IC New Beginnings DAWN Options

[Crossbow]

It is plainly clear that Lil Homie really doesn't think it is enough, but he also knows he is walking a tightrope without a net so he keeps his peace.

Shortly after you start to hear a major exchange of gunfire taking place over the noise of the old beater. As you continue in the direction of the gunfire Frosty pipes up again.

"The Azzies caught up to Medjay at an intersection overlooked by 5 and 6 story apartment buildings, they were exchanging fire after ramming the okada he had flagged down with thier ride. Then, the Azzies vehicle got shredded by assault rifle fire from several buildings. They are hunkered down and returning fire, but the drone lost Medjay in the chaos. The rigger is doing a search."

You are at least a minute away, best guess.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor swapped out magazines in his rifle, switching from standard ammunition to APDS. True operators where on the field now. Though it would be best to skirt around this fight, if possible. He commed Frosty, <"Are Medjay's reinforcements just focusing their attack on the Azzies or are they lighting up the whole intersection?"> He turned to Starlet, "Can you try another watcher?"

[Crossbow]

"They certainly aren't Medjay's, they were originally shooting at both parties. The Celt didn't shoot back at them, so when the Azzies did all of the locals just picked them as their playmates. They are only shooting at the Azzies now which is how the drone lost Medjay."

You are much closer now, close enough that you can see muzzle flashes from at least three differents building and on differing floors. O'Conner knows the sound of AK's very well at this point, because he does he can pick out the opposing gunfire. Heavy pistols, probably Predators. Whenever one of those few pistols barks, a muzzle flash goes dark, but there are a LOT of muzzle flashes.

[farothel]

"Sure, give me a second," Sammy said. She quickly conjured up a watcher and send it out after Medjay to keep track of it, while she tries to keep track of the watcher so she can point the drone once more in that direction.
Then she looked at the firefight.
"We best go around that and let those fight amongst each other," she suggested, "they keep each other occupied and we snatch the price."

OOC: I can buy enough hits to get a watcher for 1 hour and counter the drain, so I'll just do that.

[Crossbow]

Starlet is just about to start giving search instructions to her summoned watcher when Frosty is on the comms again.

"They got him THEY GOT HIM! He is on foot for the moment, moving NNE of the confict. Probably trying to stay with modern roadways. The zones directly south of the airport are practically an inhabited swamptown, all traffic appraches the airport from the east."

You will have to circle around, as you are approaching the gunfight from the southwest.

[pbangarth]

Torley is Thrilled by the prospect of cutting through the firefight. " You got this, big guy. Let's cut some time off our chase and blast through the intersection!"

He starts thinking of things he could shout out the window. His Voice is a way better weapon than his gun.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor had the intrusive thought, but then Torley gave him permission. He slapped the stim patch on. His pupils dilated as the stims took effect, "Frag yeah, let's do this!!!" He laughed psychotically as he gunned it across the intersection.

[ Spoiler ]

Reaction 8 + Edge 3 - Default 1 = Pool 10
Pilot Groundcraft: 10d6h5 2
God damn it, statistically that should have been a minimum of three hits. I swear, I always get punished for using Edge on exploding dice.

[Crossbow]

The jalopy sails through the intersection, avoiding gunfire and the imobile mass of metal that is what is left of the Azzies car and Medjays okada. One of Azzies spares a moment to flip O'Conner the bird from where he is crouched down taking cover, when he sees the manaical gin on the runner's face.

Driving onto side streets and alleys to try and catchup to Medjay, you quickly leave the concrete canyons of apartment buildings and see more residential homes, poor and ramshackle they might be. Unfortunately, leaving the main thoroughfare means residential streets, which can meander and come to dead ends and cul de sacs randomly. After the second such obstacle you are seriously considering risking the bogs and ditches off road, but you aren't entirely sure you are still heading the direction you want to be going.

You suddenly escape the redential maze by entering the factory districts, square blocks with wide streets. Just as you start to thank something or someone for your luck, you are back on a main road, and quickly mired in traffic, watching nimble okadas and street bikes zip through the gridlock and the familiar street peddlers plying their trade to their captured customer base.

[pbangarth]

Awesome drive by O'Connor, less so the choice of vehicle.

Such is life.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor flashed the Azzie operative the devil horns gesture as he speed past. He yelled out, "Fortune favors the bold!" He handed Lil' Homie a flash-bang grenade, "Chuck that out behind us!"

Through out the time O'Connor had been teammates with Torley, he had wanted to like the guy. The problem was that Torley was actively cultivating that feeling, and it rang all the wrong bells towards Con's paranoia. That said, they'd made a great good cop/bad cop duo in LA, and they'd leaned on each other outside of work when either needed help. During this run, they'd been forced to rely on each other fully. Plus them being on the same page for this rather risky and ill advised play, sealed the deal. O'Connor let go of his distrust of the Face, and would believe that Torley was only manipulative outside of their team.

The good feels couldn't last as they lost time in the residential zone and hit a dead stop on a main thoroughfare. He turned to Lil' Homie, "Stop some okada, we need mobility." He then asked Starlet, "How long until your spirit tracks him?"

[pbangarth]

Torley could see it. In O'Connor's body language, in the man's expression, Torley had overcome a barrier. A rare feeling for the Face. Being trusted rather than just believed. Gone along with.

He liked it.

[Crossbow]

Abandoning the car and finding okada for the four of you eats up precious minutes, the low flying aircraft overhead mark the finish line of this race with some grim certainty. You get notice from Frosty that the Apep Consortium team is somewhere on the road ahead of you, the dronefeed she is piggybacking giving them an excellent view of the target and the ability to ambush Medjay at the perfect time.

[farothel]

"I don't know how long it will take," Sammy said, "watchers aren't all that smart so they are methodical. If we're lucky, fast, if not, never. They can't go through mana barriers for instance. Let me get some other spirit on it. Those are smarter, but more difficult to get. Just a moment."
While the others searched for okada, Sammy quickly summoned a spirit of air. She felt she wouldn't get much use out of it, but she didn't have to. She gave it Medjay's aura signature, last location he had been reported and last known mode of transportation and requested it to find Medjay and report his location to her through their link. Then she let the spirit go.

[ Spoiler ]

Summon spirit
summon spirit: 8d6t5 1

spirit resist
spirit resist: 3d6t5 0

no hits, so no drain, 1 service (that's enough)

[Necrogigas]

As Lil' Homie flagged down transportation, O'Connor took off his armored vest and put it on the kid. He felt rather guilty about taking the kid into this without buying him armor.

Once they were on their way, he urged the okada drivers forward, "Extra pay for maximum speed." He called to his team, "We're so close. This is going to come down to the wire. Apep is likely to ambush the target ahead of us, but I can get eyes and weapons on me while you secure the artifact. If I go down, leave me where I fall. Complete the run."

[Crossbow]

Fortunately, O'Conner's slim frame made adjustments to vest to fit the boy quick and painless, until he made his speech. Then Lil Homie wanted nothing to do with the vest.

"You need it, and who else is going to take down Medjay?"

[pbangarth]

Torley pipes in. "Kid's brave, and he's got a point. You do seem to draw the most fire."

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor dismissed the concerns, "I draw fire intentionally because I'm the best on the team at avoiding it. And between Starlet's stunbolts and Torley's Voice, I have no doubts about your ability to get the artifact from Medjay. Besides I don't have non-lethal options, and it'd be best not to kill a dragon's pet."

[pbangarth]

"Alright, then. Let's carry on." Torley will take the seat assigned him.

[Crossbow]

The seat assigned to him is on the back of one of the okada he helped flag down. ("STOP!", "We are in a hurry, get one of us to the airport and we will triple your rate.")

Lil Homie is not so easily convinced, but it seems his servile nature will not allow more forceful resistance, he gets on an bike as well.

Racing for the airport you witness, from some distance, the Apep folks make their move. Buses on either side of the Go Slow are exploded, and a wall of fire shuts down further travel in either direction. Shortly after the explosion, all manner of gunfire erupts, along with screams and a solid mass of metahumanity trying to escape said gunfire.

[pbangarth]

If the mass of fleeing humanity starts to block their travel, Torley will try to clear a path with some well placed Commands. Hopefully with better results thatn the last time he tried that.

Hey, he can learn.

[Crossbow]

There aren't so many folks that if Torley and Starlet stay in the wake of the gunmen...err -males(?) that they will have any trouble making their way.

The scene in front of is pretty bad. Awori have the high ground and numbers, but the Apep guys have good cover and superior firepower, including a frikkin Doberman packing an LMG, plus there is that Apep mage somewhere. Starlet's spirits come back to her reporting that Medjay is down there in the middle of the killzone, hiding under a freight truck.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor led the team forward until they reached the extreme end of his rifle's range and found a spot to hunker down and plan this out. He grimaced at the wall of flames licking the sky, "Guess I should've saved the Big Damn Hero speech. Ain't nobody surviving that kill zone. So we need to soften up the opposition. Priority targets are the mage, the rigger in that doberman, and the drone Frosty's piggybacking on. Starlet, can you identify their mage? Torley, don't suppose you could tell from body language if someone's more focused on AR than meatspace?"

Con then gave orders to Lil' Homie, "Keep eyes behind us. I doubt the other teams have been sitting around with their thumbs up their hoops." He also commed Frosty, <"What's the drone's viewing angle on the firefight? We need to take it out once we make our move.">

[Crossbow]

<"Aww, Kevin is going to be very upset about that. He said it was his favorite. The truck it is focused on, the one Medjay is under is in the north bound lane. I can see the driver's side and the door at the back a little, but it is mostly overhead. It isn't the only one he has, just the one he is sending me the feed on, he mentioned another one.">

Bullet Storm's request of Starlet becomes moot as a member of the Apep team on the southbound side launches a Fireball at one of the buildings before ducking buck under cover.

[pbangarth]

Torley gets right on that task, 'cause it sounds right up his alley!

[ Spoiler ]

It took me a while to figure this one out, but I think it would be safe to do a Perception Test augmented with his Kinesics Power.

I don't know how many people there are there, or even how many he can see, so here are a bunch of rolls to use if you like:
Perception 5 + visual 2 + Kinesics 3 = 15 dice:
hits on 6 rolls: 4,4,2,4,6,4

[Crossbow]

There are 4 members of the Apep Consortium physically present, none of the them seem to be operating the drone. Obviously it isn't the mage, one of the group just made a run for the ground floor of one of the buildings the Awori are using and the other two are both taking advantage of targets of opportunity presented by the Doberman.