>>6203354You pull Antoine close with your axe lodged in his shoulder, and pry your weapon free with a stern kick on the chest. A quick thrust with the spear pushes you back and breaks the engagement, letting him run out of the brush with you behind seconds later.
L3 Coultenet is armed with a weapon very similar to Katriina's bomblance, though of much more haphazard scrap make. It is almost certainly not loaded with explosives like hers is, probably just a load of rocks or metal balls. As well as that, he has a bandoleer of tiny dolls. They look like various high-level Stormwatch agents. One of them looks like Katriina, and another looks like Sumika. One looks like you, actually. Creep.
Seeing the man in the gatorskin jacket stumble out of the bush, Gabriel points his sword at the first man and starts to demand surrender immediately. The man with the machete on his hip turns toward Gabriel, locking the mechanisms for the Stormwatch Pilebunker strapped to his arm into prime ready position.
"You would both throw your lives away for this nonsense?" Katriina speaks aloud, exasperated.
Antoine's voice comes out dripping with hatred. "You only took me in because I was a killer. This wasn't the redemption I was promised, and you knew it."
The first man draws his blade and lifts his hat with it, gazing at the crowd behind silver-rimmed glasses. "What would the world lose with someone like you gone?" You begin to recognize that one from his voice. An L1 Trollslayer from France, but of clearly Native American diaspora. Thadodaho of the Haudenoohensau... fuck what they call themselves, of the Iroquois. You considered him for that scouting mission in the forest. "And if Deathwatch comes again? Good. Maybe after, Zephyr can walk through the streets. Gun down police. Tell the world the truth. Escalate. And if MNP comes down upon this city like hellfire, then it would be so easy for the rest of the world to burn like the last."
In the distance, you hear the flow of water being broken by bare feet sprinting. From the flank, you see a large blonde haired man, wearing absolutely <span class="mu-i">nothing</span> but blue bodypaint and wielding a giant sword.
No more negotiations. Everyone is picking targets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuLSmCDcvHE<span class="mu-b">Blythe steps forward and takes aim at the screaming Pictish man and Simo approaches to take the charge head-on. Gabriel rushes L1 Thadodaho, and Katriina looks around, taking special care to what situations might unfold. Sumika begins rushing over to take on L3 Coultenet, giving an additional dice to engagements against him.</span>
>Press the engagement on L3 Coultenet (Engage, 7d8 vs 8d6)>Run Antoine over and rend his head off (Brave, 10d8 vs 8d6 uncontested)>Jump back and burn the gator alive (Ranged 6d8 vs 6d6 evasion)>You don't like the fact Thadodaho has the most powerful weapon here, go help out Gabriel (Engage, 7d8 vs 4d6)>Easiest kill of your life, charge the Pict (10d8)>Write-in 