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6:44 PM <@Balthazaar> A sitewide announcement calls all available agents to the hangar
6:45 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph arrives.
6:45 PM <@madness_> Jo reports to the hangar.
6:45 PM <&Nemi> Cait arrives in the hangar, wrapped in a long woolen coat despite the Italian summer.
6:45 PM <Klurg> Renaine is there
6:45 PM <%Sappheta> Cole rocks up
6:48 PM <@Balthazaar> The sweltering room (?) is busy, with a plane all ready to go. Captain Richter is there waiting for you, the older agent having gained a promotion after nearly losing his face to a containment breach. "Agents, good to have such an assortment answer the call. I know time is of the essence, so I'll be brief. The town of Oak Crest in the Us has basically disappeared overnight, I'd like for you lot to go investigate it. There
6:48 PM <@Balthazaar> have been a few other disappearances like this and we can't seem to figure out what causes it. Any questions?"
6:50 PM <&Nemi> "Any details at all?" Asks Cait. The tiny, sleepy-eyed young woman leans on her cane and adjusts the satchel about her shoulder.
6:50 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "Do we know the exact circumstances? Is the land gone, are the people gone? Is the town still using power?"
6:51 PM <@madness_> "Any patterns between the disappearances?" Jo folds his arms.
6:51 PM <%Sappheta> Cole opens her mouth to ask a question only to find Jo pre-empting her.
6:51 PM <Klurg> "And do we have any idea of what potentially caused this?"
6:53 PM <@Balthazaar> "Towns in Maryland. All we know is that one nasty storm blew in, knocked out communications and when it passed the town was completely deserted. This has happened in 9 other towns that we know of, in Maine, Massachusetts, Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota that we know of. Preliminary investigations show that there is still power to the town. If that's all, I'll ask you to board the plane."
6:54 PM <@madness_> "One last question. Are we going in loud or should we keep a low profile?"
6:54 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "So the people are all gone.. interesting."
6:55 PM <@Balthazaar> "you can use your own judgement. Some of the teams we have sent to investigate have not returned from these missions, so you will have air support on call should you need it through your radios."
6:55 PM <%Sappheta> "If a Foundation raids a town in the woods and nobody's there to hear it..."
6:55 PM <@Balthazaar> "Bear in mind it will take time to arrive."
6:56 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "Noted. I'm feeling prepared, if the rest of you are."
6:57 PM <@madness_> Jo runs a check on all his gear: pistol, magazines, knife, radio. After he's satisfied, he nods, "Good to go."
6:57 PM <Klurg> Renaine nods. "I'm good."
6:57 PM <&Nemi> Cait taps at her chin, thoughtful, and nods. "Good to go!" She's chipper as ever.
6:57 PM <Klurg> He's got all his gear with him so all's good
6:58 PM <@Balthazaar> "Then please, step onto the plane, agents
6:58 PM <@Balthazaar> ."
6:58 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph boardz
6:58 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Boards, even
6:58 PM <@madness_> Jo does as bid!
6:58 PM <Klurg> Renaine enters the material plane
6:59 PM <%Sappheta> Cole jumps in
6:59 PM <@Balthazaar> The plane is a rickety old thing, and uncomfortable to boot. Older agents may recognise it as the very same plane that ferried the agents on some of the earliest missions from site 19, such as their run in with the cult of the red sea object...
7:00 PM <@Balthazaar> It splutters to life, rolling along the runway and taking off. It's not a short flight
7:01 PM <&Nemi> Cait, being one such longtime veterans, if not occupied with her own work in the thaum lab most of the time, is contemplative as she peers out the window.
7:01 PM <%Sappheta> Cole mostly just tries to keep her teeth from vibrating out of her jaw.
7:01 PM <Klurg> Renaine mutters to himself as he tries to relax (to no avail) in the loud plane. He's fairly new-ish so doesn't recognize the significance of this plane.
7:02 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph reads to distract himself
7:02 PM <@madness_> Jo drums on his lap. Though this isn't his first rodeo, the jitters seem strong with him.
7:06 PM <@Balthazaar> the landing is rough, jolting down on a shitty old runway ona rural property not far from the town. The plane seems relieved to be on the ground, and gently rolls to a stop. There is a transport van waiting for the team outside, complete with a driver
7:07 PM <&Nemi> As ever, Cait is grateful to be on the ground. She climbs gingerly off the plane, massaging feeling back into her legs, and bobbles her way to the van. The driver even receives a sweet smile from the sickly little thing.
7:07 PM <%Sappheta> Cole stumbles into the van with much less grace, sense of balance all a-flutter from being shook like a soda can in a laundry machine.
7:08 PM <@madness_> Jo flounders into the van after them.
7:08 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph staggers to the van, wishing some that'd he kept his cane even after the knee surgery
7:08 PM <Klurg> Renaine has somewhat of a shaky walk as he manages to get himself into a car. He can't wait till they stop with the vehicles.
7:10 PM <@Balthazaar> The driver, a younger looking agent trying to look professional looks skeptically at cait, but says nothing
7:12 PM <@Balthazaar> "I'll be dropping you off in the town square, and I'll wait to pick you up there." The driver reports as he delivers the team!
7:12 PM <&Nemi> "Very good! Be safe and keep your eyes open!"
7:13 PM <@Balthazaar> The town is old, with more than a few colonial style buildings, a town square with manicured lawns and a statue of a nun outside the church nearby. It's gloomy and raining, and eerily quiet
7:14 PM <@madness_> Jo checks the time on his watch.
7:14 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "Well, it certainly does feel... silent and absent here. How should we proceed in our investigation?"
7:15 PM <&Nemi> Cait beams. "I'd suggest we start with the likely place of any reports of odd activity in the area. The town hall or police station's a likely start."
7:15 PM <%Sappheta> "I was gonna say somethin' about there bein' guards and what have you, but, uh..." Cole fidgets. "Doesn't look like there'll be anyone to stop us exactly..."
7:16 PM <@Balthazaar> The radio squawks, it's Captain Richter. "Team? Our surveilance says you've arrived. We've just had word from our other teams that they had the best luck starting in appartment complexes. I believe the nearest structure like that is the Woodside Appartments down Bachman avenue."
7:17 PM <@Balthazaar> Actually Redact, caits idea is better
7:17 PM <@Balthazaar> The radio just squawks annoyingly
7:18 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "Well, that's a sound idea Cait. If any sort of crisis occured, people would likely flee there."
7:18 PM <&Nemi> "We hear you," Cait chirps into the radio. "We're arrived. Proceeding to the local police station." Fiona turns to the rest of the team. "Right! Let's be off, then. Eyes open!"
7:18 PM <Klurg> Renaine nods to Cait. "Seems reasonable enough, long as we go as a group ta those places."
7:18 PM <Klurg> Renaine begins heading to the station
7:19 PM <@Balthazaar> The police station is just down the road, lights flickering through the foggy fog
7:19 PM <@Balthazaar> "I'll be waiting here." Nods the agent
7:20 PM <&Nemi> Cait bumbles along after the others, leaning on her cane as she goes.
7:20 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph walks with Cait, mostly because he'd rather not see her fall over
7:20 PM <%Sappheta> Cole follows suit, heading towards the police station and trying to fight off her growing unease about the fog.
7:21 PM <@Balthazaar> It looks like your standard small town police station, door hanging ajar and papers still on the counter. cells in the back, offices in the front
7:21 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Could Joseph roll perc to investigate further?
7:22 PM <&Nemi> Cait immediately totters her way to the front desk and starts looking through recent reports!
7:22 PM <@madness_> Jo sifts through the papers on the counter. If the lighting situation inside is bad, he turns on his flashlight.
7:22 PM <Klurg> Renaine is checking out the papers for any clues
7:22 PM <@Balthazaar> Yes!
7:22 PM <%Sappheta> Cole hangs around her teammates at the front desk, not really wanting to go anywhere alone.
7:22 PM <@Balthazaar> Everyone can1
7:23 PM <%Sappheta> 4df+5 [PERC] 👀
7:23 PM <Glacon> Sappheta: [PERC] 👀: 5 (4df+5=0, -, +, 0)
7:23 PM <@madness_> 4df+4 PERC <.< >.>
7:23 PM <Glacon> madness_: PERC <.< >.>: 8 (4df+4=+, +, +, +)
7:23 PM <&Nemi> 4df+4 perc
7:23 PM <Glacon> Nemi: perc: 1 (4df+4=-, -, 0, -)
7:23 PM <@Balthazaar> Cait, top report says something about a burglary, then a lost dog, then about a domestic disturbance
7:23 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> 4df+4
7:23 PM <Glacon> DSJ|Mobile: 6 (4df+4=+, +, -, +)
7:23 PM <Klurg> 4df+3 Perception
7:23 PM <Glacon> Klurg: Perception: 4 (4df+3=-, +, +, 0)
7:23 PM <&Nemi> ".. hm.. mundane reports so far.." She flips through the reports in more detail to see if anything stands out.
7:23 PM <%Sappheta> jo becomes god
7:24 PM <@madness_> o no
7:24 PM <@Balthazaar> Everyone but Cait and Renaine hears faint footsteps coming from the back, towards the cells
7:24 PM <%Sappheta> Cole twitches.
7:25 PM <%Sappheta> "...the cells?"
7:25 PM <@madness_> Jo draws his gun and flicks off the safety. Hushed, he whispers, "The cells. Someone's here."
7:26 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph draws, and lets someone else go investigate first
7:26 PM <@Balthazaar> Cait, the 4th report says something about the local park. Seems like it was experiencing flooding, and then the last note just reads "Lepers coil beneath the trees" over and over and over again
7:27 PM <Klurg> Renaine freezes for a bit at being warned, and takes out his shotgun. He looks towards the direction of the cells. "I'll take point." He tells them and slowly goes towards the cells.
7:27 PM <%Sappheta> Cole goes with.
7:28 PM <Klurg> 4df+4 entering stealth mode
7:28 PM <Glacon> Klurg: entering stealth mode: 5 (4df+4=-, +, +, 0)
7:28 PM <&Nemi> "'Lepers coil beneath the trees', repeated. Likely mental affliction on the reporting officer," Cait mutters, but at her companions drawing weapons pauses and waits near the desk. Her power was great and terrible but she'd trust her heavily armed companions for once.
7:29 PM <@madness_> Jo opens then clamps his mouth shut. He looks back towards Cait, "Have you seen anything like it before?"
7:30 PM <@Balthazaar> The cells are all flooded, about ankle deep. there are 4 cells, 2 on either side of the hallway, 3 of them are open, with one of said open cells having bloodstains like EVERYWHERE
7:30 PM <@Balthazaar> the locked cell is also empty
7:31 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "What does it look like in there?" Joseph asks
7:31 PM <@Balthazaar> but something is disturbing the water in that cell, like someone is wading through it. The sound of rough, gutteral breathing comes from that cell, at a height of about 8ft
7:31 PM <Klurg> Renaine relays the information, especially the bloody cell.
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7:32 PM <Klurg> (Nvm he doesn't make noise)
7:32 PM <Klurg> (Because monster)
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7:32 PM <@Balthazaar> There is a footfall each time the water is disturbed
7:32 PM <@Balthazaar> but whatever is in that cell is invisible to the eye
7:34 PM <Klurg> Renaine motions for those following him to back up back to the main lobby slowly as he does so as well.
7:35 PM <&Nemi> Cait cants her head to Jo. "God knows. I've seen enough spooky stuff like this it could be anything."
7:35 PM <@Balthazaar> the thing in the cell seems disinterested ad does not react
7:36 PM <%Sappheta> Cole keeps her distance nonetheless.
7:36 PM <Klurg> Once Renaine returns to the lobby: "Cells flooded, one full of blood, one cell with some kinda invisible thing."
7:36 PM <&Nemi> Cait nods. "Is it hostile?"
7:37 PM <@madness_> "Good point." Jo cocks a brow at those backtracking. "Invisible thing?"
7:37 PM <%Sappheta> "Can we *make* it visible?"
7:37 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "How large does it seem to be in terms of water displacement?"
7:37 PM <Klurg> "Dunno if it's hostile. Didn't check, don't think it's wise to do so."
7:37 PM <%Sappheta> Cole chews her lip. "Pelt it with mud, something..."
7:37 PM <&Nemi> Cait nods. "Good to know. Keep the cells locked down, mark it for containment teams to pick up."
7:37 PM <Klurg> "From tha breathing, about eight feet tall."
7:38 PM <@madness_> "Powder, maybe? But maybe that might irritate it." Jo breaks squelch to inform command of the anomaly in the cell. "Was it aware of you guys?"
7:39 PM <@Balthazaar> Cait, all the reports just say "Lepers coil beneath the trees" now. all of them have the location marked as the park
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7:40 PM <%Sappheta> "Would've acted up if it was aware of us."
7:40 PM <%Sappheta> Cole stuffs her hands in her pockets.
7:41 PM <&Nemi> Cait clicks her tongue. "So, the reports are all just 'Lepers coil beneath the trees', all marked at the park. Likely that's the centre of our disturbance. Expect mental effects."
7:42 PM <Klurg> "Don't know if it did. May just not care."
7:42 PM <%Sappheta> "...So they were going insane before they disappeared?"
7:42 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "Well, I wouldn't expect anything less in a situation such as this. The occult tend to do those sorts of things."
7:43 PM <@Balthazaar> According to the map of the town on the wall, the park if just down the road a short ways, on the flat part of a T intersection
7:44 PM <@madness_> "Looks like the next stop is the park. Should we tell our driver that that's where we'll be?" Jo studies the map.
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7:45 PM <&Nemi> "We should." Cait fishes for her radio and sets it to transmit. "Thaumaturge Ashland here, reporting in. Unknown invisible creature in police station lockup, evidence of mental effects on locals pointing toward park."
7:45 PM <Klurg> "Got any measures 'gainst these mental stuff? Or we going in blind?"
7:46 PM <@Balthazaar> <<Roger that, proceed towards the park.>>
7:46 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "Try to just keep yourself focused, that works out well for me."
7:46 PM <@madness_> "Wear a tinfoil hat." Jo cracks a small smile and holds the door open for everyone else.
7:47 PM <%Sappheta> "It'll keep the rain off your head, at least..."
7:47 PM <&Nemi> "Copy. Ashland out." Cait clicks off the transmitter and turns to Renaine. "Hard to say. Since we don't know what we're dealing with, just.. remember, we *are* the recon." She offers a wry grin as she turns to step out the door.
7:47 PM <@Balthazaar> As you step outside, you can see the van is parked by the parks wrought iron fence, the door swinging in the breeze
7:48 PM <@Balthazaar> The sun is setting now, glowing a brilliant yellow and orange through the fog, seeming to hang over the park
7:49 PM <%Sappheta> Cole squints. "Weather here's weird..."
7:49 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "Did the van move?"
7:49 PM <Klurg> "Had a feeling." He heads out behind Cait, approaching their destination cautiously.
7:50 PM <&Nemi> ".. Looks like it." Cait always liked the sunsets. Especially when they spilled ribbons of crimson across the sky. She starts over toward the van, first off, hobbling along.
7:50 PM <@madness_> Jo attempts to peek inside the van once they get close enough.
7:50 PM <Klurg> Can Renaine roll survival to see of there's anything wrong with the nature around them?
7:51 PM <@Balthazaar> He can!
7:51 PM <@Balthazaar> the van is empty and normal looking
7:51 PM <@Balthazaar> but kinda dusty
7:51 PM <Klurg> 4df+5 nature?
7:51 PM <Glacon> Klurg: nature?: 8 (4df+5=+, 0, +, +)
7:51 PM <&Nemi> Cait frowns as she peers at the van's exterior, seeing as Jo has the interior. She's looking for obvious signs of damage or intrusion. Or anything else amiss.
7:52 PM <@madness_> "No driver." Jo runs a finger through the dust accumulated. "Lot of dust.."
7:52 PM <@Balthazaar> Renaine, everything here is overgrown, a lot overgrown, like you were inside a lot longer than a few minutes. The trees in the park are not any known species, the sun should not be that big, and it isn't moving, just setting forever
7:52 PM <@Balthazaar> turning the sky to fire and gold
7:52 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "Well, we still have radio contact... but this is all very disconcerting."
7:53 PM <%Sappheta> "Yeah, you got that right..."
7:53 PM <@Balthazaar> the gate at the opening to the park proclaims it's called Blackwater Park. A fitting name since the park is ankle deep in dark water
7:53 PM <Klurg> "Think we just encountered a time mess or another world." Renaine reports worriedly to the group
7:53 PM <@Balthazaar> The trees roots seem to made of human bones, coiled around their bases clinging to the trunks
7:54 PM <@Balthazaar> twisted and contorted into agonising shapes
7:54 PM <@Balthazaar> the trees themselves look dead
7:54 PM <Klurg> "Sun's too big, everything's overgrown, and the trees, well... ya can see their roots. That and no known species."
7:54 PM <&Nemi> Cait taps at her radio. "Central, this is Ashland. We seem to have been.. transported somewhere else. Sun's frozen in the sky, perpetual dusk, surroundings are creepy. No sign of our driver."
7:54 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "Those would be the lepers, then."
7:55 PM <%Sappheta> "How would you know they have leprosy, it's not like they have skin..."
7:55 PM <@madness_> ".. You think he might be in this mess somewhere?"
7:55 PM <@Balthazaar> In the middle is a mausoleum looking structure, signed as the Visitors center. Through the open door you can see someone slumped in a chair
7:55 PM <Klurg> "And how do we know that's not late stage leprosy?" He asks Cole.
7:56 PM <@madness_> "Hey." He snaps to get everyone's attention. "There's someone inside the Visitor's Center."
7:56 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "Well, they're at the roots, yes?"
7:58 PM <Klurg> "Looks like he's dead." Renaine says at the slumped position. "And if he's not dead, I don't reckon that's a good thing."
7:58 PM <%Sappheta> "Should we go and *actually check* before we say anything?"
7:59 PM <@madness_> Jo looks for a rock - preferably something smooth - to skip over the water. "Hold on that thought. Might be more invisible guys after the gates."
7:59 PM <&Nemi> Cait tries the radio again. She nods to the others. "Stay in sight, stay close.. Good point, Jo."
7:59 PM <@Balthazaar> The person is breathing shallowly
8:02 PM <@madness_> If he finds a rock (or any junk, really), he attempts to skip it across Blackwater's black water in a direction away from the Visitor's center.
8:02 PM <@Balthazaar> It skips uninterrupted
8:02 PM <%Sappheta> "If there was anyone, we'd see the ripples."
8:03 PM <&Nemi> "And the rock toss didn't disturb anyone either." Cait sets her radio back into her coat. So no response at all. Great.
8:04 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "Can anyone tend to that man?"
8:04 PM <@Balthazaar> <<Understood Ashland, proceed with caution>> (Sorry, thought I'd replied)
8:04 PM <@madness_> "Looks clear then." Jo takes the first step into Blackwater Park's new lake. He's looking left and right as if crossing a long street.
8:05 PM <Klurg> "I'm no medic." Renaine protests, though he approaches the shallowly breathing man slowly. "And if any of ya are medics, stay behind me and stay close." His hands are on his shotgun.
8:05 PM <@Balthazaar> There doesn't seem to be anything else there
8:05 PM <%Sappheta> Cole impatiently sloshes behind Jo and Renaine.
8:08 PM <&Nemi> Cait approaches just behind Jo. "I can tend him, likely. I *am* a biomancer. Though given that Command still reads us I'm wondering what exactly we're seeing."
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8:08 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "That's a good point, Cait."
8:08 PM <@Balthazaar> As you reach the visitors center, you see that it's your driver!
8:08 PM <@Balthazaar> Only he's filthy and about 5 years older
8:09 PM <%Sappheta> Cole checks him over quickly to see if he's been harmed in any way aside from the weird premature aging.
8:09 PM <Klurg> Renaine stands aside and allows the healers to take care of him as he looks out for danger, be it from the driver or something else.
8:09 PM <%Sappheta> MED for inspection or do we just narrative this out
8:10 PM <@Balthazaar> Lots of cuts and scrapes, and he seems terrified and exhausted
8:10 PM <@Balthazaar> narrative
8:10 PM <%Sappheta> Cole points out the wounds, then. "Where'd he get *these?*"
8:11 PM <@Balthazaar> "Help..."
8:11 PM <@Balthazaar> Also
8:11 PM <@Balthazaar> He's bound to the chair with barbed wire
8:11 PM <@madness_> "What happened to you?" Jo kneels in front of the man. "Anyone got wire cutters?"
8:11 PM <%Sappheta> Oh well that changes things.
8:12 PM <%Sappheta> Cole meanwhile tries to find some way to untie him
8:12 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph cuts at the barbed wire, if no one else does
8:12 PM <Klurg> Renaine lets the others handle the barbed wire, as he doesn't know how to remove it without harming the person in it
8:12 PM <&Nemi> Cait observes from afar, lips pursed. She attempts to open her senses to the thaumic flows of the area, if such are present. Perhaps there's an occult explanation.
8:13 PM <@Balthazaar> Cait, there's definitely a very large occult presence, but it's masked somehow
8:13 PM <@Balthazaar> perc all
8:13 PM <&Nemi> 4df+4 perc
8:13 PM <Glacon> Nemi: perc: 3 (4df+4=-, +, 0, -)
8:13 PM <Klurg> 4df+3 hello
8:13 PM <Glacon> Klurg: hello: 2 (4df+3=0, -, -, +)
8:13 PM <%Sappheta> 4df+5 !
8:13 PM <Glacon> Sappheta: !: 3 (4df+5=-, -, -, +)
8:14 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> 4df+4
8:14 PM <%Sappheta> ...
8:14 PM <Glacon> DSJ|Mobile: 6 (4df+4=+, +, +, -)
8:15 PM <@madness_> 4df+4 PERC <.< >.>
8:15 PM <Glacon> madness_: PERC <.< >.>: 4 (4df+4=0, -, +, 0)
8:16 PM <@Balthazaar> Jo and Jo notice the Hospital nurses and crawlers first, as they creep closer from the shadows, their tortured moans and gasps muffled by skin grafted over their mouths
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8:17 PM <@Balthazaar> 2 crawlers, 3 nurses
8:18 PM <@madness_> "We got company." Jo draws his pistol again. Roll initiative? Or...
8:18 PM <&Nemi> Cait looks up and shakes herself a bit. "Oh..?"
8:18 PM <%Sappheta> "...oh."
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8:19 PM <Klurg> Renaine looks up from the alert Jo gave them. His shotgun's at ready. How far away are they?
8:19 PM <@Balthazaar> Agility for init, sure
8:19 PM <@Balthazaar> Pretty close
8:20 PM <@madness_> 4df+6 AGI INITIATIVE
8:20 PM <Glacon> madness_: AGI INITIATIVE: 5 (4df+6=-, 0, 0, 0)
8:20 PM <Klurg> 4df+5 agility
8:20 PM <%Sappheta> 4df+4 hngh
8:20 PM <Glacon> Sappheta: hngh: 3 (4df+4=-, +, -, 0)
8:20 PM <Glacon> Klurg: agility: 3 (4df+5=-, 0, 0, -)
8:20 PM <%Sappheta> well then™
8:20 PM <@DSJ> 4df+4
8:20 PM <Glacon> DSJ: 3 (4df+4=-, -, 0, +)
8:20 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+4 nurse
8:20 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: nurse: 2 (4df+4=+, -, -, -)
8:21 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+5crawler
8:21 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+5 crawler
8:21 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: crawler: 4 (4df+5=+, -, 0, -)
8:23 PM <&Nemi> 4df+4 s-shit
8:23 PM <Glacon> Nemi: s-shit: 3 (4df+4=+, -, -, 0)
8:23 PM <%Sappheta> yamero
8:23 PM <@Balthazaar> Turn order is Jo, Joseph, Crawlers, Cole, Cait, Nurses
8:23 PM <@Balthazaar> Go!
8:24 PM <Klurg> And what about Renaine?
8:25 PM <@madness_> 4df+4 RNG Jo strafes to draw a Crawler or two away from the Driver stuck on the chair, squeezing off a few rounds. "Over here!"
8:25 PM <@Balthazaar> Renaine after Cole because I didn't see that
8:25 PM <Glacon> madness_: RNG Jo strafes to draw a Crawler or two away from the Driver stuck on the chair, squeezing off a few rounds. "Over here!": 7 (4df+4=0, +, +, +)
8:25 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+4pdef
8:25 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+4 pdef
8:25 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: pdef: 4 (4df+4=+, +, -, -)
8:25 PM <@Balthazaar> The crawler screams and goes to follow him
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8:27 PM <@madness_> "Make sure they don't get the driver!"
8:27 PM <@Balthazaar> "Run... Shouldn't have come, run, he's coming, run..."
8:27 PM <%Sappheta> Is that the Driver speaking?
8:28 PM <@DSJ> 4df+5 Joseph also shoots a crawler to lure it
8:28 PM <Glacon> DSJ: Joseph also shoots a crawler to lure it: 5 (4df+5=-, +, 0, 0)
8:28 PM <Klurg> "I'll stay near him." Renaine says. "Buddy, gonna need ya to stop talking and relax. We'll get ya outta here." He tries to comfort the driver
8:28 PM <@Balthazaar> mhm
8:28 PM <@Balthazaar> "No, run, run..."
8:29 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+4 same crawler?
8:29 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: same crawler?: 5 (4df+4=0, -, +, +)
8:30 PM <@DSJ> Sure.
8:30 PM <@Balthazaar> Hit, but no damage, the top part of the crawler screams so hard that the mouth covering skin graft rips open
8:31 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+5 crawler 1 lashes out at Jo!
8:31 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: crawler 1 lashes out at Jo!: 5 (4df+5=+, -, +, -)
8:31 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+5 crawler 1 lashes out at Joseph!
8:31 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: crawler 1 lashes out at Joseph!: 4 (4df+5=0, +, -, -)
8:31 PM <@DSJ> 4df+3 AGI
8:31 PM <@Balthazaar> *crawler 2 at joseph
8:31 PM <Glacon> DSJ: AGI: 6 (4df+3=+, 0, +, +)
8:31 PM <@Balthazaar> but misses!
8:31 PM <@madness_> 4df+6 AGI Jo attempts dodge out of the way!
8:31 PM <Glacon> madness_: AGI Jo attempts dodge out of the way!: 7 (4df+6=0, 0, 0, +)
8:32 PM <@Balthazaar> Both miss
8:32 PM <@Balthazaar> Cole, Cait and renaine are up
8:33 PM <Klurg> 4df+5 Renaine shoots a 'warning' shot at one of the nurses (not using any of my applicable specs yet)
8:33 PM <Glacon> Klurg: Renaine shoots a 'warning' shot at one of the nurses (not using any of my applicable specs yet): 5 (4df+5=-, +, +, -)
8:33 PM ⇐ %Aphex_ quit ([email protected]) Connection reset by peer
8:34 PM <@Balthazaar> he drops the nurse dead
8:35 PM <&Nemi> Cait punches her hands together. "Hospital creatures. Interesting." In this moment, things seem to be under control, and while she'd love to remind the Hospital just how bad an idea sending organics at her is, she holds off. She's not sure what her Art might do in this realm.
8:35 PM ↔ @DSJ (opped) nipped out
8:36 PM <&Nemi> Cait passes.
8:36 PM <@Balthazaar> Cole!
8:37 PM <%Sappheta> 4df+5 [rng] Since the JoJos have the Crawlers handled, Cole tries to mess up the nurses.
8:37 PM <Glacon> Sappheta: [rng] Since the JoJos have the Crawlers handled, Cole tries to mess up the nurses.: 4 (4df+5=0, -, -, +)
8:41 PM <@Balthazaar> She kills another one
8:42 PM <@Balthazaar> It looks almost relieved, like the man it was made from can finally be free
8:42 PM <@Balthazaar> jojos!
8:42 PM <&Nemi> "It must be extending its reach, if it's swallowing entire *towns*."
8:43 PM → %Aphex_ (halfopped) joined
8:44 PM <@madness_> 4df+7 RNG Jo reloads his pistol, then gets up close to the Crawler to dump his fresh mag into its hide! (2/3 uses)
8:44 PM <@DSJ> What's left? "Which is definitely a problem."
8:44 PM <Glacon> madness_: RNG Jo reloads his pistol, then gets up close to the Crawler to dump his fresh mag into its hide! (2/3 uses): 7 (4df+7=0, +, -, 0)
8:45 PM <@Balthazaar> 2 crawlers and a nurse
8:45 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+3
8:45 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: 3 (4df+3=-, +, -, +)
8:45 PM <@Balthazaar> The crawler is kill
8:46 PM <@Balthazaar> One totally fresh crawler and a nurse left
8:47 PM <@DSJ> 4df+5 pew at crawler 2
8:47 PM <Glacon> DSJ: pew at crawler 2: 5 (4df+5=0, -, +, 0)
8:48 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+4
8:48 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: 2 (4df+4=0, -, 0, -)
8:48 PM <@Balthazaar> It takes a big hit and screams in rage
8:50 PM <@Balthazaar> It rears up, and convulses violently before falling to the ground
8:51 PM <@Balthazaar> It swells up and explodes, leaving a big fetus laying on the floor, rapidly growing
8:51 PM <&Nemi> "That's different. I wonder if they're evolving."
8:51 PM <@Balthazaar> player turn
8:51 PM <@Balthazaar> The blood from the explod swirls around the fetus, just like Cait can do
8:52 PM <@DSJ> "Someone shoot that fetus, if you'd be so kind."
8:52 PM <Klurg> 4df+5 renaine takes a shot at the fetus
8:52 PM <Glacon> Klurg: renaine takes a shot at the fetus: 3 (4df+5=-, 0, 0, -)
8:52 PM <%Sappheta> "Funny kinda C-section-"
8:52 PM <Klurg> (No specs yet)
8:52 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+6 fetus power
8:52 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: fetus power: 8 (4df+6=0, +, 0, +)
8:52 PM <@Balthazaar> the bullet is stopped by the blood
8:52 PM <@madness_> Jo goes to see what kind of chair the driver is sitting on to try and break him out.
8:52 PM <Klurg> Renaine raises a brow
8:52 PM <@Balthazaar> The remaining nurse is still fast approaching
8:53 PM <@Balthazaar> and the fetus is further mutating, growing a dozen rusty mantis legs from its back, now about the size of a chimp and crying
8:53 PM <@madness_> 4df+4 RNG Jo loads in another mag and stops to fire at the remaining nurse!
8:53 PM <Glacon> madness_: RNG Jo loads in another mag and stops to fire at the remaining nurse!: 4 (4df+4=0, -, +, 0)
8:53 PM <%Sappheta> h...hey
8:54 PM <@Balthazaar> remaining nurse is kill
8:54 PM <@Balthazaar> redact, not yer turn jo
8:54 PM <%Sappheta> did me and Nem both get skipped or
8:54 PM <@madness_> O
8:54 PM <@Balthazaar> Cole and Cait are up
8:54 PM <@madness_> (sorry D:)
8:55 PM <&Nemi> Cait eyes the fetus. "Ah. I see. It's trying to emulate me. I like knowing I made such an impression." She thrusts her hand out, attempting to rip the blood away from the fetus-monster's grip.
8:55 PM <&Nemi> 4df+3 bloodmage
8:55 PM <Glacon> Nemi: bloodmage: 6 (4df+3=+, +, 0, +)
8:55 PM <&Nemi> 4df+9 behold my power
8:55 PM <Glacon> Nemi: behold my power: 7 (4df+9=0, -, 0, -)
8:56 PM <@Balthazaar> blood is ripped away!
8:56 PM <@Balthazaar> Leaving the fetus kind of flailing on the ground angrily
8:56 PM <%Sappheta> Can Cole open fire on it, then?
8:56 PM <@Balthazaar> yes
8:56 PM <%Sappheta> 4df+5 [RNG] Then she does.
8:56 PM <Glacon> Sappheta: [RNG] Then she does.: 6 (4df+5=-, 0, +, +)
8:57 PM <@Balthazaar> She kills the baby
8:57 PM <%Sappheta> Cole doesn't feel like dropping a tasteless one-liner, so she just kind of makes a face and tries not to let her nausea show.
8:57 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+8 the last nurse gasps in pain as her chest rips in half vertically and spews a high pressure jet of acid, teeth and needles at Jo
8:57 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: the last nurse gasps in pain as her chest rips in half vertically and spews a high pressure jet of acid, teeth and needles at Jo: 7 (4df+8=-, -, +, 0)
8:58 PM <@DSJ> Joseph's glad he can at least try to distract himself by thinking about his upcoming wedding
8:58 PM <@madness_> If he dodges, will the Driver be hit with the jet of needles and acid?
8:58 PM <@Balthazaar> ...
8:59 PM <@Balthazaar> He will now, yes
9:00 PM <@madness_> 4df+5 PDef Then Jo shields him as best as he can.
9:00 PM <Glacon> madness_: PDef Then Jo shields him as best as he can.: 5 (4df+5=0, -, 0, +)
9:00 PM <@Balthazaar> -1phealth Jo as the acid burns the shit out of you
9:00 PM <@Balthazaar> jos turn
9:01 PM <@DSJ> 4df+5 Joseph goes pew
9:01 PM <Glacon> DSJ: Joseph goes pew: 8 (4df+5=+, +, +, 0)
9:02 PM <@Balthazaar> Nurse is kill
9:02 PM <@Balthazaar> the driver looks at you all
9:02 PM <@Balthazaar> Then his eyes burst into green flame and he speeks in a very slow, rough, loud voice that seems to echo of its own accord
9:03 PM <@madness_> Jo hurriedly swipes away the needles and teeth from his burning flesh. His breathing's shaky. ".. fuck."
9:03 PM <@DSJ> "of course..."
9:04 PM <Klurg> Renaine ponders running, shooting the driver, or slapping him. He chooses to slap.
9:04 PM <@Balthazaar> "AH, LEUKOCYTES, AT LAST."
9:04 PM <@madness_> "Don't-" Jo's eyes go wide.
9:04 PM <@Balthazaar> pdef Renaine
9:04 PM <Klurg> 4df+4 as expected "wake up!"
9:04 PM <Glacon> Klurg: as expected "wake up!": 4 (4df+4=+, 0, 0, -)
9:05 PM <@Balthazaar> Renaine, your hand and entire arm burst into green flame
9:05 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+8
9:05 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: 6 (4df+8=0, -, -, 0)
9:05 PM <@Balthazaar> -1 phealth, this turn
9:06 PM <Klurg> Renaine backs up, hissing in pain at that. "Ah damn that was a bad idea!" He tries to put it out in the water.
9:06 PM → @DSJ|Mobile (opped) joined  ⇐ @DSJ quit
9:07 PM <&Nemi> Cait wrinkles her nose. "Ah. Well. I suppose it was too much to hope that he wouldn't have been claimed by you already, yes?" She's so calm despite her teammates' injuries and active burning and the sight of the man they were trying to protect consume.
9:07 PM <&Nemi> consumed so*.
9:07 PM <@Balthazaar> "EVERY CHOICE YOU HAVE MADE, EVERY FEEBLE STRUGGLE, HAS BROUGHT YOU CLOSER. WITNESS NOW THE FATE YOU HAVE BEEN BLINDED TO THANKS TO YOUR DISTRACTION AT THE HANDS OF THE OUTPOSTS."
9:08 PM <@Balthazaar> The fmales are extinguishedin the water, but they hurt no less
9:08 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "Wonderful speech, have you been taking lessons?"
9:09 PM <@madness_> Jo steps away from the 'driver', trying not to touch his burns or scream from the pain.
9:09 PM <Klurg> Renaine gets up. He's gonna be feeling that. "So, what's the fate." He squeals a bit at that last word from residual pain.
9:09 PM <&Nemi> Cait twizzles her lips.
9:09 PM <@Balthazaar> A huge, black iron spear erupts from the drivers chest, followed by the rest of lionspear as it climbs out and roars silently at the group
9:09 PM <&Nemi> "I was wondering when you'd show up."
9:10 PM <&Nemi> "Avatar of the Hospital. Well. You can't have a hospital without *blood*, now can you?"
9:10 PM <%Sappheta> Cole stares at Lionspear, then Cait. Back to Lionspear, now back to Cait.
9:10 PM <Klurg> "...what in the nine hells is that?" Renaine has never seen lionspear before. "You know this guy?" He asks Cait.
9:10 PM <@Balthazaar> Its face seems to almost contort into a sneer as it goes to attack Cait
9:11 PM <&Nemi> Cait practically beckons. "I've been *waiting* for this- oh, you all aren't familiar, are you? This thing's been a thorn in our side for a long, long time. Harvesting lives and blood for decades."
9:12 PM <&Nemi> ".. Well. Come at me."
9:12 PM <@Balthazaar> It lunges at Cait with its spear!
9:12 PM <@Balthazaar> Not with the pointy end, but the butt
9:13 PM <@Balthazaar> Any rolls, Cait?
9:13 PM <&Nemi> Cait will attempt to dodge, of course, though she somehow doubts she can.
9:14 PM <&Nemi> 4df+4 agi she's small.
9:14 PM <Glacon> Nemi: agi she's small.: 4 (4df+4=0, 0, +, -)
9:14 PM <@madness_> Can Jo attempt to lunge them both out of the way? "Lionspear. Start moving- back to the van!"
9:15 PM <@Balthazaar> he can!
9:16 PM <@madness_> 4df+10 AGILITY+FD Then Jo tries to grab Cait and pull her out of the way of the lunge! (2/3)
9:16 PM <Glacon> madness_: AGILITY+FD Then Jo tries to grab Cait and pull her out of the way of the lunge! (2/3): 10 (4df+10=+, 0, 0, -)
9:16 PM <@Balthazaar> ch j,c
9:16 PM <@Balthazaar> .ch j,c
9:16 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: j
9:17 PM <@Balthazaar> .ch a,l
9:17 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: l
9:17 PM <@Balthazaar> Jo manages to get cait out of the way, and almost himself too
9:17 PM <@Balthazaar> but the spear butt slams into his leg like a truck
9:17 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+10
9:17 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: 12 (4df+10=+, 0, 0, +)
9:17 PM <@Balthazaar> It hurts like the dickens
9:17 PM <@Balthazaar> Prolly breaks something
9:18 PM <@Balthazaar> no actual damage for now
9:19 PM <&Nemi> Cait squirms. "Right- you can't fight this thing! Run!"
9:19 PM <@madness_> Jo collapses on the floor after bringing Cait from harm's way. "RUN!" He tries to stand up. Can he?
9:19 PM <@Balthazaar> Caits radio squawks. <<Reinforcments.... Gunshi... outsid- neath the trees.................>>
9:19 PM <@Balthazaar> pdef to do a stand
9:20 PM <Klurg> Renaine sees combat is not a good option, and tries to help Jo up and run
9:20 PM <@madness_> 4df+5 PDef! Oh dear
9:20 PM <Glacon> madness_: PDef! Oh dear: 3 (4df+5=-, +, -, -)
9:20 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph also goes for van
9:21 PM <@madness_> Jo waves Renaine off. "GO!"
9:21 PM <@Balthazaar> Stand is done!
9:22 PM <%Sappheta> Cole beats feet.
9:22 PM <@madness_> How fast can he limp?
9:22 PM taylor_itkin → taylor_zzz
9:22 PM <@Balthazaar> As you exit the building, you see the entire town explode into flames, hoardes of hospital creatures, some familiar, some new, are everywhere
9:22 PM <@Balthazaar> Foundation attack vehicles are rushing in from the east
9:22 PM <@Balthazaar> even tanks
9:23 PM <Klurg> Renaine is surprised by this as he GTFOs
9:23 PM <&Nemi> Cait picks herself up and starts tottering her way through the water. "No wonder they were so vague- they wanted us to draw it *out*."
9:24 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "Glad to know we were bait... give them hell for us, please!"
9:24 PM <@madness_> Jo focuses on breathing and limping the fuck out.
9:24 PM <@Balthazaar> instead of a full street, there is a GIANT version of the hospital at the end of the road. It's windows are glowing with sickly green fluoresence in a patttern that spells 'Welcome to the real Brookhaven, please be seated"
9:24 PM <Klurg> Renaine keeps a certain distance close to Jo in case he falls down from exhaustion. "Woulda been nice to know we were bait."
9:25 PM <@Balthazaar> The fighting witht he foundation personell and the hospital monstrocities is intense
9:26 PM <&Nemi> "Oh, I know Lionspear doesn't like me. Maybe that's the *why*." Cait keeps hobbling along on her cane.
9:26 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "We should find... a safer position."
9:26 PM <%Sappheta> "Is there *any* such thing right now???"
9:27 PM <@Balthazaar> The battle rages around them <Get down agents!>> comes an unfamiliar voice on their radios. <<Gunships inbound>>
9:28 PM <&Nemi> Cait drops down low while she can, grimacing. "Here they come!"
9:29 PM <@madness_> Jo hisses with each breath as he follows suit.
9:29 PM <@Balthazaar> You can see as a trio of gunships fly low towards you, rather quickly
9:29 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph also gets down
9:29 PM <Klurg> "Cover!" Renaine tries to get behind a wall and hit the deck.
9:30 PM <@Balthazaar> Lionspear emerges behind you all.
9:30 PM <@Balthazaar> A giant skinless cat with a mane of porcupine quills leaps from a building and tackles one of the helicopters from the sky even as the other two open fire on Lionspear with everything they have
9:32 PM <@Balthazaar> You see the creatures armored skin chip off, revealing bloody sinews beneath, and it roars in pain and rage, flinging its spear at one chopper, impaling it and leaving it to fall in a bloody explosion, the other chopper circling around as the enraged behemoth turns to face the team. Initiatives!
9:32 PM <&Nemi> Cait remains low to the ground, grimacing and coughing up blood in her throat while waiting for the stream of fire to pass. She was not particularly keen on getting hit by debris. Or bullets.
9:32 PM <@Balthazaar> Actually, just your turn!
9:32 PM <Klurg> How far away is Lionspear?
9:33 PM <Klurg> And does he know we're here for the purposes of a sneak attack spec?
9:33 PM <@Balthazaar> He know's you're there, but perhaps Renaine is hidden behind a bush or something
9:34 PM <@madness_> "What's the number for the airstrike." Jo pants. Getting your leg broken in a place really takes the fight out of you.
9:34 PM <@Balthazaar> the other chopper, as it's about to circle back, gets taken out by the cat
9:34 PM <@Balthazaar> PC turn
9:35 PM <Klurg> Renaine was hidden behind a wall for when the explosions went off
9:35 PM <Klurg> So guess that could count if the GM deems it so
9:35 PM taylor_zzz → taylor_iOStkin
9:36 PM <@Balthazaar> counts
9:36 PM <@madness_> Jo slowly stands up. "Cait, if you can perform a miracle, I can buy you some time. It's not gonna be a lot."
9:36 PM <Klurg> 4df+9 assuming he's out of cover and the sneak attack spec kicks in but he's not within 30 feet/9 meters
9:36 PM <Glacon> Klurg: assuming he's out of cover and the sneak attack spec kicks in but he's not within 30 feet/9 meters: 9 (4df+9=-, +, -, +)
9:37 PM <@Balthazaar> Renaine hits lionspear with a good ammount of fire! It whirls to face him in utter fury
9:37 PM <&Nemi> With the hulk damaged, she turns, leaning heavily on her cane. And she reaches out- blood. Bloody sinew, blood everywhere, blood all around. She reaches for the blood, not just with her hand, but with her indomitable will, and attempts to draw all the carnage to her person as a wave of crimson. Blood is power, blood is life, and she means it to be *hers*.
9:38 PM <&Nemi> 4df+3 anom test
9:38 PM <Glacon> Nemi: anom test: 4 (4df+3=0, -, +, +)
9:39 PM <Klurg> Better him than the choppers. "Hey ugly! Over here!" He tries to distract lionspear so the choppers can hit it without resistance. He's also braced to run/take cover.
9:39 PM <@Balthazaar> Choppers are gone, man
9:39 PM <&Nemi> ".. keep him busy," Cait hisses.
9:40 PM → spookybee joined ([email protected])
9:40 PM <Klurg> <<lionspear is focused on me, all firepower focus on him while his attention is split>> renaine radios in
9:40 PM <@madness_> 4df+7 RNG Jo circles around to the opposite side of where Renaine is and a ways away from Cait, then pops off the entirety of his second to last mag. (1/3)
9:40 PM <Glacon> madness_: RNG Jo circles around to the opposite side of where Renaine is and a ways away from Cait, then pops off the entirety of his second to last mag. (1/3): 6 (4df+7=+, 0, -, -)
9:40 PM <@Balthazaar> Lionspear rips a huge spike from its own back, and grabs the chain at its belt with its free hand, lashing out viciously with the chain at Renaine
9:40 PM <@Balthazaar> Agility Renaine
9:41 PM <Klurg> 4df+5 any bonuses from cover?
9:41 PM <Glacon> Klurg: any bonuses from cover?: 5 (4df+5=0, 0, +, -)
9:41 PM <@Balthazaar> <<THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!>> comes the panicked reply on the radio
9:41 PM <@Balthazaar> sure
9:42 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph just stands ready to defend himself
9:42 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> he's not really equipped for this
9:43 PM <Klurg> (Also that was my roll)
9:45 PM <@Balthazaar> add 3
9:45 PM <@Balthazaar> So 8
9:45 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+10 roll to hit
9:45 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: roll to hit: 8 (4df+10=-, 0, 0, -)
9:45 PM <@Balthazaar> Renaine JUST gets behind cover as the chain slams into the wall hard enough to ahhihilate it
9:46 PM <@Balthazaar> Jo, Joseph, Cole, Cait?
9:46 PM <@madness_> Jo did take a shot at LS a few seconds before. Eleven of them, in fact. He reloads.
9:47 PM <@Balthazaar> The bellets all sink into the monster
9:48 PM <@Balthazaar> and it lashes back out at him whith the chain
9:48 PM <@Balthazaar> agil or pdef
9:48 PM <@madness_> Hmm
9:49 PM <@madness_> What's his broken leg penalty for AGI?
9:50 PM <&Nemi> "Then *keep fighting*," Cait snarls in reply as waves of gore swirl around her, crashing at her feet like the tides and slowly lifting her into the air. Her art was always fed best by war and death, even if she'd always tried to use it to heal and protect. There was no protecting today. There was only war. Her cane falls from her fingers as her palms erupt in crimson, ribbons of red
9:50 PM <&Nemi> joining the tsunami of her making and binding it to her will. The remains of the chopper pilots, splattered across the terrain, slithered to her in rivers of red, while fallen Hospital creatures and Foundation troops alike began to be swept up in the tide.
9:50 PM <&Nemi> 4df+5 mdef for power overwhelming
9:50 PM <Glacon> Nemi: mdef for power overwhelming: 7 (4df+5=0, +, 0, +)
9:51 PM <@Balthazaar> none
9:51 PM <@madness_> He's on 6 PHEALTH! Does this next attack have the capability to kill him?
9:52 PM <@Balthazaar> One of the giant flayed cats starts sprinting for cat, running on top of the blood, Tanks try hold it off
9:52 PM <@Balthazaar> quite possibly
9:52 PM <&Nemi> "Keep them off me!" Cait snarls, voice distant and liquid.
9:52 PM <@madness_> 4df+10 AGI+FD Let's hope he can maneuver out of the way!
9:52 PM <Glacon> madness_: AGI+FD Let's hope he can maneuver out of the way!: 10 (4df+10=+, +, -, -)
9:53 PM <@Balthazaar> voices whisper in Caits mind. They seem to be the other students from Brookridge ~We made you a kitty, Cait...~
9:53 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+10 roll to hit
9:53 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: roll to hit: 7 (4df+10=-, 0, -, -)
9:53 PM <@Balthazaar> He JUSt manages to dodge out of the way
9:55 PM <@madness_> 4df+7 RNG+MD Then, with his last magazine loaded in, he aims and fires at the Giant Flayed Cat running at Cait. (0/3)
9:55 PM <Glacon> madness_: RNG+MD Then, with his last magazine loaded in, he aims and fires at the Giant Flayed Cat running at Cait. (0/3): 6 (4df+7=-, 0, -, +)
9:55 PM <@Balthazaar> It yowls and falls, tripped by the bullets to the paws. The tanks do the rest
9:57 PM <@madness_> Jo throws his gun to the side and draws his knife. He's on empty, both energy wise and ammo wise. The adrenaline keeps his fumes running.
9:57 PM <&Nemi> ".. so you did, old friends," Cait murmurs. ".. do you mind if it.. keep it?" she wonders if she *could*. It was of flesh and blood. It was *hers*. Flesh and blood and bone. All would serve her- and even blown apart by tank shells, the 'kitty' slowly reassembles itself under her grip, flowing into the maelstrom building about her.
9:58 PM <@Balthazaar> It meows in about a thousand cats voices, its entire innards lined with hands
9:58 PM <@Balthazaar> Lionspear snarls and lashes out at Joseph
9:58 PM <@Balthazaar> with the big spike
9:59 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph tries to fuckin dodge
9:59 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> he has no time to get gored
10:00 PM <&Nemi> ".. my poor sweetling," Cait murmurs, stroking the strange cat-thing's head. Very little of her was still visible amidst the blood-storm, yet her voice is audible regardless. "It's done you so cruelly. It's done such cruelties to us all."
10:00 PM <@madness_> Does Jo have a penalty to help out Joseph with his 'save-a-friend' spec?
10:01 PM <@Balthazaar> Nope
10:01 PM <@Balthazaar> broken leg is flavor
10:01 PM <@Balthazaar> Adenaline or some shit
10:02 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> mm, broken leg
10:02 PM <@madness_> 4df+10 AGI+FD WELL HERE GOES NOTHIN
10:02 PM <Glacon> madness_: AGI+FD WELL HERE GOES NOTHIN: 11 (4df+10=0, 0, 0, +)
10:03 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+10
10:03 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: 8 (4df+10=-, -, -, +)
10:03 PM <@Balthazaar> He is saved!
10:03 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "Thank you, Jo!"
10:04 PM <@Balthazaar> Lionspear turns and snarls at cait, flames engulfing it as it starts to sprint at her, laughing maniacally
10:04 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph starts to get the fuck away from where he is
10:04 PM <@madness_> "FUCKING HIDE. And give me your gun." Jo hisses. Only one save left.
10:05 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph does so.. "Please don't miss."
10:05 PM <@Balthazaar> The foundation definitely seems to be losing
10:06 PM <&Nemi> And as the hulking monstrosity that is Lionspear charges, the storm abates. Or does it- rather, it flows, almost as one mass, *into* Cait's body. It flows for seemingly an eternity before disappearing, leaving her hanging just a few inches off the water and seemingly illuminated from within, the strange cat-thing at her side. ".. the Hospital is a cancer on reality," Cait says, softly,
10:06 PM <&Nemi> voice flowing from her lips like blood from a wound. "And I am the surgeon's blade." She holds her hand out as if to meet Lionspear headon, like her tiny body could halt its inexorable advance.
10:07 PM <@madness_> Jo aims shakily at Lionspear, but waits to see what happens at the clash.
10:07 PM ↔ VinylS nipped out
10:08 PM <Klurg> Renaine readies to see what the result of this is before shooting, he's probably moved to another piece of cover by now
10:08 PM <@Balthazaar> Lionspear lunges like a wild animal, reaching out to grab her with its clawed hands, mouth opening ravenously
10:11 PM <@Balthazaar> Cait?
10:11 PM <&Nemi> Cait reaches her hand to meet its taloned claws with hers, and in that moment of contact- pale skin on hardened, spike-ridden flesh and rust and iron- there's a ripple. For a brief, brief moment, Cait is an avatar herself- the flesh and blood and essence of thousands of its victims all in her, all crying for their vengeance, for *justice*. And she did not mean to disappoint.
10:11 PM <&Nemi> In that moment, she lets loose the bloodgates.
10:14 PM <@Balthazaar> The world seems to stop in that one, beautiful moment
10:14 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph watches, and probably throws up a little because christ gore is just everywhere
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10:15 PM <%Sappheta> Cole is almost certainly drenched in all the insides that have become insides and tries again to not hurl
10:15 PM <@Balthazaar> the tsunami of blood crashing against the Avatar of the hospital like water over a rock. At first it looks as though it shant work, but bit by bit, the monster erodes
10:16 PM <@madness_> Jo watches. And hurls off to the side. Some of that his blood, maybe.
10:16 PM <&Nemi> Her smile is soft, sweet, as if she's granting it the greatest mercy one could offer. "Rest, now. Be at peace."
10:16 PM <Klurg> Renaine's spits out some gore because he thinks he got a little in his mouth. He looks quite queasy.
10:16 PM <@Balthazaar> It screams in hate and rage, still fighting until it is just a blackened skeleton reinforced with iron and veins of green glow. It stumbles to the ground, takes two steps, and then its eyes finally extinguish
10:17 PM <@Balthazaar> I reaches out to Cait possessively, its mammoth claws brushing her cheek before it falls to the ground
10:18 PM <&Nemi> Cait lets her finger brush against the skeleton's claw, almost pressing it against her cheek, as it collapses. ".. goodbye."
10:20 PM <@madness_> ".. you really fucked his shit up." Jo looks around and listens for fighting. He stands up slowly.
10:21 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> ".. hopefully they all just sort of die together, that'd be rather nice."
10:21 PM <Klurg> Renaine is struck silent for a couple of second, then speaks. "Damn. That was simply amazing."
10:21 PM <@Balthazaar> The green retreats the the sturnum where it becomes unbearably bright, before exploding into a literal cyclone surrounding them, black, inky rain falls in a downpour all around them, the hurricane sweeping up all manner of hospital monters and tanks alike. You are in the eye, and are ok
10:22 PM <@Balthazaar> The hurricane whirls around them, the monsters dissolving, the foundation personell not in the eye being carried away even in their tanks
10:22 PM <&Nemi> Cait is quiet as she watches the storm emerge. Standing in the water, she seems suddenly so small and weak. Her nose bleeds as she slowly totters into the water, on her knees. She makes the sign of the cross over her chest for the troops caught into the storm.
10:23 PM <@Balthazaar> And then, the storm ignites into green flames taking the form of skulls and screaming faces, ACTUALLY WAILING
10:23 PM <%Cocoa> Cait, you swear you saw a familiar beanpole flicher nearby in green and gold light. Then again, it was probably a mirage.
10:24 PM <Klurg> Renaine drops to a knee, taking deep breaths. "Jeez. That was... close."
10:24 PM <&Nemi> ".. a thousand, thousand souls given release," Cait whispers. "Stay close.."
10:25 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph kneels and tries to just keep his eyes closed and wait
10:25 PM <@Balthazaar> They look as though they are going to soar into the heavens
10:25 PM <@madness_> "Fuck.. Cait, can you do anything for them?" Jo looks on in horror. "..."
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10:26 PM <&Nemi> ".. no," Cait hangs her head. ".. not now. I'm- spent."
10:27 PM <@Balthazaar> until there's an ear splitting roar/scream of utter rageas they are suddenly sucked into the hospital itself. The debris falls to the ground with violent crashes, a prototype tank landing right beside the group. the souls and green flame gather in the hospital, and then the building explodes outwards as something huge bursts through the wall, heralded by a flood of big, black ratswith glowing green eyes
10:28 PM <Klurg> Renaine's moving behind cover as he observes this
10:28 PM <&Nemi> Cait weakly smiles. ".. well. It was worth a try."
10:29 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> ".. good lord." Joseph scrambles for higher up cover
10:29 PM <%Sappheta> Cole kind of just stares at it, in shock at the sheer scale of what's going on right about now.
10:29 PM <%Sappheta> hospitalkin, we have the high ground
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10:30 PM <Klurg> "Hey, you did good. Ya weakened it." Renaine looks to cait and tells her this from behind cover. "Should we get in the tank?" Renaine asks.
10:30 PM <&Nemi> ".. well. It's. It's been an honour and a privilege." Cait looks up at her giant bloodcat. ".. No, I.. Have another idea."
10:30 PM <%Sappheta> "...How many times can it do the 'suck us all up into the sky' trick???"
10:30 PM <&Nemi> ".. you all use the tank. I.. Have an idea."
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10:31 PM <%Sappheta> Cole looks her over. "You absolutely sure about this?"
10:31 PM <%Sappheta> "Magic like that takes a lot out of a girl, and I mean somethin' on the scale of 'most of an intestine'..."
10:31 PM <Klurg> Renaine tries to get in the tank, hoping he remembers enough of the tank crew's chatting to drive this thing. "Gonna need more people assisting me here!"
10:31 PM <@madness_> ".. the Hospital likes fucking with us." Jo checks the number of rounds in the magazine, before sliding it back in the gun. "I'll make sure she doesn't get hurt. You guys get in the fucking tank."
10:32 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph gets in the tank
10:32 PM <%Sappheta> Cole hops in the tank. Her first question: "Does anyone know how to drive?"
10:32 PM <@Balthazaar> The beast emerges and roars at the group in astonishing rage, spreading its wings wide
10:32 PM <@Balthazaar> It is a colossal dragon, about 700 metres in length and constructed from the corpses of thousands if not millions of human and animal corpses, many covered in buboes, smallpox scars and other signs of sickness. One eye is a socket containing a hovering ball of green flame. The other eye is slitted and black in colour, with the pupil containing hundreds of human eyeballs. It has long metal horns with razor sharp edges and
10:32 PM <@Balthazaar> wrapped in razor wire. its teeth are made from black stone with green veins of metal running through them. its tongue is long anf forked, with skinless canine heads growing from it, and the roof of its mouth lined with human skulls. Its claws are huge, serrated blades, and its winng membranes are made from huge swathes of stitched human hides. it has a long row of huge, stony spines along its spine that look like a cross
10:32 PM <@Balthazaar> between mountain crags and vertebrae. Its tail is tipped in a huge, rusted steel diamond blade. it breathes nuclear green fire, and often coughs up masses of plague corpeses and diseased rats, with swarms of mosquitoes and plage rats emerging from the gaps between the corpses it is made of.
10:35 PM <&Nemi> Cait vaguely nods as she swings herself onto megaCat's back. She clings to its back, and whispers, "Take me to the tallest building." She tries her radio, "Command? My squad's all that's left. All friendlies down. Hospital's manifested a dragon."
10:36 PM <@madness_> "Cait, do you mind me coming along for the ride? Can't exactly run into battle with you.."
10:36 PM <&Nemi> ".. No, Jo. I'm not going to live through this."
10:36 PM <&Nemi> "I know that. I have a plan."
10:36 PM <Klurg> "We'll cover ya!" Renaine assures Cait from the tank. "Whatever y'er plan is, try and find a way to survive it will ya?"
10:37 PM <@madness_> ".. What am I going to tell Evan?"
10:37 PM <&Nemi> ".. Tell him it was a good run." Cait wanly smiles and slaps MegaCat's flank. Time to go.
10:38 PM <&Nemi> ".. but tell him to wait for me, because- *trust me*!"
10:38 PM <@Balthazaar> MegaCat runs up the side of the tallest building (The hospital itself) as though it were nothing
10:39 PM <@Balthazaar> The tank looks intuitive enough
10:39 PM <@Balthazaar> The swarm of rats closes in. you can SMELL the disease they carry
10:39 PM <Klurg> Renaine begins loading up the tank, and fires on the swarm if he can
10:39 PM <@madness_> "Cait-" Jo watches as she leaves. He blinks, but then gets on the tank's turret. "Don't keep him waiting!" Jo pounds on the hatch below him. "Let's step on it!"
10:39 PM <@madness_> Who's driving?
10:39 PM <Klurg> Renaine is gunning but nobody's driving
10:40 PM <Klurg> (Ie firing the big boom boom part)
10:40 PM <%Sappheta> ...Guess Cole drives, then
10:41 PM <@madness_> Jo's on the MG topside, if there is one. He'll lay into the rats with all the gun's got.
10:42 PM <@Balthazaar> Oh this tank can't move
10:43 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> oh
10:43 PM <Klurg> Renaine's firing shells on the further away enemies that won't get the tank caught in the blast radius
10:43 PM <%Sappheta> oh
10:43 PM <Klurg> Can it still fire?
10:43 PM <@Balthazaar> the machine guns have a shitload of ammo, and there's also flamethrowers
10:43 PM <%Sappheta> well that makes sense given it did land from the sky
10:43 PM <@Balthazaar> The main gun looks absurdly powerful
10:43 PM <&Nemi> Cait eyes the massive 'dragon' from the rooftop, and pats MegaCat's head. ".. time to cash in on all those favours." She hops from the cat's back and walks to the centre of the roof, and as she does, ribbons of blood erupt from her palms, spattering in a particular pattern, a snaking and spidery glyph that was the culmination of years of study and learning from beings of this plane
10:43 PM <&Nemi> and others. "Oh King of Blood to whom I've consigned my soul, expect me. Oh witches of the Wyrd, aid me. Hermann- I need you to focus the Black Forest array on my position. Feed me all the thaumetic energy you've collected. If I'm right, that thing's just a manifestation- and with it gone.. I can reach its heart."
10:43 PM <Klurg> Then firepower it is
10:44 PM <%Sappheta> war crimes waR CRIMES WAR CRIMES WAR CRIMES, TO THE FLAMETHROWERS IT IS
10:45 PM <@Balthazaar> the rats start chewwing at the hull
10:45 PM <@Balthazaar> 3 of you man the guns, one of you the cannon, and a 4th gun is manned by a red haired survivng agent with stick scars all over her
10:46 PM <&Nemi> ".. the hospital's heart," she mutters. "Should be unguarded."
10:46 PM <Klurg> "Oh hey, you survived?" Renaine asks incredulously. "Well, welcome to our hell."
10:46 PM <Klurg> How far away is the rat swarm?
10:46 PM <%Sappheta> ...they are chewing on the hull
10:46 PM <Klurg> Oh
10:47 PM <&Nemi> From a dozen different sources, Cait's calling in favours. She knows it'll destroy her body- that flood of energy's far more than her human frame, already fragile, can handle, even as it leaves her glowing from within. The rune was a focus to guide her allies' attention. She pats at MegaCat's shoulder, leans over to press her brow to its chin. ".. see you on the other side, little
10:47 PM <&Nemi> buddy," she whispers. Already, it burned on the inside.
10:47 PM <Klurg> "Alright, you on the guns and flamethrowers try ta get these rats off! I'll shoot down any approaching groups and cover the mage!"
10:48 PM <%Sappheta> "Trying—"
10:48 PM <@madness_> "PASS ME YOUR SHOTGUN! We need to backpedal!" Jo's topside, shooting down at the rat's.
10:48 PM <Klurg> Renaine hands Jo his shotgun. "Take good care of it."
10:49 PM <%Sappheta> Cole tries to do what she can to thin the herd via flambee.
10:49 PM <@madness_> Jo switches from MG to shotgun to pistol at the times he can.
10:50 PM <@Balthazaar> The dragon is struggling free of the wreckage of the hospital wing, breathing its green flames and roaring in utter fury
10:50 PM <@Balthazaar> Foundation bombers have finally arrived and are starting to bomb the monster to little effect
10:51 PM <Klurg> Renaine shoots off the farther away swarms and any hostile that may be bothering Cait.
10:52 PM <@Balthazaar> Who's on the main gun?
10:52 PM <Klurg> Renaine
10:52 PM <@Balthazaar> Rats are streaming up the side of the building
10:52 PM <Klurg> (Main gun is boom boom gun right?)
10:52 PM <@Balthazaar> the dragon is advancing on the tank
10:52 PM <@Balthazaar> mhm
10:52 PM <Klurg> Renaine shoots at the dragon
10:52 PM <Klurg> Hoping to slow it down, aiming at legs and similar appendages
10:53 PM <&Nemi> Cait murmurs into the radio, "I have a few minutes at most to live. I'm going in. I'm ending this thing." She turns- and punches at the roof, discharging some of the monumental thaumetic power she'd absorbed in an attempt to burrow inside.
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10:53 PM <@madness_> "WHO'S ON THE STEERING WHEEL WE NEED TO GET BACK!"
10:53 PM <%Sappheta> "WE CAN'T FUCKING MOVE"
10:53 PM <Klurg> "The tank doesn't move!" Renaine yells
10:54 PM <Klurg> (Roll to shoot at the dargon or just narrative it out?)
10:54 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> "... we're going to probably not survive."
10:54 PM <@madness_> "AH FUCK"
10:54 PM <%Sappheta> "Magic girl's doing something, right?"
10:55 PM <Klurg> "We probably won't, but we can at least slow it down enough. Whoever has the flamethrowers can get rid'a the rats easier."
10:55 PM <@Balthazaar> Shoot with narrative
10:55 PM <@Balthazaar> The shells of the prototype tank do a lot of damage, but they don't seem to dissuade it all that much
10:55 PM <%Sappheta> Cole's trying to sterilise the oncoming rat tides, but whether or not they're having the desired effect is, uh
10:56 PM <Klurg> Renaine's aiming the main gun fire at appendages such as legs, paws, etc to slow it down, focusing fire on the left in particular.
10:56 PM <@Balthazaar> You're slowing it down, but they are slowly but steadily eating through the hull
10:56 PM <@madness_> Jo runs on empty with the shotgun and pistol most probably, but he's still got the lead spread MG at his disposal, aiming at the rat's
10:59 PM <@madness_> "Nades, nades, does anyone have them?!"
11:00 PM <&Nemi> Cait shines like a star at the Hospital's roof as she punches her way down floor by floor, that bright light shining through the windows as she descends, gunning for the sub-basements of the True Hospital itself.
11:00 PM <Klurg> "Can't exactly nade ourselves here!" Renaine tries to communicate through the din of combat.
11:01 PM <%Sappheta> "We'd punch a hole in our own tank and then we'd be gone even faster."
11:01 PM <@DSJ|Mobile> Joseph has his knife ready
11:01 PM <@madness_> "Phosphorus? You know, the shit that burns you like that nurse did me?"
11:04 PM <@Balthazaar> The interior of the hospital is like an amalgamation of every hospital in the world, some prisons, a gallows, tribal healers hutts, caves with healing herbs in them, until at last cait reaches the bottom. A pitch back field, raining on the muddy grass, with a wooden door painted in peeling green paint standing in the middle of the field, supported by nothing and lit by a sickly, flickering fluoresent light hanging in a cage
11:04 PM <@Balthazaar> from unknown heights. the sound of broken heavy machinery sounds from inside the door
11:05 PM <@Balthazaar> the dragon charges at the tank, roaring its rage
11:06 PM <&Nemi> Cait lands in the field of darkness, hardly having had time to reflect on the place around her. The light's already dimmed- she's burning fast, and suppressed it to buy herself more time. She steps lightly for the green-painted door, rainwater dripping down her plain brown hair and down her cheeks, and .. pushes it open.
11:06 PM <Klurg> "Come on ugly! this is how we do it in psi-7!" Renaine yells as he pops a tank shell in the dragon's roaring mouth.
11:07 PM <@Balthazaar> It roars in rage and picks up the tank in its hands, standing on its hind legs to examine it
11:07 PM <@Balthazaar> Nemi, tooltime2
11:07 PM <%Sappheta> Cole tips end over end as the tank rotates. "Shit shit SHIT"
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11:08 PM <Klurg> "Flamers and guns, focus fire on the dragon!" Renaine commands as he tried to keep his balance. "If we go down we're taking it with us!"
11:09 PM <%Sappheta> "It's FUCKING PICKING US UP I DON'T WANT IT TO DROP US"
11:09 PM <@Balthazaar> It's cavernous maw opens, showing that it's throat is lined with millions of tortured faces, human, rat, cat, dog, dinosaur...
11:09 PM <@Balthazaar> It stinks like sickness and death and decay and hate
11:09 PM <Klurg> "Do ya want to be eaten instead?" Renaine asks as he fires into the throat
11:09 PM <@madness_> Jo holds on tight to the tank. "[FUCK]- [I'LL GIVE YOU THE FUCKING SHITS MOTHERFUCKER]" Jo fires into every single face he sees.
11:10 PM <%Sappheta> Cole continues firing until the fuel supplies run out, at which point she joins Jo with the some manual wetwork.
11:13 PM <@Balthazaar> The dragon roars in shock and drops the tank into its mouth
11:13 PM <@Balthazaar> And swallows
11:13 PM <@Balthazaar> You slide deeper into the sickly green darkness
11:14 PM <@madness_> Jo pulls Cole back into the hull and closes the hatch.
11:15 PM <%Sappheta> Cole eeps but gives Jo a thankful look as her ass plops into her seat.
11:15 PM <%Sappheta> "...Guess we got eaten anyway, huh."
11:15 PM <Klurg> Renaine braces himself as they slide down, unable to shoot at anything in the throat because too close to the walls. "Worst elevator ride I've been on."
11:16 PM <@madness_> ".. It's time to start praying." Jo hands Joseph's gun back to him. "But don't shoot yourselves until there's no other option, yeah?"
11:16 PM <@DSJ> "Of course."
11:17 PM <%Sappheta> Cole snickers, then bites down on one of her knuckles to shut herself up.
11:17 PM <%Sappheta> "...Sorry. Not- thinking straight, I guess."
11:17 PM <Klurg> "Think I'll take mah chances with starvation and dehydration." Renaine states as he waits. "Well, if we're gonna die, may as well get ta know each other."
11:18 PM <@DSJ> "We're being eaten, Cole. It's not very rational."
11:19 PM <@madness_> Jo cracks a small smile in spite of himself, then nudges the red haired Foundation survivor. "You doing okay? Shitty question to say at a time like this, but we'll be shit in a couple hours if things go south."
11:19 PM <%Sappheta> "Fuck, I hadn't actually thought of how digestion would work in here."
11:20 PM <%Sappheta> Cole wrinkles her nose. "You think this thing just has a cloaca, or is it some kind of fucked-up mammal hybrid thing?"
11:20 PM <@Balthazaar> She has her eyes closed and is praying. The names Lucy and Branko come up a lot
11:21 PM <@madness_> "Fuck if I know.. Hey." Jo nudges the agent's shoulder. "What's your name?"
11:21 PM <Klurg> "If this tank worked we might even be able ta drive out. You know, this is a surprisingly nice way to die, surrounded by people you can talk with before ya hit the bucket."
11:22 PM <%Sappheta> "Should've had dinner before goin' out on this mission."
11:22 PM <@Balthazaar> "S-sutherland... Does the gun still work?"
11:22 PM <@madness_> "Funny, I regret having dinner before this mission." Jo looks to Renaine. "Gun still work?"
11:23 PM <%Sappheta> "...We gonna blast our way out of this thing's stomach?"
11:23 PM <Klurg> "The tank gun? Seems ta work. Why?"
11:23 PM <Klurg> "Gon- what she said."
11:23 PM <%Sappheta> "Long fall, but it's better than stomach acid..."
11:23 PM <@madness_> "What's your plan, Sutherland?"
11:24 PM <@Balthazaar> "N-no armor on the inside.... I-I think..."
11:24 PM <Klurg> Renaine cracks his knuckles. "Alright, tell me when and where I should fire. Don't know how much ammo we have left.@
11:25 PM <@Balthazaar> "I don't know, I'm not a dragonologist."
11:25 PM <@madness_> Jo looks to the others. "I don't like our chances, but I don't like the hospital even more. Let's make this lizard go boom."
11:26 PM <%Sappheta> "Dynamite fishin'." Cole rubs her hands together.
11:26 PM <Klurg> Renaine nods, and fires at where he thinks the stomach is. "HAHAHAHA!" He lets out a very uncharacteristic laugh as he lets out the boom.
11:27 PM <@Balthazaar> The roar is loud enough outside, but inside it is the most deafening thing anyone is likely to experience
11:27 PM <%Sappheta> Cole claps her hands over her ears.
11:27 PM <@Balthazaar> you hear squeaking as a swarm of bile and rats runs up from the tummy
11:28 PM <@Balthazaar> pushing the tank back up as it vomits up the tank
11:29 PM <@madness_> Jo jostles around the tank as they're spewed from within. "FU-"
11:30 PM <@Balthazaar> there's a big crash as you hit the ground
11:30 PM <@Balthazaar> back outside the dragon1
11:30 PM <Klurg> Renaine braces for impact
11:30 PM <@Balthazaar> pdef all
11:30 PM <Klurg> 4df+4 rup
11:30 PM <Glacon> Klurg: rup: 2 (4df+4=0, -, -, 0)
11:30 PM <@madness_> 4df+5 PDEF MY LEG
11:30 PM <Glacon> madness_: PDEF MY LEG: 6 (4df+5=+, 0, 0, 0)
11:30 PM <%Sappheta> 4df+3 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
11:30 PM <Glacon> Sappheta: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: 3 (4df+3=0, 0, 0, 0)
11:30 PM <%Sappheta> spicy
11:33 PM <@DSJ> 4df+4
11:33 PM <Glacon> DSJ: 6 (4df+4=0, +, 0, +)
11:33 PM <@Balthazaar> The dragon does not falter
11:34 PM <@Balthazaar> 4df+6 impact
11:34 PM <Glacon> Balthazaar: impact: 6 (4df+6=-, 0, 0, +)
11:34 PM <@Balthazaar> Renaine takes 2 damage from crash
11:34 PM <@Balthazaar> Cole takes 1.5
11:34 PM <@Balthazaar> I guess that means Cole is sore
11:34 PM <@Balthazaar> cole sore
11:34 PM <@madness_> V:
11:34 PM <@Balthazaar> Jojo is fine
11:34 PM <Klurg> Renaine makes an 'oof' sound as he crashes. Renaine is in pain from this and the previous dam- gdi
11:34 PM <%Sappheta> her clavicle makes a weird noise
11:35 PM <%Sappheta> she's givin you the cole shoulder
11:35 PM <@Balthazaar> Sutherland is knocked out cold and bleeding
11:35 PM <@DSJ> Joseph is glad to have somehow been unharmed
11:35 PM <@Balthazaar> Broken bones to the crashies for sure
11:35 PM <@Balthazaar> And then you feel yourselfves getting hit
11:35 PM <@Balthazaar> Very hot
11:35 PM <@Balthazaar> Too hot
11:35 PM <@Balthazaar> as the dragon roasts the tank in green flame
11:36 PM <%Sappheta> Cole bites her hand loud enough to split the skin as she tries not to scream.
11:36 PM <Klurg> "Think we may have ta run!" Renaine says as he tries to shoot another tank shell down the dragon's gullet while biting back a yell while it breathes fire
11:36 PM <@madness_> "Should've brought sunglasses." Jo tries to aim the tank's gun at the dragon's mouth while he boils.
11:37 PM <Klurg> To be specific, trying to shoot a shell right down its throat
11:37 PM <Klurg> Where it's more vulnerable
11:37 PM <%Sappheta> Cole tries the flamethrowers in some desperate attempt to fight fire with fire.
11:37 PM <@madness_> Bold move, Cotton.
11:37 PM <%Sappheta> And also reduce the fuel that might blow them all up when the reservoirs melt.
11:38 PM <@Balthazaar> Suddenly it all stops, and the dragon... Curls up like a cat
11:38 PM <@Balthazaar> Asleep
11:38 PM <@DSJ> Joseph scrambles to where it's colder
11:38 PM <%Sappheta> Cole kicks the hatch open and runs
11:39 PM <@Balthazaar> The army is dead and gone
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11:39 PM <@madness_> Jo limps after Cole, ripping off his clothes and yelling.
11:39 PM <Klurg> Renaine picks up Sutherland. "Wait, Cole, we got someone injured and bleeding!"
11:39 PM <@Balthazaar> And you may see Cait, standing alone by a clean, child sized hospital gurney
11:39 PM <&Nemi> Cait finds herself outside. She's no longer glowing, her hand resting on the railing of the gourney. Her smile is soft and vague, her eyes distant.
11:40 PM <@madness_> Jo goes back inside to help Renaine with Sutherland even though his leg's a lot broken. "Cait!"
11:40 PM <Klurg> He tries to carry himself up and out of the tank with the KO'd Sutherland through the pain of fire and bludgeoning damage.
11:41 PM <@DSJ> Joseph helps Jo with the help
11:41 PM <@Balthazaar> The entire town is utterly levelled, except Blackwater park, where the sun still sets
11:41 PM <%Sappheta> Cole tries to help tend to Sutherland after she stops feeling like the ass end of a radiator.
11:41 PM <%Sappheta> 4df+6 [med] mmm yes dado help
11:41 PM <Glacon> Sappheta: [med] mmm yes dado help: 6 (4df+6=+, 0, 0, -)
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11:42 PM <@Balthazaar> Cait, you feel so at peace
11:42 PM <@Balthazaar> There is gratitude, so much gratitude
11:43 PM <@DSJ> "It's fucking dead, I do believe."
11:43 PM <&Nemi> Cait lifts her head. She smiles up at the team, offers a shaky thumbs up, and then slowly, almost gently sinks to her side and falls, half-draped against the gurney. Her eyes flutter shut.
11:43 PM <&Nemi> ".. it.. doesn't hurt anymore," she whispers, a little wisp of light escaping her lips, and then goes limp.
11:44 PM <@DSJ> Joseph immediately checks for a pulse
11:45 PM <@Balthazaar> Giantcat paws at her frantically
11:45 PM <&Nemi> No response. No pulse.
11:46 PM <@DSJ> "Does- DOES ANYONE KNOW CPR?"
11:46 PM <@madness_> "Cait, stay with me. Cole, work your magic, come on." Jo shakes her shoulder.
11:47 PM <@Balthazaar> A helicopter lands beside you all, ready to take you home. "Are... Are you guys ok?"
11:48 PM <%Sappheta> Cole hops over from dealing with Sutherland to Cait. "Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck-"
11:48 PM <Klurg> "No, we've got a woman down and another injured." Renaine tells the evacuation group with worry seeping through his voice. "So if ya got any medics that'd be great."
11:48 PM <%Sappheta> "I don't know if anyone else'll be any use right now, I-" Cole chews her lip. "Cait's a... special case..."
11:49 PM <@DSJ> "she-she doesn't have a pulse, she needs... she needs cpr.. oh, Cait, not now, please not now."
11:49 PM <Klurg> "We don't got much options do we? Like it or not y'er probably her only hope. So y'er gonna have to take the risk."
11:50 PM <@madness_> "Medic. Now." Jo doesn't want to get in the way by freaking out. He's close. He bends down to whisper in her ear, "Come on, Cait. Don't keep Evan waiting. Please."
11:50 PM <%Sappheta> Cole gets ready with CPR, not sure if it'll work given the specifics of the case. She's visibly shivering as she starts work on Cait, and it takes a while before she's steady enough to work.
11:51 PM <@Balthazaar> "Come on, we'll get her to the Thaum healing tanks at 77." They load her and the crew into the chopper, and race to the site, much faster than should be possible, within about 20 minutes in fact, with EMTs doing CPR on her all the while
11:51 PM <&Nemi> No breathing. No heartrate. She's warm, but still.
11:51 PM <@Balthazaar> They arrive in the thaum lab. The devastation is everywhere, and very apparent
11:52 PM <@Balthazaar> Cait is carried to the thaumaturgical healing pod
11:52 PM <%Sappheta> Cole looks around to see if Evan's anywhere, looking like she's about to shake herself to pieces.
11:52 PM <@madness_> "Where's Evan? Someone get him." Jo's scattered. Very scattered.
11:52 PM <%Sappheta> "Come on, come on- EVAN!"
11:53 PM <@DSJ> "Are you sure you want him to see this?!"
11:53 PM <%Cocoa> Jo, Evan is apparently passed out and only half-existing in an open cell. You're not even sure he's solid enough to drag.
11:53 PM <@Balthazaar> the chamber is trying to revive Cait, trying its hardest
11:53 PM <%Sappheta> "He's literal magic, he can help, I- oh, God-"
11:54 PM <@Balthazaar> then it makes a sad noise, and shuts off, broken
11:54 PM <%Cocoa> Cole, he's bleeding bright red and sickly green out of a stump of an arm.
11:54 PM <@madness_> Jo heads over to Evan's station to see if there's anything- ... He glances back at the chamber.
11:55 PM <@Balthazaar> The chamber flops open, broken and dead
11:55 PM <%Sappheta> Cole lets out a frustrated little semi-scream as she sees Evan's current condition. "What did you do..."
11:55 PM <@DSJ> ".. at least he isn't awake."
11:55 PM <%Cocoa> There are some gold flames licking off him, though.
11:55 PM <@Balthazaar> A small, sickly green spark blows in from the hallway, coming to rest on a stack of papers
11:55 PM <%Sappheta> She tries to bandage the wound... if he's even tangible enough for it.
11:55 PM <@DSJ> "But what can we even tell him?"
11:56 PM <@Balthazaar> the papers burst into sickly green flames, 12 ft high
11:56 PM <@Balthazaar> but releases no heat
11:56 PM <%Sappheta> Cole yelps at the sight of the sudden flame.
11:56 PM <%Cocoa> He isn't. Not at the moment.
11:57 PM <@madness_> Jo looks inside the chamber, then to the flames. "..." How does Cait look?
11:57 PM <@Balthazaar> A figure forms insidethe flames, until just two green orbs of flame sit in Lionspears eyesockets. It has no spear and brusquely walks over to Cait
11:57 PM <&Nemi> She's still and unmoving, but faintly smiling in the tank.
11:57 PM <@DSJ> "Jo.. I, I think this may be above-COME THE FUCK ON NOW."
11:58 PM <@madness_> Jo brings up his knife, standing in its way. "Don't hurt her. Don't you hurt her."
11:58 PM <@Balthazaar> It peers down at her curiously, then lifts her up in a gentle embrace. It's flames go red, then they slide into Caits mouth, and Lionspear falls to the ground and dissolves to bones
11:58 PM <@madness_> Redact the standing part
11:59 PM <@madness_> Jo checks on Cait, but maintains a safe distance. ".. Cait?"
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12:01 AM <%Cocoa> There's a flash of gold light as Evan comes too, nearly coughing one of her lungs up, but alive.
12:01 AM <&Nemi> There's a cough, and a wheeze, as Cait stirrs from the pile of bones from where the Lionspear had cradled her. She opens both eyes, blearily peering up at Jo.
12:02 AM <%Cocoa> "CAit-?!" she gasps between breaths?
12:02 AM <@madness_> Jo mentally says, 'fuck it', and approaches Cait with a hug. "What happened?"
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12:03 AM <%Sappheta> "Evan, you were *on fire*, what did you do, where's your arm-"
12:04 AM <%Cocoa> "Long story, stabilize Cait, find luna, I'll live."
12:04 AM <%Sappheta> "You were a ghost!"
12:04 AM <&Nemi> ".. I'm okay," Cait coughs again, eyes fluttering. ".. urgh- I'm- I'm okay." She slumps into Jo's arms. ".. I.. I met the Hospital. It's- it was hurting. It didn't know anything but, and it wanted everyone to know. I- I taught it that. That it didn't need to."
12:05 AM <%Cocoa> Jo, Cait, Evan is still smoldering a bit.
12:05 AM <%Cocoa> bits of charred skin are getting wider.
12:05 AM <%Sappheta> Cole tries to slap the flames out.
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12:06 AM <%Cocoa> Bits of evan turn to ask and float away as you do, cole.
12:06 AM <%Cocoa> ash*
12:06 AM <@madness_> ".. you died for a little there. Had us all worried, hero. I think someone wants to see-" Jo turns to glance at Evan "- what the fuck."
12:06 AM <%Sappheta> "HE'S ON FIRE"
12:07 AM <%Cocoa> She crawls over and hugs cait, while still falling apart. "You okay?"
12:08 AM <@madness_> Jo immediately grabs the fire extinguisher in the lab and blasts Evan with it. Hopefully it's just a regular fire extinguisher.
12:08 AM <&Nemi> Cait throws her arms around Evan. ".. yeah," she whispers. Even with the Hospital's parting gift, she was so weak- but she did her best to push as much thaumetic energy into Evan as she could. Energy and belief, even as they're showered in foam.
12:08 AM <%Cocoa> It seems to have no effect.
12:09 AM <Klurg> Juan would probably be there as one of the medical staff looking on, but not RPing because Imma have to sleep soon and Juan would probably be one of the people here due to medic.
12:10 AM <@madness_> ".. magic users." Jo goes over to Cole, looking on at the two canoodlers with mock disapproval. He breaks the expression with one of concern as he whispers into her ear, "You think they're going to be okay?"
12:10 AM <%Sappheta> "...One of them is *still on fire!!!!*"
12:11 AM <%Sappheta> Cole flusters about, does some anxious handflapping. "I have *no idea*."
12:11 AM <@madness_> Jo sprays Cole with the fire extinguisher. "Maybe you should cool down."
12:11 AM <%Sappheta> "GAH"
12:11 AM <%Sappheta> "You are AWFUL."
12:12 AM <%Sappheta> "I'm Cole, don't you know I burn?"
12:12 AM <%Cocoa> "...Think I strained something." Cait, you feel the last bits of gold fire mingle with your energy, giving you a small bit of idea stuff. An anchor for Evan, as it were. She glances at Cole and Jo. "I think uh, I think I'm spent. I'll have to take it easy for a few months. But I'll be back. Takes more than that to kill me." He nods towards Jo. "Make sure this one stays out of trouble an drinks plenty of fluids while I'm gone." He
12:12 AM <%Cocoa> nods to Cole. "There's something for you in my hidden desk drawer when you have time. Cait knows where it is."
12:13 AM <%Cocoa> And with that, she diasappears into motes of golden light.
12:13 AM <%Sappheta> "I-"
12:13 AM <@madness_> Jo grins. "I'm awful? Wow. That was so bad that-"
12:13 AM <%Sappheta> "Oh come ON!"
12:13 AM <@madness_> ".. serves me right for thinking this was gonna be a Disney ending."
12:13 AM <%Sappheta> Cole crosses her arms. "She drops something like THAT and then just-"
12:13 AM <%Sappheta> "Fucking wizards."
12:13 AM <&Nemi> Cait slumps back against the Lionskull and smiles up at the others. ".. he'll be back. I think that was my last hurrah, though. I'm- burnt out. It'll be research for me from now on."
12:14 AM <&Nemi> ".. everyone okay?"
12:14 AM <Klurg> "Did- did urgh. What did you people do?"
12:14 AM <&Nemi> "I hugged the personification of suffering until it felt better."
12:14 AM <Klurg> Juan asks tiredly from working on the patients then seeing this
12:15 AM <%Sappheta> "Also, uh, became an avatar of... something, levelled a ten-storey building, blood-ed a god of some kind to death..."
12:15 AM <%Sappheta> "Yeah, I think you can rest on your laurels for a little while, ma'am."
12:15 AM <@madness_> "Broken. A little. Burnt a lot. If you're burnt out maybe you could do with a little of this.." He twirls the fire extinguisher's hose/nozzle. With a grin. But he's seen enough of Cait's irritation firsthand to know what it's like to be on the receiving end.
12:16 AM <%Sappheta> "Rest the old magical tendons a while."
12:16 AM <&Nemi> Cait softly laughs and settles in, eyes shutting. ".. I'm going to sleep for a few days. Let me know when you want me to dig up Evan's present, Cole."
12:17 AM <%Sappheta> "That's about right. Bed rest for y-"
12:18 AM <@madness_> "Don't sleep too long. You might get dehydrated." Jo's heeding Evan's instruction already.
12:18 AM <Klurg> "Well, if you people need anything, I'll continue doing my medical duties." Juan continues doing his work. Meanwhile Renaine is completely asleep on a medical Cot. Juan's got a hell of a day ahead of him.
12:19 AM <&Nemi> ".. appreciated." Cait's breathing goes regular. She sleeps, snuggled up with the lion skull.
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12:20 AM <@madness_> Jo brings a blanket over for her and limps on down to medical to get his stuff squared away.
12:20 AM <%Cocoa> Medical seems busier with normal. It's gotten reinforcements from... somewhere. You're not entirely sure all these new doctors and nurses are entirely human, but they seem to know what they're dong.
12:20 AM <%Cocoa> doing*
12:21 AM <%Cocoa> Amelie, you recognize a few faces from the alley you visited with Evan a while back. Yakanon, the guy who made your body and Markus' arm, is also there, tending to the wounded.
12:22 AM <@madness_> "Hi my name is Jo Ikuto and my leg is broken among other things can I have morphine and a bed please." Jo checks himself in.
12:23 AM <Klurg> "Already on it." Juan informs Jo as he works on him for now.
12:23 AM <@madness_> He conks the fuck out.
12:23 AM <%Cocoa> A cute nurse who you think might be an elf taps your forehead and you get tranq'd, as Juan works on your leg.
12:24 AM <@madness_> Consider him conked.
12:25 AM <Klurg> Juan nods his thanks to the nurse as he works. "Got that ability in reverse? Because I'm gonna need a lot of stimulants to stay awake."
12:25 AM <%Cocoa> "Sure!" She punches him in the nose. It stings, but he feels like he just downed 13 pots of coffee
12:28 AM <Klurg> "Thanks." Juan smiles, though he winces because of the sting.