Log:Capelli-Cangelosi War, Scene 6

Capelli-Cangelosi War 2016/11/04 	 Night Marshal|Detective Carpenter Wolf Daemon Cheshire Magnitude Weakspot Wild Bull Sword Dancer Ellbeth 6

This district is home to Colonial Bay's large Chinese community; as much Chinese as English is seen on signs and perhaps more Mandarin is spoken. Most famous is Ming Street, curving round from Beach Street to Wharf Street, always full of tourists, especially at its northern and western end. This is practically a street market, with hawkers extolling their wares to passers-by, and signs and banners advertising everything from fresh duck to herbal supplies, restaurants and bakeries and other businesses. The Heavenly Dragon Palace and the Buddhist temple are among the more famous sights. But perhaps true Chinatown is south and west of Ming Street, where the tourists rarely go.

The fight started when Detective Carpenter attempted to question Johnny Cho. The latter ran, only to get talked so hard by Sword Dancer that he ended up on the ground with several broken bones and likely internal bleeding. Cho landed at the feet of Wild Bull, who decided that an 'outsider' attacking a local (or his friend?) was underhanded, and he looked to turn the tables. He has managed to tag only one hero thus far, and he seems to only be getting angrier...and stronger...and tougher... Meanwhile, two of his teammates were nearby, and at least one has jumped down to join the fight. The other remains on the roof with Cheshire.

Sword Dancer doesn't waste a moment. Following up o her massive blow and shouting the name of her illustrious ancestor Brun, she charges at superhuman speed toward Wild Bull and swings at him again.

Wild Bull is hit again by the same person who had just struck him quite hard. It looks like she has his attention now, for sure.

Behind the mystical Wolf, Daemon begins to stir.

Weakspot(#2810TOn)

A man in a full black bodysuit, which is clearly armored. There's a built in shield in left arm of the suit, and a holstered pistol on his right thigh. His face is covered by a full mask.

Weakspot draws his pistol and looks at Cheshire, "Your friends are fighting Bull. Do you work for Pride? Or the Cangelosis?"

Cheshire smiles, tilts her head. "Why, neither. They're heroes."

Weakspot snorts. "'Heroes' could be bought. It would not be the first time such has happened."

Cheshire laughs silently. Speaks without moving her lips as usual, her voice soft and nearly monotone. "For myself, I can say I haven't been paid. My parole officer won't sign of on me having a work permit, and I'm too young to work without one. Now, you can go to the aid of your friend, and we can put on a beautiful performance together, or we can stay on this roof and remain in the audience. If you don't get involved, I won't get involved. That seems fair, I would say."

Daemon rises slowly, steadying himself on the wall as he continues holding his head.

"Ok- so don't taunt the superstrong bull-man... check." He murmurs to himself.

.o0(Well at least I'm not dead, so things are looking up...) He thinks to himself.

He checks his surroundings instinctively, and he feels something is off- what it is, he doesn't know. But his nanoscale trichobothria picks up Magnitude- just not what it is. Just that it's there.

Recognizing the raging Wild Bull as the most dangerous so far, Daemon throws himself back into the fray. Leaping over Wolf as he targets Wild Bull and throws a hard punch into the air.

Millions of nano-machines get to work to spinning up a High Voltage Stickydisc and then launching it at Wild Bull.

Instead of charging the Bull directly, Daemon lands on the wall nearest Bull. He's clearly trying to keep his distance. // OCV 9 High Voltage Stickydisc: 4D6 Blast, AVAD vs Power Def

The disc causes Bull to wince, but it doesn't change his target of choice.

Wolf was trying to provide Cover. . . "guard - dogging" for Daemon. . . so he does that thing where you shake out your fur to make yourself look bigger, and tries to be sure to stand between WB and D (1/2: Half-Move, if needed) hoping for the best. . . (1/2: Nonobvious power: Telepathy to J C! . . . let's see if we can get the info we need, no matter how the fight turns out! )

Wolf says, "Dear J, this is your brain speaking: Detective Carpenter is RIGHT BEHIND YOU (surface thoughts) . . . Q: what are the Top 3 things J is thinking that he doesn't want DC to find out? :)"

Wolf rolls for HAP's with 3D6 of Luck and gets 2 for this scene.

Wolf will spend one if that "hits". . . to get whatever Cho is thinking re: the Detective and what he doesn't want the Detective to know about. ..

Wolf will start with the base 31 Effect, and add HAP if needed to get the info

Johnny Cho's surface thoughts have really been overridden by pain. << Oh my god, my back might be broken. Can I feel my legs? Why did that chick with the sword want to kill me? >>

Wild Bull bellows...and seeing that Sword Dancer looks pretty nimble, he decides to try to create a makeshift fly swatter to smash his target. Out of a complete fire escape.

The fire escape rends and rips free from the building, towering above him. It looks like he could bring it down along nearly the length of the alley.

It must be a case of great minds and all that. Ellbeth also decides to try and get the information that's needed from Johnny Cho... while an active fight is in progress so she can claim a case of 'hot pursuit' if anyone questions her action. Not bothering to hide her effort she uses the full power of her mind to search for what she wants, mentally commenting to Johnny - and Wolf - "Crowded in here, isn't it?"

Wolf scoots his brain over to make room, out of the way of E's magic

Ellbeth finds that Johnny's surface thoughts are the same as Wolf found...but deeper, he suspects that Carpenter was going to ask about the plasma weapons he bought, which he in turn sold to some out of town mobsters looking to muscle in on Cangelosi territory. And he was looking for a way to implicate Pride in the transaction...but hadn't come up with a way to do so. Yet.

Sword Dancer decides to handle the giant-weapon problem before Wild Bull gets a chance to hit anyone! She chops at the fire escape with her sword at blinding speed to break it into small chunks in the berserker's hands.

The fire escape is no match for Sword Dancer's sword. Wild Bull is left with only a single piece of wrought iron in hand, which might be good enough for a club, but won't have quite the same devastating effect.

Daemon scurries a bit further away from Wild Bull, up the wall towards Cheshire and Weakspot.

Once there he settles into place and focuses his attention on the scene below.

Using all of his prodigious processing power, he looks for the blip that was out of place.

Wolf heals Daemon again, just in case

Weakspot looks to Cheshire, "So, if you're heroes, what started the fight?"

Cheshire hmms, "A detective was chasing that man down there. The woman brought him down. Your friend made his presence know. The man in black annoyed your friend. I believe that is the sequence of events." She slowly spins her parasol on her shoulder.

Weakspot sighs audibly, "He's been working on controlling his temper."

Cheshire laughs silently. "I'm Cheshire."

Wild Bull doesn't bother trying to grab something large to smash Sword Dancer with. He just swings the remains of the fire escape at her, effectively turning it into a club.

The remains of the fire escape break in Wild Bull's hand as he catches Sword Dancer on the wrong foot. He growls again, spittle flying.

Ellbeth tries to dig a little deeper and find out who and where Johnny Cho bought the weapons from.

Sword Dancer is astounded to be struck by the berserker's blow. Though she is fast enough to roll with the punch she is knocked a clear 28m down the alley. Somehow, though, she manages to land on her feet!

From Cho's mind to Ellbeth's: The sellers were definitely ACRO. The sale was set up through an agent named 'Epimetheus'. The buyer was Antonio Meroni, from Chicago. The guy had some of his goons with him. Cho suspects the group was involved in the shootout at the yacht club.

Sword Dancer grins once she gets over the surprise. "Qhah! Is a rearr fight!"

Cheshire winces as Sword Dancer is hit. "I'm glad we're up here and not down there."

Wolf 's ears flicker and swivel to track the recent impact, and he whirls about on all fours, padding off back toward where he'd just come from, taking a half-move down the alley to get LoS to heal SD

Daemon finds no sign of Magnitude, so he returns his attention back to Bull as he connects with Sword Dancer's ___.

"This ought to help tame the wild beast..." he says as he throws another punch at Wild Bull- this time the nanomachines spool up a thick ball of webbing before launching it at the rampaging metahuman Wild Bull.

The ball of webbing flies towards Wild Bull.

Daemon's intention is to tie him up, even if its just long enough for someone else to hit the big dumb idiot.

As Sword Dancer skids down he alleyway, Daemon realizes he'll be called to dance again soon.

Wild Bull gets hit with the webbing...though it remains to be seen if it will slow him down at all.

Daemon leaps to the other side of the alleyway- landing deftly on the opposite wall. he tries to keep himself behind Wild Bull.

Cheshire folds her parasol and leans on it, both hands on the handle, watching the fight. "So, what's your name, Mr. Gun?"

The gunman nods to Cheshire. He apparently doesn't speak much. "Weakspot." He shakes his head as he watches the fight, "They dont' have a mentalist to stop him, do they?"

Wolf gently *noses* Sword Dancer again, who feels better, again.

Wild Bull takes several deep breaths as he was starting to reach toward the building to his side to tear the entire thing down around him. He turns and looks at Johnny, who's lying on the ground, and he kneels next to him. He says in Mandarin, << You okay? I'm going to get you some medical help before these thugs try to finish the job and kill you. >>

Johnny nods to Wild Bull, << Thank you. >>

Ellbeth switches tack. Dropping the maintaining of the telepathy she changes to Subversion and works towards locking Johnny Cho against ever telling anyone else that his mind was read.

Sword Dancer is someone disappointed the fight seems to be over just as it was getting interesting. Still, she's not stupid enough to try to start it again.

Wolf canters to a spot half-way between D and SD (half-move) and holds another half-move in case more Healing is needed. . . he can't help D up on the wall, but, the wall could easily come down if Fire Escape Rip-off 2.0 happens