Seeing the others have the last guard well in hand , Arana turn to where the other two guards went to investigate her illusion.
Snatching a stun grenade from her harness, she throws it at their feet, or if they'd turned a corner , around the corner.
attack
As the two rebel guards return they are met with a stun grenade and a dead eye shot from your team.
One of the men is stunned and the other is knocked unconscious by Zaleos's superb shot.
Darius gets the door open and Karval is able to maintain his hold on the rebel.
You have a walkway open to you but there are four more rebel soldiers just down this walkway. They see you and are ready to start fighting. Evidently they have been alerted to your presence.
There is cover in on the walkway. Enough to provide moving cover bonuses but also enough to prevent straight charging from either group.
Your turns
Darius draws his blaster while still holding the Vibroblade. He fires at one of the men down the hall.
Janitor darts over to some of the cover, holstering his slugthrower as he draws his blaster pistol. He slides into position and fires a shot over the top of the barrier. Damn, but I wish I had my carbine.
Zaelos brings up the rear, making sure the droids are not left behind. He slides next to the others taking cover and fires at another rebel soldier.
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"Surrender, now and live." Karval says throwing a knee into the ribs of the man he's struggling with. 'Don't really want to be killing this man, but we haven't any manacles... maybe a strip of cloth.' the thought skips through his mind as he tries to maintain the pin. Trying to lock in a grip and move his vibro-blade to threaten the rebel.
Let's get on the other side and seal it. Darius says.
Arana mirror's Janitor on the opposite side of the walkway
Blaster Pistol
Attack
Damage
Sorry for the delay. Been working on a campaign I will be running RL on Tuesdays. Been busy with that.
Round One Results
The long corridor of the walkway echos with the sounds of blaster fire and bolts leap back and forth down the passage. There are constant flashes of light and minor explosions as bolts detonate when the hit cover or walls.
Karval is the only one hit for 17 damage.
Only Zaleos fails to hit an enemy. You have put down a few rebels.
Round Two Begins
You can keep pushing forward and Darius or anyone who stays back can shut the door behind you guys.
Your turns
Once everyone is through the door, Darius shuts the door and fires at the control panel in hopes of slowing any pursuers down.
If they thought it would work...
Keeping his hands to the outside, using his knowledge of close fighting and duelling he tries to control his opponents movements. With a glance at Darius, he gets ready to disengage and rush inside.
Seeing everyone rushes into the corridor beyond, Karval extricates himself and rushes through the doorway.
Zaelos moves through the corridor just before Darius seals the door behind him. He slows down while extending his senses ahead of the group looking for any signs of rebels planning an ambush ahead of them.
@Karval: No he did not surrender but I have him at unconscious from your last attack.
There are about eight rebels in the corridor a head. Well six after everyone shot last round.
Janitor stays in cover, glancing over and firing when an opportunity presents itself. If there's cover near enough to run to it (toward the enemies), he dashes forward, knowing the group needs to press on.
Despite the hood in his face disrupting his peripheral vision, he manages to pick off a target from around the cover. Heh, still got it, he thinks, remembering the last time he was in civilian clothing. Hope it doesn't go to hell like that one did.
Five rebels left.
Zaelos sees only the rebels in front of them with his Force sight. Nodding quietly to himself, he fires at another of the rebels.
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Still waiting on Arana
Ducking behind a support strut, a blaster bolt sizzling a mark where her head could have been, Arana pulls another stun grenade from her harness, waits for a lull in the action , then tosses it into the middle of the rebels.
Throw stun grenade
Really sorry for the delay. Busy busy weekend.
The door is shut behind you guys.
Janitor is able to drop another rebel.
Zaleos just missed.
Arana's stun grenade stuns two rebels.
There are five rebels between you and the facility you need to be in. Two of them are stunned and the other three popped off shots that all score your cover but not any of you.
Your turns.
Janitor again fires a shot with his pistol, moving up if he can. He aims for the rebels who are still shooting. "Keep moving!" he calls back to his teammates, making his voice rough and low to mask it.
Still with the long dagger in one hand, he nods at Janitors' instructions. Keeping out of the line-of-fire of his allies behind him; he darts forward towards the rebel troops. A zig-zag pattern, his hand flashes to the small of his back and a pistol emerges.
He launches a single bolt at a different trooper and he bounds towards more cover.
Zaelos doesn't waste his breath here, instead dodging from one point of cover to the next, firing as soon as he gets a clear shot.
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Darius pops off two shots down the hallway from his current position by the door.
Two shots using rapid shot:
Smiling with exhileration, Arana waits for a break in the flash of blaster bolts then rolls forward back into cover and fires at an exposed rebel.
Attack
You all press forward. Darius and Janitor display the fruits of their profession well as they take down three rebel soldiers together. The volley has left a nice opening for the whole party to move forward a good ways. The remaining rebels are starting to fall back to the second door.
You have one more round of shooting before the rebels retreat beyond the door. There are three of them remaining.
Go!
Janitor continues to press forward, grinning at Darius' display of nimble shooting. Kid's good. The trooper himself prefers a more restrained approach, firing precise shots to hit a target in weak points.
Zaelos takes a deep breath. We are running out of time here...FOCUS! He moves quickly behind the Mandalorian warrior and follows up with his own shot.
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Arana hisses in frustration at her failure to help, banging her blaster to clear its action. After hearing the click of a functioning blaster, she joins the other in the assault on the rebels.
Attack
As she raises the blaster, her foot hits one of the unconscious rebel soldiers, almost spilling her on her face. Stumbling, she falls forward back into cover, a string of curses spilling from her mouth.
Karval looks to the retreating rebels; 'If they get past the second door then they might shut it.'
Thus Karval waits until after the others have fired he then moves forward with all haste, pistol in one hand and blade in the other. Almost as a dance he weaves forward to the remaining guards trying to press them so that they cannot close the door.
We've got to stop them from shutting doors...
Darius sees Karval getting ready to run, and nods at him as they begin to charge down the corridor together. He is holding his vibroblade in one hand while holding the blaster in the other.
"I'll cover you." Karval adds, with a grunt and a motion of the weapons at hand.
Janitor manages to gun down one of the fleeing rebels but the other two make it through the door.
Karval and Darius come just short as the door slams shut in their faces.
For the moment the corridor is quiet. Your Astromech whisles in a panic and your protocol droid shouts. "WE"RE DOOMED! THERE'S NO WAY OUT! WE'LL BE DESTROYED FOR SURE!"
Karval and darius are standing right in from of the door and the rest of your are about halfway down the corridor.
The door is sealed. What do you do now?
Karval charges at full pelt for the door, his eyes widen as it starts to close. Knowing that if he doesn't get through there'll be fatal consequences, he dives for the door. There's a meaty thud as his shoulder hits the bottom of the door, the Mandolorean is lucky enough to avoid being crushed.
Glancing to the others as he rises, he looks for a control panel to work on before the lock is blown from the other side. Sheathing his vibro-dagger, he sees if he can get to work.
Zaelos motions for the droids to be quiet. Are all droids this paranoid? He thinks wryly to himself. He then motions for R2-L7 to help Karval crack the security on the door.
Janitor takes up position behind some nearby cover, his pistol held out in a two-handed grip over the barrier. "How soon can we get that open, you think?"
Darius pulls out a thermal detonator and says, "That depends..."
He waits to see if the others can successfully open the door.
There is a maintinence hatch leading to the exterior of the corridor.
It will take the Astromech 2 minutes to hack the door and open it.
If you chose to wait, you will likely need to prepare for resistance beyond and the possibility of being attacked from behind as well.
If you chose to take the hatch, it will allow you to move to the building from the outside and then use ledges and narrow walkways to get to an alternate entry point.
Additionally, if you have grappling and climbing tools and skills, you could climb to the roof of the building from there.
There are several other choices less obvious that I have not mentioned but that is for you to discover.
You only have a little while to discuss and decide. Collectively I will give you all 15 total posts or a week to pick a course before I make something happen. Something bad too.
Good Luck. The faster you chose a course the better. Even if it is just waiting on the Astromech to open the door.
Karval looks around; "So no service ducts or internal access points. We need to act fast, resistance will be fatal is we open the door - maybe we use it as a diversion." he adds whilst still helping the droid on the door.
He motions to his hip where the Spike launcher lays. It seems Karval is happy to go with the flow, but opening the door in a couple of minutes is a really bad idea.
Zaelos nods quiclky, "Time is of the essence. We must be away from here before reinforcements arrive." He turns to face the warriors, "Can we get through that hatch?"
"I'd say we have to. Waiting is a bad idea--time's something we don't have. We need to move, and quickly." Janitor gives his input over his shoulder, still focused on defending from any potential attackers. "Of course, it might be a bit of a squeeze, and no doubt it'll be interesting using maintenance walkways to move around, but it's better than walking into an ambush."
Arana runs up to the others gathered at the now closed door, cursing to herself her failure to be of any help.
She looks about for any other ways in/out besides the hatch
Perception
Darius nods, "We need to be on offense, not defense. Our actions need to dictate their actions, not the other way around."
"I can try to blow the door with the detonator, but we may need it for something else. Let's see where the hatch leads us. Can we make them think we are continuing a stand off in here to keep them occupied? Perhaps ringing some grenades?"
Zaelos nods, "A good plan Darius, although I fear we may need to leave the droids behind. Leaving them behind to divulge our idenities does not sound palatable either."
6 Posts and counting. Time is ticking.
3 days left before all hell breaks loose. What are you guys going to do?
I see our options as blast the door or go through the vent and figure out something to do with the droids. What are our orders? Darius asks looking at Zaleos.
Zaelos sighs to himself. Perhaps I should not have brought the droids. Now they are becoming a liability...
"Yes, Darius. We cannot afford to announce our presence so openly yet. Let's find another way to gain entrance." He points to the vent. "We go that way." He then faces the droids. "This is where we part company. Find somewhere to hide for now until the alarm has lifted, then rejoin us at the rendezvous point."
"We shoot the doors, climb the vents and gain entry from the top." Karval unslings his grapple and points it to the best anchor point, readying the group to move.
"Droids, hide and offer no resistance. If these men are as honourable as their propaganda, you'll be fine." he gruffly tries to reassure them.
"Aranna, could you try a little magic? Or do you require concentration and line of sight?" Karval asks as he steps back and tries his grip on the wall. 'I knew there was a reason why hologram generators are better.'
Arana moves into position near the hatch, then cocks her head at Karval and blinks "What did you have in mind?"
"Well perhaps an illusion of us hunkered down in some cover, maybe firing the odd shot that goes wide?" He explains, not knowing the limitations or not of the force. "For when the enemy come through the door....to buy us extra seconds."
Knowing how vital the time is Karval opens the hatch and ascends to the exterior of the building. "To the roof? Or just the walkways?" he holds the grapple in one hand. "Roof might be a touch more circuitous but more isolated."