GURPS Kung Fu Cowboys Session 18: The End

Big Po - Hungry Hungry Sumotori
Michelangelo - Friendly Capoeirista
Roberto King - Murderous Dagger Fighter
Dan da Ying -  Helpful Eagle-Stylist

Throne of the Outlaw King
Roberto waved Dan away, because this was between him and the Outlaw King, so he went to help Mike fight Leonardo instead.  Both of them kicked at Leonardo, but he dodged the first and parried the second, before responding to Dan with a Rapid Strike Feint into a kick which inflicted little injury.  Roberto and the Outlaw King both continued Evaluating while stepping towards each other, and downstairs, Ryuji continued to eat Po.

Roberto then Giant Stepped up to the Outlaw King and spent his Evaluate to make a highly Deceptive Dual-Weapon Mighty Blow, but his foe Retreated and parried both attacks with a Feverish Defense.  The Outlaw King then Feinted him, flung his Weapon Bond knife away and into a training dummy with a crit Disarm, and struck him with the staff in the neck hard enough to knock him down then Stamp Kicked him while he was down.  He then berated Roberto for daring to face him alone, as he knew every Technique, and was undefeatable.

Dan and Mike both fell back with an All-Out Defense, while Leonardo taunted Mike for needing someone else to save him and leapt at Dan, but failed to connect.  Dan put Leo in a Leg Lock Arm Lock (he didn't actually have the Leg Lock technique so we had to retcon this), and Mike took advantage of this to break Leo's left foot with a kick, and Dan let go of his Lock to allow him to let him fall to the ground while complaining about how this was ruining his plan.

GURPS Kung Fu Cowboys Session 17: Pagoda of the Outlaw King

Big Po - Hungry Hungry Sumotori
Michelangelo - Friendly Capoeirista
Roberto King - Murderous Dagger Fighter
Dan da Ying -  Helpful Eagle-Stylist

Hangman's Mesa
After much discussion, the party abandoned a plan to sabotage the gondola, and decided to just cut a hole in the paper walls of the pagoda and sneak in.  Po boosted Mike so he could look through a high window on the pagoda's ground floor at the back of the building.  It looked down from a landing halfway to the second floor to an atrium with a high ceiling and two adjoining rooms, one of which orange-robed kung fu mooks were moving sacks of squash and rice into.  Figuring that would be a storage room, they waited for the mooks to finish their work, then snuck around to that side of the pagoda and Roberto cut a hole wide enough for Po.

They slid open the store room door and entered into the main atrium, empty except for four large pillars supporting the pagoda, then headed upstairs to the second floor.  A single guard walked between the pillars, away from a zen garden he had clearly just been raking, and the party (except for Po) snuck up behind him to take him out without raising an alarm.  Mike made an All-Out kick to the skull for a grand total of 0 injury, his foot bouncing harmlessly off the goon's head, followed by another blow to the head from Dan, who missed.  Fortunately, before the thug was able to shout anything, Roberto just slit his throat, killing him instantly.

Po dragged the body over to a convenient body-sized crate and shoved it in; the party hoped nobody noticed the super-obvious pool of blood against the hardwood floors.  They continued up to the third floor, which had four sliding doors off of the main hall, which ended at a spiral staircase up.  The party could hear two people talking behind at least one of them, but their eavesdropping was interrupted by somebody on the ground floor shouting "Hey, somebody cut a hole in the wall down here!  Raise the alarm!".

GURPS Kung Fu Cowboys Session 16: The Wonders of Modern Medicine

Big Po - Hungry Hungry Sumotori
Michelangelo - Friendly Capoeirista
Roberto King - Murderous Dagger Fighter
Dan da Ying (Unconscious)-  Helpful Eagle-Stylist

The Black Fort
Mike started digging around his backpack looking for either a sinchu root or the vial of "medical cocaine" labelled "Dr. White's Cure-All for Tooth-Aches, Wandering Uterus, and Restless Leg" he'd picked up in Three Trees, while Roberto and Po continued to Evaluate.  Rather than close in, the Black Centurion kept his distance and beckoned his horse over.  Roberto stepped up and shanked the horse twice to try and injure it, but rolled low damage, and it passed its roll to avoid spooking.

The Black Centurion put himself between his horse and the party, and Roberto and Po both held back, Evaluating, until the Centurion Quick-Mounted, and started to ride away.  Mike found the medical cocaine, while Roberto missed the horse's groin with a thrown knife.  Po realized he couldn't catch up and took a break, while the Navajo fired a volley of arrows, and one crit the Centurion.

Mike "drank" the cocaine and found himself numb to his pain and full of energy!  Roberto drew another knife as the Centurion turned and charged the Navajo, taking out two with a pair of swings.  Mike sprinted towards the fray and launched an All-Out Jump Kick which the Centurion barely dodged.  In return, the horse bit Mike, and the Centurion landed three blows to his skull for 52 injury, sending him instantly past four death checks.

GURPS Kung Fu Cowboys Session 15: The Black Centurion

Big Po - Hungry Hungry Sumotori
Michelangelo - Friendly Capoeirista
Roberto King - Murderous Dagger Fighter
Dan da Ying -  Helpful Eagle-Stylist

The Black Fort
Dan tried to grab the Black Centurion and drag him off of his horse, but was parried, while Roberto jumped on another of the bowmen on the wall and brought him down with a savage flurry of knife blows, losing his next turn to Bloodlust.  Mike Evaluated for another turn to hopefully set up a Sweeping Kick, while Po kicked at the spearman he had grappled but missed.  The archers fired another volley at Roberto, but only one of them managed to actually hit.

The swordsman beside Po stabbed him for minor damage, while the two spearmen accidentally hit their friend who Po was grappling.  Dan got stabbed some more by spearmen, then was Feinted and hit with a Deceptive Mighty Blow by the Black Centurion, and bitten by his horse for good measure.  Reeling from Shock, Dan missed another Deceptive grab, and Mike launched his Secret "My Foot To Your Neck Technique" Sweeping Kick at the Centurion but was parried.

Po made an All-Out Attack (Double) to switch his grip to his victim's neck and then Neck Snapped him ("Guys, I found a strategy to kill one guy a turn!").  The bowmen on the wall dropped their bows and started picking up their spears, while down in the courtyard, Mike dodged a pair of attacks from spearmen, and Po was stabbed by everyone around him.  The Black Centurion Feinted Dan again (for 11 degrees), and followed with a pair of Rapid Strikes to the neck, which certainly hurt, but didn't take him out.

GURPS Kung Fu Cowboys Session 14: Assault on the Black Riders: Take Two

Big Po - Hungry Hungry Sumotori
Michelangelo - Friendly Capoeirista
Roberto King - Murderous Dagger Fighter
Dan da Ying -  Helpful Eagle-Stylist

"Planning"
The party spent a long time debating what to do next (an hour real time), and during the conversation, Atsa agreed to help attack the Black Riders, though they only had 6 warriors in fighting shape after their multiple battles.  Mike still worried that these might just be rogue elements, and woke up one of the Black Riders.  He tried to get information ("Uhh, I use Sex Appeal"), but failed, and the Rider insisted that he was Cherokee.  Instead of letting Roberto kill him, Mike knocked him out.

After discarding plans to hollow out a cow and use it as a trojan horse, they retreated back to the Navajo camp to rest for the night.  The next morning, they rode back to just out of line of sight of the Black Fort the next morning (though, as usual, the horses didn't like Dan, and he was forced to walk).  One of the Navajo warriors crawled over the hill to scout, and came back ten minutes later to report that the Fort wasn't on any kind of high alert, which seemed strange.

Faint Benny Hill Music In The Distance
Once again, Po dove into the river that ran beside the Fort and swam up, unnoticed.  Then, he tried to climb the wall, but fell off, and the noise of his fall attracted a pair guards, who only asked him to go away.  After realizing that they didn't recognize him, Po claimed to be thirsty from walking through the desert, and the guards pointed out the river right beside him (and that he was drenched from his swim).  He then asked for one of the guard's hats, but, understandably, they didn't want to give him a hat, and told him to leave or be fired upon.

GURPS Kung Fu Cowboys Session 13: An Impromptu Mystery

Big Po - Hungry Hungry Sumotori
Michelangelo - Friendly Capoeirista
Roberto King - Murderous Dagger Fighter
Dan da Ying -  Helpful Eagle-Stylist

The Black Riders' Fort
Dan stepped into the main building to "Exotic Hand Stroke" the swordsman that Mike had Feinted, but missed, wasting it.  In an effort to gain some cover from the archer, Mike flipped the heavy table at the center of the room with Mighty Blows, and the archer did indeed hold her fire, though she nocked another arrow.  She then asked "What do you people want?" (which prompted laughter from the players as they realized that even they weren't fully sure), and the two swordsmen with her swung at Mike from the side, but, after using Luck to reroll an Acrobatic Dodge, he was unharmed.

Up on the ramparts, Roberto dispatched one of the mooks with a 16-MoV Feint followed by a thrust to the neck, and stepped in to close the gap with the rear spearman.  Po tried to grab the other mook in the first rank, but he successfully parried, then backed up and missed.  The other spearman also backed up to use his Reach 2 to his advantage, but Roberto critically parried his thrust, knocking him off balance.

The right swordsman parried a kick from Dan, and Mike replied to the archer that they were only here to help the farmers, then turned to kick at a swordsman's foot, not quite breaking it.  Po finally got a hold of the shielded mook, and threw him to the ground, while Roberto broke Teamwork to finish off the rear spearman with a Feint and neck stab ("Ugh, that's not a good Feint, only 7 degrees").

GURPS Kung Fu Cowboys Session 12: Assault on the Black Riders

Big Po - Hungry Hungry Sumotori
Michelangelo - Friendly Capoeirista
Roberto King - Murderous Dagger Fighter
Dan da Ying -  Helpful Eagle-Stylist

Midnight Raid, Harris Farmstead
From the barn, the party watched the five riders on the hill as they approached the Harris farmstead, but nobody was able to make out whether they were Navajo in the darkness.  Two of them rode forward and fell for the party's traps; one was clotheslined off his horse, while the other rode into a trench and was sent tumbling.  Before the riders could regain their footing, Po and Roberto charged them; Dan and Mike still weren't sure they were hostile, and held back.  One of the riders who had held back shouted "What's happening down there?" in English, and drew an arrow.

Po ran up to the guy who had ridden into the hole and grabbed him, and another rider started to charge his horse downhill.  Mike ran to attack the other one, and Po threw his victim on the ground behind himself for "somebody else to deal with" and got ready to deal with the charge.  With his comrade out of the way, the rider with a bow fired an arrow at Po, but missed, and the prone rider struggled to his knees and readied his spear.

The charging rider rode into another of the rope traps, and though he managed to stay on his horse, his charge was halted.  Dan ran up to the guy behind Po and feinted, then kicked him unconscious.  Mike held his ground and Evaluated, while Roberto charged with his knives at the spearman, but was parried.  Po continued moving towards the horseman who'd been stopped by the rope trap, but their leader said something in a language none of them spoke (Mike figured it was Italian), and the three riders still on horseback turned and fled.