Bruce Johnson wrote:
> 1) Because I know Eris. One of them is going to hear
> something that he'll recognize as a turret moving about.
> Hopefully instead of freaking out and screaming 'Game
> Over Man! We're snack food!' he'll ask Woof, who will
> give a plausible cover story.
OOC: Oh, you mean something like this...
> Eris Reddoch wrote:
>
>> Terry Mixon wrote:
>>
>>>> Dalor has his back to the alter and is encouraging
>>>> Elaine to move with him toward the door when he
>>>> hears the sharp crackle of automatic weapons fire
>>>> from behind him...a burst from a rifle, followed by
>>>> the sound of ricochets off stone.
>>>>
>>>> "Dive for cover!" Elaine shouts and puts practice
>>>> to her words as she dives behind one of the
>>>> statues.
>>>
>>> Dalor will dive to take the next nearest person down
>>> and out of the line of fire and roll into cover. He
>>> snapped the ARC into firing position and scanned the
>>> room.
>
>> No one is near enough for you to take down. Dalor ends
>> up behind a statue. Elaine is behind one to his left
>> as he faces the back of the pyramid.
>> As Dalor sweeps his ACR in an arc across his narrow
>> line of fire he hears his comm go off. Reaching for it
>> he hears more gunfire.
>> Answering the comm Dalor sounds like he is made of ice,
>> cool and collected.
>>
>> "Stand by."
>> "Drop it!" he hears Jenna shout. It sounds like she is
>> to his right, but she is out of sight and he can't be
>> sure with the echoing sounds of gun fire and
>> ricocheting bullets.
> Dalor moves to his left, out into the gap between
> statues, to see what is going on. He sees Jenna aiming
> her pistol at someone out of sight ot his right. Bernie
> is on the ground aiming his shotgun in the same
> direction.
> There is more gunfire and then Dalor sees both Jenna and
> Bernie fire at someone off to his right.
>
> There is a short silence, broken by a gasp to his left.
> Turning he sees Elaine up on her knees, pistol in a two
> handed grip, aiming toward the alter.
>
> "It will eat us!", she says, "Kill it!"
>
> And then she begins methodical, aimed, fire at the alter
> stone, sending splinters of stone all around. Dalor
> doesn't see anything for her to be shooting at, but she
> *looks* like *she* does, and has a calm determined
> expression on her face.
>
> Dalor sees Jenna run across Elaine's line of fire,
> stumble as she goes, but then continue toward his right.
>
> Then he hears something behind him. Whistles?
...meanwhile, outside...
> Paul Walker wrote:
>
>>> Preston waits for a second, then hears another burst
>>> of gunfire coming from inside the pyramid.
>>>
>>> Before he can move, either toward the building or
>>> away from it, he hears another sound coming from
>>> behind him. It sounds like loud splashing, and is
>>> followed by a cacophony of shrill whistles.
>>
>> Preston swears again and turns back to the sounds
>> behind him, making his way back toward the air/raft and
>> a place where he can see what is making the noise.
>
> The whistling and slashing continues. Then there is a
> solid "THUNK!" from the direction of the gCarrier that
> transported Curil and his students out here. This is
> followed by several more loud crashing sounds.
>
> Preston rounds the pillars and looks toward the gCarrier
> grounded in the clearing among the ruins. He can see the
> lake beyond it.
> He sees a wave of dark skinned beings emerging from the
> lake. There are already several around the gCarrier
> beating on it with what look like clubs.
>
> The beings are dark skinned...no maybe that should be
> dark scaled, because they look more scaly than
> anything...and about 1.5 meters tall. They have a dark
> red crest on the top of their heads and he can see sharp
> white teeth when they open their long snouts to emit that
> whistling sound. There must be hundreds coming out of the
> water!
>
> As Preston pauses, taking in this scene, he sees several
> sticks launch from among the crowd of beings. The sticks
> arc up in the air falling in his direction. The wave of
> beings begins to move across the clearing toward the
> pyramid...and him!
>
> The air/raft is a few steps to Preston's right.
> Eris
> RDeep Game
