:C
[X] Pick up the bow. Just a toy in comparison to all the other weapons. You've never fired at a moving target. At a person. But you know how to use it. Draw and release.
Because out of all the options this is the one that gives us the highest chance of shooting it right in the furry dick before we die. And tbh that's definitely worth it.
(Not to say that the other options aren't without merits: in terms of pure utilitarian "buy as much time as you can" the high-tech gun's pretty ace and has the best chance of doing damage but we'd have little control for focus with it and there's an accordingly high risk of "somehow fuck stuff up even more", the mundane gun trades off higher damage for more finesse, and the machete is maximum HOT BLOODED. Plus I'm pretty sure this option is also setting our preferred weapon and shit and, y'know, bows for the fucking win.)
Zerb, could we have saved Rob if we went full Rip and Tear?
I doubt it. Like even if we somehow hulked out into the lovechild of Ahnald and a second, even buffer, Ahnald there's only so much you can do against werewolves. Silver and Primium are the solid go-to's but if a killer robot and Ms. Mercer aren't putting it down with the best tools available then, well, I dunno what you'd expect Meghanada to do.
(Also I'm sorta betting that Mr. Furry Fuckface Esq is channeling some particular bullshit, he ripped down the door and was the first one into the Technocratic killing ground and just didn't give a shiiiiiit. So that means he's either young and stupid or old and strong and since he's not dead
yet I'm going with the latter.)
People should probably remember that the Technocracy isn't going to ignore it if a a Syndicate member is randomly attacked by Pentex (a known enemy) in broad daylight. When this is over there are going to be Technocrats swarming over us to investigate what happened. Doing something very intensely reality deviant with a bow (which, let's face it, is the only way we'd actually be able to do anything against a werewolf) might not be a good idea.
Yeah but here's the thing:
We're in urban Sydney and Australia tends to take a pretty hard approach against gun stuff. An attack like this, in the Union's literal backyard, with this kind of firepower, should be sending up red flags all over the city. So there should be a legion of angry CNT bodybuilders rappelling in from a black helicopter to clean this shit up. But there isn't. Like this is something that flat out
shouldn't be happening.
Which lends itself to two possible situations:
1. We're cut off from the rest of the city and what's happening here is being hidden. We couldn't reach dad. They came disguised as cops to get in close. There was planning and, presumably, a lot of preparation that went into this.
2. We're not cut off from the rest of the Union, there's just nobody there to pick up the phone. If Pentex is slinging around a Black Spiral Dancer pack and what is probably an absolute
fuckload of fomori then it's entirely possible that we're not the only location being hit.
Idk which is worse honestly.
But it's worth noting that, canonically, Pentex has a fair number of Mages working for it too. Particularly Union defectors. You can pull off a lot of bullshit with a handful of cooperating Mages.
