Beauty & The Beast

[Brian]

N'dovu's mouth compresses into an upset line at this, but he doesn't say anything.  Instead, he waits for Rick.

[Carthrat]

While N'Dovu is waiting, he sees a figure out of the corner of his eye.

After a short moment, he recognizes the trenchcoat-clad man as Kyle, Angela's apparently assistant (bodyguard?). He hasn't noticed N'Dovu, because he's talking to someone N'Dovu doesn't recognize. However, he's coming this way, and it won't be long before he shows up.

[Brian]

N'dovu's right eye twitches slightly upon recognizing the man.  He debates, briefly, wondering what the odds are he could fool him.  Ultimately, N'dovu thinks this is unlikely.  The answer is either remaining unnoticed, or being close enough to the guard to fight him before he can reach for the gun he undoubtedly has on it.

Only one of these is an option for N'dovu, so he makes sure that he's ready to act first ... unless Rick speeds into sight soon.

[Carthrat]

It's not a long distance to the dig site from where Rick was before, but he's still going to be a couple minutes or so.

Kyle, turning around for a moment, sees N'Dovu- and his hand dives into his jacket, his eyes widening for a moment.

[Brian]

Too late.  N'dovu tightens his grip on his stick slightly, and pretends not to have seen Kyle, instead nodding at one of the Cahuilla youths.  It's already too late, but whatever advantage N'dovu can salvage, he will.

[Carthrat]

Kyle has some kind of weird gun in his hand- N'Dovu doesn't know that much about guns, but this one isn't really normal. It's silvery and metallic, and looks more like a miniature hair-dryer than anything else.

"Stop right there," says Kyle. Even though he speaks in a low voice, it's perfectly audiable to N'Dovu. A few workers about notice what's happening, but instead of the usual shouts of alarm one might expect, simply keep their heads down and start backing away quickly.

[Brian]

If Kyle is within speaking distance, he's within striking distance, and N'dovu is not going to try and talk his way out of this one; he's in too deep.

N'dovu is allocating his floating points to DCV (+2, I think, but I didn't bring my character sheet to work), and using a Defensive Strike on Kyle, (I don't remember if I have Martial Disarm or not).  This gives him +1 OCV, and +5 DCV for normal damage.  Assuming that he's already being covered, N'dovu will not dodge/block, but if he is hit (and it's possible), he will Roll with the Punch.

[Carthrat]

The doctor backs away hurriedly as N'Dovu lashes out. At the same time, Kyle fires...

N'Dovu is sumarrily rewarded with a grunt of pain and a crunch. It almost compensates for the horrible burning sensation he's feeling on the side of his chest. Almost.

N'Dovu just got shot; it *hurts*, and he's taking a slight penalty to all actions for the next round. On the other hand, he broke some part of Kyle's body; felt like an arm.

[Brian]

Grunting in pain, N'dovu focuses on his enemy.  Swinging his stick low to the ground, and then up, he tries to smash the weapon into Kyle's gun.  If that happens, he can drop his stick and settle in for the fight that Kyle will want to avoid....

Disarm: -2 OCV, -0 DCV Roll a STR. vs. STR roll to knock a weapon out of an opponent's hands. (This requires a weapon.)

All points to OCV right now (+1 or +2, I can never remember).

[Carthrat]

Kyle fires again as N'Dovu strikes his arm, the shot blasting what feels like millimetres away from his head. His gun, however, flies out his hand, leaving him apparently open.

Kyle's arms dive inside his cloak..

The silvery gun is too far away now for Kyle to easily grab.

[Brian]

N'dovu can feel the seeping numbness that pervades him after being heavily damaged.  Either it was nothing, and he's just in a battle trance ... or it could be something, and he's going into shock.

Either way, he needs to act fast, and he doubts Kyle is feeling well after being struck.  Dropping his stick, N'dovu closes, and tries to effectivly deny Kyle another weapon.  Undoubtedly, the next weapon will be more dangerous.

Grab: -1 OCV and -2 DCV to grab an opponent or object held by an opponent. If you are successful (and they fail their Escape roll) you may either Squeeze (apply STR damage without an attack roll) or Throw (see Martial Throw), or have simply taken whatever they were holding from them.

Floating points in OCV.

[Carthrat]

As N'Dovu drops his staff and goes in for the grab, Kyle pulls out his new weapons...

A flick of the wrist and a step back is what it takes to stay away from getting grabbed. N'Dovu can't help but think he's made a mistake when he feels blood running down his arms, and Kyle standing a short distance away with a pair of combat knives in his hands..

[Brian]

Grunting, N'dovu leans back, and launches a kick at Kyle to knock him down.  "Don't make me kill you," he growls.  "We don't want that.  Got enough ghosts followin' me around already."

[Carthrat]

Kyle tries to block the kick.

There's another crunch, and his blocking hand drops one of the knives. He doesn't quite fall down- but he's certainly looking close.

He wordlessly tries to stagger a few metres away from N'Dovu, pocketing his knife..

[Brian]

"Good boy," N'dovu pants, getting his stick back to lean on, and then shambling over to the dropped gun and pocketing it.  "Doctor, that man seems to have broken some bones.  He might need medical attention."