She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

[SirOni]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

Eleanor crouches down by the manhole, investigating the entrance though finding nothing other than the blood trail. "Not sure I like the idea of entering the sewers..." Eleanor mutters to herself, then turns to the spider that addressed her. "I guess we'll have to. If they're down there then I've no choice. If you still want to come then follow behind me, I'll keep them in front of us." Directing the elementals to go first Eleanor climbs down the manhole after them.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

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Eleanor: HP = 57, PP = 51, EP = 22/40, Status = Pregnant

"Oooh..... Kay!" The spider replied, and her lightning elementals silently hopped down into the hole ahead of her. Once she had climbed down the ladder, Eleanor found herself standing in a narrow corridor with a small channel on her left that had surprisingly clean water running through it. The floor was coated in dust, and she could see lines in it where it had been disturbed recently, allowing her to easily track her prey. So, off she went through the gloomy darkness, her only source of light the glow of her lightning elementals as they traveled ahead of her, the spiders trailing along behind as they crawled along the ceiling and walls.

Through a long series of tunnels she went, following the trail that the slavers had left, until finally Eleanor saw light and heard voices up ahead, accompanied by the whines of women and the clinking of chains. She would have to be quiet if she didn't want them to know that she and her force were coming, and the light of her elementals was a dead give away that something was coming down the tunnel. There were numerous other tunnels branching off from the one she was on, but there was no guarantee that any of them would lead into the lighted chamber up ahead.

Spoiler

15 GIFTS!
3 lightning elementals!

Elemental Stats:
48 Body
30 Speed
34 Dodge
8 AV

 

[SirOni]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

Crap, this isn't good... Eleanor thinks to herself as she realises her lightning elementals will be a dead give away should the group venture closer to the chamber the mercenaries. Thinking for a moment the woman then turns to the group of spiders. "Can a few of you scout out the branching tunnels to see if any of them connect with the room up ahead?" Eleanor asks in a hushed tone, hoping that her whispers won't carry down to the men she is pursuing. "Just scout them out, okay? Don't rush in and get yourselves caught. If any of them connect to that room I'll send the elementals down them, act as a distraction while we rush from this side and hopefully catch them by surprise." A risky plan, yes, and Eleanor is well aware of it. But it's their best chance at getting the jump on the men.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

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Eleanor: HP = 57, PP = 51, EP = 22/40, Status = Pregnant

The spiders flailed their mandibles at Eleanor's request to scout ahead in a vaguely positive manner and immediately set off, moving in small groups down each of the tunnels. Her ears began to adjust as she waited, having nothing better to do than listen and see what she could hear of her enemy's conversation.

"We can't stay here! Those demons might follow us here, or something else might stumble across us while we sit around. We lost half of our men and most of our supplies and product today!" A man, definitely a man.

"We can't do anything about that now, and running around blindly in the tunnels is as likely to get us killed or worse as remaining here. At least while we're in this spot, we've only got three entrances to worry about defending if something comes across us." That was most definitely a woman's voice, and a very harsh and commanding one at that.

"Yes, but that means only three escape routes! What if they come in from all sides, or whoever set the fucking house on fire decides to do a repeat performance!?" There was a sharp smack, and then the woman replied; "They can't set stone on fire, and it was lightning that destroyed the top floor, not fire. They can't use that sort of magic down here, at least not without risking a cave in that would kill them us much as it would us. Besides, since when do demons kill first and ask questions later? They'd want to capture us. We know how to deal with people with that goal in mind."

There was some grumbling, and then the spiders returned, one of them coming up to Eleanor to whisper; "There's another tunnel that circles around and meets that one, but we didn't find any other ways in. We can try to cover it in webs so that they can't go that way if you want!"

Spoiler

15 GIFTS!
3 lightning elementals!

Elemental Stats:
48 Body
30 Speed
34 Dodge
8 AV

 

[SirOni]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

"Hrm... sounds like they're running out of luck..." Eleanor thinks to herself as she eavesdrops on the mercenaries she is pursuing, a smile forming on the woman's lips. It wasn't long until the spiders returned, and once they had explained the situation Eleanor goes silent for several minutes, thinking of a plan.

"Here's the plan," Eleanor begins, her voice barely a whisper as she explains what they're going to do. "A few of you go with the elementals. They charge into the room to hopefully catch them by surprise, and once they're in there the spiders that go with the elements will seal up the tunnel and then come back to the main group. That'll block off one exit for them. With the elementals distracting the people in that chamber we'll rush in there, though again several of you will hang back and only come in when it looks like they won't spot you. If that works then you'll seal up the remaining two exits, blocking off their escape entirely." Eleanor pauses to let the information sink in. "Keep in mind we want as few casualties as possible. But if it comes down to it then I can accept some of them being killed. Though there is a woman, sounds like she could be their leader, or at least the one in charge of this group. I want her alive." Eleanor then turns to face the entrance once more and takes out her pistols, ready for the oncoming battle. "You know your roles, lets get this done as fast as possible."

 

[Tassadar]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

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Eleanor: HP = 57, PP = 51, EP = 22/40, Status = Pregnant

The spiders close in around Eleanor, and listen to her plan without interrupting her. They all assented to the plan, and without further ado Eleanor and her allies sprung into action. She only had to wait a moment for the spiders to sort themselves out, and a third of them followed her elementals down the tunnel.

About a minute later, the sounds of shouts and gunshots signaled to Eleanor that her elementals had begun the attack, and she charged forward with the rest of the spiders. When she entered the chamber that the slavers were in, she found that one of her elementals was gone, though the other two were undamaged as they harried at the fleeing bandits. One of the spiders lay curled up on its back, blue-green ichor spilling out of a hole in its belly and puddling beneath it on the floor.

Three girls were webbed to the wall, attached to five more who were in chains beside them. Two men were down and webbed as well, though they were already in the process of cutting themselves free as Eleanor rushed into the room. She didn't recognize either of them, and neither had the insignia of the band that had killed her former lover. To her right, a dozen more slavers were taking cover and aiming rifles, both at her and at her allies. Three of them DID have the insignia, two men and a woman, and they all pointed their guns straight at Eleanor, not even bother to speak to her as they prepared to cut down her and her newfound allies. The spiders behind her were fanning out, but the slavers would no doubt get a volley off before the creatures could begin webbing them up.

Spoiler

14 GIFTS!
2 lightning elementals!

Elemental Stats:
48 Body
30 Speed
34 Dodge
8 AV

 

[SirOni]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

A slight grin spreads over the mercenaries face as she spots the three girls bound by the spiders webbing, though Eleanor's expression quickly turns sour as her attention is brought to the dozen merc's taking aim at Eleanor and her allies.

"Oh shit!" Eleanor growls out, the woman frantically looks around for cover to dive behind, if none is present in the chamber itself she'll choose to use the archway into the chamber as defence. With her group knowing what they must do Eleanor takes aim at the first merc she spots, and taking aim she hopes to wipe out the people not wearing the insignia.

((Full rapid shot against any non-insignia wearing merc with both guns.))

 

[Tassadar]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

Eleanor: HP = 57, PP = 51, EP = 22/40, Status = Pregnant

Rolls

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Attacks (Eleanor) : Fires 10 shots, hits 8 times.
Damage (per shot) : 5 + 5 + 11 = 21 damage per shot. Two men down.

Attacks (Slavers) : 12 shots, 4 against Eleanor, 3 against her elementals and 5 against the GIFTS. All 4 against Eleanor miss, her elementals are all hit, and 3 of the spiders are hit.
Damage: 6 + 6 + 5 = 17 damage per shot!

Attacks (GIFTS) : 11/14 Hit. Each of the slavers visible with insignia was targeted by two GIFTS, and each was hit once. 9 other men were targeted, since Eleanor gunned down two of them. All of them were hit, and gained the web status.

Attacks (Elementals) : Hit.
Damage: 2 + 11 + 16 - 5 = 24 damage each.

Eleanor is forced to move while firing, her guns barking and jumping in her hands as she opens up on two of the slavers and dives for cover. Jumping behind a support column just in time, a quartet of rounds ping off of the column as the salvers open fire. Eleanor watches two rounds pass through her lightning elementals, the hound-shaped apparitions of living thunder letting out crackling barks of pain even as they charged forward. Two of the spider erupted in green-yellow ichor as well, but they weren't dead yet, and the white wooly creatures returned fire with a barrage of thick white string.

All of the slavers save the pair she had killed with her shots ended up covered in the stuff, partially gluing them to the floor and to each other and sticking up the actions of their rifles, but out of the corner of her eye Eleanor saw the two who had already been webbed up tear their way free of their bonds. Her elementals charged over the table that the salvers had knocked over to use as cover, already biting and clawing at the mercenaries and doing exactly what Eleanor had called them to do.

The two free men were already aiming at her, and her column wouldn't offer her any cover from them unless she moved into plain view of the rest of the slavers. They had their own problems, of course, so that might be a risk that she was willing to take. Her guns were empty at the moment, and would take her a moment to reload, else she could simply shoot the two as she had the others.

Spoiler

14 GIFTS! (3 of which have taken 17 damage)
2 lightning elementals!
vs
9 slavers, 7 of whom are webbed once, 3 of whom have taken 24 damage
3 slavers with insignia, each of whom are webbed once


Elemental Stats:
48 Body
30 Speed
34 Dodge
8 AV
each has taken 17 damage

 

[SirOni]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

Eleanor doesn't stop to check to see if the men she had shot are dead, though the sounds of their pain and their bodies hitting the floor pretty much tell the mercenary that they are indeed dead.

"Crap..." Eleanor mutters to herself as she notices the two men that were bound when she entered the room now ready to unload on her. Quickly peering around her pillar Eleanor notices that most, if not all of the people on the other side had been bound by her spiders for now. Thinking it worth the risk the young woman rushes around the other side to avoid the gunfire of the two men while she reloads, hoping her spiders and elementals will have everything under control while she's occupied.

((Reload))

 

[Tassadar]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

Eleanor: HP = 36/57, PP = 51, EP = 22/40, Status = Pregnant, Injured

Rolls

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Eleanor reloads and dives for cover!

Attacks (Slavers) : 1 Hit! The bound ones all tear out of their bindings and take cover.
Damage: 5 + 11 + 5 = 21 damage! Armor at 23/30 TP.

Attacks (GIFTS) : 6/14 Hit, including none of the leaders.

Attacks (Elementals) : Hit.
Damage: 2 + 7 + 16 - 5 = 20 damage each.

Eleanor threw herself around the column as the two men raised their weapons at her, but one of the shots tore through her calf before she could get fully behind cover. Pain shot up her leg, but could still move well enough courtesy of her adrenaline high. The men who had been bound quickly tore their way out of their bindings before diving behind cover, moving out of the way just in time as the spiders unleashed another barrage of webbing at them. Half of them were still webbed, including the two that had just shot at her, but the other half were free and would have an unhindered shot at her if she didn't move again, and quickly.

Her elementals were tearing at the men some more, but they were badly outnumber at this point and were liable to be targeted next if the slavers didn't get a more tempting target. Of course, she had summoned them for the express purpose of drawing attention, so perhaps they were doing their jobs. Regardless, she pushed through the pain and loaded her guns once more, and was ready to open fire on her opponents and maybe clear some of the men whom she didn't want to capture alive.

Spoiler

14 GIFTS! (3 of which have taken 17 damage)
3 lightning elementals!
vs
9 slavers, 6 of whom are webbed once, 3 of whom have taken 24 damage and 3 of whom have taken 20 damage
3 slavers with insignia


Elemental Stats:
48 Body
30 Speed
34 Dodge
8 AV
each has taken 17 damage

 

[SirOni]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

Eleanor watches the battle unfold as her hands fumble for a fresh round of bullets, the battle seemingly becoming more and more desperate as the mercenaries seem to be fighting off the webbing of her spiders as fast as it covers them.

"Dammit, group up on the mercena-" Shouting out commands over the sounds of combat Eleanor's words are cut short as a bullet tears through her leg, her pained scream echoes around the chamber for a moment before the woman silences herself. Wincing in pain Eleanor pushes the damage to the back of her mind as she finishes reloading her pistols, determined to end this battle. Knowing that either side of her pillar has people ready to gun her down Eleanor decides it's best to take out the two on their own, and so slides back round the pillar and fires off a barrage at the two mercenaries.

((Full rapid shot against the two men Eleanor had ran from previously.))

 

[Tassadar]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

Eleanor: HP = 36/57, PP = 51, EP = 22/40, Status = Pregnant, Injured

Rolls

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Attacks (Eleanor) : 10/10 hit!
Damage: Enough to kill both of them, at the very least.

Attacks (Slavers) : 3 Hits! The bound ones all tear out of their bindings and take cover.
Damage: 4 + 6 + 5 = 15 damage! One elemental has been destroyed!

Attacks (GIFTS) : 2/14 Hit, including none of the leaders. Wow, the dice hate them today.

Attacks (Elementals) : Hit.
Damage: 12 + 9 + 16 + 2 - 5 = 34 damage each. Two slavers are killed!

The freed slavers open fire on Eleanor's elementals just as Eleanor herself quickly empties both of her revolvers into the chests of the two men that had just shot at her a moment ago, and one of the lightning creatures winks out of existence as the bullets pass through it. The spiders unleash another barrage of webbing, but only two of them manage to hit anything with their webs. Her elementals, however, are more successful as they thrash around in the enemy ranks, their electrified teeth and claws ripping through the slavers and killing two of them. The three with insignia were still up and unwebbed, but the other slavers were significantly reduced in number already. Of course, with her guns empty Eleanor couldn't do much without calling on her magic, but her allies were likely to hold their own, at least for the moment.

Spoiler

14 GIFTS! (3 of which have taken 17 damage)
2 lightning elementals!
vs
5 slavers, 2 of whom are webbed once, 1 of whom has taken 24 damage and 3 of whom have taken 20 damage
3 slavers with insignia


Elemental Stats:
48 Body
30 Speed
34 Dodge
8 AV
each has taken 17 damage

 

[SirOni]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

Eleanor breathes a momentary sigh of relief as two of the mercenaries drop dead, a side of the pillar now free from assholes trying to kill her. "You, the ones wearing that insignia," Eleanor calls out from behind her hiding spot as she reloads her pistols once more. "You've got one chance to do this the easy way. Turn yourselves in and you three won't be harmed. Don't, and well, look at what's become of the people that has allied with you." The woman is unsure whether they'll even consider her terms, though Eleanor thinks it's at least worth a shot. Of course, she is lying but Eleanor is betting on them not assuming that seeing as they're quickly being outnumbered.

 

[Tassadar]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

Eleanor: HP = 36/57, PP = 51, EP = 22/40, Status = Pregnant, Injured

Rolls

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Eleanor reloads.

The two bound guys tear out of their bindings and take cover. Five of the six who weren't webbed take shots at the elementals, and the sixth chucks a grenade at Eleanor.
Attacks (Slavers) : 5 Hits!
Damage: 12 + 1 + 5 = 18 damage! The elementals have been destroyed.
Attack (Slaver) : Miss, Eleanor takes no damage, but her cover has been destroyed.

Attacks (GIFTS) : 3/14 Hit, all on the same leader. That one is webbed to the point that they cannot escape without aid.

"Yeah? Well, surrender this, bitch!" one of the female slavers snarls, and Eleanor hears a soft clink followed by a series of metallic thuds, as if a piece of metal is bouncing across the floor. A small metal cyllinder appeared next to Eleanor's feet, and she recognized what she was looking at just in time to dive for cover back in the hallway she had come in through. The grenade went off a heartbeat after Eleanor was out of its reach, deafening her with the sound of it for a moment.

When she got the courage to peak out around the corner again, she was the one who had thrown the grenade webbed with half of their torso over the table courtesy of the spiders. Both of her remaining elementals were gone though, and now the slavers outgunned her rather severely. That probably wasn't good.

Spoiler

14 GIFTS! (3 of which have taken 17 damage)
1 lightning elemental
vs
5 slavers, 1 of whom has taken 24 damage and 3 of whom have taken 20 damage
3 slavers with insignia, 1 of whom is webbed to the point that they are Bound

 

[SirOni]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

As she finishes reloading her pistols Eleanor is about to pop back round the pillar to left off another volley of shots, that is until the chink of metal on stone can be heard. "Oh shi---!" Looking down Eleanor's eyes grow wide in surprise, and without a second thought the mercenary jumps clear of her cover and back into the corridor, the ringing of the explosion following her.

As the dust settles Eleanor pokes her head around the corner to scope out the damage only to be put off by her only cover destroyed by the grenade. "Fine, have it your way." Raising her guns Eleanor briefly glances over the remaining mercs, and once she spots the remaining non-insignia wearing people Eleanor fires off all her rounds once more, hoping her random shooting kills, or at least wounds, the remaining five mercenaries.

((Full Rapid Shot at the remaining five non-insignia mercenaries, the three injured ones taking priority.))

 

[Tassadar]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

Eleanor: HP = 36/57, PP = 51, EP = 22/40, Status = Pregnant, Injured

Rolls

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Eleanor shoots some peoplez. I'd say two shots at each of them seems reasonable. Her stats for the attacks are: (+38) 2d8 + 4
Attacks: 7/10 hit.
Damage: 2 + 6 + 4 = 12 damage per shot. 2 slavers take 24 damage, the others take 12 each. Two of them die.

2 shoot at Eleanor, 3 shoot at some GIFTS.
Attacks (Slavers) : 3 Hits on the GIFTS!
Damage: 11 + 1 + 5 = 17 damage! The three wounded GIFTS are killed!

Attacks (GIFTS) : 6/11 Hit, 3 on each of the leaders. Both of them are webbed up.

A hail of gunfire from Eleanor's guns tears into the slavers, though their improvised cover blocks some of her shots. Regardless, however, several of them scream in pain as they are shot and two of them hit the floor, gurgling up their life's blood. She ducks back into the alley just in time to avoid a pair of shots from the two unbound leaders, but she hears a trio of wet splats and sees two of her spider allies drop to the floor, their legs twitching in their death throes. The wooly arachnids crawling along the ceiling and got a somewhat better angle of attack, and as such they managed to web down the other two leaders handily.

Now, with the three that Eleanor wanted webbed to the floor, Eleanor only needed to kill the three already wounded men in order to claim victory. Of course, unless she wanted to do so with a sword, she would have to reload her guns first, and that would give the three men a chance to possibly kill more of her new friends.

Spoiler

11 GIFTS!
vs
3 slavers, 1 of whom has taken 24 damage and 3 of whom have taken 32 damage
3 slavers with insignia, all of whom is webbed to the point that they are Bound

 

[SirOni]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

"Now, get back and hide!" Eleanor calls out to the spiders as she watches the last of the insignia wearing slavers being completely webbed to the floor. The mercenary feels a pang of guilt as she watches three of her allies fall dead, their bodies riddled with bullet holes though she would deal with that later, right now she has more pressing matters to attend to.

((Reload))

 

[Tassadar]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

Eleanor: HP = 36/57, PP = 51, EP = 22/40, Status = Pregnant, Injured

Rolls

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Eleanor reloads.

3 shots at some GIFTS.
Attacks (Slavers) : 3 Hits on the GIFTS!
Damage: 6 + 9 + 5 = 20 damage! One GIFT is killed, another is badly injured!

Attacks (GIFTS) : All miss. Wtf.

The three slavers who were still unwebbed quickly fired at the spiders as the creatures crawled above them before ducking for cover, one of the cheerful arachnids dropping to the ground dead while another has one of its legs blown off. The creatures attempt to retaliate, but the men avoid all of their webbing. Eleanor's guns are reloaded, and now she has a choice, either to fire at the men from cover, or to dive over their cover in order to get a better shot. If she didn't kill the three men quickly, she'd likely lose more of her new allies, but if she went over their protective barriers and failed to kill all three she'd likely be a clear target for whoever was left.

Spoiler

10 GIFTS! One of whom has taken 20 damage.
vs
3 slavers, 1 of whom has taken 24 damage and 3 of whom have taken 32 damage
3 slavers with insignia, all of whom is webbed to the point that they are Bound

 

[SirOni]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

Hearing the gunshots and the sound of something heavy hitting the floor Eleanor can guess that another of the spiders had been killed thanks to her. With what she hopes to be the last of the bullets click into her revolvers Eleanor comes out of her cover and charges at the remaining three slavers. "Time to end this!" Making her way over the enemies' cover Eleanor unleashes a final barrage of bullets at the remaining three men.

((Full Rapid Shot at the three slavers.))

 

[Tassadar]

Re: She is the Night (Sir-Oni)

Spoiler

Eleanor: HP = 36/57, PP = 51, EP = 22/40, Status = Pregnant, Injured

Rolls

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Eleanor attacks!
Attack: 10/10 hits.
Damage: Not gonna bother.

Eleanor is victorious! She gains 8 experience, and may loot corpses and torture slavers at her discretion.

Eleanor's rounds tore into the slavers, the wounded and enraged mercenary once more emptying her revolvers into the chests of the hostile men and women. When the smoke from her guns cleared, only the three bound slavers remained alive, though the remaining spiders descended upon them and wrapped them fully in thick silken cocoons.