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The Brass Key - Turn 1.9 - Jirdunian Navigator - Round 3

Name	Watch	Notes
KC	2
Martin Vane	1	Lesser Enchantment on everyone.
Morty Crystaltouched	1	True Seeing
Pellanistra Xarann	3	25% DR vs Slash, Crush, Puncture & Elemental. Ebon Talisman Shadow Step. 50% resistant to drain
Shaarilla	3
Syllivarrna Obanghall	2
Tyra Stellastrom	4	Mental Perception
Randle Hewlet
Tomas Hale		Divine Insights - July 1/1

ROUND 1

KC - Holds position and studies creature, looking for a pattern.
Martin - Activates power perception.
Morty - Cast True Seeing.
Lani - Half move, quick draw, attack.
Randle - Move into room 4.
Shaarilla -
Syl - Act defensively and block access to vulture ship helm.
Tyra - Activate mental perception.


ROUND 2

KC - Cast All Sense.
Martin - Studies creature.
Morty - Studies creature and gets a lot of information. He also assisted Lani in when to attack.
Lani - Attacks and hits with help from Morty on when to strike.
Randle - Remains in cabin 4 and does nothing.
Shaarilla -
Syl - Continues blocking access to vulture ship helm.
Tyra - Attacks psionically but hits wrong possibility.



TYRA: Tyra nods to Morty upon hearing his revelation. She readies for another attack but waits for his cue.

TYRA (GM): Does Tyra feel her Psychic Crush is the right attack given the situation or would Psionic Blast be better? I'm assuming it's not psionic so I can't use Mind Thrust or Ego Whip, for example. Then again, maybe the mental strands count as a psionic target.

GM: At this point, Tyra is not certain but feel free to send a mental perception roll as well as your attacks to determine what you might learn from an attack.

MORTY (OOC): It looks like you (KC) used the wrong sign for the strike chance keyword, isn't it supposed to be a hyphen? (-) It makes no sense that you rolled a 7 and it subracted 32 to get the defense you hit. It should be a good chance of a crit if you manage to target it at the right time. I am curious to see which thread group that weapon hits because it might be a different one as a ranged attack vs a melee one. I don't think it makes sense to think that it hasn't already bonded fully with the Vulture ship's helm, it had plenty of opportunity to do so before it got here, we need to prevent it from getting to OUR ship's helm. It still might make sense to block its access to it because it might be able to draw power from it or activate something in their helm though.

Character	Penalties	Turn
KC		KC: I will Quickdraw my Dagger of Accuracy and using my All Sense and Morty's directions I will hold my attack til the navigator is physically at a instance to attack. Quickdraw Dagger [rolled 178 (Absolute Success)] Dagger of Accuracy PB 20ft -1 per ft. Range penalty reduction of 18% Only on the first throw it will only hit the one targeted and miss all allies and than return to sheath afterward. Attack roll: Init [rolled 10] SC [rolled 130-58 = 72 - Hit DEF 72 or less] DMG [rolled 10] AP 45 [rolled 99] Grevious 47 [rolled 11]
Martin		MARTIN: Attack with +2 Long Sword. All attack will be held actions, waiting for guidance from Morty. Attack 1, Init [rolled 13], Strike Chance [rolled 98 - Automatic miss!], DMG [rolled 14], Threat [rolled 44] Attack 2, Init [rolled 12], Strike Chance [rolled 134-11 = 123 - Hit DEF 123 or less (Crit DEF 64)], DMG [rolled 15], Threat [rolled 67] Attack 3, Init [rolled 7], Strike Chance [rolled 134-74 = 60 - Hit DEF 60 or less], DMG [rolled 18], Threat [rolled 40]
Morty		MORTY: I will spend all my energy working on the patterns and looking for hints and clues as to what the other groupings of threads are. Rolls are already made for this round I believe, if it does come at me I will dodge of course, call it fighting defensively or dodging whichever works.
Lani		LANI: Unsure whether martial arts attacks will have any effect, Lani decides to try them along with her sword. She only attacks when Morty indicates that she should. Attack 1 (Fist) - Init [rolled 18], SC [rolled 160-11 = 149 - Hit DEF 149 or less (Crit DEF 90)], Dmg [rolled 2 3 (+5)- Total: 10], Threat [rolled 57] Attack 2 (Flame Tongue) - Init [rolled 14], SC [rolled 136-48 = 88 - Hit DEF 88 or less], Dmg [rolled 14], Threat [rolled 76] Attack 3 (Kick) - Init [rolled 13], SC [rolled 150-26 = 124 - Hit DEF 124 or less], Dmg [rolled 6 3 (+6)- Total: 15], Threat [rolled 19]
Randle		RANDLE: Randle will continue to hold his action but will burn a spell point to look at the creature with power perception. RANDLE: Power Perception skill roll: [rolled 88 (Partial Success)]
Shaarilla
Syl		SYL: In round 2, while blocking the helm from the Navigator, Syl will try to contact Veyra's Whisper and determine why the Navigator seems to not want to get near it. SYL: In round 3, hold her action.
Tyra	-15	TYRA: Mental Perception [rolled 153 (Success)] Attack 1: Psychic Crush: Init [rolled 3], [rolled 89-19 = 70 - Hit DEF 70 or less], dmg [rolled 5 5 (+4)- Total: 14], Threat 30-: [rolled 3] Attack 2: Psychic Crush: Init [rolled 4], [rolled 89-4 = 85 - Hit DEF 85 or less (Crit DEF 65/Grievous DEF 19)], dmg [rolled 6 4 (+4)- Total: 14], Threat 30-: [rolled 51] Attack 3: Psychic Crush: Init [rolled 1], [rolled 89-36 = 53 - Hit DEF 53 or less], dmg [rolled 3 4 (+4)- Total: 11], Threat 30-: [rolled 54] Penalties applied.

THE NAVIGATOR — ROUND 3

Morty has barely finished calling out the locations of the physical strands when the Navigator shifts again.

This time, however, the group is ready.

Morty is watching the strands.

KC is watching the physical manifestation.

And everyone else is waiting for the instant Morty tells them to strike.

For the first time since the battle began, the Navigator is being forced to react rather than simply manipulate the situation.

KC

KC's dagger flashes into his hand with almost impossible speed.

His Quickdraw is an Absolute Success.

For a moment, the Dagger of Accuracy seems almost to disappear from his hand.

KC waits.

He doesn't throw at the creature he sees.

He waits for the creature to become the correct creature.

Morty suddenly calls out: "Now! Three feet to your left!"

KC throws.

The dagger streaks across the corridor and strikes precisely where Morty indicated.

There is a sharp metallic PING.

One of the Navigator's physical strands snaps.

The dagger immediately reverses direction, flying back toward KC and settling neatly into its sheath.

KC's All Sense confirms what Morty has already seen.

The physical manifestation of the Navigator becomes noticeably less stable.

Another physical anchor is gone.

---

Martin

Martin keeps his sword ready, refusing to waste an attack on one of the Navigator's false possibilities.

His first opening comes and goes too quickly.

Miss.

But Morty doesn't call out.

"Not that one."

Then Martin sees it.

The Navigator seems to lean forward—

Morty shouts: "WAIT!"

The creature shifts.

For an instant, it is almost somewhere else.

Then Morty points. "NOW!"

Martin's longsword comes around in a powerful arc.

The blade strikes.

And this time, it isn't simply a hit.

Something breaks.

The impact produces no sound that the ears can hear, but everyone feels it as a pressure wave passing through the ship.

One of the Navigator's physical strands shatters completely.

Martin's critical hit has severed another physical anchor.

The creature recoils.

For the first time, it appears genuinely unsettled.

---

Lani

Lani has been waiting.

She watches Morty rather than the Navigator.

That is the key.

The creature appears to move.

Morty shakes his head. "Not yet."

It moves again. "Wait..."

Lani shifts her stance.

The Navigator suddenly becomes solid.

Morty points. "THERE!"

Lani launches herself forward.

Her fist connects first.

The impact is real—but Morty immediately sees that it struck the physical manifestation without hitting the particular strand he was targeting.

Then Lani's Flame Tongue comes around.

The blade catches the Navigator at precisely the moment its physical presence intersects the strand.

CRACK.

The critical strike severs another connection.

The Navigator staggers.

Lani follows with her kick, but Morty is already shouting: "Enough! Don't waste it!"

The physical strands are becoming harder to find.

And Morty now understands why.

He counts them.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Five.

Then he realizes—

Only two physical strands remain.

The group has already destroyed five.

The Navigator's physical body flickers violently.

For a moment, everyone can see several versions of it occupying the corridor simultaneously.

Then they collapse back into one.

---

Morty

Morty barely notices the attacks around him.

His entire attention is focused on the patterns.

Seven groups.

He knows two.

Physical.

Mental.

And now the physical group is almost gone.

But the other five continue to bother him.

They are different.

Very different.

One pulses in a rhythm that reminds him of magic.

Another seems to extend through the ship's walls.

One appears to have some relationship to distance itself.

Another feels strangely familiar.

And the last...

Morty cannot even describe what it feels like.

He tries to match the patterns.

He compares the timing of the strands.

He watches what happens when the physical anchors break.

He watches what happens when Tyra attacks mentally.

Slowly, something begins to emerge.

Not an answer.

A possibility.

The seven groups may not all be things the Navigator possesses.

Some may be things that the Navigator is connected to.

Morty doesn't yet know what that means.

But he is certain of one thing:

"We're not just cutting it apart. We're disconnecting it."

And that distinction suddenly seems very important.

---

Randle

Randle burns a spell point and focuses his Power Perception on the Navigator.

The result is frustrating.

There is power everywhere.

Magic.

Psionic energy.

Something stranger underneath.

But the Navigator's presence is so complicated that Randle can't isolate anything useful.

His Partial Success confirms that the creature is drawing upon multiple kinds of power, but provides no new understanding of the five unidentified strand groups.

He knows something is there.

He simply doesn't know what it means.

---

Syl and Veyra's Whisper

Syl remains exactly where she wants to be.

Between the Navigator and the helm.

The Navigator shifts toward her.

Then stops.

Again.

It doesn't attack.

It doesn't even seem willing to come within a certain distance of her.

Syl lowers her gaze to the sword.

"Why?"

For several seconds, Veyra's Whisper says nothing.

Then the sword speaks.

Not aloud.

The voice appears directly inside Syl's mind.

"Because it knows what I am."

Syl feels a faint vibration through the hilt.

"It lives among the things that might be."

A pause.

"I cut the things that might have been."

Syl feels the sword become strangely cold.

Then—

A memory that isn't hers flashes through her mind.

She sees the Navigator standing in a corridor that looks almost exactly like this one.

A sword is raised against it.

But the sword doesn't strike the creature.

It cuts the space beside it.

And suddenly one of the Navigator's possible forms simply ceases to exist.

The vision disappears.

Veyra's Whisper speaks again.

"Do not ask me to cut it yet."

Another pause.

"Not until you know which possibility must die."

Syl understands that the sword is afraid of nothing.

But it is being careful.

And that may be much more significant.

---

Tyra

Tyra steadies herself.

The mental backlash from the previous round is still present, but her Mental Perception succeeds.

This time, Morty is ready.

He can see the mental strands.

He understands what Tyra needs to do.

"Don't attack the body!" Morty shouts.

"Find the mind behind it!"

Tyra reaches out with her psychic power.

The Navigator's mind explodes across her awareness.

Not one mind.

Many.

Tyra chooses one.

Morty suddenly sees the correct strand brighten.

"THAT ONE!"

Tyra's Psychic Crush strikes.

The attack connects.

For an instant, the Navigator's entire body freezes.

One of its possible selves screams.

Tyra feels the connection.

She has actually grabbed part of it this time.

But something is wrong.

The mental strand bends instead of breaking.

Tyra pushes harder.

The Navigator slips sideways through its own possibilities.

The strand remains intact.

Tyra has hit one of the mental anchors, but she has not severed it.

And both Tyra and Morty understand why.

Tyra is powerful enough to attack it.

But the mental structure is too distributed.

One mind cannot completely collapse it.

Morty looks at Tyra.

Then at the Navigator.

Then at the other members of the group.

"Tyra can reach it."

He points toward the shifting creature.

"But she can't hold all of it by herself."

He looks around the group.

"Someone else needs to attack it mentally."

Then he realizes something else.

Tyra isn't the only one who can do this.

Lani has a trained mind capable of striking beyond the physical.

Morty himself can potentially reach it.

And Shaarilla possesses the mental abilities necessary to interact with the Navigator's consciousness.

Morty looks at them.

"Tyra has found the door."

His eyes return to the Navigator.

"We need someone else to help hold it open."

The Navigator suddenly turns toward Tyra.

For the first time, there is something resembling fear in its expression.

And behind it, Morty sees the remaining mental strands begin to brighten.

---

THE NAVIGATOR — ROUND 3: RETALIATION

The Navigator staggers as another physical strand breaks.

For the first time, its movements become violent.

The creature's form stretches sideways, its body briefly becoming transparent as dozens of possible versions overlap one another.

Then it stops.

It looks directly at KC.

KC — The Wrong Wound

KC barely has time to react.

The Navigator raises one hand.

KC suddenly sees himself standing several feet away.

He sees the Navigator's blade—or perhaps it is a claw, or perhaps something else entirely—sweep across his chest.

He instinctively flinches.

Then the vision disappears.

But the pain remains.

A deep slash suddenly opens across KC's chest.

There is no weapon.

There was never a weapon.

The Navigator has simply taken a wound from one possible future and made it real.

GM: KC takes 6 points of damage - (rolled 3d6: 1, 2, 3 — total 6 damage)

The wound is real, and blood begins to soak through his clothing.

KC immediately realizes that the Navigator is doing something more than attacking his body.

It has attacked a possibility of his body.

GM: KC may attempt a Magic Save. A successful save will cause some or all of the damage to become non-lethal rather than lethal.

---

Martin — The Impossible Strike

Martin sees the Navigator turn toward him.

He raises his longsword.

The Navigator disappears.

Martin spins.

Nothing.

Then—

WHAM!
Something strikes him from behind.

Martin never sees the attack.

He turns just in time to see the Navigator standing several feet in front of him.

It never moved.

Yet Martin has been struck.

The attack came from a position the Navigator occupied in another possibility.

Martin staggers forward, pain exploding across his back and shoulder.

GM: Martin takes 11 points of damage - (rolled 3d8: 2, 1, 8 — total 11 damage)

Martin realizes with growing alarm that normal defenses may not be enough.

How do you defend against an attack that comes from somewhere the attacker wasn't?

GM: Martin may attempt a Magic Save. A successful save will cause some or all of the damage to become non-lethal rather than lethal.

---

Lani — The Death That Almost Happened

The Navigator looks at Lani.

For just an instant, she sees the corridor differently.

She is lying on the floor.

Her Flame Tongue is several feet away.

There is blood everywhere.

The Navigator is standing over her.

She sees herself dead.

Then she feels the wound.

Lani's body reacts before her mind can understand what is happening.

Pain tears through her.

She feels herself falling.

But something in her training refuses to accept what she is seeing.

The vision collapses.

Lani is still standing.

Still holding her sword.

But the damage from that possible death has followed her back.

GM: Lani takes 11 points of damage - (rolled 3d6: 6, 3, 2 — total 11 damage)

The Navigator has shown her a death that almost happened.

And then it made part of that death real.

GM: Lani may attempt a Mental Save. A successful save can convert some or all of the damage to non-lethal damage.

---

Tyra — The Mind That Isn't Yours

The Navigator's attention shifts to Tyra.

This time, there is no physical attack.

Tyra suddenly hears her own voice inside her head.

You failed.

Another voice answers.

You will fail again.

Then another.

You already know how this ends.

Tyra recognizes the voices.

They're hers.

All of them.

Different versions of herself.

Different possibilities.

Some are frightened.

Some are angry.

Some are screaming.

One is completely calm.

You are already dead.

Tyra's mind is suddenly flooded with possible thoughts that aren't actually hers.

The Navigator is forcing possibilities into her consciousness.

Pain follows.

GM: Tyra takes 11 points of non-lethal damage - (rolled 3d6: 4, 1, 6 — total 11 non-lethal damage)

But the attack is doing something else.

Tyra feels the Navigator pressing against the same mental structure she touched earlier.

The mental strand she attacked is still there.

The Navigator is using it to reach back into her mind.

GM: Tyra may attempt a Mental Save.

GM: If she succeeds, the -15 penalty to her actions next round may be reduced or eliminated, depending upon the degree of success.

GM: If she fails, the full -15 penalty remains.

---

Morty

Morty sees all four attacks.

But what interests—and frightens—him most is what happens between them.

The Navigator doesn't simply attack.

Each attack seems to originate from somewhere.

Not a physical location.

A connection.

Morty's True Seeing reveals something he hadn't noticed before.

When the Navigator attacks KC, one of the unidentified groups of strands briefly brightens.

When it strikes Martin, another responds.

When it attacks Lani, Morty sees a different pattern again.

And when it reaches into Tyra's mind, the mental strands flare.

Morty stares.

He now has a terrible suspicion.

The seven groups aren't merely different ways to hurt the Navigator.

They may each represent a different way the Navigator is connected to reality.

And one of those unknown groups appears to be connected to him.

Morty feels a sudden pressure behind his eyes.

Not pain.

Not yet.

More like the sensation of someone reaching through a locked door and testing the handle.

He instinctively takes a step backward.

The pressure stops.

Morty's eyes widen.

The Navigator turns toward him.

For a fraction of a second, Morty sees something that none of the others see.

A strand extending from the Navigator toward himself.

It is unlike the physical strands.

Unlike the mental strands.

It seems to pass through his memories, his magical knowledge, and even the patterns he is currently trying to understand.

Morty realizes:

Whatever that strand represents, the Navigator is aware that he is looking for it.

And someday soon, it is probably going to attack him through it.

Morty doesn't know what that attack will be.

But he has a horrible feeling that when it comes, it may be something esoteric and debilitating—something that attacks him through whatever aspect of reality that unidentified strand represents.

At the same time, Morty realizes that such an attack might be exactly what he needs.

If the Navigator attacks him through that strand, he may finally be able to determine what that sixth—or perhaps third—connection actually is.

The realization gives him very little comfort.

The Navigator has just shown them that it can make possible wounds real.

And Morty has the distinct impression that it has just noticed how much he is learning.

---

The Navigator

The creature straightens.

Four of the party have been struck.

Two physical anchors remain.

The mental structure has been disturbed.

And the Navigator knows that Morty is beginning to understand the pattern.

Its voice comes from everywhere at once.

"You should have left."

The walls of the vulture ship groan.

The Navigator smiles.

"They did."

For an instant, the corridor is filled with the faint outlines of the eight original inhabitants of the ship.

They stand exactly where the Navigator's victims once stood.

And then they are gone.

The Navigator looks at the group.

"They learned too."

Its form flickers.

"And then they died."

The two remaining physical strands suddenly flare brightly.

Morty sees them.

He knows exactly where they are.

But something else has changed.

One of the five unidentified groups has begun to resonate.

And Morty has the unmistakable feeling that the Navigator is about to show them what it does.

---

LANI: Mental save 108 [rolled 75 vs save of 108 - Success Minus]