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>>164343>>164362Silver fires his rifle at the drone who peaks over the rails and into the narrow space between the flights of stairs. One bullet is unaccounted for, likely having gone all the way to the ceiling. Another goes into the flight of stairs on the other side. And another would have hit the drone, save that the bottom of the set of stairs is in the way. There is a small explosion of wooden splinters. But another bullet seems to hit its mark, though exactly where and to what effect is hard to say. The creature flinches and pulls back out of sight.
From beneath and behind Silver, he can hear a
ching ching ching[1d20+7 = (12+7) = 19][1d20+7 = (5+7) = 12][1d20+7 = (9+7) = 16] >>164362>>164363>>164343Spectral Streak fires his own rifle in succession, hitting the bottom of the staircase at least twice
>>164364Silver advances up the stairs again, keeping his rifle aimed towards the floor he saw the changeling on.
Waiting for the game to resume soon. I want to read moar.
>>164380no
u>>164381Yay!
>>164365Silver goes up, and up, and up, slowly approaching that floor, until he's approximately level with it.
Silver can see the barrel of a gun just barely past the edge of the doorway. Not well aimed, but there.
>>164422Hmm...so, here's an idea. Since he can see the gun barrel, can he use his magic to pull the gun forward? Even if it remains in the changeling's grasp, perhaps he will be pulled out into the open for an easy shot.
>>164424Hmmmm.... this is doable from a close distance, but I'm not sure Silver is close enough for that to be viable. Silver is also presumably using magic to support the front of his rifle
>>164425Silver creeps closer to the gun.
>>164426While Silver doesn't
quite need to be immediately outside of the door for this to be viable, he may as well approach that closely. As Silver goes up the stairs clockwise, approaching the door at the landing from the left, Silver does not see anycreature on the right side of the entryway. He can simply see a polished softwood floor, and a sort of coral-red colored wall.
>>164428>>164429Silver does not see anycreature moving around to try to shoot him as he moves up, at least not before he is able to move.
>>164430Silver gives a hoof motion to his companions towards the exposed gun barrel. He shoulders his rifle so he can use the full concentration of his magic, grabs onto the end of the exposed gun barrel, and pulls hard.
>>164433Silver tugs on the gun, and pulls it forward. He can feel the resistance as the creature on the other side pulls it back. It comes forward, a little further out. Silver can see by the sight of it that it is a machine carbine, though he cannot see the details of it. Beneath him, and behind him, Spectral Streak and the Salmon station move move forward. And within the hallway, and enemy approaches
[1d20+4 = (10+4) = 14][1d20+2 = (13+2) = 15][1d20 = 5] >>164435>>164433Cla cla cla cla clak cla cla![1d20+2 = (2+2) = 4][1d20+2 = (6+2) = 8][1d20+2 = (17+2) = 19][1d20+2 = (5+2) = 7][1d20+2 = (5+2) = 7][1d20+2 = (14+2) = 16][1d20+2 = (14+2) = 16]Silver can hear the exchange of bullets loudly as the creature within the hallway opens fire
[1d20 = 13] >>164436>>164433>>164435Bullets spray, hitting the back wall, and further down. Silver hears an "umph!" as it appears one of the bullets has hit the salmon stallion
[2d7 = 13]Then, Silver hears a
Bang Bang Bang Bang of quick, successive shots as Spectral Streak returns fire
[1d20+8 = (6+8) = 14][1d20+8 = (10+8) = 18][1d20+3 = (17+3) = 20][1d20+3 = (4+3) = 7] >>164433>>164437Silver is still holding onto the gun of the other enemy.
Silver may roll initiative
[1d20 = 12] >>164439The creature jerks his gun away
[1d20+2 = (16+2) = 18]Roll opposed strength
>>164441The creature wrestles his gun out of Silver's grip, pulls it back, and starts firing
[1d20 = 6][1d20 = 15][1d20 = 16][1d20 = 11][1d20 = 16] >>164442>>164441Silver sees drywall flaking on the wall next to him as bullets hit it, slowly covering him in white flakes. The bullets fail, however, to penetrate the wall.
>>164443Silver definitely lucked out, there.
If it's possible, what would the penalty be for blind firing?
>>164445Hmm...any penalty for trying to shoot through the wall, or would the changeling he
thinks is around the corner just have a bonus to his AC?
>>164446It's at least a +6 AC bonus for the opponent, representative of Silver's difficulty in determining where he actually is, and thus where to aim the weapon.
[1d20+10 = (9+10) = 19][1d20+10 = (9+10) = 19]>>164447Silver grabs his Jenny, flips her to single shot, and double taps where he
believes the changeling to be.
>>164448Bang BangTheheekSilver hears some sort of sound, kind of similar to an abrupt hiss.
Hit Hit
>>164451>>164449>>164450Silver hears the sound of clopping in the hallway, but the gun fire has ended for the moment.
>>164452"Hmm..."
Silver gets an idea, pulls out his gas mask, and levitates it so it's peeking out into the doorway.
>>164453>>164454Silver hears the sound of gun shots and bullets whizzing past, although they are oddly ineffective, and stop after at most, a second.
>>164455Silver pulls the gas mask back. That confirms it, the bullets may have stopped but they're watching the doorway like a hawk. With the break in fighting, he looks back to his companions to check up on them, especially the salmon stallion.
>>164457The Salmon Stallion is able to stand up, but that's almost it. He's heavily bleeding and breathing loudly.
>>164458Silver trots back to look at the damage, and see where he was shot at.
>>164462Silver sees that the Salmon pony was hit in the barrel. He is bleeding, and has sat down.
>>164463What all do they have left in their well-used medkit?
>>164464Some more magical fluid, a narcotic painkillers, bandages, and disinfectants.
>>164467"Alright, this is pretty bad wound. You want some magical...stuff, or do you just want patched up?"
>>164472“I, uh, I… I think I need it” he says, obviously worried, and then pressing a hoof over the wound.
>>164473Silver nods, and proceeds to give the salmon-colored stallion the stuff.
>>164474Silver injects the stallion with the magical fluid, then morphine, and presumably disinfects the wound and bandages it. The Stallion isn’t exactly fine, but he’s not getting any worse, and certainly seems to be in less pain.
>>164475"Try not to get shot anymore, okay?"
>>164476“Uh, yeah. I’ll try.” He says, looking past Silver.
>>164477Silver looks back at the doorway.
"They are watching like hawks. Anypony who pokes their head out will no longer have head."
>>164478[1d2 = 1]Spectral Streak replies,
“Yeah, it’s an obvious ambush point. They wanted to wait at the door, but they drew back a little further when that didn’t work out.”
>>164479"Blindfire around corner might be only option, but it will definitely waste ammo."
>>164480From above, the sound of a door opening, and stomping out
>>164481Silver readies his Jenny rifle in response, and aims up.
>>164483>>164484From above, Silver hears a
Cla cla cla cla cla cla cla cla[1d20 = 6][1d20 = 14][1d20 = 9][1d20 = 8][1d20 = 16][1d20 = 20][1d20 = 4][1d20 = 1] >>164485The creature seems to be blind firing, placing a black gun over the railing and aiming down, moving the barrel around. The stairs above them seem to absorb some of the shots, and some fall short, while a few hit the stairs right next to Silver, Streak, and the Salmon pony. But one seems to hit Spectral Streak, who recoils in pain.
Silver’s turn
[1d20+10 = (13+10) = 23][1d20+10 = (6+10) = 16]>>164486Silver double taps his Jenny's trigger as he aims up towards the changeling.
>>164487Silver looks up, and locates the creature, a black drone holding a black rifle and leaning over the railing. The first shot goes high, and hits the wall above and behind the creature. But the second shot hits.
>>164489Silver seems to harm it, though it’s hard to say how.
Spectral streak aims up, and lets out two shots of his own.
[1d20+8 = (7+8) = 15][1d20+8 = (19+8) = 27] >>164491>>164489Spectral Streak too, seems to hit it, and it moves back out of sight with a “thump.”
>>164493What kind of roll calls for d7's?
>>164496Spectral Streak nods, then winces in pain.
>>164497Silver looks over his son to see where he was shot.
>>164498On the side of his barrel, behind his right shoulder. It looks like the bullet went right through.
>>164499"How does it feel? It hit anything vital?"
>>164500“I don’t know” he says. “Maybe my liver. It hurts like Tartarus.”
>>164501Silver takes stock of their rapidly diminishing medical supplies.
>>164503Silver can see that they do have some supplies left, perhaps because the set of supplies seems to have originated in two different kits. There is some magic fluid, morphine, antiseptic, plasma, and bandages left.
>>164504Silver starts to fix Spec up.
"We are going to run into issues if we keep getting hit."
>>164506“Yeah. We are. But we’ll have even more issues if we let these buggers be. We’ll be full of holes patched up by bandages and coagulant, with plasma instead of blood and working on adrenaline and morphine, but it’ll be us here alive at the end of the day, and not those bugs. I’ve lived too long to let them take it from me.”
>>164507Silver nods, his son's speech driving him on. He grabs his Jenny and holds it at the ready.
"Let us kill these buggers."
>>164508Spectral Streak nods, and with a labored motion, stands up, behind his father.
[1d20+6 = (10+6) = 16][1d20+6 = (20+6) = 26][1d20+6 = (16+6) = 22][1d20+6 = (19+6) = 25]>>164509Silver goes back to the doorway. Left with few options, he switches to full auto and blindfires a burst around the corner with his Jenny.
Feel free to subtract what the additional penalty for blindfire would be. >>164510>>164511[i]Bang Bang Bang[/b]
Silver gears brief returning fire, though it doesn’t last long
[1d20 = 11][1d20 = 6][1d20 = 17] >>164510>>164512Silver is not hit, and the firing subsides
>>164512>>164513This isn't going to work. Hmm...
Silver looks around him for small, round objects. Things approximately the size of grenades.
>>164516Silver looks around, and on the ground finds what seems to be a concussive grenade.
>>164517Джекпот!Thanking Celestia for this lucky find, Silver eagerly picks up the dropped grenade. He pulls the pin with a
CHINK, and chucks the concussive grenade through the doorway towards the changelings.
>>164518And….
BANG!Silver feels a shock wave, and little bits of the walls flake and fall off.
[1d20+6 = (13+6) = 19][1d20+6 = (18+6) = 24][1d20+6 = (9+6) = 15][1d20+6 = (7+6) = 13]>>164519Silver wastes no time and pushes through the doorway while aiming down his Jenny's sights. He prefires a short burst to keep the enemies suppressed.
>>164520Bang Bang Bang BangSilver hears nothing in reply
>>164521Can Silver see through the dust from the explosion to see what the scene looks like?
>>164522Yes.
Looking inside, Silver can see fallen ceiling tiles and bits of drywall covering parts of a varnished wood floor, which already has streaks of blue blood. The hallway goes two ways, left and right, though it is clear that most of the interest is to the left. To the left the hallway opens to elevator banks and ultimately, further back, a reception desk.
On the right, not far at all from the door, Silver sees a dead, black drone on the ground. He has a beige trench coat soaked in blue blood, a helmet that Silver recognizes as being Changeling military issue of the style of the last war, and next to him, he has a weapon that Silver has never seen before. The weapon is made almost entirely out of metal painted black, except with a wooden butt stock and bakelite handgrips. It has a long, curved and dimpled magazine in front of the grip, a gas block above the barrel, simple iron sights, and a barrel that is shorter than the Jenny's, but a length that is slightly greater.
To the left, where the hallway expands to include the elevator bank, Silver sees another dead drone leaning against the wall, in an area that would have been cover from an attack from the door. This drone has no clothing, but also has a military helmet. He has multiple bullet wounds, and a machine carbine before him.
>>164523Taking a hold of the helmet of the trench coated changeling and, much like he did with the gas mask, peaks it out slowly into the left side of the hallway.
>>164525Now Silver does the same with the right side.