Cutting Through

Gregor is in the rubble, covering west, like normal, on watch and … watching.

«Game» Maschenko changes his style to Stealth!

There's a flurry of action from the south side of the building. A roar of a tank gun followed by the answering shot of a PTRD. A few men go rushing past on their way down there, including Pavlov. He yells to the others in this room, "They're rushing again. Hold this point and cover the square." And then he's off.

Novikova has been helping dole out things, taking care of little chores when not peering west and making sure the MG is clean. She blinks, hearing the PTRD but turns red. Aleks! Wait, no - Daw. How Pavlovian. She would be amused. She nods at Pavlov's order and picks up Yulia's Mosin having swapped for a bit. A peer out the west window, though she smiles at Gregor.

Gregor nods to the orders, staying at his post and covering the western exposure. He nods to Novi and keeps looking for bad guys, "Covering West." He says.

Maschenko has just finished picking some dirty debris out of the sutures in his hand. As Pavlov comes rushing by he exhales through pursed lips and grabs his rifle from beside his satchel, slinging both on and kneeling down beside one of the windows.

«Ground Combat» You are now peeking into 9th of January Square.

Elise is just coming back from watch. Her first instinct is to head back to where the action is, but Pavlov's orders stop her. "Da, Comrade Sergeant." She heads for her favorite firing spot, a hole in the wall, and watches.

«Game» Novikova changes her style to Stealth!

«Game» Elise changes her style to TakeCover!

Maschenko shifts around to look to the north, as bad as his eyesight is. Better hope they don't come from there, or everyone's screwed.

«Ground Combat» Gregor fires his Mosin-Nagant at Adler but misses!

Gregor fires, "Two west

Maschenko figured. He pivots on his knees to look west as Gregor starts shooting.

«Ground Combat» You are now peeking into 9th of January Square.

«Ground Combat» Gregor fires his Mosin-Nagant at Adler but misses!

Gregor fires, "Two west

Maschenko figured. He pivots on his knees to look west as Gregor starts shooting.

«Ground Combat» You are now peeking into 9th of January Square.

Gregor fires, scoring, cocking the rifle just as a bullet hits his cover, "Aww that was close."

«Game» Maschenko changes his style to Standard!

«Ground Combat» Elise fires her Mosin-Nagant at Leitner but misses!

«Ground Combat» Gregor fires his Mosin-Nagant at Adler but misses!

«Ground Combat» Novikova fires her Mosin-Nagant at Leitner but misses!

«Ground Combat» You notice Stromm arrive at 9th of January Square.

«Ground Combat» Adler fires his Kar98k at Gregor but misses!

«Ground Combat» Faustmann fires his Kar98k at Maschenko but misses!

«Ground Combat» Maschenko fires his Mosin-Nagant at Stromm but misses!

«Ground Combat» You shoot at Stromm with your Mosin-Nagant! Your accuracy is 27 percent!

«Ground Combat» Leitner fires his Scoped Kar98k at Elise but misses!

«Ground Combat» Gregor tries to fire his Mosin-Nagant at Adler but his weapon is jammed!

«Game» Novikova changes her style to Uraa!

«Game» Novikova assists Gregor!

Elise curses the fast-moving targets in the darkness, her shot going wide. She ducks a bit as fire is returned.

«Ground Combat» Elise fires her Mosin-Nagant at Leitner but misses!

Gregor clunks, He ducks and swears.

Novikova hands over her faithful oil rag and pokes up to shoot.

«Ground Combat» Adler fires his Kar98k at Gregor but misses!

«Ground Combat» Faustmann fires his Kar98k at Maschenko but misses!

«Ground Combat» Maschenko fires his Mosin-Nagant at Leitner and hits!

Leitner suffers 6 wound damage to his right arm.

«Ground Combat» You shoot at Leitner with your Mosin-Nagant! Your accuracy is 30 percent!

«Ground Combat» Leitner fires his Scoped Kar98k at Elise but misses!

«Entrenchment» Stromm works on clearing obstacles from East <E>.

«Game» Novikova assists Gregor!

Maschenko is slowed down slightly by his bum hand, but manages to nearly tear off Leitner's arm with a shot.

«Game» Gregor unjams his Mosin-Nagant!

Gregor takes the rag, manages to unjam his weapon and flicks it back, "Spasibo."

Stromm moves up to the wire with his cutters, ducking as the fire rains down on his buddies.

Elise sees a bullet strike the fellow she's aiming at. "Good shooting." Whoever that was. She doesn't stop to look.

«Ground Combat» Elise fires her Mosin-Nagant at Leitner but misses!

Novikova gasps. Stromm! "Hey! We worked hard on that wire!" She growls and turns her gun on him.

«Ground Combat» Novikova fires her Mosin-Nagant at Stromm but misses!

«Ground Combat» Adler fires his Kar98k at Gregor and hits!

Gregor suffers 7 wound damage to his left chest.

«Ground Combat» Gregor has been mortally wounded!

«Ground Combat» Faustmann fires his Kar98k at Maschenko but misses!

«Medic Code» Maschenko attempts to stabilise Gregor but fails and Gregor expires…

«Ground Combat» Leitner tries to fire his Scoped Kar98k at Elise but his weapon is jammed!

Gregor flops back as he gets shot, thud!

«Entrenchment» Stromm works on clearing obstacles from East <E>.

«Ground Combat» Novikova fires her Mosin-Nagant at Stromm but misses!

Elise does look over at that. "Comrade Gregor!" She starts to move that way, but Maschenko has it, so she just keeps shooting.

«Ground Combat» Elise fires her Mosin-Nagant at Stromm but misses!

Maschenko ducks down as Gregor takes a nasty one to the chest. Damn. Jamming some gauze on there, he snags his rifle and tries again for the wanker cutting their wire.

«Ground Combat» Adler fires his Kar98k at Maschenko but misses!

«Ground Combat» Maschenko fires his Mosin-Nagant at Stromm and hits!

Stromm suffers 3 wound damage to his abdomen.

«Ground Combat» You shoot at Stromm with your Mosin-Nagant! Your accuracy is 27 percent!

«Ground Combat» Faustmann fires his Kar98k at Novikova but misses!

«Ground Combat» Novikova fires her Mosin-Nagant at Stromm but misses!

Stromm arrghs as he takes a shot in the side. Still cutting, though.

Announcement: Afterlife shouts, "Gregor has been revived!"

«Ground Combat» Elise fires her Mosin-Nagant at Stromm and hits!

Stromm suffers 4 wound damage to his abdomen.

«Ground Combat» Stromm has been mortally wounded!

«Ground Combat» Adler reloads his Kar98k!

«Game» Leitner unjams his Scoped Kar98k!

«Ground Combat» Maschenko fires his Mosin-Nagant at Faustmann and hits!

Faustmann suffers 5 wound damage to his right hand.

«Ground Combat» You shoot at Faustmann with your Mosin-Nagant! Your accuracy is 30 percent!

Stromm slumps over the wire, expiring messily on it.

Maschenko puts more blood on the street, and ducks back to reload.

«Ground Combat» Novikova fires her Mosin-Nagant at Faustmann but misses!

«Ground Combat» Faustmann reloads his Kar98k!

Faustmann and a few of the other facists stop to reload.

«Ground Combat» Maschenko reloads his Mosin-Nagant!

«Ground Combat» Elise reloads her Mosin-Nagant!

«Ground Combat» Adler fires his Kar98k at Elise but misses!

«Ground Combat» Novikova reloads her Mosin-Nagant!

«Entrenchment» Leitner works on clearing obstacles from East <E>.

Maschenko eyes Leitner. Oh hell no.

Leitner picks up Stromm's cutters and goes to work on the wire. They're sitting ducks if they can't get into the building.

«Ground Combat» Faustmann fires his Kar98k at Novikova but misses!

«Ground Combat» Maschenko fires his Mosin-Nagant at Leitner and hits!

Leitner suffers 3 wound damage to his right chest.

«Ground Combat» You shoot at Leitner with your Mosin-Nagant! Your accuracy is 30 percent!

«Ground Combat» Elise fires her Mosin-Nagant at Leitner but misses!

«Ground Combat» Novikova fires her Mosin-Nagant at Faustmann but misses!

Elise hits Stromm, reloads quickly, and pops back up to fire at the other wire-cutting foe. "Damn, they're doing some damage to that wire."

«Ground Combat» Adler fires his Kar98k at Elise but misses!

«Ground Combat» Maschenko fires his Mosin-Nagant at Leitner but misses!

«Ground Combat» You shoot at Leitner with your Mosin-Nagant! Your accuracy is 30 percent!

«Ground Combat» Faustmann fires his Kar98k at Maschenko but misses!

«Ground Combat» Elise fires her Mosin-Nagant at Leitner but misses!

Maschenko flinches as a bullet pings the wall by his arm. His fire stays trained on Leitner, poor guy.

«Entrenchment» Leitner works on clearing obstacles from East <E>.

«Ground Combat» Novikova fires her Mosin-Nagant at Faustmann and hits!

Faustmann suffers 5 wound damage to his right leg.

Faustmann falls to one knee when his leg is hit, face grimacing in pain.

«Ground Combat» Adler fires his Kar98k at Maschenko but misses!

«Ground Combat» Maschenko fires his Mosin-Nagant at Leitner but misses!

«Ground Combat» You shoot at Leitner with your Mosin-Nagant! Your accuracy is 25 percent!

«Ground Combat» Faustmann tries to fire his Kar98k at Novikova but his weapon is jammed!

Maschenko swears under his breath. "Come on…"

Leitner makes one final snip and waves his comrades through!

«Ground Combat» Novikova fires her Mosin-Nagant at Leitner and hits!

Leitner suffers 4 wound damage to his right chest.

«Ground Combat» Leitner has been mortally wounded!

Leitner … and then he dies.

«Game» Maschenko changes his style to Uraa!

«Ground Combat» Maschenko fires his Mosin-Nagant at Adler but misses!

«Ground Combat» You shoot at Adler with your Mosin-Nagant! Your accuracy is 30 percent!

Novikova will teach them to snip her and Sokolof's hard trimmed wire.

«Ground Combat» Elise fires her Mosin-Nagant at Adler but misses!

«Ground Combat» Adler fires his Kar98k at Elise but misses!

«Ground Combat» Faustmann tries to fire his Kar98k at Novikova but his weapon is jammed!

«Ground Combat» Novikova fires her Mosin-Nagant at Faustmann and hits!

Faustmann suffers 7 wound damage to his left leg.

«Ground Combat» Maschenko fires his Mosin-Nagant at Adler and hits!

Adler suffers 6 wound damage to his head.

«Ground Combat» You shoot at Adler with your Mosin-Nagant! Your accuracy is 30 percent!

«Ground Combat» *boom* Headshot!!! Adler has been taken out!

Maschenko makes Adler's head explode in a spray of blood and brain matter. He puts his back against the wall, reloading again.

Faustmann fires but his weapon is still jammed. Go figure. Then his OTHER leg is kneecapped. He falls prone, yelling for help. But there's no help to come.

«Ground Combat» Maschenko reloads his Mosin-Nagant!

«Ground Combat» Elise fires her Mosin-Nagant at Faustmann but misses!

«Ground Combat» Novikova fires her Mosin-Nagant at Faustmann but misses!

«Game» Faustmann unjams his Kar98k!

«Ground Combat» Maschenko fires his Mosin-Nagant at Faustmann and hits!

Faustmann suffers 7 wound damage to his left leg.

«Ground Combat» You shoot at Faustmann with your Mosin-Nagant! Your accuracy is 31 percent!

«Ground Combat» Faustmann has been mortally wounded!

«Ground Combat» Novikova reloads her Mosin-Nagant!

Elise watches the fellow writhe on the ground, frowning. "Stubborn bastard," she says, when she sees him fiddling with his rifle. She doesn't fire, though, but instead reloads.

«Ground Combat» Elise reloads her Mosin-Nagant!

Faustmann bleeds to death rather rapidly on the pavement.

Novikova blinks as Maschenko becomes the Ukranian of DEATH. "Good shooting," She murmurs. She frowns. "But our wire is …" Well, it's gone. She sighs. She definitely seems to prefer her SVT. "I've never really seen any of their medics," She considers.

Maschenko blows the rest of Faustmann's knee out, and along with it his femoral artery. He thins his lips, shaking his head as he reloads that spent bullet.

«Ground Combat» Maschenko reloads his Mosin-Nagant!

"Good shooting, Comrades," Elise says, gunfire still ringing in her ears. "I don't see any more. Anyone else?" To Novi's comment about medics. "They have them. I've seen them here and there."

«Game» Pavlov's House is no longer a war zone!

«Equipment» Maschenko has dropped 7.62-54R x 77.

Maschenko nods to that, as he works the bolt on his rifle. Metal chinks and thunks. "They do have them. I have a German vial of penicillin thanks to their gracious donations." Dry, that.

Gregor is laying back in a pool of his own blood, his grey, sticky blood. a gross piece of flesh plops out onto the floor, looking like a meatball. even some spices in the flesh. His greyish, lumpy blood is.. smelling like the crap food that comes from those tins.

Heeey wait.

But he's still unconscious.

Elise tears her eyes away from the street to look at Gregor. "How's Comrade Gregor?" she asks in concern. Meatball? EEEEW.

Novikova tries not to look too much at Gregor, turning a little green. She ahs at Maschenko and Elise. "I see. Hm. I must have worse eyes than I thought." Ponder. "Is he - going to be okay?" A look to Gregor. That doesn't look quite normal…

"Watch the windows," Maschenko tells the two women. Partly to spare them the sight of Gregor. Partly because he doesn't want to get shot in the back as he puts his rifle down, grabbing fresh gauze from his pack and sliding back over to Gregor's side on his knees. "He'll be alright," the doctor mutters after a minute. "Didn't hit any organs…but remind me to get him to drink more water."

Gregor groans, obviously discomfitted with how he was laid into this gentle repose. He's trying to wake up.

"Yeah, me too," Elise agrees with Novi, nodding. "But it's getting lighter out now." She watches Gregor like a train wreck for a moment before dutifully keeping watch on the windows. The firing trails off from the south as well.

Novikova gently adjusts her gun, unused to the Mosin after being spoiled by her SVT. She nods, "Da." She'd rather her friends not get shot in the back anyway. "Will do." She smiles and looks to the window. She looks to her cousin then out to the square.

Maschenko lays one hand atop the other, using the heels to put pressure on Gregor's chest until the wound stops its merry bleeding. His eyes cut to Gregor's face as the man stirs. "Comrade. Be still, now. They got you in the chest, but you're alright."

Gregor opens his eyes, unfocusing, "M..mmm.."

Elise looks to her cousin as well, just in time to catch that glance. "You're all right?" she asks to confirm, worried despite not hearing any other shots hit.

Novikova nods, and smiles. "Da. I think my old gun spoiled me. I forgot the bolt on this one," She shrugs and looks over hearing Gregor. "Do you want some water for him?" She offers. She looks over Elise again. "You didn't get hit either?"

"Please, Zoyenka," Maschenko answers gratefully. His hands are busy in place, holding ribs. "Just a canteen if you can reach it." He looks back down, one brow raising a little Sound is a good sign. "Comrade, can you hear me? Try and open your eyes. Don't talk."

Elise shakes her head to Novi. "I'm fine. Just dinged the building a lot. I didn't hit much of anything." She notices. "You don't have your rifle."

Gregor groans, "M.. motherfucker. that.. hurts.." He opens his eyes, focusing on Mashy as he tries to move. more gravy like blood comes out of him. and a noodle.

Novikova just fishes one from her pocket. It's about 3/4ths full. "Here you go. I can get another from the pile," She offers and scoots closer. She nods at Elise, "I let Comrade Yulia use it a bit. Since she's a nurse, it's good to have a hand free and not working a bolt." A shrug. "We'll see how it goes," She smiles. "Since I was on the machine gun last time." Nod. Now, to Gregor, "No, my mother is a woman of upstanding moral character. Are you thirsty?" She offers.

Maschenko hmps, sounding amused. In a weary sort of way. He takes the canteen and opens it, using what water he needs to start cleaning up the nasty wound. "Comrade, stop moving. Makes this far more difficult, now." He digs around in his satchel with one bloody hand for his suturing equipment, and forceps. This is that part nobody wants to watch.

Gregor isn't exactly sure what happened, so he lays back to let the Doctor do his thing while he tries to remain calm. Smells like.. cumin.

Elise keeps one eye on the surgery and one on the street below. Then the gory bits start and she just keeps both eyes on the street. She saw enough when Novi was getting sutured the other day. "Comrade Yulia is quite the marksman," she notes off-hand.

Novikova is helping watch, once she sees the suturing equipment come out. "Comrade Gregor, I can give you a drink or something to hold onto if you want," Nod. Novikova helps watch with Elise otherwise though and smiles, "Da. Wait'll she gets syringes and darts instead of bullets. None of her patients will think of running. She'll give shots at the speed of sound," She grins.

"Was that a pun, Zoya?" Maschenko mutters under his breath, wryly. Most of his focus is on stitching Gregor, thick black thread stuck into needle and tied. He keeps a fresh wad of gauze pressed up against the bottom of the wound to soak while he works. "She is very good. I wonder if she was brought up hunting or some such."

Gregor keeps quiet now, ugh. painpainpainpain.

Elise snorts quietly at Zoya's joke. Not quite a chuckle. "You're pretty good too, Comrade Doctor." She says nothing of Yulia's upbringing. Gregor gets a sympathetic look.

Novikova pause. Wait. She giggles and smiles at the Doctor. "Possibly," She looks away from Gregor as the hand hold is refused. She looks to Elise and nods. "Da. Maybe. It wouldn't be too uncommon, people used to go hunting a lot. Or like that girl who was in the rifles club. Isn't that an Olympic event?"

"So are you, Elise," Maschenko replies, almost as though he wished he didn't have to say so. The needle slips through flesh and he purses his lips, trying to work as quickly as he can. The doctor's left handed, and that hand's still stiff with its own sutures. "Almost there, comrade," he assures Gregor as best he can. His blue eyes flicker up once to Novikova and then back down, and he tilts his head in lieu of shrugging. "I don't know." He makes a dry sound in his throat. "I would say I would look for it the next time there are games, but I suppose it might be wishful to think two years from now will be enough time to be back in the international spirit of friendly competition."

Gregor is a little distracted by the sewing of his flesh to notice much besides he's being sewen up by a man with wounded hands. still stay still.

Elise shakes her head slightly. "I suppose we've all gotten more practice than we might have liked." To Novi she says, "Da, I think it was. I couldn't say for sure."

Novikova nods, "She is." She takes a deeep breath at that. She says nothing after a moment, although she does pat poor Gregor's most distant hand or shoulder, offering a moment of distraction. "Don't worry, our Comrade Doctor moves fast," She promises. "We'll keep our eyes open. And I don't know. It was a good way to show off for a lot of countries too," Novikova points out. "I bet being a gymnast or a fencer would be fun," She grins. "But … I'm not really -" She doesn't have the body and is past prime for a gymnast, alas. Oh well. She shrugs at that. "Even so, there are rifle clubs and shooting competition, Olympics or not. Now if there were a big pumpkins competition…" Novikova wiggles her fingers. She'd be all over it!

"I suppose when this is done you'll need to lobby the committee for such a thing," Maschenko says. Intended to be much lighter than it comes out; exhaustion and his tunnel-vision concentration draw the humor a bit flat. He gets the last stitch in and picks up his knife, cutting the end of the thread once it's knotted. "There we go, comrade. Do you want some…uh. Hold on…" Lips purse, and he reaches over for his satchel, rummaging through the half-empty bottles and syrettes. He finds a half empty vial with German lettering on it and holds it up towards Elise, mouthing rather than speaking: 'This morphine?'

Gregor just barely starts whining wordlessly when Mashy finishes stitching him together. He lays back, panting in pain as the doctor consults about the vial. Come onnnn, Kedamine! Horse Tranqs for the win!

"Can you imagine what it would be like to represent your whole country like that?" Elise sounds somewhat in awe of the idea, even given the stress of current circumstances. Seeing that the surgery is finished, she starts to draw out a flask, "I have some…" But then Maschenko holds up the vial. "Oh, you already have some." She leaves her spot at the window for a moment, coming over to see the letters more closely. She nods confirmation to the doc. "I still have a little brandy if you need some."

Novikova nods, considering the scale. "I think I'd be so nervous, my ponytails would just fall off," Then a grin at Maschenko. "I think my countrymen would be happier to make it into a giant dish," She winks. She goes with the joke. Poor Gregor. "Cherry Brandy even. Used to be one of my favorite kinds. Now everything tastes so - far away. Like I eat shadows," She muses quietly. A look to Gregor, "Do you want a blanket Comrade? Or something to prop up with?"

"He can have some brandy," Maschenko says, quite readily. There's not exactly a lot of morphine to go around, and this means he can quietly skimp even further. He fishes a syringe out of his bag, which has no doubt been used on countless other soldiers by now, and punctures the rubber top of the vial, turning it upside down to draw some of the liquid out. "Cherry brandy sounds like quite the treat."

Gregor nods, "B-blanket.. brandy, shovel to the head. W-whatever might help." He swallows, that's a lot of pain there.

Elise nods to Novi. "Mine too." She drank some earlier, but there's still some left in the flask that Kazimir appropriated. She brings it over, crouching down next to Gregor. "Here, Comrade. I hope it helps a little." She'll defer to Maschenko on movement, but is nearby to help Gregor sit up or lift his head as needed.

Elise clarifies. "I mean, cherry flavor in general. I've only had this stuff once or twice before."

Novikova nods. A smile at Maschenko. "It is. At least /I/ like it," Novikova smiles at her cousin too. She pauses, "I do not think I am allowed to klonk you with the People's Shovel," She notes. Rada would frown. She does bring over one of the blankets kept from the cinema, and will look to the others. She at least waits for the morphine and brandy drops first. "You'll feel better soon. I'm sure I can scrape some ice on watch. My new partner is /odd/. I think I liked bathroom break guy more," A vague pout.

"Have some of the brandy, comrade." Maschenko draws the slightly dulled tip of the needle out of the vial and leans over, sliding the point into place in Gregor's arm. He could warn that it'll sting but really, what's the point? His thumb depresses the plunger, sending the clear stuff towards its goal, and he pinches the spot carefully with his sleeve as he withdraws the needle. "This should keep you until tomorrow. We'll get some ice and make sure there's no fever in the morning. And you'll be back up in no time." A smile should accompany words like that, and one kind of does. But it doesn't touch his eyes at all.

«Game» It is now daytime.

Gregor takes the brandy and drinks. By the time he lowers the brandy, the morphine's hit. He doesn't get this often and he's gone. "Ooh-kay. Ooo it just get brighter in here?" Blink, look around. whoa.

"Getting lighter out," Elise confirms. "Rest easy, Comrade." She gets up, putting the flask away. "I'm going to go tell Comrade Sergeant about the wire." She grabs her rifle and heads off.

Novikova smiles as Gregor drifts. She gently drapes the blanket over him, to his shoulders. "Sleep well. Should I move him to a shadier spot?" She looks to Maschenko. "Well. He should be okay. He's not right in front of a window," She muses. A look out to the west. "I guess I will help clean, move things and fetch a bit," Odd chores to keep busy and avoid looking lazy. "My partner is asleep anyway." She sighs. She nods at Elise.

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