Food Fight!, IC - Dairy Dash Options

[tisoz]

You don't believe it. Several members of the gang just disappeared, the howling guy, the katana guy frightening Wanda, the little prince, and the poor slob who fell. Thoughts of, "Beam me up, Scotty," go through your minds.

[Chance359]

As soon as the first gunshot goes off, Tinker drops his groceries and a concealed pistols drops down into his waiting hand. Creeping toward the front of the store, he spots the wanna be sam with a sword drawn, hold the cashier hostage

Who the fuck uses a sword in an armed robbery?

Taking a second to aim at the would be swords man, Tinker fires off one round striking him somewhere on his left arm, causing the the girl to be release.

Tinker's rounds seems to have brought a new combatant into the fray, who turns and blasts at him with a shotgun.

[tisoz]

In Aisle 8, Tinker shoots right past the guy talking to toasters, bringing him back to reality. The man screams, "You almost hit the Toaster!" Then draws a shotgun and fires.

[Chance359]

Tinker feels like someone has hit him in the chest with a sledge hammer as the shotgun slug punches though his armored jacket. Stagering back, pulls a bloody hand from his chest before falling

"Fuck."

Guess you a daisy motherfucker

[tisoz]

A voice that sounds like the guy who screamed he was the prince and it was tax time yells, "Spike! SlicerDicer! Stop who's shooting and let's get to collectin' taxes," but you can't see the guy. For that matter, his voice is kind of hard to hear, like he is yelling in a stage whisper.

Mr. Nick gives Knuckles and the stock boy, Johnny, a sad look as he is led to the door to the back room. Johnny just managed to wheel a mop bucket out of the back room, pushing it by the handle of the mop dowsed in the water in the bucket.

From the area of Aisle 5 you hear a child's excited voice, "I can't see what's going on! Do ya think shadowrunners are robbing the place! Or maybe shadowrunners'll save us!"

Also from Aisle 5 comes near constant shrieks broken only by, "Be quiet, Louis."

The black clad and white clad duo in Aisle 7 have crouched down, drawn tiny pistols from somewhere and trying to use the cart for as much cover as possible. The man is looking at the big bags of cat food and kitty litter on the bottom shelf and is starting to pull a stack off the shelf to build a bunker. Given enough time, he will pull several off the shelf and use them like sand bags to build a little bunker into the shelf for his wife and he to take cover in.

Wanda stops screaming for a moment when everyone disappears from sight and starts to run away. She is stopped rather abruptly before managing more than a step by unseen forces and starts wailing again.

The man in Aisle 8 walks toward the frozen food cases.

A shuriken comes flying out of nowhere at Knuckles. Yes, out of nowhere, but from the direction of the checkout counter. It is followed in that same stage whisper type of talking, but has the familiarity of the wannabe, "Prepare to defend yourself, gaigin."

The attack comes from nowhere.

[Xiuhaun]

Knuckles begins to bleed, and notices it mixing with the cold sticky slurry already on the floor. Standing up calmly, he removes his bandanna and wraps it around his left fist, then drops his coat and gun to the floor. With a cracking of his neck, the last visible person in the room speaks to an unknown assailant.

"Coward. Show yourself, or finish the job... dog."

[tisoz]

Troy Anderson has made his way down to the end of Aisle 13, easing his pistol from it's holster when the shooting had started. Troy sees Mr. Nick being led through the doors to the back room, thinks that can't be good, then I do seem to have the perfect angle, raises his pistol and sends a double tap down range.

The first gel round drills the center of the icicle in the eye socket, putting a huge ding in the jacket, and the second, by chance and not some great aim, punctures the emblem right through the skull's eye emblazoned on the ganger's back. The young man goes down hard.

Then for some reason, Troy forgets why he came to the Stuffer Shack.

[Green Eyed Monst...]

Boys, I call to my spirits. Conceal non-gang members starting with me and the store employees. And Confuse the gang members who came to "collect taxes" and anything helping them.

[tisoz]

John Stone, Mr. Nick, Johnny, and Wanda seem to disappear. The woman and Louis, as well as the kid by the checkout stand and Tinker seem to disappear. The couple in the pet food aisle, Sphinx and Rob seem to disappear. Knuckles, Troy Anderson, the gnome and manitou seem to disappear almost immediately after appearing for an instant.

The "prince", the howling man, SlicerDicer and the city spirit all look disoriented and puzzled - to any who can perceive them.

[drips]

Sphinx unbends himself and raises his hands. Mana focused in front of him, a gigantic wall begins to appear. Translucent bones shoot up from the ground, creaking and clacking against each other. Almost as soon as it started the barrier is complete, a massive wall of bones providing protection from the rest of the store. Stretching diagonally from the beginning of Aisle 2 to the beginning of Area K, blocking off the literary section entirely.

A satisfied look appears on his face, but Sphinx isn't finished. Scanning the rest of the shop he sees a man lying on the ground, someone who had obviously been on the wrong side of the gun. Making a split second decision he focuses his magic on the man. A luminous tuxedo surrounds him, with a tiny skull over the pocket. The skull is wearing a top hat and smiling broadly, giving a thumbs-up to the world in general. Satisfied with his work, Sphinx considers the situation.

Frag the gangers, heal the innocent, go home and get drunk... My head is killing me.

[Ears]

Rob's eyes go wide as the man he just shot fades from his view. "Fragging magic!" He squints, turns his head this way then that. He even tries sniffing the air.
Stupid halfer, do you know what an invisible spellworm smells like? No? Bet he's still around though...
Shrugging, he points the gun roughly at where the ganger disappeared and shoots, succesfully creating one more dent in an already battered DeathRace:Detroit arcade machine way down in the corner of the store.
"Hmm, maybe..."
Rob starts to slowly walk forward when he suddenly slips, has to make a big step to keep from falling, his eyes become glazy and he looks at his gun as if to say "What are YOU doing in my hand?".

[tisoz]

A pile of rocks falls near where the howling man was last seen. Then a puddle that looks like many of the other puddles tracked into the Stuffer Shack that night runs, as water will, and seeps around and between the rocks. The howling man becomes visible under the wet pile.

Rob, Troy Anderson, and Knuckles come out of their dazed state of mind. The "prince", Spike, and SlicerDicer come back into view.

"Coward. Show yourself, or finish the job... dog."

"Gladly," SlicerDicer says and looks to be initiating an attack as Knuckles vanishes from sight.

The "Prince" looks incredulously at the wet heap of stone burying his fellow gang member and let's go with shots at the pile. The first two shots kick up some dust and a few pieces chip off, but there is no great change in the rocks appearance other than it creeps toward the checkout stand. The "Prince" shoots again, blowing a few more chips off the rocky thing and a big chunk out of the lip of the counter. He squeezes the trigger again to hear that dreaded sound during combat of the click of an empty chamber.

The toaster talker walks to the end of the aisle and trips on something, then bends down and pats at the concealed armored body lying there and starts looking around.

Spike approaches the screaming woman. "G-Gimme all your valuables," he demands in a shaky voice. Louis looks at his mom and back at Spike.

"Are you a shadowrunner?" the little boy asks.

[Green Eyed Monst...]

A smile creeps onto John Stone's face for the first time since this mayhem began as he sees the shaman get buried. He watches as the City spirit goes free and departs. Then he turns his attention to what was starting to look like an execution in progress.

John starts drawing the mana and focuses his concentration by quietly incanting, "carpe nocturne, antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem, a posse ad esse," and casts a spell at SlicerDicer. There is no visible effect and I was able to channel the mana through my body without damage.

The smile is short lived.

[Ears]

Shaking his head, Rob seems to regain his concentration just in time to watch the howling guy reappear unconscious and covered by a moving pile of rocks and what looks like a sentient puddle of water.What? More magic? He first starts to bring up his pistol to bear at the rocks but as they come under fire while lumbering off towards the counter Rob instead runs after it.
"Enemy of my enemy my ass!"

[Xiuhaun]

Knuckles sees Slicerdicer appear before him. Finally, I can see what this guy is made of. Without hesitation, Knuckles moves to strike Slicerdicer, and overextends, smacking his forearm upside Slicerdicer's head.

The Japanese man seems startled by this, and quickly swings his sword forward, leaving a devastating blow onto the counter beside Knuckles. The ork responds with his left fist, buried into Slicerdicer's abdomen.

Round two, drekwad

[drips]

Troy Anderson comes out of his dazed state to see the wannabe samurai from earlier attacking a fellow ork. Acting quickly, he approaches and kicks the wannabe right in the gut. Hard. A surprised look comes over SlicerDicer's face, quickly followed by a look of extreme pain and he begins to cough up blood as he drops to the floor. He barely notices the pink, fizzy liquid that splashes his body as he hits the ground.

[Xiuhaun]

Wasting no opportunity, Knuckles drops down on top of Slicerdicer, grabs him by the hair, and punches him into the floor, causing another splash.

Still holding the Japanese man by his hair, Knuckles askes "Do you yield?" and offers quarter.

Noticing that the man has finally passed out, the ork sighs, stands, and addresses Troy, "Thanks."

[Green Eyed Monst...]

John Stone sighs and starts centering himelf to summon. Ex cearulo Faber est suae quisque fortunae, Fabricati diem pro bono. I look over the shelves and out into the storm and summon a spirit of the elements. My body jerks slightly as I can't quite control the mana needed for such a powerful summoning. It is kind of orgasmic, only in a totally bad sort of way. I must be a masochist to keep tempting such power. My ears ring and I can feel the blood pounding in my head, only the pounding feels like hammer blows. From past experience, I figure my eyes are bloodshot and I wouldn't be surprised if my nose started bleeding.

But the spirit of my desire has come. Please use your Psychokinesis power to attack the gang until they are subdued. I send a mental image of their colors and icicle/skull emblem.

From the end of Aisle 9 nearest the checkout counter, I see the prince is trying to reload as two of my spirits are about upon him. Directly ahead of me, it looks like Mr. Nick and Johnny are out of harms way in the back room. To my right, I see a couple of orks have beat the wannabe samurai senseless. Time to find the rest of the gang.

I draw my pistols, the Browning in my right hand and the Steyr in my left, take a deep breath, and walk back toward Aisle 10...

[Chance359]

Troy looks at the other ork combatant, "Anytime." He draws his Max Power and bends down and puts two shots into the unconcious ganger on the floor. Looking up at Knuckles "Shall we go find the rest?"

[Green Eyed Monst...]

Still looking like a part of the large puddle between the entrance and the checkout counter, the undine seeps through the gaps at the bottom of the counter and forms itself into a fountain of water behind the ganger and Wanda, then pours down on the ganger. The ganger cringes as he is dowsed with cold liquid that hits him harder than any ordinary water could.

Almost immediately, a small funnel cloud, somehow fitting under the Stuffer Shacks ceiling, appears just within Aisle 9. A big hoop sylph has dropped into the fray.

Back behind the checkout counter, the "Prince" looks like someone slitch slapped him with an invisible, big, foam, hands, only this one seemed to be wearing brass knuckles. Blood and something white, maybe teeth, maybe snot, flies from his mouth as his head whips violently around. The gore sprays the counter and sops the impulse goodies stocked there.

The pile of rocks keeps moving toward the "Prince", kind of rolling over itself. The rocks furthest from the direction the gnome is moving appear to roll over the pile and then in turn get rolled over. When it encounters the checkout counter it forms into a pile, rocks from the back and bottom piling up to the top and against the counter. As it gains the counter-top, the gnome forms something resembling a stone wall and quickly topples over onto the ganger.

[Chance359]

As Tinker cyberware detects the extent of his injuries, his bio-monitor activates his auto-injector pumping lifesaving chemicals into his hears and blood stream.

As the toaster loving gang member reaches down to inspect the invisible mass, a loud beeping begins coming from a few inches off the floor.

[drips]

Now that Sphinx feels a bit safer, he reaches into a pocket and pulls out three doses of narcoject. Grabbing three needles from another pocket, he applies the narcoject to the needles. He takes the blowgun from his sock and loads it with one of the needles. The other two he puts into an easy to reach pocket.

If any of those bastards crash this gate, they'll have an unpleasant surprise to handle next.

[Ears]

Rob shoots out of aisle 1 (purifiers, filters ets.), manages a sharp right turn despite the slippery floor. Suddenly his eyes become go wide.
Shotgun! 'Crap!' Did you have to run? Now get him in the head.
More sliding on a thin film of water than really running, he brings up his gun, levels it at the man behind the counter and sends a short prayer to the gods of headshotting people and fires his Predator.
Luck favours him and the shotgun-toting ganger is blown back, landing unconscious on the floor.

[Xiuhaun]

Appauled by Troy's actions, Knuckles draws his backup firearm and takes cover behind the counter. Making a quick peak, he sees a dwarf blasting the ringleader in the face, and cant help but think oy, that'll leave a mark.

The tornado looking to buy some pez doesn't evade his notice either, What's with all this jojo today?.

Ducking behind the counter and not seeing any immediate threats, Knuckles says to Troy, "Leave that one be" while motioning to the unconsious gal on the floor, "She isn't the threat".

Continuing, "Drek's going down, looks like there may be a few others over that way" motioning over the counter. "Did you see anyone head for the back?"

[tisoz]

The small funnel cloud, the mass of moving rock and the puddle/fountain of water disappear from the physical plane.