The Crossing ((open RP))

Kings Row, Gunman Battle

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Originally Posted by Pious He leapt backwards and sought cover behind a car wreckage, wielding his near-impenetrable shield defensively. He noticed a surprise bullet had just whizzed past him, revealing the possibility of other hidden foes. His odds had now been thrown out of balance. Given the right moment, he would now have to find a non-innocent civilian and secure himself an exit strategy. A human hostage.

Well she hadn’t been the one to call his bluff, so much for settling this the smart way, was that giant machine being piloted by a Fire Aspect or something?

Mirel shook aside the rest of those thoughts, performing a simple striking hand gesture of her own, causing a surprisingly sharp and painful bolt of sea water to lance from her palm straight towards the cover taking dark figure.

It was a good shot too, maybe not perfect, but good, enough to scythe through clothing and even dent armour. Though that wasn’t the real threat of the attack, the threat being that if the shot hit, the mystically charged and created water would seep through into the targets lungs, nowhere near enough to drown them but usually enough to cause them to have to spend a little bit coughing it up before they could breath again. Though all that was dependant on hitting the target, even his shield, which while likely wasn’t guaranteed.

The air around Mirel once more seemed it could not decide if it was air or water anymore, the seemingly mystical lightning occasionally manifesting once more, anyone standing too close to her might get a little wet.

Ineloo rolled her eyes. This lot clearly weren't the type to show restraint; certainly not the kind that would be required to disarm a poison or fire trap with any level of success. She made a mental note not to invite any of them along on any jobs she pulled while she was here, then shook her head in irritation. She was not going to immediately fall foul of this world's laws...not yet anyway...

She stepped out from behind the dumpster she was crouched by and, taking a moment to check her aim, she loosed the binding arrow at the crazy priest - if it hit, maybe he'd get tangled up with the metal transport. Assuming her aim wasn't entirely off of course.

Kings Row, Gunman Battle

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Originally Posted by Pious The shooter remained knelt behind his shield. This battle was now well under way and the so-called soldier of the Most High was not about to let up.

The hail of gunfire showed that her target had somehow managed to dodge the effects of her Elemental Bolt, and that could only mean that foul demonic powers were flowing through him, almost certainly a Forsaken.

This would require a change in tactics, and something fare more showy, oh yes, Mirel thought as she flung her arms out horizontally, causing a sudden cascade of horizontal rain to fly out around her, though it all quickly shot back towards her, coalescing into what looked like a large squad of soldiers, each one made out of whirling raindrops, who after standing impressively behind Mirel for a second began to advance implacably through the hail of gunfire towards it’s source.

And with this distraction Mirel began sprinting at a speed that would put a fair few athletes to shame towards the street-light closest to the cover the gunman was in.

((Ha ha, I get to bust out the showy charms at last))

Ethan held back for a moment , this was getting messy and out of hand, digging deep into his side pack his hand plucked a grenade from the bag, ((FO:NV Holy Frag Grenade)) a white cross marked its fragmentation casing.

“ okaz let us get biblical on this guys butt..”

Just as his fingers gripped the pin he spotted Ildela charging in..

“ oh for frucks sake, who the heck gets close to a madman…”

Finding a nice chunk of full cover, Ethan watched to see if the grenade would be needed.

Ineloo had hastily ducked back behind the dumpster when the thrown collar had come in her direction. While most of the others may have been caused nothing more than a little discomfort by it, being around 3'5", she would probably have been knocked silly by it had the thing hit her. When she snuck a look back out she also saw the shattered remains of the arrow she had sent at him lying on the ground. It was rather annoying to find that the man had actually shot it out of the air! Although, to give credit where credit was due, he was clearly a pretty decent marksman.

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Originally Posted by Pious "Godforsaken wench!" muttered the fallen holyman, the force of the woman's charge having knocked him onto his back. "What manner of attack is this? Thy wishes to seduce a soldier of the Most High?" he taunted, the holy energies within his shield now siphoned and depleted. Fortunately, he was yet unaffected. Discarding the shield and rifle, he held up an arm to receive his returning collar, onto which he attached a cord. Using his environments to his advantage, the priest flung his boomerang collar upwards onto the nearby monorail tracks and began retracting it like a grappling hook. As he did so, the claw mechanism along his arms shot forth three metal blades with which he would hold his attacker hostage. With one arm he tried to trap the woman, to hold her against his chest, choke her tightly by the throat as he hastily made escape onto the monorails.

The Halfling couldn't help but giggle at the crazy priest's comment as one of the others present slammed into him and knocked him sprawling across the floor. "You're as bad as some of the wizards I've met!" she smirked, watching his passage up to the tracks running overhead. Then she grinned broadly and, hoping she'd worked out how her quiver operated, pulled what should be an arrow primed with a greasy liquid. Ineloo loosed it not at the holy man, but at the underside of the tracks.

Assuming nothing knocked it off course again, the goop would coat the surface with a slippery substance that would make it extremely difficult to climb along, whilst having no effect on the vehicles that ran over the top side. Hoping that her actions would have been sufficient to prevent his escape, Ineloo moved away from her cover so that she would be able to get a clear shot at the next opportunity, pulling a blunt, weighted arrow that she would fire at the first chance she got.

(( Oh was that perchance an Oil Slick Arrow Fea ? now remind me how well does that mix with a rocket powered HE warheaded missile ? ))

((It was. And remind me how well missiles go with monorail type structures ))

Kings Row, Gunman Battl/Monorail Track

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Originally Posted by Pious Having learnt not to underestimate the peoples of this world, the fleeing soldier pre-calculated the existing possibility that the missile may still hit so without pause, he broke out into a sprint across the structural monorail, while it still stands.

Mirel was not an easy person to escape from, as her foul enemy had been distracted by other people’s attacks she had reached the street light, her rain drop warriors trailing behind. Once she arrived Mirel proceeded to promptly laugh in the face of physics and run straight up the street light, seemingly even faster then she ran horizontally.

Very quickly she had reached the top, and with a steel denting kick, had launched herself through the air towards the monorail line, landing with a thump and roll directly in front of her quarry. She was also joined just a few seconds later by her rain drop warriors, who fell into place surrounding the figure, cutting off his retreat.

“Give my regards to the Demon City, Anathema” She said with a self confident smirk as the magical constructs closed in on the gun man, with Mirel herself but seconds behind, unleashing a torrent of blisteringly fast strikes with her bladed hands.

By this point, what happened with the missile and others was going to have to come priority two.
Instead, Quicksilver took a running jump, up onto the monorail.

And there he transformed, although this time far more progressively. For a moment there was a silver Ford GT balanced neatly on the line, before the wheels shifted and latched onto the rails, bodywork came apart and layered in strange ways, the vehicles appearance shifting into something entirely alien looking.

The engine revved as he waited, seeing how effective the human with the strange water abilities was before dashing in.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

"While my understanding of the functionality behind this mode of transit is less than scientific..." Amatus said slowly, peering out the front window of the monorail, "I take it that people running around while utilizing explosives on our current equivalent of a road is something of a ba-"

And then, because Amatus was such a long-winded git, the tram caught up with both lldela and the gunman, along with the very probable new hole blasted in the mono-rail by the explosive. Amatus reflexively dissolved into a cloud of Archaea cells and literally flew right through the walls away from the impending trainwreck.

"Not good."
Engines roared as Quicksilver took off from a standing start to nearing 100mph faster than all but the best earth-made vehicles could manage. He de-railed himself halfway along, swinging himself off the rails as he transformed back into robot-mode, landing and skidding to a halt under the falling monorail-cars with his arms outstretched, ready to catch it.

Which also gave him time to think.
"This...is likely gonna hurt. Oh fr-"

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Kings Row - On a Rail

"...and now you know what a train is." the armored alien who'd been handling the trio's conversation with Derek and the 'Outsider' finished the curt explanation of railway transportation, a four-fingered hand securely gripping one of the handhold poles as the car accelerated, "Though this is technically called a 'tram'. I think that's because it has only one car, but I'm not sure. Where we come from, we don't have these."

The other two nodded from their sears, the visors of their helmets sweeping over passengers and terrain alike, constantly on alert. Their weapons remained holstered, but they very clearly wouldn't be caught off-guard if something happened. Indeed, a canny observer could likely pin the same to the speaker. However, the same applied to all three in regard to the fact that the cause wasn't either of their newfound acquaintances.

When the first gave a nod toward the other two however, this seemed to change almost instantly. All three suddenly seemed much less on edge, greatly more relaxed.

"In regard to that, I am Oxana Kalkartova, Captain of the AFSSR GONAROV." she introduced herself to the human pair, then motioned to her associates, "These are members of my landing division Caller Ruuk an-"

A thunderous detonation cut her off then and there, not to mention rocked the cab like an earthquake. The automatic brakes immediately locked down, and had the civilian passengers not already been bounding about, they probably would've done so then, for the tram ground to a ferociously quick halt. Ahead, not too far away, smoke rose and flames licked, the previous car swallowed by the hole that had rather unexpectedly appeared along the track.

On a nearby rooftop, a nervous-looking Sarkh cringed. The Captain was going to kill him...

Ineloo watched in horror as the explosion tore a hole in the track, the grease that she had managed to splatter on the underside igniting and sending up flames and a plume of black smoke. When she saw the approaching vehicle, she swore loudly, using words that, while probably unheard of here, would have made the sailors at the dockside inns in Stormreach proud.

Desperate to do something that might prevent a greater loss of life, she swiftly switched her arrow for more of the binding ones and loosed them at the damaged track, trying to create a net that might just be able to catch the train before it could slam into the ground.

Kings Row, Wrecked Monorail Line

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Originally Posted by Pious The explosive warhead collided with the man's jaw, causing it to detonate in a massive explosion that inevitably took out the monorail, bringing the approaching cab spiralling earthwards. There could be no doubt in anyone's mind as to the fate of the so-called soldier of the Most High.

That could have gone better, was the thought that went through Mirel’s head as she tumbled through the air due to an explosion for the second time in about ten minutes. Once again she performed the near impossible feat of turning the sudden explosive tumbling she found herself in into a perfectly choreographed landing.

As she landed she looked up to observe the situation above, revealing to the world her otherwise quite attractive face had been marred by a few lacerations due to shrapnel, not that she had noticed yet.

“Well… that was surprisingly easy! He must have been very new to his power, by the Daana’d this place has a problem with things attacking it doesn’t it?” She said aloud to no one in particular.