Robyn leading her WarBeast into the breech, clearing an escape path for the team!!!
Yes.
it is very cool indeed!
Robyn is telling you to throw it out the new hole and you should have time to do that since we are now playing in seconds, right? I am sending Robyn out the hole and into action with the Hell Hound.
Hmmm - well, I can't throw it out that hole...because that is the same hole you and the others are going out.
Also, sadly, SR grenades go off much much faster than the traditional five seconds. In fact, I am pushing it to assume I can even jump on it before it goes off, but I figured "What GM will argue with me blowing myself up?!"
Trying to throw it will be a much riskier move ruleswise to Robyn, the dog, and other team members than just smothering it with his body, and protecting them is Al's highest value, so that is why I took the "jump on it" option rather than the "throw it back" option.
I would have just used the "run away" rules option, but I thought Robyn was staying in the room. I know I shouldn't assume other characters' actions, but Robyn's last IC post saying:
She resolves to stay near him so she does not lose him again.made me think it was a safe guess.
Of course circumstances change, and that's all good.
In any case, even if people are leaving, probably not everyone is fast enough to get out before it goes off.
Anyway, I am cool with pretty much any outcome
except Al lying on the ground huddled around a live grenade to save his friends and then having people go by saying, hey, why don't you just throw it?
And then he says, oh, yeah, right, and tosses it somewhere.
That's just not a post I can write.
So I think it all comes down to when exactly it goes off, which is down to Aria.
I see basically three options:
1. it goes off before Al reaches it. I can edit "dive onto it" to "dives toward it" and I'm happy to soak the full blast. The chance I took.
2. It goes off after I jump on it but before Robyn can act. Then Robyn's post could stay intact except for editing out the advice about throwing it.
3. It does not go off until after Robyn has a chance to act. In that case, I would again edit my post from "onto it" to "toward it" and tonight I'll post Al taking her advice and make the throwing it back rolls and see what happens (though I'll throw it back out the window, not out the new hole in the wall).
Aria - what do you think fits best with the grenade's timing?