Tempête and John - Chicago Session 1

# First Meeting - Tempête and John Doe

25Apr21 IRL

“Coyote?”, the buffoon, Maxime, breathes.

Initiative - 19 John

Init - 18  Tempête

Init - 19 Rendak

Tide 16

Maxime ??

Cure wounds 7 - Tide regains HP.  He attempts to shoot the glass out of the ceiling once again, dealing 14pts of damage, but not breaking it.  Yari sees the cracks forming and jumps backwards off the roof, moving to the far side, appearing to fall as he lands.

Combat

R1

Max - takes two steps back, holds his action, says “Coyote, was this you?”

John Doe - “Probably not.  I heard you wanted to have a conversation, so here I am.”  John watches him, and dodges to get out of the line of fire.  “Rendak, hold!” John tells him.

Rendak - takes out his pistol and holds his action.  “Mister, it’s really windy up here!”, he says worriedly.  “Stay low and you’ll be fine”, John tells him.

Luna/Tempête  - asks Tide if he has a potion, he does in his pack, she gives him a Superior Healing potion.  She crouches and makes her way to the wall supporting the roof glass, putting her back against it.  She can only see TIde, and yells “Max, where are you?”.  The wind is incredibly loud, and snatches the sound from the air.

Tide - moves and holds his action.

R2

The airship is coming closer.  It looks like a pirate ship, but with huge sapphire crystals on the corners using anti-gravity spells to keep the ship afloat.  The sails are used to catch the winds aloft around Chicago.  He can see the Captain and a few hands.  John hears noises from the stairwell and turns to Maxime and asks, “Are you with these Orange Cloaks?”  “No, I don’t know what you mean”, Max tells him, seeming confused.

Max - moves over to Tempête and tells her that Coyote is here, to her shock.

John - he assesses the airship, and can tell that it will likely dock at the roof in two turns.  He beckons Rendak onto the roof and slams the trap door shut, hoping to keep the Orange Cloaks at bay.  Stealth check Nat 29 - he sneaks over to the side of the wall holding the roof, well hidden.

Rendak - joins John on the wall

Luna/Tempête- “What do you mean Coyote is here?  I don’t have time for your stupidity, we have to kill this guy!”, she says to Maxime.  “Ah, tabernac”, he swears softly.   Although she thinks he’s probably kidding, she knows there’s a small chance he could be telling the truth, but helping Tide is the priority right now.

Despite being in human form, she still has her catlike abilities, and climbs up the wall nimbly.  Using Felilne Agility, she dashes to the corner of the cracked roof glass and peeks around.  Yari isn’t in sight, he’s disappeared from view.  She nocks an arrow and holds her action.  She yells out “Tide i can’t see him from here!”, and again the winds carry her words away.

Tide - also moves to the corner of the roof.

A gust of wind suddenly assails the party.

Strength saving throw

John 14 - he is fine

Tempête 16 - She and Tide get pushed off the ledge and falls 20 feet, 2 pts of falling dmg.

Rendak gets pushed against the retaining wall, but he’s small so he’s fine.  Maxime stands fast.

Yari - 29 hits, Luna/Tempête takes 17 pts of piercing damage.  She feels the shot before she can hear it.  She falls to the ground, unconscious and near death.  Maxime, on the far side, doesn’t see that she fell, and didn’t see that she was shot.

R3

Maxime- moves and yells for Tempête, but no answer, only the wind howling across the roof.

John - moves across the roof stealthily, in the direction of the party.

Rendak -  follows behind, in cover

Luna/Tempête- death saving throw 16

Tide - shoots at Yari, who shoots back, taking 29 pts of damage.

(Table Discussion : John Doe - he’s not going to heal her, what’s his priority here?  I love you “Tempête”, but he’s my brother, after all”). Tide stabilizes Luna, so she won’t die.   He uses Action Surge, whips around the corner, and starts firing at Yari, shot after shot after shot.

R4

Strength saving throw

John - 14

Tempête- auto fail as she’s unconscious

(DIscussion - “if she’s unconscious will she change back? Chat, discuss”)

Maxime - he rounds the corner and charges Yari, slashing him with his scimitars using Swashbuckler, doing 29 pts of damage (he still has 87hp left).   The boat is getting closer, it’s almost jumpable.

John -  he looks at the boat, and can see about 20 people aboard.  He knows that sapphire is very hard to destroy, a simple gunshot likely won’t do it.  John stealths closer to Tide, and pulls out his automatic rifle, and sneak attacks Yari from a position of deep cover, while Yari is being attacked by Tide and Maxime.  He shoots and does 22 pts of damage, staggering Yari, who is now precariously close to falling off the edge of the building, 1000 feet up in the air.

He looks at Rendak and talks him calmly through the shot.

Rendak - expends a grit point to do deadeye shot, and hunter’s marks Yari, and then pulls out his pistol and shoots REALLY hard.  He shoots across and hits Yari, doing 12 pts of piercing damage.  “Yeah I did it I got him I .aaahhhh”.  Rendak stiffens and falls to the ground.  He’s paralyzed, his eyes open and staring at John.

An Orange Cloak appears behind Rendak’s little fallen body.  Noises carried on the wind suggest that more are coming to the roof.

Luna/Tempête- death save 7, but doesn’t matter because she’s stabilized.

Tide -  takes Forceful Shot for 17pts of damage to Yari, pushing him 15 feet away.  He staggers backwards into empty space, plummeting to his death.

R5

Maxime - searches frantically for Tempête.  He finds her and Lays On Hands, whispering “Coyote, he’s here, he’s on the roof”.

John - holds his automatic weapon trigger down, doing a full Spray-n-Pray to the Orange Cloaks behind Rendak’s prone body.  He deals 20 pts of damage to two Cloaks, including the one holding Rendak paralyzed.  The Cloak fails a concentration roll, and Rendak is freed.  John sneaks into the doorway and smashes the Orange Cloak hiding there in the face for 8pts.

Rendak - stands up and without saying a word, shoots the Cloak who was holding him paralyzed, killing him quite very dead.  He shoots and kills yet another Orange Cloak, leaving at least 4 dead.

Luna/Tempête - awakens with 10 hp and right in front of her is the back of the man who killed her father, Coyote.  She gasps and says “Thank you, is Yari gone”?  Max tells her Tide pushed him off the roof, so he should be....  She stands up, takes a deep breath as she stares at John, and holds her action.

Tide - sees the situation developing, and also holds his action.

R6

Maxime - holds his action

John - shoots the Orange Cloak in front of him with the ice aspect of Icy Hot for 14pts of ice damage.  John tried to shoot him under the chin, but the man steps back, and John shoots off his nose, where a new icy one starts to form.  John immediately drives his elbow deep into the face of the Cloak, smashing his skull bones into the brain matter, instantly killing him.  John isn’t even sweaty.

He turns to the people on the roof and gestures to the supply closet the Orange Cloak was hiding in, “Come on!!”,  and people run in.

R7

The airship turns and starts heading north.

Strength Check for those on the roof.

Max - Nat 1

Luna/Tempête- 21

Maxime slips and starts to fall off the roof.  Tempête leaps to grab him before he falls.  Dex save - 18 .  She grabs his leg and is slightly lifted off the ground, John jumps in to help, as does Tide.  Even little Rendak is tugging on the back of John Doe’s shirt.  With Tempête holding Maxime’s leg, John pulls one leg, Tide pulls the other leg, and together they manage to save Max from falling off the roof to his flat and bloody death.

They all run into the small supply closet, and slam the door on the howling wind.   John turns to the group and says “We need to have a conversation, but let’s make sure we can get out of here first.  Then we’ll have a talk”.