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quote:Arthur: As the guy with the shaved head curls into the ball and the rest go down and/or scream, Mina grabs Haxz0rl33t and helps him behind cover. He can walk with his arm around someone's shoulder, at least.  "Thanks..." Haxz0rl33t coughs and checks to make sure nobody slashed through the witty slogan on his game shirt. "I was... gahk... picking up a suitcase with some intel on it. It's on that... geho... train up there, we need to get it before--" "Oh, it's a SUITcase," the Son in the train shouts. "I got it! Let's go!" "gently caress!" Haxz0rl33t shouts as they fire a few SMG bursts and retreat. Jinn's turn! Attacking Maximina and Arthur (twice) and running away as a supplemental action! quote:Jinn vs. Maximina: New map!  Zones are the circle area, the tops of the trains and the area they're running through, Da'ud is a zone away but Mina totally counts as being in the circle area (just offscreen). And for remaining maneuvers, Sharon has tags for Hellacious Music on the group and Busted Back on one of them if she wants to smash a guy.
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Hey, Sharon ain't killed poo poo, no matter what that bitch Vicky-463 might say behind her back. Could I conceivably channel Hellacious Music and make a mental attack against the running cultists? I do have Pointed Performance, if you want to be literal about targeted performances.
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Feb 2, 2013 11:41
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Sure! They are chumps so I would guess their Mental tracks are also OO. Also you guys don't have to kill them, you can just decide all your damage knocks them out or whatever.
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Sharon Sharon is aware of the intense value that Ghost members place on stuff. The hacker kid's compulsive checking of his clothing, or Minimina's derision based towards his eye-ware of choice, for instance. There was one occasion on which Wade actually started sobbing over the phone as he related a story about how one of his dolls had been broken. It's all a little confusing to Sharon, who never really had anything she could call her own that wasn't made a part of her, but it's enough to make her suspect Hacksor is going to be a huge weepy baby unless he gets his suitcase back. There's a trick she's been wanting to try, but never had the occasion for until now. In Songfight, it's bad form to deafen your opponent permanently, meaning that even if you win the match, you're probably out of the circuit. Sharon fiddles a bit with her virtual soundboard, carefully ensures her own monitors are briefly disconnected, and then channels about a hundred fifty decibels through her sound gear, straight into the cultists' heads. That'll show them, which will be literally necessary, because they aren't going to have intelligible auditory sensations for a while. I guess this is really more Create Advantage instead of Attack, because I really just want to stop the runners in their tracks so the others can kick the crap out of them and get the McGuffin back. Invalidating an entire encounter with one action is a dick move and all. Create Advantage (Songfight): 4dF+5 7 is probably gonna be enough to do whatever it is, in any case.
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Well, a block against moving won't do much if they're cut down, and you can't put a block against someone defending. You could make a spray attack and split it across everyone (the others already owned most of the cultists anyway), but how about this: Sharon places Deafening Sound on the Sons! Since she succeeded with style (for reals, look at that 7, no way she did not) and gently caress the Sons of Sirocco, you guys can get one free tag per cultist. The Sons stumble or drop to their knees and scream, hands to their ears in a feeble attempt to protect them! The one in the ten-car train drops the case under a seat.
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I forgot and accidentally gave Maximina Physique instead of Athletics. This is going to be embarrassing. Dodge Bullets: 4dF+1 = 2 and she has on armor 1 so she takes... 2 stress, I think?
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Arthur Durandall FP 1/1 Physical: [ ] [ ] ([X] [ ] [ ] [ ] tager) Mental: [ ] [ ] [ ] Social: [ ] [ ] [ ] Two rolls at +3 Athletics to evade those attacks: Dodge Two shots!: 2#4dF+3 3 4. Dodging the second burst, and taking a one-shift hit = 3 on the first. Good think Arthur's Tager form is tough! Arthur dodges one burst of SMG fire easily enough, but burst number two puts a round neatly through his side. He gives a bestial shout--half pain and half warcry, thrusting his head and wings back for maximum volume. Then he charges off again, skimming just off the ground to collide with the Jinn attempting to flee the scene with the suitcase Mina's not-boyfriend was looking for. "Bite me!" he roars as he makes contact with the Jinn covering his ears. The one with the suitcase is one zone away, correct? Nail the one with the suitcase!: 4dF+2
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quote:<Krysmbot> Ettin, +/-/+1 = 1 Arthur leaps into the train and takes him down! Two left.
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Sun Yue Yue just kind of stands there for a second, disappointed. "You - what - hey!" She spins around, looking for where Ken went, then stomps her fought and shouts the best insult she can think of. "Your style is weak!" Looking around, she realizes the Sons are running away and decides to get some catharsis by beating them up. She sheathes her sword and takes off with her light footed strides, cutting off the retreating cultist further away. She gets in close and, adopting a wing chun stance, unleashes a torrent of quick punches to his chest until he folds up and falls over. Kung Fu: 4dF+5 5
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quote:<Krysmbot> Ettin, /-+++1 = 2 Another Son goes down, leaving the one in the middle! "Oh poo poo!"
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Maximina von Gilgamesh FP = 2 Physical (X)(X)() Mental ()()()() Social ()() Hunger ()()()()()() Bullets shred the sleeve of Maximina's Union Jack t-shirt, drawing blood and causing her to curse in Cantonese. "That was a gift, you rear end in a top hat!" Maximina counts the remaining Jinns and curses again. There aren't enough left to win her bet. This requires some clever improvisation. She charges after the middle Jinn, overtaking him easily on arcanos-boosted legs and wrapping an arm around his throat while the other hand presses a gun to his head. "Drop the gun, chuckles. Ugh. I think I'm getting a contact high just from smelling your breath." Physique + tagging Got Your Back = Grapple: 4dF+4 2, which is meh, so I spend a Fate point to invoke GI Joe Girl to make it a 4.
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Feb 3, 2013 15:30
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OKShark can tag Desty's thing without invoking!
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Yep! Thanks to Desty you do not need to spend a point for that. With no friends left there's nothing else he can do, really. Jinn The dude drops his weapon and surrenders! He tries to remember the thing you say when you surrender. "Uh... Parley?" Haxz0rl33t "geho..." Haxz0rl33t coughs up a bit of blood. "I'll be fine, just need to go to the hospital." "Case is safe to open... there's a temp drive inside. From hahk... Hakurei. Automatically wipes itself at midnight, we just gotta get what's on it first." quote:
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Maximina Von Gilgamesh FP = 3 (again) Maximina holds the cultist up by the scruff of his popped collar. "I got three and a half, because this one's still alive; I win."
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Da'ud Da'ud shrugs. "Actually, I think the guy I pegged with the coin might still be alive. You can kind of hear him groaning." He hasn't actually been checking if he killed or just maimed the guys he was taking out, after all. He pauses, frowning...and then barks an Egyptian word, gesturing at the man. Magnetic force pulses around him, then contracts around the jinn for several moments, forcing the man into unconsciousness via manipulation of his brain's electrical impulses. 10 on control. It doesn't actually matter how much power I use as long as it's any power at all so. "Three and a half." Mors Rattus fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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Arthur Durandall FP 1/1 Physical: [ ] [ ] ([X] [ ] [ ] [ ] tager) Mental: [ ] [ ] [ ] Social: [ ] [ ] [ ] Arthur returns to the center of the trainyard in Tager form, the still breathing cultists he could find under his arms and the handle of the suitcase clenched between his teeth. Unceremoniously he dumps the bodies to the ground, while transferring the case into his hands much more delicately. Simulaneously he stretches and reverts back to human form, the yell of the tranformation fading into a shout of pain. "HAAAAAAAA-aaagh! Dammit, getting shot hurts!" he yells out, clutching the wound at his side. It's already healing--one of the fun perks of Tagerhood--but the pain is going to stick around for a while. "I'm going to be throwing down a lot of drinks tonight. But first..." He sets the case down where everybody can see it, and rubs his hands in anticipation. "First we get to the part we always loved at the office: where we find another hidden piece of a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle and see if we can't fit it onto any of the 500 jigsaw puzzles we're trying to assemble simultaneously!" With an odd smile plastered on his face, he pops open the latches and opens the lid. I can clear that stress box now, right? Davin Valkri fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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Suitcase The suitcase contains a physical copy of Dimensolatreia, a banned sixteen-year-old work on space/time, quantum mechanics and arcanotechnology. Any black market mage worth his salt already has at least a PDF of this. Haxz0rl33t wipes blood from his mouth. "It's a decoy, there's a hidden... hack... pocket." Searching the suitcase thoroughly turns up a portable data drive with Hakurei's logo on it.
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Mina Fisher "Right! My turn! You handle the thickheaded pokin' and prodin' and I'll take care of the important stuff." Without waiting for anyone to comment or interject, Mina snatches the data drive and begins fiercely chalking on the ground.  Once the geometric symbols have been chalked in, the data drive goes into the triangle to the right side, and Mina sits down in the central triangle-circle. Immediately the chalkings light up with AR data as the net reads the encoding and converts it into technomantic data. She quickly scans the data to detect for magical residue and uses the encode to act as a server, connecting into the data with her own cranial computer without having to literally plug the drive into her head. She brings her hands up and an AR keyboard appears into being right below it as she types furiously. The leftmost circle takes several graphs and charts that begin to move and fluxuate as a screen appears in front of her, full of letters and numbers scrolling down. Finally the left circle flashes. "I'm in." Hollywood Hacking: 4dF+4 5
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Hakurei Industries Præj∂ct D¥∑«makδœ∑√¥π ∞arch∏•‘≤ $∫∑ Drive Mina fishes for information! The short version is, it's probably research data on some new project. Whatever it is, it's important enough for Hakurei to magically encrypt it. The drive will corrupt itself at midnight, or earlier if it detects too much tampering. The files will open with a password, or perhaps someone on a Hakurei Industries network account with high enough access. (Unless it's spoofed right Hakurei will see it in their system logs, though.) This is not an uncommon corp procedure - Mina would guess that this data is normally kept on a secure wired system cut off from the Net, and the physical drive is used to bring it to important people who can't just go there and look. Hakurei's IT department probably has a G://0st who managed to sneak it out of the building. And onto a train? Shrug. Mina will need to overcome a 10-shift ward.
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Maximina von Gilgamesh FP = 3 Maximina rolls her eyes at Da'ud. "That doesn't count and you know it. Come on, sir; accept your loss with stoic dignity. I'm sure you'll look very dashing when you deliver the data to Mina's nerdy friends in the outfit I have selected for you."
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Arthur Durandall FP 1/1 "That's, ah...that's definitely something," notes Arthur, seeing Mina read the data drive from some chalk marks on the ground. "Just don't get any spall in the drive or corrupt it, would you?" With another brush of hair, he turns to Sun Yue, producing a tablet computer--a physical one, of course--and turning on the notes function. He writes down "Hakurei Industries data drive: Sons of Scirocco searched for it, connection unknown; Mina analysing. SoS ritual circle: Dis.DO ritual? Hksrlt: Ghost hacker, 'possession ritual?'" "Yue, while I'm putting ducks in a row here, you recognize anything about the guy with a sword?" he asks as he writes. "Rogue Shinigami, Cold Ones guy, anything?" Davin Valkri fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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Sun Yue Yue drags over the Jinn she beat up. He's starting to look distinctively... lumpy and turning interesting shades of black and blue. She waves at the hacker. "Hi Mina's boyfriend! You don't look so good. You shouldn't get shot, it's bad." She looks at Athur. "You too." When Arthur asks his quesiton, she shakes her head no. "Nope! Never seen him before. He's not that good with those swords though. Soooo disappointing. No way he's a shinigami. He's got some weird thing going on with his eye. It's got this weird black splotchy thing all over." She grabs the pad for a second and draws it. "Like that." "Anyways the important thing is that I totally win because even if he ran away he's worth like six of these guys, so I get three for him and one for this one. So four. Which is the most." Comrade Gorbash fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Feb 5, 2013 |
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Mina Fisher "Alright!" Mina waves her hand and all the AR displays melt together in front of her. She grabs the now single screen, crumples it up, and throws it into a trash can that appears next to her, only for the trash can to disappear. Then she walks forward and grabs the data drive as the chalk drawings start to fade away, their strength gone. "It'll take me awhile to properly break into this; it's got some cray cray defenses all up ins, and we should do it somewhere else. Need it done soon though! And I'll need some help. If you can think of a good place I can set up the ritual let me know, otherwise we're going into some alleyway I can find. Also nerd bait there ain't no sort of no boyfriend. Just some dork who got caught 'cause he relied on outer hardware."
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Sun Yue "Oh, I know a place! There's this old abandoned hangar on the edge of the desert, I think they used to keep giant balloons there or something. It's only like two stops from here, come on." Yue looks around, then points at a sign that everyone else overlooked before.  "One will be here in a minute or two. I think I've got enough ride chits for everyone." She digs some bottle caps out of her pocket. Making a declaration to say I know a place and how to get there. FP back down to 2.
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Da'ud Da'ud sighs melodramatically, then nods. "You're lucky I like you, you know that? Just make sure I look good, okay?"
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Mina Fisher Mina glares at the sign. "Is that an anime? What's the wifi on the anime bus? I'm...uncomfortable in wireless areas."
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Arthur Durandall FP 1/1 "Ah nuts, then. Three puzzle pieces and only the most tenuous of connections between them." Arthur looks on with a smile as Maximina and Da'ud fight over their kill count. "Oh, if live ones count as half again, I nailed four-point-five using just my fists. So I say I win. Buy me a round, getting shot still stings a little..." Then he notices the sign that Sun Yue points at. How had he missed that--was that a cat? Cross-bred with a bus?! "Uh, Sun Yue," he asks haltingly. "What...exactly...is that?" He points at the picture on the sign. The OOI have no idea about the Shinigami, so this'll be the first time Arthur has seen a catbus. My Neighbor Totoro is probably out of print 
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Da'ud Da'ud turns away from Maximina briefly. "By the way, my guess is that the swordsman was a Disciple of the Cold Ones. The spell they were using used their methods, and the fractal nature of his escape was...familiar."
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It's a pretty weird sign. The shinigami bus stop is across the yard, beyond another wire fence and on the other side of a city street, just around the corner from the nearest train station. The sign itself doesn't seem to fit its surroundings - when you're not looking at it, the details start to fade from your memory like a dream. It may or may not only exist on this street because Sun Yue needs it. Shinigami are complicated. You have a couple minutes to deal with the blood, the bodies and what they left behind, if you feel like doing anything.
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Sharon Sharon kicks some of the dust off her shoes and neatens her clothes. Riding public transit was always so exciting! Every trip an adventure! Ready to go whenever.
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Arthur Durandall FP 1/1 Arthur nods at Da'ud's comment about the Disciples. "Ah, wonderful. Literal ivory-wizard-tower academics involved too. Should have guessed from Tsurugi's eye." He holds up the picture Sun Yue drew of the swordsman's Mandelbrot eyeball. "What is it about higher mathematics...?" He updates his notes, and then seems to jump a little when he realizes exactly what the depot must look like to an outside observer. "Erm, okay, the live ones can come with us, but can we at least stick the dead ones under a traincar or something? I don't think the morning shift wants to come over and see this, you know?" And then he looks puzzled again. "And, uh, remind me..." He turns to look at the bus sign, then looks away, trying to keep a clear picture of it...and failing. Was that there when he flew over the site? "...remind me to ask about that...bus...thing, once we're off."
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Mina Fisher Muttering to herself, Mina sends her mojos to attack the cameras and sensors in the area, weakening them, then hacking into them and quickly editing the whole thing out of their recordings.
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Maximina von Gilgamesh FP = 3 "Don't worry," Maximina assures Du'ad. "You'll be instantly recognizable." To the rest she says, "It was a wager, not a contest. Sorry, better luck next time." Mentally, she reminds herself never to get into a shooting contest with a magus without bringing grenades. Maximina takes the odd transportation in stride; she got used to this sort of thing as a young girl. As the adrenaline ebbs from her body, she feels the old familiar hunger pangs ramping up again. She licks her lips, and tries to avoid smelling Sharon's hair as she gets on the cat-bus. She takes a seat and begins reloading her weaponry. Rolling Feeding Dependency. Since I didn't have to use Inhuman Recovery this conflict, it's only Discipline vs. a target of 2. Discipline vs. hunger: 4dF+4 = 2, so just barely made it. No Hunger stress this time.
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Sun Yue Yue helps Arthur clean up, helpfully suggesting dumping the Jinns into a Dumpster with a note for the police.
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Shinigami Bus As you finish stuffing the bad guys into a nearby dumpster, an enormous multi-limbed black* cat with a hollow, bus-like body leaps out of the shadows and slides to a halt at the top. It has windows and furry seats and headlight eyes and everything, what the gently caress. Right now it is mostly empty except for a regular-sized black cat with two tails, which sits in the doorway while Sun Yue presents the ride chits and hops onto a front window as everyone files in. The feline vehicle starts skipping away once everyone is on. *original character do not steal What do you want to do about Haxz0rl33t? The Shinigami Bus can drop him off somewhere if you have a place in mind.
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Sharon As far as Sharon can tell, the cat-bus is entirely within the realm of normalcy, down to someone else handling the financial arrangements, so she hops right on board. Once everyone is seated, she turns to Hacksor. "Do you need to go to a hospital or something? Or wherever it is you sleep? I've never raided a summoning before, so I don't know how this normally goes."
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Arthur Durandall FP 1/1 As the...cat...bus...hybrid pulls up to a stop, Arthur can only stare with mouth slightly agape. It's a cat...but its inside is hollow and filled with seats like public transportation...and there's another cat inside acting like a tickettaker...but there's no driver because the cat is alive...holy crap. "You know, uh, heh, they showed us videos of real unholy crap getting summoned as part of orientation," he comments as the group files to board the bus--board the cat!--"Hell, I AM one of those things. But, uh, gotta say, this thing is definitely up there on the oddness chart. Is this a big Shinigami thing, or is it just you, Yue?" Instinctually, he finds himself grabbing his tablet and taking pictures of the catbus, inside and outside, for reasons unknown. As he sits down, he takes a deep breath, calms himself down, and turns towards the Ghost hacker. "So, Hacksorleet, was it? Before we find a place to drop you off, any idea why a Disciple of the Cold Ones was playing 'summon the spirit' with a bunch of Scirocco drugheads? Not exactly a chocolate and peanut butter combo there." Davin Valkri fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Feb 6, 2013 |
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Sun Yue Yue looks at Arthur oddly. "It's just a bus. Shinigami use it all the time."
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