[Brief combat recap:] [Everyone but Jason, Ren, and Falcon are on in the prison block complex. The door is rising again, and the room is gassed] [Agent Preston has been freed and is coughing, Agent Lord is not in this castle.] (Agent lord doesn't regularly dress up in a pink dress, though, right? ;-) [Getting to the second floor hallway requires teleport, flight, or climbing a forty five degree ten foot tall mirrored surface] [Falcon just put her hands behind her head in a surrender gesture, Robert is still going strong] [None of you have been hit] [There is a blinded officer and a not-blinded grunt still standing on the first floor] [Init order: Ren, Jonathon, Robert, Jason, Officers, Ari, Falconln, Marcus, Grunts, Preston] [Session start] (Err...we're missing a Ren. ^^;) * Ren smiles at the surrendered Falcon and looks back to cloud of burning Jason. "Can you handle this? Just got a request to teleport back to help the incursion team." [Jonathon's turn!] (He's not here yet, he thought he prolly couldn't come from VI planning) (Ah) (And he got his dumb ass banned from #besm, so I can't easily check and am not gonna wait. :P) * Jonathon gets up and starts to go in his pocket for his shades, then stops for a second as he remembers he's wearing a gasmask. He turns around towards Lighter and holds his camera up high. "Hey Lighter, smile for me?" The camera flash goes off with a wooomph. [Grunt goes down and Robert almost manages to get out of the way, but gets caught in the edge of the extremely bright light shooting from the camera.] [Grunt went down cause he's bought it] [However, he only seems slightly burned while the grunt was outright killed.] [He also blinks a few times, but still seems to see alright] [He then tries to whale on Jonathon like an angry celeb...] [By leaping over top of him, planting his feet in the ceiling and throwing a punch at Jonathon's neck from behind.] [Jonathon doesn't manage to dodge, and feels really bad as Robert's punch plays havoc with his spinal cord] [Jason!] * Jason doesn't respond to Ren's request seeing as he has, well, no mouth, but the lights do funnel down through the hole in the floor. They hesitate a brief moment, then attempt to fill Robert's vision with burn. (Feel the burn!) (Coulda /me'd that, but I get into a habit with this swarm thing. ^^) [Robert manages to pull leap back just in time, though he's now safely away from Jonathon and standing on the ceiling right in front of the door.] (He's standing on the ceiling?) * Jonathon staggers forward, trying to steady his camera and breathes heavy and harshly as he tries to recover. * Remaining office wipes again at his eyes and comments on the situation "Fuck this." He then throws a grenade and fades out. The grenade harmless explodes on the ground, and no one even needs to dodge.] [Ari!] (Correct) [Roberts feet are actually a few inches into the ceiling, he does look like gravity is still effecting him otherwise though.] [Oh, and everyone give me a hearing check, -4 modifier for everyone] (Made!) (Yeah, like there was any question. ;P) (I could've critfailed?) (this a body or mind check?) (Mind) (Ha counts) (fail) [Everyone who makes hears that a few more footsteps outside, and someone running on the floor above you. The one a floor up is making no effort to stay quiet.] * Ari looks at the others. "I should be right back." She then walks over to the terminal and puts her hand on it. She fades and literally steps *into* the computer, vanishing completely. [Marcus!] * Marcus flies upstairs to look around [Marcus sees a rapidly departing Hooded Falcon's back. Oh and she's wearing a cloak, I said cape earlier, I was wrong] [You hear more footsteps from behind the door] [Agent Preston is still coughing, more heavily now, he's trying to cover his mouth] (What else is in the room, besides a departing bad guy and footsteps?) [Ren shoots Hooded Falcon in the leg and she stops running.] [Jonathon] * Ren yells "They really need me, should I just kill her or can someone capture her?" (Wait... I'm confused. I thought Falcon was on the lower floor with a gun to her head?) * Jonathon raises his head up towards Lighter and his neck seems rather..limp. He speaks groggily as he raises up his pistol. "Sooo...you want to play THAT bloody, game, do you?" He fires an AP round at his knee. (She was on the upper, she ran off while Ren was looking at Jason. He then shot her in the leg) (Oh. Ok.) [Robert manages to just get out of the way of shot, he then nods. "That's the idea." As he runs towards Jonathon and launches an upside down flying kick at him. He basically runs through Jason to do it, and picks up a few burn scars as a result. Jonathon needs a dodge roll] [Remember if stat damage can decrease your ACV/DCV.] [Jonathon isn't surprised by the guy attacking him from the ceiling and he rolls out of the way] [Jason!] * Jonathon sways unsteadily from the roll and gives a slow snap of his fingers. "Got to...do better than...that." [Robert smiles as he spins to land on his feet "Don't knock yourself, that's pretty damn good for a guy in your situation."] Bloody...phazing. * The motes swirl angrily before concentrating together and shooting towards Robert's back. (And if the dice would cooperate with me, maybe I'd actually hurt him! ;P) [The motes should chill and make a cool collected attack. Or a burning collected attack, as the case may be.] (Uh... I don't follow your descrip, Greg, but okay!) (anger messed up the mojo, methinks) [Two new officers burst onto the scene through the door, they both open up at the only available target. Jonathon. Who sees a storm of bullets flying to the left and right of him. None at him oddly enough though.] [Falcon whimpers on the ground] [Marcus] [Oh, and the door is now basically up, so those on the first floor can see a guy with sub machine guns and another officer with a rocket launcher, who's kneeling and aiming it at the roof.] (A guy with just one sub machine gun rather) (And yeah, Ard, was trying to use flowery language, obviously failed. But you missed. That's the only real message. :P) [Still Marcus, even with all those comments] * Ari 's voice comes on over the intercom. "Aside from the two who've just arrived, there are two more standing outside, and three more upstairs." (Door up means no more gas?) [It's dissipating and Preston is coughing less] [But the new guys are wearing gas masks, as it takes a while to clear] (Was there anything else in the room upstairs besides Falcon?) (Three guys.) (Coming, not there yet. Sorry, was unclear to Ari) (Marcus can hear them coming) (Well, he can hear someone coming. He only knows three from Ari's descrip) (Ok, and this room is non-descript save from the glass mirror floor?) (Yeah, just a hallway ending in the mirror.) (There's a corner that Falcon is near that the guys haven't come around yet) * Marcus floats down the hallway to the corner and looks around [Marcus sees two guys with riot shields and pistols and another with a submachine gun] (Anything else marcus?) (How much further down past the turn does the hallway go?) [20 ms, to a stair case] * Marcus goes over to the staircase [Architectural thinking would tell you the prison entrance is another 20 ms from the bottom of that staircase.] (Ah. so the guards are coming into the prison from the outside?) [Marcus gets there, which eats up his turn. He passes them on the way] (Err. no. There's a hallway outside the prison. 20 ms down that is a staircase up to the hallway on top of the prison) (OK, so, same move?) (yes) [Falcon manages to drag herself to the corner and calls out after Marcus. "Invisible guy in the stair case. Try grenades, then help me!] [The three grunts put all there effort into throw (they don't have grenade launchers) in the direction of the stairway. Only one reaches him though, and barely at that. Dodge roll Marcus!] [The grunt outside the door also steps in a bit and fires at Jonathon, does substantially better than his superiors, and Jonathon needs a dodge roll.] (fail. Also, still insubstantial, as usual.) [Jonathon overcomes his sluggishness and nicely avoids the bullets] [Ren pistol whips Falcon from behind, she gets KOed and he then teleports out] [Jonathon's turn] * Jonathon looks over his shoulder. His gasmask hides his expression but, for the first time, he sounds irate. "You know, this is really beginning to become a bother." He crosses his arm over his front and shoots over his shoulder at Lighter. [Robert takes one in the chest, he didn't see the shot coming quickly enough and wasn't able to dodge this time. He's blown back through the mirror wall behind him but comes back with a bull rush at Jonathon, who needs to dodge.] (*whistles innocently*) [Jonathon neatly steps out of the way] Should I shout "Ole" next time? [One more volley of bullets at Jonathon from an assault rifle bearing officer that he has to dodge. Another near Jonathon that he doesn't.] [And, one rocket to the ceiling that hits, causing huge chunks to fall throughout the room. Gimme another dodge roll Jonathon and a dodge roll Jason.] (What type?) (Ranged personal for all) (Right.. A third of the swarm you used to be. Your move?) (Ouch.) (Have me attack him again. You do it. I'm in a hurry... I'll be back soon. *sigh*) (Check.) [The remaining bits of Jason swarm Robert, successfully. He's some of the damage goes straight through him, but his skin is now pretty badly burned.] [Marcus!] (Can I ready and fire the LAW strapped to my back at the two guards that fired at me this round?) (Yeah, sure, just no moving) [Oh, and Jonathon managed to step between a few chunks of the collapsing roof. Preston is pinned under one and is cursing rather than coughing.] (Is Preston down where Jonathon is?) [Robert has a chunk in the middle of his body and doesn't seem to notice. He's noticing the other damage though] (Yes) (Check for next round) (success) [One of the grunts manages to go flat against the wall and mostly protect himself with his riot shield, some of the damage still went through both that and his armour, so he's alive just in terrible shape. The other two fade from existence after being blown away] [You don't think you'll get much resell value from their equipment.] [Preston. "Umm.. I appreciate the rescue.. but ::cough:: the internal bleeding is beginning to wear a bit] [Grunt with submachine gun fires at Jonathon, who needs to dodge. This guy apparently attended all of the rifle training classes] * Jonathon turns to Preston and gives a faint sigh before he gets . "Just my bloody luck. One moment, sir." He pays attention to the shooting. [Oh, and in case you were wondering how the baddies in the room faired from the roof falling. One got wounded by a falling slab and faded, the other two dodged just fine.] (That's still a make, even with his reduced state, right?) [Preston] "Ooh, I quite understand, bullet's flying and what not." [Jonathon dodges the guys bullets. He doesn't do it with style though, cause of the sluggishness] [Jonathon's turn!] [Oh, and quick damage summary] [Prison. No ceiling anymore. Preston pinned. Robert badly hurt. One office and one grunt] [Upper floor, Falcon down and out, one barely surviving grunt.] * Jonathon goes over to Preston and takes the gas mask off, giving him a cheery, but worried smile. "Well, sir, I don't know if I can quite do this in my state but I'll give it a go." He tries to help Preston out from under his, ahem, underpinnings. (Strength check, Jonathon) (Ahehe. Close one ^^;) [Oh, and I forgot about the guy who fired the single use rocket. He's still there, but he just has a pistol now] (What the hey. DR1) (I'll take that. :P) [Jonathon tugs. But finds it a bit too heavy.] [Preston] "Umm.. good effort, oow!, I appreciate the attempt." * Jonathon falls back and looks rather worn, wiping his brow embarrassed. "Don't..mention it, sir." [Robert assesses the situation and gives the rock a bit of a push himself. After Jonathon's exertion he manages to get it so it's not immediately pressing Preston anymore, though Jonathon obviously did more of the work. He then grunts and looks at his injuries and dives into the floor. "Good luck, seems I'll have to earn more clothes another way."] [Jason then rematerializes, looks pretty badly burnt, and swings his fire whip at the officer with an assault rifle, unfortunately in his condition he misses by a bit.] [Officer with pistol fires at Jason who swarms again and is fine. The one with the assault rifle misses Jonathon yet again.] [Marcus's turn!] (The grunt I didn't kill he's just sitting there?) (Yeah. He's dazed) (Ok, I'm going to go back to where everyone else is.) (You basically get near the entrance. You wanna shoot at anyone?) (You've got time. You're now outside the prison, because you're coming from the staircase.) (Yeah. Lemme blast Lighter.) (miss) (I think Lighter went through the floor and is unaim-at-able) (Didn't he already leave? Yeah.) (Correct) (Oh. Grunts, then?) (Unless you intangibly follow that way) [Marcus fires at the guy who is also outside and misses. ] [Grunt with the submachine gun fires at Jonathon and misses. "Why wouldn't you stay still!"] * Preston groans but then looks up at Jonathon. "I'm alright for now. Finish those bastards off, if you like." He grins a bit with the last part, and then drops it rather quickly. * Jonathon smiles slightly and moves slightly out of the way, even though it was missing, putting his hands in his pockets. "Sorry, chaps, but I have a serious aversion to lead." [Jonathon's turn!] * Jonathon keeps his hands in his pockets and pulls the coat up, firing out of the coat at the grunt who's complaining. * Oh, and he smiles while he's doing it. [The grunt laughs. "Ha, but I have learned your techniques." He then proceeds to roll *into* the bullets and then fades from existence. Techniques? I'm just a mild mannered reporter. I don't know WHAT you're talking about. * Jonathon sighs as the guy disappears and takes his hands out, throwing his hands up absently. "Always in a rush." * Jason uses his fire whip on one of the officers. Who is badly burned and on fire. * Officer says the usual assortment of "Oh god, it burns, the pain, it's eating away at me!" Etc etc, he just won't shut up as he rolls on the ground. [Other officer with a pistol fires at Jason, who dodges, he then assesses the situation and runs the hell away.] [Victory!] [Out of init] [Jason looks smug, and then groans, but his wounds just make him look cooler. Cause, you know he's still standing.] * Jonathon shakes his head and walks across the hall to Preston sluggishly. "I think we've been watched." His expression doesn't change much but his tone does a bit. * Ari suddenly steps out of the computer. She's a faint outline at first, but quickly becomes solid. "Nice work. I've located Agent Lord's whereabouts." Also, we have ten minutes to possibly catch the mastermind behind this before he escapes, if you wish to try for that. [Radio] "We've got the rest of their ::static:: tied up. Sending through ::static:: Will be at your ::static:: promptly. Jolly good. But anyone else get the impression that Mastermind has been spotting through these...whatever they are this entire time? [Radio] Ren ::static::, but will survive. Elite Operatives, a new dimension in henchman solutions. Someone make sure that we've at least got Falcon. Is Lord with Mastermind? * Ari shakes her head. "Lord is tied up at the moment. But I've disabled the cameras on the route we'll need to take, and also the weapons guarding him." [Preston] Hmm... ::groan:: I think I'd go with another one bites the dust as the theme for those guys. Although ::cough bit of blood:: they seemed much more threatening before you guys showed up. * Jonathon nods. "How about Agent Preston? Perhaps someone should escort him quickly back to the rendezvous point?' And someone should take care of Falcon. [Right about now bunch of guys in British commando garb show up. They're accompanied by a civilian in awkwardly fitting armour. He doesn't seem pleased to be here.] Do the same. Cover her face somehow so she can't use that vision. Whoever's going to rescue Lord, either I'll show you the way or I'll give you directions. She supposedly can see in IR. Heat up whatever it isyou cover her face with just to be sure. * Jonathon then turns towards the new arrivals and scrutinizes. [Civy] Alright, I've got better things to do with my time, so who needs, oh damn. ::He rushes over to Preston and starts healing him:: [Commandos take defensible positions at the prison door] And you may need lock-picks. They've chained him up. * Jason rubs at his forehead, looking down to see the blood. He looks to Ari, and even though he looks like a safe fell on him, says, "I'll help. Not out of the action yet." I'm in. * Jonathon rubs the back of his neck. "Bloody Lighter played bloody cricket with my nervous system." All right. Are all of us going, then? [Preston's looking much better. "Alright, I'm good, go look after the human inferno.. and give me a damn headset."] * Jason pulls his off and tosses it to Preston. But we need to go to get Mastermind. If the way is clear as Ari says, perhaps you two can rescue him. Yeah. I got the feeling it's that kid. [Civy hustles to Jason. "Alright, stand still a moment, this won't hurt a bit. Actually, no I'm in a hurry, it'll hurt, but you'll feel substantially better in about ten seconds."] * Jonathon takes out his pistol and reloads it. "As do I." Anyone got a lock pick? * Jason shrugs and holds still, eyeing the civ suspiciously. Or at least a hair pin? [Oh, and civilian guy is in his earlier thirties, going on seventy. Dark skin, short nappy hair.] * Jonathon pulls a swiss army knife out of his pocket and holds it out towards Marcus. "Will this do?" [Jason feels a whole lot worse, as if his body is reshaping itself around his wounds. Then he feels a whole lot better.] [Commando] "You mentioned Falcon? You captured her?" [Civy] "Alright, anyone else?" She should be upstairs if I'm not mistaken. She's up there, unconscious. * Jason grimaces, then blinks. "The hell?" He flexes his fingers, checks himself over, and turns to the civ. "What the hell'd you do?" * Ari points upstairs. * Marcus nods. "Not perfect, but a lot better than nothing. Unless they've added a lock-pick part since I last used one." Lighter went through the floor. He's badly hurt but.. * Marcus takes the swiss army knife [Two commands rush up. The one who remains behind says "Chloroform her just in case. Can't be too careful.] * Jonathon winces again and rubs the back of his neck. "Oww. Damn." [Doctor rolls his eyes and rushes over to Jonathon, who gets the same treatment. * Jonathon doesn't make any motion for the pain, but slowly smiles. "That will help. Now we've got to hurry if we're going to catch Mastermind. Where is he, Ari?" [Doctor] How the hell?.. Never mind. [Jonathon gets the same treatment] All right. Marcus, Agent Lord is . With your abilities, you should be fine, and I disabled everything that could be a threat. The rest of you, follow me. Jason, you're going to need to burn through the doors when we get there. It might take time. But if we're going to try and capture the one behind all this, it's the best we can do. (Did that all get through?) (Yup.) [Commandos hurry down carrying Falcon. Two of them then push the rock off of Preston and then get him moving.] Ok. We ready? Let's proceed. I've got the blowtorch as backup. Perhaps with both of us working on it. * Ari nods to Jonathon and starts walking off. * Jason smirks. "Yeah, two's better than one." He heads after Ari. * Jonathon nods and sets in the new clip, smiling. "But I get a picture." He goes after Ari. [Preston snaps his fingers as he gets up] Oh.. You're Ari.. man... guess those five and a quarters I sacrificed to get the network up weren't for naught." The later half is carried on the radio. * Ari smiles and answers on the radio. "It was most appreciated." [Preston] Excellent! [About a minute before both of you reach your destinations the PA system goes on.] [PA] Well.. most impressive I must say. None of you are on my cameras, but in case you're coming after me, you should know that Agent Lord will shortly be in a great deal of peril. [Assuming no one is stopping] * Ari tilts her head but keeps going. * Jason rolls his eyes. "Yeah. I fear for his life." I fear for his bladder. Nah. Builds character. [PA] Saving him or not is of course your choice. He did give up a great deal, from the computer girl who has made such a havoc to my system, to the whip boys immunity to fire. I do so hope he enjoyed the ceiling. [PA] Not quite as good as grenades, but sometimes one must improvise. * Jonathon gives a mild pout as he opens his eyes. "He didn't mention me? I'm hurt." * Ari blinks once. [You get to the door, it's big and steel.] * Ari steps back to let the guys get to it. * Jonathon pulls the blowtorch out of his duffle and nods to Jason, starting it up. * Jason cups his palm, a ball of flame forming in it. Once again, the fire narrows, intensifies, and shoots to burn through the door. "Huh. Zat so." (Can I contact Marcus?) (Nah. Marcus is catnip.) * Ari blinks, her eyes flashing yellow again. "They're going to fire on us as soon as we get through." (Yeah, ,Marcus is on the radio) [This door will take four minutes to burn through. It's highly fortified] * Ari contacts Marcus. "Marcus, beware of the cat!" "Giant monster attack cat. I'm not joking." * Jonathon looks at Ari, starts to burn, then looks at Jason. "Looks like it'd be best to make a fiery entrance then." (Quick check. Can you reload a law) (If you have extra missiles handy probably :P) (Hmm.. Check. :P) * Jason looks back at Jon and grins. "Sure you're not askin' me just to get a picture?" (grr. Miss.) Many people preparing to fire on us when we break through, the rest working on an escape pod in there. And a twenty-foot demon attack cat where Agent Lord and Marcus are. * Marcus reports back over the radio: "Err, yeah. I noticed. It's about two stories tall now." Right. Better stay outta the way then, Ari. Well, I could do that if you'd like. But a swarm is more practical and harder to hit than 3 innocent bystanders. * Ari contacts Marcus again. "Do you need help?" * Ari nods at Jason and steps back. *Far* back. * Jason nods. "'s true. Let's get this door a little weaker. They won't open it 'till we do." Right. [PA] Oh.. and just a little music to assist in your decision. (Right-o even. Britishisms) [Some choral chant comes on over the PA. Anyone know latin?] (Probably.) * Marcus reports back over the radio: "If I can't hit this damn thing with my last shot, yeah, I think I will." (Heh, are you kidding?) (Sadly, no) (Wish I'd thought to learn Latin. ^_^; May next SP) * Ari conacts Marcus. "Let us know for sure." 2d8-3 * Ari turns back to Jason and Jonathon. "Marcus may need our assistance with the devil cat." I'll go help if need be. For Agent Lord's sake. Though I would like to even the odds a little for our team's firebug. * Marcus reports back over the radio, "blast it, missed again. Damn demon cat's harder to hit than you'd think." * Jason snickers. "Devil cat. My kinda animal." He closes his hand into a fist and the fire winks out, before his eyes flare and he begins to dissolve. [Preston] I would have gone with POTUSA's Kitty, but that's just me. Choral's nice as well. Although overdone for boss fights. * Ari looks at Jonathon. "Should I remain here or go with you to help Marcus?" * Jonathon raises an eyebrow. "CAN you help against a demonic feline?" (success) [Timer. Currently one minute left to get through, and about five minutes until the escape pod can be launched] * Ari considers this. "I don't think so. I've probably done all I can already there." * Jonathon nods. "As I said, I'll stay to help capture this bloke for as long as I can before the situation turns critical. We're on more of a limit here than with Lord." [PA] Then again, this sort of music is only encourages.. Not all that evil. ::The PA switches over to muzak. If anyone knows 90s stuff, you think it's a light rock version of NIN:: * Ari nods. * The fiery cloud gives no warning as it barrels straight for the door. Let's see how the thing stands up to this. * Ari stays well back of this. * Jonathon gets out of the way with the assault on the door and readies his pistol. * Jonathon looks at Ari. "If Marcus can lure the cat away from Lord and keep him occupied as long as possible, it'd be a big help. We need to buy time." * Ari speaks to Marcus over the radio. "Try and lure the cat away from Lord and keep it occupied as long as possible, if you arent' already." [The music stops] [Preston] Oh, thank god. * Ari smirks. "Better." * Jonathon snaps a picture of Jason busting the door while he's at it. [A layer of molten melted begins to pool below the door as Jason cuts two thirds of the way through the remaining shell. * The motes pull back as one, pause for a moment, and rush forward again. (You look maaahvalous, Jason.) (Why, thank you!) [The rest of the door is enveloped in flames and then completely melted, Jason's through.] [There's about a dozen guys with guns in the room. Just sub machine guns though, no assault rifles with launchers. Ari could tell you that the bald guy is hiding in the escape pod. The five year old is standing in a corner, safely away from everyone else.] * Ari calls out. "He's in the escape pod." [Alright Jason gets an action, then everyone get in init order] * Marcus , over the radio: "Ok, I got Lord, but the cat got a nasty swipe at him, so we're going to need medical assistance." (Cept Marcus) (Same init as before, or roll new?) [Preston] How bad is it? Sending the doctor, but he'll be four minutes. (Good point Ari) [Jason, Jonathon, Overlord, Jason, Ari, Grunts] * Marcus , over the radio: "he wasn't in great shape before, and he's bleeding pretty badly now. Tell me where you need me to go, and I'll go there." (Not rerolling init?) * The motes melt through the door and keep going, engulfing the first two security guys in flames. (no) [The two scream and then fade] (Not that I should complain. ^_^;) [Jonathon!] [Ten grunts left. Techies aren't fighting.] * Jonathon keeps out of the line of sight of the door and smiles at Ari. "Silly buggers, aiming at the hole..." He shoots to the side of the hole, ricocheting it off to hit one of the grunts. [Guard collapses, moans, and then fades] [Jason!] (Overlord does nothing?) [He's hiding for now] * The swarm finishes swirling, and once the two guards fade splits in half, each spreading to another on opposite sides. [Ari!] [These guards manage to stay out of the flames] [Oh, now that you're further inside, you can also see the programmer guy in a hawaiian shirt, hiding behind the five year old kid.] * Marcus radios, "Shit. Preston! Need you to move faster, please!" * Ari stays well back, but stares in the direction of the escape pod. Her eyes rapidly flicker between green and yellow. [Preston] He's trying.. ::pant:: Can't make this much faster. [Grunts turn!] [Five fire at Jason, taking out a couple flames. One fires at Jonathon and misses. Two fire and don't. Double dodge.] [Both miss] [Jonathon!] * Jonathon runs into the scene, pulling his gun to the right and firing off a shot. No sooner has he already gotten that off before he switches his arms crosswise across his body and fires at another grunt on the other side. (Trying this multi-attack thing) [Another two fall to the ground and fade out. Look still alive as they go.] [Seven left. I believe.] [Jason!] (Oh, just read the rules. It looks more like it's hitting multiple people with the same attack rather than multiple trigger pulls. Like the bullet rips through one guy and into the next.) (Oh.. good catch) (Your description works though, ,so no biggie) [Oh, programmer in the corner, he's whimpering and saying. "Game over man! Game over!" The five year old is frowning down at him. "Wuss." * The swarm remains split, shooting down to the ground and coming up at a pair of guards in a couple brilliant pillars of flame. (He is a wuss. *nod*) [Five left] (Definitely a wuss.) [PA] Hmm.. well, that's disconcerting. Well, I have said I'll never be taken alive. But then... [Ari!] [The two guards are lead by pillars of flame into the night. Well, if you want to be poetic about it. A less poetic description would be to say that the guards discovered what the melting point of flesh and bone is...] * Ari keeps her distance still and looks like she's waiting for something. (holding action) [Slightly more poetic, Preston will later comment on reviewing mission logs. "Darling we're dead, we're in a puddle on the floor..." He'll get some disturbed looks.] [Goons give up on fire, they're rapidly falling back, four manage to actually get in shots at Jonathon, who needs a mess of dodge rolls. And apparently that whole eyes changing color thing just isn't enough to draw fire these days.] (4 dodge rolls?) (Yup_) (Made the first and last. ;_;) [A hail of bullets fly at Jonathon, he manages to astutely dodge the attack from the first guard only to have five bullets from the second and third hit him. Luckily.. sort of.. those bullets knock him to the ground and he's able to avoid the last set.] [Still alive, but feel pain, lots of pain.] [PA] As the movie says, never say never again. Don't suppose that whole being taken alive thing is an option? [Jonathon!] * Ari speaks quietly into the radio. "We could use some medical assistance, and the mastermind has potentially expressed the possibility of surrendering. If you can spare some people, we'd appreciate it." * Jonathon breathes out through his teeth and tries to get up to his feet, then gives up on it for now. He swings his pistol up and aims for one of the grunts, pulling the trigger and letting the bullet streak through. He aims for two who hopefully have conveniently lined up for him. (Dicey, you traitor. :P) [One man goes down, although for some reason it's not as impressive as when Jonathon normally takes down a guy. :P] [Jason!] * Jonathon is pretty badly hurt. Who gives a damn if it's not as impressive? [Preston] We've sent our commando escort to you. More to come soon. [You do hear distant running] (What's left?) [Four guys, and an offer to surrender] (And a 5 year old and a guy with a hawaiian shirt) [And a lot of techies] (I say we take him up on that offer, provided it's genuine.) * The motes coalesce, forming one smug-looking young man. Flames dance around his fingers. "A surrender, huh?" * Jason grins at the remaining guards. "Better drop those weapons, then." The fire pools into his right hand again. "For your own good." [PA] Yeah. (Hold my action, if they do anything.) [Other guards shrug and just fade out. The weapons drop shortly there after. Techies do the same.] [PA] Ah.. that's a bit disappointing, but one can't really expect them to fight to the death under these sorts of situation. [Five year old] Get a guarantee! * Jonathon keeps one eye on the kid and the other on the pod. He smiles, though he grits his teeth a little. "Bloody good show there, Jason." He smiles to the kid. "The 'Five Year Old Advisor' eh? How cliche." [Kid] You really want me to kick you mister? * Ari laughs. "Well, he tried to be a good overlord." * Jason snorts. "Yeah, we're scared. Wouldn't do that if I were you." * Jonathon rubs his head nervously. "You'd really kick someone so utterly defenseless as I?" He stands up and clutches his wounds with a faint "Ow" though he doesn't lose the smile. [Around now the commandos show up. Followed by more commandos.] [Kid] Oh yes. The rules are very clear on this. ::nods sagely:: * Jonathon then pulls up the camera. "Say cheese, kid." Snap. Hey, cavalry. Right when all the fun's gone. [Commandos] We can take it from here if you like. [Kid smiles] * Ari eyes the escape pod. [Commando sergent] Wouldn't want to cramp your style. * Ari motions to it. "Someone should take care of him." * Jonathon pulls off his watch and walks over to the escape pod. "Perhaps I should make it too heavy to go anywhere, just in case. How does that sound?" It's not going anywhere anyway. * Ari smiles at Jonathon. It's possibly disconcerting. Ah. Bloody good work, Ari. I believe then that is, as they say, a wrap. * Jonathon isn't disconcerted. He does it all the time. (Last comments) * Jason shrugs and walks over to the kid. He tousles his hair, none too gently. "How about I take care of ya, kid? We'll have *lots* of fun together." * Jonathon steps into the pod with his pistol and waves the occupant out. [Kid] Stranger! Scary stranger! * Ari actually grins at Jason. "That is a smart child." [Overlord] And you really do make it too easy to try out my toys. ::puts down a rather shiny high tech pistol:: but a deals a deal. Let's go. [Overlord] I can use the jail time to write up my discertation. [Session end]