Sancho drops his aim and as more rounds impact around him he fires on the crewman below him.

Sancho Castro rolled 18 using 3d6+2 (5 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {5}, 5, 6.  Attack roll.

4 SP: Called Shot
1 SP: Momentum +3 initiative

Sancho Castro rolled 7 using 2d6+1 with rolls of 5,1.  Damage.

In reply to Ship Crew 2 (msg # 23):

"Die, fuckers!"

One of the mercs leaned out to take a shot at him. But he was quicker, firing several shots at him. But his bullets went wide, striking the bulkhead all around him. In response to his defiance he felt a blow like someone hit him with a sledghammer and everything started to blur...

00:12, Today: Shaved Head rolled 7 using 3d6+1 (1 stunt point) with the AGE System with rolls of {1}, 4, 1.  Shooting.

One stunt point but probably no hit!

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NPC'd

Yuri reloaded the breach and tube of his shotgun with solid slugs. Then, not knowing if all of the ship’s crew one deck up were dead or alive, he takes up a position to cover the upper hatch.

Firing downward, Sancho and Shaved Head engage the two people shooting from what looks like the lowermost deck of the ship (probably engineering).

Sancho hits one of the people below directly in the face plate of their helmet. This is probably is what throws that person’s aim off, and Sancho doesn’t get hit. This person then disappears from view, and its hard to tell if the bullet went through and they rolled out of view or they simply took cover.

Shaved Head manages to shoot up the bulkhead and feels a sledgehammer like blow to the meaty part of his left shoulder.

[Private to Shaved Head: Your out of fortune (bad news) and injured. All your actions are now at -1.

Getting shot again might mean getting killed]

Yuri covers the upper decks, and is rewarded with seeing one of the grey and silver armored crewmen peeking out to look below to shoot him...

Init order (post when you can)
Shaved Head = 21
Yuri = 19
Protogen Merc 1 = 17
Sancho = 13
Ship Crew 1 = 13
Ship Crew 2 = 10

Sancho moved his aim and fire to the new target and engaged them unaware that the man standing next to him had been hit.

Sancho Castro rolled 8 using 3d6+2 with the AGE System with rolls of {3}, 2, 1.  Attack roll.


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Yuri smiles, a rather feral smile, as he fires at the head looking down on him from above.

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Thanks for the NPC post, I was teaching all day yesterday!

11:14, Today: Yuri Ivanovich rolled 17 using 3d6+5 (6 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {6}, 3, 3.  Shooting at fellow above.

In reply to Darkside Trooper (msg # 27):

Grunting, he fell backwards. Strangely he did not feel much pain, but his arm was refusing to work properly. He felt his left bicep and saw his gloved fingers were covered in blood. "I'm hit! Goddamn it I'm hit..." Keeping down out of sight he tried to apply pressure to the wounded area. Am I dying? he thought, as he started to get tunnel-vision.

Sancho and the ship crewman down below fire at one another. As Sancho’s rounds hit the sides of the ladder/shaft he feels several punching-like blows on his armor.

Yuri puts a solid grouping of into the helmeted faceplate of the man above him. The inside of the man’s helmet becomes a bloody mess and it’s clear that he won’t be a threat anymore. A few pellets hit the man in the neck and upper chest but the armor harm self-heals itself, sealing up the holes.

Shaved Head holds his left bicep but some blood is still leaking through. It isn't gushing out and the Belter recomposes himself.

[Private to Shaved Head: I figure after getting hit a willpower check was a good thing to roll, You rolled well so I'm hooking you up with some temp fortune
08:16, Today: Secret Roll: Darkside Trooper, on behalf of Shaved Head, rolled 20 using 3d6+4 (6 stunt points) with the AGE System.  will power (Self-Discipline).
ADRENALINE RUSH = 6 temporary fortune (have to spend this in the next round or loss it)]


[Private to Sancho Castro: 07:55, Today: Darkside Trooper, for the NPC Protogen Crew, rolled 15 using 3d6+3 with the AGE System with rolls of {4}, 5, 3.  shoot Sancho.
Hit (need to be 11 or higher)

The sounds of torpedoes being launched reverberate throughout the ship...

07:56, Today: Darkside Trooper, for the NPC Protogen Crew, rolled 14 using 3d6+2 with rolls of 3,6,3.  dmg sancho.
14 dmg
14 -7 (armor+ toughness) = 7 dmg
9 fortune – 7 = 2 fortune

Your down to 2 fortune now]

[Private to Yuri Ivanovich: If you look at your equipment sheet I have it noted what your shotgun loadout. Your next 3 shells are solid slug.

08:12, Today: Secret Roll: Darkside Trooper, on behalf of Yuri Ivanovich, rolled 7 using 3d6+1 with the AGE System.  perception.
FAIL
BTW you're not sure if all three of the guys above you are neutralized yet...but there is defiantly at least one person from below decks who is still in the fight.]

The sounds of torpedoes being launched reverberate throughout the ship...
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An alarm sounds in conjunction with a sudden drop in air pressure causing everyone ears to pop as several PDC rounds pass through the compartment and the ship itself.

Instead of the air pressure dropping to zero and then possibly dying from exposure to the vacuum of space, the alarm stops. Air pressure in the compartment is significantly lower than it was before, and they find it more difficult to breath.

Each deck of the ship is cut off from the others as the hatches along the ladder/shaft of the vessel lock down.

If you're going to talk, please make a Constitution test TN 11. FAIL and your too busy gasping for air to talk.
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PM's

[Private to Yuri Ivanovich: Looking up, on the hatch that closed above you, there is a pressure indicator. The gauge shows the air pressure in your compartment and the air pressure of the compartment above. While lower than normal, there is not a significant different in air pressure on both sides of the hatch.

The manual override to open the hatch will work. ]

[Private to Sancho Castro: Looking down, on the hatch that closed below you, there is a pressure indicator. The gauge shows the air pressure in your compartment and the air pressure of the compartment above. While lower than normal, there is not a significant different in air pressure on both sides of the hatch.

The manual override to open the hatch will work.]

As more rounds dance around him just as the hatches close and they feel the drop in pressure. Sancho indicates the gauge and the manual override for the hatch and being very use to a quick de-press asks "Right we have to finish off the rest of these pricks. Up or down any one see which had the most left ?

Sancho Castro rolled 20 using 3d6+4 (6 stunt points) with the AGE System with rolls of {6}, 5, 5.  CON check. PASS


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"Up we can go, pressure there, said Yuri, glad that he'd not removed his helmet yet. He climbed up to the manual override.

"Ready? Armed enemy still there I think."

In reply to Darkside Trooper (msg # 32):

There was a 1st Aid kit on the bulkhead.

"Shit!" Efforts hampered by the sudden inflation of his suit, he tried to apply a sealant pressure bandage over his wound. Blood still oozed out from the hole in the tough material.

Yuri looked down from his perch beside the manual override.

"Is help required? Or can I deal with threat above before?"

In reply to Yuri Ivanovich (msg # 37):

Grimacing in pain, the shaved head Belter shook his head. "Na, kopeng. Mi'll bi fine. Kill those assholes."

"H'O-kay."

Yuri operated the manual override to open the hatch. Then waited... squeezed to one side. He was hoping whoever was above would do the natural but not-very-smart thing of leading with his gun barrel down the hole - then there would be a chance to grab it and disarm him.

As Yuri, Sancho, and Shaved Head converse, they do so over the sound (and reverberations) of the vessels point defense cannons firing.

As the PDC’s stop firing, air pressure begins to rise.

Looking at the upper hatch, the airpressure (on both side of the hatch) stops at one PSI.

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Yuri slides the upper hatch open and is looking at the mean with whom he just killed. As they are still in zero G, Yuri and Sancho glide up to the next deck. Identified as MEDICAL/FORWARD BREACHING POD ACCESS on the ladder/shaft.

The compartment they end up in has a hatch on the Portside that says medical. On the starboard side is a corridor that wraps around the rail gun conduit. It is here where they find a second body floating.

The cause of death isn’t quite clear, as the suit must’ve sealed itself up before any blood leaked out. The dead man’s face is contorted in pain and both hands are clutching his groin.

[Private to Yuri Ivanovich: This is the guy you probably shot first.]

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Down below on the cargo deck, Shaved Head manages to get a bandage on his arm and stops the bleeding.

OOC: Your out of ‘combat’ (for now).

Steadying himself on a suitable bulkhead Sancho adds "Right lets keep going..." He will continue to the deck where they last saw the enemy. Leading with his SMG as he does....


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Yuri followed along, glad that the brawl was over. He enjoyed fighting, was quite good at it really, but it was always good to be done with it.

Down on the cargo deck, Shaved Head covers the still closed hatch to the lower decks, ready to put a bullet in the head of anybody that come through it.

Yuri and Sancho clear the eck they are on first. They go through medical to discover this is the deck that got hit by the rail gun hole as seen from the exterior.

It looks like the rail gun round took out one of the med beds (it's missing) then destroyed the head (bathroom).

The other side of the deck contained a pair of small airlocks, with some crew quarters situated between the airlocks.

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They get back to the ladder/shaft and see that the next deck up is labeled TROOP GALLEY.

Sancho continues up hoping those below cover his as he ascends. Once at the lip of the ladder he takes a peak and then assuming the area is clear he climbs out and covers the other two. He has stopped speaking and is using hand signals.


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Sancho and Yuri climb up on to a deck labeled TROOP GALLEY.

The deck is one wide open compartment with no sub-compartments.

Description of deck: link to a message in this game

Assuming he spots no one in the open space while he covers the rest of the team Sancho will then lead them up the ladder again.


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After stowing the one-armed prisoner down on the med deck, Tattoo Face joins Shaved Head in policing up the dead bodies of the ship's crew.

But first the two Belters take care of one of their own, a fellow Pur’n Kleen employee who was shot in the/face. When storing bodies on the cargo deck, they keep this man’s hermetically sealed body bag away from the others.

They then focus on the dead crew. While a grisly task, but yet needed, they strip the armor and weapons from the dead crewmen before placing int he body bags. The items that look serviceable are noted as such while the unserviceable items are set aside for inspection int h event they could be of use.
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