TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Because you're my favorite agents, I've found this fantastic deal online for a very relaxing almost most inclusive conference cottage in the lower upper mountainways, you know the ones, they're by the forest, and maybe you'd like to go?
It's very nice. They have . . . Goat cheese? I think? Sheep cheese? It's some kind of ungulate based diary product, I'm sure, but I did only browse wikimedia for five minutes <span class="mu-i">listen okay I need a favour, do this tiny little thing for me and I promise I'll sign off on your next report minimum questions asked the THING IS Blue Rat was supposed to be investigating this particuar report but you know Blue Rat gets and one thing led to another and now they're being hunted through the streets of Prague by Interpol and we're a little shortstaffed and I need to have a full rundown on this file on the desk Monday, so, I just, look, you go, you check it out, you have a looksee, you enjoy some ... cheese? tea? cottage life? you give it a full five star review on yelp! I promise it won't be anything like last time! It'll be nice!
Just stay away from the border, they've got a whole civil war going over there. Maybe its about what kind of cheese is best? Look you get on the fight and it's a sixteen hour one anyway so I'll have time to do the proper briefing by the time you touch down!</span>
RIGHT, so we've agreed then? Fantastic Agent, knew I could count on you. That's why you're one of my favorites, you know? Right?
Agent . . .
>Please pick a Moniker <span class="mu-i">#Agent Moniker
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
–Traits–
??</span>
Once you're all settled, I'll run you through the basics? Alright? You're the best, really owe you a solid! Enjoy the . . . maybe it's pies? I think it might be pies. Well whatever local culinary delicacies! Now go, or you'll miss the flight.
>Due to regulatory oversight restructuring, we've standardised basic loadout. You can pick 2 personal additions and some variations of the mission requisited stuff. This is a bit of a rush job, so don't worry too much. >If you can harken back to a Prior Incident, you can earn yourself a Trait, which are tiny nudges in the right direction at the worst of times. Don't worry too much, you'll pick some up rapidly either which way. >So what is all this, anyway? >Think of it as a multiple person turn by turn mini narrative, perhaps a kind of wargame, perhaps a cottage conference centre and bed and breakfast explorer. >Do I need to have done anything like this before? >Funny you should ask, previous operations are https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?searchall=vanguard but they are not required reading. You'll pick it up as you go. >There's a discord, for skirmishy stuff: https://discord.gg/2QC9ndPr Fiasco
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>>5933812 #Agent Fiasco
> =Stats= [ Health: 12/12 || Agility: 5 || Reaction: 9 || Push: 4 ]
=Skills=
[Proficiency 10]
=Gear=
{Standard Kit}
{Lucky Charm}
{Multitool}
(!) {Key to Room #13}
==Trait=
(Baleful Malignity)
Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
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>>5933812 =Stats=
#Agent Vertex
-Status-
[ Health 12 | Agility: 5 | Reaction 9 | Push: 4 ]
Strike 1d6
Proficiency 10
-Equipment-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR] + Subtle Carrier Plates [+3DR]
-Belt & Back-
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
CBRT-Kit
Key to Mission Briefcase
=Trait=
{Existential Dread}
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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Looking good Agents, looking sharp. And if you don't mind me the saying: I honestly think the pair of you could both reasonably require some R&R.
Pockets
Quoted By:
>>5933812 >Take Tourist gear #Agent Pockets
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Tourist Attire + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
Ball of yellow yarn, stale fruity gum, aspirin bottle (probably not aspirin), paper clips, plastic dollhouse mirror, soup mix/condiment packets
–Traits–
Recovering Hoarder
Mistook a coded Vanguard recruitment ad for a therapy program for her condition. Stuck out the misunderstanding and now comes equipped with items from her hoard to finally put them to use.
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Fri 23 Feb 2024 18:31:36 No. 5933855 Report Quoted By:
>>5933812 >Personal Additions: >-Pre-filled firearms discharge form & subtly pre-filled search warrants >-Premium health and life insurance, good pension plan, proper HR benefits >-Rental Car keys #Agent Sidewinder
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR] + Pre-filled firearms discharge form & subtly pre-filled search warrants
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs + Rental Car keys
–Traits–
Clever
–Assets–
Premium health and life insurance, good pension plan, proper HR benefits
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Oh, [i:lit]premium[/i:lit] insurance-- let me just check the -- mhm -- so the crash payout is -- ahHAH-- >The Designated Driver for Team One should, at this stage, decide between arriving on TIME or arriving SECURELY. >Then roll Proficiency + Driver. >Congratulations, Sidewinder, you earned your first Trait. Perhaps if one was sufficiently CLEVER about finding SHORTCUTS one could even roll Proficiency + Driver + Clever, but of course, that has the danger of being a little . . . too clever. >We use 3d6 around here. So that's dice+3d6 in the options field. You want low. >Team One can nominate a better teamname than Team One. >Team One can designate a Team Coordinator, if desired, for maintaining coordination and leadership, >Team One can designate a Pointman, if desired, for breach-and-clear tasks >Team One can designate a Sup--[ERROR]: Agent Fiasco is MALIGNANCY SPECIALIST; no support specialist available in Team One! Woe upon all your works! >Team One can designate a Technical Specialist, if desired, for field-relevant hardware and technical support >Team One can designate a Ops Specialist, if desired, for operational and people elements, liason, translating and hotel booking itenary management >These are Traits, for the duration of the mission. They help you.
Fiasco
>>5933866 "Calling dips on Pointman."
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Fri 23 Feb 2024 19:07:47 No. 5933872 Report Rolled 6, 6, 1 = 13 (3d6) >>5933866 >Volunteer for Technical Specialist >Cleverly find SHORTCUTS What about "Team Won", because we have already won, and... you know... it sounds like "one".
Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
>>5933866 "Did anybody bring ballistic plates? Nobody? Just me? I see. I'll take point, then."
>Nominating myself as Point(wo)man. The void cannot claim me soon enough. Sunday
>>5933812 >Good luck charm >Local contacts + favors >Locked briefcase >Lucky I wasn't sure if I was going to make it in time, but here I am! Lucky me.
#Agent Sunday
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5(3) Reaction 9(7) Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR]
Locked Briefcase (-2 react, -2agi)
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs + Good Luck Charm
–Traits–
Lucky
–Assets–
Local contacts and favors
Pockets
Vertex, you've been positively /dismal/ this whole trip. Chin up a bit or you're stuck managing this operation.>Volunteer Ops, willing to be Coordinator instead.
Carlen
> Smarterer Phone > Wet Wipes and Hand Sanitizer > Rental car keys, everything inside is covered in saran wrap > Released class-3 restricted nerve agents in a population centre after finding weevils in her sugar
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5933872 That's clever, Team Won. And it I bet if the Director sees the report headline with Team Won Won, they'll make a direct connection to going vroom vroom with small car toys which I [i:lit]think[/i:lit] is about the IQ level of your average upper management oversight commitee member, so I know he'll be just please-- TAKE A LEFT HERE-- Oh
No
no you missed it
the gps is updating
updating
updating
updating
up-- and it lost connection.
>>5933887 >>5933873 >>5933872 >>5933870 . . . Team Won, [i:lit]where in the breezes are you[/i:lit]?
>>5933892 >>5933875 Team [b:lit]Two[/b:lit], good to have you with us. And its nice to see someone so scrupous about making sure their rental rides are clean for the next user. Carlen? Carlen? Agent Carlen? Hello? Stop scrubbing at the ashtray and listen up.
Regulation states we can't send the extra secret briefcase case carrier with the key carrier, so Team Won went on ahead and they're currently [i:lit]completely en-route with no detours[/i:lit]. Meet them at the site and then unlock the briefcase, as standard. Just . . . uhm. . . take a scenic route due to operational security concerns and because of. . . arrival coordination . . . right . . .
>Can the Designated Driver for Team Two please decide whether to arrive ON TIME or arriving SAFELY? That's dice+3d6 in the options field, vs Proficiency + relevant Traits. Congratulations Driver, you've earned a trait. >Team Two can nominate a better teamname than Team One. >Team Two can designate a Team Coordinator, if desired, for maintaining coordination and leadership, >Team Two can designate a Pointman, if desired, for breach-and-clear tasks >Team Two can designate a Support Specialist, if desired, for on-site trauma response, medical facilitation and bio-vitals monitoring duties >Team Two can designate a Technical Specialist, if desired, for field-relevant hardware and technical support >Team Two can designate a Ops Specialist, if desired, for operational and people elements, liason, translating and hotel booking itenary management >These are Traits, for the duration of the mission. They help you. Sort of. Mostly. Maybe not. --
Hello? Team [b:lit]Won[/b:lit]? Are you seeing what I'm seeing? I think that's a border guard patrol. Are we near the border? We shouldn't be. Did the border move? It moves a lot. Okay just be cool and . . . uh... did anyone bring the cash envelopes? I prepared for this. I was expecting this. We're still on top of it.
Pockets
>>5933908 We might not be the first bribe they've taken today. Why don't I just give them their own money?
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Fri 23 Feb 2024 19:54:49 No. 5933911 Report >>5933908 Cash envelopes? Unnecessary, we have the right to be here. See, our search warrants clearly give us a warrant to search the borders. Oh that's their job? Well lucky them, they get us to help!
Agent Etch
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5933909 I think the kind of people who ask for customs inspections adminstration surplus fees might not take kindly to being paid in their own money, but if it works for you it works for you.
>>5933911 One of my favorite things about you, Agent Sidewinder, is your earnestness and your forthright belief in the common good of all humanity, up to and including the regulatory oversight standards of backwoods stateless militia types.
--
While Sidewinder checks the map to work out how the car ended up down this winding dirt road, dust plumes mar the morning air. Rugged techanicals roam the landscape, coming to a stop at a respectful distance albeit close enough that Pockets can spot the armed men and woman in the back. The front van rumbles slowly close, and as it comes to a halt a young man slips out of the front seat. Walks with a euphoric rythm to his footfalls. Keeps one hand occupied tying with the holster at his side, piece of kit that doesn't match the rest of his equipment. This whole outfit is all make-do scraps and seven bits of surplus Russian gear to what looks like either imported or appropriated NATO cast-off. He's pale, sweaty and raps his glove hands on the glass near the drivers side.
> . . . Team Won? Now what? Carlen
Rolled 1, 5, 2 = 8 (3d6) >>5933908 >>5933875 I'll be tech specialist. It'll make using my phone easier, at least.
We're getting there before Pockets can touch everything, no matter what, Sunday. Arrive ON TIME using my phone to plot a route around traffic.
(vs Proficiency 10 + Driver + Tech)
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>Might be able to outdrive them. Vans don't exactly look up for a high space chase, they're rather beat. But they know the landscape around here better than us. Could be dicey. That's the Driver's job, but you'd have to floor it. Take some risk. Apply a penalty to your own driving from -1 to -10, beat the in a contest of skill and wheels. >Maybe Pockets can Coordinator out some kind of deal? Everyone wants something, surely, and an Ops specialist can probably budget some expenses. Maybe a . . . tour guide fee? A charming word? Think of something! >Vertex' keen appreciation for the harrowing wind of mere existence allows the easy tell of how simple it would be to never have any trouble ever again. Simply draw a gun on these people. The machine guns at the back of those technicals would make swift and short work of us, and all our troubles would forever be at end. >Fiaso would have options, but you also all get the vague feeling this is somehow Fiasco's fault. Maybe if they got really, really unlucky? > Best plan applies, but you can aid a teammate a and grant +1 to their relevant skill rating if you succeed on a roll of your own.
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Fri 23 Feb 2024 20:16:06 No. 5933930 Report Quoted By:
>>5933922 Since when did the Transnistria militia not accept warrants? I swear they were all about procedure last time. Ugh.
Hey someone buy me some time here, there didn't use to be so many dirt roads around blastograd, and this map must be at LEAST two years old; what a relic. Now if we went straight at Uzbedan...
Agent Etch
>>5933812 "Prior Incident? Like that one time on the Siberian Railway. You know it was supposed to be a fun little trip. Moscow to Vladivostok in 7 days whilst protecting the VIP with Agent Stencil. Easy as pie right? Except when your VIP keeps trying to go off schedule, almost gets kidnapped by helicopter, boarders hijack the train and now you're headed to Ulaanbaatar. 5 days of fighting and attempting to mingle around the crowd and an injured teammate later and I still ask myself. 'Why was there a bear?'... At least the nomad tribes in Mongolia have comfortable Yurts!"
>Key to Mission Briefcase >Key to room #13 >Get assigned a role if available and a team if needed #Agent Etch
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
–Personal Additions–
Falsified Id + Imposing Badge + Bribe Envelope
Premium Health & Life Insurance, Pension Plan + HR
–Traits–
??
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Fri 23 Feb 2024 20:27:09 No. 5933941 Report >>5933924 >>5933875 Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
You take the winding dirt roads out of town, civilization receeding in the face of distant mountains. The clouds follow you like wolves on the prowl, always just one turn back, distant, rumbling, until you find they've looped on ahead of you and you drive into the curtain of rain. The world bleeds blue. Signal fritzes. The windshield wipers work overtime. And the road curves on.
Until finally, hours and endless repeats of the warbled folk music the radio picks up later, you roll into the parking spot outside your destination. More mud than gravel, tell you the truth.
>. . . Pockets
>>5933922 >Feeling cheery, is he? I'm happy to match that energy. What a lovely day and isn't he just darling and rugged and positively eclectic. Such a well-traveled gentleman would know the way to... >Get a useful waypoint from Sidewinder >Yes, there, rather than make someone in need turn all the way back. Carlen
>>5933935 Team Won has all the keys, but, here, you don't have spent cigarettes or chewed gum or week-old bagels in your pockets, you can come with us.
Sunday
>>5933924 >>5933941 Carlen, this is why I love riding with you - always consistent, never any unexpected delays. Things just sort of work out for us.
That said, we ought to get in there and sanitize.
Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
>>5933944 Fair enough. (I'm still catching up. Is there something left to take?)
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Fri 23 Feb 2024 20:35:26 No. 5933959 Report >>5933955 (I don't think anyone actually took the mission briefcase yet)
Carlen
Quoted By:
>>5933955 >>5933908 >>5933959 Take a role from here, if you'd like, or those tourist brochures. Sunday has the suitcase.
Fiasco
Rolled 3, 2, 2 = 7 (3d6) >>5933928 "No sweat fellas, this is probably just another by-product of the universe's silly little hobby of trying to eradicate me and everything around me from existence on a constant basis."
*Fiasco quietly upholsters his sidearm and lines up a shot*
"Tends to help to get out in front of the cascade of violence. There's an certain art to it. Trust me, I've tangled with cosmically-assured destruction thousands of times in the past - but don't fret, I came out on top every time."
> Ill-conceived plan to just start ripping into the convoy without warning submitted to Team Won (From my reading, does everyone chooses a course of action and best roll wins? Or is it a vote? If the latter then just ignore the roll I'm about to make I suppose?)
Pockets
Rolled 1, 1, 6 = 8 (3d6) >>5933943 All right, gonna go ahead with this. Prof 10 + Ops + Tourist, to convince this guy to guide us closer to our destination. Seems appropriate for Sidewinder to try to assist here.
If he accepts, I'd like to snag a few bills from the various people in the escort to supplement the fee.
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Fri 23 Feb 2024 20:49:52 No. 5933980 Report Rolled 5, 4, 4 = 13 (3d6) >>5933975 Please do not start shooting at the technicals with machine guns on them. We have pistols and our car is... a car.
>>5933976 I support this plan.
rolling to assist
L'Esprit de Mort !8emgNAUdIo
L'Esprit de Mort !8emgNAUdIo ID:+Afo73o8 Fri 23 Feb 2024 20:51:43 No. 5933986 Report Quoted By:
>>5933812 #Mort
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
–Personal–
PlaceBoTaMol
CBRT Kit
–Traits–
Vicious Panacea
"I usually end up disguising myself as a nurse, or a doctor. Then the Target ends up being a victim of 'Medical Malpractice'. I would use other methods if I could but fate conspires against me."
>Requesting Role: Support Specialist in Team Two "Oh, I forgot to mention, I really do know how to do surgery and first aid and stuff. Just, you know, in the wrong profession. I promise 'Medical Malpractice' won't happen to any of you."
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Fri 23 Feb 2024 20:52:15 No. 5933988 Report >>5933935 Ah, Agent Etch. Good to have you. Unfortunately, we cannot authorise you a Mission Briefcase Key. Regulation. Can't have the briefcase and carrier in the same transport, and Agent Sunday already has the briefcase clipped to their wrist. We can get you a suite key! Here you -- oh, no, hm. That's just a key for the janitors closet over here bac home. But what we will do is we'll book you for Room #14, which, I mean, that has to be just as good as the Suite 13, right?
>>5933944 >>5933948 >>5933955 Sanitation is for the Cleaner Teams and let's hope it doesn't escalate that far. It never needs to escalate that far.
Alright Team Two, you're in - check the Signal Strength and ... yeah... still getting you. Brief break in the clouds, so so lucky you. You might not get soaked immediately.
>Team Two: >Tech Specialist: Carlen >Coordinator: NULL >Pointman: NULL >Support Specialist: NULL >Ops Specialist: NULL >Please confirm; y/n >>5933975 Everyone submits one, because otherwise you can't choose an action - but we go by order of reasonably coherency to most deranged in terms of execution. So, Agent Pocket's will attempt to talk their Touristy way out and then if that fails, we proceed to plan B and *if that* fails, we proceed to plan C. . . No need to start shooting of talking will do. But it can be good to have a back-up.
Although given the calamitous nature of field planning, B and C and D and E might all happen all at once, and cause some trouble for each other. No way to tell - if someone jumps for a gun and someone else wrestles for it and a the driver floors it, it all gets a bit chaotic.
That's why you can instead opt to support someone *else*, Agent, and hope their efforts carry the day. You're all pooling in to do one thing, and its a matter of trust and teamwork.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsbn-pgITm8 CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Fri 23 Feb 2024 20:54:30 No. 5933992 Report ( Listen, Tactical, I know you've signed of on all these people but are you entirely sure our psychological screening methods are up to standard? Yeah?
Sunday
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>>5933988 Go ahead and put me down for Ops Specialist, boss. Might be able to better leverage my contacts in that role.
Anyways, what's the local delicacy? I heard some rumors regarding cheese, but I was really hoping it would turn out to be cheesecake. Love me some cheesecake.
Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
>>5933988 >Team Two: GARUDA TEAM (Why not? We travel a lot) >Tech Specialist: Carlen >Coordinator: Etch >Pointman: NULL >Support Specialist: L'Esprit de Mort >Ops Specialist: Sunday >Please confirm; y! Maybe we'll get a Pointman reinforcement later or in the trunk. For now this is what we got team. All for?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Fri 23 Feb 2024 21:12:45 No. 5934012 Report Quoted By:
>Alright Team Two, you're groundside and organised. Good work so far. Stand by for a briefing package while Team Won handles their traffic jam. >Stand By. . .
L'Esprit de Mort !8emgNAUdIo
L'Esprit de Mort !8emgNAUdIo ID:+Afo73o8 Fri 23 Feb 2024 21:13:55 No. 5934014 Report Quoted By:
>>5933992 "Look, just... My parents were not very creative and they weren't expecting a child. You can call me Spirit instead but don't mention how strange that is."
>>5934006 "Looks alright! Honestly, having someone who cares about hygiene on a scene is great. So many agents just leave fellows convulsing on the floor."
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Fri 23 Feb 2024 21:26:56 No. 5934027 Report >>5933975 >>5933976 >>5933980 >>5933873 [Ops 3, Teamwork Drag 1, Margin 2.
Muted success]
It takes some gesturing, a few slips of the tongue, a loose fiver pulled from Fiasco's wallet. The Twitcher winks twice in the brief conversation, plays a ra-ta-tap on the side of the rental, whistles a few loose tones. Always in motion. Little pearls of sweat drip down his cheeks. Stimulants are an artform out here. This man might teach Holiday a thing or two.
Though with the assurance that Team Won are lost tourists in need of a little helpful direction from the fine representatives of the local nationalist separatist militia, eventually, they let Sidewinder throw the car into reverse and begin backing away. Makes breathing a little easier. Though Fiasco almost throws the moment when Sidewinder turns the car around the Twitcher spots the handgun through the glass and twitches right five meters back in one fluid reflexive movement and throws up his hands. About fifteen different calibres of rifle munition get pointed in the rentals direction but Sidewinder sidewinds away, nice and steady, and no one fires a shot. Maybe they figured tourist best travel armed around here.
They do.
--
Looks like Team Won is clear, although with a sizable delay. Okay, so, take a bit of a detour by the landmark and then straight on for a mind-numbing set of hours and then, finally, we might make it . . .
You got all that, Driver?
You did. . . you did get all that, right?
>... Right? >Team Two's driver should either get there SAFELY or ON TIME and by now you're RUNNING LATE so maybe road safety can suffer. Perhaps his able teammates can offer some support? Yeah, sorry, Driver, this kind of backroads driving? That's a check. Vertex (phonepost) !!/NoRcANTykB
Vertex (phonepost) !!/NoRcANTykB ID:puYdGL0t Fri 23 Feb 2024 21:27:15 No. 5934028 Report Rolled 5, 3, 5 = 13 (3d6) >>5933928 “Ah, here we go…” Vertex reaches for her service weapon, one step closer to all-consuming finality.
>Start blasting if negotiations break down. Also, I think my DR should be 8, on account of the plates.
>>5933887 “There’s nothing to manage. I can see the outcome clear as day already and it brings little comfort, as all foreknowledge is wont to do. It’s almost too much to bear sometimes, isn’t it?”
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5934028 You're telling me you wore your carrier plates for a sixteen hour flight and a four drive? No can do, Agent, sweat stains like that ain't fair for the poor folks that gotta wear them after you.
Aught
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>>5933812 >Take Placebometol, Miscellenia My cousin told me taking the train instead of the plane would be cheaper, but it took me to the wrong town... thankfully hitchhiking to the jobsite works too!
#Agent Aught
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
PlaceBoTeMol Injector+Kit x 4 Everything you could need in an instrumental or recreational drug, in one handy dosage ampoule!
Tactical Pie, sealed for freshness. Eating is just one of its many uses!
–Traits–
Affable (possibly Idiot)
>Seems to have some acquaintance or distant relation everywhere he goes, but any help they might render often leads him astray as often as not. Pockets
>>5934028 Oh hush, Your Farsightedness. If you hate the big chair so much, you can punt Fiasco into it in a duel once we arrive. Or whatever you headknockers do.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Fri 23 Feb 2024 21:49:29 No. 5934043 Report [ The rain is picking up again. You hear it thrum on the rooftops. Agent Inks rolls her weary eyes and digs for a thermos of coffee. Wretchedly empty. Nothing ever goes right. Holiday puffs his cigarette. The man's more serene than the distant mountaintops. Sniffs the air. Maybe its an affection. Hard to imagine he can smell much through such nicotine tinged senses.>Team Two. . . . to act?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Fri 23 Feb 2024 21:52:49 No. 5934045 Report [ While we get the Signals worked out and all things set up, you recall your training materials. Luckily, Vanguard Service is pretty straight forward and hardly ever calls for multicomponent factorials done on the fly while a wasp eats your liver. That's only happened, what, twice?
Carlen
Quoted By:
Rolled 5, 2, 2 = 9 (3d6) >>5934045 Carlen stretches, stifles a yawn, blinks at Inks and flicks her eyes to Holiday then back
"Holiday's reversed into a bush, already scuffed the paintwork, and he hasn't stopped smoking yet.
> "And the local grid feels damaged, and shadows aren't working right." (Action?) Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Fri 23 Feb 2024 22:56:45 No. 5934091 Report Rolled 2, 3, 2 = 7 (3d6) >>5934027 sorry for the delay Asclepius
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#Agent Asclepius
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Fri 23 Feb 2024 22:57:46 No. 5934093 Report >>5934091 meant for ON TIME in case that specification was needed (confusing because you mentioned Team Two in the post)
Sunday
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Rolled 3, 6, 1 = 10 (3d6) >>5934043 Oh man, Inks is talking at me. She's going to get sarcastic if I don't come up with something. Maybe if I just pretend I didn't hear her? Or maybe I'll just pretend that I already know?
"Yep, that's definitely a problem. Certainly not good, this thing. A right menace."
>Move 2NE and lean against the car >Idly scan the area. Weird looking orange bits over there? Lack of drainage for these streets? Those walls look a bit warped? #Agent Sunday
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5(3) Reaction 9(7) Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR]
Locked Briefcase (-2 react, -2agi)
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
Lucky Quarter
–Traits–
Lucky
Carrier
Ops Specialist
–Assets–
Local contacts and favors
Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
Rolled 5, 1, 4 = 10 (3d6) >>5934045 >>5934043 >5agi: Gather up all the intel I can and come to a conclusion to what's going on on the scene >Act: Come up with an answer. Probably something related to why they're standing out in the rain... Surely Inks didn't forget her keys in the car again...Perhaps... "Is it that?" Points in the direction. "That's my guess unless you forgot your keys in the car again." >React: Dodge out of arms way #Agent Etch
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
–Personal Additions–
Falsified Id + Imposing Badge + Bribe Envelope
Premium Health & Life Insurance, Pension Plan + HR
–Traits–
>Tongue of the Sun and Moon: Everything just seems to always understand what I say and I seem to understand what they say too. It makes it really easy for people and objects to get what I want from them. Coordinator
Room Key #14
Asclepius
Well, aside from the red dots the biggest thing is the agents who are late.
Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
>>5934178 >>5934045 In hindsight, yeah where is team Won? I thought they were supposed to arrive 1st.
Agent Inks !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 11:44:31 No. 5934516 Report Quoted By:
Inks nods, frazzled from lack of caffiene and beset by the buffeting winds of an impending crash. But then, she's always peetering on the erratic edge. Drinks coffee like people breathe. Holiday puffs his cigarette. Grunts. Yeah, he lost the cars. So what? They were in his hands, he locked the car, and then they weren't. No big deal. Walking is good for your health. Work on your attitude, friend. Bracing mountain air? Who even needs a car.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 11:52:08 No. 5934523 Report But good spot. Might make proper sleuths of you yet. >Nice work, Team Two. Notch a temporary +1 Push and Inks mild approval. >Do we chance it with the cars? >Any prepwork before heading up and in? >Do we ... give Team Won maybe 10-15 minutes to show up?
Agent Leshy
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>>5933812 #Agent Leshy
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Tourist Attire + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
Imposing Badge, False ID, Bribe Money
Pension Plan, Health Insurance, HR Benefits
–Traits–
Honourable
A diligent agent with a so far mundane career. Deep interest in history and mythology on the side.
(Is it too late? Just made qst work)
L'Esprit de Mort !8emgNAUdIo
L'Esprit de Mort !8emgNAUdIo ID:+Afo73o8 Sat 24 Feb 2024 13:13:28 No. 5934557 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 2, 1, 5 = 8 (3d6) >>5934523 #Mort
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
–Personal–
PlaceBoTaMol
CBRT Kit
–Traits–
Vicious Panacea
"Huh, of all the times to have problems."
>Investigate the area for any possible sightlines for shooters. >Reaction: Dive out of the way of any danger. Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
>>5934523 Alright fine. I got to admit I can sort of respect it. Despite being the first team needed to be here they probably chose to get lost. Builds character but still this just throws the timetable up in space so might as well give them 1 chance to make an amend. By arriving in the next 10 minutes or they become the butt of this operation until we make it back home. Team Won? More like Team Lost. I know low hanging fruit but someone has to do it.
>Prepwork NOW. This is a half blessing in disguise because it means Team Lost won't have a say in the prepwork unless they add something actually useful. 1st lets establish what we know of the mission while Inks warms herself up in our car. Not you Holiday, that cigarette will have to do and Carlen won't be happy about the nicotine smell. Makes it uncomfortable. We haven't all taken false papers so if anyone asks for them refer them here.
>Check the Falsified Documents, Badge and Bribe in the car to establish a good make up story related to why we're here (at least until we get the briefcase open) 2nd we currently have the Key to...room #14 whilst Team Won has the rest of the important keys. Lets establish this at check-in to take a map of the place, get a lay of the land or something and then instigate our rooms. 3rd will be established once stuff actually starts happening or we got the briefing in the briefcase for now we should
>Give Team Won 10 MINUTES EXACTLY NOT MORE BECAUSE IT'S RUDE to show up. Keep an eye on that Smarter phone timer Carlen. Start it on your cue. >We're not chancing it with the cars. Although it would be funny to see the insurance claims and the like we ran out of funny for this particular instance because of team Lost. >Any questions, addendums, add-ons and suggestions Garuda team? If not... I don't know turn on the radio or something. I gotta practice my Czech... Fiasco
>>5934523 "Damn. Aren't we running a bit behind schedule?"
"Oi Sidewinder! You do know where we're going, right? Cause looking out of the window there's been absolutely shit all 'cept rain and wet forest for the past fifteen minutes."
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:vlrMgh4H Sat 24 Feb 2024 14:30:11 No. 5934594 Report Quoted By:
>>5934568 GPS is still fritzing out. Tech Section just got back to me; something about an alignment of baleful alien stars is messing up the coordinates.
We’re pushing a software patch to fix
Asclepius
>Move 5 to my SE >Put Multi-tool into hand >Ask Agent Holiday if they want me to extract the keys from the kar. >Vote for taking the vehicles with us. If things get too hot we don't want to have to exfiltrate on hoof. >Think: Are these vehicles rear-wheel drive? Front-wheel drive? All wheel drive? >All In: Think/Investigate: The spent brass is in a location where the firearm was fired to the Northwest, otherwise there would be bullet holes in the walls. There aren't any any bullet holes in the walls, are there? >Propose Team 3 name of Hiaa or Hyacinth >Volunteer as Team 3 Tech Specialist, with a focus on multi-tooling hardware like locked car doors rather than software.
Agent Inks !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Rolled 6, 1, 2 = 9 (3d6) >>5934562 Alright, ten minutes up. Time to move. Let's go over it on the way over.
We are poor, rain-soaked TOURISTS here in this natural resource rich nation to enjoy their hiking trials and wonderful local cuisine. Since no one is buying that for a heart-beat and we're mostly in suits and ties and with foreign accents, that makes it even better. They won't believe we're tourists, we'll say we're tourists, and then they'll ask us about our interests and we can talk about renewable energy, natural gas pipelines and international geopolitics. They'll think we're ressource scouts for some European conglomerate interested in expanding, which explains our ties, cars and bewildered look.
Basically: don't sweat it. If anyone gets inquisitive, just tell them whatever. They'll all think we're here to perpetrate a business scheme.
>>5934615 Well, you're *driving*. Since Holiday got the cars locked in the rental, we'll have to get into it somehow to get it going. You're a tech guy, you can probably multitool your past a locked car door. Rental's not exactly got great off-road capability, but if we gotta go quick . . .
. . . As for that firearms discharge, I think you're right. No bullet holes or busted windows anywhere. Nothing. They firing out into the woods, then. Something. . . in there? My spook-a-deer theory is the best I've got. Although hunters don't often stand around in a parking lot loosening off rounds. No blood or anything. Maybe someone was testing a gun?
--
>SITE INSERTION >Looming shadows and deeper darkness, and up ahead, past a winding mud churned road four knights could hold against the world, something as incongruent as a humming neon sign and dying mosquitoes... Agent Inks !!8Og8gGv6k3r
We good to go? Comms clear? >Team Three: Hyacinth: >Tech Specialist: Aclepius >Coordinator: NULL >Pointman: Holiday >Support Specialist: NULL >Ops Specialist: Inks >Please confirm; y/n >Signal integrated, team network online >Signal actions enabled !
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3 ID:4+e67Gwe Sat 24 Feb 2024 16:15:17 No. 5934676 Report Rolled 3, 6, 6, 1, 4, 5 = 25 (6d6) >>5934655 >Action: Bypass Rental Kar Locks using Multitool (dice 1-3) >Buckle my seatbelt. >All In: Action (spend 4 Agi too I guess, since it's motion based): Drive Rental Kar down the road and to the moetell reception. We don't want the rain soaking all of our beautiful forms, now do we? Wouldn't want to be dealing with soggy paperworks. (dice4-6) >1 Agi: Consider who would win in a fight: Omega Red or Emma Frost. >Resist: The temptation to drink Irish Coffee while driving down a low friction road with a poor handling post-accident rental vehicle. Wouldn't be prudent. But Asclepius, we don't get a resist aktion when we all-in. Pssh, would we really be all-inning if we were driving one handed while sipping Irish Coffee with the other? Doesn't sound liek 100% effort to me. #Agent Asclepius, T3 - Hyacinth?, Techie
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
Multitool
Flask of Irish Coffee, Needle & Thread, Book of Stickers
–Traits–
Engrammatic Neural Echoes
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3 ID:4+e67Gwe Sat 24 Feb 2024 16:19:26 No. 5934678 Report >>5934676 "Umm, Holliday, did you know that the driver's side window was compromised by the krash? It completely shattered when I went to open the door. I think that the damage report will need to be amended".
Agent Inks !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5934673 >>5934655 Stay cool, stick with your team, and see if you can find something.
Until Team Won gets here, we're not getting that BRIEFING CASE open, so I say we play it low and we play it simple. Someone check out the reception, clock us in. Get maybe a map? Smells like they've got some gullasch or something brewing in there, so they're probably friendly.
Otherwise, check the perimeter, log anything unusual, and get Tactical on the line if you have questions.
I'll try to reach Team Won and find out what the hold up is.
> . . . Vanguard to act! >HUD Updated. Compass activated. Agent Inks !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5934676 >>5934678 . . . Smooth work, Tech-Spec. You got outwitted by the rental car industry. Actually you shouldn't feel bad about that, those bastards outwit everyone. It's a scam based industry, the worst combination of up-selling and add-ons you'll find this side of the seven seas. And I'm NOT just saying that because Tactical made me spring for extra road insurance because "unrecognised states have unrecognised traffic dangers".
Alright, don't worry about it, I'm sure it's . . . fine. We'll bill it. I haven't worked out to who yet, but surely someone.
Etch, how's your insurance?
>Agent Asclepius is arriving with the rental. Mostly intact...? CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 16:57:10 No. 5934700 Report >>5934093 >>5934037 >>5934568 >>5933873 [Meanwhile, Elsewhere]
( Finally? Is this the place? The relentless rain as hunted you for the last twenty minutes and the car is starting to get claustrophobic. The air-con gave out an hour and somehow the car is stuffy despite how much you roll down the windows, and it's started rattling, a long, leaking sound of thudthudthuthud, something catching on something else, ground down by the malaise of the universe itself, spiteful scorn as an active opposition to every well-regulated minute of your lives.
Tactical has gotten the GPS bootstapped back online, kludging through five software update cycles and engineering hours and you can tell that in the ops centre, miles away, Liren has started whistling as she spins in her chair. Always a good sign of horrendous things to come )
. . . And here it is, the first footfalls of Village Príšerný, in all its tortured linguistic glory. And beyond, up this little round-about, is Hotel Strigoi and hopefully the conference cottagecore industry centre you're here to investigate. Maybe they'll have tea.
Barreling down the *other way*, at irresponsible speeds for the tight confines of this little barely patch of rain-sodden landscape, is two vans full of people in hunting outfits, patched uniforms and terror-stricken faces. They clutch a variety of rifles, some probably last seeing active service a few global conflicts ago.
The lead driver is busy looking back over his shoulder to shout something at the people piled into the back; he doesn't see the sudden apppearance of our fragile rental deposit claim on the roadway.
--
TS Liren: I'm picking up objects on the road in front of -- SIDEWINDER, GET OFF THE ROAD !!!
>Team Won to ... act? Fiasco
Rolled 1, 5, 6 = 12 (3d6) >>5934700 > Fiasco barks out a laugh "A bold play! I'll raise!"
> Lean out of the window and unload service pistol into the leading vehicle's right tire. Pockets
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... and then she said 'wait, you wanted to get better from it, not at it?' which really explained a lot of things that I'd been being polite about. Then came the second opinions and a whole lot of 'no backsies,' and here I am, but I can't be too mad -- UUUHHTURNTURNTURNNNN
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 17:19:14 No. 5934718 Report >>5934678 >>5934676 ( Little flickers of other lives dance in front of your eyeballs, the distant whirl of the dervish in meditative rhythm, the crack of artillery incoming, the long gruelling march to the distant dreams -- you find your elbow through the passenger window as you come back to your sense of personal continuity.
Well, nothing for it. Holiday had voided the deposit, anyway, right? )
>Agent Asclepius arrives on scene, with a car. --
Agent Inks turns the flashlight off, as the front lights of the rental wash the scene in noir glory. Misty rain drips off of rustic houses. They stand there like statues to serenity. The low lap of waves on the soft shoreline, from the mountain lake, fed by some underwater reservoir and clearer than the crystaline dreams of diamonds.
It's... all so serene. A distant dog barking. Inks shoots a glance left, looks right, sniffs the chill air.
Serene tranquility makes her spine tingle. Something is about to go awfully wrong.
>Asclepius can . . in fact act! >DRIVING: Is simply an act, the roll involved measuring traffic capability and road navigation. Unlike limited human beings, most vehicles don't really bother with agility because if its there, they can get there, eventually. >The most important consideration is whether to go SECURE or whether to lean on the accelerator. The more you STUNT, the cooler you drive. But cool cars crash, and void our deposit. Take a penalty of -1 to -10 to your action to do the "Extra" with a vehicle; the amount of risk you take is the implied value of the thing you're trying to gain. >For most standard situations, simply "driving to X" is enough to get you there safely and surely. Surely there would never be any need to do sudden evasive roadside maneveuring. Aught
>>5934718 What's all that orange stuff on the ground? Pennies? Shame just to leave money laying around...
Oh! I call shotgun!
>Move to join Asclepie in the car Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
Rolled 6, 3, 3, 6, 3, 1 = 22 (6d6) >>5934679 Ok team lets get it done. Go around get the lay of land. Sunday, Carlen lets go Check-in.
>1agi: More spent shells over there. Locals must be armed so be careful yeah? >3agi+Act: Go Check-in following the path. We "tourists" wink. As shrimple as that ... albeit this place is landlocked so the joke sorta falls on its face. (If they need ID I got this one right here) >1agi: Don't forget to get a gander at a map of the place >Reaction: Duck behind something to avoid getting crumpled (here have some dice to feed some addiction or action
Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
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>>5934683 Unfortunately, great. But I'm still wrapping my head around if it'll apply if I wasn't the one driving... or breaking.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 17:39:01 No. 5934733 Report >>5934713 ( Agent Fiasco draws the gun in one smooth motion of training and reflex, balancing on passenger door, barreled aligned along the edge - the little subsonic whine of the HUD lock recognising his hand-print. Memories of filling out section-D sub-four-through-six flitter briefly through the air.
The car, at this this angle, at this time, it's a hard shot but the platform is stable and Sidewinder is a good driver. Touch your lucky charm with the free hand before your brace the weapon.
Now all you have to do is . . . squeeze . . . the trigger . . .
>it would be so easy >it's barely any pressure >smooth ergonomic action and handling is what the C7 Service is known for >Do it! >Do it? >DO IT >Do it. >Do it (; >You don't have the guts, DO IT >Wait, did I fill out a firearms utilization analysis report before I signed up on this mission? I'm sure the instructor said something about DO IT DO IT DO IT not shooting at unidentified civilians Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
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>>5934032 >sixteen hour flight no
>four drive mmmaybe. It's +3DR, so it's not like these are some heavy ESAPI ceramic inserts or anything. I'll live.
>sweat stains like that ain't fair for the poor folks that gotta wear them after you. The main generator of sweat stains would be the soft armor vest I'm already wearing, not the armor inserts. Also, those aren't meant to be reusable.
>>5934037 "I'll stop. There's no point to saying more, really. Things great and small will fall and they will and there's nothing to be done about it. You'll see for yourself soon enough."
>>5934700 "See?"
>Draw the C-7 and hold on tight to a grab handle (or the door arm rest grip thing, if there's no grab handle), bracing for an impending car crash. Fiasco
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>>5934733 >The only surefire way to avoid a calamity is to deflect it by creating an equally catastrophic mishap in its path. > Pull the trigger. Ride the wave. Agent Carlen
>>5934722 >>5934727 At the mention of more spent shells, Carlen pinches her nose
This'd better not be a briefing in the middle of the crisis point again, Tactical, I thought you said you'd stop doing that after the fourth time, with that terorrist cell in the basement of that kazakh tea house. The airport lost my luggage and I really wanted to pick up some things before we got started. I don't have enough spares or cleaning supplies to cope with this again, Tactical!
> Borrow Etch's 'Read Em Like A Book' > Quietly interrogate Tactical over comms. I thought you promised not to do this again > Follow the others down the path Agent Carlen
Rolled 4, 5, 5 = 14 (3d6) >>5934749 Ah, I did the dice wrong.
I really hope this isn't what it looks like, Tactical...
Sunday
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Rolled 5, 5, 3 = 13 (3d6) >>5934718 "My wrist is starting to chafe, just what the hell is in this briefcase? Just my luck that Team Won got delayed with the keys - to the room AND my shackles. I'll call up to the front desk, and with a bit of luck they'll have a spare room key."
>3AGI, move with the crew - stay in the center position >ACT, phone up the front desk - get a read of the situation, acquire a replacement suite key. (+Luck, Ops Spec, Contacts?) >REACT, put this heavy fucking briefcase between me and anything trying to hit me #Agent Sunday
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5(3) Reaction 9(7) Push 4(5)
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR]
Locked Briefcase (-2 react, -2agi)
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
Lucky Quarter
–Traits–
Lucky
Carrier
Ops Specialist
–Assets–
Local contacts and favors
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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>>5934749 >>5934750 Listen I am really very terribly sorry about last time, but since we did eventually recover your luggage somewhere around Iceland I think we can at least agree that it's not entirely our fault it was subsequently lost again in that volcano eruption! Okay? I can do a lot of stuff but my powers strictly stop at tectonic plate shifting, right?
Agent Carlen, this place is supposed to be a quiet cottage conference centre. The most hairraising thing in this place is yuppies and executive personal assistants speed-running how to deliver stakeholder pitches. This really should not be another crisis zone. Other than the civil war they've got going on. We've got satelittes in the sky and telemetry isn't picking up anything. Give me twenty more minutes and I'lll find a way to analyse the footage and we can trace who has been leaving all these spent casings everywhere. And look it's so rustic! Tranquil! Serene! It's nice! It won't go all pearshaped!
Command told me to stop saying "I promise" after last time, so I can't and I won't but there shouldnt be a need to, it'll be FINE.
Now, unfortunately, because we're dealing with xenophenomena, regulation does mean I have to blind you to some of the, err, pertinent detail. You know how it goes. If you know what you're going to know, then in case someone here is a slice of the old Foresight or prophetic talent then they can glean it better. Outsmarting prophetic wisdom is hard work.
So get the briefcase open and then the info packet in there will bring you up to speed faster than a ramming van.
Sorry that analogy just slipped right out, I'm not entirely sure why.
By the way have you seen any... geese?
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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Not for any particularly reasons you understand. I'm just learning to take a healthy new interest in the wide wonderful flora and fauna of our delightful world. Did you know geese are some of the largest waterfowls in the world? I didn't, until about twenty hours ago.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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It's not that I'm worried about geese, okay, agent. They're just birds. Birds that mate for life. Which is very impressive, I can barely get someone to sign up for a four week training seminar in firearms handling.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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So anyway agent Carleen things will be fine, I promise this is just a normal cottage centre restort precariously placed somewhere border inspection agents go to have conniptions and there are no large black geese at this resort so things will be quite fine.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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Look if you see any black geese just don't aggravate them they're very territorial water fowl.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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just use the extra thick black loam bread I put in the briefing briefcase to give any black geese you see some nice bread
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 18:44:27 No. 5934782 Report Quoted By:
>[Turn updates in 30 minutes. Buckle your seatbelts]
Aught
Did you know geese can hiss? Such wondrous little beasties!
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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>>5934783 I did not, agent Aught, and I thank you for this Fun Animal Fact which is great ha ha ha I am not imagining huge black geese with sharp barbed teeth hissing because we are violating an ancient pact by invading their territory ha ha ha ha geese hiss, they hiss, that's great, that's wonderful, that is a delight a delight I am delighted I am learning so much about geese today and yesterday during a frentic four hour reading binge
did YOU know, Agent Aught, that historically, geese are known as watchful guardians, loyal and sure, and that ancient tribes people living in wetlands used them as guardians?
Apparently, totemically, symbolically, if you believe in the transference paradigm of thaumatheological tulpa construel, the Goose is the bird-word for clear teamwork, concise communication and strong family bonds. Maybe because they hiss? I can just imagine that. Commando geese, hissing, watching, communicating the precise location of intruders into a quiet seaside village amongst themselves, lying in wait, ready, because birds are light sleepers and sensitive to vibrations because of their hollow-bones so they can pick up the movement of heavy vehicles ha ha ha ha
excuse me Agents I need to schedule a meeting with Command, I have some *fascinating bird facts* to talk to them about
Sunday
That guy sure has some weird hobbies. Anyways, check out those big black birds hanging tight to the shadows. Wonder what they could be?
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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>>5934806 unusually large sparrows.
please.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
So as I was saying Agent Carlen this is nothing like last time what's that noise what your comms is picking something up what is -- no
Aught
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>>5934823 That looks more like a turkey, if I had to guess.
Do turkeys live in Eastern Europe? I suppose we *are* rather close to Turkey, my cousin Zeb told me that's where turkeys come from!
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Sat 24 Feb 2024 19:24:33 No. 5934834 Report Rolled 6, 1, 4 = 11 (3d6) >>5934700 HOLD ON BOYS
>STEER HARD RIGHT, then quickly correct to avoid crashing into the building. I really hope those are bushes and not trees #Agent Sidewinder
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR] + Pre-filled firearms discharge form & subtly pre-filled search warrants
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs + Rental Car keys
–Traits–
Clever
–Assets–
Premium health and life insurance, good pension plan, proper HR benefits
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Sat 24 Feb 2024 19:25:43 No. 5934837 Report Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Sat 24 Feb 2024 19:30:49 No. 5934840 Report Quoted By:
>>5934700 By the way Command, I seem to be missing my "Technical Specialist" identifier on the HUD.
>>5934838 Of course, learned this maneuver in the Academy Driving 101. Only the most efficient maneuvers in high stakes situations.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 19:47:57 No. 5934862 Report Teams Hyacinth and Garuda advance cautiously, as Aught rides the tactical section for more information. Glittering casings catch stray light. Spent small arms munitions. The place is quiet, but for that - but there, in the distance, wheels rumbling, a van accelerating, faint shouts in a language unknown. Etch thinks. . . Czech? Slovak? Russian? >Garuda, Hyacinth to act
Aught
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>>5934862 That's a mean looking turkey if I ever saw one! Careful, team, they don't call them gobblers for nothing!
Asclepie, get me closer to the drive-thru window, would you kindly?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 20:07:43 No. 5934877 Report Quoted By:
Agent Sidewinder throws the rental car into a side-swerve for all it can as Agent Fiasco clips off a rapid three-point burst at the incoming van's lead wheel, aim somewhat spoiled by the sudden evase action, but the tire bursts with the impact and the van starts skidding.>. . .
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 20:20:45 No. 5934886 Report !!! Agent Sidewinder threads the needle, brick-work scraping along the nice wax polish as he careens around the corner at something approaching sixty.>Spitefully, the handbrake chooses this exact moment to disengage from anything resembling mechanical function >Team Won about to take a bath >Think fast!
Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
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>>5934886 >This is fine. Try to fish my gun out from under the seat. Anonymous
>>5934886 Command, any way I could get a new view of the area? I don't know how much further it is until lake or what the area south of us looks like. Is it building? Is it open road? Is it an alley? Is it all just lake?
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5934891 IT'S ALL JUST LAKE AGENT
YOU'RE TAKING THE PROVERBIAL LONG DRIVE OFF OF A SHORT PIER. DO NOT TEST ANALOGIES IN REAL LIFE WE HAVE A METAPHYSICS DIVISION FOR THAT
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3 ID:4+e67Gwe Sat 24 Feb 2024 20:37:38 No. 5934900 Report Rolled 4, 3, 1, 3, 6, 2 = 19 (6d6) >Act: Safely pull the car up to Reception (dice 1-3)>All-In: Ponder avian biology and behavior. Geese could be rather aggressive, but those bits in their mouth were evolved to tear grass, not flesh. Body armor should protect just fine. As guardians the hissing and aggression were nice, but it was the honking and the flapping of wings which could be heard from a distance. >Agi 1 - turn off the car >Agi 2 - Unbuckle my seatbelt >Agi 3 - Secure the car keys in my pocket >Agi 4 - Take a sip of Irish Coffee to help prepare myself for my shift.
Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
Rolled 2, 5, 2, 2, 6, 5 = 22 (6d6) >>5934862 Oh great we still don't have the briefcase open which has the cheese. *Sigh*
Alright, lets get in and do this.
>-Free: ready Baton >1Agi: Politely request that Holiday enters 1st for the Breach and clear task. We don't have our Pointman. Careful to not get to close to the Goose. We don't have "le fromage" to feed it yet. >2agi: Instruct team to follow after Holiday. It's looking bad already but surely we salvage. Mort I need a sitrep on the KO'd receptionist. Don't touch that goose yet. Too hostile. Everyone else recon recon. Stop calling Sunday. >2agi+Action move in the reception and take account of what's going on >reaction: dodge the bad stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdw60zmOgU0 Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Sat 24 Feb 2024 20:42:51 No. 5934907 Report Rolled 1, 1, 5 = 7 (3d6) >>5934897 >Foot off the gas, we need to rely on road friction to slow us down as much as possible if the brake isn't working >Turn hard right again aiming for the near alley, then go for another right to go along the shoreline. We may be able to avoid going fully into the lake (pic related for driving plan). #Agent Sidewinder
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR] + Pre-filled firearms discharge form & subtly pre-filled search warrants
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs + Rental Car keys
–Traits–
Clever
–Assets–
Premium health and life insurance, good pension plan, proper HR benefits
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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>>5934907 Thank the stars you actually signed on for the regulation mandated stunt driving academy, agent. You might just make it!
Agent Carlen
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Rolled 4, 2, 6 = 12 (3d6) >>5934862 Carlen hangs up, having heard enough, roots around for her flashlight and flicks it on, its plastic shell soothingly smooth and free of blemishes.
Great, great great great. I want to see if there's anything lurking at the head of the truck, or in that treeline! Without moving.
>>5934906 Then I'll bring up the back here, if I have any movement left, very careful not to touch anything.
Super Secret Agent Aught
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>>5934862 >>5934900 >Reach Over and knock on the drive-thru window to get the cashier's attention, while trying not to cut myself on the glass Hello there, fella! Me and my coworkers have reservations here for rooms 13 and possibly 14? Could you tell us where they are?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 21:06:34 No. 5934933 Report The welcoming embrace of Lake Pilavica. The rental car spins tires into the muddy loam of the lakeshore, wax polish scraped, boat-house brickdust off on the exterior, and, mercifully, all in one piece. >Sure, sounds great, let's drive up there >on second thought, maybe just park the car in the designated parking spot by the boathouse and hoof it on foot >Anything else?
Sunday
Rolled 1, 5, 3 = 9 (3d6) >>5934862 All right, reception is a no-go. Let me check my contacts, I'll find someone that knows something. Nobody fuck with the unusually large sparrows.
>3Agi, post up outside reception ready to chat with the oncoming vehicle. Idly flip my Lucky Coin. >Act, phone up one of my local contacts. Perhaps a hunter, cleaning personnel, or the ever reliable day drunk. Someone ought to know about these geese. (Ops spec + contacts) >React, interpose this briefcase between myself and violent action. (+carrier?) >#Agent Sunday >–Status– >Health 12 Agility 5(3) Reaction 9(7) Push 4(5) >Strike 1d6 >Proficiency: 10 >–EQ- >H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12] >B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR] >Locked Briefcase (-2 react, -2agi) >–Belt & Back– >C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs >Lucky Coin >–Traits– >Lucky >Carrier >Ops Specialist >–Assets– >Local contacts and favors Super Secret Agent Aught
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>>5934938 Nonsense, she's just napping. You just need to knock hard enough
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 21:37:27 No. 5934960 Report Quoted By:
Knocking will not help here, Aught realises. No amount of affable demeanour will be of much use either - the receptionist (and probably the proprietor?) is sprawled on the ground in a tangle of her own papers, the victim of some sort of assault. She reaches for the slide on the inside of the window, to pull it, but she's too laid out on the floor to reach. >. . .
Agent Inks !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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Mort, give me a hand here, I'm not exactly deft-fingered when it comes to banged up civilians.
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Sat 24 Feb 2024 21:58:29 No. 5934974 Report >>5934933 >Sure, sounds great, let's drive up there. After making sure the brake is working properly, and at a more careful speed. CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 21:59:26 No. 5934975 Report Headlights switch on with sudden sharp focus, throwing the shadows into sharp relief. Heavy duty vans gun for the forest path at exceptional, breakneck speed.>OH NO >OUR RENTAL DEPOSIT >Agents to dive for cover.
Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
>>5934933 >Sure, sounds great, let's drive up there. Also, I want to actually fish my gun out from under the seat. Also, also, can we pull over somewhere so I can put my plates in? I can probably put the front plate in just fine in the car, but the back plate is gonna take some work. Worse yet if this thing takes side plates. CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 22:17:38 No. 5934995 Report Quoted By:
>>5934981 They're a right devil to get right. And dont forget your kneepads. Or the elbow ones. And get the stab-protectors in there too. Get Pockets to help you with the ballistic gloves, they don't slide in right. Did you bring a helmet? We have you down as bringing a helmet. Maybe it got lost in shipping.
Well, if you have a helmet, put the helmet on. I hear it stops you being shot in the head. If those militia looking types come back that might turn out to be useful.
>>5934974 A quick inspection of the brakes and some flashlights shoved into the arcane interiors of a rental vehicle reveals an unfortunate truth: a single essential wire for the control system has somehow been cut. Stray bullet? Collision? Spiteful maligancy of an uncaring cosmos which reveals in the dance of entropy? Poor maintenance? Who can say.
Five minutes work with a multitool and some wire kludging and it's good as new. Fiasco's multitool can go right in there and get stuck somehow its stuck why is it stuck why can't it come out how does that even happen we're not ever driving the car can't even start now
Pockets solves the whole thing with a paper clip. Okay, looks like Team Won can put the brakes on. Sorry, this situation is making Tactical feel chatty again.
Pockets
>>5934933 Please make it very fast, TS. I need to know how possible it is to smooth things over.
Fiasco, what on God's green earth was that can you not keep it in your pants for ONE SECOND we've all got our own jobs for a reason. Fire on something unconfirmed again and I'm taking your weapon. You know I don't need to ask.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 22:26:13 No. 5935009 Report >[Collisions and worse things in an hour] >>5935004 Working on it, Ops Pocket. It's . . . Weird. We can track them because we've tasked a sat with the van and this is open country. We have the sat overhead for another 30 minutes, then there's a fifteen minute blackout while we get another asset in geosynch.
Okay, that's my job, not yours, but I'm telling you this because normally that's plenty to find a hook into some other telemetry. But these people don't seem to have. . . . Anything. No comms net, no signals, barely any signature on scans. It's not like all their equipment is analog. And I don't think these people have a social media presence, exactly. I'm doing my best here but it's a challenge. Real innawoods type roughnecks, this lot.
If I didn't know better, I'd say they were running low tech for a reason. Even that car looked pretty two-decades worn past its best buy. I'm checking leads on any retro-separatist movements in the area, we'll see if something comes up.
Did you get a look at their faces? Any of their equipment? Anything at all?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 24 Feb 2024 22:27:51 No. 5935013 Report Quoted By:
>>5935009 Ahem - clarify my last. We're getting some interference in the signals. I meant to say that it's not normal, because it is like all their equipment is analog. Barely any electronics for me to get a lead with.
Sunday
>>5934975 How fortunate that you were there, Inks - that could have been, as they say, Bad News Bears. Speaking of bad news, our contact seemed quite concerned about the geese. Pass me your phone for a moment, please.
>3Agi, stick with Inks. >Act, redial Sergei on Inks' phone. >React, briefcase shield Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
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Rolled 4, 3, 3, 2, 1, 3 = 16 (6d6) >>5934975 Great Great, seems like step one is being masterfully road bumped. Well I guess we can do the other type of "check in". Foul play is at foot team and it seems getting to the bottom of this will be necessary. Would be easier IF WE HAD THE KEY TO THE BRIEFCASE but nope. So now we'll cope by doing it "a la manual".
>Reaction: The stick in my hand? Meant to intercept would be attacks and counterattack. I.e. Parry. >3agi: Let Holiday finish his sweep of the building before moving 4-3-3 >2agi: Look around the room. Aggressive Black goose, broken cart outside, signs of altercation and an old unidentified person whilst vans are apparently... fleeing the place?? Surely there's more of a clue then beaten over the head with Incoming Tray. >Action: Look for anything useful around. Map, keys, stuff before reconstituting what may have happened here. Phone all this in to command. "What have we got here?" Pockets
Rolled 6, 5, 1 = 12 (3d6) >>5935009 Green masks, old uniforms of some variety, for all that means since the Cold War. They were scared of something. They were driving from the east away from some active threat.
>Try to accurately describe uniforms and armament. Maybe the road can be traced back to suggest a rival, and the group's identity. Ops +1? Pockets
>>5934974 Hey Sidewinder, you said you've got some history here? Help me out a bit.
Super Secret Agent Aught
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>>5934975 Uh oh...
>All in, Dive through the Drive through window! (Try to make it look cool, for the cashier's sake) Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3 ID:4+e67Gwe Sat 24 Feb 2024 23:23:12 No. 5935083 Report Quoted By:
>Run SE and take cover behind the tree.
Agent Leshy
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>>5934975 Oh *shit*.
#Agent Leshy
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Tourist Attire + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
Imposing Badge, False ID, Bribe Money
Pension Plan, Health Insurance, HR Benefits
–Traits–
Honourable
> 5AP: Get out of the way! > 1 Action: Draw and unlock the safety on my service pistol. > Reaction: If they start shooting, get to cover. *WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING??*
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Sat 24 Feb 2024 23:31:41 No. 5935095 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 2, 6, 5 = 13 (3d6) >>5935047 Yeah, I've been around the neighborhood. Was supremely focused on not getting splattered at the time but hmm, let me think...
>>5935045 >>5935009 >Assist Pockets in drawing a bead on these guys. Did I recognize the bark of their guns? Did they sound like nagants, or something more modern? Automatics? The truck model too, I have to have noticed that at least in passing. How old is this gear? TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Agent Vertex, hold up. Okay, finish putting that plate into its housing, then hold up. There. In the road. When Fiasco's shot clipped the front wheel and sidewinder threw that right curve. The people in the back of their lead van. One of them almost got thrown out. Dropped his rifle. Lucky thing. For us, I mean. Normally this kind of baleful malignant accident never pays out in our favour, it'd be a bit of a fiasco, but maybe something is watching out for us. Sidewinder, pick it up and give it a scan.
Anonymous
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>>5935004 "Hey now. Extraordinary circumstances demand decisive measures. Besides, that van's tire was coming right at me."
>>5934933 > Fiasco performs a matainence check on his service pistol, then reloads it Pockets
>>5935120 Things were loud, then they got confusing. Didn't hear. Just get to the bad news, TS.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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>>5935224 Might not be bad news yet, Agent Pockets. Just checking the angles. Your speed-freaks come armed with refurbished rifles, as per Sidewinders description.
Good news, though? That I've got. I think I might now know who they were, but I'll need a few minutes to be sure and certain.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 12:00:32 No. 5935516 Report Agent Aclepius rolls out of the rental car as Aught clambers out through the sidedoor and elbows through the receptionist window in a spray of glass. >??? >Teams to act
Agent Leshy
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>>5935516 #Agent Leshy
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Tourist Attire + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
Imposing Badge, False ID, Bribe Money
Pension Plan, Health Insurance, HR Benefits
–Traits–
Honourable
> Holster my gun. Keep the safety off. > Move up to the corner of lodge 17. > Check through the window. > Reaction: If I see anyone else approach, unless they’re clearly injured, loudly and clearly challenge why they are here… in the native language, preferably, but I’ll settle for English. TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Agent Leshy. . . I- - I don't think we're going to communicate with the hikers in Suite #17. Unless you have hitertho unrecorded talents in communicating with some of the largest waterfowl on the planet. >Vanguard Ground Assets United! >Team Frequency Established! >Mission Priorities Updated! >Unlocking Protocols. . . ! >Teams to Act! >That includes you, Leshy.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Won, Garuda and Hyacinth, I am pushing up the threat profile on this operation and loosening your reporting restrictions. Sometimes, slow is smooth but sometimes fast just is fast.>Scenario Escalation >Push unlocked for active use.
Fiasco
>>5935528 #Agent Fiasco
=Stats=
[ Health: 12/12 || Agility: 5 || Reaction: 9 || Push: 4 ]
=Skills=
[Proficiency 10]
=Gear=
{Standard Kit}
{Lucky Charm}
{Multitool}
(!) {Key to Room #13}
==Trait=
(Baleful Malignity)
> 1AGI : Exit the vehicle. > 4AGI+1ACT : Jog up to the north-west corner of Suite #17. > 1REA : Use the building for cover against any watchful eyes to the east. Try to stay away from Suite #17's windows. Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Sun 25 Feb 2024 13:30:58 No. 5935539 Report >>5935528 No need to fear fellow agents, Team Won is here, this mission is as good as done.
>Park the car, turn it off, and pocket the keys in my belt (pic related) >Wait for team to exit car, then lock it #Agent Sidewinder
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR] + Pre-filled firearms discharge form & subtly pre-filled search warrants
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs + Rental Car keys
–Traits–
Clever
–Assets–
Premium health and life insurance, good pension plan, proper HR benefits
Pockets
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Team Won to all, friendlies on approach via northwest road. Possible hostiles in pursuit. Suspecting 10 militia disguised as hunters, riding two civilian vehicles. Identification ongoing as -- oh, you see them too? I- Who steals goulash? What about geese? Okay, break comms.
>>5935030 >>5934981 Garuda Ops, please advise on venue for brief unsealing.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5935539 Thank you Agent Sidewinder. I'm sure the scratches, dents, tears and holes will buff right out. I think Agent Sunday knows an old friend somewhere around here who knows a guy who knows a mechanic. We'll. . . We'll get that deposit back, please. We have to.
Anonymous
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>>5935539 >Lock the car with me outside, preferably >>5935544 All part of the job
Agent Leshy
Rolled 4, 5, 5 = 14 (3d6) >>5935528 OK
…weird.
I hear someone further in the village. I’ll check it out.
#Agent Leshy
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Tourist Attire + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
Imposing Badge, False ID, Bribe Money
Pension Plan, Health Insurance, HR Benefits
–Traits–
Honourable
> Try to be sneaky. (3d6) > Move towards suite 16, using the extruding wall as cover. > Spy on those men loading the truck. > Reaction: If anyone sees me, prepare to quick talk a cover story. A… business trip, right? TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5935551 YES WEIRD VERY WEIRD THERE SHOULDN'T BE THIS MANY GEESE IN THIS RESORT I EXPLICITLY BOOKED THE TICKETS BECAUSE I THOUGHT THE GEESE WOULD BE BUSY ELSEWHERE
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5935553 I m-mean I didn't know there'd be geese! Unpredictable things, waterfowls! The geese didn't factor into any long format risk analysis! They're here entirely by accidental happenstance, probably related to seasonal migrational patterns and other bird trivia ask Auclepius he knows about that kind of thing!
Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
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Rolled 6, 5, 2 = 13 (3d6) >>5935516 >>5935528 "Oh well thank the satellites. Team Lost is finally Team Found but can they become Team Won once again? Remains to see."
"TS this is Garuda actual. Initial assessment but conclusion still pending. For now assuming the hunters may have assaulted the receptionist and stolen her goulash/soup. However the Black geese may yet be an additional part of the equation. 'Militant Hunters' (name pending) have definitely discharged weapons and fired upon at least one perhaps by being threatened by the hissing. Geese's not knowing how to give up probably made it result in it getting run over and pinned by van. For now, moving in for arrest."
>-Holster baton. Imposing Badge left hand/ C7 Service right hand >Agi 1: Holiday, you got the bigger gun. Cover me were moving in. "Sunday you stay behind and get the Briefcase open with whoever has the key on Team Found."
>Agi 4+Action: With the rest of the team who can. Move up. Someone flash the 'Soup Group' with a flashlight (just a bit of intimidation). Orders following while showing my imposing badge. (+ read 'em like a book) "Cтoй! Пoлиция! Opyжиe нa зeмлю и pyки ввepх. Boдитeль! Pyки oт pyля!" ( "Stop! Police! Weapons down on the ground and hands in the air. Driver! Hands off the wheel!")
>Reaction: If any unknowns turn hostile or try something funny. Make sure they don't! Using this gun and 3 rounds Super Secret Agent Aught
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>>5935528 Thanks, Inskter. Lovely work as always *wink*.
>Help Inks treat the lady, and see if she has anything to say (all in) You'll be alright, love. Don't suppose you know why those rough looking types outside are acting so rowdy?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 14:56:07 No. 5935587 Report Quoted By:
Agent Leshy skulks closer under the cover of the falling darkness. The distant falling rain makes more noise than they. Leans against a bit of decorative woodwork, squints into the dark.> . . .
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 15:04:45 No. 5935590 Report In the Reception, some first aid is applied to a appreciative civilian. We're probably the closest thing she has to a doctor within four hundred forest-and-mountain-clad-miles. The old receptionist finds her bearings with shaking hands and wide, sea-dark eyes. Treats Aught to a smile, instantly taking a liking to the affable young agent. >Go agents, go!
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3 ID:4+e67Gwe Sun 25 Feb 2024 15:16:15 No. 5935599 Report Rolled 2, 1, 3 = 6 (3d6) >1AGI - Draw C7 Pistol>1AGI - Flip off safety >1AGI - Ask for a translation for "Halt! You (plural) are being detained for questioning relating to violation of the Accords vis-a-vis molestation (use the appropriate language from the Accords) of the Fey". (dice 1-3) >2 AGI - Move SE >Act - Aim C7 Pistol at the driver >All-In React - Overwatch shooting the driver if hostilities break out.
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3 ID:4+e67Gwe Sun 25 Feb 2024 15:17:23 No. 5935600 Report Quoted By:
>>5935599 >Oh, and if I have time after receiving the translation, yell it at the soup-snatchers. Super Secret Agent Aught
>>5935590 >Ask the old lady for the story about the sabre over the fireplace to help calm her down some more Don't worry now, those geese will be in good hands, ma'am. (People keep mentioning geese but Aught has only seen turkeys up to now? Is he missing something here? Aught scratches his head, internally of course)
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3 ID:4+e67Gwe Sun 25 Feb 2024 15:22:00 No. 5935606 Report Quoted By:
>>5935555 Based on context clues I believe that we are dealing with fey. It is possible that only one of the Geese and or Foxes are Fey, but they could both be. English Fey Geese are non-migratory. I am less familiar with the legends of Eastern European Fey Geese, but Eastern European Fey seem to be more migratory in general. Greco-Fey Geese are well known to make friends with Foxes. The Geese are known to be very courteous while the Foxes are known to be only sporadically courteous, which causes friction between the two. Recommending courteous behavior and phrasing all demands as requests for the best chances at compliance.
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3 ID:4+e67Gwe Sun 25 Feb 2024 15:36:00 No. 5935615 Report Quoted By:
Something like this, according to Google Translate: Cтoй. Bac вceх paзыcкивaют для дoпpoca пo пoвoдy нapyшeния Coглaшeния o вмeшaтeльcтвe в дeлa фeй.
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Sun 25 Feb 2024 15:37:30 No. 5935617 Report Quoted By:
>>5935590 >1 AGI: Dash 1 1 >1 AGI: Dash 1 1 >1 AGI: Dash 2 2 >1 AGI: Pull out flashlight and turn it on >1 AGI: Pull out C7 >Action: Move steadily along the path, E / NE >React: Defend myself with my weapon, exercising self control (be ready to shoot any obvious threats like a hostile charging me or pulling a gun on me, but don't just shoot the first threatening thing I see). #Agent Sidewinder
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR] + Pre-filled firearms discharge form & subtly pre-filled search warrants
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs + Rental Car keys
–Traits–
Clever
–Assets–
Premium health and life insurance, good pension plan, proper HR benefits
Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
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>>5935590 >Draw my gun (or get it out from under the car seat, if it's still under there) and produce the key to the mission briefcase. "We made it. Finally. So, where's the briefcase?"
>5 Agi: Move 344 44 >React: dive for cover if shooting starts #Agent Vertex
-Status-
[ Health 12 | Agility: 5 | Reaction 9 | Push: 4 ]
Strike 1d6
Proficiency 10
-Equipment-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR] + Subtle Carrier Plates [+3DR]
-Belt & Back-
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
CBRT-Kit
Key to Mission Briefcase
=Trait=
{Existential Dread}
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Sun 25 Feb 2024 15:40:07 No. 5935621 Report Quoted By:
>>5935534 "Fiasco, let's get a move on to check out these Suites. It looks like the central area might be getting hot, let's not get delayed."
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 15:46:59 No. 5935624 Report >>5935604 As Agent Aughts and Inks bundle the old receptionist from the cold office closer to the fire, Aught makes affable small-talk. The lady is clearly out of it, frazzled by recent violence, but finds chattering about old memories comfortable.
That old thing? She smiles, suddenly decades younger recalling warmer summers, oh, it belonged to the most dashing officer, who she met when she was so your age! Ah, he could ride for days! Sometimes, little innocent Shaya could shyly barely keep up with the man!
( Inks chooses this moment to tactically cough into her hand, rapidly reddening )
This place, this little home, was built by the two of them together. Now he rests in the distant cemententary but the old saber is a keepsake, yes, of younger days. The bad men took everything else, but they left that, because they could not pry it off the wall. You have to click the mantle on the left, a little trick against thieves installed by one of her grandsons who knows more about such things than she does.
Oh Ana, she misses him so...
Agent Inks !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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Sorry what was that
Super Secret Agent Aught
>>5935624 The spirit of your beloved may yet defend you and yours once more, dear Shaya.
>Graciously accept the free will gift and retrieve the old blade from the wall. A good luck charm, and perhaps a handy bludgeon if nothing else! Agent Inks !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5935629 Agent! Agent Aughts! Agent you can't be playing around with *swords*! Get a grip! We're professionals! Put that showpiece back on the mantle and --
No, Tactical - *Tactical* - I said Agent Aughts has a sword, not that I need a shipment of swords! Tactical, I can't fight a crash crew of big game hunters with nineteenth century weaponry! Get me some cold war gear at least that has to be possible around here--
>What a nice blade, and what an imposing bludgeon this will be. >To your faint surprise, the blade is Balanced and Light, which for all intents really mostly means you get +1 to use it and that with this blade in hand, you are always counted as Parrying in melee - even if you use your Reaction for other things. >Asset: Heavy Cavalry Blade, Balanced Pockets
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Rolled 2, 4, 2, 1, 6, 2 = 17 (6d6) See what's to learn...>All in >Spatial Anomaly, snag coat and cap from van. Prof 12 + ? >Move 4433, check coat pockets and seams >Look up reviews on this place. Prof 12 + Ops 1
Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
Rolled 1, 3, 2 = 6 (3d6) >>5935590 "..."
He stays for a second. They aren't angry yet and we've earned some legitimacy. Holster the badge, it's only imposing they don't need to know were not local yokels. Doesn't mean we can't play it off. Flash a look to Holiday "Maintain overwatch."
>-Holster Imposing Badge >1Agi: Point at the 'Old Soldier' type. He's in charge, he's got wisdom. Probably hates it when young men have to get killed. "Tы! Пpихoдить" (You! Come!) >1Agi go meet him half way. Holiday and Asclepius keeps the watch. >3Agi+Action: Converse time with the 'Old Soldier'. This a mix of Czech (got to keep the cover) and Russian. (+read 'em like a book) "Ok Rusák (slang term for 'Russian' in Czech), lets take it from the beginning ya? I am Praporčík Inspektor Okraj my friend with the big weapon is Podpraporčík Dovolená. Don't make eye contact but keep in mind he has his weapon trained. Mind if we squat for a second?" *Squat like a slav* "Look I'm going to keep it simple. You guys are in trouble. Not BIG trouble but trouble nonetheless. I speak russian, it's not the best but it's what we have. Me and the team go for small vacation in the boonies soon. Old lady Shaya she's really nice they say. She's a Šváb but we solved our differences a while ago. Very hospitable. Bit before vacay need some little work before relax so they need me and the team on standby at the station in case of trouble. That's you. They say hunters with big guns coming in the region, big hunting trip but they're *Russian* you know we need you on standby in case they drink and do bad men things. Everything fine for a few hours a bum! Get a call that Old Lady Shaya was hit over the head with a serving tray, her goose are loose. Shots fired, etc... So tell me Old... I'm sorry I didn't catch your names yet? Anyway, tell me what's going on? Why need to get violent? Why heff to be mad? Why are you stealing бaбyшкa's goulash in your van and speeding off in the night? It's not being nice guests."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-8gsWZqDBM Super Secret Agent Aught
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>>5935631 Don't worry, Inksie, everything is within mission tolerances. And Miss Shaya? I shall return.
>Flourish and bow to both of them, then head outside to join Etch and Holiday Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
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>>5935645 >>5935590 >Reaction: Get ready to sping to my feet and backflip dodge something (+remakably well adjusted?) CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 16:43:45 No. 5935658 Report Rolled 6, 2, 4, 3, 5, 5 = 25 (6d6) Agent Asclepius brings up another gun and the trio of agents facing down these old hunters might start to feel better about their chances in a straight shootout. >. . . The Old Man holds up a hand...
Sunday
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>>5935658 Sergei, tell me about these accords! This company vay-cay can’t take another international incident. International? Er, interspecies?
>Agi, stick to Inks >Act, press Sergei for details >React, briefcase defense CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 17:00:24 No. 5935666 Report Quoted By:
>But not the other. He is not surrendering. He holds his right hand high and locks eyes with Etch, unconvinced.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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Agent Sunday, where do you meet these people?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 17:05:31 No. 5935676 Report >With the weight of a falling comet, Old Man Boris lets his hand fall down and the hunters at his back snap up their rifles with a surprising level of alacrity. > . . .
Super Secret Agent Aught
>>5935676 Ahem, davai, tovarish! I'm afraid I can't really understand a lick of what everyone is saying here, but can I ask why exactly you felt the need to take the goulash? If only to satisfy my curiosity.
>Flash a winning smile and hope the message gets across CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 17:18:01 No. 5935687 Report ( Time ticks by, slow as the seeping cold that leeches into your bones when you're bleeding out, gutshot, in the mud )>Agents to act!
Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
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>>5935676 >>5935687 >Wait for someone to get the briefcase open before acting and give an actual briefing. It's not a great time for one. BUT I'LL DAMNED IF WE'RE HERE FOR THE POT AND WE JUST LET IT LEAVE CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 17:22:13 No. 5935692 Report >>5935685 Old Man Boris eyes the cavalry blade held in Aughts hand and loosens his stance half a fraction. Any old soldier respects the dash and panache of the cavalry officer on the roaring go.
Super Secret Agent Aught
>>5935692 Hmm...
>Discreetly contact Inks through the team network Inks, would you kindly ask Shaya about about this witch? Or about the ladies with her in that old picture?
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3
Asclepius, Tech Specialist 3 ID:4+e67Gwe Sun 25 Feb 2024 17:45:35 No. 5935713 Report Rolled 3, 2, 4 = 9 (3d6) >1AGI - Lower weapon to point at ground>1AGI - Remember what my pistol is chambered for. >Act - Request that they give us some coldest iron rounds to help us ward off the fey, if they have the correct caliber. Offer my armor jacket in trade.
Anonymous
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>>5935687 I think it’s time someone did some actual spy craft.
#Agent Leshy
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Tourist Attire + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
Imposing Badge, False ID, Bribe Money
Pension Plan, Health Insurance, HR Benefits
–Traits–
Honourable
> Slip up to the window 1/2 of me, with the light shining through. > Eavesdrop on the typist, and take a picture of his screen. > Reaction: If he starts turning around, or hears something strange, immediately duck back into hiding. Agent Inks !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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>>5935704 Every time I do it makes me -- now that's going to be stuck in my head all week. Ma'am Shaya, here - can you tell me who this...
. . . oh.
Agent Inks !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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Baba Shaya, what is the name of your dearest. . . sister?
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 18:04:23 No. 5935726 Report Quoted By:
>>5935713 From inside his cobbled together combination of army fatigues and outdoorsman outfit, Boris finds a clip of 7.62 and underhands it carefully towards Asclepius.
The heavy bullets dig into the earth, faintly gleaming.
Solid stuff, far too large for the C7.
Pockets
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Rolled 5, 2, 2, 2, 5, 3 = 19 (6d6) All right Vertex, Sunday's at the door.
Now, what happened to this poor thing?
>>5935687 >All In >Focus on reviews concerning Suite 17 or hauntings. Prof 12 + Ops 1 >Move 44, pick up goose from behind, move 22 >Recall capabilities of my spatial anomaly, Prof 12 + Anomaly 1? Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
>>5935687 "Who has the case? Sunday?"
>Agi 3: Move 544 "Sunday! Hey, Sunday! There you are. Here, the key."
>Agi 1: Give the key to Sunday "It's a speck of dust in the grand scheme of things, but in this particular moment, it's a very important speck of dust. Get it open, quick."
>Agi 1 (or Action, if it's too much): Check that the Chirni is ready. Safety off, press check, selector to auto, the works. What's the ammo capacity and how many magazines do I have for it? Oh and unfold the stock, in case it isn't unfolded. >Reaction: hold the SMG at low ready. In case anything menaces or attacks me, Sunday, Ink, or any other agents in here, I magdump. #Agent Vertex
-Status-
[ Health 12 | Agility: 5 | Reaction 9 | Push: 4 ]
Strike 1d6
Proficiency 10
-Equipment-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR] + Subtle Carrier Plates [+3DR]
-Belt & Back-
C7 Service[18/36] + Chirni SMG[?/?] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
CBRT-Kit
Key to Mission Briefcase
=Trait=
{Existential Dread}
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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Team Hyacinth, update: I've lost Agent Leshy's signal -- wait, there it is again -- whup -- no -- damit, run a filter on that. I don't use! Use a Kalmann filter! Something!
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 18:21:35 No. 5935737 Report Quoted By:
Through the window, Lesy spots an intent electronics specialist staring down at rows of fluctuating signal read outs - quiet humming equipment racks behind him. From deeper in the building, shadows shift as people move about.
Sunday
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>>5935676 All right, now we’re cooking. You lot took your time, had me dragging this across hell’s half acre. If we’re lucky, they included something for the chafing - I always seem to land carrier duty, and my wrists always pay the price.
Let’s see why we’re here.
>1Agi, open the case >1Agi, unlock my shackles >Act, analyze the contents of the case CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 19:29:40 No. 5935788 Report The seconds tick by, slow and sure. Aught negotiates a brief exchange. >. . .
Agent Justice !.A5J98ttus
Agent Justice !.A5J98ttus ID:VX3laxXX Sun 25 Feb 2024 19:44:41 No. 5935799 Report Quoted By:
>>5934523 "Justice does not sleep, it merely takes short breaks."
>Deploy #Agent Justice
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR]
-INV-
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
Firearms and search forms
Good health insurance and benefits
–Traits–
Justice
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop until evil is dead.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 19:59:24 No. 5935817 Report Quoted By:
As Agent Vertex slides the tiny key home in the heavy briefcase, the lock clicks with a soft tinkle and the internal safeties release with a whoosh of hermetically sealed ear.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 20:02:49 No. 5935820 Report As Agent Vertex slides the tiny key home in the heavy briefcase, the lock clicks with a soft tinkle and the internal safeties release with a whoosh of hermetically sealed air. The flap clicks loose and bangs against Sunday's hip. Damn the briefcase. They always get you in the end.
A carrot and a remarkably rotund onion drops at Sundays feet, as a soft tang of salt and spice waft over the agents in the hallway. A black loaf of rugged bread thunks to the ground.
A little hand-scrawled note in TS Lirens' cheery calligraphy floats on the wind. Some sort of ... recipe?
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsbn-pgITm8 CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 20:19:30 No. 5935841 Report TS Liren: Hauntings, agent Pockets? Huh. Let me run through a -- I think I see it. I've constructed a model of night-time reports of noise in the local village, and it does seem as if they're unusually high. It seems the doors and windows and even, it's rumour, the cottages of the village resort sometimes . . . move on their own ?>Agents to go go gooooo
Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
Rolled 3, 1, 3 = 7 (3d6) >>5935788 Haaa! Old Man Boris you misunderstand. I told you I'm so close to vacation why would I want to trouble on purpose? I'm working extra because of *financial situation* you know? I could've refused but then I can't pay debt I owe friends you know ? ;) Look if you do me a tiny little favor I can just expedite this fast easy and you can be on your way with extra soup or whatever. You trouble? Not anymore but I just need you and your boys to help me out figure a way out of the financial hole and letting you go you get me? That'll be no problem at all. No guns involved. You leave with van meanwhile we finish our shift and move on with writing a report that all the gun fire was just a bad firearms discharge. Although for that part I will need...(He looks at a guy with his rifle and another). Yes those 2 guys need to hand their weapons. Give the physical advice of financial situation. You sign paper and give all address and info. We let you go. Deal? I hope we have a deal.
>Agi3+Action: We are stalling. Ask for what is essentially a [Bribe] with promise of making the problem go away to give time for everyone to get in position. Take your time. Count the money. Check the weapons they hand in. (If they refuse to hand it in try to negotiate that down but just essentially just need the [Bribe].) >Agi1: Team get tactical on them as soon as your in position. >Reaction+agi1: Once that is done inform them they may leave WITHOUT THE POT. It doesn't belong to them. (Essentially saying "No you can't go. Holiday. Drop'em") and dive for cover. >[Team we are not letting the pot or anything leave the site ok? It's ] Pockets
There is... a chance... of collaboration with these people. They seem to attach the same significance to 04 as we do, but they seem to think elimination of 02 is possible. Saves Vanguard the trouble of setting another century-long alarm, but... TS, any reason we should prefer ritual containment as briefed?
Pockets
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Oh. Cripes. I should probably put this goose down.
>>5935733 Hey Vertex, now's a good time to invoke hospitality and start remembering your bedtime stories, or stuff that bread in a pocket and let me take care of it.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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>>5935857 Agent Pockets, come again? Are you… suggesting we go off procedure? Because the idea of perpetuating a stalemate with a child eating witch is somehow disagreeable?
Preposterous, Agent. Procedure is never wrong. That’s the power of committee oversight! Decisions get vetted and you just act them out, following orders.
Excuse me, Agent, I’m getting a phone call from my friend in Interpol — hmhm — yeah —- got it —
Agent, update on the Blue Rat Tactical Team that got accidentally caught up in an Interpol manhunt on the way to do your job: they’ve slipped past the cordon and my distractions— err the investigators —- and are probably trying to get to your location as we speak.
Anyway what were we talking about? Oh right procedure process yes well, ahem, agent as your *tactical support* I can only suggest that it’s my job to *assist* your mission parameters.
( What? No I’m not having a stroke, I was winking, mind your own business, yes, just leave that package by the door, thanks )
I trust I can leave any actual application of groundside mission initiative to you, agent Pocket!
Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
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>>5935841 "Shit!"
"This, uh...this is our bread...! A-and we don't wish to part with it...! What sort of a host robs their guests? And a proprietor of such a...lovely resort, at that?"
>Action+5 Agi: try to scoop up the bread and shove it in my pocket. Also sweep the rest of the ingredients behind me, while keeping an eye on and speaking to Jadwiga. >Reaction: magdump with Chirni if she attacks me, Sunday, Ink, or if she tries to take any of the ingredients, be it normally or via telekinesis or what have you. Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Sun 25 Feb 2024 21:00:34 No. 5935881 Report >>5935841 It's a wonder how Justice can sleep- er, "rest", through almost dying by truck and rifle. Good to see your "rest is over, agent.
>1 Agi: Briefly examine the casing at my feet. More 9s? >4 Agi: Move 2323 >Action: Crouch and try to make myself inconspicuous >Reaction: Shoot at the riflemen should they open up #Agent Sidewinder
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR] + Pre-filled firearms discharge form & subtly pre-filled search warrants
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs + Rental Car keys
–Traits–
Clever
–Assets–
Premium health and life insurance, good pension plan, proper HR benefits
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 21:17:00 No. 5935895 Report Quoted By:
Agent Vertex secures a nice onion, probably good for a soap and kicks a carrot up into hand to grab it with a free left while holding the barrel of the chirni dead steady with the right, sheer pinnacle of point-man proficiency
Pockets
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Rolled 2, 2, 3, 5, 2, 1 = 15 (6d6) Even in light of new knowledge, Pockets speaks regretfully to the goose in her arms. "Sorry, little brother, you've got your mission and I've got mine."
"Wait, peace, guys! We both want the same!"
>>5935841 >All in >Put goose down. >Yoink bread from Vertex' pockets to mine. Prof 12 + Pocket 1? >Look touristy again. Agi or Push? >Dash 122333 >Shout for peace, reset tensions by looking out of place and decidedly non-threatening Prof 12 + Ops 1 + Tourist 1 CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 21:33:46 No. 5935912 Report Quoted By:
>>5935843 Agent Etch consides the angles, signals for Holiday, prepares to break left as he goes right. Sometimes, it has to be this way. Close quarters, pistols and an smg - yeah, the rifles pack a punch and those hunters are good shots. But they're not exactly spring chickens, this lot. Too slow. Take the left one and Holiday handles Boris, KETTLE secure --
Boris sighs
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 21:36:09 No. 5935915 Report Quoted By:
. . . Pocket rounds the corner at a sprint, voice raised, waving a loaf of heavy, nutrient dense brick, crust thick enough to dent armor plate. Boil that thing in a cauldron for an hour and you might think about chewing without chipping teeth, iron or otherwise.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 21:48:31 No. 5935930 Report Fingers ease off of triggers. Holiday lets out a tiny exhale of breath, the only sign he was ever anything less than one hundred percent confdent in his own ability to win a fight. His gun hasn't moved once. Rock-steady. >Agents to . . . act! >And quickly now!
Pockets
Rolled 1, 6, 5, 4, 4, 4 = 24 (6d6) Etch, I heard you about to scam this man. Or shoot him! *whap* || Inks, check your pocket ||
Mister, I just found out we've probably got the same mission as you. We've been trying to get the details from HQ, but our tech's been fritzed ever since we got here. You want the Mortar-Rider dead, right? That works for us too. We just didn't know it was possible. Loop us in?
Oh, and I'm Pockets. You can have your stuff back.
>>5935930 >All in >Move 44 >Send Etch's #13 key to Inks' pocket, and ping her. Prof 12 + 1 Ops >Move 323 >Get collaboration talks started Prof 12 + Ops 1 + Bread 1 Pockets
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>>5935943 Meant +1 Pocket on that first roll, not Ops
Sunday
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>>5935930 Oh, there goes my phone again - how unfortunate! Look here, we are certainly guests - parties of Minuthes, Nombre, and Guerre. We are they, and to act in haste would reflect poorly upon your resort.
Take a beat, give us a moment to identify ourselves.
>1Agi, pick up that briefcase again. It's hefty, and liable to delay an ironjawed death. >Act, it would take some incredible LUCK to find the relevant paperwork in this mess of an office. Then again, I am the OPSPEC and probably handled the booking myself. Play for time, drown her in paperwork - hope she wouldn't risk a probable breach in hospitality. >React, briefcase jutsu. Asclepius
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>Remove Vest >Toss vest to Russians >Pick up cold iron rounds >Prepare to move to the stuck van to retrieve the rifle.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 22:20:50 No. 5935969 Report Quoted By:
The wildly wavering beam in Agent Inks hands catch off of something on the ground as Agent Sunday defends his life with the heavy duty briefing briefcase -- Inks rolls forward, twitching reflexes, and scoops it up and throws it under-hand; the small object sails barely past the flailing arms of Baba Shaya as the shadows shift and tear--
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 22:22:47 No. 5935971 Report The wildly wavering beam in Agent Inks hands catch off of something on the ground as Agent Sunday defends his life with the heavy duty briefing briefcase -- Inks rolls forward, twitching reflexes, and scoops it up and throws it under-hand; the small object sails barely past the flailing arms of Baba Shaya as the shadows shift and tear-->How good are you at playing ball, Agent Sunday? >Are you. . . Proficiency -2 Good?
Fiasco
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>>5935930 #Agent Fiasco
=Stats=
[ Health: 12/12 || Agility: 5 || Reaction: 9 || Push: 4 ]
=Skills=
[Proficiency 10]
=Gear=
{Standard Kit}
{Lucky Charm}
{Multitool}
(!) {Key to Room #13}
==Trait=
(Baleful Malignity)
> 4AGI+1ACT : Keeping low, skulk north-east up the incline and crouch next to the incapacitated fox > 1 AGI : Place a firm hand on back of the animal's head to keep it from thrashing around. > 1 REA : Fiasco's ears prick, straining to pick out threatening noises emanating from the nearby treeline. The agent is primed to hit the deck and roll back down the hill if necessary. Sunday
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Rolled 6, 1, 1 = 8 (3d6) >>5935971 What did you say, Inks? A cat? In here? It's NOT the time!
>I'm not athlete, but I might just get LUCKY? Right place, right time Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Sun 25 Feb 2024 22:41:03 No. 5935994 Report Quoted By:
>>5935930 >5 Agi: Move 23223 >Act: Move along the bottom of the cliff, they shouldn't have the angle to see me >Reaction: Keep myself safe within common sense #Agent Sidewinder
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR] + Pre-filled firearms discharge form & subtly pre-filled search warrants
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs + Rental Car keys
–Traits–
Clever
–Assets–
Premium health and life insurance, good pension plan, proper HR benefits
Agent Justice !.A5J98ttus
Agent Justice !.A5J98ttus ID:VX3laxXX Sun 25 Feb 2024 22:56:09 No. 5936008 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 6, 1, 2 = 9 (3d6) >>5935841 "There's no time to lose. Evil is afoot."
"JUSTICE. KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!"
>3AG: Run 444 >AP(All-in):Running jump-kick the goose through the door. (vs 10+Justice+2) >2AG: Momentum 44 >>5935881 Justice is aided by highly effective earplugs!
#Agent Justice
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR]
-INV-
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
Firearms and search forms
Good health insurance and benefits
–Traits–
Justice
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop until evil is dead.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 23:22:10 No. 5936027 Report Agent Sunday's hands close around the key to Suite #13 and the fireplace roars to life with a soft pop. The shadows wink away like morning dew. Old Shaya smiles kindly and nods. Yes, oh, she recalls your booking now, it was placed with the new fangled eme eale her grandson helped her setup to promote her restful resort. All details are in order, party of Sin, Guerre, of course, of course.>Agents. . . To go !
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Agent Justice, your biorythms are . . . way off. I'm seeing some fluctuations here I'm not supposed to see unless you're in a coma. But you're not.
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Sun 25 Feb 2024 23:29:56 No. 5936034 Report Quoted By:
>>5936027 >5 Agi: Carefully move 33332 >Act: Continue proceeding stealthily to Suite 15 >Reaction: Keep myself safe within common sense #Agent Sidewinder
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR] + Pre-filled firearms discharge form & subtly pre-filled search warrants
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs + Rental Car keys
–Traits–
Clever
–Assets–
Premium health and life insurance, good pension plan, proper HR benefits
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 25 Feb 2024 23:33:22 No. 5936038 Report The Old Hunter outlines a plan in a few sharp, simple words. Sometimes, things are simple. Black and white. Straight forward.
Agent Justice !.A5J98ttus
Agent Justice !.A5J98ttus ID:VX3laxXX Sun 25 Feb 2024 23:35:03 No. 5936044 Report Rolled 3, 2, 2 = 7 (3d6) >>5936027 >>5936029 "There is clearly something wrong with this goose. It is impeding justice."
>AP: Justice examination. Squat down and give it a few pokes. (vs 10) #Agent Justice
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H:(Wireless TacCom)[Signal 12]
B:(Suit & Tie) + (Discreet Vest)[5DR]
-INV-
(C7 Service)[18/36] + (Extendable Baton) + (Flashlight)[12] + (Zips & Cuffs)
(Firearms & search forms) + (Good health insurance & benefits)
–Traits–
Justice
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop until evil is dead.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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Rolled 4, 2, 3 = 9 (3d6) >>5936044 The black geese are a regionally occuring creature although not in this region, Agent. Fascinating up close.
Wait, hang on, Agent. Agent poke it again - poke it slowly -- poke it -- stop -- poke it again -- poke---
*got you*
Agent Justice.
That's no goose.
That goose isn't even really there at all. Agent Justice! That's the *idea* of a goose! It's interfacing with your subjective continuum! It's. . . hang on let me just clean up this filter a minute -- oh.
they're the eyes, agent justice
the eyes of baba yaga
*she knows*
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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the geese it's the *geese* they're guardian geese they keep a vigil oh bollocks I knew I should have loaned more books from the library this is what I get for sleeping for twenty minutes
Fiasco
>>5936027 #Agent Fiasco
=Stats=
[ Health: 12/12 || Agility: 5 || Reaction: 9 || Push: 4 ]
=Skills=
[Proficiency 10]
=Gear=
{Standard Kit}
{Lucky Charm}
{Multitool}
(!) {Key to Room #13}
==Trait=
(Baleful Malignity)
> 1AGI : Remove Suitjacket. "Hush now. I'm doing you a good turn here so be a gracious little dingo and stay still."
> 1ACT+3AGI : Tightly wrap the Suitjacket around the injured animal's torso, binding its limbs against its body. Secure with zipties. "Bite me and I will risk staining my jacket to yeet you into a treetrunk."
> 1AGI : Gently pick up fox burrito. Fiasco
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>>5936067 > 1REA : Be very mindful while handling the snappy little forest critter. Don't want to lose a finger. Pockets
>>5936038 Leave the house? Are you after the receptionist or her elder? We happen to know that one's coming. Have you killed so many like her to think it will be this easy?
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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All groundside teams, Won, Garuda, Hyacinth, I am escalating the condition of this operation to yellow - I have a bad, bad feeling about these waterfowl and how this night is going to go.
Super Secret Agent Aught
>>5936038 We aren't *really* going to have to do in old lady Shaya, are we? She was kind enough to gift me her old beau's saber...
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
All groundside teams, Won, Garuda, Hyacinth, I am escalating the condition of this operation to yellow - I have a bad, bad feeling about these waterfowl and how this night is going to go.
Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
Rolled 1, 2, 5 = 8 (3d6) >>5936027 >>5935943 Well you weren't exactly giving much a plan 'Tourist' and orders we're still not coming through but you know what. Its fine now because we have something.
>>5936038 "Alright Boris. It seems we got off on the wrong foot. I didn't put it together but it seems we're looking to finish the same 'prey'.Dovolená (Holiday) you can put the gun down. We're going to be doing this together. We can do this plan Boris but for it to happen were going to need strong bait and we have it. Were going to use that pot to cook another goulash. When she comes. Me and my men distract her. Your jobs...well your Huntsman right? You got steady aim. Finish her. If you manage it then that's going to be it right? Lest we have to resort to even older stuff then what you have like a cossacks sword. I saw the photo in the other van. That's one of the kids right? One that got his essence. I'll be damned if I let that happen more as an officer. But we'll do it here. Get in position. Those geese you see around? They're her eyes. She knows and tonight she's coming back. Tell your 2 snipers to be ready and watch out for what's around. There is more then 1 set of eyes for her. We have more supplies here we need to acquire and then lets begin cooking. Shake on it?" (Offer handshake. Be genuine with at least this but to them we're still Law-men mostly out of their debt. We're making it happen.)
>Agi5+Act: Agree and make a plan to bait, trap and put a final end to Baba Yaga with help of Boris and his hunters. We get the pot they get the shot. We cook, use DA RULES against them and we (together) get to put an end to years, perhaps centuries of child kidnapping and murder. Win-Win. Better together then apart. Handshake on it. (+Coordinator, +Read 'em like a book) >Reaction: Begin the process of making this work. >Conditions: Do not accept offerings from any old lady involved >Conditions: We do this HERE. Because she will come HERE soon. >Step 1: Acquire the pot >Step 2: Go check-in >Step 3: Go acquire the supplies within room #13 and #14 >Step 4: Put on the Chef Boyardi hat >Step 5: We cook >Step 6: We open the signal for the Mortar and pestle grinder to arrive >Step 7: Upon her arrival begin the usual process. >Step 8: While she is distracted you try what you have >Step 9: If that's not enough we try the Cossacks method >Step 10: Still not working? Well we'd have tried... >Step 11: If we make it here surely it worked? "Think this works Boris?"
>>5936083 Her elder sister is the one we're doing in. She kidnaps the young
>>5936073 For this to work we're doing it here. Going anywhere else is a disadvantage and more suicidal then anything. Here is where we'll solve the problem.
Pockets
>>5936087 Boris is talking about his target leaving her house for the pot. Aught and I are trying to verify that he actually wants the elder.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Mon 26 Feb 2024 00:17:36 No. 5936100 Report Quoted By:
>>5936083 >>5936073 Boris considers, and then, eventually, shakes his head. No. A family cannot be blamed for the misdeeds of one sibling. Baba Shaya is a wooden folk, and Ancient, and old when the sun was born, but has she ever hurt a young faun frolicking in the woods? The hunter thinks not. For love of family we all become blind to things we do not wish to face.
This too is why her sisters seek to release her from her self-imposed geasa. Young Shaya fell in love with a man, dashing and grand, and for love they built this place. She swore she would keep it forever and a day in his memory, and so she will, and so she has. So long as that spell holds, Baba Shaya is not prey.
>>5936087 Oh, Lawman.
You know how to hunt.
. . . On this, we *shake*.
>The Old Hunter pulls a small silver flask from inside his cobbled together uniform and takes a solid swig; something so wildly alcoholic it causes the air to haze over. And then he offers it out as proof of a deal. >>5936096 Ya. Baba Yaga. She not her Cottage leaves, for in it, she is safe and sound like a fortress. This is why the cauldron of her sister we need, for she needs it to break the spell her sister wove by accident.
We use it to lure her out of her hut.
Asclepius
Rolled 5, 3, 5 = 13 (3d6) >Act - Retrieve the Rifle from the Van
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Agents, I'm getting a ... request... in russian... about combining our tac-net with what I think is a pretty kludged together variant of a mesh-grid running a - no way - that's incredible - they're using radioshack equipment! That's genius! It's awful! I hate it! That's genius! I hate it!>LOOP 'EM >LOOP 'EM, OBSCURE OUR METRICS (Signal might fritz out occassionally) >DENY, SEPARATE NETWORKS IS BETTER OPSEC BORIS. MAYBE BABA YAGA KNOWS INFO WARFARE.
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Mon 26 Feb 2024 00:42:26 No. 5936130 Report >>5936117 >DENY, SEPARATE NETWORKS IS BETTER OPSEC BORIS. MAYBE BABA YAGA KNOWS INFO WARFARE. If they felt the need to jam geese, I feel the need to maintain opsec
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5936111 Agent Asclepius, I said "Condition yellow, exercise your best discretion", not "gear up to fight world war three".
Good stars man. Grizzley bears would think bringing that kind of thing to bear is unsporting. Small mercy, at least, that our modern body armor might have some tricks against the projectile. Looks like they're using hollow-points with . . . litanies carved in them? Old school.
Good wooden stock. Solid optics. Doubles as a club once you run out of ammo. I think you might be able to bury that in the trenches for six decades and it still fires. Actually, I can't tell the makers marks on that one, so maybe it already has been and Boris just dug it out recently.
Now, keep one thing in mind agent: our C7s are chambered subsonic and comes with muzzle baflers and internal supressors, we try to maintain a low profile. You fire of that phallic compensator and every woodland creature in a mile is going to know you're out for their pelt.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5936130 You ever pause to think that sometimes you have to write a sentence like the one you just said in your reports, Agent Sidewinder, and you wonder what steps you took that made your life turn out this way?
Sorry, maybe Vertex is rubbing off on me.
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Mon 26 Feb 2024 00:54:50 No. 5936149 Report >>5936139 What, are you chickening out on me Liren? Do you know who we are? Team WON is on the field. You have nothing to worry about, because we have already WON.
Sunday
>>5936087 >>5936117 Etch, I think this is a bad idea. Involving these... gentlemen... seems an unnecessary risk.
Orders purports that 002 won't risk direct conflict with 001's guests, as doing so would put them in conflict and violate familial bonds. While I am not especially versed in binding peculiarities of hospitality, I assess it to be a likelihood that gunning down 002 will violate those devilish details.
Maybe we can just... talk to 002 and things will work out? We just need to maintain the status quo... but these 'hunters' are certainly NOT quo!
>All out >Agi, make my way towards suite 13. Let's see what kind of gear we're working with >Act, try to recall the company SOP for dealing with fae. I think Liren signed me up for that course? >Act, politely decline the trappings of hospitality - breakfast, housekeeping, etc. Asclepius
>Ask to borrow the suite keys so that I can check in and unpack the luggage. >Ask the Russians if they had a special place in mind for meeting Baba Starshaya, if Baba Yaga is going to stay in her home in the Iron Woods. Unless they were expecting to see a home with chicken legs soon? >Eyeball the suites looking for one with good sniping lines of sight.
Super Secret Agent Aught
>>5936134 >Ask Shaya if she still has one of her old lover's uniforms handy. I'm feeling dangerous right now. TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5936149 Hey, I believe you. I always believe you! That's why you're my favorite agents.
>>5936166 Deal with the Fae, Sunday?
Well, I'd imagine we try not to! Surely making deals with them is the last thing anyone would do, isn't that how they get you?
Self perpetuating mythologies have unidentified interactions with causal mainline reality. You get woods that go on forever, birds that turn into people, doors that open in hedges to place unbound. Glamour-stuff and dream-thoughts, Agent. It doesn't respect physics. They're beings of pacts and power, but at least the same pacts that give them power makes them predictable. Predictability is good, in this line of work.
But we don't have a lot of information on The Fair Folk, if they even exist. I mean you get people who claim it all the time, but the existence of exonomic entities that live in the Wyld beyond our sphere would imply that the Wild Hunt is real. We all agree it isn't, because if it was, someone would have to tell the UN Security Council about it. So this is novel territory, I'm afraid. We're writing the book as we speak.
>>5936174 Chicken-leg house? Boris nods. They were, at that. It is fast. They wanted to draw it into an ambush. That's why the cauldron is strapped to the back of a van and ten hunters roared on ahead, to set up, get the heavier gear ready.
>>5936176 It looks like she does, Agent Aught. Eye sparkle as you ask. Are you sure you want to put on an old-style cossack rider uniform? I mean I suppose the vest fits under it, but it is a lot of bottons to get it right. I bet you'd look very dashing though.
Super Secret Agent Aught
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>>5936227 Of course! If a man is to go facing possible death with nothing but metal and mettle, he ought to look the part, don't you think?
>Don the Uniform Asclepius, Tech-Rifleman 3
Asclepius, Tech-Rifleman 3 ID:4+e67Gwe Mon 26 Feb 2024 03:47:07 No. 5936328 Report Quoted By:
>Act: use the multitool and predictive patterning to adjust the optics to fit me.
Agent Leshy
>>5936027 > Move back, towards the car. It seems things have calmed down, thankfully. > Brief myself. > What the f******** > Start looking for the.. onions, lard, caraway, paprika, flour, beef, broth, tomatoes- Did we bring this in the car?
Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
>>5936027 "We're good, TS. As good as one can be when...never mind. Forget it.
"Sunday, here, take this...and this...I'm going outside."
>1 Agi: pass ingredients to Sunday >4 Agi: open door, move 121 >Reaction: dive for cover if anything dangerous happens, ig "TS, confirm if we're joining forces with the hunters. Their goals seem to be contrary to our orders to maintain stability. Advise on how to proceed."
>>5936117 >DENY, SEPARATE NETWORKS IS BETTER OPSEC BORIS. MAYBE BABA YAGA KNOWS INFO WARFARE. The night is yet young. We might have to kill these guys at some point.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5936454 Ooooh no, you’re not making that my responsibility, agent Vertex. Demonstrate some initiative; you’re the groundside - your call.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5936422 Not unless you went shopping on the way. However Critical Mission Supplies (it’s some carrots and flavor cubes) were included in the Briefcase
Agent Leshy
>>5936485 Can I steal somebody’s lunch?
Agent Leshy
>>5936486 …but with their permission, because I am an honourable sort who doesn’t ransack their coworkers, even for the greater good.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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>>5936487 >>5936486 I’m running a sweep, Agent - yeah; looks like those occupied Suites have acceptable levels of local caloric density. And I did pull some strings to get supplies delivered to #13 and #14. It wouldn’t be stealing. It’s already ours.
Any other lunch you need to take to throw in a kettle to make stew to bind the Ancient One for a hundred years and a night is a lunch we’ll compensate someone for!
Leave an IOU. They’ll understand.
Pockets
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Rolled 2, 2, 1, 4, 6, 1 = 16 (6d6) >>5936087 Was just playing a bit of good cop. It was shooting-tense for a minute there.
>>5936117 >DENY >>5936027 Hey TS, Etch had #14, so that's what Sunday should have now. #13 should be held by... Fiasco... You know what, I'm not confused anymore.
>>5936027 >All in >Filter reviews by stars, identify trends among the higher ratings. 12 + Ops 1 >Move 32323 >Get Boris' assessment of the resort. Engagements, other guests, lay of the land, mythological sites. 12 + Ops 1 Anonymous
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Rolled 17 (1d20) roll
Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
>>5936484 "Hrm. roger that, TS. Out."
"So much for 'tactical support', huh..."
>>5936087 "Sunday's got the right idea here, Etch. Good work on getting them to calm down, but working with these guys is contrary to our mission. It's not something they'll understand, either. Neither is worth much, in the grand scheme of things, but in their minds, I imagine 'their dead kids' trump 'stability'. We'll have to have another confrontations with these guys sooner rather than later and it'll help to have a plan."
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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He's really something, that man. Things just get strange within a 57.6 meter radius, to the exact milimeter. I've stopped asking too many questions about it. Every time I ask questions about it, my hard-drives mysteriously self-format.
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5936596 >>5936484 Yes, Agent Vertex, that's tactical support. For tactical and tech situations. Support. That means my job is to support you doing your job. The job that you are here to do.
The job that Tactical Team Blue Rat could not do because I accidentally told some friends in Interpol where they would be overnighting so they got tangled up in a whole little bomb scare.
That job. The job that you got on a rush order economy class plane to do instead of Blue Rat, because Blue Rat with all their tactical gear and long format briefing on the importance of an observe-and-report stance on ancient horrors, are not here to do. That job. The job that no else but my favorite agents got emergency shuffled into taking on because everyone else mysteriously had their emails lock them out. That job. The job that Blue Rat was originally going to do!
But since Blue Rat Whiskerlead isn't here to specify what exactly it was their job was and since someone keeps mysteriously causing all their attempts to call base to loop and drop, then you will just have to display some sort of groundside operational intiative, and as I am purely your tactical support liason, I will do my job to support you every single step of the way of the job that you decide to do.
So what you need to do, Agent Vertex, is to carefully weigh the evidence array'd before you and come to a conclusion about the job that you're here to do. Which is a task description that is entirely within your responsibility zone in our org chart, and I have checked the charters, that absolutely, categorically will hold up in post-incident review. Am I making myself clear?
I could not possibly in any way what so ever order you to solve this situation in any one particular way or another, because of course, I am, as I keep saying, simply here for tactical support, which I am just going to repeat for the benefit of any oversight management members listening to this recorded conversation later, I never explicitly ordered anyone to fight an ancient child-eating witch!
It absolutely, categorically is not possible to trace any missing briefing memorandums accidentally falling into an incinerator to me and as I said quite clearly earlier nothing in any mission brief I'm aware of specifies we need to maintain control over enormous, outsized broth cooking implements to ensure that we complete the job that Blue Rat was sent here to do.
The job that they can't specify for us because someone keeps putting them on hold. That job, Agent Vertex. The job that you will then have to simply make up your own mind about the contents of, based on the information before your eyes and the classified materials you have access to, which surely no one tampered with before you all left base, I can assure you of this, I personally checked that no one else had tampered with it.
And when you make up your mind I will support you every step of the way! So just make up your mind, Agent Vertex!
Pockets
>QM having technical difficulties. Reposting from discord. >Hunters looped in as Local Assets >Signal cloaked >Tactical counter-traces. >Bulls revealed >Badgers revealed >Bears revealed
Pockets
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Rolled 2, 2, 1 = 5 (3d6) >>5936676 >>5936675 Personally I blame having to co-ride Czech or Russian homebrew covert ops electronics
Keep it nice and slow, agents. I’ve started building a filter based on that energy signature from the reception. But data processing is having a hard time
differentiating between darkness, cold, shadows, teeth, hunger, chicken broth on children’s bones, feathers like an ill wind that comes for your bones, she comes, she comes, the clattering teeth like prongs, and—
Sorry, connection cut out there for a moment. I repeat: You’ve got a large cloud formation rolling across the region. Might be a sudden storm squall.
Get into formation and cover each other - the rain is pretty dense. Might make visibility go way down.
>Wind and Woe, 13 Fiasco
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>>5936676 #Agent Fiasco
=Stats=
[ Health: 12/12 || Agility: 5 || Reaction: 9 || Push: 4 ]
=Skills=
[Proficiency 10]
=Gear=
{Standard Kit}
{Lucky Charm}
{Multitool}
{Black Fox wrapped in a suitjacket}
(!) {Key to Room #13}
==Trait=
(Baleful Malignity)
> 1AGI : Take a moment to snugly tuck the bundled vulpine under one arm, cautious not to agitate its injury. "Right-eo. What do you say we requisition ourselves some dubious healthcare from the local mud monger, all on the federal government's dime?"
>4AGI+1ACT : Slowly skid back down the hill and follow the route taken by Sidewinder. Come to halt just behind his displayed position. > 1REA: Stick close to the cliff-face, slipping beneath the entrenched hunting party's line of sight. Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Mon 26 Feb 2024 14:13:18 No. 5936693 Report Rolled 3, 5, 6 = 14 (3d6) >>5936686 >>5936676 Well, that's certainly a big one.
>2 AGI: Move 34 >Action, 2 AGI: Open the window, forcibly if necessary. Maybe my statuses as TECHNICAL SPECIALIST and CLEVER can help with this. >React: Keep myself safe within common sense #Agent Sidewinder
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR] + Pre-filled firearms discharge form & subtly pre-filled search warrants
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs + Rental Car keys
–Traits–
Clever
–Assets–
Premium health and life insurance, good pension plan, proper HR benefits
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Mon 26 Feb 2024 14:14:19 No. 5936695 Report Quoted By:
>>5936693 *Action + 3 AGI for opening the window, one AGI was unspent
Pockets
Interference continues, rerouting. Here's Boris' brief.
Pockets
>>5936722 All agents: Refer to briefing on Suite #16. Boris' explanation of XP-01's conduct aligns with our own briefing. Evaluate past and future interactions with XP-01 accordingly. -- Any compromised agents are to be isolated from XP-01, decommissioned and extracted. --
>>5936087 The current plan is outlined here. Pretense of Vanguard containment procedures will occupy XP-02 while Boris and co (B-teams) enact kill plan.
To that end, all agents enter Suite #13 or #14 to gain Hospitality at earliest opportunity. Do so only by legitimate means.
Other objectives include ingredient gathering, archetypal cladding (as with Asclepius and Aught), weather-proofing and goose-stymieing. Remember, aim about 9 1/2 inches to the left.
>>5936693 Sidewinder, strongly suggest belay window entry. Expect door is unlocked.
Pockets
... It's a little interesting that I was able to pick that goose up first try. It definitely had no interest in letting me. Did I just get lucky? Was it too hurt to be elsewhere? But it's still hurt and being weird for Justice...
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:cLRwvbLr Mon 26 Feb 2024 17:33:08 No. 5936763 Report Quoted By:
>>5936738 Roger Pockets, thanks for the heads up
>>5936693 Changing agi and action to moving south alongside the house
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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>>5936755 TS Liren: Boris says Task Team Bird and Bee “am of drive” to supply cache and get tools to “demolish witches house”. He means Baba Yaga’s suite, #17. Have not had contact yet, but “should be of checking in soon.”
We still have them on satellite as per your request. They’ve been in a small hunting lodge about forty-seven clicks from here for a while. Blackout window on satellite is coming up, though. Like I mentioned. Hm. Actually let me just run a filter, go to thermal imaging. The engines are still hot on their vans…
… Hm. Moss covered hut. Imagining quality degradation. Best I can confirm we still have five Birds and Bees in that lodge, preparing gear. Baba Shaya mentioned she thinks they will return when she have Afanasyev’s sword to Agent Aught.
Two theories, Agent. think it’s possible the Geese saw you inflict violence on the Hunters and thinks you an ally of its Mistress, Agent Pocket. None of the geese have actively interfered with our mission yet. Even the snap on Etch’s pantsleg did not draw undue blood. I… note with some concerns they are concentrating around Boris’ gaggle of huntsmen.
Second theory: you flanked it and surprised it. If it is manipulating perception somehow that is a glamour. All notes we have indicate Glamours only work by intent design.
Sunday
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>>5936676 Agents, all I'm suggesting is that maybe we shouldn't get into a shootout with forces beyond mortal comprehension before first exhausting our diplomatic alternatives. I think it'd be an excellent idea to sit down with the relevant parties, namely this Goose Cabal, and have a chat.
When negotiations inevitably break down and the soup is spilled, then we can fall back on violent action. Simple as a Sunday stroll.
>Agi, keep meandering towards our suites >Act, continuously flip my Lucky Coin. I've heard it said that 'tails never fails.' Track the coinflip results. Pockets
Rolled 5, 3, 5 = 13 (3d6) Oh man oh jeez oh Susanna. She's got one over on Aught. Maybe two.>Yoink Aught's comms gear, 10 + 1 Pocket >React dodge
Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
>>5936613 "Sorry, TS, you were speaking this whole time? I'm pretty sure I said 'out', didn't I? Did I miss anything important?"
>>5936676 >All Agi: casually walk towards suite #13 with the others >All in: listen to TS, but also ponder the absurdity of the current situation (special agents and old paramilitaries cooking some borscht or goulash or whatever to banish a witch and only temporarily, at that), taking it as a microcosm of all existence. Do I really have to make a decision? Will there be a point or a purpose to it? Will it change anything? Is there even a point to asking these questions when I know the answer? What am I even doing here? TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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Rolled 6, 4, 3 = 13 (3d6) >>5936797 Hey— well— we— but— Vertex I—
>Will-2 Pockets
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>>5936797 Blue Rat licks eggs, don't be like Blue Rat, don't do the mission like Blue Rat, don't snitch about what TS did to Blue Rat, all my squaddies hate Blue Rat.
Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
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>>5936722 >>5936676 >Agi1: Eye Boris's plan. Not bad not bad. We took Suite 13 and 14 so we'll be using whatever they deposited after all we too count as government body. Though as always politics elude me. Sergei that home office asshole probably thought we'd have to do this anyway. :((((( >Agi1: Critique Boris's soup: Boris. This soup is abysmal. It won't attract Yaga much less even lesser prey. My men and I have a recipe to cook up something with a bit more 'appeal' thouvhits not what she deserves >Agi3+Act: Go to Suite #14 after the check-in to check the "supplies" >React: Don't accept anything Baba Shaya offers or wants to give unless it's the 3rd time. Anything she does free without asking is fine but if she asks it's going to be no Super Secret Agent Aught
>>5936774 I think not. This was a gift by a very nice, very fine lady. This isn't something you just *throw away*, if you catch my drift.
>Parry Pocket's attempts at tomfoolery CutCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5936968 Parry?
. . . Parry?
Just. . . parry? You sure? Not very dashing, you know. Not very dashing at all. You meant riposte and put the sword through his sternum, right?
CutCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
It's easy.
CutCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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Or, well, no, not "lifting" per se, as such, it is more of a falling forward and down along the sharp line that separates divine flesh from worm food
Super Secret Agent Aught
>>5936981 >>5936980 Dear Pocket is an ally! They're acting foolish, but not hostile.
[s:lit]Yet.[/s:lit]
CutCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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>>5936983 Wellll one should treat ones allies with respect and grace, such is the weight borne by any respectable officer. Suppose any ally worth the name must earn leeway for misunderstandings. Graciousness and affable demeanour? Qualities to be had in abundance! You're right, let's forgive such attempts at pilfering.
And put it through his eye if he tries again.
Super Secret Agent Aught
>>5936983 I'm not talking to myself, am I? Does anyone else hear the voices? Hello?
>Try not to sound too crazy Afanasyev !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5936985 Oh no, no, although you should know that talking to yourself is the marking of a sane, well adjusted mind. What other creature could know you so intimately?
Though as some do rate it a mark of madness, rest assured, you are not.
Lovely soul you have here, пyтeшecтвeнник. Say, have you ever considered ethnography? What is your most beloved childhood tale?
Super Secret Agent Aught
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>>5936986 I suppose I've dabbled in it. My great-grandfather once told me tales of Wisaka, a sort of Algonquian Prometheus, but with a happier ending. But I digress.
Asclepius, Tech-Rifleman 3
Asclepius, Tech-Rifleman 3 ID:4+e67Gwe Tue 27 Feb 2024 01:05:02 No. 5937030 Report Quoted By:
>>593672 >walk to the shrine of the old gods >At the shrine, pry to Hygea asking for the wisdom of how to break transformational curses, such as ones that turn people into geese or chairs, if one isn't an animist. >Delve into the memories of the Legion. Do they know how to free people from a witch's curse? Preferably something quick which doesn't kill them. We don't have the time, resources, or machinery to weave an army's worth of nettle shirts. The pain will need to be given some other way. >Ask TS Liren too. Might as well get multiple opinions. >Drink some Irish Coffee as I prepare to de-capitalize the R. Agent Justice !.A5J98ttus
Agent Justice !.A5J98ttus ID:VX3laxXX Tue 27 Feb 2024 01:35:03 No. 5937050 Report Rolled 4, 5, 2 = 11 (3d6) >>5936676 "For your crime of impeding Justice, biting an agent, attempting to bite an agent, and misaligning your spatial position with your visual location, I'll be taking you in for questioning. Your rights to dying and biting people are both revoked."
>AP+5AGI: Use the Justice Jacket for Justice wound-stopper, and use the Justice tie for Justice beak-shutter. (vs 10 Justice) >Reaction: Avoid bite. #Agent Justice
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H:(Wireless TacCom)[Signal 12]
B:(Suit & Tie) + (Discreet Vest)[5DR]
-INV-
(C7 Service)[18/36] + (Extendable Baton) + (Flashlight)[12] + (Zips & Cuffs)
(Firearms & search forms) + (Good health insurance & benefits)
–Traits–
Justice
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop until evil is dead.
Agent Justice !.A5J98ttus
Agent Justice !.A5J98ttus ID:VX3laxXX Tue 27 Feb 2024 01:36:12 No. 5937053 Report Quoted By:
>>5937050 Forgot very important image.
Pockets
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O-okay kiddo.
CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:bcTteVkx Tue 27 Feb 2024 20:07:08 No. 5937744 Report TS Liren: Agents, I'm detecting abnormal weather patterns moving towards you at speed, the rain is going to get intense. Maybe ask Boris and his people to stack up? Their overwatch positions are pretty isolated. Of course, if the target arrives, it might be important they're there-->all is dust >your great works are ash >a thousand geese like the eyes of the night stare at you from the shadows with the faint sound of prongs clattering on cobblestone approaching rapidly >agents to ... >. . . ponder the ceaseless futility of material existence and the inevitable failure of mere human struggles contending with cosmic forces and the weight of paranatural events >give up >give in >let go >surrender
Sunday
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>>5937744 Tails never fails, eh? Maybe a wishing well is just what we need right about now.
What do you think, geese? Think that we could talk this out?
>All out >Toss my Lucky Coin in the well. Wish really hard for a peaceful resolution to the day (Push 5) >Step towards the geese >Appeal to the geese for peace Afanasyev !!8Og8gGv6k3r
Now this? This feels more like how it should feel, doesn't it? Now, Wisaka you say? I never was much for travel in the Americas, but I would very much like to go if I still had a body. The open plains, a fast horse and interesting people's to meet. What more could a man need?
Fiasco
>>5937744 #Agent Fiasco
=Stats=
[ Health: 12/12 || Agility: 5 || Reaction: 9 || Push: 4 ]
=Skills=
[Proficiency 10]
=Gear=
{Standard Kit}
{Lucky Charm}
{Multitool}
{Black Fox wrapped in a suitjacket}
(!) {Key to Room #13}
==Trait=
(Baleful Malignity)
> Fiasco side-eyes the approaching poultry, then his gaze flickers to the cabin looming before him "Well-well, would you have a gander at that."
"Now, If I recall Liren's jabbering scattershot debriefs correctly, which I do because I am the best and most attentive listener, the word 'Fox' came up at least once in reference to this building. And there's also that supplement-enhanced duck over yon. Therefore, this building must be some sort of rustic pop-up wildlife clinic."
"Awful bloody convenient, eh?"
> 5AGI+ALLIN : Break into a full sprint then leap through the window three spaces to the south-east. For the sake of his passenger, and to his immense chagrin, Fiasco suppresses the urge to action roll or engage in other forms unnecessarily bombastic acrobatics, opting for a simple vault and clean landing. "G"DAY! THIS IS PHILANTHROPIC STICK-UP! WE ARE COMMENDEERING YOUR FINEST VETENARIAN!"
Pockets
Urgent, TS. Aught's compromised. Need de-loop and extraction options. What? No, don't cry, what's --
CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:bcTteVkx Tue 27 Feb 2024 22:37:33 No. 5937887 Report >>5937866 Agent Fiasco fails to fail, and slams through the window into a cottage. Now this? THIS is brochure ready. Palpable waves of snug winter-safe joy rebound off of the rustic wooden walls, the fireplace thrums with a gentle flame that warms the heart and someone has for some reason left three crates of pantry supplies snug against the door. The bed looks un-made well slept in, and up against the fall wall. . . a. . . lounge chair? Is that a whiskey cabinet? Someone's really made a little nest here.
but alas: no vetenarian is in residence.
>Agent Fiasco comes to his feet so smoothly he can take an extra action, based on this update (as can everyone else, should it matter) CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:bcTteVkx Tue 27 Feb 2024 22:45:01 No. 5937897 Report Quoted By:
Agent Justice re-coheres to this baseline reality, bringing with them a goose culprit and an uneering sense of righteousness, like a compass.
CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:bcTteVkx Tue 27 Feb 2024 22:53:05 No. 5937905 Report Quoted By:
. . . what was that sound?
Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
>>5937744 What. No hold on Li you can't just. Hello? Hello??... Officer Vrcholek you ёбaный ypoд now our TS is gone. You couldn't have your shitty existential crisis in the fucking car like a normal big adult? Fucking hell. Half competent squad, Half hlupác who get lost in country. Ok here's what were doing.
>Agi 1: Boris! My man we are switching to YOUR network for most of this hunt. Our TS is having a case of the "existential crisis" and I would be surprised if we find her at the station without herself having ended it all. She was depressive already Vrcholek! Say hello to the Russian TS >Agi 1: Request Badger team to Feed the soup with no love to the Geeses to get them out of our way. "Btw, yoou guys know an Soldier called Sokolai? Loudest voice in the curtain, loves Badgers?" >Agi1: Holiday we're going for Suite #14. You take point I follow. >React: Evasive maneuvers against gooses of all sides and Vertex's bullshit. >Agi 2+ Act: Move around the Geese when they are distracted by the Soup they are being fed to get to Suite #14 (+read 'em like a book) CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:bcTteVkx Tue 27 Feb 2024 23:02:29 No. 5937913 Report >>5937906 inspector! inspector! You sure of this? but-- uh-- Ivano, get the ladle
inspector ! It's . . . working! There is path! There is path through the goose! Quick! Go now! They are of Baba Yaga's heart and soul and it is of working, inspector! How did you know? She wants the cauldron and so do they but their animal parts cannot resist the need to eat !
Fiasco
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>>5937887 > Fiasco chokes back a slightly manic chuckle as he registers the crates of unattended accelerant. > 1AGI : Snatch up a bottle of whiskey from one of the crates. > 1AGI : Fetch the PEP > 1AGI : Place the fox on the bed "Allllright then, looks like we're DIYing medical malpractice!"
> 1AGI : Pop open the whiskey and take a long swig "Hah-ha! Just a jest, a funny joke, of course. Though legally I'm obligated to inform you that I have absolutely no medical training, a long history of spontaneous violent episodes, fully intend to perform this operation while drunk, and am genuinely, literally cursed - but I do bring a can-do attitude and flexible definition of failure to the table too, so I feel it all balances out. Anyway, lets take a poke at those exposed vertebrae - ah, but first, take a deep breath..."
> 1AGI : Retrieve a rag from the PEP, soak it with whiskey and offer it to the Fox > ALLIN : BEGIN DIAGNOSING AND TREATING THIS RANDOM WILD ANIMAL'S INJURIES. YES, THIS IS A GOOD PLAN. YES, I AM CONTRIBUTING TO THIS OPERATION. Pockets
Fiasco
Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
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>>5937913 "Goose facts. They have a hard time resisting 'feeding time' be sure YOU are not the meal. Now lets get going with this plan we of running out of time."
CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:bcTteVkx Tue 27 Feb 2024 23:35:39 No. 5937942 Report Quoted By:
sigh. well. i guess if you need to get somewhere fast, agents, in a precarious situation, agent pockets has the right of it. i mean you can't outrun fate. you'll just die tired.>it might not be apparent but vanguard agents can hustle >agility to move (5). 1 action to refresh agility. then you can move again (10). then all in, repeat (15). that's far. >alternative agility to move (5) spend action to sprint (rolled action, moves you a little extra but requires navigating. bad in slippery places) >all in and push take you even further. >though moving at such speed is obvious, and you might collide with things. so be careful. don't run around in the dark heedlessly. use a flashlight. guide each other via signal - marking a point makes it easier to get to.
Outrider Aught
>>5937809 This feels... surprisingly fitting. Familiar almost. I can almost feel, smell the wind over the endless grassland...
>Gift Shaya the [Tactical Pie] as thanks. Perhaps she'll appreciate something sweet. >Step outside and rejoin the company and see what that terrible racket is #Outrider Aught
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Outrider's Outfit [Agility +1, !Daring Devil: The higher the risk, the luckier you are]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
Heavy Cavalry Blade, Balanced [+1 to use, always counted as Parrying in melee]
PlaceBoTeMol Injector+Kit x 4 Everything you could need in an instrumental or recreational drug, in one handy dosage ampoule!
Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Traits–
Affable
Dashing
Outrider Aught
>>5937963 >Resist the urge to call for a nonexistent mount Outrider Aught
>>5937809 And who says you can't go? I'd say we've known each other long enough to be friends. Friends help each other. I have many friends and distant kin. Let's help each other, no? Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Wed 28 Feb 2024 01:14:26 No. 5938056 Report Quoted By:
>>5937744 I can't believe I snuck all this way to be met with an impenetrable wall of geese, and no way to access our supplies. Command really didn't do their intel properly this mission and it shows. Well... gotta take shelter somewhere.
>5 Agi: Move 5554 5 >Action: Refresh Agility >1 Agi: Holster flashlight and C-7 >4 Agi: Move 5556 #Agent Sidewinder
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR] + Pre-filled firearms discharge form & subtly pre-filled search warrants
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs + Rental Car keys
–Traits–
Clever
–Assets–
Premium health and life insurance, good pension plan, proper HR benefits
Asclepius, Rifle-Tenna 3
Rolled 2, 6, 1, 1, 4, 6 = 20 (6d6) >Run around the building and take a running jump from the car onto Baba Shaya's reception. (dice 1-3)>Raise the Mosin to the sky. Seasons don't fear the thunderbolt. Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain. >Attempt to contact HQ, using the Mosin as an antenna (dice 4-6)
Afanasyev !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5937992 >>5937977 It would be inhospitable to share such intimate a cottage and not be friendly with the host ! And one is never too dead for adventure in wonderful places. The world, my new found friend, is full of wonders, each new day a new fable.
I used to collect those for the archive, you know? And I can only delight in the thought that there are yet unknown marvels waiting to be found, in vast plain and weird places.
Ahhh but going will be a problem, for the coveted bond of love from Miss Mladshaya binds my memories to this cottage. An impossibility it is to roam distant dreaming shores when each night one is called back to this beautiful patch of grass with the whispered words of affection. Ah, my little Shy one. For three hundred years she has not moved on, bound by a little promise she made in a moment of passion. But then, I did look so very dashing in that uniform. Almost as much as you, young one, though I dare say you wear it better !
Outrider Aught
>>5938086 Forever is a long time indeed, but it needn't be forever. Who, after many nights spent under foreign skies, would not eventually wish to return home and the embrace of a loved one? I think your Shaya would understand. And think of the stories and gifts you could return to her with? Consider it!
Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
>>5937744 >Move at speed (w/o expending Push) towards the gap that's forming in the tide of geese. >>5937874 >>5937906 "Sorry about the blue-on-blue. Didn't mean to...but, then again, who does? What a senseless apology...but aren't they all? Senseless, I mean. Apologies, that is. I...nevermind..."
Pockets
>>5938066 Thanks, Asclepius. It'll take some time to get around to eggs, but it does give me the start of an idea.
>>5938656 Support broken off. Squaddies scattering to their jobs. Red eyes all around. Storm rising. Pockets forces levelness into her stare at the strange man leaving Site Kettle Prime and asks simply: Who are you?
Pockets
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>>5937744 Okay, Pockets. The Girl is kind, obedient, resourceful and many-skilled. In despair, she is diligent. Unwatched, she is upright. In plenty, she is frugal. On paths, she is unswerving. In disappointment, she is patient. In the end, she is fulfilled. Almost no room for irony. Complicates things when you've already saved someone from this witch, but irony gets the Girl's sisters cursed, so zip it up. If the Girl could only take one bit of Pockets with her, what would it be?
God give me serenity to forbear, strength to change, wisdom to discern, Amen. Yeah, that'll do.
>Offer Boris all his things back >Stow bread in Pocket Space >Prepare to assume the role of the Girl. I've got civilian clothes, some people skills, a collection of little tools, a readiness to commit and very real danger all around. Am I missing anything? Outrider Aught
>>5938730 A feel myself brand New Man, dear Pockets, and yet an Old Man all the same.
Pockets
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>>5938912 That really doesn't sound like anybody I know... Stranger. Where are you going?
Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
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>>5938690 "Ah he's finally entering the volumetric shit compressor so he get can some shit togetherness. At least you're TRYING to do better Vrcholek."
>>5937913 >If need arises (low prority). Use 1 push to get inside of Suite #14 with Holiday Agent Leshy
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>>5937913 > Hear something strange over the radio. > Move towards village centre. > Reaction: Dodge …Something seems wrong. Can I… help?
CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 02 Mar 2024 11:24:54 No. 5941143 Report Quoted By:
ugh maybe i should get off of the floor and stop crying about the pointlessness of the universe and actually do my job
Anonymous
Room for one more? Or are you full?
TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5941152 always. *Always*.
CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CollapsedCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 02 Mar 2024 12:51:49 No. 5941200 Report Quoted By:
>>5941152 >>5941185 What the Tactical Support said. Good on you getting off of the floor, by the way. The sandpaper of the universe can be a bit sharp.
Well, agent potential, it's a rather straight forward process. Simply see
>>5933812 for the training materials that the TS supplied. You assign yourself a moniker and a Trait, and prepare some mission relevant gear. At this stage, the only things left of the mission preparation package is the Tourist equipment which might not be as relevant during the kinetic sharp end of operations.
But you can always pick some personal additions. And once past mission, if--err--when-- you survive, you get to keep it.
Things are relatively straight forward, though since you haven't been here entirely from the get-go we should do a quick round-up that the mission profile escalates a little over time.
>>5934045 >>5934673 Basic hud instructionals are here, and indicates how Signal works. Basically, when you're part of a team, you can take knowledge and insight and perception actions on behalf of someone else, treating their location as the originating action point. So you can guide your allies.
There's some more advanced use-cases, but you sort of figure that out under fire.
>>5935532 *Push* is enabled here, due to the presence of danger. That allows you to spend Push to accomplish more.
>>5935820 The briefing case is unlocked here, which will tell you about the present mission profile to some extent.
>>5936086 because of the danger, we escalate to yellow condition here and your instructions on fire-arm safety are provided.
Finally, there's some basic information here.
>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JMWEyj6IaXT5cAcMXQrmuhkL-wG7qykLboKX-ATMw28/edit?usp=sharing TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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[ . . . ]>HELLO >IS NIKOLAI >AM OF RUN SYSTEM NOW >I AM OF HAVE ACCESS >STAND BY FOR INTEGRATION >SYSTEMS INTEGRATED! WELCOME TO NIKO-NET! >HAVE A 'BABA BEAUTIFUL' DAY! >UPDATING TACTICAL SYSTEMS! >[1/2]
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 02 Mar 2024 16:20:19 No. 5941287 Report Quoted By:
As Agent Fiasco and the Fox enjoy a light bout of medical malpractice and fine whiskey, the door rattles under the assault of multiple beaks. Twock twock twock. Still, these old wooden doors are cut from the stoic trees of dense deep forests. They do not open easily for the uninvited.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 02 Mar 2024 16:22:30 No. 5941289 Report Quoted By:
Though, as Agent Fiasco discovered, the windows offer no such impediment to the motivated.
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sat 02 Mar 2024 17:00:48 No. 5941316 Report Badger #1 rolls the car around, steady, as the others stow their rifles and prepare to operate an impromptu soup kitchen for waterfowl. Wooden spoons, ladles, canteens and hands - it all works to slosh the gloopy contents of Boris borsch everywhere.>Signal Interference! Nikolai is trying to get it under control! >Agents to act!
Fiasco
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>>5941316 #Agent Fiasco
=Stats=
[ Health: 12/12 || Agility: 5 || Reaction: 9 || Push: 4 ]
=Skills=
[Proficiency 10]
=Gear=
{Standard Kit}
{Lucky Charm}
{Multitool}
{Black Fox wrapped in a suitjacket}
(!) {Key to Room #13}
==Trait=
(Baleful Malignity)
"Unsanitary conditions? In my hijacked fairytale cabin?! Beg your pardon gents - I'd fetch your coats but apparently this jumped-up germophobe toaster can't handle a little rustic ambiance without throwing a sook! No dramas though, I have a solution."
> 2AGI : Tip over the alcohol cabinet, causing the fine display case to tumble vaguely in the direction of the south-eastern door before slamming into the ground with a cacophonous clatter to breaking glass. "Bit of liberal sterilization over here!"
> 1AGI : In a lackadaisically gesture, Fiasco flings the half-drained bottle of whiskey in his hand towards the northern entrance, shattering across the floor. "Farewell alcohol my beloved - through your noble sacrifice we shall achieve absolute disinfection!"
> 1AGI : Fiasco leaps up onto the bed and peers derisively down at the autodoc. "Aaaannd all clean! So, what say you now *your majesty*? Has this operating theatre been uplifted to your exacting standar--?"
"Degradation Fields? Severe Probability? Presence of?!"
"So many recreational beverages slaughtered upon the altar of medical professionalism and for what - for this, this senseless technobabble?!"
"Oh-ho no. Immediate reprogramming is required. Time to implement some drastic matainence procedures."
> 1AGI - Draw service pistol. > ACT - Unload clip into the Autodoc's interface panel. > REACT - Draw up the bed's blanket to break line of sight with the visiting Geese and the stricken Autodoc. "Hey, anomalous canine creature? You still conscious? That metallic quack didn't lop your head off while I was inebriating the cabin did it?"
"Speaking of horrible death, and just between you and me, being inside of an explosively combusting building has gotta rank among my top five greatest personal fears. Seriously, just being in the vicinity of an uncontrollable, aggressively expanding fire is among the worst things I can imagine. Just... incredibly indescribably traumatic - 10 years of therapy and two dozen pulverized stress balls, minimum. Fortunately, given the innately inflammable properties of alcohol, we needn't worry about the ever-present threat of spontaneous combustion at the moment, even despite standing in a wooden room filled with open flames and erratically sparking electronics. Truly, that wonder-liquid is a gift from the heavens."
Pockets, the Girl
Rolled 2, 3, 4 = 9 (3d6) >All In>Agi: Switch comms to Do Not Disturb >Send Black Bread from Pocket Space to Badger 5, vs 12 + 1 Pocket >Other actions TBD
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:bcTteVkx Sat 02 Mar 2024 19:42:15 No. 5941424 Report >>5941377 It is remarkably dense and delicious, this black bread of the baltics, traditionally served with herb infused long-boil stew and the delicacies the forest provides.
It is, in every sense, Traditional.
But what might Alexin need it for, little girl of the giving gifts? One bestows such boons to friends and allies with a purpose.
Pockets, the Girl
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>>5941424 It's worth, where there's unmeant distress,
Both passage and forgiveness.
Or if it does not suit that need,
With spice and sugar make it be
A man who flees and tempts and taunts,
And only by a fox is caught.
Any else I can't foretell.
I only ask you use it well.
Asclepius, Rifle-Tenna 3
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Rolled 6, 3, 6, 3, 3, 5 = 26 (6d6) >Climb onto the roof (3d6)>Imbue Mosin with Holiday's well adjusted quality. (3d6?)
Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
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>>5941316 >Reaction: Stay remarkably well adjusted. Geese's only bite if you bother them or get in the way of their lunch. Dodge the geese. Don't be seen by the geese >agi1: To Holiday "Only if you believe the bullets will hit and not hit a TK field that stops bullets. Besides that cover me. I'm going in." >Agi 4: Move 2-2-2-2 >Action: Refresh Agi, 5 agi Move: 2-2-2-2-2 >Push 5-1: Refresh Agi, 5 agi Move: 3-2-2-3-2 Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
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>>5941316 >5 Agi + Action: make my way to Suite #13 through the gap in the waterfowl... >Reaction: ...careful to avoid any sudden shift in the tide of the said waterfowl. Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Sat 02 Mar 2024 22:23:09 No. 5941578 Report Quoted By:
>>5941316 >4 Agi: Move 5611 >1 Agi: Close the door >Action: Shake off the pain. Agent Justice !.A5J98ttus
Agent Justice !.A5J98ttus ID:VX3laxXX Sun 03 Mar 2024 02:46:54 No. 5941858 Report Quoted By:
>>5941316 >5AG: Justice Jog toward the soup truck, goose in hand. >1AP: Hustle toward soup truck. >All In: Run toward soup truck. #Agent Justice
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H:(Wireless TacCom)[Signal 12]
B:(Suit & Tie) + (Discreet Vest)[5DR]
-INV-
(C7 Service)[18/36] + (Extendable Baton) + (Flashlight)[12] + (Zips & Cuffs)
(Firearms & search forms) + (Good health insurance & benefits)
–Traits–
Justice
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop until evil is dead.
Sunday
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>>5941316 Alas, how unfortunate! Surely we won't let this incident spoil our shared meal, yes? Allow my friends to patch up our injured goose guest right quick, it is no worry. Soup for all!
>Agi, get over to the truck >Act, help ladle out the soup. Extra helpings. Diffuse this situation by invoking laws of hospitality? Friendship? By partaking of this feast, surely a favour is owed... (Wish, Political Science?) CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 03 Mar 2024 14:42:13 No. 5942250 Report Agents, this is Command, we found the TS riffling through deskdrawers looking for recalibration supplies after exposure to too many dire truths of the universe. Drinking on the job is against regulation, so Agent . . . this says Aclepius? We've checked the logs and we're writing you up for a five week mandatory seminar on appropriate workplace behaviour, which will not, under most circumstances, include flagrant drinking while on duty managing very expensive informational networks. >Agents to act!
Vertex !!hVEVJ97xzd/
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>>5942250 "Everybody get clear! I'm about to try...something..."
>Agi 5: Move through the vegetation towards suite #13 >Act+All in: recall adolescence, with all its hopes and dreams that did not come to fruition (as is the fate of all hopes and dreams). Accumulate dread. Begin emitting. Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9
Agent Sidewinder !!Siw/dqWYZg9 ID:kaKCHpu+ Sun 03 Mar 2024 15:52:08 No. 5942288 Report Quoted By:
Rolled 2, 1, 1 = 4 (3d6) >>5942250 >4 Agi: Move 1211 >1 Agi, Action: Urge the Bulls to come inside, close the door. "Quickly, inside, and lock up! It's not safe out there anymore, a storm is coming and the foul are foul. Now, what's the trouble?"
Fiasco
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>>5942250 #Agent Fiasco
=Stats=
[ Health: 12/12 || Agility: 5 || Reaction: 9 || Push: 2/4 ]
=Skills=
[Proficiency 10]
=Gear=
{Standard Kit}
{Lucky Charm}
{Multitool}
{Black Fox wrapped in a suitjacket}
(!) {Key to Room #13}
==Trait=
(Baleful Malignity)
"Ouch- Oi, what the devil do you thi-? Wait, FIRE?! HERE?!"
> 1AGI : Scoop up the bound fox and hold them tight. But how is this possible? The ample coating of fivestar whiskey glazing the cabin interior should have imbued it with a near total immunity to ignition, unless... Ah, of course. During the split second that I drew the blanket up, the cosmos in all of its demented, petulant, fuc-king whimsical angst must sundered apart the guiding laws of chemistry and physics then reassembled them into a twisted mockery complimentary to its own hateful ambitions, effectively transmuting the lifesaving alcohol into a more volatile material, such as lamp oil, fine flour, or children's stuffed animals. Ha, pretty clever tricks for a largely empty, barely animate conglomeration of energy, matter, and gravity wells - BUT AGENT FIASCO IS NOT SO EASILY CONFOUNDED, YOU HEAR ME!"
"And to you, my fair-feathered gentleman. your valorous efforts in my eternal struggle against omniversal oppression has not gone overlooked - in but a single decisive motion, you sliced away the treacherous fabric obscuring the inferno's encroachment *and* slicked my vulnerable torso in a coating flame-warding blood. Placing yourself in the line of fire to help another wayward soul, I must not - NAY, CANNOT - remain paralyzed by fear and self-doubt in the wake of such heroic selflessness."
> 1AGI : Briskly hop off the bed, landing at [2]. "I shall offer recompense in the only way I know! Here, noble civilian! Wrap your body in these alcohol-reinforced bedsheets and hold on tight!"
> 1PUSH+1AGI : Throw the tangled clump of torn, whisky-stained bedsheets over the large goose standing in the threshold of the northern entrance to the cabin. > ALLIN+1PUSH+2AGI : HEFT THE BED'S GLORIOUS ASBESTOS-STUFFED MATTRESS WITH FIASCO'S FREE ARM LIKE A MIGHTY TOWERSHIELD OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND BULLDOZE FORWARD, SWEEPING UP OUR FAITHFUL AVAIAN ALLY AND SQUEEZING THROUGH THE NORTHERN DOORWAY! THROUGH THE UNPARALLELLED MIGHT OF OUR UNBREAKABLE SPIRITS AND STALWART UNITY WE SHALL CARVE A PATH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH THIS BURGEONING CABIN-SHAPED FIREBALL, TRAMPLING THE SINISTER MACHINATIONS OF REALITY'S SPITEFUL DECAYING SPECTARE UNDERFOOT AND SPRINTING - SURGING - BURSTING UNCONTROLLABLY OUT INTO THE CRISP, SURPRISINGLY FEATHERY NIGHT AIR OF A MORE HOPEFUL TOMORROW! Agent Etch !!KyHVr3RmYsQ
>>5942250 Look Holiday. I know command is breathing down the neck. But I don't care. I'll just let the lawyers and HR handle it until they can't a bullets start flying again. Were trying and doing and that's what matters. Now lets see what was left for us.
>React: Dodge and give the ground >Agi 1: To Holiday "I open you enter. Got it? On go..." >Agi 1: Open the door to Suite #14 with the key I was given. "Go!" >Agi 2: Enter Suite #14 and close the door behind us. >Agi1+Action: Alright time to make inventory of what we're working with here. (And take what we'll need.) Sunday
>>5942250 Look, team, we don’t have time to brew a whole new soup. Boris’ base will have to do.
Make way!
>All Out >Agi, toss my ingredients into the Boris Soup. >Act, tempt those birds mauling Misha with SOUP. Surely this NEW SOUP tastes better than human flesh. >Act, throw the truck into reverse once the birds are clear of Misha. Agent Inks !!8Og8gGv6k3r
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>>5942436 The lawyers always handle it, Etch. I bet you these woodsie folk are part lawyer. Holiday, are you seeing what I'm seeing?
Yeah, I thought so.
Score, agents. We've found enough root vegetables to have ourselves a healthy dinner.
Asclepius, Rifle-Tenna 3
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Rolled 3, 1, 3, 3, 2, 1 = 13 (6d6) >Walk over to Baba Shaya's dish to wire myself in to boost my signal. (dice 1-3)>Run a line from the dish to under the tree branches. >Start building my observation nest under the tree where it's relatively dry (dice 4-6)
Pockets, the Girl
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A gift and The Speech are a start, Girl. You still are hesitant. You know. Do you think to remain a probe member, grasping for answers, even as you take up The Hood? Not the problem. You are still a woman reading old tales, squinting at truth from beyond their Pale, cocooned in modernity. What of it, when Yaga holds at times both cruelty and hero's sword? And you are one's enactor. And on to ever after. Don't.
Pockets, the Girl
Rolled 2, 1, 6, 5, 1, 1 = 16 (6d6) Boris, Father dearest...
Though of your children I am merest,
Pray for my return.
Ye geese who yearn
For blood in turn
Pray let my brothers be.
I'll feathers comb
And pleasant sing
Until your mistress comes for me.
>>5942250 >All in >Move 1221 >Push Beautiful and Fair. >-Additionally, offer up my Reaction to Beautiful and Fair, for I am where I belong. >Agi: Commlink, thy name is Motanka: my comfort and counsel; a token of Mother Liren, afflicted of the heart, taken too soon, replaced by a callous overseer. >Agi: >My family is Won, Garuda, Hyacinth, Boris and all his sons. All but Justice, Fiasco and Aught, who are Others of mysterious ways. >Subdermally integrate Motanka, for she must be kept secret. 12 + Pocket 1 + Beautiful and Fair 1 + True to Myth ? >-Risk 1: Through Motanka, I know my family's hearts. Yet they know not Motanka, only the Link she is in another world. >Through Justice's goose, speak to one and all. Bind to me my family's trespasses and the geese's ire. 12 + Ops 1 + Beautiful and Fair 1 + True to Others Yet the Same ? >-Risk 1: Past and future trespasses. Their price I shall receive through Baba Yaga. Pockets, the Girl
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>>5942542 Pardon, nix the movement.
Outrider Aught
>>5942250 Command, are any of those geese Shaya's? I promised her this blade would only be used to protect her and those that are hers...
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r
CompanyCommand !!8Og8gGv6k3r ID:t+zEcABj Sun 03 Mar 2024 22:08:40 No. 5942577 Report Quoted By:
>>5942573 Agent, we're not exactly running a tag and release programme for Wyrd-touched waterfowl but -- hang on -- let go of the microphone-- hey you're supposed to be on leave --
Outrider Aught
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>>5942573 What say you, Afanasyev? If I ask of it, will you lend me your aid in this fight? Will you draw your blade with me as brothers? TS Liren !!8Og8gGv6k3r
>>5942573 Aught! If Mladhaya Yaga herself said you can take care of unruly badder men that *sort of* implies you can take care of rowdy guest disturbing the peace of her resort!
Those Blackfeathered geese are Baba Yaga; they mass ahead of her arrival to be her eyes and ears!
Aught, you ought to evict them from the premises for assaulting other guests!
Outrider Aught
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>>5942579 Ah, in that case.
>March to the front of Boris' men and prepare to face the avians which seek to run down my comrades and allies >Flourish the Blade prepare to Parry and Riposte any of these vile feathered bipeds which dare to advance against me Afanasyev, what say you!
#Outrider Aught
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5(+1) Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H: Wireless TacCom [Signal 12]
B: Outrider's Outfit [Agility +1, !Daring Devil: The higher the risk, the luckier you are]
–Belt & Back–
C7 Service[18/36] + Extendable Baton + Flashlight[12] + Zips and Cuffs
Heavy Cavalry Blade, Balanced [+1 to use, always counted as Parrying in melee]
PlaceBoTeMol Injector+Kit x 4 Everything you could need in an instrumental or recreational drug, in one handy dosage ampoule!
Suit & Tie + Discreet Vest [5DR]
–Traits–
Affable
Dashing
Pockets, the Girl
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>>5942476 Humbly, Brother Sunday, you aren't so constrained.
Dry or wet, complete or yet, whate'er the pot contains;
If it is slated to be broth, then how can she complain?
Agent Justice !.A5J98ttus
Agent Justice !.A5J98ttus ID:VX3laxXX Mon 04 Mar 2024 10:23:38 No. 5943038 Report Quoted By:
>>5942250 "Geese telekinesis working? Justice needs to see a man about a goose."
>5AGI+AP Run toward Suite 11. >All in: Jump in through Suite 11's north-west window. Whether there is anyone inside or not, Justice yells, "JUSTICE IS HERE TO INFORM YOU ABOUT THE SWARM OF GEESE OUTSIDE."
#Agent Justice
–Status–
Health 12 Agility 5 Reaction 9 Push 4
Strike 1d6
Proficiency: 10
–EQ-
H:(Wireless TacCom)[Signal 12]
B:(Suit & Tie) + (Discreet Vest)[5DR]
-INV-
(C7 Service)[18/36] + (Extendable Baton) + (Flashlight)[12] + (Zips & Cuffs)
(Firearms & search forms) + (Good health insurance & benefits)
–Traits–
Justice
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop until evil is dead.
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