UE Issue #1: Introductions

[shaidar]

Thanks for the explanation, and the patience with the newbie. Your rules post makes sense, it'll take him two phases (well, 1.6 rounded up) to reach the roof.

[gurusql]

2 phases is correct, but there will be up to 6" more of movement possible as well. (Horizonal most likely like flying out the building or back over the edge at the roof)

[gurusql]

Correction - On the kitchen side (the pool is the sixth floor), so you would only have to get up 5 stories.

[shaidar]

That's fine. With Wind Dragon on the roof, the kitchen is the next best access point to outside and the sky (unless he throws himself out of a window) and covers the basement entrance too. It's also a distinct entry point if they decide not to attack from the sky.

[VonAlric]

Dos Seso will wait until just before the time of the meeting and move to the closest stairway up to the upper floors. Once the parties have begun their movement up the elevators, he will go up the stairs to the 6th floor. While in the stairwell, he will have Out of Sight, Out of Mind running and keep his speed down to 2 until action is called for.

[gurusql]

The Arrival
Southern Club, New Chicago
7:58 PM Local Time – Tuesday, June 16th, 1987

The Vice-President Bush, three aides and two agents arrives via the front entrance to the Southern about 7:56 PM in three black limousines. About 10 seconds after the VP is in building the cars drives away. The VP and his aides are quickly taken across the 1st floor, he is not interfered with. All of the agents on patrol (and Azir) are in the lobby when the VP arrives.

Agent's Andy and Bill stay with the VP in the elevator, but Agent Carrie and Azir stay in the lobby. The agents that arrived with the VP stay in the lobby. Azir wonders if he has seen those limos before.

About 2 min later the limousines return to the front of the building, scratch that this time there are four limousines.

The Prime Minister of Canada gets out of the lead limousine, with three aides of his own and with his four guards moves into the building.

Agent Carrie says to Azir in a quiet tone, "I going up with the PM - are you joining me?"

Dos Seso watches the scene with a slow heartbeat as the VP arrives and then the PM from near the lobby stairs. He is getting ready to walk up the stairs.

Wind Dragon has not seen any of this as he is on the 6th floor.

Eclipse is guarding the kitchen, rear exit and basement.

Actions?

Eclipse: DEX 20, DEF 21/25, END 46, STUN 29
Wind Dragon: DEX 20, DEF 20, END 46, STUN 35
Azir: DEX 18, DEF 27, END 56, STUN 56
Dos Seso: SPD 2, DEX 18, DEF 24/23, END 40, STUN 29, Mind Scan on with E, WD, and A.

[Rex]

Azir

"Yes, I am with you." She boards the elevator with the prime minister and Carrie.

[gurusql]

Please confirm Eclipse when you move to the kitchen if the back door is open and you are looking out, or the door is closed with you on the inside. It was unclear to me. I assume that you meant closed, but I would rather not assume.

[shaidar]

He will keep the door closed, as he wants to stay as hidden as possible at this stage. He's assuming the agents on the roofs have a decent view of the back of the building.

[gurusql]

The Meeting
Southern Club, New Chicago
8:07 PM Local Time – Tuesday, June 16th, 1987

The VP, PM, the notetaker and 2 aides are sitting at a table just south of the pool (two of the black square on the map)

Wind Dragon has moved to the southern brown building (south of the pool west of the VP).
Azir is in the building that is the western half as close to the door as possible. (From an east/west point of view just on the western half just below the text on the map saying "a rooftop pool")
Dos Seso has meandered (SPD 2) up the stairs and is with Wind Dragon
Eclipse is on the ground floor in the kitchen looking at the closed door of the parking lot (east side at about the same place as the northern end of the pool)

I need everyone to make three PER (Perception) Rolls (two hearing and one sight) Unless you have some special senses, it is the same as an INT Roll (9 + INT/5). There of course could be some situational modifiers.

Eclipse: DEX 20, DEF 21/25, END 46, STUN 29
Wind Dragon: DEX 20, DEF 20, END 46, STUN 35
Azir: DEX 18, DEF 27, END 56, STUN 56
Dos Seso: SPD 2, DEX 18, DEF 24/23, END 40, STUN 29, Mind Scan on with E, WD, and A.

[Rex]

Azir

Perception [_3d6]=(6+4+5)=15
Perception [_3d6]=(4+3+6)=13
Perception [_3d6]=(5+4+6)=15

[shaidar]

Eclipse

Perception (13-): [_3d6]=(5+3+2)=10
Perception (13-): [_3d6]=(3+5+6)=14
Perception (13-): [_3d6]=(3+5+3)=11

[VonAlric]

Dos Seso

Skill Check or Perception, 12- : [_3d6]=(1+3+4)=8
Skill Check or Perception, 12- : [_3d6]=(1+3+3)=7
Skill Check or Perception, 12- : [_3d6]=(1+4+3)=8

[VonAlric]

Dos Seso

Lost in the thoughts of vigilance, Dos Seso realizes that there was an odd noise. He nudges Wind Dragon. "Maybe I'm a bit paranoid but there was something that sounded out of place. Seems like it was coming from that direction. Did you hear it?" He points in the general direction of the sound.

[gurusql]

Wind Dragon

"I did not hear anything on the wind, perhaps you should ask one of the others? Perhaps they are closer? If is it that way Azir will not be closer and neither will Eclipse unless it is closer to ground level?" Wind Dragon whispers back to Dos Seso
"Do you think that we should be jumping out?" with an unsure question in his voice. "Not the introduction to the VP I was imagining." he says with a smile.

[VonAlric]

Dos Seso

"Let me go check something. I guess just stay put for now." Dos Seso heads further into the building to the far side to find a window. Once there, he opens it and begins to listen again for any unusual sound.

[gurusql]

VP and PM in Danger
Southern Club, New Chicago
8:09 PM Local Time – Tuesday, June 16th, 1987

So here is the situation, Azir is directly viewing and Wind Dragon is looking at an extreme angle at the VP, PM and the rest of the group. Dos Seso has gone to a southern facing window. Eclipse is on the ground floor. I have placed you all on the map.

Dos Seso sees some red and yellow lights for a moment to his left. Azir, Wind Dragon and Dos Seso hear pop that sounds like someone stepping on a bag of air (like what you could get in a package). Then some yelling in Chinese and a contained explosion.

For Azir and Wind Dragon only

Right after the lights and the popping sound, a deep voice yells "Dìzhèn fěnsuì. Xiànzài fàngqì." (the Chinese yelling mentioned above) and then the ground ripples and suddenly the table that the 5 VIPs are sitting at flies up in the air (This is the blue circle on the map and the contained explosion). The VP, the PM Aide and the scribe appear to be disoriented after the "attack" and all five sustained enough damage to draw blood. A fraction of a second later a woman in her late 20s, about 1.75 m tall dresses in grey and black with a green and blue energy field around her person flies and lands at the spot with the diamond and fires a blue-green attack in the direction of the Agent sniper. The results of which are out of anyone's field of vision.

While it is likely that Eclipse will beat Wind Dragon's 1 for initiative, but it is going to take some time for him to get to the area of the combat. And since Eclipse and Wind Dragon have the 20 DEXs they will go first. With that in mind, Wind Dragon is first so he will cause the air to flow around him providing some protection and then he uses his casual strength to push open the door (given his strength it will swing open and bounce, but it takes no time). He moves 3 hexes along the edge of the building (half-move) and hopes that he will be putting himself between the VIPs and whatever yelled and attacked. Just after that a man dressed mostly in green with brown double wings flies between the VIPs and the green diamond saying "Lucky" in broken English and stops over the pool.

Actions? (We are officially in Segment 12 where most combat starts - everyone should roll initiative each phase.)

Eclipse: DEX 20, DEF 21/25, END 46, STUN 29
Wind Dragon: DEX 20, DEF 20, END 46, STUN 35, Initiative (1,6,5)
Azir: DEX 18, DEF 27, END 56, STUN 56
Dos Seso: SPD 2, DEX 18, DEF 24/23, END 40, STUN 29, Mind Scan on with E, WD, and A.

Eclipse - Per my private message you get a half move, then your Segment 12 move.
Azir - You have some choices to make
Dos Seso - Please do not forget you have a SPD 2 right now, something you might wish to change.

[Rex]

Azir

Azir will burst through the door and run at the female that popped in. Punching her.

Focus is on attack.

Roll [_3d6]=(6+4+3)=13
Roll [_3d6]=(4+1+6)=11
Roll [_3d6]=(4+6+2)=12
Roll [_3d6]=(5+1+3)=9

[gurusql]

Azir

Azir will burst through the door and run at the female that popped in. Punching her.

Focus is on attack.

Roll [_3d6]=(6+4+3)=13 - This one will be for initiative (this phase you are basically competing against Dos Seso - the 6 (first number) means you are very likely to go first
Roll [_3d6]=(4+1+6)=11 - You OCV is a 6, -1 for a half move and +1 for your skill level gives you an OCV of 6. A roll of an 11 means that you hit a DCV of 6 or lower. This is good enough to smack your target.
Roll [_3d6]=(4+6+2)=12. Here is where it gets crazy. This an 11d6 attack. Please be sure to do the _11d6 as we will need to compute STUN and BODY
Roll [_3d6]=(5+1+3)=9 - This is for your knockback, if you look back in my note this is 2d6. Since you have "_" I will use the 5+1=6 for this roll. I cannot tell what it means for sure until the third step is completed, but you are going to like it I think.

[Rex]

Azir

11d6 attack [_11d6]=(4+6+4+2+5+5+4+2+2+4+3)=41