[Alright, you're in the fortress, and you just dispatched your first patrol. Which left their equipment behind as their bodies vanished] [You know where the prison is, and can get there without meeting up with another patrol, but you do have to hustle.] [Session start] * Ari moves back to the group. "If we're going to reach the prison before the next patrol, we need to move quickly." * Marcus nods * Jason shrugs. "Alright. We still doin' this sneaking stuff?" We should move quickly and quietly. As much as we still can. * Jonathon grabs his duffle, flicks his gun into the holster and smiles again. "Agreed. Let's move." He turns to Jason. "I think we're doing the 'get to where we need to as fast as possible thing'." * Jonathon hustles off in the direction of the prison. * Ari hurries after him, still keeping an eye out for cameras, terminals, or other electronic devices. [You're moving along to the prison. Along the way you pass fire extinguishers in little glass cases. In similar glass cases are fairly dangerous but primitive looking melee weapons with a 'In case of technology failure' label on their front] * Jason snickers and keeps going. [About a third of the way there] [Ari, give me a comp (security) check] * Ari looks at them and laughs quietly. "That's an unusual amount of forethought." [You notice a few posters as well as you run. One of them reads "Tired? Nap in the break room, get a donut, nap in the hallway, get a bullet"] [2/3s of the way there.] * Jason rolls his eyes. "If they were so fuckin' ready, why haven't they gotten us yet?" Hmm. It's becoming easier to meddle with the cameras. [Another sign as you get closer. "Only guard prisoners of your sex of choice. Bisexuals, notify your superiors to be relieved of prison duty."] [You get minimum safe distance away from the prison. The poster by that says "Don't turn into a snake, it never helps."] (Someone's been reading the Evil Overlord List. ;p) ( .... Solid Snake? ) (Mind checks everyone. Cultural Arts. Movies or TV) [Alright. Minimum safe distance from the prison. What do you do?] * Ari smiles and shakes her head slightly. Yes, she's read the Evil Overlord List too. ^_~ (Can we see the prisoners yet?) (No) (That would violate the minimum safe distance thing) * Ari stops. * Jonathon smiles slightly and whispers to himself. "Inspirational posters. How quaint." He looks over at the prison and slowly and quietly slips out his directional mike. * Jason glances at Jon and... waits. [You have about a minute until the next guard patrol should come by] There should be at least one squadron here, although I'm not sure of their exact position. * Jonathon holds up 6 fingers and then waves his hand back and forth as a gesture that he's unsure. * Ari whispers that, by the way. ^^; (Do we see any cameras or sensor equipment?) * Jonathon cracks a smile and whispers. "They seem to like the encouraging poster rules around." (Yeah, there's a few along the way that Ari tricked, and one looking in the prison that unless I'm told otherwise, I'll assume she's already taken out.) [45 seconds until next patrol] (If I know a camera's there, I've been taking it out.) (Done and done. :P) We have forty-five seconds to make our next move, before the next patrol comes along. I've been taking care of the cameras. * Marcus whispers, "I'm going to sneak on ahead and see if I can find the Agents." Agent Lord is in cell 7, and Agent Prestion is in cell 5. Or, that is where they have been. It's possible that they're not present at the moment. [Marcus can do that. The door's open. Oh, and Tick tock people, thirty seconds.] * Jonathon puts the mike back and glances at Marcus. "I don't think we have much time to scout the situation." He smiles at Jason. "Would you like to do the honors this time?" He slips out his gun again. Marcus, I can give you directions. The rest of us need to move or prepare. "ok, directions would be good." * Ari tells Marcus where the two cells are. * Jason glances back, then nods at Jonathon. Yes, Marcus. While we distract them, see if you can get the Agents out. Sound like a plan? Sounds good to me. (The door is... the way there?) (Yup. It's conventional that way) (And Jon was holding his mic up to the door, right?) (The door's open. You're just standing out of sightline of anyone inside.) (Ok. I'm going to go in, staying close to the wall. Looking for them.) * Jason gives a cocky grin and slips on his shades. "This'll be fun." He proceeds to walk confidently through the door. (I'm going to assume Marcus dearest is invisible.) (yes, of course) * Jonathon hides behind the door and waits for Jason to have first dibs, gun against his cheek as he smiles at Ari. "We're on." [20 seconds] I shall be right behind you. ( Waaay behind you.) (Hey, I'm the brains of this operation, not the firepower. ;p) [Marcus scouts... it's exciting, if offscreen. Ten seconds] (We're going in, I think.) (OK, then everyone role init.) (Jason's walked through the door, Jonathon's waiting for a signal, Ari's "right behind us.") (Yeah. ^^; I walked in a while ago, dunno where the ten seconds went.) (Ooops.) (Righto, sorry Jason. Overlooked your message. Everyone roll init anyway) 2d8+13 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jonathon (2d8+13) and gets 24. (Pfah, I'm always ignored.) 2d8+9 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Ari (2d8+9) and gets 13. (It's cause you're so quiet and passive) (:P) (Yup!) (And Jonathon's holding first action until after Jason. Right after his turn, he's going.) (Right, Init will start with Jasdon) (Oh, and Marcus, gimme an init roll as well) 2d8+5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Marcus (2d8+5) and gets 11. [Jonathon (holding turn), Jason, Officers, Ari, Marcus, Grunts] [Jason walks in and sees five guards around the room. Two officers weilding assault rifles (w/ grenade launchers) and three grunts (w/ sub machine guns)] ( ... Grenade Launchers. ) [Jason's turn] [There are six cells on each side, helpfully labelled. You don't see Marcus (big surprise). There's tinted glass at the end of the room.] [The whole complex is about fifteen meters long and three meters wide] [And, still Jason's turn, was just giving extra exposition while you wrote yours out.] (Ard said she was idle. ^^;) (I'm back. ;P And question for GM in /msg.) (I saw, just wanted to make clear that my additional exposition is not a pause on her turn. ^_^) * Jason walks casually up to them and waves with his left hand, fire whip pooling into his right. "Hey, know the way to the bathroom? I was with a tour group and got a little lost." [As one the guards snicker as they swing their guns towards him. Still Jason's turn!] (Oh, and key thing to specify is if you're attacking a grunt or an officer) * Jason snaps the whip out and at the closest officer. "Guess I'll have to ask someone else." [The tries to leap back but the flames are too fast for him as they burn through his armour. He slumps against a wall, still up, but on fire.] [Jonathon, tell me if you're taking your turn] [Jonathon's turn] * Jonathon chuckles a little and walks up, smiling brightly, throwing his hands out to the side in greeting. "Good evening, gentlemen. What a pleasant surprise." He swings his arm in a large arc and snaps it underneath his arm, firing off a shot towards the other officer just as his wrist connects with his forearm. (Oh, and these guys also have body armour. Realized that while the last guys did, it's not necessarily a given.) (Curse you Dicey) (Bah, that woulda looked cool.) [Jonathon's shot does look cool, but it also looks like a miss] [The officer Jason hits manages to open fire, but it goes way wide, knocking a few flakes from the ceiling.] [The officer Jonathon missed seems to be in a much better frame of mind for shooting, and fires a few rounds of bullets Jonathon's way] [He needs to a dodge roll.] (...) (Not at the dodge roll. Just for the fact that I should have DRed the last shot ^^;) [Jonathon can dodge bullets. In a conventional manner, by diving to the side. The nice scar they make in the wall behind him indicate that this was a damn good idea] [Ari!] * Jonathon smiles from his position on the ground after the dive. "Touchy, touchy..." Yeah, you'd almost think they didn't know where the fuckin' bathroom was. Some help. * Ari stares at the opposing squadron. Her eyes narrow and flicker yellow. * Jonathon snaps up the camera towards Ari, quick as a flash and takes a shot. [Jonathon just misses the flicker] (DR) (Or does he?) (^_^_v) (Heheheh.) [Jonathon gets a terrific shot of Ari using her amazing insta-change contact lenses. Or something...] (Sight rolls everyone. HA counts. (I'm so uber.) [Ari barely makes out and Jonathon fully notices that Jason has a cute little red dot of light in the middle of his chest] (Oh, and second roll, this time hearing) [Alright, anyone who makes that hears the door creaking behind them. There are groves on the side walls and the door (it sounds heavy) is coming down from above] [And doing so pretty fast. One round of init.] [Marcus's turn!] [One round of init, as in after the next time Ari moves, it will be down] (Can I see keys or anything on the guards?) (Yeah, officers have them on their belts) Jason, get DOWN! And they're trying to shut us in! * Jonathon smiles slightly. "Well aware of that, love. We may have a sniper upon us." (Can I get to the control station and have it unlock the prisoners? Or is ia a manual key?) (You can get to the control station, but the prisoner will still be manacled even if you get the door open) (Ok. Can I grab a key off of the guard instead?) (Gimme a sleight of hand (pick pocketing) or burglary roll. -4 bonus) * Jason glances up and blinks. "Huh." He doesn't seem particularly worried. (So we're in one of those closing in on us room things?) * Ari frowns, and her eyes flicker again. "And they're shutting off the network connections." (I'm trying to visualize this. ^^;) (The door is coming down. The ceiling is staying where it is) (Success) (There's a big steel door coming down behind us, but the rest of the room isn't moving.) [Marcus gets the keys] (I'm confused.) [You're in a three meter by fifteen meter room with twelve cells] (Think a delivery door for a supermarket or something, only covering the main door and no chain to open it up.) [The doorway to this room has groves on the walls. There's a large metal door lowered from above.] (Or think portculis, except solid) (It's the stuff that KS has all the time ^^; Security shutters) (Greg's analogy is better) (Jonathon is quite correct) (Ooh, that. Right.) (But the walls are all concrete, yes?) [There's a hissing sound and all the grunts concentrate on putting on gas masks] (Correct) (Good thing I have my gas mask on.) (Do I have time to get back to Preston and unlock him?) (We have to wait till our init to put on masks don't we?) [Jonathon's turn again. And yes you can put on a gas mask and attack. +3 penalty] (Correct) (Marcus, nope, grabbing the keys used up your turn) * Jonathon slips his mask out of his duffle and puts it on, training up his pistol towards the tinted glass opposite Jason. He fires blindly through the glass as he rolls himself back towards the ground, since gas rises. [Jonathon's AP bullet causes the tinted glass to shatter and puts a crack in the mirror behind the glass. In the mirror you can see reflected a man in a suit and a woman with glowing red eyes wearing a cape with a leather (thick leather, think armor, not matrix) hood.] [You guess that there's a second mirror somewhere and you're seeing the floor on top of you.] [Next person's turn] (Do we have access to the floor on top of us?) (If you can go through the ceiling. There's what looks like a heavy, but not all that well cleaned, pane of glass as a ceiling over the mirror.) (The ceiling in the rest of the room is concrete, or something like it) * Jonathon smiles faintly. "Falcon." * Ren pops in with a storm of shedding fur, that disappears momentarily after he pops in. He's fully covered in ghostly looking feline fur. And toting a minigun with both hands. * Jason glances at the mirror, then notices Ren. "The hell are you?" I'm backup. * Jonathon glances over at Ren, his gun shifting right to Ren. The mask covers his face, so it's hard to tell if he's smiling or not. "Well, then. Pleasure to have you aboard, old chap." He lowers the gun and regrets not having had his hands free to take a picture. So... Let's get this started. * Ren lets loose a storm of bullets from the minigun, at the officers. (I never get a turn these days. Can I take an action after Ren, or did I essentially do it already?) (You've still got one) (I think he beat your init is the thing.) ( ... very very very very dead? ) ( 5 hits each unless defended. ) ( I beat -your- init too. =p ) [The officer Jason burned is now still on fire, but he no longer cares as he's fading from existence as we speak. The other officer manages to dive out of the way and is only hit by the first round, and while his armour takes some of the sting off of it (e.g. keeps him from dying), he's slow to get up from his dive] [Not quite Jason's turn yet.] * Jonathon looks up faintly towards the ceiling and lets out a casual breath. "Overkill. No style. No subtlety." * Ren shrugs. "It works." (Um...what'd you get? @_@) ( 28? =p ) (Strange that I don't see it. ^^; Must have been another window.) [Suddenly a foot, followed by a leg, followed by a man come flying through the ceiling above you. It's the guy from the floor above you, but his suit's still up there and now he's just wearing a pair of boxers] Any of you hurt? (Do they have a cute design on them? ;p) [Incidently, the boxers have that PK type logo only Saki noticed in the previous adventure, where a CK normally would be. They're black, and a bit darker than the guys dark brown skin, though same color as his *long* thick dreds] (Way to anticipate Ari) [The foot in question is aimed at Jason's chest, he needs a dodge roll.] * Jason snaps his attention to the guy as he rushes him, and his eyes flare bright enough to be seen even through his shades. His chest begins to dissolve into motes of light, the foot passing through it. He gives a wicked grin before the rest of his changes, too, and in seconds he's nothing but a mass of hundreds of fiery motes. [Robert lands on his feet. Well, they're a few centimeters into the floor, but no biggie. He grins. "So much for taking down fire boy first, but then, I'm paid because this isn't easy." [Jason's turn.] * Jonathon sighs wistfully. "You would do all this when my hands are too full to get my camera." Hmph. Don't go getting all cocky just yet, whoever you are. [New init order: Ren Ren, Jonathon, Robert, Jason, Officers, Ari, Falcon [door comes down], Marcus, Grunts [Gas kicks in] [Currently at Jason of course] ("get at my camera" that should say) * Jonathon then smiles. "Pleasure to see you, Lighter. For what time we get to see you." * The motes don't offer a snappy comeback, instead swarming around the man. As one, they zip inwards, forcing him into a shell of flame. (This is what I get for taking a power that doesn't allow me bonuses. ;P) ( It's Ren Ran. =p ) [Jason swarms around the guy, but not quickly enough to catch him before he gets moving again.] (Ren this, Ren that.) (Sorry Ren Ran. :P) [The remaining officer fires a grenade round. He pulled his shot a bit because of the bullet in his side, and as a result he only manages to threaten Ren Ran. Who can dodge with a -4 bonus as it's at the edge of the explosive radius] [Which is all well and good, except Ren Ran safely teleports to a different part of the room before the flames reach him.] [Ari!] * Ari jams the gas mask on, then mutters. "No program is going to defeat me." Her eyes flicker more rapidly between green and yellow, not that you can see it. ;p [Nothing visible happens] [Quick question, who is looking at the mirror?] (I'm looking all over the place. @_@) ( Me! Planning to get up there. ) (Jonathon I assume, since he shot at it.) (I'm watching the mirror as well as other things.) (I'm not; too busy getting keys and freeing the agents.) [Hooded falcon looks at the mirror and grins, and suddenly her eyes switch from the red laser light to yellow/whitish light. Bright yellow-whitish light.] (She's still up there, though, just reflecting things on the mirror?) [Imagine looking at the sun through a pair of binoculars. The beams seemed focused on Ren Ran] (Jason: Yes) * Ari quickly turns her head. * Ren frowns. [Ren Ran, body roll, +3 penalty. Everyone else who was looking, no penalty. Jason, aforementioned bonus.] ( Barely! ) ( Actually, no. Thats a fail. ) [Oh and you think that the glass and cracked mirror is making this a bit easier than it would normally be.] [Ari looks away in time. Jason manages to avoid the worst of it, helped a bit by his being fire.] [Ren is just seeing big greenish spots in front of his eyes, and so for the moment is blinded and has associated penalties] ( .... Damn you. Blindfighitng is the one Techniquery that I don't have. ;_; ) ( And question: Is there a hole in the cieling from Mr Flying Feet, or no? ) [Jonathon, well... let's just say Jonathon experiences what it is like to look one of his flashes right in the eye.] (No, he flew through the ceiling) (He's a phaser) (Someone didn't read the briefing. ^^;) ( I did read it! I must've missed that part. ^_^; ) [Blinding is operative for one round for both of you, since you each missed by one] [And at this point, the door closes] [Marcus's turn!] * Ren blinks. Several times, then growls. * Marcus goes to Preston and unlock him Your fancy tricks wont save you! * Jonathon blinks too, but his tone of voice is still cheery. "Well, isn't this a bugger?" (Looking up blind penalty as we speak) [Two of the grunts and the officer also seem dazed by the flare, the two blinded grunts fire at random at where they thought you guys were. Apparently they were incorrect] [The remaining gruunt fires his submachine gun at...] [Ari! Who needs to dodge] * Marcus also whispers to Preston, "try not to do anything that might attract attention." (And dodge I did.) [With Jason no longer providing cover Ari decides to jump behind one of the blinded grunts. The grunt doing the firing manages to avoid hitting the human shield just in time.] [Ren Ran. Total darkness is a +4 penalty that applies to your attack] * Ren teleports to into one of the cells that's still closed/can provide cover. (Full defense.) [Ren Ran is ambushed by the guard patrols hiding in the cell. Wait no, he jumped into Preston's cell, so he's fine.] [Jonathon's turn!] * Jonathon rolls to the side and trains his gun up quite well for someone who's supposedly blind. The bullet aims a little above the mirror and the trajectory takes it up through the glass of the ceiling. It falls with a tinkle to the floor as the bullet streaks for Falcon. (DR2) ( Your luck is weak. ) (And your sumo insufficient!) (And your moves are lame!) [The bullet bounces off the lower mirror, streaks through the glass ceiling, bounces off the upper mirror, and flies right past falcon.] (We're so supportive. ;p) [The glass ceiling holds, but has a hole in it now. Anyone look can see Falcon shouting out an order down the hall] [Lighter, continuing to run from the swarm, tries to through a fist through Jonathon's chest. He needs a dodge roll.] (I'm gonna say blindfight penalties apply to dodging as well, unless there are any objections.) (Since, well, you can't see the guy coming) ( *nod* ) * Jonathon snaps his head towards Lighter, though his focus seems a bit off. His eyes open smugly as he slides down towards the ground, under the fist. [Jason's turn!] * The motes begin to flow towards Robert, but change course midflight and rush toward the glass ceiling instead. A nasty smell fills the room as the glass begins to melt, turning a bright orange-red. [The ceiling collapses and drips down onto the mirror below, ruining it. Falcon notes the situation and comments, "Oh shit."] [Remaining officer, who was blinded, takes a wild shot.] [Ari] * Ari isn't giving any obvious signs as to what she's doing, since the gas mask is on and you can't see her eyes. [The door slowly begins to rise] [Hooded Falcon seems to be concentrating on something as she falls back away from the motes a bit.] [Marcus!] (Is Preston completely unchained?) (Yah) * Marcus goes over to the other cell and unlocks Lord, also asking him to stay down and not attract attention. [Marcus gets there and finds Lord isn't in the other cell. He still has a bit of action left, but no attacks] (But I saw him in there before, right?) (No, you didn't get to his cell, you did preston first and then we went to init) (Oh, ok.) (If I hold on to Preston, can I take him Insubstantial with myself?) ( Targets PMV, I think. ) (Yup.) (Lemme see.) (They don't list targets PMV as an option for insubstantial) (Ah, right. So it'd be Transfer.) (Then no) (Thanks Ard) (Welcome. ^^) * Marcus goes to the computer panel and attempts to open either Preston's cell door, or all of them, whichever is easier (Electronics (security) roll marcus) (erk. just barely missed.) [Marcus figures out the system, but not quickly enough to get the doors open this round] [The two blinded grunts continue fire aimlessly. The other grunt who actually can see takes a shot this time at..] [Jonathon, who needs to dodge] [Oh and you hear over your radios. "We've established a beachhead at the ~static~ entrance. We'll attract the ~static~ but keep the supernaturals tied up."] (Dodge like ninja!) [Jonathon again dives out of the way of the bullets.] ( No, ninja crtisucc the def rolls every time. ) [Ren Ran, who can see again.] * Ren finishes up his blinking and eye-rubbing and stuff. (Mechanics note, the blindness would last a lot longer if you guys didn't miss rolls by one) (That your whole turn Ren?) ( no. ) (Figured as much. :P) * Ren looks up, and sats softly, 'Up.' He teleports to the upper floor with a - flooomp- of ghostly fur left behind. With two revolvers in hand. [Ren makes it up and sees Falcon concentrating on something and quickly backing away from Jason's swarm'o'fire.] * Ren fires first, talks later. I told you your fancy tricks won't save you. [Falcon takes the hits hard, flying back with each one. Some of the hits seemed to be absorbed by armour, but she didn't seem to be wearing as heavy stuff as the others under that cloak] [She's down on her knees glaring at Ren Ran. "We'll see.."] [Jonathon's turn. {Lighter, then Jason after that}] No we won't. You're hurt, and you're surrendering now. [She hesitates for a moment, and then snarls. "Haven't earned my paycheck yet." Fool... * Jonathon rushes towards Lighter and does a diving tumble, skidding on his back on the floor. He coasts off to his side and just a flicker in his eyes tells you it wasn't exactly what he intended to do but he takes a straight shot for Lighter anyways. (...now THAT is a hit ^^;) [Robert just manages to jump out of the way, given a bit of extra time by Jonathon's misjudgment.] [He then crouches and makes a sweep kick, trying to hit the whole of Jonathon, who needs to dodge.] (Damn you guys are lucky) (Bah. Jonathon's a good dodger, you know that. ^^;) (He's downright artful. *hides*) (And Brett's here, so breaking after everyone's gone for this round. Keep descriptions short people) [Jonathon manages to roll away from the attack] [Jason!] * The motes immediately stream after Falcon, taking advantage of Ren Ran's appearance to catch up. They slow upon reaching them, though, and begin swarming closely around her head. (Thanks, Dicey. ;P) ( It must be Undines Day. ) [Jason swarms right past Falcon in his eagerness to kick some ass.] [Remaining officer is having a pretty crappy day and keeps it up with the wild machine gun fire. Lucky for you, and him, he's not trying a blind grenade round.] [Ari] ( * Officer killed his own dumb self. SCORE: Offcicer: -1. ) * Ari mutters. "Hack *this*." If you could see her eyes, they'd have stopped flashing and actually completely changed to yellow. But she's wearing a gas mask, so you can't. [Hooded Falcon's eyes go a rather eerie shade of green for a moment as she glares at Ren. She then flinches as if in some pain and puts her hands behind her head.] [Marcus!] (Dammit, *I'm* the one with the eerie color-changing eyes. Quit stealing my schtick. ;p) * Marcus bangs at the controls some more and opens the cell doors (You're shade of green ain't this eerie. :P) [Preston rushes out humming 'We are the Champions." And then he starts coughing.] ( *snerk* ) [Session break.]