[Taocow PBEM] [Everyone but Alex and Louissa] Book 3 - Chapter V - England REPOST ... and even more

[Aaron Clausen]

>> [Sir Burton - the lead knight]
>> Sir Burton looks at Koba and Owen angrily. "I'll take that and the
>> Cyberknight's near outburst as confirmation that whoever is firing on
>> us is one of yours. And we had no intentions of surrounding your
>> party, we were on our way to deal with the Splugorth minions."
>>
>> He looks to Justin. "I thank you for your assistance, though your
>> companions may not."
>>
>> He looks to the rest of the party. "Now signal your companion to
>> lower his weapon and stand up with hands in the air. Any tricks and I
>> may lose what little composure I have left. And all of you, keep your
>> weapons where I can see them."
>> [/Sir Burton]

> [GM]
> In the distance, the company can see more fire between the British
> ninjas and, presumably, Alex. She appears to hit one of them. Then,
> moments later, another shot from maybe eighty or ninety feet away from
> Alex sprays the grass where two of the ninjas probably are.
> [/GM]

> [Sir Burton]
> Sir Burton seems ready to make some sort of a nasty order...
> [/Sir Burton]

> [GM]
> ...when, all of sudden, there's a loud roaring above everyone's head.
> They look up to see a fighter jet of some kind losing control several
> thousand feet above and to the north. It is being pursued by five other
> jets, much more distant, though, oddly, they all appear to be of the
> same make with the same colors.
>
> The lone jet manages at the last minute to pull up and stabilize before
> punching into the ground, possibly within feet of the whole company. It
> is now racing towards the coastline again, the other five jets far above
> and maneuvering possibly to engage.
> [/GM]

OOC: And even more, as you may or may not suspect someone else is about 
to be introduced into the company.

[GM]
The lone jet seems to race towards the ocean, and then the canopy bursts 
off of the jet and somebody is ejected.  Their seat parachute bursts 
open but it's too low to the ground to do much good and they hit seconds 
later at a rather high rate of speed.

A figure can be seen inside the pilot seat of the jet, as the jet 
suddenly decelerates pretty rapidly.  The pilot looks to be trying to 
steer it back towards the pursuing jets, who have shot past, not 
expecting their quarry to slow down.  But something seems to go horribly 
wrong, as the jet, instead of picking up altitude, instead slowly banks 
to the left and then hits the ground.  Moments before it does, the pilot 
can be seen jumping out of the jet, but what happens to them is masked 
by the impressive explosion and fireball as the jet carves its way into 
the grassy plain.
[/GM]

[Sir Burton]
Sir Burton shakes his head in sheer shock and awe, a look clearly not 
one his face is familiar with.
[/Sir Burton]

-- 
Aaron Clausen