IC New Beginnings DAWN Options

[Necrogigas]

Lacking a viable way into the building, O'Connor updated Starlet, "Don't got a way in. You're on your own with the breach team." He turned back to the imp, "Alright, let's hit the kitchen and find your ree-sip-ee." He gave suppressive fire as he made for his new destination.

[ Spoiler ]

Initiative Pass: ?
Complex Action: Suppressive Fire
Automatics: 10d6t5 5

[farothel]

"Copy that," Sammy said, making sure her weapon was ready, keeping an eye on Silent and on the door. Those guys would take a while to get here and the defenders would also try to stop them, which is what you got when you entered guns blazing instead of by stealth as they had done.

[Crossbow]

The gunfire and smoke had Bullet Storm a little mixed up, when the little spirit waved him towards the door of the building he was taking cover by, he didn't realize that it was the kitchen for the compound. He closed the door and just managd to dive away from it as a refridgerator dropped to block it.

The little guy was back in his face again, clearly excited, "ree-sip-ee, Ree-Sip-Ee, REE-SIP-EE!!! You know where it is? You know WHAT it is?"

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After so much chaos Starlet is having trouble standing still, the African ork is working is working the safe diligently and she can hear the gunfire being exchanged over the howl of the winds. This "breach team" is troubling, where are the soldiers going to come in? How are they coming in?

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor tried to push the little imp out of his personal space, "It's instruction on how to prepare food. Cooks can be extremely protective of their secret ree-sip-ees. Search for any books or writing."

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Perception 3 + Visual 2 + Intuition 3 - CM 2 = Pool 6
Perception: 6d6t5 0
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[farothel]

There was little she could do at the moment but to wait until Silent had done his thing. Keeping the invisibility up, she looked around to see the soldiers coming and be able to react.

[Crossbow]

"Paper? Books? What are those?" the imp looked at Con like he had grown three heads. He heard the goons outside starting to take random shots into his hot smoke, but it should still hold for a bit. There was nothing useful in the first cabinet he searched.

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Precious seconds tick by as Starlet tries to stay ready if anything comes through the door. Finally the soft clicking she hears behind her is replaced by a loud thunk as Silence breathes a quietly exuberant "Got it!" which is the last thing she hears as the wall at the end of the hall is breached by a shaped charge of plastic explosive.

Starlet is 5 meters from the blast, behind two interior walls which I believe gives her a total of 12 additional points of armor vs a 25S attack.

[Crossbow]

Happy 4th

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor returned the imp's incredulous stare and began searching around for examples to explain.

[ Spoiler ]

Perception 3 + Visual 2 + Intuition 3 - CM 2 = Pool 6
Perception: 6d6t5 1

[Crossbow]

Con finds a clipboard with a piece of hardcopy on the floor at his feet that must have fallen off the fridge when it got knock over. He shows it to the little spirit, who takes it and looks at it, turns it upside down, looks at it again. "Is this paper, book or REE-CEE-PEE?" Con can't read the language, but it looks like it might be a shopping list.

[pbangarth]

Torley grows very concerned about his teammates when he hears the explosion. He is accustomed to such noises and surprises, but he pretends otherwise. At the sound of the explosion he screams as loudly as he can with the muffling the guards applied, and tries to dive under a nearby cart or stall. Who knows? It might work.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor indicated the shopping list, "That's a piece of paper. Books are papers that are bound together. Ree-cee-pees will be writing in books." O'Connor tried not to worry about the explosion just yet. The guards inside the building would be busy soon, and hopefully those in the courtyard would engage the spirits. If he kept out of sight for a bit longer, he might have a path to Starlet or out of the compound, as needed. So, for now, he continued his little side quest of helping the little imp. He turned to said imp, "We never exchanged greetings. I'm known as Con, what should I call you?"

[Crossbow]

Torley gets slammed into an APC when he tries to dive away from the soldiers who are moving him and the other two prisoners. "Keep fragging around, and we will zipcuff your feet and roll you to the commander."

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In the kitchen, the little imp looks really confused, trying to understand the foreign concepts the shadowrunner is exposing him to, then he is really confused when the runner introduces himself, "Uh,...well around here they call me 'obere ekwensu oji'" he shrugs in response.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor started searching again to find more examples to teach the spirit. He also commed Lil' Homie to get an update on the situation and a translation on the imp's moniker.

[ Spoiler ]

Perception 3 + Visual 2 + Intuition 3 - CM 2 = Pool 6
Perception: 6d6t5 0
Breathe in...1...2...3
Breathe out...1...2...3

[Crossbow]

Lil Homie reports that while the smoke at the entrance to the courtyard has disapated, the fighting has kept anyone from crossing the street. The explosion suprised everyone, but with no one to engage the shooters are concentrating on the main building and trying to work around the air elementals. He also tell Con that the words translate to 'Little Black Demon'.

[pbangarth]

Torley nods enthusiastically when the commander is mentioned. As clearly as he can mouth through the gag, he says, "Good! Maybe I can talk to somebody with the wit and the authority to fix your mistake. "

[farothel]

Sammy was pushed back by the blast. She quickly came around and while bleeding, she called on her magic to heal, feeling her wounds close and the pain subside a bit.
"I think you best move as quickly as possible," she said to Silent, "they're going to come in quickly."

Drawing on her magic again, she called forth a spirit of fire to provide some distraction.

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willpower:
spellcasting: 12d6t5 5
I Have only one spell in memory, the rest are in foci, so shouldn't be affected.

Heal
spellcasting: 7d6t5 3
drain
drain: 8d6t5 4

stun: 2/9
wounds: 4/9
no drain

I'm not sure we're in Initiative pass now, but I have 2 of those, so I'll do the second one already.
call spirit (force 3 fire spirit)
call spirit: 8d6t5 2
spirit gets 3 dice counter

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor was fast becoming frustrated with his mostly fruitless search and began ransacking the place. He asked the spirit, "Little Black Demon, you find anything promising yet? That name's a mouth full. Need to think up a nickname, unless you got any other shorter names or monikers you prefer."

[ Spoiler ]

Perception 3 + Visual 2 + Intuition 3 - CM 2 = Pool 6
Perception: 6d6t5 3

[Crossbow]

LBD presents him with a book, but Con quickly determines that it is a ledger of some kind, rows of numbers and some words he even understood that were foodstuff. Who keeps a paper ledger anymore?

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Starlet is able to keep it together, even though her ears are still ringing from the blast, and even heals some of the damage she just took. While she is summoning a spirit from the local AEther Silence pokes his head up from behind the desk that the blast moved over his position. He holds up the idol, an ugly squat looking thing Starlet remembers from the tour of Adegoke's collection. After showing it to her he tucks it away in his clothes then looks toward the door where, with her hearing returning, she can hear assult rifle fire being exchanged right outside. "How the frag are we getting out of here?" he says, wiping away blood streaming from his nose. (It appears broken)

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Torley and the two elderly prisoners are pushed into a diner about two blocks away from the compound, the three of them are forced to a wall and made to sit on the floor as others rush around setting up equipment.

[Necrogigas]

The paper ledger was certainly odd, and it made O'Connor think the ledger had a greater significance than seen at first glance. He stared at it pensively, *If the recipe, the fabled ree-sip-ee, is important enough to send a spirit, then maybe its also important enough to be coded. [Sigh] puzzles are not my strong suit. There's also the actual mission to get back to.*

He pointed at LBD and gestured wildly at the room, "Ransack it, and hand me any scrap of paper and/or writing you find. We need to speed this up. I really should be getting back to my actual job soon."

[pbangarth]

Who knows what is being set up here, but Torley feels useless, worse than useless, with his mouth taped over. He wants to just rip it off and Voice these mugs out of his hair. And they are all running around being good little busy bees. Now is the time!

But if he can wait a bit, he might be able to get through to the commander of the Guards. That would be the best bet, wouldn't it?

But it is so boring to be just sitting here!

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Composure Test to see if Torley can cool his Thrill Seeker inner child just a bit.

WIL 2 + CHA 6 = 8 dice, target 5, threshold 2: 4 hits

OK, OK, Sammy my boy, let's be smart about this. You're only gonna get one shot, so bide your time. It wouldn't hurt, though, to have your hands free so you can rip off the gag when you need to.

Torley as carefully as possible tries to work his hands free, but keeping them so they look still restrained.

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Escape Artist Extended Test, Threshold 4 (ropes and handcuffs, so zip ties should fit) "others rush around setting up equipment" so maybe noone is looking too closely.

Torley doesn't actually have this Skill, so default to AGI. Apply a point of EDG (works only for the first die roll?)

AGI 5 -1 defaulting +4 EDG = 8 dice, exploding 6s: 4 hits Holy Shit! One hot die did it all!

[farothel]

"The backdoor," Sammy said, "we're still invisible. Of course, bullets or explosions don't really care for that, so we'll have to be careful. But those guys can't be everywhere and I still have some tricks up my sleeve should there be a need. Close the safe again and if you can lock it quickly, do so. That will give us some extra time while they try to open it, or they just take it and don't know the thing is missing."
She called up the map of the compound, what they had, and tried to figure out what the quickest way out with the least amount of soldiers was.

[Crossbow]

LBD immediately heads to a back corner where Con sees him start pulling out drawers out of a desk and flinging them around, on the desk he can also see a well worn book with a colorful cover, it appears to have English on it.

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Torley is brought to a small diner a block or two from the compound, the room is being readied for a command center. Torley and the old couple are shoved to their behinds at one edge of the room, with a soldier standing over them, rifle at the ready. Seconds later, before the face can begin to work on his bindings any further, two obviously older and high ranking soldiers walk in the building, with a familiar elf woman accompanying them.

When Jane see Torley cuffed and gagged she stops and turns to the lead soldier, "Oh for frags sake Commander, release my operative this minute! You told me he surrendered! Your boss is going to hear about this, I assure you, I hope you like peeling roots!"

The Commander looks somewhat perturbed but rallies well "He is probably the reason our attack on the compound was compromised, that is the only answer for the lack of discipline! I will have him uncuffed, but if he says a word to anyone but you he will be shot." he nods at the soldier guarding you who stands Torley up and begins to release his hands.

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Back in the compound the options are not looking great for the orks of the team. The closest best way out is the hole blown through the wall that almost killed them, but the hallway is filling with combatants exchanging fire. As her spirit comes into being on the astral, what is left of the door to the office is shoved open by a soldier who quickly scans the room before using the doorway for cover and shooting back up the hallway in the direction they came in to the office from.

[pbangarth]

Torley has mixed emotions about this turn of events. Yes, Jane's arrival makes things a lot safer. But now he can't claim to have dealt with the situation himself. No. Mommy saved him.

Nevertheless, he takes care to look directly at and talk just to Jane once the tape comes off his mouth. "Thanks, Jane. You come at a good time. Though, seriously, a few more minutes and I would have had things under control. " He gives a big grin at that.

"I actually tried to help these guys stay out of trouble, but they just ... wouldn't ... listen." The grin widens.

[Necrogigas]

O'Connor went over to the desk to inspect the book. He also sent calls out to the team for status updates

[farothel]

Sammy moved her vision to the astral to 'talk' to the spirit without being overheard by the soldier, while keeping up the invisibility. And standing still also meant she wouldn't making any noise, or at least no noise that would go above the sound of combat.

"Please burn the two groups fighting outside, the soldiers and the Igbo guys," she asked. She gave a mental picture of both groups fighting outside. Having a spirit show up that started to throw fireballs and stuff around would hopefully give them enough of a distraction to get away. She also gave the aura signature of all their group members and asked not to touch those.