[gilga]

Blackbird joins Yelena getting out saying "You are not going alone. Don't argue no time" He follows her waiting for the lead, his spirits take care of the invisibility for a while - but otherwise he plans to follow her lead and keep her safe.

agility boost: 10d6t5 3
Agility increased by 3 - for 6 combat turns.

[ismilealot]

Jed's first blow bounces off the young mage but his second strike slides past all the young mages defenses and Jed "feels" the cane connect with the mages jaw, shattering it. The astral body tumbles back into it's body and for a moment everything is still and then Jed sees the young man take a breath.

[ismilealot]

Nicolai pauses for the merest moment and then swings out after Yelena and Marco. Looking at them he says, "Tsina is probably green building. Best comm systems, central to all exits."

[gilga]

Marco looks at the ruins of the other van trying to scavenge a proper assault rifle.

[Qwikfix]

Arc kept silent for a brief moment, wanting to protect her team as she has been, but she relented, using a momentary lull in the fight to slow down enough for the one...no, two of them, to bail out the side door, where the soft snow wasn't as pcked for fear of footprints.  Mentally, she tied in a couple measures of her own.

"Sight Srui, N and I'll handle these hoops here.  But I'm not letting you go without help.  I'm tying my assault drone ad a camera drone to you.  Use the camera as your own, I'll help if I wrap up here.  Otherwise, just indicate where it shoots and it will go.  Keep in touch..."

pre-spending next round''s free action to tie in those drones to Yelena.  Theyll follow her commands with autopiloting unless I intervene

[Mercy Merchant]

Yelena ties the feeds into her 'link as she makes her way to the green building with Blackbird and Nicolai.  >>Yelena thank Srui for drones.  Nicolai with Yelena and Blackbird.  We go to green building so you know where we are.  Keep safe.<<

She is carrying the sniper rifle in both hands as she moves quickly to the building Nicolai has indicated, using the drone to assist her. 

[SmilinIrish]

Jed feels a moment of triumph as he sees the mage crash from the astral.  Victory!  He feels vindicated from past failures.  That feeling of triumph turns to concern as he sees that the aura dims, but is not extinguished.  Looking at his spirit, he asks Finish the task please.  We can't leave him to track us down later.  The spirit hesitates.  "You instructed us to defeat the mage.  He is defeated.  The task is complete"   With the adrenaline surging, Jed's anger surged.  I told you to kill the mage, and he isn't dead.  Finish.  Now.  The spirit looks at Jed for mere moments.  "Your instructions were to attack any awakened.  I have done this.  If you want me to kill a helpless human, that will require another task.  I didn't expect this type of order when I responded to your call.  But I agreed to follow you.  Do you order me to kill this helpless human?"

Jed felt the emotion bleed off.  The mage was defeated.  His injuries would keep him out of the fight for at least a few day.  Several weeks if Tsina didn't have access to magical healing.  They would likely be gone before he could so much as cast a small spell.  Jed looked back at his spirit. I understand your hesitation to kill the helpless human.  If you look at his aura, you can see he is a cruel person.  It is imperative that he not be able to retaliate.  I sense that his ego will not allow him to let this defeat go.  I will look up some day, and catch a glimpse of his face as my own life ends.  Consider this a new task if you must, but please, finish the mage, and bring any astrally active items to me..

Looking around one last time, Jed launches himself back to his body.  Opening his eyes, he realizes his neck is killing him.  Arc must have done some crazy driving while he was out.  The mage is out of commision.  What's our status

[ismilealot]

Yelena, Nicolai and Blackbird move toward the green building Nicolai had indicated. Blackbirds detect life spell shows him several still bodies in the building.

[gilga]

Blackbird signals the other two, saying "There are still bodies in there, perhaps an ambush." He takes his comlink and position the bodies on a map. Asking for the more tactical of the group the figure out how to approach the building.

In the meanwhile, he tried to located Tsina herself -- all that Blackbird wanted was for this atrocity to be over as quick as possible and it was not happening before they confronted Tsina.

[Mercy Merchant]

Yelena nods at Blackbird's information and goes to the door to the building, remaining next to it as she whispers to the others.  Yelena send camera drone inside.  Drone look around to see what cover Tsina has."  She sends the small camera drone in through a crack.  She wants to have it look around and identify what sort of cover each defender has.  She shares the feed with Nicolai and Blackbird.

[Qwikfix]

Just as Arc was pulling out, she heard Jed''s voice picked up in the van''s cabin.  He must have finished his thing.  Good to know.  as she picked up some pace, keeping tack of the current opposition, her voice crackled in through the radio for him.

"I'll give ya the short version.  Y, B, and N are going after the boss lady.  That leaves you, me, and H to clean up the people trying to blow us to hell.  Got a few with guns, a couple nade launchers.  I shot the sniper, but unable to locste. Think he is concealed."

For some reason I thought we were already on the next CT.  Since I'm wrong, this action will double as driver''s tax and sustaining suppressing fire

[ismilealot]

As the drone moved down the hallway it passed a room where two bodies are slumped over their desks and a second room where three more are passed out on the floor. As it gets to the doorway of a third room Yelena sees Tsina's face for a split second in profile and then the image goes black.

[SmilinIrish]

Jed considers her words briefly and says he shouldn't be concealed now because the mage is out of commission.

[ismilealot]

Arc looks for the sniper again but all she can see are the heat droplets as he loses blood. I seriously need that tech. Between that and magic no one could ever find us. We'd be fraggin' ghosts. she thinks. Her face grim with determinations she continues to analyze their relative placement compared to the train station and the city looking for potential exit points.

As Jed watches he sees the spirit attack the downed mage, the battle is over before Jed has time to rethink his decision.

[Qwikfix]

As she surveys the many windows into the real world, the orkette figure crouched low, adjusting her course to make use of where the snow fell least.  She was growling a little in frustration at the situation, but otherwise was calm.  Her voice crackled in, the slight hint of bemusement in her voice as she lowered the engine's noise.

"Tch, the fragger's got stealth tech, no mojo here.  I'll see if I can pin a shot, meanwhile we got a few down here...4 I think.  Cannons're in the back if you want"

CT3, IP1 action: driving tax as Complex Action, rolling in a stealth check while I'm at it, combining with Marco''s sustained invisibility effect.
Sneaking: 9d6t5 4