Three on Three (Tim, James, Mike, Sam)

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

These are my notes from the insane 3-on-3 we were doing:

Crawdaddy - 85
Spunky
Alcedes
Swaggard - 90
Ashkalen Components
Submarine
Ships
Crew
Robo Kraken
Chaos Avatar
(Avatar of Pain
Gein - 75
Prisms
Marlboro
Tachibana Orbs
Shadow Snakes
Light Alter
Quion - 62
Symbiote
Rinku's Yo Yos
Ikiru - 50 (4 turns of Kata Battery)
Ikiru's Rose Gundam
Infensus
Pearl Dragon
Iron Golem: Tempest Justice
Shae - 48
Gundam
Minions
God's Forge

Shae had taken quite some damage, but her resilience continued to be amazing. And it was Ikiru's Rose Gundam.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Wow, it's been only 6 days since we did that. Seemed a LOT longer.

Anyways: I'll wait for about a week, polling people as to whether to continue this. If two people vote against continuing, we won't. People involved will be able to take abilities from three out of the five opponents they faced, I'll work out what happened semi-officially and post a summary. If we continue, everyone will get five people worth of abilities.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Tim and James voted to auto-play.

The Rose Gundam creates a field of roses in the air, sweet-smelling, doing some damage to the foulness of Gein and Alcedes. When the roses blow away, Ikiru is gone (though in one turn Crawdaddy will find him). Infensus Heat Drains Shae, but Shae blasts heat down Infensus' throat and does damage. The Pearl Dragon Restorers his team. The Tempest and Justice Golems fire at Crawdaddy, scoring a direct hit, though Crawdaddy's armor and Supersoldier-induced toughness hold up. Naga creates a Guard Eye then throws Genocide Mind (really horrific in her hands, as it will be in Gein's) at Gein, doing incredible damage (5 to save) but taking an incredible psychic toll in return. She doesn't evolve to suit it either yet.

Shae has lost her explosive ability. She concentrates for a moment, white energy pouring out from her. Suddenly inside Quion an explosion occurs. She seems to have regenerated the power. She then conjures the Spirit of Flame, simultaneously energy erupting from her body and Alter armor; simultaneously, a tall, red-haired Banbar soldier appears in a classic shamanic spectral manner and begins attacking Quion, blasting through Quion's block and throwing Quion with the power only a 100 can summon. Energy is being consumed by the spirit, including the energy (and possibly souls!) of the minions and enemies. Shinku presses the attack against Swaggard, dragon tendrils blasting away at the crewmen, Shinku itself running about Swaggard creating a firestorm and making periodic powerful slashes. Swaggard takes the blow and strikes Shinku back, a devastating blow. Shae's minions make a communal Shock, damaging all foes except Ikiru. Quion makes the self-same Shock damage all Shae's allies and Shae herself, even when flying through the air from Ranari's blow. Shae's God Forge produces some medic robots to heal her and allies. It then produces a soothing piano for Marching Heroes Song.

Crawdaddy focuses intently on Swaggard, and the universe seems to match its focus. Meanwhile, a puppet body takes out a Caster Gun and sacrifices its energy to fire Syrk and Tsrin at the Pearl Dragon and Infensus, respectively, while another body launches a quick burst of radio communications while entering into very, VERY close combat with Swaggard, using his special anti-martial artist art to use knees, elbows, headbutts, and his armor's vibro-bladed and so on to fight Swaggard's body. Swaggard is damaged heavily, but Ashkalen the Segmented fire back, throwing Crawdaddy away. Alcedes takes advantage of this opening, its chain whip launching through a swath of flame, scoring a simply devastating hit upon Swaggard, Swaggard's crews, Ashkalen pieces, etc. feeling the damage of a 294. Spunky telekinetically pins Swaggard, rather successfully. Spunky also drives a large APC, firing a vulcan cannon with a special manuever damaging all enemies.

Swaggard has substantially reduced turn, but he feels it's time for an ELBOW DROP! He rides along on a Komodo-dragon like lizard, a trick he borrowed from Zoah, riding on the lizard, using his Bounding Leap and Sustained Assault Merits to jump up and attack repeatedly, striking a few times and doing major damage. Unfortunately, Shae uses the opportunity to get a 88/100 close-range shatterpoint Mace/Yoda stab. The submarine launches swarms of torpedoes into the air from underground to make a rising swath of earth to throw off his enemies, while the ship rams into Shae and fires. The crew withdraws into the ship to charge and stay alive. The Robo Kraken gurgles and raises the local water table precipitously, causing Shae to make a massive swarm of bubbles that it shoots back at Shae. The Parrot Avatar continues to summon a Greater Avatar of Pain. The Ashkalen Components create a giant Starcannon, bouncing back-and-forth, target unrevealed until it strikes Crawdaddy.

Gein's main body is out of Carbon and Magnesium, but three flanges appear behind her arm. The horrific bladed mouth spreads in something akin to a smile as she calls out "Genocidal First Bomb!" She spins around Swaggard, trying to avoid Shae as she does so, finally settling up for a punch to the abdomen... which Swaggard takes by simply breathing in and trapping her arm, then breathing out and releasing a torrent of blood and water. The bomb seemed to harmlessly bounce off. The first Prism casts Tremor Saber-All. The second hopes for a proper robot combination... and fails. Nonetheless, she flies forward, going for a Blinding Touch on Swaggard, and succeeding, though eliciting a brutal counter-attack that smashes her face plate. Her third Prism grudgingly casts Restorer. Her fourth Prism launches Genocide Mind at all of Swaggard's targets, who do a good job saving. The fifth try the same, this time getting a powerful hit but feeling a psychic backlash akin to Broodna's effect. That Prism disappears, her matter consumered back to the center. Her light sphere fills the air with chronatons, for some odd reason. It then creates a large white and gold mech, distinct from a Gundam in that it seems to have an airplane back. Said mech flies into the air and performs a bombing run. The Eternity Eight attempt to mind control various minions, and succeed in controlling the parrot, the Kraken, the Pearl Dragon and Infensus (though the AM taint has incredible damage). Marlboro casts Forbidden Bad Breath. The Shadow Snakes swarm Quion, doing quite impressive damage... until they then realize they begun striking a quite convincing holographic copy of Quion in mid-air.

Quion responds to this swarm of minions by throwing hordes of Nutarangoaq dolls to free the minds of the controlled. While the dolls fail, they do begin firing little spirit repeating rifles at Gein's many minions. Meanwhile, a giant doll somewhat resembling Quion but with mouth permanently open, screaming, flies at the Prisms and strikes two. He steps into Megas XLR and fires burst after burst of laser fire to augment this. He summons a spiritual Coyote, similar to a Tornaq, which smiles as only a coyote can and side shuffles. A great sandstorm picks up, obscuring Crawdaddy/Gein/Shae's vision but not Ikiru/Quion/Naga/Swaggard/et al. Eddie's symbiote attempts to drain Shae's regenerative power for Quion/Naga's regeneration and successfully does so, but at the cost of channeling a detonation into Quion of titanic proportions. Amazingly enough, Quion manages to continue forward. A silver sphere appears around him. This seems similar to Sylphana's Lugh's Sphere. Shae and Crawdaddy expect blasts coming directly from it, but Gein (a roll of 90, folks) manages to see what's happening. Gein cannot warn her allies, however, and the trick is revealed: Sun sparkles down from the sun above, harming all of them, while a slightly staggered mirrored blast from the moon shield rockets. Since both blasts can appear anywhere from large spherical radiuses, it proves difficult to dodge, and the three take notable damage. Rinku's Yo Yos attempt to disarm Crawdaddy, and succeed! Crawdaddy draws another rifle, but now Quion has a new gunsy to play with.

Ikiru decides it would be apropos to launch Kata Battery upon Crawdaddy. He, unfortunately, does not calculate for the chronatons, which gives Crawdaddy a chance to respond to each Relapse. Ikiru is surprisingly damaged, taking knife and other weapon damage, yet Crawdaddy has taken a truly incredible blow. His Rose Gundam presses the attack by summoning a thorn field to trap Crawdaddy. Unfortunately, having lost Infensus and the Pearl Dragon, they will likely go on Gein's next turn... unless the Iron Golem has something to say about it. Justice attempts a massive dispelling field, and partially succeeds: now no one gets their turn. However, again a backlash strikes it. Naga drains the wounds of their enemies, giving Ikiru a new vitality that will serve him well. (And the Charmed effect makes Ikiru take a horrifically depressing psychic backlash! Luckily, it disappears after this.)

Shae goes all-out, trying to use Forbidden 2 Ability Theft on Ikiru. Ikiru repels it, but Shae goes for a second attempt given the chronatonal effect, and this time succeeds, at penalty of course. Shae takes Speed Equalizer from Ikiru. She uses it immediately to equalize with Ikiru's Speed. Her Spirit of Flame rockets at Quion, trying to consume many a thing: the Coyote, the symbiote, etc. It does not succeed, but it does drain an incredible amount of energy and further misallocate the Affinities in the area. (If only Jin were here!) Ranari uses a Forging Flame burst to try to burn and slow Swaggard, successfully doing so. Shinku throws a rocket barrage at Swaggard. Her minions do Uzzi Fist on Quion.

To make a long story short after this point: Shae falls, but her death is a spoilsport death, thanks to her living bomb abilities, Flame Spirit, Mr. Buu/Apocalypse regeneration, Robo's powers, etc. Ikiru manages to launch Psycho Nova upon Gein, but unfortunately... something about Gein (might it be the Prisms? or the changing chemical composition? or the Alter armor? or something about her mind?) lets her survive, albeit only in her schoolgirl form. Crawdaddy is grievously injured, but his deadly Forbidden 2 takes the vulnerable Ikiru down. Quion's hordes manage to keep Shae, Gein et al down and his Forbidden 2, Waveform Ray, devastates his foes. Gein's mind control, Prisms, etc. drastically harm her foes, but Swaggard manages to survive, though minionless. So a damaged Gein and Crawdaddy fight a damaged Quion and Swaggard. Though it is a knock-down drag-out fight, the complementary nature of Swaggard and Quion's abilities is a slight edge. However, Naga's power is the final tiebreaker (which may be slightly unfair, because that's basically another character, but eh, it was just all in good fun). She manages to strike from after the grave with a mutated response to Crawdaddy's gun and take down Crawdaddy... except for the mind-controlled minions, who make it a tie once more.

Shae/Crawdaddy, you guys played very well. Ikiru/Swaggard, good play as always. You may pick three out of five of your fellow players' skills, either ones shown her or in the fight before hand, to copy! So, for example, Shae could take some skills from Ikiru, Gein and Swaggard. Shae also automatically keeps Speed Equalizer and a +30 to Psi.

[draco]

Can Shae have Heat Drain?

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

...Sure? This IS a dead thread . Bear in mind, though, that some of your benefits are taken by keeping Rose Gundam (fused with Shinkuu) AND Death from Afar (which you changed to Death From Near).