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Perhaps it is so. It may be that there is a chance for you to find out.

We should have met with the reinforcement column ages ago. And where's the detail from Rikovol?

The scars on the horizon are dark. They're the blemishes from smokey campfires and burning buildings. The enemy has come to our shore, our fields, our farms. There should be forts, allies, reinforcements. But we seem alone but for fleeing civilians and wind-borne screams. There are no banner in clear evidence. No orders from distant generals.

What's a small group of trainees and recruits to do but try to survive?

We're not equipped to beat off a force of well-stocked invaders. A nearby fort might provide us with the answers we seek and stout walls to keep the enemy at bay. But we have to get there. . .

>For chargen, roll 18d6. Then pick a weapon and a kata-skill. If you die - which you will - you can reroll and make a new character but carry over 1 stat from the slain one.

#Name
Guard 12+1d6
AP 10+2d6 | Stance 6+1d6 | React 3+2d6 | Health 1+1d6/2
Lethality 1, add +1 if you roll 6 on a 1d6
Fluidity 3+2d6 | Focus 3+2d6 |Finesse 3+2d6 |Ferocity 3+2d6 | Para 0+2d6

#Simple Sword / Simple Bow / Simple Spear

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Rolled 6, 5, 3, 3, 3, 5, 4, 6, 1, 1, 3, 3, 6, 6, 5, 1, 3, 3 = 67 (18d6)

>>4771110

# Veynaha Copec
Guard 12+1d6
AP 10+2d6 | Stance 6+1d6 | React 3+2d6 | Health 1+1d6/2
Lethality 1, add +1 if you roll 6 on a 1d6
Fluidity 3+2d6 | Focus 3+2d6 |Finesse 3+2d6 |Ferocity 3+2d6 | Para 0+2d6

(Weapon and skill choices will come after RNG resolves.)

>>4771180
Ah, uninformed individuality shaping itself. Good! Try on some intentionality, see how you like the shaking and shudder of nerves. The beat of hearts. The peculiar madness of being trapped inside a skull all of your own, lonely and sovereign.

Rolled 5, 4, 4, 6, 5, 2, 2, 1, 2, 6, 3, 5, 2, 5, 3, 5, 3, 3 = 66 (18d6)

>>4771110

#Soldat
Guard 12+1d6
AP 10+2d6 | Stance 6+1d6 | React 3+2d6 | Health 1+1d6/2
Lethality 1, add +1 if you roll 6 on a 1d6
Fluidity 3+2d6 | Focus 3+2d6 |Finesse 3+2d6 |Ferocity 3+2d6 | Para 0+2d6

(Equipment and Skills after Rolls)

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>>4771180

# Veynaha Copec
Guard 12+6
AP 10+8 | Stance 6+3 | React 3+8 | Health 1+2
Lethality 1+1
Fluidity 3+2 | Focus 3+6 |Finesse 3+12 |Ferocity 3+6 | Para 0+6

Weapon // (Bow): +1 Lethality, Range of 3, range penalties grow exponentially.
Skill // {Oni Laugh}: Spend 3SP to have AP dmg penalize enemy actions.
Skill // {Nock}: Spend 3 Stance to draw & ready an arrow.
Skill // {Aim}: Spending AP boosts hitchance at a 1:1 rate.

>>4771208

# Veynaha Copec
Guard: [18]
AP: [18] // Stance: [9] // React: [11] // Health: [3]
Lethality: [2]+1
Fluidity: [5] // Focus: [9] // Finesse: [15] // Ferocity: [9] // Para: [6]

Weapon // (Bow): +1 Lethality, Range of 3, range penalties grow exponentially.
Skill // {Oni Laugh}: Spend 3SP to have AP dmg penalize enemy actions.
Skill // {Nock}: Spend 3 Stance to draw & ready an arrow.
Skill // {Aim}: Spending AP boosts hitchance at a 1:1 rate.

"Bring only bloodshed, and leave only carrion."

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>>4771253
Fine words, to chill those who get in our way.

If you are so keen to feed the crows perhaps you might rid us of that archer on the small cliff hill?

Rolled 6, 4, 3, 2, 1, 6, 1, 1, 4, 1, 2, 6, 6, 2, 4, 1, 1, 6 = 57 (18d6)

>>4771110
"The arts of my family will never be defeated! Let's drive out these brigands."

#Sofia
Guard 12+1d6
AP 10+2d6 | Stance 6+1d6 | React 3+2d6 | Health 1+1d6/2
Lethality 1, add +1 if you roll 6 on a 1d6
Fluidity 3+2d6 | Focus 3+2d6 |Finesse 3+2d6 |Ferocity 3+2d6 | Para 0+2d6

#Simple Sword

>>4771226
>>4771110
>>4771262

#Soldat
Guard 17 (12+5)
AP 18 (10+4+4) | Stance 12 (6+6) | React 10 (3+5+2) | Health 1+1 (2/2=1)
Lethality 1
Fluidity 6 (3+1+2)| Focus 12 (3+6+3) |Finesse 10 (3+5+2) |Ferocity 11 (3+5+3) | Para 8 (0+5+3)

Weapon - [Simple Spear]: Reach 2.
Skill - [Scorpion Sting]: Make one Attack, Spend Guard, Add half of spent Guard as Bonus Damage.
Skill - [Grass-Cutter]: +1SP, +1 Tile in Reach.

"A battle with no promised reinforcements, and recruits ready to be slaughtered... Guess Fiction and Reality blend together sometimes."

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>>4771272
It always does. What is Real is not what is True and what is True is a tradable commodity around these parts.

Those brigands look rowdy. Something about their stance speaks of a long life of leisure fuelled by bouts of violence against the innocent. Not professionals, in truth, but cunning, clever violent souls.

Perhaps you can do something about them?

Rolled 5, 5, 4, 3, 4, 2, 5, 5, 4 = 37 (9d6)

>>4771262

# Veynaha Copec
Guard: [18]
AP: [18] // Stance: [9] // React: [11] // Health: [3]
Lethality: [2]+1
Fluidity: [5] // Focus: [9] // Finesse: [15] // Ferocity: [9] // Para: [6]

Weapon // (Bow): +1 Lethality, Range of 3, range penalties grow exponentially.
Skill // {Oni Laugh}: Spend 3SP to have AP dmg penalize enemy actions.
Skill // {Nock}: Spend 3 Stance to draw & ready an arrow.
Skill // {Aim}: Spending AP boosts hitchance at a 1:1 rate.

> 3 AP // Try-Something vs Finesse 15 // Scale the rocky incline to [NE].
> 3 AP // Try-Something vs Finesse 15 // Scale the rocky incline to [NE], come to rest on flat terrain.
> 3 Stance // {Nock}.
> 12 AP // {Aim} @ the hostile bowman.
> 3 Stance // Fire bow @ the hostile bowman.
> 3 Stance // {Nock}.

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Now, to find ourselves . . .

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If you are the cunning sort, with deft mind and quick hands. . . Perhaps you might be tempted by some advanced swordplay?

They're moves for those with more skill and training than us - but knowledge is its own reward.

Rolled 4, 4, 2, 1, 6, 6, 6, 1, 6, 3, 6, 1, 5, 4, 1, 6, 3, 6 = 71 (18d6)

>>4771110
In much the same way is Veynaha, let's see how RNG shakes out.

#Gilbert
Guard 12+1d6
AP 10+2d6 | Stance 6+1d6 | React 3+2d6 | Health 1+1d6/2
Lethality 1, add +1 if you roll 6 on a 1d6
Fluidity 3+2d6 | Focus 3+2d6 |Finesse 3+2d6 |Ferocity 3+2d6 | Para 0+2d6

>>4771289
When applying these D6s, should I go in the order they're listed in the image here >>4771110 or the character sheet?

>>4771280
Is Grass-cutter +1 to your SP and +1 to your reach, or is it spend 1SP for +1 reach?

Rolled 6, 5, 1, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 6, 3, 3, 6, 1, 3, 3, 2, 3 = 58 (18d6)

>>4771110
>=Chargen

>>4771296
Go by the character sheet. The records written there is for ease-of-use (guard and lethality being easy to spot for quick reference).

Apologies for the minor confusion.

>>4771297
Naturally, you spend stance to trigger the particulars of your stance. So it adds +1 to the cost of whichever it is used on. And it does not add to reach; you target one more tile within reach that you already have. Perhaps you wish to cut a large amount of grass?

Large. . . humanoid looking . . . grass.

So to be particular, Sofia, using grass-cutter goes on top of anything else, it adds +1 stance cost to that thing it goes on top of, and it allows you to target 1 more tile.

Such that if you took up a ferocious stance, added +2 damage, and wanted to hit two tiles at once, you'd then use Grasscutter to target it. Your single attack would cost 3 + 4 + 1 for grasscutter.

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>>4771278
Grand shot! Good eye. But do keep in mind that if you try to cross a cliff that is also a movement, so you only added +10 to hit for that deft shot as you had to spend 2 AP to also move up and over those cliffs.

The brigand is shocked by the arrow but he flinched; but he's vulnerabe!

>>4771304
Now I exist! This does look correct, yes?

#Gilbert
Guard 16
AP 16 | Stance 7 | React 15 | Health 4
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 | Focus 10 |Finesse 12 |Ferocity 10 | Para 9

#Simple Sword
#Flickerstep Dodge

>>4771304
"That makes sense. Thanks!"

#Sofia
Guard 14
AP 20 | Stance 10 | React 10 | Health 1
Lethality 1
Fluidity 8 | Focus 11 |Finesse 11 |Ferocity 8 | Para 7
[Grass-Cutter] 1 SP, hit +1 Tile within range
#Simple Sword

>>4771309
Quick on your feet there, recruit. Good. You might live longer than I hoped!

>>4771311
Unlike this scraggly looking specimen...

Rolled 6, 4, 5 = 15 (3d6)

>>4771277
>>4771305

#Soldat
Guard 17
AP 18 | Stance 12 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 6 | Focus 12 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 11 | Para 8

Weapon - [Simple Spear]: Reach 2.
Skill - [Scorpion Sting]: Make one Attack, Spend Guard, Add half of spent Guard as Bonus Damage.
Skill - [Grass-Cutter]: +1SP, +1 Tile in Reach.

>1 AP: Move 3,3
>1 SP: [Focus] Stance
>[Grass-Cutter]
> 4SP: Attack at Tiles at 4,4 from me with [Focus]

"Okay, Focus..."

>>4771316
"W-what matters the most is fighting spirit!"

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>>4771319
and you have it in plentiful exuberance! Now SHOW IT.

Recruits, form up! Get those three brigands out of our way! We have a supply wagon coming up behind us, and we need to clear the way.

If the reinforcements from Rikovol do not meet us on this road and the horizon is stained with smoke we will need to ensure the supplies reach Fort Drywing! Otherwise, anyone fleeing there for safety will be fit for crows once the water runs out and the rat gets in the grain.

>Take a turn, or link your turn to this update.

>>4771302
>>4771322
(Act from where)
>Here I am

#Sato
Guard 18
AP 16 | Stance 9 | React 9 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5


Weapon - [Simple Sword]
Skill - [Hushed Lightning]

>>4771322

# Veynaha Copec
Guard: [18]
AP: [18] // Stance: [9] // React: [11] // Health: [3]
Lethality: [2]+1
Fluidity: [5] // Focus: [9] // Finesse: [15] // Ferocity: [9] // Para: [6]

Weapon // (Bow): +1 Lethality, Range of 3, range penalties grow exponentially.
Skill // {Oni Laugh}: Spend 3SP to have AP dmg penalize enemy actions.
Skill // {Nock}: Spend 3 Stance to draw & ready an arrow.
Skill // {Aim}: Spending AP boosts hitchance at a 1:1 rate.

"Turn your gaze towards the heavens and hear the lamentations of the blackbirds."
> Note // -bow was nocked on previous turn-
> 9 AP // {Aim} @ the hostile bowman.
> 3 Stance // Fire bow @ the hostile bowman.
> 3 Stance // {Nock}.
> 9 AP // {Aim} @ the hostile bowman.
> 3 Stance // Fire bow @ the hostile bowman.

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>>4771326
One might need to exist with blade in hand before taking action! Fortunately. . . It appears you know now where you are.

It is right . . . in the thick of it.

Rolled 1, 4, 1 = 6 (3d6)

>>4771319
"Then let us dash them against the stones! I shall take the bulwark, get around their flank!"
>>4771322
"For the honor of this nation! Break upon me criminals!"
>4AP: Move 3, 4, 4, 3
>3SP + 6AP: Attack Bandit 2 with [Finesse] with +3
>6AP: Gain +1 Stance
>4SP: Ready an attack at the first enemy to attack me
>1SP: Ready a Dodge after that

#Gilbert
Guard 16
AP 16 | Stance 7 | React 15 | Health 4
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 | Focus 10 |Finesse 12 |Ferocity 10 | Para 9

#Simple Sword
#Flickerstep Dodge

Rolled 5, 6, 2, 2, 4, 2 = 21 (6d6)

>>4771336
"Here I come!"

>Begin in [Focus Stance]
>3AP Move 343
>3SP+2AP: Attack closest bandit(vs Focus 12)
>3SP+2AP: Attack him again(Vs Focus 12)
>1SP+12AP:Parry the next incoming attack (vs Finesse 11)

#Sofia
Guard 14
AP 20 | Stance 10 | React 10 | Health 1
Lethality 1
Fluidity 8 | >>Focus 11<< |Finesse 11 |Ferocity 8 | Para 7
[Grass-Cutter] 1 SP, hit +1 Tile within range
#Simple Sword

Rolled 2, 2, 1, 6, 3, 6 = 20 (6d6)

>>4771336
>>4771322
>[Start in fluidity stance]
>1 AP: Move 3
>1 SP: Evaluate Bandit
>1 SP: Windup
>3 SP+14 AP: Use Hushed Lightning on Bandit (14/2= +7 to Hit)
>1 AP: Add to Parry React?

#Sato
Guard 18
AP 16 | Stance 9 | React 9 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5
Weapon - [Simple Sword]
Skill - [Hushed Lightning]

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Surrounding them? Good thinking! It's much, much harder to defend against attacks from behind - and when they have to spin around, even two knives won't help them!

Get 'em!

They know their stances well, though; their guards aren't broken!. . .

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One lashes out with a flurry of knives that Soldat ward off with his spear, and the other glares daggers at Sofia. And then he brings his real daggers up in a two-two-one strike . . . And half a feint as he spins around and goes for Gilbert, who yields the ground in a display of stunning awareness! Good footwork!

The AP they didn't use to boost their tohit to 13 they used to try to bring their guard back around, but the flurry of our attacks have gotten them over-exposed. close in for the kill! Get 'em!

And remember: If your enemy has a solid guard, damage is halved. You might want to use a wind-up to batter through their defences, or attempt a quick strike that trades -2 to your hit for -1 to their Guard against the attack!

--

That archer is reeling, stunned, his cool broken. He's staggered and is taking the turn to recover! Veynaha; plant one in his skull. Make him sit down.

Permanently.

Or give him one in the arm and your bow has a good chance of wounding him. He'll be forced to flee, unable to wield his weapon effectively!

> GO!

Rolled 4, 1, 1 = 6 (3d6)

"What was it called... uhhh..."

"Killing Blade: Cutting Winds!"

>3AP Circle around 321
>10SP+16AP Slash through both bandits' legs.[Grasscutter] vs 17 (-2 for,+3 Damage +8 to Hit)

#Sofia
Guard 14
AP 20 | Stance 10 | React 10 | Health 1
Lethality 1
Fluidity 8 | >>Focus 11<< |Finesse 11 |Ferocity 8 | Para 7
[Grass-Cutter] 1 SP, hit +1 Tile within range
#Simple Sword

>>4771377
>>4771399

Rolled 1, 5, 5 = 11 (3d6)

>>4771377
"Like fallen leaves, return to the earth unmade!"
>1AP: Move 2
>3SP: Evaluate x 3
>3SP + 14AP: Called Shot Head Bandit 2 with Finesse + 13 Skill (Rolling versus 13)
>1SP: Ready dodge

#Gilbert
Guard 16
AP 16 | Stance 7 | React 15 | Health 4
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 | Focus 10 |Finesse 12 |Ferocity 10 | Para 9

#Simple Sword
#Flickerstep Dodge

Rolled 3, 2, 1, 3, 2, 2 = 13 (6d6)

>>4771377
>Fluidity Stance
>6 SP: Windup (+3 Dmg)
>3 SP +16 AP: Hushed Lightning again against Bandit Direction 2 (16 AP/2= +8 to hit -6 HL= vs 14)

#Sato
Guard 18
AP 16 | Stance 9 | React 9 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5


Weapon - [Simple Sword]
Skill - [Hushed Lightning]

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It is not so easy to bully those who fight back!

> Resolution Phase. . .

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The brigand archer recovers his composure in time to wipe the dust from his eyes and see a scene of carnage, he turns around and sprints for it, running as far as his legs take him.

We can look beyond this little place now and see the lay of the land. The smashed looking hut should house amicable fishermen. The drying racks should be teeming with fish. But instead we find . . . brigands.

And one of them holds a sharp blade in a fine two-handed grip. That one will know how to fight. When we engage him, mind your Guard and your Reaction - don't let the proficient fighter overbear you or push you against the rock-walls. If he shoulder-checks you, it might break your guard and if he feints out your defences, you'll need your allies to cover for you.

The armour looks. . . Well made. Is it the leader? Who forged that equipment, the rugged blade, the well-fitting harness? Someone with a fluid or focused mind should get closer and investigate. It might tell us more about these attackers.

And on the horizon, do you hear that? The shouting? The crowing of ravens? It's. . . Doubtfully human. Don't let it frighten you.

Advance!

Rolled 6, 3, 3, 3, 2, 3 = 20 (6d6)

>>4771437
"The one who strikes first wins! Sword Art: Charging Rhino!"

>5AP Move 33344
>6SP+10AP Running stab, impale the archer. (vs 16) +5 To Hit, +3 Damage
>3SP+4AP Grab him or his corpse.(vs 11) +2 To Hit
>1AP Face him toward the other archer as a human(corpse?)shield.

#Sofia
Guard 14
AP 20 | Stance 10 | React 10 | Health 1
Lethality 1
Fluidity 8 | >>Focus 11<< |Finesse 11 |Ferocity 8 | Para 7
[Grass-Cutter] 1 SP, hit +1 Tile within range
#Simple Sword

>>4771464
Also this!

>1SP Dodge

Rolled 5, 6, 6, 2, 3, 2 = 24 (6d6)

>>4771437
"Keep up the pressure! They will fall beneath the grinding steps of war!"
>4AP: Move 3, 3, 2, 3
>3AP: Use Fluidity to try to taunt the Bandit 3, 2, 3 to attack me
>3AP: Use Fluidity to try to see any gaps in the armored bandit's armor
>4SP: Ready an attack against the first person who approaches
>6AP: Gain +1SP
>1SP: Parry the first attack against me
>3SP: Ready Flickerstep Dodge to add +1 DMG

#Gilbert
Guard 16
AP 16 | Stance 7 | React 15 | Health 4
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 | Focus 10 |Finesse 12 |Ferocity 10 | Para 9

#Simple Sword
#Flickerstep Dodge

Rolled 6, 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 2, 6, 1 = 33 (9d6)

>>4771437
"CHESSSSTOO"
>[Fluidity Stance]
>DASHING CUT: Spend 8 Guard to move: 1-2-2-2-2-2-3-3 + Attack bandit vs 12
>2SP: Evaluate (+2 Hit)
>4SP: Windup (+2 Dmg)
>3 SP+ 16AP: Hushed Lightning against the Bandit (16 AP/2= 8 +hit +2 hit -6 HL= vs 16)

#Sato
Guard 18-8 (10)
AP 16 | Stance 9 | React 9 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5


Weapon - [Simple Sword]
Skill - [Hushed Lightning]

Rolled 1, 3, 5 = 9 (3d6)

>>4771437

#Soldat
Guard 15/17
AP 18 | Stance 12 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 6 | Focus 12 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 11 | Para 8

Weapon - [Simple Spear]: Reach 2.
Skill - [Scorpion Sting]: Make one Attack, Spend Guard, Add half of spent Guard as Bonus Damage.
Skill - [Grass-Cutter]: +1SP, +1 Tile in Reach.

>Current Stance: [Focus]
>7AP: Move 4, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3
>1SP: [Ferocity] Stance
>4SP: [Windup] * 2 (+2 DMG)
>4SP: [Evaluate] * 4 (+4 Hit)
>3SP: Attack Enemy 2, 3 from Me with Ferocity

"Things are moving fast, I have to catch up!"

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Sato! Remember your footwork! If you have no guard, you need to dodge!

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Sofia holds on to the archer who struggles to break free as Gilbert performs a phantom-step, lining him up a ferocious counter-attack against his angry opponent!

With both feet planted, Soldat wards off a barrage of blows but his guard is compromised!

Sato weaves left but the bandit gets a hold on his arm and then the bandit brings the knife in and it feels like nothing at all, nothing at all--

ah.
yes
there's the pain. More pain than any one human should be able to contain.

Sato
Sato, you've been WOUNDED with a level 3 wound in one of your Health slots! It's gruelling! Your to-hit and AP is reduced by 3; and what's worse, it may bleed or cause fatigue. That one was right in a bad spot.

The horror of it all is that the Bandit has a hold of your arm. His hold strength is 6 - you have to either ward him off or break his grapple. So long as he maintains it, you take half the hold in further penalties on anything! This is a lot of blood and you're at -6 to everything in total! Focus! You can make it through this!

To break the grapple, either try to break free or strike at him!

If not. . .

Rolled 4, 5, 3 = 12 (3d6)

>>4771588
>Fluid stance
>9 AP: Try to slip out of the grapple? Fluidity?
>1 AP: Recover my guardm
>3Sp: Dodge

#Sato
Guard 18
AP 16 | Stance 9 | React 9 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5


Weapon - [Simple Sword]
Skill - [Hushed Lightning]

Rolled 3, 3, 2 = 8 (3d6)

>>4771588

#Soldat
Guard 4/17
AP 18 | Stance 12 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 6 | Focus 12 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 11 | Para 8

Weapon - [Simple Spear]: Reach 2.
Skill - [Scorpion Sting]: Make one Attack, Spend Guard, Add half of spent Guard as Bonus Damage.
Skill - [Grass-Cutter]: +1SP, +1 Tile in Reach.

>Current Stance: [Ferocity]
>10 AP: Restore [Guard]
>1 AP: Move 6
>1 SP: [Focus] Stance
>3 SP: [Evaluate] * 3 (+3 Hit)
>3 SP: Attack Enemy 3, 3 from me.
>4 SP: Ready 4 [Dodges]

Rolled 5, 4, 4, 4, 1, 2, 1, 6, 3 = 30 (9d6)

>>4771588
"Hold fast Soldat! I am by your side!"
>1AP: Restore 1 Guard
>2AP: Move 2, 3
>3SP+2AP: Attack Bandit 4 of me with Finesse +2 Skill
>3SP+2AP: Attack Bandit 4 of me with Finesse +2 Skill
>3AP: Attempt to examine the armored Bandit better with Fluidity, now that I'm closer.
>1AP: Parry the first attack against me
>6AP: Recover 1 SP
>1SP: Ready Dodge

#Gilbert
Guard 16
AP 16 | Stance 7 | React 15 | Health 4
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 | Focus 10 |Finesse 12 |Ferocity 10 | Para 9

#Simple Sword
#Flickerstep Dodge

>>4771665
Should be +1 Skill from AP for both those attacks, first should still hit thanks to the Ghost Step though.

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Sato breaks free! And Gilbert, what a blow; he's off-balance. We've got them . . . Wait, here comes the wind-up!

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Sato!!!!

Sato is reeling. His Stance Pool sets to 0. Sato! You may wish to retreat, or play dead or surrender or get away, somehow! In your state, you're too wounded to fight effectively!

Or are you? You can go all out and use your AP as your Stance. But then . . . You won't recover your Guard.

--

The brute slams Soldat back against the cliffs, as every other strike his nothing but air and our stout guard. These ruffians can't have the skills to match us, but backing up their ferocious leader they're a fair sight more dangerous! The one that's off-balance; get him now! His guard hasn't recovered and he's wide open!

>Lightning Round! You have 15 minutes!

Rolled 4, 2, 6, 6, 1, 2 = 21 (6d6)

>>4771736
"Cutting! Winds!"

>3SP Manipulate the archer's momentum so that he struggles himself into the river (vs 11 Finesse)
>3AP Move 121
>7SP + 10AP Slash through all three bandit's legs [Grasscutter], +1 Dmg, +6 to hit (vs 15)
>6AP Dodge

#Sofia
Guard 14
AP 20 | Stance 10 | React 10 | Health 1
Lethality 1
Fluidity 8 | >>Focus 11<< |Finesse 11 |Ferocity 8 | Para 7
[Grass-Cutter] 1 SP, hit +1 Tile within range
#Simple Sword

>>4771736
"Gotta know when I am bested. Ser ya later Woozer!"
>Move 5-5-5-5-5-4-4-4-4
>Use remaining AP to rest and heal

#Sato
Guard 18
AP 16 | Stance 9 | React 9 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5


Weapon - [Simple Sword]
Skill - [Hushed Lightning]

Rolled 1, 3, 4, 4, 6, 4 = 22 (6d6)

>>4771736
>1AP: Recover 1 Guard
>1AP: Move 4
>3SP: Attack Bandit 3 with Finesse
>3SP + 2AP: Use Finesse to attempt to Disarm the Armored Bandit 2
>12AP: Recover 2 SP
>3SP: Ready Flickerstep Dodge

#Gilbert
Guard 16
AP 16 | Stance 7 | React 15 | Health 4
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 | Focus 10 |Finesse 12 |Ferocity 10 | Para 9

#Simple Sword
#Flickerstep Dodge

>>4771752
Sadly, the technique could only cut through the off balance and armored bandits since it's only +1 tile.

>>4771761
Depending on how many times one stacks it. . .

>>4771759
The dodge that you're using costs 2 SP - not 3. You don't have to "ready" a dodge, so to say. It's. . . Sort of implied that the only reason one would *want* to dodge is in assuming that others will do malice upon you.

We'll treat the spare SP as +1 to hit on that, shall we?

>>4771736

#Soldat
Guard 3/17
AP 18 | Stance 12 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 6 | Focus 12 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 11 | Para 8

Weapon - [Simple Spear]: Reach 2.
Skill - [Scorpion Sting]: Make one Attack, Spend Guard, Add half of spent Guard as Bonus Damage.
Skill - [Grass-Cutter]: +1SP, +1 Tile in Reach.

>Current Stance: [Focus]
>2 AP: Move 2,3
>6AP: Restore Guard
>4AP: [Windup] * 2
>2AP: [Evaluate] * 3
>[Grass-Cutter]
>4AP: Attack tiles 5,5 from me using [Focus]

"Faster!"

>>4771769
Ah, got it! I was unsure if the cost listed with the skill was on top of the existing cost of 1 to dodge or not and wanted to be safe, since it is listed as a "Dodge Upgrade".

Rolled 4, 4, 4 = 12 (3d6)

>>4771770
>>4771736

Rolls

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Gilbert and the armoured man lock swords as he parries the disarm, but the movement leaves him open! and facing the . . . wrong way! Now! Strike!

> Enemy Phase

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Looks like they'd rather run than fight when outnumbered and surrounded. Not only are they callous, they're also cowards, then.

The armoured mercenary glares cold death at Gilbert and swings for his head! A feint and a dash and Gilbert loses a small lock of hair - and then the backswing comes like a lightning storm on the distant wind . . .

but the mercenary's leg is wounded from Sofia's attack. He fumbles the decapitating strike and leaves himself wide open!

Get him, recruits!!

But he's wearing armour! It'll subtract 2 from your incoming attacks, so aim true to avoid it - it's only 1 DR on his arms! Or break through it!

STRIKE!

Rolled 5, 1, 4 = 10 (3d6)

>>4771802
"Pay now in blood for your crimes! Heaven falls around you!"
>1AP: Move 3
>1AP: Recover 1 Guard
>4SP: 4 x Evaluate
>3SP+14AP: Finesse Called Shot on the Head of the Armored Brigand with +7 Skill

#Gilbert
Guard 16
AP 16 | Stance 7 | React 15 | Health 4
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 | Focus 10 |Finesse 12 |Ferocity 10 | Para 9

#Simple Sword
#Flickerstep Dodge

>>4771816
(That +7 is only from the AP, not the 4 Evaluates or Flickerstep. I wasn't sure how much those were worth.)

>>4771776
Oh, it is - it's a fair showing in good footwork after all. So 2 SP and you've readied one Flicker-dodge. A normal dodge is 1 SP.

It's just that you don't have to pay 3 SP! Small gains for proper foot-work.

>>4771817
>>4771816
Simple! +1 per SP spent above and beyond your normal stylish strike. The flicker-step also adds +1 once it's successful. So all in all...

Rolled 2, 3, 4 = 9 (3d6)

>>4771802

#Soldat
Guard 6/17
AP 18 | Stance 12 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 6 | Focus 12 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 11 | Para 8

Weapon - [Simple Spear]: Reach 2.
Skill - [Scorpion Sting]: Make one Attack, Spend Guard, Add half of spent Guard as Bonus Damage.
Skill - [Grass-Cutter]: +1SP, +1 Tile in Reach.

>Current Stance: [Focus]
>9SP: [Evaluate] * 9
>3SP + 9AP: Called Shot on the Head of the Armoured Mercenary with [Focus]

"Focus, Soldier... End it here and now!"

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>>4771821
>>4771816
We shall consider it an instructive lesson in the importance of wearing a helmet, recruit. Good work.

>>4771802
>yes

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The enemy flee the field, too broken to put up a fight and too wounded in the soul to bring their weapons to bear. Good, grand work there recruits!

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On the horizon, distant screams. Fluttering scraps of cloth with an unfamiliar sigil. The heavy armour that soldier wore, it is well-made. Light and resilient, able to shrug off deadly blows.

This is not a raid.

We are at war. . .

Rolled 3, 6, 6, 2, 2, 5, 4, 6, 5, 5, 2, 6, 5, 6, 2, 1, 2, 6 = 74 (18d6)

>>4771110
Rolling.

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The reinforcements from Rikovol won't come. This armour. I see it now. The marks.

Reikvol Forge, by master Gold Rain and his apprentices. The enemy must have ambushed them on the road, taken their supplies as their own. We. . . Are on our own.

But the people over there: the ones that the grunts shove around? They're our people. And the supplies behind us must reach Fort Drywing. catch your breath. Take a meal. clean your blades. Rest.

We. . . have to push on.

Mission complete!

>Everyone survived! Distinctive!

>Survivors gain +1 AP, +1 Guard

>Survivors gain . . .

2 Ambushers Slain
1 Armoured Heavy Slain
5 Ambushers Fled
No allies died

18 xp.

>Pay xp = Stance, Guard, React, AP or combat art to level it up.
>Eg: react 10 to react 11 is 11 xp
or
>Pay 10 xp to study a Kata

--

There is ONE suit of unbroken armour available. One of you may claim it, clean it and use it.

> Rikovol Armour:
> 2 DR, +1 Ferocity, +1DMG, -2 React

If you'd take a wound, worn armour instead breaks to absorb it. This reduces the DR until repaired.

>>4771866

>18 EXP
>Increase Fluidity from 6 to 7 (-7 EXP)
>Learn Kata [Puncture] (-10 EXP)
>Remaining EXP: 1

#Soldat
Guard 17
AP 18 | Stance 12 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 7 | Focus 12 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 11 | Para 8

Weapon - [Simple Spear]: Reach 2.
Skill - [Scorpion Sting]: Make one Attack, Spend Guard, Add half of spent Guard as Bonus Damage.
Skill - [Grass-Cutter]: +1SP, +1 Tile in Reach.
Skill - [Puncture]: 2SP, Add +1 Pierce (Ignore DR), Stacks

"And now we have no choice but to fight. Fate either gives us a nudge or a hard shove, guess which one this is.

{Intermission}
Take a moment to reflect, if you wish.

You may pair up or go at it on your own. Think about who you are. Where you're from. What this place is. Who these people are. Your skills, your focus, your intention.

Everyone can take One downtime action. Ask questions, seek answers. These introspective or active attempts change you, or the world. Or maybe nothing at all.

This place is pretty barren so there's not much to offer. But perhaps you can find something.

> You can:

> Harness Something I Found ( Did the Enemy do something different from us? Adopt their skillset if we have their tools - and you did slay 2 Knife-Fighters. That short-bow might be useful, too. . . )

> Seek Greater Understanding ( You can learn an Advanced Stance by combining 2 of the stances you already know. There's multiple different combinations, so . . . Try. Result depends on how well you do on 2 rolls - 3d6 per stance )

> Seek A Spirit ( This place is blessed by the water sprites. The river rushes through it. If you wish it, you can learn a minor blessing of water or earth. This is an intro to spell-weaving, which works off of you Para level. But doing it requires rolling Para, and you might learn something . . . Else. )

> Join the Supply Train ( Roll a new character, but get a wildcard 1d6 to add or reroll. The company benefits from skills and abilities the retiring character brings, which might unlock company wide upgrades. )

> Ask A Question, Find An Answer ( Maybe you're wondering why something is the way it is? Maybe you have a plan to make it a little less like that? Ask around; it might be quite helpful. You can use this to investigate, learn or prepare things. )

Thanks for playing! We'll advance on the Misty Village . . . Sometime this week!

> And now: have a war-room. Plot, plan, prepare. Doing general company prepwork is not a down-time action.

You can initiate one company action, which is a plan you carry out. This isn't your personal down-time action. It's. . . a larger effort.

Elect a bannerman to lead one particular plan, then try to carry it out. For as long as they're alive on the map that follows, you gain a company wide bonus.

Do you want to assault the enemy in the dead of night? Sneak around them? Try to advance by boat? Double back around and take a long-route to fort Drywing? Prepare a company of archers to rain arrows on the village before your assault? Try to sneak in close?

You have the flexibility. The only consideration is this:

One person needs to clearly state [A PLAN] and they need a majority vote where other people back up and say "Yes, let's do that". If no plan is stated, the captain goes with the default:

The company is to assault the misty village in the early afternoon.
Sudden Storm: +2 DMG

It may be possible to figure out the effects of a plan ahead of time - simply submit one and ask and the company will clarify whether it's possible or probable or mad genius.

>>4771866
"Good work, but the hard part is still ahead of us."
>18 XP
>Spend 10 to learn Wolf-Heart
>Spend 8 to increase Stance from 7 to 8
>Claim Rikovol Armor

#Gilbert
Guard 17
AP 17 | Stance 8 | React 15(-2) | Health 4 | DR 2 | DMG +1
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 | Focus 10 |Finesse 12 |Ferocity 10(+1) | Para 9

#Simple Sword
#Rikovol Armor
#Flickerstep Dodge
#Wolf-Heart

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"Kshrn, I have missed the outset!"

Someone has evidently informed this lanky man that, on a modern battlefield, ribbon is a suitable binding for a spearhead, or indeed a proper supplement to the cloth and trinkets he wears for armor. Deep wrinkles line his arms and his spear looks like it could break skin thrice before it fell apart, yet he seems awfully confident...

>>4771836
#Behenost
Guard 15
AP 22 | Stance 8 | React 10 | Health 3
Lethality 2
Fluidity 13 | Focus 11 | Finesse 14 | Ferocity 6 | Para 8

#Simple Spear
--Scorpion Sting: Attack, add damage = spent Guard/2
#Emptiness in Motion: 3sp [Focus] exceed max Guard

>>4771866
>Question!
Can I level up Health?

>>4772108
The solid stuff of bones and meat and will does not grow too rapidly. You cannot, at present. Should you survive the day then perhaps...

> Health and Lethality are harder to raise. They won't grow yet.

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>>4771866

> Gain 18 EXP
> Advance Finesse from 15 to 16

# Veynaha Copec
EXP: 2

Guard: [18] // AP: [18] // Stance: [9] // React: [11] // Health: [3]
Lethality: [2]+1
Fluidity: [5] // Focus: [9] // Finesse: [15 => 16] // Ferocity: [9] // Para: [6]

Weapon // (Bow): +1 Lethality, Range of 3, range penalties grow exponentially.
Skill // {Oni Laugh}: Spend 3SP to have AP dmg penalize enemy actions.
Skill // {Nock}: Spend 3 Stance to draw & ready an arrow.
Skill // {Aim}: Spending AP boosts hitchance at a 1:1 rate.

> Downtime: Harness Something I Found // 'Of all instruments inspired by cruelty and malice, none can wound as gravely as terror.' // Veynaha observed that the bowman which he ambushed became overwhelmed by fear, driving them to flee from the skirmish and abandon their comrades. Veynaha seeks to refine his understanding of this phenomena so that he might brandish it more effectively as a weapon, seeding dread into the hearts of his adversaries and devastating their resolve.

>>4772030
Fine to have you with us, tattercloak. Did the fine score of many fields tell you secrets or do you simply wear the amulets and shrine-signs for company?

>>4772635
Wounds of the soul are the hardest to heal...

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>>4772635
If they flee, they are beaten too. It may be simpler to defeat a foe without ever harming them.

Terror accrues when people witness horrible events. They get a Focus roll to resist it, penalised by how much Terror. The Margin of Failure determines how hard the terror strikes. For stalwart souls, Terror might simply be minor penalties to actions. For the craven it makes them turn and run.

You can aim to increase it, if you let the chill wind guide you. Then even if you miss, the enemy will learn to fear you. Those who do not flinch have won their soul.

>[Kata Unlocked]
>Veynaha learns it.

>[chill wind] makes 2 SP add +1 terror to your attacks.

---

>Rules adjustment:
>changed a bit of wording to make readies clearer

>Flickerstep now margin based
>Puncture a little costlier

>changed the wording on *stances* to make it *a lot clearer*. Staggering someone out of a stance means the benefits they've adjusted are broken - as does changing from one stance to another.

>This also means our Blades have no need to keep spamming Oni Laugh, Emptiness in Motion and others. You pay the SP once... Until you change things and then must pay it again.

>>4771866
>Obtain React 10 (8 xp left)
>>4771904
>Learn an Advanced Stance. Combine Fluidity+Dodge?

>>4771934
>Plan
>Sneak in and recon the enemy force before assaulting the village through an hidden/new entrance to strike the enemy by surprise.

#Sato
Guard 18
AP 16 | Stance 9 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5
Weapon - [Simple Sword]
Skill - [Hushed Lightning]

>8 xp left

#Sato
Guard 18
AP 16 | Stance 9 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5
[8 Exp to spend]
Weapon - [Simple Sword]
Skill - [Hushed Lightning]

>>4772713
To ensure this works out as intended, be sure to roll your used stances.

Fluidity 12 + . . . ?

>>4771866
>>4771901
>>4771904

>18 EXP
>Learn Kata [Puncture] (-10 EXP)
>Remaining EXP: 8

#Soldat
Guard 17
AP 18 | Stance 12 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 6 | Focus 12 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 11 | Para 8

Weapon - [Simple Spear]: Reach 2.
Skill - [Scorpion Sting]: Make one Attack, Spend Guard, Add half of spent Guard as Bonus Damage.
Skill - [Grass-Cutter]: +1SP, +1 Tile in Reach.
Skill - [Puncture]: 2SP, Add +1 Pierce (Ignore DR), Stacks

Correction: You cannot increase Fluidity using EXP.

>Seek a Spirit

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>>4772723
>>4772714
>>4772713
How will they strike what is not there? How do you defeat empty air?

You've studied a new stance.

It is Fluidity based, and when you adopt it you learn it at a rate of (Fluidity+Reaction) / 3. You can round up in this instance, which for you Sato means your Whisper Stance starts at 8.

>>4772741
Yes you can. It's a combat art. Stance, Guard, React, AP or your combat arts/stances can be ranked up.

Do you want to learn the Whisper Stance?

Pay xp = (Fluidity + Reaction)/3 to learn it at that level.

Do you want to raise your Fluidity from 12 to 13? Pay 13 xp.

Rolled 5, 6, 4, 4, 5, 3 = 27 (6d6)

>>4772723
>Fluidity 12 + React 10?

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>>4772741
The brackish spirits of this place are wounded by the acrimony of our enemies. The fisherfolk that play with them and feed their hungry minds have not been here. They may never return, for some of them are dead.

You can soothe their choking sorrows and beg a boon. The bubbling, churning water that seeps in through your boots fills will serve as a reminder with every squelching step.

>You've earned a spiritual blessing! This one seems. . . Hostile.

Marks have 2 uses and 1 Drawback.
Passive You channel a Mark passively with 3 SP, activating it and de-activating others. This adds its effect to all relevant actions until deactivated. You'll learn to juggle these later if you pick up multiple Marks. It's less relevant now you have but one. Some Marks are purely passive and you can have 1 active at a time.

Active 3SP uses the Mark to channel and compel the spirit actively. The Mark has to be activated.

You roll Para and your margin sets the effect of your channelling. If you have 8 Para and roll 6, you channel out 2 for instance. Marks do different things. The channel can strike hostiles at range, alter the environment or imbue equipment. For every active channel, pay 1 SP at the start of your turn in upkeep if you want the energy to maintain its shape and cohesion. If you channel large amounts of Spirit energy in a place where it already is in abundance, you get a bonus of +1 per nearby source. Don't fight pyromancers near burning buildings.

!Mosswater Mark
Passive: Align with Water, adding Lethality to Water based spells. Attacks inflict choke and gain a water affliction*.

Active: channels grasping water**.

*Water affliction makes things wet. Great against fire. If you get hit by lightning this is bad though.

**Which likes choking things out, impeding people and soaking into things. Here are 5 quick ways to use this:

1) channel water into a location to make a temporary barrier
2) channel water into a weapon to imbue it, adding effects to others strikes
3) channel water unto a person, disrupting them. The water will try to grapple and choke them
4) channel water into a location and stop sustaining it. the water is still there, so now the location will be slippery and give poor footing.
5) channel water to physically manipulate at a distance.

The drawback?

critical failures on Para rolls anger the spirits. And if you are elementally aligned, opposing elements hurt more.

>>4772774
>>4772750
>>4772704

>18 EXP
>Increase Fluidity from 6 to 7 (-7 EXP)
>Learn Kata [Puncture] (-10 EXP)
>Remaining EXP: 1

#Soldat
Guard 17
AP 18 | Stance 12 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 7 | Focus 12 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 11 | Para 8

Weapon - [Simple Spear]: Reach 2.
Skill - [Scorpion Sting]: Make one Attack, Spend Guard, Add half of spent Guard as Bonus Damage.
Skill - [Grass-Cutter]: +1SP, +1 Tile in Reach.
Skill - [Puncture]: 2SP, Add +1 Pierce (Ignore DR), Stacks
Mark - [Mosswater]

Okay, Final Change

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>>4772774
And that's . . . Spirits.

>>4772810
Thank you.

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>>4772704
>>4771934
Lending support to this(>>4772713) plan, on the condition that recon is conducted under the cover of night.

# Veynaha Copec
EXP: 2

Guard: [18] // AP: [18] // Stance: [9] // React: [11] // Health: [3]
Lethality: [2]+1
Fluidity: [5] // Focus: [9] // Finesse: [16] // Ferocity: [9] // Para: [6]

Weapon // (Bow): +1 Lethality, Range of 3, range penalties grow exponentially.
Skill // {Nock}: Spend 3 SP to draw & ready an arrow.
Skill // {Aim}: Spending AP boosts hitchance at a 1:1 rate.
Skill // {Oni Laugh}: Spend 3SP to have AP dmg penalize enemy actions.
Skill // {Chill Wind}: Spend 2 SP adds +Terror to all attacks, hit or miss.

> Intermission actions finalized.
> Ready to deploy.

>>4772682
They are company of the one who found me, taught me, left me. Bones, a pouch of his old chalk, and many excerpts. I read, but I don't read /them/. By dying request, they are secrets I keep close but never learn.

>>4771904
>To the north, a small red pennant flies instead of a ruined war banner nearby. Why?

>>4771904
Does Supply Train allow you to carry over a stat?

>>4771934
>>4772846
Right so that works. We can then
>Modify Plan
>Plan
>Sneak in and recon the enemy force UNDER THE COVER OF NIGHT before assaulting the village through an hidden/new entrance to strike the enemy by surprise.

#Sato
Guard 18
AP 16 | Stance 9 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5
[8 exp to spend]
Weapon - [Simple Sword]
Skill - [Hushed Lightning]
-Whisper Stance 8

>>4772989
>>4772682
|| If the idea is for this to turn into something mechanical, Behenost is basically a scarecrow who's unaware that he is sustained by his creator's will, which persists in the articles he carries. Maybe he fascinates scholars and terrifies the superstitious? Blends into woodlands and farmer fields? If not, he's just an eccentric foundling, made brown and wrinkled under high mountain sun.

>>4773137
Suggest Soldat's gift be put to use so that our approach isn't limited to bridges that might be far away.

>>4771904
"These aren't simply brigands, that much is obvious now."
>Ask A Question, Find An Answer: Who are our enemy? Do the Foxlike Red Banners belong to them or us? Is there anything that implies their allegiance on the men we killed?

#Gilbert
Guard 17
AP 17 | Stance 8 | React 15(-2) | Health 4 | DR 2 | DMG +1
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 | Focus 10 |Finesse 12 |Ferocity 10(+1) | Para 9

#Simple Sword
#Rikovol Armor
#Flickerstep Dodge
#Wolf-Heart

>>4772992
As you join the supply train and send forth someone else, it's tantamount to retiring or falling in the line of duty. So you can carry over 1 stat/trait and benefit from the wildcard d6.

>>4772989
curious, is it not? It seems like it is a banner from Rikovol. The reinforcements came this way and must have given battle to the Fox-Banners.

They took the banner, and then. . . . Their fate is uncertain. We should look for survivors.

>>4773137
>>4774740
Who are these people? What do they seek? Who do they respond to? Questions all worth answering. Sato, you're quiet and quick, find us a spot to look . . . Gilbert, you know your history and you heraldry, I believe. What Sato relays, think it through in your head. We might learn something to aid us in the battle ahead. . .

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>>4774916
>>4774740
>>4773137
These men and women are scavengers to the core of their callous souls. Their speech is sharp and precise and they laugh as they move through the burning village. Their banners flutter in the wind and now, in aggregate, analysis is possible. Gilbert, you remember the history lessons, yes?

This is a Uthani warband, from the deep steppes, here to raid and ravage. They must have done something fantastic indeed: The Uthani are mythologically afraid of water. Between this quiet coast stands Rikovol, Optrusto, Kalovol, fifteen small forts, a hundred hamlets and hundreds of miles of woodland, plains and civilisation.

They sailed here. Boarded boats maybe of their own making and went the long way around through the seas. The how is now know - Sato spots the boats lingering near the coast, strange jagged designs. But the why is insidious:

This is the first landfall of an invasion. No warband would sail this long for plunder they cannot bring back to their own. They expect to stay.

They expect more to come.

There was a storm last week, a thunderous, wave-lashing barrage. These raiders must have been blown off course and forced to make land-fall ahead of schedule!

The stragglers from a first burned village that warned Drywing and sent a courier our way is the only reason we're here. Had we not known this, or stumbled into their path. . . How many soldiers could they have landed before word got out? They could have taken the Plain cities before the field armies could muster.

We have to reach Fort Drywing now. The supplies are of lesser import: we need to warn them that there's an invasion of Uthani Bannerlords!

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>>4774948
> Having scouted out the enemy, you can learn to exploit them.

> The Vulpes are prone to in-fighting for gear and opportunities. They're very vulnerable to Distraction via Fluidity or Finesse actions.

> They rely on their leaders to avoid panic and to know when to strike.

> If we disable the leaders, or if we turn their fear against them, most will flee the battle before meeting our blades. If you have slain someone, Ferocity or Focus would make a Display of Strength and maybe terrorise nearby Vulpes into further terror?

The company is to assault the Vulpes during the cover of night, aiming to maximise surprise

Distant Rumble (Sato)
Unencountered Hostiles are distracted [yellow state] and have no Guard until they spend 3 Stance to ready themselves.

Rolled 6, 1, 4, 6, 5, 1, 3, 2, 1, 6, 3, 4, 1, 2, 2, 1, 6, 6, 1 = 61 (19d6)

>>4774974
"Phew, live combat really is strenuous. I'll be on guard duty for awhile."

>[Join Supply Train]
>Carry over [AP 21]

#Sofia
Guard 15
AP 21 | Stance 10 | React 10 | Health 1
Lethality 1
Fluidity 8 | >>Focus 11<< |Finesse 11 |Ferocity 8 | Para 7
[Grass-Cutter] 1 SP, hit +1 Tile within range
#Simple Sword

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>>4775063
A fine choice. Help us load up these sacks of grains and boil Sato's bandages. And do you know if there's any tea to be had around here...

>Under Sofia's instruction, we've unlocked Postures and some basic combat arts.

>>4774974
"Perfect. If we can take them out before they howl for help we can get close to their leadership before they even know were here. We can also hide the bodies in the bushes/river if we want in case they patrol back towards us."

#Sato
Guard 18
AP 16 | Stance 9 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5
[8 exp to spend]
Weapon - [Simple Sword]
Skill - [Hushed Lightning]
-Whisper Stance 8 {Hits convert 2 Guard to 1 Dodge, each dodge deals 1 dmg}

>>4775066
>Wear Armiger's headband

>>4775063
"Hmm, exhausted already sis? I'll take over for you."

>>4775066
>Wildcard +1 to Stance

#Maria
Guard 18
AP 21 | Stance 13 | React 9 | Health 2
Lethality 1, add +1 if you roll 6 on a 1d6
Fluidity 10 | Focus 10 |Finesse 6 |Ferocity 6 | Para 12
[Emptiness In Motion] 3SP, (Focus)+ Overflow Guard
[Like Fire] 1SP, +1Dmg per 3Ap Move
#Simple Sword

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>>4775066

Out of character. Several questions.
> Concerning Chill Winds, when you said: 'You can aim to increase it, if you let the chill wind guide you then even if you miss, the enemy will learn to fear you.', was that flavor text or does Chill Winds actually apply terror to targets on misses?
> Regarding Katas, does the [Stack] tag mean that the effect can inflict a status which can stack on a target or does it mean that the effect itself can be stacked if activated multiple times?
> Regarding kata [+] stances, does movement break stances or is it only staggering and switching to a new stance?

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>>4775074
It does look singularly fetching as it flutters in the wind. And it doubles as a good make-shift bandage if you get stabbed again. Victory on all fronts.

>>4775079
Good and grand to have you.

>>4775112
It's quite frightening to be the subject of attacks meant to frighten. If you miss by very close margins, the terror might still apply. We're talking margin 1 and 2 here; it has to be close enough to almost count. The margin of miss counts against the inflicted status. So Terror 3 that misses by 3 is 0.

( This isn't actually only on Terror. It's on most non-physical attacks. The system has a built in anti-frustration threshold of margin 1-2; where attacks and guards still result in glancing hits. This is primarily relevant if someone swings an enormous flaming broadsword at you - if they miss by 1, you still get a bit of flame-splash, but not a lot )

Keep in mind someone with their Guard up halves the terror too on a miss. So say you've stacked chill-wind 3 times and inflict 3 terror with your shots. You shoot, miss by 1, inflict 2 still and then it's halved by the guard down to 1.

As for [Stack] and [+] it means that you can stack the intentions multiple times. consider Wind Up and Wolf-Heart.

You start your turn with 9 SP
You spend 4 SP to add +2 Bleed to your attacks with Wolf-Heart. This modifies your stance and is permanent until you stagger or until you change stance. That's the [+].

You attack, swinging with 3 SP and throwing in 2 SP for +1 damage.

On your next turn, you're still Wolf-Hearted and you still apply 2 bleed on your strikes. If you spent a further +2 SP, you'd apply 3 bleed with your wolf-strikes. The [+], again.

However, if you make an attack with 3 SP, it's not a Wind Up strike and doesn't benefit from +1 damage. Wind Up doesn't modify your stance, it modifies a specific, given attack.

You can start with those 9 SP, attack with 3 and Wind Up for 6. That's one attack with +3 damage. So: Wind-Up does stack with itself. It also stacks with Evaluate, and other such things.

As for stacking on others, the status sometimes does. 3 hits that all inflict 2 bleed ends with someone with 6 worth of bleed. 7 hits that all inflict 1 terror is 7 terror. 5 hits that inflict 2 damage each is 10 damage taken.

--

Movement does not break a stance* by itself. Being staggered out of your stance does, as does switching stance over.

*Little caveat note: If the movement self-inflicts stagger from jumping off of a building and taking 8 Guard in damage from the fall, you're staggered still. And other such situations. A few postures do weird things to stances too.

>>4775114
"Very nice!"
>Also to note that Gilbert >>4774740 is wearing the Rikovol Armor we recovered

>>4771866
>Forgot to add my +1 AP and Guard
#Sato
Guard 19
AP 17 | Stance 9 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5
[8 exp to spend]
Wearing - [Armiger's Headband]
Weapon - [Simple Sword]
Skill - [Hushed Lightning]
-Whisper Stance 8 {Hits convert 2 Guard to 1 Dodge, each dodge deals 1 dmg}

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>>4775177
>>4775159
Well, he would be. To the victor the spoils. Maybe the armour will ward away deadly danger better than it did for its previous owner.

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Not one brave man among you...

>Are we ready to Proceed?

>>4775283

# Veynaha Copec
EXP: 2

Guard: [18] // AP: [18] // Stance: [9] // React: [11] // Health: [3]
Lethality: [2]+1
Fluidity: [5] // Focus: [9] // Finesse: [16] // Ferocity: [9] // Para: [6]

Weapon // (Bow): +1 Lethality, Range of 3, range penalties grow exponentially.
Skill // {Nock}: Spend 3 SP to draw & ready an arrow.
Skill // {Aim}: Spending AP boosts hitchance at a 1:1 rate.
Skill // {Oni Laugh}: Spend 3SP to have AP dmg penalize enemy actions.
Skill // {Chill Wind}: Spend 2 SP adds +Terror to all attacks, hit or miss.

> Ready to deploy

Rolled 1, 5, 2, 4, 6, 3, 6, 3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 2, 5, 1 = 59 (18d6)

>>4775283
No, take me too! My leg's good to walk on now, and damn what the doctor thinks!

>>4775283
"Lets go."

>Deploy

#Maria
Guard 18
AP 21 | Stance 13 | React 9 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 10 | Focus 10 |Finesse 6 |Ferocity 6 | Para 12
[Emptiness In Motion](3SP) [Focus][+] Overflow Guard
[Like Fire](1SP) +1Dmg per 3AP Move
#Simple Sword

>>4775283
"The night is young, let us move while we still have the advantage."
>Ready to Deploy

#Gilbert
Guard 17
AP 17 | Stance 8 | React 15(-2) | Health 4 | DR 2 | DMG +1
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 | Focus 10 |Finesse 12 |Ferocity 10(+1) | Para 9

#Simple Sword
#Rikovol Armor
#Flickerstep Dodge
#Wolf-Heart

>>4775292
Let's make this rather a step easier for you, brave one. Your leg is no impediment; come along.

#Name
AP 8+2d6
Stance 6+1d6 | Guard 10+1d6
React 3+2d6 | Health 1+1d6/2 | Lethality 1+1d6, add a 1 if you roll a 6

Fluidity 3+2d6 | Focus 3+2d6 | Finesse 3+2d6 | Ferocity 3+2d6 | Para 0+2d6

@Weapon
!Kata
!Posture

>>4775292

#Name
Guard 13
AP 17 | Stance 10 | React 12 | Health 4
Lethality 1
Fluidity 6 | Focus 12 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 7 | Para 6

Simple Bow
Hushed Lightning
Like Ash

>>4775312
Oh, the numbers are different, one moment

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Distant shouts on the ill wind. Stains of smoke. . . .

Move, and move quick. We intend to go about this quickly, and with the element of Surprise. Our plan is this:

Distant Rumble
Unencountered Hostiles are distracted [yellow state] and have no Guard until they spend 3 Stance to ready themselves.

--

You may pick a starting position A, B or C and engage from there. As you are heading into a pitched battle with the element of surprise on your side, you may start in a stance by spending your full once SP allotment before you take your normal turn.

--

We should drive them from this village. Rescue the Rikovol survivors. If you see their fluttering banners, throw them down! That might inspire terror in the Vulpes nearby!

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>>4775330
>>4775319
The cause of it is some universal balancing, but as a freebie for joining on the first thread you can pick the numbers that would be better. Benefits of early starts. New recruits past this point get slightly different stats.

Should you die and someone else take your space with a reroll, then this should be the final, proper rules setup. Which. . . Is now how the world works.

#Name
AP 8+2d6
Stance 6+1d6 | Guard 10+1d6
React 3+2d6 | Health 1+1d6/2 | Lethality 1+1d6, add a 1 if you roll a 6

Fluidity 3+2d6 | Focus 3+2d6 | Finesse 3+2d6 | Ferocity 3+2d6 | Para 0+2d6

@Weapon
!Kata
!Posture

>>4775340
I feel the weight of this new and unfamiliar world weighing down on me, but I shall soldier on!
> I'll use the original set then and start from position B!

>>4775334

# Veynaha Copec
EXP: 2

Guard: [18] // AP: [18] // Stance: [9] // React: [11] // Health: [3]
Lethality: [2]+1
Fluidity: [5] // Focus: [9] // Finesse: [16] // Ferocity: [9] // Para: [6]

Weapon // (Bow): +1 Lethality, Range of 3, range penalties grow exponentially.
Skill // {Nock}: Spend 3 SP to draw & ready an arrow.
Skill // {Aim}: Spending AP boosts hitchance at a 1:1 rate.
Skill // {Oni Laugh}: Spend 3SP to have AP dmg penalize enemy actions.
Skill // {Chill Wind}: Spend 2 SP adds +Terror to all attacks, hit or miss.

> Deploy at A
> Free Stance // {Oni Laugh}.

> 3 SP // {Nock}.
> 16 AP // {Aim} at the Knife-wielder @ [2]x3.
> 3 SP // Fire bow at the Knife-wielder @ [2]x3.
> 3 SP // {Nock}.

Rolled 3, 6, 2, 2, 1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 6, 5, 2 = 41 (12d6)

>>4775334
"This looks good, mhm. How about... Sword Art-Jaws of the Leviathan!"

>Start in [Focus Stance] and Deploy at [A]
>3AP Move 222
>4SP Activate [Emptiness in Motion] and [Like Fire] (4 Empty Tiles)
>6SP Attack the Archer Twice
>3SP+12AP Attack the Knife Bandit Twice
>6AP Dodge +1 Tohit

#Maria
AP 21
Stance 13 | Guard 18
React 9 | Health 2 | Lethality 1

Fluidity 10 | >[Focus 10]< |Finesse 6 |Ferocity 6 | Para 12

@Simple Sword
!Emptiness In Motion(3SP) [Focus][+] Overflow Guard
!Like Fire(1SP) +1Dmg per 3AP Move

>>4775283
>>4775334

#Soldat
Guard 17
AP 18 | Stance 12 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 7 | Focus 12 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 11 | Para 8

Weapon - [Simple Spear]: Reach 2.
Skill - [Scorpion Sting]: Make one Attack, Spend Guard, Add half of spent Guard as Bonus Damage.
Skill - [Grass-Cutter]: +1SP, +1 Tile in Reach.
Skill - [Puncture]: 2SP, Add +1 Pierce (Ignore DR), Stacks
Mark - [Mosswater]

>Deploy at A

Rolled 5, 2, 5, 6, 1, 6 = 25 (6d6)

>>4775334
>Deploy at position C & start in [Fluidity Stance]
>1SP: Like Fire Posture
>6 AP: Move 4-4
>3SP+4AP: Slash Archer in the back (+2 to Hit for 4 AP) vs 14
>2SP Windup!
>2SP+6 AP: Dash-Step towards the Lancer (Direction 3?) and Attack [+3 to hit for 6 AP] vs 15
>1SP Dodge

#Sato
Guard 19
AP 17 | Stance 9 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5
[8 exp to spend]
Wearing - [Armiger's Headband]
@Weapon - [Simple Sword]
!Kata - [Hushed Lightning]
!Like Fire
-Whisper Stance 8 {Hits convert 2 Guard to 1 Dodge, each dodge deals 1 dmg}

>>4775399
>>4775372
Well, don't just stand there, Blades! Up and at them! You get to deploy and take an action!

Rolled 4, 5, 4, 2, 1, 3, 3, 4, 3 = 29 (9d6)

>>4775334
>Free Stance: Start in Finesse Stance with as much Wolf-Heart as I can stack with the rest of my SP
>Deploy in Position B
>3AP: Move 3,4,3
>3AP +2AP: Use Ferocity to kick the Vulpes 1 against the wall to stumble him so he can't sound an alarm with +2 Skill.
>3SP + 4AP: Use Finesse to attack Vulpes 2 with +2 Skill
>3SP + 4AP: Use Finesse to attack Vulpes 2 with +2 Skill
>2SP: Flickerstep Dodge

#Gilbert
Guard 17
AP 17 | Stance 8 | React 15(-2) | Health 4 | DR 2 | DMG +1
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 | Focus 10 |Finesse 12 |Ferocity 10(+1) | Para 9

#Simple Sword
#Rikovol Armor
#Flickerstep Dodge
#Wolf-Heart

Rolled 6, 1, 5 = 12 (3d6)

>>4775334
>>4775423

#Soldat
Guard 17
AP 18 | Stance 12 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 7 | Focus 12 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 11 | Para 8

Weapon - [Simple Spear]
Skill - [Scorpion Sting]
Skill - [Grass-Cutter]
Skill - [Puncture]
Mark - [Mosswater]

>Start in [Focus] Stance, Deploy at A
>4AP: Move 2, 2, 1, 1
>3SP: Activate [Puncture]
>4SP: [Windup] * 4
>[Grass-Cutter]
>5SP: Attack Tiles 3, 3 from Me.

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Often, the last thing you hear before you go to greet the spirits is a rustling from the nearby bush. Without a ready stance of violence the sentries and scavenges are easy prey.

Gilbert rushes one man into a rock face and sends his nearby friend to the ground, gurgling.

In the swirling smoke, patrols shift. The Uthani move about leisurely. The ones that fled here must have warned their leader but there's too many to control. The Vulpes are too ill disciplined for a proper perimeter guard. Their loss.

Distant Rumble
Unencountered Hostiles are distracted [yellow state] and have no Guard until they spend 3 Stance to ready themselves.

We have the initiative. The Vulpes will move as indicated by the path predictions after our turn.

Which is now!

>>4775607
Can we consider the end of the red arrows to be where the bandits are?

Rolled 5, 5, 5, 6, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 6, 1 = 45 (12d6)

>>4775607
>9AP: Use Focus to request the Archers ready to fire on the patrol coming around the rocks to my north when they come into range with +3 Skill.
>2AP: Move 3,3
>1SP:Evaluate
>3SP:Attack the Vulpes 1
>1SP:Evaluate
>3SP:Attack the Vulpes 1
>6AP: Use Ferocity to threaten Vulpes 1 if he still lives, telling him to drop his weapon and lie down if he doesn't want to join his former friend in the grave. With +2 Skill

#Gilbert
Guard 17
AP 17 | Stance 8 | React 15(-2) | Health 4 | DR 2 | DMG +1
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 | Focus 10 |Finesse 12 |Ferocity 10(+1) | Para 9

#Simple Sword
#Rikovol Armor
#Flickerstep Dodge
#Wolf-Heart

>>4775647
Not quite. It's where they'll be after they've moved. So effectively for your purposes it's where they'll be at the end of your turn, Blades, because at the end of our turn they'll move there.

Where they are right now is where you see them. Then you take your turn. Then they take theirs. And their turn will be to walk their predicted paths unless something interrupts!

Rolled 6, 6, 4, 3, 1, 3 = 23 (6d6)

>>4775607

# Veynaha Copec
EXP: 2

Guard: [18] // AP: [18] // Stance: [9] // React: [11] // Health: [3]
Lethality: [2]+1
Fluidity: [5] // Focus: [9] // Finesse: [16] // Ferocity: [9] // Para: [6]

Weapon // (Bow): +1 Lethality, Range of 3, range penalties grow exponentially.
Skill // {Nock}: Spend 3 SP to draw & ready an arrow.
Skill // {Aim}: Spending AP boosts hitchance at a 1:1 rate.
Skill // {Oni Laugh}: Spend 3SP to have AP dmg penalize enemy actions.
Skill // {Chill Wind}: Spend 2 SP adds +Terror to all attacks, hit or miss.

"Strike decisively then move on."

> Note // -Arrow was nocked on the prior turn-
> 2 AP // Move [5]x1, 4x1. Perch on the edge of the cliff.
> 8 AP // {Aim} at the armored bandit @ [3]x3.
> 3 SP // Fire bow at the armored bandit @ [3]x3. // Target the head (-9) // Roll vs Finesse-1
> 3 SP // {Nock}.
> 8 AP // {Aim} at the armored bandit @ [3]x3.
> 3SP // Fire bow at the armored bandit @ [3]x3. // Target the vitals (-6) // Roll vs Finesse+2

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>>4775667
What a shot! The bodkin head went clean through the secondary layer. Where did you learn to shoot like this?

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>>4775650
The Vulpes wants to surrender, but he knows he's in a camp of his own fellows. Reinforcements is but a shout away. The stark wounds in his side leak though. He's spilling his own blood everywhere. Maybe he won't even have time to surrender.

Rolled 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 6 = 24 (6d6)

>>4775607
"Let's take care of them quickly."

>7AP Move 3343 233
>3SP Activate [Like Fire] 2 Empty Tiles
>6SP Attack the Bandit at 2, with Telegraph+Windup +1 Dmg (vs 14 Focus)
>3SP+12AP Attack the Bandit at 3, with Telegraph+Windup +1 Dmg (vs 14 Focus)

>1SP+2AP Dodge +1

#Maria
AP 21
Stance 13 | Guard 18
React 9 | Health 2 | Lethality 1

Fluidity 10 | >[Focus 10]< |Finesse 6 |Ferocity 6 | Para 12

@Simple Sword
!Emptiness In Motion(3SP) [Focus][+] Overflow Guard
!Like Fire(1SP) +1Dmg per 3AP Move

Rolled 3, 1, 1, 5, 1, 3 = 14 (6d6)

>>4775607
>Fluidity Stance
>0sp Change posture to Hustle
>Use Finesse to Sneak 3 AP+ 6AP to add +3hit vs 13
>5 AP: Move hidden in the bushes: 3-3-3-2-2
>3 AP: Observe the condition of the hostages and the situation. How much time before hostages start getting killed? Or break...

#Sato
Guard 19
AP 17 | Stance 9 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5
[8 exp to spend]
Wearing - [Armiger's Headband]
@Weapon - [Simple Sword]
!Kata - [Hushed Lightning]
!Like Fire
-Whisper Stance 8 {Hits convert 2 Guard to 1 Dodge, each dodge deals 1 dmg}

Gotta admit, when I saw this quest at the beginning at 3 posts, I was considering joining but didn't think it would pan out as quickly and as interestingly as it has (and I was in like a dozen other quests, half of which are dead now). I'm sorry for doubting you, CompanyCommand QM, looks like you're holding it down pretty well!

It might take me a minute to fully catch up on all the posts, but is there room for me (or others) to join in at this point? Or after the next intermission?

>>4775764
Please do join! Company Command loves new players and surprise entries!

Rolled 6, 6, 1 = 13 (3d6)

>>4775607

#Soldat
Guard 17
AP 18 | Stance 12 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 7 | Focus 12 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 11 | Para 8

Weapon - [Simple Spear]
Skill - [Scorpion Sting]
Skill - [Grass-Cutter]
Skill - [Puncture]
Mark - [Mosswater]

>Current Stance: [Focus]
>9AP: Move 4, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 2, 2, 3
>1SP: [Telegraph]
>6SP: [Windup] * 3
>[Grass-Cutter]
>5SP: Attack Tiles 3,3 from Me

"Hey, behind you."

Rolled 4, 4, 1, 4, 3, 6 = 22 (6d6)

“They won’t rescue themselves, but neither will we rescue them ourselves.”

// My participation may be spotty. Hoping to sneak around the leader, though.

>>4775607
>Deploy C
>3sp, 4ap Emptiness in Motion vs 11+2
>4ap Move 3443
>3ap take weapons
>3ap Sneak vs 14
>7ap Move 3322
>3ap Deposit weapons on my tile
>Move 3

#Behenost
Guard 15
AP 22 | Stance 8 | React 10 | Health 3
Lethality 2
Fluidity 13 | Focus 11 | Finesse 14 | Ferocity 6 | Para 8

#Simple Spear
--Scorpion Sting: Attack, add damage = spent Guard/2
#Emptiness in Motion: 3sp [Focus] exceed max Guard

>>4775764
Always, friend. Always.

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Quick blades make quiet work of the Vulpes. Good idea arming the survivors, Behenost. Maybe your long trail of battle-scavenge pay off here? Or maybe it's the trinkets, whispering advice...

Sato, these men and women are battle hardened blades. They won't break easy. But they understand the honour in how to treat prisoners of war. The Vulpes will exploit it, violate their sense of how things are supposed to be. Threaten them. We have 2 turns until someone dies...

The archers aim. . .

> Enemy Phase!

>>4775607

> Deploy at B
> Free Stance: Finesse

> 5AP Move 43223 and
> 6AP to try to be quiet!
> 6AP? to Climb 3 (with Finesse!)
> 1SP Change stance: Focus
> 3SP Nock
> 4SP Dodgex4?

Guard 13
AP 17 | Stance 10 | React 12 | Health 4
Lethality 1+1
Fluidity 6 | >>Focus 12<< |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 7 | Para 6

Simple Bow
Hushed Lightning
Like Ash

>>4776090
>>4776099
Too slow! But it looks like Copec had the same idea. I definitely have 6 Fluidity behind this computer monitor too.

>>4776099
Got it! Let's. . . Get you in there!

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Steady . . . Steady . . . There, now! Release!!

The storm of arrows takes out two Vulpes now that their heavily armoured peer lies drowning in his own blood - but a spearwielder rounds the large stone and does a surprised double-take.

That one, he's about to shout! Take him out!

--

That quiet looking Vulpes, the one with the cape and strange looking blade. Something about her is different. Her eyes scan the environment. She moves with languid grace, her shadow flowing like a river. She feels the change in the air, the tension. Watch that cloak wearing one carefully. She seems lethal beyond compare.

>Blades phase!

Distant Rumble
Unencountered Hostiles are distracted [yellow state] and have no Guard until they spend 3 Stance to ready themselves.

>>4775812
"Do you give the order to the archers and we move in or do you have something else in mind?"

> Minor social call interruption; phase in 8ish hours. Many profuse apologies.

Rolled 5, 3, 3, 5, 3, 5 = 24 (6d6)

>>4776130
"Those bandits are perfectly lined up. It's the perfect situation for *that*."
"Prepare yourselves! Ultimate Elimination Technique: Requiem of the Rumbling Rhinos!

>6AP Move 3333 33
>1SP [Like Fire] +4
>11SP Execute the ultimate running two-person skewer (Eval +3 Acc,Telegraph +4 Acc, Windup +4 Dmg (vs 17 Focus)
>11AP Perform the needed adjustments to impale two people at once (vs 15 Fluidity)

>1SP+4AP Dodge +2

#Maria
AP 21
Stance 13 | Guard 18
React 9 | Health 2 | Lethality 1

Fluidity 10 |Focus 10 |Finesse 6 |Ferocity 6 | Para 12

@Simple Sword (Stance:[Focus]+[Emptiness In Motion])

!Emptiness In Motion(3SP) [Focus][+] Overflow Guard
!Like Fire(1SP) +1Dmg per Empty Tile, 3AP Move

>>4776153
“Long shot, over trees. You’ve no fear of being feathered yourself?”

Rolled 5, 5, 2 = 12 (3d6)

>>4776130

#Soldat
Guard 17
AP 18 | Stance 12 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 7 | Focus 12 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 11 | Para 8

Weapon - [Simple Spear]
Skill - [Scorpion Sting]
Skill - [Grass-Cutter]
Skill - [Puncture]
Mark - [Mosswater]

>11AP: Move 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3
>1SP: [Telegraph]
>6SP: [Windup] * 3
>[Grass-Cutter]
>5SP: Attack Tiles 5,5 from Me

"The Water Spirits are Sorrowful."

>>4776183
I think I can hit the officer from here, should send the rest looting then you can sweep in, no?

>>4776183
"Of course I do, but I trust our archers to make the shot more then I fear getting shot myself. If I die in the process I want to at least take as many of these invaders with me that I can and saving my countrymen. But I won't let myself die that easily."

>>4776190
"Careful, that officer is extremely dangerous. Don't expect to down her in one shot, and stay out of her sword range. I think she'd be able to get through my armor even."

>>4776195
Not that one, they've got their guard up, the armored one! No guard, one good arrow would do it!

>>4776203
"Ah, I'm waiting for Sato and Behenost to make a move on that pack before considering anything."

Rolled 3, 4, 4, 2, 3, 1, 6, 2, 2, 1, 5, 4 = 37 (12d6)

>>4776191
“As you say, good gander. May stars forfend that I must pluck you for the pot. A rescue! A rescue! Goose-feathers, fly!”

>>4776130
>7ap call archers on hostage-keepers, vs 13
>3ap toss weapons cache among prisoners vs Finesse 14
>3 ap Call for badly wounded to retreat, vs Focus 11
>2ap Move 22
>ap becomes 3 guard, Emptiness continues
>8sp Finesse attack Armored, +1 to hit, -2 to enemy Dodge

#Behenost
Guard 15
AP 22 | Stance 8 | React 10 | Health 3
Lethality 2
Fluidity 13 | Focus 11 | Finesse 14 | Ferocity 6 | Para 8

#Simple Spear
--Scorpion Sting: Attack, add damage = spent Guard/2
#Emptiness in Motion: 3sp [Focus] exceed max Guard

Rolled 2, 3, 2, 6, 3, 5 = 21 (6d6)

>>4776130
[Fluidity Stance]
>4AP: Sneak moves 3-3-2-2
>1SP: Change posture to [Like Fire]
>1SP: Go all out
>2SP: Dash-Step direction 1 and Cut Armoured Leader in the back through his armor [vs 16]
>1SP: Telegraph
>2 SP: Dash-Step direction 2 and slash Knifeman who injured me last time [vs 16]
>1SP+13AP: Change to [Whisper Stance] +13 AP
>1SP: Dodge
#Sato
Guard 19
AP 17 | Stance 9 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5
[8 exp to spend]
Wearing - [Armiger's Headband]
@Weapon - [Simple Sword]
!Kata - [Hushed Lightning]
!Like Fire
-Whisper Stance 8 {Hits convert 2 Guard to 1 Dodge, each dodge deals 1 dmg}

Rolled 1, 3, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2, 5, 6, 6, 5, 5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3 = 63 (18d6)

>>4775340
What makes a Blade?

#Inveigh
AP 8+2d6
Stance 6+1d6 | Guard 10+1d6
React 3+2d6 | Health 1+1d6/2 | Lethality 1+1d6, add a 1 if you roll a 6

Fluidity 3+2d6 | Focus 3+2d6 | Finesse 3+2d6 | Ferocity 3+2d6 | Para 0+2d6

@Weapon
!Kata
!Posture

>>4776130
>>4776369
>Confirm Sheet?
>Arrive at B

#Inveigh
AP 12
Stance 8 | Guard 13
React 7 | Health 2 | Lethality 1

Fluidity 15 | Focus 13 | Finesse 8 | Ferocity 12 | Para 7

@Simple Blade
!Flickerstep Dodge
!Hustle | !Like Ash

Rolled 1, 3, 3, 2, 6, 2 = 17 (6d6)

>>4776130

# Veynaha Copec
EXP: 2

Guard: [18] // AP: [18] // Stance: [9] // React: [11] // Health: [3]
Lethality: [2]+1
Fluidity: [5] // Focus: [9] // Finesse: [16] // Ferocity: [9] // Para: [6]

Weapon // (Bow): +1 Lethality, Range of 3, range penalties grow exponentially.
Skill // {Nock}: Spend 3 SP to draw & ready an arrow.
Skill // {Aim}: Spending AP boosts hitchance at a 1:1 rate.
Skill // {Oni Laugh}: Spend 3SP to have AP dmg penalize enemy actions.
Skill // {Chill Wind}: Spend 2 SP adds +Terror to all attacks, hit or miss.

> 4 AP // Try Something: Slide down the incline without breaking stance. // Roll vs Finesse. // Move [3]x1.
> 2 AP // Move [3]x2.
> 3 SP // {Nock}.
> 12 AP // {Aim} at the Spearman @ [3]x3/
> 3 SP // Fire bow at the Spearman @ [3]x3 // Target the gear in hands (-4). // Roll vs Finesse+8.
> 3 SP // {Nock}.

Rolled 2, 4, 5, 1, 3, 1, 5, 2, 6 = 29 (9d6)

>>4776130
"Continue the onslaught! Do not give them time to ready themselves!"
>5AP: Move 2, 3, 2, 2, 1
>3SP: Attack Vulpes 1 with Finesse
>3SP: Attack Vulpes 1 with Finesse
>2SP: Ready Flickerstep Dodge
>12AP: Gain 3 Stance
>3SP: Attack Vulpes 1 with Finesse

#Gilbert
Guard 17
AP 17 | Stance 8 | React 15(-2) | Health 4 | DR 2 | DMG +1
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 | Focus 10 |Finesse 12 |Ferocity 10(+1) | Para 9

#Simple Sword
#Rikovol Armor
#Flickerstep Dodge
#Wolf-Heart

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Rolled 1, 4, 2 = 7 (3d6)

Behenost shouts for the prisoners to dash. Some take up the thrown weapons with a determined nod and the others break through the bushes to run for it.

The leader roars as Behenost's spear-stab glances off of his armour, and then Sato falls on him in a rain of blows that shatters the breastplate and leaves the man stumbling.

> You broke his armour and inflicted 1 wound!

Our archers on the roof raise their bows, they nock, they draw . . . Loose!

>They fire vs 15, as a formation. Every 2 margin is another arrow that lands.

Rolled 5, 3, 4, 2, 4, 2 = 20 (6d6)

>>4776130
Blades, tear down those banners behind us!

> 6AP try to anchor myself
> 4AP Aim +2
> 1SP+3SP Cover that narrow gap @2223, it must be harder to dodge there!
> 3SP if I spend it, nock an arrow
> 3SP+3AP Dodges+1
> 3AP+4AP give an order!

Guard 13
AP 17 | Stance 10 | React 12 | Health 4
Lethality 1+1
Fluidity 6 | >>Focus 12<< |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 7 | Para 6

Simple Bow
Hushed Lightning
Like Ash

>>4776987
I'm startlingly good at being late

>>4776993
>>4776991
Not to worry, we shall simply roll your action in!

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The Rikovol survivors rush out the bush as arrows fall like a scytching rain. Behenosts good eyes and a gust of wind guide them through the smoke and the archers . . . Drop.

The Grass-cloak wearing Vulpes spins her long blade high in a arc and cuts an arrow from the sky and then with no pause in the movement of her wrists deflects a second shot from the freed and armed survivor.

Her ally, their bulky looking leader, steps forward, roaring, and swings his blade but Behenost parries deftly and the other survivor stabs out with a spear. It's not a big wound. It's almost nothing. But Sato has shattered the man's armour in his earlier strike, and the spearhead glides in through the gap. A killing blow. The leader drops.

And then, facing down four armed Blades the Grass-cloak Vulpes smiles like an arctic ice, like voidstar itself, like hunger and steps forward in a flutter of her cloak. Her first blow is a feint. Her second takes Sato's arm off at the shoulder.

>SATO, you've LOST AN ARM and taken 2 WOUNDS. This applies -2 to AP and SP at the start of your turn. The Arm Wounds further reduce your skills by 2 (not Para). Fluidity 10 | Focus 7 | Finesse 8 | Ferocity 7 | Para 5

But luckily, with your *other arm* you can still maintain a grip and a guard! But you're in severe danger of bleeding out. And once the shock wears off, the pain will be a whole new experience. But for now, it's ... just an absence. Stay alive!

---

We did it! We've freed the survivors! but that Grass-cloak is all they have left and she's dangerous. Blades! Take her DOWN!

>>4777010
>Question
Can a arm be reatached?

>>4777016
There are Spirits that do such a thing, or ones that can be compelled to aid in compensation. The xeno-alchemists can also find ways to repair such damage, with devices or cunning. The process will be painful but if you beg a boon of the right spirit, it can be amenable to alleviate your suffering.

I hear rumours - I have never been - that in the far lands there is a place they call the House of the Bonded, somewhere where things are made to be different. I know of wanderers who have set out to find this place and their strange artificers. I know of one who says she found it, in a grander city than there should be on this world.

If it can be found, it would be beyond the Uthani steps.

If you live, Sato, then there are means.

Rolled 3, 4, 4 = 11 (3d6)

>>4777010
>-Fluidity Stance, Hustle Posture
>9ap: Move 432 323 344
>1sp: Like Ash
>(Dashing Cut) Move 333, Fluid Strike the Grass-Cloak [15]
>4sp: Flickerstep, Dodge×2
>2Ap: recover Guard

#Inveigh
AP 12
Stance 8 | Guard 13
React 7 | Health 2 | Lethality 1

Fluidity 15 | Focus 13 | Finesse 8 | Ferocity 12 | Para 7

@Simple Blade
!Flickerstep Dodge
!Hustle | !Like Ash

>>4777010
>>4777058
I'm unclear about the cost of Dashing Cut here.
Does it take 3Sp as any other strike would? Does it take 3guard to strike instead? Does each step take 1guard, or 3 because of [Like Ash]? Or does it just remove all guard, in which case, how far can one dash?

>>4777061
You spend your Guard as AP, to move.
Any remaining guard is treated as the accuracy of an attack.

It costs no SP to do this, and no AP. The guard is treated as AP for movement, though, so if you have a posture that makes movement more costly, you won't Dash as far.

In effect, you perform a single forward dashing cut that then leaves you defenceless until you recover your guard. It is good if you have high guard and a strong position and need a brutal finishing move or it is good if you have low guard and need a quick, extra attack to overcome bad odds. As you use your Guard to move, and not your AP, you can also perform a determined dashing cut when you were in a disadvantageous position and have little AP.

Due to Sword Arts on the back-end, and the fact that 17-18 are always critical failures, any accuracy above 16 that your Dashing cut is used for gets auto-converted into the "best applicable kind of attack".

So if you had 20 guard, stepped twice, then attacked with an accuracy of 18, we'd treat the Dashing cut as one attack vs 16 with +1 to damage.

If you want to get technical with your determined dash, it is possible to modify it like any attack: it benefits from windup SP, evaluats, katas...

Rolled 1, 4, 2, 4, 1, 5, 2, 1, 6, 5, 6, 3 = 40 (12d6)

>>4777010

> 1SP Stance Finesse
> 3AP Quickly scale down 4
> 5AP Move 33344
> 1SP Telegraph!
> 4SP+8AP Aim, Evaluate
> 3SP Fire Thrice, Hushed Lightning! +12
> 1AP Move 1
> 1SP Dodge+1

Guard 13
AP 17 | Stance 10 | React 12 | Health 4
Lethality 1+1
Fluidity 6 | Focus 12 | >>Finesse 10<< |Ferocity 7 | Para 6

Simple Bow
Hushed Lightning
Like Ash

>>4777160
>>4777061
three hits so far! Let's see them parry all that!

Rolled 1, 6, 1, 5, 1, 4 = 18 (6d6)

>>4777010
# Veynaha Copec
EXP: 2

Guard: [18] // AP: [18] // Stance: [9] // React: [11] // Health: [3]
Lethality: [2]+1
Fluidity: [5] // Focus: [9] // Finesse: [16] // Ferocity: [9] // Para: [6]

Weapon // (Bow): +1 Lethality, Range of 3, range penalties grow exponentially.
Skill // {Nock}: Spend 3 SP to draw & ready an arrow.
Skill // {Aim}: Spending AP boosts hitchance at a 1:1 rate.
Skill // {Oni Laugh}: Spend 3SP to have AP dmg penalize enemy actions.
Skill // {Chill Wind}: Spend 2 SP adds +Terror to all attacks, hit or miss.-

> Note // Weapon {Nock}ed on previous turn.

"Suffering is transient. Loss is repairable. Failure is eternal. End this recruit."

> 9 AP // Move [3]x2, [4]x3, [3]x2, [4]x2.
> 5 AP // {Aim} at the Bandit leader @ [3]x3.
> 3 SP // Fire bow at the Bandit Leader // Target the leg (-2) // Roll vs Finesse+3
> 3 SP // {Nock}.
> > 4 AP // {Aim} at the Bandit leader @ [3]x3.
> 3 SP // Fire bow at the Bandit Leader // Target the leg (-2) // Roll vs Finesse+2

>>4777010

#Soldat
Guard 17
AP 18 | Stance 12 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 7 | Focus 12 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 11 | Para 8

Weapon - [Simple Spear]
Skill - [Scorpion Sting]
Skill - [Grass-Cutter]
Skill - [Puncture]
Mark - [Mosswater]

>Current Stance: [Focus]
>6AP: Pray for the Fallen
>11AP: Move: 5, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 6, 5
>3SP: Activate [Mosswater] Mark, Passive

"May the Spirits forgive them for their trespass..."

Rolled 1, 3, 4, 6, 4, 4 = 22 (6d6)

>>4777010
>1SP: Change back to Fluidity Stance, still in Fire Posture
>9AP: Use my Headband to stop the bleeding from my missing limb
>6AP: Observe and focus on the movements of my opponent to strike at the perfect momenr where there is a gap in her defense
>2SP: Evaluate ×2 (If my SP math is a bit skewed in cost you can take 1 off from here CC)
>3SP: Strike at the perfect moment!
>1SP: Dodge

Fluidity 10 | Focus 7 | Finesse 8 | Ferocity 7 | Para 5

#Sato
Guard 19
AP 17 | Stance 9 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5
[12 exp to spend]
Wearing - [Armiger's Headband]
@Weapon - [Simple Sword]
!Kata - [Hushed Lightning]
!Like Fire
-Whisper Stance 8 {Hits convert 2 Guard to 1 Dodge, each dodge deals 1 dmg}

>>4777010
>6AP Pray
>11AP Move 4434 5554 446
>10SP: Ready a reactive attack +7 Acc vs focus 17
>3SP+4AP: Dodge +4

#Maria
AP 21
Stance 13 | Guard 18
React 9 | Health 2 | Lethality 1

Fluidity 10 |Focus 10 |Finesse 6 |Ferocity 6 | Para 12

@Simple Sword (Stance:[Focus]+[Emptiness In Motion])

!Emptiness In Motion(3SP) [Focus][+] Overflow Guard
!Like Fire(1SP) +1Dmg per Empty Tile, 3AP Move

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Sato spots and waits, testing for his moment to strike. The Grass-cloak vulpes lets out a giggle. Mirth is wild on her face as the sparks reflect off of her blade. She moves like a thought; daring and free...

Any moment now she'll stumble. She has to. No one can keep this up forever.



[1/2]
>Vulpes Phase

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She throws herself out of her cover in a flurry of steel, breaking guards and shrugging of cracked arrows. Sato throws himself out of the way, Veynaha twists aside from a deadly blow, one of the Rikovol survivors barely gets the spear up in time and then she's past the crowd, chasing Sato again and, as an after-thought, throws a blade-swing towards Soldat.

There; now; her guard isn't fully recovered and she's turned her back to the archers without a dodge!

Wait... Inveigh? Inveigh are you -- oh.

She's deadly, but we have her crowded and surrounded. Your Finesse attacks kept her from replenishing her guard, now she's far more vulnerable and less mobile. Her need to break outof our surrounding ring has kept her from Dodging! Fantastic tactics!

Break through her guard with a probing shot then finish her off!

>Blades

>>4776369
We have fearful tidings to report, Blade. Part of what makes a Blade is sacrifice. But others may be inspired by your example. If you spread your story around, you may carry over 1 stat or trait when you reroll. As you have no xp, you can't bring that with you.

Rolled 5, 3, 3 = 11 (3d6)

>>4777231

# Veynaha Copec
EXP: 2

Guard: [18] // AP: [18] // Stance: [9] // React: [11] // Health: [3]
Lethality: [2]+1
Fluidity: [5] // Focus: [9] // Finesse: [16] // Ferocity: [9] // Para: [6]

Weapon // (Bow): +1 Lethality, Range of 3, range penalties grow exponentially.
Skill // {Nock}: Spend 3 SP to draw & ready an arrow.
Skill // {Aim}: Spending AP boosts hitchance at a 1:1 rate.
Skill // {Oni Laugh}: Spend 3SP to have AP dmg penalize enemy actions.
Skill // {Chill Wind}: Spend 2 SP adds +Terror to all attacks, hit or miss.-

"Begone."

> 3 SP // Assume {Chill Winds} stance.
> 3 SP // {Nock}.
> 18 AP // {Aim} at the Bandit leader @ [3]x3, [4]x1.
> 3 SP // Fire bow at the Bandit Leader // Target the vitals (-6) // Roll vs Finesse+12.

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There! Her Guard is almost broken! Deflecting that arrow from her vitals took most of her momentum!

Strike now! Even Vulpes Grasscloaks can learn to fear arrows. But it'll take hand to hand to finish this.

Rolled 1, 2, 1, 1, 5, 3, 1, 5, 2 = 21 (9d6)

>>4777240
"I'll finish it with this. Hero Slayer Art:Locust Dissection!"

>3AP Move 655
>9AP Kick dirt/dust up at the bandit leader (vs 13 Fluidity)
>1SP [Like Fire], +2 Damage
>7SP [Evaluate] +4 (Aim for Arms) (vs 12 Focus)
>5SP+8AP [Evaluate] +4 (Aim for Legs) (vs 12 Focus)

#Maria
AP 21
Stance 13 | Guard 18
React 9 | Health 2 | Lethality 1

Fluidity 10 |Focus 10 |Finesse 6 |Ferocity 6 | Para 12

@Simple Sword (Stance:[Focus]+[Emptiness In Motion])

!Emptiness In Motion(3SP) [Focus][+] Overflow Guard
!Like Fire(1SP) +1Dmg per Empty Tile, 3AP Move

Rolled 5, 6, 2, 5, 1, 2, 1, 5, 5, 5, 2, 2 = 41 (12d6)

"Ho-ei!"

>>4777231
>2ap Move 22
>20ap->5sp
>3sp Fluid attack grassy Vulpes vs 14
>Ditto
>Ditto
>4sp, 12 guard, Fluid attack grassy Vulpes, vs 15 +6 damage

#Behenost
Guard 13
AP 22 | Stance 8 | React 10 | Health 3
Lethality 2
Fluidity 13 | Focus 11 | Finesse 14 | Ferocity 6 | Para 8

#Simple Spear
--Scorpion Sting: Attack, add damage = spent Guard/2
#Emptiness in Motion: 3sp [Focus] exceed max Guard

Rolled 2, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 = 32 (6d6)

>>4777231
"You know I'd like to ask your hand in marriage if you survive this..."

>Convert 12AP in 3SP
>Fluidity+Like Fire
>3AP: Aim to knock the wind out of her to Knock her out and capture the grasscloak
>4 SP: Evaluate (+4)
>2 SP: Windup (just enough to knock her out)
>3SP: Knock her out with the pommel


Fluidity 10 | Focus 7 | Finesse 8 | Ferocity 7 | Para 5

#Sato
Guard 19
AP 17 | Stance 9 | React 10 | Health 2
Lethality 1
Fluidity 12 |Focus 9 |Finesse 10 |Ferocity 9 |Para 5
[12 exp to spend]
Wearing - [Armiger's Headband]
@Weapon - [Simple Sword]
!Kata - [Hushed Lightning]
!Like Fire
-Whisper Stance 8 {Hits convert 2 Guard to 1 Dodge, each dodge deals 1 dmg}

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No one likes sand. It gets everywhere