The Leonine Games [Afternoon 1]

[Emcas]

Emcas lowered his stance, elbows ready to deflect claws and hands to hold fangs at bay. He would have to engage the lion to get it's attention on him but hopefully there would be an opening...e doubted that raging blind lions are prone to cover their weaks spots.

As soon as he was able he lunged at the lion's flank, taking firm hold of it's mane and pulling it back from the rest of the crowd.

He would wrestle the beast to submission

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Maneuvre: move to engage
Extra maneuvre: GRAPPLE!
Action: Wrestle the lion?

reduction: 7
Wounds: 17
Strain: 11/12

[Kannon]

Wrestling the lions

• It is a normal melee engagement in terms of difficulty (Average), but upgraded once.
• If the beast is grappled (under the effect of the Grapple talent), it provides a Boost.
• All your Damage done with Brawl can be turned into Strain for 2 Advantage or a Triumph
• This must be from Advantage generated by the roll. Those from the pool may only be converted into Boost.
• Triumph can also be turned into 5 Strain for the lion if normal Damage has already been otherwise converted into Strain.
• If the attacker is unable to convert Damage into Strain, they can relinquish the damage entirely for the turn - unless a Despair was concurrently rolled.
• If a Despair is rolled on failure, the lion does something bad to the attacker.
• If a Despair is rolled on the success, the lion gets proportionally hurt and there is no way to reduce the damage.
• The Lion Soak is 3 and Strain Threshold is 18. Soak affects incurred Strain.
• Lions engaged by at least two combatants or grappled do not attack NPCs.

[Emcas]

Pulling on the mane had surprised the lion and it reared on it's back legs with a ferocious howl. Undaunted, Emcas body went to work and strained against the feline mass but with the use of the beast's backwards momentum he suplexed the foreign predator to the ground.

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Taming the lions: Wrestle the Lions, turn 2, Str Statement upgrade, boost from grapple maneuvre: 3eP+2eA+1eB+1eD+1eC 3 successes, 4 advantage, 1 Triumph


8 damage done before soak, 2 adv. to turn damage to strain, triumph to add 5 strain on top, 2 avd. two regain 2 strain: total- 10 strain to the Lion

reduction: 7
Wounds: 17
Strain: 13/13

[Cuyler Gray]

"Please calm down. I understand your fear, but your panic is making it harder for you to escape safely."

Cuyler tried to help coordinate those evacuating, but no one was listening.


- - -
The Leonine Games [Afternoon 1], Guiding the crowd, Hard Leadership

Net Successes: -1; Net Advantages: 0

[Nirilli]

Nirilli hurried to get between the lions and the people they were attacking. She moved gracefully. A dancer. A natural athlete. Slipping through the crowd as fast as she could.

Emcas seemed to have the first lion in hand, so she hurried on past him towards the second one.

Just close enough to watch it do harm she couldn't yet prevent.

(All turn spent moving, so she can help pin 2nd lion next turn if that's still needed...)

[Laila Bridger]

This was gonna SUCK.

Laila moved on the Lion Emcas was grappling, but couldn't seem to land a hit.


[Maneuver- Medium to close
Strain maneuver to go help Emca since apparently that's doable
Action: Lion-taming, with a Boost since it's Grappled, taking two advantages from the pool for another Boost
Laila's Introductory Lion-Taming, First Attempt. Brawl, with a Boost since Emcas is already Grappling the lion, +1 boost for using two Advantages from the group pool: 1eD+1eC+1eA+2eP+2eB 0 successes, 3 advantage


And Laila remains absolutely useless, but hey, throw the three Advantages back into the party pool]

[Sister Shinah]

Shinah spent her time moving to put her plan into action.

Assuming I moved to the exits last turn:
Maneuver - Along the outside
Maneuver - Back inside to where I can actually do some sneaky stuff

[Kannon]

"Please calm down. I understand your fear, but your panic is making it harder for you to escape safely."

Cuyler tried to help coordinate those evacuating, but no one was listening.

- - -
The Leonine Games [Afternoon 1], Guiding the crowd, Hard Leadership

Net Successes: -1; Net Advantages: 0

The people were too distraught to react to outside voices; if they hadn't listened to the Archon, that they wouldn't listen to Cuyler either wasn't a massive surprise. Perhaps if they turned around to see how their nemesis was being pinned down they would see that there was less reason for panic than a moment ago...

While Shinah moved unseen by the people in the Oon, she noticed a small loophole in her plan downstairs - people were using the 175 W exit to pour out, so getting back in would require either piercing through the crowd or convincing them to make way...

[Shinah is outside 177]

Meanwhile, Nirilli rushed down the empty downward escalators, a lone river creature swimming against the current...

[Nirilli is at Short from Lion #2]

Laila could indeed find no purchase for her grasp due to how efficient Emcas' grip was; the creature was much larger than the Zensunni slave and yet she could get the impression that they were at least evenly matched.

[Player Pool: 5]

[Kannon]

The lion in Emcas' grip thrashed around, trowing its mass while seeking purchase to its deadly fangs and claws. It found it.

The maw dug into Emcas' arm, while the claws sliced his thigh [11 Damage, Pierce 1].

[All Damage before Soak.]

Lion Attacks v. Emcas. Pierce 1, Vicious 2.: 2#2eP+2eA+2eD 3 successes


The other lion continued its bloody rampage, chasing the fleeing people again, the need to kill stronger than the need to feed on those already felled.

[The second lion is at 175 W, Extreme from Hadrian and Cuyler, Medium from Nirilli, Laila and Emcas, Medium from Shinah by a different and partially blocked trajectory.]

[Hadrian's Turn!]

[Hadrian Martikova]

~snip~

In this moment Cuyler succeeded in leading Hadrian. Whose vineyard whistle pierced the tumult, "Single file, help each other."

Leadership: 1eP+2eA+3eD 1 success, 2 advantage

[Kannon]

[Player Pool: 7]

Hadrian's charisma somehow got through to the people; thanks to it the pursuit toward the exit became less hectic, even if still as anxious and rushed. What his crowd ordering revealed, however, was the extent of the carnage the lion had been leaving in their wake. Some of their victims were still alive, even as they were bleeding profusely. Perhaps some lives could still be saved.

Round 3!

There was some field-manipulation buzz going on in the background, but the chaos wasn't dying down despite repeated calls toward calm that may or may not be supported by security force at this point. With both Ben Ghali and Dyrrachion down there must have been some concurrent developments...

[Players' Turns!]

[Cuyler Gray]

With Hadrian bringing some order to this situation, Cuyler rushed on to see if she could do anything in the vicinity of the second lion.

[Emcas]

Emcas dove against the lion's thrashing his forearms parrying the first claw and swatting the fangs aside. The second claw indeed found purchase but did nothing more then leave what would be a cool scar.

Once the lion's momentum stopped, Emcas used Laila's distraction to pass his arms around the beast's head and begin a chokehold. He felt the beast being nearly done, but not quite.

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3 strain to Unarmed Parry 4 damage: 11 damage reduced to 7, soak 6, 1 damage taken
Maneuvre: grapple
Action wrestle: Taming the lions: Wrestle the Lions, turn 3, Str Statement upgrade, boost from grapple maneuvre, boost from pool: 3eP+2eA+1eB+1eD+1eC 3 successes, 3 advantage
8 damage before soak, 2 adv. to turn it into strain, 1 adv. to regain 1 strain

So 5 strain damage done to lion after the soak it's now at 15/18

reduction: 7
Wounds: 16/17
Strain: 11/13

[Laila Bridger]

If at first you don't succeed..... try to finish a thing off.


[Free Maneuver: Action- Some species of unarmed attack that doesn't kill the thing
Laila's Introductory Lion-Taming, Second Attempt. Brawl, with a Boost since Emcas is already Grappling the lion, +1 boost for using two Advantages from the group pool: 1eD+1eC+1eA+2eP+2eB 3 successes, 2 advantage


I have only a hazy idea how the hell the damage is calculated in this system, but use the the two advantages to turn it into Strain, but I think before soak Laila does 5 (3 Brawn, 2 extra successes), so another 2 strain, meaning someone else still needs to hit the damn thing.]

[Kannon]

With Hadrian bringing some order to this situation, Cuyler rushed on to see if she could do anything in the vicinity of the second lion.

[Cuyler is at Short from grappled Lion, at Long from rampaging one.]

Going down, she would immediately stumble on a well-dressed man who was about to bleed himself out from a lacerated thigh if he didn't receive any triage anytime soon.

[Strain Manoeuvre and/or Action still available.]

[Kannon]

- snip -

In the wake of a flurry of squeezes and blunt blows to subdue the lion orchestrated between Emcas and Laila the creature was visibly weakening, swaying, but still conscious and desperately wanting to hurt back. It was a strange way to form a bond, sandwiching a large, murderous feline between each other until it would flop on them.

[No two attacks per round, 2 Advantages requirement holds as a Special Rule for this kind of non-human target.]
[The Lion is at 17 Strain.]

[Nirilli]

Nirilli caught up with the 2nd lion and began pummeling it with kicks learned as a deep water diver and dancer. She could kick hard. But this was ... a lion.

She just needed its attention. She could always dodge if it tried to attack her.




(A success and 3 advantages! Hopefully that was enough to get its attention and keep it from attacking anyone else.)

[Cuyler Gray]

Going down, she would immediately stumble on a well-dressed man who was about to bleed himself out from a lacerated thigh if he didn't receive any triage anytime soon.

She stopped. There were so many people who needed help. She could hear the screams of other victims ahead of her. She wanted to help all of them, but didn't know how she could. She could help this man, however.

She wasn't medically trained, but she knew the basics. Stop the bleeding with pressure, ir a tourniquet.

- - -
The Leonine Games [Afternoon 1], Average Medicine

Net Successes: 3; Net Advantages: 0

[Kannon]

Nirilli caught up with the 2nd lion and began pummeling it with kicks learned as a deep water diver and dancer. She could kick hard. But this was ... a lion.

She just needed its attention. She could always dodge if it tried to attack her.

(A success and 3 advantages! Hopefully that was enough to get its attention and keep it from attacking anyone else.)

What Nirilli certainly succeeded in was to draw the lion's attention to herself.

[2 Strain for Nirilli for the second Move, Attack yields 1 Strain on the lion, Nirilli can recuperate 1 strain via remaining Advantage.]

[Kannon]

Going down, she would immediately stumble on a well-dressed man who was about to bleed himself out from a lacerated thigh if he didn't receive any triage anytime soon.

She stopped. There were so many people who needed help. She could hear the screams of other victims ahead of her. She wanted to help all of them, but didn't know how she could. She could help this man, however.

She wasn't medically trained, but she knew the basics. Stop the bleeding with pressure, ir a tourniquet.[/quote]

The man's eyes stopped turning glassy after she was finished, having got herself messy with the man's blood in the process, and even though he didn't speak comprehensibly throughout or afterwards, he seemed to embed her face in his memory.

[Hadrian or Shinah's Turn.]