Dammek follows Erwin and Cade into the room, brandishing his laspistol and sword as he advances. He is still visibly shaken from his ordeal, but he remains alert and keeps his aim steady. He stays a couple meters behind Cade and Erwin, stepping quietly while watching their backs.

[stealth check, target 40; rolled a 04 for 4 DoS. Awareness check, target 38 - 10 (trauma) = 28; rolled a 91 for 6 DoF.]

Cade glances at Erwin as he asks him to cover him and nods, aiming his las pistol at the door, in preparation, following not far behind Erwin.

[Awareness: Target 39, rolled 13 for 3 DoS]

Both of you are aware of footsteps that are running in the cellar area. You get into a humid cellar room without any windows. Two Corridors lead towards west and east from this room (you come from the north).

Cade believes, the footsteps can be heard from the eastern one and are getting away from you as Dammek makes a lot of noise when he enters.

Dral follows along side Dammek, his las-pistol at the ready.

Cade signals the group, pointing down the eastern hallway in a hurried motion and begins to move after the footsteps. "Watch for traps." He warns them, moving swiftly down the hall after the sounds, and keeping his eyes out for any traps, individuals or possibly even cover or otherwise, advantageous devices that could be used if a fight broke out.

[Awareness Test: Target 39, rolled 54 for 3 DoF]

"Off course sarge!" Erwin whispers while picking up the pace. Erwin stays at the off-hand side of Cade, trying to discern tripwires or motion detectors in the hallway. His finger on the trigger, Erwin is ready to fire a semi-auto burst on whatever it is that is running away. 'Payback time fragger. Looks like your machinebuddies have left the building.' With a vicious grin Erwin steps up the pace.

[awareness untrained: target 13; rolled a 79 for a lot of DoF: my luck couldn't stretch on forever ]

Erwin and Cade, leading the way through the eastern corridor, can both see that there is a room in about 20m distance, which can be accesses through the right side of the corridor (but the corridor also goes on).

Due to your bad awareness results, you realize much too late that there is some sudden movement behind the wall to your right.

Just a split of a second later, the wall breaks as a strong force is breaking through it, just into your ranks.

With an impression of horror on his face, Erwin realizes that this is one of the machi e men who attacked his squad before....and he just activates his tearing chain-axes that it wears instaed of hands.

[Dammek rolls a 6+4 = 10 for initiative.]

Is the machine-man currently engaged with Erwin or Cade, or is it still charging them?

[initiative roll 5 + 3 = 8]

[initiative Roll: 6+4=10]

[initiative roll: 8 + 3 = 11]

The "thing" rolled 7 + 2 = 9

Seito, hearing the crash decides to leave her relative safety by the door and head toward the source of the noise, slowing as she comes to the crossroads of the hallway. She peeks her head around the corner and stares at a monstrosity of an abomination, steadying her grip on her pistol and taking aim at its back.

Without hesitation, Erwin breaks into a roll and tries to create some distance between him and the two whirring chainaxes.

[Athletics: Target 48 (38 Ag + 10 trained): Rolled a 51: Failure]

However, Erwin's bum leg causes him to fail his roll and he covers but a few metres in his manoeuvre, still dangerously close to the machine man.

[Move forward 8m (with Desperado ability) into point-blank range of the machine man and preferably between it and Erwin, then fire single Overload shot. Target number 34 + 10 + 30 = 74; rolled a 71 for one hit to the right arm. Rolled 10+4=14 damage with 2 Pen. Righteous Fury roll =1; all tests involving the right arm suffer a -30 penalty for 4 rounds (rolled 4 on 1d5).]

As the machine man bursts through the wall and Erwin scrambles out of its way, Dammek dashes forward and raises his laspistol. Seeing his wounded comrade in imminent danger, Dammek places himself between Erwin and the machine's chain-blades. With a snarl of rage, he yells, "Not like this! You won't gut him like you killed her, not while I'm still breathing!" He cranks the laspistol power setting to maximum before firing a lasbolt directly at the exposed servo-motors on the machine's arm.

Cade utters a curse as the machineman breaks through the wall. He realizes immediately that he needs to get some distance. Those chain axes look dangerous! He has all confidence in his armor, but knows that even his armor has limits, and a chainaxe would certainly surpass those limits. Noticing the group behind him, Cade grimaces as an idea comes to him, and attempts to disengage from the machineman, opposite the side of the group, in an attempt to split the machine man's focus, and present his group with an opportunity to flank this assailant.

[Full action disengage, 4 meter movement to the opposite side of the machineman from Erwin, Seito, Dral and Dammek]

[Move forward 8m (with Desperado ability) into point-blank range of the machine man and preferably between it and Erwin, then fire single Overload shot. Target number 34 + 10 + 30 = 74; rolled a 71 for one hit to the right arm. Rolled 10+4=14 damage with 2 Pen. Righteous Fury roll =1; all tests involving the right arm suffer a -30 penalty for 4 rounds (rolled 4 on 1d5).]

As the machine man bursts through the wall and Erwin scrambles out of its way, Dammek dashes forward and raises his laspistol. Seeing his wounded comrade in imminent danger, Dammek places himself between Erwin and the machine's chain-blades. With a snarl of rage, he yells, "Not like this! You won't gut him like you killed her, not while I'm still breathing!" He cranks the laspistol power setting to maximum before firing a lasbolt directly at the exposed servo-motors on the machine's arm.

As you hit him his red glowing eyes flash in cold anger. SOmething in the way he looks at you makes you feel uneasy. This is not just a servitor. And its also not human. Whatever this is - it is very sure a tec heresy just by its existence.

It looks at your explosive collar and you are not sure wether it makes something as a smile or if your mind got tricked.

A silent frequency starts to grow from his torso, a frequence that changes every split of a second...as if it would be searching for a very specific frequency.

While this sound starts, it engages you with its horrible chain axe. It misses with an rolled 80.

[Half action move backwards a few metres. Half action Dominate the machineman; opposed willpower; 41+10 (psy focus); target 51, rolled 34 for 2 DoS]

Dral stares in fascination as the wall crumbles around the machineman as he steps through and attacks the group. Stumbling backwards Drals mind snaps into focus as his training takes over and he gathers his will to strike at the abomination.

His icy blue eyes blazing into the machineman Dral wills him to fall to the floor!

It opposes with a 16 and 3 DoS. You feel a lot of difficulty to grap its augmented mind.

One of three small green lights on dammeks collar turns red.

Seito rushes forward, closing the distance to the abominations in front of her. I knew these things would come in handy , she thinks while silently praising the armor penetrating "man-stopper" rounds in her hand cannon. The irony of the name wasn't lost on her and she inwardly hoped it would stop these heretical machine men as well.

One of the bastards was ushering some nearly indistinct high-pitched frequency - the one Dammek shot. She gets as close as she dares, leveling the massive pistol named Kuso -Ona at it as it swings its gnarly chainaxe toward her new comrade.

She pulls the trigger...

Kuso-Ona ("B.itch" in a colloquial variance of High Gothic) bucks in her hand, having been aimed center mass at the thing before her. The sound and recoil is massive and she grit her teeth as the weapon re-leveled itself, scanning for another target.

[bS 31+30(point blank) +/- anything I missed, size?; <61; rolled 14! 5 DoS and I don't believe it gets to dodge being unaware and all. Damage 1d10+4, pen 5; rolled 6+4 = 10 damage, pen 5]

[Man Stopper rounds 4/5]

It is not unaware of you at all (why should it ? It is a narrow corridor) - its dodge attempt fails though with an 88.

It howls in pain an gives you an angry look with burning eyes.

[because Seito was positioned back at the door of ORIGINAL entry while the team ran on. She didnt move to assist them until the machines had busted through a wall and engaged them. The sounds of battle was what prompted her to move down the cooridoor, which by your descripton was a "T" - she rounded the corner of the "T" in the midst of their battle. How could they have known she was there? There backs were to her and she was engaging her friends]

Erwin turns towards the machine man and seeing how it is trying to destroy his most trusted companion in this group, Erwin takes aim with his lasgun. Steadying his breathing he stares down his visor and aims for the voxbox of the abomination. 'Alright Erwin, make this count.' At that point the machine is hit by Seito and Erwin quickly adjusts his aim to compensate for the trashing of the thing. "Here's for Jules!" Erwin cries as he unleashes a single shot at the servitor.

[Half action Aim (+10); Called Shot (-20); Short range (+10): Target 37 (+20/-20); Rolled a 36 for 7+3= 10E (Pen0)] Although I would miss if this thing is in melee with Dammek (another -20) as I come to think about it.

Erwin hits the servitor where he wanted him to hit. Right in the small trapezoid of its voxbox. Erwin grins as he expects the rising tone to stop abruptly.

A small sketch:

-----------------------------------------

Chars --->

X

--------------hole----------door--------

X = machine man

And it is only 1 machine man.

The tone indeed stops due to the well placed hit of Erwin. A second later, the one red light at Dammeks collar gets green again.

It stumbles from the hit and merely is able to keep its balance.

[Half action to drop sword, then half action aim followed by semi-auto Overloaded burst at the machine man. Target number 34+10 = 44; rolled a 58 for 1 DoF.]

As Dammek ducks the machine man's roaring chainblades, Erwin's lasbolt flies right over Dammek's shoulder and disables its voxbox. Dammek breathes a sigh of relief; he had noticed an uncomfortable humming in his explosive collar when the machine man started humming, and the last thing he wanted was a malfunctioning explosive strapped to his neck.

Dammek tosses his sword to the ground in Erwin's general direction. He yells, "Thanks for that, you just saved my neck! Now help me flank this fether!" He fires two quick shots with his laspistol, but the machine is too fast for Dammek and both blasts miss.

[Half action aim, Half action shooting attack. Target: 36+20=56. Rolled: 18, for a hit to the left leg.

Damage: 10+2, rolled a 5, for 7 damage if it is not avoided.]

Cade quickly levels his las pistol, which had already been in his hand. The machine man didn't seem to be paying attention to him, and the rest of his group had pulled out of a melee duel. Excellent. The machineman's back was to him. Cade quickly took aim and fired a shot from his weapon, at their adversary's left leg to try and hinder its movements.