A Knocking Afar (IC Thread)

[Akylas]

Kelman dives out of the way but fails to make it out of the blast radius.

 

Spoiler

Dodge roll against 45 agi

 

1d100 = 55 = Fail

 

[Mazer Rackham]

Saoirse:

 

As Kelman slipped sideways to evade the blast, Saoirse's dexterity was already spent, as the wayward blast from the SHredder found her chest, and tore it open in a rip of red.

 

OOC: Blood goes everywhere, Crit 4, Fatigue 1D5, rolls 4, 4 is +1 over TB, Saoirse is Unconscious. (Gesplatten!)

Edited November 22 by Mazer Rackham

[A.T.]

Ialandranth Veilseeker

 

Jumping between the threads of fate, the web closed around the prey. Drawing his blade Ialandranth drew upon the warp once more to shorten the many strides to a single step.

 

Run move - up to the closest DE, using them as a meatshield against the rest

[Trokair]

I assume form the earlier question that Venkarryn will do something stealthy, and that will not affect Dark Kin 8 who suddenly finds himself in melee range of Ialandranth, but I will hold off on Dark Kin 6 for now.

 

Dark Kin 8

 

The crack and thunder of the momentary wrap breach as the Spider arrived startled the Dark Eldar who had been about to take another shot down range. Instead they widely thrust the splinter rifle’s bayonet like blade at the Spider bearing down at them.

 

Spoiler

All out Attack Ialandranth

WS: 41 +20 (Run) – 20 (Hard Target) +20(All out Attack) = 61

D100: 05, Hit, Location: Body

Damage 1d10 R +3(Sb) at Pen 2 if no dodge/parry

d10: 8 + 3 = 11 Damage at Pen 2

 

Additionally as Ialandranth is within melee range of a Dark Kin, please roll a +20 Toughness Test. If Fail then take 1d10 damage from radiation.

 

Venkarryn action, Ialandranth dodge/parry (if so desiered) and Radiation check and Dark Kin 6 Next 

[A.T.]

Ialandranth Veilseeker

 

The dark kin attacked with unexpected fearlessness, throwing themselves on the blade in order to land a strike. A success that would cost their life and yet a hatred that did not care.

 

Parry: 98 - fail

Toughness: 30 - pass

[Trokair]

Ialandranth 

Spoiler

Damage 11 - 3(Tb) –  5(Armour 7 – Pen2) = 3 wounds taken, now at [3/16]

 

 

Venkarryn action Next, followed by Dark Kin 6  

[Black Cohort]

After sprinting for what felt like a minute, Ven stops suddenly in the trees hoping the dark kin lose track of him with his camoleoline cloak.

 

concealment check AG 45 +10 not moving +20 camo cloak = 75.  Roll = 79 failure

[Trokair]

Dark Kin 6 

Spoiler

Awareness Test to see if he saw Venkarryn in the Trees

Per: 45 +10 (heightened senses) = 55

d100: 23, Pass, 3DoS

Half Action Aim

Half Action Single Shot with Blaster at Venkarryn

BaS: 41 +10 (Aim) -30 (Extreme range courtesy of Cameleoline cloak) = 21

d100: 100! Well that’s not hitting.  Blaster Jamed

 

End of Round, next round will be up as soon as I can.

[Trokair]

The Kabalite looked up at where he had been aiming, one of the Craftworld scum in the trees, had me missed? But even then the Darklight should have caused damage to the copse that he would see. He glanced down at the Blaster, ammunition reading was fine, as was the power reading and status. No wait, a flicker on the containment ward.

 

He did not have time to realise that flicker on the readout was his last sight, for the Darklight had blinded him even as the Darklight begun to disintegrate the Blaster, the Kabilite, his fellow a few meters away, the Raider, nearby trees and bushes. Everything within about 25 meter was absolutely consumed by the unmaking nature of Darklight, annihilated at a fundamental level. The resultant shockwave petered out at about a kilometre, flattening vegetation, spraying up loose earth and felling some threes, with other severely bent or broke.

 

All of you are knocked of your feet and tumbled along by the shockwave.

 

 

 

Spoiler

Ok, slight change of plan, as I was preparing the next round I was inspired by the 100 roll and Jam on the Blaster. While Blasters do not have Overheat and are safer then human plasma tech for example, given how dangerous darklight is and the ‘wear and tear’ on these Dark Eldar what if the jam result in a breach of the darklight containment.

 

All players need to take a Challenging (+0) Willpower Test or suffer 2d10 Insanity points from seeing so much Darklight. Saoirse is exempt on account of being unconscious.

I am not going to impose damage rolls form the shockwave, perhaps your Eldar agility allows you to brace just in time or you are just lucky or some such, but do presume that you get minor bumps and scraps and what not from it.

 

@A.T. Ialandranth has time for one full actions worth of action in respect of the Dark Eldar he is in melee range of before the Darklight explosion. If you successfully grapple, knockdown or stun the Dark Eldar then after the Darklight explosion you can disarm and capture him for questioning (i.e. he is slower to recover from the explosion and you can capture him as a result). However if you attempt the grapple, knockdown or stun and fail (either on your dice or the Dark Eldar rolls well enough to avoid the attempt) then the Dark Eldar will get to make one full actions of attack against Ialandranth as he recovers quicker. Additionally if you try any of these you are near to him long enough to require another Radiation toughness check.

You can of course use your action before the explosion to try and kill him if you want, and if you succeed you can get far enough away not to take further radiation toughness tests.

 

Player summary as of the Darklight explosion.

Ialathial Duskstrider [0/15]

Kelman Orach [17/18] Heavily Wounded

 Saoirse Firebright [14/14] – Crit 4, 4 Fatigue, Unconscious  

Ialandranth Veilseeker [3/16] Lightly Wounded

Venkarryn [0/16]

 

 

We are now in narrative time (aside from resolving the last bit of Ialandranth vs Dark Eldar combat) but the narrative time won’t move more than an hour or two at most past the current time as we are at the end of part 2.5. I will post player rewards in OOC and explain more there as soon as I can.

 

[A.T.]

Ialandranth Veilseeker

 

All but one gone, including the guardian, but this last of the dark kin had over extended in its attack too far and was vulnerable... though would such a lost soul even care?

 

Ialandranth flicked about his target striking from many sides but not to kill, not yet.

 

Willpower test: 45 (fail), Fate reroll: 40 (pass)

 

Knockdown: 23 (no DoS - opposed)

[Trokair]

Ialandranth

 

Having successfully tackled and pined the Dark Kin to the ground you searched and disarmed the Eldar, a knife tossed to one side, ammunition clip for the splinter riffle likewise put out of reach lest the Kabalite used it as an improvised weapon. Then the shockwave hit. Somehow you mange to keep hold of him as you are both thrown and rolled and tumbled along the ground. You lose your grip at the end, but the other Eldar is stunned and fails to even attempt to get away before you recover and seize him again. A Few minutes later, having bound him you marched him to where the others were gathering.

 

 

Spoiler

Knockdown Opposed Strength Test

S: 39, D:100, 65, Fail, 2DoF

The Dark Eldar is caught and bound and can be questioned later (when I have moved everybody on a bit, feel free to discuss potential questions or such in the OCC).
The time to Knockdown and secure the prisoner is enough to warrant another +20 Toughness Test as mentioned earlier. With a fail inflicting 1d10 damage from radiation. However after that and aware of the danger you call can keep your distance and act with the radiation contamination in mind when dealing with the Dark Eldar, thought any manhandling or direct contact may require further tests.  

 

[Mike Zulu]

Ialathial Duskstrider

Duskstrider caught the briefest glimpse of the weapons containment failure.

 

Then the wave of darkness enveloped him, tearing at his soulstone...

 

Spoiler

Willpower: 37 + 0 = 37 required

Roll d100: 52, 56 (FP) = Fail, 1DoF

Roll 2d10 = 5 + 8 = 13 Insanity Points

 

[Akylas]

Kelman Orach

 

Having been jarred failing to dodge a blast from the Drukhari and then thrown aground again by the darklight explosion after, Kelman was perhaps thankfully too stunned to see deeply into the mass of darklight.

 

Spoiler

Willpower = 40 +0 (challenging) = 40

Roll 1D100 = 5 pass, 3 DOS

 

[Trokair]

Interlude

 

As you stumble to your feet and see the devastation all around you it is clear that it is not safe to stay. However with two of you considerably worse for wear and in need of assistance and Ialandranth attention focused on keeping the prisoner in check, it is slow and arduous progress. What feels like days, but is only perhaps a handful of hours see you find shelter.

 

A overgrown depression of a old river bend, the water way having forged a new path at some point in the last season or two. The bottom is still damp and muddy, but the bank is stable and the overgrown bank effectively hides you from nearly every angle at ground level and from the sky.  Tactically it is a bad location, hard to defend, but for hiding it is as good as anything out here.

 

As Saoirse and Kelman get some much needed rest the rest of you have time to take scot and ask the prisoner questions.

 

Integration, Charm, Intimidation, Command, Deceive are all possibly relevant skills depending on how you want to play out the questioning. So narrate away and present any relevant test and we will see how it goes. I am going to say all tests are at Ordinary (+10) to make things a tad more likely, but on the flip side I think most of these are opposed tests.  

[Mazer Rackham]

Saoirse:

 

The strange, nightmarish eternity of the ethereal march, propped up on - someone's shoulder, her feet sloughing the ground when she could look only down was at an end. The gash across her stomach and chest inflicted by the toxins had corrupted the peeling layers of flesh beneath her runic harness, which had swiftly knitted to form at least a blood-proofing suture. Between clotting and crystalline, she somehow still lived.

 

Two eternities.

 

Like the Guardian, or the faces of Khaine, the masques of mirth and misery amongst the Harlequins.

 

Hmm. Sometimes it was not best to dwell. Especially difficult as one of the others laid her in the crook of Isha's Elbow. No, not there, somewhere distant, a light in the darkness, twinkling in the eyes of moon-dreaming children.

 

She came awake and to her full sensory power with a gasp as Kelman's own condition penetrated her consciousness when the psycho-communal web reweaved.

 

+That hurt,+ she whispered through her helm. +Did we kill them all?+

[A.T.]

Ialandranth Veilseeker

 

"No, one remains though perhaps not for long. I have not heard of the dark kin bathed in radiation as this one is but death is their art and such an affliction may well be by choice."

[Mazer Rackham]

Saoirse:

 

She nodded weakly in response, albeit not agreement. There was no debauchery of flesh, mind, spirit or body that was beyond these shadow-fiends.

 

Her anger rekindled the fire of her soul. The party had taken a prisoner, and she would allow them to wear the...thing...down a while while she gathered strength. Nothing like a living truth-speaker with access to the wardrobe of the subconscious. A peril of a different kind, indeed.

 

She stroked her Soulstone gently, feeling it's terrible emptiness, fingers tracing the engraved cartouche, on that realisation.

[Mike Zulu]

Ialathial Duskstrider

 

Trellithryan hung from the overhead wraithbone support by his legs, arms outstretched, neck craned like the bird of prey he embodied.

“Trelli, stop,” Ialathial called out from below. “Come to… Fly back to me!”

“My wings sparkle so,” the deluded eldar remarked, shuddering his arms as if they were wings.

“Trelli!” Ialathial had no other words, watch as Trellithryran straighted his back from his upside-down perch.

“Faolchu must take flight!” Trelli closed his eyes and nose-dived into the void shield...

 

Spoiler

Trauma: 37(WP) + 10(Unsettled) + 10(Eldar) = 57 required
Roll d100: 02 = Pass, 5DoS

Ialathial came to, reeling from the touch of darklight. He quickly checked himself; soulstone, catapult, Avenger armour. The stench of ash and fresh blood. Foliage and tree trunks shrouding his position.

 

All was where it should be...
 

[Black Cohort]

The explosion is unexpected, Ven hadn't even had a chance to burn their hovercraft with his fusion gun.

 

Unsurprisingly the Dark Kin delved into science they never should have, using matter and realms of existence that were beyond even eldar minds.

 

Willpower test roll = 68, fail.  Insanity 2d10 = 4