Session Start: Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 2003
Session Ident: #Exalted

[16:29:47] <Charles> * Last time on Exalted, the Circle talked with Tabie Dorn of the Daybreak Caste. Or, actually, Lenoria did. After following a false lead, the Circle started heading for Great Forks.
[16:29:53] <Charles> * Also, Deyton fell in a ditch.
[16:30:07] <Charles> * Nobody bothered to get him out.
[16:30:35] <Kane> ( I prefer "Has anybody seen Deyton recently?" "... Huh. Well, we don't have any time to waste, he can take care of himself. Let's keep going." )
[16:30:57] <Kane> ( Or possibly "Deyton fell in a ditch. Everybody botched their Awareness rolls to notice. )
[16:31:04] <Charles> * That works better.
[16:31:44] <Charles> * After several days of travelling, you finally make it to Great Forks. From the distance, you can see that a large shanty-town has risen outside the walls of the city.
[16:33:32] <Kane> ... Okay, so who gets to investigate that?
[16:33:58] <Charles> * The city's party atmosphere seems to have broken down drastically. Session start.
[16:34:11] * Lenoria frowns.
[16:35:17] <Ximena> (sorry, mother demon atacked)
[16:35:49] <Ximena> Whoa... this place looked ALOT nicer LAST time!
[16:36:11] * Kane heads over to take a look at the contents of the shantytown.
[16:36:23] * Alitheia scowls and heads after Kane. "Somethin's up."
[16:37:17] <Ximena> Ah could probably sneak around unnoticed tah get info, 'stead of us all rushin` in.
[16:38:11] <Kane> ... Maybe we could go try to ask the Three what's going on.
[16:39:32] * Lenoria nods at Kane
[16:40:22] <Ximena> If they're alright. Ah mean yah think they'd be doin` SUMthin.
[16:40:34] <Alitheia> Couldn't hurt.
[16:40:35] <Kane> Perhaps they are and if they weren't this would be even worse.
[16:40:46] <Kane> Good place to start, anyway.
[16:40:48] <Kane> Let's go.
[16:41:07] * Kane heads over to the place we went to talk to the THree previously..
[16:41:22] * Lenoria follows
[16:41:57] * Alitheia continues along after Kane.
[16:42:05] * Ximena goes along too.
[16:42:42] <Charles> * As Kane enters the gates of the city, the streets are dead quiet. Only the occaisional moan issues from the nearby buildings as they make their way to the heart of the city.
[16:43:04] <Ximena> This... ain't good at all.
[16:43:08] <Kane> No.
[16:43:08] * Lenoria looks... uncomfortable
[16:44:00] <Alitheia> Bloody hell.
[16:44:13] * Ximena hurries up.
[16:45:44] * Kane hurries to the whevereverwe'regoing.
[16:47:53] <Charles> * You get within eyeshot of the palace of the Three. The moaning gets louder the closer you get, and finally, you see the zombies, at least a hundred, with several better-preserved bodies among them.
[16:48:16] <Lenoria> ...
[16:48:19] <Kane> ... Shit.
[16:48:41] <Alitheia> Bugger all.
[16:48:43] * Kane tosses off his cloak and draws Flying Silver Dream from his armor.
[16:49:07] <Lenoria> Kane... do you think I need to use sorcery this time?
[16:49:34] <Ximena> Be fastar!
[16:49:36] <Kane> Well, there's _even_ _more of them this time around.
[16:49:54] * Lenoria nods...
[16:50:10] * Lenoria looks at the zombies, and waits for them to come within maximum affected range...
[16:50:15] <Charles> * It's worth noting, for those who looked in the shanty-town, there *are* refugees. The entire town's not zombies. Yet.
[16:50:23] <Alitheia> .oO(I really need a long ranged weapon.)
[16:50:26] <Lenoria> ( ... oh. ^^; )
[16:50:36] <Kane> ( Aren't these all zombies here, though? )
[16:50:43] <Lenoria> ( Wait, refugees inside the crowd of zombies?
[16:51:11] <Charles> (Yeah.)
[16:51:31] <Charles> (...)
[16:51:42] <Charles> (In the shanty town. Is my sentance construction that poor?)
[16:51:58] <Kane> ( Well, we're talking about the zombies, right here, and then you suddenly mention refugees... )
[16:52:07] <Lenoria> ( Yeah )
[16:53:17] * Lenoria thrusts her hands forward again, chanting rising to shouting, as a torrent of Essence flows about her, forming into the glass butterflies again. Again, her caste mark glows brightly, and the flood of butterflies rushes forth, reflecting the light in all sorts of directions
[16:53:18] <Charles> (I was getting a feeling that I wasn't clear on that earlier on. I didn'twant to give the impression that the whole fucking place was up in smoke.)
[16:53:30] <Lenoria> 8t
[16:53:31] <Ropponmatsu> [8t->9 3 6 3 6 5 5 6] [1 Success]
[16:53:40] * Alitheia watches.
[16:53:54] <Lenoria> ( Geez. Don't suppose I qualify for any stunt dice? )
[16:54:09] <Kane> ( You do get your Essence in autosuccesses. )
[16:54:13] <Kane> ( ANd these would be "Extras". )
[16:54:19] <Lenoria> ( Ah )
[16:55:03] <Kane> ( ... Are we in sight of the building we're going to? )
[16:55:06] <Charles> (Not to mention Sorcery is *supposed* to be grand.)
[16:55:25] <Lenoria> ( Heh. )
[16:55:58] <Charles> (Were you to say "I CASTS TEH SPELL, KILL TEH ORCS AND TAKE TEH LEWT", I may well give penalty dice. Especially since Exalted doesn't have orcs.)
[16:56:08] <Charles> (Yeah.)
[16:56:42] <Kane> ( /me waits for descprtion of spell's effects. )
[16:57:47] <Charles> * The spell cuts a large swathe in the crowd of zombies. The nemessaries have taken note, and draw their spears, charging at the Circle.
[16:58:11] * Kane gets his sword to the ready and dashes forward to meet them.
[16:58:24] * Alitheia draws her sword and runs after Kane.
[16:58:26] <Kane> ( Activating Fivefold Bulwark Stance. )
[16:58:40] <Charles> * Init!
[16:59:22] <Charles> For Nem1:
[16:59:26] <Alitheia> ( What do we roll again? )
[16:59:35] <Charles> d10+6
[16:59:36] <Ropponmatsu> [d10+6->11]
[16:59:40] <Kane> ( You should have it figured for your weapon, and roll a d10+that.
[16:59:49] <Charles> (Dex+Wits+Weapon speed+d10)
[16:59:58] <Kane> 1d10+11
[16:59:59] <Ropponmatsu> [1d10+11->14]
[17:00:05] <Lenoria> d10+10
[17:00:06] <Ropponmatsu> [d10+10->12]
[17:00:11] <Ximena> d10+7
[17:00:12] <Ropponmatsu> [d10+7->12]
[17:00:14] <Alitheia> d10+11
[17:00:15] <Ropponmatsu> [d10+11->14]
[17:01:04] <Charles> d10+6
[17:01:05] <Ropponmatsu> [d10+6->8]
[17:02:22] <Charles> * Theia and Kane, Xi and Lenoria, Nemissary 1, Nemissary 2.
[17:02:44] <Charles> [Theia/Kane]
[17:02:49] <Kane> ( Are they both within melee range of me? )
[17:04:39] <Charles> (Yeah.)
[17:06:16] * Kane attacks each Nemmisary twice.
[17:06:30] <Kane> ( Splitting four ways and forgoing a Stunt bonus becuase I can't think of anything in particular. )
[17:06:50] <Kane> 15t
[17:06:51] <Ropponmatsu> [15t->3 2 9 8 4 2 5 9 9 6 5 10 8 4 5] [5 Successes 1 Critical]
[17:06:54] <Kane> 14t
[17:06:55] <Ropponmatsu> [14t->2 2 6 9 2 2 4 7 7 10 6 4 6 5] [3 Successes 1 Critical]
[17:06:59] <Kane> 13t
[17:07:00] <Ropponmatsu> [13t->6 8 4 8 9 2 7 5 6 6 3 10 9] [5 Successes 1 Critical]
[17:07:01] <Kane> 12t
[17:07:01] <Ropponmatsu> [12t->4 5 8 1 2 3 10 6 4 2 5 6] [1 Success 1 Critical]
[17:07:15] <Kane> ( 7, 5, 7, and 3 successes. )
[17:07:52] * Alitheia rushes silently forward, lunging for the closest Nemissary with her blade heading for it's throat.
[17:08:07] <Alitheia> 10t
[17:08:08] <Ropponmatsu> [10t->7 6 3 5 1 7 2 9 9 6] [4 Successes]
[17:08:22] <Charles> * The first Nemissary holds up the haft of his spear to block the strikes, while the second tries to leap out of the way of Kane's blade.
[17:08:49] <Charles> 6t
[17:08:50] <Ropponmatsu> [6t->4 8 7 8 5 8] [4 Successes]
[17:09:00] <Charles> 5t
[17:09:01] <Ropponmatsu> [5t->9 9 7 5 6] [3 Successes]
[17:09:12] <Kane> ( And the one who dodged can defend against the second attack too. )
[17:09:44] <Charles> 7t
[17:09:45] <Ropponmatsu> [7t->4 9 4 1 8 6 9] [3 Successes]
[17:09:59] <Charles> 6
[17:09:59] <Charles> 6t
[17:09:59] <Charles> 5t
[17:10:00] <Ropponmatsu> [6t->3 8 2 6 1 7] [2 Successes]
[17:10:00] <Ropponmatsu> [5t->1 6 3 5 6] [0 Successes]
[17:10:16] <Kane> ( ... Okay, so, uh, what just happend? )
[17:10:21] <Ximena> (ooo, a botch)
[17:11:25] <Kane> ( Becuase while Full Dodges let you go X, x-1, x-2 and so on against subesquent attacks, a FUll Parry gets you a grand total of one non-splittable defense. )
[17:11:29] <Charles> (Kane: Your successed are reduced to 3, 2, 4, and 1. And the second nemissary threw himself on 'Theia's blade.)
[17:12:10] <Kane> ( Okay, rolling damage now.
[17:12:16] <Kane> 19t
[17:12:17] <Ropponmatsu> [19t->5 10 5 3 5 5 3 7 3 6 7 8 6 7 7 5 8 2 3] [6 Successes 1 Critical]
[17:12:18] <Kane> 18t
[17:12:19] <Ropponmatsu> [18t->1 5 4 10 3 4 9 4 10 3 6 6 3 7 10 10 6 7] [3 Successes 4 Criticals]
[17:12:20] <Charles> (Yon, add two successes after damage is rolled.)
[17:12:26] <Kane> 20t
[17:12:27] <Ropponmatsu> [20t->7 5 2 9 4 9 4 3 5 4 6 5 6 2 2 9 3 5 3 9] [5 Successes]
[17:12:29] <Kane> 17t
[17:12:29] <Ropponmatsu> [17t->2 9 9 9 10 3 3 1 6 9 6 10 7 2 3 1 5] [5 Successes 2 Criticals]
[17:12:38] <Kane> ( 7, 7, 5, and 7 damage. )
[17:13:20] <Alitheia> ( /me thinks. )
[17:13:44] <Kane> ( ... aw, damn, I forgot about their soak. )
[17:13:50] <Alitheia> ( So, I roll...what again? )
[17:14:15] <Kane> ( Strenght + Weapon Dam Figure + Successes remaining on attack roll )
[17:14:22] <Kane> ( And hten you add another two successes since the guy botched. )
[17:14:48] <Kane> ( Except there should be a "soak" thin in here somewhere. )
[17:14:58] <Charles> * The first nemissary is looking near a second death, when his body falls to the ground in a heap, as if it were shucked-off clothing. The second nemessary is slightly better for the count until he comes into contact with 'Theia's blade.)
[17:15:06] <Charles> (The soak is 4.)
[17:15:39] <Kane> ( ... shoot, I should've split a bit more and saved some actions. )
[17:15:54] <Alitheia> 11t
[17:15:55] <Ropponmatsu> [11t->5 4 9 8 9 3 6 2 5 4 1] [3 Successes]
[17:17:42] <Charles> * The second nemissary is run through, and slides down 'Theia's blade, though his body is easiily removed.
[17:17:49] <Charles> [Xi/Lenoria!]
[17:18:09] * Lenoria rushes towards the first Nemissary, her movements flowing like water as the fans slice through the air. She makes a horizontal, then vertical slash. ( Splitting into 4 actions. )
[17:18:21] <Kane> ( They're both, uh, kinda, not moving. )
[17:19:05] <Charles> * Lenoria mutilates the corpses.
[17:20:42] <Charles> [Xi]
[17:20:44] * Ximena leaps backwards up onto the short wall behind her, her bow already drawn and notched as soon as her feet get purchase. She simply surveys the area.
[17:21:18] <Ximena> (holding action, splitting pool 2 ways)
[17:22:18] <Charles> * The zombies shuffle towards the Circle.
[17:23:25] <Kane> ( Reinit? )
[17:23:39] <Charles> *Yeo
[17:23:46] <Kane> d10+11
[17:23:47] <Ropponmatsu> [d10+11->14]
[17:23:51] <Kane> ( ... o_O )
[17:24:16] <Lenoria> d10+10
[17:24:17] <Ropponmatsu> [d10+10->19]
[17:24:20] <Alitheia> d10+11
[17:24:21] <Ropponmatsu> [d10+11->14]
[17:24:26] <Ximena> d10+7
[17:24:26] <Ropponmatsu> [d10+7->15]
[17:24:37] <Ximena> (haha, kane sux)
[17:24:47] <Kane> ( Bad Ropponmatsu. )
[17:24:48] <Charles> * Lenoria
[17:25:05] <Lenoria> ( How many zombies now? )
[17:25:38] <Charles> * About fifty.
[17:26:02] <Lenoria> ( Gerk. How closely packed are they? )
[17:26:44] <Charles> (Not very.)
[17:26:54] <Charles> (The first one took out a good wedge, and they spread out.
[17:27:54] <Charles> d10+7
[17:27:55] <Ropponmatsu> [d10+7->10]
[17:28:00] <Charles> d10+7
[17:28:01] <Ropponmatsu> [d10+7->9]
[17:28:10] * Lenoria dashes into the zombie crowd, and starts to perform her attacks, spinning but slowing down as the strikes are made, putting great emphasis on the hits
[17:28:22] <Lenoria> ( Splitting... 4 ways. 3 attacks )
[17:28:45] <Lenoria> 7t
[17:28:46] <Ropponmatsu> [7t->6 3 4 7 6 6 3] [1 Success]
[17:28:50] <Lenoria> 6t
[17:28:51] <Charles> (Roll them.)
[17:28:52] <Ropponmatsu> [6t->8 5 5 8 1 3] [2 Successes]
[17:28:53] <Lenoria> 5t
[17:28:54] <Ropponmatsu> [5t->8 4 4 6 7] [2 Successes]
[17:29:21] <Charles> (Zobmies lack lethal soak. Roll damage.)
[17:29:42] <Kane> ( I'd like to point out that a Full Dodge requires you to forgo all actions for the round. )
[17:30:37] <Lenoria> ( Umm... damage is MA + dex + successes on attacks? )
[17:30:54] <Kane> ( Dex + Weap[on Dam Figure + Sucesses. )
[17:31:01] <Ximena> (brb)
[17:31:14] <Kane> ( Your actual Martial Arts skill score doesn't figure in except as for hitting and thus successes. )
[17:31:17] <Lenoria> 9t
[17:31:18] <Ropponmatsu> [9t->4 3 8 6 9 7 7 5 8] [5 Successes]
[17:31:22] <Lenoria> 10t
[17:31:24] <Ropponmatsu> [10t->9 7 10 3 8 2 3 1 4 7] [4 Successes 1 Critical]
[17:31:31] <Lenoria> 10t
[17:31:32] <Ropponmatsu> [10t->3 6 5 6 5 8 6 4 9 4] [2 Successes]
[17:32:19] <Charles> * The zombies fall before Lenoria. Xi's turn.
[17:33:08] <Alitheia> (What's the splitting formula again? )
[17:34:00] <Charles> (Subtract number of dice equal to actions taken on the first action, take away one for eachafter that.)
[17:34:42] <Alitheia> (Got it.)
[17:34:56] <Kane> ( And I think Xi is off somewhere else at the moment. )
[17:35:56] <Charles> * Xi continues to hold her action.
[17:36:16] <Ximena> (backback)
[17:37:38] <Charles> * Xi stops holding her action. Maybe.
[17:38:02] * Ximena runs along to the wall to where the herd of zombies is, she leaps off of the wall, her cast mark starting to shine as she actives Graceful Crane Stance to run along the heads of the zombies towards the palace of the three.
[17:39:59] * Segev is now known as Awaymancer
[17:42:11] <Charles> [Kane/Ximena]
[17:42:11] <Charles> Er. [/Alitheia]
[17:43:08] <Alitheia> ( Splitting 3 ways. )
[17:45:01] * Alitheia rushes forward to a pair of zombies and pivots, swinging her sword in a wide arc to catch both of them in the same swipe.
[17:45:07] <Alitheia> 9t
[17:45:08] <Ropponmatsu> [9t->6 7 4 6 1 3 10 1 4] [1 Success 1 Critical]
[17:45:09] <Alitheia> 8t
[17:45:10] <Ropponmatsu> [8t->9 10 4 6 1 3 6 6] [1 Success 1 Critical]
[17:47:14] <Charles> * The two zombies go down.
[17:47:28] * Kane slashes through an empty spot near where Nemmisary 2 fell, then dashes after something none of you can see before attacking antoehr empy spot with a quick up/down/up combo.
[17:47:36] <Kane> ( Splitting five ways. )
[17:47:50] <Kane> 15t
[17:47:51] <Ropponmatsu> [15t->7 2 3 4 4 5 2 10 6 4 5 5 7 4 3] [2 Successes 1 Critical]
[17:47:58] <Kane> 14t
[17:47:59] <Ropponmatsu> [14t->3 8 7 8 6 4 7 8 8 3 6 8 2 5] [7 Successes]
[17:48:02] <Kane> 13t
[17:48:03] <Ropponmatsu> [13t->5 9 2 8 10 8 4 6 4 4 7 9 1] [5 Successes 1 Critical]
[17:48:07] <Kane> 12t
[17:48:08] <Ropponmatsu> [12t->2 5 2 6 2 5 10 8 6 5 8 4] [2 Successes 1 Critical]
[17:48:08] <Kane> 11t
[17:48:09] <Ropponmatsu> [11t->6 2 5 6 7 8 2 9 5 7 6] [4 Successes]
[17:48:26] <Kane> ( 3, 7, 7, 4, and 4 successes. )
[17:49:28] <Charles> 7t
[17:49:29] <Ropponmatsu> [7t->9 1 6 9 6 2 8] [3 Successes]
[17:49:38] <Charles> 6t
[17:49:39] <Ropponmatsu> [6t->4 10 10 8 2 7] [2 Successes 2 Criticals]
[17:49:43] <Kane> ( And I think Nemmisary 2 was dazed, so he might not get defenses. )
[17:50:09] <Charles> (One success on the first attack on 1, none on the second.)
[17:50:21] <Charles> (And, yeah, 2 gets no defense.)
[17:50:25] <Kane> ( What about the thrrd attack on 1? )
[17:51:04] <Kane> ( And what's the lethal soak of a Nemissary without a body? )
[17:51:17] <Charles> 5t
[17:51:18] <Ropponmatsu> [5t->8 8 3 1 3] [2 Successes]
[17:52:10] <Kane> ( Okay, I'm going to just add together the damage for each Nemmisary. )
[17:52:14] <Charles> (Hm. I'd say 3. Just because bashing and lethal isn't much different for them)
[17:54:18] * Ropponmatsu (LylaBot@dsl081-069-013.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net) Quit (Ping timeout)
[17:55:12] * Kane (Zereth@dsl081-069-013.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net) Quit (Ping timeout)
[17:55:18] <Alitheia> ( Okay, what's going on with the Nemmisarries? I thought there were only two? )
[17:55:31] <Charles> fnord
[17:55:42] <Ximena> (NOOOOOOOO)
[17:56:01] <Charles> (Yeah.)
[17:56:19] <Charles> (They're ghosts that possess corpses.)
[17:56:29] <Charles> (And when the bodies re-die, they ditch them and try to get a new one.)
[17:56:41] <Alitheia> ( So Kane can still see them? )
[17:57:18] <Lenoria> ( Oh. )
[17:57:22] <Ximena> (no Z sama ;;)
[17:57:30] <Ximena> (who will I make fun of people on AIM with now?!)
[17:58:24] <Charles> (Yeah. He has the blindfold.)
[17:59:17] <Alitheia> (Ah.)
[18:03:21] <Lenoria> ( Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep )
[18:03:30] <Lenoria> ( Who goes after Kane? )
[18:03:31] <Ximena> (you live closest. go get him, Dem)
[18:04:06] <Lenoria> ( Bwargh. )
[18:04:10] <Lenoria> ( Kane took his action )
[18:04:15] <Lenoria> ( Whose action is after Kane's? )
[18:04:45] <Charles> * Kane cuts down the two ghosts with ease. Not that any of you can tell.
[18:05:01] <Charles> * And 'Theia goes now.
[18:05:26] <Charles> *It's worth noting that there is now a clear path to the palace doors.
[18:05:38] <Ximena> (I still get there first! neener)
[18:05:46] * Alitheia runs for the doors.
[18:07:26] <Charles> (Dem, you're going in on your next turn, yeah?)
[18:07:38] <Lenoria> ( Yeah. )
[18:12:07] <Charles> * You all get into the palace. The walls are beginnging to tarnish, and every so often you hear a crunching under your footfalls. Finally, you get to the throne room, where the walls have been coated with soulsteel. At the far end, sitting in the throne once occupied by the Daysheild, a tall man with a white mask in long, black robes sits, what seems to be a scythe of soulsteel with a jagged edge propped next to him on the throne.
[18:12:44] <Lenoria> Canis, I presume?
[18:12:48] <Alitheia> ...aw, shit.
[18:12:58] <Lenoria> ( Grrr. Where's Zer? )
[18:13:56] <Ximena> (i think the power went out again)
[18:14:12] <Ximena> Ah knew it! Ah knew the Three were gone!
[18:14:13] <Charles> * The figure laughs, a cold, inhuman sound. "Canis is long gone."
[18:14:50] * Alitheia scowls. "Fine. Who the hell are you?"
[18:16:17] <Charles> Sonorous Steel Bell. Who were you to invade the Mask of Winters' new sanctum?
[18:17:17] <Charles> +""
[18:17:54] <Alitheia> ...
[18:18:14] * Lenoria draws her fans.
[18:18:32] <Alitheia> (Okay, lool. Are we gonna fight without Zer? This is ridiculous. )
[18:18:36] <Lenoria> ( I know. -_- )
[18:20:10] <Ximena> (yes... we shoudl call it. we need kane)
[18:20:27] <Ximena> (plus this is drama++ w/ his bg)
[18:20:34] <Charles> * Sonorous Steel Bell stands, unfolding himself to a height of over eight feet and takes his scythe in his hand. "It matters not. Prepare yourselves, intruders."
[18:20:40] <Charles> <Session End>

Session Close: Tue Mar 18 00:00:00 2003