My style has a +30 damage point bonus.
My katana is base lethal with a +6 damage point bonus.
The damage category bonuses are +1 DC from my style, +1 DC from the profeional level with the skill and +1 DC from my 2@ MSV.
So unless it has damage category penalties, the bonuses would put it at Annihilating +46... that was overkill.
Yes, thank you, that was my anticipation.
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The creature spins off of your sword blade from the single cut in 8 pieces (?!) which slap against the walls. You are covered in blood, as is most of the room. It looks somewhat as if the creature had a grenade in its stomach, but without the burnt evidence of an explosion.
The room is a scene of carnage.
Stojan gives a quiet golf clap, and your other two companions are gawking in shock.
I wipe the blood off my face.
"...Well, I wasn't expecting it to explode...
Does somebody have a towel?"
What's the purpose of the RS/2' in the skill description?
The skill is used to knock an enemy back. At professional level, it is bumped to RS feet; in the case of a roll of 55, that's you send the enemy 55 feet in this case.
Nobody has a towel.
"Ok, let's find a bucket and water. I really need to get this blood off me."
Wise plan.
The next room you open has a toilet and sink and an opaque paper towel dispenser. The water runs, but there is only one paper towel, and the soap is gone.
I try to get as much blood as I can off with only the water from the sink.
I use the last paper towel to dry myself as much as I can.
"Do you guy have any suggestions on how to prevent them from exploding when I hit them?"
"Don't hit them so hard," Stojan tells you.
"They shouldn't ordinarily do that," Bradford tells you. "Admittedly, if you were to strike an uninfected human the way you struck that man, the result would likely have been the same."
"Now that I think about it, I probably shouldn't use my special attacks on them...
My normal attacks should be enough. Maybe they'll just be cut in half.
Let's check that room for any thing useful and then go to the next room"
There wasn't anything of use.
Next door: stairs going down.
I go down the stairs.
bump?
Mary had a little drink,
But now she is no more,
For what she thought
Was H2O
Was H2SO4.
bumps are great fun.
"Kids these days have it easy. When I was your age, we used to have to post five or six times just to have one of our forum posts show up."
After three more flights of stairs uneventful, Stojan asks, "How deep does this place go?"
The question seems rhetorical.
I continue down the stairs.
To clarify, you went down the first flight to find more rooms, found another flight of stairs, at the bottom of which were more rooms, etc. You're now five floors underground.
Ten more floors down and you open the door.
The walls here are not the same painted beige concrete; they seem to be stainless steel.
There is coagulated blood on the floor and there are bloodstains on the walls in places.
"It should be in here somewhere. Do you guys want to continue?"
If they say they want to continue, I go into Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu and go forward.
You come to a cross junction. You can go left, right, or straight.
The temperature is somewhat warm, perhaps between 75 and 80 degrees F. The stench of decay is nearly intolerable. You hear the quiet hum of electricity from somewhere in the building.
I go straight.
You continue straight to another cross section.
I go straight, again.
I go straight, again.
You reach a T section. There's a door straight ahead.
I open the door.
Inside is a room; a desk and several filing cabinets are here, as well as a desktop computer.
Turn the computer on and look through the files in the computer.
I ask Professor Bratford to look through the files in the cabinets.
If i can't get on the computer, I look through the cabinets too.
The computer is on.
None of the information seems pertinent at this time; lists of names and dates, what look to be appointments. There's a phone next to the desk.
Bradford is looking through the files, and informs you that there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to them.
"Lets look for another five minutes. Then we will go to another room."
No real difference in five minutes time; this room appears to have been for some sort of receptionist.
I head out the door and head right.
Right it is then.
Ten feet down the hall you come to a left turn with a door on the right hand side. The hall continues straight.
Open the door.
Inside there are numerous vials, beekers, and glass tubes; most are broken and all are empty.
Are there any filing cabinets?
If not, continue down the hall.
Not at all, no. You continue onward.
On the right, another door. On the left, another hall. Straight down the hall another ten feet ends at a door.
Let's try the door on the right.
This door is locked.
There's a small machine with a space for to read a card of some sort to the right of the door.
What kind of door is it? wood? metal?
Does it look like I can break it?