Oops.. rolled the wrong dice.. sorry, I really should make better notes.. I'll re-roll the drone's defence roll later this morning when I get home (of if I get bored I'll grab an online roller and do it at work.)

If you read my full post, I had that you hadn't bothered looking at the map of the HQ... if you look at the map, you will see that Jax is at the entrance between the gym and the loading dock, to cover those escaping.

same as dire

Do we have any stimpatches, and would they be enough to get Auran onto her feet?

auran has 8 in her pocket... but she's down... so unless you notice the medkit taped to her leg... she can't tell you

PS - before you move her... i think you may wanna make sure you put the safety on the pistol in her back... if you know about it, because it's currently unsafetied.....

Auran has some, herself and I´d figure that should be enough.

Combat Turn 3

Started a blank action sheet for Combat Turn 3.

I think it will take at least 3 full turns of movement to get China Doll clear of the building. Move downstairs, mount vehicle, move vehicle, and possibly more if there are other actions that have to take place. Not including the fact we are dragging bodies out, and that during this time the darn Spikes are actually in the building.

I have been thinking of some radical alternative options...

van's in the garage.... no he didn't mean it.... and if you're gonna do it, you may want to send the message to him, or hop on a moving van

So, since healing Auran makes no sense, Raven could ask the spirit to heal Toy, if Shade manages to stabilize her first (it's just one Complex Action, I suppose?). That would make sense, and he even has a Medkit. Or is Nurse still around the corner? She's certainly even better qualified.

If Shade manages to get there during the 3rd IP of this round, he could try to stabilize her during the 1st IP of the new round, then right afterwards, the spirit could cast Heal on Toy.

Bye
Thanee

Yeesh, trying to get away with an unconscious Toy is going to be extremely difficult. Hey Ronin, do Shade a favor; next time, try not to let Toy get shot up so bad.

Does anyone have any suggestions for Shade and Toy getting out? At the end of Combat Turn 2, I think Shade would have made it to Toy in the Kitchen, and possibly been able to drag her at least far enough back that he could pick her up and run without putting her in the line of fire. The question now is whether to go to the roof, take the fire escape and try to escape through the streets, or try to make it through the fight downstairs and into the gym.

From what I'm reading, the battle is definitely going against us on the first floor, and I'm not even entirely sure who's down there and still standing. Knives definitely is, Slam and 2by4 are down, the drones are there and firing but accomplishing...what? What happened to Cammy? Because it's looking increasingly like Knives is the only one up and fighting against about 3-5 trolls in the lobby.

In which case, the group on the second floor (Wyrm, Nurse, CD, Steel, 0day, Raven, Auran, Shade, and Toy, as well as Aziz and Thyn coming down from the roof) might need an alternative way out.

Actually, at this point I'm wondering about the viability of running to the area above the stage and/or gym, and getting down that way. Jax is already guarding the gym doors, if we warn him we're coming the stronger and more functional members can go down first, then the unconscious ones can be dropped (and caught), or the magical characters can levitate or use any remaining spirits they have to try and assist everyone.

Figure the drop is approximately 10 feet give or take a few. Even without a rope or something, if people lower themselves down first and then drop, that's what, maybe a 5-7 foot drop? Nearly everyone should be able to make that. That might be the fastest, and at this point safest way of getting everyone to the vehicles. What do you all think?

All plans subject to change...

Too bad with the melee on the front door. Once the trolls have no counterspelling anymore (out of side from the mages), Raven and even moreso her spirit could actually do something against them, but with counterspelling the chance of her spells to affect them is just too slim.

And if the melee trolls would start encountering magic, they would call for their mage buddies to back them up, anyways.

Bye
Thanee

Go for it. Healing her so she can walk instead of being carried is good. Unless someone says otherwise, I believe a previous post indicated Ronin spent the Edge to stabilize Toy. If anyone knows differently, please correct me.

Ok, edited the actions into the Wiki sheets; didn't roll initiative for the new spirit for the 2nd round, it won't make a difference, anyways. I just assumed the same roll as for the other spirit before (and used the entry for that one, since it was already there... how convenient! ).

Bye
Thanee

hey... knives is trying... he's just only got knives to throw... which isn't that great....

@TG - could you maybe describe the situation witht the trolls and slam and 2by4 and such, as in where are they? i don't want knives to dive into the middle of 4 trolls covered in non-thermo smoke.... but if he can save someone... he will, and he can still throw 1 knife and have 1 knife left to defend against melee with....

OK, MK Ultra just decided it for me. If we can use Thyn's van as a stepping stone that solves most of the problems of going down the gym right there. It's almost certainly the fastest way to the vehicles and now the problems we had with safety can be largely avoided. Great idea Ultra!

Thanks for the outline DireRadiant, that helped clarify the situation as well.

Heh, and I know Knives is trying. Heck, if he's the only one still standing down there against what they have coming in, I give the man lots of credit.

Cammy´s still there too.

I´m thinking, to either have her help draging, or draw attention away from Knifes.

Cammy draging and Knifes covering will be more effective, I guess, so she´ll suggest this to Knifes, when it´s her action

EDIT: just changed the post Icon

true

but the chances are soooooooooooooo slim, she can, anyway :-/

EDIT: Plus, if she covers, she´ll probably die, Knifes has at least a decent chance, to live, using full parry.

so, the option isn´t fight or flight, for her, anyway, its run or drag

I know the time stamp on my IC post was 13:30:03. That was me posting Shade's Turn 2, Pass 2 and 3 actions IC.

I will get up my Initiative Rolls, Actions, and results for Combat Turn 3 here and on the wiki shortly.

TG - Will there be any rolls needed for Shade or anyone else to use Thyn's van as a stepping stone to get down to the gym floor?

About Toy´s stabilization, btw. TG ruled, that everyone, who went down with deadly damage in the 1st Round will get one 'escape certain death' for free (not burning any Edge), so Toy will be stabilized, unless Ronin wishes otherwise. Since he allready stated, he would burn Edge for it, however, I think it´s sure to assume, that he want´s to use this option. So yes, ToyRobot is stabilized and won´t bleed to death in the next turns, baring ny aditional damage.

@ TG & GM

Cammy is inactive. So if you don´t want to play out this part, there is noone active at this fight, now (that is except JAX, but he should be edited out, anyway).

It's fine that JAX is in the melee - I don't want to bog things down.

JAX's Edge 6/6

Dodge:

Wow, that dodgeis even a critical success, so JAX can dodge in a rediculously fency way (and might regain 1 Edge, at the GM´s discretion) ;p

If he was hit (which he´s not), I think he was waring his armored biker-suite, which would give Impact - 1 additional extradice for the resistance.

EDIT: oh and I´d like to place an order on some of your (or Dire´s?) dice-luck, the next time I´m trying to summon a big spirit of man

I'm fine with editing Jax out of the melee as it allows us to jump straight to the "escape from the HQ" portion of the festivities. That brings up the big questions of who is leaving in what directions with who and what?

Thanee - I'll wait to see if the spirit heals Toy enough to walk herself or not before posting IC, since that will impact what Shade does.

That happens on round 3, though; I'm not sure whether round 2 is fully concluded by now, so I waited before posting results for round 3 already.

Am I right, that there will be (only) a -2 penalty for healing Toy (because of Essence Loss)?

Bye
Thanee

Nurse Init:

Combat Turn 3

Shade's Initiative
Initiative Attribute: 10
Initiative Roll: 02 02 03 03 03 03 06 06 06 06 (talk about weird rolls...) = 4 hits
Initiative Score: 14/3

Let me say this... w00t!

Spirit healing Toy: 6 hits
Drain Resistance: 5 hits (7 boxes of Drain (S))

Bye
Thanee

@ TG - So does the "race to our bikes with trolls in hot pursuit" kinda get skipped over? Is this basically how I understand what you wanna do from here? as you won't have the trolls actively trying to follow us (even as the sound of 8 engines roar to life?)

Wow, great roll Thanee...when you post IC, I'll follow later today with a post directing people to the gym.

Would whoever is controlling Thyn right now mind if I have him move the van to a position where we can use it as a stepping stone?

Now I just need to figure out how this team of ChinaDoll, Felix, JJ, Aziz, Jax, Steel, 0day is supposed to get together.

Then who is driving what where.... but the plan went out the window a while ago.

I don't suppose the roof fire escape ladder conveniently goes off of the south side of the building?

Does anyone know how many boxes of damage Toy had?

Bye
Thanee

No way! Wasting all that good dice karma!!!

CURSES.