[Date: October 13, 2020.] [2:30 AM.] [Kahlya meets up with her crew. There's a woman in her late twenties, a middle aged man, and a ten year old boy.] [They're all wearing fairly high tech looking belts. Kahlya notices that they make less noise than she'd expect.] [There's also less equipment in the van than there used to be.] [Start] * Kahlya looks over her...crew. She grins a bit and then hmms at them, quietly responding. "A little overly prepared are we? Good.." And you are ready? Shall we move in? * Kahlya waves her hand. "Wait wait...which is which? I need to know in case.." * Boy gestures to himself. "Shadow." To the old man. "Acid." To the woman in her early thirties. "Rope." Mmm...not quite what I expected...alright. (And pause here if we can...it'll be a good point since Brett's not really involved yet.) (err okay) (Okay, go for it) (Resume. Okay Saki's dreaming at this point, so you won't get any logs fro her.) Ready to go? * Kahyla nods and takes out her scythe. "If all goes well, I won't have to use this...it's a pretty signature weapon..." (Habit. Kahlya does that :P) (That's fine, I'll just find replace. (So just go with it.) (I am...and did. It's your line :P) * Boy nods. "It shouldn't be necessary." He then starts walking into Saki's buildings. The others follow mutely. * Kahyla walks in after, stretching as quietly as she can. [The building is not that fancy but not exactly crudy. The old man touches the outer lock and it sizzles slightly and there's an unpleasant smell. The sizzle is fairly quiet though.] [He then opens the door and the boy leads you on again.] * Kahlya frowns as she heads inside after. She looks at the man and makes a gesture of holding her nose and then points towards Saki (or the general direction where she supposedly is), giving him a questioning look. * Man looks to boy. He can do it slower with a different acid. It'll just take time. * Kahlya whispers. "Yes, but she might smell it. Is there anything to mask the scent?" The different acid won't smell. ::He leads you up a few flights of stairs occassionally checking a note in his hand:; * Kahyla nods. * Boy then steps out in the hallway and puts a finger to his lips. He and the others proceed carefully and slowly. (Stealth roll.) (She's getting close?) (When she gets close, she's hovering obviously, since it's quieter) (Yeah. And what's your modifer?) None except what she gets from stealth () (Err...flight I mean. She has no ranks in Stealth) [Kahlya manages to fly quite softly. The old man steps on a creaky board as he moves, but even so stays quieter than a normal human.] * Middle aged man then puts his hand on the lock. There's a quiet sizzle and seconds pass, but no smell. * Young woman puts her fingertips together and then seperates them. Long strands of thin wire connect her finger tips and expand as she seperates them. * Boy makes a gesture and the shadows envelop you. You have a hard time seeing the others.] * Kahlya meanwhile listens near the door for any signs of movement inside, trying to approximate Saki's location if she can. [Kahlya can hear Saki. She sounds as if her breathing is agitated and is tossing and turning.] * Kahlya keeps listening for any changes. * Man takes away his hand and nods to Kahlya. * Kahyla nods (if she can see him) and concentrates. She focuses on making herself a pair of gloves to slip on before edging open the door as slowly as possible. [The door opens almost perfectly silently.] * She glances through the darkness as best she can to find Saki. If not, she uses her ears. [Saki's place is small. I mean, small. A short corridor leads to the main (and only) room in the place. There's a bed, a TV and some game systems, a table, a chair, a mini-fridge and a microwave, and that's about it. There is an adjoining bathroom, however. Saki's got a plush raccoon near her pillow.] [Saki's in the bed.] * Kahyla gestures for the rope woman to move forward. * Rope woman does just that holding her rope at the ready. * Kahlya frowns slightly to herself but doesn't move yet. This is almost being too easy. * Rope woman gets within a few meters of Saki and looks to Kahlya. * Saki then turns suddenly and mumbles in her sleep. * Kahlya nods and moves her hands in a rolling motion as a signal. [Kahlya can clearly hear Saki say "Who's there?" but she doesn't open her eyes.] * Kahyla keeps watching Saki, searching for her guns just in case * Woman waves her hands and the ropes fly out over the bed silently. * Saki looks up at the woman, her eyes rapidly blinking. The middle aged man and the young boy are still in the hall. [And as the ropes swings down to entrap Saki her fists clench and she suddenly sits up.] [As Saki wakes up she sees her room which is filled with living oppressie shadows. There's a figure drenched in darkness in front of her that she might have had trouble seeing had she not heard her [There's a complex web of thin wire over Saki's bed that's now flying down to entrap her.] [Saki Hangmen Kahlya Shadow Acid] (I hope you didn't post that in her channel :P) (nope) [She doesn't seem to clearly see the rest of you just yet. As you're largely out of the room and cloaked in shadow this isn't surprising.] (although good point. I'll stay away from names even in here) (Kahlya is figure B. Hangman figure A. Rest in order.) [Kahlya can see bulges in Saki's coat on the coatrack. Guns are probably there.] * Saki rolls off the bed and onto the floor, scrambling to her feet as soon as she's clear of the wire. [Saki moves fast and springs to her feet in a single action as the wires track her movements and swing down at her.] [The wires spin rapidly and come at Saki from all directions seeking to entangle as much as her as they can. They move as if they have an independent will.] [Saki choose her stance well and is able to brush away or avoid the worst of the attacks. However much of the wire accumulates on her arms tring to bind the to her body and to one another. +2 irritant for anything arms related.] [Figure B (you)] [The wires tried to similarly bind her legs, but she was able to leap over them.] [Figure rushes towards the coatrack as fast as possible, taking it off as fast as it can. It keeps on the move with the coat.] On the move to where? (Away from Saki mostly but also back towards the door. She's going to toss it to Acid boy when she can) And she's hovering? (It's the fastest mode of transport yes) [The shadows then coalese and try to envelop Saki. Soul roll +2. Mind shield and full defense helps.] [Saki seems to manage to avoid this effect.] [Acid guy stands ready to take the jacket. There's the smell again and he holds his hands out which are covered in an unpleasant looking yellow liquid.] (Up next line a bit) * Boy has a look of concentration and holds up a hand before gripping it into a fist. (That's the shadow attack * Saki grits her teeth. She deals with the task at hand first, though. Namely, the wire-fighter. She rushes up and, with her hands restrained, throws a kick instead, her foot glowing with a blue energy as she strikes. [The wire-figure moves suddenly to the right and Saki's foot goes astray almost entering the clump of wires before she luckily trips and brings it down suddenly. Saki stays up but is a bit unsteady on her feet.] * Saki tries again, shakey though she is. * Wire figure manages to duck under the attack at the last moment. Comes a lot closer this time and no risk of Saki being entangled. (Err, sorry about the bold) (No problem) [Saki dodges magnificantly out of the way of the attempt to embind her. She moves with such grace and anticipation of how the wires move that she even manages to loosen her arms up (down to +2 penalty).] [Jacket stealing-figure!] ( The worst bastich of them all! ) [Figure tosses the jacket out the doorway to a third figure, growling from low in the throat. "Burn the damned thing..." It then turns around to face Saki and sticks a hand behind its back, perhaps in a back pocket. It doesn't make a move and seems to be sizing Saki up.] [Saki's vision blurs and new shadows augment the already dark room. Vision dependent combat at +4. Blindfight helps.] * Saki growls low in her throat and fights her way over to the guy destroying her jacket. (And attacks if she can get there this turn) (Requesting an acrobatics check to get there) [Saki deflty moves past any that would seek to block her and gets both her attacks.] [Between the shadows masking Saki's vision and those surrounding the bastard hurting her jacket, she misses.] [Saki's kick breaks the man's right arm and leaves it a bloody mess. He'll be completely unable to use it. He holds onto the jacket with his left arm though and keeps melting the shotgun.] [Wire figure keeps up the attacks. +2 body roll and unarmed defense roll (with +2 penalty from arms.)] [This time the wires successfully surround and tangle Saki. +4 to attacks. Can't defend. No complex gestures. However Saki does manage to free up her arms enough that they're no worse off than the rest of her.] [Jacket stealer.] [Figure comes up behind Saki and puts a cloth to her mouth and nose.] [Saki smells chloroform on the cloth but manages to resist passing out for now. It will get harder though the longer she breathes the fumes.] (Any follow up attack, or just gonna grapple her and hold on?) (Grapple. Using any extra attacks to try and improve her hold.) (I mean why bother anything else really? ^_~) [Jacket stealer hears that at two people in neighboring rooms are now sleeping a bit less soundly and one person seems to have woken up.] (I don't think you need to put Jacket stealer for that...I mean I don't think Brett would know that I hear that ^^;) (Habit) (So if I accidentally mischan...) [Figure scowls at the others in a harsh whisper. "Into the room, quick. And close the door."] [Saki struggles impressively against the wires and her fists and legs glow as they attack. The ropes binded her are shredded in two motions. However, she only manages to free herself into the jacket-stealers grapple and still has the chloroform to her mouth.] * Wirefigure stays deathly silent and brings her finger tips together, when she seperates them a new web of wires begins to emerge running from one finger to another. [Jacket stealer!] [And you can do crushing damage with your grapple if you like.] * Disconnected (Gah! Accidentally hit network off button) * Attempting to rejoin channel #sabother * Rejoined channel #sabother (Sorry, accidentally hit the network off button) (Okay, it was your move) [Figure pulls on Saki to get her more into the apartment, keeping the chloroform tight on her mouth.] [Saki continues to resist the chloroform. She seems to have more trouble this time.] (Going to try to squeeze her with grapple or no?) (Nah. No need, plus irritating her any more seems like a bad idea in general ^_~) * Acid guy runs into the room and lets go of Saki's shotgun and grabs one of her pistols instead. The shotgun falls from the now burnt coat and is damaged beyond use.] * Very short figure takes a moment to wave his hand over the bloodstains acid guy left in the carpet outside. Saki gets a soul roll at +2 (mind shield helps) to try to break vision restriction. [Saki's vision clears up for now. The figures are still cloaked in shadow though.] [Saki's turn. Note that she's still being grappled by the jacket stealer. So +4 to attack and defense. +8 to complex actions such as using handheld weapons.] [Saki breaks free of the grapple and still has her two attacks.] [Saki successfully hits. The knee makes a painful crunching type sound.] * Saki leaves the man there and launches herself at the acid guy, striking at him with a punch wrapped in energy. * Acid guy goes down. A haze appears over his body. Session Time: Thu Apr 07 00:00:00 2005 [And I forgot to mention that the kid closed the door when he and acid guy went in the room.] [And Saki avoids the bulk of the wires, but this time her legs are bound. She's not really going to be moving using them. Give me a body acrobatics (balance) roll with a +4 penalty to stay up.] [Saki falls over. But she can still roll for defenses and mover her arms and such.] [Jacket stealer.] [Figure growls and tries to pin her arms with its knees, moving the chloroform to her mouth again.] (+2 to the grapple because of wounded knee. (Okay, I'll count the cloth as an armed attack. But grapple fails. * Jacket stealer has trouble with the grapple, in part from the wounded knee. However Saki will need to try to defend against the chloroform. [Saki successfully keeps her mouth and face away from the cloth.] * Shadow guy gestures and the shadows again try to cover Saki's vision. (+2 soul roll, mindshield helps) * Acid guy's haze slips under the door. * Saki resists. [Saki's turn!] * Saki claws at her jacket and withdraws her pistols. She fires on the wires entangling her feet. [Give me an slieght of hand roll body to get at them fast.] [The wires are weakened but not yet broken.] * Saki fires the other pistol at them, as well. [The wires binding Saki's feat break.] * Saki scrambles for her jacket again, grabbing one of those magic dampening grenades she got from Vega and tossing it. [And the grenade goes boom and scatters shiny sparkly shaff.] (chaff) [Saki resists the effects for now. Shadows also stay up. As do the wires. The jacket stealers hover shakes but stays up. However, there's lots of chaff in the room so they'll be more rolls next round.] [Saki manages to avoid the wires.] [Jacket stealer] * Kahyla hears a voice outside saying. "Got a new body." (Oops should have used jacket stealer. Well don't worry didn't post that in the main channel [Figure growls again. "Listen, I'm just following orders but you're starting to annoy me.." It pulls a pole into its hands and swings to knock the pistols aside.] [Saki successfully keeps ahold of both guns.] [Saki's vision clouds. +4 to vision related attacks. Blindfighting helps.] [And Kahlya hears more people rustling with the gunshots.] [Saki's vision block drops to +2 and the shadows begin to fade. The wires also fall to the ground.] * Saki smiles, pointing both guns at the guy. "I was about to say the same thing to you." She fires. [Figure swings the pole deftly in its hands as the bullets enter the shadow. There's a *ting ting* sound of two riccochets and the bullets come sailing back out of the shadow back aimed straight for Saki.] [The first one she dodged so well it didn't take any effort on her part.] [Dodged both.] * Saki growls. She changes targets, firing at the hand of the wire woman. [Saki misses] * Wire woman reaches into her possessions and brings out a mask and a tear gas grenade. She takes out the pin and drops it. With her other hand she puts on the rebreather. [Jacket stealer] [Shadow kid gets out his own mask and puts it on. He then runs over to acid guys body and holds one up to the stealer. [Jacket stealer puts on the mask as well.] [Saki breathes some gas and takes 15 subdual damage.] * Saki attempts to snatch the mask from the short guy. * Short guy can't hold on to it, but jacket stealer is stronger and manages to yank the mask and put it on while coughing once. * Saki attempts to snatch the mask from the short guy again. Off his face. * Short guy manages to run away. Yay for being small! Wire woman takes a defensive stance and stands in front of the window. [Jacket stealer!] [And incidentally the shadows are now largely fading. The short guy is clearly a kid. The wire woman is a woman in her early thirties, the jacket stealer is wearing black garb that covers its face. The shadows still wave around the pole.] * Jacket stealer is actually female based on her figure. [Jacket stealer swings the pole for the back of Saki's head in an attempt to knock her out.] [Saki ducks out of the way of the pole.] [Jacket stealer keeps following the motion forward, ducking with Saki and taking the chloroform out again, clamping it over Saki's mouth and nose.] [Saki manages to spin out of the way.] * Kid grabs his own tear gas grenade takes out the pin and then takes out his mask and sticks it in the mask. The grenade and mask explode and the room fills with more gas. * The kid coughs and collapses shortly therafter. * On of Saki's neighbors then opens the door and closes it behind him, blocking it. He doesn't seem to be having any trouble breathing the corrosive air. * Kahlya hears substantial movement in the neighboring rooms. Some calls to the police. [Saki's turn! Body roll to resist irritation. And 30 stunning damage.] * Saki dashes for the door, firing at the newcomer as she goes. She aims for his head. [Saki's neighbor takes the shots to the head and dies. The haze appears above him.] * Saki keeps going and shoulder-charges the door. [The door is broken open.] [Her shot is good, but Saki manages to dodge.] [Jacket stealer is now clearly holding a scythe. And it's her turn.] Distant sound of sirens. Still distant though. [Jacket stealer rushes towards the bed and picks up the racoon, throwing it past Saki near the doorway.] [Alright soul roll to be momentarily distracted. +2 per level of easily distracted.] [Saki manages to resist. Her poor racoon!] [Jacket stealer curses mildly and rushes forward soon after with a strike with the handle of the scythe to knock her out.] [Saki dodges.] [And outside the door a portal of flame appears. And an orange haired dusky woman Saki has seen once before and seen dead, steps out of it.] You have become an annoyance. [Saki's turn!] [Saki slips by, but is slowed by the new woman. However, she gets out of the tear gas. The anti-agic chaff still covers her though.] * Saki fires on the acid haze. "Makes two of us." Not the body, the mist above it. [The haze loses much of its mass but is still there.] That's for my fuckin' shotgun. * Saki fires again. "And that's for my jacket." * Saki fires at the woman by the window aiming for her mask. * Woman starts coughing but doesn't go down immediately. [Jacket stealer!] [Sirens are now quite audible.] [Jacket stealer comes out of the apartment and scowls as she sees the woman (at least the part that can be seen), holding her scythe behind her at an angle. "Wonderful. I don't need your help, you know."] * Woman folds her arms. "Be quick about it." [Jacket stealer rolls her eyes. "Yeah yeah...you're not my master you know. No matter how much you get him to stare." She looks at Saki with a bit of a smile. "Nothing personal." She swings the scythe up in an arc and releases a spread of frozen ice crystals in Saki's direction.] * Miranda looks back to jacket stealerand holds up her hand, a flame appearing in it. "You sure?" * Kahyla growls. "You may be able to fool him with that innocent little look, but I'm not the one who does deals with demons." She pouts. "Besides, I'd never live it down..." * Saki fires at the jacket stealer again. [Two defense rolls. 7 and 9] (So she blocks both of them easily :P) * Saki aims at the stealer's head. "Nothing personal." She fires. [And she critted.] [On a called shot.] (...) (Grah, I hate lucky shots. Hate hate hate) * Miranda looks down at the jacketed figure. "Last chance kid." [Stealer winces and clutches at her head. Her hand hesitantly reaches for the mask and tears it off as she lets out a cough. "Ow ow. Yeah, whatever." She glares at Miranda but doesn't say anything. It's obvious she doesn't like her though.] * Miranda nods and looks to the figure. "Through the portal. Now." Miranda's skin then turns molten with an extra glow earily reminscent of shots from Maggie's gun. [Stealer gets up and staggers through.] [Stealer gets up and staggers through.] * Saki aims her pistols at the woman, arms crossed. "Not so fast, bitch!" [The jacketed figure is blocked, but only barely. She manages to get right next to the portal. Saki still standing in front of her?] * Saki is, unless she's being attack ed * Miranda throws the glowing ball she made earlier down the hall past the portal. It explodes into a fireball burning the rooms of about six of Saki's neighors and incidentally two hazes. There's a sudden massive gush of wind pulling Kahlya and Saki towards the portal in one direction and a fireball rapidly coming from the other. [Jacket stealer sighs and removes her hood. Her face doesn't look too good, but it's definitely Kahlya. Her hand goes up to her bloody mess. "What does it matter? I'm in no shape to do anything anymore. You've won. I've failed." She points to the fireball. "Now we either die together or go to hell together, but you know what? For once I don't want anyone to die." [Saki resists long enough to hear that.] * Miranda looks very put out.