Shen's Quest IC, OMG I'm running for Emo Samurai... Options

[emo samurai]

"Sure."

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Assensing her. 4 successes with 10 dice

[Ophis]

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Nothing to surprising, her emotions are calm and controlled, she appears to be an uninitiated shamen.

She nods, "Can I get you a drink or something to eat?"

[emo samurai]

"Maybe some tea.

So what can you tell me about Hannah?"

[Ophis]

Cheerleader wanders over to the kitchenette and starts to sort out a pot of tea,jasmine by the smell.

"Charlotte? Not that much really she's SINless and probably always has been, seems to be coping okay, but we suspect covering up. We think she may be an adept of some sort."

[emo samurai]

"Has she told you much about her past?"

[Ophis]

"She hasn't said much I could repeat to my mother."

[emo samurai]

"Anything useful?"

[Ophis]

"Couple of nice insults, but nothing really useful."

[emo samurai]

"Any tips on getting her to talk to me?"

[Ophis]

"Not really sure, she seems happy to rant, so getting her started shouldn't be a problem, but useful stuff? Not really sure. Wildside tried, but just got an offer he had to refuse."

[emo samurai]

"I see. I suppose I may as well get started."

[Ophis]

"Drink the tea first, I'd rather Wildside was back before you leave the room."

[emo samurai]

"Okay."

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Am I still glowing when I assense? I edited it out of my character sheet when SM came along.

[Ophis]

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no then, any chance of a updated sheet?

[emo samurai]

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Did you get my new character sheet?

[Ophis]

You sit and sip the tea, it's surprisingly good by Seattle standards. After about twenty minutes Wildside bursts through the front door. He makes some sort of hand signal to Cheerleader and points at the window in the kitchen area.

"Move!" says Cheerleader, diving off the sofa away from the kitchen.

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Yes to the question. Oh and roll initiative

[emo samurai]

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I burn a point of edge to go first. If it's a sniper, going second could be fatal. We can assume I'm wearing my armor jacket.

[Ophis]

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okay what's your action? But first some drama..

As Cheerleader shouts, the kitchen window explodes inwards infront of the feet of a heavy set and completely covered humanoid. The sound of running feet breaks out on the stairs and and a second crash echoes the first from the bathroom.

[emo samurai]

Jumping for cover, Shen weaves mana into his very nervous system, syncing and lubricating synapses. The world slows to a crawl and is brought into a new sort of focus, normally allowed only to the wired and powerful adepts.

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He runs to cover with his free action and casts Increase Reflexes on himself, force 4. He makes all 4 successes. He resists 4 drain with 4 successes.

I'm learning a self-only armor spell next so this never happens again.

[Ophis]

Wildchild executes a rapid backflip, somehow fitting in a 180° flip to land back in the doorway with a bound he disappears through the door. Cheerleader moves with blinding speed in a graceful dance as she throws a bolt of power at the man who came through the window, he reels backwards as if hit by a troll. Then gunfire erupts from the stairs. The one enemy you can see recovers quickly from Cheerleader's magical blitz, he brings up his gun blasts a pair of burst towards he keeping the barrel under tight control. Impossibly fast Cheerleader dives for cover even so you think both bursts make contact.

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Like I'm telling you my rolls.Now since you have four passes it's time you rolled initiative for the rest of the round, the edge only works for one pass.

[emo samurai]

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Initiative result of 14. Do I go first?

[Ophis]

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It gets a fourteen and it thinks it goes first? It waits it's turn or it gets the hose.

[emo samurai]

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Okay, so what do the other dudes do?

[Ophis]

From the stairs comes the sound of breaking wood, shortly followed by a loud thump as if some one fell through the guard rail. In the room with you a somewhat bloodied Cheerleader finishes her dive with a roll to her feet and throws a second Manabolt at the thug, who crumples like a sack of potatoes. She flashes you a grin that shifts to a scowl as a pair of spirits one a horse wreathed in flame and the other a beautiful woman with leaves for hair enter from the bathroom, the horse snorts a gout of flame towards you, as the dryad dives towards Cheeerleader.

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Roll reaction to dodge, then body+1/2 impact+counterspelling+2 to soak, after thats sorted we're onto your turn

[emo samurai]

Shen somehow manages to shrug off the fire and drown the two spirits in concentrated life energy.

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Counterspelling on Cheerleader, 4 successes on counterspelling, 2 successes with body and impact, no dice pool for dodge because of sustained spell. 2 successes with a force 5 manaball on the spirits, 1 successes against 4 drain. Fuck.