Ear piece is working.

Secret tactics!

[Private to GM: I didn't see a response to whether Lucy could use a Fate point to specify some detail about the scene; i.e., that she had cased out her targets and chose a place to rob that had a network of adjoining basements that she could use as an escape route in an emergency?

If so then she'll make for the next closest wall, moving carefully so as not to make any crashes and bangs, then she'll phase through it into the basement of the next building over.

13:12, Today: Secret Roll: Lucy Lopez rolled 0 using 4 Fudge dice with rolls of 0, 1, -1, 0.  phase into the next basement!

... which would be a total of +5.]

Okay, I think that means I'm out of Fate Points then, since I've invoked aspects twice in this scene already.

"Damn, looks like she just dropped into the basement of the building next door. I'm going in," he says through his comm piece. He runs through the door, and quickly looks around for stairs or some other way to get down to the basement.

[Private to GM: Wow, my dice rolls are not great.

Assuming Athletics is the best option here; total of 1 (+2 Athletics, -1 from die roll)]

OOC: Another win for Lucy.
IC: As Max find the basement in the building that Lucy is suppose to be but she is not. You search the basement for a few seconds before realizing she's not in this basement, likely she phased again.

Your earpiece crackles.
"Bzzzzzz Did you find her?"
"No. She's gone."
"That little bitch isn't going to get away from us. Come back up to the surface. We have a plan."

Lucy can hear the sounds of things through the wall with a large amount of movement but notices that all sudden there is a large noise disturbance. You try go through another wall but you hand simply hits against the stone basement. You try again but your powers are failing.

Up above Max runs right into Allison. "Alright boys, we have hear trapped. Damper is going to hold her, find her. Search all the basements. Max you take the lead. Troops will search each basement."

OOC: Lucy is effectively stuck. Max can choose one of the following buildings to check (choose wisely):
Pawn shop right next door to the apartment
Dry cleaner on the other side of the apartment

Lucy/Max privately chat me and tell me which location you are in/going to. Give me your actions before rolling this time. Max you gain the one time temporarily aspect Trapped like a rat

Secret tactics continue...

[Private to GM:

... fuck!  Fuckfuckfuckfuck.  How the hell are they doing this shit?

Lucy takes a couple of seconds to think, trying not to panic, and then comes to a decision:  if the assholes are looking for her in basements, then she needs to not be in one.  She'll bolt for the stairs up to ground level, as quick and quiet as she can, and then continue -up- the stairs into whatever is on the levels above.  Hopefully if she can get a few stories elevated above the street, she'll get out of range of whatever is blocking her phasing?

She's not doing any Phasing this time, so I guess this would be a Stealth roll?  Which Lucy has at +2.

... roll incoming... !  :)]

... and the roll...

[Private to GM: 15:44, Today: Secret Roll: Lucy Lopez rolled -2 using 4 Fudge dice with rolls of 0, -1, 0, -1.  stealth her way upstairs.

Oh no!  :O  Lucy may need to burn another Fate point to fix this one, if that's ok?]

[Private to Lucy Lopez: OOC: Need you to pick a location. If he picks the same location and rolls better he catches up to you or closer to you. You can spend a fate point to decide a story element and just make it so, if so just edit your post. Or you can try using one of you background aspects to give you a +2. One just gives you the ability to basically decide if and where he catches you while the other one makes it harder for him to get a raise against you. Raise will either give him another +2 bonus or he can mark of two boxes to catch up to you which makes you even. So potentially he could be on top of you. Good news is, he can't teleport either ;)]
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Secret secret, I've got a secret....

[Private to GM: If Lucy can just spend a Fate point to declare whatever choice she makes to be the "right choice" then definitely she'll do that!]

[Private to Lucy Lopez: Nope. Not in this case. Because it's opposed rolls you just have to pick. Otherwise there is no wins. So far you have 2 marks against him. All it takes is for you to get to 5. If you get to 5 you escape and there is no trace. If he gets to 5 he nabs you.]

[Private to GM: Okay then, so just picking an option at random, she'll go to the dry cleaners' basement, and spend a Fate point to reroll that last terrible roll.]

[Private to GM: 09:56, Today: Lucy Lopez rolled 0 using 4 Fudge dice ((0, 0, -1, 1)).]

I have a secret...

[Private to GM: Max is going to check out the dry cleaner next door, and relay that to Allison.]

Waiting for another roll.

[Private to Max: Sounds good go ahead and make a notice roll against her and see if you can nab her. You do notice that you can not teleport due to the machine.]

Roll...

[Private to GM: And my dice roll woes continue...

Notice Roll: 4 (+3 Notice, -1 die roll, +2 Trapped like a rat)]

[... we're not waiting on me for something here, are we?]

OOC: Max wins. No style bonus.

IC: Max busts in one of the buildings and starts the process of trying to find an area that allows him to get to the basement of the dry cleaner. He stops for a second and searches looking for Lucy and sees peering up from the stairs Lucy's face that quickly shrinks back. She knows he a floor down below him. The area that she is in is obviously a living area above the dry cleaners itself. Doors are all down the hallway leading to living quarters of the shop.

OOC: Announce your intentions and rolls.
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[I'm having a hard time following you here...  what hotel?  I thought the options you gave were a dry cleaner or a pawn shop?  And, Lucy is "peering up" from the stairs but Max is "a few floors down" from her?  Is Lucy above Max or below him?]

Are we looking at a single family's living space here, or when you say there's "doors all down the hallway" are you meaning there's locked doors leading to all different separate apartments?  How many floors is the building, do the stairs keep going upward?

OOC: Single family living space. Doors leading to different rooms. You are at the top floor.

Basement > Ground floor (max) > Second floor (living - you) > Roof

Doors could be locked might not be locked. None of the doors you see at the moment are currently open.

No Stairs going upward but likely they have attic access in one of the rooms and most likely a fire escape outside somewhere.

Max rushes up the stairs looking for Lucy, yelling as he does so. "Lucy, look, I'm not here to hurt you, seriously! But if you don't come with me, somebody else will be coming to hurt you! They fear us!"

[Private to GM: Rushing as quickly up the stairs to try and get to her before she disappears again.

Athletics check of 2 (+2 from Athletics, +0 from die roll)

17:10, Today: Secret Roll: Max rolled 0 using 4 Fudge dice with rolls of 0, 0, -1, 1]

... oh sure, the squad of goons with guns isn't here to use them at all, that makes total sense, they're just for show.  Lucy turns towards the nearest apartment door and bangs on it with both fists as hard as she can five or six times, then repeats the same with the next door down the hall, then...

[Private to GM: ... then at the third door she'll just try to quietly open it and slip through, picking the lock if she has to.

18:04, Today: Lucy Lopez rolled 1 using 4 Fudge dice ((1, 0, -1, 1)).

...  plus Lucy's +3 for Burglary is +4.]
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OOC: Lucy wins the round.

IC: As Max makes it upstairs he realizes that Lucy has quietly slipped away from him and he is unsure where she is. You look but you are unsure where she went which leaves you questioning where she could be.

Max's ear piece buzzes in his ear and he hears Allison on the comms. "Max we don't see her out here. We have the building surrounded. Do you have eyes on the suspect? The dampener is running out to steam."

OOC: Could possibly be the last roll. If Lucy wins this she's going to escape plain and simple. Either she hides well enough that Max and crew can't find her on they give up the search. If the round continues and Max wins then we continue.

?? for the GM...

[Private to GM: What has Lucy found in whatever room it is she's slipped into?  Is she alone there, as far as she can tell?]

Clarifying some details:

[Private to Lucy Lopez: Lucy is completely alone. From what little you could tell going upstairs the whole floor is likely "not home" so hiding is a possibility but so is running. This building shares roof-line with another one next door.]

... and then ...

[Private to GM: Lucy will make sure the apartment doors are locked behind her, then she'll find the apartment's phone, pick it up, and dial 911.

"Oh my god help me please, someone's trying to break down my doors!!" she half-whispers, affecting a panicked whimper, like she's too terrified to talk loud enough to be heard by...  whoever.  "... oh, they're breaking in, come quick!!"

She sets the phone down next to the receiver, not hanging it up, just leaving the line open, and then she goes about searching the apartment for the roof access.  She needs to get out of range of whatever's screwing with her phasing!

// not sure what skill to roll here so I'll just go with Stealth, since she's trying to do all of this all quiet and sneaky?

19:36, Today: Lucy Lopez rolled -1 using 4 Fudge dice ((0, 0, -1, 0)).

... and Lucy's Stealth is +2.]