Worse Than the Disease IC

[Shoot Da Moon]

Richard eliminates his target with a shot to the body. The raider drops, leaving only the snipers as the only active fighters against the exiles.

A slaver in cover shoot a flare into the sky.

The snipers in the trees take aim again, ominously eager.

Bart the Hunter keeps his dogs close, now taking aim at a sniper with his previous target dead.

(OC: range penalty to shoot the snipers is -8.)

TURN 6

Sean suddenly feels very cold...Probably just the fear.

[u-b]

"Richard, yous is the right one too." Says Sean as he aims at the left sniper.

[GnomesofZurich2]

Tariq lies on the ground and tries very hard to not die. He was not expecting snipers!

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Do Nothing, Tariq succeeds in overcoming Stun.

[Volthawk]

Richard nods when he hears Sean, aiming at his target. Hopefully Tariq can hang in there for now while they dealt with this.

[u-b]

Not quite trusting his aim, but not willing to spend more time, Bart makes two shots at the right sniper. This mostly goes wide.

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One hit is potentially on-target. If attacked by the snipers, Sean and Bart will use dodge with drop and extra effort.

[Shoot Da Moon]

The right sniper spoils his aim attempting to dodge the shot, but fails. He gets clipped on the side of his body.

The other sniper continues to squint through his scope.

One bad guy shakes off the stun grenade. He moves into cover.

The dogs growl and bark.

TURN 7

[u-b]

Sean shoots a long burst at the sniper and is barely able to get any rounds on-target.

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Firing 9 fullets at the guy, one potential hit. Bart will aim again.

[Shoot Da Moon]

The sniper practically lines himself up in front of Sean's rifle barrel.

He falls out of the tree, dead.

(OC: which sniper did you shoot, Sean? The left or the right? Richard, your turn now.)

[GnomesofZurich2]

Tariq continues to lie very still, on the theory that if he isn't moving, no one will try to shoot him again.

(OC: Figured I would post so you aren't waiting later. He's continuing to Do Nothing for the time being.)

[Volthawk]

Richard follows suit with a burst from his rifle at the other sniper.

[Shoot Da Moon]

The sniper manages to squirm away from one bullet, but not the second in Richard's burst. The bad guy slumps over, too injured to keep killing.

And then the dogs snarl sharply in one direction, howling to grab the exiles' attention.
Bart says, "They smell someone. Hostile. They're trying to creep up on us."

Bart scans the horizon, on alert for sneaky bad guys.

TURN 8

[u-b]

"Release the bastards." says Sean, turning in the direction that occupies the dogs' attention and getting a loaded magazine out of a front pocket.

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Reloading 1/3.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Out of the corner of his eye, Sean notices a weird lump on the ground in the direction the dogs are barking at. He realises that someone is crawling on the ground there, covered in camouflage to match the outdoors. How long was the enemy hiding there?

[u-b]

"There! Five yards!"

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Not sure if Sean has enough action left to warn anyone:
1. Talking is a free action.
2. Sean has already talked.
3. But he has not talked much.
4. But one second is not much either.

I will remove this post if it would be over the limit. If Bart can get the dogs going, they will probably move and attack, maybe even from both sides at once.

[Shoot Da Moon]

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Not sure if Sean has enough action left to warn anyone:
1. Talking is a free action.
2. Sean has already talked.
3. But he has not talked much.
4. But one second is not much either.

I will remove this post if it would be over the limit. If Bart can get the dogs going, they will probably move and attack, maybe even from both sides at once.

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Sean gets off the warning. Richard, Tariq and Bart now knows where the enemy is. Bart will roll Animal Handling when the Dog's turn comes around.

[Volthawk]

Upon hearing Sean's warning, Richard turns and fires a burst at where Sean indicated.

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HT doesn't mention anything about camo suits affecting attack rolls, so I think I have the modifiers right, let me know if I'm missing somethere there.

Ammo-wise (since Sean reloading made me double-check before attacking), Richard's got 5 rounds left after the initial 5-round burst at the campfire enemies, two single shots at one of the survivors, a three-shot burst at one of the snipers and this 5-round burst.

[Shoot Da Moon]

The rattle of the gunfire fills the air and hurts some ears, as Richard slaughters his target.

(OC: Tariq? Probably not doing much, yeah?)

The dogs are still barking...Bart stays alert.

[GnomesofZurich2]

The rattle of the gunfire fills the air and hurts some ears, as Richard slaughters his target.

(OC: Tariq? Probably not doing much, yeah?)

The dogs are still barking...Bart stays alert.

Tariq continues to lie as motionless as possible, while really trying to distract himself from the pain, thinking to himself, "well, at least those were some lovely explosions..."

(OC: Yes, for the foreseeable future Tariq is going to lie there and try not to die. This will change if something threatening comes close.)

[Shoot Da Moon]

The enemy still stunned fails to clear his head.

Then another camouflaged bad guy reveals himself, but taking a shot at Sean, and just missing.

Bart has his dogs move and attack the hidden enemies. They split off from the exiles, and go forth, fangs bared.
One attacks the bad guy who just fired his gun. The dog chews on his shoulder, causing him to yelp in pain.
The other goes the other way...and attacks another hiding bad guy! The dog bites him, too.

TURN 9

[u-b]

Sean drops the drawn magazine and shoots at the man with the revolver.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Sean manages to keep his weapon stable, and he blasts the prone enemy straight in the heart, taking him off the board in a single stroke.

(OC: Sorry about the delay. Enemy down. Richard, it is your turn now.)

[Volthawk]

Richard turns to the other man exposed by the dogs, emptying the clip into him. At least he still had his pistol in case more came while they reloaded.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Richard's wrath easily turns the would-be ambusher into a bad memory.

(OC: Bad guys spending their last Tactics benefit.)

Tariq stays down, trying to ignore the pain.

The one standing bad guy fails to recover from the stun grenade.

The dogs stay by the exiles, sniffing.

Bart aims at the standing man.

TURN 10

[u-b]

As the dogs seem to calm down, Sean stops expecting more people creeping on him right now and decides he could as well deal with the last person seen before reloading for the second wave. He aims at the stunned man.

[Volthawk]

Seeing that Sean's handling the last guy up, and given his rifle's now completely empty, Richard starts to reload.

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1/2, I suppose, with the Fast-Draw roll shaving the second needed to get the new magazine out.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Tariq feels the pain lessen a little. That could a good sign, or the cold, or maybe he is dying...

The stunned enemy in the camp fails to recover in time.

Bart shoots him, and he drops like a sack of dirt.

(OC: Combat time is over. For now, there are still enemies alive, but not actively fighting. They are in cover. That was 10 seconds of fighting, so everyone loses FP equal to their encumbrance level due to stress and violence.)

[u-b]

Sean reloads the rifle and before doing anything else, tells Bart to cover him and carefully moves to get Tariq out to safety. Specifically, he's seen Tariq stepping over something, so he examines what that is and what it triggers, then steps over it, picks up Tariq, then steps over the thing on his way back and places Tariq on the ground behind some cover (a tree or a hump) where he would be safe from the trap and can be evacuated just by dragging. Bart, meanwhile, keeps observing the scene and reloads the rounds, one by one.

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Would like to know what the trap is before doing anything else. Rolled a 13 vs the effective skill of 15.

Also, about the cabin:
1. How large it is?
2. Which way is the door?
3. Any windows?

[Shoot Da Moon]

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Would like to know what the trap is before doing anything else. Rolled a 13 vs the effective skill of 15.

Also, about the cabin:
1. How large it is?
2. Which way is the door?
3. Any windows?

The tripwire that Tariq avoided was hooked up to a noisemaker. Sean also notices other tripwires, and camouflaged bear traps set in the edges of the camp.

The cabin is large enough to boast four rooms, so it's basically a small house by Old World suburbs standards. The door is facing the exiles, but there are probably at least one more. The windows on the cabins seem to be closed and covered, two on the side facing the exiles.

[Volthawk]

Richard makes his way to the clearing, using Sean's observations to avoid the traps he'd noticed, heading towards the people in cover but not fighting. He didn't like the idea of them being around and unsecured while the exiles finished their business here, particularly since he was expecting slaver reinforcements soon - one of them had gotten a flare off in the fight, so if there were any more of them outside of the camp odds were that they were on the way here.

[Shoot Da Moon]

Richard notices the men in the cover are moving around behind the stones, keeping their heads down.

(OC: Richard, you need to roll either Per-based Traps OR Tactics.)