<b>Well, as long as I don't have to spend my money on flashy stuff, I don't mind it much.</b>
<i>Roughly ten seconds passes after the first three soldiers are dropped, then the rest of the soldiers, the ones covering behind different obstacles jump out at exactly the same time. Clearly they've been organizing that during the last few seconds. They open fire immidiately.</i>
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<i>As soon as the hostiles start popping out of cover, Anthony and Sarlex are shooting. Darkness drops '7' before he stops moving, leaving him rolling a meter or so along the floor. '6' also takes a pistol bullet to the leg, dropping to the floor. Sarlex opens fire with a quick burst at '8', cutting his head clear off. '7' and '8' hit the floor before anyone else realize what's happening.
Colin and '4' open fire at each other at the same time. However, it seems Colin hit something, because '4' ducks behind cover again immidiately.
'5' starts shooting, hitting Anthony in the shoulder. Stumbling a few steps backwards, Anthony resists the pain and keeps his pistols raised.
Surprised by the hit to the leg, '6' rolls behind cover.
Estella is surprised by the gunfire suddenly erupting all over the corridor, and reaches for her gun.</i>
<span style='color:DarkKhaki'>*Colin ducks back behind over* "I hate shooting left handed..." *Colin slings the uzi over his left shoulder, and pulls his LMG into the ready position.* "Dammit. Need earplugs and a pistol." *Steps out of the doorway, raising his LMG, looking for any soldiers*</span>
<b><span style='color:red'>"@ssholes!" [continues to open fire on any hostiles that show their faces, leaping backwards to prone if under fire]</span></b>
<span style='color:orange'>*Estella jumps in surprise, her breath taken away at the gunfire, the sprays of blood and the detached head of one of the men.* “Holy Mother of...!” *She crouches by the left wall of the corridor, bringing her pistol out to fire. Her hands shake badly as she fires once at ‘5’, but she takes a quick, deep breath and steadies before firing again. Then she stops and waits, keeping her gun trained over the desk and the pillars.*</span>
<b>Looks like my medic skills won't be needed this time <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
<i>Solanaceae - It seems he could make it, but he's been badly wounded. He has taken a few bullets to the chest, and they'll most likely have to stay in there if he doesn't make it to the hospital, but he'll be able to live with them, at least for a while.
Combat scene - A few shots are heard from behind, as Estella hits '5' in the chest. Shocked by the impact, he doesn't have time to react before a rain of bullets drops him dead.
As the corridor goes silent, you can hear someone talking, breathing heavily, sounds like it's coming from behind the counter. You can't make out what he's saying, but it sounds like he's talking into a radio. A few seconds later, you hear someone yelling outside, using an amplifier, and witha clear middle-eastern accent: "Ok, that's enough. We know you're in there. Come out here without your weapons, and we might just let you live. Move it, I'm not in a patient mood today. You have fifteen seconds."</i>
<span style='color:DarkKhaki'>[Colin opens fire on the counter with his LMG, aiming low, hoping to kill the hiding enemy] *As soon as he stops firing Colin says "We need a back way out. Anyone know one?"*</span>
<span style='color:orange'><b>Location:</b> The hospital.
*Estella lowers her gun, blinking slowly in surprise.* “Wow, I hit him! Not bad for a recreational shooter!” *She then hears the man over his amplifier, and looks around quickly.* “Come on, we need to get out of here.”</span>
<b>Would I know a back exit?</b>
<span style='color:orange'>/if Estella knows a back exit/ *She begins running towards the nearest exit.* /if not, she puts her gun back in her pocket and tenses to run/</span>
"Nice shot." He says to the woman. He listens to the voice from outside. "Is there a back way out or window we can jump from ?" He asks the others.</span>
<b>Spark, do you have some sort of thing for jumping from windows?</b>
<i>There's plenty of backdoors out of the hospital. A quick look at one of those convenient building maps on the wall beside you tells you there's 3 other official exits. One just down the corridor to your right, an emergency one halfway down the building and one all the way down to the other end.
Bill - You can't hear any response when shooting. But then again, you can't hear much at all when firing the gun. So you can't tell if you hit anything. But the counter has some pretty holes in it.</i>
<b>True, but the impressiveness sort of wears off when you are jumping from ground level. Of cause, you could probably find some stairs and run up them, in order for you to be able to jump out a window properly ;=)</b>
<b><span style='color:red'>*follows the others, reloading his pistols* "Good shot, Estella. By the way, think you can fix this once we're out of here?" *points to the bullethole in his shoulder* "There's some very rudimentary med equipment in my hotel room. When you've been a mercenary for as long as me, you learn that hospitals aren't always safe places to go. Too bad I don't know how to use any of it other than what the general public knows."</span></b>
<b>What are the chances of survival of jumping of the hospital roof ? Don't forget i do have high strength and dex <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> </b>
<b><span style='color:red'>"Then you got lucky. One time, a branch of the Yakuza came after me while I was in a hospital. Let's just say that their <i>oyabun</i> wasn't happy about almost being killed by a sixteen year old bounty hunter with a pair of old handguns and a vintage car.</span></b>
<b>I don’t know, Sparks, but hospitals in Australia are bloody tall <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
<span style='color:orange'>*Estella stops in mid-stride, and turns to inspect Anthony’s shoulder.* “Hmm...I’ll see what I can do...I have a medical kit with me too, so it should be fixable, if you can stand a little pain.” *She runs ahead of the rest, and ducks into a room just before the middle exit, walking back out with a few ampoules. She winks at Anthony.* “Local anaesthetic. I said a little pain, didn’t I?”</span>
<b>I'm with Parhelion, St Vinnie's up here's about three or four stories tall. <span style='color:red'>"I think I've got a few vials of morphine, but that might sent me out of it a bit too much. And if I'm ignoring the pain from this, I think I can ignore any pain from a syringe."</span></b>
<span style='color:orange'>*Estella waves the ampoules at Anthony before slipping them into her pocket. She laughs softly.* “Don’t worry...you won’t feel a thing.”</span>
<b>Where is Terran, Khaim and Solanaceae? We have their whole branch of the game standing still :/</b>
<i>Spark - The room Estella was in has a few bottles with pills that look like painkillers.
Hospital - Down the corridor, where you came from, you hear the guy with the loudspeaker: "OK, that's it, we're coming for you. And don't try to run, we have the building surrounded by now.</i>
<b>Where is Zero, also? Haven't seen him post for ages <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
*Svetlana successfully stabilises the man and then sits back on her heels. * “I told you I could make you no promises, but he’s stable for now. He will not fully recover though, without treatment at a hospital,” she said to Alexei. * “Fair enough. I thank you for your help so far,” he replied.* “How long have you been here? And how long do you intend to stay here?” she inquired. * “I do not know,” he answered.* “Your friend will not survive if you try to move him,” she warned him. *Alexei made no reply. Looking around the room again, she remembers the scrap of paper and ashes on the table. Hoping that they may shed more light on the situation than Alexei’s curt reply, she stands up and walks over to the table to inspect them more closely.* [Svetlana slips the piece of paper into her pocket until she has the time to look at it more closely later.]
<span style='color:DarkKhaki'>"Well, I'm smart enough not to annoy the Jakuza. But obviously not smart enough to avoid <i>this</i>" *Colin heads for the exit* "I wonder what Mr Mysterious did to stir up these guys..."</span>
He goes into the room and takes any suitable bottles. "Who said they are here for <i>me?</i>" He listens to the annoucement made about the building surronded. "Sure is wasn't the little child who did something ? The way he speaks, he seems trouble prone." He reloads his rifle and thinks. "I think we are going to have fight our way out." He takes as much painkillers that his body will allow and asks. "Doc woman, is there another hospital nearby ?" He walks behind Colin towards the exit. 'Let them do all the fighting, your body needs all the energy it needs.' "They may just be UEN." He puts a coin into a soda machine and drinks it, he puts another one. "Drink this, gotta be alert during a gun fight." He says to Colin and throws it gently towards him.</span>
<span style='color:DarkKhaki'>"That is true, its just you seem the type to get in this sort of trouble" *Colin catches the can with his left hand* "Thanks..." *He opens the can* "...so, what should we call you? Its a little awkward right now." *Colin starts drinking from the can*</span>
<b>Well, I was thinking that you'd tell us that we had gotten to the place and would also give us a bit of some background info on what it looks like, buliding positions, etc. Either that or I was waiting for Khaim to say something. Guess I'll try to jump start it.</b>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> <b>Location:</b> The Meet Spot From the Note *Arriving at the spot of the meet, Adrian looks around a bit, observing the area. Standing in the middle of the street, it feels awkward.* "Well, I think we're at the right place. Think." *He then looks around at the sky, seeing that most of the structures aren't that high and are sort of level with each other* "So much for sniping from an all-seeing rooftop, eh? Could probably just hop from one roof the the next <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> with alleys so thin and roofs so level." *Taking a couple more glances around, he tries to figure out why the location is where it is and where everyone else is* "I wonder if this is because we're early, or we are about to be set up." </span></span>
<b>Listen Solanaceae, this is your last warning. Stick to your own character. You write what your character says and does, but I will write what Alexei says and does, and what happens to characters around you. This is not a freeform game, you do not have control over outside evens. Take a look at the other posts, and post your own posts in the same format.</b>
<i>Solanaceae - As you try to pocket the note, Alexei moves to stop you. "Please, don't take that. I need it to find out what's going on here. These two people were the last ones knowing what was going on, since the third one got shot in a subway. I need that note. Besides, you probably won't be able to decipher it."
Bill - As Sarlex tries to convince you that they aren't neccesarily coming for him, you sense he's not completely honest. Actually, it's quite obvious that he's not only lying, but also very poor at it.
Terran - The street is deserted. In fact, most of this part of town is. The hotel where you're supposed to meet someone (inside, in room 3B) looks like it is falling apart, and it hasn't been repaired for years. But then again, nothing around here has.</i>
*Svetlana reluctantly hands the piece of paper back to Alexei and walks back to sit down beside the injured man.* "Can you at least tell me what you do know about this situation? Do you have any idea how long we have to remain here?" </span>
<b>Sorry xect, I know I've had some problems figuring this out but I hope I've finally got the hang of it (Parhelion has helped me for a bit). I have made many mistakes but I did not make any intentionally and I thank everyone else for their patience.</b>
<b>Wait they are actually after me ?!!! <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> </b>
<span style='color:violet'> Location: Hospital
"I seriously don't like giving my name out, its just one things if you understand." He drinks from the can and thinks. "Just call me the mystery man for now, these guys could be after anyone, like i said they could be UEN and someone here works for the GAC, does anyone here work for them ?"</span>
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<i>Roughly ten seconds passes after the first three soldiers are dropped, then the rest of the soldiers, the ones covering behind different obstacles jump out at exactly the same time. Clearly they've been organizing that during the last few seconds. They open fire immidiately.</i>
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<i>As soon as the hostiles start popping out of cover, Anthony and Sarlex are shooting. Darkness drops '7' before he stops moving, leaving him rolling a meter or so along the floor. '6' also takes a pistol bullet to the leg, dropping to the floor. Sarlex opens fire with a quick burst at '8', cutting his head clear off. '7' and '8' hit the floor before anyone else realize what's happening.
Colin and '4' open fire at each other at the same time. However, it seems Colin hit something, because '4' ducks behind cover again immidiately.
'5' starts shooting, hitting Anthony in the shoulder. Stumbling a few steps backwards, Anthony resists the pain and keeps his pistols raised.
Surprised by the hit to the leg, '6' rolls behind cover.
Estella is surprised by the gunfire suddenly erupting all over the corridor, and reaches for her gun.</i>
"I hate shooting left handed..."
*Colin slings the uzi over his left shoulder, and pulls his LMG into the ready position.*
"Dammit. Need earplugs and a pistol."
*Steps out of the doorway, raising his LMG, looking for any soldiers*</span>
[continues to open fire on any hostiles that show their faces, leaping backwards to prone if under fire]</span></b>
Location: Hospital
'What is it with me and hospitals ?!'
He aims through the scope of his rifle, aims at 5 and fires.</span>
“Holy Mother of...!”
*She crouches by the left wall of the corridor, bringing her pistol out to fire. Her hands shake badly as she fires once at ‘5’, but she takes a quick, deep breath and steadies before firing again. Then she stops and waits, keeping her gun trained over the desk and the pillars.*</span>
<b>Looks like my medic skills won't be needed this time <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
Combat scene - A few shots are heard from behind, as Estella hits '5' in the chest. Shocked by the impact, he doesn't have time to react before a rain of bullets drops him dead.
As the corridor goes silent, you can hear someone talking, breathing heavily, sounds like it's coming from behind the counter. You can't make out what he's saying, but it sounds like he's talking into a radio. A few seconds later, you hear someone yelling outside, using an amplifier, and witha clear middle-eastern accent: "Ok, that's enough. We know you're in there. Come out here without your weapons, and we might just let you live. Move it, I'm not in a patient mood today. You have fifteen seconds."</i>
*As soon as he stops firing Colin says "We need a back way out. Anyone know one?"*</span>
*Estella lowers her gun, blinking slowly in surprise.*
“Wow, I hit him! Not bad for a recreational shooter!”
*She then hears the man over his amplifier, and looks around quickly.*
“Come on, we need to get out of here.”</span>
<b>Would I know a back exit?</b>
<span style='color:orange'>/if Estella knows a back exit/
*She begins running towards the nearest exit.*
/if not, she puts her gun back in her pocket and tenses to run/</span>
Location: Hospital
"Nice shot." He says to the woman.
He listens to the voice from outside.
"Is there a back way out or window we can jump from ?" He asks the others.</span>
<i>There's plenty of backdoors out of the hospital. A quick look at one of those convenient building maps on the wall beside you tells you there's 3 other official exits. One just down the corridor to your right, an emergency one halfway down the building and one all the way down to the other end.
Bill - You can't hear any response when shooting. But then again, you can't hear much at all when firing the gun. So you can't tell if you hit anything. But the counter has some pretty holes in it.</i>
"That should discourage him. Time to leave."</span>
<span style='color:violet'>
Location: Hospital
He heads for the emergency one half way down the building, he stops to look for any rooms that may contain pain killers or something in them.</span>
"Good shot, Estella. By the way, think you can fix this once we're out of here?"
*points to the bullethole in his shoulder*
"There's some very rudimentary med equipment in my hotel room. When you've been a mercenary for as long as me, you learn that hospitals aren't always safe places to go. Too bad I don't know how to use any of it other than what the general public knows."</span></b>
<span style='color:orange'>*Estella stops in mid-stride, and turns to inspect Anthony’s shoulder.*
“Hmm...I’ll see what I can do...I have a medical kit with me too, so it should be fixable, if you can stand a little pain.”
*She runs ahead of the rest, and ducks into a room just before the middle exit, walking back out with a few ampoules. She winks at Anthony.*
“Local anaesthetic. I said a little pain, didn’t I?”</span>
<span style='color:red'>"I think I've got a few vials of morphine, but that might sent me out of it a bit too much. And if I'm ignoring the pain from this, I think I can ignore any pain from a syringe."</span></b>
“Don’t worry...you won’t feel a thing.”</span>
<i>Spark - The room Estella was in has a few bottles with pills that look like painkillers.
Hospital - Down the corridor, where you came from, you hear the guy with the loudspeaker: "OK, that's it, we're coming for you. And don't try to run, we have the building surrounded by now.</i>
<b>Location</b>: an abandoned apartment
*Svetlana successfully stabilises the man and then sits back on her heels. *
“I told you I could make you no promises, but he’s stable for now. He will not fully recover though, without treatment at a hospital,” she said to Alexei.
* “Fair enough. I thank you for your help so far,” he replied.*
“How long have you been here? And how long do you intend to stay here?” she inquired.
* “I do not know,” he answered.*
“Your friend will not survive if you try to move him,” she warned him.
*Alexei made no reply. Looking around the room again, she remembers the scrap of paper and ashes on the table. Hoping that they may shed more light on the situation than Alexei’s curt reply, she stands up and walks over to the table to inspect them more closely.*
[Svetlana slips the piece of paper into her pocket until she has the time to look at it more closely later.]
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*Colin heads for the exit*
"I wonder what Mr Mysterious did to stir up these guys..."</span>
Location: Hospital
He goes into the room and takes any suitable bottles.
"Who said they are here for <i>me?</i>"
He listens to the annoucement made about the building surronded.
"Sure is wasn't the little child who did something ? The way he speaks, he seems trouble prone."
He reloads his rifle and thinks.
"I think we are going to have fight our way out."
He takes as much painkillers that his body will allow and asks.
"Doc woman, is there another hospital nearby ?"
He walks behind Colin towards the exit.
'Let them do all the fighting, your body needs all the energy it needs.'
"They may just be UEN."
He puts a coin into a soda machine and drinks it, he puts another one.
"Drink this, gotta be alert during a gun fight." He says to Colin and throws it gently towards him.</span>
*Colin catches the can with his left hand*
"Thanks..."
*He opens the can*
"...so, what should we call you? Its a little awkward right now."
*Colin starts drinking from the can*</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'>
<b>Location:</b> The Meet Spot From the Note
*Arriving at the spot of the meet, Adrian looks around a bit, observing the area. Standing in the middle of the street, it feels awkward.*
"Well, I think we're at the right place. Think."
*He then looks around at the sky, seeing that most of the structures aren't that high and are sort of level with each other*
"So much for sniping from an all-seeing rooftop, eh? Could probably just hop from one roof the the next <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> with alleys so thin and roofs so level."
*Taking a couple more glances around, he tries to figure out why the location is where it is and where everyone else is*
"I wonder if this is because we're early, or we are about to be set up."
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<b>EDIT: Messed up on the tags a bit.</b>
<i>Solanaceae - As you try to pocket the note, Alexei moves to stop you. "Please, don't take that. I need it to find out what's going on here. These two people were the last ones knowing what was going on, since the third one got shot in a subway. I need that note. Besides, you probably won't be able to decipher it."
Bill - As Sarlex tries to convince you that they aren't neccesarily coming for him, you sense he's not completely honest. Actually, it's quite obvious that he's not only lying, but also very poor at it.
Terran - The street is deserted. In fact, most of this part of town is. The hotel where you're supposed to meet someone (inside, in room 3B) looks like it is falling apart, and it hasn't been repaired for years. But then again, nothing around here has.</i>
<b>Location</b>: an abandoned apartment
*Svetlana reluctantly hands the piece of paper back to Alexei and walks back to sit down beside the injured man.*
"Can you at least tell me what you do know about this situation? Do you have any idea how long we have to remain here?"
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<b>Sorry xect, I know I've had some problems figuring this out but I hope I've finally got the hang of it (Parhelion has helped me for a bit). I have made many mistakes but I did not make any intentionally and I thank everyone else for their patience.</b>
<span style='color:violet'>
Location: Hospital
"I seriously don't like giving my name out, its just one things if you understand."
He drinks from the can and thinks.
"Just call me the mystery man for now, these guys could be after anyone, like i said they could be UEN and someone here works for the GAC, does anyone here work for them ?"</span>