* Warlow and Breaker head over to the trailer, they look to one of the cameras. "Ren, conference call time." * Ren walks over. Walkity walkity walk. He -still- hasn't put on a shirt, just has the jacket on. [After a minor amount of to do, everything gets set up.] So, preferences? * Ren smirks. "Giving me the advantage of a choice? Hilly area, lotsa different elevations." Hmm... Before we start, kid, let me say this isn't anything personal against you. I'll just be damned if I'm gonna let the Templars win this. How about urban. Mixed elevation, but still some options for cover and the like. * Ren shrugs. "Sure." Oh, none taken. I hope you'll in attempting to win I bare no animosity to your soul. ::he sounds slightly amused:: [FF!] [You get to the next staging area... * Ren, since it's FF'd, has had time to grab his body armor. He shows up in that and reasonably more padded clothes, the red pleather coat replaced by a long, brown trench-coat worn over the body armor. He's got a single magnum in hand. [It's a fairly confined section of town that's currently pursuing a redevelopment project involving a large walking mall. The area currently has apartments and two story shops. Not much higher than four story though.] Want innocent dummies or not? More realistic with dummies. * Ren shrugs. "Leave it up to him." [Okay, this next viewing area is several blocks away, more comfortable though. And has nice monitor hook ups and couches. There's also a stocked snackbar.] Sure. It'll be important for training. [So a bit later you both start in opposite sides of the street in the urban area. There's a fair number of innocent dummies in the shops on both side.] [Edge and Lonava are in the room watching.] * Yvonne is there too! But she looks kinda tired. * Tim searches the snack bar... (Diet Evil, Evil Light... ah here we go Soylent Green!) * Yuri is still following around, because Saldin sucks. She is chomping on some snacks. * Julio finds some cover. * Tim comes up with a bag of candy, "This'll do." * Ren purposefully strides forward, looking around. [He sees Julio, he's just got some cover] * Yuri stretches slightly and looks at the cameras, saying idly, "I would've rather fought him. Don't see why the cat-thing is beating up on someone in training." (Yvonne and Tim should start with the sitting on each-others' laps stuff now.) * Ren just plain shoots at him, then, after taking a second to aim. You're welcome to spar with him later if you like, may be enlightening to both of you." * Tim sits down next to Yvonne, "Eh, who knows, maybe Ren'll loose or something." * Yuri looks over at Lonava with the golden gaze for a second, blinks, then shakes her head and says, "No... I think I'll need everything I have for Will Chang, thank you." * Ren misses, chipping away right at the edge of where Julio's hiding. [Ren takes a bad shot, as he does so, he notices the metal on his gun is getting extremely hot, it will be physically painful to hold next round (to the point of taking damage) and a +2 to attacks with it.] * Yvonne nods off. * Edge snorts. That should be interesting. * Julio stays low and raises his hand out from the cover. Two balls of energy form and launch towards Ren. * Yuri looks at Edge with a frown, then it slips away and she smiles. "Yes, it will be." He's going with those two earlier. Let him experiment. [Both bolts hit Ren, but don't have any effect when they hit his armor.] * Ren ignores them, and switches guns to the -other- magnum. [This gun isn't heating up yet, and Ren can fire.] * Ren takes another shot. * Yuri looks over at Yvonne passed out, and gets a bit more comfortable, letting her arms hang at her sides. * Julio gets hit, he calls out in pain and falls back to behind the counter in the back of the store. He doesn't fire any bolts this turn. * Ren smirks, and stays where he is. * Tim shifts Yvonne into a slightly more comfortable looking position on the couch, "Yay... I guess." [This gun heats up too. Incidentally many of the metal strips around the store are now red hot, as is the gun Ren previously dropped.] * Yuri looks over at Tim and chuckles to herself. "Getting burned up took a lot out of her, ya think?" Looks that way. * Ren quirks an eyebrow, then breaks into a run, dropping that gun too. He doesn't get out a new one just yet. [And he's completely behind the counter at the moment, so no direct shot or shoot through.] ( Running to Julio. ) * Yuri nods slightly, and then looks at the fight. And all the glowing metal. [Julio has a bit of a lead, so when Ren comes running he manages to slip into the back, slamming the door behind him (it won't open trivially), and from the sound of things rushes up a stair case to the second floor.] * Yuri chuckles a little to herself. "Hot stuff." * Lonava smiles. "He's really more of a supporting mage, for obvious reasons. But he won't always have backup." * Ren pffts, and goes to open the door. * Yuri mms and nods slowly. "I'm... very familiar with that." [The knob turns but the door doesn't open, seems to be something keeping it shut on the other side.] Some training, running away. * Ren whips out a shotgun and blows the damned knob off. >__< Speaking of which, bets on which continent Saldin is on right now? He just needs to run until you make a big enough mistake. * Ren, after shooting the door, kicks the door. Hopefully it opens this time? * Yuri laughs a little. "If I had any money, I would put him in Africa at the moment." [The knob comes off and the door slides open, a chair on the other side clattering to the ground.] [The barrel of the gun begins to glow, he can still hold it for now, although if memory serves, the triggers still metal.] * Tim snaps his fingers, "and here I was going to vote for South America." [As Ren gets through to the other side of the door, two sparkling balls of energy hovering at the top of the stairs fly down at Ren. [Both fly past him in an attempt to hit an unarmoured part of his body, they're turning, but it takes them a moment to change their course.] * Yuri chuckles. "That's a risky one. South America's not that big." She mms. "Not that he hasn't had his time there... I don't think there's a continent he hasn't visited." Oh? What did he find to do in Antarctica? * Ren heads up the stairs, and and as soon as the angle permits, fires off another shot, wincing at the glowy hot trigger. Hopefully the shotgun can take it. [At the top of the stairs there's an office, that has a few doors, no sign of Julio just et.] * Ren doesn't fire yet, then. [There's a door straight ahead and one to the right.] * Julio, meanwhile, casting a healing spell from a hiding place behind a desk behind the straight forward door. * Yuri looks over at Tim with the golden stare. "I think he helped out a researcher who was in trouble, among other things." * Ren doesn't waste any time in running into the one to the right, rapidly scanning the room with the glowing shotgun. [He looks better, but still wounded.] * Tim nods, "That works... and as our missing commentator would ask, "Door number one, door number two, or door number three?" [Supply closet. Nothing there, and about now the energy balls take a second run at Ren.] [But they both miss and slam past him into walls.] * Julio opens a window and generates two more energy balls. [The balls expire when that happens.] Well, that wasn't it. [The shotgun is thoroughly heated now. +4 to attacks hit from damage to the weapon.] * Ren drops the shotgun - it can only take so much, and busts into the other room, rapidly scanning the room. He doesn't go past the door, though, staying in a spot to block it as best he can in case Julio tries to run out. [Julio dives out the window with a gesture, floating to the ground. As he does so another two energy balls fly towards Ren.] * Yuri looks around and takes a seat. "I wonder why the catman is so angry." Dunno, it's probably important to him though. [One flies past, but the other manages to find a weakness in the armor. It hurts, but not all that bad.] * Yuri looks over at the Templars. "Do you know, Miss Lonava?" * Lonava shakes her head. "I have no familiarity with Mr. Ran's complaint." [Julio, incidentally looked in better shape than when he was last seen by Ren, although he doesn't seem to be actively regenerating.] * Ren lets just a tiny hiss of pain out. "Well then... if you're gonna do that..." * Yuri nods slightly and looks back at the monitors. "'Kay." She stretches, then pulls her legs into a lotus on the chair she's sitting on. * Julio rushes to the other side of the street. A small grocery store. * Ren runs and jumps out after him, ghostly, transparent fur already starting to become visible. It fully manifests, and then the trench-coat and armor are falling without Ren in them- he's lower, and tries to beat Julio to the ground. * Tim munches on his candy. [Ren hits the ground at about the same time as Julio. Who is rushing to the other side of the street.] * Ren whips out yet another gun- this ones an assault rifle. [Julio frowns dives into the grocery store on the other side of the street.] * Lonava frowns. * Ren gives chase! [Starts heating. Pain and +2 next round.] [Ren successfully enters the grocery store, awareness roll, sense of choice.] So, what's he do when the people chasing him don't have a convenient tightly gripped metal object? [Ren sees a can rolling from one set of shelves. Giving a probably location on his target.] He adapts. Ahh. * Ren glances around, then spot-teleports to a different spot with a better angle. Preferably one with a good view. (He's got a better view) (Good enough to see him?) (Yeah) * Ren winces, and lets loose with the bullets. But I do consider those metal objects an important place to start. * Yuri nods slightly. "It's a good plan." [Julio seems to almost anticipate the attack and is rapidly moving towards the back door before it even is fired, two energy balls that had been right by him fly towards Ren.] [Julio gets out the back door. Ren's turn!] That's my boy. * Edge is actually smiling in a pleasant manner for one. * Ren hesitates just a moment in pursuing, soaking up the energy from the one ball that hit. He disappears in a blast of fur, just plain skipping the wall the Julio went through, immediately seeking him out. [Ren safely arrives in a dumpster on the far side on the wall. He's not hurt, but it's closed at the moment. And smells bad.] (can the cameras see inside the dumpster?) [Julio creates another two balls and ducks in to the back of the shop next door.] [No, but they catch the sound of him arriving.] Where'd he... ? * Tim starts to snicker, "Oh man, I haven't done that in years, poor guy." * Ren lets the rifle drop, since that's glowing too. "... change of plans." * Yuri says quietly, "Do what?" * Lonava looks to see what happened. "Oh.. my." * Tim points at one of the screens, "See that dumpster?" * Ren teleports out of the dumpster, and goes on the retreat. (Teleports where?) Yeah. ( Out of the dumpster. ) It went thump at the same time he vanished. (Into the alley then?) ( Yeah. ) * Yuri smiles a little, then suddenly takes a big gasping breath. "Uh. Heh." She sighs. "Oops." [There's no sign of him in the alley, but the only close doors are the backdoor of the shop immediately adjacent to the grocery shop, and the grocery shop. ANother two balls wait in the alley to say hi! to Ren. [Both miss and start to turn. Awareness roll on where Julio is.] And he's out now. * Julio, next door, works his way through, taking a moment to prop a dummy behind an interior door with a glazed window. [Ren sees that the door to the shop next door is still moving.] [Showing it was very recently opened.] I'm not sure I approve of that tactic. Well, if he falls for it, he'll learn a lesson hopefully. * Ren doesn't chase. He instead heads Up, perching himself on a roof and flattening himself on it. [He does this successfully.] * Julio takes a turn to heal himself again, fixing the rest of the injuries from the original shot. * Ren keeps his senses tuned. He's just keeping an eye out for Julio, and he pulls out one pistol. If it starts to heat up, he tucks it back away as soon as it does that. * Yuri closes her eyes and takes a breath, meditating in her chair. [Heating, but your technique works.] * Ren mutters, "He doesn't even have to know where I am for that to work." * Julio rushes out the front door not much longer. * Ren stays flattened, and hopefully, hidden, letting him go by. * Julio generates another two balls. And he's looking quite healed. The balls don't track Ren and instead just sit there. ( How far away is he? ) [Julio heads towards an apartment building on the far side of the street.] (About 7 meters.) ( Enough time to get an Aim action in before he ducks into the apartments? ) (Sure, what's he drawing?) * Ren slides out a pistol, and takes aim at Julio, lining up the shot... (He can take the shot, but it'll hurt.) * Ren takes the shot. It hurts. [Julio looks badly hurt once again by that shot, he ducks into the apartment building first floor.] [Ren! Gun still getting hotter. Oh, and the two balls fly towards Ren but miss him.] * Ren tucks the pistol away. Hopefully it'll cool off in his inventory? * Ren does move before the balls make their return trip, though, jumping to the floor and running across the street to the apartments. * Julio ducks in and heads towards the stairs, casting a healing spell. ( How many floors is the apartment? ) [Ren catches up seeing Julio running towards the stairs inside the apartment.] (Four) [And the two balls make another run at Ren.] [And miss and splatter.] I wonder if he's going to run out of healing spells before Ren runs out of guns. * Ren steps back, watching to see if Julio's entering a first floor room, or making tracks to the second floor. [Still going.] [Julio leaves another two balls in the stairway.] * Ren continues watching, and waiting, trying to stay out of obvious sight. [He gets out at third floor.] * Ren takes a giant leap -up-, and when he's level with the third floor, teleports into the main hallway there. It won't last that long. Ren will make a big mistake or get a good shot in. * Julio is caught by surprise and backs away. * Ren growls, and whips out a -minigun-, and doesn't waste any time in filling the hallway with lead at Julio's direction once he's braced his feet. Holy! * Julio grins and makes a gesture as the mini-gun appears his hands instead. "About time you got in the game." * Tim points at the screen, "Tha...tha! Argh!" * Ren whips out the -other- minigun, and lets rip with -that- one. "You keep running away!" * Tim blinks and calms down, "okay, now this is just getting silly." * Edge smiles. "You didn't think he had a plan?" I figured he had one, just not that one. [Julio goes down.] * Ren hmphs, and lets the second mini-gun drop. ...And...ow. * Breaker over PA system. "And that's a win for Ren, please bring him to the meeting area." * Ren takes large strides over to Julio, kneeling down next to him and checking him over. [Alive, but badly hurt.] * Lonava watches the monitors anxiously. sighs. "If he'd taken cover he'd have been find, shouldn't have relied on counterspelling the next gun." * Ren calls out, "Julio's hurt. Have staff ready, I'll be 'porting him in." * Breaker over P.A. we're ready." * Ren goes to do just that! [Breaker and Warlow head in. "Well done."] * Ren 'ports in in a blast of fur, handing Julio off to the nice people in the nice white shirts. * Lonava hurries over to tend to Julio. * Tim waves from one of the couches, Yvonne is not quite draped across it. [Julio quickly heals in Lonava's capable hands.] ... eh, he's not back yet, but. Let the kid know that he's came the closest to givin' me a run for my money when he wakes up, will ya? * Ren blinks at the healing. "Or that'll work." * Julio stirs. * Lonava smiles. "Will do." Not bad for a trainee. Got a good head on his shoulders. * Warlow nods. "And well done avoiding heavy explosives, no dummies harmed." * Ren pats Julio on the head as he says that, despite the burnmarks on his fingers. If you'll excuse me, I've gotta go gather up by guns. *he dissapears in a blast of fur* [End!]