[gilga]

Marco looks confused at Nikolai and suddenly understand if he is on top of him then something has gone terribly wrong.
"Velenkoradi , help me make the van disappear" he said and meant the invisibility spell that he was already casting. Just like that the van vanished in thin air.

Marco called arc >> Van is invisible do something unpredictable with it, so it is difficult to guess where we are.


Marco casts a low level invisibility (F3) and sets the limit with 10 reagents. He uses a bound spirit service to enhance his spell (with 3 more dice).

Invisibility + spirit aid: 18d6t5 8
drain: 11d6t5 1
he takes 1 stun drain and the van is invisible, anyone that wants to see the van need to roll intuition + logic and get 8 hits. 
Attacks on the van without seeing are a guessing game and thus take -6 dice pool penalty from blind fire.

[Mercy Merchant]

Yelena completes her move and drops prone even as the shadow forms about her and protects her from the murderous incoming fire.  She is using her links to the sensor grid to try to find one of the assailants.

[SmilinIrish]

As Jed is bounced around he hears Arc warning that they have company.  Dropping his assenssing spell, and looking out the window he sees the door of the black van sliding open.  Shit shit shit  Like Arc, he hears the report of the bullets around Yelena.  Throwing a mental shove at his spirits, he reminds them of their orders. 

His summoned spirit materializes near Yelena, assessing the order to protect her.

His bound spirit hesitates, processing the standing order to attack any awakened.  You have to find him first...quickly please 

As the bound spirit leaves the van looking for the mage, Jed feels the benefits of his active spells, times seems to slow.  He considers his options...He could try to tip the hand as a rocket is fired, possibly exploding it in their van, but all he can see is the tip of the launcher in the dim light.  He can just make out the driver.  If he is fast enough, maybe he can immobilize the van by taking out the driver.  Jed is a fully trained mage.  Although he hasn't operated this way in a very long time, with the adrenaline his instincts from his former time running the shadows kicks back in.  As he prepares to cast a spell, he reserves some awareness to counter anything the mage may throw at them. 

Focusing all his will against the driver, Jed sends weariness and exhaustion his way. 


On initiative 27 I rolled  for stunbolt using push the limit.  It is too many rolls, but the result was nine hits.  Love those exploding 6s.  Smiles, driver is resisting 9 stun with willpower. 

https://rolz.org/dr?room=Long%20Kiss%20Goodbye

My summoned spirit materializes near Yelena on initiative 23

Bound spirit stays astral and looks for the mage on initiative 21 with 4 hits on the assenssing roll.

smilinirish:13D6E5 → 4( (2, 2, 5, 1, 6, 6, 3, 3, 2, 6, 1, 3, 2→ 4 successes against 5) )

Also, as a free action, I am declaring spell defense.  I can choose up to six people in my line of sight to protect.  I am designating myself, Arc and Blackbird.  Alright, Nicolai too.   I will utilize my entire counterspelling pool of 6 on the first spell cast against any of these targets this round.

Jed has one stun from drain earlier.  2 edge remaining and 40 reagents

[Mercy Merchant]

Yelena makes a calm call to her team.  >>Is Yelena.  Sniper shooting from above Yelena.  Can use spirits and drones to find?<<

[SmilinIrish]

Jed hears Yelena's request and gives a short response. Milaya I can start looking just as soon as I'm sure we aren't getting a missle up the tailpipe. [\color]

[gilga]

Marco thinks at his spirits "My birds of paradise, find up whomever is trying to hurt the love of my life, Yelena and manifest for Yelena next to the one that is shooting at her."
Once the spirits were on their way to fulfill their service Marco texted.
>> Loved one, I asked my spirits to manifest (and stay in the astral) so you should see half transparent birds circling your attacker. Stay safe. 



The sniper may be almost invisible in the material plane, but his astral aura should be visible to the bird spirits.

Marco asked his bird spirits (4 in number) to find the sniper and manifest next to it (not materialize) that way the birds are less vulnerable to mundane threats like gun fire and the like.

[ismilealot]

Jed's spell hits the van driver like a sledge hammer and he slumps over in a dead sleep and overshoots the lane. The hail of ammo from the HMG shreds through the van as it speeds past Arc, guaranteeing that no one will be leaving in it. The van crashes into a warehouse, spilling it's contents into the street like a flower girl throwing petals.

Looking up towards the rooftops to spot her would be killer, Yelena's sight is hampered by the street lights shining into her eyes. The spirits may be up there, but only semi-transparent and in near darkness on the roof Yelena can't spot them.

Marco's spell takes effect and the van disappears from mundane sight.

An order is given and suddenly all around the train compound gates close, barriers pop up, and lights flare brightly illuminating the lanes as if it was full day.

I crit glitched the driver Irish giving your spell an extra boost of awesome. My ruling on the drive test is a fairly obvious no test is possible and as the direction of the van did not change there are no minuses to the HMG fire and the van is shredded.

[gilga]

Marco calms his mind and closes his eyes, his breathing rhythm becomes calm as he taps into the existence of all living things around him, trying to focus on these that are of threat for him, or on Tsina. His sight is crystal clear, but the spell ripples through his body and takes its toll.


Marco casts an extended detect life spell Force 5 - that  allows him to become aware of a ball of radius 300 meters around himself. He'll burn 10 reagents doing so - his spirits are away looking for a sniper and Marco being linked to them should know if they found him.

The rolls:
Detect life: 15d6t5 9, Incredible !
---- edit forgot that Marco was sustaining the invisibility spell in that case he is down to 8 hits.

Drain (vs 4): 11d6t5 2 - 2 drain taken by Marco.

The spell is opposed with:
Willpower + Logic (+ Counterspelling if available) [Mental] and the net hits are taken from the detection spell table where 4 net hits gives detailed information (with 9 hits to begin with I assume that Marco is likely to stay above 4 hits for all but the smartest and most strong willed people in that ball around him. Marco is going to sustain the spell for the rest of the combat and provide the rest with intel on ambushes and the like.

[ismilealot]

As the spell takes effect Marco's senses ripple outward and he sees the beautiful firefly like glow of the lives all around him. Some are clearly part of Tsina's gang, their life force is so dark with the changes wrought by violence Marco can easily identify them. Others, seem to be running away. And still others are very still and Marco can't tell if they're waiting for orders or hiding in fear.

Jed is confident in his spirits ability to carry out his orders and in mere moments one is shielding Yelena with an invisible blanket of protection. And then Marco's spell ripples outward and Jed "hears" a triumphant, "Gotcha!" and his spirit reports, "Found him! Found the mage!" as his weak counterspelling defense ironically makes him easily visible to the spirit.

Arc barely has time to register the growing pools of blood underneath the bodies of the gangers thrown from the vehicle she'd just destroyed as she flashes past.

Wendy comes to Marco and says, The guy you're looking for is on the move on the roof to the northeast. Marco sees his life force, as well as the life forces of others positioned in various spots all around them.

[gilga]

Marco texts on the team channel >>Y, I can sense the sniper he is running on a roof to your north east. He is not the only sniper, I can sense multiple snipers all around us.

[Qwikfix]

As Arc registers the bodies to take a count, she takes a moment to course correct the van, keeping it in control.  She recalls the invisibility effect placed on the van, much like the last chase they were in.  Virtually nodding, the tusker dialed back on the engine, keeping a good clip but minimizing excess noise as she turned her attention to Yelena.

<<"Copy that B.  Y, find some cover, gonna try and pin this badboy.  Immediate threat to van neutralized">>

Maneuvering the sniper drone she placed high up and away, along with her bugs, she flipped their sensors over to thermal vision.  With the lights all facing downward, she shouldn't experience any noise from those and simply register the heat of the bodies below.  Turning attention to where Blackbird indicated, she prepared for a counterattack...

:  Free action to change drone sensor modes and throwing Perception into that.
Perception: 7d6t5 3
The rest of this pass will cover the driving action tax as well as indicate stealthing.
Sneaking: 7d6t5 4

[Mercy Merchant]

Yelena might not be able to see the sniper yet, but is confident that her companions will help in that.  She cannot sight in on anyone from her position but feels that the field of fire may have some soon if she is patient.  She holds her fire to wait for targets to appear.

[SmilinIrish]

As Jed cycles through his choices he quickly asks the spirit Is he astral or back to his body?. Jed expects to hear astral and straps himself into a seat belt in preparations for going astral himself

[ismilealot]

Jed hears, He came fully back into this world when he saw me. in response to his question. He is in the building that's warded.

Arc sees someone running along the roof. Oddly enough it's the snow that's telling her where he has to be as even on thermographics nothing is showing up. But, there's enough snow being thrown around to make tracing his path childs play.

As Yelena watches the gangers that had fallen out of the van, the only thing she sees move is the slowly widening pool of blood staining the snow around them.

Nicolai lunges forward off of Marco to Hellfire riding shotgun in the front passenger seat. "Засада. Вы были преданы. Позвоните своему народу обратно, прежде чем это поздно." Hellfire tells him. Nicolai wastes no time in making the call. Long minutes pass where he is silent and then in a voice that is almost unrecognizable with anger and pain he tells Hellfire, "To поздно, большинство из них мертв.."

As Marco studies the beautiful pattern of lights that represent life he realizes that most of them are fireflies, but there is a larger grouping of them and they are speeding towards it.

Hellfire tells Nicolai, "Ambush. You were betrayed. Call your people back before it is to late." Nicolai answers, "To late, most are dead."

[gilga]

Marco said to Arc "Arc, we are heading straight into an ambush, so change direction please, there are so many of them that I cannot count."
Marco did not doubt Arc's evasive driving skills but being fired upon was no picnic and she needed to know that they are likely to die. He continued to browse the surrounding trying to come up with a suggestion for a path that does not get them out numbered.