Acaatha runs after Lin, Fuzil and Ralph -- not quite catching up to them, but closing the distance somewhat. As she runs, her blaster fires off a series of shots at the tumbling and standing Ralph who seems to have the presence of mind to dodge one particularly close shot -- but he's unbalanced by his twisting and turning.
OOC:
Round officially ends - Initiative is NPCs then players.
The mark keeps running -- but he's puffing and puffing, running flat out for a significant amount of time is not in the job description for hyperdrive engineers. Nonetheless, he manages to pull the distance between him, Ralph, Lin and Fuzil to 'long' and to Larry to medium. Larry stands and his hand goes to a blaster pistol at his side. Seeing the speeder chuck around the corner with the elegance of a bantha that's gotten into the blue milk, he turns and continues to run after the engineer -- opening the distance somewhat to Lin and Fuzil -- but not quite edging into long range.
Ralph, on the other hand, has his eye on two marks and a speeder and he's not happy about what he sees. The blaster pistol comes out and he takes a shot at Lin. A hail of blaster fire -- set to stun -- ensues and Lin's vicinity is peppered with shots. Lin takes a hit but keeps standing. Lin's pistol, however has taken several shots and sails through the air before crashing into Fuzil and his soup. Unfortunately, the soup doesn't surving the encounter with a hot, high-speed pistol-as-a-rock and it too crashes to the ground causing Fuzil to exclaim madly at his lost soup and his gently burnt hand.
OOC:
Lin takes 9 - 3 soak = 6 strain from the stun shot. Fuzil picks up a setback die on his next action -- having lost his soup and burnt his hand.
Resolving player actions in posted order. Note that the first player (Mala) will get a boost from Acaatha's last round (huh, that was a great roll, sorry).
Acaatha, don't forget to post your action for
this round.
Mala's speeder piloting is... well, it's not why she's on the crew. Unfortunately, her turn around the corner is a bit wide. And by a bit, I mean pedestrians -- who have heretofore enjoyed the scamps and their gunplay start dodging to the side with shrieks of alarm. Akhrirar ducks as part of a lamp post collapses at the rear of the speeder after a gentle "kiss" that just ate up the damage deposit. Some sparks fly out of the console. But they're probably harmless and don't mean anything. Like that time Lin opened up the astrocomp to "Give it a good talking to." That said, while Mala doesn't quite to the mark, she does manage to close the distance to him and Larry from long range to medium with her, uh, "driving".
OOC:
I can't find a decent landspeeder statblock. So you're in a larger landspeeder that has capacity for the pilot and 6 passengers. I'm going to call it silhouette 2, speed 2, handling 0, defense 0, armor 0, HT threshold 6, ss threshold 6. If someone else finds a better set of statblocks for speeders let me know.
The speed takes 2 system strain (down to 4) due to the collision.
Akhrirar is duly convinced that he's going to die any moment now -- and his ability to aim while the speeder careens through the street causing passerby to dive out of the way and sparks to fly out of the console is somewhat impaired.
OOC:
Akhrirar - adding a setback die for your roll. I'll ignore the blank boost you rolled since Mala took the roll from Acaatha -- it's a wash either way, I suppose.
With some careful aim and a cautious pull of the trigger the Green Mamba lands a hit on the mark who stumbles into portable waste processing units, scattering them like mouse droids running from a wookiee. As the bolt streams past Lin into the mark, he pulls his other gun out and fires at the guard standing in front of him. Somewhat miraculously, despite the short range and the barrage of fire -- he misses. Every single shot. One of the shots goes wide and slams into the mark's head -- but at a range where the power of the bolt has diminished to the effect of being hit in the head by a pillow (wielded by a particularly hefty Klatooinian). With the double hit from Akhrirar's blaster rifle and his head ringing from Lin's.. uh... expert shot he stumbles and falls prone amongst the waste processing units.
OOC:
Waiting on Acaatha and Fuzil for turn completion.
Current status: Mark: hit by one 10-point stun; Larry: hit by one 9-point stun. Ralph: has a setback die.
Fuzil is short range to Ralph, medium to Larry and long to the prone mark.
Acaatha is short medium range to Ralph, Long to Larry and the mark.