Tigers, Vampires, Zombies And Metroids...Of Death!

sd - Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 4:00 PM

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) has the Contact Sebastian L. Coffman with the following information:
----—> Contact for Cassidy (#2908) <----
Contact Name: Sebastian L. Coffman
Level: 1
Type: johnson
GM Note: Sebastian is a CAS prosecuting attorney who is part of a secret CAS organization that seems to be taking the law into it's own hands. He may offer work


----------—[ Shadowrun Denver ]—-
==========================> Current Denver Weather <===========================

Condition : Mostly cloudy

Temperature : 82 F (27 C)
Feels Like : 82 F (27 C)

Humidity : 32 %
Barometer : 30.14

Visibility : 70 miles
Wind : 9 mph from E

----> Last Updated: Jun 24 2069 16:35 CST <----

It's a rather hot day in Denver, 80 some degrees, and the pollution index is off the charts. On the news, there are reporters going on about Archer Designs CFO Jeffrey Wilson being found dead, and kids in the street are playing with broken fire hydrants. The city itself hums and heaves with metahuman life, as people go about their day and do what they can to survive, or get ahead. The dog eat dog attitude of Denver can also be found in the forms of hobos begging for change, schoolgirls giving handjobs for crack, and the always exciting life of a wageslave, working for THE MAN and doing whatever THE MAN demands to ensure you have both a 401K and Dental for your child andyour spouses two kids from a previous one night stand with a minority.

On this particular day, Cassidy can be found at the Silver Lotus Temple in Asian Town, but is now called AWESOMEtown by it's residents. He is currently in the bell area, reflecting on previous events and past battles, lightly meditating, or could be napping. It's never quite clear with him. But soon has his concentration broken when his phone begins to ring. "Eh?" he says, and proceeds to answer it.

"Sid! It's Coffman. Look buddy, we got a golden opportunity to get some dirt on those Renraku fellas. I need you to get some sort of photographic evidence of this…thing. I've provided some equipment at the usual drop and I need you to do this as another favor to me. I'll see if I can get you some money from another source, but this can't get back to me. I'm sending the information now…oh, and if you have a magical buddy, I suggest bringing them. Ok? Be seeing ya!"

With that, the CAS P.A hangs up, leaving Cassidy to think over his options. "Hmmm.."

With that, he opens his phone and dials Nine!

Nine was just finishing up with a patient at the FFoS facility clinic, and she pulls off one glove with the snap of latex, and then the other glove with a similar sound. She tosses those in the trash and then tells the assistant that they are to monitor the patient for any signs of wakefulness and to tell them that they need to eat more healthy because the cholesterol in their blood vessels nearly gave them a stroke on the table, but Nine managed to work through it with some simple healthy glow to improve circulation. Probably, the young magi would state such a thing with a much better bedside manner, but she would not be the one telling the patient these things, so she figured the resident could figure it out for themselves. She moves out of the room while weaving up some sterilization spell, and then she gets to her greatcoat just as her grey #9 pocket secretary begins to ring.

Some classic instrumental beats, taken from "The Message" by GrandMaster Flash, begin playing softly in the dark-grey Pocket Secretary that Nine Lives owns.

Nine pulls the device free from a pocket and quickly answers the phone, "Hoi? This is Nine Lives speaking. How can I assist you this fine afternoon?"

Cassidy answers, Nine. It's Sid. We have work to do, I'm getting the information now, but you need to gear up, and I'll come pick you up in about fifteen. Are you available?" he asks.

Nine answers with her usual quiet tone in which she generally speaks, "Aye, I am. Gear up? Is this urban camo time, or is this FFBA with greatcoat time?" she asks curiously while moving around and heading out of the fac to to the asylum, as she has quite the selection of armor from which to choose now.

As Nine asks her questions, Sid gets a little envelope in the bottom left corner of his vision, indicating that he has recieved a new message in his arm computer. A few moments go by and he inspects the contents of the email. The message gives a street address and a set of instructions: "Inside Utility Junction box on third lightpole." theres some other information where Sebastian reiterates how this cannot get back to him, blah blah blah, your a good helper, blah blah blah, new shoes, castration, the good stuff. The asian scrolls to the bottom and he's given the basic premise of the mission. Somewhere in Undertown, deep in the maze of subway tunnels have been reported the last known location of a somewhat experimental creature that has escaped from a Renraku lab. Theres more information, but Cassidy decides to just tell Nine.

"9up, I don't really know. It doesn't sound that bad. Were supposed to take a picture of….some sights and scenery in UnderTown. Given that the area is fairly dangerous, I would suggest something with a good level of defense."

Nine replies, "Ok! I will be ready and waiting your arrival, Big Daddy. If you do not see me at first for some reason, a watcher spirit will find me!"

Nine hurries to her Cell #7, only holding the phone to hear if Cassidy has anything else to say, but if she gets there before he does, she puts him on speaker phone while she strips down and gets her Half Suit of FFBA on.

Cassidy nods absent-mindedly, "ok. Leaving now." he hangs up the phone and indeed proceed to leave, bowing to the priests he knows on his way out. He returns to his vehicle and begins the drive. The address given is not that far away, and he arrives within five or six minutes. He parks on the side of the road and steps out, quickly scanning the lightpoles for the object in question.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Intelligence:
1 2 2 4 5 5 9 9

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Athletics:
1 2 3 8 9 11

Cassidy spots the junction box, and notes that it also has a big lightning bolt printed on it that screams, "DANGER!" without much consideration to the warning, the asian heads over to the pole and removes his utility belt, tosses it around the pole and uses it as a fulcrum to utilize the 'Mulan' asian technique for climbing tall cylindrical objects, much like a dwarven hooker mounting a troll john. He gets to the box and beats it several times with his forehead, and it finally pops open. Scissoring his legs to anchor, he reaches inside and finds what appears to be a box the size of a pack of cigarettes, a C-Ring, a normal looking pair of glasses, and a family of sleeping possums. The glasses are not quite poindexter-y, but not exactly the cutting edge of a twenty-something University Professor. He retrieves the items and slides back down to the sidewalk. He then returns to his car and inspects the gadget as he drives to FFoS, clearly sad to leave his new family behind.

Cassidy upon arrival, he texts Nine: "Here."

Nine thinks about the possible dangers that may be waiting for them, and she surveys over her clothing, hoping to make the right choice. Undertown. She had been there a few times in the past, and it seemed like the tunnels might be good hiding for those with guns. Or, also the random dark alley rapist that might want to jump out and say "BOOGIE WOOGIE WU". She picks further armor, slipping into some secure clothing, and then also the greatcoat as well. Might as well be able to move out into the more civilized areas, too, she recons! She is finishing zipping everything up when the pocket secretary beeps Cassidy's arrival, and she scoops it up as well as her weapons that she holsters under the greatcoat and then heads out of the asylum while being pestered by a kitty kitty meow meow watcher spirit that says, "Cassidy is here!" she nods some, and then the kitten POPs out of existance, and Nine jogs over toward the car, trucking it on those black predator boots.

Nine nears and then waves and then attemps to do the whole Dukes of Hazzard thing where she slides over the top of the hood, but does she make it?!

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Athletics vs TN 2 for "Dukes of Hazzard Hood Sliding!":
1 3 4 = 2 Successes

Nine makes it pretty good but then kind of slips a bit down the ways, but she makes it to the other side. Not quite near the door, but she scurries over to said door with only a few steps and then is pulling it open, "Hello!"

Cassidy is dressed in his typical Run outfit, except he doesn't have his balaclava or helmet on yet. He is, however, wearing a pair of somewhat nerdy glasses. If Nine looks closely, she can see that he has something that looks like a pack of cigarettes attached to a bungee clip on his flak jacket. The device is also secured firmly against his chest with both a C-Ring and a velcro strap. "Hold still." he turns towards her, and says, "Picture." then "Video." he waits a few moments, then says, "Stop. Change record protocol activation word to 'Applesauce.'" he removes the glasses and hands them to Nine. "Check these out."

With that, he puts the car into drive and begins driving towards UnderTown. "Were going to Undertown. Wow. I haven't been there since I worked for McTiggers, that crazy bitch and her pet panda. Oh, those were the days, when I was a wee lad, happily eating rabbit and potatoes while finding ways to not tell my boss that my sub-boss was attempting to lure me into betraying him. Haha! Man, I love being a turtle." he says, his tone wistful.

Nine of course gets into the vehicle before it starts moving, and she shuts the door just as it does. She takes the applesauce glasses from Cassidy after they are offered to her, and she slips them up onto her face. She did not have her balaclava on, either, but it was in handy interior greatcoat pocket storage right now, just in case. She glances all around with the glasses and then says softly, "Whoa… These are camera glasses, right? Wow…"

Nine gets done wowing about the glasses and then says to Cassidy, "Yeah, UnderTown! I have not been there since the last time Air took me there, and we…" she pauses before blurting it all out for some reason, "Uh, we ate some of the mystery meat! On a stick! With special sauce! Both of us!"

The glasses show what's directly in front of Cassidy, the steering wheel, the dashboard, the scenery going past as they drive, but there isn't any audio. If you look up at the asian, you can see that there is a near perfect sync with his mouth moving and the actual words. "Yeah, I guess I'm supposed to use them for getting some evidence at whatever it is we are going after. I am going to need your astral skills to hunt…" he trails off, internally checking something, "A creature of varying size that is modified, possibly toxic, and dual natured. Do you think you can do that?" he asks, "I normally would take GhostFisty with me on this job, but I haven't seen him in the longest. I miss his well dressed trog self. Actually, I think he's my only real troll friend. Don't even get me started on my hatred of pig people. If I ever owned a bar or something, I'd have a big sign that reads 'No Piggies.'"

He pauses, then returns to business. "Fortunately, your here, and this is a good chance for you to get in touch with your ability to track astral signatures."

The asian ignores the story about meat and Air and continues, "Heres the thing. UnderTown…is dangerous. The tunnels are extremely dangerous as well. You need to stay on your toes and make sure to focus and not make any mistakes. Can you do that for me?" he asks.

Nine listens to everything that he says. She does not yet say applesauce, mainly because they were not ready to record anything just yet, but she does look toward the scenery to keep track of where they are heading. She replies, "I can certainly try to do that, yep. If they are dual natured, I should be able to tell that they are astrally active, and if they are toxic, too… well, I should be able to also see the pollution in their aura. I will be as sharp as I can be, and I brought the Savior medkit with me! Oh, and my guns, and a few other odds and ends. Is this an uncontrolled toxic spirit?" Nine asks her comrade.

Cassidy shrugs, "No idea. Some escaped test subject thing. My guess is that it shouldn't exist, but then again, there it is." they arrive at the subway entrance to the place and Cassidy finds a nearby alley to park in. He gets out of the car and heads over to his trunk to gear up. "Alright, were not going to go into bazaar, the area we want is north of the subway tunnel. Are you ready?" he asks.

Nine shakes her head just a little bit, and she says softly, "I need to get my contacts in as soon as we hit the dark areas. If I try to put them in now, they will burn out from the normal lighting." She explains, and then she hops out of the vehicle and closes the door, "Also, I have flashlights, but should we even bother with those?" she asks her more knowledgeable comrade. "That might scare whatever it is away, right? Do you think my night vision contacts will work down there okay?"

Cassidy shrugs, "I seriously doubt they will. Most of those areas have no power and therefore are pitch black. I have this.." he pauses, and his eyes illuminate via his eye light systems, "Combine these with my other eyeball powers, and I have no problems in seeing things. I suggest you carry a flashlight to aid your contacts. I have some flares as well that I'll be using to help you out, so don't worry." he then shuts the trunk and activates his security system on the car to "Prolapse" and gives a little jerk of his head towards the Subway Entrance, "Cmon, girlie."

Nine laughs at the security word, wincing just a little bit about it, and she follows along while making sure her backpack and her greatcoat are situated as she wants them to be. "If the flares go off while I have the contacts in, that might burn my eyes… Also, if I shine my flashlight in my own face and not direct the light away from me, that will also have a similar effect. Dangit… I do have a spell I am learning for this, though, hopefully soon." she mutters softly. She follows Cassidy and explains, "Extended Night Vision, is what it is called, and I have a foci ready and waiting for its use." she shuts up and makes the trek with him while pulling out a contact case.

Cassidy begins travelling down the stairs, and the confines of being underground become more obvious as the two of you travel. There are people coming and going, and the rousing voices from the Bazaar can be heard. The asian stops at the subway platform, and the only light comes from a series of flickering flourescent lights overhead. "Regardless. If you can use it, I would. I don't know about all that magic stuff, but make it so. I don't want to be looking at you and your eyeballs melt. I'd feel bad about it." he waits for Nine to get situated, "Were supposed to go that way. Let me know when your ready."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) has the Contact Vivica with the following information:
----—> Contact for Cassidy (#2908) <----
Contact Name: Vivica
Level: 2
Type: decker
GM Note: A wiz decker. Vivica stands at 5'4 and weighs about 115 lbs. She is of elven and latin descent with smooth caramel skin and a beautiful heart shaped face. She used to date Cassidy but they had previously broken up because Vivica's favorite MFL team (The San Francisco Sixty Whiners) defeated Cassidy's(The Philadelphia Screaming Evil's). Despite this the two have kept a somewhat strained (ignoring the occassional drunken hookup) business relationship. Vivica was previously kidnapped by Sid's nemesis Santa from Beyond the Grave and the asian went through great lengths to rescue her rekindling the old flame and bringing them closer together. The decker still affectionately refers to Cassidy as "King Squid: the Yellow Emperor of my Pink Pussy Palace." Unfortunately Vivica is currently engaged to french artist Jean-Paul Levasque, preventing any further reconciliation.


«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Etiquette + 1 (Lvl 2 Power) vs TN 4 for "Talking.":
2 2 2 5 = 1 Success

«Plot» Cassidy says, "Viv knows what Sid wants, but is going to torment him first."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Etiquette + 1 (Lvl 2 Power) vs TN 4 for "She Knows, will she give it up?":
2 4 4 5 = 3 Successes

Cassidy pulls out his cellphone and moves around a little bit, walking halfway up the stairs. "Nine, stay here for a moment, I have to make a call." he dials his ex-girlfriend and asks, "V. It's Sid. Yeah? I know. Sorry. Are you busy? I just need..oh yeah? Well congrats on him proposing." theres a bit of strain in his voice when he says this, "Anyway, I just need something easy that you could probably get for free from the public archives. The subway tunnels near UnderTown? I just need the schematics. Just take the cash out of my account." he sighs and waits for a few minutes.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) spends 1000 nuyen for "Vivica's finder's fee, extra expensive cause she's getting married, and a bitch.".

Nine nods softly, and she pauses as they find the first shadows into the area here, and she casts a very low force sterilize spell before opening up the contact case. It was fairly dark, and if the light was only flickering florescent, she could probably put the contacts in now. She does so, and she blinks a few times before making sure to watch the ground, not wanting to look -right- at any of the light sources, even if they were dimmer than most.

A few minutes go by, and Cassidy gets another mail, "Well, thanks. Uh huh…enjoy getting married." he hesitates, and quietly makes a fist, "Oh. I'd -love- to go. Yeah. When? Next month. Oh sure. I'm there. Have togonowbye!" he jams the rest of his words together and hangs up. Coming back downstairs to where Nine is. "I have subway schematics, so we won't get lost." he reaches into his jacket and withdraws a black device with a green screen and projector on it. He plugs it into a jack on his arm and syncs the data. "…Ok. Not so bad. Are you ready?" he asks.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908)'s Multi-Pocketed Bomber Jacket (#3192) has the Voucher Item 4 Nav-Dat GPS with the following information:
----------—[ Shadowrun Denver ]-
==================> Item 4 on Multi-Pocketed Bomber Jacket <===================
Item Name: Nav-Dat GPS
Item Type: ITEM
Quantity: 1
Fractional OK: No
Clonable: No
Players Can Link: No
Created For: Daemon Starks (#2946)
Created By: Enki (#4261)
IC Location: Carried
-----> Description for Item <-----—-
(2)Nav-Dat GPS Conceal:8 Weight:0.5 Avail: 6/48h Cost/SI 1400/1 Legal


Nine notices the device that Cassidy uses, and she says softly to him, "Nav Dat? Good idea, Sid!" she tells him, having one of her own but had not thought to use it down here. She pats herself down a bit and then nods, "Ready." she tells him. Nine keeps looking down at the ground though for some reason, almost as if she were afraid to look up like she might normally do.

The asian leads the way, and his voice hardens. "Stay Close to Me. I cannot stress that enough. Don't touch anything unless you have gloves and don't ever touch any mucus membrances, your eyes, anything. This place is filthy and carries some of the worse disease you can imagine. In the event we get attacked by anything, -do not- let it touch you. Run away screaming if you have to, but don't try to get physical with anything unless there is no escape and you -have- to defend yourself. Use your chucks, swing wildly and keep them away, alright?" the both of you are heading into a tunnel that is blocked with wrecked subway cars and other items of the like. "Nine. Switch to your Astral, see anything?" he asks.

Nine listens to what he says, nodding some when he tells her to stay close, and she moves a little closer in response. She puts the contact container away into a pocket, not intending to use it again, and she gets her hardliner gloves out of her pockets and slides those onto her hands. "Did you want the shades back, or am I to run them?" she asks him, about the applesauce glasses that were in a breast greatcoat pocket inside. "Also, I will do what I can to not be touched by whatever might come our way. I should really get…" and then she switches to astral as told and says, "Chris!" with some intensity. Soon, hopefully, unless something like a ward was in his way, Chris would show up on the astral plane side of things to follow behind Nine. Nine scans the area with her astral vision, checking for any possible foes as asked to do.

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584)'s Magic Items (#4270) has the Voucher Item 3 Chris F6 Earth Elemental with the following information:
----------—[ Shadowrun Denver ]-
===========================> Item 3 on Magic Items <===========================
Item Name: Chris F6 Earth Elemental
Item Type: ITEM
Quantity: 4
Fractional OK: No
Clonable: No
Players Can Link: No
Created For: Nine (#10584)
Created By: Hamster (#4390)
IC Location: BOUND (NINE)
-----> Description for Item <------
Force 6 Earth Elemental, summoned by Nine
-----> GM Notes for Item <-----
Jun 19 08:34 This Elemental (summoned by Nine) had 3 services added to it on
this date.
Jun 19 12:07 Current services with the +3 brings the total to 8.


«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Intelligence for "Astral Perception Check!":
1 2 3 4 5 5 10

Cassidy thinks it over, "You probably have a better chance at getting a picture than me. When you use those glasses, you will see what's in front of me, and can take a picture or record. If you want, I can give it to you and you can attach it to yourself."

Chris arrives in the Astral, just hanging out with no problems.

You take a look in the astral, and behind you, the glowing aura of a collective life force gleams brightly in the direction of the Shadow Bazaar, but ahead of you, most of the items are grey, mundane and lifeless. The strange thing is that a lot of the surfaces and cars have a faint purplish residue that may hint at a microscopic pathogen that could harbor disease. You don't see the trail of anything toxic yet, but there are faint aura trails that someone has come through here recently, an awakened person that used some sort of magic. You can't tell what the spell was, but something magical happened here within the past thirty minutes.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Intelligence:
2 2 3 5 5 8 9 10

Cassidy stares at the ground, and sees that there are some marks on an access tunnel door that betrays that it has been opened recently. The line of rust has been broken, and there are some fresh finger trails that are around the handle and hinges. He points, "Somebody has gone through here. I don't know when, but it's fairly obvious we should go this way. I'm not really one for climbing over wrecked subway cars."

«OOC» Nine says, "She's going to put glasses onto her face!"

Nine nods about his decision concerning the applesauce glasses, so she quickly concentrates on an F2 sterilize spell, and after making sure that she has tightened the radius to only include the two of them in their immediate space, to prevent gathering disease upon themselves, and then she pulls the glasses out of the inner pocket and then slips them onto her face. After a moment of adjustment, she nods again to what is said, and then she tells Cassidy, "Chris is here in the astral nearby if needed, and something magical happened here… I cannot tell what spells were used, but it seems like sorcery to me!" Nine uses a very soft voice whenever she speaks, but of course is intense at times. Looking toward the direction that Cassidy indicates, "I agree." she says, and prepares to follow him. She keeps a hand, the left one, hovering above right side internal coat pockets, just in case any of the weapons therein are needed soon.

Cassidy begins walking forward, travelling with light steps as he reaches for his cougar longblade. The sharp weapon gleams in the fading light and soon the two of you have entered an access passage that connects this tunnel to the next. The corridor is barely big enough for a troll, and the asian activates his eyelight system, illuminating the path before him. "Keep your head on a swivel. You never know when something could pop out." theres some old bones, and rats scurry here and there. There are some slumped forms that are laying to the side, unmoving, but it isn't clear if they are sleeping or dead. The stench in here is like old, decayed meat but isn't overwhelming.

"Magic, huh? Well then..that's just Prime."

Nine mimics Cassidy's movements, and she pulls out one of the nunchaku and keeps this in her left hand alongside her, but she makes sure to hold it by BOTH the sticks, so tha the chain would not be making noise. She tries to be super quiet, and she makes sure to direct Chris to stay right behind her on the astral plane, so hopefully her own aura and Cassidy's would block him from view, making them seem less dangerous… maybe. Nine keeps her eyes open, tries to stay sharp, and she looks all around at the bodies that Cassidy mentions, using her astral perception to try to discern whether or not they were alive. Her glances are brief though, as she tries to stay focused more on their current path than the bodies themselves.

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Intelligence for "Astral Percept! Dead Dudes?!":
1 2 2 4 4 4 9

The bodies appear to be between alive and dead, and begin to stir as soon as the both of you enter the next room.

This appears to be an old transit office, the room has two exits, and some old signs tell you that one is going to Gesalt Station, and the second has more directions indicating you would be going to South Lindwood." the room is musty and the equipment is broken and unusable.

Cassidy pauses to crouch, "Nine, You sense anything? That magic thing you felt, which way did it go?" he asks.

Nine winces a little bit about the bodies here, and she quickly reaches forward with her free right hand to tug on Cassidy, and then she crouches with him. "The… these bodies… they are not all dead. Zombies? Necromancy?" she asks, not really certain what it could be, as she had never dealt with such. Her heart starts to beat as adrenaline rushes through her, but she stays quite brave and just watches all around them, "Hey, I think I saw one move." she tells him and then points with the nunchaku toward one that began stirring.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 1 for "Mystery":
5
«OOC» Note: Even, they stayed asleep, Odd they Attack.

The forms that Nine pointed to begin to rise, slow at first, then proceed to gain their senses. "F…Feed…." their red eyes glowing brightly. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that these four creatures are ghouls that were in a temporary hibernation in between feedings.

Cassidy squints, recognizing the creatures immediately. The ghouls lean back and emit a piercing screech, as though announcing they had discovered prey. Somewhere else in the room, another squeal responds to the first, and the both of you can hear the pattering of feet. "Nine. I don't want you to panic.." he trails off, as the creatures begin to move forward. "But those are ghouls. If you get bitten or touched, you could become one. I'll block these ones off. Get ready to stop whatever comes at us, use magic, your guns, anything." he reaches to his right pocket and draws a flare, breaking it in half and throwing it over his shoulder to light the room a bit better as he moves to the corridor the two of you just came from.

Nine realizes that the creatures are indeed ghouls as soon as they say what they do and act as they do. Nine utters the softest animalistic growl, and her demeanor changes quite quickly from the usual shy girl to what is nearly a cold blooded killer attitude. It was not quite often that anyone would see something like this in her, lest it be in the presence of HMHVV infected.

Quickly, Nine reaches into her coat with her right hand, and she pulls out one of the normal flashlights that she has. The screeching does not phase her for some reason, and she just glares at them until noticing Cassidy is preparing a flare, and so she looks away from him. She also simultaneously clicks on her flashlight and attempts to shine it in the eyes of the ghouls coming, since they already knew they were there, what with being dual natured and able to see the auras of living things. Hopefully, all the light would not burn her contacts, since she was lucky to have some shades on, and not be staring straight at the light sources themselves. She starts to back up and move with Cassidy to head toward the cooridor from which they just arrived, and she attempts to clip a nunchaku away and replace it with an actual loaded gun. There was no joking around with this Alta, for it was actually loaded stock full of Ares FirePower rounds, and she would shoot the first thing that decided to close in.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Initiative with a result of 16.

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Initiative with a result of 9.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 1 for "+4 Lesser Ghoul.":
11
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 1 for "+4 Lesser Ghoul #2":
3
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 1 for "+4 Medium Ghoul":
7
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 1 for "+6 Lead Ghoul":
2

«Plot» Cassidy says, "In the distance, you here something approaching, but it isn't here yet."

«OOC» Cassidy will hold his action and let the first ghoul attack him.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) has the Martial-Arts Maneuver Whirling (Tae Kwon Do) with the value 'Whirling'.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 4 + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 4 for "Ghoul attacking!":
2 3 4 4 5 5 9 13 = 6 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Edged Weapons (Cougar Fineblade(long)) + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 6 for "+2 For Ghoul having two more buddies than cass.":
1 1 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 9 10 = 2 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Edged Weapons (Cougar Fineblade(long)) + Combat Pool: 5 - 2 vs TN 6 for "+2 For Ghoul having two more buddies than cass. kp 1/26":
1 2 2 2 2 3 3 5 5 = 0 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Edged Weapons (Cougar Fineblade(long)) + Combat Pool: 5 - 2 vs TN 6 for "+2 For Ghoul having two more buddies than cass. kp 3/26":
1 3 4 5 5 5 5 5 8 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Body vs TN 2 for "Soaking damage.":
1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 7 8 10 = 11 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Body vs TN 5 for "Resisting getting infected.":
1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 8 8 9 = 5 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "The threshold is at least two, Sid resists."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 4 for "Medium Ghoul Attacks!":
2 2 4 4 4 4 5 5 7 11 14 = 9 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Tae Kwon Do + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 5 for "Switching to H2H, using Whirling technique":
1 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 8 9 10 13 21 = 6 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Tae Kwon Do + Combat Pool: 4 - 6 vs TN 5 for "Switching to H2H, using Whirling technique. kp 4/26":
2 2 2 2 3 3 4 5 16 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Tae Kwon Do + Combat Pool: 4 - 8 vs TN 5 for "Switching to H2H, using Whirling technique. kp 6/26":
2 4 5 5 7 8 9 = 5 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 + Combat Pool: 6 vs TN 16 for "Trying to soak.":
1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 10 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 + Combat Pool: 6 vs TN 16 for "Trying to soak. kp 1/3":
1 1 1 2 2 2 5 5 5 5 9 10 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 + Combat Pool: 6 vs TN 16 for "Trying to soak. kp 3/3":
1 1 2 3 3 3 4 5 7 9 11 21 = 1 Success

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Nine, your action."
«OOC» Nine says, "My action will be to shoot the ghoul that looked like it hit Sid."

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Pistols + Combat Pool: 3 + 1 (KP1) vs TN 5 for "Die Bitch! 9M Base Dam (FirePower Rounds = +1 Power, -2 Ballistic Armor)":
1 2 4 4 4 5 5 = 2 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Pistols + Combat Pool: 3 + 1 (KP1) - 2 vs TN 5 for "Die Bitch! 9M Base Dam (FirePower Rounds = +1 Power, -2 Ballistic Armor) (KP2)":
3 4 5 5 5 = 3 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) uses 1 of item 1: Firepower HP rounds from Pistol Ammo (#5230).

The hordes come at the asian two at a time, and the first ghoul comes at him, slicing through the air with it's crazy claws and snarling like a wild beast. Cassidy attempts a forehand slash at a downward motion. Unfortunately, the ghoul's reflexes are enhanced by it's desire to feed and it leaps, latching onto Cassidy, it's feet trying to find purchase on his thighs, and it's hands on his shoulders as it attempts to bite him. The armor protects the asian, but the saliva it spits manages to get onto the fabric of what he wears. "Ah! Muthafucka!" he growls as he tries to fend off his foe.

A second ghoul, much larger than the foe grappling Sid tries to tackle him as well, and the asian manages to shove his first foe off him just in time to pump kick the medium sized ghoul right in the face with the fury of a donkey. His heel smashes into his opponents face and sends him sprawling backwards in a fallen heap.

Despite this, the infected humanoids continue forward!

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 + Combat Pool: 3 vs TN 9 for "Wearing scraps of clothing, trying to soak.":
1 1 2 2 3 4 8 10 11 = 2 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Pistols + Combat Pool: 3 vs TN 5 for "2nd Shot! 9M Base Dam (FirePower Rounds = +1 Power, -2 Ballistic Armor)":
1 1 2 2 3 11 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Pistols + Combat Pool: 3 - 1 vs TN 5 for "2nd Shot! 9M Base Dam (FirePower Rounds = +1 Power, -2 Ballistic Armor) (KP3)":
2 2 3 4 5 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Pistols + Combat Pool: 3 - 1 - 1 vs TN 5 for "2nd Shot! 9M Base Dam (FirePower Rounds = +1 Power, -2 Ballistic Armor) (KP5)":
2 2 5 19 = 2 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 vs TN 9 for "Wearing scraps of clothing, trying to soak. out of cp.":
2 3 3 3 5 10 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 5 + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 4 for "Friend is down, other ghoul has been blasted to death, both parties have one ally. Attack!":
1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 5 9 = 6 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Edged Weapons (Cougar Fineblade(long)) + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 4 for "Counter with knifey!":
1 1 3 3 3 4 4 5 7 7 = 5 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Edged Weapons (Cougar Fineblade(long)) + Combat Pool: 4 - 5 vs TN 4 for "Counter with knifey! kp 7/26":
1 1 2 3 4 = 1 Success
«OOC» Cassidy bangshead. "What is going on?!"
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Edged Weapons (Cougar Fineblade(long)) + Combat Pool: 4 - 6 vs TN 4 for "Counter with knifey! kp 9/26":
1 1 3 8 = 1 Success

Nine is kind of pissed, like Chris, and she points her Morrissey Alta, which is quite modified, due to her lovely fiance being a super gunsmith, and she pulls the trigger twice toward the first ghoul that jumped Cassidy. There is only the silenced sound of the pistol firing, a small *spock* and then another small *spock* again as 2 of the Ares-Made Fire-Power rounds slam home. Unfortunately, for the ghoul, he takes an S and S wound from the Nine attack, and then he suddenly stills all movement before going rigid and then just falling over (off of Cassidy) to lie in a pile of his own goobers.
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 5 + Combat Pool: 3 vs TN 15 for "Resisting 13M, weapon is dikoted, so +1 power and +2 to damage.":
1 2 2 3 5 7 7 10 = 0 Successes
«OOC» Casidy says, "S wound."

Another ghoul quickly comes to take the place of his fallen Medium friend, lunging forward and attempting to leap onto the ceiling and riccochet off and attack Cassidy with it's sharp fingernails. The asian is ready and stabs upward, impaling the ghoul in the stomach. He then reverses his momentum and pulls around and throws him to the ground with bone shattering force. "Back tha' fuck up, ya meat sucking ball fucking shit eater!"

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Sid will take held action, draw pistol and bust the lead ghoul."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Quickness vs TN 6:
1 1 1 1 3 3 4 5 5 7 10 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Pistols + Combat Pool: 1 vs TN 4 for "-2 Sl, All vision mods accounted for, +2 for being in melee against one opponent. Firing.":
1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 5 7 = 6 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 7 + Combat Pool: 7 vs TN 10 for "Lead Ghoul wrapped in a really old lined coat, 4/2":
1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 13 20 = 2 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 7 + Combat Pool: 7 - 2 vs TN 10 for "Lead Ghoul wrapped in a really old lined coat, 4/2 kp 1/6":
1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 7 13 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 7 + Combat Pool: 7 - 3 vs TN 10 for "Lead Ghoul wrapped in a really old lined coat, 4/2 kp 3/6":
1 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 11 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 7 + Combat Pool: 7 - 4 vs TN 10 for "Lead Ghoul wrapped in a really old lined coat, 4/2 kp 6/6":
1 2 3 3 11 11 14 16 21 23 = 6 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy's Guardian packs APDS. Despite that, he takes a miraculous L.

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Leaders action is to attack cassidy with a metal pipe. Looks like he still has some of his previous intelligence."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 + Combat Pool: 6 vs TN 3 for "Reach Lowers TN, striking Sid with a Pipey.":
1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 7 8 10 = 9 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Tae Kwon Do vs TN 4 for "Out of CP. Attempting to counter.":
1 2 2 2 3 3 4 5 5 5 5 = 5 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) has the Armor Rating Impact with the value '10'.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Body vs TN 3 for "Opponent former runner in life, still strong, and heavy pipe adds +2.":
1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 5 5 8 10 11 = 10 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "The pose order comes around again, and cassidy has his second action, that will be to bust his foe in the face with his gun, point blank!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Pistols vs TN 8 for "-2 SL, +4, +2 for being in melee against 2 guys.":
2 3 3 3 4 5 8 9 14 = 3 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 7 + Combat Pool: 2 vs TN 10 for "Soaking.":
1 1 2 3 3 4 4 5 7 = 0 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Burst fire ups +3 to power and +1 to DL, The shot is 12D and takes out the leader!"

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Theres one ghoul left, and he has an S wound currently. +init!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Initiative with a result of 6.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 1 for "+4-3 for wound.":
2

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Edged Weapons (Cougar Fineblade(long)) + Combat Pool: 6 vs TN 4 for "Kill!":
1 1 1 2 2 3 3 5 5 7 7 16 = 5 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 5 + 5 vs TN 7 for "Wounded severely, +3.":
1 2 2 2 2 5 5 5 5 11 = 1 Success

The leader of the ghouls raises it's pipe, screaming loudly as Cassidy pulls his knife out of the still moving lesser ghoul. He draws back for a baseball style swing and swings for the fences, the asian brings his right elbow and protects his face, but still takes an impressive shot that sends him twisting to the left. The attack had some mustard on it, and the asian's eyes narrow. "Well, looks like your not your garden variety shuffler. Imma nutritionist anda farmer, nigga! Have some Vitamin L!"

The asian's free hand is a blur, and he reaches to his breast to draw his Savalette Guardian. He trains it on the Ghoul leader and lets go with a 3 round burst. Perhaps the Ghoul Leader has some of his previous runner instincts left, and he twists out of the way, his lined coat taking the brunt of the anti-armor rounds and only one of the three catch him in his left shoulder. Still he comes forward, thirsting for the redheads flesh and blood. But this time the guardian comes up again, perhaps eight inches from his face.

"What kinda crops be I harvest? I'm a LEAD FARMER, MuthaFUCKA!"

The asian pulls the trigger and the Leader's head reels back as three neat little holes litter his face, brains splattering on the wall of the corridor as he goes spinning backwards to the ground.

The final ghoul hasn't gotten up yet, and just snarls and reaches for Cassidy's leg. The asian raises up his knife, "Back to hell with YE!" and brings it down on the ghouls forehead, effectively killing him in one blow.

The asian takes a few steps back, trying to clean himself and quickly calls to Nine, "9up! Sterilize!"

Strangely enough, the roars that the both of you hear further on are suddenly silenced.

But outside the door you just came through, more shuffling and mewling can be heard. The asian quickly slams the door shut and attempts to lock it, pressing against it back first as he desperately searches for something to bar the door with. Spotting the pipe of the Lead Ghoul, Sid flicks it up to his hands with his right foot and jams it through the handle just as the undead begin to beat on the structure, a somewhat depressive sound of fingernails on metal begin to annoyingly screech as well.

Cassidy calls through the door, "Ain't nobody home, quit knocking like ya asses be da po'lice or something, mu'fucka!"

Despite his heartfelt words, the ghouls continue to uselessly beat on the door.

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) has the Spell Sterilize with the following information:
------> Spell for Nine (#10584) <------
Spell Name: Sterilize
Force: 2
Spell Type: Manipulation/Transformation
Target: 4
Drain Code: +1M


«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Sorcery + Sorcery Pool: 3 vs TN 6 for "F2 Sterilize!":
1 2 2 2 3 3 5 5 9 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Sorcery + Sorcery Pool: 3 - 1 vs TN 6 for "F2 Sterilize! (KP6)":
1 2 2 2 3 5 5 8 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Willpower + Sorcery Pool: 3 vs TN 4 for "F2/2 +2BG (Soak +1M Stun)":
2 3 3 3 4 4 5 8 8 = 5 Successes
----------—[ Shadowrun Denver ]-
=======================> Contents of D.Clips. (#4859) <========================
| Item | Qty | IC Location | Description |
*
—+-+----+-------—*
| 1 | 31 | Carried | rounds of APDS ammo for Heavy Pistol |
| 2 | 33 | Carried | Rounds of Heavy Pistol AV Ammo |
| 3 | 10 | Carried | Spirit-Buster Ammunition (Heavy |
| | | | Pistol) |
| 4 | 18 | Carried | rounds of ExEx ammo for a Heavy |
| | | | Pistol |
| 5 | 20 | Carried | rounds of APDS ammo for Light Pistol |
| 6 | 30 | Carried | rounds of ExEx ammo for a light |
| | | | pistol |
| 7 | 30 | Carried | Ammo: APDS Assault Rifle |
| 8 | 30 | Carried | Ammo: AV Assault Rifle |
=============================== 8 Items Listed ================================
Type '+vinfo #4859/<item>' for full information about an item.
Items marked with * have stats. Type '+sheet #4859:<item>' to view.
Type '+help voucher' for help on the voucher system.
«Auto-Judge[]» Voucher Authenticity Verified

NIne is slow, well, slowish. By the time that Cassidy has smashed the rest of the ghouls, she is just getting ready to aim at the leader, who drops from the might of the asian! Nine almost breathes a sigh of relief, but catches herself before doing so, and as soon as Cassidy gives the command, the spell starts to take shape. It cleans up the blood and most of the biomaterial that leaves filth within their immediate area, as she wanted very much for Cassidy to not have any of the nastiness upon him. Luckily, she manages to even cast it through the background count, and she takes no mana drain from her efforts. The blood and goobers just kind of start to roll away and clear out of here, and then she says quickly to Cassidy while semi distracted with the spell, "Are you okay? Did they cut you?"

Nine is here, also doing slow Charlies Angels motions with her pistol.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) uses 6 of item 1: rounds of APDS ammo for Heavy Pistol from D.Clips. (#4859).

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Body vs TN 5 for "Another HMHVV resistance roll.":
1 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 9 10 = 5 Successes

Cassidy holsters his weapon and comes over to the ghoul that he knocked out via a pump kick. He reaches to his hip and draws one of his Ares Predator III's, and proceeds to shoot the remaining creature in the head twice. He's breathing kind of heavy, and looks a bit worried, and his lame wannabe gangsta accent fades out for a few moments. "Nine! Assense me! See if the virus has taken root!" he holds the smoking pistol to his temple, "Let me know now so that I can end it before I attempt to eat you! You look stringy and kinda tough, but my dentist said I have sharp canines, it would be painful!"

He also notices the sudden silence in the distance, "It appears were not alone. But still, check me!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Intelligence vs TN 6 for "Assensing Cassidy!":
1 2 2 4 4 5 9 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Intelligence - 1 vs TN 6 for "Assensing Cassidy! (KP7)":
1 1 2 4 5 7 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Intelligence - 1 - 1 vs TN 6 for "Assensing Cassidy! (KP9)":
1 1 2 4 4 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Intelligence - 1 - 1 vs TN 6 for "Assensing Cassidy! (KP12)":
1 4 4 4 5 = 0 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Aura Reading vs TN 6 for "(COMP DICE) Assensing Cassidy!":
2 4 10 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Aura Reading - 1 vs TN 6 for "(COMP DICE) Assensing Cassidy! (KP13)":
1 5 = 0 Successes

Nine focuses all of her astral senses into looking at Cassidy's aura, and she watches him. A frown becomes apparent as she notices how he holds the gun to his own temple, but she finishes her once over, twice over, and thrice over of his form, and then she says to him quite clearly, "You're clean." and then she says quickly, "Please do not pull that trigger while aiming like that." with obvious concern for him that sometimes comes out when the situation is somewhat dire. She readies her pistol again, and she glances all around, and then she says quietly, "I bet they heard our fighting, so we can either leave or approach. I say approach carefully!"

Cassidy is going to clean his Cougar Fineblade, but it appears that Nine's spell has cleaned it up. "Oh good." he returns it to his sheath and walks toward Nine, still holding the gun to his head. "What do you see? I feel fine. I'm not even that hungry." upon her response, he re-holsters the weapon. "Oh? Well good. That could have gone badly." he smacks his forehead a few times and holsters his Predator. He reaches up to his shoulder and draws his Murasame, the blade humming softly as it clears his scabbard. "No. We go forward. We have a job to do goddamn it, and I am not letting this one get away. Stay close, and let's move!" he starts to quickly jog towards the source of the fracas.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Intelligence for "Which was was it?":
1 1 1 3 4 4 4 10
Cassidy is currently heading towards the South Lindwood exit. "Don't look directly into the flare." he warns, recalling Nine's contact issues.

Nine listens to what he says, and she nods just a bit, willing to go charging into battle after her friend, especially after having heard of the nature of the thing after which they are going and attempting to take snap shots. She jogs after Cassidy, and she keeps her pistol drawn and ready, and she makes sure not to look straight toward the flare that was emitting light. "Just, do not want you to get hurt, but you seem unscathed! That was incredible." she breathes softly in very quiet whispers to Cassidy while making tracks behind him.

The two of you come into yet another tunnel that is leading towards the South Lindwood station, and as you both come closer, you see no less than eight different Ghouls dead on the ground. Some are killed by blunt and serrated trama, others are killed by what looks like some sort of laser weapon. The asian kneels for a moment, checking the wounds, "Whoever did this…" he inhale deeply, "Is packing some serious tech. I don't know who exactly it is, but seriously. I feel some degree of worry here." he reaches briefly to his waist and touches his belt buckle, "It's Morphing Time!" the focus crackles and sparks a few times, and soon Cassidy is protected in a faint outline. "Stay behind me. Whatever did this, we may be in for one hell of a fight if it attacks us."

Nine nods, and she gets into her combat mode again, ready for anything while keeping her gun held Charlies Angels style and glancing all around to remain completely aware of what she can see. "Understood, sir." she tells Sid!

«OOC» Cassidy says, "perception!"
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Intelligence:
1 2 3 4 5 5 5 5
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Intelligence for "PercepShaunOfTheDead!":
1 2 2 2 2 4 5

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Roll reaction vs.4 please."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Reaction vs TN 4:
1 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 11 13 = 6 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Reaction vs TN 4:
1 1 1 3 15 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 vs TN 2:
1 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 = 7 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 4 for "Zap!":
2 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 9 = 7 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Body + Combat Pool: 10 vs TN 8 for "Laser Attack Cuts Impact by 2, damage is 15M Base.":
1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 5 5 8 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Body + Combat Pool: 10 - 1 vs TN 8 for "Laser Attack Cuts Impact by 2, damage is 15M Base. kp 10/26":
1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 7 7 8 8 8 10 15 22 = 6 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Body + Combat Pool: 10 - 7 vs TN 8 for "Laser Attack Cuts Impact by 2, damage is 15M Base. kp 12/26":
1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 8 9 9 10 = 4 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Sid soaks."

Suddenly, from what seems like nowhere, the both of you can hear something humming loudly in the distance. Cassidy turns towards Nine, "You hear that? It sounds like—-" the asian doesn't even get a chance to answer, when a piercing yellowish-red beam comes out of nowhere and smashes into the asian's chest, the focus on his waist glows brightly and the redhead is sent spinning to the ground. "BWAAAAARRRFF!!" he groans, as though getting hit by a truck. He comes up to one forearm, and clutches his chest with the other hand. "Ow ow ow ow..Fuck! 9up! Get to cover!" he yells, as he struggles back to a standing position.

Nine reaches for Cassidy after he has fallen and attempts to help the large Asian man with her piddly 4 strength, trying to get him to cover as well, along with her while yelling out into the darkness (since whoever it was already knew they were here), "Stop! We're not ghouls! Leave us alone!"

Cassidy roughly pushes Nine towards the subway car, "You *huff* make us sound like pussies. I said get to fucking cover! You prepare some magicky, I'm going to draw our shooter out, you bust em with magic. GO!"

«OOC» Cassidy says, "and init!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Initiative with a result of 10.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Initiative with a result of 14.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 3 for "+8 Laser Person.":
1 2 3

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Free Action, Take a detailed look, taking into account the way he was struck, the angle which he hit the ground, and the direction of the warm up before the charge."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Intelligence:
1 2 3 4 5 7 8 10

«OOC» Cassidy says, "He sees the person!"

Immediately, Cassidy takes off in the opposite direction to take the pressure off Nine and to make his companion seem like less of a target and thus increasing his own priority over hers. He squints in the darkness and sees what appears to be a humanoid figure crouching atop a subway car that is two away from Nine. He begins to dash over to that person's direction and..

----------—[ Shadowrun Denver ]-
============================> Combat Jumping Roll <============================
Cassidy (#2908) jumps with 6 dice with no TN modifier and 11 effective Quickness.
«Auto-Judge[]» Rolls: 1 2 3 4 5 23
------> Interpreted Results <-----—-
If this attempted jump is taken as a free action:
A 11 Meter Running Horizontal jump
A 8 Meter Standing Horizontal jump
A 4 Meter Vertical jump of any kind including reach
If this attempted jump is taken as all movement during a combat phase:
A 11 Meter Running Horizontal jump
A 11 Meter Standing Horizontal jump
A 4 Meter Vertical jump of any kind including reach


…leaps into the air, clutching onto the rim of the car and braces his foot against the side of the car for balance and hauls himself up, now mere feet away from the person that shot him. He trains his eyes on the person and reveals a somewhat lithe figure protected entirely by Military Grade Security Armor. The helmet is like a half horizontal football and there is some sort of transparent glass allowing the wearer to see out of the helmet. The armor appears to be dark charcoal and navy blue, and has the Ares corporate logo on it's shoulders. Another interesting thing is that this person also seems to have a cannon instead of a right hand. Looking closely, the asian can see that it is still smoking, and that the weapon is probably something comparable to the Ares MP Laser III. Sid keeps his hands empty and beckons his opponent forward. "You keep waving that thing, you know where it's going to end up, right?!"

«OOC» Cassidy says, "The assassin woman/man will attack!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 11 + Combat Pool: 7 vs TN 4 for "Attack!":
1 1 2 2 2 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 11 16 = 12 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 11 + Combat Pool: 7 - 12 vs TN 4 for "Attack! kp 1/30":
2 2 5 7 15 17 = 4 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Person holds."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Tae Kwon Do + Combat Pool: 10 vs TN 4 for "Counter!":
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 = 6 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Tae Kwon Do + Combat Pool: 10 - 6 vs TN 4 for "Counter! kp 13/26":
1 1 1 1 2 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 9 9 10 = 9 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Tae Kwon Do + Combat Pool: 10 - 15 vs TN 4 for "Counter! kp 15/26":
2 2 3 4 5 8 = 3 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 9 vs TN 6 for "Armor is 11/10, And Sid's damage is 16M Base staged once to an S.":
1 1 1 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 7 8 11 11 20 = 5 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 9 - 5 vs TN 6 for "Armor is 11/10, And Sid's damage is 16M Base staged once to an S. kp 2/30":
1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 9 - 5 vs TN 6 for "Armor is 11/10, And Sid's damage is 16M Base staged once to an S. kp 4/30":
1 1 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 5 8 10 14 = 3 Successes

«OOC» Nine says, "Ok, my action would be to finish doing what Cassidy said, moving. (That's not part of my combat actions though, right?) And then Nine will try to watch Cassidy while he is moving, to see where he goes. When she realizes that the fight is on, she wants to attempt to stunbolt this guy/woman/whatever it is."

The man (or woman) in the suit doesn't seem surprised that Cassidy has appeared on the subway car and prepares to attack him, using the cannon as club. The asian tries to block it, but it appears to be a feint as the cannon is retracted and a sidekick comes straight for his stomach, knocking him back a step. It doesn't faze him and he tries to throw an overhead hook directly into that funky helmet, but his punch is caught, and diverted to the right, allowing his foe to throw a knee to his exposed ribcage. Sid sees this coming and catches the knee with his right hand, and proceeds to palm strike them in the chest, knocking them off their feet.

As though expecting this move, the combatant rolls with the impact and kicks off his/her standing leg and goes sliding away on the subway car, the metal of their suit screeching loudly as sparks fly up and they roll to their feet, apparantly unharmed.

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Sorcery + Sorcery Pool: 6 vs TN 8 for "Casting Stunbolt @ F6 S Dam…":
1 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 9 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Sorcery + Sorcery Pool: 6 - 1 vs TN 8 for "Casting Stunbolt @ F6 S Dam… (KP14)":
1 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 = 0 Successes

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«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 vs TN 6:
1 2 3 3 4 9 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 - 1 vs TN 6 for " kp 5/30":
2 3 4 5 11 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Willpower vs TN 7 for "F6/2 +2BG +2Failed. Soak S Stun!":
1 1 4 4 7 7 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Willpower - 2 vs TN 7 for "F6/2 +2BG +2Failed. Soak S Stun! (KP15)":
3 3 9 10 = 2 Successes

Nine watches Cassidy's movements, and as she gets a better view upon their target, she attempts to cast a stunbolt (F6-S), but she completely fails the spell against the superior willpower of the mighty she (or he) person. For her time, Nine gathers some L stun damage to her brain meats, and she "Guh!"s softly after casting. Luckily, it is only that much, for the spell was rather powerful, and it could have drained her in a much more massive way. She glances quickly toward Chris beside her, but she could not yet order him this turn! Nine does prepare to start pointing though, but that would be for next time. She draws in a deep breath, praying silently to Cat for Cassidy's safety.

The person briefly holds their head, then turns to look immediately in Nine's direction, the cannon begins to glow, and it's obvious they are going to follow the old adage of 'Geek the Mage first!'

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Tae Kwon Do + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 3 for "Kick Attack, chaining into the Herding technique, lowering my tn.":
1 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 8 11 = 8 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Tae Kwon Do + Combat Pool: 4 - 8 vs TN 3 for "Kick Attack, chaining into the Herding technique, lowering my tn. kp 16/26":
1 1 2 3 3 3 5 = 4 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 11 vs TN 4 for "Out of Cp. Counter!":
1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 5 5 5 = 3 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 11 - 3 vs TN 4 for "Out of Cp. Counter! kp 6/30":
1 2 2 2 4 9 16 17 = 4 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 11 - 7 vs TN 4 for "Out of Cp. Counter! kp 8/30":
1 2 4 5 = 2 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "9 vs. Sid's 12, result is 3 meter push in whatever direction Sid wants, which will be to herd his opponent to fall off the subway car!"

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Ok. A subway car is about 12 feet. that is 3.5 meters. so.."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 vs TN 2:
1 2 3 4 4 5 5 8 8 = 8 Successes

The cannon begins to hum, preparing to obliterate little Nine and send her back to Cat in pieces. The asian flicks his eyes backwards and quickly thinks up a plan. He comes at his adversary and begins throwing an insane amount of punches and kicks meant to confuse and distract. He makes a bunch of martial arts Bruce Lee-like screams at the person to also assault them audibly. "Ya! HSAAA! WHAAAAAA….KI-HAI!" the armored warrior begins to try to block and evade, throwing some attacks of their own, when suddenly Cassidy charges in and forearms them directly in the face. The move knocks them off balance, and they take a step back.

Except there is nothing to step on.

They fall backwards, the foot still on the subway extends in the forward splits and they fall approximately 12 feet from the subway, landing on ground with a loud crash! They are now on the other side of the subway car and unable to see Nine.

Cassidy draws his Savalette Guardian and points it at the Cannon. "Sir, or Madam. I know what kind of weapon that is. If you decide to continue this, I am going to shoot you there, and laugh as it explodes and takes your arm. We come in peace!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Intimidation for "He'll do it!":
2 3 16

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 10 vs TN 16 for "Will he?":
1 1 3 4 4 7 7 9 11 15 = 0 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Etiquette for "Attempting to Make friends!":
2 2 4

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 1 for "Mystery!":
4
«OOC NOTE: Even was they stop fighting, Odd, they continue.»

The person slowly rises to their feet, keeping the cannon leveled up at Cassidy, an external speaker bursts to life and a female voice says, "Your clearly not a ghoul. Your too fat. Just who the hell are you?!"

Nine gasps softly but then holds her breath and waits to see what the outcome will be for Cassidy. In the meantime, she starts whispering to Chris over there on the astral plane. "Chris: materialize next to me, and if anyone tries to harm my Big Daddy again, beat them down until they are no longer able to fight anymore." Once the orders are given, Chris will materialize as the dark chocolate mud man that he tends to be, or how Nine shaped him to be. Hopefully, he could finish doing this during the intermission that the negotiations provided. Nine probably should have told him to do this earlier, but she was still kind of a newb at the mage thing. Then, Nine shuts up and listens quietly, but she does not move just yet, staying ducked behind the cover but peeping only enough so she could keep her eyes upon Cassidy.

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) uses 1 of item 3: Chris F6 Earth Elemental from Magic Items (#4270).

Cassidy drops down from the subway car next to the woman and puts his gun away, "A woman? What the hell? You fight like a fucking demon." he adjusts his coat and keeps his eyes focused on the helmet, and not the cannon she's still pointing at him. "My name is Cassidy. I have a friend who was abducted by..something down here. I'm trying to find it. They think it's some sort of corp experiment gone awry." he says, clearly lying.

Nine sniffs a little loudly from her hidden place, and she looks over toward the shaping mud man that was taking form. "Yeah, poor Arisu." she says quietly, as if to talk to herself and play pity party about the imaginary person Cassidy had mentioned, helping the con along with her sad kitty cat ways.

Chris seems to not care about Arisu, or whoever it is about whom they speak, since his only concern is getting done with his orders and going home.

The woman lowers her arm, and the humming noise vanishes. "You can call me Samus. I think you and I are here for the same reason. I am supposed to find this creature that escaped, and kill it, and bring back proof that it's been destroyed." she hears Nine's voice on the other side of the subway car, "I hope that mage is with you, otherwise I am going to shoot them in the face for trying to hit me with that mojo."

"Yeah, she's with me. We got attacked by ghouls earlier, and she got excited.." he trails off, "But yeah, we should get going and find this damn thing. I just want to find my friend, and make sure this thing is dead. It doesn't matter to me if theres proof or not. I just want to find out what happened to them, for their family. You know?" Somewhere, a tiny violin begins to play.

The woman nods, "Accepted. The time we spent fighting probably has let it get further away. I was tracking it when it hit me with some sort of magical ability and I couldn't move. It flew that way, but according to the data, Lindwood is a dead end, and the resulting cave-in means that there is no way in or out." the woman begins heading forward without another word, moving at a near jogging pace.

Cassidy calls to Nine, "Sister! Follow!"

Nine slips out of her hiding place with some guilt from having had to hide in the first place, but she gets over it and jogs to catch up. She looks a little winded, and Chris moves after her, following, but he keeps his attention on Cassidy's health, just in case anyone is about to attack Cassidy, the mud man would become a friend in melee at the very least now.

The asian is staring at the woman leading the way, then turns to Nine. He winks at her, then gestures to the armored girl before them. "That's a -girl-. Can you believe it?"

Nine ahs softly as she moves alongside Cassidy, "Yeah… I want to be that badass someday." she says quietly. "Been a pipe dream of mine. Mom was really strong like that, too." Apparently, Nine still wanted to impress her dead mother somehow by becoming badass! Someday! Nine would do it! Chris follows along behind the two B-Team members, and he says nothing, just stays alert.

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Perception!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Intelligence:
1 1 2 4 4 5 11 14
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 10:
1 1 2 2 3 4 4 4 8 23
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Intelligence for "PerceptShaunOfTheDead!":
2 3 4 5 5 5 8

Nine sees something that looks like a pair of cat-eyes watching the group from some wreckage off to the left. Samus calls over to Sid, "Contact!" and levels her cannon at whatever it is in the shadows. The asian's eyes also lock onto what might be a threat and he draws his Savalette Guardian, "I see it!"

"Whoa! Whoa! Hold your fire! Hold your fire!" is the response in Japanese.

Nine turns her eyes upon it, and Chris looks over (but does nothing). Nine also turns her aim of the Morrissey Alta toward the Japanese voice, but she does not understand one lick of whatever the man is saying. "Huh?"

A few moments later, a naked japanese man carrying a backpack over his genitals pads into view. "Hey, Brother. I saw how you handled that situation. Real nice." he smiles at the woman, "Samus! It's been awhile. Who sent you?" he asks (japanese)

"Tiger Tanaka. As I live and breath. What are you doing here?" the woman asks (also japanese)

"You saw that? Yeah. Thanks…why are you naked? You speak english?" Cassidy asks (more japanese)

Nine looks between all three of the Jap speakers, and instantly, she starts to begin weaving a sterilization of the area in which they are, not sure what kind of things or contact the naked man has had with what… eww!
Nine is also not sure what to say, but she stays quiet, and also maintains overwatch on their area while the others are distracted with el new arrival!

"Engrish? My brother, why wourd you want to speak that ranguage?" he asks, his English restricted by his inability to say the letter "L." He looks back at Nine and his eyes glow briefly, as though looking through her. "Aaaaah! You wark with Cat! I rike you a rot! You are ritt'ral mage, but someday you can become strong, yes?"

Samus sighs for a moment, "Tanaka. Either put your clothes on or do your…thing. Our target is in the next station. Why are you here? My employers just want the target neutralized, preferrably destroyed."

Cassidy doesn't respond, but watches the other two to see what they do.

Nine looks back toward Mister Naked, aka Tanaka, and then she smirks some, "Sorta. I work for Cat, but not with Cat." She leaves the rest elusive, letting the poor man have to think about her little riddle. "Someday, becoming a badass, ayep." she says, as if the choice were already made and nothing to change it could be done! Nine looks briefly to Chris and then back to the scene.

Tanaka looks at Nine with disappointment at her answer, then looks back to Samus, his smile completely gone. "It's ahead of us? I believe the best plan of action would be for all of us to cover the exits and keep it from escaping. What do you think?" He looks back at Cassidy, "Oh! I know you. Samanosuke mentioned you, the former pasta flunky with red hair. Well, you can help, right?" (all in japanese)

The man hesitates for a moment, then slink down to all fours, like an animal. He drops the backpack and prepares to inhale deeply, then suddenly his bones begin to crack loudly, orange and black fur start to sprout all over his body, his spine snaps, and elongates to make his thickening legs and paws become more symmetrical. Saliva drips to the dirty floor as his canines extend and a fairly long tail bursts forth from his lower back. His jaw bone breaks audibly and he groans as his muzzle and snout extend, claws churn up dirty and gravel as his forearms curl inward and expand. His slanted eyes change colors and little whiskers sprour in tune to his ears becoming pointed and his body swelling with newfound strength of overwhelming feline power!

Tanaka has completely transformed into a Tiger, and leans back, his giant maw eliciting a giant roar that shakes the entire tunnel.

Samus sighs, "Well, there goes the element of surprise." she begins hurrying forward towards Lindwood station, leaving the rest of you behind.

Cassidy doesn't seemed shocked at what has occurred but stares at the Tiger as though it were a minor diety. "That's…that's amazing! Teach that ish to me, nigga!" As Samus departs, Sid goes to follow, but Tanaka bites the back of his calf and tugs him back. "What?!" then realizes what the shapeshifter wants. "Ok, ok." He kneels down and fixes the backpack over the animal's body, the harness looking quite comical on such a big cat. He rises and the tiger takes off without any thanks. "Damn it. Come on Nine, keep up!"

The above dialogue is in Japanese, btw.

Chris seems to think that the tiger has some intention of hurting Cassidy, and he nearly rolls up on the two of them, readying one of his muddy appendages for a swipe, but then realizes (since he is Force 6 and not stupid) that things are alright after a moment there. The creepy appendage is lowered and then Chris resumes following Nine who sprints off after Cassidy, able to go as fast as her quickness 4 John Wayne swagger can take her. "Eh?" she asks, not sure exactly what is going on, but she figures she will stay close to Big Daddy, as is usually the plan.

Samus gets to the Station first, and immediately you can hear demonic howling and the woman's Cannon firing, Tanaka roars and easily outruns both B-Team members and takes his first left as soon as he enters the Lindwood Platform.

As soon as the duo catches up with the rest of the group, it's quite obvious that something terrible has happened here. The area is on fire, and some of the old sprinklers are working, but the water coming out seems to be consisting of stagnant rust infused liquid that could be making things worse. The smell is incredibly powerful here, and it's a lot like animal feces.

Samus is firing at something in the dark, and she calls back, "Theres something over there. I don't know what it is, but if theres a sprinkler system, then theres power here. See what you can do! I'll hold it off."

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Perception!"
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Intelligence:
2 2 3 4 4 5 5 5

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Intelligence for "PerceptShaunOfTheDead!":
1 1 2 3 7 10 10

The asian looks around, and doesn't really see anything useful "I don't see it!"

But Nine sees the source, as the electrified third rail in this section seems to still be active for whatever reason. The continuous rigid conductor sparks every so often, and it looks like the direct current (DC) is halted from applying power to the station. If there was a place to begin, it would be right there.

Somewhere in the darkness, Tanaka can be heard growling loudly, and the reports of Samus's Laser can he heard zapping, briefly illuminating the dark tunnel every so often.

Nine decides to turn the glasses on to record right away, not hesitating, since extra footage would be better than less footage. Nine speaks, "Applesauce!" quite clearly, and then she moves to keep steady sights toward the direction where she thinks she might be seeing something. She also opens up astral perception, and even though that might not affect the glasses themselves, she would at least be able to see life forces. Luckily, the shades also provided some help from the sparks that might otherwise fry those contacts.

Samus yells back at him, "What do you mean you can't see it! Look harder!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Intelligence:
1 1 2 2 2 4 5 5
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Intelligence for "PercepShaunOfTheDead(Part2)!":
1 1 1 1 2 3 5
«OOC» Cassidy says, "You already know where it is. You have to tell Cassidy."

Cassidy searches around in the darkness, looking everywhere but at the third rail that Nine has already seen. "Son of a bitch! How am I missing this?!"

Nine moves up to Cassidy and grabs his hand and then points in the direction of the thing, or whatever she feels is the problem right now!

Nine says "Right there!"

Cassidy stares blankly, "Oh dear god. I am retarded." he hurries over to the rail and examines the box attached to it, he then takes a look and spots what appears to be an insulated cover that has been damaged previously. "I've never attempted anything like this…but I think I can do it."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Electronics B/R + Task Pool: 1 vs TN 8 for "Restoring the Sliding Shoe.":
1 4 4 4 4 8 11 = 2 Successes

Nine frowns just a little bit when she realizes that Cassidy is going to adjust electrical things on the rails here. She moves to make sure she was not actually stepping on anything that might conduct electricity, and she guides Chris to not do the same for his own benefit, and she tells him that he is a chump if he thinks that is going to use up one of his services, since it was for his benefit alone that she even warned him!

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Electronics + Task Pool: 1 vs TN 8 for "Charging the composite conductor and applying it to the grid.":
2 2 3 4 5 5 14 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Electronics B/R + Task Pool: 1 vs TN 8 for "Establishing a good collection interface. Thus restoring power.":
1 1 1 3 3 4 7 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Electronics B/R + Task Pool: 1 vs TN 8 for "Establishing a good collection interface. Thus restoring power. kp 17/26":
1 2 3 3 3 5 8 = 1 Success

«Plot» Cassidy says, "Sid restores power to this station, it is unlikely that the power can continue to other stations."

Theres horrific screaming and howling, the environment something out of a horror movie as the repeated flashes from Samus cannon are accompanied by distant tiger roars and other assorted noises that sound like approaching feet and claws clicking on concrete. Unable to see the sources in such an enclosed area creates bad echoey acoustics that heighten the tension to alarming degrees, the very shadows itself seem to be reaching out with bad intentions!

Reaching into his duffle bag, Cassidy retrieves his electronics kit and just stares at the problem in front of him. "Nine, take your contacts out, I'm not sure if this will light the place up, or cause an explosion." he then yells at Samus, "I think I can get it!" he falls silent and begins to work carefully on the wires. The first step is to move the sliding shoe onto the electrified third rail, causing power to be collected in the conductor. The asian is bathed in a blue glow and you can feel the heat emanating from directly in front of him. "Oh come on.." he tries to talk to it out of what could be nervousness and he reattaches some wires that feeds the energy from the composite conductor to the grid. Quickly, he uses one of his tools to beat a mostly decrepit aluminum core against the steel container, creating an alternating current. The surface is complete, and then…

The cars in the station begin to light up, some pop and explode, and then the overhead lights of the somewhat intact station light up, illuminating the area in a dull yellow light, allowing you to get a good look at the area for the first time.

Nine of course does as Cassidy asks her to. Quickly, she sterilizes her area, holsters her gun, removes her gloves, pockets the gloves, says "applesauce", and then pushes the glasses up onto the top of her head. She removes the contacts ASAP, and she probably manages to get them out before Cassidy gets everything up and running. Nine puts the glasses back down on her face, and she says "applesauce" again to resume recording, and then she straight pockets the contacts into the hip pocket of her greatcoat, not wasting too much time before getting her hardliner gloves from the other hip pocket and sliding her hands into them. Once done, she attempts to glance all around at the area that has become brightened with new light that the area has probably not seen for some time.

Chris still lingers ominously with Nine, still ready to slap anyone who attacks Cassidy, as he was ordered to do. He keeps his appendages to himself.

The Lindwood station is littered in waste, both human and animal. The ceiling lamps are not that powerful, but it's enough to get a good look at the area. Theres a few knocked over subway cars, but the ones that are upright seem like they might take off at anytime. The raised platform is where Tiger Tanaka currently is, in the midst of fighting three ghouls that are trying to bite his tiger tail off. Samus is in the midst of trying to shoot something flying around above the crowd, and further down the tunnel you can hear something roaring on the other side of the immobile trains.

The main platform extends forward and to the right in regards to where Nine and Sid are, the center platform has some stairs that lead up to the surface, but it uncomfirmed if there is an exit there or not, the exit on the opposite end is clearly caved in, and on the other side of the platform is yet another set of cars heading to yet another station.

To clarify, the sequence is train tunnel (Where Sid, Nine, and Samus are), the platform where people would wait, (Where Tanaka is) and yet another train tunnel past that.

«OOC» Nine says, "http://www.top-ten-glasgow-guide.com/images/glasgow-subway-station.jpg"
«OOC» Cassidy says, "Oh. Yes, the platform is raised, like about six, seven feet off the ground. The trains are on the tracks, and the doors on the car are even with the station."

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Not exactly, but that's the basic idea. just the platform is elevated"

Nine frowns just a little bit about Tiger Tanaka being attacked, and as much as she wants to help him, she figures that he is probably much stronger than she about getting ghoul whipping done. The flying thing takes Nine's interest, mainly because someone was trying to shoot at it, and she was not sure if it was the creature they were supposed to record or not. She was recording now, and she tries to keep her sights upon it for a moment and attempts to assense it as well even through the horrid BG count that was around them.

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Intelligence vs TN 6 for "Assensing FlyThingy!":
1 2 3 3 3 4 5 = 0 Successes
«OOC» Cassidy says, "Perception!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Intelligence:
1 2 2 2 3 3 4 11

The scene is degenerating into chaos, Tiger Tanaka has made a break from the ghouls and is returning to you, he doesn't have any obvious wounds, but it seems like he's trying to tell you something. Samus is -still- shooting at the flying thing that Nine cannot identify, and on the platform are several ghouls, goblins, and whatever it is that is roaring in the distance.

Cassidy reaches to his back and draws his sword, preparing for battle. "Samus!" he calls, "Leave that damn thing alone and help out with these fucking ghouls!" he barks an order to Nine, "Nine! Throw a telepathy link at Tanaka and see what he's trying to tell us!"

Samus refuses Cassidy's demands, "That flying thing is the target! Nothing else matters than it's destruction!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Sorcery vs TN 7 for "TN4+2BG+1Stun(L)":
1 2 3 4 4 9 = 1 Success

«OOC» Cassidy says, "What are you casting?"
«OOC» Nine says, "F1 Extended MindLink."

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Willpower + Sorcery Pool: 6 vs TN 4 for "F1/2, +2 BG, +1Stun(L) (Soak D Wounds)":
1 1 1 1 2 2 3 5 5 5 9 11 = 5 Successes

Nine motions toward Tiger Tanaka, and she casts the mindlink as soon as Cassidy tells her to, but the mana drain due to the background count and her already slightly drained state takes its tole upon her abilities. She suffers some moderate stun, taking her down to 6 boxes left of the stun track! Nine manages to pull the spell off, just barely, but she weaves it up and then continues to sustain it… now she would not be very good for doing much else while concentrating on a spell and being damaged, BUT! She does not let herself be unuseful completely, because while the thing flies, she keeps trying to at least keep the applesauce glasses pointed in toward the thing. Should Cassidy become attacked, Chris will start to smash enemies!

As Nine establishes the link, Tiger Tanaka does not think in words as his mind is bestial and not human. He thinks in pictures, and Nine is assaulted with several things at once. The ghouls attacking, him fighting them off, but before that he shows something very large and very angry on the otherside of the subway platform. It looks like a giant troll covered in spikes and armed with something dangerous.

The strangest thing then happens, the flying thing that Samus is trying to shoot comes flying towards Nine of all people and begins to flap around above her.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 7 vs TN 6:
1 2 3 4 4 8 10 = 2 Successes

«OOC» Nine says, "That is +2 right?"
«OOC» Cassidy says, "Correct."

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Willpower vs TN 9 for "?!":
1 2 4 5 5 9 = 1 Success

«OOC» Cassidy says, "The creature in question just hit you with it's Desire Reflection power."

«OOC» Cassidy says, "So whatever Nine's greatest desire is, she will indulge herself in it and won't be able to act."

(MIND LINK) Tiger Tanaka can tell that Nine feels quite ill as the empathic bond forms between them. Luckily, Nine is not taken aback by the sudden whirlings of emotion and pictures, despite her stun wounds, since she has had mind linking before with one specific cat, one from her past.

«OOC» Cassidy says, "When a being uses this power, roll an Opposed Test betweenthe being's Essence and the target's Willpower. If the creatu generates more successes, the victim is deceived by the illusion. Otherwise, the power fails to affect the victim. Left to their own devices, victims indulge themselves as if their desire had come true (scooping up imaginary credsticks or hardware, strangling their illusory nemesis, caressing an imaginary boytoy or joygirl, and so on)."

«OOC» Cassidy says, "If the victim is attacked or injured, or if companions shout at him or slap him, the victim may make another Willpower Test to resist the illusion. Victims who generate more successes than the creature break free of the illusion. Those who fail cannot act, caught between illusion and reality."

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Meanwhile, it's init time!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Initiative with a modifier of -2 with a result of 9.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 3 for "+8 Samus.":
2 2 2
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls 1 for "CHRIS (+14) F6 Materialized Earth Elemental!":
3
«OOC» Nine says, "Chris has 17, but he will hold all actions until anyone attacks Cassidy for any reason."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 3 for "+11 Tiger Tanaka":
1 3 4
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Initiative with a result of 17.

«OOC» Nine says, "Let's see, there's been a lot of ghouls here, and there's been something Nine has wanted. Maybe in more instances, it would be Aern, but I think that Nine wants her mommy because of all of the ghoul vibes. That make sense?"

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 1 for "+4 Scrub Ghoul 1.":
2
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 1 for "+4 Scrub Ghoul 2.":
11
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 1 for "+4 Scrub Ghoul 3.":
2
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 2 for "+4 Goblin.":
2 8
«OOC» Cassidy says, "This is the first wave."
«OOC» Cassidy says, "First person to act is Tanaka. He'll maul the closest ghoul."

(MIND LINK) Something changes in the mind link with Tanaka as Nine succumbs to the power of the flying thing. Tanaka can see that Nine is thinking in much the same way that he is, with pictures and emotions. Most of the thoughts center around a rather full-bred Sioux Amerindian woman, who seems to flicker into an image in the link before Nine can no longer concentrate upon the spell itself and it just… drops.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 4 for "Tanaka Attacks. Damage is 10S, using reach to raise his opponents TN.":
1 2 2 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 7 9 = 8 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 5 + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 5 for "S.G #1":
1 2 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 10 = 4 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 10 for "Tanakas Damage.":
1 2 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 7 14 = 1 Success

«OOC» Cassidy says, "He takes him out."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Edged Weapons + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 4 for "Stabby, raising opponents TN with reach.":
2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 10 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Edged Weapons + Combat Pool: 5 - 2 vs TN 4 for "Stabby, raising opponents TN with reach. kp 18/26":
1 1 2 2 2 3 3 7 = 1 Success

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Jeez. I used Edged instead of Katana, but oh well."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 4 + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 5 for "Scrub Ghoul defense.":
1 2 3 3 4 4 5 10 = 2 Successes

(REAL TIME) Nine actually pulls her glasses off of her face and folds them up in her hands, as she looks toward Chris. She imagines that he is not the earth elemental that was preparing for battle, the being that she created with her own conjuring. No, she imagines him as the aforementioned Sioux woman, someone who actually created Nine Lives, herself, even though it was not real. Nine could not help herself right now, and it might be hard for any of the mundanes to understand, but she simply stands there quietly, hoping to watch her mother kick some ass like Nine had seen done a few times many years ago, back when Nine was a young child. As usual, Nine remains rather quiet.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 18 for "Base is 13M, dikoted blessed katana creates 18S damage.":
1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 8 9 11 = 0 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908)'s Murasame (#7519) has the Voucher Item 1 Dikote Katana with the following information:
----------—[ Shadowrun Denver ]-
============================> Item 1 on Murasame <=============================
Item Name: Dikote Katana
Item Type: ITEM
Quantity: 1
Fractional OK: No
Clonable: No
Players Can Link: No
Created For: Cassidy (#2908)
Created By: Rage (#9202)
IC Location: Carried
-----> Description for Item <------
Sweet! A dikoted katana!
-----> GM Notes for Item <-----
Sep 25 2008 Conceal: 3 Reach: 1 Damage: (STR +5)S


«OOC» Cassidy says, "He takes an S."

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Samus will just shoot someone with her laser."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 4 for "Laser!":
2 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 7 10 = 11 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 5 vs TN 4 for "Trying to dodge":
1 2 2 5 7 = 2 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 7 + Combat Pool: 6 vs TN 15 for "Goblin trying to soak the shot.":
1 1 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 7 10 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 7 + Combat Pool: 6 vs TN 15 for "Goblin trying to soak the shot. kp 1/4":
1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 7 9 13 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 7 + Combat Pool: 6 vs TN 15 for "Goblin trying to soak the shot. kp 3/4":
1 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 22 = 1 Success

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Uninjured Ghoul tries to eat tiger tanaka!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 5 + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 5 for "Tanaka will raise his reach.":
1 2 2 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 3 for "Tanaka! Terrorize!":
1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 = 5 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "The tiger kills again."

«OOC» Cassidy says, "The injured ghoul will try to take out Cassidy."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 4 + Combat Pool: 1 vs TN 9 for "+3 for wound, +1 for Sid's reach.":
1 3 4 9 10 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Edged Weapons (Katana) + Combat Pool: 2 vs TN 3 for "Counter!":
2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 = 8 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 vs TN 18 for "Out of cp, soak.":
1 1 1 1 2 5 = 0 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Willpower vs TN 9 for "Will Nine Will it?!":
2 2 4 4 5 7 = 0 Successes

As Nine prepares to cheer on her mother, Tiger Tanaka leaps onto the platform and leaps onto the closest ghoul. His massive teeth crunching onto his windpipe and shakes his head wildly, then flicks his mighty jaws to the left and the ghoul goes flying against an old bench, killed from a broken neck. The tiger roars a challenge, with blood dripping from his massive fangs.

Cassidy follows Tiger Tanaka into the fray and begins to spin his sword in expert fashion, a large ghoul comes at him, getting ready to grab onto him. The asian spins counterclock-wise and unleashes a mighty uppercut like slash that takes the ghoul's arm off, it stumbles back a few steps, unable to process how badly it is injured. It tries to come after him again, and Cassidy stabs it right in the sternum, he twists the handle so the blade faces the ceiling, then pulls up and away, cutting the ghoul completely in half. Gore and organs blast toward the ceiling as the two halves of the ghoul fall to either side like hamburger pushed off a kitchen table. *SPLAT!*

It's at this time that Samus calmly aims her weapon at the lone Goblin and her cannon whines, then proceeds to obliterate his face and upper torso, where the former dwarf collapses to the ground, his body still twitching. The chunky salsa effect is in full swing as diced meat and skull fragments paint hauntingly pretty designs on the concrete.

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Combat over."

As combat ends, the collected group can still hear that roaring coming closer.

Chris will immediately roll up onto the scene where the ghoul just attempted to attack Cassidy, but he will arrive just as the target is dropped, like a sack of potatoes. Chris keeps vigilant of the astral and physical, as he is a dual being much like the ghouls are, and he holds his attacks until another target makes its way with malice toward the large Asian man.
Nine herself is still staring at Chris, and she starts to walk, stumbling over things as she begins following Chris with undying loyalty.

Nine was quiet until she began to speak in Sioux, "Mom, I love you." she tells Chris, who glances back briefly to regard her with some Spock-like elemental demeanor, but then he focuses his attention on his assigned duty.
Nine has the kind of quiet voice that a loving little girl would have.

Samus looks back towards where that flying creature was, but it's gone. "Blast! It got away. Let me check my sensors…Everybody look for it!"

Tiger Tanaka starts to lick his paws for whatever reason cats do that, and then puts his snout to the ground, tracking his prey using his incredible cat senses.

"Understood. I'd like to get this over with before we run into whatever keeps making that sound." he looks back as Nine says something about her Mom, his eyes roll slightly, "Nine! Come on! We have to find that damn thing, and your the only one with astral—" he gets cut off as Tiger Tanaka makes a little growl, "Er, more set of eyes would come in handy." he finishes.

«OOC» Cassidy says, "You get another resistance roll."

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Willpower vs TN 9 for "Will Nine Will It?! (Act 2)!":
1 2 4 4 5 5 = 0 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 10 for "Samus":
1 1 2 2 3 5 5 9 11 17

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Intelligence:
1 2 4 4 5 7 7 10

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 7 for "Tiger Tanaka.":
1 3 3 3 4 5 5

Nine still has the applesauce glasses (recording) but unfortunately they are of little use right now, taking pictures of the insides of the surgeon's hands. Nine murmurs softly to Chris in Sioux about how good Cat is. Then, the young girl rushes to cling right up against the pissy elemental, hugging him up… and he just kind of stands there, not really caring much.

Samus points forward, and she aims her weapon at what appears to be a little cat trying to sneak away. "There it is!"

The cat glares at Samus, and meows loudly.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 7 vs TN 6:
1 2 2 2 4 4 10 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 7 - 1 vs TN 6 for " kp 1/11":
1 1 2 4 4 4 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 vs TN 7:
1 2 4 4 4 8 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 - 1 vs TN 7 for " kp 9/30":
2 3 3 4 13 = 1 Success

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Cat attempts to use blindness on Samus, but fails!"

Samus clutches her helmeted head again as she sees spots in her vision, she trains her cannon on the gun and prepares to unleash hell!
er, cat.

Cassidy blinks at Nine's behavior, "Nine! What da fuck you be DOIN'?!" he yells!

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Another."

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Willpower vs TN 9 for "Will Nine Will It?!":
2 2 3 4 4 5 = 0 Successes

Nine was finishing up squeezing Chris in a mother-to-daughter hug thing, and then she opens her eyes and glances around a little with a bright smile. Then, Nine notices Samus with the laser gun and then pointing toward the cat, and Nine frowns deeply. Nine whispers in Sioux again, "I know you must go and protect Cat's children." Luckily, Nine did not tell Chris to go smash Samus, and so Chris just ignores Nine until the Mistress actually gives him something that sounds like real orders. Nine does let go though, hugging her arms up against herself and then staring at Chris expectantly… who does nothing.

At this time, the roaring finally reveals itself, and it has a buddy! From the next tunnel over, a gaunt elf appears to float from the other side of the subway car and comes to rest on the roof of the car, "Gooooood Evening!" he says, bowing slightly, he grins happily, and his impossibly long tongue trails over his elongated fangs. "It would apppppeeeeaaarrrr…that you are trespassing upon our domain. We do not approve. So! Allow me to introduce your entertainment for the evening!"

From the next car over, an incredibly gigantic weapon smashes down on the coupling cable between two subway cars, and the giant figure of what used to be a troll -pushes- the cars apart to step through. The two carts actually roll several feet in their respective directions, and the troll hefts what appears to be an incredibly massive sword at least seven feet long. It's design is akin to that of the famous German sword called a Zweihander.

The gaunt man claps and stares at the runners, "RUN IN FEAR!" he cackles!

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 vs TN 6 for "Samus":
1 2 3 3 4 8 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 vs TN 6 for "Nosferatu vs. Samus.":
1 1 2 4 4 10 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 vs TN 5 for "Nosferatu vs. Tiger Tanaka":
1 2 3 4 4 5 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 vs TN 5 for "Tanaka says..":
3 3 3 4 5 8 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 vs TN 10 for "Nosferatu vs. Cassidy.":
1 3 4 5 8 8 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Willpower vs TN 6 for "Cassidy says..":
1 1 1 1 4 4 5 7 11 15 = 3 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Willpower vs TN 8 for "Noooo!":
1 2 3 3 4 11 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 vs TN 6 for "Nosferatu vs. Nine.":
1 2 4 4 5 9 = 1 Success

Samus aims her weapon at the vampire, "Yes. I'll be running out of here and into the shower after I exterminate your filth from the earth." he weapon begins to hum loudly as the energy collects itself to fire.

Tiger Tanaka cannot speak, but merely stands tall and proud, almost posing, as it were. He roars a challenge at the troll and his vampire keeper.

Cassidy tightens his grip on the sword and takes a step back, gesturing to Nine, "Nine. Seriously. I swear, if you don't quit that shit, you are off the fucking team. I will never take you on another mission, and I'll tell everybody your the worst at everything. NINE! NINE!" it almost sounds like he's screaming 'No! No!" in German.

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Willpower vs TN 9 for "Will Nine Will It?!":
1 1 4 4 8 9 = 1 Success

Nine looks at Cassidy and then speaks in Sioux again, "Mom is brave." she says and then motions to Chris, and then Nine hugs herself, but hey, at least she still had the glasses held in her hand (still recording the insides of them anyways). Nine smiles slightly toward Cassidy, almost innocently.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 7 vs TN 6 for "Believe!":
1 2 3 3 5 7 8 = 2 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls 1 for "Chris is Pissed! (+14)":
10
«OOC» Nine says, "HOO"
«OOC» Nine says, "20 INIT for Chris!"
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Initiative with a modifier of -2 with a result of 6.
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Initiative:
9
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 3 for "+8 Samus.":
2 4 4
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 3 for "+11 Tiger Tanaka":
1 2 3
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 2 + 4 for "Dzoo-Noo-Qua":
1 2 3 3 4 17
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 2 for "+4 Dzoo-Noo-Qua":
4 5

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 3for "+6 Nosferatu.":
1 1 2

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 3 for "+4 Kludde.":
2 2 5

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Initiative with a result of 19.
«OOC» Cassidy says, "Order is, Chris 20, Cassidy 19, Samus 18, Tiger Tanaka 17, Kludde 13, Dzoo 13, Nosferatu 10, Nine 6."
«OOC» Cassidy says, "Ok, what will Chris do?"

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls 6 (Chris Has This Many Dice INT):
3 3 4 5 5 10
«OOC» Nine nods, "I'm thinking that Chris knows he can get to the idiot faster astrally, so he'll dematerialize and then attempt to fly at the speed of light to smash into the dual natured fiend (who is cursed with actually being dual natured), which might help Nine. If Nosferatu is tied to a meat body, well, sucks to be him, right?"

Chris might be pissed, and he might generally reflect the quiet curmudgeonous side of Nine, but he is no retard. He quickly pops out of existance for some reason, more than likely making the mundanes feel like they have lost another ally. However, Chris is actualy flying at astral speeds toward the foe that just tried to do something magically creepy to Cassidy! He will do what he can to beat the drek out of Nossie's astrally active bits.

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls 6 (F6 Chris) + 6 (Astral Combat Pool) vs TN 4 for "Slapping Nossie!":
2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 5 9 10 = 8 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls 6 (F6 Chris) + 6 (Astral Combat Pool) - 8 vs TN 4 for "Slapping Nossie! (KP1/6)":
2 3 3 9 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 7 vs TN 4 for "Fighting Back.":
1 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 7 9 9 11 11 = 8 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 7 - 8 vs TN 4 for "Fighting Back. kp 1/18":
2 2 3 3 3 4 15 = 2 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls 6 (F6 Chris) vs TN 6 for "Soak M Damage.":
2 2 3 5 7 7 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls 6 (F6 Chris) - 2 vs TN 6 for "Soak M Damage. (KP2/6)":
1 5 5 10 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls 6 (F6 Chris) - 2 - 1 vs TN 6 for "Soak M Damage. (KP4/6)":
1 7 10 = 2 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Quickness vs TN 6:
2 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 8 10 15 = 3 Successes

«OOC» Nine says, "If Nos is distracted, does he take a penalty to dodge?"
«OOC» Cassidy says, "Sure! +2 sounds good."

Although Chris has disappeared, the nosferatu swings toward something that does not seem to be there in astral space. Nine is bouncing a little bit and then yelling, "Get him mom! Yeah!" but actually in english this time!

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Throwing Weapons + Combat Pool: 6 vs TN 4 for "Hitting the Nosferatu":
1 1 1 2 2 4 5 5 7 8 11 11 = 7 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Throwing Weapons + Combat Pool: 6 - 7 vs TN 4 for "Hitting the Nosferatu 19/26":
2 3 3 3 5 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 4 vs TN 6 for "Distracted by Chris. +2.":
2 3 5 11 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 6 for "Nos armor is 9/7":
1 2 3 3 5 5 5 5 8 8 10 15 = 4 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 4 - 4 vs TN 6 for "Nos armor is 9/7 kp 2/18":
1 1 2 3 3 4 5 5 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 4 - 4 vs TN 6 for "Nos armor is 9/7 kp 4/18":
1 2 4 4 4 4 5 10 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 4 - 5 vs TN 6 for "Nos armor is 9/7 kp 7/18":
2 2 2 2 3 4 15 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 4 - 6 vs TN 6 for "Nos armor is 9/7 kp 11/18":
1 1 2 2 3 9 = 1 Success
«OOC» Cassidy says, "He'll take the M."

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Samus's action is to bust him with her cannon."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 4 for "Power Beam!":
1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 8 15 17 = 7 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 5 - 7 vs TN 4 for "Power Beam! 10/30":
2 3 4 4 5 5 5 = 5 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 1 vs TN 12 for "Attempting to Soak the beam.":
1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 5 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 1 vs TN 12 for "Attempting to Soak the beam. kp 12/18":
1 2 5 5 5 5 5 9 14 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 1 - 1 vs TN 12 for "Attempting to Soak the beam. kp 14/18":
2 2 2 3 3 4 5 11 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 1 - 1 vs TN 12 for "Attempting to Soak the beam. kp 17/18":
2 3 4 4 4 5 5 9 = 0 Successes
«OOC» Cassidy says, "No good! He's DEAD!"

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Tiger Tanaka will hold action, he's not really feeling ferocious enough to attack the troll with the giant sword."

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Make the success test against the cat again, please."

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Willpower vs TN 9 for "Will Nine WIll It?!":
2 2 4 4 5 7 = 0 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "The Kludde will attempt blindness on samus again."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 vs TN 6 for "Blindness!":
1 2 3 4 5 9 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 - 1 vs TN 6 for "Blindness! 2/11":
1 3 5 5 9 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 - 2 vs TN 6 for "Blindness! 4/11":
1 3 4 11 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 vs TN 6 for "Samus defends.":
1 1 2 4 5 7 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 - 1 vs TN 6 for "Samus defends. kp 11/30":
3 3 3 5 17 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 - 2 vs TN 6 for "Samus defends. kp 13/30":
2 3 4 5 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 6 - 2 vs TN 6 for "Samus defends. kp 16/30":
1 1 3 3 = 0 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 1 for "Samus's blindness lasts..":
3
«OOC» Cassidy says, "Oh no! 3 turns!!"

The asian glares at the Nosferatu as he seems to be swiping at the air, he looks over at Nine, "Nine. You are OFF THE B-TEAM!" and reaches into his utility belt, drawing one of his dikoted throwing knives. He rears back and hurls it at the Vampire, who tries to dodge but ends up dodging -into- the blade's trajectory, and the weapon buries itself to the hilt in the lower-right quadrant of his abdomen. "HSSSS!" the vampire groans and clutches the knife, attempting to pull it out.

Unfortunately, the vampire isn't ready for what comes next as Samus trains her arm cannon on the nosferatu and the weapon whines loudly, expending a tremendous amount of energy, the beam shoots forward and strikes the vamp in his neck, completely severing his head from his body. The last expression on his face is one of bug-eyed disbelief, and his body proceeds to fade away into dust as the knife and whatever items were on him clatter to the ground.

Tiger Tanaka growls at the infected troll, but takes a couple steps back as the troll prepares to get onto the platform. The tiger snarls a few times, and comes to stand next to Cassidy, who looks at the cat and says, "Seriously?"

It's at this time that Samus smiles inside her helmet, satisfied that the vampire is no more, but then just so happens to get stuck blind by the Kluddes innate power to remove sight from it's target. The bounty hunter finally loses her cool and collected composure, "My eyes!!! Oh NO! I'm BLIND!"

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Dzoo's action. climb onto the platform and attack Samus, as sensing her fear makes him want to kill her even more."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 6 vs TN 2 for "Troll natural reach -1, the zweihander has a reach of -2. So three altogether.":
1 1 1 1 1 2 3 4 4 4 4 5 8 15 15 = 10 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 6 - 10 vs TN 2 for "Troll natural reach -1, the zweihander has a reach of -2. So three altogether. kp 1/22":
2 2 3 5 11 = 5 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 11 vs TN 12 for "Base is 4, +8 for blindness. Not likely, but hey.":
2 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 7 10 = 0 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 7 for "Samus armor is 11/10, troll's str is 15, the weapon adds +2.":
1 1 1 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 7 8 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 5 - 2 vs TN 7 for "Samus armor is 11/10, troll's str is 15, the weapon adds +2. kp 17/30":
1 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 8 11 17 = 3 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 5 - 5 vs TN 7 for "Samus armor is 11/10, troll's str is 15, the weapon adds +2. kp 20/30":
2 3 3 3 5 8 8 10 10 = 4 Successes

The lumbering being that was once a troll crawls up the platform, heading straight for Samus. It begins to make some excited gutteral noises, almost giddy at the woman's displeasure and overwhelming fear. Theres nothing fancy to it's attack, it merely raises it's weapon, then brings it down with terrific force upon the bounty hunter, the impact echoes loudly throughout the train station, but the mil-spec armor holds, despite a small crack appearing in the woman's visor. She falls backwards from the attack, waving her hand around as though attempting to block. "Red! If you, Tanaka and your spaced out sister can help me kill this guy, I swear I'll pay you back 1,000 times over!"

Luckily, Nine does something that is a repetative motion for her: tucking things into her coat pockets, and she does that now. She puts the applesauce glasses away into an inner greatcoat pocket, just sliding them in there without breaking them, and then Nine rubs her own hands together while watching specific parts of astral space, where Chris actually inhabits it. Unfortunately, Nine is not in serial killer mode right now, but maybe it was the best thing for her, as she was staying mostly still and preoccupied, where she might normally be rushing into battle or attempting to help comrades.
For some reason, though, Nine now pans her vision around until she is looking straight towards Cassidy, and she smiles brightly toward the Asian. Nine says some more Sioux jibberish to cheer her mother… seemingly TO Cassidy, but Chris was really just hanging out in astral space above Cassidy. Chris was playing guardian angel. Despite noticing that the infected troll attacks Samus, Chris still does not yet change his position until his turn.

Cassidy looks down at the tiger, who merely bares his teeth. "What's that? Ok." he calls to Samus, "Blowjobs! We want blowjobs!"

Samus cries, "Whatever! KILL IT!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Willpower vs TN 9 for "GREEN EYES RAWR!":
1 3 5 8 15 16 = 2 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Oh my! Emotions are high!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 7 vs TN 6 for "Is it enough?!":
1 2 4 4 5 5 8 = 1 Success

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Nine breaks free!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Intelligence for "Perceptions?!":
1 1 1 3 5 5 7

«OOC» Cassidy says, "She sees it, under a bench."

Nine clutches the side of her head for a moment, but the burning green eyes start scanning, some more, just after Cassidy asks for BJs, "What?!" she growls lowly. Nine takes just a moment to collect herself and then she notices something under a bench. Over there! Nine points toward the creature, "Chris!" she calls while putting the will behind her call, "Attack our enemies! Begin with knocking out that creature, but do not kill! Once done, handle the troll!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) uses 1 of item 3: Chris F6 Earth Elemental from Magic Items (#4270).

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls 6 (F6 Chris) + 3 (ACP) vs TN 4 for "Slap Cat!":
1 2 3 4 5 5 5 5 5 = 6 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls 6 (F6 Chris) + 3 (ACP) - 6 vs TN 4 for "Slap Cat! (KP5)":
4 5 10 = 3 Successes
«OOC» Nine says, "Standing with 9 total successes."
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 4 + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 5 for "+1 Reach for being tiny.":
1 3 3 3 5 5 7 8 = 4 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 4 + Combat Pool: 4 - 4 vs TN 5 for "+1 Reach for being tiny. kp 5/11":
1 3 4 8 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 4 + Combat Pool: 4 - 5 vs TN 5 for "+1 Reach for being tiny. kp 7/11":
2 5 10 = 2 Successes

«OOC» Nine says, "6S, ayep."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 5 + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 6 for "Trying to soak.":
1 2 2 4 5 5 5 7 7 7 = 3 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 5 + Combat Pool: 5 - 3 vs TN 6 for "Trying to soak. 8/11":
2 3 4 4 5 5 7 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 5 + Combat Pool: 5 - 4 vs TN 6 for "Trying to soak. 10/11":
1 1 3 4 5 7 = 1 Success

Chris, invisible to the physical plane, moves like quicksilver while on the astral plane and then reaches the cat and gives its aura a good beat down, but it is not quite enough to do the kind of damage intended, causing L stun.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Edged Weapons (Katana) + Combat Pool: 8 vs TN 3 for "Lowering TN! Attack!":
1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 4 4 4 5 5 7 8 9 10 = 10 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Edged Weapons (Katana) + Combat Pool: 8 - 10 vs TN 3 for "Lowering TN! Attack! 20/26":
2 3 4 4 5 5 13 = 6 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 6 vs TN 4 for "-3 for reach, +3 for Samus, Tiger Tanaka, and Nine because she's there!":
1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 = 9 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 6 - 9 vs TN 4 for "-3 for reach, +3 for Samus, Tiger Tanaka, and Nine because she's there! kp 2/22":
2 3 4 4 5 8 = 4 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 6 - 13 vs TN 4 for "-3 for reach, +3 for Samus, Tiger Tanaka, and Nine because she's there! kp 4/22":
3 4 = 1 Success

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Not enough, Sids base S damage still stages to D."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 15 vs TN 7 for "Armor is 12/11, soaking 18D Damage.":
1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 5 8 10 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 15 - 2 vs TN 7 for "Armor is 12/11, soaking 18D Damage. 5/22":
1 1 1 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 10 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 15 - 3 vs TN 7 for "Armor is 12/11, soaking 18D Damage. 7/22":
1 1 1 2 4 4 4 4 4 5 9 9 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 15 - 5 vs TN 7 for "Armor is 12/11, soaking 18D Damage. 10/22":
1 1 1 1 3 4 4 4 5 7 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 15 - 6 vs TN 7 for "Armor is 12/11, soaking 18D Damage. 14/22":
1 2 2 3 4 7 8 9 11 = 4 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Tiger Tanaka will make a called shot attack for the trolls throat."

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Samus will hold action for a moment, trying to get her bearings."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 8 vs TN 3 for "Tanaka will lower his own reach. called shot +4! -3 for buddies in melee.":
1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 9 9 = 11 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 vs TN 4 for "People against troll, but troll has reach!":
2 2 2 3 3 4 7 7 22 = 4 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 - 4 vs TN 4 for "People against troll, but troll has reach! kp 15/22":
1 2 4 4 5 = 3 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "No matter, A tigers damage is 10S base. must soak a D wound from called shot gm approved neck bite ."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 15 vs TN 10 for "Attempting to survive Tanaka's death bite!":
1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 15 vs TN 10 for "Attempting to survive Tanaka's death bite! kp 16/22":
1 2 2 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 9 10 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 15 - 1 vs TN 10 for "Attempting to survive Tanaka's death bite! kp 18/22":
1 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 7 10 10 = 2 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 15 - 3 vs TN 10 for "Attempting to survive Tanaka's death bite! kp 21/22":
1 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 11 = 1 Success

«OOC» Cassidy says, "he takes an M wound from the throat bite."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 vs TN 12 for "Attempting to hit the troll in blind fire.":
1 1 1 3 3 3 4 4 5 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 vs TN 12 for "Attempting to hit the troll in blind fire. 21/30":
1 1 2 3 3 4 7 16 21 = 2 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 - 2 vs TN 12 for "Attempting to hit the troll in blind fire. 23/30":
1 2 3 3 4 9 9 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 - 2 vs TN 12 for "Attempting to hit the troll in blind fire. 25/30":
1 2 2 2 3 4 5 = 0 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Ok, She fires off 15S Damage at him, that should he be unable to soak, will not kill him, but he'll be at death's door."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 15 vs TN 9 for "Attempting to soak the shot.":
1 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 15 vs TN 9 for "Attempting to soak the shot. kp 22/22":
1 1 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 9 13 = 2 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Takes another M!"

«OOC» Cassidy says, "That puts him at 6 boxes, a serious!"

With the legendary bounty hunter in trouble, Cassidy is about to charge at the troll when Tiger Tanaka lightly pulls on his kevlar pants. The asian looks down and the shapeshifter proceeds to make this weird up down motion with it's legs. For some reason, the asian understands "I got ya!" He then charges after the troll and raises his sword, striking his enemy in the back with a massive baseball-like horizontal swing that just skids off as though he were swinging a piece of wood against a metal wall. Not even fazed, Cassidy reverses his slash with a backhanded blow that knocks off some of the spikes on the Dzoo, but is relatively ineffective. His enemy turns around and roars in anger, swinging for the redheads face. Sid immediately crouches under the blow and says, "Get em, boy!"

Immediately after the troll swings, Tiger Tanaka runs up Cassidy's back and uses him as a spring, leaping off his shoulders and digging his powerful claws into the chest of the infected Dzoo, and proceeds to lunge in and gives his opponent a deathbite on his jugular, powerful jaws that could crush metal sink into the troll and it roars with pain, swinging back and forth until it manages to get the shapeshifter off his neck.

Again it roars with Rage, and Samus's mil-spec suit systems auto target the source of the noise, her blind shot helped by raw, cutting-edge technology. "Smile, you son of a bitch!" the bounty hunter's weapon glows bright red, then fires a straight beam right into the Dzoo's ribcage, pulverizing him and causing a massive scorch mark upon it's dermal covered skin.

Now severely wounded, the troll looks back toward where his vampire buddy should be, but sadly, all that's there is a pile of dust and a silly cape.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Initiative with a result of 14.
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Initiative with a modifier of -2 with a result of 4.
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 3 for "+11 Tiger Tanaka.":
1 2 4
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 3 for "+8 Samus":
1 3 3
«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls 1 for "+24 Pure Astral INIT for Chris!":
4
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 3 for "+4 Kludde":
2 3 3
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 2 for "+4 Dzoo.":
3 5
«OOC» Cassidy says, "Order is, Chris 28, Tiger Tanaka 18, Samus 15, Sid 14, Kludde 12, Dzoo 9-3 for S wound."

«OOC» Nine says, "Chris will use his newly regained ACP to give the cat another slap."

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls 6 (F6 Chris) + 6 (Chris ACP) vs TN 4 for "Pussy Slapping!":
1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 5 5 11 = 4 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls 6 (F6 Chris) + 6 (Chris ACP) - 4 vs TN 4 for "Pussy Slapping! (KP6)":
4 4 4 4 5 10 11 17 = 8 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 4 + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 6 for +1 reach for being tiny, +1 Wound.":
1 2 4 4 7 8 9 16 = 4 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 5 + Combat Pool: 5 vs TN 6 for "Soaking Chris's Mud Punch.":
2 2 2 7 7 7 9 9 10 13 = 7 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 5 + Combat Pool: 5 - 7 vs TN 6 for "Soaking Chris's Mud Punch. kp 11/11":
3 3 10 = 1 Success

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Tiger Tanaka will attempt to bite the troll with yet another neck attack, possibly check his head off, idk how tigers think."

Chris attacks the cat's aura in astral space yet again, but apparently the LoS is broken somehow by the bench through which Chris jukes and jives, and so he has a rather hard time beating up the cat for some reason, again!

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 8 + Combat Pool: 8 vs TN 3 for "Tanaka will lower reach, called shot +4, -3 for pals in melee.":
1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 = 12 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Tanaka will stay."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 9 + Combat Pool: 9 vs TN 7 for "Despite, FIM against him and his reach, still suffering s wound for +3.":
1 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 8 9 16 = 3 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 15 + Combat Pool: 9 vs TN 10 for "Attempting to Soak the Death Bite.":
1 2 2 2 2 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 7 8 11 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 15 + Combat Pool: 9 - 1 vs TN 10 for "Attempting to Soak the Death Bite. kp 22/22":
1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 7 9 9 = 0 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "It's over!!"

«OOC» Cassidy says, "The Dzoo-Noo-Qua has Regeneration. A creature with the Regeneration power cannot be killed by any damage except that which injures the spine or brain."

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Check for this type of damage whenever the creature takes Deadly damage or its cumulative damage reaches Deadly on the condition monitor. To determine whether a creature dies from Deadly damage, roll 1D6. A result of 1 indicates that the creature is indeed dead. If the damage is from weapons that cause massive tissue damage (fire, an explosion, and so on), the creature dies on a result of 1 or 2. For any other result, the creature suffers the standard damage penalties for the Combat Turn in which the damage was inflicted, but the damage vanishes at the beginning of the next Combat Turn."

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Correction, a neck bite to the nape of your neck from a giant tiger would be spine damage for sure."

The troll is hurt badly, and has no support whatsoever. It swings it's giant sword to and fro to try and keep the runners at bay and it works for a few moments. Cassidy stays in front of the troll, waving his arms wildly to get it's attention, and then Tiger Tanaka leaps onto it's back, and begins to uses his front and back paws to claw his way up the troll as though he were scaling a tree. It doesn't matter to the shapeshifter when the troll bends over and begins to shake in a spastic fit, reaching behind him to yank the tiger off, but only succeeds in pulling out tufts of his bright orange and black fur.

Finally Tiger Tanaka manages to get onto the trolls shoulders and lunges down with another deathbite to the nape of the neck, crushing vertabrae and spine with his incredibly powerful jaws. The tiger gets ahold of something and begins to pull, you can see every muscle in it's feline body tense as it pulls upward, his four feet bracing, pulling, pulling, pulling until finally the spinal column of the troll is ripped out by the tiger's incredible bite, and the troll shivers, then proceeds to falls face first to the ground, dead.

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Samus will hold action."

Samus, despite being blind hears the abrupt snarling and roaring of the Dzoo abruptly stop, "Is it dead?!" she asks.

«OOC» Cassidy says, "Sid's action, run over to the cat and kick it into the ceiling."

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) has the Attribute Quickness with the value '11'.

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Intelligence for "Now where did it go?…Chris! Show me the way!":
1 2 2 3 3 3 4 11

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Tae Kwon Do + Combat Pool: 11 vs TN 3 for "Ultimate TKD ATTACK! kick attacky to lower tn!":
1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 8 8 11 11 = 15 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls Tae Kwon Do + Combat Pool: 11 - 15 vs TN 3 for "Ultimate TKD ATTACK! kick attacky to lower tn! kp 21/26":
1 2 2 2 3 4 10 = 3 Successes

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 4 vs TN 4 for "mew?":
2 2 3 5 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Cassidy (#2908) rolls 5 + Combat Pool: 1 vs TN 17 for "Attempting to soak 17D. 13M Base, +2 bones, +2 kicky boots.":
1 2 4 4 5 11 = 0 Successes

«OOC» Cassidy says, "It's done! Combat over!"

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls 6 (Chris Int) for "He is scoping for further foes.":
2 2 3 4 8 11

As the Dzoo-Noo-Qua falls, Cassidy sees that Chris is having some trouble whacking a cat that appears to be dodging back and forth under a bench. It hisses uselessly, realizing that it's caught. "Oh I be feelin' it, Chris! Katsuragi School Secret Technique!" as he runs, his muscles appear to bulge with hidden power, and the asian runs up to the bench and extends his left foot backwards, touching the base of his skull in an amazing display of agility. "USYAAAA!! KUNT PUNT!" his foot streaks back to earth like a lightning bolt sent from heaven, and he proceeds to kick the little Kludde right in it's kitty ass, smashing it through the bench and into the ceiling, it smashes into the old concrete with enough force to leave a small crater, and Cassidy raises his hand, catching the feline creature with one hand. "Oh yeah! That's the way (uh huh, uh huh) we like it!"

Chris sees no more enemies, and he pops away from astral space to head to the metaplanes again, having done his time. Nine whispers the softest of "Thank You"s, as the earth elemental departs, and then she blushes deeply, and she looks all around for a moment before hanging her head. She walks in a shy fashion toward her comrade, and she pulls out the applesauce glasses, offering them toward Cassidy now. She stays completely quiet, not saying anything.

Cassidy shakes his head ever so slightly at Nine, "What? Oh that's right. You need to wear your glasses? I doubt this thing has a collar, but you can go ahead and take a closer look." He holds the fallen Kludde to Nine and allows her to inspect it. He calls to the other two, "Samus! You alive, girl?" he asks, then says, "Tiger! Yousa mean mutha'fucka!"

Nine feels ill, but she puts the glasses on, and she reaches out and takes the fallen critter into her hands. She scans over the creature, and Nine sniffles softly, but she forces herself NOT to cry. They went through all this trouble already, and getting the glasses wet would do no good. She stares at the cat, turning it over in her hands, and she also assenses its aura, too.

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Intelligence vs TN 8 for "Assensing Kludde!":
3 3 4 4 5 5 9 = 1 Success

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Aura Reading vs TN 8 for "Oh yeah, Comp Dice!":
2 3 3 = 0 Successes

Samus takes a few moments and just waits, "I still can't…" As she trails off, you can hear a faint groaning and the snapping of bones and other visceral sounds. "Nnnggghh..Ok! I am ok! You did verrry werr. Nobody rook prwease. I am chan'ging!"

In the time it takes for Tiger Tanaka to change into some clothes, Samus's vision has returned and she comes over to where Cassidy and Nine are. "My mission isn't over yet." she says as Tanaka strolls up to the group. He is now dressed in a pair of nice jeans, some sneakers and a nice crimson button up shirt that looks like it's from the Banana Republic. With his backpack, the asian male resembles just another college kid.

"No, your mis'shawn is over, becaaw I need to braang this rittre guy back to Renraku arive. Which reminds me.." he opens his bag and pulls out three different syringes and proceeds to smack the inside of his elbow. "I was immoonized before they sent me, but they toll me two injecht rese just in case. My immune system is much stronger than yours, but aras, I must forrow orders." he then injects himself three seperate times and returns the empties to his backpack. He holds out his hand to Nine, but Samus' actual hand comes forward as well.

Nine inspects the animal and sees that despite it being unconscious, it's in fairly decent shape. It's gone through a lot of terror lately, but you feel like it's disposition has been warped towards evil. Another interesting thing to note is that you can feel something mechanical inside the critter, but your can't tell what.

Nine frowns deeply, having some mental trauma over all that happened, as well as also having ordered her elemental to attack something in Cat's form, despite her knowing it is astrally active when conscious. Nine just hugs the critter more closely against her bosom, and she turns away from the other two, hoarding the kitten cat to herself for some reason, trembling some, since the mana drain from previous had her shook up, as well as everything else, especially the visions she had just seen concerning her mother, and how much she missed the woman who was a Cat shaman herself. Nine growls softly.

Cassidy reaches out to Nine, "Give it to me." he says. "Don't worry everybody, I got an idea that will send everyone home happy."

Nine trembles briefly, but then looks toward the hand that belongs to Big Daddy, and then looks up toward his face. Nine clears her throat softly, and she very carefully hands the creature over to Cassidy, placing not only it, but her trust in his very hands.

Samus looks annoyed at Nine's reaction, but Tiger Tanaka just smiles happily, as though he doesn't mind her reaction at all. "Red, I don't know what exactly your..what was it, 9th sister is doing. But I have a deadline to uphold.

Tanaka smiles, "And browjabbos to give. Hai!"

The bounty hunter's facial expression cannot be seen, but her eyes crinkle up in mental pain, "I didn't really mean that. I was..you know, under duress. You guys..cmon.."

Cassidy accepts the animal and holds it up, then draws his cougar longblade. "Watch this." he proceeds to cleave the unconscious animals tail off, and it begins to shake, changing forms in the asian's hand into that of a small dog that looks like a dark furred beagle. He holds steady, and examines the animal again, "Well! I wasn't expecting that!" he holds onto the tail and looks at the ass of the new dog. There isn't a wound, but he still has the cat tail.

He hands the tail to Samus, "You busted it with your laser, and this was all that was left. You have confirmation that it isn't running around in the tunnels, and the threat has been eliminated." he hands the Kludde off to Tiger Tanaka, "And you have Renraku's property retrieved. Everybody wins, right?" he smiles happily and folds his arms in front of his chest, "Anybody got a problem with that, or are we all good?" he asks.

Nine's facial expression tightens, and then she growls quickly in an attempt to stunbolt Cassidy without thinking. Of course, she was under so much stun damage already, that she just passes out, dropping to the ground at his feet, and lucky for her: Chris is not here to see this.

«Auto-Judge[]» Nine (#10584) rolls Willpower vs TN 6 for "60 Minutes / # Successes (Per Stun Box)":
1 1 2 3 4 5 = 0 Successes
«OOC» Nine says, "Wow, Nine will not wake up until an hour has passed."

The woman doesn't say anything, apparantly having some sort of internal conversation, or she just likes to stare blankly. "….Your terms are acceptable. I won't forget you, and I always make good on my promises. If you ever decide to give the bounty hunting business a call, hit me up. This isn't my personal line, but you can leave me a message at 4413, and I'll get back to you depending on how important it is. Ya know, busy girl and all."

The shapeshifter hefts the beagle a few times, then gets some stuff out of his backpack, proceeding to bind it's paws together as though he were hog-tying the creature, then puts a little collar on it and theres an audible *click* as it fastens. A thin slap patch is also applied to the forehead, and he proceeds to open his backpack, dropping the animal in there without any sort of gentle touch.

Right there, Nine slumps over, and everyone looks at her, then back to the conversation at hand, except Cassidy, who doesn't take his eyes off the other two, and gets Nine up on his shoulders. "She uh..low blood sugar. She has diabetes..in her ear, and she passes out every so often for no reason." he explains.

Nine would remain like a sack of potatoes, slumped over Cassidy's shoulder and probably also about to lose the glasses that she wears from being faced at a downward angle. She breathes and drools out a little bit, too!

Tiger Tanaka smiles big at Cassidy and Nine, switching back to japanese. "Brother, you fight with the pride of a fierce tiger. It was an honor to fight by your side, and I want to extend my gratitude as well. If you could wait about…" he looks up and taps his fingertips together, "About three minutes, I think there is someone you would like to meet."

In this time, Cassidy (while carrying Nine), retrieves his throwing knife, loots the nosferatu's clothes, and picks up the giant sword of the Troll. "Nine, can you Steri…" he trails off, and sniffs a few times, "Oh god. I swear, if you pee again." he doesn't finish the sentence and returns to the group. "What happens in 3 Minutes?" he asks.

The answer comes in a loud explosion from above, and sunlight streams in from a newly blown hole. Debris rains from above and Mister Sun brightens the area with two scoops of Hey. A ladder unfurls from above and Tiger grabs onto it, quickly climbing up a few rungs. Motioning for Cassidy to follow, which he does. The ladder begins to retract back into the ceiling, and as they ascend upwards, Cassidy can see Samus raise her gun cannon in a salute, and then begin to walk in the direction of one of the other tunnels.

Nine would be completely out of it, laying over Cassidy's shoulder, and the glasses start to loosen their grip on her face, even as they ascend!

Eventually the surface world comes up into view, and the source of your retrival comes from a VTOL jet that hovers above the ground.

Cassidy leaps off the ladder, clutching both the new sword and Nine. He watches as Tiger Tanaka waves, disappearing into the VTOL. As he comes to stand on a rather flat patch of land, he recognizes his location as a few blocks from the UnderTown entrance, before the asian can even take a step, there are people in white suits all over him, spraying him with some sort of liquid lemon smelling liquid and putting plastic wrap over the hole and beginning some incredible fixing process.

The asian takes a step back, holding tightly onto Nine as they get sprayed. "Eh?"

Before he can say anything else, the sea of white suited fellows part, and a tall japanese male in a business suit that probably costs more than most cars approaches Cassidy, twirling a credstick in his hand.

"Hello Mr. Katsuragi. I'm certain your wondering how I know your name, and let me tell you that you don't look that much different than your "Dragon of the Dojima Clan" days. You put on some weight, but that's just life. Ha. Ha. Ha." the laughter seems almost mechanical. "Renraku Acrology would like to give you this in thanks for your good samaritan deed and to help 'encourage' you forget that you encountered any bio-engineered lifeforms while you were in the subway."

"Uh..what lifeform? I was just trying to find the Shadow Bazaar and I got lost. Well, guess I'll be getting home now, huh?" The asian smiles and bows his head, proceeding to walk away. Each step is measured to not give away his paranoia that the last thing he'll feel is a bullet-tap to the back of the head. He examines the credstick warily.

Nine is none the wiser as she lays draped over Cassidy's shoulder, and somehow by the breadth of Cat's will, the glasses that have trailed down to the end of her nose at this point manage to cling by just… a little bity bit!

The bullet-tap doesn't come, but as the two of you make distance, the man's parting shot is this: "Oh by the way, We expect great things from you, keep up the good work."

At first a block goes by and Cassidy picks up his pace, ducking into an alley, he continues, swerving and back tracking back to his car. A five minute walk takes thirty-five minutes as Cassidy keeps checking for tails or things out of the ordinary. As he gets back to his Honda, he uses his bug-sweeper five times and still finds nothing. He even checks under the car for bombs or any other explosive devices.

Things are clean, and finally the asian puts Nine in the backseat, easing into the traffic of Denver, slowly disappearing into the crowd as he drives away, haunted by the words of the Renraku suit and the uncertain future that beckons before him. Once again, despite zombies and other assorted monstrosities, The B-Team had once more managed to emerge from the world of Survival Horror Unscathed, but it probably wasn't the last time..

At that moment, a Warrens kid runs out in front of Sid, chasing a ball. He slams on his brakes and briefly raises up, and happens to re-settle in an uncomfortable position.

"Ow. Snap. Sat on my nuts."

LOG END!

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