<span style="font-style: italic">Alright, take two.  Managed to completely overlook a few rather important things last time.<br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/361160">Intimidation resist</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">2#1d6</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">6</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">2</span> -&gt; Ace<br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/361161">Intimidate resist ace</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">1d6</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">3</span> -&gt; Total of nine, which will give one raise</span><br/><br/>Watching as the marten first pauses and then continues to swallow, as if on reflex, Sevana's expression quickly changes first from concern then to incredulity as the marten continues, then finally to plain anger as Yasha's tail slips from view.  Quil's shot coming in and splattering the marten helps a bit, but it doesn't stop her from starting towards her opponent.  What she says next though, tips her over the edge into a state that she's rarely been in, and one that she does not particularly enjoy.<br/><br/><blockquote class="uncited"><div> "I don't rightly think I can give her up now, sorry miss bat. And a pretty fair trade considerin' you blasted my friend! Tell you what, if you care so much about that naughty squirrel lass, why don't you drop those pistols and come try and get her out? Surely you ain't worried about me swallowin you down with her?"</div></blockquote><br/><br/>Normally, Sevana likes to think of herself as someone in control of her emotions, and as a byproduct of her house's emphasis on decorum and edecit, she devoted what most people would consider an inordinate amount of concentration towards keeping it that way.  Thus, when she is put in a situation where she can feel that control slipping away, her first reaction is to maintain that control, and her second is to remove whatever is threatening that control.  In this situation, that intense realignment of her priorities is only visible by the fact that she goes stock-still, before giving her reply a few seconds later.  When she does, her voice is in an unsettling monotone, entirely devoid of the sarcastic tone she had shown earlier.<br/><br/>"Hold that thought."<br/><br/>Looking to the side, Sevana squints into the distance.  It's not clear who she's aiming at; most of the rangers and the crew of the cannon are well out of typical range for a pistol.  Nevertheless, they come up and fire all the same, and if the pair of figures falling from behind the gun are any indication, range is not as much of a concern for Sevana at the moment.  Turning back to the marten, she stows her pistols only to retrieve a pair of short daggers from her belt.<br/><br/>"Now that the distractions are out of the way, we can focus on the matter at hand.  If you're really so eager for me to retrieve Yasha<span style="font-style: italic">my</span>way rather than see reason, then so be it.  Let's dance."<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Making a pair of shots, one at each of the remaining cannon gunners which is a -4 on the hit roll due to being at extreme range.<br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/361167">Gun shots</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">2#1d10+1d6+1</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">6</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold">4</span> after the range penalty, so both will hit, if only just.<br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/361168">Gun damage</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">2#2d6+5</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">17</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold">14</span> -&gt; Both in the first aced, along with one in the second.<br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/361169">Gun damage pt. 2</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">2d6+1d6</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">7</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold">5</span> -&gt; And another ace on the first shot...<br/><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/361170">Gun damage pt. 3</a>: <span style="text-decoration: underline">1d6</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">3</span><br/><br/>Adds up to 27 damage on the first shot and 19 on the second.  I feel Sevana might have taken this one a bit personally...</span>