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« Reply #180 on: <11-03-14/1829:49> »
Luz quickly moved through the coffin car that connected the admin car to the common room car. She had almost entered before Ghost radioed his warning, giving her enough time to stop before hearing the boom. She was glad her weak, fleshy, inner ears were replaced, without the sound filters, her eardrums would have burst, if she still had them.

Running in after the grenade detonated, she saw Ghost with his hands over his eyes.

"Vamanos! Avanzar!" she yelled, just before activating her internal air tank. With an underhand toss, she heaved the gas grenade into the car containing the murder clowns and wirelessly detonating it. 



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« Reply #181 on: <11-03-14/1842:53> »
Alicia moved into the corridor, turning off her astral perception, and cursed as she saw the Razor girl throw a grenade into the room. Irongut was writhing, wether in pain or because of his general snakey nature she could not tell.
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« Reply #182 on: <11-04-14/1655:39> »
Hearing the carnage unfolding over the comms chatter, Morgan realised there was fuck all he could do to help them now combat had started proper.
He tweaked his deck loadout from the glowing VR terminal anchored off to the left of his FOV and glanced quickly at the VR terminal displaying his smartgun's camera display.
Satisfied, he pointed his right arm forwards and fired his search program out into the aether, probing the nearby radio emissions for tell tale signatures of the LAV Harrier was rushing to engage.
Located, it was time to bring this fucker down, one way or another.
He loaded his attack suite, his avatar smiling as he briefly inspected the backlit arsenal of wrist mounted weapons that crudely resembled his decoding and decryption algorythms.
Still grinning, he pointed his suite at his target, laughing a little to himself as he loosed two decryption missiles to intercept and coerce it's firewall into compliance
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« Reply #183 on: <11-07-14/1228:09> »
[Saturday September 14th, 2075; Ruins of Graham, Puyallup, Seattle]

@Morgan (car 4 / VR Local Grid):

Questing out into the ether you are lucky that the area is sparsely populated and you are able to pick up the hidden transmissions of the incoming LAV simply by the contrast with the background noise.  Slamming into the icon you are able to mark it although not without difficulty due to the firewall on the rigger’s RCC…

More troubling is the visual feed that is playing in your peripheral vision as you detect a flash from the area that more or less corresponds with Harrier’s location and suddenly his drones go into ‘standby’ mode as they presumably lose their command connection…

@Alicia, Ghost and Luz (car 5):

Despite Luz’s precipitous launching of the gas grenade the tendrils of smoke barely make it into the corridor before you are able to slam the door controls and it slides comfortably into place…the chances of anyone inside still be standing now are very very slim!  Indeed Alicia’s spell reveals a subtle dulling of the three minds inside

@Betsey (car 9 roof):

Well that wasn’t quite the result you’d hoped for…

@Cutter & Flicker (west side of the convoy):

Riding your bike with finesse you are able to stay ahead of the confused and angry ghouls but keep them sufficiently interested in you that they aren’t trying to can opener the RV…

@Al (car 1): 

The train lurches back onto course and you spare a thought for what is going to happen when you begin to move too far from the stationry RV and it’s hostages… that’s only highlighted by the tinny voice of the clown as it comes across your ‘link’s speaker

<<You fuckers just don’t listen do you!  We told you to back the fuck off…instead you had to go and get in the way…now this nice lady has to pay the price…>> thankfully the view screen is a little small to make out the details of what happens next

<<Right, let’s start again, these little kiddies really want to see it through the rest of the day, so we’re gunna do a trade.  These two kids for one of the ones inside, the little one in the white dress calls herself the seer…that’ll do nicely.  And don’t forget our new wheels, would be a shame if we have to start buying our ride with bits of baby circus freaks!>>
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« Reply #184 on: <11-07-14/1828:06> »
[Saturday September 14th, 2075; Ruins of Graham, Puyallup, Seattle]

Son of a BITCH!

Between the fat lady, the ghoul, and his light-speed repair of the controls, he’d been only half listening to the chaotic bits of drama flashing through his ‘link’s speaker. Now, the thought of a couple kids losing their parents before their eyes - the thought of what those kids must be going through right now - he couldn’t rightly get his head around it, but it had him seeing eight shades of red. It was all he could do not to ditch the cab and head straight for the RV. But he wouldn’t, because he knew some things.

First, he knew that leaving the train to lurch to another halt would put dozens more people, maybe dozens more children even, in greater danger. Ghouls, hijackers, and who knew what else - they were absolutely not going to stop moving. In fact, he started easing the accelerator toward the floor - he figured he could keep this baby going for a while at twenty-five, and that would screw with the bad guys’ plans in a whole new way. Second, someone makes threats, you do exactly the opposite of what they want - another reason to keep moving. Third, he knew he was hardly the only player on the board.

<<Dammit all ta hell, people,>> he broadcast on the open channel, not caring who could hear, in fact assuming that friend and foe alike would pick it up. <<They killin’ folk faster’n a tom eats his kittens - those pore kids gon’ be dead in a few ticks anyhow. Now quit yer lollygaggin’ an’ put all them mechanical reflexes an’ tricked out weapons ta the use the Good Lord intended an’ git in there an’ gut shoot those freaks so we kin slice up they eyeballs then skin ‘em alive later. Y’all do it now or else git the hell up here an’ take the wheel o’ this beast so ol’ Al kin show ya how it’s done.>>

Glancing to his right, he was beside himself that the creepy fat lady could see the tears starting to run down his cheeks alongside the blood trickles from his scalp wounds. Well, fuck her and the horse she’d rode in on. He’d probably just killed those two angel kids. But at this rate, another minute with those drug-addled clowns and they’d be dead anyway. Action now was their only chance. It was down to Cutter and Flicker.

And the slim hope that somewhere, deep in their chemical-clouded minds, the clowns realized that the first two kills had gotten them squat, and knew what would happen if they geeked the last of their human shields.

He knew he’d made the right call. The only call. But try as he might, he couldn’t think of a damn thing to congratulate himself about.

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« Reply #185 on: <11-10-14/2351:44> »
After helping Luz slam shut the cabin door to lock the clowns in with the gas, Ghost took a step back. His ears were still ringing, that damn flashbang was still affecting him.

<<Dammit all ta hell, people,>> he broadcast on the open channel, not caring who could hear, in fact assuming that friend and foe alike would pick it up. <<They killin’ folk faster’n a tom eats his kittens - those pore kids gon’ be dead in a few ticks anyhow. Now quit yer lollygaggin’ an’ put all them mechanical reflexes an’ tricked out weapons ta the use the Good Lord intended an’ git in there an’ gut shoot those freaks so we kin slice up they eyeballs then skin ‘em alive later. Y’all do it now or else git the hell up here an’ take the wheel o’ this beast so ol’ Al kin show ya how it’s done.>>

Maldito sea! What does he think? That we are just sitting around twiddling our thumbs?

Even in his frustration, Ghost understood Al's attitude. It was a very similar attitude that Ghost experienced during the final fight at Bogotá; there was so much disregard for life. Ghost wasn't what one would call sympathetic, by any means, but even he could get unnerved occasionally. He sent out:

<<@Team [Ghost] Heading to pick up my rifle, I think we dealt with these fuckers in the fifth train. Ghost out.>>

Ghost nodded briefly to Luz, and headed back to his perch on the top of the eighth train. He opened up his medkit and followed its instructions on pain killers. They didn't help much, but he had a job to do. He was damned if some flashbang was going to prevent him from doing it. He picked up his rifle and aimed towards the convoy, his eyes searching for a target.

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« Reply #186 on: <11-11-14/2039:52> »
Seeing one of the other team members nearby, Cutter, while harrying the ghouls sends to him <<@Flicker: Come on, take some shots while I've got 'em distracted.>>
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« Reply #187 on: <11-12-14/1634:18> »
[Saturday September 14th, 2075; Ruins of Graham, Puyallup, Seattle]

@Morgan (car 4 / VR Local Grid):

Got the fragger!  As your dataspike overloads the rigger’s control deck it goes offline and you can easily imagine the ensuing sparks and horrified ditch of the LAV as it loses control…

<<@Security [l’Ombre Zep]: We’ve lost contact with Harrier, can you confirm?  He was going to check out the incoming sig but we’ve lost that too!  What the hell is going on out there?>>

Before you can formulate a meaningful response you are distracted by the ARO that you had set up to inform you when the clowns started talking to each other, or in this case someone else

<<Intercepted Transmission: These fuckers are climbing all over us.  They've taken out Maz and his crew, there's just us three left looks like.  When are you lazy fuckers getting here?  Pickup of the witch was supposed to be three minutes ago.  Three fucking minutes and my whole team has been fragged sideways.  We've got two hostages, we'll swap 'em for the witch if they know what's good for them.  But hurry up and get your arse here now!>>

<<Acknowledged.  Some technical difficulties with our transport but we are 300m out and closing.  Stay frosty and we'll pull your sorry arses out of the fire, just make sure we have the seer or our deal is off.>>


Well that's just peachy!

@Alicia and Luz (car 5):

As you prepare yourselves for the next step the seer steps out of her quarters without a hair out of place on her head.  She smiles sadly at you both

"I heard what is happening.  I can't let those children be hurt for me.  They can't really do anything to me anyway...can you arrange for me to talk to them?  I don't want any more blood on my hands..."

This coming from a ten year old...?!

@Betsey (car 9 roof) Cutter & Flicker (west side of the convoy):

The trains are slowly pulling away from the RV and it is beginning to look mighty lonely on the edge of the convoy.  The other vehicles seem reluctant to get too close and are keeping to the far tree line, something that poses a danger in its own right if one of them should get hung up on something buried in the ash off the dimly perceived asphalt roadway.

@Al (car 1): 

The fat bitch caresses your arm sending deep chills down your spine...dimly you hear a snarling in your mind...nah, your imagination

"There there now deerie, doncha fret.  Ole Meg's 'ere.  Let it all art.  Let me lit yer fag for ya, waz wat ya wanted reet?  Dem poor poor kids, don't bear finking about, always hated clowns, me.  Freaky!"  Damn button pusher...hard to shake those images filling your mind's eye...

@Intervention (car 8):

Well that's done with.  You'd intercepted the clown as he'd moved past your cubicle and given the chatter on the security channel you had a fair idea the orc with the stupid latex mask wasn't to be left to his own devices.  You weren't supposed to be working, frag you were still resting from the Portland job, but having these stupid bastards interrupt the journey wasn't acceptable damn it.

He'd taken some beating and your shoulder was sore from a stray blow.  You'd been fairly evenly matched in skill, the close quarters making firearms impractical, and it had taken you longer than you would have liked to take him down...
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« Reply #188 on: <11-12-14/1701:05> »
[Saturday September 14th, 2075; Ruins of Graham, Puyallup, Seattle]

Well, he thought as he recoiled spiritually from the beast's touch, at least I got fire now. And the moment she'd lit his cigarette, he snatched his lighter back from her.

He had the train up to fifteen miles per hour now, and once he got to twenty-five he was wondering how long he could run her at thirty without burning her up. He wasn't sure, but reckoned it was a safe bet the second train would follow. He didn't know which train this seer girl was on, but if she was what these murderin' sons of bitches were after, then he was taking her as far away from the equation as he could, as fast as he could. Let 'em deal with that.

Next he had to figure out if this pain-leech beside him was dangerous or just damned annoying. And hell, maybe he could put her to use as well. "Listen, hon, if'n it's misery an' sufferin' gits ya off, then yer gon' find a lot more of it in that RV back there. They's wastin' a whole family, tryin' ta git they hands on some little girl they call the oracle or the seer or somethin'."

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« Reply #189 on: <11-12-14/1932:18> »
In the blacks and sitting upon her cape, torn between the sleep she wanted and the rocking, bucking of the train, staring out the window into the dark Seattle horizon. The Portlan job had been tough, too close for the bolt action, and her HAR sitting in the top shelf right above her in the cabin. Expensive as it had been, it was worth it for the silence, and the lack of little kids running around kickin' each other in the shins. Too many shots fired because some holier than thou security guard just had to put the pride of his job on the line. There was just enough money in the job to keep her going for a few weeks, maybe long enough to consider working a mob hit... or three, they were always safe bets. And that was when her comfortable trip was shattered by the staccato of gunfire from all sides of the train. She swore, she really did, as she keyed in her commlink for the open wave, even as she demanded to herself not to get involved.

Talk of clowns and murdering kids though rather put that to bed quite quickly though, and while her blood boiled away beneath her skin in the lone cabin she switched off the lights and slipped a one-hole balaclava over the top of her head, and shifting to draw the hidden sidearm and screwing the suppressor onto it. And then a clown passed her by on the train, slowly, looking into the windows of the cabins, probably for loot to knick. She hadn't charged and the bastard would hear it. The door was flimsy at best so without further thought she put the boot to it and sent pieces of it shattering all over him. Blows were exchanged, the damn orc clown was tough. By the end of it, the cabin was a mess, as anything and everything had been used as a weapon, so whatever thoughts she had of laying low still remaining were quelled rapidly. A swift boot to the head to make *sure* he was down, and she went for the marksman rifle in the sports bag, while opening up on the security channel specifically, since there still seemed to be a coordinated defence.

"Uh, check... This is Intervention, Car 8. I hear you guys might want some help. Dropped an orc clown in my car, I'll bill ya for him," she joked, continuing, slapping the magazine into the HAR and yanking the charge handle right back and slinging it across her back before moving for the second weapon in the bag, the huge sniper rifle which got it's magazine as well, and the action worked before it was slung as well. Drawing the AR and screwing the suppressor to it. "Unless you want me to go back to sleep, I'm heading rearward for the RV. Intervention, over."

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« Reply #190 on: <11-12-14/2025:58> »
<<To:All//Sending spirit to protect kids with orders to attack whenever someone shoots one of them.>>

Alicia quickly called for her second spirit, a less westernized one called Zaniyah. Communicating with it on the Astral plane, Alicia asked it to protect the kids in the RV, and to also attack the clowns if someone from outside the RV shot them. With that done she turned to the seer. "Why do they want you in the first place. As for the kids don't worry. There's only three clowns left, and they'll be taken care of soon enough."
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« Reply #191 on: <11-14-14/1412:16> »
Well, hells.  Alright, that didn't work.  Have t'try something a lil' different.

With that, Rodeo closed her eyes and imagined a dust devil whirling about her form.  Tapping into the idea, she lifted her arms and, in her mind's eye, drew the power of the small cyclone into herself.  Opening her eyes, she could feel the magic at work.  Quickened, she began to move along the top of the train to see where her next action lay.
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« Reply #192 on: <11-14-14/1426:34> »
Flicker remembers the days of the soaring lark, sitting on the stump watching Shinra sensei leaping into the air and his sword cutting the air like the wing of the lark. And just as he landed the bamboo pole falling apart from the swords stroke.
He almost feels for the ghoul, it is not it's fault it was ravaged by a disease that turned it into a flesh eater, but my team can not be the main course.


Flicker lives up to his name, his magically enhanced reactions kick in and all you see is a flicker as he appears at the top of the arc and his sword flashes into the motion of the lark. Master Shinra would be proud the strike is perfectly executed as he soars just past the target ghoul and lands to it's side.
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« Reply #193 on: <11-14-14/1624:36> »
Spector's girl friend Chika had ran out of a few of her much needed Tattooing materials. Both having grown up in Seattle and knew that some of the cheapest supplies where located in the Puyallup section of Seattle. Not wanting to go into one of the roughest parts of Seattle unprepared the two had suited up for any troubles.

On the drive the two started to hear some CrAzY stuff on the comm channels, some hostage takers and other stuff that was sure to make this trip for tattoo supplies one hell of a ride. Not wanting to be unprepared Spector took off his street hat, and sported his hood and Ballistic Mask. Well this is why I live on the edge of this place not smack dab in the middle of it.  Chika nodded not really being a combat expert Chika was a little tense, most of her skills where in creating magical items and finding ways to get past boarder guards. Now Chika did have one spell for combat but she sure wasn't very good at it.

The Step Van approached the scene of all the crazy comm chatter. Chika and Spector where on the train's 6 o-clock. The two slowed down, but once Spector spotted some of the ghoul activity he pointed at them. Ok drive up with a bit of space I want to see if I can geek me a ghoul or two. Chika was not happy about the fight that was about to start but complied. << CHIKA>> Ok hun but I'm keeping this van running and make sure you stay near by. If we need to cut and run I want you in one piece.

When the van stopped Spector exited the van passenger door with three Shurikens in hand. Wearing a black hood, black trench coat and a black ballistic mask. Spector had the camera of the ballistic mask up and running, he knew that when he grew up in Seattle there was a bounty on Ghouls and you never know he might get some nuyen if he ices a few on tape. One thing, Spector might have to minus the cost of his shurikens from that bounty, since he might not get them back if too big of a hoard descends on him....

..... Spector starts eyeballing for targets.
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« Reply #194 on: <11-14-14/2048:59> »
"Frag it all," Cutter says to himself on getting the message about the spirit, "I'll be damned if some mumbo-jumbo critter takes those bastards down before I get my shot." With that, he decides to let Flicker take care of the ghouls and turns his bike to charge right at the door of the RV hoping to crash through to distract the foes inside and give the kiddies an opening to bolt.
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