CH1-13 the tatoo artist.

[ImpInTraining]

ooc,Thanks... should be back to relative normalcy now.

Greg looks up to the window he had just escaped from and then to the car where Liz waits. He shrugs, then says over the BlueTooth connection, "Do you want me to come back up?" He was uncertain what to do. To go up would almost certainly mean being busted by the cops, and maybe partially devoured. But not going up meant Jacob could die at the hands and teeth of a crazy, hungry, mostly-dead woman. "What should I do?"

In an instant he gets an idea. "Liz... take the car and go," then he darts around out of the alley and toward the police. "Officers! Quickly! Someone's calling for help up there! I think someone's life is in danger!" He knew with reasonable suspicion the police would have all the authority in the world to enter the premises. And it would be better if they saw the old lady before she was killed - again. The mortician would break the truth and hopefully that would buy some leverage with the police station in Jacob's defense.

[Mr. Handy]

"Hang about, got to cover our tracks first," says Liz. "And please watch it with the names." She prepares to restore the CCTV camera in the alley to the way it was before she had interfered with it, so that it would once again record a live feed, but she needs to wait until Greg is no longer in its field of view.

OOC,I think it'll be some time before [b]Greg[/b] makes it around to the front of the shop, during which time the constables may already have gone inside and [b]Jacob[/b] still needs to keep fighting for his life. I'll wait on resetting the camera for now, as the situation may have changed. If [b]Jacob[/b] does escape out the window, I don't want the camera recording him.

[ghill]

OOC: Gregs plan.,As Mr Handy correctly sumises I think it'll be some time before Greg makes it around to the front of the shops although if he is shouting at the top of his voice he can alert the police. Liz and the car are about 100m further up the road so reasonable safe from discovery.

OOC: LIz,The policemen have reached the door to the tattooists, while one starts knocking on the door the other takes a step back to look at the top floor window and use his radio.

Upstairs the old woman continues to struggle with Jacob, her teeth snapping close to his face but not quite making it

[Mr. Handy]

"One of them's knocking on the door now," reports Liz. "The other is looking at the upstairs window out front and calling it in on his radio. He prolly can't see in from down there, though."

[royya]

Jacob tries again to break the woman's hold.

STR roll (1d100=47)

[ghill]

With one final desperate heave Jacob manages to heave the woman off and scramble to his feet.

[ImpInTraining]

ooc,tell me when I can act again.

[ghill]

OOC:Greg,I'm assuming you're moving towards the end of the alley to head towards the cops? You certainly wont be alerted to Jacobs success for a good few seconds as it occurs in the new round after Greg made his plan. Happy for Greg to have a change of mind though.

[ImpInTraining]

Greg is pushing forward with his plan - he has no reason to think Jacob is out of danger yet. Neither does Jacob for that matter.

[royya]

Throwing the woman away, Jacob decides that there is a chance she will catch him if he will stay in the place so he decides to use the window again, hoping to escape her nasty teeth without crushing to the street.

[ghill]

Jacob climbs through the window and onto the ledge of the garage, he then lowers himself into the wreckage of the garage below. He is unlocking the garage doors when the woman slams into the window. She does not pursue him but simply stands rigid as though at attention, watching as he steps through the garage door and into the alley at the rear of the arcade.

[royya]

Jacob breath heavily, cleaning his face with his sleeve. He then looks to his right and to his left, trying to figure which way is the easy one to escape.
I'm ... down, alive ....
He speaks over the bluetooth

[ghill]

Ways out,The Alley runs the length of the shopping arcade, the tattoists is towards the northern end of the arcade and the road is approximately 50m in that direction or approximately 150m if he heads towards the southern exit. Alternatively, Jacob can climb the wire fence on the other side of the alley and head off across the rough ground to the rear.

[Mr. Handy]

"Thank God," says Liz. "Make sure you close the door behind you and leave everything as it was when you arrived. It has to look good for the camera, but I'll wait to flip it back to live video until you're clear. Both of you come back to the car."

[ghill]

OOC Liz,The first policeman is now hammering loudly against the door, while his colleague continues talking into his radio all the while walking backwards towards the north end of the arcade (basically watching his colleague bang on the door while he walks away)

CCTV Camera Images,Checking her live feed for the first time in several minues Liz realises the images now differ considerably due to the fact that the garage roof has collapsed.

[royya]

Jacob heads towards the southern exit.

[ImpInTraining]

OOC,does Greg have opportunity to change his action or is he already around front?

[ghill]

OOC: Greg,Greg is nearly at the northern end of the arcade when he hears Jacob over the earpiece.

Locations/Situations,Jacob in the alley to the rear of the shops and moving southwards, Greg also in the alley to the rear of the shops but now near the northern end of the arcade, Liz in the car approx 100m to the North of the arcade parked in a convenient side street. Both men can take another 1HP damage from their exertions without having had any medical aid of any kind.

[Mr. Handy]

"One of the coppers is heading to the north end of the arcade," says Liz as she works feverishly on the laptop. "Make sure he doesn't see you. There's a bleeding great discontinuity in the video thanks to the broken roof, but I may be able to fix it in editing. Get out of the camera's line of sight fast, and don't forget to close the garage doors you just opened, but change nothing else. I have to go live soon." She tries to retrieve the footage of the old man crashing through the garage roof from the laptop's cache and tinker with the timestamp as best she can in order to splice it into the live video feed, thus making it appear that the man crashed through the garage roof in the present as opposed to a minute or two ago. Once that footage runs, she plans to then switch over to the live feed, though she leaves enough time for Greg and Jacob to finish up and get clear of the camera. She manages to do a competent job.

[ImpInTraining]

Greg puts his hand over his cut and applies direct pressure to minimize bleeding. Meanwhile, he ignores the pain and hauls ass to the car, paying attention to the camera spot of focus and keeping an eye out for the cop in hopes of avoiding both