[Date: 10/13/2020 12 pm.] [Ren gets the call to work out the location of the fight.] [Start] Mr. Ran? Rev. Warlow is presently occupied, I'll be handling the fight arrangements for tonight. * Ren yawns into the phone. "Oh, yeah. Who's this?" The name's Lord, Arthur ::He cuts himself off:: Need to stop doing that, regardless, Mi-6, SAB HQ is largely unavailable at the moment. Edge is on the line, where do you two wish to duel? * Edge lets Ren throw out the first suggestion. * Ren licks his lips, and yawns again. "Some big irish castle. High walls, steeples, archer slits, that kinda thing." I accept. A'right. * Lord rifles through a few papers. "Is a recreation acceptable? We'd prefer not to endanger a piece of Emerald Isle history. We can repair a recreation. Apparently safety measures will be available in the next round but aren't yet." A recreation's fine. Can you get the scenery the same with some'thin like that, though? Yes, we can, we have a... Let's go then. * Ren grins. "Let's do this thang." [2 pm. You head out to the castle. It's apparently a recreation made by some billionaire in the genesplicing bubble of '17. The castle looks quite sturdy but apparently he did not build on a firm financial foundation, because it was siezed for non-payment of tax.] [There's surrounding hills, a two story tall outer wall that forms a pentagon that surrounds the courtyard which has a stables. One side of the pentagon is taken up by the keep. This leaves three points on the wall, two are towers, one is a particularly high turret attached to a small chapel.] [Surrounding environment has beautiful hills with fields of clover and the like. There's a long driveway leading up to the castle.] [Lord and Breaker wait in the courtyard. They're accompanied by two Templars: Lonava and Julio. Mak and Yvonne are also present. The groups were all brought in from different locations and have just now gotten together.] Nice digs. Err.. yes, I suppose so. * Ren has a shotgun casually slung over his shoulder as he approaches. He waves with it as he gets within sight. "You guys really picked out a great site. Congrats." * Lord is wearing a rather nice suit. Breaker has dropped her fairly ridiculous fight ensemble and is wearing a more casual set of jeans and blouse. They both look quite new, but she's somehow managed to rip them already. * Ren is wearing the green pleather jacket of his. It seems to be a favorite. * Edge is wearing a gray set of combat gear including a fairly sleak looking light body-armour suit. She has her nailgun hanging below her left one shoulder and a really old style calvary sword in scabberd on her right. [Julio and Lonava are wearing typical garb. Robes for her, buisness casual outfit for him. Yvonne can describe herself.] * Yvonne is wearing an unbuttoned Chinese-shirt with a dragon across the back, and tight pants stitched up the sides. Red, naturally. She's got thick boots and lots of earrings. * Mak has on black pants and an Oxford shirt. He looks amused. * Ren waves to Mak and Yvonne. He grins a little at Mak's expression. * Lonava removes a long box from her robes and holds it out to Edge who looks surprised and takes it from her. * Mak waves back. "Kick butt for the Lord." You can count on it. * Ren turns to Yvonne. "What 'bout ya? Just here fer the show?" * Yvonne grins. "You got it." * Breaker goes over to look at the package as Edge opens it. Inside is a long one edged sword. It doesn't have a clear traditional cultural style and is instead more sleak and Art Deco. Edge smiles, this is a rare thing, and takes a few practice swings with it in her right hand. * Julio smiles and stage whispers to Lonava. "Told you she'd want sleek and modern." Sleek and modern is sexy. I thought you deserved a sword of your own. * Ren raises an eyebrow at Edge's new toy. "Functional art, eh?" * Edge goes to hand Lonava the calvary sword at her side, but the long haired woman shakes her head. Edge frowns at that. * Julio looks to Ren. "Better than just claiming some other culture's weapons because it's cool. Or at least I think so." * Mak keeps the grin, but he's fairly focused on the two swords. * Yvonne tilts her head. "Uh? But it's still a sword." I guess. Dun't matter much if it's cool or not, if you can't use it. Well, lets get this started. * Yvonne giggles. "It's not new at all, really! Unless maybe it's meant for political debates or something." * Ren nods at Lord. "Lets." * Ren winks at Edge. "Unless you wanna play 'round some with your new toy 'forehand." * Edge speaks quietly to Lonava. "I won't need it." Lonava frowns slightly but nods. "Then just keep it at your side for my sake, you may need a second blade." Edge nods and then looks to Ren. "I am ready." [And the guests are also sent off to the watch channel.] [There's a garage at the end of the road near the turn off from the highway. That garage has been re-equiped as the watch room.] [Currently Templars Lonava and Julio are present at one side of the room, watching the screens.] [Mak has a seat on the other side, he's looking fairly relaxed in his chair and has his hands folded in his lap and a bit of a smirk.] [Yvonne can come in now.] [Start] [The food provided for this one is actually at a table. Hearty Irish fair, Sheperds pie and the like.] * Yvonne heads in. "Hey! Free food!" She immediately goes to the food table. * Lord and Breaker tarry for a moment. Starting positions. [The others concentrate on watching for the moment.] * Edge watches Ren to see his pick, she draws her new sword in one hand and holds the nailgun in her other. * Yvonne grabs enough to hold her for the fight, then turns to watch as well. "Guns versus swords, huh?" She giggles. She does have a flachette gun as well. * Ren nods. He starts walking away from the others, dissapearing up and around a corner, taking position on the top of the chapel, ending up right near the turret. Cue the tail, fur, ears, etc. Oh. * Yvonne pouts. "That's not nearly as exciting. * Yvonne glances her compatriots over. Especially Mak. * Mak keeps the grin/smirk. "Not that much faith in her weapon of choice." * Edge glances up and then heads into the keep closing the door behind her. He's sniping. If he actually faced her, she wouldn't bother with the gun. Oh. [Initiative rolls please.] [And the inside cameras show Edge sneaking about. She's holding a small mirror by the edge and using it to try to scout Ren's position without revealing herself through the arrow slit.] We don't stick around here, do we? No, ::she speaks up:: Ready... ::they both walk out to a safe seperate view area. [Ren Edge] Go! * Ren waits for Edge to get well and good into the castle, glances around the outer wall, then makes a -jump- to a spot on it, and settles in and hunkers down, changing out the shotgun for a sniper rifle. [Give me an awareness roll. Sense of choice but tell me which sense.] So now what? [Ren can tell someone is moving around inside the keep, but they're being quiet about it, so he doesn't have a fix on her.] [Ren!] * Ren stays down, and keeps his senses open, waiting for a target to appear. [Ren can see a fairly dull glint from one of the archer slits. Nothing more though.] * Ren takes a shot there, quickly. [There's a sound of the shattering of glass. Edge!] [The bullet flies through the arrow slit and then as Edge pulls up her sword to deflect it slatters in a spray of acid. The sword survives the acids touch apparently from quality materials, although it doesn't look new anymore. However, the part that splattered on Edge's armor seems to be far more damaging and eating away at the material. Some of it got through to her as well and she flinches.] [However, she immediately recovers and glances to where the remains of the bullet core flew. She strafes away from the arrow slit and opens fire at Ren's position through the wall.] [That shattering is followed by a retort of flachettes and the sound of metal hitting stone as a series of sharp slabs fly through the castle wall towards Ren's position. Ranged personal roll. +1 to defense from spreading. +4 from autofire. Because of autofire let me know the margin.] * Yvonne watches. "Oh. That's what." * Julio smirks. "Yeah." * Mak comments in a slow drawl. "I suppose that's one way to encourage face to face combat." [Ren dodges out of the way, but two of the flachettes find him. However, they were sufficiently slowed by the stone wall that they don't go straight through. 26 damge.] [Ren!] [Housekeeping note: Flachette rounds, while given a half level of armour piercing in this game, shouldn't be able to do that.] [There's multiple holes in the walls. Larger at the exit point than the entry point. They're all at about the same level although their facing varies as she was trying to keep her aim consistent on Ren. * Ren grimaces, then simply rolls off the wall, to the outside of it, teleporting back to the court-side once he's lower. [Ren can do that without any trouble. Stealth and awareness rolls please.] [Ren thinks he hears quiet footsteps and has a vague idea of the location. However, it's about where she should be if she kept moving after she fired. Unfortunately for Ren, she's behind a solid wall at the moment without even holes from the flachettes.] [Edge keeps moving when she's done firing, so there's a wall seperating her and Ren now. One without any flachette made holes.] * Lonava watches both contenders with concern. [Edge!] [Edge then moves towards an arrow slit, however she stays farther away this time and uses her sword as a mirror to scope out the courtyard.] [She doesn't seem to find Ren.] [Ren, and he still has some idea where she is and she's now about a meter away from an arrow slit.] * Ren takes aim between the arrow slit and where Edge is, finger lightly on the trigger... * Yvonne muses. "She could do her hair with that." * Lonava smiles slightly. "She already has I'm sure. Edge tends to be very practical about her appearance." Lonava, as already established, has floor length hair in a complicated braid. Its quite pretty, she's quite plain otherwise. * Yvonne blinks. "Oh, really?" [Edge] [Ren can see a slight glint of light from the arrow slit, although that's not quite where he hears Edge.] [Edge seems to have a better idea where Ren is, but is taking the time to get it right.] [Ren] * Ren shifts his aim to where he hears her, knowing the shots are coming... [Another round passes, she adjusts her position some, but Ren seems to have hidden a bit to well.] [Edge nearly loses her fix on him, she adjusts her position.] [Ren!] * Ren shifts his aim back to the mirror, and fires at it with the 'splody acid ammo. [The bullet goes through.] [No sound of shattering this time though.] [Edge hears the shot and drops her sword going flat against the wall that faces Ren. The acid sprays out after getting through the arrow slit, but it largely splatters the roof, ceiling, and far wall. The spray is pretty wide, so the wall technique wouldn't be that effective if the shot was centered on her.] [There's a spray and pray response from Edge. It comes damn close to Ren, but doesn't quite hit him. She moves again.] [Ren] * Yvonne points. "She dropped her weapon!" * Edge fires and moves, giving her sword a slight kick up as she goes and catching it in her free hand. She's overprotective at times, better the ground than acid. * Ren 'ports to the other side of the wall, and burns air by dashing through it at high-speed, clockwise, moving again. [Edge makes her move.] * Edge frowns and gets moving again. She heads to a lower floor, as she goes she scatters small pieces of metal from a behind her. She keeps her sword in her hand while doing this, she looks like having the sword there is such second nature it doesn't disturb her finger dexterity at all. [Ren!] * Ren 'ports back to the court-side of the wall, and goes about trying to track Edge down again. (Hides and awareness) [Ren hears something from the hallway on the second story and then quiet.] (And he can ready an action this turn if he likes.) * Ren focuses his attention there for a moment, shifting his aim there to return any fire that may come from there. [Ren! And you can renew awareness rolls] * Robin has joined #SAB2020 * Ren cocks his ears, but doesn't do anything yet except keep up his aim. [Edge finds a first story arrow slit. This time she's more cautious and is especially careful to avoid the daylight that shines through, holding her sword high and above it.] * Yvonne scratches her head. "Overprotective of a sword?" [She seems to spot him and smiles.] You use just one weapon too long you go a bit nuts. Particularly if it has some sort of pagan spirits in it or the like. * Mak eyes Lonava. * Lonava doesn't seem to notice, but Julio glares at him. * Yvonne scratches her head. "So that's what does it..." * Edge keeps the smile and pulls the sword away from the slit. She then gets a focused looks and shifts somehow. There's a bit of a flash up the height of the castle and it looks for a moment like space is slightly folding. When the flash fades, Edge looks wrong, right height, but the perspective and shadows are all skewed. She looks fairly flat.] [There's a sudden odd movement in the castle. A straight line going up and down. That part of the castle seems almost to bend for a moment then restore itself.] [Ren!] [The castle reverts to normal afterwards.] * Yvonne boggles. "Say... Did Edge get run over by a steamroller?" She looks like that coyote in those old cartoons. * Mak loses the grin and plays close attention. I haven't seen her do that trick before. * Ren quirks an eyebrow, and lets his aim go for a moment, jumping UP to alight on the top of the wall he's against, then resumes trying to trace Edge. [As Ren pulls back, Edge charges, diving through an arrow slit on the first floor and landing smoothly on the otherside. She opens fire at Ren, keeping her sword ready in her other hand but not getting a chance to swing it.] [She looked strangely two dimensional coming through the slit, but is now reverting to her normal form.] Guess she can't keep it up. I can't see what good that's going to do. Ren can just teleport. * Ren says softly, "Tsk, tsk, Edge. Patience is a virtue." He grins wryly. [She's got fairly good aim and manages to send three flachettes dead on towards Ren. Defense +1 from spreading, +3 autofire.] [Another two flachette rounds go into Ren. This time they fly all the way through as they haven't been slowed. Damage is the same in this case though. 26] He has a point in chiding her on her patience. * Julio smiles. "Looks like that hurt though." * Mak just watches for now. [Ren!] (err...) [Ren is busy jumping back and doesn't quite manage to course correct in his landing and takes three solid hits from the flachette gun, all going through him and flying off to the distance.] [35 damage. 61 received altogether.] (From previous hits.) [Ren!] * Ren takes the shot, now that she's in the open and all. * Edge doesn't bother to try to block this time and instead just rolls out of the way. However, it's a wide spread so she's still partially hit. (Defense made, half damage from area) [Edge's armor doesn't seem to have enough left to protect her at this point.] * Edge then leaps and spins slightly, landing on the castle wall. There's another reality shift and for a momnet it seems as if she's standing upright and the world is at a 90 degree angle. It quickly reverts however to a perhaps more disturbing spectacle for Ren as she charges up to him, firing and swing her sword. * Edge's aim is off on the gun, but she's on for her sword swing. Defense roll please. * Edge's sword swings straight down on Ren, fortunately for him, she foolishly swung it in such away that he's protected by his rifle... [Or so it seems as the swords slices clean through it and pierces his side. 30 damage.] [The good news is, she could have been swing two handed.] Ooh, he shoulda got out of there. That's weird. Weeeeird. Dang sad to see a gun like that wasted. Well, if he kept using it for too long he woulda gone crazy anyhow. [Ren!] [Edge for the record looks a little healthier than Ren did a second ago.] [Now she looks a good bit healthier than him. * Edge smiles. It's not her nice happy got a new sword smile either. * Ren winks, drops the sniper rifle, and backflips off the wall, pulling out a submachine gun and blazing away with firey, explodey bullets on the way down. [Edge manages to block the first two bullets but then takes the third hard and is knocked back off the wall. She's caught in the blast radius of the next two but is out of it after that.] [She makes a fairly nimble landing considering her condition and limps/runs into the gatehouse.] [She scatters a few caltrops behind her as she heads into the hallway.] [Ren!] * Ren 'ports back to the court-side of the wall before he hits the ground, and lands on that side, adrenaline pumping. * Mak chuckles. "Point." * Lonava continues to frown at this. Julio watches the fight intently. [No sign of her, she's apparently inside the gatehouse, perhaps on the stairway to the roof.] * Edge gets to the second floor and keeps heading up. * Ren simply sprays lead into the gatehouse en masse, hoping to catch her before she makes it too far in. [The gatehouse takes heavy damage and the wall facing Ren collapses towards him. Defense roll!] [Ren pulls back in time, only to see a badly wounded Edge has been revealed by the falling mortar. She's let her flachette gun hang loose by her side and leaps towards Ren from above, swinging both swords down at him.] [She misses with the newly drawn calvary sword, so he just needs one defense roll.] [Edge seemed completely focused on hitting Ren and didn't bother to aim for his gun. So he just takes 30 damage.] [Ren's turn!] * Ren lets out a grunt, but is still standing. Somehow. He fires another burst of exploding, firey bits of fire at her, then retreats straight up with a mighty jump. [Edge raises her sword above her head, spinning it on a perfect plane and reality shifts once again, just in time. The bullets and explosions come to a sudden stop at the circle she drew. She visbily sags with the effort and seems to be having a good deal of trouble staying up. * Edge doesn't seem to have the energy to pursue Ren up, so she runs towards the keep, cutting the door open and leaping through making a sharp left once she gets inside. [Ren!] * Ren adjusts his landing to once again alight on the perimeter wall, and takes a moment to trace her. [Awareness and stealth.] [Ren has a fairly good idea where she's running on the first floor.] [She's taking some care to roll when going by arrow slots, but not quite enough, so he gets a shot of opportunity if he makes a powerusage roll for porting.] * Edge stays out of sight for the moment. [Ren!] [She stays stealth enough for the moment, although he can still hear some movement from the general area of the castle steps.] * Ren keeps his senses focused, waiting for her to cross another arrow slit... [Edge keeps moving, reroll awareness and stealth please.] [Okay, you hear some movement from the third floor. Nothing by an arrow slit though. More towards one of the central stairs.] [Ren] [And we'll say three stories to the keep and then the roof.] * Ren traces his guess at her path, confirming it with his boosted senses ... * Ren ... and shoots the wall directly with a blaze of exploding lead. [The wall is destroyed by the conflagration, but Edge kept her wits about her and got out while the wall was falling. She catches a bit of heat from the last bullet that went through, but the wall itself gave her time to avoid the rest. She looks like she'd have avoided it all if it weren't for her slow tired movement. She staggers, drops to a knee, and fires back at Ren, making no effort to leave herself in a defensible position.] * Yvonne tilts her head. "She's gonna lose at this rate. She's betting it all on this. [The first flachette round knocks Ren down but he falls in a way that doesn't risk knocking him off the wall and getting him out of the path of the remainder of the bullets.] * Lonava gasps as she sees the rain of flachettes directed at Ren even after the first brings him down. She raises her hand for a moment and a slight blue sheen appears around the calvary sword. However before anything more happens Ren falls safely and she lowers her hand.] * Edge stays on her knees for a moment and teeters looking about to fall, but at the last moment she seems to shake it off and slowly rises. She picks up her new now acid burned sword off the ground where she dropped it to fire and then slowly walks down, quite the bloody mess. * Yvonne peers. "Huh." Well, that was informative. * Julio scowls. Yeah. Edge likes guns more than swords. * Lonava hurriedly heads up. [And head to #sab2020 I suppose.] (Oh, and quick note, after Ren falls the calvary sword flashes blue for a second but receeded once he dodge the remaining bullets.) * Yvonne wanders out. * Ren stays right where he is, being too beat up and hurt to stay concious, really. * Lonava rushes in and past Edge, she brushes her figner tips over Edge as she passes and a few of the worst wounds glisten as if covered with a light dew and slowly heal, on the inside of the keep she heads up to the wall. * Mak comes in and scrambles up the gatehouse to get to Ren. * Lord looks around. "My, impressively level of destruction without a single self-destruct switch." * Breaker is smiling. * Julio rushes over to Edge and starts tending to her wounds. * Yvonne rushes nowhere! [Lonava reaches Ren first because she doesn't have to rock scramble. She reaches down to him when Mak calls out. "Stay away from him." Lonava looks Mak dead on. "Are you a healer?" "No, but I can take him to one. One that's trustworthy." Mak stands on the wall.] * Lonava looks down to Breaker with a curtsy. "It's your tournament. May I at least restore him to consciousness?" * Breaker looks indecisive and glances around for advice. * Julio's busy tending to Edge. And both of their opinions are obvious anyways. * Lord shrugs. "I don't really know these people." (Anything from Yvonne?) * Ren has an opinion. He'll express it when he's concious! * Yvonne gives Breaker a thumbs up. (Ren, give me a +4 body (constitution) roll.) [Ren stirs.] * Ren nnnghs. * Lonava looks down on him, smiling to see he's awake. "You're still bleeding quite badly. May I treat your wonuunds?" * Ren coughs, winces, and nods. "... point is... moot now." * Mak frowns at her persistance but nods. "Your choice Ren." (Err up that one.) * Mak frowns at that again and draws out a cross he keeps on a necklace and keeps it ready. * Yvonne folds her arms behind her head. [And Ren is healed, she runs her hands over the worst of his wounds and they begin to close up. There's a sheen of dew on top of them. (And we're wrapping, so final comments please) * Yvonne heads off. ( Done :P ) * Ren groans, and stands up, shakily. He steadies himself, then looks Lonava straight in the face. "I gave you guys all I got to get you out of this... seems I wasn't good 'nuff." * Ren grins, wryly. "Tell Edge that it was fun." * Ren walks past Lonava, over to Mak. "C'mon, let's go." * Mak smiles. "Dang near thing. And I doubt she's got a lot of secrets left." * Lonava nods. "Well fought." And goes down to finish tending to Edge. When she relays Ren's message Edge gives a salute with her new sword, the calvary sword sheathed again.] [End!]