Mission 6d - Mission of Mercy

Sam instructs Eula to switch to gel rounds, and to move into position and shoot the guard, or any other guards who may show up.

WuJen sees the lone guard and hits him with a stunbolt.

Eula moves to a spot on the roof where she can get a clear shot at the guard, and fires a short burst.
12S Ap-3
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The guard is bombarded by a hail of attacks both magical and mundane. Given the sheer number of attacks aimed at him, it is pretty much inevitable that he should succumb to them. And yet, while he gets struck solidly by a stunbolt from Wujen, he manages to side step the blaze from Little Dragon as well as the burst of rubber bullets from Eula. The spirit of man manages to get a weak strike on the guard as well, but against all reason, he remains on his feet. Weakened by the incoming barrage, the guard quickly opens the door and dashes inside, taking cover from further attack.

WuJen creates a ramp to the ground at the corner of the building

Sam instructs Eula to stay up on the roof and keep her rifle aimed at the door and to shoot at anyone who comes out of the door. Then, when everyone else has made it down the magic ramp, to follow.

Then, Sam waits for someone else to head down the magic ramp to make sure that it seems safe. If it does, he follows.

One by one, people and drones start sliding down the ramp. It doesn't seem exceptionally safe, but no one dies doing it. As this is happening, Little Dragon notices a mage and a spirit appear on the roof in the astral plane.

((Others can act, but I only need init from astral people, aka the spirits and potentially Wujen if he chooses to perceive/project))

Sam and Eula attempt to find any available cover, with Eula keeping her rifle trained on the doorway.

WuJen turns to look as Little Dragon gives warning, and immediately says "Bring down the magician, quickly! ". and unleashes a Stunball on the mage and spirit as fast as he can manage.

Round 1, pass 1

Though those on the physical plane are unable to see completely what is going on, the astral plane is a flurry of action. The enemy's spirit charges forth at one of Wujen's spirits of man striking it in a flash of astral energy that completely destroys it. The still manifested spirit explodes in a blue flash.

Wujen gazes into the astral plane shortly after and is able to see the astral forms of a spirit of earth as well as a human mage.

His second spirit, Little Dragon and the security mage clash simultaneously, with the astral mage moving slightly faster as he charges at Wujen with an astral katana. Wujen dodges the blade but is just barely caught by it, causing him to fall prone and cough up a splattering of blood ((7P damage)). Meanwhile Wujen's spirits converge on the mage with astral attacks of their own. Both attacks graze the mage, but neither strikes solidly enough to deal damage.

Pass 2

The earth spirit turns its attention to Wujen, now that his form is astrally present. With an astral blast, it demolishes Wujen into the ground. Those on the physical plane see him let out all of his breath as his ribs suddenly crack audibly from the pressure of the attack and his eyes go dark ((7P damage)). His force safety slide vanishes as well.

Little Dragon's eyes go wide as she sees Wujen completely demolished by astral attacks and she completely vanishes from the physical plane. Meanwhile the remaining spirit and mage clash with one another in astral combat. Though no one is around who can see what is going on, Wujen's spirit of man is swinging and taking damage, but is still holding the line.

Pass 3

The spirit is clearly being attacked by something and seems to succumb to the attack as it dissolves into energy.

Round 2, pass 1

The ghostly form of a security mage appears on the physical plane and announces. "You've no chance at escape. Surrender or die." He then gives a confused look followed by one of agony as he suddenly bursts into flames and vanishes.

Sam doesn't really understand all of the magic things that happen in pretend space around him. But, from what he can tell, it seems like a mage just killed WuJen, and then Little Dragon disintegrated the mage.

Unfortunately, without WuJen's help, Sam doesn't have any way of getting up to the roof to help WuJen. Oh well, Sam thinks, hopefully Little Dragon will come back to help WuJen instead of just avenging him. If not, it was nice knowing him.

More immediately, Sam expects the guards to be coming for them now. He thinks there should be about nine left. Little Dragon is gone, WuJen is dead, and his spirits are gone. This isn't looking good for them.

Sam looks around, trying to think of some strategy that might get them out of here alive.

"Eula," he says. "Swap stealth for smartgun. Head towards the northwest and find a spot to hide yourself with a view of both entrances. Shoot any guards that come out.
Ichigo, set up like Eula."

Sam looks desperately around for anything he could use for cover. If he finds something, he uses it to take cover. If not, he heads to the northwest corner where he just sent Eula and Ichigo.

Perception
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Cover on the roof is scarce as it it largely just a flat open space. If Sam wants to avoid being shot at by ground forces, it's pretty easy to simply stay away from the edge of the roof to stay out of sight. If he wants to fire back, there is a low wall around the roof that he can take some cover from.

Little Dragon appears shortly thereafter and announces, "The mage has been taken care of, but the guards inside know we're here and are preparing to counter attack."

She looks at Ichigo, who is attending Wujen's wounds and she is quickly at his side. She asks, "Is he...?" as Ichigo administers a trauma patch and does his best to resuscitate Wujen. Things are touch and go, but eventually his eyes shoot open and he gasps for breath. Ichigo and Little Dragon cheer and get to work trying to patch up his wounds to a point where he can get on his feet again. By the time they are done, he is walking, but just barely. ((you're down to 7P damage after first aid))

Meanwhile Sam wracks his brain trying to think of how security might respond to this. It is an admittedly unusual situation to have assailants on the roof of the building that is being protected. Normally he would expect a drone response, but the jamming is limiting that. Spirits are the next option, and that option seems to also have been neutralized, as has any communications for backup. The two big advantages you all have is that the guards don't know how many of you are up here and there is no good cover for them to take in the parking lot. Rushing out or trying to take the ladder up would make them sitting ducks and, given that a few of them have been taken out already, Sam is pretty sure the guards know that much. This would mean the guards are running low on options, which is good for your group. But If they knew how few of you were up here, they may decide to risk coming out en masse, with hopes to overwhelm your shooters, particularly if they realize that you've been using non-lethal rounds. It's also possible that they have some other strategies available that they have yet to deploy, but Sam doesn't expect anything more dangerous than what you've seen thus far.

WuJen sits up painfully, wiping some blood from his mouth and address the situation.

He calls on the bound Spirit that had Trid Phantasm among it's powers and explains "There are several armed people in this building, and I want you to sow chaos and confusion among them, put them down believing they are beset by a multitude of enemies and uncertain of their foes and allies. "

WuJen concentrates for a moment, Summoning another Spirit, this one slightly weaker than the others owing to his uncertainty of handling powerful entities while still so drastically injured. "Thank you for answering my call. There are several armed persons in this building. I want you to coordinate with the Spirit beginning it's attack upon them, put them all to sleep. "

Finally, hoping that the Spirits will buy enough time, he looks at Little Dragon. "Sorry I got hurt so bad, let's patch this up so we can get some rest". He then casts Healing on himself with her help, sighing as most of the pain subsides, though some drain takes its toll.

WuJen then calls his final bound Spirit to his side "Protect me from enemies, Please"

While he is able to move, Wujen is still critically wounded when he starts summoning spirits and casting spells. By the time he has given his orders to the first two spirits, the sound of the doors opening from downstairs can be heard, followed by a clanking and a hiss. Eula and the other drones on the ground spot the doors opening and some kind of gas canister being tossed out in front of it, quickly obscuring vision in the area as Wujen begins administering healing magic to himself.

Seeing the smoke billowing from the doorways, Sam tries to think what the guards' next move might be. (3 hits)

Sam assumes they are trying to use the smoke as cover to allow themselves to get into a better position without getting shot. With most of their good options locked down, it's hard to tell what they plan on doing beyond that as most obvious plans (such as launching up grenades or setting the place on fire) would cause deep structural damage to the building, which they presumably want to avoid. Most security plans don't have contingencies for dealing with armed intruders on the roof while being unable to use the matrix or magic. At this point any plans the guards are coming up with are completely on the fly and up to whoever is in charge more than a general policy.

As the last of WuJen's wounds heals he casts another physical barrier to block the eastern doors of the building in an attempt to limit the options of the buildings security.

Sam cowers at a distance from the edge of the roof that should be safe from getting shot or hit with a grenade from below.

Eula holds her position, ready to take a shot as soon as she sees a guard emerge from the doors. She switches back to the smartlink autosoft. (4 hits for the shot. long burst. 12S AP-3)

Round 1, Pass 1

Eula waits for something to happen, firearm trained on the gas cloud, as does Ichigo.

Wujen meanwhile renews the wall on the eastern doors while his spirits presumably do stuff inside, unseen.

Little Dragon, not wanting to leave Wujen alone after his near death experience, remains on the roof, keeping near him in case something happens to attack him while he is making his wall. His other spirit bodyguards him as well.

Soon guards start streaming out of the northern door, using the gas as a screen while they run into a position to better protect themselves against attack. Eula, Ichigo and the Lynx open fire. Ichigo and the Lynx miss, but Eula manages to mow down one of the guards, sending him sliding along the pavement, face first. The remaining guards scatter. A couple try their best to get cover where they can, though there isn't much to choose from. They settle with a nearby dumpster. The other 4 seem to just book it as fast as they can with two heading for the main entrance (which the duelist begins to give chase to) and another two scaling fences. They seem spooked.

Sam safely cowers on the roof, away from harm.

"Eula," Sam calls out. "Prevent the guards from leaving. Chougo, send the roto drone, if you can hear me."

Eula shoots a long burst at one of the guards running for the fence.
Long burst, 12S -3AP
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WuJen sends a mental request to all of his spirits to subdue all the guards, beginning with the ones headed for the front gate and prepares to cast a Stunball.

Round 1, Pass 2-3

Eula fires at one of the guards climbing the fence. He jolts a bit from the shot, but appears still conscious.

Wujen meanwhile tries his best to smack the escaping guards with a stunball. Scattered as they are, he can only attempt to hit 2 of them. The stunball hits them, but not with enough force to knock them out.

One of Wujen's spirits comes running out of the building with what appears to be a small army of shadowrunners accompanying it. They open fire on the other guard climbing the fence. While it is only an illusion to cover the spirit casting a stunball, the guard ends up getting caught on the barbed wire on the top of the fence as he is rocked by the magic. He flips over the fence like a rag doll and strikes the pavement head first. Judging by the unnatural angle his head twists into on impact, it is doubtful that he'll be getting up ever.

Little Dragon sends a beam of flame at one of the fleeing guards, but only scorches the ground near him.

Ichigo has better luck shooting at one of those guards, though much of the damage appears soaked up by the guard's armor. It'll leave a bruise in the morning at least.

While most of the guards flee, at least 2 of them open fire on your group. One lays down full auto fire on the lynx, which manages to get a shot off at the other fence guard before exploding in a shower of sparks. The guard on the fence is unharmed by the shot though. The second guard fires a grenade launcher. The projectile arcs up onto the roof and explodes with a loud shockwave that rocks everyone there. Of those on the roof who are caught in the blast, Eula, Wujen's body guard spirit, and Little Dragon are unaffected, but Ichigo, and Wujen are knocked off their feet. Ichigo ((1S)) seems to weather the shockwave a lot better than Wujen ((9S)) however. Sam is luckily far enough from the blast to avoid it entirely.

Another of Wujen's spirits comes out of the building and knocks the other guard off the fence. While unconscious, he appears to be in better condition than the other guard who had attempted to climb the fence.

The duelist does its best to intercept the guards fleeing to the gate, but they manage to dodge around it and appear to be outrunning it as well.

The spirit ordered to bodyguard Wujen focuses it's attention on the man who just launched a grenade onto the roof.

Sam shouts out, telling Eula to keep the remaining guards from leaving while hoping Fuchougou can hear him say that air support is needed. With his deck jamming signals, the only chance for Fuchougou to hear is if his Lynx picks up the audio in all the noise of explosions and gunfire and manages to get through the matrix noise he is sending out. The chances seem low, but hopefully Fuchougou is at least paying enough attention to what is going on that he could figure it out on his own.

Pass 3-4

With the fence climbers down, Eula is able to turn her attention to the gate runners.... ((gimme 2 shooting rolls please))

Wujen's ears are ringing, but he's still conscious, barely. ((Wujen's prone and can't really see anything on the ground without standing up, let me know what he's doing this pass))

((FYI, there are currently 2 guards behind a dumpster who are shooting at yall and uninjured as well as 2 that are somewhat knocked about, but still booking it to the front gate. Eula will be shooting at the latter 2 with her next 2 passes.))

WuJen does his best to drag himself way from any further grenades while the stars and birdies clear from his blurry vision. ((Full defense, taking cover, whatever. WuJen needs a nap))

Eula continues firing on the retreating guards (7 hits and 2 hits)