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Ravana Quest [Exalted/Aberrant]

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Roll 20d10+2 autosuccesses: Aimed Attack. Stunt it.

Chandra grit his teeth against the sting of the first cut. Letting her get first blood was annoying enough, but losing the momentum in a fight this short was not good. Time to get the upper hand. He let his conscious mind clear, watching every part of her body at once without looking at any one place, wait for an openNOW!

0.25 second opening as she tenses her right elbow to prepare to attack. Dropping the point of your sword under her arm and advancing will allow an opportunity for a double attack.

Chandra lunged, his sword dipping just far enough to slide the point below her guard, faster than she could react, and jabbed the tip of his blade against her chest, scoring a small splash of blood. He tried to continue the attack inside her guard, but Varahi moved this time, the sword snapping inside to bat his away hard enough to make his hand sting from the vibration.

Roll 15d10+2 autosuccesses 3 times: You've been blinded with magic, attack anyways!. Stunt it.

He could here her rapidly muttering some charm under her breath, but was still surprised when her left hand came off the hilt to quickly shape some mudra he didn't recognize. Suddenly there was a bright flash from her hand, right where he'd been watching. He couldn't see. He couldn't see! Crap!

Last positioning of her feet and legs indicate she will attempt to follow up with an attack low and to your left. Counterstrike forward and slightly to the right to break her attack and score another point.

Chandra could still hear near-talons on her feet scrape against the floor as her lunge began. He could feel the rush of the air parting as her sword licked forward like a striking snake. But there was a fraction of a second where she was full committed to the attack but was still not in it, and that was all the opening Chandra needed. His sword darted out, faster than he could have seen even if his eyes hadn't been blinded, to the place he knew her core would be. The shock of resistance and grunt of pain as Varahi practically ran herself onto his blade told him he'd scored again. One more. ONE MORE and I WIN!

Defense:
Four Attacks Incoming. You will want to stunt, and stunt well, for these.
[X] Teleport behind above her to continue the attack (2 motes, breaks flurries)

That last hit seemed to have made her angry. Varahi launched a flurry of attacks, her sword a shining blur coming at him like a Yellow Jade hurricane. Chandra desperately parried once, twice...He really wished he had a second blade. Mantis Style had a nearly impenetrable defense with two blades. His sword flicked back and forth, beating back her attacks, but it left little chance to attack. Varahi pressed him harder. Another attack was coming, too fast to dodge... Wait, 'too fast'? No, Speed is my toy now....watch this, Varahi.
Chandra concentrated, and pushed....and he was suddenly above her, her eyes and sword already reacting to his disappearance, but aiming behind her, assuming he'd do the same trick. And she was too slow, too slow...Time to make her pay for the assumption. The best part of timehax powers? Chandra thought to himself, already swinging his blade around to stab downward, Is having all the time you could ever need to think up the best cool combat quip to finish up with. Lemme see...

EDIT: Dang, Ninja'd again! I need to learn to write as fast as Chandra moves! Well, re-allocate these stunts as useful, Havocfett.
Sarpedon said:
[X] Gain 1 Exp
[X] The third attack 2 dice here
[X] Defense 3 dice here

also as I said earlier

[X] Channel I Laugh in the Face of Danger and spend 1 WP for defense

Cause the way to win a duel is not to get hit jeez.
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Agreed. I second this plan
 
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Defense stunt, counterattack.

Chandra might have teleported out of the storm of blades that he knew would have come had he stayed in front of Varahi.Fire-aspect Dragon-Blood. Relentless offensive potential.

But even so, she is Exalted - and as Chandra's blade whips against her back, Varahi cancels her momentum, recovers her balance - charm use, DANGER DANGER - and whirls around in defiance of physics, her left hand sharply batting Chandra's sword-hand aside - anima flux increasing in ferocity, sustained close-combat inadvisable due to absence of Essential hardening - before she completes her turn, Astra in her right hand already darting forwards.

Chandra is off-balance. Chandra's sword is out of position to intercept the Astra. Chandra gives no fucks. The flames of her anima are already licking at him, so what? With speed beyond human comprehension - time to impact zero point four two seconds - Chandra turns his stumble into a step, his chest, glistening with blood and sweat, crashing into Varahi's. It burns, of course, but he's had worse - time to impact zero point three eight seconds - and he remembers Ravana's musings on close-quarters fighting. If their chest is level with your eyes - and Varahi's certainly is - then so is their solar plexus.

This, Chandra thinks as his head, bereft of shades, dives through the anima flare of the Dragon-Blood, is for you, Rav. His forehead cracks against her, and Dragon-Blood or no, she wheezes, the arm holding the Astra thrown wide. Time to impact, clear.

Stepping away, Chandra dearly hopes she won't make a quip about him burying his face in her chest, because he thinks his eyebrows are on fire.
 
...you actually got what you needed.

Roll 15d10: Damage across three hits (Autosuccesses absorbed by her Internal Forcefield Augmentation)

So, the results of this turn:

Tick Eleven: Chandra and Varahi attack each other.

Chandra and Varahi each score one hit on each other. Chandra reflexively teleports above Varahi and attacks, Varahi activates Portentous Comet Deflecting Mode and Blinding Spark Distraction, perfectly parrying and attempting to blind Chandra. Chandra auto-succeeds against Blinding Spark Distraction due to Mega-Wits and takes a two die penalty to all attacks.

Chandra continues to attack, scoring one hit, then missing one (Resulting in Varahi activating a counter-attack charm via Loving Heart Stance). Chandra barely successfully parries the blow, then hits with one last blow of his own.

Final Score:
Chandra: 3 Hits
Varahi: 2 Hits.

Reward: Varahi Astra and the freedom of Devaraja Pratihara and the captured House Pratihara soldiers. The respect of Varahi Chola.

Damage Taken will be revealed after you roll your damage.
 
Wooh, OK:

Varahi takes 14 LHL, 6 of which are consumed by her Internal Forcefield (Her Internal Forcefield is now down), and 8 of which deal damage. She is currently on her last -0 health level, and feeling very good about the fact that high-breeding dragonblood tend to grow exomuscle-equivalent and an essence shield as part of their exaltation process.

Chandra takes 4 LHL (3 from the hit, 1 from Anima Flux), for a total of 8 LHL, pushing him to his first -1 health level.

Update will be tomorrow sometime.
 
havocfett said:
Reward: Varahi Astra and the freedom of Devaraja Pratihara and the captured House Pratihara soldiers. The respect of Varahi Chola.
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Something tells me that last one might end up being the most useful, in the long run.
 
Question -- when rolling for damage, do 10s count double like usual?

Because if 10s count double, then Amorous Intent got 9 successes rather than 8.
 
havocfett said:
Varahi takes 14 LHL, 6 of which are consumed by her Internal Forcefield (Her Internal Forcefield is now down), and 8 of which deal damage
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If only baseline Exalted had something like that, where Exalts aren't ridiculously fragile like mortals.
 
Eh, most RPG's tend to end up with PC's made of glass. monsters tend to have Hp piled on to make boss fights last, but PC's suffer from "Hp that would actually be decent except for *ever escalating attack numbers*" syndrome.

At least exalted has perfects. D&D and Pokemon largely run on "go secod and die like a chump without getting a turn" at mid to high levels.

Back to the quest:

The fight worked out wonderfully from our POV. We gave the lady a good fight, a close fight. If we'd seemingly had too easy a time of it, she might have been resentful. As is, we look almost gallant, having let her take first blood.
 
And most importantly of all: We didn't lose our good Shades!
I'm really glad my rolls just went for MAX DRAMA and a close win instead of a dramatic fail. Whew!
 
Satori said:
The fight worked out wonderfully from our POV. We gave the lady a good fight, a close fight. If we'd seemingly had too easy a time of it, she might have been resentful. As is, we look almost gallant, having let her take first blood.
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We didn't "let" her do anything; she took first blood despite Chandra trying to dodge the blow. And I seriously doubt Vahari much cares for the kind of condescending attitude that prompts remarks like "well, I'm 'gallant' because I went easy on you and 'let' you score a hit". Chandra ultimately won by being faster; Vahari was good enough to land the first blow anyway.
 
Aleph said:
We didn't "let" her do anything; she took first blood despite Chandra trying to dodge the blow. And I seriously doubt Vahari much cares for the kind of condescending attitude that prompts remarks like "well, I'm 'gallant' because I went easy on you and 'let' you score a hit". Chandra ultimately won by being faster; Vahari was good enough to land the first blow anyway.
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Yeah, ^this. Vahari is fast enough to meaningfully compete with Chandra's bullshit timehax powers, not to mention easily as skilled as he is with a sword, if not more so. Give the Dragonblood some major credit here: she stood up to a /Nova/ in close combat and nearly won. A botch or two, and she straight-up would have.

We went all-out, teleporting like a mofo and burning through channels like they were going out of style, and all this while Varahi was drained from having fought at least one prior duel as well as storming the compound initially. If this had happened with Varahi having enough time to get her mote pool back, it could've gone very differently.
 
Nuts! said:
Yeah, ^tbis.Vahari is fast enough to meaningfully compete with Chandra's bullshit timehax powers, not to mention easily as skilled as he is with a sword, if not more so. Give the Dragonblood some major credit here: she stood up to a /Nova/ in close combat and nearly won. A botch or two, and she straight-up would have.

We went all-out, teleporting like a mofo and burning through channels like they were going out of style, and all this while Varahi was drained from having fought at least one prior duel as well as storming the compound initially. If this had happened with Varahi having enough time to get her mote pool back, it could've gone very differently.
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We also tricked her out of her undoubtedly awesome armor, too. Don't forget about that part. She's clearly not an average starting semi-mook Dragonblood.
 
Garlak said:
Question -- when rolling for damage, do 10s count double like usual?

Because if 10s count double, then Amorous Intent got 9 successes rather than 8.
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What Scorp said, they don't count double (Without the help of certain charms/effects).
Cornuthaum said:
If only baseline Exalted had something like that, where Exalts aren't ridiculously fragile like mortals.
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IKR. Aberrant's actually super great with generally applicable survivability stuff. Full credit to MJ, it's functioning amazingly.
Satori said:
The fight worked out wonderfully from our POV. We gave the lady a good fight, a close fight. If we'd seemingly had too easy a time of it, she might have been resentful. As is, we look almost gallant, having let her take first blood.
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>Implying you could have stopped her.
Sarpedon said:
WE TOP SWORD NOW
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...you have no idea how tempting it is to use that for the next update. But no, I have plans for Kenny Loggins.
MJ12 Commando said:
We also tricked her out of her undoubtedly awesome armor, too. Don't forget about that part. She's clearly not an average starting semi-mook Dragonblood.
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She really, really, is not.

Thoughts on the Fight:

I was actually kind of afraid letting Dragonbloods take Bioenhancement to 5 would break things, but it actually worked pretty well.

MJ's shirtless stunt worked out for you guys really well. You lost Eufiber bonuses, but Varahi lost absurdly amazing Armor of the Immaculate Dragons for the duration of the fight.

I was worried about how M-Attributes would play (Especially after what you did to the Light Mech in the mansion), but it actually balanced basically as I hoped it would.

You have Varahi Astra now. I was worried I might not get to give that to you guys. :D (I'll do a write-up of its capabilities with the update)
 
Yeah, we did get the badass sword, which I'm sure is cool. But more important, as far as Chandra is concerned, is that we got our shades back, and did cool shit in front of an audience while looking shirtless and sexy. Ravana would be proud. Being cool is Max Important. :) Think of what this is going to do for our rep!
 
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