IC New Beginnings DAWN Options

[pbangarth]

Torley hopes his stunt doesn't get in the way of the to sneak-thieves.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor took aim at the survivor and fired.

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Initiative Pass 2
Simple Action: Take Aim

Simple Action: Long Burst

Automatics: 9d6t5 3
Base DV 6 + Narrow Burst 5 + Explosive Rounds 1 = DV 12 + net hits

[Crossbow]

He's down. body check: 13d6t5 4

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor moved into the courtyard and dropped a thermal smoke behind himself to obscure lines of sight for the incoming royal army and dissident reinforcements. He brought his rifle to bear on the first hostile in sight.

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Initiative Pass 3
Simple Action: Grenade (Thermal Smoke)
Simple Action: Take Aim at nearest hostile

[Crossbow]

There is a suitable target, your movement will carry you to just inside the gate.

The smoke grenade goes off behind you.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor lined up on the luckless mook and lit him up.

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Initiative Pass 4
Simple Action: Take aim
Simple Action: Long Burst
Automatics: 10d6t5 3
Base DV 6 + Narrow Burst 5 + Explosive Rounds 1 = DV 12 + net hits

[Crossbow]

3 down body checks: 13d6t5 3

[Crossbow]

IN THE WASHER WOMAN'S APARTMENT

Torley manages to causes several soldiers to start forward, which causes several more to follow. The walkways around this building and the surrounding ones are now flooded with Adegokes soldiers. While returning to the front room Grandfather has now absorbed what you said and is more than a bit upset. "What are you talking about? There are witchy harlots in my family, not with my blood!" His last words are almost drowned out by gunfire, both from O'Conner beginning his attack and a closer exchange starting between the soldiers and the front door guards beginning. The old couple are suprised and start to move towards the closest windows for a better view.

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OLULEYE'S COURTYARD

Silence and Starlet risk a quick sprint to the building as all eyes in the yard turn to the gunfire at the gate. They are inside where the sounds of the combat all around them are muffled by the thick stone walls. The room, a communal dining and common room, is empty for a moment before a well dressed young ork comes dragging a young girl through the door opposite by the hair, he flings the girl towards a couch near the wall. The top half of the girl impacts the wall with a sickening sound, then slides down the wall onto the furniture. Starlet doesnt need her astral sight to confirm this is the Awakened child she saw before, the glow tracing from her eyes and hands is visible in the physical world.

[pbangarth]

Torley warns the two, " Take care. Stray bullets could come through the window. Let me be your eyes. "

[farothel]

Sammy noticed the young girl and she stopped in her tracks. She was torn between helping out and rescuing the girl. Then she got an idea. She made sure that she got a good shot with her camera that she sent to Torley.
"Torley," she subvocalised as she moved on with Silence, "tell that grandfather that the corps pay good money for an awakened girl and keeping her alive is in his best interest. He should be able to keep that other guy away."

[pbangarth]

Torley takes the hint.

" You know, Grandfather, if the, " his command of the language almost fails him. He has to reword how he would have said it in English. "If the girl offends you, there are corporations who value such people and treat them well, even women," he shifts a subtle glance to the woman, "and would pay you well to let them hire her. No witchy woman in your household, and wealth in your safe. "

[Crossbow]

Things go from bad to worse in a split second. The girl screams somethings, the scream becomes something not of this earth and is then lost in the howl of wind as a spirit rises out of the form of the child, with the same glowing eyes and hands. With a gesture, the spirit flings the well dressed ork across the room, or would have had there not been two invisible shadowrunners in the way.
6S attack resisted with impact, then a concentration check for each sustained spell. (SR4, p 184)
Starlet and Silence are knocked down by the metahuman body hurled their way.

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In the courtyard, security is reacting to the invader, with a half dozen of the orks with weapons at ready trying to avenge their comrades, shooting at Con from different angles.

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"If the girl offends you, there arrRRRR, FRAG!” The wind in the comms from the open line causes feedback that forces Torley to snatch the earpiece and throw it away. Over the ringing he hears one of the soldiers in the walkway below order “Buto, get topside with the ‘MA’, scorched earth!” and someone pounding up the stairs to the washer woman’s home.

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Initiatives and first actions please.

[pbangarth]

Oh shit! Trapped in a room at the top of stairs with two non-combatants. Life starts flashing before Torley's eyes. Reaching for his roomsweeper, he steps to the top of the stairs (might as well make it quick).

In maybe his last, Grand Act, Torley pulls up tall and broad, to fill the entry way. He borrows from one of his favourite science fiction novels, Dune, and holds his other hand to his throat, massaging just so to limber his voice box, and Commands the opponents coming up the stairs:

"GO ATTACK THE COMPOUND!"

[farothel]

Sammy was surprised by the spirit throwing the guy towards her, but her armour deflected most of the damage. Just a few bruises, she thought.
"She seems to have things well in hand," Sammy whispered to Silence, "let's get out of here quickly and move on."

She did just that, moving towards their target as quickly as possible while still maintaining her invisibility and being as stealthy as possible. She did sneak a look at the spirit though, trying to determine what it was.

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concentration: 12d6t5 3
only 1 as the other two are in sustaining foci, so they are safe from this kind of disruption.

resist damage: 9d6t5 4
2S comes through

action 1: move away from the scene. Normally the spirit will defend the girl, so if we move, it hopefully will not attack us. The quicker we have the icon, the better it is.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor needed to clear a path into the main building before the courtyard became a complete clusterfrag. He advanced into the courtyard, firing at the nearest goon between him and the building.

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Simple action: Long Burst
Base DV 6 + Narrow Burst 5 + Explosive Rounds 1 = DV 12 + net hits
Automatics: 8d6t5 3

[pbangarth]

It's almost as if time has stood still. Torley's perceptions focus and the stairway up to the room seems almost to zoom into his frame of vision.

Is this what the last moment of life feels like?

[pbangarth]

It seems as if Torley's life has been long and convoluted, as it scrolls past his mind's eye.

[Crossbow]

The fog of battle has truly decended on this little corner of Lagos. It is as if months have passed, when in reality it is no time at all.

The Washer Woman's Flat

Torley/Custer might actually be scared. He is cut off from comms with the rest of the group and holds his meager little Roomsweeper in a sweaty grip as he waits for a soldier to come kicking down the door. His hope that the confusion he sowed with his Gift will keep him protected are dashed by the conversation he hears.

(roughly translated from Yoroba)
"Make up your damn mind sarge! Do I hit the compound or get topside?"

"Frag, we have a Sweet Talker around here boys! All commands are by COMMS ONLY, strict code adherance...after this one. YES DUMBASS, GET TOPSIDE!"

Stray fire from the compound has shattered all the windows and the two seniors are tucked in a corner, taking cover.

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The Street Around the Compound

The Yoruba soldiers are engaging Uzochi's security from several gaps in the buildings like the one washer woman's apartment looks over. Uzochi's forces are fighting back from the main door, the windows on the second floor and, shortly, the roof. The reinforcements Uzochi hired and was returning with are pinned down, unable to cross the street to the compound. Lil Homie is keeping a running commentary of these activities.

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The Courtyard

Uzochi's house guard were in a state of preparation when Bullet Storm entered the courtyard. His blistering attack had cut down their number, but there were still A LOT of battle hardened orks in the compound and the benefit of surprise was now gone. At least HIS benefit of surprise was gone, a three meter tall being of cerulean blue had manifested itself floating in the middle of the courtyard. It moved downwards toward a set of doubledoors on the first floor of the main building, ignoring everything around it.

Con also noted the unusual appearance of what looked a small demonic cartoon character sitting on the steps of the kitchen. It appeared visibly entertained by the chaos and bloodshed going on.

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Inside the Main Building

Starlet is just helping Silence up when she notes that the girl is unconscious now, which she know makes the spirit still being here a BIG problem. She also notes that after Silence was placed on his feet he quickly cleaned a knife and resheath it, and that the young ork that was hurled at them wasn't going to get up again. "He won't be beating any little girls anymore."

[pbangarth]

Torley runs the fingers of his free hand through his hair, and darts a glance at the window. He's jumped out of a few in his time, but never with a fraggin' army waiting for him at the bottom! Nope. That's never what has save his hoop in the past.

He holsters the firearm to support his next claim. He shouts through the door:

"Sergeant, have you no sense. I'm working for the King. Spotting from up here! I just saw the thief go in the compound. While you charge up here, he is getting the Idol! Go there now!!!

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Whether Con (Fast Talk) or Leadership or Negotiation, it's all 15 dice: 5 hits

Damn right I'm throwing Edge in this:

10 remaining dice:7 hits !!!!

12 hits total. Well, possibly Torley's best shot ever.

EDIT: Ohhhhhh shiiiit. Kinesics doesn't work through a door. OK, Crossbow, you figure it out.

[farothel]

Keeping an eye on the spirit, Sammy moved out of the room and hoped it wouldn't follow. They still had to get to the room with the idol in it, so they had to move quickly.

[Necrogigas]

As the newly materialized spirit moved towards the house, O'Connor realized that Starlet had not summoned a spirit to back him up as had been the plan. They had scrambled after the royal forces showed up, so it could be a genuine mistake. Con though it more likely she was hanging him out to dry. He was tempted to let the spirit be a fun little surprise for Starlet and Silence in retaliation. Ultimately he decided against inaction, the job came first and he didn't have definite proof, yet, that she was trying to get him killed. He commed Starlet, <"Starlet, you got a spirit coming your way from the courtyard.">

O'Connor moved into the gap between the kitchen and main building to make the ginormous spirit the most visually obvious target to most of the courtyard. As he passed by, he gave a friendly wave to the neat cartoon spirit on the kitchen steps. O'Connor wasn't sure if spirits suffered from language barriers or made mental connections to communicate. He figured it was worth a shot, "Any particular guard you want dead? I take requests."

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Initiative Pass 1
Simple Action: Take Aim
Simple Action: Take Aim
If the spirit is willing/able to communicate, Con will aim for the spirit's designated target, otherwise just the nearest guard.

[Crossbow]

The impish looking spirit points out an ork "That's Jambo hiding in the goat pen, he's always a jerk to Miss Salhi, feel free to cap his hoop."

Just as it makes its request, the spirit in the building screams like an F5 tornado and blows out all the walls immediately around it, it also sends tables and chairs flyinng.

For Starlet or Silence to move to the part of the now exposed hallway that would protect them from the effect they will need to win a contested check Str vs Force, TWICE, as a full action, They will also be subject to flying debris.

The second Spirit of Air is trying to penetrate the maelstrom.

[Crossbow]

The door is kicked in, the soldier holding a sidearm pointed at Torley, a second soldier can be seen on the stairs, with his assault rifle pointed at the Face.

"I have been instructed to take you into custody, or shoot you if you resist. Do you intend to resist?"

[pbangarth]

Torley shakes his head and holds his hands out to the sides. "No resistance. Please take me to someone who wants to hear useful information. Do it quickly, though. You are being outmanoeuvred by the locals. "

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor fired at the designated target, Jambo. He ducked down as all hell erupted from the main building. He was glad that he wasn't caught in that drek storm. He turned back to the imp, "Anyone else give you or yours a hard time?"

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Initiative Pass 2
Simple Action: Narrow Burst
Automatics: 10d6t5 5
Base DV 6 + Narrow Burst 5 + Explosive Rounds 1 = DV 12 + net hits

Simple Action: Take aim at new target