[Taocow PBEM] Chapter XVIII - Into The Heart Of Darkness - Koba, Talas and Carlos

[Aaron Clausen]

OOC: Whoops, put this one under the wrong subject.

> > > [Talas]
> > > Talas parries, the blade of the demons Sword, with his Wakizashi [Parry: 14]
> > > And blocks the demons sword arm with the Katana [Strike: 19], in the hope of
> > > doing severe damage to the demons arm.  "I am glad, I could trust
> > > you demon. I would have been so disappointed if you had not been
> > > true to what you are!"
> > > [/Talas]

> > [GM]
> > Talas manages to parry the demon's blow, and then cuts into its sword
> > arm [Dodge: 18, Damage: 12].  The demonic flesh parts, and black blood
> > spills out.
> > [/GM]

> > [K'murd-faka]
> > The demon shouts in pain and attempts to break away and cut at Talas's
> > abdomen [Strike: 15], and manages to get through [Talas's Dodge: 13].
> > The sword cuts into Talas's armor [Damage: 18MD].
> >
> > "And you won't disappoint either, Queller." the K'murd-faka laughs.
> > "You'll die with a blade that has killed more than one of your kind
> > drinking your soul!"
> > [/K'murd-faka]

> [Talas]
> Talas will follow the demon's sword passes with a death blow [Strike:10]
> and a round house kick [Strike: 20 not natural, Damage: 17MDC].
> Travelling in the same direction.
> [/Talas]

[K'murd-faka]
The K'murd-faka demon manages to block Talas's death blow with his
free arm [Dodge: 16], but cannot dodge the round house kick [Dodge: 12].
The demon is knocked back, barely keeping his hand on his sword,
which he tries to strike at Talas with [Strike: 1 critical failure], but simply
slicing the air.
[/K'murd-faka]

> [Talas]
> Talas will then await the demon's next attack, at which time Talas
> will perform a disarm maneuver [Strike: 20 not natural].
> [/Talas]

[K'murd-faka]
The K'murd-faka again attempts to stop Talas [Dodge: 9], but fails,
and the sword goes flying from its hands.
[K'murd-faka]

> > > > > [Koba]
> > > > > Shocked by the sudden disappearance of Lady Frost right in
> > > > > front of his eyes, Koba dissolves his force field and pats at
> > > > > the ground where she was to try to find any trace of her.
> > > > >
> > > > > "He still has her. She is not here"
> > > > > [/Koba]

> > > > [GM]
> > > > There is nothing there.  It's then that Koba sees several of the blue
> > > > dwarfs moving quickly towards him.
> > > > [/GM]

> > > [Koba]
> > > Feeling foolish for trusting any demon to hand over anything, his
> > > optimism quickly fades in the face of the dwarves charging him. Koba
> > > turns and let's loose a burst at the dwarves [Strike: 3] to keep them back.
> > > [/Koba]

> > [GM]
> > Koba's burst goes badly wild, and the dwarves close in on him.
> > [/GM]

> > > [Koba]
> > > they get within 50 feet, so Koba takes to the skies again on the
> > > jetpack.
> > > [/Koba]

> > [GM]
> > The dwarves curse as Koba flies into the air.  Two of them take out
> > some very nasty looking crossbows and begin aiming at him.
> > [/GM]

[Koba]
Koba will take an aimed shot at the crossbow of one of the dwarves
hoping to disable it or scare him away. He will atempt to dodge if
they get a shot off before him.
[\Koba]

> [Koba]
> Koba takes an aimed shot at the crossbow of one of the dwarves
> hoping to disable it or scare him away [Strike: 7].
> [/Koba]

[GM]
The dwarf creature easily sidesteps the shot [Dodge: 19].  It returns
fire [Strike: 11].
[/GM]

> [Koba]
> Koba attempts to dodge [Dodge: 12]
> [/Koba]

[GM]
Koba just barely dodges the shot.  It's at that moment that Alex's
message comes through on the radio:
[/GM]

> [Alex]
> "I just had something extremely  weird happen. Some witch appeared.
> Something then seemed to take her away."
>
She then proceeds to give them a quick run down of the witch melting
a path through the forest to some ruins in the distance.
> [/Alex]

[K'murd-faka]
Suddenly the K'murd-faka screams out "No!  Kerak-zukul-imak!  The
witch has betrayed me."
[/K'murd-faka]

[GM]
The blue dwarves suddenly give up any attack on Koba, and race towards
Alex's location.
[/GM]

[K'murd-faka]
The demon leaps to its feet.  "I'd love to stay and chat, Queller, but I have
pressing business."  Above one of the pterodactyl birds can be seen
approaching at great speed.
[/K'murd-faka]

--
Aaron Clausen
mightymartianca at gmail.com