Rising Young Gangsters, IC Options

[estradling]

Being brought around by Milafin Gres doesn't even bother to stand. Cussing he calls upon his power and his hands become outlined in white fire. Within a heart beat it jumps from his hands to Carson


((Spending edge Casting Power Bolt Force (5) 11d6.hitsopen(5,6)=6[4,[6, 5],1,2,[6, 2],[6, 4],2,[6, 2],5,1,3] = (6) Damage 5p + net hits))
((Drain Resistance 6d6.hits(5)=2 [2,2,4,5,3,6] = (2) One box stun))

[Karaden]

(lets try this again and hope my post doesn't make the board crash again(It didn't really, just bad timing))

The invisible bolt of force speeds towards Carson and smashes into his back. His body twitches powerfully for several moment, a roar of pain escaping the troll. After only a moment, Carson falls completely still, and it is only a moment later before he begins to fall, with almost comic slowness, towards Alexie.

Alexie easily manages to dodge out of the way, but the ground isn't so lucky. Carson hits it full force with his chest, sending small cracks out from the area of impact. All is completely silent for several moments, then, almost as one, the crowd of onlooking students begins to cheer. Several surge forward to hoist Gres aloft, and he now finds himself moving towards the fallen troll.

Carson meanwhile doesn't move much except for the rise and fall from his breathing. All of the school watches on anxiously for someone from the gang to speak or do something.

(While I'd love to put you on the spot and just have you guys post IC, that wouldn't be fair to those who don't even realize Dumpshock is back up yet. So, feel free to discuss your next action via the recruitment thread)

[Mickle5125]

Dryden activatees his Glamour before walking over to stare down at the troll for a moment, as if contemplating him. He then allows his eyes to sweep across the crowd, and he raises his hands for silence before saing, "One of us. He chose to frag with one of us. We could have let him do as he chose. Could have abandoned our friend to his fate. But we didn't. We refused to abandon our friend! We took on this brute. We put ourselves at risk for our comrade. And we won! We crushed this Fool! And we will always stand to defend our friends... every last one of them. All we ask in return is the same level of loyalty. Of Friendship. Is anyone here capable of that loyalty? We'd be glad to have you by our side..."

(Influence Roll: [5,5,[6, 6, 5],5,4,1,3,4,3,2,1,3,2,5,2,5,1,1] = ( 8 ) )

Dryden looks over the crowd and notices a few faces that appear to be considering how to use this to their own advantage. He decides to put a bit of fear into those who might be considering picking a fight with them and switches his Glamour for his Nasty Vibe ability as he starts talking again. "Remember this: We chose to hold back against him. A warning, if you will. We didn't want to kill him. This time. Next time someone frags with us, they will have been warned. We will NOT be holding back. Are you really ready to tempt Fate by challenging us?"

(Intimidation roll: [4,2,[6, 2],5,[6, 5],1,1,4,5,3,2,1,5,2,4,4,3,2,2] = (6))

Having said his piece, Dryden makes his way over to Alexie and Gres and softly asks if they're ok as he shifts his powers back over to Glamour. Once he's done there, he motions for Tristen to join him in a quiet corner of the school yard, where he asks for any ideas for bringing Carson over to their side and begins discussing how to make this victory pay out for them.

[Karaden]

Much murmuring spreads through the crowd as Dryden finishes his speech. Gres is returned to solid earth as those holding him up focus on listening as opposed to celebrating. No sooner has Dryden finished his threats then several of the students break off and head back inside to the cafeteria, though hard to count exactly, it looks to be about twenty or so students. It takes a bit longer, but eventually a good portion of the students make there way closer, all looking somewhat sheepish, but one of them seems a bit more outspoken, the one who shot Carson earlier. After glancing around at the others, he looks at Dryden and says "We want to join." A quick headcount confirms 28 students in total.

Memory tells there are about 200 students in the school, and the 20 or so seen leaving earlier where likely from the other gang. Though they had more numbers, they still didn't dare take on Carson. While unlikely to be a direct threat, they could still prove to be a thorn in your side. The question of what exactly to do with Carson still remains

[Andrensath]

Forcing her way back into Carson's commlink, Milafin quickly deletes all the data on it, before subscribing it to a lot of malware programs and downloading massive amounts of gay elf porn. She then sets up a backdoor, making sure to disguise it.
(12d6 Edit, 7d6 Fading resistance. (12d6.hits(5)=3, 7d6.hits(5)=1))
Mya kick Carson hard in the crotch, before spitting in his face and walking away.

[estradling]

Wincing as the crowd hoists him up, Gres enjoys the ride as much as the pain would allow. At the end of Dryden's speech he adds in, "Don't mess with the Ministry!"

When Dryden asks how he was it was pretty clear that Gres was beat up wincing from pats on the back and trying to walk. Still he answers gamely, "Ahh its nothing a few hours vegging in front of the latest combat biker vid willn't cure."

[Oenone]

Alexei smiles, shifting his reflexes down to normal metahuman levels.

"My sister has hit me harder," he replies quietly to Dryden, ducking down to have a quick check through Carsons pockets. Then, raising his voice he adds "And this /runt/ owes me lunch."

[Mickle5125]

Dryden smiles at the gathered crowd and does a quick meet and greet, carefully learning names and faces of the new recruits, before asking that they meet him and the rest of the gang after school. Once the crowd disperses, he turns back to Tristen and continues discussing Carson.

[Karaden]

Carson is certainly unconscious, as he doesn't respond in the least to any of the abuse he is receiving. The crowd, both gang hopefuls and onlookers eventually disperses to eat what constitutes lunch and talk about the fight.

Tristen rubs his chin lightly as he looks over the fallen foe "Well, first off I suggest you stop kicking him and make sure he isn't going to bleed to death or anything. Never much one for magic, but those did look painful. As for getting him to join when he comes around... Depends. Big brute like him, if he hasn't already come around by us beating him, then it'll be difficult. Maybe his little pal can help, he usually seems to be able to keep the reigns on him, and I doubt it's just good old fashion friendship."

A quick scrounging of Carson's pockets turns up a small roll of 10:nuyen: and some lint. Other then his armor and whatever ware he may have, he doesn't seem to have anything of any real value. Even getting his armor off is likely to be a pain, just trying to move his massive bulk enough to even begin pulling it off will be a challenge.

[Mickle5125]

Dryden sighs, then nods to Tristen and replies in Russian. "See if you can find out why his pal isn't here, will you? I'll see what I can do about making sure he doesn't die on us."

He then turns and motions for Gres to come over to him. "Could you handle hitting the brute with a heal spell? Nothing major needed, just enough to make sure he doesn't die on us. I've got a couple ideas that I want to try... he's strong enough that he could have taken us if it wasn't for you. I wouldn't mind getting him on our side, you know?"

Tristen, meanwhile, makes his way over to Lou, Mya, and Keir and tells them "Listen, SC wants to know where Lenox is. I'm going to go check some o' the school's records, see if he's legitimately out or if he's skipping. You three see what you can find out, k?"

[Oenone]

Pocketing the Nuyen Alexei snorts at the comment about Carson having been strong enough to win.

"He may have been strong," he admits. "But the brute has no skill. He would have lost with or without magic."

Alexei shrugs, then heads off to buy himself a new lunch. "If you need me I'll be getting a snack and spreading word of Carsons defeat. The sooner the whole school knows the better."

He pauses, plugging his commlink into his datajack to send Taylor a voice message asking him to help spread the word throughout the school.

[Karaden]

Tristen, meanwhile, makes his way over to Lou, Mya, and Keir and tells them "Listen, SC wants to know where Lenox is. I'm going to go check some o' the school's records, see if he's legitimately out or if he's skipping. You three see what you can find out, k?"

(GM intervention)
Tristen shakes his head "You know that's not going to happen. Principle keeps all that kind of stuff in his office usually and he never leaves it." He gives a shrug "Milafin could try hacking her way and see if he put it into the computer yet in I guess, but seems like more trouble then it's worth to know if he's skipping or has an excuse. Not like he couldn't lie about an excuse anyway. At a guess I'd say he's skipping, but who knows for sure?"

(Gres, please inform of if your going to heal Carson or leave him. I'll continue the story in the mean time.)

Lunch hour passes with nothing else exciting happening. Once the students return to classes, none of them pay any attention to the teachers. So nothing out of the ordinary there, but it is easy to tell that the whispered conversations are about since the conversations are punctuated by small jabs in the air, lifted hands as if blasting someone with a spell, flicking motions of throwing something, and accompanying sounds.

The teachers pay little attention to the fact that the students are paying them no attention. They get paid to stand there, not to make sure you learn anything. Only one or two actually make efforts to ensure their students pay attention, but today even those teachers allow the talking to happen. It seems the teachers have heard of what happened, as they cast the participants more glances then is normal.

The weight of just how much some of the teachers feared Carson doesn't become apparent until the final class of the day. Science is taught by a small mousy woman who didn't even come up to Carson's waist. As she hands back the latest test, Gres, Milafin, Mya, Alexie, and Dryden all find that every single question they got wrong has a red X through it, but is also accompanied by an 'OK' and the grade was changed from various states of poor to 100% Alexie and Mya find that they actually scored 110% somehow, even questions left blank where marked 'OK'. She doesn't even assign homework at the end of the day, going so far as to say "This is a special week, so no homework."

On that rather unusual note, the day finally ends, and within 15 minutes after class, there are roughly 40 students standing around the back of the school where Dryden said those interested should meet them. A notably larger number then originally showed interest. Apparently some have since been swayed or heard the news and wanted to join.

[estradling]

Hearing Dryden request Gres seriously looks over his fallen foe. "His ware makes that harder. I'm afraid any attempt made right now would put me back under. Maybe in a couple of hours...." He realized if Carson was dying he didn't have a couple of hours. "I do have an autodoc in my locker if you want to try that." To tired to look he didn't know if Dryden was wondering why Gres brought and autodoc to school. "I figured it was only a matter of time before we had to deal with Carson."

During the classes Gres begins to feel better, by the end of school he is strong enough to cast his healing spell on himself. Erasing the last of Carson's effect on him

[Mickle5125]

Dryden nods to Gres. "Alright... I figured it was something of a long shot, but I figured I'd ask anyway. I'm glad you thought ahead enough to bring the autodoc... I will borrow it... see if I can patch him up enough to make sure he doesn't die on us."

After Gres brings the autodoc, Dryden calmly performs a small amount of first aid on Carson before sitting back with his Glamour cranked up all the way and waiting for Carson to wake up, idly shuffling a new deck of cards, having set the other deck aside since it was useless for games anymore.

[Oenone]

Waiting for the rest of the class to leave Alexei pauses, smiling at the teacher.

"Thank you for such an informative lesson," he says, nodding to Tayler. "Might I ask a favor before we go? My good friend requires somethings for a science project after school, I was wondering if you could help him get them."

[Karaden]

The teacher gives Alexei a suspicious look for about half a second before smiling brightly at him "Of course, I'd be happy to help. What can I get for you?" As she speaks she walks over to the science closet, sliding an access card and punching in a rather long code to open the door. This door is possibly the single most secure in the entire school.

[Oenone]

"Well, my friend Tayler is the budding chemist. So he'll know much better than me what he needs," Alexei replies, motioning for Tayler to follow her into the room. "And of course we'll be sure to remember your help if /Carson/ causes any troubles for you."

Tayler nods, then moves closer to see what wonders the science closet holds. Then after a moments consideration he lists off a few simple chemicals which could be combined into a crude throwing weapon or two.

[Andrensath]

(This is after school, at the recruitment.)

Striding forward, Milafin quickly starts giving orders. "All right, everyone here to join up needs to give each of us their commcode. Once that's done, I want those with computer skills to join me." Finished speaking, she moves over to the left.

[Mickle5125]

Dryden motions for Gres to come over to him. "I want you to see if you can find anyone else with magic, will you? I know it's not likely, but I'd like to know of any if we're so lucky."

He then turns back to the group and smiles. "As Milafin said, those of you with comm skills need to go over to her and Tink. For those of you who are a little more sneaky, go over to Mya and Keir. Those of you who are skilled in fighting, go over to Alexie and Taylor. For those of you who aren't sure where to go, come to Tristen and myself. We'll get you sorted out."

(Leadership roll: [3,1,5,2,5,6,3,5,6,3,2,2,2,4,3] = (5) )

[Oenone]

Alexei leans against the wall, idly tossing an improvised frag grenade from one hand to the other, and sizes up the wannabe tough guys who head towards him.

[Karaden]

Some murmuring goes through the crowd at Milafin's statement, but with Dryden's clarification the group begins to break up as ordered, though this doesn't involve much breaking up. 30 of the students go over to Alexei, two go towards Milafin, three towards Mya, and the remaining five stand around for a while before heading to Dryden.

Most of the kids heading towards Alexei are fairly average in most reguards. There are notably five orks, two dwarves, and two elves among the group, but no one that stands out either through bulging muscles or a particularly confident stance, except for one human, who Alexei quickly recognizes as the shooter from the fight. He seems slightly more confident then the others, but not too much so.

Mya's group consists of has an even mix of one human, one elf, and one ork, while Milafin gets a dwarf and a human.

And finally Dryden is left with all humans.

(Assensing roll from Gres to try and find any awakened in the crowd.)

[Oenone]

The group joining up with him get a long appraising look, then Alexei nods and smiles making a mental note to put the shooter and the non-humans on a short list for further training.

"I don't expect any of you to win single handed in a fight with someone like Carson," he says solemnly. "But I will expect you to fight. No matter how tough the opponent victory is possible if we work together." He pauses, then shrugs. "Do any of you own weapons or have anything you're good at using?"

[Mickle5125]

Dryden grins at those gathered around him and motions for them to join him off a little ways from the rest of the group. He then sits on the ground and starts. "Have a seat, everyone. As you probably know, I'm Dryden, and this is Tristen. Tell us a little bit about yourselves, will you? Name, commcode, likes, dislikes? How about why you want to join with us? What you can do, what you want to do... that sort of thing? Any volunteers? No? I suppose I can start."

With that, Dryden starts sharing a little bit about himself, sharing some of his skills, some of what he enjoys doing, that sort of stuff. He also jokes with the gathered people and generally does everything he can to convince them to relax and talk about themselves. Meanwhile, he and Tristen are doing everything they can to get a read on the guys, figuring out how trustworthy they are and how they can best be used to benefit the Ministry.

(( Dryden's Judge Intention Roll: [4,3,5,5,4,1,4,6] = (3)
Dryden's Con Roll to make them relax: [3,5,2,5,4,3,3,2,3,5,2,6,4,5,1] = (5)
Tristen's Judge Intention Roll: [3,6,5,1,6,6] = (4)))

[estradling]

As the group of potentials gather Gres gives them a good looking over in the astral.

((Assensing test 8d6.hits(5)=3 [6,3,1,1,2,3,5,6] = (3) Hits))

[estradling]

Having done a quick once over, Gres wanders over to Alexei. When the young man has a moment he tells him, "A fair number of them have minor cyberware. Nothing beyond eyes or jacks though. We have one awakened, but he might not even know that he is. When you are done I'll pull him aside and see if I can't figure out if he is an adept, a full blown mage, or something else."