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>>165000Do the stairs go up, or down?
>>165000Think we can continue the wolf story?
>>165003"Found stairs to next floor. We will not have to backtrack so far to advance further."
Silver notes the location of the stairs, of moves onto the next door.
>>165005Um…. Let me see where we are. I
think Spark was going to the village.
>>165006This located at the bed if the hall. There is a small hall beyond the stairs case that is symmetrical with the small hall near the entrance, though this one too has offices and…
Spectral Streak:
“Found bathrooms. No activity here.”
>>165007"Found more offices. How many offices does one television company need?"
Silver continues down this hall to check the offices it connects.
>>165007I think I was with Wellspring the rebel, who just got back from the last adventure.
>>165012Soon.
>>165009This hall is short, with only two smaller offices, one with a type writer, and the other with a big desk with what seems to be cut out photographs and glass, and then a conference room.
>>165018Silver checks these rooms for any potential devices or hostages. In particular he focuses on the conference room.
>>165019Silver sees no living creatures, and while he doesn't exactly know what any "device" looks like, nothing stands out as suspicious. Some folders of papers, a t-square and compass, and a wooden table that is clear underneath. The lights are, however, on in both offices.
>>165021Well, that *is* odd...Silver supposes that he should check out the offices.
>>165022No pony there, papers and all left behind.
>>165024"Hmm..."
With this floor (mostly) cleared, Silver gets his rifle ready and begins to climb the nearby staircase to the next floor.
>>165025Wooden staircase, smaller than the central stairwell and evidently only going up a single level. The walls are white, with a similar maroon colored carpet as in the exterior hallway. The stairs double back with a small landing midway. The one light is on.
The simple wooden door at the top of the stairs is closed.
>>165046Silver puts his ear to the door before doing anything else, trying to listen for anything that might be on the other side.
>>165047It’s louder up here than below, with the sounds of what must be distant voices, or else, radios playing.
Spectral Streak comes up next to Silver
>>165049Spectral Streak levels his rifle
>>165050Silver slowly, carefully, cracks the door open.
>>165053Well, how far does Silver open the door?
Silver can tell that the lock on the door has been damaged and is no longer functioning
>>165054At first only a little, so he can see if there are any traps rigged up to the door and set up to trigger if it opens far enough.
>>165055With the door only cracked open slightly, Silver can see no traps set. The lock is physically broken, but otherwise nothing seems odd.
>>165056Silver continues to open the door further.
>>165057>>165058Silver hears a roar of automatic gunfire, and splinters of wood come flying off of the door, as bullets hit and often penetrate through the wood.
>>165059Silver shuts the door, grabs onto Spec, and jumps back down the stairs.
>>165057>>165060Multiple bullets penetrate through the wooden door. Silver is grazed along his neck by a bullet, and another shot embeds itself in Silver’s flak jacket, almost breaking through.
Spectral Streak shoots back
Bang Bang Bang Bang, four shots semi-auto in quick succession, then jumps back
>>165061Silver, at a lower position down the stairs and out of the line of fire, holds a hoof over the now bleeding wound on his neck.
"Черт, это больно...you okay, Spec?"
>>165062“Yeah” he says, breathing heavily.
“About what I expected.”
>>165063>>165064Silver takes his hoof off of his neck, looking at the blood on it, then covering his wound again.
"It is just grazed."
Silver creeps back up the steps, takes out his gas mask, and waves it in front of the bullet holes in the door to see if the changelings can see through it.
>>165065At first, nothing. Then
Ching Ching. Two shots are fired at the door, presumably semi-auto from the same weapon as before.
>>165066Silver pulls the gas mask back. He gets an idea and looks at where the bullets have hit the wall behind him compared with the holes in the door.
>>165067It's a little hard to tell, as the door was cracked open when it was shot, and the force of the bullets hitting the door has opened it further. Silver can however see that with the exception of four small holes on the far left, presumably from Spectral Streak, the holes are concentrated on the right side of the door near the door handle and where the door opens. A trio of holes have met together, which creates one hole that is large enough to look through.
Looking at the wall behind him, Silver can see that the holes and damage on the wall are concentrated on the far right side (to the right of the door when Silver faces the door. When Silver turns around to look behind him, it is on his left).
[1d20+10 = (4+10) = 14][1d20+10 = (8+10) = 18]>>165068Grabbing his Jenny, he steps to the right side of the door while trying to stay out of sight, and double taps the trigger.
>>165070Silver ducks upon hearing the returning gunfire.
>>165071Hmmm…. Silver fluff may attempt a reflex saving throw to avoid the worst of the gunfire.
>>165073Silver ducks halfway through the reign of bullets, which is very much a good thing, because as Silver falls. a bullet tears into Silver’s flak jacket at an angle and is stopped, which would have penetrated had it hit squarely.
Silver falls to the ground, and Spectral Streak fires more shots
Bang Bang [1d20+10 = (11+10) = 21][1d20+10 = (11+10) = 21]>>165074Silver barely gets up from his position, just to squeeze off a couple more rounds.
>>165075Four more shots return, evidently in a single, automatic burst.
[1d20 = 13][1d20 = 6][1d20 = 18][1d20 = 18] >>165076Silver lays down flat to try to avoid the returning gunfire.
[1d20+10 = (9+10) = 19][1d20+10 = (7+10) = 17]>>165077Followed by firing another couple of shots.
>>165078Silver hears more automatic fire:
Cla Cla Cla Cla Cla Cla[1d20 = 16][1d20 = 18][1d20 = 8][1d20 = 2][1d20 = 6][1d20 = 19] >>165078>>165079Silver is nicked by a shot
[1d7 = 5] [1d20+10 = (13+10) = 23][1d20+10 = (19+10) = 29]>>165079>>165080Silver has to supress the urge to shout to avoid giving his position away. He answers back, not knowing if he is doing anything or not.
>>165081Silver makes two shots, and then there is a sound of
Cla Cla Cla Cla Cla Cla. What is different is that these shots veer much further off to the right.