The Necessity of Travel

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Aug 9, 2024 10:51 pm
Brother Irwin doesn't join the ones who arm themselves with the fallen weapons, but he murmurs a prayer on behalf of their previous owners. While they wait for the dragons to venture out, he goes over the plan again with the rest of the group. "Are you thinking of convincing the village to cross over and live here?" he asks.

The pained sounds of the dragons makes Brother Irwin wince. He was the one responsible for it. Rather than take up a sword, with which he'd most likely cut himself, the scribe looks for a length of wood or iron that can substitute for a truncheon.

Still, he waits for the others to take the lead.
Aug 13, 2024 2:45 pm
Falconloft sent a note to testlum
@Emberskyes,@Ysolde,@GameMaster What's the consensus on your next move? Get down there while they're still under the effects of the plums, or wait to see what happens?
Aug 13, 2024 5:32 pm
OOC:
I say get down there ASAP
Aug 14, 2024 4:07 am
OOC:
I would agree, sorry I've been knee deep in getting my mom into assisted living starting in September.
Aug 16, 2024 1:09 pm
Irwin's makeshift truncheon (close, forceful) is readied and cleaned up a bit before you make your way into the well. You lower yourself down the long, narrow shaft, until finally, your feet manage to touch down on damp, slightly slick, stone. Just below your landing, the shaft ends in water, so the well isn't completely dry, but at some point in the past, this cave either opened up through the well shaft - or more likely, the cave was underwater and only relatively recently dried up enough to show itself.

The two lizards are sprawled rather uncomfortably a few yards away from the shaft, and one of them looks as though it's nursing its hip. As you drop in, they begin to rouse, but you've clearly caught them off guard.
Aug 18, 2024 5:29 pm
Oxana moves to pin one against the ground with her shield and finish it off with a series of stabs from her sword.

Rolls

Iron / Hack and Slash - (2d6+0)

(56) = 11

Damage - (1d10)

(4) = 4

Aug 18, 2024 11:05 pm
Brother Irwin flinches on seeing Oxana's sudden switch to violence. He bites his cheek and makes himself go forward with a clumsy swing.

Rolls

Defy Danger (Heart) - (2d6+1)

(43) + 1 = 8

Aug 19, 2024 5:18 pm
Johnsan pulls out his bow and knocks an arrow, which is still dripping purple. He dipped his arrows in plum juice just before they headed down, hoping that the plum would continue to act as a poison to the dragons. At the sight of Oxana taking on her lizard, he lets out a scream to confuse the remaining lizards and lets loose as many arrows as he can fire in the short time, hoping to take down the other lizard.

Rolls

Volley (+Edge) - (2d6+1)

(63) + 1 = 10

Aug 20, 2024 2:02 pm
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Oxana's blade pierces the beast, but it's not finished off yet. It rears back and tries to twist its head down and around so it can sink its teeth into her side. Irwin slams his club rather ineffectually into the other one, not doing much damage but forcing it back so that Johnsan gets a good shot at it. It hisses and opens its maw defensively, ready to bite Irwin.

Irwin for his part, even though he knows the violence is ultimately necessary, just can't take it. His head spins as his club impacts, and he's forced to drop back, leaving himself open to attack.
OOC:
@testlum - Irwin is Shaky so -1 Edge for a while.
@Ysolde - What's Tatianna doing in the middle of all this?

One note. Some of you may know this already, but PBtA doesn't really use turns. Even in combat. When I narrate results, you can immediately go again. Even though your enemies are fighting, unless they have a special move that triggers, they don't get turns. A character only actually suffers a monster’s attack when:
-- I set up an attack with a soft move, and you ignore it
-- The results of a move (like Hack and Slash) says that they do
-- You roll a 6- on pretty much any move, and I decide to use their attack as my move.

Rolls

Johnsan's damage - (1d4)

(4) = 4

Irwin's damage - (d6)

(1) = 1

Aug 20, 2024 2:38 pm
The scribe trips over himself in his hurry to get away from the monster. Mud splatters all over his clothing. He crawls backward on his elbows and bottom, eyes fixed on the back of the dragon's throat, the wobbling thing there.
Aug 20, 2024 7:47 pm
She pulls her sickle from her side; the sturdy and sharp weapon was crafted well by Oxana. She smiles at that thinking that her friend will appreciate Tatianna using it to come to her aid.

Rolls

Iron/Hack and Slash - (2d6+2)

(56) + 2 = 13

Aug 21, 2024 5:44 pm
Johnsan will continue to fire arrows into the monsters, screaming the whole time and trying hard not to back up or give any ground.

Rolls

Volley (+Edge) - (2d6+1)

(21) + 1 = 4

Aug 21, 2024 9:55 pm
OOC:
Don't forget to roll damage if you succeed (whatever is on your sheet) and mark XP if you fail entirely.
Aug 22, 2024 1:15 pm
@testlum - are you meaning your post to be just the narrative of your roll, or is that meant to be that he's backing out of the fight?

@emberskyes - you've got Tatianna backing you up now, does that change your plan of attack?
Aug 22, 2024 1:31 pm
OOC:
I hadn't really been considering the meta level, I mostly thought It's What My Character Would Do™. If that's disruptive to the game, though, I'm happy to have Irwin act more helpfully in combat.

In character, Irwin definitely wants to back out. OOC I'm good whether the not-quite-a-dragon still wants to take a bite out of him or not.
Aug 22, 2024 2:04 pm
OOC:
I just didn't want to deprive you of a chance to act if you had something in mind.
Aug 22, 2024 2:14 pm
OOC:
All good. GM move time!
Last edited August 22, 2024 2:14 pm
Aug 22, 2024 2:19 pm
Oxana continues to use the shield to pin the lizard as best she can against the wall or the floor. "Just die already!" She shouts at the creature continuing to stab at it with her short sword. Her hammer might feel like a more natural choice in her hand but this was not a place she wanted to be swinging.

Rolls

Iron - (2d6+0)

(64) = 10

Damage - (1d10)

(3) = 3

Aug 22, 2024 3:56 pm
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The first lizard stops moving under Oxana's shield, but the other lunges for Johnsan, sinking its teeth into his hip and ragdolling him to the ground.

Rolls

Tatianna's damage - (d6)

(1) = 1

bite! - (d6)

(5) = 5

Aug 22, 2024 4:03 pm
This may be the end for Johnsan*, but he's got a chance to hang in there IF you guys can take this other one out quick enough!
OOC:
* He had 2 HP which I didn't remember 'til just now.

Also, to explain a bit - which I'm not going to make a habit of because I feel like it takes away from the danger if you always understand exactly why I do things - if I get the chance to make a move because of a character's actions, it doesn't have to be against that character. In this case I had Irwin on the ground, but I also had Johnsan's 4 that I hadn't done anything with yet. I was supposed to put him in danger, so this is it.

He's not dying yet, just unconscious, but you need to get this thing off of him soon.
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