Salted Wounds [IC], a Deep Black Sea game Options

[Volker]

This must be him!

Her attacks against enemy arms proved more and more fruitless, but bnc finds another way to aid her party in combat. She marks their target's commlink and highlights it in their party members' field of vision, making him easier to spot.

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Tagging a target negates up to 2 dice in penalties
from Visibility and Light/Glare to any affected
ranged attack rolls allies may be making against that
target, including blind-fire due to invisibility or shooting
through cover. Allies who can see a tag may also
take one additional Take Aim Action against that target
as a Free Action on each Initiative Pass.

[SquirrelDude]

Sharkboy responded to the automatic fire with an explosive arrow, quickly aimed thanks to bnc's tag.

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Free: Aim action
Simple: Reload
Simple: Shoot Arrow: 20d6t5 6 DV 12P AP-3

[Jack_Spade]

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Leader goes Full Defense and uses half cover:
Full Defense: 22d6t5 9

The man saw the arrow heading for him and fell quickly back behind the door frame.

[Thanee]

Nova followed up on Sharkboy's arrow with a burst from her Enfield, after getting her shotgun ready.

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At Pass 1 Initiative 19:
Simple Action: Ready shotgun
Free Action: Take Aim
Simple Action: Burst Fire at the Leader 4 hits (-2 to Defense, DV 15P AP -2)

[Jack_Spade]

Another shot, and another dodge from the man with the mask

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Defense: 19d6t5 5

[Gilga]

Seeing how elusive the man was, Anna ignored for a moment the gun in her hands and mentally whacked him with her stunbolt spell.

[Jack_Spade]

The spell connected and the man visibly staggered under the mental assault.

[Luckace]

With the little cross in his hand and a short prayer spoken, Wraith had finally mustered up the courage to jump outside and join the fray:
He pushed the door open and jumped outside, where he immediately kicked the door closed behind him. Murmuring "Strike him down, almighty...", his right hand made a striking gesture towards the leader, sending a magical attack his way.

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Simple action: open the door
Free action: Slam it shut (guess that means no action left to take cover)
Simple action: reckless stunbolt at the highlighted opponent.
reckless stunbolt f5: 14d6t5 6 (only 5 hits count)
Resist drain: 12d6t5 4
Takes one damage.

[Jack_Spade]

The second strike went home as well, making their target stagger again.

[Volker]

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Watchdog: 17d6t5 10
Opposed roll: 10d6t5 4
yip

As her comrades seem to fare pretty well in the fight, bnc wants to make sure that the fellow doesn't send any messages she doesn't want him to send. Thus, she places a little virtual bug in his commlink.

[SquirrelDude]

Sharkboy drew and fired another explosive arrow at the target, hoping to keep his attention away from the two mages.

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Simple: Reload Weapon
Free: Aim
Simple: Shoot Arrow: 20d6t5 8 DV 12P AP-3

[Jack_Spade]

The leader almost managed to avoid the arrow - almost.
And although his armored suite prevented the missile from penetrating, the force was enough to knock him to the ground where his head bounced once and he lay still.
The two guards had enough at this point, firing wildly behind them, they ran like one man towards the exit, not caring for their fallen boss.

[Thanee]

"Nice shot, Sharky!" Nova applauded, as she gave the running guards a sideway glance and shrugged her shoulders. These goons were no concern for her.

Instead she immediately moved over to where their mark has gone down, disarming him and quickly searching him for anything important, commlink and such.

[SquirrelDude]

Sharkboy aimed an arrow at the retreating guards, but thought better of it and then relaxed at Nova's compliment.

"Thanks. Everyone alright?"

Sharkboy let Nova handle their mark as he went around to clean up what was left of his stick'n'shock arrows from the guards. He probably couldn't fix them, but that wasn't a reason to leave them behind to be found later The explosive arrows would take care of themselves.

[Luckace]

"Damn...", Wraith murmured as the explosion rang through the facility, seemingly impressed, nodding in approval at Sharkboy.
He raised a thumb up to reply that he was all right, then he let his mind wander to the telepathic link with his spirit to see if it was ok.

[Gilga]

"I am fine... Impressive fighting everyone. These arrows sure got some impressive punch behind them." Anna reported. >> So, we need to find the lead researcher, steal the plans and load the van with tons of BTL. Whose going where?

[Thanee]

"Well. This guy here is the head of operations, whom we are to take in. We still need the computer files, so best to proceed to the offices."

[Gilga]

"Help me carry him inside" she replies and took his legs to be placed inside the van.

[SquirrelDude]

Right, we're not just here to pick a fight. Sharkboy left his bow on his back as he started heading down the hall towards the offices.

"Anna, let James take care of moving the target. You're healthy, so come help clear out the offices."

[Gilga]

"Alright, lead on Sharko"

[Jack_Spade]

Finding the office wasn't hard. An expensive... bnc corrected herself mentally - a very, very expensive simsense recording station dominated the middle of the room.
A comfortable, reclining seat in the middle was its focus point. Next to it was a space with padded mats on the floor and the walls as well as a sparring drone. Dozens of sensors dotted the walls, allowing recordings from every angle. Next to it a small table with refreshments waited.

The server was of course locked down and not wireless active.

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Knowledge test on entertainment/martial arts/blood sports or similar

The server is an offline host with R7

[Luckace]

Before he moving out, Wraith checked if his spirit had destroyed the enemy watcher.
He then activated his astral sight to be ready for any astrally moving reinforcements.

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Command earlier was to target the "threats outside", so just in case the spirit felt like the watcher was no actual threat and decided to spare it, it is now commanded to destroy it.

[Jack_Spade]

The spirits had taken out the watcher just as the hounds.
The team knew that whatever they did now, they were on the clock - reinforcements were likely on the way since both watcher, boss and decker certainly had already sent out a distress call.

[SquirrelDude]

Sharkboy looked over the room and the machine trying to figure out what it was, but quickly relented.

"I have no idea what this is, or what we need to do with it."

[Volker]

"Roger" was all bnc said to Sharkboy's suggestion, then mentally commanded James to lift the victim into the car, while she herself returned to her loathed junk of meat body to jog over to the server room.
She whistles softly as she sees the equipment used her, but this was neither the place nor the people that could leave her in admiration. Also, not the time. As soon as the server was identified, she moved over briskly, sat down, drew a cable out of her datajack and plugged it into the computer. She shifted to make herself comfortable and once again dove into the depths of cyberspace.

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Standard stealth configuration.
Watchdog: 19d6t5 6
Opposed roll: 17d6t5 2
Haha, the host seems to invite me.
bnc shifts her deck to running silent, then enters the host.