[Jayde Moon]

Cal pulls the trigger again, sending another burst of three towards the ork, who barely manages to twist out of the way.  The ork then turns and dashes down the hallway towards the back of the building, rounding a corner.

[trv123]

"Stay here where we can protect you." Calico calls out to the wounded dwarf as she hurries by on her way outside. It was hard to tell how Cal was faring against the mystery ork, but she knew it was better to have help and not need it than the other way around.

It wasn't often she had cause to curse her physique, but scurrying down the stairs Calico found herself doing just that. *I am not built for running* she thought, knowing that her bodysuit would be doing a much better job of keeping things in place if only she hadn't unzipped it. Putting that out of her mind, she burst out the front door of the building, panting furiously as she scanned for signs of activity. *Got to ... get in .... better shape* she thought distractedly, dreading the prospect of giving further chase.

With sudden inspiration, she remembers she can call forth an ally that would be much fleeter of foot than she could ever be.  Sending her consciousness into the realm where ethereal felines reside, she beseeches the assistance of one such entity.

Summon F3 kitty: 6d6t5 1
F3 kitty resists: 3d6t5 1
Drain for summon: 15d6t5 4


Her pleas go unanswered.

[skulldixon]

Kumiho monitoring the situation from street side, Commands his Agent to search for the buildings layout. While His Agent is doing this he searches out the Ork's gear, which is currently running silent. He knows the gear is there now, but now he needs to hone in on it. With a few swift mental commands he uses his deck to pin point their target.



Computer+Intuition: 9d6h5 5

Agent Hacking for building layout plans
Agent : Matrix Search: 8d6h5 4

[Jayde Moon]

The lack of finding the hidden icons leads Kumiho to believe that the ork has some sort of Matrix support.  Which leads him to the conclusion that the matrix support knows Cal has matrix support.  Thus begins the game.

Meanwhile, Cal pulls the trigger as he rounds the corner, another three bullets arc through the space between him and the ork.  The ork manages to side step before pushing through the rear exit door, into a stairwell.

[trv123]

Catching her breath, Calico makes another, less rushed attempt at summoning a spirit, this time opting for a spirit of man.

Summon F3 cat: 6d6t5 2
Cat resists: 3d6t5 1
Drain for summon: 15d6t5 7

I was originally thinking a cat spirit, but I changed my mind, I'd like it to be a spirit of man. If it's too late, so be it


Thankfully, this time she feels the spirit appear. ~Here in a moment I'm going to identify a target for you~ she silently tells the small spirit. ~When I do, I just need you to follow him from the astral and report back his location when he reaches his destination~ Hoping this will work as she imagines, she scans for the ork, steeling herself to continue the pursuit once she catches her breath.

[Jayde Moon]

Cal chases the ork into the stairwell, pointing the gun down at him, before realizing he does't have shot.  He then practically tumbles down the steps hitting the backdoor into the outside world.  He points his gun at the ork, who is dashing down the street and pulls the trigger, sending the ork stumbling as a few of the stick and shock rounds find their mark.

Inside, the dwarf growls, still holding his arm.  "I knew this was gonna happen, frag it!"

[Señor T]

"Target escaping out the back," he broadcasts via subvocal.

Cal continues to give chase, firing as he runs. He is focused and can feel the magic propelling him forward. This ork is built to do serious harm, he thought as he pointed his weapon yet again, just like those frackers at Mundo Nuevo, but this time he wouldn't need his squad. This time he wouldn't lose any of his team.

"In pursuit."

As his finger begins to ease tension into the trigger for another burst, he pauses in his thought to consider his possible overconfidence. The ork would have support, after all. He wasn't that good or Cal'd be dead by....

The report of his rounds filled the air.

"Backup requested if able," he finished after waiting an eternity for the sound of the echoing discharge to clear.

[Mercy Merchant]

Tanya snarls at the slowness of the speeding helicopter and wills the craft to go faster, but knows that she is the drag, not the machine.  Looking ahead and below her, she sees a taller building coming up quickly.  >>Hey, Earlybird.  See the building coming up at eleven o'clock?  Get a bit lower and slow down a lot and let me off.  You can make better speed without me hanging on down here.  Go on, they will need your support and I am not much good in a fight, anyway.  I will take a cab.<<

As the Wasp nears the building, Tanya waits for it to slow down and get her a bit closer to the rooftop, prepared to jump, tuck, and roll......hopefully without rolling off the roof, which appears to be at least ten stories high.  As it turns out, Earlybird, a true gentleman, slows the Wasp to what seems like a crawl, allowing her to release from the rope and hit the roof in a stand that would do a champion gymnast proud.  She sends the release command to the rope attached to the harness and it glides through the air to her feet.  Tanya then sends a quick note to her pilot, >>Tanya is clear, Earlybird.  Thanks and this was great fun.  We will have to do this again.  Now get to the site and see what you can do to help the team.  And please try to keep the harness equipment I attached to the bottom of the Wasp so I can collect it later.<<  As she stands on the roof, she waves at the quickly receding helicopter before sending a message over the subvocal mic, "Team.  Tanya.  I have dropped from the Wasp.  Pilot is coming as quickly as possible now that he is not carrying my dead weight.  I will be there soon."

[Jayde Moon]

As if to answer his self-fulfilling prophecy, Cal can hear the whirr of a roto-drone downtime street.  He's seen enough to recognize an F-B Bumblebee and the Stoner-Ares medium Machine-gun mounted on the chassis.  That must be the ork's backup.

Cal also notes a nondescript van a block away, no doubt the ork's intended destination.  He also notes a few people on the street ducking behind vehicles and finding other cover,punctuated by a few screams.

This is the first time Cal has fired rounds in a place that wasn't a warren, and the experience is a little jarring...

Still, action first, thinking later; years of training to ensure that the actions are the right ones...

[Mercy Merchant]

Tanya grabs her rope and runs across the roof of the building to where a small metal structure stands near the edge.  Kneeling, she fastens one of her D-rings to a strut and feeds the rope through it before looking over the small ledge to the ground below.  She notes that the height is a bit less than her earlier estimate and that there are no windows immediately below her position.  Holding onto the end of the rope, Tanya smiles as she makes her way back to the other end of the rope.  She grips both ends of the rope and clicks the doubled rope into the D-ring of her waist harness and races to the edge, where she leaps into the open air, twisting once to face the building as she falls and bringing the rope around her waist.  She pulls the rope to her and anticipates the shock as the rope arcs her back into the wall.  Taking the shock on her bent legs, she leaps out again and glides to the ground, where she lets go of one end of the rope and pulls it through the D-ring, letting it fall to her feet.

Tanya coils the rope and slings it over her shoulders while checking her location on her GPS.  Smiling, she sets off at a trot for the nearest part of town where she can reasonably catch a cab.  On the way, she calls up Grid Guide and compares routes.  Leaving that window open, she dials up her maid.  >>Monique, I need you.  Please grab my dart gun and head out now and grab the Mirage.  I will be taking a cab and heading to the intersection I am sending you.  I will swap the bike for the cab so you can return home.  If my calculations are close, we should meet in about ten minutes.  Thanks and see you there.<< 

>>On the way out the door, My Lady.  I will be on site as soon as the bike can get me there.  Au revoir.<<

Tanya grins and doubles her pace, all that jogging paying off as she runs toward the nearest cab stand listed on Grid Guide for the area she is in.  She calls ahead to the cab company to make sure one is waiting for her, promising a nice tip for waiting.  She tells herself that she will far too late to assist in anything at the fight, but may be of use if the assassins manage to elude Cal and flee.  Using her subvocal mic, she sends a quick message off to the team.  >>Kumiho.  If the opposition has some means of transport out of the area, can you mark it so we can track it if they get away?<<

[Señor T]

Cal sees the drone swing in front of him and curses, "Frag, drone!" He dives behind a dumpster outside the door, then holds the barrel of his weapon just beyond the edge of the dumpster, using his virtual vision to aim as best he can via smartlink. "Kumiho..." he urges impatiently via subvocal before pulling the trigger.

[skulldixon]

Hearing Thorn's distress over the comm, Kumiho Starts to send some positive thought the mercs way while trying to fill the airways with some noise to create some interference to the enemies communications and drone control.



Per-Edged this roll:
Jam Signals: 18d6h5 10


A weaving of sight and sounds begins to erupt from Kumiho's ICON, its like an explosion of ancient scroll paintings coming to life and leaping out of his soul to any who looks at his ICON from AR or the Matrix; each inked painting crawling, flying, leaping, climbing, and running taring through the Cyber space around him like a mad parade or crazed dream. 

[trv123]

Hearing Cal's request for backup, Calico hurries across the street. Taking the path that will get her to the rear of the shooter's building in the shortest distance possible, she switches to astral perception as she runs, scanning the vicinity for obvious signs of astral backup.

[Jayde Moon]

Cal manages to duck behind the door, sending a few rounds wildly toward the drone.  There is a slight satisfaction as one of the rounds slaps into its chassis, the electric rounds doing nothing good for its circuitry.  That doesn't stop it from firing a burst in his direction and he winces as they impact the dumpster with hollow, ringing thuds.  A few rounds fly wide and he can tell that the burst was in a wild arc... uncontrolled fire.  Whoever was flying that thing was a horrible shooter.

Still, even a horrible machine gunner is a machine gunner.

Calico decides to forego the building entirely, running to the street corner, in their general direction.  Slowing slightly before she reaches it, she takes a moment to contemplate what she'll do when she rounds the corner.  So far no magical threat, but that didn't mean there wasn't something nasty waiting for her down the other street.

[Jayde Moon]

Again, Cal pulls the trigger around the corner.  He does note that the drone appears to be moving fairly erraticly, though maybe not erratically enough to brave its machine gun full on.  The ork runs to the van as the side panel door opens.