Iovinus steps behind the desk to take a look at the game replay, but glances up at the rest of the group to encourage them to move in. If it looks like Ludilius is paying too much interest and attention in the team, he interrupts with a distracting comments like "The heck is this? Sure looks like you were using an aimbot for this bit."
Ludilinius looks at Dalinar suspiciously. "As someone who has faked a lot of coughs to get some 'me' time, I know a fake cough when I hear one. What the hell are you trying to pull? That was a simple enough question... What was your name again?"
Prosper, since you are poking at the computer... may I have a computers check?
Iovinus whistles at the game footage, then looks up at Dalinar, raising an urgent eyebrow at the half-orc when Ludilinius isn't looking, as if to urge him to stop digging himself into a hole. Out loud, he murmurs "Family issues. Typical provincials."
He turns the screen around, showing the footage to Dalinar and Minos. "Does this look like cheating to you? Either of you irregulars know how to check for installed aimbots?"
Noticing that things look like they're about to go South. Wint casually wanders over to where he can trick attack the guard if necessary
With the current distraction, Minos move over to the terminal and surreptitiously types at it
"Let me take a look Boss"
Minos discovers that the rest of this computer is well-secured. He cannot get past the game setup, however, he does reason that this terminal, located where prisoners are registered, might have more than just this game upon it.
Meanwhile, Ludilinius pulls out his gun. "Iovinus, call for backup. I want to see all these people's papers. Maybe they are who they say they are. But maybe they aren't." He looks at Minos. "You, monster! Step away from that terminal, and hands where I can see them."
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Spec bumbles out into the middle of the conflict, three feet of tweed, fluff, and massive spectacles ... essentially whatever the opposite of intimidating is.
"Officer Ludilinius sir!" he puffs out
"A thousand apologies for the tardiness of this one's presentation of the papers. The sheer impassiveness of the location has quite scrambled what little wit this one had to begin with." Spec is continuously bowing and scraping as he rambles.
"If your illustriousness would just peruse these files here, it is sure that one such as yourself could immediately divine any sort of discrepancy!"
At this point the little xaursi is actually glowing a bit from what looks like sheer anxiety.
He attempts to present the datapad with the appropriate information displayed
but apparently just pitches the pad onto the floor.
Then mutters"Oh dear"
Over the mental link "Minos....help??"
Iovinus makes a show of raising an eyebrow at Ludilinius "What, you think I didn't already do that? They're clear." He does his best to give off an aura of authority and confidence.
When Spec starts bumbling about and dropping his papers, Ioninus sighs. Assuming Ludilinius looks like he's either not buying it or insists to do the check himself (or goes to try to contact someone else), Iovinus beckons him over to a section of the room not adequately covered by the security camera. "Here, I've got copies of their papers on my device, let me show you." He starts pulling something up on Iovinus' datapad, drawing the guard's attention so the rest of the group can unleash a sneak attack.
Spec's and Prosper's combined bluffs cause Ludilius to lower his gun for a moment while he grabs Prosper's datapad. However by now, you all realize that you are on borrowed time with Ludilius.
(One last gift from Pon before he sneaked off.)
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Round Surprise
Everyone
Round 1
Active conditions:
Wint
Spec
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Ludilius
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Prosper
Minos
Dalinar
Rush
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Everyone gets a Surprise Round! Wint and Spec each get to do a surprise round before their own turn.
Wint ducks behind the door and draws his Baton
for plus
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Finding himself in the front line of burgeoning hostilities (definitely not one of his favorite places to be) Spec reflexively lashes out at Ludilius
He then reminds himself why this was all a horrible idea, carefully steps back while drawing his pistol, and flashes distracting lights into the Azlanti's eyes.
Minos moves in on the surrpise round to interpose himself between the Professor and Azlanti, but leaving room for others to get in.
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Prosper makes a show of spinning around in alarm as the "hostile aliens" suddenly start springing an attack. "What's this? I'll raise the alarm." He raises a hand to his armor's comm device, as if he's going to call for backup.
Ludilus uses the taclash on Minos. "Get away from my computer, freak!"
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Round 1
Active conditions:
Wint
Spec
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Ludilius
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Prosper
Minos (-6)
Dalinar
Rush
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Everyone gets a Surprise Round! Wint and Spec each get to do a surprise round before their own turn.
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Rush moves in and takes around the corner, soaking any potential counter attack from the guard. He then thrusts the bone at the guard.
You can train together with an ally whose Intelligence score is at least 1, forming a combat bond between you and the target creature. This training process takes 1 hour, and you can have only one bonded ally at a time. If you form a new combat bond with a creature, any previously formed combat bond is lost. No creature can be the bonded ally of two centurions.
Whenever you gain a bonus from covering fire or harrying fire provided by your bonded ally (or vice versa), the bonus increases to +4. When you are the captain of a ship and successfully use the encourage action on your bonded ally (or vice versa), the bonus granted increases to +4.
Prosper breathes a sigh of relief as the camera turns off. At least the footage won't be drawing prison guards to them like skittermanders to troubled souls. The noise might though.
While Ludilius tangles with Minos, Prosper calls out "Oh no~ they're jamming our comms~ I'll go get help!" and rushes toward the door the group came in from. Along the way, he draws his flare rifle. Just when he gets in position to potentially have to fight his way through Dalinar, he spins around and fires at Ludilius.