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The enemy is degraded, demoralized, disordered. Inferior. All it would take to utterly rout them is for you to leave the Captain and hop over the robot with your hands filled with hate and murder...
>BODYGUARD
You force yourself to hold your position. You prop the Captain upright against the wall and stand in front of him, playing the sentinel. Focus on the ever-guiding Objective. Time to let go.
>OVERWHELMING FORCE - Automatic Success
<span class="mu-i">BLAMMO!</span>
But not without a fight. Support fucks up and takes a peek - you immediately capitalize on it and blast apart the barrel of his rifle as quickly as it appears. Trying to get the last shot eh? The rifleman shrieks and takes cover yet again. You wait. <span class="mu-i">Blood drips down from his ruined hand into the fetid drink.</span>
The humming reaches the climax. The entire storm tunnel is filled with a lurid red light. Shadows rise from all over, at critical mass, and you raise Big Iron in a growing panic <span class="mu-i">as if it would do anything at this point.</span> Then there's a tremendous crack! and all three members of the RED team explode into gouts of burning shadows which flare upwards <span class="mu-i">and beyond to that Elsewhere you cannot reach</span>. Red silhouettes like bloody ghosts hang in the air until they fade away into nothingness and it goes still.
Nothing remains of the RED team save for mechanical debris and the pockmarks of a firefight...
>COMPOSURE Check - Failure
<span class="mu-r">[CRUELTY] And a deep, lingering resentment.
They may live yet a little longer but they will not elude you a second time. You swear on this.
-COMPOSURE</span>
COMPOSURE: 1/3 (WARNING)
You're roiling inside now. All this stress pushing down like the layers of the earth around you. It makes you want to smash your head against a wall and squeak over and over and over again. <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">Yet you are in control.</span></span> You must master yourself. Just for now, just for now...
