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[Thanee]

Nova fired at the spirit again.

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Aim
Fire 5 hits (-2 to Defense; Damage 8P AP -5)

Just 5 hits, once more. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

[Jack_Spade]

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Defense: 12d6t5 3
10P AP-5
Soak: 17d6t5 7
combined with 4 autohits soaked fully

The second attack by Nova hit, but didn't seem to slow down the spirit.

[Gilga]

Anna points her little finger again, allowing another burst of invisible energy at the spirit, and cracking another dent at her obsidian ball.

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Casting stun bolt. 8 reagents.
stunbolt: 19d6t5 8
drain: 15d6t5 4

[Jack_Spade]

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Soak: 8d6t5 1
7 hits to the previous 5 adds up to 12 - spirit is disrupted. Boy falls to the ground takes 20 DV AP -4

Edit: Alright, history revised

Anna's last spell hit something vital in the spirit's physical matrix. It became disrupted and immediately, the boy was left unsupported in the air.
Recklessly casting another spell, Anna managed to catch the boy with a levitation spell, bringing him gently down to the ground.

[Volker]

James hastens up, ignoring Anna's spirit for a moment, and speeds to the dwarf to take him captive - but arrives too late. For a split-second, bnc considers running back to help the young man, but with both Anna and Nova at the site, he's either dead already or in good hands. So, instead, he replaces her standard ammo with gel ones and aims at the dwarf.

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I'm going to want to bring him down with the gel ammo, but I'm not sure I'm there yet. If you don't want to wait for me: In total I manage to roll 21 dice + aiming using my Savalette.

[Crossbow]

Taurus, still in his overwatch position at the door, sends a text to the group chat.

>>Anyone able to give me an update? Can I be of assistance anywhere else?

[Jack_Spade]

bnc now had reached the crowded bus station with James. The dwarf looked around in anguish

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Perception test to recognize James as the android, the hacker warned about:
Perception: 13d6t5 3
Recognized

Ini: Ini: 9+1d6 12
Dwarf goes on full defense

James shoots:
Shoot: 21d6t5 4, I'm assuming at a full salvo with 6 bullets
Defense: 10d6t5 2 Hit

DV 10 AP -0
Soak: 16d6t5 6
Takes 4 stun damage

Dwarf turn: Lightning bolt F7
Lightning Bolt F7: 11d6t5 6

DV 7P(e) AP-7

and spotted James. Immediately her eyes went wild and she jumped up from the seat she had taken. As the first round of gel bullets hit the dwarf in the chest and belly, she screamed. Then people around her screamed, than she sent a lance of lightning at James.

[Gilga]

Slinging the spells so quickly took its toll on the young mage, she had too much of it coming in and going, and could feel the psychic fatigue, manifesting as a black eye. Got him! she exhales, with a hint of fatigue in her voice.
>> Spirit tried to kidnap the decker, situation stabilized though it might be prudent to disappear before unwanted attention arrives.

[Volker]

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Init: Initiative: 5d6+13 28
Full Defense: Defense: 15d6t5 6

If I remember correctly, you treat lightning bolt grazing hit still as a hit, right?

Soak: 19d6t5 9
Ah, nice roll. Damage soaked.

I take aim to compensate the recoil and fire a three bullet round:
Shoot: 22d6t5 7
Defense: 13d6t5 5

Soak: 16d6t5 5

That's another 5 points of stun.

New round:
Initiative: 5d6+13 24

Another 6 bullets:
Shoot: 21d6t5 9
Defense: 10d6t5 2

Soak: 16d6t5 7

Should be another 8 boxes or so.

James rolls to the side almost lightning-fast. But only almost, and lightning-fast is faster still. The bolt strikes James but, fortunately, doesn't reach the vulnerable inner parts. With the speed only drones and wired-up samurais can display, James then unloads a hail of bullets at the magician, until finally she drops unconscious.

[Jack_Spade]

Most people still screamed, some already ran away as the dwarf went down.
bnc noticed a flying police drone had switched on its blinking light and was homing in on the comotion - ETA about 10 seconds.

[Volker]

Oh frag, that's trouble.
"Drek! Get the car here. We're leaving!"

That was a problem. At least it was a good problem: One you could try to solve by putting a MARK on something.

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Combat round 1Initiative: 5d6+15 30
30: Watchdog: 22d6t5 5 (running silent)
I'll roll the rest once I know how this worked out and how strong the opposition is.

[Jack_Spade]

The drone appeared to be secured through a strong security host

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Firewall: 17d6t5 6

Host R7 A9S7D8F10

Drone
Ini: 8+4d6 25
Drone switches to Full matrix defense and full defense
Ini 5
Drone performs an Active Sensor lock test on James:
Sensor Lock: 10d6t5 1
And since it's a simple action, it tries again
Sensor Lock: 10d6t5 5
Defense with Agility+Sneak

bnc noticed to her dismay that her attack not only had failed but had also been turned against her, leaving her persona MARKed by the drone - making her stick out to the drone like a sore thumb.
Immediately, bnc noticed that the drone had powered up it's radar sensor and tried to get a lock on James' form, while it steadily headed towards its position while performing some wild maneuvers.

[Gilga]

Anna commands her spirit to help James escape.

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F6 spirit of man.
the spirit has the movement and the petrifying spell as optional powers.
Should I play the spirit or should Jack? I was thinking of using movement to slow down the drone, and then concealment on james as it breaks LOS.

[Thanee]

Nova made sure, everyone got back into the car, so they could get south to where bnc had indicated.

[Jack_Spade]

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Movement works against the drone, threshold is 2 (Body 3 /2 rounded up)
Concealment won't work against the drone as long as the MARK persists.

Nova found the traffic in Prague pretty annoying - just too many people insisted on driving manually and apparently drunk.

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Piloting test for the car threshold 3 to get there fast enough without causing an accident.

[Thanee]

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Pilot Ground Craft 2 hits + Edge 1 hit = 3 hits

[Gilga]

While Anna was levitating down the kid, and getting him into the car. The spirit materializes and tries to slow down the drone so that James can escape. Anna is impressed by Nova's driving I guess you are more of an on-road person. she comments comparing Nova's current performance to her earlier performance on the monowheel.

>>bnc I am trying to slow down the drone to help with GTFO.

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Movment vs 2: 12d6t5 1
fail, can it simply try again (movement is per combat turn anyhow)?

movement try 2: 12d6t5 5
if it can't I may expend edge in that case, it'll be 6 hits as the dice are:
12d6t5: 5 [12d6t5=2, 4, 6, 6, 1, 6, 2, 4, 5, 1, 5, 4] (and they'll be only 11).

[Jack_Spade]

Dodging and weaving through traffic, Nova made it next to James in record time - minus a bit of paint on one of her fenders. The drone meanwhile had slowed down considerable thanks to the spirit materializing above and reducing its movement.

[Thanee]

Nova stopped the car right next to the bus station and opened the door to get the unconscious dwarf inside. With her latest modifications, she could elongate her arms far enough to reach out of the car and grab the dwarf from where she was lying to get her in and dump her on one of the free seats.

<< Got the dwarf. Get James into the car and then we are off... we need to get some distance from here. >>

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Nova can lengthen her arms up to +2m, that should be enough to get the dwarf without actually getting out of the car, right? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Volker]

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Same combat round, phase 20:
Erase Mark: 18d6t5 8
Firewall: 17d6t5 5

Hide: 16d6t5 7
Firewall: 17d6t5 4
Because of Fade to Black I can do both with one Complex Action.

The rest of the combat round (and the ones after), she'll use to cover space and hide from the drone.

Sneaking: 14d6t5 6

There is something inside bnc that makes her feel less alive as long as everything is running smoothly. This sometimes makes her reckless or sloppy. Now, the opposite is the case: As adrenaline surges through her, realizing that the police here is not to be compared with the one back in Bavaria, bnc's brain fires off like the engine of a car kicked recklessly. Within several hundred milliseconds, bnc entirely escaped the drone's virtual gaze, immediately followed by a more physical escape.

"Got it off me. Ready to meet ya."

[Gilga]

Anna watches Nova impressed, and comments "Amazing how Inspector Gadget predicted the future, "how long can you go? without waiting for a reply she adds Can your legs do the same thing?" excited about the possibility. Anna considers the options for changing height on a whim or just grabbing something remote by elongating her hand.

Anna's spirit uses the concealment on James to help him evade the drone.

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Can I assume the spirit does that as part of the help James escape service or should I subtract another service for that.
The service has 3 services.
first one: Help James find dwarf.
Second help James escape.
Third (?) if you require use concealment on James and maintain it until he joins us in the car.

[Thanee]

<< About an additional 2m on each limb. Legs, too. The guy at the clinic recommended them. I was a bit worried, that it was just a marketing scheme, but so far, I'm quite happy with the choice. >>

[Jack_Spade]

Getting away wasn't a problem - staying off the police' radar was another matter entirely. The rented car complained both about the driving, having logged the near collission as well as the fact that now there was an automated call to stop the car and get ready for an arriving policeman.
Taking the car offline got rid of any more direct actions from the local authorities, but there would be certainly more forces around shortly. Who would have thought that shooting and abducting someone in public in broad daylight would turn out to be interesting to the police?

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Another piloting test, followed by a Sneak+Reaction test to get rid of anyone following the car

@bnc
Despite the deleted MARK the drone still has a sensor lock on James (See Sensor Targeting p.184 core) - you need to score a sneak+reaction threshold 5 to break the lock

[Thanee]

Nova was driving away quickly, but staying within the speed limit, in order to not draw any more attention.

<< We should get a new car soon. And we need a place to lie low for a bit and talk to our new dwarven friend here. If she is with those monster hunters, maybe we can manage to clear things up. They are not our enemies after all. >>

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Pilot Ground Craft 4 hits
Sneaking (Reaction) 7 hits

[Volker]

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I thought that being jumped in into a anthropomorphic drone, this would count more as "metahuman" than as "drone", thus I rolled INT + Sneaking in my previous post, sporting 6 hits. I don't exactly understand where REA + Sneaking comes from as this is only for vehicles (I think that Infiltration was being replaced by sneaking in a follow-up errata). For a Drone it would normally be Pilot + Stealth, but when Jumped In, CRB p. 270 says, I roll INT + Stealth instead. So, unless I missed something, I should have already evaded the drone with my 6 hits.
Anyway, if it's REA: REA + Sneak: 14d6t5 5
bnc still cracked the threshold of 5.

"Yup, agreed to everything. Is it wise to steal a car or should we take another cab?"