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OOC thread. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?363054-May-the-Grass-Grow-Long-OOC)
St. Cecilia's School for Girls is located in the suburbs just outside of the city of Versino, located on the Isle of Voices just off the northern coast of the Blessed Isle. A prestigous private school with equally prestigous fees, it is mostly attended by the children of the wealthy and influential, with a few exceptions attending on scholarship. The campus itself was formerly a sprawling monastery run by nuns of the immaculate faith, the hourglass and sunburst iconography still evident in the stately architecture. A few more modern buildings have been built to hold classrooms, domitories and workshops, but the prestige of the campus has demanded they be built to match the style of the existing architecture, at least on the outside.
Morning classes are still in session, but the students are already the eyeing the clocks. The lunch bell is only ten minutes away.
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ABBY
You're bored. It is IT. Not even Computer Science, IT. As in, how to use microsoft office.
The clock appears to be going backwards, and you're fairly certain that agents of the Infernals powers that secretly own the world are directly responsible for this.
Even the teacher appears to be bored, waiting for the rest of the class to finish their assignments. You finished in the first five minutes, of course, and have been stuck here ever since.
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DAPHNE
You're bored. Or you would be, if you didn't have chemistry lab before lunch. It is scientifically impossible to be bored in Mr. Torgue's chemistry classes, mostly due to the CONTINOUS EXPLOSIONS and the EXCESSIVE VOLUME AT WHICH HE SPEAKS. He has had to tone it down a little bit recently, after he BLEW UP THE SWIMMING POOL with a CHUNK OF POTASSIUM.
"And now that you've mixed the CARBON DISULFIDE with the NITROUS OXIDE, you're GONNA SHOVE A MATCH IN THERE! AW YEAH, just like I SHOWED YOU EARLIER! Remember to - JEN, GET YOUR F***ING SAFETY GOGGLES BACK ON RIGHT NOW - use the LONGA** MATCHES, otherwise you'll BURN YOUR F***ING EYEBROWS OFF! WHICH IS BADASS, but will get the PTA B****ING AT ME! AGAIN!"
You're doing this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdWKj_SFqtE) experiment, if you're curious.
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NIALL
You were meeting up for burgers with the Doctor when you got a phonecall. It was your mother.
Apparently Cassidy got herself in trouble, some sort of fight. They're all out of the country at the moment, so they sent you to pick her up - and talk to her teachers you're guessing - which is why you're sitting here in the waiting room outside the headmistress' office, your sister shrinking into the chair beside you. She hasn't said a word since you got here, but the black eye is starting to show.
The spider-doc is waiting in the car outside. You're not yet sure if that was a good idea.
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NATE
You were meeting up for burgers with Niall when he got a call. His sister needing to be picked up from school.
Which is why you're sitting the car, waiting for him. Them. This school is very fancy. Big, cast iron fence around it, fancy gates and enough expertly landscaped greens between the school and the gates that you're pretty sure you should be referring to them as something more pretentious.
Make an awareness+perception test. Sound or scent based at your option.
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SERAS
This is it. Time and place. You've done your scouting and found a good vantage point a few hours before it's supposed to go down, whatever it is that's supposed to go down, but you've yet to see any sign of anything unusual.
JonRG
2014-07-22, 04:04 PM
Niall eyes the clock as it ticks along. It's boring him to tears, but better that than the poster advertising missions for the Church of the Immaculate Faith. This place made his skin crawl like never before, ever since he'd learned the truth about the Church... and everything else. With a deep breath, he turns to Cassidy with a warm smile. "S'okay, Cassie," Niall says, wrapping an arm around her shoulder. "Whatever goes down, we're gonna get through it, okay?" With his other hand, he gingerly traces her black eye. "So can ya tell me what happened?"
Obscurejones
2014-07-22, 04:11 PM
Dr. Adam Essex
As he waits Essex drums his hands on the dashboard, idly wishing that he'd asked to keep the keys. Could have at least listened to the radio. Although it's debatable if Niall's car's sound system would even make it worth his while. He mutters under his breath, arguing with himself softly, his voice lilting back and forth between casual and jovial, and an almost aggressive interrogatory tone.
"Bored. Bored bored bored. I could be working right now. Or at least flirting with Silverman. Do I absolutely need to be waiting on this reporter? He's on family business for Lucien's sake."
He nods to himself, the answer clear. Niall's one of the few people he still talks to. It may mean the occasional banal waiting, but its worth it. Keeps him from bugging out. Getting too stir crazy or falling too far down the pit of self. With a heavy sigh he perks his ears, straining to see if he can hear any music wafting from the school. Nice place like this probably had a doozy of an orchestra or choir. Stomach grumbling his wrinkles his nose, curious what the staff are feeding the little rugrats today.
Activating Sense-Sharpening Change, at five motes, for both Smell and Hearing. It duplicates the effects of both Unsurpassed (Sense) Discipline and Keen (Sense) Technique.
Perception 6 + Awareness 2 [roll0]
Stunt as Determined by Tome on skype. :smalltongue:[roll1]
So that's eight sux, multiplied by 2 for a total of 16 Shiny shiny sniffs and listens.
ChaosArchon
2014-07-22, 04:53 PM
Seras Liberatus
Seras stands perched above the school in an apartment building that is across the street from it. Entry had been easy enough, all she had to do was say she was meeting someone in one of the apartments and the front desk allowed her to pass by. Of course they had no reason to stop her, she was just a normal everyday person, why would they have any reason not to believe her. How could anyone guess the woman who they were talking to was a god-killing assassin blessed with powers beyond humanken, after all the godcannon she packed was safely in the Elsewhere, out of the view of mortal eyes.
However now that she was on the roof, her godcannon was out in full view as she watched through her scope for any suspicious activity which would signal Infernal involvement. The weapon really was a beauty, a four foot long orichalcum-encased Angel of Death, supported by a bipod which had the appearance of two wings of a dove. The pinnacle of annihilation on the mortal plane, it was hers and she loved it, as well as the freezing touch of it's cold metal as she viewed the entire scene. The time SK had listed was coming soon, and with any luck an Infernal was about to join his Yozi masters.
Kell_tamer
2014-07-22, 05:55 PM
Information Technology. It's a funny phrase given how much information is just placed up on the net with not a care in the world. Behind glasses that were more for show, eyes darted left and right along a screen. Larissa was unaware that her boyfriend currently was having a correspondance with one of the other girls in the class. Melissa was posting facebook selfies. Janice.... wasn't sure how to save a file, ok some people needed this class. Hacking students though was boring. It was honestly easy and childs play.
Hands flying over the tablet PC in front of her, Abby made her way into the schools system. Again child's play but maybe she could find something interesting. Gestures and sweeps across the screen led her further in, clacks on the little fold up keybaord downloaded information. It was time to see what the Security Camera show had to display.
Private school... feh, such a lie.
Using the 2nd lore excellency + 1 mote to buy 2 successes, her tablet gives her +1 success, any stunt dice are automatically successes.
5 motes peripheral spent, at least 3 auto sux.. 10 dice.
[roll0]
2 sux stunt. 11 sux.
josienoms
2014-07-22, 10:09 PM
Normally, Daphne found science to be entirely boring. And yet, Mr. Torgue's force of personality rivaled her own, so there was never a dull moment. She pulled her hair back into a loose ponytail, her antennae twitching in irritation. It wasn't the best look, but it was better than being on fire. Of course, she very much doubted that anyone cared. It was possible that because of this simple gesture, the entire school would have loose ponytails by tomorrow.
She wasn't entirely interested, but knew that she needed to get things done. So she did as Mr. Torgue said, careful in holding her match over the glass tube until-
She yelped in surprise at the fire and sound. Even knowing it was coming did little to diminish the shock.
ABBY
Almost predictably it only takes you a few moments to get access to the school's CCTV system - apparently that one guard is still using '1234' as her password.
What would you like to look for?
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DAPHNE
"AWWWWWWWWWWESOME!" Mr. Torgue cheers as the classroom is filled with barking explosions and the smell of sulphur. "Now Everyone has to FINISH MAKING THEIR NOTES AND STICK THE TUBES IN THE WASH RACK! WE'LL BE REVIEWING THIS EXPERIMENT IN CLASS TOMORROW! In the meantime, START SHOVING THE REST OF THIS STUFF BACK WHERE YOU GOT IT SO WE CAN ALL GO TO LUNCH! IT'S CHICKEN TODAY! I LOVE CHICKEN!".
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NATE
No choir practice at the moment, but you can smell lunch being prepared. Smells like... chicken? Roast chicken and veg, with plenty of gravy. That's not a school lunch, that's a proper meal. They get actual meals here? Lucky brats.
Though you do smell something else... is that gunpowder? No, gunpowder hasn't been used in over a century you remember. Which would make that whatever they use as propellant nowadays - some sort of mix as you recall. It's not too alarming on it's own, you saw a few armed security guards at the gate. No, what's absolutely terrifying is just how much of it you can smell. Those guards only had sidearms. And you're pretty sure that's not the only explosive you can detect... though admittedly you may be being thrown off by the chemistry labs.
Either way, you can smell it coming from the other side of the carpack. You look, and notice a plain white van parked there.
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NIALL
She shrinks away from your touch for one painful moment, before wrapping her arms around you and burying her face in your shirt. She sniffles a little, and you can tell she's trying not to start crying.
"There was a fight" she murmurs quietly, hiding her face, "Louise was, was saying that you'd gone crazy, and that mum and dad had shipped you off to an asylum and... I, I just got so mad...".
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SERAS
You can't really make out anything unusual yet, you are here a few hours early after all.
ChaosArchon
2014-07-23, 03:57 PM
Seras continues to wait for the time to arrive and in the meantime humming,"Here comes the sun, do do dottle, here comes the sun and I say."
She continues check through her scope to see if anything out of the ordinary happens at the school. She makes sure to keep track of the direction the wind is flowing and constantly adjusts her scope to ensure it is at the most optimal magnification possible, when her Akuma mark shows up, she wants to make sure he doesn't leave. Ever. Again.
Aiming action so whenever she finds a target, her godcannon is steadied
Obscurejones
2014-07-23, 04:03 PM
Dr Adam Essex
"Well, ****. That's not good."
With a smoothness of motion that belies his mortal frame Essex slithers from the car, out in a jiff and closing the distance to the van. As he walks his fists clinch and unclinch. No time to make the change, out in the open, not a good idea, too many people, too many people. Web the van, cover it completely, make sure there's not way for the explosion to escape. It's strong it'll hold in the... Humans. Loss of life?
"The needs of the one, Jim. Now put your game face on, Kid."
The good doctor readies himself to monster up and then pauses. Frowns. The smell... Dissipates.
"**** **** **** a duck."
Digging into his pocket he pulls out a cheap burner pre paid phone and hits one of only two buttons on the screen.
"Pick up pick up pick up.... C'mon I'm trying to save your sister's life. Do the right thing and ignore her for a second."
As he walks he tries to follow the wisps of a scent following them from the source to their destination.
Still using Sense-Sharpening Change, at five motes, for both Smell and Hearing. It duplicates the effects of both Unsurpassed (Sense) Discipline and Keen (Sense) Technique.
Perception 6 + Awareness 2 [roll0]
Stunt as Determined by Tome on skype. :smalltongue: [roll1]
So that's nine sux, multiplied by 2 for a total of 18 Shiny shiny sniffs and listens.
JonRG
2014-07-23, 04:23 PM
Niall frowns a bit. Damn it. This was his fault, in a way. People talked. They always talked. Blame wouldn't do anyone any good now. He holds his sister close. "Hey, hey. I'm a big boy, yanno. Won't lose any sleep knowin' some bitch is talkin' bad about me. Remember, Cassie. People like her can't stand good, honest folk, and they'll try to cut ya down anyway they can. If you're gonna make it as a journalist, you're gonna have to learn to let stuff go, okay?" Niall grins a bit wickedly. "D'ya think Louise'll worry now that I've escaped?" he asks.
Suddenly, his phone rang. Niall Tierney, slave to a diabolic conspiracy and friend of Adam Essex, currently had two cell phones in his possession. The Althing had the number for one, but luckily, it was the other ringing right now. Doc must have gotten bored. He squirms awkwardly and pulls the burner from his pants pocket without disturbing his sister. "Just a sec, Cass. Y'ello?"
Kell_tamer
2014-07-23, 04:25 PM
Abby cycles through the monitors. Ms Tewinter and Mr Caleb snogging in the abandoned teachers lounge, a couple girls running through the halls. It was starting to look somewhat boring. Abby cycled the cameras through, setting feeds to download and peruse later for her database. She lingered a bit as the camera caught Daphne in the science lab. She subconsiouscly gripped the hair behind her neck in an imitation ponytail before looking to see what else there was.
Her hand unclinched and she continued the cycle... boring, boring, boring. Something interesting HAD to be happening here.
Perception + Investigation +1 for digital trail searching. 7 dice
[roll0]
stunt if any
[roll1]
Obscurejones
2014-07-23, 04:34 PM
Dr Adam Essex
"Who put the bomb in the bomb sha bomb sha bomb? No idea, but he also put a few in your sister's school. Get her out. And any other nubiles you're fond of. Place stinks like cordite. And hormones. And chicken dinner. But really only the cordite and the hormones are dangerous. Unless you're on a low sodium diet, I suppose."
Essex moves to hang up and then snaps his arm back up to fire off a parting shot.
"Also, way to answer. It's nice to know you listen. Alright, I'm getting all mushy. See you in a few in the rubble. I'm going to try to find the actual firework."
NATE You can't hide from me.
Tracking such a distinctive scent is pretty effortless to you. The scent trails lead away from the van and quickly split. There's... a lot of different trails, and probably a lot of different bombs making them. Most of the school buildings buildings have multiple trails leading to them.
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ABBY
Headmistress talking with some older girl and her mum, another girl with a lovely little black eye sobbing into her dad's shirt in the waiting room, some strange guy loitering about the carpark whilst yammering on his phone... hold on a minute.
You flick back a screen. You could swear you've seen that suitcase propped against the gym wall before. In fact, you know you have. You cycle the camera feeds. There, the same suitcase left in the hall outside the chemistry lab. And another in the cafeteria. They're everywhere, now that you're looking. Including one right outside the classroom you're in.
Whilst you check for the suitcases something else also catches your eye. Campus security is out in force... and it's strange because as far as you're aware most of the guards here are women, but you're seeing a pretty even split right now.
Kell_tamer
2014-07-23, 06:27 PM
Abby's hands move like lightning. In mere moments every computer in the school has images of the suitcases pop up on them. Her system transitioning from proxy to proxy to throw off any backtracing attempt. The Mobile's of every teacher and real faculty member goes off. A text to each, mentioning a bomb threat. The message is sent anonymously.
The security office receives a message with each room containing a case. The image of "security" sent through. They had enough monitors. it could be properly forced to attention.
The yellow smiley face above the grid of flags and numbers puts on a pair of shades.
Alright gonna urn a bit of motes. 5m1wp lets her hack as misc actions for the scene. this is personal. 9 motes peripheral are spent to add 4 auto succcesses on top of any from stunts and equipment. 5 right now. 3m 1wp brings about firewall defying method. this adds an additonal 3 successes to the roll. in total 9m peripheral 8 personal 2wp spent.
7 sux + 10 dice
[roll0]
stunt if any
[roll1]
JonRG
2014-07-23, 09:56 PM
Niall's eyes widen in horror. "Thanks. I'll see ya." He hangs up, then pulls his sister to her feet. "C'mon. Let's getcha some air." He strides confidently from the office, ignoring anyone that attempts to stop him. Niall wanders a deserted hallway, mind racing. "Damn it, Adam. Tryin' to save all the kids here." He sees a little red box on the wall. Fire alarm. "Bingo." Niall grabs his sister lightly by the shoulders. "I wantcha to remember, your brother's not crazy. Okay? Can ya do that for me?" She nods weakly. "Good. Now run!" He breaks the glass and pulls the alarm.
Then he runs for the door, obviously. Didn't want to cut into the drama.
josienoms
2014-07-23, 11:17 PM
Daphne goes about gathering her things and heading off to lunch! Not being the smartest or most perceptive girl, nothing seemed out of the ordinary for her. Not until the fire alarm goes off. She keeps calm, and starts to lead the other girls out of the school in an orderly fashion.
"Walk, don't run! Stay calm, we'll all be okay. It's probably just a fire drill." She turns on the charm, smiling widely and displaying her perfect white teeth.
Obscurejones
2014-07-23, 11:25 PM
Dr. Adam Essex
When the alarm goes off Adam winces,but can't help but smile. Bleeding heart on Niall. But a clever one. That should work if they're on timers. If they're on detonators... Well A+ for effort. He makes a bee line for the nearest scent trail. Maybe he can get his hands on one of the explosives. Always good to have some evidence after the carnage.
ABBY
You watch through the security feeds as everyone's eyes turn to their phones and monitors, comprehension dawning.
And then fire alarm goes off.
And then six heavily armed figures emerge from the security room - incidentally one of the few places in the school where there are no cameras whatsoever. They bark orders into their radios and every guard you can see on camera draws their gun. Most of them head towards the nearest classrooms. You can see them brandishing weapons, herding the students back inside.
Inside the IT labs there's that additional moment of confusion before people react to the fire alarm - everyone could see the images you put on screen after all. This just means that a pair of would be-guards kick down the doors instead. Brandishing their sidearms they yell "Down on the ground now!".
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DAPHNE
You step through to door... and find yourself looking down the barrel of a gun. It's held in the hand of someone wearing the uniform of school security guards. She's looking... rather annoyed.
"Back in the classroom brats" she growls in thickly accented meruvian. "Nobody gets any clever ideas, and nobody gets hurt".
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NATE I see your real face
The nearest one is in the admin building, where Niall went. You see three men in combat gear burst out of the doors as you approach.
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NIALL
Cassidy nods and turns to run with you close behind, only to freeze as she turns the corner. Your hear someone shout "Freeze bitch!" in some foreign accent and her hands shoot into the air. Coming to a halt just behind her, you see two men wearing combat vests and levelling assault rifles around the corner, with four more running the other way down the corridor.
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SERAS
You hear the fire alarms going off in the distance, and down your scope you see people in guard uniforms brandishing weapons and quickly moving into place. Their movements look military to your eye.
You also hear vehicles below you, two nondescript white vans speeding towards the school gates that swing wide to let them past.
Kell_tamer
2014-07-24, 03:09 PM
Abby's hands move quickly. Her cellphone is open and the solar essence invisibly bolsters it to the power of a supercomputer. Generating a feed from her tablet over to her cell phone she has it take over the processes she put in place. Thumb flies across the touch screen as she activates apps and programs to handle the situation. In moments faces and dossiers of those who don't belong at the school are sent to law enforcement. Images of them at the school are sent out to any cop nearby.
As she gets down on the ground to leave for the fire alarm her hand swipes the phone turning the signal sniffer on. Hiding a signal would stop mere mortals, but Abby was capable of finding signals that are completely invisible with her skill. All things digital posses a signal. All things digital can be found.
Essence binds her equipment to the closed network. He skill breaks right through. She would have control and she block it from them.
Meanwhile on the other side of town, an office of one Sgt Patrick Carter, recieves a picture of message, "Patrick, our games shall go on hold. Someone outside is causing trouble. Consider this a friendly warning. -OI"- Attached are pictures of briefcases and dossiers.
At the same time a chirp occurs on Seras' phone "An issue requires your attention. -OI-"
Abby thumbs her phone bacdk to the feeds waits on the ground with the other girls, they are unaware of what just transpired in the last few seconds.
OK 2 actions
First one has 10 dice + 2 sux bought +1 for phone bonus + any stunt Abby is simply disseminating information 4 motes personal.
[rollv]10d10/rollv]
Stunt add to Sux
spending a mote for Her second action is breaking into the PAN Network that would be operating the bombs. she activates Wireless Proxy Method for 2 motes and attempts to gain access to the equipment with 1 sux + 3 from Firwall Defying method. 3m personal 1 more wp. 2 more sux are bought with 5 motes for the second excellency 10 more dice + any stunts sux
[roll0]
stunts add Sux
ChaosArchon
2014-07-24, 03:19 PM
Seras is momentarily revolted, "How dare they! How dare those Infernal bastards not only use children as human shields, but brandish weapons at them and put them into a situation which will scar them for life!" she grits her teeth and begins to breathe in and out, "Calm Seras, breathe and focus. These men are now dead, with my will I destroy them, and erase their lights from this world."
Seras then aims her godcannon at where she believes the engine block would be in one of the white vans. She then aims in such a way that the bullet will pierce the first engine block and then ricochet into the second engine block, making sure her shot has the potential to eliminate the most Infernal scum or their lackeys as possible. She was a Chosen of the Sun, and in the name of Sol Invictus their lives were now her's to take.
As she pulls the trigger of her godcannon, her sniper rifle unleashes a bullet spiraling in elegant devastation towards the van. Before the gun even makes a sound and Seras has readied her next shot, the blessed bolt of annihilation pierces the engine block and speeds towards the second, stopping both cars dead in their tracks as well as potentially igniting the gas stored within...
activating Every-Angle Perfection to make sure this ricochet works -6m, 34/47 Peripheral essence
the shot itself would be (Dex(5)+Firearms(5)+Aim(3)+Accuracy(3)+Specialty-Sniping(+2) [roll0]
stunts if necessary:[roll1]
JonRG
2014-07-24, 04:12 PM
Niall bites back a curse. Damn it. They had almost being out of there! Instead, some UES tools were holding his little sister at gunpoint. Much as he'd like to blow their heads off, that would probably only serve to get Cassie killed. She... she was the only thing in his life that hadn't gone to hell. He had to protect her, even if that mean bowing to mere mortals. That assumed, of course, that they were mortals. Niall raises his hands and does his best to look like a terrified bystander. "Please, don't hurt us."
Obscurejones
2014-07-24, 04:17 PM
Dr Adam Essex
"Game face, kid. This is no time to play the fool."
Throwing aside his jacket, Essex rips off his shirt and takes a knee as his flesh reknits itself and tears apart.
Nate Grey, Warform Active
A set of four spidery legs erupt from Nate's back as he changes, a sickening wet crunch signalling their regrowth. As he veers towards the armed assailants his face tightens and Essex's swarthy stubble is replaced with a pervasive brown fur. His arms swill slightly as his spinnerets click into place. His legs twist and warp to mirror the spindly furry limbs sprouting from his spine. And his eyes shine and glitter.
Careening towards the enemy on all eight of his limbs, Nate shrieks, a high keening sound.
"Drop your weapons or die!"
Alright, thanks to me knackity knacks, we're dealing with a pool of 12 Mutation points.
Spinnerets, Compass Autocthonia pg. 131, 2 Points
Spider Legs, MOEP: Lunars pg. 209, 6 Points
Fur, Core pg. 288, 1 Points
Enhanced Eyes, Core pg. 288, 1 Points
Gazelle's Pace, MOEP: Lunars pg. 207, 2 Points
Going into Warform for 1 Mote. As that takes a miscellaneous action, that's it for now... Probably more to come soon.
Join Battle [roll0]
Stunt, if any [roll1]
ABBY If you don't leave now, you might get found out
The messages are sent and the two men force everyone to the ground. You can hear some of the other girls crying before one of them puts a warning shot into the floor and yells at them to shut up. There's screams and they quickly go quiet - there's still crying, they're just trying their best not to make any noise.
One of the men stays by the door, watching the room as the other moves among the class, checking each of their hostages.
NIALL You know, I bet you could fix all this with just one little phone call...
The two men exchange gestures - military hand signals, but you can read them easily enough. One of them keeps his gun levelled at the two of you, whilst the other circles around behind you. "Hands on heads meruvian dogs" he growls as his partner moves to the side. The press of a gun barrel into your back makes it clear that you should be moving.
"Move".
You steal a glance at Cassidy. She's terrified, but keeps looking between the barrel of the gun pointed at her and back to you.
SERAS You know you're probably being used here, right?
The bullet hits, dead on target, and punches into the bonnet of the first van... but fails to emerge. It also fails to stop the vehicle.
Apparently, you need to make bigger holes in them.
The vans begin weaving erratically, and you can see the guards at the gate looking about for the origin of the shot.
The van takes 4 lethal damage. You need to deal another 11 levels of damage to stop it.
If you want to stop vehicles in one shot, you'll probably need to boost your damage.
Also, stealth check and join battle.
NATE Finally showing your real face
The three soldiers look your way with shouts of surprise. But only for a moment. They level their weapons at you and one yells "Kill it!".
Join Battle A: [roll0]
Join Battle B: [roll1]
Join Battle C: [roll2]
ChaosArchon
2014-07-24, 05:13 PM
Seras curses as her shot fails to stop the car in time and prepares to aim her godcannon at the vehicle, taking note that the engines seem too thick for the bullet to bounce from one to another.
Hiding: Stealth(3)+Dex(5)[rollv]8d10[rollv]
Join Battle:[roll0]
am I being used though? or just using any excuse to kill Akuma? ;P
Kell_tamer
2014-07-24, 05:33 PM
Abby slips one final plan into motion. While the guard is moving around she repalms her phone for a mere moment. essence continues to flow but fails to betray as she quickly mutes her reciever and sends a speakerphone call to her father. the phone is slipped into her backpack into the mesh to prevent the noise from being muffled. With her dad on speed dial and the new information, he was bound to pick up.
Once the phone is doing its work as a makeshift wire, she looks up. Her dominant hand is nearby the collapsible stun baton she carries. Just in case.
"Do you have any idea who my father is? Do you know what hell you will rain down upon you for this?" Abby's proper accent is thick and she speaks loudly so the phone picks it up knowing the shouting that will follow through.
Ok spending 4 motes peripheral to reflexively make the speed dial and mute (2 seperate reflexive actions). 4 motes personal to do the palming with an extra 2 successes on the roll. 7 dice to do this sneakily.
[roll0]
stunt if any
[roll1]
josienoms
2014-07-24, 09:51 PM
Daphne puts her hands up at the sight of the gun.
"Now now, I'm sure there's no need for that. It's just a fire drill, so you can put your gun down. We're all friends here, right?" She smiles sweetly and bats her eyelashes.
I'm activating New Friend Aroma, establishing a principle of friendship between me and chick with a gun!
Rolling Charisma+Appearance: [roll0]
JonRG
2014-07-24, 10:31 PM
Niall tries to look on the bright side. His experience could make for one hell of an article, but "they" probably wouldn't approve of that. He locks his fingers behind his head and flashes Cassie a reassuring smile. "Don't worry. Just do what they say, and we'll get through this all right." Would they? These terrorists were military trained and didn't seem the type to leave loose ends. Regardless, their best bet was to cooperate until an opportunity showed itself. Ideally without bathing his little sister in terrorist blood.
Obscurejones
2014-07-25, 02:42 AM
Nate Grey, Warform Active
They never give up. The always want to fight. But they forget that he's not a man anymore. He's a monster. With effortless grace, Nate spins low, the spider limbs buoying him along as his arms and legs dance about, weaving up a net of silvery silk.
As he moves his limbs are rimed in silvery force, leaving contrails of shimmering light. As the netting is complete he springs up off the ground and whips his arm around, aiming the resulting net at the the mercenaries, trying to pin the one farthest to the right to the still open door. As the net is loosed he keeps his movement, scampering up the wall of the building. With any luck they won't raise their guns in time to hit him as he heads up and over the edge of the roof.
Activating Fifth Dexterity Excellency for ten motes, then flurrying in throwing a net spun with Argent Weaver Art. The net costs 0 motes thanks to his spinnerets.
So Dexterity 5 + Bonus Dexterity 5 + Thrown 3 + Webbing 1 + Net Accuracy 4 - Multiple Action Penalty 2 [roll0]
I'll go out on a limb and say Stunt 2, based on what Tome's said in the past. [roll1]
ABBY Oh dear, how are you going to explain this one to daddy dearest?
You have the attention of the two armed terrorists. The one closest to you looks to his partner for confirmation.
"She's on the list. Kill her".
He pulls the trigger.
You got a two die stunt. Your phone is on and nobody noticed.
Fortunately, these are the low end grunts and you're not surprised.
Accuracy: [roll0]
Has a base damage of 6L and the Piercing tag.
Join Battle
-Terrorist 1 [roll1]
-Terrorist 2 [roll2]
DAPHNE
The would-be guard with a gun glares at you for a moment before her expression softens. A bit.
"Sorry dévočka", she says, keeping her gun pointed at you none the less, "but this isn't a fire drill. Back into the classroom and do as you're told and you won't get hurt".
The woman has an MDV of 3, plus 3 for a principle. You beat her MDV by 2 and create a 2 dot principle of friendship towards yourself.
One die stunt for you, by the way.
Kell_tamer
2014-07-29, 11:42 AM
Well ok Plan A didn't work. Fortunately Abby didn't plan in a normal alphabet but hexadecimals up to the 128th bit.
Her legs reacting to the shot as the finger began to move Abby found herself behind a desk, tucking and rolling she knew what she needed to do. Her hands were already where they needed to be as she leaned back against the desk. One of the lovely advantages of IT classes was they seldom had windows. This wouldn't be any different. She was already in the school system. She just had to activate her phone. She just had to be sure she acted first.
She was quite thankful Kate was usually forgetful of her Mobile and left it on her desk. She would need that distraction.
Things were falling back into place for plan 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001.
Rolling dodge. no motes spent on that, no motes spent on the next action. DDV is normally 5 so she dodged regardless,
JB pool is 5, she spends a willpower to channel conviction. It's tantamount that she act first in order to continue her work. 4 extra dice
Join Battle:
[roll0]
stunt
[roll1]
NATE Even as a monster, you're still a weak little coward.
Your web catches one of them, cleanly anchoring him to the door. He struggles, but there's little give to your web.
The other two open fire, bullets ricocheting off the crenelations bordering the school roof.
You hit with 9 Successes. That guy is held pretty well - it'll be several actions before he's free enough to try and attack you. Also, curse you for making me have to go look up the rules for nets, they're in Scroll of the Monk.
The other guys are still totally free though.
Dudes B and C roll 9 dice to hit, with a base damage of 7L and the Piercing tag. You have a +3 cover bonus.
[roll0]
[roll1]
NIALL You could kill them, you know. Just cover her eyes and will it to happen, it'd be easy.
They guide you back into the room they just left, one pushing the door open ahead of you.
It's the security room. Seated in front of the CCTV monitors is another man in a combat vest and fatigues. He whirls to face you, hand on his gun, and you can see that his eyes burn from within. Soot marks stain his shaved head and there's a stench of sulfur.
"What's this" he demands in Rivertongue. Naturally you understand it easily. It's only words, after all.
"Found them out in the corridors, sir. The girl is on the list, not sure what we should do with the man".
The man who is obviously the leader of these terrorists growls and pulls out a phone, dialling a number from memory "Sir, we've got one of the girls from the second list. She's got a man with her, looks related".
A pause whilst the voice on the other end replies. You can't make it out.
The leader turns to you and asks in Meruvian "You Niall?".
ABBY Your phone is on. :)
Bullets are fast. You're faster.
The girls around you scream as the shot streaks past where your head was. Most of them cower, a couple of them try to hide behind the other desks.
Ticks
0-Abby
1-
2-
3-
4-
5-T1, T2
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SERAS Are you killing Akuma? Or killing for them?
The two vans speed towards the school. There's not far for them to go, you'll have to be quick.
The guards are on the look out, but they'll never see you. Not until it's too late.
Join Battle
-Van A [roll0]
-Van B [roll1]
-Gate Guard A [roll2]
-Gate Guard B [roll3]
-Gate Guard C [roll4]
Ticks
-4 Seras
-5 Guard C, Van B (Damaged, 12 ticks until it reaches the school)
-6 Van A (9 Ticks until it reaches the school)
-7 Guard A, Guard B
Guards A, B and C use miscellaneous actions to try and spot you. The Vans dash.
JonRG
2014-07-29, 12:27 PM
Niall starts at the sight of the man, or rather, the smell of him. "Aw, hell. This is their doing, ain't it? But that makes no frickin' sense! Cecilia's THEIR school." The distraction works to his advantage. Best not to look like he's listening in. Niall nods at the man's question and refrains from asking some of his own. The less Cassie heard, the better.
NIALL Hello Niall. Picking up your sister?
The man simply hands you the phone.
You put it to your ear, and hear a familiar drawl.
"Hello Niall. Picking up your sister?".
It's Oleander. The condescending git who holds your leash. You can tell he's enjoying this, being able to lord it over you like he always does. And with your sister there he knows he has more leverage over you than usual.
JonRG
2014-07-29, 01:05 PM
Niall takes the phone, mouth starting to dry out. Oleander's voice sends a shiver down his spine. He so hated to be right. The prick sounded even more insufferable than usual. Made sense since he had Niall completely by the balls. "Yeah. Why?"
Kell_tamer
2014-07-29, 01:17 PM
Abby has her phone in her hand. She knew her dad was probably flying down the street in his car after hearing the gunshots. Dad being angry was good. These guys being distracted would be better. She hung up on her dad with a slide of the thumb. She had the entirety of the school in the palm of her hand. Glancing over at Kate's phone it was time to start.
A quick slide and press of her thumb sent a signal powered by her own essence through the systems in the building. Lights, computers, phones. All of these were on timers. Well timers can be tricked. In the span of an instant the app sent a signal that told the entire school that it was closed and all the lights, the computers and everything went dark. It was time to take advantage of knowing the layout personally.
With a quick gesture a second signal went out. A vibration went off on the desk next to where she was hiding a mere second later as she kicked over a char to imply movement. It was accompanied by of course, a number 1 pop hit. Kate had no opinion in music other than what was the number one on the chart any given day. Abby would have to buy her an iJams card.
Her essence flowed and suppressed. She didn't have a lot in her left but it was enough for what she needed to do. They would never hear her coming.
Spending a mote personal (assuming i got any stunt from last stunt) to cause a blackout in the school 10 die hack roll +1 sux for equipment + any for stunt, app makes action reflexive. Scenelong reduces External Penalties by 3
[roll0]
another mote personal spent to call Kate's phone.
11 motes peripheral spent, 10 for anima power 1 for muting display. She adds +2 to the difficulty of any attempt to percieve her. She'll make her move once she knows they are distracted. Dexterity + Stealth to hide before she will make her move.
[roll1]
stunt if any
[roll2]
JonRG
2014-07-29, 03:39 PM
"Now, now, no need to get snippy, Niall. You've just wandered into one of our little... oblations." The emphasis on the last word is clear. Orders from the top.
Niall casts a wary glance at his sister. "... M'not sure I get what ya mean."
"You don't have to. I assume you finished talking to your reporter friends beforehand?"
"Yeah. That's something I can look into."
"Good, good. Tell me Niall, are you curious about what's happening here?"
"Why are you doing this?" he bursts out.
"Do you know what it takes to start a war, Niall?" The color drains from his face. "It doesn't take much, if the hand upon the wheel wills it. Just a little push. A catalyst if you will. People are always so sentimental about children." Niall doesn't say a word. Master of every word under the sun, but he's powerless to stop this. There's nothing he could say to Oleander that would make this better. "So tell me Niall, what do you think happens now? I'll tell you. These dreadful UES terrorists are going to murder an entire school full of children. There will be survivors of course. Hostages handed over, before the bombs go off. The press will be there quickly. Most of them should be quite near by. One brave man may even manage to save his precious little sister... You'd like that, I think. Being a Hero?"
Niall squeezes his eyes shut. So that's what that nonsense with the restaurants was about. "May?"
"We can always hand you over as a hostage, of course. But I suspect you'd rather be clear of this as soon as possible. Any preferences? I'm sure you can invent a story to tell, regardless. You're a writer, after all."
A thousand and one gambits run through Niall's head. Most of them end with either he or Cassie eating a bullet. But in a strange way, playing along had its advantages. He was right next to their leader, who was himself right next to the.... yup there was the big red button. This was the best place to be to stop this without getting his hands dirty. "All right. You let my sister and her friends outta this frickin' mess... and yer boys can have me."
Oleander chuckles to himself. "Niall, dear friend... we don't want you. But," he continues, "I see no reason to allow you and your dear sister to be inconvenienced much longer. So here's what will happen. You will make your daring escape in a moment. The good captain will see to it that you succeed. You may then proceed to valiantly rescue whichever friends your sister is particularly attached to. Not too many mind, or the men will have to start shooting. Let's say... yes, we'll have them put a bullet in every tenth head, shall we? And then you can explain what's happened here to the police and all your reporter friends".
"Be sure to identify the captain for them, and note the UES accents. Do you think you can do that, Niall? ... Of course, if you'd rather your sister escape on her own and stay for the fireworks, be my guest. You can leave with the hostages if you wish."
"M'fine right here, thanks."
"Really? Well, be sure to brief your sister then. I know you're just dying to share your secrets with her. Now if you'd be so kind, do hand the phone back to the captain. I need to instruct him to allow your escape - or your sister's, as the case may be."
True terror pumping through his veins, Niall lowers the phone from his ear and holds it out to the captain. "S'fer you." The captain snatches it away and begins talking brusquely in Rivertongue again. The reporter reaches for his pack of cigarettes and pulls one out. The other guards level their guns, but the captain waves them off. "Listen ta me, Cass," he mutters. "I dunno what these whackjobs are after, but they're gonna hurt a lot of people doin' it. So, when the time's right, I wantcha ta run and not look back. I'm... gonna try an' do what I can from here. I need ya ta be brave for me, all right?" The captain hangs up and barks at his men in Rivertongue. They can go. Don't shoot the man. A similar message goes out over the radios. Suddenly, the security room is cloaked in darkness. It was now or never. Niall opens the door to the security room and shoves Cassidy into the hallway.
Once the door swings shut, he turns to the guards with a curious smile. Almost predatory, really. Wolf among the sheep. "S'all right if I smoke in here?" Niall asks politely.
ChaosArchon
2014-07-29, 04:28 PM
Seras continues to slow her breathing as the scene progresses. As the guards attempt to look for her, she smiles and thinks "fat chance finding me Yozi scum, I am a dagger of Heaven. No mortal will ever find me." However she looks at the battlefield before her, taking note of some spider-beast who is attacking some guards while wondering if that was one of the Lunars SK told her about. She then calculates hundreds of different actions she could make, but in the end quickly decides that taking out the driver would work much better than trying to shoot the car. "After all, the metal is willing but the flesh is weak." she thinks.
She moves her instrument of death so that her sight is now focused on the driver on the first car, a man whose life was about to end. With any luck, by the will of Sol he would die quickly, and his sudden demise would cause a wreck, incapacitating the other car as well.
For a moment there is quiet in her world, a tranquil lethality surrounding her. Then, in the flash of an eye, she pulls the trigger and lets loose a shot that crackles through Creation, a shot worthy of the title "The Bloody Officer." The fates align as her bullet flies through the air and her target passes right along the path of it, as if this man's death was preordained by the Maidens. As it connects, it pierces the fragile glass and doesn't stop, her target's brains splattered across the dashboard creating a macabre mosaic before the glass even has time to register its' own destruction.
activating Every-Angle Perfection+Night ability+Second Firearms Excellency -11m (-6 from EAP, -1 from anima power, -4m from 2nd Excellency) 23/47 Peripheral essence
attack 1 (Dex(5)+Firearms(5)+Accuracy(4)+Specialty-Sniping(+2): [roll0]+2sux
stunts if necessary [roll1]
removed aim bonus because I assume it does not apply after the first attack
NIALL I bet you're planning on doing something heroic, aren't you?
The singed captain just grunts and gestures for one of the other soldiers to escort you out. "I don't care. If you're not leaving, we've got orders to stick you with the other hostages. We'll hand you over with the rest of them if you're still here by then".
One of the grunts levels his gun in your direction and points towards the door.
JonRG
2014-07-30, 11:15 AM
"Jus' a sec there, mate." Niall fumbles with his lighter, eyes closed in the darkness. "Arright, Sol buddy, Sol pal. I know I ain't exactly on yer nice list. M'no frickin' hero. I try 'n do my best, but... my record's not exactly stellar on that front. I report, sure, but there're a lot of fringe benefits. The fame, the connections, the tail... Mmm, so much tail, but I digress. There's some real horrible chit goin' down here, and I wanna put a stop to it. I don't give a damn what happens to me, but if my boss hears I'm throwin' a wrench in his plans, Cassie's gonna eat a bullet, like, yesterday. I can't let that happen. So I gotta take these guys out before they can signal anybody, and I need somebody in my corner to make that happen. I mean, they say you're the Yozis' bitch too. Jus'... help me do the right thing. This one time." The security office had no windows, but he could swear that sunlight flashed across a monitor. Niall concentrates and draws upon his mind hand. He manifested it at the start of each day, but it had seen little action since his Exaltation. "Order from chaos. That's what She leaves in Her wake." His mistress might disapprove of his goal, but She could not help but serve him. The Mind Hand surges forward and grips the Fire Aspect by the scruff of his neck. In one swift motion, it slams his head against the cold metal desk. Niall springs into action while the guards are distracted, drawing Question and Answer from their twin holsters. "Ya might be a monster, Ollie, but I got news for ya, my dear friend." He presses Answer's muzzle to the captain's head. "I am too." Blam! Niall had to admit, a part of him really enjoyed this.
H'okay. So I'm gonna channel Protect Cassidy and Bring Down the Althing. All the better to **** you up, my dear!
Telekinetic Clinch: [roll0]
Stunt: [roll1]
From what Kell tells me, if my Clinch works, Baldy's DV drops to zero. Then it's 7 motes of personal for First She Who Lives in Her Name Excellency.
Answer: [roll2]
Stunt: [roll3]
Unharmed. Down to 3/5 Willpower.
Principles Expended This Scene: Bring Down the Althing and Protect Cassidy.
Essence
Personal: 18/19
Peripheral: 20/47
(10m Attuned to Artifacts)
(10m Attuned to Mind-Hand Manipulation)
(7m Attuned to Eldritch Secrets Mastery)
(7m personal spent on First She Who Lives in Her Name Excellency, 6m returned from stunt)
ABBY
The lights blink off, just as you intended. The noise grabs the two terrorist's attention, and bullets scream past. You hear a girl screaming, more pained than the others. The others around her scream too. Perhaps inciting them to open fire in a classroom full of collateral damage wasn't the best idea.
But they've lost sight of you for the moment. They fumble with the torches at the belts.
They've got sharp eyes... but you've got exalted hax.
Your move.
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NIALL
His eyes widen in surprise, and fire surges around him as he attempts to dodge.
But too little, too late. By the time he realises what you're doing, he's already caught in your grasp. His head explodes, drenching the desk in red and gore.
The two grunts line up their weapons. Oleander's conditioning must be pretty good, if loosing their captain doesn't even phase them.
Yeah... he's splattered. Curse you DB Ox Bodies, and your relatively minimal worth.
3 die stunt, as I said.
Join Battle for the two grunts
[roll0]
[roll1]
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SERAS
The bullet bounces off the the tarmac and straight through the windscreen of the lead van. If you could see him from this angle, you're sure you'd be able to see it split the driver's head like a grape.
The van continues to move, in a straight line off the road and... yep, it's heading for the lake. You think you can call that one mission killed.
2 Die stunt for you.
-9 Seras
-10 Guard C
-11 Van B (Damaged, 6 ticks until it reaches the school)
-12 Guard A, Guard B
Kell_tamer
2014-07-30, 06:19 PM
Abby frowns. She had hoped to avoid bloodshed but sometimes it can't be helped.
Her feet silent, she makes a break for the door. by the time they get their torches lit she'll be out.
The lights won't be out long. She knows they'll get someone to manually bring em back up. May as well slip them up further.
Grabbing a scrap from her pack and her stun rod she wraps it on the end. With a press of a button it crackles and smokes, holding her makeshift smoker up to the ceiling she brings on the sprinkler system, dousing her and her torch. She always found it amusing that it would douse the whole floor for one match.
Did she do that because it was a survival instinct? Or was it just to salt their wounds. No time to ponder that as she quickly checked her phone for school blueprints to find her a hopefully hidden location.
Spending 2 motes personal 3 peripheral for second stealth excellency to add 2 successes on top of the +2 difficulty from her anima.
4 dexterity 3 stealth
[roll0]
stunt if any
[roll1]
i'll be happy to make a roll to scan for ways out, im assuming perception + lore? just let me know.
ChaosArchon
2014-07-30, 08:11 PM
Seras has a moment of brief satisfaction as she sees the van continue towards the lake, thinking "another one bites the dust", but she quickly snaps back to focus on her current task at hand. The van was speeding towards the school, she may not be able to see exactly what was happening in the school right now, but preventing the Yozi' servants from receiving reinforcements was never a bad plan. Her arbalest of bulleted devastation followed the path of the second van and when she felt the winds pushing in just the right direction, she pulled the trigger once more.
The bullet had become something more than its base metal, it was no longer a tool of mortals, it was the paintbrush of an artist of death, an angel of extirpation. This message from a goddess of death cut through the air itself to reach the target it's mistress had commanded it do. Even before it arrived there the man it was destined for could be considered dead, his name marked in the book of good and evil to be judge; another soul to be reborn.
The bullet slammed into the road below the car. To an outside observer it would look as if the bullet initially missed, however in an instant it bounced off the ground, the earth itself rejecting it's presence, and then continued on its path. It burst through the seat of the driver and tore through his insides, ravaging them and striping the body of it's life. As the final coup de' gra, the bullet left through the top of its flesh receptacle, causing the skull to swell and burst like a balloon.
activating Every-Angle Perfection+Anima power to cloak it -7m (-6 from EAP and -1 from anima power) 16/47 Peripheral Essence
attack 1 (Dex(5)+Firearms(5)+Accuracy(4)+Specialty-Sniping(+2): [roll0]
stunts if required: [roll1]
josienoms
2014-07-30, 10:17 PM
"Well now, I hardly think there's any need for that. Why don't you put the gun down and tell me what's going on?"
She smiles and bats her eyelashes, adding a hasty, "Please?"
JonRG
2014-07-31, 10:50 AM
These men might be military trained, but Niall's a demon in more ways than one. Pressing the advantage, he raises his pistols at the two guards. Hopefully, they'll be down before they can get a shot off. "Not bad, my incandescent friend," Niall thinks. "What say we have another go?" His grin turns almost maniacal as the blood drips down his face. The door starts to swing closed. He's pulled the trigger on both pistols before it shuts.
Question: [roll0]
Stunt: [roll1]
Answer: [roll2]
Stunt: [roll3]
NIALL Ooh, I hear gunshots in the distance. Maybe they found Cassidy?
The bullets send the two terrorists off to the sides. One ducks behind the security console, the other is left exposed and in the open.
Both were winged but not seriously wounded. Both return fire, their assault rifles barking out short bursts of lead.
First time anyone's actually made me give something a DV so far. You guys sure are keen on sneak attacks and undodgeables.
They have DV 3 and Soak 7L against bullets.
As Extras, that means they take 1L each.
[roll0]
[roll1]
ABBY
The sprinklers activate, and suddenly everything is very, very wet. It's a good job you're in the IT building - the rest of the school is old enough to only have smoke detectors. You hear shouts of confusion from some of the other rooms... and a few more gunshots.
The water runs off your phone's screen as you double-check the blueprints. Not that you really need them. Best place to stay hidden in the school is the roof of the admin building. It used to be the main church building and there's no roof access, but you can easily climb up if you start from the roof of the computer labs. That side of the building faces away from the rest of the school, so you shouldn't be seen. Plus, that gives you access to the feeds from the security room on the upper floor.
Perception+Awareness
[roll0]
[roll1]
Kell_tamer
2014-08-01, 06:20 PM
Abby dims the screen of her phone and makes her way in the darkness while its available. She knows the time for the outtage won't last long, so she darts through the building to the old church building. She was in good shape, she could climb it. Also being exalted allowed her to jump much higher than most mortals could even despite being in what appeared to be only average shape. Quickly and quietly she made her way up.
Assuming STrength + Athletics to climb. 5 dice + any stunt
[roll0]
stunt if any
[roll1]
DAPHNE
She shakes her head. "Don't wanna hurt you kid, but if you don't get back in that room I'm gonna have to".
You find yourself looking straight down the barrel of her gun. You can tell she's serious about this, with the sort of deadly conviction that only the mad truly have. She doesn't want to hurt you, but her mission comes first.
Her MDV is 3, -2 for Friendship, +5 for Brainwashing. Total of 6.
You get a one die stunt, so it basically comes down to whether that one die rolls a success.
[roll0]
Edit So nope.
Her relevant Principles are:
This Kid Ain't So Bad 2 (Unnatural Mental Influence)
Screw Those Meruvian Pigs 3
The Mission Above All 5 (Unnatural Mental Influence)
SERAS
The second van careens wildly to the side, smashing into a tree. A man flies through the windscreen and straight into the same trunk the van struck, his head pulping on impact.
Two die stunt for you, which gives you 5 successes. That's enough to pop the other driver.
That's the second van down. Still the three guard's left trying to find you, plus anyone who might climb out of the wreckage.
josienoms
2014-08-01, 10:34 PM
Daphne's eyes widen in fear. Nobody could resist her charm like that. Nobody.
She swallows and nods, slowly backing into the room. She knew she was panicking, but couldn't decide what to do. Sure, she could take her Warform, but doing so would only make them shoot her. She could handle a few bullets, but these people in the room, the other students, they looked up to her. If one of them died because of her, she wasn't sure she'd be able to live with herself.
That really left her with one option. Get out of there. Then, if anyone died, it wouldn't be her fault. And maybe if she kept telling herself that, she'd eventually believe it was true. Her form ripples and blurs, becoming much, much smaller. She nearly vanishes from sight as she assumes her Spirit Shape, and buzzes out the door.
I'm spending 1 mote to change into my Spirit Shape, then get the hell out of there!
Kell_tamer
2014-08-02, 04:41 PM
Managing to not become a stain on the sidewalk, Abby quickly opens the window of the building and climbs in. She takes a moment to breathe and take in her surroundings before ducking into the nearby security room. The lights would be back on shortly and she could get to work.
JonRG
2014-08-02, 04:59 PM
Can you hear Her voice? Beautiful, isn't it?
Niall grits his teeth, cigarette still hanging from his mouth. "Good job, coward. Ya got the drop on the first 'un, but here ya are, flailin' like a little bitch." Failure was unbecoming of a Green Sun Prince. Fine. They had vests. He had an Answer to those. The door creaks open, though he can't rightly see why. He channels Essence into his handgun. These insolent specks had the audacity to defy their master, and they would pay for that defiance. She would ensure it. Restoration of the proper order. It was only right. As the door bumps one of the soldiers, causing them both to look away in confusion, he fires at the one standing out in the open.
Full excellency from personal. Hopefully a distraction courtesy of Abby will help!
Attack: [roll0]
Stunt: [roll1]
Unharmed. Down to 3/5 Willpower.
Principles Expended This Scene: Bring Down the Althing and Protect Cassidy.
Essence
Personal: 17/19
Peripheral: 20/47
(10m Attuned to Artifacts)
(10m Attuned to Mind-Hand Manipulation)
(7m Attuned to Eldritch Secrets Mastery)
(7m personal spent on First She Who Lives in Her Name Excellency, 6m returned from stunt)
(2m returned from one-die stunt)
(7m personal spent on First She Who Lives in Her Name Excellency, 4m returned from stunt)
Obscurejones
2014-08-02, 05:00 PM
Nate Grey, Warform Active
About to return fire from behind his cover on the wall Nate hears the siren call of muffled gunshots within the building.
Niall.
Without thinking he turns and runs across the roof, glancing over the side every few feet to look for an open window close to the source of the sound.
ChaosArchon
2014-08-03, 04:37 PM
Seras grinned for a moment, now that the vehicles were taken care of she could dispose with the ground troops at her leisure. She quickly aims her scope at one of the guards closest to the gate.
"My fourth shot," she chuckles,"how appropriate." as she pulled the trigger on her engine of destruction. The bullet spirals out of the barrel and follows the path fate has set for it, smashing her target's head and killing him instantly.
attack 1 (Dex(5)+Firearms(5)+Accuracy(4)+Specialty-Sniping(+2): [roll0]
stunts if neccessary: [roll1]
ABBY & NIALL A reckless fool and a lying coward. What shining heroes the pair of you make.
Abby cracks open the door and slinks inside the security room. A bullet embeds itself in the wall next to her. Nobody's noticed her yet, but the gunfight currently raging inside the room seems to be the focus of everyone's attention.
The lights flicker back on, just in time for Niall to put a bullet through the unprotected collarbone of the soldier caught out in the open, blowing him against the wall and leaving him quickly drowning in his own blood. The second soldier leans out from behind the console, his back to the door, and fires another burst at Niall.
Perception+Awareness for the remaining terrorist.
[roll0]
Attack for the same.
[roll1]
Kell_tamer
2014-08-04, 03:34 PM
Were her anima not muting the sound a slight crackle would be heard as a baton extends in Abby's hand. As the lights flicker a couple more times before fully coming online, a slideshow plays before Nial of the man misfiring, and then siezing, and finally convulsing before the light shows him being stunned by electricity to the neck. Abby didn't care someone saw her do it. She just cared if that gun leveled on her next.
SNEAK ATTACK
Dexterity 4 Melee 3 Accuracy +1 2 motes from the melee excellency personal to help strike true. 10 dice.
Weapon deals 8+extra successes bashing, and if even one level of damage is dealt they must make a check with stamina+resistance vs at least a difficulty 3 (more if more than 3 damage is dealt)
[roll0]
Stunt if any
[Rollv[3d10[/Rollv]
ABBY & NIALL
The man drops to the ground, occasionally twitching, as the two exalts meet eyes.
Combat over! Commence the interactions between yourselves whilst I attend to everyone else.
Two die stunt for Adam by the way.
JonRG
2014-08-04, 04:01 PM
Niall blinks the spots from his eyes and is surprised at the little girl wielding the stun gun. He reaches behind him, grabbing hold of the detonator. She looked young, like a student, but... his time with the Althing had taught him that anyone - no matter their age - could be in service of the enemy. Niall keeps the gun raised, but not aimed at Abby. "What're ya doin' here?"
SERAS Wow, they really didn't stand a chance against you. Seem familiar?
One guard's head explodes from your ludicrously overpowered godcannon, then a second and finally the third. The shots came quickly enough that they didn't even have time to react, let alone find your perch.
The first van finally reaches the lake, smashing into the bank and stopping at last. No one exits either vehicle.
And that's combat over.
I figured I'd fast forward through the repetitive 'and Seras headshots another mook who can't manage to find her' bits.
Kell_tamer
2014-08-04, 04:12 PM
Abby's first reaction to the new guy is to hold her phone up.
"hmm not in any Nara-O databases, high security clearance. No insignias though, undercover? no clothes too realistic, hair faded slightly from computer glow, Hacktivist. yes. One of The_Signal's? No. He'd have informed me. Firearm suggests training. Killing of mercenary suggests not an enemy. Dragon blooded? no, weapon not made of jade. Weapon large suggesting overcompensation possibly god blooded in strength. Hesitation to accept my presence indicative of frequent dealings of this type of situation. Terrorist? no. Not here to invoke terror, only one other option... "She takes a quick sigh. "...Freelancer"
With a clicking noise abby's weapon folds back in and she moves over to the security station.
"So a freelancer is the caretaker of a student here. interesting"
Her hands are a blur as she taps into systems like it was nothing at all. "So freelancer, what other information can you give me about what's going on? There are already casualties much as I had hoped there wouldn't be. Situation needs to be put down to prevent further injury and death."
NATE Even after becoming a monster, you still can't stomach a fight.
There, at the back of the building, near the roof. You climb up effortlessly and enter the building, the frustrated shouts of your former opponents echoing behind you. You catch the last gunshot, followed by a man screaming, coming from a nearby door. Security room. Niall's scent, this is it.
ChaosArchon
2014-08-04, 04:26 PM
Seras surveys the scene with a hint of satisfaction as she sees the pawns of the Yozi dead. In an instant the piece of devastation which had caused the death of so many men vanished and now all the remained on the rooftop was a young woman and a few bullet jacks with the marks of the Immaculate Church engraved on them.
,
Seras stands up and brushes off the dust from her skirt and begins walking down the stairwell of the roof. "I may have disabled the external defenses, but there most likely are internal agents as well. They pulled down the blinds and remained away from the windows, which implies they have military or paramilitary training as they are following sniper protocol. Therefore I must enter the building any eliminate any Yozi agents who are still in control of the building." she thinks as she descends the stairwell.
Upon exiting the building, she begins to walk across the street and prepares to enter the school.
JonRG
2014-08-04, 10:04 PM
Niall blinks once, then twice. The girl probably wasn't an enemy, though... was she right in the head? Then again, who was he to talk? He catches on two particular words: The Signal. Niall lowers the gun. "Hold up... you know Siggy?" There was only one person who uses that nickname. Or used. Seeker of Truth's blog had vanished from the internet a few months back. Could it really be him?
Niall steps to the side as Abby claims the chair, helpfully shoving the deceased captain out of it. "Uh... I grabbed this," he holds out the detonator to her, "but m'not exactly sure how to disengage it or what not."
Kell_tamer
2014-08-04, 11:04 PM
"Personally? no, just through communications. Work as occasional source of information. Signal knows all about me and warned me of whats happening." Fingers flying and feeds pumping into her phone she glances at the detonator. "Standard radio based detonator, Signal gave me a program to jam it. currently running through school's wireless." A beep on her phone draws her attention. "So freelancer, do you have a name? or a footprint online? " She holds the phone up and swipes her finger across as camera feeds swap. "also, information, any of that would be most helpful. Anything I can send to law enforcement and the like. "
JonRG
2014-08-04, 11:44 PM
Niall takes a long drag of his cigarette while he thinks. "Depends. You gonna give that name right to the cops? I don't need anyone knowin' I was here. In fact..." He leans in close and mutters, "It'd be a real shame if all the video for the camera outside this door... disappeared. Ya get me?" He knew his way around a computer, but The_Signal could run circles around him, even by teenaged proxy. "As for information..." A knife twists in his heart. If he told her the truth, that this was a ploy to start a war, then Ollie would know he talked. Niall'd be a dead man. But if he stuck to the Lie, then he'd be indirectly responsible for starting a war. "M'still tryin' ta piece the whole story together. If I sniff anythin' out, I'll letcha know."
Obscurejones
2014-08-05, 12:16 AM
Nate Grey, Warform Active
Running along the wall Nate skids to a halt, sliding down onto the linoleum that seems to come prepackaged with high schools the world over. His head twists first one way and then the other as an internal argument plays out. Finally muttering under his breath, he pauses. Sniffs the air. Scowls and listens carefully. His scowl turns to mild shock, and he tucks his spidery arms in close, folding them back against his spine. With a shuddering gasp he reabsorbs them, the fur along his face falling away as well. He doubles over for just an instant.
Dr. Adam Essex
And Adam straightens up. With a little soft shoe shuffle he slides up to the door and inside it, closing it whisper quiet behind him.
"I really can't leave you alone for a moment can I? Hi... Sorry, don't actually know you. I'm Adam. Friend of... We doing names yet?"
Without waiting for a response he hefts the corpses up onto his shoulders, taking care not to stain his coat.
"I've got body duty, but if the kid can do the cameras I'd really appreciate it. If she doesn't feel up to it, I could take a crack. Your... Other friend, alright? I notice they're not here. Didn't figure you'd let them out of your sight."
JonRG
2014-08-05, 12:24 AM
Niall nods and gives a subtle gesture behind Abby's back. One doesn't have to be a master of all communication to know what it means. Talk later. "We were just gettin' to names. All I know is she knows The_Signal. Dunno if that's enough for me ta trust her with my many and sundry secrets."
Obscurejones
2014-08-05, 12:29 AM
Dr. Adam Essex
For a moment the good doctor's voice cracks and he damn near sounds like an excitable teenage boy.
"Wait, she like knows, knows him? No way. No freaking... Right. Well that's neat."
He turns to Abby.
"Think your signal friend can hit the cameras? All of them would be nice."
ChaosArchon
2014-08-05, 12:34 AM
As Seras walks toward the school, she checks her phone and sees she received a message from the_Signal. "An issue the needs my attention hmm. Perhaps he is aware of what's going on at the school too?" Seras thinks. She responds,"St. Cecila's, are you aware of what is happening there? Also would it be possible for you to access the cameras and tell me what's going on in the inside of the building?"
After she sends the message, she continues heading towards the school grounds as before.
Kell_tamer
2014-08-05, 10:09 AM
Abby glances up at the Dr. "Of course no one knows KNOWS the signal. I'm just one of the agents inside. He has them everywhere." She holds up her mobile to the dr. "Dr. Adam Essex, noted surgeon, formerly considered a philanthropist for charitable work. Recently has has a focus of leg surgeries for high playing clients. Makes tidy profit and lives in a rather nice estate. Vegan? no, purchase history shows frequent consumption of sushi and beef."
She flips the phone back over showing it cycling through the camera feeds. "He keeps us well prepared."
JonRG
2014-08-05, 02:22 PM
Before Adam takes the body's away, Niall peels off the tasered soldier's jacket and wipes the blood from his face and jacket with it. Satisfied, he drapes it back over the man. "Damn. I really wish we'd gotten ta those burgers. I skipped breakfast." Niall leans over Abby's shoulder and watches her work. "I'm Niall, by the way. Got a name you go by?"
Kell_tamer
2014-08-05, 03:10 PM
Abby doesn't look up. "Abby Carter."
Her thumb flies across the screen as she establishes a VPN connection with Seras into the schools security system, using her phone as a temporary bridge until the connection is properly secured. With a few scant more moments all traces of her on the network have been removed as her essence bolsters the software to purge evidence. She was now an actual ghost in the shell.
"We should depart, it won't be long before they make their way back here to search."
Abby glances at the detonator before she leaves. She takes a cleaning cloth for her screens and grabs the thing to prevent her fingerprints from getting on it. "Just in case"
JonRG
2014-08-05, 03:55 PM
In their base of operations? Not likely, but Niall doesn't want Abby to start asking hard questions. "Yeah. Let's roll." Niall returns his guns to their holsters. The soldiers had been ordered not to shoot him, and he didn't want to tempt them to do otherwise.
DAPHNE
The lights flicker off, and you take your chance to shift into bee form. In moment you're past the door and into the hallways, completely unnoticed.
You soon notice the sound of someone breathing heavily in short gasps, as if they were winded but trying to hold it in. You peek around a corner and see a familiar face - Cassidy, one of your friends. She's leaning around the corner, eyeing the door to the classroom you just left nervously. She looks pale and exhausted, and that black eye she got during lunch is certainly starting to show.
Solid Snake she is not.
SERAS
You slide down the emergency access ladder, exalted musculature absorbing the shock easily, and jog past the decapitated corpses by the gate. The road from the gate across the expansive grounds to the school itself is fairly long, and you pass the second van, still rammed into a tree, just as you hear sirens in the distance. The police, finally.
Would you like to inspect the van, or keep moving on to the school?
ChaosArchon
2014-08-06, 07:32 PM
Seras begins to observe the van, realizing that if she is caught trying to enter the school, the police will most likely believe she was involved in the attack, godcannon or no godcannon. Therefore she begins to inspect the van in more detail, checking to see if any of its inhabitants are still alive, as well as what else is in the car.
josienoms
2014-08-06, 10:01 PM
Daphne's form blurs again as she changes back into her human shape. She pulls Cassidy away from the door and whispers in her ear,
"It's me. Follow me out this way." She starts to edge away from the classroom door, making sure to keep an eye out for more attackers.
JonRG
2014-08-08, 02:13 PM
Niall looks at his friend with a smile. It was good to see him so happy. "Mate, we really oughta get goin', and ya should do... whatever you've got planned with those bodies." He turns to Abby. "So which way'll get us out of here without any more gun battles?"
SERAS
The van door is jammed, but you prize it open easily enough. The scent of blood and death washes over you - the inside is slick with gore. You'd guess that the dismembered corpses would account for another four dead terrorists, were you to piece them back together again. The wounds are indicative of teeth and claws, like those of some overly-large predator, but you see nothing around that might match that description.
A large vase leans against the wall, a chunk of it's rim caved in from the impact. You can see the straps intended to hold the vase in place have torn loose.
DAPHNE
Cassidy jumps at your touch, but fortunately manages to avoid making any more noise than she already has. "Daphne!? How...?" she exclaims, surprised, but is quickly shushed as you lead her away from the occupied classrooms.
"Daphne, what's happening?".
Kell_tamer
2014-08-09, 07:00 PM
Abby quickly loops her backpack over her shoulder and stands by the door.
"We cut through the B C breezeway, it leads to a route to the least populated parking lot. Most likely our friends won't be stationed as heavily there meaning sneaking by the might be easier. It's also most likely where my dad will pull up and frankly we want to meet up with a dragon blood. That's just a good strategy in this kind of situation."
ChaosArchon
2014-08-10, 03:28 PM
Seras surveys they scene, grimly reflecting that it didn't look like she would be able to interrogate any of the survivors about what the purpose of this attack was.
However she quickly begins to survey the scene,"Hmm these attacks seem consistent with a large animal, most likely a predator. However there was no cage with which to hold such a beast. It would seem the being was not friendly to the terrorists and most likely was to be unleashed upon the school. Given the lack of a cage I believe that the only rational explanation for holding the beast would have been using some strange and profane magic to keep it in the vase. The fact that the vase was originally secured fastened leads me to believe that this vase did house such a beast."
She continues her investigation and looks at the vase, noting any strange marks on it or other such characteristics that would distinguish it from an everyday vase. After reviewing the vase, she begins to attempt to find a trail which would lead her to the escaped beast.
yay Ms.Holmes! I'll make an investigation roll to track it but I don't know what attribute would go with it? I'm thinking Perception so that is what I'll roll
Tracking:[roll0]
josienoms
2014-08-10, 10:50 PM
Daphne takes Cassidy's hand and leads her into the nearest empty classroom. She shuts and locks the door behind her, looking quite frightened.
"There are people with guns in the school." Her voice trembles. "I just barely got away. We need to call for help!" She whines slightly, her hands shaking. "Isn't your brother here?" Her eyes brighten, a spark of hope inside them.
SERAS
You can find no trace of the beast. However, the fact that the door was jammed shut when you arrived leads you to believe that it had some form of supernatural movement at it's disposal.
It's a little hard to track something that can turn intangible or teleport.
Obscurejones
2014-08-12, 04:44 PM
Dr. Adam Essex
Dragging the bodies behind the desk, Essex kneels between them. Tracing a hand down each of their faces he closes their eyes, and says a quick gentle prayer that they find peace. Then with a savage grin he pulses his anima through the corpses. With a soft hiss the bodies puff into red mist, each cloud congealing in an instant into a metallic crimson orb, blood red shot through with bolts of silver. Essex snatches the orbs up, rattles them once like a pair of dice, and shoots them down his throat, dry swallowing the terrorists' hearts blood.
He pops back up from behind the desk with a deranged grin plastered across his face.
"Bodies are sorted. Old surgeon's trade secret. I could tell you but... Well you know the rest."
Creeping up to the door he pins an ear against the thin wood and takes a few sniffs, sorting the blood and sweat in the room from that outside, the mingled cocktail of teenage hormones and teenage fear. He listens for the gentle thud of militant boots, distinguishing it from the squeak and rustle of terrified youths huddling together and shivering from fear.
Still using Sense-Sharpening Change, at five motes, for both Smell and Hearing. It duplicates the effects of both Unsurpassed (Sense) Discipline and Keen (Sense) Technique.
Perception+Awareness [roll0]
18 sux before stunt, if any.
Stunt, if any [roll1]
Stealth + Dex being rolled without the benefit of stunt, but with the previous application of fifth excellency still in effect. [roll2]
DAPHNE Come on, don't let the mortal show you up.
You can see Cassidy trembling as she starts to stammer out "T-they have him, in the security room. He told me to run, when the lights went out...". Then she pauses, closes her eyes. She takes several deep breaths, falteringly at first, then calmer, and says with certainty "We've gotta rescue him".
"Daphne, we've gotta help Niall".
SERAS
You hurry the remaining distance towards the school complex proper, slipping into the foliage lining the road for cover. Circling the complex to enter form the rear, you see the lights flicker off as you pass one of the buildings, followed by bursts of gunfire and and screams. Then shouting, a few more gunshots, and the screaming stops.
You can see blood splatters on one of the windows.
ABBY, NATE & NIALL The Coward, the Monster and the Failure. Which is which, I wonder?
You head out, travelling carefully. You're forced to stop at an intersection in a corridor, Nate's hearing picking up the would-be guard patrolling in time for you all to take cover.
He passes by, unaware, and you make it to the rear exit to the admin building. Along your right lies the more recent addition of the IT labs, low and squat, while along your left is the staff car park. Off in the distance, Nate's hearing picks up the sound of sirens and closer, the roar of an engine that sounds half way between a breaking storm and a raging dragon.
You move along the side of the IT labs, staying low and under the view from the windows... until Niall bumps one of the cars, setting off the alarm.
Damn, that's loud.
You can hear windows opening, in particular, the one above you...
Kell_tamer
2014-08-15, 06:38 PM
Abby shakes her head at the sound. Well if there is one sound there can be others. Time to phreak it. Cars like this usually possessed some kind of network tracking to a company. Whoever had this one probably had daddy buy the best. Her phone sniffed out a signal and she jacked right into it. Feeding through there she gets to the main database and with a few sweeps and a tap of her thumb to the screen the one car is joined by a cacophony of others in all the lots. Hard to track when you don't actually know where it originated. Her hand reflexively pulls Nial down to cover as the sounds confuse the terrorists.
Abby is hacking into basically whatever hte equivalent of On Star is here, DayStar? not important. it's a miscellanious action to do so and she negates 3 points of external penalties. she spends 3 motes personal and another willpower to add her essence in successes +1 successes for her phone. Looking at a net 1 successes before dice and excellencies which she spends 5 motes peripheral to add 2 to. She should be at 14 peripheral and 1 personal. She's down to 4 Willpower. (man talk about a burn)
10 dice, 4 int 5 lore 1 hacking specialty + a net of 3 successes extra.
[roll0]
Any stunt if applicable
[roll1]
josienoms
2014-08-15, 11:12 PM
Daphne gasps, but nods.
"Alright, let's go get him."
She cracks her knuckles and takes Cassidy's hand, leading her back out into the hallway and towards the security room.
JonRG
2014-08-16, 07:31 AM
Niall grits his teeth. "Way to go, idiot." Suddenly, a hand yanks him down to the pavement by his shirt. He tastes asphalt a bit. "Ow." Niall glares at Abby's shoes. "Ok, focus. She's givin' you a chance to fix this." The car he bumped into is actually more of an SUV. Very high ground clearance. As the window above him opens, Niall scoots under the SUV in the hopes of giving himself some cover.
Okay, spending a WP to make sure I don't mess this up.
Dex+Stealth: [roll0] + 1 suc
Stunt: [roll1]
ABBY, NATE & NIALL
The windows open. There's shouts in Udelph as they sweep the parking lot from the windows. None of them see you.
There's more shouts, and the windows are closed again. It's quiet, for now.
They're confused, but suspicious. They know there's someone running around the school, including Nate's war form and the sniper, and they've clued in to the hacker antics too. They're going to attempt to use the hostages to flush out anyone in hiding whilst they check the car parks.
They're ordering some of the hostages to their feet and out of the classrooms. You can also hear a patrol - two men - heading for the car park. Probably via the door just ahead of you, if your guess is right.
DAPHNE
Cassidy shows you the route she took. It's... obviously not a good choice. Even you can tell that.
She pulls you along anyway. You could swear you saw one of the terrorists through a window, conspicuously looking away as you go past.
JonRG
2014-08-16, 06:22 PM
Niall grits his teeth. "Damn it all," he mutters. "They're sendin' hostages out here. They don't find somebody, there's gonna be a bloodbath." He wiggles unceremoniously out from under the car. "You two hide. I can explain this to 'em. Trust me." Niall smiles, but Nate knows him well enough to know there's something hinky going on. He lights a cigarette and waits for the bad guys to come.
josienoms
2014-08-16, 10:56 PM
Daphne starts to get worried, but she trusts Cassidy with her life. She was her only true friend, after all. Or so she hoped.
She follows, keeping her mouth shut, also hoping that it was all just a coincidence.
ChaosArchon
2014-08-17, 12:17 PM
As Seras was moving around the backside of the building, she heard a ton of car alarms suddenly go off and one of the terrorists looking outside the windows at it. As she sees a red-haired man go out to speak with the terrorists, she pauses and waits. "How high ranking can this man be if he's able to walk right up to these men and not face death... I think I'll watch for now."
just surveying the scene, Per (5)+ Awareness (0). wow my sniper has 0 awareness... I might need to fix that eventually)
5d10
stunt if necessary: 3d10
DAPHNE
It's nerve-wracking, following behind cassidy as she attempts to sneak back through the halls, but eventually you reach the security room. There's no one in the hall outside, but the door is ajar and you can hear two people within, talking quickly in another language.
You peek through the crack. Two men in black military gear, holding assault rifles.
"If he's not here..."
"Enemy action?"
"No, not even that thing could kill the captain. Not without a fight."
"Damnit. What do we do next then?"
"Follow the plan, as best we can. Keep the hostages contained, make our 'demands' when the police arrive."
"Without the detonator though..."
"The backup plan is in effect."
"We need to get the VIPs out of the operation area then."
"Agreed. We'll just have to hope that they police show up soon."
Kell_tamer
2014-08-17, 07:03 PM
Abby lets nial do his thing. She is far more interested in getting out of the school. Utilizing the fact that these guys are patrolling now means they are focused. Focused people make mistakes and tend not to notice their periphery. She exploits it. In and out through the cars she weaves. She slips between and past, occasionally poking her head up to glance through windows. Her essence and the sound masking her movements. In moments she is at the guards gate. She hunkers down and waits for her dad to get there.
2 successes bought with 2nd excellency shes effectively harder to spot thanks to anima (+2 difficulty) 4 motes personal.
7 dice + stunt
[roll0]
stunt
[roll1]
josienoms
2014-08-17, 10:57 PM
Daphne doesn't speak Udelph, though she sits and listens all the same.
"Cassidy, can you understand them? I have, like, no idea what they're saying."
DAPHNE
Cassidy shakes her head. "No, but Niall does. We need to get them out of there so we can save him".
josienoms
2014-08-18, 11:11 AM
She nods, frowning slightly.
"Okay, let's get him." She tentatively tries the door, to see if it's unlocked.
Obscurejones
2014-08-19, 02:07 AM
Dr. Adam Essex
Crouched behind a car a few feet from Niall, Adam frowns. Sniffs the air gingerly. His frown deepens. He takes a long gulp of air. Tips his head to let a little more into his right ear.
"Well, ****. Niall, where's Cassidy?"
Niall's face goes bleak around his unlit cigarette and his hand falters on the lighter.
"... ****. She oughta be outta there by now."
With a heavy sigh Adam goes turns back towards the school. Rolls his shoulders.
"Thought so. Sit. Stay. I'll get the girl. You save everyone else. Fair deal?"
Without waiting for a response the young doctor is off at a sprint, vaulting vehicles with ease. He skids to a stop beside the doors to the car park. He takes a deep breath and snaps his arms downwards, a silvery spike falling into each hand. The shards glisten with a fine sheen of gore, twin daggers that were only moments before part of the bones in Adam's arms.
Ossific Shard Shot. Two motes per Dagger. He's only going to shank them if they see him. Otherwise the plan is to duck into the school as they head out. Should I roll stealths boss?
ABBY
You make it to the guard post easily enough, finding it deserted, and settle in to wait.
DAPHNE
The door is moves as you touch it.
Cassidy looks at you nervously, but grits her teeth, assuming that you have a plan.
NIALL
Sure enough, it only takes a few moments before the fire door to the car park swings open and two more flak vest wearing terrorists emerge out of the building.
Whereupon they promptly notice Niall standing out in the open and level their rifles at him. That seems to be happening to you an awful lot today, must be your winning personality.
"Hands in the air" one of them yells in accented meruvian.
Yes, roll stealth.
JonRG
2014-08-19, 02:36 PM
Niall smiles at Nate's retreating back, then his gaze snaps to the fire door. "Showtime," he thinks while lighting his cigarette. Niall casually raises his hands. "Sorry, mates!" he calls out in fluent Udelph. No one else was here. Why beat around the bush? "Boss man said my sis and I could leave. Dropped my lighter. Bumped into a car trying to get it back." Niall pauses in thought. "You rounded up a bunch of hostages already. Why not just let 'em go? Show some good faith before the cops get here." The car alarms were making hard for him to think. Hopefully, the noise would make the terrorists a bit more pliant.
Manipulation+Presence+specialty: [roll0]
Stunt: [roll1]
Obscurejones
2014-08-20, 01:32 PM
Dr Adam Essex
Don't breathe.
I have to breathe.
No, I mean don't breathe right now.
Are you certain? Because this seems like a good time to gasp dramatically.
...The sarcasm isn't necessary.
It's a little necessary.
As the paramilitary thugs burst through the doors, Dr. Essex's eyes go wide. Somehow, despite expecting it, you're never quite ready for large angry men with menacing accents to suddenly appear in front of you and point guns at your best/only friend. Still, it is the sort of thing one has to deal with in the moment like it or not. Tucking himself close to the out flung door Adam flips around it, keeping his back to the cool metal and glass, slipping silently behind the baddies. As he starts down the hall, his panache takes a momentary hold and he pauses.
Stops.
And waves to Niall from behind the soldiers. Mouths a quick silent message.
[Hi Niall!]
Dexterity + Stealth, Dexterity still under the effect of the Fifth excellency. [roll0]
Stunt, if any, and come on, that was funny give it at least a two, you know you want to. [roll1]
Kell_tamer
2014-08-20, 02:17 PM
Abby not one to jsut sit on her laurels gets to work form her new hiding spot. Tapping back into the communication systems of the terrorists she begins sending feeds, frequencies and the like to the police so they can zero in and make the most of her rather bloody screw up. She pulls up a feed for herself of a camera on the proceedings with Niall and keeps her thumb at the ready to launch a program if things look like they are about to go bad.
Stunt and equipment auto sux. just a 10 die roll 4 int 5 lore 1 spec.
[roll0] +1 sux
Stunt if any just become successes.
josienoms
2014-08-21, 10:34 AM
Daphne peeks into the room, and once realizing that Niall isn't there, she pulls back immediately.
"Cassidy, he's not in there!" She speaks in an urgent whisper.
ABBY
It's easy enough to track the frequencies the terrorists are using. Triangulating them would require a bit of extra work, but you can easily track the transmissions and forward them.
1 die stunt for you.
There are 64 generic terrorists in security uniforms running about the school, as well as 4 slightly more elite folks in proper milspec gear.
NATE
You slip past the large angry men with menacing accents, and you do it with style.
There's the smell of day old bleach in the corridors, mixed with cordite, a cocktail of explosives, fear and blood. Not the most comforting of scents the find in a school. You can hear whispers and whimpering in the classrooms, and bellowed orders from the thugs still inside.
They seem to be moving the hostages about actually, now that you're listening.
Three die stunt for you.
NIALL
There's a pause, as the two brainwashed soldiers try to think through their conditioning, before the one on the left replies "That's... doable. We're already supposed to be releasing the VIPs as soon as possible You can handle the presentation when the police arrive?". He seems almost glad for the opportunity.
The other man looks less welcoming of the idea, but stays silent for now.
2 die stunt for you.
Both dudes have MDVs of 5. The one on the left has a three dot principle that knocks his MDV down to 2.
JonRG
2014-08-21, 11:37 PM
"Sure. S'not a problem." Niall inhales deeply, dreading the answer to his next question. "Anyone need medical attention?"
DAPHNE
Cassidy looks shocked, but forces herself to remain focused. "We've got to find out where they've taken him then"
"We need a plan... Daphne, what should we do?"
ChaosArchon
2014-08-22, 05:44 AM
Seras watches the exchange but cannot understand it,"Still," she thinks,"I cannot attack now or it might result in the children being harmed, also there is that demon still running around."
As she says that she checks her phone and views the live feeds from the cameras The_Signal linked her to, try to locate any disturbance or the demon whose attack she had seen the remains of earlier. Furthermore she messages The_Signal,"Demon loose near the school, might want to alert the officers and dragon-blooded agents who approach".
rolling for Per+Awareness again if required [rolllv]5d10[/rollv]
NIALL
The guy on left shakes his head. "The VIPs are not to be harmed" he replies, almost by rote.
JonRG
2014-08-22, 09:20 PM
Niall quirks an eyebrow. Ollie had certainly worked his magic. "Well, all right. I'll come in with you and lead the VIPs out." He figures that will be less traumatic for the girls, and he already has a story in the works to explain his ability to negotiate with the terrorists.
josienoms
2014-08-23, 10:24 PM
Daphne sounds shaken and nervous.
"I... I don't know! This isn't exactly my strong suit, I'm not like, some kinda action hero! I'm just a teenage girl!"
A teenage girl with more power than some gods.
"Does he have his phone? If he's somewhere safe, it might be easier to just call him. Maybe he's free and looking for us!"
NIALL
"Alright" the guy on the left agrees. He two turn towards the main building. "This way, the VIPs are being kept in the main hall".
DAPHNE Power unused is power wasted.
Cassidy nods, pulling her phone out of her pocket. "He does" she whispers excitedly, then stops, her finger paused over the screen. "We should probably go somewhere else before I call him, right?" she asks with a wary glance at the door.
She retreats down the corridor a bit, ducking into a closet.
And then there's an awful din, as every car alarm in the car park goes off at once. Specifically, the car park this hallway overlooks.
There's sounds of alarm from inside the security room. Cassidy is already safely out of sight, fortunately, but the same cannot be said of you.
josienoms
2014-08-26, 11:24 AM
"Oh ****."
She runs as fast as she can into the room where Cassidy is hiding!
DAPHNE
You sprint down the hall and duck into the closet, almost colliding with a rather surprised Cassidy as you keep her from sticking her head out. It stinks of bleach in here, but it's out of sight.
"What's happening Daphne?" she asks, putting one hand over her phone. You can just about hear the ringing sound.
NIALL
The two terrorists fail to hear your mobile begin to ring, the sound drowned out by the car alarms. A glance at the screen shows it's from Cassidy.
JonRG
2014-08-31, 04:20 PM
Niall grits his teeth. "Cassie." He quickly mashes a button to quiet the ringer, then texts her back.
"Can't hear myself think over these alarms. Where are you?"
DAPHNE
Cassidy's phone abruptly stops ringing. She looks at you fearfully. "He... he pu" she starts to say, only to be interrupted by an electronic chirping noise. You think it's supposed to be some sort of bird.
Relieved, and slightly embarrassed, Cassidy quickly types out a reply. "It's Niall, he's okay".
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NIALL
The reply comes quickly.
"near sec room w/daph came 2 look 4 u where r u?"
josienoms
2014-09-04, 10:25 PM
Daphne breathes a sigh of relief.
"Oh, good. Is he coming to get us?"
JonRG
2014-09-07, 01:06 PM
"I'm close. Sit tight. Coming to get ya." Niall puts his phone away and stops once they reach the hostages. "Thanks, mates. I can take it from here," he half-shouts. Once the goons disperse, he kneels down a bit so that he's at most of the girls' eye levels. "S'all right. Yer safe now. I'm with OMI, yeah? Jus', yanno, keep that one under yer hats. 'specially from Cassie." Niall presses a finger to his lips, indicating the need for secrecy. "We're gonna go take a walk outside, wait for the cops. Make sure all ya guys get home."
Once the girls are suitably comforted, he stands up and leads them out by way of the security room. Tries to think of where two scared teenage girls might take shelter. The closet catches his eye, and he strides towards it and quickly opens it. "Hey Cassie. Daffy."
On the security cameras, though it's hard to hear over the alarms, Abby clearly sees Niall's lips move to form three obvious syllables: O-M-I.
On the basis I want them to obey me and keep my secrets, I'm gonna use 3m of First She Who Lives in Her Name Excellency from Personal.
Manipulation+Presence+specialty+Excellency: [roll0]
Stunt:[roll1]
josienoms
2014-09-07, 11:02 PM
Daphne's eyes widen, and she grins as Niall comes inside.
"Oh, thank God! Niall, what's going on?"
JonRG
2014-09-07, 11:36 PM
"It's complicated, and I gotta getcha guys outta here." He hugs his sister tight. "Why didn't you go outside like I said?"
Kell_tamer
2014-09-08, 09:08 AM
Fake credentials, easy. Abby made those every weekend for no reason other than she can. She doesn't need them long, just long enough for a background check.
Fingers flying and signals pumping she uses her current link to the police to establish a VPN through their connection to OMI tenuous though it may be. Packets running past the router as invisible as Abby could make herself, they find their way through and a person forms in the code.
Intelligence operative, brought in to deal with these sorts of things. Has defused several situations in An-Teng including the Lintha-Kiotaran standoff that could have cost lives had it not been for his timely intervention. Special Agent Niles, service ID number 8634Q. Number was not taken prior and would be fine for now. It would be at least two days before someone noticed the new employee didn't exist and excised it from the records.
With a gesture and a tap the credentials find their way to Nial, if he can't hear his mobile, one of the TVs in the office window across from him suddenly displayed his image, the agent number, and OI. Not for long, no more than 10 scant seconds. Enough for him to see it without drawing obvious attention.
Using firewall defying method and 4 motes peripheral 1 wp. +5 more peripheral motes to ad 2 extra successes totaling 6. This is on top any stunt dice that become successes. so 2 from excellency 3 from firewall defying method, 1 from her computer. any stunts become auto sux. 10 dice, 4 int 5 lore 1 spec.
[roll0]
Stunt if any re successes.
ABBY
You breeze through the police network, exploit some overlapping wifi to backdoor yourself into OMI's internal databases... and hit a brick wall. You try the obvious tricks, but no, it doesn't seem like with access is using 'password' or '1234'. Strange. You expand your range, going for the other common choices - birthdays, relatives names, that sort of thing - and have to quickly hide your repeated attempts from a casual backtrace. They fail to find anything suspicious, but you still haven't gotten in. Strange, you're now moderately sure that the OMI sys admins are using some sort of mind control magic. You try looking for the backdoors but even those have been patched, forcing you to obfuscate your trail again. Even your attempts to overwhelm the system with your own essence-driven might fall short.
Somewhat stands to reason that they'd have an exalt or two of their own, now that you think about it. You probably could get past them, but you're not sure you could do it without giving yourself away.
You're about to take another try when you feel a tingling sensation on your arm. You look up from your computer and finally notice the wind whipping through the leaves, the burnt metallic scent of ozone in the air a not-so-distant roaring halfway between an engine and an oncoming storm. You know the feel of that anima anywhere.
Looks like your dad finally turned up.
The wind momentarily reaches gale force and there's the rumbling crack of thunder, deafening from your proximity as the gates are torn asunder by the miniature storm surrounding the police car that storms straight past.
The car suddenly swerves to a halt in the road, skidmarks still sparking from the excess charge imparted to them as the door slams open and your father, crackling with the force of his anima, looks straight at your hiding place by the gate.
"Abby? Is that you?"
You tie the opposed roll for hacking into the OMI databases. You don't get in, but the sys admin also fails to notice you. His dice pool is Int (4) + Lore (5) + Speciality (3) + Excellency (8) and he gets +2 success from his equipment.
You also fail the roll to avoid being seen by your dad. His Awareness specialities of 'Secondary Details +2' and 'Abby's Tricks +1' both applied. :smalltongue:
NIALL Oh wow, I mean... really? That's your excuse? I've seen Erymanthoi excrete better plans than that.
The girls, and one teacher, look around in confusion and apprehension as you simply dismiss the terrorists that had been holding them hostage. Who are you that they listen to you? One of the looks like she recognises you before you cut her off with your explanation.
Looking at their faces it seems like they brought it. Some of them have questions, but you manage to deflect them easily enough and lead them out of the hall they were being kept in. There are questions about the roundabout route out, but you manage to deflect them easily enough
1 Die Stunt for you by the way.
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DAPHNE Might of Luna's chosen, and that's what you do? Wait for your friend's brother to save you? Pathetic.
Cassidy nods, relieved. "He says he's coming to get us. I don't know how, but Niall managed to get free on his own".
You wait silently in the closet, suspense thick in the air. Any moment now you could be discovered by the gun wielding lunatics roaming the school.
Then there's a snorting giggle from Cassidy. "Sorry, just thought of a bad joke" she apologises, sheepishly. "You know, stuck in the closet and... actually probably not as funny as it sounds in my head. Sorry".
There's silence again before Cassidy interrupts it a second time. "I spy?".
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NIALL & DAPHNE Two big bad exalts, and the little mortal girl's still braver than the both of you put together.
There's a knock on the closet door, and for a moment the two inside have to wonder who exactly has found them. Fortunately it's Niall - Daphne recalls seeing him once or twice before - followed by a gaggle of students and Miss Hurst, the deputy headmistress.
Cassidy is the first to react, throwing her arms around her brother. "Niall! You're safe! Me and Daphne came back to rescue you but you weren't there and there were just two thugs in the security room and how did you get away it was terrifying sneaking through the school I thought they'd find me but they didn't and don't do that, don't leave me alone and..." she rambles into his jacket, the words spilling out all at once.
You know for a second there, when you looked at the girls Cassidy's big brother saved... no, never mind. It's nothing.
Kell_tamer
2014-09-09, 02:54 PM
Abby glances up at her dad and her thumb quickly slides out a text she was definitely about to send. "Safe, got away, love you... get here soon..."
She turns it to her dad and without missing a beat runs out to him. She's used to this. The tears and the like come naturally, she's done this before, though right now it actually felt genuine. "DAD!" she stops short of the crackle remembering that he'd find it odd if his daughter wasn't getting zapped by it. She takes a moment to gather her composure and she is immediately the frightened daughter. "Dad... Bombs, building! she gasps a /bit "guns, shot at me!" She gestures to were a bullet managed to miss her and ripped her uniform a bit. "I o-o-only found my way out cause a messenger named OI told me where to turn and who to avoid! He told me he saw they had weird dogs with them! Dangerous and like monsters!" She points back to the building again. "Others are inside! They need help!"
For a minute the panic act actually was getting to her. She actually dropped to the ground.
SERAS Weren't snipers supposed to have good senses? Not be BLIND and DEAF.
Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_RLDDly1tc)
The first thing you notice is the the blinding pain that shoots through your neck and down your spine and the incredible force that sends you reeling. The second thing you notice is the curious weightless sensation of being hurled through the air.
You collide painfully with a car as your assailant send you flying through the air. The metal deforms around you as you make impact and you know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you would have died were your still mortal. Fortunately you are not. None the less you feel the blood running down your neck, the ringing dizziness in your ears and the ache in your spine.
You extract yourself from the wreckage and turn, and there out of the trees stalks a great beast. A beast, four-legged and taller than a man, brown fur matted with dirt and blood. It's shape is strange, almost a wolf, but it's limbs are thicker and wider, it's blood-slick claws more prominent, reminding your of some badger or mole made monstrous and feral. Great rents and welts split it's fur, even exposing the bloody sinew beneath. It's teeth, like wicked daggers, are drawn back into a feral snarl and flecks of foam and spittle fall from it's rabid jaw. It's eyes shine emerald green and you can hear the feral snarl it only now gives voice to. There is no part of this creature that does tell a tale of suffering and a rage well earned.
The beast throws it's filth encrusted head back and lets loose a howl of anger and hate, so loud it drowns out even the din of the car alarms. Which choose that moment to fall silent, as if shamed into stillness.
The Thrice-Broken Earth
Nakula & Sahadeva
Surprise attack: [roll0]
Join Battle: [roll1]
ChaosArchon
2014-09-09, 05:54 PM
As she flies through the air Seras sighs, this was just not her day was it, first a simple assassination turned into a hostage crisis and now she was about to become quite intimate with the side of a car. As the impact makes a sickening crunch which she was sure she'd feel tomorrow, she quickly pushes off the smashed car and spins on her heels to face her new foe. As she spins, a silhouette of light appears in her hands, glowing as brightly as the sun for a moment before it stops shinning to reveal, once again, her godcannon.
stunting JB:[roll0]
activating Elsewhere Draw Mastery to summon the godcannon -1m 37/47 peripheral essence
josienoms
2014-09-09, 10:35 PM
Daphne seems speechless for a moment, looking more closely at the girls. It couldn't have been nothing.
Perception+Investigation to look more closely at the girls!
[roll0]
DAPHNE Mind games, because paranoia is a great compliment to cowardice.
Now that you look again, you're almost certain you were seeing things. There's nothing out of the ordinary about the rescued hostages. You're not even sure what you thought you saw, really.
Kell_tamer
2014-09-14, 03:05 PM
Abby glances over at the carnage and takes a step back toward the car. "t-that wasn't there before..."
She looks at her father and then at the cars An idea starts to form but she needs to remain out of the actual conflict.
JonRG
2014-09-14, 03:31 PM
Niall stares out the window in shock, hand pressed against the glass. That, that was a big freakin' dog. Tortured. Broken. "Ollie, you utter piece of shi-" he growls under his breath. His gaze turns to the girls. "Cassie, Daffy. Get everyone outta here. Obviously don't go near the parking lot. I gotta try and stop that thing." Niall withdraws Answer from its holster. "Now go!" He draws a bead on the monster from a distance.
Join Battle: [roll0]
Stunt: [roll1]
Obscurejones
2014-09-18, 11:26 PM
Searching desperately for the girls, Nate comes to an inevitable conclusion.
"Oh for ****'s sake, I'm in the wrong building."
As he tries to figure out a path between the two he hears the terrible roar.
"That... Should probably be looked into before it kills Niall."
Dashing through the halls he careens out to find the source of the noise.
ABBY Of course you're good at playing the frightened little girl...
For a moment, the way it hurt him to have you recoil from his anima is visible in his eyes. Only for a moment, before it's buried by concern.
He reaches out grabs your hand, that familiar tingle of of his magic running through you as he shields you from his anima, before pulling you into a hug. "It's okay Abby, I'm here" he whispers reassuringly. "Nothing is gonna hurt you now. You're safe".
He holds you for a moment as the lightning arcs harmlessly around you. Then a terrible roar erupts the car park, drawing both your attention. Your dad turns his head sharply towards the sound, flinching as if he almost lept away with you in his arms.
"Abby..." he hesitates. He wants, no, needs to be here, to make absolutely certain you are safe... but he has a job to do. "I need you to wait in the car. It's bulletproof, lock the doors and stay out of sight, you should be safe inside. Can you do that?".
He gently pushes you towards the car and draws his pistol, an ornate thing of jade-steel and adamant inlay, facing towards the monster hulking in the car park, anima crackling around him. "This won't take long".
Kell_tamer
2014-09-25, 07:59 PM
Abby looks up at her dad and nods. "I can do that. Be careful dad! ... I love you."
Abby actually does hug him, tightly before he moves in to do his thing. Dad was a hero. He always was. The Model of what the Dragon Blo... no the Exalted represent. Was she? She hid, she ran while students died.
Those thoughts raced into her head and she shook them out. It's not the time for that kind of reflection. Things needed to be done. The car would keep her safe and she could do them without the interruptions. Maybe all that time playing video games wouldn't be a waste after all...
ABBY, NATE, NIALL & SERAS There will be blood-shed...
There's the echoing retort of gunfire mixed with the crackling whine of electricity as bolts arc from the beast as shot graze past. The man shrouded in lightning, now advancing down the road from the gate with gun in hand is the source of the fire. He snaps off another shot with practised ease.
The maddened elemental jerks out of the way, moving with a speed that is simply supernatural for it's size. Or, to be honest, any size. Whatever this thing is, it's not even remotely slow.
Three shots from Patrick, the first two boosted with Air Dragon Bullet and all with 2m spent on the first excellency.
[roll0]
[roll1]
[roll2]
0-Patrick
1-
2-Abby, Nakula
3-
4-Nate, Niall, Patrick, Seras
ABBY, NATE, NIALL, SERAS ...The man in the mirror nods his head...
The ragged beast bounds forwards as it moves, a streak of brown fur and red scars, closing in on Seras with terrifying swiftness. With a scream one great bloody paw smashes down on her lightning fast, an impact that shears straight through what is left of the car with contemptuous ease and sets the earth to shaking with it's force.
Attacking Seras using God-Smashing Blow and the First Martial Arts Excellency.
[roll0]
2-Abby, Nakula
3-
4-Nate, Niall, Patrick, Seras
5-
6-Nakula
ChaosArchon
2014-09-25, 10:20 PM
As the maddened elemental dashes towards her with lethal intent, Seras leaps over the beast, pushing off of the wrecked car with her feet and, trusting that the orichalcum in her gun would be sturdy enough and remain undamaged, uses her godcannon to vault over the beast with the momentum she gains from the push. With the grace of a world athlete, she lands back on her feet and swivels around to face her foe once again, readying herself to strike back at the demented aspect of nature.
activating Shadow Over Water+Second Dodge Excellency (x2), -5m (34/47 Peripheral Essence)
stunt dice: [roll0]
josienoms
2014-09-25, 10:43 PM
Daphne grabs Cassidy's hand.
"C'mon, let's get the hell out of here!"
Put simply, she's terrified. Terrorists and monsters were not her forte. Still gripping her friend's hand tightly, she takes off in the opposite direction of the fight.
JonRG
2014-09-26, 01:03 PM
Niall opens the window once Cassidy's gone from view. Even from this distance, the creature is truly a horrific sight to behold. "Poor thing. Don't worry. I'll try an' make it quick." He lines up a shot. Fortunately (for him), the beast was too focused on the young woman that had just... jumped out of a crumpled wreck. Probably Exalted, then. "Maybe one a yours, buddy? That'd be a laugh." An actual hero. Not just a monster playing pretend. Niall tries to stop his hands from shaking as he feels the Essence flow through his fingertips. Order. That's what he was made for. Maybe someday, he'd be doing it for the right reasons. He holds his breath, quirks a smile at the sunlight, and opens fire.
Full SWLiHN from peripheral this time. Lightin' up the night.
Blammo!: [roll0]
Stunt: [roll1]
ChaosArchon
2014-09-26, 01:37 PM
"Once there was a Maiden...
...whose friends were all dead,
But she hunted the culprits til they all lay dead, and now pursues their confederates and seeks to foil their wicked deeds.
Now she faces the insane growling of the demented one whose heart is stone, twisted by yet more guilty hands.
Quick as mercury, there arose a great thundering and burning of steel as she pulled the trigger to end its life.
"Vengeance is mine, in due time their foot shall slip. For their days of calamity are near" said the Maiden of Night."
activating Second Firearms Excellency (x5) and channeling Conviction, -10m 1wp (28/47 Peripheral Essence, 7/8 Willpower)
Attack 1, Firearms (5), Dexterity (5), Sniping (2), Wounds (-1), Accuracy (4), Conviction (4): [roll0] +5 sux
DAPHNE Luna chose poorly.
You pull Cassidy along behind you as you run deeper into the building. As you reach the stairs you feel Cassidy come to a stop, confusion and worry visible in the way she keeps glancing back to where you've just left her confident brother to deal with the monstrous spirit.
"Daphne, what was that?" she asks, looking to you for reassurance, "There was a monster and then Niall had a gun and I think that was a shellcaster...".
josienoms
2014-09-26, 10:39 PM
"I-I don't know! I don't know what it is, I'm just so scared!"
Her antennae twitch. There's something she could do. She could help. Niall deseved it. But then, people would know her secret.
Then again, it would be worse if the reason no one knew her secret was because they all died. She swallows, making an audible gulp as she tries to calm herself down.
"Do you think we should go back? I..." Her lip trembles. "I might be able to help."
Obscurejones
2014-10-09, 08:17 AM
Oh, for the love of god. That's the cops. That's the super cops. Note to self: Scream at Niall for a while about not taking us to places with cops. Or terrorists. Or no sushi.
Ah well. Just have to remember to pick up all of his knives after this is over. Snapping his arm out Adam unfurls a spire of bone in the shape of a lean dagger.
Thrown 3 + Dexterity 10 + Accuracy 2 [roll0]
Attack is speed 4
NATE, NIALL & SERAS
The fusillade of fire from above impacts harmlessly against the thick hide of the creature as it bears down on Seras. He point blank shot throws it's head back, only for it give a sadistic snarl, revealing the oversized bullet caught between it's teeth. It jerks forwards and a bone knife bounces harmlessly off it's side instead of it's head. It's faster than it looks, and not stupid enough to let you hit it where it's actually hurt.
The dragonblood pauses for a moment to aim, lightning gathering at the barrel of his gun, before he fires off lightning wreathed shot and yells out "You three! Follow my lead, we'll need to pin it down if we want to get a shot somewhere vital!".
Patrick aims for a tick, then flurries a coordinate attacks action and an attack.
Coordinate: Charisma 3 + War 2 + Specialties (Anti-Spirit Tactics, Small Unit Tactics) 2 - 2 = 5 dice, difficulty 2.
[roll0]
Attack: Dexterity 4 + Firearms 4 + Specialties (Pistols, Spirits) 3 + Accuracy 1 + Excellency 6 + Aim 1 - 3 = 16 Dice
[roll1]
4-Nate, Niall, Patrick, Seras
5-
6-Nakula
7-
8-Nate
9-Niall
10-Patrick, Seras <- Coordinated attack on this tick.
Kell_tamer
2014-10-09, 10:43 AM
Abby makes it to the car but already has the data from her phone pulled up before her eyes. With a thought she is manipulating the data flows and sending signal after signal. Using her previous connection to the car network as a way in suddenly the alarms go silent. Suddenly an ignition, and another, and another. It at the moment wouldn't do anything for her physically, but she now knows which cars she can make work. She picks the one right behind the beast and as far as its concerned some moron with a death wish just slammed its horn.
Clockwork Perfection of intelligence turns half my die pool into successes and transpuissant upgrade makes my specialties successes. 2 sux from specialties (Transpuissant intelligence upgrade). no motes spent.. Int 6 Lore 5 Equipment from Metanueral Uplink node (3) Thats 7 auto + 2 from specialty, 9 Sux If i get at least one die of stunt it becomes 10 and if I get miraculously 3, 11.
This costs a whopping 0 motes.
DAPHNE About time
Cassidy looks at you for a moment, thinking before she nods in agreement. "I've gotta make sure Niall's okay".
Another monstrous roar shakes the building. Cassidy looks resolute as she turns back. "Let's go".
josienoms
2014-10-10, 01:57 PM
Daphne nods and takes Cassidy's hand, running with her back to the scene of the fight. On the way, she explains.
"You know those shapeshifters that conspiracy nutjobs are always going on about? The Lunars, they call them. The animal people you see on those ****ty History Channel shows with that Giorgio Tsoukalos weirdo, the one with the crazy hair?"
She takes a deep breath.
"They're real. And I'm one of them."
ABBY, NATE, NIALL, SERAS
The beast fails to even notice Abby's tinkering as the lightning from her father's shots courses over it, causing it to flinch mid-lunge. It pushes through and descends on Seras with jaws wide, crushing the ruined car under it's paws with the piercing scream of twisted metal and breaking glass. Teeth like knives fall upon her and she can smell it's breath, like rotting meat.
Patrick inflicts 2 dice of damage plus Stunned (-2 dice) for 1 turn.
[roll0]
Nakula makes a grapple attack against Seras using World-Breaker Grip and the First Martial Arts Excellency.
[roll1]
NAKULA
Damage: 1L
Expenditures: 12m, 1wp
DV 7, Soak 14L/19B
PATRICK
Damage: 0
Expenditures: 12m
7-Abby
8-Nate
9-Niall
10-Patrick, Seras <- Coordinated attack on this tick.
11-Nakula
DAPHNE
"What? Daphne, that's..." Cassidy's eyes go wide in shock, flickering directly to your hair, then your antennae.
"Your...". She shakes her head to clear it. "Later" she says, half to herself. "Talk about it later... when there's no monsters, no people with guns, and everything's back to normal and everyone's safe and...".
"You've got to help them Daphne".
josienoms
2014-10-10, 11:48 PM
"I will. Stay safe." Daphne leaves Cassidy behind and runs headlong towards the battle.
ChaosArchon
2014-10-11, 03:38 AM
As the lumbering brute reaches for Seras, she rolls out of that way, sliding her feet as she gets up in such a way to kick up the dirt allowing her to slightly blind the monster. When it swings at her, her form continually shifts around it, becoming more like a shadow than an actual person; despite her glowing as bright as the sun itself. As the glowing gold wisps of phantasmal bats circle around her, she faces her foe once again aiming and preparing to strike once the officer gives the signal.
activating Shadow Over Water+ Second Dodge Excellency (x2) -5m (23/47 peripheral essence)
stunt dice: [roll0]
Kell_tamer
2014-10-11, 02:36 PM
Well that was rude. How dare it not pay attention. Abby took it a deeper level. Drilling down into a single car that was in front of the creature he vision imposed a hologram of the cars interior around her. her mind toggled gears and shifted it into drive. With just a though the cars engine roared to life. It drove forward, careening headlong into the beast ahead of her. If she could topple it she could give them just the shot they needed. Her essence tingled along radio waves through the air, those in the fight might have felt it, or might have chalked it up to adrenaline. No matter. It guided the cars systems and made it strike true.
Alright in the car already. Abby is using her Linkup toi get control of the car. not having to rely on crude movements like hands and such she guides the vehicle as best as she can into the beast applying her PErception Augmentation to give 2 successes on the roll. Perception + Drive + Equipment comes to 7 dice Any stunt also
[roll0]
Stunt if any
[roll1]
Obscurejones
2014-10-16, 12:46 PM
"Well that was aggressively ****ty."
Stop it. You're not thinking this through. So it's got a hide on it, can't pierce it with knives. So quit thinking like a surgeon and a killer. You don't need to kill it, you just need to bind it.
Too strong for that. Just go for the eyes.
No, too strong to bind down. But not too strong to weigh down. It can rip free from cement, but even something that big's going to have some problems with a few sedans glued to it.
...Point to spider-boy. See if you can get Niall's. His fault we're in this mess.
With a slightly tacky hiss silk splays between Nate's fingers. Firing a series of strands he snaps his lines between the monster and the nearest cars. He anchors each vehicle carefully, looping the monster's arms with a few tons of steel and aluminum. Then, just to be a ****, he tags Niall's sedan to the beasty's forearms.
"Your car is F***ed, Niall!"
Net for 1 mote, made none obvious for three motes. Which is delightful. I'm gluing it to a parking lot's worth of four doors. And no one gets to think that's weird. :D
So Dexterity 5 + Bonus Dexterity 5 + Thrown 3 + Webbing 1 + Net Accuracy 4 [roll0]
Stunt, if any [roll1]
JonRG
2014-10-18, 09:28 AM
Niall sighs exasperatedly. Frankly, he'd be thankful if the only thing he lost today was that piece of garbage. Probably have to go crawling to his family to replace it. Or Ollie. The prospect sent a shiver down his spine, and his hands tighten around the revolver grip. Focus. Nate (that prick) had the monster tied down. Now he just had to finish the job. Drawing a bead just above the roof of his former means of conveyance, Niall pulls the trigger. No Essence. Just the fury of a demon prince pissed about losing his first car.
ChaosArchon
2014-10-18, 11:19 AM
As the others begin their attack on the titanic elemental, Seras rushes forward to meet the beast weaving back and forth to lessen the chance she would get hit. Though she is out in the open, the maiden's features are indeterminable, cloaked in the most righteous and bright light of the sun while phantasmal bats forged from essence circle her. Once she reaches the monster, she leaps above it and uses her godcannon as a perch to balance on top of the beast as it struggles to break free on the silken chains of the arachnid man.
For a moment all is quiet to Seras as she makes a silent prayer to her patron, asking for the strength and skill to end this maddened beast's suffering so that she might hunt down those that twisted it into what it is now. Then, while all the alacrity fitting as an assassin of the Sun, she pulls the trigger and fires what she prays would be her final bullet right into the elemental's skull.
activating Second Firearms Excellency (x5) and channeling Conviction, -10m 1wp (17/47 Peripheral Essence, 6/8 Willpower)
attack:[roll0]
stunt:[roll1]
The beast leans into the oncoming vehicle, crumpling the bumper around it as it shoves it into the air. A furious claw reaches out to grasp the wrecked vehicle only to be interrupted by another barrage from the dragonblood, stunning it. Before the beast has time to recover Nate's webbing anchors it down, and Niall takes advantage with a well placed shot. Blood blossoms from it's eye as it thrashes madly against the webbing, only for it's head to be forced down by the barrel of a godcannon.
It's head explodes into gore as Seras fire point blank, splashing her with blood and dirt. The headless body collapses inwards, the corrupting elemental dissipating into a stinking pile of mud and gore.
ChaosArchon
2014-10-18, 01:45 PM
Seras looks at the mutilated corpse as gore drips off of her, her anima still making the place brighter than the surface of the Sun. She looks at the webbing and the cars surrounding the beast and simply says,"Looks like he got caught up in traffic," and begins to walk towards the Dragonblood to discuss the continued presence of the terrorists. As she does, her gun shimmers once more before vanishing into nothingness.
JonRG
2014-10-18, 02:00 PM
Niall holsters his revolver with a wicked grin, then rushes out to the parking lot. Make sure that Nate and everyone was okay. As he rushes out a side door, Niall bumps into the blonde sniper. It catches him off guard, but he quickly regains his composure. "Hey. Nice shootin' back there." The sun finally fades from his brow.
ChaosArchon
2014-10-18, 02:30 PM
As the man bumps into Seras, for a moment she feels a surge of leftover adrenaline course through her and begins to summon her godcannon. But just as quickly she stops, the man was unarmed and seemed to be friendly enough. She smiles at him, silently lamenting the fact she was covered in blood, gore, and mud. "Thanks, not a bad shot yourself."
JonRG
2014-10-18, 03:22 PM
Niall scratches the back of his neck. "Thanks. Say, you wanna get a coffee, once this is all over? Talk shop or whatever." Maybe this wasn't the time, sure. Besides, he needed a ride outta here, and his entire bloody family had decided to leave town simultaneously.
ChaosArchon
2014-10-18, 04:18 PM
Seras smiles again and thinks for a moment. On one hand she had just met the guy and had no idea what his name even was. On the other hand... he was cute. Ah what the hell,"Sure, names Seras. How about you, what's your's?"
JonRG
2014-10-18, 04:25 PM
"Niall. My sister goes to school here. What about you? What brings you here today?"
ChaosArchon
2014-10-18, 04:36 PM
Seras shrugs and smiles at him,"I was in the area when I saw that giant beast and was worried it would hurt some of the children here. So I figured I'd use my... gift to help some people out."
JonRG
2014-10-18, 05:37 PM
Niall smiles. He absolutely smelled a rat, but it'd take patience to get to the truth. Besides, she was attractive enough. "Lucky that you were around then... You all right, by the way? Look pretty banged up."
ChaosArchon
2014-10-18, 06:02 PM
As he says it, Seras begins to feel the adrenaline's effects wear off and the pain, marginal as it was, begins to set in. The entire left side of her body ached for relief and no doubt was heavily bruised from the impact of hitting the car. Luckily her body armor had absorbed a good amount of the blow otherwise she likely would be hurt even worse. Nevertheless she smiles and waives Niall's concerns off,"It's nothing, I should be fine in a few days. I am a Solar after all." She then laughs a bit but then becomes more somber and smiling says to Niall,"Thanks for the concern though."
JonRG
2014-10-18, 06:19 PM
So he'd been right. Wrong about how it'd feel, but right about what she was. Well, what's he got to fear from his fellow Solar? Niall flashes another smile. "Glad you're all right. It's been a long-ass day." He rubs at his eyes.
Obscurejones
2014-10-19, 03:23 PM
Nate whoops as the monster's head explodes throwing his hands into the air.
"Touchdown!"
He turns to rejoice with Niall at the destruction of the monster, and Niall's ****ty sedan, when something tickles his nose. A weird scent mingling with the tang of gore. Something sweet but subtle... Honey? Why would he smell... Oh crap sacks. Scampering across the battlefield, Nate scuttles behind Niall.
"Hey, uh... We should go. We can take... Does your new friend have a car? We should go."
JonRG
2014-10-19, 03:28 PM
Niall makes a face. "What the hell crawled up your ass? 'Sides, I gotta wait for Cassie, who... really should have been here by now." He goes to his phone and quickly texts, "Are you and Daphne okay?"
Obscurejones
2014-10-19, 03:30 PM
"Yeah, her friend probably ate her. Seriously. We should go. I don't want to get eaten too."
Nate bounces on his heels, his nervous energy overpowering Dr. Essex's usual sarcastic calm.
ChaosArchon
2014-10-19, 03:32 PM
Seras looks at Niall,"Friend of yours?" and then speaks to the nervous man,"And I have a motorcycle but I think only one of you could ride with me unfortunately."
JonRG
2014-10-19, 03:32 PM
"The hell you mean ate her? Daffy's a sweet kid." Niall stares at his friend. "You're not makin' any sense."
Obscurejones
2014-10-19, 03:36 PM
"Waaaaaaaaaaasp. They eat things. Everyone always forgets that. Thinks all they do is buzz around and make honey. F*** that. They inject eggs in your belly and their little S*** offspring eat their way out. Terrifying stuff when it's small scale, but when you make it a teenager and I'll admit to some pants moistening. Seriously. Like if Guillermo del Toro directed a Peter Jackson movie."
Nate pauses. Tilts his head slightly. Sniffs.
"Alright, maybe a bee. But my point stands. I want out. You drove me here, get me out."
NIALL, NATE & SERAS
Meanwhile, the dragonblood is standing off to the side, conversing animatedly with someone on the other end of a phone. You can't make out his exact words over the crackling of his anima, but he seems to be glancing into a mirror held in his other hand.
He sends the occasional glance your way as he talks.
JonRG
2014-10-19, 03:39 PM
"Then why the everlovin' F*** DID YOU WRECK MY CAR?" Niall's grip threatens to crush the smartphone in his hand.
Obscurejones
2014-10-19, 03:41 PM
"Because I wanted a burger and you drove me to a F***ING TERRORIST ATTACK! Who does that? Also, your car sucked. We'll build you a better one."
JonRG
2014-10-19, 03:52 PM
Niall rubs his temples. Guy had a point. Thirty minutes tops, he'd promised, and then we'll go get burgers. "Look, just... just lemme find Cassie, and I'll take you anywhere you want. Please." He chokes up a little bit. "C'mon, idiot," Niall thinks. "Keep it together. Jus' a few more hours and you can go home and cry like a baby with a bottle of Jack."
Kell_tamer
2014-10-19, 04:25 PM
No longer hearing guns and such Abby glances at the security feed to the lot. Seeing it be safer she makes her way over to the group. She pauses to glance at the wreck that was once Niall's car. She looks at him then the car and just points.
JonRG
2014-10-19, 04:30 PM
Niall turns around. "Hey... uh, Abby. What's goin' on?"
Kell_tamer
2014-10-19, 04:30 PM
"That yours?" She glances at the wreck.
JonRG
2014-10-19, 04:35 PM
"Yeah, so if you were lookin' ta buy it, m'afraid you're SOL."
Kell_tamer
2014-10-19, 04:43 PM
"hardly. Just saying I doubt my dad over there will be giving you guys a ride. He might!? However I know where you could get that repaired better than new. So your friend can shoot webbing? Neat." She turns her phone to them and replays the point moments ago where the car was wrecked by webbing and the argument over it.
JonRG
2014-10-19, 04:54 PM
Niall buries his head in his hands. Tries not to scream. After a few moments, he looks up. "You're still in the cameras... Any chance you could look for my sister and her friend?" Niall flicks frantically through his phone. "This is them." He displays a picture of the two girls in formal wear. Probably from the last school dance, if Abby had to guess.
Kell_tamer
2014-10-19, 05:12 PM
Abby nods and takes a look at her phone. It was just an extension of her network right now so really she just began to sift through many feeds at once in front of her eyes. In moments she has a feed locked and tracking. She knows what camera will come next based upon movement and sends it to the phone to show Niall.
"You mean the Queen and her friend?"
6 int 2 investigation 1 speciality for digital trails. clockwork Intelligence Perfection Nodes make the search garner 4 successes free. The specialty adds 1 more. a stunt of 1 or 2 higher garners 1 more success. 3 will garner 2 more. 5 right now.
ABBY, NATE, NIALL & SERAS
Neither of the two girls is showing up on camera right now. However, a quick check of the records does show Cassidy leading the hostages out through the front gate.
Daphne appears to break off from Cassidy after a conversation in the halls, heading towards the battle, only to disappear along the way.
A few moments later there's a buzz from Niall's phone as he gets a reply. "R U OK Niall?".
JonRG
2014-10-19, 05:27 PM
Niall chuckles tiredly. "I'm fine. Where are you guys? What about Daffy? She okay?" Oh and by the way, does she by chance happen to be a wasp? Nah, we'll worry about that later.
This reply comes much quicker. "@ front g8, evry1 is OK. Daph went bak 2 help U".
Patrick looks increasingly agitated at Abby's appearance.
"Abby! I thought I told you to stay in the car young lady!" comes a bellow from over by the monster's corpse. Evidently the dragonblood finished his phone call. There's a mix of worry and anger visible on his face as he stalks over.
Kell_tamer
2014-10-19, 06:48 PM
Abby cringes a bit. "uh dad.... I wanted to uh... make sure everyone is OK. I saw it on the security feeds." She holds her phone up, hoping that it is enough to distract her dad.
josienoms
2014-10-19, 11:26 PM
Daphne bursts out just in time to see the monster die.
"Oh. Oh no. I told Cassidy the truth for nothing."
She whines a little, clearly upset. She decides to go over to Niall, just to make sure things are okay.
"Niall, I saw what happened. Cassie's okay, I just left her to... to see if I could help."
Embarrassed, her cheeks turn red.
JonRG
2014-10-19, 11:43 PM
Niall tilts his head. Daphne wanted to help him fight a giant monster? What was she gonna do, pepper spray it? "Waaaaaaaaaaasp." The doc was hardly sane, but he wasn't usually wrong either. Could she really be- "Listen, Daffs. If somethin'... goin' on with you, you can tell me, all right? Won't tell a soul." He was insanely good about secrecy, for a reporter. Niall had spent two weeks in jail on a contempt charge for refusing to name a source. He'd have stayed in longer, but his parents had pulled some strings. Was a nightmare for them. Did wonders for his career though.
josienoms
2014-10-19, 11:50 PM
Her eyes widen, betraying the fact that something is, indeed, going on. To stop herself from talking and to give herself time to think, she raises a fist to her mouth and bites down on the knuckle of her index finger. Her antennae twitch in agitation.
"Don't worry about it. I'm fine. I don't know what I'm doing out here... I was trying to look brave for Cassie, I guess."
ChaosArchon
2014-10-19, 11:59 PM
Seras looks at the embarrassed high schooler talking to Niall and gives her a look of approval,"Takes guts to rush towards an angry monster, especially as a mortal. You're a brave girl, kid."
josienoms
2014-10-20, 12:07 AM
Daphne totally misinterprets Seras' intent and meaning.
"You all already know, don't you?"
Obscurejones
2014-10-20, 10:27 AM
Nate makes sure to keep Niall between himself and the mutant.
"Waspy, wasp. Irony thy name is monster."
josienoms
2014-10-20, 10:32 AM
Daphne stomps her foot indignantly.
"I'm not a wasp, I'm a bee!"
She covers her mouth as she realizes what she just did.
Obscurejones
2014-10-20, 10:35 AM
"And you're smart and subtle."
Nate leans over Niall's shoulder. Glares at Daphne and then back at Niall.
"I no longer fear this one. You still owe me a ride home though. And a burger, asshat."
josienoms
2014-10-20, 10:38 AM
"Oh God, what have I done?"
She takes a step back.
"Everybody's gonna think I'm a freak."
Obscurejones
2014-10-20, 10:41 AM
"...I'd say something about teenage girls in general, but I'm trying to be more tumblr friendly with my insults. So... You'll probably be fine. Niall's not a real reporter anymore."
Nate rests his head on Niall's shoulder.
"He's just a burger denying punk."
ABBY See the spider? See the hypocrite.
Patrick wraps Abby in a fierce hug. "We will be having a talk about this later Abby. For now, I'm just glad you're all right."
After a moment, he turns his head to face the others. "As for you three... what exactly is going on here?".
JonRG
2014-10-20, 10:46 AM
Niall glares at Nate. Not because of the whole shoulder thing, but the calling out of his reporterly chops. He gives Daphne a gentler look. "Yer fine, kid. Just... keep yer voice down, and we can all get outta here. Go get burgers. You wouldn't happen ta have a car, would ya?" He remains silent when Patrick makes his appearance. You only say two things to a cop. "I want a lawyer," and "Am I free to go?"
Obscurejones
2014-10-20, 10:48 AM
Nate smiles brightly at Patrick Von Supercop.
Just a couple of concerned citizens officer. Who happened to be in the area and would now like to go eat a cow. Like, a whole cow. Preferably ground and then formed into patties but at this point I would settle for one that is alive but slow enough to catch.
josienoms
2014-10-20, 10:50 AM
"I don't know sir. I just go to school here. I was in class when the attack started."
She smiles softly at Niall and nods.
"Yeah, I do."
Obscurejones
2014-10-20, 10:52 AM
"If you take me to burgers I'll fix that nose of yours for free."
josienoms
2014-10-20, 11:02 AM
Daphne unconsciously covers her nose.
"I. I. I..."
She stammers, her cheeks turning red.
"You're a jerk. My nose is fine."
She huffs and turns her back on him. Not terribly clever or witty, but it would have to do.
The look on his face is one of disbelief. "Uh huh, and of course these concerned citizens would like to leave before the SWAT arrives I assume? And perhaps be left out of my report?".
"Because if that so happens to be the case it might be in their best interests to tell me what they know so I can focus on organising the response, rather than having to haul them in for interrogation?".
Obscurejones
2014-10-20, 11:17 AM
"I know terrorists showed up. I gooped some up with some new suture goo we've been working on. Ran around looking for Super W.A.S.P and Niall's sister. Found neither. Was annoyed. So I gooped Niall's car to that monster thing. Now I want burgers. And to fix that poor girl's nose."
josienoms
2014-10-20, 11:37 AM
Daphne's antennae twitch in agitation again.
"I'm gonna go find Cassidy."
She heads back into the school after tossing Niall her keys.
"It's the light blue Mercedes."
JonRG
2014-10-20, 12:16 PM
"She's out front, Daffs!" Niall calls after her. Then he focuses on the real issue. What's the play? If Niall told the cops the truth, he'd be dead before Patrick could obtain his first warrant. But he couldn't just... If this lie took hold... It would be bad. He couldn't let it happen. Niall's gaze flicks to Abby. She knew The_Signal. She knew this cop. He could do this. He could get the truth out there, subtly. All he had to do was not get dragged down to the station. "I was pickin' up my sister, and then terrorists burst onto the scene. I tried to do what I could." Niall shrugs. That was... a certain angle on the truth.
Kell_tamer
2014-10-20, 12:33 PM
Abby nods at Niall. "Its true, he helped get me out of there. we ran into each other when the power failed and he helped me out. "
ChaosArchon
2014-10-20, 03:11 PM
Seras speaks up, and politely replies to the officer,"Like I told Niall here, I was in the area when I saw the giant elemental and was worried it would hurt some of the girls here so I ran to engage it. My special gifts allowed me to do so knowing I at least stood a chance of stopping it."
Kell_tamer
2014-10-21, 10:27 AM
Abby glances around and grabs her phone. In a moment she has her dads hand and his phone down there where she quickly sends the feeds from her phone to his. Her dad already has seen her break through simple systems like a school before. He probably figures she'll wind up working for an intelligence organization. He's not that far off, she fully intends to. "Dad, this should help with the cleanup."
josienoms
2014-10-21, 10:49 AM
Daphne listens to Niall's advice and finds Cassidy out front.
"Oh my gosh, Cassie... By the time I got there it was over. I told everybody my secret for nothing!"
ABBY, NATE, NIALL & SERAS
"Abby, what are...!" Patrick splutters as his daughter digs his phone out of his coat pocket. "I've told you not to... oh, we'll talk about it later".
He turns back to the other three. "That should be everything from you lot. Assuming everything checks out, I never saw you. If you could police your brass before you leave, you in particular ma'am" he indicates Seras, "that'd make it a lot easier for me to explain things. If I need to ask anything further... let's just say, I'll find you".
Obscurejones
2014-10-21, 04:13 PM
Skittering over next to the corpse of the monstrosity, Nate picks up and pockets the bone knife he sprouted earlier.
ChaosArchon
2014-10-21, 04:31 PM
Seras nods,"Of course officer, I'll take care of them right now." As thus the smiling beauty drops her smiling persona and once again assumes one of the Angel of Death, as not a single smile or a hint of softness is to be seen as she methodically picks through the gore splattered parking lot to recover her bullet casings and the bullets her godcannon fired.
JonRG
2014-10-21, 08:55 PM
Niall meanders back up to the window from which he fired and picks up his two shells. Deed done, he rejoins his friend (friends?) in the parking lot.
Obscurejones
2014-10-21, 09:36 PM
Nate glances over at Seras. Shudders.
"You strike me as the kind of woman who can't orgasm unless she's certain there's a gun somewhere in the room."
JonRG
2014-10-21, 09:49 PM
Niall scowls. "Rude, mate. Ya don't even know her."
Obscurejones
2014-10-21, 09:52 PM
"I know she didn't lie to me about burgers. And I know that no one with that much firepower is to be trusted. They're either a Republican or... Actually I have no part two to that one."
ChaosArchon
2014-10-21, 09:58 PM
"Or they're a shiny super-human who can beat you seven ways to Sunday but instead helped you kill a rampaging elemental. So you're welcome." she says overly cheery while smiling.
Obscurejones
2014-10-21, 10:01 PM
"Well, speaking as a mere mortal, thank you for not being as crazy as your crazy makes you seem. And I mean that. Really I do... Actually, you seem like the red blooded type. It's F***ed up to deny someone their lunch, right? Like... Really truly f***ed up."
JonRG
2014-10-21, 10:05 PM
"Oh my ****ing God, will you can it about the burgers? You are such a child."
Obscurejones
2014-10-21, 10:06 PM
"And you sir, are starving a child. Truly, you are history's greatest monster. For shame, Niall. For shame."
ChaosArchon
2014-10-21, 10:06 PM
Seras' stomach grumbles and she smiles at Niall,"I wouldn't mind some burgers actually, I could give you a lift to wherever you were going. Hey if we find one of the quaint side cars your friend can come along."
JonRG
2014-10-21, 10:11 PM
Niall jingles Daphne's keys. "Think we're square, thanks." He sighs and puts a hand on Adam's shoulder. "Come on, mate. We'll get Daffs and Cassie from out front."
Obscurejones
2014-10-21, 10:18 PM
"...Can I call the Wasp, Duck? It'll make me joy."
JonRG
2014-10-21, 10:38 PM
"She might not take that from you. Might wind up with a stomach full of eggs or somethin'."
Obscurejones
2014-10-21, 10:42 PM
"As long as they reside alongside delicious beef."
JonRG
2014-10-21, 11:54 PM
"Think I can swing that. We'll be at Burger Time if you wanna meet up, Seras." Niall hits the panic button, then makes his way towards the currently-sounding alarm. He shuts it off then climbs into the driver's seat. After sliding it back, he pulls out of the space and makes his way towards the front, giving a Seras a little wave before he drives off.
ALL OF THE IDIOTS
As the front gate pulls into view you're forced to slow down, the way blocked by a rapidly growing police cordon. The police are swiftly moving to surround the school and one officer directs you away. A quick look at the crowd outside reveals several faces familiar to Niall, the hostages from earlier, a few reporters he knows and... yes, there's Cassidy behind an ambulance, currently being examined by some paramedics.
josienoms
2014-10-23, 01:56 PM
Cassidy waves to Niall when she sees him, indicating he should hurry over and get her out of there.
DAPHNE
"I'm sorry miss Tierney, but I need you to hold still whilst I finish my examination" the nurse chastises. You've already given a (false) statement for the police who met you at the front gate, you should be able to leave once they've finished checking you for injuries.
ABBY
As the others drive off, Patrick sighs and pulls out his phone again. "Abby... go wait in the car, I'll be along in a moment. We need to talk".
Kell_tamer
2014-10-23, 02:33 PM
Abby sighs and bites her lower lip. She knew better than to protest. She skittered back to the car and sat down.
JonRG
2014-10-23, 02:42 PM
At the sight of his sister, Niall immediately throws the car into park and rushes towards the ambulance. "What happened? Are you okay?"
josienoms
2014-10-23, 02:47 PM
"I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm not hurt, I just ran away when it came for me. I just wanna go home."
She gives a very convincing sniffle.
JonRG
2014-10-23, 02:59 PM
Niall scowls at the paramedic, who's taking way too long. "Ya hungry? Some of my friends wanna go for food. Can get it to go if ya really wanna be back to the house, but I figure you could use the company." Hell, it was a big house. Everybody could come back with him. "Say... did Daffy ever catch up with you? Where's she at?" He glances around the general vicinity.
josienoms
2014-10-23, 03:01 PM
"Cassidy" nods.
"Yeah, I'm starving. Daphne's parents came and picked her up already. She's been gone for a few minutes."
JonRG
2014-10-23, 03:11 PM
Niall nods, satisfied with this answer. "All right. Let's roll." The paramedic steps away. About damn time. He puts a hand on Cassie's shoulder and leads her to the car. "Want me to stay over until Mum and Dad get back?"
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