<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">[Vesper]</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Vesper casts energy field as a firing wall he can use for cover while blasting away at the now obviouslly hostile brain things.</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">He maintains fire on one trying to drop it before switching to a new target.</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">"Get yourself someplace safe barber !"</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Rolls to strike with energy rifle</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">18 +3 =21 If hit damage is 6d6 MD = 21</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">12 +3 = 15 if hit damage is 6d6 MD = 19</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">reseving other actions to check on the barber and for defensive actions.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The energy field can take 60 MDC.<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Aaron Clausen <mightymartianca@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> The Tao of Cow Rifts PBEM <taocowpbem@zork.net> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, March 29, 2012 3:43 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Taocow PBEM] [Alex, Oz and Justin] Book 3 - Chapter VII - New Camelot<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>> [Justin]<BR>> Justin nods to Ted, and steps out into the hall, closing the door<BR>> behind him, standing guard.<BR>> [/Justin]<BR><BR>[GM]<BR>As Justin walks outside, he sees
something of this scene from some distance down a wide hallway.<BR><BR>There's little time to get involved, as two guards turn a corner and point their guns at Justin.<BR><BR>"Drop all weapons and identify yourself immediately!"<BR>[/GM]<BR><BR>>> [GM]<BR>>> ...<BR>>> <BR>>> Alex takes a strike at it [Strike: 1 critical failure], but<BR>>> misses, and worse, the ladder twists beneath her. At the last<BR>>> possible moment she manages to grab the chandelier [Strike: 27]<BR>>> before the ladder falls, but now finds herself dangling by one hand<BR>>> from a swinging chandelier, her knife in the other.<BR>>> <BR>>> Oz is momentarily distracted by a loud crash from behind him, and<BR>>> sees a tall ladder fall to the ground. Above he sees Alex dangling<BR>>> from a chandelier, and, as awful as it looks, what is clearly a<BR>>> floating brain turning its attention to her. He also
notices about<BR>>> four or five of the attackers suddenly stop attacking the King and<BR>>> stand there looking very confused.<BR>>> [/GM]<BR><BR>> [Alex]<BR>> Holding on with one hand, Alex stabs at the floating brain with the<BR>> blade in her other hand [Strike: 20 not natural].<BR>> <BR>> She is also desperately hoping that the chandelier holds up.<BR>> [/Alex]<BR><BR>[GM]<BR>With amazing deftness and strength, Alex swings over and plants the blade into the brain. An oddly harmonic chord sounds forth as the brain-thing begins to shrivel like the other one she had destroyed in the underwater base. She feels her whole body go numb as the blade digs itself in [Damage: 22MDC].<BR>[/GM]<BR><BR>> [Oz]<BR>> The German frowns and unloads his pump pistol at the floating brain.<BR>> He shouts over his shoulder in the direction of the melee. "Sir<BR>> Prrcyvel! I believe this creature is controlling the
king's<BR>> attackers!" [Strikes: 11, natural 20, 10].<BR>> [/Oz]<BR><BR>[GM]<BR>Oz starts blasting at the brain-thing [Damages: 13, 32, 13MDC=58MDC]. The brain spins around, yanking Alex, still holding the blade that is digging into the brain-thing, from the chandelier.<BR><BR>The creature crashes to the ground, torn to shreds. Alex, on the other hand, is almost glowing, the glow brightest in the hand holding her blade.<BR><BR>Meanwhile, Sir Prrcyvel, having heeded Oz's warning, and with almost inhuman dexterity, spots one of the other brains, leaps several feet into the air and begins to battle it.<BR><BR>In short order the chaos in the chamber has turned to an odd silence, as the attackers seem utterly disoriented and confused. Their attacks wooden and ineffectual.<BR><BR>The King is able to punch his way to the edge of the fray.<BR><BR>"Hurt no more of these men!" he cries. "They are under a spell. Constrain them and bind them, and Lord
Mrrlyn will attend to them and learn the means by which they were ensorceled.<BR><BR>The King catches sight of Justin down a hall. "And who is that?" he shouts. "It does not look like anything of Splugorth manufacture."<BR><BR>"Now, have at the rest of these brain things!" he shouts, opening fire on another one.<BR><BR>As this area is quieter, a battle outside the palace can be heard. A man races in. "Alas, we are beset by rebels!"<BR><BR>Alex and Oz can see through the front doors more soldiers battling with each other. Clearly there are more brain things about.<BR>[/GM]<BR><BR>-- Aaron Clausen<BR><A href="mailto:mightymartianca@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:mightymartianca@gmail.com">mightymartianca@gmail.com</A><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Taocowpbem mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Taocowpbem@zork.net"
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