https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDxY5Rn7Mg8

The sewer tunnel had a 2 meter diameter, large enough to walk in upright. A ladder led down to the wet floor of the narrow walkway. A lower gullet filled with sewer water ran parallel to the walkway. The place smelled as welcoming as one would expect a sewer to smell. The only light was sunlight trickling down into the dank dark.
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After having given the supplies to James that he had brought down Vadim activated the advanced glasses so that he could see what was going on in the tunnel better.  His own shotgun in hand now he had the fire selector set to the tube using normal heavy duty shot rather than the specialized ammo.  Being down here wasn't his specialty, getting people from one point to the next was, but there was a certain rush from doing this that hearkened back to his earlier days before the Syndicate when he was simply in charge of a portion of a Mafiaesque group that he later took over after his indoctrination into the Syndicate.

"Whenever you're..." started Vadim before he muffled a pair of coughs behind a closed mouth, "...ready."

Having finished gearing up with the supplies from the van James descended once Vadim confirmed the all-clear, heading down the ladder and wincing from the pain in his legs when he got to the bottom. He would need to have a checkup when he got out of here. Activating the glasses himself he gave an appreciative grunt before moving clear of trhe ladder to let Ai's...brother down. "Whoever headed down here was bleeding, guessing that's going to be our best method of tracking them. You want point?" Having not worked with the other man in the past James preferred to let him make the choice since he knew what he was capable of better than James did.

Vadim shook his head, "If I was driving a tunnel crawler I would, getting people from point A to point B is my bread and butter, but since I'm not you can have at."

Still Vadim handled the shotgun like he at least knew how to use it properly while covering one way of the tunnel as his eyes sought to see if they could spot the blood without additional enhancement.  If not he would have to enlist the aid of those specialized satellites again for their ground penetrating scanners.

The bipedal creature cleared the ladder with little difficulty, beady eyes blinking to adjust to the low levels of light. He glanced between the two humans, as if taking note and sizing them both up. At the mention of blood, the creature seemed to sniff about, trying to pick up the smell of the spilled bodily fluid over the other inherent smells of the area.

There was a distant drip intermittingly interrupting the relative quiet of the sewers. Sounds upstairs were dampened considerably by being six underground. Without some means of seeing in the dark the tunnel would be nearly dark, save for the light coming in through the manhole and sewergrates set in the pavement letting in a tiny bit of light every 50 meters or so.
Al noticed a spider crawl across the wall. It stopped, frozen when it was caught in the beam of sunlight. Al grabbed the spider and ate it. It didn't taste as good as what he ate at home. He moaned softly, regretting his choice of snack.

(Search rolls for anyone looking for blood down here. If you're not using goggles or other means of seeing in the dark, like .. a flashlight for example it is going to be nearly impossible to navigate succesfully)

Vadin swept his gaze around the tunnel using the enhanced sight characteristics of the shades.  He panned methodically through the various angles that a fleeing HITmark might take if it was wounded, followed by ways to either escape or if it was more interested in ambushing...

OC: Can I just not find the Search skill or is that a trapping for Investigation or Alertness?

(Search was more of a neutral term for any type of skill or ability you want to use to try and track the RD)

OC: Cheers. And add another botched roll to the pil on Perception + Investigation

Vadim noticed a few drops of blood that James overlooked, leading off into the tunnel that ran straight for 10 meters and then split off into two directions.

"I've got blood here." remarks Vadim as he nods his head rather than releasing the grip on his shotgun.  Following the trail up to the division of tunnels he sought to determine which of the two the HITmark had gone down.  The diminishing markings likely meant that all too soon he would have to employ the orbiting satellites to give him a more detailed assessment and layout of where they were going and where it might be.

20:47, Today: Ai Fujiwara rolled 1 success using 5d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 6.  Perc+Alert - Al searching.

The large bipedal sniffed about, clawed hands brushing against its face. The smells down here weren't particularly pleasant ones, and made it difficult to pick anything in particular out. However, as Vadim moved on, Al followed close behind.

"Nicely spotted." Heading for the indicated point James hesitated at the junction before tapping his ear bud, adjusting the settings as he tried to filter out the surrounding noises of the sewer and instead focus on those less expected sounds.

OC: 1 Success on the Forces roll
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Vadim noticed a small smear of blood in the left direction though he also noted that the amount had  lessened to a rare drop. The trail would run dry soon.

When they stopped at the junction Vadim once again looked around and he pointed to the left and used the sub-vocal aspect of their comms to limit their target from hearing them, "That way.  It's either self-healing or is running out of blood to bleed for us to follow."

With the direction provided James nodded rather than risk a response and remained on point, aware that the Progenitor entity was likely not on comms and would probabaly need to see them move unless it got the scent itself. Staying ahead of them he moved as quickly as he could, aware that Vadim's assessment of the situation was more likely right on the running out of blood to lose.

OC: Forces roll got me at +1 dice for Perception at the moment correct?

(correct James, though specifically on listening to sounds that are a-typical for your current surroundings. Also, you already labeled this as pseudo science and so would your supervisor so it would be wise at a later point to "figure out" why this worked with little to no preparation)

James took point followed by Vadim and Alpha closed the ranks. The sewer emptied into a stormbassin from which 3 other sewer tunnels ran into separate directions. The bassin was about 5 cubic meters and largely empty save for some brackish foul smelling water at the bottom. A small stairs could be used to go down into the bassin. On the bottom of the bassin a couple of big brown rats ran away from a wet pile of textile when they heard the threesome enter their home. James took a second before recognizing Jacki's shirt.

Vadim looked around but knew that the blood trail was likely done being followed.  The shirt was another clue but he wasn't sure if it was relevant to their current tracking.  What he did know was that he was going to need the aid of those same satellites that he had used before to extend his awareness far enough away that they would be harder to ambush.  Slipping his hand up to his temple he double tapped again to initiate the procedure that would feed data down to his contacts and perhaps help in their further hunt.

Bringing is hand back down to the shotgun he waited patiently as the request was queued up again.  Like Tetris the area around him was re-layered and overlaid in an augmented reality way as the data regarding the various directions of the sewer for a few blocks around them began overlaying his vision.  He began to appear to look at the walls while he actually was analyzing the tunnels from where he was.



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ooc: 22:52, Today: Vadim Dragomirov rolled 3 successes using 3d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 4 ((9,9,9)) Procedure: Eye in the Sky

OC: Noted and cheers.

Wincing at the sight of some of Jackie's clothing, having hoped that she had simply been in enough cover on the upper level that he had not found her yet, James indicated to two of the tunnels for those with him before moving to a third. Once satisifed there was nothing lurking in them waiting for them to go into a firing pit like the basin he planned to check out the clothing and if the water below was in fact deep enough to hide a human-sized body.

James Ellings rolled 2 successes using 4d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 6.  Per + Alertness (or Investigate).

The bassin room appeared to be empty except for the hunting party and the body in the water. Something about the body felt unnatural. James couldn't exactly put his finger on it but something was off about the body ...

Meanwhile Vadim saw the world from a topdown view, his visors filtering space for valueble information to help in tracking the rogue HITMark. He immediately spotted 3 heatsignals, obviously belonging to himself and James and Alpha. Three tiny blobs scampered away from the body.
The visual information on display was overlaid with known municipal maps of the underground sewersystem.
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Vadim narrowed his eyes a but and then remembered that even HITmarks had some capability at reading signals from comms, secure or not, so he looked at James to get his attention.  As he spoke through the sub-vocal he also made hand movements, "I've got one signal," he lightly tapped his ear to let him know that the HITmark may be listening in and then put up two fingers to denote the actual number he saw, "partial at best moving away...I think on the left tunnel"  He then pointed down the correct tunnel that he knew was the one they needed to head down and followed with another two fingers followed by a pair of closed fists to denote the distance to target.

Taking the indicated directions from his fellow agent James hesitated a moment to look at the discarded clothing below before heading to the indicated tunnel instead. If Jackie was down in that there'd be little hope if the HITmark got them into the basin and opened fire. Primary problems first then retrieval. With the info from Vadim confirming conflicting details he seemed to suspect it might be listening in so James let himself get to the indicated tunnel, paused to check the oother operative was ready and then advanced.

As the three hunters followed the trail Vadim pointed out they encountered a few dead rats. They'd been dead for a few days. Something had bitten off the heads and supped on the intestines, something with sharp teeth.

Alpha smelled up closely and made a pitiful Mew sound before it followed the hunting party.

Dead for days was not heartening but he quickly kept his attention on the targets they were tracking.  His interface with the advanced satellites gave them both advantage and surprise, and his idea that the HITmark was listening in and using his comms to feed false data would help keep them alive, or at least he hoped it would.

Vadim scrolled ahead of the target, to discern where the target might be heading.

Though reasonably sure the whole alligators in the sewer was just a coverup story that occasionally got used when something got loose from a Progenitor's lab James still regarded the dead rats with a hint of nervousness. Most of the time the rats somewhere like this did the eating rather than were eaten and the fact they'd had the insides sucked out was an extra flavour of creepy. Despite that he stuck to the advance, keeping up with Vadim whilst still scanning the  sights and sounds he could make out down here for any sign of the missing cyborg.

The hunting party continued their track, following the trail Vadim had pointed out.

With the intruders gone the rats that had eyed Jacki's 'corpse' for their next meal returned to feast on the blood the shirt was smeared with. One-Eye was first, he was fast and the other two feared his strength. One-Eye tore into the shirt, gnawing the fabric and pulling it a bit. He was disappointed when he was greeted by a hard inedible surface. He felt it shifting under his feet and leapt away.

Vadim paused in his advance when he finally got an idea of where they may be aiming to go and motioned for James to come close so he could whisper to him with little chance of the HITmark listening in, "Eventually ahead of their path is a pumping station and from there it is a short link to a subway station where they can head in any direction to escape or cause even more mayhem.  I'm no jumper so I can't cut him off at the pass and if we radio in they will know we're on to them and move quicker.  Do you know who or what the second blip is?"  His eyes moved behind the shades as he looked for alternate routes that they could take to get in front of the HITmark and other target...

"Depends, how you seeing them? I'd assume it's Jacki but if they're moving under their own power this route might have been a planned extraction path and another team member." Replying calmly as he tried to work out a route that might let them cut off he scowled and continued, "I think we might just need to-"

Cutting off mid-sentence James' eyes widened for an instant and though he did not shout the next word it was definitely hissed louder and with more urgency than before as he put action to speech and took off down the tunnel away from where they had just come, "Run!"

Vadim lurched forward into as rapid a gait as he could as soon as James told him to run.  He knew he was taking in a lot of data from the satellites and sometimes his mind processed it in abstract ways that delayed certain danger signs that James had seen.

There was definitely some concern as Al moved about, being somewhat cautious of the odd warning signs of something...

Hearing one of the two agents call out, the large bipedal creature began to move towards the pair, concerned that they may have finally spotted the prey target.

5 minutes ago. 20 meters back.

Michael dragged the young woman after him. She'd been impressive, most likely the victim of genetic manipulation by the Doctor. Should have been dead with those third degree burns. Probably had a whole bunch of powers. He didn't know her name so he called her Brunhilde. They were all Brunhildes to him, sympathizer scum. American civilians who'd given up on liberty and the american way, bunch of goddamn sauerkraut-chewing traitors. But if he could get her away from the nazis following him .. perhaps the Spirit of 1776 could sway her to see the error of her ways and  once more light the fire of patriotism that houses in every american soul!
Entering the bassin chamber he quickly pulled the woman's shirt off and tapped on his shoulder to release an explosive device from a secret compartment. Setting a bomb was a dirty trick but all is fair in love and war.

Now, 200 meters ahead.

Michael heard the explosion in the tunnel behind him. The fools had taken the bait as he'd hoped. The fragmentary bomb would have shredded anyone in the bassin room unlucky enough to be too close to the decoy. The subway station was up ahead, from there it would be easier to escape the nazis.
With a bit of luck Portal would be able to pick him up on the run.

Now. Here.
Fortunately the blast of metal shards remained contained in the bassin room. Vadim and Alpha had a ringing sound in their ears from the resounding explosion. James, who's equipment had been specifically keyed to enhance sounds that didn't belong in a sewer .. like explosions .. couldn't hear a damn thing. But at least no one was fooled by the decoy and blown to pieces.

Vadim checked on James for a moment before re-checking the grid.  If the HITmark thought they had been dropped by the bomb it may not move with the speed it had been and that might give them the chance to get ahead of it.  Vadim motioned for James to follow him while his hearing recovered and for Alpha to bring up the rear and make sure James didn't fall behind while he tried to bring them through the tunnels in such a way as to get them ahead.

Blinking in a mildly dazed manner after the detonation James touched one hand to his ear and ,mouthed a low curse that he could not hear before scowling. Glancing up sharply at Vadim's attention he nodded acknowledgement before pointing to his own ears and shaking his head. Hopefully he had not blown his eardrums out but he would be working near deaf for a while.

Taking the cues for his new position he let Vadim lead on, matching his speed as best could.

Alpha followed James and Vadim through the sewer tunnnels. He didn't much like the smell. Something about the tunnels smelled off .. unnatural.
Vadim first reached the door to the pumping station. The door was slightly opened. inside it was pitchdark, as expected.

Knowing there had been a booby-trap previously Vadim took a moment to update the tactical data from the satellites and see if something had been altered or adjusted recently.  With the HITmark's ability to partially avoid detection or scramble the signal he needed to make sure before blundering into a trap.  Between the Eye in the Sky and the special glasses he should be able to avoid one...



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<Orange>15:50, Today: Vadim Dragomirov rolled 3 successes using 4d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 6.  Perception + Alertness.</Orange>

Vadim checked the room from high above and noticed the two red blips on the other side of the room, about to head up a flight of stairs leading up to the subway station, and between them and the hunting party a set of 4 large pumping turbines. The room was about 8 meters long, 3 meters wide with most of the space taken up by the turbines. Vadim couldn't see any obvious traps, though with barely a meter of walk space between the turbines and the wall it did not leave much room to dodge or weave should the prey decide to turn on the hunter here.

Vadim again used his limited mime skills to gesture to James and Alpha that the three of them were on one side of the room and the prey was on the other and about to go up stairs.  From his earlier comment they would remember him mentioning the subway and getting away shortly after that.  The lack of room to dodge wasn't good but it also meant that their shotguns would be just as effective in return...or so he hoped.  Still it was a HITmark and he needed to either hit it hard and fast or Alpha needed to sneak up and drop the electroencephaloclamp on him.

He hoped that Alpha had enough intellect to understand him as he moved close to him and quickly removed the device that could slip on the HITmark's head that would immobilize him as he almost sub-vocalized to Alpha, _{"If you can get close enough to drop it on his head it should knock him out cold.  Otherwise stay out of the line of fire.  Don't want you to get hurt."}  If Alpha took it then he would nod in thanks, if not he replaced it into his suit and removed a plain black credit card that he grasped in his palm underneath the grip of the shotgun.

Continuing the same steady pace after Vadim's miming James kept his aim high looking for some sign of their target. No doubt they were pretty close to out by now and unless they got him before it got to witnesses the sewer trip would be unfortunately wasted. To say nothing of the fact that they could not exactly pursue any further with the Progenitor experiment they had with them.

Once both of his companions had given a sign to understanding or not Vadim moved to intercept the HITmark...fairly certain should he increase the worth of his shotgun now it would be noticed and blow any stealth they had...he also didn't report their status knowing if he did that would also blow their cover.
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(everyone roll initiative: dex+wits+1d10)

OC: 15 unless the injury reduces the roll. Not near a book at the mo

23:27, Today: Vadim Dragomirov rolled 11 using 1d10+7.  Initiative.

Al has initiative 7.

Your opponent has initiative 12.

So James goes first.

Note that you can't see him yet. You'll need to move through the pumping room to reach the door to the stairs going up to the subway station.
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Continuing on through the room quickly to the point their target should be trying to escape James put his faith in Vadim to spot anyone emerging from cover to ambush him and instead focused on catching up, still perhaps foolishly optimistic they could still get to it before it entered anywhere with witnesses.

James headed for the staircase up to the station. The door was halfopen and slightly ajar. Carefully James looked in. Further up the stairs he saw the sillouette of a large man dragging another up the stairs. The man turned around as his hand lit up with a blue glow, lighting up the staircase phosphorescent blue.

"You won't catch me alive again, fascist scumbags!".

(James, Al and Vadim, roll initiative please. 1d10+dex+wits)
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It was obvious when James had moved into position that they had been spotted so keeping themselves hidden at this point was useless.  Vadim took his card and slid it along the pumping chamber and focused his concentration on the ammunition in the chamber.  The nearby pumps where actually quite new and it was clear that the crew that had installed them took care in their installation.  Slowly he re-adjusted the inherent worth that radiated from it into the first shell so that when it did strike the HITmark it would hopefully incapacitate him enough to allow a capture.



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15:12, Today: Vadim Dragomirov rolled 13 using 1d10+7.  Initiative .

The uttered words meant little to James, deafened as he was, but the expression was certainly not that of someone planning to surrender. That said he was not in a rush to get their surrender, a corpse might not be as useful as someone to interrogate but it was one fewer problem.

OC: 12 Initiative

The light of the hand made it easier for the creature to track the movement of their target. The creature seemed pumped, eager for the chase.

(
09:03, Today: Ai Fujiwara rolled 7 using 1d10+5.  Initiative.)

(Vadim is first, then the Machinist, then james and finally Alpha. Note that James is up front, Vadim behind him and finally behind them Alpha. While James is in the dooropening you can fire over his shoulder if you wish Vadim, not like James is going to go more deaf)

Vadim didn't want to know what sort of damage that HITmark could do if he found a target with that weapon.  Snapping the weapon up to next to the doorframe to hopefully give himself some cover and above James' shoulder he fired a single round up at the crazy rogue hoping that the enhanced shells that they had been given combined with his Increasing the Worth of the first one would do the trick.

Vadim managed to hit the rogue HITMark square in the right shoulder with an enhanced shotgun blast which would have severely mangled the arm were his target a mortal. However the Technocracy had made HITMarks of a sturdier material than most mortals, having subdermal primium armor as a counter measure against magic. It instantly devalued Vadim's prime-charged bullets to a significant degree. Not completely as some of the powered shrapnel penetrated the skin and shredded it on a deep level but Vadim couldn't suppress a measure of disappointment.

(Note that making something cause aggravated damage is always vulgar so the base difficulty is Prime 2+4 (since no witnesses are currently present) is difficulty 6 (7 if witnesses were around). You rolled a 10 though on your magic roll so you're good to go.

The cyborg fired its weapon in retalliation, a blue arc of electricity escaping the weapon's barrel. The staircase was painted in cobalt blue light for a flash of a second. It hit James in the chest with him being the easiest target.

"Any time right about now would be godawefully convenient, Portal!", the HITmark growled.

(James, you take 3 hp bashing damage, but you can roll stamina to try to soak damage. If you take damage equal to or over your stamina score it also stuns you)
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OC: Correct me if I'm wrong this'll be at the -1 due to existing injuries?

Ooc: If you received 2 hp when you leapt earlier then yes, if less than that then no.
Oh! and don't forget the suit you wear: the outfits grant +2 soak dice to bashing and lethal damage
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OC: Just 1 I believe. 2 Successes so now on 2 points of damage

(so you're at -1 on your rolls now. But on the positive side you get to retalliate now. Your turn James)

(thought I was anyway, certainly been deducting dice :))

Pushed back down the stairs from the blast James winced before dropping to kneeling posture and bringing the shotgun up and adding his own fire to Vadim's. Given the bullets provided by the Technocracy had been souped up specifically to help with Primium armour they'd hopefully help with the cybrog's armour but it would still need a bit of firepower to bring this down.

OC: 1 Success to hit. 5 Successes on damage

The Cyborg was hit in the head by James' shot, grazing his right temple and revealing some of the subdermal nanoweave. If the halfman felt it he didn't show it but he was bleeding profusely.

(ooc, good thing you mentioned the bullets, almost forgot them. Also makes Vadim's shot a bit more impactful)

Al's turn

Al didn't move at first, remaining behind Vadim and James. However, the creature's small eyes seemed to focus intently upon the HITmark. It held out one clawed hand towards the rogue cyborg, and gave a quick jerk of the limb downwards.


16:07, Today: Ai Fujiwara rolled 3 successes using 4d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 6.  Telekinetic throw to the ground.

The mechanically enhanced cyborg glanced down as he felt his feet pulled from under him by an unseen force and fell hard on the concrete stairs, letting go of Jacki's body.
For Alpha's companions seeing Alpha using his abilities was disconcerting at best, requiring them to supress their instincts at seeing something that science couldn't quite explain just yet. Useful though the thing might be it was still a deviant monstrosity.

(Vadim's turn)
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Racking the slide on the shotgun Vadim loaded another round into the chamber.  As he did the hand that held the slide also held his card and he quickly slide it along the barrel of the shotgun...focusing on Increasing the Worth of yet another round to hopefully quickly bring the HITmark down to be captured if possible.

His eye twitched as he felt the Primal Unity deny his credit and he wondered if he had exceeded his allotment for the month.  With a simply frown he then focused on his target and squeezed off another round.  What he didn't account for was the creature being yanked to the ground which made him momentarily try to ascertain the science behind what Alpha was doing.  The shot scattered close to the HITmark but he couldn't tell if he had hit it or not...



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17:22, Today: Vadim Dragomirov failed (no successes) using 3d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 6 ((1,4,10)).
Would it be a 5 because he's using his foci card?  Regardless it would be no successes.
17:26, Today: Vadim Dragomirov failed (no successes) using 6d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 6 ((8,5,3,1,1,8)).
No beans unless prone lowers the difficulty to a 5 which then I'd get 1 success

It was hard to see but the wound caused by James' blast was slowly closing up. The wound Vadim had inflicted on the cyborg did not and continued to bleed. The HITMark grit his teeth and attempted to get up while he fired his weapon at Vadim this time. He slipped on his own blood getting up. Falling back down his weapon spat out blue lightning at Vadim.

dicepool split. 3 points to fire, 3 points to leap back on his feet. diff 7 on each. (Athletically leaping up on his feet: Storyteller botched using 3d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 7.)
Fire weapon: Storyteller rolled 2 successes using 3d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 7.
Arete roll: Storyteller rolled 3 successes using 5d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 7. +1 extra success because Forces magic.
Makes for 8 hp of bashing damage. OUCH!
Better make a good soak roll ... with stamina 1 ... oh boy ... remember your outfit gives 2 extra soak dice i think but you bloody well need them)
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Vadim saw the blue lightning arc towards him and couldn't move.  The blast hit him full force and Vadim fell backwards like the hammer of the gods had struck him dead...

Vadim was slammed back by the electric blast, his world instantly disappearing into darkness, his chest smoking from the impact. He fell to the floor and stopped moving after spasming briefly. James could not tell whether he was dead or unconcious ...

(james' turn)

And like that the situation went even more towards FUBAR. With Vadim down and the cyborg continuing to recover James stuck to his guns in the most literal way possible and continued to fire. If it went down he could keep it that way and then attend to Vadim. Any alternative plan would just end poorly at this point.

OC: 5 Successes with 1 bonus from WP for total of 6 on the hit. That makes for 13 to roll for damage with the shotgun's base 8 correct?
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(That is correct)

OC: Fandaby. That'll be 5 Successes on the damage

James blasted the cyborg, still on the floor, hitting it full-on in the chest and in the process spraying the walls red with blood. It still didn't show any sign of pain but its movements appeared impaired by the damage it had incurred from the hunting party.
It attempted to get back up again.

(Al's turn)

Seeing Vadim down the creature began moving carefully, stepping over the other in a protective manner, as if now guarding him. Hand outreached and eyes focused on the cyborg, Al gave another jerk, using its own inherent psionic abilities to bash the cyborg against a wall as firmly as it could.

10:06, Today: Ai Fujiwara rolled 2 successes using 4d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 6.  Telekinetic throw, willpower spend for additional success. ((3,8,2,10))

The cyborg was rammed headfirst into the wall, it's skin tearing lose on his forehead, making his steel skull bloody apparent. Its eye gleamed red as it growled, not due to pain but sheer frustration. He tried to get up again but his damaged internal systems and probably the chest and shoulder wound caused him to sag back down on the floor. He steeled himself against the incoming attacks, ready to roll out of the way, hoping to find an opening to take down his opponents and escape. James' headshot was nearly sealed shut again.

(he splits his dice pool, using 3 to try to get up and saving 3 to dodge an incoming attack)

(james' turn)
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The fact that the HITmark was repairing as fast as he could dole out the damage was hardly comforting but James continued applying the same methods as before. Enough firepower would hoepfully overload its capacity to do so and given the lack of alternatives, the restraints for example being unsuited for a still moving enemy, he continued to shoot.

OC: 4 Successes to hit. If you roll the dodge then roll the damage based off those successes?

(he reduces your successes to 3 so you have 2 successes added to the basic damage of the shotgun)

0 Successes. Damn rubber bullets

The man-machine's primary concern seemed to be to get back up on his feet. He hadn't intended to fight the hunting party and his mission objective was in danger, not to mention his continued existence. He got up, tried to head up the stairs, slipped on his own blood and did an epic faceplant on the concrete stairs.

(it again splits his dicepool between dodge and trying to get back up. And botched both on account of being hindered by already being wounded)
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Seeing the target slip, Al took its chance. The beast suddenly charged towards the fallen cyborg, slashing at it furiously with its claws.


15:56, Today: Ai Fujiwara rolled 4 successes using 4d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 6.  Dex+Brawl, spend willpower for extra success, attacking.
5 successes


19:23, Today: Ai Fujiwara rolled 3 successes using 7d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 6.  Claws damage + successes.
3 ag.
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Al ripped into the cyborg with its claws, taking chunks of flesh out of it and painting the walls red with blood. The HITMark tried to kick the abomination off of him but his systems were overwhelmed and his nanites could not cope with the massive damage inflicted by the vicious claws tearing into its abdomen. It fell silent at last but as James noticed the gunshots he had inflicted were still slowly healing, even if the claw wounds inflicted by Al and the shoulder blasted by Vadim before he'd went down were not.

"Nicely done." Nodding to Al as it squatted over the cyborg it had downed James performed a quick sweep of the area for any signs of people attracted by the fight before squatting next to the biological experiment and fishing out the Primium handcuffs that were part of the restraint kit to secure the cyborg. As far as he knew Vadim still had the headset part of the restraints but adding that was the initial priority.

With his ears still ringing from the earlier explosion and unable to hear anything James finished applying the handcuffs before taking out his phone to fire off a text message to base, ++Target HITMark down though potentially capable of recovering. Vadim down, potentially dead. Presently explosion deafened so cannot use comms.++ That done he returned to check on the target, indicating the base of its neck and spine to Al. "If it looks like it'll be getting back up sever the spine." That done he took another quick glance around the room before checking on Vadim.

+Grey here. Station clear. Help nearly there. Apply restraints on target if not dead+, Erin replied to James' text.

(al , make an Int check difficulty 7. He might have int 2 but he is still an animal)

09:35, Today: Ai Fujiwara rolled 1 success using 2d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 7.  Al: Int check.

While he didn't entirely understand words like Spine and Sever Al more or less understood the gist of his human companion, 'strike there if it moves until it stops moving'. He felt hungry and wondered if his prey was edible. It certainly looked edible ...

--> From: Portentum

Richard's CQC training was out of practice.  The breach-and-aim wasn't flawless, but it got him in the room -- aiming, assessing targets, almost pointing his sidearm at Al before identifying him as Al, and only relaxing when he saw the battle was over.

"Ms. Fujiwara, check Mr. Dragomirov," Richard said, pointing the young doctor to their fallen peer, and approaching -- with a bit of caution -- the outsider cyborg.  "Is the deed done, Mr. Ellings?"

Still in the middle of checking Vadim when the others entered James glanced up at the motion out of the corner of his eyes, spotted the team and relaxed a bit. Fishing out the headpiece to the restraints already on the cyborg he squinted at Richard as the man spoke and pointed to his own ears, "Explosion deaf."

Moving from Vadim to give the actual medic chance to take a look he spoke as he went, "Followed it from the initial encounter, it left a booby trap using Jackie's body. Used some manner of electrical attack to down Vadim after he put some holes into it, Al and I finished it off. Looks to be able to recover from fairly serious injuries but some of them stuck." Kneeling down to secure the headpiece to the cyborg James checked the handcuffs were still secure before doing so.

With a nod, Ai headed for Vadim, quickly looking over him.Hopefully there was something she could do without moving him.


14:07, Today: Ai Fujiwara rolled 3 successes using 10d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 6.  Int+Medicine Check.

Ai ascertained that Vadim was unconcious and had suffered external and possibly internal burns and possible nerve damage from the electric current the cyborg had hit him with. Vadim's leftarm was twitching occasionally but at the moment she could not ascertain this was nerve damage or muscular spasms. Patching him up would end up prolonging the healing process and possibly exacerbate any potential internal damage. Stabilizing him for transport might be better. Either way it would likely take at least a day to get him back on his feet.

Richard nodded confirmation and touched his earpiece, letting the two of them get to work.  "+Control, confirming cyborg is down, and provided restraints are being applied.  Agent Fujiwara is working on Agent Dragomirov.    Agent Ellings was deafened by an explosion.  I'll check with him for signs of Agent Tanner -- we are going to need assistance getting everyone out of here.+"

He scanned the room for any sign of Jacki; failing that, he prepared to punch in the question of where she was on his phone and show it to James.

17:12, Today: Richard Jackson rolled 1 success using 2d10 with the World of Darkness 3rd ed system with a target of 6.  per+alertness hunting Jacki.
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Fortunately Jacki was near and despite having been barbequed by the cyborg before he dragged her through the sewers was still breathing. She was in a bad shape though, that much was clear to all at first glance.

++This is Light. Return to base. I'm sending two ambulances. It will take the wounded to HQ hospital bay. James, you go with the prisoner. Ai with Vadim. Someone will pick up your vehicles and we'll make up a story for the media later. I'm calling in some favors. The Association is sending two of their people as backup. This thing is snowballing fast. We have lost contact with agent Reyes .. ".

(the cyborg dropped Jacki during the fight on the stairs so I imagine she's slid down during the tussle)
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"Patching him up is only going to make this worse. I'll stabilize him for transport. It's looking like external and some internal burns." She reasoned as she began working.
"If you're taking the cyborg back to headquarters, you should probably take Alpha with you as well. You'll need him if the cyborg somehow deals with the restraints." She pointed out.

OC: Missed any reference to Jackie ave for the insinuation about mealtimes from the rat POV earlier. If she's alive a bonus

With the allocation of who was going where and how James had to take a few minutes to work out what was going on, aided mostly by messages on phones and general expressions. Once he had some up with a vague idea about the general setup he gave his own opinion out loud, perhaps too loud given his inability to hear how loud he was speaking still, "Ai with the patients right?I can go with the captive and Al if we need, if we've still got wrapup I can handle that too."

She had a pulse, and that was good enough for now.  "+Control, we have recovered Agent Tanner -- she is alive for now but badly injured.  Awaiting medical personnel for transport of prisoner and casualties.+"

After pointing her out to Ai for triage, Richard glanced to James, pursed his lips and punched buttons on the note-taking app on his phone.  No need to stay.  Cleanup is already inbound.  Our job here is done for now.  We need to debrief and we have a prisoner to have interrogated, plus reinforcements to meet.

Agent Reyes, still out of contact?  Boded very, very ill.

(we can skip the ride home and assume everything worked out alright with regards to getting the wounded out and the prisoner secured in a cell. Great job everyone, despite a very tough start. I'll put up the next scene tonight where everyone, except our missing team member Sandra, is back at HQ.

Everyone, take 6 xp!)