IC New Beginnings DAWN Options

[farothel]

<"Will do,"> Sammy send before adressing the spirit via their mental link.
'Can you please use your accident and confusion powers on the target.'

Will do, the spirit came back, sending out the powers towards his target.

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accident
spirit accident power: 6d6t5 4
resisted by target's reaction + intuition

confusion
confusion spirit: 6d6t5 0
technically resisted by target's willpower, but with 0 hits, no test needed.

[Crossbow]

The air spirit materializes above the shack, floating in the air. It resembles nothing more than a small thickened stick figure with an African mask twice the size of its body for a head. It gestures at it's target and only O'Conner can see the result. The man on the roof of the small shack had been prepared to launch himself to another perch, but instead his foot swept out from under him, his grip on the peak of the roof being the only thing to save himself from a tumble to the ground.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor finally had eyes on the target. He aimed for the sneaky fragger's legs.

Simple Action: Called Shot - Legs
Simple Action: Short Wide Burst

Automatics 4 + Agility 5 - CM 1 = Pool 8
Automatics: 8d6t53

[Crossbow]

The suppressed burst catches the target right across both kneecaps, this causes him to lose his grip and fall out of sight of O'Conner and into view for Torley and Starlet as he hits the ground.

O'Conner does hear the soldiers in the street behind him respond to the gunfire, exchanging words he doesn-t understand, but can probably guess the meaning of.

[pbangarth]

Conflicting thoughts run through Torley's mind as he rushes to get a hold of the fallen man.

"Oh, shit, the guards will hear that!"

"Holy shit! What a shot that was!!"

He messages, <Thanks, O'Connor. We see him now.>

[farothel]

<O'Conner, draw away those guards> Sammy send to him, <me and Torley have the dude>

"C'mon," she said to Torley, moving to the guy. When they got there, she called her spirit.
Please use your power of concealment and us three, but make it so that we can still see each other, she said, indicing herself, Torley and their target.

"Come with us quietly, and I'll heal those legs for you," she said, "you know there's a lot of people after you. I can also turn you over to some of them if you want."

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor yelled into his commlink, hoping the guards might overhear, <"I pegged the slippery bastard. I'm headed towards the Area Boys compound."> O'Connor ran in that direction.

[Crossbow]

As O'Conner hustles away from the rest of the group, he can still hear more chatter from the soldiers he saw before and a lot of movement in the streets coming from the marketplace. He also hears someone coming up the stairs he used.

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If you are running across the rooftop walkways, I am going to need an Agility roll, it is not an stable and easy footpath.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor continued his farce, but kept an ear out for the guy coming up behind him.

Agility: 4d6t5 3

[pbangarth]

Since the mess at the bar, Torley had been chastising himself for not using the Voice to get the target to stay still. Now as he and Sammy approached the downed target, he got beaten to the punch by Sammy, who gave a good, calm suggestion to the target. Oh, well. Not always the center of attention, huh, boy?

He moves to the side of the target to give him a different angle in case action was required.

[pbangarth]

Torley sees Sammy's words make a slight impression on the fallen target. Building on that, he fires the Voice at the man, "Listen to us!"

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CHA 6 + Leadership 4+2 =12 dice : 5 hits

Once that drills into the man's consciousness, Torley makes Sammy's pitch all over, with the gift of gab behind it. "You are in deep shit. The King's guards are around the corner from here, looking for you. {{{Igbo and Yoruba: The King's men come." }}} "You know very well what will happen to you if they get a hold of you. The last of it will be your body dumped in some swamp. We want to talk, to negotiate. We don't want to give you to the King. And we won't let the guards get you ... not alive anyway. We need you alive, but not if you fail to cooperate.

" The state you're in, you'll never make it to the Area Boy's compound in time. In a safe place we will fix you up and talk. The choice is yours. Live with us or die with them. Decide."

He repeats the live or die option in Yoruba and Igbo.

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Leadership roll: CHA 6 + Leadership 4+2 : 12 dice : 4 hits

Oh, forgot Sammy's die: 1 die : no hit

4 hits total

[Crossbow]

The use of Commanding Voice snaps the young adept's attention away from his wounds. When he is able to grasp the seriousness of his situation, he says "I will go with you." and asks for the runners help in walking.

On the rooftops, O'Conner has managed to put some distance between himself and the Yoruba soldier following him, but both the Marketplace and the Area Boys Compound ahead of him are coming alive with activity.

The soldier will try two short bursts he reaches the top of the stairs.



Soldier shooting, 2 bursts: 7d6t5 1 4d6t5 0

[pbangarth]

Torley shares a glance with Sammy as the sound of the shots reaches them. "Sounds like some fool of a guard started a gunfight with O'Connor.

"This could be our chance to sneak out of here while he ties them up. Shall we go? And let him know we are booking it?"

Torley grabs the hurt man under the arms from behind and lifts him, putting one of the man's arms over his shoulders and holding him around the waist to steady and support him.

[farothel]

"Sounds like a plan," Sammy said. She let Torley support him for now, ready to help if needed, but she would like to have her hands free in case something happened. With the spirit concealing them they should be able to get out and if not, she could still make the guy invisible if needed.
<O'Connor, we're moving out with the mark, back to base. Try to shake those soldiers and meet us there, ok.>

[pbangarth]

To himself, Torley thinks, "Whew. I was afraid she would want us to go get involved in the fight. I don't do fight very well."

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor had to only lean down a bit to dodge the poorly aimed gunfire. O'Connor continued towards the Area Boy base. Hopefully the ignored soldier would call for back up, draw more of them away.

Evading attack
Dodge: 14d6t5 6

[pbangarth]

As the two of them escort the adept towards their base, Torley puts out a feeler to determine the state of mind of their charge.

"You sure did get under the skin of the King with that heist. An admirable show."

[farothel]

Sammy didn't say anything, but kept looking around as they made their way back to their hotel. The spirit's concealment power should keep most people from noticing them, or, if they saw them, from recognising them, but she knew its power wasn't absolute.

[Crossbow]

With the gunfire behind him and an Area Boys compound coming alive in front of him, life is about to get very interesting for O'Conner if he is planning to hang around.

OOC: Necrogigas, you can roll initiative and give me your first action, or first and second if you are planning Active defense.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor figured that his snipe hunt ploy had gone as well as it could. He might be able to make use of the soldiers though. He commed Torley, <"How fast can you get the idol's location? If the Area Boys have the thing, I'd rather break into the compound while I have all this freely available muscle to distract them rather than come back with just us.">

Seemed like he was about to take fire from both sides. He tried to move to a position where the Royal Army and Area Boys would, in effect, be firing at each other when they missed him. Hopefully they'd actually start firing at one another before too long.

He felt the adrenline begin to course through his body. The gunmen surrounding him began moving in slow motion. He liked to imagine he could hear their grips tightening around triggers and hammers striking forward. He smiled gleefully as things were about to pop off. It was only in these moments where he felt alive. Moments where a few centimeters and a handful of milliseconds were the dividing line between life and death.

Initiative: 10d6t5 2
Initiative Score: 12

[pbangarth]

Torley answers. <The man is not all that talkative at the moment. Keep safe, big guy, even if it means we have to backtrack. >

[Crossbow]

O'Conner is now taking fire from both directions, Area Boys in the compound and the soldiers behind.

Fire Combat Soldiers burst fire, Area Boys single shot: 2#8d6t5 3 4 2#6d6t5 3 1 2#7d6t5 2 1 2#6d6t5 3 3

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor weaved through most of the gunfire, with more near misses than he cared to admit. One of the Area Boys finally hit the mark. His armor took the first round, but the second grazed him. It was insignificant on its own, but the little wounds added up quick. He looked for a spot of cover and hoped the crossfire expanded everyone's target list.

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Dodge Rolls

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Dodge 7 + Reaction 8 - CM 1 = Pool 14, cumulative -1 for successive attacks

Dodge: 14d6t5 3 vs. 3

Dodge: 13d6t5 5 vs. 4

Dodge: 12d6t5 5 vs. 3

Dodge: 11d6t5 2 vs. 1

Dodge: 10d6t5 3 vs. 2 (original roll of zero, used edge to reroll.)

Dodge: 9d6t5 3 vs. 1

Dodge: 8d6t5 2 vs. 3

Dodge: 7d6t5 0 vs. 3

Last two attacks hit. Net 1 and 3 respectively.

Damage Resistance Rolls

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Don't know the AP value, so take it off the back.

Ballistic Amor 10 + Body 4 = Pool 14
Damage Resistance: 2#14d6t5 6 6

[Crossbow]

As Con rolls off a building he is happy to hear shouting and gunfire erupting all over the area as soldiers start fighting the Area Boys. It is going to be classic long term battle, the Area Boys will have numbers and reinforcements, but the squad of soldiers will have better gear and tactics. Best of all he has a clear shot at getting out of dodge, the lagoon in front of him is clear.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor ducked between two shacks to take a short breather. He contacted the others, <"You're in the clear, army's busy shooting it out with the Area Boys. Starlet, since our new chummer isn't talking yet, can you get your spirit to search the compound for the idol? If it's here, I don't want to leave and give the Area Boys time to move it, or the army time to find it."