[Billie appears suddenly in a corridor that's not unlike any other cell-lined prison corridor she's seen, except the lighting is darker. Probably because there's no windows. The two guards holding Sun look up in shock as she inconveniently appears directly in front of them!] ( Init roll! ) (I'm popping right into M form, so.) (I'll give that init.) ( K, but don't forget you've got a -8 ) (Right, for the full combat, prob.) ( She gets a free round either way, they're totally unprepared. ) ( And I don't know why I bothered having you roll. Billie's way ahead. ) (Ha.) [Init is Billie, Goon1, Goon2, Sun] * Billie pops in and wants to throw up TWICE, but she doesn't, instead leeching the darkness around her to become her smoky ninja self. She says nothing, instead creating a shadowed blade in each hand and trying to shove it directly into both captors' throats (mortal blade x2; just killing their faces). (And that's a -8 too, right?) ( Yep ) (Well, these rolls are going to suck!) (... Actually, not bad. One crit.) [The first guy is stabbed in the throat so hard his head flies off. The second just goes "Urk" and tries to keep the blood from pouring out of his neck. It doesn't work. And Sun screams. Big surprise.] * Billie turns to Sun and thinks: ~Quiet, Sun! It's me. QUIET.~ ["Oh god... They.... They were going to hurt me..."] ~I know.~ (Is the other guy dead yet?) ( Yah ) [Sun takes a look at the guy who lost his head and throws up.] * Billie turns back into her human form and slumps over, because she doesn't feel good either. ~Sorry you had to see that. Was just the fastest way.~ She concentrates and shifts her clothing so she's in a uniform like the guards', then starts seaching them for IDs, access passes, anything. ["Thank you. For saving me."] [They have IDs! They're names are, uh... Bill and Ted. They also have passes. Woot.] "Said I would, right? I'm gonna protect you best I can." (Anything that indicates where we are?) ( Nope. ) ["Oh god. How are we going to get out of here?"] * Billie grabs a pass and ID and tosses them to Sun, then looks the guards over again. "Don't think I can teleport you out like I got in. So we'll have to do it the hard way. Sneak or fight." But you can't stay in prison anymore. (Which of the guards is closer in size to Sun?) ( The headless one. ) [Sun catches them, awkwardly. She gulps. "I'm... not good at fighting..."] * Billie smiles at Sun sympathetically. "Yeah, I understand. Sneaking it is." She starts stripping the headless guard. "Here, put these on." [She makes a face. No surprise, since the top of the uniform's soaked in blood.] * Billie glances at the other uniform. Is that shirt less soaked? ( A little, but it wouldn't fit as well. ) ( Also, there's no female guards in the prison ) ( Or if there are, you've never seen one. ) (Oh well, time for us to impersonate dudes! From a distance, hopefully they won't notice.) Hey, it's that or this one. * Billie points at the other shirt. "Or I guess I could be escorting you somewhere." ["However you want to handle it."] * Billie winces. "I don't know, Sun. I'm not really an expert on this. Just put that on." [She makes another face, but does it.] I'll work on making it less obvious we're chicks and Asian at that. ( The guards do have helmets ) * Billie picks up her own ID and pass and pockets them, then straightens her uniform out so she looks a little more official. (Oh good, so we have helmets on? That helps.) ( They look like Imperial Officers from Star Wars ) * Billie then concentrates, and the shadows cloak the pair just a little more than usual, to keep questions down. She grabs one guard's gun, setting it into a harness she makes for herself, and hands the other and its harness to Sun. "Let's go. And think to me, instead of talking." * Billie steps out from the cell, closing the door behind them once Sun leaves, too. ~Any idea which way you came from?~ ( These guys only have pistols ) [Sun follows. "Yeah. It was within walking distance."] ~Thinking, Sun. Not talking. Which way?~ [~Oh, um....~ She points down the corridor.] * Billie nods and heads down that corridor, trying to walk like she belongs there. [You walk! At the end of the corridor is a staircase.] * Billie heads up the staircase, then. (Sun's with me, I assume.) ( Yep. ) [The staircase leads to a corridor lined with interrogation rooms. At the end of it, you can see a guard sitting at a desk, in front of another door.] * Billie glances around. ~Take it the way out's past that door up front?~ [~Yeah...~] (How much attention is the guard paying to anything?) * Billie glances at the guard, assessing whether it would be easier to kill him or try to walk by. (And how close do we need to walk to him to get by?) [The corridor's pretty narrow. Trying to get by undetected is virtually impossible. And if he looks up at all, he'll be able to tell right away that you're not guards.] ~I'm going to silence him. Don't scream.~ [Sun gulps.] * Billie transforms in an instant, a shadow disappearing and reappearing behind and above the guard. She lands on him hand forward, a needle-like blade jutting out and for the back of his neck (Shadow Step). [He's totally unprepared and gets skewered to his desk.] [Sun blanches, but manages not to scream.] * Billie flips forward and off, landing on her feet, and changes back into a guard with a gun. She reaches into the guard's pocket for his pass. * Billie also takes his wallet, if he has any. [He has one! Good thing, because the door seems to be electronically locked. (He got a wallet, too? Sun's going to need money once she's free.) [He does, but only with $50.] [And a buncha credit cards.] * Billie takes the cash and waves for Sun to come, handing it to her once she gets there. ~Not much but for when you get out of here.~ She then swipes the guard's pass on the key. [Sun stops. ~... Oh god. Where am I going to go? Everyone will be looking for me! And my parents!~] [The door beeps and opens up. Beyond is a desk, with another guard sitting behind it. "Hey!"] ( roll init :D ) (Haha.) ( Billie's faster :P ) (I am!) ( Though she's not in meta form right now ) (Oh yes.) (Sorry.) (Then it's just a 16. :/) ( Still high enough :P ) (Woo!) (Are there any other guards in this room?) ( There's one at the water cooler. ) (Heh, they're dead men.) * Billie wastes no time ninjaing up once again, doing the same move as last time to this guard: she attempts to skewer him to his desk. (Have another move after this.) [He gets quite easily skewered!] * Billie lands on the guard's back and shoulders with one hand's blade firmly through his neck. She looks up at the man by the cooler and raises her other hand, letting a dark shuriken fly (Deadly Strike). [He gets he gun up and manages to fire a single shot before the shuriken hits him in the forehead.] (Do I need to dodge roll?) (There!) ( Actually it was a wild shot, buuuut.... ) [Billie would have easily dodged the shot, had it been anywhere near her!] (Haha.) ~Fuck, hope nobody heard that.~ She hops down and transforms back into her killer guard self, grabbing this guy's pass and money. ~Search the other guy for his pass and any money he's got, will you?~ ~And we'll find a place for you to go. ... Germany's Nazi-free, isn't it?~ [Sun does so, making a face as she feels around a corpse. She comes up with a wallet with $70. ~Yeah... But my parents...~] ~You think they're in danger?~ * Billie walks over, handing what money she found to Sun. (Exits now? Seems we entered some sort of break room foyer or something.) [There's two exits. A double door set opposite the one you came through, and a single door on a side wall. Sun mentally points towards the double door. ~It's this way.~] * Billie walks for the double doors, then, and uses a pass if she needs to in order to open them. Otherwise, she just opens them! [Sun follows Billie into a corridor. ~One more room. There's two guards there.~] ~Up ahead?~ (There's another doorway ahead?) ( Yeah ) * Billie nods. Once they get close, she actually changes forms ahead of time. ~Keep an eye out,~ she tells Sun before teleporting to the other side of the door(s). (Surprise attack!) [Billie finds herself in a reception area. There's two guards sitting behind a desk to her left, both of whom immediately go "WTF". there's also some chairs and potted plants around.] (Heh, they're both so very dead. They within striking distance?) ( Yep ) * Billie turns left and does the same trick she did with the very first set of guards: both hands strike out, a blade in each, right through their necks (Mortal Blade x2). (Are you doing critfails, Brett?) ( nope. Though it'd be fun. ) [One of the men is killed instantly, but the other manages to move out of the way, and Billie's blade sends sparks flying as it hits a computer. "Holy shit!" the man shouts, drawing his pistol and firing a shot at her.] [Billie quite easily avoids the shot.] * Billie seems to blur out of the way of the bullet. ~Silence,~ she whispers into his mind as she teleports behind him, trying to drive the blade meant for him into the back of his neck (Shadow Step). [Billie finishes him off.] * Billie looks down at the corpse, annoyed, as she shifts back. ~You can come in now, Sun,~ she thinks to her fellow escapee as she starts fishing for these guys' passes and cash. [Pocket change get! And Sun comes in.] * Billie hands over the pocket change. [Sun gets more change! It's not enough to buy a plane ticket though. (It's not like she can buy a plane ticket legally anyway.) ( Yah :P ) (One thing at a time!) ~Know what's next?~ [~Outside. There's patrols, snipers in the towers, dogs... oh god, bots.~] * Billie winces behind her mask. ~Awesome. We'll just do the best we can. Stick close to me.~ She makes for the outside. [Sun follows. It's night time outside, but much of the area is brightly lit by flood lights. You can see the aformentioned patrols and even some bots. ~The bots have infrared. If they see us, we're dead!~] * Billie looks around. How are the bots patrolling, and where are buildings located - how far apart are they spaced? [There's anywhere between ten and thirty feet between buildings. The nearest one is ten feet away. There's two bots that Billie can see, bi-pedal ones with thick armor and twin chain guns. They're both patrolling the same path around the buildings, spaced so they're at exactly opposite sides on the patrol route at all times.] * Billie watches them patrol and thinks. (So if there's a bot on one side of the building, there's one on the other side?) ( Yeah ) [Sun shivers. ~Oh god...~] ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwIo_VadeFU&feature=related is the music I've been listening to :P ) * Billie looks up, trying to figure out sniper coverage. ~Don't freeze. We can do this.~ ~Bots probably don't look up. That's a sniper thing.~ (Oh, nice one for this!) [~Are you sure? Some of the prisoners can fly.~] ~And the bots will instantly ID us, right?~ [Sun nods.] (How are the sniper towers, Brett?) ( They're around the outer wall, pretty high up. I forget how tall I said the wall was, but add about twenty feet to that.] ) (And how far away is the outer wall?) ( About 120 feet. ) (Is there any point in these bots' patrol route that we can walk where we're not in either's direct line of sight? ( There's a very brief window where you can run from behind one building to another where they won't be looking at you. VERY brief. ) (Sweet.) * Billie glances at Sun. ~How are you at running?~ [~... Not very good.~] * Billie nods, thinking quickly, then replies, ~Then I'll do the running.~ She watches the bots. ~I'm gonna pick you up, and we're going to move.~ [~Uh... Okay...~] (I'm going to transform, pick up Sun, and make the mad dash, okay?) ( K. It'll be a body roll + sports (running) ) (I have fast 2.) (What kind of bonus would that be? ^^) ( I..... Don't see it ) ( Oh nevermind ) (If you want to to it like HS, then it's +3 per level.) ( That works ) (Yeah, that's what I'd do. ^^) ( The "new" art in this book is so butt-ugly ) (Zoom!) (IT IS. Ugh.) [Billie sprints across the gap in the patrol without being noticed!] * Billie sets Sun down in the shadow of their new safe location and crouches, still in M form, trying to quickly calculate their next move. (What've we got now, Brett? Help me visualize!) [Ahead are more buildings! There's some guards patrolling around them. But Billie should be able to get pretty far under the cover of darkness until she reaches the empty, well lit lot up ahead.] * Billie shifts back into her human form, then, and waves for Sun to follow as they make for that area under the cover of darkness. Once closer, she looks for a way to skirt the lot's perimeter. [Sun follows! When she reaches the lot, Billie sees that she can use an unlit grassy area to pass it, but she'll have to be good at dodging the spotlights that frequently comb the area.] * Billie watches the spotlight pattern. ~Second verse, same as the first. Ready?~ [Sun nods. ~Okay.~] * Billie transforms, scoops up Sun, and makes with the ninja weave and dodge! ( Gimme a..... ) ( Hell... I don't know. ) ( Defense roll - fast ) (+ you mean?) ( Right ) (Ranged?) (And do you want me to add Body, yes or no?) ( Actually make it body ) ( Body + acro ) (Got it.) [Billie dodges between spotlights as they comb the area. She's nearly at the wall now. Only problem is... it's a big wall.] (What's the wall made out of?) ( Concrete ) (How much DP to shadowport Sun to the other side?) (Actually, looking at my sheet again... fuck it.) * Billie doesn't stop. She keeps running for the wall at superhuman speed with Sun over her shoulder. ~Going up,~ she warns the other girl briefly before she keeps going, straight up the wall. [Sun barely manages not to yelp, covering her mouth with her hand.] [Billie gets to the top of the wall. It's cold and windy up here. But they're almost home free. The only problem now is the river. Or moat, if you prefer.] * Billie stops briefly, surveying the moat. How big is it? ( About http://www.nyctourist.com/map1.htm big ) ( It's the west river. ) (That's, um, very big. And I did not buy water walking.) ( Across the river is NJ. ) * Billie would frown if she could. She starts running down the wall, now, with Sun. ~Any ideas? Got to be a way across; it's how we got here.~ She looks for a ferry or boat as she runs. [There's a bridge! But it's brightly lit all the way across.] [~I came in in a van.... Sometimes there's helicopters, but...~] ~Great. We'll go for the bridge then.~ [~But they'll see us.~] * Billie reaches the bottom of the wall and changes back into a human guard again, looking around. ~I can't make a boat, unfortunately...~ ~If Josh were here, he could. Dude's a fuckin' pirate.~ * Billie also set Sun down before doing that, for the record. ( Haw. ) [Sun nods. ~So we just have to run?~] ~That or hold tight and hope he magically pops in. Which could happen, but I can't tell him to.~ [~Okay...~] * Billie is silent for a bit, then thinks, ~Another option... could be to hitch a ride. I mean, people HAVE to cross that bridge, for supplies and getting out of work and stuff.~ ~This is a huge operation.~ [~I guess they must...~] [~I'm so scared.~] * Billie looks at Sun. ~Me too. I'm really sorry.~ She starts moving for the bridge, sticking to the shadows of the giant wall next to them. [As Billie approaches the bridge, the gates start to open.] * Billie keeps approaching and watches. [A big white truck drives out. The spotlights have it pretty well lit, though.] (Like out from where we are for the bridge?) ( Yeah ) (Is there another one on its way?) ( Not that you can see. ) ( Actuallly ) ( I think I am gonna just end here. Getting tired. ) (No problem. ^^) [Endddddddddddddddd. D.]