TLAS3 Chapter 19 From Hell's Heart

The battle rages on. Tatters and Mara face off against their respective foes… and everything goes straight to hell. 

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Mechanics

The Voice of the Machine
Leader of the Machine Cult, possessed by the Ring of Winter

Wants global destruction and endless winter

4C, 1/2 armour

Deadly Ice Magic (Inflicts 2C, Forceful, Vicious, Area)

• Summon freezing winds
• Command fanatical loyalty 
• Summon ice creatures

Machine Cult Horde
Fanatical devotants to the Great Machine

Wants an end to the heresy of the flesh

6C (horde), 4C (group), 1C (solo), 0/1 armour, 2/6C

Long, cruel knives

• Spout doctrine
• Blindly follow orders

Scene 0
Chaos Factor 9
Scene Description:Stop the ritual
Scene Test: The scene is Altered: Increase An Activity

The Voice doubles down on the ritual: 1d4: 2! Not yet…

GM Move: Make Them Choose: Suffer a condition or Become separated from your allies

Effect of fireball: 

Effect of ritual empowering

Mara goes down under a tangle of flaming bodies: Tatters is on her own

Scene 1
Scene continues: Voice v Tatters, cultists v Mara

Voice casts ice magic at Tatters, Tatters has Immunity (Ice) ongoing (so does Mara)

Plan has gone to shit: nuclear option: light the bomb fuse

Evoke a Spell (Teleport): 9

Consequence: put in danger: Change the Environment: she and the Voice transported to the Demon Dimensions. With a bomb. 

Scene 2

Chaos Factor 9
Scene Description: Battle free of the Cultists
Scene Test: The scene is Altered: Add An Object and Reduce or Remove An Activity

Object: Inactive, Multiple
Activity: Ritual d4-d6

The ritual is failing without the Voice.
6 secondary conduits emerge. If they are manually activated, the cultists can still complete the ritual. Some cultists break off. Mara attacks the remainder.

Defy (break free): 10 success

Push Yourself (STR weakened)

Engage (attack remaining cultists): 11: Inflict 1C, parry 1C

Spend 2 of 3 Momentum for Advantage on Engage

Engage (attack remaining cultists): 10: take 1C, inflict 2C, cultists dead!

Scene 3

Chaos Factor 8
Scene Description: Escape from the Demon Dimensions
Scene Test: The scene is Interrupted: PC Negative. Meaning: Deny Needs

Tatters is cut off from the Fabric. No magic!

Is the same true for the ring? Likely. Yes

Does the bomb go off? Nearly Certain: Yes

Does Setarra make an offer? 50/50: Yes