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Punching through the Masquerade (Modern Magical Cultivation Quest)

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We're contesting this with our Occult Defense, right?

EDIT: Wait, are you saying that he's immune to that damage, or is it more "He doesn't take wound penalties because he's an immaterial being?"
 
Alectai said:
So, 10d4, that's a lot of potential damage! (5 + Effective BB 5 = 10d4)

EDIT: 26 fucking damage, enough to kill us three times over just at the start of the week, yeesh.
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Yep. The 10d4 roll was actually about average, but that 5 means the actual damage is still way above average.

Useless Writer said:
Bonecrunching hit there, shame he lacks bones. The Blizzard spirit let's loose a Banishing scream targeting your supporting sylphs. rolling
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Not even spiritual bones? And do we need to defend there?
Useless Writer said:
Edit: Someone roll for your elemental spirits alone, your coterie of supporting spirits aid their kin, so roll 7d6 to defend
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Okay, that works. Should I roll that or does someone else want to or what?
 
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I mean, the Divination we did says that earth magic should work on him, if it turns out "He's axiomatically immune to physical damage", then... Uh, we're dead, because we don't have any fire or earth magic that doesn't deal Physical.

EDIT: @DeadmanwalkingXI , how about you take the first exchange as a whole?
 
Alectai said:
I mean, the Divination we did says that earth magic should work on him, if it turns out "He's axiomatically immune to physical damage", then... Uh, we're dead, because we don't have any fire or earth magic that doesn't deal Physical.

EDIT: @DeadmanwalkingXI , how about you take the first exchange as a whole?
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Oh no, sorry, pithy comment. You do full damage, it hurts the spirit.

Edit:You loose no supporting spirits, roll for your second attack
 
Useless Writer said:
Edit:You loose no supporting spirits, roll for your second attack
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Okay. Will do.

EDIT: That's extremely likely to hit, so I'll roll damage now. If it does miss, ignore the damage.
DeadmanwalkingXI threw 8 6-faced dice. Reason: Legbreakers Again Total: 29
2 2 6 6 5 5 1 1 6 6 6 6 2 2 1 1
DeadmanwalkingXI threw 1 6-faced dice. Reason: Number Of Gnome Legbreakers Total: 2
2 2
DeadmanwalkingXI threw 7 4-faced dice. Reason: Damage Total Total: 17
1 1 3 3 3 3 1 1 3 3 4 4 2 2
 
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I'll take the rolls for when we pivot to Fire if nobody else rolls in by then.

EDIT: Also, what is Emposua doing? Moving to Backstab Position?

SON OF EDIT: Goodness, he was not prepared for a strategy that was "It's just you, me, and my coterie of cute mascots, I hope you're not attached to your kneecaps"
 
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Alectai said:
SON OF EDIT: Goodness, he was not prepared for a strategy that was "It's just you, me, and my coterie of cute mascots, I hope you're not attached to your kneecaps"
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Given the high dice pool we have available for siccing Gnome Legbreakers on people, I think most people are not prepared for this particular tactic. Or at least not at this level of effectiveness. This guy is less prepared than usual, but I don't think it's a good time for anyone.
 
The impressive thing so far is that nothing we've done so far is out of the boundaries of a skilled mortal practitioner, especially since Skin of Stone isn't obvious given what we're wearing until he actually gets a shot off. Raises the threat level of the actual Experts by a lot. Even without getting into Cultivation-grade stuff.
 
Alectai said:
The impressive thing so far is that nothing we've done so far is out of the boundaries of a skilled mortal practitioner, especially since Skin of Stone isn't obvious given what we're wearing until he actually gets a shot off. Raises the threat level of the actual Experts by a lot. Even without getting into Cultivation-grade stuff.
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What we're doing is predicated on our high Black Bile, which is an aspect of our cultivation. Non-cultivator experts certainly can have Black Bile 5, but I suspect it's not very common among elementalists (an interdisciplinary practitioner combining something like Sundrop's movable stats with this spell would be a lot scarier, but that's being at least decently high end in multiple unrelated fields).

We're punching way harder than we should due to having gotten higher attributes via cultivation. Which is not to disagree per se, just to note that while real experts can match this, they need to be very well endowed statistically to do so.
 
Apologies, people were stomping on the ceiling expecting dinner. I swear I live with children.

Anyway...

Edit: Gods on high that's just sad. Especially since the Empousa is charging up for one more turn.
Useless Writer threw 5 6-faced dice. Reason: BS Occult defense Total: 9
1 1 5 5 1 1 1 1 1 1
 
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Useless Writer said:
Apologies, people were stomping on the ceiling expecting dinner. I swear I live with children.

Anyway...
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We're back! Yay! The fight Continues!

EDIT: Oh my god he's jobbing, the scary fucking blizzard ghost is jobbing. That's 43 damage on it so far and we haven't even broken out the Good Shit yet. 43 damage would bring us even after two Bronze Reforges to the very brink of death. We're now into the third exchange of the round! Where we either do our Sudden Surprise Flashbang or break his legs again!
 
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The Blizzard Spirit uses howling madness. Rolling attack

Edit: Alright folks, roll your occult defense.
Useless Writer threw 9 6-faced dice. Reason: Howling Madness Total: 26
4 4 2 2 4 4 2 2 5 5 1 1 6 6 1 1 1 1
 
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Oh, that's... Fairly dangerous, that's a lot of dice he threw and while it wasn't a fantastic roll, That's a lot of dice he rolled

Is this vs Camilla's Spiritual Defense?

EDIT: Just ran the numbers, we're... Likely to make that check, but it's not guaranteed by any means.
 
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Useless Writer said:
Edit: Alright folks, roll your occult defense.
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Does that include our Windwall? I'll start rolling without Windwall and add it if it applies.

EDIT: Decided to just roll it separately, adding it is easy enough. So we're good either way.
DeadmanwalkingXI threw 8 6-faced dice. Reason: Occult Defenses Total: 33
5 5 6 6 3 3 3 3 5 5 5 5 3 3 3 3
DeadmanwalkingXI threw 3 6-faced dice. Reason: Windwall Total: 10
1 1 3 3 6 6
 
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Does that include our Windwall? I'll start rolling without Windwall and add it if it applies.
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It's a spiritual attack vs Camilla, so it should apply. It was a low end of average roll (Just under all-3s), but 9 dice is still scary. I hope this was his best move and not an average one because this might still swing against us if he rolls well even once.
 
Camilla laughs off the maddening whispers. Impressive. The Blizzard spirit has not moved. So I believe you're firing off your third legbreaking?
 
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Camilla laughs off the maddening whispers. Impressive. The Blizzard spirit has not moved. So I believe you're firing off your third legbreaking?
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I GUESS!

If he doesn't ever close to close combat, can we just throw Blastburns when we run out of Favor instead of go into the Conditionals? I was expecting him to be rolling much bigger dice pools and this fight to be a lot more fraught, but given the damage he's sustained by now and the Empousa presumably making herself useful by that time, I'm not sure it'll even go that far, he's potentially looking at having taken up to 70+ damage by the time that's even an option if this stays an artillery duel.
 
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