Leaning over the viewscreen Daniel watches the scene with interest. "Friends of your Jek?" Looking down as the screen goes black. "It looks like these guys are going to be a pretty bad bunch. Everyone is going to have to stay on their toes."

"Roy I hope you know what your doing." He said turning to Roy and handing over his stun baton. Daniel had never really been a fan of jury-rigged explosive having seen one too many go wrong, but desperate times called for desperate measures.

Darak continues his quiet work in the halls, moving slaves from the two cells that will provide their group cover to the rear most cells. This takes a few minutes.

Once finsihed clearing the two cells Darak takes up position in the left cleared cell. Then, realizing he - as a leftie - would be more effective on the right he changes cells. Using the doorway (or swing) of the right cleared for some cover he gets into a firing position ... waiting and watching.

If any of those Trandoshans come through the door he'll get a few good shots in before they make it through to him.

(edited due to PM clarification)
This message was last edited by the player at 23:50, Sun 25 Feb 2007.

Darak quickly moves the slaves to other cells through a mixture of diplomacy, threats, cajoling and brute force.  It takes him a minute or so but finally he has his two empty cells.

At around the same time Roy finally finishes his 'grenade'.  By securing several of the power sources together he'd prepared a crude device that he hoped would work.

Roy took cover behind the left door while Darak mimiced him to the right.  Jek and Daniel took positions to the left and right respectively closer to the cell and prepared to fire through the top half of the doors.

Just as the group gets ready a loud explosion erupts just outside the medical centre door.  To Daniel's trained ear it sounds like a grenade exploded in close proximity to the door, though probably not close enough to do damage.

Moments after the door to the medical centre opens and a lone Trandoshan rushes out.  Seeing the open doors he pauses and brings his rifle up to fire. . .




OOC:  Feel free to adjust your positions but the following seemed apparent to me.  As the doors have bars to the upper half and solid to the lower the only way for 4 people to take cover behind 2 doors is for 2 people to kneel and shoot around the doors.  Roy has to be one of these people as he can't throw the grenade through the bars and acheive distance.

The people shooting through the bars will have less cover than those shooting around the edge of the door.

I have Daniel armed with a blaster rifle, Roy with blaster pistol and grenade, Darak with blaster pistol and Jek with a hold-out pistol.

If this is all correct then let battle commence!

Daniel takes his positionbehind the cell door. As the explosion rocks the building from outside he looks down at Roy who is kneeled and ready to throw his grenade. "Get ready to toss that grenade Roy and let's hope it works."

He steadies himself and trains his gun on one of the obvious leader of the trandoshans. Just as the new slaver rushes into the medical bay Daniel motions Roy to toss the explosive. "Alright Roy before the rest of them notice us. Now is the best chance we are going to get at taking them by suprise."

Hoping to get a quick shot in before the grenade is thrown he tries for a hit on the trandoshan leader or which everyone he can get a clear shot off of. With his blaster rifle steady he fires a shot and then ducks behind the cover of the cell as the grenade goes out.

With his blast pistol Darak takes his shot at the lone trandoshan, and will momentarily duck behind the wall if Roy tosses the grenade.
This message was last edited by the player at 13:55, Mon 26 Feb 2007.

Roy thosses the grenade at the medcenter door way tryng to get it just in side.  He will then pull his blaster out and take aim at the frist slaver he can see. Roy yellsgrenade

A yell of "Grenade" causes everyone to freeze a moment, not the least the Trandoshan standing in the doorway.  Roy tosses the makeshift grenade which lands just inside the doorway of the med centre with a thud.  Guards inside the room dive to the sides as the grenade hits the floor.

In the doorway the exposed trandoshan reflexively snaps off a shot at Darak, who was taking aim on the guard.  The shot struck the door only millimetres from the man's head, the heat wave singing his eybrows.

The return fire was more on track.  A pair of shots hit the guard in the chest and he fell to the ground nonmoving.

Inside the medcentre shouting in Dosh commenced.  Unable to speak the language you didn't know what was being said but the gist was clear.  The leader was rousing his men to battle.  Roy's grenade was clearly a dud.

A volley of fire erupted into the hallway as the Trandoshans returned fire.  The sheer force of the volley caused the group to duck behind cover.  Through the fire a metallic clunk was heard as something hit the ground just next to the dead Trandoshan.

"Grenade!" yelled a voice in broken Common followed by a loud chuckle.


OOC:  Well battle has commenced.  Your grenade didn't work.  COnsidering Roy has no skill points in demolitions you're actually all lucky the thing didn't blow up in your faces!

You suspect the grenade thrown by the Trandoshans will not be a dud!


VP/WP
Roy - 10/10 10/10
Daniel - 21/21 13/13
Darak - 10/16 14/14
Jek - 17/17 12/12

Roy will duck behind the door untill the grenade goes off.

Darak hearing the grenade fall next to the dead trandoshan in the hall will duck for cover behind the wall, taking a shot at a target if he can - but cover is first priority.

Ducking behind the wall he looks over at Roy. "Well I suppose it was worth a shot. I hope you are better with your blaster though." He says cracking a smile.

Daniel waits for the grenade to go off and gets ready to return fire. After the grenade has gone off he will immediately start returning fire from his cover.

When Daniel starts returning fire Darak will join him, and as was planned will try to concentrate fire on a single target with the team (if possible given the left/right separation of our teams fields of fire).
This message was last edited by the player at 19:32, Tue 27 Feb 2007.

Roy will follow the shots of the others

The grenades lies motionless for a few moments.  Seconds seem to take hours as everyone ducks behind cover awaiting the impending explosion.  Finally a new sound breaks the silence but it is not the sound of an explosion, rather the sound of hissing gas.

Peeking around fom cover the grenade is spewing out a metallic-grey gas quite rapidly.

"Stun gas."  Jek offers, having seen the guards use them before.  One of those can completely envelop a cell in the gas.  Strong stuff."</b>


OOC:  Apologies for the delay, have been occupied with personal matters.  Was also waiting for Jek to post but shall wait no longer.  I shall endeavour to keep things rolling smoothly.

Roy will take a pot shot of the one slaver he can see then dash to the guard room.

Darak will hold his breath and also make a dash for the Guard Room, doing his absolute best to avoid fire. If possible to take a pot shot to cover their retreat  (or even better to hit a guard) he will do so. He will follow the shots of others,trying to concentrate fire as usual.

As the two start to break a run Daniel yells out in an attempt to get some control over the situation. "Wait! get at the back of the cell. Running through the gas isn't going to do us any good, it's too concentrated, we've got get as far away from the spray as possible and cover our mouths."

Hoping that everyone hears him and knowing that if they don't two guns are better than one he tries to make a grab at Darak to stop him and pull him to the back.  Covering his mouth with the sleeve of his shirt so as not to breath the initial fumes he hopes that he can atleast hold out long enough to get to the back where the fumes might be able to dilute
This message was last edited by the player at 19:56, Thu 01 Mar 2007.

Darak heeds Daniel's warning of staying in cover before making his break - not leaving cover. Daniel does not have to venture into the fumes.

Instead he will try to shield his mouth and take another breath in a high or low corner of the cell - or from under a bunk ... any area where pockets of dead air tend to form, the gas hasn't spread, etc. Since he can see the greyish gas perhaps he can cruedly judge conentrations and determine where to breath. If need be he will even take a breath from the waste hole ... nasty yes ... but a resovoir of 'clean' (not exactly fresh) air that won't stun him.

Since they are getting to the backs of the cell to keep distance from the gas Daniel will try to sit on the waste hole ... preserving the air down there. This position also allows him to keep a barel trained on the doorway.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:06, Thu 01 Mar 2007.

if roy can hear Dan he will move to the back of the cell and pull his shirt up over his mouth.

OOC:  I am going to base what Roy and Darak do on an initiative roll.  Since Daniel yelled Wait I'm assuming people would take notice.  However if anyone beats Daniel to initiative they will have already made their move (ie run for the guard room).  Jek (who has yet to post) still has the luxury of choice.

Additionally Daniel will spend a round in the fumes because his speech will take a full round (takes me 6 seconds to give that speech, even when hurried!).  In his post he states he says all this BEFORE he ducks abck into the room.
This message was lightly edited by the GM at 22:29, Thu 01 Mar 2007.

Jek looks to Daniel, following the soldier's lead.  If he runs, he runs, otherwise he stays.  This was a military action and Jek had no idea what to do.  So he looked to the soldier for guidance.

As Daniel yells "Wait!" all three of his comrades grind to a halt.  Hearing his explanation they instead try to shield their mouths and run for the back of the cells.

Having been furthest back, Jek easily manages to outpace the gas.  Danak and Roy are slower off the mark and take a lungful of the gas before they escape to the rear of their cells.

Daniel meanwhile is caught full in the gas cloud and becomes helplessly coughing and retching.  He falls to his knees as the gas begins to overpower him.

From the medical centre a command in Dosh is made and the sound of advancing Trandoshans in heard.



OOC:  The hall and the entry to the cells is filled with the stun gas.  Roy and Jek are in the back of the cell to the left, Darak the back of the right cell.  Daniel is just inside the door of the right cell and is standing in the gas cloud.

Roy will shoot the first slaver he can see

Darak will also take the best shot he can see, though he will focus on central figures that Roy and Jek might be able to shoot (as per the orginal plan - concentrate fire)

For his movement he will try to help Daniel get back into the cell.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:00, Sat 03 Mar 2007.

Jek stayed low and against the wall of his cell.  He rifled through his medpac for some stim patches.  Already the gas was affecting him, and likely the others.

He kept his hold-out blaster on the ground in front of him for easy access.  It wouldn't be much use in a firefight but it was better than being caught unarmed.

Jek will place a stim patch on himself and then one on Roy (if he wishes it) and then take up his hold-out blaster again.  If at any time the others open fire he will stop what he's doing and start shooting.