Carth's magical adventure, ROUND TWO, MOTHERFUCKERS!

[Anastasia]

With a curt nod, Rachel makes haste away from you and the robot, following the rest of the crowd. None of them seem to want to get tangled in your business.

CAR - 24 are relatively normal, destroyable robots unmodified, but most are modded heavily these days. A typical one with reinforced armor plating and weaponry can be a serious threat to both the target and the surrounding area. Decapitation will stop them, as the CPU is in the head - a caveat to the human design used for it. Serious body damage will generally stop them as well.

It raises the cannon and fires, a yellow wave of energy hurtling towards you...

[Carthrat]

Decapitation! Wonderful! Maybe I'll just stick a hole in his head..

Carthrat rolls to the side, staying against the wall. He pulls his .60 from it's holster and fires off a shot at the things head..

[Anastasia]

The blast of energy narrowly misses you, and hits the wall. From the crashing sound, it did some *serious* damage to the walls. The fact that these walls are far from normal Earth walls also comes to mind.

Fuck.

Your shot races home...and dully bounces off the metal head unit. The small arms fire seems to have had no effect on him at all. Turning, it fires it's cannon again..

[Carthrat]

The fuck ever happened to 'No Disintergrations'? thinks Carthrat, stashing his gun and pulling his Disrupter.

Setting the mode to 'Cutting Torch', Carthrat starts hopping, cartwheeling, and rolling forward, preparing to fire a beam of laser-cutting death across the things neck-torso area.

[Anastasia]

You dodge two more property damaging blasts as you get close, but the last one nicks your shoulder, leaving a nasty cut on the top of your shoulder.

But it gets you into cutting range...

[Carthrat]

Carthrat pulls that trigger and swings the rifle like he would a really long spear, aiming in the things general direction. Decapitation or not, any sort of bisection should fuck the thing beyond use or repair.

[Anastasia]

The robot, to it's credit, manages to move partially out of the way so that it only loses it's cannon arm from the elbow down and a good part of it's midsection.  

The creature sparks. "SU...rend...der...Cart...." it says as it stops moving and falls over.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat makes a special note to fry the things head, too.

He puts his weapon away and lights up a cigarette, then tosses a coin behind the bar. "I know you're there. Talk to me, Jimmy. Who put the bounty on me?"

[Anastasia]

The barkeep comes up from under the bar, looking at the damage the creature caused. One wall took two shots of the cannon and has serious damage, and another took a single shot.

"Well...Besides the old, out of date ones, I don't think you have anything on your head, Carthrat. You're persona non  grata outside of Earth since you've been here so long."

[Carthrat]

Carthrat shakes his head. "It can't be an out of date one. Those 'bots can't fly ships, they're planetary hunters. Which means someone put it here. It can't have been looking all these years; I've spent most of them right here in Tokyo."

He takes a drag off his cigarette. "Find out for me."

[Anastasia]

"Sure...but you know he's probably gonna bill you for the repairs, you know." he mentions.

[Carthrat]

"If he wants credits, he can keep on dreaming," replies Carthrat. "I'll settle it next time I'm here."

With that, Carthrat heads back to the car, hoping nothing stupid happened to Rachel while he was busy.

[Anastasia]

Rachel is waiting by the car, as expected. "So...what was that about? Did you charm your way into trouble?" She laughs as she says it, odd considering what just happened.

[Carthrat]

Carthrat runs a surrepitous scan on Rachel. "I'll tell you later," he replies, checking the results.

[Anastasia]

The scan comes back normal. (For her, anyway.)

"Sure...Back to the hotel now? Maybe eating in would be preferable now?"