Rider Upon a Red Horse
13th of January 2007 A.D.
The shortwaves of the ritual still hanging in the air, a wave-breaker constructed of frozen waves superimposed. Another time, in another place you might have stopped to marvel at the artistry, but you're running out of time.
"What's Sandra planning to send after us?"
Flashes again pass through your mind, a darkened room, bare concrete walls, weapons hidden under a tarp, assault riffles, grenades like the ones you had turned into a desk toy and lots of them, the weapons of a war now hopefully consigned to 'might have been'-s still deadly. In the corner under a tarp about a dozen unassuming beige tubes. By chance or some lingering virtue of Tiffany's blessing you recognize them all too well.
Lost 1 Essence -> Now at 7/15
"They have LAWS, they have bloody LAWs," you curse. Seeing the confused looks of your companions and even more of Harrowmont you explain, still sounding a lot more calm than you feel: "
M72 LAW, that is a light anti-tank weapon, they can shoot a stationary target at 200 yards or something and they have a lot of them, at least twenty, even if she keeps back half to guard the tunnels with that's ten warheads designed to blow up tanks coming though
that window," you motion in time with the words. "I'm assuming your wards cannot hold against that?"
The poor man gives you a horrified look. "No of course not. What would?"
He makes a fair point of course As ugly and bloody as the hidden worlds of the supernatural world can get, rare is the person one prepared for military hardware. "They have riffles and regular grenades like we dealt with at the Xanadu as well. I'm assuming the reason she has not used heavy duty stuff before was the lack of clear lines of fire but..."
Harry gives the pleasant park stretching out almost from the window to the edge of the campus a long worried look. "How sure are you of their tactics?"
"Not at all, what I am sure of are the weapons and that is the best line of fire. It also does not require them to get past campus police they can just stand on Swenson Street I think it's called and shoot in."
"If I know where it's coming from I might be able to hit the rockets with enough force to make them detonate, but if they open up with riffles as well...."
"Is she coming?" Tiffany asks, the least fazed among the four of you. She sighs. "This is all one big magician's trick, look at the bright lights instead of the coin passed up the sleeve, more Tessa than Nicky."
"No, she is just sending enough weapons to worry a
column of tanks," you sigh. "It's not like we can
ignore them. We are going to need our own fire teams. Even if we just leave, it's not like she's going to pull them back. Chaos is the
point."
"
Was the point," Oliver Adkin interjects. "Now the dark rite is eclipsed, a lost soldier of darkness becomes just a lost soldier, not transmuted into a token more ethereal."
"We don't know if Sandra can pull her thralls back once she sends them out. They might be..." disdain and pitty enter your voice. "Single use, like the rockets." you try to remember more about the people picking up the weapons. "I don't think it's infected, more of Tommy's people."
"Little Tommy... what?" Harrowmont pauses and collects himself. "Not that I would personally know such disreputable individuals, but it seems unlikely he would partake in the wholesale destruction of the city."
"He wasn't doing it by his own will," Harry explains tersely, running a hand through his hair in exasperation. "It would be safer for everyone if we could stop them on route. I wonder if Tommy knows where his remaining rogue men are?"
What do you do?
[] Call Tommy, try to figure out which of his men are still unaccounted for and track them down
[] Call the Library again. Now is about the time you need some federal aid
[] Stick to the plan, call in some reinforcements from Sanctuary to hold out here while the rest of you head into the tunnels (Charisma Leadership roll to convince Harry)
[] Stay here, deal with the attackers, then head into the tunnels (Charisma Leadership roll to convince Tiffany)
[] Write in
OOC: I know the plan had a contingency for 'if an attack was coming without Sandra' but I figured that did not include quite the scale of the attack. Also this allowed other people to offer sugestions on what to do as well as speculate on what Sandra and co plan. Also yes Lash did just namedrop two Denarians, but she used their nicknames so neither of the two sorcerers did not get to roll Occult for insight. 
