[gilga]

Some additional information.

1. The building - I have the Google Maps building in mind, the walls are wooden, just the windows are covered with steel.

2. The explosives, they are standard explosives that are manufactured by the a Mafia business.  Nagisa knows them very well and have worked with them many times.  This is why she was so fast to identify the danger. They are the 2075 equivalent of C4 bricks. The explosive charges are glued to the wall so that the shock wave will bounce of the wall and pressure the inside space.  The brick shaped charges are covered with many metallic sharp objects that will be tossed from all directions inside the warehouse. (Like many frag grenades).

If the purpose was to demolish the building there was no need to use that many explosives. Drilling a few holes in key places and filling them with few grams of C4 - would do the trick. If the Demo man was in a hurry, the building could also be demolished with a big explosive charge in the middle of the room.  This would simply knock the walls out and drop the roof over your head. 

To anyone skilled in demolition it is clear that these explosives were designed by a professional demolition expert.  Especially to make sure that nobody inside the warehouse survives.  You can be just a few meters of the building and barely feel the explosion. As all the energy is directed inside.

[Shaman_Yuri]

"Yulia, get the fuck out of there!  They're trying to blow up the warehouse!!! I can't jam their signal for much longer. They will get through eventually. GET OUT NOW!"

Although she might have precious little experience in the outside world, years spend between the sheets with men and women who made big things happen and loved to regale their stories to her as she serviced them gave her ideas.  She hoped those stories had enough truth to them to get her, Athos, and their Yak colleague out of this mess alive.  She had no idea just WHO was behind this set up, but what she DID know is they had to survive if they ever wanted to sort it out.

She remembered several client stories telling about heists where they were confronted with a nigh impenetrable steel door set in a wood frame house.  She hoped the solution she'd had described to her worked here.

"Passion," she instructed the helpful spirit in astral space, "protect Ando.  Trust me- I'll be fine, little one."

In the meat world, Minnie quickly scanned the cavernous space for a nearby spot of wall that didn't have explosives attached.  She then girded her lithe but sturdy frame and, with all her strength and speed,  barreled through the wall with a cry of "Follow me!"

I have no idea what to roll.  Feel free to roll for me whatever is appropriate.  I'm thinking some combination of strength and agility since she's taking advantage of inertia to enhance her strength force.  Here is the link to Minnie's sheet again.

[Jayde Moon]

On hearing Nagisa's warning, Artie springs into action.  She makes her way to the warehouse from her position atop a nearby rooftop and leaps across the gap.  No time to care about watcher spirits as she scans the roof for any potential rooftop access.  If she can get it open and drop a rope, some of those inside might be able to crawl out.

[gilga]

@Artie As you bolt to the rooftop you notice that there are no windows, however it is not very strong not at all. In fact you feel that it just barely carries your weight.

@Minnie Dream of Passion looks a little bit puzzled. She tells you "I am protecting all of you, to the best I can... but I have no way to stop an explosion." She seems very frustrated about not knowing what to do about the coming explosion.  She is reluctant to change her position saying "I am not allowed to leave your clothes."

As you dash toward the wall Mr. Andu screams NOOO! - You are surprised how fast he reacts He drops to the floor and cover his head with his hands.


@Minnie The walls have 15 hit points and defend damage with 10 dice. You can just kick them to brake. (Unarmed combat or clubs if you hit it with something).

If you are going to kick the walls tough,  it might trigger the explosives as they are already armed. Generally explosive charges are not very sensitive, this is what make them safe for transferring and deploying. Detonators, are very small and delicate explosives that can just blow up with a small electric current or rapid movement. These are carried separated from the explosive charges. The danger level in them alone is limited to losing a finger as they are very small in size. However, when they connected with the main explosive charge - triggering the detonator will cause a chain reaction that blows up the main explosive charge. This make them extremely dangerous to touch.

Roll Edge - if you get any net hits you do not trigger an explosive charge. If you do, the damage will be 16P +5 physical. To break the wall you need to dish enough damage. Having a spirit that posses your clothes means you get 5 additional points of armor to handle the damage.

Strawberry's spirit have also used its magical guard power.  That power is basically - "good luck"  it has some very subtle influence. It will not prevent an explosive charge from going off, but it does prevent you from glitching. That means, that if you glitch the edge roll - nothing happens. (other than a service is consumed by the spirit). Normally on a glitch, I'd have the entire warehouse to explode. 
That power effects all of you. (Including Artie and Mr. Ando)/

@Athos - if an explosive charge goes off you will also take 16P +5 physical damage, this damage can be cut in half by dash to the floor - this is what Mr. Andu is doing.

@Artie The roof has 13 hit points and defend damage with 2 dice - you can brake it with unarmed attacks. It does not defend itself and the only way to miss the roof is to glitch. (you cannot glitch because of the spirit as I explained above) There are no explosive charges on the roof.

[Shaman_Yuri]

Minnie heard Ando's reaction and could have stopped given her reflexes, but she really does believe this to be the best option given Nagisa's sense of urgency.  Maybe there is a better way, but with an explosion possibly seconds away there wasn't time to reason things out.  Action, even a hare brained one, was called for.  Without hesitation, and using all the unarmed combat skills Mouse and Athos had taught her, she crashed the wall.

Avoiding a big boom: Edge: 5d6t5: 3 [5d6t5=4, 1, 5, 5, 6]

Hitting the wall: Unarmed combat: 13d6t5: 4 [13d6t5=4, 6, 3, 6, 1, 4, 5, 4, 4, 1, 1, 2, 5

[Mercy Merchant]

Intuitively understanding what Yulia is doing, Athos grabs the prone Yak and barrels into the wall with her.  He cradles the old man as he lifts a massive foot to kick the wall in the same general place that Yulia did.  He is hoping that their combined efforts will allow them to break through..

Roll edge to avoid the big boom.  Roll edge to avoid explosion: 6d6t5 4

Kick wall in same place as Yulia  Unarmed strike on wall (pre-edge): 13d6t5 5  Rolling misses  Rerolling misses and exploding 6: 9d6t5 5  Total of 10 hits

Athos' foot connects solidly with the wood wall of the old warehouse. 

  Wall defense  Wall defense: 10d6t5 5  Damage taken is 10 + 5 net hits = 15.  The wall should be broken here, especially of Yulia managed any damage on her own.

He may have been strong enough to knock a hole in the wall or the old wood might have been weaker here.  It does not matter.  Suddenly there is a hole large enough for at least Yulia and Ando.  If the hole is large enough he carries Ando through, but if not Athos tosses the old man through the new door and yells, "Yulia get out of here!"   He then takes another kick to widen the hole to get through.  While doing this he sends a message to the trix wizard.  >>Nagisa.  Is there any way that you can get a fix on the signature of who set these explosives?  Somebody set us up and I would like to know who.  My guess is that you will need to do so before it blows up.<<

[gilga]

@everyone  Within a few seconds Athos and Minnie manage to kick a hole in the wired wall. As they jump through the hole they find themselves outside of the warehouse. Just in time to spot Artie jumping from the rooftop to avoid the explosion. Like Adno predicted, this explosion is so skillfully designed that it has virtually no effect at all even though you are no more than one meter when it finally blows up.

You feel a little dizzy trying to digest what just happened and how things progressed. It all happened so quickly, you are not sure what you think. When you look around you you discover that you are surrounded by tens of Yaks. You can only assume that their number is 30, like Mr. Ando claimed but at this point the difference is only academic. Mr. Ando cleans himself up and look in disbelief on the warehouse that is no nothing more than splinters. You can say that he is deeply insulted. His lovely and friendly body language is replaced by something else, cold and sharp. “Please accompany me, we need to talk.” is all he said.

Despite the use of ‘please’ tens of angry Yaks armed with tasers makes you believe that this is not a request at all. The yaks ask you for your weapons and comlinks, if you do not resist they perform a physical search and remove every piece of equipment they discover other than clothes and armor.


Artie has the opportunity to roll stealth to avoid being captured by the Yaks.

[Shaman_Yuri]

Minnie hands over her knives, her only artificial weapons.  She doesn't need them to be effective anyway.  If the male Yak toughs insist on frisking her, she'll make it clear that Strawberry isn't the only female around who can be disruptive and make men foolish.  She'll flirt shamelessly with them in an effort to keep them from realizing that her eyeglasses have an integrated commlink.  Assuming she gets to keep her glasses, she intends to record everything that happens now - full sight and sound.

Flirt with the toughs who frisk her to direct them away from noticing her glasses have integrated commlink ability: Seduction: 12d6t5: 6 [12d6t5=5, 3, 1, 5, 1, 4, 5, 1, 1, 5, 5, 6]

Holy cow, six hits!  Strawberry, eat your heart out!  I am mouse, hear me roar! Rawr!!! 

[Mercy Merchant]

Athos shakes his head to clear it and get the ringing in his ears to go away.  He uses the opportunity to subvocalize a command to Bruno to get Nagisa out of the area.  He surrenders his gun, noting with some satisfaction that several of the Yaks take a step back when they see the huge hand cannon.  The gun is a specially modified Ruger Super Warhawk.  It takes normal rounds, but was been customized to fit his hand.  Some of the modifications were designed to make the weapon even bigger than it had to be, adding to its overall intimidation factor.  It also has an integral commlink, something rather rare, or so he hopes.  It is still on and transmitting to the rest of the team.  He allows himself to be searched and looks at his friend.  "Do as they say, Yulia."

Athos looks over at the old Yak and adds, "Not that I am in any sort of bargaining position here, Ando-san, but would you consider letting the woman go?  She is acting in a purely secretarial role and keeping her adds nothing to any gain you might expect.  If you keep her, I respectfully request that she be treated with respect.  You will have to kill me if you hurt her."

[Shaman_Yuri]

Minnie hears Athos' words and doesn't say anything, she just continues to put out the mojo in the hopes the toughs will want to keep her around.  And if she doesn't get to stay, that their imaginations will be with her and not focused on doing whatever they're supposed to be doing against Athos.  Given they already look to be eating out of her hand, she has reason to expect that she'll have her desired impact.

By the way, I have no idea how much damage Minnie took when she broke through the wall.  Regardless, she's playing the vulnerable little female for all it's worth.

[gilga]

@Minnie the search you receive from the goon is very intrusive, especially as you work your magic and use the physical touch to excite the man just a little bit so it is not obvious. You can tell that he is aroused and that at certain point the attention is given more to your femininity than to find weapons. The goon take off your glasses, but as he does your tail is stroking his thigh in a suggestive manner, at the same time, your face masterfully display vulnerability and affection. The goon’s hand wanders down the suit and you can notice that he left the glasses in one of your internal pockets. “Name is Charlie...  sexy mouse, give me a call.” He whispers as he does. Minnie just understand, not only Charlie knows she has a comlink, he just shared his own frequency with her glasses.

@Athos - Mr. Ando looks at you and say nothing. He is not going to negotiate with you now. Apparently the Joke has a basement and there you are headed. On the back of your eye you can see the car leaving and you can tell by her hand movements that Nagisa is very upset about it.
After an awkward silence he say "It is not me killing you that you need to worry about... this bomb was Finnigan job."

[Mercy Merchant]

Athos smiles to himself without letting it get to his face.  He follows the Yak escorts to the basement of the bar.  His hope is that Ando will give him credit for saving his life and spare Yulia any torture.  He has taken his share of beatings before and can take another. 

[Shaman_Yuri]

Minnie feels a little bad at having undermined Athos' plan to get her away from all this, but it's a minor regret compared to her satisfaction at remaining by her friend's side in his time of need.  With thanks to both Mouse and Tony for the skills which allow her to deftly pluck the strings of the sex-dimmed people around her, she surreptitiously slips her glasses back on, making it appear that suddenly she can see straight again despite the fact that she had 20/10 vision without them.  She decides to leave the Yak tough's contact in her contacts file - like with the Humanis kid earlier, you never knew when such a contact might come in handy.  She then ensures her specs are recording full audio and visuals.  She does NOT transmit in order to avoid some enterprising hacker catching her game.  If she gets out of this alive, she'd have the data.  If not, well she wouldn't be worried over it then.  In any case, who knew if the basement was shielded anyway and the risk of transmitting would be for naught anyway.

As she enters the building sticking close to Athos' back, Minnie looks carefully around her in all three of her sights.  She wants to be prepared for anything.  She's also curious if Strawberry might make an appearance.  At the very least perhaps Passion might have some insight into what might be in store for her.

"I'm sorry for confusing you, little one," she tells the spirit in astral space.  "I've never worked with a spirit before so I hope you will be patient with me."  The next words escaped her before she really thought about it.  Maybe it was the stress...her desire for a distraction from the tenseness around her...her need for some last cheerful talk before her very possible demise.  "What's it like being a spirit?"

[gilga]

@Minnie Passion Dream say
“It is difficult to explain as your kind calls by the name spirit to so many different things. I will do what I can to explain about my keen with metaphors from your own world. I hope you will understand.

Imagine yourself going to sleep, and then imagine that your mind drifts into some lucid dream. Where you are yourself, but everything else follows different rules. Rules that seem completely arbitrary to you. But are obvious to everybody else in your dream.  This is how I perceive your world, nothing here is real - if I am 'killed' I'll wake up terrified in my world and say that it was just a bad dream. Otherwise, I may have a better dream but this is what this world is - to me a dream.

I dreamed about Strawberry and you and the bombs in the warehouse, none of you are real to me. I know it is difficult to accept that you are nothing but a fictional character to me. Don't be hurt,  I do like you and Strawberry very much and I experienced the conversation between you as an erotic dream. It make me a little sad that I will soon wake up and may never dream about you and Strawberry again. In fact, I may completely forget about you shortly after waking up“

[Mercy Merchant]

Athos has no answer for the Yak boss that will mean anything to him.  He is certain that Valentina did not do this thing, but has no means of proving it.  He needs to endure whatever is about to happen and live to report back.