Quote from: Age of Fable;266126Are there any taxis or public transport?

[Nope, but how Green of you to ask .  

[You were asleep during the trip here, so you're not certain exactly where you are, but if you had to guess you'd say it was the Elvesbeard Heights, a formerly well-heeled neighborhood mostly abandoned and run-down since the galactic nav-beam failed and Vanth got cut off from the spaceways.  Northern suburb of God City.]

Quote from: ttagxamm;265919Around dawn the goons are back.  Under the whips of a team of drovers, they haul out a cart filled with tarnished robo-perc units, and roll empty kegs down the ramp.  Bleary, bruised and grumpy fighters line up for coffee.  No rolls are served.

Quote from: Rondo;265600Buck and Zarko are keeping their eyes peeled for any action that might be heading their way, "Wonder if I should just start something", Buck says looking for another fight to get him towards the end of this thing.  "How's Creature holding up?", he asks Zarko...he also surveys some of our new crowd, taking stock of what sort of gang is on hand in case things heat up soon.

Buck checks out the new recruits, and finds them mostly a sorry lot.  There's a pair of human twin brothers barely old enough to shave, a planetary ape with the mange and a red-faced, overweight vulkin, and Buck can't figure how any of 'em made it through Day 1.  

A bit more promising is a sneering ratling with a nasty grin and a strapping lizard man, both of whom are a bit banged up but eager for action.  Rounding out the new meat are a lanky wooky in a coonskin cap and dusky-skinned human with a sly grin.

[You can give these guys names if you want to.  More later, as time allows.]

Quote from: ttagxamm;265590[Anyone who took damage heals 1-4 HP]

[No need to make a separate post for it, but let me know how many HP you've healed next time you post.]

I think I only took one point, so I'll say that I rolled a 1. (If my ability to scan back through messages is impaired, and I actually took more than one point, please let me know...)

Quote from: age of fable;265688"maybe we should, as i believe the young people say, split the scene?" i ask quazarn.

"totally."

Unbidden, Bob the Fighter and One Eye Malone make a coffee run for the crew.  The 'run' part turns out to be literal, as the two of them jog back to camp as quickly as they can laden down with 10 coffees each.

"Trouble coming!" calls out Bob, motioning over his head with a jerk of his head.  "Three-mother!^$#@ing-headed pissed off $h#t-damned giant," adds Malone.  

Well, technically a giant.  At first you don't see him at all.  Then you realize that this particular giant is only seven feet tall.  It's three-headed for sure, though, and it definitely looks P-Oed.  It stomps deliberately across the arena, sweeping aside anyone foolish enough not to clear aside.

At the same time there's an alarm from the rear!  A trio of elves in graduation gowns and mortar boards struts up to your perimeter.  "Doctor Dropkick!  Professor Pain!  The Head-Masher!"  Each in turn strips down to a speedo and wrestling boots.  "Ass-kicking class is now in session!"

"Quazarn, can you cast some kind of don't-look-at-us spell?"

Buck, at first, starts grinning at the 3 headed micro-giant heading towards him, that should grow in perspective, but instead shrinks as he moves towards the party.  Then he hears the eleves in mortar boards, spins and takes in their proclamation of "ass kicking being in session", and bursts out laughing.  Buck is gonna attempt to grab and lift one of the PhD. elves over his head in order to chuck him at the giant when the giant is ontop of us.

(I rolled a "4" on my hit point restore a second ago)
Attack: 46%
Damage: not sure what to roll, if any
Save: 22% (missed by a point, I think)

Quote from: Rondo;267198Buck is gonna attempt to grab and lift one of the PhD. elves over his head in order to chuck him at the giant when the giant is ontop of us.

[Awe-some, dude.  This is a grapple, so we'll count that 46% as a Feat roll.  The elf gets to oppose with his own Feat roll.

[In order to pick him and throw him you'll need to succeed with a Great Feat.  In order to pick him and throw him *at the giant* you'll need to succeed at, hmmm, two Great Feats.  The giant and the elves are a ways away from each other, so you'll have to carry the elf for awhile to get within elf-chucking range.

[For more on grappling, see this post.]

Quote from: Age of Fable;266557"Quazarn, can you cast some kind of don't-look-at-us spell?"

[Since the good Doc has been doing an impressive invisibility act of his own , I'll field this.  As a warlock Quaz can make himself invisible using his Invisibility percentile chances.  Since he's not currently the center of attention he can do this at ability cost.  He would need to use a spell to make others invisible.  

[Hobson can use Invisible to blend in with the crowd and be generally inconspicuous.  Sneak might also be useful, depending on what you hope to do.]

OK - I ask him to render himself invisible.

If it works, I'll just walk out of here, being as inconspicuous as possible.

Zarko takes a coffee and pops the lid off of the to-go cup. He sips it idly as he walks over and studies the elves.

He smirks, as if these guys won't be too tough to beat at all.

Then he throws the coffee in the face of one of them (I'm leaning toward the Head Masher here, but I don't know which one Buck grabbed), upon whom he then launches a Sneak Attack.

Initiative (+4): 14
Sneak Attack (62): 08 (!)
Damage (+0): 1
Saving Throw (37): 95 (I'm so screwed...)

Creature chugs a couple coffees and waits to see if the elves and the giant come to hurt us or help us.

Oh, they seem hostile.

Attack: 34% HIt
damage: 10
Save: 21% make

Creature throat punches the giant.

Buck picks the Elf up like a ragdoll, I think...i rolled an 8% for the first Great Feat!  As I walk to chuck him, I roll a 71 % for the second Great Feat, which I'm hoping means he gets chucked elbows over ass, but I think I missed the "giant".

Quote from: Age of Fable;266557"Quazarn, can you cast some kind of don't-look-at-us spell?"

Quote from: Age of Fable;267274OK - I ask him to render himself invisible.

If it works, I'll just walk out of here, being as inconspicuous as possible.

The warlock disappears!  Erm, completely.  Not only is he invisible, but completely silent, odorless and possibly incorporeal as well: Hobson touches nothing when he reaches a hand into the space where Quazarn stood an instant ago.

With a shrug, the hobling sets off, trusting the moody warlock to keep up with him.

[I made the Invisibility roll myself rather than make you wait, Fable.  You out there Doc?

[Now, where exactly are you headed?]