For Us It Was a Tuesday

[CanadienneBacon]

OOC: Thanks, Shayuri. And, yes, [MENTION=95059]Forged Fury[/MENTION] built Thistle to pack a whollop. He did a phenomenal job. I think she delivers.18d6: 74 [18d6=4, 2, 3, 5, 3, 5, 5, 4, 6, 1, 3, 5, 4, 6, 4, 5, 4, 5] 8 successes.

[section]Thistle raised her cyberarm, aimed, and pulled the trigger. She packed ADPS ammunition, so she hoped the remaining drone was in range. If it was, she felt confident she'd score a hit and hopefully disintegrate the thing.[/section]

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Floch will hide and will wait for the second drone before he will charge it with his axe, unless someone else will bring it down before him.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Thistle's bullets riddle the armor plating of the second drone. The defenses of this one also fail to hold up and it shivers before collapsing near the first. The noise of your combat echoes through the hallways of the building, however, and you soon hear inhuman howls and moans from the rest of the building.

Echo does some work on the video files she downloaded and has a dismal report. It seems that the building is infested with mutated humans with elongated limbs, clawed hands, sharp teeth and an ugly disposition. You're going to find yourself up against ghouls.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

[section]Thistle smiled grimly to herself in satisfaction. It felt good to blow something to smithereens. Her nerves fired up again, however, when the building began to resound with howls and cries. She felt goosebumps rise on her neck and forearms. "We're gonna have company," she called to any of the others who might not have ventured forward toward the door when the drones appeared. Thistle turned to Floch. "Think we have time to barricade the doorway with these cubicle dividers?" She pushed on a divider, testing it for weight.[/section]

 

[Deuce Traveler]

The dividers are easy to lift and disassemble. They are also light-weight and made mostly from cheap fabric and low quality plastic. Typical corporate garbage.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

[section]Thistle hoisted one of the corporate cubical dividers, but quickly put it down, disgusted. "These aren't going to slow down anyone or anything." She scoffed, then started looking up, trying to figure out whether it was worth it find a perch higher up, maybe from the ceiling beams (if there were any).[/section]

OOC: If there's somewhere higher up to climb up to, Thistle will walk over and start climbing.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

OOC: Thistle can try to climb if she tries to knock out the cheap ceiling tiles and lighting from the fabricated office space.

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Floch moves toward the drones and touch them with the tip of his axe, after a loud snort and a grunt he peeks from around the corner from where they came to look for any signatures of hot spots.

 

[Shayuri]

Echo backs up to where the others are working, and despite having been spotted by the host's defenses, decides to try to grab something useful before she's forced to flee. The building should have a fire escape plan, most likely publically available, unprotected data. It wouldn't label the rooms but it would give a floorplan. Something they could use to find a chokepoint, or other defensible location, perhaps...

(OOC - Computers roll? Or will that need hacking? Reading a little, it seems like the file would be something Echo could recognize immediately, unless it was Hidden, then would use Computer+Intuition to access, again unless there was some encryption or security protecting it. During the turn she was doing that, the host would be able to take action against her however.)

 

[CanadienneBacon]

[section]Thistle clambered to the top of a desk that was closest to the wall of the room, and stood up on it. She reached up, trying to lift the ceiling tile and shove it aside. Once she saw whether the ceiling would support her weight, she used her cyberarm to pull herself up.[/section]

OOC: Trying to climb to higher ground.

Cyberarm 9 + Strength 4 = 13d6 = [6, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 3, 3] = 53 = 4 successes

 

[Deuce Traveler]

When Floch looks around the corner, he sees out in the hallway three hot spots. From the moaning, snarling and sniffing that they are doing he determines that they are some of the ghouls Echo found out about. They are slowly tracking the scent of the group back into the room Floch and party are in.

When Thistle rips open the fabricated ceiling, she can see some weak beams she might be able to hold onto and perch on top. However, she also isn't the only one that had the same idea. Crawling along the beams are two ghouls 15 meters away that shriek at her in anger before trying to crawl speedily in her direction. Looks like she spoiled an ambush and can take a free ranged attack before they crash through the ceiling tiles and into the room.


OOC: Echo can attempt to find something useful with a simple Computer roll.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

[section]"Christ on a crutch." Thistle swore softly, raising her Ruger and squeezing the trigger at the ghouls in the ceiling. The shot echoed loudly, only slightly dampened by the ceiling tiles.[/section]

18D6 = 58 [6, 5, 1, 6, 5, 2, 5, 1, 1, 4, 6, 4, 3, 4, 1, 1, 2, 1] = 6 successes.

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Floch charge one of the ghouls with his mighty axe and attacks

Axe melee attack: 14d6 51 - 5 successes. The axe damage is 13 with a reach of 3.

 

[galenbd]

Realizing those ghouls could infect him, Prometheus prepares to cast Levitate to hopefully get himself out of range. Seeing Floch head out the doorway into the hall, Prometheus knew he would need help, so he scurried after him before casting the spell.

[sblock]Move 4 meters toward the door to L34
Cast Force 4 levitate with 3 successes. Easily over the threshold to lift my puny weight.
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4819956/
Drain resistance gives me 3 successes with gets me completely out of drain
http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4819957/
[/sblock]

 

[Shayuri]

"...on a crutch," murmured Echo vacantly, her eyes focusing on something that had no substance in the room.

Computer roll to get the floorplan: 4 successes
Computer:12d6: 39 [12d6=5, 1, 4, 5, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 5, 2, 6]

 

[Queenie]

OOC: I don't think Phoenix sees anything yet? However her friends have alerted her to the fact that is trouble. Can you ready an action? If so, she will definitely ready to blast the first ghoulies she sees. I believe it will be 18d6.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

OOC: Back now from a vacation. Update soon as I get home to my dice, since I have too many dice rolls for ENWorld's roller and Invisible Castle is down again. Sorry for the delay.

 

[Queenie]

IC's been down for ages. Here are two you can try:

http://orokos.com/roll/?action=roll

http://www.coyotecode.net/roll/

I'm leaning towards Orokos but to each their own.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Floch runs out the door and into the hallway before striking out with his axe. He hits the lead ghoul squarely with his axe, splitting both its skull and brain matter before it can scream. Prometheus follows him out, then casts a levitate spell, though due to the fabricated ceiling it only keeps him six feet off the floor. Harder to grab, but not impossible.

Thistle fires in desperation, striking the ghoul with several shots along his chest. He groans and topples into the fabricated ceiling, crashing through and landing next to Phoenix who doesn't have to act as the creature is just barely incapacitated. The second ghoul dives through the hole to land between Phoenix and Thistle.

Echo finds the location of the floor plan files and is just about to start going through them, when she is spotted by an enemy Killer IC.

OOC: Surprise round over in your favor. One ghoul is in the main room, and another two in the hall with Prometheus and Floch. Echo now has this floor's floor plan but has to contend with a killer IC. I'll update the map tomorrow, but for now everyone roll initiative.

 

[Queenie]

Initiative : 3D6+12 = [2, 5, 2]+12 = 21