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Yeah, it's become painfully obvious I can't do things on my own. Road and I had started forming one up, and more would be great--espesh if Organiker is going to disappear.

And what's really sad about the whole thread is, if everyone on our side had put a stone away in the first round we'd have finished in a day.

Problem is that some of the stones (including both the ones Armstrong has) are damaged to the point where we aren't sure which arcana represent.

Besides, it would have been incredibly anticlimactic.

Oh ye of little faith, do you think it was ever going to be anticlimactic?

*/me ducks in fear.*

Benjamin wrote:Problem is that some of the stones (including both the ones Armstrong has) are damaged to the point where we aren't sure which arcana represent.

So we do a little guesswork! Magic's an art, not a science. Put your math book away sometime and you'll see. So we put the wrong stone in the wrong obelisk... what's the worst that could happen?

I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that question.

Somebody puts the wrong stone into the wrong slot and the two Ananke merge into one massive engine of destruction bent on turning us into corned-beef hash.

Or maybe someone's soul gets sucked into the eeeeevilllll Obelisks or they get knocked unconscious and blasted across the gauntlet to be picked up by Banishers who's idea of fun is vivisecting helpless pentacle magi.

So funny thing, that second paragraph sounded like you were speaking from experience. So that's what happened to Invictus.

Armstrong has no idea what you are talking about.

And that first paragraph makes the Ananke sound like Constructicons. Who doesn't dig on Constructicons? Everyone loves 'em.

You know, I almost cracked a Constructicon/Voltron joke earlier, but didnt want to sound like an old fucker

Go on West, some of us may get it

~FC.

nah lol after the last round, they might take me seriously & get scared

glad to see everyone's having fun with it, though

Hell yeah, keep it going.

~FC.

ah, warm fuzzy

There will be fire. Lots of fire. Good Supernal Fire. And Spirit will not be happy about it. Speaking off, what is Spirit's strength? (And do I have to fight that if I am doing an aimed spell? or a spell agianst his pattern? Does the fact that I'm touching him help in any way? ) [/desperation]

STR 3; you dont have to do anything to cast an Improvised Spell, regarding the Grapple. Touching helps with some Arcana, but I don't think it does with Prime.

so, making sure I have this right:

If i cast the celestial fire against him, I am penalized by 6 (plus another 3 in wound penalties,) for his strength pluse his armor. If I cast it against his pattern, I am penalized by 3 (pluse another 3 in wound penalties) for just his armor. Correct?

Wait, can you cast it against his pattern? I thought CF had to be cast as an aimed spell.

Celestial Fire is natively an Aimed spell; that is, you would suffer DEF and Armor penalties, then your additional Wound penalties.

Converting it to a direct pattern attack (which you are capable of) would simply subtract the appropriate Resistance Attribute (Resolve or Composure -- both 3), and then factor in Wound Penalties.

It would also still be Vulgar.

ok, cool. Hooray for being able to spend 5 mana in a round.

[CrazyArmstrong]BURN THEM BURN THEM ALL[/CrazyArmstrong]

Although, now that I've had some time to calm down, I notice that we are doing relatively well considering that they've been running around with the 8-Again ability on their rolls all this time. Go team Ravenclaw!

not the whole time just since right here

That's long enough for me.

Unfortunately, Captain's almost certainly going unconscious this round, and I don't think things are looking good for Armstrong, either. I can only heal so much!

I'm surprised Theo didn't sling another Healing Heart...

I didn't want Matter to get a hold of his stone while it was just lying around. It's been kinda frustrating him how the Ananke keep picking stones up willy nilly.

Captain hopefully won't go down this round. He's blowing mana on ineffecient healing, just to at least make things easier, maybe even let him live a little longer.

I think if you can give some Mana to Animus, he can heal you more efficiently.

Yes, Animus would like that very much. Scouring is painful.

If Captain does anything other than Channel Mana this round, it better drop Spirit -- because numbers-wise, I don't see Captain staying on his feet after another Grappling damage attack.

That's just me, though.

If only pattern restoration was reflexive... *sigh*

One of those little details I point out when people scream about how over-powered Mages are vamp and ww people never seem to appreciate how fragile Mages are.

And of course this would be the round that I get the crap roll. Sorry, it's been nice knowing you.

Vampires: allergic to sunlight
Werewolfs: Allergic to silver
Mages: allergic to bullets.

Now give me back my crew so I can give those ananke more bullets.

Didn't all the guns do their sand impressions?

Right. Crap. New plan. stones. Putting stones in problem obeliisks.

Maybe if a few people threw their stones away they would spend a turn collecting them? That could give some of us some breathing room.

Throw stone away, waste one Ananke's turn. Slam stone into obelisk, waste two Ananke's turns. Hmm, I wonder which is better ...

Don't expect me to join in though. I'm busy *trying* to keep everyone alive.

I think we would be best served by Ruby turning off spirit, and then more mana to Animus and Armstrong while spirit reanimates. Then theo can turn one off as well. Oooh, i like that. If Ruby, Armstrong and Theo all put theirs in this round (assuming everyone survives the hurty) that will put the ananke at 2 paralyzed at the start of the next round, that will give Joshua the change to take one from the dropped spirit, and captin putting one in. 3 paralyzed, two not. At that point, things will be easier. A lot easier.

ARMSTRONG IS A SEXY SHOELESS GOD OF WAR!!!

Was that her 3rd or 4th?

3rd. She's keeping that head as a trophy!

LOL.

Keeping it as a trophy? I thought she was going to spend the rest of combat smashing it to bits.

By the way, West had me roll defense for it because I've been getting a rash of bad rolls lately.

spread the love, spread the love.

I need to know when Armstrong picks up the head -- seriously, not being funny or ominous.

roadnottaken wrote:By the way, West had me roll defense for it because I've been getting a rash of bad rolls lately.

That only means luck is on our side! See if West will let you run them for the rest of the encounter while he runs your character!