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Umbrafer (7:53:54 PM): j0
MilesMk1 (7:53:57 PM): Hey. Sorry I'm late, everyone.
Thematrian1 (7:55:11 PM): being here now, we can get the party started
Thematrian1 (7:55:15 PM): did everyone enjoy tax time?
Umbrafer (7:55:36 PM): It was barrels of fun.
MilesMk1 (7:55:38 PM): Yes.
MilesMk1 (7:55:52 PM): I'm lazy and get my taxes prepared. ;)
Thematrian1 (7:55:57 PM): good, good. Did everyone experience the joy of receiving dangerously wrong paperwork from their employers, or was that just me?
MilesMk1 (7:56:06 PM): I think that was just you.
Dragcrell (7:56:09 PM): nope
MilesMk1 (7:57:01 PM): I got a notice from my employer informing me that I apparently forgot to cash a payroll check 4 years ago, and could I please pick it up. I know it's not free money, but it feels like it, at this point.
Umbrafer (7:57:45 PM): Heh, I got one of those a few months back. It was only a year, but still nice to have money you didn't know about.
Dragcrell (7:58:18 PM): I just have my auto-deposited in my accout
MilesMk1 (7:58:34 PM): I do too, for almost 4 years now. ;)
Thematrian1 (8:00:21 PM): anyhoo, when we left off Arty was healing folk and the bugs were apparently going nuts downstairs
Dragcrell (8:00:25 PM): :3 I just laugh at the others when they send the pay checks to the wrong state and town ^_^b
Thematrian1 (8:00:43 PM): Oh, and the ceiling keeps flickering out of its test pattern, and back again too fast to catch
circlmastr (8:00:56 PM): circlmastr rolled 11 6-sided dice: 6 3 1 3 6 5 5 1 4 1 4
circlmastr (8:00:59 PM): circlmastr rolled 2 6-sided dice: 2 2
Thematrian1 (8:02:05 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 10 6-sided dice: 6 2 6 5 5 4 4 6 4 3
Thematrian1 (8:02:09 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 9 6-sided dice: 3 1 3 4 4 1 4 6 1
MilesMk1 (8:02:18 PM): *waits for people to be healed*
Thematrian1 (8:02:23 PM): Askia opens her eyes, and unsteadily sits up.
circlmastr (8:02:52 PM): "Welcome back to the land of the living."
Thematrian1 (8:03:13 PM): "Death was better. Are we rescued?"
Thematrian1 (8:03:28 PM): She looks around, peering owlishly around the room. "We don't look rescued."
Dragcrell (8:03:37 PM): "has yet to be seen I belive."
circlmastr (8:04:09 PM): "The queen or whatever it was is dead."
Thematrian1 (8:04:39 PM): "And m...m...the sorceress?"
circlmastr (8:05:20 PM): "...I think that the queen bug WAS the sorceress, but I can't be sure."
MilesMk1 (8:05:35 PM): "Eaten by the queen, right before we killed her."
Thematrian1 (8:05:39 PM): She rolls her eyes. "The summoner."
Thematrian1 (8:05:53 PM): "Good." Her eyes widen. "Wait, no, bad."
Thematrian1 (8:05:55 PM): "Good?"
circlmastr (8:06:13 PM): *shrug* "It's something."
Dragcrell (8:06:18 PM): "no the summonerrrr as you call herrr called it herrre then it killed herrr and whent frrree"
circlmastr (8:06:22 PM): circlmastr rolled 11 6-sided dice: 6 6 3 5 5 1 6 3 2 3 5
Thematrian1 (8:06:24 PM): Arty: "They went free, so they're spirits, but then there are the fleshy ones, so who knows?"
circlmastr (8:06:24 PM): circlmastr rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 3 1
Thematrian1 (8:06:31 PM): "It doesn't matter because we have to leave."
MilesMk1 (8:06:46 PM): "Well, whatever they are, they seem agitated. Let's get to the hangar, shall we?"
MilesMk1 (8:06:57 PM): #Todd, how're you doing?#
MilesMk1 (8:07:31 PM): "Accident, where's the way up, and why do we need thermite, aside from the obvious reasons?"
circlmastr (8:07:38 PM): (I assume the Arty healed Todd?)
circlmastr (8:07:43 PM): (*that)
circlmastr (8:07:50 PM): (Or whatever)
Thematrian1 (8:07:51 PM): (Yeah, let me just roll for it...)
Thematrian1 (8:07:55 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 11 6-sided dice: 3 1 5 6 5 5 3 2 2 4 4
circlmastr (8:07:56 PM): (I forget who is who anymore)
Thematrian1 (8:07:57 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 8 6-sided dice: 5 2 5 2 1 5 2 1
circlmastr (8:08:14 PM): (And my teeth hurt)
Thematrian1 (8:08:25 PM): Todd, meanwhile, is healed by 6 boxes. I think that's full, right?
circlmastr (8:08:58 PM): I don't even remember how badly he was hurt, I just remember HoG
Thematrian1 (8:09:20 PM): That wasn't for physical damage. IIRC you were down, like, 2 boxes.
Dragcrell (8:10:19 PM): "could be morrre then one or severrral nests? in this place I have seen *lowish grow* oh what do you call them they fly and suck blood to lay therrre eggs?"
Thematrian1 (8:10:32 PM): Accident, to Blake: "I cannot find the key, and we no longer have time to look for it."
MilesMk1 (8:11:13 PM): *holds up the card the mage had* "We found this, but if that ain't it, let's light things up."
Thematrian1 (8:11:40 PM): He reaches for it. "I'll show you the way."
MilesMk1 (8:12:16 PM): #Guys, watch my back, please... Alex, thoughts on what we want to do with the helicopter? Other than me crashing it horribly if I try to touch it?#
MilesMk1 (8:13:09 PM): *follows*
Umbrafer (8:13:13 PM): #I don't know. It should have some sort of autopilot if it's a corp ride, that should do at least to get it to me.#
MilesMk1 (8:13:27 PM): #Right, right...#
Dragcrell (8:13:44 PM): *follow a few steps behing the last person to leave scaning the room befor leaveing it*
MilesMk1 (8:14:21 PM): *reloads the GL with two IPEs followed by two incendiaries followed by two more IPEs*
MilesMk1 (8:14:40 PM): *takes the case with corps scrip with him*
MilesMk1 (8:14:48 PM): corp scrip
Thematrian1 (8:14:57 PM): He leads you through the door to the living area: bedroom/bathroom/closets.
Thematrian1 (8:15:42 PM): It's chiefly dominated by the world's largest bed; you could fit the whole team in it, no sweat
circlmastr (8:16:10 PM): Orgy much?
Thematrian1 (8:16:23 PM): not by the looks of it; the bed's made
MilesMk1 (8:16:28 PM): Ok, I'm not playing in any furry sex games.
Umbrafer (8:17:03 PM): I don't think it counts if Essie's in human form, but in any event, we don't have time for debauchery.
Thematrian1 (8:17:14 PM): ...thanks for going there. Accident leads you past the bed to the far wall, which is vid-enabled but presently off
Dragcrell (8:17:29 PM): (lets do rembers she dose have claws on all 4 limes and fangs)
Thematrian1 (8:17:38 PM): he punches a sequence into the vid controls on the wall, and part of it retracts, revealing a stairway
Thematrian1 (8:17:44 PM): "There's an official route, but this is better."
MilesMk1 (8:18:11 PM): "All right..."
Thematrian1 (8:18:51 PM): "The group we just met does not run the upper floors by itself."
Thematrian1 (8:19:02 PM): With that, he enters the stairway. The lights come on as he does.
MilesMk1 (8:19:32 PM): "Hold on... What group?"
Thematrian1 (8:19:52 PM): "The fireflies and their summoner."
MilesMk1 (8:20:39 PM): "I see. And, who else runs it? And how did you come to know so much about them?"
Thematrian1 (8:21:58 PM): He's climbing the stairs. "We spoke at length to the Universal Brotherhood. They're a very dangerous group."
Thematrian1 (8:22:52 PM): The stairs turn and continue to rise. This must be a floor level, but there's no door.
Dragcrell (8:23:00 PM): Dragcrell rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 1 5 2 6 1
Dragcrell (8:23:06 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
Dragcrell (8:23:29 PM): Dragcrell rolled 6 6-sided dice: 3 5 6 5 6 3
Dragcrell (8:23:34 PM): Dragcrell rolled 2 6-sided dice: 6 4
Dragcrell (8:23:40 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
Thematrian1 (8:25:55 PM): Accident: "The insects think they own the city of Chicago, now. That in complete chaos they will conquer."
MilesMk1 (8:27:26 PM): "Unlikely. I'm sure those I fought aren't the toughest there are, but I'm just a one guy with a gun..."
MilesMk1 (8:27:34 PM): just one
MilesMk1 (8:28:20 PM): "They'll cause a lot of damage, and then, eventually, the corps will decide they want the real estate back."
Dragcrell (8:29:03 PM): "maby but everrr step on a ant nest or hit a wasp nest?"
Thematrian1 (8:29:22 PM): He stops, surprised. "The police? Knight Errant, Lone Star?"
Thematrian1 (8:30:04 PM): "Them?"
MilesMk1 (8:30:29 PM): "I was thinking more along the lines of sending the army in."
Thematrian1 (8:31:07 PM): "Have you seen any news reports from the outside world? The Brotherhood has. He showed one to me."
MilesMk1 (8:31:55 PM): "Trid?"
MilesMk1 (8:32:43 PM): "Hey, I didn't say I'm going to wait for them to get around to it. I'm not saying they're going to try to rescue anyone. Just that, sooner or later, they'll want the city back."
Thematrian1 (8:33:14 PM): He takes a breath to let out some sort of speech, then lets it out slowly as you speak. "You assume that they plan to stop with just this city."
MilesMk1 (8:33:48 PM): "Well, no. I know they're trying to ship something out of Chicago, remember?"
Dragcrell (8:34:05 PM): Dragcrell rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 4 3
Dragcrell (8:34:10 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
MilesMk1 (8:34:50 PM): "I just don't buy this sort of apocalyptic rap actually happening outside of movies. I guess I'm a naive believer in the power of the human spirit. And heavy weaponry." *grins*
MilesMk1 (8:35:02 PM): rap=crap
MilesMk1 (8:36:54 PM): "...though I guess I wouldn't have thought they could do that to a city, before, so maybe you have a point."
Thematrian1 (8:38:00 PM): He resumes climbing. "In a situation like this, the strongest rule. The bugs broke down our civilization to make that possible."
MilesMk1 (8:38:34 PM): "They're prepping Chicago for a takeover by a large flying lizard?"
MilesMk1 (8:38:39 PM): *follows*
Thematrian1 (8:38:45 PM): "This Tower represents the pinnacle of Ares' power and authority, so that..."
Thematrian1 (8:39:04 PM): He breaks off. "A large flying lizard?"
Thematrian1 (8:40:09 PM): "A dragon...I hadn't considered that."
MilesMk1 (8:40:28 PM): "I was mostly joking."
Dragcrell (8:40:37 PM): "I do not think so the ant's that was attacking the van stoped rrremberrr once we apprrroched the towerrr arrrea I think therrre may be grrroups of the bug's and therrre not worrrking togetherrr....
Dragcrell (8:41:12 PM): "as why else brrreak off a attack unless they knew they was enterrring the turrrf of anotherrr grrroup of bugs?"
circlmastr (8:41:38 PM): "When you flush out prey, you don't follow it into the trap, do you?"
Thematrian1 (8:42:08 PM): Another floor passes. Still no door. Everyone in the stairway, roll hearing
MilesMk1 (8:42:19 PM): "...funny you should mention that, there was a rockfall a couple of days ago..."
MilesMk1 (8:42:24 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 6 6-sided dice: 2 4 1 4 4 6
MilesMk1 (8:42:27 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
MilesMk1 (8:42:32 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
Dragcrell (8:42:46 PM): "Not all the time some times you dont wish to fight with the ownerrr of that turrrf the prrray has rrran to"
Dragcrell (8:42:53 PM): Dragcrell rolled 6 6-sided dice: 6 6 3 2 6 4
circlmastr (8:42:56 PM): circlmastr rolled 11 6-sided dice: 5 2 3 5 1 2 2 1 6 4 5
circlmastr (8:42:59 PM): circlmastr rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
Dragcrell (8:43:02 PM): Dragcrell rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 4 5
Thematrian1 (8:43:16 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 12 6-sided dice: 6 6 1 4 1 5 1 6 4 5 6 3
Thematrian1 (8:45:02 PM): Blake: you hear the sound of beating buggy wings, far below you
circlmastr (8:45:22 PM): circlmastr rolled 11 6-sided dice: 2 2 2 5 6 4 1 5 5 2 6
circlmastr (8:45:25 PM): circlmastr rolled 2 6-sided dice: 5 1
Thematrian1 (8:45:57 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 4 3 3 1 6 1 1 6 1 4 1 5 5 6 3
Thematrian1 (8:46:02 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 9 6-sided dice: 4 6 6 5 1 1 3 1 5
MilesMk1 (8:46:04 PM): "Anyone else hear bugs behind us?"
Dragcrell (8:46:04 PM): #flying bugs fleshforrrms two floorrrs down and they might have a flamethrrrowerrr orrr some one is useing one.#
MilesMk1 (8:46:32 PM): #Well, let's not be in a stairwell, if they do.#
circlmastr (8:46:34 PM): Todd continues with razor in hand and open
MilesMk1 (8:46:50 PM): "Bugs, maybe with flamethrowers. Let's get a move on."
Thematrian1 (8:47:48 PM): Accident nods, and starts to run.
MilesMk1 (8:47:54 PM): *runs*
MilesMk1 (8:47:59 PM): Athletics:
MilesMk1 (8:48:04 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 4 6-sided dice: 4 6 3 5
Thematrian1 (8:48:33 PM): Accident: "They believe that they are the strongest, and must win the conflict that is to come! They saw that they could topple the megacorps, and thought they victory was sure."
circlmastr (8:49:39 PM): circlmastr rolled 11 6-sided dice: 1 6 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 2 3
circlmastr (8:49:47 PM): Holy shit it's a 3some fest
Thematrian1 (8:49:50 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 1 2 2 5 2 5 2 1 4 6 2 4 3 3 3
Thematrian1 (8:50:05 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 4 6-sided dice: 6 2 5 5
Dragcrell (8:50:11 PM): (that is alot of 3's
circlmastr (8:50:29 PM): circlmastr rolled 1 6-sided die: 1
Thematrian1 (8:51:26 PM): "But they are not the strongest power in Chicago."
circlmastr (8:51:33 PM): circlmastr rolled 11 6-sided dice: 4 2 2 5 5 2 1 6 1 2 5
circlmastr (8:51:36 PM): circlmastr rolled 1 6-sided die: 2
MilesMk1 (8:51:53 PM): "...?"
Thematrian1 (8:51:56 PM): Blake: you're keeping up with everyone else, but you suspect that Accident is moderating his pace for you. The noises aren't getting any closer, at least.
Thematrian1 (8:52:12 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 6 5 1 2 4 2 6 2 3 4 6 5 5 5 4
Thematrian1 (8:52:15 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 4 6-sided dice: 3 6 6 1
Thematrian1 (8:52:18 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 2 1
Dragcrell (8:52:55 PM): "Even wolf packs can be overrr powerrred by the few if the few know morrre then the wolf pack's leaderrrs"
Thematrian1 (8:53:10 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 4 2 2 2 4 5 3 6 3 3 4 3 4 1 5
Thematrian1 (8:53:55 PM): Arty's panting openly, and near exhaustion
Thematrian1 (8:54:37 PM): Accident: "We lived...in the shadow of the megacorps, taking scraps from their table."
circlmastr (8:55:06 PM): "How proletariat of you."
circlmastr (8:55:10 PM): circlmastr rolled 11 6-sided dice: 1 1 3 6 6 1 3 2 1 2 3
circlmastr (8:55:12 PM): circlmastr rolled 2 6-sided dice: 5 4
MilesMk1 (8:55:24 PM): "Proletarian."
Thematrian1 (8:55:36 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 15 6-sided dice: 4 2 5 5 4 3 4 1 2 6 3 5 2 1 6
Thematrian1 (8:55:38 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 4 6-sided dice: 6 3 3 1
Thematrian1 (8:55:40 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 5 6
MilesMk1 (8:55:50 PM): "But we're the criminal underclass." *pant*
MilesMk1 (8:56:02 PM): "Or something."
circlmastr (8:56:07 PM): "Whatever, I flunked the European Lit course."
Thematrian1 (8:56:12 PM): "Correct. Doomed to take what they gave us, for all time."
Thematrian1 (8:56:52 PM): "But now there is a better way!"
circlmastr (8:57:24 PM): "Low risk money-market accounts?"
MilesMk1 (8:57:54 PM): "Take the place for ourselves...?"
circlmastr (8:58:23 PM): "I just want to make good this escape."
circlmastr (8:58:48 PM): "So let's say we escape first and you all can start the revolution without me."
circlmastr (8:59:16 PM): (Pain... worsening...)
Thematrian1 (8:59:36 PM): Accident's watching Blake. "Take it for ourselves. Let the bugs spread where the want to spread, smashing the social order as they go. They can't win, or hope to fight us. Haven't we both proved that today?"
Dragcrell (8:59:40 PM): *snorts*
MilesMk1 (9:00:14 PM): "Mhhm."
MilesMk1 (9:00:50 PM): "Perhaps. And were I alone..." *keeps running*
Dragcrell (9:02:21 PM): "if this is theirrr firrrst arrrea of attack they well make misstakes but I belive they arrre learrrning frrrom them as fast as they make them."
Thematrian1 (9:02:23 PM): (Is that meant to be "and if I were alone"?)
MilesMk1 (9:02:45 PM): (Yeah.)
Thematrian1 (9:05:12 PM): Third floor, and the stairwell ends in a big vault door.
Thematrian1 (9:05:45 PM): The door features a keycard reader and retinal scanner. The retinal scanner is half-disassembled, and beeping sadly.
MilesMk1 (9:06:11 PM): *gets out a burning bar*
Thematrian1 (9:06:37 PM): Accident stands back a respectful distance.
MilesMk1 (9:07:15 PM): "Watch my back, and don't look this way unless I scream like a girl or somethng."
MilesMk1 (9:07:38 PM): *gets cutting*
Thematrian1 (9:07:40 PM): He nods, and makes a little 'turn around' gesture to Arty
circlmastr (9:07:47 PM): "How about you give us an example so we don't respond to a false alarm?"
MilesMk1 (9:08:07 PM): "Bugs, coming."
MilesMk1 (9:08:14 PM): "Focus."
circlmastr (9:08:26 PM): Todd sighs and takes up a defensive position.
Thematrian1 (9:08:56 PM): Burn burn burn. The door is not as thick as it looks, and you quickly have a wiggle-size hole burned out. Arty, at least, will have to wait for it to cool, though.
MilesMk1 (9:09:34 PM): *chucks the burning bar down the staircase*
MilesMk1 (9:10:06 PM): (I don't think I can shut it off and finish it later, right?)
Thematrian1 (9:10:11 PM): **nk hiss...
Thematrian1 (9:10:12 PM): (No)
Thematrian1 (9:10:13 PM): er
Thematrian1 (9:10:16 PM): *clank hiss*
MilesMk1 (9:10:45 PM): (I figure, if anyone comes behind us, anytime soon, they'll get blinded.)
MilesMk1 (9:10:55 PM): *wiggles through, takes up a defensive position*
Thematrian1 (9:11:18 PM): The other side is another short flight of stairs up to a simple door. You're guessing rooftop or hangar access.
Dragcrell (9:11:23 PM): *Waits for Todd to enter then follows*
MilesMk1 (9:11:55 PM): *checks the door*
Thematrian1 (9:12:56 PM): It's a door all right. No window, simple latch.
Thematrian1 (9:13:02 PM): Accident moves through behind you.
Umbrafer (9:13:29 PM): (Theoretically I think you actually can extinguish the rod while leaving it reusable, but doing so would require cooling sufficiently to end the reaction. Maybe if you had some liquid nitrogen?)
circlmastr (9:13:49 PM): (That would be kickass to carry around)
MilesMk1 (9:13:59 PM): *gets his rifle ready, makes room for Accident to pass*
circlmastr (9:14:00 PM): (It'd make a helluva splash grenade in a pinch)
circlmastr (9:14:11 PM): (anyway, brb, dinner)
MilesMk1 (9:14:20 PM): (Liquid nitrogen?)
MilesMk1 (9:14:47 PM): (Actually, movies aside, it's nearly worthless as a weapon, unless you can get someone to hold still as you pour it on their face, or something.)
Dragcrell (9:14:54 PM): (to do what? make temparay fog and induse cold burns to fleash it did spash on?)
Thematrian1 (9:15:03 PM): (To douse the burning bar, though? Would that work?)
Thematrian1 (9:15:15 PM): "We have an opportunity, to make the world as it should be made."
MilesMk1 (9:15:21 PM): (Liquid nitrogen doesn't burn when it splashes on flesh.)
MilesMk1 (9:15:55 PM): (It's not "sticky" at all, it flashes right away and leaves skin unharmed.)
MilesMk1 (9:16:07 PM): (You'd need to bathe someone in it to cause injury.)
Umbrafer (9:16:17 PM): (Doable)
MilesMk1 (9:16:44 PM): (Perhaps, but if you're in position to bathe someone, you can use something more effective and easier to obtain and transport.)
Dragcrell (9:16:58 PM): (mmmm would have figured it woud act like most liquid/frozen gasses and induse blistering on contact with flesh)
Thematrian1 (9:17:12 PM): He pauses, one hand on the handle. "We are the greatest power in this city, at this moment."
Dragcrell (9:17:17 PM): "And that would be?"
MilesMk1 (9:18:49 PM): "Perhaps. But there are people I promised to get out of this city..."
Thematrian1 (9:19:27 PM): "They were afraid. They wanted to get out, so that they could escape. Be safe. Isn't that right?"
Thematrian1 (9:19:33 PM): His gaze under his mask is direct, challenging.
MilesMk1 (9:20:07 PM): "Maybe. But it's still their decision."
MilesMk1 (9:21:43 PM): (I've been splashed with liquid nitrogen, and didn't get blistered.)
Thematrian1 (9:21:56 PM): (Makes sense, given what you said)
MilesMk1 (9:22:08 PM): (Hell, I demonstrated the point to some people by playing hot potato with a spoonfull of it.)
Thematrian1 (9:23:06 PM): He opens the door, and leads you into a hangar.
Dragcrell (9:23:21 PM): "Tell me this what is betterrr to leave and have time to think up a betterrr plan of attack or stay thinking you have the upperrr hand when in fact you arrre being toyed with only to be slain at the end?"
MilesMk1 (9:23:40 PM): *follows cautiously*
Thematrian1 (9:24:08 PM): "Toyed with? By who? Simone Malachai is dead. Her Queen is dead, dead at your hands. They're not playing any games."
MilesMk1 (9:25:26 PM): Are there helicopters?
Dragcrell (9:25:34 PM): "They arrre not the only playerrrs in this city orrr have you forrrgotten about the otherrr bugs that arrre herrre?"
Dragcrell (9:27:07 PM): *slowly scans the room*
Thematrian1 (9:27:10 PM): The hangar is not empty. It contains a helicopter, singular. A sleek, nasty-looking little beast, with an undermounted...missile launcher? Yep, missile launcher, on a swivel turret. How they deal with the recoil is anyone's...
Thematrian1 (9:27:12 PM): guess.
Umbrafer (9:28:04 PM): Recoil=launch exhaust, in this case?
Thematrian1 (9:28:15 PM): err, yeah
MilesMk1 (9:28:52 PM): "Hmm. Looks like that helicopter must have eaten the other."
Umbrafer (9:29:20 PM): (It gets hungry sometimes.)
Umbrafer (9:29:29 PM): (Or maybe the other one is so stealthy you can't see it?)
Thematrian1 (9:29:52 PM): "Hmm."
Thematrian1 (9:30:12 PM): "Perhaps outside."
MilesMk1 (9:30:23 PM): "Perhaps."
Thematrian1 (9:30:23 PM): He gestures toward a people door on the far side.
MilesMk1 (9:30:50 PM): *makes a "shall we?" gesture, and starts walking towards the door*
Thematrian1 (9:31:06 PM): He moves with you. Does anyone else go with him?
Dragcrell (9:32:28 PM): *follows but a few paces back keeping aware of the way they had just come from*
Thematrian1 (9:32:53 PM): Todd's been following, so I assume he'll continue to do so.
MilesMk1 (9:33:27 PM): (Great, the launcher can get us all.)
MilesMk1 (9:33:41 PM): (BTW, if there is no other helicopter, I'm jumping off the roof.)
Thematrian1 (9:33:49 PM): (...ok)
MilesMk1 (9:34:17 PM): (I can't take another two months of walking back down to the ground level. ;))
Thematrian1 (9:34:25 PM): (Ouch. But, ok ;-))
MilesMk1 (9:34:46 PM): (Hey, I'm kidding, mostly.)
Dragcrell (9:34:46 PM): (I did say a few PACES ;3 I'm not right on you both :p and I'm keeping a eye on the path up here as well)
Thematrian1 (9:34:48 PM): "I'm making all of you an offer. Stay here with me, and decide the shape of the world to come."
MilesMk1 (9:35:04 PM): "Or?"
Thematrian1 (9:35:56 PM): "Leave for some other city, if you can, and hide thereuntil it falls."
MilesMk1 (9:37:42 PM): "If it comes to that, I won't be hiding."
Dragcrell (9:38:02 PM): "I'm affrrraid my mistress would not like that overrrly well I have been delayed as is."
Thematrian1 (9:38:15 PM): "No? What are you doing now? What is your plan for the future?"
Thematrian1 (9:38:41 PM): "Your mistress? To whom are you obedient?"
Umbrafer (9:40:05 PM): #I'm on the ground. What's your status?#
Thematrian1 (9:40:11 PM): He opens the door. Through it you see the roof, and a slice of the Chicago skyline.
Dragcrell (9:40:18 PM): "I am doutfull you would know herrr surrrfice to say I do not wish to make herrr angrrry"
Thematrian1 (9:40:25 PM): You see flying things in the distance. Definitely not planes.
MilesMk1 (9:40:36 PM): How far in the distance?
Thematrian1 (9:40:59 PM): quite far. Just specs, jinking around at random in the sky
MilesMk1 (9:41:43 PM): "I'm keeping my friends alive. For some of us, that's enough. Once they're safe, I will have the luxury of deciding if I want to come back and play feudal lord."
MilesMk1 (9:42:39 PM): #We're on the roof. Saw one helicopter so far, looking for second. Accident is trying to recruit us to reshape the world in his image.#
Umbrafer (9:43:04 PM): #Large?#
MilesMk1 (9:43:18 PM): #Not as far as helicopters go.#
Umbrafer (9:43:43 PM): #His image, I mean. What did he say?#
Dragcrell (9:44:49 PM): *looks around the roof then heads back to the hanger to keep a better eye on the helicopter and door*
MilesMk1 (9:45:05 PM): #We have a chance to make a new world here, free from being under the heel of the corps, we can hold the bugs off, and live as we wish. Make it the way it should be.#
MilesMk1 (9:45:22 PM): *looks for second helicopter*
Thematrian1 (9:46:03 PM): You step out onto the roof. It's early evening, astonishingly enough.
Thematrian1 (9:46:26 PM): Somewhere on the other side of this hangar, the sun is setting.
Umbrafer (9:46:33 PM): #Interesting. What'd you say?#
MilesMk1 (9:47:12 PM): #That I have people I need to get out of here, and then I'll think about whether I want to come back.#
Umbrafer (9:48:28 PM): #Good enough for now. Let me know if you find that other helicopter. I'll be nearby.#
Thematrian1 (9:48:38 PM): The roof itself is crowded with antennae; the helicopter must take off through the roof.
MilesMk1 (9:50:11 PM): ...but no other helicopter.
Thematrian1 (9:50:37 PM): here's lots of roof. Exploring...
Dragcrell (9:51:26 PM): (lol)
MilesMk1 (9:51:27 PM): Ah.
Thematrian1 (9:52:12 PM): But, no, no helicopter in LOS
MilesMk1 (9:52:14 PM): (Sorry, I think I missed the reference... Some text adventure game?)
MilesMk1 (9:52:32 PM): I assume that means any helicopters would have been obvious?
Thematrian1 (9:52:38 PM): Yeah, definitely
MilesMk1 (9:52:45 PM): *walks back*
Thematrian1 (9:52:48 PM): Stepping around one corner of the hangar, you find
Thematrian1 (9:53:00 PM): or...not stepping around one corner?
MilesMk1 (9:53:02 PM): Oh.
MilesMk1 (9:53:06 PM): No, definite am.
MilesMk1 (9:53:10 PM): definitely
Thematrian1 (9:53:50 PM): Several more buildings, laid out haphazardly on the vast roof. It also gives you a good look at the communication tower, which extends for hundreds of meters up
circlmastr (9:54:42 PM): (Back, finally)
MilesMk1 (9:54:58 PM): *continues to look around*
Thematrian1 (9:55:24 PM): No bugs in evidence, which is a bit odd; it seems like the com tower, at least, would be their natural habitat
MilesMk1 (9:56:18 PM): *makes sure he hasn't missed any spots a helicopter might be hiding*
Thematrian1 (9:57:11 PM): exploring the whole roof will take a few minutes. Accident stays dilligently by your side, though he's lapsed into silence. Are SC and Todd going with, or spreading out to explore on their own, or what?
Dragcrell (9:57:41 PM): *looks around the roof then heads back to the hanger to keep a better eye on the helicopter and door*
Dragcrell (9:58:05 PM): (so no I'll be in the hanger watching the door and the known helly
MilesMk1 (9:58:09 PM): "So. Figured it'd be useful to have us come up here, help kill the queen?"
MilesMk1 (9:58:30 PM): I look around, I might as well see what's up here. It took us long enough.
circlmastr (9:59:02 PM): Todd will go around with Blake and et.
circlmastr (9:59:05 PM): *etc
Thematrian1 (9:59:38 PM): "Simone played us. She's lucky to be dead. I don't know what she was planning."
circlmastr (10:01:03 PM): (Where'd Askia end up in all this?)
MilesMk1 (10:01:30 PM): "Played you? What did she tell you? What was the deal?"
Thematrian1 (10:01:33 PM): (She got left behind at the vault door, with Arty)
Thematrian1 (10:02:21 PM): "She was to allow us to pass as part of our fee for services rendered to the Universal Brotherhood. We did not intend to fulfill our end of the bargain, of course."
MilesMk1 (10:02:43 PM): "Of course..."
MilesMk1 (10:03:00 PM): "And now, that we're here, and there's only the one helicopter?"
MilesMk1 (10:03:20 PM): "Do we flip a coin?"
Thematrian1 (10:03:55 PM): "I'm not going back to life beneath the corps. Take it."
MilesMk1 (10:04:05 PM): "You're serious."
Thematrian1 (10:04:35 PM): "Oh, yes."
Thematrian1 (10:04:56 PM): "Remember it, when your hideaway falls to pieces."
MilesMk1 (10:05:43 PM): *sigh* "Is this really you talking, or did that little bald kid manage to get into your head with his 'are you happy with your life' speech? I'm reminded of it... and it was appealing, in a way."
circlmastr (10:05:56 PM): Todd wisely remains silent, and wishes Blake would do likewise, so they can GTFO.
Umbrafer (10:06:52 PM): (Don't hold your breath. Unless whatsisname decides to join us or we get another pilot, we're probably not going anywhere for a few weeks.)
MilesMk1 (10:07:16 PM): "Like I said... I'm getting out. What I'll do after I see how this place really looks from the outside... I don't know."
MilesMk1 (10:07:36 PM): (Can't you fly it, if it has a VCR hookup?)
MilesMk1 (10:08:30 PM): (I mean, it's a nasty default, but with -6 from the VCR3...)
Umbrafer (10:08:32 PM): (Absolutely, but there's no way in hell I'm trying to run the quarantine with an effective M wound)
MilesMk1 (10:08:38 PM): (Oh, right.)
Umbrafer (10:08:41 PM): (I don't need a default, I've got rotorcraft 6)
MilesMk1 (10:08:54 PM): (Ah. So, you're just being a big baby. :))
Umbrafer (10:09:00 PM): (Pretty much :) )
MilesMk1 (10:09:12 PM): (Because you only have an effective -4 TN mod.)
circlmastr (10:11:33 PM): circlmastr rolled 15 6-sided dice: 5 5 4 5 5 4 1 1 2 3 2 4 4 5 5
circlmastr (10:11:34 PM): circlmastr rolled 2 6-sided dice: 4 1
Thematrian1 (10:13:23 PM): Accident: "Remember it."
MilesMk1 (10:14:39 PM): "I will."
Thematrian1 (10:14:43 PM): Your explorations uncover only one building of hangar size.
Thematrian1 (10:14:47 PM): There's no one else on the roof.
MilesMk1 (10:15:00 PM): You mean, only the one we entered through.
Thematrian1 (10:15:12 PM): no. You only find one, for a total of two
MilesMk1 (10:15:16 PM): Oh.
MilesMk1 (10:15:25 PM): *heads for that building*
MilesMk1 (10:15:47 PM): #Going to check out one of these buildings. It could be big enough for a hangar...#
MilesMk1 (10:16:59 PM): #Accident says we're welcome to the other helo, but it's small...#
MilesMk1 (10:17:15 PM): #Though that I'll really believe when I'm flying in it.#
Thematrian1 (10:20:42 PM): The hangar's people door is locked. Keycard reader, of course.
MilesMk1 (10:21:29 PM): Of course...
MilesMk1 (10:21:40 PM): If Accident is still there, I try the card I found.
MilesMk1 (10:23:02 PM): (BTW, in 10 minutes, I turn into a pumpkin.)
Thematrian1 (10:23:16 PM): bzzzzt
MilesMk1 (10:23:30 PM): Bah. I try to bypass, then.
Thematrian1 (10:23:36 PM): Go for it
MilesMk1 (10:23:38 PM): Electronics B/R, the Electronics?
Thematrian1 (10:23:40 PM): yes
MilesMk1 (10:23:49 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 5 6-sided dice: 3 1 2 6 5
MilesMk1 (10:23:53 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
MilesMk1 (10:23:55 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 5
MilesMk1 (10:23:59 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 5 6-sided dice: 2 6 4 4 2
MilesMk1 (10:24:02 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 6
MilesMk1 (10:24:05 PM): MilesMk1 rolled 1 6-sided die: 3
MilesMk1 (10:24:20 PM): 17 and 17
MilesMk1 (10:24:28 PM): (after microscopic vision)
Thematrian1 (10:25:21 PM): slowly, but surely, you crack the case. Slowly but surely, you circumvent the lock. The door lock clicks open.
MilesMk1 (10:26:36 PM): I open the door, and look around the side of it.
Thematrian1 (10:28:30 PM): It's a hangar all right. Empty, with an elevator on the far wall.
MilesMk1 (10:28:59 PM): #Empty hangar. Yay.#
MilesMk1 (10:29:06 PM): *heads back*
Umbrafer (10:29:16 PM): #Maybe it's really, really stealthy.#
MilesMk1 (10:29:57 PM): (Not a vehicle elevator, mind you?)
Thematrian1 (10:30:10 PM): (Nope, people size)
MilesMk1 (10:30:18 PM): *heads back*
Thematrian1 (10:30:58 PM): Accident stays inside, looking thoughtful under his mask
Thematrian1 (10:31:15 PM): (If you need to beg off, this is a fair stopping point)
MilesMk1 (10:31:18 PM): (And, I have to go.)
MilesMk1 (10:31:26 PM): (Ok... See you guys Thursday.)
Umbrafer (10:31:44 PM): (Sleep well, and see you Thursday.)
MilesMk1 (10:31:51 PM): (Go ahead and fly that helicopter down to Alex while I'm not here, I don't mind. ;))
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Thematrian1 (10:34:42 PM): So, Team. Now what?
Dragcrell (10:34:53 PM): much going on in the hanger?
Dragcrell (10:35:05 PM): well hnger 1
Thematrian1 (10:35:13 PM): nope. The helicopter just sits there.
Dragcrell (10:37:00 PM): any sounds comeing from the door way we came up?
Thematrian1 (10:37:31 PM): roll Hearing
Dragcrell (10:37:40 PM): #arrre we taking this thaing orrr not?#
Dragcrell (10:37:46 PM): Dragcrell rolled 6 6-sided dice: 1 2 5 6 1 6
Dragcrell (10:37:52 PM): Dragcrell rolled 2 6-sided dice: 6 3
Dragcrell (10:38:05 PM): Dragcrell rolled 1 6-sided die: 4
Umbrafer (10:38:43 PM): #Yes, we are. We just need to find someplace to examine it.#
Dragcrell (10:39:20 PM): #how do we get it out of here?3
Dragcrell (10:39:29 PM): 3=#
Umbrafer (10:40:45 PM): #We fly it out. If we can establish remote command, /I/ fly it out.#
Dragcrell (10:41:54 PM): #well Blake is walking arrround out therrre how do you make it so you can fly it?#
Umbrafer (10:42:23 PM): #How are you with electronics?#
Dragcrell (10:43:07 PM): #not that well#
Umbrafer (10:44:35 PM): #My advice, let him take care of it.#
Dragcrell (10:45:14 PM): #let me find him and get him in herrre# *goes and gets Blake*
Thematrian1 (10:45:48 PM): Blake appears. I feel comfortable assuming that Blake will attempt to crack the security on your behalf.
Thematrian1 (10:46:15 PM): Thematrian1 rolled 5 6-sided dice: 1 4 4 5 1
Thematrian1 (10:46:43 PM): But it's useless. He can't even crack the case on the door lock.
circlmastr (10:47:03 PM): He'll karma ti!
circlmastr (10:47:04 PM): *it
Umbrafer (10:47:18 PM): Blake's no quitter, he's the kind of guy who'd try again at +2.
Thematrian1 (10:47:34 PM): I don't know how much karma he has left. He can resume at this point next week, and either karma or retry at +2.
Umbrafer (10:47:42 PM): Fair enough.
Dragcrell (10:47:48 PM): ok :3
Dragcrell (10:47:59 PM): untill next week then?
Thematrian1 (10:48:23 PM): until next week
Dragcrell (10:48:38 PM): ok have fun then :3
circlmastr (10:48:40 PM): J, game Thursday?
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Umbrafer (10:48:48 PM): Yep.
Umbrafer (10:57:26 PM): In any event, I'll see you folk Thursday. Sleep well!
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