Lex didn't want to hurt Sid, though she seemed hell bent on hurting them. It wasn't like he could punch her, not with her flailing about. He didn't want to hurt any of his partners in this hunt...
He skid slightly in the mud and paused... Mud, bird, maybe if they got her dirty enough, she couldn't fly. He reached down, scooping up mud and lobbed it at Sid, Rob, and Zan.
"Sorry!" Sort of. They were all filthy, what was a bit more if it distracted Sid from attacking Zan.
HP: 50 Weapon: Brass knuckles, base 4 + 1 to hit roll Damage: 2 Sid: 43
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Character Name:Lex/Sasha Tavei Brief description of character: Impulsive to the bone and flamboyant, Lex is a ball of energy, making rash decisions and depending on his/their luck to carry him/them out of trouble.
Practically as soon as he saw the blade stick, Zan was moving toward the tree, heedless of the danger in getting too close. Not only did he need his weapon in the bayou more than he had in any other place he'd been, he could only imagine what would be done to him were he to fail to bring it back to the Prytaneum. Drawn and quartered. Hung naked in a cage surrounded by hungry vultures. Gods exacted those sorts of punishments, right?
He had only just touched his fingers to the trunk when a gob of cool mud slapped against the back of his shirt and slid down to land near his feet with a plop. That would have been a good idea, had Lex had better aim. Breaking out of the distraction, Zan looked up with the intent to climb, only to see Sid shift into a dive. Hastily abandoning his plans, Zan threw his arms over his head once more and ducked, flailing at her as her beak and claws made contact with his forearms.
"Sid. Sid! Not the face!" He laughed at his own joke, but there was plenty of panic in the sound. It really wasn't as much of a joke at this point as he might have liked.
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Character Name:Zan Gethin Brief description of character: Friendly, perceptive, phony. Zan has wholeheartedly embraced the more mundane aspects of his new life at the Prytaneum—such as regular meals, his stipend, and the gym—but his inability to stick with any one thing for long has left him struggling to pin down how he might best serve his god long term.
Deity: Hermes Weapon: Dagger HP: 50 Minicert:
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Her target made it easy for her, coming to the tree and into attack range. She beat him soundly before his partner came to his rescue and then suddenly there were hands everywhere. Hands trying to grab hold of her and beating against her wings.
Feather bits floated down as she thrashed about with an indignant squawk and her attentions turned to this new assailant, furious intent plain. Then came the mud, fouling her feathers and making it that much harder to stay aloft. She shrieked as she struck out with her talons, her wings buffeting the air around her to stir it up into a tiny windstorm.
Sid attacks Rob for 12 damage
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Character Name:Sidney James Brief description of character: Reluctant Chosen of Apollo, Sid is more interested in partying and making music than being a warrior. Upbeat and bright most of the time, she's also a bit selfish and unlikely to go out of her way for people she doesn't know.
Currently wearing the form of a bright red/blue/yellow Macaw.
Deity: Apollo Weapon: Bow (6 base damage) HP:47 50 - 5 - 2 - 2 = 41 Minicert:
Rob had no idea how to deal with birds, much less birds the size of a macaw. Grabbing at Sid was clearly the wrong way to go about trying to subdue her, as she suddenly turned on him and once more began to scratch and bite at his face, screeching loudly the whole time. But it was the only way he could think of -- if he could just get her in his arms, confined and close, let her smell him and hear his voice, he was sure he'd get through to her.
The mud that Lex threw at the three of them actually helped -- it kept her from flying off. "Sid, Sid," Rob said as soothingly as he could while wrestling an angry parrot who was trying to rip his face off. "Come on, Sid, I know you're in there somewhere…"
Rob takes 12 damage and fails to subdue Sid for 0 HP
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Character Name:Robin Attewood Brief description of character: Rob is a dreadlocked punk who's secretly a Boy Scout, a grump with a heart of gold. Pugnacious, fiercely independent and "on" all the time, he loves wine, women and song and is the biggest beer snob on the planet.
"I don't really have the best aim," Lex admitted as he worked on scooping up more mud, patting it down slightly to attempt to keep it in the shape he wanted. Mud was a lot more difficult to shape then snow.
He frowned, taking aim the best he could and lobbed it at Sid, trying to knock her away from Rob and get her filthy, making sure she couldn't take off and fly. "Really, Sid. What the heck are you doing. It not like you can forget someone with massive dreads." And perhaps calling her attention to who she was attacking might help.
HP: 50 Weapon: Brass knuckles, base 4 + 1 to hit roll Damage: 4 Sid: 41 -37
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In a flash of color Sid moved on, giving Zan an opportunity to reach for her as she went, fingers barely grazing her tail. At least she wasn't hindering his progress toward his dagger anymore. He began climbing without interruption, surprised that it came relatively easily to him.
Zan made it to the first fork in the thick trunk before he paused to glance at the others, wincing at the damage the bird was doing to Rob.
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Character Name:Zan Gethin Brief description of character: Friendly, perceptive, phony. Zan has wholeheartedly embraced the more mundane aspects of his new life at the Prytaneum—such as regular meals, his stipend, and the gym—but his inability to stick with any one thing for long has left him struggling to pin down how he might best serve his god long term.
Deity: Hermes Weapon: Dagger HP: 50 Minicert:
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Someday, it would be amusing to look back at this moment, at two Chosen struggling to deal with a single bird a quarter their size while a third threw mud at them. Sid might have laughed now, if she hadn’t been scared out of her mind.
None of these men were familiar or recognizable, not with faces that were too big and too close, and with hands that kept trying to pin her down, no doubt to kill her in the process. Its what her instincts screamed at her, so she fought with every ounce of strength in her little body, her tiny heart beating like mad.
One of her attackers managed to break away, but his loss was hardly noticed as thrown mud caked her bright feathers, making a mess of everything.
Sid attacks Rob for 6 damage
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Character Name:Sidney James Brief description of character: Reluctant Chosen of Apollo, Sid is more interested in partying and making music than being a warrior. Upbeat and bright most of the time, she's also a bit selfish and unlikely to go out of her way for people she doesn't know.
Currently wearing the form of a bright red/blue/yellow Macaw.
Deity: Apollo Weapon: Bow (6 base damage) HP:47 41 - 4 - 2 = 35 Minicert:
"Sid, Sid, listen." Rob kept trying to talk to her in a calm, soothing manner even as he was getting clawed and bitten and battered by wings. Despite the protection of the gods, he felt sure he was going to walk away from this episode with at least one scar on his face. "I know you're in there, you have to listen to me. I won't hurt you! That's the last thing I want to do. Please, Sid, hear me…"
It seemed as though his words weren't getting through to her, though, as they were both pelted with more mud and Sid-bird was becoming increasingly agitated. So he did the only thing he could under the circumstances: he released her. "Fine. Be that way. You always were stubborn."
Rob takes 6 damage and fails to subdue Sid for 0 HP
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Character Name:Robin Attewood Brief description of character: Rob is a dreadlocked punk who's secretly a Boy Scout, a grump with a heart of gold. Pugnacious, fiercely independent and "on" all the time, he loves wine, women and song and is the biggest beer snob on the planet.
Did Lex have a weapon that would allow him to get anywhere close to Sid without taking a beak to his face... or claws? No, no he didn't. Did they have plenty of mud. Yes, yes they did.
"Firing away! Duck, or something." Though it seemed he was getting Zan and Rob more then he was getting Sid. But she was starting to falter a bit. "We are going to be so filthy."
HP: 50 Weapon: Brass knuckles, base 4 + 1 to hit roll Damage: 4 Sid: 35-4 = 31
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Character Name:Lex/Sasha Tavei Brief description of character: Impulsive to the bone and flamboyant, Lex is a ball of energy, making rash decisions and depending on his/their luck to carry him/them out of trouble.
Something loud was going on. Sylvia had been wandering in the woods for a while, and she’d heard some calls, but it sounded like several people all from the same area, so she thought that perhaps it was the frenzied close of some battle. But when she was still hearing yells and various strange noises quite a while later, she decided to head towards the noises. She at least wanted to see what all the fuss was about, and if perhaps she could help.
What she saw when she finally found the source of strife was… well, impressive. There was a very pretty macaw freaking out above a gathering of Chosen: she recognized Rob, who was hanging onto the bird and fighting her to come down to them, and another – Zan! – who was climbing a tree to retrieve something, but the last was new, and… throwing mud at the bird? Well, they were certainly trying to subdue the macaw, but it seemed hell-bent on ripping the dreadlocked man hanging onto her to shreds.
He finally let her go, and mud flew through the air to discolor some of the bird’s feathers. Sylvia squinted – a macaw could fly, so it would take some work to get to it with her shield, but she could certainly try. She hurried out from where she’d been watching and tried to lift her shield to clip the bird, but apparently her aim had been off or she hadn’t quite been ready to lift the shield, or maybe the macaw had just flown out of range before she got there. In any case, she definitely missed, and continued running to the other side of the clearing before turning back to everyone.
“Hello! Sorry to intrude, but it uh… sounded like you might need some help.” Not that she’d helped. But at least she tried. She offered a sheepish smile.
Character Name:Sylvia Owens Brief description of character: Sweet, optimistic, always trying to be helpful – even if it means bluntly telling you how stupid you’re being. Remains tentative about her new life as a Chosen, having never been a fighter…
Deity: Aphrodite Minicert: [none yet]
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Zan frowned as he felt a smaller spatter of mud land in his hair, but his concentration was pretty well focused on his dagger, so it wasn't until he had it in hand and was most of the way back down the tree that he turned his sour but fading expression on Lex. Luckily, it was just in time for him to be distracted by Sylvia. He smiled, sweeping a loose strand of hair behind his ear and leaving a streak of mud across his cheek.
"We're trying to catch Rob's friend Sid," he replied. "She's not making it easy though."
Still brandishing his newly reacquired knife, which was probably a bad idea, Zan approached the chaos and the terrified bird at its center. "Yeah, stop scratching Rob up, Sid. He's trying to help."
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Character Name:Zan Gethin Brief description of character: Friendly, perceptive, phony. Zan has wholeheartedly embraced the more mundane aspects of his new life at the Prytaneum—such as regular meals, his stipend, and the gym—but his inability to stick with any one thing for long has left him struggling to pin down how he might best serve his god long term.
Deity: Hermes Weapon: Dagger HP: 50 Minicert:
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 9:20 am
The red macaw squawked as she was released, floundering under mud and the pelting she was receiving from the other chosen. There was another of them now, but there was something familiar about them… something she couldn’t place. The panic drowned it out, but she kept catching that nagging little feeling that said she really should be paying mind to something she couldn’t recall.
Darting out of the way of a shield, Sidney turned on the one who had reclaimed his knife. That feeling was still nagging though, and her strikes faltered for a moment in confusion.
Sid attacks Zan for 3 damage
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Character Name:Sidney James Brief description of character: Reluctant Chosen of Apollo, Sid is more interested in partying and making music than being a warrior. Upbeat and bright most of the time, she's also a bit selfish and unlikely to go out of her way for people she doesn't know.
Currently wearing the form of a bright red/blue/yellow Macaw.
Deity: Apollo Weapon: Bow (6 base damage) HP:47 35 - 4 - 4 = 27 Minicert:
Rob expected Sid to come at him again, or fly off deeper into the swamp. Instead, she attacked Zan, with considerably less fury than she had been going after him. Was she finally coming to her senses? It was a faint hope, but a hope nonetheless.
Wiping some mud off his face, he nodded at Sylvia. "We need all the help we can get. Just don't hurt her." He figured a shield, even a big one, wouldn't do too much damage to the parrot who was his friend. Turning to Zan, he attempted to shove Sid off the Hermes Chosen, raising an arm to prevent her from flying at his face again. "Sid, it's Rob. Come on, you know me. Don't do that to Zan -- he's right, we're just trying to help you. Don't you want to be you again?"
Character Name:Robin Attewood Brief description of character: Rob is a dreadlocked punk who's secretly a Boy Scout, a grump with a heart of gold. Pugnacious, fiercely independent and "on" all the time, he loves wine, women and song and is the biggest beer snob on the planet.
Deity: Dionysus Weapon: Greatsword HP: 50
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"Least she is starting to slow down," Lex called, and looked about for more mud to toss at the flapping Macaw. He didn't want to hurt her, so mud it was. "Come on Sid, stop attacking everyone, we don't want to hurt you," he called and gathered enough to lob at the bird.
"And I owe you a bath, Sid bird, when this is all over and done with."
HP: 50 Weapon: Brass knuckles, base 4 + 1 to hit roll Damage: 2 Sid: 22-2=20
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Sylvia smiled at Zan – the smear of mud across his cheek was kinda cute. She was sure they would all be covered in mud at the end of this, if that was the weapon of choice; Zan had retrieved his knife, but was not using it. Which the macaw still didn’t seem to appreciate (or perhaps she didn’t appreciate his comments), as she darted at him next.
Rob wiped some mud from his face as well, and Sylvia smirked at the smear left behind. She squinted at him at his comment, though – don’t hurt her? Not that she had wanted to hurt Tom, but she had to admit that knocking him on his head had seemed to help. “Well…” She figured she sort of had to agree, as this was a fight she’d rather stumbled into, though she wasn’t entirely willing to cut off their options so she offered what she could, “I’ll do my best!” She glanced at her shield – it was, admittedly, not the best weapon for a flying opponent. She wasn’t sure that even if she landed a hit on the bird that she would be balanced enough or direct enough to make it count. Unfortunately, she didn’t really know Sid, and she wasn’t sure what help she would be if she couldn’t hit anything (even if she did suck at even hitting half the time).
The blonde she didn’t recognize was slinging more mud, and Sylvia wondered if she shouldn’t follow his lead. She chuckled at his comment to the bird. Sea-green eyes searched the ground as she sighed, and she found a stick she might be able to throw without causing too much pain. Well, that was a start, if she couldn’t use her shield… And so, readied herself and threw the stick! Unfortunately, she wasn’t very good at throwing things, and sticks could be a bit unwieldy in their shape, and it entirely missed Sid. Well. A lot of help she was offering after all.
Character Name:Sylvia Owens Brief description of character: Sweet, optimistic, always trying to be helpful – even if it means bluntly telling you how stupid you’re being. Remains tentative about her new life as a Chosen, having never been a fighter…
Her target made it easy for her, coming to the tree and into attack range. She beat him soundly before his partner came to his rescue and then suddenly there were hands everywhere. Hands trying to grab hold of her and beating against her wings. 
