Play@YSDC

OOC:   It was fun. I got a suite for a rather low price and was celebrating a birthday for family and figured why not?

You're in a hallway, so not much cover I'm afraid. Lab 4 is on your right, Lab 2 is on your left, but both doors are closed.  

OOC:   I’ll say that Andre is next to Lab 4? Vanessa on the other side?  

OOC:   Both of you can make luck rolls at -10 to see if the doors are unlocked. It's a bit of a stretch given all the shooting going on, some of the staff have barricaded themselves in doors while others evacuated.  

OOC:   Andre wants to warn the guards about the gas leak. Can I assume that they have radios too?

Are we at point blank range? I'm guessing the rifles are 5.56mm caliber?  

OOC:   Yes, radios can be assumed. Of course, Galt or his men might have some as well.

Galt's walking towards you, so he is in point blank range. But he's using Metreux as a shield, which I'm going to rule negates the bonus unless you fire a spread.  

OOC:   If you're going to try to initiate hostilities, this seems like your last chance before he enters Ruby.  

OOC:   Galt will have to turn the corner to enter Ruby through the airlock. That gives Andre and Vanessa cover - Andre will take the opportunity to use a grenade.  

OOC:   Rolled Galt's alertness because he's already cautious-- he passed.  

OOC:   If you want to use a grenade safely, you can attempt a throw roll. If you want a guaranteed hit you can rush towards Galt holding it before releasing it, but you'll then need to make a dodge roll to get out of the blast radius. Galt has a ready action to shoot if anything suspicious happens, but he's still holding his gun to Dr. Metreux's head so won't be able to attack either of you before we go into initiative regularly.  

OOC:   I thought it sounded weird to, so I looked in the rule book and saw no mention of it, so I think it's a dumb rule I made to try and reflect difficulty firing a burst and keeping hold of a gun-- my firearm experience is limited, clearly. We'll get rid of it and I'll edit accordingly. I'm also willing to get rid of the human shield penalty for long bursts, because technically it would hit both Galt and the doctor, and actuatly give you both a +20 bonus for point blank range.

There's a lot of numbers here so let me lay it out for all of us.

No penalty for bursts.

Short burst still suffers the human shield penalty(No kill radius for a short burst), but it's negated by the point blank bonus(20%)

Long Burst has no penalty since it would hit both of them anyway, and gains the +20%.

So looking at these numbers, Vanessa misses and Andre hits. Since I changed the rule on you guys, if Vanessa wants to fire a long burst instead, I'm fine letting her reroll her attack with the new knowledge she has of the bonuses that would apply.

Please roll two 1d100's HoneyDog when you get the chance. And if there's anything else I need to clear up let me know-- sorry to change the rules midgame, but the penalties I was setting here for bursts don't make a lot of sense so I'm editing them.

In addition, I believe Andre is not adapted to violence, so he needs to make another san roll for 0/1d4 for shooting at Metreux.  

OOC:   Roll for Unnatural, 0/1.  

OOC:   Galt rolled in the dice thread to hit the head with a-40% penalty. He hit, meaning he does double damage, and to add insult to injury scored a crit on his attack roll to boot, though thankfully only one crit applies. He then rolled 2d12 and did a total of...19 damage.

I'm sorry, Andre. And HoneyDog.  

OOC:   Vanessa would normally need to make a roll, but she'd adapted so can keep it together. What will she do now, however?  

OOC:   It looks like Andre made the wrong decision! I didn't realise that bullets would just bounce off him. So a grenade probably wouldn't do much either. Vanessa is better off running!  

OOC:   Galt fired an aimed shot at Vanessa's left leg and made it even with the penalty, bypassing her armor and doing 9 damage. Vanessa's leg is functionally useless at the moment. Having fallen to 2 hp, she goes unconscious until she rises above that. I'll let you write out any last thoughts she has before darkness claims her, Mr. Handy.

She's not dead, yet. There's still a little more to come, but I think we're heading in to the epilogue now. I'm sorry guys. Once we wrap this up I'll try to explain everything. But Galt is one of the most infamous enemies of DG for these reasons. His skill with a handgun is 92%, and it's very hard to damage him, but I hope this did not feel too unfair.  

OOC:   It's not unfair, although I would hate it if my actions lead to Vanessa's death! Playing Andre as a take action kind of agent, true to his training. I underestimated Galt!