Devil's Lab

[Dracos]

"Right.  I believe the phrase goes...when you pry them from my cold dead hands."  Cosgrove quickly struck out, grabbing the scientist and flinging him hard into the military agent.

Dracos

[Carthrat]

[23:20] <C-Rat> Whee, phase 12. Since you successfully grabbed the guy and threw him into the military man, they'll be spending their turn extricating themselves.
[23:21] <Dracos> Status, is the door open?
[23:21] <C-Rat> So!
[23:21] <C-Rat> Join #travelouge, you fools! O_O
[23:21] <Bjorn> "Travelogue."
[23:21] <Baka-ken> ^_^
[23:21] * Baka-ken was about to suggest that.
[23:21] <C-Rat> Er.
[23:21] <C-Rat> Yeah.
[23:22] <C-Rat> That's the one.
[23:22] <C-Rat> Ok.
[23:22] <C-Rat> Cosgroves mighty throw has the scientist on the military man (who doesn't, despite the action, look particularly surprsied).
[23:22] <C-Rat> While they're disentangling themselves, the path to the door is clear!
[23:25] * Baka-ken is now known as Baka[HL2DM]
[23:26] <Dracos> Cosgrove moves to lash with two swift blows to the military guy's head while he's entangled to knock him out.
[23:26] <Dracos> roll 3d6 for blow one
[23:26] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 3d6 for blow one and gets 11."
[23:26] * Bjorn --> "Dracos rolls 3d6 for blow one and gets 9."
[23:26] <Dracos> roll 3d6 for blow two
[23:26] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 3d6 for blow two and gets 15."
[23:26] * Bjorn --> "Dracos rolls 3d6 for blow two and gets 9."
[23:28] <Bjorn> Hm.
[23:28] <Bjorn> I will kill my dicebot.
[23:29] <Dracos> roll 2d6 for blow one damage
[23:29] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 2d6 for blow one damage and gets 5."
[23:29] * Bjorn --> "Dracos rolls 2d6 for blow one damage and gets 12."
[23:29] <Dracos> roll 2d6 for blow 2 damage
[23:29] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 2d6 for blow 2 damage and gets 5."
[23:31] <Dracos> roll 2#1d6
[23:31] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 2#1d6 and gets 6, 1."
[23:32] <C-Rat> The punch misses the military guys head, but scores a glancing blow on the scientists, who gives a small yelp.
[23:35] <C-Rat> The military guy manages to pull himself up, while the professor-type stays down. He throws out a kick to your midsection- it's short, snappy, and he clearly knows what he's about.
[23:35] <C-Rat> : 3d6, 5, 1, 6 , Total: 12
[23:37] <C-Rat> You manage to deftly block it aside, though, and the solider yells, "Get some help, here, now!"
[23:39] * Dracos quickly follows with an offensive kick at the military guy's side as he moves to block the door, staying between the two of them and the door.
[23:39] <Dracos> roll 3d6 for offensive strike
[23:39] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 3d6 for offensive strike and gets 15."
[23:40] <C-Rat> The kick doesn't even get close, the canny solider quickly sidestepping it. He realiates with a left hook to your gut!
[23:40] <C-Rat> : 3d6, 6, 2, 4 , Total: 12
[23:40] <C-Rat> It misses by just an inch, however.
[23:41] <Dracos> Cosgrove lashes out in a series of punches trying to take the guy down quickly.
[23:42] <Dracos> roll 4#3d6
[23:42] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 4#3d6 and gets 13, 8, 12, 9."
[23:44] * Disconnected
[23:45] * Rejoined channel #tellurian
[23:45] * Topic is '[02:00] * Olorin sniffles. | [02:00] <C-Rat> o-o | [02:00] <C-Rat> Holy crap, he's never done anything like that before. |  <Dracos> Yeah Rat, I can IRC game now whenever you catch me.'
[23:45] * Set by Brian on Fri Nov 26 21:52:14
[23:45] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Drac-work
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[23:47] <C-Rat> Your first strike is deftly parried by the soldier, but the second two managed to punch throw his defenses!
[23:47] <Drac-work> roll 2#1d6
[23:47] * Hatbot --> "Drac-work rolls 2#1d6 and gets 6, 1."
[23:47] <Drac-work> roll 2#1d6
[23:47] * Hatbot --> "Drac-work rolls 2#1d6 and gets 6, 5."
[23:48] <C-Rat> The military guy takes the punches to the stomach, but he doesn't seem overly effected by them; there's just not enough power behind them.
[23:49] * Disconnected
[23:49] *** Your nickname is already Dracos
[23:49] * Rejoined channel #tellurian
[23:49] * Topic is '[02:00] * Olorin sniffles. | [02:00] <C-Rat> o-o | [02:00] <C-Rat> Holy crap, he's never done anything like that before. |  <Dracos> Yeah Rat, I can IRC game now whenever you catch me.'
[23:49] * Set by Brian on Fri Nov 26 21:52:14
[23:49] * ChanServ sets mode: +o Dracos
[23:50] * Dracos spins around lashing out in a diagonal downwards kick at the man.
[23:50] <Dracos> roll 3d6
[23:50] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 3d6 and gets 6."
[23:51] <C-Rat> : 3d6, 6, 3, 3 , Total: 12
[23:52] <C-Rat> The man has his guard up, and your powerful kick stops just short of him on his arm.
[23:52] <C-Rat> He grunts with the exertion, though.
[23:53] <C-Rat> You hear some rushed footsteps  coming from the corridor outside the room.
[23:54] * Dracos kicks the guy hard in the chest and makes a run for it. Offensive strike, again.
[23:54] <Dracos> roll 3d6
[23:54] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 3d6 and gets 6."
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[23:54] * Baka[HL2DM] is now known as Baka-ken
[23:57] <Dracos> roll 5#1d6
[23:57] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 5#1d6 and gets 5, 2, 6, 5, 3."
[23:58] <C-Rat> The kick smacks the man in the gut, and he exhales sharply, clearly in pain. Fighting through it, he tries to tag you before you run off.
[23:58] <C-Rat> : 3d6, 3, 2, 6 , Total: 11
[23:58] <C-Rat> : 5d6, 2, 1, 6, 5, 5 , Total: 19
Session Time: Mon Dec 06 00:00:00 2004
[00:00] <C-Rat> The point is moot at this point, however, because now that you get a chance to look around the corridor, you see military men approaching quickly from both sides- in numbers.
[00:02] <Dracos> All points to dcv.  Rushing to run by them.
[00:02] <C-Rat> Righto.
[00:02] <Dracos> Blocks, obviously made as appropriate.
[00:03] <C-Rat> Rushing past the guards, they all try to dogpile you at once.
[00:03] <C-Rat> : 3d6, 3, 1, 3 , Total: 7
[00:03] <C-Rat> : 3d6, 1, 4, 1 , Total: 6
[00:03] <C-Rat> : 3d6, 1, 5, 5 , Total: 11
[00:03] <C-Rat> : 3d6, 5, 3, 2 , Total: 10
[00:03] <C-Rat> (Block away!)
[00:03] <Dracos> (Oh joy.  I love battling your dice rolls)
[00:03] <Dracos> (Martial block +2 OCV, +2 DCV)
[00:03] <Dracos> roll 4#3d6
[00:03] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 4#3d6 and gets 8, 11, 12, 7."
[00:03] <C-Rat> (Blocking has nothing to do with my roll and everything to do with OCV.)
[00:05] <C-Rat> With a leap, twist, a shoving arm, and a spring, Cosgrove manages to plow through the ranks of soldiers- somehow.
[00:06] * Dracos continues running, looking out for a weapon's cabinent of some kind, storage area, or somewhere he can hide.
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[00:08] <C-Rat> There's a few doors here and there, all equipped with complex-looking keypad systems and locks. A maintenance cupboard is at the end of the hall... but the tromping feet behind you remind you of the soldiers who were coming from the other direction.
[00:12] <C-Rat> The cupboard isn't that far from a T-junction in the corridor. You can't be sure, but you think that in the ceiling, those little round things are cameras of some sort, given that they have glass lenses and little red flashing lights. Hey, it's like that in all the movies.
[00:12] * Dracos runs, turning down the T-junction.
[00:13] <C-Rat> Either way from the T-junction are.. big windows that lead out to the skyline of some city. Huge skyscrapers tower up around, and you realise that you're very, very high up.
[00:13] <C-Rat> On the other hand, there are things that look like elevators around you.
[00:13] <C-Rat> The boots behind you don't sound like they're gaining, but they'
[00:13] <C-Rat> But they're not slowing down, either.
[00:14] <Dracos> How high is the roof?
[00:15] <C-Rat> OOC: The roof of what? You can't tell the roof of the building you're in. >_>
[00:15] <C-Rat> OOC: You'd guess it can't be that much higher; you're very near the tops of the other buildings.
[00:15] <Dracos> OOC: The roof of the corridor.  Okay, the ceiling.
[00:15] <C-Rat> OOC: Ah.
[00:16] <C-Rat> OOC: 5-6 metres or so.
[00:16] * Brian (photoneart@netblock-66-245-248-138.dslextreme.com) Quit (Connection reset by peer)
[00:16] <C-Rat> OOC: Actually, more like 4-5.
[00:17] <Dracos> OOC: Width?  Anything to grab on?  Shadowy by any chance?
[00:17] <C-Rat> OOC: Corridor isn't hugely thing- it's a couple metres across. Fairly typical office-block fair. You could try grabing onto overhanging lights.
[00:18] <C-Rat> OOC: I wouldn't put chances on hiding on the roof.
[00:18] <C-Rat> OOC: The whole place is out in white, remember.
[00:25] <Dracos> Cosgrove quickly hits the elevator button and then dashes to the window, glancing to see if there's support for slipping out there.
[00:26] <C-Rat> It seems as if there's enough little ledges and supports for you to climb along the building.. that is, if you could get through the window.
[00:26] <C-Rat> It doesn't have an apparently means of opening, (but conversly, doesn't look that thick).
[00:29] <C-Rat> The overhead lights jut out from the ceiling. They use that conical shade- looks to be made of metal, and extends out from the roof. If you could get your hands around it, you'd be fine... but it's the getting that's the problem. They look fairly strong, though- not apparently likely to break.
[00:30] * Dracos decides to go with the original plan if the soldiers haven't caught up yet, dashing up the wall, kicking off of it a little past midway up and leaping to the shade, trying to grab on and hide from the soldiers until they pass.
[00:30] <Dracos> roll 3d6 acrobatics
[00:30] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 3d6 acrobatics and gets 8."
[00:32] <Dracos> roll 3d6 stealth
[00:32] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 3d6 stealth and gets 11."
[00:33] <C-Rat> In a mighty feat, Cosgrove manages to rush up the wall and grab onto some lights. Almost immediately afterwards, a bunch of soldiers (there must be at least 6) appear, rush around the corner, and stop, confused for a moment.
[00:33] <C-Rat> A sudden 'Ping!' echoes through the air, and one of the elevators opens, not too far from Cosgrove. Almost simultaneously, a soldier sees you, and shouts, "There!", pointing.
[00:34] <Dracos> Cosgrove swings from the light, leaping into the elevator door.
[00:34] <Dracos> roll 3d6 acrobatics
[00:34] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 3d6 acrobatics and gets 17."
[00:36] <C-Rat> Cosgrove manages to get inside the elevator door, as the soldiers rapidly close distance towards it.
[00:36] <Dracos> Cosgrove hits the close button on the elevator and the roof button.
[00:36] <C-Rat> : 3d6, 6, 2, 1 , Total: 9
[00:37] <C-Rat> A single soldier, faster than the rest, manages to plow inside the elevator before the doors close.
[00:37] * Dracos quickly kicks him in the face to knock him out of the elevator, hard. Offensive strike.
[00:37] <Dracos> roll 3d6
[00:37] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 3d6 and gets 10."
[00:38] <C-Rat> OOC: Damage, j0.
[00:39] <Dracos> roll 7#d6
[00:39] <Dracos> roll 7#1d6
[00:39] * Hatbot --> "Dracos rolls 7#1d6 and gets 2, 2, 1, 3, 5, 1, 4."
[00:40] <C-Rat> The potent roll sends the guy staggering back, the doors closing in his face.

[Carthrat]

The elevator lurches upwards towards the roof, and in almost no time at all, it's there. The doors open, revealing a short access-corridor to the upperist of levels to the building. It's very workmanlike; no gloss here, just some dust, some bricks that havn't been painted over, and the elevators. Oh, and a flight of stairs.

[Dracos]

Cosgrove heads outside onto the roof, figuring he'd look for any landmarks to try and recognize where he was.

Dracos

[Carthrat]

There's no doubt about it- Cosgrove is in London.

The red double-decker buses; the huge ferris wheel by the Thames; it's hard to see, but he can make out Buckingham palace from his building- which is a short distance from the Thames, he can guess. There's a sprawling metropolis before him, and now that he has a clear look, he can guess that the sun has just risen.

[Dracos]

"Oh... absolute joy." Cosgrove shook his head and stretched a bit.

He then headed downstairs carefully, keeping an eye out for guards and the like.  Particularly of the lone variety.

Dracos

[Carthrat]

As Drac reaches the elevator room, he hears a 'Ping!'

[Dracos]

Cosgrove hides behind the doorway to the stairs, staying out of view of the elevator.

Dracos

[Carthrat]

There's the sound of boots, and another 'Ping!' Of course, they're heading towards the roof, not the stairwell.

[Dracos]

Cosgrove heads downstairs, trying to recall how many flights there was to the floor he was on, and looking out for cameras, stray guards, and random accountants.

Dracos

[Carthrat]

Cosgrove thinks it was around the 40th floor that he took off from; or thereabouts. It's hard to peg an exact number, though.

Nobody in an office building uses the stairs if they can help it, so he doesn't encounter anyone as he goes down.

[Dracos]

Cosgrove takes a careful glance out on the fourty-first floor.

Dracos

[Carthrat]

The door opens into.. something that looks remarkably similar to where Cosgrove came from. There's a series of elevators along the walls, and he can guess that the corridors follow the same T-Junction pattern he saw earlier. To the right is one of the big windows in the wall, that shows much the same view as he saw earlier.

More worryingly, however, there's a pair of soldiers standing about. They can't see the stair door; they're just ahead of it, checking out the elevators. Their backs are turned to Cosgrove at the moment, however. They're holding rifles of some kind, but perhaps more importantly, they both have combat knives at their belts, in a kind of clasp.

[Dracos]

Cosgrove hides for the moment, heading back up and checking fourty-two.

Dracos

[Carthrat]

It's essentially identicle to fourty-one. Two guards, same T-Junction layout, and these ones still aren't guarding the stairs at all.