An Evening With the Mercury Theater [OOC]

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Nick Cimitiere, Equinox, and Nocturne deal with tripods from Mars, in honor of the holiday.

[PurpleProse]

Tagging in!

Nocturne's going to be Teleporting out to the park.

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All right, for the Tripod, we'll be using AA's Kaiju build, with the following modifers:

-TOU +20 comes solely from Protection, as the thing has no CON score and Immunity (Fortitude effects).

-It also has Blast 12 (Extras: Area Cone).

Tripod goes on 9.

Nick goes on 9.

[PurpleProse]

Initiative 1d20+6=20

Nocturne goes on 20!

[Ecalsneerg]

Initiative?

Equinox's initative; Hayley's initiative (1d20+1=8, 1d20+3=20)

As per standard, Hayley will delay until Equinox's action, i.e. at 8

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Here's the order:

Nocturne: 20, Unharmed, 2 HP

Nick Cimitiere: 9, Unharmed, 4 HP

Tripod: 9, Unharmed, 0 HP

Equinox: 8, Unharmed, 4 HP

Nocturne is up first.

[PurpleProse]

Danni is going to Snare the thing from behind. Move action to get up in the air, standard attack to launch a Snare at it.

Attack Roll 1d20+5=24

If we're using the Kaiju stats, it's a hit. Snare is a DC 24 Reflex, and has Toughness +14.

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And the tripod gets pinned.

Nocturne: 20, Unharmed, 2 HP

Nick Cimitiere: 9, Unharmed, 4 HP

Tripod: 9, Unharmed, Entangled, 0 HP

Equinox: 8, Unharmed, 4 HP

Nick is up next, and he uses Ereshkigal's Talons on the creature. That hits on a 17 even before the -2 to DEF from Entangled, so it needs to make a DC27 Toughness save. It resists. The Tripod then unleashes an Area Cone Blast on Nocturne, Nick, and Equinox. DC22 Reflex to halve, DC27 Toughness to resist. Nick makes his Reflex save, is Bruised and Dazed.

Nocturne: 20, Unharmed, 2 HP

Nick Cimitiere: 9, Bruised x1, Dazed (Tripod's Action), 4 HP

Tripod: 9, Unharmed, Entangled, 0 HP

Equinox: 8, Unharmed, 4 HP

Equinox is up next.

[PurpleProse]

Reflex 1d20+8=10

Looks like Nocturne doesn't dodge out of the way. Can her defenses hold?

Tougness 1d20+15=26

Ouch! Just barely tagged her. Nocturne is now Bruised

[Ecalsneerg]

DC 22 Reflex save for half, followed by DC 27 Toughness save (1d20+6=11, 1d20+11=24) She takes a Bruise.

Standard Action: Roll to hit and to grapple using Telekinesis (1d20+11=28, 1d20+14=33)

Move Action: Attempt to throw the machine directly upwards. I'm not sure how much it weighs, though, but her heavy load is 1600 tons.

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That will hit, and the tripod... manages to resist. One of the problems of behemoths is they often have Grapple bonuses out the wazoo.

Nocturne: 20, Bruised x1, 2 HP

Nick Cimitiere: 9, Bruised x1, Dazed (Tripod's Action), 4 HP

Tripod: 9, Unharmed, Entangled, 0 HP

Equinox: 8, Bruised x1, 4 HP

Nocturne is up next.

[PurpleProse]

Nocturne is going to move away from the group, circling around to the back of the tripod and blast it with a Baleful Blast.

Attack Roll 1d20+5=21

Hit! DC 29 Toughness Save.

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It takes a Bruise, and is Dazed.

Nocturne: 20, Bruised x1, 2 HP

Nick Cimitiere: 9, Bruised x1, Dazed (Tripod's Action), 4 HP

Tripod: 9, Bruised x1, Dazed (Nocturne's Action), Entangled, 0 HP

Equinox: 8, Bruised x1, 4 HP

Nick spends an HP to shake off Dazed, and goes at it with Ereshkigal's Talons. That's a 29 on a DC16, so... +6 from Autofire, for a total TOU save of 33. Which the Tripod makes.

The Tripod is Dazed, so Equinox is up next.

[Ecalsneerg]

Free Action: Extra Effort to Power Stunt the following effect:

Trip 15 (Extras: Opposed by Dexterity [+0]) [15PP]

Standard Action: UNLEASH THE TRIP!

Power Attack it for 5, lowering her Attack to +6 and upping the Trip's rank to 20. Roll to hit with the Trip vs Alien tripod, roll to trip the tripod [opposed roll vs Dexterity] (1d20+6=17, 1d20+20=21)

Spend a HP to re-roll that damned 1. Down to 3HP (1d20+20=38)

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Timberrrrrrrrr.

Nocturne: 20, Bruised x1, 2 HP

Nick Cimitiere: 9, Bruised x1, 3 HP

Tripod: 9, Bruised x1, Dazed (Nocturne's Action), Entangled, Prone, 0 HP

Equinox: 8, Bruised x1, 3 HP

Nocturne is up next.