Log:Post-Apocalyptic Dwarves, Scene 2

Post-Apocalyptic Dwarves 2020/02/14 Ascendant Artemis Charm Fauna Ghost Moonshadow Titan Thunder Firebeard The Mountain Stoutheart Stick-in-the-Mud 2

Princess Liandere and her escort, and a force sent out to find them, have disappeared on the way to Undermoon. The heroes have gone to find them, following their trail through a post-nuclear-and-biological-warfare wasteland. While investigating the scene of a battle on the trail, they discovered a hidden camera. Shortly afterwards, a hostile group of dwarves appeared, one shouting 'hit 'em hard and hit 'em fast' in their own language.

The dwarves are about 35m away (closest hero to closest dwarf), on the other side of the rock outcropping where the camera was hidden. close to one side of the broad valley you're passing through. Among the dwarves are 3 obvious metas: one giant, one with fire powers and one with a mud body. The thirteen other dwarves have high-tech armout, jet packs, a railgun - and an axe. One of them, who armour is more decorated, carries a lot more to boot. 

The dwarf who made the call to fight also leads the charge! Flying forward from the the shoulder of the giant, he fires on Fauna.

Stoutheart: a dwarf dressed like the aerial soldiers, though his armour is dark red and gold. In addition to the railgun, axe and jetpack, he is carrying a huge backpack and enough equipment to rival any D&D character.

As the weapon is aimed at Fauna, she lets another, MUCH LOUDER roar than the previous, and abruptly takes up a massive amount of space compared even to the dwarven giant. She becomes more bestial-looking complete with tail, fanged maw, slightly hunched posture, and her height becomes measured in hundred feet. The blast slams into her without question.

Fauna barely notices the weapon's effect on her, just barely. What little force manages to punch past her scales immediately seals itself (12 PD "scales", 8 PD "instant regen", all resistant)

The flaming red-bearded dwarf flies in, without aid of jetpack, and shoots a large ball of flame toward those closest to the path: Ghost, Charm, the elemental, Moonshadow and Thunder.

Firebeard: a dwarf with bright red long hair and longer beard, dressed all in black; the figure, and especially the hair and beard, is sheathed in flame.

Charm attempts to dive away from the flames.

Charm leaps clear of the fireball.

Moonshadow rises into the air, and fires a Dark Blast at the flaming dwarf

The fiery dwarf is knocked clean back over the outcropping.

Ghost seeks out the bext cover she can find within an hurried move, resorting to hiding behind the earth elemental if it comes down to that. Then she makes a quick incantation and gesture. The ground beneath the feet of the giant dwarf turns to a slippery greasy mud.

The giant's feet sink into the ground enough for it to trip, falling forward into the rock outcropping. Several pieces of rock are shaken loose.

Ghost says with some satisfaction, "Dwarves too big for their boots do tend to slip up. Or down in this case." Having watched the giant dwarf fall on his face.

Titan grows to full height...eight meters. Which might look incredibly impressive, if the giant dwarf (?) and Fauna weren't around. As soon as he's full height, he flies at the giant who has toppled over...going with the brute force method. "You all...made a very, very...big mistake!" He charges forward, trying to slam into the fallen giant...and hopefully knock it backward in taht mud.

The giant is knocked back - almost to the open door now visible in the cliff at the side of the valley.

The muddy dwarf gestures gloopy hands in Titan's direction, causing the outcropping to liquify and try to cease the (smallest of the) giants.

The dwarf soldiers, terrified by Titan's brutal attack, nevertheless have the presence of mind to get off their shots - coordinated no less. All at Titan.

Titan gets buffeted about by the incoming railgun fire. "So...want to try again? I mean..." He quirks an eyebrow as he looks down at the dwarves.

Artemis flies into the fray, getting closer to the dwarves. She leads with her shield, weaving past the gigantic Fauna to find a spot to align with the most dwarves that opened fire on Titan. She draws back her sword and swings it forward in a sweep horizontal slice, the blade segmenting and stretching out towards her opponents as it turns into a bladed whip.

Artemis realizes the troops are too far, so instead brings her sword down on Firebeard.

Firebeard is knocked back, beyond the soldiers.

Ghost cheers on Artemis, encouraging her to slice and dice the  dwarf. Fortunately for the censor, she has reverted in the stress of the dituation to using her birth language of Old Saxon.

Thunder crouches down where he is, then suddenly leaps forward like a freakishly human super strong teenager he is right at the minions. He trusts the others to handle that, but well... you need a tough guy to handle this problem of minions, and a tough guy is what he is! His aim is at the nearest as he brings back a fist mid-air and throughs out a punch even as he land.

Thunder connects - and find the dwarf's armour is hard.

.. except he's knocked back 10m.

The giant rolls to her feet, wiping blood from her nose - and grinning. She charges at Titan, trying to return the compliment...

The Mountain fails to pick herself (yes, she, though only those with good knowledge of dwarves can tell) off the ground, which persists in being muddy beneath her. But she find a loose boulder within her considerable reach. She throws it at Titan.

Teh rock bounces off of Titan. He looks at her and says with disdain, "Is that the best you can do? Seriously?"

The giant says, <>

Titan raises a brow again, clearly not understanding any of the words coming out of the giant's mouth. "Uh huh. Whatever."

The red-armoured dwarf turns on the speed and races to where Charm leapt away from the flames, trying to grab her!

The dwarf swoops down on Charm, only for the lesser earth elemental, with surprising speed to leap in the way! Ghost also makes the attempt, though her footing proves poor and she falls short. The surprised dwarf flies away with the elemental!

Firebeard can't help but notice that Titan has rather shaken the dwarves. She turns her fire on him, hoping his tough flesh is more susceptible to fire!

Titan is again struck by the fire, but doesn't seem any worse for wear. "I'm finding you lot tiresome at this point."

Charm gets to her feet, but, realising she's a particular target, does nothing more than ready herself to dodge attacks.

Moonshadow flies after Stoutheart, and sends a Dark Bolt his way as well

The blast knocks the dwarf 10m further away!

He then drops the elemental.

Stick-in-the-Mud decides it's clear he won't be able to hold Titan, so he stops doing that - instead trying to force mud into his lungs to prevent him from breathing!

The earth forces itself into Titan's lungs, though found it meets resistance from the air pressure within!

Titan finds himself released from the bonds of earth, only to find he has to hold his breath.

<> shouts on of the soldiers. And so they fly, in two squads of 6, to face the other nearby available targets: Artemis and Thunder.

Artemis brings up her shield as the dwarves open fire, smiling eagerly. The shots ping and spark off her shield, one catching the edge and nearly hitting her. Her smile grows as she gets ready to return the favor.

With a mighty crack Thunder is driven back deep into solid rock by the magnetically propelled projectiles.

Titan holds his breath for the time being. He heads for the fiery dwarf who has been taking shots at Ghost and Charm. He flies up, coming level with her...and then tries to clock her with a right.

Flamebeard is bashed 10m forward. She's beginning to look a bit shaken.

The elemental gets up from where it was dropped and starts running back toward Charm.

MegaFauna takes a couple of steps toward Flamebeard, letting another terrifying roar and slamming a huge hand-shaped appendage down upon the skittering dwarf, helpfully arresting the momentum!

Firebeard is swatted hard into the ground, and her flame flickers out.

The Mountain roars in frustration as the ground continues to refuse to support her weight, and the cowardly enemy stay out of reach.