Crashed On Volturnus

[Terl Obar]

Seeing that the pirates to the west are mostly contained, Dalmar will shift east to support Gideon, again firing at the closest target once they are within range (15m with a -10 to hit).

[jedion357]

Two pirates (P1&2) bunch up on the limb closest to Gideon and he recognizes his chance, switching to full auto he gives them a burst (7d10 for 44 doing 22 to each target and half to skein suits). They fire full spreads with their lasers on him (4 shots: 76,82,38,66 at a -20 penalty for 4 misses). Dalmar steps up and his blastpistol thunders (1 shot: 05, 31STA and puts down P1 who tumbles to the ground below).

The yazirian opposite Kriss yells out for the pirates behind Kriss to come up behind him even as he blasts away at Kriss (shots 91, 84) and Kriss returns one aimed shot (58). Gekka opts to climb down a level so she can enter the tree just west of her with cover and advance on the last yazirian pirate.

Rigel and Kahn find themselves suddenly under fire from the pirates moving up from the East. Rigel trades shots with one and its a fire fight with all shots hitting (Rigel takes 21 STA form 2 laser strikes and P5 takes 25 from the Blastpistol). Kahn opts to just go with the sword in his hands and moves to contact as he takes fire (Kahn takes 13 from one hit and deals out 22- half to skien suit). Again the branch beneath Kahn creeks from the weight of more than one being.

JJ is still cautiously moving up.

[Terl Obar]

Seeing another pirate (Scagg) coming around the trunk of the tree out of the corner of his eyespot, Dalmar turns to cover Gideon's flank and will fire as soon as the pirate comes in range. If he doesn't come in range on the next round, Dalmar will fire at P2 and then turn to face the new threat.

[AntGibbs]

JJ will manuver to get a shot at Skrag from a flank or from behind if possible. If not JJ will manuver to shoot P5 or P6 and assist those fighting against the Pirates, his enemies.

JJ will try very hard to not get accidently shot by the other players as well or identified as a Pirate.

[rattraveller]

Once Grekka is in position she will take aim and fire both pistols at the Yazirian in front of her to end the threat on this side.

[corkman]

Kriss will continue to fire his rifle on semi automatic ([3] single-shots) at the Yazirian hoping to knock him from the trees before the Pirate's shots become more accurate on him.

[Shadow Shack]

Gideon will leap from the tree and attempt to glide/tackle P2, eventually to engage them in melee.

[Once Far Off]

Rigel is blasting away at the closest pirate.

[jedion357]

Rigel and Kahn continue battling the pirates in front of them and its a blood bath; Rigel takes two hits from the laser [28 STA putting him down to 23 which is below half] but his blast pistol drops the pirate. Kahn takes two laser hits [for 20 STA dropping him to 2 STA] but cuts the pirate down with his kah'dan.

Gekka is able to move into the next tree with cover but the pirate she's closing in on seemingly turns and runs, she opts to run as well to keep him in range and covers the 40m distance [DEX check passed]. This puts her directly under the pirate and she and the yazirian blast away at each other to no effect.

Kriss turns to get a shot at the pirate behind him and spots P3 coming to the edge of the tree and they shoot at each other with no effect.

Dalmar doesn't have a shot at Skragg with him being over 30 meters away due to the foliage so he opts for the closest pirate (P2) and hits and the return fire is non effective. Gedion dives the from 10 m away and above onto the pirate and grapples him but the momentum and impact of the diving yazirian knocks the pirate from the branch. Gedion and the pirate fall off the branch and begin to plummet to the ground. Realizing that the human pirate might not make the best airbag, Gedion attempts to grab one of the hanging vines and swing onto a branch on the way down [dex check with a bonus +20 due to this being in a yazirian's wheel house]. The human crashes to the ground with a thud and doesn't move but Gedion manages to swing onto a branch 10m above the ground.

JJ is actually lower in the branches then the action that is going on and is surprised when he sees Captain Skragg fast rope down a vine past him to the ground. He wondering what Skragg is doing when he hears a female cry out in fear from below and ahead of him. This spurs him to run along the branch (Dex Check pass). Through the branches he can just see a woman in a white medical coat cowering back from Skragg. He cant see Skragg's face but his memories supply an image of the frag hole's face with the joy of hurting someone else on it.




Kahn knows he's close to losing consciousnesses so he stops and does some some quick first aid to stabilize himself medically [+10 STA]. He tries to tell Rigel to let him look at his wounds but Rigel's heard Dr Redd's scream and moves to help her [unfortunately his many wounds enforce the -20 pain penalty to all actions].

Gekka continues to pursue the pirate from below to the edge of the tree expecting that he will probably dive off and glide to the lower tree due east. She hopes to shoot him mid air but is surprised by what happens next: The yazirian comes flying down but ungracefully as his foot is tangled in a vine. She's going to shoot from point blank range with the stunner when two arrows fly from right and left of her and hit the pirate who dies choking on his own blood dangling from what she now realizes is a snare and she perceives the presence of two individuals flanking her from just meters away.

Kriss and Dalmar shoot at the pirate they can see in the tree across from them and both hit. The pirate does a dramatic slow motion topple and falls off his branch. Both Dalmar and Kriss do a double take unsure of what they thought they saw as the pirate fell and Kriss says to Dalmar, "Were those arrows sticking out of his back?" and Dalmar shrugs, "That's what I thought I saw."

Gedion is orienting himself to shoot up at pirate P3 when the man is caught in a cross fire of modern weapons and arrows. The pirate tumbles down and lands dead on Gedion's branch. Gedion turns as two humanoids materialize out of their camouflage of branches and vines. They are both armed with bows and stone knives and dabbled with dried mud.

JJ glances up and sees bodies and two other people above him and Skragg below menacing the woman. He's not sure who might be a friend but he knows who his foe is, Skragg and he has a promise to keep to a dead friend. JJ is only 20m above Skragg and attempts to fast rope down like the pirate and plant his big ole size 12's in the back of Skraggs head but the pirate senses him coming down from the movement of the vine and dodges aside. His eyes go wide as he recognizes JJ and snarls, "You! I'm gonna kill you!"

....meanwhile, elsewhere in the trees Gekka's antennae twitch in surprise and Gideon's eyes widen in surprise as hairy humanoids that they have never seen the likes of before address them each in broken Pan Gal: "You...fight...Sky....Demons?"

OOC: early turn advance due to active posting; good job guys.

[Terl Obar]

Hearing Dr. Redd's scream, Dalmar doesn't have time to wonder what arrows mean and quickly turns and heads in the direction of the sound. "Hang in there Doc," he thinks to himself as he shuffles along the tree branches, dropping down as necessary to get to where they left Dr. Redd.

[Once Far Off]

Rigel whips around to see the source of the incoming arrows. Noticing that they are not aimed at him, he lines up a shot on the next closest pirate and hopes they're friendly. "I need to get patched up!" He thinks to himself.

[Shadow Shack]

Seeing the furry humanoids arriving on the scene and speaking in broken PanGal, Gideon realizes they may have an inadvertent ally. However it is a female human scream that tugs at his attention, and he turns to see Skragg rappelling down to the ground. He will do the same and attempt to engage the pirate captain with three rounds from the automatic rifle.

[rattraveller]

Grekka doesn't need comprehension to see these guys can be helpful but there is alot going at the moment. Grekka decides to take help where it is offered (Rule #83) and says to the furry humaniods (why can't it ever be cute, buff insectiods)

"Yes, they are our enemy. Please help me help my friends with the rest of the Sky Devils."

[corkman]

Kriss looks up from his rifles sights and tries to see what Dalmar was talking about, and he is a little surprised to see arrows protruding from the pirates back. "Sheesh, I think you're right Dalmar. Who the hell is shooting arrows?"

[AntGibbs]

JJ is going to come out and blast the nearest Pirate...especially if it is Skrag. If he sees the arrows fly (not at him) he is happy and attempts to engage people to help them.

JJ is going to attack and push the Pirates back towards friendlies since he is on the edge. If JJ can get on top of Skrag with his axe and dagger he will happily do that. If not, he will shoot the nearest Pirate and assist the neareat friendly be it primitive or crash victim.

If the fight ends JJ will attempt to introduce himself (without getting shot, hopefully). He will say, "Johnny Johnson. Glad to meet ya. Johnny Johnson sees that you are crashed here too. Yeah, Johnny is worried about it, but Johnny thinks that the Pirates made a big mistake messing with him. So Johnny offers to come along with you, if you want his company."

[AntGibbs]

JJ will definitely attempt to intervene between the Skrag and the woman in the coat. If he can get between then with his axe and dagger then he definitely will. He will alert others, "JJ got Skrag!"

He will of course to attempt to kill and/or incapacitate the nearest Skrag.

[jedion357]

Gekka beckoned for the hairy humanoids to come with her using calm supplication overtones of body language and said, "Yes, there are move 'sky devils' to fight, please come with me"

She spoke the words in Pan Gal which her polyvox promptly translated. One of the hairy primitives reacted in surprise and what she read as delight and launched into a string of words to the other primitives that were indecipherable but one word stood out, "Box" which she quickly guessed meant polyvox since the word was accompanied with a gesture of pointing to the throat where Gekka was wearing hers.

Gekka delayed just long enough to be sure she would not be shot in the back with an arrow and beckoned again saying "Come." and turned to run toward the scream of Dr. Redd.

Gideon was confronted with the apparent leader of the three humanoids on his branch that seemed to be looking for a response from him but one of them others approached cautiously and reached out to gingerly touch his pataguim skin flaps that allowed him to glide and hopped back before launching into a string of indecipherable words while flapping his wings. He was silenced with a word from the leader who looked back at Gideon.

Gedion, being a yaz of action turns and leaps off the branch. He's not far off the ground and simply glides the 10 meters to the ground to a chorus of excited hoots and howls behind him.

Everywhere in the trees members of the party rush to come to Dr. Redd's aid but unfortunately this activity will take some time. Closer to her location Rigel reaches the ground by fast roping and Kahn readies a tangler grenade and grabs for a vine to fast rope [next turn].

For JJ its a quick draw contest with Captain Skragg and he wins the reaction speed test drawing and firing the Gyro jet pistol he took off another pirate on the Serrena Dawn with two rounds hitting Skragg at point blank range but Skragg dodges aside and grabs Dr. Redd wrapping an arm around her neck and pressing the laser pistol to her temple, "Back all of you or she dies."

EDIT: oops Gibbs and I were posting at the same time.

BIC: JJ quips out the side of his mouth, "JJ's got Skragg." to the presence he feels behind him and to his left which Rigel.

After Skragg grabs the Dr., JJ uses an old trick- that people who have things tossed to them tend to try to catch them. He turns the gyrojet pistol to hold it by the mussel and says, "Ok, JJ surrenders just dont hurt the woman, here..." and he tosses the pistol underhand so that it arcs at Captain Skragg's head. Instinctively, Skragg bats it away with his right hand (pistol hand) and JJ dives in grabbing for the pistol arm. A grapple ensues in which everyone falls to the ground with both men exerting their strength to force the mussel of the laser pistol toward the other but Johny's higher strength is telling and with mere centimeters between their faces he enjoys the surprise then fear on Skragg's face as the laser is turned toward him.

"This is for Old Zeek you sadistic bastard." Then the laser discharges into Skragg's neck. Unfortunately, the pirate was playing for keeps and his laser pistol was set at 10 SEU. The Blast vaporizes much of the tissue in Skragg's neck and severs his spinal cord leaving the head only attached by a little bit of skin. There is some feedback from such a potent blast so close to JJ's head and it stuns him.

When he shakes off the stun there is a yazirian with a hypo spray in his hand starring at JJ who asks, "What do you know about Old Zeek?"

When JJ relates his experiences of being shanghaied with Old Zeek and some other homeless beings back at Point True on Pale. The yazirian, Kahn's face displays shock, concern and anger through the story. When Johny pulls out the dog tag and ID card he snatched from Old Zeek's neck just before the pirates spaced his body, Kahn stands up with a growl and stalks off away from everyone else with his blood boiling. Kahn will sing a warrior's tribute to the old war veteran that he had shared a night with and a bottle of brandy on the night before he shipped out on the Serrena Dawn.

Johny stood up and notice a crowd of beings surrounding him, including some hairy humanoids.

OOC: You all have one live casualty that Kahn grenaded early in the combat- Gekka is hoping to interrogate someone. I'm ruling that many of the weapons fell, mostly from 40m up and that you only found 5 hand lasers. I did not keep track of ammo so lest just call it 7 spare clips (full charge) and round up the clips in the 5 pistols to 3 full clips. No one in the pirate crew has an ID card, including Skragg.

[AntGibbs]

JJ will introduce himself to the surviors and to the aliens. The team will notice that JJ has a tendacy to refer to himself in the third pesron. JJ will let everyone know if they talk to him the information about him on the Wiki. JJ will also check on the woman and make sure she's okay.

[corkman]

Kriss carefully reloads his almost spent rifle magazine with a full one from one of his pockets and puts the partial in another pocket so as not to lose or drop it and then puts the weapon on safe since the situation appears to be calming down or at the least, calmer.

[Once Far Off]

Rigel looks at his wounds and asks if the doc can patch him up.