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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 434738" data-attributes="member: 150">tank soup part 3Things could only get better.  Without actually aiming, the tankers were shooting and missing, but would eventually hit Irk and his captured tank.  Pah, who had been running as hard as she could, covering ground much more slowly than Ulric had as a warhorse, arrived on the scene and bounded into Irk's captured tank to assist, where she was joined by the revived Eli and MinimonkThis quikly became a comic gunbattle, as one tank full of competent gunners shot blind, trying to avoid opening their viewports, while the incompetent halflings and dwarf fumbled with the gore-splattered shells and controls to try to return fire.  The party's tank took a few hits, glancing blows that damaged the tank and made their ears ring, but that luckily did not penetrated the tank's armor meaningfully.  Pah managed to get the tank moving a bit, to throw off the german tanker's blind aim, but they were still not able to get the tank gun working rapidly enough.Ulric and Crys, having finished with the other two tanks (and being woefully low on spells as a result) arrived on the scene to try to help take out the last tank.  Chrys jumped into the party's tank and added her fumbling to the efforts there, while Ulric joined Eli, who was still trying to keep the germans from getting a good look outside their tank.Ulric watched the scene for a few minutes, and then came up with a plan, which he shared with Eli.  He shapedshifted again, this time into an asp.  Eli scooped him up and edged closer to the enemy tank.Meanwhile, the Germans had heard the sound of their target moving, and had braved opening a viewport or two to get a glimpse at their target so they could adjust their aim.  They were pleasantly surprised that Eli was not shooting at them, and they got a bit brave, rolling forward to try to get the party's tank in view again.  As they passed Eli's hiding place, he hopped up onto the tank and pressed the Ulric-asp into one of the viewports.Eli jumped away from the tank, avoiding a burst of machinegun fire, and took cover.  At about thattime, Pah managed to get the party's tank turned around and facing the German tank again.  The Dragoon tankers had not seen Urlic and Eli's snake trick, and had no idea that Ulric was in the german tank as they opened fire again.  They fumbled and fired once more, missing, before they spotted Eli hopping around behind the german tank, signaling for them to hold their fire.The snake went to work, writhing around in the controls while desperate Germans tried to stomp and shoot at him.  The german tank coasted to a halt as they succumbed to the snake's poison, delivered in many small bites.Eventually the tanks quieted down, the dust settled. They took stock, managed to figure out how to transfer fuel and ammunition into the tank Ulric had just captured (the least wrecked of the tanks available) and they were ready to look for a place to hide out for the night.</blockquote>

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