Beyond the Grace of the Emperor

[Leon]

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Give Owen the Surprise - Chunky Salsa is better in a Elevator
Thing thing as another shot (I need a Combat Shotgun or at least a Pump Action)

+++Elevator in action, we are going to have more company soonish+++

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Shoot second barrel at rest of mechobugs where possible
BS (36) +10 (Aim) +30 PB (1d100)[94]
Damage (1d10+4)[6]

Gah, that is why the Addition of boni is best done after the roll as if you do it before it jips you

[Knives91]

Stig comes out of his roll, aims and lets loose a single blast at one of the bots.

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Well then. Stig ceases his rolling and aims as a half action, then fires as his other. Rolling hit and damage. Hit is -10 for fatigue but +10 for aiming so it all balances out to a 50. So, 50 or less

Hit: (1d100)[62]
Damage:(1d10+3)[4]

And so much for that. Oh well.

[Zen Master]

Stig comes out of his roll, aims and lets loose a single blast at one of the bots.

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Well then. Stig ceases his rolling and aims as a half action, then fires as his other. Rolling hit and damage. Hit is -10 for fatigue but +10 for aiming so it all balances out to a 50. So, 50 or less

Hit: [roll0]
Damage:[roll1]

And so much for that. Oh well.

Before we officially open the second round of combat, might I point out that you are in point blank range of several targets, and equipped with a burst fire capable weapon?

You may have a -10 penalty ... but you have +40 worth of bonuses. Or +30 total.

[Knives91]

Before we officially open the second round of combat, might I point out that you are in point blank range of several targets, and equipped with a burst fire capable weapon?

You may have a -10 penalty ... but you have +40 worth of bonuses. Or +30 total.

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If you insist.
Hokay. So. Seeing as how the resident glorious overlord has added some previously unknown information (to me), I'll rework that set of actions. Many thanks boss man!

So, burst is a full action that grants an extra hit for every degree of success and adds a +10 to hit. Point blank is another +30 for a total of 40+. So with the -10 for fatigue thats a +30 bonus making for the previous roll of 62 a valid hit, as I needed an 80 or below. With 2 degree of success, that gives me two more hits. Damage for those is as follows:
Hit 2: (1d10+3)[6]
Hit 3: (1d10+3)[10]

Wow. That was a lot of work for pulling the trigger three times.
I guess each shot was at a separate target.

[Zen Master]

My apologies for slow updates.

Do we have all actions going into round two? I think we do - Mr. Wormwood being confined presently to the twisted corridors and warped rooms of his own tortured mind.

So, Round Two (DING!):

Stig - lying on his back, with bits of spider protruding from him in a manner that looks painful and uncomfortable - raises his rifle and fires a burst of deadly photons at the spiderbots. The rapid whiplash sound of laser pulses signals the instant cooking, melting, combustion and/or explodification of three of the little beasts.

Delta-Rho, on the other hand, struggles with the machine spirit of his trusty scatter gun, avoiding a misfire, but meanwhile missing the targets entirely. Shot dings, zings and zooms around the room as it ricochets off various paraphernalia.

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the ship and unknown to all (except those who read this little bit of trivia), Owen waits for the elevator to ascend. He taps his foot, and whistles a little tune. Bulkheads are think on military vessels, and with the engine idling, lifesupport humming and what not, what little noise he hears he discounts as the bones of the ship settling a bit.

He checks his chronomat - synchronized not to the shipboard standard, but rather to that of his home on Sepheris - and recalls that he must also run diagnostics on the starboard void stabilizer fin.

And after this exciting interlude:

The last two spiderbots lunge once more after our friend Stig. Both hit, but only one of the little automated pests manage to penetrate his armor.

Stig now has three points of fatigue. One more, and it will be time to draw lots whether Delta or Wormwood get to drag the big mans' unconcious body through the remaining combat =)

[Astro_sol]

Wormwood's actions: DERP

Proceed.

[Knives91]

Cursing like only a Guardsman can, Stig drops his lasgun, grabs both bots, and proceeds to slam them into the floor. Repeatedly.

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I have absolutely no idea what kind of rolls would go into this. So, that's my turn.
GM, its all yours.

[Zen Master]

Cursing like only a Guardsman can, Stig drops his lasgun, grabs both bots, and proceeds to slam them into the floor. Repeatedly.

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I have absolutely no idea what kind of rolls would go into this. So, that's my turn.
GM, its all yours.

With a dangerous gleam in his eyes, Stig yanks the two diminutive bots off him, and repeatedly dashes them against the floor:

'WILL ...'
*CRASH*
'YOU ...'
*CRASH*
'STOP ...'
*BANG*
'SHOCKING ME ...'
*SMASH*
'EMPEROR-FORSAKEN ...'
*CRUNCH*
'ANNOYING, LITTLE ...'
*tinkle - pling*
'bloody ... damnable ... spider things!'

The valiant brigade of the Secure-Tech Annoyo-Matic SpiderBots has met it's doom, ground down to tiny flecks of once shiny tech. Somewhata shakily, the big guardsman regains his feet and retrieves his weapon.

Technicalities:

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How I decided success or failure in this: I rolled a simple attack roll using the lasgun, assertained that Stig could easily have dispatched the spiders anyways, and let flavor trump mechanics.

I hope I hit the approximate mood of Stig towards this little security measure =)

Delta-Rho, being last in the round, still has his action to take. Then, it will be time for another exciting episode in the life of Owen (Airlock Eyes-On Man).

[Astro_sol]

@Acromos

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I had a Perils of the Warp, so I gain a Corruption point, right?

[Zen Master]

@Acromos

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I had a Perils of the Warp, so I gain a Corruption point, right?

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Oh - uh ... attention to detail. I heard of details once, decided they were pesky little creatures, and that I wanted no truck with them. Like spiders. Or um, smurfs or something.

Yes, you gain a corruption point. Thus tainted is your soul by exposure to the swirling and limitless sea of madness that lurks beyond that thin, leaky and insubstantial border of dimension.

Grats - if it's your first =)

[Leon]

At the destruction of the bots Nixios will take up a position to the side of the door frame (for cover) with Lascarbine out and aim at the Elevator door ready for it to open

[Zen Master]

Round three, then:

At the start of the round, you hear the elevator servos stop. You must assume that somewhere above, Owen is entering.

Wormwood holds his head and mutters what could be prayers or curses - or both.

Stig still suffers from fatigue. Fatigue fades at a rate of 1 point pr. hour of no combat actions.

Hey - there are more doors! =)

[Leon]

+++Do we engage this hostile or move away?+++

Musing that if its this location he is heading to then we could avoided him but we need to keep knowledge of our shuttle hidden

[Zen Master]

By turning your heads you can confirm that Storage Bay Echo (or whatever it was I named it before) is the one you guys came from.

It would be possible to close the airlock, thus effectively hiding the shuttle - Owen is, after all, unlikely to open it and peer out, to see if anything is out there. I can inform you that there is no window in the hatch.

Just informing you of stuff that I figure you'd know from simple observation.

[Knives91]

"The longer *grunt* we stay unnoticed *groan* the better. I'll head for the door. Rho, I think I'll need help closing it."

Stig, despite feeling like he had stuck his fork in an electrical socket (and he was not discussing HOW he knew that feeling), heads for hatch. He only runs into one door on the way.

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Spending the turn moving to the door and grabbing a handle. That's all.

[Astro_sol]

I think Wormwood still has at least one more turn of further derp.

[Leon]

+++Affirmative+++

Nixios will pick wormwood up and drag him out of direct sight before following Stig to shut the door

+++We will be back shortly Wormwood+++

[Zen Master]

From down the corridor, you hear the elevator begin it's ascent.

You get the airlock closed without incident. Depending on how thorough Owen is, and how tech-savvy, he could use the control panel to discover that someone is outside. It does require a tech-use roll, however, and most people simply don't have the skill.

If you want to hide, where would you go?

[Knives91]

"Quickly. To the other room. Find a box and hide behind it. Or in it."

Stig moves back down the hallway and into the room which contained the spiders. As quickly as possible, he grabs all the large spider pieces and tosses them back into the box from which they erupted.

"Rho! Get the door!"

He then grabs Wormwood and drags him into the darkest part of the far side of the room.

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And thats all for me.

[Astro_sol]

Wormwood mutters incoherently. Herpaderp.

[Zen Master]

Ok - leaving combat rounds for now.

Your actions, such as I understand them to be. Lemme know if there is anything else you want to do.

Delta-Rho goes back to storage E, and closes the airlock. Everyone then proceeds into room you cleared of spiderbots, close the door behind you, and finds a place to hide. Stig makes the effort to clean up the spiders and close the box as best possible.

I assume someone has some sort of light source. The room you're in contains, as previously mentioned, various supplies. It's a longish room, maybe 20 feet by 70. In the north end of the room - towards the engine room and away from storage E where you entered - are a row of large, sarcophagus-like affairs: Large coffinlike affairs with a tangle of tubes attached and numerous dials, guages and read-outs. There are four of these. One is currently open and clearly off-line.

Outside the room, you can vaguely hear the elevator reaching the bottom. It's doors open, and whistling is heard. Between whistling, Owen takes the time to mumble a bit to himself - what, you cannot hear through the door.

[Astro_sol]

If Wormwood wakes up from his Chaos stupor, he'll prolly catch the seriousness of the situation and stay hidden. Otherwise, he'll drool or something.

[Leon]

Nixios will be in what ever darkest corner he can find behind something

[Zen Master]

Alright then.

Safely hidden within Storage D, you listen to Owen walking unseen past the door, into Storage E. He whistles, he mumbles, he checks the airlock is in fact not open right out into open space, and there is no sound of atmosphere escaping.

At this point you may roll perception.

Then, he moves back towards the elevator, closing Storage E behind him.

[Astro_sol]

Rolling.

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Awareness ftw. Base skill is 41, I dunno what other modifiers there are.

(1d100)[31]

[Leon]

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Perception 36 (d100)[36]

[Astro_sol]

So Knives is going to be away for most of the day. He's going to let me roll that Perception check. Stig's actions are to hide patiently along with the rest of us.

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Stig's base perception is 31.
(1d100)[44]

[Zen Master]

What you hear, respectively:

Stig:

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Inner monologue: Once we get back somewhere civilized (not too civilized though - eww), I need to get my hands on one of them Cadence Arms boltguns. Those are sweet. Hm, I wonder what became of ol' Evy from back home - that girl had some of the best ... oh, hey, what is this box anyways? Oohh, parachutes. Might come in handy

... and so on =)

Delta-Rho:

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Mumble-mumble looks fine mumble mumble say, old girl, where's your mumble mumble. Whistle-mumble-whistle.

Wormwood:

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You hear Owens footsteps down the corridor. Under his breath - in between whistles - he wonders 'dang it, why's it always me gets sent on these errands.

He enters Storage E, and you hear 'well, this looks fine. No breach, no nothing.' As he turns to leave, you hear him pause, then 'say, old girl, where's your weapons gone, eh? Mebbe off for repairs or refit?'

Then you hear him leave, close up the storage room, and proceed to ride the elevator back up.

Where ya wanna go next?

[Astro_sol]

Wormwood struggles to get up, still woozy from his mental malfunction.

"I th-think we're g-good," he says after the elevator leaves. He walks over to the open sarcophogi. "Wh-what's th-this?"

@Acromos

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I know Wall Walk is on, but after the 10 turn limit comes up for sustaining powers, I'mma just let it go. Fat lot of good it did.

[Leon]

We all in the same room?