Close Circle

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

1. Arm yourself with the best weapons you can find. (pt. 2)

Loren shifts dragon for just a second to pick up the hang glider, then returns to her half-elf form, vehicle safely tucked away. Dragon shapeshifting is ridiculously convenient.

She then finishes her shopping trip by looking for A Gun™ as well as as many containers as she can hold.

She holsters the gun, and starts sketching out a plan.

... Think I'm gonna need a fifth form for this, Loren thinks. Something approximately humanoid and medium-ish sized. She glances around at her colleagues, eyes finally settling on Chili Pepper Cookie. ... Sure. That'll work. Cookie. She shifts into a jet-blue... dragonfruit cookie, huh? On the nose, but all right. She briefly shifts back to half-elf, picks up all the gear, and returns to cookie, gear tucked away. ... Almost as an afterthought, she retrieves Another Gun™ and equips that to her new cookie form too.

She revises her plan as necessary for her new ability, and eventually comes up with the following:

2. Head up to Little Russia and search for Sidorov.

Step 1: Basic research! Look at a map and locate Little Russia. Also look up what Sidorov looks like. Also look into more details about things Sidorov's crew is doing to ours.
Step 2: Find a nice open space.
Step 3: Retrieve the glider, attach it to the cookie form, use hummingbird and dragon forms to shiftslip a mile or two into the air, return to cookie form and glide. Dragon shapeshifting is ridiculously useful.
Step 4: Glide to Little Russia and start searching for Sidorov from the air, shiftslipping up for some more height if/when necessary.

3. Deal with Sidorov permanently.

Plan A: If Sidorov is outside, shoot him. With A Gun™.

Plan Not-A: Yeah okay he's probably not outside. People don't go outside much these days. Find a safe spot to reorganize her gear - most stuff will be tucked away in dragon form, and both guns will be equipped to the cookie form. Figure out where her target is hiding.

Plan B: Is the place low-security? Just walk the fuck in as a seemingly unarmed half-elf. Find him. Shift cookie. Shoot him. With Two Guns™. Shift otter and/or hummingbird to escape the building. Avoid shifting dragon except as a very last resort, it'll risk losing all her gear. (Better that than losing a form, but still. Not something she wants happening.) Make sure to do not leave the hang glider behind, she's going to use it later - tuck it away in the half-elf or cookie form, whichever works out best.

Plan C: Maybe the place is high-security? Wouldn't be surprised. Find a safe spot to tuck the hang glider into the dragon form. Shift otter and/or hummingbird to get in. Infiltrate the place through the vents. Shoot him. With A Gun™. Escape the same way as in plan B.

4. Send a message to the Russian Mafia that they're making a big mistake messing with me!

Seek out anything and everything Sidorov and his crew have gained for acting against us. Set aside anything she can bring back as spoils of war. Shift dragon, drop all her gear in the loot pile, tear the rest to bits with teeth and claws, set the ruins on fire.

5. Recover the stolen weapons and bring them back to my warehouses in Santa Castillo.

Fill the containers she brought with anything that isn't already in containers. Tuck everything, her own containers and the existing ones, away in the cookie form. Plus as much as she can fit into the otter form. Retrieve the hang-glider and attach it to the half-elf form. Leave Little Russia the same way she got here.

Loren has scored 10, 6, 7, 8 and 1 for a grand total of 32 points.

1.      You manage to secure a hang-glider and you manage to secure plenty of containers. And the guns you find are both bazookas. They should get the job done all right… a little too well, but it will get it done nonetheless. And with the gathering of the glider, the containers and the bazookas, you set off in your new Cookie form.

2.      You do manage to do all right with your research. You see what Sidorov looks like and you do learn that the Russian Mafia are planning to start a war with Carmello and his empire. You don't learn anything else other than that. Still you set off in your glider into Little Russia and do manage to find Sidorov.

3.      You see that he is indeed heavily guarded, so yeah, plan C it is. You fly through the vents in your hummingbird form while struggling a bit to get the bazooka in. And you fire it at Sidorov. It doesn't hit him directly, just missing by a bit, but the shrapnel does end up hitting him, causing him to be fatally wounded and he eventually dies of his wounds. So you did at least get the job done, even if it wasn't pretty.

4.      You manage to secure the weapons and keep them in a safe place for later on. And you do find all the plans that the Russians were planning to start the war with. You can see that they plan to go head on and overwhelm Carmello and his guys. Several foolproof plans that no doubt took a long time to prepare, along with some master planners here. But you manage to tear all of it up. You chew up the plans where it's indecipherable and you claw the planners to death, along some of the surviving guards. And you cause a huge fire that sets the building ablaze and it collapse into a nice, rubble mess. You have indeed cause a huge dent in their plans, no doubt having to make them start all over again. Great work!

5.      Unfortunately for you, as you were tearing shit up, one of the guards did call for back-up before he got slashed to death by you. As you try to secure the weapons in the containers, you find several angry Russians surrounding you. They come at you, guns a-blazing. They all quickly recover the weapons before you have the chance to take them and they end up shooting the glider all to hell. The only way you can escape is by turning into your dragon form and you get the hell out of Little Russia, but just barely making it out alive.