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Umbrafer (8:36:57 PM): Yarr.
MilesMk1 has entered the chat room.

MilesMk1 (8:37:24 PM): Hey. Sorry I'm late.
Gedeon Ogoun (8:37:59 PM): Yarr
Thematrian1 (8:38:17 PM): someone feel like recapping?
Umbrafer (8:39:40 PM): *Dig dig dig*
Thematrian1 (8:40:20 PM): Blake grabbed a radio with some extra equipped attached
Thematrian1 (8:40:20 PM): oh, speaking of, roll perception(hearing)
Thematrian1 (8:40:24 PM): Blake and anyone near him
MilesMk1 (8:41:57 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 2 6 5 1 1
MilesMk1 (8:42:02 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
Umbrafer (8:42:30 PM): Log up
Thematrian1 (8:43:19 PM): The radio speaks from your knapsack: "They've heard us. Switch off."
MilesMk1 (8:43:58 PM): A voice I don't recognize?
MilesMk1 (8:44:03 PM): I assume?
Thematrian1 (8:44:12 PM): Yes
Umbrafer (8:44:53 PM): The log is up, but misnamed: http://www.sotsw.net/runs/SotSW%2010-22-05.html until I fix it
Umbrafer (8:45:02 PM): Wait
MilesMk1 (8:45:10 PM): Ok... Well, as I recall, I was staking out the stairs up to the magician's residence, while the rest of the crew was rolling up closer.
Umbrafer (8:45:11 PM): Ok, my brain is dead. I'm seeing 4s everywhere.
Gedeon Ogoun (8:45:32 PM): I believe I was astral with Blake
MilesMk1 (8:46:03 PM): *whispers* "Gedeon, can you periodically check on Rock and Jeremy?"
Thematrian1 (8:46:35 PM): Gedeon: you just sat up in the van
Gedeon Ogoun (8:46:49 PM): oh, okay
Thematrian1 (8:47:29 PM): Blake stakes out the stairway up
Gedeon Ogoun (8:47:34 PM): right, I remember...I was going to bring the gear in
MilesMk1 (8:47:47 PM): (Hehe... BTW, check this out: http://members.cox.net/simmons07/5%20-%20Blake.jpg)
MilesMk1 (8:48:12 PM): Right.
Thematrian1 (8:48:23 PM): (He put in the spider!)
Umbrafer (8:48:23 PM): ( :) )
Umbrafer (8:48:27 PM): (I need to repair the spider.)
Umbrafer (8:48:35 PM): (He made it too big, but that makes me happy.)
Dragcrell (8:49:55 PM): (bah all I get is a error
Umbrafer (8:50:09 PM): (Chop off the closing parentheses)
Umbrafer (8:50:14 PM): (e, i, whatever)
MilesMk1 (8:50:35 PM): Or just click http://members.cox.net/simmons07/5%20-%20Blake.jpg
Dragcrell (8:50:53 PM): (ya got it to work and dame your ugly
MilesMk1 (8:51:13 PM): (Hah. You're just jealous. :P)
Dragcrell (8:51:41 PM): ( na I'm still uglyer then you so I still win :P)
MilesMk1 (8:52:44 PM): Ok... So I wait, wishing I could just head upstairs and vaporize the rest of these shmucks.
Gedeon Ogoun (8:52:56 PM): sorry to bring us back on track...I'm packing up the gear that needs to go...AR, grenades, shotgun...anything else?
MilesMk1 (8:53:26 PM): Which reminds me: This helmet I have now, is what kind?
Thematrian1 (8:53:55 PM): army surplus, by the looks of things
MilesMk1 (8:54:22 PM): (So equivalent to a security helmet? +1 ballistic, +2 impact?)
Thematrian1 (8:54:38 PM): (No, the lesser kind)
MilesMk1 (8:55:01 PM): (Heavy Rapid transit?)
MilesMk1 (8:56:07 PM): (Sorry for the interruptions...)
Thematrian1 (8:56:08 PM): (the one that grants +1 impact armor)
Dragcrell (8:56:15 PM): /roll-dice 6
Dragcrell (8:56:22 PM): Dragcrell rolled 6 6-sided dice: 6 3 6 5 2 5
Dragcrell (8:56:31 PM): Dragcrell rolled 2 6-sided dice: 5 2
MilesMk1 (8:57:01 PM): Ah. In which case, I'd have asked Gedeon for my helmet as well, in addition to the other gear.
Gedeon Ogoun (8:57:34 PM): ok...helmet, AR, my shotgun...grenades? Armor?
Dragcrell (8:59:50 PM): Dragcrell rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 6 2 6 1 1
Dragcrell (8:59:57 PM): Dragcrell rolled 2 6-sided dice: 4 3
Gedeon Ogoun (9:00:49 PM): Alright, I'm moving...wearing the helmet, strapped AR on my back, carrying shotgun. I've got a Secure Jacket on, my monosword at my hip...if there are handy grenades I'l throw a couple in my pockets and away I go, heading
Dragcrell (9:00:49 PM): (meheheheheheehehehehe)
Gedeon Ogoun (9:00:59 PM): for the front door as quick as possible
Umbrafer (9:01:20 PM): *Seek seek seek*
Thematrian1 (9:01:40 PM): seeking what?
Umbrafer (9:01:45 PM): Targets.
Thematrian1 (9:01:52 PM): meanwhile: Rock and Blake hang out in their respective locations?
MilesMk1 (9:02:02 PM): You can take your pick of grenades... I have IPE offensive, defensive, concussion, and some regular WP.
MilesMk1 (9:02:23 PM): Just let me know which ones you grab, because IIRC I'm down to 2 concussion.
Gedeon Ogoun (9:02:47 PM): okay, howabout 2 off, 1 WP, 2 def
MilesMk1 (9:04:21 PM): Ok.
Gedeon Ogoun (9:05:28 PM): *moving*
Thematrian1 (9:06:30 PM): moving moving moving. The rest of the group hangs tight, except for Alex who continues to look for people on the streets?
MilesMk1 (9:07:08 PM): (And, one hopes, on rooftops.)
Umbrafer (9:07:30 PM): On the streets, in the windows, on the rooftops, through thin walls, and pretty much anywhere I can put an MMG round.
Umbrafer (9:07:49 PM): I also try to locate and verify the condition of: 1) the strato wreckage, 2) Trickster.
Thematrian1 (9:08:23 PM): Understood. Roll active sensors for the searching
Umbrafer (9:08:37 PM): Umbrafer rolled 5 6-sided dice: 1 3 3 6 2
Umbrafer (9:08:43 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
Thematrian1 (9:08:43 PM): The strato wreckage is right where you remember crashing.
Thematrian1 (9:09:11 PM): There's a big splash of blood on the street, but no accompanying corpse
Thematrian1 (9:09:32 PM): You spot Gedeon, and two human-sized things on the far side of one of the barricades
Umbrafer (9:09:38 PM): There was a trail to an alley, correct?
Umbrafer (9:09:43 PM): Human-sized things/
Umbrafer (9:09:43 PM): *?
Thematrian1 (9:09:45 PM): yes
Thematrian1 (9:09:55 PM): and yes
Umbrafer (9:10:12 PM): Not in LOS, or indescribable?
Thematrian1 (9:10:16 PM): warm blooded, right number of arms and legs, details unclear; you didn't get close, you spotted them through the barricade
Thematrian1 (9:10:17 PM): haha
Umbrafer (9:10:39 PM): (Dimensional shambler!)
Umbrafer (9:11:34 PM): Got it. I'm going to try to take a closer look from a safe distance, thankfully not contradictory goals with a Strato's sensors.
Umbrafer (9:12:34 PM): [Encrypted]#Got two people up ahead of you.#
Thematrian1 (9:13:34 PM): ok. Just from the video link, you see two human women, and a car a few hundred feet back
MilesMk1 (9:13:44 PM): #Inside the building?#
Thematrian1 (9:13:58 PM): Gedeon: you've reached the barricade. It's still composed of cars and miscellaneous wreckage, and there's still a ladder propped up on your side
Umbrafer (9:14:03 PM): (Blake the unencrypted pariah would not hear this, sadly ;) )
Gedeon Ogoun (9:14:05 PM): <encrypted> #where?#
Dragcrell (9:14:38 PM): Dragcrell rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 3 6 3 5 5
Dragcrell (9:14:46 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
Umbrafer (9:14:46 PM): (Ping)
Umbrafer (9:14:52 PM): &(ping)
MilesMk1 (9:14:54 PM): (Oh, right.)
Umbrafer (9:15:43 PM): (AIM for some reason does not like it if you put a & and a # together)
Thematrian1 (9:16:03 PM): #&
Umbrafer (9:16:09 PM): Other order.
Thematrian1 (9:16:17 PM): (Yeah, I tried that order first)
Umbrafer (9:16:21 PM): Heh
Thematrian1 (9:16:32 PM): Blake: still just staking out?
Umbrafer (9:16:43 PM): $#[Relays position]#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:16:51 PM): #are they ahead of me?#
Umbrafer (9:17:14 PM): $#Just outside the barricade.#
MilesMk1 (9:17:22 PM): If it was only going to take a couple of minutes for the reinforcements to arrive, yes - but I try to also keep an ear out for someone messing with Rock and Co.
Gedeon Ogoun (9:18:15 PM): (having trouble picturing this: I'm about to climb a ladder over a barricade, and there are two unknowns on the other side?)
MilesMk1 (9:18:56 PM): (I think they're on the other side of the barrice you're not climbing, but I could be wrong.)
Thematrian1 (9:19:01 PM): (No. They're outside the area delimited by the barricades)
MilesMk1 (9:19:02 PM): barricade
Thematrian1 (9:19:26 PM): (Specifically, facing a different one than the one you're climbing, the one that's three blocks down)
Gedeon Ogoun (9:19:41 PM): ok
Gedeon Ogoun (9:19:52 PM): well, I'll try the ladder then
Thematrian1 (9:20:04 PM): ok. It's a ladder, you climb it.
Thematrian1 (9:20:07 PM): roll perception
Gedeon Ogoun (9:20:29 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 2 3 5 1 4 3 5 2
Gedeon Ogoun (9:20:33 PM): oooh
Thematrian1 (9:20:58 PM): you don't detect anything spooky
Thematrian1 (9:21:01 PM): are you perceiving astrally?
Gedeon Ogoun (9:21:07 PM): for a peek
Thematrian1 (9:21:39 PM): heh
Thematrian1 (9:21:46 PM): you perceive nothing exciting there either
Thematrian1 (9:22:00 PM): for the third time today, you approach Jeremy Kovacs' place of residence
Gedeon Ogoun (9:22:38 PM): right through the door I go
Gedeon Ogoun (9:22:49 PM): #I'm over the wall, heading for the door#
Gedeon Ogoun (9:22:58 PM): #cover me#
Thematrian1 (9:22:59 PM): encrypted or un?
Gedeon Ogoun (9:23:09 PM): encrypted
Gedeon Ogoun (9:23:29 PM): E#cover me# seems like a good way to type it
Umbrafer (9:23:59 PM): Possibly. I've been using the dollar sign, as it seems fairly distinct
Umbrafer (9:24:24 PM): Opinions, others?
EverGuard4 (9:24:57 PM): I'm still stuck without, so *shrugs*
EverGuard4 (9:25:07 PM): #whatever you want#$%^&*!@
Umbrafer (9:25:08 PM): Alternately, for the duration of this run we could assume encrypted and type Clear: #stuff# when we want to be careless :)
Gedeon Ogoun (9:26:51 PM): lets just keep NO unencrypted communication for the rest of this encounter
Thematrian1 (9:27:02 PM): You reach the door. You can't waft through it this time
Thematrian1 (9:27:07 PM): interesting sensation, that
Gedeon Ogoun (9:27:52 PM): yeah, gotta get used to that
Dragcrell (9:28:09 PM): Dragcrell rolled 4 6-sided dice: 3 2 6 4
Thematrian1 (9:28:17 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 4 5
Dragcrell (9:28:17 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
Gedeon Ogoun (9:28:19 PM): *trying the door*
Thematrian1 (9:30:03 PM): It opens easily
Gedeon Ogoun (9:30:19 PM): In I go
Thematrian1 (9:30:48 PM): and you're in. How do you find Blake?
Thematrian1 (9:30:55 PM): oh, incidentally
Thematrian1 (9:31:13 PM): there's a stack of tires, and a bunch of tires and tire bits strewn across the floor
Thematrian1 (9:31:18 PM): and two corpses, behind one stack
Gedeon Ogoun (9:31:41 PM): well, if I can remember the terrain I'll head for where I left Blake
Gedeon Ogoun (9:31:49 PM): If not, I'll follow the corpses..:>
Thematrian1 (9:32:54 PM): Heh. You find Blake watching the opening to a stairway up
Gedeon Ogoun (9:33:47 PM): *whispers* "Boo"
Umbrafer (9:34:15 PM): (*Remembers a certain ant-drone*)
Gedeon Ogoun (9:35:06 PM): I pass off the helmet and the AR, and four of the five grenades...I'll keep an offensive for an emergency...
MilesMk1 (9:35:14 PM): "Thanks."
MilesMk1 (9:35:28 PM): "Mind holding here for a moment while I check on Jeremy and Rock?"
MilesMk1 (9:35:44 PM): "I assume your spirit would have let you know if there was toruble, but..."
MilesMk1 (9:35:50 PM): trouble, even
Gedeon Ogoun (9:36:19 PM): *shrug* "Go for it"
MilesMk1 (9:37:00 PM): *quickly checks in on the wounded*
Thematrian1 (9:38:07 PM): Rock and Jeremy are still there
EverGuard4 (9:38:16 PM): o...
EverGuard4 (9:38:18 PM): *laughs*
EverGuard4 (9:38:30 PM): "Status?"
MilesMk1 (9:38:51 PM): "That depends. Are you yourself again?"
MilesMk1 (9:39:28 PM): "As far as the rest of the place goes, we seem to be in control, and will likely try to wipe out the rest of these thugs."
EverGuard4 (9:39:32 PM): "Pardon?"
MilesMk1 (9:40:34 PM): "Uh... Well, the only way I have of explaining it is that while you were unconscious, I had a conversation with someone or something else that was occupying your body at the time."
EverGuard4 (9:41:12 PM): *shrugs*
MilesMk1 (9:41:19 PM): "It asked for a drug that could be used to wake up unconscious people, applied it to your neck, screamed horribly, and it.. you... collapsed."
EverGuard4 (9:41:32 PM): "Life, no?"
Umbrafer (9:42:05 PM): (No, not usually :) )
MilesMk1 (9:42:05 PM): "Uh... Well, this would actually be considered somewhat unusual, even given our circumstances..."
Dragcrell (9:42:16 PM): Dragcrell rolled 6 6-sided dice: 5 5 2 2 6 2
Dragcrell (9:42:35 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
MilesMk1 (9:43:18 PM): "...but I need to run and finish this off. Sorry about that grenade blast - glad you're ok."
EverGuard4 (9:43:19 PM): *raises an eyebrow*
EverGuard4 (9:43:26 PM): *moves to follow*
MilesMk1 (9:43:51 PM): "Feeling up to getting into combat?"
MilesMk1 (9:44:22 PM): "Ok..." *points to the large number of available weapons scattered about*
Thematrian1 (9:44:49 PM): (The ones that once belonged to the dead guys?)
MilesMk1 (9:45:10 PM): (Yeah - I don't have any spares myself at this point.)
MilesMk1 (9:46:33 PM): "Hang tight, Jeremy. We should be getting out of here soon."
Thematrian1 (9:46:52 PM): He nods.
MilesMk1 (9:47:14 PM): *heads over to join Gedeon*
Dragcrell (9:47:23 PM): Dragcrell rolled 4 6-sided dice: 6 5 3 4
Thematrian1 (9:47:26 PM): Gedeon: the situation has not changed
Gedeon Ogoun (9:47:50 PM): *waiting*
MilesMk1 (9:48:21 PM): "Don't suppose you have any way of killing pain, do you?"
Gedeon Ogoun (9:48:33 PM): "What kind?"
EverGuard4 (9:48:40 PM): *readies the carried Preds*
EverGuard4 (9:48:50 PM): *follows Blake*
MilesMk1 (9:49:23 PM): *plucks a small piece of shrapnel out of the dermal plating on his chest*
MilesMk1 (9:49:40 PM): "It's distracting."
Gedeon Ogoun (9:49:46 PM): "I see"
Gedeon Ogoun (9:49:51 PM): *casts Resist Pain*
Gedeon Ogoun (9:49:59 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 12 6-sided dice: 2 6 2 4 5 4 6 5 3 6 5 1
Gedeon Ogoun (9:50:23 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 13 6-sided dice: 5 3 3 1 1 2 4 5 2 4 4 4 1
Thematrian1 (9:50:59 PM): reroll those sixes; Blake has like one tenth of a point of essence
Gedeon Ogoun (9:51:06 PM): (well, you can ignore up to M physical wound...what level did you have?)
Gedeon Ogoun (9:51:09 PM): (target is 4)
Thematrian1 (9:51:17 PM): (Not essence? Cool)
MilesMk1 (9:51:17 PM): (Just light right now.)
Gedeon Ogoun (9:51:36 PM): (ok, no drain)
MilesMk1 (9:52:09 PM): *exhales* "Thank you. Let's get this over with, shall we?"
MilesMk1 (9:52:35 PM): "I figure a grenade would make a good door-opener."
Thematrian1 (9:52:53 PM): Heading up the stairs>
Thematrian1 (9:52:53 PM): ?
MilesMk1 (9:53:04 PM): Which reminds me - what does the top of the stairs look like? Is there a landing? A door?
Gedeon Ogoun (9:53:12 PM): "want me to take an astral peek first?"
MilesMk1 (9:53:17 PM): I do head up the stai...
Gedeon Ogoun (9:53:34 PM): *peeking astral vision*
Gedeon Ogoun (9:53:41 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 5 5 2 1 1 2 1 3
MilesMk1 (9:53:55 PM): "Sounds like a good idea."
Thematrian1 (9:54:24 PM): ok. The astral at the base of the stairs is still and spirit-free. It's a bit icky; no background count but heading in that direction
Gedeon Ogoun (9:55:27 PM): (no wards?)
Umbrafer (9:55:33 PM): (Speaking of which, how's the astral in the charnel hallway?
Umbrafer (9:55:35 PM): *)
Thematrian1 (9:55:57 PM): No wards here, no
Gedeon Ogoun (9:56:39 PM): "Well, I could poke my astral self through the door to peek, but if there's a mage on the other side he'll know we're coming"
Dragcrell (9:57:10 PM): Dragcrell rolled 6 6-sided dice: 4 5 5 2 4 6
Dragcrell (9:57:18 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
MilesMk1 (9:57:40 PM): "They probably have a fair idea we're coming anyway... But I was thinking of pushing hard anyway... Drop a grenade with a long fuse at the door, back up, go in shooting."
MilesMk1 (9:58:03 PM): (Gah! Scratch one of the "anyway", what a stylistic nightmare! ;))
Thematrian1 (9:58:35 PM): Just to be clear, you guys are at the bottom of the stairs, still
EverGuard4 (9:58:51 PM): (so there's a doorway @ the top leading to a hall?)
MilesMk1 (9:58:53 PM): Right... I guess we just assumed there was a door visible at the top. There isn't?
Gedeon Ogoun (9:58:55 PM): "I could put a nasty little smoke cloud in there if the door is open..."
Thematrian1 (9:59:17 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 4 6 2 3 4 5 5 5 3 5 4 3 3 1 2
Thematrian1 (9:59:31 PM): (The stairs turn back on themselves)
Gedeon Ogoun (9:59:42 PM): oooh
MilesMk1 (10:00:00 PM): Damnation...
MilesMk1 (10:00:33 PM): Well, I do have a spare helmet...
MilesMk1 (10:00:54 PM): Nah, too corny. :)
MilesMk1 (10:01:09 PM): (On the other hand, it's that or my head...)
MilesMk1 (10:01:33 PM): (One more reason why a camera with a flexible fiberoptic lead should be a piece of SR gear)
EverGuard4 (10:01:50 PM): (4th ed)
Umbrafer (10:01:57 PM): (It may be corny, but it works)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:02:14 PM): "Okay, I'll check astral projection...watch over me a sec"
MilesMk1 (10:02:23 PM): "Ok."
EverGuard4 (10:02:24 PM): *watches*
Umbrafer (10:02:26 PM): (And they do have the guncam in SR3, though I'll grant they're missing separate camera+fiber)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:02:28 PM): *projects
Gedeon Ogoun (10:02:31 PM): *
Thematrian1 (10:03:25 PM): Gedeon lies down.
Gedeon Ogoun (10:04:03 PM): *heading up through the floor*
Thematrian1 (10:04:22 PM): up, up, up through the floor
Thematrian1 (10:04:27 PM): you're on the second story
Gedeon Ogoun (10:05:05 PM): *search search search*
Thematrian1 (10:05:43 PM): The room you emerge into seems to be some sort of break room. It presently contains an ork, who's eating a pastry of some kind and watching the only doorway
Umbrafer (10:06:12 PM): (Remarkably relaxed)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:06:14 PM): does that door way lead to the stairs?
MilesMk1 (10:06:44 PM): (Really makes you wonder if they know something we don't.)
Thematrian1 (10:07:37 PM): it leads into a hallway. The hallway has one door at either end, and two on the wall facing you
Gedeon Ogoun (10:08:05 PM): I mark that door in my mind, head for the others..where are the stairs?
Thematrian1 (10:09:41 PM): The near hallway-end door should lead to the stairs, if your mental map is right.
Thematrian1 (10:09:45 PM): Oh, and roll perception
Gedeon Ogoun (10:09:57 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 6 6 6 6 4 5 3 2
Gedeon Ogoun (10:10:02 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 4 6-sided dice: 5 3 5 3
Thematrian1 (10:11:01 PM): There's a small device lying on the floor by one of the endpoint doors; not the door to the stairs, the other one. Inspection reveals it to be a cheap plastic radio, colored pink
Umbrafer (10:11:39 PM): (Or not coloured pink, depending on one's interpretation of the contradictory Astral Space section :) )
Thematrian1 (10:12:21 PM): (Hate that section so much. Is there an SR3R canon on this?)
Thematrian1 (10:12:26 PM): Anyway, the radio is definitely pink
Thematrian1 (10:12:32 PM): With a unicorn
Gedeon Ogoun (10:13:03 PM): Okay, so there's one door at each end of the hallway (one to stairs, other to break room) and two other doors to unknown destinations...?
Thematrian1 (10:13:10 PM): that's correct
Thematrian1 (10:13:23 PM): wait, no it isn't
MilesMk1 (10:13:26 PM): (What about the door to the breakroom?)
Thematrian1 (10:13:32 PM): the break room door is along one of the long walls
Thematrian1 (10:13:44 PM): the door at the end of the hall leads to a mystery location
Gedeon Ogoun (10:13:50 PM): I check that out
Thematrian1 (10:13:52 PM): oh! And I almost forgot: it'
Thematrian1 (10:13:57 PM): s warded
Gedeon Ogoun (10:14:06 PM): ah
Gedeon Ogoun (10:14:13 PM): what about the other one on the hall?
Thematrian1 (10:14:31 PM): there are two doors on the other long edge, both with closed doors.
Thematrian1 (10:14:40 PM): er, pretend that was constructed intelligently, please
Gedeon Ogoun (10:15:23 PM): well, I check all unchecked doors that I can
Gedeon Ogoun (10:15:28 PM): poke head in
Thematrian1 (10:16:16 PM): these two rooms are definitely storage areas. They contain dozens of bags and boxes of various sizes
Gedeon Ogoun (10:16:37 PM): no sentient life?
Thematrian1 (10:17:05 PM): none
Umbrafer (10:17:11 PM): (You are surrounded by astral rats…)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:17:22 PM): okay then..back to the body
Gedeon Ogoun (10:17:40 PM): *waking* "well, there's good news and bad news"
Thematrian1 (10:17:43 PM): Gedeon sits up
Gedeon Ogoun (10:18:03 PM): "good news: there is no one watching the door at the top of the stairs, at least physically"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:18:21 PM): "bad news is there's a radio sitting there so we'll have to be real quiet like"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:18:36 PM): "and the room at the opposite end of the hall is warded..."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:19:19 PM): "and there's an ork eating a sandwich in the break room"
Umbrafer (10:19:51 PM): (Pastry! Are you trying to get him killed? He could bust in there expecting ham on rye and be faced with a cheese danish!)
MilesMk1 (10:19:58 PM): "A lookout? Bait?"
MilesMk1 (10:20:23 PM): "Makes me wonder what they have on the near door... You saw no obvious traps?"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:20:25 PM): "He's in his own room"
Umbrafer (10:20:28 PM): (Just as long as it isn't a Masked mage)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:20:35 PM): "Unless the radio was a bomb"
MilesMk1 (10:20:47 PM): (Isn't the radio actually by the far door?)
Thematrian1 (10:20:57 PM): (Yes)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:21:01 PM): (oh)
MilesMk1 (10:21:09 PM): "How long is the hallway?"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:21:22 PM): "x meters or so"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:21:37 PM): "twenty meters"
MilesMk1 (10:22:33 PM): "Well... One thing we can do - if we don't care too much about collateral damage - is put a couple of rounds through the far door *pats underbarrel grenade launcher* and then mop up any survivors."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:22:43 PM): "In the other two rooms there's a lot of supplies, that's what they're probably protecting...do we really need to go up here?"
MilesMk1 (10:23:30 PM): "I don't like the idea of leaving the bastards alive at our backs... Though I admit, I might be letting my anger get the best of me, there."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:23:59 PM): *shrug* "Ok, let's go" *starts up stairs, looking for traps*
Thematrian1 (10:24:14 PM): Blake, Rock: following?
MilesMk1 (10:24:17 PM): "I would also have liked - given how much fighting we had to do - to give Jeremy a chance to pack up as many medical supplies as possible. Which will be easier with no opposition."
Thematrian1 (10:24:19 PM): Gedeon: perception
MilesMk1 (10:24:22 PM): I do.
Gedeon Ogoun (10:24:26 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 3 2 2 5 3 3 4 2
Gedeon Ogoun (10:24:32 PM): hodee hummm
Thematrian1 (10:24:44 PM): astral vision or no?
MilesMk1 (10:24:47 PM): Can I roll? Can I? Huh?
Gedeon Ogoun (10:25:00 PM): on and off, 3 second intervals
Thematrian1 (10:25:00 PM): sure, if you're following
MilesMk1 (10:25:06 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 5 4 3 1 3 1
MilesMk1 (10:25:09 PM): Doh.
Thematrian1 (10:25:18 PM): you find no traps
Gedeon Ogoun (10:25:55 PM): *trying door*
Umbrafer (10:26:00 PM): (Blake would probably at this point know Alex's vote.)
Thematrian1 (10:26:24 PM): the door at the top of the stairs opens easily
Gedeon Ogoun (10:26:35 PM): *and quietly...*
Thematrian1 (10:27:16 PM): yeah, and quietly.
Thematrian1 (10:27:26 PM): Blake, and Rock if he's there, see down the hallway to the radio
MilesMk1 (10:27:46 PM): (Kill them all?)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:27:50 PM): *pulls out silenced browning*
Gedeon Ogoun (10:28:10 PM): *takes aim*
Thematrian1 (10:28:20 PM): takes aim at what?
Umbrafer (10:28:21 PM): (Exactly.)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:28:32 PM): (radio)
Thematrian1 (10:28:36 PM): (ok)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:28:57 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 6 6-sided dice: 5 4 5 2 6 2
Gedeon Ogoun (10:29:03 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
Gedeon Ogoun (10:29:06 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
Gedeon Ogoun (10:29:09 PM): :>
MilesMk1 (10:29:22 PM): I'm pretty sure you killed the radio.
Thematrian1 (10:29:28 PM): ok, given that you Took Aim you have six successes on the radio
MilesMk1 (10:29:34 PM): *gets into a good firing position*
Gedeon Ogoun (10:29:46 PM): *readies shotgun, loaded with flechette*
Thematrian1 (10:29:50 PM): it flies apart into a small pile of smashed fragments
Gedeon Ogoun (10:30:10 PM): I move down the hall toward one of the store room doors
Gedeon Ogoun (10:30:22 PM): SWAT team style..:>
Thematrian1 (10:30:50 PM): uh, ok
Thematrian1 (10:31:04 PM): you move down the hall. You encounter a store room door
Gedeon Ogoun (10:31:09 PM): *try door*
Thematrian1 (10:31:42 PM): it's locked. By the lettering on the door, it was once a doctor's office. There's a maglock
Gedeon Ogoun (10:32:15 PM): *moving back towards Blake*
Gedeon Ogoun (10:32:31 PM): "got a passkey, by any chance?"
EverGuard4 (10:32:50 PM): (what does he look like, a rich duff?)
MilesMk1 (10:33:27 PM): "Didn't find any on the people I killed, unfortunately."
Gedeon Ogoun (10:33:56 PM): "Well, I guess we go with the grenade the door plan"
MilesMk1 (10:33:58 PM): This is all whispered, BTW.
MilesMk1 (10:34:11 PM): "Perhaps take out the guy in the break room first?"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:34:45 PM): "That will probably just tip them off...he'll either come out, and get killed, or stay put and get killed later"
Gedeon Ogoun (10:35:12 PM): "I can lie on the ground at the door while you pop the grenades, and cover the break room door"
MilesMk1 (10:35:57 PM): "No need - they detonate on impact."
MilesMk1 (10:36:08 PM): "And at this range, the blast won't hurt us."
MilesMk1 (10:36:28 PM): "I figure one to pop the door, one more to blast the inside."
Umbrafer (10:36:39 PM): (We need to get Blake some airstrike markers)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:37:02 PM): "right, I'll get a manabolt ready for the ork"
MilesMk1 (10:37:26 PM): "Ok... Get your heads down. On three."
Thematrian1 (10:38:03 PM): (Gedeon's shotgun is now loaded with slugs, not flachettes)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:38:14 PM): *reloading*
Thematrian1 (10:38:31 PM): (I was going to retroactively bend reality, but that works too)
Thematrian1 (10:38:43 PM): Everything in the hall is still and peaceful
Thematrian1 (10:38:49 PM): and industral grey, but whatever
MilesMk1 (10:39:12 PM): *counts down, puts a grenade in the door* (with the intention of firing again after a second to assess the situation)
MilesMk1 (10:39:38 PM): (And if the hallway is anywhere close to 20 meters, we're safe - the blast completely dissipates in 8)
Thematrian1 (10:40:07 PM): (It's maybe more 15 meters than 20, but the door is 9-10 meters away)
Thematrian1 (10:40:19 PM): Which grenade is this?
MilesMk1 (10:42:45 PM): (Wait... Isn't this the warded door I'm shooting?)
MilesMk1 (10:43:04 PM): This is a defensive HE IPE grenade.
MilesMk1 (10:43:32 PM): 15S code.
Thematrian1 (10:43:34 PM): (ping)
MilesMk1 (10:43:48 PM): (Should I roll?)
Thematrian1 (10:43:53 PM): (I thought you were going for one of the storerooms)
Thematrian1 (10:43:54 PM): (No need)
MilesMk1 (10:44:13 PM): (Nah, the warded doors - the storerooms were empty, as far as we could tell...
MilesMk1 (10:44:17 PM): )
Gedeon Ogoun (10:44:26 PM): (I just wanted to use the store room as a staging area)
MilesMk1 (10:44:33 PM): (I figured)
Thematrian1 (10:44:45 PM): (I see. So you're walking over to the warded door and putting a grenade by it?)
MilesMk1 (10:46:09 PM): (No. Shooting it with my underbarrel grenade launcher.)
MilesMk1 (10:46:39 PM): (Grenade link, all that good stuff.)
Thematrian1 (10:46:51 PM): (Understood. Go ahead and roll, then, just for grins)
MilesMk1 (10:46:57 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 8 6-sided dice: 1 6 3 3 3 4 4 2
Thematrian1 (10:47:21 PM): yeah, you have no problems whatsoever
Gedeon Ogoun (10:47:42 PM): *watching break room door, manabolt ready*
Thematrian1 (10:49:20 PM): the grenade hits the door squarely and *boom*. The door is blasted to plastic-and-metal splinters, and the two adjoining walls crumble. The ceiling is smashed and the floor isn't in great shape, either
Thematrian1 (10:49:59 PM): on the other side of the door
Thematrian1 (10:50:41 PM): well, it's definitely a room. On the one wall you can see, maybe ten meters from the door
Thematrian1 (10:51:32 PM): is a large painting of a man in armor with a sword. He casts a shadow on the wall behind him, which is growing claws and fangs and looming up. He doesn't notice.
Gedeon Ogoun (10:52:14 PM): ?
MilesMk1 (10:52:21 PM): ...but no enemies?
Thematrian1 (10:52:22 PM): On the floor is a pentagram in a circle, drawn in the carpet
Thematrian1 (10:52:27 PM): None are visible, no
Gedeon Ogoun (10:52:38 PM): (magic background)
EverGuard4 (10:52:39 PM): *astral examination*
Gedeon Ogoun (10:52:43 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 4 5 3 5 5
EverGuard4 (10:52:44 PM): EverGuard4 rolled 9 6-sided dice: 5 1 1 3 4 2 1 6 6
Thematrian1 (10:52:48 PM): (Roll it, both of you)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:53:08 PM): (also, magic groups (occult))
Gedeon Ogoun (10:53:12 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 7 6-sided dice: 2 5 5 6 4 6 5
Gedeon Ogoun (10:53:19 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 2 6-sided dice: 3 6
Gedeon Ogoun (10:53:22 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
Gedeon Ogoun (10:53:25 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
Thematrian1 (10:54:20 PM): (brb)
MilesMk1 (10:54:28 PM): I'm watching the break room door, mainly.
Gedeon Ogoun (10:54:47 PM): I'll switch to mage room then
Gedeon Ogoun (10:55:03 PM): Thinking I'll blast painting
EverGuard4 (10:55:15 PM): (anything to reroll?)
Umbrafer (10:55:41 PM): (To be clear, this was not a part of Jeremy's original decor? Or does Blake know?)
MilesMk1 (10:56:46 PM): (Pretty sure on the pentagram... ;) As for the rest of it... well, it's down to luck, I'm sure I didn't come close to seeing every room in the clinic.)
MilesMk1 (10:57:04 PM): (Might be able to tell if it's the sort of art Jeremy might buy. :))
Umbrafer (10:57:25 PM): (If it's his, we might want to have a little chat with him.)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:57:58 PM): "I think it belongs to a shaman of the Adversary, but it doesn't look magical to me..."
MilesMk1 (10:58:24 PM): "Is that what the painting means?"
Thematrian1 (10:58:36 PM): (Blake: you're not sure, but it doesn't seem like Jeremy
Thematrian1 (10:58:38 PM): 's sort of thing)
Gedeon Ogoun (10:58:51 PM): "Yes, the shadow rising up to defeat the one who cast it...it is a theme used by shamans of that variety"
MilesMk1 (10:58:52 PM): And since we already made all the noise in the world...
Gedeon Ogoun (10:59:33 PM): *loads two flechette rounds*
Gedeon Ogoun (10:59:40 PM): *blasts painting*
MilesMk1 (11:00:28 PM): "Hey! You in the break room! Finish that pastry and get your ass out here, with your hands up, or the next grenade will be for you!"
Thematrian1 (11:00:43 PM): You hear a faint choking sound from the break room
Dragcrell (11:01:13 PM): (ROFL or choke to death)
Thematrian1 (11:01:45 PM): The painting is shredded. The frame it was in is mostly still all right
Dragcrell (11:02:14 PM): Dragcrell rolled 4 6-sided dice: 4 3 3 2
Thematrian1 (11:02:23 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 4 3 3 1 4 4 4 1 4 4 3 1 5 4 1
Dragcrell (11:02:25 PM): (>_<)
Dragcrell (11:03:16 PM): Dragcrell rolled 8 6-sided dice: 4 5 3 2 6 5 3 5
Thematrian1 (11:03:17 PM): Swallowing heavily, an ork steps into the hallway from the breakroom. His hands are on his head. He's wearing standard ganger gear: heavy not-leather jacket, chains, et cetera
Dragcrell (11:03:25 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
Gedeon Ogoun (11:03:47 PM): "Let's use him as cover to get into the mage room" *whispered*
MilesMk1 (11:04:00 PM): "Let me see those hands!" (if it looks like he might be hiding something)
Thematrian1 (11:04:04 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 2 1 2 6 4 5 2 1 1 4 2 5 2 5 5
MilesMk1 (11:04:38 PM): *nods to Gedeon* Then, "Stop, and turn around."
Thematrian1 (11:04:52 PM): He spreads his hands out. They're empty
Gedeon Ogoun (11:05:20 PM): *gets up, heads into hall with shotgun pointed at ork*
Gedeon Ogoun (11:05:32 PM): "You heard him, turn around!"
MilesMk1 (11:05:36 PM): *follows, covering Gedeon*
Thematrian1 (11:05:40 PM): Slowly, he does so
Gedeon Ogoun (11:05:51 PM): "March towards that blasted door...move!"
Thematrian1 (11:06:21 PM): He does so. Specifically, he goose-steps
Gedeon Ogoun (11:06:34 PM): *keeping out of arm's reach, and behind him*
Thematrian1 (11:06:49 PM): When he reaches the doorway, he stops and looks over his shoulder at you
Gedeon Ogoun (11:06:56 PM): "In"
Thematrian1 (11:07:17 PM): He steps inside
MilesMk1 (11:07:22 PM): *follows, after making sure there was no one else in the breakroom*
Dragcrell (11:07:27 PM): Dragcrell rolled 4 6-sided dice: 2 2 5 6
Thematrian1 (11:07:37 PM): No one else was in the break room,no
Thematrian1 (11:08:00 PM): Your captive speaks: "Uh, wait."
Thematrian1 (11:08:01 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 4 4 6 4 5 6 4 5 6 6 5 5 4 6 2
Gedeon Ogoun (11:08:16 PM): "What?"
Gedeon Ogoun (11:09:17 PM): *palming katar in right hand*
Thematrian1 (11:09:35 PM): Rock, perception.
Thematrian1 (11:09:39 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
Thematrian1 (11:09:47 PM): you too, Gedeon
Gedeon Ogoun (11:10:00 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 8 6-sided dice: 4 5 4 2 3 4 4 4
Thematrian1 (11:10:27 PM): A short pause. Then, a field of brownish energy appears in the doorway between you and him.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:10:48 PM): brownish energy? does it have form?
Thematrian1 (11:11:00 PM): Yes. It fills the doorway from top to bottom
Thematrian1 (11:11:07 PM): It looks...solid
Gedeon Ogoun (11:11:17 PM): astrally?
Dragcrell (11:12:13 PM): Dragcrell rolled 9 6-sided dice: 4 5 4 3 1 4 6 6 5
Dragcrell (11:12:21 PM): Dragcrell rolled 2 6-sided dice: 2 3
Thematrian1 (11:12:22 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 6 3 6 6 1 1 1 4 6 2 6 2 1 6 5
Thematrian1 (11:12:35 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 3 3 6 3 2 3 1 5 5 1 2 5 1 6 6
Umbrafer (11:12:38 PM): (If he's in, it's probably on the far side of the ward)
Gedeon Ogoun (11:12:47 PM): "Back this way, ork, now!"
Thematrian1 (11:14:12 PM): The ork steps to the side, out of your field of view.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:14:18 PM): blast him!
Thematrian1 (11:14:24 PM): with?
Gedeon Ogoun (11:14:28 PM): shotgun
Thematrian1 (11:14:32 PM): go for it
Gedeon Ogoun (11:14:40 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 4 6-sided dice: 1 6 4 2
Gedeon Ogoun (11:14:46 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
Gedeon Ogoun (11:14:49 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
Gedeon Ogoun (11:14:59 PM): still got slugs
Dragcrell (11:15:04 PM): Dragcrell rolled 9 6-sided dice: 2 2 4 3 4 3 3 4 2
Gedeon Ogoun (11:15:12 PM): T-250, 10S base if I hit
Thematrian1 (11:15:15 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 10 6-sided dice: 2 2 5 2 2 1 3 2 5 5
Thematrian1 (11:16:16 PM): You definitely hit the doorway, but your slugs just do more damage to the poor, abused walls
Umbrafer (11:16:28 PM): $#What's your position?#
Gedeon Ogoun (11:16:39 PM): $#position is x#
Dragcrell (11:16:55 PM): Dragcrell rolled 8 6-sided dice: 4 2 3 6 3 6 1 2
Gedeon Ogoun (11:17:06 PM): my slugs went through the barricade, right?
Dragcrell (11:17:10 PM): Dragcrell rolled 2 6-sided dice: 4 2
Umbrafer (11:17:38 PM): (In time available, I try to position the Strato near there. I wouldn't know about this yet, not having been notified, but I'd have done it earlier normally as well)
Thematrian1 (11:17:51 PM): ah, I wasn't clear. Your slugs damage the walls that Blake's grenade made such a mess of.
MilesMk1 (11:18:14 PM): So they bounced off.
Thematrian1 (11:18:19 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 6 5 6 2 1 4 3 6 1 6 1 5 1 4 4
Thematrian1 (11:18:20 PM): yep
Gedeon Ogoun (11:18:23 PM): frag
Gedeon Ogoun (11:19:08 PM): I put my hand up to the smoke
Gedeon Ogoun (11:19:15 PM): and try to poke through
MilesMk1 (11:20:50 PM): While this is going on... Can I try putting an AR burst into the wall next to the doorway, to try to make an opening?
Thematrian1 (11:20:51 PM): you press on the energy field. It's not like pressing on a wall; more like, however hard you push, the field pushes back just as hard
MilesMk1 (11:21:10 PM): Ideally not right next to Gedeon's hand. Maybe when he pulls it back.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:21:29 PM): I'll try to attack it astrally
Thematrian1 (11:22:02 PM): You try, but there isn't really anything to attack astrally. It's no more "there" than any other spell is.
Umbrafer (11:22:37 PM): (Did the barrier appear on the far side of the ward, then?)
Thematrian1 (11:22:42 PM): (Yes)
Umbrafer (11:22:43 PM): (Near side, that is?)
Thematrian1 (11:22:47 PM): (Your side)
Gedeon Ogoun (11:22:52 PM): (the ward should be broken when the door was grenaded, no?)
Umbrafer (11:23:56 PM): (That involves a thornier question of what amount of definition a ward requires that I don't think we've solved yet)
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Thematrian1 (11:24:43 PM): Blake: when Gedeon withdraws his hand, you have a chance to fire. Go for it.
Umbrafer (11:24:44 PM): (Command-W is not Command-tab. Command-W is not Command-tab. Command-W is not Command-tab…)
Dragcrell (11:24:56 PM): Dragcrell rolled 9 6-sided dice: 3 6 3 4 4 2 5 3 5
Dragcrell (11:25:06 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
MilesMk1 (11:25:08 PM): Should I roll this? It's going to be a 16D burst of EX.
MilesMk1 (11:25:20 PM): I guess I should...
MilesMk1 (11:25:23 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 12 6-sided dice: 4 4 4 4 5 4 1 4 4 4 4 4
Thematrian1 (11:25:23 PM): hm. yeah, do
MilesMk1 (11:25:30 PM): Good God.
Thematrian1 (11:25:52 PM): well
Thematrian1 (11:25:52 PM): that went ok
Gedeon Ogoun (11:25:54 PM): yowza
MilesMk1 (11:25:59 PM): What are the chances of getting 10 identical rolls on 12 dice?
Gedeon Ogoun (11:26:21 PM): one over six to the tenth, I believe
Umbrafer (11:26:23 PM): (Before or after including the explodingness?)
Thematrian1 (11:26:25 PM): odds of ten fours on 12 dice = (1/6)^10 * (5/6)^2 .
Thematrian1 (11:26:55 PM): Pretty damned improbable, anyway
MilesMk1 (11:27:18 PM): Why does this happen only when playing SR, and never with lottery tickets? Oh, well.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:27:35 PM): because the lottery is run by demons
Thematrian1 (11:27:46 PM): and you roll many more SR dice than you buy lottery tickets
Thematrian1 (11:27:48 PM): I sure hope
Gedeon Ogoun (11:27:59 PM): yeah, that too
MilesMk1 (11:28:01 PM): Well, yes.
MilesMk1 (11:28:26 PM): I suppose I ought to look on the bright side - I haven't been hit with any meteorites or lightning strikes either.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:28:26 PM): so blake destroys the smoky barrier, we stroll in and kill everyone..what next?
Umbrafer (11:28:45 PM): Our characters win the lottery.
Thematrian1 (11:29:02 PM): he blasts the hell out of the wall next to the barrier. This leaves a dwarf-size hole
Gedeon Ogoun (11:29:19 PM): enough room to toss in a grenade?
MilesMk1 (11:29:31 PM): Is the hole covered with the smoky barrier crap, or clear?
Gedeon Ogoun (11:29:36 PM): er..stupid question, but I'm not a good thrower..:>
Thematrian1 (11:29:59 PM): clear
Gedeon Ogoun (11:30:30 PM): do we have any sense of how big the room is on the other side?
MilesMk1 (11:30:46 PM): 10 meters deep, IIRC>
Thematrian1 (11:30:48 PM): at least five meters across; you can't be sure of the other dimension
MilesMk1 (11:31:35 PM): The wall with the painting was ~ 10 meters from the door.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:31:38 PM): *pulls grenade out of pocket, smiles at Blake. Points to the right side, points at Blake and points to the left side*
MilesMk1 (11:32:16 PM): *pulls a regular HE grenade out, and gets ready to toss it to the left side of the room*
Thematrian1 (11:32:19 PM): So it was. Ten meters it is.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:33:01 PM): *holds up three fingers.....then two...then one....then...plunk!*
Thematrian1 (11:33:26 PM): plunk?
Thematrian1 (11:33:29 PM): ah
MilesMk1 (11:33:35 PM): *times his throw to coincide with Gedeon's*
MilesMk1 (11:33:42 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 8 6-sided dice: 4 3 6 1 5 5 2 1
Gedeon Ogoun (11:33:47 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 4 6-sided dice: 2 5 5 6
MilesMk1 (11:33:54 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
Gedeon Ogoun (11:33:56 PM): (default to strength)
Thematrian1 (11:34:18 PM): Gedeon's grenade bounces through the hole. What it does after that is anyone's guess.
Thematrian1 (11:34:31 PM): Blake's rolls through in a more controlled fashion
Gedeon Ogoun (11:34:45 PM): *backing up a few steps*
MilesMk1 (11:34:52 PM): I flatten up against a wall after that. And that, too.
MilesMk1 (11:35:09 PM): Not counting on the smoky barrier to stay up and provide cover, either.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:35:19 PM): no, hoping it will go down
Umbrafer (11:35:55 PM): Umbrafer rolled 5 6-sided dice: 6 3 1 1 3
Umbrafer (11:35:57 PM): Umbrafer rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
Umbrafer (11:35:59 PM): Umbrafer rolled 5 6-sided dice: 3 5 6 6 4
Umbrafer (11:36:02 PM): Umbrafer rolled 2 6-sided dice: 3 2
Thematrian1 (11:37:05 PM): Two explosions from within the room. The barrier falls.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:37:17 PM): *rush the room*
Thematrian1 (11:37:28 PM): ok. Roll Reaction
Gedeon Ogoun (11:37:36 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 4 1 6 4 1
Thematrian1 (11:37:42 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 2 6 4 1 5 4 5 4 2 1 6 1 6 6 4
MilesMk1 (11:37:50 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 10 6-sided dice: 4 2 2 3 4 5 1 1 5 1
MilesMk1 (11:37:57 PM): Hmmm...
Thematrian1 (11:38:28 PM): The room is 5x10, with paintings in the same vein as the one you wrecked on all the walls
MilesMk1 (11:39:13 PM): I'm pretty sure we wrecked those too.
Thematrian1 (11:40:15 PM): There's a troll lying on an operating table just out of sight of the door. A simple bow is propped against the table. This looks to have once been an operating room, though the table is the only remaining releavant feature
Thematrian1 (11:40:50 PM): relevant
Thematrian1 (11:41:16 PM): The table itself is still intact; the troll is missing an arm. This looks to be a recent development.
MilesMk1 (11:42:04 PM): Robin wasn't a troll, was he?
MilesMk1 (11:42:30 PM): Squeaky might have been... It's not him, is it?
Thematrian1 (11:42:45 PM): Let me finish.
Thematrian1 (11:43:22 PM): On the other side of the doorway we have a human woman with long, stringy blond hair. She's got her eyes closed, touching some exciting new wounds on her face and torso.
Thematrian1 (11:44:53 PM): Gedeon: astral senses on?
Gedeon Ogoun (11:44:58 PM): yep
MilesMk1 (11:45:16 PM): (Sorry.)
Thematrian1 (11:45:22 PM): (?)
MilesMk1 (11:45:33 PM): (Just getting the questions out there to save time. ;))
Thematrian1 (11:46:02 PM): There's a gangery-looking spirit with one arm protectively wrapped around the woman. It (she?) is glaring at you, Gedeon.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:46:14 PM): gangery??
Thematrian1 (11:46:22 PM): like a ganger
Gedeon Ogoun (11:46:49 PM): I'll manabolt her, assuming I can
Thematrian1 (11:46:56 PM): on the other side of the operating table, we have the Danish Ork with an assault rifle. He's pointing it at you and pulling the trigger. You are Surprised.
Thematrian1 (11:47:07 PM): He's bleeding too, incidentally
Umbrafer (11:47:07 PM): Oh dear.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:47:10 PM): oh, drat
Thematrian1 (11:47:32 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 5 2 5 4 4 2 1 4 2 3 2 4 5 6 1
MilesMk1 (11:47:40 PM): Stupid bastard. He could have lived.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:48:18 PM): hopefully there's vision mods and wound mods...but this might hurt
MilesMk1 (11:48:42 PM): And recoil mods, unless this AR is better than all the other non-compensated crap they had.
Thematrian1 (11:49:43 PM): He fires a short burst. Gedeon Ogoun, resist 10D.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:50:00 PM): combat pool or no?
Thematrian1 (11:50:09 PM): I believe so, yeah.
Thematrian1 (11:50:13 PM): It's just dodging that you can't do
Gedeon Ogoun (11:50:17 PM): ok
Thematrian1 (11:50:25 PM): also, when your turn comes up you may act against the woman
Gedeon Ogoun (11:50:30 PM): looking for fives
Gedeon Ogoun (11:50:45 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 14 6-sided dice: 2 4 5 4 5 3 5 1 4 2 6 4 2 2
Gedeon Ogoun (11:50:58 PM): and karma...
Gedeon Ogoun (11:51:10 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 10 6-sided dice: 4 2 2 6 6 6 2 3 2 1
Thematrian1 (11:51:18 PM): stages all the way to L?
MilesMk1 (11:51:20 PM): Aw... Just one short.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:51:24 PM): yep
Gedeon Ogoun (11:51:49 PM): *goes down*
Thematrian1 (11:51:55 PM): ouch. Some instinct warns you to flatten against the wall, so as he fires your armor takes the hit.
Gedeon Ogoun (11:52:01 PM): (I go down with it so as to appear dead)
Thematrian1 (11:52:13 PM): On his remaining action, the ork starts to duck behind the operating table.
Thematrian1 (11:53:15 PM): Seeing you fall, he hesitates. Do you wish to act in the surprise round?
Gedeon Ogoun (11:53:29 PM): sure, but with magic
Gedeon Ogoun (11:53:47 PM): and from the ground
Thematrian1 (11:53:54 PM): understood
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Gedeon Ogoun (11:54:51 PM): is it my go?
Thematrian1 (11:54:55 PM): yes
Gedeon Ogoun (11:55:11 PM): oh, sorry...how far apart are the ork and the woman
Gedeon Ogoun (11:55:14 PM): ?
Thematrian1 (11:55:26 PM): opposite sides of the doorway, and she's also about three meters in
Gedeon Ogoun (11:55:38 PM): easily within powerball range, then
Gedeon Ogoun (11:56:00 PM): going with base M damage, force 6
Thematrian1 (11:56:07 PM): hm
Thematrian1 (11:56:09 PM): one sec
Thematrian1 (11:56:59 PM): You guys have located yet another ambiguous case in the SR3 ruleset. Pardon me one moment
Gedeon Ogoun (11:57:17 PM): *nod* understood
Dragcrell (11:57:31 PM): Dragcrell rolled 6 6-sided dice: 5 2 2 3 1 1
Thematrian1 (11:58:48 PM): ok, you may powerball them both. Roll some dice
Gedeon Ogoun (11:58:57 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 9 6-sided dice: 2 2 6 2 1 2 4 3 3
Gedeon Ogoun (11:59:02 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
Thematrian1 (11:59:05 PM): (Note: my ruling on this case may change later.)
Gedeon Ogoun (11:59:14 PM): drain:
Thematrian1 (11:59:19 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 5 3 2 6 4 6 4 6 5 5 5 4 4 1 5
Gedeon Ogoun (11:59:31 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 15 6-sided dice: 1 1 3 1 6 1 2 1 6 4 2 2 1 4 4
Gedeon Ogoun (11:59:36 PM): Gedeon Ogoun rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 2 6
Gedeon Ogoun (11:59:55 PM): no drain
Thematrian1 (12:00:32 AM): ok. The woman's hair chars; there's no visible effect on the ork, who finishes ducking behind the operating table
Thematrian1 (12:01:56 AM): We go to initiative, which we will pick up next week
MilesMk1 (12:02:04 AM): Aarrgh!
MilesMk1 (12:02:07 AM): :)
Thematrian1 (12:02:28 AM): (It's midnight. Good Davids are in their beds right now)
Gedeon Ogoun (12:02:41 AM): I will be soon too. Good night all
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Dragcrell (12:02:54 AM): (lol)
MilesMk1 (12:02:58 AM): (Oh, I agree. Doesn't change the fact these people needed killing two weeks ago. :))
MilesMk1 (12:03:07 AM): See you guys Thursday.
Thematrian1 (12:03:09 AM): (Heh, right)
MilesMk1 (12:03:40 AM): Or Tuesday, as the case might be. 'Night.
Thematrian1 (12:03:48 AM): 'nigth
Thematrian1 (12:03:51 AM): yuck
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Dragcrell (12:04:28 AM): mehehehehehe
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