[ismilealot]

As Marco studies the pattern of lights it seems as though there are almost no lights representing lives to the southwest. All they need to do is make a wide U-turn to get away and it would only take them past a few people.

[gilga]

Marco shared the information with Arc and said "Take a U -  there is little to no resistance behind us. Have them break formation to go after us."

[Qwikfix]

Arc received both nuggets of information quickly, her map updating with her thoughts to visualize the situation.  Without braking hard, she started to veer, heading back in the direction they came in.  She pinged Yelena''s feed with the new info, as well as the team''s map with her idea of where the sniper was.

"Roger that.  Y, think you can make it en route?  You're safer in these wheels.  B, is this where you say the sniper is?  I may have a shot.  Someone get on those cannons if they spot and chas us, I'm doing my best to avoid noise..."

[SmilinIrish]

Jed hears Marco tell Arc to turn around.  We should grab those launchers if we can do it fast enough.  We may have to blast our way out.  Warded Buildng?  Jed launches his consciousness out of his shell.  Ah, the freedom of the astral.  Here he is quick.  here is strong. As Jed orients himself, and begins to look for his spirit, he senses him begin to attack the ward.

[gilga]

Marco spoke  "Perhaps he is he invisible or something? I sense that he is right 'there' to the northeast" he adds a location of approximately where he estimate the sniper to be, he is running - so it is odd that none of you can see him."

[Mercy Merchant]

Yelena is holing her position, waiting for some of the people that are showing up on the sensor feeds to come into sight.  >>Not yet, Srui.  Yelena not have justice yet.  Yelena can give cover for van escape if you leave.  Maybe is time Yelena go shadow.  What Nicolai say?"

[gilga]

Marco adds >> Yelena, plan was a bust, most of Nikolai's men are already dead. Right now surviving the next moments becomes the priority.  Tsina has so many people here that I cannot count them all, if you stay you will be overwhelmed we must remain mobile and fight in our own conditions.   

[Mercy Merchant]

>>Yelena died when Marco jump off building.  Only shadow left.  But Yelena come."  Yelena rolls out of her position and races up to where she can intercept the van.  She carries the weapon as if it is an extension of her and is ready in case someone decides to step out of cover and give her a shot.

[Qwikfix]

Arc could feel her hackles rising at the exchange on the team comm, her virtual legs flexing as she bounded down the roadway, seeing Yelena''s blip on her feed.  Since their van was being concealed, it would take careful coordinating to pick her up efficiently.  But those words...

"Sryu, you betta stop this fatalistic drek right now.  Running ain't an option right now, so we gonna survive.  You got friends that are waiting.  Eth, family, that needs you.Fight for your revenge all you want, but fight for the life you've made as well.  I and mine are with you Srui!"

[ismilealot]

Free to move as quickly as thought, it's child play for Jed to find the warded building. He watches the brilliantly scintillating spirit as it counterscribes the runes of the wards and the explosion as the wards fall rivals the Northern lights. But, the attack is not without cost as Jed watches the spirit partially fade much of it's strength spent in that casting.

When Arc checks her map she sees that a U-turn will either place them in a dead end against a wall of freight cars, or on the tracks themselves.

As Blackbird studies the lights  that represent people he begins to pick out more distinctions. Some of the still figures don't seem to be tainted enough to be gangers, as the ones he would guess to definitely be gangers are much dimmer and their light is tainted.

As Yelena studies their battlefield she sees a shadowy figure step out.

[gilga]

Marco studies the auras and searches for the darkest of them all, he expects that one to be Tsina.

[Mercy Merchant]

Yelena stops moving and brings the rifle up, aiming in on the figure but waiting to pull the trigger until she identifies it as foe or just a man working on the tracks.

[ismilealot]

Yelena sees the figure kneel and bring a rocket launcher up to bear. She fires without thinking, releasing her messenger of death. She hits, she's certain of it. But, the figure does not fall and a moment later Yelena sees the fire blossom that signifies the rockets launch. The rocket is but the first shot in a hailstorm of bullets and grenades as gangers move from their hiding places.

Successes on rocket launcher are 2 DV is  the machine pistols, successes for full automatic bursts are 3, 7, 3 DV 6 AP-, Successes for grenade launchers are 4, 2 at a 10m radius. All shots are aimed at the van with penalties for invisibility factored in, you are being tracked via your tire tracks in the snow.

[gilga]

Noticing the forming ambush with his detect life spell, Marco quickly offloads his sustaining sells to his minor spirits. "Misguided fools, choosing violence over compassions." These can only sustain the spells for several seconds, but that time frame seems very long when bullets are flying around.  He is angry but still hopes to minimize casualties, Marco peeps out of the window and selects one of the front gangers, he attempts to levitate that ganger and place him between the bullets to the escaping van. Hoping that these people will avoid further risking their friend, and that the levitated ganger will distract the rest and make the van harder to follow.

Marco will try and spin that man so that the gangers get see his face, and that the levitated ganger cannot target the van.


I rolled 18 dice, but then I realized action economy is problematic, so Marco will not get spiritual aid in this phase.

So my actions are : command spirit sustain these spells for me for a while. (3 combat turns per spell, per service).
that is a simple action. The next simple action is a reckless spell casting (levitate).
Marco gets 15 dice,

Simple action - command spirits
Simple action - recklessly cast levitate. 
Free action - Probably say something.

Marco will cast: F6 - Levitate
url=http://orokos.com/roll/450827]Opium Den[/url]: 18d6t5 6
18d6t5: 6 [18d6t5=6, 4, 5, 4, 1, 1, 3, 5, 5, 6, 6, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 2]

so he keeps all successes.
Drain is increased by 3 so we are talking about 7 stun drain.
Drain: 11d6t5 6
Marco takes 1 stun drain.

[Mercy Merchant]

Yelena reasons that the man with the rocket launcher must be well armored and she takes a better aim and fires again, hopefully before they man can reload his weapon.