Several explosions can be heard toward the rear of the ship, where Malefics' crew is, although they declared it all-clear just a minute ago. A few seconds later, Kresil (the shorter demon), one of the Alu demons, and the mercenary Tangles come into view. The Alu demon is carrying an unconscious and badly burned Malefic. Both demons are bleeding, and Tangles' armor is down to around half.

They walk down the corridor to join the group, and set Malefic down against the wall.
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Tangles is carrying a satchel filled with CS micro-fusion grenades and tosses it on the ground next to Malefic.

"The dead boys back there were covered in grenades. You wanted them, you got 'em. What are we dealing with back here?"

As much as he would love to charge into battle & avenge his comrade in arms, Sir Aries makes use of his healing abilities and does what he can to stabilize Malific.

Signal pulls a grenade from the bag and says, "So everyone grab one. On ready I will open the door."

Signal again moves to the panel and punches in the code, all but the last number.

The 3rd takes a grenade. To no one in particular he says, "Grenades are fun. I'm ready"

In reply to 'The 3rd' (msg # 137):

"We should probably wait for Sir Aries to finish stabilizing LT Malefic so we can get his help on this." The stalker spoke as he himself pulled out two grenades and positioned himself ready to avoid another potential blast as soon as Signal opens the door again.

Lieutenant Malefic will survive. His plasma burns are severe however, and he won't be joining in any combat in the near future.

This leaves Corporal Zander in charge of the strike team, which now adds an Alu demon, an Asurk Demon and Tangles (gun-type mercenary).
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"Alright Corporal, I've done all I can for him.  What are you orders?"

In reply to Sir Aries (msg # 140):

"Everyone grab at least one grenade. Signal lifts, we all throw ours in there. Focus on the damn borgs and psionic and/or mage with the grenades. The juicer will likely be able to get out the way, so we'll have to take him down the by just shooting at him. Signal, stand by to drop the door again if need be. Form up as a staggered "V" at the door, with the demons nearest the door. If and when they clear the doors, direct hand to hand combat out of the firing range." Zander didn't like this part of the job. He just liked to kill things. But it didn't stop him from doing what he needed to do. It is one of the aspects of being in the military. If you stay in, you are bound to have to lead at some point. As he spoke, he walked around the door, demonstrating what he meant.

Some people might go for a semi-circle focused on the door, but this way we use the lesser profile of the door to minimize the number of exposed allies and still get a good vantage of what lay on the other side.

The stalker took the position at the tip of the "V" farthest from the door on the side closer to Malefic. If anyone got that far, they'd have to go through him. Not that they'd know we had a vulnerable ally just around the corner. . .

"Are we sure they are still on the other side of the door? It has been some time..."

"We are not sure, thats why we aren't pulling the pins before I open the door. If that psychic wasn't there I would take a look first."

Signal checks that everyone is in position and then he enters the last of the code to open the door.

In reply to Signal (msg # 143):

"Better to be prepared for it if they are."

Zander keeps his position and has the grenades up to his face, teeth on the pins so he can pull them out at the same time if need be.

The squad moves into position, and waits for what seems like forever for the door to open again. A bead of sweat hangs from the end of Tangle's nose, as he stands trembling with anticipation. Not to kill and destroy the enemy.... just to be done with this, and hopefully survive.

His mind wanders to the imminent battle looming just outside the transport, and hopes the rest of the platoon can hold them off...

Finally the door opens, revealing nothing but scorch marks, and the half-melted corpse of the kitten that was strapped to the one cyborgs' head. The soldiers have moved deeper toward the front of the vessel.

The corridor leads to a stack of crates to the left, and two doors to the right. The crates are labeled medical supplies. The door at the end of the corridor, is universally marked as a washroom. The door next to it, is exactly like the one just opened, and leads toward the external weapon stations and the cockpit.

Signal ghosts and moves into the corridor. He walks up to the first door and at the wall next to it, he puts his head through just far enough to see and quickly pulls his head back.

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Sir Aries gets into position with the others, renews his shield's duration & throws the grenade on cue, waiting to see what the result will be before acting accordingly.

Signal turns to the others and silently pantomimes pulling the pin on his grenade, opening the door throwing in all the grenades and closing the door. He then points to each person in the group and motions to them to move up to the door.

In reply to Signal (msg # 149):

With Signal's motion, Zander put the pins back in his mouth, ready to yank the grenades away and toss them in one motion once the door is opened. He carefully gives the psi-ghost a slight nod, indicating the go-ahead.

Signal decides since he is working the door, he won't need to throw his grenade as well. Signal goes back over the memory in his head that this door didn't lock from the other side, confident it couldn't he wrenched the door open and as soon as everyone tossed 1 grenade from his side, he slams the door shut again.

OOC: First action, Open door. Second Action, ready for all grenades to be thrown through then slam door shut.

19:31, Today: Signal rolled 20 using 1d20+2. Initiative.

When the main door opens and the dead boys aren't there The 3rd is a little disappointed. He nods to Signals silent orders. When the door opens he lobs in his grenade.

The squad moves ahead, down the corridor, toward the washroom, and prepares their assault at the second door. After Signals' directions, he types in the door code, and it quickly slides open. The psychic soldier is standing immediately on the other side of the door, staring down the grenade-assault... He seems completely unconcerned... and as all the grenades are tossed, they simply hit an invisible force field and pile up at the entrance. There is approximately 3 seconds until they each explode...

The psychic soldier stands and watches.

*I forgot to ask for new initiative rolls. Please add them in to the next round of posts.
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In reply to Mike (msg # 153):


23:49, Today: Max Zander rolled 11 using 1d20. init. 11+4 - 15

Knowing full well it was too late didn't stop Max from trying to telekinetically pushing the grenades and the telepath backwards.

11:34, Today: Sir Aries rolled 19 using 1d20+4. Initiative.

Sir Aries added his own considerable TK ability to Max's effort.

Having been ordered further inside the crashed skull faced ship Na-Wa catches up to the others and remains quite. See one unconscious body Na-Wa looked for anything he could use the sleeping man wasn’t going to immediately need (grenades, vibro knifes). He alrady had many e-clips from the bodies of the dead skull faced soldiers.

Na-Wa didn’t join in the grenade throwing (his hands were full and Na-Wa knew he was too dumb to make things float with his mind) and instead waited for the signal to rush into the door and kill skull faced soldiers. In his right hand the dimwitted psi-stalker held Whon-Ecke, and in his left a CP-30 pulse pistol.

19:21, Today: Na - Wa rolled 9 using 1d20. init +5.
Activating intuitive combat

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