Jun 27 14:43:38 <Antioch|GM>	It's rather early in the morning.
Jun 27 14:43:57 <Antioch|GM>	Sentinel is waking you up, having barged into your room, and is attempting to do so by prodding you repeatedly in the shoulder. ||
Jun 27 14:46:07 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Why are you in my room." Jean says, eyes snapping open. ||
Jun 27 14:47:15 <Antioch|GM>	"Got some shit for you to do. You wanna crack back at the assholes who gave you the acid scars, right?" ||
Jun 27 14:47:45 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Sleep trumps revenge, but fine." Jean continues to lay there. ||
Jun 27 14:49:24 <Antioch|GM>	"C'mon, some two-bit villain in town managed to convince all of the fucks in the city to do our dirty work. Let's rock and roll." ||
Jun 27 14:51:04 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Alright. Let's go, then." Jean replies. ||
Jun 27 14:52:35 <Antioch|GM>	Sentinel rattles off a rough outline of the situation at present.
Jun 27 14:53:55 <Antioch|GM>	A coalition of villains, the Borgata, New Blackjack, the escaped remnants of the Dust Devils, and the Huangtian have all declared a temporary ceasefire to deal with Auswahlen, who have made aggressive overtures to almost all of the groups.
Jun 27 14:55:13 <Antioch|GM>	The cape who organized said alliance, Wink, was able to speak with the Director, and arrange the assistance of the Protectorate at a low-risk "overwatch" operation, with tougher capes on standby to finish the job, if necessary.
Jun 27 14:56:05 <Antioch|GM>	He leans forward, dropping his voice to a lower register. "Mendez just wants to grab the kill order cash, so our guys are gonna do some good ol'-fashioned killstealing, yeah?" ||
Jun 27 14:56:45 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Sounds like a plan. Dunno if it's a great one, but it's a plan." Jean replies, still in bed. ||
Jun 27 14:59:05 <Antioch|GM>	"You could stand to have a little more work ethic," Sentinel mutters. "Maybe you'll be a little more perky when I force-feed you a caffeine supplement." ||
Jun 27 15:02:50 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Ethic, shmethic." Jean retorts.||
Jun 27 15:06:27 <Antioch|GM>	"The Director - well, really, the Youth Guard - won't be too happy about bringing you out there, but if you wanna go, it's your call. I sure as hell ain't gonna stop you."
Jun 27 15:07:18 <Antioch|GM>	You can see what he's getting at. Pushing the future through Sentinel's omnidirectional surveillance helmet - hell, any kind of videorecording - has been notoriously unreliable.
Jun 27 15:08:21 <Antioch|GM>	He punked the fuck out of you at an earlier power testing session, making you try to alter the future of what he told you was the surveillance cams, when in fact it was a recording of the feed from the day prior.
Jun 27 15:09:22 <Antioch|GM>	Regardless of his attitude, Sentinel does raise a valid point - any nudge you can give to shift the events against the favor of Auswahlen may well be needed, and you'll have to be at least somewhat close in order to do so. ||
Jun 27 15:09:52 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Eh, time to earn my pay." Jean throws aside the sheets, and stands up, yawning.||
Jun 27 15:12:03 <Antioch|GM>	You wait around as the Deputy Director briefs Conquistador, Feral, Valiant, and Sentinel on their roles in the upcoming operation, eavesdropping on them with your power as you drag yourself downstairs to get breakfast. ||
Jun 27 15:13:36 <Prothean|Beholder>	Jean throws on her costume and grabs some foods. ||
Jun 27 15:18:42 <Antioch|GM>	You catch snippets of the meeting, closing your eyes to focus on reading Findlay's lips.
Jun 27 15:20:55 <Antioch|GM>	Apparently, two of the priority targets, barring Darwin himself, are Murmur and Hexcrafter.
Jun 27 15:23:19 <Antioch|GM>	Murmur's powers appear to be a paranoia and hallucination-inducing Master ability that's transferred through sound - they're hopeful, but not certain, that the comms system will serve as an adequate countermeasure, so Master/Stranger protocols are in place.
Jun 27 15:24:20 <Antioch|GM>	Hexcrafter appears to be able to grant regenerative forcefields at a touch, which will make the other Auswahlen members annoyingly tanky until they're taken out. ||
Jun 27 15:24:43 <Prothean|Beholder>	Beholder continues eating. ||
Jun 27 15:27:34 <Antioch|GM>	The operation is meant to be, on the most part, hands-off, relaying comms through Sentinel's drones to coordinate the assault - and, of course, eavesdrop.
Jun 27 15:30:24 <Antioch|GM>	Valiant is meant as a defensive stopgap, ensuring the safety of Sentinel and Conquistador, while Feral and Conquistador are authorized, or, in fact, encouraged, to kill Darwin.
Jun 27 15:31:04 <Antioch|GM>	The meeting concludes, and Sentinel heads towards the caf to get you. Ugh, he's probably hooked all of the surveillance cams in here to his own drone network. Creep.
Jun 27 15:31:08 <Antioch|GM>	Not like you can say anything. ||
Jun 27 15:31:45 <Prothean|Beholder>	Beholder greets Sentinel the moment before he walks in, still eating. ||
Jun 27 15:32:44 <Antioch|GM>	"You catch all that?" he asks, smirking. "I'd hate to have to repeat everything for you." ||
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Jun 27 15:33:56 <Prothean|Beholder>	"'Course I did." ||
Jun 27 15:34:46 <Antioch|GM>	"Sweet, saves me some hassle. Any questions?" ||
Jun 27 15:35:50 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Am I allowed to kill any of them?" ||
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Jun 27 15:37:40 <Antioch>	Could you post that line again, Proth? I wasn't able to read it.
Jun 27 15:37:55 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Am I allowed to kill any of them?" ||
Jun 27 15:39:33 <Antioch>	"Hell yeah. I don't give a fuck. You think they could pin it on you if you did it with your power?" Sentinel snorts. ||
Jun 27 15:40:11 <Prothean|Beholder>	"They haven't yet. Er..." ||
Jun 27 15:40:44 <Antioch>	Sentinel just laughs. ||
Jun 27 15:42:29 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Why are you laughing?" ||
Jun 27 15:43:44 <Antioch>	"Glad to see not everyone here is an uptight sonuvabitch with a stick in their ass," he says, shrugging. ||
Jun 27 15:44:01 <Prothean|Beholder>	I'm surprised you found one." ||
Jun 27 15:45:00 <Antioch>	"Really? Maybe you've just got different standards, hah." ||
Jun 27 15:46:14 <Prothean|Beholder>	"My standards are nonexistent." ||
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Jun 27 15:47:07 <Antioch>	"Fair enough, fair enough. Enough with the small talk, though, let's get to business."
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Jun 27 15:48:23 <Antioch>	"I've got my own car, and you're coming with me. Gotta deliver some comms shit to the fuckin' Bad Guy Club." ||
Jun 27 15:50:48 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Alrighty, then." ||
Jun 27 15:54:24 <Antioch>	"Also, as far as they know, you're hanging out in a safe place, strictly doing overwatch, alright?" ||
Jun 27 15:55:26 <Prothean|Beholder>	"I feel less safe every time you open your mouth. Eh, sure." ||
Jun 27 15:57:04 <Antioch>	You get into Sentinel's car. It's decent, if extremely well-maintained.
Jun 27 15:57:34 <Antioch>	It's a bit awkward and silent, at first, his brow furrowed as if he were considering something.
Jun 27 15:58:31 <Antioch>	"Remember what I said earlier, people not being able to pin fuckups on you?"
Jun 27 15:59:14 <Antioch>	"They're villains, alright? If they get an easy win, or if some fucksack tries to gank Darwin, how about you make 'em work for it?" ||
Jun 27 16:00:27 <Prothean|Beholder>	"I do have a gun, so, sure." ||
Jun 27 16:02:32 <Antioch>	"With your power, jackass," Sentinel says, rolling his eyes.
Jun 27 16:02:48 <Antioch>	"Stay in the car, I'm gonna have a chat with the big boys." ||
Jun 27 16:03:34 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Just give me the signal if you want to turn one of them into Tupac." ||
Jun 27 16:03:41 <Prothean|Beholder>	-||
Jun 27 16:03:59 <Prothean|Beholder>	Once they're stopped, Beholder scans five minutes ahead. ||
Jun 27 16:07:45 <Antioch>	((Waiting on other group))
Jun 27 16:12:04 <Antioch>	You eavesdrop on the occupants of the restaurant, spying the Dust Devils escapees. Hell, Shades again.
Jun 27 16:12:38 <Antioch>	Sentinel goes in and out without any trouble, barely interacting with any of them. ||
Jun 27 16:14:37 <Prothean|Beholder>	Beholder pans around, searching for anything she can mess up. A grenade, for example. ||
Jun 27 16:16:50 <Antioch>	There are arms every which way in the building, but nobody's in any mood to use them - safeties on, pins unpulled. Not much to work with, here. ||
Jun 27 16:21:07 <Prothean|Beholder>	Beholder pouts, and waits in the car. ||
Jun 27 16:23:36 <Antioch>	Sentinel returns with no fuss. "They're taking their sweet time to set up, so we have a little bit of time to kill ourselves. Feel free to take a nap, or whatever," he says, driving southward towards the supposed location of Auswahlen's hideout.
Jun 27 16:23:51 <Antioch>	"You're out of the Wards soon, yeah?" ||
Jun 27 16:24:07 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Two months, give or take." ||
Jun 27 16:26:12 <Antioch>	"You plannin' on sticking around?" ||
Jun 27 16:28:18 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Nothing else to do, nowhere to go." ||
Jun 27 16:29:54 <Antioch>	"Cleveland ain't the only PRT department, you know." ||
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Jun 27 16:34:59 <Prothean|Beholder>	"You're not wrong." ||
Jun 27 16:35:39 <Antioch>	"Still, this city's kind of a shithole. Somethin' about 'leave something better than you found it' or whatever."
Jun 27 16:35:56 <Antioch>	"Irrelevant to the situation at hand, I'm rambling."
Jun 27 16:36:00 <Antioch>	"Let's rock."
Jun 27 16:36:16 <Antioch>	--- [[pause + timeskip, waiting on other room] --
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Jun 27 18:39:07 *	You are now known as Prothean|Beholder
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Jun 27 18:44:34 <Antioch>	-----
Jun 27 18:45:51 <Antioch>	You're parked outside the national park, still in Sentinel's passenger seat. You can hear and speak on comms, under the pretense that you're still at headquarters.
Jun 27 18:46:34 <Antioch>	Conquistador, Feral, and Valiant, have ventured into the forest already, on a separate comms channel from the villains.
Jun 27 18:47:18 <Antioch>	Over comms, you do hear Joey of the Borgata rush into the forest without any preparation, eerily reminiscent of the popular "Leeroy Jenkins" video, which seems to signal the start of the operation. ||
Jun 27 18:50:25 <Prothean|Beholder>	Beholder checks five minutes ahead, reading the comm transcript. ||
Jun 27 18:56:03 <Antioch>	((What comm transcript? :P It's all audio :P
Jun 27 18:56:22 <Prothean|Beholder>	((Srsly? wow ok))
Jun 27 18:56:31 <Prothean|Beholder>	((So am I just listenting to comms then? Nothing else?))
Jun 27 18:57:11 <Antioch>	((Can send your vision into the woods)
Jun 27 18:58:16 <Prothean|Beholder>	Beholder pans her vision into the woods, looking down on the group, a minute ahead. ||
Jun 27 18:59:33 <Antioch>	You follow Conquistador, Feral, and Valiant into the woods, entering a thick, unnatural mist.
Jun 27 19:01:58 <Antioch>	Due to your functional clairvoyance, the mist proves to be no obstacle to your vision, and as you pan around the area, you notice two Case 53s lurking nearby, both to the two-o'clock of the group, one an oily-looking creature with the visage of a bullfrog, the other an indiscernible mixture of rubble, moss, and tree roots. ||
Jun 27 19:05:30 <Prothean|Beholder>	"We've got two 53s, 2 o'clock, giant frogman and a tree." ||
Jun 27 19:07:10 <Antioch>	"Roger roger," Conquistador replies.
Jun 27 19:07:52 <Antioch>	Sentinel counts down under his breath, compensating for the minute forward you are in real time.
Jun 27 19:08:47 <Antioch>	In the future, however, two of Sentinel's drones dart forward, flying towards the frogman, and detonate in his eyes.
Jun 27 19:09:51 <Antioch>	You can see him make what you assume to be a pained, warbling sound, judging by the sudden bulge in his throat. He staggers backwards, rubbing smoke out of his eyes, but Sentinel's drones are too small to have any appreciable payload.
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Jun 27 19:10:18 <Antioch>	The Protectorate in the woods change their path, headed towards the screaming frog. ||
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Jun 27 19:11:24 <Prothean|Beholder>	Beholder watches for any roots she can snare the 53s on, loose limbs to drop, grenades to explode. ||
Jun 27 19:13:17 <Antioch>	Today seems to be a bad day for your power. You try to turn Frogman's stagger into a full-on trip, sending him tumbling over a root near his foot, but you're only getting a headache for your troubles. Ugh.
Jun 27 19:16:04 <Antioch>	Nevertheless, Conquistador, with the enemy location clearly marked out to him, fires two of Forgemaster's finest blades at the hapless frogman, slicing through his sides, as Feral lopes carelessly through the woods towards the two of them. ||
Jun 27 19:17:07 <Prothean|Beholder>	Beholder turns her power back towards recon, scanning above and occasionally belowground in case she finds one of Finch's tunnels. ||
Jun 27 19:19:19 <Antioch>	You're hitting the edge of your awareness - the majority of the Auswahlen seem to be too deep in the woods, out of your range, but you're able to locate a winding network of haphazardly dug tunnels beneath the ground, but no sign of Finch within them. ||
Jun 27 19:19:46 <Prothean|Beholder>	((brb in 30ish minutes))
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Jun 27 19:23:54 <Prothean_Beholder>	((Can you repost that last thing))
Jun 27 19:24:21 <Antioch>	You're hitting the edge of your awareness - the majority of the Auswahlen seem to be too deep in the woods, out of your range, but you're able to locate a winding network of haphazardly dug tunnels beneath the ground, but no sign of Finch within them. ||
Jun 27 19:26:50 <Prothean_Beholder>	"You're about to leave my range. Finch has a tunnel network under you, can't see him right now." Beholder collapses the tunnel. ||
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Jun 27 19:31:11 <Antioch>	The tunnel remains stolidly uncollapsed, and your headache only grows for the worse.
Jun 27 19:31:34 <Antioch>	Sentinel's bitching about his drones cameras not being functional in the dense fog or something. ||
Jun 27 19:33:26 <Prothean_Beholder>	"Fog might be power-generated, just a heads up." Beholder continues watching, aiming her viewpoint out of her range. ||
Jun 27 19:36:41 <Antioch>	You push against your effective range, trying to take your vision further outwards, but the migraine worsens, an unbearable pressure on your brain.
Jun 27 19:37:17 <Antioch>	Feral and Conquistador have dispatched the odd, organic rubble golem, and the frogman is pinned to a tree by one of Conquistador's blades. ||
Jun 27 19:39:20 <Prothean_Beholder>	"Yeah, I'm gonna be pretty useless. Will be watching the tunnels." She does so. ||
Jun 27 19:40:30 <Antioch>	"Range problems? I may have an idea," Sentinel mutters. ||
Jun 27 19:41:15 <Prothean_Beholder>	"My power is all-knowing, it just doesn't like to tell me stuff. It will punch me in the brain if I try to circumvent it. I think." Beholder says to him. ||
Jun 27 19:44:10 <Antioch>	"So range problems. Got it."
Jun 27 19:44:23 <Antioch>	Sentinel flips his comms to the villain network.
Jun 27 19:44:56 <Antioch>	"Sentinel here. Any of your fliers want to give our resident precog a lift?"
Jun 27 19:45:02 <Antioch>	Wait a second.
Jun 27 19:45:06 <Antioch>	This crazy motherfucker. ||
Jun 27 19:48:08 <Prothean_Beholder>	"Nooooooo. No. Nu-uh, Sentinel. That is... no. Nope." ||
Jun 27 19:50:40 <Antioch>	He reaches into the back of the car and hands you a parachute. Why the fuck does he have a parachute in his car?
Jun 27 19:50:59 <Antioch>	"You still have the regen vial, right?" ||
Jun 27 19:51:23 <Prothean_Beholder>	"I can't use it with a broken neck. Holy shit, why do you even have a parachute?" ||
Jun 27 19:53:25 <Antioch>	"Military surplus store. C'mon, you'll be fine." ||
Jun 27 19:54:20 <Prothean_Beholder>	"No, I really won't. Just have them repeat the comms to me, hell, you could do that." ||
Jun 27 19:55:52 <Antioch>	"Ugh, like that's going to be any fun."
Jun 27 19:56:39 <Antioch>	"My drones can keep you safe," he says, almost pleading. ||
Jun 27 19:57:24 <Prothean_Beholder>	"I'd really prefer having the safety buffer of not actually being in the fight as opposed to your... parachute." ||
Jun 27 19:59:00 <Antioch>	One of the fliers lands nearby, sending up chunks of asphalt.
Jun 27 19:59:14 <Antioch>	"I'm here for your precog. I can't believe I'm fucking doing this but I am. Hurry before I change my mind." ||
Jun 27 20:00:19 <Prothean_Beholder>	"I can't fucking believe it either. Sentinel, holy crap, I'm not doing this." ||
Jun 27 20:02:14 <Antioch>	"Ugh, fine."
Jun 27 20:02:19 <Antioch>	He turns to address the flier.
Jun 27 20:02:45 <Antioch>	"Looks like she's not in," he says, almost apologetically. "Sorry about calling you all the way out here." ||
Jun 27 20:03:20 <Saff|Queen>	...
Jun 27 20:03:23 <Prothean_Beholder>	"Wait! If you're willing to repeat any noteable events on the comms verbatim, it's pretty much as good as me being there." ||
Jun 27 20:05:58 <Saff|Queen>	"Look, you made me come all the way out here... I won't fucking drop you, I don't think. Not on purpose. Look, you made me come out here. We can't see anything in the fucking fog." Queen kicks one of the asphalt chunks out of the way and sighs. "I can relay whatever the fuck you want, but if you made me come out here at least make yourself useful."
Jun 27 20:05:58 <Saff|Queen>	||
Jun 27 20:08:09 <Antioch>	...
Jun 27 20:08:12 <Prothean_Beholder>	"Look, I'm squishy as fuck." Beholder pokes herself. "There is not way I am flying around in that. Even with Sentinel's wish for me to die for the cause. ||
Jun 27 20:08:54 <Antioch>	Queen keels over, bent double, and you can faintly hear a piercing shriek from her comm's earpiece. ||
Jun 27 20:10:16 <Prothean_Beholder>	"Fuck! Ok, we're on complete back foor there. That's Auswahlen's turf, it's full of death fog, and now everyone is dead. Sentinel, are any of the gang reporting in?" ||
Jun 27 20:10:24 <Prothean_Beholder>	foot*
Jun 27 20:11:06 <Antioch>	"No death scream on our comms," Sentinel reports, "but they can't find anyone in this shit." ||
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Jun 27 20:12:19 <Saff|Queen>	...
Jun 27 20:12:45 <Prothean_Beholder>	"This is exactly how bad horror movies or really good ambushes start. We should pull out, come back with floodlights, maybe a tank, and not split up and rush into the death forest. Grab those two we took down earlier and run. ||
Jun 27 20:13:22 <Saff|Queen>	"You're a tinker or some shit. Make it fucking stop!" Queen screams, ripping the comms out of her ears. She stays on her hands and knees, her face curled in pain. "If you had just fucking come without bitching out this wouldn't have happened!"||
Jun 27 20:14:26 <Antioch>	...
Jun 27 20:14:40 <Antioch>	Queen tears the comms out of her hears, which continue ringing.
Jun 27 20:14:47 <Prothean_Beholder>	Beholder scans another minute ahead, then replies, "Sentinel, we have no idea how many 53s are in there, we shoudl leave."||
Jun 27 20:14:58 <Antioch>	"Are we pulling out?" Feral asks uncertainly.
Jun 27 20:15:43 <Antioch>	Sentinel sits there, impassive and unresponsive, apparently assessing the situation. ||
Jun 27 20:16:23 <Prothean_Beholder>	Just to make sure they're either gone or still alive, Beholder scans ten minutes ahead, panning around the area as she does. ||
Jun 27 20:18:31 <Antioch>	More futures than you can count, flickering and overlaid atop each other, all foggy.
Jun 27 20:18:54 <Antioch>	In some, the Protectorate remains in the woods, in others, the majority, they are no longer there. ||
Jun 27 20:20:11 <Prothean_Beholder>	"I think we should go. Futures where we aren't there, well, I'm pretty sure none of us die." ||
Jun 27 20:20:43 <Saff|Queen>	...
Jun 27 20:22:58 <Saff|Queen>	"Do you want me to... To take you or not?" Queen picks up the comms and tries to turn off the offending channel before slipping them back in her ears as a test. "Wink, can you hear me?" She sighs heavily and looks back over at the PRT fucks. "Let me take Beholder."||
Jun 27 20:24:30 <Prothean_Beholder>	"I'm so fucking sure I'm going to die if I go that I will just shoot myself first. We need to pull out, now." ||
Jun 27 20:24:41 <Antioch>	Sentinel, face unreadable behind his mask, makes sounds of consternation.
Jun 27 20:25:18 <Antioch>	"Fine. Conquistador, Feral, Valiant, pull out. Our overwatch setup isn't good enough, we need to come up with something new."
Jun 27 20:26:00 <Antioch>	"Queen, you can stay here if you want, relay the villain comms verbally so that we have forewarning, but I'll agree this is rapidly turning into a shitshow."
Jun 27 20:26:18 <Antioch>	Deep in the woods, a gargantuan plume of flame spikes upwards, growing in size and intensity. ||
Jun 27 20:26:52 <Saff|Queen>	...
Jun 27 20:28:18 <Saff|Queen>	"I take great offense to that term" Queen says with a frown. "At least we're trying to help! Jesus Christ. We're the ones putting in the real work while you're shoving your entire fists up your asses and pulling out. I watched one of your capes swallow a grenade and you're running like little BITCHES?"
Jun 27 20:29:33 <Saff|Queen>	She walks over to Beholder, and grabs the girl's arm, dragging her as she runs in the opposite direction. "You're coming with me. We're doing this." Queen presses her free hand to her ear, frown still tacked on. "Wink, I'm seeing smoke. Please tell me Burn Notice is doing his thing."||
Jun 27 20:32:20 <Prothean_Beholder>	Beholder reaches for her stunstick, pulling away.||
Jun 27 20:33:17 <Antioch>	The Ward is scrabbling back, out of arms reach, brandishing a taser baton and waving it at you.
Jun 27 20:33:40 <Antioch>	"I don't think you should kidnap a Ward, Queen. Isn't Mendez already pretty upset at you?" Sentinel comments bemusedly. ||
Jun 27 20:34:38 <Saff|Queen>	...
Jun 27 20:37:23 <Saff|Queen>	"I couldn't give a fuck what Mendez thinks. I just want you people to do your damn jobs. There are people DYING and you're just going to let it happen? Fuck you. Fuck you both. Fuck you all." Queen yanks Beholder to the ground and takes off running in the other direction, now free of the teenage girl. "And your hat is fucking stupid." She takes off
Jun 27 20:37:23 <Saff|Queen>	 into the air, the frown on her face turned into a full-out scowl. "Rush, I'm heading back. Wink, the Protectorate is pussying out as usual. Has anyone gotten a visual on Shades or Freezerburn?"||
Jun 27 20:38:53 <Prothean_Beholder>	Beholder swings the taser into Queen as soon as she grabs her again. ||
Jun 27 20:41:38 <Saff|Queen>	...
Jun 27 20:42:07 <Saff|Queen>	"Or I'm not shit ow fuck that bitch TASED me." Queen shouts, curled on the ground. "Don't like it when people tell you the truth, then?"||
Jun 27 20:42:30 <Prothean_Beholder>	"You tried to kidnap me!" Beholder draws her gun. ||
Jun 27 20:43:01 <Antioch>	The taser smacks Queen, not really making much of an impact, but the electricity surges through all the same.
Jun 27 20:43:46 <Antioch>	Muscles convulsing involuntarily, Queen falls to the ground.
Jun 27 20:44:03 <Antioch>	Beholder's training a gun on her prone form. ||
Jun 27 20:44:35 <Saff|Queen>	...
Jun 27 20:44:51 <Prothean_Beholder>	"Hey, Shades, your lackey just tried to kidnap me. Just a heads-up." Future-scan. ||
Jun 27 20:45:48 <Antioch>	"Play nice, Queen. Don't want to get even worse along in the PRT's bad books, right?" Shades comments over comms. Looks like he's still holding up fine, at least.
Jun 27 20:46:19 <Antioch>	The future yields a multitude of results, flickering amidst the varying intentions and precommitments of all parties involved.
Jun 27 20:47:28 <Antioch>	In some Queen has left, in others, Sentinel has taken her into custody. Conquistador and the rest are slated to soon return, however. ||
Jun 27 20:47:55 <Prothean_Beholder>	Beholder shortens the range, keeping the scan up. "Give me one reason not to just arrest her, Shades. She's really getting on my nerves." ||
Jun 27 20:48:44 <Saff|Queen>	"Shades, they're pulling out. They're going to leave. And she TASED me. Fuck." Queen looks over and flips off Beholder, a frown on her face. "You break that truce and there's going to be hell to pay."||
Jun 27 20:49:26 <Antioch>	Shades sighs over the comms. "I'll break her out again if I have to, but would the two of you both chill? This is a lot of unnecessary hassle when we're supposed to be taking out Case 53s." He sounds mildly exasperated. ||
Jun 27 20:49:50 <Prothean_Beholder>	"You attacked me. Twice. First. Get out of here." Beholder says, gun still aimed. ||
Jun 27 20:49:51 <Antioch>	[[PAUSE]]
Jun 27 20:50:05 *	Prothean_Beholder is now known as Prothean
Jun 27 20:54:42 *	Yumgar (Yumgar@dlp-A87A0084.lightspeed.brhmal.sbcglobal.net) has left
Jun 27 21:12:53 *	soulpelt|Wink is now known as soulpelt|sleep
Jun 27 21:18:13 *	You are now known as RealProthean
Jun 27 21:20:43 *	Prothean has quit (Ping timeout: 188 seconds)
Jun 27 21:54:58 *	zipperless is now known as zip|Pingable
Jun 27 21:58:30 *	You are now known as Prothean
Jun 27 22:45:08 *	Saff|Queen is now known as Saff|Sleep
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Jun 27 22:59:46 *	zip|Pingable is now known as zipperless
Jun 27 23:14:59 *	zipperless is now known as ZZZipperless
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Jun 28 15:47:11 *	Now talking on #WD_Cleveland
Jun 28 15:47:11 *	Topic for #WD_Cleveland is: City Info: https://goo.gl/PPU3ev || Current Day/Time: Oct. 22, 2009  || Active Player: Prothean/Saff/Soulpelt || Session Logs: http://pastebin.com/u/Antioch_Orontes
Jun 28 15:47:11 *	Topic for #WD_Cleveland set by Antioch|GM (Sun Jun 28 12:15:28 2015)
Jun 28 15:54:01 *	Saff|Dinner is now known as Saff
Jun 28 16:20:43 *	Chr-n- (Chr-n-@dlp-D9F4C3DD.dsl.bell.ca) has left
Jun 28 16:26:22 *	Firlz is now known as AFirlzK
Jun 28 17:10:11 *	soulpelt|afk is now known as soulpelt|
Jun 28 17:19:52 *	soulpelt| is now known as soulpelt|Wink
Jun 28 17:19:59 *	Saff is now known as Saff|Queen
Jun 28 17:20:16 <Antioch|GM>	[[UNPAUSE]]
Jun 28 17:20:20 *	You are now known as Prothean|No
Jun 28 17:20:28 <Antioch|GM>	Rush glances at Queen. "Uh, I dunno about you, but I'm perfectly okay with staying out here. Y'know. Where it's safe."
Jun 28 17:20:35 <Antioch|GM>	Beholder foresees no threats in the immediate future, but takes note of another one of Burn Notice's signature pillars of flame occurring just above one minute and thirty seconds from now. ||
Jun 28 17:20:39 <Antioch|GM>	>> Prothean|No
Jun 28 17:20:53 *	You are now known as Prothean|Beholder
Jun 28 17:21:31 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Hey, Queeny, one minute, thirty seconds, something happens with Burn Notice. 53 Attack, probably." ||
Jun 28 17:22:12 <Antioch|GM>	>> Saff|Queen
Jun 28 17:22:32 <Saff|Queen>	...
Jun 28 17:23:18 <Saff|Queen>	"Shit. That's not good." Queen presses her fingers against the comms again. "Wink, got a report from B. 53 attack to Burn T Minus 1 Minute."||
Jun 28 17:23:32 <Antioch|GM>	>> soulpelt|Wink
Jun 28 17:23:51 <soulpelt|Wink>	...
Jun 28 17:30:57 <soulpelt|Wink>	"Heads up people, probably about to be attacked. Eyes open, Burn, precog said she saw something involving you." He waits for the attack. Perhaps it was them finding the fog maker. In any case they needed to be on guard.||
Jun 28 17:34:12 <Antioch|GM>	...
Jun 28 17:36:51 <Antioch|GM>	Fully alert from your power and more than a little on edge, you feel a slight tremor in the ground.
Jun 28 17:37:57 <Antioch|GM>	Pizzicato, too, alerted by Beholder's precognition, pushes the distracted Burn Notice aside as Darwin erupts from the dirt beneath, a caniform monstrosity the size of a large cow, winged and imposing.
Jun 28 17:38:46 <Antioch|GM>	**Finch
Jun 28 17:39:17 <Antioch|GM>	Pizzicato cuts the creature into pieces with his strings, but the wounds are thin, sealing rapidly over themselves without sustaining any actual damage.
Jun 28 17:40:08 <Antioch|GM>	Finch twists abruptly, sending a bulky, massive tail colliding into Pizzicato, who's knocked to the ground, cursing. ||
Jun 28 17:40:10 <Antioch|GM>	>> soulpelt|Wink
Jun 28 17:40:27 <soulpelt|Wink>	...
Jun 28 17:42:19 <soulpelt|Wink>	Wink aims the shotgun for Finches back, firing almost point blank. The others would hopefully react soon. "EVERYONE FIRE! HADDON SEE IF YOU CAN TRAP THE FUCKER!"||
Jun 28 17:45:24 <Antioch|GM>	You fire a blast from your shotgun straight into the creature's back, some of the spread shot narrowly avoiding a graze on some of the massed Borgata.
Jun 28 17:46:49 <Antioch|GM>	Finch's flesh is seared straight away by Burn Notice's inferno, though it regenerates almost as quickly as it's burned away.
Jun 28 17:47:26 <Antioch|GM>	Doubletown takes aim and misses, felling a nearby tree instead, though it falls away from the group.
Jun 28 17:48:08 <Antioch|GM>	Haddon's forcefield coalesces over Finch, rapidly contracting, but the beast catches wise and burrows once more into the ground. ||
Jun 28 17:48:15 <Antioch|GM>	>> soulpelt|Wink
Jun 28 17:48:24 <soulpelt|Wink>	...
Jun 28 17:52:22 <soulpelt|Wink>	"Everyone report! Finch is on the move underground! I doubt he's alone, too." Wink says over comms, waiting for the beast. "Queen tell the PRT we've made contact with Finch. Finch might be heading your way, no way to tell." He should've gotten a photo of Finch to send to Checkmate. "Or there could be more 53's heading your way." Finch could pop out at any
Jun 28 17:52:22 <soulpelt|Wink>	moment and anywhere.||
Jun 28 17:54:59 <Antioch|GM>	Back at the parking lot, Jiangjun's regained some of his composure, commenting at Beholder - "Wink thinks there might be some 53s, or Finch, headed our way, but I think they'd be stupid to try to take us here. Either way, gimme the heads up if you see trouble comin', okay?"
Jun 28 17:56:13 <Antioch|GM>	"Don't lose sight of the main goal, guys. Darwin's still the main target, Murmur on the side. Without Finch to protect him, you've got the best opportunity to take him down as long as you can find him."
Jun 28 17:56:16 <Antioch|GM>	>> Prothean|Beholder
Jun 28 17:56:42 <Prothean|Beholder>	Beholder checks the tunnel, gradually scanning from now into a minute in the future. ||
Jun 28 18:00:42 <Antioch|GM>	A sliver of future realities have Finch in them, lurking in a tunnel or flying close to the canopy. No aggressive moves towards your area, but in a few noticeable instances, the fog dissipates, variable on time. ||
Jun 28 18:00:45 <Antioch|GM>	>> Prothean|Beholder
Jun 28 18:01:23 <Prothean|Beholder>	"Finch is near the evac zone, looks like." ||
Jun 28 18:02:31 <Antioch|GM>	>> soulpelt|Wink
Jun 28 18:03:54 *	panth (3c369389@dlp-66E2EF72.mibbit.com) has joined
Jun 28 18:06:01 <soulpelt|Wink>	...
Jun 28 18:08:11 <soulpelt|Wink>	"Roger that." Wink says, keeping his gun ready. "Let's start moving again. Stay sharp everyone. We should be close to that fog maker." And hopefully kill them and end this mess. "Burn start up the fire. Pizzicato you alright?"||
Jun 28 18:10:12 <Antioch|GM>	"Fine," he grunts, though he moves more slowly. You're uncertain whether it's due to his injuries, or to his additional caution.
Jun 28 18:11:01 <Antioch|GM>	The group comes across a wrecked clearing, massive trees shattered into splinters and gore of Borgata and Auswahlen alike smeared about the area. ||
Jun 28 18:11:03 <Antioch|GM>	>> soulpelt|Wink
Jun 28 18:12:13 <soulpelt|Wink>	...
Jun 28 18:15:05 <soulpelt|Wink>	Wink looks around, trying to count the Auswahlen remains. He gets out his phone, taking shots of the area and sending them to Checkmate. "Got anything on which 53's died?" A glance to Pizzicato and Burn. "This Joey's work?" He looks around for any slime from Scoop.||
Jun 28 18:16:37 <Antioch|GM>	No trace of Scoop's presence in the forest.
Jun 28 18:16:54 <Antioch|GM>	Burn Notice nods. "Yeah, this is definitely Joey, alright."
Jun 28 18:17:16 <Antioch|GM>	Any further discourse is muffled by the sound of another tree being felled.
Jun 28 18:17:35 <Antioch|GM>	Joey, bat in hand, strides out of the forest, addressing another tree.
Jun 28 18:18:33 <Antioch|GM>	"Now you - you look like a grade-A motherfucker," he bellows, insulting the tree before swinging his baseball bat into its side. The wood erupts into a thick shower of splinters, and the tree topples. ||
Jun 28 18:18:39 <Antioch|GM>	>> soulpelt|Wink
Jun 28 18:19:07 <soulpelt|Wink>	...
Jun 28 18:24:07 <soulpelt|Wink>	Wink looks to Pizzicato. "Can you calm him down?" He keeps an eye out still. "I think Murmur got to him." No headset so god only knew what he was hearing. "Jiangjun, anything on which 53's were wiped out?"||
Jun 28 18:26:22 <Antioch|GM>	"A couple of guys that barely matter, and Murmur. Booyeah."
Jun 28 18:26:45 <Antioch|GM>	It's Burn Notice, not Pizzicato, that steps up to Joey, palms up.
Jun 28 18:27:58 <Antioch|GM>	You can't hear the conversation that passes between the two, but you see Burn Notice pass off a cigarette to Joey, who briefly pauses his tirade to accept.
Jun 28 18:28:39 <Antioch|GM>	They exchange a few words, and Joey returns to the group, less agitated and hopefully less delusional. ||
Jun 28 18:32:14 <Antioch|GM>	>> soulpelt|Wink
Jun 28 18:32:31 <soulpelt|Wink>	...
Jun 28 18:34:13 <soulpelt|Wink>	Wink lets out a sigh of relief. "Good job, Joey." He nods at the young man. "Burn what happened? Scoop and Hammer still alive?" They couldn't afford to stay still for too long, he guessed. Atleast Murmur was gone, making this slightly easier. No more mind fucking screams.||
Jun 28 18:37:38 <Antioch|GM>	"He's still kinda out of it," Burn Notice mutters under his breath. "Least he ain't beatin' the shit outta trees no more."
Jun 28 18:38:57 <Antioch|GM>	No sign of Scoop nor The Hammer as you survey the clearing, and Jiangjun helps the group regain their bearings, once again headed towards the fogmaker - very close now, you suspect, given the increasing density of the mist and the speed at which it fills up Burn Notice's swath.
Jun 28 18:41:17 <Antioch|GM>	A handful of Case 53s drop down from the trees above, some winged, some lithe. One looks like a mummified howler monkey, eyes bulging.
Jun 28 18:42:34 <Antioch|GM>	Pizzicato flicks his wrist, sending a wire whipping towards one of them, a winged, stone creature less like a gargoyle and more like an abandoned sculptor's project, but it lashes off, deflecting back, and he hurriedly cancels the wire. Where it struck, a faint hexagonal pattern flares bright red, fading.
Jun 28 18:43:40 <Antioch|GM>	Another pounces at Haddon, glancing ineffectually off of his barrier.
Jun 28 18:44:38 <Antioch|GM>	Haddon remains in his forcefield, firing out calm and measured shots, before Finch erupts from the ground inside his barrier, driving a muscular tail with a sharp spur of bone at the tip into his stomach.
Jun 28 18:46:17 <Antioch|GM>	Doubledown fires at the monkey 53, once again missing, and the nimble creature, barely four feet tall, bounces from tree to tree in a frenetic, cackling bounce, plowing into Devil's Advocate and shredding his chest to pieces, despite his panicked attempt to engage the creature in conversation.
Jun 28 18:46:23 <Antioch|GM>	Perhaps it doesn't understand English.
Jun 28 18:47:45 <Antioch|GM>	Joey takes a batter's stance, twisting his heel in the ground, and taking a swing at a quadrupedal abomination with a yawning, toothless maw, a virulent yellow fluid dripping from its open mouth.
Jun 28 18:48:24 <Antioch|GM>	Hexcrafter's protections flare bright again, but the force of the blow sends the creature flying into a tree, causing the red forcefields to glow bright again. ||
Jun 28 18:48:27 <Antioch|GM>	>> soulpelt|Wink
Jun 28 18:53:20 <soulpelt|Wink>	...
Jun 28 19:03:05 <soulpelt|Wink>	Wink tags both the monkey and the gargoyle, draining them of their energy. DA was down, one less support cape. He aims for the monkey creature, firing off a shotgun blast. He gets ready to dodge any attacks heading his way. "Checkmate tell the PRT we've engaged Finch and several 53's. DA is down and Haddons trapped with Finch." Don't panic, panicking would
Jun 28 19:03:05 <soulpelt|Wink>	lead to more deaths and injuries. "Burn see if you can drop Hex's shield on the stone fuck."||
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Jun 28 19:07:44 <Antioch|GM>	You hesitate to fire at the monkey. It is, after all, still perched atop your subordinate's chest.
Jun 28 19:08:27 <Antioch|GM>	Finch violently tugs his tail out of Haddon's gut, the barbs doing further damage, and Haddon falls to the ground, clutching his wound.
Jun 28 19:08:56 <Antioch|GM>	Joey begins pulverizing Finch, which takes up most of his focus and attention, playing whack-a-mole with a messy, organic smear on the ground.
Jun 28 19:13:38 <Antioch|GM>	Before Burn Notice can act, Doubledown fires a laser at the gargoyle, the laser piercing straight through the forcefield and the Case 53's chest.
Jun 28 19:14:14 <Antioch|GM>	The forcefield fizzles, fading.
Jun 28 19:15:45 <Antioch|GM>	Shades, doubtful of his firearms' efficacy on the stone-skinned creature, teleports forward, his own white mist dissipating from his initial position, and jams a handful of plastique into the gargoyle's chest wound.
Jun 28 19:16:37 <Antioch|GM>	Flickering back, he detonates the blasting cap, causing the Case 53 to explode in a shower of messy gore, an odd mixture of organic and inorganic.
Jun 28 19:17:01 <Antioch|GM>	The monkey leaps off of Devil's Advocate, back into the trees, though its movements are decidedly more sluggish due to your ministrations. ||
Jun 28 19:17:02 <Antioch|GM>	>> soulpelt|Wink
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Jun 28 19:25:49 <soulpelt|Wink>	"Burn, see if you can cauterize Haddons wound then support Joey. I don't want Finch getting up any time soon." He looks around. "Pizzicato wires everywhere." He checks on DA. "DA can you stand?" They didn't have any medics around, Burn could cauterize wounds maybe, but that was a temporary measure. "Everyone else suppress the 53 Joey knocked away if it
Jun 28 19:25:49 <soulpelt|Wink>	starts to move or watch out for that." He tags the knocked away 53, topping himself off then proceeds to move it around to keep everyone filled up. Wink watches the upper reaches of the woods and the fog itself. Fucking 53's.||
Jun 28 19:27:34 <Antioch|GM>	Pizzicato overlays the messy pile of flesh that is Darwin with a thin, woven mesh, granting Joey a brief respite. It's slightly entertaining to see Darwin reform, only to be immediately dissolved into a fine mist.
Jun 28 19:28:08 <Antioch|GM>	Devil's Advocate is unresponsive, slumped against a tree. He's still breathing, a wheezing, bubbling gasp.
Jun 28 19:28:39 <Antioch|GM>	You distribute the energy evenly amongst the others, though it doesn't alleviate the massed tension and exhaustion.
Jun 28 19:29:37 <Antioch|GM>	Burn Notice kneels in front of Haddon, cauterizing his wounds on front and back, and he accepts the assistance impassively, but internal bleeding is still going to ruin him.
Jun 28 19:30:43 <Antioch|GM>	Rush and Queen could, theoretically, evacuate the two wounded. Perhaps the Good King would be willing to assist, or, barring that, the Huangtian's mundane doctor.
Jun 28 19:32:14 <Antioch|GM>	Doubledown fires a shot at the downed 53, knocked away by Joey, lancing another beam of light through its chest. ||