Bounty Head Bebop Comlink
Play By Post Section => Trophy Room => MistBorn => Topic started by: Forge on February 20, 2014, 02:48:42 pm
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OOC: Jumping this here due to the lack of activity on the CYS thread, I'll give it a few days here then if it stays inactive I'll drop it.
Everyone is still in position, Karl, Squirrel, Lan, Juan and Tan are on the edges of the trees with Tan smoking the area with Karl preparing his minds for action.
Aviur moved deeper into the forest and has begun setting the first fire, which she EASILY suceeds in, getting a good, mostly smokeless, blaze built up to the size of a campfire in under a minute.
Lial has continued riding and is now approaching the gate. The guards move carefully forward after one taps out a quick few knots with his spear butt on the gate. Lial he sees that they have armour on and each have a halberd trained on his horse, ready to spear it or him if he does anything funny.
"Halt and state your name and business here." It is very clear from their expressions that not doing so will lead to them attacking.
The guards are still waiting for a responce.
6 minutes until dusk begins.
There has been no change in patrol patterns visible since Squirrel has reported in.
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OOC: The main reason i didnt reply is actually i dont know what im supposed to be doing, i think i stated my character would be going with aviur but appearently not.
BIC: "So.. what are we supposed to do? just follow tan around while he smokes the area? sounds pretty booring to me." Juan said out loud to the group, the boredom on his face showing.
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OOC: The main reason i didnt reply is actually i dont know what im supposed to be doing, i think i stated my character would be going with aviur but appearently not.
OOC: LOL thats why you were all supposed to plan more ;) you can really do whatever you think your char would do so if you'd rather join aviur your free to do so and the crap hasn't started yet.
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OOC: LOL thats why you were all supposed to plan more ;) you can really do whatever you think your char would do so if you'd rather join aviur your free to do so and the crap hasn't started yet.
OOC: Ah, but by acting erratic we may be able to derail your entire story and result in a "RF,ED" moment out of your frustration. :P
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OOC: The main reason i didnt reply is actually i dont know what im supposed to be doing, i think i stated my character would be going with aviur but appearently not.
BIC: "So.. what are we supposed to do? just follow tan around while he smokes the area? sounds pretty booring to me." Juan said out loud to the group, the boredom on his face showing.
"Soon, Juan. We will be drawing away the guards in the house with Aviur's flame, and we shall move closer to the Building. Excitement will occur, just stay patient, for Harmony's sake."
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"Soon, Juan. We will be drawing away the guards in the house with Aviur's flame, and we shall now closer to the Building. Excitement will occur, just stay patient, for Harmony's sake."
Juan ponders for a moment on what Karl had said before realisation dawns on him. "Wait a minute... Does that mean we're the decoy that will have most of the guards running after our asses?" He asked somewhat annoyed.
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Juan ponders for a moment on what Karl had said before realisation dawns on him. "Wait a minute... Does that mean we're the decoy that will have most of the guards running after our asses?" He asked somewhat annoyed.
"No, the fire is the decoy. The assualt will occur on the building by us, and only us. Now, let me stay calm and prepare. I don't like being feeble for this long and still talk."
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"No, the fire is the decoy. The assualt will occur on the building by us, and only us. Now, let me stay calm and prepare. I don't like being feeble for this long and still talk."
"Eh.. wouldent that defeat the purpose of them breaking in in the first place?" He asks.
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"Eh.. wouldent that defeat the purpose of them breaking in in the first place?" He asks.
"No, we are the backup. If they are spotted, which they most likely will, it's our job to get them out."
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"No, we are the backup. If they are spotted, which they most likely will, it's our job to get them out."
"How would we even know if they are spotted? i thought you could produce those booms Not Squirrel or Lial?
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"How would we even know if they are spotted? i thought you could produce those booms Not Squirrel or Lial?
"These are questions you should of asked before. Just trust me, my repertoire is far vaster then simply being able to make Big sounds." Karl says, breathing shallowly. "Give me a.. A moment."
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"These are questions you should of asked before. Just trust me, my repertoire is far vaster then simply being able to make Big sounds." Karl says, breathing shallowly. "Give me a.. A moment."
"Not my fault i didnt listen before!" He states matter of factly, but proceeds to leave Karl alone anyway.
Now... Screw waiting, i'll go see whats taking Aviur so long.
And with that, Juan headed to whereever Aviur is.
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"Not my fault i didnt listen before!" He states matter of factly, but proceeds to leave Karl alone anyway.
Now... Screw waiting, i'll go see whats taking Aviur so long.
And with that, Juan headed to whereever Aviur is.
OOC: Assuming Juan actually gets to me.
Aviur glances up from her fire, giving a quick look of question at Juan before returning to tending the fire.
"Couldn't stick it with Karl the entire time?" She gives a quiet chuckle. "Guess I'm not the only one who gets bored, but at least I can entertain myself." She gestures to the fire.
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Lial gives an easy smile and tentatively uses brass and duralumin on the guards, along with his natural charm.
"Good afternoon sirs, I am (insert obscure friendly noble name here), I was hoping to talk with my old friend (insert noble's name here)"
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Everyone is still in position, Karl, Squirrel, Lan and Tan are on the EASTERN edges of the trees with Tan smoking the area with Karl preparing his minds for action.
Aviur moved deeper into the forest and has set the 1st fire, which she EASILY suceeded in, getting a good, mostly smokeless, blaze built up to the size of a campfire in under a minute. Juan Has joined her meaning the two of them are the last members of the crew on the west of the walls.
The guards listen to Lial speaking VERY carefully before looking at each other. There is a LOOONNNGGG pause.
The guard who looks a little more in charge then finally turns back to Lial and smiles "You'll forgive our heightened security but we must be careful as a Noble like yourself will understand. If you just give us a moment we will have the gates open then you can proceed inside the compound. Just to warn you, you'll be greated by one of our administrators who will want to speak to you first."
The guard taps a rythem on the gates which open shortly afterwards. The guards stand to the side allowing Lial to ride inside and even give him a smile and a nod as he passes.
The gates are immediatly shut and barred behind him, Lial finds himself now flanked by 4 guards in armour with spears and swords, they make no move to bar him and he can see what looks like an obligator heading his way from the house flanked by two well dressed men (Think evening dinner suits.)
4 minutes until dusk begins.
There has been no change in patrol patterns visible since Squirrel has reported in.
OOC: I will NOT be leaving your powers on, They'll be used for what you ask then immediatly turned off unles you state that you want them left on.
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OOC: Assuming Juan actually gets to me.
Aviur glances up from her fire, giving a quick look of question at Juan before returning to tending the fire.
"Couldn't stick it with Karl the entire time?" She gives a quiet chuckle. "Guess I'm not the only one who gets bored, but at least I can entertain myself." She gestures to the fire.
"Heh.. entertain yourself." He chuckles slightly, probarly thinking of a entire different meaning of what she said. " Well, they were pretty boring. Or atleast Karl was, i didnt really speak with the rest, But that old man(i forgot Aeons characters name) looked like he was about to piss himself." He said with a grin after.
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The gates are immediately shut and barred behind him, Lial finds himself now flanked by 4 guards in armour with spears and swords, they make no move to bar him and he can see what looks like an obligator heading his way from the house flanked by two well dressed men (Think evening dinner suits.)
Lial dismounts and stands straight, now stopping use of his brass in case Tan's smoking hasn't reached him just yet.
"Good evening sirs, may I get a stable for my horse?"
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"Heh.. entertain yourself." He chuckles slightly, probarly thinking of a entire different meaning of what she said. " Well, they were pretty boring. Or atleast Karl was, i didnt really speak with the rest, But that old man(i forgot Aeons characters name) looked like he was about to piss himself." He said with a grin after.
"It's a risky job, but a high rewarding one as well." Aviur says before looking at him again. "What's so funny?"
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Squirrel, entirely focused on the task at hand, gnaws on a fingernail and ignores the general conversation while waiting for the signal. Since the crew seemed a bit unclear, she decided it might be best if she took the slightly more difficult room. Thinking through her plan, she reflects on the information she gathered and considers good places to access the room. Her plan, when the signal comes, is to head towards the roof and see if it's possible to enter through the adjacent bedroom window.
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Everyone is still in position, Karl, Squirrel, Lan and Tan are on the EASTERN edges of the trees with Tan smoking the area with Karl preparing his minds for action.
Aviur moved deeper into the forest and has set the 1st fire, which she EASILY suceeded in, getting a good, mostly smokeless, blaze built up to the size of a campfire in under a minute. Juan Has joined her meaning the two of them are the last members of the crew on the west of the walls.
The obligator gives him a smile and waves his hand. Near instantly a boy dressed like a servant appears, running over to grab the reigns of Lials horse.
The obligator waits the few seconds for the boy to get close before continuing "Well sir, what brings you to our residence this late evening?" as he does so he gestures towards the house and begins slowly walking back, assuming Lial will follow "I'm afraid since I was not at the gate you will have to introduce youself again." (OOC: you can ust put what you did before if you dont remember the name lol)
3 minutes until dusk begins.
There has been no change in patrol patterns visible since Squirrel has reported in.
OOC: I will NOT be leaving your powers on, They'll be used for what you ask then immediatly turned off unles you state that you want them left on.
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"3 minute warning." Karl warns, making sure everyone is ready.
"Tan, once the fire starts, we will be moving to the bushes closer to the building, if the guards leave. Prepare yourself."
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OOC: Bump, I'll give it 24 hours more then if I don't get more posts I'll drop the game.
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OOC: Bump, I'll give it 24 hours more then if I don't get more posts I'll drop the game.
OOC: :(
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OOC: Yes most of this is a repost, but since no-one is really doing anything yet there isn't much else for me to write.
Everyone is still in position, Karl, Squirrel, Lan and Tan are on the EASTERN edges of the trees with Tan smoking the area with Karl preparing his minds for action.
Aviur moved deeper into the forest and has set the 1st fire, which she EASILY suceeded in, getting a good, mostly smokeless, blaze built up to the size of a campfire in under a minute. Juan Has joined her meaning the two of them are the last members of the crew on the west of the walls.
The obligator gives him a smile and waves his hand. Near instantly a boy dressed like a servant appears, running over to grab the reigns of Lials horse.
The obligator waits the few seconds for the boy to get close before continuing "Well sir, what brings you to our residence this late evening?" as he does so he gestures towards the house and begins slowly walking back, assuming Lial will follow "I'm afraid since I was not at the gate you will have to introduce youself again." (OOC: you can ust put what you did before if you dont remember the name lol)
Dusk Has just begun. 10 mins till night (The signal is now overdue)
There has been no change in patrol patterns visible since Squirrel has reported in.
OOC: I will NOT be leaving your powers on, They'll be used for what you ask then immediatly turned off unles you state that you want them left on.
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Once dusk hits, Karl instantly drains the strength that he has just stored for the past 5 or so minutes, and claps his hands togheter, creating a rather loud noise, signaling the fact that the fire needs to flare and become visible, and that the operation starts.
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Once dusk hits, Karl instantly drains the strength that he has just stored for the past 5 or so minutes, and claps his hands togheter, creating a rather loud noise, signaling the fact that the fire needs to flare and become visible, and that the operation starts.
Which suceeds, but not in making the loud deep noice that only aliies would notice, instead he makes a loud clap that is very noticable everywhere in the compound.
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Juan looks at Aviur when he hears the noise. "So... judging by that noise it sounds like its game on.." he said smiling, and uncocking his gun. "Just in case" he said. He also were on the lookout for any approaching guards, or just workers.
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The obligator waits the few seconds for the boy to get close before continuing "Well sir, what brings you to our residence this late evening?" as he does so he gestures towards the house and begins slowly walking back, assuming Lial will follow "I'm afraid since I was not at the gate you will have to introduce yourself again." (OOC: you can just put what you did before if you don't remember the name lol)
"I am sir (Something something noble) of house (something)." Lial says, following along, chest puffed, chin up.
"Thank you for taking my horse, now, i'm here to see my old friend (Noble dude), though I would pay him a surprise visit. He is here, right?"
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Juan looks at Aviur when he hears the noise. "So... judging by that noise it sounds like its game on.." he said smiling, and uncocking his gun. "Just in case" he said. He also were on the lookout for any approaching guards, or just workers.
Aviur nods before tossing several moss covered pieces of wood onto the fire and then heating them up with her abilities so that they will catch fire quickly. She then begins working the fire to make it look far bigger from a distance than it actually is.
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Squirrel makes a hasty (and extremely discreet) move towards a small hidden space she saw on the roof which was not easily viewed from the grounds.
OOC: I'm getting in position to get into the 2nd floor room which the hopes people will not be in it because of the fires. (I was planning to do this before Karl gave the signal but it seems I missed it)
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Jaun and Aviur get prepared, the moss goes up in a large plume of gray smoke which will be visible for some distance. The further construction of the fire however does not go so smoothly, lacking enough wood to make it truely visible they are currently stuck with it as a simply large fire with alot of smoke.
Karl shrinks back down to normal size leaving him, Lan and Tan (still smoking) in the trees. They look up just in time to see Squirrel vanishing over the wall using remarkable agility. Sadly on the other side the guards are getting very close and she is forced to use a burst of steel running to try and avoid them... which she is not totally sucessful in. She is currently in bushes at the base of the house and the guards that saw 'Somthing' are searching the area, luckily her steel running was JUST enough to conseal exactly where she went. She can hear them speaking "I know I saw somthing moving fast around here, keep and eye out while I search." "Sure just be careful and shout the second you find anything."
Lial hears the clap and sees the smoke appearing at the same time as the obligator who gives a little smile. "I guess that must be your colleagues, was that the signal to begin your plans now that you are inside the compound?" The guards who had been standing idly by before now slide efficiently to surround himthe two behind him wear the same metal armour as the other gate guards, the two in front are wearing suits and not carrying any obvious weapons. The Obligator stays right in front of him smilling.
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"Alright, time to move foward. Tan, move with me to the bushes over there." Karl says, turning on his tin, and using his enhanced senses to plot the best way to move stealthily across the area with Tan. Once there, he'd leave Tan in the bushes, and head to the side walls, staying inside the Cloud, and trying to sense where everyone is.
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To divert attention from herself, Squirrel looks round for the largest clump of bushes within her range. when the guards are not looking that way, she shoots one of her coins off into the bush to create a distraction (and hopefully disturb an animal or bird).
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Aviur begins gathering more dry wood and moss-wood placing them in two preferably barren spots near the original fire. She then takes two of the thicker burning sticks and places each stick into the two new piles. After this is done she ensures the fires do not spread out of control and that they continue to build more smoke.
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The group the the east of the compound move forward to the small bushes near the walls, they do this without being noticed and somehow manage to cram themselves into a fairly well disguised position. Karl makes his move to reach the wall... at a very bad time, the guard patrol nearly sees him and he is forced to dive back into the bushes to avoid giving the game away. They are all however safe for now as the guards strole past with newly lit torches (since dusk is setting in). Lan lets out a slow mumble of complaint about an elderly man of his intilect having to hide in a bush late at night.
Aviur sets two more small fires and gets them going with burning wood from the original fire which is very easy to do, the moss also seems to be a little damp but due to the heat from the fire it all goes up with a whoosh making a fairly big plume of grey/black smoke, this should convince ppl that the fire is much bigger than the reality. Juan has his pistol at the ready and cockes so simply warms his hands by the fire while he waits for Aviur to finish.
Inside the compound a slight ringing can be heard and a cry of "Fire to the West, still well clear of the walls." the obligator looks up away from Lial long enough to see a team of 5 men jogging out of the house wearing leather armour and carrying only wooden weapons, apart from the leader who is in metal gear. They pause to say "Heading out to check the fire." before jogging towards the gate. The obligator turns his slightly creepy smile back onto Lial still waiting for a reply to his accusations. The guards around Lial still stand ready.
Squirrels actions within the compound could have had several reprocussions however she sees it working perfectly, her coin hits the other bush with enough force to snap a branch off and send a crow squaking into the air. This distracts the guard who curses himself thinkiing it was the crow all along before starting his rounds again with his partner. Her position is now un-watched.
Guard patterns seems to have changed once the ringing noise was heard (all crew members should hear it, Aviur and Jaun both JUST ABOUT made it out with sucessful rolls) the guards seem to be moving faster and all have torches lit now.
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"Just keep smoking the place, Tan. Your payment is worth it." Karl says, simply, keeping his tin on, and focusing on the sounds of the guards, preparing to ambush one of them, alone. Information is critical.
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OOC: Just checking. TY.
Aviur perks up at the slight sound of a bell in the distance. She looks to Juan before speaking.
"Looks like that means they spotted the fire. Do you think one of us should check in with the others? After all, They have the Tineye with them."
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OOC: I'm unsure, did you say we heard the bell or no? Also I feel bad for the metal-wearing guy if I manage to grab him long enough. xD
OOC: you did indeed hear a very faint ringing noise
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OOC: Just checking. TY.
Aviur perks up at the slight sound of a bell in the distance. She looks to Juan before speaking.
"Looks like that means they spotted the fire. Do you think one of us should check in with the others? After all, They have the Tineye with them."
Juan thinks for a moment before replying "I dont know... Do you think it's a good idea to be alone now, i mean the guards should come running any second now to prevent that their forrest burns to the ground."
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Juan thinks for a moment before replying "I dont know... Do you think it's a good idea to be alone now, i mean the guards should come running any second now to prevent that their forrest burns to the ground."
"I can handle them but it would be nice to know if the other camp was captured or attacked. I figured that if you were attacked you will shoot that gun of yours which will make a rather loud noise and I can go rescue you from the soldiers. Think of yourself as bait if it helps calm you down." She smirks as she adjusts one of the fires.
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Inside the compound a slight ringing can be heard and a cry of "Fire to the West, still well clear of the walls." the obligator looks up away from Lial long enough to see a team of 5 men jogging out of the house wearing leather armour and carrying only wooden weapons, apart from the leader who is in metal gear. They pause to say "Heading out to check the fire." before jogging towards the gate. The obligator turns his slightly creepy smile back onto Lial still waiting for a reply to his accusations. The guards around Lial still stand ready.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Lial says, not burning any of his metals.
"I'm here to see my friend, what's going on here?"
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Squirrel takes advantage of the break and once again heads for the roof, as quickly & quietly as possible.
OOC: since I've used my steel burning to shoot a coin, I might as well use the rest of it to get onto the roof more quickly & head for the window I mentioned earlier.
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"Hostage? Like reversed damsel in distress?" He chuckles a little at this point "I kinda like the idea... you sick perv." He snickered before heading off to check the others.
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Over all, dust is beginning to set in, reducing visibility for everyone.
On the west side the fires are going very well and still producing alot of grey/black smoke, Aviur and Juan are about 15-20 feet apart and having a good time with their banter.
On the west Tan is still smoking away with Lan and Karl beside him in the bushes, Karl is burning Tin and tracking the guards. He can now easily hear them chatting about irrelevant things like food and women and the cold but currently they are still walking further away from the group in the bushes meaning he would have to chase after them to catch one. On the other hand his path to the wall is now clear for a minute or so before the guards make their return pass.
Inside the compound squirrel does her superman impression and boosts off a coin onto the roof before creeping to right above the window of the room adjacent to her target Study/Office.
At exactly the same time Lial protests his innocence WITHOUT the use of allomancy. The creepy smile on the Obligators face stays in place and he is now clearly giving the impression of not believing Lial... Untill the ringing noise suddenly changes pitch and tone and his head snaps towards the interior eastern grounds "Go!" The two men in suits suddenly ignore Lial and rush towards the eastern grounds. The obligator finally returns his attention to Lial "It appears things may be more complicated than I had assumed, if you follow me inside we may talk within. You'll have to excuse the guards however, as it does appear we may be under attack and we must now go to full allert." He begins quickly leading Lial inside with the two guards following.
The guard patterns on the East and North are visible to Squirrel, the Southern ones to Lial and they now change. Lights are lit in windows and the guards start moving quicker. a new squad of 5 (same as before, 4 wearing leather and wood and carrying wooden weapons including bows and staffs. One wearing metal armour with metal topped spear, shield and sword) come out of the house and start patrolling the house in an anticlockwise direction.
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Lial follows willingly, though he is prepared to flare both brass and duralinum to make those two guards kill the obligator and themselves if he senses he is being led into a trap.
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Squirrel uses the last of her burn to check for viable metals around the area, and of course, for any guards/mistings who might also be hanging about on the rooftops. Waiting for a good gap in the guard patterns (aka. one where they aren't looking), she lowers herself carefully to a place where she can very cautiously peeks into the window.
OOC: spidergirl, spidergirl...she's so awesome you want to hurl! (I am open to better rhymes for that one :)
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Aviur continues to manage the fires but she makes sure to keep an eye and ear out for Juan or any guards who might stumble on the area.
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Karl moves, silently, to the walls, and tries to hear what's going on there.
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Aviur continues to manage the fires but she makes sure to keep an eye and ear out for Juan or any guards who might stumble on the area.
Juan stops chatting loudly, as he realises it might draw unwanted attention. For now he heads back to Aviur.
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On the East Karl gets close to the wall, its too high for him to see over without a big jump or little bit of climbing but his tin is indeed letting him hear some of the voices on the other side. Again most of it is useless but he does catch snatches of guards speach. "Thats the second alarm..." "mistling to the" "The Suits are on the east back them up!".
Adding the info together he surmises that the alarm was triggered by a misling to the east of the house and someone called 'The suits' are now on the east of the house with guards supporting them.
Lan gets prepared in the bushes for the guards when they come back, he has decided that taking them out will be the best plan for not being spotted as well as for information. he whispers so that only Karl will hear him. "Once the guards return I'm going to trap them into a slow bubble, if you get into position you can knock them out." Tan stays lying down smoking the area (Karl and Tan will be covered)
Squirrel quickly looks around the compound before her burn wears off, she sees metal moving along the walls in twos, inside and outside. below her she sees a small source of metal, like keys or a coin pouch. The house is PACKED with metal sources so she can't differentiate anything through that, apart from that the weather vane is metal along with most of the roof nails and window frames. She uses her agility to look into the window by dangling down and gets a brief glimps inside before coming very close to over balancing and has to pull herself back up. Her look inside saw 1 man near the window, currently srapping on a wooden buckler.
On the West Juan turns back and heads towards Aviur as she continues with the fires when they both start hearing noise coming from the East they are still 10 feet apart, nothing is yet visible (OOC: I paused you right as you both hear the noise)
Lial follows the Obligator into the front door (the sticky out bit with nice wooden doors clearly visible in the picture). They have just entered.
2 minutes left of dusk before full night begins.
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"Will we be safe in here? What's happening?" Lial asks
Lial will look to see if there are any more guards in sight...
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On the West Juan turns back and heads towards Aviur as she continues with the fires when they both start hearing noise coming from the East they are still 10 feet apart, nothing is yet visible (OOC: I paused you right as you both hear the noise)
Aviur's eyes go wide as she hears the noise. She quickly darts to the nearest flame and pulls a stick(one side on fire with the other still unburned.) before darting behind a tree large enough to hide her and the fire. If she can see Juan before the guards arrive then she will motion for him to hide.
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Squirrel decides to wait a moment and see if they man inside the room finishes gearing up and leaves. She also takes a moment to examine any latches on the window so she can figure out how to get in.
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Juan, much like Aviur decides to hide when he hears the noise, and if he sees her do the go hide he will do some overly dramatic gestures as he readies a gun.
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"Perfect." Karl whispers back, and gets himself into position. Once the guards get close by, (and he will hear it due to his tin), he'll signal Lan.
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Aviur and Juan both smoothly duck behind trees (Aviur holding a burning brand) and both signal eachother to hide before realising it and resuming getting prepared, Juan with his pistol ready and Aviur with her brand cluched like a bat. they start hearing more noises.
"It's here, hey this looks staged, everyone spread out!" they hear the noise from multiple people moving and they can both work out that they are now being approached by multiple enimies in a line spred over about 20 feet. Both know they are in the path of the line.
The obligator turns back to Lial. "We will be completly safe here don't worry. Now I do still have some questions for you, follow me please." Lial is lead into the main building ground floor then to the right, they reach a large room with a dining table to the right and comfy chairs to the left, the obligator indicates the comfortable chairs, smiling again. Visible there are 2 guards already in the large room, 1 at the east window and 1 at the south window they do not have any visible metal. They are concentrating hard looking out the windows. the two original guards are 2 and 4 feet behind him respectively.
Tan also smoothly gets into position using the darkness and whatever cover he can to stay hidden, he percieves that the guards are returning their way, Lan also sees this since they are carrying torches. (OOC: They should be close next turn.)
Squirrel stays put and tries to listen to whats going on inside the window but finds she can't really make anything out. She does however hear commotion from directly below. On the grounds and the bushes she was just in. She sees its a simple latch window that shouldnt test her skills to open, the window is metal framed and metal hatchings around the panes of glass. she can't see the man without fully hanging down in front of the window again
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Aviur smirks as she prepares her pewter-burn, she throws out the burning stick on her left just before activating the burning process and running out towards whatever looks like the leader of the group on the right. If she manages to surprise them then she will punch or push the leader into the people next to him before attacking the closest person(that is not an ally) with just enough heat to sting them when she makes contact.
Hopefully Juan can take down anybody who runs for help or maybe the leader if the possibility arise. :P
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Aw man, i hate this kind's of stuff. He thinks for himself, as looks down at the pistol and contemplates on what to do next, then something suddenly hits him.
"No way i'm going to be a side-character in my own life..." He mumbles to himself before looking straight at Aviur "Stay hidden... or something" He says loudly enough for her to hear, but not the guards. Hopefully."
He then aims for one of the guards leg with his pistol, aims for another leg shot on another guard and runs like hell, to get away from them. "Bitches!" He shouts as he runs away from them.
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The obligator turns back to Lial. "We will be completly safe here don't worry. Now I do still have some questions for you, follow me please." Lial is lead into the main building ground floor then to the right, they reach a large room with a dining table to the right and comfy chairs to the left, the obligator indicates the comfortable chairs, smiling again. Visible there are 2 guards already in the large room, 1 at the east window and 1 at the south window they do not have any visible metal. They are concentrating hard looking out the windows. the two original guards are 2 and 4 feet behind him respectively.
Lial will wait for the Obligator to ask his first question.
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Almost here... Prepare.. Cool mind... Karl thinks to himself, mentally preparing himself.
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Squirrel looks down at the commotion below to find out what's going on, if it's distracting enough or won't give her away, she decides to swing over the ledge feet-first (from a back-roll off the edge) Using her momentum & her steel pushing, she's going to push the window open and try to take out the man inside with a double kick.
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In the Western woods many things happen at once.
Aviur tries to signal Juan to stay in cover which he doesn't see cos he is busy thinking and mumbling, she then throws her burning branch left and begins burning pewter and sprinting right. At this moment Juan tries to tell HER to stay hidden and spins out left taking two quick shots at the nearest men.
The enemies are spread out, Aviur sees only 1 to her right with one straight ahead and one close to the left, the others are further off left near Juan. Juan sees one straight ahead, 1 left, one close right and the others to the right near Aviur.
Juan's bullets land first, just as the men react, taking one man clean in the thigh and making him ragdoll to the ground. The second missfires, jamming the pistol. It will need fully reloaded and cocked before firing again. Aviur goes for the man right in front of her with pewter enhanced speed and agility and thumps him right in the chest. The little blast of heat works well and doesnt backfire but it doesnt matter much as the man does a backflip from her punch before landing out cold.
Juan has begun sprinting away shouting "Bitches" and he has two very insulted men in pursuit. One fires an arrow at him which leaves a gash on his side, just a deep flesh wound but it needs bound soonish. Aviur has men directly either side of her, one closing in fast with a staff on her right, and one in metal with a sword to her left.
Inside, the Obligator sits Lial in the comfy chair, the two guards take up spots behind him and to either side. "So tell me again who you are and why you appear unnanouced at our gates at this late hour." He again has a creepy smile on his face, Lial is beginning to suspect that that man may just be very creepy in a bald kind of way. Suddenly there is a crash from nearly right above them and everyone looks at the ceiling where a thump follows immediatly after the crash.
To the east the guards get close, in a few seconds their torchlight will completly reveal Karl and they are Just passing in front of Lan when he looses patience and panics running out in front of them and burning. Karl with his tin sees the sudden blur then sees two confused guards seem to freeze in place weapons half lifted with Lan a few feet away from them also seemingly frozen his hand is up with 3 fingers in the air. Tan swears audibly from inside the bush.
Squirrel looks down in time to see one of the suits taking out a coin and gets the immediate impression that they are dangerous mistlings, they are also already focused on the roof. Squirrel goes for a super awsome roll, swing, boost, take-down move on the guard in the window below her. To an outside observer it would be hard to tell if she failed horribly or suceeded. She swings down but looses her grip last second so that when she hits the window she isn't feet first, she is ass and side first, She frantically pushes on the frame and gutter with her steel which she does spectacularly boosting her at high speed right into the guards chest and head... Ass first and landing in a heap on top of him. Sadly this... unorthadox move takes its toll on her leaving her bruised but luckily has knocked the guard clean out. This made alot of noise... As she stands she suddenly sees a man in a suit fly up to the roof past the window where she had been a second go.
Karl is burning Tin and hears most of what happened to Squirrel, he also hears guards shouting "The roof! they're on the roof!"
OOC: Squirrel and Juan are now Hurt. Health Reminder: Your health will be described as 'full' 'hurt' 'bloodied' 'unconscious' or 'dead' so be carefull if you see bloodied ok? (yes ripped off BZ's system)
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Inside, the Obligator sits Lial in the comfy chair, the two guards take up spots behind him and to either side. "So tell me again who you are and why you appear unnanouced at our gates at this late hour." He again has a creepy smile on his face, Lial is beginning to suspect that that man may just be very creepy in a bald kind of way. Suddenly there is a crash from nearly right above them and everyone looks at the ceiling where a thump follows immediatly after the crash.
Tsk, this is unfortunate. If I act now I might be put to a disadvantage... but if I continue playing the fool then the obligator will probably send more guards up to get Squirrel - and she'll be rather busy herself.
Well, I guess it's time to give a hearty "Fark you" to subtlety - we've all been discovered anyways.
Lial flares Brass, removing all suspicion from him, removing all hatred of him, removing all negative feelings of him (though leaving negative feelings towards everyone else). He eradicates any humanity from the subjects of his brass, he destroys whatever loyalty they feel to anyone save for him, he removes any love and friendship they may have with others. He leaves all the good for himself, and he leaves all the evil for the others. Lial also flares Duralinum, making everyone within the first floor love him and care for him unconditionally, to trust him blindly and feel an unbreakable, invaluable connection to him, like that of a faithful hound.
"Everyone you know save for me is a traitor, they are lying to you and want to kill you! You must protect yourself and me, slay them!" Lial shouts out, expanding his effect onto everyone within range of his voice - and sincerely hoping that Squirrel wouldn't be caught in the spell's effects.
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"'Tis but a scratch.!" Juan shouts with a smirk, remembering a very odd book he had read some time ago with black knight getting his arms and legs cut off but still insisting it was just a flesh wound, with a grunt of pain he continued to run while checking his would (The arrow cut across his side right below the ribs)
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Aviur ducks and rolls forward before swiping her leg in an arc at the man with the metal sword. If he falls she will immediately try and take down the other soldier before finishing the metal one, if not then she will roll to the side with the staff-man before reengaging battle with them.
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"Dammit LAN!" Karl mutters, angrily, and hops over, drawing strength and prepares to take down the guards
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"Well, that was...not cool at all" Squirrel thought, groaning and rubbing her bruised...pride. Unfortunately, she doesn't have any more time for self pity as she sees the misting go flying by towards the roof. She dashes towards the partition into the 2nd floor study, stolen keys in hand (as they can be used to either knock out an attacker or *hopefully* open the wall safe.
OOC: It's pretty clear that they knew we were coming, so I'm going for speed over stealth. I've left my steel on so I can react quickly to any attacks.
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To the east Karl is fully prepared as the blur shimmers for a millisecond and vanishes, his tin lets him know the EXACT second it goes and the guards are about to speed up.
To the West Juan makes his quips as he runs and realises that his wound is a bleeder but he could easily heal it with normal burning of gold, just if he doesnt he is gonna be in trouble soon. A second arrow flashes past him into a tree missing by at least a good few inches. He can still hear someone coming after him fast.
Aviur moves in close and goes for the legs, sweeping the armoured mans leg clean out, the man reacts FAST and manages a light slash at Aviurs head as he falls, she manges to dodge but takes a small cut to her shoulder (OOC: not enough to slow her down, just a scratch.) the other man closes but not fast enough to attack. Aviur is now facing the two men, armoured down on his back and the other standing with staff ready to attack.
Inside Squirrel springs to her feet and with a burst of steel-running blasts into the room to find it empty. behind her she hears men shouting in the corridor outside the Study.
Downstairs Lial goes all out Flair burn on both metals and attempts to turn the men on eachother. The flairs works and he controls it well to affect most of the ground floor, just not completly to the West wall. His burns sooth away pretty much ALL emotion leaving only trace nice feelings towards him although they had little of that to begin, his other burn them makes them feel like he is their bestest buddy ever with added bro-mance. One of the guards behind him simply clutches his head then faints. The Obligator seems to know somthing is wrong before pandemonium takes over, the guards at the windows had guns which one promtly uses on the guard behind Lial taking him out with a shot to the chest. The other window guard, and the obligator are left screaming at eachother when two more guards burst from siderooms into the corridor outside the room.
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Lial picks up the dead man's gun and then shoots the obligator in the back of the head. He will then take the Obligator's keys (C'mon, he has to have keys) and go to the office, leaving the chaos behind him. If the obligator has no keys, he will ignore the "Kill the obligator" part and just take the gun and leave. He does this all as quickly as possible.
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After making sure they couldent see him, Juan will dive into a bush to hide in, to heal and fix his Gun.
If he cant, he will try to do it while running.
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Aviur moves in close and goes for the legs, sweeping the armoured mans leg clean out, the man reacts FAST and manages a light slash at Aviurs head as he falls, she manges to dodge but takes a small cut to her shoulder (OOC: not enough to slow her down, just a scratch.) the other man closes but not fast enough to attack. Aviur is now facing the two men, armoured down on his back and the other standing with staff ready to attack.
She quickly moves into a dodge as the other soldiers comes close enough to hit her. From that dodge she will try and grab the stick from him and take it. If she succeds then she will use the battle-staff against the mans head. If not she will make sure to knock the man in metal down to the ground again before trying to get his sword.
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Karl, as soon as the slow bubble is up, goes in and attempts to take out one guard completely, drawing strength from his storage. The other one, however, he won't aim to knock the foe out.
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Squirrel pushes against the metal on the door to the corridor to keep it shut (just in case someone decides to charge in), while trying the keys on the safe.
She mouths silently "crapcrapcrap - please work, please work, please work!"
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OOC: Just cos I want to do everything in a different order today I reversed it..
Inside the room Squirrel keeps her steel going to push on the door but she hasn't braced herself so she can't push very hard, on the other hand she judges the size of they keys very well and is just wrenching the door to the safe open when the door to the corridor bursts open and a very off balance guard tumbles in and to the floor, there is one guard still standing behind him, both are dressed as hazekillers however the one still standing is holding a pistol.
Lials affect on the men holds as he grabs the gun and shoots the obligator, he i searching the dead man for keys, and JUST gets his hand on them when shouts erupt from the corridor to the west and a guard wearing metal is visible running towards the room Lial is in. the other guards in the corridor are still confused.
Karls speed and strength allow him clean punches to both mens heads but their armour protects them slightly, one is out cold and the other seems to be VERY dazed but still kind of concious, he is also drooling a little. Lan shakes himself before turning to Karl "Well I'm glad you saw my signal with my fingers! now lets get some information out of this one before we are noticed."
In the trees to the West, Juan jumps headfirst into a bush and burns gold while trying to fix his gun. The gold begins working instantly to slow the bleeding and start to close the wound but it will take a little time to heal completly (1-2 more turns without a flair.) He also suceeds in fixing his gun and is just getting it reloaded when an arrow hits the ground near his leg, it seems he didnt shake off the archer yet.
Aviur JUST dodges a strike from the staff user, however as it flys past her face she grabs the end, spins around using her body against the middle of the staff and easily forcing it out of the mans hand. This also meant she was now spinning with a solid staff in hand which very neatly sends its previous owner flying into an unconcious/dead heap in a nearby bush (OOC: somce very nice rolls by Aviur there). Aviur is left nicely poised as the metal wearing man gets to his feet and takes a careful swordsman stance.
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Lial shoots the guy in the face, nabs the keys, and then sneakily sneaks away from the conflict.
If the guard moves faster than Lial, Lial will soothe away aggression, loyalty and fear from the guard, and leave compassion, humanity and caring, so tht the guard would hesitate or be rendered mentally incapable of shooting. The duralinum Lial would burn probably would help with this matter as well.
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Squirrel dives towards the prone guard's back (steelrunning) and uses his head/back as a brace to steel push the pistol back into it's owner's face (hopefully with enough force to knock him out).
OOC: not knowing if the hazekillers are using metal bullets or not, she tries pushing on both the pistol and the bullet, just in case the guard trying to get a round off.
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Juan nearly shouts another taunt at the guards, but stopping in the last second, realising it Would give up his position. He tries to spot the archer, aswell as the men that was running after him. When spotted he will try to shoot them. In the leg.
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Karl moves quickly to the man on the ground, and makes sure Lan stopped his bubble.
He then grabs the man, holding him in the air by the neck.
"Shout and you die." He sad, trying to intimidate him.
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In the West forest Juan looks out in time to see the archer with a loaded arrow scanning the bush he is in. He takes aim and fires before the archer notices his exact position but his shot only skims the archers leg and the archer falls behind a tree. Juan sees some blood but is pretty sure that the man isnt out of the fight yet. He cannot see the other guard that he was sure was following him.
Aviur moves in with some fast staff strikes against the armoured man, however the man deflects or defends all of the blows, Aviur quickly realises she is facing a pewter arm who is trained with a sword. She does however notice that his sword is denting slightly more than normal. She sees him smiling as he takes the offensive with short body thrusts.
To the east Karl shakes the man a bit as he warns him into silence, this seems partly uneccesary as the man is still clearly dazed and not overly sure of what is happening to him. On the plus side the intimidation is an automatic sucess as a result. Lan meanwhile tries to scale the wall to look over the top at whats going on in the grounds.
Inside the house Lial slides the keys into his cloak pocket as he fires off a round at the approaching armoured mans head, which he misses. a second shot however takes the man in the chest and the guard slumps to the ground. Lial tries to quickly sneak to the west side of the house but he notices that the guards he is currently passing in the corridor are recovering very quickly from his mental attack.
On the second floor Squirrel goes for a rather accrobatic attack on the guards who just burst into the room. She dives forward with a boost off the safe and lands on the guards back before releasing a strong push against the second mans gun. The push is extrodinarily sucesful and she surprises herself with her own strength as the mans gun smashes full up into his face and knocks him out cold with a very broken nose, the push also forces her weight onto the man below her knocking him head into the floor hard, he will be dazed for a moment or two. (Finally someone crit again, its been like 6 turns or so since a crit)
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"Good. Tell me where the books are kept. The important ones. Now." Karl says, angrily.
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"Good. Tell me where the books are kept. The important ones. Now." Karl says, angrily.
OOC: this isnt a full turns worth of action compared to the others sooo....
"What erm, books? you mean the gold?"
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In the West forest Juan looks out in time to see the archer with a loaded arrow scanning the bush he is in. He takes aim and fires before the archer notices his exact position but his shot only skims the archers leg and the archer falls behind a tree. Juan sees some blood but is pretty sure that the man isnt out of the fight yet. He cannot see the other guard that he was sure was following him.
Aviur moves in with some fast staff strikes against the armoured man, however the man deflects or defends all of the blows, Aviur quickly realises she is facing a pewter arm who is trained with a sword. She does however notice that his sword is denting slightly more than normal. She sees him smiling as he takes the offensive with short body thrusts.
To the east Karl shakes the man a bit as he warns him into silence, this seems partly uneccesary as the man is still clearly dazed and not overly sure of what is happening to him. On the plus side the intimidation is an automatic sucess as a result. Lan meanwhile tries to scale the wall to look over the top at whats going on in the grounds.
Inside the house Lial slides the keys into his cloak pocket as he fires off a round at the approaching armoured mans head, which he misses. a second shot however takes the man in the chest and the guard slumps to the ground. Lial tries to quickly sneak to the west side of the house but he notices that the guards he is currently passing in the corridor are recovering very quickly from his mental attack.
On the second floor Squirrel goes for a rather accrobatic attack on the guards who just burst into the room. She dives forward with a boost off the safe and lands on the guards back before releasing a strong push against the second mans gun. The push is extrodinarily sucesful and she surprises herself with her own strength as the mans gun smashes full up into his face and knocks him out cold with a very broken nose, the push also forces her weight onto the man below her knocking him head into the floor hard, he will be dazed for a moment or two. (Finally someone crit again, its been like 6 turns or so since a crit)
Lial excersices his brass and Duralinum the same way he had when he flared (though he doesn't flare it) in order to slow the recovery the guards were going through.
He also scoops up the guard who he had killed's gun, after all, the one he was using had a limited amount of shots left...
If any more guards begin following or chasing him, and he fails to outrun them, he will recommence firing at them, while finding cover.
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OOC: this isnt a full turns worth of action compared to the others sooo....
"What erm, books? you mean the gold?"
OOC: Muchos Gracias
Karl, on the dot, changes his plans.
"Yes, yes, the gold. The gold and the damn books recording your houses' shipments. Tell me, NOW."
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"I... I know nothing about any books, the obligator deals with all that stuff, we were just hired a couple days ago so that the house gold in the small basement would be safe."
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"I... I know nothing about any books, the obligator deals with all that stuff, we were just hired a couple days ago so that the house gold in the small basement would be safe."
".. Damn.. Where is the basement?" Karl asks, angrily.
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"I... I dunno... I think erm under the tower?" the man finally looses conciousness.
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Karl drops the unconscious man, and waits for LAN to report what's going on inside the grounds. Plans are to head on over there.
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Squirrel grins to herself thinking, "Finally something has gone my way!". She launches off the prone guard's head and back towards the safe, hoping to knock him out properly this time. Back at the safe, she finally gets to look at the contents inside, hoping to have found the book.
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Juan listens carefully for any sound that the man following him earlier is still around, if not he would try to get away from the now wounded archer by sprinting. If he did not hear the other man but he was still there he would try to shoot him in the leg too if he tried pursuing him again.
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In the West forest Juan looks out in time to see the archer with a loaded arrow scanning the bush he is in. He takes aim and fires before the archer notices his exact position but his shot only skims the archers leg and the archer falls behind a tree. Juan sees some blood but is pretty sure that the man isn't out of the fight yet. He cannot see the other guard that he was sure was following him.
Aviur moves in with some fast staff strikes against the armoured man, however the man deflects or defends all of the blows, Aviur quickly realises she is facing a pewter arm who is trained with a sword. She does however notice that his sword is denting slightly more than normal. She sees him smiling as he takes the offensive with short body thrusts.
Aviur moves to hit the sword off to the side and shortly after swing it up at the soldiers head. Hopefully she manages to make him back off/stumble for a moment so she can run backwards a small distance. Once she does that she will run with pewter-enhancement towards him; once she gets close she will swing the staff at his feet right before jumping up for a face-kick.
If he loses his sword at this point she will grab onto his face and hair then melt his face/set it on fire. She will try to hold on as long as possible unless she is likely to be attacked by somebody else than him(or he manages to get his sword again.)
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To the East, Karl drops the man and walks over to Lan who is struggling to see clearly over the wall due to his age and the walls height, Karl helps him and gets a hurried report. "Theres alot of them right over the wall, lots of torches and a mix of hazekillers and men in armour there. Far too many for us to try and take on alone, I could try and catch one in a bubble through the wall but I have no idea what help that would be."
To the West Juan remembers that he thought a second man was after him and listens carefully to his surroundings, which is lucky because he quickly realises that someone is sneaking up fom behind him. He manages to locate and get a shot off at the man at quite close range which takes him in the thigh which guarantees he is out of the fight (so long as he isnt a gold feru) His shot gives away his position to the archer who again fires a shot but Juan is too fast for him and is already sprinting Nearly due north, parallel with the wall.
Aviur on the other hand is facing a bit more trouble, she tries to make the man stumble to give her some space but he easily counters her attacks and stays perfectly in form, it is becoming clear that he is not only a pewter arm but is well trained with his sword. Aviur does however manage to get some space and charges the man flashing her staff at his feet which he almost smugly side-steps and raises his sword for a counter strike. Luckily for Aviur this was a feintand she connects solidly with her knee directly to his face knocking him in a half backflip to land unconcious in front of her.
Inside on the ground floor Lial continuously burns his metals to try and keep the guards in the corridor with his dissorientated. He realises quite quickly that this isnt going to work for long at all and the guards are recovering. He does however reach the entrance to the study which has a very basic wooden door, sadly its locked.
Upstairs Squirrel blasts off the floored guards head/back to the slightly opened safe. She opens it the rest of the way and looks inside. She sees several small bags some documents and a small pile of books, she has no time to examine the books before hearing some cracking noise from the bedroom she entered from.
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Lial, being blessed with keys and the knowledge that you can open door locks with keys, uses the Obligator's keys to open the door lock.
If the keys don't work (or take too long), he will use another piece of knowledge he has been blessed with: He possesses not one but two guns, and door locks and hinges are not immune to gunshots. (If he fails he'll just shoot the door lock, if the door still doesn't open he'll shoot the hinges and break the door down like a raging bitch and enter.)
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the archer shouldnt be able to follow... well fast anyway and i'm confident i got that other sneaky sneak guard in the leg.. i hope i didnt the artory in the thigh though, that will probarly kill him.. Oh well, i get to live another day, WEI! And with a excited little squel he merrily runs towards Aviur to see if she needs any help.
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Aviur on the other hand is facing a bit more trouble, she tries to make the man stumble to give her some space but he easily counters her attacks and stays perfectly in form, it is becoming clear that he is not only a pewter arm but is well trained with his sword. Aviur does however manage to get some space and charges the man flashing her staff at his feet which he almost smugly side-steps and raises his sword for a counter strike. Luckily for Aviur this was a feintand she connects solidly with her knee directly to his face knocking him in a half backflip to land unconcious in front of her.
OOC: Heh, Epic.
BIC: Landing with a thud to the ground she quickly checks for any soldiers nearby and if there are none then she will check the fallen soldiers for anything of interest/value. After that she will use the sword of the armored soldier to kill all the normal soldiers before tying up the armoured(now unarmored) soldier to a tree and gag him before beginning to search for Juan. She leaves all the interest/value stuff in a big pile unless it's like a letter or note or something like that. She will take that with her.
This is far to much fun, maybe Juan left some for me to fight... She thinks to herself as she continues looking.
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"Ugh... We need to get in via a different route. See any windows we could get in?" Karl asks. If any are there, he'd try and climb up.
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Squirrel silently grumbles to herself, 'I'm never going to get 2 seconds alone with this bloody safe' and darts he hand in to pull put the small pile of books. She braces herself against the safe and steel pushes all the metal in the vicinity towards and out the bedroom window, hoping to catch the "visitor" unawares.
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Lial in inside the mansion ground floor on the West side trying to get inside the study, he starts trying to fit keys when shouts start right beside him and he realises that the guards are now after him, and they are very close. He does however manage to match the key to the lock and get inside, slamming the door behind him but there is alreay banging on the outside.
Upstairs Squirrel grabs the small pile of books without checking what they are (due to having no time to go through them carefully, this makes her slightly encumbered but she can easliy drop them for combat) She blasts out a steel push while standing against the safe to cause all the metal around her to move away, theoretically firing any loose metal between her and the unknown noise towards the noise and its cause. She sees the affect work and can see the lines of many small metal object radiating out at speed untill the metal near the window seems to stop and she feels extra force pushing her into the safe for a few moments before it it just as suddenly released. She does hear a muffled noise as it happens but is unable to make out what it was, after the flying metal hits the floor she is unable to hear any more movement from the room.
To the East Lan turns to Karl, "There seem to be alot of windows on the ground floor which we could use for entry but this side of the compound is crawling with men. The only chance I see is from the West side." Around this time Karl manages to notice new light turning the corner, it also occurs to him that they are standing near the bodies of the two unconcious guards and didnt put the torches out so they are very very visible.
To the West Juan squeals with glee as he merrily runs in a loop back South towards where he left aviur. Sadly in his glee he does indeed trip on an exposed root and bash his nose into a tree. Not a serious injury but very embarrasing, there is no sign of the archer though.
Aviur scans the surroundings and seeing nothing she takes the mans sword and searches the rest of the normal soldiers before killing them. Her cursory search turns up nothing of interest and the hacking of survivors to death is pretty hasty causing a section of the sword to loose its edge badly when it hit some laqured wood. She then returns to the metal wearing guard and ties him up, resting him against a tree with a gag in place when a nice shiney shaft of wood appears in her right calf. She realises awfully quickly that it is indeed an arrow that has lodged itself there.
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Well look at that, I guess there must be an archer nearby. She thinks to herself as she glances down at it.
Knowing better than to tear it out she quickly rolls to the side before hiding behind a tree from the direction the arrow came. She then tries to check to see how deep the arrow went and what kind of arrow it is.
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Lial quickly locks the door shut (not expecting it to hold in any way) and tries to take up a hidden position with some small cover for protection in the room. He will take out both of the guns and aim them directly at the door, and wait at that position. Once the guards begin entering, having broken down the door, he will wait for two guards to enter; at which point he will begin firing on the whole lot of them, using his cover and stealthy position as well as the chokepoint the guards would have put themselves into to his advantage.
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Son of a bitch and mother of a pigfaced gluttonous bastard! Juan thinks to himself, though that isnt even close to his actual words.. but pg13!
Either way, he continues to make his way towards Aviur, healing himself as he joggs there. Though he is on the lookout for the arcer, aswell as any other guard.
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"Hmm... Alright, we should go." Karl replies quietly, as he drags the unconscious bodies into the bushes, and turns off the torches.
"We need to move now." Karl says simply, as he tilts his head for Tan and LAN to follow, heading to the west side.
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Squirrel takes the brief respite to flip through the books and see what she's found (tucking any of interest into her small thieving satchel). If all remains quiet, she'll make a grab for the rest of the contents in the safe. Once finished, she flares her steal and heads for the inside door (being careful not to trip over the 2 guys she incapacitated).
OOC: she is aiming for the hallway window on the opposite side of the building (to make an escape)
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In the forest to the West Aviur rolls smoothly and acrobatically behind a tree into cover and checks her wound. She sees the arrow has gone cleanly into the flesh of her calf muscle, the tip appears to be right beside the skin on the other side of the leg from the entry wound unfortunatly its bleeding reasonable amount and is painful, very painful. Aviur automatically puts on her pewter to dull the pain to allow her to keep functional.
Juan at exactly the same time says many things like 'Fudge' and 'shoot' while turning his gold on, very quickly and easily fixing his bloody nose. He doesn't see anything while jogging but once he gets close to the clearing he notices a movement to his right behind some trees. He also sees alot of bodies and no sign of Aviur.
Inside the building Lial manages to lock the door and dive behind the table at the same time as the guards put their shoulders to the doors and smash them both open (note on the map its a double door so room for 2 ppl to enter at once) he opens fire on them with a pistol in each hand. He fires off 3 shots from each gun hitting the two front runners a total of 3 times (He missed due to these guns being large and him not having any specific gun skills, mainly he just rolled lowish.) Luckily the 3 shots land roughly centre mass and they both fall to the floor. The next man inside however comes in firing and clips Lial in the left arm. A flesh-wound but he looses his gun which goes sliding across the room and against the wall. He sees a 4th man outside using the door-frame as cover, the one who came in shooting sees the gun fly away and tries to rush lial to tackle him (OOC: he is currently a couple of feet away).
Upstairs Squirrel flicks through the books and puts the 3 which match the description best into her satchel, fitting it to bursting SHe reaches in and grabs a few of the satchels. She then flairs her steel and blasts out the door into the room across from her. Unfortunatly at the moment she tries to boost through the door several bits of metal are blasted into her room forcing her to dodge slightly as she launches to avoid being hit throwing off her aim and meaning she blasts right through the door of the bathroom oposite her, barely stopping herself off the window frame she was about to hit very very hard, she hears more movement and shouting along the corridor she just blasted past at speed. she is standing right beside the toilet window.
Outside Karl and Lan quickly drag the bodies into the bushes and snuff the tourches out, right after they do this the guards turn the corner and see no sign of the steathly duo, sadly they do also notice there where there is supposed to be two guards marching along with torches there is only darkness. There is an immediate shout of alarm and they come running up the wall towards the pair concealed with Tan moving North to circle around to the west side of the compund.
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Juan immedietly stops, raises his gun to the spot he saw the movement "Either you come out, or i start shooting." He said towards the darkness. "So feeling lucky punk? well, do you?" he added soon after for effect.
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Lial kicks the table he was hiding behind towards the guard - fully expecting the guard to simply take a little leap over the table.
However, in doing so, the guard will be forced to give himself a set trajectory (can't dodge after the jump is made, because physics) and will also be close enough that Lial would have to roll a botch shoot with the skill of a mentally disabled, blind, schizophrenic toad to miss. (He'll shoot with the other gun, not the one he lost).
While doing this, Lial will send out a mental blast of soothing energy, he will lessen any desire to apprehend, kill or capture him (Emphasis on the "kill"), loyalty to employers and comrades, love for fallen comrades, will activate duralinum to make everyone love him, etc...
Should he kill the guard, Lial will roll over to the nearest cover (I'd imagine a library shelf).
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Juan immedietly stops, raises his gun to the spot he saw the movement "Either you come out, or i start shooting." He said towards the darkness. "So feeling lucky punk? well, do you?" he added soon after for effect.
Aviur's head jerks up at the sound of Juans voice before pushing her face into her palm for a moment. "Idiot... JUAN DODGE NOW, ARCHER!"
Right after yelling at him she starts working on the arrow, trying to push it through without causing more wounds. After it's threw she will snap the tip and pull the shaft back through before using what ever material is available to try off the wound.
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"Shit." Karl says quietly to himself. "Hide in the bushes. LAN, if you can, catch the guards in a slow time."
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Ooc: sorry...I was out of town for a couple days (thought I'd have time to post though)
"Hmm...they say you can always judge a person by their bathroom and this is pretty swanky," she thought. She quickly shuts and locks the door (if it's not trashed) and decides to beat a hasty retreat.
Wasting no time opening the window ( the normal way or by force w steel if it doesnt work) and steel runs as fast as possible into the woods. Like her namesake, she's looking for a big leafy tree to conceal herself up in before she makes her next move.
Ooc again: yes mr.picky-pants...if I use steel to get out the window, I'll brace myself.
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To the East of the compound Karl suggests they hide in the bushes and prepare to take out the guards but Lan has other ideas "just move fast and we will be in the trees before they otice us, they will be too distracted by where we dragged the bodies!" he then proceeds to run in a crouch North and indeed the three of them make Northern side of the compound without incident. (OOC about 100 feet from the Northern wall on the east end lying in a small bush watching the patrol jog East to see what the shouting is about.) Karl sees somthing come flying out of the house, also a man appear behind her in the window she just left
To the west Aviur shouts out a warning at exactly the sametime as the archer spins out from behing a tree with a loaded arrow, however, Juan fires his pistol first, missing by the tinyest of margins. The archer flinches and misses by a significant distance. He tries to leap back stylishly behind the tree but missjudges bacdly and his stumble means Juan gets a second shot which hits him in the flank (upper kidney area.) Juan and aviur now hear only silence apart from the mans moans of pain which are significant. Aviur meanwhile has pushed the arrowhead clean through and managed to remove the shaft, which caused alot of pain even with the pewter, she checks the wound for splinters before grabbing a guards sash and tying the would off nicely. Mirraculously it does not appear to be bleeding currently.
Inside the room on the ground floor Lial boots the corner of the table at the guard, who instead of dodging it shield bashes it to the side with two hands. This means Lials plan of hooting him as he dodges fails badly, luckily though the man is still only 3 feet away and his shield is to the side so Lial has no issue at all putting a bullet clean into his chest. the other upside of the situation is that the table has fallen on its side so provides even better cover and Lial does not need to dodge anywhere. The other guard outside does not seem to be do anything but waiting and calling for others. While Lials soothing has some effect, he mostly notices that the man is a coward and fear is overrulling other emotions.
Upstairs Squirrel slams the door shut and goes for the lock only to see it hanging uselessly off a splintered piece of wood, it seems it was locked when she smashed it open, she tries to open the window but it seems to be fixed shut and she even gives herself a small cut on her hand trying to open it. FInally she leans against the other wall and steel pushes the middle strut and forces it open before leaping outside and blasting off the window frams out North. Sadly she has wasted too much time and with her steel acive from the jump sees a small piece of metal fly past her at very high speed. (OOC: currently not too far from Karl, who did see her coming)
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Lial roars at the fearful guard, whipping out the gun and pointing it at the man, while using his fore of presence to try and intimidate the guy away from the room.
He'll use brass and cut off the duralinum - but only for the 1 minute he had already started spending before. Once that minute is up, he'll stop burning brass.
If the guard runs, then Lial will rush to the door and lock it shut; and then further barricade it with the table, while picking up his gun, the guard's shield and and melee weapon/gun, the gun he dropped, equip them all and then search for what he came here for.
If the guard doesn't run away, Lial will shoot him, and then do as described above.
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To the west Aviur shouts out a warning at exactly the same time as the archer spins out from behind a tree with a loaded arrow, however, Juan fires his pistol first, missing by the tinyest of margins. The archer flinches and misses by a significant distance. He tries to leap back stylishly behind the tree but misjudges badly and his stumble means Juan gets a second shot which hits him in the flank (upper kidney area.) Juan and Aviur now hear only silence apart from the mans moans of pain which are significant.
Aviur meanwhile has pushed the arrowhead clean through and managed to remove the shaft, which caused alot of pain even with the pewter, she checks the wound for splinters before grabbing a guards sash and tying the would off nicely. Miraculously it does not appear to be bleeding currently.
"Well... That was a lot of fun." She spits on the ground before getting up; testing her leg as she stands. "Juan, was there any more archers you know about?" She pauses to listen to the moaning of pain before heading off in that direction. "Come on, we have a prisoner to interrogate." She gives an sinister smirk as she says that.
OOC: Harmony save that man. ^.^
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"Yeah, the one who ran after me, even shot me! though i guess being a feruchemist and all i quickly got back up." he started. "So i shot the bastard." He smiled proudly.
"Wait, interrogate? like the guards do?" He asked confused, but he followed nonetheless.
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She gives a confused glance at him.
"What else would we do with him before we kill him and his other surviving fellow?"
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Karl nods to LAN and Tan, and speaks.
"Alright, you guys go on ahead to the west side, I'll help out squirrell."
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Squirrel, true to her name, softens her impact with a coin from her pouch, then heads behind and up the nearest tree as quickly and quietly as possible to avoid any pursuit.
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To the North Karl helpfully sends the others on ahead as he heads to try and help squirrel, who nicely entirely ignores everything and boosts off her coin over to the nearest large tree to climb up it and hide. Unfortunatly for Karl she is alot faster than him and as she boosts into the trees he is left jogging after her. This would normally not be an issue however the man from the window is pretty persistant and comes flying out on a higher tragectory. just as he passes the wall however he suddenly jerks lower and flys toward the ground where Karl sees him dropping somthing and he seems to hover for a moment as a second man flys up towards him and they both land on Karl's side of the wall rather proffesionally and start sprinting Karls way, shouting for the guards who were heading east, they now turn back and come running Karls way too. Lin and Tan keep running west as fast as they can.
To the West Juan and Aviur approach the last man left alive. WHo is writhing in pain, With one look aviur sees alot of very deep red blood on him. It seems it wasnt his right kidney that was hit, it was the lower area of his liver and with her basic knowledge Aviur knows the man is doomed, and very soon. They wont be getting any information out of him as he passes out.
Inside the building Lial shouts but the man isn't moving. He takes shot at him but just hits the door-post, this spurns the man into action "He's in here! The mans in the Study!" and he ducks further behind the wall. He also notices that his pistol is out of bullets.
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Lial rushes forward, picks up the dead guard's shield and weapon (pistol with 2 shots), and tries to kill the fearful man. If the guy is far enough away to be inconvenient, he will slam the door closed will get to work on barricading the door.
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Squirrel stashes her stolen goods securely in the crook between the trunk & branches of the tree, then leaps acrobatically from the trees to try and take out one of the men from above. She also notes the locations of fallen coins used by herself and the baddies so she can slow her fall if all goes wrong.
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To the West Juan and Aviur approach the last man left alive. WHo is writhing in pain, With one look aviur sees alot of very deep red blood on him. It seems it wasnt his right kidney that was hit, it was the lower area of his liver and with her basic knowledge Aviur knows the man is doomed, and very soon. They wont be getting any information out of him as he passes out.
After examining the man Aviur stands back up and begins to walk to the other tied up soldier.
"He's a dead man, lets go and see if the other one is awake yet."
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"Ugh..." Karl mutters to himself, as he burns tin, and draws strength, as he motions to Squirrell, signaling that they shouldn't waste time and retreat.
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After examining the man Aviur stands back up and begins to walk to the other tied up soldier.
"He's a dead man, lets go and see if the other one is awake yet."
"Aw man." Juan said a bit upset. "I'm a thief.. not a murdurer..." He still followed, silently hoping that the other man managed to get away or something.
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To the West Aviur and Juan come back to the tied up man who is unconcious. However, some 'encouragement' in the form of slapping brings him mostly around to a state capable of answering questions. Also the fire is beginning to burn down - a downside of a big hot burning fire is that it goes through alot of wood quickly, the embers however will burn for many hours once it reduces, these will also be blown by the wind and greatly increase chance of fire spread. Lan arrives at the tree line and heads South toward the fire, he is pretty close to Aviur and Juan.
Inside the room Lial grabs the guards weaponry and rushes the door, taking a shot at the guard outside, connecting with the mans arm. He doesn't waste time checking on the guard but slams the door and JUST has time to shove the large leather chair in front of it. He did notice new noise outside possibly indicating more guards.
To the North Karl activates tin to increase his senses and draws on his strength which is probably a good thing since right after he does the lead man raises his hand and a small object flys towards him at very high speed. Karl dogdes but takes a tiny scratch on his arm. He doesn't however manage to dodge when the object suddenly reverses direction and slashes back over his right arm cutting deeply. His senses tell him that its what looks like a large coin with sharpened edges. At the moment the coin slashes Karl, Squirrel finishes her dodging over braches and launches down towards the lead man. She is burning metal and sees that both men carry metal in small pouches and there are several coins over near the wall. She does manage to impact on the mans back and knocks him away and to the ground but he does not seem badly injured. the rear man moves forward and starts holding up what looks like a thick round wooden buckler about the size of a dinner plate.
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Hmmm, i'll probably have to flare through the rest of my metals to get past the guards out there... Tsk. No choice, I suppose.
(is there any brass or duralinum in sight that can be taken for use?)
Lial quickly searches for the records needed, they have to be here somewhere...
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OOC: Assuming I can see or reach them
IC: Lin rushes through the smoke, using his superior wits he looks for signs of foot traffic. Following the trail of his comrades he hopes to find them and 1 make sure they are okay. And 2, tell them about the patrols around the building, and the gold in the basement...
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Squirrel braces herself both physically and metallically (burning her steel in preparation to deflect any coinshot attacks, she also braces herself my pushing her entire coin pouch against a tree behind her). When the man attacks, she plans to use her aikido to slide towards and past his weapon. She'll use his momentum as he swings to capture his wrist into a lock and force him to the ground. Unhappily she will give him a quick sharp blow to the temple to render him unconscious.
Ooc: my steelrunning should make initial forward momentum very quick.
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"Aw man." Juan said a bit upset. "I'm a thief.. not a murdurer..." He still followed, silently hoping that the other man managed to get away or something.
"Hey, rusty-face! Tell us everything you know or I start cooking..." She gives a creepy smile and crouches near him so she is at eye level with the soldier.
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Karl keeps his tin on, and draws more strength from his storage, forcing a heavy punch at the guy with the buckler, hopefully timing it before he can block, and if not, smashing through the damn thing.
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Inside the house Lial quickly scans the room and notices the locked draws on the upturned table. Wasting no time he uses the butt of his gun on the lock and grabs out 2 books which vaguely match the description of the books he was after and shoves them into his pouch, however, he isn't deffinate any of them are the right books. It is at this moment that two things happen. Firstly the door thumps but holds. Secondly Lial hears a shot about the same time as he feels a significant amount of pain in his right thigh and realises that he is now lying on the ground and the window is broken with glass tinkling to the floor. (OOC: Lial is currently Hurt but is bleeding badly, if not treated he will quickly turn bloodied, then unconcious and dead. If the enemy had gotten 1 point higher you would have jumped to bloodied and lost the use of your leg entirely so be happy lol).
To the West Juan and Aviur start interrogating the guard, Aviur very happily and Juan very unhappily and appologetically, mostly he just keeps an eye out for new guards. This is why he sees Lan approaching and they quickly start exchanging information. Meanwhile Aviur manages to intimidate the guard after he tries his bonds and finds that even with his pewter that he is feeling his wounds and can't break them. "Fine, they just hired me this week anyway. what do you want to know?"
To the North Both Karl and Squirrel prepare to face the second man as the man Squirrel impacted is still not on his feet. Seeing his two enemies prepared to face him he is immediatly intimidated by Karls increasing size and musculature and turns to squirrel but seeing her prepared state he does not attack and rather jumps backwards about 2 metres which is clearly further and more controled than a normal human can manage. At this point the first man starts to get up, clutching his right side and swearing loudly. (OOC: Currently Karl and Squirrel are about 3 metres apart and the first man 3 metres from each, so they form an equalateral triangle, the second man is now 6 metres away from both closer to the wall.)
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Lial, now having the books, will once more flare Brass and Duralinum to suppress all emotion (save suspicion and other negative emotion in others, and any positive emotions towards him) and massively increase any love felt for him, and will cry out that they were hurting him, hoping the massive love would drive those others to shame.
With the mass confusion and fighting that was sure to ensue from the cry, he would do what he could to stop the bleeding (if possible by weaving a little tourniquet to cut off the blood flow using his clothing) and would leave the way he entered (through the front door), where the guards would undoubtedly be fighting.
The entire time, he will have his shield on his back and will be kneeling to make sure that any more shots that come from outside would hit only his shield rather than he himself. Naturally, he would find cover if available, as well.
He will flare after he is done bandaging himself or if the guards break through.
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OOC: Uhm did I get updated?
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To the West Juan and Aviur start interrogating the guard, Aviur very happily and Juan very unhappily and appologetically, mostly he just keeps an eye out for new guards. This is why he sees Lan approaching and they quickly start exchanging information. Meanwhile Aviur manages to intimidate the guard after he tries his bonds and finds that even with his pewter that he is feeling his wounds and can't break them. "Fine, they just hired me this week anyway. what do you want to know?"
OOC: lol I'm beginning to think Aviur is a little crazy. ;)
BIC:
"I want to know what rank you are, what you've seen in the building, what you were guarding, why you were guarding it, which nobility familes has visited recently and what did they take from or bring to the building. If I like your answers you get to live since you were a good opponent." She smiles a slightly less-crazy smile this time as she continues to watch the soldier like a hawk with it's prey cornered.
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"Karl," Squirrel asks, while maintaining her readiness, "which one do you want? The coinshot or the lurcher?" Squirrel, feeling a bit more accommodating than usual, decides to incapacitate whichever one Karl doesn't want. "Lets deal with these guys and get out of here! I didn't find anything and this place is too hot for me," she says in a 'not very quiet whisper'.
Ooc: it may be worth planting some misinformation, but seeing as my social skills suck, it might be ineffective and clobbering the guys might be me the way forward. :).
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"I'll take the coin shot. Much more fun." He replies, and then flares his tin to sense any pushing or pulling metals, as he moves foward and attacks
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"Well for starters, what did they tell you the job was? And who exactly hired you?" Lan says while tapping his chin, feeling out of place slightly since he wasn't even here to help subdue this man.
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To the West the man is about to answer Aviur when Lan approaches and also asks his questions. The man looks very confused by this old man suddenly joining his interrogations but shrugs it off, hes already agreed to help hasn't he. Juan stays keeping an eye out for guards.
"All right, basically about a week ago my crew gets approached by some lesser noble. He hands me a purse full of coin to bring my men with me and come guard this place for 1 month. Free food, free bed and all we got to do is march around the walls. Was looking like the easiest money I ever made till this little firecracker came along" He winks at Aviur, she notices that he has a fair number of large scars himself and doesn't seem at all put off by her appearance. "Well about what we were told, basically that the Nobles or house Urbain had some valubles here that they though might be the target of other 'people of influence' so we were to help secure the building untill the danger past." Taking another look at Aviur he adds "You caught me by surprise with your feint there since I underestimated your abilities after the first few blows but if you see the 4 Suits don't by any means take them for granted. Well thats about all, guess its time." he says with a grin.
Inside the building Lial Flairs his dwindling metals to buy himself time. His own emotions seems very off though for some reason, wait, he knows exactly what is going on, another enemy is attacking him with brass or zink to make him loose the will to fight. He manages to bind his leg and prevent himself from bleeding to death but is still inn bad shape. He is pretty sure that his blast of emotional alomancy will buy him a little time unless the other user gets involved.
To the North Karl and Squirrel decide on opponents outloud and make their moves, Gidgy launches off her prepared boost and Karl with his bulk ready to go charges the coinshot. The coin shot is still slightly stunned from Squirrels previous attack and doesn't get a chance to react when she blasts past him but spins in time to meet Karls charge. He covers the ground quickly for a adonis build but the man is very very quick and releases a handfull of coins into the air, blasting them into Karl at near point blank range leaving no time to dodge. Instead Karl follows through and his punch to the solar plexis sends the man literally flying through the air for a fairly large distance.
At the same moment Squirrel Reaches the man she proclaimed to be a lurcher, he has longer to react than the coinshot did and starts an uppercut with the edge of his buckler, squirrel uses her momentum and training to pivot it and goes for the grab on the arm as she slides past his attack. Sadly for her he moves to the side as he strikes and is out of her reach as a result leaving them passing with neither scoring a hit and Squirrel between him and the wall, Karl on the far side of him and the coinshot mid-air several metres away. Squirrel just has time to see the man raising his shield and grin slightly.
OOC: Karl is now officially bloodied with several coins half stuck into his stomach, his advanced musculature, quick take down of the coin shot and close distance prevented him from being stabbed right through like a normal person would have been.
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Lial Quickly leaves through the door - the soldiers would all love him, and feel distrust and hatred for each other at this point (he'd just flared after all).
Once out there, he will shoot every single soldier within sight except for two (making sure to stay clear of a line of sight form the window where he got shot from).
On those, he will continue to use brass and duralinum.
"Oh my god, they were going to kill me - they were going to kill all of us! We have to get out, someone is screwing with my emotions, I think they might be getting to you too!"
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"It seems as if, we uave either been set up, or these people were expecting an attack.. either way I think there is more going on here than we know about. We need to be careful and get back to the rest of the group..."
Just as Lin finishes speaking a strange feeling comes over him and he turns back to the guard. "Why are you smiling, and what do you mean 'its time'?"
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"If your implying I am going to kill you then be surprised. You've made this day rather entertaining so if you agree to leave this place and not warn anybody about this event then I will let you go free. Deal?"
Aviur awaits his reply.
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"If your implying I am going to kill you then be surprised. You've made this day rather entertaining so if you agree to leave this place and not warn anybody about this event then I will let you go free. Deal?"
Aviur awaits his reply.
"Uhm, Aviur... We probably don't want to let him just 'Go'" Lin says nudging Aviur in the ribs...
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The man nods to Aviur still with a grin on his face. "Indeed I thought the lass was going to finish me off around now but I'll happily agree to my own survival instead, and don't worry, there's no reason for me to betray you now since everyone who knows who I am is dead in that clearing so I can walk away with the coin. Insisting on pay in advance has certain advantages."
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The man nods to Aviur still with a grin on his face. "Indeed I thought the lass was going to finish me off around now but I'll happily agree to my own survival instead, and don't worry, there's no reason for me to betray you now since everyone who knows who I am is dead in that clearing so I can walk away with the coin. Insisting on pay in advance has certain advantages."
"Well on your way then, but if you come with us you might be able to join our group. After all, having another pewter-arm never hurts."
She smiles as she offers yet another surprisingly friendly deal to the man as she begins to untie him.
"We'd have to discuss it with the boss but I'll make sure you don't die if he says no."
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"Well on your way then, but if you come with us you might be able to join our group. After all, having another pewter-arm never hurts."
She smiles as she offers yet another surprisingly friendly deal to the man as she begins to untie him.
"We'd have to discuss it with the boss but I'll make sure you don't die if he says no."
OOC: He is a pewter-arm right? Otherwise I might just kill him. lol
OOC: so youve ignored everything Lin has told you thus far. Okay then. Conversations with brick walls are always fun...
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OOC: so youve ignored everything Lin has told you thus far. Okay then. Conversations with brick walls are always fun...
OOC: Fixed, I just didn't bother to go check from before. lol
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"Well on your way then, but if you come with us you might be able to join our group. After all, having another pewter-arm never hurts."
She smiles as she offers yet another surprisingly friendly deal to the man as she begins to untie him.
"We'd have to discuss it with the boss but I'll make sure you don't die if he says no."
"Yeah yeah, can you two lovebirds hurry it up? I want to know where the others are" Juan says quickly.
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"Fark!" Karl shouts loudly, as he simply slams his fist at the lurches, changing targets.
"SQ take the coin." He says, groaning.
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"Yeah yeah, can you two lovebirds hurry it up? I want to know where the others are" Juan says quickly.
Aviur turns to him and gives him an annoyed face.
"If they can't manage to survive and do their side of the mission then why should I care what happens to them? But yes I'll wrap it up here. So what's it going to be?" She says as she turns back to the soldier.
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Juan sighs "If they die and dont carry out their part, it drasticly reduces our chanses of success, and if our chanses of succes decline, so does our chanses of getting paid." He responded, still looking for enemies.
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"Duck you crazy musclehead," squirrel shouts and as she burns her steel, braces herself off the wall and pushes the nearby coins up towards the the coinshot.
Ooc: she Carries on with her martial arts readiness to defend against any attacks.
"We seriously gotta get out of here!"
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To the North several things happen almost simultaniously. Karl groans and tells Squirrel to go after the coinshot in roughly the exact time it takes the mans body to land and Karl notices that his chest is significantly more concave than a humans chest is supposed to be and he isn't moving except for the blood dribbling out of his mouth and nose. Followed by a couple of coins turning him into swisscheese, just to ensure that the guy with smushed up liquid for internal organs was REALLY dead. He makes a move after the lurcher but the man is not within his reach due to his now more restricted movement. He has closed the distance though.
Squirrel miss-reads the lurcher's intentions and has no idea that his raising of the shield and smiling means he had just grabbed the coins RIGHT BEHIND HER, between her and the wall and just pulled them towards himself, meaning Squirrel was about to be sliced right through. Very Very luckily for her she uses her steel to brace back against the wall before trying to fire coins at the coinshot. Her manouver is very sucessful and while she doesn't have any coins right between her and the coinshots landing site she easily uses some of her own to fire them precicely at the point she expects the coinshot to make his landing. The main lucky part is that in bracing hard off the metal on the wall behind her she actually manages to mostly deflect the coins that the lurcher pulled at her.
To the West the guard replies to the Chatter "Hey hey, don't worry I have no loyalties here and wont be betraying you to the guards. Its not as if they would trust of believe me now is it? Either way I'm heading back to the city, if your is town soon look me up" he says to Aviur with a wink.
Juan and Lin see no other enemies in the area.
Inside Lial limps out the door, swinging it shut behind him to block line of sight from the window and begins firing at all the guards he sees, he manages to hit the nearest guards with wounding hits. He is left with no bullets and sees no more guns or ammo, there are however a couple of spears and a sword near his feet. There are three guards still alive in the corridor but not in fighting shape and two guarding the inside door to the Westernmost staircase who he calls out to and they seem to respond favourably. The moment he does however, a bullet comes right through the closed door and leaves a cut along his cheek. Not a wound but deffinatly a scar once he gets it stiched.
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Not really liking the idea of letting the guard go Lin shoots Aviur a chastising look. "Come on guys. We need to find our comrades and get inside the compound."
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"Agreed, lets get moving then." She says as she completely unties the soldier and watching him go a short distance before beginning the walk to the compound.
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Inside Lial limps out the door, swinging it shut behind him to block line of sight from the window and begins firing at all the guards he sees, he manages to hit the nearest guards with wounding hits. He is left with no bullets and sees no more guns or ammo, there are however a couple of spears and a sword near his feet. There are three guards still alive in the corridor but not in fighting shape and two guarding the inside door to the Westernmost staircase who he calls out to and they seem to respond favourably. The moment he does however, a bullet comes right through the closed door and leaves a cut along his cheek. Not a wound but deffinatly a scar once he gets it stiched.
Tsk, worthless smoker, can't keep me hidden from one goddamn seeker. How did the bastard escape my flaring?
Lial asks the guards to position themselves directly around them, and to use any shields they have to keep him safe from any bullets, while making sure that their bodies would also serve as more human shields if another shot was taken at Lial's head.
In addition, he has begun using one of the spears from the guards he shot at as a crutch, while keeping the shield up to further protect himself from any shots. A sword will have been fitted into his belt.
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Did you know your head looks a bit like a potato? (To the lurcher)...and you're bleeding a lot (to karl)," squirrel exercises her firm grasp of the obvious, while using her boosted steel running to take down Mr. spud in a similar manner to what was planned before using the shield arm for leverage." She pushes off the coins behind her to get a slight speed advantage and so mr. P. cant bring them back into play.
Ooc: Her overall goal is to knock him out so karl doesnt kill him dead in his hulkified state.
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"Noted." Karl grunts, ready to slam the Lurched if needed. If not, he begins to head to the east side. Hopefully he'll find Aviur and have her stop him from bleeding out.
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To the West the guard gives them the nod then begins jogging away for them without a further word. The group then all head back towards the compound, they are closing in on the edge of the tree line and they all see that the two guards are still patrolling with torches.
To the North the lurcher makes to attack Squirrel however she is faster and this time her move works, when he attacks, she counters with a twisting lock hold pinning him very quickly with his shield uses as a hinge point against his own elbow. Squirrel sitting on his back that if he moves he puts himself into a whole world of pain. A quick blow to the temple puts him unconscious. Karl takes a few steps West to where Aviur and team are before remembering that Squirrel also knows first aid.
Inside the Building Lial sucessfully gets the two guards to flank him and arms himself with a spear. His Flair affect time is counting down though.
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Squirrel uses the brief respite to use her leet-first aid skills on Karl. After a basic patch-up, she uses the last of this burn to get back up to the hiding spot where she stashed the books. "I'll catch up with you in a minute," she says to karl before bounding away.
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Lial continues making his way out, once he feels that he only has 15 or so seconds left for his flare effect, he'll stab the guards with the spear and then continue on his own.
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Squirrel uses the brief respite to use her leet-first aid skills on Karl. After a basic patch-up, she uses the last of this burn to get back up to the hiding spot where she stashed the books. "I'll catch up with you in a minute," she says to karl before bounding away.
"Thanks Squirrel we'll need you if we want to get the gold" Karl says, heading on his way.
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"Go around?" Juan asked.
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"Go around?" Juan asked.
"I could sneak up behind them and trap em in a time bubble. Then you come up and honk em on the head! Its flawless!" Lin says with a sparkle in his eye...
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To the North Squirrel puls the embedded coins out of Karls gut and patches him up, its only a temporary measure but he wont deteriorate further and can move about more normally now. He shrinks back to normal size as he begins heading West to meet the others. Squirrel heads for the trees to the North and finds the base of the tree she stashed the items in.
To the West the team discuss the best move to make on the two guards who are just passing them, about 80 feet away, however they will reach the corner and be returning very soon, they all spot the guards seem to not be wearing any metal and carrying staves and bows along with the lit torches.
Inside Lial gets to the main entrance area, just inside the closed door, when he notices the guards starting to recover from his manipulation and stabs them both. One goes down fast but the other reacts to the attack and gives him yet another flesh wound for his trouble. Lial realises that he is going to have to be very careful as too many more flesh wounds and he will bleed out regardless of the giant hole in his leg.
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Lial will do his best to stop the flesh wound from bleeding, if it is bleeding right now.
He will carefully look out of any nearby windows to see if anyone is outside - he will do sowith his sheild at his head however, carefully keeping himself hidden in case the shooter who's been tailing him so far is waiting. In addition, he will hold his ear to the door to see if he can hear anything directly outside.
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Squirrel checks quickly around for any other attackers, then scurries up the tree to retrieve the goods. If all seems quiet she'll take a moment to finally look and see if she grabbed the correct book.
Ooc: she was going to turn off her steel for all this.
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"I could sneak up behind them and trap em in a time bubble. Then you come up and honk em on the head! Its flawless!" Lin says with a sparkle in his eye...
"Wouldn't it just be easier to kill them while they are in the time bubble? That way we don't have to deal with them afterwards." She says in response, obviously eager to get back into combat.
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"Wouldn't it just be easier to kill them while they are in the time bubble? That way we don't have to deal with them afterwards." She says in response, obviously eager to get back into combat.
Slightly put off by the suggestion of useless murders... (Lin not really the murdering type) scrunches his face a little and says: "yeah, I mean... If you want too..."
He then leaves the group signaling he is about to create the bubble around the guards...
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"No killing." Juan said sternly. "They are nothing but hired thugs, and should be handled as such. Break their legs or something."
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Aviur gives a slight chuckle at Juan.
"You do realize they have no qualms about killing us and we are also hired? I see no reason to give them mercy when they don't deserve it."
She shakes her head. "But I'll try to not kill most of them okay?"
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To the North Karl jogs west and is nearing the western tree line. Squirrel makes sure no-one is near and checks her stash, as well as a fair bit of spending money she has nabbed a smal pile of books and 3 of them seem to match the description she saw, she stows them carefully in her pouch with the coin tied to her belt and puts the others in her satchel.
To the West Lan starts sneaking into position to catch the guards in a bubble once they are close, which they will be in a few seconds time. Aviur and Juan hang back and banter a little while they wait for him to raise the bubble deciding whether they are killing or simply maining the guards.
Lial quickly patches up his flesh wounds, he is deffinatly coming out of this one with new scars, and starts assessing his situation. He hears no guards near him either inside or outside the door and the only two he can see are two over by the main gate since they are carrying torches. He isn't shot at again while doing this however he suddenly feels very overconfident about the whole situation. (You were sucessfully rioted so going to have to act confident next turn.)
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Lial takes off, looping his shield over his back so that he might be able to run faster.
He heads for the stables on the inside of the western wall of the compound (the closest wall to him), still using the spear as a cane for his injured leg, he would need a horse to move quickly enough to get away...
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Karl moves forward, quickly. Hopeful either Lial or Squirrell got the books, (assuming Lial is even still alive)
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Aviur gives a slight chuckle at Juan.
"You do realize they have no qualms about killing us and we are also hired? I see no reason to give them mercy when they don't deserve it."
She shakes her head. "But I'll try to not kill most of them okay?"
"Much appreciated." Juan smiles at her.
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Squirrel makes her way after Karl by the more comfortable tree-top route. She looks troubled.
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Lin Jumps out in beside the guards and immediately begins burning his Cadmium. "Not so fast guys!"
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Lin Jumps out in beside the guards and immediately begins burning his Cadmium. "Not so fast guys!"
Aviur glances at Juan.
"Remember, you have to be inside the bubble for your bullets to actually hit them."
She then runs into the bubble and quickly works to protect Lin from dying as she fights the soldiers inside.
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To the West Lin rushes at the guards, who see him coming and react very quickly the moment he enters the torchlight, one raises a spear and the other loads and half draws an arrow to shoot him before he gets close enough to catch them both in the bubble, where for all intents and purposes time freezes for them as everyone else gets to move. Aviur sees nothing but suddenly Lan and the two guards simply stop moving. She warns Juan before leaping into the super-slow-mo bubble to take out the guards and protect Lin and also freezes.
Juan is left outside the bubble watching the 4 people not moving and takes the time to check his gun and bullets and prepare to fire.
To the North Karl has reached the Western woods and is moving slowly South, he is pretty close to some dead guards right about now but hasn't spotted them yet. Squirrel moves easily through the trees, rarely coming close to the ground and just about reches the North-West corner of the trees.
Inside the compound Lial gets overconfident due to the rioting and sort of run-limps in an ungainly but surprisingly fast fashion towards the stables. This is the moment he looks to his right when he hears somthing and sees two men in suits who just walked round from the North side of the building. One raises a rather nice looking rifle and takes aim at Lial, the other just smiles and Lial is hit by a sudden feeling of his boosted confidence vanish and a wave of fear fear which pauses him in his tracks for a second. Which is when he sees the gun fire.
Right after that he realigns his emotions and notices that he hasn't been shot and the man has dropped the gun which is smoking oddly and the man is holding his hand to his body.
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Damn, that was a close one
Lial begins burning what's left of his metals on the men in the suits, trying to remove any aggression and desire to hurt him while boosting their love of him. He also represses any desire to use their metals on him- if he can.
In addition, he will burn his brass on himself, soothing any emotions which he feels are being overactive, particularly fear, overconfidence, pain, etc...
He will continue running towards the stables.
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Squirrel carries on to the pre-determined rendezvous point to wait for the others. She hopes noone has been killed and is horribly disturbed by how fatal this robbery turned out to be. After the mission ends, she plans to return to her adopted Terris family to seek out ways to atone for the damage she's done.
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Juan decides to enter the bubble and shot the guards in their legs
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Inside the compound Lial breaks into a particularly humorous hobble run as he burns his dwindling reserves of metals at the men. Since he knows the enemy is trying to affect his emotions Lial is able to regain controls of them or ignore them enough to be unaffected, after all a trained mind can ignore all but the most extreme emotions if he knows what's happening.
Unfortunately for Lial his opponent is also a very well trained mind and he counters Lial's emotional alomancy with his own and basically cancels it out on his partner and himself. His parter now shows his training and despite a burnt hand whips out a pistol from his belt and takes a snap shot at Lial, this hits the shield on Lial's back and does no damage. At this moment a distraction could have saved Lial however there was no distracting noises or sights and the man's second shot hits Lial's arm, knocking him to the ground.
This is just one wound too many and Lial loses consciousness, he is also still bleeding from the bullet wound in his arm putting him in further danger, assuming the two men in suits don't finish him off.
To the West all members jumped into the time bubble and so miss out on doing anything.
Karl makes his way South through the trees and although he misses the bodies he does look to the light near the wall and sees a super slow-mo scene of Lan ducking in front of two armed guards who are inching towards him and both Aviur and Juan mid air in semi-heroic poses slowly landing behind and to the side of the guards respectively.
Squirrel heads further to the West towards the Western tree-line and the meeting point for after the mission.
The Time bubble drops and everyone gets to move again now, The guards Are still Targeting Lan having not had time to react to Aviur or Juan
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"Zzzzzzz"
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Lin shakes his head as he prepares to drop to his knees and whip the pistol out of his belt and fire on the closest guard. "Good job guys..." he says to his group as he pulls the trigger
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"Whatever, let's deal with these idiots." Aviur says to her allies as she charges the soldiers.
She will try to do a leg sweep to knock some or all of the soldiers to their backs. After that she will try to force one away from the rest of the group so Juan can shoot him while she turns back to fight the rest of the soldiers. She makes sure to give plenty of target coverage for Lin while defending him.
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To the West Squirrel keeps heading to the meeting point but thinks she hears some gun fire behind her, she isn't sure though.
Karl stays hidden in the tree lone watching the fight unfold, he is badly injured afterall
Lin and Juan both whip out their Pistols and get off a single shot each, they fire just as the men converge on Lin to run him through. Lin hits one in the arm while Juan clips one in the side, neither go down. Aviur reaches them at this point burning pewter and hits one hard in the back sending him flying to the ground and causing the other to break of his attack and turn to work out where the other two people suddenly appeared from, he is the one with a wound to his side. The one on the ground is still moving.
Lial is still unconcious and is not aware of what his attackers are doing. However if he were awake he could be sure they heard the gunfire from over the wall since they are all so close.
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"Zzzz"
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Lin rises up and brings his fist up towards the wounded guard's chin hoping to knock him unconscious before the others kill him...
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Karl switches on his Tin, making sure to watch carefully for more foes.
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Squirrel carefully checks the meeting site then finds another good hiding spot for the books up in the trees. She also breaks a few branches in a particular way so that she'll know where to look when she returns. That completed she burns steel and begins steal-running back towards the house (if none of the others had made it then surely things had gone sideways)
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"Stop right there, scum." Juan says, aiming his gun towards the mans temple. "This is your only chanse at survival." he said. Juan would pull the trigger if he didnt comply.
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"Stop right there, scum." Juan says, aiming his gun towards the mans temple. "This is your only chanse at survival." he said. Juan would pull the trigger if he didnt comply.
OOC: to which one? im upper cutting one and one is on the ground...
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OOC assuming the one standing and armed rather than the one on the ground who is dazed.
Inside the compound somthing happens, Lial is being all nearly corpsified and stuff so while he gets extra points for planking in the enemy compound he doesnt know whats happening.
To the West Squirrel hides the books and marks the spot before starting to steelrun back through the trees (OOC: this would look damn awesome in real life)
Closer to the wall Lin uppercuts the man on the ground knocking him out cold easily due to him already being dazed and wounded by a bullet and by Aviur's personal brand of pewter hits. The other man is wounded but makes his lunge at Lin anyway and manages to slash his flank before taking a bullet in the back and hitting the ground. Aviur makes sure he isnt moving before looking at Lin "Your going to want me to heal that pretty soon".
The whole group however, instead of being happy, begins to feel very worried, like there is severe impending danger and they should give up or run away. At this moment with his tin active Karl Clearly sees two heads peering over the wall and somthing shiney that he attributes to a gun being positioned on the wall.
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"Zzzz"
OOC: They're totally being hit by a riotting flare.
Also, I totally had the right books didn't I? Yeah. Damn.
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Squirrel moves towards the nearest sound but slows down to maintain stealth once she finds someone.
Ooc: if I'm really close and can take another action, pls let me know :)
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Karl picks up a stone, and throws it with superior strength towards the guy with the gun. Probably won't hit, but it'll startle him.
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Lin examines his wound and nods. "Yeah, it hurts like hell. We better get moving before someone shows up to find out what happened."
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"Agreed, we should figure out a way inside the compound and secure it. That way the rest of our group can escape more easily."
Aviur suggests as she moves to check how bad the wound is.
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OOC: jumping in here because Aman and Gidgy got two of the 3 highest initiative rolls and thier actions change things drastically letting you all rething your own actions if you want. Aeon, I put in your old move since you rolled a very high reaction as best as I could remember but I am happy to alter it if you choose.
Squirrel lands on a tree limb very close to Karl just in time to see him in slightly hulked up form launching a stone at tremendous speed at the wall. Squirrel calls out as she lands "Karl, its Squirrel!"
Despite his injuries Karl manages quite an astonishingly powerful throw, his accuracy is sadly not so good and he misses the target by nearly a metre. luckily for him it has other reprocusions when it hits with a very loud crack and chips off a hand sized section of brick. The man holding the gun suddenly swears and drops behind the wall.
The party below clearly hears this and is now aware of enemies right behind the wall, Lin is the fastest to react and dashes to the wall activating another bubble. Aviur and Juan again watch him freeze in time but also see the tip of a head very, Very slowly moving down behind the wall.
OOC: Aviur and Juan have actions still to perform if they want, as to an earlier question, there is no easy way for Aviur to attack the men in the bubble but she could try to jump the wall and take up position on the other side since to the enemy she would suddenly appear out of no-where and they would have to make a reaction roll just to counter
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Aviur steps back a small distance from the wall before running and jumping as high as she can(Either to land on or grab the edge of the wall) at the broken bit of the wall.(
If she manages to get up there she will quickly move to the bubbles edge and prepare to strike at the nearest soldier and push him over the wall. After that she will immediately begin looking for cover and a way to help her allies over the wall.
OOC: Just have her look for a rope or ladder or something similar.
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OOC: since deadalus isnt posting here now I'll finish the turn.
Lin's bubble goes up sucessfully but he is still bleeding quite badly from the gash, his health drops to hurt. Karl hears Sqirrels greeting and theya re now both poised on the Western tree line watching the fight. Lin is leaning his back against the wall keeping his bubble up and pressing on his wound. Juan aims his pistol at the wall but doesnt have a clear LOS and so jumps up to Lins left to pull himself up. Aviur takes the other side of the bubble and with some pewter enhanced abilities jumps and swings herself over the wall, finding herself landing on top of a building she assumes from the smell to be stables of some sort, She just has time to roll to her feet and see two men in the bubble, one with a rifle in his hand, the other hand on his ear. Juan tumbles over but is still lying on the roof.
Lial is technically still alive surprisingly enough, if he was concious he might be wondering why.
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"Zzzz"
Lial is busy dreaming about how much all of his teamates suck.
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"Alright, with them fighting, we should head on through the windows. We'll find the gold, and maybe find where Lial is at. Slow bastard." Karl says to Squirrel, moving ahead stealthily.
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I found the books, i think, and I've stashed them in a safe place. I think getting out alive might be more important than gold at this point. She heads towards Lin with the intention to perform first aid, but won't enter the time bubble. If the man is visible on the other side of the wall, she'll take a shot at him with her coins.
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Aviur quickly prepares herself to attack at the man with the gun, trying to strike it out of his hand and in the direction of Juan or over the wall.
After the gun is out of the game Aviur will try to grab onto the necks of the two guards and heat up her hands to near-burning levels. If she manages to grab hold of their necks she will turn have them with their backs(or fronts, whichever is more practical.) facing Juan to give him a clear shot at them.
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Juan will tske a moment to carerully look around before trying to place a shot at the most imminwnt threat.
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To the west Squirrel and Karl start moving cautiously across the open ground being stealthly, until they realise that since their team are making so much noise that it really doesn't matter and jog over to the base of the wall a couple of meters from the bubble edge. (Using some steel running since it was already active Squirrel makes it in less than a full turn.)
Lin sees some near imperceptable blurs in his periferal vision and counts to 3 then releases the bubble and promptly sits down trying to stem the bleeding. Luckily Squirrel is very close and she begins giving first aid now that the bubble is gone.
On the stable roof Aviur moves first to attempt to dissarm the man with the gun then do some fancy enemy manouvering when she realises that he is very distracted by what appears to be an ear pain, she also sees that the gun is shifted to the other side of his body so she is unable to easily disarm him. She is however able to punch him clean in the jaw and watch his unoncious body slide off the roof. (If you havent worked out what happened to this guy I'll tell you later hehe.) SHe goes for the others next with her laft action but he is too fast for her and she suddenly feel a massive wave of Fear engulf her. (Aviur wouldn't be able to fight next turn due to this and would have to roll for not running away. Except that what happens next removes the affect.)
As the man dodges Aviur he does dodge right back towards Juan who had lost his first action to righting himself and carefully assessing the sitution, he slips his gun out and true to normal for shoots at the back of the guys upper leg, somehow, despite the very close range, careful aiming and his skill with guns he nearly misses as his foot slips slightly and his bullet goes into the mans left bumcheek. The man immediatly looses all concentration meaning Aviur feels the fear affects slowly dissapating, regaining controle of her emotions and the man grabs at his ass while swearing and doing a wierd hopping Limp.
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Squirrel continues to play nurse. ;D
She keeps an eye out for trouble must mostly relies on the rest of the team to look out for them.
"Uhm...guys, where's Lial?"
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Wherever he lies, Lial will, in his sleep, mutter the words "useless" a few times.
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Aviur regains control of her emotions and her attitude becomes like a bonfire of anger at the man.
"YOU DID NOT JUST DO THAT TO ME!"
She charges to tackle the man, pinning him to the floor while she begins pummeling his face in while heating up her hands for extra pain. It's unlikely she will stop on her own from killing the unlucky twinborn.
OOC: I'm guessing they shot the gun right as the bubble went up and the sound of the gun going off was super-extended? (Nope)
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Juan laughs like a crazy fool at the man jumping around swearing grabbing his own ass.
He will however try to stop Aviur from killing him before lining up anaotber shot(and possibly taking a sneak peak trough on e of the windows)
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Assuming the fight ends above, Karl finishes the trek to the castle, and heads towards the window.
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Lin thanks (whoever it is) for the healing and levels his pistol at whoever is closest (enemy)
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Outside the wall Squirrel finishes healing Lin who looks around with pistol drawn to find no enemies nearby and only the noise of punching over the wall which he sees Squirrel climb up easily due to her youth and athletic ability. She lands on top of the stable roof.
Just over the wall Aviur goes insane on the wounded guy and beats the crap out of him with burning fists leaving him no chance of doing anything, she does alot of damage and he is out cold with burns on his face and clothing but she also burns her own left hand and will need to bind it up to prevent further injury. Juan manages to pull her off the man before he dies and makes her concentrate on her hand... for now. He then assesses the situation, apart from men to the Southern gate who have torches but are not moving he sees no other enemies, he cant see much in the windows.
Karl labouriously climbs the wall onto the stables and buring tin sees no enemies in thr grounds or windows apart from the aforementioned 2 men at the gate. He drops down off the stable with the intent of jogging over to the window but sadly he lands right on top of the unconcious man who had the gun and falls over. Luckily though from his position on the ground he notices Lials unconcious body leaned up against the stable wall, presumably where his attackers left him, his woulds all seem bound.
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"Huh." Karl mutters, heading over to Lial.
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Juan manages to pull her off the man before he dies and makes her concentrate on her hand... for now.
Aviur goes quiet as she begins working on her slightly burnt hand. She seems very upset that somebody would mess with her emotions like that, even in battle. After she is done fixing her hand she will head over to Lin to check up on him and help him if needed.
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Squirrel goes into high alert and burns her steel in readiness to respond to what appears to be a trap. She also scans the area for both enemies and metals.
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Karl gets up and heads over to Lial. He finds the man in a bad way with bullet wounds and many smaller injuries. The injuries seem recently bound though by someone with at least passing first aid skill and he seems stable for now, he could possibly try and wake him but is unsure how or if it will work.
Squirrel burns steel and scans the entire area in detail, finding that the only metal even slightly moving is over by the South gate where there are two guards acting a bit strangely but not coming their way.
Aviur binds her hand up very nicely, probably due to all the practice she has had with that particular action and drops back over the wall to double check on Lin who she finds is doing fairly well, currently checking the guards for anything pertinent to the investigation, and sadly he finds very little but does find a small money pouch.
Juan follows Karl over the edge of the roof and drops more carefully having heard Karl's mishap, he checks the unconscious man quickly to find he is actually now dead with a snapped neck, he can't tell if it was the fall or Karl that caused the damage.
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"Oh snap." pun intented... he says and thinks for himself. Before walking back to Aviur and saying "so.. Once this is over want to go ona date?"
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Karl gets up and heads over to Lial. He finds the man in a bad way with bullet wounds and many smaller injuries. The injuries seem recently bound though by someone with at least passing first aid skill and he seems stable for now, he could possibly try and wake him but is unsure how or if it will work.
"Huh. Squirrell, Lial is down here knocked out!" Karl shouts over to Squierell.
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"If he's stabilized we need to get him out of here NOW. There are 2 guards still on the south gate who are acting strangely. You can go check it out if you want. Can one of you carry him back over the wall? I don't like this at all. Once we get him far enough away, I'll give him additional first aid, but not here...too sketchy." Squirrel's face immediately turn bright crimson at the enormous speech she just gave. Then, with a disgusted look at the dead body, she heads back into the dark *relative safety* of the trees. If someone brings Lial, she'll perform additional first aid to try and restore consciousness.
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Karl gets the message from Squirrel and is left holding Lials hand. He stirs slightly and Karl finds he has managed to wake up (Finally a crit for Lial). He is is no position to move but he can speak. Karl doesn't see the guards at the gates leave their positions and doesn't detect any enemy movement nearby.
Squirrel heads off to the trees and has no issues, detecting no-one along the way.
Juan climbs back onto the stables roof and leans over the wall to make pass at Aviur, she doesn't respond yet but finishes helping Lin. With Squirrels Aid and now Aviurs extra attention he is quite capable of moving around freely with no risk of aggrivating his injuries. None of the three detect any enemies moving nearby.
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Aviur glances up at Juan with an eyebrow raised before speaking.
"What?..." She ignores the question and tells him. "Go help Karl lift Lial down over the wall, I can carry him over to squirrel were we can work on him in the forest."
While she is waiting for Juan to do just that she turns to Lin.
"Do you know what he was talking about?" In reference to Juan.
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Lin in his old age and being slightly still freshly wounded and all, attempt to laboriously climb the wall to the roof.
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Lin in his old age and being slightly still freshly wounded and all, attempt to laboriously climb the wall to the roof.
Aviur quickly moves to help Lin over the wall so he won't reopen the wound or something similar.
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"Alrighty, let's move. Lial, did you get the books?" Karl asks, while carrying the man (drain some strength) and attempts to climb up the wall (tin to be able to see cracks in the wall to climb with)
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"..Ugh, I'm not sure, check me for them? I almost made it out, got the books and was on my way to the stables after taking out a bunch of guards on the in- (Cough, cough), on the inside. Then I got hit by a rioter and a guy with a real nice rifle. (Cough, cough). No idea how long I've been out, they could have taken the books back."
GM Insertion: Checking carefully he finds the books just where he put them, He assumes that they were more interested with the others than searching the badly injured unconcious guy
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Squirrel performs first aid once Lial is into the trees.
"I also found a stack of books, I'm quite sure they're at least some of the correct ones....but, how did they know we were coming? This was a total set-up"
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The team all gather on the Stable roof to assess the situation.
They have two members very badly hurt and in need of proper medical attention, several injured members and most of them are running low on metals and abilities. They all watch the two guards at the South Gate to work out what they are doing but its Lial carefully burning some of the last of his metals that concludes what is happening: They are pretending they see nothing since all the other guards in the area are now dead or badly injured in some way. They are discussiong their plan to go back in for the gold Karl and Lin found out about when they see sudden movement at the gate and it slowly swings open to reveal an entire squad of new guards double timing it into the compound.
It is decided that retreat is probably the best option now and the crew gather Lial and Karl to help them get down over the wall and into the west trees, then on to the arranged meeting spot to collect their horses. On the way they pass several more squads of guards but manage to avoid any more combat. After a hard bit of travel for the wounded they slip back onto the train and back to the city where they disappear into alleyways before meeting up that night back at the den where they are greeted by their crew leader just as they were on the first day.
"Welcome back everyone, or whats left of you. This was deffinatly not the smooth and secretive operation I had expected of you, please remember we are a thieving crew and not an assault force, even if some of you are gifted in that area." He makes a point to glance around at the various wounds present, especially Lial and Karl who have recieved some medical attantion and are heavily bandaged and medicated.
"But onto the results, You recoved a small cache of books from both studies, Lial on the ground floor and Squirrel on the second floor. Most importantly you recoved the books we required, three books detailing all the pricing and purchasing on a huge area of the new rail network and future purchacing plans. This will be very powerful information and explains the big payout. Sadly due to the very high profile robbery a fair chunk of the reward is going to be put into staying alive and avoiding the backlash even if they wont admit the theft publicly." He pauses a minute to fix his cufflink before continuing "Tan has already been sent his payment along with a small retainer for possible future work and to ensure his silence about our little operation. Oh and as for the large amount of guards and the gold you heard about, I have had time to look over the books and it seems the house is purchacing a very significant area of land from a rival in two days and is storing the gold there, if we are lucky they will think we went after the gold and failed but I hold no real hope for that."
He stands and passes out a small bag to each member "Here is the innital amount to get you through a week of luxury and the full payment should be ready by the end of the week so I will see you back here in 5 days. Now if you excuse me I have a function to attand to."
He gives a brief nod before heading out the back leaving the crew to check the pouches, about 2 months wages for a factory worker, and to think about how they might have gotten a large score of gold too if they had of managed things in a smoother and more subtle way.
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ouch! hand slappy!
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Good game Feanor :)
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Good game Feanor :)
Agreed, it was fun. I was surprised at all the high rolls I got, I wish to know what I did to gain the favor of the RDG. 8)
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Ty for running the game :). It was fun, I want to join another once we've moved house and settled in a bit.