I don't like physical gum :U I'm not even chewing gum.
Name: Kharana Zephronic, AKA Khran, AKA 'Mercer'
Disclaimer: The name is stolen as feck, and even without any permission whatsoever. But it's so badass I can't resist. Name belongs to Khran.
Bio:
So, who the heck is Khran?
To one guy he says that he is a king of a distant land, known as the Middle Ground. To the other guy, he says that he is a warrior in training, traveling to seek for potential opponents. To the third guy he says that he is a boss of a certain alien company. To the fourth guy he says that he is a chosen one, selected to fix the corruption in the universe. How much of that is true is left for people to figure out, and his real past is a mystery for all. Maybe even for him. Who the heck knows.
Either way, people just refer to him as "that random dude". And they are right - if anything, Khran is all kinds of random. Nobody can tell for sure what's his deal. Even he can't always tell what's his deal. He just pops here and there, fulfilling whatever thought comes first to his mind(usually it's rather silly), trying to look funny and usually failing to do so.
Bear in mind though, that while this guy is all fun and jokes, it's only for when he is in the good mood. Usually, that is whenever, and there isn't a thing that can get him angry instantly, but if the day keeps to be bad continiously, he can get just a wee tiny bit mad. And when he is wee tiny bit mad, you probably want to avoid him. As he is an unstoppable ball of fury in this state, raining devastation at simply anything that stands in his way, enemies or otherwise. Rumour is that only the patented Cooldown Hug from his sister can stop him from his rampage quickly and reliably, but since she isn't anywhere around... yeah guys, you're fucked.
Hobbies: drinking a whole lot of vodka and having no idea what the heck is he doing.
Here's a rough layout of the area:
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#djxxxxxxx#
+ xdancex#
# xfloorx#
#### xxxxxxx#
# #
#> _______#
#> I bar I#
###+######+###
The > are stairs up, leading the the main entrance, as well as an entrance to the VIP area. There is a door (+) behind the bar, probably storage, and another door marked STAFF ONLY is near the DJ. The door between the bar and stairs leads to the toilets. There's a small balcony above them, which I didn't fit. There's people all over the place, quite a few are heading upstairs, Johnny, Khran and Ruhig among them.
Suddenly there's shouting coming from the top floor and those who were pushing to get up the stairs start to push in the opposite direction. There is a flash and a dead body of a patron is falling down the stairs, a burnt hole through its chest. At the same moment, two silvery flares appear on the dance-floor and ugly uniformed aliens pop into existence, guns blazing. A pandemonium breaks out, people screaming and running around mindlessly.
Sorry for the delay - Christmas happened =p
With most people dead or dying all over the place, the situation begins to clear somewhat, but the flashing disco lights don't help. Johnny a Khran take cover behind the bar with the barman, who's grasping a shotgun and preparing to defend his livelihood. The battle is still raging upstairs, but the two aliens seem to be satisfied with the carnage they've done and each is now grabbing one of the babes, who were just a few moments dancing on the dancefloor, and are preparing to teleport away. Before they can do so however, Ruhig grabs a barstool and throws it at one of them. The stool flies through the air, but only hits one of the aliens with the soft part meant to be sat on, not the hard leg so useful in clobbering drunks. (you rolled a 6 for asskicking - close, but not good enough. There's no penalty for trying though)
With a bestial growl, the alien throws the babe he was holding to his colleague who teleports away with both of them and turns his attention towards Ruhig.
During this distraction Richard tries to open the staff-only door, but it won't budge. Lucas talks to the DJ, who is quite shocked and slow to answer.
"It's locked. I have a key and...," he says nervously at last.
He produces a revolver, but he doesn't seem inclined to use it and will need some persuading to give it up.
Oh, yeah, I meant to write Johnny. Also, I posted a version of the map missing two of the described doors. All fixed now.
"Oh wow great jeez, I thought I could hide here, but this spot just became the center point of attention." Johnny sighs.
"On the other hand...", he says as he lights another cigarette, "... since there's four of us here now, I guess we might as well all jump up and go kick their asses."
Johnny does what Khran did and tosses an empty bottle at one of the aliens. With his other hand he also grabs another bottle for close combat.
Can NPC's act as a combat ally? Or are they useless except for getting a hold of their equipment?
The alien trooper shoots at Ruhig as he dives behind the bar, but the shot flies wild, shattering only a bottle of premium whiskey. Before he can fire another shot, a bottle flies from behind the bar and shatters in the alien's face, blinding him and making him drop his laser pistol. Seeing Khran's success, Johnny follows suit and the second bottle also hits its mark, knocking the alien out. Encouraged by the successful throw, Khran turns to the barkeep and tries to convince him to give him his shotgun, but the barkeeper is not moved by this heroic display, having seen similar feats many times in his line of work.
"Feel free to take more bottles, but this shotgun is mine," he utters. "I wouldn't go upstairs right now, sounds like there's quite a few of 'em still, but there's another exit near the DJ booth. I'll open it up for you."
True to his words, there seems to be a one-sided battle raging upstairs. You hear lasers flying and a loud cadence of a chaingun, though the screams are dying there as well. It sounds like the aliens are mopping up the last survivors and it's only a matter of time before they come to check downstairs.
Meanwhile, Lucas' powers of persuasion seems to be better than Khran's, since the DJ hands him his revolver without arguing. It's pitiful how fast he switched from his cool image into a broken coward.
The alien rolled 1 to kick Ruhig's ass, while Khran and Johnny rolled 10 and 9 respectively to kick his ass with the bottles. Both feel a bit more manly now. Khran then rolled 10 to convince the barkeep to give him the shotgun, and is losing a stick of bubblegum as a result. Lucas made the persuasion roll with a 6.
NPC's can act as allies, but seeing as there's 5 players, I'll rather kill them off at the first chance. I don't want them to steal the spotlight from you =P