You were right... Perception is definitely something, Nova can roll well on.

Perception -> visual 8 hits; audio 8 hits; general 7 hits

Bye
Thanee

BOOM! there it is !

there ain't no pretty parking and drifting the trailer going on (I mean, there ain't room to swing a cat in here .. But I bet you'd have tried)

but tell us, where exactly you want to put it, carry on regardless, I'm sure Raiden can retrofit himself into the scene as you escape the ship

and Thanee, where art thou ? there's a lunatic in a truck headed at you
Which given the rolls you just made, you can see the fraggin' VIN !!! *

just for you, to follow.


*VIN = Vehicle ID Number, usually under the chassis or engine compartment, but for the purposes of this ongoing joke, is printed in huge neon characters in the astral space across the trailer like a big advert

Just putting the pedal to the metal, so to speak. Trying to drive forward, nothing fancy. Of course there are going to be "collisions", supposedly these are "bad" in "real life" and cause your "insurance" to go up, maybe even get a visit from the "police" asking what you're doing driving a truck around a Wal-Mart parking lot shirtless and drunk and humming the flight of the valkyries...sorry, where was I?


Either Crispy's met this guy before, or he's got one heckuva reputation

********************EDIT ***********
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I guess now would be as good a time as any to roll initiative for the ship party, RAIDEN, I know you've missed out on some stuff so far and we are moving quite quickly now,
Throw up an IC when you can and put yourself wherever you want (on the ship, no you can't be in a brothel with a pina colada!) smile.gif

PhlapJack you can hammer it and be on the ramp -OR- still on this ship if you want to kill more cars smile.gif wherever you feel you want to end up.

You can see him far behind you,in the side mirrors

having a laugh with the guy who was trying to point out where you were going wrong on the truck repairs... smug looking bastards, the pair of them

I'll go with hammering it up the ramp. Go ahead and get this party started...


Ah, makes sense the guy with the coolest gun is the boss. So when Crispy totally murders his face and takes the gun from his cold, dead hands...

Init for Crispy: 9 + 3 = 12, 2 passes

Is the jamming still active? Or was Crispy able to counter it?

Bye
Thanee

still active, he hasn't had the time to use any equipment to attempt to counter it yet, there was a FLAMER .. and then there was a TRUCK

Summon F6 Plant Spirit -> 4 hits vs. 3 hits = 1 service; only 2 hits on Drain Resistance -> Edge 3 more hits => 1P Drain

Cast Magic Fingers F3 (ejecting the guards clip) -> 3 hits; no Drain

Infiltration (to slip out of the Hummer) -> 2 hits

Bye
Thanee

Can you blame a guy?


Yay! Someone else is responsible for starting combat this time

I didn't do no nothing! *waves hands all innocent like*

Bye
Thanee

sorry, after seeing the driver of said trailer longshot decides its safer to take the humvee. lol

also, did longshot hear the comm chatter? 12d6.hits(5)=6

Longshot'd better get moving - he's about to be left behind!

yes, you'er stood next to 2 guards

Nicely done, still need an initiative roll from you and raiden please.

These actions happen first though so the spirit gets its full order.

Nova's Initiative -> 15 + 4 hits => 19 (4 IP)

Spirit's Initiative -> 12 + 5 hits => 17 (2 IP, once materialized)

Bye
Thanee

busy atm, but for the record longshot would have went back to the humvee were nova was when he saw the hell on wheels that is crispy.

I think Nova and the humvee are in the other ship's hold, ahead of Crispy...

Yeah, that is right.

Bye
Thanee

Nothing to stop you grabbing another hummer from behind the truck.

You'll find that they are left ready to go. In case of emergencies.
No need to hack or hotwire.

better hurry up, the truck isn't being very careful with all of the cars that are in it's way

That's why I stressed the point that the Hummer is BEHIND the truck ...

do NONE of you even look at my amazingly detailed maps and diagrams dammit ?

I wish this forum let you post pictures this place is stifling my creativity !

heh - I forgot about those! I also remember your picture shows the doors open, and I wondered "why are those doors open...", then I was looking at kitten videos or something and it slipped my mind

Should I wait for Crispy's init turn to post an ?

probably safest, let's give everyone chance to post init and review the situation, before you put a truck through someone's plans

Scary, it's like you read my mind...

waiting for Squiddy and spongebob Raiden

no pressure, but ..... hurry up dammit

Sorry, I thought I was unloading... stuff (hooch?)

no worries, I didn't think I was being subtle about the fact that your case didn't necessarily feel like it contained expensive vino.

only read the following if you intend to check in and then post reactions etc.


.. if not we can move right along

So, are we waiting on someone? RL dragged someone into a pit?

Looks like LongShot is MIA.. I'll autopilot him to follow your orders for now,

Squiddy, I'll try and double time the encounter you are currently in and get to the RV with the others

INITIATIVE ORDER
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Nova's Initiative -> 15 + 4 hits => 19 (4 IP)

Runner team init = 14 (2 passes)

Init for Crispy: 9 + 3 = 12, 2 passes

Spirit's Initiative -> 12 + 5 hits => 17 (2 IP, once materialized)
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Nova is up and has the drop on her choice of targets

The choice of targets being two guys, right?

One, who seemed to give orders to the other, is heading openly for the truck.
The other is heading over to the ferry and mostly a shadow.

Is that correct?


If I am not missing anything here, open fire (called shot for +4 DV) on the guy who is heading for the truck.

Ahh... what an amazing roll... 0 hits (Critical Glitch) -- Spend Edge to make it a regular Glitch


BTW, did he react somehow to the removal of his weapon's clip?

Bye
Thanee

perfect

yikes

not yet, ....... aaaaand ... NOW!

You just had to go and win the "worst roll" competition!

I still have a Simple Action left, BTW. Just waiting on the result of the Glitch.

Oh, and how far away is Nova's target?

Bye
Thanee

so, on their go

Good guy 1 (walking to the bow doors and taking a spot out of the trucks path)
perception to spot missing magazine (5d6.hits(5) =0)

perception to hear "click" of gun fire and muttered russian swear words (5d6.hits(5) =2)

Simple action grab Radio and utter "FRAAAAAG ! THEY'RE ONTO US!!"
Simple Action : Short Wide Burst of DOOM ! (25d6.hits(5) =5)
Nova resist ZERO Damage seeing as he has no bullets
*CLICKY* *CLICK* *CLICKETY* *CLICKY* *CLICK* "shit"

Good guy 2 (sneaking up on Nova)

receives message, and panics diving for cover firing full auto suppressive fire
suppressive fire -4 for cover -4 for suppressive (3d6.hits(5) =0)
Critical Glitch empties his mag into the room overheating the barrel and jamming the weapon causing an explosion in his own face
resist crit glitch (8P) (15d6.hits(5) =6)
taking 2P
Good guy 3 & 4 (behind the Crispy Mobile)
also receives message and begins sprinting after the truck
sprinting (8d6.hits(5) =3)

the bullet is a misfire and takes a Simple action to extract and continue firing, in the meantime ... see above as shit happens

Good guy one is about 20M from you

Good guy two was *sneaking* lol .. up behind you in the hummer but has had a bad day about 10M behind

where are you ?

use your remaining move action, you can get to one of the stair cases from the hummer or out into the wide open, with truck headlights lighting up the area soon

LOL - we are rolling pretty good here...

Is the spirit materialized already or does it materialize now?

Bye
Thanee

<chanting>you're not going to make me feel guilty, you're not going to make me feel guilty...</chanting>

Where am I?

Nova is out of the hummer, and in cover in the vehicle's vincinity towards the guy she oh so successfully tried to shoot (if there is nothing else, she will be behind the hummer).

She has her ruthenium stealth suit active and is or will soon be concealed by the spirit as well.


Anyways, my main goal was to prevent them to get Crispy unaware... and he should be alarmed now.

Bye
Thanee

it's the way I like it,

the Spirit is wherever you want it to be, you have the drop on them and can have that for free.

Longshot is going last and will be firing one handed out of the Hummer he has purloined and racing up behind the truck.

but, they have babies to feed and nagging wives to avoid and loving grandparents that want to knit them sweaters for xmas, in fact, one of the Good Guys is wearing a rudolph sweater under his armor, from last year .... it sings "Jingle Bells" when you press rudolphs nose !

Ok, then it was right next to Nova, concealing/guarding both her and itself and delaying for any upcoming hostility to quench.

Bye
Thanee

sorry about that, what all did I miss! lol. longshot would have been in the hummer rummaging around most likely, probably looking for his heavy weapon... hehe.

Post initiative pal

And your hummer has been a taken by nova onto the other ship

You have grabbed a new vehicle and are behind crispy in his truck and in front of two angry guys with machine gun and flamer chasing you down

All racing to get OFF this sinking boat and onto the new one.

Crispy You're up !

most important part by far: whatever you do, do NOT damage that flamethrower!!!

Question: ok, Crispy has one of the radios, and he heard the chatter about offing us (and the d-bag comment )

Does he see the "good guys" running in his rearview mirror? If so, he'll try a little creative driving to smash him some bad guys good guys.

If he doesn't see them, he'll keep putting pedal to metal to get onto the other ship as quickly as he can. I'm trying to play it now with the comms problem affecting things, so he's nervous not having a good line of comms with his teammates.

Depending on your answer, I'll post up an

(sidebar: I never knew how to do that tag until just recently when I stole it from your post. The more you know...)

10d6.hits(5)=3 13 int.

Pilot ground craft to hit some peeps? or get away. lol.

9d6.hits(5)=6 pilot ground craft test, VROOM VROOM MUTHER F@#&%&$R