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GM: Posh
Players: BillyBob, Blackheart, Krieg, Macro, Miyo, Posh.
Synopsis: Posh hears from Trevor that there was a location of a well defended Black Chrysanthemum weapons cache, used for arming new recruits and outside hires brought into the city, indicated based on a number of payoff information. This was traced to Gongguan Distributors, where the runners encountered a multilayered security system. After bringing in reinforces and staging a heavy assault on the drone plus Triad officer team, the group managed to storm the building and make away with the cache before response arrived – thanks to BillyBob fearlessly ramming his RV right into a Barrier 8 garage door!
Date: 11/13/2075
"Wait…what?" asks Posh. "That's what you found?" she asks. "All right, all right, Trevor. I'll get a team together, short notice. But we've got to stop doing things this way," she says, a little smile on her face. "All right, all right. Put it towards the Golden Monkey thing, and set up a datapacket," she says.
She checks who's available now in her immediate contacts, smiling as she sees the list. "Well," she says. "Looks like we've got a great set of capabilities here," she says, relieved. And so she rings up BillyBob first. «Billy, can you come round the woodlands and pick us all up? Got another little job. Similar terms offered.»
Posh then hunts around her apartment, because Krieg, Miyo, and Blackheart all live in the same jammed but nice establishment in the UCAS. "All right, ladies," she says. "Chins up, simchips down," she jokes. "We've got another opportunity to make things a little easier on us for that project that we're working on. If any of you are interested, well…my frien Trevor, well, he found something dynamite in a datastore I stole for him. There's a Black Chrysanthemum weapons cache, and he wants us to hit it. That'll make it really difficult for them to arm any recruits or outsiders regularly," she explains. "But. It'll be a tough joint. At least a few serious tough guys, and some type of other security." She frowns a bit. "Most Triad operations use magic for their second layer, but they might have something fancy." She grins. "But between you folks, we should be star. And Billy can hold back and have that Doberman ready for fire support." She grins. "That's the general idea, but we can scout the location when we arrive. That's all we have to go on. And we have to do this one ASAP - they might move the cache if we take long. So, all those parameters make this one quite a tough one."
«Plot» Posh says, "This is a plot with some reasonable danger. Posh has also requested to put all shares towards the estate she is building, which Miyo, Blackheart, and Krieg are all interested in. She has also offered BillyBob 45,000 in credit with her, to purchase 'ware and items at 20 percent off street, with free installations."
«Plot» Blackheart says, "you know it"
«Plot» BillyBob says, "I consentttt"
«Plot» Krieg says, "Krieg consents as well for this operation"
«Plot» Miyo says, "I'll consent."
BillyBob is plying grade F (but edible) meat tacos in the Barrens souk bazaar when he gets a call. "Yo wut? Oh yeah, I gots ya. Take me a minute, I'm in the warrens." He rigs in and closes up shop, darting to the freeway with a transponder library change. Soon he is pulling up to the Woodlands.
«Auto-Judge[]» BillyBob (#10588) rolls Smuggling Routes:
2 5 11 11
Blackheart is lazing about on the couch, her head jacked into the simsense. Drooling a little bit, she snaps out of it as Posh hits the menu key, "Aw Posh, I was just about to—" she's cut off when news of a vital run interrupts her. She wipes off her chin and unplugs herself before getting up to fetch her things. After a quick change of clothes into her run gear, she looks ready to rock. "These black crysanthemnumbs" English is good, but some words will never work for her, "will want to pack up and leave town for good pretty soon."
Posh chuckles a bit. "Well," she says. "Ideally we'd like to sort of…help the Red Dragons put them in their place. It's the Black Chrysanthemums who've been moving in on Red Dragon turf. But the Red Dragon is not the ideal triad for all communities. Mixed Korean/Malay marginalized communities do better with…aw hell, let's just go hit the weapons cache, amirite?" She grins. "All right. I'm going to bring some extra trauma patches. If we're really going to try to weaken an organization, they're going to have to take care of their wounded guys. Having to immediately serve them will both fuck up the scenes," she says. "But. The Black Cs have investigative resources - would you be willing to roll with EXEX on this one?" she asks, remembering how Blackheart was uninterested in stealing a Citymaster with the rebounds earlier - but ended up probably being the right one. The news showed that that had been a trap, two brutal Guardian drones humming out and laying death to all the opposition in the apartment blocks.
BillyBob rolls up to the apartment complex as advertised and gives Posh a little jingle from the RV's onboard computer. "I'm outside." The RV smells like a Mexican restaurant after cooking all that taco beef. It has a rusty paint scheme on the photovoltaic array with an anthropomorphic taco in a sombrero on one side, suggesting it is indeed a food truck.
"Sounds like serious trouble if you're suggesting EXEX right off the bat," Blackheart says, nodding her head, "Yeah, I'll roll with those," she agrees, going to the little footlocker where her empty SMG magazines are kept and she starts loading them up from the boxes provided by Posh. Once all that is set, she slips on her mirror shades and grins, "Sounds like our ride is here, let's get going!" Down in the food truck she can't help but give a laugh, "Nice battle wagon," she grins, smelling the rich scent of cumin and chili powder in the air. She wipes away a tear from the strong fragrance and gives the driver a nod, "I'm Blackheart."
Krieg has been busy preparing her things when the discussion goes on about the possible work. She organizes a few items and packs her gear into her bag. When that is done she goes to assist Senshi in his efforts to prepare for such dangerous encounters. She grabs a few drinks to place in her bag before following the others to the awaiting vehicle.
"This is the vehicle from the previous operation then?" Krieg quietly asks as she approuches it with Posh and Blackheart.
Krieg has been busy preparing her things when the discussion goes on about the possible work. She organizes a few items and packs her gear into her bag. When that is done she goes to assist Senshi in his efforts to prepare for such dangerous encounters. She grabs a few drinks to place in her bag before following the others to the awaiting vehicle.
"This is the vehicle from the previous operation then?" Krieg quietly asks as she approuches it with Posh and Blackheart.
When Posh lets everyone know there is a mission, Miyo rolls out of her hammock and starts to get dressed for a mission. "Well, hopefully I don't nearly incapacitate myself again this time." She grumbles a bit as she zips up her catsuit thing and sleeves up her floofy tail. "My head is still a bit fuzzy."
Once ready, Miyo goes to join up with Billybob and the others at the van. She is geared up, concealed beneath her hood and cloak, and ready to go. "Hey Blackheart." She moves up and gives her a hug.
Posh grins. "Indeed, this fine gentleman here pulled my arse out of the fire in it, smooth as you like, not one day ago," she says. "It was a pretty intense operation snuck into a B.C. lounge and stole a hard drive. Presumably it was from that that he was able to analyze that payments to that location were connected to arms caches for others. Lots of smartguns and smartgoggles I hear. Army in a can," she says, turning to Krieg. "Indeed it is," she says. "Apparently Mr. BillyBob is a fan of large vans designed for multi-user input to maximize nuyen earning potential," she deadpans at Krieg.
"All right, I've got a general map of the area we'll be hitting, from my mapsoft. That'll help us get started along the way."
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"So. Young Boulevard wraps around here in this B-Zone around the Ryerson Offices building, which you can see in the center of this map," she says. "The payments have been to an office located at the two-story depot building to the southeast across from that, Gongguan Importers," she explains. "It is at Gongguan Importers that we need to hit. This is a B-Zone, and it's Black Chrysanthemum turf. We can expect a lethal response from a Triad hit team within five or six minutes after any kind of alarm is raised," she explains.
"I don't have any security data on the map, but yes. This is a street-level weapons cache, so it's not anything we're unlikely to be able to load up and fit into this vehicles, and we can damage the rest. All we've got to do is toss in a few grenades and drive off," she says. "But it'll be getting in there that's the tough part, as I said. It's likely well defended."
The area shows a depression in its B-Zone part of the rockier area around Denver, where there's a lot of mixed use residential industrial, a fair amount of Low lifestyle housing complexes, such as the Cherry Blossom Apartments to the north, in addition to the cube farms at Ryerson Offices and the Triad owned distributors at Gongguan.
Posh nods a bit. "Well, Blackheart," she says. "Do you think you'll want to come on your Harley on this one?" she asks. "You might be most effective as mobile drive-by fire support, datajacked in. I'm imagining they'll have…well, let's see. It's a Black C weapons cache," she says. "That means, drones, tough Triad guys, and possibly a surprised wu jen or shaman," she says. "Do we try to sneak in somehow, or do we roll up and hit hard?"
"I see, it is good he appriciates such capabilities. This vehicle is also bulky in terms of size, I have not driven such a thing before." Krieg notes as they seem to be welcomed aboard this contraption of an RV food service vehicle. She prompty finds this other Rigger and offers a polite bow to him, looking the stranger over for the first time in person. "While we have met across the channels, it is good to see you are not some form of large Taco as described on the side of the vehicle."
Senshi (Dressed in a large old duster trench and hat) carries the two larger duffles with him as he follows along behind the others to enter the vehicle. He appears human size but the suspension certainly registers a Trolls weight entering the RV.
«Plot» Posh says, "I have been working on a set of house rules that I think will enable things to flow more quickly with less rolls. I am wondering if everyone will agree to a reduction to 'book' standards of Karma Pool. That means that everyone is assigned 6 KP, while humans get a bonus +1. Sorry I forgot to mention. That means enemies can be adjusted and be expected to have 2-3."
«Plot» Posh says, "Please note any objections to the experiment. ;)"
«Plot» Krieg says, "I don't mind an experiment. Death is only the begining."
"That's true," Posh says. "But the scale of the operation does not appear to be overwhelming. We've got to penetrate one building," she says. "It's well defended, but how many guys can they really have there? A rigger for CCSS or drones," she says. "There could be a trap, I suppose, a surprise, but there can't be more than a handful of heavies.
"And anyway," she adds. "We'll be able to see at the level of an easy bee drone scouting, perhaps. This is a regular import export building. It's not like it's…heat shielded or anything. You'll be able to likely tell how many people are even inside, right?"
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Security Procedures:
2 5 16
Posh nods. "How do Triad heavies respond to vehicular attacks?" she asks. "I mean, they don't really have missile launchers, do they?" she asks. "I suppose they'd likely have Zapper rockets back as the security depot," she thinks. "So, if they know of vehicular attack, probably the next response wave afterwards will include guys with Zappers."
BillyBob nods to all the new runners. "Heya, good 'ta meet ya, I'm BillyBob." He loads the map program into his vehicle's nav computer and proceeds toward the route, once everyone is loaded up in his taco truck. "Uh, fer heavy fire support I got the DOBERMAN on wheels and the STRATO-9 'copter. The STRATO-9 chopper drone can look legit, like a Lone Star patrol, so i kin use it for scouting. It's got a transponder library."
«Auto-Judge[]» BillyBob (#10588) rolls Security Procedures:
1 4 4
"I think with that cube farm there, it BB's truck offers the perfect insertion, who doesn't want fresh tacos for lunch?" Blackheart wonders. "We can pull up along the southeast road, then have 'engine trouble' By the building we want into." She thinks for a moment. "The guards might come to see what's up, and then we spring the trap. Go in fast and blow the cache before they know what's up. If we bring our own explosives, we could drop the building before backup arrives."
Posh nods to Blackheart. "I think you're right. We're going to be able to get into the area in this wagon, no problem at all," she says. "Hmm. I suppose that's possible. Even if they're already on high alert, they can't be shooting everyone on sight who has a stopped truck out here," she says. "And I'm not sure that I want to drop the /building/" She chuckles a bit. "Even though the Black Cs security company has the contract for this area, that's probably bring even non-Triad attention. Although they'd probably claim it was a scheduled demolition, to not look weak, come to think of it."
«Auto-Judge[]» BillyBob (#10588) rolls Small Unit Tactics (Vehicle Tactics):
4 4 4 5 7
Posh nods to Billybob. "That thing got a suppressed weapon on it?" she asks, curiously.
Miyo scrambles into the back of the van. "Well, if you can get the guards to come close to the behicule, I willb e much more useful. Just saying."
BillyBob is poring over the map as they drive in his Bison food truck. "Yeah they is all suppressed LMGs."
"I can conduct low altitude short observation passes, but a Strato9 is more than capable of all exterior observation and can be suplemented with smaller recon support for concealed areas." Krieg mentions as she begins searching around inside the vehicle, curiously. "The number of opponenets and vehicle assets could be determined as well as security devices."
Senshi finds a place in the back and begins preparing an assault rifle for use from one of the dufflebags. She loads magazines and atatches grenades to his combat vest below the trenchcoat.
Posh whistles. "Well, in that case, I'd assign a transponder library to the local security company flavor and go out on a scout with Krieg and her Bees, first, so that we can work off something better than my conjecture," she suggests. "That is proper good news," she says. "That means you can…take out any targets of opportunity, e'en before we hit."
BillyBob parks them a ways from the target area, concealed behind buildings, and proceeds to deploy his Strato-9 rotor drone. He keys up the transponder library to a more local security rigging outfit. "Roger dodger. Launching now to get a lay of the land."
BillyBob also goes ahead and deploys the Doberman out of a spacious closet, letting its primitive 'dog brain' scan the runners and load them into friendly fire files. "We got taccomms?"
Posh holds up a spare personal unit that she'd brought in her purse. "Indeed," she says. "And if you'd like this Rating Six unit," she says, with a grin, "we can arrange for you to keep it, afterwards." She nods. "Let me know what you see of the building."
Blackheart nods her head as she adjusts her communications gear to the correct frequency and encryption, looking up as a drone appears and starts sniffing around. She double checks her weapons and gets ready for the drone's report.
«Plot» Posh says, "Drone users: Roll Passive Sensor Tests, Intelligence + Sensor rating + Clearsight rating (I think?)"
Krieg continues poking around the vehicle a bit as she retreives two small Bumblebee drones from their protective cases in her packback side pockets. She pre-flights them and finds a door to release them from.
"If you find anything low and obstructed, I will direct the Bumbles to the scan those places specifically." Krieg says to Billy.
«Auto-Judge[]» BillyBob (#10588) rolls 5 + 3 for " Strato-9 Sensor + Autosoft Clearsight 3":
1 2 3 3 5 5 8 9
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Intelligence for "Passive Observation instead as she awaits direction.":
1 1 2 4 4 5 5 7
«Plot» Posh says, "BillyBob is able to get a good sighting of the two-story depot with that sensor scan, though it's quite a good way to gain attention. BillyBob detects two variants of the MCT Hachiman, as Chinese terracotta warrior torsos mounted with 'fire lance' light machineguns patrol back and forth across the front. There are also two heavily armored security guys, Triad classics, in bulky blazers and black shades, each with an SMG-sized bulge underneath, not even bothering to really conceal them.
There are two more metahuman signatures inside the building, it seems, on the seconf floor. It seems based on ultrasound maps and differential heat readings that the first floor is kind of a big wide open depot and receiving area, while the second floor as a number of offices up a stairwell and an elevator between them, with the two signatures in the biggest of the offices with a nice window overlooking the site.
BillyBob feeds the data from the Strato-9 rotor drone back into direct taccomm feeds and a flatscreen television recessed behind the driver's cab. "Slot me. They got two drones wit' LMGs… I don't wanna get closer. You can send in them bees to peep the windows if ya want, but it looks locked up tight."
Posh nods. "Hachiman," she says. "I think I might be able to take those with my Infiltrator," she says, reaching into her purse and starting to ridiculously assemble a heavy pistol from a small hairspray cam, a folding comb, and a few other bits and pieces, creating a rather gaudy but somehow elegant pistol, with a red metal Mag-Lite looking thing on top in place of a scope. "Doesn't look like they have anything anything on site that directly can threaten the van itself though, is that correct? Are you proofed against light machineguns with EXEX rounds?"
BillyBob grunts. "She's got concealed armor."
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Pistols B/R + 1 vs TN 4 for "Assembling WW Infiltrator":
1 2 3 5 5 = 2 Successes
Miyo sits calmly in the van, almost medatatively as she waits for everyone else to take care of all of their work. "This is going to be quite the little bit of excitement, I can just feel it. Hopefully we pull through."
Commlink-Krieg> Krieg sends, « Of course, I will do so now. »
BillyBob sends his Strato-9 meandering elsewhere, doing a patrol path as if it were a proper security drone. Its transponder continues to broadcast a local security company's signature.
Posh nods. "What do you think, Blackheart?" she asks. "We're a little outnumbered for folks on the ground." She pauses a moment. "Think we should see if Oz or Mac could help out with this one?" she asks. "And, can any of you mages, well, have a look with that hoodoo sight, see if there's any other surprises?"
Krieg directs the tiny drones to make a closer approuch to structure, staying above ground level and avoiding direct LOS of the noted targets.
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 3 vs TN 6 for "Transponder?":
1 1 8 = 1 Success
Krieg directs the tiny drones to make a closer approuch to structure, staying above ground level and avoiding direct LOS of the noted targets.
---> Text Message to Sticks from Posh (#11342) <---
I might need you and your spear, omae. Got a security drone problem. Think you could bike over to Ryerson Offices in the B-Zone? Keep a low profile - it's Black C territory. We're over by a food truck.
Blackheart reviews the reports, nodding her head, "Those drones look like a mile of bad road," she bites her lip. "I bet the two in the office are going to be their rigger and their mage," she says. "Those goons with the shades shouldn't be too much trouble, I think Posh and I could probably drop them pretty quick."
Macro's response is terse, as usual — a single word: "Enroute." Fortunately, he's near his bike and his gear is easily assembled; less than ten minutes later he's burning rubber just under the speed limit.
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Security Design for "As the scouts draw closer, looking for anything particular of enemy devices.":
3 4 4 5 5 8 13
Posh nods to Blackheart. "Well, let's say that Mac and I can take care of the two drones," she says. "Do you think you and Miyo can handle the two heavies by yourselves?" she asks. "That would be one way to do it: rolling up hard and taking a lot of pieces off the table at once. That would leave their mage and their rigger, in the worst case scenario," she says. "And let's assume that it is, once you go a-scouting. Can either of you take a peek at that?" she asks.
«Plot» Posh says, "Macro, two things sorta consented on by the others, hehe: Do you consent for the money part of your payout to go to Posh's building project, as the job is a favor for her? Posh will owe you 45k in fixing credit at 20 percent discount. Also, everyone's agreeing to 6 karma pool (7 for humans). That ok?"
«Plot» Macro says, "Sounds good. That ought to cover the dikote job nicely. :)"
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Intelligence for "Astral Form scouting":
2 2 3 4 4 11
Blackheart can see that there's some simple but effective stuff. A watcher spirit guards the doorway, looking out like a blank, emotionless fool, while there's a ward across the gate.
There's another ward at the back door, which is tighter quarters, and occasionally patrolled by the fast-moving Jiren model drones.
«Plot» Posh says, "So you've got 2 guys out front, security heavy types. 2 drones kinda circling the building in opposite directions. And there's two signatures in the office. The glass is mirrored."
Blackheart returns from her scouting, her chrome eyes suddenly fluttering open. "The back door and gates are warded and there's a watcher at the front door. Pretty good against burglers, but nothing we need to worry about once the bullets start flying."
Posh nods to Blackheart. "Likely does suggest the presence of a mage, though, does it not? Or is that something that could just be installed by a consultant?" she asks.
Posh loads up her armguns with EXEX and does the same for her infiltrator. "Well, all right," she says. "So, it sounds like we're going with your plan. We try to lure them, and, well, we risk it on a short combat, and then storm the building. We try to keep things quiet. I like it, it's quick, and we can open the loading zone to let the van in for rapid loading," she says. "All right," she says, givng a quick smile to Macro. "We ready?" she asks. "Now, Billybob. Give this thing the rustiest paint job that you can, and stage a breakdown."
Posh gives a quick grin to Senshi and Krieg. "I suppose while we are busy with the outside security, you would be able to use that as a chance to enter the building and engage those inside," she says. "Can Senshi create a CCSS hookup for you, too?"
Commlink-Posh> Posh sends, « Testing…we all on mics? »
Commlink-Jett> Blackheart sends, « copy that»
Commlink-Sticks> Macro sends, « Readin ya loud an' clear. »
Commlink-Kit> Miyo sends, « I hear you. »
Macro nods. "So we take the drones out, then smash our way inside and start bashin' heads?"
Commlink-Krieg> Krieg sends, « Yes, and yes. »
Posh grins. "Excellent," she says. "So, really, I suppose you could say that we're running interference, making it so that Senshi can approach to the mission objective at full speed. You able to see if they have any comms we might be able to interdict?"
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls 12 for "R12 Scanner, Com frequency identification. TN=R+3":
2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 9
Commlink-Krieg> Krieg sends, « I will attempt to do so, it will take some time. »
Blackheart tucks her fetish into the collar of her shirt before zipping up her form fitting armour, her form disappearing from view. "Okay, let's see how hungry the guards are."
Posh gives a quick grin to Miyo. "Look for an opportunity - we need your sword on this one. Look for a weakened or unbalanced enemy…and then strike, and be deadly," she says.
"That's my plan." Miyo admits. "As long as they get in close enough, I should be fine."
Posh nods. "Hopefully that'll be what Blackheart's idea gets us," she says. "Yes, we're waiting. Go ahead and stage the taco truck breakdown. Let me hop in the passenger's seat. I'll be your angry girlfriend, bitching about how it's always breaking down," she says, moving over to the van.
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls 12 for "R12 Scanner, Com frequency identification. TN=R+3":
2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 9
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls 12 - 1 vs TN 7 for "R12 Scanner, Comm Channel (1KP)":
1 2 2 2 3 4 4 4 8 8 10 = 3 Successes
«Plot» Posh says, "Krieg locates a comms network, with R4 Micro-Transciever at the low point."
«Plot» Posh says, "Also you have discovered the presence of an R6/R6 remote control network. I thought you had to do a special scan."
Commlink-Krieg> Krieg sends, « There does seem to be a comm frequency in use here. it will take me a few minutes to lock down the frequency jumping pattern. It may be encrypted as well. »
«Plot» Krieg says, " Channel Scanning Base 30m/4 Successes 7.5m To acquire."
Commlink-Posh> Posh sends, « That's fine, we've got a few minutes. After all, we've only been prepping for about half an hour. »
Posh spends the time on gear checks, on preparing the battlemap based on the sensor readouts and identifying likely enemy locations, marking the listed patrol routes and so on.
After a number of minutes of prep, Krieg has pinned down the channel and discovered that it has commercial grade encryption, a simple R2.
BillyBob remains rigged in. He putters up closer to the facility and then stops. A little smoke escapes from the engine compartment. "I ain't gettin' out of the van, just so ya know. So you gotta be the angry girlfriend all alone!"
Miyo laughs at Billybob. "We can all be angry girlfriends. Some of us are more fierce than others, though."
Posh gives a grin to BillyBob. "Indeed," she says. "I'll be out of the van first. What I'll try to do is make them think I'm losing it, and then take a surprise shot at one of the drones," She explains.
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls 8 vs TN 6 for "Decryption attempt on Comm signal. Threashold 2.":
2 2 2 2 3 5 9 11 = 2 Successes
«Plot» Posh says, "Krieg is able to break into the comm signal, which doesn't seem to be being used for active chatter right now."
having the comm Krieg makes sure to distribute it as a non-broadcast channel to the others across the TacCom network.
«Plot» Posh says, "She can tell that it has five nodes, one offsite. Likely that's the way they'd call for an assist usually. Without comms, they'd have to hit a panicbutton inside."
Commlink-Krieg> Krieg sends, « We seem to have their comms, but there is an RCD network active within the area. The control is on-site. »
Macro has little inkling of how all this electronics mojo works, so he spends the time checking if his ruth cloak and staff are in working condition.
Commlink-Posh> Posh sends, « All right. So perhaps Senshi's mission objective should change to the prevention of panicbutton use. Is he equipped with a grapple gun? »
Commlink-Posh> Posh sends, « Usual installation is wall mounted, next to a fire extinguisher. »
Posh slaps Billy's shoulder. "Sounds like we're ready to roll out," she says. "So take us by there…and…stage your little breakdown. Make sure the paint job is nice and fake 'rusty.'"
She then starts to cheapen her 'look' with makeup, taking on a slightly graying dark hairstyle, and binding it up, to look like a long-suffering food truckman's old lady.
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Disguise for "+2 hair/eyes":
3 3 4 5 11
Commlink-Krieg> Krieg sends, « No, he does not have a grapple system… »
Commlink-Posh> Posh sends, « Could he make use of mine, for rapid entry through a second floor window? »
Commlink-Krieg> Krieg sends, « It will require a trix based blocking to prevent Panic button use unless it is directly destroyed. »
Commlink-Posh> Posh sends, « Or simple interdiction of access to the system. »
Commlink-Krieg> Krieg sends, « That is possible, but preventing all use of the possile numerous points would mean monitoring and defeating whoeevr approuches any of them, or if it is tied into the buildings main systems it is possible it can be remotely activated. »
Commlink-Posh> Posh sends, « It is a two story building and they are in the same office. How many different points are the two signatures inside likely to have acces too? Perhaps neutralizing the signatures is the best way to prevent access. »
BillyBob begins issuing commands to his drones. "Strato-9, when the shooting starts, get a lock and lay down fire. Doberman, when the shooting starts, roll out of this RV and cover. Ford-Canada Bison RV, when the shooting starts, deploy the pop-up turret." He grunts at Posh and rolls up even closer and has the engine emit more smoke. "Remember there's multiple exits from this RV - don't everyone try to dive out the same exit."
Commlink-Krieg> Krieg sends, « Seeing as I could access such a system with a thought, if it was on the network. Yes, it is likely elimination of the signatures or actual signal blocking would be best. »
Invisibly, Blackheart gets near the rear entrance, Resting a hand on the shoulder of whoever's at the same exit so they know she's there. As the RV rumbles forward, she steadies her breath, waiting for the signal. What signal? Probably shooting, likely screaming, but she'll know it when it comes.
«Auto-Judge[]» BillyBob (#10588) rolls Car + 4 for " Drive casual, 4 control pool used.":
1 1 2 2 3 4 5 9 10 10
BillyBob remains rigged into his vehicle, and so there is a woo-woo-wooing sound from the engine as if it is missing time. The RV food truck with the taco-in-a-sombrero painted on the side pulls up to the sidewalk in front of the target building. Steamy smoke comes out from under the hood, the smell suggesting that oil is burning.
The two Jiren teracotta warrior drones seem to stop, freezing in place on the van, though the fire lances do not level. Instead, the two men begin to approach warily, to the vehicle. It seems that the two drones are stopping about fifteen to twenty meters away from the vehicle, ad the two men approach, closer and closer.
"You STUPID idiot!" Posh punctuates the speech with rapid fire speech from the idiot. "This fool! This is third time THIS WEEK!" she says, opening up the door and then opening her arms out wide to the two approaching men as they walk closer. "Look at this piece of junk!"
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Etiquette + 2 for "Outside":
1 2 3 3 4 4 5 5
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Etiquette + 2 for "Outside KP 1/6":
1 1 1 2 3 4 5 10
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Negotiation + 2 for "Outside":
1 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 5
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Negotiation + 2 for "Outside KP 2/6":
1 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 8
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 4 vs TN 10:
2 2 2 3 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 4 vs TN 10:
2 3 4 5 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 4 vs TN 8:
3 4 4 5 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 4 vs TN 8:
1 3 3 5 = 0 Successes
The two men approach a little closer. "Ma'am," one of them says, a little warily. "You can't do whatever it is you're doing here," he says. "You'll have to move along…get that thing out of the way," he says.
Posh turns around as they get closer, stepping lower now. "Look, clear off, lady," says the other one, opening his coat a bit to expose the gun, as he gets to 9 meters from the van. "This is the wrong place to break down, OK?"
Posh widens her eyes. "But that thing isn't going to move for a thousand years until we get a tow truck there? How are we going to move it right…
Commlink-Posh> Posh sends, « now? »
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Reaction vs TN 4:
1 2 3 4 4 5 5 5 8 9 = 7 Successes
Macro uses the distraction provided by Posh to carefully move into position to smack the first drone, tapping his comm once once he makes it into position.
As Posh interacts with the guards, Blackheart opens up the back door and slips out of it, getting her weapons ready to blast the two guards talking trying to get the van to move along.
«Auto-Judge[]» Macro (#5668) rolls Reaction vs TN 2 for "Surprise!":
1 1 3 3 3 4 5 5 11 = 7 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Reaction vs TN 2 for "Blamblam!":
2 2 2 2 3 5 = 6 Successes
«Plot» Macro says, "That's 7 successes, then."
«Plot» Posh says, "7 for macro 6 for blackheart. Everyone inside is ambushing. TN 2."
«Plot» Blackheart says, " 6, phew!"
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 9 vs TN 4 for "Heavy1 reaction":
2 2 3 3 4 4 5 10 16 = 5 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 9 vs TN 4 for "Heavy2 reaction":
1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 7 = 4 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 9 - 4 vs TN 4 for "Heavy2 KP 1/3":
1 3 5 5 7 = 3 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 3 vs TN 4 for "Drone1 reaction":
1 1 2 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 7 vs TN 4 for "Rigged Drone2 reaction":
1 2 2 2 4 5 5 = 3 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 3 for "+9 Heavy1 init":
2 4 5
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 3 for "+9 Heavy2":
1 2 7
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 1 for "+4 Drone1":
4
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 3 for "+7 Rigged Drone2":
1 3 5
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Initiative with a result of 23.
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Initiative with a result of 22.
«Auto-Judge[]» Macro (#5668) rolls Initiative with a result of 16.
«Auto-Judge[]» Miyo (#13014) rolls Initiative with a result of 12.
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 2 for "+7 Mage":
1 3
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 7 vs TN 4:
2 2 2 2 4 4 4 = 3 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» BillyBob (#10588) rolls Initiative using a VCR rating 2 with a result of 22.
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Initiative using a VCR rating 3 with a result of 28.
With the commotion outside Krieg is just, casually inside the RV hanging out in one of the spare back seats.
«Auto-Judge[]» Miyo (#13014) rolls Reaction vs TN 2 for "Surprise":
2 2 3 4 4 10 = 6 Successes
«Plot» Posh says, "Reaction counts: Heavy2: 9. Krieg 8. Posh and Macro: 7. Blackheart and: 6. Heavy1 5. BillyBob: 4. Rigged Drone2 and Mage: 3. Drone1 0. The drones and mage cannot react this round. Heavy1 can only act against BillyBob."
«Plot» Posh says, "Krieg, you are up!"
«Plot» Posh says, "You may only act against someone with a lower reaction count than you."
«Plot» Krieg says, "Hold, I will act after Blackheart. (need a sec)"
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Submachine Guns vs TN 2 for "first attack, first target, first hand recoil comp 3, smartlink2 Ingram Smartgun 12S EXEX":
1 1 2 3 11 23 = 4 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Submachine Guns vs TN 2 for "second attack, first target, first hand recoil comp3 smartlink 2 Ingram Smartgun 12S EXEX":
1 2 2 2 2 5 = 5 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Submachine Guns vs TN 3 for "first attack, first target, second hand recoil comp 3, smartlink 2 Ingram Smartgun 12S EXEX":
2 2 3 3 4 5 = 4 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Submachine Guns vs TN 3 for "second attack, first target, second hand recoil comp3 smartlink 2 Ingram Smartgun 12S EXEX":
1 3 4 4 5 14 = 5 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 + 5 vs TN 6 for "Combat pool, soaking burst 1":
2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 11 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 + 5 - 1 vs TN 6 for "Combat pool, soaking burst 1 KP 1/3":
1 1 3 3 4 5 7 8 13 = 3 Successes
«Plot» Posh says, "Takes S."
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 + 3 vs TN 6 for "Soaking Burst2":
1 1 3 4 4 4 5 11 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 + 3 - 1 vs TN 6 for "Soaking Burst2 KP 2/3":
2 3 4 5 5 5 7 = 1 Success
The heavy goes down hard under the hail of Blackheart's submachine gun fire, bullets stitching through his 'security' armor, the black suited man bleeding badly from a number of holes. He'll need a trauma patch, that's for sure.
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 4 + 1 vs TN 2 for "Vs invis":
1 3 3 4 5 = 4 Successes
«Plot» Posh says, "Billybob! You're up. You can't really react to the enemies, but you could hop into the Doberman and roll out, or prepare an exit, or actually now that I think about it omg you could maybe ram a drone."
«Plot» Posh says, "Krieg, take your action when you wish."
Blackheart slips around the back side of the van once Posh begins berating the driver, invisibly waiting in position. Once the guard starts giving her sass, Blackheart pops up from behind the van's hood, her SMG's blazing as she takes the guard apart, the explosive bullets making his body appear like a pot of bloody popcorn.
«Plot» BillyBob says, "I'm in captain's chair mode. Bison RV will deploy its pop-up turret as ordered. Doberman will roll out the door and start getting sensor lock on Hachiman. Strato-9 will start getting sensor lock on Hachiman."
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Quickness vs TN 4 for "Quickdraw (single, WW Infiltrator with EXEX)":
1 1 1 1 1 2 4 4 7 8 = 4 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Pistols vs TN 4 for "smartlink-2, medium range, walking, vs Drone1":
1 2 2 2 3 9 11 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Pistols - 2 vs TN 4 for "smartlink-2, medium range, walking, vs Drone1 KP 3/6":
3 4 4 5 8 = 4 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 2 vs TN 2 for "Drone Soaking 2L 6 successes":
1 9 = 1 Success
«Plot» Posh says, "Drone1 takes S from Posh's first shot."
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Pistols + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 4 for "Second shot vs Drone1":
1 1 2 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 11 = 7 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 2 vs TN 2 for "Vs 2L 7 succ":
3 5 = 2 Successes
«Plot» Posh says, "Drone1 takes S again and has a total of 12 Boxes and is inactivated."
«Auto-Judge[]» BillyBob (#10588) rolls 6 vs TN 9 for " Doberman Target Lock vs. Hachiman":
2 3 4 5 8 11 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» BillyBob (#10588) rolls 6 vs TN 9 for " Strato-9 Target Lock vs. Hachiman":
2 3 4 4 9 10 = 2 Successes
«Plot» Posh says, "You've locked on both Hachiman, although Posh just took one out with her heavy pistol."
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 + 5 vs TN 2 for "Vs Posh":
1 1 2 3 3 3 5 5 5 11 = 8 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Body + Combat Pool: 8 vs TN 5 for "Soaking EXEX SMG burst":
1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 5 5 7 8 10 10 = 6 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Body + Combat Pool: 8 - 6 vs TN 5 for "Soaking EXEX SMG burst KP 4/6 spent":
1 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 5 5 = 2 Successes
BillyBob remains in captain's chair mode as his drones do their work. The Doberman rolls out on its wheeled chassis via the back door, which quickly closes after it, and locks on to the Hachiman drone. The Strato-9 above does the same. The Bison RV's pop-up turret with an LMG pops out of the top of the large vehicle.
«Plot» Posh says, "Posh is hit with an S burst from the aimed SMG shot, after a very lucky soak. Her trauma damper reduces her wound to 5 boxes physical and 1 box Stun. She then activates her auto-injector of Kamikaze."
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Body vs TN 8 for "Kami!":
1 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Body vs TN 8 for "Kami! KP 5/6":
1 3 4 4 4 5 5 9 9 = 2 Successes
«Plot» Posh says, "With the Kamikaze, Posh is now suffering only the penalties of a Light Physical Wound, despite the very ugly SMG burst that stitched into her stomach and hip."
«Plot» Posh says, "Macro! You're up."
Posh gasps in agony as return fire from the rather quick-witted of the two Triad guys blasts right into her body, tearing bad wounds through her comparatively heavy street armor.
Heavy 2 strafes sidewaves as he unleashes his deadly attack, unwittingly moving only about 5 meters away from the back of the truck…
«Plot» Krieg says, "Ready to act prior to the Rigged Drone, afetr Macro then!"
Macro bursts out of the car right behind his fellows, drawing his staff in a single fluid motion as he clears the immediate scrum to charge the drone, his war cry bubbling up from his throat, a rally call to his allies and a warning to his foes that here comes violence:
"WAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"
«Auto-Judge[]» Macro (#5668) rolls Reaction vs TN 4 for "Quickdraw staff, yay adept powers.":
1 2 2 5 5 5 5 7 20 = 6 Successes
«Plot» Macro says, "Geas fulfilled, powers activated: Improved Polearms, Improved assault rifle, Pain Resistance."
«Auto-Judge[]» Macro (#5668) rolls Pole Arms/Staves + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 2 for "Batter up!":
1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 7 8 10 10 10 = 12 Successes
«Plot» Posh says, "Base damage code?"
«Plot» Macro says, "10M base."
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 2 vs TN 5 for "Knockover":
3 4 = 0 Successes
It matters little. Though the drone is still functional, it is knocked sprawling backwards, off of its wheels, onto its back. It might have to spend a moment righting itself, as it begins to do, angling its wheels forward to provide a base to lever itself up.
«Plot» Posh says, "Krieg, your action now."
«Plot» Posh says, "Miyo, yours too. Roll and pose!"
Commlink-Posh> Posh sends, « Thanks, Sticks. If that thing had fired on me, I'd be dead. »
«Auto-Judge[]» Miyo (#13014) rolls Edged Weapons (Cougar Fineblade Long) + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 4 for "combat pool, attacking heavy2!":
1 1 2 3 4 5 5 5 10 17 = 6 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Miyo (#13014) rolls Edged Weapons (Cougar Fineblade Long) + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 4 for "combat pool, attacking heavy2!":
1 1 2 3 4 5 5 5 10 17 = 6 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Miyo (#13014) rolls Edged Weapons (Cougar Fineblade Long) + Combat Pool: 3 vs TN 5 for "Offhand, Combat Pool, Attacking Heavy2!":
1 1 1 2 3 4 5 5 5 = 3 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 4 vs TN 6 for "Vs what?":
2 2 4 5 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 4 vs TN 6 for "Vs what? KP 1":
4 4 4 10 = 1 Success
«Plot» Krieg says, " Senshi:Movement (Running) Activate MGL (Simple) Fire a burst at the window of the secound floor He'll need to enter (Simple)"
«Plot» Krieg says, "Senshi will attempt to navigate to an optimal route for assending to the secound floor window as Posh described earlier. A combination of speed and Power if needed to makes his way to a handhold to begin the pulling up process. I'll do a maneuver test"
The burst shatters the glass right quick - Senshi's targeting protocls make simple applications of bullets as tools rather a breeze.
After Blackheart exits the back of the van to do her thing, Miyo does as well, her short blades drawn and ready as she moves towards the closest target she can and lashes out with one sword, then the next, hoping to injure and distract.
«Plot» Posh says, "Soaking 7D for Miyo's staged up attack."
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 vs TN 3 for "Soak":
1 2 3 5 7 = 3 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 - 3 for "Soak KP 3/3":
3 4
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Walkers + Control Pool: 4 vs TN 3 for "Dynamic movement, base TN2(Hand), +2 Tight terrain, +2 combat, +2 Scaling surface, +1 uneven surface,-6 VCR. (Jump and grab, hand-hold)":
1 1 2 3 4 5 5 5 = 5 Successes
Senshi is able to see one of the metahuman figures: the sight of a heavily tattooed man, in the throes of surprise, indeed, about twenty-five meters away, on the second floor. Senshi would already be up close to him next round.
The drone, surprised, takes the step of beginning to attempt to right itself, so that it can level its deadly machinegun on everyone.
The man Miyo is engaged with cries out in pain and fear as Miyo's blade slides into his belly, wounding him terribly. He looks immediately weakened, as blood starts to pump out around her blade.
«Plot» Posh says, "Pass 2 begins. Surprise over. Krieg, you're up!"
Senshi departs the vehicle at a tremendous speed, taking advantage of the others clearing the path as he does. A quick burst is fired up into the secound floor window and the small grenade port opens on Senshi's left arm. He rapidly crosses the battlefield and throws himself up with signifigant force attempting to navigate the structures handholds.
As Senshi rapidly crests the window frame, he can see that there is a fellow clearly jacked into a remote control deck up here, as well as the surprised tattooed mage that he is now ready to engage at point blank range.
«Plot» Krieg says, " Movement (Running) Micro-Grenade (Simple) Rifle,+2 hand penalty (Simple)"
«Plot» Posh says, "Roll it up, and roll scatter."
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Mechanical Arm Operation + Control Pool: 2 vs TN 2 for "Success Limitor for Weapons test, 11/13 Control pool":
1 2 3 4 5 5 7 10 = 7 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Mechanical Arm Operation + Control Pool: 2 vs TN 2 for "Success Limitor for Weapons test, 11/13 Control pool":
1 2 3 4 5 5 7 10 = 7 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Launch Weapons + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 8 for " Short(4),-2 SL-II, +2 secondary, +2 off-hand, +2 Run. (Combat pool 4of11)":
2 4 4 4 5 5 7 9 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls 1 for "Scatter Aerodynamic W/ Grenade Link.":
2
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 1 for "Direction":
2
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 6 vs TN 4 for "Mage dodge nade":
1 1 5 9 11 11 = 4 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 6 vs TN 4 for "Mage dodge nade":
1 1 5 9 11 11 = 4 Successes
Feather pages: I might need to send it in for a while. It's under warranty.
[Public] Dim Lord Of The Sith Alexander says, "ugh."
page feather = So what does that mean for all of our things, or what do you want it to mean?
You paged Feather with 'So what does that mean for all of our things, or what do you want it to mean?'.
page feather = That can be up to 6 weeks, right?
You paged Feather with 'That can be up to 6 weeks, right?'.
[Public] BillyBob has left this channel.
«OOC» Krieg says, "So then the Scatter 2 indicates a direction of 3 o'clock from the target area. Rightish basically. They'll get to add dodge to soak tests, at a lower TN than directly soaking. (Like all firearms basically)"
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 vs TN 2 for "Soaking 1":
2 5 5 5 11 = 5 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 vs TN 2 for "Soaking 2":
2 2 4 5 5 = 5 Successes
The mage dives for the ground, moving quickly as he sees the grenade. On the wall about five minutes away, Senshi sees the panicbutton interface, although likely that is moot now, given the sound of a grenade explosion.
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 1 for "Response":
1
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Assault Rifles + Combat Pool: 3 vs TN 6 for "Short Tn4, -2 SL, +2 Run, +2 One handed, Tgt 1. Stnd, Burst CP 7/11":
1 1 2 5 9 10 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 3 vs TN 5 for "Mage dodging burst":
1 3 9 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 3 - 1 vs TN 5 for "Mage dodging burst KP 1/4":
2 5 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 vs TN 6 for "Soaking":
2 3 4 7 11 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 - 2 vs TN 6 for "Soaking KP 1":
2 3 5 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 - 2 vs TN 6 for "Soaking KP 3":
1 2 5 = 0 Successes
The mage is badly wounded by Senshi's well placed burst, and the grenade. He wasn't expecting this - hell, his elemental's still manifesting as a shimmer, right over there.
Meanwhile the rigger is shredded, wounded in his seat. The worst nightmare for a rigger.
Senshi pulls himself over and into the secound floor room, rolling to a kneeling position as he readies the Rifle, His other arm pointing towards the mages dircetion as a Tiny Grenade 'thumps' outward. A quick follow-up of a rifle burst just behind it as the room explodes.
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Reaction vs TN 4 for "Quickdrawing gyrojet pistol":
1 2 5 5 10 11 = 4 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Gyrojet Pistol vs TN 2 for "Smartlink 2, 12M AV Shooting the drone that's still up.":
5 13 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Gyrojet Pistol + Combat Pool: 4 vs TN 2 for "Smartlink 2, 12M AV second shot on drone":
1 2 3 5 5 10 = 5 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 2 vs TN 9 for "Soaking":
3 5 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 2 vs TN 9 for "Soaking":
2 5 = 0 Successes
Blackheart sees the drone shooting the place up and she drops her ingram from her right hand, reaching into her coat to quickly draw out her gyrojet pistol. The anachronistic pistol fires with two quick hisses, little tiny rockets flying out with a cloud of steam behind them as she shoots the terracotta drone.
It seems the reason that drone was an easy kill, though, however, is the panicking rigger is switching to his self defense option. The door of a nearby crate falls open and a Guardian whooshes out, its heavy shotgun aimed towards Senshi!
The second Jiren drone explodes in a shower of gyro rockets as Blackheart takes it out, leaving only a single wounded security guard with Miyo's blade in his belly standing down there.
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) uses 2 of item 2: Gyrojet Plus Ammo from Gyrojets (#8822).
«Init Tracker» Posh (#11342) has set Guardian's init to 15.
Posh nods at Blackheart. "Good shot," she says, immediately moving to hustle over to the garage door, ignoring the badly wounded enemy. "Mac, can you take care of that fellow?" she huffs, leaving a nice trail of blood. Oh, that Posh. Always getting shot on runs.
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 vs TN 9 for "Vs Miyo":
1 2 4 4 5 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 vs TN 9 for "Vs Miyo2":
1 4 4 4 5 = 0 Successes
The heavy, wounded badly with the blade, tries to take two shots at the nimble fox surrounding him, but it has no effect, as he wrestles with her, presenting, well…something of an opportunity for Macro.
Macro closes with the remaining soldier, moving to one side to flank him along Miyo, forcing him to divide his already affected attention, then swings for the bleachers.
«Plot» Macro says, "-1 FIMM, adding +2 to his TN for reach, my TN is 3."
«Auto-Judge[]» Macro (#5668) rolls Pole Arms/Staves vs TN 3 for "ka-SMACK!":
1 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 10 = 7 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Macro (#5668) rolls Pole Arms/Staves - 7 vs TN 3 for "ka-SMACK!(KP 1)":
1 2 2 4 5 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 vs TN 9 for "Not good.":
2 3 4 5 13 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 vs TN 10 for "Soak":
1 2 2 4 10 = 1 Success
Macro's deadly assault delivers a brutal KLONK to the head of the already injured security guy, taking him down. Hard. Quite a setup from Miyo.
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 6 vs TN 5 for "Vs Senshi, 12S Shotgun, Complex":
2 3 3 4 5 5 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 6 - 2 vs TN 5 for "Vs Senshi, 12S Shotgun, Complex KP 1/4 spent":
1 2 2 4 = 0 Successes
«Plot» Posh says, "Senshi! 2 successes, 12S Shotgun blast coming in (EXEX 10S shotgun)."
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Control Pool: 5 vs TN 2 for "Vehicular dodge (5/13CP)":
1 1 2 4 15 = 3 Successes
«Plot» Krieg says, "Senshi will side-step the beast."
The guardian seems to steady for a moment, focusing quickly, and then lashing out a deadly blast with EXEX ammo in Senshi's direction, narrowly missing the battle engine and devastating a telecom beyond.
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) uses 1 of item 6: Trauma Patch from Snap-Tight Purse (#12911).
Miyo reaches down to slap one of the trauma patches Posh had given her on the neck of the man that Blackheart had shot.
The sirens seeem to be already in the distance, and getting closer. It sounds like it can't be much more than a minute or so away.
Commlink-Posh> Posh sends, « Curses! Any way for us to get through that door faster than the plan? »
Commlink-Sticks> Macro sends, « Unless we can do it in five seconds I don't think it'll matter. Time ta bail? »
«Plot» Posh says, "Krieg. You're up again. You're sharing a room with a badly wounded mage and a Guardian, and a lightly wounded rigger."
«Plot» Krieg says, " Movement to cover(Walk) Burst-Rigger (Simple) Burst-Rigger (Simple)"
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Mechanical Arm Operation vs TN 2 for "Success Limitor for Weapons test.":
1 1 1 2 5 5 = 3 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Mechanical Arm Operation vs TN 2 for "Success Limitor for Weapons test.":
1 1 1 2 5 5 = 3 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Assault Rifles vs TN 2 for "Short TN4, -2 SL, +1 Walking, -1 Stationary target":
1 2 11 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 + 5 vs TN 6 for "Soaking":
1 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 11 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 5 + 5 - 1 vs TN 6 for "Soaking KP 1":
2 3 3 4 5 5 5 5 7 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Assault Rifles vs TN 3 for "Short TN4, -2 SL, +1 Walking, -1 Stationary target, +1 Recoil.":
1 1 13 = 1 Success
The rigger seems utterly devastated by the burst of Senshi's weapon, and the Guardian immediately seems to go into a passive mode, just hovering there, whirring. Nobody had managed to get to the panicbutton, but there is likely a Black C response quickly on the way, responding to the noises. However, without a panicbutton, the siren comes in the form of a Dark Garden Security rotodrone, hovering up in the air, about to get a survey on the scene.
«Plot» Krieg says, " 8M base +2 Ammo, 10M+ Birst modifier."
Commlink-Krieg> Krieg sends, « Rigger is down, inbound response. »
Commlink-Posh> Posh sends, « All right. Begin stabilization procedure. We want them doing emergency work instead of investigating. »
The mage is easily incapacitated by a brutal shock hand strike from Senshi.
«Plot» Posh says, "The rotodrone is still about 55 seconds away from getting LOS over the wall, according to both Krieg's and BillyBob's sensors."
At Blackheart's command, Posh starts to drop to rummage through the two security guys' pockets. "Nothing yet," she says. "Both are stabilized here. One by trauma patch, one by being clonked by Macro."
Blackheart runs over to one of the dying guards after holstering her gyrojet and picking up her dropped submachinegun. Taking a knee, she begins to quickly search through his pockets looking for a keycard for the building.
«Plot» Krieg says, " Since the riggers nolonger in control, Senshi will check out the set-up to see if the door is on the network. He'll also see if the Riggers in the dieing mode."
«Plot» Posh says, "The Rigger is indeed dying, after those assault rifle shots."
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Biotech + Task Pool: 1 vs TN 10 for "Stabilize Rigger":
1 3 3 3 4 4 9 = 0 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Biotech + Task Pool: 1 vs TN 10 for "Stabilize Rigger(2ndKP)":
2 3 5 5 8 11 17 = 2 Successes
Commlink-BillyBob> BillyBob sends, « Frag, they's inbound in about a minute. If I ram that door an' I gotta repair my Bison, will you help me out? »
The Guardian immediately goes green. Krieg's actions /since/ the Rigger's mortal wounding mean that its normal protocols now recognize Senshi as a Friendly.
Yes, Senshi is also a quite skilled Medpack user as he withdraws the device from his Combat pouch and attempts to prevent the Rigger from falling off.
Commlink-Posh> Posh sends, « Absolutely. This is my gig. »
Commlink-Krieg> Krieg sends, « That sounds acceptable. »
Once completing the Biotech and connecting a datacable, Senshi's not able to find a control for the door on this system. However, the garage door seems to be on a timer, and is disabled unless it is given a remote signal from offsite. Clearly that's the way that the distributor is controlled from outside. However, Senshi finds a remote control for another door: and operating it means that on the security footage in this main office, he can note that a door to a container in the garage swings open, revealing the sight of lots of Ingram boxes and RenRaku SmartGoggles, all boxed up and fresh. Dozens - exactly what Trevor had asked for.
«Auto-Judge[]» BillyBob (#10588) rolls 4 + 9 vs TN 8 for " Body + Control Pool vs. Barrier 8 Rating":
1 1 1 2 2 2 2 5 5 5 5 8 16 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» BillyBob (#10588) rolls 4 + 9 - 2 vs TN 8 for " Body + Control Pool vs. Barrier 8 Rating (KP 1)":
2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 7 8 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» BillyBob (#10588) rolls 4 + 9 - 3 vs TN 8 for " Body + Control Pool vs. Barrier 8 Rating (KP 2)":
1 2 3 3 4 4 5 8 9 9 = 3 Successes
BillyBob selects just the right angle on the garage door, his expert driving powering his sturdy RV, an enormous crash sounding as the garage door buckles inward, acting like a surprisingly soft brake…well, not /that/ soft, as BillyBob gets /all/ that deceleration in just a meter. There's plenty of room in the garage to turn around and back up to the now opened area.
Posh immediately begins to sprint to the door. "Blackheart! Clean up my blood, willya? Senshi and I are going to load up," she says.
Miyo proceeds to scurry back into the van. She's too cute to lift heavy boxes!
Macro scrambles to help haul as much as possible before the cops arrive. "Keep that engine runnin', but if ya take off without me I'll hunt your ass down…"
With the RV back doors open, it'll only take a good twenty seconds of quick work to get most of the boxed up weapons cache and just toss it in unceremoniously. That leaves approximately twenty seconds before the rotodrone arrives.
Posh holds the door open for Blackheart, so she can cast that sterilization spell and hop on in.
BillyBob smashes through the garage door in a Dukes of Hazzard style ram. The rigger then pulls out and positions the RV so that the large rear doors are exposed for loading. He jacks out into captain's chair mode, instructing his drones to return. "Aw man that scratched my paint! Hurry up and git them boxes in here! I can't lift when I'm jacked in!"
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Sorcery + 3 vs TN 5 for "Sterilize, R4, 24m radius.":
1 1 2 2 2 3 3 5 5 7 = 3 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Willpower + 2 vs TN 3 for "soaking M drain, need 4!":
1 1 1 1 2 3 3 5 = 3 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Willpower + 2 - 3 vs TN 3 for "KP1":
2 2 2 5 8 = 2 Successes
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls 3 vs TN 6 for "Sensor test on departing vehicle":
1 4 5 = 0 Successes
Blackheart nods her head as she looks up and sees the taco truck ram through the garage door. «Badass driving, BB!» she cheers him on through the cloud of dust. Then at Posh's suggestion, she nods her head, and quickly banishes the area of organic residue from any wounds with a mana blast over the area. Dashing over to the garage for some cover from any early arrivals, she glances over her shoulder. "Is this what we came for?"
Posh grins at Blackheart. "Damn right," she says. "Now let's get ourselves out of here."
The rotodrone arrives on the scene, but it seems to start surveying the area quickly, instead of following the exactly zero contacts that it gets thanks to the obstructions. Looks like BillyBob got everyone out in just the nick of time.
"Well," Posh says to Billy. "You've certainly earned it. As have all of you," she says. "Well. Trevor's going to be -very- happy indeed, when we dump all these off." She's wounded, a little pale, and then smiles. "Senshi, do you think you can begin…first aid operations? I'd like to get some before the Kami hits me," she says.
With the RV away safely, Posh provides the drop off address to Billy, so that Trevor can get his stolen arms.
Commlink-BillyBob> BillyBob sends, « Are we loaded? Git in the truck! »
Macro makes one last check, then hops in and slams the door behind him.
Senshi helsp finish loading at a rapid pace. Once it's done he'll climb back aboard and monitor the exits as the others enter.
Commlink-Sticks> Macro sends, « We're good. Time ta go! »
Commlink-Krieg> Krieg sends, « The remote nature of access was interesting, it either denotes either a lack of trust or a desire to remove the ability to acquire knowledge of access on site. »
With the loot all loaded up, Blackheart joins the rest of the team inside the truck for the getaway. "Good job everyone, that went way more smoothly than I thought it would!" She says, sounding chipper and excited. She gets our weapons sorted out before moving over to help tend Posh.
BillyBob takes in both of his drones and, once they are secure, he says, "Hold the dang load down, strap it down. We're outta this haystack." The tires of the massive Bison squeal as it makes for non-gang territory. On the intercom he says, "Yah real smooth! Figured those Hachimen drones would be more trouble."
Posh gives a grin. "Smooth indeed, at least…ach, I took a few," she says, lifting her shirt to expose two wounds in her abdomen and one in her hip, the fragmenting rounds having burst rather nastily. She seems relatively unaffected. Maybe she's born with it…maybe it's Kamikaze. "Anyway, I figure with a quick patch and a heal I should be…well, right soon enough. Thank goodness for that trauma damper."
Senshi finds a spot to secure himself in for transport, as he does Krieg unbelts herself from her seat and looks around. "I do not beleive their armor is designed for those types of encounters, vs common arms they are relatively immune." She watches the medical attention that seems to be seeking out Posh. "Will you need assistance?"
«Plot» Posh says, "Posh has 5 boxes physical, thus an M wound. First Aid test for M wound."
«Plot» Posh says, "First Aid table (SR3 129). Bad conditions +1. Body is 6 -1. TN is 6."
Krieg retreives her own medical kit from her backpack and positions herself beside Posh to assess the injury and determine the required treatment…then begins the 'practice'.
«Auto-Judge[]» Krieg (#6133) rolls Biotech + Task Pool: 1 + Karma Pool: 1 vs TN 6 for "Medical first aid.(3rdKP)":
2 2 3 3 3 4 10 10 = 2 Successes
Posh chuckles. "No…not bleeding so much anymore," she says. "Plus, Blackheart can take care of that with a finger wiggle. No, just take us to the Shining Mountain office on Golden Monkey, as…covertly as possible."
«Plot» Posh says, "The damage level is reduced by 1. Posh now has a Light Wound. Go ahead and heal her up, Blackheart."
Despite the food service atmosphere and Cumin that sprinkels down On Posh as they drive, Krieg does manage to bandage the injuries properly.
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Sorcery + 5 vs TN 6 for "Treat R4 Essence 6":
1 1 1 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 10 = 1 Success
«Auto-Judge[]» Blackheart (#12120) rolls Willpower vs TN 2 for "soaking L drain, need 1!":
1 1 3 5 5 7 = 4 Successes
«Plot» Posh says, "TN 10 needed. Posh is healed 1 box and is now unwounded."
«Auto-Judge[]» Posh (#11342) rolls Body - 3 vs TN 8 for "Kamikaze crash!":
1 1 2 2 4 4 = 0 Successes
Posh starts to get dizzy. "Kami…kaze," she says, with a smile, as she's healed up and sent off to dreamland. It'll take another cocktail of drugs, perhaps the stimpach in her purse, to wake her up enough for the dropoff.
Krieg gets up and brushes herself off, reorganizing the medical kit to put back in her bag. "I am not sure if her continued drug use will have lasting effects."
BillyBob grumbles as he jacks out, allowing the vehicle's drone pilot to drive once they are on the highway. "Why're these wimmins always passing out in my truck?"
Blackheart looks at the quality first aid job Krieg administered and smiles, cracking her knuckles. "Finger waggle you," she smirks at Posh's comment about magic. Her fingers do waggle, as they sink into Posh's body, the mage's chromed over eyes lidding as she searches for fragments of bone and bullet that would impede healing. After several minutes with her hands sunk deep, she smiles and pulls out, little bits of bloody metal in her hand and Posh's body looking healed. "There we go, add these to the jar," she grins.
It takes BillyBob a while to navigate through the evening traffic and head over to CAS Asiantown. By then, Posh is able to come to, a little drowsily - she'll have to have a good sleep to really shake it off, and she's sent a message to Trevor. Inside the garage at the office, a few of the local heavies with shades and suits start to offload the boxes from the truck, waiting to the side politely if BillyBob doesn't want them to look within.
Trevor's there, enjoying a smoke. "Hey, guys, fantastic job," he says. "This'll really hit 'em where it counts. Now we'll be the ones able to offer these smoke wagons to the gangs that they were trying to tempt," he says. "Nice job, sugars. Give me a call later about that deal, Red," he says. "And till next time."
Krieg just stays mostly out of view of the strangers when they do their work. Tending to her equipment and investigating Billybob's RV more.
BillyBob stands and monitors the offloading. He has some Skoal berry-flavored dip in his lower lip and spits it into an empty beer bottle. "Yeah you boys take care, don't scuff up my truck. I'll charge ol' dude for any scuff marks! I Ain't playin'! G'awn!"
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