/vx/ - Videogames and Paranormal

>>165000
Do the stairs go up, or down?

>>165002
Up. One level.

>>165000
Think we can continue the wolf story?

>>165003
"Found stairs to next floor. We will not have to backtrack so far to advance further."

Silver notes the location of the stairs, of moves onto the next door.

>>165005
Um…. Let me see where we are. I think Spark was going to the village.

>>165006
This located at the bed if the hall. There is a small hall beyond the stairs case that is symmetrical with the small hall near the entrance, though this one too has offices and…

Spectral Streak:
“Found bathrooms. No activity here.”

>>165007
"Found more offices. How many offices does one television company need?"

Silver continues down this hall to check the offices it connects.

>>165007
I think I was with Wellspring the rebel, who just got back from the last adventure.

>>165012
Soon.

>>165009
This hall is short, with only two smaller offices, one with a type writer, and the other with a big desk with what seems to be cut out photographs and glass, and then a conference room.

>>165018
Silver checks these rooms for any potential devices or hostages. In particular he focuses on the conference room.

>>165019
Silver sees no living creatures, and while he doesn't exactly know what any "device" looks like, nothing stands out as suspicious. Some folders of papers, a t-square and compass, and a wooden table that is clear underneath. The lights are, however, on in both offices.

>>165021
Well, that *is* odd...Silver supposes that he should check out the offices.

>>165022
No pony there, papers and all left behind.

>>165024
"Hmm..."

With this floor (mostly) cleared, Silver gets his rifle ready and begins to climb the nearby staircase to the next floor.

>>165025
Wooden staircase, smaller than the central stairwell and evidently only going up a single level. The walls are white, with a similar maroon colored carpet as in the exterior hallway. The stairs double back with a small landing midway. The one light is on.

The simple wooden door at the top of the stairs is closed.

>>165046
Silver puts his ear to the door before doing anything else, trying to listen for anything that might be on the other side.

>>165047
It’s louder up here than below, with the sounds of what must be distant voices, or else, radios playing.

Spectral Streak comes up next to Silver

>>165048
Silver whispers to Spec.

"Distant voices, or radio. Get ready, I am going to open door slowly."

>>165049
Spectral Streak levels his rifle

>>165050
Silver slowly, carefully, cracks the door open.

>>165051
A subtle crack

>>165052
What kind of crack?

>>165053
Well, how far does Silver open the door?

Silver can tell that the lock on the door has been damaged and is no longer functioning

>>165054
At first only a little, so he can see if there are any traps rigged up to the door and set up to trigger if it opens far enough.

>>165055
With the door only cracked open slightly, Silver can see no traps set. The lock is physically broken, but otherwise nothing seems odd.

>>165056
Silver continues to open the door further.

>>165057
>>165058
Silver hears a roar of automatic gunfire, and splinters of wood come flying off of the door, as bullets hit and often penetrate through the wood.

>>165059
Silver shuts the door, grabs onto Spec, and jumps back down the stairs.

>>165057
>>165060
Multiple bullets penetrate through the wooden door. Silver is grazed along his neck by a bullet, and another shot embeds itself in Silver’s flak jacket, almost breaking through.

Spectral Streak shoots back Bang Bang Bang Bang, four shots semi-auto in quick succession, then jumps back

>>165061
Silver, at a lower position down the stairs and out of the line of fire, holds a hoof over the now bleeding wound on his neck.

"Черт, это больно...you okay, Spec?"

>>165062
“Yeah” he says, breathing heavily.

“About what I expected.”

>>165062
>>165063
“Did they get you?”

>>165063
>>165064
Silver takes his hoof off of his neck, looking at the blood on it, then covering his wound again.

"It is just grazed."

Silver creeps back up the steps, takes out his gas mask, and waves it in front of the bullet holes in the door to see if the changelings can see through it.

>>165065
At first, nothing. Then Ching Ching. Two shots are fired at the door, presumably semi-auto from the same weapon as before.

>>165066
Silver pulls the gas mask back. He gets an idea and looks at where the bullets have hit the wall behind him compared with the holes in the door.

>>165067
It's a little hard to tell, as the door was cracked open when it was shot, and the force of the bullets hitting the door has opened it further. Silver can however see that with the exception of four small holes on the far left, presumably from Spectral Streak, the holes are concentrated on the right side of the door near the door handle and where the door opens. A trio of holes have met together, which creates one hole that is large enough to look through.

Looking at the wall behind him, Silver can see that the holes and damage on the wall are concentrated on the far right side (to the right of the door when Silver faces the door. When Silver turns around to look behind him, it is on his left).

[1d20+10 = (4+10) = 14]
[1d20+10 = (8+10) = 18]
>>165068
Grabbing his Jenny, he steps to the right side of the door while trying to stay out of sight, and double taps the trigger.

>>165069
Result unknown, except,

Cla Cla Cla Cla Cla Cla
[1d20 = 14]
[1d20 = 13]
[1d20 = 5]
[1d20 = 19]
[1d20 = 16]
[1d20 = 18]

>>165070
Silver ducks upon hearing the returning gunfire.

>>165071
Hmmm…. Silver fluff may attempt a reflex saving throw to avoid the worst of the gunfire.

>>165073
Silver ducks halfway through the reign of bullets, which is very much a good thing, because as Silver falls. a bullet tears into Silver’s flak jacket at an angle and is stopped, which would have penetrated had it hit squarely.

Silver falls to the ground, and Spectral Streak fires more shots
Bang Bang

[1d20+10 = (11+10) = 21]
[1d20+10 = (11+10) = 21]
>>165074
Silver barely gets up from his position, just to squeeze off a couple more rounds.

>>165075
Four more shots return, evidently in a single, automatic burst.
[1d20 = 13]
[1d20 = 6]
[1d20 = 18]
[1d20 = 18]

>>165076
Silver lays down flat to try to avoid the returning gunfire.

[1d20+10 = (9+10) = 19]
[1d20+10 = (7+10) = 17]
>>165077
Followed by firing another couple of shots.

>>165078
Silver hears more automatic fire:
Cla Cla Cla Cla Cla Cla
[1d20 = 16]
[1d20 = 18]
[1d20 = 8]
[1d20 = 2]
[1d20 = 6]
[1d20 = 19]

>>165078
>>165079
Silver is nicked by a shot
[1d7 = 5]

[1d20+10 = (13+10) = 23]
[1d20+10 = (19+10) = 29]
>>165079
>>165080
Silver has to supress the urge to shout to avoid giving his position away. He answers back, not knowing if he is doing anything or not.

>>165081
Silver makes two shots, and then there is a sound of Cla Cla Cla Cla Cla Cla. What is different is that these shots veer much further off to the right.

[1d20+10 = (7+10) = 17]
[1d20+10 = (1+10) = 11]
>>165082
Following the sound of these new shots, Silver adjusts his aim, and double taps again.

>>165083
It’s from the same source, just targeted differently. Silver gears no reply.

[1d20+10 = (9+10) = 19]
[1d20+10 = (1+10) = 11]
>>165084
Just in case it's a trick, Silver fires again.

>>165086 →
From the top, Amber can look outside, glancing through the slats on the small window at the top. Amber can see, far over to her left and to the left of the building, the police are paying special attention to a sheet metal shed. They must have found something there.

>>165085
Nothing for a few seconds. Then a metalic sound, and...
Cla Cla Cla Cla Cla Cla Cla

[1d20 = 18]
[1d20 = 11]
[1d20 = 6]
[1d20 = 6]
[12d0 = 0]
[1d20 = 1]
[1d20 = 20]

>>165085
>>165382
The last of the shots hits Silver directly.
[1d7 = 6]

>>165382
>>165383
Silver stumbles backwards, further out of the line of fire.

"Черт возьми!"

>>165385
Silver moves back down the stairs, and towards Spectral Streak and the Salmon Stallion.

"Did he get you?" Spectral Streak asks, looking over. He looks back at the door for a moment. "This isn't really working."

>>165386
"Yes, he got me." He covers the new gunshot wound. "Unless you have any better ideas..."

>>165381
Amber continues looking at the shed, wondering if any of her compatriots would be so foolish as to hide in so conspicuous and so small a place.

>>165390
Amber can see them start to roll something out. It's the car, recognizable not only for its color and model, but for the clear dents along the front, being pushed out covered in straw out of the shed by two officers.

>>165430
Spectral Streak remains down the staircase along with Silver. Silver hears a Cla Cla, with two more shots hitting the door, and spraying splinters

>>165447
Silver whispers to Spec, as to not be overheard.

"Keep them busy here, I'm going to see if I can flank them from main stairwell."

>>165449
He nods
"Oh I can do that." He looks over towards the Salmon stallion. "You want to take Pinkie here, or should I?"

>>165451
"Your call. You think you will need him here?"

>>165453
"He might be safer here. But are you sure you won't need... help? Or someone to cover your rear?"

>>165455
"Hopefully most of them are too busy here to pay attention."

>>165456
"Well, let's keep them busy"

>>165457
Silver nods, and makes his way back to the main staircase to sneak up to the next floor.

>>165458
Silver walks through the hallway, through the reception area, and down the main hallway. Silver walks past the drone from earlier, which perhaps disturbingly, lies down over a yard from where he last left it. Silver makes it to the staircase. The halls are illuminated by lights, and are mostly quiet.

>>165459
Jenny at the ready, Silver makes his way up the stairs, trying to be quiet.

>>165462
Silver will notice that this stairway goes up two more floors. The previous engagement was against enemies on the floor above them

>>165463
Silver starts by just advancing up one floor.

>>165429
>>165430
At least it's not one of her friends, but now they know for sure they're here. Amber goes over to the other window, looking to see if the path to the house is clear.

>>165478
Amber looks over to the far left. She can only see the edge of the house. It's hard to say, really, if the whole way is clear. But she does not see anygriff that direction.

>>165466
[1d20 = 10]

>>165466
>>165489
Roll Dexterity

>>165492
Silver goes upstairs, to the wooden door that is half open, and past the railings that are chipped by bullets. And then

BANG
[1d20+3 = (18+3) = 21]

>>165493
>>165492
Silver takes a fairly direct hit across the side by what he can tell is a shotgun blast. The flak jacket makes a big difference - all of the difference in the world, it feels - but pellets break through
[1d6 = 1]

>>165489
Amber goes downstairs to the left door and looks around before approaching the house.

[1d20+10 = (12+10) = 22]
[1d20+10 = (9+10) = 19]
>>165494
Silver gasps as the air is knocked out of his lungs. He turns towards his attacker and double taps his Jenny.

>>165496
Hit, and hit. Silver can see that it is a “pony” with a civilian model of shotgun, just inside of a hallway

>>165498
"Gack!" The creature almost hacks, wincing in pain after being pieced not once but twice. He manages to, with a glowing green light, rack the slide "clack clack." He fires
BANG
[1d20 = 18]

>>165498
>>165499
Silver is hit, although only glancing
[1d6 = 4]

[1d20+10 = (5+10) = 15]
[1d20+10 = (11+10) = 21]
>>165499
>>165500
Silver is once again not doing so hot. He manages to squeeze off a couple more rounds at least.

>>165501
Both hit

>>165503
The creature is consumed in green fire before even the second bullet hits. It falls over towards its left, and away from the wall. Silver can see that it is a black drone with a brown jacket. There is red blood splattered across the wall, but blue blood seeping out of the creature itself.

>>165504
Red blood? They must have encountered somepony before them...

Silver looks down at himself, blood seeping through the holes in his flak jacket. With every battle he feels more and more like a block of aged, holey cheese. He pushes on, grabbing the drone's shotgun and any shells he has on him.

>>165505
The shotgun (presumably) has 3 rounds inside of the tube and chamber, and a capacity of 5. The drone has another 5 shells. The shots seem to be birdshot. The hallway goes both left and right, with the drone on the left side. Near the door, a drone sits, leaning against the wall.

>>165506
Can Silver see how ready the drone is to respond if threatened?

>>165507
Yes. He’s right next to it, as it is by the door

>>165508
Silver checks the ammo he's got for the Jenny before he does anything.

>>165495
Roll spot

>>165509
Removing the magazine, Silver counts one, two, three, four rounds.

>>165604
Amber looks around at the now darkening trees and bushes, and the long shadows left by the home and barn. Silver sees that now, even the homeowner has gone to the shed, and there is nogriff looking

>>165606
>Silver sees
Amber quietly but quickly proceeds to the house and darts inside.