2020.04.30 A Ripper in the Tempest

A Ripper in the Tempest
Investigating the odd strength of the Tempest outside Prospect, three investigators run across a horror of Oblivion.
IC Date	Thursday 30 APR, 2020
IC Time	10:52:08 2020, PDT.
Players	Ann, Floyd - ST, Sin-Eater
Location	Cobre Desert, Shadowlands (Tempest)
Spheres	Wraith, Orpheus

Scene 1: Preparations

Scene

Floyd was waiting outside for Sin when she came out, he had his bag over his shoulder and a net full of....STUFF. Just. Stuff. Relic rebar, soulsteel rebar pipes, and a lot of junk he had collected. "Hey there pretty lady." He dips his flatcap in a mock tease. He offers his arm. "We got a lot of walkin' ta do."

Sin-Eater blinks and shrugs, making sher her only things a doll she tocks in her cloak, her cloak, and her lantern are with her and she nods, "Ok, lets do this. But promise me you will not let us get eaten by a spectre and we will not be gone too terribly long. I didn't leae a note." She says as she takes Floyds arm.

Floyd laughs. "Well, the next time I take you out of the Styx I'll be sure to ask Mr. Dawson for permission. Can't have you out past your bedtime." He says with humor. "So! While we're walking. How have things been? I noticed you said you've met a bunch of mediums and Quick. I take it you've been meeting a lot of people who can interact with us while you've been exploring?"

Sin-Eater says, "Yes, there seems to be so many in this city it is very odd. Though the ones I met last night only could see and hear me cause of my work embodying." She says softly, "I probably should not have learned it, but... I can feel the sun now, and I ate a sandwich and it tasted very good."

Ann comes in from Market St. and Maple St. Ann has arrived.

<WRAITH> Floyd nods. "You ate a sandwich! No kidding." He remembers the last time he had a sandwich. It was...a long time ago. A very long time ago. "Whatever gets you through the Malestrom, I say. Don't worry. You're secret is safe with me Sin." He gives her a reassuring pat. Then stops and looks right. "Here we are." They are at the edge of town on the Highway. "We're heading out of the city. We can walk to the Gas Station along the byway but then we'll have to hitch a ride on the tempest. Get that lantern ready." Floyd and Sin are standing on the sidewalk on Highway 42, Sin's arm in Floyd but it looks like they are breaking to prepare for something. Floyd is carrying two bags of stuff.

<WRAITH> Sin-Eater is indeed standing there, arm in Floyds as they talk. "We have to walk, I thought you knew how to navigate the tempest." She says with a playful smile at Floyd, and she than glances over and sees Ann, "Careful, doomslayer in training on her way over I think. You remember her right floyd?" She asks, offinger Ann a wave of her hand.

Ann walks down the street seeming to be actively on her other non teaching job as she has a gun strapped to her hip. She notices the two by the gas station but stays away for the moment offering a wave back. "Do I want to know?"

<WRAITH> Floyd looks to Sin. "We will. But we will at the gas station. You'll know it when you see it." He says. When Sin looks over at who Sin is talking to, he gives a nod to Ann. "No. Just doing dead stuff." He says simply.

<WRAITH> Sin-Eater says, "You know, like you do." She says with a smile, "Scavanging things to see wht might wash up on shore, finding relics in chinatown, they burn things for their ancestors you know and they are not all over here, so we might as well claim teh stuff right Floyd?" She ask, "You not planning on shooting anyting on this side with that sidearm are you?""

Ann shrugs "Not unless I have a reason to." She states matter of factly. "Like what that poor girl thought she was doing the other day. Those kind of relics?"

<WRAITH> Floyd looks at Sin, then looks back to Ann. Then back to Sin. He smiles softly, shaking his head. "You and your Quick friends, Sin." He grabs his stuff. "I'll let you two...er...converse." Floyd is the odd ghost out of this conversation, and it seems like Sin is a bit too tethered to town for a task like this. So he hoists his things and begins heading down the highway.

<WRAITH> Sin-Eater says, "Ya, something like that, burned money and other things. Food I think works, you know, but I am not sure the trick for it." She explains, "LIke if it takes faith or a ritual or what not to make it a relic on this side." She giggles and than turns to look at Floyd. "HEY YOU! You re not escaping that easy." And she moves after him, "Sorry Ann, promised to help with a project! You be safe ok?""

Ann looks to them and then off down the road and sighs. "Do you want help? I know you can't accept but if don't outright say no I'll just come anyway."

<WRAITH> Floyd stops. Now the Quick wants to come. Why is everyone ready to swan dive into the Big O? Floyd isn't thrilled about it. But he seems the only one genuinely concerned. At least to him. ... ... He looks to Ann. "You don;t know anything. Stop acting like you do." ... ... He blinks and shakes his head several times. "Shut up! You're not helping any." He looks back to Ann. "Do you have a car?"

Ann nods "Yeah I have a car a couple blocks away. You know if you don't want help I'll happily walk away. I'm just offering cause the other night when I met you I saw you look out for the quick. The least I can do is help out on the spook side."

<WRAITH> Sin-Eater smiles and shrugs, "I have no idea how it woudl even work. I will stay ou tof this and if you can convince Floyd than so be it. He is the expert, he knows the mission better than any other. Sorry, I know I am being wishywashy

<WRAITH> Floyd holds a hand up, he pinches the bridge of his nose. "It's not you! It's just...a cosmic douchebag." He says. Then he stops. "A car will make the trip easier. It'll shield us from the tempest and we can get to my checkpoint far quicker than riding the wind. If you want to do your...spook thing or whatever, after we get there? It'll be dangerous. But I said it before, it ain't like I can stop you."

Ann nods "That's all you needed to say Floyd, I'll go get the car and at least drive you there and drive you out if need be." She gives him a quick salute as she walks down the block to go get her car.

<WRAITH> Sin-Eater says, "Very nice, I think you have your first soldier Floyd, Doomslayer captain building up his forces to fight back the darkness." She says to him, obviously proud of him, putting a hand on his shoulder. "Need me to slap that shadow back down for you?" Hers is far quieter, all her eidolon and castigation powers make the shadow much more cautious not wanting to waste its time, and so much easier to just shut it down. Better to bide its time, be forgotten, get strong and unleash all at once against the Pardoner. "We need to come up with ranks, or maybe an insignia.""

<WRAITH> Floyd waits like a hitchhiker on the highway. HA! "Maybe you should show some of your leg when she drives up. Make her drive faster. You're apparently the recruiter. Not me." He teasingly chides her. "No. It's just...giddy. Considering where we're going. I gotta learn to deal with it. Otherwise this will be a quick trip if I can't last five minutes without getting castigated." He advises. At least that is how the movies in his time made it seem like. He fishes in his bag and pulls a dirty, very fragile tourguide map and waits. When Ann returns with the car, he walks over to the driver's side and shows her the map. "We're needing to get to the other side of Highway 42 off the north exit toward Laughry. After that, if your gonna, we need to go south into the Cobra desert." He points to the general location.

+
+ G St                                    (to Laughlin, NV)
+                                             +-------+
+ F St                      MOJAVE DESERT     + 17761 +  Needles, CA
+                                             +-------+
+ E St                                 US-95  + 17760 +  Lake Havasu City, AZ
+                       Highway 42            +-------+
+ D St                                        + 17759 |  Palo Verde, CA
+          +------+------+------+------+------+------++
+ Broadway + 1616 + 1619 + 1622 + 1567 + 1570 + 1573 +   Brawley, CA
+          +------+------+------+------+------+------+
+ Market                        + 1576 + 1579 + 1584 +
+                  COBRE DESERT +------+------+------+
+ Belvedere                     + 1589 + 1592 + **** +
+                               +------+------+------+
+ Comet                         + 1602 + 1605 + 1610 +
+                               +------+------+------+
+ Lincoln
+             |___________100_miles_(approx.)____________|

Ann drives back up in an old beater that looks barely functioning. "Alright... Get in? I guess..." I'll get you there.

<WRAITH> Sin-Eater climbs in, letting Floyd take the front seat so he can give directions, he knows where they are going, and she gets in the back. Besides the general always

Scene 2: Outpost

Setting

Hopi Ruins - Grand Ancient Pueblo

These are the ancient ruins that are locally touted as 'Hopi.' However, there is some argument amongst local Historians that this place first belonged to the Anasazi, 'The Ancient Ones,' long before the Hopi had migrated to these lands.

Some debris is newer; leftover, scattered remnants of kids coming here to hide out, though it appears its usually abandoned after a while. Most of this place has been picked clean of anything of real value, the museums and archaelogists having made sure that nothing but the barest of structures are left and that no one else is allowed to visit.

Tunnels here wander off into the maw of darkness, where old dwellings have crumbled into nothing more than debris and rubble matching the surrounding plateau rocks and face. A few structures still remain, battered and empty, emphasizing the sensation of kenopsia and giving that strange, almost hollow feeling of being surrounded by something far too anceint and big to be understood. The mystery of the inhabitants who once lived here, lost to the ages, leaves a nice place to visit but a place far, far too creepy to live in.

Ancient graves of souls long past stand here stark in the blasted desert. Where other places team with life very few lingering dead are here and none of them are the ancient peoples who live here. The few are lost souls who were stupid enough to get themselves trapped here and die within the old ruins.

Scene

Sin-Eater wraps her cloak about her tighter, "I do not have a mask." She grumbles, and looks to Ann, "I hope you have some good cover nad protective gear in the car or something to wear? I am not sure what you take with you when you project." She than looks to Floyd. "So, commander, what intellgence do we have so I can make an informed decision on how best to utilize our forces." Her leader demeanor comin to the fore, especially as she has a Quick and a Dead to ensure get out of this alive now."

Ann drives the car with her wraith audience taking the time to try to learn more. "So we have a type we call haunters that can inhabit mechanical and technological devices can you guys do that? Oh they call my type a banshee I can destroy things with my voice and some of us can see the future Is that a thing for you guys? Do you know a wraith in the cemetery named Jess she seems kind of loney?" She goes silent as they past through the tempest and then says. "I don't think so I'm still technically tethered to my body when I leave otherwise I couldn't ripcord."

<WRAITH> Sin-Eater smiles as Ann explains things, "We doo, Chantuers are much like you I suppose. Artificers are like your Haunter friends. Oracles are the ones who can sense things as you describe your future sight folks. As for Jess, no I have not met her. I am trying to find all the Wraiths and unify them under a central cause, if you have met her perhaps you can tell her I am looking for her now that I know she exists? And that I am commonly at the Styx and Stones, it is my haunt."

Floyd looks to Ann and would bore holes in the back of Sin's head...but it's sorta no going back now. When she talks about Jess, he looks confused. "Wait...there's -another- one out there?" Another ghost Sin didn't tell him she was hiding in her cloak when she came to Prospect. Daggers! Dagger eyes! Once they get to the ruins, Floyd pulls his dirty wool collar up to cover half of his face, grabbing the stuff out of the back and gets into the fissure where it's safe from the storm. "Relax, Colonel Mustard. I have you covered. It's why I came here." He dumps his relic junk pile into one of the old houses and tosses to her a refurbished pair of makeshift googles out of the refuse and shards of glass he found on the beach, along with a dirty cloth bag for a mask that it's connected to. "Put that on." He says. He looks to Ann. "If your gonna hop over, I have spares." He looks up at the winds as he puts his own pair of really fugly googles on. "Well. Tempest shouldn't be this strong. Especially not in the SHadowlands, even after the Sixth. Which means there is some serious Big O activity around here somewhere, and we should find it. Not deal with it, but find it." He gestures to the ruins. "The storm is strongest the closer we get to the Mexican border, here is the only refuge spot I know of. It gets less the more along the byway you get to Prospect, stronger the more you go into either desert."

Ann nods dropping her seat and starts a meditation cycle after exactlyna minute her spirit comes out of her body connected by a silver cord.

<WRAITH> "Well I hope this wasn't an elaborate ruse to possess my body cause I fell for hard."

<WRAITH> Sin-Eater blinks and looks at the spirit and the cord that is attaching it to the body, "That is new." She admits, walking over nad curiously touching the cord. "How long is this thing? And will your body be safe while we are out there?" She asks, putting on the gear she was given to help keep herself safe, her only weapon... An Iron Lantern, which may seeem odd to the Orpheus member, as Floyd is armed with a hammer, and she has her own weapons. But the cloaked woman just carries a lantern.

<WRAITH> Floyd watches the Ann-Spook emerge from the car down into the fissure with the cord following behind. "You weren't kiddin." He didn't believe she was...but it is one of those 'until you see it' moments. He offers her a mask. "It's not flashy but it'll do in a pinch. The more you're covered the better." He offers.

<WRAITH> Ann takes the mask and attaches it before checking to make sure the gun is still attached to her hip and gives a thumbs up.

<WRAITH> Sin-Eater moves up and pats Ann on the shoulder, than looks to Floyd, "All right troops, I know we have a dangerous mission ahead. Keep your wits about you, eyes open, and ears alert. How far is it to our destination Commander Mayhew?" She asks, looking him over slowly. "I can keep the lantern lit fro about.. four and a half hours. If that is enough time to get us in, and out safely?"

<WRAITH> Floyd gives her a very weird look. "Your taking this waaaaay too seriously." He teases. "There is no destination. This is scouting. I don't know what's out there save a Malestrom-like Tempest, a bunch of monsters who live in it, and a few places that dot the area." He tells her. "So if you wanna get back to your boyfriend," Tease, "Let's head out. If push comes to shove we can come back here and get in Ann's car back to Prospect." He gestures out of the fissure.

<WRAITH> Ann nods to him she seems to get more serious now that she feels she is on a job. "I'm following your lead. You guys know the area better than me."

<WRAITH> Sin-Eater says, "You expect me to take you both into the tempest and treat it without the proper gravity the situation demands?" She asks, sounding a bit skeptical, but she moves to take the front, why not she is bold and well.. Not afraid of dying to help others it would seem. Armed with nothing more than a light she wades into the darkness, than stops. "We have any rope, we can all tie to our waist so e cannot become easily sperated in the storm?""

<WRAITH> Floyd shakes his head. "Something for ann to do later. Go to a local home depot and commit mass arson. We'll get rope then." He makes the relatively easy climb out of the fissure and into the tempest.

Scene 3: The Tempest

Setting

Cobre Desert (Shadowlands)
The Tempest sandstorm closes in around this area like a howling, oppressive blanket, swallowing sound, and limiting visiblity to virtually nil. Blasted by the powerful, burning winds, the sand gets into every possible crevice -- eyes, nose, mouth, ears -- and scours the exposed corpus of any wraith foolish enough to come to this place without protection.
The shifting sands, driven by the powerful wind, play tricks in this place; the landscape changes completely from moment to moment, making it very easy to get turned around. But the wind-driven sands are benevolent next to the narrow ridges that form in the ground to mark the passage of giant worms racing just under the surface, towards the vibrations caused by the slightest step.

Navigation:
South S   North N   West W  

Obvious Exits:
Cobre Nature Reserve <CNR>   Ancient Fissure <GAP>  

Scene

<---======##====================[ Anne gets her bearings in the Tempest! ]=====================##======--->
Ann rolls Perception + Alertness  vs 7 for 0 successes.
1 1 7 8
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<---======##====================[ Sin gets her bearings in the Tempest! ]=====================##======--->
Sin-Eater rolls Perception + Alertness  vs 7 for 1 successes.
1 1 6 +8 8 10
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<---======##====================[ Floyd gets his bearings in the Tempest! ]=====================##======--->
Floyd rolls Perception(3) + Alertness(1) (4 dice) vs 7 for -1 successes.
-1 -1 3 5
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The Tempest rages. The Tempest here is not like the storms commonly met on the byways. The Sixth Great Malestrom had ripped the fabric of the Shadowlands and the Underworld asunder, leaving behind large swathes of the storm so common in the Underworld but rare here. The sand sears at your masks, you can feel it like a whip trying to scrape through the fabric, a soft shriek as sand scrapes on glass. It is difficult to navigate, but the tempest does not rip you from your feet. Yet.

South...and West, are options for the scouting team. There is a Reserve but hard to see with the shearing winds. More important, is the shadow that looms above everyone's head, only visible to Sin-Eater's keen perception.

<WRAITH> Sin-Eater nods her head, and suddenly her lantern flares to life, a shining beacon in the dark that will hopefully work to keep them together in the blinding storm, though it has a draw back, it will also draw the attention f the things in the dark. But far better to not lose people forever in the dark an dhave to face a few potential enemies they can flee from if necessary than all be lost. "West!" She calls out, trying to be heard over the storm, making an executive decision, hopefully its a good one, it is a shot in the dark after all.

Sin-Eater loses one Magical Essence to ignite her Iron Lantern

<---======##====================[ What's that?? ]=====================##======--->
Ann rolls Perception + Alertness  vs 6 for 1 successes.
1 4 +7 8
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Sin declared West! And the group moved onward. The shadow above, suddenly grows massive in size - growing in tanden with a haunting crescendo of what sounds like a woman screaming. What descends through the inhospitable winds is a creature of mauled flesh and knotted muscle tissue. Five arms with claws that glean with the same thirst as Stygian Steel and wings that looked they were molded from the flayed backs of humans. When it appears, it is already on them, gunning for the odd wraith with the cord on her back. Ann however noticed it in time before it strikes, and has a chance to prepare.

<---======##====================[ Banshee Wail! ]=====================##======--->
Ann rolls Manipulation + Empathy  vs 9 for 0 successes.
1 3 4 8 8 8 10
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Ann loses 2 Magical Essence

Shroudripper Attacks! Ann takes 3 Bashing

<---======##====================[ Shroudripper Strikes! ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls 7 (7 dice) vs 6 for 5 successes.

3 4 +7 +7 +9 +9 +10

<---======##====================[ Shroudripper Damage! ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls 5 (5 dice) vs 6 for 3 successes.

2 4 +6 +8 +9

<---======##====================[ Anne Soaks! ]=====================##======--->

Ann rolls Stamina vs 5 for -1 successes.

-1

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Ann gains 3 Lethal Damage

Ann loses 3 Lethal Damage

Ann gains 3 Bashing Damage

Ann loses one Magical Essence

The Shroudripper strikes! It is a blur in the Tempest, moving at speeds that even Spectres would envy. Ann prepares her shout and her scream rips through the wind of the tempest, as if challenging it for ferocity. The strike didn't seem to phase the Plasmid, who rakes the front of Ann with one of it's claed hands and banks preparing for another strike.

FIGHT!

Floyd has rolled NPC initiative: NPC Shroudripper goes on 14
Floyd has rolled initiative:   13  
Sin-Eater has rolled initiative:   11  
Ann has rolled initiative:   5  

Shroudripper unleashes a Lightning Raid!

<---======##====================[ Floyd Soaks the Lightning Raid ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls Stamina(3) (3 dice) vs 6 for 1 successes.

3 4 +10

<---======##====================[ Ann soaks the Lightning Raid ]=====================##======--->

Ann rolls Stamina vs 6 for 1 successes.

+10

<---======##====================[ Dice Roll ]=====================##======--->

Sin-Eater rolls Stamina vs 6 for 1 successes.

2 +6

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<OOC> Floyd says, "No one is effected!"

The Shroudripper banks left! And is already back on the group! Instead of clawing for Ann again, from the bowels of it's muscle and flesh erupts a green-grey gas that spills on top of the group. It's nauseating, even for the dead, and threatens to weather your resolve but no one succumbs to the poison.

Floyd attacks and misses!

<---======##====================[ Dice Roll ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls Dexterity(3) + Melee(3) (6 dice) vs 6 for 0 successes.

1 1 2 5 6 8

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While not succumbing to the lightning raid, it does however seem to make Floyd distracted enough to miss a swing of his hammer as the shroudripper comes by.

Sin taunts the Shroudripper!

Sin-Eater loses one Willpower

<---======##====================[ Sin-Eater Taunts! ]=====================##======--->

Sin-Eater rolls Manipulation + Intimidation vs 9 for 1 successes.

2 3 6 +10

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The light that was at the front of the party moves swiftly to the rear as the dark cloaked woman steps between Ann and the monstronsity that plagues them. The green smoke having no affect, thank in part perhaps to the masks they wear for protection from the storm. Lifting the blazing lantern in the direction of the beast she calls out, her voice forceful and strong. "I am a servent of the sacred light, wielder of the Iron Lantern. You cannot pass! Go back to the Shadow!" Ok, maybe she stole that line but who would know right?

Ann strikes the Shroudripper with a Banshee Wail!

Ann loses one Willpower

<---======##====================[ Dice Roll ]=====================##======--->

Ann rolls Manipulation + Empathy vs 9 for 0 successes.

1 -1 2 2 3 3 10

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<OOC> Ann says, "Soak 1 lethal and -1 to physical attributes for 3 rounds"

Ann loses 2 Magical Essence

<---======##====================[ Shroudripper soaks! ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls 3 (3 dice) vs 6 for 1 successes.

2 2 +10

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<OOC> Floyd says, "It will soak, but it will take that -1."

Ann releases another sonic blast from her mouth at the terrifying Big Bad as their agency would call it though everytime she does the silver cord pulses and Anne flickers a bit. Though this time it is a bit more worth it as effects the creature sending an earsplitting screech through it's core and Ann locks onto her target.

Shroudripper strikes Sin-Eater!

<---======##====================[ Shroudripper strikes! ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls 6 (6 dice) vs 6 for 1 successes.

1 1 4 +6 8 8

<---======##====================[ Damage ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls 3 (3 dice) vs 6 for 0 successes.

2 3 4

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The Shroudripper strikes again! The taunt by Sin-Eater must have prevailed, as it seems oblivious to the wounded ghost behind her. It's arms reach out to claw into her Corpus but instead catch, ripping a hole in her cloak and dragging her a step or two before it's momentum rips the claws away and it speeds back into the Tempest for another run.

Floyd attacks with dark power for 6 Agg...!

Floyd loses one Willpower

<---======##====================[ Dice Roll ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls Dexterity(3) + Melee(3) (6 dice) vs 6 for 3 successes.

2 4 4 +7 +7 +10

<---======##====================[ Dice Roll ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls Strength(3) + 3 + 3 (9 dice) vs 6 for 6 successes.

2 4 5 +7 +9 +9 +10 +10 +10

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Floyd gains 3 Angst

Floyd, gritting his teeth at the fact it is plucking everyone like a vulture, grits his teeth and breathes heavy. "Fine!" He says, and as the Shroudripper storms by he growls with the shadowed howl of Oblivion, breaking bones and ripping muscular flesh and sinew to ribbons apart as it shrieks by, plasm spilling onto the ground before cascading back into the tempest due to the wind.

Sin-Eater Intimidates!

<---======##====================[ Dice Roll ]=====================##======--->

Sin-Eater rolls Manipulation + Intimidation vs 9 for 1 successes.

3 6 7 +9

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<OOC> Floyd says, "You are still looking very tasty."

Sin-Eater says, "IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE BEAST!" She cries out at it, "Back to the shadow with you, or I will send you into a harrowing you will not recover from!" She is still taungting the monster, teasing it, trying her best to keep its ire focused on the one with the pure light shining in the dark chaos of the Tempest."

Ann continues her scream the pitch ear shattering to all who accidentally step into blast but now Ann draws her gun tracing at the beast.

Shroudripper attacks Sin twice for 4 damage!

<---======##====================[ Shroudripper Attacks! ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls 4 (4 dice) vs 6 for 3 successes.

2 +8 +8 +9

<---======##====================[ Shroudripper Damage! ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls 5 (5 dice) vs 6 for 4 successes.

3 +7 +8 +8 +10

<---======##====================[ Sin soaks! ]=====================##======--->

Sin-Eater rolls Stamina vs 6 for 1 successes.

2 +10

<OOC> Floyd says, "So 3 damage."

Sin-Eater loses 3 Magical Essence

<---======##====================[ Shroudripper attacks! ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls 3 (3 dice) vs 6 for 2 successes.

4 +8 +10

<---======##====================[ Shroudripper damage! ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls 4 (4 dice) vs 6 for 3 successes.

2 +8 +8 +10

<---======##====================[ Sin-Eater soaks! ]=====================##======--->

Sin-Eater rolls Stamina vs 6 for 2 successes.

+9 +9

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Sin-Eater loses 1 Magical Essence

The Shroudripper comes in hot this time, two hands clawing at Sin who continues to taunt the beast. It's claws grab her once more and this time rip corpus, tearing her plasm from her chest to across her shoulders as it flies.

Floyd Attacks for 2 Agg!

Floyd loses 1 Willpower

<---======##====================[ Attack! ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls Dexterity(3) + Melee(3) (6 dice) vs 6 for 3 successes.

4 5 5 +7 +9 +10

<---======##====================[ Damage! ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls Strength(3) + 3 (6 dice) vs 6 for 2 successes.

2 5 5 5 +8 +8

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<OOC> Floyd says, "2 more agg. It is on the brink. Sin. Punch it in the nose....er..area."

Floyd made no deal with the Shadow this time. He simply waited and leaned in and waylayed the beast under it's massive belly, cracking more bones and ripping flesh open to spill plasm that evaporates into the tempest but it still flies on.

Sin-Eater punches the Shroudripper!

Sin-Eater loses one Willpower

<---======##====================[ Attack ]=====================##======--->

Sin-Eater rolls Dexterity + Brawl vs 6 for 2 successes.

4 +6 +7

<---======##====================[ Damage! ]=====================##======--->

Sin-Eater rolls Strength + 2 vs 6 for 0 successes.

2 3 4 5

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<OOC> Floyd says, "There is just too much muscle."

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Sin-Eater stands her ground against the charging beast, rearing her fist back as it is undeterred from the blow of Floyd's hammer. Refusing to move to allow it acces to Ann who is slightly to her side and behind her, the lantern buring brightly as the creature rips its clawed appendages into her skin, tearing at her corpus and leaving sever rips and tears in her 'body', but it is not enough to end her. Growling she thrusts her fist at the main mass of the beast, landing a solid blow but the creatures thick central mass proves stronger than her meager frame and her hand bounces off Harmlessly, as it flies past her.

Ann Banshee Wails with no effect!

Ann loses one Willpower!

<---======##====================[ Banshee! ]=====================##======--->

Ann rolls Manipulation + Empathy vs 9 for -1 successes.

-1 -1 2 5 5 7 8

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Shroudripper strikes Sin!

<---======##====================[ Attack! ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls 7 (7 dice) vs 6 for 1 successes.

1 2 2 4 5 +7 10

<---======##====================[ Damage! ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls 3 (3 dice) vs 6 for 2 successes.

3 +6 +7

<---======##====================[ Soak! ]=====================##======--->

Sin-Eater rolls Stamina vs 6 for 2 successes.

+7 +8

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The Shroudripper swoops by, still with heavy speed and strikes! a hand grabs down but one more gets nothing but cloak, threatening to drag Sin away onto to lose it's grip.

Floyd attacks for 2 Agg!

<---======##====================[ Attack! ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls Dexterity(3) + Melee(3) (6 dice) vs 6 for 4 successes.

4 5 +8 +8 +10 +10

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Floyd rolls Strength(3) + 4 (7 dice) vs 6 for 4 successes.

2 4 4 5 5 +9 +10

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Floyd brings his hammer down and manages to hit one of it's arms, crushing one of it's hands with a swing of stygian steel.

Sin-Eater tries punching and misses!	Sin-Eater loses one Willpower
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Sin-Eater rolls Dexterity + Brawl vs 6 for 0 successes.
4 4 5
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Sin-Eater rolls Strength vs 6 for 0 successes.
4 4
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Sin-Eater lashes out again with her fist, finding its mark but he creatures hide is just too tough, her meager strength not enough to harm the beast as it makes its past, fortunately this time it did not purchase any more corpus to add to its claws.

Sin-Eater tries punching and misses!

Ann loses one Willpower

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Ann rolls Dexterity + Firearms vs 6 for 1 successes.

1 1 +8 8 10

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Ann rolls 4 vs 6 for 1 successes.

1 2 +6 10

<---======##====================[ 'Shroudripper soaks!! ]=====================##======--->

Floyd rolls 3 (3 dice) vs 6 for -1 successes.

-1 -1 -1

Ann is terrified. Her body flickering a little constantly now. This Big Bad, whatever the hell it is, is clearly out of her pay and info grade. Through all of it though she takes a deep breath, remembers her training, traces the creature and fires. The bullet finds purchase in whatever the passes for things head and the creature falls to the ground going into the nothing. Ann looks at the two and says. "If this was an attempt on my life than I got to tell you. You guys suck at your jobs." a feable attempt at humor before she falls to her knees sobbin her stern complexion gone.

Scene

Floyd watches the beast go down into the ground as it's plasm bleeds into the tempest to feed the Big O below. The first thing he does is check on everyone else, especially Sin, who basically begged it to eat her. "You okay?" He says, his voice muffled but load through his mask. WHen he looks over at Ann to see if she is okay, she has already fallen to her knees in tears. "Well. Mission over. Let's get her back to the ruins. We can get a moment's respite before we go back to Prospect." He kneels down to help Ann to her feet, letting her rely on his shoulder so she can grieve, or fear, or rest. Do Quick need rest when they....do what she is doing. "Let's go."

Sin-Eater watches the beast go down and than smiles at Ann's quip, "We will try harder next time." She replies, thankful that she does not feel pain, its just corpus and she can recover that in time. Or with Pathos. She looks to Floyd, who seems fine, but he addressed her. "I am fine, I have had worse when a castigation has gone wrong." She smirks, and than Ann falls to her knees crying, "Ann!" She says, helping the Orpheus agent up, if she needs it. "Good work Soldier." She says softly, "Lets get you back." And hoepfully soemone can find the way back, the fight may have turned them around a bit.

Ann let's them pick her up. She can on her own with them, but can't stop the tears not right now, not yet. Though who can blame her, this may very well be something no Orpheus member has ever seen much less lived through. And the worst part as an unsanctioned mission she can't even document it, her favorite part.

<OOC> Floyd nods. "Well! I am a touch tired. So I was going to say, if you guys are still okay - We can close our little instance with a safe return to the car and thus Ann can