The Action VI

[sdrotar]

"Longshot, keep an eye on the lift, shoot anything that comes down. "

"Roger that", replied Longshot, who looked for a defensible vantage point from which to target the lift through his sniper rifle.

[tomcat]

Hassthak pulled himself to his one foot, holding himself erect by a thin pipe. The leg would need time to regrow, but already the raw flesh had begun to scale and the blood flow ceased. If he could get back to the cargo hold, maybe he might get a view of their attackers - after all, he was sure that he had heard blaster fire come from there not long after the explosion. Reaching from pipe to pipe and holding his blaster rifle in his other hand, the Trandoshan hopped towards his objective.

The clones waited patiently as Haywire worked. It had been a seemingly eternal period for his first attempt to hack the ship's system only to have it fail; now the time stretched even further. They all knew that sitting in place could be a quick way to die. Longshot swept his rifle over the cargo hold deck for any movement, along with Hammer. Mitts and Martel moved the dead body into whatever nook they could find and Haywire crunched data.

The binary language was rolling before his eyes and he read the many operations that the ship's system were performing - it was in the billions. He needed time to filter and find the definitive application that controlled ship environmental integrity and, even with the mech-droid helping, it was taking time.

Longshot suddenly saw a figure standing in the far portal that led to the sensor dome chamber. The dark shape was armed and bringing up his own weapon.

[sdrotar]

"Target," Longshot said calmly into his helmet.
There wasn't time to settle his aim any further; he took a deep breath and squeezed the trigger of his rifle.

Rolled 1d20+10 : 17 + 10, total 27

Rolled 3d8+7 : 8, 2, 7 + 7, total 24

[Stefan]

Hammer listened as Long shot fired once at whatever he'd seen.  He kept scanning his own sector and waited.

[tomcat]

Even unaimed, the sniper's shot was accurate and deadly. Hassthak felt the blaster bolt hit him, even as he took cover in the doorway. Fortunately for the Trandoshan, it had struck first on the ship's metal frame, absorbing some of the damage. Still, the pirate choked off a hiss of pain as it seared his flesh.

Seeing where the fire had come from, Hassthak now had a target and fired back.



Hassthak is hit for 24 damage --or-- 46/78 CT -1

DC 25 Ranged blaster rifle +7 (3d8+6), CT -1

1d20+6 : 4 + 6, total 10

3d8+6 : 8, 1, 4 + 6, total 19

[tomcat]

Haywire pushed harder now as blaster fire began to wind over their positions. Not far from him, Martel still felt the malevolence reaching out to him through the Force, as if it sought to locate his position. What had seemed an eternity of waiting before, now went even slower as the team became adrenalized due to combat. The tech specialist continued to watch the code stream for the environmental safety protocols - the ones he was trying to override, so as to jettison or at least vaccuum the cargo hold above them. Even as he did this, Haywire and the mech-droid finalized the commands to auto-lock all access points on the living decks above.

On the bridge, Captain Ginova turned to the hissing sound of the environmental doors dropping into place and sealing. "They are overriding our systems!" he shouted, "Locking us in! You need to get them out of our ship's command system."

One of the pirates turned to his console and began typing commands to wrest control of the Action VI's computer back to he and his captain.

[Stefan]

"Longshot, report, what are you looking at? How bad is it?"  Hammer glanced back over his shoulder to see what his brother had been shooting at but did see anything from his position.  He waited, not wanting to leave their flank uncovered to help if Longshot could handle this.

[GandalfOfBorg]

  Sorry, I can't remember, but is there a way to mask Martel's presence with a UtF check or is it a Force Power?

[disench4nted]

  Does Haywire need to make another opposed roll?

[tomcat]

hey guys, I haven't forgot the games. I will have an update tonight after my Taekwondo class.

To answer questions:

Matt, you can only screen yourself in the Force with the Force Talent Clear Mind - that said, I will allow you to use the talent for the cost of a Force Point [this is a GM caveat and it is something I may or may not allow in future situations]. This said, if you do use it you will hide yourself within the Force, but they DO know where you physically are right now, so it would be wise to move on after taking the roll.

Disench4nted, no, you don't need to roll another opposed test. They need to roll an opposed test against your roll of 31 back when you had to correct the roll because of id20. But, that was the environment level you set to work within the Action VI's computer core that the crew needs to overcome to regain control of the basic functions you have usurped. Cool?

Give me until later and I will have some more stuff for you guys to work with. As always, sorry for the delay.

[GandalfOfBorg]

  Ok, I'll do it.  Understood on future applications.

"Those dark beings... don't know what they are, but they know where we are," said Martel.  "We need to move ASAP to a another location."

[Stefan]

"We can't move just yet Sir, we need to give Haywire a little more time to work his magic.  Plus, we need to deal with what ever Longshot saw back the way we came.  Any idea how long before the boogeymen get here?"

[GandalfOfBorg]

"Soon is all I can say.  I'm doing what I can to avoid their detection," said Martel.  "Prepare to move as soon as Haywire is ready."

[tomcat]

Longshot spoke through his internal helmet comm to his commanding officer, "Sir, the Trandoshan just poked his head out down at the door to the sensor chamber. I hit him, but must not have been enough as he is returning fire. Maybe converge?"

While the clone troopers discussed tactics, Martel drew upon the Force to envelope himself in a haze, thus hiding his impression within the living Force. The darksiders would no longer be able to pinpoint where he was, only where he had been and so the need to move. But, Haywire was in the middle of his task and to move would end its effect. The Jedi could feel the others moving, though, like deeper shadows in an already dark room. The movement was odd, as if simian in nature, hunched or loping. There was a definite malign intelligence present within each, so he was sure that they were not animals - just animal-like.

The impression continued and Martel realized that the darksiders had moved to exit the fourth cargo hold - the one which Haywire was even now trying to vacuum - and were dropping down to the next deck lower, closer to the team.



It's your initiative. I am not going to start combat rounds yet.

[GandalfOfBorg]

"Take care of it," Martel commanded.  "Haywire, vent cargo hold 4 now!  We're about to lose them."