Moon Goddess: Scene 17

Introduction to this thread: The Moon Goddess Is A Harsh Mistress
Explanation of Mythic elements: What's All This Mythic Stuff?
Previous Scene: Scene 16

SCENE 17
In which Katja and Nina attempt to ambush two guards, take their clothes, and leave the ship undetected. It doesn't work out so well...

CHARACTERS
The Silver Huntress (her deity)
Soldiers/Police
Drachen (her old warhorse)
Nina
Nina's Mother
Nina's Father
The Hard Man with the Nasty Scar
Susi
Yuliya
Igor
Deidre
Nina's uncle Ulrich
The target of Nina's hunt
Hamid
Professor Nasir
The Commissar
Fanquin Lanfeng
The girls from New Zealand

THREADS
* Escape to freedom
* Solve the mystery of Nina's mother
* Decipher the writing on the menhir
* Deliver antique sword to the target of Nina's hunt
* Investigate the Moon Goddess Cult in New Zealand
* Rescue Igor

CHAOS FACTOR: 7

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The scene is altered (ask some questions to see how).

Q: Instead encountering two female members of the crew, do they encounter a single crew person of Katja's size [50/50]? No.
Q: A single woman of Nina's size [50/50]? No.
Q: Two smallish (but male) guards [50/50]? Yes.

Roaming the halls of the ship looking for two female crew members to ambush, Katja and Nina instead come face-to-face with two armed guards. They are men, but not particularly large.

Q: Are the guards looking for Katja or Nina [Unlikely]? No.

One of the guards tips his hat to Katja (who was dressed in reasonably attractive clothing by Nina). Katja smiles and drops her purse.

Q: Does Nina take the hint and go for a knock-out blow of the a guard as he bend down to pick up Katja's purse [Likely]? No (I'll assume the guard doesn't bother to bend down).

The guard just stares at her.

Katja looks at the guard and says (in German), "aren't there any gentlemen in this country?" She then clutches her holy symbol and attempts to cast Hold Person [TN9] on the larger of the two. With a roll of 20, she succeeds by a wide margin (so much so that I won't bother having the guard resist).

Nina then winds up with [Q: The butt of her pistol (50/50)? Yes] the butt of her pistol and tries to knock out the surprised smaller one.

NOTE: Up until this point, I haven't defined Nina's cliches. I'll define at least one of them now.

Q: Does Nina have at least 4 dice in a cliche that involves knocking out mooks (something like Super-Spy or Intelligence Operative) (Likely)? Yes.

Nina rolls 15 on her cliche to knock out the remaining solider.

Q: Is this enough to knock him out without a fight [Very likely]? No! That means we'll start a combat.
Q: Does the soldier have at least Tough Russian Soldier (4) [Unlikely]? Yes.
Q: Does the soldier shout for help before fighting back [Unlikely]? Yes.

Letting out a shout, the soldier balls his fist and prepares to strike Nina. Nina crouches into a combat stance while Katja grabs the other soldier's gun and brandishes it.

RISUS: Katja is Teaming Up with Nina but has no relevant cliches. Thus, the rules for When Somebody Can't Participate are invoked (adding two dice to everyone).

The soldier rolls 28 on 6 dice. Nina rolls 16 and Katja doesn't roll any 6's. Thus, Nina loses 3 dice due to a critical [1d6 damage if margin is 10+] as a powerful blow sends her sprawling.

Katja rushes to Nina's side with a quick word of encouragement and attempt to heal her and boost her spirits with divine magic. She rolls 10 to perform the minor healing and Nina gets up with only a bloody nose (she is now only 1 die down in her "Super Spy" cliche).

Q: Does Nina have a secondary cliche with 4 dice that will help in this situation [50/50]? Yes.
Q: Remembering the Indiana Jones character that inspired her, I'm guessing that it is something like "Fencing Master". Is there anything lying around that she can use as an improvised sword [Unlikely]? Extreme yes! Nina had her sword the whole time.

Nina whips out her previously disguised sword and prepares to strike. In a hushed whisper, Katja says "don't kill him!".

Q: Does Nina go for the kill [50/50]? No.

Nina instead aims to inflict pain. She rolls 23 to the soldier's 22. He is now down 1 die from a painful stab-wound in his right arm.

Q: It has now been several seconds, do the combatants hear anybody else approaching [Unlikely (the odds will go up every turn)]? Yes.

Katja: "End it now or we must flee!"

In a rage, the soldier moves to pick up his rifle and aim it at Nina. Nina pumps her Fencing Master cliche to 5 dice in a dramatic lunge. Katja summons her Moonblade and assists.

RISUS: When Somebody Can't Participate no longer applies so every uses their regular dice totals.

The soldier rolls 14. Nina rolls 23. Katja casts her spell but doesn't bring it to bear in time [she didn't roll any 6's]. The soldier drops to two dice as he takes another sword wound in his shoulder. Nina was aiming for the heart.

The fight is taking place in a narrow hall below deck. One soldier is frozen in place and another bleeding and yelling in pain. Nina and Katja are both brandishing weapons (a sword and mystical scimitar respectively).

Katja: "Get him to yield!"

Nina: "I think we're beyond that!'

Nina attacks with her (now reduced) Fencing Master cliche, rolling 9 on 3 dice as her emotions get the better of her technique. Seemingly unwilling to kill the guard, Katja doesn't offer much help [she didn't roll any 6's to assist]. The soldier rolls 7 and loses another die, as his wounds have almost caught up with him.

Q: Do more guards show up now [50/50]? Yes.
Q: Another two [Likely]? Yes.
Q: Are they mooks (a 3 die grunt squad) [50/50]? Yes.

The wounded guard yells something and the other soldiers advance with their guns pointed forward, shouting things in Russian. Nina is about ready to lower her sword when Katja utters another prayer to the Silver Huntress in attempt to summon a celestial wolf [She rolls 14 on TN12 and succeeds]. It appears in front of the advancing soldiers and starts attacking.

The Celestial Wolf (3) attacks the soldiers but only rolls 5. The soliders bring their guns to bear, shoot, and roll 7 to wound it. Nina chooses this moment to finnish off the wounded soldier. She rolls 10 to his 1 and puts him down.

Nina: "Come on, while your demon wolf fights those two. Let's run!"

Katja follows and the two try to find another way off the ship.

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CHARACTERS - No change (soldiers already on the list and the celestial wolf is a temporary ally).

UPDATED THREADS
* Escape to freedom
* Solve the mystery of Nina's mother
* Decipher the writing on the menhir
* Deliver antique sword to the target of Nina's hunt
* Investigate the Moon Goddess Cult in New Zealand
* Rescue Igor

Updated Chaos Factor 8