Chapter 2: My Brother's Keeper

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Aug 14, 2018 9:43 am
Wyvern exits the system with a very rude gesture at the paperclip.
Aug 14, 2018 12:48 pm
OOC:
Ha! Now where to?
Aug 15, 2018 3:58 pm
Checkmate gets back in the car and relates the conversation with Iris to Wyvern.

"I hate to say it," he adds, "cause they make my fraggin' skin crawl, but the ghoul and the doctor leap out as persons of interest – and the ghoul knows the doctor, so he seems the logical step. But I'm not crazy about the idea of poking around a ghoul bar; if we can work it, I'd rather turn the tables and talk to him alone, so we can have the numbers advantage.

"Our other lead is Geri's manager at Stuffer Shack, Horus. If we want to follow Ray's footsteps precisely we could try him, otherwise he seems small time compared to the ghoul and this shady doctor."


"What do you think?"
Aug 18, 2018 11:02 am
"Much as I hate myself for saying this, I think we should start with the ghoul."
Aug 20, 2018 12:46 am
It is past midnight by the time you hit the border of the Barrens. The houses and the buildings were gradually degrading until the border but now you are in full on deriliction. The street lamps are no longer functioning having long since had anything of value removed. A few small shops, mostly privately owned squatter shops and pawn shops are open. They all have steel gratings on the windows.

As you delve deeper into the Barrens you hear loud music, then deeper and deeper and you see that a Trog smashmetal concert is performing in a burned out building. A few hundred orks and trolls are moshing and raising hell. A few bottles smash against your car but you make it out without much resistance.

Eventually the noise? music? dies down. The Barrens gets even darker. The rain starts falling not helping much. Visibility hits almost zero, all your lights see is more rain. Then as you are driving you need to slam on the breaks, an ancient telephone pole has fallen on the road in front of you.
OOC:
Make any checks you want.
Aug 21, 2018 2:31 am
OOC:
Also let me know if you wanted to get the antivirals (or other stuff to prep) before you head to the ghoul bar. I was just trying to move things along. We can do a film like flashback and cut back to the telephone pole if needed :)
Aug 21, 2018 1:43 pm
Akuma, being more of the silent type, stays focused on the exterior, knowing that in this kind of neighborhood a lot of things can happen... Every few minutes, he stops scanning visually to astrally perceives his suroundings for a few seconds then resumes his outside visual examination.
OOC:
Edit: perception=5 success, assenssing=3 success
also, I didn't have any money for the anti-virals for myself but I will use my contact to order it for any of those that want them.
Last edited August 21, 2018 1:46 pm

Rolls

perception(visual)+intuition - (11d6)

(56322165125) = 38

assenssing+intuition - (7d6)

(5324635) = 28

Aug 21, 2018 4:57 pm
Checkmate slams the brakes as the telephone pole seems to leap out from behind a curtain of water. The 'Mericar slides on slick asphalt. Checkmate wrestles with the steering, fighting for control. If the pole didn't kill him, he was certain his heart would. He'd spent nearly four decades living on the edge in this city, on both sides of the law, and his reward was perfunctory dismissal via crumbling infrastructure? Seattle really was a heartless bitch.

As his heart stops hammering, he realises this is a bad situation. "Drek! I do not like this! Lu, Wyvern, you see anything out there?" he says, slowing turning the car around.
OOC:

Perception - 3 successes.
Checkmate also cannot afford any anti-virals.
Last edited August 21, 2018 4:58 pm

Rolls

perception(visual)+intuition - (10d6) - (10d6)

(2246243562) = 36

Aug 22, 2018 1:26 am
Lu can't see drek with his mundane senses but as he dives into the world of mana he sees three figures off to the sides. One figure seems to be holding a chain or rope that is tied around another much much larger figure. The large figure looks at Lu, mana is radiating out of the larger figure. The cord, whatever it is, gives off feelings of pain and suffering. The third figure is on the other side of the road. It seems to be throwing something. Something dead in the astral realm.

BOOOOM!!! A grenade explodes under the base of the car. The car lifts off the ground temporarily then slams back down. You all seem unhurt but that can't be good for the car. Checkmate sees on his right a humanoid figure holding some sort of weapon. Frag the rain is so thick!
OOC:
Checkmate roll your edge to see how badly fragged up the car is. Everyone. Let's roll initiative.

Rolls

Barrens Baddies 1, 2, 3 - (1d6+8, 1d6+6, 1d6+12)

Aug 22, 2018 6:07 am
Checkmate hopes his insurance covers ordnance damage...
OOC:
3 hits on Edge.
Last edited August 22, 2018 6:08 am

Rolls

Initiative: REA + INT + 1d6 - (1d6+8)

(4) + 8 = 12

Edge: 7d6 - (7d6)

(6143535) = 27

Aug 22, 2018 7:01 am
OOC:
Nice freakin' edge.
As Checkmate backs up he feels the engine still intact but that back left side is driving on the metal rim.
Aug 22, 2018 1:39 pm
"Two targets on the right and one on the left, be wary of the big one on the right..."

Rolls

Rea+Int+4d6 - (4d6+13)

(3443) + 13 = 27

Aug 23, 2018 12:53 am
OOC:
Initiative
Lu 27
B1 15
Checkmate 12
B2 9
B3 8
Wyvern?
Aug 23, 2018 4:28 pm
Akuma rolls down the window and with a few quick hand gestures, makes a ball of electricity appear in his hands. He then pushes the ball towards the area where the larger figure was and it flies into the rain. Closing his hand and making another gesture, Lu makes the ball explode in a flash of light... "If I got them, it should slow them down a little..."
[ +- ] Actions
[ +- ] Denki shuryudan
OOC:
Edit: 3 hit (no net hits) to touch
I take 5s damage from drain
Last edited August 23, 2018 4:30 pm

Rolls

Denki shuryudan, Magic+Int (3) - (12d6)

(512321426534) = 38

Drain resist, Will+Int vs drain 8 - (11d6)

(45126641434) = 40

Aug 23, 2018 10:57 pm
...

Rolls

initiative - (1d6+5)

(4) + 5 = 9

Aug 24, 2018 1:01 am
The ball of lightning explodes revealing a man with a shotgun, ear muffs and holding the chain of a large troll like creature with white fur. The man and the creature writhe in pain. But just as fast as it lit the street up it just as quickly fell back into darkness.
OOC:

Lu 27
Checkmate 12
B1 15 reduced to 10 so Checkmate gets to go first.
Wyvern 9 (Marithyme you can go first)
B2 9
B3 8


Rolls

Resist B1 9

Resist B2 9

Aug 24, 2018 11:09 am
"The frag is that thing?!" Checkmate yells, and burns rubber away from the attackers, back the way they came.
Aug 24, 2018 11:02 pm
Wyvern leans out the window to take a shot at the man with the leash with her Ares.

Rolls

pistol 7k7 - (7d6)

(6652443) = 30

Aug 25, 2018 3:16 am
Checkmate keeps his cool despite the intense situation. As he reverses the car sparks fly from the steel wheel well spinning on concrete. Like a fraggin' sweet trid film he makes driving seem easy. As he is driving away Wyvern rolls down the window and gets a shot off at the large creature. The creature staggers for only a second before bellowing out a disorienting scream.

The two human sized people both take shots at the car with their shotguns. "Come on Cain let's get you some food!" One of them yells.

Checkmate has driven about 15 meters from the downed telephone pole. The large creature has run toward the car about 8 meters.
OOC:
I rolled Checkmate's pilot ground craft

Everyone roll an Intuition + Willpower against the paralyzing howl. The creature has 4 net hits. You will be resisting 4 stun.

Lu resist a single shotgun slug 1 net hit 8p damage -2 AP but you have +4 dice from cover in the car

Wyvern resist a single shotgun slug 2 net hit3 9p damage -2 AP but you have +4 dice from cover in the car

Rolls

Checkmate Pilot ground craft - (5d6)

(61623) = 18

Resist Wyvern's shot 10p - (16d6)

(5344263463632146) = 62

Shotgun to Lu - (10d6)

(4642124414) = 32

Shotgun to Wyvern - (10d6)

(5341252143) = 30

Creature wail - (8d6)

(41665254) = 33

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