Mission 2b - Special Delivery

(OOC: I resist with Body+Spellcasting(counterspelling), right?  Also, I'm Astrally Projecting, and Powerbolt is a physical spell.  I didn't think it would be able to affect me.  Manabolt would have no issue, however, but can't be used on vehicles and such.)

Resist Powerbolt (Body+Counterspell)
WuJen carried out 8 launched of one d6 :

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Inititative: 8+
WuJen carried out 1 launched of one d6 :

WuJen flinches at the Powerbolt spell, doing his best to disperse it's energies while calling to Roll "Roll, the Black Cobras are our enemies.  They need not die, but they must be subdued and their motorcycles collected in a pile over there unless they flee quickly." WuJen points to a spot on the side of the road.

(OOC: I assume you will handle Roll's initiative and actions?)

(My first action depends on the bikers.  To cast at me one of them should be at least Astrally Perceiving and thus dual natured and vulnerable to spells from astral space.  If so, I will cast Stunbolt back at him.  If not I will cast Improve Reflexes on myself.  Either way the roll is the same.)

Sorcery (Stunbolt or Improve Reflexes, Force 6, with Little Dragon Aiding Sorcery)
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Drain:
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The member 'RafV' has done the following action : You roll:

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((Fancy! If I use the roll form at the bottom, it posts as the GM!))
Initiative: 12

There's not much Sun can do without opening the car doors. Opening the doors would expose Torpor, who's opening it for only a few inches. So... Sun is doing the smart thing: laying low on the van's floor, while waiting to be allowed outside.

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Chougou reasserts that if they are able to get out of the van to attack that it will probably be our best shot at getting out of here alive, otherwise the only way that any shooters will be able to attack is going to be by opening the door and breaching our only security for the package. The open door will be where they focus all their fire and it's likely that they will succeed.

"If you guys with weapons want to take any actions it should be outside, we can't fight them with a breach in our defenses. I'll send the drones out to cover you, but the package needs to stay in a secure area otherwise it's going to add a whole new set of complications and render the whole point moot! We can't all be contained in here like sitting ducks!"

Chougou would like to look around to see what his maneuverability situation is, if he can go forward or backwards at all and if so how far.

Torpor moves to the front seat ducking low as he puts the window down enough to fire at the gangers. ((would that be both simple actions? If so i tell Chou to put the window down so i gave an action to fire. If i can see the lead ganger i shoot for him, if not the biggest will do)) looking for a target to shoot.

"Chougou can we just drive by these dumb fucks Instead of getting into a fire fight? I mean if you guys wanna get into one I'll have you backs but I prefer to avoid it at least till were on the way out!"

((I'm operating on the assumption that we are pinned to where we are because of traffic that has stopped including the people that have left their cars in front of us once the shooting started))

"I can try to plow through these cars, but that's just going to make us a definite target and possibly trap us more, let alone maybe getting the cowboys involved...if we have to fight we should prepare a defensive position, and fast"

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"I'd avoid plowing through traffic. It will surely make us a target. Either we wait for them to finish robbing the snack truck while keeping a low profile, or we can help the poor fellows of that truck out. Plowing through traffic won't help with either option."

"I'm sorry i wasnt insinuating that we plow through people."

((I already rolled Wujen's resistance, which is why he only took 3P damage. Since he is astrally projecting, his physical stats are replaced by his mental ones, so body = willpower. Note that yes a powerbolt can affect an astral target, but since astral projectors use willpower for body, it is essentially identical to a manabolt to them.

Note that since you didn't declare counterspelling previously (using a free action), you have to do an interrupt action, which lowers your init by 5 (which I figured into your remaining init for the round). You get spell defense dice equal to your sorcery(counterspelling) skill per round. The pool doesn't refill until the next round, assuming you declare it again, so if you use all the dice now and a second spell gets cast at you, that's all the dice you get. So when you make your next post, roll me however many spell dice you want to devote to resisting this and I'll apply the hits to reducing your damage.

Also note that calling a spirit to help you is a simple action (which you said you had done earlier, so no need worry about it) and giving it an order is another simple action. To do all that and cast, you are doing reckless spellcasting to use a simple action instead of a complex, which ups the drain by 3. In other circumstances, this could allow you to cast 2 spells as one action if you don't mind the drain

Final note, since you are astrally projecting, you use astral initiative which is intuition x 2 + 3d6. I'll go ahead and roll it for you to move things along))

Round 1, Pass 1

The biker plugs into his motorcycle and circles around to open fire on the delivery truck's rear with what appears to be a vehicle mounted heavy machine gun. The door takes some heavy damage.

Chougou gets his drones into permission and checks his surroundings to see how far he can move. It looks like there are lamp posts, fleeing drivers and benches on the sidewalk. While these would not be an issue on foot, a big van would smash into them. The fleeing drivers should at least be out of the way in a round or two though.

2 more bikers plug in, circle around and work on shooting the back door. With their combined shots, the door is worn down and soon there is a big enough hole in it that a person could get through it.

Torpor peeks out the front window and makes a shot at biker3. The capsule round hits the target in the back of the head, and splats some chemical all over him. His bike topples over as he is knocked out cold.

Ichigo waits to see what is going to happen as he tells Chougou to try and get you guys out of there.

A biker whirls around as he realizes shots are being fired from somewhere other than the delivery truck and opens fire on Torpor with a full burst of machine gunfire. Only one of the bullets manages to clip him thanks to the van's cover. Luckily his armor soaks up much of the damage, but it will certainly leave a bruise. ((7S))

The mage looks between Wujen and Torpor and decides that Torpor is the more dangerous of the two. She concentrates on him for a moment, and while there is no obvious visual effect, she seems obviously fatigued by whatever it is she did. ((4S drain))

Wujen does his best to deflect the damage, command his spirit to attack the gangers and throw out a stunbolt at the mage (2S). It wears Wujen down ever so slightly (1S drain)

Sun also waits to see what is going to happen.

Roll appears on the physical plane and stares down one of the bikers, ordering him to leave. He freaks out at the large boulder and gets ready to drive off. ((biker 4 will be fleeing during his next action))


End of pass initiatives and effects:
12 - Biker1
11 - Chougou ((note your hot sim rigging init is intuition+data processing+4d6))
11 - Biker5
10 - Biker2
10 - Torpor
18 - Biker3 (unconscious)
7 - Ichigo
6 - Biker4 (running away)
3 - Mage biker (6S)
2 - Sun
1 - Roll
0 - Wujen

((I am going to clear up some of the ooc chatter to clean this thread up a little))

Ok, Chougou'd like to jump in to the Crawler and burst off a few shots with the Smartgun at one of the bikers that are attacking the back door.

Gunnery 5 + Logic 5 + Agility 3 +2 (for rigged in) ((I googled this roll so let me know if it's not right))

Fuchou 复仇 carried out 13 launched of one d6 :

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Counterspell 3 dice (Noted that physical spells work on astral bodies.)
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WuJen fires another Stunbolt at the Mage

Sorcery (Stunbolt Force 6)
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Drain
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Ichigo will go out the back of the van and take a shot at the mage with his silenced ares light 75 pistol  . Valacan carried out 11 launched of one d6 :

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Sorry I just realized that I said what I was doing and not how I was doing it! So I edit my turn if that's ok with the gm. If not then I could have just missed my turn.

GameMaster wrote:((yes, Sun can step out of the van and go punch people if he wants to.))

((Hurray! Let's put some sticks in wheels!))
Sun sneaks out the front passenger's door and creeps between cars, trying to stay low. When close enough, he pokes his staff into the nearest biker's wheels.

Round 1, Pass 2

With the back rollaway door to the delivery van thoroughly demolished, the three bikers unplug from their bikes and begin moving in to gather their booty. One manages to get in to safety, but before the next two can, Chogou fires up his drone and rains bullets down on one of the bikers. ((uses 6 bullets)) The bullets strike the biker in the back, tearing through his leather armor with ease. (7P damage)) Blood bursts from his wounds as he dives into the delivery truck.

Before he can be shot again, Torpor dives back into the back of Chougou's van and fires a single round into Wujen's unconscious body body. Unable to avoid the incoming shot, the capsule round easily strikes him and coats him with narcojet. ((10S,3P after resistance rolls)) He then turns, apparently getting ready to shoot Chougou's equally unconscious form.

Ichigo fires at the mage with his pistol. Her jacket soaks up a majority of the damage. ((2S))

As one of the bikers freaks out and drives off into the distance, the mage gets off her bike and takes cover. She shouts, "Spirit of Earth, BEGONE!" Roll pauses for a moment, mid-attack and says, "Okay," then vanishes.

Sun meanwhile sneaks up to but a stick through one of the biker's tires, but quickly realizes all of the bikers are either off their bikes, unconscious, or gone, so putting a stick in their wheels won't be terribly useful at the moment. The nearest biker being the mage, he tries to thwack her with his stick instead. She manages to just barely avoid the attack as exhaustion and bruising wear her down.

End of pass initiatives and effects:
1 - Chougou
0 - Biker1
0 - Biker5
0 - Biker2 (7p)
0 - Torpor
18 - Biker3 (unconscious)
0 - Ichigo
0 - Biker4 (gone)
0 - Mage biker (8S)
0 - Sun
1 - Roll (banished)
0 - Wujen (body is unconscious, but projecting)

((While I am not really sure what happens to an astral projector when their body goes unconscious from stun while they are gone, there is plenty of lore about them being able to remain projecting after death, so I am going to rule that Wujen can still function on the astral plane so long as he doesn't return to his body.

For the last pass, Chougou is the only one with an action remaining and he probably doesn't realize that Torpor is pointing a gun at his body at the moment.

As usual, I will clean up the ooc posts))

(OOC pretty sure I'm unconcious outside of my body and dead if I don't wake up in time to get back to it, especially if it's been moved and I have to look for it. If I am active, however, Roll should not be banished. I'm fine either way. Our failure to geek the mage that was highlighted and discussed with advise that she should receive the first bullets should anything kick off has essentially doomed us.)

Chougou will pump his little arm in success from having hit the one biker and will turn towards the next one in his line of sight, remembering to "geek the mage" from all the trids that he's seen.

He fires the Colt Government from the Rotodrone aiming for the biker waving her hands around and such.

Gunnery 5 + Logic 5 + Rigged in 2

Fuchou 复仇 carried out 12 launched of one d6 :

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