andres ♔ a tiger's waiting to be tamed

[nosdacariad]

♬ clocks - coldplay

WHO || Prince Marcus Andres, Jeanne Gar, Myrilandel de Tanos, Finnick Odair, Spike, Buffy Summers, Sterling Archer, Desmond Descant, Dimitris Sarandis, Lara Tamon, Michael Collins, Dana Green
WHAT || The lost Prince of Andres leads a team of Knights in a coup against Dimitris Sarandis, to reclaim his throne
WHERE || Andres Isle
WHEN || September 19th, 2014
HOW || Actionspam

[ It seems that Wynn was hoping for Sir Mark Sandazhard to reveal his true identity, and to lead the charge against Dimitris Sarandis' tyrannical hold over the island he was born to rule.   He was not disappointed, and Prince Marcus Andres stands poised to lead the group of Knights who he's worked beside for two years, to confront Sarandis, save their friend Kat, and search the castle dungeon for the captive Dragon's Claw, Sir Thomas Bancroft.    

Before they attempt to answer the castle, however, it's time to reunite the Prince with his childhood friends on the Isle, who had long held out hope that he was still alive, including his once-betrothed, Countess Lara Tamon.  Their first task will be to convince Lara to make a risky attempt to draw Kat out of the castle.  

The fate of their captured allies, and the future of Andres Isle, lie in their hands.  ]

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[nothingsodivine]

[des makes a panicked face and looks around frantically.] We just need to get to the door.

[he fires off a shot at the silver golem (atk 22- ping) and then another at the bronze (atk 35, dmg 11). And then heroic surge so he can run to the side hoping to lure them away from the door.] Hey, you oversized teakettles, I think I saw your mom in the half-price bin at Target.

[bigbad]

[Is he kidding...]

You're MORTAL now, you stupid git! [Spike slams his fists into the closest one too, only barely pausing to look at Myri. He can't do anything for her. All he can do is kill her enemies and hope someone thought to bring a healing potion. (Atk 21 AP says 32 dmg 12, atk 26, dmg 12).]

[witchwoman]

[Myri stirs, awoken by true love's kiss Finnick's romantic first aid. She reaches for his hand, but finds herself too weak to stand.]

Golems. [She says, realizing just what they're dealing with because arcane lore check 20 total says so.] Iron golems. They're magical creations that follow orders. [Seems pretty obvious that it's orders are probably just "kill anyone who comes through this way."] I think my spell might have made them stronger. I'm so sorry.

[That's a lot of free action talking but if she can, she's gonna use Cure Moderate Wounds on herself and get back 22 HP.]

[nosdacariad]

[ des' shot actually cuts a dent in bronze's side... but doesn't seem to do any actual damage. the same can be said for spike's fists. it hurts to smack those things, and they're completely resilient to his attacks.

mark hesitates, looking between des and spike. it's the sight of myri on the ground, the golem ready to take another swing at her that causes him to charge up at the bronze golem on the other side of her and strike it with excalibur again, hoping to keep its interest off her. with a whole 14, he doesn't put a lot of strength behind his swing tho. ]

[nothingsodivine]

Think about it. Dimitris knows us- he knows how we operate. He knows we'll never stop beating up anything he throws at us. We can't solve this by punching it. [He laughs, a little breathlessly.] We need to do the last thing he expects us to do- use our heads. If Buffy, Spike, and I can hold their attention, the rest of you can get to the door. Unless someone has a smarter idea than that.

[65]

[finnick was so busy tending to myri he didn't cover his mouth again oh no . :( Fort save 17]

[rationalizes]

Just try to stay out of reach of those things! [ gar ain't kiddin around ok.

bronze goes to smash myri and finnick, and archer jumps in the way as one fist comes down towards the cleric (atk ... crit fail????), confusing the golem so much, that he turns his head in one direction to look at des, another to look at archer flying in his path, tries to change the direction of his swing --

and basically causes himself to fall over like an unbalanced garbage can. timberrrrrrrrrr. his body falls prone with a tremenous CLANG between mark and myri and he loses his next attack. ]

[slay]

[ Succeeding her massive damage fort save (27), and her poison gas fort save (25), Buffy is in pretty good shape for someone who just took forty damage jesus christ. ]

I think you mean if Buffy and Spike can hold their attention. You worry about getting everybody to that door. I'll—

[ She moves out of the way of bronze while he's toppling focusing on luring the other one. Moving closer to it instead, she abandons the overheated golem she'd hit before and takes a swing at the other one. ]

Hey! Big and ugly!

[ atk 26, dmg 27. ]

[rationalizes]

[ buffy's axe clangs uselessly off the golem, which fixes its attention down on her, as planned. but that also involves... two more slams from its fists coming her way (atk 44, dmg 40 and atk 35, dmg 28). it seems unconcerned by the other golem's fall - not even cutting it a second glance. ] Buffy...

[isisagent]

[Amazing Fort of 7. Con drops to 9, HP drops another 8.]

I have the worst hangover all of a sudden... Alright, but I have an idea.

[He begins heading towards the doors cautiously, doing a full withdraw to avoid AoO's - but taking time to shout at the robots;]

Hey! What ever happened to the first law of robotics? "A robot may not injure a human being"

[rationalizes]

[ gar clearly looks displeased at the idea of not rushing to help her friends, but she actually listens to des' plan too and starts creeping around the outskirts of the cavern, after archer.

the poison finally clears in the air, at least?? until it... does it again. or the other one does it. BUT FOR NOW. ]

[nothingsodivine]

[Yeah, no. After watching Buffy get her ass pummeled, he heads her way, taking her by the shoulder and all but yanking her out of the way (str 18)... which she can easily oppose, but he's hoping she won't.]

Abso-fucking-lutely not. Change of plan- you go with them. They need you. And you need to get out of here before you get massacred. Remember what I said on the plane, Buffy? This isn't Sunnydale. And you still have a lot more to accomplish before you die. You're gonna see this fight through to the end, and you are not gonna fail, Buffy Summers. If you never listen to anything else I say ever again- if you never believe anything else I say, then listen to that. Believe that. [He squeezes her shoulders.] I'll be fine.

[He gives her a shove and steps backwards, fully expecting to take the next hit from the silver golem.]

Now move everyone. [Except Spike. Spike can continue punching things until everyone else is through. Sorry Spike but you have like a million HP and damage reduction. You're gonna be okay for a hot minute.]

[bigbad]

[Yeah, Spike's actually pretty okay with this plan. Punching them didn't seem all that helpful, so he'll try another method this time.]

GO!

[And he's gonna.... try and grapple the robot that's still standing. Yep. This is happening. Don't worry, he won't try and bite it, at least, he's not that dumb. (atk 33, dmg 15, grapple check 24 ACTION POINT 33, dmg 15 if that works, no attack of opportunities provoked thanks to improved grapple.)]

[rationalizes]

[ spike's melee attack actually connects, but again, without doing any damage to the golem. however, he is thwarted by the fact that it's really difficult to grapple a) large creatures b) creatures with high bab and c) creatures with high strength scores.

when something is all three, well...

opposed grapple check of 48, which means the thing easily wrests out of his grip like it's nothing. ]

[witchwoman]

[BASICALLY IM USELESS RIGHT NOW??? All Myri can do to hopefully be able to heal people later is make a full retreat. Sorry, bros. So here she goes. Running away to the other side with the doors.]

[nosdacariad]

[ mark does a full retreat as well, coming at the doors from the other side round as archer, gar, and myri approach the other way. ] How are we gonna get these open?!

[65]

[here's finnick retreating with his boo.] Force?

[rationalizes]

They look like they're electronically sealed. [ gar notes a panel close to the huge metal doors.

as a free action, the bronze golem releases another cube of that poison gas. des, buffy, and spike are the only ones who have to save vs it. DC is 19 - otherwise Con loss is 3 this time. while it does that, it slowly clanks its way back up to its feet. since everyone else is on silver, he can do that without provoking an AoO but it will take his whole turn. ]

[slay]

[ Nice try, Des, but str 25 wins. She will let him shove her five feet over to where she now flanks silver with Spike, but then she's shouldering free and (fort 27) soldiering through the poison gas to take a series of aggressive swings at the thing.

Which is a terrible plan, for the record, when one is down to 40 hp. But here she is.

It's not that she wants to die, or expects this is how she has to die, or any of that. But Des' motivational speech has the opposite intended effect—she is going to see this through the end and she is not going to fail and her mission is to protect her friends.

As long as Mark gets through those doors, they'll have been successful. She just has to make sure he gets there alive. The others are gone, and she's not going to convince Des, so she just starts swinging at silver.

(Atk 28 action point says 37, 32, 24. Dmg 23, 27, 21). ]

Well, unseal it!

[ They can only run distraction for so long here ok. And what the hell, second heroic surge for an extra attack (atk 30, dmg 21). No time like the present. ]

[nosdacariad]

We usually have Kat for hacking stuff!

[ the silver golem fixes its attention on des and buffy, and brings down one fist on the Slayer's head (atk 35; dmg 29), and another towards des (atk 37; dmg 30) ]

[isisagent]

[Archer runs up to the door, and eyes the panel.]

Yeah well, it's too bad she's not here to crash a car into these guys, too.

[He fires up his Omicron Spymaster's laser, in case he needs it - but for now he'll just mash buttons - Computer use +2! 9... Action point, please 20?god I rolled a 9 again. Fuck you action point. Computer Use 11.]

Hmm... Password doesn't work.

[rationalizes]

Move over. [ gar budges him out of the way and her fingers start flying over the keys, but each attempt is met with the same error message and she looks increasingly panicked (computer use 22) ] Come along, come along...

[ but then with an amazing action point donated by tifa... (computer use 30) the computer flashes green and the doors start to slide open. ] Yes!

[nothingsodivine]

[des looks aggrieved by buffy's refusal to run but there's nothing he can do to convince her, so he backs up out of the golem's reach and begins to.high-tail it to the door, battered but still standing because wow these things haven't even hit massive damage on him yet.] RUN!

[bigbad]

[Spike's gonna be the last to run, sorry Buffy, maybe when you have more hit points again he'll be okay with not being last out those doors. And he's still just not inhaling (fort 30).]

Go on! I'm right behind you!

[And he slams his fists into the golem again, or possibly, vaguely past it (atk 24, atk 17).]

[witchwoman]

[While Gar is channeling her inner Kat (crying about it), Myri focuses on trying to do her part to keep her teammates alive. USING THAT MASS CURE LIGHT WOUNDS SPELL NOW. 17 HP for everyone but Spike. She glances over towards the doors but she's sure as hell not going to be the first one through. Are you high? We have no idea what's in there.]