Afraid it'll have to be the praying, Cloud. Still, three successes on your attack roll is exactly what was needed, except a bit of a waste now you already hurt it. And now its friend is in melee range.
San- dead-on kill! But what kind of help were you thinking?
Intrusion and Observation both very useful skills here, Melis.
MALFUNCTION- Hawk's gun is down. He also had a very poor shooting round, so presunably the gun was buggering up due to the heat.
Good shooting, Mors- you got your kill, and you aren't cut up too badly. But you are really not built for this kind of exertion.
No time for shooting, Burn, not at this short notice. Only time for diving like hell out of there...
Shez Cards: 9C, KS, 5H, 8H
Percy Cards: 6D, 4S
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SENTINEL ASSAULT, Turn 24
Scheherazade
Upper Gun Left (12/2): Ares 24 (8/0)
Upper Gun Right (11XXX/6): Mors 24 (4/12)
Lower Gun Left (13XXX/0): Hawk 24 (5/0)
Lower Gun Right (12/0): Fire 24 (6/0)
Pilot: Sequel 24 (6/0)
Internal:
Burn 24 (4)- Front section
Sentinels x2 (0)- Front section
Sentinel (2)- Front section
Dallas 24 (0)- Starboard section
Ariadne 24 (0)- Cockpit
Enemies on scope:
12 o'clock: 1 sentinel Mid (3/0), 1 sentinel High (3/0), 2 sentinels Low (0/0), 1 sentinel High (-/0), 1 sentinel Low (H/0) | Damage sustained to section: 20
3 o'clock: 1 sentinel Low (2/0), 1 sentinel High (1/0), 1 sentinel Low (0/0), 1 sentinel Low (-/0), 1 sentinel Low (LGR/0) | Damage sustained to section: 10
6 o'clock: 1 sentinel High (2/0), 2 sentinels Low (1/0), 1 sentinel Mid (H/2), 1 sentinel High (H/2) | Damage sustained to section: 8
9 o'clock: 1 sentinel High (3/0), 1 sentinel Low (2/0), 1 sentinel High (1/0), 4 sentinels Low (0/0), 1 sentinel High (-/0), 1 sentinel Low (-/0) | Damage sustained to section: 5
1 sentinel Vertical Dive (-/0)
1 sentinel Vertical Climb (1/0)
1 sentinel Front Turret (2)
UNACCOUNTED FOR: 2 sentinels (0), last seen at front section; 1 sentinel (0), last seen on starboard section; 1 sentinel (0), last seen on rear section
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Persepolis
Upper Gun (7/0): Barb 24 (6/0)
Lower Gun (9/0): Finn 24 (5/0)
Pilot: Marduk 24 (6/0)
Internal:
Melis (0)- Front section
Sentinel (0)- Front section
Cloud 24 (25)- Port section
Sentinel (2)- Port section
San 24 (18)- Engine room
Enemies on scope:
12 o'clock: 1 sentinel Mid (1/0) 2 sentinels Mid (0/0) | Damage sustained to section: 0
3 o'clock: 1 sentinel Mid (3/0), 1 sentinel Mid (2/0), 1 sentinel High (-/0), | Damage sustained to section: 18
6 o'clock: 1 sentinel Mid (3/0), 1 sentinel High (0/0), 1 sentinel Mid (E/2) | Damage sustained to section: 10
9 o'clock: 2 sentinels Low (1/0), 1 sentinel Mid (0/0), 1 sentinel High (-/0), | Damage sustained to section: 10
UNACCOUNTED FOR: 2 sentinels (0), last seen on starboard section; 1 sentinel (0) last seen on upper part of rear section
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Unfortunately, Melis, sneaking ain;t much good if you don't know where your target is. The sentinel that buried into the rear was making its way to the cockpit and you just ran headlong into it.
Port section situation on Percy is critical! Structural integrity is failing.
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And at this point the Shez samshes into the end of the tunnel.
It was thinner than it looks, with lots of little passages through it that the Sentinels use. Nonetheless, ships are not built to take solid objects head-on. The noise sounds roughlly like the front of thr ship being smashed to pieces- good reason for that; front turret is lost, the windscreen explodes all over the cockput and ten points of damage are inflicted to the section, which has already been severely weakened- this is a critical issue to the Shez now. Everyone is knocked over, or down, or to the side by the impact. The Percy, wobbling as its left side threatens to come off and as more engine roundels are cut loose, follows through in the Shez's wake.
The atmosphere changes. Well, the force ten gale blowing into the cockpit is part of that, but suddenly everything is different. No more cramped tunnels or sewers, but the gloomy, oppressive yet still strangely beautiful vista of the surface world.
Burn, you pick yourself up, and find yourself confronted with a. the sentinel you were fighting who escaped with you and b. two more who had been sneaking up behind you.
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Incidentally, there has been some replacement and duplication. To confirm, current 'unaccounted for' numbers on sentinels are correct. Those now found have been replaced by more going inside.
"Yes, that's the surface," Mors says.
Mors checks the displays of the ship.
"The structural damage to the front of the ship is looking terrible, but we're not going to be able to blast off any Sentinels latching onto it. We'll have to pick them off before they get there, or this ship is going down. Fast."
Mors will set about repairing his gun.
Help was mostly wanting Melis to get down here and start going after the sentinels as well, since her turret is busted.
Though Cloud, you might want to get the hell out of there. Like, as soon as you possibly can. That part of the ship is about to fall off. And I'd like to keep people from dying as long as possible.
Meanwhile, San's going to take advantage of probably the only break she'll get in this fight to make a medicine roll and hopefully take off some damage, while looking to see where the next place a sentinel might come in.
And Barb says he will pick off the sentinel on the engines at 6 o'clock mid.
Sorry, been making an error with the Percy. Unstable section is starboard, not port.
Hawk- no fix-it, no chance.
Mors- barrel is distorted. Two turns to hammer the round out, -2 penalty to the gun thereafter.
Burn- well, you can try, but they've caught you both ways, and are faster. You fry the one that was with youy, though all three get attacks on you...
Melis- two successes, nice try, and you seem to have kept it mostly at bay...
Cloud- got it... and it missed you too, as you finish it off.
Fire, your massively overheated gun fails after the first burst; the attempt at a second basically means the gun is lost. Sentinel has not quite cut in yet, though.
San- no healing, I am afraid, though you can stop yourself bleeding.
Barb rolls one success, but that's all he needed.
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SENTINEL ASSAULT, Turn 25
Scheherazade
Upper Gun Left (11/2): Ares 25 (8/0)
Upper Gun Right (12XXX/6): Mors 25 (4/12)
Lower Gun Left (12XXX/0): Hawk 25 (5/0)
Pilot: Sequel 25 (6/0)
Internal:
Fire 25 (6/0)- Lower Gun Right
Burn 25 (16)- Front section
Sentinels x3 (0)- Front section
Dallas 25 (0)- Broadcast area
Ariadne 25 (0)- Cockpit
Sentinels x3 (0)- Cockpit
Enemies on scope:
12 o'clock: 1 sentinel Mid (3/0) 1 sentinel Mid (2/0), 1 sentinel High (2/0), 2 sentinels Low (-/0) | Damage sustained to section: 20
3 o'clock: 1 sentinel Mid (3/0), 1 sentinel Low (1/0), 1 sentinel High (0/0), 1 sentinel Low (-/0), 1 sentinel Low (LGR/2) | Damage sustained to section: 10
6 o'clock: 1 sentinel High (3/0), 1 sentinel High (1/0), 2 sentinels Low (0/0), 1 sentinel Mid (H/2), 1 sentinel High (H/2) | Damage sustained to section: 10
9 o'clock: 1 sentinel Mid (3/0), 1 sentinel High (2/0), 1 sentinel Low (1/0), 1 sentinel High (0/0), 4 sentinels Low (-/0), 1 sentinel High (H/0), 1 sentinel Low (H/0) | Damage sustained to section: 7
1 sentinel Vertical Dive (LGL/0)
1 sentinel Vertical Climb (0/0)
UNACCOUNTED FOR: 1 sentinel (0), last seen on rear section, 1 sentinel (0), last seen on starboard section
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Persepolis
Upper Gun (8/0): Barb 25 (6/0)
Lower Gun (10/0): Finn 25 (5/0)
Pilot: Marduk 25 (6/0)
Internal:
Melis 25 (3)- Front section
Sentinel (2)- Front section
Cloud 25 (25)- Port section
Sentinel (0)- Port section
San 25 (18)- Engine room
Enemies on scope:
12 o'clock: 1 sentinel Mid (0/0), 2 sentinels Mid (-/0) | Damage sustained to section: 0
3 o'clock: 1 sentinel Mid (3/0), 1 sentinel Mid (2/0), 1 sentinel Mid (1/0), | Damage sustained to section: 8
6 o'clock: 1 sentinel Mid (2/0), 1 sentinel High (-/0) | Damage sustained to section: 10
9 o'clock: 1 sentinel Mid (3/0), 1 sentinel Low (0/0), 1 sentinel Low (0/2), 1 sentinel Mid (-/0), | Damage sustained to section: 24
UNACCOUNTED FOR: 3 sentinels (0), last seen on starboard section; 1 sentinel (0) last seen on upper part of rear section
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No more cards now we are outside- attacks are evenly distributed.
Burn, more sentinels are coming in the front, i.e. behind you. Your position is not good; the front part of the ship was left inadequately covered, mostly due to people firing guns whilst hot, which has rather doomed the Shez cause.
Cloud- another sentinel comes in immeidately.
One going for you, Hawk.
Sequel cries out in alarm- the Shez cockpit is under attack...
And those of you with the leisure to look...
... see an amazing sight out there. The great achievement there ever was; a great, thrusting tower, spearing up towards the dead sky; attached are intricate and complex pods, in clu,ps, and each clump next to another clump, all the way up and down the tower. And next to the tower, another, and another, and another, a whole row of towers, and a whole group of rows, repeated over and over as far as the eye can see in front of you.
Almost the entirity of the Human species lays in front of you- the Power Plant.
Something you register the moment before the Machine defences activate. Guns and missle launchers spring out of the ground.