Eztli has been traveling the world and stayed with multiple cultural groups in his life and learned their language and customs..

Im going to say that he stayed for six months after his visitation in the jungles of south america and learned everything that is preserved of the old aztec language there (Basically the language some tribe there speaks that is a decentant of the Aztecs since i don't think there are any perfect records of the aztec language in existance)

And.. Lets just say that for a short time in his life he got a slight obsession for samurai's and went to japan and learned the language.. *-)

I'll add it in.

As for the next update, it will be on Friday. I will require over half of the players to have posted by then (3+) or else you will have to wait longer for the update to come in.
I will not wait for any single player to post at the last minute. If you have not posted before I update, that is your lost round. So go on and post ASAP!

EDIT: There are still 2 thugs left standing; one with the fire-axe and another with a tire-iron aiming for Cage.

EDIT2: GT, even if you can't find any mortal that could teach you ancient Aztec, which I am going to say is Nahuatl, there are those who do not count as mortal who actually did speak that language when it was at its prime
Seeing as it is plot device, it doesn't really matter where you learned it.

Told you I would.

So I've updated and only 2 out of 5 players posted? That is less than half and I prefer more than half of the players post in time. I said I would post on Friday, which I did, and I expected you to post before Friday and not on Friday. I am kinda annoyed about this, but I am not going to make more of a deal out of this than I already have. If you don't expect to be able to post in the future, let me know before Friday so that I can plan something ahead of time.

I added a Join Battle rating to all the characters. I'm keeping it as a static rating made from (Wits + Awareness + Epic Wits bonus) so that in case more than one of you doesn't post I have a reasonable way of figuring who acts first. In this case, the highest rating acts first and the lowest last.

I'm giving all of you XP for this fight. May have noticed that I am not giving you XP per post as I often do for my online games. I just expect you to earn enough XP by killing things

I have to admit, you guys were a tad bit slower taking care of these thugs than I originally thought you would. It took you 2 rounds, or twice as long as I expected.

Also, main reason I'm posting this is to bump the thread to a higher ground. So *bump*

I finally thought of doing some math..

The minimum damage Eztli could do to an extra is six..

Which would mean for him to do 2 damage the thug would have to have a bashing soak of 4..

But the weapons pierce so that he would have to have a bashing soak of 8..

Those are f-off imba thugs!! ='(

Observe:

The bare minimum damage Eztli would do is 12 (L or B). Now, assuming he would get successes on half his Accuracy dice-pool and the Extra had a DV of 1 (meaning every success would count), he would deal at least 18 dice of raw damage. Since you deal automatic damage against Extras equal to third of the raw damage, that equals to 8 Lethal damage after adding Epic Strength.

Of course, in these calculations, I am assuming that you had your full dice-pool in Accuracy, but in this case you were at -2 penalty (-1 for using Back of the Blade rules, and -1 for the lack of space for a reasonable swing). This also assumes that you got successes on at least half of your dice-pool and that the Extra in question had DV of 1 (which sucks even for an Extra).
Into that calculations then comes Soak and Armor. Your Piercing quality does not change much since they are only wearing Biker Gear as I already noted (BG gives +2B/0L, and half of 2 is 1). Piercing only effects Armor and not natural soak. In some cases (not this one) armor is added to natural soak, such as thick leathery or bulletproof skin.

I forgot that about piercing..

They still have more soak then me! >_<

I don't like em! Kills em all!

At the same time as I remind you that I will update this game tomorrow, I want to make a note of something:

Both Shounin's and weekend's characters have withdrawn their weapons (unless Cage ripped through his jacket while reaching for his flask). Technically, you would need to spend another point of Legend to summon the weapon again since you need to spend a point for every summon. But since I'm neither a tyrant of a ST, nor a prick, your point of Legend counts for the whole scene instead of just the action, so you can still summon your weapons freely this scene.
Make no mistake though, this only counts for Relics that have been summoned (followers and creatures must be paid for again if expelled before the end of the scene) and it still takes you an action to summon your weapons.

I am having some trouble with my computer. I'm assuming a virus has made its way into my comp and my antivirus program was turned completely off by it. I can't even press the buttons. I got some other programs to get rid of the spyware, but the new antivirus I got this morning can't help me at all.

Because of this, I am spending the day trying to make a backup of most of my files (which isn't going well since my computer crashes every time I to copy them), and then I will format my computer. If everything goes well and smoothly, everything should be fine this evening and I will be able to update this game tomorrow as planned. If, however, everything gets messed up, I probably won't update until late tomorrow if I update tomorrow at all.

Just letting you know before you start wondering where I am or start sending my hatemail for not updating

PS: I hope to see some posts when I get back

Sorry for not posting

i completely forgot and i won't be back til sunday
Baaai

My computer is still offline since I need several discs to install most of my hardware. I'm using my girlfriend's computer, so I managed to update.

The cargo cart has several crates, big and small. There is no window, but the is a side door big enough to get a car into the cart. There are also ropes and nets strong enough to hold any crate that is inside this cart.
There is no set number of thugs in the cart, because it doesn't really matter how many there are. I'm giving you an opportunity to stunt for few attacks, taking down as many as you like every turn. This encounter is mostly for me to see how well you can stunt and to earn you couple more XP. You can take out as many as you like, but regardless of how many they are, all of them will have been taken cared of after two rounds. Have fun now, and play nice

EDIT: You can't really see who is alive and who is dead in any of the carts you pass through. To see if anyone is alive, you have to make Intelligence+Medicine roll at difficulty 1. To search for survivors in the carts, a total of 10 successes are needed to find all the survivors with a minute passing between rolls, but you can all combine your successes to get the total.
If it so happens that any of you want to loot the carts, specifically the fallen Scions, I won't say that you can't or that you are not allowed to. I will, however, ask you to really think about it before you do.

Do I really have to remind you that I will be updating tomorrow? Do I even have to bother writing it here? Does anyone of you even check this thread once in a while? Can monkeys fly using the wings on their feet?

Unless only one or less Players actually post before morning, I will be updating as planned. Remember that if you don't post, there are over dozen thugs in this cart, which could lower your DV by at least 12 if all of them attack the same PC. That is enough so that they can actually hit you.

I also want to mention that none of them have anything resembling an actual weapon, except maybe for a combat knife or a fire-axe. Other than that, you can decide by yourselves what they are armed with and what they look like. The is no apparent leader.

Remember also that you only get 2 rounds to finish this up, get some cool stunts and collect the rewards. If you don't post at all for this encounter, you won't get any sort of XP reward even if your character takes part in it (through being NPCed).

Now go on and POST!!!

Not me! I've got Monkey in the middle!! ^__^

But as for posting ill TRY to do it when i get home... As you know ive been suffering from various computerproblems so ive been unable to do as much online as i would have wanted too.

I edited the post so that any opponent that you attacked has automatically been beaten. I also added in the technicalities, so that you can see how much damage you actually dealt. In weekend's case, I had to improvise a little, so I did not mention how much damage he dealt. Everyone is knocked out however, so don't worry any more about the guys you hit.

I find it funny that in a game such as this one, you seem to avoid using lethal force against these thugs, even though it looks like you can't deal any significant amount of damage to them with nonlethal attacks. I know most of you guys first hand, and from my experience with some of you, your characters most often prefer using lethal force. But when I expect you to do exactly that, you really surprise me. I guess that is one of the positive aspects about playing with you guys

I'm adding the XP for the stunts now, but I will wait for the encounter to end before I give you XP for actual victory.
I'm going to try to contact both Drakar and Solon and see if they are still up for this game or if I should go look for new players to at least temporarily play their characters. As for now, they aren't earning any XP by not posting in encounters their characters are stuck in.

The damage im dealing here is just embaracing..

ive got 13 dice at least..

And i deal one..

this is totally messing up my street rep!