Amyah was surprised by the speed with whom the Aragoto-Bosozuke Bikers had attacked; maybe they had some sort of Hardwired Reflexes or, more probably as She overheard some of Her old Medical Colleagues of Bourak speculating in the far past, high on some sort of Speed-Enhancing Drug (it was rumored that Rich or Influential people from Yu-Jing had often asked to Haqqislamite and Nomads bio-engineers to fashion some kind of Customized "Combat Drug" dispensing gland to be implanted !!). . . But Her Neural Cortex TOO was enhanced, by Her radical, experimental and self-administered "Biotech Enhancements" and She reacted very quickly. . . As soon as the Cobra Baton had broken the SUV "Plasti-Glass" window on Her side, and the whole arm entered the Van's rear cockpit, She grabbed firmly the perp and made Him impact with the Door metal frame (not "Army-Level" reinforced, but still HARD Carboplastics meshed with Metaceramics). . . The Japanese Biker, half-stuck in the middle of the window's frame, was grabbed and pushed further more towards the insides of the vehicle, impacting with the zone of the armpit of the offending arm, towards the bulk of the Torso area. . . Surely was a painfully distracting damage, even considering the very efficacious Crash Suits smartly wore by the Bikers, but the gorgeous Haqqislamite had NO Time to exult. . . The overarching and over-extended strike of the Cobra Baton has impacted with Her knee guard; even if the Ballistic Protection of the Special Forces Armour was very good, it was more suited to diffract damages from "Focused Forces" like Bullets, and not so good against concussive damage. . . Even if there were NO bruises, the Nerve Joints of the knee were "As If On Fire" and the beautiful Bourakite saw ALL the stars of the Human Sphere Firmaments. . . Sometimes an Enhanced Neural System had drawbacks too. . . . .!!! . . . . . [ Amyah Agility 8 + Close Combat 1 (Target Number 9) Borrow 2 Dices from the Character's Pool (that is STILL at 8 as Konrad and Eddie refilled it with various successes); Heat should be at 8 (12 Starting to whom GM subtracted -4 for the “Wrong Road” complication) and I HAVE to spend one Heat to have a Reaction. . . “Grabbing” Unarmed Attack is Damage 1+2 N. +3 N. (due to Amyah's quite high Brawn of 12, with Descriptors: “Stun” and “Subtle: 1”, that last not so important). . . Close Combat Unarmed Attack on Stuck Biker: 4 Dices of Attack (Diff. 9) Results: 4d20: 32 [4d20=14, 9, 8, 1] Close Combat Unarmed Attack on Stuck Biker: 4d20 32 Damage of 1 +5 N. Results: 5d6: 19 [5d6=2, 5, 4, 2, 6] Damage Roll on Stuck Biker: 5d6 19 So it is 3 Success on the Damage Roll (one of whom is a “6” probably triggering the “Stun” special effect) with the Basic +1, meaning that EVEN with the Soak:3 Crashsuit there is 1 Dam and 1 “Stun” Effect meaning the Biker is “Staggered” too for at least 1 Round. Location is 1d20: 10 [1d20=10] = Torso, quite logical considering the more easy body part to latch onto. . . Location Damage of the Stuck Biker: 1d20 10 . . . . . Momentum: 8 (starting 6 + 3 Replenish due to Amyah's attack successes) ; Heat: 9]
Without glancing up, Impi pings Eddie an acknowledgment and switches his HUD over to represent the quantic signature of the biker with the jammer - running Blackout to get their outward comms up again [assuming this is a D2 again? int 13 + hacking 3 = 16 1st roll = 4 2nd = 7 2 successes, burning 1 Momentum for the Blackout effect]
Ducking back int othe gym. Saito takes a quick rumage through the desk to see if he finds anything of interest. Being careful to put things back the way they were originally. Recording everything on his geist. Observation roll. Target 11. Roll is 9+15. So 1 success. He then goes to plant one of his many bugs in an inconspicuous location in the room. Stealth roll. Target is 14. Roll is 2+14+18+7. So 3 successes. Because it's a stealth roll. I'm using my scout talent to re roll 1 stealth roll to give a momentum to the party pool. Roll is 12. So 4 successes. Satisfied with the bug. Saito checks the coast is clear and that the room is as he left it. He then heads out the room back into the main hall. He pauses just long enough to catch a glimpse of the conversation on his way around the house looking for the study. Or a comms terminal to plant the repeater so Impi could intrude. Noticing another room that could be a study based on the general layout. Saito cautiously advances to see if people are in it, or if its the right kind of room he's looking for.
Eddie takes a quick look up while covering the baggage (erm, important witness), trying to get a shot on the biker with his Heavy Pistol. [ Going to spend a Momentum for an extra die, Eddie sucks with a pistol. 3,12,20. Not sure what happens with one success and one Crit Fail. ]
[@Section9 A success is a success and a complication (the fail) don't cancel each other out. You still get a hit in so roll damage and I'll post what the complication causes after that. Also, which biker you shooting at? Light shotgun (Biker 1) or assault pistol (biker 3)?]
[ Shooting at the guy with the Assault Pistol since he was going to shoot me, it's rude to shoot past your team-mates heads when in a moving vehicle and someone's aim might be bumped. ]
[Ok here, some "attack" roll to scratch away the stuck biker, still using the pilot skill 3 dice on 14 with one reroll Roll(3d20)+0: 6,13,4,+0 Total:23 Pilot atttack roll 3 successes without a reroll.] "Be ready, i try to scratch of that bugger on that construction machine." Konrad shouts a warning to Amaya while he stears the SUV more and more to the construcion side.
The pain that had flared in Her knee-cap disappeared as soon as arrived, almost as if was never there; the overcharged Neural Cortex Pathways of the Biosculpted, Geneengineered “Perfect Physique” of Amyah were results of unhautorized modifications of the Haqqislamite Runihura, a Military Project to develop Army Supersoldiers, and so a quantity of Enhanced Pain Tolerance was included in the Basic Genetic Markers. . . The Serotonin-Adrenalin vessels, made far more speedy by the subtle, pervasive employ of High-Grade Silk-Derivates that were at the forefront of ALL the marvelous advances of Biotechnology of the Science of Bourak, flooded “In Reverse” the Nerve Links and substituted the sensation of staggering pain with a rising anger and cruel callousness. . . . . . . . “Hooo, Boy! Surely, for Hator-Of-The-Bountiful-Hips !! You can NOT wait to have a PIECE of Me, can't You ???” “So eager to reach Me with Your STEEL-HARD Cobra-Stick, to crash through a glass window, aren't You, mmmhh. . .??” “Well, I'm flattered, but I'm NOT that kind of Easy Woman, so sorry, Sorry, SORRY. . . . .But I HAVE to say No to You. . .I'm NOT for too Sticky, Grabby People !!!” “We'll they say that Parting Ways is a Sweet-Sour thing. . .So, Farewell. . .Ah, Yes, You are Japanese, aren't You. . .so KONNYCHIWA !!!!!” . . . . . While said with a sing-song, “vapid-airheaded-bimbo” tone of voice and a honey-smile on Her pouty, glossy lips Amyah had the steely, predatory gaze of a merciless killer when saying so and when, calculating flawlessly the timing on Konrad prompt and precise advice, pushed HARD the stuck Bosozuke AT THE RIGHT moment to MAXIMIZE the impact with the Traffic Obstacle targeted by the smart Human Edger Pilot. . . After all, NOBODY likes Too-Sticky “Hanger-Ons”. . . . .!!! . . . . . [ Amyah Agility 8 + Close Combat 1 (Target Number 9) Borrow 1 Dice from the Character's Pool; HONESTLY now I'm TOTALLY unclear at what Level of Momentum and Heat we are; I'm O.K. to pay the Heat Point asked by the Gamemaster, but is the SAME Point that I had spent before with the first Attack (the “Defensive Reaction” that SHOULD have NOT be) ? Or is a different ONE ?? RESULTS: 3d20: 32 [3d20=7, 10, 15] JUST One Success; combined with the THREE of Konrad before for the Driving Maneuver SHOULD be enough to “Scratch away the Carglass Bugfly”; The gamemaster said was an Opposite Roll versus the Staggered / Stunned Biker, but JUST in case is useful, will Roll there the “Unarmed Combat Damage” of Amyah, to represent how FORCEFUL is the “Push Strenght”. . . Damage of 1 +5 N. Results: 5d6: 15 [5d6=1, 3, 4, 2, 5] NO Special Effect but a solid “3 Damage”, to combine with Konrad Action's Effects. . . . . . . . If I have done some calculating error, then will Edit and Change accordingly]
Momentum: 6 (-1 Konrad, -2 Amyah, -1 Impi, -1 Eddie, +1 Amyah, +2 Saito), Heat: 9 (+1 Amyah reaction) On The Road Biker 2 reaction using melee defense with acrobatics against Konrad and Amyah's attacks (paying the group 1 momentum for the reaction and +2 heat for additional dice): 8, 17, 3, 1 = 4 successes (has a focus of 1 in acrobatics meaning the rolled 1 counts as 2 successes). Konrad deftly avoids the on coming car and at the last second tries to scrape the attached biker on it. Amyah at the same time tries to deliver a blow to detach him as well. The biker pulls off a miracle. He uses the SUV for leverage as he kicks his feet up and off the bike and out in front of him. He clears the car's truck as his bike gets clipped sending it into a skid. This whole move causes Amyah's punch to just graze the biker's helmet. [Biker 2 is still attached to the SUV but he no longer has his bike.] Eddie lines up a shot with his would be attacker and tags him. The biker recoils from the round and it looks like it went though. The biker's reaction though indicated the damage was minimal though. [Biker 3's crashsuit absorbed 3 of the 4 damage done by Eddie's attack. 1 damage done to Biker 3's vigor. Biker 3's crashsuit no longer has any soak.] For Eddie though his pistol has a malfunction after the first round. A double feed to be exact. [Using Eddie's complication to render his pistol inoperable unless fixed. To fix the complication @Section9 you just have to make a standard action. Doing so though means you won't be attacking this round as he tries to fix the pistol's issue.] Impi locates the jammer and executes another blackout attack. Like that everyone's comlogs reestablish connections to Maya and their comms systems come back online. If you were going to call for help then this would be the best chance. [Sending a message is a free action.] ==== Biker 1 (close range) attacking Konrad with Light Shotgun (AP Shells): 14, 5 1 success Damage: 1, 1, 5, 1, +1 4 damage against soak 2 from the SUV = 2 damage to vigor Hit Location: Torso Biker 2 uses his Standard Action to resolve his complication of being stuck. Biker 3 uses his Standard Action to resolve his complication of having a jammed pistol. Biker 4 uses Minor Action to come into close range and attacks Impi with his Assault Pistol (spending 1 Heat to use 1 reload which grants an 1 additional d20 and 1 damage die): 1, 5, 13 2 successes Damage: 3, 1, 6, 6, 2, +1 4 damage + 2 effects (Vicious 1) = 6 damage to vigor Hit Location: Left Arm [Impi's SUV soak roll: 4, 5 = No soak granted.] Biker Hacker uses her Minor Action to perform the Absterge Action to bring her hacking device back online (spending 1 Heat for an additional d20): 7, 7, 11 3 successes and her hacking device is back online. Biker Hacker uses her Standard Action to attack Impi with Sword-1 Slasher: 8, 7 Damage: 3, 6, 3, 3, 4, +2 2 damage + 1 effect (Vicious 2) = 4 damage to firewall ==== The light shotgun wielder pumps another slug into the driver door. Eddie's attacker clears his jam. The biker stuck on the SUV frees his arm. One of the bikers from the rear guns it towards Impi's side and unloads his assault pistol at him. To makes matters worse the enemy hacker has come back online and uses one of the nearby bikers comlogs as a repeater to attack Impi quantronically. Looks like they didn't take kindly to him knocking out their jamming device. Momentum: 7 (+1 from Biker 1 reaction), Heat: 8 (-2 Biker 1, +2 Biker 1, -1 Biker 4, -1 Biker Hacker, +1 Biker Hacker) Gated Community Saito successfully plants the bug and no one would be the wiser to its location from just looking at the room. Looking through the desk Saito finds three containers of Cod (protein-rich dietary powder), 5 doses of the drug Surge, 3 doses of the drug Spike (cures physical conditions quickly but causes vigor damage, popular with Aristeia! competitors), and 3 doses of Old Steely (awareness and willpower boosting drug). Saito peeks out into the main living room and then looks towards the front of the house. He notes stairs going up and some going down to a basement. The voices are coming from the left side in some kitchen dining room area. He then crosses to another set of rooms similar to the ones he was just out. Peeking into the bedroom he sees there's no one in it. Same goes for the study right across from it. This one is a proper study with a terminal, bookshelves with actual books on them, and some genuine leather furniture. A more visual guide that Saito's geist has been compiling as he's moved around: https://imgur.com/a/IMA8k1W 1: Bedroom 2: Study 3: Living room 4: Kitchen & dining area 5: 2 sets of stairs. One goes upstairs and one to the basement. ?: Geist has noted a door to some other area of the house. Saito current location is the room and study on the right side of the house. He started on the left side near that bedroom and study.
[ Agent Lan!!! This is Lawrence Calverston, we are under attack by Bosozoku!!! We are in our SUV, but they have some mil-spec hardware and were jamming Maya locally a second ago! Is there a place you would like us to lead these miscreants? Also, we ... found one Bo Ryan and some gear that we are assuming to be property of HSGP. He is currently safe but is in at least as much danger as we are! ] Eddie slugs the team's current location to Agent Lan while he can.
[I take an additional point of Momentum to attack the Biker shooting at Konrad with the car. Pilot Test with for 4 dice with Coordination 11 / Exp 3 Foc 1 and one re roll through the Ace talent Roll(4d20)+0: 10,15,11,3,+0 Total:39 Attack on Biker 3 successes yet, now going to reroll the 15 Roll(1d20)+0: 2,+0 Total:2 Attack on Biker re roll the 15 The to should make 5 successes with the Foc 1] Angered by the biker shooting at him Konrad tries to hit him with the bigger mass of the SUV.
[ guess I should be explicit about Eddie getting his pistol working while shouting to the ISS for help ]
Checking to make sure there is no one coming towards him or inside the room itself. Saito cautiously enters the room and takes stock of his surroundings. Satisfied, he begins to find a suitable location to plant another bug. Stealth roll. Target 14. Roll is 12+4+8+14. 4 successes. He then proceeds to carefully look through the desk to find anything of use or value. Instructing his geist to record everything for later reviewing. Observation roll. Target is 11. Roll is 20+16. 2 Fails. Damn. He then sends a quick message accross the tacnet. Boys and girl. I'm in. I need a computer hack asap. I know you're all in a gun fight. But i'm in the Triad's study at a terminal just begging for Impi's magic touch. Let me know once the bullets stop flying so you can get some juicy intel....... Also. Keep safe you lot.
Amyah's Action Attacking Biker 2 Light Shotgun using Stun rounds (spending 1 reload): 5, 3, 9 Assuming that's either 2 or 3 successes Damage: 1, 6, 3, 2, 1 5 Damage and 1 Effect (Biotech, Nonlethal, Stun, Knockdown) = This attack goes up against the BTS of the target which is 0 Damage Location: Left Arm Biker 2 Athletics (spending 1 heat): 14, 6, 16 1 success so he's not knocked down Impi's Action Recover Vigor (spending 1 momentum): 16, 1, 15 1 success (based on Resistance) Gain back 4 Vigor (2 for passing and 2 more for spending a momentum on it) Re-rolling SUV cover: 2, 4 (performing the recover action lets you re-roll cover) Impi now has Soak 2 Impi is spending 2 momentum to make any attack on him difficulty 2. ==== Momentum: 9 (-1 Konrad, +4 Konrad, +1 Saito, -3 Impi, +1 Amyah), Heat: 7 (-1 Biker 3) On The Road Biker 1 reaction using evasion using piloting against Konrad's attack (paying the group 1 momentum and using 3 heat for more dice): 16, 19, 17, 19, 11 0 successes and 3 complications! The shotgun biker slams on the breaks as Konrad jerks the SUV in his direction. He doesn't get it done in time and he did it to quickly causing the bike to fish tail violently. Konrad is about to hit him just as loses control and crashes into a large remote doing road work. The impact looked deadly and not one a crashsuit could save you from. [5 bikers remain.] Impi ducks his head down and suffers through the pain. He was a Correigdorian though and for him pain meant he was still alive and kicking. Amyah retrieves her light shotgun and blasts away at the biker parasite on their SUV. The loaded stun rounds make contact and thanks to their fancy biotech render the protection of the crashsuit useless. The biker holds on but he recoils and shutters from the pain. [Biker 2 is staggered for 1 round.] A call comes in to Eddie from Lan. He answers as he clears his jam and Agent Lan comes ghosting into the SUV. Sitting right where Bo Ryan would if he didn't have his head between his knees. She looks physically the same but her avatar sports a look more akin to a magistrate from 14th century China. "You all certainly got yourselves into a pickle." She says taking in the chaotic situation, "Me and my men are on our way. Local PD is on the way as well after the construction company called in about a high speed chase taking place. Guess it was you guys." Lan then points ahead, "Driver, take the next left! It will get you out of this construction zone and in a direct intercept with me." She then leans back, "I'll stay here as long as possible to monitor the situation and help out if possible." She looks at Bo Ryan who she's ghosting through, "We need to have a nice long chat with you Mr. Ryan. So keep that head of yours down." [Agent Lan can give anyone a free d20 on any skill roll. However, it can only be used by one person per round.] ==== Biker 2 can't spend a standard action this round do to being staggered unless I spend a heat to do so. I won't. So he does nothing. Biker 3 (close range) attacking Eddie with his Assault Pistol: 17, 5 1 success Damage: 4, 6, 2, 1 3 damage and 1 Effect (Vicious 1) = 4 damage against vigor Damage Location: Torso Biker 4 (close range) attacking Konrad with his Assault Pistol (spending 1 heat for 1 reload): 7, 15, 19 1 success Damage: 4, 2, 6, 4, 6 3 damage and 2 effects (Vicious 1) = 5 damage + 2 Soak = 3 damage to vigor Damage Location: Torso Biker Hacker uses her Standard Action to attack Impi with Sword-1 Slasher: 10, 5 2 successes Damage: 5, 1, 6, 3, 3 3 damage and 1 effect (Vicious 2) = 5 damage to firewall Biker Jammer uses his Minor Action to perform the Absterge Action to bring his jammer back online: 5, 20 1 success, 1 complication. Wasn't enough successes to bring the jammer back online. ==== Even with one of their own down the bikers don't stop their assault on the SUV. One of the bikers unloads at Eddie. Due to Impi ducking down his previous attacker goes after Konrad who's now in his sights. The biker hacker keeps pounding away at Impi's firewall trying to break though and compromise him. Konrad catches a glimpse in his rear view mirror of the jammer biker as he starts to fall behind. He would have to catch back up to use his jammer. Gated Community Saito finds a nice spot in the study to plant another bug. He then checks around the study for anything interesting. He comes up with nothing. Impi responds to Saito's request: A bit busy here! Just plant the repeater somewhere and I'll get to snooping when I have a free second. Impi then catches the sound of footsteps coming his way. They get closer and then the door of the study starts to open. His chameleonware wasn't going to work this close up so he needed to do something... fast. [Going to need a D4 Stealth test if you want to try and hide. That or if you want to go on the offensive Saito does have the element of surprise.] Momentum: 10 (+1 Biker 1 reaction), Heat: 6 (-1 Biker 2, -3 Biker 1, -1 Biker 4, +1 Biker Hacker)
Getting hit from the other side, lets Konrad burst out in pain. "Thats the stuff i prefer piloting a dropship. Noone shots at the pilot on the way to the ground." Konrad screams through the car.
Eddie lets fly with a particularly impressive stream of profanity in at least 4 languages, the Mandarin sounding something horribly inappropriate with a dog and several goats as the parents of the shooter. [ between his expensive suit and subdermal plating, Eddie's torso armor is actually 3, but catching another round to the chest after the last fight has him swearing with a creativity that would impress most 20+year enlisted military veterans. Round must have landed in a gap or something, Eddie is not happy about this. ] [ spending another Momentum for that bonus die to his shooting Biker 3 again: 7,14,19, so only one success. His pistol is 1+4N, and rolled 1,5,6,6. That should leave a mark on the biker! ]
[I try to suprise the bikers with a change in the direction Agent Lan told me to buy some time. So i roll a simple Pilot test to get them all behind us again. Roll(3d20)+0: 15,7,10,+0 Total:32 I reroll the 15 Roll(1d20)+0: 8,+0 Total:8 Makes 3 successes for a suprose manoever]
Impi grunts, swears and begins a string of harsh Zulu curses, involving the parentage, ancestry and sexual preferences of their opponents. His HUD is flashing with warnings. He waves most of them away so he can concentrate better, and hopes for a second to snatch his assault pistol if it comes to that.
Glancing at his HUD, geist overlay and then at a biker keeping alongside the bike, Impi thinks "nuts to this man", waving away his HUD and drawing Amyah's assault pistol in one smooth motion. The gun is heavier than he expects, and the movement of his target and the team's vehicle has him resting the pistol on the edge of the van window, bracing his shoulder and arm for the kick he expects. [ok rolling for an attack on biker 4 - Ballistics = 10 1st roll = 17 2nd roll = 18 super shooting there Impi :p] The movement of the van and the biker is too much for him to accurately anticipate, and his shots go wide, impacting onto part of the construction material they are driving past. Impi swears even more and more effusively than before
Very worried that their driver, Konrad, was seriously wounded by the Piercing Shotgun Shells of the Enemy Biker, Amyah quickly took one of the One-Shot Use "Serum Ampoules" so widespread and ubiquitous in the Medikit of the Human Sphere and carefully injected it in the bloodstream of the Space Pirate, reaching from the rear seats to the pilot position. . . She was very careful, employing all Her hard won Haqqislamite Medical Knowledge, to put the injection of Medical Nanomachines so that the sanguinary vessels would bring the Microscopical Helpers immediatly to the zones wounded by the Slug Impacts. . . The practice of many Years, hard won first in the Special Forces of Haqqislamite Armies and then in the Paramedic / Forensic Support Squad of the Moderators, alongside Eddie and His Bakunite colleagues, showed in the calm precision with whom the Hypodermic Injector slided effortlessly to help the beleaguered Human Edger . . . . . [Medicine is one of the “Signature” Skills of Amya, with a Focus of 1 and an Expertise of 4, that coupled with Her value of Intelligence 12 net a Target Number of 16, with Difficulty 1. . . Will borrow a Momentum from the Team Pool, and have a EXTRA Momentum given by the expenditure of a “Serum” Dose of Medical Nanomachines, and My “Field Dressing” Skill effectively doubles the Effect of the Serum dosage. . . We were at Momentum 9 after the Successes of Saito, if I'm not mistaken, so I will Roll now 5 Dices (2 Basics + 1 Pool Momentum + 1 from Serum +1 from Field Dressing). . . Results = 5d20: 60 [5d20=7, 17, 17, 6, 13] First Aid Roll to help Recover the driver Konrad: 5d20 60 The “Physician” Talent allow Me to Reroll one of the “17” Reroll of a 20 Dice = 1d20: 8 [1d20=8] Reroll of a 20 Dice: 1d20 8 So the Successes are 4; with the Extra effect of Focus 1 in Medicine should be able to bring back the Vigor of Konrad at peak level, as a successful Remedy Action bring 2 Vigor +2 for every Extra Success. . . The Team Pool of Momentum should be back at 10!!]
