Collan and Niil: Seekers

[Collan]

Collan keeps it floored and throws in some random manuevering to keep the pirates on their toes. He telegraphed his zigs and zags up to Niil so the Spec could compensate for the shifts in direction.

[Niil Spaar]

Niil quickly safetied the rifle and shoved it back into the cab, then drew one of his heavy blaster pistols.  Coordinating with Collan's instructions, he lined up the driver of the nearest pursuing vehicle and fired a shot.


OOC:  What would my penalty be for firing at the driver? 

[GM Craig]

[OOC: No penalty, exactly. It's a hard shot no matter who you're shooting at. But you're much more skilled with the heavy blaster pistols.]

Collan swerves towards one of the smaller vehicles. There is a minor collision, but not enough to damage either vehicle. What it does do, however, is bring the driver to point blank range for Niil. It takes a moment for Niil to recover from the collision, but the big hand cannon coughs, and the driver slams bodily against the side of his harness. Nerveless hands slip from the wheel, and the vehicle careens to the left, forcing another raider to swerve to avoid a collision. The two shooters on the out of control vehicle are split on what to do - one dives from the careening vehicle into the gras and is quickly left behind. The other scrambles to try and get control of the wheel from the rear seat. Niil looses sight of him while he is still struggling.

The shots seem to have fired up the raiders, and their threats and jeers have been replaced by blaster bolts. Several shots ping off the crawler, and Niil is finding it hard to avoid them as he hangs on to the side of the racing crawler with one hand. Two shots to tag him, but he manages to shrug them off.

[Actions?]

Collan's vehicle rolls are helping make the pirate shots more difficult. I'm using a Command roll to handle the coordination.

[Niil Spaar]

Niil grunted from the impact of two blaster bolts, but other than some scorching of his body armor and a brief flare of heat he was okay.  That wasn't bound to last too long unless he was able to get some more accurate shots in.  Wish we had some grenades with us, Niil thought sourly.  Seeing that one of the vehicles was out of the fight for a few moments, he lined up on the vehicle that swerved to avoid the collision and took a shot at its driver.

OOC:  I forgot to ask:  Are the raiders' vehicles tracked, or wheeled?

[Collan]

"Good shot, Niil!" Collan called up. He kept concentrating on driving and swerving...hopefully he'd get a chance to manuever one of the pirates into a ravine and other obstacle.

[GM Craig]

OOC:  I forgot to ask:  Are the raiders' vehicles tracked, or wheeled?

Wheeled.

[GM Craig]

Connor gets another shot off, and one of the shooters flies out of the roll cage to land on the ground. A moment later, the trailing vehicle rolls over the shooter. he won't be getting back up.

The blaster fire intensifies, and Connor is pinged a couple more times, one of them bad enough that for a few moments all he can do is hand on and grit his teeth against the burn. With Collan driving more aggressively than expected, the other vehicles are being a little more cautious. With their speed and manoeuvrability, it's not difficult for them to keep clear.

[Darren, you still shooting once per round? You're at -2d for action penalties (hanging on, and coordinating with Collan.]

[Niil Spaar]

Buggering hell, that one singed! Niil thought savagely; he nearly lost his heavy blaster pistol as he fought to keep from falling off of his perch.  How to slow them down?  His eyes dropped to the vehicles' tires, and he grinned.  Yeah, it's worth a shot.  Or two or three . . .

Leveling his blaster at the nearest vehicle, Niil took a shot at one of its front tires.

[Collan]

[ooc: blacktop rolling here]

Collan keeps driving hard...

[Niil Spaar]

As Niil took a shot at the lead vehicle's front tire, Niil yelled, "Collan!  Keep an eye on the terrain and see if you can find a place where we can funnel these drek-heads into single-file!"

[Collan]

Collan yelled up, "Got it! But they might have plans of their own for something like...keep ready for it!"

He figured that the pirates might be smart enough to trick a target into trying to elide them into a narrow defile so that there'd be a trap weighting to spring.

[GM Craig]

Niil lines up a shot, and scores a solid hit on the front tire of the lead vehicle. The tire explodes, yawing the vehicle to the right. The driver cannot compensate, and in a moment the vehicle has started to roll. The vehicle behind tries to avoid a crash, but zigs when he should have zagged, and the vehicle leaps off the overturned one like a ramp. The now airborne vehicle arcs through the air while is rolls and pivots. It lands hard on the nose, teeters for a moment then flops over onto it's roof. A second later, it explodes.

You see a trail of flame snake across the ground towards the flipped vehicle. A moment later, that vehicle explodes as well.

[Actions?]

No more vehicles, and if anyone survived the crashes, you can easily outdistance them.

[Collan]

Collan kept driving but called up, "Niil was that the last one?"

[Niil Spaar]

Niil stared incredulously at the sudden devastation, and then at his smoking blaster pistol.  "Uhhhh, yeah, that's all of them.  Slow down a bit and keep going for about a half klick, just in case any of them have blaster rifles.  Then stop and let me hop back in."  Niil shook his head in wonder.  "Wow, that sort of thing only happens in the holos . . ."


OOC:  Yeah, still keeping my eyes peeled. 

[Collan]

Collan intoned, "Acknowledged," and took a bit off the accelerator, "What in the hell did you do to them?" He inquired after a moment.