Getting Your Hands Dirty (Event)

[Thorn Wyatt]

Both Donovan and Triton rush into the battle, joining the conflict in progress! Donovan nails the first axe-wielding man, sending him stumbling backwards, while Triton drills the second in his stomach, hunching him over.

However, both Triton and Donovan find axes swinging towards them from other identical axe-wielders, coming from both sides in front of them. The horde of enemies seems… endless.

Player One pries the boards off pretty easily, as they’re not in particularly good shape in the first place. The building itself is empty of its inhabitants, leaving only a simple wooden table and some chairs within. The front door is closed, and there’s a window that faces the center of the village, where the humming sound is the loudest.

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(Triton and Donovan, roll a d20 – 5. If you get a 7 or lower, you get hit by one of the axe wielders for 20. Anyone who wants to look out the window in the house, roll a d20 + PER stat. If you get a 30 or lower, you fail and are seen!)

[Donovan]

Donovan blocks a few axes with his arm, sending fire flying at his attackers, however, one axe would catch him on his side cutting him. Donovan hissed in pain even as the black smoke began to wisp about his body which filled him with power... but no rage.

"So, this is what it feels like? I like it."

Donovan grinned as he grabbed the man's axe out of his hand and used it cleave open his head!

"Back to back, Blue Boy!"

Donovan would call out to the only person who joined him. Curious why only one person from the entire Cabal force present joined him in the assault? Cowards. However he would position himself to where the blue guy was behind him as he took on the next challenger!

SPOILER: Click to show

Fire Lord's Left Arm: +3 Atk +4 Def

This arm is very heavy, but amazingly durable. It's weight lowers the speed of the person who has this arm installed by 25%, but increases their ATK by 15%. Every attack the arm blocks builds 1 stack up to a max of 4. Once having at least 2 stacks can use them to release the speed restriction from the arm, making the user 25% faster instead and causing the arm to attack with fire elemental damage adding 50% their energy stat to their attack stat. 1 Stack = 1 Post. Can not build anymore stacks if ability is triggered.. Every attack blocked with this arm up to 4 times causes a burst of flames to attack outwards from the impact zone like blades that do the wearer's Energy in damage.

Zero Ability/First Gift (Upgraded): When Donovan takes damage that causes him to bleed a black mist flows around his body and his muscles become more refined and he has an increase in strength and Defense (and rage) +20 Atk +12 Def

Atk: 64
Def: 42

Stacks: 1
Qi: 1/10

[Preston Salabim]

Preston keeps close to the walls, trying to sneak a peek out of the window to see what they were dealing with.

@the Remembered rolled 63. (3, 60)

[Allison Kazim]

As curious as she is, Ali's gut says not to look in right away, especially with the missing bit of wall and the fight outside. She'll wait to see what is found, instead looking for the clearest path to where those in distress may be!

[Stigma Wyatt]

Stigma's mind was preoccupied with that noise, so she'd look out to see if it was something visible or not.

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@unrivaled RAGE rolled 43. (8, 35)

[Player 1]

Player One... HAS A LOT OF PEOPLE FOLLOWING THEM! Who are these people? What's going on? We just don't know!

Player One does know one thing though. Abandoned buildings mean abandoned goodies, and absolutely no one would ever live in a place as run down as this! They pick up and pocket the boards and furnishings, before heading over to their hole to look both ways before completing the loot and scoot. If it's clear, away they go down the alley to the next house to repeat!

Always look both ways before you cross the back alleyway. Do you need to roll perception for looking to cross the street? Let's find out!

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0 level: Take That! - Player 1 can take generic objects or items owned by Player One and put them in their inventory! The max size of the item they can take is their current height, doubling for every 10 points of energy they have.

Qi Use: 2/10

[Triton Augustus]

Victory was well met by Triton as he struck the face of the bent over foe with his scaled knee. There was no greater joy than to see him fall.

Soon extinguished was the joy, however, for the blade of an ax was placed within his back. A cry of great pain Triton did below. His scales still of iron, the islander attempted to swing his fist around and strike the opponent with the backside of his hand. Whether met with success or victory, if the weapon was not already removed by the adversary, Triton would take it himself and wield it as a weapon. Once the blade was removed, he obeyed the command of his ally and connect their backsides.

"Tell me, friend," Triton requested with pain perverting his voice. "What is your name?"

[Rolled 5 - 5 = 0, roll failed.

Qi uses remaining: 10/12

Iron Scales: Triton can harden the scales that cover his body, allowing him to take more punches and deal them back harder, giving him +100% Eng to Atk and Def

TRITON TRANSLATOR: He tries to back hand the attacker behind him, and then remove the blade. If he misses the attacker but the blade is still in there, he removes the blade and holds it. If the blade was removed by the attacker, then Triton goes about his merry islander way. In any case, he goes back-to-back with donovan, with or without backhanding the guy, with or without the blade]

[Thorn Wyatt]

Triton finds the axe is pulled away, as the man is rearing back to take another swing, aiming for the blue man’s leg this time! However, the backhand sends him spiraling backwards, giving Triton time to get back to back with Donovan.

Donovan finds a third attacker swinging an axe, this time for his chest, while two more are pressing in from the sides.

Player 1 gets away with no rolling a perception check this time, as behind the houses is too far for those within the centre of the village to see them. However, they would have to roll if they were heading to the front of the house.

Ali finds evidence of something of a struggle, as there are clear drag marks towards the closed front door of the house. Clearly, the inhabitants were forcibly removed.

Preston and Stigma both catch sight of an axe-wielder walking by the front window, but it passes by. From their vantage point, they can see the centre of the town, where a dozen axe-wielders are standing guard, pushing two villagers towards a hairy creature, who lifts one and drops it in what looks like a massive tube next to it, leading underground. They also have a good view of what looks like an endless stream of axe-wielding identical men coming out from two nearby houses, heading out to reinforce the front lines.

[Donovan]

"Not now!"

Donovan would call out as he caught the incoming Axe with his metal arm sending flames flying at the man! Donovan would spartan kick the burning man backwards! Focusing on the two coming from his sides. Whoever reached him first would be trapped and thrown into the other!

SPOILER: Click to show

Fire Lord's Left Arm: +3 Atk +4 Def

This arm is very heavy, but amazingly durable. It's weight lowers the speed of the person who has this arm installed by 25%, but increases their ATK by 15%. Every attack the arm blocks builds 1 stack up to a max of 4. Once having at least 2 stacks can use them to release the speed restriction from the arm, making the user 25% faster instead and causing the arm to attack with fire elemental damage adding 50% their energy stat to their attack stat. 1 Stack = 1 Post. Can not build anymore stacks if ability is triggered.. Every attack blocked with this arm up to 4 times causes a burst of flames to attack outwards from the impact zone like blades that do the wearer's Energy in damage.

Zero Ability/First Gift (Upgraded): When Donovan takes damage that causes him to bleed a black mist flows around his body and his muscles become more refined and he has an increase in strength and Defense (and rage) +20 Atk +12 Def

Atk: 64
Def: 42

Arm Stacks: 2
Sheath Stacks: 2
Qi: 2/10

[Preston Salabim]

"There."

Preston whispered, pointing to the scene unfolding.

"Obviously that is what needs to be neutralized."

He had no idea what the monster was, some type of Qi beast he assumed. But he'd never seen one like it before. It was a mystery he would have to look into. As well as how there were so many duplicates. He could guess it was somehow turning the people going into the tubes into them. But how was the question? It was unusual behavior for a Qi beast.

[Triton Augustus]

"Ah, yes, well I am Triton Augustus, son of Poseidon, warrior for the islanders and mainlanders alike, hailing from an island beyond the seas of Territory 235!" he gladly proclaimed whilst taking part in any defensive actions that demanded heed. Pain tainted his voice still, but it was no match for the joy he found in his name.

[Player 1]

Player One does not plan to go around the front of the house, unless that's the only path available to get closer to the center of the village! Their plan is instead to just repeat as they've done; Go into house, take out some boards, go to next house, staying out of sight while hopefully getting closer as they go!

[Allison Kazim]

Between the tracks at the front door and the qi beast and tubes, Ali's pretty sure that's a lot of "not good" in one area. She frowned and looked back to the beast with the tubes.

"Beast and tubes both need to be stopped, I assume." Were the copies coming from it, or forcing it? Questions for later. But given the tubes seem to go underground, it seemed a safe bet.

[Stigma Wyatt]

"Indeed. But there's also the situation with the two houses releasing more of those copies. It's unlikely they're just standing around within waiting for their turn. Not at the volume they're exiting at."

She'd glance at Ali and Preston since they were discussing as well.

"I will prioritize the houses and see what can be done."

The two of them, she assumed, would be checking out the center of town. Either way, Stigma would try to see what the best way to those houses would be without being detected.

[Thorn Wyatt]

Donovan’s fire flares out, causing both men to lift their weapons as they’re blinded by the flames. It lets him knock one into the other!

Triton sees two axe-wielding men sprinting right at him, one aiming high while the other aims low, intending to cut right through him into the man behind him!

Player One finds that, eventually, they would have to go towards the front of the houses to get to the village’s centre. All the houses face the centre, unfortunately.

Preston, Ali, and Stigma see the creature dropping the other villager into the tube, then stand in place, as if guarding the area. The gathered axe-men start to dissipate, hunting through the village for more inhabitants as well as reinforcing the front lines.

Stigma could conceivably follow Player One through the holes they’re making through houses to get closer to the ones spawning reinforcements, or she could take her chances sprinting across the street when there are no patrols present.