[Time: 9 am GMT. Maggie is in the hallway outside her room as Rev. Warlow walks up and looks surprised to see that Maggie's already awake.] [Warlow is slightly less surprised when Yuri turns out to be walking up beside her. Mystical stuff is less weird than waking up early in the end.] [Start!] Mornin' Rev'rend. * Marguerite waves with the phone. "And Yuri." [Warlow is holding several files and an old wooden box about a foot long by half a foot, by three inches.] Good morning. ::she glances at the phone:: Finished? * Yuri blinks at her shift in position and says slowly, runninig a hand over her head, "Good morning." Yeah. Was going to give this back. * Yuri glances to Warlow, then to Maggie. "Finished with what?" That can wait, we've got dozens. First I have something to offer in trade. ::she hands Maggie the wooden box:: * Warlow glances over to Yuri. "I assumed she had a phone call." Okay, great. * Marguerite puts the phone on a Convenient Nearby Flat Surface and takes the box. "What the hell's this?" She is, for the record, unshowered and looks like she slept with her hair up. She's also gnawing on the stub of a mauled cigarette. * Yuri looks at Maggie the unshowered with her nice yellowy eyes. "Phone call what? Or is this just another universal 'Gotcha, Yuri!'" [The box contains: 1 worn leather covered book with a cross on the front, several sets of hollow point and a kit that can be used for filling them, 1 ornamental but worn silver bladed dagger.] * Marguerite blinks at the gear within. "... whoa." Ms. Mozerralla has requested that we regather the weaponry targetted at her. It's a reasonable request." She has a slight cold smile as she says this. * Yuri frowns a little. * Marguerite looks to Yuri, then back to Warlow. "Man, today's just fuckin' full of surprises. Alright." She leans down and pulls a dagger out of her boot, and extends it hilt-first to Warlow. "Can't actually use it on her, anyhow, or so the monks claim. Right, Yuri?" * Warlow reclaims it and looks over to Yuri. "Oh?" (err, not reclaims, claims.) * Yuri blinks and then takes a second before she starts to say, carefully, "Yes and no... look, that's really Saldin's thing. Part of the price you paid or something." Yeah, somethin' about "the context in which I agreed to recieve it". Fuck, I don't know, this magic shit's all new to me. * Yuri points at the dagger, whether she can see it or not. "Just like that. Not a murder tool." * Warlow nods. "Not surprising. Well, since you've show aptitude and ability, this is an exorcist's starting set. Please treat it with care. The dagger and holy water must both be blessed daily using the instructions in the book, but I've done that for today." * Warlow nods and looks impresed at Yuri's comment. (Switch order on Warlow and Yuri's comments) That's pretty awesome, Rev. Thanks. * Warlow smiles. "Let's go wake up Mr. Ashton. We can talk about further training later." * Warlow gets walking to the guest quarters Jason is i. (in) * Marguerite follows, tucking the box away in her satchel. She lights up another cigarette. "Universe decide you needed some more fuckin' cursewords today, Yuri?" * Yuri chuckles and follows. "I really don't know." She exhales noisily. "At least it waited until I got dressed." She's in jacket and jeans and normal stuff. "So, uh. What's going on?" Huntin' down Saki, still. We do have news. I've got the report of SAB investigators. In an odd development, we also have the report of a mole that had infiltrated the spirits. () (Warlow sounds dubious about that last bit.) Fuckin' what, now? Really? * Yuri nods a little and then her eyes widen slightly, but since Maggie beat her to the 'Wha?'... Apparently. I'm as confused as you are. But a mole has come forward and has a deal with some part of the police force. We can use the information the mole gave *if* we tenatively accept the deal. Do we know this guy? * Warlow holds up a file with an elaborate looking arcane seal. "No. And this is out of the juristiction of the police." (And #sabooc occult roll (rituals) on the seal if you want) (trained only) So do we yank him out of police custody? * Yuri mms at the seal. "Is that the SAB report, then? Or is the mole really paranoid?" He, assuming it is a male, isn't actually in custody. He just submitted the report via an representative. Great. * Warlow looks to Yuri. "I haven't read it. If we do read it, the mole substantially strengthens the case for amnesty. Assuming the information is useful and given in good faith and such. * Warlow then knocks on Jason's door. No immediate answer. * Yuri shrugs slightly. "I don't even know what you all know at the moment. So... yeah." She licks her lips. "Did anything else come up?" We've confirmed the magical nature of the explosion. We've been tracing the activity of the spirits and been doing some divining of our own. Did they check the site for portal residue? * Marguerite eyes the end of her cigarette. "Little bird said that might be useful." * Warlow nods. "I thought I saw in your report that Yuri already verified that." * Yuri side-glances at Maggie. "Yeah." She sighs again. "Things came out of it, not as many things went back in. 'Little bird' knows what she's talking about." * Marguerite looks at Warlow. "Been a long night, and it's shaping up to be an even longer day. What the hell's keeping Jason?" * Warlow knocks harder and then getting no response opens the door. Jason's tossing and turning on his bed. ... goddamnit. (Spirits roll Yuri.) (Err. sixth sense roll rather) * Yuri blinks and closes in. "Wha... this isn't a normal nightmare." * Warlow rushes over to check Jason to check his conditions. "He's fine physically." * Marguerite follows in and starts looking around the room for Stuff What Is Suspicious. * Yuri suddenly gets a thin frown. "He's... his source is taking him for a ride." ... oh, shit. [Maggie searchs a bit and doesn't find anything.] Yeah. Considering what his 'source' sorta is... * Yuri rubs her face a little. "Do you still have that phone? I have an annoyed phone call to try to make." * Warlow glances at the phone Maggie is holding. "That can call outside." * Marguerite pulls it out of a pocket and tosses it at Yuri. "Who you gonna call?" (Huh, Warlow's theme is playing in the bookshop) * Warlow smiles to herself briefly and then frowns again. "Want me to try to break the connection?) * Yuri catches the phone and sighs noisily. "Someone." She starts heading out into the hall. "I'll know if that's a good idea in a few seconds, hopefully." * Marguerite looks to Warlow. "I'd say today couldn't get worse, but it's only fuckin' 9 in the morning." [It rings a couple of times.] * Rowyn has joined #sab2020 [Then Eris picks up.] * Yuri says, semi-quietly, "Eris, why are looking at Jason's dream vision and what is going on?" (why are you?) (Right.) Well, you don't seem to sleep, so I was going to give him the information. I also figured he'd have more interesting dreams. Didn't expect a vision. (Err, mischan) (You didn't hear that Maggie) (Hear what now? ^_~) (Snicker.) * Yuri would roll her eyes if she could. "Yes, well, neither does miss Warlow who is standing right next to him and wondering if she should knock him out of it." Beat. "His source? A bit suspicious at the moment." (I can hear that, right?) (I'm trying to keep quiet, but I'm not THAT far away.) (Hearing roll, -4 bonus Maggie) (kay.) (Made.) (Sure) * Marguerite glances over at Yuri. "I have a good guess." * Yuri glances to Maggie, and then mms and nods slowly. "All right." * Warlow keeps an eye on Jason's condition. * Yuri looks over to Jason and says a bit dubiously, "Try what?" * Jason has joined #sab2020 * Jason blinks open his eyes, looking straight up at... whatever's there these days. Looks like he came around. * Yuri frowns. "... As in, Saki?" * Jason sits up, rubbing at his eyes and looking at where those voices are coming from. * Warlow looks down. "You alright?" [Time: 9:15 GMT.] * Yuri is standing doorward, looking at Jason from the distance. Cell phone in hand. Uh... yeah. All right. Hoo. Why doesn't Saldin ever have to explain the really complex stuff? * Jason clutches his head, then looks around, trying to take the scene in. "Guess so. What happened? My clothes are still here, right?" (Was Jason sleeping naked? Oops, should have checked.) (Ha.) (9_9) (Nothing we haven't seen before! We're all women of the world.) (Jason's clothes are where he left them. ) (I'll assume they didn't pull down the covers, and he sleeps in boxers anyway, so it's a non-issue. ;P But no, he's not going to pull a Kevin and sleep in full jeans and t-shirt and socks.) (Snicker.) * Yuri sighs. "Okay. I'll, uh, condense it down for 'em. If anything really dire comes up... well, yeah. Talk to you later." * Warlow gets up and tosses Jason his clothes and glances away. * Marguerite looks around for a chair to sit in. She lights another cigarette and makes no move to avert her eyes. [Maggie finds a chair.] * Marguerite flops into said chair! Yaye! * Yuri chuckles and hangs up the phone. "Well, I've got great news." She looks to Jason and his clothing and also turns aside. "When we're all ready, that is." And short version of what I told Jason. There's a mole or a turncoat or something on the spirit's side. We have information from them, but if we use it they have a good case for amnesty. It's all fairly suspicious. (r/I told Jason/I told Marguerite) * Jason lets the clothes fall on his lap and eyes Margie, who went and flopped into a chair. Oh well. * Jason picks out his shirt from yesterday and pulls it on. "Spirit's those things we were talkin' about last night, right?" Yes. How about we kill them. Then they can't get excused for anything. The mole may no longer be with them. But yes, aside from attempting to protect anyone the spirits are unwillingly possessing, you may kill the spirits. * Grysar sets mode: +vvv Jason Marguerite Saki * Grysar sets mode: +vvvv Jason Marguerite Saki Yuri * Yuri sighs slightly. "Can we just wait a second and get the whole story? This is all just huge." Eh? Great. We wait a second. Gimme a minute to get dressed. That means people out of my room. * Warlow leaves.\ (Aww, Jason has modesty. :P) * Marguerite shrugs, gets up and follows. (How quaint.) (All Maggie's fault.) * Yuri leaves too. Not that she was looking anyway! (Yeah, SAB has a nice history of nudity.) (It has Yvonne. 'Nuff said.) (The monks aren't officially associated with SAB. Our nudity is our own.) * Jason gets up and shuts the door once Yuri steps out. He is wearing boxers! They're dark blue. THERE. (SAB being the campaign.) (Aha.) * Warlow settles into a contemplative stance. Not much she can do til Jason is ready. * Yuri rubs her shoulders idly. * Jason emerges from the room! He is dressed, shock of shocks, in the same clothes he wore yesterday, dirt and all, and is pulling on his jacket as he steps out of the door. His hair's still a mess, and he doesn't seem to care. "What's up?" * Warlow looks to Yuri. "You start." * Yuri nods. "Right. The bad news is that Saki has more enemies than, uh, someone with a lot of enemies." She glances to Jason. "This time around, though... Eris guesses that it's a woman named Miranda, who's probably working for the Oil guy. Hexeburg." Beat. "Looks like they're recruiting." * Jason blinks. "Oil guy?" * Marguerite frowns. "So it IS all fucking connected." * Warlow nods and thinks. "Hexeburg, presently an Oil company executive, was behind the Chunnel attacks and soon will be dealt with." (Chunnel attack) * Marguerite looks at Warlow askance. * Jason shakes out a cigarette and lights it with a fingertip. He takes a long drag. * Yuri says, in a rising tone of exasperation, "He's ALSO got lots of hellish power that Eris called a God-Devil syndicate, AND is tied in with SMEE, AND kidnapped your stupid girlfriend just so you'd play for the other team." And then there's all this Tarot card insanity. Why can't you people have NORMAL problems! * Warlow glances back to Marguerite and then looks to Yuri. "So, decision time, do you want the mole information or should I just describe what else we've found. (found?) Wait, what? I knew Hexeburg has the Hellmouth behind him, and I knew he had ties to Smee, but he took Saki just to piss of Jason? * Yuri rubs her face, still exasperateed, "Not sure. It looks like it, but it looks like someone else is involved too. And another someone else is doing a nice quiet investigation under the radar of all of this." * Jason exhales smoke. He seems to be taking this well. "If Eris was right and I was having a true vision or something, Saki's in a tower being tortured somewhere." Let's take the fucking information and go find her. What else have we got, Warlow? I don't wanna loose a mole just yet. (Cultural arts / knowledge local roll Yuri and Maggie ) (Any spec?) (Also, untrained?) (History/London and sure.) (Jason did you have area knowledge for London?) (You're asking if I have skills? That's funny.) (Okay, the local if you have it is at -4, but no one does, so... ;P) (I am local, but I don't have skills. :P) Quick version, we've been tracking who the spirits possessed. They have taken an interest in towers ::She gives Jason a nod:: and also apparently stole a large quantity of holy water. More oddly, an hour ago they blew up a botanical garden, probably using most of their remaining explosives to do so. [Jason starts to think that maybe he should know Saki's location based off what he saw, but he can't put his finger on it.] ... a botanical garden? * Warlow nods. "No apparent ties to anything." ... what the fuck. * Jason frowns. "One of 'em's got plant powers. Hey, can we get something... uh, some pictures or something of all the towers in the area? It looked kinda like a museum, with some torture devices to make their jobs easier." * Warlow puts a hand to her head. "What torture devices?" * Marguerite lights another cigarette. Don't tell me I have to start drinkin' already. Jesus fuck. A wrack and, uh, the crushing thing. A vise. * Warlow gets out her own phone and quick dials. "Walker, get me the guys standing by at the Tower of London. Yes, that means you win the pool. Now do it." * Jason goes back to sucking on his own cancer stick. * Yuri coughs and backs away from the smokestacks slightly. Great. Found Saki. Do I finally fucking get to shoot some shit? Right, yes, sounds like they managed to sneak buy. Good job keeping the perimeter, and yes, don't approach yet. ::She hangs up the phone and heads to the entrance:: We've got them. Do you want what the mole has or to go in with what you know? * Jason looks to the others. (sneak by) * Marguerite looks back. "Fuck, open in. Maybe our trigger fingers can slip later." * Warlow opens the document and quickly hands out copies. Fortunately it is in executive summary form. * Jason takes and reads and doesn't burn the paper up. Yet. [A mole infiltrated the group that possessed the EU soldiers and lieutenant. The mole joined up shortly before the death of the lieutenant and his possessor and had minimal contact with them. The Possessors primary objective has been the termination of Saki.] [The Possessors motivation for killing Saki are a mix of longstanding enmity and present survival. They are apparently losing their powers overtime and believe killing Saki is necessary to stem that loss. They have not revealed any larger objectives to the mole.] [The lieutenant’s objective was revenge on Maggie. In return he provided access to his soldiers and weaponry. After the death of the lieutenant the Possessors made a new alliance with demonic forces. The representative of those demonic forces was a tan skinned female with Orange hair.] [This demonic representative is an apparent match with the demon apparently killed using the ruse of delivering gold. The police note that the man apparently falsely accused of arson says the description matches the woman who burned his apartment.] [Demonic agents apparent powers: dimensional portals via flaming doors, turning molten, throwing fireballs that generate a powerful wind that pulls in those nearby. Her flames acquired a greenish tint some time between her apparent death and her encounters with the mole.] [The demonic agent wanted Saki kidnapped. The mole discovered that the agent’s objective was to put her in danger as a trap for Jason Ashton thanks to romantic ties between the two. Jason Ashton apparently angered the demonic forces. The agent wanted him put in a position where he would need his powers and agree to a new contract with them.] [The Possessors were not told the full objectives of the demonic forces. They were told to keep her alive until Jason attacks, after which she was unimportant. The Possessors were also to keep the demonic forces role a secret.] [Three possessors attempted to kidnap Saki. Their powers were control of rope, shadows, and acid. Saki provided an unexpected level of resistance. The demonic agent intervened. The intervention was not planned and was an attempt to prevent Saki’s escape.] [The mole offered to help Saki escape, but Saki declined due to the moles apparent cooperation with the Possessors. The demonic agent burned the apartment building and killed the three possessors. The backdraft generated by this attack allowed her to take Saki through a portal.] [The mole has no further contact with either faction. Additional information on the Possessors is included in case they have further involvement. The numbers of the Possessors are highly limited. The mole was told only three can manifest at a time. They can only use their powers when in spirit form or possessing a weak willed or willing subject.] [Three remaining Possessors were described: a fortune teller, one that controls emotions, and one that controls plants.] (Going to go buy a drink) * Marguerite flips through the document. "Pissed 'em off good, huh Jason?" Yeah, glad we opened this shit first. * Jason keeps reading. He's still on the first page. "Guess so." * Jason keeps reading, slowly (tough it looks like he skims some of it later) and flips through the additional info in back quickly. (It would have been a legit choice not to use this, on the other hand man I'd feel silly writing all that up.) * Warlow reads too. * Yuri reads. "Well, it all makes sense, at least.. " ( Send three proofs of purchase to HellGate, Redmond WA to win a free demonic yo-yo! ) Does this fit with what you saw Jason? Yeah. It does. (Yes. Amuse and possess your friends!) * Jason crumples the paper up and walks off, letting it burn in his hand and turn into so much ash. * Warlow starts walking and quickly makes a call in to have the information disseminated to SAB staff. * Marguerite crosses her arms and sighs. "We gonna have someone else assault it, then?" * Yuri tries to fold the paper up and shakes her head as she puts it inside her jacket. "Well, I doubt they're gonna keeep you away." Small smile. "You know?" * Warlow shakes her head. "I'm headed there now. You guys can lead the assault team." She keeps walking for the entrance, you following? (I'm already heading for assault.) (Right. Meant Yuri and Marguerite0 * Yuri stretches slightly. "I... guess I'll see if I get to stay." And Marguerite, remember to change over your ammunition and leave any anti-Yvonne bullets if you had them. (I forget if Maggie actually bought those.) * Marguerite follows. "Shit, forgot about those." She drops the clip on her DE and tosses it to Warlow. She slides a standard clip in, instead. [And once you all walk, the three of you arrive at the Tower immediately. The onsight commander, middle aged, heavy set but muscular female looks surprised but then seems to recognize you. She says over her intercom "Check weapons, calvary has arrived."] [The other SWAT and Mi-5 types who had trained guns on you when you entered aim them down.] * Yuri blinks, then chuckles faintly to herself and murmurs in Japanese, [The staging area is a lower level of the Tower of London. The tower is actually part of a four towered castle. There's some tactical maps up on a wall so you can see that the torture room of the museum is two levels up.] Get them some comms. You going in? We can follow immediately or hold until you need us. * Jason looks up at the torture room and lets out a breath of smoke. "I'm goin', and you better hold until someone says." * Marguerite shoots a glance to Jason. "I'm all for shootin' the place up, but you think we can get to her before they kill her?" * A lower level police guy hands you all earpieces if you want. * Jason takes the thing and puts it in my ear. "Not until they got me, remember? I think Miranda wants me dead, but even that's something." * Marguerite takes the earpiece and sticks it in, then shrugs. "Your decision. We takin' the front door?" * Yuri grabs it and hooks it in, but she's clearly not used to it. "I pray you're right." Sure. Oh yeah, and don't kill the spirit guys until we know Saki's off the wrack. That's Yuri's problem. Hell, half the time the hosts are already dead. Just saying. Plant girl's got some sort of instakill tied to the flowers on the wrack. * Yuri nods slightly. [Police hang back for now.] Flowers burn, and you've got more control 'n I do. * Marguerite checks her DE, holsters it, then withdraws Bubba. "Can't run if they don't have legs anyhow." She grins. * Jason grins a little, too. "Nope. Let's go." And he does go! * Marguerite follows in a crouching run. * Yuri drops her jacket and follows, almost certainly slower than the other two but trying not to get seperated. Dropping the jacket exposes her shoulder- holstered heavy pistol. [And you can get to the first stairway without any trouble, head up?] * Jason comments as he starts up the stairs, "They've got some sort of mines rigged up. Might wanna watch for them." * Marguerite heads up the stairs, carefully. Cause, you know, mines. * Jason is a little more cautious, too. Maybe he doesn't want to get blown to bits. [Two visual awareness rolls each please. Both at -2. Demolitions helps with the second.] [Maggie and Yuri notice that the team of police behind you suddenly disappears. Everybody notices that all non-daylight light sources also go out. Maggie's gun keeps quietly humming though. Or whatever it does.] [Jason and Maggie notice the first mine at the top of the stair. It wasn't that well hidden.] ( Fine time for a coffee break. ) * Jason doesn't notice the disappearances. He does, however, point out the mine. "There's one." * Marguerite looks behind her. "Oh, fucking great. There goes everybody." [Yuri give me two rolls for sixth sense Huh? * Jason looks back. He blinks. * Yuri 's eyes glow in the dark. Ha ha. Awesome. "Well..." she looks back outside. [Also hearing roll, everyone, -4.] (Fail. Woot!) [Maggie and Yuri both hear Saki screaming. More a "oh the pain" then an "oh the death" scream though.] She's hurtin. Let's move fast, now. Surprise's totally gone. * Yuri nods slightly and then says, "I'm going to try to avoid the mines a different way. I'll see you on the next floor." * Jason nods. "Me too." He dissolves, becoming a swarm of fiery motes. They rush directly up the stairs. ... well, shit. (How dare you be supernatural powerless, Margie.) [As Jason gets to the next floor up he sees that the floor has been covered with a wide variety of roses. The ceiling has been coered over with hanging vines and spanish moss and the like. There's a wall of trees in between you and the next stairway, although they can be walked around.] * Yuri heads outside and, after taking a deep breath, does a running jump against the wall and tries to push herself up enough to grab for the next floor. [ALso, when each person gets up, go ahead and take a +4 visual awareness roll. It's minor so don't wait on it.] * Rowyn has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer ) [Jason gets up without any trouble. Everybody give me an init roll, we'll go with simultaneous at the moment.] [Yuri makes her jump, but doesn't do good enough, she's now hanging from a window, one story above where you are now.] [And for the record, init starts with Jason on the "second" floor, Yuri "second" floor window, Maggie first-second staircase.] * Yuri nnhs as she barely grabs the ledge, the glow from her eyes no longer there as she hangs off the ledge. "Oh, come on..." [And there seems to be some movement behind the trees, for the record. Everybody give me your next moves at once to save time. We'll go to normal init on the third story.] [Yuri needs a climb roll to get up, or can do it over two rounds with a -4. SS helps.] [Maggie Enemy1 Jason Yuri Enemy2 Enemy3.] (Everyone just give orders for now, because these are the baddies you don't care about. ) * Rowyn has joined #sab2020 * Yuri tries to push herself up in the immediate sense, her feet hopefully getting enough purchase on the wall to help her out. (Go ahead and make the roll Yuri. Maggie and Jason, go ahead.) (Trees in the way of the staircase, right? Can I just burn through them?) (In the way of the staircase at the other end of the room.) (So you can get into the room easily) (Yeah, that's what I was referring to.) (But yes, you can make an attack roll against the trees.) (-4 from size) * Marguerite swaps for her DE, aims at the satchel charge, aims, and fires. [Yuri scampers up to the "second" story window. She's now in the middle of the planty room.] * Jason hovers for a moment, then zooms, collectively, straight ahead and for the staircase on the other side of the room. Trees burn. Why stop for them? (Whoo, flammable material! Make.) [Maggie puts one in the satchel charge. It doesn't explode so probably means it's not a threat anymore.] [Jason, give me a soul roll. -4 bonus.] [As Jason flies through the room, the flowers below and the materials above reach out for him and as he reaches the trees, the first two collapse towards him.] [And these plants, for the record, all look fairly sickly, some look outright dead.] [The flowers below manage to nab some of the motes but are burned in return. -5 HP Jason. The tree is a bit more effective at crushing some of the flames, -16 HP, however the other tree and the hanging vines largely miss the motes.] (Make the soul roll.) [All three trees catch fire. Jason briefly feels a touch of overwhelming fear but he surpresses it. For love of Saki? Hatred of Miranda? Style? Only Jason knws.] [One college aged girl with a rifle is protected by the third tree and a variety of plant material. She's eyeing the exit.] (Hang on, I gotta consult with Nasira on what exactly fear is.) [Another college aged guy, this one of Indian ethnicity, opens fire on Yuri with his assault rifle, but she gets some cover as she was coming up from a window.] [Yuri, give me a ranged personal roll. One potential hit.] [Finally there's an obsidian dog that was revealed by one of the falling trees. It rushes forward to bite at Yuri.] [The dog's aim is true and it strikes right after Yuri dodges out of the way of the bullet, another roll Yuri.] [Also, anyone seeing the dog can give me an occult (demons/spirits) roll. +4 penalty.] (Not even bothering. ;P) [The dog rips into Yuri's flesh, its jaws actually passing through her arm as it bites, the dogs flesh is smoldering as it passes through and the wound continues to burn even after the dog has passed through.] [21 initial damage, 5 each for the next few turns] [Next round!] * Marguerite runs up to the landing, backs up, gets a running start, then tries to jump onto the banister, and then use it as a launch pad to make it the rest of the way up the stairs. (Oh, yuri, sixth sense roll now that you're up here.) (Are the trees burned up so I can go through them, or can I split and go around them easily?) (And give me an acrobatics (jump) roll.) (Split and go around easy. The college aged girl is still hard to get to, but the stairs and guy aren't.] [Maggie gets up fast and can take the rest of her turn without any penalty.] (We just go whenever, right? ;P) (right) * Yuri gets out of the way of the bullet and raises her arm to the dog as a block, the teeth sinking through. The flames lick across her arm but except for the initial bite, she doesn't seem to notice as her eyes glow gold. Her hands go, one to her shirt, and one to her jeans, literally tearing them completely off. Guess she needs to go shopping. "Go away." Her amulet begins to glow/hum. * The motes split, half rushing to each side, around the trees and up the stairs, if possible. If the guy's in the way, well, he gets burned. If he's not, he doesn't. [The dog moves to attack again, but is held in place. It growls at Yuri for now.] [The teenaged guy gts the hell out of the way. He really wants to and Jason's not really aiming for him anyways.] [Jason join #sabsaki] (Oh, I've made a mistake or two. The guy is college aged, the girl is teenaged.) (Maggie take the rest of your turn. Jason give me a body roll to see if you get upstairs in time.) (I'm waiting for you to answer my question. (Ah, sorry Maggie) * Marguerite glances up. "What the fuck? The sprinklers are fucking shut off." She frowns, then drops to one knee, and pops one off at the girl's leg. (Uh, miss. Does this mean I have to nix something?) (Naw) [And the teenaged girl would be the one behind the trees doesn't have a rifle, has a pistol and a hand crossbow. Forgot who I was sending down.] [Teenaged girl takes the hit without flinching nearly as much as she should. She does need to steady herself against her flaming tree shield though. She fires back at Maggie.] [Maggie takes a well hit from the gun. Does 16 beat any body armor?] (Well hit?) (good hit) [Oh, and both of you visual awareness +4] ( She got hit gewd! ) [And the crossbow bolt missed.] (Maggie's got 8 armor, so she takes half.) (Where'd I take it?) [The hit is in the calf we'll say. 8 damage from the bullet, plus another 5 because its hollow point and managed to penetrate armor. She has some MD hand weapons for the record.] [Total of 13 damage.] * Marguerite weaves a little in her crouch, but she grins. "So you want to play with the big girls? We can do that." [This just leaves the college aged guy, he'll open up at Maggie as she seems the bigger threat at the moment. (Aw shucks.) [He sprays and prays, but didn't pray hard enough.] [Next round.] * Marguerite draws Bubba, checks to make sure the mode is normal, and flames for the lower half of the girl. * Yuri takes the amulet in hand and glares at the dog, eyes still glowing. "Fade from this plane, spirit. We don't need your kind of trouble." [The dog begins to fade, still growling, and vanishes at the end of the round.] [The girl manages to leap, but she's fairly restrained by he cover, so her legs from knee down are both burned off. She passes out.] [And visual awareness roll, medical (first aid) helps.] Sorry, sugar. Good thing they've got some fucking good prosthetics. * Marguerite rises from the crouch and tries to get as far to the stairs as she can. [As Maggie runs the flowers attempt to ensnare her and stab her with thorns.] [They're successful, give two dodge rolls, +2 each from spreading. Also, one body roll-4, escape artist or whatever they have in tristat helps. [And Yuri, give me a soul roll, +2. Meanwhile College guy keeps firing at Maggie.] [Yuri feels an almost overwhelming sense of contentment and passivity, but she shakes it off.] [College guy aims better with the gun, two potential autofire hits Maggie.] [Thorns tear at Maggies skin, another 10 damage total after body armor. They fail to tangle her though.] [Maggie manages to duck below the autofire shots though.] * Marguerite gets rather scratched, but soldiers on. "You better run, little shit, if you ever want to suck your boyfriend off again." (Next round, or just dediccating yourself to the other side? And how far did Maggie make it?) * Yuri smiles defiantly at the feeling that she manages to shake off. [Next round! And we'll say Maggie is effectively to the other side.]] (Sorry, dedicated to the other side.) * Rowyn has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) * Marguerite fires at the lower half of the guy while running up the steps. "Oops, too late!" (whatcha doing Yuri?) [Guy dives out of the way. Nearly makes it. But you know, he never did take those college courses on dodging good. So he loses above his knees too. He screams in pain and then passes out.] * Marguerite plows on up the stairs. (body (speed) roll Maggie) * Yuri picks up her shoulder holster and loosely hangs it off of her left shoulder before taking the gun in hand and starting to advance cautiously. [Maggie reaches the top of the stairs next round. She notices another explosive-free satchel pack as she heads up.] [Yuri gets the same roll Maggie did against the flowers.] Don't mind the explosive, Yuri, it's disarmed! [Yuri takes 26 damage from the thorns because she lacks body armour, however they don't manage to grasp her. And if she's dedicating her whole turn to movement and not firing, give me a body (speed) roll.] [Yuri, presuming she's heading up, gets to the top of the stairs next round a little after Maggie.] (pause while Brett eats) (YAYE US) (You rule!) * Yuri bleeds her way up the stairs. Being naked is no help against thorns, pretty and monkly or not. She's fairly hurt. [Maggie and Yuri both get up to the "third" floor right as there's a burst of assault rifle fire.] [A college aged woman is firing up at the sprinklers, which activate them, causing Miranda and Jason to react in substantial pain.] [One display has been taken out by a grenade.] [Saki is on the rack, still has one flower attached to her and has been stabbed by another.] [Beyond the college aged girl and Miranda (miranda being the tan skinned orange haired demon agent) there's a middle aged guy with an artifical leg and an assualt rifle.] [Saki has just shot off both of her leg chains.] * Jason is leaning against the wall, shot up in a number of different places and bleeding from all of them. His eyes widen in surprise, small trails of smoke appearing where the drops hit. "The fu-" He doesn't even finish before he slumps unconscious. [The middle aged guy with an assault rifle opens fire with a cyronic spray at Miranda.] * Jason falls unceremoniously to the ground, still burning as the sprinklers go. [However, his aim is off and she dodges, her skin is breaking up and reveal a molten green interior and she looks to still be in great pain.] * Rowyn has joined #sab2020 [Maggie, Middle aged, Miranda, Yuri, Fortune teller.] [Maggie!] Oh... fucking shit. Yuri! Help Saki if you can! Or get those sprinklers! Goddamn fucking internal fucking intrigue SOMOVAFUCKIN BITCH that's PLASMA. (That a hold?) ( What about me? @_@ ) (Naw, just dialog.) [Maggie, Middle aged, Saki, Miranda, Yuri, Fortune teller.] (Sorry) (Heh, right.) * Yuri says, bleedily, "I can barely do anything thing, Maggie. Not made of stone today." (axe the double thing. c.c;) [This room also has a lot of freaky plants, trees to the side, vines along the ceiling.] * Marguerite shouts "Then cover him with like a blanket!" She ratchets to Spread Mode, aims, and fires! Gleefully! (Luck roll Saki. -4 bonus) ( Nope ) [The middle aged guy manages to dodge out the way. The college aged girl ducks behind a tree that just happens to fall in exactly the right way to catch her. Even so she takes some splatter damage.] [Middle aged guy keeps up the attack on Miranda.] [Miranda's skin is now revealed to be totally molten. She collapses.] Kill Saki and fall back! [Saki!] * Saki blasts apart that last flower holding her back. (She already rolled that one) [The flower is taken down safely.] [The fact that Saki can move easily helped that a lot.] [Saki, rest of your turn.] * Saki pushes herself off the rack and staggers towards the others. She looks in pretty serious condition, but she turns and fires as she goes, at plant girl. "Oh, someone's gonna die all right." Good to see you, Saki. (Plant girl went donstairs, that's fortune teller girl.) (She also deserves to die.) (And roll it. +2 penalty, steady hand helps) ( Oh. Her then! ) [And everybody give me hearing rolls.] 2d6-4 ( Er... duh ) * Fortuneteller dodges this one too with a smile. ( Does she dodge both? ) [She also anticipates and avoids the second shot.] [Yuri!] * Robin has joined #SAB2020 * Yuri glances about quickly and then moves for Jason, muttering, , before literally going for a full body flat-cover on the poor guy. She's still holding her amulet in hand. [Jason is protected and he doesn't die this turn.] * Jason would enjoy it if he were, you know, awake. But he breathes! Hooray. [And there's a bit of noise behind you as the teenage girl emerges again. The last tree, no longer on fining, and the flowers have wrapped themselves around her arms and leg stumps. She now moves slowly and in a multilegged insect like manner. She swings a flower covered tentacle arm at Maggie. Dodge roll Maggie, +1 from spreading.] (fining? Fire.) (on fire) [Maggie dodges it. The teenager frowns and visual awareness rolls, -2 for anyone looking at her.] 2d8-2 (pfft.) [And fortune teller opens fire on Maggie.] (err, Saki) [Saki needs a ranged personal, +3 total.] ( @_@ ) [Saki dodges out of the way, and for future reference, you're including stat loss in ACV/DCV, right?] [Maggie!] ( I thought those didn't affect ACV/DCV >.> ) (No, they do.) (Stat drain always affected CV. That's why it's so horrible.) (Count that in future stuff) ( K. ) * Marguerite runs to the rack and tries to flip it upright. [Maggie flips the rack with a mighty heave.] * Marguerite ducks behind it, drops a steaming clip out of Bubba, pulls one from her pocket and shoves it home. [Middle aged guy.] * Middle aged guy keeps up the assault rifle fire on Saki. [Single hit, +1 defense roll from spreading Saki.] [Saki barely manages to dodge out of the way.] [Saki] * Saki reaches into her jacket (or what's left of it, as it appears to have been badly burned) and pulls out a grenade-like object, which she tosses at the girl trying to hide herself. (Which one is that? Plant or fortune?) (Plant I assume?) ( Plant ) ( Though if I could get both in the AoE... ) (She's at a different part.) ( Thought so. :P ) [The air is filled with sparkles and the plants suddenly stop moving, trapping the teenage girl in her own creation. She bares her fangs at Saki but is unable to act otherwise. She also then grimaces in pain.] * Saki smirks and turns her attention to the old guy, opening fire. [He's hit by the first bullet, give me a damage count, but ducks down in time to avoid the second.] [Yuri!] ( 20 damage ) [The guy looks hurt, but he also takes it like a merc and doesn't do much more than flinch.] * Yuri raises her amulet towards the woman playing smirky fortune teller and glares with a low chant that only Jason the unconscious can probably hear. [The fortune teller strangely no sells it. That's what Saki gets for writing in that extra protection in her backplot.] * Jason is wet and bleedy and burny and unconscious. * Fortune teller then opens up at Saki. [But misses.] [Maggie!] * Marguerite pops up from behind the rack. "Time to die, fucking freaks!" [Incidentally Jason's outmost extremeties are taking no more damage. The holy water in the sprinklers has apparently run out.] [The fortuneteller uses the last of her luck to get her spirit up and out of the possessed body before it gets vaporized. However, Yuri can now renew that exorcism check.] * Middle aged guy bribed dicey so he dodges. (Whoo, possess me!) * Middle aged guy however didn't dodge dicey by enough to avoid AoE half damage, so the he takes another hit. He stil looks fairly spry but the damage is adding up.] * Middle aged guy keeps up the fire at Saki. [But he misses.] [Saki!] * Saki whips her head towards the spirit of the fortune teller, opening fire. "Shoot them while they're not in their bodies! That's the only way to kill them!" [Fortune teller didn't see that one coming. And won't see anything more coming.] [Yuri!] ( Um! ) ( Nother attack ) (Saki--yeah.) ( Take it while yuri goes) [Meanwhile the plant girl is digging her way out of her encasing plants, still grimacing in pain.] * Saki points her gun at the middle-aged man and fires, without even looking. [He dodges without even looking.] * Yuri groans and pulls herself off of Jason, her knees first going to his side so she sorta just kneels there, now. Her amulet-aim shifts to the plant girl. (Roll that one, there's a reason.) [And Maggie, act while we resolve this.] ( AFK a sec ) [Plant girl bars her fangs again but while she finishes tearing off her vines and takes out her pistol, she seems unable to attack.] (I'm going to eat. Back in twenty, if you ever even need me. * Jason is now known as IdleJason * Robin is now known as RobinGone [Still on Mggie.] * Marguerite ratches back to Normal mode, and aims for the Middle Aged Guy. "Couldn't fucking trouble yourself to hold still, could you?" (+She fires.) * He can't, bastard. [Middle aged guy.] * Middle aged guy grimaces after dodging and drops to a crouch, devoting all of his energy to attacking Saki. Fortunately, he doesn't critsuccess, unfortunately, he comes damn close. Saki ranged personal +10 from autofire, +1 spreading. I've tend to cap autofire at three because of knockback, but that only applies to damage.] (tended) (Although if you've got body armor, there's more potential hits, because of less knock back.) (He really should have been trying for a vital spot, but hey, I didn't think to. ;P) ( Back. Sorry ) (Okay, you've got a hell of a dodge roll coming. Lemme know your margin.) ( @_@ ) ( Total defense! ) (Good plan!) (Can you declare that when it isn't your turn?) (And have it apply to the next?) ( I didn't know) ( I thought so? >.> ) (Okay, anyone object? That seems reasonable.) ( I mean, kind of pointless to TD when it's you're turn :P ) (Well the idea is that you know bad stuff is coming.) (Okay, I'll allow it. Roll) [Middle aged guy is taking burn damage, for the record.] (A TD is a sacrifice an attack for +2 to all defense.) (Okay, so an attack is sacrificed next turn. Roll it.) (So if you're sacrificing both your next attacks, that's a +4. Or just one for +2.) (Check) [Saki takes 49 damage and is knocked down. Body roll to get up again, but +4 penalty because you're mainly focused on defense. And giving up TD attacks of course. [Saki!] * Saki is shot multiple times and falls to the ground. She grimaces, her chest a bloody mess. She lies on the ground and raises her guns to shoot the man. (Any attacks this round?) ( Yeah. Shooting at him. ) (SO you didn't TD some? Okay) ( No, I TD'd one ) (Roll it) ( Both hit ) [He takes two hits and seems to be have trouble keeping his kneel.] [Maggie!] * Marguerite just fires again. He's got to get unlucky sometime. Kaboom! Stupid Arcana. [He's toasted, there's a spirit rising from the body though.] [Yuri, I skipped Yuri. Sorry Yuri.] (I was wondering. ^_^;) * Yuri holds to her exorcism on the plant girl, her eyes glowing along with her amulet as normal. [Plant girl is held. She also seems to be struggling against something at the moment. [Saki!] * Saki fires at the merc's spirit [It takes one hit and tries to flee towards the window.] [Yuri!] ( Ummm ) (Right right, take the rest.) (Sorry) ( Got one left ^^; ) * Saki takes another shot. Possibly her last. [Merc spirit evaporates into the air.] [Now Yuri.] * Yuri raises to her feet slowly as she continues holding the exorcism on the girl. She says, forcefully, "Give up, spirit." [And, bizarrely, your setting reverts and your earpieces suddenly have chatter that has been absent for a bit. The plants are still there, but the rest of the damage you guys had inflicted, bullet holes and all, are gone.] [The girl manages to expel the spirit which floats in front of her. She then puts her hands up and winces in pain.] [Give me your exorcism roll on it Yuri.] [The spirit is vanquished! [Out of init. Let's wrap this.] [The plants whither and die.] MotherFUCK. Fucking son of a bitch. * Marguerite stows Bubba. "Yuri, can you walk?" * Saki crawls towards Jason, leaving a trail of blood behind her. We.. haven't heard from you in a bit. How's it going? ::The sergent sounds slightly confused:: (Give us a sec for Yuri to respond.) (Stupid monks require eGreg to think up a desc. ^_~) * Yuri is standing. And she is covered in blood. And she is green, her wounds now oozing a darker fluid. * Yuri looks to Maggie. "I'll live." She looks down at Jason. "Think he will too." [Miranda's body lies there, smoldering and not moving.] [Girl is wiping flecks from Saki's grenade off of her.] * Marguerite shouts into the mic. "Get a med team in here! I'll bring our operatives out." [Surviving college guy is downstairs and not talking.] Roger. ::There's sounds of meds moing up:: Hold on, Saki, I've got you. * Saki makes it as far as Jason and collapses. Evidently she's still conscious, but doesn't have the strength to move anything but her eyes. [And awareness check -4 on former plant girl for anyone watching.] * Yuri is looking to Miranda as she moves that way, letting Maggie handle the wounded. * Marguerite grabs Saki and puts her on her shoulder, then heaves Jason up and does the same. She starts down the stairs. * Saki makes Maggie's clothes bloody. [The police medics tend to college boy and can take both off Maggie's hand.] [And we'll let Jason come to for now. No moving though.] * Yuri nods and looks to the plant girl, then, next. And so on about the room. * Saki smiles--- that's unnerving -- smiles at Maggie, whispering. "'S over...." [Stretchers are brought up for Saki, college boy, and Jason.] * Marguerite gets the two to the door of the place, then reliquishes them to the med teams. "Yeah, I bet it is, Saki. No talking, though. You might be reincarnated or fuckin' whatever, but I bet it hurts." * Saki lets herself be carried off. Not like she could stop them. * Plant girl keeps knock flicks off of herself. [Any last Jason/Saki comments as they go off to the hospital?] * Yuri frowns at plant girl, then her eyes widen. "Oh." Beat. "Oh." She brings her amulet up. "Alright. Start explaining why I shouldn't send you to join the spirits." * Saki is carried off! [Miranda's embers are slowing dying down, no longer green, just red.] * Girl grins sheepishly, fangs showing. "I surrender. That good enough?" [She keeps at the wiping off, but slower now.] * Marguerite turns back to the college guy. "Keep that one under wraps, he's not cleaned out yet." * Yuri tries to work the damn headset, "Someone get up here. You've got a vampire to contain, yes, a vampire." [A few clerics join the police. They work on the college guy first. "Flesh was weak, spirit weak too, this one was barely holding on and we finished it." Another cleric crew goes up to handle the vamps, cross and such at the ready.] * Girl waves. "Hi." * Marguerite lights a cigarette and has a nip from her flask. "Fuck. Now I probably owe Katherine a beer." [Miranda goes out, and from a Yuri examination, she's staying down. Fortune tellers body has stealable clothes, alternately police can give you a smock.] * Yuri lets her amulet hang down and goes for the Fortuneteller's clothes, saying with a sigh, "What a morning. Evening. Whatever." [End!]