[inca1980]

@Wagner:

 [OOC: we'll just say that due to the size of the drone and the shaft, any airburst grenade in shaft is a direct hit,even though scatter was 2d6-1/m leaving you with 4 meters away.  We'll say chunky salsa just adds a flat 50%, so that's 15P.  Cyborg: Body 10 + Armor 10 + -2 AP = (18d6.hits(5)=8).  Edge reroll of misses: (10d6.hits(5)=4).  That's a total of 12 hits.  Borg takes 3P.]

Karina's grenade explodes and for a moment you can't see the drone on neither visible nor thermographic channels but as the visibility clears you see the drone amazingly unscathed from a direct hit.  It shifts it's weight a little and rotates it's remaining gun to fire right at you.


[OOC: Shot is directed at Karina and Katya.  Narrow Longburst at Karina: Cyborg NLB: Pilot Walker 5 + Gunnery 5 + Cyborg hotsim bonus 2 + smartgun 2 = (14d6.hits(5)=6).  With a -1 for wound, that's 5 hits.  Short burst at Katya: Cyborg NLB: Pilot Walker 5 + Gunnery 5 + Cyborg hotsim bonus 2 + smartgun 2 + 2nd target -2 = (12d6.hits(5)=4).  With wound that's still 4 hits.   The gun is 6P and with APDS is -6.  +5 DV for Karina, +2 DV for Katya.  If either one is destroyed, make a Logic + hits on knot test with a threshold of half your body round down.  If you succeed you are caught dangling.  If both are destroyed then you'll start falling and can make a Reaction + Strength (3) test. ]

@Zach:

As your rappelling line is severed from the blast your catlike reflexes instinctively kick in and you grab hold of a pipe along shafts wall.

[OOC: If you want to reattach the severed end of the line it takes a Climbing + Logic (6,CA) extended test.]


Zach is holding a simple action....wait until result of Wagner's rolls and then next IP starts.
CT6, IP2: Zach--15, Brick--12, Wagner--[13], Cyborg--11, Karina--9, Katya--7, (friendly)Rotodrone--7
Edge: Zach 1/1, Brick 1/3, Wagner 2/3, Cyborg 2/4.
Wound: Zach {3P}, Cyborg{2P, 3P}

Schematic of scene:  Pretend it's vertically stacked.

Tunnel Entrance |----------------------------64m--------------------------------Zach
                           |---------------------59m----------------Wagner&Lynx's
                           |-------------------------100m----------------------------------------------- Brick, Rotodrone

[Sichr]

oh shit oh shit oh shit

Zach, holding the pipe with his legs, tries to attach whats left from his rope firmly enought to allow him fo finish his descent...
Logic(3)+Climbing(2)-WND(1) (4d6.hits(5)=1)

ohshitohshitohshit this takes too long...

[Xzylvador]

Both of Wagner's doberman drones explode in a rain of debris.
Wagner starts falling down the shaft surrounded by a hail of plastic, metal, and ammunition. If he notices any of this at all, his physical body doesn't show.
His mind is filled with anger and sadness at the destruction of his loves. The blue, red and yellow colors of his childish persona fade to grey, the thing lacks the animations to display Wagner's thoughts and emotions.
Mozart's requiem starts playing.

Wagner watches one of the countless readings available to him. 41 meters to fall... He doesn't need his computer to calculate that in 2.4 seconds his body will hit the concrete below.

[OOC: Karina can't dodge because of remote control. (Not that it would matter)
Body 3, Armor 9, -6 APDS (6d6.hits(5)=2)
16P incoming, 14 damage done, drone destroyed.

Katya dodge: Response 3 (3d6=15) Oops, forgot the ".hits": [6,6,3] = (15), 2 hits. 2 net hits left.
Soak: Body 3, Armor 6, -6 AP (3d6.hits(5)=0)
10P incoming, drone destroyed.

Not making a reflex test since Wagner's in VR, he falls.
41 meters to go, first CT falling distance in 50m. Should have 2 actions remaining before he goes splat./OOC]

[Sichr]

Two more explosions, two more sources of rain of debris. Zach watching wagners drones blown to hell and dwarf himself going for hard landing, abandones the rope and throws all his efforts to jump across the shaft, hoping that he could at least catch dwarfs uncounsciousness body...in better case he will manage to get a grip on the ladder also...

RE(7)+STR(-WND(1) (14d6.hits(5)=6)

[inca1980]

Zach lunges off of his hard point like a tusked feline and times it just right so that he intercepts Wagner's unconcious body and they both go flying into the side of the shaft straight against the ladder.  The ork grabs one of the rungs and tugs hard as he secures his teammate against it and they both hang there motionless.

[Sichr]

RE(7)+IN(4)-1 (10d6.hits(5)=3)
Zach`s next init: 13

[Teyl_Iliar]

Brick can only witness the events that follow his shots, his face hardening with anger as the wagner's drones are turned to falling slag. His eyes narrow  focusing his shots on the 2nd turret. The first shot goes out(10d6.hits(5)=4) the second thunders after it. (12d6.hits(5)=4)

Panther ammo count: 9 shots remaining

[inca1980]

[OOC: I forgot to do the biofeedback to the brain for the cyborg.  First wound does 1S incoming, 2nd does also 1S.  Cyborg: Will 4 + Biofeedback 5 = (9d6.hits(5)=2, 9d6.hits(5)=3).  His feedback filter compensates for it.  Now for called shot to gun, Cyborg: Response (5d6.hits(5)=1).  I'll just say you blow away the 2nd gun as well with that called shot.   Now for shot to main body, Cyborg: Response (5d6.hits(5)=1).  That's a glitch.  He'll take an extra damage box for it.  Needs to resist 14P incoming at -5 AP.  Cyborg: Body 10 + Armor 10 + AP -5 (15d6.hits(5)=5).  Edge reroll: (10d6.hits(5)=3).  That's 8 hits which means he takes 6P.  Brain has to soak 3P, Cyborg: Biofeedback filter 5 + Will 4 = (9d6.hits(5)=5).  Soaked.  Check to see if it can hold on to walls.  Cyborg: Pilot Walker 5 + Response 5 + Handling 2 + Hotsim 2 + vehicle wound -3 (2) = (9d6.hits(5)=1).  It doesn't.  ] 

The Panzer round rips the 2nd gun clear off the chasis of the cyborg just  as a second round slams right into the center of the monster causing one of it's legs to crumple and spark.   As it tries to reach again for the wall with that leg it misses and you see it pivot about it's other spider-like legs but it's unable to stabilize it's center of gravity and begins to free fall down the shaft, it's hulking form coming closer and closer.  Nonetheless you hear a popping sound similar to the one heard from Karina's grenade launcher and you see a mini grenade fly all the way down the shaft.  It explodes at the bottom of the shaft in a fireball and visibility with the bottom of the shaft is cut off save for ultra-sound channel.


[OOC: Cyborg: Agility 5 + Gunnery 5 + hotsim 2 + smartlink 2 + vehicle wound -3 + in free fall -2 = (9d6.hits(5)=5).  Scatter 2d6=10.  Scatter reduced to 5m away from brick.  For every hit on your AOE (-2) defense test you can move 1 meter more away down the tunnel at the bottom of the shaft.  It's a white phosphorus grenade and is 8P -1/m.   After the explosion, between shaft and tunnel Visibility is -4 for visible and -6 for thermal.  Also the whole part of the tunnel below the shaft is a raging flame.]


@Zach&Wagner:

Brick is no longer visible and you have no idea if he's dead or alive. 

[OOC: You have 1 CT before cyborg falls on you.  Each of you roll an Edge + Reaction (3) test to not get hit.  Remember that Wagner didn't have to burn Edge cuz Zach saved him. ]

[Sichr]

Forgot my free action:
Get back to meat wagner. There is still a time for Beethoven's Fifth, but I wont hug you forever.

[Xzylvador]

Pulling his mind out of VR, Wagner shook his head and blinked his eyes.
His voice was calm but sounded distant. "To coś kurwa zniszczył moje dziewczyny. Moje piękne dziewczyny..."
Wagner grabbed the ladder and gaped upwards at the falling robot, he pushed himself against the wall as good as he could to avoid being taken down in its fall... but he knew that dwarves who spend most of their time sitting down simply aren't the best athletes.

He closed his eyes and braced for impact while mentally ordering his 3 remaining drones to find room on Zach's body and sending all the data, access ID's and encryption keys from his commlink towards his friends. "...and it is Mozart Requiem! Not Beethoven, you barbarian!", he shouted at Zach.

[OOC: Edge 3, Rea 1 (4d6.hits(5)=2).]

[Sichr]

...Switching audio chanel off, at least for now...
I prefere Rachmaninov, but at least it was enought to get you back on your feet..


RE(7)+E(1)-WND(1) (7d6.hits(5)=3)

Watching cyborg falling down the shaft...missing just for inches...then looking up again...
well...after this...hmmm...are you ready to get back there and finish the job? I need someone to help me with those turrets

[Teyl_Iliar]

Brick's grin as the second turret goes flying, fades as the cyborg's leg crumples in fails from his second shot, and disappears as he hears the sound of a grenade being launched. Knowing immedately what was about to happen as the chassis beings to tumble and fall toward him, his wired reflexes fire giving him the time to dodge the falling cyborg.(8d6.hits(5)=4) Just as the chassis Slamed in to the bottom of the shaft. the grenade detonated in the air just above the impact. Brick dives farther into the air shaft just fast enough to get out of range of the grenade. (6d6.hits(5)=2) (edge to re-roll full defense to avoid the burning. (4d6.hits(5)=1) It misses completely and I'll be free of the burning sensation. )


(OOC: fuck yeah! )

[inca1980]

@Everyone:

Wagner get's snagged by a leg of the falling cyborg but Zach manages to deftly evade it. 

[OOC: Wagner needs to resist 10P and make a Agility + Reaction (3) test to not fall off the ladder.]

[Xzylvador]

Wagner got hit hard, the leg tearing his armor to shreds and taking a chunk of meat out of his back. He lost his grip on the ladder and once again started falling down the shaft towards the white hot flames over 40 meters below him. He pushed his mind back into VR, the overrides in his nervous system blocked out some of the pain.
@ Team: "Rachmaninov... not even close to Stravinsky or Prokofiev. But not bad pianist."
He watched the data transfer to his allies finish with some satisfaction while he calculated that the impact would kill him before he could feel the pain from the fire.

[OOC: Body 2 + Impact 4 (6d6.hits(5)=2) Edge reroll (4d6.hits(5)=2) Wagner takes 6P damage.
That's enough for knockdown even without this: Agi + Rea (3d6.hits(5)=0) but then remembered he'd take damage first and get -2 for damage. Not that it matters. ]

[inca1980]

@Zach:

You see Wagner get snagged and as a little of his blood spatters on you you watch him start to free fall down the shaft along with the torn up black metal cyborg.  You only see the flames envelope both of them and they are gone from sight.  No time to think about the dwarf's fate....right now the biggest challenge is to get out of this shaft before even more reinforcements arrive. 

@Brick:

You pick yourself up off the ground after having dove to get out of the range of the white phosphorus.   Looking back towards the shaft exit you can only see a wall of flame and smoke which for second explodes once more with force as you here the deafening slam of metal upon metal of the cyborg finally hitting the bottom of the shaft.  You can only hope your two colleagues are still alive because you don't have any wireless connection to them. 

@Wagner:

You slip into VR, your PAN laid out before you.  Everything is so calm and tranquil with only the soft background cadence of the classical piece you just had queued coloring the air.  Despite the utter tranquility of the virtual room you're in, your heart is racing like that of mad man.  You know why you're here...... 

it's best..... one last dive into the data-streams.

You turn up the volume on Mozart's Requiem.....volume slider right next to brain-wave activity output....the ascending A-minor ostenato of violins keeping time for every undulation of the chaotic sin-wave while your heart races faster and faster....you know it's coming....the end.

You're final data transfer almost complete....you upload everything.....everything to your remaining drone. 

Confutatis maledictis
flamis acribus adictis

Just as the tenors and altos reach their final E octave, the sin-wave flat-lines.....all is calm once again.

Your consciousness floats away on the wispy wings of sopranos...

Voca me ....cum benedictus....