Yanna, Tiffy, Patrice, Molle, Hollyanne, and Danielle have locked themselves inside the Warden's office.  Meiko Shiraki, the Warden, is bound to a chair.  From the back of Yanna's neck the Warden's personality chip falls free of the chip port onto the expensive throw rug below.  Yanna's senses barely acknowledge the acrid smell of burning electronics as the chip begins to smoke.

Yanna closes her eyes, and inhale deeply against the pain lancing through her head as she comes back to herself.  It feels like she is experiencing every single ice cream headache she ever had as a child simultaneously all at once.

It is a result of the chip burning the knowledge she was looking for her into her mind but also something more.  Something of the Warden has been left behind in her and begun to merge with her.  Yanna knows she was able to mostly control the process, and get out before the chip completed taking control.

Gritting her teeth she shakes her head to clear it.  This was something she will have to deal with later, or not depending on how she grew to feel about it.  What was important is that she had the codes she was looking for or at least most of them.  Some of the more esoteric knowledge might require more time to process but what she most needed in the moment was there.

Opening her eyes she gazes into the faces of closest subordinates and the still deranged eyes of the guard Danielle.  New feelings stirred in her as she looked upon them.  Yanna couldn't yet determine whether that was concerning or not.

Yanna closed her eyes for a moment trying to process what just happened.  "Damn," she began, "brain freeze from hell."  She shook her head and opened her eyes.

She looked over at the tied up warden, if she even was a warden.  Then scanned the faces of her band.  Standing, she approached Danielle. "You've done well," she said, "these are trying times and you are holding it together. " She glanced over to Patrice, "Pat," she started, "stay here with Danielle and guard the war...her," she pointed at the trussed up woman.  "Lock the door behind us and only open it for one of us." She pulled both women's eyes to hers as she was speaking.  "Protect her because I will need to question her later.  Take this extra pistol and take care of each other."  She smiled at both women.

"We are off to the armory," she said to the others, one moment.  She pulled the radio from her uniform. "Gail, we have what we need. See you there." She tried to be cryptic, not sure if anyone else could listen in.

"Danielle, give us directions to the armory please."

After the guard gave them the directions, they cautiously moved out of the warden's office. Yanna motioned for them to lock the door, and the remaining group headed to the armory.

In reply to Yanna Raptis (msg # 2):
Narrative:
Patrice accepts the pistol with a smile.  Patting Danielle on the shoulder says "We'll look after the Warden Yanna." Pulling Danielle towards the Warden, "Won't we sugar?"

Danielle with an anxious, and slightly confused look on her face stutters a reply, "Wha...err..Yes we'll look after her."

Before you leave Danielle provides detailed directions to the Armory that stir up memories in your head that confirm her words. It creates a momentary feeling of self-discontinuity.  Yanna knows that she has never seen or been anywhere near the penitentiaries Armory but at the same time she can vividly visualize visiting it multiples times in the past.  Those memories are the Wardens but at the same time they feel like her own.

Gail responds in the affirmative as Yanna, Mollee, and Hollyanne make their way towards the Armory.  Outside the Warden's office the outer offices, and cubicles are empty.  As they approach the Armory the sound of of gunfire and yelling begins to break out.

Peeking around the corner Yanna can see that Gail, and 3 other guards are in a fire fight with eight other women wearing guard uniforms.

Question:
What do you do?

"Be ready to back me up," she says to her squad.

Partially revealing herself, Yann yells, "STAND DOWN!! I am Yanna Raptis, and these guards are not your enemy.  Stand down," she ordered.

OOC: if you need to make die rolls for me, go for it. She has the armor from the warden guards on and a smg in one hand...the hand behind the corner that is not visible.

Narrative:
A bullet impacts the wall narrowly missing Yanna forcing her to momentarily duck back behind the corner. Peaking back Yanna can see the eight attackers begin to advance towards Gail's position.  Their movements appear to be awkward and they wield their firearms jerkily.

Gail and her guards move behind whatever cover the can find in the hallway while maintaining constant fire on their attackers.  The majority of their rounds hit the attackers center mass but do little more than causing them to stagger momentarily.  A skilled, or at least lucky, shot by Gail hits one of the attackers in the forehead causing them to drop dead.  Another of her guards shots hit another attacker knee cap causing it to explode in a shower of bone.  The attacker drops to the floor but continue to slowly drag itself forward.

Mechanics:
Your Quickness roll is a 5 and it is your action.
You have partial cover (-4 to attack rolls against you).
Your War Band are waiting for your orders.

Question:
What do you do?

Yanna ducks back behind cover and looks at her crew.

"Some type of zombie or worse," she says quickly.

Pointing the SMG she had taken off the warden's guard, she lays down suppression fire and tells, "TAKE OUT THE HEAD OR ALL THEIR LIMBS!"

OOC: suppressive fire full auto centered on the rear enemy to limit the possibility of me hitting friends. Don't have the weapon stats in front of me so you can roll please.

Narrative:
Yanna fights to control the bucking Hellfire her inexperience with the weapon causing most of the rounds to impact the ceiling instead of her intended targets.  Hollyanne drops to floor behind Yanna and begins lining up her shot while Mollee races across to the other side of the hallway before aiming her own pistol. Tiffy's mostly naked form slides in next to Yanna as she brings her own Hellfire to her shoulder and begins laying down fire against multiple targets.

Yanna cannot help but find her attention momentarily distracted from the combat as the violent action of Tiff's SMG causes parts of her body to jiggle.  It was like she was seeing Tiffy in a whole new light.  Biting her lip Yanna forces her attention back toward the enemy quietly cursing.  There would be time later for whatever that was but now was the time to fight. Realigning her own weapon Yanna can see that Tiffy's spray of bullets had managed to mangle one of the enemies legs, and blow off another's arm.

Momentarily standing up from behind cover Gale fires a pump shotgun into the nearest attacker.  The shotguns blast cuts the enemy in half but the moment the enemies top half hits the floor it begins to drag itself towards Gale leaving trail of thick blood and intestines behind it.

Two of the other guards continue to fire at the attackers with little effect but from her vantage Yanna can see a third finish attaching something with duct tape to a flash bang.

Question:
It is your turn.  What do you do?
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"FLASHBANG," Yanna yelled and ducked back behind the corner.

'Jeezus,' she thought to herself, 'look at that hard body jiggle...what in the hell, how am I getting turned on with bullets flying everywhere!'


OOC: I hold my action hoping my yell alerts my crew to cover their eyes.

Narrative:
Mollee and Hollyanne fire off quick shots hitting a single zombie in the arm between the two of them.  They quickly follow this up by ducking and turning their faces and bodies away in anticipation of a flash bang.  Tiffy fires off a single burst into the undead guards before ducking back around the corner with Yanna.

There is a long pause before the concussive blast of the flash bang is channeled by the hallway past Yanna.  Yanna watches as the unfazed Tiffy steps back into position in the hallway and fires off another spray of bullets into two of the zombies that remain standing.

Peaking back around the corner Yanna is just in time to see another zombie drop to the ground its torso to much a wreck to continue supporting it.  Half of the original eight zombies no longer make any movements, two continue to crawl towards the Gail and her guards, and two zombie guards still standing.  Their uniforms are tattered, burned, and soaked in congealed blood seeping from open wounds in their torso, arms, and legs.

The last two zombies standing clumsily raise their pistols and fire hitting two of Gails guards.  One in the shoulder, and the other in the leg.

Mechanics:
You have a held action, and a action.  Your Quickness roll was 7.

Question:
What do you do?

"Whew, what a rush," Yanna said.  She brazenly turned around the corner and aimed at one of the standing zombies, "Say hello to my little friend," she yelled as she squeezed the trigger.

A full hail of bullets rang out and she just smiled.

OOC: Action one is to aim for the +2, then just holding the trigger down at the nearest standing zombie.   :)

Narrative:
The zombie's chest, and head explode like a watermelon.  Tiffy rushes out from behind Yannah and heads straight towards the remaining zombie. Her form grows visibly taller, thicker, and more muscular as she advances.  Reaching the creature she slams a night stick into its right leg.  The force of the blow snaps the leg with a loud crack knocking the zombie to the ground. Nearly simultaneously Tiffy follows up with a second blow bringing the night stick back down onto the zombies spine the impact of the blow leaving a visible indentation and generating an audible crunching sound.

Mollee, Hollyanne, Gail, and the other guards rush the remaining zombies crawling on the prison floor.  Using firearms, and night sticks they finish of them off.

Finally the blows and shots come to an end and the hallway is quiet except for the sounds of exhausted and frightened women breathing.  Gail turns toward Yannah her breathing heavy, "Yannah, thanks for the help. These gaur....things came from out of no where."

Mechanics:
Combat is over.

Question:
What do you do?
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"You're welcome," she began, "it's a leaders job to look our for her crew.  Is anyone injured?"

As she asked the question, she moved around checking each of them out.  She took a moment to introduce herself to the guards that had joined Gail.   "Gather up any weapons and ammo on the dead guards and let's get into the armory now," she said and approached the door.  She entered the number into the keypad to enter the armory.

OOC:  IF there are no hold-ups to getting in, she will wave everyone in and lock the door from the inside to give them time to do what they need to do with no surprises.  Also, if anyone is injured she will wait until they are in the safety of the Armory to treat them.

Narrative:
Yannah checks her crew, and guards for entry.  Some of the guards seem hesitant to allow a prisoner to check them over but circumstances, and a good word from Gail help them to overcome any misgivings.  None of Yannah's crew have any new injuries, but three of the guards are injured.  None of their injuries require surgery but few of them will slow them down a little for the next week.

Entering the armory Yannah finds weapons, ammo, and armor neatly stowed in lockers.

Mechanics:
24 Flash Bang Grenades
38 Police Pistols (10mm Shots: 9, ROF: 1, Range: 10, Damage: 3d6 Cost: 100)
-There are 4 Magazines per pistol
12 Polic Hellfire SMG (10mm Shots: 20, ROF: 6, Range: 5/10, Damage: 3d6 Cost: 100)
-There are 4 Magazines per SMG
4 CIA Precision (.308 Shots: 10, ROF: 1, Range: 40. Damage: 5d8 Cost: 500)
-There are 5 Magazines per Rifle
8 Pump Shotguns (12 gauge Shots: 8, ROF: 1, Range: 10, Damage: 1-6d6 Cost: 150)
- There is a total 128 12 gauge, and 32 solid slug (always does 6d6 but -2 accuracy)
50 Night Sticks (STR+1d4 DB+1)
4 Combat Knives (STR+1d6 DB+1)
50 Kevlar Vests (AV2 vs firearms, AV1 vs melee attacks)
4  Infantry Battlesuites (As Kevlar Guts, -4 arms and legs)
4 Open Helmets (50% Head) (AV2 Head)

From Zombies you retrieve 8 Police Pistols (2 Magazines per but one is empty)

You manage to bandage the hurt guards.  Each of them still has a light wound.

Question:
How do you proceed?

OOC: Mollee and I have the IBS from the Warden's guards.  Tiffy and I have the SMGs

"Hollyann, Gail, take the IBS.  You three, vests...I know we have two more IBS's, but those are spoken for.  Armor up,  Take another reload for your pistol, a night stick if you don't have one, and one weapon that you are most comfortable using with 2 reloads, if available." Yanna grabs a shotgun, loads it and takes 16 more shot and 8 slugs.  After everyone gets geared up, she adds, "take a couple of flashbangs each.  If we can use them to limit loss of life, then we have to try."

Once they are fully ready, Yanna slowly opens the door and checks the hallway for activity.  As they exit she says, "Gail, take me to the nearest intercom." Then she closes the armory door and resets the password protected locks.

It isn't far and while they are walking, cautiously, Yanna is thinking about what she is going to say.

"Keep vigilant," she told the others as she accessed the intercom.

Pressing the button, she begins to speak, "To all that can hear me, I am Yanna Raptis.  Some of you will know me and some will not.  Today has been a test for all of our sanity.  First the bombs, then, random seeming changes in our fellow inmates and possibly among the guards, and, who can forget these...zombies we've all been dealing with.  Our world has ended, what we have known has ended.  Bombs have fallen in all the major cities and, perhaps any who have survived are going through the same trials and tribulations we are facing." She paused a moment to catch her breath and let her words sink in.

"We survive and we react by doing what we know from our past...inmates fight for freedom and guards try to keep us in our cells.  We have to rise above our pasts and not continue to live in it.  The world as we knew it is gone...all we have is each other.  I, and those who follow me, have freed the north ward and are working to clear and free the other wards.  This prison is ours, this castle, is mine.  We have the armory...we do not wish to kill any of you, but we will do what we must to protect the future we are building.  Guards, lay down your weapons and join us...with all we've seen and been through, we need every hand, every mind, to move us forward.  Join us, help build tomorrow for us all...to the other inmates, if we have not freed you yet, we will, think about all that I've said, join us, JOIN US," she emphasized the last words before releasing the speak button.

"Gail, use your radio to contact the guards and keep me posted on what they wish to do."

She looked at the women around her, "we can do this," she proclaims to them.

Mechanics:

Persuasion roll: 19 (+14 in room/+4 out of room) = 33/23 +8 (red) = 41/31
-+8 to leadership in room/+4 to leadership out of room (red) (additional +2)
Leadership roll: 10 (+12 in room/+8 out of room) = 22/18 +11 (red) +2 = 35/31

Questions:
Do you wish to spend any chips on either roll?
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Mollee, and Hollyanne grab two reloads for their pistols, and two flash bangs before suiting up.  Tiffy grabs two reloads for the Hellfire SMG, a shotgun, 16 buck shot, and drapes an ammo belt, to hold it all, across her left shoulder.  Gail suites up before grabbing 24 buck shot, and a single reload for her pistol.  The three guards follow instructions and don Kevlar vests, grab shotguns, 8 rounds of rounds of buck shot, two pistol reloads.  Two of the guards grab two flash bangs, while the third grabs four.  The third guard immediately begins modifying them with 8 buck shot and duct tape into improvised shrapnel grenades.

Following your order Gail begins raising guards on her radio.  After about five minutes she appears to be arguing with someone before she mutes the radio and she approaches Yannah, "I thought we had a chance for negotiations but Captain Pradhan interrupted and put a stop to it."  A look of disgust on her face she continues, "She and the majority of the guards are holed up in the Medical wing.  She has ordered all guards to ignore us." Her expression changes to one of concern,  "I don't know what she is up to but I know her she has some ace up her sleeve.  She's a company women through and through.  Unless we can somehow convince her to reconsider, get her women to stop her, or deal with her ourselves I don't think too many more of the guards will join us."  Handing you the radio, "Tell us what you want to happen."

Mechanics:
Pistol Reloads Taken: 4+6+1=-11
Hellfire Reloads Taken: -2
Shotguns Taken: -5
Buck Taken:8+24+24+16+16 = -88
Slug Taken: -8
Flash Bangs Taken: 12+2=-14
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Yanna sighed, "I need more information," she said softly.  She looks at the women around her, making eye contact with each.  She is hoping that her words had,  at least, made Gail's guards more firm in their belief.

Seeing a nearby office, she ran in, grabbed a pen and started writing quickly.   She came back out with a slip of paper and handed it to Mollee.

"Ok, we need to split up so I can get more information, and, I might have an idea.  Gail, you guys go with Mollee and Hollyann.  They will get you down to where Collette is safely.  I want you to find out how they are doing.  They had some goals I wanted them to achieve, and, I want to know if my speech affected them.  Use the walkie to contact me.  If there is a secure channel the guards don't use then tell me.  Let me know their status and assist if possible.  We need to get ALL the women free and, hopefully the DL won't try to kill La L because...with all that is going on just why," she chuckled a little to herself.

"Mollee, Hollyanne, after you get Gail and the guards to Collette, I need you to bring me the supplies I listed on that paper.  By the time you get them, Tiffy and I should be back at the Warden's office."

"I have faith in all of you, go," she said.  As the other women moved away, she reached back out to the intercom.

"Guards, and Captain Pradhan...I know you cling to what you knew.  It is natural to stay in a herd when fear drives you...and, there is fear amongst you....amongst all of us.  This world has changed.  The captain will tell you we are just inmates in a hostile uprising, but, we have done ALL we can to minimize death.  Death does no one any good. Captain, guards...CHOOSE to LIVE, choose to build a new future.  Just think about my words.  The less people who die, the more we have to move forward."

Releasing the switch she looks at Tiffy, "Well, hopefully it will work, but, maybe it will buy us time.  Let's get back to the warden's office."

As they head to the office, Yanna hopes the glimmer of a thought she is having will grow...will the warden be awake...

EDIT OOC: The list I gave her is for the supplies I need to make my gun and the batteries.
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