[M&M2e] Red Sands Chronicles


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Brian Shaughnessy

Brian breathes deep and focuses.

"You might feel a bit of a chill. Don't worry," he says with an assuring smile, then he stops talking to concentrate.

His extra senses note the swirl and ebb of heat each body gives off. He tightens his attention on Deezy and Seif, catching the wisps of heat their bodies exude and normalizing them with the rest of the room as soon as they appear. He looks them both up and down slowly, making sure he's not missed anything, then nods.

"Make sure you stay in my sight line and we should be good to go," he says.
 

"You might feel a bit of a chill. Don't worry," he says with an assuring smile, then he stops talking to concentrate.
"Let me go first," whispered Seif to their resident inventor.

<Response Deezy?>

«Assuming she goes for it:

The desert man waited for the crimson beam to pass, then walked forth as far as he could before it came again -- all of three steps. Freezing in place, he watched it approach, lighting a wall of evanescent green fires in the aether-ladden air... Pass over him like a physical wave... Then drop beyond.

[sblock=Actions]Don't know if Brian has to roll anything to do this, but if so I'm hoping Seif's slow and careful approach will allow him to Help Another on it? Whatever the case, if nothing changes in the beam or the machine, Seif will keep carefully advancing till he gets to the blower itself.[/sblock]
 


"Crazy," Deezy whispers joyously, and quickly falls into line behind Seif. At the blower, she gives the apparatus a much closer and more thorough inspection, looking for a vulnerable point to disarm it.
 

OOC: Nice roll, Shayuri!
Seif looked but couldn't make sense of it beyond the obvious: double rings of the detector here on top, external explosive bolted onto the frame there, connections in between... a whole mess of connections. "Would it explode if we just stopped the motor?"

OOC: How is this thing powered, by the way, Relique? Battery, gasoline engine, aether engine feeding off the tanks/feeding off a seperate tank?
[sblock=Actions]Help Another on mechanics: 1d20=7. Failed.[/sblock]
 
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OOC: Sorry for the delay... Been busy cleaning my pigsty ans I'm still not finished :(

Deezy walks around the device and begins to inspect it. As she glances over the device she realizes that the device was pieced together from an aether-powered gas blower, an a aether-heater unit (the casing), and what appears to be a vaporizer. The unit's guts were removed to accommodate blower's aether powered engine and a small electric generator that provides energy for the sensors, vaporizer, and the explosive charge. However as she glanced at the machinery she quickly notices that the device has no battery, making it unable to hold a charge once the engine is disabled.

The engine itself hooked up to several tanks that appears to contain a aether-fortified diesel, and the remaining tanks are filled with the liquefied aether* that are feed into the vaporizer. From her angle, she can tell that the engine has a pull cord starter, and a hard to reach kill switch. However, considering the overall design of the device, she concludes that the most simplest way to disable the device in general would be just to slice the fuel intake valves and hope that it momentary spray of fuel doesn't start a fire (which could cause aether to flash over).
 
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Deezy hummed to herself a she gave the machine a good looking over. The tune was jaunty and a touch haphazard...not at all indicative of the deadly device she was inspecting, let alone the bomb attached to it. She walked around it, leaned this way and that, went onto her tippytoes for a moment to see something farther back in the tangle of hoses.

Finally she nodded and waved Seif over.

"Need you to get that sword of yours out and...carefully...cut this hose here. I'll be pinching it farther down. Okay? Don't cut anything else."

Deezy reached up then and pinched the hose she'd pointed out as hard as she could, with both sets of fingers. "Okay, go!"
 

"Hu." Fuel line to the motor. The desert man drew his right sword, tentatively positioned himself for slicing strike... then reverse gripped and squatted in front of Deezy, pressing his body close to the machine -- and not coincidentally between the future cut and the burning-hot engine block/exhaust. (He felt its heat burn into upper back, shoulder and arm almost immediately, prayed he would not be there long enough for his suit to melt, to pierce). Quickly then, he gripped the hose two inches in front of Deezy's hands, carefully pricked the point of his sword into the top of it - looked to far away Shaughnessy and Ottoman, looked into *her* eyes - and... triggered!

[sblock=Actions]Impale straight down into the floor, hoping the flat of his blade AND his own body will be enough to intercept any splashes.

I don't see how he could miss like this, so straight to the 21 Tough save?[/sblock]
 

Seif extends the blade, slicing the tubes in a quick stab.

After few seconds, a sucking sound could be heard from the fuel intake valves as air is drawn into the engine. Soon after, the engine began to sputter as it slowly used up its remaining fuel before dying and causing one final puff of aether to leave blow out of the blower. At the same time, the laser's intensity dimmed until it was non-existant.
 

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