[Jack_Spade]

Perception testPerception: 9d6t5 3
Surprise test w/ successful perception test Surprise Test: 18d6t5 4
Not surprised
Defense, adding Gymnastic for -5 Ini: Defense w/ Preemtive Dodge: 23d6t5 5 [23d6t5=1, 2, 4, 1, 6, 2, 4, 3, 2, 6, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 4, 3, 6, 5, 6, 2, 2, 3]
And I forgot that I am on a moving vehicle: Reroll moving Vehicle: 3d6t5 1 [3d6t5=5, 1, 3]
6 successes total
Edge Reroll: 20d6t5 4
10 successes total

Ini down to 25

Changing tactics: If she has earth spirits in play, I need to disable her now:
Shoot her with Gel rounds FA


Complex Action:  FA Fire "Brain Blaster"
AGI 8 + Skill 8 + Smartlink 2  - Moving Vehicle 2= Reroll moving Vehicle: 14d6t5 4

13 S AP 1 + Successes


The attack came suddenly and without warning. The earth itself rose to engulf him speeding on his bike. Kynos managed to avoid being dragged from his seat. Instead of slowing down he took his hand from the handle and shot a tight burst of gel rounds in the elf's direction.
'Pretty hard to direct spirits if you are unconscious...'

[gilga]

@Maxwell the sharks say - it is obvious now that they are not independent beings."We are travelers like yourself  - in particular we were trying to enter the world you left but we cannot yet do so - conditions are not yet right for us to enter. We do not know why you ventured so deep into astral space - it makes you vulnerable and you are not powerful enough to be here - it is obvious that your essence is slowly  dissolving and it attracted us to you, we are here for a free meal.
"

[gilga]

@Kynos With a combination of luck and skill you dodged the sand trap. Your shot hits it target and the Ginger elf and effect it. It is unclear what it did but the elf stops moving. By now you should be a bit suspicious, two grenades that should have dropped a horse and she kept going, but the gel round simply made her stop. As if someone has pulled the plug on her.

What make you a bit suspicious is that she seem to freeze in an unusual position. You'd expect her to drop to the ground - but she did not drop to the ground, she just froze in her observing you with a blank look and attempting to dodge.  At her emotional state - you are also surprised that she tried to dodge. The road to the tree appears to be clear.


With the matching perception test - You might notice Venom in a firing position in half cover behind some bushes. Prepared to snipe you as you make the grab.

Stealth: 12d6t5 5
Dodge: 11d6t5 3
Damage resistance: 15d6t5 3
11 damage taken.

[Shaman_Yuri]

Based on what I think is going on, Minnie would tackle Strawberry and try to take her to the ground and cover her body with her own. Secret Service style. If that makes sense as an action, that's what I do.

"I won't lose you too!"

[gilga]

@Minnie Venom seems irritated as you dash toward Strawberry or what is left from her.

@Kynos You can see Minnie storming out from the bush - (that also exposes Venom and dashes toward Strawberry crying "I won't lose you too"

(I am thinking on how to resolve that, Kynos is about 50 meters on bike and Minnie is by foot about 15 meters from the tree - I am not sure who should get there first I'll need to think about it.)

[Mulcarn]

He looks at the sharks intensely, gauging their words to measure how true they are being.  He stops for a second to look around the vast ocean he's in to verify what they are saying.  Maxwell runs his fingers through his burning hair and groans before addressing the strange ones.  "I didn't do this.  Someone else must have knocked my soul here.  Where ever here is."  He pauses momentarily and realizes that they are indeed correct, he feels that he's weakening with each passing moment.  Not wanting to die or fade away he says.  "From what I gathered I think i'm in one of the far planes, not sure which one or where exactly.  I've little interest in evaporating into nonexistence or letting you guys feed on my fatigued soul.  So any chance I can convince you to guide me back to my body and reality?  Assuming you know how to."

[gilga]

Athos shakes the hand of the Ork.  "MXN, we have a chance to do something right for the people.  I do not seek a continuation of the old ways.  The blood of too many innocent people has been shed for nothing more than a few Nuyen.  That only breeds fear and distrust.  I think it is time for a new Family.  One based on trust and protection.  Bruno and I are the first of something different.  What money is paid for protection will go for protection and improvements in people's lives.  Could you get behind that?"

Athos MXN say Look Athos, "your heart is in the right place. I know these things, there is only one way to protect people, be the meanest scariest SOB in the hood. If you try to do that for the people stunt well people have opinions and they think that they matter. Fear allows you to give good protection without actually using force - Mafia never had many soldiers they just knew when to show force and to be seen stronger than they really are.

Every goon in a street gang knows that once you mess with the Family they will kill anyone you know. Your own contacts will refuse to deal with you once you do, this is why nobody does. The Family has no problem in killing anyone that has a business relationship with someone that hurts them. Sometimes they even take children - Others cannot do these things - they depend on the same contacts themselves.  Once you change anything - the Finnegan brand is lost and the gangers in the hood will understand that they can simply walk all over you.  "

[Mercy Merchant]

Athos nods.  "You would be exactly right if I were interested in continuing the Finnegan brand.  But I am not.  I am starting a new brand and am going to stake my life on making it work.  I need soldiers who are loyal not only to me, but to the goal.  We will protect the people and show them a new way.  The gangers in the hood will probably challenge me and I will slap them down.  They will learn to respect me of perish, but I will not threaten the lives of families or associates.  We will make a new order.  A new Family.  Can you get behind that?"

[gilga]

@Maxwell - The sharks  say "You are in the connector plain - the astral sea, all the metaplains have exists in the astral see - but you need to know how to navigate, how to listen to the voices of the metaplains.  We can show you the way home but everything has a price... if we lose a meal you must feed us when you get back!"

[Mulcarn]

He contemplates the offer, going back and forth in his head with the implications of this faustian deal.  "I escape death only to bring it with me.  Sounds almost poetic.  Considering my options I have little choice.  It's not like I don't summon demons and elementals anyway.  Just need to feed these weird beasts, simple and brutal."

Maxwell stands up straight and crosses his arms before saying.  "Very well, I accept.  If you can safely guide me back home into my body, then i'll help satiate your hunger."

[gilga]

@Maxwell The sharks say - it is a magical contract you can never get out of it alive, bring us 10 mages to eat and save your own soul. Every we feed every full moon and we will teach you secret rituals to prepare the meal and summon us. This is the price for the life of the most powerful mage we have ever fed upon. "

[Mulcarn]

He closes his eyes while exhaling a heavy sigh.  Maxwell's eyes snap open filled with a glint of evil.  "A steep price you ask of me.  To butcher ten magicians over the course of a year."

He extends an open hand in front of himself, similar in the way of a handshake.  "Fine, so be it.  I'll hold up my end of the bargain if you promise to keep yours.  One mage every full moon until you devour your tenth."

[gilga]

@Athos MXN tells you "A new brand? You are even more insane than I thought you have any idea how many people you will have to kill? how many children will have to die just to prove to the world that you are extremely violent and determine? You are a nice man, can you really do it?"

[gilga]

@Maxwell The Sharks teach you ritual spell-casting (1 point of it) and infuse you with the ritual call ant spirit. Then they carry your raft over the metaplains until you see the earth from the astral plane. It is magnificent full of color and life but it repels the ant spirits - they cannot move forward only you can.  "You will have to find your body before it is too late - this is as far as we can take you."

[Mulcarn]

Nodding to the strange ones as he flies back to earth, half wondering if it was wise to traffick with such alien predators.  It doesn't matter now and it probably won't ever matter.  He knew if he had not made the deal then he would cease to exist or would wind up as food to something stronger.  He travels as fast as he possibly can back to America, back to Seattle.  Zooming through the astral to the spot where his body was last at - The Joke, or what remained of it.