Bye
Thanee

I really need a post from Jake for my next post.

Ughhh... Ok. I'll remote Jake for a post.

I'm here, I'm here, sorry for delay, I got sidetracked...

*points to the post 4 above this one*

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Thanee

Doh!! I seem to miss those more and more often and I'm beginning to think I have a mental block

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Darkside Five: Moderate size gang who hold sway over approximately 35 city blocks. She estimates gang membership somewhere in the 50-100 range. They are currently in turf battles with both the Silent Dragons and the Blood Baths. There was shoot out two nights ago with the latter. Blog entries also betray that the leader was wounded pretty badly in an assassination attempt last week.

I think Spades wanted to negotiate with them.

How far away from the location is Jazz now, BTW?

Bye
Thanee

Jazz is still in the bathroom.. Was it about 15 minutes away?

Spades is right there. Guess I'll hold another week...

Yeah, it hit the fan...

In order to speed up the scene, feel free to anticipate rolls. If valid, I will adjust the dice pool as required. If your action requires a roll, I will go ahead and roll and post. Where part of the team is progressing slower than another part of the team, I will simply ask for a roll. Let me know if anyone is opposed to this strategy.

Thanee - I just reviewed the time line and location and realized that I miscalculated earlier. Jazz is 5 minutes by GridGuide from the scene. Please make a driving test to try and shave time from that.

Jake - [5,3,2,3,6,2,5,4,5] = 4 hits: Initiative = 13

Spades - [6,4,1,4,3,1,1] = 1 hit: Initiative = 8

Bad Guy - [4,2,4,3,1,3,2,1] = 0 hits: Initiative = 8
- Reaction Check [1,2,4,6] = 1 hit

Sketch of the scene

As a note, the van's acceleration is 5m/combat turn. A human sprinting rate is 25m/combat turn. At this point, Jake has initiative and Spades an action simultaneous with Jake as then is tied with the gangers.

Ok, edited my post accordingly.

Here's the Driving Test: 5 hits

Bye
Thanee

Excellent. Need a post from Jake and Spades and I'll put in our next post for the blender.

Jake will just drive at full speed through the gangers guns blazing.
the usual mass x acceleration x bullets stuff

I don't like the diagram, only because it looks like the van is headed straight for Spades' car. That and Spades should have just stayed in my car. Stupid things shall not be repeated twice, also, we'll see how this progresses.

Sorry, you misunderstand the sketch. The van is accelerating away from the car, not towards it.

Edit: Jake jerked the wheel (Attempting to knock down/run over the ganger who just shot his window) and drive through the bikes. The red brushing represents the distance that the van will cover in the first combat round.

My van is faster then a speeding snail!!!

With acceleration, it will cover twice that distance on R2 and triple that amount on R3. Its just surviving those rounds that will be the trick.. Then there is the fact the bikes accelerate faster than the van. I'm thinking you may have a hole or two in the smash em plan.

Rounds? Why did I waste all that money on extra armor then?
I have no problems with bikes being faster, they are structuraly weaker and I can push them off the road or trample them.

Good news is your drones have the rapid deployment launchers. Bad news is you didn't buy extra armor for the van.

Given Jake's number of init hits and the unexpected action, I am awarding surprise, making Round 0 a surprise round.

R1/P1

13: Jake launches drones and vehicle continues to accelerate.
8: Spades dives into his car, starting it and beginning to accelerate in reverse.
8: Four gangers dive for cover from the oncoming van. Ten gangers ready weapons & open fire.
Van Resists hail of incoming fire:
- [4,3,5,1,4,2,5,2,1,4,5,3,1,1,4,4,3,6,2,6,1,5,6,2] = 7 hits vs DV6 = No damage
- [2,2,5,3,3,4,2,5,2,1,1,4,5,6,5,4,5,3,3,6,2,2,1,2] = 7 hits vs DV7 = No damage
- [1,3,5,4,3,2,3,2,6,4,5,1,6,1,2,2,6,3,2,2,4,1,6,2] = 6 hits vs DV9 = 3 boxes of physical damage
- [6,6,1,6,5,6,2,6,3,3,1,6,6,3,3,3,3,5,3,1,2,5,5,1] = 11 hits vs DV9 = No damage
- [2,3,5,1,4,3,4,4,2,2,4,2,5,5,6,2,2,6,4,4,6,5,5,5] = 9 hits vs DV6 = No damage
- [2,2,4,4,5,5,5,6,4,6,3,6,5,6,2,2,6,2,2,3,5,1,4,3] = 10 hits vs DV8 = No damage
- [2,4,2,5,1,3,5,1,3,5,1,1,1,6,5,5,1,3,1,1,1,3,2,6] = 7 hits vs DV7 = No damage
- [4,1,6,6,6,4,5,4,2,3,4,1,6,2,2,1,1,6,5,6,2,4,4,4] = 8 hits vs DV7 = No damage
7: Anon summons: [4,5,4,1,1,5,2,5] = 3 hits
Spirit resists: [5,3,6,6,5,1] = 4 hits / fail
Anon Resists: [5,4,5,6,3,3,3,6,1,4] = 4 hits / 4 boxes physical

R1 / P2

Drone init: [4,1,1,5,5,1,5] = 3 hits = 10
Drone init: [6,1,6,4,3,6,5] = 4 hits = 11

11: Drone #2 - Active Target lock [5,4,6,4,3,1] = 2 hits
10: Drone #1 - Suppressive fire.

R1 / P3

11: Drone #2 - Long Burst [3,3,6,3,3,1,6,4,4] = 2 hits
Ganger Reaction [2,2,1,3,5] = 1 hit
Ganger Resist 11DV [2,2,1,4,5,5,5,1,6,3,2,5] = 5 hits / 6 boxes physical
10: Drone #1 - Suppressive fire.

I can't believe the van didn't go down. In any case, the van starts the next action having passed out the gauntlet. Spades is screaming away in reverse and pretty much ignored at this point. The roto-drone is in the air, its blades having snapped out and stabilized. The dobermans are in the middle of the combat spraying ammo like it is free, but the gangers are head down except the one trying to save face... and eating a lot of lead doing it.

Can we have a map of our current locations?

Updated map

Continue to move while the drones lay down the covering fire.

R2 / P1
11: Drone #2 Long Burst [5,2,6,3,1,4,3,2,1] = 2 hits
- Ganger Reaction [2,4,5,2] = 1 hit
- Ganger Resists [6,1,1,2,6,6,1,4,3,4,6,1] = 4 hits vs DV11 = 7 damage

10: Drone #1 Suppressive Fire: [5,2,6,3] = 2 hits

8: Gangers tempting suppressive fire to return fire.
- [2,6,5] = 2 hits
- [3,2,6] = 1 hit
- [1,6,1] = 1 hit + Glitch
- [1,6,6] = 2 hits

Two gangers hit, resist.
- [4,2,5,4,1,3,2,3,2,6,4,4] = 2 hits vs DV6 = 4 damage
- [2,2,2,2,5,4,6,3,3,3,3,6] = 3 hits vs DV6 = 3 damage + knock down (from glitch)

Fire on Doberman #1
- [6,5,1,3,6,3] = 3 hits
- [3,3,4,2,5,4] = 1 hit
- [6,4,6,6,1,2] = 3 hits

Doberman reaction
- [5,3,1,3] = 1 hit
- [6,1,2] = 1 hit
- [1,6] = 1 hit + glitch

Doberman resists
- [4,4,5,4,6,2,3,6,4] = 3 hits vs DV7 = 4 damage
- [2,2,2,4,4,4,1,3,6] = 1 hit vs DV7 = 6 damage + knockdown + glitch effects


Another nasty round of combat over. The van and car are pretty much safe, rounding corners away from the scene. Next?

Retreating the drones while keeping a supressive fire, while continuing to speed away. And can anyone pick up my damn dog?

Well, I'm on a bike and not quite there yet, so not really, I'm afraid.

Bye
Thanee

Guess it's time for a driving roll then?

Soykaf - You are effectively out of the line of fire. If you are going to attempt a rescue of the remaining doberman then yes, I need a driving roll.

Use the force...errr, Edge

What are you using edge for? (You can't give edge to your drones.)

I suggested soykaf to use the edge to boost his pick up roll

Soykaf - You still around?

Ok. We are out of turn by turn posting. Jake can recover the drone and all three team members can regroup else where in the Puyallups. Jake is down one drone and a butt load of ammunition, as well as one window. You have the package. What now?

Jazz will join up with the rest.

How large is the package? Maybe it would make sense to relocate it to Spades car, just because the van has had some attention by the Star and such.

And... err... what are we supposed to do with the package now? I have kinda lost track... deliver it someplace?

Bye
Thanee