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

[Ophis]

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2 boxes physical damage from the fire

Your flood of energy seems to meet some sort of magical defence around the spirits. Your annoyance at this distracts you as the energy of the spell passes through you and you feel suddenly tired.

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I'll kick off pass three in a mo, bad luck with that spell, but plant spirits are hellish defensive.

[emo samurai]

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Is it too much to ask for some bound spirits? I forgot to list some, but since he has crazy good orichalcum production skills, he can buy all the materials he wants. If not, then here are the spirits.

3 spirits of man force 6. 1 with Increase Reflexes and Physical Mask. 1 with Heal and Mind Probe. 1 with Manabolt and Manaball.

1 guidance spirit with fear and influence.

1 fire spirit with search and guard.

He calls all his spirits of man and commands them to kill his enemies if he can.

[Ophis]

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thats fine.

Another crashing sound comes from the stair well, followed by the sound of running feet. The Dryad's attempts to entangle Cheerleader appear to be working and she doesn't appear to be doing a good job of resisting. The Spirit of Flames reaches towards you and unleashes another gout of flame.

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same drill as the last one but with +4 dice extra this time(cheerleader is giving teamwork and didd well).

[emo samurai]

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Shen makes 9 successes on his resistance test.

He attempts to banish the plant spirit. 4 successes with 9 dice.

Shen manages to channel the fire away from his body, reaches out in the astral and severs the link between summoner and spirit.

[Ophis]

The heat from the flames stings as it passes over the burns from the last gout. You concentrate on severing the bonds holding the dryad to this world. You feel two of them severed and then it's cut.

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No damage from that fireblast, nice. The banishing is sucessful resist 4 drain and feel free to try and take control, conjuring+magic

[emo samurai]

He finds the ragged end of what used to be the summoner's link to the plan spirit and grabs on with all his might.

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4 drain resisted with 4 hits. 3 hits on the conjuring test.

[Ophis]

You reach breathing your own links on to the ties you severed and the plant spirt becomes your own.

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Only with one service though, resist 4 drain

[emo samurai]

Shen keeps all the mana firmly within his aura and projects an image of protection to the plant spirit.

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All drain resisted, I command the spirit to magical guard Cheeleader and I, splitting up to guard Cheeleader if we split up, and I call in all my spirits of man with my other simple action. And if it's still engulfing her and telling it to stop would use a service, I do that instead.

[Ophis]

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okay forth pass, I already know your action so I'll figure it in

The running from the stairs continues, Cheerleader seemingly oblivious to it slips out of the grip of the Plant spirit that seems to have no interest in her now, and blows a kiss to the fire spirit which promptly dissipates under a hail of mana.

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right end of round. initiative again

[emo samurai]

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12 initiative. I command the spirits of man without Heal to destroy my enemies, and they're materializing spirits of man. I also command the spirit with Heal Cheerleader and then me.

Shen senses three benign presences in his vicinity. He mentally nudges two of them towards the gunfire, and projects and image of healing into the mind of the third.

[Ophis]

Cheerleader nods towards the bathroom door, she raises a singlefinger and moths the word hostile. A breif look of concentration passes over her face that suggests to you that she's calling her own spirits.

The running outside reaches the door, Cheerleader doesn't seem to have noticed it.
You call your spirits, you feel them bow to you and agree to your requests.

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thats pass one concluded, a quiet one I know. Pass two a go go

The running feet reach the door. Cheerleader pulls an odd looking pistol with a bulbous clip infront of the trigger and what looks like a grenade from within her jacket.

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your action kid

[emo samurai]

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Shen calls down his fire spirit and shifts perception.

Shen senses a feeling of anger so hot it would burn all the world if only it were told where to start. To the outside world, his eyes glaze over; to him, he suddenly finds himself able to see the hidden meanings behind things, the life and lack thereof.

[Ophis]

Cheerleader chucks the grenade into the bath room, as she does an air elemental appears and calls the bath room door shut with a slam. A thunk as if a grenade had it it responds from the door moments later.

The running feet burst into the room. Three nasty looking bullet wound stream blood down Wildchild's chest. "The Fuckers had Ex-Ex loaded."

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Right then your action

[emo samurai]

Streaming concentrated life force into Wildchild's wounds, Shen asks him, "Are there any more?

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5 hits on the healing test.

[Ophis]

"Not anymore," he growls, the bath room door is hurled open noxious smoke pours out followed by a lightly armoured masked man. He is promptly covered in white foam from Cheerleaders odd looking gun. He collapses into a polystyrene heapon the floor.

"And thanks to the Alter Boy special we got ourselves a live one," she says grinning impishly for a second it quickly fades, "okay we need to move pronto, I'll call a ride in for Shen and Hannah, we can take Wing by another, route."

She pauses for a few seconds, you glance at Wildchild's wounds even with the power you put in your surprised that seems fully healed.

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resist 8 drain

The phone calls seem to go on for a bit, Cheerleader gradually looking more stressed. She swears as she tries one last call. Moments into the call her face breaks into a grin.

As the call ends she looks at Wildchild, "Oh good all better, how many on the stairs?"

"Two, ork and troll, both filling the hallway with broken necks," he shrugs maybe you should check his aura again, "they annoyed me."

"Yeah you always break your toys when your annoyed."

"Do we have transport?"

"Yeah and back up. Autumn and Brandon are in town and just round the corner, looks like we got the big guns."

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just t warn you we have a guest star, Autumn is played by my other half who frequents here as Metatron.

[emo samurai]

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8 drain? WTF? DV is damage -2...

[Ophis]

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yep current dv of the subject, I rolled his extra dice for the test(several) he had ten boxes of damage (full auto's a bitch), hence dv-2=8

[emo samurai]

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6 successes with 12 dice. 2 drain

Shen feels a bit more tired, the same effect as staying up 3 hours past your bedtime.

"Are we going to another safe house?"

[Ophis]

"That's the plan," says Cheerleader, "You okay? Healing Wildchild's a bitch he can take so damn much before his tiny brain realise he should pass out. Me and him will take one route taking Wing with us, a fiend called Autumn will pick up you and Hannah, she should be here in five."

Wildchild glances down at the foam covered mage, "One of yous wanna mind probe this dick?"

[emo samurai]

"I can do it." Shen reaches down and places his hand on the man's forehead. Shen forcibly creates a link between himself and the stoolie.

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5 successes at force 5, 6 successes on the drain resistance.

[Ophis]

You see images of a man, powerfully built tanned skin and thick curly black har and a full beard shapped into a solid wedge. He is clearly annoyed and offers "you" a sizable amount of nuyen. This would seem to be the previous master of the girls.

[emo samurai]

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Anything else?

[Ophis]

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You get a name of the guy, Paris and an odd dream about dancing cows.

[emo samurai]

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So no details about Kratos's defenses? Because it sounds like I got his subconscious.

[Ophis]

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Like a hired runner knows any of that.