USH'S MATRIX GAME FOURTH ASSIGNMENT (COMBAT PATH)- 'The Heist'

Luck is always good...

...and I have no problems with the new rules.

sweet two free rounds.
4 busts on Driver dude.
Mors JUMP!!!

I've got the combat system down...

So Loomis and Jericho can't act, eh?

I did get that Dodge out of the way, didn't I Ush?

Ares fires four bursts at Jericho. 😈

Mors uses Prodigious Leap to jump on top of the van.

No you did not get the Dodge out of the way yet! Your first action is to fire your four bursts at the Dodge's tires. You roll a -2 and a -2, which is enough to blow the tires and send the Dodge swerving dfirectly into your path as it goes out of control.

So now CLoud has to make a Drive roll-

AND YOU GUYS FORGOT TO DOWNLOAD ANY DRIVE SKILL!

Cloud is only an adequate driver!

Cloud rolls +1 for a 9. The difficulty was ten. Ares and Cloud's humvee skids to one side of the road to avoid hitting the Dodge and is out of things- permanently if that van does not slow down.

Burn, you fire. A surprised Loomis uses a Natural Order to dodge.

Mors, ok, you have jumped onto the van...

Maintaining your formation driving takes the drivers three exertion each.

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CURRENT SITUATION AT: First Round, First Turn

Left humvee
Burn: 8/5/0
San: 11/6/2

Right humvee
Ares: 8/9/3
Cloud: 15/1/3

Bike
Barb: 10/1/0
Mors: 11/6/2

Van
Jericho: ?/0/4
Loomis: ?/0/4

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Everyone is still clear to act in the first turn except Ares an Cloud, who are at three exertion and hence done for this turn.

OH damnit...(not like I have any download space or anything to increase my driving skill...)

Burn, shoot out the van's tires! We need to slow them down so that Cloud and Ares can catch up...

No-one said to download any driving skills. And if they did I was asleep!

No, no-one did say anything, which was kinda my point.

Of course, Cloud, if you were really lucky you might stay on track...

You mean if I were to say use my fortune point...

I said nothing of the sort! But now you come to mention it, what a good idea! Good thinking, Cloud...

OK, I'll do that

ahh, the drive skill..
Accually San and Barb don't haveta worry about that right... they are Hackers.

Ok well I wil shoot at the drivers side tires, front and back with 3 bursts each.

Mors, Grab and hold on. Wait to cut into the car.

Well, I think me and Barbarossa have decent driving skills anyway...

And I think right now would be a good time for me to mention that we'll both be gone all day tomorrow and probably most of Sunday because we're going out of town with our family.

I am incredibly busy as well so do not expect rapid fire play!

Ok, Cloud spends a fortune point. By sheer fluke, the skid merely carries him on dowen the road and the wheels lock back into a position that give him perfect control... and he is still in the chase!

Burn, you fire... cettainly with enough to bust both tires.

Loomis makes a drive roll. +2 gives him a 16- easy. He carries on driving on the rims.

I shall move onto the next turn. Not everyone was actually done for that turn but that just converts over to lower exertion for the second one.

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CURRENT SITUATION AT: First Round, Second Turn

Left humvee
Burn: 8/5/0
San: 11/6/-1

Right humvee
Ares: 8/9/0
Cloud: 15/1/0

Bike
Barb: 10/1/-3
Mors: 11/6/-1

Van
Jericho: ?/0/1
Loomis: ?/0/1

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Jericho and Loomis will act this turn, though as they act on exertion 1 it will be after the rest of you.

Ares gets jostled a bit as Cloud skids about.

"Be a little more careful down there! Now pull up alongside the van..."

Ares takes aim and fires four bursts at Jericho.

(I just realized that we don't have to move and shoot for awhile! Yay!

(Should I start cutting, Burn?)

...is there actually anything I can do while driving? Like, can I shoot while driving? Or can I not do anything?

I'll just do what Ares told me to do, and hope I don't flamingo up

You CAN drive and shoot with Gathering of the Clouds. It makes any drive rolls you have to make during that period more difficulkt though.

Ares, it is not clear when you will actually be side on against the van.

Great...stupid Dodge...