Survival
Try to get in one of the abandoned houses. If I can, keep an eye on the rest of the group.
All of the houses here look pretty much the same, just a two storey thing mostly made out of wood, so you just choose one of the closest ones at random. You approach it and get in through a broken window, watching with one eye through the rotten curtains as the enemy car approaches the rest of the team.
The inside of the house is very nice, even in this state of disrepair. It's one of those higher class houses that were built closer to the "good" side of the island, away from the centre and the docks. The fact that the police station used to be nearby probably helped too. Nothing like the tenements closer to downtown.
The area your are currently in is a living room-dining room-kitchen hybrid that takes up most of the bottom floor. An area close to the window you went through that was probably meant to entertain guests or hold entertainment like a radio or record player, another area that was meant to have a table for the family to eat on and a kitchen on the other side of the room, with some cupboards and a
stove that has escaped the looters, along with an exit towards the back of the house.
Most of the furniture in the room are missing, except for a sofa and a broken dining table.
There's also a stairway leading up to the second floor, the entrance hallway and some kind of storage area.
The floorboards have started to rot near the broken windows, where moisture, sunlight and rain have been allowed to enter. Hopefully no rats will jump out at you from there. Because a house like this is probably infested. That's probably why those cats are here.
Yes, there's a couple of cats here, sitting on the sofa. One is pitch black except for a white spot near his neck and one is a grey and white tiger pattern. The tiger-patterned one is frightened by your presence and quickly jumps off the sofa and out a window. It makes its way through the open window of the house next door. The house with that person that seems to have very dull emotions. You can see light coming from somewhere further inside it.
Survival
Sense the thing I made; if it's a reliable weapon, use it at the approaching car. If it just needs a little patching, fix it first.
If it's hopeless, just fire a few rounds at the oncoming car then duck back into cover.
How's the leg feel?
You make your way towards the wreckage and take cover behind them.
Leg still feels numb and you can't move it. Feels like for all intents and purposes it has been cut off. Even though you sometimes feel a pulse of pain coming from it.
As for the thing you summoned, you assume that the vials would break and then the rock will somehow cause the liquid inside them to catch fire. It's construction seems good enough, even though it looks a bit hard to use. You could probably make it more efficient and reliable by removing the vials and just wrapping them around a piece of cloth that you then lit on fire with your newly summoned lighter. So you do just that.
You concentrate on the mental image of the object projected in your mind by your ability and then imagine it shifting, the parts of the metal holding the vials opening. That's when your limited telekinesis kicks in, slowly deforming the metal it helped shape. You gather the vials, rip one of the pockets of your uniform off, break one of the vials to soak it in whatever is inside them and put the rest of the vials in it.
Survival
Crawl back to cover where the group is. Try to grab my legs if those are on the way. If legs have been grabbed, try to attach them back on. Any enemy in range gets blasted/stabbed in the face.
You Terminator-crawl your way out of the wreckage and the dead thugs and make your way around them, towards John. A man leans out of the window of the oncoming car and shoots at you a couple of times with his pistol, but he doesn't manage to hit anything. Once in cover, you remove your legs from under the wreckage and examine them.
It looks like they were trapped in place, their toe cap embedded in the ground (you can tell by the small divot they have created) and then hit by a sharp point of the car's frame somewhere near the thigh, resulting in them both being bent (and thus weakened) and being pulled away from your torso as you were pushed forward.
You could try to put the two broken pieces together, but there would be nothing to hold them together. You'd need something to reconnect the pieces, something like a welder, maybe.
Take cover and attack any enemy in range.
CombatOnce the car is close enough, John lights his pocket on fire (not the one still in his uniform, the one he has ripped off), stands up and with a shot that would be the envy of every professional pitcher, he shoots it straight at the car, through the wind-shield and at the driver. The driver bursts into flames. To anyone watching, it would probably look like he just threw a fireball at it. John then gets back into cover and spends several seconds trying to extinguish his hand, since some of the fuel has seeped through the pocket and onto his palm.
Saevus observes what happens next. The panicking driver is unable to focus on driving (or extinguishing himself for that matter) as he flails around the driver seat, his screams reaching you. The men riding along with him don't look like they are doing much better. The car keeps moving, swerving a bit left and right. With one well placed telekinetic pull, Saevus is able to cause the car to fall to its side and come to an abrupt halt.
The fire will continue spreading. Assuming they are too stunned to come out, they should burn to death soon, along with the car.
OOC((Um, I don't want it closed that badly.
I saw it as a resource and didn't account for it refusing to enter my control.
what happened to the rest of my action?))
A. I had to interpret your actions and your rolls somehow. That was the interpretation that I thought was closest to what you wanted (since I thought closing the portal and protecting the humans of this city was more important to your character, based on what she told Zechariah) and that I thought complied to your posted actions.
B. It didn't refuse to enter your control. There is simply something much more powerful controlling it. It's like trying to change the wind. Or like trying to stop a car that still has its engine running by pushing it really hard. The driver can always push the gas pedal and make your effort meaningless.
C. I sometimes run actions in small chunks to give you a chance to react to things, talk, change your plans, tell me how badly I've misinterpreted your actions, all those stuff. I thought it was a good time to pause.
Dang it, did I say slash at anything? I said walk out of the dang room! In as cool a manner as possible!
Oh, I thought Samurai style walk involved swords. Because samurais are known for their swords. And swords are cool.
Because googling samurai walk only provided videos of people walking on their knees and I assumed you did not want that, even though it would probably be more funny to write.
And I needed a way to interpret that 6 for avoiding octopuses and the sword thing was the most obvious choice. You avoided them perfectly but also agitated them.
Did you mean ninja? As in "as stealthy and invisible as a ninja"?
Oh well, it's not like it would change too much.
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