Worse Than the Disease IC

[GnomesofZurich2]

Tariq backs up towards the ladder, ready to throw himself out of the path of the water sprayer should the guy attack.

(OC: AoD: Dodge)

[Shoot Da Moon]

The bad guy keeps advancing up the stairs, apparently trying to make sure Tariq is in range of his weapon.

Bart the Hunter keeps scanning the area, ordering his dogs to sniff for threats.

TURN 3

(OC: Sean, your turn.)

[u-b]

Sean is about to roll the grenade onto the stairs, but waits for Tariq to clear some more distance. "How many?"

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Taking the Wait maneiver. Will Attack the ladder right after Tariq moves.

[Volthawk]

From his cover outside, Richard waits for the others to appear, ready to fire if they're joined by any of the mutants.

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Wait action, turning it into an Attack if a mutant appears in Richard's view.

[GnomesofZurich2]

Sean is about to roll the grenade onto the stairs, but waits for Tariq to clear some more distance. "How many?"

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Taking the Wait maneiver. Will Attack the ladder right after Tariq moves.

Tariq continues backing up, saying, "One on the stairs with some sort of sprayer, four or five more backed off when I pulled out the grenade."

(OC: AoD: Dodge, again).

[Shoot Da Moon]

The bad guys moves up another 5 yards, reaching the top of the stairs and onto the landing.

(OC: Sean, you catch sight of the bad guy.)

Bart the Hunter, figuring Richard has him covered, moves across the yard and heads toward the gate.

TURN 4

(OC: Sean...)

[u-b]

Sean grabs the rifle, lifts it at the line of aiming and shoots two bullets straight through the mutant's heart. Then he steps out of the doorway.

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After Tariq's turn the grenage will bo bang on the stairs. If he's still within 10 yards at the time, he will be affected.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Sean grabs the rifle, lifts it at the line of aiming and shoots two bullets straight through the mutant's heart. Then he steps out of the doorway.

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After Tariq's turn the grenage will bo bang on the stairs. If he's still within 10 yards at the time, he will be affected.

The flashbang explodes on the stairs, shattering the gloom.
The aggressive dweller with the water sprayer does not see Sean, and pays for his bloody-minded inattentiveness with his life. His limp figure falls down the stairs, trailing his heart's blood.

(OC: Combat over. ~50 seconds left. Tariq, roll self-control to resist the temptation to throw a grenade down the stairs into the ground floor.)

[GnomesofZurich2]

The flashbang explodes on the stairs, shattering the gloom.
The aggressive dweller with the water sprayer does not see Sean, and pays for his bloody-minded inattentiveness with his life. His limp figure falls down the stairs, trailing his heart's blood.

(OC: Combat over. ~50 seconds left. Tariq, roll self-control to resist the temptation to throw a grenade down the stairs into the ground floor.)

<sigh> Tariq is dissatisfied with the last encounter, and pulls the pin on the grenade he's holding to fling it down the stairs, like someone coming back to an argument an hour later, saying, "...and another thing!"

[u-b]

Sean steps back into the doorway to observe the scene again after the flashbang has faded and entertaining a plan to get that sprayer to later take a better look at contents or some such. He sees Tariq not quite just leaving and spends a whole second trying to unerstand the situation and connect Tariq's report of just one mutant, which is now one dead mutant, with Tariq's action of taking the pin out and... Oh, ****!

"No-no-no, Tariq, no!" Exclaims Sean when he finally connects it, but by that time Tariq is already on the verge of throwing the granede, not leaving much time to argue. "Goddamit!" Says Sean seeing the grenade is thrown. He then takes the ladder as fast as he's able and tries to clear come distance from the wall of the building by the time of the bang.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Tariq feels a warmth in his chest as he watches the ground floor landing erupt in hellfire. The blast drowns out all other sound, as he can't tell if anyone got caught in the boom. They're all out of sight, and he can not hear their screams.

(OC: What's the damage roll on that grenade?)

Then he follows Sean out to the ladder.
A few more seconds later, all the exiles have regrouped in the yard outside the building. The gate is still wrecked, open by default.

About 45 seconds left, Tariq guesses...
Bart the Hunter straightens up as his dogs start barking furiously. They smell something bad...

[GnomesofZurich2]

Tariq feels a warmth in his chest as he watches the ground floor landing erupt in hellfire. The blast drowns out all other sound, as he can't tell if anyone got caught in the boom. They're all out of sight, and he can not hear their screams.

(OC: What's the damage roll on that grenade?)

Then he follows Sean out to the ladder.
A few more seconds later, all the exiles have regrouped in the yard outside the building. The gate is locked, but it should be easier to disable from this side.

About 45 seconds left, Tariq guesses...
Bart the Hunter straightens up as his dogs start barking furiously. They smell something bad...

Tariq feels a bit more satisfied now, it always brings a bit of joy to his heart seeing one of his explosives go off, although he notes that he's running low.

[u-b]

Sean takes the dogs' reaction very seriously. He takes a good look at where they seem to be barking and, depending on whether there is something clearly animate that way, prepares for combat or leads the group further away from the building, making sure it is not downwind.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Sean spots men skulking on rooftops of neighboring buildings, scanning the yard and the exiles with binoculars. They are dressed in black and carry weapons. He also notices that there are men inside the ground floor of the building, trying to remove the barricades to entrances, obviously attempting to get out to the yard to fight the exiles. The dogs are mostly barking towards the building.

[u-b]

Sean gets to the outer side of the wall as quickly as possible. He stops just next to the wrecked gate, safe from the attacks originating inside the yard or from the building that he has just left. Not so safe from the attacks from the surrounding buildings. While thus relocating, he talks and observes. "Inside first floor in the care of Tariq and Bart. Richard and I taking the outside roofs." This was plan A. Sean would like a better plan B, but nothing else comes to mind at the moment. While thinking of this, Sean crouches a little and aims at a guy on the roof, wondering if he can take him out before he ducks out of sight...

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That would be a lot of action given the situation. I'd say at least three rounds if not more. If the guy does not duck, Sean's shooting next round. He uses iron sights.

I'd like the distances, both to the inside guys and to the outside guys. Also, the counts. Probably nothing good on that tactics roll.

[Volthawk]

Having already taken cover from the building the others were in as a part of the retreat, Richard focuses on any enemies he'd still be exposed to from his current position.

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Would also like to know where the enemies are, and how many Richard isn't in cover from. Action-wise, aiming while the others get into position and then shooting, exact details depending on the aforementioned information.

[GnomesofZurich2]

Tariq will look around to see what has alerted the others, and readies his grenade launcher.

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Is he able to see the men on the surrounding buildings' roofs?

[Shoot Da Moon]

Having already taken cover from the building the others were in as a part of the retreat, Richard focuses on any enemies he'd still be exposed to from his current position.

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Would also like to know where the enemies are, and how many Richard isn't in cover from. Action-wise, aiming while the others get into position and then shooting, exact details depending on the aforementioned information.

(OC: The enemies in the building first floor seem to be 5-7 in number. Hiding next to the walls of the yard covers out completely from the guys on roofs.)

Sean gets to the outer side of the wall as quickly as possible. He stops just next to the wrecked gate, safe from the attacks originating inside the yard or from the building that he has just left. Not so safe from the attacks from the surrounding buildings. While thus relocating, he talks and observes. "Inside first floor in the care of Tariq and Bart. Richard and I taking the outside roofs." This was plan A. Sean would like a better plan B, but nothing else comes to mind at the moment. While thinking of this, Sean crouches a little and aims at a guy on the roof, wondering if he can take him out before he ducks out of sight...

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That would be a lot of action given the situation. I'd say at least three rounds if not more. If the guy does not duck, Sean's shooting next round. He uses iron sights.

I'd like the distances, both to the inside guys and to the outside guys. Also, the counts. Probably nothing good on that tactics roll.

(OC: The enemies in the building first floor are Range penalty -7. Darkness penalty -4. Guys on roofs are Range penalty -13. 5 seconds have passed.)

(OC: Tariq, you can see the men on the roofs. Range penalty -13.)

[u-b]

Sean shoots at a guy on the roof. Then he starts aiming at some other guy there, this time he uses the scope. He is prepared to switch to other targets if everyone on the roof takes cover.

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1 sec: shot
3 sec: aim (to be aborted if no targets in sight)

Expecting Bart to shot at least once, with darkness -1 because of collimating sight.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Sean's shot hits the mark and takes out the observer on the rooftop. Everyone else on the rooftops all immediately duck out of sight, panicking at the gunfire.

In the meantime, the men inside the ruin dismantle half of the barricade over the entrance.

Bart the Hunter fires his shotgun at one of them.
(OC: Players, roll for Bart, you have the full stats for the shotgun. Guns Skill-13. Light cover -2, darkness -1, range -7, +Acc+2, +1 AoA. I believe the damage is slug, 5d Pi++?)

[Volthawk]

Once he sees the others are ready, Richard starts firing, a burst from his rifle joining Sean's against the mutants on the roof, before he flicks on his rifle's torch and starts firing bursts at the mutants demolishing the barricade.

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OK, going pretty fast on combat time here, and I hadn't done actions yet since I was waiting for an answer in OOC, so catching up with Richard's actions now. Given that my question about the flashlight got no response from the GM, assuming the worst case scenario - that turning it on is an action, and turning it on in the middle of an aim->fire sequence is no good.

So Richard was firing when Sean got to cover, I suppose at the same time Sean fired, will roll that in a second. Targeting one of the roof mutants (since this was before they dropped out of sight), full aim but also full penalties.

Since then, there's been three seconds (the time covered by the last two posts since Sean's attack, going off u-b's last post). Richard will turn on the flashlight in one second, aim for a second at one of the mutants demolishing the barricade, and then fire as an All-Out Attack with the third. The barricade enemies may have to roll to avoid being blinded by the light (as it's a Tactical Light, HT52, if they look directly at the light - so looking at Richard, I suppose - they need to make a HT-4 test or be blinded for 10 seconds times the margin of failure).

Over the next two seconds (the ones Sean's spending observing), Richard's going to do another aim+AoO at a barricade mutant (same target as the first one if it didn't drop them, and assuming they don't pull back enough after the first attacj that he can't get a second).

[GnomesofZurich2]

Tariq decides the mutants demolishing the barricade are a much more immediate threat, and aims his grenade launcher at them.

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He will Aim for 3 turns, and then take a Wait maneuver to trigger when they break-through, because he doesn't want his grenades to help them demolish the barricades.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Bart fires his shotgun at one of the men in the building, dismantling the barricade. He hits, and the target eats a slug right in the chest. The target drops out of sight immediately.

Once he sees the others are ready, Richard starts firing, a burst from his rifle joining Sean's against the mutants on the roof, before he flicks on his rifle's torch and starts firing bursts at the mutants demolishing the barricade.

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OK, going pretty fast on combat time here, and I hadn't done actions yet since I was waiting for an answer in OOC, so catching up with Richard's actions now. Given that my question about the flashlight got no response from the GM, assuming the worst case scenario - that turning it on is an action, and turning it on in the middle of an aim->fire sequence is no good.

So Richard was firing when Sean got to cover, I suppose at the same time Sean fired, will roll that in a second. Targeting one of the roof mutants (since this was before they dropped out of sight), full aim but also full penalties.

Since then, there's been three seconds (the time covered by the last two posts since Sean's attack, going off u-b's last post). Richard will turn on the flashlight in one second, aim for a second at one of the mutants demolishing the barricade, and then fire as an All-Out Attack with the third. The barricade enemies may have to roll to avoid being blinded by the light (as it's a Tactical Light, HT52, if they look directly at the light - so looking at Richard, I suppose - they need to make a HT-4 test or be blinded for 10 seconds times the margin of failure).

Over the next two seconds (the ones Sean's spending observing), Richard's going to do another aim+AoO at a barricade mutant (same target as the first one if it didn't drop them, and assuming they don't pull back enough after the first attacj that he can't get a second).

Richard feels the recoil in his arms as he lets it rip. A man on the rooftops is hit and goes down in bloody twisting.
The attackers behind the barricade and inside the ruin fare no better against his wrath. One is shot in the heart and falls down. Then he fires again, and takes out another man.

The 2 remaining ruins dwellers get the hint, and quickly abandon the entrance barricade, dropping out of sight and into the depths of the building.

Tariq decides the mutants demolishing the barricade are a much more immediate threat, and aims his grenade launcher at them.

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He will Aim for 3 turns, and then take a Wait maneuver to trigger when they break-through, because he doesn't want his grenades to help them demolish the barricades.

Tariq stands on guard, eyeing the now empty barricades. He times the countdown as 35-30 seconds left.

[u-b]

Sean takes another look for targets of opportunity, then he looks for a building to storm next. Preferably one which is neither downwind nor has all entrances barricaded. When he chooses, or fails to choose, such a building, he makes another scan for the mutants.

Assuming the fighting directed inside does not resume in that time, and no targets are seen, he says "Mine side is clear. Let's go."

[Volthawk]

Richard returns his focus to the other rooftops, sweeping his light across them as he keeps alert for anyone confident enough to get back in sight. "Let's wait for the bombs to go off in this building before we move on to another. Probably going to get some survivors coming out here, and if they still have some fight in them, I'd rather not have mutants from behind and in front at the same time."

[GnomesofZurich2]

Tariq says, "I'm ready to blast any mutants coming out from those barricades - they don't much in the way of good choices here."

[Shoot Da Moon]

All is quite enough, no more people present themselves - in the ruin or on the rooftops.

Sean, Richard, Tariq and Bart scan the area without any threats approaching them.

The dogs return to Bart's side, now calm.

30 seconds later, the room in the building's upper floor explodes in a massive fireball. It quickly wrecks the place, spreading a huge fire...

[GnomesofZurich2]

Tariq really tries to hold his concentration on the barricades and the possibility of mutants breaking out, but he is significantly distracted by the explosion and flames, losing sight of his objective for the moment. In a hushed voice, "So beautiful..."

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Failed a Pyromania roll, 16 on self-control 12. I figure this cancels his Wait maneuver and Aim.

[u-b]

Sean also observes the scenery, if only with a more practical intent. "I think the generator indeed fell all the way down and the fire might be enough to finish the building. Good work, Tariq. I think we are sort of done here, unless we want to observe it to the end, which might be fun, but not very practical as far as getting out of town after that is concerned." Sean goes around the corner of the wall to loot the guy that was the first casualty of the party's attack and then plans to take the group with him on his way out of town.

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If we stay to watch, I would suggest taking control of some other building. This would probably increase the probability and/or severity of an ambush on our way out.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Walking back to the man they killed, Sean finds the corpse has been looted while the exiles were in the building. It has been stripped naked, even, exposing the horrid deformed body under the clothes. The guard was a mutant, closely resembling those who attacked the Waffle House.