Rackham]

5 minutes ago, Machine God said:

Are we waiting on Falk to use his skills?

 

Or is Round Seven coming into view?

 

Both..!

 

5 minutes ago, Necronaut said:

@Mazer Rackham As an ordained Tech-Priest Engineseer, I'm a big believer in the Rite of Percussive Maintenance and the Litany of Profane Encouragement Verging Upon Verbal Abuse to Exhort the Machine Spirit.

 

Very well - carry on with your litanies!

[A.T.]

1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Both..!

Ah, sorry - I did roll it but thought I was just aiding another with the fate so didn't post anything. I'll do that now.

[Trokair]

@Mazer Rackham, now that Bardas is in the terminal controls, is there anyway to slow down or reverse the Core venting so as to buy the others more time to kill the Golem.

[Mazer Rackham]

No, this is an auxiliary terminal governing and regulating the flow of control around the room. The master terminal is at the foot of the Golem's effigy. (You can see it on the map).

 

You need to access that terminal to stop the meltdown. (Bardas will have identified this through the functions he has available, feel free to narrate this).

 

Edited July 31, 2023 by Mazer Rackham

[Lysimachus]

@Necronaut I think you've missed the +4 off of your 2d10+4, total should be 18? (Might not make a difference, but maybe it could... )

[Necronaut]

@Lysimachus cheers! I find the more math I do, the worse I get at basic arithmetic. ;)

[Mazer Rackham]

@Necronaut That's alright. By my terrible calculations we're on turn 11 and you're all dead.

 

*Checks notes*

 

Uh, I mean you're winning, and everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.

 

Carry on.

[Necronaut]

@Mazer Rackham with regard to your most recent post, I presume your note for Scourge is for his attack during round 8, right? If so, is the Golem (cube) considered a helpless target, or merely a prone target for the purposes of targeting, or neither? 

Edited July 31, 2023 by Necronaut

[Mazer Rackham]

5 minutes ago, Necronaut said:

@Mazer Rackham with regard to your most recent post, I presume your note for Scourge is for his attack during round 8, right?

 

Correct.

 

5 minutes ago, Necronaut said:

If so, is the Golem (cube) considered a helpless target...

 

Correct. You roll is to determine Banishment/attempt RF Proc. You hit regardless.

[Necronaut]

Okay I think I follow you: this banishment roll will be an ordinary attack roll (presumably +0 or whatever), plus I will roll for damage per usual with the hope of fishing up some RF procs which will further modify the outcome. Does that sound right? Or am I simply rolling for damage (with bonus 1d10?) and praying to the dice gods to proc RF and then proceeding from there? 

Edited July 31, 2023 by Necronaut

[Mazer Rackham]

It will work like this:

1. Target is helpless, thus automatically hit
2. Roll to Hit to generate DoS for Banishment
3. Roll Damage as normal/Proc RF
4. ???
5. Profit.

Any use?

[Trokair]

It's step 4 I am worried about. 

[Lysimachus]

When you say about passing Actions, do you just mean Bardas and Nicios (who haven't acted yet in Round 7) or all of us right through to Scourge's Round 8?

 

If the latter, I guess there isn't a lot we need to do...?

 

Could we narratively attack the two subsidiary statue/warp vanes (now no-one is using the terminals beneath them?) in an effort to weaken the Golem and thereby assist Scourge and Bardas in their tasks?

[Necronaut]

Right that all makes sense, the part I'm struggling with is the attack roll target vs Scourge's WS value, but I will just roll and let you sort out the DoS per your own grading scale. I also roll a bonus 1d10 vs a helpless target, right? 

[Mazer Rackham]

34 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

When you say about passing Actions, do you just mean Bardas and Nicios (who haven't acted yet in Round 7) or all of us right through to Scourge's Round 8?

 

Any of you - it's an option for you if people want to 'get on with it'.

 

34 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

If the latter, I guess there isn't a lot we need to do...?

 

Could we narratively attack the two subsidiary statue/warp vanes (now no-one is using the terminals beneath them?) in an effort to weaken the Golem and thereby assist Scourge and Bardas in their tasks?

 

I'd always prefer interaction, so yes, that's fine.

 

27 minutes ago, Necronaut said:

Right that all makes sense, the part I'm struggling with is the attack roll target vs Scourge's WS value, but I will just roll and let you sort out the DoS per your own grading scale. I also roll a bonus 1d10 vs a helpless target, right? 

 

Don't overthink it, brother.  Just turn your mind to smiting, I'll do the rest.

[Lord_Ikka]

I think Nicios will just pass and wait silently. I'd like to Inflict Pain to inflict some debuffs, but am worried about the thinned veil and possible phenomena. 

[Mazer Rackham]

Maybe you could narratively push back/reknit the veil?

 

Edited July 31, 2023 by Mazer Rackham

[Machine God]

So the Mundanes fall back on the Smash the Bad Tech routines...

 

The Golem is taking control of other systems (The other vanes) that control the sub-routines of the Nucleonic Stacks and Reynard has gone Full Angry Peasant with a Pitchfork at it.

 

 

@Mazer Rackham - I take it that The Golem is only a helpless target for Scourge and Hywelsbane? The specialness of it is for Scourges DoS' and no-one else?

 

No chance of big bullets versus the Golem now?

 

Or maybe a last minute Run across the room to one of the other of the Golem's consoles?

 

A Run passing through the whole of the Initiative Order to the last minute Tech Use attempt?

 

 

 

[A.T.]

Falk is with Bardas to offer an assist - which is about as much as he can do.

 

Does Bardas not have a combi-tool after all this time?