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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 23, 2012 0:40:06 GMT -5
It seems the hounds can detect your energy, and the increase of the energy to launch the attack tips them off, baying, which in turn tips off their allies. Luckily, Dr. Strange's invisibility does not break upon an attack (though it does get worse; it is an improved version of Invisibility: Superior), so the team still has the advantage that it seems that these enemies, normally capable of seeing the invisible, will still struggle to follow the team and run. Unfortunately, the hounds are very precise, and with a combination of the visual cues they can get and their apparent ability to sniff out supernatural energy and activity, they are very likely to be able to fight the team at a high level. This also means that the team has to roll initiative, though the enemies have a minor negative modifier.
Ikkaku and Kao Ji both find that they underestimate when the time of the fight will begin, so they do not act this turn at all. They may react when attacked, however. (Negative initiative; if an initiative modifier is cast, they will be able to go).
The people who go before any of the enemies are Grimmjow, Nel, Hanataro, Izo, Raizen, and Touya. This means that if Touya and Jin want to do their Cooperation Tech, they have to hold action.
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Post by Gaizer on Jan 25, 2012 18:14:05 GMT -5
they will do that. and the group will hold action, save grimmjow who will fire garra de la pantera so that it arcs and confuses the enemies.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 25, 2012 19:29:33 GMT -5
Grimmjow, of course, has to release to use Garra de la Pantera. "Grind, Pantera!", he bellows, transforming into his released state. The Behemoth bats them out of the air. The explosive strength was fairly strong, but the Behemoth's body is something akin to epic leather armor, and so it didn't even puncture the skin, though it did do some damage.
The Saibamen collectively release a gigantic Renzoku Energy Dan barrage. Those who held action can respond with bonus, but it's fairly clear that the attacks are mostly designed to pin the group down.
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Post by Gaizer on Jan 26, 2012 17:54:24 GMT -5
Co-op attack! Jin and Touya! if succesful run like hell.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 26, 2012 22:41:03 GMT -5
Note that, because it wasn't Jin's turn, his reaction is reduced in quality vis-a-vis Touya's. I do need to warn you that, if Jin and Touya focus on the combination, they may not be able to dodge simultaneously (Jin is more likely to be able to). That means they may get battered and not be able to fully complete the combination. Jin, Touya and Chuu should have auto-dodges, though, so I'll resolve those before you decide.
Jin attempts to move back and forth, following the wind, but he finds that the cursed powers of his enemies make their aim far too good, even considering his speed and current invisibility. Touya manages to parry some shots with his blade automatically and bob and weave, but he is still going to get struck. Chuu easily drunkenly dances out of the way of the shots that would have hit him.
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Post by Gaizer on Jan 27, 2012 18:40:01 GMT -5
Still gonna go with the combo and have everyone else ready to neutralize any threat so that it can be performed.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Jan 27, 2012 20:56:17 GMT -5
The difficulty, of course, is that other people have their own difficulties to deal with, but they can help.
Chuu tries to intercept the shots with one of his own drunken blasts. He mitigates a few.
Dr. Strange attempts a reflecting barrier. He manages to not only catch several blasts but throw them back into the Renzoku Energy Dan. Behind the barrier is a safe zone where Jin and Touya can act.
Gohan easily deflects the shots with his hands.
Grimmjow deftly leaps away and prepares to cover Jin and Touya.
Raizen, Nel, Yusuke, Izo and Ikkaku are able to simply mitigate the damage enough with their toughness (and in Izo's case armor). Rukia, Hanataro, Gabriel, Sasuke, and Hachigen are in danger of being hurt unless they spend a good portion of their turn reacting.
Jin and Touya manage to quickly craft a giant tornado, crackling with lightning, filled with ice. The Saibamen seem to be flash-frozen. The Darkhounds seem tougher and have immense supernatural resistance, but they are certainly slowed. One of the Hezrou manages to teleport away, behind the party; but the other is struck and damaged severely, almost as frozen and electrocuted as the Saibamen.
It is the Behemoth that is the problem, however. When the freezing attack strikes it, it contemptuously snorts and shifts its weight. The attack certainly harmed it, but its elemental resistances are extremely profound. More importantly, as the wind blows on it, it makes a horrific bellow.
Meteors rain from the sky, glowing red.
Dr. Strange recognizes this as Meteor, a legendary time spell (luckily, not Meteo). They are brought about by temporal magic and strike the ground, unlike normal meteors, with immense heat. Dr. Strange does not have the time to craft an effective counter-counter spell, especially given the fact that the Meteor itself is a counter. Those who just tanked the shots can react, but it's fairly likely that it's just going to hit without interruption. Those who still had to dodge the Renzoku Energy Dan have to pick between reacting to Meteor and reacting to those shots.
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Post by Gaizer on Feb 3, 2012 17:55:45 GMT -5
Dodge the meteors and focus on retreating when feasible. (hopefully in the direction of the tower)
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 3, 2012 20:18:53 GMT -5
Since they're magical meteors, they're pretty much undodgeable unless you have a spell dodge chance. By what I can see, only Chuu and Dr. Strange have spell dodge chances, and they're not very high.
Gohan fails to dodge, and his attempt to use a barrier similarly fails, leaving him with 121 HP.
Ikkaku, despite his relatively limited shunpo skill, miraculously dodges for the most part. He is still at sixty percent of his health.
Dr. Strange can't dodge, but he could teleport, barrier or reflect to mitigate.
Rukia also manages to dodge by and large, being at 423 HP.
Sasuke mitigates the damage with his dodge, but is still at 203 HP.
Izo manages to use his Tsubame Gaeshi step and largely avoid damage. He remains at 75% of his HP.
Nel is struck straight on, but manages to transform, the meteor blasting off her mask and reverting her. She is at 75% of her HP and TP.
Kao Ji can't dodge or block to the best of my knowledge.
Hanataro manages to reduce the damage to a quarter. Unfortunately, he is still at 34 HP.
Inuyasha can't dodge, but Tessaiga does sing...
Grimmjow in his released form is fast enough to mitigate damage, but is still struck and slammed into the ground hard. He is at 204 HP.
Chuu, Touya and Jin are each struck hard despite their best dodging efforts, and are at 482, 113 and 173 damage respectively.
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Post by Gaizer on Feb 19, 2012 20:54:19 GMT -5
Tessaiga does what now?
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 20, 2012 15:12:01 GMT -5
Tessaiga's main functionality is its interaction between competing energies, the "wind scar" that emerges from the interaction of two tumultuous energies. Normally, that is youki vs. youki, but this magic and the energy that is being produced by it seem to be making Tessaiga able to use a wind scar or potentially a Backlash Wave. Inuyasha can use that to try to intercept the meteors, or hope the energy sticks around and use it as an attack instead.
Luckily, after this, everyone who held action can go.
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Post by Gaizer on Feb 22, 2012 0:51:43 GMT -5
Attempting a Backlash Wave.
(sorry I don't know my inuyasha stuff. working on it though)
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 22, 2012 19:04:00 GMT -5
OOG: The Backlash Wave is sort of Inuyasha's "I win" button usually. It basically turns the energy around and hits them with their own impact.
Inuyasha lifts the Tessaiga and swings it down, yelling, "Bakuryuha!". The energy the Behemoth used to conjure the meteors is reversed, and while Inuyasha was unable to stop the attack due to its powerful nature, the fact that it was unexpected and the range over which the attack operates, he nonetheless did manage to mitigate it somewhat [which helps explain why squishies below level 50 didn't get splatted by a Meteor]. More importantly, the giant energy assault is very devastating. The Darkhounds are badly injured and thrown back. The Saibamen expend a large amount of energy blocking it with their own barrier, and when the energy has passed, their skin is sizzling. The Hezrou are damaged as well.
Luckily, Inuyasha's attack does not trigger another counter-attack: It seems the Behemoth's counter-attack can only trigger on enemy turns.
People who held action may go now.
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Post by Gaizer on Feb 23, 2012 18:00:51 GMT -5
OOG:if it's OK with you i would appreciate percentage health conversion.
Hanataro and Kao-ji will attempt to further their synthesis (perhaps attaining full fusion?) while healing.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 23, 2012 18:30:04 GMT -5
OOG: Sure. Gohan is at less than 15%, Dr. Strange at more than half, Rukia at more than half, Kao Ji at 30%, Hanataro at around 4%, Inuyasha at 40%, and Grimmjow at around 19%. After healing, Gohan is at 44%, Dr. Strange at 70%, Inuyasha at 55%, Nel at 100% HP and TP, Izo at 90% and Sasuke at around 18%.
Hanataro and Kao-Ji know that full fusion is a long time way. A doppelganger, even one as talented and powerful as Kao-Ji, finds it hard to fuse with another: It requires being malleable enough to completely alter oneself and not simply take over the other' body while being strong-willed enough to carefully manage the partnership for both parties, not to mention immense complexities of technical execution. Hanataro is closest to Chuu and Touya, whose dodges were largely back-and-forth jukes; Dr. Strange, who managed to put up a barrier that absorbed the Meteor's power and is now covering him and can cover two others; Inuyasha, who did not move; Nel, who transformed (but who will be healed by Kao Ji as it is easiest); and Izo, who used Tsubame Gaeshi. He heals each of them 15%, and also manages to heal Gohan 30%. His shikai is almost entirely charged.
Kao Ji uses shinigami healing to restore Nel. Nel is fully healed and has her TP fully restored.
Everyone else? Dr. Strange reasons, "The Behemoth is the greatest problem. Either we must find a way of banishing it or removing it from the fight, difficult to do but not impossible (though it may incur another counter-attack), or we must strike it at once. It will only react once upon every spell cast upon it, no matter the magnitude of the spell, the number of times it makes contact or the number of people that cast it".
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Post by Gaizer on Feb 23, 2012 22:46:44 GMT -5
Can Kao-ji encase hanataro to form a kind of living armor? And anyone who has a reasonable (35% plus-ish) chance of banishing will try to do so.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 24, 2012 1:50:24 GMT -5
He can do that, yes. That'll be easy enough to do, but his subsequent actions will be a lot more circumscribed. He can make sure that where his cero comes out (since, as you know, all Hollows have to have a location they launch a cero from - I imagine Kao Ji's is his mouth or chest like most pre-Arrancar Hollows) is facing out so he can shoot a cero, and he can make his own arms appear.
Grimmjow can open a garganta, but he doesn't really have any means to throw them through. Dr. Strange has the best chance of some kind of crowd control. Jin could focus on making a tornado that could push the Behemoth through someone else's portal, like a garganta. Touya could try to do some kind of extremely long-term deep freeze. Gabriel, from what I see, doesn't have anything, but maybe he has some kind of crusader spell, or could maybe use the Tremor or Earthquake Gauntlet to push it through. Sasuke could try to set up Tsukiyomi or some other genjutsu. Yusuke MIGHT, though he doesn't really think this is likely, be able to use some kind of Spirit Wave surgery to put the Behemoth to sleep or otherwise screw with them. Chuu, Izo, Ikkaku, Gohan, and Inuyasha can't really do very much.
Touya reasons that if he uses his ki-draining ice, he may be able to absorb the power out of the Behemoth's counter-attack, which could be used to shut down the counter-attack entirely. Rukia could stack onto that with her shikai. Dr. Strange also does consider the idea of making the creature more vulnerable to ensorcelling [read: screwing its saves]. However, Touya can't act since he and Jin already took their turns for this round, so Grimmjow, Nel, Izo, Raizen, Yusuke, Gabriel, and Dr. Strange can go for now (the rest have to go after the Hezrous and/or Behemoth).
OOG: I just realized that you needed to assign Jobs to Touya, Jin, Dr. Strange and Chuu.
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Post by Gaizer on Feb 24, 2012 23:59:27 GMT -5
Kao-ji's cero (as i imagined it) comes out of his eyes. He will position it so that his face is on hanataro's chest and has one eye on the back. Can he manifest the arms do-oc style, as tentacles? (I imagined Kao-ji originally as a sort of color/mmorality inverted slendy)
could Grimmjow form a garganta under the behemoth and have gabriel do a jumping tremor blast (he hovers above and fires downward to push off) to further force it in?
OOG: any suggestions on that?
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 25, 2012 3:21:24 GMT -5
They could try.
OOG: While it seems extraneous, assigning Ninja to Jin and Touya would help because they'd immediately get a ton of AP, learn some Naruto Jutsu and Veils, and pick up weapon skills. Shaman would also be good for either of them. Jin has nasty abilities to hit multiple times from the card game, so maybe a class that has a lot of attack procs, like Shaman, Death Knight, Magic Knight, Assassin, Dark Knight, etc. Monk would also be really good on Jin.
Chuu could definitely benefit from Monk. Cyber-Knight would be exceptionally good on him because it allows lots of dodges. Rogue would be pretty sick, especially since he likes knives. Or you could play up the alcohol by giving him Brewmaster (based off of the Pandaren class).
Dr. Strange is hard to do because he has so much magic. For him, either a psychic class based primarily off of Intelligence (Psychohistorian would be excellent) or a class that'll boost his melee combat skill like Barbarian, Monk, Enchanted Weapon User, Physical Training, Eugenics, Natural Genius, etc.. In particular, Natural Genius (a class from Heroes Unlimited and Beyond the Supernatural) would be pretty epic. Or a tech oriented class such as a mech piloting class.
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Post by Gaizer on Feb 26, 2012 2:07:38 GMT -5
OOG: can i give DR. strange Spiral Warrior? Does that exist? if not, can it? Ninja to touya, assasin on jin and rogue for chuu.
then they will do that.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 26, 2012 4:38:40 GMT -5
OOG: Spiral Warrior does exist; unfortunately, it cannot be on this Job Gem.
The garganta is opened behind the creature. This does not trigger its counter-attack as it neither targets it nor is offensive. Gabriel manages to punch it back, and though its immense weight does not allow him to push it far, he does get it much closer to the portal. Luckily, the punch also seems to be counted as a physical attack as well, leading to no response.
Unfortunately, it seems that they may have ended up swapping a flame for a frying pan, as while the Behemoth may be in position to be sent through the portal, out of the garganta comes several Hollows. It appears that the concentration of Hollows is also very high here: They likely function as bottom-feeders and carrion eaters in this ecosystem that has emerged. Five of them appear, and Rukia quickly estimates them as close to the power of a Gillian. One has a bowl-shaped face almost like a satellite dish, making hideous slurping noises; another has a triple-headed bird face, with saurian features; a third seems like a large, slow crocodile that almost seems to blend in with the landscape; a fourth has a mask that is almost as big as the rest of its body and is like a fan of ferns; and the last simply has a question mark upon it. The group can see more behind the garganta. The Behemoth seems to command them, though the party does guess that if the Behemoth or its allies are sufficiently injured, some of them may simply attack to finish the job and retreat...
The new Hollows do have to make a Horror Factor check. Raizen's fighting instincts, supremely honed, tell him that they seem to be at least a little afraid of Raizen himself, being the Mazoku; Yusuke, having spirit light energy and Mazoku blood as well as clear benefits from Spirit World; Dr. Strange, being the Sorcerer Supreme and covered in passive hexes that terrify the undead and spirits; multiple Shinigami; two arrancar who used to be with Aizen; and three fighters from the Demon World Tournament. The bowl-faced Hollow (Hollow #1) is taking minor fear penalties; the triple-headed bird mask (Hollow #2) one is taking moderate penalties; the crocodile Hollow (Hollow #3) seems to sink into the ground as much in fear as in strategy, virtually out of the fight, simply waiting for someone to be vulnerable so it can abscond with energy; the fern-faced Hollow quivers and shakes, and cannot act this turn or the next (none of these go this turn because they just arrived); but the last one laughs and says, "I will suck the marrow off of your traitorous bones, Grimmjow Jaggerjack and Neliel Tu Oderschwank!" He will go virtually last this round, but he seems totally unintimidated, though based off of his reiatsu, that is false bravado.
Though you can't be certain, Dr. Strange is fairly confident that all of the Hollows are at least impeded by the invisibility spell, based not only on the power of the magic but the fact that none of their masks are faced directly at you. They are fighting based only off of reiatsu flows and perturbations, which will give them all penalties. However, Hanataro's cowardly nature reminds him that the Hollows don't really need to do much but lash out blindly and they can get lucky if the team is already facing such powerful monsters...
All the other people noted above can go.
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Post by Gaizer on Feb 27, 2012 21:12:16 GMT -5
Does kao-ji think he can devour one of the hollows?
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 27, 2012 22:29:32 GMT -5
100 to 0 from inside Hanataro? No, he doesn't believe he can, even if he transforms into his full vasto lorde form and makes Hanataro be inside a gigantic Hollow suit which would be very difficult and impractical. If the Hollow is harmed or impeded in some way, there is a chance.
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Post by Gaizer on Feb 27, 2012 23:56:51 GMT -5
OOG: I was thinking to have hanatarou sorta pilot the form like a mecha.
can jin and touya do their combo on the confidant hollow?
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 28, 2012 2:50:44 GMT -5
OOG: Putting aside the difficulties of that, it's not very practical: Even if you can find out how, Hanataro is not really the kind of person to take advantage of it. For example: Hanataro's shikai would not have a giant-sized copy. However, Hanataro could be in the center of a hollow cavity inside Kao Ji. It'd still have a failure chance, but the DCs are possible at your level, and essentially Hanataro would just keep hitting Kao Ji over and over with his scalpel then shooting the shots out a hole or even into the cero that Kao Ji shoots. It'd make Kao Ji pretty tough. However, you'd have to make where you "swallowed" and "digested" the Hollows different from where Hanataro was.
They could, if it was their turn. It's still the first turn. Everyone else still has to go.
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Post by Gaizer on Feb 28, 2012 19:13:26 GMT -5
OOG: sounds good.
Oh...right. can Kao-ji have hanatarou in the stomach area and have a large tail-like appendage in which he digests the hollows?
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 28, 2012 19:20:21 GMT -5
Not this turn, Kao Ji doesn't act this turn and Hanataro's already acted trying to heal people. The people who still have to act are Nel, Izo, and Raizen. Nel's Lanzador Verde plus Raizen's monstrous strength may be sufficient to push through the gate, and Lanzador Verde counts as physical and/or ability-based (specifically ki) based off what is better for it, so it won't trigger a counter-attack. Yusuke can use Spirit Wave to heal or can just attack things, he bets he can rip Hollows a new one (not to mention the hezrou). And Dr. Strange could of course use Bolts of Balthakk to push the Behemoth through the garganta, which would hopefully let the garganta close before the counter-attack triggered.
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Post by Gaizer on Feb 29, 2012 13:02:34 GMT -5
Nel will use lanzador to push it through. Yusuke will try to disable the hollows and finish off the darkhounds with spirit wave. Raizen will try to push the behemoth through (if nel pulls it off he will attack the hezrou). If necessary, Dr. Strange will use that, otherwise he will attack the hollow that is confident.
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Post by Frederic Bourgault-Christie on Feb 29, 2012 14:42:52 GMT -5
The Behemoth bats the Lanzador Verde out of the way, but the force does carry it further. Raizen slips under the Behemoth's paw and bowls it into the garganta, but miscalculates and goes through, immediately attracting more Hollows. Grimmjow can close the garganta and reopen it later, or let Raizen leap through, or Dr. Strange can swap one of the Hollow's places with Raizen.
Yusuke's lack of affinity for the Spirit Wave shows, but he still tries, and the Hollows do have no special resistance to it. The Darkhounds, on the other hand, have immense spiritual resistance, almost as if they were bred to resist and combat the supernatural. The opposite of what you expected would occur: The Darkhounds are, while not fully disabled, harmed and made much weaker, while three of the Hollows have their masks removed and disappear. Their reiatsu is absorbed by Dr. Strange. Dr. Strange immediately refills everyone's relevant tech point pools by 5%.
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Post by Gaizer on Mar 1, 2012 17:52:09 GMT -5
Dr. strange will do the swap.
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