Chapter 2.0 - Into The Black

Eli fires at whomever is furthest away (1 level of Effort to improve accuracy)

Edit: oh well I didn't need that extra effort to hit after all. But with the 20 I will use the extra damage)

Diego fires at the thief who is just recovering his balance, but his rounds go wide, instead striking the terminal. The monitor collapses in a shower of sparks and electricity arcs, and the room lights flicker a few times before going out. A moment later dim, red emergency lighting kicks on, bathing the room in a dim, red glow. {GM Intrusion}

Eli ignores the flickering lights and pulls the trigger. His spike rifle fires and the thief at the terminal, tearing his helmet and part of its head off. The beings hands fling upwards and it bounces off the sparking terminal before it finally topples over onto the floor. It's 'skull' is bulbous and pulsates grotesquely, and may be made of more cartilage material than bone. Aliens, oh snap.

The two thieves manhandling, er, alienhandling the dangerous looking device, drop it and spill backwards to opposite sides of the room. The one to the right (T2) claws at its weapon and clears it from its holser. The one to the left (T3) bumps into a tool bench and comes up with two small cannisters in its hands.

The alien on the floor (T4), spins the industrial press off of him and stands up, grabbing his rifle on the way.

The aliens have all acted. Floats and AJ are up.

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{GM Intrusion} due to the bright light in the corridor versus the darkness of the room, there will be an additional level of difficulty shooting into the weapons lab as well as dodging fire emanating from the weapons lab. Diego take 1 xp and give 1 xp to another player.

{Aliens} Eli's "Fights Aliens" focus came into play, granting an extra 2 points of damage (13 = 7 + 4 from the nat 20 + 2), which killed it.

Eli fires another spike rifle shot, at T2 (1 level of effort for accuracy again

Floats on Thunder's strange attack sends the alien a-wobbling but before it can get its senses back under control, AJ and Eli both fire. While AJ's blaster bolt fires high and to the left, harmlessly dissipating on the wall, Eli's spike hits true once more and the alien goes down (T2).

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Diego is up, then Jeapa and the aliens.

Diego's machine pistol clips the target, opening up some cosmetic damage but inflicting no actual injury. (Missed by 1 after reflecting the darkness penalty).

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In The Strange and other Cypher System games, the GM never rolls to decide the outcome of an action. Jeapa's attack is up next so if one of you could post a roll on her behalf, Ill take the first roll posted and describe the outcome, and then describe the alien's actions.

Jeana fires..

It absolutely would, but targeting the hand is more difficult than targeting the whole creature, so we would move the step up by one. The step-difficulty has already been increased by 1 due to firing into a darkened room. In total, that would make it a step 6 difficulty, requiring a roll of an 18 or above. Your call.

Floats and AJ both dive far enough away that the explosion does little more than ruffle their hair.

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Game system note: As AJ is specialized in SD, the difficulty is dropped by two steps, or 3 for half damage, 9 for none.

Ooc I'm not sure if my Cypher will permit additional Speed defense rolls for these attacks (Effect Resistance - for a day, provides additional resistance to direct damaging attacks, except blunt force, slashing or piercing attacks. If level of attack is 6 or less, the user gains an additional defense roll.) If not ignore the 2nd roll of each pair...

Hmm not sure where my first rolls went. I will do them now (or you can count the ones above as the first; your call)

Eli also dives away from the explosion, which throws off the aliens blaster rifle shot. He rolls to his feet unscathed.

Jeapa flattens herself behind the doorway and likewise comes out of the bombspray none the worse.

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{Game System Note} As Eli is trained in speed defense, the difficulty was dropped one step and his first roll was a marginal success.

Just waiting on Diego's SD roll.