Jacques tries and fails to steady himself, coughs, and comes back with a handful of blood. Stumbling around the corner, he presses his back to the wall and slides to the ground.
Bobby goes on Hold, waiting for a Kraut to poke his head around the corner. Anticipating an opposed Agility roll :
= 5
"Chyort!" Aleksei curses as he sees Jacques stumble to a corner. Picking up his rifle again, he sights down the one soldier he can see and squeezes off another shot. .
Aleksei slowly moves up behind Daniel and taps him on the shoulder to let him know he is covered. He then sighs his rifle down the hallway.
Here's looking at you, bloke... Shooting at the one Aleksei didn't.
= 7
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Curious at who Daniel is shooting at, Bobby moves a couple of squares and sees another German to shoot at!
But he also misses. Bobby takes a couple of steps back to where he was.
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Rowley and Kimbers tromp up behind the steely-eyed killer that rescued them known as "Sharpshooter". Though they felt fear in their bellies when facing the Germans, they knew that so long as they stood behind one so deadly and bold as he, they had nothing to fear.
Yeah though other men might be greatly a-feared that their own deaths were close in coming, they knew that so long as they could remain within spitting distance of the whirlwind-death that was Daniel Morgan, they could face fire or beard a tiger with nothing to fear.
Of course some would say that there were braver men than Daniel Morgan, but none of that matter, for behind Daniel Morgan, the British troopers made themselves ready to launch into a ferocious attack!
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Robert shoots but misses. Jacques maintains his position of safety, nursing his wound. Rowbury and Kimbers line up for potential shots.
Meanwhile, Schultz attempts again to shake off the fog that surrounds his brain, and once more continues to stand shell-shocked. Nothing moves in the eerie silence that settles over the courtyard.
Aleksei, not seeing any more moving targets, goes to Jacques. "Okay my friend. Let me see your wound." His little knowledge of battlefield medicine he hoped Jacques could walk him through.
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Dan stands back up, brushing the dirt from his uniform. "Fresh clips, people. Fresh clips." Dan takes his own advice, topping his weapon off to full.
That done he strides into the room. "First priority is people. Check them over for kit and intel. And everyone check everyone! And get some good gear. These dirty, dirty huns have guns an' grenades in plenty, so stock up, especially you two!" he says, pointing at the Brit rescues.
"Then we check the room. See what we're got here."
Dan then does as he stated, policing up the gear on the corpses, then looking about the room, seeing what exactly they've gotten themselves in to.
Bobby refills his pistol (and the German one he took from an earlier dead soldier, using the newly dead soldiers' ammo), and takes a couple of German grenades as well.
Searching bodies :
= 4, a Success
Searching the room :
= 5, a Success
"Jacques! Stay with us, dammit! You need you talk me through patching you up right now." Aleksei stays with the Frenchman and attempts to staunch the bleeding as best he can, but with his limited medical training, he only manages to make a mess of it. "Any of you care to help keep our bandageman alive?"
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Bobby gives it a shot :
= 1, Failure
But Jacques' wounds prevent him from being able to help him.
"Oh good," Jacques says blearily, as the gunfire dies down. "Zat's all taken care of zen." He smiles weakly up at Aleksei. "От судьбы не уйти," He says, adding after a second, "I will be fine, friend." He winces, collecting himself and letting Bobby take a look at him, only to realize the full extent of the damage.
"Zanks, but, eh..." He says to the Brit, waving him off. He coughs, another hacking one, and then steadies himself against the wall. "Ze bullet 'as to come out."
He fishes in the medical bag for cigarettes, alcohol and tweezers. He stops short, his hands shaking and his eyes not quite focusing, and stands instead. He presses a hand to the wound and commits a horrible act against firearm safety, as he uses his weapon as a walking stick. "I will 'ave to keep for now." He says, and shrugs, hobbling off after Daniel.
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Daniel frowns about the room. "Wow. This is...a big room. Many ways bad guys could pop out. Many ways for us to go and not find anything intesting. Alright, well the castle ain't gonna search itself. Rowbury, Kimbers, take up crouches behind them barrel an' try to slow down a counter-attack.
The rest of you, pile-up on me, we're gonna open some doors, find sumpin' good. Eh, not you Jacques. Just, uh, try and stay comfy."
Dan just chooses the first door clockwise and gives a quick listen, ready to go in.
But the red rage of battle still pounds in his ears, and he was never a man of pausing and not kicking in a door when he could be kicking in a door.
Aleksei nods at Jacques, knowing full well he will need rest and recovery before getting into another serious fight. "You stay here. We will go forward."
Gripping his rifle, Aleksei moves forward with Morgan.
Bobby stands behind and slightly to the side of Morgan, ready to shoot anything beyond the door once it's kicked in.
Jacques waits for a moment at Aleksei's request, but after a few seconds of staring around at the bodies, he follows along, bringing up the rear while grumbling a string of profanity in multiple languages under his breath.
Bobby repeats his maneuver as well.
Aleksei stacks up near the next entrance, nerves in a bundle, ready for the next fight. He nods at Morgan that he is ready.
"That has to be important," Aleksei whispers to no one in particular as he checks his rifle to make sure it's ready for combat.
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Outside, seeing that the courtyard is secure, Kimbers approaches Jacques. "Mind if I take a look? I worked as a medic's assistant prior to this mission." With expert skill, he removes the bullet and sews up the wound. "There you are, that's got to be better, eh?"
Jacques, you may remove one level of wounds.
"Better to secure whatever's behind the doors, so that nothing can sneak up behind us as we investigate the room. Unless we see people in the room by the time we get to the doors..."
"We split up. I'll check room, you check doors while I keep you covered." With that, he attempts to silently move ahead.
Bobby thinks splitting up is a bad idea, but Aleksei is halfway down the hall before he can say anything. Shaking his head, Bobby approaches the doors, waiting for Daniel to get in place :
But trips over a shoelace and one foot hits the floor pretty hard as he stumbles.
"ЧОРТЬ!", Aleksei swears as he dives into the room.
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