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Melissa wraps herself in a ball around her new toy and rolls backwards through Dels feet
----which will probably cost her a tailwhap to the snoot
She grumbles at the loss of a tooth and a noodle, CATHUNKS the Eels back out, this time one on either side of the red--> and blue vesks
Non lethal electric To red and blue.
Melissa's soldier fighting stle will solve the question of "wait do you have cover in a line?" as No. No you do not. BZZT.
Strek, Jarduck, and one innocent bystander may have their Hair standing on end from the ensuing arc of electricity but they'll be fine... they should probably touch something metal before handling any delicate electronics though...
Nope. Nothing weird here.
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"Bubba balooga licious baby ho ho ho hubba giant green....! babbles Guess? as he stands in place, doing nothing else.
Side by side with the red Xun, Del pulls out a spell gem and activates it, causing electricity to crackle up her arm. She reaches out and tries to touch the red Xun.
Missing horribly, her eyes widen, and she takes a quick guarded step back.
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With the red Xun still standing, Del takes another guarded step back and recalls the first time she tried to fry noodles. Nearly set the house on fire...
As the flames she pulled into being vanish as quick as they came, Del looks around at the surrounding bystanders and shouts, "What are you waiting for?! Run!"
In reality, the goblin stands there slackjawed with drool dripping down his unrecognizable face.
Medicine or Life Science, DC 23
"Bubba balooga licious baby ho ho ho hubba giant green....! babbles Guess? as he stands in place, doing nothing else.
"C'mon, Cap'n, they're not gonna fall for that ol' trick. These ones seem capable."
As the Vesk in the red shirt strikes out at Melissa, Strek spins up GUMBI to get a point-blank shot lined up..
.."Dammit, did I really forget to calibrate.. Aww hells."
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Okay, fine, don't stand still. Someday, we'll find it, the doshko connection.
Jaraduk does his best kermit voice.
The lovers, the dreamers and me...
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As Melissa attempts to run from her attacker, she draws their attention and a knife to the back. She makes the most of her opportunity, shocking both of the closest assassins. Meanwhile, Guess? blows kisses and the central Xun looks at the one to her side. "Did you do that? Tricky." The other assassin looks puzzled and just shrugs.
Del's fiery memory washes over the attacker, boiling her exposed skin. With a gasp and a look of shock, she falls to the floor. At her call, the bystanders break out of their stupor and begin to scream and run away! They scatter, only a few getting further in your way. The distraction throws off Strek and Jaraduk, who have to pull their shots to avoid hitting the bystanders.
The xun at the back of the crowd runs right below Akh, whispering as she goes. "And to think you were almost one of us. Pitiful." She leaps lightly off her feet, turning in air, and sending an electric arc into one of the android's flaming jets.
The other assassin, stripped of her gun by Akh, follows close on Melissa's tail. "Your eels can't hurt a daughter of the path. I have forgotten more about pain than you will ever know." Her knife flashes in the light, missing the vital artery it searched for, but still hurting the ysoki's patchwork armor.
Strek SP 40/40, HP 36/36, RP 4/4
Akh x2 SP 6/50, HP 39/39, RP 4/4
Guess? SP 30/30, HP 27/27, RP 6/6, CONFUSED FOR 2 MORE ROUNDS
Del SP: 25/25, HP: 29/29, RP: 5/5
Melissa SP 12/31, HP 33/33, RP 5/5
Jaraduk SP 28/40, HP 41/41, RP 5/5
Blue Hafrigek Xun 20 Damage, NO HANDCOIL
Red Hafrigek Xun 49 Damage
Pink Hafrigek Xun 0 Damage
Akh mitigates the incoming coil-zap, but is too distracted doing that to also strike out at the assassin running into melee with the rest of the group. He flies over to the pink vesk and hovers over her head, reaching down with a dissolving claw.
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Akh mitigates again, keeping the small shocks from doing more than surface harm. . He calls back to the vesk "Oh, a Xun assassin? I wasn't in the running, I think. Not exactly assassin material." He vaguely gestures at all of himself, then claws down at the pink vesk once more.
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Rainbows are visions
But only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
Someday we'll find it, the doshko connection...
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"FEAR MEH SUCKAS!!!" cries Guess? at the top of his lungs while he bonks himself on the head with his own rifle for points of damage!
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*continues wirelessly synching GUMBI to the new weapon*
*looks up, sees a new Vesk in his face*
"Excellent. A beta tester."
"Thank you for volunteering."
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Despite the flames, gunfire, blood, screams, and no doubt quickly cooling noodles, Del can't help but look at her friends and smile. What a bunch of glorious weirdos. Without meaning to, she hums along with Jaraduk's oddly familiar song as she takes a step back and casts out her arms. She batters her way into her foe's mind and casts their thoughts forward through time, forcing a day's worth of pains and thoughts upon them at once. "...and me."
"You should write us a theme song!" she calls out over her shoulder to Jaraduk. "That's catchy."
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Melissa's attack goes wild as the pressure mounts. Jaraduk, seeming to have stolen her luck, crashes his doshko into the vesk that had previously evaded him. Strek loads up his gun, pointed right at the assassin's head. His focus allows the xun to stab him in the thigh. But when the vesk looks up with an evil grin, his face doesn't have time to register the shock before an enormous energy blast knocks her on her back.
Akh's whip flashes in the neon lights of the store signs, causing gas to gush from leaks in the vesk's armor. The Golden League assassin stands tall, nearly within reach of the floating android. Her growling voice scratches above the noise of the screaming bystanders. "You may have bite, but I can still take you down with -" Her threat is cut off as her mind is overwhelmed with fatigue and weariness. She collapses to the ground, dying.
Strek SP 33/40, HP 36/36, RP 4/4
Akh SP 0/50, HP 39/39, RP 4/4
Guess? SP 23/30, HP 27/27, RP 6/6
Del SP: 25/25, HP: 29/29, RP: 5/5
Melissa SP 12/31, HP 33/33, RP 5/5
Jaraduk SP 28/40, HP 41/41, RP 5/5
Blue Hafrigek Xun 70 Damage
Red Hafrigek Xun 49 Damage
Pink Hafrigek Xun 55 Damage
The crowds continue to back away, not wanting to get involved. You check the bodies, to find that all three wannabe assassins are dead.
It appears a poison was remotely injected into the assassin's by their armor...
Only some of you are bothered by their deaths. For the rest of you, it just makes the looting that much easier. Two of the vesk wear graphite carbon skin while the third wears d-suit I armor. They each have a explorer handcoil with two batteries and a basic survival knife. Much of their wealth resides in the augmentations fused within their skin, which won't be of much value to you. Thankfully, you find that each has a credstick loaded with 2000 credits and a message. ADVANCE PAYMENT. One of the Xun also has a full punch card for a local augmentation shop that offers the bearer 25% off the next augmentation installed.
You also decide to look Guess? over for a minute...
You'll have to confirm in a real lab, but you're guessing that the experimental necrograft has some negative side effect: addling the mind for a short period of time after it's use. It won't be that difficult to remove the necrograft if Guess? wishes, utilizing a medkit, medical lab, or medical bay on a starship. The operation isn't without risks, and could infect Guess? with the Devil Chills disease if the procedure went poorly and accidentally destroyed the undead organ in the process of removal.
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Melissa spits the fire extinguisher out of her cheekpouch, puts the burning vesk out...wishing the smell didn't remind her of the noodles still warm in the left cheek pouch. Pretty sure what she's going to find, her biggest surprise is its in the armor and not in the teeth. She's still going to rapid fire chitter badly enough to offend any ysoki sailors that might be in earshot as her attempts at CPR turn into a series of rapid fire punches to the sternum.
"Who the CHITTCHITTCHITTER treats their employees like that? What the CHITTER is wrong with this universe? Its not enough you need to be shot at you need to make SURE you die if you loose. Wouldn't want the life of a peon to be INCONVENIENT " She stands up and punts the vesks helmet as far as it will go.
Of course he'll keep up the act till the Burning lizards are extinguished and its time to loot...
On the plus side...her furs already messed up when meeting tarika.
As combat winds down, Guess? snaps out of his confusion but is obviously oblivious to what happened to him as he celebrates:
"Wow! Did you see that guys? This augment shadow stepped me away from that assassin! Then I one-shotted two of them in the head! And that third one charged me so I smacked him unconscious with my rifle butt! I've never single-handedly taken down three vesk before! Woo-hoo! What a day!"
Then rubbing his forehead, "Oww, why does my head hurt?"
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Nice! A retail punch-card for augmentations! Keep looking and see if they have a coffee punch-card or a sandwich punch-card! he excitedly exclaims as he replaces his storm doshko on his back.
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She's still going to rapid fire chitter badly enough to offend any ysoki sailors that might be in earshot as her attempts at CPR turn into a series of rapid fire punches to the sternum.
"GUMBI, initiate audio recording. Filename, 'Ysoki profanity, Lesson 7'."
At some point, the someone will describe to Guess? what Guess?'s actual actions were during the altercation...
"Dunno watcha talkin bout. C'mon, I kicked ass back there! Why would you wanna take that from me?"
"Ayup. A lesser goblin woulda run."
*loot, loot, eats noodles, loot*
"But now I'm extra worried for Tarika. Let's take some stray alleys on our way there. Maybe we should consider moving her office somewhere more secure. And maybe with a pool."
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"But now I'm extra worried for Tarika. Let's take some stray alleys on our way there. Maybe we should consider moving her office somewhere more secure. And maybe with a pool."
"We also need to see if she's setting up our meetings by talking directly into the flowers or if we have so many people just waiting here to off us we run into one of them no matter which of the six directions we come in from "
She looks to Akh "Friends of yours? its hard to believe you had MORE people that wanted to kill ya'll before we met."
"GUMBI, initiate audio recording. Filename, 'Ysoki profanity, Lesson 7'."
WARNING.WARNING. Calling a vesk that is grounds to have artillery fire thrown on your position by the laws and customs of war in the veskarium. Do you wish to proceed...
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"Oh nice one Del." Akh comments as the final assassin falls. To Melissa, he says "I don't know. Back when I worked in my previous job, I didn't make too many friends other than Sinjin. And I think I would remember these. I'm wondering if they're just random people who got hired because of one of the dozens of people we wronged in ways that usually aren't our fault." He collects handcoils carefully and deposits them in a pack as he speaks.
"Oh, you know how you just went crazy for about eighteen seconds Guess?? That's probably because the undead nerve connections in your brain are wired all backward. I guess your experimental augmentation was a bit too experimental. Luckily... mine is perfect and without any flaws." Akh wiggles his uncanny blue tongue through the air. "I'm not a doctor, but we should be able to dig those bad nerves out of you with a scalpel in the back of the ship. At least, that's what this WebDoc article says."
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You grab the gear and stash it into your pockets. Stretching, and completely unclear on why Guess? started acting odder than usual, you grab your noodles and prepare to slurp them down. The taste of the cooling-but-still-warm noodles hits your tongue as the hubbub around you dies down. This walkway is close enough to the Spike that folks tend to forgive a little contained violence. The jingles from nearby shops splashes over you along with the neon lights. It's almost peaceful.
*cough*
"Never trust a Hafrigek to do a Sinjin's work." You look ahead of you, across the picnic tables in the intersection, and see a familiar face. Her purple skin radiates life, even as her hands hold weapons of death. Deminda's smile is just as cold as the last time you saw her, on the video feed as you fled the trap she laid on Lord Sinjin's asteroid. She's flanked on either side by drow enforcers, each with their own signature weapon. "You have your orders. Make it quick, earn your promotion."
The trio fire as one. Deminda's shuriken sinks deep into Akh's already weakened armor. The drow on the left fires a line of energy that singes a few civilians eating noodles, but bounces off Guess?. The drow on the right fires a cartoonishly large spiked shotgun into the crowd, which causes a bystander to scream in pain but bounces off Jaraduk.
Deminda moves forward, pushing through the tables, and throws another shuriken at Akh. It sinks into the back of the neck of an innocent, whose face drops into their bowl of noodles.
The drow with the heavy weapon moves around to line up the perfect shot. A beam of acid flies across the corridor, ready to pierce half the group, but deflects off your captain's armor!
The other drow runs up the other side in a pincer maneuver, his shotgun pinging off the majority of the group but damaging Melissa's armor.
Strek SP 33/40, HP 36/36, RP 4/4
Akh SP 0/50, HP 29/39, RP 4/4
Guess? SP 23/30, HP 27/27, RP 6/6
Del SP: 25/25, HP: 29/29, RP: 5/5
Melissa SP 7/31, HP 33/33, RP 5/5
Jaraduk SP 28/40, HP 41/41, RP 5/5
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"I specificaly said I WASN"T doing an exorcism if that thing needed to come out.... How much rum are we going to need before I can cut that thing out? at least there's plenty of room to go in through the nostril... I'm taking his hot water vouchers for a week If we have to do this... "
GAH!... she spits some noodles out in surprise all over Akhs leg.
"RUN!!!! Shotgun in a CROWD WHAT THE CHITTER IS WRONG WITH YOU.... "
Well. I mean. She is using electric eels in a crowd but does seem to have planned for it...
Get em yellow.
Drop prone
BZZZZZZT Deminda <-------yellow
"Whoa! What tha—"
*blam, blast, dodge, screams*
"—let's get away from these civs!"
Strek books it. And runs right past Deminda . He draws his weapon as he moves, and once he's behind her, he aims for the nape of her skinny neck.
"What? My free, supercharged augment has serious side effects? I suppose I shouldn't be all that surprised, eh?" says Guess? responding to Akh's evaluation.
When Deminda shows, Guess? exclaims, "I KNEW you couldn't stay away from me and my charms! Admit it, we had a thing, a spark when we last met!"
After all of their initial attacks miss Guess?, he claims, "Awwww... So sweet! You're even missing me on purpose cuz we both know you wanna save me all to yourself! I feel the same way! Let's ditch your chaperones and we'll run off together!"
Guess? moves behind Akh, drawing his weapon and fires at yellow!
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Ugh! What bull. Can't we just enjoy our noodles? These things happen in threes... so this isn't looking like a good day.
Jaraduk re-draws his doshko and approaches the nearest enforcer .
Hey, you wanna hear my song about doshkos?
...because if I can't hit you I'm going to sing it.
"An' I'll translate into Ysoki. Between you, me, and Cap'n's poetry, it'll be like a grenade going off in her eardrums."
Del sighs as the first battle ends, eyes settling on the fresh corpses. "I hate it when people try to murder us! Can't they just leave us alone?"
Moments later... "Apparently not—OHMYGOSH THEY JUST HURT CIVILIANS!"
Del quickly casts a spell, causing the now-familiar phantom knives to appear in the air around Deminda and the yellow drow and plunge into their flesh. The knives vanish, leaving behind bloody wounds.
Akh floats up and over the action, dripping upon the bystanders thanks to the ragged new carbonedge-shuriken-shaped tear in his side. He flies up and over the crowd to hover over Deminda and one of her flunkies. "If you keep hitting me, I'll make extra sure to fall on you when I lose consciousness." He reaches down with his claw and swipes at the more injured of the two foes in reach
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Melissa also fires into the crowd, though her line of energy is a bit more discriminatory. The eels shock both enemies, though they barely react to the pain. Strek runs past the lackey, enjoying their lack of threatening daggers (unlike Deminda, who is in the center of the group) and fires. The drow's back buckles for a moment before he recovers. Guess?'s shot comes in from the other direction, pounding the drow's spiked armor. Jaraduk takes advantage of the moment, his electrified doshko sending the drow to the floor. Deminda sighs at this. "Now, now. Don't take it all out on the help." She looks up at Akh with a soft chuckle. "Crush away, tin can." Even as she jibes, she does a quick shuffle away from the flying dragon. Her swift moves evade his whip, but throw off her aim as well. The shuriken goes just to the left of Akh's tail, thrown off by his hovering jets.
The drow with the heavy weapon continues to hug the wall, until he ends up between Guess? and Melissa. His visor drops for a moment and the drow SPITS on the goblin! "They told us of your deceitful ways, Captain. Time to watch your crew die." The visor comes back up and he fires in the opposite direction. The jet of acid splashes across the room, melting several cheap plastic chairs and damaging Melissa and Jaraduk's armor while eating into Akh's more sensitive joints.
Deminda, being quickly outnumbered, does not look afraid. "Letting you escape earned me some new scars. Perhaps killing you will earn my lord's good graces."
Strek SP 33/40, HP 36/36, RP 4/4
Akh SP 0/50, HP 25/39, RP 4/4
Guess? SP 23/30, HP 27/27, RP 6/6
Del SP: 25/25, HP: 29/29, RP: 5/5
Melissa SP 3/31, HP 33/33, RP 5/5
Jaraduk SP 24/40, HP 41/41, RP 5/5
Red Deminda 12 Damage, BLEEDING 1 FOR 2 MORE ROUNDS
Yellow Drow Thug 44 Damage (shotgun)
Blue Drow Thug 5 Damage
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From the ground, Melissa is looking right up at the drow. She's imagining the intelligence report. Rat. No Known combat abilities. uses a pistol. Plan. Ignore.
That was however. before the universe ticked her off with people like this Chitter.
She'll Risk the chance of a kick to the head if this guys knows Kung Fu. Points the gun bigger than she is straight up at the very logical place and launches two spheres at two spheres.
"This is a non lethal weapon. You're about to wish it wasn't. Get em"
Ok even for me that die roll is weird. I can't see whats doing it.
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"Awww c'mon Deminda! We had fun, didn't we? Just imagine, join me and the fun never ends! And dontcha worry about Sinjin! Howzabout we sideline him and install you in his place? Watcha say??"
His visor drops for a moment and the drow SPITS on the goblin! "They told us of your deceitful ways, Captain. Time to watch your crew die."
"Hey! That's waaaay too intimate - ya gotta buy me dinner before ya spit on me! What kind of easy goblin do you think I am?!?"
Seeing the acid sweep over the crew, Guess? replies, "Meh. They've suffered worse than some acid burns. You shoulda seen the food we had to eat on our previous ship! The heartburn was worse than your lil pea shooter there!"
Guess? takes a 5-foot step back and fires his rifle at blue!
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"Del, don't worry about those noodles gettin' cold. With how these drow keep lining up, I can cook their brains and reheat our food at the same time."
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Uh, okay, who wants to hear the song next?
He looks back and forth like he's trying to find a friendly lunch table to sit at. Weaving his way through the tables he flanks the enforcer with Guess?
excuse me, pardon me...
He smiles and begins singing to the enforcer.
Someday we'll find it, the doshko connection... If I miss again you get a verse. That's the deal.
Akh peeks over his coils and sees the others are busy with blue. Reasoning that he's best set up to evade Deminda, he pursues her to the south-west "It sure is a shame. Sinjin used to be pretty nice in his own way. Back in the old days, he probably would have let you get off without almost any scars. It kind of makes me sad, the way you got treated." Even as Akh says that, his disintegrating claw is sweeping down to potentially give Deminda new scars to talk about.
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Melissa's threat of her shocking attacks being nonlethal proves more real than she intended, as it hits the picnic chairs rather than her opponents. Jaraduk's blow slips off the drow's armor and splits the same chair in two. Strek continues the trend, causing a plasti-steel chair to glow a hot red. Guess?, more offended by the spit than the blows, hits the drow in the shoulder. The drow smiles through the pain. "You're lucky it was us who was sent, and not the Persuaders. They would have fun with you.." He dives off to the right, opening his defenses to Jaraduk. He gets the jump on Guess?, splashing a thin line of acid over the goblin and nuar.
"Captain Gobbo, I'll take you back to the kitchen and make you dinner before I take care of you." She shifts her weight, avoiding the blow from Akh. Her gaze moves upwards and her expression only shows grit. "He has grown harder, and more powerful because of it. Strength requires strength. He makes me better." She dives backwards, even as bystanders run away screaming, and throws another shuriken into Akh's armor to draw a small droplet of blood. She laughs and looks towards the rest of the group. "Why couldn't you have let those hobgoblins board. That would have made this so much easier."
Strek SP 33/40, HP 36/36, RP 4/4
Akh SP 0/50, HP 18/39, RP 4/4
Guess? SP 21/30, HP 27/27, RP 6/6
Del x2 SP: 25/25, HP: 29/29, RP: 5/5
Melissa SP 3/31, HP 33/33, RP 5/5
Jaraduk SP 22/40, HP 41/41, RP 5/5
Red Deminda 13 Damage, BLEEDING 1 FOR 1 MORE ROUNDS
Yellow Drow Thug 44 Damage (shotgun)
Blue Drow Thug 13 Damage
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Melissa looks down the barrel "Look guys this is kinda important, go get him and I promise you can have some of the noodles"
..... She ducks her head back as the eels fire too early and frizz up her fur. "AFTER you hit him!!!!"
Are there any bubbles coming out of soup guys soup or is he completely toast?
Of course it's when the enforcer makes a vulnerable move that...
WHUMP! cracke... his doshko reflexively slams sideways into them and connects.
No more singing, yay!
He chases after them, stepping a little further than Guess? to try to pin them to the wall along the goblin. Again he raises his weapon over his head to try to strike at the drow...
"You're lucky it was us who was sent, and not the Persuaders. They would have fun with you.." He dives off to the right, opening his defenses to Jaraduk. He gets the jump on Guess?, splashing a thin line of acid over the goblin and nuar.
After taking minor damage from the attack, Guess? retorts insultingly, "Yeaaaah, I see why they rejected you from their ranks - you're not very persuasive in a fight!"
"Captain Gobbo, I'll take you back to the kitchen and make you dinner before I take care of you."
Guess? perks up, "WOO! You hear that everyone?!? Deminda and I are now a thing! She's gonna cook us up some (non-poisoned, I'm sure) dinner then serve me up some dessert! Try not to kill her please!"
Guess? takes a guarded step back and fires his rifle at blue!
But is obviously too distracted by a new romantic prospect to properly focus on his target!