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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 5432079" data-attributes="member: 21938">Ashley and Kirth reach out their consciousness towards the swarm trailing behind the shuttle. The distinctive Shadow scream echoes in their minds, and they taste the wrongness that all telepaths feel from Shadow technology. They feel the strands of faint traces of mind holding the swarm together, and try to unpick them. Ashley presses forwards and is rebuffed sharply. She reels back, blood running from one nostril. But she causes enough of a distraction for Croft to swoop, and the swarm mind is shattered momentarily by the young Centauri. This is enough for the shuttle to swoop away from the swarm, which is lost to sight in the darkness of the Lison sky within seconds.Sif contemplates turning to destroy the swarm, but decides instead to make for the underground safety of the Tribon City when long range scanners indicate that it is moving again, this time away from the shuttle's location.****After returning to Tribon City there is a rush of activity as the crash victims are taken away by medical teams, and Colonel Sif is engaged in matters with the security forces. Before he is ushered away, he turns to the group, Kathy Sakura in particular."I think it is vital for planetary security that details of this are not made public just yet,"  are his parting words."Typical," says Sakura to the llort's retreating back. "Biggest scoop in ages and they're going to make us sit on it. Tell me you got footage at least, Maxie."Max turns stiffly. "There is something we must discuss," he says, his voice strangely stilted. "Do you have anywhere private?" This is addressed not to Sakura but to the rest of the group."Max?" says Sakura with a nervous laugh. "What's going on?""I will reveal what I know," says Max in his strange voice. He scans the area with his camera eye. "But not here."[sblock=OOC]Since neither of Ashley and Croft have the Gestalt feat, you can't use Aid Another or similar actions, but I went with seperate checks for both of them. The relevant ability is daze (DC 14)Telepathy check Ashley 8+8=16, success. Will save for swarm succeeds (nat 20), so shley takes 1d4=2 points on of nonlethal telepathic damage.Telepathy check for Croft 7+10=17, success, swarm fails Will save, treated as drifting for as long as focus maintained, ends once out of visual range.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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