The jungle's a nightmare now: lazers and arrows fill the air, the wolves are snarling and yowling, the laser carbine's heating coil smells like copper over the dull rotting green smell of the jungle.
Mara knows better than to get directly into the fray with the bullets, lasers, and arrows flying. She's going to mind blast them again instead, ignoring her headache.
That'll let you inflict 1 shift of stress. If you go up to +3 shifts with another invoke, you can have Mara discover one of their aspects and get a free invoke on it.
Okay. One of the two wolves takes 1 shift of stress.
(each wolf has two stress boxes.)
Top of the round... wolves again.
Confused by the static in their skulls but unable to find its source, and frustrated by Edward's quick escape into the canopy, the wolves focus their starving rage on Sirac.
@Shalvenay Okay, Metal Skin needs you to sacrifice your turn's action to activate it, so you'll have to wait 'til your next turn to get the mechanical effect.
With a mighty shake of his muscled neck, he rips the wolf's tail--and part of its mechanical spine--free, making the animal collapse in a twitching heap beneath him.
Now that the battlefield's cleared out some (and she feels the need to show off a bit), Mara is going to go all out, aiming to punch the wolf right in the face.
Mara will invoke her high concept (she's a forceful battlemage, gosh darn it!) to turn it into a +3. She doesn't even care. She keeps punching, right into its mouth.
It's now the wolf's turn. He's going to concede the fight: you get what you want (not being eaten, and a lazer tail) and he doesn't get what he wants (a meal)--but he's not dead!
The wolf uses its grip on Mara's hand to flip her toward Sirac, giving it cover from the lazer carbine long enough to slip into the mists of the jungle.
As quickly as it started, the fight is over. The jungle is deathly quiet except for the drip of blood from Edward's jaw and the ping of the carbine cooling down.
@Althis, I'm going to suggest that your tail, in addition to narratively allowing you to attack from a couple zones away, gives you this stunt:
> At the beginning of any conflict, as a free action and before anyone else acts, you can attempt to Flashily create an advantage that demonstrates how impressive a combatant you are.
(This stacks with the +2 to do that kind of action which your feathers already give you.)
Last session of it I ran, the PCs surfed on a flash flood to escape a collapsing canyon... using one PC's giant cyborg vulture wings as a surf board for all the rest of them.
(Also I chose a high-crunch scenario--a conflict--because it matched our stunts and would help avoid too much fiddling around with "why is this mismatched group together anyway?" that's fun to explore in longer games but for a one-shot...)
Also, I tend to allow for comic failure as well, so for example, on that situation with the tree, I would totally make that a roll for the comical effect of the failure.
@doppelgreener I am always prepared to look awesome.
No matter the situation, weather or lighting conditions.
@Althis I have an unfortunate tendency to get lost in the minutia of the mechanics if given the chance, so I like the way Fate constantly reminds me to push for narrative first.
I'm glad! And I'm glad you were able to join us, it was better for your presence.
@Althis It'll come to you with practice. I've been using Fate for... three years? And doing a lot of intense study and thought, and talking with a lot of people smarter than me about it, and doing a lot of experiments, and using the system for different purposes in different contexts.
(And long before I started Fate, I was --first unconsciously-- learning how to feel my group's needs and desires and adjust my GMing to meet them, and then later to invite everyone to be part of that process consciously.)
Anyway. That session was really fun, thanks to everyone who played and everyone who helped.
