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[oftheband]

More Than Useless - Relient K

WHO || Edain, Groot, Rocket, Gwen, Kali  [closed]
WHAT ||The Knights try to stop a troll bank robber  
WHERE || Downtown London
WHEN || Early April 2016
HOW || Actionspam

[ It's been an eventful morning downtown.  After a troll hit up a bank and the customers within, he went on a violent rampage through police officers attempting to escape, that have ended with a standoff.  He is currently holding a busful of people hostage, surrounded by squad cars downtown, and the Knights have been charged with helping contain the situation without any civilian casualities... ]

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[flerken]

[Chewie yowls loudly as Rocket leaves because DAMMIT ROCKET YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HELP HER. STOP IGNORING HER.]

[treeshape]

[Groot punches one of his fists into an open palm.]

I am Groot.

[Surely he's confident he can at least last while they evacuate the bus.

[felidity]

What he said. [ kali still has no idea what groot is saying, but she's choosing to believe that he's agreeing with her because he and rocket love her like drax's long lost daughter. ]

[beatupgrass]

[Rocket looks up at Groot and shrugs.] I mean... he's real good at hittin' things. It's kinda why I keep him around.

[he loves you, bro]

[oftheband]

[ in the meantime, the troll scowls at rory on the bus.

"Fine. No good mangy snack. Crush it!" that seems to be... an order. crush the cat, rory. it's fine. ]

I'd say we've got our distraction with that thing in there. Let's use it, one way or another.

[gwenbloodycooper]

Alright then. [Nodding.] We also need to secure this alien, the last thing we need is it escaping and laying eggs all over London. Groot, you focus on the troll. Everyone else, passengers, the Flurken and backing him (Groot) up.

[And IDK how many entries/exits there are to the bus? Spot 31.]

[mr_manners]

[It takes him a second to realize that the troll is referring to him crushing the cat (wisdom ... 6), and it mostly happens a little like this:]

Crush ... crush the cat?

[a beat.]

Wait, you want me to do it? Is that really necessary? I mean, why don't we just let it off the bus? That makes sense, yeah?

[He's gonna try. He's gonna try so hard but the dice are determined to roll for shit today (diplomacy 14).]

[flerken]

[Chewie yowls at the window again, then turns towards Rory and the troll, hair on the back of her neck rising as she lets out a low growl like JUST TRY IT MOTHERFUCKER.]

[beatupgrass]

[Rocket looks at Kali with pleading raccoon eyes.] Get the flerken.

[felidity]

As in murder? Okay. [ hopefully someone wants to correct her before she murders carol's pet and no one is the wiser because she's loping forward toward the bus like THAT MEANS LET'S GO, I GUESS! ]

[oftheband]

[ the bus has a front door, emergency back door, and emergency side door halfway through on rory's side.

the troll leans over rory menacingly, gritting his teeth together (intimidate 16). "I SAID. CRUSH."

a couple seats over, a little girl starts crying. "Mommy, he's not gonna hurt the kitty is he?" ]

[mr_manners]

[What the troll doesn't seem to realize is that Rory's got a lot more steel to him than he looks. Despite the fact that the troll is very scary, he's faced down scarier aliens and won (will save 19).

(Or maybe it's just the fact that he doesn't want to upset the little girl. He's got a soft spot for little girls.)

His spine straightens as he looks the troll dead in the eye as he stares him down, trying to be just as scary, but there's the very real idea that the troll would likely crush him instead, but at least he's trying (intimidate 12).]

No. I won't.

[felidity]

[ kali's just going to peer in through the back door, clocking how many passengers there are and which door would be best to herd them out? (spot 38, hide 37) ]

[treeshape]

[Meanwhile, Groot is gonna go do the distraction thing and walk to the front of the bus and peer in the front window, waving at the troll to try and get his attention.]

I am Groot!

[beatupgrass]

[Rocket moves into position right behind Groot, prepared to provide back-up if his buddy needs it. he has both his excaliburs out and everything. aw yeah gunslinger raccoon.]

[gwenbloodycooper]

As in capture. [Though lbr. The flurken looks like a cat so.

And Gwen is going to position herself by the front door of the bus, trying to see how many many passengers she can herd out that way while Groot distracts the Troll. (Spot 22 / Hide 24.)]

[flerken]

[The flerken sure does look like a cat, and sure doesn't appear to have any tentacles and though she is yowling angrily, there aren't really any obvious signs to make it clear she's anything other than a normal cat. Rory doesn't seem like he's about to crush her, so she winds her way behind him, bumping her head against his back. Protect her, strange human who doesn't want to crush her.]

[oftheband]

[ yeah that troll starts laughing uproariously at rory's attempt to be scary, tbh. he reaches into his coat and yanks out his giant assault rifle, causing people to start screaming. or maybe the tree person is why they're screaming. he doesn't seem to notice that, however... as he doesn't turn around to face the front, pointing his gun at rory's face. ]

Now you and it BOTH go boom!

[ annnd it's time for init. there are eighteen people on the bus, including rory, including men, women, and about three young children altogether. ]

[beatupgrass]

[Rocket's ultra-sensitive ears pick up on the troll's sudden change in demeanor (listen 39), and he springs immediately into action, bolting towards the bus's front door.

Rather than waste valuable time trying to pry open the door, he grits his teeth in an anguished groan and fires a single shot at the glass door at a low enough level to not accidentally take out the driver (thank god for being short) (atk 19, dmg 7), shouting:] EVERYBODY STAY DOWN.

[assuming that... breaks the door, he climbs up onto the bus and takes his position at the front of the aisle, guns akimbo.]

Look, dude, there's stupid and then there's stupid, and what you're about to do is really, really stupid.

[felidity]

[ kali let's rocket make himself a target so she can gently (str 22) yank the back door open and look at the people on the bus with a friendly smile. look at this face. ]

Hello innocent bystanders, please exit this way. Keep low and quiet, one at a time. Tiniest people first.

[ give her the babies. ]

[gwenbloodycooper]

[Gwen looks alarmed at the insanity that is shooting while there's civilians in danger and like Kali, her goal is getting people out of there rather than fighting the troll.

She and the passengers can't fit through that hole though so she's going to attempt to wrench the front doors open (Str 17).]

[mr_manners]

[It's cool, Rocket wouldn't have hit the driver anyway, because the troll injured him early, and he's still in Rory's care. That being said, he's not going to waste time staring at the sudden arrival of a gun toting talking raccoon.

Rory is simply going to drop down, using his body to shield the injured bus driver who is still in his care, trying to shield his body and see if he can reach for his sword, which is with the rest of his medical supplies.]

[oftheband]

[ edain positions himself below the back doors that kali has opened, ready to grab people and hoist them down... even though he'd rather be stabbing things ]

[treeshape]

[meanwhile, Groot literally groans because he's supposed to be the distraction, not his tiny little friend.

Then he slams his hands down on the front windshield to break it (atk 21/17, dmg 13/17), both as a tactic to get the enemy's attention and also to...probably drag the driver out of the bus if he doesn't haul ass.

This is going well.]

[flerken]

[Chewie, still distressed, but finally with a way off the bus, does what any cat would do. She climbs a tree.

Considering she actually knows the tree currently breaking a windshield, he seems a good candidate. She bolts through the windshield, scrambling up Groot's arm to go perch on his head, hackles raised (climb 24).]

Mrrooowr!