*looking stunned and hurt at Manny*
Manny smiles, but not in a friendly way, and clicks the safety 'on' on his gun, and then hands it handle-first to Agent Kronos.
"As you wish."
*turning his attention on the doctor*
“I strongly suggest you cooperate, doctor. Let’s not make this situation any worse than it already is.”
Diplomacy, taking 10 if allowed, 10 + 16 = 26.
Suddenly the doctor groans in pain, clutches the sides of his head and an unusually dark coloured blood starts trickling out of one nostril. His eyes roll back in his head and he falls to the ground.
For a couple of seconds all is quiet, and then a Klaxon style alarm begins to sound!
1 square on the map is 5'.
Spoiler for Pixie & Manny
To be clear about the map. Manny is in the doorway to the morgue. Pixie is the small "p" behind him (N 11) and Man mountain Marko is the much larger "M" in N9.
His pulse is weak. It looks like he' still alive, but certainly unconscious.
Consider yourselves in initiative rounds right now. Kronos you can consider those last couple of posts your first round action. For right now I'll base your initiative around the order that you post in (sorry if I'm cheating those of you who invested in imp. initiative).
"Manny, what do you think is wrong with him?"
"Between myself and Agent Charme, I think we messed up his mind enough that the Hive was worried his loyalty was in question and he would tell us what we asked and so it lobotomized him rather than risk it."
"We should probably stick to nonlethal attacks, the vast majority of guards are just humans, I'd imagine."
I activate my alternate form; It looks like some kind of Polyceramic with layers of little rainbows as the light strikes his skin.
say in my best, loud intimidating, authoritive voice. <Gm can roll for me if you like; I dont mind; I just like the play until I get the hang of it>"Settle down or get smashed! Choose Now!" Stomp my feet to root in front of the door so nothing gets past me; hopefully will shudder the floor a bit and add to my intimidation.
"Agent Charme, Marko, Pixie, see what's wrong."
"I imagine we are what is wrong." *sidelong glance at Manny*
<= looks at the walls and door to see what they are made of my primary concern to hold the door closed (use my immovable); it probably opens into the room so i lean on it; looking at the walls and ceiling and floor in case we need to create an alternate exit.
"flippin hive mind eh; ok; anyone got a plan; I told you I had a bad feeling about this place and me without a fly swatter"
initative; roll of 12 +11= 23
< profile updated >
have combat assessment; want to use this now to see what it tells me; thanks.
Initiative Check for Pixie
Pixie darts through the door. Marko starts to move to the door to slam it shut, but Manny is still standing in the doorway (sorry Manny, you posted, but didn't say anything about moving, so you're still standing in the doorway, as per the map). You hear a small explosion in the hallway. A whitish gas suddenly starts filling the hall and and billowing into the morgue.
Fortitude saves please.
Prodidgy is exempt (I assume he has his helmet on).
Spoiler for Manny
Manny steps out of the doorway and closes the door. "Prodigy, can you lock this door closed somehow?"
"The Swarm are reporting to someone they call a 'master,' and that someone is close enough to be able to both mentally and chemically assault me. If we sever the head, the dragon dies."
<holds his breath>
fort roll; 13+13; so 26 if I understand this right.
Is there a window?
Manny slams the door closed. You are now all in the morgue, most of the gas has stayed out in the hall but there is some in the morgue with you. There are no windows in this room, and the only exit you see is the door.
Everyone but Prodigy is chocking on the gas. Your eyes are stinging, burning and watering. Those who made their saves (everyone so far) takes -2 to all checks except for toughness saves, for the next few rounds (I'll let you know when the penalties end). Those who failed take -4.
Pixie flies over to the doctor and hovers above his body.
"I'd say it's a pretty good guess that the Doctor is the head."
She looks over at everyone waiting for confirmation.
"My vote is to sever the head now. We don't have the luxury to be safe on this one guys. Let's do it!"
*hack*
"I don't believe..."
*hack*
"...the doctor is the head."
*hack cough*
"But it couldn't hurt."
How are you going to keep the door shut?
Pixie strikes the doctor in the neck with her stinger.
"Marko! Hold that door shut!!!"
You don't need to roll it, you can easily perform a coup de grace on him if you wish since he's unconscious on the ground.
Pixie strikes the doctor in the neck with her stinger.
Pixie looks back down at the body. She looks up at the ceiling, takes a deep breath and makes sure she injects the right vessel on his neck to assure that he will not be taking any more breaths. She settles into a sitting position on his neck and stays there until she can feel his pulse is gone. She then hovers up to eye level with Manny.
"The deed is done. Do whatever it is you do to plug into that universal bug brain and see if the Master is silent now."
Eyes watering from the smoke, Manny looks back to Pixie, "The so-called Master is the one that lobotomized the Doctor so he wouldn't answer Agent Charme's question. It's not going to be quite that easy, I'm afraid."
"Mr. Carter, can you hack into their network and find us a way out of here?"
"Mr. Aedonnis, is the door secured?"
"Mr. Marquez, how many are we up against? Can we get to the 'Master' or should we cut our loses at this point?"
"Mr. Marquez, how many are we up against? Can we get to the 'Master' or should we cut our loses at this point?"
"I don't know where the 'Master' is right now, but they are going to send every human working in this prison against us before they'll face us openly, and maybe not even then."
"At least, that's what I'd do..." he adds begrudgingly.
I will hold the door shut; am strong and immovable. What are the walls made of; could I punch a hole through the wall to make a window to get some fresh air in here? not sure game systemwise.
"I can shrink down to atom size and pass through these walls into adjoining rooms."
These are interior walls. For the most part they are made of concrete, but a guy like Marko could probably break through them without too much trouble. There are some vents into the room. They aren't big enough for a human to crawl through, but Pixie could move through them easily enough.
"You need a hole; you just ask" I say to the group in a raspy voice and with watery eyes.
Manny takes a breath, and promptly coughs from the choking smoke, and turns to the others. "I'm going to try to locate this 'Master,' but doing so may open me up to another psychic attack. If I fall under it's control and suggest surrendering or whatever, you'll probably need to shoot me..."
He closes his eyes and listens for Swarm Communications, hoping to get some idea for where the signals are coming from and how many are actively communicating.
Search or Notice check to try and identify / pinpoint Swarm communications, 7, not likely...
spoiler for Manny
Well, we cannot stay here; that is for sure; the longer we wait the more organized they will be; probably have a lot of peeps outside in this hallway; we need a distraction and do something unexpected.
Youse guys got any ideas? i got a couple.
*uses his shirt as a makeshift filter mask*
"What do you…"
*cough*
"…have in mind, Mr. Aedonnis?"
Pixie does a calculated look at each one of the team then still hovering in place announces, "I am going to shrink down to atom size and pass through the wall to see what's in the next room."
Laughing she lowers her voice and says, "I'll be back!"
In a flash she shrinks to the point that she in undetectable to anyone in the room.
PHD eyes only:
Pixie shrinks down to atomic size and passes through the wall into what ever room or corridor that door 2 leads to. After passing through the wall she will 'stealthily' grow to miniscule size (approx 1" tall.) At this size her stealth modifier is +23. Maintaining stealth she will scan the room to identify who is present - I assume that this will be a Notice check.
Stealth : 1d20+23 → [20,23] = (43) http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1750420/
Notice : 1d20+6 → [17,6] = (23) http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1750422/
Well; if Pixie can determine which room either side to side or up and down; I could probably punch a hole big enough for use to move; am thinking we need some fresh air; could punch a hole outside. Am thinking we need to move before they send more of this stuff down the ventilation shaft or bunch of bugs come pouring out of it; am thinking up is better since we are underground; an not to sure though. We need a long term plan; do we try to meet the gov'ner or the warden; do we determine the level of infestation; was the infestation here when they excaped? did the insects help them escape toward some greater plan; way over my head; i gots nada but questions.
am pretty good at making holes though and stopping up doors.; can one of you work on cleaning the air;
< sputters and teared eyes and raspy breath >
“I am inclined to up and out. I would rather avoid direct confrontation with staff as it would appear the majority of them are simply innocent. Should we find ourselves in a fight with staff, I strongly suggest we use whatever non-lethal means we have at our disposal to extricate ourselves from the fight.”
“Ms. Gendrome showed us the way Cannibal use to escape the facility. Unless someone has a better idea, I suggest we take that route since we are familiar with it.”
“Mr. Aedonnis, do you think you can breech that door since we are lacking in a pass card?”
“Ms. Noble? How do the hallways look?”
As Charme asks Pixie his question, you see that she has already shrunk to a size that you can't see. You're not really sure where she has gone to.
Suddenly the muffled rattle of automatic weapon fire stammers from in the hall way. Bullets start tearing into the door. However, Marko's bulk is blocking the door. You see his body shake, as rounds of ammo hammer against his back.
Spoiler for Marko
"I suspect getting through the door is the least of our problems." Manny says dryly as the door starts to shudder and fragment behind Marko's back.
"It looks like Prodigy isn't going to be able to get a signal out, which means we have to either talk our way past the men with guns, or fight our way out of a maximum security prison meant to hold people with Wild Card abilities."
He looks at the floor for a second. "Or you could claim that I killed the Doctor, and hand me over after 'incapacitating' me, which may get all of you out of here alive, as the Swarm don't want to kill me."
He smiles. "There's also an option where I surrender to the Master and help his people kill all of you, and then join the family, but I'm not real fond of that one, either."
"Some combination of making me appear to be the bad-guy, pinning it on the Doctor as well, and then Agent Charme fast-talking us out of here, with me in federal custody, might be worth a try... The human guards may question orders from their Swarm superiors to kill us if we don't seem to be resisting, or posing a threat."
Spoiler for Pixie
You are in what appears to be an operating theatre. Judging by the room, you suspect it might be an autopsy room. It is very clean and sterile looking, but at the moment it appears to be empty. The only visible entrance to the room is Door #2.