Sample+Magical+Fight

**Our Heroine:** [|Xiao Jing-Wei]

**Foes:**

**Kalshazzak**, a demon (OW 34) Alertness (+0) Endurance (+4) Mental: OO Physical OOOO(OOOO) Armor: 2 Social: OO Will take up to moderate consequences Initiative: Mediocre (+0) Weapon: 6 Superb (+5) close attack (claws) Weapon: 2 Great (+4) ranged attack (spits acid) D odge: Good(+3)

**Victor Sells**, a sorcerer (OW 224) Alertness (+1) Endurance (+3) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Intimidation (+3) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Mental: OOOO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Physical: OOOO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Social: OOOO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Will take up to Severe Consequences <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Initiative: Average(+1) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Physical Defense: Good(+3) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Evocations: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">1st Lawbreaker (+2) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Fire Power 5, Fire Control 2 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Blasting rod (Focus Item, +1 Offensive Fire control) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Rote: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Power 5, Control 5 fire attack

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Situation start:**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Victor Sells' lake house. Sells and the demon are on the 2nd floor balcony, overlooking the living room. Jing-Wei in in the living room, on the 1st floor.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Exchange 1:**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Initiative:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Both Sells and Jing-Wei have Average(+1) Alertness. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Demon only has mediocre initiative.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">When initiative ties like this, use comparison in another skill(s) to break the tie.
 * The books says use Athletics as the first tie breaker in physical contests
 * Sells Has Athletics(+3) to Jing-Wei's(+0), so he goes first

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">So the final order is:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sells <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jing-Wei <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Kalshazzak

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sells tries his Killing Flame rote. It's Power 5, Control 5. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">He rolls (+5) (-1, 0, 0, 0) for a total of 4 on the attack. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jing-Wei rolls lore to defend (+5) (1, 0, 0, 1) for a total of 7 on the defense. Jing-Wei easily steps aside from such a telegraphed attack.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Note that Sells get a +2 Control bonus when trying to kill things, such is the power of the Lawbreaker stunt.
 * That's why he can throw around a Control 5 evocation, even though he only has a base discipline of (+2) (and a +1 Offensive Control Focus item).
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Since it's a rote, he controls the power automatically. He just has to roll Control to see how well the attack went.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">He also takes 1 point of mental stress

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">She rolls Discipline to try to hit the Demon with it (+5) (-1, -1, -1, 1) for total of only 3. But maybe she'll get lucky and the Demon will roll badly as well… <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Demon rolls Endurance (+4) to resist (0, -1, 1, 1) for a total of 5.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">As this was a power from an enchanted item, Jing-Wei doesn't take any mental stress.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It shrugs the electricity right off

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Now, it's the Demon's turn. It's going to jump down into the living room and try to tear Jing-Wei to bits. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Demon rolls to attack (+5) (-1) (0, 0, -1, 1) for a total of 4 to hit. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jing-Wei hopefully saw this coming too. She rolls Lore to defend (+5) (-1, -1, -1, 1) for a total of only 3 to dodge. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Not wanting to soak up a stress 7 hit from the demon, Jing-Wei uses the Lucky Dictionary to produce a +6 block, which easily bats aside the demon's claws.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Remember that moving 1 area causes you to take a -1 penalty to your other action.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The second big uses of defensive items is to cover for you when you get unlucky and roll low on your physical defense.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This block should last until Jing-Wei's next action, so it could be used to defense against Victor Sells next action at the beginning of Exchange 2.
 * //Assumption: magical blocks generated out of the regular turn order will last until the end of your (next) turn, not the until the (current) exchange. This means that you always have the option of using another evocation to extend your block, even if you created it out of the regular turn order.//

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Stress Boxes at the end of exchange 1:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Kalshazzak** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Physical OOOO(OOOO)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Victor Sells** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Mental: XOOO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Physical: OOOO

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Jing-Wei** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Mental: OOOO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Physical: OOO

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Exchange 2:**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sells makes with the fire again (+5) (1, 0, -1, 0) for a total of +5 to attack. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">As the +6 block generated by the Lucky Dictionary is still active, Jing-Wei doesn't even need to roll a defense.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sells will probably have to try something else, if he wants to be useful in this fight.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">He also takes another point of mental stress.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The GM rules that with the 2 power 5 fire evocations that have been thrown, and which both //missed//, parts of the house are now __on fire__.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jing-Wei wants to try to get rid of the demon quickly. After all, one slip up in her defenses against the demon would be very bad…

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">She'll try calling up a power 7 Air attack. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">She rolls Control (+7) (-1, 0, 1, 0) for a total of 7, enough to control the spell.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">As this is 2 above her normal air power of 5, she'll take 3 mental stress.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In addition, she'll tag the __On Fire__ aspect to the scene that the GM just added for an additional +2. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The winds she calls up make the fire hotter, and the superheated air blasts toward the demon… <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Demon tries to get out of the way (+3) (0, 1, -1, 0) for a total of 3. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">So the demon takes a stress 11 hit ((7 power -2 armor) + (9 control - 3 defense))
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Note that tagging aspects on the control roll will let you successfully control more power too. It's just not necessary in this case.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It has to take a moderate consequence to stay in the fight; __Medium Rare__ sounds appropriate. That reduces the hit to stress 7, which the demon can easily soak up.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The demon doesn't want to stick around down on the first floor, where everything is catching on fire.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It will spend an action smashing the stairs (with supernatural strength, it can just declare it does this) and then jump up to the second floor balcony where Sells is. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The GM rules that this is a barrier: 3. But the demon has the leaping ability, which reduces the effectiveness of barriers. So it's only looking at barrier 1.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It rolls athletics (+3) (1, -1, 1, 0)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It takes a -1 for the supplemental action of smashing the stairs. So it's final total is +3; still more than enough to overcome the barrier and get it up to the 2nd floor and away from the fire.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Technically, it's the jumping up to the 2nd floor that's the supplemental action, and the smashing the stairs that is the main action. But as the smashing didn't take a roll, and the jumping does, it seems better to penalize the roll for the jump instead.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Stress Boxes at the end of exchange 2

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Kalshazzak**<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Physical OOOO(OOXO) __Medium Rare__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Victor Sells** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Mental: XXOO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Physical: OOOO

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Jing-Wei** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Mental: OOXO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Physical: OOO

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Exchange 3** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> The GM rules that, as Jing-Wei whipped up the fire in the previous exchange, the whole first floor is now __engulfed in flames__. (This amounts to a free tag every round against anyone sticking around down there). <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sells sees his chance to finally be useful, and tries his fire rote a third time

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">(+5) (-1, 1, -1, 0) and tags the __Engulfed in Fire__ scene aspect for another +2, for a total of +6.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">He takes another point of mental stress. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jing-Wei tries to get out of the way (+5) (1, 1, -1, 1) for a total of +7. She saw **that** coming. You'd think Sells would have learns some lessons about futility by now.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">With the stairs up smashed, Jing-Wei might be in trouble. It's a barrier 3 between her and the higher floor of the house, that's not yet on fire. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">But Jing-Wei just sits down on her staff and calmly flies up to the second floor, bypassing the height based barrier altogether. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Wanting to finish the demon off, Jing-Wei attempts to make a declaration, that she has an attack potion with the Holy tag. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jing-Wei rolls Lore (+5) (0, 1, -1, 0) for a total of 5. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jing-Wei pulls out a tennis ball can that has been modified: it has a prayer wheel stuffed down inside of it rather that tennis balls and a gift bow tied around it. The the gift bow is untied, the prayer wheel is shot out of the can with very great force, probably doing nothing good to whatever is on the receiving end. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">She rolls Discipline to target the attack with the potion (+5) (-1) (1, 0, 1, 0) for a total of +6. She'll also tag the Demon's __Medium Rare__ for another +2. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Demon tries to get out of the way (+3) (1, -1, -1, -1) for a total of 1. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The demon's toughness based armor and extra stress boxes won't help it here. So it's looking at a stress 15 hit ((power 8) + (attack 8 - defense 1)). This is more than enough damage to take the demon out.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This is a Lore roll
 * If you can't make it, you can always spend a fate point to pass automatically
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">//Assumption: declaration rolls for having just the right potion are difficulty 3.//
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jing-Wei's base crafting strength is 8, so this will be a power 8 attack.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Remember that she is taking a -1 from having moved 1 area.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Note, normally, only you can tag consequences you generate. But you can also "pass" the tag to one of your allies instead.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sure, Jing-Wei could have done this on the first turn, and possibly gotten rid of the demon right away, but she wanted to have a tag available first, since if she missed with the potion, it would have been wasted.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Stress Boxes at the end of exchange 3

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Kalshazzak**<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">__Toast__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Victor Sells** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">Mental: XXXO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Physical: OOOO

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Jing-Wei** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">Mental: OOXO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Physical: OOO

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Exchange 4**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sells is getting desperate; he's about out of mental stress, and neither him, nor the demon, have managed to even hit Jing-Wei yet.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">He will make a declaration that he is taking cover __Behind the furniture__. This sort of thing would normally require a roll (maybe awareness?), but as it **is** his house, the GM rules he can do this without risking a roll.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sells hopes that he can use this aspect on the defense, and maybe run Jing-Wei out of mental stress.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The GM decides to make Jing-Wei's life even more difficult. From the lower floor of the house, she hears to screams of Sells' cult members. Isn't she sorry that she contributed to the fire?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The GM says if she lets them die, it won't be enough for her to get the lawbreaker stunt, but the other Wardens would certainly give her a hard time about it. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jing-Wei accepts the compel, and turns her back on Sells to consider what to do about the fire. Her normal go-to element, air, can be used to put out fire just fine (for example, by taking all the air away) but this isn't too helpful for the people trapped in the burning building. They like to breathe too.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This is a compel against Jing-Wei's high concept.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Instead, she will use spirit magic to summon up a large amount of fire suppressing slime, and coat the whole lower floor of the house with it. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This will need to effect a whole area, and unopposed maneuvers usually require power 3, so she'll need to summon up at least a power 5 spirit effect. Since her spirit power is only 4, she'll take 2 mental stress from this spell.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This sort of instant conjuration is normally a spirit effect.
 * The conjured objects don't last for very long, and turn into ectoplasm which evaporates shortly thereafter.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">She rolls discipline for control (+5) (1, 0, 1, 1) for a total of 8, so she can control the power quite well. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The GM rules that this is enough to remove the __Engulfed in flame__ aspect that the first floor of the house has. Some parts of it might still be on fire, but it's no longer an immediate danger to the cult members. If the cultists know what's good for them, they'll take this chance to flee.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Stress Boxes at the end of exchange 4

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Victor Sells** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">Mental: XXXO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">Physical: OOOO

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Jing-Wei** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">Mental: OXXO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">Physical: OOO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Exchange 5** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sells figures he'll try some trash talk. After all, most other wizards would be out of mental stress boxes after a display like that. He's not smart enough to know that a lot of the stuff Jing-Wei did was using enchanted objects, which don't cost stress. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sells rolls Intimidation (+3) (1, -1, 1, 0) for a total of 4.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">You figure this sort of thing out by making Lore based assessments.
 * This can also give you an idea of what their enchanted items and focus items are.
 * This is handy if you want to try to use disarm maneuvers to take them away, for example.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">He was planning on taunting Jing-Wei about how she must be very tired by now, but before the words are even out of his mouth… <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jing-Wei rolls lore in defense against this social maneuver (+5) (0, 1, -1, 0) for a total of 5.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">She turns back around from the remnants of the first floor and says" Actually, I was just getting started."

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jing-Wei is going to call up a blast of air. She wants to get sells out from behind the furniture and then try to finish him with her tazer ring in the next exchange.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">She's going to call up 5 power, this will cost 1 mental stress.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">She rolls control (+7) (1, 1, 0, 0) for a total of 9. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sells desperately tags the furniture he was hiding behind, and rolls his dodge (+3) (+2) (0, 0, 1, 1) for a total of 7. Not good enough…

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sells is looking at a stress 7 hit. He'll take the moderate consequence __Badly Bruised__, as both the couch he was hiding behind, and himself are slammed into the wall. This reduces the hit to 3 stress.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Stress Boxes at the end of exchange 5

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Victor Sells** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Mental: XXXO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Physical: OOXO __Badly Bruised__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Jing-Wei** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">Mental: XXXO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">Physical: OOO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Exchange 6**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sells is desperate. He's going to try diving out of a window, and hope he can lose Jing-Wei in a chase. He would have tried running down the stairs instead, but it seems that someone has smashed them. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">He rolls Athletics to resist the fall (+3) (1, 1, 1, -1) for a total of 5.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Falling in the Dresden files seems quite brutal.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sells is looking at a stress 5 hit from the fall (he falls about 10 feet)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">So he reduces the fall to 3 stress; this rolls up to his 4th stress box. But now, he's got the whole outside to run around in, and he is surprisingly fleet of foot.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jing-Wei calmly walks to the broken window, levels her tazer ring, and lets fly. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jing-Wei rolls Discipline, tagging Sells __Badly Bruised__ consequence (+5) (+2) (0, 0, 0, -1) for a total of 6. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Sells tries to dodge (+3) (-1, -1, -1, -1) Ouch. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">He's looking at a stress 14 hit (power 7 + attack 6 - - 1 defense). Even after taking severe and minor consequences he can only reduce the hit to stress 6, which is still enough to take him out.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Even though she moved around, Jing-Wei stayed within the same zone (The upper floor of the house) so there is no -1 penalty for movement

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Jing-Wei hauls him back to the Wardens, where he will have a fair and speedy trial, followed by a beheading.