Arkady punches his knuckles together, sounding a loud metallic clang in the dark hallway,  and takes a stance.

"from Russia with love..."

((7, 7, 6, 5, 4, 2 & 1.
Init: 27 + speed 10 = 37, goes first.

Attack: 10, 9, 8, 6, 5, 4 & 2.
Strike: 19+15=34))

Arkady whips out his pistol in anger and fires at the ghastly woman, boiling with rage. The muzzle flash lightening his eyes blurred by vengeance.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:37, Mon 08 May 2017.

((Two things:
#1:  You can always delay your action to whenever you want.
#2:  You don't need a set to attack.  You can always use a single die for whatever the action is that you declared for your roll- so if your roll is Attack, you can use the 1x9 to attack with 19.  Likewise if you roll Initiative and roll no sets, you can always have a result for Initiative.))

((edited last post. Excuse my noobishness :D))

((Lady Bear Defense:
10, 9, 8, 4, 4, 2 & 2
*Flood 8:  Block +5, Toughness +5
*Defense vs Attack 24 + Block 15 = 39, blocks

Lady Bear Attack:
9, 8, 8, 7, 6, 4 & 4
*Flow 8-8 from River into attack roll
*Flowed Strike 48 + Strike 5 = 53
*Disrupt Strike with Might 24 + Might 10 = 34

Now, Disrupt attacks and defenses are made with Skills.  If this one lands, you'll suffer a -5 penalty to all your Strike attacks- unless you can reverse it with a set on your Initiative.

You'll only get one roll to defend against both of those, so be careful!))

The woman raises her fists and charges as Arkady opens fire.  Ectoplasm coalesces around her left fist and she bats the bullet away, sending it spanging down the hallway behind her.  Then she gets in close, delivering a pair of brutally powerful open-palm attacks to his arms.

((Defence: 7, 7, 7, 5, 4 & 3.
defence vs attack 37 + footwork 15 = 52 - takes ripple
defence against disrupt strike 15 + craft 10 = 25 takes disrupt

Initiative: 7, 6, 5, 3, 3 & 1.
Init: 17 + 10 = 27
Float 3-3))

Arkady attempts to dodge the incoming attack but the fury of the attack is overwhelming him, even if he tries to take the hit in the stronger part of his arms.
He feels as one of the bearings operating his arms jams with a screeching sound.
He tries to regain his balance and looks at his arm in surprise.

"Oh fuck..."
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((Lady Bear Init R2:
9, 8, 8, 7, 7, 4 & 3
*Float 8-8-7
*Init 19 + Speed 10 = 29

Lady Bear Attack R2:
9, 8, 7, 5, 5, 5 & 5
*Attack with Strike 45 + Strike 5 = 50
*Disrupt Footwork with Flowed 38 + Might 10 = 48))

The Lady Bear drops into a squat as Arkady reels backwards, then leans back to deliver a massively powerful heel-kick to Arkady's kneecap.  "You should have come quietly!  You have chosen the way of pain!"

((Defence R2: 9, 9, 9, 7, 6, 6 & 2.
Vs. Strike 26 + footwork 15 = 41 - takes ripple
Vs. Disrupt 39 + awareness 10 = 49 - blocked

Attack R2: 10, 10, 9, 4, 3, 2 & 1
Attack Strike flowed 33 + 15 - 5 = 43
Disrupt Strike 20 + Learning 15 = 35))

Alerted by his opponent shouting, Arkady notices the kick aimed against his knee and manages to turn it so that the knee bends in the direction it's supposed to. It still hurts, but nothing seems to have broken.

He responds with a boint blank shot from his pistol, aimed at his opponents arm, as he notices his opponent relying heavily on close quarters combat with an objective to debilitate, not to eliminate.

"AT LEAST I GOT TO CHOOSE, SUKA!"

((Zaryman defense R2:  10, 10, 6, 6, 5, 5 & 3
*Flood 7 for bonus to block/toughness
*Defense vs Attack 26 + Block 10 + EKF 5 = 41 vs 43, a Ripple.  She can suffer up to 7 before losing.
*Defense vs Disrupt 25 + Hardiness 5 = 30, takes Disrupt

Init R3:  10, 6, 5, 5, 3, 1 & 1
*Float 5-5-1
*Init 16 + Speed 0))

Again that ectoplasmic aura surrounds her arms, again she tries to bat away the bullet- but it doesn't work this time.  It punches a hole in her bicep, drawing a grimace from her.

"You scum,"  She snarls as she takes a step back, holding a wound that oozes a black and green ichor, "You'll pay for that!"

((initiative: 10, 10, 10, 9, 6, 3 & 2.
Init 19+10=29 goes first
Recover from disrupt strike 30 + craft 10 = 40, recovers.

Attack: 10, 9, 5, 5, 3, 3 & 2
Attack with strike 25+15=40
Float 3-3))

Arkady smirks a bit as his opponent draws back. That gave him a small opening to examine the damage in his arm. A small defect. He'll take care of it properly after he gets out of this tin can. He grabs his arm by the wrist and bags his elbow against a wall, re-aligning the bearings.

"this is how we fix Russian cybernetics..."

He advances and fires another shot from  his pistol

"...fucking nuke proof."

((Zaryman defense R3:
7, 7, 7, 6, 6, 5 & 3
*Flood 1 for Block/Toughness +5
*Defense vs Strike 37 + Block 10 + EKF 5 = 52, Blocks

Zaryman attack R3:
10, 10, 10, 9, 4, 2 & 1
*Attack 30 + Strike 5 - Disrupt 5 = 30))

If Arkady were a normal man, he'd call what's about to happen impossible.  The ghost reaches out with her hand, plucking the bullet out of the air and tossing it over her shoulder.

"And now I break you,"  She announces as she strides towards him, trying to grab him by the gun arm and yank his arm out of its socket.

((Defence R3: 9, 9, 5, 3, 3, 1 & 1.

Defend against strike: flowed 43 + footwork 15 =58

Initiative R4: 10, 7, 7, 6, 4, 4 & 1
Init: 27+10=37
Float 4-4))

Arkady doesn't let himself be baffled by the impossible feat he just witnessed. lightly, subtly, and effortlessly he manoeuvres past his opponents grasp in a controlled motion, halting in a relaxed looking stance, and steadying his pistol against his arm...

"you can't break what you can't touch. Ha. Nice catch. Can you catch the next one?"

((Init R4:
10, 10, 9, 8, 5, 3 & 3
*Float 3-3-0
*Init 19 + 10 = 29))

As Arkady settles his pistol on his arm he finds himself... steadier. Smoother.  The joints of his cybernetic arms, never the smoothest, now move like they've been machined by gods of steel and butter.  The hallway brightens, once almost pitch-black now as bright as a sunny day in a world that's long been dead.

"What the- NO."  She hisses, taking a step back.  She points at him, at his third and fourth arms of golden light.

His forehead starts sparking like flint scraped against steel.  The heat is almost painful, but blyat, you always expect a bit of pain when you're putting the final grind and polish on a knife.  His gun has lit up too- all those religious symbols pulsing softly with golden light.

"yes..." She whispers, looking at him.  Horror and hope war across her craggy face and wounds, her ghost-corpus body rippling with emotion.
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((Attack R4: 10, 6, 6, 3, 2, 1 & 1
Attack: Strike: 26+15=41
Secondary attack/The Force of lightness, 3 chi: 21+15=36))

Arkady feels the heat, but the pain is forgotten and replaced with clarity.
He feels overwhelmed by endless curiosity and at the same time he feels as if he could see how everything works. The cogwheels of the world turning before his eyes.

He has no idea what has happened, but he feels better, stronger, wiser...

"What is... How... why?"

He is puzzled by the look on his opponents face, but doesn't hesitate despite his curiosity.
He feels the ground resonate as he pulls the trigger of his divine armament, and at that precise moment launches forward for a palm strike. Both aimed at his opponents chest. Both the palm and bullet to connect at the same time.

((Defense:
8, 7, 6, 5, 3, 2 & 1
*Flood 0:  Block/Toughness +5
*Defense vs Strike 1  18 + Block 10 + EKF 5 = 33 vs 41, a Ripple
*Defense vs Strike 2  17 + Block 10 + EKF 5 = 32 vs 36, a Ripple:  3/7

Attack:
8, 7, 4, 4, 4, 3 & 2
*Strike 34 + Strike 5 - Disrupt 5 = 34))

She takes the shot.  She takes the pal mstrike.  She staggers back, delivering him a half-hearted jab to the stomach with her left leg.  But she's slowly falling apart, especially underneath Arkady's aura; the sheets of essence leaving him are slowly stripping her corpus from her bones.

((Defence: 10, 10, 7, 5, 5, 3 & 1
*Defence vs strike: 25+FW15=40 vs 34

Init R5: 9, 8, 8, 8, 2, 1 & 1
*Clarity in openness, - 3 chi, +10 awareness.
*Erasing the concept of emptiness 5chi: 38+20=58 - Zaryman
*CG: 21+15=36
*Init: 19+10=29))

Arkady makes an efficient sidestep to avoid his opponents desperate kick, and follows with an immediate one-handed cartwheel to gain some distance. He lands in a stable stance with his left palm opened in front of him and his pistol pointed downwards in a subtle manner.

He gains his focus and analyses his opponent for weak spots, as if he was finding a broken gear in a machine. A point of critical failure to be exploited.

"Let's end this. I have more important things to do than this fucking side show."

((Technically Erasing the Concept doesn't really work against Lesser Legends- so instead, if this hits, she's fookin' dead!

Init R5:
8, 8, 8, 6, 5, 3 & 2
*Float 8 for 3-3-0
*Init 28 + 10 = 38

Attack R5:
10, 10, 6, 4, 2, 1 & 1
*Strike Arkady 21 + Strike 5 - Disrupt 5 = 21
*Disrupt Arkady Strike 20 + Might 10 = 30))

The woman is duly intimidated.  She's shivering when she puts on all the speed she can into her next attack- a charging bullrush, head down, attempting to tackle and punch out his ribs.
 But this pitiful bullrush is nothing compared to the ones he dealt with earlier, when he was just a mortal.

Nothing.

((Defence: 9, 8, 6, 4, 2, 2 & 2.
Defence vs strike 19 + Footwork 15 = 34, beats 21
Defence vs Disrupt 32 + Awareness 10 = 42

Attack: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 1 & 1

Attack w/ strike: Flowed 34 + 15 = 49
The Force of lightness 2 chi - Strike 21 + 15 = 36))

Arkady takes another controlled sidestep at precisely the right moment, like clockwork, but this time he doesn't stop there.

He's filled with hate for his opponent, but not the boiling kind.
This hate is cold, calculated, effective and murderous.

He knows exactly what to do to exploit this opening.

Taking advantage of his opponents momentum and his steady stance he's driving his arm forwards, aiming for head area, to cause a dead-stop impact. the resulting revolution due to inertia will make opponent lose contact with ground and in airborne state her inertia is easy to re-direct to the desired direction to cause maximum damage.

In other words: He's going to grab that Suka by her spoiled face and drive her fucking head through the steel floor like a rivet.

((Defense:  8, 8, 7, 7, 7, 6 & 4
*Flood 0:  Block/Toughness +5
*Defense vs Strike 1  37 + Block 10 + EKF 5 = 52 vs 49
*Defense vs Strike 2  28 + Block 10 + EKF 5 = 43 vs 36, a Ripple:  4/7

Arkady has init.))

Give her some credit:  she knows how to move, and how to redirect one of his strikes for her head.  The blow avoids destroying her temple, but it doesn't protect her from getting driven into the ground.  She squirms under her grasp, leaking ectoplasm and ghostly flesh over the floor.

"Release... me..." She hisses at him, half-desperate, half-pleading.

((Init: 10, 10, 7, 4, 3, 3 & 3
Subtle force w/ unarmed - ranged
FoB: 7 + 10 + 10 = 27 / 1 chi
Init: 20 + 15 + 10= 35
Clarity in openness: +10 might -3 chi
Wave - might: 33 + 10 + 10 = 53 / Pinning Zaryman to the floor.))

Arkady's Aura starts to glow as he summons all of his strength to keep the ghastly lady pinned to the floor. He looks at the bleeding creature with despise in his eyes and tightens his grip around her face, and nimbly replaces the magazine on his pistol with his other hand and racks the slide against his belt.

"You call it release, I'll call it completely spreading your fugly mug across the floor, suka."

((Init:
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 3 & 3
*Float 3
*Init 19 + 10 = 29

She's effectively pinned.  Gain a +5 Laughs bonus as well as a +5 Fears bonus to your attacks))

"As if... as if you could," She strains against him but fails, giving him all the time he needs to reload Jonesy's gun and take the initiative.

((Attack: 8, 8, 7, 7, 7, 7 & 7
Float 8-8
Strike Zaryman: 57 + 15 + 10 + 5 + 5 = 92 - better dodged))

Arkady tightens his grip, and puts the muzzle of his trusty pistol against his opponents temple. His eyes barely visible under the hood he looks the lady with despise.

"just fuckin' watch me."

And without flinching he pulls the trigger.

((Defense:
10, 10, 9, 6, 4, 3 & 3
*Flood 3 for Block/Toughness +5
*Block 43 + Block 10 + EKF 5 - Better Dodged 5 = 53 vs 92, that's enough, especially since you've got a SPSHUL gun))

The shot spatters the ghost's corpus all over the flooring.  The ghost body still flails and moves, attempting to randomly grab Arkady and choke him out, but it's all just directionless malice and nothing else, soon fading away to nothingness.  Which leaves him an open path.

Arkady stands up and wipes the ghastly lady's remains off his hands, and his pistol, and lets out a small sigh of relief. Part of his vengeance was done, but there's more to come. He picks up pace and starts running through the corridor now opened in front of him. He doesn't think it would be easier now on out. The ghastly lady's master is still out there and he still has no plan on how to escape after overloading the reactor...

Better not think about it now. Focus on the Present. I'll just wing the rest.

Now that he's no longer in a fight, the path through the ship is laid out in front of him, clear as day.  Like he'd just gotten a map downloaded into his brain, or he could see through the walls.  The hallway splits into several directions- gunnery, armory, flaying table... no living areas, because why would ghosts waste time creating places to sleep or relax?

But the bridge, now, the bridge isn't hard to find anymore.  There are a few doors in place, but they'd be trivial for him to break through.

He can feel the pulsing nastiness of a ghost in the bridge, probably trying to feed some energy in the ship towards shelling Spiderweb's position.

"Bridge" Arkady said silently to himself as if the word slipped off his lips.
Seizing all the ships functions to turn it effectively into a space hulk.

Let's stick to the original plan: I'm gonna commandeer this motherfucker.
He snickers to his own insane idea.

He picks up pace to reach his target destination whilst keeping wary of enemy contact. They know he's here. They just underestimated him, but he won't underestimate his opponents.

The commander of the ship is till aboard...
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