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Gedeon Ogoun (8:45:58 PM): about two and a half lines of text on my screen...is the maximum.
Umbrafer (8:49:32 PM): Umbrafer rolled 4 6-sided dice: 3 1 5 4
Thematrian1 (8:56:04 PM): While we're here, would one of you recap the end of last session?
MilesMk1 has entered the chat room.

MilesMk1 (8:57:31 PM): Evening.
Umbrafer (8:59:05 PM): Log uploaded. We were driving off into the sunset to check in on Zbyhnev
Umbrafer (8:59:19 PM): And I was being reminded that we're travelling in a convoy now.
Gedeon Ogoun (8:59:34 PM): *nod* I was trying to keep up with the speedy van
MilesMk1 (9:00:14 PM): #You said you heard sirens, Gedeon?#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:00:32 PM): #I did, back at Ekiele's#
MilesMk1 (9:01:23 PM): #I guess they must have headed away from us, then.#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:01:42 PM): #I don't know. I couldn't place them, or type them#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:04:29 PM): #Strange, though, to hear sirens at all. Perhaps someone stole a leftover police car or something. Maybe some cops are still around inside the barricades.#
MilesMk1 (9:05:04 PM): #Or perhaps someone set off an alarm.#
Umbrafer (9:05:18 PM): #Just as long as it wasn't an air-raid siren."
Umbrafer (9:05:21 PM): *#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:05:31 PM): #Yeah, that's possible too. It was too faint to hear clearly.#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:06:32 PM): (This was the arms dealer we were going to see?)
Thematrian1 (9:06:35 PM): Ok. You're closing in on Zbyhnev
Umbrafer (9:06:54 PM): (Yep)
Umbrafer (9:06:59 PM): (Mr. Vowel-Impaired)
Umbrafer (9:07:52 PM): What does the neighborhood look like right now?
Umbrafer (9:09:49 PM): (Warlords, explosions, people walking their dogs, etc.)
Thematrian1 (9:10:30 PM): It looks like a collection of run-down buildings, including Zbyhnev's shop. Not much has changed, except that there's a big collection of rough-looking dockworker types hanging around outside Z's
Gedeon Ogoun (9:10:47 PM): armed?
Thematrian1 (9:10:55 PM): bats and chains
Umbrafer (9:10:57 PM): Just hanging out, or would they be waving torches and pitchforks if they had them?
Thematrian1 (9:12:06 PM): It's strange. The group is very tense, very pitchforky, but they're not making much noise, or many threatening gestures
Gedeon Ogoun (9:12:38 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 2 5 1 6 5 3 4 3
Gedeon Ogoun (9:12:43 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
Umbrafer (9:12:47 PM): And they appear to lack heavy weaponry or giant Trolls?
Thematrian1 (9:12:50 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 5 3 1 6 1 5 3 6 4 6 2 3 2 1 5
Thematrian1 (9:13:08 PM): trolls, yeah, though not especially giant
Dragcrell (9:13:24 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 6 3 3 5 1 3 3
Thematrian1 (9:13:27 PM): no heavy weapons
Dragcrell (9:13:34 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
Umbrafer (9:13:45 PM): But no one that makes me worry overmuch about their, say, just hurling a pipe through the van like a javelin?
Thematrian1 (9:13:51 PM): heh, no
Gedeon Ogoun (9:13:53 PM): #I assume these are your friends?#
Umbrafer (9:14:20 PM): #These, no. Whether they're friends of my friend or not… well, we'll see.#
MilesMk1 (9:14:25 PM): #I haven't met Zbyhnev myself, but I would guess no...#
MilesMk1 (9:14:38 PM): #Friends of ours, I mean.#
MilesMk1 (9:14:58 PM): #Should I go talk to them?#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:15:07 PM): #I would hope an arms dealer could arm his people better than bats and chains#
Umbrafer (9:15:22 PM): #Sure. I've got you covered.#
Umbrafer (9:15:31 PM): A scan to make sure there's nothing heavier hiding there.
Umbrafer (9:15:35 PM): Umbrafer rolled 8 6-sided dice: 6 6 3 5 5 5 6 5
Gedeon Ogoun (9:15:35 PM): #I can come with you#
Umbrafer (9:15:38 PM): Umbrafer rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 4 1
Umbrafer (9:15:41 PM): Umbrafer rolled 5 6-sided dice: 5 1 6 6 3
Umbrafer (9:15:43 PM): Umbrafer rolled 2 6-sided dice: 2 1
MilesMk1 (9:15:47 PM): brb
Thematrian1 (9:16:04 PM): you see nothing heavier
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Thematrian1 (9:17:31 PM): A pair of dogs, big great dane types, peer at the group from an alley beside Z's shop
Umbrafer (9:17:46 PM): I'm keeping watch and a held action to deploy the turret.
Thematrian1 (9:17:50 PM): check
Gedeon Ogoun (9:18:01 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 3 5 6 3 1 3 5 2
Gedeon Ogoun (9:18:07 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 4 6-sided dice: 6 1 2 6
Gedeon Ogoun (9:18:10 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
MilesMk1 (9:18:12 PM): #If I were here to talk to Zbyhnev, how would I go about that? Knock on the door, use the intercom?#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:18:14 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 2 6-sided dice: 4 5
Umbrafer (9:18:50 PM): #Normally you'd use the intercom. We'll see if that's still working…#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:19:35 PM): #the dogs are mundane, but hungry#
MilesMk1 (9:19:46 PM): #Hmm... Ok. Here I go... It might send the wrong message, but I'd rather not be caught unaware - I'm taking the AK with me, I think.#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:20:02 PM): #do you want me to come too?#
Umbrafer (9:20:05 PM): #If they need more message, let me know.#
MilesMk1 (9:20:21 PM): #I'd welcome that.# (in response to Gedeon)
Gedeon Ogoun (9:20:48 PM): *gets out of jackrabbit, stretches lazily, slings shotgun over shoulder*
MilesMk1 (9:21:08 PM): *steps out of the car doing his usual stump-that-walks act*
MilesMk1 (9:21:27 PM): *holding the AK by the pistol grip, with the barrel down*
Dragcrell (9:21:36 PM): "There riled up but keeping in check hard to say whats up."
Thematrian1 (9:21:38 PM): You get some stares, then more stares as your arsenal sinks in
Gedeon Ogoun (9:21:44 PM): *strolls three meters off blake's right side*
MilesMk1 (9:22:00 PM): "Gentlemen."
Thematrian1 (9:22:42 PM): looking at anyone in particular? It's mostly orks, with a few trolls and exceptionally beefy humans. All male, as far as you can tell
Gedeon Ogoun (9:23:00 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 3 6
MilesMk1 (9:23:04 PM): Anyone looking particularly Alpha-male.
Gedeon Ogoun (9:23:05 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
Umbrafer (9:23:19 PM): Incidentally, I'm also going to get a sensor lock on the largest Troll visible.
Umbrafer (9:23:24 PM): Umbrafer rolled 5 6-sided dice: 6 6 6 2 5
Thematrian1 (9:23:26 PM): go for it
Umbrafer (9:23:28 PM): Umbrafer rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 5 5
Thematrian1 (9:24:03 PM): you get a fix on a slightly-grubbier-than-normal ork, who's got a length of chain wrapped around his wrist
Umbrafer (9:24:25 PM): Fair enow.
Thematrian1 (9:24:39 PM): heh, no. Alex locks a troll.
Thematrian1 (9:24:46 PM): that description is for Blake's alpha male
Umbrafer (9:24:46 PM): Ah
Umbrafer (9:24:49 PM): (I was wondering)
Gedeon Ogoun (9:24:51 PM): (what is the total number of the group?)
Thematrian1 (9:25:05 PM): he's clearly sizing you up, Blake, and is clearly concerned with the AK
Thematrian1 (9:25:15 PM): (maybe 15 people overall)
MilesMk1 (9:25:20 PM): "I'm here to speak with the owner of this establishment - are you by any chance affiliated with him in any way?"
Thematrian1 (9:25:26 PM): More stares for Gedeon than for Blake, incidentally
Gedeon Ogoun (9:25:36 PM): he he must be the bones
Thematrian1 (9:25:53 PM): Someone from the crowd: "Oooh, a college boy."
Gedeon Ogoun (9:25:59 PM): *stands casually, casting his eyes around the group*
MilesMk1 (9:27:13 PM): "Never graduated high school, actually." *looks at grubbier ork*
Thematrian1 (9:27:25 PM): Grubby Ork: "We've got business with him."
MilesMk1 (9:28:16 PM): "I see. Well so do we, but we're willing to wait. Did you try knocking?"
Thematrian1 (9:29:18 PM): He opens his mouth to answer, then flushes. He eyes the AK for a moment, then says: "We were thinkin' about it."
MilesMk1 (9:29:45 PM): Question.
MilesMk1 (9:30:31 PM): Is something like... Ejecting a clip from the rifle via SL, tossing it to the other hand, catching the clip before it hits the ground with my now free right hand, locking and loading it again is something I think I could pull off
MilesMk1 (9:30:39 PM): with my current reaction?
Gedeon Ogoun (9:31:00 PM): *peering*
MilesMk1 (9:31:02 PM): Then shifting the rifle back to rest with the barrel down, but in the other hand?
Thematrian1 (9:31:04 PM): yes, easily
Dragcrell (9:32:06 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 2 5 6 3 3 1 3
MilesMk1 (9:32:08 PM): Ok. I do that in one smooth motion, never actually pointing the gun at them. Oh, and I catch the round that gets ejected as I lock and load with my right hand to top it off. Fast, but not so fast they won't see what I did.
Dragcrell (9:32:12 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
Thematrian1 (9:32:39 PM): there's a mass flinch. Grubby Ork: "Fancy."
Thematrian1 (9:34:41 PM): Trying to be simultaneously placating and menacing: "Get lost a few minutes, this won't take long."
Gedeon Ogoun (9:35:21 PM): *kneels down to tie shoe* alex: #no way to communicate inside?#
MilesMk1 (9:35:30 PM): "You sure you want me to go? I also do one where I fire a white phosphorus grenade into a crowd and shoot people in the knees so they have to crawl away."
Gedeon Ogoun (9:35:54 PM): "We don't have to kill ALL of them, do we?" (to blake)
Umbrafer (9:36:05 PM): #I don't think so. I could try hailing random radio channels…#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:36:21 PM): *stands up, smiles at Ork*
MilesMk1 (9:36:22 PM): "I doubt it."
Thematrian1 (9:36:53 PM): An ugly murmur runs through the crowd. They start limbering up their pipes and chains
MilesMk1 (9:37:17 PM): How many are there?
Gedeon Ogoun (9:37:27 PM): softly: "We can end this with a smoke cloud, maybe, if you want"
Umbrafer (9:37:47 PM): I deploy the MMG turret, not pointing it at anyone in particular yet.
MilesMk1 (9:37:56 PM): #What kind? Magical, or smoke grenade?#
Dragcrell (9:38:06 PM): *moves to the passeger side of the van* "Hehehehehe think you can hit just then and not damge the building?"
Gedeon Ogoun (9:38:12 PM): #magical, but it might just get them mad#
Thematrian1 (9:38:13 PM): That gets everyone's attention. Including the dogs
Gedeon Ogoun (9:39:03 PM): (how far away are we?)
MilesMk1 (9:39:10 PM): #Let's see how they react to the turret... If it turns ugly, I'm all for setting them running rather than slaughering everyone, and if you can help that along...#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:39:27 PM): #okay#
MilesMk1 (9:39:33 PM): #Though I wasn't bluffing about the WP grenades...#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:39:42 PM): *laughs out loud*
Thematrian1 (9:39:50 PM): (~10 meters)
Umbrafer (9:40:00 PM): #They're valuable. I can nail half the crowd with them clumped like this.#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:40:25 PM): #we also might need all you have later#
Umbrafer (9:40:30 PM): #Though if there was ever a crowd that called for a grenade…#
MilesMk1 (9:40:35 PM): #I'd rather not set the shop on fire either, just saying...#
Dragcrell (9:40:47 PM): "Alex let Blake know that guy has some stuff in his arms and I think he has some other stuff as well."
Umbrafer (9:41:10 PM): #Trickster says "that guy has some stuff in his arms", and maybe "some other stuff as well".#
Umbrafer (9:41:12 PM): "What?"
Gedeon Ogoun (9:41:46 PM): *rolls head around, limbering up neck* "Clear out, fellas. Last chance."
MilesMk1 (9:42:36 PM): "Not to put too fine a point on it, but we could have let you try to scratch the paint and hosed the area with machinegun fire. This is us being exceedingly reasonably, not a sign of weakness."
Dragcrell (9:42:40 PM): "cant tell exaxtly what you guys would probley know better then I would."
MilesMk1 (9:42:51 PM): "Don't mistake it for one."
MilesMk1 (9:43:03 PM): reasonabl*e*
Thematrian1 (9:43:42 PM): Grubby Ork meets your eyes.
MilesMk1 (9:43:55 PM): "The sensors in that thing can read anything from fillings in your teeth to the hardware in your arms."
Gedeon Ogoun (9:44:32 PM): "And the lack of brain in your skull"
Thematrian1 (9:45:09 PM): ::glare::
Thematrian1 (9:45:36 PM): "Well, we'll just let you college boys finish your errand, then. C'mon fellas, it's hot and I'm thirsty."
Gedeon Ogoun (9:45:38 PM): :glare:
Gedeon Ogoun (9:46:41 PM): *watches carefully as they ?leave?*
Thematrian1 (9:46:53 PM): grubby ork turns on his heel and heads down the street. Very relucantly, his fellow dock-workers follow.
Gedeon Ogoun (9:47:19 PM): "Well played, Blake."
MilesMk1 (9:47:31 PM): "Thanks for the backup."
Gedeon Ogoun (9:47:40 PM): *nod*
MilesMk1 (9:48:10 PM): *waits for them to clear out, then walks over to try the intercom*
Umbrafer (9:48:12 PM): I'm going to, if I can identify him, grab a lock on Grubby Ork as well.
Thematrian1 (9:48:20 PM): you can, yeah
Umbrafer (9:48:21 PM): Umbrafer rolled 5 6-sided dice: 1 3 2 2 2
Umbrafer (9:48:25 PM): Yow.
Umbrafer (9:48:35 PM): Well, depending on how cybered he is that may still do it.
Thematrian1 (9:48:48 PM): no love
Gedeon Ogoun (9:49:01 PM): *watches dogs*
Gedeon Ogoun (9:49:20 PM): (still standing a few meters away from the door, facing the hounds*
Thematrian1 (9:49:46 PM): as the crowd leaves, they split their attention between Gedeon/Blake and the van
MilesMk1 (9:50:07 PM): Do they take the dogs with them?
Umbrafer (9:50:15 PM): Is there anyone paying close attention to the van? To the degree that they might actually know something about it, say?
MilesMk1 (9:50:35 PM): Or were those independent, and/or unnoticed by the mob?
Thematrian1 (9:51:09 PM): The dogs did not go with the mob, the mob paid little attention to them
Thematrian1 (9:51:15 PM): Alex: not that you can see, now
Umbrafer (9:51:28 PM): Good times.
Umbrafer (9:51:48 PM): #Want me to tail them, make sure they don't dig up some big guns somehow?#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:52:28 PM): *brings shotgun into hands* #probably a good idea#
MilesMk1 (9:53:08 PM): #I think I'd actually rather have you here in case things inside Zbyhnev's aren't well, or someone else with heavy weapons does show up... Track them with the Shattenauge, maybe?#
Umbrafer (9:53:14 PM): Deploying Schattenauge.
Umbrafer (9:53:18 PM): (Great minds :) )
Thematrian1 (9:53:23 PM): check
Umbrafer (9:54:23 PM): It will tail them out of their LOS, and attempt to stay out of LOS of anyone important. I'll split my time roughly evenly between the van and it.
MilesMk1 (9:54:50 PM): I'll try the intercom, unless the crowd shows signs of turning around.
Gedeon Ogoun (9:55:09 PM): *watching dogs still, looking occaisonally around at rooftops*
Thematrian1 (9:56:22 PM): it doesn't
MilesMk1 (9:57:42 PM): #Does Zbyhnev have dogs, that you know?#
Umbrafer (9:58:49 PM): #He talked about a dog, yeah, but he never took it to the shop… and wouldn't leave it outside if he had.#
MilesMk1 (10:00:22 PM): *tries the intercom*
Thematrian1 (10:01:54 PM): It crackles when you press the button
MilesMk1 (10:03:02 PM): Does it look/sound broken, in my professional opinion?
Thematrian1 (10:03:18 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 3 1 1 1 3 3 6 3 4 1 6 3 2 5 1
Thematrian1 (10:04:04 PM): your professional opinion as a mercenary? You think it's probably fine, just a very noisy line.
MilesMk1 (10:04:27 PM): My professional opinion as someone with Electronics B/R at 5. ;)
MilesMk1 (10:06:07 PM): *into the intercom, if no one answers after a few seconds* "My name's Blake - I'm a friend of Alex's, and we'd like to speek with Zbyhnev."
MilesMk1 (10:06:21 PM): (that lagged massively)
MilesMk1 (10:06:29 PM): (Hmm... Fine now.)
Thematrian1 (10:07:01 PM): *crackle crackle crackle Is Alex here? crackle crackle*
MilesMk1 (10:08:35 PM): "She's in the van."
MilesMk1 (10:08:46 PM): #Someone on the other end asking for you, Alex.#
Thematrian1 (10:08:56 PM): *crackle She crackle can come in crackle crackle*
Umbrafer (10:09:11 PM): #Be right there.#
Thematrian1 (10:09:12 PM): *crackle crackle Anyone else gets crackle shot crackle*
MilesMk1 (10:09:17 PM): #Says you can come in...#
Umbrafer (10:09:41 PM): Umbrafer rolled 6 6-sided dice: 6 6 3 4 6 3
Umbrafer (10:09:43 PM): Umbrafer rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 2 1
Umbrafer (10:09:45 PM): Umbrafer rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 1 1 1 4 3
Umbrafer (10:09:47 PM): Umbrafer rolled 6 6-sided dice: 5 2 1 4 1 5
Umbrafer (10:09:52 PM): Umbrafer rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 2 3 6 4 3
Umbrafer (10:09:54 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
MilesMk1 (10:09:58 PM): "Fair enough..."
Umbrafer (10:10:00 PM): Umbrafer rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 3 4 6 2 1
Umbrafer (10:10:03 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
Umbrafer (10:10:06 PM): Umbrafer rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 3 4 4 4 4
MilesMk1 (10:10:40 PM): *backs up*
Gedeon Ogoun (10:10:48 PM): #no wards up, I can try watching over you if you want in astral#
MilesMk1 (10:11:20 PM): #Alex's call...#
Umbrafer (10:11:53 PM): #I'll call if I need the cavalry.
MilesMk1 (10:12:25 PM): #Make sure it's him over the intercom first...#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:12:27 PM): #ok#
Umbrafer (10:12:35 PM): I pull up next to the door, take the spare remote-control deck, and get out.
Thematrian1 (10:12:48 PM): Check. The dogs watch you.
Umbrafer (10:13:04 PM): Over to the intercom. "Hey."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:13:08 PM): *Get into van, stare meanly at dogs*
Thematrian1 (10:13:43 PM): *crackle Come on in crackle*
Umbrafer (10:14:07 PM): If the voice doesn't obviously scream "NOT ZBYHNEV!", I head in.
Dragcrell (10:14:14 PM): *Gets out and looks around* "mmm." *slowly moves to here the dogs are* "going to check em out."
Thematrian1 (10:14:16 PM): it doesn't
Umbrafer (10:14:18 PM): (Alea jacta est.)
MilesMk1 (10:14:36 PM): "Uh... I'd suggest not trying to pet them."
Thematrian1 (10:14:47 PM): The dogs watch Trickster alertly.
MilesMk1 (10:14:52 PM): *leans against the van's hood, and watches the area*
Dragcrell (10:15:38 PM): "just seeing whats about." *slowly walks to the allyway keeping a eye out around him*
Thematrian1 (10:15:44 PM): Once Trickster gets within ~10 feet, they roll over and show their bellies.
Umbrafer (10:15:53 PM): :)
Dragcrell (10:16:19 PM): :-D lol
Dragcrell (10:17:14 PM): "mmmm" *looks about the allyway and up and down the street as well*
Dragcrell (10:18:28 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 2 4 1 1 2 5 2
Dragcrell (10:18:38 PM): :-(
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Thematrian1 (10:20:02 PM): Trickster: there's something, a body or a trash bag or something, further down the alleyway
Dragcrell (10:20:53 PM): *moves in to check it out takeing out manhunter*
MilesMk1 (10:22:04 PM): *walks over to where he can see him as he walks into the alley*
Thematrian1 (10:22:34 PM): It's a garbage bag, with a head sticking out
Dragcrell (10:23:23 PM): "Hey Blake what did her budy look like off hand I have a bag with a head sticking out of it here"
Dragcrell (10:23:47 PM): *gives the allyway another looking over*
Dragcrell (10:23:53 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 1 4 6 5 4 6 1
MilesMk1 (10:23:53 PM): #Alex... Trickster says he found a body in the alley. What does Zbyhnev look like?#
Dragcrell (10:24:05 PM): Dragcrell rolled 2 6-sided dice: 4 4
Umbrafer (10:24:57 PM): #It isn't him, unless he's got a twin. *Runs off a description anyway*#
MilesMk1 (10:25:28 PM): *passes it along to Trickster*
MilesMk1 (10:26:03 PM): #Ah. Good... Still, there is a body in a garbage bag... Yell if anything weird happens.#
MilesMk1 (10:26:20 PM): (Did we lose Gedeon by accident, or...?)
Thematrian1 (10:26:38 PM): (He signed off, didn't reply to my messages. I assume internet difficulties)
Umbrafer (10:27:21 PM): (Probably. I'll check my phone momentarily…)
Dragcrell (10:29:00 PM): "mmm ether of you know of a elf with a tigers tatoo over there face? and ther is a bit of a tant here as well around the body and bag mostly."
Thematrian1 (10:30:31 PM): (I haven't retroactively set up any of your contacts to be elves with tiger tatoos, in case you wondered
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MilesMk1 (10:31:33 PM): "I don't... Taint? What, astrally?"
MilesMk1 (10:31:58 PM): "Hey, Gedeon... Trickster found a dead elf with a tiger tatoo."
Dragcrell (10:32:19 PM): "ya take it that was a no then" *gets back to looking the body over*
Dragcrell (10:32:32 PM): (lol I love how you but that lol)
MilesMk1 (10:32:48 PM): #In case you were curious, Alex, the dead guy is an elf with a tiger tattoo on his face.#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:33:42 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 3 1 4 2 3
Gedeon Ogoun (10:34:26 PM): #tiger tat means nothing to me. What was that about taint?"
Dragcrell (10:34:53 PM): "The FRECK!"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:35:29 PM): "What?"
Dragcrell (10:35:45 PM): "Blake get over here you tell me what the HELL that is?"
MilesMk1 (10:36:16 PM): "What now?" *walks over, avoiding the dogs*
Dragcrell (10:36:59 PM): *moves so Blake can get a good view* "That is one messed up elf."
MilesMk1 (10:37:08 PM): *examines the elf*
MilesMk1 (10:37:25 PM): "Over here, Gedeon."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:37:34 PM): *jumps out of van*
Gedeon Ogoun (10:37:47 PM): *trots over*
Thematrian1 (10:38:02 PM): As you get closer, the details make themselves plain. It's a body, tall and thin, with its face tatooed in tiger stripes. The lower body is naked, and normal except for the dozens of long, narrow, hairy, many-jointed legs stuck
Thematrian1 (10:38:10 PM): seemingly at random.
Gedeon Ogoun (10:38:22 PM): "Oooh..nasty."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:38:29 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 1 1 2 2 1
Gedeon Ogoun (10:38:32 PM): bah!
Thematrian1 (10:38:33 PM): no
Thematrian1 (10:38:36 PM): just...no
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Dragcrell (10:38:49 PM): (lol)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:38:53 PM): "I have no idea what the frag that is."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:39:02 PM): "But I am glad it is dead."
Thematrian1 (10:39:26 PM): The dogs, by the way, are still watching Trickster and being as submissive as possible
MilesMk1 (10:39:59 PM): "Do dogs always act like that around you?"
MilesMk1 (10:40:45 PM): "Huh." *leans down to examine the body for cause of death*
Thematrian1 (10:40:55 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 3 5 1 3 5 6 4 6 1 1 3 4 5 2 1
Gedeon Ogoun (10:41:17 PM): "Will you help me put body in my trunk?"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:41:35 PM): "I may have uses for it yet."
MilesMk1 (10:41:53 PM): #Tiger stripes on the face, and what look like dozens of large insect legs growing out of his lower body...#
Dragcrell (10:42:08 PM): "Eh same here...............*Looks at the dogs* "ya to the dogs. What is with you ppl and moveing bodys around anyway?"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:42:33 PM): "It has some life left in it."
MilesMk1 (10:42:45 PM): "What do you mean? We usually aren't moving any..."
MilesMk1 (10:42:59 PM): "It does? Are you sure it's a good idea to take it with us?"
Thematrian1 (10:43:11 PM): Blake: it takes some time, but for cause of death you eventually settle on shock burns on the neck, and a pair of tiny puncture wounds on the upper left bicep. You'd probably have missed those, but you've just seen similar wounds o
Thematrian1 (10:43:12 PM): n Alex.
Gedeon Ogoun (10:43:15 PM): *shrugs* "No, I'm not really sure. But I would like to."
MilesMk1 (10:43:42 PM): "Why do you think this thing has life in it still? Looks dead to me..."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:44:02 PM): "The dead can be reinvented, through the power of the loa."
MilesMk1 (10:44:32 PM): "But if you want it in the trunk, I can't stop you, so if you really want to move it, I'll help..."
MilesMk1 (10:44:43 PM): "Your car, yes?"
Dragcrell (10:44:45 PM): *looks at Gedeon* "Eh ok thats nice you shoure you want his messed up ass?"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:44:48 PM): "It might come in very handy. Yes, my trunk."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:45:02 PM): *grabs one end*
Thematrian1 (10:45:19 PM): which end?
Gedeon Ogoun (10:45:31 PM): *head*
MilesMk1 (10:45:39 PM): #Has Zbyhnev said anything about this guy, Alex? Gedeon wants to load him into his trunk to examine later...#
Dragcrell (10:46:22 PM): *Walks over to the dogs and pets em* "good dogs now off with ya."
MilesMk1 (10:46:29 PM): *reluctantly grabs the ankles*
Umbrafer (10:46:46 PM): #Doesn't know him.#
MilesMk1 (10:46:50 PM): *keeping away from insect legs*
MilesMk1 (10:47:18 PM): #So he didn't kill him? He looks like he had shock burns and narcojet dart wounds.#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:47:20 PM): will it fit in trunk no prob?
Thematrian1 (10:47:37 PM): You have to fold the legs (all of them), but yes
Thematrian1 (10:47:53 PM): The body is unusually pliant; hard to say how long it's been dead
Gedeon Ogoun (10:47:55 PM): blake: "thank you."
MilesMk1 (10:48:07 PM): "...sure."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:48:34 PM): "I'll need a few hours with it later. When we stop to rest, or something."
Dragcrell (10:49:28 PM): *walks back to the van* "realy dont wish to know why ether." *looks around*
MilesMk1 (10:49:34 PM): "We'll have to find a place for it... The place we're staying is a little crowded for raising the half-centipede dead." *smiles crookedly*
Gedeon Ogoun (10:49:35 PM): #How's it going in there?#
Umbrafer (10:52:05 PM): #Things are fine. I'll be out soon.#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:53:24 PM): "Maybe we could crash at Ekiele's place for a while. I'm sure he wouldn;t mind."
MilesMk1 (10:54:59 PM): "I have a couple of places of my own that aren't of much use as safe houses anymore..."
MilesMk1 (10:56:04 PM): "But I hope you don't mind waiting a bit - there's still some several people we need to try to account for before trying to leave."
MilesMk1 (10:56:35 PM): "...and some of them might be of help to us in any such attempt."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:56:44 PM): *nod* "No problem...but it might start to stink if I wait too long."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:57:44 PM): "Problem is, I need a sacred place to conduct the ritual. And materials. I'm probably not going to find both any time soon, so perhaps it's just a pipedream afterall."
Umbrafer (10:58:13 PM): #Anything we need right now supply-wise?#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:58:30 PM): #Zombie ritual materials!#
Gedeon Ogoun (10:58:46 PM): "How's our food supply?"
MilesMk1 (11:00:15 PM): "Solid, unless something catastrophic has happened."
MilesMk1 (11:00:38 PM): "Though I hope you like rice, soy steak, and Azetcola."
Umbrafer (11:00:42 PM): #What do we have taking standard ammo?#
MilesMk1 (11:01:04 PM): #Standard ammo? Your machine gun.#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:01:09 PM): "I don't mind any food. I have pistols, but I prefer EX.
MilesMk1 (11:01:41 PM): #I have enough pistol ammo to last... well, longer than I can imagine this going on.#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:01:55 PM): #What about grenades?#
MilesMk1 (11:01:58 PM): #My AR, as well, but I prefer to stick to EX...#
MilesMk1 (11:02:35 PM): #What I could use, actually, is more EX-EX and any grenades we can get our hands on, but most of all minis.#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:03:24 PM): #What about electronics to hide us when we make a run for it?"
Gedeon Ogoun (11:03:28 PM): ##
MilesMk1 (11:03:30 PM): #Also, tazers would be good. Real good.#
MilesMk1 (11:04:16 PM): #That, and Rock still has crap for armor, and Trickster could also use something other than this longcoat of his...#
MilesMk1 (11:04:51 PM): #Mind you, this is what I can think of, not what I expect us to be able to get. *grin*#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:05:55 PM): *back in van*
MilesMk1 (11:06:25 PM): *back to hanging out by the hood, scanning the area for trouble*
MilesMk1 (11:06:53 PM): #I take it from this that Zbyhnev doesn't plan on leaving this place?#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:06:58 PM): Trickster: "Should we bring the dogs? Can they be of use?"
MilesMk1 (11:07:33 PM): "I, uh, think that'd be a bad idea. Dogs make Alex uncomfortable."
Gedeon Ogoun (11:07:44 PM): *shrug*
Gedeon Ogoun (11:07:55 PM): "They could ride with me."
Dragcrell (11:07:57 PM): *moves down to the end of the street* "if they could I dout Alex would let us put em in the van." *looks around from his new vaniage point*
MilesMk1 (11:09:19 PM): "Eh... Well, I can't tell you what to do, but she really has something of a minor phobia about them - though you didn't hear that from me..."
Gedeon Ogoun (11:09:44 PM): "Excuse my editing ears, but I heard...'minor'"
MilesMk1 (11:10:54 PM): "Well... Minor, on a scale starting with "perfectly calm" and ending with "catatonic"..."
Gedeon Ogoun (11:11:32 PM): "Well, the offer is out there. I just thought they might be helpful down the line. Maybe we can ask her if its ok to let them ride in the rabbit."
MilesMk1 (11:12:11 PM): "No harm in asking."
MilesMk1 (11:12:42 PM): "Trickster, do you think you'd be able to get them to come with you?"
Gedeon Ogoun (11:12:48 PM): #Alex, do you mind if we take the dogs? They can ride in the rabbit with me. Perhaps they will be useful later.#
Dragcrell (11:13:08 PM): *thinks*
Gedeon Ogoun (11:13:26 PM): "I think any scraps of food will do it..."
Dragcrell (11:16:03 PM): "with the scraps or meat ya but out side of surrendering no on the doing what I tell em."
MilesMk1 (11:17:02 PM): "Ah."
Gedeon Ogoun (11:17:15 PM): "Guess not then. Sorry poochies, you fend for yourselves"
Gedeon Ogoun (11:19:00 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 3 2 6 1 6
Gedeon Ogoun (11:19:08 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 10 6-sided dice: 3 6 1 1 2 6 4 1 5 3
Dragcrell (11:21:05 PM): "Hey Blake there happen to be any of them UB buildings around here? Wanted to see if any of the oily feeling's around em gotten worse or have spread to the other buildings."
MilesMk1 (11:23:02 PM): Area Knowledge:
MilesMk1 (11:23:06 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 6 3 3 5 4 3
MilesMk1 (11:23:10 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
MilesMk1 (11:23:13 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
MilesMk1 (11:23:22 PM): 13,5,4
Umbrafer (11:24:00 PM): #Dogs…#
Umbrafer (11:24:06 PM): #How big again?#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:24:29 PM): #Don't worry, they can't be controlled as I'd thought#
Umbrafer (11:24:39 PM): Umbrafer rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 5 4 3 5 5
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Thematrian1 (11:26:08 PM): (Telling the phobic that they can't be controlled is supposed to help?)
Dragcrell (11:26:24 PM): (lol)
Umbrafer (11:26:32 PM): #Dogs can always be controlled.#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:26:37 PM): (No, telling the phobic they ain't coming is supposed to help...:)
Umbrafer (11:26:38 PM): There's an edge to that sentence.
MilesMk1 (11:27:00 PM): #He means they can't be easily controlled, so we're leaving them be.#
MilesMk1 (11:27:42 PM): #Although they both just rolled over, literally, when Trickster came close.#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:28:17 PM): #Yeah, but getting them to lay into a gang of orks is a different story#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:28:54 PM): #speaking of...are they gone, still, alex?#
Dragcrell (11:32:57 PM): *looks around to see whats up*
Umbrafer (11:33:00 PM): #No word from the drone.#
Dragcrell (11:33:12 PM): Dragcrell rolled 7 6-sided dice: 1 4 2 1 3 5 4
MilesMk1 (11:35:03 PM): #Is that a really ominous way of saying the drone reports no hostile activity, or did you lose contact?#
Umbrafer (11:36:10 PM): (The drone should at this point be above the van, so that's a good way to check)
Thematrian1 (11:36:35 PM): (The drone is fine)
MilesMk1 (11:36:42 PM): #Oh.#
Dragcrell (11:36:52 PM): "Ask Alex if she knows of any UB places with in walking distence they still have me worryed."
Thematrian1 (11:37:17 PM): Blake: Nothing within walking distance.
Thematrian1 (11:37:25 PM): Several within driving distance, of course
MilesMk1 (11:38:12 PM): "I'm pretty sure there's nothing within walking distance, actually."
MilesMk1 (11:39:21 PM): "Several we could drive to, but we really need to check in on friends first, and personally, I don't think I want to go anywhere near one."
Thematrian1 (11:39:38 PM): Alex emerges
Dragcrell (11:39:47 PM): "oh?"
MilesMk1 (11:39:53 PM): Looking like herself?
Gedeon Ogoun (11:40:03 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 6 5 3 2 5 3 4 2
MilesMk1 (11:40:05 PM): "Hey. So, what's the word?"
Gedeon Ogoun (11:40:08 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 4 6-sided dice: 1 2 1 6
Umbrafer (11:40:16 PM): Alex is carrying a decent amount of stuff.
Umbrafer (11:40:35 PM): #Hey Gedeon, check the guy in there, make sure he's clean.#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:40:48 PM): #Clean?#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:41:02 PM): *gets out of van*
Umbrafer (11:41:09 PM): #Clean. Nothing weird on the astral. Auras. I don't know, this is your thing.#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:41:24 PM): #which guy?#
Umbrafer (11:41:52 PM): #Should be just the one. He's mundane, so he shouldn't see you.#
Umbrafer (11:42:20 PM): "Things look good. We're getting some gear in exchange for checking something out for him. We can always pay him the rest if we don't like the looks of it."
Gedeon Ogoun (11:42:45 PM): #okay. I'd rather walk in if possible, less chance of attracting skeeters#
Umbrafer (11:43:00 PM): #Mm. Better not. Are there skeeters about?#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:43:18 PM): #I don't know. They seemed attracted to me last time#
Umbrafer (11:43:39 PM): #Can you do it quickly? I just want to make sure it isn't anything like Apple.#
Umbrafer (11:43:45 PM): #Right, you weren't with us then.#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:44:02 PM): #Okay..but I'll wait til your set up in the van, in case#
Umbrafer (11:44:21 PM): #A guy at the place we're staying, good guy, turned on the crew there. Folk said he looked like he could've been bewitched.#
Umbrafer (11:44:34 PM): *Carries stuff back, sets up shop, tries to avoid heebie-jeebies*
MilesMk1 (11:44:43 PM): #Apple was a guy?#
Thematrian1 (11:44:55 PM): (Yes)
MilesMk1 (11:45:03 PM): #So, what goodies did you get?#
Thematrian1 (11:45:10 PM): (Dude loved apples)
MilesMk1 (11:45:13 PM): (It's Blake's way of going "Isn'
MilesMk1 (11:45:22 PM): t Jayne a girl
MilesMk1 (11:45:26 PM): 's name?)
Gedeon Ogoun (11:45:31 PM): *jet out astrally, scan this dude and back in a hurry*
Gedeon Ogoun (11:45:36 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 3 2 1 3 1 2 2 1
MilesMk1 (11:45:39 PM): (Damn ' and Enter keys...)
Umbrafer (11:45:42 PM): #Armored jacket for Rock, one for me, five regular grenades, and a taser. Oh, and a heap of MMG rounds.#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:45:48 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 4 6-sided dice: 4 2 4 6
Thematrian1 (11:45:51 PM): Gedeon: he looks fine to you
Gedeon Ogoun (11:46:51 PM): #looks fine to me, Alex, but I looked quickly. He does have an aura, I can tell you that...#
Umbrafer (11:47:05 PM): #Thanks. He seemed fine, but better safe than sorry.#
MilesMk1 (11:47:28 PM): "Are we going to have to do the checking now, or can we look for some more of our people first?"
Umbrafer (11:47:52 PM): "He said he'd need a while to figure out what he really wants anyway."
Umbrafer (11:48:00 PM): Who's next-closest?
Thematrian1 (11:48:21 PM): I'll work it out next week.
Thematrian1 (11:48:25 PM): Good night all; sleep well.
MilesMk1 (11:48:33 PM): See ya.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:48:33 PM): you too
Gedeon Ogoun (11:48:45 PM): good night all
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MilesMk1 (11:48:48 PM): Thursday, that is.
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MilesMk1 (11:50:06 PM): Jon, I'll try to get you the info you asked about tomorrow... Sorry I didn't yet, things have been busy.
Umbrafer (11:50:43 PM): *Nods* No problem.
Umbrafer (11:50:50 PM): If you wouldn't mind, one more thing to add:
MilesMk1 (11:51:06 PM): ?
Umbrafer (11:51:36 PM): A description of where your character lives. The kind of neighborhood, if it's near the railroad tracks, the monorail, the wind farms, a power station, if it's a residential area, near the water, on the outskirts of town, inskirts
Umbrafer (11:51:37 PM): of town, etc.
MilesMk1 (11:51:52 PM): Sure.
Umbrafer (11:51:54 PM): Nothing too elaborate, just filling in the area around it.
Umbrafer (11:51:55 PM): Thanks.
MilesMk1 (11:52:38 PM): Let me see... There's a bend at the river. And a small marina. And a bridge, with several streets intersecting themselves at strange angles... :p
MilesMk1 (11:52:52 PM): bend of the river
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MilesMk1 (11:55:23 PM): But, yeah, I'll try to get that stuff out tomorrow.
MilesMk1 (11:55:34 PM): You want me to e-mail it, or post it on SotSW?
Umbrafer (11:55:35 PM): Hehehe
Umbrafer (11:55:57 PM): Email, if you wouldn't mind, though posting on SotSW as well is probably a good idea for continuity's sake
Umbrafer (11:56:05 PM): (And so you never have to do it again ;) )
Umbrafer (11:56:24 PM): (I'll be inside email contact but out of web access for some time tomorrow. Weird restrictions at the university)
MilesMk1 (11:56:44 PM): (I might actually use Google Earth for this, and come up with something real.)
Umbrafer (11:57:35 PM): :)
Umbrafer (11:57:42 PM): That thing is far too fun.
MilesMk1 (11:59:16 PM): Yeah. My one regret is the area of my hometown back in the old country has no high-res mapping.
MilesMk1 (12:01:10 AM): Well, till Thursday. *waves*
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