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Actually, someone did that in our game- we had a person with four levels of Eagle Eye and a good roll...

Ok, so, a diversion about how Tiberius ended up on the roof.

When we were doing the airport operation, the USB key snatch was being performed by the most of the players, under the leadership of Orpheus, who was a little indecisive at the time when the crisis started. Myself, Aeneas, was on watch in the lobby. Tiberius, played by the guy who plays Scrace in the SW game, was out in the car.

So it was me who spotted the incoming Agents (I immediately made a bee-line for the toilets when that happened) and belled up the crisis to Orpheus. Orpheus told me to pull out and they would make their escape separately.

High-tailing it out of there through the front doors, I got my first glimpse of Loomis blowing away half the security details. Immediately deciding "Not my business!" I sidled around the edge of the action and walked point-blank into the Agent. Luckily he muffed his first blow at me and Aeneas is a block/thrower, which is exactly what I did, tossing him into the nearest car, which pissed him off a tad. Tiberius had noticed some commotion by now and was driving over, but I mufed the chase and the Agent caught up with me. At this point Medea intervened, spraying the area liberally with bullets to give me a breathing space. Trying to climb the perimeter fence, she got a bit beaten around by the Agent; Tiberius had picked me up by now and we raced over to get her, whoever the hell she was, out of there. Giving us a curt 'thanks, but no thanks', she used the car as a springboard to get over the perimeter fence. So Tiberius and myself decided to bug out, at which point Tiberius drove into the Agent, wrecking the car.

Both of us got out the car ASAP, but the Agent had moved around to the driver's side. Tiberius' fight did not go well; he was a pole fighter, and his first task was to get the pole through the door of the car, which seemed somewhat comic, and just to rub it in, his first blow was intercept punched. Tiberius- a Natural close combat specialist, btw- totally fluffed his next blow, and then the Agent rolled +10 on a Straight Punch, twatting Tiberius so hard that he was blown across the car park into the next row of cars.

By this point I had drawn my Glock 18 and gotten around the side of the car and off-loaded my clip into the Agent, giving Tiberius time to get up. Tiberius, confident that he would handle things ok, told me to get out of there.

So I climbed the fence to chase Medea (not that we knew who she was at the time), and pursued her to Jericho's getaway van, whereupon the charming Khali opened up at me with a heavy machine gun, and they buggered off. At this point I would have gotten out myself, but unfortunately a crisis had now arisen.

Although it was a close run thing, escaping from the train- Orpheus and co had no guns (or even gunners) and were getting the shit blown out of them before they managed to board a jeep and eradicate the occupants up close- the snatch group got out. That left Tiberius who, fleeing the Agent, had actually fled inside the airport, which was not the best move as the other two Agents were in there. In a curious reversal of 'ascending villain' syndrome, Tiberius actually made his way up the stairs of the airport to the Terminal roof, on the idea that this was the best means of escape. When security followed him up there, he joyously laid waste to them all with his pole. When the Agent followed him up there, he was buggered.

Whilst Tiberius was being killed up top, the snatch group were halfway to the exit phone; Aeneas was on foot and so only I could rescue Tiberius. Wearily, I turned round and had to gun my way past half the security force of the airport- luckily, at the time, mooks were less dangerous in Matrix than they later became, so I was able to kill far more far easily than you guys could. I found a helicopter to rescue Tiberius with- sadly, it now transpired that in the amount of time it would take to download the pilot programme, Tiberius would be dead. So instead I nabbed a set of motorised stairs used to board planes with, and drove them over to the roof to rescue Tiberiius.

Which was entirely pointless as Tiberius had decided to make his own exit from the fight by now by jumping off the roof top, promptly taking him to 49 damage and a failed death check. Pausing only to say (in real life) "Nice one Matt, first game and you did it already...", Aeneas scooped up Tiberius and got away in the most absurd vehicle possible.

I'm always happy to relate this sort of tale because I want to dismiss the idea that we are an expert group of role-players that would thrash you amateurs. Nope, basically, things ALWAYS go wrong...

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