>>25647598
Begin Synchronized Panicing.

Scott. Try to look up for something out of focus. Do you see a "points" and "hitpoints" bar up there?

>>25647598
Okay, we need to decide if we're going to call for those Marines in the sewers to come help us, or direct them somewhere else, or something. Those Xenomorphs are sitting outside trying to figure out how to get to us.

The exit strategy was to get a vehicle from the motor pool and get mobile while we figured out where the portal was. Is there a map of the building or something in here to tell us where the vehicles in this place would be located? We need to know how far we have to go for that plan.

>>25647685
I think we should simply wait for the Marines to start attacking the hive, and when the xenomorphs outside move to protect the hive, we give the Marines a heads-up that xenos are coming out of the buildings and entering the sewers.

We need them to attack the hive in order to keep to Canon, but this gives them a heads-up so that they're not completely caught unawares.

>>25647658
"I'd ask if you're on drugs, but you're a disembodied voice in my head, so I guess I have to ask if I'M on drugs," Scott grumbles.

"What'd you say?" Elyse asks, frowning with concern.

"Nothing," Scott says quickly.

>>25647685
"Everyone look around for a map of the building," Scott says, looking around.

"Sure thing boss," Fat-Fot-Pot says, floating around the room.

"You got it, doc," Charlie says, rummaging around while Elyse does the same in silence.

Roll 4d100.

In addition, I'm taking the suggestion of someone in a Quest General and making the following rules change. Dumb Luck points now let you reroll with three dice, taking the best result.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/arcade/583716-alien-vs-predator/faqs has more info on this game.

Here is some info on some of the Xenos we may meet.

1. Warriors
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Type: Alien(Xenomorph)
Color: Black
Energy: Medium-High
Abilities: Claw Attack, Venomous Tail Whack, Multiple Acid Spit
Appearance: All except Round 5

a. Claw Attack: Some aliens will do it faster than others, but nonetheless
it's predictable from most of them. They'll either crawl up to you and do it
or do it when you're close to them.

b. Venomous Tail Whack: The aliens will do the same movements as when they
are about to execute a claw attack, but this time they have their tails to
do the job for a little more damage. There's nothing to worry about as the
animation for the tail attack is much slower for lower level aliens, but
fast for higher level ones.

c. Multiple Acid Spit: This move is predictable no doubt. Warriors will
jump back and then do a acid spit if you are in a range that aligns with
their position. Every alien will telegraph some sort of animation before
they do a acid spit. And the acid spit is close range, so staying far
would deal you no harm.

Rolled 29, 71, 73, 97 = 270

>>25647734
Here comes the first failure of the night.

Rolled 12, 74, 76, 17 = 179

2. Stalkers
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Type: Alien(Xenomorph)
Color: Brownish-White
Energy: Low
Abilities: Claw Attack, Extending Bite, Venomous Tail Whack, Jumping Pounce
Appearance: All except Round 5

a. Claw Attack: Some aliens will do it faster than others, but nonetheless
it's predictable from most of them. They'll either crawl up to you and do it
or do it when you're close to them.

b. Venomous Tail Whack: The aliens will do the same movements as when they
are about to execute a claw attack, but this time they have their tails to
do the job for a little more damage. There's nothing to worry about as the
animation for the tail attack is much slower for lower level aliens, but
fast for higher level ones.

c. Extending Bite: This move is fast for ALL aliens(although some aliens
will do it slower than others). The good thing is that this ability is close
range, so using range attacks will prevent them from getting to you with
this move. All aliens HAVE to stand before they can execute this move, so
be careful of their movements.

d. Jumping Pounce: Ya, you got it right. They will jump at you causing
damage with their claws. A few aliens can do this, and it's predictable
from the start, so careful.

As another train of thought, we should have Elyse do a scrying to see if she can give us a hint on where the portal is.


3. Defenders
------------
Type: Alien(Xenomorph)
Color: Bluish-Green
Energy: Low
Abilities: Defending Block, Claw Attack, Claw Uppercut, Extending Bite,
Jumping Pounce
Appearance: Round 4, 6, and 7

a. Claw Attack: Some aliens will do it faster than others, but nonetheless
it's predictable from most of them. They'll either crawl up to you and do it
or do it when you're close to them.

b. Extending Bite: This move is fast for ALL aliens(although some aliens
will do it slower than others). The good thing is that this ability is close
range, so using range attacks will prevent them from getting to you with
this move. All aliens HAVE to stand before they can execute this move, so
be careful of their movements.

c. Jumping Pounce: Ya, you got it right. They will jump at you causing
damage with their claws. A few aliens can do this, and it's predictable
from the start, so careful.

d. Defending Block: They will block your attacks sometimes. The last hits
of a regular normal attack pattern will stop them, and hitting them with
range weapons from half screen away will prevent them from blocking.

e. Claw Uppercut: Different from Claw Attack, except they do it in a form
of a uppercut. This move is FAST, so careful. Good thing it's only close
range.

>>25647774
>we should have Elyse do a scrying to see if she can give us a hint on where the portal is.
Before we do that, we could have Scott check his card to see if the portal is now in range.

Alright, let's get this out of the way real quick.
We need to finish level-ups for Scott, and two abilities for Elyse.

Scott:
+2 to Computers
+1 to Stealth
+1 to Pistols
+1 to Melee
+1 to Bluff
+2 to Repair
+1 to Lore
+1 Rifles

+1 Leadership, +1 Intelligence, +1 Perception, +1 Charisma

Elyse (choose 2):
>Wondrous Recall:
Elyse can replenish two of her Divine magic castings, and one technique casting. Can only be used once per rest period.

>Pallydar MK. II
Elyse can now use the full array of clerical detect spells, rather than just Detect Evil.

>Sometimes Sight Is The Weakness
Combining Grand Crusade Paladin training and her own enhanced hearing and perceptions, Elyse is able to detect hidden enemies and ambushes with preternatural skill, and reflexively react to them.

>Iron Rabbit
Elyse is able to move very fast, evading groups of enemies with her fast footwork, making enemies look like a bunch of mooks from a Hong Kong action film.
Increased defense in melee and able to weave through enemy groups with ease.

>Paladin's Mount
Paladin Mount, can be summoned and dismissed. Death of the mount requires either a month or a new level-up before being able to summon another one.

>>25647929
Agree with the skill points and ability points for Scott.

Voting for Sometimes Sight Is The Weakness and Iron Rabbit.

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>>25647751
"Got one!" Fat-Fot-Pot calls out, each of the tiny aliens attempting to clear off a rolled out map of the station. Large numbers of boxes and broken weapons have been piled on top of it.

"Good work, guys," Scott says, walking over the map and looking down at it. "Hmmm. There are two motor pools. One's for ordinary cruisers, and that's on ground level, with your standard automated doors to let the vehicles in or out. The other's for SWAT vehicles, and that's on a basement level, with a blast door-sealed ramp leading up to the streets. The cruiser pool is relatively close by, just a few rooms away, but to get to the basement level and the SWAT's APCs, we'd need to go through the station and down to the basement."

"I say we go for the cars. Do we even know anyone that can drive a heavy vehicle?" Charlie asks.

"Ooooooh, ooh! I know how!" Pot says, wobbling up and down on its disc.

"You have no hands..." Elyse notes, biting her lip.

"Oh. Right..." the alien slumps.

"Relax. I actually do know how to muck with an APC, though I can't do anything fancy with it," Yellowman says. "If Corporal Burton were here, he'd be able to man the guns, but..."

Scott trails off, and there is silence for a short time.

"If we're using a vehicle, I think the APC would be best," Elyse quietly says. "A normal car would get torn to shreds."

"Not if we outrun them," Charlie counters.

Skill points agreed. Will second "Sight is the Weakness" and "Iron Rabbit"

>>25647975
Actually, anyone play the game? Are there barricades and such set up on the streets?
If there are barricades, like there usually are in this genre, then an APC would be safer because we could ram through a barricade.

>>25647975
I'm for going after the APC. But after the Colonial Marines attack the hive and draw all the xenos into the sewers; that should give us a clear route to the SWAT motor pool.

FFP, how close are the Colonial Marines to launching their attack on the hive proper in the sewers?

>>25647975
I vote for the APC. Xenomorph blood will inhale a normal cruiser. APCs actually have enough armor to withstand a good deal; especially in the AvP world.

Who knows? Maybe we'll be able to get one of those tanks from the movies/the arcade game. Those things can take brutal punishment and would be perfect for getting us where we need to go. But yeah. Go for the APCs.

>>25648075
Fat-Fot-Pot takes a moment to listen to the comm-traffic. "They're moving through the sewers and have reached a small control substation. They're stopping for a moment to let a technician examine the computers there."

>>25648168
FFP, have you heard anything about a Linn and Dutch over the comm-traffic? Also can you make heads or tails of the Yautja comms?

I'm up for having Elyse do a quick scry and see if she can locate the gate, I also second trying for the APCs. It'll probably screw us, but they'll hold out longer.

>>25648168
Hey Scott, do you think you can get some name tags and pieces of armor to make your Scout Armor look like USCM armor, and disguise yourself to look like a Marine? We might need to call in help from the second USCM detachment if the first one is being held up in the sewers and the xenos outside figure out a way to get in here.

>>25648168
Oh, Scott, any luck with getting a ping on the portal with your card?
Otherwise, we'll need Elyse to scry for the portal's location.

>>25648229
We need to be careful around the USCM in this world. There are USCM enemies in the game trying to stop you from destroying the hive. If these are them, they'd be more likely to attack us.

>>25648221
"Uh... Sorry, I can't tell anything. It's full of clicks and other weird things," Fat-Fot-Pot says. "If we were on the ship, I could use the universal translator..."

"If we were on the ship, we could jump home and not be in this race. Come on, now," Scott says. "Let's not dwell on what we don't have."

"Didn't you just say if 'Burton were here?" Elyse asks. Yellowman frowns.

"That's... I... Nevermind that!" Yellowman says. "What about Dutch and Miss Ponytail?"

"They got mentioned a little while ago as being outnumbered in the streets, but continuing to fight," Fat-Fot-Pot reports.

>>25648256
"No dice."

>>25648229
"Hell, the Scout Armor's halfway there already. No problem."
>No roll needed to disguise.

>>25648374
Alright. While we're still relatively safe here, let's have Elyse use a Spell and scry the location of the portal. That'll give us an idea of where we need to go once we get a set of wheels.

>>25648374
Right then, Elyse do a quick scry for the gate. Then we'll head for the ACP.

>>25648417
>>25648426
Roll a d100.

Rolled 10

As you wish.

Rolled 66

>>25648503
It never ends.

Rolled 5

>>25648503
Incoming failure.

>>25648524
>>25648541
At least it wasn't combat.

>>25648556
Small = Good.

>>25648578
What?

>>25648578
This is a roll-high system we're using.

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>>25648524
Elyse attempts to cast a scrying spell, a window of shimmering light appearing before the group and promptly displaying a corporate logo on a piece of metal. In bold white letters stamped on dull-gray steel, you see the words 'ComTrader', and nothing else.

"Oh, for fuck's sake, Elyse!" Scott cries. "You zoomed in too far with your scrying spell! Pan out!"

"It's a spell, not a camera... I can't!" Elyse sputters. "I don't understand... I thought I cast the optical parameters perfectly!"

"Well that sucks. We can try again, can't we?" Charlie asks. Elyse nods.

"I've got enough energy for another."

Elyse Spells: 7/9

>>25648754
Alright, alright. Calm down. We've got the right coordinates, just need to modify the optical parameters.
Try again, Elyse.

>>25648822
Roll another d100.

Rolled 58

>>25648838
Here we go.

Rolled 25

>>25648838
Failure once again.

Rolled 51

>>25648873
and now that that is taken, I want to know what I would have rolled.

>>25648873
This time the shimmering window appears and shows a metal archway crackling with power. Two sentry guns slowly swivel from side to side in front of it, a few shredded alien corpses in front of them testament to their firepower. The chamber in which it resides seems to be made of metal, with exposed cables hanging down from the ceiling. Peeling paint and dusty consoles built into the walls indicate this room probably hasn't seen activity since before the race.

>>25648998
Can Elyse pan the image around, or get an idea of where this is?

>>25648998
Sounds like an abandoned warehouse or facility of some kind.

>>25649042
>"It's a spell, not a camera... I can't!"

>>25649042
She can't pan the image around, but closer scrutiny might reveal more clues. Roll a Lore check for Yellowman.

Rolled 17

>>25649129
Come on, Scott! Don't fail us now!

Rolled 76

Look for Logos on the guns.

>>25648998
Looks like the gate is in the USCM ship or the lab.

Rolled 79, 40, 29, 86, 49, 87, 91, 25, 18, 67 = 571

How bad is our luck tonight?

>>25649129
Can Elyse also do a Lore check?

>>25649202
That's my guess. Let's get the ACP and then link up with Linn, Dutch and the Predators. We'll have a better chance breaking into the area with them.

>>25649288
>>25649202
It says that the layers of dust shows that room hasn't been used in a while, though.
If it was the ship, would there even be peeling paint and dust?

>>25649129
Since Elyse has a Lore skill as well, can we have her roll as well as Scott's?

>>25649141
Scott fails you. Now.

>>25649150
The guns are disguised to look like UA-571 sentries, but closer inspection shows they are not. ComTrader logos are on them as well.

>>25649401
There would not be.

>>25649410
Excellent point. Roll again.

Rolled 10

>>25649473
Come on, Elyse!

Rolled 28

>>25649495
Well fuck.

Rolled 35

What type of alien corpses are there? Depending on the species we can pinpoint a location in the game.

>>25649401
Then it's probably the lab/base where the ship was at.

>>25649495
"Well..." Elyse pauses. "At least we know wherever it is, it's not a place that gets a lot of use."

"It can't be the hive, either, or we'd see the resin everywhere," Scott notes.

>>25649514
Regular Warriors.

>>25649721
Should we head toward the lab/base area?

>>25649721
We could drive towards the lab to see if the card reacts. If it doesn't we know it's not there.

But right now, we need to figure out how to get out of the Armoury safely.

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>>25649721
MetaOp, does the paint look like this?

>>25649721
FFP, have the Marines proceeded past that terminal yet?

>>25649802
No, it's in far more disrepair. Rust is evident in quite a few places.

>>25649879
"They're about to... oh! Oh no! They're being ambushed!" Fat Fot Pot squeals. "It's hard to make out... some sort of big alien, moving really fast! They're all dying!"

>>25650099
Dammit, we can't depend on them to draw the xenos now.
Shit, that must be Razorclaws.

Scott, tell those Marines to fall back, they need to let Major Dutch Schaefer and Lt. Kurosawa deal with it.

>>25650222
Those marines are probably working for General Bush. Which means they're badguys and will try and kill Dutch and Linn.

Let's get to the damn armor car and link up with them, they'd be able to at least give us ideas of somewhere to look.

>>25650253
We still need to deal with the big group of xenos that are waiting just outside the Armoury's doors.
The plan was to have the Marines attack the hive to get the xenos to run to the hive's defense. But since the Marines got ambushed, that's unlikely to happen.
How do you suggest we deal with the big mess of xenos?

>>25650222
"Damn it, give me that," Scott says, grabbing the communicator from Fat Fot Pot. "Marines! Fall back! Fall back immediately, you can't deal with that monster!"

"Can't fall back... cut off!" a garbled reply comes as the sound of pulse rifle fire and screaming echoes in the background. "Send help! We nee-ARGH!"

The speaker cuts off with a scream and the sickening sound of something wet being ripped apart. Pulse rifle fire continues for a few more seconds, then stops completely as the channel goes dead.

"Fuck!" Scott roars, tossing the communicator back to Fat. "We should've gotten in touch with them sooner... We should've warned them sooner!"

"Hey, ease up, doc," Charlie says, spreading his hands in what is meant to be a calming gesture. "There's no way you could've known those marines were walking into a trap..."

Scott merely sighs at this and rubs his eyes. "All right. All right. We still need a plan, and we still need to get out of here. Let's focus on that."

>>25650367
>How do you suggest we deal with the big mess of xenos?
How do you think I suggest we deal with the Xenomorphs?
Explosions and copious amounts of running.

Equip Yellowman with a Pulse Rifle, open the door. Elyse, Yellowman and Charlie throw frag grenades. Run like hell.
We're going to have to fight them. There's no not fighting them, the place is infested. Split up the Frags, Potions, and give Yellowman a stack of Gauss Rifle grenades.

>>25650423
FFP, monitor the second USCM detachment's communications, see if they got the first detachment's reports of an ambush, and see if they're scrambling another fireteam.

>>25650459
That's barely a plan, and we'll do it as a last resort. There are better ways we can go about this.

>>25650493
"All right... yeah... they received it, but... they're just logging it in their data archive. They don't seem to care at all..." Fat Fot Pot says, sounding mystified.

>>25650493
>That's barely a plan, and we'll do it as a last resort. There are better ways we can go about this.
Really? Suggest one then. Aliens ignore disguises. We couldn't cloak even if we had one, because they ignore that shit too. Hell, if it's in the area, organic, and not suitable as a host they'll tear it apart. They're immune to stunning and gas.
The Marines here are all in on the shit, lead by a corrupt General.

So what's your great and amazing plan that's the "better way to do this?"

>>25650534
Which means that the second detachment is probably working with Weyland-Yutani. The first detachment could have been a regular USCM detachment.

Scott, get the others and see if there's any way to put a barricade up at the Armoury doors. Unless we can get in touch with Duct and Linn to come clear this station out for us, we'll need to clear out these xenos ourselves.

If we create a barricade at the door, then only partially open the doors, then we can create a chokepoint and get most of them when they first try to attack.

>>25650534
Scott, are you still getting movement beyond the Armoury doors with the Motion Tracker? How many aliens do you detect now, compared to before?

>>25650582
"There's a ton of crates and heavy metal cases for ammo and guns," Scott notes, looking around. "We could make a barricade, sure. All right, everyone help me out!"

As everyone sets to making a barricade, Scott pauses to sweep around with the helmet tracker.

>>25650606
"Only a few movement signals... four or so, scattered around us," Scott reports.

>>25650698
Elyse, if you needed to, could you use a Spell to create a personal forcefield, like Mage Armor, that could prevent acid splashback from hitting you?

Scott, weren't there more signals when you first entered the Armoury?

>>25650766
"Yeah..." Scott notes, eyes narrowing. "Yeah, there were."

"What, did they leave or something?" Charlie asks.

"Elyse, can you create a spell like Mage Armor, magic force fields to stop acid from hitting us?" Scott asks.

"I can try, yeah," Elyse nods. "Should be simple enough... Oh! Or I could just cast a protection from acid spell!"

>>25650851
How long would the Protection from Acid last?
And would it be able to cover all of us?

>>25650851
So we've got 4 signals. There could be an unknown number of them either not moving/moving slow enough to not get picked up by the tracker, and others spread throughout the station.

4 we should be able to handle with Scott using a pulse rifle, Charlie with Gertrude, and I suppose Elyse can throw a grenade.

Hey, try having Elyse use her PallyDar, see if xeno's show up on it. Normally I'd assume they would be True Neutral because they only work on instinct, but if they're smart enough, they might show up as Evil.

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>>25650851
MetaOP, can we just Call Kiryu to solve this problem?

>>25651035
>but if they're smart enough, they might show up as Evil.
Nah, they've been statted up already. Always neutral.
http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Alien_Warrior_(3.5e_Creature)

>>25650902
Depends on how well Elyse casts the spell.

>>25651035
"Xenomorphs aren't sapient, so they don't register as evil. Uh, well, the drones anyway. Queens register as evil," Elyse says.

>>25651059
Scott doesn't have a murderbot much less a megamurderbot.

>>25651119
>Depends on how well Elyse casts the spell.
Is there any way to get bonuses to spellcasting, such as doing it carefully or taking the time to do it right?
Maybe we should pick up some incense when we can to help Elyse cast spells?

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>>25651119
>"Xenomorphs aren't sapient, so they don't register as evil. Uh, well, the drones anyway. Queens register as evil," Elyse says.
Most Drones, Elyse. There are always exceptions, like Specimen Six.
I hope to god there isn't a Specimen Six type running around.

Let's see.
1. Cast the Protection from Acid on Scott, Charlie, and Elyse
2. Get everyone behind the barrier, Scott with a pulse rifle and Elyse with a grenade she can throw if needed
3. FFP opens the doors and gets back to the safety of the barricade
4. kill the 4 signals, see if the gunfire attracted the others by using the motion tracker to detect movement
5. Make our way to the SWAT Motor Pool, keep an eye on the motion tracker

MetaOP, can we have the level-ups locked in so that we can take advantage of Scott's increased Rifle skill and Elyse's two new skills before we get into a fight?

>>25651226
>I am not a number! I am a free xenomorph!

>>25651142
Elyse's spellcasting skill is currently the only thing that affects it.

>>25651336
Yes, you may. Going with this, right? >>25647929
>Iron Rabbit
>Sometimes Sight is the Weakness

>>25651396
That does appear to be all the votes.

>>25651336
If you're doing this, we need to start with a Spellcasting roll.

Rolled 77

>>25651527
Spellcasting roll for failure

>>25651553
>Nat 100.
I think this means Elyse gets another ability!

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>>25651396
I will now update Scott's accounts accordingly.

>>25651580
You have failed your bluff roll.

>>25651553
Elyse manages to successfully cast a Protection from Acid spell that's more potent than normal. It will last for an hour.

Elyse spells: 5/9

Elyse grabs one of your hand grenades from the trained mimic while Scott readies a pulse rifle and Fat Fot Pot moves to the door, waiting for the order to press the button to open it.

When you are ready to proceed, roll 3d100.

>>25651553
Oh, I see now.

I forgot Charlie's ability, the spell is now further enhanced, but Elyse only gains abilities on a 100 pure, not a 77.

Rolled 54, 22, 85 = 161

>>25651703
Here we go, folks!

>>25651738
Only Charlie gets the abilities on a 77 from "I'm on a roll?"
I could have swore Yellowman's gotten an ability from it before though.

Rolled 70, 73, 93 = 236

>>25651703
Time to die.

>>25651771
What does the 22 count as? 52?

>>25651999
If that's Charlie's it counts as a 100.

>>25652104
That's only on a 77. Other doubles just get a bonus.

>>25652129
You're right, sorry. Do we know what the bonus is?

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>>25651781
That'd be odd considering Yellowman doesn't gain skills from rolls. Only Elyse does that.

>>25651771
Fat Fot Pot presses the door button and it slides back into the wall with a pneumatic hiss. One alien stands in the hall, hissing at Scott as it spies the hastily barricade. Beside it are three more drones, curled up on the floor in an amazing compact position, to the point where some look like pods.

>85
Before anyone else can react, Elyse throws her grenade into the midst of the dormant aliens, blowing them apart and creating a pool of acid that melts down into the floor below.

>54
Yellowman is quick to react, taking aim and putting ten rounds through the head of the active drone. The alien's skull bursts and it collapses to the ground twitching. Its acid blood combines with the others to make the gaping hole even larger, the room below this one now clearly visible as some sort of workshop.

>22
Charlie fires a single shot, but it goes wide.

As the quick and vicious assault annihilates the few aliens left in front of the door, Scott hears a distinct pulsing sound from his helmet. His heads up display suddenly blazes with light as the motion tracker begins picking up a lot more signals.

"Damn it!" Scott growls. "Most of them just went still waiting for their scouts to find a way in! We're gonna have company real fast!"

>Lose 10 pulse rifle rounds.
>Lose 1 grenade
>Lose 1 12 gauge shell.

The sounds of alien shrieks and hissing gets louder and louder while Fat Fot Pot zips over to Yellowman's side.

"OK, I've got the route memorized! Uh, might be tricking moving around that hole in the floor, though!" Fat says.

"Come on, let's get going!" Pot urges.

When you are ready to proceed, roll 4d100.

Rolled 32, 61, 80, 48 = 221

Move, move!

Get to da choppa!

>>25652273
>Charlie
>dubs
I'm pretty sure he gets a bonus, at least to 52 if not higher.

>>25652336
Doesn't matter, running now does.

>>25652273
>>25652336
Yeah, here.
>I'm On A Roll!: Any 'doubles' rolls (22, 44, etc.) add a bonus to their result. A roll of 77 is considered a roll of 100.

>>25652273
>hole in the floor
Wait, isn't the SWAT motor pool a couple levels below?
Couldn't we have Elyse use a feather fall spell and have us float down, using this hole as a shortcut?

>>25652405
>isn't the SWAT motor pool a couple levels below
It's on the basement level.
>>25647975
>but to get to the basement level and the SWAT's APCs, we'd need to go through the station and down to the basement

>>25652431
And to open the station we need to get the GREEN KEY from the WALRUS KING!

>>25652496
I just think that going through the now conveniently created shortcut will get us to the APC's faster and get us ahead of the aliens as they swarm the Armoury when we're already two levels below.

So are we going to be able to go down the hole, or are we taking the stairs?

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>>25652336
Charlie did get a bonus, it wasn't enough to hit something. No the bonus isn't enough to boost it to 52. The dubs bonus works by adding the two digits together. 22 would be counted as 26, for example, 44 as 52, 66 as 78, and so on. the exception is 77 because sevens are 'lucky'.

>>25652309
"Come on!" Scott says, vaulting over the pit while Fat-Fot-Pot fly ahead and Charlie inches his way around the edge of the hole. Elyse takes a few steps back and then leaps over the pit in much the same way Scott had just done.

>>25652405

"Wait!" Scott suddenly says. "We can just drop down the hole! Elyse ca- Wait! Hell, I've got a grappler, just hang on to me and I'll lower us down!"

"Why didn't you think of that before?" Charlie asks, turning around.

"Why didn't you?" Scott counters. "Come on! Hurry!"

Scott mutters a curse as he takes a peek at the motion tracker. Nearly every direction has at least a few xenos approaching. Elyse's ears suddenly twitch and she looks up, eyes widening.

"The ceiling!" Elyse cries, slashing upwards with her sword and cleaving an alien hiding behind the ceiling panels in two. A shower of acid rewards her, but her spell holds, nullifying the stuff immediately. Charlie reaches Yellowman and grabs him by the shoulder, while Elyse loops her arms around his other.

"No guarantees on how well this'll work! Here we go!" Scott calls, firing the grappler tp the pit edge and then jumping, letting the armor mechanism lower them down in a controlled manner. The suit's grapple system begins to groan a little under the strain and Yellowman blanches.

"Maybe next time I listen to the voices and cast a spell..." he mumbles. Whether due to the weight or the speed of descent, Yellowman and the others hit the floor hard, but are uninjured, not even stumbling from the impact.

"Oh! Oh, I know where we are!" Fat Fot Pot speaks up, floating to the door of the workshop and working on opening it. "This way!"

"Watch out!" Scott calls.

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>>25652735
Fat Fot Pot immediately fly to the sides as the metal door is torn through by a xenomorph that growls as it attempts to claw at the tiny flying aliens. A triple shot from Charlie and Gertrude put down the monster in short order, but another four drop from the hole above the group. One tackles Yellowman to the ground while two move to flank Charlie and one faces Elyse and begins to move its head strangely.

Rolled 49, 29, 80, 50 = 208

>>25652811
Please roll 4d100 and declare actions.

Rolled 88, 24, 22, 26 = 160

>>25652818
Scott and Charlie fire, everyone runs to swat motorpool.

Rolled 57, 94, 35, 15 = 201

>>25652811
Scott, shoot the alien that tackled you then shoot one of the ones that's going after Charlie.
Charlie, shoot one of them and be wary of the other.
Elyse, you've got acid protection now, and you're a melee fighter with a photon sword, be careful of the thing's head, it's about to attack, so decapitate it.

>>25652811
>and begins to move its head strangely.
Dammit, I know that's one of the telegraphs for an attack, but I can't remember which one.

>>25652811
>>25652854
>>25652945
Elyse, watch out! It's probably going for an acid spit attack or it's going to use an extending bite.

>>25653018
Could be a Smasher and it's about to use a Head Smash, but it would be making a sound if it was.

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Rolled 38, 34, 63 = 135

>>25652837
>>25652854
Scott grunts and grimaces as a xenomorph crouches over him, holding him pinned as it slowly opens its mouth.

"Fat! Run ahead to the motor pool and get an APC ready! We'll be wanting to leave REAL soon!" Scott calls, rolling to the side as the creature's second mouth bites into the floor where his head had been a moment before. In a remarkable show of agility, Scott worms his right arm out of the pin, draws Waldorf, and fires a plasma burst at close range into the monster. The alien dies with a loud shriek as plasma cooks it. Scott rolls off and retrieves his pulse rifle with a gasp.

"Got it Commander!" Fat Fot Pot calls out as it flies off down the hall.

Charlie fires another burst from his riot shotgun, but the first xenomorph leaps to the side to avoid it, then leaps again, distracting the former bouncer while its companion sneaks around behind him. Charlie suddenly shouts in pain as the venomous stinger of the xeno behind him jabs into his back. The shotgunner begins to weave and wobble in place as potent paralytic venom seeps into him.

Elyse charges forward as the xenomorph targeting her vomits acid. The liquid rolls off of the invisible shield created by the paladin's spell, though. The novice crusader allows herself a smile as she closes and swings her sword, only to have the alien leap back before the blade can contact its exoskeleton.

"We've got to make this fast!" Scott warns. "There's more coming!"

Roll a Health check for Charlie, and 2d100.

Rolled 50, 30 = 80

>>25653174
Get it together, Charlie!
Can we use

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>>25653200
I need one more d100, but that 50 passes the Health check. I forgot to say...
>Charlie takes 1 Wound.

Charlie shakes his head hard, groans, then seems to snap to attention.

"I've had worse hangovers at the Wrangler, baby," he boasts.

>Charlie is not stunned and may act normally this turn. Roll a d100 for his action, assuming it's to blow the brains out of an alien.

Rolled 46

>>25653267
Shoot it!

Rolled 8

>>25653267
Obviously. That's what shotguns are for, silly!

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Rolled 29, 53 = 82

>>25653285
Yellowman fires another ten round burst into the back of the xenomorph that leapt away from Charlie while Charlie swings around and fires point blank into the alien behind him. Both creatures go down hard as Elyse manages to close the distance and slice her own foe in two, but not before sustaining a claw swipe to her gut.

>Elyse takes one Wound.

"Come on, come on!" Scott says, jogging over to the door. "Double time it!"

"Time to skeedaddle," Charlie says as he feels his wound with a grimace, then aims his shotgun at the hole while slowly backing up. "I'll cover the rear."

"Thank you for not making some sort of joke about rears and how you love to cover them," Scott says, peeking out into the hallway and motioning for everyone to follow him.

"Aw, nuts!" Charlie says, blinking as he and Elyse fall into step behind the Scout. "I didn't think of that!"

>>25653425
Scott, keep an eye on that Motion Tracker.

>>25653425
Hey, that wound that Charlie suffered; did it get absorbed by the Riot Gear, or did it dip straight into his Health?

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>>25653425
Emerging into a dimly lit concrete hall, Scott motions for everyone to follow as he jogs down the cracked and chipped floor, doing his best to ignore the occasional bloodstain splattered on the wall. The group's footsteps echo eerily in the confined space.

"Pretty sure we go this way," Scott says, pointing down the hall.

"What makes you say that?" Charlie asks.

"That sign," Scott nods, pointing to a sign declaring 'Motor Pool', with an arrow down the hall.

"Yeah, that'd do it," Charlie agrees.

Suddenly Elyse's ears twitch and she whirls around to slice a facehugger in two just as one launches itself from an open vent in the wall.

"Ah shit, faceh-SHIT!" Scott cries as he barely manages to raise an arm to stop a second facehugger from latching onto his face. The creature's tail loops around his arm reflexively, beginning to crush it with incredible strength as Yellowman fights to keep the alien as far away from his mouth as possible.

At this point, the motion tracker begins to beep more frantically as a mass clicking of sharp talons and claws on concrete begins to echo both from behind the group and from an adjoining corridor.

>>25653554
Scott, keep running towards the Motor Pool!
Have Elyse try to pry that facehugger off with her Giant Strength while Charlie throw a grenade into that adjoining corridor.

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>>25653554
Elyse, need you over here! Charlie, covering position! GodDAMN I hope we get there soon. These guys are getting closer to us...

>mfw these things are getting closer and closer to fucking us up

>>25653591
Scott can't run at the moment, he's busy fighting for his life.

As for the rest, roll 2d100.

>Used 1 grenade.

Rolled 80, 85 = 165

>>25653621
Well, hopefully Elyse is fast...

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>>25653649
Charlie winds up, and when a swarm of Xenomorphs turn the corner, he launches the grenade with all the accuracy and distance of a pro-ball pitcher. The explosive detonates dead center in the swarm, ripping most of them apart and leaving only four to scramble from the blast towards the group.

Elyse grabs hold of the facehugger and slowly and steadily pulls it away from Scott so that the tail doesn't break his arm. Before the creature can attempt to attack her, she throws it across the hall, where it lands on its 'fingers'.

Roll 3d100.

Rolled 35, 65, 2 = 102

>>25653889
Die, monsters! You (actually do!) don't belong in this world!

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>>25653920
>65
Charlie empties his shotgun and manages to tear apart the remaining four xenomorphs before they can close to melee, though it's a very, very close thing.

>Burn 1 Survivor Point and reroll that 2.

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Rolled 99

>>25654003
Please be a better roll!

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>>25654016
Well done.

>35, 2

Scott fires the pulse rifle for three burst of three, but each shot plinks off the floor around the facehugger as it picks up speed towards the group. Elyse then brings up her sword, and as the facehugger leaps, attempts to cut it apart mid-air.

The attempt fails.

With a startled cry, Elyse drops her sword and puts up a hand as the facehugger connects with her head, its snake-like tail coiling around her neck, its finger-like legs clutching and scrabbling to position itself and force open Elyse's mouth...

>99

Then it splits apart as a burst of four 10mm caseless rounds tear through it, its potent acid dribbling harmlessly down the warded paladin and into the ground where they begin to eat through to the second basement.

Yellowman lowers the pulse rifle and looks over to Elyse.

"You all right?" he asks.

Elyse shakes slightly and looks at her trembling hands. "I... I almost... it... you..."

"Come on, let's get out of here before I have to repeat that stunt," Scott says, nodding to the corridor. Elyse nods and picks up her sword, Charlie reloading as the trio rushes down to the motor pool.

The motor pool for the SWAT vehicles isn't as big as you might expect. Eight empty lots leave most of the pool bare, most of the vehicles having been called out to action during the infestation crisis. Two APCs remain, one partially disassembled, and clearly in the middle of heavy repair. The second appears fine, save for the pump it's connected to. Fat-Fot-Pot zip around the vehicle, then turn and fly over to Scott as one.

"Commander!" Fat says. "We've managed to give the remaining APC a one over, and we've got good news. Well, mostly good news. It's in operable condition and ready to roll, but..."

"...but it's almost out of fuel. The pump machine is hooked up, but we can't get it working for some reason," Pot finishes. "If we get it running, it shouldn't take too long before we can roll with it, though!"

>>25654210
Well, this looks like a standard "Defend Until Objective Completed" part. Are the weapons on the APC operational to help us? If they are, someone needs to man the controls before we start the pump. If not, go ahead and start the pump, then get into defensive positions!

This is it!

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>>25654257
"Uh... no!" Fat says, looking around. "We CAN'T start the pump! That's the problem!"

"If you can figure out a way to get it running, well, that'd be super of you, Commander," Pot says.

"I think this here's the control station for the pump? It's all electronic and tech-looking," Charlie says, prodding a small console built into the pump machine with his shotgun.

The motion tracker indicates multiple signals closing on your position. You don't have much time.

>>25654300
Start the pump, Scott! Should be simple enough. Probably a big button that says "Pump Start" or something. Go go go!

>>25654336
roll a Lore check, 1d100. Then another d100.

Rolled 50, 92 = 142

>>25654348

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>>25654369
"Hang on..." Scott says, looking the machine over and tinkering with the command console. "Yeah, that's what I thought. Like most of the gizmos in the wonderful world of the future, it's computerized, and it's been locked down. Luckily, I know a few hacker tricks for low end things like computer control systems..."

Yellowman taps at the console for a few seconds, then laughs as the machine hums to life, fuel pumping into the APC at a steady pace.

"Should take about three minutes," Yellowman nods. "I think we can hold out for that long."

Elyse's voice comes from inside the APC.

"I think I found the controls for the guns, but I don't know how to use them. It's got the twin 20mm guns in the front, but nothing else that I can see."

"Figures they'd take off the back-mounted plasma guns. SWAT after all, not military," Scott says, noting the lack of the cannon and rails on the APC's back. His motion tracker beeps more urgently as the sound of hissing and growling aliens gets louder and louder. "We've got a few seconds before we meet some really angry bugs!"

>>25654478
Look for a joystick or trackball or something right by where it says what weapons it's got. The controls should be labeled.

Scott, Charlie, get ready to fight these bastards off until the APC's fueled and ready to go! Keep those health potions handy!

>>25654557
And this seems a good time to cut.

See everyone tomorrow at 8. Try to figure out where you're going with this APC!

>>25654588
>Try to figure out where you're going with this APC!
Okay, we can rule out the hives, and the ship.
The ship launching facility screenshot was said to not be a match to the paint in the scry vision.
That leaves the lab or the sewers as the last 2 places.

>>25654478
If the 20mm guns can traverse to where the xeno's are coming from, then Scott should take the gun controls while Elyse and Charlie protect the pump.

>>25655729
While we figure out where those places are, I think we should drive to the gun store on the other side of the city.

Charlie goes through shotgun shells at an incredible rate, and we may need to stock up on more while we're here.

Driving across the city also let's us cover more area to get a ping on the Cards for the location of the portal.

bump

/tg/ moving fast today.

Alright, any other suggestions for a destination?

>>25664473
Head toward Linn and Dutch. They know San Drad better then we do.

>>25654557
>>25657863
"I guess I can try to work them..." Scott says, ducking inside the APC as Elyse and Charlie take up positions around the pump and the APC. Fat Fot Pot floats around nervously as the roaring and spitting gets closer.

"What do I do?" he asks.

>>25664519
Lay down a poison spore cloud where the xenos are going to come from, then hide in the APC.

>>25664505
But we should be keeping away from them because they're going into the thick of the fighting, and we don't want to get involved.

Rolled 19

>>25664738
"Sounds good!" Fat Fot Pot declare.

Roll 3d100, when you are ready to proceed.

Combat Rolls: Scott/Charlie/Elyse.

>>25664814
Better then blindly wandering around and hoping we stumble on something.

Rolled 64, 1, 97 = 162

>>25664838
Time for the Ride.

>>25664871
Can we use Charlie's reroll on that?

Rolled 25, 84, 40 = 149

>>25664871
Awwwww shit.

>>25664871
Shit, use Charlie's reroll power!

>>25664858
But we have a destination, the gun shop at the other end of town, to stock up on shotgun shells.
And we've narrowed down the place where the portal can be to either the lab or the sewers, so it's not like we're completely aimless.

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>>25664878
>>25664886
That's probably a good idea. Roll another d100.

Rolled 47

>>25664946
here goes nothign.

>>25664926
With the way the night started with a 1, I don't think we should risk running off to a Gun Shop for shotgun shells that may or may not be already looted.
Charlie might just have to learn to use a Pulse Rifle.

And we're narrowed it down potentially. However talking to people who know their way around would be helpful. Extra Guns and help for fighting the Xenomorphs at least for a short time is also helpful.

>>25664926
You do know the longer we dick around, the better the chance one of us gets facehugged, right? We're already had to blow a survivor point and we've used Charlie's Reroll for the session.

In Short: WE CANNOT RISK GETTING FACEHUGGED MORE THEN WE NEED TO!

And shotgun shells are not worth risking getting facehugged over.

>>25664953
Well it wasn't a 1.

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>>25664953
Definitely an improvement.

Pot flies over to the entry hall and ejects a large cloud of spores right over it before the three-in-one alien retreats to the interior of the APC. Not more than a few seconds after his retreat, a stream of xenomorphs rush directly through it, a good half of them immediately collapsing into twitching messes, though that still leaves half more than ready to tear apart the intrepid racers. This half is met by a hail of lead as the dual 20mm autocannon on the front of the APC whir to life and open fire, Scott having managed to figure out their operation just in time. Even this is not enough to stop the entire horde though, and Charlie is forced to empty another magazine from his riot shotgun to put down the wounded and mangled xenomorphs that make it through the onslaught of poison and gunfire.

Elyse stays close to Charlie, darting forward to intercept and cut apart any alien that gets too close before it can reach the APC, the pump, or Charlie. Spent shotgun shells clatter to the motor pool floor as Charlie keeps up his executioner's fire, carefully aiming his bursts for maximum effect.

"It's a hell offa shootin' gallery!" Charlie shouts over the din of battle. "These things woulda made one hell of an attraction in the Thorn!"

"If you think that's good, you should see some of the other stuff I've had to fight!" Scott remarks, using the communicator from within the APC.

"How can you stay so cheerful?!" Elyse asks, jumping back from a charging alien only to duck and cut through its chest with a sword slash. "Look at all the things that want to kill us!"

"Just another Monday for me," Yellowman says over the communicator.

"What, having everything want to kill you? Yeah, I can believe it," Charlie laughs.

"Shaddup, you."

After a good five minutes of fighting, the aliens retreat, leaving enough of their number slain to melt an acidic crater in the motor pool floor.

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>>25665267
Scott pulls open the APC door and motions everyone to get in as Charlie disconnects the pump and Elyse takes one more worried look around, her ears twitching a bit before she piles in with everyone else. Once everyone is aboard, Scott closes the APC door and clambers up to the driver's seat, beginning to start up the armored vehicle's engine.

Charlie winces as he sits down, fingering a nasty gash in his arm taken during the fighting.

>APC ammo: 50%.
>Charlie loses a Wound.
>Expended 16 shotgun shells.

"OK, we heading to the gunstore then, or what?" Scott asks, the APC beginning to move as he positions it on the ramp to the streets. "Ah hell, we forgot the blast doors! Someone's going to have to get out and open the damn things!"

Show Charlie how to work the guns. Scott can go out this time.

Rolled 66

>>25665660
Please roll 2d100, the first roll for Scott, and the second for Charlie.

Rolled 55, 90 = 145

>>25666401
Go team!

>>25666437
Scott dashes out of the APC as Charlie moves over to take the controls of the turret. Being careful to keep in the turret's firing arc at all times, Scott reaches the blast door and hastily looks around. Smiling, he slams a hand on a big red button, and the blast doors being to slowly recede into the walls with a loud groan of metal on metal.

"Watch out!" Charlie yells over the comm as the dual 20mms spin to life, spitting out a stream of fire that annihilates a facehugger dropping down from the ceiling behind Yellowman. Yellowman immediately swears and runs for the APC, literally jumping in as Elyse slides the door shut once more.

"So... same place?" Charlie asks.

Roll 4d100 when you are ready to depart.

>>25666510
Hey, Elsie. Where do Grand Crusade Paladins get their powers from?

Rolled 74, 5, 96, 36 = 211

I forgot the dice.

Rolled 66, 58, 26, 63 = 213

>>25666510
Let's move quickly.

>>25666510
Where are we heading? Personally, I think we should try and minimize chances of getting Facehugged, so I'm for finding Linn and Dutch.

>>25666606
I agree. I wish we had more of a hint than "the place is falling apart"

>>25666606
What if they're not going where we're going? They're going towards the launch facility and ship, and right into the thick of the fighting.

>>25666793
Then hopefully they'll be able to point us in the right direction, and while we're with them we'll have at least two to four extra hands to help us out.

>>25666510
>>25665373
FFP, use Sap on Charlie.

>>25666870
Alright, how are we getting in touch with them, let alone meeting up with them?

>>25667198
We have an APC and know they're fighting in the street. We also know they haven't fought Razor Claws yet since the event that injured Dutch's friend just happen.

So I propose we drive to them, in our APC.

>>25666510
Still think we should head towards the gun store while checking the Cards for reaction to the portal.
We can go to the portal if there's a reaction.

Also, since this is a SWAT APC, is there a computer map of San Dran on the driver's panel?

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>>25666540
"Hey Elyse..." Scott says as the APC rumbles out of the police station. "Where do Crusade paladins get their power from, anyway?"

"Eh? Oh! Well, it's a bit complicated, but mainly from our belief in good," Elyse says, nervously holding her sides.

"What? From your belief in good? Whadda load of fairydu-OW!" Charlie shouts in pain as Fat swabs his wound with a sterile pad.

"Sorry!" Fat says, waving a leaf. "Normally I'd just put the sap right on you, but I'm not sure how it'd react with the acid, immune right now though we are. Cleaned now, though."

"Sheesh..." Charlie mutters as Fat dribbles healing sap onto him.

>Charlie heals 1 Wound.

"Naw, I've heard of this sort of thing," Scott waves a hand. "Sort of like how Ascension mages can bring magic into being with raw belief?"

"Sort of..." Elyse frowns, shifting in her seat. "It's got something to do with how much everyone in the Crusade believes in what we're doing. It forms a pool of energy that we can draw from... with the right training and talent, anyway."

"Sounds like some sort of in between the way the Warp works and the way certain mages work," Scott murmurs. "Or Sigil, come to think of it. Hell, belief binds that whole cosmology together."

"Whatever, doc," Charlie waves a hand. "I'll buy magic now. I've seen it enough times, but I can't buy the notion that pure belief is enough to change anything, even if you discounted it."

Elyse's frown deepens. "It's true! If enough people have faith, they can move mountains!"

"You sound like one of them New Canaanites," Charlie says, his eyes narrowing. "I've seen plenty of people who believed real hard in things get thrown in shallow graves. Let me tell you what I believe in. Life's a rigged game, luck's your only prayer, and all you can do is take a chance, toots."

Elyse falls silent and looks down at the floor of the APC.

>>25667264
"Hey, there's a map of the city on here!" Scott says, after a few minutes of messing with the controls.

>>25667514
You both have a point. You need to have a belief to take a chance on it, even if that belief is just trying to make biggest score with your friends.

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Funny thing about that, Charlie. Even luck is a force that can be changed by belief. I've seen universes where if you decorate your house with the colors in the right directions, money will literally fall from trees.

>>25667514
So? Let's head toward Dutch and Linn then.

>>25667514
FFP, give us updates on the radio transmissions.
What about the two people talking in code; is it a man and a woman?
As for the USCM detachment working for Weyland-Yutani, any change in their actions?

Scott, can you identify the Labs on the map? What about a warehouse district?
And can you identify the gun store on the map?

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>>25667584
"Hey you both have a point," Scott says, relaying your words. "You need to have SOME belief to take a chance on, after all."

"No, I can dig that, pally," Charlie says, raising his hands. "I just don't think it's such a big slice of the pie as our knight in shining armor here."

"Without belief, without something more to drive us, we might as well be robots of meat... or bugs, like those creatures," Elyse murmurs, still looking down.

"Well, if you want to have a big argument about it, I guess now's a good a time as any. No matter where we choose to go, it'll take us a while to get there, this city is huge," Scott says, maneuvering the APC around blockages made from crashed cars or debris on the road. Occasionally the APC jolts as he opts to simply run through them. "Anyway, there's a pair of USCM we might link up with. Any ideas on how to figure out where to find them?"

Elyse suddenly looks up as Scott feels the portal card pulsing in his pocket. Another racer is near.

>>25667779
"Uhhhh, no. It's two men," Fat-Fot-Pot says. "I think I can get a fix on their position. The biowarfare unit is still gathering data for now."

"I can pinpoint the gunstore with the map, yeah. And yeah, I can find a warehouse district, but sorry, no area labelled 'secret military labs."

"There's a military base marked though. Is that where the labs are?" Elyse says, walking behind the driver's seat and pointing to the map.

"That's the spaceport... wait, are the labs at the spaceport?" Scott asks.

>>25667790
Does this thing have cameras? Is the other racer close enough for us to see?
I hope it's not Ed.

>>25667864
>wait, are the labs at the spaceport
Yes, I think so.
But I think the Military Base is different from the Spaceport; at least in the game, the Military Base is separated from the Lab and the Spaceport by the Downed Dropship stage.

Scott, can you get a route that takes you towards the spaceport and the labs? If we don't get a portal ping on your Cards as we get closer to the spaceport, then we know that the portal isn't there, and we should divert to the gun store and the warehouse district.

If we meet Linn and Dutch along the way, we can give them a ride, but right now we'd have to blindly drive through the streets to try to find them at this point, which would just increase our chances of getting into fights.

Elyse, Charlie, use the camera systems in the back to look around.
Scott, can the card tell you what direction the Racer is in?

Rolled 5

>>25667979
>>25667944
"Yeah, I can do that. Charlie, check the cameras," Scott says, turning down a cratered street.

"I wish you wouldn't talk to yourself so much, doc. It's unsettlin'," Charlie says, moving over to the row of monitors on the one side of the APC's interior. "Yeah, two camera. Let me see if I can see anything. Nope."

"Card's telling me someone's near, but not where. Th-WHOA!"

>74
The APC bumps and shakes as Scott runs over a small group of aliens upsurging from a sewer grate. The bugs attempt to scramble onto the armored vehicle, but Scott shakes them off before any can manage to get a hold.

>>25668167
>74
Shit, when is the 5 going to hit us?

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>>25668167
>5v5

Scott swears as suddenly the APC hits a particularly wide crater in the street, sending the vehicle temporarily out of control, smashing through the side of a building before the scout can get it back on the road. Curiously, this may have been beneficial, as a brilliant bolt of light launches itself from the top of a nearby apartment complex to explode into the ground where the APC had been a moment before.

>96
"There!" Charlie shouts. "On the roof, I caught a glimpse of some air shimmering, like someone was using a StealthBoy."

"Cloaking field..." Elyse breathes. "Yautja?"

"Think we found our racer," Scott groans, putting the pedal to the metal. "Let's bug out before his arm improves!"

>>25668167
>>25667864
FFP, you said that the two USCM are talking in code. Scott, you said you know USCM jargon; can either of you determine what they're talking about?

>>25668304
Forgot.
>APC 85% damaged from a run in with a wall.

>>25668322
As in 15% health left, or 85% health left?

>>25668321
"Let me have a listen..." Scott says, briefly listening in as he attempts to retreat at full speed. "It's not USCM code. Those aren't marines."

>>25668304
>"Think we found our racer"
Shit that's not good. I hope he doesn't interfere with Hunter and Warrior assisting Dutch and Linn in clearing this hive.

>>25668304
>Predator after us
Well shit. And he's probably already talked with the other two hunters here.

Hey Scott or FFP, can you broadcast to the Predator, "Hey! Isn't there already enough hardmeat for you here?"

>>25668352
>>25668304
FFP, continue trying to crack their code.

Scott, as you get out of here, try going towards the Labs/Spaceport. If the Cards don't respond, then we know that the Portal isn't there, and we'll have to go somewhere else.

>>25668346
85 left.

>>25668434
"We could, but no guarantee he'd understand us," Scott tells you.

>>25668474
Scott continues to drive towards the spaceport.

Roll a d100 for Fat Fot Pot's codebreak attempt.

Rolled 1

>>25668632
Whelp, here comes more failure for us.

Rolled 41

>>25668632
Crack that code, guys.

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>>25668664
>nat1

>>25668632
>We could, but no guarantee he'd understand us
Eh, probably shouldn't bother. If he sees all these drones and still goes after us, then he won't stop chasing us short of a Yautja Elder telling him to knock it off and help with the unauthorized hardmeat infestation.

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>>25668664
"OK, I've got it!" Fat Fot Pot says. "They're saying, 'Thank you for the plastic monkeys!"

"Fat..." Scott says, rubbing his temples.

"Oops... and I transmitted that, so now they know we're listening," Pot says. "Sorry."

"POT..." Scott says, his volume rising.

"Aaaand now they've shut off their communicators. Can't track or listen in anymore," Fat states. Scott says nothing, but grits his teeth. Fot looks down at the floor, as dejected as a strange alien spider can manage to look.

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>>25668917
Scott is channeling old Bruce right now.

Anyway, let's continue on our way towards the Spaceport. Maybe we'll run into Linn and Dutch.
But if we get a block away and still don't have a portal reaction from our Cards, I think it's say to say that the portal isn't at the Labs or the Spaceport, and we should head to the gun store instead.

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Rolled 27, 79, 25, 42, 46, 30, 73, 71, 52, 35 = 480

>>25668995
"We're heading to the spaceport, but it might take a while," Scott warns.

>If you like, you can use this time to talk with anyone via Scott, or just talk to Scott. Otherwise, when you're ready to roll, roll 4d100 for encounters.

So. . . Charlie. Ever been to been to the Big MT?

>>25669293
"Hey Charlie, I know you're a shotgun surgeon, but you should get familiar with the other pulse rifle we got. Make sure it's empty of both bullets and grenades first.
"You go through shells like a cop in a doughnut factory, and you might need to use another weapon."

>>25669381
>>25669436

"Hey Chuck, ever been the the big MT?" Scott asks.

"Don't call me Chuck, doc. No, what are they, one of them nickel and dime casinos like Primm?" Charlie asks.

"Not really. Hey, while we're driving, take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with that pulse rifle we picked up. You go through shells pretty damn fast, and might need to use it," Scott says.

"Yeah, yeah, shouldn't be a problem, I'm familiar with most guns. So long as it's not one of then fancy christmas light guns that uses batteries for ammo, I should be good," Charlie says, waving a hand. "If ammo's a problem, I can start using the rifle, but old Gertrude's been doin' a pretty ring a ding job given how these creeps love to get close."

>>25669623
"Fat-Fot-Pot, use the police band scanner and see what other transmissions we can pick up."
May as well put that 15 Comm/Scan to use.

>Tell Elyse about the time we met the other Grand Crusade Paladins. . .

>>25669623
"Hey Elyse, besides training with your sword, what other weapons are you trained on? I mean, a photon sword is good, and a blessed one is even better, but sometimes we might need you to use something specific, like a Spear of Destiny or Mass Production Lance of Longinus."

>>25669623
Hey MetaOP, how many points of Charge does Elyse's Mag have right now? She just got wounded so I want to accurately put down the number of Charges.

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>>25669878
I have down three, but that doesn't seem right. I'll count up the wounds again before next thread.

>>25669835
"Er... just sword, really," Elyse says, shifting uncomfortably. "My teachers said the same thing, but I thought if I focused hard enough on my swordskills, it wouldn't matter. I can use daggers and knives, though."

"They don't train you in other weapons in the Crusade?" Scott asks with a frown.

"Most do!" Elyse says, brightly. "...but I'm a specialist! If you pass a series of exams, you can choose to specialize with a single sort of weapon, and I chose sword be-... um, I chose swords."

"Huh," Scott shrugs. "Seems strange to me."

"I can relate, sort of. I mean, I can use other guns, but oh man, nothing's quite like feeling Gertrude buck against my shoulder as she pukes lead all over some punk high on Jet with a knife," Charlie chuckles.

"How... vivid," Scott remarks.

>>25669769
"You know, I've met paladins of the Grand Crusade before," Scott remarks.

"Really?" Elyse asks.

"Yep. During a really heated battle, led by this guy named Johan Kreuz," Scott nods.

Elyse stifles a gasp. "Paladin-Proctor Johan Kreuz?! He leads the Crusade! How'd you ever end up meeting him! What was he like? Oh, I've only seen him in speeches, is it true he can defeat an arch-demon with a single blow? I heard once, he managed to cast down and defeat an Elder Being in single combat!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Scott says, taking one hand off the controls to wave at Elyse. "Calm down, we didn't exactly get a chance to chat. I didn't really get a chance to see him much in action, either, I was busy trying to fix... well, I was busy."

"Oh..." Elyse says, her expression falling, ears drooping a little.

>>25669679
"Hey Fat, mess with the police scanner and see if you can pick up any other transmissions," Scott asks.

"I'll try..." Fat mumbles, twisting and turning knobs at a console. "I'll probably screw it up, though."

Roll a 1d100.

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Rolled 85

I think I know of a guy for Elyse.

And don't be so hard on your selves, guys.

Rolled 93

>>25670419
I don't know if self-deprecation works anymore.

>>25670419
Don't disappoint the lady.

>Show Scott my memories of the battle between Akuma and Senior Crusader Melliarde.

>You see a menacing figure surrounded by dark red and purple energies laying into Senior Crusader Melliarde. The slim woman seems pushed to her limit attempting to dodge the brutal blows being aimed her way, and her left arm lies useless at her side, broken and dangling, soaked with blood. A few cuts are evident on the attacker, but they are minor. Melliarde on the other hand, is bleeding in several places and her plate armor is dented and crumpled in several places.

>Senior Crusader Melliarde gasps as Akuma's fist caves in her breastplate, then screams and lashes out with her sword, a burning white energy rapier. The blade cuts into Akuma's side and the legendary fighter grunts, moving a fraction of a second too slow.

>"MESSATSU!"

>Akuma leaves a series of blurry after-images as he moves around Senior Crusadar Melliarde, blows impacting against her armor again and again and again until the metal is torn off her, her flesh now taking the direct impact as bone breaks and bone spills. The Crusaders lets out a pained scream as she falls, a blood-red letter glowing from Akuma's back as he completes the move. Aeshma's words reach him and he turns.

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>>25670495
"Heh. Watch out Elyse, or I'll nick name you Saber," Scott jokes.

"I don't get it," Elyse says, leaning against the APC wall.

"Hey! HEY! I got something!" Fat Fot Pot cries out as he fiddles with the police scanner. "Uh... Three channels. One's playing some sort of song, one's two guys talking to each other, and the final one... The final one sounds like something in morse code."

>>25670736
Can you identify the song? Can you translate the morse code? What are the two guys saying.

Nice work, FFP.

>>25670736
Elyse has Lore as well, have her listen in on the song to try to identify it.
Have Charlie listen to the two guys, see what they're talking about.
FFP, decode the morse code.
AND REMEMBER TO TURN ACTIVE TRANSMITTING OFF!

>>25670715
Melliarde isn't Kreuz. Kruez is the guy who fought with us against the Chaos Gods.

>>25670802
And Melliarde is the one who fought against Akuma right before Aeshma kicked the crap out of a Balor.

If he can't tell her a story about Kreuz, he can tell her a story about Melliarde.

>>25670715
"I... wait a minute, I told you about Kreuz and Melliarde before," Scott says, cutting himself off.

"Oh, that's right," Elyse frowns. "It's not like me to forget something like that."

"Must be the stress," Charlie comments.

>OP derps, having temporarily forgotten the conversation that happened after meeting Elyse.

>>25670848
What? She fought Akuma? No Shit?
Telling her about that is stupid as fuck. Especially since we're told her about it before and she was defensive of Melliarde.
Let's depress her more in an area full of Xenomorphs HERPADERP.

>>25670876
I'd say it's probably an after-effect of being in Oglaf's world. Who wouldn't want to block their memories of that place?

Anyway, let's identify the song, listen to the two men, and decode the morse message. We've got enough people to do that while Scott drives.

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>>25670764
"Well, here's the song. It's on loop," Fat Fot Pot, says, temporarily switching the APC speakers on to play a song.

Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5M3R2WvFQk

"Turn that down!" Scott calls. "I'm trying to listen to these..."

The two men talking sound very familiar. Very familiar.

"Just calm down, boss. They can't have gotten that far ahead," a sibilant voice wheezes.

"I'll kill them. KILL THEM!" the other roars. "I can't believe they got through the sand-lurks! When does Gariscotti say the next shipment will be ready?"

"Uh, an hour, boss, but..."

"But what?!"

"The other racers are much closer to the goal! If we want to win, we should try to take down that Street Samurai, or the spectre on his friend in the su-HURK!"

"Listen to me you mealy mouthed pipsqueak! Fucking NO ONE messes with Vincent Conti! Now make sure our associates have enough of a signal to breach this damn jamming those dumbass gamblers have up. If I wanna cheat, I'll cheat."

>>25670769
"Sure thing!" Fat Fot Pot says. "Just give me a moment... Uh... Hm. Uh oh."

"It says, 'Nice APC. It's in the sewers," Pot says.

>>25671168
>It's in the sewers
Nice, but WHICH PART? I mean, we're talking about a massive city-wide sewer network.

Also, shit. Scott. Ed's around, and she see's us. Better have FFP turn off all comm systems before she hacks all of us.

>>25671168
I suppose we should send back a "thank you" then Pot.

>>25671168
FFP, can you get in contact with Ed? Or at least leave her a message. If she's transmitting, it means she's around so she'll probably notice it.

Would it be possible to play Tank! back to her?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLThFQsHiwU

>>25671244
"Uh, I could try, but there's no guarantee she's actually minding the transmission. It's set to an automatic loop," Fat Fot Pot replies.

>>25671213
"Sent, but there's no reply. The transmission's stopped, though."

>>25671209
"APC doesn't have any remote control systems, there's nothing for her to hack with the comm system," Scott mentally replies.

>>25671336
Alright Scott, we know that the sewers/Underpass Stage are where we need to go. So you can stop going towards the Spaceport.

Does the map show the location of an underpass access to the sewer system?
Maybe, like a central sewer processing plant or control center?

>>25671336
You think that matters to a hacker like her?

Also, can we triangulate the signals? Put simply, we measure signal strength, then go in a specific direction measuring the strength increase or decrease. That should allow us to use the distance and angles to find where the signals are, and from there we can get an idea where Ed is. She'll likely be closest, given the message.

>>25671454
"We can do that for the song, yeah," Scott replies. "Want to?"

>>25671396
"Give me a second... yes, it does. Or we can drive around until I get a pulse and find the nearest access point from there."

>>25671562
Let's drive towards the sewer control center first; it can count as driving around to get a pulse, and if we don't get a reaction when we get near the control center, then we can head to the gun store.
We would have to drive around to get a reaction to find where in the sewer system the portal is located at that point anyway, may as well drive towards a possible source of ammo at that point.

>>25671562
For both the song and the message. If they don't match up in location, then we have a mysterious benefactor who is not Ed. One or two dice?

>>25671625
>>25671646
We can accomplis both at the same time I think.

>>25671646
You can't trace the morse code message, it terminated when you responded to it. The song you can, though. Roll 1d100.

Rolled 87

>>25671728
JAWOHL!

Rolled 75

>>25671728

Rolled 27

>>25671728
What about driving towards the sewer control center?

>>25671783
"Got it!" Fat Fot Pot says. "Waste processing station on the outskirts of the city!"

>>25672093
Is that the sewer control center you were going to go towards, Scott?

>>25672105
"No, it's a substation," Scott says. "Wanna head there?"

>>25672200
Yes. TO THE BROWN FLAT CHESTED GIRL!

>>25672200
How far away is it from our original course?
It may just be where Ed transmitted from.

>>25672265
Oh god dammit. I just wanted to find her to recruit her, then this guy.

>>25672284
"It's about fifteen minutes out of our way. Maybe twenty," Scott replies.

>>25672374
Alright, let's try it. Hopefully it will have the portal or Ed to recruit, and won't be a waste of time in which Conti gets his cheating on and more transdimensional obstacles show up.

>>25672374

Ed's a phenomenal hacker, but she may not have a lot of options against the Xenomorphs here. Run it by the group, see what they think.

>>25672374
We have about an hour before whatever Conti's cheat is arrives.
The music has been set to auto-transmit on a loop, though. How likely is it that Ed is actually at the substation?

>>25672433
"Guys, we might have locked in the position of another racer, should we pay her a visit? She's a hacker par excellence," Scott says.

"Does she need our help? Is she in danger?" Elyse asks.

"Eh... Maybe? She's not a fighter, and well, this city..." Scott trails off.

"I guess we'd better see if we can help her then,' Elyse nods.

"I say we pass. If she's not transmitting distress, she's probably fine," Charlie says. "I say we move on before Conti sends more lurks our way."

"I'll follow your lead, commander!" Fat Fot Pot says.

>Attempt to travel to Ed.
>Do not attempt to travel to Ed.

>>25672692
Attempt. If nothing else, we can at least say hi to her from Spike.

>>25672692
>Attempt to travel to Ed.
We need to traverse more ground to figure out the portal's location, anyway, in case it's not at the central control center.
Assuming that Ed is amenable to being recruited, she could be very useful so long as we get to planets with tech where her skills can be used.
Of course, she'll be a burden on a medieval low-fantasy world.

And if we meet up with Sam again, he'll likely shoot us if Ed can't hack his implants in time.

>>25672827
But we can also shut him down so we can play poker at the end.

This had better not be a wild goose chase, and the automated song on loop really IS just an automated song on loop.

>>25672753
>>25672827
Roll 4d100 for encounters.

Rolled 18, 10, 65, 7 = 100

>>25672932
Let's get this show on the road!

>>25672957
This is where we begin weeping.

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>>25672957
Hoooooleeee sheeeet.

About five minutes into the drive, Scott swears a blue streak. A virtual tidal wave of xenomorphs mobs the road ahead, and is dashing towards the APC like some sort of nightmarish sea of black carapace.

"Sinatra's sixth scotch! Scott, turn this damn thing around!" Charlie yells, looking at the outside from the camera station.

"But we're in an APC! Surely they can't rip through the armor!" Elyse says.

"And we can squish them all like grass blorfs!" Pot says with barely restrained glee. "Squish, squish, squish!"

>Retreat!
>Break through!

>>25673286
They dashing at us? Check the map, is there a way around?

Rolled 26

>>25673398
Scott checks the map...

>>25673286
FLY YOU FOOLS

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>>25673442
I guess we're punching through.

>>25673442
>26
The only way around that's clear will be a significant detour.

>>25673682
>>25673450
Conflicting voices! Which will triumph?

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>>25673779
No, I just changed my mind when I saw our map check.

>>25673884
Oh. Then roll 1d100.

Rolled 10

>>25673970
Yes Herr Kommandant! (I am currently operating under the hypothesis that the dice roller loves German.)

>>25673993
You fail.

>>25673993
There went that idea. 2/3 isn't bad though.

>>25674001
At a large variety of things too. At least I have the scientific method down.

>>25673993
Let's dumb luck this.

>>25674222
I keep forgetting we can do that. I second.