https://youtu.be/DqdyyxdZ4cQ

 Before long, an armored truck with soldiers in it show up. They were armed with a variety of strange-looking guns. The soldier who appeared to be leading the group spoke. His voice was gentle, but stern. "Ma'am, get on the ground and put your hands behind your head."

The thing that was once Maddie/Xorb growled. It could not understand what they were saying. Language meant little to her. She lifted her hands and instinctively cast a spell that was so ingrained in her it was a part of her.

08:40, Today: Maddie rolled 7 successes using 8d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 7,8,8,10(+10,8),10(+3),10(+7),6,6.  Wits+athletics+forces.
7 successes on Hand of Mind. Her intent is to take all their guns from them, like Magneto in the First X-Men movie.

She turned her palms toward herself and pulled as if a mime pulling on imaginary ropes.
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The weapons pulled free from their hands and the MPs moved independently to cover and pulled sidearms. "Fubar Contact, confirm. Mam, get down on the ground now and put your hands where we can see them."

She could see the driver for their transport step out and take full cover before he manipulated a box. "Code Fubar."

They all had their backup weapons and had taken cover to block her line of sight the best they could, this was their Tell.

She turned her hands palms out, making the rifles turn to face the MPs. SHe started squeezing her hands making the weapons fire to keep the soldiers heads down. Keeping them from being very effective she reached out to the gas tank of the armored truck. She attempted to heat the tank enough to cause the gas to explode.

08:15, Today: Maddie rolled 2 successes using 3d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 6,10(+8),4.  Int + Occult = Control Heat as Ritual.

Maddie managed to hit something with her magic for sure as there was a hissing sound and a flame like a minor jet engine started firing downward from the bottom of their transport. When gas is scarce, use a Tesla.

The one who was at the transport ran for cover as his radio stopped working. He switched over to his own com. "Fubar actual, inbound!"

They did not fire but they did start moving back going cover to cover to keep her line of sight broken, only moving when her suppressive fire was redirected, forming a wide perimeter.

OOC: You're in the middle of an intersection. There are ruined buildings on all sides (synths are literally everywhere, moving rubble and tearing down that remains of the ruins). All the buildings for as far as Maddie can see (which isn't terribly far considering how choked with buildings the city can be) have been fenced off for reconstruction. There are dump trucks filled with debris all along the road.

She will relocate her control heat spell to the gas tank of the dumptruck closest to the soldier giving the orders.

Gas in and of itself is not made of explodium but it is extremely flammable. She created a hot spot on the tank and there was a quick gout of flame that struck the MP officer in the back. This made him not dive forward but backwards and off to the side to break cover entirely. The gas tank did a slow burn. The officer was likely applying some form of stop drop and roll to put his back out, or taking off his pack and putting himself out that way.

There was, however, a faint whirring sound in the distance.

I'll be making some assumptions. If they are incorrect I will edit.

She snarled as the flame burst out of the car and caught the soldier. It wasn't exactly what she had planned but it would do. There was a clear path to one of the buildings now. She ran towards the fence surrounding that building. Somehow she felt she could jump it, though some part of her protested that it was too high.

08:16, Today: Maddie rolled 2 successes using 10d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 6,1,5,6,9,4,10(+4),7,6,1.  Str (enhanced) + Athletics = jump the fence.

If successful she will sprint to the building, letting the rifles run their ammo out to cover her. When the ammo is dry she will drop the guns but not the TK spell.

Wits + Perception please

She heard them first, ultra-quiet buzzing noises, before she saw the small drones. Little things that moved in and out of sight keeping an eye on her. Between camera and infrared, the eyes in the area around her numbered at least in the double digits.

Even the airforce had dabbled with them, called the black hornet nano most officers could be sent out with them. Each officer could toss out two and control them remotely. Code Fubar must have a step one of all officers in an area activating their drones.

She was also so brilliantly perceptive she even noticed an airborne craft far away and a number of small shapes break off and start heading in her general direction.

Code Fubar, it seemed, was the response devised for things like husks and werewolves.

What she learned was mostly intuitive. The most important thing was she was being watched. She could deal with thst. She let her heat spell dropped and replaced it with another, one that would scramble their transmissions.

11:09, Today: Maddie rolled 1 success using 5d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 5,7,9,6,5.  Manipulation + Forces = Transmission

There is a transmission that cannot be avoided - CBR Cosmic Background Radiation. She wants to replace all their signals with this static noise.

The drones stopped, moved up at an absurd speed, and started retracing their steps to reestablish connection or at least LOS connection. They wouldn't be a problem for a few moments.

What was a problem was the objects flying at speeds well above anything that was common technology. Four of them landed some eighty feet to either side of her. One the same distance behind her, but only a few feet in front of her one came crashing down at extreme speed.

Standing up was John Randall, a USMC enlisted man who was known through nearly all branches though not always believed. He had a record for coming out no matter how bad things got. He had even recently been commended, promoted, then demoted for surviving a major supernatural event in New York.

Even on an animal intuition, this was a predator. He stood up having used all of any action or operation he could to get there. "The hell kind of pound puppy are you? Fubar is for roid wolves."

She says nothing, in fact she makes no sound at all. She changes the position of her body to a classic saber En Garde by sliding her left foot back into a ninety degree angle with her right and about shoulder width appart. She presents her right profile, right arm extended holding an imaginary weapon. Her left arm is up so that shoulder to elbow is a straight line, elbow bent at 90 degrees, her hand in a relaxed open position. Her head, face and eyes do not move off him, and she slightly bends both knees. The overall impression is a snake coiled to strike.

She reached out with far hand to grab and pull all grenade pins in her area, and activate any flash bangs. This is a ruse, she fully expects they can handle this. While they are distracted she used far hand to grab and pulls their vehicles into them. If that works she will reach out and pull one of the dumptrucks to smash/run over GI Joe in front of her. She doubted her would call her puppy again.

The moment that she gave even a slight tug on the grenade pins she could see John already rushed. He was to fast to be a common human and he pulled all the pins on her grenades by the time he got within arms reach. He was wide open, arms wide, and grenades ticking away. He had a look that was right in line with legends of Mad Jack from the UK military. Of Chesty Puller from the USMC.

Let's do an initiative roll to see if you are quick enough to react to his kamakazi.

Rolled 10 + 9
Dex 3
Composure 3
Total is 25

23:45, Today: Maddie rolled 2 successes using 1d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 10(+9).  Initiative

Wait i have lightening reflexes. So +1 more for 26 total. Final answer.

Gotta talk to mod, with your lightning reflexes you both are tied.

On his initiative the character formerly known as Xorb will cast shield.

If there is dualing initiative, she should get to use shield here, I hope.

OOC: On dueling initiave, yes you can.

When John got close He raised one hand. The moment he did so the four grenades at his chest started dumping a white gas that was nearly blue at the edges. It was lachrymator, tear gas. He was more than willing to fight in a cloud of the stuff as he reached for her, one arm closed, fingers in a claw-like gesture.

16:40, Today: John Randall rolled 6 successes on attack.
 Gas is spreading

She realized the crazy Marine was trying to grab her. She activated an ability out of instinct, Misperception.

The Marine had launched himself at her. She attempted to side step the attack. At the same time she cast Transform Self, elongating and sharpening her Tibia, having it emerge from her right hand just above the first finger. She was not unarmed after all.

09:46, Today: Maddie rolled 5 successes using 10d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 5,8,7,5,10(+5),7,6,9,8,8.  Doubled Defense for Riposte (after discussion with MoD).
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John made contact and they both immediately moved into the center of the area, exposing them both to the rooftops. He had gripped her hand and her belt line to move her effectively as he wished once he got his hands on her. "I learned this from a little old lady working an egg roll cart." With the hand holding onto her hand the whole limb started spinning in such a way as it was clearly unnatural as he spun around to cross her arm over her chest.

He then stepped into her holding onto the muscle structures near her beltline. "Boys! Puddin wrasteling formation."

The men on the roof didn't peek out, they just lobbed more grenades that detonated when they got overhead. A blanket thick enough to cover the area burst out and started descending slowly over head.

The effects of grappling with John.
Maddie can choose to fall prone with John, if she chooses not to her arm will be dislocated.
She takes 2 lethal
She as at -2 strength dots to resist grapple
There is a stacking -1 penalty

To clarify. He did not grab her belt line, he has gripped the muscles of her hip with an iron grip. He is holding onto her and not her gear.

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OOC: To make sure this is clear. When he grabbed you, the choice was to fall to avoid having your arm dislocated. If you fall, he has to go with you to maintain grapple. Since you didn't fall, your arm is now dislocated and he is still grappling you.