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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ascending Crane" data-source="post: 733517" data-attributes="member: 7698">With surprising speed none of you thought the beautiful woman had, Tori drops to one knee and reaches inside her jacket - pulling out a black metal pistol.  As she raises the gun, she expertly thumbs the safety off and squeezes the trigger at the same time.BOOM!The weapon makes a surprisingly loud noise in the tight hallway - it is the first loud noise you've heard despite the horror you witnessed down the hall.  You hear workers in the main part of the office cry out in shock ("What the hell was that??" shouts one person).  The bullet hits the creature solidly in the chest, and you see it stagger back a step.  The look on its face transforms from glee to one of pain and rage.  Blackish blood blossoms around the wound, though it is difficult to tell how hurt it truly is.  Tori, you notice that the creature doesn't look particularly surprised by the sight of opposition.   He begins to raise the shotgun to unload on your group.  Despite the range, the weapon is still deadly.But faster than he can do that, Whisper is already in motion.  He crosses the distance to where the foe stands and explodes into action.  Diving forward with the skill of an acrobat, he hand-plants and brings his foot impossibly over his head.  His foot smacks into the creature's hand just as the shotgun is level with Whisper's chest.  The shotgun slams into the ground and bounces away - all without a sound.  Whisper then kips up from his position, landing on his feet.  He moves with a grace and fluidity you wouldn't expect from someone who slouched so much in the meeting.  But his stance shows he's a practiced and skilled hand-to-hand fighter.  OOC:  A non-critical 20 on the disarm, Velenne!  And it's not exactly easy to disarm someone wielding a weapon two-handed, either.  The creature is not so easily defeated, however.  It seems to mouth something, perhaps an insult.  You can see its mouth is filled with rotted but jagged stumps.  Surprisingly, it doesn't reach for the gun at its side.  It lashes out with a hand - a clawed hand - and tries to rip out the front of Whisper's throat.  But Whisper raises his forearm and blocks it, though you see his arm give a little.  The creature is strong.  The other hand loops around, and you can see as it comes for Whisper's eyes that the fingernails jut out about an inch from the black gloves it wears.  Whisper jerks his head back just in time to avoid being blinded, but the creature's claw catches him in the arm.  Blood splatters against the door, though it doesn't look bad.  Surprisingly, the creature steps forward and opens its jaws as if to bite Whisper!  But Whisper is unphased by the wound he took, and palm-strikes the creature in the nose.  It looks unhurt, but it was enough to give it pause and make it miss its attack.  Whisper, you take 5 pts of damage from the claw, 20 hp remaining.  You also see out of the corner of your eye that the waiting room has four other creatures in it - smallish and grey skinned, wearing black clothing.  They are currently pinning down the elf you saw in the waiting room earlier, and beating on him with gnarled fists.  They do not seem to notice you as yet.  It is eerie how quiet the waiting room is, despite the chaos.  Cool and unflappable, Simon looks to Aiden as he pulls his weapon from a shoulder sheath.  "I guess your next appointment doesn't like waiting.  Is there another exit?"  Aiden, his eyes wide with surprise, shakes his head.  "Just the front!  But they're probably there too, damn it!"  Simon raises his firearm and takes aim at the creature, but it is difficult to get a shot off with Whisper standing in front of it.  He hesitates for a moment and moves forward a few steps.  He pivots and kicks in a nearby office door.  Simon, the office door was closed since you last saw it, but your kick was enough to open it.  You see a case with a variety of small caliber firearms, a Mossberg shotgun, and a dozen boxes of various ammunition.  It appears to be some kind of small armory.  Andrew pulls out a huge handgun and lines it up with the creature's head.  The weapon looks like it could punch through a bullet-proof vest.  But Whisper is giving too much cover <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(:" title="Smile    (:"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname="(:" />)) to the creature - it's entirely possible a shot might hit your ally in the back.  Andrew hesitates.  To shoot, or not to shoot...?OOC:  I'd like to hear what you want to do, Sixchan.  Whisper is giving some good cover to the creature, but it's still possible you might hit it.  Everyone else, please post your next round actions...  As of right now, only Whisper sees the other creatures.  If you please - During each combat round, give me a couple possible things you might do.  If X / Then Y type of things.  "If the creature runs, I chase it - if not, then I shoot it."  Etc.  Also take into account whether you'll fire if an ally is in the way.  Thanks guys!</blockquote>

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