China
Kevin
OOC: You have a complete knowledge of Chinese Mandarin.
You head down the hill to the village and find the marketplace with ease. People look at you curiously, and while not unfriendly, most don't seem to terribly interested in saying anything to you. One woman sees you and waves you over.
Translated from Chinese...
"You must be one of the new students Lo Wen has at his school. I managed to get him something very special," she says to you, obviously pleased with herself. She pulls out a very small scuplted bush you recognize vaguely from an old movie as a bonsai tree. "You need to be very careful with it and not tip it too much. The roots are very delicate," she adds as she sets it on a wooden cart. "Could you bring the cart back once you unload it? I only have the two of them and have another delivery today."
To your lament, the cart is quite sizeable. You can probably get it up the hill on your own, but it isn't going to be easy.
X12
You find Xi already in the dojo, a spear with bright red tufted feathers attached just beneath the tip held in his hands. He is moving through a complex attack routine, punctuated by loud cracks as he slams the spear into the floor in a flat fashion. The spear itself seems to flex somewhat, giving the tip a deceptive location often. He spins when you fully enter.
And hurls the spear at you.
You barely manage to duck the spear which sticks, quivering, in a beam behind you. Xi comes on in rapid fashion, flashing punches and kicks at you, most of the time hitting, hard. He rocks you back on your heals, driving you backward with out saying a word, an intense look upon his face. As he passes the spear, he rips it free, spinning it around, striking you with the blunt end. The back wall gets close, and with a deft move, he trips you to the floor. Prone and at his mercy, he spins the spear in a rapid circle, then swings it horizontally, striking a vase you hadn't noticed there before. It shatters loudly.
The sound of shattering glass was the first thing you heard. The liquid around you drained away, leaving you hanging limply. The harness you were in pinched painfully and the tubes your nose and throat began to choke you. The lights blinded you as you opened your eyes, barely allowing you to see a few feet. A form loomed infront of you, dressed in white, and without warning pulled the tubes out. They burned as they exited, and left you spluttering and coughing.
A click, then you were falling to the bottom of the small platform you were on, the harness falling about your naked body. Nothing else happened for a long while. You felt your breathing become easier, your muscles stronger and your eyes stopped hurting, allowing you to see around you. You were in a lab. A female stood before you; she was dressed like a doctor, but you don't know how you knew that. Two armed guards stood nearby, Parvex Mark V rifles in hand, 8" military combat knives at their waists. The body armor could be easily overcome with careful strikes to the pressure points just behind the ear, or they could be disaped at their vulnerable legs. You blinked, unsure of where that knowledge came from.
The door slid open, and a man in a hooded cloak strode in, shadows dancing around him. "Stand up," he ordered, and you complied instinctively to his authority. "Your name is Directive 12, do you understand?" he said. Looking to him, you could see yourself in the reflection of a window behind him, hairless but for the hair on your head and eyebrows. "Do you understand?" he repeated.
"I am Directive 12," you repeated.
"Do you know who I am?" he asked.
Without hesitation you responded. "Father."
You blinked your eyes to see Xi standing over you, spear resting casually over his shoulder.
New York - Methesda
Straightjacket
Initiatives: Guards 20, Chief 14, SJ 9 [3L]
OOC: It will be a full round action to get close to the door again. You'll be able to do a half action move to get in next round.
You drop the unconscious guard and dash for the building to get out of the line of fire of the dangerous Chief of Security, the dogs charging after you the entire way. One dog bounces off your leg when harmlessly, but the other, obviously much meaner one, latches onto your ankle as you go, you dragging him along, finally shaking him loose near the doors. One guard takes a pot shot at you as you run, but that shot goes wide.
Attack Rolls: vs SJ -- 23 (we name this dog Cujo), 10 (miss), 8 (miss)
Save: 13(14) success!
You hear a loud roar and glance back to see the Chief sweeping in towards you. As he closes within about fifty feet, he launches another blast at you. The electricity course through you and the pavement near you, causing one of the dogs to yelp and run away. Not the mean dog though; he's out for blood! The chief is now about twenty five feet off the ground and twenty five feet from you horizontally.
Attack Roll: vs SJ -- 24 (hit) [VP to double movement rate]
Save: 15(16) [1L]
As you approach the door, you see a soaked guard with a sparking and groaning gun standing there. Inside you can make out that the floor has been largely turned to water, along with the sounds of battle from within. You hear a woman shout over the commotion, "What the hell is going on here!?"
Neutron, Metal Mistress
Initiatives: Guards 20 [4 have to escape water], Battlesuit 18-1[1L], Neutron 18-2[2L], Metal Mistress 18-3[2L], Rebound 6[3L,stunned]
Neutron blasts the ground at the feet of the Suit, and energy quickly covers a large area. Guards try to dive for cover and the Suit simply stands there, unperturbed as the floor turns to water beneath him.
Saves (Ref -- effectively a clever snare): 9, 11, 13, 18, 8, 22, 19 (suit) -- below 17 fails.
The three guards to the Suit's left (MM's right, ahead of Neutron) fail to move in time, landing with a splash in the five foot deep pool of water, as does the guard nearest the Suit firing on Sanjay. Two others dive and roll out of the area, coming up, rifles pointed at Neutron. The Suit simply stands, as if he's still on solid ground. A slight hum from his suit makes you think he activated a flight or hover component of his battlesuit.
Michelle lets loose another blast at the Suit, this time impacting solidly in the chest! Sparks fly as the suit tries to compensate for the blast. It seems successful and the Suit only is shoved back a few inches.
Attack Roll: 15(20) hit!
Save: 14 [1L]
As rebound clears the cobwebs again, the swimming guards struggle to make their way to the edge of the pool. Two manage to get out near Rebound, just to the right of Michelle, one gets out near the entrance, and the final one just makes it to the edge of the pool. The guns of the suddenly dunked guard are sparking and spluttering.
The other two, now dangerously close to Neutron, glance to each other, then both turn a knob on their weapons, firing a much stronger burst of electrical energy at Neutron at once. The blast shocks him, literally, and lightning dances about his metallic skin.
Attack Roll: combined fire vs Neutron -- 6 (VP to re-roll is a natural 20)
Save: 6 (HP to re-roll is 12(15)) [1L]
The Suit ignores MM, firing instead at Neutron. "Let's put a stop to this transformation of my bosses building," he growls, though you sense a bit of trepidation in his voice. He cuts loose a powerful blast of his own, but Neutron manages to barely deflect it up and away.
Sense motives: MM 15, SJ 17
Attack Roll: 17 (hit) -- Deflection 10 (17) success! No HP available for reflection though
A door suddenly opens just to Sanjay's right (MM's left) and a woman in a business suit comes storming out. "What the hell is going on here!?" she says angrily. You see Monica standing behind her. Upon seeing the situation, she springs over the woman, rolling and coming to her feet facing one of the guards with a working gun. She grabs the barrel and forces it upward, growling, her skin taking on some dark striping.
New combined order:
Initiatives: Guards/Dogs 20 (6 guards, 1 dog) [4 guards have to escape water], Battlesuit 18-1[1L], Neutron 18-2[1L], MM 18-3[2L], Monica 15, Chief 14, SJ 9 [3L], Rebound 6[3L]
Straightjacket is up, then Neutron and MM. The guards inside went a bit out of order.
