Narrator:
One of the marines lifted their pep and started firing randomly. One of the blasts hit the one-eyed woman Bek had taken the pistol from, and she went whirling to the ground...
Narrator:
Somewhere there was another pep-blast and suddenly, the marines were yelling. They were turning toward the control room, where Baylee was clearly visible through the fractured glass. But, in doing so, it wasn't lost on anyone that most of the marines had turned their backs in surprise.
How not very marine-like. so, maybe they aren't marines...
Marines get Between A Rock & a Hard Place
Viper loses Pinned Down
Tech-Crew loses Pinned Down
Narrator:
Flight Deck
Bek, Sheng-Xin, Viper Lincoln & one allied un-named-NPC, Marines(6),
Tech-Crew(3) & Gilina
One of the tech-crew nodded at Viper's mouthed words. They disappeared for a moment as a few stray shots went past and dispersed along the hull of the Orishi. Moments later, they re-emerged with some sort of cluster of parts bound together with salent-twine. One of the crew--the only one with a pep--fired off his weapon while the other the jury-rigged thing.
It landed just short of the marine crew, then exploded, sending a concussive blast rippling out and a bright greenish fire erupted from the middle of it.
"I got it!" someone else yelled, and there was a burst of white-ish exhaust from the rear of the Orishi as a small orange light above the entry started blinking, heralding the imminent opening of the ship's airlock.
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Tech-Crew rolled 4dF(+3) + Shoot(+1) vs Marine-Mob 4dF(+2) + Shoot(+2) to create Aspect Covering Fire
Result is a TIE: Success with a cost
Tech-Crew creates Covering Fire but they lose a man in the cross-fire
The older man watched as his psi static clouded the minds of the marines... and as their actions became more random and less marine-like... and as they were overcome. His eyes were an interesting mixture of pain and peace. He did what needed to be done, but he grieved.
He shook himself as the greenish fire erupted, and as one of the tech crew members was hit in the cross-fire. Here, at least, he could apply his gifts to help and heal rather than hinder and harm.
He breathed a brief prayer of thanksgiving, and stretched out his extraordinary senses.
Subjectively, time slowed down. He watched as the battle slowly raged, through the flickering lights and klaxxons... and the blinking orange light of the ship.
Uncertain, he took a step forward... then another... and with increasing certainty, he saw the path before him. He
knew where to step, when to duck, as he made his way over to the fallen tech crew member.
After having to leave behind so many, even after having to hinder some of those trying to leave... here was one more that he could save. And so he would... even at the risk of his own life.
OOC: I am self-compelling We Feel Your Pain, whether or not it is worth a fate point. In character, that is definitely what CSX would do. :)