STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Holocron

GK's action: beat the crap out of the cub that can't fight back 😄

Evens!

Dak continues to flay the moaning cub while Galder drives a lightsaber into the side of his. It starts to squirm and stumble, then goes down when the Lieutenant puts a bolt into its throat. Xavier and Rianna tag-team the remaining free cub.

The Captain strides forward and unloads a bunch of bolts into the face of the ensnared cub, who is struggling to break free but cannot.

Xavier takes a smack from his cub for 6 damage.

Then, there is the loudest visceral roar you have ever heard in your lives, shaking the ground beneath your feet and stirring the trees.

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THE HUNT, Start of Turn 3

Clearing

Shardik Cub A (C7): 32 (4A)

Shardik Cub C (C7): 28 (4A) (ensnared)

Galder (LS11): 2/18 [FwGu BL IM] [BGu CL] (4F)

Dak (LS11): 1(2A)/10 [BGu DU CH] [FwGu CL CH] (5F)

Xavier (LS12): 1(2A)/16 [BGu PS RI] [OGu CL] (5F)

Rianna (LS12): 3/5 [OGu RI PS] [FwGu CL] (5F)

Captain (G11): 3C(1A)/6 [10B KB CG] (2F)

Lieutenant (G13): 1(1A)/15 [MK EE CF] (2F) (in trees)

Rand (LS10): 3/4 [FcGu CL RF] [OGu DW] (9F)

Probe (G10: 2(2A)/0 [EE] (above)

Useld (G8): 1/15

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You all sense danger.

Rianna's leaping back up into her tree and looking for the source of danger. AKA, where mommy shardik is coming from.

Dak will try and finish off his cub while doing so is still possible. Also that those things have an unfortunate name 😛

Xavier will continue to attack the cub hoping to take it down before the parent gets here.

Is Josh still having internet issues? If so, I can press on.

No, he's back online.

And his action is accounted for in my post 😛

Oh! Missed that.

Initiative is 3-4...

The ensnared cub tries to break free again, but no success. Its bindings are too strong. The other slashes at Xavier for 4 damage, tearing at him with vicious claws.

There is a tremendous explosion from one side of the clearing, like a twig being snapped and amplified a thousand times. That is because Mother Shardik has simply knocked aside a few trees to make room for her ENORMOUS girth. She is easily as tall as the trees themselves, her wild red eyes glaring down over some of them. Her maw is lined with razor-like rows of black teeth, and her armored hide is thicker than that of her children.

She then watches as Xavier and Dak run her babies through with their lightsabers...

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THE HUNT, Start of Turn 4

Clearing

Mother Shardik (C7): 0 (6A)

Galder (LS11): 2/18 [FwGu BL IM] [BGu CL] (4F)

Dak (LS11): 1(2A)/10 [BGu DU CH] [FwGu CL CH] (5F)

Xavier (LS12): 1(2A)/20 [BGu PS RI] [OGu CL] (5F)

Rianna (LS12): 3/5 [OGu RI PS] [FwGu CL] (5F)

Captain (G11): 3C(1A)/6 [10B KB CG] (2F)

Lieutenant (G13): 1(1A)/15 [MK EE CF] (2F) (in trees)

Rand (LS10): 3/4 [FcGu CL RF] [OGu DW] (9F)

Probe (G10: 2(2A)/0 [EE] (above)

Useld (G8): 1/15

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...oh mother of the Force.

Dak will Leap immediately into a tree, so that Xavier presents an easier target.

Good thing lightsabers ignore armor!

Also Rianna should be up in a tree.

Consider yourself treed, Rianna! Dak's jump depend on initiative.

The lizard has run away!!!! We need to kill him later

"Dak, way to be a team player!" Xavier shouts as Dak runs away.

Xavier will activate Balance this turn and attempt to leap to the side of the incoming beat like bull.

Initiative to the giant bear-tank.

Having been standing on her hind legs, the Shardik decides to come crashing down into the clearing with her front paws extended- each easily the size of a car, with claws to match. Since she is so ridiculously sized, her attack works like a Heavy Weapons attack and strikes all in the area. She only rolls two successes, but does a whopping 7 damage (reduced appropriately) and Knocks Back everyone in the clearing.

Galder taps out Impervious to remain untouched. He does not attempt an attack, though; he jumps away to join Rianna.

Dak and Xavier fall over themselves trying to escape- the results of Knockback means no action for them.

The Lieutenant opens fire on the Shardik, striking it somewhere across its stomach as it comes down. He rolls 9 successes for 12 damage.

Rand instructs the probe to attack as well. It only adds 4 damage.

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THE HUNT, Start of Turn 5

Clearing

Mother Shardik (C7): 16 (6A)

Dak (LS11): 1(2A)/15 [BGu DU CH] [FwGu CL CH] (5F)

Xavier (LS12): 1(2A)/25 [BGu PS RI] [OGu CL] (5F)

Captain (G11): 3C(1A)/12 [10B KB CG] (2F)

Lieutenant (G13): 1(1A)/15 [MK EE CF] (2F) (in trees)

Rianna (LS12): 3/5 [OGu RI PS] [FwGu CL] (5F) (in trees)

Galder (LS11): 2(2A)/18 [BGu BL IM] [FwGu CL] (4F) (in trees)

Rand (LS10): 3/4 [FcGu CL RF] [OGu DW] (9F)

Probe (G10: 2(2A)/0 [EE] (above)

Useld (G8): 1/15

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"Come on!" the Lieutenant says. "Start taking it down!"

"Holy hell," Galder says to Rianna.

"We just had to go hunting..." Rianna comments. "Come on, we need to kill this thing fast."

Would she be able to make a jump onto the shardik from her perch?

With a good roll.

I think that sort of roll is something Rianna's pretty good at.

Swap Orthodox for Forward Guard; Rianna's going to leap (hopefully gracefully) from her tree and land on the shardik, tapping Forward Guard to attack.

Dak will again attempt to leap for a tree.

Xavier will again activate Balance for this turn trying to act as a target for the big momma.

Initiative returns to you!

While Xavier is acting as a distraction, Dak jumps away easily, landing in the trees near Galder. He does this just as Rianna leaps up! She only needs two successes, having been in the trees, but rolls four! She lands on the beast's back.

Being what the rules call a Monster, Mama Bear here reveals one of her Monster Schticks- Defensive Spines. When Rianna lands nimbly on her back, sections of her armored hide separate and produce lethal spikes that slide out quickly. For every turn that Rianna remains on the Shardik's back, she will take 3 damage.

Rianna then drives her lightsabers downwards into the Shardik's back. She has no defenses up here, aside from her natural armor. Rianna racks up thirteen successes on twenty-five dice for 19 damage!

The Captain rattles off shots into its underbelly. He does 2 damage as most of the lasers simply ping off of her armor. The Lieutenant again has better luck, for 9 damage as he hits one of the gaps in her armor where the spines have protruded. The probe simply burns through her armor with his disruptor gun for 7 damage.

Galder stays in the trees, having wanted to see what would happen to Rianna after her jump.

Since Dak jumped away, the Shardik goes after Xavier. Balance means he can only be hit on 6s... so she rolls a single 6! Her focused attack sees Xavier swatted through the air and against a tree for 9 damage. He collapses and needs to pick himself up again as she inflicted another Knockback.

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THE HUNT, Start of Turn 6

Clearing

Mother Shardik (C7): 51 (6A)

Rianna (LS12): 1/8 [FwGu RI PS] [OGu CL] (5F) (on Shardik!)

Captain (G11): 3C(1A)/12 [10B KB CG] (2F)

Xavier (LS12): 1(2A)/34 [BGu PS RI] [OGu CL] (5F) (Knockback)

Lieutenant (G13): 1(1A)/15 [MK EE CF] (2F) (in trees)

Galder (LS11): 2(2A)/18 [BGu BL SF] [FwGu IM CL] (4F) (in trees)

Dak (LS11): 1(2A)/15 [BGu DU CH] [FwGu CL CH] (5F) (in trees)

Rand (LS10): 3/4 [FcGu CL RF] [OGu] (9F)

Probe (G10: 2(2A)/0 [EE] (above)

Useld (G8): 1/15

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Rianna growls with frustration at the spikes, but continues her assault on the shardik. Swap FGu for OGu.

"Would one of you help kill this thing?" she yells at Dak and Galder.

Xavier wearily stands up regaining his balance.

Well that worked out well didn't it?

"Be quiet you, we've got work to do." Xavier tries to stagger over to the Big Mama and attempts to slice at its hind legs from behind.