The Tyranny of the Jedi (Alt KotOR SAGA)

[Ascension]

The blaster rifle flies easily from the droid's hands. You note that it has a folding stock, and you might be able to fire it more easily if you wield it like an over-sized pistol.

Cee is up.

[Liliedhe]

She just stays behind and watches the show.

[Ascension]

Inok then.

Gavik, why don't you take it away?

[Mando Knight]

Gavik braces his rifle and lets loose a deadly wave of autofire attacks at the lowest set of droids.

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Attack (1d20+8)[26]
Damage (3d8+3)[19]

[Ascension]

The four droids to your right fall en masse before Gavik's blazing beam rifle.

"Daaaaaaaisy, daaaaaaaisy, give me your-" they sing as they die, undoubtedly due to Frow's modifications to their programming.

Kir Sano's turn.

[Mando Knight]

"Daaaaaaaisy, daaaaaaaisy, give me your-" they sing as they die, undoubtedly due to Frow's modifications to their programming.

Give me your lasers, do. I'm half crazy, over the death of you!

[Graybacca]

Kir braces his rifle in the same way as Gavik and also lets loose a deadly wave of autofire attacks at the droids.


blaster rifle braced autofire Atk (1d20+7)[15]
Dmg (3d8+3)[16]

[Ascension]

The droids seem to take less of a beating than they did from Gavik's volley, but they are hurt.

And on to Phrenias.

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Jeeze, I somehow didn't realize that autofire attacks would be this effective...

[Druid_lord]

Phrenias simply smiles, humming a little tune to himself, ebfore waving a hand at the nearest droid. "Afternoon delight. Woo!Sky rockets in flight Bwooo!"

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move object aginst the nearest droid to throw it into the air, will roll damage in OOC based on results [roll]1d20+9[/roll

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huh? [roll]1d20+9[/roll]

[roll]1d20+9[/roll]

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Uhh, i've think i've gone barindead, i've apparently forgotten how to roll

[Ascension]

While we wait for Druid_Lord to reroll in a new post you can go ahead and post Merrel's next actions if you'd like, The_Snark. I don't like slowdown. It makes me paranoid.

[Ascension]

Reewoon's turn, then, since Merrel is delaying. Remember that the bottom four droids have all been destroyed.

[RoboGerbil]

Reewoon will spend this turn getting into position next to 2 droids. Using 2 moves to go up one and right nine, ending next to the 2 northmost droids.

[Ascension]

Though only four droids still stand in the room and one of them is unarmed to boot, the prison's automated defense systems aren't done yet. Two droids of a new model run into the room. They are somewhat similar in appearance to the common Kellenech Sentinel model, but have been rather obviously updated. They too bear Revan's white.

They each fire two quick shots from their beam rifles as they enter. One targets Gavik and the other targets Kir Sano.

Gavik:
Attack: (1d20+10)[22]
Damage: (4d8+1)[21]

Kir:
Attack: (1d20+10)[18]
Damage: (4d8+1)[22]

The two Juggernauts nearest Reewoon target the towering wookiee.

Attack: (1d20+10)[24]
Damage: (3d8+3)[23]
Attack:(1d20+10)[19]
Damage: (3d8+3)[19]

The two lower Juggernauts target the Force user who took one of their rifles.

Rifle droid:
Attack:(1d20+10)[14]
Damage: (3d8+3)[19]

Disarmed droid (built-in shatter beam):
Attack: (1d20+9)[12]
Damage: (3d8+1)[14]

New Map:

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ND is New Droid, not North Dakota.

Since moving to 5,7 would leave Vaya without any droids right in front of her, a fact I should've caught much sooner but didn't, I've guessed that you meant to move her to 7,5. Remember, x-axis always comes first.

Kolin's turn.

[The_Snark]

Merrel

Merrel enters behind most of the others, waiting near the back as her erstwhile allies begin exchanging fire with the droids. They are getting the better of it, but taking hits nonetheless. She trusts none of them—Mandalorians, the laughing dark presence she had sensed earlier when the Twi'lek killed the guards, and who knew what else—but using them to distract the guards and choosing not to help doesn't sit quite right with her, either.

She begins to act almost as soon as the reinforcements charge into the room, although it is slow; she moves around the side of the room, staying out of the lines of fire. She lets the Force guide her footsteps, and as always when she was successful, the distractions seemed less. It wasn't that she didn't see or hear the whine and flash of blaster fire meters away—in fact, she is more aware of it—but it doesn't matter as much. Merrel halts abruptly, poised on the balls of her feet, and for a fraction of a second feels as if she is in the center of a great pool of energy, perfectly still but capable of immense force.

It took only a single thought to turn a fraction of that perceived force, the Force, into physical, real force, and she reaches out with it. There is no ripple in the air, or flashy gesture from Merrel; only something invisible taking hold of the droids and knocking them off their feet.

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Let's hope my rolls uphold that description... Merrel is using Surge to increase her speed (doesn't matter what she rolls, I'm only moving a little over 6) and moves to... actually, your numbers on the grid are confusing; Vaya isn't seven squares away from any edge...

I'll give her relative position: three squares above Vaya and three squares to the right of her, immediately to the right of a dead guard. Then she uses Force Slam, and if I'm calculating the area of a 6-square cone right, it should hit all 6 droids. If the power's area begins in her square rather than the square in front of her, she'll just move 1 square down and to the right to get the same effect. Use the Force: (1d20+15)[35]

[Ascension]

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The confusion would be because I messed up. Vaya should be one more square to the right. I'll try to do some map magic to try to clarify things.

Clarified Map:

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The corpses have been removed for simplicity, full numbering has been added, and a conjectural cone of effect has been traced out. One step to the right would include all but the lower ND in the Force Slam area, and I'll allow you to make that adjustment.

All but one of the droids in the room fall to the ground, most falling to pieces as well. Only the new arrivals have survived, and only one of them is still standing upright.

Now it's Kolin's turn.

[Reverent-One]

Kolin watches as the force user bring most of the droids to their knees, suitably impressed by her results. Seeing that full autofire is overkill at this point, he switches his weapon back to single-fire mode. He stays in the back of the crowd as he shoulders the rifle again, turning his attention to the last droid still standing on it's own two feet. He aims for a shot right between its eyes, ignoring the Maladorian partially blocking his line of fire, and takes the shot.

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Switches to single-fire mode as a swift action, shoots the one ND that Merrel did not hit.
Attack:
(1d20+11)[3](14)
Damage:
(3d8+4)[5][8][1](18)

Random question, do the droids have any damage reduction?

[Ascension]

The shot flies by a bit right of the eyes and blasts the wall of the corridor rather than the Devastator's head.

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The GM I'd like to be: Bad player! Stop trying to metagame!
The GM I am: Hey, look, I just told you what model of droid it is!

Vaya's turn.

[Reverent-One]

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The GM I'd like to be: Bad player! Stop trying to metagame!
The GM I am: Hey, look, I just told you what model of droid it is!

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Well, just making sure you know that whenever I use a rifle in an attack, any damage reduction on my target counts as if it were 5 less.

...assuming I ever hit anything....

[BooNL]

Vaya

Vaya spends a short time fiddling with her new blaster carbine. She looks up when she senses a large change in the Force around her. At first she thinks Cee has finally decided to act, but she's mildly suprised to see Merrel move past her and force the droids to her knees.

"There is power in this one" she thinks.

She turns her attention back to the battle taking aim at the knocked down droid in front of her.

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Taking a pot shot at the droid in front of Vaya.

Attack - (1d20+8)[18]

Damage - (3d8+3)[14]

[Ascension]

The shot easily severs the fallen droid's arm. It glares at its attacker with glowing red eyes. destroys the droid's primary processor. Even the Devastator doesn't have redundant processors. It falls lifeless.

If Cee would like to act this turn she can, but unless hell has frozen over it's probably Gavik's turn.

[Liliedhe]

No need to buy winter clothing for the deep denizens - Cee just continues to watch, with a slightly amused smile.

[Mando Knight]

Gavik is rather... amused by this fight. First the droids barely miss him, and then the coward Jetii blasts the lot of 'em to pieces! He hasn't enjoyed fighting this much since... the last war, probably.

"Hey, Jetii! You finally decide to fight alongside us! It's jus' like my ol' ba'buir <grandparent> always told me, 'The company that fights together, survives together!' Glad to have ye aboard!"

He turns toward the droid that the Force Slam missed, braces his weapon, and opens up with a burst of autofire. (Burst Fire on Devastator not hit by Force Slam, takes autofire penalty (only -2 when bracing) for +2 dice of damage)

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Attack: (1d20+8)[18]
Damage: (5d8+3)[30], doesn't damage on a miss, unlike normal autofire.

shots spent so far: 15

EDIT: Sweet! 18 on. The. Dot. "Eat plasma, droid!"

[Ascension]

The droid takes a chest full of hot blaster fire and staggers back a bit, but it remains standing even with gaping holes in its torso. With the droid's redundant systems the only thing of great importance that's removed is the limiter that prevents it from going into a sales pitch during normal operation.

"Ubrikkian Steamworks would like to remind you that the Devastator War Droid is designed to take a licking and keep on ticking. Resistance is futile. If you are a current or former customer we regret that your inevitable destruction by this Ubrikkian Steamworks product will prevent you from making any future purchases from Ubrikkian Steamworks, but we assure you that your surviving family will be notified that the best way to prevent Ubrikkian Steamworks Devastator War Droid inflicted death is to order your own Ubrikkian Steamworks Devastator War Droid to protect you."

NOTE: The Devastator Vaya shot is dead, not just injured. I misremembered the Devastator's HP...

It's Kir Sano's turn.

[Graybacca]

Kir Braces and firs on the damaged droid that's making a sales pitch.



blaster rifle braced autofire Atk (1d20+7)[27]
Dmg (3d8+3)[15] (that's a critical hit so double damage to 30 )

[Ascension]

The sales pitch proves an empty boast as the droid explodes.

Frow's voice suddenly reverberates throughout the room.

"Well, well, well... What do we have here? It's obvious you people were in the high-security wing for a reason. But I can't have you becoming a threat to me. I may have to get... creative."

With a whirring of motors, the doors at the end of the hall begin to slowly close, and gas begins to pour into the room.

"Don'tcha just love a good death trap? I know I do."

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The door will cut the opening at the end of the hall from four to two squares on the guards' initiative. Until then the whole exit is still passable. Frow isn't very good with death traps.

Merrel's turn unless Druid_Lord shows up.

[Graybacca]

((Well in that case, one my turn kir dose this.))

Kir Upon Seeing the door start to close and gas poring in, Kir runs as fast as he can though the closing door way

[Ascension]

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But it was Kir destroying the droid that triggered the event. And he can't brace, fire, and move.

[Graybacca]

((and thats why i put on my next turn this is what he dose)) ((Note to self make sure you spell on right))

[The_Snark]

Merrel

Merrel wastes no time as the gas begins to pour into the room, heading through the closing doorway and past it, to give the others room to follow.

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Double move.

[Ascension]

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It's rather rough and not really to scale, but here's a quick view of the segment of the prison you're in. The whole prison complex is larger, but thanks to Frow's machinations this chunk of it is basically fully isolated at the moment.

She emerges from the main hall (blue) into a room (purple) filled with computer terminals, desks, office chairs and the like. The room is strewn with corpses and each terminal displays nothing more than the name FROW in huge red letters.

Three narrow hallways lead out of the room. Straight ahead Merrel sees the hangar (grey)... but three force fields and a cloud of poison gas stand between her and escape. To her right (dark red) the hallway has partially collapsed, probably due to a Frow-triggered explosion. He must not want anyone to go that way. She realizes that the hallway to her left leads to an office suite (yellow) where, among other things, all new arrivals are processed.

Once everyone is through the door, you'll be out of initiative. I'll also be rolling a new initiative order for the next encounter.