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Session 13 Transcript

 Session Start (youzhao): Sat May 28 21:17:54 2005
 *** Jason has joined the chat.
 Jason: where's J?
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 6 10-sided dice:  8 8 2 4 6 8
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice10
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 10 10-sided dice:  4 2 2 5 7 1 7 5 5 2
 Justin: :(
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 8 10-sided dice:  1 7 8 10 9 9 4 1
 Jason: me like these dice
 Justin: ;_;
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice10
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 10 10-sided dice:  9 3 9 2 8 6 6 9 7 10
 Justin: much better
 *** Jay has joined the chat.
 Dan: There we go.
 Justin: *queues up the YOU ZHAO theme song*
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 1 10-sided die:  5
 Dan: Whoooh! No Paradox!
 Jay: heh
 Justin: I dunno what's scarier:
 Justin: my dad playing Willie Nelson
 Justin: or me knowing the song
 Jason: so are you going to roll your own dice and use the virtual web as your ST screen?
 Dan: No one is even curious who didn't get Paradox. :-(
 Jay: They are equal in the scary department
 Jay: ME!
 Jason: who?
 Jason: who
 Justin: I know it wasn't me
 Jason: ic
 Justin: or it would've been like three successes on one die
 Dan: What is Wu-Go doing about a week after the HQ gets hit?
 Jason: was it me from talking to the spiders?
 Justin: dan would have rolled an 11
 Justin: or a 10, and spent a willpower
 Jason: that reminds me of Spinal Tap
 Justin: our dice go to eleven.
 Jay: Wu-Go would probably have gone looking for answers in the loom and tried to find some info on the guy through his few contacts in heaven I suppose
 Jason: so what is the You-Zhao theme song?
 Justin: I think it was the Escaflowne theme song in a funny hat
 Dan: There is a buzzing inside his robes.
 Dan: Almost as though Wu-Go had a cell phone.
 Justin: or a pager!
 Justin: what a gigolo
 Dan: But wait -- there are no cell phones in Yu-Shan!
 Jason: I would be asking the pattern spiders and use my spies to locate this mug
 Jay: *Stops and stares at the buzzing and reaches under the robes to search out the pest* 
 Jay: (There is a college with something nifty like one)
 Dan: It is a torn strip of fine silk.
 Jason: you would know that
 Jay: *Reads it most curious. * 
 Dan: It appears to be a letter from Izumi.
 Jason: hold on getting pizza from door
 Jay: (heh, I think I'm the only veteran online RPer)
 Jay: She's the missing kid right?)
 Dan: (he, and yeah ~_~)
 Justin: (yeah, yeah, you and your "out-of-character" parenthetics)
 Jay: (Like I know :P)
 Jason: back
 Jay: *Reads it while heading back to the others* 
 Justin: (Izumi sneezes.)
 Justin: (and feels vaguely insulted.)
 Justin: (the kitten has declared a cute little fuzzy jihad against the keyboard, so if I type anything really strange I blame it on her)
 Dan: "...not sure where we are.  Not sure what they'll do with us.  Some kind of ward keeping Ms. Obol from leaving."
 Dan: Per + Awareness for Wu-Go
 Jay: harperus rolled 6 10-sided dice:  4 2 3 9 8 2
 Jay: roll-sides10-dice6
 Jay: hmm how does that work?
 Jason: "//roll-sides10-dice#" J
 Jay: harperus rolled 6 10-sided dice:  6 8 7 3 4 6
 Dan: The "ink" flakes off the silk at your touch - it's probably blood.
 Justin: (fucking psycho kid.)
 Jay: (I think the di roller hates me. //roll-sides10-dice6 is what I put and nothing happens. )
 Justin: (we're seeing you roll dice if it makes you feel any better.)
 Dan: (you rolled it once...)
 Justin: (you rolled two successes on the first and two on the second.)
 Jason: (maybe it does...maybe it does)
 Jay: ((ahh wierd so I can't see my suxxesses then, right))
 Dan: So.
 Jay: *Takes it to the conventions HQ, careful not to ruin it further* Guess what I got? Nice little letter from Izumi. 
 Jason: what a good child to write home...does he say where he is?
 Justin: ((I imagine Havoc's off in his dojo, for whomever cares. ^^))
 *** Jay has left the chat.
 *** Jay has been invited to the group chat.
 Jason: probably
 *** Jay has joined the chat.
 Jay: Sadly no, but it seems to be writtin in blood so he can't be all that bad off *Giving a slight grin.*
 Jason: he is resourceful
 Jason: (so did I get any word from the Pattern Spiders or what?)
 Dan: Nope! They're being pretty useless.
 Jay: Should I send him a reply or wait do you think? Wheres Havoc and Traveler? 
 Dan: However... both roll Int + Bureaucracy
 Jason: (as usual)
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 5 10-sided dice:  5 2 3 2 10
 Jay: harperus rolled 5 10-sided dice:  5 7 8 6 1
 Dan: All Astrology is receipted and stored in the Forbidding Manse's records.
 Jason: (and Izumi did a Astrology?)
 Dan: Wu-Go would recognize the effect as Superior-Entreating Memorial Style, a resplendent effect of the Rising Smoke.
 Jason: check out the records then
 Jay: I'm going to send him a reply in the mean time
 Jason: probably good idea
 Dan: You can write on the letter in green ink and send it back free of charge.
 Justin: "Return To Sender"
 Justin: ((*cough*))
 Jay: *Which he does, something short and sweet* "Problem is being worked on. Not much longer, promiss. "
 Dan: So.  The problem is being worked on....
 Jay: *Waits for Hino to do is thing*
 Jason: I check the records
 Dan: Int + Investigation.
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 8 10-sided dice:  9 6 9 3 1 9 8 4
 Jay:  *Wu-Go also ops to send for Havoc incase something turns up in their favor*
 Dan: Searching through the miles of dusty shelves, you find the slip amidst the few other Astrological petitions he's filed.
 Jason: does it have location of Orgin?
 Dan: It's a very sparse petition, with neither cosignatures nor countersignatures.
 Dan: It gives you something to go on.
 Dan: Also, it's something specific to look up with the pattern spiders.
 Jason: i would believe it...any useful information though
 Jason: I guess I'll check with the spiders and see if they can actually help this time
 Dan: It has the "name" of the pattern spider that filed it.
 Jason: crazy....I will track down the pattern spider to talk to it
 Dan: It is probably on duty at the Loom.
 Dan: Your Efficient Secretary could probably look up its location for you.
 Jason: aren't they always...I will check the loom
 Jason: I'll summon him then and ask for the location
 Dan: He vanishes and reappears a moment later.  You translate his chittering to mean that he is, in fact, at the Loom.
 Jason: okay then, I head on over
 Justin: Havoc shows up at HQ a bit after getting the message from Wu-Go.
 Jay: So, Izumi sent me a message a little while ago, written in blood. Lovely no? Hino's off at the Forbidding Mans's records to see if he can find where it came from. 
 Jay: With luck, soon we'll have a place we can look around and maybe find those two. *Showing Havoc a copied version of Izumi's words.* 
 Jason: I ask around on the loom for the Fat One
 Dan: T_T
 Dan: The pattern spider is not G0-T0!
 Dan: You're directed to the shift manager for the college of the Rising Smoke.
 Jason: I look for AUTO_CH_THON
 Dan: He in turn leaps off of the balcony and runs up along a thread to fetch his subordinate.
 Dan: All spider-ish, obviously.
 Jason: okay
 Justin: (( ^_^ ))
 Jason: i stand and wait
 Dan: A diminutive pattern spider lands on the railing and chitters at you.
 Justin: Havoc nods at the update, having nothing terribly informed to say on the matter.
 Dan: << what do you need, Exalt? >>
 Jason: I wish for the location that request "insert correct number" originated from
 Dan: It thinks for a few moments.
 Dan: It chitters a set of coordinates.
 Dan: Essentially longitude and lattitude.
 Dan: << I remember.  It was in Creation, but not.  Unusual. >>
 Dan: << Is that all, Exalt? >>
 Jason: write it down on Ninja (said in cool way) notebook
 Dan: ~_~
 Jason: a sanctum?
 Dan: << No.  As I said, in Creation.  Or at least... within it. Material.  Real.  Alien. >>
 Dan: It sounds impatient.
 Dan: << Must I repeat myself further, Exalt?  The Loom does not weave itself. >>
 Jason: alright, thank you for your time....
 Jason: head back to HQ
 Dan: It leaps/floats back to the loom and climbs back into it.
 Jason: I fly a cloud back to the gate and use it to return to HQ
 Dan: *nods*
 Justin: I imagine Havoc and Wu-Go are waiting for you in whatever's left of the ... room ... we ... chill ... in.
 Jason: Find Havoc and WuGo, "Have the location....where's traveler?"
 Dan: The rubble has been cleared from HQ and the bodies removed.  It's depressingly quiet, as most of the personnel vacancies haven't been filled.
 Jay: *Sitting behind a desk with his feet proped on it. Sipping on something, waiting* About time you get back, thought you got lost.
 Justin: Havoc leans against a wall nearby.
 Jason: the employee lounge
 Dan: Eh?
 Jason: "You talk to pattern spiders and get back quickly....I have a headache"
 Justin: "Traveler is off doing whatever it is he does when he doesn't see fit to perform his duties."
 Jay: They arn't that bad. Quick and to the point is all they want I'm sure. They are rather busy. So what you find out?
 Jason: sit down on half busted chair casually
 Dan: Hino thinks he hears a faint, friendly blandishment from the vicinity of your head, but isn't sure.
 Dan: his head, rather
 Jay: So he's in a closet with a pole of jade and some .....never mind
 Jason: "Not again"
 Jason: Goes to desk and finds medicine for head, and comes back
 Justin: "You said you had a location?"
 Jay: Maybe some tea would clear your head? Try a massage? I'm sure traveler could offer you one. We'll just blind fold him and tell him a thing or two. You'll love it.
 Jason: take out ninja notebook and say coordinates, "Something unusual about it as well, the spider was most unuseful on that part"
 Justin: Havoc glances in Wu-Go's direction. "What, you want to go looking for him?"
 Jason: "I felt if I questioned it more, be would do something to my thread, those things are tempramental"
 Jay: Hey, just trying to help Hino out a bit. *Smileing ever so slightly* Besides, we'll get this done faster without him I'm afraid. He's not exactly fit for this project. 
 Justin: "Is he fit for *any* project?"
 Dan: Owwww
 Justin: Havoc might be joking, but he probably isn't.
 Jason: "we aren't trying to seduce the guy, true"
 Jay: *Wu-go's about to say something, then thinks better on that. Seems to actauly try to come up with something then shrugs* I'll get back to you on that. 
 Jason: "Fair enough, though how are we going to get there.....we can't fly hte airship?"
 Jason: (we is the coordinates for anyways?)
 Dan: They're a location far in the North.
 Dan: Near the Pole of Air.
 Jason: "Guess we'll have to take a gate"
 Jason: "Let's get going then"
 Justin: Havoc will leave the armor with Gyaku before heading out.
 Jay: *Wu-Go gets up, finishes his drink and heads out. *
 Dan: Gyaku expresses a wish to come along.
 Dan: And pushes his glasses up his snout.
 Justin: Havoc raises an eyebrow at him.
 Jason: "why not"
 Justin: "If you wish," he shrugs.
 Jay: *Gives a slight tilt of his had* I don't see any reason not to have him along. 
 Dan: ...strangely enough, so does Minako.
 Dan: Who overhears you talking with Gyaku.
 Jason: raises eyebrow at her
 Justin: Havoc nods his assent.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 2 10-sided dice:  7 7
 Dan: Whooh!
 Justin: o_o
 Dan: She steels her resolve.
 Justin: ((*ahem* o_o))
 Jason: "interesting"
 Jay: Well, come along then. 
 Dan: "I know I haven't learned how to fight very well, but... at least my anima can help you, right?"
 Jason: "true"
 Dan: Gyaku excuses himself to get ready.
 Justin: Havoc goes off to change out of the armor
 Jason: "let's go then, everyone meet up at the gate"
 Jason: Hino always ready, heads to gate and sits, waiting for the others to arrive
 Jay: *Heads off to the gate at his normal easy pace. Once there he goes over his PTR's and then sits down. Fanning himself with his hat* 
 Dan: Going to grab anyone else before you go?
 Jason: Hino sharpens blades
 Jason: (Not unless they ask to come)
 Jay: (No reason to drag people to their deaths this time. Its going to have to be something they are willing to risk. Least to Wu Go)
 Justin: Havoc shows up next in his robes, looking as severe as ever
 Jason: (If say the serentity blabs to the other students while getting ready)
 Dan: She's quieter than usual.
 Dan: Easton isn't around, but you're pretty sure he'd want to come.
 Jason: (true, but could be backup in case of others then just the big baddy)
 Dan: ...for, strangely enough, the opposite reason than Minako.
 Jay: *Looks to the girl, PTR in hand* Are you sure you want to come?
 Justin: (( Well, if his Battles Senses start tingling I'm sure he'll come running. ))
 Jason: "You ready"
 Dan: "Y-yes, Master Wu-Go..."
 Jason: "You do know the charm defense of shining joy correct"
 Dan: "Yes, Master."
 Jason: "Good, make sure you use it"
 Jay: "May I ask you why then? You do know this guy's a troublesome sort. Might not be comming back. "Said smilng with his head tilted down, his hat covering his eyes*
 Justin: Havoc snorts.
 Dan: "I... I know.  It's just... If there's anything I can do to help Izumi and Koku, I have to!  Even if it's just a little!"
 Dan: She has that "arguing will be useless" look the young ladies get.
 Jason: "Well so be it, where is Gyaku?"
 Dan: Like the devil, Gyaku shows up at the sound of his name.
 Dan: He's wearing a gleaming black suit of armor, and has a massive armored gauntlet on one arm.
 Jason: "Finally, lets go" and Hino steps through the gate
 Dan: "Ready to go, sirs?"
 Dan: He pushes up his glasses.
 Jason: Hino is already through the gate
 Justin: Havoc's through
 Jay: *Waits to be the last through. *
 Dan: Unless otherwise noted, Gyaku and Minako will be following you guys along.
 Jason: So we take the yellow lane to the out gate
 Jason: since we all can't take the clouds
 Jason: do we get out of Yu-Shan without incident
 Dan: ...we'll assume that you guys grabbed appropriate papers from Nuran...
 Jason: of course
 Dan: ...and rocket through Yu-Shan at insanely high speeds.
 Dan: The gates are actually relatively close, although thousands of leagues away in Creation.
 Dan: You exit into cool, crisp air. (think air conditioning)
 Dan: The room is manned by two lion dogs who bow solemnly as you enter and ask for your papers.
 Jason: I immediatly put arms around bodyand shake a little
 Dan: Uh-oh.
 Jay: *Hands over the papers, giving a nod to the creatures* 
 Jason: "why can't we have to go to the South, why always the North?"
 Jay: Because fate hates you Hino.
 Dan: The room is dominated by huge picture windows that show a snow-encrusted city stretching outwards, and beyond it tundra as far as the eye can see.
 Dan: You realize the cool air is being heated.
 Dan: Gyaku looks almost as uncomfortable as Hino, for what it's worth.
 Justin: Havoc asks the shivering ninja how far they are from their destination.
 Jason: (how far are we?)
 Dan: One of the lion dogs directs you to take fur-lined boots and thick parkas before you leave.
 Dan: (about 25 miles)
 Jay: Come on Hino, can't freeze yet. Besides, a ninja with his knees chattering together is gonna be little to no use for us. 
 Dan: Minako giggles nervously.
 Jay: *looks over at minako, tilting his head slightly* 
 Jason: Glaring, Hino takes the boots and parka, his ninja pajamas turn from black to white, "To the north 25 miles."
 Justin: Havoc takes the clothing and wordlessly puts it on over what he's wearing.
 Jay: See, fired up a bit. Better? 
 Jason: (is the gate in a city or in the tundra?"
 Dan: The lion dog that checked your papers pads over and sits down, joints scraping stonily.
 Dan: "I recommend renting a yeddim.  Look outside the north gates."
 Jason: exit the room
 Jay: *Gets dressed also. Following who ever seems to want to lead this time around* 
 Dan: Minako thanks him, pats him on the head, and follows you out.
 Dan: Havoc turns around and has a moment of mild terror when he sees Gyaku.
 Dan: The huge, fur-covered form stirs up memories... but they retreat as he grasps at them.
 Justin: !
 Dan: ^_^
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 2 10-sided dice:  8 6
 Jason: Guess we head through the streets to the North Gate
 Dan: Half an hour later, the five of you are riding in style aboard a rented yeddim.
 Dan: Specifically, in a leathery howdah-like structure mounted on its back.
 Justin: "This," Havoc says with a distasteful expression on his face, "is why we keep Traveler around."
 Dan: "Rrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm," says the yeddim.
 Jason: to the North!
 Jay: *Grinning he can't help it * I'm gonna have to let him know he was praised. 
 Jason: "Yep"
 Dan: *idly wonders how fast a yeddim would take you*
 Dan: *counts on fingers*
 Jason: Hino huddles in corner with the parka covering him
 Dan: It probably takes you guys 2-3 hours to reach your destination, but it's obvious some time before then.
 Justin: ?
 Dan: It's in the foothills of mountain range bordering the snowswept plains you've been traveling over.
 Dan: Steep, jagged, and forbidding.
 Dan: As you get close, the question comes up...
 Dan: ...where exactly should you be going?
 Jason: Of course, its the freakin North
 Jason: how precise are the coordinates?
 Justin: I activate my Battles Senses.
 Dan: Precise.  How precise is Hino's GPS?
 Jay: (Thinks Hino might need new batteries)
 Dan: Havoc knows.
 Jason: (no i don't, do i?)
 Jason: I spend a mote
 Dan: The call of battle floats down the slopes...
 Dan: Bah!
 Jason: Secret Senses
 Dan: Anyone else want to chip in? ~_~
 Jay: *hes afraid to his his endings senses...but does so any how*
 Dan: You guys get the mental equivalent of a yellow arrow indicating your objective.
 Jason: fine I won't then
 Dan: No, it's fine. :-)
 Jason: we go there then
 Dan: You each feel a tug, and know each step you need to take.
 Jason: i have the yeddim step with fate
 Dan: You wind up among boulders and sharp icy projections...
 Dan: ...step with fate?
 Dan: ...and find yourselves at the mouth of a cavern.
 Jason: I jump down and meld with the shadows of the cavern
 Justin: I parry it before it eats us.
 Jay: BOOM!
 Dan: The wind howls around you, and there is a cliff not to far behind you.
 Dan: (the path to the cave is still wide enough for the yeddim, but you will have to leave him at the cave entrance)
 Jay: *Watches the scenory * Rather lovely I think. Lots of whtie but the rocks giving contrast...nice. 
 Jason: don't want him to go in anyway, could get messy
 Dan: "Mmmrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmm," agrees the yeddim.
 Justin: Havoc strides heedlessly into the cavern.
 Jason: I slide along the shadows a step behind hiom
 Dan: Minako tries her best to be sneaky as well.
 Dan: Everyone trying to be stealthy, roll it! Manipulation + Stealth
 Justin: I laugh at your "stealth!"
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  5 10 3 3
 Jay: *Wu-Go just follows not bothering with the stealth. Besides someone has to be the target* 
 Jason: spend 3 motes so my diff is now 4
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 10 10-sided dice:  7 1 4 5 6 8 8 10 5 7
 Dan: Hino is stealthier than Minako.
 Jason: actually I will have my form up so
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 15 10-sided dice:  3 10 3 5 2 7 10 2 8 9 3 4 6 2 5
 Dan: -_-()
 Dan: You guys travel down the cave until the light from the entrance grows dim... and the floor flattens out.
 Dan: Literally.
 Dan: You find yourselves in a clearly artificial passageway.
 Justin: Havoc watches out for acid jets.
 Dan: -_-()
 Justin: ^^
 Dan: You don't have to go too much farther before the passageway opens on a huge inner chamber.
 Dan: Do any of you have Craft (Architecture) or is that a dumb question?
 Justin: T_T
 Dan: Int + Occult, then
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice5
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 5 10-sided dice:  3 7 9 2 10
 Jason: who would waste exp on that?
 Dan: If you want to make manses...
 Jay: harperus rolled 6 10-sided dice:  1 9 1 4 3 6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  2 1 5 6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  7 8 6 10 3 7 6 2 9
 Dan: Gyaku gets 6 success. Minako botches.
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 6 10-sided dice:  3 10 2 7 6 3
 Dan: Havoc, Gyaku, and Hino immediately recognize it as the interior of a manse.
 Dan: Wu-Go recognizes it as a First Age construction.
 Dan: (not that that's saying much right now)
 Dan: It's a vast open area, shaped like a pyramid with the top sliced off (kinda trapezoidal cross section, y'know?)...
 Justin: What's in it?
 Dan: ...ramps and walkways entirely made of ice criss-cross in front and above, anchored to vast stone support pillars.
 Justin: Oh.
 Jason: air manse, no doubt
 Dan: There appears to be an inner structure in the center.
 Justin: or a very cold water manse.
 Dan: That howling wind I mentioned before?
 Justin: Ah, yes.
 Dan: Within the chamber, it coalesces into a melody
 Dan: A meandering, never-ending, improvised song.
 Jason: that's pretty cool
 Dan: Light filters in from above, through ice-filled shafts.
 Dan: And a familiar figure is slouching on top of the inner structure, gnawing on a leg of meat.
 Jay: You know, I almost wouldn't mind a place like this. 
 Jason: way too cold
 Jason: mr monster?
 Justin: Havoc waits for the figure to notice them.
 Dan: You can all see your breath, and your clothes are frosting over.
 Dan: Mr. Monster indeed.
 Justin: Havoc'll go ahead and activate DoSJ
 Justin: on general principle
 Jay: *Watches Havoc, removing his PTRs*
 Dan: "Should I use my anima?" Minako whispers nervously.
 Jason: Hino mutters about the cold
 Jason: fromteh shadows a cold whispers answers yes
 Justin: and then Havoc'll activate his anima power.
 Justin: just to get the point across.
 Jason: I'll activate DoSJ and Shadow Style at this point
 Dan: Despite being a good 50 yards or so away, at least, his chewing slows and stops.
 Jason: for the DoSJ //roll-sides10-dice
 Jay: *Waits to activate anything. * 
 Dan: He tosses the leg aside and stands up.
 Justin: VBoS Form
 Jason: blah nm
 Jason: I'm going to steal his DEX + MA now
 Dan: Minako activates Optimistic Security Practice and Defense of Shining Joy.
 Dan: Okay.  Did you steal his Dex + MA last session?
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 9 10-sided dice:  10 6 2 10 4 8 6 1 6
 Jason: I steal 5 of them
 Dan: I'm just letting you know, if you did, then you would have noticed that it had no apparent effect.
 Jason: yes
 Jason: oh
 Dan: ^_^
 Jason: then I steal from his DEX+BRAWL
 Dan: Okay!
 Dan: Remember to commit the motes.
 Jay: *Activates 4 magical mat form
 Justin: Joy in Adversity
 Dan: 2m each for 10 motes, right?
 Jason: Yeah I know
 Jason: yeah
 Dan: You guys are too far away to get in striking distance this turn, I believe...
 Jay: How far?
 Dan: You guys are somewhat above him, with an icy bridge extending in front of you.
 Dan: About 10 yards up and 60 yards away
 Justin: so Havoc's already spent all his peripheral
 Jay: Wu-Go only needs to be within 25 yards of the guy)
 Justin: I think
 Jason: your glowing!
 Dan: All his peripheral?!
 Dan: Roll initiative...
 Jason: how many auto successes do we get from the Serenity's banner?
 Dan: Once she activates it, 3
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 1 10-sided die:  8
 Justin: no, okay
 Justin: just 26 of it
 Jay: *Activates his anima banner, yay extra damage*
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 3 10-sided dice:  9 10 2
 Jay: harperus rolled 1 10-sided die:  2
 Jason: 22
 Justin: 34
 Jay: (hmm what did i get with that roll?  I toggled that online thing and it still doesn't show
 Jason: 2
 Jay: damn 15
 Dan: Havoc wins initiative, surprisingly enough.
 Justin: ;-)
 Dan: What's the range on the threads?
 Justin: Ess x 10
 Dan: o_O
 Justin: so I can't reach him, in any case
 Justin: actually...
 Dan: What do you mean you can't reach him?
 Dan: What's your movement speed?
 Justin: Ah, yes.
 Justin: Quite a bit, then.
 Justin: I think I'll activate Dance of the Hungry Spider instead, though.
 Dan: *nods*
 Dan: Reflexive, idnit?
 Justin: Aye.
 Dan: Remember that you can run on air.
 Justin: That's what I intend to do. ^_^
 Dan: If you dematerialize, you can't rematerialize until your next initiative.
 Justin: can I dematerialize after I thwack him?
 Dan: Yes.
 Dan: It's reflexive.
 Dan: Can you reach him?
 Justin: then I will run over and thwack him a couple of times.
 Justin: with the Gem, yes, I think so.
 Dan: 35 yards... + 17... puts you at 52.
 Dan: Just to let you know.
 Dan: You can hold your action, of course...
 Justin: yeah, that's a great idea.
 Dan: Did you blow BotBM?
 Justin: nope
 Dan: ...where'd all your motes go, then?
 Justin: Defense of Shining Joy, Violet Bier of Sorrows Form, Joy in Adversity, Dance of the Hungry Spider, and my anima power
 Justin: which is 10 frigging motes
 Dan: *nods*
 Dan: The anima power isn't committed.
 Dan: That is my ruling!
 Justin: that's helpful.
 Dan: Are you holding your action, dematerializing, moving, or what?
 Justin: I guess I'll just rush at him as far as I can go before dematerializing
 Justin: ^^
 Dan: k!
 Justin: and not worry about activating persistants if I need to for the rest of the fight ^_^
 Jason: who's next?
 Dan: Herr Monster
 Dan: Who hurtles through the air like a cannonball - at Havoc!
 Dan: You still have an action left - what do you do?
 Justin: (he's at -17 to hit me, incidentally.)
 Dan: Mwah?
 Justin: Dance of the Hungry Spider
 Dan: Oh!
 Dan: Wait
 Justin: people trying to whack me take half my initiative as a penalty
 Dan: You used Dance of the Hungry Spider, not Unnatural Many-Step Stride!
 Dan: @_@
 Dan: Havoc has Dance of the Hungry Spider? o_O
 Justin: aye
 Dan: Guh!
 Justin: I'm not immaterial or anything, now that I think about it. ^_^
 Dan: Or running on air. -_-()
 Justin: I can still jump.
 Dan: Right.
 Jason: that's  for ranged attacks isn't it?
 Justin: it's for everything
 Justin: it's a different penalty with ranged though
 Dan: It's for anything that has to hit him before he -- uh-oh.
 Jason: that's one fucked up charm yo
 Dan: Ah, ne'er mind.
 Justin: it is when I still have Secrets of Future Strife boosting my initiative, yes.
 Dan: Very well!
 Dan: (it'd be cooler with PAoC Form!)
 Justin: and I plan to use Flight of Mercury as soon as I am able. >.>
 Justin: so I'll be dodging his meek little attempt to hit me
 Dan: He's at -21 dice, eh?
 Dan: Er
 Dan: 21 dice
 Dan: -17
 Dan: Right?
 Justin: yeah
 Dan: 5! Whooh!
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice16
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  10 6 7 2 1 7 1 10 8 6 1 10 5 1 9
 Justin: only 10 successes on the dodge. :p
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  8 5 6 3 4 3 3 2 9
 Dan: ~_~
 Justin: Havoc would make Kasumi proud.
 Dan: Does he have PotVW up?
 Justin: no, but he does have Defense of Shining Joy and Joy in Adversity up
 Justin: *rolls Havoc's Essence for Joy in Adversity*
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  4 6 8 8
 Justin: four motes back! woo!
 Dan: Seeing that the fight has started and stealth has gone out the window Minako spends 10 motes to activate her anima power.
 Dan: ...but Havoc isn't close enough to benefit.
 Justin: I don't think he needs it right at the moment anyway.
 Dan: Hino's up!
 Jason: How far is he from the rest of us now?
 Dan: Ah.
 Dan: He flies past Havoc a fair distance...
 Dan: *thinks*
 Dan: ...he's on the bridge, about 35 yards away from you guys.
 Dan: Justin, don't forget Havoc's movement.
 Dan: How're you using it?
 Dan: Oh!
 Dan: X_X
 Justin: he's spent for the turn, 'member?
 Dan: Didn't he use a DoSJ dodge?
 Justin: Yes
 Justin: ...Havoc hasn't actually used his action yet.
 Justin: ^_^
 Dan: btw, you can also move an extra 10 yards when attacking
 Dan: *forgot*
 Dan: No, wait...
 Dan: Yeah
 Justin: although I wasn't in range on my initiative tick anyway
 Dan: 2 x Dex for attack and defense.
 Dan: You can follow him should you choose.
 Dan: Or land.
 Justin: if I can get close enough to whack him I will
 Jason: I'm going to flip up and bounce off the nearest stone column and let loose 2 knives and land in the shadows of another column, hidden again
 Dan: Trying for an ambush, or just being sneaky?
 Jason: Did my post never appear?
 Jason: nm
 Jason: ambush and to keep my stealth
 Dan: Roll dex + stealth
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice10
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 10 10-sided dice:  3 10 8 1 2 7 5 3 10 3
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 15 10-sided dice:  3 9 9 8 3 10 10 3 7 1 4 3 5 7 3
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  10 2 4 3 2 2 9 3 3 9 1 8 2 9 7
 Jason: 11 success
 Dan: You beat him handily.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  3 6 1 7 9 2 8 7 4 1 6 5 9 8 4
 Dan: ...but he is able to defend himself.
 Jason: damn...o well
 Justin: is he blocking/dodging my attack?
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  6 1 10 5 2 3 8 10 8 1 6 2 9 1 1
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 5 10-sided dice:  5 1 2 10 2
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 5 10-sided dice:  9 3 8 8 3
 Dan: ...yes.
 Justin: did he susseed?
 Jason: 2 and 3
 Dan: ...yes.
 Justin: by 2 >_<
 Dan: Jason, he doesn't defend.  What's your raw?
 Justin: is he blocking or dodging?
 Dan: He dodged your attack.
 Jason: im going to ping
 Justin: okie dokie. :-)
 Dan: Do you do ping?
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 5 10-sided dice:  3 8 8 4 8
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 5 10-sided dice:  2 6 10 9 5
 Dan: Wait a sec
 Dan: What's your raw?
 Jason: the raw was 9 and 8
 Dan: One pings, the other does no damage
 Dan: He takes 3L
 Jason: freakin hardness
 Dan: Minako goes... uh... full parry, I guess.
 Dan: Actually!
 Dan: She activates Favorable Inflection Procedure.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 8 10-sided dice:  1 7 3 3 6 7 3 6
 Dan: ...and fails miserably.
 Dan: Wu-Go's turn.
 Dan: At this point all of you are awash in rippling blue, red, and violet light... except Havoc, who just has blue and violet.
 Jay: (Stupid window keeps saying i'm exceeding it
 Dan: Try dropping it into notepad and chopping it up.
 Jay: since he's holding a PTR
 Jay: He lifts it carfully and aims for a moment before bloiwng much motes and WP.
 Jay: Letting off with ihis fun little combo. 
 Jay: harperus rolled 14 10-sided dice:  4 1 8 10 1 1 6 9 7 5 2 9 6 10
 Dan: He has no defense. ^_^
 Dan: ...is the good news.
 Dan: ^_~
 Jay: ???
 Jay: what i get on the roll BTW?
 Justin: 8
 Jay: bad news?
 Jay: btw, what about that WP roll?
 Dan: The incandescent energy hurtles towards the unarmed man, but halfway between Wu-Go and him the air shimmers and crackles.
 Dan: What was the difficulty?
 Jay: 2
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  2 4 1 7 3 6 6 4 10
 Dan: He makes it
 Justin: barely :p
 Dan: The blast is cleaved in half and dissipates, revealing....
 Dan: ...a slim figure in the Crimson Armor of the Unseen Assassin, a small but wicked starmetal blade in each hand.
 Justin: *blink*
 Jay: *Wonders who just cleaved 40 damage...watches the armored one* interesting times. 
 Dan: The newcomer leaps over to another bridge and shimmers into a blur partway.
 Jason: *blinks as well*
 Dan: I guess it's Gyaku's turn.
 Dan: It is not, in fact, Havoc's suit.
 Justin: Kay. :-)
 Dan: It's smaller, for one.
 Justin: *nods*
 Justin: Figure male or female?
 Dan: Roll per + awareness
 Dan: Anyone who was paying particular attention. ^_^
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice5
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 5 10-sided dice:  9 5 1 3 6
 Justin: uno
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 7 10-sided dice:  7 5 1 3 9 10 7
 Jay: harperus rolled 6 10-sided dice:  9 6 5 2 2 10
 Dan: Wu-Go and Hino both noticed that it's a woman.
 Justin: I really need to work on my PerAwa pool. -_-
 Jason: cinco
 Dan: Havoc was too distracted.
 Justin: "Hey, that's not me! ... FIRE!"
 Jason: so the figure is standing an opposite bridge?
 Dan: The figure re-cloaked
 Dan: Roll another Per + Awareness if you want
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice5
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 5 10-sided dice:  10 8 5 3 7
 Justin: 4
 Dan: Everyone standing near Gyaku feels the air warm up and dry out, and he charges Herr Monster, trailing re-freezing puddles behind
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 7 10-sided dice:  8 6 3 5 1 3 7
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 8 8 8 10 10 8 5 8 3 9 1 1 8 10
 Dan: o_O
 Justin: jesus christ
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 5 10-sided dice:  1 5 4 4 1
 Justin: ROFL
 Jay: Impeding the flow!
 Dan: No one's being attacked!
 Dan: Well, aside from Herr Monster
 Jay: I don't care, with that many sux, better safe then sorry!
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 12 10-sided dice:  3 3 4 5 10 4 7 3 1 5 1 1
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 12 10-sided dice:  4 8 5 1 1 4 2 1 1 1 2 6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 12 10-sided dice:  5 5 7 2 5 5 5 7 7 8 1 6
 Dan: 3, 1, 4...
 Dan: Herr Monster decides to trust to his soak...
 Jason: craptastic
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  2 6 7 7
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  7 7 1 8
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  8 1 9 9
 Dan: Nice ping!
 Justin: don't forget the endings power
 Dan: Ah, well...
 Jay: 11, ouch
 Dan: ...that's canceled out by the flickering red glow around Herr Monster.
 Justin: unless that chick friend of his is glowin...yeah.
 Justin: -_-
 Jay: hmm
 Dan: Nonetheless, Mr. Bespectacled Dinosaur beats the tar out of him.
 Justin: jeez
 Dan: Or at least, that's the impression you get.
 Dan: Initiative!
 Justin: Flight of Mercury
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  10 8 3 8
 Jay: harperus rolled 1 10-sided die:  7
 Dan: 7
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  4
 Jay: 20
 Justin: 26
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 1 10-sided die:  8
 Jason: 27
 Justin: oh you bitch
 Jay: wait, 23 with the girls power
 Justin: zuh?
 Jason: hahaha
 Dan: What?
 Dan: She gives you +3 performance successes
 Dan: Admittedly, not too useful for... some...
 Jay: ahh
 Dan: Hino wins initiative.
 Jason: actually how far is the guy away from me now?
 Dan: About 35 yards
 Dan: wait...
 Dan: ...that depends on where you moved when you jumped off the bridge.
 Jason: and how wide are the bridges?
 Jason: I was thinking on along the column
 Dan: They range from 10 feet to 30, with this one about in the middle.
 Jason: Are they any ice croppings our anything I can get my chain around?
 Jason: actually, I got it
 Dan: There are bridges, pillars, bridges connecting pillars, and ice and stone.
 Dan: Make up what you want within that.
 Jason: I'm going to launch off my column, flying below the bridge, I'm going to puncture the ice bridge with my chain, which I'm going to use to swing up and over him and the bridge, as I'm directly over him, I'm going to let go and wrap
 Jason: him around the neck with the chain and continue my momentum down, using the ice bride and a lever, swing underneath again and send him flying to the ground as I let go and land smoothly on the bridge and a waiting shadow
 Dan: Are you attempting a clinch, or making an attack?
 *** Jay has left the chat.
 Jason: clinch and I'm using blow concelaing tech
 Dan: Ah! BCT
 Jason: so he needs to make a PER + AWA roll, diff 5
 Dan: Wits, not Per
 Jason: sorry
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  1 3 6 7 3 4 9 1 2 10 8 7 3 7 3
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 10 10-sided dice:  10 4 6 5 4 2 6 10 7 4
 Dan: Was that the attack roll?
 Dan: Oh, crap
 Jason: yes...6 success
 Jason: so he can defend with a charm
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 13 10-sided dice:  7 10 10 8 10 8 9 3 4 5 6 7 4
 Dan: Heh... ne'er mind.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  6 8 3 3 5 6 10 7 5 3 3 9 7 5 4
 Jason: did I get any stunt die?
 Dan: Ah!
 Dan: Sorry... 2 dice
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 5 10-sided dice:  6 2 8 3 1
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 2 10-sided dice:  8 1
 Jason: so 7 success
 Jason: he blocks or dodges
 Dan: He dodges...
 Dan: ...and Havoc is up.
 Justin: Havoc will whack him three times.
 Dan: Very well!
 Justin: he's at -13 to parry, -4 to dodge.
 Dan: He's dodgeing.
 Dan: Using any Charms?
 Dan: Oh, wait
 Dan: You used Flight of Mercury
 Dan: Never mind
 Justin: aye
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice17
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  9 3 8 4 8 4 7 4 2 10 7 6 5 6 3
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice17
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  10 9 6 9 6 10 3 1 1 10 4 2 7 4 2
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice17
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 3 5 9 6 3 3 3 7 5 2 3 1 7 8
 Justin: 7 on the first
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 6 7 9 5 2 8 7 3 8 6 6 10 3 9
 Justin: 9 on the second
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 4 1 6 2 7 9 5 9 5 10 10 8 10 7
 Justin: and a mighty mighty 4 on the third
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  6 3 3 2 2 7 3 9 3 5 7 9 1 7 1
 Dan: Whoooh!
 Dan: What are you attacking with, btw?
 Justin: sword
 Justin: not that it mattered. -_-
 Dan: Sword isn't a CMoS weapon, mind you
 Dan: *prod*
 Justin: And?
 Dan: Dance of the Hungry Spider gives benefits to unarmed MA attacks
 Dan: That's all
 Justin: oh?
 Dan: Yep.
 Dan: Just sayin'
 Justin: well, then
 Justin: take all those rolls I just made
 Justin: and pretend they never really stood a chance of hitting in the first place
 Justin: :-P
 Dan: See, now you're just being defeatist
 Dan: And I'll tell you why shortly.
 Dan: Oh.
 Dan: Hey.
 Justin: I'm pretty sure I'm not going to beat 15 dice with 10. :p
 Dan: ~_~
 Dan: Justin, you're getting accosted.
 Justin: I guess I'm 'onna dodge.
 Justin: they're at -13 to hit me and all that
 Dan: Best do that.
 Dan: Actually
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice16
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  1 4 7 10 4 4 10 1 9 2 3 10 4 9 3
 Dan: The first attack isn't
 Dan: Since you can't get out of range
 Dan: The next one is
 Justin: great
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  3
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 7 9 1 8 6 1 6 3 5 6 6 10 1 7
 Justin: 9 on the first dodge
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 1 10-sided die:  10
 Dan: @_@
 Justin: well, I still beat it :p
 Dan: Yep!
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  5 3 10 9
 Dan: This one is at the penalty.
 Justin: six motes back ^^
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  6 9 9 4 1 1 4 4 10
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  6 6 2 3 5 2 10 10 2 6 2 6 1 8 6
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  2
 Justin: a mighty give
 Justin: five
 Dan: @_@
 Justin: I still win. ^^
 Dan: He should have burned a Virtue.
 Dan: That's sad.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  4 6 6 7
 Justin: two more motes back ^^
 Dan: And you're out of his range.
 Justin: :(
 Dan: He holds his third action.
 Justin: I still have four more motes I can conceivably restore, though!@
 Dan: Justin, roll Per + Awareness
 Justin: uh oh
 Dan: Someone is trying to ambush Havoc
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice5
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 5 10-sided dice:  5 5 3 4 3
 Justin: WHOOOOOOH!
 Dan: ...
 Dan: I'm not even going to roll.
 Dan: Roll Wits + Awareness.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice6
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 6 10-sided dice:  7 4 4 10 7 3
 Dan: You can defend yourself.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  6 3 5 8 7 6 8 6 8 3 8 4 4 5 9
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  5
 Justin: 6
 Justin: I scuttle away. ^^
 Dan: Do you now...
 Justin: eat my penalty!
 Dan: Not if they have enough movement to catch you.
 Justin: yes I do damn you ST let me have fun with my Charm
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  1 5 10 5 8 3 7 4 6 1 4 3 4 9 5
 Justin: ^_^
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 6 10-sided dice:  8 6 2 3 3 7
 Justin: noooo
 Dan: 7
 Dan: ^_^
 Justin: 21 fricking dice?
 Justin: wtf?
 Dan: It's not that inconceivable. :-\
 Dan: I mean, Havoc could get that with specialties.
 Dan: Anyway.
 Dan: ...you used Flight of Mercury.
 Dan: x_x
 Justin: mmmhmm
 Justin: I used it
 Justin: so their penalty to hit me
 Justin: would go up :p
 Justin: that doesn't help when they have the magic go faster suit on
 Dan: Yupyup.
 Dan: Soak?
 Justin: Ha.
 Justin: 7L
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  10 6 5 3 9 9 2 4 7
 Justin: I think
 Dan: Eat 3l
 Dan: 3L
 Dan: that is
 Justin: yes, 7L
 Dan: That.... hurt.
 Justin: before or after my Battles a Go Go>
 Justin: ?
 Dan: After
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: Which way did you scuttle?
 Justin: the other way.
 Dan: Which other way?
 Dan: Towards happy fun people?
 Justin: the way that didn't have bad people in it
 Justin: yes
 Dan: k
 Justin: wait
 Justin: I HAD AUTOSUCCESSES ON THAT DODGE
 Justin: >_<
 Dan: ...we'll let that go this once. >.>
 Justin: ^^
 Dan: Next attack!
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  6 4 2 6 9 9 8 6 3 4 6 6 6 9 4
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 6 10-sided dice:  1 6 10 2 9 3
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  9 9 8 3 2 7 2 3 10 9 9 4 10 4 2
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  9
 Dan: (am I being mean and making you take the damage, or retconning?
 Dan: )
 Justin: 14
 Justin: retconning. T_T
 Dan: *laughs*
 Dan: Last attack...
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  1 7 1 5 2 6 1 1 10 1 6 9 3 5 1
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 3 9 4 4 5 6 7 4 4 5 7 3 9 9
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  1
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 6 10-sided dice:  10 5 2 4 7 7
 Justin: 8
 Dan: 9... with a Willpower.
 Justin: I didn't hear you say anything about spending willpower before you rolled, mr. dan.
 Justin: >_O
 Dan: -_-()
 Dan: That's because it's my job to be fair. ^_^
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  5 7 7 6 3 5 8 7 6
 Justin: I spend a willpower too, then. >_o
 Dan: @_@
 Dan: Fate wants you to take 3L
 Dan: No two ways about it.
 Justin: Fate can suck my choad
 Dan: Not until you have a higher rank.
 Dan: ...nasty, kinky Exalt.
 Justin: >_<
 Justin: Havoc is Irritated.
 Justin: and half dead.
 Dan: The life of a paper ninja.
 Justin: why is it always the chicks who beat havoc up?
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 6 10-sided dice:  9 10 4 3 4 8
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  8 10 2 1 5 9 4 4 7 5 3 1 6 7 7
 Dan: Minako goes for a crescent kick, but ninja girl evades.
 Jason: ninja girl is staying visible?
 Dan: Relatively speaking.
 Dan: She chased Havoc back into the group
 Jason: ic
 Dan: Gyaku spins in place a good 30 yards away and shadow-boxes.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  3 1 4 9 6 6 4 4 3
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  9 3 3 2 6 6 10 3 5
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  1 4 10 10 8 3 6 2 6
 Dan: 1, 3, 5
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  7 8 2 4 1 3 7 10 9 3 3 2 5 2 5
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  7 4 10 3 3 3 8 4 7 7 3 4 10 8 6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 4 4 7 8 4 10 4 4 8 6 6 10 1 8
 Dan: ...no visible effect.
 Dan: Initiative!
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  4 8 1 3
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 1 10-sided die:  10
 Jason: 24
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  4
 Justin: 27
 Dan: Havoc wins initiative
 Dan: ...barely.
 Justin: BotBM
 Dan: Ooooh, someone's serious now.
 Dan: Going swordless?
 Justin: pretty much have to
 Justin: spending the full for botbm, of course
 Dan: o_O
 Dan: How much spare Essence y'got?
 Justin: enough. ^_^
 Justin: 31 total leftover
 Justin: 16 committed
 Dan: Eh?
 Justin: no
 Justin: 21 committed
 Dan: Not burning 20m for BotBM?
 Justin: I am
 Dan: *confused*
 Justin: this is before botbm
 Dan: Ohhhh
 Dan: Gotcha
 Dan: *figures out how much Essence chick has spent*
 Justin: so after this he'll have 10 leftover
 Jason: what is monster boy doing anyway?
 Justin: anyway
 Dan: He's hurting.
 Justin: whacking monster boy
 Dan: Very well
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice21
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  6 7 8 2 3 10 6 3 8 1 7 2 4 4 9
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice6
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 6 10-sided dice:  8 3 3 1 1 8
 Justin: 9 on the first
 Dan: ...he parries.
 Justin: perfect-like, I assume?
 Dan: He does not inform you whether or not he is using a perfect defense, but he knocks your attack aside.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  7 10 9 4 4 6 5 7 5 9 2 2 6 4 5
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice6
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 6 10-sided dice:  6 9 7 4 9 4
 Dan: You can tell that he's sweating, though.
 Dan: ....he parries.
 Justin: mmm, I can smell the willpower burning from here.
 Dan: No idea what you're talking about!
 Justin: if he's still alive next turn I think I'll pursue a conclusion. ^_^
 Dan: Making any more attacks?
 Justin: that was my action
 Dan: *nods*
 Dan: ...You hit him before, didn't you?
 Justin: I haven't touched him yet
 Dan: Someone did.
 Justin: Gyaku
 Dan: No, Gyaku did bashing
 Dan: Someone did 4L
 Jason: i did as well
 Dan: Oh!
 Dan: The knives.
 Dan: Gotcha.
 Justin: he's dodged or parried everything I've thrown his way, despite my best efforts :p
 Jason: with a little knif\e!!! WTF
 Dan: I was gonna say, if you had VBoS Form up, he would have taken Virtue damage.
 Dan: Never mind.
 Dan: Yay Power Combat!
 Jason: and then my cool serious attack he just dodges
 Dan: If it makes you feel any better, you guys made him blow all his PoM actions
 Justin: x_x
 Jason: well that is good
 Dan: Next up - ninja girl!
 Dan: Was Hino back with the group?
 Jason: yeah, after the botched attack
 Dan: k
 Dan: He gets accosted by ninja girl.
 Jason: alrighty...
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 15 10-sided dice:  10 10 6 1 1 4 7 1 2 1 4 8 5 1 3
 Dan: There's a blur, and a sudden sense of motion, and then there's nasty sharp bits of starmetal moving at you...
 Dan: Don't forget your +3 suxx on DoSJ
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 2 10-sided dice:  4 2
 Jason: 9 successess
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 9 5 8 5 4 4 8 2 8 3 5 5 7 4
 Jason: don't forget she at 6 diff to hit
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 3 10-sided dice:  5 2 4
 Dan: She misses
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 6 1 6 8 1 10 5 6 10 7 9 2 1 8
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 3 10-sided dice:  7 8 2
 Dan: 10
 Jason: another attack?
 Dan: Yup!
 Dan: There's three of 'em
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 15 10-sided dice:  10 2 10 2 9 2 6 4 8 10 8 10 4 3 5
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 2 10-sided dice:  4 8
 Dan: You dodge...
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  3 5 7 7 10 7 4 9 8 4 7 5 2 8 4
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 3 10-sided dice:  3 8 5
 Jason: 15 for the second
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 9 1 5 7 10 2 6 4 5 1 7 2 4 1
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 2 10-sided dice:  9 10
 Dan: ...and dodge
 Jason: 11 for third
 Dan: ...it's Hino's turn, by the way.
 Dan: ^_^()
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 14 10-sided dice:  1 5 4 10 3 7 6 7 8 4 10 1 1 5
 Dan: What is Jason rolling for?
 Jason: hold on sec...gotta check wording
 Dan: ...or tell the ST what's going on?
 Jason: she loses 7 dice to effect me in any way for the next 5 turns (Blind the Boar)
 Justin: what turn is this?
 Dan: Gotcha.
 Dan: 3
 Justin: okay
 Dan: No
 Dan: ...yes
 Dan: Turn 3
 Justin: 5 will be my last DotHS turn
 Dan: -_-()
 Dan: We'll melt that bridge when we come to it.
 Justin: x_x
 Dan: Woah, wait - 14 dice?
 Dan: Isn't Hino's Manip + Stealth 9 dice?
 Jason: what?
 Jason: have my form up?
 Dan: x_x
 Dan: Gotcha.
 Dan: And that's seven successes, not dice.
 Dan: Very nasty.
 Jason: yeah
 Dan: Herr Monster gets to act!
 Justin: when did he become "Herr" monster anyway?
 Dan: Since I watch Monster regularly?
 Jason: a tthe beginnning of the fight
 Justin: *blank look*
 Dan: And because none of you were kind enough to ask his name.
 Dan: Monster takes place in Germany.
 Justin: aah
 Dan: Time for Havoc to dodge.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice16
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 10 6 6 6 5 8 2 9 2 3 5 4 6 6
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  2
 Justin: a mighty 7
 Dan: ...is Hino still committing motes to Sidereal Shell Games?
 Jason: yes
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  6 7 7 9 6 9 6 2 5 4 5 5 4 6 10
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 10 10-sided dice:  6 5 5 2 1 10 10 3 8 2
 Justin: and he's at -14
 Dan: Not until you can move away.
 Dan: *waggles finger*
 Justin: eh?
 Dan: He's only at -14 if he can't hit you after you move.
 Dan: He has his tactical movement available.
 Justin: so do I
 Justin: I haven't moved at all this turn
 Dan: Yes, you did.
 Justin: when?
 Dan: At the beginning when you attacked him.
 Dan: You moved 30 yards.
 Dan: 35, thereabouts.
 Justin: *scrolls up*
 Dan: You zipped back while Ninja Chick attacked you.
 Justin: uh, thanks for telling me?
 Dan: @_@
 Justin: :-/
 Dan: You moved Dex x2 yards each time
 Jason: he's still on the bridge huh?
 Dan: Yup.
 Dan: Oh, hold up... *looks*
 Justin: I would have just attacked the ninja chick if I had known I wasn't next to him
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: @_@
 Dan: Have you used a Charm?
 Justin: BotBM
 Dan: BotBM... ja
 Justin: not that I have any motes left
 Dan: *shrugs*
 Dan: Did you count the 3 auto-suxx?
 Justin: yes
 Jason: Ill take the chick
 Justin: 7L soak
 Jason: i might be able to get her with the blind the boar
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  5 3 5 1 8 7 6 5 3
 Dan: You only take 1L.  Stop worrying so much.
 Dan: NOW you're half dead. ;-)
 Justin: -_-()
 Dan: Minako vaults over Hino and tries to catch Ninja Chick with a spinning roundhouse, not expecting much.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 6 10-sided dice:  5 10 1 1 2 6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 6 1 8 2 10 4 7 5 5 7 4 4 10 2
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  5 5 4 10 5 2 6 1 6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  8 6 6 9 6 8 5 10 3
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  5 8 5 5 1 1 9 5 8
 Jason: o
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 10 10-sided dice:  3 9 7 4 3 1 8 2 6 10
 Dan: Gyaku gives Herr Monster a bloody nose from ten feet away, but his next two attacks get deflected.
 Jason: o
 Dan: Herr Monster is beginning to waver.
 Dan: Initiative!
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  8
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 1 10-sided die:  6
 Justin: 31
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  6 5 2 1
 Justin: I'm pretty sure I just won initiative.
 Jason: 27
 Justin: 22
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: Hino wins initiative.
 Justin: spending a willpower to ignore wound penalties, btw
 Dan: k
 Dan: Jason? You're up.
 Jason: i bring my chain out in a whirling motion above my head, I bring it up down suddenly and grab the female by the legs in a clinch, and whip her around into one of the stone columns
 Jason: BCGT
 Jason: she gets her Wit - and Awa at diff 13
 Jason: no, 12
 Dan: *nods*
 Dan: *ponders*
 Jason: not hiding anymore also, if it wasn't obvious
 Dan: I like the image.
 Dan: 3 dice seem fair, Justin?
 Justin: 2.5, rounded up
 Dan: Although, I'd advice treating it as an attack instead of a clinch.
 Jason: ic
 Dan: Trust me on this one.
 Dan: ;-)
 Jason: sure
 Justin: go go crimson armor
 Dan: k +3 dice
 Jason: she still gets her roll, if she can somehow make it
 Jason: o
 Jason: she going to roll or what?
 Dan: You're at +3 difficulty, by the way.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 7 9 8 7 1 3 4 6 7 4 6 6 9 3
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 1 10-sided die:  8
 Jason: o
 Dan: I'm going to say that Blinding the Boar does not affect the awareness roll.
 Jason: o
 Dan: !
 Jason: its everything to effect me, which would count seeing where my attack is coming from
 Dan: *was forgetting to add Essence to Dodges*
 Dan: Hrm.
 Dan: It's a sticky borderline thing.
 Dan: It doesn't prevent people from seeing you
 Dan: It prevents them from telling exactly where you are, what your hair color is, etc.
 Justin: seeing you isn't affecting you
 Dan: She is at difficulty 8 to parry or dodge, though.
 Jason: and reading body language
 Jason: which would count for figuring out where the attack is coming from
 Dan: Which is why it's a higher difficulty to parry or dodge
 Dan: It does not make the attack undetectable, just hard to place.
 Jason: fine whatever, useless charm
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 13 10-sided dice:  7 9 2 9 10 9 1 5 8 8 10 3 3
 Jason: 10 to hit
 Jason: o
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  1 4 7 8 2 4 4 3 7 8 9 4 1 4 9
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  9 6 7 5 5 8 4 4 7
 Dan: 10 - 6... 4 down
 Dan: And she attempts to parry
 Jason: wait....//roll-sides10-dice3
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 3 10-sided dice:  5 9 5
 Jason: nm
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 11 10-sided dice:  2 9 8 5 10 2 1 7 4 5 1
 Dan: ...and fails to get any success.
 Jason: k 16 base
 Dan: Get 1 WP or 6m back, and tell me your raw
 Jason: sorry 16 RAE
 Jason: RAW even
 Dan: Including the 6 successes?
 Jason: o
 Jason: yes
 Dan: k... 
 Dan: ... you ping, sort of
 Jason: ping?
 Dan: Her soak is 11L
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 5 10-sided dice:  7 1 8 5 5
 Jason: 3L
 Dan: Ah, but Wu-Go is no longer there.
 Dan: 2L
 Jason: o yeah, sorry 2L
 Dan: Oh
 Dan: @_@
 Dan: anima power
 Dan: 1L
 Dan: *sheep*
 Jason: damnit
 Dan: But you do pulverize a large pillar!
 Dan: ...and she's glowing now.
 Jason: good
 Dan: Don't forget to regain 1WP or 6m
 Jason: i remebered
 Jason: o
 Dan: o?
 Justin: is it my turn yet?
 [02:22 AM] Dan: Nope!
 [02:23 AM] Justin: (nobody's said anything in five minutes...)
 Jason: whose then?
 Dan: Ninja chick!
 Jason: she attacking me?
 Dan: She steals your Dex + Dodge dice. ^_^
 Dan: Er
 Justin: x_x
 Dan: Dex + Perf
 Dan: And remains where she fell.
 Dan: Crap!
 Dan: She doesn't have Sidereal Shell Games.  *whacks self*
 Dan: ...she leaps out of the cloud of dust from the shattered pillar and tries to knife Hino.
 Jason: ?
 Dan: Twice.
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 15 10-sided dice:  9 8 4 7 4 10 2 9 8 6 3 5 10 1 9
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 2 10-sided dice:  2 9
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 15 10-sided dice:  7 6 8 8 6 5 1 10 5 7 1 3 1 5 1
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  9 9 8 2 8 9 10 6 5 3 10 4 3 9 5
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 2 10-sided dice:  1 5
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  10 9 3 6
 Dan: 13...

 Dan: ... she gets one success!
 Dan: Before the dodge, of course.
 Jason: 14, 13
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  3 3 5 7 10 6 9 1 1 10 9 9 7 1 7
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 3 10-sided dice:  6 10 3
 Justin: which Hino can't actually fail?
 Dan: Yup!
 Justin: nice
 Dan: Hino evades her like an adult holding a child at bay.
 Jason: go autosuccesses
 Justin: *laughs*
 Dan: And guess whose turn it is?
 Dan: That's right!
 Dan: Herr Monster!
 Justin: everyone beat me -_-
 Dan: Gyaku and Minako didn't!
 Dan: He goes for Havoc, surprisingly enough.
 Justin: I'll try and dodge. :p
 Jason: that's right....the giant lizard didn't beat you....nor the little pop singer
 Justin: he's only at -11, I think
 Dan: T_T
 Justin: yeah
 Dan: You keep forgetting how that Charm works.
 Justin: okay, I KNOW I haven't moved this trun
 Justin: turn
 Dan: Right.
 Dan: You get 10 yards of reflexive movement.
 Dan: If that's enough to take you out of his range, he suffers the ooky penalties.
 Justin: on top of the tactical move I have already, yes?
 Jason: o
 Dan: You don't get that until your initiative.
 Justin: -_-
 Justin: okay, whatever
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  10 2 3 3 5 1 7 5 6 7 3 8 2 6 1
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  7
 Dan: You have to defend against one attack.  You'll survive.
 Jason: so the charm is beefy if you win int
 Justin: 9
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 1 3 1 1 4 10 9 2 6 9 9 2 9 1
 Justin: that's highly debateable
 Dan: Howso?
 Justin: well, he hit me last time without much problem
 Justin: and if he does hit me I would be very surprised to survive
 Dan: -_-()
 Dan: Well, he doesn't hit you.
 Justin: yay!
 Dan: Since apparently you're to proud to parry. :-p
 Dan: And now it's...
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  1 1 3 3
 Dan: ...Gyaku's turn!
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: I jest.
 Dan: Havoc's up to plate!
 Dan: Gonna finish this?
 Justin: Havoc unleashes a flurry of blows, striking decisively at the monster's pressure points and hoping to incapacitate him quickly.
 Justin: (first turn: five attacks)
 Justin: He finishes the flurry with a vicious downward chop to his collar, the force of which cracks the ice they stand on.
 Justin: (second turn: one attack)
 Justin: :-)
 Dan: Roll it.
 Justin: stunt?
 Dan: Oh, details.
 Dan: 2-die
 Justin: :)
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice18
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 4 10 10 10 7 3 7 9 8 8 6 10 8 8
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice3
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 3 10-sided dice:  10 8 1
 Justin: 18 on the first ^_^
 Dan: @_@
 Justin: NOW is he at -11 to parry? ^_^
 Dan: He's always at -11 to parry.
 Justin: yay
 Dan: The offensive advantage of DotHS is strong.
 Justin: *nods*
 Justin: gotcha
 Justin: anyways
 Dan: It's merely quite good for defense.
 Justin: blocking? dodging?
 Dan: He lets it through.
 Justin: o_o
 Dan: Raw?
 Justin: 21L
 Justin: I think
 Justin: it might be B
 Dan: Aren't you using fists?
 Justin: yeah
 Dan: It's bashing
 Dan: VBoS doesn't grant lethal
 Justin: okay
 Justin: 21B it is
 Dan: ... ping.  Ish.
 Justin: ish?
 Dan: Oh, wait!
 Dan: 5 dice.
 Justin: same as my ping
 Justin: go VBoS form
 Dan: Don't you have 4 Essence?
 Dan: Oh!
 Dan: *laughs*
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice5
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 5 10-sided dice:  10 7 3 5 6
 Dan: I r amused
 Justin: damn you, 10s not doubling
 Justin: 2B, since wu-go took off
 Dan: 1B
 Justin: right
 Justin: next
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice17
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 6 4 3 7 5 5 9 9 9 9 9 8 6 1
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice2
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 2 10-sided dice:  5 4
 Dan: Ah, you forget.
 Justin: 7 on that one
 Dan: What Virtue?
 Justin: Valor
 Dan: >_<
 Dan: You'r doing bashing damage.
 Justin: yes
 Dan: >_<
 Justin: ?
 Dan: <--- feels dumb
 Justin: ...?
 Dan: Was hardness at or under or just under...? *checks*
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: Ah!
 Dan: Okay.
 Dan: First attack went through.
 Dan: Second one doesn't.
 Dan: Third?
 Justin: second one?
 Justin: oh
 Justin: right
 Dan: The one that got 7?
 Dan: Under hardness.
 Justin: did I do any damage on the first one?
 Dan: Yes.
 Justin: okay
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice16
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  9 3 10 8 10 8 8 8 9 7 5 1 2 10 3
 Dan: 1B, remember?
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  8
 Justin: 14
 Dan: 5
 Justin: 15
 Justin: rather
 Justin: no, 14
 Justin: -_-
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice5
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 5 10-sided dice:  4 5 4 8 10
 Justin: 1B again
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  3 6 8 1 5 6 7 6 10 1 4 3 10 2 3
 Dan: Valor again?
 Justin: yeah
 Justin: 6
 Justin: hardness
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice14
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 14 10-sided dice:  7 9 10 5 5 5 6 7 4 8 4 8 2 7
 Justin: 8
 Dan: *shakes head*
 Dan: Got to be 11+
 Justin: maybe havoc should use his second action to pack it up and go home :p
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice21
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 1 9 1 9 10 5 5 6 10 5 7 3 7 6
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice6
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 6 10-sided dice:  5 9 2 3 9 7
 Dan: :-p
 Justin: 11
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice5
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 5 10-sided dice:  8 3 2 4 7
 Dan: MA ping!
 Justin: 1B yet again
 Justin: yay
 Dan: Yay!
 Justin: six attacks, 3 whole bashing
 Justin: does that count as a successful stunt?
 Justin: :-)
 Dan: Yes, actually.
 Justin: yaaay!
 Justin: I get my four recoverable motes back
 Dan: He is both cowed and battered.
 Dan: Too bad you don't have Unnatural Many-Step STride up. :-)
 Justin: wouldn't have the motes for it anyway
 Justin: but yeah
 Justin: it'd be useful
 Justin: -_-
 Justin: I am one mote short of an Unobstructed Blow.
 Justin: that's depressing
 Dan: Minako goes on the offensive once more...
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 6 10-sided dice:  9 7 4 1 4 8
 Dan: ...and is neither parried nor dodged.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 3 10-sided dice:  2 2 8
 Dan: Hino takes one level of unsoakable bashing!
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 1 10-sided die:  1
 Dan: @_@
 Justin: one die?
 Jason: WTF!!!!?
 Dan: Dodged a bullet there, buddy. ;-)
 Jason: she used that dragoonblooded charm?
 Dan: Uh, no.
 Dan: Less nasty, actually.
 Jason: she hit me and I take 1B?
 Dan: She's now surrounded by a torrent of red and golden Essence.
 Jason: which disappear from anima power?
 Justin: o_o
 Dan: Hino essentially felt as though someone punched him in the shoulder for no reason.
 Dan: Even though nobody did.
 Jason: okay
 Dan: And he took no damage.
 Dan: Gyaku politely asks Havoc if he can finish Herr Monster.
 Justin: Havoc confirms that yes, he feels he can finish Herr Monster.
 Dan: Er, Gyaku asked if Havoc would mind if Gyaku finished him.
 Justin: oh.
 Justin: Havoc probably just grunts at him, then.
 Justin: Havoc, having never actually finished a non-extra anyway, doesn't know what he's missing.
 Justin: :p
 Dan: Gyaku unleashes a fiery Combo!
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 12 10-sided dice:  2 3 5 8 2 9 4 5 5 10 9 4
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 12 10-sided dice:  1 2 2 7 10 5 9 4 1 8 1 5
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 12 10-sided dice:  8 4 3 10 6 10 10 7 3 4 5 4
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 12 10-sided dice:  3 9 9 7 8 8 1 8 10 2 5 9
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 12 10-sided dice:  6 4 2 7 1 2 1 9 6 3 8 1
 Justin: ...
 Dan: 5, 5, 8, 9, 3...
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  3 8 8 5 2 3 9 4 1 8 1 8 5 1 6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 5 10-sided dice:  5 3 1 3 8
 Dan: First one's dodged
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 5 4 5 7 5 3 2 7 1 3 10 9 10 4
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  10 2 3 4
 Dan: Dodged
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 10 4 10 5 5 5 9 7 5 2 5 9 7 9
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 3 10-sided dice:  3 3 3
 Dan: ...dodged.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  6 4 9 6 6 8 4 6 2 4 8 5 7 10 5
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 2 10-sided dice:  1 9
 Dan: Hit for 2
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  10 6 4 8 2 8 10 7 7 6 5 9 8 7 4
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 1 10-sided die:  2
 Dan: ...dodge
 Dan: ...
 Dan: Ouch.
 Justin: ?
 Dan: Gyaku does, in fact, fail to pierce the dodges and the hardness.
 Justin: poor lizard man
 Dan: He looks concerned.
 Dan: Herr Monster looks (unjustifiably and bloodily) triumphant.
 Dan: initiative!
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  6 10 8 3
 Justin: spending yet another willpower for wound penalties
 Jason: guess the NPC is in fact not going to save us
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  4
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 1 10-sided die:  3
 Justin: 18
 Justin: fear
 Dan: 18?
 Dan: Is that possible?
 Jason: 17
 Justin: 9 base + 5 from Flight of Mercury = 14 + 4 = 18
 Dan: Evil NPC lady wins initiative.
 Jason: not terribly surprised
 Justin: she has "weapons"
 Jason: indeed
 Dan: ...and good stats.
 Dan: She refuses to leave Hino alone.
 Justin: cruel and delicious I see
 Dan: o_O
 Dan: Two attacks
 Jason: knifes have spd of 0, so its all the stats
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 7 10 10 4 9 4 4 8 3 9 1 1 1 9
 Justin: I just like saying "cruel and delicious"
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  10 7 5 6
 Justin: I think it's the title of a Fatso Jetson album
 Dan: (non-artifact knives have spd 0, yes)
 Dan: 12 suxx
 Jason: ah
 Dan: ...
 Dan: ...which misses.
 Dan: >_<
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  1 3 4 8 7 6 3 6 3 6 10 6 10 6 6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 3 10-sided dice:  9 10 4
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 15 10-sided dice:  3 3 2 5 2 2 5 3 10 5 10 4 1 10 7
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 2 10-sided dice:  5 8
 Dan: ...and a miss.
 Dan: Your Blinding the Boar upsets her.
 Jason: 11 for the first dodge
 Jason: good
 Dan: ...she never beat the difficulty to hit you.
 Dan: 13.
 Dan: And...
 Dan: o_O
 Dan: Herr Monster is 2nd.
 Dan: He holds his action.
 Jason: bahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
 Dan: Next is... Havoc.
 Justin: havoc cries at the fact he is one mote away from unobstructed blow and cannot possibly manage to get one in time to use it
 Justin: or at all
 Justin: and ... makes ten attacks
 Dan: @_@
 Dan: He goes full dodge.
 Dan: And eats the -4
 Justin: >_<
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice16
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 10 10 9 3 5 9 8 5 5 3 4 4 7 6
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  7
 Justin: 9
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  8 10 9 9 5 1 9 10 10 3 1 10 10 5 7
 Justin: hardness
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 1 10-sided die:  3
 Justin: ...okay, basically, I'm not going to hit him
 Dan: Don't count your chickens.
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: Keep a-rollin'.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice17
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 6 1 7 1 10 4 5 4 7 8 7 3 3 3
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  1 3 1 10 8 2 8 8 1 1 8 1 10 3 7
 Jason: just make two attacks
 Justin: it's a bit late for that
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice14
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 14 10-sided dice:  2 7 3 3 4 3 2 8 7 5 4 5 2 7
 Justin: 4
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 14 10-sided dice:  7 4 7 9 5 6 7 7 4 4 7 4 1 8
 Justin: why are you rolling dodge on these?
 Dan: ...because dodge comes before soak.
 Justin: okay
 Justin: but even if he doesn't dodge at all
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice13
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 13 10-sided dice:  3 4 5 4 10 8 7 4 10 8 1 7 3
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 13 10-sided dice:  4 1 4 10 8 8 7 7 2 2 3 8 6
 Justin: 8
 Dan: 7
 Justin: 4B raw
 Dan: Eh?
 Justin: 1 success + 3 strength
 Justin: 4B raw
 Dan: Yeah, it's below hardness.
 Justin: mmmhmm
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice12
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 12 10-sided dice:  6 5 9 7 3 2 10 7 6 10 4 2
 Justin: 7
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 12 10-sided dice:  3 4 9 4 1 1 7 1 5 7 9 2
 Dan: Was that 5?
 Justin: 4
 Justin: 6B
 Dan: Don't you need 11 net successes to beat hardness?
 Justin: something like that
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice16
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 5 4 6 7 2 1 2 6 9 9 9 10 8 5
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 11 10-sided dice:  8 9 7 1 2 6 4 3 7 1 4
 Justin: 7
 Justin: nope
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  1 8 2 2 1 6 5 6 3 6 6 4 2 4 3
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 10 10-sided dice:  10 4 10 5 10 8 3 6 8 5
 Dan: o_O
 Justin: nope
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice14
 Dan: The hell?
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 14 10-sided dice:  1 1 7 8 1 10 8 8 2 9 9 7 4 4
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  9 9 9 3 1 3 5 1 7
 Justin: 8B
 Justin: nope
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice13
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 13 10-sided dice:  5 5 6 3 8 2 10 2 3 1 9 10 2
 Justin: 6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 8 10-sided dice:  9 7 10 10 6 8 7 10
 Dan: >_<
 Justin: -_-
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  1 6 9 10
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice12
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 12 10-sided dice:  8 9 2 3 9 9 8 4 4 1 1 6
 Justin: 5
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 7 10-sided dice:  10 3 8 1 2 7 2
 Justin: can't happen
 Justin: that was fun
 Dan: ...and Minako does not try to attack.
 Dan: It is Hino's turn.
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 9 10-sided dice:  10 4 1 10 10 8 6 9 9
 Dan: She neither dodges nor parries.
 Dan: Raw?
 Jason: spend 10 motes + 1 will and take away 5 of ninja chick's soak dice
 Dan: Oh.
 Dan: -_-
 Justin: you and your "motes"
 Dan: Not attacking, then?
 Jason: nope
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 12 10-sided dice:  2 7 8 9 6 9 2 5 8 10 8 2
 Dan: 8 + WP...
 Dan: Gyaku burns 2 WP and a Valor and gets parried.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 2 10-sided dice:  10 9
 Jason: ouch
 Dan: Initiative!
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  7
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  10 1 4 10
 Justin: -_-
 Justin: 21
 Dan: Just - Per + Med
 Justin: *blink*
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice3
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 3 10-sided dice:  3 1 1
 Justin: double botch
 Dan: And Jason - going to roll initiative?
 Dan: -_-()
 Dan: The man is a monster!
 Jason: sorry
 Dan: Roll Valor.
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 2 10-sided dice:  3 5
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  2 2 4 10
 Justin: two
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 1 10-sided die:  8
 Dan: ...but you shall destroy him nonetheless!
 Justin: yay me
 Jason: 27
 Dan: Hino wins initiative.
 Justin: o_O
 Jason: yay me
 Dan: Wait
 Dan: ^_^()
 Justin: how did you get +19?
 Dan: Bad lady wins initiative.
 Jason: using weapon
 Justin: oh
 Dan: And Form
 Justin: I could use my form weapon now...
 Justin: ...if it was still attuned.
 Dan: This is what happens when STs fudge rules for you!
 Jason: Base 9 + Form 5 + Weapon 5 + Roll 8
 Dan: You get screwed. ^_^
 Dan: She's holding her action.
 Jason: by how much does bad lady win?
 Justin: it was the weapon that was throwing me off
 Dan: A bit.
 Dan: Hino's up.
 Dan: (she got a 10)
 Jason: would a minue 5 to her int make me win?
 Jason: screw it, I wave my finger at her
 Dan: She isn't doing anything yet.
 Dan: ... she still wins.
 Dan: And still doesn't act yet.
 Jason: but she can't split her actions
 Dan: Right.
 Dan: She can't split or use a full defense.
 Jason: I attack her
 Dan: Very well.
 Dan: Just the once?
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 10 10-sided dice:  3 8 9 9 5 8 5 4 10 9
 Jason: yes
 Jason: 7
 Dan: She does not dodge or parry.
 Dan: What is your raw?
 Jason: 16
 Dan: 10 post-soak
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 10 10-sided dice:  1 9 7 2 9 5 9 8 6 2
 Jason: 5
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  8 8 3 8 10 7 10 2 10 9 9 3 7 8 2
 Dan: Her anima banner explodes into crimson and gold as she invokes Shield of Mars...
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 5 10-sided dice:  1 6 6 5 5
 Dan: @_@
 Dan: GOD DAMMIT!
 Jason: is that a charm?
 Dan: ...is what she thinks.
 Dan: Hino gets the feeling he dodged a bullet.  That is all.
 Dan: She does not appear harmed.
 Jason: what happened?
 Dan: The Charm turns the damage rolled against her into unsoakable damage against anyone she chooses.
 Dan: But it never gets damage successes against Hino. T_T
 Dan: She's just burning motes and WP for nothing!
 Dan: Anyway.
 Dan: She delivers a brutal heel kick to Minako's stomach.
 Jason: that's one fucked up charm, but how is she not taking any damage?
 Dan: It transfers it to you.
 Dan: If Justin were paying any attention he would comment on this.
 Justin: mmmhmm
 Jason: but shouldn't she take it if she fails
 Dan: She didn't fail the roll to transfer it.
 Dan: Trust me.
 Justin: yeah
 Dan: I know how the Charm works.
 Justin: she just failed to actually get any of it all the way over to you
 Jason: or is she using a different power to be invincible?
 Dan: >_<
 Jason: so why didn't she take any damage?
 Justin: hey, you're the unharmed one
 Dan: She used a Charm, and appears unharmed.
 Jason: alright
 Jason: she only has 1 damage total
 Jason: and if I hadn't done boar, she probably would have killed me by now
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 6 4 1 8 2 6 6 10 1 8 7 8 10 5
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 8 10-sided dice:  8 7 4 10 6 3 9 9
 Dan: @_@
 Dan: Curse you, Serenity anima power!
 Dan: Minako shrieks, but spins and leaps aside.
 Dan: And Scary Ninja Woman continues to be totally ineffectual.
 Justin: she should think twice before stealing Havoc's style next time
 Justin: ^^
 Jason: but also invinsible, so its no problem for her
 Dan: What? Beating up little girls?
 Dan: >.>
 Justin: T_T
 Justin: THEY beat ME up
 Justin: thank you very much
 Dan: Riiiight.
 Dan: Havoc is under attack.
 Justin: havoc attempts to dodge.
 Justin: bet you didn't see that one coming.
 Dan: That should be difficult.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice16
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  9 6 10 10 1 5 4 6 9 10 9 10 7 1 5
 Dan: Roll it.
 Justin: 12
 Justin: 15
 Dan: ...
 Justin: ^^
 Dan: ...do I have to roll?
 Justin: don't worry about it
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  3 10 5 10
 Justin: and I get all eight motes back!
 Justin: booyah!
 Justin: back in the game, baby!
 Dan: Did you lose DotHS?
 Justin: Yes.
 Justin: but I have 12 free motes now :-)
 Dan: Gonna use UMSS?
 Dan: Oh.  Simple. Ne'er mind.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  7 3 10 1 1 6 5 10 2 7 8 10 6 4 9
 Justin: I think I'll ... what are you rolling? o_o
 Dan: Just checking. ^_^()
 Justin: oh, okay.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 14 10-sided dice:  5 4 4 9 10 2 9 8 2 5 9 6 7 8
 Dan: Roll your other dodge.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice16
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  1 7 4 4 6 5 4 2 9 3 3 6 1 2 1
 Justin: uh...
 Dan: ...
 Justin: 5
 Dan: What the hell just happened?
 Justin: -_-
 Justin: the dice just stabbed me in the face
 Dan: That leaves him with 3 success.
 Justin: 7L
 Dan: You have the option to Impede...
 Dan: ...and lose your precious motes.
 Justin: um
 Justin: with what weapon?
 Dan: @_@
 Dan: D'oh!
 Dan: You can go full-parry.
 Dan: -_-()
 Justin: I'll use one of my actions for full parry, I guess.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice22
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 1 6 8 4 5 7 6 3 5 7 8 3 3 5
 Dan: Don't bother rolling.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice7
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 7 10-sided dice:  1 3 1 5 6 7 9
 Dan: I trust your BotBM.
 Justin: I manage to block.
 Dan: Conga-rats.
 Dan: ...and Havoc is up to plate.
 Justin: split for two Unobstructed Blows
 Dan: k
 Justin: although
 Justin: that wouldn't affect his armor, would it?
 Justin: -_-
 Justin: maybe I won't
 Justin: since that was the whole point
 Justin: would it?
 Dan: *checks*
 Dan: Hrm.
 Justin: if it doesn't work I'll save the motes for Life-Severing Blow
 Dan: Do the latter.
 Justin: yeah
 Justin: I'll just whack him once
 Justin: and hope the dice are with me
 Dan: Havoc would know IC that it won't bypass divine armor.
 Justin: *nods*
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  9 8 8 2 1 3 2 3 4 6 3 9 3 6 4
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice6
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 6 10-sided dice:  9 2 6 4 8 4
 Justin: only 6
 Dan: o_O
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: Lucky numba two!
 Justin: ?
 Dan: ...
 Justin: the one I used to parry?
 Dan: Is the accuracy on a fist only 1?
 Justin: believe so
 Dan: -_-()
 Justin: yeah, it is.
 Justin: you know, I was forgetting the damage from my bracers earlier. -_-
 Dan: Gyaku beats him as best he can without any motes, since he isn't cool enough to stunt more than once or twice a session.
 Dan: ...
 Dan: ...so you only needed 9?
 Justin: yeah.
 Justin: my...phone is ringing
 Justin: brb
 Justin: back
 Dan: Gyaku spins nimbly on one foot, slams his spiked tail into Herr Monster's face, then shifts the other direction, and slams him entirely through the bridge with a final blow.
 Dan: ...if he succeeds.
 Jason: dude
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 6 10-sided dice:  7 3 9 1 8 6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 8 10-sided dice:  10 7 4 8 8 4 10 10
 Dan: o_O
 Dan: Yay channeling Valor!
 Dan: And they're both pings. -_-()
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  9 2 8 5
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  6 7 6 2
 Dan: yay, 2L
 Dan: Minako hides.
 Dan: ...having realized how useless she is.
 Jason: looked cool though
 Jason: next round then?
 Dan: Next round indeed.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  3 2 6 2
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  3
 Justin: -_-
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 1 10-sided die:  8
 Justin: 17
 Jason: 27
 Dan: Hino goes first.
 Justin: I'm pissed
 Dan: Speaking of being pissed... roll Per + Med
 Dan: ^_^
 Jason: me too...I attack her...is she defending herself?
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 2 10-sided dice:  7 5
 Dan: She is not.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice3
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 3 10-sided dice:  7 1 3
 Justin: 1 success
 Dan: That guy's barely standing.
 Justin: too bad I can't do anything to damage him
 Dan: You could try doing lethal.
 Justin: um
 Justin: how?
 Dan: By using something sharp.
 Justin: like?
 Dan: Jason could tell you about at least one sharp thing waiting to be used.
 Jason: you could yell to me for a knife
 Jason: actually, the guy might still have mine embedded in him
 Dan: Bingo!
 Dan: There should be one embedded in the ice or somewhere else convenient, and maybe one in him.
 Justin: mkay
 Justin: lemme know when it's my turn, then
 Dan: ...Jason, gonna roll that attack?
 Jason: alright, in a cold, angry voice, "It's time we end this."  And my chain comes lashing out wrapping itself around her and crushing her.
 Jason: spending 3 motes to lower her soak an additonal 5
 Dan: That's mean.
 Dan: I like it!
 Dan: Making an attack, then?
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 10 10-sided dice:  10 4 4 8 6 3 9 6 10 3
 Dan: When does Blinding the Boar wear off?
 Jason: 8 to hit
 Jason: after this turn, 2 more
 Dan: raw?
 Jason: 17 RAW
 Dan: Alright, against her lethal soak of 1 that's 16 dice.
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 15 10-sided dice:  8 3 2 8 7 2 3 6 2 8 9 8 8 4 6
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 1 10-sided die:  9
 Justin: j00 d34d f00 b1z47ch
 Jason: 8 dam
 Jason: ???
 Dan: ...her anima flares forth like a grim star... and she activates Shield of Mars.
 Justin: X-D
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 8 10-sided dice:  9 1 1 4 10 4 9 7
 Justin: God I love that Charm
 Justin: ...really need to pick it up
 Dan: ...and Hino takes 3L
 Jason: so she is invinsible again?
 Justin: Yes, she's invincible.
 Justin: -_-
 Jason: don't know why I even bother
 Dan: Well, that Charm does cost Willpower.
 Justin: if it makes you feel any better
 Justin: she only just barely avoided taking damage that time
 Dan: *smacks self in forehead*
 Justin: ...wait
 Dan: Sheisse!
 Jason: so its a perfect defense that kills the other person
 Dan: It's not perfect
 Justin: she still should have taken 6L
 Justin: *peers at dan*
 Dan: ...how do you figure?
 Jason: and is in the beginning of hte tree..I should get get taht
 Justin: every two sux negates a damage
 Justin: she got...five
 Dan: Actually, that was Dan being dumb.
 Dan: *checks things*
 Jason: don't forget see botched the last turn
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 14 10-sided dice:  7 9 4 3 1 2 2 8 9 5 3 7 10 9
 Dan: >_<
 Justin: okay, she got half of it :p
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  1 8 8 2
 Dan: Hino takes 1L
 Dan: Not 3
 Dan: my bad!
 Session Close (youzhao): Sun May 29 04:07:23 2005
 
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 Session Start (bluespoonman:youzhao): Sun May 29 04:18:20 2005
 Justin: things were getting whacked
 Justin: as I recall
 Justin: we should get back to that
 Jason: so whos turn?
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 13 10-sided dice:  6 8 3 3 9 10 2 3 3 2 4 4 10
 Dan: ^_^
 Dan: Jason?
 Jason: what a happening?
 Jason: I'm I dodging?
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 9 3 9 9 1 8 6 2 6 4 3 7 1 8
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 2 10-sided dice:  7 5
 Jason: 10 for the dodge
 Dan: >.>
 Dan: It wasn't an attack!
 Dan: No one waits for an answer around here!
 Jason: what happens?
 Dan: Hino decides to stop committing Essence to Blinding the Boar.
 Dan: ...freeing it up for worthier tasks.
 Justin: go go Force Decision
 Jason: ic
 Justin: Jedi Mind Trick, baby!
 Jason: that no good
 Dan: (she uses her action for a Simple Charm)
 Dan: Justin?
 Dan: Havoc is, unsurprisingly, under attack.
 Dan: Wait.
 Dan: What the hell am I talking about.
 Dan: Gyaku is under attack.
 Justin: o_o
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 13 10-sided dice:  1 2 2 4 5 1 4 6 3 6 8 7 10
 Dan: Eh, while he's at it he takes a swing at Havoc.
 Dan: >.>
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  8 9 9 10 7 7 1 5 2 2 10 5 5 6 6
 Dan: beat 9
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice16
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 3 10 2 4 2 6 9 3 9 5 6 4 2 2
 Justin: No.
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: ...
 Justin: I guess I burn an action for parrying again
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 9 10 2 9 7 8 9 2 10 1 1 5 5 7
 Dan: ...or you can trust to your dodge.
 Justin: ?
 Dan: Since you still have DoSJ.
 Justin: oh, I still have a dice left on that
 Dan: Unless I missed something...?
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  10
 Justin: wow
 Justin: 9 on the dodge
 Justin: nevermind ^^
 Dan: -_-()
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 12 10-sided dice:  6 9 10 8 3 2 4 1 4 2 5 10
 Dan: Gyaku dodges as well.
 Dan: Havoc's turn.
 Justin: Havoc grabs ahold of two knives still embedded in the monster's chest and effortlessly flips over his head and behind him...
 Justin: ...dragging the knives up his chest, over his shoulders, and down his back, carving him open like a can of sardines.
 Justin: One action for each knife.
 Dan: Hmmm.
 Dan: I'll be generous... 2-die
 Justin: whee
 Justin: *checks stats on knife*
 Dan: He attempts to dodge this cruelty.
 Justin: Fucker.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  6 7 2 9 6 2 10 4 8 8 3 9 7 3 10
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice6
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 6 10-sided dice:  2 7 6 1 3 5
 Justin: 11 on the first
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  1 1 7 2 4 8 6 5 2 6 1 8 7 9 4
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice6
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 6 10-sided dice:  8 9 7 6 6 10
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 3 2 4 4 9 10 5 1 5 6 2 1 8 6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 5 10-sided dice:  9 3 1 1 9
 Justin: 10 on the second
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  1 9 5 9 2 3 7 8 8 3 7 2 6 9 6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  10 7 6 5
 Dan: He twists and drops as you go over, avoiding any further damage from one knife.
 Dan: The other gets 5 success
 Justin: 13L
 Dan: Ping
 Justin: burning 10m on Life-Severing Blow
 Dan: You have 10m?
 Justin: I have 12 :-)
 Dan: o_O
 Justin: remember when I was celebrating about that?
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice5
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 5 10-sided dice:  8 10 10 10 1
 Justin: X
 Justin: -
 Justin: D
 Justin: Nine Lethal.
 Justin: eight after the powery thing.
 Justin: PWN3D.
 Justin: ^_^
 Justin: and that wasn't even with my stunt dice
 Justin: ^_^;;
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice2
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 2 10-sided dice:  7 5
 Justin: which I would have gotten one more success with.
 Dan: Is Havoc wearing a pretty white robe?
 Justin: no
 Justin: it's a deep, dark red
 Justin: is it redder now? :-)
 Dan: Well then, the blood the fans out from the deep gash up and around his torso doesn't show too much.
 Justin: ^^
 Dan: It sprays out and freezes against the ice and stone.
 Dan: He falls, dying.
 Justin: Havoc will go ahead and finish him off.
 Dan: I'm getting a flashback to The Princess Bride, after Wesley kills the R.O.U.S.
 Justin: ?
 Dan: When he stands up, burned bloody and disheveled... walks over, picks up his sword... walks back, kills R.O.U.S.
 Justin: gotcha. ^^
 Dan: He is dead.
 Jason: ah
 Dan: D-E-D-D
 Justin: I KILLED A NON-EXTRA!
 Dan: Whoooh!
 Justin: *dances*
 Justin: Havoc'll head over to help Hino now. ^_^;
 Dan: Gonna use your movement?
 Justin: Yeah.
 Dan: It'll get you about halfway.
 Justin: *nods*
 Jason: you know, I haven't killed a non-extra either
 Justin: I think we kind of want this other one alive x_x
 Dan: You know, you've both killed blood apes that weren't extras...
 Dan: You could just chop at her until she runs out of WP to fuel Shield of Mars with!
 Justin: blood apes don't count >_o
 Jason: I was just pointing out, you weren't the only one
 Dan: Or I could play Deus ex Machina.
 Jason: I was actually planning on that
 Justin: I was planning on running over and clinching her
 Dan: Fair 'nuff.
 Justin: since I have a pretty good amount of clinch dice ^^:
 Justin: go go BotBM
 Dan: Too bad Hino doesn't have Transcendent Hatchet of Fate yet.
 Justin: seriously.
 Jason: I also, was going to break her legs
 Dan: "BWAH! NO WP FOR YOU!"
 Justin: Hino, get Transcendant Hatchet of Fate, like, right now.
 Dan: It has 8 prereqs
 Justin: o_o
 Dan: Possibly the biggest non-MA tree in the book.
 Justin: has to be
 Dan: Isn't it funny when a 9-Charm tree is exceptional?
 Justin: ;-)
 Jason: it is
 Jason: and has a charm I can't even use, but have to learn
 Dan: So.
 Dan: Gyaku runs past Havoc and joins the fray, but uses his action to do so.
 Dan: Initiative!
 Jason: nextg round?
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  9
 Justin: whooooooh!
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 3 10-sided dice:  10 5 9
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 1 10-sided die:  8
 Justin: 23
 Jason: 27
 Justin: ;_;
 Justin: damn you, speedy ninja man!
 Jason: indeed...I've gotten 8 for int the last 4 rounds
 Dan: ...does she still have Blinding the Boar on her?
 Justin: she made him drop it, 'member?
 Dan: Oh!
 Dan: ^_^
 Dan: Forgot about that!
 Justin: oops. :-X
 Jason: so it goes away, even though I just do it and it stays for the rounds....exaslted has weird rules
 Dan: No, all non-Instant Charms can be voluntarily ended before their duration.
 Dan: She made you release it.
 Dan: The Charm makes someone make a single decision.
 Jason: which she forced me to do, which charm did she use?
 Dan: Force Decision
 Dan: Aptly named, eh?
 Justin: Jedi Mind Trick.
 Jason: you could use that charm to make someone not dodge, or something equally suicidle in battle?
 Justin: nothing suicidal
 Jason: what tree?
 Dan: Presence
 Dan: I'm not sure I'd let it cancel a dodge.
 Dan: They'd be like "Yeah, I'm not gonna dodge this one..."
 Dan: ...and then a moment later, go "holy crap! I need to dodge!"
 Dan: Maybe it'd give a penalty.
 Justin: anyway...
 Jason: ic
 Jason: who's first>
 Dan: It's good for either a) what the target it disposed to do anyway ( "you will sell me the antique china set you never liked anyway" ) or b) something that is instantaneous and they have no time for second thoughts about
 Dan: .... evil ninja girl
 Dan: She tries to end this, pronto.
 Justin: cute.
 Dan: *marks off a WP*
 Dan: Jason, you are being attacked.
 Dan: Defend as you will!
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 7 3 4 8 5 1 6 3 4 3 5 9 1 10
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 2 10-sided dice:  9 8
 Jason: 10 jto dodge
 Dan: Don't forget the extra 3 from Minako
 Dan: Who is still alive. :-)
 Justin: poor minako
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 3 5 4 2 4 5 8 9 3 8 3 2 5 8
 Jason: that's counting that....17 dice and I got 7 successess
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 7 10-sided dice:  8 8 2 6 2 2 1
 Dan: ... I'm just brain-farting then.
 Dan: 11 success
 Dan: doesn't meet the 6 difficulty
 Justin: so she misses?
 Dan: Yep.
 Jason: goody
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 5 3 9 4 4 9 3 1 4 5 6 8 7 10
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 11 10-sided dice:  2 5 8 4 2 1 5 7 9 3 4
 Dan: ... o_O
 Jason: how many other attacks is she making?
 Dan: Wait
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 1 10-sided die:  10
 Dan: Heh.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  8 5 1 9 10 6 2 8 10
 Justin: she's going all out
 Justin: trying to gitchoo
 Dan: She decides it'd be funny to give Minako one of her own crescent kicks back... and the poor girl hurtles off the bridge.
 Jason: ic
 Justin: X-D
 Dan: Luckily...
 Dan: ...this is all happening in more or less the same moment, so Havoc still gets the bonus. ^_^()
 Justin: bonus?
 Jason: Havoc is halfway there...he's getting attacked too?
 Dan: anima power
 Dan: Yep!
 Justin: aaah
 Dan: She attacks you two, then scoots off after him
 Justin: after ME?
 Dan: Gyaku has a "I feel so helpless!" look.
 Justin: am I dodging, then?
 Dan: If you don't want to get hit, that might be a good idea.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice16
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 6 2 6 10 6 1 7 2 1 8 7 8 2 8
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  9
 Justin: 11
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  7 4 7 9 7 7 7 2 7 5 1 3 6 9 2
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 10 10-sided dice:  10 5 4 6 4 9 6 10 1 6
 Dan: 16
 Justin: o_o
 Justin: *sigh*
 Justin: burn an action for parry
 Dan: How many motes y'got?
 Justin: 6 left
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  7 7 4 9 5 3 5 9 9 4 5 5 10 7 2
 Justin: parried
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  4 8 5 10
 Justin: 12 motes free
 Justin: ^^
 Dan: *laughs*
 Justin: Havoc thanks her with a malicious bloodstained grin.
 Dan: You cannot read her expression.
 Dan: By the way
 Dan: Havoc notices that he's fighting a chick.
 Dan: ^_^
 Jason: my gturn now?
 Dan: ...yes.
 Jason: I'm splitting my action 3 tims
 Justin: can you catch up with her?
 Dan: Yeah, he can.
 Jason: she used a tatical movement
 Justin: aight
 Justin: yeah, but she also moves at double speed
 Jason: I'm going to jump off a stone column and while in the air over her, I'm going to grab her with my chain and whip her around in the air in a circle, with the chain getting tighter, squeezing her legs and then after bouncing off
 Jason: another column I make the circle vertical and smash her down into a block of ice and let go with the chain, letting her lifeless (or unconscoius) body fall back to the floor
 Justin: Oh! Oh!
 Jason: chill?
 Dan: You only need to split it twice.
 Justin: Havoc will be there to catch her. ^_^
 Justin: oh, nevermind, I thought she was going off the bridge
 Justin: carry on!
 Jason: ah, but I'm doing two squeezing attacks on her legs while in the air
 Dan: Hmm.
 Jason: I meant a bridge of ice, not a block
 Dan: Fair 'nuff
 Dan: That's how I interpreted it.
 Jason: well, two squeezing attacks anyway
 Dan: Okay, just treat it as three normal attacks.
 Jason: So you could catch her Justin
 Dan: 2-die stunt
 Session Close (youzhao): Sun May 29 05:08:35 2005
 
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 Session Start (bluespoonman:youzhao): Sun May 29 05:10:08 2005
 Jason: 12 to hit
 Dan: She leaps above the chain in the initial attack, full inverting above it and landing on the other side.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  8 10 2 2 8 1 5 3 5 5 10 7 8 7 1
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 14 10-sided dice:  7 3 7 6 3 6 10 6 4 10 8 2 6 8
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  8 6 5 8 7 7 6 7 2
 Jason: 8 to hit
 Dan: The first attack misses.
 Jason: miss again I take it?
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  8 2 6 8 8 4 4 9 1 7 5 7 10 1 7
 Dan: ...yes.
 Dan: The dice like her much more than they liked poor Herr Monster.
 Dan: One more attack, neh?
 Jason: I land on the bridge of ice and sit doing nothing, as I can do nothing...the very reason that i had to use boar inthe first place
 Dan: That's no reason not to at least roll your third attack. :-\
 Jason: yes there is, she dodges it
 Dan: ...and, y'know, you can use Blinding the Boar again.
 Jason: no point, I just sit on the bridge the rest of the fight
 Dan: ...
 Dan: See, this is exactly the kind of thing enemy mind control is supposed to do.
 Jason: fine...she beats me
 Dan: x_x
 Jason: just move on, Justin is about to take her out anyway
 Dan: x_x
 Justin: o_o
 Jason: even with blowing Valor and a die stunt I can't touch her....there's no point in me trying...much like the serenity, i sit in the shadows
 Dan: They're dice.
 Dan: Sometimes they come up high, sometimes low.
 Jason: and I don't have enough to beat her 27 or whatever
 Dan: Then don't try.
 Dan: Hino isn't Havoc or Wu-Go.
 Jason: I have 10 without any tricks
 Dan: Then use tricks. *shrugs*
 Jason: That's what I'm doing, I'm not trying
 Jason: That's what I tried, and I failed
 Jason: so, I sit in the shadows as my third attack
 Dan: You do realize she blew WP and a full turn to end Blinding the Boar, right?
 Dan: ...
 Dan: Anyway.
 Dan: Hino, discontent with his neutralizing of a vastly superior foe, sulks.  Havoc's turn.
 Justin: while she's ... distracted with hino, Havoc will rush up behind her, encircling her neck in his arms and lifting her off the ground in a choke.
 Justin: The Sam Fischer Choke Hold.
 Justin: ^_^
 Dan: ..
 Dan: Roll it
 Justin: and I'm using Unobstructed Blow
 Dan: k
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 4 6 3 6 2 10 4 7 5 1 4 1 6 10
 Justin: extra dice?
 Justin: maybe 1? ^^
 Dan: ... 1
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 4 2 8 1 9 1 5 8 2 1 3 8 1 3
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice7
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 7 10-sided dice:  4 5 7 10 7 3 2
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  7 6 8 1 7 1 2 2 1
 Justin: 8
 Dan: 8
 Dan: *chuckles*
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: Minako falls.
 Dan: Gyaku tries for a grapple.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  3 5 2 1 6 1 2 10 8 3 1 10 10 1 3
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 6 10 3 3 3 4 9 8 2 10 4 3 1 6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  3 3 1 4 4 6 5 5 6
 Justin:       o_o
 Dan: -_-()
 Dan: She parries.
 Dan: Her anima flares.
 Dan: Initiative!
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  2
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 3 10-sided dice:  8 6 2
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 1 10-sided die:  8
 Justin: a mighty 16
 Justin: ANOTHER 8?
 Justin: x_x
 Jason: 27
 Dan: Hino goes first.
 Jason: Minako still falling?
 Jason: ?
 Dan: She finished falling.
 Dan: ...and is still conscious, and managed to stay within 30 yards.
 Justin: good girl
 Dan: The blue splashes of the Lesser Sign of Venus are still around you
 Jason: I throw a rock at evil ninja lady....she dodges it, but that rock has two essence in it, thus she loses 5 to her int and can't split
 Dan: Oh, by the way
 Dan: Remember that you're no longer committing Essence to Sidereal Shell Games on the dead guy.
 Jason: alright
 Jason: not going to get igt back anytime soon, so no worries
 Dan: Got any of the Essence Replenishment Charms?
 Jason: no
 Dan: They give you Essence back whenever you burn the appropriate Virtue.  Handy.
 Dan: Even with a -5, she beats Havoc and Minako.
 Dan: Since she can't split her dice pool, she whips out a nasty Combo.
 Jason: have to succeedd though, which isn't happening here
 Dan: Her anima continues to flare spectacularly, and she turns on Havoc with two attacks.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice16
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  7 5 1 2 5 4 5 7 8 3 5 10 2 9 2
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  2
 Justin: 9 -_-
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 5 5 5 9 9 10 3 4 5 5 1 1 6 8
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 7 10-sided dice:  8 1 9 10 5 2 4
 Justin: yus!
 Dan: 10
 Justin: whaaa?
 Dan: It's at TN 6
 Justin: -_-
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 10 7 6 9 9 4 1 1 8 5 5 2 3 4
 Dan: Abort to parry, impede, soak?
 Justin: yeah, I parry it.
 Dan: k
 Dan: Attack 2
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  1 5 7 6
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  9 7 7 5 5 5 6 3 5 1 5 8 2 5 5
 Justin: only get two motes back
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  8 3 3 1 4 3 8 8 8
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice16
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  10 1 1 1 5 8 7 4 4 4 9 9 8 5 1
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  2
 Justin: 10
 Dan: -_-()
 Dan: 8
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  5 6 10 7
 Dan: And one for Gyaku.
 Justin: motes all back now :-)
 Dan: Gyaku says, "guuuhhhh?"
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  10 5 4 3 8 5 6 10 2 3 8 2 3 9 2
 Justin: o_o
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  8 6 8 2 10 1 1 8 9
 Justin: jesus
 Dan: 15...
 Dan: Gyaku, for some reason, decides to dodge.
 Justin: big daddy G might be in trouble
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 12 10-sided dice:  5 9 10 10 5 10 6 4 5 10 6 2
 Justin: O_O
 Dan: raw of 16...
 Justin: x_x
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  4 1 1 6 4 9 7 7 8
 Justin: don't die, G-man!
 Dan: he takes 3L
 Justin: :-p
 Dan: and is well into the -1's
 Justin: heh
 Dan: Gyaku bleeds.
 Dan: What does Havoc do?
 Justin: havoc splits for two unobstructed blows.
 Dan: She attempts to dodge...
 Justin: going for the clinch again
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice19
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  8 5 3 6 6 3 6 7 1 4 2 10 4 1 4
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  4 7 7 8
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  7 3 9 10 3 10 5 7 9 2 3 6 10 7 8
 Justin: the dice are not being kind to me
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  5 3 1 1 10 1 5 1 10
 Justin: 7
 Justin: which she dodges effortlessly
 Dan: .... a lot.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  8 1 3 2 8 10 10 4 2 8 4 5 8 8 1
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice3
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 3 10-sided dice:  6 10 4
 Justin: 11
 Dan: Humorous thing about Sidereals and DoSJ - you can't ruin them with one application of Sidereal Shell Games. :-)
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  1 9 1 9 4 4 10 4 3 10 8 3 10 6 4
 Justin: :p
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  3 8 1 2 7 5 3 4 8
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: 12
 Justin: Havoc goes off and sulks with Hino. ;-)
 Dan: T_T
 Justin: next turn?
 Dan: Yes.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  7
 Dan: Initiative.
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 3 10-sided dice:  2 6 8
 Justin: 1921
 Justin: ack
 Justin: 21
 Dan: Jason?
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 1 10-sided die:  7
 Jason: 26
 Dan: Havoc is getting clinched.
 Justin: x_x
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice16
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 1 8 4 2 7 7 5 6 1 7 5 9 9 5
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  5
 Justin: a mighty 9 on the dodge
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 7 2 3 9 8 7 2 2 4 8 4 9 6 10
 Dan: Curse you!
 Justin: :p
 Dan: Hino's turn.
 Jason: i throw a dagger at her
 Justin: oh, damn.
 Dan: Doing anything in particular with it?
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 5 10-sided dice:  4 7 8 7 8
 Justin: I should have just taken the clinch and reversed it on her
 Jason: no, just at her, maybe in the hand
 Dan: You do realize you can use Sidereal Shell Games to just give yourself 5 Dex + MA dice, right?
 Jason: she dodge it or parry it?
 Dan: She dodges.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  4 4 2 9
 Justin: I got a couple motes back. ^^
 Jason: I have plenty of that dice....not sure if she does
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 9 4 3 7 8 8 9 5 9 1 3 7 7 4
 Dan: Hino feels quite certain from watching her that she has at least Dext 5
 Jason: well can't do nothing about it till next turn, and besides don't have the motes for it, not enough to get make it worth it
 Dan: Havoc's up.
 Justin: havoc will split each of his actions twice
 Justin: and just ... whack her.
 Dan: k
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice19
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  9 1 2 2 9 7 2 3 4 9 10 1 2 3 3
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  10 7 1 4
 Justin: 9
 Dan: Not using any Charms, then?
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  10 7 1 7 5 5 6 5 7 2 2 1 10 2 2
 Justin: nope
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  1 1 9 3 3 2 1 2 2
 Dan: ...
 Dan: She parries.
 Dan: Her anima flares.
 Justin: Mm.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 4 5 2 1 5 5 1 2 6 7 6 10 3 1
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice3
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 3 10-sided dice:  7 4 2
 Justin: FOUR.
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  7 4 4 9 5 4 7 7 6 9 7 8 10 9 2
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 1 2 9 6 3 10 1 10 6 1 2 6 8 6
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  8 5 9 2
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 4 5 10 10 1 9 7 8 9 6 9 3 7 1
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  1 2 3 1 3 3 6 4 4
 Justin: 8
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: Dodge.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice15
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 15 10-sided dice:  2 2 9 10 6 8 1 10 1 6 10 1 6 8 7
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 6 3 3 8 9 3 9 1 6 9 4 8 4 8
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice3
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 3 10-sided dice:  1 6 9
 Justin: 11
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  10 5 5 7 6 4 8 1 3
 Dan: 10
 Justin: WOOT
 Justin: 6B raw
 Dan: Aren't you using the knives?
 Justin: no
 Dan: Or did you drop 'em?
 Justin: dropped 'em
 Justin: punchin'
 Dan: Mmm.
 Dan: Ping.
 Justin: will use my last four dice for two automatic HLs
 Justin: four motes, rather
 Dan: k
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice5
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 5 10-sided dice:  8 7 10 5 10
 Justin: and do four more on top of that ^_^
 Justin: specifically not trying to kill her, incidentally
 Dan: 3 more, actually. :-)
 Justin: right, right.
 Justin: that enough to incap her?
 Dan: Not quite.
 Dan: She wavers, though she keeps her feet.
 Justin: >_<
 Justin: would spending a willpower help?
 Justin: seriously, this is taking fucking forever
 Justin: x_x
 Dan: Ah, feck it.
 Justin: I have 1 willpower left.
 Dan: Well...
 Dan: She has 2.
 Dan: One more turn.
 Justin: how about being an angry Havoc and hissing at her to give the fuck up before he knocks her unconscious and lets Hino kill the fuck out of her?
 Dan: She'd probably roll Valor.
 Justin: Let's do that, then. ^_^
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 5 10-sided dice:  5 7 2 3 6
 Justin: by the way
 Justin: she lost a valor.
 Justin: :-)
 Dan: @_@
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  5 1 7 1
 Dan: She bleeds at you!
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice7
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 7 10-sided dice:  9 10 8 3 8 9 8
 Justin: seven successes on an intimidation roll
 Dan: ...
 Justin: I think I beat her little valor success, yes?
 Dan: ...
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 13 10-sided dice:  6 9 2 10 6 7 4 3 8 6 10 4 6
 Dan: seven successes on an intimidation roll
 Dan: ;-)
 Justin: -_-
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  [CENSORED]
 Justin: ...
 Dan: ...
 Justin: pretend I didn't roll anything just now.
 Dan: You rolled something?
 Justin: -_-
 Justin: nope!
 Dan: I didn't see anything.
 Justin: me neither.
 Justin: where were we?
 Dan: Rolling the last initiative.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice1
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 1 10-sided die:  5
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 3 10-sided dice:  3 8 10
 Dan: @_@
 Justin: 19
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: She wins initiative.
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 1 10-sided die:  3
 Dan: She holds her action.
 Jason: 22
 Dan: Hino goes first.
 Justin: Hino?
 Jason: what the hell, one last try....i drop down from the bridge onto the bitch with my chain in a garotte pattern and snape her neck
 Dan: Burnin' Willpower or anything?
 Jason: and I'll even make it BCGT
 Dan: k
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  4 10 1 4 8 4 1 7 1 6 5 2 6 10 9
 Jason: I'll blow a conviction,making it so I have no virtues left, and most of them spent for no damn good reason....and a will
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 13 10-sided dice:  10 3 6 5 3 9 1 7 2 1 8 7 3
 Dan: ...doesn't your weapon have accuracy?
 Jason: 8 successes
 Jason: no
 Dan: Hrm.
 Justin: did you use a TN reducer?
 Jason: she sees it and then dodges it I take it?
 Jason: no, spent a will
 Justin: I see.
 Dan: She takes the hit.
 Dan: Oh, wait
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 13 10-sided dice:  5 7 6 9 6 6 2 4 9 2 10 10 8
 Dan: ...ne'er mind.
 Justin: x_x
 Dan: Anyway, she takes the hit.
 Jason: no extra?
 Dan: You don't lose any successes.
 Dan: She doesn't dodge.
 Jason: that's even worse
 Jason: Mayham66 rolled 15 10-sided dice:  5 1 4 5 10 3 7 5 8 9 4 8 5 5 8
 Jason: 6 dam
 Justin: wonder if she has enough left for another Shield :p
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  3 2 1 8 8 6 6 4 2 7 7 1 9 7 10
 Justin: oh geez
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  6 2 1 10
 Dan: Havoc takes 1L
 Justin: x_x
 Dan: She takes 1L
 Justin: and falls unconscious?
 Dan: She drops to one knee, bleeding from a wound in her kneck.
 Jason: so now one takes any lethal
 Jason: no, not now
 Dan: (Her anima flares when she used SoM, obviously)
 Dan: She is officially at -4
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 9 10-sided dice:  4 10 2 7 7 6 2 5 9
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 15 10-sided dice:  3 5 6 1 1 1 4 2 8 1 2 6 8 1 2
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 5 10-sided dice:  2 5 1 3 7
 Justin: o_o
 Dan: ...
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 4 10-sided dice:  8 1 9 4
 Dan: Gyaku punches her in the head and she folds.
 Dan: Go 1B!
 Justin: -_-
 Justin: Havoc slaps the cuffs on her
 Dan: She loses her last 3m
 Dan: :-)
 Justin: more an academic thing at this point than anything else
 Justin: yeah
 Dan: Do you have any idea how much Essence she spent? o_O
 Justin: Hey, at least she has motes left.
 Jason: a lot probably...but how much?
 Justin: had
 Dan: 111, actually
 Justin: o_o
 Jason: at least you get them back
 Jason: wow
 Dan: She'd just spent her last WP and 5m of her last 8m on Shield of Mars, hoping to knock Havoc out.
 Justin: I get that mask off her
 Justin: who the hell is she?
 Jason: I burn the body of the stupid monster and think about doing the same to that fucking Sideral
 Dan: She looks... familiar.
 Dan: Despite the anima, she has no caste mark.
 Justin: I tend to the Sidereal while he does it and hope Hino doesn't kill her at some point when I'm not looking. ^_^
 Justin: Familiar?
 Dan: Roll... Perception + Socialize!
 Justin: spending my last willpower for the hell of it
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice4
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 4 10-sided dice:  3 4 3 6
 Justin: one success!
 Justin: -_-
 Dan: ~_~
 Justin: fucking dice hate me
 Dan: She's hot.
 Justin: Rowr!
 Dan: Don't think too much farther.
 Justin: can I use that willpower for a virtue instead? -_-
 Dan: Her hair is odd - smooth black with a couple misplaced streaks of blonde.
 Dan: Sure!
 Justin: which would apply?
 Dan: Compassion.
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice3
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 3 10-sided dice:  9 9 6
 Justin: two successes!
 Jason: i search the place for anything interesting
 Dan: She reminds you a little of Mebla Dul...
 Justin: ...
 Justin: *clickity-click*
 Justin: .....
 Dan: Waiyaddo no Dan rolled 7 10-sided dice:  9 9 9 10 7 9 1
 Dan: o_O
 Justin: o_o
 Dan: Minako hobbles up and looks at her.
 Dan: "Why, Master Havoc!" she exclaims.  "She looks like you!"
 Dan: >.>
 Jason: she had a freakin half caste too....jesus
 Justin: Havoc drips blood.
 Jason: and this one was Havocs
 Justin: I'm kinda glad you didn't kill her now. ^_^
 Dan: Actually
 Dan: You'd know that she's far more powerful than a half-caste could be.
 Justin: y'think?
 Dan: The screen wavers!
 Dan: Ripples and swims!
 Justin: oh shit, am I having a flashback?
 Dan: Sort of.
 Justin: %_%
 Dan: I'm too tired to do a proper one.
 Jason: true, she had more than 3 Essence, more than 7 or 8 even
 Justin: feel free to generalize, then.
 Dan: You remember an... acorn.
 Justin: an acorn?
 Dan: Something about cheating the rules of Exaltation.
 Justin: o_O
 Jason: what a cheater
 Dan: You remember her telling you that she was horrified and had destroyed the abomination.
 Dan: You remember her... lying.
 Justin: Mmm.
 Dan: Int + Occult!
 Justin: //roll-sides10-dice5
 Justin: blue spoonman rolled 5 10-sided dice:  3 6 2 4 5
 Justin: nothin'.
 Dan: I'm assuming Havoc is all broody and doesn't voice any of this?
 Justin: yeah
 Justin: 2 3 4 5 6
 Justin: I got a straight
 Justin: does that give me any successes?
 Dan: Hino hears Minako say that the unconscious chick looks like Havoc.
 Dan: Sadly, it's beaten by two of a kind.
 Justin: damnit
 Justin: but I don't have enough motes for harmony of blows!
 Jason: hmmm, Hino will do some research later
 Jason: on this matter, but for now, he continous to search for anything interesting
 Justin: he should probably see if he can't find the people we came here to save
 Dan: Wu-Go reappears promptly with Ms. Obol and Izumi.
 Justin: oh, well, that'll do it.
 Dan: Izumi looks somewhat the worse for wear, but he insists he's fine.
 Dan: Ms. Obol is pretty much fine.
 Jason: Since apparently I find nothin of interest I guess we head back
 Dan: You do find the manse's hearthstone.
 Justin: we can't leave without blowing the place up or something!
 Dan: -_-()
 Jason: none of the peeps had it on them?
 Justin: Havoc will look around, too
 Dan: For whatever reason, they did not.
 Justin: well
 Justin: nah
 Justin: maybe not
 Justin: he's busy brooding and whatnot
 Jason: what level manse is this?
 Dan: From the interior and the hearthstone, you'd guess 4... maybe even 5.
 Dan: Definitely Air-aspected.
 Jason: guess I'll take the hearthstone with us, for the locker'
 Dan: @_@
 Dan: You get the impression that further detailed investigation might be worthwhile...
 Justin: I suppose we'll start hiking back, then
 Justin: ...or not.
 Dan: ...but you guys have better things to do right now.
 Justin: well, havoc certainly plans on checking it out at some point
 Justin: since this place might have some info about his past and that sort of thing
 Dan: *nods*
 Dan: The yeddim remains waiting outside.
 Dan: "mmmmrrrrrrrrmmmmmm," it says, with loving concern.
 Justin: Havoc will go ahead and carry the girl out to the yeddim
 Justin: get ready to go
 Jason: guess we head on out
 Justin: after recovering his daiklave, of course
 Dan: Of course.
 Justin: how long until she recovers?
 Dan: If you don't keep her unconscious, she should wake up on the way back.
 Dan: I think.
 Dan: *checks*
 Justin: alrighty
 Justin: Havoc doesn't keep her unconscious, he merely keeps a very close eye on her
 Justin: there's a good chance she'll wake up at swordpoint
 Dan: Ah, no
 Dan: It'll be a few hours.
 Dan: About the time you get back to Yu-Shan.
 Justin: I figured we were going to HQ
 Justin: oh
 Justin: we have to go through Yu-Shan to get to HQ
 Justin: dur
 Jason: have to go through yushan to get there
 Justin: yeah
 Justin: the waking up at swordpoint bit remains relevant, then :-)
 Dan: The lion dogs at the gate express their concern about the glowering young woman's intentions.
 Jason: prisoner
 Justin: Havoc assures them that she is being kept under control.
 Dan: "I see," says one of them gravely. "I am sure one of the celestial lions on duty would be glad to escort you."
 Dan: Meanwhile, Gyaku opens the gate.
 Justin: Why do I suddenly have a bad feeling about this?
 Dan: I dunno. Why do you?
 Justin: >_o
 Justin: I'm recalling the last time we tried escorting a prisoner through Yu Shan, I suppose.
 Dan: Don't be silly.
 Dan: ...
 Dan: Just go through the gate!
 Dan: ^_^
 Justin: *does so*
 Dan: The celestial lions offer similar concerns.
 Dan: Mostly because of the shape the Sidereals are in.
 Jason: mention again that she is our prisoner that we are escorting to the Convention of the west
 Justin: Havoc assures them, through gritted teeth this time, that they do in fact have the young lady under control.
 Dan: The apologize and say that they meant no offense.
 Dan: The head lion shrugs and waves you by.
 Jason: hop in the gold lane and shot off
 Justin: vroom!
 Dan: Vroom!
 Dan: She complains that the cuffs hurt her wrists.
 Justin: She gets a glare in response.
 Jason: she gets two actually
 Justin: oh shti
 Justin: shit
 Dan: ?
 Justin: carry on ^^
 Dan: ....?
 Justin: as in "Oh shit! Two glares is scarier than one!"
 Jason: guess we get to our exit gate
 Dan: You guys are at your gate before more than five minutes.
 Justin: head through back to HQ
 Jason: hop out and get out of Yu-Shan
 Dan: The celestial lions tense up when they see you, as a squad of beat up Sidereals is never a good thing.
 Dan: Similar song and dance, they wave you through.
 Dan: ...and you guys are in your beloved HQ.
 Dan: Or at least, most of it.
 Justin: is it any more wrecked than it was last time?
 Dan: Nah.
 Justin: Havoc will ask the girl at some point if she has a name.
 Dan: Gyaku express concerns about whether HQ has the facilities to hold someone that strong.
 Jason: that's good
 Dan: She is uncooperative.
 Jason: what is the strongest material a room is made of
 Justin: Havoc tells him that she'd like to hold her somewhere nearby for a little while, at least...
 Justin: ...since he has various questions that need answering.
 Dan: There might be parts that are made of jade, in full or part.
 Jason: "you have anyother siblings?"
 Justin: :p
 Dan: She remains uncooperative.
 Jason: should put her in one made of jade and I'll blow couple effect points to make it so she can't teleport in or out for a season or more
 Jason: in other words she doesn't answer?
 Dan: Yeah.
 Justin: I could just bring her to the dojo and have the fair folk help keep track of her :p
 Dan: Gyaku's concern is about how strong she may be without using any Essence.
 Jason: Like she'll do it
 Dan: Limiting her Charms doesn't do much good if she can kick the door off its hinges.
 Jason: "Well, she isn't being very cooperative, we could just slit her throat now and get it over with"
 Jason: comment is made loud enough for her to hear if she isn't right by him
 Justin: Havoc raises an eyebrow at her to see how she responds to that
 Dan: Izumi does not disagree.
 Dan: She maintains a stoic silence.
 Dan: Izumi thinks aloud that maybe a few weeks of brutal interrogation would give her a more positive attitude.
 Jason: it might
 Jason: also said aloud
 Jason: "Though drugs and pyschological torture can work well too"
 Dan: It's at about this time that Nuran shows up.
 Jason: "well you got my vote in the matter"  Hino goes to office taking Izumi along, talking about a special study session
 Dan: ...good stopping point?
 Justin: what does Nuran have to say?
 Dan: *eyes bleary*
 Justin: fine by me :p
 Justin: give us lots of xp, dan. x_x
 Dan: He gives Izumi a pat on the shoulder and nods warmly to Ms. Obol, expressing his great joy at having them back safe.
 Jason: i guess....though its almost too late for sleep
 Justin: Havoc ruins the atmosphere! ^^
 Dan: "...who is this girl?"
 Jason: so I'm going to schedule a special study session on the techniques of torture for the junior operatives
 Justin: "That remains to be determined," Havoc growls.
 Jason: she was helping the monsters of Mebla Dul though
 Dan: "Is she a possible threat?" he demands sharply.
 Justin: "Not at the moment."
 Jason: and has the ability to use our charms
 Jason: "As long as the cuffs stay on her and has 24-hr surveillence"
 Dan: "We don't have time to deal with her right now.  I want her locked up and under guard, but we need to get the Convention in functioning condition again first and foremost."
 Dan: "We can decide what to do with her after she's stewed a bit."
 Jason: "We don't have the facilities to guard her right now"
 Justin: Havoc offers to keep an eye on her.
 Dan: He snaps, "then find someone who does.  I don't care if she's Cecylene's niece, we can't afford to lose the progress we've made in the West."
 Jason: Hino waits for Nuran's response to Havoc's suggestion
 Dan: Nuran does not feel that one of the Convention's operative can be tied up with guard duty at a time like this.
 Dan: operatives, even
 Justin: "Then I can have Qienzhiahi tend to it."
 Jason: "Let's just put her in a prison in Yu-Shan for now then"
 Jason: "If she can keep her mind focused on it long enough"
 Dan: Nuran says he'll leave it at your discretion, as long as it does not in any way interfere with fixing the Convention.
 Jason: o
 Justin: Havoc nods.
 Jason: "We'll have to leave the cuffs on if we leave her with the Fair Folk"
 Jason: tells Havoc after Nuran walks off
 Jason: guess we'll leave it in your hands then
 Justin: Havoc nods and heads off to the dojo with the girl
 Dan: *nods*
 Dan: Let's cut it off there.
 Justin: okie doke
 Justin: xp?
 Dan: Am I feeling generous?
 Justin: oh yes
 Jason: freakin Medbla Dul
 Jason: sounds good
 Dan: 20xp sounds nice.
 Justin: ^^
 Jason: indeed
 Dan: Haven't decided how much downtime.
 Jason: how much should I tell J?
 Dan: 3, + 5 for end of story
 Justin: does that 20 include the end of story?
 Dan: Yes.
 Justin: alrighty
 Justin: I think I will finish up the CMoS preforms ^^
 Dan: Like I said, you may or may not have 2 months to do so.
 Justin: *nods*
 Dan: ...though Nest of Living Strands is nasty.
 Justin: oh jeez
 Justin: yeah it is
 Dan: Cumulative! T_T
 Dan: Especially if you have something that gives you a bonus to your MA
 Justin: combine that with BotBM
 Justin: yeah
 Dan: It's not an attack or parry, so BotBM doesn't apply
 Dan: :-p
 Justin: oh?
 Dan: Yeah.
 Dan: Of course, Sidereal Shell Games would. *laughs*
 Dan: I'm curious how effective it would be for Hino to use SSG to screw up every defensive tactic someone tries using.
 Justin: *nods*
 Justin: CMoS Form gives you Unnatural Many-Step and Dance of the Hungry Spider every turn for free x_x
 Dan: "He's dodging? I'll steal his dex + dodge.  Fighting in Melee?  Yoink.  Using Shield of Mars?  His Dex + Res is mine!"
 Justin: man I can't wait to get that frigging charm
 Dan: Yeah. You didn't know that?
 Justin: I knew it, I just didn't really know what those Charms did very well until just recently
 Dan: You realize that lets you use your hopping defense to escape into the air?
 Justin: yeeeup
 Dan: "I attack him." "I go upwards!"  "I jump!" "I go farther upwards!"
 Dan: btw
 Dan: Those knives were ... *searches memory*
 Dan: Spd +5, Acc +4, +10L, Def +3
 Dan: Or something.
 Dan: Including starmetal bonus.
 Justin: crazy
 Justin: I would probably have collected them when I collected, uh, her.
 Dan: That's what I figured.
 Dan: Note that knives are form weapons for both VBoS and CMoS
 Justin: anything particularly distinctive about 'em?
 Justin: yeah
 Dan: They're very light and wicked sharp.  What more do you need?
 Justin: an "I BELONG TO:" sticker?
 Justin: :-)
 Dan: You mean, like being attuned to someone? :-p
 Justin: :p
 Dan: I'ma get breakfast.
 Justin: I'ma go to bed
 Justin: good game
 Justin: ttyl
 Session Close (youzhao): Sun May 29 07:24:12 2005
 

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Yes, we had a ten-hour combat for a game of Exalted. ^_^ ~ G
Took soooo loooonnnnggg....Mayham66

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