| From: | Brian Angliss <ANGLISS@****.PSU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Yawn!.... Roxey's rescue, last part(sorry) |
| Date: | Sat, 18 Sep 1993 09:35:11 -0400 |
earth elemental...Ok, I got it.
By the time that his Tirness was gettin rushed off toward the garage, Max and
Nightfox were gettin real tired. Guess they had been raisin barriers around
that guy all the time and havin them come crashin down again almost as fast as
they were goin up. But I guess they couldn't keep it up anymore because all
of a sudden his Tirness and his guards were enclosed by a wall of energy that
was makin our bullets just kinda bounce right off. The vehicle of Smith's had
just pulled out of the garage with the side door open when the five Tir persons
rushed forward and climbed in. As the last guy was in, the barrier must have
fell or somethin and our rounds from over this way hit one of the guards as he
was gettin in. Didn't kill him or nothin, but he ain't gonna be feelin too
good for a while.
The van then decided to take a leave of absence and our efforts to stop it were
in vain. All our rounds just were bouncin off the armor, maybe scratchin the
paint a little. Even the tires wouldn't pop. But back to Nex...
We thought that the guy on the ground was dead, and he fraggin near was, but
not totally. He was alive and kickin enough to drive a long dagger into Nex's
leg as he stepped over the "dead" guy. If it had been normal, Nex probably
wouldn't have felt it until h realized somethin was stickin out of his leg. but
this wound was not too far from the bullet wound that was mostly but not totallyhealed.
Nex just kinda gasped and looked rather surprised, but wasted NO time
yankin the offending blade from out his leg, pinning the guard on the ground
TO the ground by drivin it through his shoulder, and then very cleanly, ver
professionally and VERY emotionlessly took the guy's head off his shoulders.
Nex must have wanted a trophy of that dagger because he pulled it out of the
dead guy and put it in his belt.
Nex must have REALLY wanted to chop that guy up into little peices-until he saw
Rox lyin on the ground. She was just lyin there, moanin and writhin in pain,
eyes clenched shut and ears cupped tightly over by her hands, a definate sympton
of Hyper poisoning. They must have been usin it on her to keep her from
toastin their sorry butts with spells. But if you saw Nex pick her up gently
after his fight with SteelTower, this was even gentler, like pickin up a fragginMing Vase.
I guess he and she had some kinda empathic link right then, seein
how he'd gone through similar things only last spring, but we covered him as he
carried her up to his truck and layed her down on a blanket in the back. The
Transformer, a Bear shaman, hopped in the back with her and cast some spell.
She calmed right down, lookin like she was still doped up, but not in so much
pain. Nex took off without even tellin US where he was headin. But we didn't
have time to worry about it as sirens were comin this way.
Max was exhausted, and so was Nightfox(wierd, but true). The two of them
LITERALLY fell out of the tree they were in, which was a little strange. I've
seen Max walk on air without a second's thought, but I guess he was too tired
to do even that. They got up and usin each other for support, straggled off to
my car, immediately passin out in the back seat. Max then went kinda misty
as he couldn't maintain his physical form and Nightfox, who had passed out on
top of him got a nasty start when he fell 6 inches into the seat. But he just
went out like a light again.
We regrouped later at Penumbra, after our wounded had been takin care of. Come
to find out, there were quite a few injuries. Firefox had been collapsin the
ward around the house when a bonded fire elemental appeared out of the ward and
attacked him. Diana and Dragon were wounded some takin care of the watchers.
Buzz took an explosive round in his leg, givin him a compound fracture of his
femur-He ain't walkin without help for a little while, least not with out a
little arcane assistance. Gunney took some shrapnel in his side when the tree
he was usin for cover took a couple hits. But Dragon and Shadow were put in
the hospital for massive burns. Guess the fireball hurt them the most.
Diana's leg kept her from doin much besides provide "spell defense," whatever
that is. But she's a little annoyed that the fireball cooked her hair. Nex
took only the knife wound and StreetWolf almost killed himself takin care of
the earth elemental, but he'll recover after a good night's sleep. And I took
an AP slug in the shoulder, a wound Diana took care of last night.
And we geeked one of them and wounded two, one severely. Buzz and Gunney said
they hit the mage that blasted them, but don't think they killed him. Too bad.
But I wish we knew who his Tirness was so we knew how far we had to run or how
deep we need to hide. And does anybody know where Nex and Roxey are?
Sorry this was so long, but we had a busy yesterday.]<<<<<
-- Slash(09-36-29/09-18-54)
