DocWagon Seattle First Response (Renton)

[estradling]

Sam

During the conversation, Sam had been working of all the paperwork, and reports that followed working on a client.

"Speaking of doing our jobs safely, what could we have done better, or should have tried to do differently on this last pick up? I thought we did ok. Although I can see where having a fire extinguisher, and some kind of fast metal cutting tools might be useful in the future. I and believe some mentioned getting a camera for Flip"

[laszarus]

Lucky

Tapping the monofilament chainsaw on his belt, Lucky grins.

"Scout's rule number one: Always be prepared. I've seen enough car crashes to know that sometimes you need to cut people free. I've got some cuffs, too, just in case we have a recalcitrant client. Oh, and these aren't just for show," He says, pointing to his eyes. "They record too, if you need that sort of thing. I can also see in a number of spectra, so that may come in useful if normal vision leaves us hanging."

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake nods at Lucky, "That probably would have helped, though we had to be careful to not hurt the client while getting her out. I've got some cuffs in my bag, too. Out of habit, I guess." He chuckles, "I've even a got a plasteel pair sitting on a shelf at home. Hopefully, if some BTL-head breaks in while I'm at work, they'll have the good sense to put them on and wait for me to get back." He taps his temple in a similar fashion to Lucky, "Yeah, I got replacements myself, when I was promoted to SWAT. Now, I tend to record my shifts whole and turn the vid in at the end - makes debriefing and paperwork a lot easier."

Though it's still a pain in the ass. If I start doing it now, I'm likely to just fall asleep from boredom.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Last time Darryl saw so many sets of cuffs in one place was back in Georgia when he was volunteering at St. Josephs. There was this woman who had an addiction that involved cuffs. Oiy, did she need therapy.

When the talk turns to cybereyes, Darryl zones back out. Nothing compares to being able to see Astral, I don't care how many spectra you can see.

[dauphinous]

12:05am
Condition serious - 10:00

[Incoming message from Dispatch]
[Status change: Jupiter to Retrieval]
[And here I was just about to suggest a coffee break.]

The news coverage has already started to get grossly repetitive, and the Lone Star feeds are settling down again. The orange dot appears on the map along route 90, about 15km from the standby point. The particular area is in about the middle of the stretch along the line that separates Renton from Redmond. It will take just shy of 4 minutes to get there.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Seeing the orange dot blink into action, Jake sighs, "Guess break's over. Time to get to work." He checks his bag and closes it and pats his uniform's pockets, starting from the top and finishing with the two Predators on his left and right sides. The bag goes on him, hanging just below the Alpha on his right side. Alright, all good and ready, with plenty of ammo.

Finally, he puts on his black helmet and speaks again to the group, "Lucky, I know you haven't been through an extraction with us yet, so here's how we've done things. When we get there, we will evaluate the situation and I'll get the door open as we're landing. Sam is going to go out with the scanner, the stretcher and his medical gear. I make sure he gets there, and unfold the stretcher." The last task is mentioned with the same seriousness as the rest of the plan.

Jake continues speaking to Lucky, "When Sam's all good and done, we get the client back to the chopper. Darryl deals with any magical problems and provides additional aid as necessary. Flip is our eye in the sky and our contact with any local authorities. With you here, we can have a good two man team getting Sam to the client. I don't know if you caught it in your initial briefing, but the scanner only detects the client within a fairly close distance, so sometimes we have to do a bit of searching for our man. If you have any ideas or questions before we get there, ask away."

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

When the beep and the flashing dot starts, Darryl finishes the prayer he was in the middle of with an "Amen". He then double checks the little gear he has and grabs to the riot shield and holds it up to make sure there aren't any blood spots in the way of his vision. {If so, he wipes it up so he has clear line of sight}

He then pulls up a map of the area on his commlink to see what is nearby and may be involved in the incident.

[dariathalon]

Flip

"Alright everyone here we go again. Should only take 3 or 4 minutes to get there, so get yourselves ready," Flip says as he redirects the helicopter to the Redmond/Renton border.

He then replies to Jupiter. [No rest for us. Maybe we can grab a cup after we drop this patient off.]

[estradling]

Sam

As part of the sharing of gear Sam added his, "I don't have any cyber, I did trick out my sunglasses, with various sensing imaging enhancement stuff. I also picked up a little camera that I attack to the glasses for documenting my work, it seems to be working ok. It wasn't cheap, but it wasn't a budget buster either, maybe something like that would work for Flip?"

Before anyone had a chance to answer the alarm went off calling them back to work. Sam downed the last of his coffee, made sure the thermos was sealed and then made sure he had his medical stuff ready to go.

[laszarus]

Lucky

Lucky pulls his gun from its holster and racks back the slide, checks it's loaded and then slides it back in. He cracks his knuckles, takes another swig from his flask, and then settles down to wait.

[dauphinous]

12:08am
Condition serious - 7:13

Jupiter is still about 3km out when the orange dot starts moving. It seems to be headed at high speed into Redmond. In this case, 'high speed' is still much slower than the helicopter can go, but it is very likely that the client is in a moving vehicle of some kind. It is following roads, so likely a land-based vehicle.

12:09am
Condition Serious - 6:34

As Jupiter catches up and the floor of the copter goes transparent, it looks like the client is in the lead vehicle of a chase. The lead vehicle is some sort of blue and black van that must be tricked out for speed, because it is barreling down the road at something like 140kmph. It is being chased by a white sedan. There is gunfire coming from the windows of both vehicles. Interestingly, both sides seem to be making at least a small effort to keep the gunfire between the two vehicles, and they are leaving incredibly minimal collateral damage in their wake.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl, disconcerted about looking at such a massive fall clings more tightly to the riot shield(not that it would help). "Woowie".

Darryl watches the dots and vehicles as they maneuver around a bit to be sure which is which and then says, "Looks like da front car. That there bein' a bita good luck. Maybe ona us'all could get ona commlink and send a message to any open commlinks in that there front car, askem to pull over."

Darryl then adds, "I can easily blast the rear car wid The Power of the Lord. I spect a couple stunballs'll giv'em sumfin to thinkbout. Put da Fear of the Lord inta dem. Maybe end da chase."

If no one objects quickly, Darryl will start with a single stunball. Pause. See if they react, then hit them again.


Stunball - F3 (on the rear car) Should be able to buy off the drain

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake holds up his hand quickly after Darryl finishes proposing his idea, "Whoa! Hold on a second there. At the speed they're going, if anything distracts their driver, they're not going to make it out of that crash alive. That's not our job - they could have contracts too. I'll send out a warning, you keep your spell ready."

Jake activates his wired reflexes and quickly sends a broadcast message to any commlinks in the two vehicles below them, echoing them on their personal network so that all may see what he is sending.

[To the blue and black van and the white sedan.]
[This is DocWagon. We have a client in the blue and black van. While we are authorized to use lethal force in the retrieval of a client, it does not seem absolutely necessary at this time. Your cooperation will heavily influence if this situation escalates or not. We strongly suggest your two vehicles voluntarily disengage and stop, so that we may retreive our client without causing anyone undue harm. Consider this your free warning.]

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip does his best to stay right above the van as it moves. "I could try to use Jupiter force the car off the pursuit too. I'm thinking either get between them or maybe just see how they react to a helicopter trying to land on them. It seems only a little less dangerous to me than the stunball idea, but its another option. I leave the decision in the hands of you Tacs, but thought I'd throw it out there."

[laszarus]

Lucky

Lucky winces at the idea of the chopper trying to land on or near a speeding car, even as a bluff. No matter how good their flyboy was, things went wrong, and when things went wrong, moving at high speed with multiple high velocity blades just above your head is not what you want to be doing.

"I'd really rather not have to explain why we had to carry our client back if that went wrong and wrecked our chopper, so I prefer Darryl's idea. Or Jake and I could try shooting them off the road, if that would be easier. It looks like this is going to get messy though." He says.

He suddenly jolts in his seat as he activates his wired reflexes, his fingers tapdancing rapidly on his knees as the boost kicks in. He pulls his gun from its holster and stands up,

"Alright, now I'm ready. Decisions? I say we give them 30 seconds to respond and then Jake and I blast them off the road if we can, and Darryl whips up some magic if that doesn't work. Does this chopper have guns? If it does, we could use those as a third option. I don't think endangering the transport would be a good idea, though." He says, his face calm, even though he is speaking much faster than before.

[estradling]

Sam

With the medkit, stretcher, and sensor, ready to go Sam didn't have much to say. How do you get to someone in a moving car? When someone else was following and shooting? That was so out of his element it wasn't even funny.

When Lucky mentions 30 second he speaks up, "They might not have gotten the message, Flip should announce over the loudspeaker as well."

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl nods and smiles at the politeness of the texted message. Of course, who checks messages while in a high speed chase?

Darryl says to Jacob, "Yeet, 'K, I'll hold off on that there stunball. But, de Power of the Lord can be having great influence on the weak minded. I be thinking, us'all can magically suggest that the rear driver turn around and go home, wheel, me really."

Darryl says to Flip, "Can you move this here copter forward a smidge and a bit lower so's dat I can be seeing the driver 'a that there sedan? I gonna ask him polite like to stop."


Assuming I can get enough LOS to cast the spell at the driver of the sedan...
Influence : F5
Suggest : "Immediately turn the vehicle around and then drive straight on till sunrise."

If I can't get enough of a look, I'll order my angel to slow the sedan down. I think the movement power can be used to slow down vehicles...

[dauphinous]

12:09am
Condition Serious - 6:15

To Jacob: [Anonymous: We'll cheerfully stop for you. When we're not being chased and shot at. Drax is stable for right now. He's got to be your tag, since none of the rest of us are hurt. I'm not stopping with these CorpSec bozos on us, though. They're hot for blood.]

Neither vehicle seems to be paying any heed whatsoever to Jacob's warning/request. The rear vehicle has tinted glass, and the two guns that were protruding from the two backseat windows have been withdrawn out of sight and the windows rolled up.

Darryl's angel manifests right in front of the car, and starts trying to push it backwards. The car slows down a lot, rather suddenly.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

After receiving the message, Jake speaks up to the group, his speech having just a hint of being sped up, "Alright, the the van will stop for us if they are not being chased. Sam, the guy is stable right now. The other car did not respond, though I suspect they received our message. Darryl, that was good - if they do something to your angel, Lucky and I will shoot out their tires. Flip, I am sending you their comm info, so that we can arrange a stopping point and a pickup location."

Jake will forward the "Anonymous" comm address to Flip over their private network. He will also send a message to both.

[To Anonymous and cc: Flip]
[Our pilot will coordinate a nearby drop off point with you. Thank you for your cooperation.]

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Seeing the effect of Raphael's affect, Darryl smiles and starts looking out the actual glass windows hopeful that he can catch enough of a look at the sedan to still cast his spell. Assuming that Flip keeps up with the van, the sedans lowered speed should push it far enough back for me to see the driver through their windshield.

As he watches he responds to Jacob's comment, "Dune what I can, but donna thank me, fur it was all Raphael."


Assuming I can get enough LOS to cast the spell at the driver of the sedan...
Influence : F5
Suggest : "Immediately turn the vehicle around and then drive straight on till sunrise."

[laszarus]

Lucky

"Good thinking, Darryl." Says Lucky, patting the troll lightly on the shoulder.

He takes aim with his pistol at the slowed car, ready to shoot should anything untoward happen.

[dauphinous]

12:09am
Condition Serious - 6:10

With the copter now flying backwards over the client vehicle so Darryl can see out the front to target the driver of the CorpSec car, Raphael suddenly stops what he's doing as the car's brakes squeal. It weaves a little and seems to be stopping and turning around.

[Flip, I don't really like flying backwards.]

As Flip lets the copter rotate back around to face forward, the rotor clips a nearby building, impacting it three times before he gets it clear.

[Damage to the overhead rotor. Both ends. Submitting damage report and off-duty repair request.]

[Anonymous: Sweet. We'll meet you just up ahead] An impression of a map is sent, indicating a location just a couple of blocks ahead.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jacob swears as he feels the rotor hit the building, "Frag! What was that? Flip - what just happened?"
Remembering he is essentially in a quickly moving flying tin can, does not improve his mood. Oh hell, I should have asked for a ground unit! If we crash, I am going to be very pissed off.

He breathes a few times and continues speaking, "I'm just about ready to get this pickup over with. Lucky, why don't you come out with Sam this time and I'll watch your backs. I'll get the stretcher ready for you before you go out."

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

The copter clipping the building sends the fear of falling back into Darryl in a rush. He grabs onto the frame and hunches over. Of course, the clear floor and the massive drop he sees doesn't help calm him down at all.

Maybe it was all the really tall buildings(I don't know.. nothing was described). Whatever the case, Darryl didn't want to crash.

[Flip - Thanks for the assist. For future reference, I've got 50x optical vision magnification and thermographics, so you don't need to get nearly that close.]

Who designed a helicopter without side windows?

{{ How could we see the car out the front window flying backwards? We should have only been able to see the sky... }}

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip swears loudly as the rotor scrapes the building. [Sorry about that Jupiter, tried to miss it. We'll get you fixed up soon.] He pats the console in front of him apologetically.

"Sorry, misjudged the distances a little. We clipped the building as I spun us back around. We'll need a repair after the shift, but we should be fine to finish out our time, I think."

Flip checks the map for a good spot to land. Assuming he finds one, he sends back to the comm address he got the message from [Alright, see you there in a few minutes.]

[laszarus]

Lucky

"Alright, I'll be the escort. Just make sure you keep me covered properly, alright? I don't want another scar to mar my pretty face." Lucky grins, the network of scar tissue moving disturbingly around his eyes.

He looks at the stretcher in perplexion. "How do you open this thing?" He asks.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

So disturbed and out of his wits, Darryl almost snaps and provides and impolite answer to Lucky. Fortunately WWJD kicks in and Darryl doesn't say, 'magic?', or 'pray?', or 'pull the fraggin handle!'

Instead he simply shrugs, for he doesn't know how to open it either.

After a bit, in a meak voice(for the meak shall inherit the earth), Darryl says, "I'll watch fur da return of that there sedan, while y'all make the pickup." Of course, given his recent copter experience, he'll do it from the ground near the copter.

[estradling]

Sam

Sam had reflexively reached out to brace himself when the rotors hit the building. "That was too close," his nervousness makes him state the obvious.

He was glad for Lucky's question to distract him. "I'm not sure, I couldn't find its specs on-line, and Jacob opened it last time. I did however record him opening it, if you'd like to see the feed?"

Pulling up the images so he could review it and hopefully learn from it, Sam links in Lucky if he agrees.

[dauphinous]

12:10am
Condition Serious - 6:01

In an effort to both be helpful and take his mind off of crashing helicopters, Jacob offers a demonstration of how to open the stretcher and close it. The main thing seems to be how exactly one flicks their wrists and the timing of said flicking. It looks like a skill that requires practice to get right reliably.

The van below slows down some, then swerves rather violently the right, then to the left, cutting across the road. Traffic is light, and no one happens to crash into anyone else, but the van skids sideways and slams into the building. The bottom floor of that particular building happens to be a hot tub showroom, and the van crashes right through the glass, disappearing from sight.

[Incoming message from Dispatch]
[Jupiter, we've got two more clients showing up next to the one you're on. Vans are being dispatched for them, but you are being directed to get to all three clients and stabilize them, then maintain control over the scene until the vans arrive.]

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Seeing the van lose control and crash, Darryl says, "Oh my. That won't have done helped them at'all. We'all should land."

Darryl says to Lucky, "That there spell I used to make that there sedan turn 'round, isn't gunna last long nuff da the other doc wagon vehicles to get here. We should be ready fur them when they return."

I wonder what caused the van to crash...

Darryl switches to astral perception so he can look around while the copter lands.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip says, "Well, looks like we got a job ahead of us. Two more clients in the van. Sam, you think you can get em all stabilized until the vans arrive? We've gotta hold the scene until they get here. I think I'll hop out on this one too. Sounds like you might need a little help on the ground, I'm not a tacc person, but I can fire a gun when I've got to. Unless you all would rather I take to the air again for some reason... Oh, and we probably ought to figure out what made them crash before the car shows back up. Was a pretty unexpected crash and don't want any more surprises."

"Damn it, I was hoping for a chance to shut off the prop and get a look at the damage for myself, but it doesn't look like we'll have a chance. Maybe once we get to the hospital..." Flip thinks as he sets Jupiter down in the nearest possible location.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl shakes his head as he tries to get his bearings. He then says in a zoned out voice, "Watch out. There is a mage in a trench coat and a spirit just outside of that there business. They caused the van to crash. They may be trouble. Lucky may have to help me."

Still viewing astrally, Darryl casts another Influence spell, this time at the mage.

Spell :

Influence - F5
"Immediately dismiss all of your spirits."



All your spirit are belong to me. I wonder if anyone else can see this guy.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Upon hearing Daryll's warning, Flip immediately draws his pistol (the one loaded with gel rounds) while switching to astral perception and scanning the area.

[dauphinous]

12:10am
Condition Serious - 5:58

As Flip brings Jupiter the rest of the way down to the street, Jacob slides open the door. Darryl peers out and casts his spell. Now that Jupiter is low enough to see inside the building, it looks like the van has been totaled, or at least very badly damaged. There is a man in a regular camo suit just getting to his hands and knees and shaking his head. He has an SMG strapped to his back, and a some grenades on his belt.

Darryl, Flip:The man in the trenchcoat turns and sends his own spell back at Darryl. Darryl's will is strong enough to deny the spell's effect. It looks like the spirit is doing something, too, but exactly what is unknown.

Flip (and everyone else) rather suddenly finds Jupiter wobbling, as if the rotor damage is much more severe than first thought. Flip is able to keep control and land the copter safely, but it was clearly bucking his control as much as possible.

OOC:We're definitely in combat turns now, even though only two people can see the enemy. Please post actions accordingly.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

As the copter shakes, Darryl howls again, "Its that there beast of his. More powerful than any I've ever done summoned. We'all should definitely take care of the spirit before we'all try to take off again."

Actions :

Simple #1 Command Raphael(air spirit) to attack the man.
Free Actions : Speak & Counterspell for the team and the clients.


Exodus 22:19 Whoever be with a beast shall be put to death.

[laszarus]

Lucky

Smiling gleefuly, Lucky howls: "It's time for some action!", and then pulls free his pistol and readies himself to jump free of the copter the second he can.


Wired reflexes are already active, so:
Initative pass one: Draws pistol, speaks
Initiative pass two: Activates smartgun link, switches cybereyes to low-light vision
Initiative pass three: Jumps clear from landed copter

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip allows the mystical energy that flows through his soul to quicken his reflexes and speed his reactions. As soon as Jupiter is on the ground, Flip shuts him down, and jumps out. He activates his smartgun system and jumps out of the helicopter

I'm rather new to this system, so let me know if I'm doing anything wrong.
Pass 1-If activating Improved Reflexes Power takes time, this would have to be first. If it takes the full action for the round, that's fine.
Pass 2-If Flip even gets one this round, activate smart-link and shut down Jupiter.
Pass 3-Jump out.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

The shaking helicopter fails to instill any further faith in the reliability of modern machinery and Jake finds himself clenching his hands until the chopper finally lands. Once it is clear that there are hostiles in the area, Jacob feels himself switching into a familiar routine. Since it sounds this is mostly a magical problem, he keeps to the plan he outlined.

Keeping his Alpha ready, he stays inside the chopper and coordinates the rescue effort, starting by using the one advantage they have - their comms.

[To the team]
[Proceeding as planned. Darryl - the spirit is yours to handle, unless you think we can hurt it. Lucky and Flip - we need to find that mage and knock him out. If you see him, let me know and I'll back you up. Sam, we're going to need to get those people out and get them stable. Get your gear and weapon ready.]

[To Anonymous in the van]
[CC: the team]
[Alright boys, you've got a hostile mage and a spirit nearby. If any of you are still awake, be careful and don't shoot our asses - we're all wearing the uniforms. We've got to take care of three of you now, so don't go running off. If you can make it to our chopper, great. If not, we're going to get you out. And before you do something sudden and crazy, let us know - we've all got itchy trigger fingers here.]

As I don't have access to my sheet or my books, here is roughly what I am doing. Using comms to talk to those guys and our team, and observing in detail looking for this mage in the trench coat from the chopper (ready to transmit the image when I see it). If someone else points out the mage, or s/he becomes obvious before my init pass, I am plugging him/her with gel rounds. Or if none of these apply, dauphinous should feel free to take charge.

My wired reflexes should already be up and running, but it may be that there is nothing to shoot at yet.

[dauphinous]

12:10am
Condition Serious - 5:57

Darryl, Flip:The mage casts a spell that Darryl easily shrugs off again, but Flip reels from. Flip takes 5 boxes of physical damage, and knows it was a combat spell. Darryl can only tell it was a spell. The spirit turns back to face wreckage and uses power again, though it is still not clear exactly what it is doing.

The man on his hands and knees shakes his head again, then sits up and pulls a gun out and looks like he's scanning the area. His head turns quickly, with the smooth movement of someone who is probably scanning the area. Lucky draws his gun while Jacob does his own scan. Jacob sees no one in a trenchcoat.

Darryl, Flip:Raphael streaks over to the astral form in the trenchcoat, wielding his glowing sword point first at the man. The sword seems to glance off the man's coat.

OOC:Does Flip want to change actions for pass 2 and/or 3? Does Sam want to take an action? Unless Lucky & Jacob want to adjust, no need for posts from them. Darryl is out of actions this round.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip will continue as planned, but also say "Damn it, he got me," as he gets out. "He and the spirit are crouched next to the van."

[dauphinous]

12:10am
Condition Serious - 5:55

Darryl, Flip:The mage ignores Raphael and casts again, another combat spell, and both Flip and Darryl are rocked by it. Darryl takes 6 boxes physical damage. Flip takes 5 boxes physical damage. 1 point of Edge used for Flip. The spirit seems to still be focused on the man now sitting up and looking around.

The man now sitting up and looking around shakes his head a little and get himself to his feet. He keeps shaking his head a little as he moves back towards the driver's door of the van and yanks the door open.

Jupiter's rotors slow down precipitously as Flip shuts the copter down. They will likely stop moving completely within 10 seconds or so. The illumination in the body section dims to about half intensity.

Darryl, Flip:Raphael persists in his attacks on the mage, managing to score a glancing blow that scrapes some of the misty flesh from the mage's face. This is probably what causes that mage to turn his attention to the spirit instead of pounding on Flip and Darryl again. They get involved in a "physical" fight, trading blows. The mage is obviously stronger than the spirit, but it will certainly keep him occupied for a short time.

Flip, Jacob, and Lucky are all on the ground outside the copter at this point, with their respective abilities and cyberware active. A large black dog, with spikes and horns protruding from various parts of itself materializes right next to the man inside the building as he is hauling the driver's limp form out of the van.

{End of round. Everyone can see the dog now.}

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl cries out in agony as the astral figure attacks the group with some sort of spell. "Attack the spirit. The dog... if y'all can." His voice is obviously stressed and quite worried.

Darryl dumps the most power manabolt he can into the astral figure(without taking physical damage himself). He then moves and ducks so that the figure will not have LOS on him to retaliate.


Cast F5 Manabolt
Drina dice = 10 - 2(damage) = 8, buy off drain.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake is happy to finally see some kind of enemy he can deal with. He takes careful aim and lets loose two bursts from his Alpha at the dog.

Alright, I am doing the following...
Init Pass 1
---
(Free Action) Called shot to the dog to up the DV, say a shot at the head (up to +4 if possible, and the same negative to the dice pool.)
2x Take Aim actions at the dog

Init Pass 2
---
1x Wide Long Burst at the dog. (-5 to Dog's dice pool).
(Free Action) Called Shot to the dog +4 DV / -4 to my dice pool
1x Wide Short Burst burst at the dog. (-2 to Dog's dice pool).

I am firing from the Alpha, with (sadly) gel rounds.
I have Agility 5, Automatics 4.
My weapon has Recoil Compensation of 2.
It is Smartlinked (+2).

Given no other modifiers, my first burst should be:
5+4+2+2 -4 -5(+2) = 4 dice
My second burst is:
5+4+2 -4 -2(+1) = 6 dice

Both attacks have a DV of 6+4=10 before any hits are added.
The Alpha has an Armor Piercing factor of -1.
The gel rounds add +2 DV (12 total) and +2 to the creature's armor.
They also reduce Body by 2 for calculating Knockdown.

EDIT: Clarification of the 2nd Init Pass actions.

[estradling]

Sam

The EMT waited as the Tac Support did what they do best. His mystically enhanced senses took in the situtation and waited for an opening.

Seeing the dog and realizing it was probably more then just a dog, Sam took a long shot and ordered the dog, "RUN AWAY."


OOC: Sorry for the delay I've been visiting family for the holidays.. I should be back to normal after the first of the year

Pass 1 Activated Improved Reflexes II Enhanced Perception for a look around

Pass 2 Commanding Voice against the 'Dog'

Pass 3 Hold to run to client if clear Or another Commanding Voice against the Dog

[laszarus]

Lucky

"Nice to be able to SEE something to kill it, hmm?" He comments, raising his gun and drawing a bead on the dog. With a series of deafening booms, echoing noisily in the enclosed area, he fires a volley of shots at the dog, targeting reticules in his eyes showing little crosshairs on the opponent.

Pass 1: Speaks, Takes Aim x2
Pass 2: Takes 2 shots with his Manhunter
Pass 3: Takes another 2 shots with his Manhunter.

Ammo left in clip: 12

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip growls a response to Darryl, "No way. That fragger has been hitting me so I'm gonna kick his ass right back!" His finger points at the mage as he speaks. He then charges forward toward the astral mage, as he does so, he is visibly stumbling a little from the damage he's taken. Once he gets there, he begins swinging at what appears to be most others to be just air in front of him.


Pass 1: Speak and charging attack on mage.
Pass 2: Attack mage.
Pass 3: Attack mage.

After looking over the rules again, it seems like this is a viable option for Flip, but I'm not sure how wise it is. I guess only time will tell.

[dauphinous]

12:10am
Condition Serious - 5:52

Flip goes running up to…nothing. From Jacob, Lucky, and Sam's perspective, anyway. He charges empty air, but clearly tries to slam into something specific. He is clearly involved in a fight with something now, but it's a little eerie to only be able to see half of the fight. Darryl and Flip can both tell that this mage is quick and experienced, not really distracted by Flip's interjection into the fight.

Darryl's spell seems to affect the mage, if minutely. To him and Flip, it looks like the mage has been slashed across the arm, and a small amount of silvery 'blood' sprays across the nearby astral space. All Jacob, Lucky, and Sam can see, though, is the dog lunging at the man getting the van's driver to the ground. It bites and snaps and growls, but the man shoves his shoulder into the thing, taking it off guard and pushing the toothy maw away.

"Ivy, where the frag are you?" He shouts this at the air as he reaches back and grabs a stick off the floor of the van's front seat. When he pulls it out of the black sheath, the stick turns out to be a sword, covered with something dark that makes it not flash in the meager light.

Flip can only watch in frustration as the mage rises up 30 meters into the air in an eyeblink. Before Raphael has a chance to follow him up, a surge of the mage's will rolls over both Flip and Raphael, but it seems to be weaker than the one before, and neither has any difficulty shrugging it off.

The dog and the guy with the sword, now fighting in earnest, seem to be nearly even in their skill with their respective modes of attack, though the man's arm is drooping a little, possibly a lingering effect of the crash.

Jacob's first burst is just wide as the dog lunges unexpectedly, and the Alpha jams. The lunge carries it directly into Lucky's shots, but the bullets bounce harmlessly off the dog's flesh.

Raphael zooms up to continue tangling with the mage.

Sam's shouts at the dog are, indeed, quite commanding. The first seems to be fully ignored, but the second may well be the reason that it disappears from sight. Darryl and Flip, if they care to look, can see its astral form moving quickly away, through the back of the building.

Just as a note, the increase to DV from burst fire does not apply to the comparison of DV vs. Armor. You can thank L_E for noticing that rule snippet.
Jacob's gun is jammed with raspberry, which clearly indicates Lonestar is nearby. He can clear it for resumed use with the remaining complex action from this round, thus having it ready for next round.
End of round.
The astral mage is fighting 30 meters in the air with Darryl's astral spirit.
The dog went astral again and ran - it is not visible to anyone.
Jacob, Lucky, and Sam are all still with the copter, and Darryl is inside it. Flip is about 10 meters away, probably looking up, though he technically has two passes that he could retro.
Combat is sort of over for now. Darryl and Flip can both still see the mage, and things may yet happen, so keep plans in the short term, even if you can't/won't affect the current foe.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake swears as he first misses and then hears the clink sound of his gun jamming, as a little red X helpfully pops up via the smartlink to inform him of the problem. The dog does seem to run away after Sam yells at it, which means they've got a bit of a breather. He begins moving to the van, while clearing his Alpha. "Alright, let's make this quick before that dog comes back, or the nice boys in the sedan show up to this party. We're moving everybody into the chopper on the double. Unless Sam says they're about to die, they're going. Speaking of which - Flip, you ain't looking too hot, don't push yourself."

I want to do the following actions:
1) Clear the Alpha.
2) Help move the injured into the chopper.
3) Take out the Predator loaded with gel rounds and reload it with my Stick n Shock rounds. Because halving armor and stunning people/dogs is clearly the right way to handle things at this point.
4) Keep watch for any approaching danger/people.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl peeks his head out from his hiding place. If he can see Raphael and the astral mage, he'll blast'em again. Once that is done, Darryl conceals himself again, hopeful he won't get blasted again.

Exodus 22:19 Whoever be with a beast shall be put to death.

At least the beast had sense enough to leave.


Time to up the stakes.

Manabolt F7(Use 8 dice to buy off 2/3 of physical drain).

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip has a grimace of pain still on his large features as he watches the mage depart. He moves slowly back toward Jupiter. "Darryl, can you keep an eye out for him to come back at us? I wanna take a look at Jupiter's blades before we take off again."

He trudges back toward Jupiter, tucking the Ares away as he moves. When he gets there, he begins looking it over.

[dauphinous]

As soon as it seems like everything is settled, at least a little bit, Sam jogs in to start working. The client that was assigned to the team is still inside the van, but the guy with the sword says, "Raze's fragged up bad." He nods down to the body he pulled out of the front seat while keeping his sword ready and his attention on the surrounding area. The wounded man, a human in a bulky black jacket, is bleeding profusely from a head wound, and is unconscious.

Darryl peers out of the copter and can see the mage overhead, fighting with Raphael still. The spell rolls right over the mage without affecting him. Before Darryl has a chance to try another spell, the mage tears Raphael in half and vacates the area very fast.

After clearing his gun, Jacob follows behind Sam to get to the injured. Someone is issuing a low groan of the pain variety from inside the van. "Anyone get the number of that real bright light?"

"Frag me. Leg's broke, I think."

Flip's cursory examination of the rotor shows damage to both ends, though it is neither irreparable nor devastating. It will probably make Jupiter a little tougher to fly, and the copter's AI will undoubtedly complain about it, but it isn't enough to go back to base for.

Darryl's spirit has been dispersed. Darryl takes the one box of damage from drain.
The astral mage has left the area.
The damage to the rotor will impose a -1 to pilot tests and reduce top speed by 5km/h.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl stumbles out of the copter and positions himself so he can see the approach road as well as having a clear view of the seen and says, "Yeet. Will do."

Darryl wipes the blood from his face on his sleeve and tries to remain focused on the road, with a glance into astral every once in a while. While watching the road, he uses his vision enhancements and magnifications to try and keep watch on what is approaching.

While keeping his vision focused, Darryl will mutter some prayers for the injured as he waits for the other doc wagon vehicle.

[laszarus]

Lucky

"Damned hellhound. I hate when things ignore bullets." He snaps, holstering his gun.

He goes over to the van to see if he can help in any way, retrieving the stretcher from the chopper first.

[estradling]

Sam

As he ran out to tend to the clients he informs them, "Be advised... What I did to the dog-thing was only temporary."

He nods as he is informed about Raze's condition. He needed to check on everyone to see who needed his help the soonest. To the guy groaning he says, "Doc Wagon's EMT here. Give me a bit and I'll see what I can do about that."

Pulling out the sensor wand Sam scans everone and transmits the data to the group

(This one is your client - inside the van)
Contract number: 31S42118H77M3
Contract type: Gold
No allergies
Extensive cyberware
Evac: Cake - 32 Grensill Dr., Tacoma
Condition serious - 5:48

(This one is also inside the van)
Contract number: 44S30415O56M1
Contract type: Gold
Allergy: eggs, mild
Extensive cyberware
Evac: Cake - 32 Grensill Dr., Tacoma
Condition serious - 9:47

(This one is the guy on the ground outside the van)
Contract number: 97S41028H12M3
Contract type: Gold
No allergies
Awakened
Evac: Cake - 32 Grensill Dr., Tacoma
Condition critical - 9:46

(This one is the guy with the sword)
Contract number: 21S34252H33M2
Contract type: Gold
No allergies
Extensive cyberware
Evac: Cake - 32 Grensill Dr., Tacoma
Condition normal

Once Sam confirms he starts working on one in critical condition. While triaging he asks, ["Whats our plan? I'll get them stable for transport asap, but do we want to hold up here until they are all ready or evac them to the Jupiter as soon as they can be moved?"]

[Newbie101]

Jacob

After clearing the gun and checking inside, Jake listens to the status report from Sam. He reloads his Alpha and swaps a clip in one of his Predators. Perceptive people will note that the unloaded clip has a green mark on it, just like the clip in the Alpha, while the new clip has a blue mark on it. He pats the reloaded pistol and nods at Lucky, "I'll see about giving that dog something to worry about if it comes back."

He thinks about the situation before replying to Sam and the group.

[To the team]
[Flip, after you check out the rotor, get us an ETA on the other teams. If it's going to be more than three minutes, we'll move all the clients into the chopper one by one - they'll be easier to defend in one place, than in two. If they are about to get here, Sam will stabilize all of them and we'll get them ready for transport. Either way, our man is going into the chopper first. The heavily injured guy is second, if we move. Lucky, one of us will remain outside at all times while carrying patients. We will alternate carrying with Sam. You can carry first.]

While waiting for a response, he does a quick survey of the area, looking for possible avenues of approach for both the DW vans and any potential hostiles. He also glances in the direction the dog ran off to fairly frequently. After he has satisfied himself with having a good understanding of the area they are sitting in, he asks the man with the sword, "You gonna need a lift?"

[dauphinous]

ETA for one van, Hopscotch, is 1 minute. The second van, Topsy-Turvy, will take three.

The guy with the sword looks back at the van, then at Jacob. "Yeah," he chuckles a little bit, "I'm pretty sure I'll need a ride." He sheathes the sword and starts assisting with pulling the other two guys out of the van. One is a rather large ork, and the other is a beefy human. All four are men and wearing black armored jackets. Inside the van is a cornucopia of weaponry, certainly drool-worthy if one likes ballistic weapons.

Sam begins working on the guy outside the van, Raze, taking just a short time to cover up the gash with bright pink synthaskin, and injecting some sort of liquid into his neck. Raze doesn't wake up, but is stable when Sam moves to the next guy.

As soon as both men are out of the van, The sword guy grabs a bag and starts loading weapons into it.

"What the hell happened to Ivy?" (the client)
"I dunno. She's not here." (the sword guy)
"Frag it! What the frag point is there to having astral cover if she bails when we need her?"
"She's never bailed before. Maybe something was up with her body. Where'd she park it?" (the ork)
"I dunno. Someplace in Auburn, I think."

By this time, Sam has dealt with the client, doing all he can for him, which isn't a whole lot. He moves on to the ork, yanking his leg straight with no warning, which elicits a sharp grunt that is quickly cut off. "Geez, doc, warn a guy when you're gonna do that."

The client is assisted to the copter quickly. He opts to sit on the floor rather than take up the patient bed. As Sam is working on the ork's leg, the white sedan turns the nearby corner, headed straight for the copter. Just a few seconds behind it, a shiny white DocWagon van turns a different corner and starts barreling down the road.

About one minute passed. If anyone wants to do anything not previously declared in that minute, go ahead.
The white car is 40 meters away, and moving at high speed. It looks to be on a collision course with Jupiter.
A DW van is about 45 meters away, also moving at high speed. If it maintains its current line, it will pass by the copter on the right (the accident scene is on the left).

[dariathalon]

Flip

After inspecting the damages, Flip would have started Jupiter back up so they could get going quickly once the patients were all where they needed to be. He rarely shuts down during a pick-up, but wanted a chance to look at the damage, kind of hard to do with the blades spinning. He would also have checked on the ETA of the ground units and reported back to the group.

[I'm taking us Jupiter to the air again before we get smacked into by that fragging white sedan. Why won't they just get out of here! I'm taking anyone who is inside up, you'll have to take care of this on your own.] With a second or two for those that want to make a quick dive in or out, Flip then takes back to the sky, hanging out only about 30 meters above the street.

Once in the air, Flip calls out to Hopscotch. [Be careful with that white sedan. They've been giving us some trouble this pick up, and I think it's back for more.]

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jacob had just finished loading the Alpha's launcher with a flashbang grenade when the two cars appeared. Seeing the sedan, he immediately sprung into action. Gotta make sure these drekheads don't run over the other clients until Hopscotch secures the scene.

Jake is moving close to the remaining injured clients, positioning himself between them and the sedan. He is also shooting out the sedan's tires with a burst from the Alpha.

Actions
1st Initiative Pass
Simple Action: Take Aim at the sedan
Free Action: Call Shot - sedan's front right tire, if I am facing the sedan (as per the "other things one can do with called shots if one asks the gamemaster") I basically want to shoot out the tire that will cause the sedan to swerve away from the patients on the ground next to the broken down van.
Simple Action: Narrow Burst (+2 DV, -2 penalty compensated by recoil)

2nd Initiative Pass
If the sedan has not stopped, same as before, though probably aiming at a back tire now if it has passed me by.

If it has stopped, shooting out the front or back window, whichever large window is closer, as per the destroying barriers rules.

Free Action: Change Alpha mode to Fully Automatic.
Complex Action: Full Auto narrow burst (10 bullets) at the sedan's window to break it.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Uh oh.

Having tried to play nice with these people, Darryl decides to up the ante by casting a stunball at the passengers.


Perception to see anyone? I've got vision mag(to negate the range) and vision enhancement(add +3 to perception test dice pool).

Force 5 Stunball(Drain = 3DV... I've got 10-2 dice...)


Maybe they'll decide to just drive by. I'm surprised that we don't have a ring of car nearby which are watching and/or blocked by the helicopter in the road

[estradling]

Sam

"Oh not again" Moving as quick as he can Sam does his best to make sure everything is inside and ready for Jupiter's take off

[dauphinous]

12:12am

Flip pulls the copter up just as the white sedan's brakes start screeching. Sam is just finishing up with the ork, and the sword guy runs back over with his bag, now full of weapons.
"If you're breathing, you're shooting." He tosses the ork a sniper rifle that has been fully tricked out.
"Hey, be nice with Vera." The ork catches it deftly and drops to his belly, bracing the stand of the gun on the floor and setting up to take a shot. And accidentally kicking the medkit so it goes skittering across the floor, farther into the shop. The sword guy crouches behind one of the hot tubs, holding up an assault rifle.

The DocWagon van also starts squealing some tires as the brakes are put on.
[Incoming message from Hopscotch]
[Heh. Thanks for the heads up. We'll give 'em some trouble right back.]

Jacob lines up a shot and follows the car's movement, taking a shot at the front tire as soon as he can. The tire blows, and the car, which was already stopping, swerves to the left some and spins around as it stops.

Darryl's spell has no visible effect.

The van breezes right past the sedan to come to a stop a little beyond it. As it stops, the doors int eh back swing open. Although no one can see anyone there, something small comes flying out of the back, landing just short of the car and rolling under it. The van doors close again.

Between Lucky, the sword guy, and Jacob, all the windows on the front and passenger side are quickly shot out of the car. It looks like everyone inside is ducking down.

Sam scrambles back for the medkit and there is an explosion under the white car. It erupts into a ball of fire, and everyone with Vision Enhancement can pick out some small body parts flying from the car.

The copter is 30 meters up.
The second van has an ETA of 1:47.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

When the incoming vehicle stops before causing a massive collision of death and destruction Darryl sighs and says, "Thank yeh, Lord our God." When the car explodes, Darryl's eyes go wide and he rushes over to the flaming wreckage looking to help any survivors.

Please, Lord, take those that you want and please help the rest of them crawl clear of the fire.

Darryl looks around the wreckage, hopeful he can pull someone out and save them. If they get hostile, he'll manabolt their flaming butt back into the 30's.

...an offering made by fire unto the LORD. Amen

[estradling]

Sam

Seeing the car explode caused Sam a moment of pause, then Sam gets on the comlink to the group. ["Flip please inform Dispatch that on my authority we are swapping clients, we are faster so we are going to take the most severely injured. And unless someone feels like waiting have them call off the second van and we will take two."] Sam then relay the address all the clients had asked for

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jacob's cybereyes quickly compensate for the momentary flash of the explosion as he stares at the wrecked car. He feels a momentary twinge of guilt at the car blowing up. They hadn't even shot at us... but what if they had? They definitely sent that mage after us. What if they all stepped out of the car and opened up on poor Raze here... I did the right thing.

He takes note of Darryl moving towards the car and moves up behind him, assault rifle still in ready position. If there are any survivors, he'll help Darryl pull them out, though if they start acting in a hostile fashion, they'll get a slap on the head, or a few rounds in the gut, depending on what's most convenient. They're people too and I'm here to help people.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip move the helicopter a little bit down the street so he can easily keep an eye on what is happening below. He feels the slight pull caused by the damage to the blades and bites his lower lip feeling full of guilt. Sorry Jupes.

[Gotcha Sam, though the the ETA of the second van is less than two minutes, so by the time they get them called off they'll be here. Might as well let them come to the party, especially with the possibility of more clients in that car that just blew.]

Flip glances over his shoulder to make sure the patient(s?) that were already loaded into the helicopter at least in reasonable comfort, knowing there wasn't much he could do if they weren't.

[Dispatch, our EMT wants to do a patient transfer, apparently one of the others in the crash is in worse condition and he wants to take him since we'll get where we're going before the vans will.]

Flip then gets back on with Hopscotch, to say just one word. [Nevermind...]

[Hey Lucky, let me know when you're all ready for me to set Jupiter back down.]

[dauphinous]

[Incoming message from Dispatch]
[Client transfer request received and being processed. If Hopscotch has the scene secure, take your guy and go.]

The back door of the van opens back up and three women in DocWagon uniforms step out.
"Crispy critters," says one, a tall human blonde with short hair who is carrying an Alpha. She makes a fist that she claps together with one of the other's fist in a gesture of victory. That other woman is also human, about the same height, around 6 feet, and has shoulder length bright purple hair in a ponytail. The third is an elf with a light green buzzcut. She has a stretcher in her right hand a predator strapped to her left hip.
"Hey," the elf calls out as all three start crossing the street, a hand to her mouth to amplify the sound over the fire, "where're the bodies!?"

"Drek. Star'll be showing up soon." The ork looks to the sword guy. "'Kosh, we gotta get outta here."
"Yeah, I know. Can't rush the Doc, though." The sword guy, apparently named 'Kosh, shrugs as he stashes the gun he's holding back into the bag, then crosses over to take the rifle from the ork and stow it in the bag, too.

It's pretty clear fairly quickly that no one is getting out of that car alive. They'll probably only be identified by their corp DNA records, assuming they have them.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

As it becomes clear that no one is going to emerge from the car, Jacob puts his hand on Darryl's shoulder and says kindly, "Let's go, Darryl - we have injured people we need to help."

Nodding to the elf, he points at the orc and the guy unconscious on the ground. "These guys are it and we have one in the chopper."

[Flip, we're all good to go here. Let's do this swap and get these guys out. I told the guy with the sword we can give him a lift. Since we're taking the unconscious client, he can deal with their local doc.]

Jacob then assists with the client swap and in general, tries to get going as soon as possible.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Staring at the burning charred bodies, Darryl can't help but drool, as his troll instincts and his love of bar-b-que kick in. Repressing that, Darryl can't help but feel he contributed to their deaths. Darryl kneels beside the burning vehicle and says a prayer for each of the fallen.

He then does his best to purge his magical aura from their corpses. Just in case.

Darryl stands and limps over to the group and helps out where he can loading the injured into the copter.

[Flip, I don't know how you are feeling, but I think I could use a break after we drop these people off. Can we call in and get some down time?]

[estradling]

Sam

Sam works on making sure all the wounded clients continue to receive care while also working the transition of one of them to the Hopscotch teams EMT

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip sets Jupiter down again, so that the patient transfers can be taken care of. Then he replies to Darryl across the channel, [I can call back to dispatch to request our 15 minute break once we get this drop off taken care of. That mage did a number on me. I feel like I need more like 15 days instead of minutes to get back on my feet, but it's what we're given. I know a great little donut shop that we used to use for breaks with the old team right near the stand-by point. Deedee's has got real pastries and coffee for pretty cheap. Can't beat it. Sound good to everyone?] His voice still sounds as though his breathing is a little labored from the pounding he took just a few minutes before.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl makes himself useful and doesn't notice Flip's response until the team is ready to move out and the flurry of activity finally stops.

[Yeah, some sit down time'd be nice. I'm going to need time to work a little magic before I let Samuel apply his technological treatments. I doubt he'll be able to fully heal our wounds, so a little magic will be needed. I may be able to help you too, if you like.]

[dauphinous]

The conscious runners are all willing to do the shuffle. The women from Hopscotch (the team is all female) take control of the scene, getting the two remaining clients together as Raze and 'Kosh are settled into the copter. The EMT waves as Jupiter lifts off.

It's a 50km flight, which will take about 12 minutes at top speed, which is currently 273km/h. Raze is stable, so there is no risk of him slipping away in that time. 'Kosh sits quietly for a minute or so with his bag full of weaponry, eyes closed, then looks up at Sam. "I called ahead. Cake will be there." He grins. "Nice bird. Cooshee has a little chopper, but it's nothing like this baby. How fast are we going, anyway?"

[estradling]

Sam

Responding to Flip and the others. ["A break sounds good. It's about the only way I'll be able to tend to you Flip, given the barriers we have in flight"] After rechecking the client Sam looks over his crew and the other passenger. He lets the troll do his thing before working his skills.

He nods at Kosh and replies, "That is good to hear, your friend is stable for now, but prompt treatment is alway best." When the subject of the Jupiter comes around he smile and replies, "I don't know... Really fast." He was sure on of the more technically minded would answer

[Newbie101]

Jacob

When he finally sits down in the chopper, Jacob takes his helmet off and gives a little sigh. [Yeah, I could use a good 15 minutes too. And I could go for some donuts and coffee right about now.]

He shrugs at Kosh, nodding at Flip, "He'd know. I try not to think too hard about it."

[dariathalon]

Flip

[Thanks Sam, I'll be looking forward to it. Now I remember why I usually stay with Jupiter.] He rubs one hand up and down his side as he speaks, as if trying to massage away some pain.

Flip glances over his shoulder to see who had asked, but quickly turns back around to watch the route ahead. "Right now, Jupiter's going about 270 kph. He can usually go faster, but we took a little damage to the blades while trying to get rid of that sedan that was after you. Don't worry, I looked it over before we took off again. It's not serious, but I don't want to push him."

[dauphinous]

'Kosh whistles. "Dang. Cooshee would just drool all over this thing. It would be gross. She's such a tramp, too. If I tell her, she'd probably pop her tag just to see if she could ride in one." He is silent again for a short time, looking over at Raze. "You guys do any moonlighting? I mean, you seem to have the skills from what I saw. I can put you in touch with someone if you want."

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl looks at the chap and twists his head to the side and then offers, "Moon Lit'n? Why sure. I be help'n out at the church after mass. Wurk'n da soup kitchens on meh days off. Den I wurk up in the barrens learn'n the kids ina after school tutor'n program. What you have in mind?"

Even though his mouth finally stopped talking, his brain keeps going with prayers for the injured and fallen that his left hand counts out on prayer beads.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Relaxing a bit in his seat, Jacob feels the world speed up a bit as he turns off his wired reflexes. He chuckles slightly at Darryl's response as he himself considers the idea briefly. Moonlighting. Nice way of putting it. Sounds like a quick way to get reacquainted with the Star.

After a pause, Jake answers politely, putting just a little bit of emphasis on the last word, "I've just got this gig, but it's looking to keep me pretty busy. Really, I'm not in it for the nuyen - I just wanna help people. Legally."

[estradling]

Sam

Turning to check on the client Sam was able to hide the slight smile at Darryl response. Once under control he turns back, "It nice to know I have options, but I want to see how this job plays out first. Its already got the excitement angle covered."

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip sits in his seat quietly, not really wanting to join the conversation. The truth was, now that the adrenaline was running low, and the pain was beginning to kick in more. Though he does smile and shake he head while thinking about Kosh's comments. Gotta meet this Cooshee sometime. Me, a shadowrunner, heh. It's all frosty that he thinks we've got the skills, but its not for me. Hell, my family already thinks this job is below the family's good name. What would they say if I started running the shadows?

[dauphinous]

'Kosh chuckles at Darryl. "Ask them," he waves to Sam and Jacob, "I think they've got my drift." He relaxes with a smirk on his face.

12:39am

The dropoff goes smoothly, as expected. Cake turns out to be a really hot elf woman in a very short, tight, low-cut and strapless red vinyl dress and matching three inch spike thigh high boots. She is wearing blood red lipstick and has a 1 cm wide tattoo of a snake that runs from the outside corner of her left eye down her cheek, her neck, and her chest, disappearing into her dress. The tattoo writhes if you watch it.

DeeDee's is a clean, well-lit place, but tiny. It is part of a small strip mall, the rest of which is closed at this hour. There is a Star cruiser in the parking lot, and a cop inside: a female troll in a beat cop uniform. She is sitting at one of the six booths along the wall with a cup of coffee and a half-eaten donut. The abstracted nature of her gaze suggests that she is probably doing something with her commlink.

There is a cute redheaded girl in a pink shirt and a messy white apron - human, late teens - behind the display counter that takes up half the place. Inside the display counter are trays full of donuts and muffins of numerous varieties, mostly traditional. The coffee machines, which are of the variety that make only regular coffee, are on the back counter, and there is a swinging door to some kind of back room area.

"Hi, Flip," the girl smiles, which gives her cheeks dimples, and waves a little. "Oh, you got new people, huh?" She has a green plastic nametag with 'Geena' on it in white block letters.

[estradling]

Sam

As Sam works the client hand off to Cake, he is glad for the sun glasses that cover when his eyes stray to where the outfit was designed to encourage them to stray.

On the trip to Deedee's he does his 'magic' on the trolls injuries, "He was talking about Shadowrunning" he explains. Sam then double checks that the others are ok.

Once they land Sam is out the back and around to where Flip sits as soon as he can make it. He 'encourages' the pilot to come into the back, where both he and Darryl can work their healing skills

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl shrugs at Sam's statement and says, "Well, I do have thermographic vision, so running at night won't be dangerous, but I've been much of an athlete."

Darryl stretches out as much as he can in the coffee shop, trying to recover from the stress and cramped feeling he gets in the copter.

As he does, he realizes how much better he feels, thanks in part to Samual's treatment. "Samual, thank you. You did a great job."

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jacob is happy to quickly check out Raze and Kosh's doc, though tries to not be too obvious about it. Guess there are some perks to this job. I should tell mom there are plenty of nice girls where I work. Just can't bring any of them home to dinner.

Amused at Darryl's innocence, Jacob clarifies a bit more, now that the client is off the chopper, "Darryl, running or shadowrunning is street talk for doing jobs for people, usually illegal or semi-legal ones. Stealing stuff, corporate sabotage, bodyguarding or even assassinations. Now, they are not all bad people, but most of them do plenty of bad things. I don't think it's something you'd want to get mixed up in."

Jake gives a professional nod to the Star cop as they walk into the coffee shop. Inside, he gives Geena a friendly smile, "Yeah, Flip told us this is the best place to relax on shift. I'll have a large coffee - 2 cream, 2 sugar. And 2 glazed donuts." Having ordered, he settles down into a seat and munches his donut, relaxing though keeping an idle watch on the place. Guess late night Star shift and DocWagon are the only kinds of customers this place gets at this hour. Good thing they stay open though - these donuts are great.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

At Jacob's description, Darryl "crosses himself" and quickly says, "Oh heavens yes. Mah momma'd be sore wid me for jus talk'n to sumwon like dat."

Ah, time to order... WWDE... "Could I get a glass of water and some dry wheat soy toast? Thank you." Darryl leans back and resumes stretching and relaxing.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip tries to sit still as Sam and Darryl tend to his wounds. "Thanks a lot. I'll probably still ache for a couple of days, but I'm feeling better."

After getting his injuries tended to, Flip heads into the coffee shop. He greets the worker with a smile. "Lo Geena. Yeah, got an all new crew tonight. Most of 'em transferred out, and Syber got himself messed up earlier." He sighs heavily and begins to look over the pastry shelves.

When Darryl places his order, Flip speaks up. "C'mon Darryl, live a little. Wheat soy toast and water. What, are you on one of them crazy lose 50 pounds in 10 minutes diet plans?" He looks back up at Geena and points to the case. "Why don't ya give me one of them apple turnovers and a large coffee, make it as sweet as you are."

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake laughs a bit at Flip's words and gives Darryl an amused look. "He's right, you know. We're having a break and you should enjoy yourself for a bit - try these donuts. Or, if you're really really into that healthy eating, get a muffin. See, Flip's got the right idea. That turnover does look good. I might try it tomorrow night, if we come back here for our break."

Well, he's not likely to be up for drinks after work, I'm guessing.

Jacob's first donut is gone in a matter of seconds, but he seems to be really taking his time and enjoying the second one and slowly sipping his coffee. He has eased his bag down next to him, having left his helmet and Alpha back in the chopper. Checking the time display in his cybervision, he remarks, "Well, a bit over 2 hours left on shift and then an exciting hour of filling out paperwork. Gah, I don't even want to think about that."

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Truly tempted by these offerings, but Darryl knows how to resist temptations. "Thank yeh. I sure do appreciate that y'all're concerned fer my well bein'. However, sugah and caffeine, them there things make meh all jittery. The inside of that there copter is small 'nuff widout me bouncin'round."

Looking around at the menu board, Darryl is tempted by a whole grain bagel. Well, maybe tomorrow. Endulging in personal pleasures does not further the work of the Lord and is not a path to salvation.

[dauphinous]

Geena gets a sad puppy sort of look at hearing about Syber. "Oh, I sure hope he's going to be okay." She gets everything for everyone quickly and efficiently. Until she gets to helping out Darryl. "I'm sorry, sir. We don't have any regular bread, or soy at all. I've got some whole wheat and bran muffins, though. That's sort of like bread, only muffin shaped and a whole lot yummier." She smiles cheerfully.

The cop offers a grunt and half-hearted wave in greeting, watching the team troop in and place orders, though still with that distracted look. Then she gets up rather suddenly, grabbing the remains of her donut and stuffing it in her mouth as she hurries out to her car. Once she's inside, the siren goes on and the cruiser speeds away.

[dariathalon]

Flip

As Geena hands over his coffee, Flip says, "Last I heard Syber would likely pull through, but it's going to take a lot of time." He takes a small sip from the cup in his hand.

When the troll suddenly exits Flip goes to the window and watches the car speed away. "We might be called off break. They try not to, but it can happen if something goes down close by, which mighta just happened." Once that was out, Flip takes a big bite of his turnover, as if trying to get it down quickly, just in case.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake grins at Darryl, "My friend, I think you are meant to have a muffin." He points a finger at him, still grinning, and speaking in mock seriousness, "You should not deny your destiny. Take the muffin!" He is unable to keep the serious face any longer than that and chuckles, smiling widely.

He notices the cop rush out and responds to Flip, still in a good mood, "So, basically it's just like in the Star. Doesn't matter if you're patrolling or taking a break - if they tell you to go, you go. Can you pipe the Star feeds for the last couple of minutes to me from here? I should be able to figure out if you have time to enjoy that turnover."

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl accepts her excuse but provides a counter opinion, "How about a whole grain bagel? Dry." Darryl adds a large troll toothy smile.

Cops on the way. We'd better eat quick before they provide us a new client.

[estradling]

Sam

Following the others in to the shop, Sam enjoys the smell of baked goods and hot coffee. However instead of going up to the counter and ordering, he looks around until he spots the restroom and then head directly toward that.

[dauphinous]

Geena nods to Darryl enthusiastically, getting him a bagel and handing it over. Lucky asks after some tea, and after adding a few things to it, makes a face of pure pleasure with the first sip. "Real tea. This place is quite a find, Flip."

The restroom is a single room, clean but small. The doorknob lock is broken, but there's a small sliding bar and a chain to make up for it.

Flip can get the LS feeds piped to the commlinks of anyone who really wants it.

[Unit 1R77G: yep 467 confirmed no head probably troll]
[LSDispatch: understood coroner and investigator request received and transferred]
[Unit 3R11G: 219 updated to 107 in pursuit on foot]
[Unit 3R37G: joining pursuit with 1R11G3 capping alley]
[Unit 3R11G: 1R37G3 be advised weapon is hand razors]
[Unit 2R41G: possible 091 walk-in at RCH]
[Unit 1R41G: 021]
[Unit 1R02A: 021]
[Unit 2R29G: possible 318 request backup 15 Baker]
[LSDispatch: unit 2R31G respond to possible 318 at 15 Baker]
[Unit 2R31G: copy that on my way]

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl raises and eyebrow at Lucky's enthusiastic response. Darryl never understood tea people. Wasn't it just water soaked leaves? That is exactly the sort of thing you'd find in the gutter along the edge of the park. Water soaked leaves.

Darryl wasn't one to impose his views on others even if his views were enlightened and full of wisdom. Time to relax.

Once Geena comes back with the bagel, Darryl slips out of the booth and drops to his knees besides the table and says a prayer of thanks.


"Heavenly Father. I give you thanks this blessed morning for allowing your children to flourish, spread, and develop the rich world you have provided us. I thank you for giving the farmer insight to grown the wheat and soy required for this bagel and to providing the rain for the plants to grow and for providing alternate food for the insects so they wouldn't ravage the crops and ... Amen"


After about 3 minutes, he gets up and sits down again and then starts eating.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

As Darryl starts praying, Jacob is curious how long he's going to be down on his knees there. Though he doesn't want to offend Darryl and stares outside, reviewing the LS chatter, while setting a timer on his commlink.

He waits until Darryl gets up and Sam comes back from the bathroom before speaking, though he continues carefully nibbling on his donut and is about halfway through his coffee. Hm, over 3 minutes. Definitely not going to go for drinks after shift. And Lucky'll probably just have tea. Well, Flip and Sam might want to.

When everyone's in one place, he comments, "Sounds she got called away for backup duty. 318 is Breaking and Entering, for those that don't know. Standard procedure really - if there is any chance that the perp might still be on the scene, you call in for backup. As to whether we'll get involved - depends on how hot the scene is. I'd normally say low chance, but we're on break, just like she was. And the world's got a funny sense of humor."

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

'The world's got a funny sense of humor?' That's a strange and disrespectful way to say it.

Darryl just mumbles around his bagel, "The Lord works in mysterious ways."

[estradling]

Sam

The EMT is gone for a bit, and so he misses most of the conversations.

When he returns he orders a basic glazed donut, and asks if he could get his thermos refilled.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

When Samuel comes back, Darryl decides to inquire about his medical prowess, "So, yeh go teh medical school to be learned in all that EMT stuff orzit just a matter of read'n the manuals on all them there gizmos?" While Darryl speaks he motions, using a lump of bagel, to the copter(a presumably to the various medical devices contained within).

[estradling]

Sam

"A little bit of schooling, but not enough to be too valuable to put out on the front lines. I started as a corporate salesman who tried to get hospitals and organizations like Doc Wagon to buy our 'gizmos.' To be a better salesman I was trained and learned how our products where really used out in the field. I did alright, then things changed."

"There were some corporate shake up and I found myself out of work with a bizarre set of skills. I took some courses to fill in the gaps in my medical knowledge, and worked as an intern at the community ER for some practical experience. Now I'm here. A medical technician that hopefully knows enough to keep people alive until we can get them into the hands of a fully qualified doctor"

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake shrugs at Sam's story, "You seem to do well enough to get these two," - he nods at Flip and Darryl - "looking a lot better. And my head's feeling great, too. So, don't underestimate yourself."

And with that, he takes one final bit of his donut - finishing it and taking a big gulp of coffee to chase it down with.

[dauphinous]

12:44am

The fifteen minutes pass all too quickly. The Star feeds are full of low-grade crime and lots of check-ins, as well as a few false alarms. The mess where Syber got shot up seems to be clear at this point, as does that collapsing overpass, because there isn't any mention made of it by anyone. Whatever was motivating everyone to go crazy earlier seems to have quieted, or, at least, they've moved on to someone else's area.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

When Darryl's commlink starts to beep, he hopes it is just some spam advertisement, but instead he finds break time is done. He taps out payment on the commlink and staggers to his feet. He cracks his knuckles and proceeds at a slow lumber towards the copter.

[estradling]

Sam

The EMT smiled from under his sunglasses at Jacobs comment about underestimating himself. "I prefer to think of it as managing expectations. If you get shot, stabbed, burned, pounded, or even poisoned. I should be able to do something to help. But thats all short term care, I am not a long term care or elective surgery person. You don't want me to be on the surgical team when you upgrade your cyberware."

When the break is over Sam makes sure he had paid before heading out to the chopper

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake gets up when the time in his cybereye display starts blinking - time to get back too work. Breaks always seem to go by so quickly, but there's not too much time left before the end of the shift. As he walks back to the chopper, he responds to Sam, "Well, I don't plan on upgrading in the middle of a shift anytime soon. Besides, I'll need quite a few more paychecks to even consider it - damn stuff's expensive as hell. When I first got all of this installed, I blew a ton of my own savings and that's after my parents chipped in."

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip stands stiffly with a slight groan. He takes one last sip of his coffee and tosses out the cup and napkin he'd been using on his way out the door. "Night Geena," he calls over his shoulder.

When he gets back out to Jupiter, he takes one more look at the damaged blades. A pang of guilt hits him again. Gotta be more careful. Hopefully they'll have the chance to get that fixed up before tomorrow night.

[dauphinous]

Geena waves cheerfully as the team troops out, "See ya tomorrow."

Another hour passes uneventfully. The LS feeds gradually get more and more boring to monitor as the night seems to quiet down in Renton. There isn't anything going on at all, not even an officer responding to a domestic disturbance, when the orange dot pops onto the map.

1:55am
Condition critical - 10:00

[Incoming message from Dispatch]
[Status change: Jupiter to Retrieval]

The location is near the border between Renton and Bellevue, just over 7km away. It should take about 2 minutes to get there.

[Flip, that's a corp zone. Accessing zone control data...Ares.]

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Uh oh, here we go again. Hm.. I've got two minutes, might as well get some backup ready

Darryl says, "Oh my! Yeet, I am gunna be puttin in a request for some of that there angelic backup... I maybe needin a shotta that there happy juice in a moment."


Summon F5 Spirit of Air.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake cracks his knuckles as the orange dot blips into existence. "Ah well - no time to rest I guess." He puts on his helmet and checks over his gear, in that funny 'pat yourself all over' way he uses. Figuring, there is no reason to waste time later, he activates his wired reflexes, puts his bag and Alpha on his shoulder, and stands by the door. "This might be the last one before the shift's over. Let's make it good."

And let's not get fragged up to hell. End of the shift is when everyone is most careless.

[estradling]

Sam

During the hour down time, Sam finishes up his reports on the various clients. Then he takes a complete inventory of the supplies he has used, and any that they might be running low on so he can make sure to request them when they restock.

When the alarm does off he readies his stuff.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip quickly directs Jupiter in the right direction. "Alright guys, looks like we're making a little trip to Ares' turf. Should only take a couple of minutes."

After declaring that, Flip calls up Ares. [DocWagon has recieved an emergency signal from your area. Requesting permission to pick up our client.]

[dauphinous]

[Incoming message from Knight Errant Secure Facility Air Security Team]
[Message received. Identify location of client.]
[Transmitting location information]
[Information received. Stand by while request is processed.]

Darryl's summoning is successful, though only marginally so. He suffers no lingering effects from it, at least. {1 service, no stun}

It seems to take a very long time for the Ares people to respond again. The duration of the wait is confirmed shortly thereafter.

1:57am
Condition critical - 8:12

[Flip, we have to stop without clearance. We've hit the line.]

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

When the copter begins to just hover, Darryl looks around in annoyance, "Why'd we'all just stopping? They'all be critical, I'd expect any delay in treatment to be having an adverse impact. They could die if'n we don't git movin'"

Hmm.. Oh yeah, that was in one of them disclaimers... DocWagon will not respond to calls on extraterritorial government or corporate property without permission from the controlling authority. Doh.

Darryl looks over at the screen in the hopes that the little dot is at least moving towards the edge of Ares territory.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip pauses to check the map again. If there is anything he can do to get closer to the client without heading into Ares air space, for example by moving around the outside edge to the other side, he will do so.

"We've gotta wait for authorization from Knight Errant. I contacted them, but they sure are taken their sweet time to verify our permission."

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake shakes his head and rolls his eyes at Flip's words. Right, Knight-Errants got a 'training' facility here. He responds, speaking in a disparaging tone, "Yeah, you gotta wait for them Knight Errant folks to finish reading - them's a bit slow on the uptake. Reminds me a of great joke we used to tell back at the Star:
'How do you tell who's Knight-Errant at the Stuffer Shack?'
'He's the one who just got up off the ground and ran into the plexiglass window... again.'"

Jake laughs for a bit, finding the joke fairly funny and then continues, still grinning, "It's like everyone Ares hires can only think about one thing at a time. I think their motto is, 'Shoot First and Shoot Some More Later.' We'll be lucky if we can get to our client before the ten minutes are up."

Standing by the door, he briefly considers switching out his Stick and Shock rounds from the left Predator for gel rounds, but decides against it. Almost no one expects them and whoever needs their help here is likely in some serious trouble. Time to stop joking around and start planning. "Alright, unless our client's in an open area or close to the landing spot, I suspect we're all going to be coming in. Whoever the client is, if they're in there, it probably a fraggin mess. Flip - I know you weren't feeling so hot after our last extraction, so if you want to stay in the chopper and keep the engine warm, it's your call. Otherwise, I was figuring you would head up the rear. Darryl, Sam and Lucky should be in the middle and I'll take point. Sounds good to everyone?"

[estradling]

Sam

“Doc Wagon has been pretty clear on the Extra-Terroritaliy issue. Either the client comes to us or Ares grants permission. I really doubt Doc Wagon wants to piss off a major supplier like Ares.” Doc glances at everyone supplied weapons.

“If it’s an Ares person, I’d expect them to be a bit faster on the approval. If it’s a shadow person, they are out of luck unless and until they cross that line.”


"Is the signal moving at all?"

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl sighs and says, "Yeet, I know, I just don't think eets right to leave that there guy to die, just because eets 'cross some line. God's love knows no boundries."

Too bad I can't see the guy, I could have Raphael help him excape...

Darryl intensely watches the dot for another 30 seconds and then goes astral, just to check and see whats nearby for when we have permission to cross. After a quick look around(without crossing into Ares-space and staying within 10 meters of the copter), Darryl will head back to his body.

[dauphinous]

1:58am
Condition critical - 7:43

[Incoming message from Knight Errant Secure Facility Air Security Team]
[Permission denied. Transmitting verification code for your legal.]

The dot is not moving. Flip moves Jupiter to be as close as possible without actually crossing the line, but that still leaves the client well out of reach. The signal is coming from about 50 meters inside the compound. Flip can actually see where it should be, and it looks like a building, about 5 stories tall. The air is thick with drones, but there is no apparent unusual activity.

Darryl:There are several astral forms nearby. There is also a visible line running through astral space where the Ares compound begins. Most of the astral forms nearby are spirits of various types. Just on the other side of the line, looking straight at Darryl, is a woman with large feathery wings. Her long blond hair is splayed out, almost as if she was underwater. It's a quite striking effect, making her both terrible and beautiful at the same time. She gives a small wave of acknowledgment that seems neither friendly nor hostile, but doesn't say anything. A small spirit, probably a watcher, zips up to her and she nods to it, then it zips away.

Flip:You have complete discretion over whether you stay and wait or call it in as an "Access Denied" client right away. With the verification code, DW is released from all liability, so it's your choice. There have been a couple of times where waiting actually worked, but the ratio over all of DocWagon is about 1:7 (for every time it works and the client ends up in your hands, there are roughly 7 times you never see them). The old team always voted to wait. As a side note, there's nothing that says you can't try to argue/negotiate/beg to get on the grounds.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake shrugs at Darryl and replies after a little pause, "Well, Darryl, look at it this way - if we go in there without permission, we're likely to have to put down some Ares people on our way in and out. And even if we don't have to, Sam's right - pissing off Ares will have an effect on DocWagon and may impact it's ability to rescue future clients."

He sighs and continues, "If I had my way, I would love to stick one to the dumbasses at Knight Errant. And I would love to go and help this guy. But if Ares says no, there's not much we can do. Personally, I hope they either say yes, or that dot starts moving our way."

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl sighs and nods, finally adding with a smile, "Yeet, I know. Eets just, I feel so helpless. I know I can't understand the ways of the Lord, that his orderly wisdom just appears as chaos to me and my puny brain."

Darryl starts to flip mindlessly through his bible, muttering, "Yeet, If the Lord did done wanted that there guy rescued I'm sure he'd rain fire and brimstone down on these heathens. After all, Ares is a false god, and a god of war if I recall. The Lord is a god of love and forgiveness." Most of the time.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake thinks this over for a bit. "So is he a god of love and forgiveness or fire and brimstone? I gotta admit I don't really know much about this stuff, so it sounds like a bit of a conflict. I mean either he rescues the dude and kills the other guys, or he loves and forgives those other guys and leaves the dude to die, right?"

No wonder he's always looking at that Bible if it's that complicated.

[estradling]

Sam

"I don't like it either, but the only workaround I see is the fact that I can override which hospital they have chosen. We could negotiate with Ares to drop them off at a place of their choosing." He pauses to let that sink in. Chances are what Sam was talking about would only postpone the end for their client.

Going to a different subject, "I've never found it that hard to under the dual sides of god. Many times the analogy of a father dealing with his children is used. When parenting is done well, punishment, wisely chosen, is a part. If you believe in life after death, then death is simply being call home. Or sent to your room. As for the suffering in life, again the 'enternal life' in the here after make this life like a dental visit. Sure it sucks, and it hurts, and you don't want to do it. But you get through it and life is better for it, once your on the other side."

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Ah yes, the familiar 'why do the children die?' sort of questions...

Whilst listening to Samuel, Darryl smiles and nods, "Yeet. Indeed, for this here shell matters not, for it is only our eternal soul that truly matters. The Lord may forgive the soul and yet punish the body."

We really need a teleporter or something. Why do these criminals even bother with Doc Wagon contracts? What is the chances we'll even be able to help them..

Darryl goes back to watching the scanner, still hopeful the little orange dot starts heading this way.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake shakes his head at Sam, "If Ares really wants our client, I think the only way we will see them is if that dot starts moving, or Ares dumps their dead body outside. If it's a runner, they're probably better off dead. From what I heard... if a corp catches you alive, you're in for a long and very uncomfortable visit before they dispose of you. I suppose there's no harm in trying your offer, but it's a long shot."

He returns to the other topic of discussion, "As for spiritual matters, I've found it easier to rely on myself, my gear and the people around me during a mission. After all, if God is out there and doesn't want me to do something, clearly I won't be able to. So, I don't need to waste time worrying about it and can just focus on the task at hand."

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip punches his leg in frustration upon recieving the word from Ares. "I can try to talk to them, but they usually don't budge on this sort of thing. I can make your offer, Sam, but I'm not so sure that that'll get us in either. Plus, if word got around to the shadowrunners that we're handing them over to Knight Errant if they make a mistake, I'm sure we'll lose a lot of their contracts. Plus, we don't want it getting around to everyone else that we aren't taking people to their prefered hospitals unless it really is dire circumstances. We'll lose even more contracts. Are you sure that you want to be responsible for all that? This job is about saving people, but you gotta know the politics involved too. I'll make the offer if you want, but I just wanted you to know what you might be getting yourself into." During all this, Jupiter continues to hover next to the corp zone. Despite his devil's advocate position, the thought of leaving the patient behind never even crosses his mind.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl becomes frustrated watching the little orange dot. Eventually he says, "Regardless, I'd would like to stay riate h're and wait for that there client. 'Less we git 'nother call that is. If'n we just gonna go hover sumwhere, it might as well be h're. Just in case, our dot makes it out."

[dauphinous]

2:01am
Condition critical - 4:12

The dot just stays where it is for three more minutes. Then it starts to move, rather slowly, towards the west edge of the compound, which is where the copter is hovering. During this time, several small drones zip up to the edge and just hover nearby, presumably watching Jupiter.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Once the dots starts moving, Darryl hoots and says, "Praise the Lord. Come on! You can do it!"

[estradling]

Sam

"No... no need to make the offer Flip. I don't really like the idea myself. I just mentioned it to put all our options on the table."

Sam waited with the group. As he waits he ponders how conversation had went to the subject of god. They were sitting here waiting for someone to die, while trying to figure out if they should intervene... Thats kind of god-like he supposed, but it would take a miracle beyond them to save their client now.

Then the dot moved, and Darryl took the words right out of his mouth, well more or less anyway.

"Yes praise the Lord and prepare for Ares to do their best to unleash hell on earth to stop them."

"Our client is critically wounded and had been for awhile, chances are they are not moving under their own power. If they are lucky enough to have a friend then they might just make it."

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip's face widens into a broad grin when he sees the dot start to move. Come on, you can make it! He looks for the nearest point to set Jupiter down.

Once that's achieved, he says "Get out guys and cheer that man on. As soon as he's across the border, get him over here. Ares probably won't be wanting him to get out of their grasp and the farther from here we can get him the better."

Flip concentrates for a moment, switching his vision into the astral, hoping that he might be able to see him easier that way.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Once the dot starts moving and Flip is moving the chopper, all religious discussion evaporates from Jake's mind. Moving quickly, he opens the door of the chopper before it sets down and starts scanning the area where the dot might be coming from. He responds to Flip, "We'll get the client in here, Flip. You just be ready to take off right away."

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

On the off chance that the blip turns out to be a living person, Darryl is ready to do his part.


Not sure where we are, what the terrain is, who is there, etc.

[dauphinous]

2:04am
Condition critical - 1:00

The dot keeps moving, but will never make it at its current rate before the 10 minutes are up.

[Incoming Message from Dispatch]
[Is there a problem with your client?]

As a note, just because the 10 minute timer expires, this does not mean you cannot still wait for and pick up a client. The timer is based upon the contractual obligation to pick up a client within 10 minutes. Once the time is up, they don't have to pay anything they might otherwise have had to (like a co-pay, essentially). That was fully negated by the denial of access, though, so you can really stay and wait as long as you want.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip responds to dispatch, [Knight Errant has denied us access to Ares controlled land. We are waiting at the border for him. He's moving this way slowly, so we're hoping he will make it.] He then forwards the verification code that Knight Errant had sent to him.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Not even paying attention to time, Darryls eyes stay focused on the blip on the scanner and his mind focused on prayers.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake periodically looks back at the screen to verify that the dot is moving and then goes back to scanning for the client with his cybereyes. Come on... I should be able to pick him up with my thermals soon. While he waits, he figures it's best to figure out what they will do once their patient gets here.

"Sam's right. If our client makes it, he's likely going to have some friends with him. Are we giving them all a lift as well? Now, I'm more than happy to help those guys out," And stick it to those Knight-Errant asses "but it could also make Ares a bit more hostile to us when we take off. Thoughts?"

[estradling]

Sam

Preparing his stuff Sam nods, "I'm for whatever gets us and our client in the air the fastest. So that most likely going to mean take them, no questions. Only verification." He taps the wand.

His suggestion wasn't necessary tactical sound, but then that wasn't his area

[dariathalon]

Flip

"I'm all for taking them along. After Knight Errant's attitude about this pick up, I don't see any reason to make their job easier. I don't expect them to give us too much trouble once we take off anyway. We've followed all the rules, and most people aren't too eager to make enemies with DocWagon." His eyes continue to scan the direction that the patient should be coming in.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

As the team begins to talk about taking on extra people, especially heavily armed people(emphasis on heavy), Darryl begins to wonder. Eventually his voice breaks away from the stream of prayers to ask Flip a question, "Given that there dam'ge to the copter from earlier, are we'all sure we'all could even lift off that there ground, with so manys peoples on board. I mean, I'm sure we'all are rated to carry a single patient for a reason."

[dauphinous]

[Incoming message from Dispatch]
[Understood. Code received. Let us know when you pick up or give up.]

2:06am
Condition critical - T/E

The dot keeps moving, very slowly. It seems impossible that they cannot be seen through the chain-link fence, right up until Sam's RFID scanner picks up three signals. Down, about 10 meters. They are underground, passing right below the team and copter.

It should be noted that several Ares drones are now watching the group.

The two contacts:As Sam is inclined to just share the info, here it is:
Contract number: 31S32998H41M1
Contract type: Gold
No allergies
Awakened
Evac: Dr. L - 23 Fish Way, Redmond
Condition - critical

Contract number: 12S36512T81M7
Contract type: Gold
Allergy: tree nuts(severe)
Extensive cyberware
Evac: Dr. L - 23 Fish Way, Redmond

Contract number: 23S74201E43F2
Contract type: Gold
No allergies
Extensive cyberware
Evac: Dr. L - 23 Fish Way, Redmond

The copter's max load is 2100kg.

[estradling]

Sam

After relaying the information, Sam speculates. "Ares doesn't know were they are and are hoping we would lead them to their targets. Is there anything against pretending that are client has terminated and acting like we are withdrawing? While we try for find were they might come out?"

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake considers the drones around them before responding via a more secure channel.

[Good idea Sam. Why don't we plan on the secure channel and act stuff out in public. Also, they're out of Ares territory now. Main thing is, we don't want to fly away too far in case they come up. We could pretend to get another contract in the general area, as we are the closest and fly somewhere nearby. We could also pretend to argue about this and leave me on the ground, while you guys search for where these guys are coming up. Once you figure that out, I can catch up to them on foot easy and keep them safe until you land.]

He also frowns slightly and keeps looking towards the Ares facility and scanning, as if he is still expecting someone to come from there.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl hoots when he sees the dot make it past the Ares frontier. Darryl nods at the others comments and says via commlink, his accent gone, "They would have to be daft to come up from the sewers anywhere near the Ares facility. I think we should watch for a bit and once they get a bit further down the tunnel, we totally leave. Then, once we're a couple clicks away, circle back, keep to the deck and set down near them."

Hmm.. I wonder if there be something in here about rescue from the sewers... Darryl starts flipping through his bible again.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake considers the options silently. Yeah, it's probably best if we pretend to leave and then come back quietly. I wonder if we can let them know that we're going to be waiting for them. Actually...

Jake shrugs and sighs for the benefit of the drones and looks back at the team saying, "Well, we've tried. But, we've got other people to save and if we get to a client late because we're on the ground here, shame on us." He gets ready to close the door, if Flip gets to taking off.

On the private comms, he sends out:
[Alright, it sounds like operation Fakeout is go. Hey Sam, Flip. I don't want to try just broadcasting on the comms, in case Ares is scanning for open transmissions, but I thought of a way we could let these guys know what's up. If we contact their doc, he may be able to relay a private message to their comms from us. If they are keeping full radio-silence, no harm in trying. Otherwise, we can at least let them know to keep going. If you think that Ares might be able to trace that though, we won't do it.]

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip says, "Don't worry Darryl, we can still take on some passengers. It seems to be affecting speed and manueverability more than load capacity."

Flip takes off moving almost directly away from the Ares complex.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl reaches out and grasps Jacob's shoulder to stop him for a moment. He then direct his attention to his commlink, [If you get out here in plain view of the Ares folks, they are going to know something is up. We really need to move off and out of view before anyone disembarks.]

Darryls pauses and then adds, [In any case, you going off alone, doesn't seem to be the best idea. The streets are a dangerous place. The sewers, doubly so.]

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake nods at Darryl and clarifies the plan via comms before closing the door from the inside as they take off.

[Yeah, we'll all stick together. It's easier to do that and come back. I'm not a tridstar and as dumb as Knight Errant is, they might figure something's up. Flip, if you can make the floor see-through, we can look for sewer entrances as we fly away.]

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip presses the button allowing the floor to show what is below them. [I've got another idea. Let me see if I've got the sewer maps. I've got some pretty solid mapsoft here. It might show us where the access points are, or better yet where the sewer line below us is leading. Never had much reason to look for that kind of info, so I'm not sure.] Flip then begins to pull up his mapsoft (rating 6) trying to search for info on the sewer system as they fly away.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake scans the ground beneath them, checking for any obvious sewer entrances, though he figures the client is unlikely to surface anywhere nearby.

[Good idea Flip. If you get the sewer maps, send them to us via the link.]

While he's looking down, his mind is considering what the situation is down below. His eyes scan the ground, while his mind races.

Why are they moving so slowly? Sam's scanner picked up 3 of them and only one is seriously wounded. And the other two are chromed out. Either our client is heavy or they're also carrying something else. Now, if Darryl was out, it would probably take Sam, Flip and I to carry him. And he looks a bit light for a troll. So - our client might be a big ork or troll, which would account for them going to slowly.

Or, they've got a ton of gear with them. Or maybe even something heavy from Knight-Errant. Or, they might be real careful and are moving slowly to not be detected. Or they've got one person keeping overwatch while the other carries the load. Hmmm.

If they know that he's badly injured and they think there is any chance Ares has spotted them, they'll be wanting to move as quickly as possible. So, they probably can not - which points to a heavy burden. Of course, there might be obstacles in the sewers, though that never happens in the trids.

The final possibility is that they are also injured. Not enough for us to be worried about their well-being, but enough that it slows them all down.

So what does that mean for our plan? They won't be able to jump into the chopper in an instant. We'll need to cover them. That means smoke.

At some point, while they are flying, Jacob switches out the flashbang grenade from the Alpha's launcher for a smoke one.

Thought you guys might appreciate a little insight into how Jacob's "tactical" mind works.

[dauphinous]

Between what Flip already has and what Jupiter is able to make available, a full structural map of what lies below the street is at the team's disposal. It looks like your client is actually moving through a storm drain tunnel. Judging by the schematics, it's only a meter in diameter. Looking ahead down their path, they don't have any actual choices, unless they can contort in some bizarre fashion or turn to smoke, for about 10 meters. At that point, they reach the first storm drain they could use to exit to the street. After that, there are storm drains at regular intervals of 50 meters, and there are main tunnel branchings they could take.

They continue to move slowly, though once they get about 30 meters from the boundary of Ares space, they do speed up a little bit. Still moving about half the speed of someone walking casually, but that is faster than they were going before.

How far away are you going to go? What is the indicator you're looking for that would bring you back to where the orange dot is?

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

As the copter starts to gain some distance from Ares, Darryl suggests, [Why don't we head straight away for several blocks, then turn left and go a couple more blocks? Once we are out of sight and hidden behind some buildings, I'll head down Astrally and let the sewer rats know which way to go to meet up with us.]

[dariathalon]

Flip

[Sounds good. Pick out an exit on the map that they should be safe using and we'll meet you when they get close to that point.] Flip says as he begins visually scanning the area for places for Jupiter to hide while Darryl is gone.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl glances at the map and then out the front of the lights of the city and indicates, [Perhaps, in case they follow us, we should put down near a coffee shop. I can slip into the sewer and lead them back to the coffee shop.]

Darryl scans the nearby area for an shop with the lights on.

[dauphinous]

There is a Starbucks that shares space with a bookstore just around the corner from a drain that is about 100 meters from their current location. The lot is more than big enough to land in.

In a different direction, there is a 24/7 'gag gift and lingerie' shop with a drain right in front of it about 90 meters from their current location. Everything else around it is closed. The lot looks just about big enough on the map, though it might be a problem if anyone is actually there.

The rest of the drains in the local area have nowhere nearby to land, unless you're interested in just dropping onto the street.

[dariathalon]

Flip

[I'm thinking we go up to that bookstore up ahead to land. Its not too much farther down the way for the patient and co., and we'll be less likely to draw Knight Errant's attention back to us. It's a little further away and we can even send someone inside to "grab a cup of coffee" if we think that Knight Errant is still watching us.] Flip slows Jupiter enough so that he can get a reaction from the others before actually committing to turning towards the bookstore or the gag shop.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake nods and replies:
[Bookstore is a good choice and the coffee distraction is a good idea - Knight Errant doesn't know we've had a break already. Do you have any way to check for drones following us?]

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Nodding at the plan, Darryl eventually sends, [Lets do it]

Hopefully we don't get another call while we are off on our own here.

[estradling]

Sam

The EMT merely nodded at the plan. Clearly the sooner they could get to the client the better, but it would do no good if they brought Ares down on top of them. This plan seemed like a reasonable balance between the two needs

[dauphinous]

2:07am

The Starbucks has four cars in the lot. Two are unremarkable sedans (one green, one black), one is a Star cruiser, and one is a cheap POS van. The van is parked around towards the back of the building, and the other three vehicles are all parked right in front of it. The lot is well-lit, and there is plenty of space to land.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl double checks that his meat is strapped in good and tight. Once the copter sets down he says, "Flip, if y'all would please not be going anywhere with my body, I'd surely appreciate it."

If no one has any last minute objections, Darryl goes astral, zooms over to the sewer entrance and heads over and back towards the underground team.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip lands Jupiter as near as he can to the van. "No problem. Just be sure you get back here before it's time to take off again," he says with a nod to Darryl.

[estradling]

Sam


Looking over to the troll as he is about to do his thing the medic speaks up, "In case something goes wrong, we should have a fall back and regroup position. I'm thinking our standby position. A copter hovering over the middle of Renton wouldn't be that hard to find, would it?"

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl nods and slumps as his spirit roams free of its earthly confines. After a quick look around to make sure no one is watching, Darryl's astral form slips into the sewer entrance and begins his luge run towards the team fleeing Ares.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake nods and looks at Darryl as he slumps over. He shakes his head slightly and looks around the chopper. Speaking to the team, he asks,
[So, coffee diversion in about a minute? Who should go? It might be a bit weird for me to walk in with all my gear at the ready.]

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Having been gone less than a minute, Darryl reappears on the copter, "I've did done made contact with the people in the sewers. They'all question that I'm really from Doc Wagon. I offered to get their contract numbers as proof. They should still be in the scanner history. Can you get them for me?"

Darryl's ghostly form floats near his body waiting for the requested information.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Once on the ground, Flip turns, still a little stiffly, to face the others as he speaks over the comm. [I was thinking it should be one of you Tacc guys. Darryl's obviously otherwise engaged. Sam'll need to be here when the patient gets here. I think it'd be a good idea if I'm here in case we need to make a hasty move for some reason. You guys would be the best able to take care of yourselves for a few minutes if the rest of us needed to fly the patient out fast. I guess I could go though, if you think it's best. We should send somebody soon if we're going to though.]

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake nods and replies [Sure, I'll go. Let me know how things go.]

Alright, I'm just getting coffee.

He leaves his bag in his seat and takes off his helmet, putting it on top. He then slings his Alpha across his back and sighs slightly. "Three coffees, one tea and one water coming right up."

He opens the door of the chopper and begins to casually walk towards the Starbucks, intent on ordering and making small talk with the cashier person.

[estradling]

Sam

Hearing Darryl's request Sam realizes he can't very well look it up on his comlink anymore. So Sam looks it up again. "All three have gold contracts and their Doctor is Dr. L - 23 Fish Way, Redmond. The wounded one is awakened, contract number is 31S32998H41M1. The other two have lots of Cyber and one has an allergy to nuts their number 12S36512T81M7 and the last one is 23S74201E43F2" Sam repeats it as many times as Darryl needs to hear it... It wasn't exactly an easy thing to remember

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

When the numbers and letters start to spew out of Samuel's mouth, Darryl's eyes glaze over as he chants the numbers, committing them to memory.

"31S32998H41M1, 31S32998H41M1, 31S32998H41M1 Doctor L, 23 Fish Way... Redmond. 12S36512T81M7, 12S36512T81M7, 12S36512T81M7. 23S74201E43F2, 23S74201E43F2, 23S74201E43F2. Okay, hang here a minute, in case I lose my train of thought along the way. 31S32998H41M1, 12S36512T81M7, 23S74201E43F2"

Darryl's ghostly form zooms off again and dives into the sewer grate.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Meanwhile, Jacob orders the coffee, tea and water. Wonder if the distraction is working.

While he's at the counter, he leans back and takes a look at the parking lot, wondering if he sees any drones that look like the Knight-Errant ones.

[dauphinous]

Jacob

Jacob's entry into the Starbucks makes every head turn towards the door to look at him. There are six people currently inside. One, a young ork male, is obviously an employee, standing behind the counter. The uniformed cop is a human male. He's sitting with a cup of coffee, much like the troll was at the DeeDee's.

There is a pair of elves, one male, one female, sitting at a small table. Both are well dressed, and from the way they are leaning together and touching each other's hands, they're probably on a date. The other two people, both orks and both male, also look like they're here together, but certainly not on a date. They are sitting at a table close to the counter, and look like they may have been interrupted chatting with the employee.

Once Jacob walks up to the counter and places an order, everyone seems to go back to what they were doing. The ork is polite, and hops to get everything for him right away. he isn't terribly inclined towards small talk, but Jacob can dally about a minute or so after the drinks are ready and onyl the three orks pay him any attention.

As he goes to leave, the cop stands up, tosses his cup in the nearest trash receptacle, and walks outside.

Darryl

The troll is easy to find again, and even though the numbers and letters are easy to transpose and mix up, he grins and chuckles, accepting Darryl's offer of a guide. About the time the cop walks outside, the troll stands up in the narrow vertical pipe to push open the drain grate on the street.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Wow, talk about overpriced drek. I hope they're done now. After it becomes obvious that any further lingering is going to look suspicious, Jacob sends a quick comm message and leaves the coffee shop.

[Returning with drinks. How are we doing?]

He gets outside and starts carefully walking back towards the chopper holding a tray of drinks with both hands in front of him and moving a bit slower, as if not to spill anything.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

If Darryl hears or sees the cop, he will "grab" the troll and whisper, "Shh! Star overhead."

Peering through the slots in the sewer grate Darryl will watch and wait for the cop to walk/drive off before letting the runners exit.

[dauphinous]

As Darryl can neither see nor hear the cop walking to his cruiser, the troll lifts the grate. It makes a loud scraping noise, and the troll lifts himself out quickly, then reaches down to help the others.

Jacob hears the noise of the grate being lifted. The cop turns at the noise and pulls out a flashlight. "You hear that?" He seems to be addressing Jacob.

A female elf wearing more guns than a person should rightly need pushes up the limp form of a human man. The troll grabs a hold of him and pulls quickly, getting him out. The human has a fair amount of blood all over him, and now that more of the troll is visible, he has a smear of blood on the back of the black utility vest he's wearing over some black armored clothing.

The elf then climbs out with the trolls help. All three look well equipped for covert sorts of operations, though they have plenty of dirt and grease smears on their exposed flesh at this point. The human has one gun, an SMG, holstered at his hip.

"Where's your ride?" The elf, whose head is shaved, addresses this question to Darryl with an Irish accent. She is otherwise rather plain of features, for an elf.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl glances over towards where the copter is and says, "Around that there corner, in a coffee shop parking lot. There was one of them there Lone Star cruisers there when we landed. We should take it slow... unless you have licenses for all that gear."

Darryl checks out the team astrally(use assense). If cleanliness is next to godliness, these must be the most evil people on the planet

Darryl starts to move towards the copter and says, "I'll see if it is clear."

Darryl unmanifests and moves over to the copter and then back. Darryl manifests and reports the position of the Lone Star employee.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake curses inwardly at the cop noticing something is up. He's just doing his job, though.

He nods at the cop lightly and speaks softly, "Yeah. Sounds like one of our guys. Look, we didn't want to alarm anyone," he nods towards the elves in the coffeeshop, "but we've got some almost-467s to get and this is one of the closest places we can land." Jacob smiles ruefully, "Sorry. We'll be out of here in a little bit."

[dauphinous]

"So you stopped in for coffee?" The cop shines the flashlight in Jacob's face. "That doesn't sound like SOP for DocWagon to me, Mr. Vishneviy." He steps so he can see around the corner, while keeping Jacob in his line of sight, and moves the beam of light so it shines down towards the copter.

--

"Must've left them in my other commlink." The elf crouches protectively over the human while the troll replaces the grate much more quietly than he removed it. It does still make noise, though.

--

Jacob hears the much quieter sound as the grate is replaced before he has a chance to say anything else to the cop.

"Lone Star. Everyone stay where you are." The cop calls this out as he draws a Colt Manhunter from its holster on his hip. "What's going on back there?"

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake puts the coffee down and holds his hands out in a non-threatening manner where they can be seen and speaks to the cop, while speaking loud enough for the guys around the corner to hear.

"It's not standard operating procedure, however our other option would have involved a heavy use of force. Through some misdirection, we have avoided potential civilian casualties and property damage. Sir, as someone who has spent several years walking the beat, I believe we have gone out of our way to not endanger others in this somewhat unusual extraction. Right now, as DocWagon employee, I need to bring these people to their doctor immediately. The longer we all stand here, the greater the chance our misdirection will be detected and all of our jobs will become a lot harder. I'd appreciate your assistance in this matter."

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Dear Lord... that doesn't sound like a friendly Lone Star voice.

Darryl says, "Please, could y'all stay calm. I'll do what all I can to protect y'all."

Darryl summons up a friend from the spirit world. Gabriel, I choose you.


Summon Force 5 Spirit of Water.
Using Concealment Power - "Concealment subtracts a number of dice equal to the critter’s Magic from any Perception Tests to locate the concealed subject. Concealment can be used on a number of targets simultaneously equal to the critter’s Magic; concealed subjects can see each other if the critter allows it."

Summon Water: 9D6 = [5, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 3] = 34 (3 hits) (http://roll.coyotecode.net/lookup.php?rollid=4127)
Oppose Summon: 5D6 = [3, 5, 6, 3, 6] = 23 (3 hits) (http://roll.coyotecode.net/lookup.php?rollid=4128)
Zero net hits = 0 services... D'oh.
Resist Drain(6S): 9D6 = [1, 6, 6, 3, 1, 6, 5, 6, 5] = 39 (6 hits) (http://roll.coyotecode.net/lookup.php?rollid=4129)

Try again
Summon Water: 9D6 = [1, 6, 5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 6, 5] = 37 (6 hits) (http://roll.coyotecode.net/lookup.php?rollid=4130)
Oppose Summon: 5D6 = [3, 5, 5, 6, 4] = 23 (3 hits) (http://roll.coyotecode.net/lookup.php?rollid=4131)
3 net hits = 3 services...
Resist Drain(6S): 9D6 = [3, 5, 5, 3, 3, 5, 5, 6, 4] = 39 (5 hits) (http://roll.coyotecode.net/lookup.php?rollid=4132)

1 Box of stun.


Once the spirit arrives, he orders it to conceal the Troll, Human, and Elven clients.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip sits in the helicopter watching Jacob talking to the Lonestar man. "I'm glad we sent him out. He's probably the best person to try to talk that Lonestar officer down. I get the feeling he knows the way that security people work," he says idly as he watches for some sign he is needed.

[dauphinous]

The troll nods his head at a building other than the one with the Starbucks and hefts the human up over his shoulder. The elf pulls her assault rifle and stalks that way. The pair of them moves in harmony, like they've done this plenty of times before, or maybe just like they're using headware to communicate.

--

"Stay where you are," the cop directs this to Jacob, along with the barrel of his gun. "I know a load of crap when I smell it." He pauses for a moment, then his voice is amplified to loud enough that everyone around can hear it. "Lone Star officer. Exit the helicopter immediately with hands in plain sight."

A siren can be heard wailing in the distance.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip quickly sends the message to dispatch. [We may be having a little problem with LoneStar here. I'll keep you updated.]

"We'd better go," he says to the others. He then climbs out of Jupiter with his hands in the air as commanded.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

When Darryl hears the Star request, he says, "Uh, I surely don't like the tone of that command. I'm gunna go back to my body. Hang tight, we'll find you once we ditch Lone Star."

Darryl unmanifests and zooms back to his body. Once there, he casts a spell on himself and unbuckles himself. Making sure he has his bible, he then climbs out of the copter.


Cast Increased Reflexes F3, should be able to buy drain.

[estradling]

Sam

Hearing the Lone Star call out Sam slips the most powerful tranq path he can find into his pocket. Then with his hands empty he complies with the request. While walking he que the Lone Star feed and plays back the last little bit to see if he can't figure out what they know. "Easy... easy... officer we don't want any problems."

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Of all the times for things to go wrong... Jacob keeps holding his hands out in sight of the officer and makes sure to keep an eye on the LS feed.

He shrugs and speaks calmly to the officer, "As you can see sir, we're more than happy to comply. Please feel free to take a look in the chopper, if that is what you desire. If you still have further questions, I am more than happy to go with you and answer them. I would request that the rest of my team not be detained for too long, as we have clients waiting."

[dauphinous]

2:10am

The most interesting part of the recent Star feeds is the following:

[Unit 2R31G2: requesting backup starbucks lot 19372 hargrove doc team suspicious circs]
[LSDispatch: Unit 2R28G1 respond to suspicious activity 19372 hargrove]
[Unit 2R28G1: copy that moving]

[Incoming message from Dispatch]
[Understood. Do you have the client?]
[Should I shut off the map?]

Lucky also jumps out, keeping his hands visible and his mouth closed. The cop points to the nearby wall. "Up against the wall. Mouths shut." He shifts his hand to indicate Jacob. "Just yours, really." He eases over to the copter, keeping the gun pointed in the general direction of majority the team.

The siren in the distance is getting louder very fast.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake sighs inwardly and gets up against the wall, taking the opportunity to check in with the rest of the team.

[Idiots like that are half the reasons I left the Star. Darryl - are the clients out of sight? Sam - do we need to hurry, or can our critical person last for a bit longer? Flip - I know we need to cooperate, but if this starts taking too long, we do have clients to attend to and may need to compromise. If worse comes to worse, I can come with the Star while you get the clients. They've got no evidence of anything and we have not done anything illegal. Remember that.]

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip moves up against the wall as requested while sending the following messages:

To Dispatch:
[Not yet. Hopefully this LS BS won't take us too long and we might be able to get them still.]

To Jupiter:
[Yes, shut off the sewer maps, and reset the patient location map to the first location he was detected, in the Ares facility.]

[dauphinous]

The cop glances into the copter, but seems more interested in making sure no one does anything than actually checking it out. He stays with his weapon pointed in the team's general direction as a second cop car speeds into the parking lot and screeches to a halt maybe 5 meters from the copter. The driver's door opens as it is coming to a halt and the cop inside steps out.

This one is female. She has shoulder length blond hair and is quite clearly an elf. The best word to describe her looks would be 'plain', which would probably be taken as a an insult, given her metatype. She's grinning as she snaps her gum. "They don't look all that dangerous or suspicious to me. They look kinda cooperative from where I stand. Are you DocWagon folks doing anything you shouldn't be?"

The first cop holsters his gun and actually looks inside the copter.

[estradling]

Sam

"Just dealing with our clients, thats all officer." Sam replies to the elf. "Speaking of which its kind of hard to tend to their medical needs like this." He waves his hands which are still being held up. He was being polite in asking if they could get back to work.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake moves his hands apart slightly, shrugs and shakes his head in a general "I don't know what the big deal is" kind of way. Well, hope he can tell just how dumb he's looking. I can't believe they let idiots like that out on the street. No common sense at all.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Hopeful he can defuse the situation with a little humor and play on some stereotypes, Darryl looks at the new cop and just says "Donut" using his big dumb troll voice.

He smiles a toothy grin and puts his hands back up, trying to be careful not to rip his uniform on his horns.

{{ Are we covered in blood? }}

[dariathalon]

Flip

"I doubt we're doing anything wrong, unless maybe you want to write up a parking ticket for Jupiter over there," Flip says with a nod toward the copter.

"Maybe I shouldn't be giving them any bright ideas. Nah, even these LoneStar idiots oughta know that they don't want to get on DocWagon's bad side," Flip thinks to himself.

[dauphinous]

The female cop starts chuckling at Darryl and shakes her head. "They're just doing their job, Murph. No need to crawl up their asses for that."

The first cop leans back out of the copter. "Their job isn't supposed to include lying to the police, or aiding and abetting." He scowls at Jacob and points an accusatory finger at him. "Next time you have clients stuck inside a corp compound and you're waiting around to see if they can get out, say so. That crap you tried to lay down just results in this kind of thing."

The Star feed then pops up with the following:

[Unit 2R28G1: doc team caller is 404 returning to route]

The woman smirks at the other cop. "Thank you for your cooperation, gents. Have a nice night. Hope you get your caller." Then she gets back into her cruiser and shuts the door. As it starts to roll away, the other cop starts back towards his own cruiser.

[estradling]

Sam

Once the cops let them go Sam heads back in to Jupiter to get his things. With the medkit and stretcher in hand, he looks to see if the cops are gone and then waits for Darryl to lead him to the client.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl says to Jacob, "Didna you tell him we was a waitin' fur a client?" Darryl shrugs and walks over to the copter and sits down. He leans against the frame and projects astrally again.

Darryl lingers and checks out the remaining cop astrally and waits for him to leave. Once he's gone, Darryl will fly over to the specified building and manifest near the runners. "The coast is clear."

[dauphinous]

The elf and troll both nod and hoof it over to the copter. By the time they get there, the cops are long gone. The troll nods to Sam, looking for where the best place to set the human down is. He seems undecided between the ground and on the floor of Jupiter. "We used a trauma patch. He's hangin' on, but only just."

[estradling]

Sam

Pulling out the trauma table Sam directs them to place their friend there. Then he gets to work while listening to while they describe the care they gave. Using the tools available he does his best to pull the man back from the brink of death.


First Aid use (First Aid + Logic test)
[roll0]

[dauphinous]

After setting the human very gently on the bed, the troll backs off and out of the way. "Shot," he offers in a grunt. This diagnosis is confirmed by the five bullet holes in his armored clothing. Only two are bloody, at least, but both have exit wounds on his back.

It'll take too long to get him out of the armor, so Sam just injects him in the neck with a cocktail of very fun Awakened-friendly pharmaceuticals.

[Yay. Can we go now?]

The elf is paying a lot more attention to the surroundings than to the human, and she says quietly, "We've got a ride parked a few blocks from here. You're taking him to Dr. L?"

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip crawls back into the pilot's seat. [Soon as Sam's done working] Flip says to Jupiter.

While he waits, Flip also calls back to dispatch. [We've got the LoneStar situation handled, and we've got the client. We'll be leaving to make the drop off in just a few minutes.]

[estradling]

Sam

Pulling up the status info, he nods to the shadowrunner who ask the question. Then both over the com and by voice he says, ["Flip our destination is Dr. L at 23 Fish Way, Redmond. The client is secure and ready to go"]

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Once the runners are within sight of the rest of the team, Darryl zooms across the parking lot and back into his body. After adjusting himself to get settled back into his body, he grabs his bible, stands up and gets out of the way of the medics.

While everyone gets loaded, he stands and keeps watch on the area, paying particular attention for lingering Lone Star flying spy drones.

Assuming everything goes smooth, he hops in straps himself in. Tight. Says a prayer and off we go.

[dauphinous]

[Incoming message from Dispatch]
[Status change: Jupiter to Transport Nice to hear they made it]

The copter lifts off as soon as everyone is inside. The client is unconscious, so the 20km flight is scream-free. It takes about 5 minutes to go that far. Dr. L apparently works out of a secure apartment building with a helipad on the roof. After buzzing for someone to come collect your client, a female ork in a white shirt and black pants comes up and takes him away. She doesn't seem interested in any sort of chit-chat at all.

The Star feeds are quiet after this, and the last hour passes very slowly.

2:57am

New DocWagon contacts show up on the map - both coming from Downtown. More specifically, they probably are originating from the home tarmac.

BiggerThanABreadbox - Slider - Renton
RockBox - Viper - Auburn

[Incoming message from BiggerThanABreadbox]
[Morning, Flip. How'd your newbies turn out?]

[Incoming message from Dispatch]
[Status change: Jupiter to Off Duty]

[Newbie101]

Jacob

After the Star leaves, Jake answers Darryl's question with a mutters that sounds like, "I told him exactly what he needed to know. If he was too dense to get it..."

Still mildly annoyed at the incident, he stays silent during the final delivery.

Soon, it gets close to paperwork time and he is not looking foward to that. He prepares some mental notes about his ammo use and gets ready to save his recording once they land and hand it in with the rest of the report.

Once they start to head back, he speaks up, "So anyone up for a quick drink after we finish up with the paperwork? It's been a hell of a day."

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl yaws as the copter starts to head back to base, "The only drink I'll partake of is a glass of warm milk before bed. Yeet, it'll a coupla days yet 'for I geet used to be'n up so late."

Seeing the look on Jacob's face Darryl says, "I did done missed the brief'n 'for we left. There's nuffin we need to do when we geet back is dere?"

I'll be glad to get rid of this gun. Makes me so dang uncomfortable.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake shrugs, "Well, you haven't used up any Doc gear, so you're probably alright. But me - I think I might have used up a whole clip's worth and that means I go to sit in a chair and fill out a nice long form about how it happened and why it was necessary for helping our clients. It's a huge pain.

As for drinks, I was thinking about something a bit harder than milk."

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Upon hearing about his paperworkless fate, Darryl exclaims, "Praise the Lord!" Darryl briefly recalls all that has happened overnight and feels it wouldn't be right to not, at least, offer to help out in some way. "Is any of that there paperwork such that I can be helping out? Or anythang else?"

Darryl looks around hopeful that he'll be allowed to help and then queries, "We 'posed to turn in these here uniforms or we 'posed to washem ourselves?"

[estradling]

Sam


"I could do a drink.. if its quick. I got to get home to get my daughter off to school. And if you think Doc Wagon bad about ammo. You should see the paper needed for medical supplies, which we used alot of... Plus all the client file updates."

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip responds to Breadbox's pilot. [They turned out okay. Had a busy shift, but nothing we couldn't handle, except for Syber who got pretty seriously banged up. Good to have a team that doesn't bicker at the drop of a hat though. Have a good shift.]

As Flip nears the helipad back at dispatch, he says "Yeah, I'm sure there'll be a mountain paperwork when I have to describe the damage to Jupiter's rotor too. I s'pose I'll be able to do with a quick drink too, once we get through with all that. No kids to get home too, but I'd better get plenty of rest so my body has a chance to finish healing up." He rubs his side again, to indicate the pain he still feels.

[dauphinous]

It looks like Jupiter will be the first one back as HQ gets close, but most of the others are coming in fast.

Babylon5 - Sinclair - Downtown
EagleOne - MrPresident - Tacoma
Firefly - Wash - B&R
Kitty - Frank - Auburn
WolfDen - Wolfman - Outremer

That leaves only one copter unaccounted for, the one that covers Everett and Snohomish, and they usually are the last to show up, being the farthest away. With no one to dodge tonight, the landing in the #4 circle is simple and quick. It isn't necessary to wait for the others to all land before heading inside, but it is a little safer and less likely to cause ruffled feathers, as it were.

[I already submitted the report for the repairs, Flip. They'll just want the incident report. See you tomorrow.]

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Once the copter sets down and the engine turns off, Darryl lets out a massive exhale. After a couple deep breaths, he begins to undo the harness and wriggle his massive bulk out of the copter. Darryl looks around at the empty platforms and says, "Did no one else make it back, or'd we cut out early?"

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip pats the console in front of him. [Thanks Jupes.] Still any paperwork to do is too much. Sometimes I wonder if maybe I am in the wrong line of work. There has to be a job somewhere with less red tape.

After shutting Jupiter down, Flip exits the pilot's compartment. He stands just outside the door for a moment stretching before beginning to walk toward the offices. "We're just first back today. The closer units were probably just finishing up a drop-off or something. If you look over that way, you'll probably see Babylon5 coming in pretty soon. The others'll be on their way soon enough, I'd imagine." He points to one side, indicating where he last saw their helicopter on Jupiter's display.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake nods, "Alright, a quick drink it is. If we survive the paperwork, that is." He gets out of the chopper, taking all his gear with him. He marvels at how quickly, in the general excitement of the job, he had forgotten that he was flying in a large tin can with a bent rotor. He pauses to see if the others are waiting for the rest of the shift to come in.

[dauphinous]

"I am afraid I will have to pass on the drink, gents, as I have an appointment with a young lady. And if there is one thing I know to be true, it is that one must never keep a lady waiting." Lucky hops out behind everyone else.

The other copters are indeed coming in quickly. Babylon5 is already hovering over #5 and making their descent as everyone is climbing out of Jupiter. The rotors are all plenty high enough in the air that no one absolutely has to duck to avoid losing their head, but Lucky does it anyway. Must be instinct or something.

An ork in a mechanic's uniform is already driving a little golf cart-like truck out to Jupiter, swerving deftly around the circles. He gives Flip a wave as he goes, but doesn't stop on his way.

Karl is already standing up at the door to the cage and ready to scan everything back in. As the team walks in, Karl counts out loud, "One, two, three, four newbies and Flip. You newbies listen up. Safeties on, eject clips, check the chamber. Take off the uniform, then make a line. Hand in your gear first. If you fired your weapon, take a seat," he indicates the uncomfortable looking chairs, "to fill out your incident reports. Mages are exempt from the reports. Damage to equipment should be pointed out when it is handed over."

As Karl gives his spiel, the door opens and other people start coming in, some having already shucked their uniforms. One woman, dressed in a pair of jeans and sparkly green tank top, just walks up and throws her uniform in Karl's face, not stopping as she walks through the garage and out. "Nice to see you, too,
Angelfish," Karl calls after her. He scans the uniform with his hand, then tosses it to Bernie, who catches it and dumps it in a box."Okay, step right up."

Flip:A perk of being a pilot is that you can file your incident report in the Pilot's Lounge instead of an uncomfortable chair, if you want.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl shuffles through and follows the pack. Darryl follows the directions, Safety, Clip, Clear. Darryl removes the uniform and steps up to the window, "Darryl McCoy. Thankya." He hands in his weapon, and clip, then his gear.

Darryl goes to leave and at the door stops and turns around to address the team, "Good Morning, Y'all. See y'all tanight." Darryl smiles and holds up his bible about chest level and murmers a prayer for the rest of the team.

...

That done, he turns and heads to his new apartment. Once there he spends several minutes in prayer, thanking the creator for keeping him and his team safe and for protecting his apartment while he was gone and ...

He heads into the kitchen makes himself a nutri-soy sandwich, takes another 15 minutes to give thanks, eats it, with a glass of warm milk and heads to bed for a couple hours. He rises early, says his prayers, gets cleaned up and walks around the corner to the homeless shelter to help out with the breakfast. After that he cleans up and return home for more sleep before rising again to help out again with the lunch and dinner handouts at the shelter. Darryl catches another quick nap before heading into work on the Tube.

[estradling]

Sam

Following the check in direction, Sam is happy to report the status of his gear is unused. After getting back in his civvies, he double checks all the reports he wrote while in the field, for both the clients and the treatments he did for his teammates. He then compares his reports with the automated ones generated by the Doc Wagon systems. Finding them pretty much in sync he submits his official reports.

Then he hangs out waiting for the others who are going for a drink

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake safeties and unloads his weaponry, making sure to keep his own ammo and Predator separate from the DocWagon issued gear and remembering to get the chambered rounds as well. He does it very casually, as if he has had some practice doing similar activities. He takes off the uniform and as he is checking his gear in, he asks again, "You guys think you could get my helmet to match the uniform?" An affirmative will be followed by him handing in the helmet as well.

He then heads to the uncomfortable chairs and starts filling out paperwork. It's a pretty annoying and tedious experience, but he does make sure to emphasize what happened to Syber and make it clear that throughout the shift he did his best to avoid harming any potential clients, or innocent bystanders. He includes the full video recording of their shift, and references the appropriate times in his report. When he is done, he gets up and walks over to where Sam is waiting.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip waves to the orc heading toward Jupiter. "Take good care of him!" he calls out, never really having a doubt that he would.

While Karl is explaining the spiel to the newbs, Flip is already busy getting his gear turned in. He takes advantage of the brief moment of silence while the others are unloading their weapons to say, "Night Darryl, Lucky." He then adds with a wink at Lucky, "and have fun tonight." Turning to Sam and Jacob he says, "I'll meet you two back here in a few minutes. Just gotta go file my reports."

He then heads down the hall toward the pilot's lounge where he fills out the paperwork in relative comfort. As the other pilot's file in, he greets each of them but doesn't make much small talk tonight. He doesn't want to keep the others waiting. He write out the reports in as little detail as he thinks he can get away with, only paying any real attention to the call in which Jupiter got damaged.

When he heads out, he finds Sam and Jacob already there waiting for him. "Ready?" he asks. "My car's outside, unless you two are sick me driving you around all night."

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake chuckles, "Well it's either that or the public transport. And since you kept us alive in a fast-moving flying tincan, I have no doubt you'll do the same when we're on the ground." And at worst, I can take the wheel in an emergency.

On the way out, he swings by his locker and puts on his Armor Jacket before going outside - it's always good to be careful.

He says to Sam and Flip, "I know we all have our favorite bars, but it's late and we might live in different parts of town. I'm over in Central myself - near downtown - and I know a few good places there. Though if there's a good one close to here, we can hit that up instead."

[estradling]

Sam

"I'm good with staying with what works. Drive on pilot, lead on tactical." As they move on he asks... "So either of you much into sports?"



OOC: We can fade black here... if you guys want

[dauphinous]

February 4, 2070
Tuesday
Acid rain, visibility 2km, winds gusting to 20km/h

Acid rain, the usual rundown of crime and bad news, and another typical Tuesday slogs by. Some Simsense starlet got caught doing novacoke in front of a cop, which came as no shock to anyone who had heard of her. Same stuff, different day.

Karl and Bernie are there in the garage as usual, and a bunch of the people who were there at the end of the last shift are there again, gearing up.

If he wishes to check up on the repairs to Jupiter, Flip will discover that they were completed in a half hour and the copter had no reported problems during the day shift.

[Bigmac]

Ricco

The training had been pretty brutal, and if he had to see one more badly animated AR visual aid Ricco might have had to knock himself out. At least the briefing wasn't some all day marathon on the new politicaly correct corperate workplace sensitivity awreness and self betterment campaign that was replacing the old program from last quarter. Ricco was glad to leave those behind, for now at least.

After Tessie introduced him to Karl and Bernie, Ricco explained that he had his own equipment and all he needed to check out was ammo. "3 clips of regular and gel for the alpha please, and if you have loose heavy pistol ammo, I could use 6 rounds of gel and 6 rounds of regular for my Rueger. I'd also like to check out 1 flash pack, and 2 each of the other ordance for the grenade luncher."

After getting his gear, Ricco finds a seat and starts to load the ammo into his weapons. He places the gel rounds into the cylinder of his rueger and the regular ammo in his speedloader. Similarly, he slaps a gel clip into his Alpha and then loads up 2 flashbangs, 2 CS, and 2 thermal smoke grenades into the grenade launcher.

Ricco is a large Ork, standing just under 2 meters tall with broad shoulders and thick legs. He's wearing tactical coverlls that with pockets and fasteners aplenty. His dark hair is cropped close to the skin, but is still visable. He sports a well trimmed goatee that does little to hide his lower canines. He has no obvious cyberwear, but a comlink is sewn into his coveralls. He has a large web belt that holds his Warhawk in a quickdraw holster on one hip and a stun baton on the other. He places an extenable baton in one of his pockets before putting his armor jacket on. He then slings the Alpha across his back and moves to pick up his helmet and a small duffel bag next to it.

He looks over to Karl and asks, "Any idea when the rest of my team is going to show up?"

[dauphinous]

"I can accommodate that," Karl nods and hands over the requested gear, scanning Ricco and the gear with his hand as he does so. "They put you on Jupiter? Well, good luck with that." He chuckles, then mutters, "Hope you've got your will updated."

With a vague wave at the door that leads to the tarmac, he says, "Copter is on the #4 circle out there. You can open the door to the copter. They aren't locked. Or you can wait. I can point out the pilot, anyway."


He'll indicate Flip when he arrives if Ricco wants to wait in the garage.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake gets to Doc Wagon on time, figuring he needs about fifteen minutes to do the initial checkin. Storing his own stuff in a locker, he gets his gear, including a newly painted white helmet. He asks for a DW camo suit uniform, an Alpha, 2 Predators and 3 clips of every kind of ammo for them, as well as 2 flashbang and smoke grenades for the Alpha. He also gets some of his own gear and starts putting it in the various pockets on his uniform and organizing it. He also has a bag that he slings over his shoulder before he heads towards the chopper.

Wherever he sees the ork, he'll give him a friendly nod and a, "Heya, how's it going?"

Jacob in on the short side and fairly stocky for a human - the bulk coming from obviously developed muscle. His face is rounded on the bottom, with a wide jaw and his hair is dirty blonde in color. He has green eyes and thin light whiskers.

Alpha - loaded with gel rounds. 2 clips of gel and 3 clips of regular rounds remaining.
Predator 1 - loaded with gel rounds. 2 clips of gel rounds remaining.
Predator 2 - loaded with regular rounds. 2 clips of regular rounds remaining.
3 clips of own Stick n Shock ammo remaining.

Bag:
Respirator (Rating 6)
GPS
10x Plastic Restraints (a single set)
1x Metal Restraint

Karma:
4 for Heavy Weapons 1

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl arrives at 8:39, nearly 20 minutes early for his shift, having caught the 8:12 Tube. He didn't like the next one, for it made nearly late, unless he ran.

Darryl is dressed in used, out of fashion lower class formal wear. Old beat up suit and tie, with a set of prayer beads and cross worn on the outside of the suit. Darryl is 2.2 meters tall and fairly small and scrawny(for a Troll). His greasy brown hair is parted in a straight line down the center of this hear and trimmed to just above his ears.

Darryl smiles, nods, and waves at just about everyone he passes in the Doc Wagon facility, although he doesn't actually know any of them. Darryl checks into the counter to get his weapon and uniform for the night, "Darryl McCoy. Magical Support fur Jupiter. Could I please have a Predator with 1 clip of Gel rounds and a White Doc Wagon Camo suit?" Darryl smiles and looks around, when handed his supplies, he checks the weapon isn't loaded and double checks the safety. He then smiles at the clerk and says, with a thick southern accent, "Thankya."

Darryl steps out of everyones way, struggles into his camo suit, and adjusts his pray beads so they are handy. He also extracts his pocket bible from an inner pocket. He hooks up his commlink and straps the predator into an ankle holster. Once everything seems to be in place, he double checks things, smiles and heads out to where the copter should be.

{{ Did any of my damage heal overnight? 1box physical, 1 box stun }}

Karma Usage

Improved Counterspelling to Rating 4 = 8 Karma.
Acquire Perception at Rating 1 = 4 Karma

[Bigmac]

Ricco

Ricco returns Jacob's nod. "Not bad for a first day so far. Guess your TacSup too? Got any tips or words of advice? I've seen a lot of stuff, but this will be my first time in the air."

Ricco notices that Darryl is headed out toward pad 4. "Looks like I'm in the same bird as that troll over there. I better head on out to the pad and get to know who I'm going to be working with."

[estradling]

Sam

After the quick drink Sam returns to Doc Wagon to get his little Honda Spirit so he can go home.

At home he has just enough to get his daughter ready for school and on her way, before he crashes for the night.
Sleep wasn’t all the restful, his body still needed to adjust to this new time schedule, so he was still quite groggy when she returned. He goes through the motions of helping her with her homework and get dinner. Soon his mom arrives to watch her and Sam knew he needed to be off for another nights work.

Once back at Doc Wagon he requests a Uniform (camosuit) and a predator with gel rounds from the equipment locker. . Once suited up Sam heads for the Jupiter, ahead of him he sees Jacod and an Ork he didn’t know. Both appeared to be walking toward the copter.

Samuel stood about 6 feet tall and was bone thin, his hair was brown and slightly graying. He wore dark glasses that clearly must have some kind of image enhancement otherwise he would be tripping over things in the dark.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake chuckles and walks with Ricco to the pad as he talks, "To be honest, it was my first day yesterday. Far as I can tell, you just got to keep an eye out. I don't know what you've done before, but it's good to remember that everyone out there might be a client, whether they're a ganger or a night shift waitress. Usually when we go in, there are other people who could really use our help and it can be hard to remember that we have to put the specific target we are extracting first, any other identified injured clients on the scene second and everyone else third."

Arriving he waves to Darryl, "Hey - sleep well? Seems like we got a new TacSup - guess Lucky was only a temp." He grins at Ricco and sticks out his hand, "Name's Jacob, but friends call me Jake."

He notices Sam approaching and gives him a friendly wave as well.

[Bigmac]

Ricco returns Jacob's handshake with a frim grip and smiles. "Nice to meet you Jake. I'm Ricardo, but eveyone calls me Ricco or Tex. Never been to Texas, but that's what my guys at Evo liked to call me. DocWagon's SoPs are probably not going to be too different for me. Corporate wanted most runners taken alive if possible. Less paperwork and more answers."

Ricco then extends his hands towards Darryl. "I believe you mentioned that you were the magical support on this bird. Nice to know that we'll have that kind of power if we need it. I've mostly worked with fireteams without the magical support integrated. I'm excited to have you with us tonight."

After he's finished getting to know the others, Ricco will try to get in and familierize himself with Jupiter if it's open.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl yawns at Jacob and says, "Enh. My body coulda done slept fura couple more days, thats fur sure, but them there earthly pleasures do not be furthering of the Lords work. It be best to accept them in moderation."

Darryl looks to Ricco and after shifting his bible to his off hand, he extends it and says, "Darryl. It be an honor to work with another willing to risk his life for those in need." Darryl shift his bible back to his dominant hand and adds, "May the Lord bless you and keep you safe from harm on this night."

Darryl waits outside the copter as long as possible, savoring the feeling of solid ground under his feet. While waiting, Darryl will take a moment to summon some aid for the trials ahead.


Summon Force 3 Spirit of Air.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip had arrived for his duty shift almost an hour early today. His first stop was to check in with Jupiter. Even though the copter was likely not back yet, he at least wanted to take a few minutes to look over the repair logs.

Seeing that all was well there, he headed over and picked up his supplies making his usual equipment requests. With his handful of gear, he headed into the pilot's lounge to hang out until it was time to go. He leans back into the thick padding of the largest and most comfortable chair and watches a few news reports and a few minutes of an old war movie on the trid in the corner.

(Assuming Flip runs into Goose...)

Once Goose gets in from the day shift, he says, "Hey, you oughta give Wags a hard time. You know how the scanner wand that's been missing for awhile now? Well we found it last night, Jupes said it had gotten pushed aside when Wags was "visiting" with a non-employee. Sounds like she had a little fun playing hide the wand in the cockpit." He winks at Goose then adds "Oh, and how'd the copter handle today? The blade took a hit last night, and I wanted to make sure he was working okay."

After Flip's conversation with Goose, he heads out to Jupiter. As he approaches, he sees the others moving in the same direction. "'Lo everyone. Hope ya'll had a good day. I know I did." The spring seems to have returned to his step, something that was missing yesterday morning after having been beaten down by that mage. "Another new guy?" he asks, seeing the ork. "Where's Lucky?" As a matter of course when meeting someone new, Flip lets his vision shift into the astral to give him a quick examination.

Flip stands a little over 6' tall and probably weighs about 180. He has broad shoulders and a bulky frame. He is big and looks pretty tough, but is by no means a body-builder. He has a large round head with a flat nose and wide-set green eyes. On top of his head is a short fuzz of black hair. He wears the white DocWagon suit. Around his waist is a belt from which hang a couple of Ares Predators and an arsenal of 10 grenades.

Karma Usage
I believe we are up to twelve now, correct?
First a couple of Knowledge skills I realized I probably should have invested in from the start.
DocWagon Procedures 3 (7 points)
LoneStar Procedures 1 (2 points)

And add a specialization in Pilot Aircraft (Rotary Wing) (Or whatever category the Ares Dragon would fall into, if I'm wrong.) (2 points)

Leaving me with 1 karma, unless I've made a mistake.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake smiles at Ricco, "Good to meetcha. Darryl's been real helpful in several situations - without him, we would all have been far worse off." He responds to Flip, as the pilot approaches, "Yeah, I had a pretty good day. Had to call my folks to get them off my back, but that was fine. They really just can't stop worrying."

He sighs and shakes his head. "Well, enough about that. You know Flip, I figured you would know what happened to Lucky, being the veteran and all. But we should probably get going soon and talk more in the chopper."

Jake is getting into the chopper and taking his usual seat next to the door, starting to buckle in. He invites Ricco into their private commchannel and sends out a comm message to everyone:

[Alright. Ricco, welcome to the our little private area network. I'm sure you can see how it's useful. Flip, if you don't mind I'd like to get the Star feeds running to my comm again.]

At exactly the shift start time, Jacob starts his eyes recording, saving the data to another file, named 'DocWagonRentonJacobVisual_02'.

[dauphinous]

Goose is in the lounge, looking like she just woke up from a nap when Flip gets there. Sinclair is there, talking to her about something that is apparently funny, because he's at least grinning. Sinclair is a flyboy of the Top Gun variety, complete with cocky expression, short spiky hair, and mirrored protective eye covers. "-was great. Sponged it all up." Both look up with Flip enters. "Hey, Flip. Have you met the new pilot? Frank. Needs some serious hazing. Brachial said they're calling him 'HotDog'."

Goose, an elf woman with short brown hair and hazel eyes who is always chewing gum of some kind, makes a slightly bemused, but thoroughly disgusted, face at what Flip has to tell her. "That's gross. Some of us have to sit there to work. Geez. And here I thought you were just spilling soda on the armrest sometimes."

---

The copter door is not locked and opens easily. Everything is wiped down and clean. There is a post-it note stuck to one of the seats that has a lip print in hot pink lipstick on it.

Darryl:2 services, 1 box of stun

[estradling]

Sam

When given the chance Sam introduces himself to the new guy. Then he enters Jupiter and is about to take his seat when he notices the post it note. He normally sat in the seat next to the drop down med table, it wasn't on that seat. "Well... well... well... Looks like somebody got a new friend."

While they really didn't have assigned seating, Sam did see Lucky in that seat more often then not.

All kidding aside Sam begins to double check the med supplies, and finds the sensor wand right where he left it.

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Seeing as the team is assembled and seemingly ready to go, Darryl hops in and buckles himself securely into his designated seat.

[Magical Support - Good to go]

[Bigmac]

Ricco slips into the copter and finds a seat neer the door. He pulls a respirator out of his bag and puts it over his mouth before putting his helmet on. He then pulls out a handheld sensor out of his bag and holds it up in the air for a few moments before putting it in one of his pockets and storing the bag underneath his seat.

[Thanks for linking me into the network. Jacob, you got protection in case I need to pop off a few crybabies? I find they're pretty effective at dispersing a rowdy crowd.]

Using my atmospheric sensor (rating 3) to try and get an idea on how the weather's going to be tonight.

[dariathalon]

Flip

"Complain to your girl Wags, not to me," Flip tells Goose with a grin. He then turns to Sinclair, "Haven't set eyes on him yet, though ya oughta go pretty easy on him. I saw some of his tricky flying yesterday on the feeds and he seems to have earned his stripes already."

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Flip climbs into the pilot's seat begins to get ready for take-off. [Morning Jupiter. Seems like they got you all fixed up after last night.] While getting things going he patches the LoneStar feeds to Jacob's comm.

Once everything is ready to go on his end, he turns in his seat to talk through the glass partition. "Kinda odd about the lipstick. There is an all-girl team that uses Jupiter ahead of us. Maybe that's their way of flirting with ya, Sam." He shrugs then adds, "or it might be a clue about where Lucky got off to. Dispatch doesn't keep us too informed about their personnel changes, could just be they're trying to find a team that'll work well together. Now unless anybody speaks up, Jupiter is ready to go."

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl turns to Flip and says, "Yeet, muchas I'd love to stay on that there ground, we can't help no one if'n we don't take off. Dat and they be paying us to fly, not to sit 'round and jabber."

Darryl's tummy grumbles. Dang, I knew I forgot something. Boy, could I go for some chicken and dumplings. Maybe I can get Raphael to pick me up something.

[dauphinous]

8:55pm

[Welcome to Tuesday night, Flip. Adjusting seat to your specifications. It's a little windy today.]

Jupiter is the second copter to lift off, a few minutes after Midnight (the E&S team). Excalibur (pilot - Merlin) is hanging out in the middle of Renton tonight.

[Incoming message from Excalibur]
[Rush hour was a bitch tonight. One right after another, stacked and racked from about 5 on. All quiet for the past hour or so, though, and Renton is all yours, Flip.]

[estradling]

Sam

[EMT - Good to go] He chuckles abit a Flips comment, "Ha, I wish. That would imply that they know that I exist. I didn't even have a full shift for my first day on the job yesterday. More likely it was for Lucky or maybe it was some kind of get well, good luck for Syber" Not really meaning to take the conversion to a more serious subject like Syber, Sam falls silent

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

As Darryl finishes getting strapped in, he realizes the full extent of what Samuel was saying. He then says, "They send the whole team out as women? Why would they?" Darryl suddenly looks down at the seat and squirms, struggling against the harness.

Please Lord forgive me. I have not forgotten my Leviticus.. Chapter 15 ... if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days ... And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean...

Darryl suddenly starts to wipe his hands off on his uniform. And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. Darryl sighs. I need to buy seat covers.

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake takes a quick look at the lipsticked message. After he is done perusing it, he pulls out a respirator from his bag and holds it up, grinning at Ricco. He says, "These things always smell funny - I'll put it on before we go out. Just remember - you don't want to gas the client."

Hearing the others speculate on the note, he chimes in, "He, I wouldn't mind flying with all girls, no offense to any of you. Speaking of which, Flip, you know what happened to, uh... what's her name, Bubbles? She get assigned to a different team?" While speaking, he finishes strapping in and gives Flip a thumbs up, indicating his readiness.

[dariathalon]

Flip

Flip slowly pulls Jupiter into the air. [Thanks, hopefully that means we're in for a slow night. Who am I kidding, in this job, when it rains it pours. Have a nice night.] Flip replies to Excalliber's pilot.

Turning his attention back to his teammates, Flip says, "I haven't heard a thing about her. Maybe next time I talk to someone from the Awakened First Responders I'll check around. They might know. Speaking of which, I've got a question been meaning to ask a couple of you. DocWagon sponsers a magical group for its awakened first responders. Sam, Darryl, you interested? There's a lodge up on the roof and we basically just try to help each other out when and however we can."

[estradling]

Sam

A Doc Wagon Magic group? That could be very interesting, "Thanks for the info Flip. I'll have to check into them at the end of the shift. Just one question. Who is Bubbles?"

[lawful_evil]

Darryl

Darryl began his prayers the moment the copter took off. He pauses briefly to inquire, "Group? This one of them there prayer groups? Ah might try that, but I've awways found dat speakin to the Lord be a personal thing."

[Newbie101]

Jacob

Jake grins at Sam and sends a picture to everyone's commlink, "That's Bubbles. She was almost assigned to this crew, but was switched out at the last moment."

The picture is of a drop-dead gorgeous woman with high cheekbones and her blonde hair in a ponytail. She seems to be blowing a kiss towards the camera. She is wearing shades and a DocWagon jumpsuit that is slightly unzipped towards the top. The picture is of the top half of her, which is enough to demonstrate that she has the pleasant curves to go with her good looks.

[estradling]

Sam

Looking at the picture he grins, "I begin to 'see' the interest in this Bubbles. I'd..." What he was going to say gets cut off as his comlink buzzes for attention.

[Incoming Call -- From Home] With a bit of a concerned look he says, "Excuse me got to take this."

Answering the call a video image of a young girl appears in his glasses, [Hi Daddy!] her face lights up when she sees him

[Suzie, your suppose to be in bed, asleep.]

[But I couldn't sleep, because you forgot to read me a story.] she gives a little pout at this

Sam hand can be see to go up and rub his temple [Right, I did. Sorry Honey, Daddy is still getting used to this job]

[Its ok daddy. Grandma let me call and asked you to read to me, if I promised to go right to sleep after we were done, or if you were to busy. Are you to busy for me daddy?] She had her mothers nack for pushing all his buttons.

[Now seems ok, but we could get a call at any time. If that happens we have to stop. Ok?]

She was already pulling up the electronic book she wanted, [OK!]

Sam spends the next while reading 'Thomas the Magical Kangaroo.' to his daughter over the commlink

[dariathalon]

Flip

"Nah, not exactly a prayer group. We try to work on our magic potential. It's a pretty relaxed environment. Shamans do their own things, so do hermetics, adepts, et cetera. I suppose for people like you it might take the form of a prayer group or something. Join up and do what you can to help the others and I'm sure you'd find some people willing to pray with you if that's what you need," Flip replies to Darryl, not exactly sure how Darryl's magic works. It seems to work okay though, and that's the important thing.

[dauphinous]

9:05pm

The waiting begins in earnest once the copter reaches the standby point. The Star feeds are full of domestic disturbances, noise violations, and routine check-ins. In short, it looks like the night is pretty dull right now.

Air traffic is thicker than sludge tonight, with the airspace over Renton choked up with drones. This is a common happening during acid rainstorms, as people hire out drones to handle things they might ordinarily take care of themselves.

[Bigmac]

Ricco

Opening the picture of Bubbles Ricco begins to think of a few possibilities before putting them out of his mind. She probably didn't like Orcs anyway.

Ricco checks his equipment while he waits for something to happen. He readjusts the strap on his Ares Alpha to give it a little more leeway. He'd use it to brace his off arm while firing if he ended up needed a little extra accuracy. He checks his atmospheric sensor again, hopeing that it might portent an early end to the rain. Maybe the rain was a good thing, keeping people inside and safe instead of out on the streets and in trouble.