USH'S MATRIX GAME 2006 FIRST ASSIGNMENT- 'The Museum'

Firewall spots the Maintenance men out the front, but instead he aims with his MP9 at the nearest Sports car driver, opening up with a roar from the automatic weapon...

Azrael taps HC, moving towards the key himself.

(Sorry about my lack of presence recently, haven't had much acces to a computer.)

There is a loud "Crack" as the Forceful Barbarossa steps on the Corpse's chest, Shattering the Shade's Sternum. "Well Cloud my friend, I guess this just became a good 'ole Gangbang."

Barb launches off the Corpse, Attacking the Remaining Shade. Tapping IB.

Damn, Barb's deadly - swords, knives and guns! Wouldn't like to piss him off...or San, she's deadly with those small knives too.

With a squeal of steel on leather, Hawk unsheathes his main blade, spinning to bring it down diagonally across the Shade's chest. (BS tap)

Looks like we're making a decent turn-around here...

And you win initiative again. Geez.

"If we leave, they'll be trapped inside!" says Marduk.

General updating below. Generally reasonable; Mors' rolls were rubbish, Heph gets in a good hit, and Ares fires very well (though he was already next to you).

Melis goes all out. She rolls five succeses on her big kick for ten damage, throwing the vamp across the alleyway, and then taking off after it with a twenty-four dice Swooping Eagle! Shame Tiger isn't on to up that a bit, but then you can only have so much loaded (Naturals, take note).

We have twelve successes and a bonus here; I think Hands of Light bonus fits well, to make that another fifteen damage (which was incidentally Unstoppable).

Well, twenty five damage in one round... can't complain! Of course, Melis cannot recover powers fast enough to do that again in the fight, reasonably (again, Naturals, take note).

Sirin takes two goes to kill a Mook.

Helios goes swordy and kills one.

San rolls three, six and six (no bonus this time) for 18 damage! Far too much for her target to handle; he goes down.

Firewall opens up on a vamp, but he is hampered by its cover.

Azrael runs across the room heading for the key. He and The Hunter cross paths directly!

Barb has turned on Cloud's opponent. He rolls three, three and five (bonus) for fourteen damage! Ooh.

Cloud- yes, knives are vicious indeed, in this circumstance king weapon. rememberm thoigh- a. they need a high pool to use, b. that depends on your foes having little or no defence (as is so here) and c. armour is effective against them.

If you have a defence working (Clever Fox, say), that translates to nine fewer dice being rolled by someone tapping IB that turn compared to someone without defence. So you can see the important difference there, certainly building as turns go by. Five turns into a fight? Forty-five dice difference. And of course, the more dice they roll, the more bonuses they get to keep doing it forever.

Moral? Defence is important!

Hawk totals four sucesses for nine damage on his foe.

As for the bad guys...

On seeing he has run into Azrael, the Hunter drops his gun to the ground with a clatter. Reaching to his backpack, he produces two short, thick machete blades, and twirls them a few times.

Heph's attacker bottoms out on his attack due to the WW tap!

"A threat? Ooh, I'm scared! You have no idea how much I don't care about what Zion thinks."

22 firers, seven targets... three each, and an extra on Sirin as she is in cover. See? She's fine.

At this point, the windows all around the walls of the room explode inwards as the SWAT guys start to clamber in!

Enemy fire just outside the Museum is very intense this time.

Solid blow hits you, Cloud.

I'll blow Burn's turn buit at the same time give no attack from that Vamp as he gets up.

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CURRENT SITUATION: TURN 7

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Museum

Extinction Exhibit

Azrael 7 (9/7/34) CF KW LA BS HL HT DiM HC AL WW BB StS
Glock 17s (6/6/6/6)

Hephaestus 7, Balcony (7/43) PW CF ST SE AL WW SC NO HL DiM VG DF
Nunchaku

Sirin 7 (6/5/5) CF DM ST LA BS HL HT PC BB CC EE
Katar
MP-446 (2)
H&K PDWs x2 (5/5)

Mirage 7 (9/7/14) PW CF ST SS HC HL HT JE SP PM CC LR
Sais
Sword

Balder 7 (6/6/9) DM CF SS LA ST DF BB LR EE StS
Nunchuk
2 CZ-Scorpions x2 (2/4) (2/4)

Berserker 7 (9/10) ST SS BS AL IB PM CF SE WW NO DiM LA
Knives

Helios 7 (6/5/11) ST KW BS HC VG SP LR BT 10B StS
Sword*
Desert Eagle (3/3)

Klez 7 (4/9/27) KW HL BB]EE LR BT StS
PP9s x2 (6/5) (6/5)

Italian Suits x11: 0

Maintenance Men x11: 0

SWAT x10: 0

Italian Leader A: 31 (Balcony)

Italian Leader B: 32

The Hunter: 0

Connecting Corridor

Maintenance Men x 4: 0

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Streets

Outside Museum

Fire 7, Front (7/6/28) DM ST LA BS HC AL HL SS JE HT PW SE StS
Silver Katana*
Machine Pistol (3/4)

Firewall 7, Front (6/6/35) ST KW LA AL HL HT DiM CF SS HC StS LR
Desert Eagle (3/7)
MP9 (3/4)

Vampire (behind car door): 4

Vampire (behind car door): 0

Vampire: 13

Vampire: 0

Suits x1 (front): 0

Maintenance Men x10 (front): 0

SWAT x 30 (front)

Back Streets

Mors 7, Rooftop (8/4/18) CF KW DM ST LA SS BS HC HT JE SP PM
Katana
Sais*
Hookswords

Hawk 7, Rooftop, (6/5/0) CF ST BS SE HC JE SP PM BB CC LR
Sword*
Twinned Swords
Glocks 19s x2 (3/4) (3/3)

Vampire, Rooftop: 39

Road

Cloud 7 (8/30) CF ST LA SS HL HT VG JE SP PM PW HC
Sword
Twinned Swords*

Barbarossa 7 (10/6/19) DM CF SP JE PM ST BS HL HC IB EE BT
Sword
Knives
Desert Eagle (3/4)

Vampire: 35

Apartment Exit

Burn 7 (10/21) HL KW CC EE LR 10B StS
Ingrams (2/12)

Melis 7 (11/0) CF DM ST LA SS BS SE HC HL HT VG LB
Staff

Vampire: 46

Plaza Exit

San 7 (11/21) PW CF ST BS HC AL NO SC WW HL VG IB
Knives

Ares 7 (5/10/41) PW HL CC EE LR BT 10B
Machine Pistol (4/19)

Vampire: 31

Vampire (behind car door): 0

Vampire (behind car door): 0

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"Eat Shit."
Fire again at the vampire, While moving back out of his Melee range.

Oh! I forgot. It was a Joker this turn; a refresh. Heph and Burn have untap decisions to make (burn for Inactive, heph for active).

As the refresh check comes after swapping, that means no swaps this turn! Avoid this peril in future by posting end-of-turn swaps with your post.

I'm going to untap KW...

Sword attack with a SS tap this turn, and a tap of LA on any attacks against me.

Helios will cut down the nearest mook. ST KW SP

Azrael will untap HC.

Moving backwards, away from the Hunter, he'll tap BB and StS, then switch out BB for CF. (Shooting at the Hunter).

I really don't want to get engaged in close combat with him.

(Swapping DM for ST)
I'll attack the last suit. While screaming to Marduk "Then lets kill these ****ers!"

Too late for an option on that, Azrael.

And HC does not untap.

(Btw Aliies try to concentrate your fire along with Marduk, it will drop the number of return fire faster.)

Mirage attacks again, thrusting her rapier at the mook closest to her.

San is now going to go after the vampire that Ares had been attacking, moving around the car and tapping IB (if she can do something nifty like flip over the car, that'd be neat...).

Hey Philos, target the SWAT, their guns do more damage and they might have higher pool...and Ush, are they like the city's SWAT? Not some psycho Vampire backup?

And Ush, I'd like to make a guess that the Italian Leaders are Werewolves? It's the sideburns that tipped me off. ermm

Anyways.

Heph will untap VG.

"You will in a bit..." Heph says, as he lashes out with a vicious spinning kick (tapping VG), meaning to send Wolfman over the railing and off the balcony into the fight below to give him some time.

Melis backs off and pulls out her staff as Burn blazes away.

End of turn, swap VG for LB.

Berserker will Tap IB and help out on the Leader Heph is fighting