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 Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 6:02 pm
Quote:  Survey Mission 6A
Location: Paris, France
Images:: x, x
General debriefing: There are some 185 miles of tunnels beneath Paris. Most are empty, some are occupied by ancient catacombs housing remains, and some have been repurposed by humans, both the wandering homeless and those engaging in (literally) underground activity.
Recent excursions by urban explorers and gossip among tight-knit homeless communities suggest strange activity in a private, closed-off area of the catacombs, including notably bizarre behavior among the thriving populations of resident rats and some rumored disappearances. Reports have grown frequent enough to warrant an investigation.
* C class difficulty level (must have a team of three, at least one of them must be an Intermediate Hunter. This is considered a DANGEROUS mission. ) MECHANICS * MECHANICS: RP assembling a team, as necessary, before heading towards the Lighthouse portal to request a portal to Survey Mission 6A. Once there, roll a 100-sided dice and match the roleplay to the results below, as well as any reactions. Players can continue rolling until any of the players roll a BOSS ENCOUNTER, in which case the BATTLE PHASE begins. See below for battle phase mechanics. 1- 20: You find a pile of blankets and a bag of worn belongings suggesting that you've stumbled on a vagrant's sleeping place. There is a large quantity of dried, reddish brown stains, including a clearly-marked but streaked footprint and handprint on the floor, that lead to the edge of one of the underground canals, then disappear. Many of the smaller spatters are clearly the tiny pawprints of rats. 21 - 30: A rat scuttles out of a crossing in front of you. Its shadow seems... strange, in ways that you cannot explain. Should you choose for some reason to pursue it, you will find that it evades you entirely, and that your flashlight beam seems strangely less effective at penetrating the darkness in the tunnels where the rat flees. 31 - 40: A long, long line of French graffiti in black ink stretches along this corridor at shoulder height. If your character can speak French, they will find that it starts out with the lyrics to a tune currently popular on French radio, before taking a turn for the bizarre in the middle with random words (often "légion") inserted incorrectly, and then disintegrating into complete gibberish and random strings of letters before stopping suddenly mid-tunnel. 41 - 60: A bag of dried fruit and stale bread lies in a corner alongside an abandoned backpack that turns out, if examined, to contain supplies for impromptu urban exploration, but no identification. The dust is studded with dozens and dozens of rats' pawprints, but the food is entirely untouched. 61 - 80: You enter an area with a high, vaulted ceiling, full of a strange squishing, echoing sound. Something falls to the ground in the beam of your flashlight. It is a maggot. Should you decide to point your beam upwards, you will find the ceiling completely crawling with the same, all apparently hellbent on reaching small cocoon-like objects, roughly the size of a softball, strung thickly across the ceiling. 81- 100: BOSS ENCOUNTER: - The sound of scrabbling paws is faint at first, but soon grows into a din punctuated with the chatter of many, many oversized teeth. The beast that manifests is a King Rat: a writhing mass of rodents joined by the tails, so that the teeth all face outwards. This is clearly a creature of FEAR, not of nature: each rat is substantially larger than the average dog, their beady eyes gleam bloodthirsty and manic, and the entire unit moves with a cohesiveness that suggests a hivemind at work. They (or it) fully block the tunnel ahead. - BOSS MECHANICS: This boss is a mob that has collective 100 HP. Every time you attack it (following the general battle rules), you TAKE 8 damage. Make sure to tally the boss's total HP (the damage you did to it) at the bottom of your post as well as your total HP and the damage you did that round. If the boss's HP hits 0, you have defeated it, and your team can now take the portal back. After Boss defeat:When the final rat is slain, all the carcasses melt away. They leave, however, a scrap of evidence for you to take back to the labs for further research. Roll 1d4 to determine what is dropped 1. A single, normal-sized rat skeleton, bound together with striped baker's twine and sealed with a Belgian postage stamp.
2. A plastic baggie containing cigarette butts and bottlecaps. Shift the contents a bit and you will find that in the center of the litter is what appears to be a dead baby rat, hairless and pink--and still fresh.
3. What appears to be a bit of fur but on closer examination turns out to be a dessicated rat head (normal sized). Someone or something has nailed a bit of yellow legal paper to it, but all that remains is a shred.
4. A bundle of freshly-severed, normal-seeming rats' tails, bound together with what looks like an elastic baby's headband of pink lace. * 2 mission reward points for completing this successfully
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 6:11 pm
Finally, after all this time, it was actually happening. After dreaming about it for years, after always keeping it in the back of her mind since her arrival at Deus simply because it proposed such an opportunity, this was happening. After watching movies, and reading books, and even playing a game or two on the subject, she was getting just what she wished for! Abbi was finally going to Paris! Her enthusiasm for the occasion might have gotten the better of her as she dressed in a wholly unmission-like manner, but felt it justified because it was Paris and because everyone in Paris was hella fancy. At least, that was exactly what she was planning on saying should anyone bring the matter up. But, despite her excessive glee over visiting one of her dream cities, she had the wherewithal to pack accordingly. The lavender bunny eared backpack that went on all her missions, recently dubbed The Bun of Healing by Abbi herself, was already packed and easy to grab. Which was perfect by her because it meant that she had gotten prepared in just the perfect amount of time to sashay her way to the Portal and bone up on her French. Of course, it wouldn't be Abbi if she didn't have just such a book for the occasion, and she waited by the Portal, her freckled nose between the pages of a French to English dictionary. She had tried to test some of her best Parisian accent on one of the techs, but as usual, they were having none of her shenanigans.
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 9:23 am
Paris, City of Lights, City of Love, a cultural epicenter of the world. Lex would have liked to do more inner city exploration, but unlike Abbi he had listened to more of the mission briefing. Urbane spelunking. There were plenty of legends surrounding the catacombs, and for good reason. Miles and miles of bones weren't especially comforting or the norm. Hiking boots and jeans were pulled out from the far planes of his dresser, a burgundy tee shirt and a light rain jacket. He gave Ami a "je t'aime" (the only French he knew, despite all the French she cursed in.) before leaving the house and making the long trek to the portal. "Princess." Lex smiled, grinning amusedly at her outfit. "Are you sure you want go crawling through a dank tunnel in something that pretty?"
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 6:45 pm
Leslie showed up both last and under-dressed, to no one's surprise. With a scowl on his face, he headed towards the one person he could tolerate in the world, choosing to ignore Lex's presence entirely. "You are going to get that dirty," he said, "I brought a poncho for you to wear once we get there because I knew you'd be fancy."
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 9:54 pm
Hold on. Stop the presses. Leslie, the brooding teenager, Leslie the chain smoker, Leslie the woe is me life sucks poster child, thought about someone other than himself? Even beyond that, he'd followed through on those thoughts?
Lex needed to sit down. He smiled amiably at the boy, shaking his head a little in disbelief. "Hello to you too, Leslie."
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:36 pm
First Abbi laughs because she is called a princess and finds the amount of people referring to her as that lately amusing, if for no other reason than it makes her feel a bit special. Secondly, she laughs again because oh that Lex, he was so silly. There wasn't dirt in Paris! At least not where they were going because they were going to Paris and sure maybe that'd find a park and-- Thirdly, "Wait a tunnel?" A look of mild concern, tinged with the optimism that he was simply funning her, clouds her features and it isn't until Leslie arrives that Abbi begins to get honestly frustrated.There isn't any reason they should both be patronizing her! She wasn't that clumsy, it wasn't like she was going to fall or something, so what was all their fussing about? "I'm not going to get dirty! We're going to Paris! Its nice in Paris and--" She stomps a foot and that somehow sends the necessary information to her brain, all the wind gone from her sails as she turns a truly hurt look at both men. "And I didn't read the mission details, I just saw Paris... We're going somewhere terrible, aren't we?"Truly, she wouldn't cry, but for now she looks awfully close.
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:41 pm
"Abbi ******** Killian," Leslie snipped, pinching her right at the hip with his bony little fingers, "read your stupid mission reports god damn, and we're going into catacombs, full of dead people. And, the last time I was here, mutant rat things." A blink and a brief pause. "Shut up, Lex."
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:34 pm
Lex had to wonder if Leslie couldn't be just an ounce nicer to Abbi, but this probably was Leslie's weird way of being the closest possible thing to nice that Leslie could be.
Children were weird. Lex was so glad he'd never been hit with the child bug - it sounded gross.
"Anything to note about said mutant rats, other than they're mutated rats?" Lex smiled, stepping closer to Abbi and placing a hand on her shoulder, because no she would not cry because if she cried Lex would go blank and useless. Well, more useless than usual.
"We can visit a cafe after this nastiness is over. It's not as though we have a time limit to complete the mission." He cooed at Abbi, giving her a little wink.
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 6:52 pm
For once Abbi didn't flinch when Leslie cussed at her, instead wincing when he pinched her, the girl quick to dance away from him and slap at his hands. At least she'd worn something a bit extravagant that had a few extra layers to protect from her friend's sharp physical reprimand. "I usually do! I just-- I just got excited! It was Paris! La Ville Lumière!" OK, Leslie wouldn't get that but she was still going to pout pointedly at him as she held out a hand for the poncho he'd promised. "And its Abigail. And Lutece." Hopefully he'd understand that she was giving him express rights to use her full, given name next time he wanted to get mad at her about something. It was a very special privilege that she really hadn't given anyone else. Sure Jack knew it too, but he'd taken that from her hospital file not from any form of spoken permission. The hand that touches her shoulder makes her swing around to bat watery big blue eyes up at Lex, a little tremble coming into her lower lip. "Promiiiiiiiiiise?" Big Brother Lex was definitely the one to butter up with sad puppy faces and Abbi was going to abuse that power all mission long. "Could we maybe go to one of those fancy ones that serve wine?" Maybe at some point she could coerce Leslie into giving a sad puppy face too? They'd definitely get to go to a cafe then!
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its me debz rolled 1 100-sided dice:
92
Total: 92 (1-100)
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Posted: Mon May 25, 2015 9:10 pm
Leslie gave Lex a withering stare, untrusting. She was too good for scumbags, present company included. "La villain lumi-what?" he asked, obediently digging out the poncho for her. New and in the package, of course. It was even pink. Not that he'd got it for her, or anything. Leslie gave her a peering stare. "You know mine already, right? King." Just in case, so they'd be on equal footing. "As soon as you get ready, let's go. There's a mission to do and I ******** hate sittin' around." It was accompanied, though, by a gentle squeeze to Abbi's upper arm. Lex just got a squinting glare of I'm watching you as he stepped through the portal. And then immediately swore. "GOD DAMNIT. Why do I always find the ******** boss, jesus ******** christ."
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 2 10-sided dice:
3, 8
Total: 11 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 10:44 am
"Abbi, it's Paris - all the cafe's serve wine." Lex smiled something sickly sweet, ruffling her curls in that accidentally patronizing way he always carried around. It wasn't as though he thought of himself as better than people younger - or even older - than him. At least, it wasn't a surface thought.
Zipping up the black raincoat and making sure his bandages were properly secured in his back pocket (he'd yet to get some sort of waist pack - they didn't jive with his look), Lex stepped through the portal after Leslie and immediately regretted it.
"Miller, shut up and attack it." Lex hissed, summoning Regal and firing a few shots of the disturbing mass of bodies and tails, trying his best to ignore the stench of feces and other equally disturbing smells.
The rounds of light hit their mark, sending undisclosed particles flying off the Rat King. Lex tried not to vomit.
Stats HP: 42/50 DMG: 5 CHG: 1/3 "BOSS HP: 95/100
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AyeAvast rolled 2 10-sided dice:
1, 5
Total: 6 (2-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 7:43 pm
The package was taken with a nod of thanks and ripped into, Abbi quickly untangling the poncho and delighting in the fact it was pink. She might not mention it, but inwardly she was all melty that Leslie would think so highly of her to have brought along one in such a girly color. It took a minute to shake the thing on properly and once she'd done that Abbi naturally had to flap around a little both for the fun of it and for the fun of the plasticy sounds it made.
"Oh Paris! Here we come!"
Aaaaand there was the boss.
Sure ok.
Though she summoned her weapon, Abbi had to take a moment to honestly appreciate the sight. It was awful.
"Wow... This is literally the worst thing I could have ever expected to find in Paris. I'm honestly impressed." Too impressed to bother attacking, though she does have to kick away one of the rats that had gotten close enough to bite her leg.
Stats HP: 42/50 Damage: -- Attack/ Defending Target: Rat King ew Boss HP: 95/100 Defended For: Charge: -/3
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its me debz rolled 2 10-sided dice:
3, 2
Total: 5 (2-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 8:14 pm
"******** you!" he snarled at Lex, not needing to be told twice. But two got underfoot and sent him tumbling onto the stone, head cracking with an ugly sound against the ******** <********>." Leslie pulled himself to his feet, dashing out of the way. "I could have ******** told you!" he muttered at Abbi, wincing as a creature struck her. There were three of them, this time, so he might not need to play Moon. They'd see. hp 42 dmg potato charge 0/3, CHL2, EY1 remain target: rat Boss HP: 95/100
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Carhop Cavalier rolled 2 10-sided dice:
5, 3
Total: 8 (2-20)
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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 8:27 pm
Lex winced at the crack Leslie's skull made, thankful at least that their shields prevented any sort of actual damage while up. Still, however, that couldn't have been good for the younger boy. He'd probably be disoriented; maybe even useless.
God, he hoped not.
More rounds were shot at the mass of rats before one sprang up and bit him on the shoulder, furious little teeth digging into the material of his jacket before being ripped off and thrown into a wall.
"This is disgusting.
Stats HP: 34/50 DMG: 2 CHG: 2/3 BOSS HP: 93/100
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AyeAvast rolled 1 8-sided dice:
8
Total: 8 (1-8)
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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 9:01 pm
A little noise of concern left Abbi when Leslie fell and she was upon him a second later, swinging at the creatures who intended to further gnaw on him.
"Paradigm Shift!" She shouted in way of acknowledging that she was switching to defense rather than attack. At least Lex would understand since she'd gone on and on about it during their last mission.
Standing guard on Leslie, Abbi grinned back at him.
"Thanks for the poncho B-T-W! This thing is nasty." As for Lex, she swung toward him and also gave him a grin.
"Its only a giant probably Halloween rat! Its not like its a real rat full of real diseases!" There! She looked on the bright side for you!
Stats HP: 42/50 Damage: -- Attack/ Defending Target: Leslie Boss HP: 93/100 Defended For: 8 Charge: -/3
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