Okay, so our first combat!<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb457/Parlyguy/Underworld66-Backstage-page-001.jpg)</div><br/>See the image to the right for the location of your respective characters.  I took their position from what you had described in the IC narrative - if it wasn't clear I just stabbed a pencil randomly... >:)<br/><br/>Since this is our first combat and some players are either rusty or new to system combat in a forum setting, I'll spell everything out so as to eliminate confusion.  However, please feel free to post questions on any aspect in this thread.<br/><br/>Combat can be a slow beast at the best of times, so in order to speed things up as much as possible I would like to give each person a window of 24 hours in which to post a response - I appreciate that this may be too tight and we can re-visit to determine what is an appropriate response timeframe.<br/><br/>So onto the combat itself:<br/><br/>Remember that this is a surprise round since the attackers have burst in on your meeting without knocking first...so only the attackers, Zarva, Eufaula and Darion get to act (everybody else failed their reaction roll and so are flat-footed, which means you loose your dexterity bonus to your defence rating.<br/><br/>Below are the dice rolls that I've made in relation to the surprise round for the attackers.<br/><br/><strong>Roll Result:</strong>KaraKres rolled: 1d20, adding 2 to the total<br/><strong>Against Difficulty:</strong>16<br/><strong>Comment:</strong>Tokrin Eldrin's Spot check<br/><strong>Result:</strong>13,<br/><strong>Total: </strong>15<em>Versus TN:</em>16 Failure<br/><br/><strong>Roll Result:</strong>KaraKres rolled: 1d20, adding 2 to the total<br/><strong>Against Difficulty:</strong>16<br/><strong>Comment:</strong>Archay Draav's Spot check<br/><strong>Result:</strong>13,<br/><strong>Total:</strong>15<em>Versus TN:</em>16 Failure<br/><br/><strong>Roll Result:</strong>KaraKres rolled: 1d20, adding 7 to the total<br/><strong>Against Difficulty:</strong>11<br/><strong>Comment:</strong>Tokrin Eldin's attack roll against Col. Husk<br/><strong>Result:</strong>1,<br/><strong>Total:</strong>8 Versus TN: 11 Failure<br/><br/><strong>Roll Result:</strong>KaraKres rolled: 1d20, adding 7 to the total<br/><strong>Against Difficulty:</strong>19<br/><strong>Comment:</strong>Archay Draav's attack roll against Darion Markav<br/><strong>Result:</strong>2,<br/><strong>Total:</strong>9<em>Versus TN: </em>19 Failure<br/><br/>First each attacker made a Spot skill check to suss out whose in the room, locations of threats, etc.  Both failed.<br/><br/>Having failed the Spot check, both attackers then take a snap shot against a viable target in their immediate line of sight - in this instance, Col. Husk sitting down and Darion Markav standing next to him.  Both shots miss.<br/><br/>The target number for the spot test is comprised of a base of 10 +1 for each character in the room (excluding NPCs who are not going to actively engage in combat).<br/><br/>The target number for the attacks are equal to the character's defence rating (found in the character's bio at the start of this thread).  Col. Husk's defence rating was lowered by two (Dex bonus) because he is flat-footed.  Darion's defence rating remains the same because he is able to act this round and is therefore not flat-footed.<br/><br/>The action now moves to Zarva, who scored a reaction of 26.  She goes before Eufaula because her Ref modifier is 1 higher.  Although in reallife the difference in reaction time would be like microseconds.<br/><br/>I hope that all makes sense.  I will do up Zarva's response as soon as I can and will also update the IC thread with the attacker's actions.