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Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:57 am Post subject:

Rebecca quickly finds four riflemen, laying down. Two of them are ready to shoot, using scopes to aim at the lot of them.
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Sitting his horse Kade looks for the shooters, he moves his mount slowly, enough to throw off a shot but slow enough so has he gets a good look, even so he makes sure he stays low in order to provide as difficult a target as possible.

When Finn calls for everyone to take cover Kade dismounts and takes a hold of his rifle and runs for the cover of a large rock.

"What's the effective range of one of these?" he calls brandishing his rifle, "Oh and Finn, any time you want a friendly lightning storm to play over the hill top yonder let me know!

Which would test my Black Road sensitivity too.

sandrayln · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 172

Faylinn lightly dismounts and moves to Finn's side. "Do they have wood on their guns?" she asks, a hint of a smile lurking in her expression.

Nihilistic Mind · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject:

Rebecca shoots one of the snipers and a bullet misses Faylinn by a long shot. Blake steps back a bit as he takes a hit from the other sniper, deliberately protecting Finn.

The area from which the gunmen are shooting is made very clear when a moment later, a body rolls and falls from the large rock.

Finn is able to shoot the man who hit Blake and he flops back and out of sight.

Rebecca has another shot to take as four more gunmen appear, their heads and rifles appearing in her and Finn's line of sight.

It is uncertain whether or not their guns have any wood, but this Shadow's proximity to Cimarron would make it very likely.

More gunfire echoes through the wide valley and they find another spot, a mile away, where gunmen are posted. Their shots are rubbish and hit nowhere near the group, though. Finn is certain they weren't there before.
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Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 375 Location: Oklahoma

Rebecca scowls as she lines up her next shot and takes it. As soon as the bullet is out of the barrel she is loading another round.

"Finn, I can take off and head for Cimarron and trump ya, or I can stay and shoot at these yella bellies who have backups. Or we can turn 'round. But it's likely a trap." She glances over at the smoke between shots. "Not that its our only choice of directions."

Then she sights, and fires again.

Finn · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 121

Finn is rather like a machine, as the would-be snipers are well in range. He ejects one cartridge from his rifle, loads another of the long rounds, closes and fires on one of the four new targets. All done smoothly, as if he has done just that, many times before, and again using Blake as cover.

"Keep their heads down, Rebecca. With a hole in it if you have to." His head twitches towards the other shooters nearly a mile off. "Kade, if you want to rain those other shooters out, now's the time." He prepares to fire again, "Faylinn, the stocks of their rifles will almost certainly be made of wood." Finn pauses, "Let's swat a few flies before we barrel out of here. Can Demon take a bullet?"

sandrayln · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 172

Faylinn's impending smile slides into view. "Excellent. I shall see what I can do."

With that, she leans against Blake's shoulder and reaches out with her sorcerous sense for the distant rifles, feeding them a trickle of energy and the order to grow...

Arkadios · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 71 Location: Good old Yookay

Kade calls upon his magical sight and performs the necessary motions, physical and mental to set up the proposed lightning fest.

"Any moment now!" he says through clenched teeth.

Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 375 Location: Oklahoma

Rebecca doesn't look at Finn has if he has lost his mind; but she thinks it as she fires again. The pile of casings falling to the ground is starting to look significant.

"No, my horse ain't bulletproof...." The tinkle of metal casing on rock, the snick of new ones sliding into place, the snap of the bolt sliding into place. "What the hell kind'a question is that?..." The firing of a deadly accurate bit of brass and steel.

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Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 375 Location: Oklahoma

Putting her smoking rifle against a rock and pulls one of the water skins from her saddle, Rebecca moves to examine Poppin's shoulder. She pours water over the wound to clean around the area while one hand rests in Poppin's mane to keep her calm.

"She ain't gonna be able to tear around like we've been doin' if there's a slug in her," Rebecca says. Then she lowers her voice and murmurs softly to the mare while getting a better look at her injury.

sandrayln · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 172

Faylinn moves to Poppins' head and says quietly, "I will hold her, Rebecca." She catches the reins again and says slowly, "If we need to send her home, I believe I can keep up with the group on my own, but it is likely to seriously impact my ability to spellcast."

Arden · Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 375 Location: Oklahoma

Nodding, Rebecca let Faylinn handle the mare while she checked and cleaned the wound.

"Blake or Demon can carry two," she said. "Probably make yer castin' easier, yeah?"