Silver considers the picture window but turns and heads to the side door. She zooms towards the guards but then slows to a stop.

"Rig, put your hands up. Make sure they can see we're clean."

She slows down and nods towards the side door. She calls out the guards.

"Easy there. We're specialists and we're expected. That door should be opening up for us any second now but we don't want to spook anyone so we're just going to mosey on in, okay?"

Rig responds to Fritz with a series of curses as he slaps his hand onto his wound. As they pull up to the guards he leans in to talk to the comms.

"Yeah there's a big firefight out front and some guards by the side door. If Ledo and the others are coming they might have to deal with the OLF first."

BB nods at Parket.

"Absolutely. Everyone's getting off together."

Nero keeps alternating between filming the guards arming up and his own "reaction shots."

"Listen up Nero Knights, things are getting pretty bad here..."

He holds his hand out showing the rooftops full of people.

"All these people don't realize the pumping stations aren't turning on. This is getting crazy though so stay tuned. Don't forget to like and subscribe for all your Nero and Pansy Paws updates! Let's get this thing viral so the whole galaxy knows what is happening down here!"

Nero has a bad case of ABS: Always Be Streaming

"Alright we're going in the front door. Some of those OLF assholes are shooting with port security so taking them out might just get us our ticket inside."

He checked his pistol and nodded to everyone else in his van.

"Alright everyone listen up. When we get to the firefight park the vans perpendicular to the fight and open the doors. Security will shoot out the one side and the civilians can exit for better cover out the other side. We'll have to figure out on site if we think we can eliminate the OLF or if we'll just have to pin them down and run for safety."


OOC: Time for a drive by...

Silver and Rig

City Security quickly surrounds you.  One of the guards walks over and demands to scan your comm IDs.  He then steps back, pulling out his own hand comm and making a call.

You can both hear him.

"Yeah. They say they're specialists or somethin'.  I'me belaying the shoot to kill order for now.  Can you clear them?  Their info is..."

And he proceeds to give whoever your Comm IDs.

---

Nero

Your numbers are punching through the stratosphere and bitch slapping any nearby moons!

What?  I'm on one a' these roofs man!

What the fuck!  My Mom is out there!  I gotta call her ASAP!

Why aren't the City Security bastards letting people know!  Everyone spread the word!

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Silver and Rig

The guy on the comm glances at the two of you.  His hand wanders to the pistol hostelered on his hip.

"Uh huh....Yeah..."

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BB

Parket nods and motions for his men.

O'Henrix steps forward.  "I guess you're the CO for now.  You want me to drive or lookout?

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Silver and Rig

Comm Guard narrows his eyes, squinting at the two of you, still talking into his comm, free hand caressing the safety on his pistol.

"Yeah.  A little shady I guess..."

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Ledo and Tepha

Parket and his people hit the second van.  O'Henrix loads the Paws into the second.

Ledo have any orders about who rides/drives/etc?

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Silver and Rig

"Right.  They're taken care of."

Guard Comm hangs up and pulls out his gun.

"You two!  Go ahead to the security door and tell 'em you're the call out for Commander Fritz!  Hurry up!  We've got your six! Move like you got a purpose people!"

I love Nero.  He is like the DMs little helper

Ledo nods at O’Henrix to drive while the rest of them get seated. Ledo sits in the passenger seat while everyone else gets in the back.

”Buckle up, this could get bumpy.”

Silver nods at the man.

”Damn straight. We’ve got some more people incoming so tell the boys out front to keep an eye out for that as well, no lead on or get out of our way.”

Strutting with way more confidence then she likely should have, she moves towards the door like it should open for her. Once inside she’ll head to her bunk and start grabbing her grenades and rifle just in case security decides to second guess Commmander Fritz.

Rig starts the pre-flight checks. Making sure their fuel is topped off and working to disengage what he can. With the lockdown there were limits of what he could do but there were still other checks he could perform to ensure the ship was indeed still space worthy.

The Vans

O'Henrix pulls away from the curb.  Parket's van and the bike pull out right after.

The convoy begins to move down the street.

You head down the main drag.  After about the second block, you notice people are coming out of the buildings.  At first it's just a few strays.  But when you hit block four, the volume has started to grown.

People are pouring off the rooftops.  It's like word is spreading that the pumping stations aren't going to be coming online any time soon.

At the end of the fifth block, people are waving at the van.  Some start running after it.  People are screaming at you to stop and let them on board.

Just then the biker gets taken down.  Some bystander came up with a length of pipe and managed to swing it into the guy's helmet.  As the bike tumbles, the crowd starts to lunge for the bike, a free for all erupting.

"Shit!"  O'Henrix cusses.  Up ahead, there was an accident.  A truck passing through the intersection seems to have lost control and plowed into another vehicle.  That lead to another collision behind it.

The vans are going to be too large to squeeze through.  And you doubt they're strong enough to push those wrecks aside.

O'Henrix smacks on the nav comm.  It gives two alternate routes.

Taking the right will let you hook over onto a street that parallels this main drag for a while.  You can cross back over to the main drag from there.

Taking the alley to the left looks like it's some kind of 'short cut' the locals use.  The nav comm has it mapped out, but it's kind of twisty and not straight forward.  No way you can memorize it.

There are the sounds of shots from behind.  Parket's people are shooting to keep the crowds at bay.  The bike rider is limping forward, grabbing at the back of Parket's van.

The crowds are obviously trying to decide whether it's worth charging at the vans.

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Silver and Rig

Welcome back.

Silver, Station Security is squawking with each other.  I think they're going to figure it out soon.

Engineer Rig:  I am working on a restore of Mainframe.  Also, there's a report of system compromise to the bug.  I think it's within acceptable parameters.

Bigger issues are those locks on the landing gear.  Those have either got to be cut off, released by Station Security, or we cut the landing gear from inside.

Another problem:  they've got a manual lock on the lift.  Once we lift off, we're going to have to find another way besides the ship elevator to exit the starport.

On the bright side, we are fueled up!

Commander Ledo's group seems to be stalled.  They hit an intersection that was blocked by an accident.

Ledo looked at the scene in confusion. How was word spreading so fast? He heard talking in the background and he looked back to see Nero talking into the camera about their epic escape into space and he cursed.

"Turn here and go along the main drag. Get ready to bounce people off the hood if things get dicey."

Ledo rolled down his window and drew his pistol, holding it up so that anyone looking at the cab could see he was armed although he wasn't threatening anyone with it yet.

"Parket, do what you need to. We're going down the side route. We'll wait for you though so pick up your man and lets get moving."

Nero was filming when the guy with the bike was knocked off.

"Oh shit things are going crazy!"

Then the shots started firing and he jerked his head back at the pops sounding behind them.

"Oh fuck! This is fucked up gang. Stay tuned for more. I don't know if I'll survive but live or die all my Nero Knights are getting front row seats!"

Rig gave a curse and pulled up the comms for station docking authority. Of everyone on the ship he probably had the most experience dealing with the bureaucracy of a space port. Tepha was just a dancer, Silver was a criminal who didn't normally use official procedure and Ledo was used to his rank just getting him through.

He took a breath to ease his voice and keep it calm. Everything was normal, nobody was about to die.

"Docking authority this is the Tiamat's Flight in berth 22C. We understand there is some kind of commotion going on outside but we do have a schedule to keep. Requesting permission for a launch window."

Start things off nice and easy, see what kind of excuse they come back with and he could work on a counter.

OOC: FYI: some rolls if it helps move things along:

Dealing with Bureaucracy: Admin/EDU:
14:22, Today: Gary 'Rig' Rigan rolled 11 using 2d6+2.  admin/edu.

Sweet talking for special treatment: Persuade/INT:
14:22, Today: Gary 'Rig' Rigan rolled 9 using 2d6+1.  persuade/int.

Silver meanwhile was strapping up in case things went sideways. Whether that meant fighting off overzealous station security or OLF terrorist or whatever she was strapped up.

She had her bandolier of grenades, a belt full of spare clips and her trust combat rifle locked and loaded.

Rig

It takes a while, but finally someone squawks back at you Rig.

"Uhm...no launch windows are authorized.  We can't...jeez."

Things must be bad.  This guy sounds like an intern or something.  If they left someone like that in charge of comms, all the people with brains must be humping on something else.

"See...the thing is...we can't operate the lift.  It's all...bugged up.  So...uhm...just sit tight.  We'll get back to you."

Fritz pops on after they hang up. It looks like whoever that is did put in a request to get a launch window.  But it has to be approved.

But I don't know that will do any good.  I'm checking on what he said.  It looks like the elevator system is infected.  It's not responding

I would recommend just blowing open the doors and flying up the shaft.

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The Vans

Roger that.  Don't let us slow you down.  We'll be there.

O'Henrix takes a hard right as the crowds start to press in.  The side street has less bodies.  He flips another right and then another.  The main drag is up ahead about a block.

Suddenly from out of a parking garage, a passenger vehicle comes barreling out of the gate.  O'Henrix cusses, but he manages to cut around the car.

Parket's van has to stop.

"Keep goin'," Parket barks.  "What berth you in?"

O'Henrix slides back onto the main drag.

More cars are pulling out onto the road.  The water is starting to slow everyone down.

The Port is ahead in the distance.  You can see the fire fight Fritz warned you about.  It seems to OLFers are facing away from you.

Rig put in another request to the intern.

"You know, if it's computer problems we've got a couple of top rated programmers on board. I myself served nearly twenty years debugging ship's systems. It sounds like you could use a hand and we'd be happy to lend it for the first slot on that elevator."

It was a long shot but he figured he should at least try to be civil before blowing a hole in the spaceport doors.

"22C. Don't be late."

As the van pulled up to the fire fight Ledo pointed to a spot where O'Henrix could park and they could open fire on the OLF from behind in a classic pincer movement.

Rig

"I'll pass it along Sir," says Bucky Cadet.

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The Vans

The OLFers are in a pincer already.

They've strewn a line of cars and trucks across the road, using them primarily as a wall against the Port's security team.

But the crowds exiting the buildings have caused them some problems as well.  Some of their troops have had to turn around, opening fire as Wyltzians try to make a run for the port.

The OLFers have also taken positions in a building to the left, opening up two sniper nests on the second and fifth floors.

Let me know in the OOC comments about how you'd like to proceed and we can start.

Thanks

Rig let a few minutes pass before comming the tower.

"Flight control this is Tiamat's Flight. How is that request going? Should I send my people up?"

He clicked off the comm and switched over to Fritz' monitor.

"Hey Fritz, what are the chances we can tap into the station's security and lift this lockdown? If they're up to their asses in this virus like the rest of the dome then their security systems should be shredded, right?"

Ledo motioned for O'Henrix to pull to a stop at a safe distance.

"We can probably blow through that barrier but those sniper nests concern me. We've got to wait for Parket anyway and worst case we can swim to the port at this point. Let's go up and see if we can't knock out those nests first so they don't pick us off as we're crossing the lines."

He looked around and nodded at BB.

"Alright, you're with security, right? You're with me. O'Henrix you guard the van and if we don't make it back you get everyone here on board that ship, understood?"

Ledo looked at BB's gyrojet rifle and nodded with approval.

"Stay on my six and cover me. We'll rush them fast and hard before they know we're on them and turn those guns of theirs on the next nest, understood?"

BB gave a nod and followed Ledo out of the van.

"Locked and loaded, on your six."

The sounds of combat, the screams of civilians, it was all familiar territory. Horribly familiar. The only thing unusual was that she was doing this on the ground instead of in zero-gee.

Rig

You don't hear anything from control.

Oh we have an antidote for our virus.  The virus that OLF layered under it is different.  I just innoculated against our virus and everything attached to it.  But some still got through. Hence the reboot.

It looks like our virus is the big problem.  City's IT can't seem to come up with a vaccine.  If we came up with one for the OLF, layered it into the vaccine for our virus and sent that out, we should be able to remove the obstacles.

Rig me up a Electronics Computer roll/Int or Edu, your call.  You can try again and again until you succeed.

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BB and Ledo...sitting in a building...K...I...L...L...I...N...G...

The building is an office type.  First floor is a boutique with various private offices each floor up.

The second floor is a dentist office.  The OLFers have blown out the plate glass window and pushed magazine tables against the opening to cover the two snipers located there.

The fifth floor is a legal office.  Same set up, except there's four snipers there.

Each office is seperated from the stairs by a hallway.

As you come come up to the second floor landing, a quick recon shows one guy stationed just inside the partially open doorway of the dentist office.  He must not be on their A team, because there's no way he has a good field of vision.  You should be able to sneak up fairly close to the door, maybe all the way in if he gets distracted.

You can also head up to the fifth floor without him seeing you.

Shots fired down here are probably going to be noticed upstairs and vice versa.

Questions

Rig cracked his knuckles. He was a computer specialist for nearly a decade. This was what he was trained to do. Time to cure the plague they had unleashed.

OOC:
14:14, Today: Gary 'Rig' Rigan rolled 14 using 2d6+04.  edu/computers.

Ledo pulled out his pistol but BB shook her head. She put one finger to her mouth in the universal signal for "quiet" and pulled our her knife. Ledo nodded and pulled out his static blade.

He let BB go first and she quietly crept towards the guard...

OOC: Not bad not great. Opposed by guards Recon/INT. Maybe OLF has a penalty due to the firefight happening outside?

14:20, Today: BB Nova rolled 7 using 2d6.  stealth check.

Rig

Really Engineer Rig.  Your computer skills sicken me.

Me too Fritz.  Me too

I think this will work just fine.  How do you want it released?  To City Security?  You want me to hit the door right off?

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BB and Ledo

The shots ringing out from inside do seem to distract this guy...really.  This one is pretty green.

But at the last moment he notices you...

No surprise.  He failed his roll by 1 as well.  So you guys are on equal footing.

I'm pretty sure BB has the init.  So does Ledo.  So does a turtle.  This guy is awful.