[IC] Sudden Payback (Session 2)

Ah, ok. So then I'd be in an advantageous position, and it does Brawn+Success damage, right? If so, that's 6 damage before soak (even after the red). And the change from a threat to a failure makes it just 2 successes with no threats.

No, he had you in advantageous position, so now you're back to neutral. Then, yeah, Brawl + Success for damage. The 1 Threat remains, as it's a special ability of Petrovich.

And forgot the...

BOSS BATTLE MUSIC!

Wait, but I rolled 5 Adv, 5 Threats. So if he rolled one less threat, then I'd have 1 Advantage. Which is negated by Petrovich's ability, meaning a total wash on Advantages and Threats. Unless I miscounted...

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, final roll ends up 2 success 1 advantage, and his special ability adds 1 threat that negates the advantage. Final total is 2 success. The re-roll confused me. :)

Is this the guy with the bum shoulder or was that the guy that failed to get all handsy.

We can say the one who missed is the one with the pulled muscle. There's no game effect of the pulled shoulder, mind you; that was just a bit of circumstantial evidence to alert Max that this guy seems to have been herding people around.

Max and Marv are up! If Max uses a maneuver to give a command, he can have his pup take a turn, too.

Eskaton, give me an easy upgraded Athletics or Coordination check (R).

Then Max gets his go!

I'll wait for the results before I go but dang thinking about what might happen stirs up my gut if that was a real situation.

Yeah, 2 advantage can bring your predicament to Max's attention. He still has a go, so he can try to break your fall with an Average upgraded (RP) Athletics check. The upshot is that if he succeeds, you avoid falling damage. If he fails, it's 10 wounds and 10 strain, but soak does apply.

Whatever happens, do not worry. Marv knows that he has lived for he went to THA X-TREME! Real talk, playing RPG characters who do dangerous stuff I'd never do is what makes things fun (tm).

Absolutely! Rule of cool, for sure. And failing can lead to even more extremes: Bruce Willis took a lot of damage in Die Hard while killing all the baddies.

If you want Duke to try to break Marv's fall, you just need to expend a maneuver to give him that command. I'll add another upgrade if Duke is to do this, though, since he's only Silhouette 0. So he rolls RR to stop Marv's fall. Upshot of this approach is Max still gets his full turn (minus the maneuver to command Duke).

Alternatively, you could sacrifice Duke's turn to get a skilled assist from him, as dogs get Athletics 1. This would represent him snapping and growling at the bad guys to give Max more room to maneuver under the falling Marv, but it would be Max's roll rather than Duke's, so no auto-upgrade (so just upgraded average difficulty: RP).

I wanted to try and drag Petro over to use as the cushion was what I was asking since he's still a threat and isn't really going to wait for me to focus before another sucker punch.

OK, that'll be a tall order: Grappling vs. Grappling, so RRRRR difficulty with the upgrade. You can move him where you want him for a Triumph or 3 advantage.