[Taocow PBEM] [Oz] Book 3 - Chapter X - The Quest For Louissa

[Karl Prosek]

OOC: Is the boy armored? Does he wearing the same uniform as the other three?

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Aaron Clausen
<mightymartianca at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> [Oz]
>>>> Over the encrypted guard channel he gave his two soldiers a terse
>>>> "Ready positions and hold for green light." i.e.- get into position
>>>> and stay there until I tell you to go. Oz briefly wished he'd had
>>>> better trained backup- any unit he'd been associated with would have
>>>> had a hand signal for that so they wouldn't have had to risk even the
>>>> encrypted transmission being picked up.
>>>> [/Oz]
>
>>> [GM]
>>> The guards give an equally terse "Aye" Oz can see them crouch down,
>>> quickly checking their e-clips and awaiting his order.
>>> [/GM]
>
>>>>
>>>> OOC: He pulled out his TA-12 Triax Laser Rifle (aka the Triax version
>>>> of the JA-12).
>>>>
>>>> He wants his guards to stay on the mud until he tells them to go.
>>>> Basically, he wants to keep the element of surprise for as long as
>>>> possible.
>
>>> [GM]
>>> Oz sees one of the men in the ruined cabin begin to turn. Any moment
>>> now he is going to be looking right at one of Oz's men.
>>> [/GM]
>
>> [Oz]
>> Oz murmurs "Green, green, green," into his helmet mic as he sights on
>> the turning guard and pulls the trigger.
>> [/Oz]
>
> [GM]
> Oz fires at one of the man, misses his head [Strike: 11], but hits him
> full on the chest [Damage: 70MD]. The man's armor is all but
> vaporized, and he is killed instantly.
>
> Oz's men take advantage of the confusion generated by the killing to
> close the distant. In seconds they are over the walls of the house. In
> the time it takes Oz to make it to the ruined house, the two soldiers
> have entered the ruins. Oz comes over the walls to see the soldiers
> under his command locked in hand to hand combat with three enemy
> combatants (the fourth is lying on the ground, dead from Oz's shot).
>
> The fourth is a little more than a boy, perhaps fourteen years old. He
> sees Oz and fires a shot from a laser pistol [Strike: 7]. which Oz
> manages to dodge out of the way of [Dodge: 15].
> [/GM]
>
> OOC: Okay, so Oz's men are grappling with two of the defenders, and
> the third, a boy, has just fired at Oz.
>
>
> --
> Aaron Clausen
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