[Necrogigas]

O'Connor followed the path of destruction through the brush to get back to the road. He hid among the foliage as he kept watch.


Infiltration
Agility 5 - Default 1 - CM 1 = Pool 3
Infiltration: 3d6t5 3

Perception
Intuition 3 + Perception 3 + Visual 2 - CM 1 = Pool 7
Perception (Visual): 7d6t5 3

[Thvor]

Sam carefully unstrapped himself so as to not land on Sammy. Since Snow had hooked herself into a medkit, he knew he couldn't help her, so instead he started taking stock of what was available inside the truck.

Perception, searching the truck for anything useful (working 2-way radio, water, food, or other gear, in pretty much that order of preference):

INT[5] + Perception[5] + Visual[2] + Actively Looking[3] - Wounds[1]: 14d6t5 4

[Crossbow]

Torley is unable to find anything of use in the truck, it seems to have been stripped of any electronics it may have once had, though his search, when it reaches the front, does allow him to locate the hydraulic release for the rear hatch (though with the truck on its side it will still need to be muscled into a down position) and a little 4-position control that looks like it has never been used that says, in English, WINCH.

O'Conner is able to find the road, such as it is.  The trail is clear in both directions, the way back being a fairly long straightaway that veers off sharply at the point the truck left the road.  Looks like their driver had simply dozed off on the stretch and gotten tumbled by an embankment.

[Mercy Merchant]

Snow removes the leads of the kit and stores them away then reaches for one of the small bottles of water in the bag.  >>I really do not think anyone did this to us.  My opinion is that Amjay was suffering from the heat and humidity and simply passed out while driving.  On that note, I have enough bottles of water her for each of us to have two, but that will be it unless we find some water.  Is there a stream nearby that we can use?  It will be very important that we stay hydrated.  I have both Jane and Ahmjay as injured and unconscious, but they were buckled in to their injuries are mostly bruising and dehydration.  I am pretty badly injured and it is affecting my ability to treat the injuries we all have sustained.  Starlet, Are you able to do any magical healing?  If so, let me try my best to see what I can do then you can take over.  Does that make sense?<<

[Thvor]

Relieved to have found something at least potentially useful and at Snow's recovery, Sam sent a message to the group. Looks like the truck has a winch; we may be able to pull it back onto the road. How do things look out there?

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor radioed the team, "Road's clear. I'll keep a lookout for now, but I don't think anything forced us off the road."

[HydroRaven]

<So the kid just fell asleep?> asked Clem as she lowered her shotgun and walked back towards the truck. She then asked Torley to <Open the back door, we have to get people out if we're going to put this truck back on the road.> Once Torley unlocks the door, Clem tries to force it open but gives up after a decent effort. She helps people exit the vehicle through the broken windshield instead.

[farothel]

"If it's only bruises and such, I can't do much," Sammy said, "The spell only works on more serious injuries for some reason I don't know."

As she got out of the truck, She had a look at the vehicle, but she was no mechanic.
"I can try to summon an earth spirit to help get the truck back on the road," she said to the team, "and if I can ask more of it, I can ask it afterwards to use its guard power on the driver.  It should at least keep him alert until we get to our destination.  How is he by the way?"

[Mercy Merchant]

Snow does her best to help get Jane and Ahmjay out through the windshield then passes the kits and her medical bag out before making her own way to the ground outside, where she hooks the kits back up to the unconscious pair.  Standing, she walks around to the others to make sure that no one is playing hero while being badly injured.  It is almost comical that the medic should be the one who is hurt the most.

Returning to where Jane and Ahmjay are laying, she replies to Starlet.  "The diagnostics indicate that they are merely injured, but not seriously.  I would expect them to come round soon.  Conversely, I feel quite injured and that is certainly affecting my abilities.  Likewise, these are far from optimal conditions, which prevents me from being as good as I should be."

[farothel]

Now she was a bit closer, Sammy could see that Snow had more than just a couple of bruises.
"Let me try to get you up," she said.  She gathered the mana, but the strangeness of the location made it more difficult and the spell didn't do what she expected of it.
"I'm sorry, but I'll have to get a bit more familiar with the manasphere in this location.  This is the best I can do at the moment.  Now, let's get the truck back on the road."

She started casting again, as always using chants and hand movements she had learned to reduce the drain, this time summoning a spirit of earth.  Again she had some trouble and she knew she could only ask one thing of the spirit.  As they had to check the winch first, she placed the spirit on standby in the astral and looked at the rest.
"I have a spirit, fairly strong but I don't think strong enough to do it on its own," she said, "So let's check if we have ropes or anything to help out."


Healing spell on Snow (force 5):
magic 5 + spellcasting 6 =11: 11d6t5 2
unfortunately I only heal you 2P (bad dice roll).

drain 1S (damage value -2, minimum drain 1):
willpower 4 + logic 4 + centering 1 =9: 9d6t5 2
no drain

spirit of earth (force 5):
magic 5 + summoning 3 =8: 8d6t5 2
spirit counter roll:
spirit counter roll 5: 5d6t5 1

drain 2 (spirit hits x2):
willpower 4 + logic 4 + centering 1 =9: 9d6t5 1
1S, so I have 3S in total, I'm at -1 now.

1 have 1 service.  An earth spirit has strenght and body F+4, so 9 on both.  It can lift 135 kg + 15 per net hit on a body + strenght test.  But since it probably has to push and not lift and you can push more than you can lift, I'd say it might actually be able to move the truck by itself.  Crossbow?

[Mercy Merchant]

Snow nods to Starlet.  "Thank you very much.  Anything helps.  I guess I will just have to heal normally.  Unfortunately, it looks like I will have to wait for a chance to rest.  I will leave these two hooked up to the kits and try to help move the truck.  How can I help?"

[farothel]

"Maybe see if you can get it to start again," Sammy said, "You can make steer and have the propulsion of the truck help my spirit and the winch to put it back on the road."

She looked at Torley.
"Are you ready with that winch?"

[Crossbow]

It will actually be a bit of a task to figure out the winch and get it anchored in such a way that it will help the Spirit get the truck rolled back on to its wheels, beyond the ‘magic hour’ that Snow has to help all of her patients, so after being assured that Jane and Ahmjay are comfortable and out of the way she goes about her duties treating Sammy, Torley, Clem and then walking out to the road to help O’Conner.

First Aid rolls for Snow: 4#12d6t5 2 8 5 2  I posted the order before I rolled, so yes, that means that Torley gets the best work done.  Sorry.


While she is doing what she can for the ex-ganger, the spirit makes its attempt to right the truck, aided greatly by the strategically placed cable, a slightly favorable slope and the low center of gravity on the MRAP.

Spirit Lifting: 18d6t5 8

The engine rumbles to life despite a cough or two that worries your non-mechanically inclined crew, and it takes nothing except a several times re-positioned winch cable to slowly and loudly drag the truck back to the road.

OOC It will take an hour roughly to drag the truck back to the road, this will involve a lot of work clearing brush and several false starts by your, again, non-mechanically inclined, but fairly intelligent, crew.  I would like to see a post from each of you (at least) about your actions up to when the truck reaches the road.  Please note that Ahmjay and Jane are in the area where the truck started unless you indicate otherwise.

[HydroRaven]

Thankful for Snow's help with her injuries, Clem set out to clear any obstructions around the wheels and all other things that might hinder the truck. With her sword it was easy to clear a path to the road, and she tried to make sure nobody was in the vicinity when the vehicle got moving again, to make sure no one would get crushed should the truck suddenly tip over or derail further.

So Clem's physical injuries should be completely healed now.

[Necrogigas]

Snow applied antiseptic and bandaged the gashes and abrasions O'Connor received in the crash. Normally O'Connor would've refused what he viewed as useless mothering, but if half of what he'd heard about Africa's diseases were true, then it was a good idea to play things safe. He allowed the elf medic to go about her work with minimal grumbling on his part.

After Snow finished, O'Connor returned to keeping watch. Although it seemed that their crash was just an accident, that didn't mean something couldn't come strolling along. Sammy said that the jungle was Awakened, which promised that all kinds of mystical drek was just waiting to strike if given half a chance.


Snow's first aid check did not pass the threshold of two, so O'Connor remains at two boxes of physical damage (and five stun).