Warpland Fantasy

[Taria]

Nova, Scarlet, and Vale

Your arms and legs are shackled as you ride in the back of a covered jeep, part of some merchant convoy that travels between cities. Vale was the first to be dumped here, an armed man wearing a gas mask instructing her to sit down and stay put. Within the next few hours, Scarlet and then Nova are added to the hold as well and instructed similarly. The man's voice muffled through the mask as he offers up additional details:

We were only paid to take you as far as the hinterland woods, just past the desert. From there you're on you own.

Soon enough, the ride becomes bumpier as the convoy drives through the paths less traveled, and then outside of the canvas flaps you can see sand that stretches on to the horizon; far far from the cities by now. At some point, your party is disturbed suddenly by the sound of strange calls emanating from the distance in the dead of night, clicks that would sound more akin to something from the ocean instead of a desert. Outside of your vehicle you can here the concerned voices of other people who are keeping lookout and some comments made over the radio providing visual updates on the creatures, but the drive carries on. The man watching over the three of you stays razor focused on his current role, affording no room for shenanigans despite whatever is going on outside.

Just as the sounds finally die down and the trouble seems finally behind you, the three of you are able to see what seems to be a mottled brown fin slowly emerging from the trail behind you, and gaining on your truck.

[Lazy Kitsune]

So swift was my arranged exile that my captor hadn't even bothered to change my attire into something more suitable for the wasteland. Instead I was left in what I happened to have been dressed up in the last time I was used. A fetishistic parody of one of the sleek and practical uniforms I would wear on covert operations. Though instead of being compact for the purposes of stealth and speed, it was skin tight to show off my curves and provide easy access. While wearing it I was fulfilling his fantasy of taming a trained operative to be his personal spy and fuck pet. The black material was shaped to be more on home on a themed stripper than an actual operative. The zipper running down the front didn't even work properly, leaving my cleavage open to the air, the bouncing of the jeep constantly jostling my tits up and down and teasing the ever present risk of my tits being freed from the slim covering of the dark fabric, the darker tones of my areola already peeking out. I had the added shame of a similar zip providing easy access to my crotch and rear, though I at least had the small mercy of that zip working so I could close up that particular opening.

Already in chains, there's little use in trying to resist an armed guard as I'm told to stay put. Misery loves company though, so maybe I should look on the bright side when the jeep stops off at other cities and picks up more exiles. Other women in a similar predicament of my own... potential allies, although these women show signs of actually having been warped. Not really the kind of people I would comfortably rub shoulder to shoulder with before, particularly given my prior job having a key element of uncovering and driving people like this out from my home. Though I wasn't exactly in a position to be too picky about what potential friends I might make if we were all to be dropped off at the same spot.

The road getting bumpier doesn't too much to help with my comfort... or sense of exposure. I let out a few grunts as I try to ignore the feeling of my chest trying to bounce its way out of my top with each particularly forceful bump. Not that the women I was with were all that well covered themselves either. More pressing concerns emerge than our shared dignity however, once I notice movement, the shifting of a brown fin gaining on us from behind. The guard watching over us hadn't noticed, too focused on keeping his prisoners in line than to pay attention to what was happening behind us. The spiteful instinct would be to let... whatever it was... catch up. But if it deal with our captors, than the three of us would surely perish shortly after, bound and chained as we are.

"Sir." I call out, nodding toward behind him. Goodness, what are the odds he'll believe me. I wouldn't in his position. "We've got something following us! Please... we're already restrained... just... look for yourself!"

[jondude]

Nova initially kept to herself when on the truck. She stewed in her thoughts, wondering how it all went so side ways so quickly. She had been a popular submission gladiator, fawned and lusted over by many. Still technically a slave mind you, but even then she had a much better quality of the life then the average resident of Thunder City. The rewards of her success. High quality food and creature comforts, fancy baths and nice living quarters, even her own servants! What she missed most of all though was her equipment. She managed to gather a veritable armory of her own. Guns both kinetic and energy based, if not set to be lethal generally. Melee weapons of all kind, and the armor! She had even had a set of her own semi-powered armor for when they matched her up against the bigger beasties that she was actually allowed to kill! Of course even that was made to be a revealing her line of work, but powered legs, energy swords, and a shield system would be nice to have right now, titty and ass windows regardless. No she had none of that anymore. She didn't have anything in fact. When she had been handed over to the traffickers she had been stark naked.

It wasn't all bad though. It seemed the person in charge had deigned enough to give her a set of the most barely held together rags. It would blow away in a especially strong breeze it felt like, but at least she wasn't buck naked anymore. Even if the main reason was to keep her nudity from distracting the guard with them. Granted this get up barely improved that but... better then nothing, if only be a hair.

Most of the ride seemed to happen in silence, which suited Nova fine. Though the woman that had already been in the truck when she had been loaded was wearing quite the interesting get up. It make Nova think she was a stripper, and maybe she was, but given her line of work Nova could hardly hold herself much better since she was basically a... a combat stripper. "God that sounds dumb...", Nova fumes internally. Why was this happening to her? How could her eyes have changed the way they did? It had to be her last fight... but it seemed so mundane. How had that scheming bitch do it?

The road got bumpier and there was some commotion outside for a bit, though it hardly sounded like combat so Nova just did her best to ignore it and make sure her own tits didn't bust out of minimal rag top and leave her topless before they even dumped them at the Hinterland Woods. She started pondering why they were being trafficked at all outside the city walls, the task seeming pointless, but soon gets distracted by some odd movement. The secret agent maybe stripper lady seems to notice as well, pointing it out the guard who seemed determined to not look away from them as if they would all jump him the moment he blinked. Or maybe he was just using his gas mask to do some not quite as obvious leering. The three of them were all quite sexy after all.

"She's right. There appears to be a large fish swimming through the air toward us.", Nova says in a dry matter of fact manner. Fish flying through the air was a new one for her, but her time in the gladiator circuit had let her seen all sorts of incredibly odd creatures so it wasn't the weirdest thing she'd ever saw. Maybe once it got closer she'd be able to better determine how large the strange floating fish was and how much of a threat to their vehicle it was.

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

I just noticed my chars name was written as Nova and while I wrote Nora I have decided I like this name and shall be adopting it!

[Soru]

It was ironic, a place that thrived from the sins of pleasure was squeamish about a small bit of wrap taint which was forced upon her. Scarlet had tried to get touch with her contacts within the city but none would answer her pleads for aid or reentry. However two did come before she was picked up, the two that were the main reason for her current predicament. They claimed they were there because they felt a bit bad and wanted to give her something before she left... what they gave her was an outfit that was a bit of an insult in two ways. It was a bunny girl outfit, one they had modified just for her. The outfit was reminder of both her former home as many casinos and clubs had women in bunny girl outfits and a reminder of her new bunny tail which the outfit lacked since she already had one now. Without her consent they tore off the rags she had and forced her into the new outfit, this one made to be skin tight and not cover too much as the middle was transparent, starting just above her crotch and going all the way up and almost exposing her nipples but leaving just a hint of areola if the outfit shifted just right. It only went about half up her breasts and kept her back exposed, the bottoms barely covering her rear from behind. To top off the outfit she was put into fishnet gloves and stockings and a pair of fake bunny ears right as the jeep was pulling up. She curses at them before the guards took her and forced her into the jeep.

Looking at the two other women at least her own attire wouldn't stand out too much Scarlet thought. Chained and being driven away while under the stern gaze of the guard, who may or may not be staring at the bodies of the three women in exposing outfits, Scarlet could only sit there in silence. Sitting in silence wasn't too hard for her, many times she had to wait for long periods of time in silence, waiting for guards to leave or would be victims to fall asleep. She tries to sit still be each bump in the road would cause her barely contained breasts to bounce and threaten to pop out of her top. She wonders if the rags she had would have been better than this...

As she sits there she thinks of what to do once they reach the hinterland woods. She supposes the first thing would be to find a settlement or city that would accept a warp-tainted like her and then maybe reach out to contacts to lived outside of her home city; being a master thief for years means she had obtained a wide network of contacts with many outside the city as well.

She thinks of the two with her; she might not be able to trust them but then again traveling together for safety in numbers might be in all their best interests... As she was lost in her thoughts she hears the others talking, slowly taking her out of her thoughts as she wonders what is going on before her attention is turned towards the outside of the truck behind them. "...What the fuck is that?!"

[Taria]

The man in the back with the girls stands up to look over the back of the jeep and mutters, "Shit!" as he raises up his shotgun and begins firing at the subterranean creature. The gun blasts loudly and kicks up sand, but otherwise seems ineffectual at deterring its pursuit. Grumbling under his breath, he moves back towards the front of the vehicle and calls out to the driver, "Hey Mitch, you might want to gas it, we've got some kind of sand shark shit riding up on our a-" The rest of the passengers have a clear view of the monster in question as the beast's head, almost size of a fully grown man, breaches from the sand and reveals a maw full of whirring teeth. The sandshark clamps onto the back of the vehicle, throwing the man again the ground as the wheels on the car start to spin, struggling to keep forward momentum with the new weight dragging behind. A long snake-like body with thousands of wolf-pawed feet start to climb up from the sand as the shark thing continue gnawing at the vehicle, tearing off a chunk as the jeep jerks ahead and then coming back for seconds.

Meanwhile, the guard has propped himself onto his back and is now concentrating his fire for when the monster shows its scaly face. Flakes of the creatures hide is shorn off by the gunfire, and bloody wounds begin to show, but even so the shark shows no signs of slowing down.

[Soru]

Scarlet cries out as the large fish creature bites down on the back of the truck as she and the other women try to keep their distance from those razor sharp teeth. While Scarlet has seen warp tainted creatures there were for the most part just exotic pets or just simple pests to deal with. This thing was nothing like what she's seen before in person and it was rather horrifying as she sees how the teeth whirl and the countless wolf like paws that lined it's extremely long body. It didn't help that this thing is also strong enough to hold the truck in place before ripping a part off like it was paper.

"K-Keep shooting it!" She shouts to the guard as she is knows he's probably her best hope to not be eaten by this thing. Though she won't let it be her only option if she could help it as she looks around for anything that might help her, though with how she is chained her options are extremely limited. How she wished she had her lockpicking tools right now so she could free herself but all she had was this lewd bunny girl outfit and whatever might be in the jeep. Perhaps something landed near her that she might be able to reach if she was lucky.

[Lazy Kitsune]

Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit! Whatever this thing was it was gaining fast and bullets didn't seem to help at all in stopping. Vale felt her heart drop in her chest once she saw its horrific, gaping maw emerge, big enough to swallow any one of them whole. As it bit into the bag of the vehicle, tearing away chunks of metal with a terrifying effortlessness, Vale was thrown to her side from the shuddering force of the beast clamping down its jaws.

The guard seemed just as discombobulated, and the vehicle struggling to move forward made it seem all the more likely that the girls were moments away from being tipped out my this thing and made its lunch. As Vale winced with her cheek against a rattling, hard surface, she did her best to right herself and get back her breath.

One of the other girls yelled at the guard to keep shooting. She could appreciate the sentiment, but it wasn't look like this guard was going to be much use in keeping them safe. No, Vale would much rather have some degree of control over the situation rather than leave her fate in this stranger's so far ineffective hands. It's not like he seemed all that interested in keeping any of them alive all that much before now anyway.

"That's not going to work!" Vale cries out of the roar of gunfire and struggling engines. Sure, he had drawn blood, but the beast still seemed utterly unphased. "Unchain us, we can help! We're in no position to fight against you either way, but together we might be able to drive it off. If you don't, we're all dead anyway!" It was a desperate plea, but hopefully the guard was desperate enough to listen.

Bid: 1 social

[jondude]

The situation didn't so bad at first to Nova. It just looked like a flying fish to her, at least at first. However it was clear the the thing has much bigger then it initially appeared! Have concealed by the rear doors of the jeep Nova soon realizes the thing had been swimming the ground somehow, and when it rears up like a shark breaking water it shows off a mouth of teeth literally whirring as if she was looking at the spinning teeth of a garbage disposal. And the wolf feet! It didn't even seem to have wolf legs, just... short little paws that sprouted from its body like it ridiculous centipede!

The clearly warped tainted creature bites down on the back of their vehicle, crumpling part of the bumper and rear door and quickly filling the air with the screeching sounds of rending metal as it's teeth started to grind away. The car shakes violently a on the impact, knocking the guard over, but at least he quickly recovers and opens fire. Nova winces at the loud gunfire in the enclosed space but it was what it was. She bears with it and begins to look around and try to gauge their options. The maybe secret agent, maybe stripper girl appeals to the guard to unshackle them so they can help, which was certainly a good call but Nova was unsure if they wanted to distract the guard given that he was the only one currently doing damage to the thing. He might not have the time to afford being able to unlock their chains after all. He seemed to giving it some good damage though, despite the creature being seemingly unphased. Maybe it just had a simple immune system given it was a fish and just drop dead suddenly if he shot it enough?

Looking around the jeep there was basically nothing, but looking at the chains showed they were heavy wrought steel. Much thicker then the metal thin sheet steel and aluminum/carbon fiber body most of the jeep was made from. She had a arms and ankles shackled, there was a third chain looped through both to an anchor point on the floor. There was no way she break the chains, but given the beat up nature of this car there was a decent chance she could rip the anchor chain from the much more flimsy floor (Bid: 1 physical). If she could get it free, she might be able use the loose third chain and throw it into the fish monster's mouth. Maybe the stronger metal of the chain might damage the things teeth and get it to back off in search of easier prey.

[Taria]

The jeep group
Vale

Diff 2, you rolled: 2
The guard reaches to his belt and tosses Vale the heavy iron key that was used for all of their shackles, giving her the chance to free herself and potentially start working on releasing the others. The jeep lurches again as the shark takes another large bite, now threatening the integrity of the back tires as they wobble aimlessly in the air, only the four wheel drive of the front providing any traction.

Nova

Diff 5, you rolled: 5 Add +1 physical and +1 bloodlust
Meanwhile, Nova, who was chained furthest towards the back, takes this opportunity to rip out the tether keeping her chained to the jeep in time to avoid falling out as pieces of the vehicle are pried off. Admits the chaos of the jeep violently shaking side to side, and the gunfire blasting from below her, Nova twirls the wreckage from the vehicle attached to the chain like a flail and launches it at the shark's open maw. Just as she had suspected, the heavy steel of the chains proves somewhat trickier for the teeth to tear through and starts to catch in the mechanisms of the shark's teeth. However, what Nova may not have accounted for is the fact that she is still attached to the chains she threw, yet miraculously she throws her arm around a handlebar within the inside of the vehicle and manages to wrestle the shark towards herself rather than getting ejected herself.

Time slows down for the crew in the back of the jeep as the scene unfolds before them. Nova holds the shark up in the air, dangerous teeth gnashing and chomping perilously close to her head as she struggles to keep her footing. The masked guard yells out expletive as he is loading more shells into his gun. The grinding of metal and bone ring out in terrible cacophony as it seems everybody may witness a girl get devoured whole, but then... BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM The guard lines his barrel directly against the exposed throat of the beast and fires five shots directly up into the thing's skull. Blood splatters all over Nova as she is deafened by the gun fire, but uninjured. The jeep creaks and sputters to a halt as it finally fails from all the damage, and the driver up front yells fruitlessly into the radio as the rest of the caravan ahead of everyone continues driving off leaving them in the dust.

Nova

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

As the blood drenches your face, at first all your can taste is the sickly coppery flavor that is expected. But inevitably you accidentally swallow some of it. Something seems to suddenly shift in your brain in that moment as the taste and smell of fresh blood suddenly becomes the most intoxicating aroma, and you can feel yourself hit an adrenaline high as everything in your body tells you that this is great.

Physical: 4 (4)
Mental: 2 (2)
Social: 2 (2)

Bloodlust: 1 (1)

[jondude]

Not seeing much in the way options Nova goes forward with her single plan. She plants her feet as best she can, grabs the anchoring chain with her hands, then pulls. Quickly there is some give, the thinner metal floor of the jeep flexing upward, the little metal anchor the chain was looped through shifting a little as the bolts that held it in place moved just a tiny bit. Indicators to her that her theory was correct and that the underside of the jeep might be quite rusty, and that would make her plan easier. Of course making it easier didn't necessarily mean it wasn't hard. She used all her strength she could, from her thick powerful legs to her more slender but toned arms, her muscles flex as her teeth grit, but she makes impressive progress, the metal shifting quickly the more she pulled. Within ten seconds or so there is a sudden snap as the bolts holding the anchor point down break, making it shoot up into the air and clang against the roof briefly. Sounds drowned out be the constant chainsaw like metal rending of mutant shark teeth though.

Adrenaline pumping, she does her best to loop the third chain through her own binds so she could throw it into the mutant sharks mouth. She gets a little to ahead of herself however. Just as she thinks she gets the last bit of chain out she quickly tosses it toward the shark currently chewing on their ride, but the anchor the chain was attached to still catches on the chains that shackled her arms together! She can only inwardly curse as she seems it happen in a moment of adrenaline fueled slow motion, watching as the chain enters the things mouth and quickly jam up the spinning teeth in a shower of sparks. At the same time she is quickly sucked toward it. She thinks quick, grabbing a roof mounted handle bar, and as the shark attempts to pull away she recognizes putting her awkward position of keeping the monster from withdrawing but not wanting to get sucked out of the vehicle. She gets her teeth harder and uses her other hand to yank it back, hoping the snapping of its jaws might be enough to break the heavier chains now that they had done their job of stopping its inner teeth. A task easier said then done given how close her face was to the things mouth at this point.

Then there is a second set of loud bangs that make her ears ring, the guard having finally reloaded and taking advantage of the fact Nova had made it an easier target by emptying his weapon into the roof of its mouth, killing it. Blood spatters all over her face and chest, staining her already pathetic rags, and annoyingly some gets her mouth. She licks her lips on reflex, the coppery tang filling her mouth. Good as it was the monster was dead though it had done enough damage to kill their vehicle too, and soon the keep comes rolling to a stop. The shark's teeth finally let go then, the monster slumping to the ground and yanking Nova forward so that she was laying on the bunny girl's lap.

And with that, she begins to laugh.

"Well, that was a little different then my usual gladiator matches in Thunder City, not too much though! Ha!", she says, rolling over in Scarlet's lap as post rush bliss of victory rushed through her. She didn't even notice the fact that her top already tore so that it was more like the top of a toga now, one of her large breasts slipping free and into view for everyone, her pink nipple quite stiff after all that excitement. Little did she know though that the scent of the monsters blood was playing with her mind, it's smell giving her a rush as she looked up at the girl in the bunny suit. "Hi~ I'm Nova.", she says playfully.

[Soru]

Scarlet curses to herself as she fails to find anything useful, not even a small piece of sharp metal scrap to pick the lock on her cuffs or stab the sand shark... serpent... wolf thing that is trying to make a meal out of them and the jeep. She looks to the other women in a fetish outfit as she asks the guard to unchain them so they could help him. She didn't think the guard would listen to her at all but much to her surprise he actually tossed her the key! However it seems like they might not be able to use it in time as the creature bites down at the back of the jeep again, getting it's teeth on another section and Scarlet is pretty sure the vehicle won't be able to function for much longer if this keeps any longer.

As she watching the creature in terror she notices the other woman trying something now. The thief knew that this woman was probably strong, the muscles she noticed with her keen eyes hinted at this, but she didn't expect her to just rip out the tether keeping her chained down! Unable to do much herself while chained up and no key to free herself Scarlet can only really watch as the strong woman lifts the large chains and throws them right into the open mouth of the creature, and much to her surprise the chain was actually too sturdy for the shark thing to actually bite through... though this lead to another issue as now they were pulling at the woman. Scarlet tries to reach to grab them but seemed unnecessary as Nova was strong enough to keep herself from being pulled and even pull the sand shark upward! "Whoa..." Most bouncers and bodyguards she's seen back at the City of Twilight weren't that strong... However the shark's teeth was getting closer to the stronger woman and right as Scarlet was starting to panic she notices the barrel of the guard's shotgun press against the creature's throat before he unloads several shots right into it. Moments later the jeep halts and the creature goes limp and besides the driver yelling something Scarlet wasn't paying attention to there was a moment of silence before the strong woman falls into her lap.

She blinks a bit before she notices the woman laying on her lap was laughing in a way that... concerned her a bit as it reminded her of how some people laugh when high on some kind of drug though she shrugs it off as adrenaline for now. "U-Um... Scarlet..." She looks to the other two in the back with them. "So.... what the hell was that thing... and what now?"

[Lazy Kitsune]

Vale couldn't believe that actually worked. It seemed the guard really was desperate for any sort of help. But given how close the whirling mass of teeth was getting it might be too little too late. As she catches the key, she starts hastily looking to unchain herself before the thing gets any closer.

Right as it seemed like a messy and inevitable end might be upon her, though, one of the other captives managed to pull herself free of the jeep and chuck one of her chains into the shark's mouth. Vale's jaw dropped, watching in amazement as, in the ensuing struggle, the woman in rags managed to pull against the shark's weight to keep herself from getting dragged into it's mouth as her chain began to catch against its teeth. Vale could see she was physically fit, but this much strength was remarkable.

As the guard takes advantage of this change in circumstances, Vale quickly takes the opportunity to undo her shackles. Once she was freed with a click and felt the weight of the chains off of her, she tossed the key over to the girl in the bunny suit.

The guard had just fired off multiple times into this beast to kill it. Perhaps emptying out that gun of his entirely. Right now he was still focused on the creature he had just killed. But in a moment or two he might start trying to chain them all up again. And with the jeep separated from the convoy that felt like a dangerous risk to take.

Vale attempted to swing her leg forward and kick his gun out of his hands and over towards the other two before pouncing on him to try and straddle him and pin him in place. Hopefully the others could do something about the driver if he caused a fuss.

Bid: 1 physical

[Taria]

Vale
Diff 3, you rolled: 2

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

Physical: 2 (1)
Mental: 2 (2)
Social: 3 (3)

The guard exhales a sigh of relief while lying on his back as the immediate threat seems to have been handled and just as he is picking himself up and shoving off the corpse, Vale twirls in with a kick to his gun. Despite being taken by surprise, however the man still happened to have a firm grip on his weapon, and the resulting tussle only manages to cause the shotgun to fire off its sixth shell directly towards the ceiling. Some stray pellets catch Vale in the side, which probably stings, but the guard is tossed back as well, gouging his back on some teeth sticking out from the corpse's open maw.

The guard emits a primal, angry, scream that is still muffled behind the gas mask, "Aaah! What the hell? What the fuck? What did you do, what did you do?" The man screams at Vale accusingly as he turns the gun horizontally and shoves it towards her, pushing her backwards towards the wall in an attempt to pin her down. While this is happening, Mitch, the driver, aims a bulky looking pistol through a narrow opening dividing the driving area from the cargo and you can hear it charging with a dangerous sounding hum. "Listen here you freaks, you get out of the jeep right now with your hands in the air or I'm going to start soldering someone's chest cavity!"

[jondude]

"No idea~", Nova answers Scarlet from her spot on the bunny girl's lap. "Hopefully the rest of the convoy will stop or come back. I'd rath- hmm?", Nova continues before suddenly flurry of activity from her left catches her eye. The girl with the tight body suit apparently was trying to take control of the situation. She could respect that. Sadly though things don't quite go great for anyone as the other girl kicks the gun upward. "Woah hey wai-BLAM-esus Christ! Fuck!", Nova yelps, quickly covering her face with her hands as stray bird shot pellets bounce around the rear cab for a second. Mercifully she isn't hit with any, but as the guy falls backward he gouges his back on the mostly broken but still plenty sharp teeth of the land shark thing, yelling in pain.

Things then go from bad to worse when the guy points his gun back at the body suit lady, and then the driver, Mitch apparently, points a blocky weapon through a small door from the cab and points it at them. The situation was... not looking great for them all of a sudden, especially as Mitch demands they put their hands up and get out. Much as she hated to admit it... Mitch was pretty well protected from just about anything they could do with the current... nothing they had.

But, rough as it was... maybe it wasn't hopeless.

It all depended on some rather crucial factors in her mind. Basically, when kind of weapons were they up against? As a gladiator, even on the submission circuit, she has some pretty decent weapons knowledge, or so she'd like to think anyway. If she could determine what kind of shotgun the guy in the back with them had she might be able to recall what kind of capacity it had. If he was out of ammo after that sixth shot, well, that might change the calculus a little. Then there was the gun that Mitch had. Given the low whine of it charging up and and his comments about soldering, it was either a laser or some kind of electrical arc weapon... or just a comically large taser with the classic spring loaded prongs. She was betting that it was an arc weapon meant to incapacitate however, and usually weapons like that did not discriminate targets in enclosed spaces. Hell he might even shock himself given that this older jeep was just a metal box! Anyway, point is she needed to know what weapons they had and what they were capable of to make any decent decisions on fighting or capitulating. Time was of the essence though, so she racked her mind quickly. (Bid: 1 mental)

In the meantime, had to buy herself a few seconds at least. "Woah, hey! Easy now.", she says, putting her hands up slowly and trying not to spook either of them.

[Soru]

Scarlet lets out a small sigh as she tries to calm down after everything that just happened but it seems like it's not over yet as the other women suddenly kicked the guard, surprising her as now didn't seem like the time to fight. It seemed like she was trying to disarm him, but the guard still had a strong grip on his weapon and fired it, causing her and Nova to duck for cover as the pellets bounce around the inside of the vehicle. "The hell?!" She looks back up to see the guard yell in pain as his back gets caught on the teeth of the dead creature's teeth while it seems like the other woman got hit as well.

Things escalate as the guard angrily shoves his shotgun at the woman to pin her while the driver was now aiming his weapon at them from the driver's side. From the hum of the weapon Scarlet could tell it was probably an energy based weapon, or at the very least not ballistic. The moment she heard the driver make noise after the other guard got aggressive towards the other woman Scarlet tries to hide the key, preferably on her person, before the driver noticed that she had it and then raises her hands as much as she could in the cuffs (Bid: 1 Mental). "H-Hey, we're just sitting here. I literally haven't moved since I was made to sit here." She says. It was too risky to do much else right now, even if she was able to unlock herself quickly it's not like she was armed and they both had ranged weapons. Her years as a thief taught her that risks completely out of her favor were not worth taking, and the odds were very much out of her favor at the moment. She needs to bide her time for now and wait for an opening.

[Lazy Kitsune]

Well fuck. Vale knew she was taking a risk with her stunt, but she had hoped that the little ordeal they had just been through would be the opening she would need to disarm the guard and help give them a little more leverage in their situation. But it seemed if anything he was too skittish and fired off a shot immediately as soon as Vale came into contact with him. She would consider herself lucky to have only been grazed in the side by some of the stray pellets, but for the most part she was overcome with pain and panic as she stumbles back and clutches a hand over the fresh wound.

Instead of pinning the guard down to give the others an opening to act, she had found herself being pinned with a gun being pressed against her. With how many shots he's fired off now, it could very well be empty, but she had just made that gamble seconds ago and been proven wrong so she wasn't about to risk it again, especially when the driver starter to poke a gun of his own towards them. The others speak up, attempting to placate the guards. Vale was too focused on the man in front of her to see if they were doing anything with the key she had tossed them. They might be trying to bide for time, but Vale wasn't sure if that would be worth it. If they do manage to convince the guard's to play nice, they might just end up chained up again and no safer than they were before. They might have better odds just doing as the guards were saying and leaving now, its not like they were going to be dropped off anywhere all that much safer at the end of this anyway. Vale would very much prefer to at least get a hold of a firearm if they were going to be stuck out in this wasteland. If not for herself, then maybe the woman who ripped her chains out earlier. She seemed like she could be capable in a fight.

Still, even if she thought this was the best opportunity they had to take control of the situation, her plan had already blown up in her face and she was finding it a little hard to think on the spot with a gun pointed at her. So if the others were trying to play nice, then she'd play along too. Though buttering someone up from this sort of position was a significant ask, even for someone of Vale's talents. Still, if her training was going to help her at any point during her exile, it would be in times like these exactly.

"P-please!" she stuttered out, letting her eyes water a little as she pouted. She raised her hands up, taking on a more demure and timid posture, drawing her arms close to give her bust a squeeze as she did so. "I'm sorry... I just... I panicked... I got scared... I'm so used to people taking care of me... I don't know if I can make it without someone telling me what to do. Please... I'll do anything you want, anything, just don't send me out there." If she could at least give them a moments pause by playing up the helpless damsel act then maybe that'll give the others some breathing room.

Bid: 1 social

[Taria]

Nova
diff 5, you rolled: 1

Spoiler (click to show/hide):

Physical: 4 (4)
Mental: 2 (1)
Social: 2 (2)

Bloodlust: 1 (1)

You think maybe the shotgun may be out based on how the man is holding it like a bar rather than pointing it, but there are all kinds of custom mods out there. The pistol itself seems completely foreign to you, maybe weapons aren't quite manufactured the same in other cities?

Scarlet
diff 2, you rolled: 5

You handily slip the key away somewhere only you would think to search before anyone notices where it has gone

Vale
diff 3, you rolled: 5

The guard in the mask shoves off of Vale with a low grunt as he cools off and holsters his weapon. He lightly grabs onto her wrist and pauses as if contemplating something before gesturing towards the exit with his head. "The jeep's wrecked and we're most likely an acceptable loss. We need to get out of the vehicle in case there's some kind of gas leak."

As things seem to come under control the driver comes out from his vantage point and appears around the back of the vehicle and looks around with his hands on his hips. "Crake, where's the damn key?" Mitch is gently guiding Vale to disembark the vehicle and notices she is no longer holding the keys, "Shit.. I think it got dropped out into the sand or something while that shark was fucking with us." Mitch grumbles, but seeing as how most of the prisoners are now untethered, he aims his pistol at the floor near Scarlet. "Hold still.." He mutters as the gun charges up and then fires an orange hot beam for half a second that heats up and snaps the chain holding her to the vehicle. "Now come on, ain't no way we fixing her up with what we got here, and I ain't hanging around here to see if anymore of them shits show up. We gonna head that-a-way and should get to the wood in about a day." Mitch hikes up his backpack tighter onto his shoulder and starts trudging ahead, he turns back towards the group once again and says, "And don't none of you taints step near me or I'll fry your feet." Mitche's gaze rest on Crake somewhat forlornly before he continues to take the lead. Crake sighs and grabs some items from a little storage container in the back of the jeep, shuffling things into his pockets while he reloads his gun before falling in line with the rest of the group.

[Lazy Kitsune]

Vale lets out a quiet sigh as this seems to work. Feigning meekness was never her favourite ploy, and she was worried that her little stunt earlier would blow up any chances of it succeeding. But it seemed that the guard was buying her little outburst was just the panicked actions of a frightened and emotional woman. If there's one thing she can rely on its the tendency for men to on some level want to see the women around them as timid, submissive things. As demeaning as it was, the outfit she had been left with likely helped as well. A little sex appeal can go along way with convincing someone to help you - and while these guards may not be likely to touch anyone that they consider warp tainted, a little ego stroking from seeing a beautiful, scantily glad woman declare herself dependant on them to know what to do might still work to Vale's advantage.

She winces a little as she moves, the wound on her side still stinging. The skimming pellet might not have cut deep enough to cause any serious problems, but getting shot still hurts no matter how mildly grazed she was. Perhaps she should take it to heart as a useful reminder to be more cautious out here than she was in the city. Being too bold was what got her into this mess in the first place after all. If she played the obedient pet role a little better then maybe she would still be safe within the walls of her home.

The guard isn't as forceful with her now as he leads her out of the jeep, indicating that he might be receptive to this little performance. "Thankyou." she gasped out, brushing back some of her blonde locks out of her face as she wiped away tears. "Thankyou so much."

It seems the guards can't find the key, which suggests the bunny girl still had it. Sure, they were all now freed from the jeep itself, but it didn't seem like the guards were interested in trying to get rid of the arm chains, so having that in her hands was helpful. Vale still didn't know if she could trust these women. They were tainted after all. She still wasn't, but no one was going to believe her. Her odds were still better trying to work with them. But they couldn't speak openly with the guards escorting them, so she continued to play along and observe for now.

[jondude]

Nova racks her brain trying to determine the weapons, but the shotgun is generic enough that the choke tube could hold anywhere from, well, minimum six so far, to up to 12. "Dammit, why didn't I pay closer attention when he first opened up on the damn thing? I could've just counted then. Idiot.", Nova chastised herself internally. The blocky pistol meanwhile... she hadn't seen anything that make or model anywhere. Maybe a complete custom piece made in a different city, unlike Thunder City were most weapons were either relics from it's past as a major military base, or the exact same weapons recreated from recovered blueprints. There was very few newly designed weapons where she was from, but there was such an abundance of the old stuff there isn't much point in making new stuff. The only thing she was fairly certain of was that it probably wasn't a taser... probably.

But of course, her lack of connecting dots might be due to the fact that her head was kind of swimming in a very intense adrenaline high right now. The blood on the air reminded her of her fights back home, but still... this was different. Was this... maybe a side effect of her warp taint? She smacks her lips a little as she sits, the coppery tang of blood still lightly present. "Some kind of effect of the creatures blood maybe?", she ponders.

Well, in any case it didn't really matter much what the weapons were because it seems the other two manage deescalate the situation somehow, the maybe secret agent / maybe stripper girl seeming to put the guards at ease with a story about being scared. It was pretty good! As someone who had made of living of putting on a show she wasn't sure if the girl was acting or not. Maybe she was a scared girl who was more stripper then secret agent? Nova was just glad she wasn't in the position of trying to take the shotgun guy hostage in order to made Mitch not shoot his unknown energy weapon at them. That... would've been hard. And even harder to do quickly!

They all slowly get out of the ruined jeep, doing their best to avoid the large mutant land shark and all the jagged metal that was now the back end of the vehicle. There is some talk of a key that is now missing, and Mitch shows off his pistol is definitely a laser as he melts the anchor point of Scarlet's chain and not an arc weapon like she had been leaning toward. That revelation makes her all the more happy she hadn't acted rashly earlier. Then with that, Mitch tells them to get moving and to stay away from him.

Despite her still thundering blood and jitters though, Nova wasn't completely out of wack. She saw the way he locked at his comrade Crake. It would seem he believed that even the simple act of getting a relatively shallow wound from the mutant sharks teeth was enough he believed him to be tainted just like them now. Maybe they'd have a fourth person to keep them company in the woods when they got there? That is, if they got there at all. They were in the middle of desert still and apparently a day away from the Hinterland woods, and here she was barefoot and dressed in rags that were already torn enough that one of her tits was exposed.

Well... it was what it was. Currently these guys were their best source of protection and woods was better then a barren desert. There was no reason not to follow them, so she tries to calm her excited post fight jitters and follows along. Still, she was curious about one thing. "Who would pay to transport us to these woods with such protection? We're exiles. Who the hell cares about us to pay for this? Why not just dump us outside the walls and be done with it?", Nova asked the other two girls openly. It seemed an innocent enough question to her so she didn't mind if the guards heard. Maybe one of them would explain if she was lucky. They'd probably just ignore her though. "It's impossible to get back in the cities with the massive walls, towers, guards, and gun turrets everywhere. Just seems like a lot of effort for such unwanted people like us."

[Soru]

Before anyone could notice Scarlet hides the key away on her person, incase she needed to free herself and maybe the other girls later. She watches as Mitch comes to the back of the vehicle and is relieved to hear that neither one saw the other woman toss her to key so for now only she and maybe the other women knew that she had it. When the driver walks up to her she sees him aim his pistol near her feet she blinks before she realizes it was charging and quickly spreads her feet away before he shot the energy weapon at the tether keeping her chained to the jeep. "Oh... Thanks..." She said as she then stands up and gets out of the jeep with them. "I would offer to carry stuff but unless you have a bag or something... none of us have pockets..." She said as the women were only wearing fetish outfits or rags, which weren't made to have convenient pockets. "It's a whole day on foot?!" Scarlet nearly yells when they said how long it would take to walk there. "Also... What the hell even is that thing that attacked us?!" She points at the dead creature in the jeep. "At least tell me they don't travel in packs..."

As they were beginning to walk Nova started asking questions, some of which were also on her mind. "Yeah... I couldn't even get the smallest help from any of my contacts inside the city once I was thrown out..." Scarlet comments. "Maybe it's just something new they started doing? I didn't really keep up on outside news during my time in the city..." Though from what did has heard, it was usually like what Nova said; they usually just kick them out and keep them from coming back... though there were some rare cases where she heard of some just... disappearing, not having been seen getting escorted out. She assumed it had something to do with the underground trade she heard of though.