Rolled 4 + 8 (1d10 + 8)
>>6228935>Crit on 8 [8dmg?] Crit on 9[3D+1collision?], Crit on 10[3D+1Collision?]>For completeness sake, I'd like to Top 10 reroll that 3, and subdue him *harder*--
Movie night. The smell of takeout containers. Dad's rare, unguarded smile in the blue glow of the television.
Hurtle (1984), late friday, two week past the actual movie night deadline.
Rurt Kussell stars as ex-bomb squad specialist Jack Tremor, forced back into action when terrorist mastermind Simon Slowly (Balan Ickman) rigs a city bus to explode if its speed drops below 49.9 mph (Couldn't be 50, on account of how that was the number in another, much higher budget movie)
Rookie transit cop Rosa Del-gogo finds herself behind the wheel, as Tremor races against time to save thirty strangers and uncover Cole's ultimate plan. Which he has to do fast, on account of both the literal scenario and because the low budget affair doesn't leave much room for finesse. The scene crystallizes in her mind, though she's barely thought about it for years. The bus careening toward an unfinished overpass, passengers screaming as Tremor calculates trajectories in his head. He has a line. It's not iconic, but dad would somehow repeat it when he was doing something goofy, all smiles at the latest dorky activity. Tremor made it seem cool. Dad more like he was making a joke. "Physics doesn't negotiate.". Sure. Dad would always lean forward during that scene, hands tensed on his knees, completely absorbed. "Notice how he stays calm," he'd whisper. "When everything's chaos, that's when thinking clearly matters most."
She'd nod along then, mostly not particularly interested and maybe admittedly slightly annoyed that every time movie night rolled around he'd be either late or insistent on something with a much higher amount of explosives per minute than the documentaries Kitt actually liked.
Dad would rewatch that jump sequence obsessively, muttering calculations under his breath as if reliving something. Dork.
Which was strange, really. He was never one for public transport. Just came home one day and swore the whole thing off, picked up a driver's license and got really into *cars* for a while.
"Sometimes," he'd said once, so quietly she almost missed it, "you only get one chance to make the jump."
She'd asked him then if he'd ever driven a bus. He'd laughed too quickly and changed the subject. Muttered something about, no, no, he hadn't, but the traffic cop had. She never found out what he meant. But. It's true enough.
Physics doesn't negotiate.
Major Sky *is* just a highly trained commander of commandoes.
If she slows down, she's probably going to go like Spencer.
But fifty-thousand volts is physics and mechanical engineering. That counts for a lot, in the collision of high speed objects, and being thrown through walls at high speed barely hurts.
Kitt goes for a goes for the tackle-jump and jams the taser into what she hopes is a soft spot in the armor.