[Taocow PBEM] [Alex, Vesper, Louissa and Ted????] Book 3 - Chapter X - The Quest For Louissa

[Ted Smythe]

[Ted]
OOC: Ted will right the vehicle as quickly as he can, although he made need to help everyone else out first. GM?
[/Ted]

--- On Fri, 2/8/13, Aaron Clausen <mightymartianca at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Aaron Clausen <mightymartianca at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Taocow PBEM] [Alex, Vesper, Louissa and Ted????] Book 3 - Chapter X - The Quest For Louissa
> To: "The Tao of Cow Rifts PBEM" <taocowpbem at zork.net>
> Date: Friday, February 8, 2013, 1:42 PM
> OOC: I know I'm jumping the gun
> again, but I may not be able to post
> until Wednesday or Thursday of next week (I'll try sooner if
> I can),
> so I thought I'd keep this action going.
> 
> >>> [Ted]
> >>> Ted slides behind the rail gun and lets loose a
> spray of fire just
> >>> over the crowd's heads. [Strike: Natural 20,
> what a waste!!!!]
> >>> [/Ted]
> 
> >> [GM]
> >> The crowd ducks for cover as flechettes fly
> overhead. Some give up the
> >> ghost and run for cover. The rest continue throwing
> rocks.
> >>
> >> There are still two men on top of the ATV, one has
> an energy rifle
> >> that he seems to be aiming to fire at the rail gun;
> The other is
> >> crawling down the front wind shield to block
> Louissa's view. Another
> >> couple of people are hanging on to the front
> bumper.
> >> [/GM]
> 
> >> [Louissa]
> >> Louissa shouts "Can someone tell me how to get out
> of here without
> >> hurting anyone?"
> >> [/Louissa]
> 
> > [Vesper]
> > "My magic won't work on them from within this vehicle."
> He moved to
> > Louissa, "Go that direction and look for a small pile
> of stones."
> >
> > "It's our best way out."
> > [/Vesper]
> 
> [Louissa]
> Louissa nods, and steers towards the spot Vesper has pointed
> out. She
> increases her speed to about 20mph.
> [/Louissa]
> 
> > [Ted]
> > Ted swivels the rain gun to around, hoping to knock
> either or both of
> > the men off the vehicle. [Strike: 8]
> > [/Ted]
> 
> [GM]
> One of the men is knocked off [Dodge: 1, Natural Fail]. The
> other
> easily ducks [Dodge: 16], and aims his energy rifle to try
> to take out
> the railgun.
> [/GM]
> 
> > [Ted]
> > If that does not work, he will aim directly at the man
> with the energy
> > rifle's head and, telepathically, order him to get
> off.
> > [/Ted]
> 
> [GM]
> The man's concentration seems to break and his eyes widen
> suddenly
> [Save vs Psionic Attack: 3]. Somewhat robotically he stands
> up and
> jumps off the ATV. Now all that is left are the men hanging
> on to the
> front of the ATV.
> [/GM]
> 
> [Louissa]
> Louissa decides to try to shake them off. She speeds up to
> about 30mph
> and begs steering back and forth. She manages to knock
> everyone around
> inside the ATV. She also manages to hit a bit of a rise in
> the land at
> the wrong angle [Pilot - Auto: 96%] and suddenly the ATV
> starts
> leaning too much to the driver's side. She tries to right
> the ATV
> [Pilot - Auto: 76%] but fails and the ATV tips over on to
> its side
> with a loud scraping.
> [/Louissa]
> 
> [GM]
> Everyone falls from their seats on top of Louissa and Alex
> [OOC: who
> was the last in the vehicle]. Outside they can hear the
> angry mob
> approaching, screaming bloody murder as they come. They are
> surrounded
> in dust, but they can't be more than about thirty feet from
> the wall
> of mist and the pile of stones that Vesper had pointed out.
> [/GM]
> 
> -- 
> Aaron Clausen
> mightymartianca at gmail.com
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