Slaving Away (Group A) [Closed] [Finished]

Sanctity cast his spell, (Sanctity magic: 30+20 = 50) and from behind either doorway, just out of sight, he felt a collection of elevated heartbeats, all seemingly waiting for something. He could also detect the few heartbeats of his allies behind and beside him.

Viktor smashed a few windows, hoping to provide a better view of the interior of the building for Ginger.

As Mek strode past Viktor and began crossing the room in the direction of the lockers, he walked past the two doorways. There was a series of shuffled movements, then someone yelled, “Fire!”

Mek was suddenly caught in a hail of gunfire from both sides as the waiting slavers opened fire. (Attack rolls!) He was caught by a few shots before diving to the ground and out of the way of the worst it.

Up on the hill, Ginger caught the sudden sound of gunfire (Ginger perception: 53+35 = 88) and could see several silhouettes moving around inside. One of the figures paused near a window – near enough for him to shoot (Ginger guns: 8+34 = 42, 38+34 = 72). The first bullet missed, causing the glass to spiderweb with cracks, but the second seemed to hit the figure; it dropped out of sight a moment afterwards.


Mek: 249/295
Guard?: Slightly injured

Xeshir was waiting in the door for movements, her entire body tense. She would have probably shot a fly if it buzzed near her ear. When Mek´s looting started the shootout she instinctively took cover and waited for the shooting to subside before she took her SMG and fired at the two doorways, hoping to at least supress the slavers. Her mind was racing during the entire firefight. This was a tactical nightmare. The only way they could take down the slavers was by going into the door, but anyone that entered would be turned into swiss cheese from lead. If only they had some explosives...Wait...

Xeshir turned towards Sanctity. If someone could grab them without moving it was him. "Sanctity! Get me rocks! Round rocks!" She said in a hushed tone, low enough for only him to hear, then she turned towards Mek and signled him to keep moving to the lockers. Hopefully THIS plan would go better than the other...

(Firing SMG x2 at each door. 4 times in total. Guns 65.)

Sanctity ducked down as the gunfire started up again, pressing himself against what little cover was provided before levitating his rifle round the door and firing again, hoping that he'd get lucky and hit one of them. He looked at Xeshir in bewilderment as she demanded rocks from him. He looked around as he took cover again, scanning the ground in the hopes of finding some rocks she could use for... Whatever she wanted rocks for.

[Firing the Cowpony Repeater, Guns 65. Searching for rocks to throw and placing them at Xeshir's hooves, PER 6, LUCK 6]

Ale saw the pony behind the window drop, "I really hope that wasn't the mustard buck." he said aloud as he chambered another round and looked back to the building. "Hmm somepony remembered to take out the windows, good." he could now clearly see his friends and they were pinned down. "Welp this went to hell fast." He waited for another target hoping the slavers would be stupid enough to wander by another window.

(Second verse, same as the first.)

Diesel smirked as he saw Mek getting shot at, Looking around he saw that the only way to the Raiders where through the doors they had guarded. Looking around again he saw the group floundering at what to do against the defence, as he looked he turned to the nearest wall and shrugged to him self. It worked for the door might as well try for it again with that. He thought to himself as he readied his shoulder for another go. Charging forward he rammed himself with all he had at the wall to the right of him.

(Useing all my AP to bust down a hole in the right wall; Str 11, Unarmed 60, Agi 7)

Mek's head swam for a few seconds, but the distinct rattle of Xeshir's SMG snapped him out of his stupor. Quickly patting himself down, he found five new holes in his body, including one shot that was placed dangerously close to his "below the belt" area. He couldn't feel pain since the day he woke up in the smoldering remains of Ponyville, and he was thankful for that at that moment.These slavers were obviously packing bigger guns than Ginger had described, otherwise the hail of gunfire wouldn't even have fazed him.

His eyes snapped back into focus, and the figure of none other than Viktor, the canine cannonball himself, barreling towards a wall came into view. Lifting himself to his feet (Sanura was going to have a field day picking bullets out of him), he decided that he would have to save Viktor from this one, even if it meant more ethical critique from the others. Brandishing his gauntlets, he launched himself into the doorway in a cacophony of metallic hisses, yelling "IT'Z GUNNA TAKE MORE THAN DAT TA PUT OL' MEK DOWN, YA SLAVIN' SHITS! AH'LL CHEW YER FUCKIN' NECKS OUT!" As he ran by Xeshir right when she finished firing.

-charging into right room, performing 2 unarmed attacks w/gauntlets on any slaver that has a weapon that has anything bigger than a Varmint Rifle or Service Rifle if there is any. If not, then just the closest slaver will do. (Unarmed 55, STR 12)

Xeshir and Sanctity began firing, trying to suppress the ponies out of sight around the corner. (Xeshir guns: 53+32 = 85, 87+32 = 119, 84+32 = 116, 42+32 = 74) (Sanctity guns: 96+32 = 128 – crit!, 15+32 = 47, 2+32 = 34 – botch!) The volume of gunfire from the slavers decreased almost to nothing as they retreated back through the doorways. Sanctity looked about (Sanctity luck: 6+30 = 36) but couldn’t see any rocks larger than a pea.

A slaver armed with a nail board ran out from the left doorway, heading in the direction of Xeshir and Sanctity. Another began to exit from the right hand door, clad in heavy shoes. He ran to engage Mek. Mek struck first (Mek unarmed: 62+27 = 89, 20+27 = 47) his heavy gauntlets thudded into the pony, the follow up blow was parried by the metal shoes the pony was wearing. (Attack rolls!) The guard retaliated, swinging his heavy hooves at Mek, a couple of strikes successfully hitting the ghoul.

Viktor charged into the wall, trying to smash his way through. (Viktor strength: 15+55 = 70) There was a loud thump. Nothing else happened.

There was one other guard in the left doorway armed with a revolver. In the right hand doorway were three armed ponies – one had an energy pistol of some kind, one a shotgun, and the third a rifle.

Ginger looked for a target, and a figure crossed in front of him as he scoped across the window. (Ginger guns: 52+34 = 86) He fired off once, striking home well enough, but by the time he had another round chambered and ready to go, the target was already out of sight. These windows weren’t really providing a very comprehensive view of the battle, it seemed.

Hopscotch slunk up behind Xeshir, his ears pinned back against his head. “Want me to help?” he asked over the sounds of battle.

Left door: G1, M1
Right door: G2, G3, G4, M2

Mek: 235/295
Guard M1: Slightly injured
Guard M2: Somewhat injured
Guard G1: Intact
Guard G2: Hale
Guard G3: Hearty
Guard G4: Unscathed

Diesel let out a low curse as he felt the wall hold strong, he thought it would work. Looking around he saw Mek had one of the guards covered, charging in behind him he dove through the doorway tackling the slaver with the shotgun and slashing up with his Machete. As soon as he finished his brutal attacks he quickly jumped off in search of a spot to avoid some off the fire.

(attacking Shotgun guard with Machete 3 times 24/30ap; Str 11, Unarmed 70. Using rest of ap to dodge attacks.)

Another shot hit it's target, but ale was unable to see the damage it caused through the scattering of windows. He was able to see viktor slam himself against a wall through on of the opened windows next to the door. He tried not to think about what that was all about as he focused his attention on finding another target. He would let off two more shots and then replace the empty clip if he didn't find a target then he would take the opportunity to reload sooner and try and get to a better firing position .

(Same states, Two shots fallowed by a reload
OR
If no targets, reload and move to try and get an angle on a slaver and fire once.)

Sanctity cursed loudly as his gun jammed for the second time in the trip. What in the hell was up with his guns? This thing might've only just been looked over, but the repeaters were supposed to be reliable! That was the only reason they were used! He used the time whilst he unjammed the thing to look around, but saw nothing but tiny specks of gravel on the dusty ground.

"No rocks" he replied, his voice as low as hers had been in the hopes the other ponies wouldn't hear it, before he poked his head round the corner and taking stock of the guards, trying to figure out which one would do the most damage to them, before ducking away from another spat of gunfire.

He took a deep breath and rounded the corner, firing off another three shots down range, aiming for the pony he'd hit last burst.

[Firing 3 shots from the Cowpony Repeater, Guns 65]

Mek couldn't lie, the slaver packed a good punch. He gave the slaver that opposed him a sporting smile, and smashed his two gauntleted hands together in response. He saw Viktor running into the slaver with the shotgun, and figured that Viktor (who was looking rather bruised by his defeat at the hands of a wall) was keeping the gunfire off of him. he could've sworn he heard the click of Sanctity's repeater jamming again, and mentally vowed to take a look at that gun once they got out of this situation. He turned his head back to the slaver, and emitted what sounded like the roar of an extremely pissed hellhound, and rushed towards the slaver.

---attempting to throw the slaver w/ iron hooves out of a window so ginger can shoot him. If that doesn't work (or is not possible), then I'm gonna rip this Slaver's legs off using 3 unarmed attacks w/ the gauntlets. (STR 12, Unarmed 55, attempting to intimidate other slavers if I kill my target by throwing his legs at them)

Xeshir groaned in frustration as Mek went for the "blind charge" tactic. They would never go anywhere with that ghoul around...In fact, that gave her an idea. She turned towards Hopscotch as holstered her SMG. "Do you know how to pick locks? If so, think you could pick the lock to Grace´s room?" She asked, then, without waiting for him to answer, she withrew her Repeater and fired it at the charging pony with the nail board. Things were going to get messy.

(Taking out Cowpony Repeater (4 AP) and firing it four times at pony with nail board (32 AP))

Sanura's voice, risign as a surprisingly loud boom rose over the rest of the crow as she shouted, "If you don't want to die then stand down and hide your face in your hooves!" she shouted, trying her best to hols herself in a station the other's might've seen actually to shoot herself instead of everypony else.

"NOPONY SHOOT ANYONE!" she screamed out, Anypony that first after this is asking to be shot after being offered the chance to stand down and be spared as one of the good ponies spoken of, placing herself out in the open as she cried out this challenge to everypony else. "Stand down and you will be spared and given leave to correct yourselves, otherwise you will be gunned down as necessarily and die under the service of a minotaur who barely knows your name and sees you as nothing more then an asset! A simple chess piece if a game waiting to be sacrificied" she cried out, amidst this all Sanura put herself as the centerpiece of the battle.

Those that would choose to fight,would be placed in the cirucumstance, both on her team and on her opposition if shooting around the exposed unicorn and oh how she exposed herself. Sanura sacrifice any chance if both armor and protection, shoving her way amongst the others that were there to throw up her hooves in attempt to gain the will of the ponies around her, "We can give you a life with everypony else if you will let us!"she cried out, cringing as she did so, if it didn't work, she expected to be gunned down on the spot, if it did? Maybe she'd be able to breathe on her own...

Hopscotch looked at Xeshir and then upstairs. “I... I guess I can, yeah.” He swallowed nervously. “Uh, what do you want me to do once I’ve got the door unlocked?”

Viktor turned after his unsuccessful wall breach and passing by Mek, attacked the guard with the shotgun. (Viktor melee: 65+35 = 100, 18+35 = 53, 92+35 = 127) Two of his slashes left horrible bleeding wounds in the guard.

Ginger took another look through his scope (Ginger luck: 86+30 = 116) He once again spotted the nailboard-wielding pony and fired twice (Ginger guns: 36+34 = 70, 96+34 = 130)

Sanctity fired (Sanctity guns: 52+32 = 84, 15+32 = 47, 31+32 = 63) hitting a pony guard wielding a pistol only once, the second round burying itself into the brickwork and the third thudding into the pony’s armour and failing to penetrate.

Mek lunged towards the slaver, (Mek unarmed: 50+27 = 77) and grabbed him, (Mek strength: 31+60 = 91) then threw him across the room; the slaver slid along the floor and into the wall below the window.

Xeshir fired at the Nailpony, who was starting to look a bit worse for wear by this point. (Xeshir guns: 6+32 = 38 – botch!, 9+32 = 41) As she lined up the first shot and pulled the trigger, a few grains of sand blew into her eyes, and the bullet flew off at a wild angle. A couple of seconds later, she’d cleared her eyes and chambered another round, which she unfortunately aimed a little too high.

Sanura made her plea to the guards, attempting to stave off the violence that had already begun (Sanura speech: 37+29 = 66) “Yeah, no,” one of them yelled. The rest of the guards seemed to pay her little heed. Two of them took her attempted diplomacy as either an insult or an opportunity, and turned their weapons to the unarmoured unicorn. (Attack rolls!) She was hit a few times, the bullets hitting her soft, unprotected, highly vulnerable flesh and causing serious injury.

A pair of green flashes from one guard’s magical pistol struck Sanctity’s side, and a third hit the door frame. Xeshir ducked away from a nail board flurry, but was caught once in the shoulder. The iron shod guard stood up and charged at Mek, but the dog was too quick and evaded the attack easily.


Mek: 235/295
Sanura: 101/185
Sanctity: 162/204
Xeshir: 202/214
Guard M1 (nail board): Seriously injured
Guard M2 (iron hooves): Somewhat injured
Guard G1 (revolver): Slightly injured
Guard G2 (energy pistol): Hale
Guard G3 (shotgun): Slightly injured
Guard G4 (rifle): Unscathed

Sanctity let out a strangled yelp as the magical blast hit his side, the burning pain seared his side as he disappeared further behind the door frame. He couldn't concentrate on anything except gasping in agony for a few moments, tears coming to his eyes as he tried to move. He needed to be faster if he was going to be fighting. Much faster. He reached into his packs and pulled out the small inhaler of Dash, looking around to make sure nopony was looking at him, before pulling the lid off and sucking in the gas.

He spat onto the ground a few times to try and get the chemical taste out of his mouth. Why couldn't they flavor that shit? It just- He shook his head lightly, bringing his mind back to the task at hand as he reloaded the Repeater, waiting for the effects of the chems to kick in properly.

[Taking Dash, Reloading the Cowpony Repeater]

Was hit with the least resistance for sure, hit with a wet 'THUPTHUPTHUP' before the unicorn caught herself on the ground before she face planted and hacked up a mouthful of blood into the dirt which sent her aqua eyes -wide- as she looked down at what just came out of her mouth, what she just tasted coming between her teeth. If there was somepony in the middle of combat that wasn't supposed to be, It was Sanura. She screamed. It was a blood curdling sound, more importantly a truly frightened sound. Like a filly getting clipped in the arm except she'd gotten nailed hard enough that her shriek was marred by the horrible gargle of blood and air that punctuated it all as she gagged and almost fell over. Barely keeping herself on her hooves as she stood up, gasping and struggling for breath... she was shot... oh dear gods somepony had shot her.

Three times, three long holes she felt in her body that were nothing but pure panic for the unicorn that had never experienced being shot in her life "H-help." she gasped out softly, tears forming in her eyes, "HELP!" she suddenly screamed "Oh my god they shot me!" she shouted as loudly as she could, active member of the party she was no longer, "Oh gods they shot me!" she screamed out, already starting to breath rapidly as he tried to press her own blood back into her body, "Why did they shoot me!?" she gasped, desperately trying to hold herself together.

Xeshir grunted as she felt the nails go through her armor and skin, but at least it didn't feel like she was going to die. The pain slowly seemed to fade away as adrenaline started to curse through her blood. It was like begin back at training in the legion. Grab the Repeater, pull back the lever, aim, fi-

"HELP!"

Xeshir's Cowpony Repeater fell to the floor as she galloped towards the voice. She knew who the voice was from. She bit Sanura's mane and quickly started pulling her towards the nearest cover. She had been hit pretty badly and with her little medical expertise she tried to determine how to heal her, before remembering what she had. "Hold on sweetheart." She said, her voice calming and soft, "You're going to be fine." She searched her saddlebags and took out a Weak Healing Potion, quickly dumping the contents down the distressed Sanura's throat.

(Moving Sanura to cover. Using Weak Healing Potion on her. Medicine 21.)

Mek was too engaged in "glorious single combat" the iron-hooved Slaver to notice Sanctity taking a hit from an energy pistol, or to see Xeshir get hit by a nail board, but among the din of battle and the clattering of gear and gunshots, one sound resonated far too well in the ghoul's ears. It was the dull, wet noise of bullets hitting unarmored flesh, and the scream that followed further unnerved him. Glancing over the Slaver's shoulders, he could see Xeshir dragging Sanura away from the battle, leaving a trail of blood. Anger. Nothing but pure anger. From that point on, all of the slavers in the room were sacks of meat to him. Sacks of meat to be butchered. Another deafening roar from him and he lept at Iron Hooves, murder in his eyes.

--- Brutalizing Iron Hooves with 3 gauntlet attacks (STR 12, Unarmed 55). Still trying to do that intimidation thing on the slavers on the right side.

Diesel let out a glowering howl as he heard Sanura cry, nobody touches the healer. Slashing away at the pinned slaver he finished him as fast as he could, turning around he leaped at the slaver with the rifle and started his brutal assault on him. The only thought running through his head was to kill anyone with a gun in the room.

(slashing at shotgun slaver until he is dead; Melee 70. Leaping at Rifle slaver and pinning; Agi 7, Str 11.)

Ale could hear the screams all the way from his position on the hill, "Shit." He thought as he pulled the empty clip from his rifle and loaded a new one. Looking back through the scope he momentarily saw a wounded and bleeding sanuara being dragged into cover. "Oh now they fucked up!" ale said as hatred creeped into his voice. Thankfully the cover the zebra mare was using was open to one of the windows ale could see through, he could cover them.

(Reload hunting rifle, Sneak-49 Guns-60, fire on any slavers that attempt to attack sanura or xeshir. If nopony attacks then continue to take pot shots at visible slavers.)

Sanctity held the inhaler to his mouth and took a sharp breath, and as the dash began to enter his system, he paused to reload his weapon. After a moment, the world dulled and slowed, and he felt a desperate energy burning behind his eyes, screaming for release.

Once Sanura went down screaming, the guards lost interest. If she was down, she wasn’t a threat. They decided to focus on other targets, like the Xeshir who had come over to help the downed healer. (Attack rolls!) One of them made a sound as his gun jammed. The other fired twice, one shot going over her head, the second punching into her. The guard with the revolver finished clearing his jam and fired another shot, finding a way through her armour and into the flesh beneath.

Xeshir was still able to drag Sanura back out the door and gave her the healing potion. (Sanura regains 50 health)

(Mek unarmed: 37+27 = 64, 43+27 = 70) Mek struck the iron shod pony with a quick slash from each of his gauntlets, sending small sprays of blood to either side, but the guard was too quick to get a hold of. The hoof pony struck back, (Attack rolls!) hitting Mek twice.

Viktor attacked the guard with the shotgun, slashing at him three times. (Viktor melee: 49+35 = 84, 70+35 = 105, 16+35 = 51) The first two swings were good, tearing a pair of jagged lines through the guard’s barding as he backpedalled and levelled his shotgun, (Attack rolls!) unloading a double dose of searing pain into the diamond dog’s chest. He skittered back a few more paces and loaded a pair of fresh shells.

The nailpony moved behind Viktor, cutting him off from his allies, and held his bit of wood in a defensive manner.

Ginger watched as Xeshir was fired upon and found (Ginger luck: 77+30 = 107) one of the guards was just within range, but his window of opportunity was too narrow for a precise shot. He reloaded, fired at the revolver-toting pony (Ginger guns: 72+30 = 102) and struck him just behind the shoulder.

Without further instruction from Xeshir, Hopscotch quickly raced up the staircase during a lull in the gunfire. One of the guards gave him a surprised look as he passed, but nothing more.


Mek: 235/295
Sanura: 151/185
Sanctity: 162/204
Xeshir: 170/214
Viktor: 193/253
Guard M1 (nail board): Seriously injured
Guard M2 (iron hooves): Seriously injured
Guard G1 (revolver): Somewhat injured
Guard G2 (energy pistol): Hale
Guard G3 (shotgun): Somewhat injured
Guard G4 (rifle): Unscathed

Sanura cried out again as she suddenly felt a yank on her main, the pony stumbling backward and gritting her teeth against the pain of her so fresh wounds being jostled about. She hit the cover on her backside with a huff though, "T-they shot me!" she said again, coughing up another spatter of blood, she'd taken the shots through her chest twice and once through her belly which bled out rather quickly. She was still rather panicked, her medical experience was still struggling to fight back to the surface. It hurt, she swore she was about to die right then.

And then the potion hit! Almost choking on it since she hadn't been paying attention really, spilling some over her lips before she floated it up with her magic and greedily drank the thing down. The wounds in her flesh started to seal up and even one of the bullet fragments came oozing out of her belly along with a flush of blood and... other unpleasant things. Between the healing and Xeshir's calming words she seemed to pull herself together, the analytical part of her mind finally crawled over the panic and fear and pain as she forced herself back to her hoods, "I-I'm sorry." she said softly "And thank you..." she said, nudging some tears our of her eyes with her foreleg. She was still sore, but at least she could think straight.

Sanura stood up, ducking a stray bullet as it ricocheted off the wall and blinking dust and tears out of her eyes before she suddenly sprinted back into the fight, gritting her teeth as she quickly tried to assess who was being hurt the most...Everypony there was hurt it was hard to tell who was hurt the most, Xeshir had taken shots in helping her but she was okay, Sanura could beg forgiveness later. Mek was a pillar of meat and strength (shut up), Vikotr and Sanc had taken a decent amount but everpony aside from her seemed ready to take more.

The double blast of shotgun shells into Viktor's chest caught her attention the most, if for no other reason than the sound. Her galloping sprint went to him as she gasped upon reaching the diamond dog and apologized under her breath before giving a grunt as she forced her magic to flare brightly around her and.. really the reason for her apology was the fact that she was taking cover behind his body while she tried to heal him. That was her role... she was going to bounce from one person to the next healing as best she could.

[Running to Viktor and casting Heal, 50hp]

Xeshir smiled weakly at Sanura as she thanked her. She kept the act until she had galloped away before groaning hitting the wall, slowly falling down and leaving a small trail of blood on the wall. Stars above it hurt, adrenaline pumping through her system or not. After a few deep breaths she managed to pull herself together and slowly got up, walking towards the door frame once again. She grabbed her dropped Cowpony Repeater and quickly aimed it at Mr. Nail Board. Defensive position or not, she was determined to end him.

(Firing Cowpony Repeater at Nail Board x4. Guns 65.)

Sanctity felt his heart begin to race as the drugs took hold. Oh god, he felt so fast. He could outrun anything! He could outrun a bullet! His body started twitching softly, the nervous, inequine energy flowing through him. He needed to move, to see how fast he could go. He needed to move before they came and got him again. He bolted into the fray, screaming primaly as he charged the energy pistol wielding pony [2.5 AP]. He fired off 7 shots as he ran [Guns 65, 31.5 AP], before he got up close to the pony. He could almost feel the fear coming off of the bastard. He slammed the butt of the rifle into his face twice, hoping the blows would finish off the pony. [Melee 25, 4 AP]

[4 AP (1 Dodge) remaining]

Mek was starting to get tired of this slaver. At this point, he just wanted to go home and just sit in radiation. The amount of times this slaver had hit him with those hooves did not bode well, and he could feel his cracked ribs clattering together in his chest. It's not like they were protecting anything important or anything. Out of the corner of his eye he caught a rejuvenated (and considerably less punctured) Sanura running towards Viktor (who was now the one looking punctured). All kinds of things were going on, and none of them easy to take in during a single glance. He caught Sanctity running towards energy pistol like some drug-crazed madman, an-energy pistol? He spat the ghoul equivalent of blood on the ground, and looked Iron Hooves in the eye.

He didn't know why he was so hell bent on protecting Sanura, but for some reason he couldn't do anything but like her. Maybe it was her benevolent disposition and her kindness towards him. Maybe it was their shared emotional connection that they shared on that slab by the campfire. Or maybe it was just her plot. Either way, he raised one of his massive arms in preparation for his next move.

-using one gauntlet attack to swipe Iron Hooves out of the way, and then using one more gauntlet attack on anypony that tries to hurt Sanura either directly or indirectly. (Putting the AP of two attacks into the swipe against Iron Hooves so i do the damage of two attacks, Unarmed 55 STR 12).

-PS: quick question for the GW for future reference: instead of using attacks, can't I just make a strength test to crush skulls and tear necks out with my jaws?