Check self for injury as you hurry Joel and yourself into the car and get moving ASAP. Once you're on the road, use health potion as needed.

>>49685

Bubbles is still alive! Bumrush him!

>>49685
...God dammit. There goes the Derringer Classy achievement.

Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/09/24(Thu)14:07 No. 50306 ID: f4963f
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>>49690
>Bubbles is still alive!
Of course he is. Nothing's dead until you've beaten it into unconsciousness, hacked up the body parts, and burned them in a pyre. However, the important thing is that he's not here anymore, and Nicolas just wants to get the hell out of here.

He's also down one grenade launcher.

>Check self for injury as you hurry Joel and yourself into the car and get moving ASAP. Once you're on the road, use health potion as needed.
Right. Nicolas is MODERATELY WOUNDED. His bulletproof bullet-resistant suit and undercover vest served him quite well.

Joel's not looking as well-off, though. She's HEAVILY WOUNDED, and will probably need some form of healing, be it conventional medicine or weirdass psychic healing. She's up and moving, though.

Nicolas and Joel climb into the car. Nicolas starts it and gets the hell out of the area. He hands Joel a healing potion, and she accepts it. ... Huh, those things work pretty well. Her wound closes up, and spits out a gross bloody bullet. ... ew. She throws it out the window. "S-sorry about getting blood on your suit, Nic. Didn't think I'd b-be getting shot today."

"It's alright. Really."

Alright, we've got our fake IDs. If CZ's equipment is half as good as it's supposed to be, these should pass inspection at the quarantine border. Is there anything else we want to do in the city before we go to the checkpoint? This will probably be our last time in the city.

Purchase food, water, and gasoline for a possible extended trip.

>>50306
We've been here too long already. Let's just GTFO.

Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/09/24(Thu)19:25 No. 50579 ID: f4963f
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>>50330
>Stock up on food, gas, water.
We made a point of stocking up this morning, but Nicolas reviews his supplies, just to be sure they're satisfactory.

Nicolas has five days of food for the lot of the party, including Mappy and Skimbles. He has a hand-cranked flashlight, jumper cables, a spare tire, and fifty feet of rope.

We've also stockpiled on ammunition. There's a whole fucking bunch of ammo here. Just boxes and boxes of it. He's also got a few blankets, two fuel cans, and...

That thing. What the hell is that thing doing here?

>>50579
THROW IT OUT THE WINDOW WHILE YOU ARE DRIVING.

Then proceed to checkpoint.

>assault and Battery issue

AWESOME

I think its a Cosmic Horror in a small statue, Nic. You know what that means, it will follow you no matter your struggle, and torment you every second you think about it. Your only hope, as a genre-savvy lawyer, is to ignore it and hope that when the horrors released it attacks enemies.

In other words, its obviously a living statue with its own mind. Respect its place or probably suffer the consequences of getting "bitten by the dog".

>>50579
If you glue it to the hood, no one will steal your car.
EVER.

1/3 Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/09/24(Thu)20:27 No. 50592 ID: f4963f
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>>50587
>I think it's a Cosmic Horror in a small statue. You know what that means, it will follow you no matter your struggle, and torment you every second you think about it.

. . .

2/3 Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/09/24(Thu)20:28 No. 50593 ID: f4963f
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>>50580
FUCKING MUSTACHED CAT-PIG DOG... THING! Nicolas does not have to put up with this bullshit. He chucks the abominable thing out the window.

Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/09/24(Thu)20:28 No. 50594 ID: f4963f
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>GTFO
Nicolas first finds the quarantine border. Not a problem. He throws a blanket over Mappy and Skimbleshanks, as well as a slew of extra weaponry they're keeping in the back seat. Best not to raise suspicion. Nicolas pulls out his and Joel's false IDs and drives up to the border.

He is, naturally, stopped right at the border. A military officer approaches him, and he rolls down his window.

"Excuse me, sir, but this city is under quarantine. Only members of the armed forces may exit, and to be honest sir, you don't look like the..."

Nicolas hands him the two IDs. He furrows his brow and pushes them into a little card-reader thingie. ... damnit, CZ. This better work.

The thing gives an affirming beep, and he grunts, handing them back. "... well, the cards check out okay," he says. "But you're still suspicious, so I can't let you through just yet. If you're on duty, why aren't you in uniform, and why are you driving a civilian vehicle?"

This would be a good spot for a cover story.

Sounds good. Let's stop off at a gas station to fill up and fill some cans, then get out of here.

And we could tape it to the hood. It will terrify and demoralize all who would stand before us!

Ran into some zombies. Vehicle totalled, uniforms a mess, so you appropriated a new one and switched outfits.

Or might he buy something about undercover scouting..

>>50594
"We've been trying to inflitrate Paraply for some time now, as you can see by our MIB uniforms. We recently discovered a secret base of theirs, and we're moving to investigate. Military uniform would give us away in a moment!"

If he asks where the yellow shades are, say they are annoying to drive with, so you took them off. I hope you have them with you in case he needs to see them.

>>50597
We have shades. We stole a pair from a mook back in chapter one.

Put those on. Say "What did you THINK I was doing in there?"

When he answers, interrupt with "Shhh!"

How about we just keep it simple? "We're under cover"

>>50594
Why, is this lowly border guard even CLEARED for information about our mission?

Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/09/24(Thu)21:07 No. 50618 ID: f4963f
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>>50616
>>50596
>>50597
>>50601
Yeah, we have MIB shades. Multiple pairs, actually. Nicolas holds up a pair. "I'm afraid the details are classified."

The officer looks down at him. "... and you didn't have time to change back into a proper uniform?"

"I'm afraid we couldn't sir. Our ride got trashed by zeds, and our uniforms were contaminated. We thought it most prudent to take the undercover car."

He looks thoughtful for a moment. Nicolas can practically hear the DM rolling a sense motive check.

"Arright, sonny. You're clear."

Oh thank god.

"Thank you, sir."

Say "I just hope they figure out how to get effective artillery fire on call before they send any more poor sons of bitches into that godforsaken place," then drive away.

1/3 Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/09/24(Thu)21:29 No. 50633 ID: f4963f
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"Any luck with the artillery?"

"Nah," he says. "That damn crystal keeps intercepting it, and we want to avoid reckless civilian casualties."

Right then. Nicolas rolls up his window. That went pretty well. Onwards! Towards Colorado, and...

Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/09/24(Thu)21:30 No. 50636 ID: f4963f
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... oh god.

Oh god.

THAT THING.

THAT FUCKING THING IS ON HIS DASHBOARD.

Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/09/24(Thu)21:31 No. 50638 ID: f4963f
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FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-

Careen wildly.

Let's see what happens Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/09/24(Thu)21:59 No. 50658 ID: f4963f
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Nicolas' connection to his crystal is getting stronger! But how do his powers improve? That's up to you guys. So get it right, bitches.

Nicolas' crystal currently has two powers: MINOR TELEKINESIS and MINOR ILLUSIONS.

MINOR TELEKINESIS lets him lift Mappy-sized objects with a little effort, and at its fullest extent can let him throw a person, albeit with hella FEEDBACK.

MINOR ILLUSIONS allow Nicolas to create simple visual and audio illusions, and at its fullest extent, could be used to overlay an illusion onto himself, creating a disguise, albeit with hella FEEDBACK.

There are three things we can do:
-Improve to Telekinesis (Moderate)
-Improve to Illusions (Moderate)
or
-Develop a new power at (Minor) level.

Things that Nicolas strains to do now become routine at Moderate level. Essentially, he can throw people-heavy objects around at will with MODERATE TELEKINESIS, or use disguise self at will with MODERATE ILLUSIONS.
New powers begin at the MINOR level, which is about the same level of capability Nic displayed today.

Any votes for a third power should simply be 'NEW POWER'; otherwise specific power choices will be watered down.

So guys. Three options:

TELEKINESIS++?
ILLUSIONS++?
NEW POWER?

Have fun.

>>50658

New Power.

TELEKINESIS +

TELEKINESIS +

TELEKINESIS, KYLE

New Powah

TELEKINESIS++

New Powah: healan (preferably the kind of healan that you can use on either yourself or others).

New Powah: affinity for magical items.

TELEKINESIS++

>>50658

TELEKINESIS++

ILLUSION +

(This is about a million times more useful than telekinesis, guys.)

Illusion++;

>>50760
Fuck you I want my force choke.

Telekinesis++

>>50658

Illusion+

TELEKINESIS++

Precog Minor.

New power: Pyrokenesis. FIRE. SET THE WORLD ABLAZE.

Telekinesis!

Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/09/26(Sat)17:25 No. 52025 ID: f4963f
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>>50658
As of the time of this posting -

New Power: 6
Telekinesis: 8
Illusion 3

Alright, voting closed! I got a lot more responses than I expected to. Thanks for voting, people. <3

It looks like Telekinesis beat out New Power by two votes, so we'll go with that.

See you next chapter!

>>52025
You are adorable. Remember that.

I would lick your tiny face.

Adept!!MvMGOwL2H3 2009/09/27(Sun)00:10 No. 52254 ID: f4963f
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>>52089
>>52095
D'aww... you think so? Thank you~

Suggestion 2009/09/27(Sun)13:53 No. 52506 ID: 931ee5
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Yep.