Red Team Cycle 4 @Surrechis Your muse spell provided a way for your group to take action without making a lot of noise. It seemed that muse may not have offensive capability, but it offers many ways to control the battlefield. With that noise cancelling spell, the rest of the plan was carried out smoothly. @Ilusa Nakhalee You used @Roland Rutledge 's timing to toss your spell into the kitchen. Seconds afterward, there was a light explosion that would have blinded everyone in that area had Roland not close the door in time. The pair of cooks and three maids screamed, however, it was thanks to @Surrechis that the noise they made was not heard. @Roland Rutledge Your coordinated attempt to get Ilusa's spell into the kitchen paid off as the kitchen workers were blinded. On cue, you storm into the kitchen and headed right for one of the cooks you saw at the back of the room while they were incapacitated from the magic flash grenade. Given your experience in battle, you easily disarmed your intended target. @Eleanor Loan You follow Roland's lead and went into the room, per the plan you had made with your party; however, a cleaver flew directly toward you. To dodge, you may attempt a short ranged teleport must roll d100 (dodge on a 60+), +5 per mastery tier in Arcanamancy (excluding beginner, and after you round down your magic). You can attempt to dodge and make a major action as usual, however, you spent your minor action on this. If you do not dodge, you can still make a minor action. While the kitchen staff are partially blinded by the flash, they can be subdued or killed easier, but not without giving you some sort of fight. One of the cooks is still armed. The two maids that were chatting away in the corner have their blunt weapon ready as they swung them around violently, intending on keeping their assailants away. Hidden: Combat If you attempt to fight the kitchen staff, it requires at least a partial success to subdue a person. Subtract your HP depending on your roll. Roll at: (Roll) Imprisoned HTML: [dice]d100[/dice] 1-29 [Failure] Your attack fails and you take 10HP damage when your target attacks you back. Costs 12 EN. 30-89 [Partial success] Your attack succeed, but take 5HP damage when your target attacks you back. Costs 8 EN. 90-100 [Success] You subdue or kill up to 2 people at no consequence to you. Costs 4 EN. Modifier: Each mastery tier of combat adds 5 to roll (excluding beginner; also have to cut the magic HP in half), +10 if Mastered. HP and EN damage is based on your ROLL not total after modifiers. Hidden: OOC Notes: @Ilusa Nakhalee loses 5EN. @Surrechis loses 5EN @Eleanor Loan if you dodge or teleport next round, subtract 5EN then. You may roll more than once, one for dodging and the other for attacking. Use 2xd100. Diagram Hidden: Post Template Code: [hp]50[/hp] [en]50[/en] [center][b2]Magically Sapped[/b2] (Debuff) Your magic mastery is halved.[/center] Post here [b1]Action: Here[/b1] roll + mod = result fail partial success success Roll
52 HP MAX HP 42 EN MAX EN Magically Sapped (Debuff) Your magic mastery is halved. Roland slithered into the room after @Ilusa Nakhalee's spell eyeing each opponent wearily. It seemed, for the most part, they had been stunned, and Roland easily overpowered the cook with the cleaver taking his weapon in one hand. For a moment Roland raised the cleaver above his head, before thrusting its hilt downward onto the man's skull with a loud crack and sending him to the floor with a thud. Hoping he didn't cause any permanent damage Roland headed towards the other armed cook, flashing his cleaver before him. Sadly, Roland's skill with the cutlery wasn't the same as if he were wielding a sword, and even he could not prevent the chef's thrust, as his paring knife ran up Roland's forearm. Ignoring the newly formed trail of blood, Roland followed up with his own attack, again with the hilt of the cleaver, this time smashing into the man's temple causing his legs to crumple underneath him. Roland pushed the man away from falling into the counter, as he turned to the battlefield, snarling in a hushed whisper that was threatened to be silenced by @Surrechis, "They are just civilians, no need to kill them if we can avoid it." Action: Here (Roll) Imprisoned Roll: 35+35 = 70
51 HP MAX HP 45 EN MAX EN Magically Sapped (Debuff) Your magic mastery is halved. To stop the spell now would be madness. The battle wasn't over quite yet, and she was sure that there would be even more noise to be made. She winced as as the fighting really started but knew that they had no other options. After the battle, maybe she could even gather a couple of the weapons to distribute when they met up with the others. She just hoped that the fight wouldn't take too long, she had to breath sometime after all. To the best of her ability, she stayed inside of the room while getting out of the way of others. Action: Maintain noise cancelling spell while moving out of the way.
41 HP MAX HP 40 EN MAX EN Magically Sapped (Debuff) Your magic mastery is halved. Entering the kitchen, things seemed to be going quite smoothly. They had not only managed to escape the cell, but plans for the future had potential! As @Roland Rutledge opened the door, @Ilusa Nakhalee throwing some sort of flashbang, she followed close behind as they infiltrated the room in silence, thanks to @Surrechis. They had quite a successful little crew here! Keeping her head down, she listened closely to @Roland Rutledge, as he commented on the topic of casualties. She nodded, her gaze shifting back towards the other chefs. Instead, she was met with a cleaver, sent flipping towards her. The blade no doubt had the ability to greatly damage her, if not kill her on the spot in her weakened, unarmored state. In a panic, she closed her eyes, bringing her hands together in a short range teleportation to a random nearby location. The dodge was successful, as she felt no pain shoot through her, after the teleportation. Though, upon opening her eyes once more, she was met face to face with the chef who had thrown the weapon. Raising her hand to his chest, she attempted a point blank arcane blast, but the moment when the flash should have gone off... She felt a painful twang in the back of her head. Casting two spells in such a short window of time was not going to happen. She had managed the dodge, but attacking was not going to happen. "S-s-shit!" She muttered, stumbling back, the man striking out. Knocking Eleanor back, she was sent crashing onto her rear. At the very least, she hadn't been severed in two by a flying cleaver! Action: Dodge 56 + 20 = 76 (Success) Roll Action: Attack 6 + 20 = 26 (Fail) Roll
50 HP MAX HP 27 EN MAX EN Magically Sapped (Debuff) Your magic mastery is halved. Waiting for the signal, Ilusa wondered about what she saw while she had investigated the wall. A glowing percentage that was tickling down. She had caught the moment it turned lower. Coupled with the blue glow that the walking around mage had caused, it was probable that the whole blue glow on the walls with symbols that was the reason her magic was working so weakly was not permement and actually was getting weaker over the time. If so, it was most amazing news, but also meant that at certain point a mage would come back. Then, she saw the sign and the door was slightly opened. Ilusa threw the white ball, the movement guided for the spell to hit the designated area. As @Roland Rutledge closed the door, she felt her spell go off. Next was time for action. “Keep it up @Surrechis!” Ilusa encouraged the faerin in heated whisper and then followed Roland inside. One of the cooks was subdued already and then the next was by Roland, though t seemed that he had almost hurt @Eleanor Loan. The maids were armed with some sort of blunt instruments and swinging wildly so standing at the rather safe distance, the Countess decided to cast a spell. “Shürnsho roitï-” But it seemed that while the eyes were not doing so well, the ears were and the maid rushed at her. Added with the mention of ‘civilian and not killing, Ilusa had to quickly mid-spell change the spell. Luckily, the first two words were the same so she only had to change the end. “Munpär rëa!” The light shot off from her towards the ceiling. The maid reached her and hit her with the blunt instrument, hitting her arm. Then the light fell down in form of needles, raining onto her, hitting precise points; affecting the acupuncture points they forcefully shut down her system. Letting out a relieved breath, then she noticed that the last maid was still fighting, blindly. “Roland!” She hissed pointing at the woman. Trusting him to take care of it, she then started taking off the woman garments while also looking around for possible tools for Alchemy. ..And checked things to see if there were good things to be put in her inventory. All that food and cooking utensils surely could be useful and there surely was something with which they could then tie them up, keep them silent and stuff them somewhere for no one to find them. Action: Fighting, then looting 34 + 20 = 54 partial success (Roll) Imprisoned @Asch
Red Team Cycle 5 @Roland Rutledge You succeeded in suppressing the cook with the cutlery. For the time being, you can see that the man's health has not hit the death range, thanks to your effort to stop him from smashing his head on the counter. @Eleanor Loan You successfully dodged and attempted to retaliate against the dangerous woman, however, it completely failed. @Ilusa Nakhalee You successfully suppressed your target, evidenced by the maid falling onto the floor unconscious. From what you can see, her health was not zero either. @Surrechis Your spell masked a lot of the ruckus that was caused by the struggle in the kitchen, allowing the group more freedom to act without alerting the entire compound. The three remaining kitchen staff were unarmed by this time, but seeing Roland going out of his way to stop the cook from dying, and also Ilusa merely rendering her target unconscious, they looked at one another and quickly threw their hands in the air. One of the maids said, "Wait, please, don't hurt us, we surrender. We just work the kitchen, we won't get in your way." The cook who saw @Ilusa Nakhalee hastily disrobing the maid realized what your party wanted and quickly peeled his cook outfit off his pudgy and sweaty body and threw it in front of him before he moved back against the wall. "You wanted our clothes right? Have at it. Just, uh, be on your way." The last maid followed suit in disrobing and slowly approached Ilusa before he extended her arm and handed her clothes over to the feline. "Just put us in a sleeping spell or something, nobody has to get hurt because of trust issues, okay? I have an old mother back at home and she needs me to take care of her, I really can't afford to get into troubles with the guards," she said. If you investigated the kitchen, there were nothing else of note other than a set of knives and other cooking utensils. Around the kitchen were all kinds of ingredients that these people have been working on. Some of the dishes appeared to be done, such as the apple roasted whole pig, however, others were still half-finished like chowder, soup, and bread, which needed a bit more time. On the wall, you can see a schedule of sort. There appears to be two big rooms in this area of the compound, the western garrison and the eastern garrison. Apparently, the eastern garrison has been checked off, which meant that you saw one of the cooks delivering food to the eastern garrison earlier, which was just down the hall. What will you do? Hidden: OOC Notes: None Hidden: Post Template Code: [hp]50[/hp] [en]50[/en] [center][b2]Magically Sapped[/b2] (Debuff) Your magic mastery is halved.[/center] Post here [b1]Action: Here[/b1]
51 HP MAX HP 45 EN MAX EN Magically Sapped (Debuff) Your magic mastery is halved. Seeing that the fight was over, Surrechis stopped her singing and took a few deep, ragged breaths. The cooks and maids had fortunately surrendered, saving them from further fighting and potential unfortunate accidents. Recalling the reason for their assault on the kitchen in the first place, she looked towards her group and said, "I suppose we are going to wear the outfits to disguise ourselves? If so, we will need to be more convincing. A group of kitchen staff walking around, not carrying any food would be very suspicious." After she had finished speaking, two horrible things dawned on Surrechis. First off, she would need to try and find a way to make one of the ill fitted clothes work on her. Recalling the last time she had tried to wear a disguise... she wasn't feeling very confident on that matter. Second, since she was the one who needed her hands the least to be useful due to her singing spells, she had a sinking feeling on who would be carrying one of the few finished dishes. Suddenly the pig looked like a titan, a sword dangling over her head, ready to crush her if she slipped up. She wasn't sure if she would be able to see if she was carrying the thing, hopefully her group would be kind enough to lead her. Action: Put the rest of the kitchen staff to sleep with Muse, try to wear one of the maid's outfits then carry the roasted pig on a plate and follow wherever the group goes next.
Special Event @Surrechis The kitchen staff immediately slumped over when you played your song. Once the large cook was sprawled out on the floor, you noticed a very faint outline of a secret door behind him. You may investigate the door as a minor action. When the maids collapsed, a small map behind her was revealed.
52 HP MAX HP 42 EN MAX EN Magically Sapped (Debuff) Your magic mastery is halved. Roland let out a relieved breath when the last of the civilians surrendered. @Surrechis's tune causing them to slump over in a deep slumber. "Good," Roland said, "That could have been much worse." Without waiting any longer Roland disrobed himself, before stealing the sweaty clothes off one of the chefs. It stunk more than Roland would have liked but it was better than nothing. With his outfit affixed, he took a second knife, stashing it in his belt before turning his attention to the small map the maid had revealed. "Hmm," he said out loud as he gazed upon it, "This is virtually worthless until we get a better idea of where we are at." Of course, Roland wasn't always the best at reading maps, to begin with. Instead, he tried to formulate the next portion of their plan, clicking his tongue in thought. "We should have moved them to the cell before they passed out... It's going to be a pain to drag them now...." Without waiting, for a response, Roland went to pick up one of the chefs before second-guessing himself. "I don't think to move them is going to be worth the energy, I'm already exhausted... I saw you guys grab what you need, and we try our best to sneak out of here..." Roland glanced back at the map, "If anyone can make sense of that, let me know, and I'll lead the way..." He then waited for the other two to decide on their next course of action. Action: Roland puts on chef disguise, and equips two knives
41 HP MAX HP 40 EN MAX EN Magically Sapped (Debuff) Your magic mastery is halved. Under regular circumstances, disrobing in front of the near strangers among her would have been a subject if discomfort, though these circumstances were anything but regular. Swiftly, she went to swapping out her clothes with one of the two cook's. At the very least, she favored their clothing over the maid's, even if it was quite baggy on her thin frame. As she draped her rags over the naked body of the cook she had harvested her clothes from, a dark thought entered her mind. These, after all, were the people who placed food into the belly of the beast that had attacked her and her allies. She remembered the player who stood, only to have his throat impaled by a crossbow bolt. She remembered the knife in her palm, slowly spinning. A soldier, healing her wound, only to have it reopened. Gritting her teeth, with her eyes locked upon the unconscious cook, Eleanor resisted. To think, she was considering killing them... Perhaps she was changing. "A map?" Moving towards it, and taking up the small map, Eleanor began examining it. With a hand on either side, she twisted it scour it's surface from different perspectives. Shrugging her shoulders, she looked up at @Roland Rutledge and the others. "I'm not sure what use this is to us now, but we should probably take it along." Action: Swaps clothes with one of the cooks, before gathering up the small map and trying to examine it.
50 HP MAX HP 27 EN MAX EN Magically Sapped (Debuff) Your magic mastery is halved. It seemed that thanks to listening to @Roland Rutledge's words their situation improved. The enemies gave up, quite easily and Ilusa felt a relief at that, mainly because her energy was starting to be depleted faster than it could replenish; or rather not replenish at all because of the rags she wore. Before she could do anything else though, @Surrechis jumped the gun and actually cast a spell, which sounded very melodious and sweet, put everyone else to sleep. The sounds of slumping forms had her look up from the maid she was dealing with (or rather her clothes) and looked at everyone slumping… And noticing an outline of doors behind the man who spoke. First though, she decided to change into the maid clothes. Not worried about nudity and the likes, as this was a game, she quickly changed into the new clothes, wincing a little as the clothes had no hole for her tail. It felt uncomfortable. After moment of hesitation she also took the odd hair-dress part and put it on, over her ears hiding them. It would be best to hide the fact that she was a felis. That done, she put on her clothes onto the unconscious woman. She stood up and looked around, opened her inventory and threw into it various foods more or less prepared, also the raw ingredients and something that might have been a cooking utensil. Others also changed and someone even found a map. After that, she walked toward the slumped man and investigated the door behind him, her eyes glowing silver again, calling the attention towards it of the rest of them. “Still someone should keep the map on themselves.” “My energy is running low.” She also informed them glancing around at their health bars. “Now then, which way are we going? When the guard will be moving again?” Action: Took some ingredients, food and drinks into inventory. Changed into maid clothes. Using investigation mode to check the outline of the doors. @Eleanor Loan @Asch
Red Team Cycle 6 @Roland Rutledge You successfully put on the cook's stinky clothes and equip the two dull cleavers, which did not come with pointed tips. @Eleanor Loan You now have a map of what appears to be a different wing than the general area your party is currently in. @Ilusa Nakhalee Your investigation mode revealed that the door seemed to be defunct and built rather terribly. It supposedly leads into a much bigger, from the noise you were able to detect with your improved Felis hearing. What was that sound? The cracking of whip and screams? You weren't 100% certain. Hidden: OOC Notes: @Roland Rutledge gains 2 butcher cleavers. @Eleanor Loan gains a map of a prison's wing. @Ilusa Nakhalee loses 2 EN for Investigation mode. @Surrechis loses 10 EN for her spell use. Cycle 6+ In order to help red team catch up, we will now be doing a non-live, but real-time DM style where you can relay to me your action over direct message on Discord. I will relay all of the information your character know, including what your team members are doing here. If there are any dice rolling, we'll be rolling over discord as well!
Red Team Cycle 7 @Ilusa Nakhalee shared what she heard with others and ask if the party shouldn't investigate those sounds! After looking at the door, Ilusa decided to attempts to further investigate it. As the name suggests, the door outline is simply outline, there was no knob and no handle for her to open it with, but, she was able to wedge her nails into the crack to get it to open... and it did! Behind the door was dirt, loose dirt that likely has been left behind by lazy workers who constructed the prison. They must have put the dirty in as a way to fill in the hallway between the kitchen and the torture room. It was likely a way to re-purpose and old room. The party can tell this was the case from the outline of a small hallway that the dirt was packed into. Ilusa proposes that they check it out because what if one of the player's is there? Plus she feels pretty confident with Roland there... So she proposes that and gets a pan to shovel the dirt away. @Roland Rutledge "If you're hearing sounds of torture, I get that you want to save them as soon as possible, but digging through that...wall of dirt in our current condition... I don't know if that's a good idea. Elenor, you found a map right? Can't we figure out how to get there on foot?" @Eleanor Loan "Torture... Ehm, well. I'll see if I can figure something out." She appeared to be worried about friends possibly in trouble, like Claire, Kyupin, and others. After her episode, she took the map out of her inventory and compared it to the party’s general placement. It would seem that the map she pocketed belonged to another area of the prison, because it did not match the hallway arrangement she saw earlier. Given her insight and information gained from @Ilusa Elenor believe that beyond the blocked hallway is where the upper part of the upside down C is. Also from the fact that there was the sound of torture coming from there, it was safe to assume that that was the torture chamber. She informed the group about her theory, that the dirt-filled hallway in the upper right corner of the room is connected to the torture chamber on the map she took. @Roland Rutledge "Ok, then our best bet is to go through the ugly way..." Roland sighed and fetched pan and spatula and begin to dig with Ilusa. @Eleanor Loan "Let's try to move quickly, if we can." Attempts to clear away the dirt with her hands, probably not doing much, moving to crawl through when the opportunity arises. @Surrechis used her muse to empower her party, allowing them to work through the blocked hallway more quickly. And so, the party somehow managed to clear the way within 30 minutes, forgetting about the guard that would make his way around the prison. Fortunately, no one actually came, considering the fact that the alarm would have been raised if he had seen the empty cell… Once the dirt piles up outside the secret door, the party found a door similar to the one they came in. It was possible to steal glances at the adjacent chamber, though, not a lot of detail could be made out. It would take a rather strong force to get through. Standing within the hallway allowed the party to listen to the conversation that was happening, a man was groaning and kept on throwing insults at the guard torturing him. The party could not tell if it was Astor’s voice or not, but the violence was escalating, eliciting horrendous scream from whatever torture the guard was performing. Hidden: OOC Roland 52 HP MAX HP 35 EN MAX EN Magically Sapped (Debuff) Your magic mastery is halved. Ilusa 50 HP MAX HP 20 EN MAX EN Magically Sapped (Debuff) Your magic mastery is halved. Surrechis 51 HP MAX HP 30 EN MAX EN Magically Sapped (Debuff) Your magic mastery is halved. Eleanor 41 HP MAX HP 30 EN MAX EN Magically Sapped (Debuff) Your magic mastery is halved.
@Roland Rutledge "I'll take the lead, Im not sure how much damage I can do with these knives, but I should be able to at least parry one or two attacks with them..." Roland whispered after he gave the group a nod. Then, without waiting for a single reply he stormed to the door, lowering his shoulder and tried to forcefully plow through it. @Surrechis noticed Roland's attempt and changed her song, using Muse to empower Roland's charge so he can bust the door down. The buff was super effective (107) and Roland sent the door flying like a raging beast, taking the door and the frame down, breaking through the shoddily constructed wall that merely hid the door on the other side. Warning: 18+Skip this section if you cannot handle gore. If any of the party member came into the chamber, they would see that the chamber was in fact a torture chamber with a wide range of heavy equipment lying about. These sturdy contraptions were obviously made to extract information from prisoners or just for making them wish they had off themselves instead of being captured. On the other side of the room, the party spotted a torturer who wore a black executioner mask and was topless. Next to the torturer, against the far side from the room was Astor weakly hanging off a wooden X. His health flickered around 15%. Right off the bat, the party would immediately notice that nearly every limb on the blond's body was twisted, bent out of place. It continued. Every nail on his swollen digits has been plied off. Every inch of his body was discolored, painted in black and blue. The torturer saved the iron branding for Astor's face, however, which was likely caused due to Astor's usual insults about looks and all that. Peculiarly, the party noticed that his left eye, which was closed, looked rather deflated as dried blood caked his cheek. Anyone could imagined they popped it like a over-ripened grape and enjoyed the sensation of the optical slime between their fingers that came after the rupture. Regardless, Astor was unresponsive, existing only in a husk-like form with blood dribbling down his mouth, which hung slightly ajar. It would be one thing if Astor's psyche broke and he was forcefully evicted from the game after his virtual body died, but alas, he remained, suffering through each and every one of the torturer's attempt to turn his body into a grotesque piece of art; reducing a king to a object to be displayed and studied in a museum related to medieval torture in about 300 years. When the torture regained his wits, he immediately freaked out and screamed for reinforcement when he saw Roland bursting through the wall. "HEY HELP, HELP, PRISONERS HAVE ESCAPED GET IN HERE NOW, NOW!!!" Three guards immediately entered the room and reached for their swords, all of them had ringed eyes. Hidden: OOC Everyone have one post to respond to this story development. No word limit.
