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Laguna Resona, 15/15 HP, "Wait, what's this stamped on the bottom here...?" Laguna flips one of the parts over to check the stamping in the light. "'Model 70'...? I guess it's not an M8 at all. Huh. And this is barrel is heavy, like it's for sustained machine gun fire....son of a bitch, this is a Stoner 63!" He says that like it means anything to anybody else in the room. "I mean, uh...right. Okay. Uhm..." He turns to the rest of the group and sighs. "Okay, good news, all the parts are here for three different weapons, bad news is if I try to assemble these things on a bouncing vehicle I might lose the zero on the barrel or something equally bad. We got an MG42 already (and I can't believe I'd ever say that seriously!), so, uh, if I start putting together the carbine now, I should have it ready by the time we go. After we get downstairs and figure out which car we want to take first and all." He looks at Dean and smirks. "And the dynamite thing is more common than you'd think."
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Laguna Resona, 15/15 HP, Museum Bistro "I know this kind of weapon, at least," Laguna responds as he gathers the pieces. "A lot of these things are at least a little bit similar, like how this thing here..." He shows the receiver to Kayla as he starts to grog out about modern firearms.
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Mayla Relshan - Museum "Ahh," Mayla says as she examines the part. "Hmm... very intricate. You know, when we get back to the city you should show me how all of this works... if they let us keep one."
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Dean "I can imagine," he replies to Laguna. "Well just gather them up and we'll make use of what we have now if assembling them is going to be too tricky." With all the firepower amongst them as it is, these new guns can hardly make much of a difference anyway. "I'm sure they'll let us keep the guns at the very least if we make it back with everyone alive. But first we need to make it through all this for that, so let's be moving." Assuming there were no vehicles outside the entrance we used before, Dean will head out of the opposite entrance we came in from.
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Karima "We will want to be sure that whatever transport they left is actually in working order," Karima suggests as they start to transition towards moving out, eying the various weapon components from a distance. "We need to be ready to leave as soon as possible, I more than agree on that point, but that still may be enough time to get one of those weapons ready, no?" With a slightly unsure gesture, she adds, "I am not any more interested in seeking out an excuse to try them out than any of you, but if spare moments to work on them come about, leaving them...dis-assembled, seems wasteful." Fraction Jackson fucked around with this message at 08:46 on May 4, 2015 |
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Field Museum While most of the group were inside discussing what to do next, Dean went out the front entrance. In front of the museum doors are three rugged looking large SUVs. They are parked haphazardly on the stairs leading up to the museum. The vehicles are makes and models that the man has never heard of before, Crosley Commando, Westcott Grizzly, and a Simpson Canyonero. All of the vehicles are boxy with a design esthetic of early 70's American automobiles. Dean gives the vehicles a quick look over and finds that the previous teams even left the keys in the ignitions. Inside Laguna realizes that the MG42 he's brought along would need a mount for it to be used effectively. Without a mount, using it could be difficult. Dean decides that the Commando is the least offensive to his sensibilities. He climbs up and into the massive vehicle. With a turn of the key the engine rumbles to life. Dean can tell just from listening to the engine that the vehicle has a lot of power. More then enough to speed down the city streets. Looking over to his left (which is the west, away from the water) he spots something. It looks like a heap of something. He sees parts that look like plates of armor, and other parts that look like some kind of a fungus. At the edges of the thing he sees tentacles reaching out. It appears to be at least 130 yards away, but it appears to be moving towards him. Dean can't tell how fast the thing is moving either. The mass doesn't appear to be moving, yet he can see it getting closer. Dean found the vehicles the other teams used. All of them seem functional and the Commando definitely runs. For the MG42, it needs to be mounted or set up in some fashion to deal with the ST 22 requirement. It'll take some time to mount the gun to fire it effectively (depending on what people want to do to set it up).
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Karima It's a strange thing, sometimes, how the way of things can conspire to force the hands of those who wait. By the time Karima thinks to actually start moving, rather than simply agreeing with the idea of moving and discussing time management, Dean is already out the door - and by the time she's anywhere close to the front door, Dean is already on his way back inside and shouting. She looks up at Dean in surprise, the previous discussion quickly forgotten. "What?" Everything they had heard so far said the aliens shouldn't be out during the day, and that time was their primary resource - that if they can simply be there and gone before sundown, everything will work out just fine, and they just need to accomplish as much as they can, each of them, in every minute they have available. This is not what she had hoped for or expected. Can it be something else, this incoming? But what else can it be? Does she even want an answer to that question? Karima quickens her pace, cursing indistinctly, cruising up to the doors as Dean runs up the other way. She may not want to have to answer that question, but it needs answering fast - along with the question of whether they can still leave the same way they had planned. PER 14, Observation 13 to peek out from behind the front doorway. Can Karima see the thing, and get a sense of how fast the thing is getting closer?
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Laguna Resona, 15/15 HP, Museum Bistro "Gah, I am not having a good day with my weapons..." Laguna is grabbing the bridge of his nose over trivialities when he's shocked back to reality by Dean screaming about something. He gets up and lets the gun parts fall back into the crate. "Wait, what?! Did he just say 'incoming!'?" In utter confusion he quick-steps down the stairs and out towards the lobby, shoving his way through the security turnstile and towards the doorway. He can see right away that it's not a car coming to smash into the entrance...so what's that in the distance? He grabs the binoculars around his neck and looks out in the direction of... "...what in the...oh, goddamn it! (Sorry, Doc.)" Per 15 + Binoculars should tell something, right?
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Phoebe St. Clair - Field Museum She'd known it was too good to last. That this dead world was far too lively, in all the wrong ways, for her taste. Dean's shouts would have alerted anyone camped in zasade, but it was too late to worry about that now. "Make yourselves ready," Phoebe said. "We can use the granates." She dashed to the box and plucked one from the top. It was an unfamiliar sort, but in the end a granate was a granate, meant for death and simplicity. If only she hadn't been such an average thrower-- "Ready for anything." Per 15 to get eyes on whatever's after Dean.
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Field Museum A quick jaunt across the museum floor brings the four people to the stairs in front of the museum. When they get to the front steps, they look to their right. They all see something. None of them can quite describe what it is. It appears to be a collection of various parts heaped into a large pile. The thing appears to have bony or metallic plates at various parts of its body, Other parts resemble fungi and insects. Its color appears to be nearly black with some spots that are green and dark grey. At its bottom there are appear to be tentacles reaching out in all directions. Staring at it reveals that it is over a hundred yards away. It doesn't look at though its moving, but it is getting closer. No one can figure out how it is doing this. It almost seems as if its an illusion of some kind. Laguna uses his binoculars on the thing. He sees it flicker between one spot and a spot closer to them. Having a closer view of the thing, Laguna sees that the thing shouldn't be alive. It shouldn't exist. Laguna finds that his mind is having trouble mentally processing what it is he's seeing. The binoculars fall out of his hands and stands there for a couple seconds as his mind deals with the horror. Everyone spots the thing. Everyone, but Laguna pass their fear check. Laguna fails it, but only is stunned for a couple seconds. The fear check will only happen the first time you see the thing. It appears to be at least 120 yards away, but its rate of speed is random. It seems like it would reach the stairs within 30 seconds. I was going over google maps and realized I made a slight mistake on positioning the museum. Here is a picture of the museum:  The group probably would have went into a side entrance, but I wasn't consulting a map, so they went in the back entrance. The parking lot the group passed before going into museum is to the right of the museum. The three SUVs are at the front of the musuem and the thing is approaching from the right/west. Its marked on the map. I'm going to be flexible in amount of time it takes to move around because of my mix up. I'm not going to figure out howspecifically fast people are moving from one spot to another. Still there's only about 30 seconds before the thing is at the stairs. Currently its around 120 yards away.
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Dean As he runs, his head can't help but turn for another look at the creature, now closer than it had been, but still as bizarrely motionless as it seemed before. Yrth had made him confront all sorts of beasts that he could never have imagined, but this is by far a whole new sort of monster altogether. Despite his mind racing and struggling to make sense of it, he still manages to keep his feet carrying him ceaselessly to the others. Taking steps nearly two at a time, he makes it near enough back to the group just in time to hear Karima's idea and for the doctor to dash past him. He takes a brief second for a breath before nodding to the others. "She's got a point. Should at least try to avoid a fight this early on, if we can help it. Let's move!" With that, he's turned and bounding back down the steps again to where he just came from. "Should'v just stayed in the drat car..." Will also make a dash back for an SUV, but for one that Karima does not get into, so long as everyone else follows along.
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Laguna Resona, 15/15 HP, Museum Front "Gggggkkk...guh...uh..." Laguna manages some faint hissing and choking sounds as that...that...thing fills the view of the binoculars. "Gah...hah...wha..." The binoculars fall down and dangle from his neck and he continues to stare and gasp and twist at his hair. It's only when Karima and Dean go storming by and out the door that he gets his act together. "Ah, right, we need to go! Sorry, Dean, you'll need to take a rain check on those weapons!" With that he dashes down the steps, quickly, but awkwardly, screaming at the top of his lungs as he races behind Dean to one of the SUVs: "TO THE TOWN OF AQUA FRIA RODE A STRANGER ONE FINE DAY, HARDLY SPOKE TO FOLKS AROUND HIM DIDN'T HAVE TOO MUCH TO SAY AAAAAAAH!"
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Mayla Relshan - Museum "So many types of tea and coffee," Mayla mumbles as she rifles through the bistro with Jenna. She begins to pick up a few boxes and cans. "Well, I know what I will be doing when we get back to... huh? What's he yelling about?" Mayla squeaks in shock as Jenna grabs her wrist suddenly. Her loot clatters onto the ground. "Jenna! Hey, Jenna!" she protests in vain. "Ow, ow, ow! Slow down! My legs aren't as long as yours!" As she's shoved into the vehicle, she barely manages to avoid clonking her head on the roof. "What in the Goddess' name is going on?"
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Field Museum The group piles into the vehicles and begins to leave. The thing continues to approach. I need to know who is driving and what vehicle with driving skills posted. Also if someone could summarize who is in what vehicle that would be good too. 
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Karima As she slides into the truck - lobbing her backpack into the back and hoping no one is in the way - Karima silently offers thanks that everyone is on the same page this time around. Fighting when necessary is one thing - fighting when they have a chance to make a clean getaway is another. An unnecessary risk, especially when none of them have even the slightest clue what it might take to bring the armored hulk of a monster down. She only spares a second to check that everything seems right before looking to Phoebe. "Get in, Rohi, and...make sure it does not follow us! I'll drive!" Which, of course, might include shooting it. Then, back towards Jenna, Karima adds, "When we get clear, tell me where we are going!" With that, she goes to start the engine and get her carload of friends the hell out of there... Driving/Automobile/TL8 14 for Karima. My understanding is that Car 1 is Dean/Laguna in ???, and Car 2, which we'll say is the Canyonero because lol, is Karima/Phoebe/Jenna/Mayla, with Dean/Karima driving, Phoebe presumably (?) on overwatch targeting the weird thing per the last post, and Laguna/Jenna/Mayla doing whatever. I could be very wrong on this. Fraction Jackson fucked around with this message at 01:54 on May 12, 2015 |
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Phoebe St. Clair - Chicago "Then let's hold off while they're in our line," Phoebe said. "But if we do have a clear shot... I feel that bodock might have an unhealthy reaction to some granates going off around it, no?"
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Chicago Karima and Dean manage to keep control of the vehicles as they race towards their goal. Behind them the thing has gained a little speed, but isn't able to keep up with the two SUVs. Even though it transformed into something that looks like an SUV, the transformation hasn't given it any boost in speed. Jenna fails to stop her curiosity and looks at the thing behind them. A combination of seeing things that should not exist with the impossible physics it implores to move causes Jenna to faint. She falls down in the SUV, but fortunately the padding of the seat protects her from any harm. Laguna leans out a window and readies a shot. He fires at the thing's 'tire'. The shot hits the tire, but nothing seems to happen to it. Looking at the tire, Laguna realizes that the tire isn't rolling. In fact the tire isn't moving at all. The whole thing just seems to move in a manner that is physically impossible. As the two SUVs keep moving, the distance between them and the thing grows. Jenna has fainted for three minutes. At the end she has to roll HT to recover. Laguna had to beat a 15 to hit the tire and he did. It just didn't do much damage. The thing is 40 yards behind the vehicles and the distance is growing. DocBubonic fucked around with this message at 21:03 on May 17, 2015 |
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Dean He keeps close pace with the other SUV in front, making sure to be as quick and precise with his driving as Karima is managing to be in front of him. As focused as he is now, it's almost hard to believe he hadn't driven at all for near ten years until the other day or so. 'Just like riding a big, big bike,' he tells himself. Hearing the crack of the gunshot, he turns suddenly for a brief moment to Laguna before snapping his eyes back to the road in front of him as a particularly tricky turn almost catches him off guard. "You hit it, Laguna? Damage it any? Please tell me it's at least not gaining on us!"
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May 17, 2015 22:01
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Karima She barely hears the sharp report of Laguna's rifle over the engine's rumbling roar and the gap between the two trucks, and Karima can only spare a brief glance in the mirror to see the result. If the thing's taken any damage, she certainly can't tell - but what she can tell is that the gap between the monster and their wheels is opening up. They might just have a chance to make a clean escape after all, regardless of whether Laguna or Phoebe, or any of the others with hands to spare, can find a way to hurt the thing. "I think maybe the beast cannot keep up, praise Allah," Karima says, but it doesn't sound like she intends to coast, especially not with that thing still behind them and with Jenna apparently now out like a light. The only thing to do is to press that advantage and try to lose the thing outright. Driving/TL8/Automobile 14 to keep the hammer down.
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Mayla Relshan - SUV "Jenna!" Mayla calls as her companion falls over. She helps Jenna back into a sitting position. "Jenna! Hey, Jenna! ... Hey, Doctor Karima, something happened to Jenna!"
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