Smoke you take 7 boxes of damage.
ShadowCat, you take 1.
ShadowCat


Your spirit nods. Yes master. I will destroy them.

You see Smoke lying on the ground. She looks real fucked up. Not moving or councius.
Your bike is destroyed by the way.
Your spirits come back, you feel the warmth of their protection.

New comand for spirit, since it can't manifest anyway, cast a force 4 Combat sense and have the spirit sustain it. That
'll be the last of it's services since I keep giving it commands.
Force 5 Combat Sense 1,1,1,4,5,4,2,6,51,1 = 3 sucesses and a fucking glitch! @#$@#$

Drain 5,6,6,5,4,3,2,2,2,42 = 1 box phys drain

As a result of your glitch, not only does your combat sense fail, the spirit has become a coward, and wants nothing to do with a fight.

Roll reaction

Damage


Smoke stirs and gets up. Her silk sari has been torn to shreds and her cowl is lying on the ground in tatters. Blood pours down her face and hands. For a moment, it looks as though she's been impaled with a hundred small bits of shrapnel, looking again... it's bone, bone sticking up at odd angles, protruding from her skin, blood drips from the bone while blood pours from the wounds caused from the explosion. She looks weak and staggers a bit as she stands.

Peirce speaks.
My love! Your hurt! Do you need me to assist you?

Splitting Dice, cast 2 force 3 heal spells, one on Cat, one on Smoke.

Smoke 5,6,5,1,3 = 3 boxes
Cat 1,6,1,1,3,3,4 = 1 success

Drain Smoke 6,6,5,3,3,1,1,4,1,1 = 3, no glitch

Drain Cat = 6,6,5,3,3,3,5,2,5 = 5

no drain

Smoke cries a little, her head down. She begins to shudder and shake. She whispers to Pierce.
The pain is back, my love. I can feel it again. It hurts so much. You promised I wouldn't hurt anymore. Make it stop. Make it end. You promised!
She presses her back to the wall and looks around the scene with frightened eyes.
She can see Shadowcat begin to cast and then moments later, the soothing cool of a Heal spell as it knits her bones together. The pain ebbs.

Smoke
Some of your wounds heal but not all of them. It appears to be ShadowCat. If shes healed you, then Peirce cannot.
Love. My power will not work to heal you now. But If you let me, I can control your power to end these cretins!

Cat runs, using infiltartion, more or less , to try to find some cover, dragging Smoke behind her. Telling Trevor to follow if he's anywhere around.

You find an old dumptruck. Still able to run, fairly alright condition. But no keys in the ignition. Smoke is screaming for her love.

Ignoring Smoke for the moment, Cat hacks the dumptruck. Most these days are autmated anyway. There's no way anything made in the last 3 0years wouldn't have an autopilot she could hack.

Hack on the Fly
Hacking 5 + 2 sepc + 2 code slinger +4 logic = 13 dice vs the device rating of the autopilot, which would likely be 2 or so, asuming that the dumptrucked doesn't have much in the way of system security.

6,6,6,5,3,3,1,1,3,2,55,5 = 8 sucesses. More than enough to hack a corp system.
To her watchers in the area [COLOR=aquamarine] Watch the mages, alert me if they start attacking

Pulled to a covered position behind the dumpster, Smoke looks down and tries to piece together the tattered clothing she wears. Angrily, she casts a Force 5 Armor spell.
Spellcasting Test

You get the truck started. With a roar it begins to move, the headlights come on to reveal two men standing 15 feet away.
Roll Reaction

Plan b

Combat sense 2 + REaction 5 + Combat sense spell 5= 12 6,6,6,5,3,2,3,4,4,5,4,2 = 5 successes

Command the truck th gas it directing it at the two people.

The trucks engine Roars as it goes forward. The two men begin to prepare a spell then dive out of the way. You drive forward 20 feet when it feels like something chrashed into it. Then a second time.

Mage #1- Mana Bolt force 8
Magic rating-6
Spellcasting-6=12 dice total
Roll-3,2,6,6,5,4,5,6,6,4,3,1=7 net success's

Mage #2- Fire Ball force 7
Magic Rating 8
Spell casting 6=14 dice total
Roll- 1,1,5,6,4,5,6,6,6,5,3,5,3,1= 8 net success's

Total damage to the truck- 15 boxes of damages.
Your startin to feel the truck slow down but not stopping. Just a little sputter.

Smoke
Your armor spell is up.

After casting Armor, Smoke casts a Force 6 Manaball, aiming for both men.
Spellcasting Test

Drain Test

Spirit of man returns
Master, There are strong mages out there. And 4 spirits. Two of them are of force 5, and the other two are force 7. I fear we will not make it if we fight.

Peirce interveins
Love, this spirit is right. It is best we go. And return to find this man to dispose of him once and for all.

Keeping to cover, Cat pulls the woman smoke under some cover in the alleys. She controls the truck, drving it at the men, and careening it down the street, hoping the mages will think that they're inside., using hte truck as a decoy.

The mana ball hits the two men, seeing is how they werent expecting it.
Mage #1
Spell defense-5
Magic rating-6
Roll to resist-5,6,6,4,1,1,1,1,6,5,1,1=5 net success's with a glich
The first mage falls back, his spell he was about to cast was a force 6 mana ball, its released and hits both mage, does additional damage to Mage #1, he's down, but not dead.

Mage #2
Spell Defence-6
Magic Rating-8
Roll to resist
5,6,6,2,1,4,5,3,3,2,5,6,1,5- 7 net success's
Take 14 boxes of damage.
Hes down, and unconcious and dying.

To smoke Two down... do we go for the others, or escape? I can find the Johnson later I believe. Have you any more spirits?

You run up the alleyway as the mages seem to put there focus on the truck. It eventually explodes as the medley of spells ruthlessly attack it.
You here them speak.
No way them chummer survived that, the whole damned truck is in blazes.

Then another
We should still search for the vampiric one. He took off in another direction.

They all agree and run off in a diffrent direction. Soon they dissappear into the darkness.

I have a Spirit of Man still bound, he's been unaffected by the men. Thankfully I had warned him to keep his distance. I have... other abilities as well. I say we escape for now. You have healed me and I am grateful, but I am still in pain. My mind is not what it should be.
Smoke looks angry and ashamed... and also a little frightened when she mentions the pain. She still is trying to gather the cloth to her, covering her body.

Smoke

Immediately start on hacking the J's commlink . Rolling to exploit it, fast hack, running stealth and exploit program. Going for Admin level w/ Edge.

With admin access, first check to see if he's on the phone at all. Remove any trace of me in the sytem. Set up an invisible account with admin access, change his access to user only, and make it invisible. Do it all in full VR so that it goes faster.

Then DL everything he has in his commlink, making sure that ther system doens't log the access. Make sure to include numbers and this "list" of his. Then check to see if he accesses it with a data jack, trodes, just as a phone, or what.

Its a phone. Hes not using it at the moment.
Most of the info has been wiped. But there are still a few numbers.
Jason Straper
Kerrigan Meets
Kimari Mangola
He also left some cred on there to.
about 3,127

You find some info on the Black Lodge. Nothin to great, but theres an interesting part about, "Some that stand in the way."
Also, theres info on all of you, plus others considered for the job. It appears he made a phone call just after the meet. Too a number, no name next to it.

Pierce, quiet! I have a headache and I'm in pain! The man will not get away with this, rest assured. For now, I must heal fully and rest. I cannot risk going after him while I am injured and not thinking clearly.
Smoke turns and watches Shadowcat with interest.
What are you doing? She asks quietly.

For now, grant him security level access so that he doen'st notice anything different on his commlink. Hide the Admin account I've set up and clear any logs that need clearing. Take a moment to scan his picture with his own commlink, and any ID he has.

OK smoke, I've got everything on this J, including links ot the Black Lodge. I say we post it all over Shadowland and a few of the conspiracy sigs so that they kill him them selves.

Shadowland? Smoke raises an eyebrow questioningly.

A site for shodowrunners and other shadowy folk. A great place to bur na Johnson.

Very well, then. I agree. Burn him. From the venom in her voice, it's obvious that Smoke is not speaking of the Matrix alone.

Cat takes her sweet time loading up the information on to a number of conspiracy sigs, especailly anything she can find on the Black Lodge. She also puts it up on the Shadowland Black List, Black Lodge listing, and a bulletin board.

Then she sends the file to KSAF. SHe takes care to remove any mention of her self ,Trevor, or Smoke.

She also implants a quick little bug to monitor his comm calls internally and send out a copy of any calls after they are made, without logging it in the commlink system. She keys it to a blind drop box, and copies her Black IC in to the commlink, hiding it's presence, and keying tit to flat line anyone that messees with the hidden admin account or spyware.

Take that fragger

She sends through the execute command to start the ball rolling. She then clears the cred form the account, taking a moment to see if he has accessed any other accounts along the way. She puts it in a blank numbered account, starts running, and looks for an ATM to clear the account out with.

Posted on Shadowland:

My name is Shadowcat. Most of you don't know me, and that's how it should be. The following file is the inforamtion I've just dumped on to a number of sigs from a bac kstabbing Johnson. The man you see in the picture calls him self "Calypso". He's apparently magically active, and according to the evidence I downloaded from his commlink, believes that he works for the Black Lodge.

He asked my self and two other individuals to a meet and wanted to hire us to do some wetwork. A lot of wetwork. He had a very long list of names. He was also abrassive, rude and insulting. My self and the others turned him down, and left the meet. He ambushed us with no less than seven mages, and blew up all of our vehicles with explosives.

We escaped, killed two of his pet mages, and escaped, making them think we were dead. We're not. I hacked the Johnson's commlink, and and now posting this everywhere I can as a way to say "who's the amateur now?"

Calypso, if you manage to scan this before your own people flat line you for being an incompetent ass, I have two things to say to you.

You have no honor, and never will.

and

"Boom"

~Shadowcat

Feeling terribly exposed, Smoke stays put while Shadowcat wanders.
The car is destroyed. Not that I care, it wasn't mine, but still. If it's found here, then someone might look into what it was doing here. It might be time to go home, clean up and find a new locale in which to reside.
Smoke grimaces with the pain and hesitantly gets to her knees, peering around the dumpster. Seeing no one, she stands and hobbles over to the alleyway entrance, searching for Shadowcat.

Cat turns, pulling up the AR for Smoke to see her handiwork.

That should take care of Calypso.

Bai mai sunken! What happened to you!? I thought I'd healed most of the damage! Lie down or you'll bleed out!

Careful to avoid touching all the painfull looking bits in Smoke's body, she moves to help the woman lie down.

No.. don't.. it's not what you think. Smoke moves away from Shadowcat's hands, pulling the ripped pieces of the sari closer together.
By now, the bone spurs are obvious on her face (there are two beneath her right eye, one on her left cheek and another three running down her jawline on the left side.
Her hands are covered with them underneath the shredded gloves as is her exposed torso and legs.