Monster Hunters: Justice [IC]

[Lamech]

Originally Posted by the_matrix_walker

I've got a trio of nasties that need dealing with.
No client, Pro Bono situation.  
I'll buy the beers when the job's done.

I can help if I have time to grab my kit.

Got a call for help dealing with nasties. Its probably not connected, but no reason not to check it out right? Plus the Marcus might know something, especially if someone approached him to assassinate a mage. Do we have a blue marker somewhere? I'm pretty sure... ha! Found one, I'm reasonably certain when bezerkers went into battle they had blue runes to protect themselves. If you want the spell on you too, I'll draw some on you too.

Lara draws on her hands and face some approximation of nordic symbols. (Jenny too if she's okay with it.) Technically stuff she just found online by searching "Nordic Runes". She grabs her book on casting Armor of the Beserker, this time being lame with just tracing the symbols in the air.

Spoiler:  

Armor of the Beserker, Skill 21+7 from Grim=28 skill
Effects:Greater Strengthen Body [3], Lesser Restore Body [4] Weight 300lbs [3], Duration 1 month [11], Area of Effect 2yrds [2], 6 DR, (Absorption+100%, Tought Skin, No Sig) [36] Total: 59*3=177-10%=160 Total Energy
10 Rolls of Energy Gathering: 4, 11, 12, 18 And now for the luck rerolls! 11, 13

OOC: Explaination-I think its reasonably clear on the die roller site, but since I don't want to type in the same thing 10 times to make one set of rolls I use their fancy option for multiple die rolls. But since on a crit fail (or failure) I have a decision to make, continue the spell or not I make that ahead of time. Specifically, unless there is time pressure restart the spell and try again. Or don't try again. Huzzah Luck! Oh and now you get to see how I envision magic only, HP powered luck playing out.

Midway through the spell Lara stops, swears, and stumbles over too a metal table grabbing onto it. The good news is we didn't explode. The bad news is she vomits on the floor, a mixture of Doritos, ramen and blood. A lot of blood. well that. That was painful.

Lara texts Marcus again:

Bad news, I just fumbled a spell and I'm down a lot of blood. 
If you let me in on the drinks I can pay though. 
Need to get that fluid replacement and everything.
 Better yet, I'll take everyone out to dinner.

Gonna go hit the snack machine and water fountain. Want anything?

[ericthered]

The Warehouse: Randal Kane

Propelled by carefully perfected muscles, Randal reaches the guard in about one second. Surprised at his speed, the man is only able to open his mouth in surprise before getting beaned in the face. He falls down to the ground, severely disoriented.

Ketty and Plumber: Jack Brown, Marcus Savage

Its fairly long range, but marcus picks up a two signals. One is most likely Ketty herself -- a moderate power witch just inside the house, aspected for the paths of chance and magic (those are her strongest paths). The second signature appears to be a cursed one. If Marcus is reading things right, the cursed one will heal wounds very quickly and is capable of bursts of strength. The cursed one is also not a bog standard human -- things have been changed that don't require magic to maintain.

EDIT:
The mage is a non-adept standard RPM user with magery 4, who's strongest paths are chance and magic (no talents boosting magery)
The cursed one has a strength burst of +6 ST for 10 seconds to a minute, and regenerates at 1 HP/ min. He has many other 'fire and forget' magical changes to him.

GM Rolls:
Sense roll
Analysis (mage)
Analysis (cursed one)

[Ransom]

Brother Man considers the message he received earlier. "Yes, I think this one isn't your fault. Still, for whatever reason these people have taken an interest in you, and I doubt they are friendly."

Brother Man looks around the park, looking for anything out of the ordinary.

(could it possibly be that the Hermit happens to be hanging out here?)

[ericthered]

Shawn Fen: Brother Man, The Hermit

The hermit is visiting one town when he looks at local destinies and one of them catches his eye: a kid who is about 90% likely* to die in the next year, but by a wide variety of methods and even a wide variety of actors, most of them supernatural. being shot. being stabbed. being torn to bits by fae. becoming terminally ill with a supernatural disease. jumping out of a window. His destiny is important not in itself, but as a weather bell to something bigger. How he dies (or somehow survives) will be a omen of things to come.

The young man is in the park. Approaching him, the kid is with a big black man who somehow manages to seem threatening and gentle at the same time.

OCC: yes, this is brother man and shawn.

* yes, even with supernatural PC help.

[Skullcrusher]

Randall checks the gaurd to see if he is concious. He will check him for hand cuffs.

[ericthered]

The warehouse: Randal Kane

The guard is delirious but conscious. He has handcuffs on his belt.

GM rolls:
Per (to check for handcuffs)

[the_matrix_walker]

Originally Posted by Talosian

This is better than I could ever have expected, Jack thinks with a swell of pride, and Brown cackles manically in response. Jack takes a moment to swallow the rush of boundless glee shared by him and Brown, and then says, with a straight face, "Congress-witches with super-plumbers and kinky strippers. How are those 'stranger things' measuring up now?"

"I do sense something in there, the witch must be your senator friend... And there is someone cursed... from birth it feels like. Must be your plumber... He's a fast healer, and can make himself really strong for short bursts. I'm not getting a read on anything too sinister... Things are already looking pretty chaotic over there. This is your gig, how do you want to handle it?"

[Refplace]

The Hermit is dressed in his typical garb, long heavy cloak, staff and carrying a lantern.
He steps to where they will walk into him and waits.

[Skullcrusher]

Randal retrieves the cuffs, cuffs the security guard, retrieves some duct tape from his backpack and tapes his mouth shut. He looks around for a nearby dumpster pay close attention to time and location of the dumpster in relation to cameras.

[Talosian]

"I do sense something in there, the witch must be your senator friend..."

"More of an acquaintance, really," Jack mutters, while ignoring Brown's equivalent of a snort.

"And there is someone cursed... from birth it feels like. Must be your plumber... He's a fast healer, and can make himself really strong for short bursts. I'm not getting a read on anything too sinister..."

"Huh, I had him pegged as something creepier," Jack frowns, Not that a cursed plumber isn't creepy enough.

"Things are already looking pretty chaotic over there. This is your gig, how do you want to handle it?"

Jack is silent for a moment, watching the commotion at the house. "Well, there's only one way to be sure that the Incredible Plumber isn't a threat. I'll go get him. Meet me in the garden?" Jack pops out of the car at a run, and vanishes a few feet away. A few moments later the hedge at the side of the house rustles as he leaps over it.

Spoiler:  

Matrix: I'm not 100% sure if deferring to Jack was an in character choice, or an out of character precaution, but just in case, I really don't perceive this strand as "mine," so definitely don't worry about directing how it goes. In IC terms, Jack views Marcus as being by far the senior hunter, and would (mostly) go along with any plan of his (plus, Jack may be smarter, but Marcus is far and away less stupid than Jack tends to be, so this would generally be better for everyone). Once given free reign in this manner, though, Jack is pretty much obligated to act in a reckless and irresponsible manner.

Also, since Jack has essentially dragged Marcus into an ill-advised and entirely unwarranted monster hunt on the barest thread of a story, it's entirely legitimate for Marcus to call bullsh*t on Jack's story and/or the continuation of this plan. (Also true for future situations that resemble this one.) Bit late to call Jack on it now, though.

(And, of course, since Jack just ran off with his crazy plan to bait the plumber that they have approximately no reason to consider a threat, Marcus need not follow Jack's plan at all. He could almost certainly Flying Leap up to the balcony that Jack is planning to enter through. And since he's faster than Jack and he can sense him, he could probably catch him and get him to stop long enough to come up with an actual plan.)

Eric: I didn't even realize that I'd invented the hedge garden back on page 4, but hopefully that bit of scene setting isn't problematic. Jack intends to head back around there, climb up to the balcony, and then start searching around for the plumber (at which point he'll use ventriloquism to lure him out to the garden). Jack has essentially no plan beyond that point, and is likely to basically just ask him, "Hey, are you evil?"

Matrix/Eric: I think someone needs to respond to Lamech to move that strand along, since it just hit an awkward wall of dice-fail.