[Day: Sunday, June 22nd. Time: 12:30 p.m.] [You're still in a very wide round room with very little furnishings. In the center is a tube with a door built in, and there's a number of exits like the one you came through that probably lead to similar rooms as the one you came from.] (Well, you don't have to worry about getting cut off that way!) [Adam and Eve are here! And dead or unconscious. A squad of Blitzkreig forces is here, too, all dead except for one, who's far too injured to do anything. Adela Moller is dead, too.] [And Keiko just announced that apparently, there's hostages.] [Sounds good! Session Start] * Roseli is there, still sitting on Eve from when she pinned her and weakly training her gun on her. She looks burnt or dead. * Jamie still can't do much about the one survivor of the assault due to Heinrick monoplizing him, so she continues to lay out the dead. * Luana continues helping Jamie, as instructed. * Heinrick finishes up with the patch job and steps back. He searches through his chemicals for something to bring him back to consciousness. ( Keiko and Roseli should've gotten medkit uses, iirc ) * Jamie 's eyes widen and she looks back at Rose. "They... they're..." 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-5) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 3. * Keiko looks hurt, slightly surprised, and angry. "How did they even..." she says quietly. ( Did they? ) * Jamie swallows. "I, the cameras are coming back." ( Not sure if it got done in text before end of last session, but that was the intention. ) ( K, I'll mark it. ) * Roseli blinks, sleepy and confused. "Back...?" (It was done somewhat in parens.) ( Then Keiko's fully healed. Rose... not so much. ) * Heinrick curses mildly. "We don't have time then. The least we can do is make certain they're out of eyeshot before they come back up." ( Rose is still seriously injured even with the medpak ) The fakes... they're looking for us. * Keiko glances to Heinrick as she floats to her feet. "And us too?" They see their top agents out of commission, they may try something drastic. * Heinrick nods briefly to Keiko. [A PA system comes on in the room. You can hear Cyra's voice. "I know you're there. I suggest you stop blocking the cameras. Or else."] * Jamie shivers and looks at Rose. * Roseli makes an annoyed noise. "Keep blocking them. Keiko, you tell where the hostages are?" * Togo puts his medpak away after Keiko and Rose are done using it. (Better be moving the bodies!) * Keiko shakes her head slightly, saying quietly, "Would need to look." More time? * Heinrick works on doing what he said and getting the live body and assassin duo out of camera's way as much as possible. * Roseli gets to her feet, more or less. Okay, really, she kind of falls off of Eve and sort of sits up. [A few seconds later, the PA comes back on. "Last chance. You've got fifteen seconds."] * Togo glances at the fallen Adam and Eve. "Or what, they'll send their best assassins after us?" * Jamie scampers over to Rose, and ineffectivly tries to help her up. * Keiko nods slightly. More time. * Luana laughs quietly and stands up to reload her guns. [Fifteen seconds pass. Cyra says, "Time's up. Remember, you have only yourselves to blame for what happens next."] * Roseli is helped up, and so she stands. (I place all the blame on Rose.) (What!) (Like she wouldn't do whatever she's doing anyway.) Let's move. More time. [Seconds later, you hear a man's voice. "... What are you doing? Wait. Wait! N-" Then there's a loud noise. A gunshot.] * Heinrick snorts. "Yes, because we're obviously the one using a mind control device in order to control your reactions." (True, but keeping the cameras off was your idea) [Then you hear Cyra's voice again. "Now, turn the cameras back on, or someone else dies. Next time, it'll be someone you know."] (Oh, that was probably a hostage dying! Sweet.) * Heinrick finishes what he was doing. He looks unreadable. "We should move." * Keiko snorts, before replying. "Yes." * Roseli slumps a little. "Move... Jamie, area not covered?" [Cyra's voice comes on again. "Thirty seconds. Then I'm killing Robert Johnson."] * Jamie leads Rose twords one of the doors. * Togo loads a fresh clip into his SMG, and heads for the tubedoor. * Roseli is lead. "Keiko, she... she have him?" ( According to the blueprints, you've got to head up three floors, and that will take you to the access tunnels to the other domes of the base.] ) * Keiko replies flatly, "Yes." 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-5) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 4. I do not know what stupidity allowed it, but yes. ["Ten seconds."] * Jamie follows Togo, he's probably moving faster. 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-5) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 1. * Roseli closes her eyes as she's led. "Jamie, let the cameras back on. Follow them... see." Who else? Keiko? * Keiko floats with the group. She thinks at Luana, ~This ends only badly, Lu.~ * Togo turns back to Rose for a second, nods, then swaps out for his machine gun. "No sense going subtle, then." O...okay. * Keiko replies, flatly, "People I don't know. Numbering thirty. Or so." (Did someone take Eve?) (Tell me someone's taking Eve with us.) * Luana follows along next to Keiko. ~Then we may as well take everyone out with us.~ (I've got you.) (Togo should stick her in his coat) * Roseli makes another annoyed noise. (If someone ISN'T, can I at least kill her first? :P) [You head to the tube in the center of the room. It turns out it's an elevator. Big surprise, since there's not much else it could be.] (I won't stop you!) (Do it. Heinrick's also carrying Adam's staff away.) (I just want to know before we get wacky fast forwarded!) (Togo, you taking her? Given you pulled out a machine gun...) (I can float her along, I just thought people had had it.) * Togo pauses, then turns back. "How out of it is Eve?" * Roseli looks at Togo dumbly for a moment, then speaks: "... Take her with or fucking kill her." Keiko needs time. Don't want her coming back. * Togo walks over to Eve, pulls out his DEagle, and empties a clip into her. "Ready?" * Jamie rubs at her ears with the hand that isn't supporting Rose. * Roseli just makes a kind of grunty noise. She's tired! Why all these questions! * Keiko smiles weakly and thinks back to Luana, ~That sounds more like something I would say.~ (Also, are we going in the elevator, yes?) (I believe so!) * Togo heads back for the elevator, slapping a fresh clip into his pistol before putting it back in his coat. "They wanted the cameras back on, let's give 'em something to see." [You head to the elevator! It's a cozy round thing that's vaguely remniscient of those tubs from the Jetsons.] They... ah, saw that. * Roseli chuckles a little. [According to the elevator, you're on B-3. You need to go to 1 to reach the access corridors.] (There a camera in here?) ( There is! ) * Heinrick doesn't turn to Jamie. But he does deadpan. "Well then I suppose they have no one but themselves to blame for what happened." (I don't think they'd be complaning about not being able to see if there wasn't!) * Roseli shifts her weight, and eventually she's standing on her own power. * Keiko floats in. "Odd numbering." * Jamie is rather reluctant to let go. * Luana idly flicks off bits of slime as she leans against the elevator wall. * Roseli nods to Jamie, then moves to the buttons in the elevator. She shields them from the camera with her body, pressing the one to floor 1. Keiko, anyone waiting for us up there? There... there are a lot of bots. 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-5) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 6. [The elevator zooms up to the first floor. Crazy fast!] Can you handle them? I. I. don't know. Try. * Luana pulls out one of her pistols and double-checks her ammo. [Suddenly you're there. The door opens, revealing three dead Section 1 agents, and a bunch of security bots. Most are in pieces, but two remain. They swivl their turrets towards you.] * Jamie reaches for them! 2 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2 2d8-5) and gets a natural 11 for a result of 5 6. * Jamie switches them off before the fakes can take controll of them. * Keiko replies, flatly, "No one, no." [The elevator opens to a small circular room. Directly across from you is what looks like a conference room, a big screen on the wall. There's also a corridor leading north and west, each going to a different dome of the undersea base.] ... right. *steps out of the elevator* Where to now? [The big screen turns on before you even step out of the elevator, Cyra appearing on it. "Excellent. Now we can talk in private."] * Jamie blinks in confusion. * Roseli steps out of the elevator and eyes Cyra. "Jamie, bots permanently disabled?" * Keiko looks to the screen. replying dryly, "Private from who?" * Jamie shakes her head. "I... fast, not perminant off." ~I know it wouldn't actually help, but I -really- want to shoot that image of her in the forehead.~ * Roseli nods and walks over to the bots, permanently switching them off. With bullets. Guns are awesome. * Heinrick looks at the screen. "You presume you have anything left to listen to." * Jamie lets go for that. The farther away gun shots are, the better. [She stretches. "Here's what's going to happen. Right now, Oscar Jung and his two remaining agents are headed your way. You're going to kill them for me." She reaches off camera, pulling a vaguely familiar (to most of you) Japanese woman onto the screen. "Or I kill Keiko's mother."] * Keiko nods slightly, head tilting to the side. ~Sounds like fun to me. I figure she's just going to let us know how many more people she wants to kill...~ * Keiko 's eyes narrow at the screen. (You probably want to swap those two lines) (I trailed off for a reason!) * Roseli kills the second bot, then looks back to Cyra. "What are you playing at?" ( It's a mastermind thing. We like to watch pupettes dance.) ["Well, that's a stupid question. What do you think?"] * Heinrick pushes the glasses up his nose. "You really are ridiculous." * Roseli laughs slightly as she checks her gun over. Of course if we refuse, this is our fault as well and not a personal decision of your own right. You really are such a child. Temper tantrums. Stops being cute when they're two. * Jamie doesn't have anything sarcastic or witty to add. [Cyra smirks. "I bet you have a lot of experience with that, huh Rose? Oh wait, your son never made it to two."] Do you have anything worthwhile to say? [She smiles. "And Doctor Engels. You call me ridiculous, but who's the one trying to bring his dead wife back as a zombie?"] * Keiko is just silent. Hey, if Cyra's gonna give up information. * Roseli narrows her eyes, and the grip on her gun tightens. "He made it to three, you little bitch." [She grins. "Actually, I do, Luana. Or should I call you by your real name?"] * Heinrick smiles slightly back. "Yes, but I do not blame anyone else for my own decision, now do I?" He sighs a bit at Roseli's reaction. "I'm disappointed. I would have thought that you would have chosen to throw your tantrum at Togo as well." * Luana blinks. "Being... Luana Hall?" * Keiko narrows her eyes and says, "How are you knowing these things? Zunkuft?" [Cyra laughs. "Hah. I know all about the lot of you. Luana's the funniest, though. Blindly taking orders from the very people who destroyed her life."] That wasn't what I asked. Congratulations. You have hit an all-time low of nonsense. Can we keep moving yet? * Keiko 's fist balls. "I asked how." * Jamie tilts her head. "Is. Is she stalling us?" ["Let me give you a hint. Luana Hall doesn't exist, dear. Your entire life is a lie. Your memories are artificial. You're not sixteen, you're somewhere around sixty. You're an experiment to create a loyal soldier. One that seems to have worked quite well, I must say."] * Heinrick nods. "I would agree. Let's move." * Roseli does start moving, at that, heading to the new passages and checking which directions they go. * Luana starts walking. "I am feeling rather spry for sixty." * Togo keeps watch on the various entrances to the room, expression neutral... even after that little bit. * Keiko 's body shudders. * Heinrick glances at Keiko for a moment. * Jamie follows Rose. [She brings a pistol up, pointing at the Japanese woman's head. "Go ahead. Leave."] * Luana stops in her tracks and sighs. You are going to kill her regardless of our actions. Why should we believe different? ["You don't have a choice."] * Jamie will keep walking as long as Rose is ahead of her. * Heinrick looks at the monitor and smirks. "There is always a choice." You have one now. ["You're right. Maybe I should kill Osmar Amaral instead."] * Heinrick shakes his head slightly. "And you continue to make a stupid one." * Keiko closes her eyes and replies quietly, "Have you not thought, Cyra?" * Roseli stops then. And she looks at Cyra, silent as she lets her answer Keiko's question. Who do you think you are threatening? People who have hearts and souls that... would make them not see that your goals mean the death of everyone in that room? * Jamie stops walking when she comes up even with Rose, and then self conciously takes a step back. You stab at people as monsters, but monsters would not care who you kill. So which is it? (Oooh! Oooh! I know the answer to this one! I'm a monster!) ["They don't have to die. Once we finish the mind control device, I'll have no reason to hurt them."] ["Of course, on the other hand, I don't really care one way or another."] * Roseli speaks softly: "Once you have the device finished, they'll be dead anyway. You really are a stupid child." (AFK for a few) ["Only if you don't do exactly as I say."] * Roseli laughs. Play your games? ["That's right."] (Back) Then we're at an impasse. We can't move because you'll kill the hostages, but you can't kill the hostages because that's the only thing stopping us from getting to you. ~Jamie's right, she's stalling us.~ (We need iocane powder!) ["But I can make you kill Jung."] ( Togo's gonna challenge her to a staring contest. ) I am afraid you should have picked better pawns before believing you had a checkmate. ["Oh, and by the way, Luana? Those siblings you're so fond of? The e-mails you've been sending and the replies you've gotten are from a team of Zukunft scientists."] * Keiko thinks back at Luana, still trembling slightly, ~Obviously. I'm about to faint, I think. Catch me?~ * Heinrick looks for a connected ventilation shaft. [Heinrick finds one easily enough, though it probably doesn't lead outside.] * Keiko then stops trembling as she falls down and backwards. * Luana moves quickly to catch Keiko. No, you can't. Because, again, the only thing stopping us from coming over there is those hostages. *scowls at that last bit from Cyra* * Roseli checks her gun over again, switching clips. She looks rather pissed. ["Your actual siblings...." She laughs. "I'm sorry, give me a minute. This is just too funny." She laughs again.] * Luana lowers Keiko down to the floor carefully. "If you say so, it must be true." (Doesn't lead outside how?) ( Why am I dead! I WANT TO SNARK AT YOU!!) * Heinrick then glances at Rose and holds out a hand for her. ["Your actual siblings... Well, they were never your siblings, but the people you thought were your siblings had their memories erased."] ["Then they were brought up to serve the Society. They made really effective assassins, too. They were our best."] * Roseli looks to Heinrick and speaks softly and angrily in Portuguese. Not that anyone can understand it. * Heinrick gestures his head slightly towards Keiko. [She grins. "Were. Before you killed them."] * Luana continues to focus all her concern on Keiko. She doesn't appear to be listening to Cyra at all. We *did* ask if you had anything *useful* to say. I suppose we were hoping for too much. * Togo glances back at Luana and Keiko briefly. "You're stalling for time. We just took out your big guns. You've got nothing to stop us from getting to you. You kill those hostages, you're dead. You let them live, maybe you live." * Roseli glances to Keiko, then to Cyra. She narrows her eyes and doesn't put her gun away, but she's not exploding anything. * Jamie turns around slowly. ["Fortunately I've got a lot of hostages. And in case you hadn't noticed, stalling for time is the goddamn point. By the way. Jung is about to get on the elevator. Kill him, or else. I'll be watching." She pauses, then adds as an after thought. "Keiko's a man."] * Heinrick sighs. "The flailing *is* rather pathetic at this point." * Roseli gives her a 'don't be stupid' look. God, she's so stupid. * Luana rolls her eyes. "I knew -that-." She's not anymore, though. * Heinrick tilts his head at the screen. "I suppose you used to be a human being?" You may as well surprise us with *that* fact. * Jamie looks up at the screen and tries to speak, but she only gets one soft word out. "You..." [She grins. "And I bet you consider yourselves to be the good guys. Here I am, the posturing supervillian from some comic, and you, the heroes, are coming to save the day."] No no. That would be giving you *far* too much credit. Well, she's definitely posturing. [She glances to one side. "It's time." Then she looks at you. "Remember, I'm watching. Jung dies, or Haruko does." The screen goes blank.] * Jamie stares at the screen. 'bout fucking time. Jamie? [Seconds later, Oscar Jung emerges from the elevator, with two agents in tow.] * Jamie turns around again. "Yes?" * Roseli focuses on Oscar. "You were saying?" * Heinrick smiles. "I would prefer to get rid of our audience. She did not mention anything along that route." [The two agents immediately take up defensive positions at each corridor, while Oscar approaches you. "Is this floor secure? We've lost a lot of men."] * Jamie looks down. "She has nothing... Is nothing." No, Jung. Nothing's secure. What happened to you? * Roseli glances to Jamie in askance. * Jamie doesn't elaborate. [He frowns. "The plasma cannon hit us hard, and then there were the bots. This place is swarming with them."] * Roseli nods. "Cyra has hostages. Did you hear?" [He frowns. More. "No. Location?"] No idea. She's threatening to kill them if we don't comply with her demands. Buying for time, throwing a temper tantrum, playing power games all in one. * Heinrick looks around at all the cameras around the room. [He scowls. "I hate to say it, but they're as good as dead already."] We came to that conclusion already. (How many cameras and where?) ( Three, all around the circular room, then one at the end of each corridor. ) * Heinrick goes to where likely the least amount of cameras are pointing and gestures slightly to Togo and Rose. [Oscar nods. "We should split up. Leo Mayer's team is that way," he gestures north. "We'll meet up with him. You should head that way," He gestures west.] * Togo wanders over. [Lining the corridors are doors that lead to various labs, by the way. So you know the place isn't totally empty :P ] * Roseli holds up a finger to Oscar in a 'wait a second' gesture and walks towards Heinrick. * Heinrick whispers softly. "Two options are we either destroy all the cameras as we go or buy our own time? I do not much care for our audience." He glances at Jung. "Or we totally ignore it as he says." * Roseli murmurs, "Can look like I kill them. Would take them out though." * Luana tries to lift Keiko since it seems like they'll be moving soon. She gets Keiko up in a fireman's carry. * Heinrick nods. "That may buy us time at least. Togo?" [Oscar checks a PDA whilst you talk. Looks like he has a blueprint of the base on there.] Doubt Cyra'd buy it. * Heinrick nods. "What if Rose goes with Jung? She might still have the opportunity to "kill" him later." You were right before. Hostages are dead already if she wants them dead. * Heinrick glances back at Keiko. "Either way..." * Roseli nods. Sick of stalling. Stalling buys them time. One way or the other. Time we don't *have*. * Jamie nods. * Heinrick nods. "Very well." He goes back to Luana. "I'll take my ward if you don't mind. It would probably be best if your hands were free." * Luana nods and hands her over carefully. "Thanks." * Heinrick takes her and carries her, sighing slightly. "A fine time to go asleep now, Keiko." I'm just glad she won't have to watch if things get worse. * Roseli returns. "Jung, you know Moller and most of her team are dead?" [His eyes go wide for a sec. "Damn..."] Cyra's watching your every move. She informed us that you and two of your team are coming up here. Told us to kill you, or she'd start killing hostages. And at that, we should move. [He frowns. "A typical tactic for terrorists." Then he looks at Rose. "I'm sorry, but those hostages are already dead. We should forget about them and get moving."] * Roseli nods once. "Jamie," she says softly, waving the other girl to her. * Heinrick starts moving before Oscar says that. Because he's not one for talk, only snark. * Jamie walks over to Rose. "Yes?" * Roseli leans over and whispers in her ward's ear, "Trace Cyra through the cameras." With that, she starts moving. * Togo heads where the others are headed. * Jamie shivers, and then nods. * Luana rolls her shoulders as she follows. 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-5) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 2. [Oscar and his men head down the north path.] * Roseli heads down the other path. Her grip is tight and her face is pensive. Sometimes you have to sacrifice hostages, but that doesn't mean you have to like it. * Jamie is happy to be moving again. * Jamie follows Rose to the west. (If I'm remembering the base layout correctly.) * Togo follows alongside the group, sticking close to Luana. ( Are we moving? ) ( Yah, a bit busy. ) [You head down the corridor, passing various labs. As you pass one, there's a metalic screech, and a bot flies through a door window, scissor like blades poised to cut...] d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d6) and gets a natural 3 for a result of 3. [Keiko!] ( though I guess it's Heinrick who gets to make the def roll. ) (Uh yeah.) (Keiko's AFK) ( Keiko can't come to the dicebot right now, but if you'll leave your name and ACV... ) ( No she's not. ) (She's AFB then) (Uh...so if I miss, Keiko's body gets hit? Can I block-defend with my arm?) ( Sure. ) (AFB is more accurate!) 2d8-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Heinrick (2d8-6) and gets a natural 5 for a result of -1. (ask a minute) (Didn't need it. But hits the arm.) 2d8-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8-2) and gets a natural 13 for a result of 11. [The scissors close about Heinrick's arm, sparks flying as it cuts through the skin graft and into the metal. It falls to the ground, and you can see it's a tiny bot that resembles an X-box with four legs and a giant pair of shears.] (afk I meant because I can't type, but I'm back now) ( Still moving, or broken? ) (An emperor system?) [It's still moving.] * Heinrick looks emotionally at the cut arm and pretty much reacted without much thought. "Kill it." (*emotionlessly) (afk again, cat keeps throwing up) * Togo fires a few rounds from his machine gun down at the fallen bot. 2d8-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d8-3) and gets a natural 10 for a result of 7. ( made ) [Togo makes mincemeat out of it. Uh... Metal mincemeat.] Jamie, sense any more of those? * Heinrick keeps moving without much stopping. No time. * Roseli keeps moving as she speaks. 2d8-5 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-5) and gets a natural 8 for a result of 3. (back. hopefully.) ( AFK a sec ) [You come to a door at the end of the corridor.] * Roseli opens the door. "Jamie, find her?" * Jamie shakes her head. "I. It's hard. I think they're hiding her from me." Then shut off the cameras and try again if we eliminate them first. (I opened the door! I think.) [Beyond the door is a tunnel! A tunnel made of glass (or more likely, plastic) that lets you see out into the ocean. There's external lights, so you get a good view. From here, you can see the other three domes that comprise of the lab.] * Roseli starts walking across quickly, looking at the other domes as she does so. 2d8-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8-6) and gets a natural 7 for a result of 1. * Heinrick goes as well. Readying some knives just in case they're needed. [You get to the door!] * Roseli opens that door, too. ( Should we end? Given Jesse said he has to go soon. ) (Sure) ( I'd appreciate it ) ( Aight. ) [End]