Tokyo Girl

[Halbarad]

Touche, comes Tim's reply as he too heads inside. It'd suck if it ends right as it gets to the exciting bits, though.

[Dracos]

that's what makes them particularly exciting.  Except for the whole not a thrill seeker attitude.  Dracos ran his mental mouth as he  continued along, Anyhow, we should be prepared for at least some supernatural folk popping out, compared to the guys we've just been traveling with.

Dracos

[Carthrat]

Let's not get ahead of ourselves, here. We'll need to get through the Many Suits With Guns before we deal with the Big Boss.

[Rezantis]

Nathan just ignores the conversation as he follows closely behind the blonde man; the only outward sign of his disquiet that he keeps opening and closing his gloved right hand.

[Brian]

Everyone is led by blond-yak down a hall to a large room.  The trailing yaks fall away, though the large room (double-height, with a huge double-door at the far end) has a quartet of guards.  These look like typical yakuza from what you've seen so far, except for the lack of shades.

"We'll need to search you before you can enter," blond-yak warns.

One of the guards approaches and asks, "Who first?"

[Rezantis]

Nathan lets out a derisive snort.

Are we all okay with this, or would somebody like to start something?

[Carthrat]

Well, if so, tell me now, before I hand over my stuff.

Tom steps forward!

[Bjorn]

Bjorn reaches out to Tom's shoulder, gently holding him in place.  Shut the dog up, he tersely replies to Nathan, before I do.

[Rezantis]

Nathan just lets out a derisive snort.

"Are you serious?  Do you have even the slightest idea what we are and why we're here?"

[Brian]

Blond-yak raises an eyebrow and grins, as if he was hoping for this.  "Not really," he replies flippantly.  "And I don't think I care, either."  The man has a very good grasp of English, all told.  "You want to meet with Prometheus?  We check you out before you go further."

The guards don't reach for weapons, but they all simultaneously scowl darkly.

[Rezantis]

That answers that.  If he knows anything we'll beat it the hell out of him.  Move on three.  One . . .

Nathan growls, stepping forward, gesturing angrily.  "Fine.  Whatever."

Two . . .

He lets his hands drop, stepping closer - trying for a moment to pull something from his other self, hoping that the Stormrider can spare it this time - "We'll be having words with him about this.  I don't expect you'll" Three! "enjoy it when . . ."

[Carthrat]

You're fucking insane!

Tom does not bust out with his gun, or start tearing people up with a knife; rather, he looks for a suitable place to dive for cover!

As he will *surely* need to do so in just a moment.

[Brian]

OOC: The campaign now enters combat time.  For the moment, we are at phase zero, everyone with a held action may act -- assuming you pass a dex check.  If you fail, you act in dex order.  Unfortunately, this also does mean that everyone gets to act in this round.

So, round zero, highest Dex acts first.  Because of this, and the circumstances of this combat (our first in the forums, as opposed to IRC) I am going to allow a 24 hour window for everyone to determine their actions/contact me to see which powers/attributes they can borrow from otherselves before we start posting in combat order.  Nathan is able to borrow everything except tactical/knowledge skills, and the Ancestral Buster Sword from BarbarianRez.

Edit: Also, for the first round of combat, everyone on the PC side who chooses to make an attack will again a +1 Chutzpa bonus to ANYTHING (except for damage), because in retrospect, I'm impressed that you guys don't have to swagger.

[Carthrat]

Assuming things really do break out in some horrible mess, Tom is going to find any cover there is, utilize it, and then start shooting.

If there is *nowhere* that could be hidden behind or used as shelter, he's going to... punch the nearest yakuza, then grab him and use him as a human shield! I don't know how that would work under the rules- as a regular MARTIAL STRIKE, and if it's good enough, I can grab him for free? My combat pool will be dedicated to DCV.

Er, lesse if I remember how to do this. That means I should wind up with an OCV of 7 for 5d6 regular damage, and a DCV of 9.

[Halbarad]

Tim shall produce ye dream-stick and, assuming I'm not immediately targeted, start using it to smack at any non-allied appendage that appears to be holding weaponry of any sort.

If I do get targeted, getting the hell out the way takes first priority.