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

[Gilga]

Anna follows bnc a bit confused, she does not summon a spirit fearing that it would trigger magical security. She texts with her throdes feeling it would go faster. "bnc, this is like the worst place and worst timing to harm you. Middle of the day - public place - high-security many cameras... and you have me with you. As long as I don't do anything I am a complete wildcard which makes harming you a whole lot dangerous. Let's hear him out... Or if you think he is violent place ourselves near security guards."

[Luckace]

"We'll be off, then. We'll get your princess safe 'n sound."


He turned to Sharkboy: "Screw the van. I'll take my Suzuki, it's much fasterand more versatile. We'll contact the hacker on the go and get to the damsel asap" he shows a challenging smile "and you try not to fall to far behind, ok?"

He sends Sharkboy an ARO with a comcode, so they can communicate on the ride.

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What kind of van are we heading for? Could it tecnically transport the Suzuki?

[Jack_Spade]

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It's a Bulldog with Armor 18 and Amenities: High mods
It could fit a bike, but that would mess up the interior

On the A95 towards Munich:

The hacker replied at once: <<I have found something and you should better hurry.
There was talk in a shadow forum - people looking for a girl of the given description.
I hacked the PM system. It seems someone put out a bounty on her within the BTL user community - payable in the latest BTL stuff without copy protection.
As a little taste, that someone gave out mood soft - makes people think they are an unstoppable killing machine - and giving them a few moves too.
Right now a bunch of semi-delusional junkies is out on the hunt for her. It seems they are also cooperating and exchanging leads.
They do have some grainy shots of a girl that might fit, arriving at Munich Airport from a few weeks ago.
Worse, they already encountered a few false positives - the local Schwarzen Sheriffs haven't made the connection yet.
I'll keep monitoring the board - when I receive a lead, you'll have to be very quick to get there.

Oh, by the way: My name is Eliza. I'll be your voice in the ear for the coming days.>>

At the BMW museum:


With a sinking feeling, bnc suddenly realized why the guy kept moving toward her despite her breaking line of sight: Three others had appeared, moving toward her with that creepy, delighted face. Finally she saw the elevator arive again - bringing with it another pair of the weirdos. The only way out now was to move up again toward the mage and his men - who still hadn't moved or done anything.

[Volker]

I can't believe that I have a fucking mage with me who would just stand and watch a bunch of weirdos geek me without much of a hassle!

bnc draws breath, then hurries towards the Ivetta. If you're not with me, then I'll survive on my own. And I have to know whether it was a set-up trap from the beginning!

[Gilga]

Anna hurried and toward one of the creepy guys and bumped into him. Changing him in the process to look exactly like bnc with the physical mask spell.

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Physical Mask F4: 13d6t5 3
drain: 11d6t5 5

[Volker]

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Did you subtract the -2 dice pool penalty from the Raise Agility spell? Or do you have a sustaining focus or so? You didn't drop the spell on bnc, did you?

[Gilga]

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Anna has the focused concentration quality that lets her sustain a spell for for bnc. Given the circumstances, she would not drop that spell as it gives bnc some chance of escaping. Most people should have less than 6 agility after all...

[Volker]

bnc walks fast, but not in a rush in order not to draw unwanted attention. It also gives her time to prepare a bit.

Let's give those drekheads a good show at least!

She quickly accesses the Singularity host to exchange the currently running Astrophysics skillsoft (which she didn't find particularly interesting anyway) for a Gymnastics soft and orders the Nissan Rotodrone to come closer to the nearby windows. In case of a real firefight, she wants the gunpower close and available.

[Jack_Spade]

The chiphead Anna bumped into is completely focused on bnc - sadly not his companion, a stocky lad with equal amounts of fat and muscle. His mumbled call is equal parts furious and frightened: "Witch!"
He ran towards Anna, shoving away people left and right, trying to use his big heavy boots to kick Anna.

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Ini time.

Everyone roll your dice. At the moment only the five chipheads and you are involved.

Ini: 5#8+1d6
Cyberhands 13
Boots 10
Fists 9
Breath 13
Teeth 14

Now the rest of them let any pretence fall and surged towards bnc.

The three of the other group on the level above watched, but did not act yet.

[Gilga]

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[SquirrelDude]

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Sharkboy Inititiative

Initiative: 3d6+11 22

[Luckace]

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Initiative Raph: 1d6+9 13

[Gilga]

Anna reacts very quickly and shouts "HELP! SECURITY HELP!", she dashes toward bnc grabbing her and levitates both of them to what she believes is away from harm. "lets hope they don't have guns..." she whispers.

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Levitate F5: 13d6t5 3
drain: 11d6t5 5

[Volker]

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Initiative: 3d6+11 23
Thus, I'm the fastest.
Loading the skillsoft would be the last action of the round. With the new situation, I might not do it at all.
Running rate: 24 m (i.e. 8m in my first init pass). That should do.
Simple Action: send message to drone
Simple Action: check the wheel for the processor: Perception: 13d6t5 5
Free Action: speak

What the frag is she doing?, bnc wonders, when Yael suddenly turned this into a combat situation. Then she grins, feeling both the surge of the Golden Mirror pulsing through her system and the thrill of a spell that gave her complete control over her body in a way she never felt before. Let them come! We'll see whether these young bones can't deal with some fragging psychos!
Patience, girl! First check the Ivetta!

bnc dashes forward to check the left side of the car, while commanding the battle drone here. She quickly glances at the Ivetta's wheel while already preparing for a fierce fist fight. Suddenly, she yells loud and clear: "Vaoasch wen andern, Drekhead! Kau jeda behauptn!"

[Jack_Spade]

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Mag+Counterspell: 12d6t5 4

Soak against DV 5S AP-6 from the fall

Anna had just grabbed bnc as bnc grabbed the small package from beneath the wheel well of the Isetta, levitating them both 5 m into the air.
It came as a shock to Anna when she felt foreign magic attack her spell and try to unraveling it. Still, her spell held and except for a wobble, nothing happened
By now people had started to scream and the chipheads began to look for objects to throw. A show case broke with the sound of tinkling class and the beeping of an alert.

The chip head with the cyber hands had just liberated a display of carbon cylinders.

[Gilga]

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Wait Jack, dispelling is an opposed test, isn't it?

Force + magic: 11d6t5 5

[Jack_Spade]

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You are quite right, I forgot about the opposed test. Let me edit that.

[Volker]

"Let me down, you maniac! I can't move or fight!"
For a second, a surge of horror takes bnc. Is she with them? Has she set up the trap? Frag!

Unable to do anything else, bnc takes up a priority 2 goal she had in the back of her mind since she met the group: gather information. Frantically, she loads her VR consoles and tries to find out what picture the guy was looking at and where it came from.

[Gilga]

The idea of bnc fighting these creeps brings laughter to Anna's face. "Hack a window or something, and let's get the fuck out..."

[Jack_Spade]

The picture is grainy and from a cheap sensor, showing her bnc leaving the airport after arriving back from Essen. There are still some bandages left from her recent operations. The picture is titled: "Possible Bean Si sighting"

There is a sending address, but bnc can see at a glance that it's from a cheap burner phone.

Meanwhile, Anna has spotted who is responsible for the attack on her spell: Three men in S-K uniforms have appeared on the level below them, moving up the spiral. They can't see what's going on on the level above them, except for the two levitating women. One of them clearly is a mage - who is right now preparing to attack her spell again.

[SquirrelDude]

Time for things to get loud.

Sharkboy quickly started moving through the crowd and picked up to a run before the mage and his goons could see what was coming at them. If they did see, it wouldn't matter if they moved to intercept. Sharkboy had already spotted a makeshift ring post in a pristine BMW Gina 2001. It as a shame to potentially damage a gorgeous BMW like that, but maybe he could get a deal on it from an insurance auction in a month.

Sharkboy barely got onto the back of the car, continued to move accross it and gracefully leaped over the the guards and at the mage. He was disappointed throwing the mage over the ledge was too eye catching. He'd just have to put him down here. Sharkboy brought his right leg up and threw a hard flying knee straight into the mage's chest.

"Breaching Tiger Shark Knee!"

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Initiative 22 12

Gymnastics: 17d6t5 3 Up onto the car (1.5 meters)
Gymnastics - Jump off car: 17d6t5 5 (5 meters if not counted as running, 10 if counted as running)

Unarmed Attack [9] : 17d6t5 8 hits. Reach 1. DV 13P. Don't forget to check for knockdown.

@Jack if the mage is knocked down or incapacitated I'd like for Sharkboy to make an intimidate check to tell his goons to back down. Don't know if I have the actions for that, though.

[Jack_Spade]

Suddenly a guy in a shark mask came running through the crowd on the upper level, jumped on a priceless 80 year old prototype car and shattered the pelvis of the mage and broke him literally in half.

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Soak: 13d6t5 5

Yeah, the man is dead.

Ini: 2#12+2d6 18 17
The two men are quick to react to the attack on their boss and throw themselves at Sharkboy

Punch: 2#14d6t5 3 7

DV 7P

The two bodyguards immeadiately began to throw themselves at the new player...

[Gilga]

That day could not get any stranger before she could react to the threat some superhero wannabe geeked the mage. In some spectacular trid adept kong fu... It could have been a Kombatmage episode but it really was happening... Anna cast the invisibility spell on bnc and then prepared to do the same for herself. She hoped it would make throwing stuff at them a whole lot harder.

She had the beginning of a plan - they were going out through the roof - somehow!

[SquirrelDude]

Sharkboy ducked the first punch and then brought up his arms to try and defend against the second hit. The second attacker watch his fish come within and inch of Sharkboy's head only to find his target replaced first with a oddly firm piece of suit jacket and then with two strong hands now gripping his arm and the sensation he was coming off the ground.

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+1 Reach

Atk 1: First Attack Defense: 13d6t5 3 Grazing hit.

Atk 2: Block Action (+2 from Jiu Jitsu Spec) Unarmed Defense: 21d6t5 6 Let's pop an edge to reroll those misses.
Unarmed Defense 2 Edge: 15d6t5 2 It's enough. Succesfully blocked.

EDIT; That's at least two hits on the block test, so that's him needing resist 8S(e) damage from the suit's shock weave.

Initiative 12 7

Interrupt Action. Throw Person
Initiative:70
Interrupt Action - Throw Person, Unarmed Attack: 19d6t5 2 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif) Not a glitch at least

[Jack_Spade]

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Soak: 15d6t5 5
Takes 3 S(e) -5 to ini and -1 to his action
Defense vs. Throw: 10d6t5 6

No throw

Sharkboy evaded the first punch and blocked the second, running a heavy jolt of electricity through his attacker - but either the man was very tough or he had protection weaved into his suit. Whatever it was, he still had enough presence of mind to not let himself get thrown, but disengaged.

The screaming of the public now turned into true panic