The Crow Father Fight

[Vardaen]

Well, you guys won, the easy way!

That fight had 3 ways to win.

The first was to succeed on a Difficult -10, Charm or Intimidate test to snap Aristarchus out it and allow him to end the ritual -- this is exaclt what jericus did. Damien's rolls were too bad to succeed. On a note, Jericus is the only one trained in Charm, and Soliara is the only one trained in Intimidate. Remember untrained skills use half the stat instead.

The second way was to shoot out/chop out both of Skae's Eyes. Skae was The Crow Father, the Deamon Tysiak himself in possessing Skae's dead body at that point. You guessed right his weakness was his eyes, and it was -30 BS or -20 Melee to target the eyes in combat.

The third way was to just go toe to toe with the deamon until you killed it. This was going to be wicked hard.

First off its power over the mind to control you and call to you. If someone was preaching (like Rego did EVERY SINGLE FIGHT EXCEPT FOR THIS ONE!!!!!!) then each round you'd get another Willpower roll to resist the power and act normally. Since when does the cleric not preachs, tsk tsk.

So Skae's stats were something like this

WS 48, BS 20, S 55 (Mod 10!), T 53 (Mod 10!), Int 58, Per 53, WP 50, Fel 60

It had Unnatural Toughness and Strength, meaning its Str Mod was +10 so it does +10 dmg on all melee attacks! And its T of a 10 means it soaks 10 just from its toughensss, no counting armor!

Movement: 5

Wounds 37!!!!

A host of skills.

Talents: Hard Target, Lighting Reflexes, Spirnt (Which I forgot to use!), Swift Attack(two around as a full action!)

Traits: All sort of daemon traits, which gave it fear, immunity to fear, etc, etc. Also Damonic Presense so within a certina range you make WP (-10) ot in its seething aura or bad things happen to you.

Weapon: Brute strength 1d5+10I, Primitive

Oooouch.

[Trogdor]

But delightfully vulnerable eyes!

Take that daemon!

[Vardaen]

You guys also missed a clue in the Clota, since no one 'searched' Aristarchus's room. But you can find it in the aftermath.

[ManWithDoor]

D'oh! Well I'm sure we'll be gathering up all his things in his room too ... once we finish getting over the fact that we didn't die or go insane from this.

[jigglypuff69]

Fight? What fight? Solaria wasn't in any fight... AGAIN!!!!

Good job guys, you two won the day for all of us. And more preaching Rego!

We were too busy trying to save the town to look through the Seer's underwear drawer...

[Vardaen]

I'ms ure he has some things in there that Solaria will like. His "dilicates" are rather feminine

What I've discovered in this game is that they have aLOT of fear checks and the like, Willpower is quite clearly even more important than weapon skills it appears. Even with bonuses its still hard to make all the checks.

[Trogdor]

It also makes some of the talents that help against Fear checks a lot more useful than I thought they would be, like Resistance (Fear), Unshakable Faith, or (even better) Fearless. Of course, some of those come very late, or not at all, to many of us.

[MadVlat]

Just one thing that could of caused Rego not to preach during the battle and that can be summed up in one word, "DRUGS". I think Solaria put the wrong stuff in the injector...

[jigglypuff69]

We can spend more and get them early per the GM approval.

[Vardaen]

the GM not against allowing some certain elite advanaces, since it's clear you'll need/want some of these abilities against fear.