[Kontact]

Roll to destroy barrier when you're ready inca.

[inca1980]

Ok cool, doing a "suppressive fire" roll which uses up two "shots" from my fuel tank.  Flamethrower(suppressive) 3 + Agility 4 + Pointblank 2 = (9d6.hits(5)=0)→ [1,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,2] = (0).  Whew, didn't glitch. Dang, well can I still be doing the base damage since it's against a barrier?
I'll also move back as soon as I shoot.

[joe15552]

Oof... that's a tough roll...

At least we got some fire goin! WOOT!

[Kontact]

Well, with suppressive fire, the most damage you could do is base damage.

So the wall rolls its reaction + edge and gets zero hits.

But this stuff is more structure than armor, so base of 6p is enough to do damage, and the burning will continue each turn, diminishing by 1p every two turns to account for the two shots expended.

rolling the dub armor to check for how much damage is happening each turn.
so, 5Ps on the burn for the first turn and another 5Ps for turn two, which is enough to bust it.

[Crossbow]

I am sorry, I just gotta say it... you missed a wall with a flamethrower firing in suppression?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

 

Okay I'm good now.

 

[Kontact]

Well, you can't really miss with an attack vs. barrier.  He just didn't do any extra damage from aiming well etc.

You guys are going to be happy about that as the flames won't spread as fast among the wall of garbage as it pours down the stairwell.

As to the stairwell, the barrier was not so much to block passage as to hold back the piles of stuff that have now started to come down like an avalanche.  A burning avalanche of crushed up furniture and debris, sucking all the air out of the area.

[AJBuwalda]

Perception check; walking up the stairs with trying to spot enemies.

4d6.hits(5) → [3,6,4,4] = (1)

[Crossbow]

Do we need any dodge or body rolls to avoid the debris?  If not, Digger will just follow ruckus up the stairs.

[Kontact]

I think you are all underestimating the amount of stuff here.  When I say avalanche, it's not meant as hyperbole.

That wasn't a wall, it was a dam.  The passage had been blocked off and then filled from above with literal tons of stuff.
If it wasn't impassible before it was set on fire, it sure as hell is now.  Every second the fire gets bigger and the smoke gets worse.

Pretty soon, anyone without self-contained air is going to have to resist suffocation damage from oxygen deprivation.

[joe15552]

I completely misunderstood, then. I thought that the way was clear.

Is the only option on foot to go right back down the stairs? Or are we stuck, unable to move surrounded by flaming debris?

[Kontact]

So... you're out of the stairwell and into the halls.

Are you going to explore this place, or just head off to one of the other stairwells/elevators to try and find one that's unobstructed?

[Crossbow]

I have waited to speak or act, but it seems there to say that might be a problem with the health of this game.  I want to say that I am checking in every day, and responding when I feel like I have something useful to say or do.

I know that other players have been here and active on the forum in the time our game as lulled (with the exception of etherial, who seems to have dropped off the earth) so I just wanted to get a heads-up as to other people's commitment.

That said, I will go ahead and say that Digger will start trying to make his way in the best guess direction of  another stairwell.

[joe15552]

Yeah, might just be me and you, Crossbow. lol! Let's take this whole bug army on by ourselves! ROAR

[Kontact]

okay!  moving forward!

And by forward, I mean counter-clockwise.

Unless you wanted to go forward instead of right..
OH WELL, TOO LATE.

[inca1980]

If the coast seems clear to Machete, then he's gonna pull out the climbing gear and start moving up the shaft.