guadalajara ♔ polishing a compass that I hold in my sleeve

[wynn]

♬ Grounds For Divorce - Elbow

WHO || Carol, Malina, Alex, Kali [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights investigate a ~mysterious crash~
WHERE || Guadalajara, Mexico
WHEN || April 19th [back dated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

With most of the team staunchly convinced that about to go check out Area 51, they head off to Guadalajara, Mexico, to investigate local rumors of a crash site outside the city. One of the best things about this little trip is that even in February, it's in the seventies, so there's definitely a vacation air to arriving in the bustling city. They'll need to rent a car and head out in the direction of the supposed crash in the flat countryside. It's a fourteen hour flight so get comfortable.

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[hacker]

[ Skye raises her gun, staying behind Kali but definitely joining in the threatening but not looking too scary (intimidate 13). ] Peter! Get the ship running.

[starprince]

[ they all look fully ready to cooperate, watching reyes nervously and keeping their hands up, backing away from the ship, but a few exchange nervous glances at skye's words. peter, for his part, vaults ahead towards it, clambering up to get inside. ] Don't have to tell me twice.

[felidity]

Good people. [ kali steps forward after peter with her hands raised like she's geoffery chaucer, quite possibly the least intimidating of the entire group. ] Hello, I'm Kali and, although contraindicated by the guns, we're not here to hurt you. We will, I mean we took your boss hostage so it's not out of the question but we don't really want to. I'm told violence is not the answer. However! We will need you to not make any sudden movements because some of us have itchy trigger fingers and it would be very ill advised to test us. Not to mention it would be very difficult to get blood and brain matter out of your lab coats. Which is a good look for you. Very handsome, you look especially svelte. [ that is directed at a scientist in particular, kali literally pointing at him. ] No, not the point. The point is that we will be out of your hair in a few minutes, hopefully with minimal bloodshed. Any questions? Ooh, is that Galaga?

[bredinthebone]

[It is by some miracle that Malina manages to keep it together and not crack up laughing at Kali's little speech (will save 26). She keeps it together and stays where she is, though, waiting for Alex to move her to the ship whenever he's ready.]

[starprince]

[ they shake their heads, well distracted by her speech, but after a moment, peter pokes his head back out, after no signs whatsoever of the milano coming to life ] Uh, guys? We've got a problem.

[ambitionist]

Well fucking kick it or something, jesus christ. [i like how he has vehicle expert as a feat and that's his helpful advice. NOT THAT KIND OF VEHICLE. oh and he's still holding on to malina just in case anyone needed to know.]

[hacker]

[ This is a really

really bad time for them to not be able to fly out on a spaceship.

Skye's grip on the gun adjusts in her nervousness, definitely noticeable to Kali right by her. Glancing around, she scans the area, struggling for an alternative while Alex makes his complaint. Her eyes land on the truck. She moves forward to nudge Kali gently, ] If we don't hurry up, the real commander's gonna come looking. [ Her voice is low. ] Think somebody's got the keys to that thing? [ She points with the barrel of her borrowed gun. ]

[felidity]

[ lips pursing, she looks up at peter. she's happy to take the lead in order to continue keeping the actual leader out of harm's way still, but she doesn't relish having to make decisions on the fly. she likes plans. ]

Can you try turning it off and turning it on again?

[ and give her a minute more to think, please. still, she nods at skye, any humor in her little speech turned to sharp seriousness. if all else fails she's sure she and alex can hotwire a truck. ] Will you be able to get the ceiling open and the lift to, um, lift? If that ship doesn't start in the next two minutes we're not taking it with us, but we can't go back the way we came.

[airforceful]

What exactly is the problem? [Carol can probably carry the ship out, but it'll be a pain if people are shooting at her. And they probably would be, since as far as they'd know, they're kidnapping their boss. Plus, she needs to get everyone else out of there too. She can't carry a spaceship and fight.]

[hacker]

[ Though she nods her assent to being able to open the ceiling (and starts fussing at her phone absently to start doing just that—computer use 39), a little grimace follows Kali's suggestion of leaving behind the Milano. ]

I don't think we'll get him out of here without it. [ She keeps her voice low, but her gaze flickers to Peter in a telling way all the same. She very clearly doesn't want to leave him behind. ] But we could load it back onto the truck with that hoist, drive it and all of us outta here, and worry about the damage it took once we're clear.

[felidity]

I'm not worried about damage. The second we get it out of here they're going to have people on us and we're not going to be able to outrun them towing a ship behind us. [ she huffs, rubbing her knuckles across her jaw. ] Unfortunately it's the best plan we've got for getting everyone out right now and if it comes to it, we can cut it loose outside. Once Peter is safe. [ she straightens and nods, more to herself than anyone else, satisfied with the logistics. ]

Okay, Skye, keep working on the lift. [ she turns to carol: ] Get Peter and hook the ship up to the truck. [ with that, she steps over to alex, he's far more friendly than she is. ] Go get the keys for the truck. All of them that you can get. I'll take over here.

[ "guarding" malina/boss, whose arm she grips so alex is free to go. ]

[bredinthebone]

[MALINA STILL CAN'T SAY ANYTHING for as long as they're selling this bit, but you're doing good, temporary leader! She's just going to keep standing next to you and looking worried which doesn't need a bluff roll so much anymore, because this is taking longer than it should and they might have actual guns on them soon.]

[hacker]

[ Nodding to Kali, she redirects her efforts to opening the huge hangar door that the truck doubtlessly pulled the ship through instead of the ceiling (go ahead and apply the computer use check to that instead). As she does, she lowers her gun, approaching the truck so she can get a look at the hoist system (computer use 33?? idk if it's computer use or something else to try and figure out how a mechanical thing works). ANYWAY, she'll try to make the truck hoist the ship back onto its flatbed. ]

[airforceful]

[Carol heads over to the ship and knocks on the side.] Come on, Quill. We're driving out of here. You can fix your toys later. [And she'll fly up and hover, ready to spot the ship as the hoist lifts it, so she can attach it once it's on the truck.]

[ambitionist]

[he doesn't know how being friendly is going to help him when his goal has been to scare the piss out of these people ok. but he'll ... make an attempt.

an attempt to .... intimidate them into helping them ....? INTIMIDATION ROLLS HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE. IT'S TOO LATE TO APOLOGIZE. (intimidate 27)]

Let's play a game called give me the keys to the truck and nobody gets shot in the face.

[starprince]

[ he pokes his head up again, looking a little freaked out by the state of his ship, but he comes out to help hook it up, and together they can get it back onto the truck, the doors opening as skye works her computer magic.

alex is fucking terrifying all the scientists in the meantime, and they exchange a few more looks, before one of them digs in his pocket and then tosses the keys down, where they skitter across the floor towards him. ]

What did they do to my ship?

[hacker]

Probably something a lot like what they're gonna do to us if we don't motor.

[ Skye helps Carol strap the ship down on the truck bed and turns to Alex. ]

Hurry, let's go! Bring her with; they won't fire on us if we have their leader. [ bluff 23 for that being "their leader." ]

[ambitionist]

[alex picks up the keys, feeling confident he has sufficiently horrified everyone into not starting any shit. and then he follows skye's directions and starts dragging malina along.]

[bredinthebone]

[Will put up the requisite amount of struggling and stumbling as she's pulled forward by Alex, still saying nothing but making a show of looking like she doesn't want to go with them, even if she really does (bluff 18).]

[felidity]

[ all that sorted, kali heads to the truck. ] Toss me the keys.

[ 'cause alex has malina so kali will take over driving duties again. ]

[ambitionist]

But I wanted to drive. [he makes the sulkiest fucking five-year-old face before throwing the keys kali's way.]

[airforceful]

[Carol touches down next to the front of the truck, keeping a wary eye on the other people in the room in case they get any ideas.] I'll keep up from outside. Someone's got to guard our rear. [And the woman who can fly and shoot energy from her hands makes the most sense.]

[felidity]

[ she catches them easily (reflex save 27), ignoring alex, and unlocks the truck if need be before climbing in and starting it up. hope they gave her the right keys tbh. (drive 22 once they all get in.) ] Okay. Everybody else in. Skye get shotgun. [ for the doors and stuff tbh. ]

[hacker]

[ Skye climbs in shotgun and passes Kali's gun back to her by sliding it across the truck's dash. ] Thanks. [ With that said, she keeps the commander's gun at her side and gets back on her phone, ready to mess with any remaining security checkpoints they run into. Computer use 37 in case anything comes up while I'm busy today. ]

[starprince]

[ peter reluctantly moves to climb in, and as kali starts the vehicle up and heading out, the main hallway door opens, and a few soldiers file through, stopping and pointing at the vehicle, shouting in spanish. looks like they might have figured out what really happened to their boss lady.

they pull up guns and the scientists basically flee for cover, not wanting to get in the middle of this shit. ] Here it comes! Step on it! [ peter fires off a few shots from his crazy space guns, mostly just to ward the guards back as they peel out of the doors (atk 20, 8, 10, and 20, only two of which strike anything) i'm not gonna bother doing an init for this but just everyone can do one tag of what they are doing during this getaway. please wait til everyone's tagged once, and then i go again, before you tag a second time. ]