The Labyrinth

[albatross]

Charger's target, who is reaching in his harness for a backup weapon, has his helmet blow clean off his head by the attack.

His head is decidedly furry, looks like a mutant wolf. He has a snout, canine ears and a mouth full of fangs. The blast, though it clearly penetrated his armor and knocks his head back, doesn't hurt him at all!

Captain Algren pushes her foes assault rifle to the side with one forearm and opens fire with her other revolver. The guy's armor is blown to bits after a few shots, revealing that he too is covered in fur. The shots that penetrate the armor do no damage.

"The two up here are invulnerable," she notes to the rest of the team dryly. "Looks like mutant wolves. Use caution. Oh, and they are carrying the same weapons as the troops we followed in here."
She holsters her revolvers and draws her opponents glock pistol from his shoulder holster as she strips his assault rifle's clip with the other hand. He drops the rifle and lunges at her with his claws extended and she jumps backwards out of the way.

[Renekin Skywalker]

"Oooh." Charger says with a jazz-handsish gesture. "Who's the big scary were-dingo? You are! Yes you are! Yyyes you are! You're a big scary dingo, aren't you?" He continues patronizingly, to the one across the shaft. thinking Where's an old granny's china hutch when you need it, eh?

Looking round, he sees if there's a way he can use his grabbitty-plane power to either help the others climb or to disorient the were-puppies.

[dakota]

Khris sighed at Tiger's warning, still watching the other meta acrossed the way. " Bosskitty, is it too late to say I don't want to play anymore and wait back at the hotel?" He continued climbing despite his attempt at levity, trying to think of a solution. Then an idea struck him. " wind Chill, how fast can you melt off your ice? I got an idea. Jeckle, you still got that taser of yours? I'm sure you folks can figure what I'm scheming." He grinned to himself

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[shiivster]

*Jeckle responds to Shroud's suggestion by quietly speaking into the communicator and she simply sums it up as 'kinda busy right now with mine in front of me .... '

*she steps back carefully until she feels one heel at the edge and bends the knees slightly. 'but its handy if and when its needed ... '

*she tries to distract the puppy on her landing by snapping the eyes to the left as she readies for a jump out of the way so Dante can shot this one before leaping with him to safety

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[albatross]

Conflagration

Far above the team, at teh top of the shaft, someone drops a gernade down the hole. Further down, the adversary below Patriot and Wind Chill and the one below Dante and Jeckle do the same.

The incendiary hand grenades explode at different levels of the tunnel. The one dropped from the top explodes below Wind Chill and Patriot, close enough to singe Patriot's gear, but not causing him serious damage. Wind Chill is impervious to fire an unaffected. "They just nailed their own man," Patriot remarked. Indeed the guy below them must be engulfed in fire. The grenades burn for almost three minutes an the levels right below Wind Chill and Patriot are covered in flames.

The second grenade detonates above Dante and Jeckle. They are well out of range, but the view of flames barreling down at them is spectacular. They won't be able to move up the shaft for two or three minutes unless they brave the flames.

The third grenade, dropped by the wolf below Jeckle and Dante, detonates above Shroud, while a fourth explodes at the bottom of the shaft.

Shroud is close enough that the flames wash over him as they move down the shaft, but his armor prevent any burns (a mere 15 sdc damage to armor). The enemy near Shroud gets burned a little too, but is also protected by his armor.

Tiger contact Patriot and Wind Chill, "Wind Chill, Patriot, prevent any further attacks from the top. Get up there and make sure no one can drop anything on us."

Patriot immediately starts moving up the shaft again, "Can you keep these grenades off of our backs?" He asks Wind Chill.

[shiivster]

*as Jeckle sees and senses the fire coming towards her, she visibly shudders with remembered pain and moves away from the edge once agian.

' ... oh jeez oh jeez ... hate fire .... ' *muttered under her breath, and only Dante hears her. but even as she moves to 'safety' .. her mind is already thinking of possibilities of getting behind the puppy and maybe sending it out into the fire and the big fall

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[dakota]

Though his armor protected him, Khris' grip slipped a bit before he caught himself. " what I wouldn't give for a drink right now." He sputtered as he considered his options, finally deciding not to worry about reaching the top yet and made for the nearest landing. He keyed his radio. " Not gonna make it up yet. Kinda stuck for the moment until these guys are taken care of."

[Renekin Skywalker]

"Wait! I know what to do!" Charger says and he jumps down the shaft, falling through the flames. "WooohoooooooO!!!!!" And, then, he'll set up a good long gravity plane to skid to a stop on the wall of the shaft opposite Jeckle and Dante.

"Howdy." He says, chipperly, through the red mask, effectively laying calmly on the wall. "Care for an easier run up? I can help you meet up with the Captain up top, there, if you want."

[shiivster]

*Jeckle , getting no response from Dante assumes the worst. he's passed out from the rapid hopping and twists she's made to get this high.

she simply states 'i'm not fireproof ... but here i come .. ' leaping, glad for the aid of her exo-skeleton as the puppy charges at hr and flies towards the guy in red. knowing that IF he doesn't catch her, she's on her own to get to a lower level and hopefully in one piece and not burnt, yet again ...

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[Dome]

Dante who had been trying to reach out and see who may be within reach of his abilities comes out of his trance in time to see Charger. "Sorry Jeckle, I tranced out. Not a good time for it huh," he asks with a chuckle.

He then Unclips himself and turns toward there attacker long enough to bring up directly in his path, a force wall short enough to hit his knees as he runs. Dante waits for the attacker to trip, and as he does, he leaps towards Charger.

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[albatross]

Tiger contacts Shroud, "Hotel?" He can hear her grunt a little as she punches and kicks her adversary. There is growling in the background, "Don't even tell me you can't handle one bullet proof mutant." She pauses for breath, "Maybe it is a werewolf." She turns to watch Charger jump down the hole. "Good idea," she mumbles under her breath, barely audible.

Jeckle and Dante find that Charger has created a gravity plane which enables them to run up the wall.

The armored guy or wolf is getting to his feet. They can run up the shaft, however the flames are still going strong (the damage is close to 100 sdc every three to five seconds in the center, doing less damage as it goes outward).

Tiger chucks one of the wolf men down the shaft over her shoulder and he goes howling past Jeckle, Charger, Dante, and Shroud on his way all the way down to the bottom. She picks up the wolf's helmet, and putting it on her own head, she trips the other wolf man and sends him down the shaft as well. Only this time, she grabs his back and holds on, using him as a shield as she falls through two different sets of flames. The wolf man's armor burns clean off, and Shroud sees only a fireball as a second body falls past him.

This time, a fiery chuck dislodges, leaping back up to land a couple landings below him. It takes him a second to realize that the figure is Tiger. She shucks her armored coat and her helmet as they are covered in flames. Her body armor is warped from the heat.

The armored "man" near Shroud also notices the new arrival and opens fire at Tiger while she works to get her flaming gear off.

O.O.C.:

Moving through one flaming level does at least 100 damage, moving through two flaming levels does at least 200, etc. Climbing slowly though the flames causes hundred of points of damage. The flames will die out in two minutes, assuming no more grenades are dropped.

[dakota]

With a quick swap , Khris had his Dragunov in hand and turned it on Tiger's attacker. He thumbed the fire selector" Let's see how bulletprof you are." without dropping his camoflague, he opened up with the rifle and rattled off all fifty rounds in a monstrous burst of automatic fire that echoed through the shaft.. As the rifle clicked dry, he thumbed the release and allowed the custom snail drum to drop to his hand before loading another.

[albatross]

Shroud penetrates the armor, mostly because it disintegrates under the withering fire.

Fur is plainly visible beneath where the armor has been ripped away, and the wolf doesn't seem at all bothered by rifle rounds.

He turns his grenade launcher towards the shaft, though he has little idea where Shroud might be.

Tiger draws two revolvers and shoots his gun with both as she leaps up the tunnel. The combo gun is heavily damaged but some how he still manages to turn and fire a grenade at Tiger. She leaps up and over it, and blasts the weapon to bits with another explosive double shot from her guns.

"Got anything that would work on this guy. They can take an unbelievable amount of punishment, but they can be knocked down. Pretty strong too," Tiger warned. Having seen her train, Shroud knows that her observation of the opponents strength isn't idle chatter - they guy must be extremely strong.

"If you don't have any better ideas, I'll go in close."

[shiivster]

*Jeckle's terror of the flames shows in her face and then her body as she covers the head with both forearms. the horrific scarring from the earlier burns and the attempts to fix the damage and easing of the skin to allow the growing of the body.

*its clear she's terrified and nearly useless where she is now. she needs someone in front of her to hide the flames, because she can't do it herself [tag]

[Dome]

He pulls off her coat, and his trench coat and puts them on Jeckle to cover her completely including her head so she cannot see. "It will be ok," he says to her.

"How fast can you carry her up and out?" he then asks Charger.

If Charger is able to do it, he then says, "I'll cover you both in a forcefield, it should last long enough to get you through that," he says pointing up. "When your through use her radio and let me know, I'll bring down the field, if there is any of it left. Hurry, because if I can't stop this guy, and if he stops me, the field is gone anyway. If you don't think you can get out now, just keep her safe, hopefully the fire won't last long, and I can slow him down enough." (SDC of field 120 SDC {30p/l*4} If Charger doesn't think he can or should try to get out, Dante will not bring up the field)

Dante then jumps back to the landing and pulls the trigger repeatedly of the shotgun he is carrying aiming it towards the dog man attacker. (d20 roll to shoot = 11, 9, 4, 14 {not sure how many shots it has, he has no gun skills}), Once the bullets are gone he flips the gun so he is holding it by the barrel and takes a martial arts stance preparing to fight the attacker and use the gun as a club swinging it at his enemies head as soon as he is in range. (d20 roll to hit head = 13 + 2)

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