Sunday April 11th PM - Super Nova Asphalt

This is the next open event. The subject of the opener is based on the most frequent poster. In this scene: Lucas Sanderson. Characters unavailible for this scene due to unresolved character plots: Dimitri and Ayla

The delapitated volkswagon bug is quiet. It has been sitting in its parking spot for months. The owner isn't even sure it will run anymore. The car is neglected for sure. Spiders, who mainly seek quiet places where they might catch unsuspecting bugs have moved into the small places inside the car. A film of grime has settled over the windows. The car reeks of leaking oil and gas.

Click click click

The motor fails to turn over. It is very disapointed. Its alien thoughts only think of starting and being free once more. This is a good host, just need a good rev to get things going.

Click click click

The body walks by. It is alone. Oh crap! Oh crap! It thinks. That thing is juicy. To have it on my grill would be thrilling.

Click click whirrrrrr, Vroooooooooom!

That is the exact sound that Lucas hears as he walks from his own sports car, crossing the street to the market to pick up some odds and ends. Bright lights from a car light up the empty street next to the market and block out much of Lucas' vision. It is hard to see the car behind such bright lights, and who ever that is needs to tone down the lights a bit. The engine rev's. A heavy bassy moan, roaring as the gas is pressed filling the street with echoes of its power. It honks once.

Wits + Composure - 3 dice

The powerful engine suddenly revving up, and the tires begin smoking on the street. The engine is healthy and strong, and mean. The plume of burnt rubber fills the street. In the buildings nearby, lights start to pop on as people are stirred awake.

Get behind something sturdy...not my car, but something. Another car, light post, into the market if necessary, even a parking meter, but not something not sturdy like a mailbox or a sign.

You manage both to get behind a random car and a mailbox all in one.

It is hiding. What do I do? It thinks. This takes less time than a second. Rubber comes up in chunks, flying into the air and evaporating as they touch the ground. All those things I should tear through for the meat body.

It charges forward regardless of the obstacles.

Initiative
Killer Nova: 12

You. Grill. Thrill. If a car could slobber, it would be doing so right now.




Now that the headlights aren't an issue; what you see as it barrels into the car near you is a black glossy muscle car flipping over onto its side and then slamming into the wall. Debris and dust are kicked up all over the place as part of the wall it slams into (The Mart) crumble, revealing some very surprised patrons within.

Once the dust settles. There is a green, beat up mangled volkswagon bug sitting in a small pile of itself, bricks and the parked car that was close to you.

Go to a different store to get the stuff that I needed.

People seem to be collecting about as you walk back to your car, in order to ditch this place. Down the street a bit. Something roars again. A powerful engine comes to life. Headlights blare. Tires screech as it manuevers from a parallel park into the middle of the street. People scream as the new black nova roars and burns up its tires again.

No no no. It won't hide.

You'd estimate that the car is about two hundred or so feet down from you.

Move back to someplace secure away from my car, towards the first wreck, maybe, or into the store.

Had to work out the details and rolls for this one, took a little longer

The event unfolds thusly. Again a large Chevy Nova painted black runs down the street as you make your way into the hole that the first one made. This time people are present at the hole and the Nova shows no signs of stopping even after you dart into the mart.

Meat is meat. My grill will be most bloody.

Lucas dives into the hole of the mart, the people gathered around as a new vehicle suddenly slams into the building. Some of the screams are silenced instantly. Others become quiet for a few moments until they become moans of pain and horror at the scene. What is notable is that the wreck of the Volkswagon was able to take out a couple of people in the mart, while the new wreck - a Subaru Legacy Wagon has bloodied its hood with a few people that had wandered to the hole from the outside. Two people seem stunned and dazed, but uninjured. Another three have taken some serious injuries from flying debris.

In the distance, sirens can be heard.

At this time, Alessio and Celina may join the scene (for different reasons) - but do not forget to continue any other scenes you are in as well.

Get in my car, drive away.

6 dice: 2 successes
Once I'm out of the area, call 911 and tell them there's been a big accident. Use the pay-as-you-go phone.

Lucas:
As Lucas drives, a shadowy miasma seems to blanket his car while he drives out of the area pressing buttons on his phone. The radio, a nice digital satellite affair changes stations rapidly. There is a slight smell of burning electronics. A squeal resounds over the radio, something otherworldly and and nasty to the ears. Ripples form in the air around the car as it seems to be in a state of flux about it's shape.

Rolls needed:
Wits+Composure
Dexterity + Drive

Celine:
You are trying to finish up some notes at work when Blecker tells you about a call downtown about a large auto accident involving some cars hitting a small convienence store. His brother you met only briefly a day ago, Kilroy Blecker is behind him. Even Dallas Pledge seems on the other side of the room, just having started his shift. His face is carved in seriousness rather than his usual wild demeanor.

"I think we want to go see this", says Det. Leon Blecker.


Juliet
You are just browsing the town, getting to know it. Something down the street screeches and roars to life. The squeal of tires can be heard and a plum of white rises above some other cars.

Alessio
You are aware of the same as Juliet as you were headed down into the area, but from a different angle.

Timothy
A night out on the town relaxing with the wife. You figure a movie would be good. You are both walking down a street when you hear the roar of very powerful engine, the lighting up screach of tires and a plume of smoke rising up from a street not to far away. Several people scream in alarm.

Make my way in that direction. Curiosity will take me there, pull out my cell phone in case.

start moving towards the commotion

Lucas:
You manage to swirve the car sideways in time as another black chevy nova comes from a side street. You avoided getting hit and rolling your car from the sudden breaking and turning. You look back and notice that the nova is no longer seen. Impaled into a clothes store window is a small Toyota pickup truck. Several people are running and screaming. It doesn't look like it hit anyone this time. However, some of the debris has broken your passenger side window.

Over your radio you can just make out: "Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaat". At first in a low growl and then it sounds as if it was digitally remastered, made electronic and ends going up many octaves to a high pitched wail. You also see Alessio about ten feet from your front bumper.

Juliet & Alessio:
The scene unfolds before you, as down a side street comes a black Chevy Nova, its engine roaring loudly, tires angry with burnt rubber. Alessio notes that the sports car in front of him contains someone he has seen before: Lucas Sanderson. For Juliet, she has never seen any of these people before. Both Lucas and Alessio note though that headlights have lit up behind her as another engine roars to life about fifty feet behind her. The engine sounds wrong, the noise it makes is not normal and is louder than you've heard an engine go in your life - even those ultra-loud dragsters or a fat Harley hog.

Engine Howl: Alessio and Lucas are unaffected but the engine roar is still frightening, Juliet is paralyzed by fear for 2 turns.

Frozen in place, eyes wide, knuckles turning white with the cell phone in my hand
shitshitshitshitshit

Celina sighs, finishes up her thought, and grabs her leather jacket that goes over her blood red t-shirt and jeans. Black leather spiked heels complete the outfit. She automatically checks that her gun is loaded and has the safety on, and that her badge is clipped to her hip.

"We can go. I'm just curious- why the interest? I haven't done traffic in a long time."

"Bugs! Get in the damn car. If you have to, throw the chick in the back! Magic cars on the way back!"

Celina:



Lt. Kilroy Blecker states as he hurries everyone along, "The murder machine is back. A black Chevy Nova that has been running people down. Seems to be terrorizing a neighborhood on the west side. Some people are already dead. We need to go, regardless".

Dallas, "I'm going to shoot the shit out of that machine".


Alessio:
Roll Dex + Athletics

Lucas:
You note the car has begun burning up its tires, a signal that its about to really go. You may want to get your car out of the path.

Dex + Drive

Juliet:
You manage to turn your head slightly only to be more afraid of the howling thing. However, what you personally see now is not some car - it is a black miasmic thing, with tendrils whisping off of it's undercoat of gloss. It looks more like a bull than a car, it's headlights burn rather than shine with the hue of blood. This right now, is possibly the worst imaginable thing you have seen to date.

still frozen in place
what in the nine hells is that?!?!?!?!?!

The scene unfolds:

The Nova roars into action, it's break is released and smoke turns to fire on the street as rubber is laid down. As quick as he is, Alessio darts over to the woman standing in paralyzed fear and pushes her to the side; both come tumbling to the ground (each taking two bruised levels). As they clear the path, Lucas manages to have made his car vanish. Up the side street and let the Nova pass harmlessly by.

To Juliet, it appears as what it is. A black Chevy Nova, no longer the fearsome creature it was before.

The Nova hits the breaks about one-hundred feet away. A wet smear of blood trails underneath its carriage. Apparently it has hit someone that was far too curious about the death and doom riding the streets tonight. The Nova, roars its engine as it turns to face back.

More same meat like the first! Good meat, not the same same meat!

I try to get my bearings after being knocked out of the way of the oncoming terror
I look to my rescuer and breath a sigh of relief "I don't know how to thank you"

while staring at the nova The name is Alessio Marconi, stay alive if you wanna thank me. Oh and...

while starting to undressGive these to Det. Murphy and tell her to find me in the park in about 2 hours.

once naked stands up facing the Nova and concentrates on turning into his warform

2success'

my eyes go wide and look really flustered "what the hell are you doing?!?! This is so not the time!!!"
looks down at the clothes that have been shoved into her hands and back to the naked man

What do you mean give them to Murphy? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?!?"
realizing that the crazy car is still on the warpath, I'll try to get myself out of harms way and call Murphy.

Things develop:

Celine:

You are on your way to the scene, with both the Blecker boys. Dallas is driving up ahead solo. The radio sounds, the Captain. "Runner one in position, all other runners in position in one minute. Trouble with the arch". You note that the Blecker boys are not tuned into dispatch at the moment.

Kilroy Blecker looks back at you, "Nice to meet you by the way. Kilroy. Leon's much younger brother". To which Leon grunts his disapproval at the statement.

Leon says after a few moments, "Alright Murphy. You stay near me, we're going to cover the incidentals and check the collaterals. Dallas and Kilroy are going to try and tackle the Nova with another team. Stick close, and we'll be fine".

You see smoke rising from one of the streets ahead. People are running down the streets away from the smoke.


Alessio & Juliet

Juliet looks at the naked man with a crazy gaze as she ducks into a tight alleyway where no car is going to logically fit through. She manages to catch however the rapid change that Alessio suddenly undergoes.

Alessio: Roll Harmony, 5 dice.
Juliet: Resolve + Composure - 1 Dice


Lucas
If you had the advantage to go, it would be now. The nova is not facing you. You also are able to witness the strange transformation that washes over Alessio. While you are what you are, you are still mortal.

Lucas: Make a Resolve + Composure + Rank - 1 Dice.

Alessio Specifically
Your perception changes, as you grow slightly taller, you feel lighter, stronger and more agile. The beast within finds itself within reach of danger. Your senses snap to.

Make a reactive Wits + Composure roll

Alessio:
Harmony Roll: You keep the balance straight this time.

Perception: You faintly smell...dog? Wilder than a dog? Unsure, but it is the scent of a wild beast of some sort. It was here, recently. Other than that, you smell dark oozing malice. It really hits your senses hard.

I start to make sure my wife gets to safety and then make my way over.

Resolve+Composure: 2 successes

Drive away. Get the car repaired.

Events occur:

Juliet:

While not utterly crushing, your stomach turns at the thought that something is just horribly wrong seeing a six foot tall bunny suddenly take the place of the young beautiful man who just saved you. Maybe it just isn't that, maybe its just some sort of trick. Afterall, this town does have its own TV studio, maybe it was a suit he was hiding?

Your phone starts ringing Celine's phone.

Lucas:

You tear ass out of the area up the side street, leaving your own trail of burnt rubber on the streets. People are now dodging in and out of your way as thier own terrors have gotten the better of them.

Dex + Drive again

Timothy:

Despite your best show of it, your wife does not want to leave your side, nor does she want you do go over there. "No! You can't go over there! Thats stupid. You're no hero! You're not some police officer or fireman hero! Lets just get out of here!"

Manipulation + Persuasion (if you wish to convince her to let you go without any fussing)

Celine:
You and the Bleckers arrive on the scene. Your phone is ringing. Kilroy parks, opens his door, draws his gun and bolts southward towards the chaos. Leon is a little slower, but then again he is old...but his gun is bigger. Some sort of .357 affair, shining gleaming chrome. Dallas drives himself south wildly zig zagging.

Leon gets out of the car and says to you, "Just stay here and make sure people get out of the area". He starts his own trot to the south.

You get out of the car yourself.

Wits + Composure, as you reflexively look at the scene around you.

Sounds kinda frantic on the phone "Hello? Detective Murphy?? There is some strange shit going on down here. Cars driving over people left and right. This guy just shoved me out of the way of one and then stripped. HE STRIPPED!! Handed me his clothes and told me to give them to you, Meet him in two hours in the park. Then he... he turned... I don't know." I continue to watch the insanity that's going on. It's that train wreck that you can't help but to stare at. But something about that man as a giant rabbit makes me wonder about the Rhino in the drawings.

Oops. Forgot Alessio and the Nova, now didn't I.

Alessio & Nova:

You have successfully shifted into war form, several more people scream around the area at the sight of you.

Along with your perception roll, give me a Dex + Athletics roll as this happens.

Up ahead, the Nova roars again and tears forward in an attempt to hit the largest target target which would be Alessio. Behind Alessio a large hispanic man starts walking forward, he has some sort of metal piping in hand. His face is stern and grim, almost daring the Nova to come forward.



He looks at Alessio, before the Nova makes it to them. "You're an idiot. After this I should bash your head in".

Hey, I offered. If Bugs wants to go all wascally wabbit on the Murder Machine, good for him.
Dex+Drive: 2 successes
"Goddamnmotherfuckingstupid MOVE YOUR ASS! fuckinstupidgoddamnbrokemycar MOTHERFUCKER cristoncrutchesimouttahere"

Lucas:

In this order you managed to avoid: A crazy cop driving down the side street, he himself dodging people. An older cop, whose badge dangles on a chain on foot carrying some sort of light revolver. An even older cop, dressed as a detective in his detective suit. He has a much larger revolver. You also dodge several random people on your way down the side street. Your path at the end however is blocked by Celine getting out of the back seat of a police car. You can likely squeeze by, but it will take some delicate manuevering.

Delicate Drive: Dex + Drive - 2 Dice.

Alessio:

You manage to not take the bumper, or it you as the Nova screams into you and the hispanic's space. You leap aside. The other man on the other hand leaps into the air and jams the pipe through the windshield before rolling off the car into the street. You note that he has jammed the pipe into the steering wheel. The Nova takes a sharp left and jams itself into the alley way entrance where the woman you saved ducked into. There is a bit of smoke, and only a trashed Prius remains blocking the alley.

Somewhere up the road the roar of an engine sounds, and headlights flare brightly. People scream, suddenly surprised by the new Nova coming to life. The hispanic man smiles and uses a head piece, "This is runner seven, use the bait NOW!"

At that moment a police car comes from down the sidestreet and hooks a very sharp left. Two men dressed in police business-suits wielding revolvers of various sizes follow it down into the chaotic avenue.

Lucas:

It's no problem scooting by the car and Celine. I imagine you give her a wave and a curt smile as you race down the not so blocked street.

I look my wife in the eye,
"I am not a cop, or a fireman, nor am I a hero. I am someone who has had combat training, who knows basic first aid, and might be able to save someone's life. If you don't want to leave love, fine, come with me and follow my lead, but I am going down there."