And Her Name Is John Cena - OOC and Dice

Cinder initiates hostilities. Using Orokos because Invisible Castle is down.

Cinder: Two sucesses
Soldier: Three successes, lucky bastard
Air Monk 1: Three successes, this is getting repetitive
Air Monk 2: Two successes

Soldier and Air 1 act on tick 0.
Cinder and Air 2 act on tick 1.

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A Join Battle roll is called for from every participant involved in combat, willing or not, when one person initiates hostilities. Join battle is the "initiative" check for Exalted. All participants roll their Join Battle pool (Wits + Awareness), and the character with the most successes is the "count." They act on tick 0. All other characters subtract their successes from the count, and the result is what tick they act on.

In this example, the Earth Aspect dubbed "soldier" scored three successes, making him the count. He acts on tick 0. Cinder, meanwhile, only scored two successes on her Join Battle Roll. 3 - 2 = 1. She will act on tick 1.

The standing Air Aspect gets her action on this tick. She had activated her Air Dragon Form for 5 Motes at the start of combat, then uses Tornado Offense Technique, spending 9 Motes to get three more attacks without flurry penalties. Her Dexterity (5) + Martial Arts (4) gives her a dice pool of (9). The Accuracy of her weapon is (1) meaning that she attacks with (10) Dice... but Air Dragon Form adds her Martial Arts (4) score to ranged attacks, bringing her total dice rolled to attack to 14. Since she is describing her attack, she gets an additional stunt die - meaning she's rolling 15 dice for her attacks.

-First attack: 15d10, 8 successes. Since Cinder's Parry DV is 8, this attack is parried.
-Second Attack: 15d10, 5 Successes. Since Cinder's Parry DV is 8, this attack is parried
-Third Attack: 15D10, 9 Succeeds. Since Cinder's Parry DV is 8, this attack hit!
-Fourth Attack: 15D10, 4 Successes. Since Cinder's Parry DV is 8, this attack is parried.

She hit on her third attack, and as such has an extra die of damage. Her Chakram deals a raw (6) Lethal and her Strength (3) damage is added to this along with however many successes her attack got over Cinder's DV - in this case (1). If Cinder had No soak, she would roll the total sum of this as damage - 10 dice - and each success would add a point of damage. Since Cinder has more than enough Soak (21) to take the attack, it deals minimum damage. Minimum Damage for most artifact weapons is 2.

-Air Aspect rolls for damage: 2d10: 1 Success, 1 damage.

Summary:
Air Aspect has spent 14 to attack four times and deal 1 damage, illustrating why there are so goddamned many Terrestrial Exalted. There needs to be. 

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Bells rolls Join Battle to Join the Battle. Rolls 8 dice at difficulty 3 (meaning she needs 3 successes to join).
Success! 3 of them. She joins the battle immediately, before the Air Aspect's second action in this turn.

Bells closes in on her opponent and, figuring that her opponent spent a lot of her power on that last flurry of strikes, she should finish her off while she's off-balance or whatever. Her Dex+MA is 10, and she is using kicks - which gain no accuracy bonus. She spends 9 motes for 3 actions using Many-Armed Monkey Style, and opts to use the first one to spend 5M activating her Crystal Chameleon Form for 5 motes - because she has a Martial Arts specialty in it that will give her 3 more dice on each attack.

The three other actions are all attacks. Each uses the 10 dice + 3 Specialty (Crystal Chameleon) + 2 (Stunt Die) = 15 Dice. It would be more effective to use her artifact weapon, but she's dealing unarmed, bashing damage deliberately because she's trying to not kill people.

First attack: 15d10, 10 Successes. The Monk has a base dodge of 5 - this is at -2 from her flurry last turn, and a +2 for Air Dragon form. So, 5 dice of raw damage added to this attack.

--First attack Damage: 8D10, 1 Success. Bell's Strength (2) plus her Kick's bonus damage (3), are combined with the raw successes of her attack (5), meaning that she'd roll 10d10 bashing damage. However, the Air Aspect has Stamina (2), meaning that two dice are subtracted from Bell's damage. Bells is a weak little ninja, and only gets one level of bashing damage dealt as a result.


Second Attack: 15D10, 8 Successes. Accounting for the Air Aspect's Dodge DV, (3) dice of raw damage added to this attack.

--Second attack Damage: 6D10, 1 Success. Bells continues to sissy-slap her opponent, and deals 1 bashing damage. 


Third Attack: 15d10, 11 Successes. Accounting for Doge DV, 6 dice of raw damage is added to her attack.

--Third attack damage: 9D10, 2 Successes: Bells finishes up her flurry by dealing 2B damage.


Note: Due to my sloppy grasp of game mechanics, the second and third attacks would have been eligible for Onslaught penalties to the Air Aspect's DV with each attack, so long as damage was dealt with the attack before them These penalties stack, meaning that the first would have been at -2 due to her flurry, the second would have been at -3, and so on. Not knowing the rules only hurts yourself, so I'm electing not to reroll my attacks and gain a solid advantage. 

Summary: Bells drops into her Crystal Chameleon Stance, imposing a -2 on all attacks directed at her. She spent 14 motes and dealt 4 damage to the Air Aspect. The Air aspect suffers a -1 wound penalty on everything she does as a result. 

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Low on motes and panicked, the Air Aspect elects to use another charm on her turn: Breath Seizing Technique. She targets Bells, who is already in melee combat with her, and rolls Strength (3) + Martial Arts (4) + Essence (3) against a difficulty of Bell's Stamina - but she has to succeed on an attack first. 

Air Aspect Attack: 8D10, 5 Successes.  Dex (4)+Martial Arts (5) + Stunt Dice (1) + Fist Accuracy (1) = 11. -2 for Bell's Crystal Chameleon Form, -1 for wound penalties = 8 dice rolled. The attack does not beat Bell's (punching) parry DV of 6, and doesn't connect. 

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Now it's time for the Earthy Soldier's armor-plated turn. As he has a large amount of motes committed to his artifacts, he can't do as much in the way of flurries like the girls above. He closes on Cinder with the intent to smack her with his jade lance and, if he hits, activate Dragon-Graced weapon.

Earth Soldier attack: 10d10, 7 successes. With a total attack pool of 9 and one stunt die, Earth Soldier rolls 10 dice. He does not beat Cinder's parry DV. Onslaught penalties only apply to either individual flurries or coordinated attacks, after all.

It's Bells' turn. She'd like to finish knocking out the Air Aspect, and focuses herself on that task, spending 3M to get another attack - as she did before. 

First Attack, 15D10: 10 Successes. The Air Aspect's Parry DV is -1 from her last turn, so 5 Successes worth of damage get through.
--First Attack Damage, 8d10: 3 Successes, 3 Bashing damage dealt.

Second Attack, 15D10: 9 Successes. The Air Aspect's DV gets another -1 for Onslaught Penalties, as I dealt damage to her with my first attack this turn. Another 5 get through her Parry.
--Second Attack Damage, 8d10: 3 Successes, 3 Bashing damage dealt. The Air aspect is at her -4 health level, one more damage and she's unconscious. 

Summary: Bells has dealt 6 Bashing damage to her foe, spent 3 motes, and will act again on Tick 7.

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The Earth Soldier is in a bind. He's at his best with lots of friends to attack with, but barely holding out solo against a Solar - and only because she's unlucky. He chooses to stand his ground, in the hopes of holding off Cinder until his backup arrives. hoping that his luck (or her lack thereof) will hold out. 

Earth Soldier, 10d10: 4 Successes. As before, Cinder's defenses are too hard for him to break through. He's in trouble, because...

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The Air Aspect knows that if she takes another hit, she's as good as dead. At her only -4 health Level, she recieves a -4 penalty to her defenses, attacks, and more - meaning she's so beaten up, she's as good as useless. Furthermore, she's just about out of motes. There's very little she can do but get gotten this turn.

The Air Aspect elects to withdraw from the battle. She has a Perfect Invisibility, but no motes - but Bells doesn't want to hurt a fleeing opponent, and Cinder is slightly busy.

Cinder's turn. She regains 4m peripheral from a stunt last action, and 6m overdrive from taking 2L damage. Earth 1 goes first.

Attack:
- Total 12 dice, as above. These guys are all using the same pool.
- Cinder declares parry. Her bulwark stance charm has now run out, and she'll refresh it for 5m overdrive.
- One success. At least someone is having worse luck than Cinder. This is seriously the worst roll I've seen ever.
- Do I even have to tell you that this is a miss?

Cinder's action. She's going to hulk out on that bastard who just cut her.
Attack:
- Base 15 dice -1 wound penalty +5 valor (third channel of the fight) +2 stunt +9 dice (First Excellency, 7m peripheral, 2m personal) = 30 dice total. This man had best not survive.
- Air 3 declares dodge and prays for a miracle. I pray he's wrong.
- Nineteen successes. This is why you don't piss off a Solar.
- Dodge DV 5 +2 Air Dragon +1 Stunt -1 action = 7. 19 - 7 = 12.
- Just for fun, Cinder spends 1m personal to activate Solar Hero Form. Doubling excess successes to 24. Raw damage 33B/2.
- 33B - 2B soak = 31B; 12 successes. Air 3 takes B to Incap and L rolls over to -0.

Cinder spent 10m this round. She has 11m personal remaining. Her peripheral pool is empty.

She will act again on tick 16, Earth 1 will act again on tick 17.