>>18084594
Okay, we've cleared the clay golems. How many iron ones are left?

>>18084611
Actually we took care of those too. It's just the acid-spitting flesh golems left.

>>18084673
Time to fry it, then, and the try to ping the location of the other mage until we find him.

>>18084594

You now stand facing the horrible flesh creature, a rotund mound of dead meat made live with its horrible flailing limbs, and gibbering maw which drips black, corrosive ichor. You know it is corrosive, because it hocked a loogie at you a second ago, which is quickly peeling the paint on a forklift behind you. You don't want to know what it'll do to your skin. It is approaching you, maybe 10 yards away, but has to divide its attention between you and Ashwood. Maybe, I mean, its not like it has EYES or anything. Just limbs and a huge mouth.

Ashwood looks at you, and shouts, "Pin it down, and keep it busy. I'm going to try something!" You're about to ask what, when he pivots and slashes the supports for the twenty or thirty foot tall shelves, at his end. They sag, and groan but don't fall over. Ashwood ducks out of sight behind that row of shelves.

>Round 1, Fight!

>>18084690
Well, if that's the way he wants to play it, try to use powerful downwards winds to keep it stationary or, at least, force its acid globs straight into the ground.

>>18084690
"Alright, but I'm here on scholarship - you're footing the bill for the damages!"

Just be ready to dodge and then counter with a psibolt. It doesn't need to kill the thing, just distract it.

>>18084705

You could pop your Option in Automated Response mode to take potshots when it attacks you, so you don't have to split your Die Pool on Defense.

>>18084730
That... is a really good idea. Let's do that while running around and making loud noises

>>18084737
Second.

>>18084743
>>18084737

Give Option ALL THE DICE?

>>18084783
Yup!

>>18084783
ALL OF THE DICE.

I'm not sure how many dice we've got, but if we haven't hit ten yet, let's throw in the Roxy relationship to bump it up a notch. After all, what kinds of horrible experiments is she going to do on us if we get that caustic gunk on our beautiful face?!

>>18084828
>>18084798

(Dropping in the 3 on Agility actually brings it 11 technically, so you're maxed out now.)

"Option!" You say, because seriously, you just have to call your attack sometimes. The little ball of blue-white energy appears, hovering around you, ready to open fire on anything which tries to attack you.

(2x3 and 3x5 on Agility for FULL DEFENSE)
(Flesh Golem gets a whopping 0 matches on ranged attack)
(Option gets a 2x10 on counter attack)

With your option summoned, you focus on being ready to evade, your body tensed to dodge. The horrible abomination scrunches up its mouth and with a sickening "patooie" sound, it hurls a big wad of black spittle at you. Which passes a good two ft to your left, and knocks over rusty old filing cabinet. I guess the 'no eyes' thing isn't working out for it.

In retaliation, Option fires off one of its own bolts, which sails right into that Stygian maw. The creature howls in pain, and takes a couple wild steps back, flailing an arm which sweeps an empty crate off the shelf, scattering splinters of wood and packing material everywhere. It snarls at you, and a much more viscous black fluid streams out from its mouth. Looks like its going to rush you.

>>18084918
Can we use Air Parkour to run up something tall and then leap well outside of its reach? If not, just book it, try to lure it to where the shelves will fall on it. Trust Option to ruin its hypothetical sets if we fail to dodge.

>>18084942
Oh, and I have to go to work now. I'll be back in two hours.

rolled 29 = 29

>>18084918

Wait!

Earth magic time!

Summon the tile floor to harden around the golems main limbs and hopefully slow or trap it.

I'm guessing Ashwood is trying to flatten via bookcase.

>>18084942
I wouldn't advise that, it'll just spit at us more and then we'll have a harder time dodging.

I say we slide through its legs.

>>18084978

(2x5, 2x7 and 3x6 on Earth Block as a defense)
(Flesh Golem only roles 2x7 on his Charge, which the Evocation gobbles)

"Canaz Tetica!" You shout, and stamp the floor. The floor under it softens, and it sinks a couple inches down, as stone hands shoot up to try and entangle its main limbs. It breaks most of them, but its progress is otherwise impeded. Since it didn't do anything overtly hostile at you, Option doesn't take a shot, though.

You hear the sound of Ashwood's HF Blade slicing through some more supports, and see him at the far end of this shelf row. As only the middle set of supports remains, the whole shelf sags, and leans ominously, a couple of empty display cases and some cleaning supplies fall to the floor.

rolled 75 = 75

>>18085090

Keep boosting the Earth magic, recall the Option and throw a pair of psibolts right into its face.

"It's all tangled up, Ashwood, now's the time!"

>>18085090
Time to run, we don't need to be anywhere near where that thing is going to fall.

>>18085201

(Taking this as a Full Defense)
(2x10 and 3x3 on Agility)
(3x7 on Acid Spit attack, which is the Torso, where Dan has HAR 3, so he takes no damage)

You're getting ready to move, to get out of the way when Ashwood takes the final shot and knocks down the shelf. In the split second you turn your focus to wait for the shelf, you are hit with a horrible spitwad, right in the center of mass. Which slides harmlessly off your breastplate. Didn't know these were nonstick.

Then you hear the sound of a high frequency vibrating katana passing though the wooden struts of a large storage shelf. You notice a gap to your left, in the contents below the shelf, and shoulder roll out of the way, as the entire row comes crashing down on the creature. Luckily, it looks like this shelf was more concerned with short term storage, like spare pallets, empty display cases, boxes of cleaning supplies, and no priceless historical objects were harmed. Probably.

>>18085384
Alright then, time to ping the enemy again. We don't need to pin-point, just get a general direction.

>>18085408

You look over at the pile of debris, which contains one slightly deflated flesh golem, leaking black fluids which smell like the grave everywhere, then back to Ashwood, and give him a thumbs up. He walks over to you. "Any ideas on what this is about?" He asks you. You shake your head. "Didn't find him the first time, gonna try and ping him again."

As you get ready to do your evocation, Alexander says aloud, "I wonder what in this Museum a magister would want? It's not in the store-room, or he would have brought himself and more golems against us." Your about to respond, when Ashwood's bag goes "Mrmrm mrrmrm." And moves a little. You really hope it didn't just talk.

Ashwood unzips the bag, and pulls out a bleached white human skull, missing a lower jawbone. It looks like its been pieced together after being broken. This seems familiar to you, but no, that would be really unlikely. Ashwood places the skull on the opposite shelf, about head height. Then two eerie blue lights appear in its eye sockets. "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!" You shout, and jump back. "Why do you have the skull of Gespenst!?" You exclaim, rather surprised by this turn of events. "And why is he IN it!?" You follow it up, jabbing a finger at the skull.

>>18085523
So THAT'S where Bob went!

>>18085523
Well what the fuck.

>>18085523
That's, not what I expected. At all.

>>18085627
Omega is good at the curve balls. They somehow always wind up being both surprising and pleasant, even when it's really horribly dangerous.

>>18085523

The eye lights swivel from you, back to Ashwood. "Herr Ashwood," Says the skull, sounding incredibly German, "Perhaps you should choose your associates more... carefully." Ashwood is unflapped. "The point, Gespenst." He says, exasperatedly, like he's had this conversation before. "Ah, right, vhere vas I? Oh, yes, I was just going to remind you that THE MUSEUM HAS MY STAFF." You didn't know ghost skulls could shout. "Bollocks." Says Ashwood, eloquently.

"The staff is important?" You ask no one in particular. "Vell," says Gespenst, who is apparently just a skull now, "The staff would have absorbed some of my aura from the time I used it. But as a symbol, it is much more powerful. A Necromancer could gather a great many followers under such a standard." Ashwood nods. "And necromancy cults are a bad thing." He takes out his iPad. "I'll just see where that exhibit is relative to here." He begins doing stuff on the tablet.

The skull's eye-lights shift back to you. It is a very creepy sensation. "You boy," it says in a quiet voice. "I can see now, you are very powerful. Like a proper magus. But you lack talent. Come closer," The lights narrow, and you could swear the room gets a little darker. "Let me teach you about the power of Necromancy." Ashwood stops fiddling with his iPad, as he has now found the map, and simply reaches into the bag the skull came from, and produces a geologist's rock hammer. All while never looking away from his tablet. The skull shoots him a glance, and the eye-lights wink out.

>>18085685
Gespenst seems like a pretty cool dude. We should hang out with him some time.

>>18085719
I don't think he likes us very much, Also just what is Ashwood doing with his skull?

>>18085719
As long as he's not whispering dark and terrible nothings into our ear.

>>18085728
Dresden had Bob, who technically was just as bad. So don't think too much of it.

>>18085728
Probably a family Hierloom

>>18085756
A family heirloom that's the skull of an enemy? sounds kind of evil.

>>18085685
"Wait, your actual factual staff is here? Why would that not be under the highest security FOR REASONS EXACTLY LIKE THIS ONE?"

>>18085685

Ashwood starts walking to the doors into the office, making sure to take the skull, and stick it back in the bag. "I think the League exhibit is pretty much the exact opposite end from here." He says, as you stride after him.

You push open the double doors into the offices of the Museum, to find a knee-high mist filling the place. As you cross into the mist, you feel sluggish for a moment, then it passes, as your two bands of power flash bright white for a second. The room is dim, almost dark. Several of the lights are on, but muted. You two look around, and spot the intern from earlier lying slumped over her desk, looking like she's asleep.

Ashwood walks over, and puts a finger to her neck. "Pulse." He announces, after a couple second. "Faint, though. And she feels cold." Thinking on that remark, you walk over and put a hand on her cup of coffee, it to is cold, colder than room temperature. "What is this?" You ask aloud. "Enchantment. Powerful sorcery." Says Gespenst, helpfully. "The mist makes all within sleep." Ashwood looks down at the skull. "And we are not effected because?" "The spell is made for mortals. Your friend here draws upon a higher power, and even in a skull, I am to potent for it to even draw near." You look down, and notice now that the mist isn't even touching you, it flows around you.

>>18085719

Right, we should hang out with the haunted skull of a 100 year old Nazi necromancer. This is a good plan.

>>18085795
>>18085756

Perhaps when it is not CRISIS TIME, you can ask Ashwood. Especially since, last you heard, the skull wasn't all in one piece. At least since 1960.

>>18085803

Since I already moved past that point in the narrative, I'll just explain here that the Staff isn't that inherently magical, maybe a slightly better focus for necromancy than a normal one. But since it belonged to Gespenst, it has a powerful symbolic value.

>>18085795
Actually, he sounds kinda chummy, to me.

>>18085829
So them pacts are giving us soem extra protection, then, that we hadn't expected?

>>18085871
>hang out
He LIVED history. The kind of history that is in a museum that we are going to right now.
What history major wouldn't want to ask Hitler questions?

>>18085829
Well, as long as the intern seems safe, let's keep going towards the exhibit.

>>18085829

"So why didn't it reach us in the storage rooms?" Its Ashwood's turn to wonder aloud. "Zhat, I do not know." Says Gespenst. You have a think about it, and recall something from your Tremor Sense earlier. "Air handling." You say. "Huh?" say a student and a skull together. "The storage area has heavy air handling. Combine it with the outside door type seals, it's pretty cut off or filtered from the air out here."

Ashwood nods, and places his tablet down on the desk. "Alright, from where we are, the exhibit is directly opposite us. But, the museum is shaped such so that two wings go around, which meet at that area." He gestures with his hands at the map to demonstrate. "The best chance we have to catch him or his accomplices is to split up, and try who ever finds him to slow him down, while the other cuts him off." You nod. It's a sensible plan. "We can keep in contact with the headset. You take around this way, to the front, through the modern exhibits and the lobby. I'll take the back, through the more ancient wing."

>>18085883

Basically, the enchantment isn't strong enough, or focused enough to affect people with a strong magical aura, or similar. Since Dan has his pacts, on the magicometer, he registers like a full-blown Magister. And Gespenst is really fucking powerful. Or would be if he still had hands.

>>18085920

I think a lot of people would like to ask Hitler questions. But talking to Hitler would be safer than Gespenst. Hitler didn't raise thousands from their graves or make an engine which ran on ghosts.

>>18086044
Which is why we want to talk to Gespenst more.

>>18086044
I don't think Veritas would allow us to refuse a necromancy lesson from Gespenst. We would lose willpower for that. As such, let's do it.

>My shift ended early. Less money, but more MRQ. I call that a win.

>>18086094
I don't think the pact would be a problem with it. Ashwood on the other hand...

>>18086133
We're not turning down knowledge as long as it's being denied to us.

>>18086044
Hey, is there anything objectively unethical in this setting about necromancy, or is it just a tool that is good/evil based on how you use it?

>>18086140
Exactly.

>>18086148
Probably depends on who you ask.

>>18086148

Well, the obvious use of Necromancy, IE, animating dead and so on, is pretty evil. Desecrating corpses, and all that. But either anti-undead (which, y'know, is also Necromancy) and other spells which manipulate life forces can be good or bad. Magic is usually neutral, except for in the Dresden Files sense that you need to believe in the spell you do to do it.

>>18086021

So, are we going ahead with Ashwood's plan of attack, or you just going to stand knee deep in magic mist?

>>18086252
Going with his plan of attack, yes. It's solid.

>>18086252
derpderpderp. Let's do it.

>>18086252
Yeah, I assumed we we just going with it. Ashwood is smart, if kind of a jerk. For what it's worth, I'm casting my vote into the 'fuck it, let's learn necromancy' camp.

>>18086226
Is there any sort of donating your body to science-type thing for necromancers? Something that makes reanimation less shady? If not, well, the non-undead uses of necromancy still sound quite useful.

>>18086281

(Doing so at this point would slow you down. Also, Gespenst isn't offering atm, given that Ashwood still has his rock hammer.)

>>18086268
>>18086277

You nod to Ashwood. "Let's do it, then." He packs up his tablet, draws his HF Katana again, and you both head out of the offices, back into the Museum proper, passing some more asleep people on the way, including a guard in a chair by the door, who may have been out like a light before magic got involved. You and Ashwood part ways, and you find yourself in an area on the Vietnam War/Hiveling Invasion of the 70s.

>How do you move through the museum?

>>18086368
Can we into silent Air Evocation boosted running?

>>18086368
Low, fast, and stealthily. Use Air Evocation to muffle our movements again and use the obscuring mists to our advantage. Also, turn on mage sight. This dude has to be a pretty potent mage, so we should see him well it advance.

>>18086383

I'm already cutting you guys a lot of slack, Evocation miracle wise. So I'm going to say you cannot into speed boost and stealth boost at the same time.

>>18086383
I think if we get our Air on, it's either stealth or speed, not both. In which case I'd go for stealth right now.

Of course, I could be wrong.

>>18086399
Just checking. Stealth it shall be, then.

>>18086419
>>18086389
>>18086407

(2x7 on Evocation, adding 2 dice to your Stealth check)

"Cactoc." you mutter, remembering the spell you used earlier. The pressure fills your ears again, and you feel a little heavy. You proceed slowly, and carefully, opening up your magesight.

(No matches on Stealth or Magesight)

... Turns out the Magesight was a terrible plan. The mist, which was mildly obscuring before, becomes very opaque, under the scrutiny of your Mage senses. This makes it a lot harder to move around, even with your sounds muffled, as occasionally you bump into something hidden by the mist, or place you feet wrong. Its not like you tripped over a suit of armor or anything, but you're no Solid Snake.

After turning your Magesight off (Ironically seeing better without it and just relying on your native night vision), you reach the entrance to the section you were in earlier, on the Cyrean war. You think you hear quick, light movement in the room.

>>18086578
Take a look in, see if it's a stranger or a museum employee who was lucky enough to not be affected by the spell.

>>18086578
>>18086607
Yeah, I got nothing to add, or I would.

>>18086607
If it was, the mist would've knocked them out.

Instead, let's just try to get a bead on them and start firing.

>>18086734
Unless they have someone with some inherent magic on staff. We can't assume something like that. Look, THEN shoot if it's a baddie.

>>18086607

You move forward into the exhibit room, hanging low. You catch a glimpse of a person on the far side. They're wearing dark clothing, and carrying something in both arms, a staff, a rifle? You can make out that she is female, and as you stalk closer you can make out more detail. Is that... animal ears, and a tail?

Then one of her canid ears flicks, you here something 'click' faintly, and she turns on a heel and opens fire on full auto with her FUCKING MACHINE GUN. Luckily, she is on the opposite side of the armor display, so those catch most of the spray, as you dive for cover against the weapon displays. She swears in a language you're not familiar with, (Something Germanic, but not quite. Dutch, maybe? Afrikaans?) and starts backing up.

(2x7, 2x10 and 3x2 on Trauma check, no willpower loss)

You catch your breath, getting much more used to automatic fire being pointed in your direction than you should. You press your back up to the case, as she fires again, realizing your bare arms make it real hard for her to not see where you are, even in the dark. Assuming whatever gave her wolf features didn't enhance her senses.

Her fire smacks into the display cases, sending fragments of glass and wood scattering everywhere. The case containing the power modules falls over, and breaks spilling its contents. Including something you didn't see before, tucked under the soft felt cover that the other three rested in. It rolls over and hits your foot.

>>18086800
Well if THAT'S not a gift from the gods, I don't know what is!

Sounds like it's time to install a new module!

>>18086800
What is the thing? Is it a new power module? If so, bottom's up!

>>18086800
Do we still have our gloves on? That is, can we handle a module without immediately absorbing it?

The museum might not like it if we just gobbled it up.

>>18086815
>>18086816

You pull off you gloves, and reach out for the module. Somebody out there is looking out for you. You grasp it, and the familiar sensation runs up your arm, gathering in your chest this time. The memories flood you, as you understand how to use your new power.

(Barrier Module obtained! With its Interference extra, you may roll the the Barrier pool to reduce the width of any attacks made on you or equal or lower than the height of your Barrier roll)

She's quickly backing up, out the room, and you only have a split second to act before she drops out of sight, and you're going to have to handle this even more cautiously. The weapon displays are broken right open, and within easy reach. You can grab one if you want. There are both melee and projectile weapons.

>Take one?
>Plasma Rifle
>Shard Rifle
>Plasma Pistol
>Ghostsword
>Ghostpike
>Leave It

Before we pick up the delicious new powerup let's set up Option to return fire.

>>18086886
"When the case blew up, it rolled over and touched my bare skin before I knew what had happened."

Air fucking tight.

>>18086905
Throw up a barrier, toss out option, lob a psibolt, keep dodging. Pick any option(s).

>>18086905
Take the plasma pistol, and go after her.

Shields up! Red alert!

>>18086905
Full Barrior, Full option her in the legs.

>>18086909
I still don't have to like it, damnit. Whatever, though.

Before anyone asks, yes, the weapons are still loaded. Their biometrically slaved to the Cyrean genome, so they are inert, which means its very hard to get the nuclear batteries out. And what would people do with those, anyway?

>>18086905
I like the idea of the pistol and if possible the sword too, however I am curious about how long that pike is...

>>18086998
We won't get to keep them. They're museum property. Let's go with the tried and true psibolt while our life depends on it.

>>18087017
Maybe they'll be SO grateful that they'll just give em to us!

A man can dream.

>>18087017
This. We don't really have much skill with actual guns, any way.

>>18086998

The shaft is about four feet long, with another five-feet ish of blade. It's configured like a glaive, guan dao or naginata. W+1 in K, Pen 2, and great for blocking, too.

>>18087017

B-but... guns!

>>18087026

Wont get good either, unless you practice.

>>18087044

Meant that as another foot-ish of blade, so like, five feet long over all. I'm a tiny bit distracted by trying to get food.

>>18087044
And a meuseum is no place for target practice! Think of the damage we could do if we missed with an energized plasma bolt!

>>18087044
This is neither the time nor place to practice! They have firing ranges for that.

>>18087062

You could take a melee weapon, or the Shard Rifle.

Also, you raise this point AFTER the enemy has engaged you with a machine gun?

>>18087062
>>18087076
Excellent point. I withdraw my suggestion of taking the plasma pistol.

>>18087080
Well, when they catch her with the machine gun they'll know who to blame for the bullet holes.

When they catch us with the plasma weapon, they'll know who to blame for the scorch marks.

Also we might accidentally destroy some knowledge. Even if it wouldn't technically break our pact, it's still something to be avoided on principle.

Take the polearm, it sounds badass. More reach is never a bad thing.

>>18087080
Just because she's not caring to be respectful of historical artifacts doesn't mean we can't be.

The sword could be useful, we still have our knife in hand, don't we?

>>18087044
assuming we have genetic training with the glaive/pike I say we take that, best reach with the lowest likelihood of collateral damage and we always do have, as was pointed out, psibolts for ranged

>>18087080
Lob a ball of friction at the ruddy machine gun!
>>18087098
You're taking a polearm to a projectile fight, boy.

I wonder what we'd get out of Barrier + Wisp Program. Also we should probably radio Ashwood at some point

>>18087107
Yes, but as we've already demonstrated, taking a gun would be a bad idea.

>>18087113
Which is why I'm suggesting throwing a psibolt. Picking up a melee weapon is just wasting time while we're getting shot at. We need to neutralize the threat with our most accurate, most powerful attack. Not spend valuable seconds picking up something (admittedly cool-looking) that won't be of actual use to us in this fight.

Wait a minute. You guys are recommending Psibolt? And you want no collateral damage?

Do I NEED remind you of the parking meter incident?

>>18087130
I don't give a shit about collateral damage. I'm recommending a psibolt for reasons of ending the fight fast and decisively. We're being fucking shot at.

>>18087108
Pure speculation:
Wisp + Barrier = light screen
Barrier + Psibolt = wall of force
Barrier + Senses = something psychic senses cannot penetrate

>>18087130
Aim low?

We're also at least a little more proficient with the bolts, aren't we?

>>18087137
You are the only person who does not give a shit about collateral damage.

Keep in mind that if we were to destroy a source of knowledge in this museum by missing a psibolt, that could be construed as breaking the pact with Veritas.

>>18087147
We're in an area with uncommon but not unique artifacts from the Cyrean war. We aren't at risk of that right now. Even if we were, I would rather lose the pact than, you know, GET SHOT TO DEATH.

>>18087161
Except she just ran into another exhibit if I'm not mistaken.

>>18087147
We'd have to willfully destroy it. We'd have to say, "I'mma fuck up this one of a kind book, with information no where else on earth!" and that would break the pact. Accidentally breaking something, probably not.

>>18087174
She's in the process of backing out of the room. She's still in it.

>>18087177
Just like how walking away from an invisible combatant of whom we are unaware doesn't count as fleeing for the purpose of Nerio's pact, I expect.

Grab a Shard Rifle (it's a HIGHLY powerful/long-range Sniper Rifle), so we can duke it out at range. We should probably also use our Earth-Skate ability to catch up somewhat.

Running away: We've defeated worse by just burning a few willpower.

>>18086905

You reach into the the display case, and unhook the pole arm, bringing it to rest in a ready position in your hands. You shoot a glance over the lip, and you see wolf-girl kick the doors out of the exhibit open behind her, and get ready to retreat into the next room. No or never.

(2x1 on Barrier, no matches on Psibolt to gun. Not that it would destroy the gun, because those are actually kind of hardy in WT, apparently)
(She gets 2x7 and 2x9 on her attack, and can use both because Spray, but HAR 3 in the torso stops it)

You summon your barrier, which descends around you in a kind of purplish mantle, like a covering of glass or plastic. Very Mass Effect. You jump to a crouch, couching the polearm in your off-hand, and get ready to lob a Psibolt.

She was waiting for this moment, and puts a controlled burst downrange. At least two bullets slam into your armor plate, bounding off in a shower of sparks, and shrapnel which abrase you lightly, and send you stumbling a couple paces back. Luckily, Cyrean armor is incredibly tough to penetrate with out special ammunition, or concentrated fire, so you're whole, but she's backing out of the room, into a long, narrow display gallery. You'll have less cover in there, but she'll have less maneuvering room.

>>18087265
Contact Ashwood, lob a psibolt at her legs, move up to the doorway, taking cover on one side.

>>18087265
Chuck a psibolt at her head. Try to take her down quickly and cleanly.

>>18087310
I gotta admit, head shots do seem to have worked out quite well for us in the past.

>>18087301
Let's do this, but instead of aiming for the legs lets spend some willpower and aim for the head.

>>18087326

This is because miracles to width in Shock and Killing damage, and the head only has 4 wound boxes. So 2x10 with a power is an insta-drop.

>>18087371
Yup, so let's lob a psibolt at her head.

>>18087378
>>18087310
>>18087326

(You guys wont believe this, because I don't either, but no 10s on the Called Shot - Head. Rolling 8 dice)

You jump back to your feet, standing up full to get a good shot at her, and hurling the bolt at her head with all your accuracy.

Then the door swings shut on the bolt, which knocks it off axis, and means that there is now a smoking half-circle in one of the double doors, and the enemy is unfazed. So much for that plan.

You rush up to the wall by the door, and call Ashwood. "Ashwood," You say into the earbud, trying to be quiet. "Got one, but I don't think she's the mage. For one thing, she's firing a goddamn machine gun." You hear the sound of Ashwood breathing heavy as he turns on his mic. "I heard. I've got him in my sights, moving into the prehistory gallery. He's fast for a ponce in robes!" Ashwood seems a little frustrated. "I don't think I can catch him before the exhibit, but I'll try and corner him there. You either hold up or take out the machine-gunner, and we can bag them both." He breaks the connection. Easier said than done.

>>18087442
Fuck all.

>>18087442
Take her down, then try to coordinate with Ashwood to outflank the other one. Would this be a good time to roll Tactics?

Now might be the time to consider >>18087263 's plan. Because you can see in the dark, and there is a hole in the door.

>>18087505
Let's go for it, then.

>>18087498

Could be. You can use Tactics to quote "know how to use terrain, manpower, and equipment to coordinate attacks, prepare and avoid ambushes, outguess and outmaneuver an enemy, and gain the upper hand in battles." unquote.

>>18087524
Then let's roll it to try to come up with a good strategy for taking his machine-gunner out while still leaving us enough time to outflank the dude getting away from Ashwood.

>>18087505
>>18087515
Yeah, alright.

>>18087537

(2x5 and 3x2 on Tactics)

Okay, so here are two options you can see. First, if you really insist on getting closer to her, you can pop Option at the door way in Overwatch mode, and then basically rush from cover to cover while it makes regular attacks on her, and hope your barrier and armor takes care any stray shots she makes which connect.

Or, you can do as >>18087263 said, run back and grab the Shard Rifle, and use the hole in the door as a brace, and basically aim through that, using the door as cover. By the time you're there and back, she'll be pretty much limited to suppressing fire, so you should have time enough to aim for more dice, and take the shot you want. This option is safer, but takes longer.

>>18087581
Hmmm, would it take enough longer that we would probably not be able to help Ashwood? If so, option one. If not, option two.

>>18087608

Maybe like, a minute longer. But if you make up the time in dropping your bad-guy first, you can get to him easy.

>>18087581
I'd rather charge her. If we miss with the rifle, I'm betting that she'll get away.

Perhaps as a third option, we could use Earth Evocation to trip her? I'm assuming that by this point the other mage is too distracted with Ashwood to cut us off.
But if he's not, that's a gamble too.

>>18087629

You do have an effective range of 80 yards with Evocation, so you could try something like that.

>>18087659
Could we fire off the evocation and run backwards to grab the rifle in the same action? Or is that too much?

>>18087679

Walking requires no skill check, so, yes. Of course, her being closer means its also easier for her to shoot you with her machine gun.

>>18087710
My vote is still for option 1.

>>18087710
In that case I think we should just go with the shard rifle.

>>18087735

(2x7 on Evocation - Earth Block)
(She gets 2x10 on an Agility check to evade)

"Canaz Tetica." You say, and smack your palm into the ground. Maybe 35-40 feet down the gallery you hear the sound of the ground moving, a help like a dog, then a woman's voice which shouts "Stront hoofd!" (At least you think that's what she said) But you're to busy making a run back to the weapons case, and pulling the Shard Rifle out from the shatter glass.

As you tuck your hand onto the grip, it comes alive, several patches light up a friendly blue-green color, which you know means it is active. Inside your vision, a set of symbols appears, which you take to read as the Cyrean digits for 16, which you guess is how many shots have. You run back and couch the rifle in the gap in the doors, and peer down the scope at her. She's broken into a full run for the end of the long gallery, as your Earth Hold apparently didn't slow her much.

>>18087860
Spend willpower, take shot.

>>18087874
Seconding this. Pew Pew!

>>18087874

How much Willpower? Speaking of which, WP+2 for taking the module earlier. Self-Improvement.

>>18087901
Four points. Ten dice pool, here we come.

>>18087912
Seconding this.

>>18087901
What is our base roll for the rifle? Coordination+Ranged Weapon? And maybe we should call on a relationship.

>>18087901
Enough points for Ten.

>>18087936
>>18087912

(4 WP spent)
(3x7 on Rifle Roll, she takes three shock and three killing to the torso. She is wearing some kind of armor weave suit, but the Shard Rifle is Pen 4)

You center the scope as best you can on her center of mass, which from behind is the small of the back. You're operating on pure instinct now, following the instructions programmed into you by the modules. You exhale, and take the shot.

A tiny dart, a luminous indigo color, sails through the dark hallway with hardly a sound. Your lack of practical training with guns means you pulled the trigger a little two hard, and the dart of crystal material punctures her right shoulder, sailing through and through with a tiny spray of blood, and probably embedding in the wall in the next room over. She swears and stumbles, then tucks herself behind an objet d'art sitting in a display case in the middle of the gallery, pokes the MG around the corner, and lets loose a burst of suppressing fire, emptying the rest of her beta mag in your direction. A shitload of glass breaks.

(She gets a 2x1 and 2x8 on Supressing Fire, and you actually roll a 1 on the Scatter die, so Dan would take that match, except the Barrier matches that location, so no match)

You instinctively drop down, cradling the shard rifle to your chest as you do. Bullets spray randomly, but she aimed high, so most of them go astray, either hitting around the door, or passing harmlessly through the top half of it. One stray round smacks your leg, but is repulsed in a flash by your Barrier, which dissipates afterward.

>>18088061
Take another shot.

>>18088061
Barrier back up.

>>18088090

No line of sight. Are you suggesting you put a shot through the display case?

>>18088096
>>18088090
Yes

>>18088122
Wait for a shot, then

>>18088122
Can we throw up Option in a place where she doesn't have cover?

We could try an earth evocation to force her out of cover, followed by another shot.

>>18088152

The option may attack at range, but you still have to summon it next to you. You could put it on Overwatch, and have it take a shot if she pops out from cover, though.

>>18088192
Never mind, then. Go with one of the other options.

>>18088173
Going to go ahead and second this as the best option.

>>18088266
>>18088173

(No matches, which means you loose a Willpower due to the WP Bid stipulation on Evocation.)
(Also, she recovers 2 damage from all locations automatically. I'll start with the Killing, so she has 3 S and 1 K to torso)

"Coliniz tlalli!" You make a sweeping gesture with your hand. You feel the earth shift... then do nothing. The spell fizzles, either because you lacked concentration, or maybe because you couldn't visualize it properly. She takes this opportunity to sprint for the door. You take a pot shot, but without time to aim it properly, it smacks into the stone-work above the door, doing nothing by dropping some chips of debris down on her as she shoulder charges the door, reloading her MG. Tonight is just not your night, apparently.

>>18088368
Do we have time for another shot?

>>18088368
GOGDAMNIT

oh well, couldn't be perfect at everything I guess. Better this than something that costs us our life.

Run on over to Ashwood and see if we can't at least get the damned magus.

>>18088386

Closest route to Ashwood is dead ahead.

>>18088452
Is that a 'no' on having time for another shot, then?

>>18088368
Would not-pursuing her count as running away from a fight for the purposes of Nerio?

>>18088452
Through the door she's at, right?

>>18088471
I doubt it, our target ran from the fight and we're running into another fight.

>>18088467

She dived through the door, basically. You could again blind-fire, but you're not THAT awesome at shooting to begin with.

>>18088471

Since it's not running away from a fight, but fleeing a challenge you know you can beat (Which is true, you already shot her up pretty good once), yes, it would cost to a Willpower.

>>18088483

Yes. She actually went through the doors into the main lobby, but that is the shortest route to Ashwood's location

Is anyone else suspecting Ashwood of being the evil Magus here? Im just getting a bad vibe from him.

>>18088546
Chase that bitch down!

>>18088546
Then persue we must.

>>18088546
is Lining up a shot, and wait for her to show herself viable?

>>18088570
She's running away and out of sight. We need to chase her or she's just going to get away.

Get dat bitch

>>18088578
Then we chase, reupping the barrier

First, Tactics to get our barrings to follow her across the room as fast as we can. Speed up, then skate for the average length of time it takes for the opposing mage to dispel. If we're lucky, this means another shot at the gunner, then we can speed over using the running training we've been doing to get to the mage asap.

>>18088580
>>18088563
>>18088561

(For pursuing the Virtue of Courage, your relationship with Nerio is automatically added to all your rolls for the rest of this encounter)

You sling the pike and the shard rifle over your shoulders, where they conveniently stick to the back of your Cyrean armor. Then you fucking sprint down the gallery, a full dead run, and smash through the double doors into the lobby. You stand at the top of a flight of stone steps going down into a dip in the lobby center, where ticketing and information is.

You can see her running, still struggling a little, at the bottom of the next stair, which leads up to the "Hall of Heroes and Villains" display you were at earlier, then into the greater Metahuman exhibit. Despite the mist, you can see her pretty clearly now, with the light of the street spilling in adding color to your vision. Her hair is cut short, grey colored, and she does, in fact, have wolf ears and a tail, of the same color. You can also see she has an SMG strapped to her back, and a pistol with a silencer attached at her hip. Her black ninja-catsuit has a bit of an iridescent sheen to it, but you can clearly see the dark stain of blood from where to shot her last.

>Options:
>Use parkour skills to charge down the stairs, engage at close quarters
>Fire a shot down from the vantage point to take her out
>Take a third option.

>>18088590

(2x6 on Barrier Re-Up)

>>18088650
Shit, both of the first two sound really good.

>>18088650
Voting for parkour - this kind of situation is EXACTLY why we trained for it.

Also because it was cool.

>>18088650

Air parkour skills

Flying tackle + Ghostknife = FATALITY

>>18088682

More like flying vault + ghostpike

>>18088693
Even better

>>18088693

did we lose our ghostknife at some point?

>>18088700
No, but we picked up a ghostpike and I'm feeling that at least one anon (and Omega) is a spearfag. So, we're going to use it to pole vault and stab.

>I'm a knifefag...

>>18088700

No, but you only have so many hands. Besides, Pike is better reach and damage.

>>18088682
This, But go for trying to pin her tothe ground of a wall or something. if the pike is anything like the Ghostknife, it should go through easy enough.
i guess a willpower on that maneuver?

>>18088711

I prefer swords, actually, but you guys went for the polearm when I said to have a go at picking one. I assume Dan chooses to use his most effective tool for whatever you decide to have him do.

rolled 28 = 28

>>18088713
how can we git more hands?

>>18088713

Eh, might as well. actually, can we just hamstring her? Potentially valuable source of information (knowledge) about what in the hell is going on here.

>>18088728
Lots of ways, anon.

Lots of ways.

>>18088730
She has regen. We need to nail her to something.

>>18088736
Yup. Preferably with more than one nail. To the floor.

>>18088730

It is called "make a called shot to leg". If you want to make sure you take out the leg, you'll need to drop 3 dice from the pool (one for called shot, two to double up on Powerful Attack maneuver) then you set one to 1, I guess, and hope for a match. That'll to 5K and disable that leg.

rolled 24 = 24

>>18088735
i was thinking a second set like goro from mk

>>18088766
She has regen, though, so let's pin her to something. Floor, wall, whatever. Damn it, I wish we had handcuffs or zip ties right now.

>>18088735
>>18088730
>>18088767

Roxane could make you robot arms.

rolled 58 = 58

>>18088767
SURELY the aliens have a way of grafting a second set of arms onto our body...

>>18088766

Well, do that then.

rolled 11 = 11

>>18088735
yea I like the SICENCE in robot arms them seam less like self improvement and more artificial enhancement

lets get like a fucking peat store full of animals som mutagens and radiation then have them bite the fuck out of us

We could go the Deus Ex route and get prosthetic arms, that would probably be the easiest and see the most return, but would also be the most expensive. Unless we're talking military grade prostheses, in which case it would suddenly get much harder.

We could try to get in contact with Dr. Moreau again, and see if she'd be willing to muck around in our genetic code again. I suppose we could also try to find another geneticist to do this. The new arms would be just as good as our current arms, and I would imagine we'd have better control of them from the get go as well.

We could look into getting a superior graft, though this raises all kinds of questions. Like where do we get better arms? And how do we convince someone else to stick them onto us without raising all kinds of alarms?

>>18088848
I think replacing our arms would cause us to loose all of the Cyrean powers whose runes are on our arms. Also, this who idea is fucking stupid.

>>18088848
I like to imagine that Dan is debating this with himself while flying through the air. Like he's just got a full minute of hang time due to slow motion and he's just got this internal monologue going "Hey, I wonder if I could get more arms? Man, that'd be SWEET."

>>18088854
I meant for all of those to be in addition to our current arms.

>>18088858
Oh, that's great.

>>18088781

Omega, a question.

Say, way back when, had we picked the hiveling biotech option when we first met Eve, what powers would we have gained? Control over hiveling drones? The ability to commune with a hiveling queen?

Using parkour seems like a good idea, but busting through the door probably made too much noise. Unless we can buff our barrier a bit more, it'd probably be better to dump more WP into the shot (then again, since we are getting bonii here, if we can buff the barrier a bit and engage at close quarters, avoiding her gunfire which WILL be on us, CC could work).

>>18088779
>>18088736
>>18088743

(3x9 on Agility Test)

It. Is. Fucking. GO TIME. You draw the pike from your back with a single flourish, shift your weight forward, and hop up onto the railing of the steps, sliding down in just your shoes, keeping your balance perfectly due to your fresh parkour-training. She pivots, trying to bring the gun up on you to fire.

(2x4 and 2x7 on your Melee attack)
(She rolls 2x2 and 2x6 on her gun attack, which both your sets beat, so her sets are ruined, and she takes 3 killing to torso)

You take a flying leap, as she starts firing, and thrust forward with the polearm. It is very Wuxia. She tries to bring the machine gun around, but the blade slips inside her guard, and into her torso, driving her back a couple paces. She coughs up some blood, which spatters your arms, chest and neck.

Then she snarls at you like a wild animal, bearing some very pointy teeth.

rolled 53 = 53

>>18088940
That pic to me just screams...bestiality.

ANYWAY! I say we go for a dramatic, around the back spin that ends with slicing her in half, or maybe just slicing her leg off...don't want her running away.

>>18088940

Quick! Grab her by the throat and keep her chompers at bay!

>>18088940
Push harder, pin her to something.

>>18088960
boris vallejo, looks like the boobs and manjunk were censored/cropped.

>>18088888

I probably (actually not probably, would) have done another sub-list, like I did for the Gene Splicing. Telepathic command & control could have been one of the options, along with other powers, like spitting acid or self-igniting substances, or bioweave skin armor. Or hey, you could have got self-ejecting bone-spikes like Ms. Africa did.

>>18088940
Time to snark it up like Spiderman, that way she'll stay and fight rather than think things through and start running again.

"A puppy, appropriate for being such a huge BITCH."

If anyone has better snark, then by all means.

rolled 61 = 61

>>18088989
That's...pretty good. Especially if we say it very contemptuously and amused.

I was thinking a "Why don't you turn around and raise your tail for me..." But that seemed too...rape-y.

>>18088984

Huh. Cool. And is our furry adversary actually a loup-garou, or something else? Because Loup-Garous are awesome, except for the whole weakness to frogs thing....

>>18089009
Funny, but yeah. Too erotic.

>>18089009

"I think we know who's the leader of the pack here!"

....nope, still sounds rapey.

>>18089036
At that rate, we may as well just scream "Submit, bitch!" at her with some Command + Intimidate roll or something. Worst case scenario, we go to prison for attempted rape. Best case, we have a crazy werewolf bitch following us around with a huge unrequited crush on us.

>>18088989

(2x9 on Intimidate for put down)
(2x4 and 3x3 on Stability, so she looses the opposed test, so she'll loose some dice on what she does next. Also, her regen will take care of the two shock left over from the bullet wound, since the 3K you did was caused by an object still up in dem guts)

You decide to utilize the Peter Parker school of fighting villains, and mock her. "A puppy. How appropriate since you're such a huge bitch." She swears at you in Dutch again (You're pretty sure its dutch) and tries to bring her gun around again. However, both arms and the gun are trapped on the wrong side of your body and spear. Since she's distracted, it might be a good idea to decide on how to disable her.

rolled 68 = 68

>>18089060
...I think I've read a plot line like that somewhere but damn it that does sound interesting...We could let Roxy do SCIENCE! to her...

>>18089060

......second.

>>18089036
Yeah, you really can't do any sort of a dominance thing now because of furries.

Maybe something more like, "Ooh, scary. Keep that up and I'll have to put you down like Old Yeller."
"Aww, is the widdle poodle used to getting her hair primped instead of getting her ass handed to her?"

Just keep throwing one of these out every action.

>>18089094
Pin her to the wall/floor.

rolled 51 = 51

>>18089094
I still vote for removing a limb. Either the arm connected to the hand that's connected to her trigger finger, or a leg, or both.

>>18089094
As for an action, let's punch her in the snout to establish dominance. I don't care who you are, a dog nose is sensitive as fuck. That's the price you pay of enhanced scent.

And by punch, I of course mean push a psiblast into her face.

>>18089121
Bro, that is seriously fucked up. Dismemberment is a terrible thing to do to a person.

>>18089139
Well, it's less bad because she can regen. But you're right, I'd rather not do that unless she forces our hand.

>>18089136
This. Point-blank psi-bolt to the face...NO! PSIBOLT BITCH SLAP!

>>18089136
Agreed.

>>18089136
Supporting this.

>>18089021

Nope, just a cold war-era Wolf Gene Splice. Ears, Tail, Fangs and Eyes are the only visible non-human parts. Which in reality actually makes her pretty fucking creepy.

>>18089060

If you want to get her to surrender, that would be another Command+Intimidate. If you're trying to get her to flip sides on you, that's Command+Leadership or Charm+Persuasion. But you should keep in mind that she may have some ingrained loyalty to not you you'd have to over come.

>>18089147
How do you know she can regen a severed body part rather than just heal really fast?

>>18089148
"What did the five fingers say to the face!?"

Hate to interrupt, but aren't we supposed to stop the mage who's stealing a VERY powerful artefact?

Either beat her into a coma, or kill her, but lets deal with the situation at hand.

>>18089160
Pin her while doing some sort of panties-droppingly-dominant Command-based thing.

>>18089163
If that's the case we can basically just sew the limb back on and it'll take care of itself as long as it's not necrotic.

PSIBOLT PAWNCH!

>>18089178
Unless, because of the regeneration, it instantly heals into a stump.

>>18089170
Oh...yah...

Let's knock her unconscious and pin her to the ground for good measure, can we use the shard rifle to nail her in place?

>>18089188
At which point you cut it open again so that the limb will take. This is a stupid argument though.

>>18089163
>>18089178
>>18089188
>>18089197
My god, that would be an awful experience.

>>18089197
You're making a lot of assumptions that aren't safe to make.
>>18089194
I was thinking stick her to the ground with the spear, knock her out, and tip something heavy onto her in case she wakes up.

>>18089173

This man has my vote.

>>18089214
Yeah, same here.

>>18089214
Third. After we psi-slap her.

>>18089173
Thirded

If we dump more willpower into the Command + Persuasion roll, we MAY be able to convince the girl to listen to us. This'd require a new relationship. It'd also be filled with win.'

That said, we need to stop the mage, so lets take care of her one way or another, and stop the mage.

rolled 28 = 28

couldn't we just earth magic her into the ground?

>>18089247
Yeah, I think everyone is in favor of ending this, especially via verbally dominating her into submission.

>>18089181
>>18089166
>>18089148
>>18089136
>>18089149
>>18089155

(You have discovered that your Psibolt also has Augment! You can add the Psibolt dice to your Body+Brawl die pool for a PSIBOLT PAWNCH)
(3x10 on Brawl, Called Shot - Head. She takes 3 shock to the head, and it also fucking sucks. For her.)

You summon a psibolt into your off hand, still keeping the spear couched and braced in your other. You clench your fist around the bolt, and suddenly you feel it envelop your hand, shrouding it in an aura of blue energy. "Sit!" You say, and cold-cock her right in the fucking nose. She yelps, and falls over limp, sliding off the end of your spear. The gun clatters to the floor. She's sitting on her ass, one hand clamped over her broken nose, the other holding her sucking chest wound. Which is getting less sucking by the second.

(cont)

Omega, you still here?

>>18089173
>>18089214
>>18089220
>>18089227
>>18089231
>>18089247
>>18089263

(2x1, 2x7 and 2x10 on Leadership to BEFRIEND)
(2x3, 2x4, 2x5 and 2x6 on Stability to resist on her part, which does not gobble the 2x10s you rolled)

"Stay." You follow up on your one-liner, threateningly pointing the ghostpike at her. You have got to get you one of these. "Fuck." She says, he words heavily garbled by the nose bleed, and her own atrocious accent. She is not a strong English speaker on a good day. "I yield." You think she says. "Goddamn vigilantes..." She mutters, low, but not low enough you can't hear. She actually looks pretty pale, and you wonder how quick the blood loss recoups.

You look her over, realizing now some interesting things about her. She's in her mid-twenties, you'd guess, she's also taller than you, and from what you can tell from the very tight 'cat'-suit, her muscles are even better defined than yours. Her nails are longer and darker than normal, and look thicker. Her eyes are golden, and the irises unsually large. And on a not supernormal scale, you'd guess she's mixed race. She's also wearing some kind of black metal amulet, in the shape of a deer skull. Wonder what's up with that. She takes a couple seconds to unclip her gun-belts, letting those fall to the floor, then resumes holding her wounds and panting heavily. You use your foot to kick them away a bit.

(cont)

>>18089560

Ashwood comes in on the other line. "Fortesque, status update?" He's speaking in low, hushed tones now, like he doesn't want to be over-heard. "I got the accomplice," You say. "Only a little ways from the exhibit." There is a pause. "Good," Reports back Ashwood. "He's in the exhibit now, but I'm right on his tail, I'm pretty sure he's watching the door. I need you to bust in from the other side, so we can catch him by surprise." You nod into the air. "On my way." You check the wolf-chick again, and notice some zip-ties hanging off a hook on her left side. "Yoink." You say, as you grab a pair, and put them on her wrists, with nothing more than a glare. You stand back up, and start walking toward the exhibit at a quick pace. "Remember what I said!" You call over your shoulder. "Whatever, motherfucker." She growls, and lies down on the floor, and tries to bleed less.

>>18089509

There was typing to be done, and images to be made.

Speaking of which, if anyone is better at image making than me and paint and using the roflbot generator, could someone make me like, and "Advice Dan" image template? Because that would be sweet.

>>18089588
What base image shall I use?

>>18089588
That isn't my Dan. This is my Dan.

>>18089568
Let's go for it! Full motherfucking speed!

>>18089598
This one, or

>>18089599
this one. Whichever is preferred.

rolled 100 = 100

>>18089599
>>18089628
Obviously, we need multiple Advice Dan images

This has always been how I imagine Dan's glasses...

>>18089660
the dice gods have spoken, let it be so.

>>18089616
This but throw a Psi Flare into the room as we make our dynamic entrance.

>>18089668

That is pretty much how I imagined they looked too.

>>18089616

Hold your horses there pardner. Im getting a bad feel from this. Do as Ashwood suggested but be on alert. Im getting a back-stabby vibe from Ashwood.

>>18089700

Please, as if the TWEEST would be that obvious.

>>18089700
I'm not. Ashwood could have easily pulled off a heist like this without all the pomp and circumstance. More importantly, he could have pulled it off easier without us here, let alone having invited us along and given us security clearance. Also, he's pretty much saved our asses more than once. Him turning on us now would be the peak of silliness.

4chan won't let me post he link to Advice-Dan, it thinks it's spam.

It's on memegenerator though.

>>18089722
Oh, so you presume yourself above the likes of M Night Shamaindianname

>>18089741
Shamallamadingdong.

>>18089722

I dunno man. Wait......so where is this oh so subtle Tweest?

Johnny?
Roxanne?
Professor Not-Dresden?
Dad?
MOM!?

EVERYONE IS UNDER SUSPICION. TRUST NOTHING.

>>18089763
MOM'S PARTNER!?

>>18089763
DAD'S GIRLFRIEND I'M NOW ASSUMING HE HAS BUT AM IN NO WAY SURE EXIST!?

>>18089733

I'm not seeing it. Is there, like, part of URL you can give me, or anything to narrow the search a little?

Any other requests?

>>18089763
US?
EVOKERS CLUB?

>>18089785
Oh, now it's telling me it's not going to show up on searches yet because it hasn't been approved by the administration. Uh, I could give you the textless version though.

>>18089787
Where's the black one? I want, "Become a wizard, make two faustian pacts."

>>18089732

Maybe this is just a complicated scheme to give him an alliby (allaby? I dunno) for when the Staff of Nazi-Liche gets stolen. we never did ask him why he had the dude's skull since it's supposed to be broken and scattered across the world. And wasn't his soul or spirit stuck in a differant dimension?

>>18089798
Roxy was Moreau the entire time.

>>18089805

>>18089801

Please do. I can use roflbot to insert my own text on it, if I have to.

rolled 51 = 51

>>18089807
There really hasn't been time to ask WTF is up with Gespente's skull

>>18089820
Can we get one of regular-Dan instead of white-Dan?

>>18089809
I'd be okay with that.

>>18089834
Ehhhh but I don't like that version. Blasian Dan looks like he should have a chav accent to me.

>>18089850
Would you kindly do it anyway? I cannot see white-Dan as Dan.

>>18089840
Me too. "Oh, well, want some pancakes? Can you keep your hair like that? I like redheads..."

>>18089858
Oh fine.

>>18089850
Wait, Will Smith is blasian now?

>>18089878
...that wasn't a picture of Will Smith.

>>18089889
Oh...god all black people really DO look alike...

>>18089889
Shit, it isn't? Well I'm fuckin' dumb then. So pretty much par for course.

>>18089901
I thought it was a shot of him from that one golf movie.

>>18089901
It doesn't even look anything like him... You must not have grown up around many black people. People tend to have a hard time differentiating faces among people of ethnicities with which they're unfamiliar. It's not racism, it's a natural but regrettable function of the human brain.

>>18089568

You stalk into the "Hall of Heroes and Villains" gallery, where the 11 Heroes and Villains lie arranged in bold formation. In the darkness, with the cloying mist along the floor, it is much more ominous, dramatic, than when you were here only an hour or more ago.

You move up to the door into the exhibit proper, and listen to it. You think you can here someone muttering on the other side. Looks like its go time.

>How u do dis?

>>18089912
Here's the base picture.

>>18089935
Listen, then DYNAMIC ENTRANCE.

>>18089936
Yeah, I feel all kinds of dumb, now. Fuck everything.

>>18089936
It really does look nothing like will smith. The nose is off, and the lips are too light. Plus the cheekbones are completely different...so basically everything about his face.

>>18089936
And this is Will Smith.

>>18089936

Is that the dude from Hell on Wheels? God, I love that shows opening theme...

>>18089950

To be fair, the Glasses/Gloves edit obscures most of that.

I also did Advice-Justinian Trentz, photoshopped a bunch of dragon pictures into red dragons for Writer-Dude, and introduced Monday to the concept of Quest Threads.

>>18089807
Oh, and it's alibi.

>>18089970
That's not what will smith looks like, it's obviously shopped...

This is what will smith looks like.

>>18089987
Actually, that's Woll Smoth. A common mistake.

>>18089980

Thanks for clearing that up, it was kinda bothering me. Also, good work on the pics man, they look kickass.

>>18089987
Why am I laughing so hard? WHYY?

But any way, let's move on, shall we?

>>18089971
Yeah, it's Common. I purposely used a picture of him with a hat because I don't picture Dan with a shaved head.

>>18090014

....but you do picture him with a beard? .... Nevermind, that's awesome.

>>18090003

Story post here >>18089935

>>18090030
Yes, I do. In my head, males with beards are men and males without beards a boys. I see Dan as a man - in fact, my mental image of him pretty much spontaneously grew a beard during the night club fight.

>>18089947
I'm agreeing with this. Try to listen to the voice, then go in hot.

>>18090056
...That is a very pretty man...no homo.

Never see a black dude pull of freckles.

>>18090065
And those eyelashes, and those lips. He's a really good looking man.

>>18089935
Back on track, fellas:

Ping Ashwood with the radio to let him know you're in position, but don't actually say anything. Then bust open the door and use that element of surprise to Psipunch whoever is on the other side.

>>18090064
Supporting this.

rolled 51 = 51

>>18090086
I think we should crack the door open and get a peek, but then do THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE.

>>18090086

Second. I still dont trust Ashwood though. Not until he gives a damn good reason for having Gespente's skull and by extension spirit.

>>18090064
>>18089947

(2x5 and 2x10 on Perception)

You press your ear to the door, and listen good and hard. At first, you hear something that is definitely quiet swearing, this time in proper German, not just something Germanic. Then the voice shifts to something rythmic, steady. Your spooky sense tingles, and you get the idea he's doing a long form incantation. Which he could be doing to ward the room.

Which would suck.

rolled 83 = 83

>>18090114
I think at some point, we shall end up some sort of glowing, magical, more-than-human transcendent being.

>>18090132
BUST IN. LIGHT HIS ASS UP WITH A PSIBOLT.

>>18090140
>You install your 501st Cyrean Module, you are now comprised entirely of Cyrean runes. Maybe this wasn't the best idea.

>>18090100
Even better, use tremorsense to see past the door. (though the mage might notice magic happening)

Bust the fuck in as quickly as we can and start kicking ass. Psybolts for everyone!

>>18090140

Maybe as our endgame, but we're going to have fun with it on the road there.

rolled 9 = 9

>>18090161
Can this count as a called shot on his rectum.

Are we autosaging?

>>18090132
Bust on up in there and attack to interrupt the spell.

>>18090186
We have 322 replies as of this post. I believe autosage kicks in at 500.

>>18090186

Are we? That's a first.

That means I should make a new thread, right?

>>18090196
I'm pretty sure it's at 300 on this board.
>>18090198
Right.

>>18090196
I ask because well, I haven't seen the thread bump to front page.

>>18090198
We are. Crazy.

Also, >>18090132
Bust in, feels good.
>fuck me, I can't even remember lines right.

>>18090215
Yeah, we're in autosage.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Metahuman%20Renaissance%20Quest

Don't forget to upvote the thread, folks.

>>18090252
...So is Dan's mom Black or Asian? I think the mental image of a black lesbian is...amusing.

>>18090265
Uhh, why?

I know you're not trying to be offensive or anything, and even if you were, it's 4chan. But why is a black lesbian somehow amusing, as opposed to a heterosexual black woman or a homosexual white woman?

New Thread

>>18090274

>>18090279
My brother-in-law's wife is extremely homophobic, so whenever I think of black women that's one of the first things I think of.

>>18090290
Oh ok.

>>18090265
Honestly, I was picturing Dan's dad as a black Indiana Jones, so I'm going to say his mother is Asian. Plus, Fortesque is a name likely inherited by an ancestor from a slave owner. It's a lot less probable for an Asian man to have a French surname than a black man.

>>18090290
So the wife of your spouse's brother, or your sister?