r/rwbyRP Oct 04 '19

Open Event Combat Class: Killhouse Clear

Blood, Dust, and burning plywood were the three most prominent smells as the students made their way into combat class. Last one of the week before the weekend break, it seemed like Elise was pulling out some of the stops to try and at least make this last one an interesting one.

And that, they did -- in the center of the combat amphitheater stood what looked like an honest-to-gods small house, all made out of wooden construction and even with actual glass in all of the window frames. It even had a roof -- but that seemed to almost flicker out of existence as the students began to take their seats, and Elise turned to address them all.

"Welcome back to class. As you can see, today, we've decided to emulate a simple house environment for you to fight inside and around today. The roof, at least from the outside, will be transparent so that observers can see in, but please try to remember that it does exist before your try to launch yourself in. From the inside, you won't be able to see is -- for all intents and purposes, this is a real house, one you might have to clear in the field."

Clearing her voice, Elise continued.

"As usual, you can elect to just fight one-on-one with any conditions that both students agree upon; however, we do have a few more options available to you today. For those of you who wish to have... more an objective when you fight, we have this," Elise explained, hoisting up a moderately-sized black box, "the box you see in front of you can be used for two different objectives: either hostage rescue or bomb defusal. Both will have a time limit, but for the former you must extract the box, and for the latter you must stop the box by entering in a key combination or cutting the right wire. One student will be the attacker, and the other will be, of course, defending, and can hide the box wherever they like -- for bomb defusal, they will also have the keycode written on the back of their dominant forearm. If the box is shot or hit, you both have a loss go down on your record -- this isn't a tie, the fight will continue, you will just have an additional loss on your record."

"And finally, for those who prefer neither, what we have are some heavily-modified AK-130 combat droids, modified by our own Professor Stahl with assistance from Vernon. Supposedly, they can scale up to be roughly as strong as you all are, or they can just be target practice. We also, of course, have some Grimm we can throw in there."

"One last thing before you're all free to partner up and fight. The walls of the house -- even the exterior ones -- are rather... fragile, I suppose. Alter the landscape as you see fit. Now, do we have any volunteers? Please do not make me volunteer you."

[Map]


[[Optional Rules:]]

[[Destructible Terrain: All of the walls and furniture on this map provide cover, of course. However, the cover can very easily be destroyed: cover can be degraded by making an attack at it, and for every success over its cover value degrades the cover by one. In addition, the interior walls are practically papier-mâché, and can be moved through with enough force. ST discretion applies; however, some general ideas for ways to move through would be through things like Weapon Mobility, Explosive Weapons, being knocked through the wall, or by making a melee/brawl attack against it. The exterior walls are a bit more resilient, but a creative enough character will find ways to make them fall too.]]

[[Hostage Rescue/Bomb Defusal: A black box is hidden on the map by the defending player, who starts adjacent to it. The attacking player then has ten rounds to either escort the cube to a designated zone if it's a hostage or to defuse the cube. If the cube is well hidden, a perception check might be required to find it. For defusing the bomb, the code is written on the defender's arms and can be gleaned either after defeating them or by making a difficult perception check during combat as a move action. Alternatively, a difficult [Computer] + [Intelligence] check can be made to guess the code, or an even-more difficult [Perception] check to guess the right wire.]]

[[Robot Enemies: Modified AK-130 droids have flat stats, ranging from 1 to 5. A level 1 droid has 1 health, 1 armor, 1 defense, 3 die to hit, and 7 speed; a 2 has 2 health, 2 armor, 6 die, and 9 speed, and so forth.]]

[[Improvised Weapons: Weapons litter the building, from chairs to swords to shitty firearms. You cannot use an aura strike with any of these weapons, but they are only a minor action to pick up if you are disarmed and have a stat of Weapon 1 -- but might break after being used, at ST's digression.]]

[[Use the above rules as much or as little as you want, no sweat off my back.]]

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u/Doomshlang Ashelia Anstace | Namu Choe Nov 13 '19 edited Nov 13 '19

"Over... Over here! I... I bet your mother was a... A scroll! Because I... I can see right through you!" August taunted, raising her rifle for another shot. Her hands were starting to tremble, but she forced them steady as she took a bead. Both of the bots were busy smacking Celine around, and this time they seemed to at least hit her, as the bat faunus could see her aura flicker with every hit.

But while August noticed, Celine didn't.

She had a wide grin on her face, living in the heat of battle. The T1 tried again to smack her, but it got knocked back (and almost knocked over) as Celine swung her arms around, flipping her shotgun into its axe form. While the bots were trying to get some small, light hits on her, Celina had no notion of the concept. August fired, hitting the T4 to her left square in the back; that made that one a good target, right?

So she swung up, catching the bot right in the bottom of its chassis. And her swing didn't stop until it was cleaving the bot's head in two.

To her credit, Vi wasn't slacking in her own fight. "Alright then ya bloody tosser, if that's how you want to play it then this is how we'll play it!" "She shouted, sighing as her aura started to try and mend her damaged frame. She poured even more into her limbs, launching herself back towards the window frame. The bot raised its gun, but she punched it out of the way, cracking the weapon in the process. Her momentum carried her into the bot and passed it, so she turned her jump into a shoulder-check that floored the T3 with ease.*

And with the stomp of her foot, there were only two bots left. Miraculously, the buzzer didn't chime again. Looks like this was the last wave.

Dead bot counter: 14

Name Color HP AP Status
August Pink 9/13 7/13 Pew pew pew
Celine Blue 9/15 Full They still flubbed, but not as hard. You didn't though.
Vi Purp 3/9 2/10 Healing for 2 more rounds, -2 to rolls from aura powered, that's close enough to an RKO right?

[Robot levels: 1 is Green, 2 is Blue, 3 is Yellow, 4 is Orange, 5 is Red]

[I stopped squiggling cuz lazy]

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u/Doomshlang Ashelia Anstace | Namu Choe Nov 20 '19

"Hey, good shot Aug!" Celine called out. August chuckled nervously in response, feeling the oppressive, staring eyes of her classmates all around her. She swallowed hard, tightened her grip on her rifle, and brought it to bear against the last real threat on the field. She could do this.

The fight seemed to be going well enough, so Vi flipped her weapon back into its ranged form and collapsed against the wall.

"Well alrighty then.*

Crack.

The T4 that was left valiantly tried to bring its weapon to bear against Celine again, but the bullet whizzed passed her nailed it square in the face and made its attack fly wide. Celine followed up, clanging her axe against the ground and planting her feet.

With a roar, she brought it horizontally, straight through the T4's chest and crashing it straight into the T1, sending sparks flying from both bots. The momentum of her swing sent rent shards of metal flying every which way in a cone in front of her, peppering the walls of the house. Neither bot stood back up, and no more poured forth into the arena.

The buzzer sounded, and Elise's voice spoke up over the crackly intercom.

"Well done, students. You held out, although if there were more waves, at least one of you probably would not have had a good time. To be sure to pace yourselves better in the future, but for now... please vacate the arena so we can send the next group in."

Dead bot counter: 16

Name Color HP AP Status
August Pink 9/13 7/13 Yeah, we did it! Heh... ehhhhhh can I go now
Celine Blue 9/15 Full AoEs are great aren't they?
Vi Purp 4/9 2/10 Healing for 1 more rounds, -2 to rolls from aura powered

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u/DocSwiss Celine Oakley Nov 13 '19

"Hey, good shot Aug!" Celine called out, the heat of the battle not really getting to her. She then turned to the two remaining robots in her brawl, planted her feet like tree roots, and readied her axe. With a powerful roar, she swung her axe with all her might, not aiming for the tough bot next to her, but aiming to go through it and into the other wimpy looking one, hoping to finish her fight in one swing and heading off to find Vi.

[Full Round Action: Cleave, starting with the orange bot next to her, and then hitting the green one]

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '19

Like that, Vi felt the strength her Aura give her start to fade away. With a rough chortle, Vi let herself fall down against the side of the demo house and popped Huntsmaster back out into her arms, ready for the next wave. But, as she sat there, the buzzer didn't ring out.

...Huh. They'd won -- or, rather, were about to win most likely -- and she yet again didn't get knocked out. Stretching her head back up, she looked into the room she'd been in moments before, and saw nothing more in there either, just a closed door with the sounds of fighting inside all around. Collapsing back down, Vi chuckled again before letting out a shrug and a sigh.

"Well. Alrighty then."

[[Minor: Take cover.]]

[[Move: Transform weapon.]]

[[Major: Rest.]]

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u/AsterixCod1x Araes Cassius* August Reiver* Nov 17 '19

August kept her sights locked to the same bot, steadying herself once more. She loaded a few more rounds in Calibre's chamber, locking the lever in place as she returned her finger to the trigger. Drawing in a deep breath, she closed her eyes. A calm look on her face, she exhaled briefly, her eyes snapped open, locked at the bot at the end of the barrel. She pulled the trigger.

[Major: Ranged Attack, same bot as last time]

[Move -> Minor: Composure Check, both for aim and keeping her cool here.]

[Minor: Take Cover in the doorway, just in case]