Late one night when the Etherites are likely sleeping or isolated in their individual labs the security systems installed by Pelayo will sound off.

A red light flashes in the main room and the readouts on the main screens in the common area show that someone has breached the labs layer of nano-shielding and is coming down...

((Can you give me a diff for per + Alert to be woken up by the racket?))

[Diff:5, Theres probably a screaming siren in every lab.]

((2009-03-21 17:57:14 Mal rolls 5 dice to Per + Alert (Diff 5) 1,2,4,5,5 (1 success))

Mal wakes up slowly, the alarms going off loudly and repetitively.

She springs out of bed.

"Shit shit shit shit SHIT! What the fuck is going on?"

She walks over to a bay of monitors in her lab, showing the feeds from the security cams Pelayo has installed. Whatever she sees, her next step is shaking Pelayo awake.

Malaclypse will see a confusing readout from the nano-tech perimiter. As near as she can tell, they have upwards of two dozen intruders in both the elevator shaft and ventilation ducts- none of which are larger than your average thanksgiving turkey...

Pelayo may have ahd numerous dreams about Malaclypse waking him up, but none of them centered around her panicking while she did it. His eyes pop open and his nano-skin reacts subconsciously. Like a startled squid he flashes whites and reds as he sits up straight, head twisting left and right at the flashing lights and annoying siren.

'What the hell is going on? A leak??'

"INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!" Mal yells shrilly at the confused Pelayo.

"Seriously dude, wake up...looks like we've got..." she glances at the readout.
"A dozen err...turkey sized intruders? What the shit, Pelayo? Are these MIB drones or some shit?"

In the lacy underthings she no doubt was sleeping in, Mal is probably having an entirely different effect on Pelayo than the screaming alarm, but the look on her face is deadly serious.

'Uh...'

Pelayo stutters a moment, looking Mal up and down like an excited highschool student before realizing shes damn serious about there being intruders. If only this was an: Intruders! Let me in your bed, im scared! alarm...

Pelayo will jump out of his bed, strangely it would appear the only time he ever wears pants is when he is sleeping, as shown by his Jack Daniels pajama pants.

'I dont know, I dont know...'

Pelayo obsessively mumbles as he punches away at one of his consoles...

Pelayos readout will be very different. Rather than a dozen turkey sized intruders his readout will show easily a hundred fist sized intruders. As soon as he looks back at Malaclypse with shock and confusion on his red flashing face they will hear the clatter of ventilation grates hitting the floor in the main room and repeated splats like small steaks falling to the floor.

A soothing female voice is heard from one of the many display panels as Mal taps something out furiously on one of her gadgets.

"LABORATORY DEFENSES ACTIVATED"

An ominous humming sound begins from several points around the lab, acommpanied by an increasing small of ozone as Mal's lasers begin powering up.

"What the fuck is this shit? What the hell, why are there so many? There were just a dozen before? what the fuck? What ARE those things?"

She still hasn't seen what any of the small steak-sounding thingslook like, but she'll be damned if she isn't ready to atomize them.  

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The moist splats of the dropping intruders comes like a waterfall. Every additional intruder adds to a loud hissing sound at varying pitches, some kind of communication for the swarm. The readout of the lab goes from polka dotted to throbbing and red. There are too many intruders to identify as individual targets.

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Initiatives!

2009-04-04 08:51:14 Radiation rolls 1 die for Initiative 2 (initiative roll) 2+5=7.

2009-04-04 08:51:35 Pelayo rolls 1 die for Initiative 7 (initiative roll) 7+7=14.  

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2009-04-04 08:52:22 Mal rolls 1 die to Initiative 1 (initiative roll) 1 + 6 = 7

Since Malaclypse has control of the ungoldly amount ofl asers mounted everywhere Pelayo will play defense. He will run the short distance to the door and throw it closed before punching a code into the keypad on the frame and engaging all the locks. He cranes his neck to look through the glass of the door not at the swarm but at Rahshids lab, which appears to already be barricaded...  

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Mal keeps tapping furiously on the keypad of the electronic device she's holding, only looking up long enough to sort of estimate the number of...splats.

2009-04-04 10:17:45 Mal rolls 3 dice to Arete (used willpower)  (Matter 3 Forces 1, + 1 vulgar, - 1 focus: lasers, -1 Mad science) 10,5,1 (2 successes) ((edited roll to reflect lower difficulty that I forgot about))

"TARGETS ACQUIRED," says the same soothing electronic voice as the hum of the lasers stabilizes at a steady pitch.

PEW PEW PEW ZORT! Supercharged enemy beams fire from the guns mounted in the lab.  

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The most effective firing pattern into the thick group of enemies was a strafe. The particle beam will atomize a straight line before it has to cool for a few seconds. It roasted three of the cornish hen sized intruders into black smears on the floor.

The hissing sounds reach a fevered pitch, penetrating even through the labs door. The creatures move like a wave, splitting like an amoebas arms some of them go after the firing beams and others slam into the labs door. Malaclypse will get her first good look at what shes vaporizing with lasers- the creature is a pinkish blob of flesh with four legs. It has no discernable features beyond its green viens and a mouth where its belly should be. The mouth is circular with row after row of tiny teeth and an oozing green fluid.

The creatures pile up on the door to the lab so fast they obscure the view with all their tiny mouths spitting the green fluid onto the glass and metal with a tell-tale sizzling sound...

2009-04-04 10:32:52 Radiation rolls 4 dice to Acid attack (Diff 5) 6,2,6,6 (3 successes)
2009-04-04 10:33:06 Radiation rolls 6 dice to Damage 6,5,8,1,8, 6 (3 successes)
The door can sustain 12 levels of damage before it will buckle.  

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Pelayo backs away from the door a few paces as the creatures slam into the glass. If they get through the door he and Mal will be swarmed. Theres no way they could swat and stomp that many... things.

'Uh Mal.. Shoot faster or blow something up!'

Pelayo suggests in a cracked, panicky tone. Being eaten alive by Rahshids mutant offspring is not how he wants to die. In a flash of inspiration brought on by fear Pelayo steps forward again. He raises one hand to run a finger along the seal of the door, releasing a few hundred of his nano-bots from his skin as he does. The bots will be nobly sacrificed, crawling into the acid on the far side of the seal to give Pelayo a hint about its chemical makeup so he can hopefully reinforce the door or shift it to acid proof.

2009-04-04 10:45:00 Pelayo rolls 3 dice to Arete [Matter:1 Life: 1, Coincidental +3, Foci-1] (Diff 3) 5,4,9 (3 successes)

"I'm trying here! What the fuck ARE these things, Pelayo? They're like mutant chickens or some shit! With acid spit! This is fucked!" she exclaims as she adjusts the aim on the laser rifles.

"Come on, come on, you can do better than that, my sweet lasers..." she mutters as she fires another round.

2009-04-04 10:40:03 Mal rolls 3 dice to Arete (used willpower) (Matter 3 Entropy 1 Forces 1, same difficulty modifiers ) (Diff 5) 1,7,10 (2 successes)

ZzzzzzzzzzzzAP!!

As the creatures swarm the firing positions of the lasers in an attempt to choke them out the beams are forced to react defensively. Firing quick pulses close in they brush off nearly a dozen of the offending flood but for every one they vaporize another three crawl in to take their place.

Pelayos arm mounted device will inform him that the acid is an enzyme unknown to the normal world. The little mutants have made their own brand of corrosive slime but the readout provided by the kamikaze nano-bots is clear enough for Pelayo to devise a counter.

The creatures continue their onslaught against the door to the lab, spitting acid slime and rubbing it in with their spike covered tongues. It is a truly disgusting display to be close to with all the mutants stuck to the glass like so many toothy sucker-fish.

2009-04-04 11:08:47 Radiation rolls 4 dice to Acid attack (Diff 5) 9,9,8,10 (4 successes)
2009-04-04 11:08:58 Radiation rolls 7 dice to Acid damage 3,9,1,5,3, 3,4 (failure)
The door can withstand 9 more levels of damage bfore it is breached.  

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'Those are Rahshid one-upping the Octo-Mom!'

Pelayo tells Malaclypse. She should be able to figure out the rest. Pelayos mind races with chemical compounds and cancelling equations. He Presses two fingers to his right temple, watching codes run across the display in his eye. This is going to be dirty dirty science and theres nothing he can do about it.

Pelayo reaches out and Malaclypse will see his arm melt into the door up to the elbow. His nano-skin will change color and texture to match the metal of the door. His white eyeballs run green with flying code and nano-compounds.

2009-04-04 11:16:01 Pelayo rolls 3 dice to Arete [Transmutation of the metal in the door] 9,6,6 [Matter: 3, Vulgar +4, Foci-1] (Diff:6)  (3 successes) Pelay needs to amass 10 successes before the door collapses to make it acid proof. Pelayo also gains 4 paradox from the effect that will hold until it is finished or a botch comes along.

"Alright you little cockbags, get offa my lasers!" Mal shrieks as the onsaught continues.

She's recalibrating the aim on the lasers yet again, trying to find an apporpriate weak spot in the little fuckers to make them even more likely to be taken out.

2009-04-04 12:27:10 Mal rolls 3 dice to Arete (Diff 5) (Matter 3, Entropy 2, Forces 1) (+ 1 vulgar, -1 focus, -1 mad science) 9,6,6 (3 successes)


"Wait? What? These are Rahshid's children?!!??" Mal looks really fucking confused, then takes a deep breath and yells at the top of her lungs:

"HEY RAHSHID YOU FUCK! GET YOUR ASS IN HERE AND HELP US! YOUR BABIES ARE TRYING TO EAT THE LAB!"