Round 2
Rex stealthily slides onto the leather seat. He slowly and silently closes the car door. The kid moves the seat, as he isn't as fat as the sheriff. He slowly pulls and secures the safety belt. With a foot on the brake, Rex puts the car in Drive. He takes his foot of the brake, and hits the gas.
As he gets close to anyone, he honks so that they can tumble away. He screams when he hits the SUV.
Rex slams the police cruiser violently into the black SUV. The car hits the other vehicle as though it has hit a tank. It's tires squeal and black smoke flies.
Struck with an officer's taser for the first time in thirteen years, Just Angelyna, No Last Name seizes and collapses at Rosa's feet, but this time at least, does not piss herself on camera.
Rosa, in some respects, is a sheltered girl. It's not that she hasn't seen some stuff--running a mobile clinic, you see things. Getting RN experience at emergency departments in Philadelphia, you also see things. But she has a general faith in the fundamental goodness of most people, and while she knows the system is more corrupt than she was taught, she generally, however naively, thinks that most people who enforce the law would naturally follow the law and, not, for example, shoot a sheriff with multiple bullets for doing his job, which she sees happening right after she locks the door of the RV, which she now instantly regrets. The girl collapsing at her feet isn't helping.
Rosa is not stupid, however, and instantly groks that these men in black, whatever they are doing here, are not going to play by the rules, and this puts her, her people, and her patient in serious danger. She very calmly wraps that likelihood that she is about to die up and sets it aside in a corner of her brain. Moves slightly so Holly can see her and waves, vigorously, that she needs to go by backing up the way she came, as soon as she is able.
And then she decides the best way to protect the RV in attempting its retreat is to become the more immediate threat, and so she moves toward the guy who just tased Angelyna and reaches to try to grab the weapon out of his hand.
From his vantage point, Ernie can see the agent confronting the deputy, who is most likely armed. He also knows that there's another agent around the corner of the bus who first fired at the owner of the cat he's still carrying around for some reason. This agent seems like the bigger threat, so he leans around the corner of the bus, raises his pistol, and fires.
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The agent reels as the bullet slams into his vest. It doesn't kill him, but it hurts. He flails with his free hand at Rosa, but he is as focused on grabbing his sore chest as he is grabbing the distraction.
The two agents Rex drove through to get to his target SUV regain their stances and fire at the squad car.
One of them misses completely, his shots hitting the cliff wall behind the car. The second shoots the tires of the vehicle. They deflate violently.
Round 3.
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"Roll, Angelyna, you'll be okay!"
Ernie squeezes off another shot at the same person...
...and then swings back around the corner of the bus. He uses his sleeve to quickly wipe the sweat that's formed on his forehead despite the cooler altitude.
"What is going on?" he asks Chichi.
Rosa clutches her head, overwhelmed. "Oh my god, stop shooting! This was supposed to be a rescue!" SHe backs away from the officer, not wanting to get caught in the crossfire.
"Holy Bazzoly!" screams Rex as bullets fly into the car. He presses the petal to the metal, and he feels the tires getting ripped up from the force. Go over he thinks.
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Chichi gazes at Ernest and blinks slowly, starting to purr in his arms. Somehow, the cat is entirely unbothered by the gunfire.
Twitching and shuddering, Angelyna nods, accepting Rosa's hand.
"Y-you're right. I'm goddamn J-j-just Angelyna, N-no Last Name... I do my own ss-s-stunts, electrocution... easy." She rips the darts out of her arm as she rises, grabs the agent who tased her and slams his face into the front of the medbus.
The man is spun around by Ernie's shots before Angelyna grabs him and slams him into the mobile clinic and he drops to the ground.
"Holy Bazzoly!" screams Rex as bullets fly into the car. He presses the petal to the metal, and he feels the tires getting ripped up from the force. Go over he thinks.
[dice=Cruiser's strength]1d20+4+4
The Cruiser pushes the SUV into the guardrail, but then the loss of traction from the busted tire has the bare rim throwing sparks where it grinds against the road.
The other agent turns toward the chaos unfolding by the clinic.
He scoops up the primate and moves to join his two colleagues.
They continue to pour fire in the direction of the sheriff's cruiser, but their shots tear harmlessly through the car.
Holly makes a a "c'mon" gesture with her hands, motioning Rosa and company into the clinic, clearly not wanting to abandon her friend and these two strangers.
The door flies open, Jorge motioning you in...
Round 4
Although she had hoped the clinic would just get going, she knows Holly has enough grit and loyalty--and that it's not worth resisting. Angelyna still next to her, Rosa positions herself so moving into the RV is the easiest path for Angelyna to take, and reinforces this with, "Go in, go in, now."
She then waves to Ernie, hoping to usher him in as well. "Go. Hol won't leave without me, and you don't want to leave her waiting."
She will wait until both go through the door before following.
Angelyna glances down the road to her car nearby. "I'd rather take my chance driving, but I'll follow you. Where's the kid? Who has my cat?"
Before moving, Angelyna squats down and retrieves the agent's taser and pistol.
Ernie's first thought is that he needs to get himself and his car out of here. If the police investigate this scene and finds his car (and the shotgun in the trunk registered in his brother's name instead of his), they would tie him to what's happened here, and he doesn't want that sort of attention.
Ernie's second thought is of being alone in his small car being chased by the multiple black SUVs the agents showed up in.
He's about to hop on the bus when hears Angelyna's plan to follow in her own car, and thinks he'll be safest as part of the convoy.
"Here," he says as he thrusts Chichi into Angelyna's arms. He quickly searches the downed agent for a wallet, gun, and anything else interesting, and hustles over to his car.
As the pair rifles thru a federal agents pockets, the actress smiles and says "Thanks for watching Cheech, you're a real one."
Gun in hand, Ernie cranes his neck around Angelyna to see what the remaining agents are doing. He glances back when she thanks him and does a double take as he just now registers he might have seen her face on TV somewhere.
"Uh... sure. Good job saving that guy in the van. Wasn't there another guy helping you?" He nods his head in Rex's direction where the agents are spraying bullets at a police cruiser.
With no way to escape the vehicle without getting shot. He continuers to try and push the SUV off the cliff.
Rosa groans at people who seem to be missing the giant signs the universe is sending of "get out now now now." And pulls out her nurse-wrestling-a-coke-addled-gang-member-in-the-emergency-room-voice:
She glares at Angelyna. "You just got f$!@ing tazed, you need medical attention."
Angelyna gasps and wordlessly trots into the clinic, gun in hand
Round 4 Summary:
Angelyna grabs gun and taser, then pulls wallet from agent's inside pocket. She then runs into RV.
Ernie waits until A is finished, hands her cat, runs to his car.
Rosa runs into clinic and closes door.
Rex floors the Sheriff's department cruiser. Tires (and rim) squeal (and grind) against the asphalt. Metal screams as the shiny black SUV pushes against the guard rail. Then the rail tears apart and the SUV tips slowly over the edge, rolling down flipping-flipping-flipping before exploding in the dry river bed below.
Agent Red continues to pour fire into Rex's car.
The bullets tear through the rear driver's side door and sink into the seats.
Agent Green and Magenta, one still carrying the ape, turn to look for other transportation. Green tosses the ape into the back seat and climbs into the passenger side, Magenta slides into the driver's seat of the sheriff's car.
Round 5
Holly calls from the front seat, "Hey, how am I supposed to keep filming this with my phone if I'm driving!?"
Meanwhile Rosa's a grabbing consent form to hand to Angelyna while Mariana is yelling at her in Spanish for doing paperwork while the Feds are firing at us.
Angelyna puts her hand on Holly's shoulder, "I'll drive, you film. Where's the clutch on this thing?"
As she works to figure out the bus, she inadvertently launches the car forward to collide with the sheriff's vehicle.
Jolting forward from the impact, she casts her eyes sideways and sees an Agent shooting Rex's vehicle. Not thinking she opens the door and shouts, "Hey kid, get in!"
All puffed up, Chichi runs into the back of the vehicle and yowls loudly, adding to the chaos.
Rex looks up at the bus and Angelyna driving. He rolls down the window and slips out to Angelyna's lap. He wriggles a bit to reach the passenger's seat. He spins and lifts his feet up and over to the passenger's floor board. The kid looks for his phone and then he checks it for a signal.
"Holy butternuts. That was Horrific." Rex says while emphasizing 'Horrific' musically.
Ernie hops in the car and turns over the engine. He's about to execute a sloppy three-point-turn to turn around and head the other way, when suddenly the medical bus designed for saving lives suddenly lurches forward into the sheriff's car. Ernie stares in surprise, waiting to see what's going to happen next.
The clinic lurches into the cruiser, smashing up its front and pushing it sideways. The driver slams the cruiser into reverse and backs up enough to prevent the worst of the damage.
The passenger leans out of his window and fires into the front of the clinic, but with all of the movement his shots sail harmlessly out over the gorge.
The agent who is currently without a vehicle runs forward and climbs on.
Round 6
Having identified where she went wrong controlling the vehicle, Angelyna pulls the bus in reverse and speeds away, shouting "Shut that door and lock it!" and "Someone tell me what's behind me, I don't want to hit my car!"
Ernie sees an agent run at the bus, and thinks that they could be only the first. He rolls down his window and gets ready to take a potshot at any further agents who start working their way towards his car or the van.
Jorge and Mariana are attending to Terry with the punctured lung and Holly is filming. Rosa chases Angelyna up to the front of the RV, a burn kit and a consent for in hand... "You're still in no condition to... oh for f~@#'s sake."
She reaches out and turns the monitor on that activates the backup camera, and the view behind the RV is revealed, complete with helpful guide lines to show the edges of the road and the distance to other objects.
"What? I find it distracting," Holly says.
The road here is full of switchbacks as it descends. The gorge drops precipitously to your left (driving backwards) or right (for those who are driving in the usual orientation).
The kid straps himself to the passenger's seat. He pulls out his handgun and aims it out the side open window. Rex fires into the driver's side front tire, causing it to burst like a piñata.
You can enact this plan in combat as a bonus action to ensure your next ranged attack this turn automatically hits your target. You must know the location of the target. You can also use this plan any time you make a roll to use explosives or drugs, or in any other situation in which you might need an ability check to measure out the right amount of something to use to achieve a desired effect. You automatically succeed at the ability check. You must finish a long rest before you can activate this plan again.
As she weaves the RV around her beautiful pink Roadster, Angelyna slides off a heel and throws it out the window, hoping to crack the window of the sheriff's vehicle and make it harder for them to see
The actress taps on the rear view camera screen, "Hey Holly was it? What do these lines mean?"
Hesitant to get closer to the remaining agents, Ernie still moves his car to allow the bus to turn around. If he sees the agent clinging to the side of the bus, he'll take a potshot at them.
Rex leans out the window and lines up a shot, diagrams and equations reflected in his eyes.
The sheriff's car veers side to side, the bits of tire flying off, before the driver gets it back under control.
damage location. If the attack hits and the attack’s Penetration Value is higher than the Armor Value of the tires (1 by default), the vehicle gains the Blown Tires condition and risks a crash