Ouch!
Pretending to get something back.
What should I do?
Where aeties looks okay,
and if it looks better.
会...
like...
Yeah,
Ugh...
Who do you think you are?
He ar tent to hug you shouldn't you?
No idea to do that
Don't worry
I'll just....
go to bed
just right.
sexy
next
Cut scene number two.
A prison common, brightly lit with artificial lights.
The narrow windows high on the walls show the gray winter sky of Seattle.
Inside the room, male metahumans lounge at round tables.
Playing cards or watching the trid screens.
They are wearing close fitted blue jumpsuits with yellow numbers printed in across their
back.
There is a catwalk above them with a single guard wearing a black uniform and holding
a shotgun.
Cameras in the corners of the room leave little doubt that nothing happens here that
is not observed and recorded.
An intercom crackles to life and a jovial voice calls out.
You're up for 12.
Report to your station ASAP.
None of the prisoners give any indication that they heard or cared until the guard on
the catwalk yells gruffly.
For 12, get your hoop and gear.
You heard the man.
A prisoner stands slowly, seemingly painfully, from one of the metal tables.
He is human, short and thin with long, poorly cut, graying brown hair.
His face is thin and a stringy mustache and goatee don't improve the look.
Nor do the small round glasses pushed up against his face.
The number 412 is emblazoned across the shoulders of his jumpsuit.
412 nods at his companions around the table.
He has been playing some arcade analog game on a checkered board with a large dark-skinned
orc who barely seems contained by his jumpsuit.
Several other prisoners are standing around the table staring intently at the board.
The orc nods back at him and touches a long, knobby fingers to his temple in salute.
See you when you get back, Ome, the orc rumbles.
Large, plastic door opens and as 412 passes through it, another guard in black falls into
step beside him.
Why do you always make us come to get you, 412?
Don't you like having a nice little job and getting extra rations?
You want to go in a solitary for a while?
The only reaction from 412 is a resigned shrug.
The two pass down several corridors and are buzzed through a heavy security door.
They approach a row of pods.
Several are occupied by other metahumans, slumped in padded restraints.
412 climbs into one with practiced motions.
As he leans forward, a small, dark gray metallic box is revealed, fused to the back of his
neck.
Then he sits back and unreels a jack from a spool in the headrest.
Padded restraints snap into place around his ankles and chest.
The jack slots neatly into a port on his right temple and 412 slumps instantly into their
restraints.
In a large warehouse, an unmanned forklift hums to life.
The forks are raised and lowered as if testing their function.
In the lift, rolls smoothly into the aisles of deeply stacked crates and shipping containers,
joining others of its kind as they go about the task of loading and unloading a steady
stream of drone trucks that arrive and depart in an intricately synchronized dance.
That was cutscene number two.
So imagine the camera panning out from there, across Seattle skyline, swerving and swooping
towards downtown across the campus where we see a white.
It's a Bishy night sky limousine sliding smoothly into traffic on a main street that's running
parallel to the Washington University campus.
Boxer, you're on your motorcycle.
You're converging with the white limousine over which you see the AR symbol of the extraction
target.
It has merged into a light traffic on the main road running parallel to campus and you are
exiting an alley merging onto this main road.
Imagine you the girl Kirsten is shouting, there they are in a voice that sounds both
exhilarated and terrified.
Nightingale, you're in your van falling boxer.
The fascinating cat woman seems to have gotten you embroiled in some mad and dangerous endeavor
to rescue another unknown person for reasons that you cannot entirely fathom at this point,
except that her actions seem to be driven by some code of honor that you need to understand
further.
However, in the meantime, you're doing your best to keep the rapidly accelerating two-wheeled
vehicle boxer controls in sight.
All right, we're not going to cut this to seal just yet.
I want to see Boxer, this is your initiative turn.
So you're on your motorcycle.
You see the white car, the Mitsubishi Night Sky.
It's sort of slid into traffic and it's headed normally down the street.
You're coming out of an alleyway and it looks like you're on course to intercept the vehicle.
How do you want to do this or what do you want to do?
The moment I am looking through my inventory to see if I have literally anything that can't
stop a car.
Did I bring my grenades?
Probably.
Unfortunate, however, that they are all meant to be shot out of grenade launchers.
Oh well.
Okay, I'll stop moving car.
Discuss with the pony.
Can't stop it.
And they detected us, right?
They're like.
You don't know if they've detected you yet.
From the way the vehicle is moving in traffic, it appears that you have not been detected.
It's basically following the regular traffic patterns.
And you're really just now emerging from this alleyway where you had stashed your bikes,
your bike and the van.
She's not giving away her position yet, or at least she doesn't think she is.
Yeah, it seems like you still have the element of surprise on your side.
So it seems.
She's not doing anything.
She's holding her turn.
Yeah, that's the turn.
Okay, so you're going to fall in behind the Night Sky?
Yeah.
All right, Nightingale, you see Boxer and the girl's seal on the motorcycle sliding into
traffic behind the vehicle over which you see the AR symbol of the, yeah, Kirsten.
That's what I meant.
Sorry.
Oh, also, I don't have AR.
Oh, you don't.
So all you see is them following a large white vehicle.
Yeah, that's all you see at this point.
Yeah, I didn't cast my net.
So I'll just keep on them, but staying in the same lane or one off, but I don't want
to be following them or right on top of them.
This will be a little bit harder for me, but I can do it.
I'm smart.
Well, the good thing is right now, due to the fact that they haven't realized that you're
behind them or that they're being followed or that there's anything going on, there's
no evasive action or crazy driving that's going on.
So we don't really need a vehicle control test since you're really operating within
the normal limits of the vehicles.
But you have to spend a complex action every turn to remain in control.
How do additional passes work in Foyee?
Additional action passes.
Everyone gets one pass and then the extra passes happen.
Yeah.
I don't think you have to roll every turn unless you're doing something that's really
You have to spend a complex action control in the vehicle every turn.
Not every pass, but every turn.
Yep.
No.
I'm still I'm getting my head back into shadow.
Hmm.
The most Irish ball of skills.
I suppose.
Hmm.
Let me let me let me look and see what all I have in the car and on my person.
There could be something that I could I could throw out.
I could I could get in front of them and throw for them to take them off the immediate road,
make them slow down something.
You could always ram them.
That is.
I could kill a lot of people.
Yeah.
I'm.
Hmm.
Blue sprayer.
There's really not much we can do.
We can't communicate and stop talking in character.
Those I suppose.
Hmm.
Do I have any like I so the the road ahead of us.
Like what kind of road is this.
Is this a motorway.
Is it is it just straight.
Like is it a normal residential road where it branches off like regularly to larger.
It's a more of a main road in downtown Seattle.
You've got two lanes of traffic going in going in each direction with smaller streets side
streets coming into it.
How busy are the roads currently.
That terribly busy.
Busy enough.
I mean it's midday so you know sort of regular traffic not traffic jam type traffic.
Not really.
Bumper to bumper yet.
And the car the vehicle for both of your knowledge is seems to be headed in the direction
of towards the towards the ocean so it's headed west.
Towards the ocean like the coast or towards the Puget Sound.
Towards Puget Sound.
Hmm.
Hey.
I okay I'm going to wait until we get on to a less busy road before I take any other
drastic action just follow it and see where they're going.
Keep an eye make sure that I have an eye both on Boxer's motorcycle and the vehicle she appears
to be following.
Okay.
Alright your little impromptu motorcade is making its way through downtown Seattle headed
like I said west towards Puget Sound and soon starts to head a little bit more north
northwest and into a more what appears to be more of an affluent residential style neighborhood.
So very affluent.
The kind where Boxer you imagine you probably eventually start seeing either private security
or probably private security for the residential areas taking an interest in non residents kind
of thing.
They're not there yet right.
Excuse me.
We're not there yet right.
We're not there yet no.
Alright alright then this needs to stop here.
Alright it's over.
Alright communication.
Hmm I have Nightingale's Con.
Alright I'm going to use I think it's a free action to use the embedded Con link to hit
up Nightingale.
Yeah Nightingale your your Con rings.
I imagine she she has like a mount for it in the front she'd uh you might have to scramble
for a moment to find.
To your Vans audio like Bluetooth anyway so you can probably do a hands free.
Can she can she verbally accept it.
Yeah sure why not.
Yeah she'll she'll do that.
It's the future after all.
It is the future.
She immediately says that yeah hello.
We need to stop this car here up ahead.
They'll have security and we aren't getting to that especially not you.
Okay so I have an idea.
I don't know how effective this is going to be but there's a tent in the back of my car.
If I could pull in front of them and have the car drive it the cars can drive themselves
right yeah yeah for a little bit.
I I could throw the tent onto their windshield and make them stop.
Oh nice.
That's is very creative.
Very creative plan.
Well I don't have anything better so you can get ahead do it.
If you can't well how do you go out the way of slowing them down.
Okey dokey.
Elizabeth what's Nightingale's driving skill.
She does not have one.
She's currently going off entirely of the intuition of spellcraft through the intuition
she gained through spellcraft which means she effectively has I believe a three die for
pilot ground craft tests.
Alright so you're not actually going to be piloting though.
You're basically putting this thing on autopilot.
She can go in the back and get the tent ready.
Yeah.
You're basically going to pass that vehicle.
I imagine you could probably do that.
Yeah it's pilot is two so I only have one die over it so I imagine it can do that just
fine.
Yeah as long as the the other driver doesn't start trying to evade or create other unnecessary
or difficult actions.
Yeah have it have it pull up and then what what lane are they in.
They've started you're only down to one lane at this point.
You've left the main the other road you were on earlier and you're down to one lane.
Ooh it would be kind of impossible to get up in front of them without being suspicious
huh.
You're in a van you could just drive like a jerk delivery driver.
Sure.
Although I'm not going to tell you what you need to do.
Yeah I'll tell the would it even do that the car.
You could tell it to hurry you're in a rush.
Okay what I'm going to do is that I'm going to drive the car and try and pass them which
would be a complex action.
Yeah and probably a vehicle control check test.
Well it depends upon what exact if the the other lane of traffic is particularly busy
the other you know what I mean.
Yeah.
The other side of the road.
So I think I think you're going to need to do it just to pull out into the other lane
accelerate past them pull back into the other lane in the middle of downtown Seattle.
Oops.
Yikes.
Yeah so you you pull out into into the path into the lane to pass and immediately are
forced back into your hind boxer as an oncoming delivery truck flares its horns that you
I'm going to honk back at it.
It's a very polite high pitched European sounding honk of the step fan.
All right so now go ahead and try again.
I can try again.
Just don't glitch.
Just don't do it.
Just just do better.
Should steal your car and drive it.
Oh good grief.
You're getting better it's getting closer.
It's getting worse and worse but it's better.
So close.
They get ahead of you on a red light and you're forced to stop at an intersection.
Fuck.
Sorry I mean drag.
Boxer you realize that the van is having trouble passing.
At this point I feel a little bit bad because we're not we're not including Cecil but I
imagine Cecil and Alice DeVry are having a rather formal and stilted conversation in
the back of the Eurocar either that it's devolved into an uncomfortable silence.
Possibly both at varying times.
But so far in the nothing untoward there's no indication that anything's happening even
though you remember that you've got your com link set to broadcast the your location icon
for Boxer who you not Boxer for Kirsten who you fervently hope is coming to the rescue.
She's clearly not getting ahead of that so it seems we're going to do some creative
maneuvers.
All right what are you trying to do?
She too is going ahead of the car.
It's time she's going to do something a little more drastic than throwing a tent.
She's going to try and make it as though she's spinning out in front of the in front of the
limo so that they like break.
Are you going to warn Kirsten about what you're going to do?
Yes.
All right so I guess it's a pilot ground craft skill test.
Any mods?
No just straight.
Oh for fuck's sakes.
Nine die and I get a one.
Okay.
Wow dice are not smiling upon you right now.
No no they aren't.
All right you're you've tried to pull out you realize that you know you've forgotten that
Kirsten's on the back.
The weight is throwing your balance off a little bit and you pull back in behind the
Westwind you know to regain control.
Nightingale why don't you make another test?
To do the thing.
Yep in this case rather to catch back up.
Oh no yeah do that.
I assume because it's just normal traffic now it should be easy.
It should just be.
It should be easy but your your van's acceleration is not very impressive.
Should be.
Oh am I typing it wrong.
And Veronica I apologize if we're offending you with our lack of rule play here.
Ah that's cool.
There we go I got a single hit.
There you go.
Finally.
You managed to gun it and catch back up just in time to see Boxer start to pull out and
then rear wheel start to shake a little bit.
A little wobble and she pulls back in so let me make another roll here.
Actually let's just do like this.
Okay all right ahead of you the Eurocar Westwind seems to suddenly be picking up speed.
Boxer since you're you've got the better reaction why don't you are you gonna try and pass them
again are you gonna make another attempt yeah make another attempt at trying to get them
to slow down right let's do this again the dice gods smile upon me the dice god smiled
upon me I hope it did yeah yeah I think you're getting blocked by pop ups five hits nice
all right so taking into account the the extra weight of Kirsten on the back you accelerate
past the car the white limousine and pull in in front of it and what are you exactly
are you trying to do with this trying to make it seem like she's losing control and entering
your lane so that they slow down okay so as you as you pull back in you're you're slowing
down and creating some artificial wobble or shake and breaking okay that sound about
right yes all right so inside the limousine inside the limousine Cecil you the clean modern
aesthetics of evos corporate design language aren't really calming your your nervous anxiety
that you're fighting to contain and you're feeling the the vehicle suddenly pick up speed
at the same time you feel a sort of a thrill well-known thrill you always get when you're
when you're sort of deep in the pursuit of a secret or information and you notice a sudden
motion from Alice she's sort of nods she's sort of inclined her head she's obviously
receiving a message in AR and her eyes are on you and why don't you make a judge intentions
role no intentions this will be great one little below average it's not a little bit
low average oh that is a little bit per go average oh no so she's you see that she's
got getting some message in AR and her eyes are on you and just for the briefest second
you see you know her icy facade her cool facade slips and you see a blend of frustration
and anger and probably more chilling for you a sense of a renewed appraisal as she's looking
at you and then the corporate mask is back in place as he'll probably lightly swirls
or water it says is there some kind of rush I underestimated you she says I thought you
were just a simple student who stupidly stuck her nose where it didn't belong but it appears
you've been working with somebody else and she reaches for your handbag I'm going to
make a composure test to see if seal can pretend that she knows what she's talking about okay
well or not which is sort of odd because do you want to know what she's talking about
the seal does not know that she has other shit on her mind so she's trying to play it off
like yeah I know totally Alice is reaching for your bags he says give me your bag now
the seal hands it over calmly as calmly as she can and that will be that pass and at
that point the driver so boxers pulled in front of the car attempted to actually rather convincingly
attempted to make it appear as if she was slightly losing control and or slowing down
the driver of the the night's guy suddenly accelerates and attempts to pass boxer so
he pulls out past boxer into the other lane let's see how he does with that how does he
do I can hear the actual dice tumbling in your hands yeah he he does pretty good so
nightingale as you're you're following catch you've caught up now you see boxer make the
play to pass the limousine and break hard the limousine does not stop as intended it simply
swerves around her and starts to accelerate it and it may be the oncoming lane of traffic
into the oncoming lane of traffic yep it may be that that you are no longer unnoticed at
this point yeah yeah um so boxer it's your turn again did we lose Valerie I'm here sorry
bit distracted uh what was it you said so the it's your turn again the as you you pulled
off your maneuver quite handily but the instead of stopping or slowing down the the the limousine
sort of swerved out into the oncoming traffic lane and is now attempting to pass you she's
going to be a jerk driver and keep them in that lane scary okay they're going to fucking
stop or kinetic energy is going to stop them are you going to do anything else or you know
she's not pulling any guns tempting as it is all right nightingale what are you doing
you've caught up to them so now they're they're speeding along ahead of you um boxer on the
motorcycle in your lane and the limousine in the passing lane or the oncoming lane basically
their neck and neck at this point um I want to pull up to its side which I imagine is
simple enough that I could tell the uh the the the dog brain computer to do it um and
I want to use my action to grab the glue sprayer my glue sprayer from inside of the car oh
should I roll oh sorry grab my glue sprayer from inside of the car and roll on a window
and try and shoot the thing in one of its wheels oh the glue sprayer it it uh it shoots
like basically like a a foamy glue um if you hit a person with it it tends to like immobilize
them immediately hope it's kinetically activated kinetically yeah you know impact oh I imagine
yeah something otherwise it's just going to slosh off because it's going so fast mm-hmm
all right I think I think between getting you know telling the dog brain to pull up and
rubbing you around pulling out the glue gun that's going to be your action a complex action
um reminding me how it works you you get either a complex action or two simple actions and
then any number of free actions that is reasonable right pretty much yes okay um all right well
that's my turn then yeah if you like climbs into the back seat probably at this point
she's going to to like pop off her her plate carrier too I imagine it just has a little
pull tab like modern plate carriers grab the glue gun and that's my turn all right the
uh all right the driver of the vehicle is going to go again um and he is maintaining control
of the vehicle he's not he's not able to get ahead of you pull ahead of you guys or do
you want to pull anything else off at this point and then it's boxes turn again all right
definitely seems like the chase is on at this point she's trying to keep it in the lane
enough hopefully so that uh it hits something not well shit so um it's a little difficult
when you're on a motorcycle though I was just going to say just remember that vehicle out
masses you significantly like she's not gonna like grind against it yeah if something decided
to block the its way its path it would be safer for it to simply pull over into your
lane against you just tactically speaking all right what do I got here nothing we're
using we should have considered that perhaps more explosives would be necessary oh well
you learn something new every day
wait a second is the car soundproof my I guess I should probably it's probably quite soundproof
I mean it's a very fancy car so it probably has microphones on the outside in case you
wanted to hear what was going on all right time for something drastic she's pulling she's going to
pull away from the car get some distance pull it and no no to the side and uh yeah it's time to get
forceful she's pulling her pistol oh no oh yes I have a plan trust me that'd be great
do you have a plan yes kind of I'm just pointing out you all did just drive at the problem
without trying to think of a plan beforehand well I know how to make them stop
limited time and it's contingent on them listening to me you think they're gonna listen oh they will
oh no I can hear Veronica like hovering her face
okay so you pull away you pull to the side you create some distance between yourself you pull
your pistol which is I believe just a simple action yes actually wait I think I have something that
uh makes it free action like I missed something here wait a second insert hook pick down put up no
guess not oh well I have a plan I'm gonna do something crazy it's probably gonna get us killed
but you know what fuck it right oh what's this I thought we already had initiative rolled
yeah Kirsten hadn't rolled initiative yet uh little gremlin trouble maker that she is silly girl
all right boxer all right so we have distance so they can't hit us I'm gonna start uh firing
at them like I want to if I can compromise the window are you trying to make a called shot
yes yes called shot with the handgun page 161 and you're shooting at which window
the one the front window okay so when your side next to the driver yeah called shot how does that
work yeah I'm sorry I'm looking at vehicle combat right now I did try to warn you about it
I just need to get their attention I mean if they shoot back that also works for what I need
um an attack can only target a the vehicle or its passengers unless well it's one of three things
technically I'm aiming at the uh passengers I guess since they're behind the window but the point
is I want to put a I want to put enough bullets in that window so that breaks or that they pull
down the window and shoot back either way I need that window open so called shot is free action
um so you can target basically what you're trying to do is target a specific area indeed
whereas the vehicle thing yeah I guess it's not a matter I mean I don't really see how there'd be
a modifier for aiming at a window at that range I don't either I think that's pretty much a uh
just to read your gunfire but you're probably gonna have some a negative for for driving yeah
what's my mod that's um oh by the way damaging barriers if you're specifically aiming for the
barrier it does uh it does two times damage for each bullet that hits it oh cool attacker in a
moving vehicle negative three dice pool modifier all right it's a three and that is with the mod
and then the I have no clue how you would calculate its barrier the barrier probably be ballistic
glass oh wait no it would be the the body plus armor of the vehicle I think it's the disregard
what I said about barriers well your rating so ballistic glass would be four would be armor
rating of four yeah what's the damage from the the pistol uh rounding that's five physical
you got three hits you got five physical I mean I think we can safely say that you and you took
the negative three that's with the negative three yeah she has a lot of pistol skills so you destroyed
the window you know your bullet do I still have a free action actually passes through a nice t
shattering the window and let's just do a quick uh I should give me a roll your just roll your edge
all right no why did it modify it with body no this edge stop could be worse yeah you got a hit
and uh it looks like the uh the security officer behind the window was just in the process of doing
something when your bullet passed through and uh caught him oh that wasn't my intent but that also
works and what did you say the damage was six five p or was it five or six yeah it's five p all right
so and if so if you're and is that so that's your fully modified damage value uh yeah standard
ammunition because they wouldn't let me buy armor piercing okay okay yeah I know right so your damage
value is less than his ballistic so it's just stun damage I'll take stun and I want him to get shot
by a bullet it's gonna get the damn point yeah one hit so I have another passive for this okay it works
commanding voice is it a complex action yes okay well I'll be fine so he took four stun
so that security officer you suddenly come face to face with him you see that he's clutching his
shoulder in pain as the uh glass the bullet shatters the glass and slams into his into the armor and
shoulder so you're you have a free action now if you wanted right let me check something real quick
so I have a thingy that makes some simple actions uh yeah that's not working all right she's uh
she's pulling back some so he can't have a return shot unless he sticks himself out the window
which would just be a free action but I so he is actually up next and he is going to
let loose you see a sudden uh yeah you see a sudden crackle of energy come out of the window
at you um he's casting stun bolt at you are you motherfucking mages so human for a little pony
she's a cat she's a big one all right so four so run me through this real quick please
he's he's gonna cast it he's got five he's gonna cast it at a force three but his magic
so he would roll spell casting to he would decide the force roll spell casting to see if he meets
that force and then resist the drain for the force that he casted the spell at accounting for its
drain code the effective force is the thing that governs damage so since he got a three and spell
casting that means that he casted it effectively at full force all right so he rolls a spell casting
and then he rolls uh and then he rolls to resist the drain yes because it's uh because it's mana
wait they're probably heretic tradition which means they're rolling uh logic plus will power
yeah logic plus we're power because unless you want them to be some other weird tradition
nope that's because it's a direct spell uh he doesn't have to roll the hit as long as um
but she she can resist awesome minus one to his because uh box you're having mystic armor
oh the power is that does it what does that affect astral and physical it's only uh one so
so he only got one hit so does that mean he got two stun uh yeah he he takes two stun
well hold on what is the drain called for stun bolt uh the drain code for stun bolt is
first divided by two minus one force divided by two so three one so he takes no drain he takes
no drain yeah all right so that means boxer gets to resist which let me check how she would do that
um okay body or willpower in this case it would be willpower so boxer rolls willpower willpower
yeah just willpower unless you have counterspouting somehow she has mystic armor uh i don't know
what exactly that played how that plays into it oof is your an additional dice
um it's like armor but astral they apply it so would it i suppose it would mean that you resist
a single point okay uh direct spells i think okay so that means i get one one yeah you have
mystic armor rating one yeah well i rolled a zero on the willpower so you take two stun damage
um right how do i mark this off core yes two stun yeah you feel a sudden you feel the impact not
so much physically as you do psychically it's like being tased but somehow more not quite physical
just sort of emotionally you know spiritually it's definitely unpleasant i've been spiritually
stunned oh my god mystic armor does not apply to spells it doesn't nope oh
i thought i did could have sworn at it well it applies to it applies to astral combat which is
not spells okay unfortunately unfortunately oh i guess that means i got a minute minus one from now on
oof don't worry it'll be okay yeah but you've already you've hit the mage for a force done
already so actually wait a minute he was hit for force done shouldn't he be taking a negative
yes negative one it's negative one every 30 okay so he should have actually rolled
will they get a minus one anyway well we'll roll with it for now
oh also i remember uh you have to resist the minimum of two drain so he takes one
stun damage from train i have stunned oof he is unpleasantly surprised by that
sucks for him shouldn't have been mean god it was just a little delayed you know
the endorphins from getting shot yeah the adrenaline sort of uh masked it and then here's
like ah damn it my hands are cramping ah or however a drain would manifest for him in particular
not quite like that but you know it more it probably more manifested in a bunch of expletives
being said all right so that was him um what is kirsten gonna do she's not gonna do much of
anything i don't think maybe she wants to shoot back um just i mean is it wired if not
she's doing something let's just put it that way oh god and that brings us back to nightingale in her
glue gun the horse not the glue gun oh my god she's the glue gun what's she gonna do it's like g-mon
i feel like i'm really just trying to make my life difficult right now oh yeah we love making
your life difficult paul it's our job we're players uh before she uh she rolls the window
down nightingale is going to pull up her chief to come her face because very tactical i can't
see my face okay they can't know i'm a horse and uh i'll row down the window and i'll try and take a
a a shot at the back window the back the not back window the back uh back right will i suppose
all right where is this device this weapon or this device found in let's let's read them let's
read up on this um glue gun wise it's glue sprayer yeah i feel like we need to i feel like
me weird situation page 336 glue sprayer this fast acting aerosol super glue allows these to
quickly seal off the portals such as door or window the glue takes one combat turn to harden
anyone attempting to force open the door must make a body you must make a strength plus body
opposed test against the glue's dice pull of 10 so i'm uh Elizabeth i don't think this is gonna work
he's trying it anyway all right precious pony um give me an edge roll
a fucking wily coyote
okay yeah i'll give you an edge roll uh no other attribute none zero hits all right yeah
you guys are sort of in a tight cluster at this point because both both boxer and the van are
on the same side of the limousine so you're pretty closely together my edge to retry that
absolutely well and not on an edge not on a straight edge roll okay unfortunate yeah this
is really just sort of a luck roll um and you didn't have any i mean as you spray the uh
uh fire the glue out towards the uh the rotating rubber disc on which these machines move themselves
um the whipping wind of your passage instantly catches the aerosol glue and blows it back behind
you and you realize that this is strategy is going to be ineffective imagine sheet immediately like
once uh once that becomes apparent she's just going to throw it into the um the the undercarriage
i guess but not not on the seat but down there and uh probably throw up the window again a little
ashamed all right our girl all right who's it now she's you know she's trying it's the uh what's
her name the right so alice has taken saseel's bag is now rummaging through it and uh pretty
quickly pulls out your com link ah no not the expensive com link the seal is not leaving without
that cop is she gonna fall it out she's gonna fight over it yeah i'm curious about oh my god
like she's fine right now i mean i assume this is like seconds before the bullet tip and i just
want to be clear the second bullet hit bullet hit saseel is dropping onto the floor okay so
yeah she's grabbed your alice has grabbed up the the com link and she's she's trying to activate it
and she's looking at you she says turn the tracker off right now and at that point you know
the bullet has crashed through the front window you hear a gunshot alice does not
hasn't twitched so much at that but saseel is throwing herself down on the floor yeah no saseel
probably after a second like what and then just drops to the floor more than likely spilling water
just let's go over the bottle of water and drops to the floor yeah i think this is probably all
rather surprising to saseel at this point yeah actually i was surprised if i got shot at
would saseel have heard the glass breaking yeah i think so saseel is also screaming
all right any other actions saseel from you um let me look nope nope nothing all right
all right so you've you've dropped to the floor um when you heard the gunshot and
glass breaking alice is trying to get you to unlock your com link um and it is the driver
of the luminescence turn again so no that was we actually should make another initiative pass at
this point all right how do i tap it and then i roll initiative sweep uh right because i suppose
you have three passes the driver only had two so i feel like i don't like i let that one get a little
bit away from you but do better now that we're remembered all right so what's up what's going on
uh we're rolling initiative again well i already rolled nine
good this is the way i like it saseel did you roll initiative already nightingale you rolled
all right boxer you're up you've just gotten hit by some form of magical energy from the
security guard who was in the passenger side and he hit with the bullet would going up be a
free action would going what driving up to the window uh no darn i messed up my plan
yeah it's a little bit i mean so you you've got to make according to it um
was it but was telling us you've got to make you've got to use at least one complex action
action um for your driving per pass so you've got three passes right yes so you you don't
have to take that complex action to drive right now so i guess so i can do you could you could
drive up with the complex action and then the next pass you would have a complex action to
to attack them nobody else would be able to um okay yeah i'm gonna use that complex action to go up
drive up and since the next pass and nobody else says any passes because i'm just fast as fuck yo
i have my complex action i need all right time for something crazy then the driver of the other van
or the other vehicle is gonna make a uh vehicle control test to make sure that after the shooting
and everything's got it under control he does good for him um but he doesn't manage to do
any more with that role and then alice reaches down and grabs a hold of seseal's hand and casts
mindfrog oh wow they're spooked buckers yeah well she she certainly is so spooky that they glow
green in the astral i i imagine seseal definitely knows what the spell is it is also like okay so
you'll probably want to cast this one like reasonably high okay all right so she is gonna cast it out
of four six that should be entertaining weird is oh oh wow oh okay so that's part of that group
and she got four okay okay and now we look so yeah you do feel the invasive nature of the uh
from this divide woman disable it don't forget to probably logic plus will power so it's so very
it would be magic okay uh another question is psychon kinesis relative to the mage or the
manosphere like when an object is being moved by a psychokinesis what would you say paul
it would probably be uh most reasonable because if you're moving in a car and it's
relative to the manosphere uh you want to actually be able to manipulate things like that
now that i think about it so it would be relative to the caster okay uh with my my bright idea in
motion i uh i wanted to grab my chisel she has all sorts of weird gear she's going to open the door
now open the door roll the window tell the car to roll down the window actually she's going to grab
the chisel with the psychokinesis and she's because they're nearby and she can clearly see the that door
she wants to bring one of the doors one of the doors of the limousine she wants to use the
chisel hook into the door and then use all of her psychokinetic might to wrench it open but grow bar
that's that's exactly what it is and it doubles your effective strength and because my psychokinesis
its effective strength is willpower plus magic i'm rolling 11 die all right go for it i thought
you were gonna try and uh tear the tire again one two so that's six because i'm using the chisel
six to break uh break open the door six die six hits all right so let's go back here and find the
vehicle's body okay okay so you got one two you only got three hits on all that no it would be six
effective that was my effective strength for prying it open six wait is that even one a little bit
above average so i'm gonna say it resisted and i rolled basically i took i looked at the vehicle's
body and i took a reasonable extraction extrapolation from that to uh you know what it might require
to pry open door and rolled that against your hits and you got four net hits so we're gonna say that
the uh you managed to jam the chisel into exactly the right spot and overcome the mechanism of the
lock and all of a sudden the rear doors flung open into the wind um it's not going to stay open
obviously the passage of the wind is going to push it closed again but it is definitely unlocked and
unsealed um inside of the uh film is in all of a sudden the uh the road noise and wind and air
fill the fill the interior of the cabin was i told what sysil looks like remind me um i don't
remember i don't think so actually i remember if kirsten showed you guys a picture i think she
might have actually yeah she did so you you have a mental image of uh of sysil am i seeing her yeah
in that brief moment in which the uh the door springs open the uh the inside of the the limousine
is visible to you and you see um you see a young woman lying on the floor and um another woman
who's sitting in one of the seats is reaching down and grabbing hold of her wrist with one hand and
has a calm link in her other hand um and do a quick judge intentions role she would probably also be
able to see the magic like of the mind probe yeah three yeah you can see that the woman who's leaning
over is uh is casting some kind of spell on the uh the woman on the floor um and the intent is obviously
um malicious um the body language of the woman in the who's uh sitting is is obviously
offensive in nature towards the uh the woman on the ground on the floor um would you say
wrenching the door open would be a complex or simple action i think that was a complex action
well uh as a free action i want to call and say hey poopy head didn't you roll the window
your window up again no i rolled it down i didn't roll it back up okay it would probably interrupt
line of sight if i had to look down still you suddenly in the midst of this rushing wind and
the effort to resist this this malign woman's mind probing here you suddenly hear a strange
voice yelling from outside what was it again hey poopy head the seal isn't reacting she's
she's she can't process any of this right now she's she's not even calling to sissile she's
trying to grab the attention of the uh the offending mage but that's uh i suppose that's my
turn all right i may uh i may i may uh shift down now to break line of sight directly on me
once i do that well actually no i can't do that because the the chisel i would drop it so i'm not
going to do that all right so we are down to the uh the mage um who is going to once again try to cast
um stun bolt at boxer also how how are the doors on this limousine shaped if the if the rear door
i wrenched open will be closed by the wind actually you know what how about if we say it's a suicide
door inches in the back and actually when you wrenched it open the wind is now caught it and
folded it open permanently it's that's the term for that kind of door yeah that's great i love that
honestly this this idea i can con con i concoct it would probably have uh it probably would have
been right to have done this earlier but i didn't think of it i don't think nine a gill would have
thunk of it either this is very high stress yeah i i wonder you know as i was sort of thinking about
it and picturing what nightingale was thinking here at the beginning of this combat like you've
this whole situation is so out of the blue like you've you've met boxer wants to interview her
you've never met kirsten you don't know who sisi elis like what how did i even get into this see
but what she's thinking is that while this is dangerous this is scary this is confusing you
know you can't be a hero in this world because well some metahumans will die that's the fact of the
metahuman condition but also i mean it would look really good on her resume if she could say that she
engaged in heroics on an alien world you know it would it would look pretty good whenever she
went back home you know uh at least she'd be able to sell a uh a very very profitable book if nothing
else is grace the indiana jones of the pony world nope there's already an indiana jones of the
pony world daring to she's uh i was thinking that the sequestria was at least before the show or
concurrent with the show so i don't know i don't know if she would know about daring deal but yeah
she's she she is she's like a a nicer lone conquistador basically basically um if that makes sense
um she's much nicer much nicer yes she's driven to explore and at the same time she has some
less than savory intense it's not that she just wants to learn she also has personal investment
in seeing to it that her expedition brings profit to her and her country and her god
in that order so she's more like captain cook i don't actually know captain cook yeah he was a
brit he was after the uh conquistadors he was a british explorer out to find new lands for the
british common you know kingdom um she may not exactly think that she's here to imperialize
if she probably thinks it's more like well it would be useful to have new trading partners
especially with all of this fancy technology though admittedly a questria it would probably be
imperialization one way or the other that's that's probably gonna end up happening if a question
like having a friendly relationship with the british it's like i don't feel like it could
either way i feel like nightingale is naive either a questria is going to exploit the sixth world
or a sixth world is going to exploit a questria it's you know now which one's preferable
that would probably come up to the individual is rainbow smite a pony name um it's in the style
of a pony name but i think that you're talking about specifically rainbow dash okay now there's a uh
one of the shatter one podcast that i was listening to there's a uh shatter run there's a character
called rainbow smite it's probably a reference yeah it didn't get i didn't hear that the first
time i heard it but then after we started playing i was like i was remembering going hang on a second
you were like i know what that is now yep this is uh this is the character rainbow dash
and this is actually a scene this is this an image from the show
it's a it's a bit of an in-between so it looks kind of wacky and still
undaught hey my audio decided to die welcome back
yeah yeah audio is back now i was falling over that character earlier to liz because i've been
reading a fanfiction about her you know you're like oh my god this is gay i love it hey there's
more to it than that i know i know honey anyway or a million word transfiction you can't read that
without getting some attachment to the character what did i miss uh we were just talking yeah we
i'm untreated back up again but we should probably do that because we have a lot of good time indeed
yeah we need to get sissy'll rescued here yeah okay so the uh the mage is casting another stun bolt
at boxer um and he's gonna try and up the power a little bit he's gonna go for a force for stun
bolt uh and so he's got to roll his spell casting first and he got two hits so wait a minute how
many what does that mean for the hits that he gets on his sorcerer cast that means the
the power the actual power that he can roll it at yeah that would be the actual force he is
effectively casting at all right it still takes four drain sucks for him yeah he takes whatever
drain uh is appropriate for the force he attempted to cast at and that was logic plus will power
he got two hits so he takes two drain actually hang on a second i keep forgetting to take
out take his dice away because he's already got five stun oh oh my god this man is about to kill
himself usually what i do when i do that is i just lop off the last dice rolled which in this
case doesn't matter so how about it what if i just re-roll you could do that go for it that's conjuring
it's conjuring unless he has the same in conjuring as he doesn't sorcery he doesn't but doesn't he
oh conjure it's a good question modifiers sorcery groups so that was minus two dice right he got
two hits so the force stayed the same and then his logic plus will power he actually got better
there didn't he i feel like i cheated but it doesn't really matter right so he resisted four drain
with three with a roll with three hits so he still took one one stun and also if the amount of drain
that you take is higher than your uh your magic it becomes physical all right what's his magic i
don't think he would apply here but it's the force who cast that oh what force did he cast that four
what's his magic his magic is three oh oh my goodness he gets two physical drain oh wow this
man's to kill himself that's what i said they're paying something crazy if he's willing to do that
yeah he didn't like he didn't appreciate that that didn't work out the way he wanted it to
imagine like he uh he realizes that he's like bleeding from the nose probably bleeding from
a little more than the nose that point who will to train well he's got two physical and five stun
he's feeling really beat up at this point but it's probably something that he's experienced
before in training in any case um boxer you have to resist the stun so you stun bolt so that's a
stun too how much damage is that i'm gonna roll um how much damage does it do oh hell yeah go to
the effective force oops but you resisted because the effective force was two i actually had a minus
one on that but it's still be two anyway so yeah just does stun damage but because she resisted it
it doesn't affect her at all it's an effective so nice using only non-lethal spells it could be
that that's all they know did i send this i'm so dumb it also be that it would be a really really
bad luck to just toss a fireball in the middle of a busy urban street all right uh so as the guy
as the mage leans out of the window to cast the stun bolt back at you kirsten fires at him with
the taser oh he's not gonna have a good day oh no and she gets zero hits the map the dart flies wide
oh well she tried i would expect as much i don't imagine those things are uh are particularly quick
seseal you don't think that uh alice got much out of you from you for that uh on that mind for
what are you doing well the door and seseal is cowering and probably still screaming a little bit
the door is open to the door to the car is open seseal has not processed that um and you heard
somebody call you poopy face no no no no is it calling her poopy um
seseal is probably like just now barely starting to register what's going on and has like kind of
half stood up a little bit but it's still just looking around wildly i see my turn
seseal's not doing anything yet all right she's scared um boxer you're up and it's just me
because nobody else is as fast as the cat the driver of the the vehicle the other driver has one
past two well he won't well i guess we'll see about that throw a grenade in there throw a grenade
in
this makeshift team of runners seems to be closing in on the girl seseal's location
are they going to be able to rescue her does she even need rescue
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