[Dragonslayer]

You know pal, you should really change course to avoid a collision, Dom thinks savagely as he races towards the radio signal.  Instead of turning away from the oncoming craft, he turns into it, hoping to scare of the other boat, so he can secure the prize.

[Csjarrat]

Both of your trajectories are now lined up on the package, but your GPS trace shows you've got a good head-start on the mysterious opposition and should arrive there about 45 seconds before the other craft if you go at full power..
detection test at -2 for size (7d6.hits(5)=3)

The sudden burst of your engines and change of speed lights you up on the Vorontsoz's radar, and a powerful spotlight fires up on the bridge tower trying to discover your location.
Please let me know if you are "jumping in" to the boat or piloting by VR/AR.
Pilot water vehicles test to avoid spotlight please!

[Dragonslayer]

3 hits on the test, and yes, I'm jacked in. http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4113382/

[Csjarrat]

The spotlight rakes the roiling sea around you, desperatley trying to pin you down but your ducking and evasion keeps you clear for now.
Your forward facing sonar detects the package, roughly 150yds ahead.
Sweeping your craft around it in a wide arc, you ease the throttle back keeping your hull between the interceptor and the package.
You jack out and snatch the boat hook from the emergency equipment locker and dash to the rear of the craft; ready to retrieve the package in the craziest game of hook-a-duck you'll ever play.

[STR + AGI + EDG test please, -4 for poor conditions]

[Dragonslayer]

[spoiler[ 4 hits.  I never have dice luck this good. http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4113726/ [/spoiler]

[Csjarrat]

With one clean swipe, your hook finds a purchase on the grab handle and you haul the package aboard, dragging it into the cabin with you.
The spotlight returns for another pass and for a second, it's like daylight. two flashes to your right match up with two vertical spikes of white water erupting far too close for comfort, the roar of their outboard engines drowning out the reports of the gunfire.
Jacking back into your nightrunner, your sensors detect that the opposition is a RHIB class open topped boat, currently powered by two large outboards.
A round impacts somewhere on the starboard side and several more white spikes erupt from stray rounds, these guys obviously mean business.

//Incoming Broadcast: all stations//Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic:: All vessels, all vessels. Adverse weather advisory in sectors White through Humber. all light vessels advised to report to safe harbour immediately.
Gusts of upto gale force 9 expected. swells of up to 15ft. Large vessels maintain course and heading and change ready status to: Alert.

[Dragonslayer]

An inflatable, in this weather?  Gutsy move, guys.

Safely seated in the armored cabin of his boat, something else the opposition didn't have, Dom opened the throttle.  The swells and wind would give him the edge over the RHIB, and the Nightrunner was heavier, which meant it was better for the roiling seas.

Hope they brought life jackets.

[Csjarrat]

The RHIB sweeps around your stern in a wide sweeping arc and opens it's throttle, trying to match your speed and heading. Your rear facing camera shows it's outline struggling to punch through the waves, being tossed around like a kids toy.
]Opposed pilot watercraft test then please

[Dragonslayer]

My luck always go sour when I need it.  4 hits after spending my last point of Edge to reroll failures.  Otherwise I'd only have one.  http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4117657/

[Csjarrat]

enemy pilot 9d6.hits(5)=3

You gun the engines and try and put some distance between you and the RHIB.
Your craft protests and wails loudly as the ducts breach and clear each wave, status lights glowing red and easing back to green and stability systems working overtime.
You see in your sensor feed that you are slowly pulling away from the RHIB, making much better progress through the horrendous conditions, though they are still very much in the fight.
The mainland is now much closer, but the ferocity of nature's assault on your craft hasn't let up, lights from the mainland drowned under a blanket of rain as your wipers struggle to make a dint in the onslaught.

The brief spell outside to retrieve the package has left you totally sodden, and the boat's heating system wasnt doing much to shift your sense of discomfort.

//Incoming Broadcast:: Clacton Harbourmaster//<<Incoming small craft, we have you as inbound on radar. Due to inclement conditions please dock immediately. We have berths on bay 6 and 8 on the north harbour. Confirm?//

[Dragonslayer]

// Harbormaster, I'm being chased by pirates!  They are shooting at me, please help! //

That should do the trick, Dom thinks to himself.

The storm was making it next to impossible to make the drop zone at the beach, but there was still plenty of time.  If need be, he'd make the delivery on land.

[Csjarrat]

//Mayday signal received small craft, Coastguard dispatched and are en-route. Maintain heading to Harbor with all possible haste. Be aware of marked shoal S.S.East by 3NM of harbour on approach. Navigable channels are lit.//

Your sensors show that the distance to your pursuers has increased slightly as you punch through wave after wave, each one looking like a sheer wall of water looming menacingly in front of your craft.
The wipers work over time to clear the cabin's screen, and you are dimly aware of their vain struggle against nature as wave after wave of sensor information crashes over you, pummeling what feels like your skin.

Several minutes of struggling with the controls pass as a new contact pings up on radar, approaching at a low altitude but at considerable speed.

Sensor + Perception test please (-4 for atrocious conditions; spray, darkness etc)

//Broacast Message::United Kingdom Coastguard<<Small craft on approach to Norfolk shoal. Please broadcast SiN and identify purpose for MayDay signal//

[Dragonslayer]

Autofail, since a -4 takes me to zero dice.

Dom slows the craft a touch, wouldn't do to have his pursuers lost to far back after all, they just became his cover.  Transmitting the SIN attached to the ownership of the boat, he starts issuing mental commands, one to open a space inside of a bench, the package can go there, and another to stash his armored jacket, PPP gear and gun.  Couldn't have the cops finding that and getting suspicious, now.

// Coast Guard, I fell asleep fishing, and got woke up by the storm.  When I started to make for the harbor, this zodiac thing started trying to shoot me.  I think they are pirates and they are trying to kill me! //

[Csjarrat]

[Con test please]

[Dragonslayer]

6 hits! Boo freaking Yah! http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4124623/