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[Tabletop Summaries] Valorous X-Men for 08/24!
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The X-Men continued their battle against Daedalus and his robot animal friends.
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COntinually hiding behind shields and good rolls, Daedalus began inching across the battlefield towards the teleporter, but he was intercepted by Kelpie and Fawn before he could get there, and Fawn slammed him into some equipment for the KO.
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Bruja Muerte, now at better health thanks to some healing by Fawn, shot down ICARUS-2, and Fawn took out ICARUS-1, and then after eating a ton of chip damage Fawn finally finished the robo gorilla off.
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Fawn MVP.
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The X-Men have won! But as Daedalus returns to consciousness, he reveals it to be a hollow victory.
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At his instruction, they switch on a monitor, and discover that Lorentz is on the air. He's in Philadelphia, he's got a bomb powered by him that will blow up most of the city, and it's going to go off in mere minutes.
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Fortunately...our party has just come into possession of a teleporter, and after Gravity slams Daedalus into a few equipment banks, he tells them how to turn it on.
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Fawn ties him up at Kelpie's instruction, and the party passes through the portal, and find themselves high up, in a half-constructed skyscraper in downtown Philadelphia, on a platform with Lorentz and the bomb.
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Lorentz seems a little impressed by them...but then says he has no time to mess around with them
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and then Dragonbreath and Bruja Muerte get pulled right through the floor by an unknown force.
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TO BE CONTINUED
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IMPORTANT NOTES
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1. LEVEL CAP IS NOW 5
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2. Since we're all leveling up, this seems like a good time to clarify what house rules we're playing under
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Because honestly I'd forgotten myself.
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SO OUR HOUSE RULES ARE
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a. Great Accuracy and Great Evasion are mutually exclusive, as are Impaired Accuracy and Impaired Evasion. If you have GA and GE gets applied to you, GA goes away and you have GE instead. Same for IA and IE. No tech can apply both.
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b. Great Accuracy and Great Evasion cost 8 SP instead of 6. Impaired Accuracy and Impaired Evasion cost 4 SP instead of 3.
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c. Overdriving for Stamina gives you 2 increments of stamina instead of a full bar
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d. Bravado is a Fixed skill, and each season the amount of Valor you start fights with increases by 1 (so 0 in season one, 1 in season 2, etc)
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That's all effective as of your level 5
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Noted!
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(Well, except for the stamina one, which is effective immediately)
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3. I...want to have an OP theme for Season 2
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It makes things really hype, and I like that
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SO
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send me your suggestions, and we'll put them to a vote.
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This finale will take at least two weeks, so, submission deadline in a week, to be extended if need be.
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Submissions should be a a song easily available in linkable format (on youtube, etc) that are well-suited to be an opening theme!
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Lyrical content is less important than tone.
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awestriker
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Vehrec
tobu_RP deerleisure
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OH AND
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4. Those of you whose superhero outfits are not particularly privacy-protecting...may want to consider your options there. I'm just saying.
Vehrec
Haha the hood and disruptive cyberpunk face paint are not just for show.
NekoIncardine
Still haven't come up with Gravity's actual outfit at all. X_x
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You don't need to, like, draw it, just have a general concept haha.
NekoIncardine
I'm thinking Gravity favors a half-mask type thing, probably influenced by some terrible fiction she read at some point, other than that tho...
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OH RIGHT I FORGOT TO DO A MECHANICAL BREAKDOWN
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So first this scene was a stealth-based challenge scene.
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The party moves at 5 spaces each so nobody got left behind, and as they moved throught he maps they stepped across invisible sensor zones, upon which Daedalus got to make a roll to detect them
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and Daedalus got a roll at the end of each round.
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The detection meter went to 6.
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At the end, when they got to the room he was in, they each had to make rolls any time they stepped through his cone of vision.
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If the party got in range before he caught them, they got a surprise round!
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Atmospherically, I think this scene worked pretty well, thanks in large part to me spending a fucking eternity getting the dynamic lighting set up.
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However, mechanically it had two problems.
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The first is that I didn't take the valor economy into account, like, at ALL.
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Well, I did, but I vastly underestimated its effects.
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At the beginning of the scene, it was challenging
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and right at the end the sheer number of rolls finally ran out the valor pool
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but in between the party had so much Valor that there was really no danger of failing a roll.
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The second is, as noted in last week's summary
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I fucking misunderstood ambush round rules HARD
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so the reward for stealthing good wasn't as much as it should have been.
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WHOOPS
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The combat scene:
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Daedalus, a level 5 Elite, and his three robot pals (ICARUS 1 through 3), who are level 5 Soldiers.
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Daedalus was a Spirit/Int/Guts Balanced Fighter build with a strong barrier he likes to hide behind.
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He had attack nodes! But he died too fast to use them.
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Each of the ICARUS models was a different build. ICARUS-1, the robot cat, was STR/SPR, ICARUS-2, the robot birb, was DEX/SPR, and ICARUS-3, the robot Gorilla with Street Fighter moves, was STR/GUTS.
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By accident, Daedalus moving to places where he could use his barrier made it look like he was running for the portal machine, but that was never actually a thing, haha.
NekoIncardine
Oh.
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Just a happy accident!