[Red's directed to a more maneuverable combat helicopter.  Agent Preston is 
waiting in there and he nods at your arrival.]
{Preston} I'll handle communications and coordination with the more advanced 
target locating systems while you concentrate on shooting."
{Red} Righto. 
{Red} If you direct me to a target, tell me how important it is. I'll be 
focusing mainly on backing up the others, otherwise. 
* Red looks for the spot where she'll be shooting from. What's the arrangements? 
Out a window? Out a cargo door?
[There's a side mount, designed to stabilize rifles while in the air.  The 
copter is used for swat operations that sometimes require sniping.  Red's rifle 
works with it just fine.]
* Red nods and secures her rifle to it, and checks the rounds in her jacket 
pockets.
* Red also goes to make friends with the pilot.
* Red asks about the guy's name, rank, swaps some light banter, and asks how 
he's feeling, physically.
{Grysar} * Pilot banters back, fairly friendly but with a serious undertone.
{Pilot} We'll be at least 50 meters above anything that can be jumped off of, I 
may be willing to take us in closer, but Lycans are known jumpers, and without 
knowing the details of their abilities...
* Red nods.
{Red} You don't even have to be that close. I'm honestly not sure this thing can 
fly high enough to seriously impair my shooting. 
{Grysar} * Pilot smiles.  "Glad to hear it."
* Red nods.
[And at 2014 or so you get flying.]
{Red} If some of the weres start taking swipes at the helo, don't be afaid to 
gain any altitude yer want. Just warn me before you go jostlin' the thing around, 
right?
* Red gets to her post, tests the mount to see how smooth it is, makes sure her 
scope's night vision mode is on, and buckles in.
[The mount is quite smooth.  (Effective extra level of steady hand)]
{Red} ( That so? Then I doubt I'll have any problems at all from being in this 
helicopter. )
[You get there first, the town is by a cliff, and there are three levels of it.]
[One is at the base and has a few boats, a wharf, and some common dock 
buildings.]
[Mid level is at least 20 meters up, with an access road down to the docks.]
[There's about five buildings, Victorian architecture, been around at least a 
century or two.  The wear and tear does show some.
[The next level is beyond a road and those buildings.  There's another street 
and four more buildings, as well as a park, it's only a meter or two above the 
mid level.]
[Forest beyond that level, and you also notice a rather nice looking mansion, 
with stone walls, about a half a kilometer up the main road.]
* Red decides not to add this to her list of locales to retire to, and instead 
searches for anyone running around in lots of fur.
[I forget, what do you have in terms of seeing at night?]
{Red} ( Nightvision scope. I assume light amp+IR. )
{Grysar} * Preston is strapped in and sitting by some internal control screens.  
"Apparently the perimeter isn't seeing much action yet, that's good."
[Okay, then give me a mind check HS (vision) and HA count.]
{Red} It is, yes. 
[Red sees that the streets seem largely empty, she's not seeing any lone wolves, 
but she does see a pack moving on the street between the on the middle layer.]
[Oh, and I didn't quite describe it right.  There's one row of buildings and a 
road in the middle layer.  Two row with a second road between them at the top 
layer.]
[Time: 2030]
{Red} I've got puppies moving on middle row, Preston. I'm leaving them alone 
until our friends get closer - I don't want the tranqs wearing off just as they 
get close.
* Red keeps an eye on them, through one eye, watches for the apc with the other.
{Preston} ~We're at the site, perimeter is apparently moving in without much 
trouble, although the APCs to back them up won't be here til 2040~
{Grysar} * Preston nods.  "Sounds wise."
* Red nods. ~Roger that. Does that estimate include our merry crew of warlike 
barmies?~
* Red says that in an entirely affectionate way.
{Grysar} * Preston grins and covers his mic.  "No, they're barmy enough to get 
there a bit early."
* Red keeps an eye on Arktos, now. How close is he to the pack of puppies?
{Grysar} (give me another sight check, same modifiers.)
[Time: 2033]
[Arktos stops when he reaches the edge of town, some of the pack of wolves seem 
to be moving near him.  You also see a few jumping on top of the buildings that 
you didn't notice before.]
 [He's on the midlevel road, a house on the cliff to his left, and a house on 
the level higher to his right.  They haven't reached that, but they move pretty 
fast.  Five on the ground two on the roofs.]
 [Arktos listens to your advice and falls back.]
{Preston} Wow, actually listened, don't see that every day.
{Red} I had to try. Glad he had some sense. I don't care how good he is, seven 
weres is too much. 
{Red} Speaking of which... I believe it's nap time, now. 
[The roof wolves drop from your sight, the pack itself turns around and seems to 
be heading down the road, fast.]
[And you can start taking your shots now safely.]
* Red starts taking shots at the last ground wolf in line first, taking careful 
aim to ensure delivery of the tranquilizer to a major artery. ( Using the Shock 
option, so taking a round to aim for each shot. Shooting the last one first so 
the others don't notice. )
{Grysar} (check, we'll say artery rolls are +4 aiming penalty.)
* Red aims carefully (two round's worth) and fires.
[Puppy drops.]
* Red does it again with the new last-in-line.
[This one staggers a little and howls before going down (for the record, did 
well on the shock roll)]
{Red} ( The others stop to look? )
{Grysar} ( Nope )
{Red} ( ...are those the ones I was watching, or is there another pack convening 
on them? )
{Grysar} (The ones you were watching)
* Red looks for more targets. Shooting the ones that moved indoors is too tricky, 
or are they still outside enough to be shot?
{Grysar} (give me that good old sight roll.  Those will be pretty regular.)
{Red} ( Targets? )
[Red see's one on the roof of the church (middle building) in the middle row of 
buildings.]
{Red} ( And, have I had two rounds for aiming? )
{Grysar} (I'll say you've had one.
{Red} ( Usins the shock shot. )
[There's another two on the next row of buildings up, they seem to be try to get 
in a fairly large two story building by digging at the roof.]