[Meanwhile, Heinrick, Jamie and Keiko are in a van in an alleyway about five minutes from the building. They can see and hear everything that goes on from there. Blue team is also five minutes away, but in the opposite direction.] ( Red team ) ( orz ) (There's com betweem them and the other team and with Rose & co, right?) ( Yep ) * Jamie scans the building for automatous engines of distruction to wreck her vengance on huma...er things she can use to protect her guardian if things go bad. * Keiko is sitting there with her duck on her lap. She's been silent, but it's not so much a normal bored silence, but a sorta chilly one. She's watching the feed too. [Karin demonstrates that, clearly, there's a com liking you all. "Karin here. Cyra and I are in sniping position across the river."] (You'll want to put that in main channel, too.) ( Oh. Right. orzzzz ) * Heinrick is concentrating on the feed as well, adjusting it as needed. "Be prepared to move out if need be at any moment. If you notice anything out of place, let me know." * Jamie speaks into the comms. "They have, uhm, three security bots. Two in the man room and one in the back. And their security is kinda... bad." (Rowyn, make sure you put comm stuff in the main channel, too.) (Right!) ( You guys also need awareness checks. ) * Jamie replies to Rose. "Uh... your picture is good, but theirs is full of holes." * Heinrick replies as well. "Visual is fine from this end. Haven't spotted anything out of the ordinary just yet..." * Heinrick mmms into the comm. "Well this is interesting. Did you notice her as well?" * Jamie blushes. "I'm... not sure. I can't piece the images together. Sorry." [Gabriel's voice comes over the comms. "Start identifying groups if you can."] * Heinrick responds. "Cayil's old bodyguard is here. Keep your guard." * Jamie tries to grab control of the patrolling bots cameras so she can start working out the layout of the building and tell Rose where the stationary cameras don't point. [Karin speaks! "Wasn't that one Arab guy in that group we hit last month?" Gertrude laughs. "Yeah. We all but crippled them. No surprise to see them here, trying to buy their way back in."] [Gabriel adds. "It looks like the auction isn't limited to terrorists. The mafia, the yakuza, and the triads all have members here."] [Gertrude: "Who are the black guys?"] [Gabriel: "I'm more interested in the French."] [Gabriel: ""Zakanan. They must be a part of the Zakanan Liberation Front. Not Germany's problem."] * Keiko idly thinks at Jamie, as she continues looking at the screen, ~Just do.~ * Jamie starts. ~Do what?~ * Keiko pets her duck. ~No embarassment. Do.~ ~Oh. Okay.~ [Gertrude laughs. ""] * Jamie gets back to work on the cameras. * Heinrick responds. In German so Roseli can understand. "It would certainly help our cause if they *were* to take on Montreaux. But I don't believe it's a priority." [Gertrude laughs again. "Relax, I was just kidding. They're French, they probably don't even know which end of the gun to point at the enemy."] * Heinrick doesn't respond. Or crack a smile. He may have been serious. [Gabriel: "We've had a lot of attacks from Middle Easterners lately. Keep your eye on them."] * Heinrick responds. "Afraid it isn't a language I speak. Pity." * Jamie shakes her head and then says "No." [Karin apparently has heard of them, too. "Ugh, I hate spiders."] * Keiko blinks, then hums something faintly to herself. * Heinrick hmms into the comms. "Spider worship is an interesting concept. Fascinating creatures. They must take after the black widow. Though a praying mantis god would be just as fascinating." * Heinrick responds. "That would be an odd concept, yes. Though perhaps a god of death and sacrifice would be sufficient." [Gabriel speaks. "Get ready to move."] * Jamie blinks. "A fourth bot has activated. I don't know its function yet." * Luana has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer) * Luana has joined #MC4a (Question, Brett: Is it 5 minutes from the building at a fast run or 5 minutes driving?) [A new bot walks out into the observation room. It's about eight-feet tall, with a wide, flat "head", no neck. It's left "arm" is some kind of rifle, while the right has a miniature rocket-launcher. "Our first item: three BZ-79 military grade bots. They're a few years old, but still far better than most of the standard bots you can get."] ( Driving ) (You pasted to the wrong channel Brett XD) ( Gah... I have no idea what one of these would cost. ) ( orzzzzzzzzzzzzz ) (Assuming no inflation?) (Let's assume they're 1/10 the cost of jets retail, that's still, uh, a half-mil to a mil, easy. Plus black market markup.) (Buy me one Rose! I promise to feed it and take it for walks!) (I dunno. You didn't pay enough attention to that hamster I got you last auction.) (Aww.) (But it smelled funny! Robots don't smell! I promis this time!) (+e) [Karin: "I've got the exits covered, but there's no way to target inside."] [Gertrude: "Give the word. I'm ready to cause some bloodshed."] (Is Heinrick getting/gotten us moving already?) * Heinrick speaks through the comms. "We're ready to approach when you give the signal. Estimated time is 5 minutes." * Heinrick replies, "Understood." And turns to the rest outside of the comms. "Everyone prepare. And I would also advise the seats at this time." [Gabriel: "We're getting into position at the rear exit."] * Keiko glances to Jamie for a moment, then moves to a seat. ~What is it,~ she thinks flatly at Jamie. * Jamie makes sure she's buckled up. * Jamie looks at Keiko ~Ten got in a lot of trouble for this. What if I miss? What if I accidentaly hit somebody I'm not supposed to?~ [As you approach the compound, the guards outside take note, drawing their guns.] * Keiko leans forward on the chair in front of her. ~Then stuff will happen. The only people on our side are us.~ * Heinrick turns to Keiko. "Can you take control of some of them while we're on the move?" * Jamie nods slightly. * Keiko says out loud, "Get me close enough, and I can do it upside down." * Heinrick nods and turns back ahead. "Good." He keeps his eyes on the road and approaches them faster. (Let's add a "Do it." onto that, just to amke it official.) [They start shooting! Give me a ranged defense (ground vehicle) roll.] (WHo's driving?) (Heiny.) ( I thought Heinrick was. ) (Take that, bitches.) * Keiko makes it official, then, and will do a mass-mind-control at 10 meters. ( What are you going to do here, exactly? ) (Heinrick's gunning for them. Keiko's going to try to mind control when in range. Faster means less bullets fired before we get in range.) [Well, thanks to Heinrick's fancy driving you pretty much get in range before they're ready, adn they miss wildly.] ( Which people is Keiko aiming to mind control? ) (The guards? Are there more than 5?) ( Just the two outside. ) (Then I can only really get the guards on the outside for my first grab.) (As I gra them when I just get in range.) (And my first mental command is going to be, "The arabs set you up! Go in and kill them.") (Because that's their job. To kill shit. Go kill shit.) ( Heinrick, roll init ) 2d8+8 ( Other channel ) (hE DID.) (Stupid capslock.) (What are the guards doing? o.o) (And yes if you meant the roll, I did.) ( The guards are doing nothing until their init comes up. ) * Keiko listens to the comms, then mutters to herself, "It's good I'm not supposed to think for myself." ( Waiting on Heinrick... o/~ ) * Keiko holds onto the seat as the van screeches to a stop, maintains her mental orders for the guards, because at least it'll get them going, and she'll step out, shield springing up. Anybody else to mind control? * Keiko is a flat dead look on her face. (s/is/has) [There are! Most anyone left on the ground floor is up for mind controlling.] (Do the spider women qualify?) ( You know... Tha'ts a good question. ) d2 ( Erm ) ( No, they don't. ) (The Japanese?) ( They are, yeah. ) (I'll make a grab for three of them, with the mental order of, 'Cut down the auctioneer bitch who ran off with your hardware.' Always good to throw more meat in the way.) (Even if all this is rough.) (Make by 6.) [Keiko succeeds.] (Hooay! Go guards and kill arabs! Go japanese guys and kill auctioneer woman!) (Die meat die!) * Keiko comms flatly, "The guards and yakuza are mine." (Put that in the main chan?) (I don't even think we need this channela nymore.) ( Probably not. ) ( Although you guys are still outside ) * Jamie replies to Rose. "There is a staircase down the hall behind the double doors. I'm sorry I hit you with the ceiling!" * Luana replies to Jamie over the comm with as much humor as she can muster (not much), "As long as you don't do it again." * Keiko replies similarly, "They'll live." I won't! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! * Heinrick looks for any with weapons in the dissipating crowd and edges behind the van, motioning for the others on the outside. "Keep as few spotting you as possible. We do not wish to be identified if any get away." (In low tones, obviously.) [You can see the mafia, Zakanans and French heading your way.] * Heinrick doesn't see any worthwhile targets to capture. Maybe the French, but it doesn't sound like they know much or work for the government. He does set off smoke around them to obscure the van though. * Roseli speaks over the coms: "Jamie, which way?" * Jamie thinks for a moment and then replies. "Left, it's left." * Roseli goes left! (Oops.) * Keiko reaches out and reaches out to tap one of the Mafia, while shifting her orders to the guards that were shooting the arabs to shoot the ones running towards them (so the Mafia and Zakanans and French). To the Mafia guy she's trying to grab? He better kill the Zakanans and the French or else they'll kill him. (Mkb4.) [Karin speaks over com: "We hit Odette, but she's still up. Next shot will get her."] [Gertrude: "Hehe. Here they come. Sebastian, kill every one of them!"] * Heinrick sneaks through the smoke with the chloroform, looking for any who has strayed away from the group in the chaos. It's as good a chance as ever to try and capture one of the ones that aren't mind controlled. Depends on who's available though. ( Just the French, Mafia and Zakanans. The others went in different directions ) (Let's get a Frenchy, since they're the most political and the others are either made up or there just because they're Generic Bad Guys (TM).) ( Go for it ) * Keiko looks over her shoulder towards Cyra a moment, but just a moment, before shifting the Yak's orders to not knock Luana around while going for the woman, and the guards + frenchmnan just to keep the damage dealing up. They'll die eventually. No problem for her. (No real need to roll.) ( Cyra's not there . ) * Heinrick drags the unconscious body near the van and looks for anyone who isn't shooting each other. Since the wards are staying out here and he's protecting said wards and guarding the exit, he calls into the comms. "How are things progressing on the inside?" *on comm* Vamp's down, heading after the woman, encountering some resistance, not worried. * Jamie winces. * Keiko grits her teeth at the Eileen Rhodes stuff. "I am sick of her." * Heinrick nods. "As am I." He calls into the comms. "Miss Oswald, come in." [Eileen Rhodes is the one who responds. "Did you hear that? Oswald, is it? Someone wants to talk to you. So you better ANSWER!" There's another scream as she says the last word.] * Jamie looks at Heinrick and mutes the comms in the room. "Should, should I cut off that com unit?" * Heinrick nods to Jamie. "Do it. But only auditory if you can. If she continues to gloat, it may give us an advantage." * Jamie makes it so we can hear her but she can't hear us. * Keiko spits out, "Makes me wish I could fly," as she maintains her holds on chaos and having the Yakuza help. "You don't have rocket boots too, do you Heinrick?" * Heinrick speaks back into the comms after Jamie does her thing (so delayed action). "We've cut off Miss Oswald's comm unit for now. Things seem clear on this end so we are going in for support. So long as you don't anticipate any further need here?" * Heinrick then turns to Keiko and smirks faintly. "I am afraid I left those blueprints at the base. We will have to make due with what we have onhand." * Keiko lets her shield drop as she steps back into the van. "Let's try wheels, then." * Heinrick gets into the drivers seat after hauling the unconscious Frenchy in and waits for everyone to get settled before gunning it towards Karin's position. (How's our driving progress?) ( Going to take a bit. Karin's pretty far away. ) ( And Cyra :P ) * Heinrick continues the quick driving then! (500m is far on foot, not so far driving.) (But rounds are short too. So...idk.) (Yeah.) ( Yeah... I'm going to say... 3 rounds? ) (Sounds reasonable.) (Did some quick calculation, and that's actually pretty dead on considering sane-ish driving speeds. Good job.) ( Woot! ) * Keiko thinks at Jamie, in something approaching harsh/commanding, ~You are not going to fall apart on me. If I can't fall apart, you can't fall apart. Okay?~ * Heinrick glances at Jamie, not into the comms. "Can you detect where that comm is coming from? The target may have moved." * Jamie looks at Keiko, but answers out loud. "I... I'll try." * Keiko glances to her, then mutters out loud, "Today is not for trying." * Heinrick replies in a stern voice. "Keiko is, sadly, correct in that. Please do it." She's climbing and... Luana!! Focus. Togo and Ms. Tavares are doing what they can in there. We must do what we can out here. * Keiko thinks into her mind, ~Luana's good. Come on.~ They, but she's and the bots, I'm going to, I can't. ( Unless you say otherwise, I'm skipping your next two turns, since you need that long to get there.] ) (That's fine. We'll continue the drama!) (I'm at least going to lose the next one to panic) Climbing. Climbing where? Same position? * Jamie points ahead and up at one of the buildings. "There. There. There. She's not moving. She's not going to, I can't do anything." * Keiko crouches and looks through the window, trying to see where Jamie's pointing. "You and everyone else." We don't know that till we get there. [Heinrick and co. get to the location: A three story building. The fire escape has a ladder pulled down already.] * Heinrick shakes his head as he looks up the fire escape. "It *would* figure." He sees if he can see any figures up top first. * Keiko doesn't wait, instead reaching out with her mind to see if she can find the nice familiar ugliness of Eileen as she heads for the ladder. * Jamie stays with the van. [Heinrick can't see anyone up there, unfortunately.] [Keiko probably can't sense, either, 'cause it's the roof of a 3 story building, and I'm pretty sure that's more than 10 meters.] (Actually...) (A building story is about 10 feet. So that makes a 3 story building ~7 meters. If she can't feel it now, she will soon.) (Anyway.) (Sorry, more like 8.) [Keiko feels it, then. What little she can.] * Luana says over the comm, "We've secured the target." * Keiko grits her teeth and stuffs her duck in the front of her dress before she climbs upward, dress and all. ( You guys can keep going, out of init til you get to the top. Then same ones again ) * Jamie uses the coms to ask. "Is, is everybody okay?" ( No ) "Rose and Togo are hurt, but I think they'll be okay. My shoulder is dislocated, but I'm fine." ( What's Heinrick doing? ) That's... that's okay. [The bot eventually catches up, at about the same time as Sebastian.] * Heinrick is heading up with Keiko, that's what he's doing. Cause no ward's going to do a guardian's job. ( Which... would be some time after you guys, soo... ) [Sebastian looks inside the van briefly before spotting the rest of you on the fire escape, and hurries to join.] [Meanwhillllle.] [You get to the top, which will take some descrip.] [It's not a very large roof, but what it is is some vents, three edges and a wall. Cyra is slumped against a vent, eyes closed.] [Karin is on the wall, crucified by two railroad spikes through her palms. Her blood rushes down the side in small streams.] * Togo has quit IRC (Ping timeout) [And then there's Eileen and Gertrude. More precisely, Eileen standing about ten feet from Gertrude, yet her arm is long enough and wide enough to reach her from there. She's holding Gertrude by her head as the other woman struggles to free herself. But even her cybernetic arm doesn't seem to be having much effect.] [Order is: Eileen, Sebastian, Gertrude, Heinrick, Keiko, Jamie] (... so Eileen has a flexible bendy arm of some sort?) ( Yep! ) (Neat.) ( And strong, too, considering she's holding up a woman with metal body parts by her head.] ) [Speaking of which, Gertrude screams as Eileen squeezes. Her bloodshot eye pops open, though. "Bitch! I'll kill you! I'll kill you!" But she's not doing a very good job of it.] [Heinrick!] [Since Sebastian's still making his way up.] * Heinrick gets his composure rather quickly and throws some incidiary at the base of the arm. Let's hope fire hurts. [Heinrick hits! Eileen hisses, and her arm returns to normal size, dropping Gertrude. She glares at Heinrick.] [Keiko!] * Heinrick looks at her. "Well, I *did* assume saying "drop her" wouldn't work." * Keiko 's shield springs up as she stares at her, reaches out to the woman to establish telepathic and mind control contact, and says in a low voice, "Hello again." (Both technical makes, the telepathy by 9, the MC by 3.) [Keiko pierces her shield with the telepathy! Not the MC.] * Keiko gives her the hello mentally as well. She's so courteous. But her body posture is rigid, adversarial. [Jamie!] * Luana has quit IRC (Quit: Trillian (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com) [Eileen! And suddenly she's right next to Keiko, who needs a defense against grabs.] (Make by 4.) (Although I wonder what grabbing a force field does. But!) [Keiko avoids being grabbed! Eileen seems disappointed, so she draws a knife and just tries to stab Keiko instead.] ( Nothing since it's not offensive. ) (If she tried to crush her with the field on, then it'd probably activate.) (But Keiko's got mad ninja skillz.) (That one will hit the shield.) [Ouch. The knife hits the shield and goes through, grazing Keiko's arm.] * Keiko is dodging before Eileen even moves, slipping from her initial grasp. But an actual decent fighter she is not, and so she takes the hit on her arm. She hisses out, "Glad to see you think of me so fondly." [Gertrude gets to her feet and grabs her gun, lying nearby. She screams and shoots at Eileen, hitting her in the side.] [Heinrick!] * Heinrick tilts his head at Eileen. "I suppose options of resolving this calmly are out of the question now. No?" He shrugs as he grabs another of his vials. "Oh well, I tried." He throws it at her before she has a chance to charge. This one's liquid nitro. Let's see how miss flexi freezes. [Eileen hops back, but not before a portion of her arm is caught in the attack. She growls.] [Keiko!] * Keiko focuses on re-forming the shield around herself, which she does with ease, as she maintains the mental contact and the defensive. She thinks at her, ~I know your sort of mind. I've been through these rooms, walked these halls.~ (Hooray regenerating ability.) * Roseli has quit IRC (Quit: If I say I'm the nice one, I'm the nice one.) [Sebastian pokes his head over the top of the fire escape ladder, ad the same time the military bot bursts through the door. Eileen glowers for just a minute, and then... she's gone.] ( Poof! ) (Like supah-fast gone or Nightcrawler gone?) ( More the Nightcrawler one. ) (Then that's a Bamf.) ( Maybe. Anyhow, finish this up so I can go sleep D: ) * Heinrick sighs and puts away his chemicals before walking over to Karin and inspecting the spikes and her status. Keiko, check on Cyra. Make sure she's okay. [Karin is alive, but unconscious. Which is probably good for her, because she'd be in a lot of pain if she was awake. ] * Keiko blinks as suddenly the mind she's talking to is gone, and then her arms fall to her sides, slack. She glances about, then pads over to Cyra. Who hopefully has brain activity. * Jamie asks over the coms. "Is. Is there anything I should do?" * Heinrick looks to see if he can remove the spikes without hurting Karin. He keeps on the comms. "Keep the bot moving. We may need stronger muscle to remove these, just in case." * Keiko replies back, a bit more quietly, "Stay out of sight. You could join me on the wall in her mind." [Gertrude kicks the side of the roof so hard a portion flies off. "Damn it! DAMN IT! She got away! RRRgh."] * Jamie marches the bot over to Karin. [Cyra has a minor head wound, but actually seems better off compared to Karin.] She apparently doesn't like being outnumbered. And when the pain is turned on her. [Annnnnd Gertrude slaps Sebastian -- With her non-cybernetic hand -- as he finishes climbing the ladder. He winces, starting at her in shock.] * Keiko says, after the brief check, "Cyra is... fine. She had not gotten to spend time on her yet." [Gertrude screams at him. "Where the hell were you?! If you'd have been doing your duty like you're supposed to be, she might not have gotten away!" She slaps Sebastian again, and again and again, while he shouts. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"] * Keiko 's head flinches very slightly when Sebastian is slapped the first time, and then she wraps her arms around herself, duck still peeking out of the top of her dress. * Heinrick is still inspecting the spikes. "There must be a way to restrict her movements." He glances at Gertrude for a moment. "Miss Himmel. Since you seem to be intimately aquainted with her, do you have any thoughts on her mode of transit?" [Gertrude eventually finishes with him. "All this training and technology and your still worthless. You should go back to the gutter where they found you." She glares at Heinrick, screams, "How the hell should I know?!" And storms off through the door, completely ignoring Keiko or Karin.] [Sebastian hurries after her.] [Heinrick isn't sure how to remove the spikes properly. ] * Heinrick replies calmly to the air, "Because if you knew, you would be able to get the best of her and not take your anger out on innocent people." He lets out a breath. "Keiko, assist me please." * Keiko walks over to Heinrick and nods, but at looking at the spike she just asks, "How?" * Jamie waits for some sort of directive. [Working together, you eventually rescue Karin. Session End!]