Rise of Villainy (IC)

[Konatsat]

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Siren shifts a bit, crossing her right arm across her body to grab her left. She still had yet to grow acclimated to being under scrutiny. "It's more... rigid than normal but not as rigid as you'd expect from a, uh, statue."

[GrayDeath]

Alistairs eyes seem not much short of dropping out at Sirens (likely unwillingly) sexy posing....until he forcefully reigns himself in yet again.

"Ahem, ehm, good? We might want to test your combat capabilities as well, after all you should not try and fight the first time in this body when it counts. "
His gaze keeps going to Sirens new Curves, Wings and generally ... her as he says that.

[JeenLeen]

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Feeling a bit awkward during all of the conversation (if mildly amused), Danny lets out a few chippy whistles. One of his younger rats scurries over to Siren.

"It's fine if not, but, speaking of combat, want to see how your skin holds up to something sharp? My rat could try to nibble and see if your new skin is as hard as it looks."
If she agrees, the rat runs up and tries to chew on her shoulder. If she refuses, it runs back to Danny & scurries into the folds of his jacket.

[Forum Explorer]

Pied Piper runs at the Triad attacking Tsukumo, and his rats leap from his body onto their, beginning biting the gangsters. The guards, try to keep their guards up, but the distraction is too much and lets Obereon take them both out with some easy blows to the head.

Bacon charges forward and tackles one of his assailant to the ground. Grinning sadistically he grabs the man's sword, instantly causing it to glow a cherry red as the man's clothes ignite from Bacon's proximity. He screams in pain as Bacon slaps his superheated sword onto his face.

The other three guards, realizing their situation, try and run away, but Echo takes their feet out from under them with a low aimed wave of sound. Ashur pelts them with bullets, and Hoodoo moves in front of their escape smiling cockily. The remaining three guards release their swords, and place their hands ontop of their heads, signally their surrender.

Seeing the defeat of the humans, the robot swarm retreats into the shadows. The floor is yours and covered in groaning and injured humans. Except those who lie unconscious

Spoiler: AAR

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This fight is over. In summary:
Bacon has a Minor Injury.
Main Rat swarm is Depleted
Tsukumo is unharmed
Echo is Injured (treated broken arm)
Ashur is unharmed
Hoodoo is unharmed
Obereon is unharmed
Pied Piper is unharmed
Rat Armor is full strength

12 Triad Elites attacked you
9 were defeated and are various degrees of injured
3 surrendered
Robot insects escaped.

[JeenLeen]

Pied Piper kicks the swords away from the goons.

With a mischievous playfulness, he says, "We're gonna search you, just to be safe. Try not to squirm too much or they might get bitey."
A dozen or so the surviving rats move over to the Triad and move over them, grabbing items out of pockets and putting them in a pile. Pied Piper hums, giving a command to the rest of the rats to be on guard should the robots re-emerge.

He looks towards Bacon and Oberon. "So, what's next? Think any of their bosses are here? Ceiling ain't caved in on us yet, so that's a sign maybe not."

[GrayDeath]

As the Battle Ends, Oberons Perception switches from direct dangers to hidden things. Cameras, Doors, Weapons maybe.

After all, the Triads Tinker is still at large, and dangerous.

At Pipers Qeustion he smirks, staying in Character, and answers: Lets ask them, shall we?

And he threateningly walks towards the least wounded of the Thugs, picking him up at his collar, lifting him clear of the ground, and looking him in the eyes...

Spoiler: OOC

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I will edit what he says, if anything, when I know if Oberon finds any signs of surveillance or more Tinker Interventions

[Konatsat]

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The talk of combat and testing is a welcome distraction to Siren. She first replies to Danny seeing as the rat is already at the ready, "Oh, sure, go ahead." then addresses Oberon, "Yeah, combat training would be great."

[Forum Explorer]

Pied Piper kicks the swords away from the goons.

With a mischievous playfulness, he says, "We're gonna search you, just to be safe. Try not to squirm too much or they might get bitey."
A dozen or so the surviving rats move over to the Triad and move over them, grabbing items out of pockets and putting them in a pile. Pied Piper hums, giving a command to the rest of the rats to be on guard should the robots re-emerge.

He looks towards Bacon and Oberon. "So, what's next? Think any of their bosses are here? Ceiling ain't caved in on us yet, so that's a sign maybe not."

The guards, the concious ones anyways, squirm uncomfortably as the rats loot them. Soon you've got a small pile of leather wallets, nice watches, a few gold rings, and one diamond earring.

As the Battle Ends, Oberons Perception switches from direct dangers to hidden things. Cameras, Doors, Weapons maybe.

After all, the Triads Tinker is still at large, and dangerous.

At Pipers Qeustion he smirks, staying in Character, and answers: Lets ask them, shall we?

And he threateningly walks towards the least wounded of the Thugs, picking him up at his collar, lifting him clear of the ground, and looking him in the eyes...

Spoiler: OOC

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I will edit what he says, if anything, when I know if Oberon finds any signs of surveillance or more Tinker Interventions

Oberon spots a camera, but can't tell if the camera is tinker tech or not. It might just be a camera. Or maybe not. Either way, it's pointed right at the group.

There is also an office right off to the side. There is a metal porch in front of it with railings, and a small room with a window staring out to the front entrance. It looks exactly like the sort of office you'd expect to find in a normal warehouse.

The man Oberon picks up trembles, but refuses to speak.

[JeenLeen]

Triad

Pied Piper picks up one of the rings, then turns to the rest of the party, but mostly towards Ashur. Guy seemed to have a need for cash. "Want some stuff?"

After the guy refuses to talk to Oberon, Pied Piper lets out a melodramatic sigh and walks up to another one of them.
"You gonna talk?" He snaps his fingers and hums, as about thirty rats start to converge on the fellow. He stops humming right before they get on him (OOC: unless he starts talking first) and says with a chuckle, "Eh, probably not worth their time. Oberon, I'm guessing that office matters, but maybe it's trapped? What if we send one of them through first."

He takes out his handcuffs -- gotta need more of those, or some of those twist-tie arresting things -- and cuffs the one his rats almost attacked. "He'll do." A few rats crawl onto his shoulder, and in a playful voice, Piper adds, "Play nice, or they will get bitey. Eyes don't grow back, right? Ooh! If you should be telling us something but aren't, I think your friends will suffer, too." Rats crawl near the shoulders of all the Triad goons.
"So if anyone wants to speak up, please do before this person makes a lot of you hurt a lot. Now, friend, please get up and start walking." With a pause and glance towards the team, he adds, "Unless one of my fellows tells you otherwise."

Spoiler: OOC

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Pied Piper is bluffing, mostly. If the goon we're making go to the room tries anything, the rats will attack him and bite around the eyes but not actually blind him (or at least that's Piper's intent.
Feel free to rule the rats aren't smart enough or they get distracted. For the others, Piper's not gonna blind... well, can't call them innocent bystanders, but criminals who aren't responsible. They will start biting the neck and ears, though, in hopes one of them talks.

I like having my PC pretending to be a childish sociopath. Bonesaw is good inspiration.

[GrayDeath]

Well, told me enough. Oberon throns the Man he held to the others, with a little bit more force than necessary, grinning while he does so.

Then he turns towards the Office, and with a dark Silver Crackle his Naginata cuts through the window, and somewhat around it, before he jumps in, cutting the sides while he does so....

[Forum Explorer]

Ashur grabs a couple rings and wallets, while Bacon snags a wallet and the earring, passing the loot off to Echo.

The Triad guard Pied Piper selected does stand up, but no one speaks.

Oberon breaks into the office. He has some slight difficulty cutting through glass, as it seems to be reinforced safety glass, but he manages to pop it out of it's frame without too much effort. At first glance the office seems to be a well organized office. No papers are on the table, and the computer is on the log on screen. But there is a faint smell of rotten eggs in the air, and Oberon can almost hear a faint hissing sound.

[GrayDeath]

"A gas trap. Out! Now!"

Following his own advice he jumps out of the office and gets as far away from the potential explosion as he can, as quickly as possible (of course if Danny should fail to promptly react he will pull him along)...
Luckily his great perception emans it must only just have begun to stream out, otherwise this might have gone horribly worng....

[JeenLeen]

Panic rushes through Danny. He starts to scramble towards the exit, making a dissonant yell as he does so.

Not fully as a conscious action, his rats panic and bite the thugs they are on or near, but then join their friend and master in trying to escape the base.

If grabbed by Oberon, he goes along with it gladly, though probably a few of his 'armor' rats panic and nip at him.

[Forum Explorer]

Seeing the two of you rush out, the rest of the group follows, with Bacon taking his time to slowly walk out of the building. Once you are outside, you realize that none of the Triad you had captured followed you.

So now what? Bacon grumbled. The Guild will be here soon. And we haven't accomplished anything yet.

[GrayDeath]

While he stopped outside of the assumed Blast radius, setting Danny down while doing so, Oberon contacts Siren via Com "We triggered a Gas Trap, I assumed it was explosive, can stillb e. The Triad aren`t leaving, so, up for a Dive BOmb attack to drive them out?"

As Bacon comes over a few moments later, he answers: ""Air Support." And smirks.

[Konatsat]

The sound of a message instantly alerts Siren and she quickly checks the message, relieved to discover that it wasn't anything urgent or life-threatening. Deciding that it would be better to hit a specified target instead of aiming for the building itself, she texts back, "Want me to hit the room you were just in? Or somewhere else?"

[GrayDeath]

"Aim for the area right in front of it. I still dont know what exactly they loosened in there, but it is likely not dangerous to Stone and not likely to explode. "

The last part is said quite a bit more quiet, after all, Oberon had been wrong about that before...

Make a good entrance. He adds with a smirk that is audible.

[JeenLeen]

Feeling embarrassed in front of Bacon, Pied Piper plays a tune on his flute. A couple dozen rats also go inside. Not a lot, but enough for the proposed job.
If spiders start to attack you, retreat, but otherwise go in and start biting any enemies that are standing. Keep them down.

Reflecting back on the fight, he'll be a little embarrassed about the childish "I'll show them" reaction, but it seems appropriate to him at the moment.

[Konatsat]

Upon confirmation of her target, Siren lifts off from the rooftop and flies up a small distance before attempting to find a good angle to hit the building from. Once she is in position, she begins the dive, aiming for the part of the building pointed out by Oberon.

[Forum Explorer]

Siren crunches through the building like, well like a boulder through a brick wall. Despite the reinforced nature of the room, Siren is still able to tear her way inside where there is a quick flash of heat and light as the gas ignites from the sparks from the tearing metal and electrical cords. All things considered it's a small blast, and it does her rocky body no harm. She finds herself in the now burning office that Oberon had recently vacated. Looking out, she sees a few of the Triad soldiers who were too injured to flee still lying on the ground, but the rest had already disappeared.

The other only other difference is that the warehouse was now dark. Only the lights over the front entrance were on, with the rest of the warehouse remaining in darkness with deep shadows being created from the flickering flames being blocked by the tall shelves.

[JeenLeen]

Pied Piper looks at the scene with hesitation, but after hearing the slight explosion, and no subsequent ones, he starts to move forward.

"C'mon. It looks like that was just a ruse. Listen, Bacon, sorry we misjudged, but I hope you see the thought of 'big gas leak', between knowing about their tinker and fighting with a flaming dude with explosive eggs, put us on the cautious end.

So, let's the mop the floor with 'em now."

Once inside, he takes out a flashlight and looks around, trying to tell where else they could go. He has his rats search for cracks that might hint at hidden passages or doors. Maybe the damage from Echo or the explosion knocked a panel loose.

[GrayDeath]

Oberons mien stays calm and almost smug once Siren punches through the roof...and then the gas he noticed blows up.

Imagine what that would ahve been had you still beien inside, hm?

Is all he says to it. Letting Danny do the explanations.

Siren? Everything OK in there? He does specifically NOT say And lets hope your Marble IS real enough to be fireproof...."....

Should he get a green Light, he`ll go in and quickly scan for stuff of importance the explosion might have uncovered, but hurrying. After all, this time the guild would ahve actual reason to harass them....

[Konatsat]

Siren is excited that it worked and that the form really was as durable as it seemed but she tried to remain composed. She calls back to Oberon, "Yeah, looks like you did a number on these Triads."

[Forum Explorer]

The rest of the team rejoins you inside. Bacon walks up to Oberon, kicking one the Triad left behind as he did.

Damn yellow ****-eating cowards. Don't have the balls for a straight up fight so they're trying to delay until the Guild can rescue them. Bacon growled. You got any ideas? Else I'm gonna burn this place to the ground and see if I can't get them that way.

[JeenLeen]

Pied Piper has his surviving rats look around for any hidden ways.

"My rats are looking around, but that Tinker does have stuff sealed tight. Tsukomo, anybody nearby?" he asks, intentionally vague as to how their companion could do that.

He peeks into what is left of the office, to see if any part of the computer made it, or if anything got blown open in a useful way.

As he does, in an afterthought, he asks Ashur, "Hey, could you move those wounded guys outside? If we kill some Triad who are hiding, that's one thing, but I don't want the Guild targeting us extra for leaving unconscious dudes in a fire."
He starts to drag one of them outside, a rat faking CPR on the thug.

To Hoodoo, he asks, "You mind poking around the walls?"

[GrayDeath]

Before he answers Bacons Question, Oberon finishes observing all the clues he can.

After all, he triggered a reaction, if not the one he wanted, so now its time to see what he can learn from that. ....

[Forum Explorer]

Obereon sees nothing particularly unusual, no death robots, or other obvious traps. The shelves of equipment seem to consist mostly of stuff you'd find in an automotive shop. Engine parts and the like. There are three shelves each easily 3 meters high, forming long corridors leading into the darkness of the warehouse. The only thing that Oberon notices that is odd is that there seems to be some sort of track above the shelves, likely for hoisting equipment up and down from the highest level.

Ashur nods and helps Pied Piper pull the remaining Triad outside. After you finish one of your rats signals you. It's the signal for bad guys, not for secret entrances, but it's something.

Hoodoo shrugs, and slouches over to a wall which he begins inspecting halfheartedly.

[JeenLeen]

Pied Piper whistles, sending a message for the rat to lead him to the bad guys. If the rat leads him inside, he motions to the others to follow his lead, but stays quiet lest he tip them off.

If he leads him outside or somewhere else, he says, "My rat saw a baddie," as he follows its lead.

[GrayDeath]

"Good, lets get him. And try to keep an eye out for these rails, they might be able to move more than cargo with it, given a Tinker might be present."


The fact that nothing unusual escapüed the flames makes Oberon even more suspicious than he already was, and so the Crackling around his Naginata gets wilder, and his gaze even more intense.
He moves with all his grace, ahead of the others (except any rats) inc ase of a(nother) trap.

"Siren, anything unusual on your end?"

[Konatsat]

Siren glances around, studying the environment for anything out of the ordinary. If she spots something, she mentions it to Oberon, if not, she shakes her head.