You guys get the jump on the ones on the roof (surprise round relative to the few baddies who were surprised, though they all rolled a bad init,)
Nightweaver flashes into the shadows on the roof, waiting to strike.
Most of he rest suddenly step through the closed roof door and fan out. The guards reflexively and instantly shapeshift into their hybrid form, their hair growing, their muscles bulging, and their heads changing into snarling wolf heads.
Optic rolls through and lands in a crouching position. He raises his hand to the side of his visor and blasts a beam of red energy at the man with the sniper rifle. The red energy hits him square in the chest and crackles around him, throwing him across the roof. He hits the floor, bounces a few times, and lands just short of falling off.
Viridian maintains the portal.
Several dozen glowing white orbs mashed together to form a sphere appear in the air above the heroes as Megan snaps back down in a roll that leaves her flat - hovering with her back only inches off the roof - and mostly behind Nitro. Meanwhile, the orb cluster zooms off towards the research building (the other one with a heavy weapon crew atop it, if I screw up) and then separates into a swarm of golf ball sized submunitions. Orbs fly off, approach gangers/guards, curve into their sight lines, and then ignite in a series of brilliant flashes. She then dives to the ground and awaits a counterattack.
One of the speedy lycans manages to cover hie eyes and hit the ground to avoid being blinded by the plasma flashes. From his prone position, he aims his rocket launcher,.
Nitro claps his hands together and kinetic waves burst forth towards the lycans. The one with an RPG manages to jump into the air, avoiding the blast, do a backflip, and land on the top of the covered bridge.
The other two are not so lucky, and are blasted to the edge of the roof, just like Optic's guy.
The lycan over the bridge fires off his grenade (Blast 10, 50 foot area), and the non-blinded on on the other roof fires off his rocket.
Nitro takes a direct hit form the RPG in the chest, and the rest are caught in the explosion. The blast damages the roof and creates a hole about 20 feet across, and seriously destabilizes he rest.
Nitro falls through the hole, and another one in the floor of the top floor of the building. He manages to jump from ledge to ledge as he falls through the rubble, winding up on his feet two stories down (Acrobatics Check = 35), only slightly hurt (1 Bruise)
Shooting Star gets caught in the blast, and is not nearly so lucky. The blast blows her through the roof as it crumbles below her. She too falls through two floors and lands on her back on top of a desk in some office, hitting her head quite hard. (Injured, Bruised, Stunned, Bruised (Knockback), No Falling Damage, failed Concentration check on flight, made the Acrobatics check). She blacks out momentarily and watches the sky spin through the crater blasted in the building.
Nightweaver manages to duck behind the stairwell top / door structure on the roof, avoiding injury entirely.
Angel is also caught up in the blast, and is injured (Injured, Bruised), though he stands his ground and though stays in the air.
Optic too is hurt, though he avoids the brunt of the blast (Injured, Bruised)
The rocket then hits as well (also Blast 10, 50 foot area...due to the imprecise nature of pbp combat, I am using burst area instead of the default explosion area)
The blast expands the hole in the building, adding diameter and another floor. When he arrives, Salix notices the damage and remembers that it is possible that these lycans become extremely aggressive in hybrid form, especially when having just entered it reflexively, so they may have instinctually used whatever weapons were in their hands, regardless of the collateral damage. (Knowledge: Life Sciences)
Angel again soaks up the explosion, and this time is entirely unharmed. So is Nitro, who manages again to land on his feet now three floors down. Nightweaver still stays behind cover and is fine (she still has a standard action this round btw).
Poor Shooting Star gets blasted through yet another floor, though she manages to roll off the desk, falling into the new hole but avoiding the brunt of the blast. She lands face-down on the floor below (Bruised again), right in front of Nitro.
Optic takes the blast head on, but manages to ride the blast over the stairwell-top / door thing (I am going to assume he's going to reroll with an hp, since he rolled a 1 on his save, missing by 10+. Jemal, if you don't want him to, I'll change it), which this second blast actually destroys, revealing a stairwell among the rubble.
Numero Uno jumps onto the dock, turning into a larger, more feral version of the other lycans' hybrid forms, steps a couple more times, and jumps onto the top of the building.
The man next to him takes to the air, throwing off his robes, and releasing his true form underneath. He unfurls bright red, petal-like wings, flapping on his back, and hard green "flesh" with brown patches on his skin, other than hit face and hands. He laughs eerily.
Optic recognizes him (Gather Info via Well-Informed = 35!). The thin man with the sunken eyes is a mutant with extensive plant control powers and an obsessive passion for poppies. Using his unique powers, he became what he is today: an Afghan drug lord known as the Heroin Sheik.
Salix steps through the gate and hits the guard on top of the bridge with a stun dart. The guard collapses.
Meanwhile, guards from other parts of the compound move towards that building, and the two trucks move towards you as well. It seems that a number of them are using the ridge to move from the undamaged building.
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