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« Reply #300 on: <07-28-12/1516:31> »
Group 1: Hyena and Eugene
@Hyena:

The Spirit of Earth rears up and appears to inhale a breath of air, followed by blasting a huge gout of sand and rocks directly at you. The entire room fills with a cloud of dust, making it hard to see. The abrasive blast has the force of a fire hose. A fire hose shooting rocks.

Elemental Attack (Sand): Agi(3)+Exotic Ranged Weapon(5)+Wounded(-3) (5d6.hits(5)=2)

[OOC: base damage is 5P+net hits, resist with half impact armor. Future actions have a -2 visibility modifier until the dust settles.]


standard defence roll => reaction
defence: reaction 5 (5d6.hits(5)=2)

The spirit misses.
Now it's my turn.



Hyena managed to dodge the brunt of the attack from the spirit and except for some small pebbles nothing hit her.  The dust cloud was a bit annoying thought, but since she had seen the spirit stagger under Eugene's attack, she decided to try to finish it off.


attack (complex action)
agility 8 + blades 2 + swords 2 + weapon focus 2 -2 visibility penalty =12 (12d6.hits(5)=4)
I'll roll 2 more dice if I can counter the penalty with my vision enhancement gear

Damage 5P + net hits, AP -1 (and as it's a weapon focus, the spirit still has it's armour, but it's not considered hardened if I'm recalling correctly).

« Last Edit: <07-28-12/1525:49> by farothel »
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« Reply #301 on: <07-28-12/1604:23> »
@Hyena:

The Spirit of Earth attempts to parry your blow with its massive stone arm.

Parry: Rea(7)+Unarmed Combat(5)+Wounded(-3) (9d6.hits(5)=1)
[and no, the spirit doesn't suffer visibility mods.. it's MADE of dirt]

Edge re-roll: Edge Re-roll (8): (8d6.hits(5)=1) 2 total hits

Damage resist: Damage resist: Bod(9) (9d6.hits(5)=4)
[spirits have Immunity to Normal Weapons, which provides them F*2 Hardened Armor against non-magical attacks. Since you used a magic foci sword, they lose all this protection and effectively have no armor against your attack.]

Your sword slices through the spirit's arm and into its chest. While passing the sword through its arm seems to have had no effect, the wound to its chest appears to have hurt it, hitting the spirit's "core". The spirit bellows angrily, stomping its massive legs so hard that the roof above you begins to creak in a very disturbing way.

Damage: 9P-4 = 5P

@Eugene:

Your Spirit of Earth sends you a telepathic message that it has caught up to the Watcher spirit over the heart of the city. The Watcher spirit is trying to evade it and still reach its target.

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« Reply #302 on: <07-28-12/1619:49> »
Group 1: Hyena and Eugene

CT2, IP1: Spirit of Air: 19 (2 IP); Spirit of Earth: 17 (2 IP); Hyena: 14 (2 IP); Eugene: 11 (1 IP); Mage: 10 (1 IP)
Edge: Hyena: 3/3 Eugene: 2/2 Mage: 1/1 Spirit of Air: 5/5; Spirit of Earth: 4/5
Wounds: Spirit of Earth: 9S, 5P(-4); Eugene: 1P; Mage: 8S(-2)


@Eugene: Your Spirit of Air continues to strangle the mage locked in its smoky embrace.

Engulf Attack: Agi(8)+Engulf(5) (13d6.hits(5)=5)
Base Damage = Magic(5)+Net hits(5)+Energy Aura(4) = 14S
Damage Resist: Bod(7) (7d6.hits(5)=2) Net damage: 12S

The mage's eyes bulge out of his head as the smoke monster punches him in the lungs with hot, acrid smoke. From the inside. He collapses to the ground, with the spirit still clinging to his unconscious body, intent on finishing the job.

The women in the basement begin to cough loudly in between screams. They sound terrified.

Stun damage overflow: 9P

@Hyena:

The Spirit of Earth suddenly stiffens, then begins to lose coherence. It falls apart, slowly at first, then all at once. It's now a pile of rubble and sand on the floor, the spirit having returned to the Metaplanes.


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« Reply #303 on: <07-28-12/1623:43> »
Now that the combat has been done, Hyena went back to the hatch and tried to open it, either with her vibroknife or her rifle, whichever went the fastest.
"Eugene, if your spirit has finished with that mage in the basement, call it off.  From what I can hear those women in the basement start to get problems breathing.  Or have it cleanse the air if it can do that."
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« Reply #304 on: <07-28-12/1654:31> »
"Holy Crap! A Gauss Rifle - I've never handled one of those before, but I have seen them in action."  Doc said as he reached into the case to pick up the weapon.  "they're loud as heck and twice as destructive."

A low whistle passed his lips as he examined the weapon in detail. "This has to be a new model, possibly a prototype.  This is bleeding edge hot, and you can bet your shoes that whoever lost it will be itching to get it back ASAP.  What do you say we get busy and get out of here before every available asset in Lagos crashes down on our heads?"

Doc busied himself strapping the Rifle on and stashing the Ammo Clips in his web gear. 

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« Reply #305 on: <07-28-12/2025:47> »
Eugene is pleased to hear news of the mage's demise, and to see the consequent dispersal of the adversarial spirit. That will do for now my friend, I will take it from here. Thank you greatly for your service. If it wouldn't be too much trouble, could you unlock that door before you depart?

[OOC: I'm assuming it's just got a latch or handle that unlocks from the inside. If not the spirit might not be able to unlock it.]

He turns to Hyena. "You might want to call down to them. Your Yoruba is better than mine, I would imagine. The mage is unconscious but not quite dead yet, I believe. It would probably be safest to slit his throat, but if we keep him alive there might be a bounty or ransom."

He then calls his earth spirit. Thanks for the update. Don't let that watcher reach its destination! Let me know what happens, and don't forget to stay hidden.

Always curious, Eugene picks up the commlink on the table and looks through it for any useful information. He then switches it off and keeps it--maybe he can convince that dwarf to look through it.

logic(4) + data search(1) = 5 (5d6.hits(5)=2)
This is sort of a lot of stuff to do at once, so Eugene will search the commlink at the next opportunity, if not now.

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« Reply #306 on: <07-29-12/1434:52> »
Doc, unless you get a better idea ...
step one. you cancel that airport tower with that thing. that should suggest everybody around that Dawgs went stupid and offered some demonstration in their neighbourhood. The customers, will probably get nervous, they are doing illegal business, and they don't want to get into some gang wars that erupt here all the time. The Dawgs themselves, will only get more nervous then they are already. They know it's not their fireworks, and will probably start suspecting their customers doing something fishy. Either way, they either wrap up their business quickly or abandon the deal.

step two. customers move out of the Dawgs compound. You cancel their car, mind you, don't blow it, just shoot enough to tremble the shit out of them. Customer will think (correctly) they are under attack, and (incorrectly) that it is Dawgs - having completed the deal, funds transfered, decided to kill of the customer. Dawgs, will know that (again) it is not their doing, and will know, that shooting of customer on their turf will wreck their already weak reputation, they could pack the business and move away. So they'll act to defend the customer, loosing all hell against us, most specifically, Barghests. You need to be standing on the street I'm affraid, otherwise, they won't let them loose.

step three. we need to wait long enough that the customer could flee. Then we need to put the Barghest down. I know shit or less about them, but they are fucking paracritters. That is animals, once launched, they'll run straight, or maybe a little circling, but no napoleonian tactics here. First thing they should run into should be something shocking, they shoudn't have anything to help them. If you're good with grenades you could try flashbangs, but  if you miss, you're dead, so I advise against it. I'll mount doberman with with taser on the car, so you'll get more darts in the air.

step four. with Barghest down, they'll need to move lynxes and people in cars, so we'll flee, but slow enough that they will follow us. and when they reach our previous position, they'll find a box with a gauss rifle. BAM. S-K VTOL should be combat landing around that time.

check mate.

Something go wrong, I'm in the car, you jump in we leave the gun here, Dawgs reputation is shreded anyway.


OOC: all the above assume, that we start outside of the fire range from the weapons in the Dawgs compund. We need to take advantage of the supremem range of the assault cannon.
it also assume there is a long enough road leading to the HQ main gate, so we could target the customers.
Once Thermo approve, 11 - you can start rolling.

Sorry for a small delay ;)

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« Reply #307 on: <07-29-12/1714:12> »
One Question Jerry -

In principle this would work, but I doubt I'm skilled enough to reliably damage the customers' car without killing the occupants. 
[OOC: Doc T has no heavy weapons skill]. I've got 30 shots and I can sure make a lot of noise, and damage a lot of equipment, but I won't be too mobile with this bad boy.  Just cover me as best you can, and be ready for a quick rescue when it gets too hairy.   



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« Reply #308 on: <07-29-12/1825:08> »
Dear Mr. Shiawasi-san,
Please find attached your requested satellite map with overlaid AR objects. Your long-term support humbles us all.
Sincerely, your friendly NeoNET data services bot.

[This picture shows the layout from the south (i.e. the truck is due north of the base). The airport perimeter fence and tower are in blue, your truck is in red, the Shrapnel Dawgs base is in orange, and the Barghest patrols are in yellow. You can assume that the base from the previous picture is oriented so you are facing the entrance. The distance between the fence and the base is approximately 1 km. The rumored location of the S-K operation is in the industrial complex West of the airport. There is a road that runs East-West along the perimeter fence.]

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« Reply #309 on: <07-29-12/1848:58> »
Team 1: Hyena and Eugene

@Eugene:

You dismiss your Spirit of Air, who grants you the small service of turning the handle on the trap door before returning to his home in the Metaplanes. You can sense that it appreciates the respect you show your spirits, that you view them as peers and guardians instead of beasts of burden.

The commlink doesn't appear to be anything special. It's a cheap model that has obviously seen better days, made obvious by the scrapes on its case and the crack in the corner of its display. You hit the display button but see that it is protected by a basic password program and is probably encrypted. It is caked in dust, and you think it might be best to clean it before using it any further.

@Hyena:

You reach for your vibroknife and walk towards the hatch, only to hear a loud "thunk" as the spirit unlocks it from the inside. You open the hatch and a cloud of smoke billows out. With the smoke mixing with the cloud of dust that was released by opening the trap door, it's extremely hard to see into the basement. There's an old wooden ladder propped up against the edge of the hatch. The two women downstairs are coughing weakly and have stopped screaming for help.


What do you do?

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« Reply #310 on: <07-30-12/0713:52> »
"Keep an eye out for reinforcements," Heyena said to Eugene, "I'm going in to have a look."

She put in her respirator and went down into the basement, trying to find the two women to get them out.
"Don't worry," she said in Yoruba as she went down, "we're going to get you out and back to your family."

While looking for the women, she also kept an eye out for other surprises that might be present in the basement.
"Magic can turn a frog into a prince. Science can turn a frog into a Ph.D. and you still have the frog you started with." Terry Pratchett
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« Reply #311 on: <07-30-12/0801:39> »
@Hyena:

You climb the rickety ladder and see a powerfully-built ork laying on the ground at the base of the ladder. You focus your natural low-light vision and see two women chained to the floor with ankle manacles. Both are passed out but appear to still be breathing. There is an old leather-bound book laying between them; based on its position and the nearby candles, it appears that they were being forced to read from it. Next to each woman are various glass pitchers and jars, each full of dirty-looking water.

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« Reply #312 on: <07-30-12/0905:00> »
Eugene carefully walks to the doorway and peers out.

int(4) + perception(3) + mentor(2) + vision enhancement(3) = 12 (12d6.hits(5)=5)

He calls over to Hyena, "What's going on down there?"

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« Reply #313 on: <07-30-12/1119:19> »
Hyena closed the book and then took a couple of pictures of the scene.  She would ask Eugene about it later, but she was sure that it was a bad idea to leave the book here.  Next she cut the two women loose.  Now she still had to get them up.
"I've got them loose," she called up when she heard his voice, "I'm bringing them up right now.  Can you check the pics I'm sending you and see if you can make something out of it.  It's supposed to be some sort of ritual I think."
She first sent him the pictures, let her backpack on the floor at the moment and put one of the women on her back in the grip that they taught her at Ares to carry a wounded comrade back to the first aid station, a grip that left your hands free, which was necessary for climbing the ladder.

She brought them both up and when she went back for her backpack (and first putting the book in the backpack), she took her pistol and shot the Ork in the back of his head.  Nobody who did that kind of things to women should be allowed to live to try again.
"Let's get out of here," she said to Eugene as soon as she was up and had closed the hatch again.  She first checked the women again to make sure they were still breathing, and she also looked into the astral to see if they were possessed or something.  If not, she would bring them to the Daughters of Yemaja and they would know what to do with them.  It wouldn't be the first time they got women that were close to death, although mostly it was from abusive men and not so much from participation in a ritual.


OOC: I've written a rather large part.  If something happens in between, let me know and I'll rewrite.
assensing rolls:
intuition 4 + assensing 3 + enhanced perception 2 =9 (9d6.hits(5)=3, 9d6.hits(5)=3)
With 3 hits I can get a general diagnosis for maladies, if they are awakened (and if so, higher or lower magic then me) and if any astral signatures are present on them (like from possessing spirits)

OOC: @thermo: what's the in-game time at the moment?
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« Reply #314 on: <07-30-12/1149:11> »
One Question Jerry -

In principle this would work, but I doubt I'm skilled enough to reliably damage the customers' car without killing the occupants. 
[OOC: Doc T has no heavy weapons skill]. I've got 30 shots and I can sure make a lot of noise, and damage a lot of equipment, but I won't be too mobile with this bad boy.  Just cover me as best you can, and be ready for a quick rescue when it gets too hairy.   


You can't shoot it? Bloody hell, change of plan. pulling a wire to connect the drone via the datajack, Jerry unloaded the doberman out of the truck. I'll mount the pipe on the drone and I'll be shooting. Once they move against us, I'll dismount it, drop it and get the fuck out of here. I'll try to do it fast don't let anything fuck me. By the way, put your 'link on hidden.

OOC:
Mounting the gun over the drone, putting the AK on the back of the Jerry, for easy remount if needed/possible.
The commlink is operating in jammer-on-the fly mode. But once we start shooting it will resume normal operating mode, to allow me to connect the drone and more importanly to allow S-K get info that their gun has been taken out of the box.
 
Once in normal operation mode, all the nodes are in hidden. I am running two instance of encrypt program (one for communication and one for strong commlink node encryption). I am also running command program and ECCM, analyze, stealth, biofeedback filters and exploit (total 8 programs) all at rating 5 - overload reduce response of my node by 1). Both commlink, car and drone nodes are slaved and databombed (rating 3) on invalid entry.

Once the mounting is done, I'll operate from VR.
Sorry for a small delay ;)

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runners: Caretaker Jerry

 

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