1.0 - The Rescue of Hethan Romund

Csillag tears off towards the bridge and Kaveri turns at the noise and runs as well. Both of them make good time, but are about 30 meters from the west end of the bridge when they spot Dagger on the bridge, attempting to fire one of the slugthrowers he picked up from the hunters. They see Heyop right on Dagger's heels, as he ducks behind a pillar and levels his slugthrower. Of the two mercenaries from this side of the bridge, there is no sign. Which is kind of weird. In the far distance, they can see two other mercenaries -- one standing, one kneeling, wielding their blaster pistols menacingly.

Dagger's slugthrower simply doesn't wish to cooperate. It belches slightly and kicks in his hands as it fires, striking one of the pillars towards the end of the bridge, causing small chips of wood to go flying and floating aimlessly down into the rushing stream below. Unlike Dagger, Heyop's aim seems a bit more on-target as his slugthrower barks its projectile down the length of the bridge and into the standing mercenary. The mercenary takes the hit, but his blast vest helps keep him standing.

Heyop's target -- the standing mercenary -- aims carefully back at Heyop and fires a shot with his blaster pistol. The shot skims the pillar that Heyop is hiding behind and nicks him in a puff of wood and smoke. Heyop takes 2 wounds.

The kneeling mercenary also aims and shoots, but at Dagger. He's feeling slightly better that although this guy can apparently throw people off of bridges, he can't hit the side of a bantha with a rifle. Or so he thinks, anyway. However, his cockiness gets the better of him and the shot goes wide -- but just barely. Dagger is fairly certain he felt the heat of that bolt as it streaks past and buries itself into a tree a few meters in front of Csillag with a flare of sparks.

OOC: Next round. Players then NPCs.

Heyop's intake of air is a bit longer than he expected as the pain hits him as he grinds his teeth. $#*!... Oh... you two want to play huh? Heyop thought to himself his lip curling taking aim now that he's in position to shoot from a better vantage. His breathing is held and he slowly squeezes the trigger.

(OoC: Taking a moment to aim and taking a shot on the same one since it's always better to share the pain.)

EDIT: Advantage spending (5): Heal up one strain (1), I'd like to give them both a set back dice (2 advantage each) (3,5).

GM note: The way I read Quickstrike is it's a bonus per encounter, versus round -- but since both your dice are equal, I'll just ignore one of the boost dice. As a result, I'll (unless you say otherwise) hand the next player roll a boost die rather than delivering a setback die to a random one of the mercenaries due to losing one advantage.

OOC Note: Csillag and Kaveri are 1 maneuver away from 'long' range. I know Kaveri has a weapon that can hit at that range, so I won't assume she's continuing to run. Csillag doesn't, so I'd assume Csillag would keep running full out, which would put her 1 maneuver away from medium range. Let me know if I'm assuming incorrectly.

Ok. It's long range, so it's 3 difficulty dice if you want to get to 'long' and fire. If you want to keep closing, let me know.

Dagger manages to hold on to the slugthrower as it kicks and sends a slug into the kneeling mercenary. While Heyop's shot lays his target flat, blaster pistol clattering to the ground. Csillag keeps up the speed, holdout blaster in hand, and crosses past the edge of the bridge and is about halfway to Dagger and Heyop.

(OOC: I'll wait on Kaveri depending on whether or not she stops at long range and shoots (with a roll) or continues closing the distance).

(OOC: In order to keep things moving, I'm going to go with the spirit of Kaveri's expressed intent).

Kaveri reaches the end of the bridge and rushes up against a pillar, she snaps around and lines up a shot with her blaster rifle, intending to take down the last of the mercenaries. Her shot lands on the mercenary's shoulder and spins him to the left where he sprawls to the ground -- and no longer moves.

(OOC: We're out of combat now -- back into narrative mode. What next?)

(OoC: Since the setback dice was switched out to a booster dice for the next ally check would Kaveri get that? If not would someone else be able to use it to check us over for injuries?)

Response: Ohyah.. modified. :)

The mercenaries are each carrying -- or were in the cast of their Blaster Pistols -- a blaster pistol, a vibroknife and a comlink. Given two of the mercenaries are being carried downstream as you speak, there are only two of each available. The blaster pistols of each of the mercenaries are near to hand lying on the ground.

(OOC: Dagger - there was 10 XP awarded earlier, but that's it so far. FFG seems a little stingy on XP, wanting ~several encounters before awarding ~10 XP). I'm still learning how I'd like to balance it -- but for now if you haven't taken that 10 before, you have 10 pending.