Rabbit pulls her pistols and steps back with Screed.  "If they're coming after us anyway, better to get cover and take advantage of the situation."

Screed pipes up, "Good choices, Rabbit.  And Dracos, feel free to take the best fighter position and grab Da Vinci."  He checks his ammo and suggests, "Don't forget about your focus speed and sixth sense," at which point he tries to use his own sixth sense.

Jade steps back against the window to follow the others' plan, her machine gun pointing at the door and swiveling toward the wall, if necessary.  "Yeah, don't forget your special skills.  We'll need everything we've got for this one."

 Cala steps forward and pulls a pistol from the bag. "I believe I can secure Da Vinci," she says flatly.

[Oh great,Codec thinks, this will be difficult]
{hovers hands over flash grenade/pistol}

OOC: Between the meeting room i'm in and the other PC's room are there relatively close windows? Also is there the slight jut of wall edging from a window in this room?

OOC: These are skyscraper rooms.  There is one door in and out to the hallway, and windows line the opposite wall, but there is no way to open the windows manually from the inside or ledge just outside.

Codec is being held by two men with pistols.  Da Vinci has two next to him, a man with an albino-like complexion, and another with dark hair and shadowed eyes, clad in a black trenchcoat.  They stand near the window and have just risen from their seats, watching the reaction.

Armand, the leader from the Shadow Regime, is looking back and forth between Codec and Da Vinci.  His bodyguard stands next to him.

There are four others in the room who were participating in the meeting.  They pull out Uzis and point them at the Awakened intruders.

Two of the Awakened you met, the woman and the man who spoke, stand at the far end of the room, each holding a pistol in each hand, one pistol each pointed at a Shadow Regime member and at a Merotech member of the meeting.  "Let's not do this the hard way," the woman says.  "Give Codec to us and we will leave you peacefully."

There is a tense moment of silence.  Then Da Vinci makes a slashing motion across his throat and points at the intruders.

Gunfire erupts, and chaos along with it.  The two men holding Codec let go to dive for cover, leaving Codec standing unguarded and unprotected about 5 feet from the door.

As bullets fly, the two intruders are cut down by the uzis and collapse to the floor.  But they have taken four with them--the two that were holding Codec, a Shadow Regime member, and a Merotech member.

"Get the others!" Da Vinci roars, pointing toward the adjoining room.

[OOC: Since everyone seemed to be just buckling down to wait for them, here they come.  Codec is nearest the door and can easily sneak out to the hall (and the adjoining room with the other party members or toward the elevators).]

The three remaining men with Uzis begin to move toward the door.  Armand's bodyguard is dead, but Armand is alive, as well as Da Vinci and his two strange bodyguards.

Screed is more than willing to be the last out.  In one hand he will carry the item for the awakened and the other will have his blaster.  He has no intentions of being a hero.  He will wait right where he is, but is prepared to toss the item the awakened need, when they need it.

[I will activate and drop a smokebomb and run to the room w/ the others.  If there is any type of table near me w/ floppies, disks, or weapons on it I will grab it]

"What a bad idea to come here." Codec mutters

 "Should I retrieve Da Vinci now?" Cala asks, getting ready move.

Screed suggests, "Yes, one person concentrate on Da Vinci, Everyone else watch out for the unknown bodyguards.  I have a bad feeling about them.  They are going to be tough.  Coordinate with Armand.  Get the device!"  He barks quickly into the headsets, keeping his head down and his gun up.

Pulls out M-16 and lowers it"Don't shoot, I'm with you guys! Watch out for the smoke in there, Da Vinci and the others are there...C'mon, follow me."

 Cala stuffs the pistol into her belt and strides out of the room, past Codec, and into the other room. She Activates her focus as soon as she crosses the threshold.
 If she can see Da Vinci, she will move to him, if not she will move through the smoke looking for him. Once she has reached him she will attempt to grapple him (Judo 18). She will then try to haul him back toward the door.

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Dracos attempts to exit through the door into the hallway, with his pistol. With any luck, he could try to sneak around the back of their enemies. The teen will also keep an eye out for any sign of reinforcements coming their way.

PM

OOC: I haven't gotten everyone's details yet, so I may need to do some estimating.

Just to make the battlefield easy to picture:

Both rooms are 20 feet long by 10 feet wide.  The windows are on one 20 foot long wall and the door in each room is on the other 20 foot long wall.  The rooms share a 10 foot wall.

 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
s  T
al  dv  dk
r  A              j
a1
B
CONTABLE     a2
sh L             ca
 
_ _ _ _ _ _d_ _ door
door_c_ a _ _ _ _
                  1 2 3
HALLWAY
_ _ _ _ _ _______________________________

s=screed
r=rabbit
sh=shadow
j=jade
d=dracos
ca=cala
c=codex
1, 2, 3= three men with uzis
al=albino bodyguard
dk=dark bodyguard
dv=da vinci
a1 and a2=the two Awakened (now dead)
a=Armand
contable=large conference table

Screed, Rabbit and Shadow are taking cover behind the table.  Jade, Cala and Dracos make it partway to the door before the men with the uzis make it there.

They raise their uzis to shoot...

Codec has dropped a smoke bomb, which begins to send smoke all throughout the office.  There are no documents or items to grab, as the table was empty.  His escape is somewhat blocked by the three men with the uzis, although they do not seem to be paying him attention.  Armand, however, is raising a pistol to fire.

With these details, please be very specific about what you are going to do...limiting yourself to three seconds worth of actions at a time.

Screed raises his weapon to aim and fire at the Uzi men with his blaster pistol.  He exclaims, "Someone's got to get to Codex!"

Jade dives to the floor, and if Cala gets out of the way, she fires a burst in the direction of 1 and 2 and will continue to fire bursts until her ammo is depleted.

OOC: Who the heck is Armand?

Codec will go into focus and...:
1.) pull out M-16
2a.) shoot Armand if he's trying to kill me...IF NOT
2b.) shoot whichever guard next to DV w/ less armor or more of a threat
3.) do a running dive and attempt to take cover behind one of the ex-awakend.

NOTE: If the smoke blocks my vision than I will use Penetrating Vision to see thru it if possible if it doesn't require an action or can fit into my 3 sec. focus.
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Armand is the representative from the Shadow Regime who was there for the negotiations with Da Vinci.  So Armand is a human (who knows he's in the Matrix and also has special...skills) while Da Vinci is a Merotech AI.

The smoke is starting to block vision, but more down low than up high.  So diving under the table or something like that would be putting yourself mostly in the smoke.

Jade yells "Duck!" to Cala so she can have a clear firing range.

My actions now...

Codec will go into focus and...:
1.) pull out M-16
2.) shoot Armand
3.) do a running dive and attempt to take cover behind one of the ex-awakend in smoky-est area.

"Umm, you do realize we are in a room with no other exits and Da Vinci can just walk out of his." Shadow says this to both Screed and Rabbit.
"Squid girl is gonna have a rough time doing this by herself."
Not waiting for an answer, Shadow stands and begins shooting at those in the doorway.

OOC: Fire 3 shots per sec for all 3 sec.

Screed, agrees as he aims, "Yep, not good."

If you're shooting at someone, can you please give the number of the person you are aiming at, or if you are doing a sweep or some maneuver with an automatic weapon?