(2018-10-10) Bloodbath at Emerson Pharmacy
A robbery gone wrong. (ooc note: we were playing with the +combat code, sorry NPCs)
Players:
isaac..maggie..andre..

Stepping inside is like stepping back in time. The pharmacy is in the very, very back with the pharmacist on a raised dais, his tall counters between. There are three stalls for one to walk up to and speak with a pharmacist or an assistant. The employees wear white lab coats with their name embroidered on the left chest.

To the immediate left of the entrance is an area for over the counter medicines with an elderly lady manning the register there. To the immediate right is an old fashioned soda fountain mixing up shakes, malts and other things such as, Shirley temples, ginger ale, cream soda, root beer on tap. Light snacks such as cheese fries, nachos and other finger foods are also for sale. The counter between customer and soda shop worker serves as a table for the customer with low fixed stool type chairs covered in gold flecked vinyl/plastic.

Emerson Drug has a couple of nights a week when the pharmacy is open later than usual, usually manned by a smaller crew of employees. It's one guy at the register who looks like he has a huge attitude problem and one pharmacist who's about two minutes away from quitting, all the way in the back. The overnight stock person hasn't made it in yet, so the place is pretty quiet. Minus the music piping in over the radio. Like so many privately owned places, there's only one or two cameras and they're likely hooked up to an older system in the manager's office. It's now that the doorbell jingles and several people bust inside. Everyone is wearing cat masks.

Scratch that. Everyone is a president.

<COMBAT> Maggie will suppress Security Guard George this turn.

As the muscle, it's Andre's sworn responsibility to be the first to bust through the door. He's wearing a Donald Trump mask, mostly because it was the easiest one to find, and there was some irony in it - or at least that's what the cashier at the Halloween store said when he bought it. Andre didn't see the irony, in fact he couldn't see much at all through these - "stupid fucking eyeholes" - a comment he'd been muffling through the mask all the way to the pharmacy. But this was it! This was the showdown. "EVERYBODY GET DOWN AND NO ONE GETS HURT!" he booms out as he comes through the door.

<COMBAT> Isaac will attack Pissed Off Pharmacist this turn.
<COMBAT> You set your action.
<COMBAT> Andre will attack Aggravated Cashier this turn.

President Kennedy brings up the rear, carrying wire-cutters in one hand and some kind of pistol in the other. Shitty eyeholes or not, it only takes Maggie a second to locate those security cameras; there's always one aimed at the front door, and she boosts herself on up the nearest shelving unit to that camera, knocking a bunch of merchandise on the floor while she cuts the wire. Sliding back down, she mostly stays behind Donald Trump, looking for the second camera - but absolutely willing to let him get shot first. (Kennedy already took one for the team.)

Isaac comes through the door after Andre, a pistol drawn up in his hand. He's wearing a Nixon mask and keeps his mouth shut as they make their way into the store. He looks quickly over his shoulder to check for their third (and to see if they're being followed) before he trains his gun onto the pharmacist all the way in the back. The safety is definitely off.

Everyone in the store freezes for a second. But this is the late night team! They're not fucking impressed (though okay Kennedy taking out the cameras immediately was a surprise). The cashier pulls out a bat and the god damn pharmacist is also armed. "Get out of here! We don't want any trouble!" Which means there's going to be trouble.

<COMBAT> Security Guard George will pass this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Beat Cop Billy will pass this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Aggravated Cashier has changed weapons to club. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Pissed Off Pharmacist has changed weapons to pistol. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Pissed Off Pharmacist will attack Andre this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Aggravated Cashier will attack Andre this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Pissed Off Pharmacist will attack Maggie this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Andre has started the combat! Pose and pick your first action.
<COMBAT> Aggravated Cashier will attack Isaac this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Beat Cop Billy will attack Isaac this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Good Samaritan will attack Maggie this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Pissed Off Pharmacist will attack Andre this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Security Guard George will attack Andre this turn. (Andre)
<OOC> Andre says, "seriiiouuussly"
<OOC> Andre stares. Wtf, why are they doing that
<COMBAT> Aggravated Cashier will attack Andre this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Pissed Off Pharmacist will attack Maggie this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Beat Cop Billy will pass this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Security Guard George will pass this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> pissed_off_pharmacisst is not a valid target.
<COMBAT> Isaac will attack Pissed Off Pharmacist this turn.
<COMBAT> You set your action.
<COMBAT> Andre will attack Aggravated Cashier this turn.
<COMBAT> Maggie suppresses Security Guard George with Pistol. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Pissed Off Pharmacist attacks Maggie with Pistol and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Isaac attacks Pissed Off Pharmacist with Pistol AP - Moderate wound to Chest.
<COMBAT> Good Samaritan attacks Maggie with Unarmed and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Beat Cop Billy passes.
<COMBAT> Andre attacks Aggravated Cashier with Club - Serious wound to Right Arm.
<COMBAT> Security Guard George passes.
<COMBAT> Aggravated Cashier attacks Andre with Club - ARMOR on Chest stops the attack!
<COMBAT> Andre has started a new turn. Pose and choose your action.
<COMBAT> Aggravated Cashier has been KO'd!

Donald Trump has no time for the cashier's shit. Armed with an extendable baton in his right hand, he whips it to the side to extend it and points it directly at the stupid man. "Put your fuckin' bat down. This is a presidential goddamn executive order!" he declares in a muffled-mask voice, clearly knowing nothing about how presidential orders work. Or what they are called, for that matter. It is of no concern to the cashier whoever, who clearly is not willing to obey - Andre puts up his forearm to block the careless bat-swing before he grabs the cashier by the head and bashes his forehead straight into the register. He goes down like a ragdoll.

While Trump starts tussling with the aggravated cashier, Nixon moves in on the pharmacist in the back of the store. "Get down! Get down!" Does the guy get down? No, of course not. Instead he tries to shoot JFK with his pistol and misses. When the first shot goes off, he cocks his gun and sends a bullet into the man's chest. "Why did you have to do that? Come on." Sounding annoyed, Nixon jumps over the counter and strolls right on into the pharmacy part with a bag.

Unfortunately for everyone, there was a silent alarm under the counter. Which the cashier pressed before Trump bashed his brains in. A frazzled beat cop (who looks like he just got out of training) busts through the door first with his gun drawn, when he sees what's going on, his eyes widen in shock and horror. This wasn't what he was expecting.

And from the stock room? Security Guard George also explodes onto the scene with a cup of coffee. He throws it on the floor and struggles for his side arm.

<COMBAT> Maggie will suppress Beat Cop Billy this turn.
<COMBAT> Beat Cop Billy will attack Maggie this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Isaac will suppress Pharmacist this turn.
<COMBAT> You set your action.
<COMBAT> Andre will pass this turn.
<COMBAT> Good Samaritan will pass this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Security Guard George will attack Andre this turn. (Andre)
<COMBAT> Andre will attack Security Guard George this turn.
<COMBAT> Andre will suppress Beat Cop Billy this turn.
<COMBAT> Isaac will suppress Pissed Off Pharmacist this turn.

President Kennedy does not get shot. Suck it, history!

Maggie crouches when a bullet goes by, and remains crouched when the door flings open and in comes a cop. "Five-oh!" she shouts toward where Andre and Isaac are busy throwing a beating, pitching her voice low, then drops down below the horizon of the shelves nearest her. She pretty much just blind-fires in the direction of the boy in blue, mostly just making a lot of noise, POW POW. "GUYS COPS!"

<COMBAT> Maggie suppresses Beat Cop Billy with Pistol. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Andre suppresses Beat Cop Billy with Club. <successful>
<COMBAT> Pissed Off Pharmacist attacks Maggie with Pistol but MISSES!
<COMBAT> Isaac suppresses Pissed Off Pharmacist with Pistol AP. <successful>
<COMBAT> Security Guard George attacks Andre with Sparring but Andre DODGES!
<COMBAT> Good Samaritan passes.
<COMBAT> Beat Cop Billy attacks Maggie with Pistol and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Andre has started a new turn. Pose and choose your action.

That good samaritan is really not being a hero. Step up your game, bro.

<COMBAT> Isaac will attack Security Guard George this turn.
<COMBAT> You set your action.
<COMBAT> Maggie will aim Beat Cop Billy this turn.
<COMBAT> This command is only for the organizer or staff.

Maggie aims at the cop this time. Instead of just shooting him.

<COMBAT> Isaac will attack Pissed Off Pharmacist this turn.
<COMBAT> You set your action.
<COMBAT> Andre will attack Beat Cop Billy this turn.

"Oh god, I think I hit him too hard, guys!" Andre - err, Donald Trump - will call out the obvious as soon as the cashier slumps to the ground, leaking a lot of blood, his voice a touch high-pitched with a note of panic in it. But there's no time to worry about the (probably) dead guy that he (mostly) accidentally might have killed, because Fem-JFK is shouting about the boys in blue. Trump whips around towards the door, which has the added misfortune of making his mask go sideways in the process, and Andre uses his gloved hand to jerk it back into place before the rush. He manages to deftly dodge the cop's attack before he smacks the cop's pistol-wielding arm with the baton, just as the cop pops off a round in Maggie's direction.

<COMBAT> Beat Cop Billy will attack Andre this turn. (Andre)

Since the pharmacist can't seem to stop himself from shooting at them, Nixon turns his pistol onto him again and fires off another shot as he cleans off one particular shelf of goods into his bag. Then Maggie is calling about the cops, so he peers back over the counter. "Well, fuck." When he spots Billy over there and George. "Double fuck."

<COMBAT> Isaac attacks Pissed Off Pharmacist with Pistol AP - Moderate wound to Head.
<COMBAT> Maggie takes careful aim at Beat Cop Billy.
<COMBAT> Good Samaritan passes.
<COMBAT> Andre attacks Beat Cop Billy with Club - ARMOR on Chest stops the attack!
<COMBAT> Pissed Off Pharmacist attacks Maggie with Pistol and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Beat Cop Billy attacks Andre with Pistol and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Security Guard George attacks Andre with Sparring - Light Stun wound to Right Arm.
<COMBAT> Andre has started a new turn. Pose and choose your action.
<COMBAT> Andre will attack Beat Cop Billy this turn.
<COMBAT> Isaac will spend luck on attack this turn.
<COMBAT> You will spend luck on attack this turn.
< NOTE: If you switch your luck it will cost you another luck point.
<COMBAT> pharmacist is not a valid target.
<COMBAT> Maggie will suppress Beat Cop Billy this turn.
<COMBAT> Isaac will attack Pissed Off Pharmacist this turn.
<COMBAT> You set your action.

"STOP." Nixon is starting to get pissed off at the pissed off pharmacist who just keeps trying to shoot at Maggie. Does he have a problem with JFK? He shoots /again/ at the guy before sliding over the counter again.

Ducked down below a shelf full of gum and greeting cards, Maggie actually tries to aim the gun she's not qualified to use, lining it up with the eyehole of her mask. "STOP," she also shouts at the pharmacist, letting off a better (but, let's be honest, probably still useless round) at the cop's non-vital areas.

Trump's dancing toe-to-toe with the Beat Cop, who shoots off another round that flies through a stack of magazines; paper flutters to the ground like violent confetti as Trump pauses for just a second to stare at the guy. Though really, with the mask on, it's just these huge unmoving eyes with tiny little pinprick holes pointed in the cop's direction. "Are you fucking kidding me right now? Did you go to fuckin' cop school for Stormtroopers or some shit?! Put your fuckin' gun down, your president COMMANDS!" declares Andre before he goes smacking at the Cop with his baton, bouncing carelessly off the man's vest. It is at this time that the security guard gets a shot off at Trump too, though he can't aim for shit, so the bullet goes directly into a pack of tampons.

<COMBAT> Andre attacks Beat Cop Billy with Club - Moderate wound to Right Arm.
<COMBAT> Maggie suppresses Beat Cop Billy with Pistol. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Isaac attacks Pissed Off Pharmacist with Pistol AP - Moderate wound to Abdomen.
<COMBAT> Security Guard George attacks Andre with Sparring but Andre DODGES!
<COMBAT> Pissed Off Pharmacist attacks Maggie with Pistol - Moderate wound to .
<COMBAT> Good Samaritan passes.
<COMBAT> Beat Cop Billy attacks Andre with Pistol and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Andre has started a new turn. Pose and choose your action.
<COMBAT> Pissed Off Pharmacist has been KO'd!
<COMBAT> Maggie will suppress Beat Cop Billy this turn.
<COMBAT> Andre will attack Beat Cop Billy this turn.
<COMBAT> Isaac will attack Security Guard George this turn.
<COMBAT> You set your action.

So President Kennedy is ducked down behind some Hallmark cards, shooting at a beat cop, and takes a bullet from a pharmacist. This all seems fine. The groany-screamy thing is mostly muffled inside the mask, and Maggie just randomly fires off shots in the cops general direction afterward (hopefully none of them hit Andre, her aim sucks).

She stays hunched over, low, and fumbles into the next aisle over, stuffing her sweater full of Band-Aids and Neosporin and letting the boys do the actual work. (Hey, did anyone hit the register or grab the pills? She could maybe still do that…)

Shouting stop and shouting the pharmacist multiple times with a gun seems to do the trick. He's not trying to hit them with his pistol anymore, probably because he's dead. In the meanwhile, shots are ringing out all over the place. And with Trump attempting to assert his dominance over Beat Cop Billy, Nixon squares off with their remaining armed attacker. The security guard. "PUT IT DOWN," he calls out to him before aiming and firing at the guy.

From around the corner of one of the aisles, one random customer peeks. Nixon has the bag of pills over his shoulders, but the register remains untouched in the Worst Heist Ever.

"I saaaaid PUT THE FUCKIN'. GUN. DOWN!" Trump whips the baton into the cop's pistol arm to emphasize his point, causing the gun to go off towards the floor this time without injuring anyone at all. At the same time, he's hit in the back with nothing more than George's bare fists, which feels like more of a tickle than anything else. Trump turns his masked head, nudging George back a bit. "Fucker, sit your ass down."

<COMBAT> Isaac attacks Security Guard George with Pistol AP - Moderate wound to Abdomen (Reduced by Armor).
<COMBAT> Andre attacks Beat Cop Billy with Club - ARMOR on Abdomen stops the attack!
<COMBAT> Security Guard George attacks Andre with Sparring but Andre DODGES!
<COMBAT> Maggie suppresses Beat Cop Billy with Pistol. <successful>
<COMBAT> Good Samaritan passes.
<COMBAT> Beat Cop Billy attacks Andre with Pistol and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Andre has started a new turn. Pose and choose your action.
<COMBAT> George is not a valid target.
<COMBAT> Isaac will attack Security Guard George this turn.
<COMBAT> You set your action.
<COMBAT> Andre will attack Security Guard George this turn.
<COMBAT> Maggie will pass this turn.

Isaac shoots George, but apparently the guy is wearing body armor. Which is really just his sort of luck this evening. So he goes to fire off another round, moving rapidly to the door that the the security came out of originally. "Guys we're going to need to get out of here. The real cops aren't going to care about your god damn presidential orders! He pops the door open and peers into the back to see if there's a way to the back street.

Maggie stops shooting randomly (thank god), probably oblivious to the fact that she actually accomplished something with that last round. Instead, she steps over the passed out cashier, shoves the pharmacist out of the way with her unshot shoulder, and looks at the register intently. She presses a couple of the keys… nothing happens… she presses a couple more… nothing continues to happen… she hits it with the butt of her gun… and nothing keeps on happening.

"But the money!" to Andre. She beats on the register with the butt gun a few times - which fires off a round into the ceiling by accident, but no money comes out. :(

"You know what? Fuck you," Trump gets another direct blow into the cop, but Billy seems to barely react with his armour absorbing most of the blow. Still, even as close as Trump is, the cop can't get a shot off. So Trump is clearly WINNING BIGLY. He gives the cop one last solid smack before he turns into the security guard, who is still attempting to pointlessly attack with fisticuffs for some reason. Even though he has a perfectly good sidearm on his belt. "You want a piece of this, motherfucker? Let's wrassle," Trump sneers, dropping the baton to go fist-to-fist with this jerkoff, in spite of what Isaac's saying. It's going down, the president says so!

<COMBAT> Maggie passes.
<COMBAT> Isaac attacks Security Guard George with Pistol AP - Light wound to Abdomen (Reduced by Armor).
<COMBAT> Security Guard George attacks Andre with Sparring and MISSES!

Maggie's comment was totally to Isaac, not Andre, but her player is eating and doesn't read good.

<COMBAT> Good Samaritan passes.
<COMBAT> Andre attacks Security Guard George with Club - ARMOR on Chest stops the attack!
<COMBAT> Beat Cop Billy attacks Andre with Pistol and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Andre has started a new turn. Pose and choose your action.
<COMBAT> Security Guard George has been KO'd!
<COMBAT> Andre will pass this turn.
<COMBAT> Maggie will pass this turn.
<COMBAT> Isaac will attack Beat Cop Billy this turn.
<COMBAT> You set your action.

<COMBAT> Andre will attack Beat Cop Billy this turn.
<COMBAT> Andre will spend luck on attack this turn.

"Can't you just hack it? I don't understand!" Isaac calls back over to Maggie, because he clearly doesn't understand how cash registers work. Despite owning a shop that has a cash register. "Smash it! Or come grab some more shit from the pharmacy and lets beat it." Which would work out, except that Billy is still trying to shoot the crap out of Andre. "This night is fucking bananas." He fires off another round with his pistol.

"It's not the Matrix, moron." But Kennedy's response lacks oomph, since even a through-and-through hurts like hell, moreso when you're beating on a cash register with a pistol. Aggravated, Maggie stuffs the pistol into the sweater (along with all the Band-aids and Neosporin) and finds something behind the counter to jimmie the register drawer open. Not that there's a lotta bills in there, but she grabs them all, then slump-jogs toward Andre, Isaac, and the cop that JUST WON'T DIE.

Apparently, "wrassling" is super easy - barely an inconvenience! - when someone is shooting at the opponent from afar. Andre shoves a fist into the security guard's side-armour, but it's the shot to the shoulder that sends him down in the end. "That's right, get down and stay down, motherfucker," says Trumpdre, before he shoots a hazy glance in the direction of Maggie. "Did you try turning it off and turning it back on again?!" he calls out, clearly being super helpful given Maggie's success, before he turns around to start wailing on the cop again.

<COMBAT> Maggie passes.
<COMBAT> Isaac attacks Beat Cop Billy with Pistol AP - Moderate wound to Left Arm.

Maggie, inside her mask, "…bullets left in this gun… two dead presidents…"

<COMBAT> Andre attacks Beat Cop Billy with Club - Critical wound to Neck.
<COMBAT> Good Samaritan passes.
<COMBAT> Beat Cop Billy attacks Andre with Pistol and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Andre has started a new turn. Pose and choose your action.
<COMBAT> Beat Cop Billy has been KO'd!

"Yeah, try UNPLUGGING IT!" Isaac calls from the doorway as Andre finishes off the cop. He winces at that last blow. "This didn't go well."

CRACK! Trump connects a little too well to the Beat Cop's throat, and the neck snap is loud and disgusting. The cop is thrown back, his head slamming against the wall before his body crumples to the ground. "Now that's what I call makin' America great again," declares Andre, just seconds before he realizes that the cop isn't breathing. "…. Oh shit. SHIT. We gotta go. Fuckfuckfuck!" he turns tail and rushes, though he does grab a few dozen packs of Trojans on his way through the aisle for no good reason, shoving them down the neck of his hoodie. "Let's get the fuck out of here!"

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