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Hunter & Hunted
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 19, 2024, 1:22 pm
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Tell: Lavender Eyes
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--- Quote ---
> Dex + Stealth: 10, 9, 7, 3, 1 = 3 successes
--- End Quote ---
The full moon refracts off the water of the Harbor nearby. In
the distance, the docks house man-made ships lucky enough to
stay on the surface of the depths, beneath which slumber things
best not seen.
The trees are scattered throughout the grass; the treeline rests
a ways to the southwest. Tall grass sways in the gentle breeze.
A bobcat stalks a rabbit in the dead of night, under the light
of the full moon. It’s been hunting this rabbit for a while --
the poor little bunny has no idea what horror stalks it.
Patience and instinct have guided the cat thus far, but the time
for the kill is ripe.
The bobcat prepares to pounce. It crouches, tensing up and
rearing it’s haunches. A moment passes as it locks eyes on it’s
target, focusing, and then all at once--
--it’s snapped up by a tentacle. A yowling screech and a wet
crunch are the last sounds it will ever make.
There, in the tall grass, stands a feral in Dalu. Tendrils
mounted on her face curl around the carcass of the cat, hidden
machinations tearing flesh from bone, feasting -- and spilling
blood down her bosom.
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Re: Hunter & Hunted
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 19, 2024, 3:07 pm
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Tell: Lavender Eyes
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--- Quote ---
> STR 3 + Throwback/Dalu 1 + Brawl 3 + Grappling spec 1 + 6 to
grappling for extra limbs: 10, 10, 10, 9, 8, 8, 7, 7, 6, 6, 5,
3, 1, 1 = 9 successes. Poor bobcat takes 9 agg.
>
> She fills up on Essence.
>
> Breaking point toward Spirit for gaining Essence from killing
an animal at -3: 8 = one success. She stays at Harmony 7.
--- End Quote ---
A moment passes as the ripping and gnawing of feasting are the
only sounds breaking the silence. And then, a twig snaps behind
her. She freezes for a moment, suddenly aware that she is not
alone… and whatever it is that is here has not fallen victim to
Lunacy.
--- Quote ---
> Idi: Wits 3 + Composure 2: 9, 6, 5, 2, 1 = 1 success
> Monster: 10, 8, 7, 7, 5, 4, 1 = 3 successes
--- End Quote ---
Unfortunately, she cannot locate the source of the sound. It
would seem that she has received the only warning she was about
to get.
Rabbit, stalked by Bobcat, stalked by Feral, stalked by unholy
monster. Predator has become prey.
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Re: Hunter & Hunted
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 19, 2024, 4:08 pm
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Tell: Lavender Eyes
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--- Quote ---
> Bad guys get the drop on her. No Defense, sadface.
>
> STR 4 + Brawl 4, Natural Weapons 2: 9, 9, 9, 7, 5, 3, 1, 1 = 3
successes, 5 damage total
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It strikes from the shadows, slicing from beyond the Feral’s
notice directly into the Feral’s body -- a slashing arm,
somewhat like a praying mantis’s, only much much larger.
Human-sized. Blood splatters and Idi yelps in pain.
--- Quote ---
> Resolve + Composure: Assuming that much damage intake in one
shot risks Basu-Im, given that she just went from healthy to
ticking one of her last three boxes.
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> 6, 5, 4, 4 = 0 successes = death rage.
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The Death Rage rushes through her, and her form cracks and
twists and melts and grows. Panic and fury entangled into one
destructive need to kill crash into her, pulsing with the need
for blood.
She whirls, tentacles thrashing, to face the first thing within
smashing range:
The blade-armed humanoid, now dwarfed by her towering War Form.
It chitters, blood dripping from it’s blade-fins. Compound eyes
take her form, assessing whether or not to press the advantage
or to flee now that her full might has been brought to bare.
--- Quote ---
> Idi’s init: 9 + 5 = 14
> Monster’s init: 8 + 6 = 14
> Tie goes to the highest initiative modifier. Monster goes
first.
>
> STR 4 + Brawl 4 - Defense 7, Natural Weapons 2
> 8 = 1 success = 3 damage. She’s full up on Lethal and has one
agg.
>
> SPending a point of Essence to heal one lethal, since that can
be done while dying. Jesus christ, dice, lay off a sec would
you?
--- End Quote ---
The creature chitters and presses the advantage, laying into the
octopus’s war-form relentlessly. She screams in pain as more
inky blood splatters across the monster’s form, and drops to the
ground -- but she will not be finished or killed so easily.
Wounds begin to close of their own accord. She snarls, thrusting
herself up to counterattack.
--- Quote ---
> Strength 4 + Brawl 3 + Grapple spec 1 + 6 for extra limbs + 3
WP - defense 6 = 11 dice.
> 10, 9, 8, 8, 7, 6, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 = exceptional. She can pick
one move from the Grapple list immediately, and she choses Hold.
Neither character gets their defense against incoming attacks.
--- End Quote ---
A veritable cloud of writhing, thrashing tendrils engulfs the
monster as she grabs him by any means necessary -- and begins to
squeeze.
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Re: Hunter & Hunted
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 19, 2024, 4:40 pm
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Tell: Lavender Eyes
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--- Quote ---
> Idi init: 9
> Monster init: 16
>
> Monster’s turn: Grappling…
> Monster’s STR+Brawl: 1 success
> Idi’s STR+Brawl+Specialty+Arms: 2 successes
> …Idi chooses Restrain. Monster suffers from Immobilize tilt.
>
> Idi’s turn: Grappling…
> Monster: 3
> Idi: 7 successes
> …Idi chooses Damage.
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The Kuruth drives her to crush this fiend, squeeze the life out
of it and break it’s exoskeleton with sheer, brutal, raw force.
It cracks under her strength.
--- Quote ---
> Idi init: 10
> Monster init: 13
>
> Monster’s turn: Grappling…
> Monster: 2
> Idi: 6 successes.
> …Idi chooses Damage.
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Crunch.
Guts spill out from between the crushing tendrils. A
death-rattle escapes the monster -- it should have run when it
had the chance. Idirbheart slams the corpse around and as the
Death Rage wears out.
She comes to, Hishu, covered in black ichor and blood. Her
wounds have since healed. The moon is nearly set.
How long was she out for?
She rolls over, only to be greeted with those massive compound
eyes staring her in the face -- dead and lifeless and unnatural.
--- Quote ---
> Resolve + Composure: 2 successes
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She inhales sharply, scrambling back away from the beast.
Then she realizes it’s dead, and stops. She takes a moment to
collect herself, calming her nerves.
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Re: Hunter & Hunted
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 19, 2024, 4:52 pm
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Tell: Lavender Eyes
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Now that she’s of her right mind, it dawns on her that she can’t
just leave this thing out here to be discovered by the humans.
But she’s no expert on body disposal.
So there she is: dragging this monster’s carcass toward her
little moped’s parking space, and hoisting the body up onto the
back seat, when the sounds of laughing and chattering reach her
ears -- people are coming.
She looks down at the body. Then in the direction of the voices.
Then back down at the body.
Shit.
When the drunken, late-night partying punks come around the
corner and break the treeline heading for the parking lot, one
of them drops a bottle and screams.
Idi is nowhere to be seen.
~fin~
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