Sunday, August 5, 2012

Royal Rumble Part 1

So,
A while ago someone asked who would win in a fight between wednesday and sunday game.  While I was stalling writing my other ragnarok post, I saw that all their character sheets were still out, and I could have a royal rumble between them.  I planned to do two fights, and probably will do the other one some time in the future.  One where the fight was spontaneous(no tactical planning and no powers prepopped), and one with everything planned.  I also had to make adjustments for their characters.  Almost all times Aurora wouldnt participate in a fight, but for this I had to make her.  I also had to take out the tactic of "i put you all in an illusion box, haha we win(but then allowing compelling presence seemed to have the same effect, so who knows) .  And I had to assume that no one had their prophecy powers up(although I will for next time in the "planned" fight).  I also took out channels and legendary deeds since those are more character driven and in a 1 time fight would just use them on every action.  I also made it so stunting didnt happen.  I think this was a mistake, cause sangria ended up being able to get full legend mid fight while everyone else was dry, but Im not sure how to do stunts in a scenario like this.  Perhaps every single action is stunted?  Im willing to take suggestions for the next time.

Also, Im pretty sure I didnt choose the best actions for people sometimes.  A few places(sangria should have popped animal first, but I was worried geoff would die.  Will shouldnt have used water, it was wasted legend, but I wanted him to punch as hard as possible before geoff got to his aoe stuns of death).

But I think for the most part, this is how a fight would turn out.

All characters are spread out in a line on each side, about 10 yards apart like this.


x            x               x              x                x


x            x              x              x                x


Some things might be confusing, but instead of explaining everything and assuming you dont know things, go ahead and ask below and I'll answer questions but leave the main document clean from explanation.

Also....ok, I admit it...multitasking is pretty ridiculous at god....it needs a tone down.
For insanity/reality check.  The majority of the battle takes place in 10 seconds.


I'll probably end up using hero names and god names interchangeably....sorry about that. (I decided it was too confusing...went through and changed them all to hero names)


Join Battles:
Opening Gambit: Will, Goze, Sangria, Geoff
Woody: 56
Sophia: 14
Marcus: 2
Aurora: 0
Kettila: Botch
Vivian: Botch

1:
Will: Animal Aspect Seagull(stamina): 53(jack of all trades for animal ken)
Form of the Jotun
Devil Body
Body Armor
Untouchable
Dragons Breath(baelfyr) vs Geoff  70
Geoff Dex + Athletics(jack of all trades) 13

Geoff takes 71 Agg, uses skin shed

Sangria: Double Agg punches  55agg and 59 agg respectively.
Will converts and defensive do over.  Takes 14 and 18 lethal.

Goze: Bolsters geoff: 31


2:
Will: (between the ticks) Compelling presence all 5: 37 they all resist
Drown on Goze:  70 vs 57 goze starts drowning
Dessicate on Geoff
  >sangria attempts to unconquering challenge.  Fails 55 vs 71
  >>Geoff gets dessicated 47 vs 3
Will blessing of bravery on team
Will summons flameborn spirits: 48
Will dragons breath both geoff and sangria  71
 >Geoff rolls 11, takes 114 agg  Converts and defensive do over
 >>Sangria rolls 47 takes 113 agg Converts and defensive do over and roll with it
 >>>That was an INSANE dmg roll vs sangria.  It was like half 10s
(at this point geoff would be down, but he acts on this tick and still gets his action)

Sangria: (between the ticks) Bolster Geoff 81
Uses restore on Geoff 37

Goze: Battle Cry
 >Heal Sangria 35

Geoff: Compelling Presence other team 62
 >Vivian Botched(botched, I had rerolled a very poor roll...then botched)
 >Kettila 71
 >Will 75
 >Aurora 80
 >Woody 48
Form of Jotun
Animal Aspect Bear(Strength) 40
Bolster his entire team(jack of all trades medicine) 41
Stab Aurora: 33 Lethal

THAT WAS THE FIRST 2 SECONDS

3:
Woody would go here but hes compelling presenced

4:
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5:
Marcus Colossus armor
Animal Aspect Hawk(strength) 32(this was a god awful roll. I rerolled it too, zero successes on like 25 dice)

Aurora uses Mighty Curse on all of opposing team 62
 >Marcus: phase mind, 58 (loses war purview)
 >Sangria: Wits resist, 67
 >Goze: Wits resist, 106
 >Sophia: Intel resist, 41 (loses Health purview)
 >Geoff: 16 (loses sun purview)
Animal aspect Raven(manipulation) 35

Sophia: Bolster Geoff 79
Infect Kettila  31 bashing after soak
Infect Aurora 55 bashing after soak
Infect Will  Completely soaked
Wither Kettila, Aurora, Will 73
 >kettila stam + fort 22 taking 15 lethal
 >Aurora stam + fort 41 taking 10 lethal
 >Will stam + fort 80 taking 0 lethal
Attempt to Stab Aurora
 >Aurora uses not the face successfully

Aurora activates Last Act

Goze takes damage from drowning

6:
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7:
Wills fire elementals all dragons breath Marcus.  Lots of rolling.  End result, marcus used roll with it on some of the attacks and took zero dmg

Will Dragons breath on Sangria 72
 >sangria dex + athletics 51
 >sangria takes 123 agg.  convert, defensive do over, roll with it, + unbreakable for a lot of legend

Goze Heal Sangria 27
Bolster Sangria 47(used bona fortuna)

Geoff uses theme music
Mortal Stroke
Hrimmslakjdfjslj touch(not looking up that stupid word :P)
Stabs kettilla twice
 >She takes 65 Lethal before defensive do over and converting
 >Second attack would hit for 75 lethal, she skin sheds

8:
Goze takes drowning damage

Sangria punches aurora through the chest 56 lethal
Pulls out heart and activates burning heart(its pretty much down hill from here as I mentioned earlier because of sangria having full + legend and will being dry.  At this point they should flee)

Aurora Dies(last act though, so still going!)

9:
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10:
Marcus double attacks Will....botches, and then botches on the reroll.  Apparently my dice were having a really bad morning, but then again, thats kinda how marcus's player rolls as well

Marcus stabs himself twice.  Once for 75 lethal, and he skin sheds the second one


Aurora over orders both sangria and Sophia to attack each other.
Puts Marcus in Dream World 70

Kettilla Greenskin
Earth Armor
Earth Body
Body Armor
Imprisoning Crystal on Goze(Jack of all trades) 46
 >Goze Strength + Fortitude 3
Bolster Will 28

Sophia lights geoffs and her weapons on fire
Attacks the solid stone that is kettilla and doesnt scratch her


11:
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12:
Flameborn Spirits attack Woody and Vivian to wake them up from compelling presence
Will is out of legend and flails at Sangria missing her with a 4

13:
Sangria: Animal aspect 75

14:
Geoff takes 1 unsoakable lethal from flame blade
Geoff Double attack Kettila
55 Agg and 79 Lethal
She converts and defensive do over but its not enough to keep her conscious

15:
Aurora Destroys Marcus in dream world.  He loses all his willpower and next action she can puppet him around
But her last act ends here and she falls over dead, giant whole in her chest.

And I stopped it here.  10 hours had gone by(i started at 1am, wtf was I doing)
I did it on the floor so my back was killing me, and the end was a forgone conclusion.

Sangria and Sophia were going to go punch each other.  Sangria would take no damage, sophia would hurt a lot, but be alive.  Vivian and Woody would be up.  Vivian would spend an action getting her bow out.  Woody would probably give her and him colossus armor.  Will is out of legend....and as an elementalist is incredibly handicapped when out of legend.

Then the Geoff, marcus, sangria animal aspect pain train would descend down on them like no ones business.  Constant streams of 100 agg double attacks are a bitch.

I really thought Wednesday would win this one.  I really thought will could off him on the first go and that would even the fight out a lot.  But he didnt quite manage it(although geoff had like 1 hp at one point), and once the compelling presence is out, and sangria gets her animal bat going.....its pretty much over.

Sunday game characters are much MUCH more combat heavy, so it makes sense that they'd win, but I thought will could tip the scale.  However, in my original planned simulation, everyone was grouped up.  Which would make wills attacks 5x more effective, but when I changed that I think I should have forseen sundays eventual win.

(also annes gonna mention how aurora could put everyone in illusion boxes and sunday could do nothing except slowly die....and shes right)




16 comments:

  1. How did Sophia use all those Health boons after Aurora denied her access to the purview?

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    1. Happened on the same tick. So sophia didnt actually lose them til the next tick

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  2. Aurora might not be able to get Geoff and Goze in Illusion boxes, depending on the rolls involved. (But she could just dump them in Dreamworld instead, so there's still that.)

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  3. Couple of things I noticed:

    Goze- evil eyes all around, probably (try) mighty curse aurora's magic away though it probably wouldn't work

    Will - seeing the Sangria destructive force may have Water Vortexed her to let the rest focus on marcus and elementals would be devil bodied and baelfyr'd up too. Serious legend dump but it seems worth it

    Also, aurora should probably evil eyed goze, and taken away Sangria's Psp

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    1. Hmm, nobody's ever tried to use Mighty Curse on a PSP before. I'm not sure if the spell should work on PSPs, especially since they'd be easier to take away than APPs due to their fixed number of boons.

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    2. Goze didnt have the actions to evil eye all around. If he didnt do exactly what he did sangria and geoff would have died from will.

      And no way he cant get aurora with mighty curse, her average resist is 30 higher then his average roll.

      Will - Water vortex would have hit everyone, including his own team. Only people who wouldnt be taken out by the vortex would be sangria, marcus, vivian, and geoff after becoming a giant.

      Im not sure about devil bodying elementals...is that a thing? It sounds like you're mixing it up with absord light and shadow bodies. I think?

      I think after much thought everything will did that wasnt, become a giant, animal aspect, devil body, and then dragons breath baelfyr was a mistake. He lives so long, and dragons breath was wrecking things. Eventually, if he had enough dragons breath I think he could have won.

      And yeah, cant work on psps cuase Im not sure how it would work on arete, and they'd be super easy to take away forever.

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    3. On further thought....I cant decide about water vortex. It might be amazing

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    4. Mighty curse vs psp's would certainly require some work but I don't think it should be impossible. The average difficulty we've come across is 60. Thats with the cost of turning off the purview @ twice the boons the target possess in that purview.

      Now I'm no Sciontist, but if you set the difficulty at 4x the boons + legend rating, it should make up for the lack of boons, and tie in the strength of their ichor. It's not perfect but it's a starting point.

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  4. Multi-tasking is not as powerful as you were making it. You were giving them too many actions. They just get actions equal to epic dots.

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  5. Hrmmm....I did give will too many actions. But everyone elses seems right(compelling presence hits a lot of people for one action if you spend for it).

    But will could easily have the epic int of the others and have that many actions. I dont think the 8 epic int people even used their full actions ever.

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    1. Yeah, I was mostly looking at Will. Waaay too many actions. and Geoff's compelling presence. I didn't know you could do that on multiple people at once.

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    2. I'm glad you mentioned that - I think I might have noticed Will having too many actions and then not remembered to follow up on it in my brain.

      Yeah, you can CP as many people at once as you have Epic Appearance successes - it just costs a Legend for each one, so Geoff usually doesn't do more than a couple because he's bad at Legend conservation.

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    3. Will only has one extra action. Hes doing 6, 1 normal and 4 free with knack. But I fell into classic tom trap of thinking those actions were important, and then realizing(the thing I tell him every time and also forgot in the moment), just dragons breath....all other actions are sub par.

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  6. This makes me wonder if Opening Gambit should be restricted to a single action (maybe something like up to 1/2 your Epic Int dots if you have Multi-Tasking).

    Remember, Woody has a legend pool of 100 *and* Legendary Surge. There's no reason Will should be out of Legend that early in the fight.

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