[Day: Wednsday, May 27th. Time: 3:45 p.m.] (I'll be a minute, I'm skimming the last log.) [You're on the south side of a nuclear power plant that has been taken over by some terrorists. Red Team is on the north side, and two section 1 teams are at the east and west. Not much more to say than that.] [Start] (... What was the signal to start taking over things?) * Roseli is on the south side. Blue Team, represent! She peers at the complex, trying to note easy to access entrances and any passing bots. * Keiko is in her long black dress and blue cloak, floating just off the ground. Her annoyance has faded away into a blank look, and silence, both audibly and mentally. * Jamie is near Rose, gingerly listening for the bots and the other security mesasures that she'll soon have to deal with for the other teams. * Keiko has one hand on her stomach, too, pressing in slightly. ( Are we handwaving Luana here? ) (I don't see why not.) * Luana is standing next to Keiko and seems to be trying to focus on the mission but keeps glancing over. Finally, she thinks at her, ~I'm really not used to you being taller than me.~ * JesseLman is standing a few steps in front of Luana, his SMG in one hand, keeping quiet for the moment to let Jamie concentrate. ( Oh crap, Jesse's there! ) * Keiko starts, looking at Luana with wide eyes, then manages a very slight smile and reaches over with that hand on her stomach and puts it on Luana's shoulder. She thinks back at her. ~I--you can always be taller, right?~ (... Does that make Luana Jesse's girl?) (*dies*) * JesseLman is now known as Togo * Rowyn is now known as Heinrick ( Whoops. And that now makes the 4,378th time someone's made that joke. ) (I wish I had Jesse's girl. ;_;) (Obligated.) [Oscar Jung's voice comes over the radio. "Section 2, are you in position?"] ( 4,379 ) ~Well, yeah, but who wants to be 6'1" and a half?~ ( Hey, *I* wish I had Jesse's girl. =P ) * Keiko looks back forward and thinks back at her, ~Dunno. Guys. Basketball players. Goalies.~ *into comm* We are. * Heinrick is standing in position. And was awaiting orders. And there they are. ~All present on the south end. Blue Team reporting.~ (Or whatever the radio frequency punctuation has been.) (SO MANY COMMS) [Fritz's voice comes over the radio, too. "Yeah, just say the word."] (Fritz is here? Huh.) (Or am I confusing all the new NPCs?) (He was here earlier, yeah. North side representin') ( I think you're confused. ) (Right, gotcha. I'm just confusing the names.) ( Which is cool, because I'm about to introduce more. :D ) (Oh GOD.) (THIS IS NOT ARCANA) (That's okay.) (We'll just have to kill them.) (Screw lists, I'm going to need a -chart- soon.) (Steal their names.) (Do not force us to make a Wiki to hold all the NPCs) (And with them, their power.) (...Maybe I -should- make a chart, it might help me...) [And suddenly there's an explosion from the power plant. Not a nuclear one. Just a new, clear one.] * Jamie winces. [Followed by Daniel Hobbs's voice! You remember him? Sure hope so. "Hey! What the hell! Did we start yet, guys?"] [And Kranz. "Hobbs, shut the hell up. The radio's for the commanders."] * Jamie shakes her head. ["Huh? Nobody ever told me - ow!"] * Luana winces. ~Don't let me forget, Keiko - no one will actually believe me if I shoot him by accident.~ * Roseli murmurs to Jamie, "Got a lock on the bots?" [And then there's the sound of Jung's voice. "Looks like something's going on in there. We can't waste this opportunity. Commence the operation!"] ( and then the phone rang -.- ) ( It's the terrorists with their demands! ) (OMG!) ( They have fourth wall technology! ) * Roseli nods once and moves forward, quickly and with gun in hand. "Jamie, deactivate all bots possible." (Figure I may as well put it in.) ( They caught the suspect! ) * Keiko keeps the thin smile and thinks back, ~I'll try to strangle him first.~ ( I dunno who it is or what his crime was, but they caught him. ) 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-5) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 4. * Luana smiles slightly. ~I don't think anyone will believe -that- was an accident either.~ * Togo moves forward as well, motioning for Luana to follow. * Luana pulls out her gun and plays follow the leader. * Jamie concentrates on the bots... * Heinrick preps his knives and nods towards Roseli, heading forward carefully as well. * Keiko sets herself down on the ground lightly to begin walking forward. She walks faster than she floats! True fact. 2 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2 2d8-2) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 3 6. [You head forward. Since it's daytime, you can see that people are running around the compound of the plant frantically, confusion apparent.] 2 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2 2d8-2) and gets a natural 16 for a result of 0 14. (...) ( ruh roh ) (Sweet!) [And then there's the sound of gunfire as the teams begin to close.] (Holy crap.) (A crit success AND a crit fail? Fucking crazy.) 2 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2 2d8-2) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 7 5. * Jamie looks at Rose. "I... four down." [You get to the fence surrounding the compound, to find a deactivated bot collecting dust. And one that's not, as well as three of the militia. Gimme init ] 2d8+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8+7) and gets a natural 15 for a result of 22. 2d8+12 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8+12) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 18. 2d8+14 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8+14) and gets a natural 15 for a result of 29. 2d8+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8+8) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 16. * Roseli nods once to Jamie. "Good job." 2d8+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Roseli (2d8+8) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 18. [Keiko, Luana, Togo, Bot, Rose, Jamie, Militia x3] [Keiko!] 2d8+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Heinrick (2d8+8) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 15. ( Ermmm ) (How did I get a magical 10 more init than Togo?) ( Wait ) ( That's totally not right. ) (Togo's first) [Togo, Keiko, Luana, Bot, Rose, Jamie, Heinrick, Militia x3] [Togo!] * Togo circles away from the group a bit to get some space, pulls out his LAW, and fires at the bot and the militia. "Fire in the hole!" 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-3) and gets a natural 12 for a result of 9. ( Made. Barely. ) ( That would've sucked ) (... Jesse? bot deactiveted... you just fired a rocket near a nuke.) (Nope. There's an active bot.) (And a deactivated bot.) [Annnnnnnnnnd Togo eliminates them all in the first move.] ( It's not active now. ) (Yeah, I was about to say, active bot.) (Oh, whups) ( fail at reading) ( Now roll me a d6 Jesse ) d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (d6) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 5. ( Ooooo.... ) ( Whoopsie ) (Building explodes, we all die. New game!) ( Law only has a 4m radius ) ( So unless they literally had their backs to a reactor... =P ) (Yeah, but the antitank rockets on the bot... don't) [A line of gunfire rakes the ground in front of you as two more bots announce in robotic voices, "SEVERE THREAT DETECTED" and make their way over.] [Keiko!] (...4m is 12 feet, Jesse. That's a lot of range in corridors.) ( We're still outside, I thought. ) (We are still outside.) ( Ermmm.. Hm. Actually, first bot's still active too, though heavily damaged. ) (We are. Point.) ( And yeah, you're just in the parking lot. ) * Togo curses. "Damn, more of them." * Jamie covers her ears to muffle the sounds of exploding bots and people. (Exploding people!) * Keiko 's shield is so very up. She squints her eyes at them, then reaches into her cloak and pulls out half a cinderblock, before her mind takes over and lofts the cinderblock end-over-end at one of the bots. * Keiko then peers at the block and goes, "... your coat is odd, Togo." [The bots, by the way, are about 10-foot tall bipedal machines with machineguns instead of arms, and rocket packs on their "shoulders". ] 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8-3) and gets a natural 13 for a result of 10. (Miss by 3.) [Keiko sends a cinderblock into a nothing.] [Luana!] * Luana aims her pistol at the not-dead-yet-bot and fires. 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8-3) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 4. [Lucky for you, the militia still seem too distracted by the internal confusion and the other teams to notice you fighting their bots.] [Unlucky for you, Luana's shot glances off the bot's armored hull without doing much more than scratching the paint.] [And then the bots attack, opening fire at... this is gonna take some dice rolling. ] 2 d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (2 d6) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 1 4. ( Oh yeah, 1st is still up. ) d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d6) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 4. ( Hoo boy. ) (... Sucks to be Luana) ( Hokay, Heinrick, gimme 2 def rolls. Luana, gimme 4.] ) (Sweet merciful tapdancing something something.) (+2 for each extra defense, yes?) ( Yes ) 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Heinrick (2d8-4) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 1. 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Heinrick (2d8-2) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 9. (Made first, missed second) 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8-4) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 5. 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8-2) and gets 14, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "I hate being random." 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8) and gets 2, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "Fight! For everlasting love and peace!" 2d8+2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8+2) and gets a natural 12 for a result of 14. (o_O) ( Jeez. ) (What's your deal, dicebot?) (What's your problem, buddy?) ( Okayyyyyy.... ) ( Wacky! ) (*headdesk*) (Actually, isn't Tri-Stat +4 for each additional def.?) [Heinrick dives for cover. Of which there really isn't any, but he throws himself out of the path of most of the bullets of the first gun. The 2nd,... not so much.] (But that's kind of insane, so +2 works fine for me. o_o) ( Uhh... Is it? ) (She gets blown skyhigh, goes flying, the bot tries to track her, ends up firing a missile straight overhead, which crashes on top of it!) (Tri-Stat is BRUTAL when it comes to getting mobbed by attacks, because they expect you to use d10s and insane CP totals.) (You may be right. o.o) (Yes.) (Yes, it is.) ( You're right. ) ( Huh. ) (No, they don't expect you to get hit 4 times a round.) (Slight difference. ;) (There's that, too!) (Silly game and its expectations) (There's a reason I have an extra deff ._.) (There's a reason I don't. IT'S EXPENSIVE) (3 CP isn't that bad at chargen.) (Truth. It is pretty pricey. I haven't been able to justify getting it for Rose yet.) (So that's... 5, critfail, critsucc, and 20.) (Good times!) ( Hokay.... Luana, you've got the option of rerolling those two, or just taking one and not the other.] ) ( I'll take the crit success!) ( The damage :P ) (Question, Brett: Are we using +2 or +4?) ( +4 ) (Okay.) (Er. I'll take one and not the other.) ( Let me be more clear: You can take both the crit success and crit fail, or you can choose to reroll them both. ) ( If you take the first option, you avoid all the damage from one attack and take all the damage from the other. ) ( Or you can reroll and hope you avoid both. But you could end up taking the damage from both, too. Your choice. ) (Ohh! I'll reroll. ^^;) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8) and gets a natural 12 for a result of 12. 2d8+4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8+4) and gets a natural 3 for a result of 7. ( Bird in the hand is worth two in the head. ) ( Hokay.... ) [So... The bots seem to have it out for Luana, because they blast away at her. Lucky she's wearing armor, or she'd probably be thoroughly dead. Instead, she's just slightly wounded.] [Jamie!] ( Nope ) [Rose!] (Best point spending ever!) (Armor! It's good for you.) [You've got 2 bots in excellent condition and one thoroughly-damage-but-still-active-and-dangerous condition] (... wait, wait. You said Togo took out the original robot?) ( And later I said it was still alive ) (Ah.) (... well.) ( I prematurely assumed the LAW would destroy it. :P ) ( Waiting for Roseeeeeeee ) ( eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ) (Sorry, was in the bathroom.) * Roseli moves to cover Jamie and fires at the damaged bot. "Jamie, deactivate them! Now!" 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Roseli (2d8-4) and gets a natural 13 for a result of 9. (I miss!) 2 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2 2d8-2) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 6 9. [Rose Misses!] [Jamie goes prematurely!] [Heinrick!] ( Er ) * Jamie concentrates on the two undamaged bots, one of them stops moving. ( Wait a minute ) ( My bad, it is Jamie's turn. ) (Yup.) [But now it's Heinrick's!] * Heinrick moves within range of the bots and swaps his knives for liquid nitro. We face far too many bots. 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Heinrick (2d8-4) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 2. ( Only 2 now. ) (At this point, it's clear they could kill us fairly easily, so 2 is still a lot. ^^;) (I mean in general.) ( Annnnd.... I'm not entirely sure what effect a small amount of liquid nitro would do to metal. Time for Wiki ) (Probably make it brittle.) (Yeah.) ( ARMOR BREAKU! ) (Yes, it's meant to make it brittle so you can rush in and shatter stuff.) (Which is good for armored targets. ;P So's acid!) (Acid's soooo multipurpose. <3) [Hoookay. Which one you aiming at? (The damaged one.) ( Alrighty. ) [Heinrick spreads some liquid nitrogen on the damaged bot. This may help! Or maybe not! Who knows?!] [Togo!] * Togo pulls out his machine gun and fires at the damaged bot, trying to put it down. "Everyone, spread out!" 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-3) and gets a natural 15 for a result of 12. ( Sheesh ) [Togo completely misses the bot.] [Luana] (Um, I'm after Togo.) [Keiko!] ( /me reads through the effects on Liquid Nitrogen and metal. God bless the internets.] ) * Keiko floats partly in front of Luana and thinks, ~Shoot around me,~ as she pulls out a more normally sized brick, before projecting it at higher speed at the damaged bot, hopefully putting it through the frozen section of the armor. 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8-3) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 4. (Hey! A hit by 3!) (Without the Internets, we would have no game!) [Keiko gets a hit by 3.] (Math attack. ;_;) [I mean, Keiko puts a cinderblock through the bot, apparently destroying whatever circuits were still functioning.] [Which leaves on healthy bot. Luana!] [Meanwhile gunfire resounds around the plant. Krantz yells, "Dammit! I knew we couldn't rely on section 2 to disable the bots!"] (Oh come on, I got nearly a fourth of them in the first second of everything ;_;) * Luana twitches slightly, then pulls out a different gun and fires at the remaining bot. (Fire Bullet.) 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8-3) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 6. [Pavla's voice comes over the radion. "Screw you, man."] * Roseli coms, "Six bots down; working on a seventh." [Luana shoots the bot with a fire bullet, but it still doesn't do much to the bot's armored hull besides scortching it a little.] d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d6) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 5. Argh! [The bot, however, trains its guns on Rose, who needs 2 def rolls.] (Good thing I'm covering Jamie.) (Which one of us has DA?) 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Roseli (2d8-3) and gets a natural 13 for a result of 10. 2d8+1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Roseli (2d8+1) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 6. (It is funny that Rose always acts like she doesn't, isn't it?) (Missed one, and I love my new armor! SAVE ME ARMOR!) (I think she forgets.) (To be fair, for some reason when you start getting hit, you always go under anyway. ;P) ( The down side is Rose has much less armor than Luana :X ) [So Rose gets shot! a couple times. Still the armor does help keep her from dying a bloody death. Though she prolly would have lived regardless. Maybe.] [Rose's turn!] (I only missed one of the defenses. :() (Machine guns, autofire is not your friend ;_;) * Roseli raises her gun. "Jamie," she says, and it should be obvious what she wants her to do. (And I shall hold my action for after Heinrick's turn.) [Jamie!] * Jamie tries to turn this bot off too! 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-2) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 6. 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-5) and gets a natural 13 for a result of 8. [The bot shuts down. It's not so scary now that it's not trying to kill you.] * Roseli lets out a breath and glances down at her own bullet wounds. She winces, then turns to her ward. "Sense any other bots, Jamie?" [You win! You recieve 3982 exp and $523. Recieved 2 X MI-76 BOT cards!] (Sweet! Victory dance!) * Heinrick calls over the radio. "Red team. What's your status?" (I'll let you know as soon as Brett gets back to me!) * Keiko looks back to Luana for a moment, seeming concerned, and then she bites her lip and faces forward. * Luana glares at her gun, then holsters it and takes her normal pistol out again. * Togo looks back at Luana. "None of your guns is gonna do much against bot armor, unfortunately." * Jamie looks at Rose. "I fou..." she blinks. "I... I think Pavla found it too." That's just... frustrating! [Karin responds. "We're meeting heavy fire over here. But still, they don't seem very organized."] [Gertrude follows up, "More like a gang than an army. If we take out the leader, I bet they'll give up."] * Keiko replies quietly, to herself, "As if that were the point." * Roseli nods once to Jamie. "That the last of them?" ( Bots got lotsa armor :D ) ( and brb X: ) * Jamie looks some more. 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-5) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 2. * Heinrick replies. "Most likely." He looks around to make sure threats other than bots aren't really threats either. * Togo nods at Luana. "It is. Which is why I carry a goddamn LAW.' * Heinrick considers. "If the armor is melted away first, the fire would probably wreck havok on the machinery. I'll make sure to target more acid from now on." * Keiko looks to Togo with a faint frown. "Would you just heal her so we can move?" * Luana covers her face with one hand and mumbles, "I'm never going to be good enough." * Jamie tries to find the remaining bots in the compound. * Heinrick sighs and starts scouting the perimeter. Or would if the GM were present. ( How badly is Luana hurt? ) ( Back ) (In the words of Brett, "slightly wounded".) * Togo ruffles Luana's hair. "You're doing fine, kiddo. You just need more guns. We'll work on that." (Rose needs the healing more anyway, I think.) ( She's actually not that injured compared to Rose or Heinrick. ) (Since when did Keiko care about them?) (It's a good question.) (Heal or go places!) (Keiko has killing to do.) [Suddenly, before and of your questions can be answered, a siren blares across the parking lot.] * Jamie looks at Rose. "Fi... five left." * Luana smiles up at Togo like he brought the sun out. * Togo looks down at Luana. "You need healing? Did all that get through your armor?" *looks up* * Jamie tries to deacivate the ones that are fighting the other teams, and grits her teath as the sirens do their best to give her a headache. Keep shutting them down. I want them all off before we shut down security. * Roseli glances for the siren or whatever. [Jung shouts. "Dammit! They've triggered the meltdown sequence. All units, priority is to get to the control room and stop the meltdown."] 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-2) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 8. * Keiko looks away from Togo and Luana, floating away a bit, silently. Well, until the meltdown thing. I'm fine. You should help the othe- crap! * Roseli curses in Portuguese, then waves for the others to come with her as she charges in. Because this is very, very curse-worthy. [Krantz: "How much time do we have?"] * Luana runs after Rose. [Gertrude: "A plant like this?.... Ten, maybe fifteen minutes."] * Roseli coms, "How the fuck do you turn OFF a meltdown sequence, if we get there?" * Heinrick sighs and goes after them. * Togo curses in English, and follows Rose in, keeping his machine gun out. "Don't suppose you're a nuke tech in your spare time, Rose?" * Jamie hurries after her guardian, having managed to turn off at least one of the bots. (And would Heinrick know?) [Gertrude: "Heh. Get there and I'll tell you."] No, but sounds like Gertrude might have a better idea than blowing it to high hell. [Karin: "I'm going to try to get in through the roof."] * Keiko sets down on the ground again, moving quickly with the group. Jamie, shut down security and if you can, shut down the sequence. (But we're not counting on the second one.) ( How do you turn it off? Simple... by having the GM figure out what skill this would be under. ) ( Domestic arts: cooking. ) ( 'Cause that's what you gonna be if you don't turn it off! ) (*substitutes poisons for cooking. Done!) (Computers? Physical Sciences? Electronics? Maybe maybe Milsci?) ( Heavy Weapons. =P ) 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-2) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 8. * Keiko presses her hand in against her upper stomach again as she runs, feeling ahead mentally for people-guards. Especially Eileen-shaped people guards. ( Gimme architecture rolls ) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 10. (Make by 0.) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8) and gets a natural 14 for a result of 14. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 10. (WIFF!) (Swing anna miss) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Heinrick (2d8) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 10. (Dammit. Heinrick beat me. ;_;) (Make-edy) (o/`) (JERK) (OH YOU THINK YOU'RE SOOO SMART) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 10. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Roseli (2d8) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 9. ( nope ) (Made by one!) (I AM SO SMART.) (I'm smarter than Rose!) (Wait.) (As smart as) (o/`) [Hokay.... Rose, Heinrick and Mecha's character realize the control room is probably towards the center of the building, on the second floor.] (I have a name. I'm a real person.) (Suuure you are.) ( Also, gimme awareness rolls. ) 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8-2) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 7. (Sense?) ( Sight ) (Aware by 3.) 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8-4) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 0. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Roseli (2d8) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 11. 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-2) and gets a natural 15 for a result of 13. (Wiff) (Too bad I can't hear this) 2d8-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-6) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 0. ( made by 7 ) * Heinrick shakes his head as he heads on the move, readying some noxious gas. "They'll know exactly where to expect us with that. Not good." 2d8-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Heinrick (2d8-6) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 3. [Everyone who made it spots Karin flying towards the roof with Cyra.] (Oh wait, that should be -8. Anyhow, made by lots) * Keiko says quietly, as they get more insideward, "It seems... the second floor? Near the core?" She glancs up and adds, "Karin's flying in." * Heinrick nods slightly and looks at the others. "Expect an ambush." [Meanwhile, you enter the building from the south side! There is a door there, and it opens into a short corridor. The halls are lined with offices. And no one in 'em.] * Roseli moves into the corridor. "Security down, Jamie?" * Jamie nods. Good. Get the other four bots. 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-2) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 5. * Roseli heads down the corridor, ready to, um, shoot people. 'Cause sometimes you just gotta shoot people. [A guy suddenly rushes around the corner, carrying an assault rifle. He seems surprised to see you, but quickly lifts it to a ready position.] ( Gimme init! ) (See, there's a people!) 2d8+12 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8+12) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 23. 2d8+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Roseli (2d8+8) and gets a natural 12 for a result of 20. (...) (Apparently, they're all people with no brains.) 2d8+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8+7) and gets 23, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "My momma always said, you gotta take the good with the bad. Have a little bad." 2d8+14 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8+14) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 24. 2d8+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8+8) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 16. ( Daaaang, thems some good inits. ) ( What a waste. ) [Togo!] * Togo swaps out for his silenced SMG and fires a burst at the guard. 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-3) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 5. ( made ) [Togo's silenced SMG has the effect of causing the guy to scream when Togo shoots his hand. He drops his rifle and shrieks. "Oow! You shot me! How could you shoot me?!"] Very easily. I could do it again to demonstrate if you'd like. (Tell me he wasn't wearing a section one uniform. :P) ( Nope ) (o/~ Pulled my trigger now he's dead, Momma OooOooo o/~) ( But he IS a pallet-swapped Hobbs ) ( Ok, not really. ) (Heheheh.) [He clutches his hand. "Oh God, it's not fair. I'm gonna die and I don't even have a girlfriend yet!"] (Can we drop out of init and threaten him within an inch of his life?) ( Yah ) 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-2) and gets a natural 3 for a result of 1. * Roseli moves forward, grabs him roughly, and sticks her gun against his head. "Tell us how to get to the control room." [He stares at Rose, then points down the corrider he emerged from.] * Keiko looks at them doing it oddly, then picks at her cloak and walks down that way. And who's there? ["Chuck. Uhh... He's the boss.... And that' mysterious old guy. Oh God, don't shoot me!"] * Heinrick looks at Rose interrogating the guy. He seems as if he's holding himself back from responding. It's a little hard. * Roseli rolls her eyes and coldcocks him. ["Oh yeah, and--" Rose clocks him.] ( Ironically, coldcocks cause swelling. ) (Whoops.) * Roseli frowns. "Early. Keiko, can you grab it from him?" * Roseli drops the guy. (Actually.) (Can I nix that and have her NOT clock him when he starts talking again?) ( Aww. It's less funny that way. ) (Since I didn't know he was going to? ;P) (Come on!) ( Ok ) [The guy stares at Rose.] ["A-Are you going to shoot me?"] I will if you don't cooperate. What else is up there? ["I don't know! The old guy said he was gonna go somewhere and do something and not to bug him!"] ["But he said if we did what we told him we could be in the Society!"] ( Ermmm... Not quite right. ) ["But he said if we did what he told us we could be in the Society!"] ( There. ) Hm. [Meanwhile, you hear gunfire! From inside the building.] * Roseli looks to the others to see if they want to ask anything. [He stares at Rose. "Hey, umm...."] * Jamie is buisy checking on the two remaining bots. 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-5) and gets -3, a CRITICAL SUCCESS!!! "Fight! For everlasting love and peace!" * Keiko frowns and snaps, as she keeps watch on his mind, "Were there a psychotic woman around?" ( Well, that works. ) (Well, that was a waste of a crit. ;_;) * Luana asks curiously, "Why is the 'old guy' mysterious?" (The guy wants to go out with me.) ["Uh? Oh! I haven't seen her for a while, but yeah. There was at one point. I almost asked her out, but I dunno... Something about the way she looked at me scared me off."] ["Um... 'Cause he is. He's like British or something, and he wears this cape, and something about him just says he could kick your ass despite how old he is."] * Keiko looks aside and mutters, "Good thought." * Roseli nods. "Anything else?" ["Uh... Yeah."] What. [He looks at Rose. "Can I have your number? I'm not such a bad guy once you get to know me, honest!"] ["I only joined with them because chicks dig bad guys."] (This is the part where you punch him with a gun.) ["And they said there'd be pizza."] ( Rose, you have permission to shoot him in the head. ) ( Which one was the British guy with the cape again? ) * Roseli actually lets out a small laugh. "Hope we live." * Roseli knocks the guy out now. * Heinrick shakes his head and smirks a little. "Well now...I don't believe romance on the job is exactly in our office policy..." ["So is that a y-" clonk.] * Keiko rolls her eyes. "Boys." * Heinrick then watches as he slumps. "Apparently he fails to realize that a meltdown would have killed him just as readily as a bullet." Can we go now? [More gunfire.] I suppose we had best. * Heinrick heads on ahead. * Roseli takes the guy's gun and removes the ammunition, then heads for the control room, laughing softly all the way. * Jamie follows Rose, she's good at that. Following here is a helecopter with a gun. * Luana follows along. * Keiko walks along as well. * Keiko has her hand on her upper stomach again, eyes narrowed. * Heinrick relays the information to the other team. "Apparently an "old British guy" and someone who sounds like Eileen are the culprits. Control room is 2nd floor in. We're heading there now." * Roseli comments, "Also someone named 'Chuck'." * Roseli chuckles again, then tries to drop it. And only partially succeeds. [You head forward, and the gunfire gets louder. Eventually, you come to a T-intersection. But before you get there, you see three guys running from the right to the left, screaming as they go.] * Roseli glances to the right. * Keiko reaches out to grab them by the minds. Who doesn't want mooks? ...We're going right, then? * Heinrick glances at Rose and smirks slightly. "Don't get asked out much?" 3 2d8-4 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (3 2d8-4) and gets a natural 10 for a result of -1 9 6. (Makes all.) [To the right is a large room. A foyer of some sort. And a lot of bodies. And...] [Standing towards the far-side of the room, near the stairs, is a boy who couldn't be much older than 17. He's wearing black: black slacks, a black button-down shirt, black jacket, and a black cap with a visor that looks something like what a train conductor or policeman would wear.] (Also, were the people running wearing section 1 uniforms?) [His hair is black, too, but his skin is a pale white. And apparently he's Asian. He's also armed, with a gun holster on one side of his belt and a katana on the other. Finally, he's got another harness around his chast, but you can't quite see what it's for.] (Or were they baddies?) ( No. ) ( As far as you know, there's nobody from section 1 in the building. ) ( 'Cause they didn't say so :P ) (http://www.rpgfan.com/pics/devil-summoner/art-003.jpg ???) ( He's goth Tairan! ) ( He does look a lot like that. Except it's a jacket, not a cloak. ) [Annywho... He heads up the stairs.] (Do I get my 3 mooks, Brett?) ( Uh.... ) ( Sure. ) ( But they have no weapons ) (Are they technicians?) ( No, they're scared. :P ) (... so what ARE they?) (Body shields) (Besides that.) (*Keiko gives them... ah half brick in a sock, a broken baseball bat, and The Sword That Ends All... how'd that get in there?) ( They're terrorists. With no guns. They dropped them when they ran. ) (Okay.) * Roseli gets a-movin' for the stairs. "No," she responds to Heinrick. [More gunfire! Then more screaming.] * Keiko wrenches them around anyway, to follow after them. They may have dropped their guns, but that means the guns have to be around! [There's plenty of guns on the floor. But anywhooooo.] * Keiko has them grab some, then. I'm sure they'd love that. ( And if not, Keiko can wrap them around her forcefield to give herself extra protection from Eileen. ) [You get to the stairs! There's no bombs on them, or else that guy prolly would have set them off. Or would he?"] (DUN DUN DUN.) ( Let's seeeeee...... ) [Anywho, you go up the stairs, which leads to a short corridor with a door to your left.] [There's a savepoint outside. Just in case, y'know.] (Does it recover our health and MP?) ( Let's pitch a tent and heal up. They'll wait for us. ) ( No ) (Then what use is it?) ( You can save your game. ) ( So that when Jamie shoots an ally, you can just reload this time. ) (It's okay, there's no timer on the screen so we've got one of those infinate fifteen minutes untill the world ends things!) * Keiko ticks the savepoint at speed, then, starting to float. How many peoples does she feel inside? (Anybody have any side quests that need doing?) [Sadly, the savepoint was a trap. All your data is erased.] ( BRB ) [Keiko feels 2 people inside.] [Nope, make that one.] [Nope, make that none.] (Which way do we figure the control room is from here?) * Keiko comms, ~People dying in there.~ ( Probably beyond but not directly behind that door.] ) [The siren blares again, to remind people that time is running out and chilling by the door probably won't stop a nuclear meltdown.] ( back ) * Roseli moves for that door, then, and opens it, and goes. * Jamie follows Rose! (Just asking to make sure we're going the right way!) (I got my architecture roll, darnit. XD) * Luana moves in after Rose, totally ready to shoot people. [Inside is a break room. There's a couple bodies here, and that kid again. He's heading for a door on the opposite side of the room.] ( I want to throw a grenade at him... but I'm in a nuke plant... WHY MUST YOU TEASE ME, O FATES! ) (And he's a complete void? Unforunate.) * Roseli heads that way, too, but this time she calls, "Hey." (Because it's better to settle this now than in the middle of the control room. x.x) [He pauses, and turns halfway around, eying Rose. And the rest of you, just so you don't feel excluded. ] ( whaaaat, you don't wanna fight 4+ people at once? ) * Roseli holds up her hands. Gun in air, not at him, see? "On your side, I think." [He still eyes Rose. "German.... Not so good.... Sorry."] * Heinrick tilts his head to the side. "What *do* you speak?" * Roseli nods once. She looks to Keiko and Heinrick. "Japanese?" [He responds with a number of Strange and Unusual one-word questions. One of which is ""] * Heinrick shrugs slightly. "Could be Mandarin. Or Vietnamese." * Roseli switches languages, to English! "" * Luana pays close attention, then repeats, "<" * Jamie looks ahead at Rose. * Keiko murmurs, in Japanese, ( All y'all speak English. ) * Heinrick turns to the guy. "" He responds with Japanese and French as well, then switches back. "" [<"Hmm, well, I've had to do a lot of travelling. Especially recently. If you're not with them, then who are you with?">] (We're local, now we've got a melt down to stop, s'cuse us.) ( "Child Services. Someone's... mistreating a child in this nuke plant?" ) * Luana murmurs to Togo, still in English, "<" * Heinrick responds. <"We're with the group that wants to stop the meltdown. That's good enough for now, isn't it?"> [He nods. ""] ( brb ) (FOR NOW! DUN dun DUUUUN!) ( Annd back ) * Roseli nods with a small smile. "" And so she does, comming, "Another party infiltrated the building. Young Asian male. Wears black. Also stopping the meltdown." * Keiko justs drags her gun-toting terrorists along, a blank look on her face. * Jamie follows Rose with helecopters in tow. *heads upstairs* [THAT sparks a response! Jung's voice comes on. "What was that? Repeat!"] ( You're already upstairs :P ) [But he heads towards the door he was, erm, heading towards.] * Heinrick heads along as well. Rose is doing the report. * Roseli keeps going and coms, "Young Asian male. Late teens. Wearing black. Equipped with a sword and a gun." [You head into a candyzone.... erm, another corridor. The teen passes offices at a brisk pace, not slowing.] * Keiko moves forward, continuing to scan with her brain so they don't get surprised. [And Rose gets a response from Jung. "Watch him carefully. Take not of everything he says or does."] ( note ) ( Well right now he seems to be heading down a corridor, passing offices at a brisk pace, not slowing.") * Roseli coms, "Understood." And back to moving! Go go go! * Jamie goes with! [You come to a branching corridor, and the teen starts to turn, almost immidately diving back around the corner as a hail of bullets hits the wall behind him.] (Also, how much longer are we going, Brett?) ( Gimme some init rolls! ) ( I dunno. ) 2d8+12 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Luana (2d8+12) and gets a natural 5 for a result of 17. 2d8+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Roseli (2d8+8) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 17. 2d8+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8+8) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 17. (17 is the new black.) 2d8+8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Heinrick (2d8+8) and gets a natural 4 for a result of 12. (Black is the new pink!) 2d8+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8+7) and gets a natural 14 for a result of 21. 2d8+14 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8+14) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 21. [Keiko, Togo, Teen, Luana, Rose, Jamie, Heinrick, Keiko's goons.] [Keiko] (What... are we fighting?) ( Something around the corner. ) (Is it something that is nonhuman/more than 100 meters away?) ( Or someone shielded. ) * Keiko sends her people around the corner, then, to let them fire into the whatever. A small metal sink comes out of her coat as she rounds the corner with them, shield up, ready to toss it at her target. [Togo!] * Keiko lobs her sink past her guys as they open fire, and she comms, "It's Chuck. Has a minigun." 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8-3) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 5. (Make by 2.) (And whatever the dumb terrorist mooks get.) [Actually they're slow and don't open fire till the end of the round. But Keiko does sink him. Harr.] [Togo!] * Togo steps out the corner and fires a burst from his SMG at Chuck. 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-3) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 5. ( made ) [Yeah.... And Chuck... or at least the guy with the minigun wearing a T-shirt that says "Chuck" on it, falls over.] ( He totally critfailed, man. ) (Ha.) (Dice is so crazy tonight!) (I'm gonna need to go soon. I have to do some midnight shopping. x.x) [The teen peeks around the corner. ""] * Keiko moves forward, taking her sink back. she comments back in Japanese. * Roseli nods to him, then looks to the others. "" she says in English. [The teen doesn't. ""] * Togo looks down at his SMG. "... good boy." ( Then say it on the way, I refuse to let this body be melted by some malfunction reactor.) * Roseli checks her gun. "" She looks to Jamie and switches to German. "Scan for security again. Make sure it's down." * Jamie nods and does so. 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-5) and gets a natural 4 for a result of -1. [He folds his arms. ""] [""] * Keiko squints at him. "" "" [He nods. ""] ( Sweet! Glow in the dark minions!) * Keiko grits her teeth. she says through those gritted teeth. * Roseli frowns. "" ~You know I won't let anything happen to you again. You'll be fine.~ * Heinrick stops for a moment. "" [He nods. <"Of course, if you can halt the meltdown, that should stop it as well. But in case you can't.... I have an idea of where the device might be. I'm going to try to put an end of it.>"] * Heinrick seems to be calculating. And it doesn't look good. * Roseli looks to Togo. "Report this to command." * Togo reports what the guy said to command! (Yeah. Why do we have to be on the comms all the time, slacker?) * Roseli looks back to the teenager and hesitates for a moment, then says, "" [Togo gets a response that's more or less, "OMG NOWAI!"] * Jamie looks at Rose and then the guy. ( As in "Oh shit, nuclear mind control" or as in "Don't split up!" ) ( ? ) * Keiko looks over at Luana startled again, anger draining from her face. She thinks back to her, ~Luana, I...~ she trails off and then looks back forward. ~I'm sorry I've been... struggling with things recently.~ [He starts to head down a different corridor, then turns around. "" Then he bows. <"Raidou Kuzunoha the 21st, at your service.">] (I KNEW IT!) ( "This damn coat... I can't get it to make a piano. I've always wanted to throw a piano at someone. Even just a little one." ) [He heads down the corridor!] ( o/~ ) (Brett is never against using an appropriate ref.) ( I had the Belmonts and Alucard show up once. ) ( And Lu Bu... o/~ ) * Luana shakes her head. ~I'm sorry I can't help you more. I'm sorry I can't protect you from Eileen's mind. But I will -not- let you get taken away from me again.~ ... right then. Control room? * Roseli nods once to Togo and moves for where she figures the control room is! Which may or may not be in the same direction. * Keiko turns back to face Luana. She manages a small smile and thinks back, ~Then... keep me as close as you dare.~ And then she starts to advance forward as the others do. [Woot. End]