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"That's perfect, Chops. Keep the hatch closed till I ask though, if your guys insist on blasting the AC, least they can do it keep the air inside." He waits until Jingu finishes the illusion of closing the door, then nods and moves on back to the cab where he'll be watching over the truck.
"Reserved, huh? Well, I guess rules is rules." He taps his com-link to radio Jingu. "Buzz, ol-friend? Looks like we might be parked in a restricted area. Some o' the local upstanding citizens wanna have a look at our cargo; you know, in case we have anything too valuable to look after ourselves. Pop the hatch, would you?"
"Daylight bombs? What, like the magic stuff? Never touch em. It'd be like cutting off your nose to spite your face. We're tryin' to get rid of super-naturals, not join 'em." He points up to the guns on the cab, "Nothin' is as good, or as reliable, as man-made firepower. Blast 'em to bits, stake 'em out in the open, then cook breakfast over the fires that spring up when the sun rises." He grins widely, thinking back on doing exactly that, years gone, showing the two or three remaining teeth he has up front.
"Afternoon, gov. You're a right pretty one, eh? Guess we can't all be blessed with my good looks, but still. One o' them flyers try usin' that pretty mug as a landing pad?" He looks around and waves vaguely behind him, using a gesture that includes the rest of the folk in his transport. "We's up from down south, and getting damn sick of vampires. Thought we'd try things up a bit away from bloodsucker territory and see if we couldn't find pay slaughtering a few honest abominations out of the rifts. Something that stays dead after ya kill it would be a nice change."
"Whattayou think, Elsie? These trees friendly, our should we try out your new gats? Be a shame to waste friendly dryads, but they're usually shyer than this bunch." Josiah flips on the optical sensors, and scans the trees for heat signatures.
After the meeting, Josiah goes out looking for the scrap he'll need to fix up the mount for the Rail-Guns he wants to attach to Elsie's roof. Once he's found what he needs, he spends the next couple hours cutting, fabricating, and welding, till he has an operational turret working for a set of tandem mounted NG-303's.
Josiah looks about for one of the evil buggers, interest keyed in particularly because he knows how much his friend hates the things. If he spots one, he takes a shot at it, trying to splat it out of the air.
Josiah moves Elsie to the clearing, and puts on his hazard lights to make himself visible. Hoping out, he starts directing refugees into different areas, trying to direct any wounded to a designated area. He pulls out components to manufacture a bio-regenerating healing device.
The device will have around 5 charges, and he starts looking for a volunteer that might be able to use it.
If if gets a volunteer, he'll hand over the device, with a brief set of instructions on how to use it.
Josiah places his hand atop his chrono-accelerator, and activates it. Then, with blurring speed he starts to assemble an arcane-infuser for Elsie's main gun. Slamming it into place, he charges up the laser cannon, taking a second to divert a bit of the super-charge to his rifle, Scarlet.
Seeing the shot go through, Josiah curses and picks up his radio. "Damnit, beasty's ethereal. Normal weapons ain't gunna touch it. Gunna need Spell slingin' an' brainwaves ta stop it! "It'll be feedin' off the one 'e's catchin'. The more he gets, the tougher this S-O-B's gunna be ta take down." 
"What in the darn hell does this smurf-loven son of a banshee think 'e's doin'? Women and kids?" Josiah immediately brought up the targeting system, and locked on to the glowing figure. He made sure there were no bystanders behind the figure in case the shot went through it, he tried to time the shot to when the figure looked the most solid.
"Ok, Sarge, let's see how this fits. We can modify the attachment points to quick detach from this armour. This is Combat Mage stuff from the Federation, eh?"
Once the group is under way, he pops on the autopilot, and leaves it under the supervision of the trooper. Finding Burgurk he stands next to him, taking mental measurements of his chest and shoulder size, and guestimating his weight. "Hey Sarge; you was wantin' a jetpack to help you movin' about? I got a mess o' spare parts about, and all them boosters we salvaged off the Deadboy Enforcer and the skycycles. I can probly rig something up for ya. If I'm making one outa spare parts, it's prolly gunna 'av to be conventional, but if yer wantin', we could proudly make it run on brain juice, in the long run." [B]"Buzzbee's suit does summin' like that, and it don't look too hard."[/ooc]
Josie takes aim and puts down another skelebot.
"If they be holdin' a gun, they ain't surrenderin', but if you think they might, shoot a bot! Heck, I'll do it..." Josiah drops back down and grabs a hold of the driver-side gun controls, and aims them in on one of the skelebots.
"Rest 'o them deaders are outcho range, sweet Scarlet. But don' you worry none, there'll be other skellies to roast come soon." Josiah stays in position on the top hatch, looking for anyone that might have snuck closer to their position.
"Let 'em have another, Trent!"
"Well that's just daisy! How 'bout another?" He aims to put another fireball on a group of Skelebots, making sure not to hit Jace or Jingu.
"Take over on the cannon, Mr. Trent; I'm going to see if I can light 'em up with My darling Scarlet." Josiah stands up, popping up the top hatch so he can see over the force field. He takes aim with his Nova Rifle, trying to drop a Fireball on the advancing Skelebots.
"Damn; Elsie's cannon can put down som'thin' twice 'er size, but ain't much good on troops. Guess we just pick one."
"Hmm, I had a dohickey for aiming... goldarn piece o' flotsam shorted out first time round. Lemme try this again..."
He'll aim at the APC, picturing the location of the reactor in his mind, attempting to disable the vehicle's main power.
"Well if that didn't just take the spit out of 'em! Nice shooten', small fry!"
"Put your hand here, Mr. Trent!
"Shields up Mr. Chekov!"
"Sulu, full power to Phasers!
"Mr. Trent? Feel free to take the first shot!"
Josie preps himself by getting Elsie oriented in a good direction, preferably near some natural cover if he can, such as rocks or large trees. He then spends the few minutes before the fight, whipping up some party favours. He positions the jury rigged devices near his driver's seat, so he can activate them once the fighting proper actually starts.
Josiah gives a gap toothed smile, and sizes up each of the settlers. "If you's is sayin' so, Cap'n. Don't look like much o' a threat to me. Just a bunch a bedraggled rift-leavings. Handsy-mc-bumpkin o'er there came out all like 'I'm a commendeering this vehicle,' and I'm just letting 'im know there's a freezer for his corpse in the back if 'e tries it. No 'arm done, so long as peeps keep their hands to 'emselves."
Sure enough, a moment later the sound of Josie's Nova rifle can be heard. The lack of a following explosion would suggest he fired it in the air. The distant voice that drifts through can be heard shouting, "If you wantta keep those grimy little dirt diggin' hands attached to your ditch diggin' corpse, you better get 'em off my baby and in the air, right high!"
Josiah pulls Elsie up to the entryway to the bunker and it's equipment stash. "You want all thisin here loaded up, Cap? Hmm, grunts can move move of the boxes. That Boomer is going to be the problem, and the biggest priority, I reckon. I take it she's not workin' under her own power right now? Buzzbee could probably lift it with his brain mojo if he were down here, but I probably gotta use a winch. But then, that tractor beam I rigged up the other day might do the job, though I think it shorted out. Though, I should be able to rebuild it..."
Josiah uses his odd looking projector to wrap the Glitterboy in some sort of softly glowing energy field. He guides it up the stairs and on to Elsie's flatbed, next to all the parts he salvaged from the Enforcer robot. He then hops up, and with the help of a few of the grunts, starts working on securing the load.
"I'll have her ready to go, sir. Question though; should I be pointen' her fore, or aft? Her gun only looks foreward, so if there's trouble, we might want 'er lookin' t'ward it. But o' course, that means we gotta turn 'round afore leavin."
"Private, take the wheel and get me close to that barge; and don't ding the fenders!"
"Here's good. Don't want the bloody thing falling on us." As they come up near under the barge, Josie takes aim and activates his dispelinator.
"I could rig somethin' up for ya, boss, but it wouldn't have much range. You might'n be able t'push it a tad further with that brain-juice o' yours. Gimme a minute and I'll try and get it rigged up for ya."
"Blazing Lightning! Got a charge already! Eat laser, slug face!" Josiah targets the barge again, this time trying to draw a bullseye on the massive shape of the splugorth.
Seeing Jingu strike down the first target, Josiah takes aim at the second one.
"Shield is down on the second barge!
"Come on baby, let's keep those shields down! Targeting one of the barges with his thermal imager, Josie squeezes off another shot.
So, Force Blast has the range of my Greater Force Bolt, which is 15/40/60. Major Psionics allows me to spend 2 ISP to increase that range by 10, so 150/400/600. You said 172/178 yards, which is 86/89", so no Range penalty. For 2 ISP, Force Blast can cover a Large Burst Template with the damage of Greater Force Bolt with an ROF of 3 from Rapid Force Bolt...[/ooc] Hey Burgurk, wondering where you got this from? I'm trying to figure out if Josie can rig up a Dispel cannon to take out the barge's shield and cloak simultaneously, but the range of it is too short for him, and he's not sturdy enough to try and get close. The regular Range modifier only gives you double range for 1, and triple range for 2. I'd like to rig up something for long range, even if it only gives him one to two shots. GM, he has Master of Magic, if you want to give me a reasonable cost for a long range mod...
Josiah maneuvers Elsie into position, trying to find a spot in the terrain where he can see the slave platforms and reposition to shoot one after finishing his shots at the other. Locking on his targeting computer, he takes careful aim, trying to identify the most vulnerable part of the target. Once he finds it, he clicks down on his trigger.
"I can whip up some party favours to help us out. Ambush is tricky with these slugs; the booty-guards don't have eyes, so camo and invisibility don't fool 'em. The slugs see through those floatin' eye things, and they're designed to cut right through glamour an' illusions. I think that's how Buzzbee got taken, back in the day; none of 'em fell for 'is tricks. If we's gunna sneak up on 'em, it's gonna have ta be old school; terrain an' stealth."
"I should get Elsie in position. Her laser may just end these slime balls." But, here; lemme whip up sum'in' t'help ya in the fight."
He hands some hastily constructed items to his companions. The first two he gives to Deloso. "Here Cap'n. Thissin gives you a distortion field that'll made ya harder to hit, and thissin will amplify the power of your flames; or the Sargeant's TK."
The last he tosses to Burgurk, "Anti-grav generator. Will let you fly. The first two got about 2 minutes o'juice, and half if you spread it over two peeps, so don't activate 'em until ye'er in position. The flyin' gizmo 'll get cha goin' real fast, but you only got 'bout 90 seconds; maybe thirty if you share it."
With that, he dashes to the cab of his truck pointing out a trooper he knows to back him up him while Jingu is away.
"I can whip up some party favours to help us out. Ambush is tricky with these slugs; the booty-guards don't have eyes, so camo and invisibility don't fool 'em. The slugs see through those floatin' eye things, and they're designed to cut right through glamour an' illusions. I think that's how Buzzbee got taken, back in the day; none of 'em fell for 'is tricks. If we's gunna sneak up on 'em, it's gonna have ta be old school; terrain an' stealth." "Shields on them barges it tough against small arms, but hardly nuthin' against anti-armour. Iffin we got an AT squad, an' can get 'em in position, them barges aren't too tough. If I can get Elsie lined up, one shot may do it. Times like this I regret no haven one of them Boomers on squad."
"Ya, I could woop somethin' up to blind 'em, but it would have to be targeted at 'em. Might as well use a weapon, unless ye be wanten to take 'em alive?"
Just as Jingu gets ready to take off, Josiah flags him down. "Eh, Buzzbee, if your plannin' on headin' out again, let me whip you up some favours."
"Thissin will bleed off any excess supernatural energies, and give you bit o' protection." "And thissin is just... wait a sec, thissin," pop, fizz, "Thissin..." Josie tosses a steaming, hissing, device in the ditch, where it starts to smolder. "Yup, that one I gave you should work just fine." The discarded device in the ditch lights on fire, and starts burning away.
"I ain't reckonin' so. There is a kit like that you can set up, but they declined my request for a an extra trailer, so we wouldna had the space regardless."
Josie takes a long, grim look at the carnage, and spits on the ground. All he says is, "That ain't right." With that he heads back to Elsie, and opening one of the storage compartments starts breaking out entrenching tools. He hands one to Jingu, gives a long significant glance to the troops and the remaining pile of tools, and moves off to a flat level spot and starts digging graves. After a minute, Jingu joins him.
Josie takes a long, grim look at the carnage, and spits on the ground. All he says is, "That ain't right." With that he heads back to Elsie, and opening one of the storage compartments starts breaking out entrenching tools. He hands one to Jingu, gives a long significant glance to the troops and the remaining pile of tools, and moves off to a flat level spot and starts digging graves. After a minute, Jingu joins him.
"Well, we might as well see what 'e's got in inventory, even if his business model be a might unfamiliar." Josie willows through the racks and see if there is anything that jumps out at him; heavy weapons, explosives, or techno-wizardry taking his attention the most quickly.
You are right. It has been a while, and I forgot that it was actually finished. I'll revise my post.
"Cap'n? You need any more help here, or you wantin' me to get back to the Antennae? Remind me, am I still puttin' it up, or are we taken it down? Either way, I'd like to barrow Buzzbee, now that 'e's back; he's better with circuits and computers than me, and I think he knows a thing or two about antennae besides!" He puts an old gnarled finger up next to his forehead and gives a toothy smile that seems to indicate he thinks he's said something mighty funny.
"Can't say I ever heard uh such nonsense afore. Sup to you boss. I reckon tween Whitlock an misself, we could prolly disarm any traps, and you could confiscate the lot fer the Legion. Course, that might upset this marketeer some, but that only matters if you want future bisusness wit em."
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