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  1. #41
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    The gunshot thundered through the room, echoing off of the display cases as the gun bucked in Will's hands.

    But he was an excellent shot. The creature's head snapped back as the bullet hit it above the left eye and its multitude of legs flailed as it fell heavily to the floor. Marble cracked under its weight, but then Tasi Morgan was upon it, knife lashing out, finding a nice little gap near its armpit to plunge her blade deep.

    If this had been a mortal, it would have been dead twice over. Even if it had been your average bloodsucker it would have been having serious problems.

    And yet, the creature reared back up, snapping at Tasi's knife-arm with a giant pincer, clamping down hard enough to tear flesh and hold her in place long enough to lunge forward with its maw of spider's fangs, tearing into her with bestial ferocity.

    3 successes

    3 successes

    Tasi Morgan takes 4 lethal. William Reed is up .

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  3. #42
    William Reed's Avatar

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    William Reed

    If security wasn't coming before they certainly were now. Will didn't have time to think of the implications or consequences of what they were doing, besides they were having so much fun. This thing was wild and as it dug into Tasi and he saw red splatter against the back wall he couldn't let up. He knew what this shit was like, one good hit and you were a goner. why he preferred hunting from the comfort of his custom Subaru.





    He took a few steps closer, having to watch his aim with Tasi around gun up still trying to control his breathing. "HEY! FUCK FACE!" It was the best he could do on short notice before firing off another round into the Thing just trying to put it down as quickly as possible.



    2 successes


        Saber Sloth                

    You're up!


  4. #43
    Tasi Morgan's Avatar

    Half the Fun is Risking Scars
    Presance
    (Blithe)
    Striking Looks
    (Svelte, Beguiling)
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    (Entertainment)
    Status
    (Fashion)
    Fame
    (Fashion)
    Tasi Morgan

    Professional Training Contacts:
    Fashion, Entertainment, Clubs

    Status (Entertainment) 1
    Status (Fashion) 2 | Fame (Fashion) 1

    Status (Compact Ashwood Abbey) 1
    Barfly

    A cry!

    p a i n

    A grin, all teeth vicious and fierce.

    One knife flies forward, while another raised in guard!




    2 successes
    Tasi gets +2 Defence this turn! Cayce 's up!

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  6. #44
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    The Monster didn't appear to respond to the shouted insults, though the bullet punching through it's side seemed to give it pause. But then the woman with the knives lashed out, right in front of it, cutting another painful gouge, and it reared up to nearly it's full monstrous height before falling upon her, clawing and biting in a frenzy until half of an elegant arm went flying across the room, perfectly manicured nails catching the light before the mutilated limb splattered against a glass display.

    Tasi could feel it in excruciating detail, feel the joint getting stretched, feel the cartilage popping, feel her tendon tearing, feel her veins ripping as her arm was torn free...

    1 success

    belongs to roll above

    6 successes

    Monster is activating a power: with an exceptional success can choose to remove a limb instead of doing damage. Tasi takes 1 lethal, and loses her left arm below the elbow.
    William Reed is up

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  8. #45
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    William Reed

    He heard the crunch of bone as those jaws snapped down, the spray of red went from a splash to a flood. He grit his teeth, rage filling his being as he bared down and focused, hoping that maybe they could save the arm before it got a chance to chew either away her modeling career was probably over. He didn't back off, unloading into the creature in a hope to drop it and erase it from this mortal coil.


    3 successes


    Risking Willpower for +3 Dice, should put me at 4 WP total now Saber Sloth


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  10. #46
    Tasi Morgan's Avatar

    Half the Fun is Risking Scars
    Presance
    (Blithe)
    Striking Looks
    (Svelte, Beguiling)
    Status
    (Entertainment)
    Status
    (Fashion)
    Fame
    (Fashion)
    Tasi Morgan

    Professional Training Contacts:
    Fashion, Entertainment, Clubs

    Status (Entertainment) 1
    Status (Fashion) 2 | Fame (Fashion) 1

    Status (Compact Ashwood Abbey) 1
    Barfly

    If before was pain, this is agony.

    Worse then agony. did she know a word that meant more the agony. she couldn't remmeber.

    A lifetime in flashforward.
    her arm is gone. ohgawdohgawdohgawd
    night and days and forever and it's not there, how is she gonna - ?
    lights flash, judgmental eye, hungry and never sated.
    how is she gonna - ?

    Time slows, seconds become minutes become hours, the links between her bone and blood and sinew, crack-crack-crack and t-t-t-tear. Segment by segment, inch by inch and she watches, outside and inside. Salt slick eyes, tracks mixing with escaping snot, jaw cracking down, tight-so-fucking-tight a filling cracks, but it. dose. not. matter.

    Her arm. Across from her, nothing more then meat smacking a display with a wet slap. Knife still clutched in her hand.
    dull. distant. but it's not her hand anymore is it?
    front and center. oh gawd what did she say about that guard and the gun.....?

    Eyes darting between her arm and the stump, her arm and the stump. Her arm and the st-st-st-ump. There is no stopping it, everything boiling spills out.

    Tasi throws her head back and she screams.



    failure
    and back to Cayce !

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  12. #47
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    End of Combat. The creature is slain.


    Bullet after bullet hit the creature, and it jerked away from its meal, thrashing as it tried to escape destruction.

    It made just into the hallway before it finally succumbed, unable to overcome the demands of reality upon its incomprehensibly eldritch form.

    Finally, it crashed into a wall and slid to stop and began to decay, rotting away into a pile of disgusting black mold, banished back to whence it came.

    The monster was no more.

    But then Will hears it. A chirp. Digital. A radio that had been attached to one of this things victims, a radio that had been left in a gisly heap in the hallway, only a few feet away from the room.

    "...Evacuation needs to be halted. Somethings happening in the east wing, I hear screams. Heading there now, 30 seconds out."

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  14. #48
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    William Reed

    "Shit. We gotta go, pigs are coming. Hey, HEY! Get your shit together this ain't fuckin over." Will reached down and picked up what was left of her arm, knife still stuck in its grip as he thrust it at her aggressively. "Gotta get you to a doc, see if they can't reattach that shit but we can't do that in a grave or in a cell, ok!?" Evacuation, what was happening at the auction if they just heard the screams. He was angry, agitated not at Tasi but at the fucking thing. Had the nerve to take his friends arm and not even leave them a fucking trophy. He still wanted blood.

    1 success



    If She was anyone else with any other connections he wouldn't have had a problem just leaving her behind and if she couldn't get her shit together he still would, but she got the extra six seconds and that was a lot in Will's world. What could you expect from a violent killer though. Flicking the safety back on and tucking his gun away again.


    Yea, like I said. Drinks would be necessary.


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  16. #49
    Tasi Morgan's Avatar

    Half the Fun is Risking Scars
    Presance
    (Blithe)
    Striking Looks
    (Svelte, Beguiling)
    Status
    (Entertainment)
    Status
    (Fashion)
    Fame
    (Fashion)
    Tasi Morgan

    Professional Training Contacts:
    Fashion, Entertainment, Clubs

    Status (Entertainment) 1
    Status (Fashion) 2 | Fame (Fashion) 1

    Status (Compact Ashwood Abbey) 1
    Barfly

    Her throat hurts, it feels as bloody and raw as where her arm should be feels. It hurts, it hurts, she knows it hurts but it doesn't feel real. Distant and fuzzy, the human body and mind work to protect the whole.

    She flinches back at the words, sudden and sharp. Closer then she thought, turning she pins him with wide, watery eyes. She's shaking. Hot and cold and loosing blood, but he can easily maneuver her unresisting body.



    failure

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  18. #50
    William Reed's Avatar

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    William Reed

    Fuck! There wasn’t any time to deal with the bleeding with security on their asses and he wasn’t a medic. He’d try and tie off a tourniquet when they got some breathing room but for now it was time to bolt and she was just going to slow him down. Every instinct in his body screamed to leave her behind, that dark voice whispered in his ear; you could just watch her die. You’re god now, her life is yours to take. And he had to admit that voice was sickeningly sweet and made very compelling points. Killing monsters was hard enough to get away with though.

    He slipped his jacket off and wrapped it around her, not just to keep her warm but to do minimal effort to disguise the bleeding stump. He jerked on her good shoulder and led her forward as he swore to himself under his breath. “I know a doc that won’t ask questions but you need an actual hospital and a team of surgeons to hopefully save that arm. Lucky for you I’m better than any ambulance or taxi you’d ever get but we gotta hurry before the noose closes around our necks and we’re both hanging from the gallows, yea?” He might have been a panicked talker.

    She slowed him down, there was no way around that but she was his de facto partner in this. The last shreds of his humanity clung to that, to keep her alive. He’d go as fast as they were able to push themselves out the door, hopefully he’d run into the others to see how they were doing otherwise he’d have to send a text out. Sure they’d understand that a missing arm was worth bailing on an op for. He still really wanted that artifact though.

    He gave a growl of frustration, nope, no time for that now.


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