Turn 5:
The fight is finished, the M2HB is silenced and the goons dispatched!
The weary ambushies (the first four players) emerge from the smoky bar, navigating the bar floor overlaid with blood, casings, splinters and corpses. Smells like spent smokeless powder.
The totaled bar is one shop of a row of New York style store fronts. The second stories of these buildings each have a couple of street facing windows, they must be the living quarters of the people who run the shops.
Opposite the bar there is the back of another storefront and a chain-link fenced lot. It’s mostly empty with a collection of trash and trash bins in the far corner. Is that a body? It seems there is a body in the stuffed into a trash bin. That is really not that uncommon in L.A.
A few cars parked nearby have been totaled by the goons chasing Andrew earlier.
Nearby is
Ivory Arms: weapons and printing!
Andrew Merald (Dustan Hache)
(6 of course. I mean you are Andrew fucking Merald after all)(order doesn’t matter this turn)You unscrew the bolt on the mounted M2HB and pull it off. In the back of the pickup truck you find two more bins of .50 cal BMG ammo and one spare heavy barrel (hence the HB in M2HB). This weapon doesn’t require a barrel change of now.
Prolonged fire will require a barrel change which despite your super human status will take some time. The heavy barrel of the M2 paired with its lower (compared to other MGs) rate of fire will make the barrel hard to overheat. The M2 doesn’t have a stock or pistol grip. You’ll need to secure a rifle strap to fire it effectively on the move. You reach down and plunk one of an nearby AA12. It’s a bit short but it’ll do. You secure it to the weapon.
Checking the bodies of the gunner and loader goon you find nothing of interest.
Wait. Something dons on you.
You stab your blade into the truck and wedge the driver door off its hinges, it crashes into the street below. A goon sits ducking in the passenger seat. He stabs you in the gut with a stiletto. It’s not every successful in penetrating your armor.
In one motion you grab him by the neck lifting him out of the car. He drops the knife, gasping and struggling against your powerful grip.
You lower him to the ground and deter him from running by pointing your blade at his neck.
Surprisingly he doesn’t seem afraid. He must be drugged. All the goons must have been drugged. It would explain why they would they didn’t route after taking heavy casualties.
“What?” He says in his thick east coast accent (Before you ask I know the real L.A. isn’t on the east coast. But what kind of urban goon doesn’t have an east coast accent?)
M2HB, barrel, two bins of ammo obtained!
Strength-Speed: 8
Skill(s):
Aware: You have experienced a number of ambushes keeping you aware of your surroundings.
Reflex type:
Evasive
Augment(s):
Highly effective chameleon like skin and hair.
Inventory:
Shotgun (armor shredding ammo type)
Fully auto pistol
Electromagnet assisted blade.
Nanoweave armor with metamaterial stealth aiding capabilities
Extra pistol mags
Extra armor shredding ammo
M2HB w/ AA12 carrying strap
M2HB barrel
Two bins of .50 cal BMG ammo
Status: No status issues.
Leock Vols (HighEndNoob)
(3) You unlock the hatch of the quick change barrel system of your MG-42. The glowing barrel falls out landing on the floor below. You slide a new barrel in and reattach the bolt completing the barrel change.
You look through a number of the goons bodies. You find business cards in a few of them.
They read “Man-hunter: Hit and body guard services.” The business card also contains a business address and a phone number. One problem though, they’re all covered in blood and impossible to read clearly!
Still that seemed like an odd attack for a hit service. Those goons weren’t highly disciplined but rather abnormally brave. They must have been given a drug prior to the attack that is most surely not a usual tactic among hit services. Man-hunter must have had one hell of an offer to adopt such unusual tactics.
It’s not cheap to lose a bunch of men like this. If you could just secure the client data for this attack you might be able to figure out who ordered it.
Strength-Speed: 3
Skill(s):
Ambushing ambushers: You’ve been ambushed a lot. You’ve gotten reasonably good at turning the tide.
Reflex type:
Stealth
Augment(s):
Aware of ambient magnetic fields
Inventory:
7.92mm MG-42 Light-machine Gun with Bipod
.45 Thompson Sub-machine Gun
3 L83A1 Smoke grenades
Dark gray Overcoat
Fair amounts of MG and SMG ammo.
Extra quick change barrels for MG-42
Status: No status issues.
Eiki Yamanaka (_DivideByZero_)
(2) After thrashing the dead goon with one of your two remaining functional limbs. You stroll into the back of the bar for some Restoration fun! You find a surplus of pretzels, like a shit ton of pretzels. Pretzels go well with beer I guess.
You enter Restoration mode. Your blood pressure increases. Your heart pounds shaking your entire body, then you lose normal consciousness.
You wake up a short time later. Looking around it seems you ate a shit ton of pretzels and you cannibalized one of the corpses in the back room chewing into is bones.
Health restored!
Strength-Speed: 3
Skill(s):
Shrapnel awareness: You’ve fired enough rockets to be a fair judge at what and what isn’t a safe distance from an explosion.
Reflex type:
Offensive
Augment(s):
Under skin Ceramic armor plates (Skull, parts of torso, thighs, forearms, and shins).
Inventory:
Black body suit with projector equipment.
9x High Explosive
8x Smoke
4x Incendiary/White Phosphorus
5x H.E.A.T
2x EMP
7x Force (A shell designed to propel Eiki through the air moreso than actually deal damage. It creates a giant blast in front of the schrek)
4x Dazzle (A cluster munitions bomb consisting of flashbangs, stun bombs, and fireworks. Fun for the whole family)
2x Theta Fusion Warhead (Does not explode unless the triggering mechanism fires. It can malfunction, but it is more likely stop working if hit)
1x Grappling hook (reusable) (Has a hook which can attach to the schreck itself. Can be reloaded with any rocket motor)
Helmet
Cleaning kit
Gas mask
Two small oxygen cylinders
Snacks
Two tactical knives in boots
Two electrolaser pistols
Carrying scarf
Status: No status issues!
Sanct Stone (Sanctume)
(6) (You're are the last roll in order) Some of the back room’s reserve is in tack. Booze beyond your wildest dreams and it’s all free! You can’t get drunk but perhaps it doesn’t stop you from enjoying wines and beers.
Strength-Speed: 4
Skill(s):
Geology: you know your stuff when it comes to rocks and gyms.
Reflex type:
Defensive
Augment(s):
Reinforced arm bone structure (good for digging), low oxygen tolerance, ability to consume dirt, rocks and gyms (must break up rocks before ingesting).
Inventory:
Vintage aviator’s Cap and goggles
Chain harness
12” metal pikes
16” metal bars (assembles into digging tools and lobo)
Rail rifle
Spare rail rifle ammo
Study gloves, belt harness and mesh armor
Someone else’s PIN/bank number
Status: No status issues.
Recenser Bonum (Midnight Jaguar)
(1 eep!) You join Eiki in the storage room of the bar and you enter restoration mode. Your blood pressure sores and the beat of your heart shakes your body.
Arms emerge from your sides! Success! But it seems pretzels weren’t ideal for the creation of new limbs. Your body compensated by shifting around muscle and bone mass.
You transformation is a success but both sets of your arms are very weak! It looks like you’ll to re-enter Restoration mode.
Strength-Speed: 5
Skill(s):
Nerves: You really don’t get too surprised often. You’re not too likely to lose nerve in any given situation.
Reflex type:
Aggressive
Augment(s):
Changeling: During restoration you can change your appearance and physical capabilities. Bone sword arms? Why not. (you cannot change your augment though) (Note: this will take a lot of food during restoration mode).
Inventory:
M1911
Sten gun
M16 with an underslung grenade launcher.
Trench coat
Leather work gloves
Torn and bloodied hunters cap
Military style cargo pants
Standard cotton T-shirt
Varying types of ammo
Extra grenades for grenade launcher
Status: Extra pair of arms situated under regular arms.
Weak arms! All of your arms are unsuited for your usual level of use. Combat would be a great risk in this condition.
Anthony Brake (inaluct)
((I miss read your request for a list of toxins to have been exposed to. You can suggest a few more on top of the ones I said you had.))
(6)You grab your arm an AA12 and a couple of drums from the dead goons. You walk to the bar, you don’t bother announcing your presence as the now silence of the M2HB is enough indication.
You look down at the business card. “Man-hunter: Hit and body guard services.” Interesting, you’d love to get hold of the client data for this job.You might get your wish the business has an address and phone number.
You'll need two secure two cars to make the trip to Man-Hunter HQ. Luckily hotwire and breaking into cars isn't something you are unfamiliar with. The goon truck without a driver-door is one car. Someone would have to ride in the back though.
You walk into the storage room and activate Restoration Mode. Your blood pressure shoots up. Your very heart beat shakes your body!
You regain consciousness. It seems you attached your arm and supplemented the damage with a load of pretzels.
Strength-Speed: 5
Skill(s):
Negotiators: Your pretty good at talking his way out of things.
Reflex type:
Diplomatic
Augment(s):
Venomous: You are completely immune to toxins (including gasses!) After ingesting a poison/toxin you can recreate the substance from your mouth giving you access to wide variety of toxins with varied affects. Can secrete toxins that he generates through his pores, able to create both liquids and gasses in mouth.
Current substance exposure list:
Sedatives (some in gas form others as a liquid)
Classic poisons (cyanide, etc),
Hemotoxin (breaks down blood cells)
Neurotoxin (causes issues in neuron function can be used to paralyze or kill)
Proteolytic (causes localized damage by disrupting the molecular structure of the area of infection)
Inventory:
12ga pump action shotgun
AA12 shotgun with carrying strap
High powered bolt action rifle (think like .338 Lapua Magnum high powered) with a x25 scope
Laser pistol
Brush axe
Concealable ballistic vest made of the best space age materials to be found in the year 299X
Knife
9mm semiautomatic pistol
Copy of the well-known ancient book Fahrenheit 451, a rollicking adventure story
Extra ammo
Status: No status issues.
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