Robert passes a door and three windows on his way northeast down the wall. Halfway there, the woman he'd seen earlier stuck her head out, and Louis, who was trailing her husband, nearly hit her. The woman jerked her head back with a most unladylike curse.

Robert will continue toward the Northeast corner. As he approaches he will take a handful of coins and toss them beyond the corner as a distraction as he ducks around the corner ready for action.

As Robert tosses the coins, he hears running footsteps, then several shots, and a feminine scream. No one is there, but he can hear running footsteps around the corner to his left (that being the the southeast-facing side of the next building in the row). Two closed doors face each other across the alley, one leading to the building they were in, and the other to the next building.

"Lucilla," Louis said softly. "That sounded like her." She turned to check behind them, her rifle ready.
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Seeing that Louis was covering the rear and him as well, Robert nodded and move forward toward the source of the scream.

Robert and Louis both heard the door to their right - the building where they all had been before - rattle as someone tried to open it. "I can't work the lock," they heard Lucilla say. "I've been shot."

Letting Louis cover him, Robert put his shoulder to the door to open it. "Stand back, I'll try to break the door down."

Robert is able to force the door open and step inside. He sees Lucilla standing three feet away, clutching her left upper arm with her right hand.

Robert waves Louis into the building as he stands guard at the door. He reloads his pistol while keeping watch. "How badly injured are you? What happened? We killed a couple and at least a few headed north."

Louis steps over to Lucilla. "A bullet opened a shallow gash across the inside of her right arm," she reports. "Three inches inward, and she'd have been shot through the lung."

"Ow," Lucilla breathes. "I hit one of the men, but the other one shot me in return."

Louis takes a kerchief out of her pocket and binds the wound. "She will need to see a doctor soon," she tells Robert. "For now, we much continue."

Robert finished reloading and glanced at the two women. He nodded to Louis and looked back outside. "Fleeing footsteps headed up the southeast face of the next building. Let's head up to that corner for now and see what we can see. We may need to proceed inside the cover of the building." Robert will dash the alleyway to the next building and go to the corner.

Louis steps out enough to cover to the northwest, while Robert moves to the southeast corner.  He hears nothing there.

Robert will wave Louis to advance across the alley and then look around the corner.

Robert spots two men and a woman, and pulls back as the men fire at him.

Robert turns to the two women. "Two men and a woman ahead of us. Keep them occupied. I'm going to duck into the building and see if I can outflank them." Robert will go back to the door and try to enter into the north building with the object of flanking the foes.

The two women nod in assent. "Be careful, my love," Louis replies.

Louis goes to the southwest corner of the building, while Lucilla goes to the southeast corner, where Robert had been fired upon.

Robert makes his way through the building, which is another warehouse laid out identically to the one he'd just left. He was halfway through when he heard a thump and a muttered curse somewhere ahead of him.

Robert smiled at Louis and headed carefully through the darkened building. He froze at the sound ahead of him and listened for a moment. He stilled his breathing as he tried to localize what had to be their foes.

"Mind yer feet, oaf!" The hissed whisper carries to Robert in the darkened warehouse. He estimates that the speaker is twenty feet ahead and to his left (11 o'clock). He also remembers that he has four unfired cartridges in his revolver.

Robert figures that the two men at least must be moving through the building. In an effort to get around behind them on their flank he moves to his right and forward a bit until he finds a good position for an ambuscade.

OOC: I reloaded on message 112.

Soft footfalls come from the gloom, and then Robert sees a shadowy figure ten feet in front of him. There is a large object about waist high - a bench, a table, or a crate, Robert can't really tell, to his right would stand between him and the figure if he were to move behind it.




So you did - 6 rounds, then.

Robert will fire twice at the target and then quickly relocate to the area of cover.

The Webley's booming reports shatter the silence, and Robert barely avoids being shot in return. His target vanishes in the gloom, and Robert sees another shadowy figure as the man's shot gives away his position.

Robert will fire twice at the new target.

Roll 3d6 for his shots, please...

A hoarse scream announces that at least one of Robert's shots connected, but his ears are now ringing from the heavy pistol's reports in the building. The shadow vanishes from sight.

Robert will remain silent for a few moments and then toss a few more coins to his right to attempt to draw a reaction.