The Mission

The miners agree to the plan if you'll give them a gun. <"They heard a gunshot. I'll tell them I killed the madman.>" (in German)

Irish tosses over his handgun, hoping that the villagers hadn’t been hiding their murderous urges thus far.

"Right. Good luck!" he says, to faces that surely don’t understand.

Irish scoots back as far as he can manage, while also being close enough to defend the hole from any descending soldiers with his sword.

The miners converse rapidly and then move toward the hole. (in german) <"We're coming out, don't shoot. There was a madman down here! He attacked us with sword and gun.">

The lead nazi yells back down (in german) <"Throw guns and swords into the middle where we can see, then let's see this madman."> The ominous sound of guns being readied echoes down the shaft.

A romanian miner grabs the sword and tosses it to lie under the hole. The other tosses Irish's gun beside it.

The rope comes down, and the romanians are lifted out. When the last one goes up, you hear the nazi leader tell two men, (in german) <"Go down and check for more of these madmen, then bring those weapons back up.">

Do you hide, or ambush them?

One by one, the Romanians are brought up the shaft. You hear the beatings begin, but your trained ears tell you that it is a warning they're being given, not truly awful treatment.

When the two Nazis come down, you've perched yourselves around the collapse that you have to climb over to get to the blue crystal shaft. Here, you have places to hide all around, and cover, too.

You crouch down, allowing the darkness and shadow to be your allies.

The two Nazis search the area, send the weapons back up, and then begin searching the tunnels. They're not all that thorough, but their lights do shine around randomly. When they get to the collapse, you're in position to strike!

An attack with surprise will grant additional Stress against successful attacks. If your weapon has the Subtle property, +2 damage dice, if not, +1.

Go ahead and make your rolls. Gunfire will obviously draw reinforcements.

Status Table
Momentum: 2
Threat: 14

Dan waits for any light to be focused elsewhere and lunges at one of the Germans, attempting to cover his mouth and punch him in the face, maybe breaking his jaw or nose.

With just her one good arm, Sabine sits out the assault, instead holding her PP in a white-knuckled grip, praying she doesn't have to use it. It'll be a last resort -- hopefully the boys will make short work of the two grey-clad soldiers...

Silence is a virtue. Now more than ever! Irish springs forward, teeth gritted but no sound comes to his throat! He strikes heavy and deliberate, meaning to cut the men down before they can screech!

Dan gets behind and is successful in getting his mouth over his face and his other fist pounding to the flesh near his kidneys. One Stress, and the Nazi #1 has his mouth covered.

Swann follows the boys out of hiding and stabs the Nazi Dan grabbed.

Irish's sneak attack does brutal damage, skewering the Nazi. Blood pours from his mouth and he drops to his knees, body paralyzed as death comes.

That was the ambush round, now we're into normal combat. These troopers are a little weaker than the mad Romanian, so drop after 1 injury.

Any one of you can go first, after which the ganged up remaining Nazi will go.
Status Table
Momentum: 2
Threat: 14

Anything worth doing once is worth doing twice. Swann takes advantage of the fact Dan still has this Nazi restrained to see if he can add some holes.

"Take that, you bastard!" Irish mutters into the man’s ear as he cuts him down dreadfully!

Now it was a case of dispatching the remaining Nazi before he let loose a shout!

Swan gets in close and with a handful of quick strikes the Nazi slumps over, dead.

Combat is over.

"That little shit, Hitler, would be better off using the villagers as soldiers and the Germans as diggers. They went down like a sack of spuds, didn’t they?" he says, with a shit eating grin on his face.

"Yeah. Against all odds, we came out alright. We're a good team."

Finding Sabine who was able to remain uninvolved in the fight, he asks, "How ya holding out, Sabine? Arm giving you shit ... er trouble? Everyone else ok? We got all our fingers, toes, and organs still?"

Sabine quietly shushes the others, trying to get them to keep their voices down as the two dead Germans are laid on the ground. "Good work, but what now? Are there not more waiting, above?"