Donovan drops the assault rifle, and with the same motion reaches into the breast of his business suit. He draws a sleek looking, small, chromed machine pistol from a hidden holster within his suit, and aims at a human TWT ganger. A laser sight paints a bright red point on the ganger’s chest.
The weapon kicks with recoil as Donny fires a short burst, and small gas vents on the weapon attempt to compensate. The human seems to sense Donny’s imminent attack, and withdraws behind an overturned table as the bullets from Donny’s burst fly harmlessly past him. As the ganger readies his weapon and exits cover in order to fire at Donny, he sees a muzzle flash from Goethe’s rifle…
Donny has used a free action to drop the assault rifle, a simple action to draw his machine pistol, and a simple action to fire at the TWT gang member, unfortunately unsuccessfully.
The injured ork shouts in defiance. He stands with his weapon ready and aimed at Goethe, with a roar of challenge in his throat. As the ork steadies his weapon, a casually fired narrow burst from Goethe’s rifle pierces the ork’s skull. The scream is cut short, and the ork collapses.
Donovan’s human target whirls around the overturned table he was using for cover, and brings his pistol up to fire at Donny. Too late, the human senses something wrong, and glances toward Goethe just as Goethe fires another burst. He tries to turn away from Goethe’s attack, but the full three-round burst shreds his body from hip to shoulder. The man shouts in surprise, and falls to the floor, bleeding massively.
Goethe has used two simple actions to fire his rifle. The first shot killed the injured ork, and the second did 9 physical damage to one of the human gangers. The human has suffered a fatal wound, but hasn’t died yet. He can no longer participate in the battle.
The last human ganger throws his light pistol on the floor toward Goethe and Donovan, and raises his hands in the air. “Stop! We surrender!” the man shouts.
The human uses a free action for the simple phrase, and two simple actions to throw the gun toward the group and raise his hands in the surrendering gesture.
The ork similarly drops his weapon, and raises his hands. He nods a gesture to the severely injured human, who is rapidly losing blood. “Please. He needs help,” the ork says.
The ork uses a free action for the phrase, and two simple actions to ditch his weapon and gesture surrender.
Meanwhile, Seneth and Nail have set a trap for Fortnight.
Seneth makes his order to the fire spirit, who nods with understanding. Nail casually smokes a cigarette while leaning against the old Zion building.
Darwin senses something is wrong with Kirk. He seems to fidget with indecision, but suddenly moves toward the motorcycle. With his single arm, he gestures for someone to follow him as he hovers into a small “seat” designed for the shape of his body casing.
As Darwin makes the gesture, the garage door slowly begins to open, and the roar of a Harley engine can be heard from inside.
Immediately, the fire spirit seems to “collapse” into a small carpet of flame that zips underneath the garage door. After a moment, two simultaneous long bursts of machine gun fire can be heard from inside the garage, and then a scream.
The fire spirit has used a free action to enter the garage, and two simple actions to engage Fortnight in combat (with unknown results). Fortnight has used a free action to rig-start his Harley and open the garage, and two simple actions to fire his weapons at the spirit, with unknown results.
Seneth has used his initiative pass to carefully phrase his command to the spirit. Nail can enter the building with a free action during his next initiative pass.
—End of first Initiative Pass this round—
Goethe and Nail both have a second initiative pass. Goethe can use his initiative pass to accept the surrender of the TWT gang, or continue the combat by attacking them. If Goethe accepts surrender, the building combat will end.
Nail can use his initiative pass to enter the garage and engage Fortnight, or follow Darwin and get on the motorcycle.
If Nail chooses to enter the garage, Seneth may ride with Darwin starting next combat round.
Once I get orders from Nail and Goethe, I’ll post the results of the next initiative pass.
