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Post by Admin on Jun 20, 2021 3:23:36 GMT
"Then the boss might have useful intel for you if you come with me."
"Only too well, princess. But he is far, far from here and I wouldn't count on dropping such nuggets of information to protect you. Quite the opposite, in fact, when dealing with certain individuals."
He raises his wrist to his mouth and speaks across the wireless.
"The fish are in the net. Returning to -"
Lor can hear the sounds of gunfire from his earpiece and frantic words from another man.
"No time to be overly stealthy, I'm sorry to say. We have to pick up the pace and get back to our base."
The man sets off on a trot through the streets expecting the others to follow. When he stops at an intersection to look about he asks Lorelei:
"Got any more of that magic to help us out? We're still blocks away and the sound of one fight will draw other German units towards them. Hopefully Resistance too but in all this fog, they might not be able to tell who is who. Conrad was saying something before he was cut off, maybe it was 'below'?"
Lorelei can hear the faint sound of gunfire about five blocks away as the man says.
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Post by Brian on Jun 20, 2021 3:31:38 GMT
"Then the boss might have useful intel for you if you come with me." "Only too well, princess. But he is far, far from here and I wouldn't count on dropping such nuggets of information to protect you. Quite the opposite, in fact, when dealing with certain individuals." He raises his wrist to his mouth and speaks across the wireless. "The fish are in the net. Returning to -" Lor can hear the sounds of gunfire from his earpiece and frantic words from another man. "No time to be overly stealthy, I'm sorry to say. We have to pick up the pace and get back to our base." The man sets off on a trot through the streets expecting the others to follow. When he stops at an intersection to look about he asks Lorelei: "Got any more of that magic to help us out? We're still blocks away and the sound of one fight will draw other German units towards them. Hopefully Resistance too but in all this fog, they might not be able to tell who is who. Conrad was saying something before he was cut off, maybe it was 'below'?" Lorelei can hear the faint sound of gunfire about five blocks away as the man says. Brian runs with the man for a moment. " I already agreed to join you."
He has his gun at the ready
"The German's said something about her magic being muted here."
I try to see if I can untwist magic in the pattern as I move....If Magic is being muted in the patterm
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Post by Lorelei on Jun 20, 2021 5:07:43 GMT
"Then you should also be aware that we have spent time enough together for me to know that where some Rebman's adapt, the Lords and Ladys of that far realm Shift," Lorelei explains. She runs with Hammett's man...
"I could call up a rather nasty storm, but we would loose the benefits of the fog and have to deal with other problems; the wet and cold of driving rain or worse... I could generate a massive wall of ice. There are a couple of other spells, but they are circumstance specific... Anything else I would have to build from scratch requiring up to a couple of hours each..."
[OOC - are there fire hydrants?] .
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Post by Admin on Jun 20, 2021 5:35:52 GMT
Brian feels this place has its Shadow twisted with Pattern and Logrus effects. Smoothing and reordering things would take some time and might even require someone far more experienced in using the Pattern to restore all as it should be successfully.
"Better not worry about it then. If you can shoot a gun or swing a sword, that will have to do for now."
The sounds of gunfire get louder as they approach but then diminish, muffled as if underground.
There are fire hydrants for Lor to use.
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Post by Brian on Jun 20, 2021 11:27:03 GMT
Brian feels this place has its Shadow twisted with Pattern and Logrus effects. Smoothing and reordering things would take some time and might even require someone far more experienced in using the Pattern to restore all as it should be successfully. "Better not worry about it then. If you can shoot a gun or swing a sword, that will have to do for now." The sounds of gunfire get louder as they approach but then diminish, muffled as if underground. There are fire hydrants for Lor to use. I speak up to Lor. " Someone really talented has mucked things up. The germans implied either you doing magic would be an issue or that they just didnt want a wizard here." Ooc: if things go down in the next scene Brian will take a position that allows him to take a bullet for Shelly or Lor. If germans get close hes pulling out his sword. Otherwise he'll use the gun for distance.
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Post by Lorelei on Jun 20, 2021 18:18:25 GMT
As they are running, Lorelei snaps her riffle into the firing position and quickly squeezes off four single shots (at roughly the same moment that Hammett's man opens fire?). There is no return fire. As they get closer four bodies in German uniforms are on the ground unmoving.
"Magic takes so long to prepare that I generally don't use it," she says. "There is very little reason to use it at home, other than enchanting the mirrors..." .
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Post by Brian on Jun 20, 2021 18:25:16 GMT
As soon as Brian see's Lor and the man in the future force armor shooting he does the same. He motions to Shelly so the four of them firing can have maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
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Post by Admin on Jun 21, 2021 0:56:10 GMT
The bunch of enemy soldiers react quickly to the shots being fired into their midst. They rush to defensive positions and begin to return fire.
[OOC: Is this the time I have Shelly take a bullet?......]
There are many of them and it doesn't seem likely that Brian and Lor will be able to advance any further anytime soon.
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Post by Brian on Jun 21, 2021 1:06:01 GMT
The bunch of enemy soldiers react quickly to the shots being fired into their midst. They rush to defensive positions and begin to return fire. [OOC: Is this the time I have Shelly take a bullet?......] There are many of them and it doesn't seem likely that Brian and Lor will be able to advance any further anytime soon. OOC: LOL taunting me. I see how it is. Brian will try to put himself between her and a shot if he can.
IC: Brian pulls out some TNT, and he looks at the Merc. He pulls out a cigar and lights it. "Can you put some suppressing fire down?"
He lights the TNT and chucks it to the best cluster of german soldiers he can to make sure they get a good hit.
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Post by Lorelei on Jun 21, 2021 3:23:15 GMT
The entire time they have been moving through the city, Lorelei has been constructing a mental map of its layout. Under cover of the fog she slips into a side street and runs down the ally between the rows of buildings, reaching the other end seconds after Brian's TNT detonates. A quick peek around the final corner shows her the enemy's deployment which she disrupts by using the four maraca style (canister on a stick) grenades she earlier lifted from ones of the German's vehicles.
Crouching at the corner, she uses the rifle to drop any that escaped the brunt of the blasts. Seeing one individual that she assumes is an officer (hat instead of helmet and a different cut to their coat) she puts a bullet through each of his shoulders, leaving him unable to use his arms, instead of one through the heart as she has been doing with the others...
With the shooting from this side stopped, Lorelei calls back, "Appears clear. Advance with caution." She is keeping an eye toward any enemy soldier that may be playing possum...
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Post by Admin on Jun 21, 2021 5:02:41 GMT
BRIAN:
Carlos yells "What are you doing, man? Keep your-"
The dynamite explodes showering them with bits of stone, steel, and body parts.
"-head down," he finishes.
The explosion opens a gap in the German position but there are still enough of them to make a break unlikely to succeed.
From behind them they hear the sound of vehicles approaching. Machine guns open fire spattering the ground and walls about them with bullets.
"We are still no closer to finding my husband!" Shelly yells between bursts of fire from her gun.
"Would that be Lord Dorian?" Carlos yells back.
"Yes! You've heard of him?"
"How could I not? You never shut up about him."
They hear Lorelei's voice calling from a distance but they can't understand what she is saying over all the gunfire.
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Post by Admin on Jun 21, 2021 5:08:41 GMT
LORELEI:
Lor finds herself in a quiet street now that the Germans are dead/ Well, quiet except for the intense firefight one block over and the swearing of the German officer.
"Shizen! Shizen! Shizen! Wasserhexe! Wasserhexe!" he keeps repeating.
She senses a rumpling from below ground—the sound of something huge moving under the city.
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Post by Lorelei on Jun 21, 2021 7:03:36 GMT
'Better safe than sorry.' Lorelei thinks to herself and hits the German officer hard enough to knock him unconscious. Pulling the foot-wear off a dead soldier, she uses the laces to tie the officer's feet together and his useless hands behind him. The soldiers socks become a gag for the officer.
Placing the officer over her shoulder, she retraces her path to the mouth of the street near the newly arrived vehicles. Her anger is working itself toward a boil, and so she cast the boil spell, heating the liquids in that area, specifically the contents of the fuel tanks, until it vaporizes enough for the muzzles flashes to cause detonation. She knows that her group only has a couple of minutes, at best, before the resulting flames start cooking-off the remaining ammunition...
Between the explosions and the rain of fiery debris, Lorelei has a small window to move before anyone regains their senses enough to try targeting her. She makes the dash to rejoin the others, calling out, "MOVE, MOVE, MOVE, AMMO COOK-OFF IMMINENT!!!" .
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Post by Brian on Jun 21, 2021 8:47:23 GMT
Brian takes a position to keep Shelly safe, firing at any Germans in the breach Lor caused. He turns to the stranger. " You can understand why I'm on a schedule. Sooner I get this done the sooner I complete the privilege of Shelly's company." He turns to Shelly. " My dear these Germans are in the way. So less complaining and more shooting."
The edit to have an alleyway he can slip everyone down that will help them sneak to where the future soldier is trying to take them is simple enough.
As is an edit to do a similar opportunity for his mercenary forces. Finding an Ammo Dump, a fuel dump, a garage, and a communication bay quicker to blow up.
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Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2021 20:26:49 GMT
[OOC: edit? You'd have to be moving and concentrating for that, and in this firefight such an action will get Brian killed!]
"Hardy-har-har," Shelly says to Carlos as she drops two of the soldiers in three shots. "But being pinned down here isn't getting us anywhere."
Lorelei's spell blows up the vehicles and showers the group with flaming debris just as Lor and her new companion join them.
Just then, the side of a building explodes, and a large beast - maybe a wolf or some such thing, but hairless and much, much larger - bursts forth. It charges towards a burning car, hits it and the vehicle tips on its' side, spilling ut burning fuel and burning men. The beast skitters to a stop, its claws raking the stone cobbles as it tries to halt its momentum, then turns and charges at Lorelei.
"Woihdjncosj!" screams the officer through his gag.
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