[OOC] Vampire: The Masquerade - The Restless City

cj iwakura

If he gets close, Deke's getting hurt, so I'd say he would go for it immediately. Those claws deal agg.

We can say he was close enough for Bobby to intercept.

Maclay

If their are no objections I'll try for the stealthy gun to the back of the head thing I mentioned earlier on Shotgun Guy. Might give us one more chance at salvaging this.

AustinP0027

Geth, roll 1d10+5 for Initiative

Initiative:

1d10+5 10 [1d10=5]

Fencingsax

Can I add my presence to intimidate them as well?

cj iwakura

You can, but he isn't aware of your presence, so it isn't likely to have much effect towards deescalation.

Boozer

I'm assuming Rodrick will either try to break free or claw me on his action. But he could try any of those grapple maneuvers against me.

If he tries to break free ( or any other manuever ) it will be rodricks str + brawl + potence - (my str + potence = 7 ). He needs three successes to break free because I had two successes to grapple. Other maneuvers take one success.

If he tries to claw me he adds an extra die to the roll, but subtracts two for my armor (leather plus kevlar), successes are points of agg damage.

So my plan is to immoballize Rodrick on my next action. If he doesn't break free I can roll my str + brawl + potence - ( rodricks str + potence). If I get one success he is immobalized and can only attempt to break free on his next action. I can't do anything but keep him immobilized, but at least he can't claw me (again), and will keep losing willpower. If he breaks free I can re-grapple. So if I keep up Celerity I can keep him immobalized but I may have to eat some claw. But if he has one or more dots of Celerity this plan is fucked, he can keep clawing me.

cj iwakura

He does not break away.
As I doubted Max's action would affect the outcome, I wrote around it, but I can revise if necessary.

(For new page, though I doubt it's necessary for much longer.)
Bobby - 16
Danny -14
Max - 12
Alex - 10
Colin - 10
Rodrick - 7
Deke - 7

Boozer

Not that it matters in this case, but it doesn't look like throwing is one of the allowed manuevers when in a grapple. Which makes sense, it would negate the need to break out of the grapple first. To throw you would need to break out of the grapple first. But I'm having trouble finding rhe roll for a throwing an active combatant, so who knows.

I'll roll my immobilize after Deke goes. As long as he doesn't attack we should be able to keep draining willpower.

I gotta up my performance skill, awe is better than I realized for keeping guys talking.

cj iwakura

I don't see any specific rules for it in NWoD, so I assume it's just a general Strength+Brawl challenge. It was meant more to throw off the grapple than literally throw him, anyway.

Boozer

In that case thats the break out of the grapple move, which makes sense, and you had the right dice pool.

Yeah not sure why there's no throw, not even in the fighting merits.

Powerpuppies

The fighting worked out perfectly to back up the bluster that these two are completely outclassed by you guys. Really cool scene.

Boozer

What's Rodrick's str + potence? Need to know that for my next action.

cj iwakura

Six, four Strength and two Potence.

cj iwakura

It remains Deacon's move, unless he's not taking an action since he's not in any immediate danger. @Ardent

We can say that Alex will arrive during turn 2 as well. @AustinP0027

Ardent

Yeah, sorry, Deacon's maintaining Awe for Colin's purposes.

cj iwakura

Then we're at turn 2, and for all intents and purposes, Rodrick is at Bobby's disposal.

cj iwakura

@Grunt's Ghosts
At around the time they resolve this conflict, Lizzy will have a visitor at her office. A stern, brief series of knocks.

Presumably any other staff are gone by that hour.

AustinP0027

Is combat officially done?

Need to figure out how Alex is getting back there (backstory-wise) with the Van.

Also. We did it! We didn't kill anyone this time. Go team!

cj iwakura

Yes, combat is over. Also, the Nos are leaving unless anyone intervenes.

Grunt's Ghosts

Sybil isn't the rebel I thought she'd be... that bummed me out.

cj iwakura

She's a Ventrue. Gotta play the long game.

Doesn't mean she can't be persuaded.

cj iwakura

If it's a shared task, the group can pool their dice for the roll, I believe.

Maclay

I can do it in a few hours, but if someone else would like to take point, just bear in mind that a full wipe down might lead to more suspicion than doing nothing at all.

AustinP0027

We'd be heading to Elysium right?

Last we knew, we told Lizzy to wait for us there.

cj iwakura

That was my assumption, but it also sounded like the crew wanted to pick her up first.

AustinP0027

Let's talk this out here then.

I can be convinced, but at the moment we weren't aware that Lizzy was meeting anyone. I'm not sure if she'd be able to make it to the Elysium by the time we would or not, but I do think it's probably a good idea to swing back there no matter what, see what we can kick up (maybe yell at Emmett some and tell him to get his clan in order).

Just trying to avoid too much meta on this one, since we the players know that Lizzy was having a secret meeting, but the characters don't know that yet.

Ardent

Are we still under the impression Lizzy might be shooting her mouth off earning us all a final death? If so, I'd say Elysium is the obvious destination.

Boozer

In the interest of getting things moving and getting us all together, I would say that while we are driving towards Elysium now, it wouldn't be too meta or hard to believe that Bulldog or someone else asked Danny to confirm with Liz that she's at Elysium when we head over there, or that Danny confirmed of his own initiative. Enough time has passed, murphy's law, etc.

We can leave it up to @Grunt's Ghosts to decide if Liz answers honestly and/or asks for a pickup, tells us to f off, tries to beat us back to Elysium, etc.

I'm not as sure what else we should do while we're at Elysium. I know during the negotiations with the Nosferatu we mentioned not telling Julia, Calebros and Deke. But they seemed to not care about telling Calebros at least, and then of course Rodrick decided to snap. So who knows where that leaves our agreement. Personally my feeling is to not advertise the encounter and leave them both as indebted to Deke, but I'm open to other options.

Maclay

Yeah I'll go along with whatever Grunt's wants to do.

Grunt's Ghosts

Lizzy will say she's at her office, but only after Sybil has left and not be seen.

cj iwakura

The group should be able to reach her before reaching Elysium in that case, but she'll be alone by that point. It sounds like the plan is to meet at her office, then?

Grunt's Ghosts

He thinks my office is bad? Bitch, you live in a sewer!

Ardent

Deke isn't using Awe, and I'm not sure what the best ability fit here. So I'm just going to roll Charisma + 1 + Presence.

Geth, roll 5d10o10h8 for negotiations.

negotiations:

5d10o10h8 2 [5d10o10h8=5, 4, 7, 8, [10, 4]]

cj iwakura

Etiquette would probably be most viable, but it's a success anyway.

Grunt's Ghosts

Lizzy is adding Emmett to the "Punch in the face" list, next to Bulldog. Seriously, compared to Miser, she's not that hard to follow.

cj iwakura

Of course, maybe he's just being a jerk.

cj iwakura

Is anyone escorting Emmett to the van or will he just help himself? (I don't think anyone wants that.)

Boozer

Bulldog will at least, but I assumed most or all of us are going. I also think we should give him half the Nos share now, half when the produce info on Kenneth.

Maclay

I think we're pinning a lot on the nos having or being able to obtain that info. Might be we just have to settle for getting in their good graces, if that ends up being the direction we're leaning.

Boozer

Yeah, I wasn't thinking we leave all the investigating up to them, more giving them an incentive to investigate at all.

But he agreed to it (after a lot of cajoling) maybe that's enough. If he wanted to bullshit us he could've just agreed and be done with it.