Taking leave of Starshine the vobling, Buck & Zarko can't help but to notice a few sidelong glances and shaking heads among the crew.  But there's no time to ponder.  Leeplo croaks out an alarm!  At the same time there's a cackle from Shifty and a yelp of wookish rage.  After a brief scuffle in the dark Shifty's laughter stops.

Four shaggy wookies stride fiercely through your ranks, parting your fighters with a Commanding roar.  Sugar Ray blanches and ducks behind Creature, and only Mad Muruzabal and One Eye Malone stand their ground unflinchingly.

One of the wookies drags Shifty's limp body with one hand and clutches a wound in his belly with the other.  The wooky's fur is dark with blood.  He drops the elf roughly to the ground and tosses a bloody shiv onto his body, growling with rage.  

Another of the wookies steps forward.  His hair is dull grey, patchy save for a wild and tangled mane atop his head, and his flesh is withered.  He points a decayed finger at Creature, then at himself, then throws his arms out.  Mouth gaping, he rears back and squeaks, "GGGnnnnrrrgaaaagh!"

"GGGnnnnrrrgaaaagh!" one of the other wooks repeats.

[One of you guys got a convincing reason why you understand wooky let me hear it.]

Quote from: ttagxamm;260927Pausing near the tunnel you both feel a bit conspicuous -- you are, after all, a hobling in a police uniform and The Warlock Who Almost Tore Biggie's Playhouse Down.

As you linger near the tunnel there's no doubt you're beginning to draw a few stares from the crowd.  No sign of any Brawl security.  At the moment, anyway.

Quote from: ttagxamm;260957"Hrmmph," grumbles the voice in Hobson's head, "I suppose there's no arguing with that, if you want to run yourself to exhaustion."

[That's good thinking, Fable!  If it's necessary to figure out a house rule for forced marches/extended running I'll definitely work that in!]

[Thanks...I'd treat Robot Nature as including willpower/self-discipline.]

Quote from: ttagxamm;261215As you linger near the tunnel there's no doubt you're beginning to draw a few stares from the crowd.  No sign of any Brawl security.  At the moment, anyway.

Who's lingering? I'm heading away from all this, and encouraging Quazarn to do likewise.

Quote from: Age of FableWho's lingering? I'm heading away from all this, and encouraging Quazarn to do likewise.

Just a pause to keep you aware of your choices.

So, away away?  As in hoofing it through the parking lot and trucking on down the road?

"Uh oh...", says Buck in a low disparaging voice.  "Trouble, boys...now what...?", Buck turns to Zarko, "Get Creature and let's start moving the hell away from this place!"

(Looks like we've hung around too long!)

Quote from: ttagxamm;260927[Y]ou are, after all, a hobling in a police uniform and The Warlock Who Almost Tore Biggie's Playhouse Down.

[Dude, we're gettin' a rep!]

"Well, my hobling cohort," says Quazarn to Hobson, "we'd best make ourselves hard-to-find -- say, get lost among the crowd?  And what of the others?  How will we find them?"  He twists his lips in searing, incandescent thought.  "Splitting up," he reflects, "may well have been a bad idea."  Then, "To the stalls!  Let us lose ourselves among the throng, visually if not in terms of merit."

(Ha, ha!  This thing has gotten nuts!! har!!  Fun though...Buck bears the burden of some of the chaos...but it takes all of us to "tango", as it were, and besides: gotta see how bad we can jack-up the JM's planning!  Isn't that always the classic RPG situation?  ha!)

[Keep in mind the party is split up in time as well as space.  Hobson & Quaz's antics are happening within minutes of the crane fiasco!  The rest of you are hours ahead. :eek:  

[Much fun as it'd be to fly Fable in from Australia and converge in some central location (or better yet fly ourselves down there!) here's one instance that I'm glad we're playing PbP and not tabletop.]

(Ow, wow, i hadn't thought of that, in all this chaos.!...yikes...that changes things to some degree)

[You just worry about kicking asses in the Brawl.  Or running away from ass-kickers, as the case may be.  I'll figure out the rest.]

"Well, Creature," Zarko says. "Do you wanna stand and fight, or should we clear out and live to fight later?

"Whichever you decide, we're with you."

Zarko eyes the bloody shiv and remembers that he "forgot" to leave his pistol in the locker room. But then, guns make noise...

Quote from: Coffee;261337"Well, Creature," Zarko says. "Do you wanna stand and fight, or should we clear out and live to fight later?

"Whichever you decide, we're with you."

Zarko eyes the bloody shiv and remembers that he "forgot" to leave his pistol in the locker room. But then, guns make noise...

In the manner of their race the wookies are clad only in their own pelts, and unless their weapons are concealed in compromising places they appear unarmed.  Glancing at the shiv Zarko notes that it's crafted in the shape of an elfin ear -- in a shade of blue perfectly matching Shifty Mcjumper's blue skin.  Glancing between the blade and the indignant and bleeding wooky he realizes just who shanked who.

[WRT your forgotten gun: you also forgot to tell your JM that you forgot to stow your weapon.  It might be wise to remember that you left it in your locker after all.  Just sayin.']

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!;261269[Dude, we're gettin' a rep!]

"Well, my hobling cohort," says Quazarn to Hobson, "we'd best make ourselves hard-to-find -- say, get lost among the crowd?  And what of the others?  How will we find them?"  He twists his lips in searing, incandescent thought.  "Splitting up," he reflects, "may well have been a bad idea."  Then, "To the stalls!  Let us lose ourselves among the throng, visually if not in terms of merit."

I change my clothes to something which will fit in with the crowd.

"An excellent plan. And yet, it's possible that they may search the crowd - believing as they do that you're a major criminal, and responsible for the head of security (and former senior police officer) getting a crossbow bolt in the leg."

"Also, you have a great big pointy head, presenting some difficulties vis a vis passing unnoticed."