[d20 Cthulhu] What Rough Beast... (Part I)

Randy rears back and delivers a solid kick to the door, just below the door knob. A loud CRACK! is heard as it is flung open, ripping a piece of the door frame with it.

The back window is open, the curtains flapping in the wind. Rain pours in from outside, drenching Alan's desk and papers. Something else about the room is different, but you can't say what - because it is obvious that the study is most certainly not empty. You see three men, standing and glaring at your group, menace in their eyes and weapons in their hands. Whatever you might have expected - be it more bees or bugs - this is not it.

All of the men are in their mid to late thirties. The one against the back left wall is tall and thin, and wearing a trench coat over his slight frame. His long hair is dyed pitch black, and hangs in his face, a wet mess. Several facial piercings can be seen, some of them in unusual places. His mouth is set in a toothy grimace, and from here you can see he is breathing hard, almost wheezing. He is holding a metallic baseball bat in one hand. The bat is odd in that it appears that the end is completely covered with shards of glass, perhaps glued there in some way.

The man on the far right is wearing what appears to be - of all things - a uniform for McDonalds. It is fresh and clean, although dripping wet. He is medium sized and muscular. Though he is in his mid to late thirties as well - his short hair is pure white, but perhaps it is dyed. The look on his face as he stares at your group is pure loathing, as if you are some type of... roach, or something. A litany of mumbled curses spill from his mouth. A small, red book is held in his left hand. He wears a McDonalds name badge that simply says, "Bobby".

The third man is odd as well. For all intents and purposes, he looks like an overweight insurance salesman. He's wearing a suit, slacks, and a loosened tie that perhaps went out about 10 years ago. Curly brownish hair, dripping with rain from outside, covers the top of a furrowed brow. In his hands, a double barreled shotgun, aimed directly at your group. "Dirty... meats," He snarls at the group.

All this you take in - in a matter of a split second. But before you can react, the loud retort of the shotgun goes off!

Sam is lifted up and flung back against the hallway wall, his clothes and flesh ripped open by the blast. He hits and falls to the ground with a grunt. He weakly grabs a hold of his stomach, now a red and tangled mess. His eyes are wide open with shock and surprise. Both Randy and Alex look at Sam, themselves stunned. A splattering of blood covers both of their faces, but they don't seem to realize it.

Things just went from bad to worse.

OOC: Ouch! No, you guys are not surprised. Business Man is just fast! Sam is hurt bad - how bad, you don't know. I need actions. Right now, only Randy and Sam are in the line of fire. Alex and Dr. Silver are off to the side, and Kristoff is upstairs. I need to wait until I hear from everyone due to initiative order.
 
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Randy Morrison

OOC: Crap!

I will post a move in a couple of hours I am reserving this place for it.

Sorry Sam :(


As Randy drop to his knee he will yell at the Doctor, “Dr. Silver grab Sam and pull him back, tend to his wounds.”

“YOU IN THE ROOM. DROP YOUR WEAPONS AND COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP! YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO THIS, DO NOT FORCE ME TO KILL ANY OF YOU!”


OOC: As a move equivalent action Randy will ready an action to fire at anyone who approaches him or if the man with the shotgun starts to reload/aim at him.

Randy will glance at Sam as he falls to the floor and drop to one knee using the wall far as much cover as he can. Randy will not go for a head shot instead he will fall back on his training and go for the torso shot, a better shot with a much higher percentage for the drop.
 
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ACTIONS:

If I can kick the door shut, I ready an action to do so as soon as anyone tries to come through, so that I'll smack em' with the door, and hold the door shut at floor-level with my foot. If I'm not positioned properly for that, I ready an action to trip the first guy to come through. I trust that Randy, being a spook, will promptly draw his gun and start shooting vital organs.
 

"@#$%!!!!!!!"

*Ray will carefully grab Sam by the shoulders, ease him to the floor, and slide him along it to get him out of the line of fire*

"Alex! Give me a hand, go to the living room and get my medical kit, NOW!!!"

*Stomach tight with tension, knowing that the gunman is just around the corner, Ray grimly applies pressure to the wound with his hand and hopes to God that Randy and Sam can keep them all safe. And that Julia and Kristoff stay upstairs where it's safe.*

[Heal +8]

[Spoof, I think Randy just kicked the door in, so I don't think you can kick it shut]
 
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OOC: The door was kicked in, Anab. It's on the other side of the wall. Now if you want to go in and pull it closed, that's another story.... =)

Randy drops to the ground and aims his weapon at the man with the shotgun.

“YOU IN THE ROOM. DROP YOUR WEAPONS AND COME OUT WITH --" Randy is cut off as the heavy man raises his weapon again. It's obvious that he's going to shoot.

Without hesitation, Randy fires his own gun. The bullet slams into the meaty part of the man's shoulder and out the back, hitting the window behind him and shattering it. He cries out in pain and fires his shotgun reflexively, but he is pointing it at the ceiling and hits no one. A ceiling light literally explodes, sending glass and other debris onto the floor. The room is now only dimly lit by the hallway light and the flashes of lightning outside.

Sam begins to scramble away weakly, holding in his stomach. He leaves a pool of blood behind him, and more begins to seep out from between his fingers as he gasps for air. Dr. Silver, more concerned about Sam then his own safety, grabs him by the upper arms and drags him away from the open door and the gunfight. Ray, it looks bad. Sam's upper and lower intestines have been heavily perforated. Your mind races as you begin to wonder if you have enough drugs in your kit to keep Sam from dying of shock. Sam begins to gurgle - he obviously has blood backing up in his esophagus. If he doesn't die from shock, it will probably be from blood loss.

The thin scarecrow-like man raises his bat over his head and begins to charge, screaming something unintelligible. He runs to where Randy is crouched and swings the bat at his head. Randy starts to shift his aim, but instead ducks at the last moment. The bat slams into the wall hard, punching a hole into it. The man with the bat looks over his shoulder. "@#$%! More down here, Tyler!"

Suddenly, Alex barrels into the man's back knocks him to the ground. Alex is not a big man, but nonetheless overpowers his foe and drives him to the ground. It is close though - Alex's face turns red as he tries to hold him down. The bat falls to the ground with a clanging sound. Alex, as you literally sit on top of the man, you notice that he has an odd scar on his forehead - it looks like a lower case 'i', with the bottom slightly curved to the left. It looks like it was done a long time ago.

From the inside of the room, you can hear the man dressed in the McDonalds uniform begin to shout. Oddly, it sounds as if he is trying to work through a complex math problem of some kind.

"Dissymetrics to the twelfth power! Ygnailh... ygnaiih... Reverse inverse prolate spheroidal coordinates... negotium perambuians in tenebris!"

OOC: Tsk tsk. Math has no place in a fire fight. What is he thinking?!?
 
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Alex struggles to pin the man beneath him, looking at the i symbol without comprehension. ("The hell?") He knows he doesn't have an advantage here, even if the other guy is skinny too... but he's probably quicker than the other guy. He knows that if that guy starts laying about with that baseball bat, then he's in trouble. He tries to disengage, from the grapple, grab the bat, and run like hell, sprinting away from Dr. Silver and Sam, throwing furniture down as he goes to slow down his pursuer. "JULIA!!! KRISTOF!!! CALL THE POLICE!!!"
 
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Randy Morrison

“Alex!” Randy yells. “Hold that man down till I can take care of the man with the gun. If I can not stop him then you had best run for your life.”

Randy gives a quick look at Sam and then hollers to Dr. Silver. “Ray, you have to get him out of here. Use your phone to call for help. Quick!”

Randy will stop and take an adjustment step to the left and bull-rush the large man (his Move equivalent action) and try to back him into the man shouting the gibberish. If the large man makes any threatening moves Randy will shoot him again, and then tackle “Bobby”, if the large man drops.
 

*Ray keeps one hand on the worst of the bleeding, and grabs his cell phone out of the pocket with the other. He hits the 911 speed dial number and watches in horror as Alex tackles, then runs from the thin man.

When the pick up he speaks rapidly, but clearly.*


"We need police and ambulance sent to [Julia's address] immediately. We have three intruders in the house, they have already shot one person in here. They are armed and dangerous. I am a doctor, and I am taking care of the wounded man, but this is not a safe situation. We need help, now!"

*The last is more than a bit desperate. If threatened mid-coversation by anyone, Ray will toss down the phone and defend Sam with the rolling pin. If said person is armed with a gun, he keeps the phone and runs like nobody's business. Hopefully they won't think Sam will be much of a threat and will run after the mobile ones.*
 
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