[IC] Lowlife Chapter 0.9: A heated discussion

[Yours Truly]

It is the great equalizer, it'll stop a small and wimpy human as easily as it will stop a troll the size of a car, it can and will affect anyone from any social or economic class, it ignores race, creed and religion, and it is neither a weapon, a spell, or anything of the sort, it is called hunger.

And even though it is 4 AM on a Saturday, and despite the torrential rain, you still can't help but feel like you need to get something to eat at this time of night, but you can't just get it from your neighbors no, perhaps they ran out of food, perhaps they were asleep, but for some reason or other you decided to head to the good old Stuffer Shack at 48th Street, which as always is conveniently open 24-7-365.

 

Now tell me, how did you get to the Stuffer Shack? And what are you getting inside of the always familiar and uniform store?.

And what do you think of the drab and dull insides, with the beautiful yet dull looking Elf wommaning the counter, the obese woman that has somehow decided that 4 AM in the Morning is a good time to take her equally obese child out grocery shopping, and the man at aisle 8 who is currently conversing rather animatedly with an inanimate microwave?

 

Strider03s Post ((He won't be around for the weekend and gave me his post))

 

 

Darien trudged through the dismal streets of Seattle, mud splashing onto his boots. He was hindered by a slight limp, so his progress was somewhat sluggish. Whenever he approached an unlit alleyway, his gait would quicken as he attempted to put some measure of distance between himself and the barely perceptible shadow drifting wandering between the buildings. Darien was headed to a Stuffer Shack, for a quick bite to eat. The Stuffer Shack had no saving grace save for the fact that it was cheap, and it was open. However, that was all that really mattered to Darien. He entered the drab building to the calming whir of motors, tracking mud over the threshold. He quickly made his way towards his favorite aisle, which just happened to be the cheapest. He kept his head down as he walked, careful to avoid eye contact. However, he was slightly surprised by the number of pairs of feet. It was unusual...He made his way to Area F, passing an assortment of odd folks. One man was attempting to reason with a microwave oven in an increasingly loud voice, and near the counter that Sarien was approaching, a rather ugly woman stood, berating her equally ugly child. Darien rolled his eyes as he passed. It was 4 A.M. What the hell was that woman doing up with her child?? He approached the counter, and looked the attendant up and down. Pretty. "Morning. Two soy burgers." He held out his credstick. His stomach growled quietly.
 

 

 

Team Status

 

 

Darien Polk (The Bumbler): Healthy, 214 Nuyen inside of certified credstick, full clip for his undamaged submachinegun.

Rorik (An interesting guy): Healthy, 242 Nuyen inside of certified credstick, Machetes have no need for ammo, undamaged armor and Machete.

Maria Smith (Eris): Healthy, 494 Nuyen inside of certified credstick, Magic has not yet caused any drain.

Simon Lee (Soulless One/Weeb Whacker): Healthy, 185 Nuyen inside of certified credstick, full clips for his undamaged hold out pistols.
 

 

 

Details of the area (Try not to get used with this much detail)

 

 

The place is extremely familiar to your characters, every stuffer shack is exactly the same, and unless your character has never really had any cause for going to a convenience store, your character should be able to navigate the aisles with your eyes closed, the aisles contain:
Aisle 1: Air Filters, radon testers, water purifiers, Detoxy brand products, and other environmental and antipollution products for the home.

Aisle 2: Automotive and bike supplies.

Aisle 3: Soaps, detergents, bug sprays, roach condos, rat traps, and so on and so forth.

Aisle 4: Small hardware, household goods, paints and sprays.

Aisle 5: Personal hygiene soaps, sprays, pads, strips and spritzes, in regular or industrial strength.

Aisle 6: First aid supplies and other medicines, and some vitamins.

Aisle 7: Pet foods and general petcare supplies.

Aisle 8: Small appliances, stuff like microwaves and toaster ovens.

Aisle 9: Video and Trideo disks and simchips (Somebody else's experiences slotted directly into your brain using a datajack), also several snacks to accompany your movie watching experience, such as soy nuts, slurpee like drinks, Popcorn, and other individually wrapped movie snacks.

Aisle 10: Disposable plastic products in any shape or size you can imagine

Aisle 11: Baked products in general, a display case that is still unfinished.

Aisle 12: Breakfast foods made using soy, also contains several cereals.

Aisle 13: Soykafs (Coffee flavored coffee replacements made from soy) teas and herbal teas, chocolate substitute for beverages, and other beverage mixes.

Aisle 14: Aztex-mex cuisine ranging from mild to very spicy, and other foods made from things that aren't soy substitutes, very expensive.

Aisle 15: Candies and other small snacks.

Aisle 16: Ramen noodles and prepacked soups and stews, all of them are made from soy.

Aisle 17: Real fruit and vegetable dishes that aren't made from soy, may contain some lingering traces of radiation.

Aisle 18: Flour and food additives.

You can also order burgers or hot dogs from the counter.
 

 

 

Edited March 29, 2017 by Cronos5010

[DarkChampionAkihito]

Spoiler

Simon walks along the dreaded streets of Seattle listening to his dark yet empowering music. His two pistols at the ready in case any goon tries to mug him or some peasant tries to be frisky with him. Suddenly, a tumultuous roar caused Simon to stop moving. That roar came from his stomach. He had not caught a good meal ever since his grandfather sent him to this gang. Simon was forced to walk through the streets of Seattle with hunger desperately gnawing at his mind. As he exited out the alley, he saw a convenience store. A gift from pure fortune? Simon didn’t bother to care. He hurriedly strided towards the convenience store that was the Stuffer Shack. Greeted by many food choices and useful appliances that could be used for crafting traps and maybe more diabolical traps, hunger once again caused Simon to refocus himself to the real world. He walked down Aisle 16 where he found an assortment of cup noodles. His hungry state longed for the taste of Asian delicacies, however, the one word had caused Simon to hold back his hungry hand: Ramen. If his grandfather should find out he ate this, bloody wrath would ensue. Simon left the temptation that was Aisle 16 and proceeded to Aisle 15 to gather some small candies, and went to the counter. “Excuse me…” He said to the clerk in his morose tone. “I would like a hamburger. That will be all…” Simon said, as the clerk hurriedly went to prepare him one as the clerk felt his dark aura emanating from Simon. In the distance, he saw an thirty year old man having an unorthodox conversation with the microwave "How childish..." Simon says with disgust. Just behind him, a mother was admonishing her obese son for his kleptomaniac tendencies. Simon lowered his dark hood and muttered to himself, “These people are unpleasant; no matter, they shall perish soon enough…” The clerk came back with his hamburger and pointed him in the direction of the microwaves. Simon groaned quietly as he'd have to stand behind the two unpleasant people. He put down three small candies on the counter as well. He held out his credstick. As soon as the clerk took his credstick, Simon felt an unfamiliar presence approaching the store’s vicinity. Could it be friend or foe? Simon readied himself as he began to put his hand near his pistols...
 

 

Edited February 25, 2017 by DarkChampionAkihito

[S34N1C]

Maria missed the Lodge. She never had to worry about food there, they had runners that supplied them. Now that she was back on the streets, she knew she would have to find some for herself, and soon. 

She had been wandering the streets for the better part of 2 hours, not really paying attention to where she was going, preferring to follow her gut. That was how He guided her, through almost imperceptible feelings. Never direct messages. She knew He would never lead her astray. Tonight, something was going to happen. Something big. And He was guiding her straight to it. 

Despite her hubger, she has passed by three or four resteraunts already. They weren't the right one.

When she laid eyes on the Stuffer Shack, she immediately knew. This is the spot. Thank the Horned God, I'm starving. She enters the store, making sure her hood obscures her face enough that the cameras won't recognize her. She keeps her head down, and first goes to aisle 5. She gets the cheapest deodorant they have, then heads to the counter. "Two hamburgers. And this." Sge hands the clerk her credstick. After recieving her burgers and her change, she stands in line at the microwaves. 

 

She he has takes note of the other occupants of the store, something seems a little off about them. Ultimately, she keeps her head down and waits for her turn. 

[Bismarck]

Rorik crawled out of bed and picked up his knife(machete), measuring two feet in length he slides it upwards into the sheath on his back and clasps it into place. Throwing on a loose hanging hoodie and shorts he proceeds out into the rain. Rorik cut through an alley into the main thoroughfare he strolls over into the Stuffer Shack which stood out like a dead tooth with white teeth. Proceeding into the restaurant he notices an abnormally large line.

 

"Even now stupid fucking hipster restauraunts have an hour wait" he thought to himself.

 

So he does what he normally did in long waits he fell asleep standing. He felt something was off, but he didn't care, let it come.

[Yours Truly]

The woman at the counter simply nodded vacantly and handed Damien and Eris two plastic wrapped soyburgers, but not before making sure to slot their credsticks into her counter of course, she then pointed them towards the store's microwave, which was conveniently big enough to fit both of their orders.

They would have to wait a moment to receive their vaguely fast "food" it seems.

 

She slowly acknowledges Simon's presence and slots his credstick into the counter while muttering "weirdo", she gives it back to him of course.

The obese woman and her child seems to be growing louder with their bickering and pleading, and the man at Aisle 8 is growing angry at the non functional and non sentient microwave's lack of speech.

 

It was at that moment that the mechanical doors of the Stuffer shack opened as a man wearing a black fur and leather jacket entered the store. He pointed a wooden stick to the roof of the establishment and shouted "This my friends is the most magnificent stick you will have ever seen, and it is in fact, up". A ball of force hit the roof on top of him, causing plaster to rain on his bald head "This is also a robbery".

A very sneaky man enters through the back doors of the establishment and brandishes an extremely impractical weapon that fits with his general "Samurai poser" look, although it seemed to be rather long for a Katana...a masked woman brandishing a submachinegun enters with the sneaky man, alongside a skinny rake of a man wearing another black and furred jacket.

The man at Aisle 8 pulls out a shotgun from underneath his coat. Fires a single shot at the microwave, and shouts "It was a boring conversation anyway".

 

In all of this chaos the woman at the counter simply slams the panic button, only to find that it does absolutely nothing.

The obese woman and her equally obese child are still bickering and pleading.

 

Cash Status:

The Bumbler: -20 Nuyen (194 left)

The Weeb Whacker: -5 Nuyen (180 Left)

Eris: -25 Nuyen (469 Left)

An Interesting Guy: -0 Nuyen (242 left)

[Strider]

Why couldn't a troll ever grab a soy burger or two in peace?? Darien scowled at the machine-gun toting woman, as he slowly turned, gradually raising his hands into a gesture of surrender.

Darien began to speak, keeping his voice as calm and peaceful as was possible for a troll, "So..."

His eyes widened as he peered past the criminals.

"Shit..." As soon as one of their eyes turned to glance behind, he flung one of his soy burgers into the woman's face.

Darien tries to distract the enemy, then throws his soy burger in the machingun woman's face.

Edited February 27, 2017 by Strider

[S34N1C]

I knew something like this would happen. At least they aren't from Ares. . . 

Maria uses Spirit of the Man on the woman with the submachinegun.

Shoot the guy with the sword. . .

After that, she takes cover behind a nearby shelf.

 

Edited February 27, 2017 by S34N1C

[DarkChampionAkihito]

Spoiler

"Ugh." Simon says seeing another gun-slinging enemy.

Simon proceeds to back flip into one of the aisle to try and lose the enemy.

"This should give me enough distance to kill him in one shot."

Simon readies himself with dual pistols in hand anticipating the opponent's next move.

 

Edited February 28, 2017 by DarkChampionAkihito

[Yours Truly]

4 v 15

Darien weakly throws the soy burger at the woman, succeeding in staining the floor in front of her.

The woman proceeds to point at Darien with her submachinegun until.....

 

19 v 8

Eris summons a spirit of man, appearing to be an otherwise featureless slender man in a suit, the spirit whispers inside of the woman's ear "Why don't you shoot the samurai wannabe? It'll feel so good, and with him gone you will get a bigger cut", for some reason or other she decides that this is the best course of action and fires at the samurai wannabe.

20 v 12

The samurai wannabe's armor jacket is penetrated by the point blank shooting, causing him to flop down to the floor, with a look of surprise on his face, he continues to groan in pain.

18 v 11

The rake throws a ball of force at the woman, causing her to be thrown towards the wall, the blast unintentionally catches the samurai wannabe as well....

12 v 18

Simon Lee somehow manages to miss a man sprawled out on the floor with two different gun shots....

 

Rorik is somehow still asleep.

 

The man up front maintains order by shouting "Credsticks and weaponry on the floor ladies and gentlemen!".

17 v 7

The shotgun toting man fires a single slug at Simon, knocking him down to the floor and dealing 1 damage, thankfully the stick and shock round failed to damage any of his internal organs, although it (10 v 8) suceeded in tazing him, causing him to receive a malus to any rolls....

 

The shopkeeper is hiding behind the counter, and the obese woman is screaming in terror.

Status

Darien Polk(a): 4/4 Status

Simon Lee: 3/4 Status Shocked -2 to any rolls next round

Rorik: 4/4 Status

Eris: 4/4 Status

Spirit of Man: 1/2 Status One round left on the field.

[Strider]

"What an embarrassment." Having completely failed in his attempt to use food based weaponry, Darien reached into his jacket and pulled out his gun. He jammed his finger into the small trigger guard area, and fired a quick burst at the mage, before ducking behind a counter. He hid there, catching his breath, and looking for anything not bolted down.

 

Darien fires a burst (3 shots) at the mage guy, ducks behind a counter, and searches for something to throw.

[S34N1C]

Maria continues to influence the woman. 

You know what sounds fun? Eating some tasty bullets.

 

((if this would make her literally eat bullets, she says something to the effect of "shoot yourself in the head"))

[Yours Truly]

5 successes vs 0

Darien swiftly pulls out his gun and injects the mage with a hopefully lethal injection of lead before he charges towards the nearest counter, one of the shots he had fired misses the target and hits a nearby container of....something red, sudsy, and somehow powder based....substance.

Although he successfully hides beneath a counter, he can still hear fighting going on in the other side of the room....

 

18 v 12

Rather unsurprisingly the spirit of man seems to absolutely love this idea, and it parrots Eris's words "You know what sounds fun? Eating some tasty bullets" rather unfortunately the woman's gun had been knocked out of her hands earlier, but she does comply and starts gnawing at a single bullet.

 

The mage that Darien had shot attempts to say something, but only succeeds in making gurgling noises, it is not a pretty sight.

Status

Darien Polk(a): 4/4 Status 

Simon Lee: 3/4 Status Shocked -2 to any rolls this round

Rorik: 4/4 Status 

Eris: 4/4 Status 

[Strider]

"Ha!" Darien chuckled as his bullets struck their mark. He was just poking his head around the corner when a woman began to gnaw on a bullet. Such a sight was unusual to say the least... Seizing the opportunity, Darien jumped to his feet, and dashed away from his recently acquired cover. With yell, he smashed his gun over the top of the woman's head.

 

Darien smacks the bullet-eating woman over the head with his gun.

[S34N1C]

While disappointed that the spirit interpreted her command so literally, Maria decides it still worked out in her favor. She takes a peek around to see if there are any enemies left in sight. If there are, she tosses a powerbolt in their direction. 

Edited March 2, 2017 by S34N1C

[Yours Truly]

Darien simply walks over to the woman, and hits her with the butt of his submachinegun, nothing special really; it was just business.

Eris's summoned spirit disappears with a barely audible cackle, and she would find a large man with a shotgun pointing it at the general direction of an asleep man, and the black jacket wearing man from earlier calmly stuffing credsticks into a sack, if she glances in the direction of the three stooges from earlier, she would have noticed an exit, guarded only by three not very bright folks in varying states of disrepair.

 

The man with the shotgun walks slowly over to Simon, and kicks him (13 v 14) or at least he tried to, somehow Simon managed to barely dodge the man's kick...

The black jacket wearing man slowly walks over to Rorik, and he points the spell foci at him while saying "Sorry mate, but it's your GP or your HP".

Team Status

Darien Polk(a): 4/4 Status 

Simon Lee: 3/4 Status

Rorik: 4/4 Status 

Eris: 4/4 Status 

[S34N1C]

Maria launches a Powerbolt at the man next to Rorik. 

[DarkChampionAkihito]

Simon luckily dodges the man's kick and proceeds to accurately shoot him where his leg and kneecap meet.

 

Simon gathers his thoughts and runs off into a secluded aisle.

[Strider]

Satisfied with his handiwork, which consisted of violently clubbing a woman over the head with a machinegun, Darien turned to look back toward the cash register. A man was crouching down, preparing some form of magic to use on a prone man. He could have been healing an ally, or attempting to hurt a customer. Either way, it was bad. Darien raised his gun, and fired three shots at the man clad in black.

 

Darien attempts to shoot the mage in the black coat.

[Bismarck]

Rorik wakes up and looks at the mess around him. He starts to steal items from the store and shove them in his hoodie.

[Yours Truly]

Simon succeeds in firing a single shot at the point where the legs and kneecaps meet, only to be met with a very loud "plink" sound and a distinctive lack of blood, he presumably runs away from the monster of a man.

The mage is distracted with trying to converse with the suddenly awake and larceny commiting young man, but rather unfortunately one of Darien's shots zooms over Rorik's head, and the rest bury themselves in the concrete floor, I guess that is why they call it the Spray and pray huh?

The powerbolt spell slams directly into the mage, and does very little damage....it may have not been a bright idea to target the wizard with a magical attack....

Rorik succesfully commits larceny.

The mage throws a powerbolt spell at Eris, dealing 1 status damage as she is thrown down onto the floor..

Team Status

Darien Polk(a): 4/4 Status 

Simon Lee: 3/4 Status

Rorik: 4/4 Status 

Eris: 3/4 Status 

[Strider]

"Oh. Not good." Darien winced as the people got thrown around. Boy, was he glad they weren't him. The mage was still standing. What did this mean for Darien? Well, it meant that he could shoot more. He didn't know the man that the mage had been attacking, and he didn't really care so long as he didn't kill the innocent. So, while he tried to avoid hitting the man on the floor, he didn't really care too much. He aimed at the mage, pulled the trigger, and unleased a hail off bullets towards the criminal.

 

Darien fires 5 shots at the mage.

Edited March 10, 2017 by Strider

[S34N1C]

"Ack!" 

Maria takes cover behind a nearby counter and uses her heal on herself. 

[Bismarck]

Rorik noticing the commotion and random violence downs a mini-bottle of whiskey and decides to start randomly hitting people. While still sober he decides to sneak his way behind the man shooting bullets.

 

Rorik rolls for sneak.

[DarkChampionAkihito]

"Ugh... This guy is like a cyborg or something...." Simon says wishing he could snipe with a rocket launcher without causing massive property damage. 

He gathers his thoughts once more and chants an incantation for an inferno bullet.

 

"This should roast him in more ways than one...."

Simon readies his shot and attempts to shoot in his stomach where all the stomach acid(or hydrochloric acid) is stored for possible combustion.

[Yours Truly]

Darien's wildly fired shots mostly miss, except for a lucky shot that clipped the magical man on the shoulder, he retaliates by conjuring up a puddle of grease where Darien is standing which causes Darien to fall flat on his face.

Maria manages to stay out of sight for now, and whatever wounds she had has healed.

(Opposed Success test 2 v 3) Rorik somehow fails to sneak up behind the blindly firing man who had at that point been splayed out on the floor, although he did manage to successfully get within swinging distance......

 

Simon's wish rather unfortunately had not come true, although the point blank shots to the stomach was enough to make the man blink...

 

The man himself proceeds to attempt to hit Simon with the butt of his shotgun (18 v 9) which ended up hitting home, dealing 1 point of status damage with a swift blow to the stomach...

Darien Polk(a): 3/4 Status 

Simon Lee: 2/4 Status

Rorik: 4/4 Status 

Eris: 4/4 Status  2 round cooldown left for healing magic

 

Not-Terminator: Lightly wounded

Magic Man: Wounded

The amazing bullet eating woman: Knocked out

Gaijin: Bled out

Beanpole: Clawing at skin

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