Spencer dodges back as one of the ghouls runs up and latches onto the van, raking its clawed hand at him. Seeing as he's out of room for the rifle, and there's no sign of the ghouls slowing just yet, the man pulls out his new weapon. "Guess we are keeping it American," he comments, and then he plants his feet and brings the baseball bat forward at the ghoul.
As Spencer pulls the bat up again, he cocks his head to the side as a sound catches his ear. "Hey, we have company. The kind with speakers?" He glances to Papa. "Drive that way!"
Fitz, for once, hears nothing.
"Well, fine. If metal won't work, let's try something au naturel." Fitz grabs his scary Deathclaw Gauntlet and slips it on, swinging it at a Ghoul's face.
"I swear I'm usually better at this." Fitz apologizes to his new companions.
With her first attact not doing much damage, Aeryicka tightened her grip and brought the large blade down in a fierce chop, ignoring everything else around her.
Mickey growls as his flesh is ripped into.
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Mickey drops the grenade launcher, draws his pistol and opens fire at the feral in front of him.
Mickey wants to reach for his gun, but he's far too out of it to even move.
EH-RK moves to the rear of the van and opens the doors.
Enraged Snarl:Time to die Commie Scum!
Badger fires at a non-stunned ghoul, looking to keep the situation locked down in the back.
"God Dammit...", he curses, as he shoots the rubble.
= Marcus Raises
Marcus slams the van into all the ghouls on the south, sideswiping them and slamming the ghouls in the front as they cling to the windshield, not going down, but clinging there, stunned.
As they drive by, Thomas roasts the nearest ghoul with his laser, turning it to a pile of ash.
Spencer uses the momentum of the van swinging by to take his baseball bat and treat the ghoul by him's head like frat boy with a mailbox, and he smashes the thing's skull, killing it outright.
Aeryicka straight cleaves through the face of her assaulter, giving it scars the Joker would envy, though he probably wouldn't want them so deep...she nearly takes his head clean off with the macabre smile, and the creature falls back dead.
Mickey, unfortunately cannot shake off the attack from earlier...
EH-RK kicks the rear of the van open like a gunslinger ready to kick some ass in the saloon.
EDIT - Badger is just unable to connect with his target...
One lone ghoul manages to unshake, the one that was NOT hit by a van sideswiping it, but the rest stand there stunned from the collision of the vehicle.
=Total 8 = Hit
= TOTAL 11
One of the ghouls smashes through the glass that's left around Mickey, grabs him by his armor, and yanks...HARD!
The ghoul on Thomas just can't seem to connect.
The ghouls simply cannot connect with the Commie-Killing-Combat-Creation, and the robot of death is not impressed with their efforts.
Big Papa is simply too damn good to let some pussy ghoul hit him while he's driving. He b#!#!slaps that thing's claws away with his left while driving with the right.
The other ghouls simply can't make it to the van in time.
Aeryicka - Jack Hearts
Badger - Jack Diamonds
EH-RK - 10 Hearts
Fitz - JOKER
Marcus - Jack Clubs
Mickey - 4 spades
Spencer - 9 spades
Thomas -3 hearts, Queen hearts
Badguys - 2 diamonds (ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!)
Badger fires point-blank at the ghoul in front of him.
Too distracted looking around, Badger grazes his attacker.
"Hey- lot more ghouls coming. And that other van is getting closer."
Spencer blinks several times as he sees this new... development. In the end, though, he decides that there's nothing to be done about it just yet. "Marcus, keep driving! More ghouls on the way!" As he shouts, Spencer clambers over through the van to another window, where he whacks at another ghoul with his bat, once more busting a skull and sending it to the ground.
; Total = 9
EH-RK begins fulfilling his primary purpose. The thought of rending the flesh of Communists is enough to send tingles of electrical impulses he can only assume is joy through his circuits.
Gleeful Cackle: Today is a great day to be an American!
EH smashes at one Ghoul with a wild attack from his Power Fisted arm
+1GU,+1Wild-2Multi
The Ghoul careens away with a crushed skull.
EHRK then lashes out with his other arm at the other Ghoul latched onto the Van
+1GU,+1Wild-2Multi
This attack manages to just stun the creature.
Reckless Laughter: A HAH A HAH A HAH A HAH EH-RK emits from his voicespeakers.
• First Strike Once per turn the hero (if not Shaken) gets a free Fighting attack against a single foe who moves adjacent to him. This automatically interrupts the opponent’s action and does not cost the hero his action if he is on Hold or has not yet acted this round.
• Super Slam (Strength d8; Fighting d8): Fighting attacks, when you have a raise, knock your target prone if they do not make an agility check (in addition to normal effects).
• Martial Artist:This character is highly trained in hand-to-hand fighting. He is never considered unarmed in combat and so is never subject to the Unarmed Defender rule (page 87). With a successful unarmed attack, he adds +d4 to his Strength roll
Badger manages to clip the shoulder of the ghoul, but unfortunately it is but a flesh wound, and it's not even stunned from it.
Spencer absolutely brains the ghoul he's aiming for, and the crowd (of ghouls) goes wild as it's sent in the distance.
Papa slams on the breaks and the van screeches to a halt just as Mickey gets yanked out the window by a pair of ghouls eager to go to town frenzying on him with the rest of the horde.
EH-RK slams a ghoul with his power fist, and you can see it go flying back a good thirty feet to skid across the asphalt dead as the machine literally hydraulic-punches the thing. His other arm isn't quite as powerful a blow, but it's enough to send the ghoul staggering back, though the creature doesn't fall.
The sound of music is definitely getting closer, and now (without need for a notice) you can see the bus pulling around the corner to the south, whipping towards you like a bat out of hell. The music cuts off, and the loudspeakers announce, Welcome to the Kingdom, Ladies and Gentlemen. We're here for your safe escort into the Safest Place, and therefore Happiest in the Wasteland. If this is your first visit to our city, we'd like to thank you for your visit. Feel free to tune in to us on radio station K-CHIP or K-DALE for my partner on the roof. If you'd like some assistance, we're on our way, but I'm duty bound to inform you there's a 350 cap surcharge. This surcharge includes an escort to the Island of Nations, but does not include admittance to the city proper itself. If that's fine by you, feel free to chirp us. We're PipBoy and Power armor compatible for transmission within thirty miles of the city. Remember, if you're a registered Citizen or have a month pass or longer, city escorts are just part of the benefit of being close to the King.
The music cuts back on, and the bus starts moving north to you, but a bit slower than it was before, seemingly waiting for the response.
Now it's clear to see, there's a man on top of the bus sitting in a rotating turret with a f&*%ing HUGE minigun strapped to the front, and enough bullets dangling from the feed to double dutch jump rope with. He seems to be a wall of muscle, and has a cigar in his teeth the size of a bottle.
; Success. No need to keep rolling.
At some point when Mickey was in the air, his head cleared. Now with a renewed sense of purpose, he tries to break out.
Spencer takes one look at Mickey, stranded on the road with ghouls all around him, and turns to Papa. "Marcus--get on the radio, now."
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As Mickey is grabbed by zombies and drug out of the van, Thomas shouts, "NO!" and his eyes glaze over with a red fog. His blood turns to ice and he is determined to say his new friend!
"EAT THIS!" he shouts at the zombie right in front of him, firing his blaster pistol at close range!
= 11 raise vs 5!
= 17!
Thomas aims at AC29, trying to give Rios some fighting space!
= 11 raise vs 4!
= 18!
Tom shouts at Aeryicka, "Try and haul him in!"
Fitz reluctantly drops his barely used Deathclaw Gauntlet and sweeps back up his plasma rifle, moving and firing two quick blasts at the Ghouls nearest Mickey.
"Marcus, get on the radio, Mickey get up and move! These things are worse than the ants!"
Thomas opens up and absolutely roasts the two ghouls next to Mickey that were not already shaken, as does Fitz.
Several ghouls convey on the van again, and begin clawing furiously at Mickey, and attempting to pull the rest of you out of the van...one ghoul attempting to straight up eat Cray in the back.
Despite being mauled by three ghouls at once, Mickey is one tough son of a b&#~@, and his new SWAT armor just takes the abuse like it was nothing.
One ghoul manages to grip Spencer, but not very tightly...
Another ghoul manages to grip Thomas, much tighter than Spencer was gripped.
Papa deflects the one of the two ghouls on him, but the other manages to grab the steel-encased man and try to pull him out.
Badger, ever wary of being grabbed, manages to butt away the hands with his pistol.
The two ghouls bat at the bird, which manages to fly out of the way of the one in the open doors, but through the window a hand reaches in, smashes the glass, and claws him WICKEDLY.
Some ghouls to the south start to run towards the bus, but the man on the roof with the rotating turret gun starts mowing them down, shredding through them like they were wet paper as the bus moves closer.
You can now see the driver is a clean cut man, unlike his associate, with a trim mustache and slim build. They still aren't quite close enough to help yet, though.
Aeryicka - 8 spades
Badger - Ace clubs
EH-RK - 9 Hearts
Fitz - JOKER AGAIN I SHIT YOU NOT!
Marcus - 2 hearts
Mickey - 5 diamonds
Spencer - 7 clubs
Thomas -Ace spades, 9 clubs
Badguys - Queen Hearts
Fitz hops out of the van, aiming to clear out the ghouls directly in Mickey's way with minimal further use of resources.
Fitz crushes the ribcage of one with a servo-assisted punch, and smashes the other's head against his knee.
"Move, Mickey!"
Caught between trying to help Mickey or staying in the -relative- safety of the van, Aeryicka was caught by surprise at Cray's cry of pain. Turning around almost violently, she rushed over to her companion and was barely able to catch him before he impacted against the hard metal floor. Looking him over, she noticed that, though the strike seemed to be heavy, Cray was only lightly wounded. Carefully setting him down on the floor, Aeryicka gripped her machete and glared at the creature that hurt her feathered friend.
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Thomas' left hand grabs the wrist of the attacker and bends the arm back, back, back...until the ghoul's arm is wrenched back at an unnatural angel from it's shoulder. Several pops are heard as the rotary cuff gives up the ghost and ruptures in several places.
His right hand brings up the pistol.
"Uh-uh. Hands to yourself."
He shifts his aim to the feral zombie attacking Spencer next to him. "I've got dis. Go help the others!"
Aeryicka spends her round taking cover over her pet.
Fitz fastidiously forces face fractures on fearless frenzy filled foes.
Thomas somehow manages to quick-roast both ghouls on him and Spencer.
EH's first strike crushes his enemies, preventing them from even getting their failed hit off.
The radio picks up in response to Marcus's transmission.
Roger dodger, my good sir. Once again, welcome to the Kingdom, Safest and therefore Happiest Place in the Waste. If any of you gentlemen can reach our bus, feel free to hop aboard. Dale is gonna rain some hot lead death on these Looney-Tunes-loving-motherf...! you hear the speaker pause,
The radio picks back up, and you hear the voice clear it's throat. Dale will deal with the mother...lovers...and provide cover to get aboard. Seems your vehicle is more holes and broken glass than metal at this point.
At this point, the bus pulls up, comes a screeching halt about 20 feet from the van and Dale starts to open fire at ghouls near Mickey.
miss
hit
raise
Dale mows the living shit out of the ghouls to the west of Mickey, but in trying to avoid hitting Mickey, he misses the ghoul right next to him.
Badger busts a cap into the two ghouls next to him.
But instead of shooting one well, he misses two while trying to look cool.
"Ah, how very peculiar! I've never seen someone try to hold a gun sideways to shoot it..."
Badger manages to blast just hard enough to take out one of the two ghouls on him by double-tapping it in the chest. The ghoul drops.
Ghouls sprint towards the open back of the van, mostly ignoring the robot when possible, trying to feast upon the flesh of his compatriots. With such a wide opening, these ghouls are not concerned with pulling their targets out.
As a ghoul rushes up to claw at Aeryicka, EH-RK slams it in the chest, with a huge THUD, knocking it dead.
- hit
- raise
- hit
=Total 13
Badger, unfortunately just too close to the massive horde to the east of the van, gets rushed by four at once.
hit
miss
hit
hit
= Total 12
The two ghouls on Papa give up trying to pull him out and just start clawing for all they're worth.
Neither can seem to connect with him, however.
The one ghoul left on Mickey seems oblivious to the minigun or Fitz.
Fortunately, Mickey finds it much easier to fend off just one compared to four or five.
Path is clear, ladies and gentlemen, you may want to move while you...hey what the heck, nobody invited you!
Chip puts the bus in park, stands up and pulls out a pair of shishkebabs attached to a backpack he's wearing. "No free rides!"
A ghoul drops dead at the bus entrance, it's recently cauterized head rolling away.
"Come on people, move it, move it, move it! The ride departs soon! This ain't no monorail, we got a schedule to keep, specifically, before more of these damn things come out of the ruins!!!"
Fitz doesn't need to be told twice, hopping back into the van (hopefully right before Mickey does).
"Well, it everyone ready to leave?"