Castle of Forsaken Names IC (Exalted 2nd ed)

[Cubey]

"Your pleasant words won't save you. My name is Tepet Kalni." The woman doesn't stay passive either, trying to circle you from the other hand.
"I'm Tepet Karnus. Remember the name, it'll be your doom!" The man boasts. Before any of them attack, the door bursts open and armed men charge in, taking positions in a wide circle. They carry short swords and unmistakenly Realm-type armour, and about half of them have bows as well. In the middle of the group walks a man of powerful stature, his jade armour reflecting blue even in the darkened room (yes, the one whom the rest of the group met earlier).
"Damn... what the! Anathema scum, here?" He is quick to react to the mark on Raiton's forehead. "Men, fire on my mark!"

"I dare you to try..." Arrowhead mutters under his nose. He looks ready to spring forward at any moment, which may not be a good idea - you're outnumbered and out-armed. This will be a challenge.

However, there is a good side to this as well. Rand and Iris approach the situation from behind, and due to the tumult aren't noticed. You see the soldiers and the Dynasts cornering Iron Raiton and Arrowhead. It's a good time to act, before you get noticed.
The figure on the roof didn't follow you yet, surprisingly.

(If you're planning to fight, feel free to roll for Join Battle already.)

[Tyracus]

Quickly moving his eyes across the scene Rand grins widely as he shoves off quickly towards the melee. As he crashes into the back ranks he roars loudly but the noise is mostly blocked by the tempest accompanying Voidreaver's arc as it cuts through flesh and metal. As he completes the blade's revolution he levels it towards the three Dynasts cornering his allies. "Even without your soldiers you have your foes at a disadvantage. How befitting as dogs of the realm that you would refuse to hunt without a pack. Come, test your blades against me and I will show you the true valor of battle."

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Join battle: (6d10)[5][4][7][1][5][8](30)

Spending 5 essence and 1 willpower for Iron Whirlwind attack.

Attack 1: (14d10)[5][10][2][3][10][10][1][6][9][6][5][3][1][8](79)
Attack 2: (14d10)[7][7][4][3][3][8][1][3][4][9][6][9][3][2](69)
Attack 3: (14d10)[9][8][9][3][7][10][5][7][10][6][2][9][2][6](93)
Attack 4: (14d10)[1][2][3][8][8][7][1][1][5][2][4][9][10][9](70)
Attack 5: (14d10)[7][3][10][6][10][9][8][7][8][3][3][8][8][5](95)

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Damage 1: (16d10)[6][10][1][7][1][4][4][9][10][4][10][5][5][3][3][5](87)
Damage 2: (16d10)[2][9][8][2][4][8][10][2][4][8][5][7][5][3][2][1](80)
Damage 3: (16d10)[2][2][7][2][6][10][1][6][4][10][10][9][3][2][4][4](82)
Damage 4: (16d10)[1][1][6][5][8][5][7][2][3][1][9][8][3][10][8][4](81)
Damage 5: (16d10)[2][4][6][7][4][6][2][8][6][1][6][9][2][9][3][3](78)

[tos]

Iron Ration seems neither excited nor worried about the approaching battle, just a little disappointed. Even that barely registers on his face because ever since he was a small boy he’s heard of the centuries of hate that the Realm has held for the ‘Anathema’.

Seeing that conflict is inevitable, Raiton moves swiftly and with assured confidence as he rushes straight towards Tepet Kalni. His style does not use feints, tricks or other such ruses. Solar Hero style is the martial art of bold champions and that his how Ration acts. Moving forward in an inhuman burst of speed, he ducks low and all of a sudden Tepet Kalni has found that her opponent has rushed inside the long guard of her spear and is right next to her.

“I’m Iron Raiton,” he announces simply as he sends a roundhouse kick flying towards the woman’s midriff. Moments before the blow connects the air around Raiton suddenly flares in a massive pyre of fiery Essence, a good portion of which seems focused around the foot which is moments from slamming into Kalni.

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Kicking female Dynast with spear. Spending one mote on the already active Solar Hero Form to activate damage doubling effect (Obviously not included below). Spending 6 motes on First MA Excellency. This means I’ve spent 11 motes of peripheral essence (19 left) in total, meaning my Anima effect automatically activates which is taking 3 levels of damage off each attack just before the damage is applied (to a minimum of 0).

Join Battle - (5d10)[7][4][6][9][1](27)

Attack - (19d10)[8][6][4][1][1][3][10][2][4][10][2][1][9][10][6][5][7][2][7](98)

Bashing Damage - (10d10)[8][1][2][1][2][9][4][8][3][10](48)

[Terraoblivion]

Iris was a lot less enthusiastic about this than her companions seemed to be. Battle was on her hands, however, and she had to fight that was all there was to it at this point. Seeing the threat to Iron Raiton that the archers presented she headed straight for them, Morning Sun flowing out of the scabbard as she did so. A quick slash at one of the soldiers gave her the opening she needed to reach the dynast who had threatened her earlier. Once there she didn't waste time on proclamations or speeches, instead focusing simply on achieving victory in battle. Moving with impossible speed she slipped her sword under the dynast's parry digging into the flesh beneath as she shifted her grip to remove her sword in a long low sweep delivering another gash across his torso.

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I spend six peripheral motes, not much point in hiding what is going on at this time, to buy three attacks with Peony Blossom Attack. I deliver one to a random soldier and the last two to the dynast with the hammer.

Join Battle - (4d10)[5][4][6][1](16)
First Attack - (13d10)[3][5][7][8][9][1][7][10][3][8][8][3][3](75)
Second Attack - (13d10)[9][4][2][8][6][5][10][10][8][9][9][6][8](94)
Third Attack - (13d10)[1][10][2][7][1][5][1][7][2][10][8][9][9](72)

Base damage is 10L

[Cubey]

Your allies spring to the rescue, which results in the armor-clad Dynast to lose his command over the soldiers. "Hold still, damnit!"
Raiton strikes, but his enemies are quicker - Tepet Kalni twirls her spear in one hand and tries to stab you with it, moving in supernatural speeds and fluidity. Soon after her, Karnus leaps up like if from nowhere, delivering a flying kick. You manage to dodge both of them, but barely (7 and 9 successes).
Your counter sends the woman a foot backwards, leaving her breathless and resulting in a hearable crunching noise, despite her armour (2 bashing damage).
Rand finds his opponents disappointingly easy to dispatch. They are terrified that not only there is one Anathema, but his friends came to help too, and their parries are too slow to prevent you from cleaving them into pieces. A bloody rain falls upon the nearest walls as you cut 5 of them down.
Most of the soldiers are struck with the sudden urge to get away from the maniac as soon as possible, and they half-heartedly charge at Raiton, swords ready to strike. They may be elite of the Realm, but for an Exalt they are pitifully easy to avoid and no one managed to land a hit. Nor did the three brave enough to stay and try to attack Rand.
Iris cleaves one of the ones left behind, mercifully swift strike slicing the soldier into two. Her another hit is delivered at the Dragon-blooded himself - but he parries with his hammer, your weapons sending sparks as they struggle against each other. The Dynast grins badly, and the sparks increase in intensity into blinding luminescence! You can barely see a thing, but the second hit somehow connects - but it is deflected upon his armour harmlessly.

Maran strikes back at Iris. "I have you now! Should have stayed out of the way!" He swings his weapon in a powerful yet graceful arc, then repeats from underhand. Only by miracle you manage to parry both hits.

In the meantime, Raiton faces both of the Dynasts as they attack once again. The man swings his orichalcum staff wildly, but you nimbly move yourself out of harm's way. "Stupid! Don't break that!" Kalni yells and ducks low, jabbing her spear at you... and hitting. Potentially.

Out of soldiers that are left, 4 try to unsuccessfully attack Raiton, while three each struggle to do anything to Iris and Rand. Yes, that means there is ten left of them.
Arrowhead seems to have disappeared when no one was paying attention to him.

Finally, the roof cracks and a small part of it collapses! This rubble of wood and some stone doesn't hit anyone (aside from dusting some who were unfortunate to be too close), but the resulting hole is enough to bring down more than rain. With a loud howl, a monstrous, dull red ape falls on the center of the room! This gorilla-like being is larger than any man, and immediately rushes into battle, its long claws waiting to cut you to shreds!

(You received 1 stunt die each. Iron Raiton, if you want to spend any motes to buy dice for an anti-spear parry attempt, via First Melee Excellency, make a post please. You also spent only 26 motes, which means 10 peripheral and not 11. Raiton and Rand move on this tick, Iris on 2 ticks from this one and Maran in between them. Finally, if you receive stunt dice on an attack then I roll and apply them on defensive attempts as well, but it would be nice if you posted a description of your defense in such a situation as well.)

[Terraoblivion]

The blows against her did little to disturb Iris' stance or the flow of her motions. "Not bad dynast, but this ends here before anymore lives are lost in this senseless battle." As she spoke a faint sunburst started twinkling on her forehead, reflecting itself along the edge of her daiklave. Taking a half step backwards, she launches into a single sweeping slash. Instead of going directly for the dynast, however, she lets his hammer catch the slash, twisting it just as it hits in order to get through his defense and catch the flesh of the person beyond.

Retrieving her blade from the stricken dynast she held it high before her, ready to catch any blows his hammer might make and push them to the side and away from her.

[Tyracus]

Leaving Iris to deal with the hammer wielding dynast before her Rand begins to run towards the beast that just fell into the melee. Charging his way through the disorganized throng of soldiers Rand approaches the throne. In three leaps he climbs to the top and leaps off of it reversing the grip on his blade so the blade faces the ground as he takes to the air above the creature. Coming down on the beast he uses the full force of his weight and muscle to tear a great gash as he comes to the ground. As soon as he lands Rand twists the blade and tears it out and up to meet the enraged beasts claws as they come for his head. His aura blazes around him while he does this whipping like a flame in the wind behind his blade.

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Attacking the ape who just entered. Buying 6 dice with 1st melee excellency for the attack causing my Anima to flare up and I get a +2 DV vs anything with a Valor less than 5, any mortals who fail will flee (much like they've been doing).

Attack: (20d10)[5][2][9][9][3][3][4][9][10][4][10][2][3][4][1][9][10][4][5][8](114)

Damage: (16d10)[3][10][2][5][5][9][7][2][8][3][2][3][4][10][1][7](81)