"Yeah, I've got a question. Steve clearly said in the briefing that he believes that a cult is operating out ofo this residential building. He never said that everyone int his place is a cultist. I mean, I'm not axectly a saint, but I'm not really feeling like wasting ammo on a bunch of mind-raped unarmed civs. Steve also suspected that there was an artifact, but had no confirmation. "
He looks over to Hasala, crossing his arms over his chest
"And lastly, new blood, who the fuck put you in charge anyway?"
"Of course not. But anyone with a gun presumably is, especially once we're through the diner. And if there's no artifact, there's something else for us to kill or capture."Oh hoh hoh. So the general too fat to fit through doors wants to see how you do, eh? Don't worry, I'll keep a good eye on how you do and report it to him then. By the way, what weapons do you. "
And Miyamoto put me in charge, in a way. He wants to see how I do, though I've got no problem with stepping aside if one of you vets want to take the lead. I'm just trying to get us organized from the start."
Kyle holds up the Amp.((He holds up the amp that is meant to be lodged in his brain?))
((It is? Didn't seem like that.))((Amps are surgically implanted into their user's brain, if Kyle didn't get it implanted, then it's going to be a bit of an issue. Manipulators are the ones people strap to their wrist.))
Kyle holds up the Amp.
"I was thinking of freezing slash boiling people alive."
"Of course not. But anyone with a gun presumably is, especially once we're through the diner. And if there's no artifact, there's something else for us to kill or capture."Oh hoh hoh. So the general too fat to fit through doors wants to see how you do, eh? Don't worry, I'll keep a good eye on how you do and report it to him then. By the way, what weapons do you. "
And Miyamoto put me in charge, in a way. He wants to see how I do, though I've got no problem with stepping aside if one of you vets want to take the lead. I'm just trying to get us organized from the start."
He points at hasala, then at Kyle
"you"
then at D'usse
"And you use?"
((Oh! I got them confused then. Probably.))((Kyle has an amp. I checked. He did install it, right? Otherwise, all he'll have is a plastic voucher...))
Kyle holds up the Amp.Seeing the young man hold up seemingly nothing, Pan just scratched his pompom.
"I was thinking of freezing slash boiling people alive."
"Oh my god, you've got my baby! You better not frakking lose that namite thrower, or I'll rip off your limbs. As for the amp, just...try and use the thrower and the shotgun first? Maybe just the shotgun, because I kind of made namite to eat through our insulated suits. Can't even imagine what it'll do to flimsy buildings."
Hasala hefts the shotgun and Miyamoto's namite thrower. "I'll be using these. I also bought one of those microwave amplifiers, though that's for emergencies until I can get back to the ship and figure out what it's good for and how good I am at using it."
Kyle nods."A healthy attitude. Just try to sttay behind me or Faith. Or another teammate. Or a slab of concrete."
"I try not fighting in general."
"Don't worry, I'm guarding this thing with my life. And I don't have it to test how well it burns through buildings, Miyamoto modified it to also shoot some kind of sticky goop. Non-lethal, probably.""Goop? Well, that does sound like general shiny metal ass. Anyway, let's hear what faith thinks about your plan, eh? Then we can decide how to continue on from here."
"Uh... before we get to arguing can I get place with kitty over there? No offense to anyone but she doesn't look like the type to shoot me in the back and will probably need to be watched so cultists don't abuse her extra features."
((Um, guys? Could you guys please check something? I just ran a keyword search and manual search of the on-ship thread, and judging by my results, I think Kyle never actually got an amp. He purchased it, got the plastic voucher, went to watch TV, got statis'd, exited, roleplayed and signed up for the mission, but I don't think he ever had it installed. Which means he may be currently equipped with a plastic voucher rather than an actual weapon.))((... Fuck my bung hole.))
(( I assume we'll wave that. The install is mostly for flavor anyway, it's not like Jim ever got some of his installed :P((Um, guys? Could you guys please check something? I just ran a keyword search and manual search of the on-ship thread, and judging by my results, I think Kyle never actually got an amp. He purchased it, got the plastic voucher, went to watch TV, got statis'd, exited, roleplayed and signed up for the mission, but I don't think he ever had it installed. Which means he may be currently equipped with a plastic voucher rather than an actual weapon.))((... Fuck my bung hole.))
((After all, I never actually got my amps installed and I certainly have them.))(( I assume we'll wave that. The install is mostly for flavor anyway, it's not like Jim ever got some of his installed :P((Um, guys? Could you guys please check something? I just ran a keyword search and manual search of the on-ship thread, and judging by my results, I think Kyle never actually got an amp. He purchased it, got the plastic voucher, went to watch TV, got statis'd, exited, roleplayed and signed up for the mission, but I don't think he ever had it installed. Which means he may be currently equipped with a plastic voucher rather than an actual weapon.))((... Fuck my bung hole.))
Doesn't seem necessary to mess with someone for not following all the RP. ))
"Yo, d'usse. What weapons do you use?"
"It's not a 'beef'. I just happen to think that if I was fighting you I'd go for the most likely nerve packed ears and tail as well as using the tail to keep a good hold on you as I jab things into you."
Kyle says boredly.
((Now I'm just picturing the amp users using magical plastic vouchers instead of amps to kill people :P Yeah, it may be more efficient turn-wise to assume that people get their amps installed immediately after getting their vouchers anyway.))((After all, I never actually got my amps installed and I certainly have them.))(( I assume we'll wave that. The install is mostly for flavor anyway, it's not like Jim ever got some of his installed :P((Um, guys? Could you guys please check something? I just ran a keyword search and manual search of the on-ship thread, and judging by my results, I think Kyle never actually got an amp. He purchased it, got the plastic voucher, went to watch TV, got statis'd, exited, roleplayed and signed up for the mission, but I don't think he ever had it installed. Which means he may be currently equipped with a plastic voucher rather than an actual weapon.))((... Fuck my bung hole.))
Doesn't seem necessary to mess with someone for not following all the RP. ))
"Are you saying you want to be left without a medic ready to help you immediately when your luck runs out?"
Kyle says raising an eyebrow.
Hasala winced as two of his teammates started bickering. Not even at the building yet, and he was already losing 'points'. "If you guys have got a problem with each other, you probably shouldn't be on the same team. And please save your arguing until after the mission; plenty of time to argue then. Safer, too."
"I was volunteering to go with you so I could make sure you don't die."
"Because you're young. Also, death probably sucks. Cat girl or no."
"So, is there a proper breaching strategy, or are we just doing the normal thing where we charge in and murder everything before levelling the building?""I'd imagine we should do some very quick recon of the ground floor from the outside, try to at least have a man at every major exit. Two'd be best. That's how we'd do it back home."
"...yeah, a molten-hot mixture of thermite and napalm will incapacitate them, all right."
Yttra speaks up: "Pretty sure if we bust in there with shotguns and tell the diners to GTFO, then they won't be a damn problem.""I hope for your sake that you aren't referring to my namite thrower. Don't you be dissing my baby
"You know, in stead of shooting them with untested military hardware."
*&^% yeah, me, that was a good line. Untested military hardware.
"Didn't he say it was modified or some $#@!?"Yttra speaks up: "Pretty sure if we bust in there with shotguns and tell the diners to GTFO, then they won't be a damn problem.""I hope for your sake that you aren't referring to my namite thrower. Don't you be dissing my baby
"You know, in stead of shooting them with untested military hardware."
*&^% yeah, me, that was a good line. Untested military hardware.
"Letting the civilians get away would be worse than having explosions go off. I'd rather not fight the police, yes?""We were already told to 'shoo the civvies away', it was part of our *&^%ing mission brief just like 2 minutes ago. *&^% you just wanna shoot something with your new dick."
Faith laughed a bit, but didn't comment."Of course not. But anyone with a gun presumably is, especially once we're through the diner. And if there's no artifact, there's something else for us to kill or capture."Oh hoh hoh. So the general too fat to fit through doors wants to see how you do, eh? Don't worry, I'll keep a good eye on how you do and report it to him then."
And Miyamoto put me in charge, in a way. He wants to see how I do, though I've got no problem with stepping aside if one of you vets want to take the lead. I'm just trying to get us organized from the start."
"I'm with... Droo-say, was it? Best to get it out, or at least known about, ahead of time."Hasala winced as two of his teammates started bickering. Not even at the building yet, and he was already losing 'points'. "If you guys have got a problem with each other, you probably shouldn't be on the same team. And please save your arguing until after the mission; plenty of time to argue then. Safer, too."
"It's best if we get these conditions out of the way prior to the mission. I'll think we'll all feel a bit safer if we know what's going to happen going in, aight'?"
"I am the man with the mass manipulator amp, and the skill to use it. I have more experience with alien artifacts, deadly phenomena, and general weirdness than you, so I know what the fuck I'm talking about. I will only say this once. If you touch an artifact, and start acting weird, I will kill you.""Come on, that's excessive," Faith groused. "I ever tell you about the time someone got infected by an alien intelligence, and I kid you not we saved him? Not easy, lost all his limbs, think he was burned pretty bad, but no joke he went from being an alien host using space magic at us to a perfectly healthy recovering patient. 'Acting weird' is not some blanket excuse for 'kill him before it's too late.'"
((There are two ways that could go wrong.
One, if the cultists flip out, we're in poop. Two is that the real police find out and then we're in double poop.))
((Those are two posibilities that you'll have to deal with anyways, no matter what charade or plan you come up with.))(("Cultists flip out" in particular is pretty much guaranteed. Claiming to already be the police might decrease the odds of anyone thinking to call them.
However, I am concerned about our lack of uniforms or anything, including proper terminology. Are they even called police, or are they Kano Authority Enforcers, Correctional Officers, Calmkeepers, or or what? Do they have badges or other marks of authority they usually display? What phrases do they use when brutalizing public citizens and private property for no reasons anyone can discern?
What about the smoke grenades?
The nightstick is just a Strength roll, not an Uncon, right?
Check to make sure the namite thrower is loaded with Stick GoopTM and not namite. That would be bad. Also count how many Sticky GoopTM canisters I have.
((why is everyone so eager to go jump in an unsecured building during a firefight?))(("WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Lets do this, and you can set up the teams now, as you move in.((why is everyone so eager to go jump in an unsecured building during a firefight?))(("WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
I'll organize teams and give PW the goahead in a bit. We may have to skip the guard team, which should be mostly fine with our hired driver on hand.
Also, if anyone ends up injured but not incapacitated they're likely to end up on de facto guard duty.))
What about the smoke grenades?
The nightstick is just a Strength roll, not an Uncon, right?
Check to make sure the namite thrower is loaded with Stick GoopTM and not namite. That would be bad. Also count how many Sticky GoopTM canisters I have.
Kyle looks confusedly at his shotgun lacking hands.((Wiki says you have one. I wasn't paying attention to who grabbed what, so I decided to trust it. :x))
((Yeah, the wiki is out of date. I just went through and copied down the gear distribution. I'll copy it into the wiki in a second.))
((This man is a liar and a knave, but he keeps the wiki updated so we made him a senator.))((Yeah, the wiki is out of date. I just went through and copied down the gear distribution. I'll copy it into the wiki in a second.))((This man is a hero and a saint. Also a good wiki contributor :P
Kyle follows Taddok looking as casual a man in a bullet proof vest holding a riot shield can.
Kyle, seeing everyone is done grabs a shield and two artifacf containers. He also grabs a nightstick.
"We will do this at night, right"?
Grab vest
((Okay, the wiki is updated. There are two nightsticks, a riot shield, and 2 flashbangs left over.
Grab vest, riot shield, two flashbangs."Remember the plan, now..."
"Anyone blazing in with me?"
"Partner?""Oh, right. Forgot about you. I guess you can go with any team you want, but I'm heading to the roof and Pancaek's likely to be handling anything serious. I can carry you, but I wouldn't recommend it. None of the other teams are very melee-oriented, but it's your call."
((A breakdown of where the gear went is all on the wiki page (http://einsteinianroulette.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_14).))((Excellent. See, this is why we overlook all of the dead hookers and graft.
"Alright, everyone out who's getting out.Several stories is a bit much, even for you, so you try to wall jump your way to the roof via a near by alley. You get about half way up before your foot slips and you fall back down, landing on your feet.
Morul, you're with Yttra. Give her a chance to use that tranq pistol, eh?
Hasala, you're with Konrad. Konrad, you may wish to stop chewing on your laser rifle. You may even wish to never use your laser rifle. Sometimes we just have to embrace our limitations, and then either hide in a corner and squeak by while being useless or performing relatively menial tasks while better-suited people take care of the more obvious problems.
Taddok, you're with Kyle. Kyle, you're holding that shotgun backwards. Maybe you should rely sparingly on your amp instead.
Jack, you're with Lerman. If anyone's willing to loan Lerman a weapon that'd be swell. Otherwise I guess we have a pack mule.
Pancaek, you're on your own and loosely in charge on the ground. That satellite dish is making me nervous, so I'm going to hop onto the roof. I'd rather you stay behind as a heavy hitter and cameye for the rest, and I don't want to drag anyone squishy up there with me.
Everyone else, remember the plan. Go in, ask whoever appears to be in charge about their higher power or something. Whatever gets them talking or shooting. Try not to deliberately intimidate or bother the diners; they'll probably go quieter if they think you've got no beef with them in particular and just happen to be making a mess of their dining plans. On the other hand, there's a non-zero chance the diners are cultists or affected somehow, so don't let your guard down completely.
Good luck and don't panic."
Hop up to the rooftops out of sight of the diner if possible, wall-jump the street leading to it otherwise. Once up there, make my way to the hideout and scan the upper floors with infrared and X-ray vision; transmit to the others. Stay out of sight of anyone in the building if possible.
"Got it. Let's go, Konrad."I distinctly remember replying to both of those, one telling you to ask the driver in character and the other asking if Miya ever actually finished the goop launcher because I don't remember him ever assembling it. He got it prototyped, but prototype stuff still just gives you the pieces, not the whole. You have to assemble them.
Approach the diner. If the shooting starts, take cover and fire at hostiles with goop thrower.
Action from the last two turns that was glossed over:
(Maybe treat one of the turns as preparing a Con bonus for the goop thrower?)What about the smoke grenades?
The nightstick is just a Strength roll, not an Uncon, right?
Check to make sure the namite thrower is loaded with Stick GoopTM and not namite. That would be bad. Also count how many Sticky GoopTM canisters I have.
"PACK MULE? My Gungnir is a weapon, last time I checked!"You chase the guy with the flamethrower down the street and take up position right next to him outside the door. He seems to know what he's doing.
Equip my riot gear. Find a breaching position.
"Sure. I'll take point. Just watch where you point that. I know I'm robotic, but it pays to not waste ammo needlessly."You slink around back, through the tight alley behind the building, and find a metal door set into the brickwork. It's a one way door; with no handle on this side.
Head around back, and see if there's a back door we can get to. Charge an Exo bonus in case I have to force the door.
Taddok taps Kyle on the arm and motions down the street.
"Let's go. Stay out of sight of the windows until boss gives the word or somebody fucks this up."
Move closer to the diner, look for any security cameras/etc. on the exterior of the building. Try to see if windows have bars or metal shutters once I am close enough.
Kyle follows Taddok looking as casual a man in a bullet proof vest holding a riot shield can.You follow Taddok, being a bit more stealthy then Not at all, like those two guys standing by the front door.
((did i get a vest? If i did Kyle should have it in stead, pretty sure it's redundant with Yttra's longcoat. EDIT: looks like i did))
Give vest to Kyle.
Follow Morul around the back to check for another entrance. Try to notice anything weird or suspicious.
Grab vest, riot shield, two flashbangs.Got,except the vest. Don't think there are any of those left.
"Anyone blazing in with me?"
"Well then Mr. Hasala, let us begin our investigation, I suggest we just act like police investigating upstairs rather than getting everyone to have a dislike of us"Following, for better or worse.
follow hasala have nightstick and riot shield out wearing bullet proof vest
Jack meets up with Lerman, "Hey there, I'm Jack. If you need someone used to conventional weapons, I'm your man. I've been training up for a bit now. Just don't ask me to negotiate with someone. Do you want to ask the staff some questions?"You walk up to the front door with Lerman.
Follow Lerman if he goes anywhere. Look carefully at everyone in the bar, do I have a bad feeling about any of them?
"Aye, chief. I'll just go and scout a bit on my own then. Keep in touch now, you hear?"Here's the odd thing: The front of the diner is normal. Everyone there looks normal, as far as you can see. Kitchen looks normal too, though it's hard to tell with all the metal and stuff overlapping. They could have machine guns in the crockpots, you're really not sure. No, the odd thing is that the rest of the building, everywhere that isn't those areas, is a fucking black hole. You can see anything, literally every scanning method reveals nothing but a solid black mass. A solid black mass that extends several stories below the surface as well.
As he turns around he sees D'usse coming out of the APC, not wearing a vest.
"Yo D'usse, catch." He throws his bulletproof vest gently at D'usse.
Give bulletproof vest to D'usse (TCM). Go around the back of the building, scan the outside with cameyes, switching vision modes periodically. If I don't see anything really disturbing, see if I can find a way inside that does not pass through the diner.
"Uuh. Faith, everyone. I just scanned the outside of the building with my cameyes and...eh. Well, it's just a solid black mass. Not a single method of scanning shows anything but solid black. The only thing that's normal is the diner area."
"Got it. Let's go, Konrad."I distinctly remember replying to both of those, one telling you to ask the driver in character and the other asking if Miya ever actually finished the goop launcher because I don't remember him ever assembling it. He got it prototyped, but prototype stuff still just gives you the pieces, not the whole. You have to assemble them.
Approach the diner. If the shooting starts, take cover and fire at hostiles with goop thrower.
Action from the last two turns that was glossed over:
(Maybe treat one of the turns as preparing a Con bonus for the goop thrower?)What about the smoke grenades?
The nightstick is just a Strength roll, not an Uncon, right?
Check to make sure the namite thrower is loaded with Stick GoopTM and not namite. That would be bad. Also count how many Sticky GoopTM canisters I have.
Also, next time, you might want to be a bit more specific then "Approach the diner." Piecewise runs on absolute statements.
You walk straight down the center of the street, space flame thrower in hand, whistling a jaunty tune. You walk straight up to entrance of the diner and then stand there.
@Team "We're at the back of the building. There's a one-way door here. Keeping watch.""Good job. We'll see if we can open it for you once we're in and ready to fan out."
"What am I supposed to be feeling?""There's something making noise. Underground.". Yttra looks super uncomfortable.
"Bloody useless civies, STAND DOWN!"
riot shield up and if attacked/threatened use superior strength to hold riot shield while applying vigourous abuse with nightstick , block the doorway with it if possible
((Who wants D'usse? Also, she got a Vest donated to her PW.))
Join whoever wants her and take point with them.
Kyle will take her if Tadock doesn't object and no one else wants her.[eyebrow waggling intensifies]
"Uuh. Faith, everyone. I just scanned the outside of the building with my cameyes and...eh. Well, it's just a solid black mass. Not a single method of scanning shows anything but solid black. The only thing that's normal is the diner area."
So we draw whatever's living in fun black zone out of black zone, where we can promptly lase it into oblivion.
Stare down angry guys. Point weapon at them if they're armed.
"Got it. Let's go, Konrad."I distinctly remember replying to both of those, one telling you to ask the driver in character and the other asking if Miya ever actually finished the goop launcher because I don't remember him ever assembling it. He got it prototyped, but prototype stuff still just gives you the pieces, not the whole. You have to assemble them.
Approach the diner. If the shooting starts, take cover and fire at hostiles with goop thrower.
Action from the last two turns that was glossed over:
(Maybe treat one of the turns as preparing a Con bonus for the goop thrower?)What about the smoke grenades?
The nightstick is just a Strength roll, not an Uncon, right?
Check to make sure the namite thrower is loaded with Stick GoopTM and not namite. That would be bad. Also count how many Sticky GoopTM canisters I have.
Also, next time, you might want to be a bit more specific then "Approach the diner." Piecewise runs on absolute statements.
You walk straight down the center of the street, space flame thrower in hand, whistling a jaunty tune. You walk straight up to entrance of the diner and then stand there.
You may have typed the replies, but they weren't actually posted. The last two turns are here (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138807.msg5317121#msg5317121) and here (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138807.msg5319734#msg5319734), and there was no response in either.
And I believe Miyamoto had the original namite thrower modified - the prototype part was just so that the modification would be free. The relevant post is in the spoiler:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
If some assembly is still required, can I do that retroactively?
Also retroactively ask the driver where the smoke grenades we were promised are.
If Faith calms the diners down, examine the interior of the diner for possible stairways. If the diners clear out, check the kitchen area to make sure none of the staff are hiding.
If Faith doesn't manage to calm the diners down and the aggressive guys are still headed our way, use the goop thrower on them, then shout the diners:
"EVERYBODY OUT!"
If that doesn't get them moving, fire a shotgun shell into the ceiling.
Defend myself with the goop thrower or nightstick, if necessary.
"Looks like things might go south fast."
If Faith's attempt fails get out the nightstick and counter any attacks made by diners.
"Hrmm. Diner must just be a diner. Alright. Let's go check out what's behind door number one."You get the door open a half inch and jam your fingers into the crack, carefully edging it open a few inches and peaking inside. The door seems to lead into the kitchen and, luckily for you, the cook who is standing maybe 10 feet away is too distracted by whats going on out front to notice you. The kitchen itself is fairly small and ordinary, the only strange thing being a metal door that seems like it would lead to the stairs up to the second floor. There is also a metal hatch set in the floor near the stairs. You wedge a brick in place to prevent the door from completely closing.
CAREFULLY open the door using my amp. Try to keep the door intact. If I get the door open, and it's still intact, put something small in the doorway to jam it open.
"Oh sassafras," Faith mumbled, looking up at the walls. It was such a good plan, too...The flashbang going off has shattered the nearest window and rendered anyone who was looking at the front door effectively blind. The group of angry patrons has been transformed into a cluster of flailing idiots and anyone not blinded is making a run for it through the broken window. Hard to say if they did your job for you or ruined your attempt before it ever got started, but the problem seems mostly solved, one way or the other.
"Alright, so they're paranoid or, more likely, alien weirdness. Had a feeling it couldn't be that easy.
Also what did I say about not intimidating the customers?"
She ran to the building at a jog, trying to intercept the toughs at the door.
"Hello!" she called into the diner. "We're here on business, if you catch my drift. No problem with you all, just the people who run this place. Unless you're both in which case we'd like to have a chat with you. The rest of you I'd recommend leave, but hey, not my business. Enjoy your meals if you're not worried about getting caught in anything."
Try to talk down the diner.
Stare harder buddy, maybe you'll intimidate the door into opening, Yttra thinks sarcastically to herself.The light and Sound filters on your helmet trigger as the flashbang goes off, leaving you temporarily blind and deaf as they reset. Well, at least these only take a few seconds, not like the restaurant patrons who are gonna be blind for the next ten minutes.
@Team "We're at the back of the building. There's a one-way door here. Keeping watch."
@Morul "Hey… do you, uhh, do you feel that?" Yttra says, a little nervously.
Point tranq pistol at door. Keepslightlywell away from crazy teammate who's staring at the door like he's gonna blow it up with his mind. If anyone comes thru the door and tries to escape, shoot them with the pistol.
"Bloody useless civies, STAND DOWN!"You walk into the restaurant, stepping through the broken window as the civies run out, and proceed to bash the blinded men upside the head with your nightstick until the go down. Man, being a cop is easy AND fun.
riot shield up and if attacked/threatened use superior strength to hold riot shield while applying vigourous abuse with nightstick , block the doorway with it if possible but allow fleeing civies out
Observe the diner scene with cameyes. If I see any of the diners pull out a weapon, jerk it out of their hands with my ampNone of them had weapons, at least nothing more then a knife and fork.
I distinctly remember replying to both of those, one telling you to ask the driver in character and the other asking if Miya ever actually finished the goop launcher because I don't remember him ever assembling it. He got it prototyped, but prototype stuff still just gives you the pieces, not the whole. You have to assemble them.
Also, next time, you might want to be a bit more specific then "Approach the diner." Piecewise runs on absolute statements.
You walk straight down the center of the street, space flame thrower in hand, whistling a jaunty tune. You walk straight up to entrance of the diner and then stand there.
You may have typed the replies, but they weren't actually posted. The last two turns are here (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138807.msg5317121#msg5317121) and here (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138807.msg5319734#msg5319734), and there was no response in either.
And I believe Miyamoto had the original namite thrower modified - the prototype part was just so that the modification would be free. The relevant post is in the spoiler:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
If some assembly is still required, can I do that retroactively?
Also retroactively ask the driver where the smoke grenades we were promised are.
"... Well, it probably would have been more subtle to just ram the APC in...""Welcome to ARM," Faith said over the comms.
Kyle says watching the scene with a look of near awe.
((seeing as Yttra was looking at the back door and there was a building in between her and the flashbang i'm just gonna assume she's fine?))Stare harder buddy, maybe you'll intimidate the door into opening, Yttra thinks sarcastically to herself.The light and Sound filters on your helmet trigger as the flashbang goes off, leaving you temporarily blind and deaf as they reset. Well, at least these only take a few seconds, not like the restaurant patrons who are gonna be blind for the next ten minutes.
@Team "We're at the back of the building. There's a one-way door here. Keeping watch."
@Morul "Hey… do you, uhh, do you feel that?" Yttra says, a little nervously.
Point tranq pistol at door. Keepslightlywell away from crazy teammate who's staring at the door like he's gonna blow it up with his mind. If anyone comes thru the door and tries to escape, shoot them with the pistol.
Approuching the diner, pan turns to faith."Your call. Morul's rushing downstairs, I want to know what that satellite's transmitting or receiving, the artifact's most likely downstairs... plus we may have trouble from the outside, so you might be needed back at ground level at some point. And all of this is assuming none of us go insane or get trapped in a pocket dimension.
"So, that impenetrable blackness goes all the way to the top, and extends below the building. Where would you like me to go first, up? or down?"
"What? I told you I was good at this.""Yeah, like how you told me your goggles ate your memories." Yttra scoffs, aiming for ‘playful’ and hitting ‘kind of insulting actually’.
"I haven't had this much fun in ages"
start exploring for a way up to the next floor, wait foralliesmeatshields before progressing to next floor
"I-I was trying to help... I got civvies out, right?"
"We've been ordered to stay down here to watch for the police, Konrad.""You don't HAVE to stand right here waiting for them, but they're your responsibility now. If they steal our APC and start cordoning off the area, I'll be looking at you two."
((yeeeep, still the butt monkey))"Yes, but you got them out in a blind panic, and half of them are plain blind and still in, and there was an explosion.
Lerman retreats mentally from the verbal assault.
"I-I was trying to help... I got civvies out, right?"
Mope. Follow teammate around, Gungnir ready to shoot crazy cultists.
"Sigh... understood. I'll go sit in the APC.""...everybody makes mistakes. I'm sure you'll do better next time. Though you do still need to clean up this time."
no loot waaaaaaaaaagh
"Orders Ma'am?""Either go with whoever's exploring upstairs, or guard the ground floor if nobody's headed that way. Morul's checking out downstairs, but that racket probably woke the cultists. They may be on their way shortly. Don't attack them if you can help it, subdue if they're hostile and you can, pull out if they've got more firepower than you. We've got plenty of cavalry here, no need to go into a losing fight.
look to faith await orders, stand at attention respond to orders as neccessary
((Why is everybody going to the second floor? Don't you want to clear the first floor and the ground floor first?))((The diner is the ground floor, so we've got that covered. But you're right, might as well do all floors.))
"...everybody makes mistakes. I'm sure you'll do better next time. Though you do still need to clean up this time."((has failed at literally everything he's done since being unfrozen))
((Why is everybody going to the second floor? Don't you want to clear the first floor and the ground floor first?))((Basements are always home to the worst stuff. Although someone should raid the cash register to make it look like a robbery.))
((Welcome to ARM. :P"...everybody makes mistakes. I'm sure you'll do better next time. Though you do still need to clean up this time."((has failed at literally everything he's done since being unfrozen))
siiiiiighhhh
Do this:We'll assume it got assembled.I distinctly remember replying to both of those, one telling you to ask the driver in character and the other asking if Miya ever actually finished the goop launcher because I don't remember him ever assembling it. He got it prototyped, but prototype stuff still just gives you the pieces, not the whole. You have to assemble them.
Also, next time, you might want to be a bit more specific then "Approach the diner." Piecewise runs on absolute statements.
You walk straight down the center of the street, space flame thrower in hand, whistling a jaunty tune. You walk straight up to entrance of the diner and then stand there.
You may have typed the replies, but they weren't actually posted. The last two turns are here (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138807.msg5317121#msg5317121) and here (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138807.msg5319734#msg5319734), and there was no response in either.
And I believe Miyamoto had the original namite thrower modified - the prototype part was just so that the modification would be free. The relevant post is in the spoiler:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
If some assembly is still required, can I do that retroactively?
Also retroactively ask the driver where the smoke grenades we were promised are.
Wait for my helmet's filters to reset, then shove Lerman off of me and give him a good kick and stand up. Count how many floors there are in the target building, then go look for twist-ties or something else I could use to bind the unconscious diners' hands. If they're wearing belts and I can't find anything else, use those. If they're not wearing belts and there is absolutely nothing in either the diner or the kitchen that could be used to bind their hands, use their shirts.
Once they're tied up, drag them away from the broken windows, behind the counter preferably.
Tell the driver to bring the APC over to the diner.
Check the Venetian blinds on the windows. Can they still be closed? If so, close them.
"Well, for what it's worth, the back door is open. Although, with that noise, I have a feeling the front door is just as valid an option now. Anyway, I have two doors back in the kitchen, one looks like it goes up, the other down. Me and squishy here are heading down."You just bust straight in to the kitchen, walk right past the cook, who has spun around to look at you, and head for the hatch. You're about to kneel down and mess with the hatch when the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. You throw yourself back as a meat cleaver hisses through the air and embeds itself 6 inches deep in the solid ceramic tile and brick of the wall. The cook grabs a butcher's knife from the cutting board near him and charges toward you.
Get over to the hatch, and get it open. If it's locked, look for a key.
Explore ground floor of building. If confronted, attack person with nightstick.
You climb up to the third floor like a particularly angry gecko and attempt to see through the window. There are cloth curtains blocking your view. You sign and attempt to push your hand through the glass, which should be as easy is puncturing plastic wrap with a sledge hammer. It doesn't budge. You try harder. Nothing. Finally, you draw your arm back and give it one good punch. It holds for a second, as a sound like distant whistling reverberates around you. And then you're flying backwards, slapped right off the building by some sort of unseen wall of force. You fall a good story or so down to the closest roof and straight into an air conditioning unit. You sit there, half embedded in the thing with a sour look on your face."... Well, it probably would have been more subtle to just ram the APC in...""Welcome to ARM," Faith said over the comms.
Kyle says watching the scene with a look of near awe.
"You and you," she said, pointing at Hasala and Konrad. "Thanks to you and you-like behaviors, we most likely have cops incoming. That means it's your responsibility to deal with them if they do. Ideally, you won't have to because someone more qualified will take care of it. But you broke it, so you're officially on copwatch for it.
Meanwhile, I still don't like that satellite dish. Going rooftop, with a quick stop to a window."
Climb the building properly, like an enraged lizard not afraid to damage the masonry. Look inside a window using various vision modes on the third floor; bash it open and stick my head in if necessary. See if it's still black from the inside.
((yeeeep, still the butt monkey))(Low will is a bitch eh?)
Lerman retreats mentally from the verbal and physical assault.
"I-I was trying to help... I got civvies out, right?"
Mope. Go sit in the APC's turret and be depressed. If Faith can't get to the radio dish, see if I can't shoot it into little pieces.
Kyle follows anyone who isn't going through restaurant. Upstairs preferably.You see Morul almost get murdered and are now face to face with a very cheesed off short order cook.
"Orders Ma'am?"Back in the day, everyone was standing at attention when faith was around.
look to faith await orders, stand at attention respond to orders as neccessary
"Yes ma'am"You stand guard out front, ready to gun down any law enforcement that comes to ruin the party. You hope you get an entire squad that only has 2 days till retirement. They always go down easy.
guard bottom floor of the diner contact faith on any signs of police and then follow her orders/begin moving to extraction point
"Whelp, upstairs it is then. I'll start sweeping floors, maybe I can learn something."Again, the Cook is very angry about what you said about his food. He would like a word with your stomach and he is willing to go through your chest cavity to facilitate this discussion.
Start going upstairs, stop at the 1st floor (That is the first floor above ground level) and sweep the hallway with cameyes. try and keep riot shield somewhat in font of me at all times
Take point at the top of stairs leading to the basement.
"Find anything?"
Jack stands up and dusts himself off from being tackled. "A bit more warning would have been nice." He looks around the diner. "I guess I'll head up.I'M RUNNING OUT OF WAYS TO SAY YOU PISSED OFF THE COOK.
Team up with Pancaek.
((I fail to see why I need to go through the kitchen to get upstairs, but whatevs.))
((Ah, I must have read over that bit. It all makes just a little more sense now. thanks.))((I fail to see why I need to go through the kitchen to get upstairs, but whatevs.))
((That's where the only stairs up are.))
((You guys are homicidal bastards.))((Welcome to the HMRC, try not to scream too loudly))
((seeing as Yttra was looking at the back door and there was a building in between her and the flashbang i'm just gonna assume she's fine?))
Yttra watches her teammate telekinetically open the door with zero craziness, zero explosions and perfect effectiveness. Well how about that.
@Morul "Huh. Wow. Nice one. Wow. Neat."
Enter via now-opened back door. Cover Morul, shooting anyone who attacks him (or me) with the pistol. Scope out the kitchen to see who's in here with us. Say to them:
@Kitchen Staff "We don't have any business with you, keep out of the way and you won't get hurt."
and, after listening to the screams in the diner, add: "And if ya wanna just scram out the back door here, which i would 100% recommend, now's the time.".
((can't wait to see how this fails))((You're welcome. With me in the way, the failure should be obvious. :P))
((You're welcome. With me in the way, the failure should be obvious. :P))
((You have pages upon pages detailing the various ways you can screw up?((You're welcome. With me in the way, the failure should be obvious. :P))I could go on for ages, I have pages of this shit))
Kyle looks surprised.
"Sorry! We just came in to compliment your cooking... Well, I did, I don't know what these idiots were doing."
Investigate commotion in the kitchen. When I see the armed cook, shoot him with the goop thrower. Observe the effects.
Continue to ignore screaming waitress, unless she becomes hostile, in which case shoot her with the goop thrower, too.
Are the cook and her the only civilians left, besides the tied up, unconscious guys?
((I fail to see why I need to go through the kitchen to get upstairs, but whatevs.))(because the only stairway to go upstairs is through the kitchen? Unless you meant you wanted to try and punch through a wall.)
"You seem to be attcking us. This is unacceptable. Allow me ot back you up, Has."
If Hasala fails to immobilize the cook with the goop thrower, Jerk the knife out of his hand and fling it towards one of the walls, ina direction so it doesn't hit anyone. If hasala does manage to immobilize him, do nothing. If the cook is immobilized/dead at the end of this turn, go one floor up and scan the floor with all cameye settings
"They say too many cooks spoil the stew, looks like you guys should have this."
If the cook isn't taken care of, and he makes a break for the dining area, then strike him with the nightstick.
"I got this one."
Using my amp, grab his head and twist a full 360 degrees.
((You guys are all about excessive force, aren't you?))
Run into kitchen. Scream "CIVIC DEFENSE, GET ON THE GROUND!" at the cook. If he resists and isn't shot, gooped, burnt, or decapitated, subdue with nightstick.
CAN DO!((seeing as Yttra was looking at the back door and there was a building in between her and the flashbang i'm just gonna assume she's fine?))
Yttra watches her teammate telekinetically open the door with zero craziness, zero explosions and perfect effectiveness. Well how about that.
@Morul "Huh. Wow. Nice one. Wow. Neat."
Enter via now-opened back door. Cover Morul, shooting anyone who attacks him (or me) with the pistol. Scope out the kitchen to see who's in here with us. Say to them:
@Kitchen Staff "We don't have any business with you, keep out of the way and you won't get hurt."
and, after listening to the screams in the diner, add: "And if ya wanna just scram out the back door here, which i would 100% recommend, now's the time.".
You seem to have missed the action that would probably have involved me shooting the cook with a tranq pistol as soon as he attacked Morul.
So, this turn i guess is…
Stand around looking shocked at the quickly unfolding brutality.
"Bad news, alien fuckery's higher than we thought. That void's not just an information barrier, it's an outright sheath. Tried to punch through it, bounced me across the street.You pull yourself free and clamber back up the building until you reach the roof. The satellite's connections look remarkably normal, just wires bundled together going through a small hole in the roof. Of course, your cam eyes can't see anything besides utter blackness again, even if you try to peek down through the hole. This is problematic.
Hopefully it won't be as hard getting in from the top or bottom, but if so we may have problems."
Extricate self from air conditioner, leap and/or gecko back up to cult roof. Cameye the satellite dish's connections to see what they look like vanishing into the building. If there's a trapdoor or other obvious way in, attempt to use it.((can't wait to see how this fails))((You're welcome. With me in the way, the failure should be obvious. :P))
Shoot the dish with the chaingun. Watch out for cops.(you put the guy with a -1 to will in charge of a mounted machinegun? Is it my birthday?)
"Take that, inanimate object!"
((can't wait to see how this fails))
((WHY SMURF WHY MUST YOU DO SOMETHING THAT EXCEEDINGLY DUMB))
((I WARNED YOU ALL
also, I give up at this point, bring on the chaos from my bad luck))((WHY SMURF WHY MUST YOU DO SOMETHING THAT EXCEEDINGLY DUMB))
((Don't you 20/20 hindsight me!))
Mow down the blackness!
*manical laughter* THIS IS GREAT!
((Can't blame that solely on pure bad luck smurf, your action was still to use that machinegun to shoot up things that posed no threat whatsoever, and without charging a bonus.
But hey, keep it up, maybe we'll get to send a rescue party after all. :P ))
((I WARNED YOU ALL
also, I give up at this point, bring on the chaos from my bad luck))((WHY SMURF WHY MUST YOU DO SOMETHING THAT EXCEEDINGLY DUMB))
((Don't you 20/20 hindsight me!))
Mow down the blackness!
*manical laughter* THIS IS GREAT!
(( .... Please continue. I'm just going to go update a certain script. No reason. :P ))
((...are you sure you're not even going to try resisting/moving away from the gun? Because one way or another we're going to have to get Lerman to stop using the APC.))
"Uh, Faith? I think we've got a situation here. I believe our APC just shot up the diner area. Also, the stairs leading up are blocked by a very large metal door, same utter blackness effect as with the outside of the building. How are things on your end?""Wh- why would- Lerman? Hasala? Who's down there and what happened?
"God dammit, I knew that APC would be nothing but trouble. Any medics still in one piece, tend to the wounded and stay the fuck down. And don't touch the shiny implant in what's left of the chef's head.""...chef's head?
Crawl up to the shiny thing and use an artifact container to scoop it up. Then continue crawling to the door, and try and get a good look at the APC. Charge an exo bonus to rip the gun off, trying to leave Lerman in one piece.
"FUCK!"
Scramble towards the hatch on the floor and see if it'll open. If it opens, climb down if I can. If not, try to find some piece of cover to hide from the angel of death that's spewing murder through the walls.
Also, try to evaluate how badly my arm is hurt. Can I still use it?
((I WARNED YOU ALL[Will:2]
also, I give up at this point, bring on the chaos from my bad luck))((WHY SMURF WHY MUST YOU DO SOMETHING THAT EXCEEDINGLY DUMB))
((Don't you 20/20 hindsight me!))
Try getting off the turret.
Ifbecause mindfuckeryI can't, turn on the radio! Mow down the blackness!
*manical laughter* THIS IS GREAT! I should probably stop though...
"God dammit, I knew that APC would be nothing but trouble. Any medics still in one piece, tend to the wounded and stay the fuck down. And don't touch the shiny implant in what's left of the chef's head."You slither across the tile and scoop up the shiny thing along with a fair chunk of gray matter and deposit them in the artifact container. That done, you slither back out of the room and into the alley, slowly making your way over to the back corner of the building where you can look down the side alley and see the apc. You get an eye on it, careful to stay as much in cover as possible.
Crawl up to the shiny thing and use an artifact container to scoop it up. Then continue crawling to the door, and try and get a good look at the APC. Charge an exo bonus to rip the gun off, trying to leave Lerman in one piece.
Just seeing the cook's head splatter into gore would have been enough. But then Yttra's teammates start exploding. Kyle's guts are on the floor. Bullets are coming out of the walls. This shit is not shit that happens on a good day.You follow Morul out of the building but not around toward the side alley. You crawl the opposite way, getting the dumpster between you and the building, and by extension you and the gun. You then wedge the shield against the dumpster and cower behind the shield.
Get down. Flee via back door. Hide behind building and damaged riot shield. Curl up into a ball. Whimper.
Stay on the floor."YO STOP. CUT THAT SHIT OUT, YOU BIG BAKKA!~"
"YO STOP."
"Of course it would be my left arm. I expected friendly fire, but this is crazy."You grab your arm, an action done with a lot more nonchalance then you would expect from someone grabbing their own severed limbs, and then crawl over to the hatch. It opens outward, or at least it would if there wasn't a padlock on it.
Army crawl to the arm and grab it and whatever it was holding. Army crawl to the hatch to the basement. How does it open?
"BLOODY CHAINGUN!"You charge the APC from the side and leap straight to the roof of the vehicle. Lerman sees you coming and releases the gun, instead taking up his riot shield in one hand and his cutting torch in the other. You swing your night stick at his temple, and he deflects it with his shield. He bashes his shield against yours and then swings the cutting torch toward your knees. You leap back, dodging the blow. You're left standing there, face to face, glaring at each other from opposite ends of the APC roof.
Charge around the side of the chaingun then get into the apc and beat person manning chaingun thoroughly from inside the apc thus out of the line of fire, keep head protected by arms and riot shield, try and stay in blind spot while approaching
Leave through the back door of the building. Make sure I'm on the opposite side of the building than the APC. Climb the walls like GeckoFaith did to the roof. Once there, see about opening that hatch by tearing off the padlock. If opening is successful, peer into the hatch with cameyes.You wait until the shooting stops and then sprint out into the back alley and climb the wall. You skitter up to the roof and join faith, pushing past her and reaching for the hatch. You're about to touch it when you suddenly stop yourself. There's something wrong here. It can't be this easy. With the shit down stairs and that blacknesses within and those unbreakable windows it is becoming increasingly clear that there are quite unnatural forces at work here. Forces that want to keep this building secure. You doubt they're just gonna let you pry open the door and walk in.
"Thanks, Pancaek...You sure you wanna do that?
Steve, got any information on police activity? I find it hard to believe they haven't been alerted. Any idea what their procedure is for something like this, how open they'll be to threats or letting us deal with the cult for them, anything?"
Haul Chestless and Gutburst to the APC. Ask Steve about the fuzz.
((It's canon: D'usse talks like a hybrid between a gangsta and an otaku.))((A FRENCH hybrid between a gangster and an otaku.))
((What about just cutting the head off.))((What about just asking Steve to zap him?
It opens outward, or at least it would if there wasn't a padlock on it.Does that mean I can see the hinges? If I can see the hinge pull out the part holding the hinge together, think it's called a pin. Also try breaking the padlock with something.
If I fail my will (again): TESLA ARC UP IN THIS BITCH ((gungnir))((You might want to specify which you're using. Electrolaser will use Conventional, Tesla Saber will use Unconventional (and maybe Dexterity).))
If I fail my will (again): TESLA ARC UP IN THIS BITCH ((gungnir))((You might want to specify which you're using. Electrolaser will use Conventional, Tesla Saber will use Unconventional (and maybe Dexterity).))
If I fail my will (again): TESLA ARC UP IN THIS BITCH ((gungnir))((You might want to specify which you're using. Electrolaser will use Conventional, Tesla Saber will use Unconventional (and maybe Dexterity).))
((I'm using the Tesla Arc. There's one on the Gungnir, it uses Uncon.))
"Nap time."You point at Lerman and jerk your hand to the side. His shield, as though pulled by invisible wire, obeys, and is torn from his grasp and hurled somewhere far to your right, down the street and out of view.
Usethe Forcemy amp to grab Lerman's shield, and carefully bash him in the head with it, trying to knock him unconscious.
((So glad I grabbed this amp. Has served me admirably.))
If I fail my will (again): Lightning bolt that motherfucker. If that fails, cutting torch his riot shield (and him) in half.[Will:5]
If I succeed in my will check: Drop weapons, cower in APC. Keep eyes open for cops.
Go through dead Cook's pockets, look for key or similar items. Determine if I can still work the shotgun with my one good arm.You search through the pockets of the nearby corpse. You find a keyring in his left pocket.
We'll just assume Hap lets you borrow the keys he just found and you unlock the padlock, but don't open the door yet, since you didn't say to.Quote from: piecewiseIt opens outward, or at least it would if there wasn't a padlock on it.Does that mean I can see the hinges? If I can see the hinge pull out the part holding the hinge together, think it's called a pin. Also try breaking the padlock with something.
Yttra hides behind at least seven layers of brick, metal and armour. Whatever's shooting her teammates, it isn't shooting her. That's for sure.
$#@! what the *&^% %^!*banging bullets coming out of the %^&*licking walls and what the *&^% everyone's acting like this $#@! is *&^%ing normal *&^%ing day at the office oh $#@! oh #@!$ oh *&^% me
Yep. Calm and collected.
Continue cowering.
Crawl towards front of the restaurant.You crawl out to the front of the restaurant. The Waitresses and handcuffed patrons are still there, still alive amidst a dusting of drywall, concrete, broken glass and smoldering wallpaper. Sunlight shines through the perforated metal window grating in grubby, thick beams.
"A little help faith?"He appears to have spontaneously healed himself. Hmmm. You still really wanna whack him though...
Ready shield, keep head protected from cutting laser and running-shield-bash lerman off of the APC roof with shield then beat senseless and confiscate all weaponry, continue beating untill cured
"Hmm"Looking at the hatch reveals nothing; a normal metal hatch over a void of nothing.
Scan the hatch with cameye modes. See if the padlock is the same blackness as the rest of the building. Then gently knock on the hatch, as if I were to knock on a door. If nothing happens after knocking and the padlock is not the same blackness, then break the padlock.
"Pancaek, how are things on your end?"
"Can someone outside give me some info on what we have around here? Apartments? Shops? Office complexes?""I think everything around here is apartments, but I can't swear to that. Might wanna dump them a building or two away, you know how we get with explosions."
"Orders Miss Faith?""Not sure. Right now we've got at least three ways in, but they're not looking as simple as we'd like. Brute force appears to be failing, so I think we're all bottlenecked trying the subtle way in."
follow orders given, otherwise support/backup faith
"Well, I tried touching the hatch. Now I'm currently flat on my ass on the other side of the roof, still slightly twitching with electrical aftershock. I'm starting to think that forcing my way through that hatch won't be a good idea at all.""Figures. I wonder if this thing is alive? Can't imagine why it wouldn't want us inside if so...
"Figures. I wonder if this thing is alive? Can't imagine why it wouldn't want us inside if so...
Anyway, we found a key down here, and we're trying the downstairs hatch with it. If that works, it might work up there too."
"Having experience with living architecture, I think it just might not want people crawling around it's guts. Would you?""With this crew I'd be more worried about explosions than ickiness, but no."
"Allright, I'm not going to try and force the thing again. I'll stay up here and watch for cops. Tell me if that key works, and I'll try it up here as well. How's that sound?""Good."
"Hrmm. Steve, if it comes to it, what would our chances of an aerial extraction be? Or are we just gonna have to make a run for it in the APC?"
Head back to the downstairs hatch, and open the container with the implant in it, and examine the implant. Ask Steve if he recognizes it.
"Folks, I have the basement unlocked, any objections to me heading down there?"The trap door opens up into darkness. The light from the kitchen shines down onto nothing, save for the first dozen or so rungs of a metal ladder that appears to be suspended over nothing, attached to nothing, and leading to nowhere. Uh...
Head to the basement, go slowly and watch for traps.
Peek my head out of the turret. Who looks angry?
Also, meerkat watch for the police.
"I DENY EVERYTHING"
As the bullets seem to have stopped some time ago, Yttra starts to calm down. Well, as much as a heart rate of 180bpm can be considered calm.It appears (going by the wiki) That he was lying about it. He's very unconscious but doesn't seem dead yet. For better or worse, his injuries are horrific to look at, but rather slow to kill. You think you might be able to....maybe...sorta squish the guts back up inside him and then cover the hole with something. That would help, right? You look at the body for a bit too long and have to quickly turn away and suppress a dry heave.
She knows she's heard most of the team speak up just like they're fine. But Kyle didn't seem fine. And he was the doctor. Even if he was lying about having a medkit so he could chase kitty tail. He was still the doctor. And now he's splattered all over the kitchen, guts mixed in with chef brains.
Well they'll be sending the *&^%ing army now. Unless that was the army. $#@!. No. No it was that guy who said he didn't do it. It was him on the *&^%ing APC! What the *&^%! $#@!! It was that thing! That thing in the basement! It overrode the Almighty Steve and it's gonna kill us all!
Yttra sits behind her dumpster, torn between being a sitting duck just waiting for an army sniper to take her out, and being closer to her teamkilling teammates. It's a tough choice.
*&^% this.
Crawl back inside and find Kyle. Hide under the riot shield. See if he was really lying about having a medkit. If he wasn't, see if there's any way the medkit can fix "guts outside the body" type problems. ((put my medic hat on? meditate on medicine? charge a med bonus? how does this work?))
Also try not to throw up.
"Police coming in half an hour. We need to move quickly. They will be coming angry and fast when they come. We can handle them if we need to, would be best if we didn't have to.You use the keys to open the door. That was easy enough. Through the door is the second floor, what appears to be the main living area. It has been renovated fairly significantly, old walls torn away, leaving nothing but a large open space punctuated with support beams. Scattered across this open space are beds, maybe 3 dozen of them, neatly lined up along the walls, more like a barracks than a private residence. In lieu of walls, dividing curtains, like those around beds in hospitals, have been hung in seemingly random intervals around the room, cordoning off chucks of beds, what looks like a bathroom and shower, and other areas. There are several people in the room, about 3 that you can see, a fourth or more you can hear stirring around in some nearby, but obscured area. There three you can see are odd looking. Two men and a women: One of the men has something very clearly implanted under the skin of his right arm and part of his torso; some sort of lattice of thin forms that causes his skin to have a tiled or scaled appearance. The Second man doesn't appear to have a head; just a bit of gristle and scar tissue at the end of an otherwise vacant neck. The woman is normal in appearance but she's standing in a very strange way, sort of hunched forward with her arms drawn back behind her, almost as though she's handcuffed.
Moving the civilians far away is a good idea, as the odds of this building remaining standing in the near future are not great. Anyone wants to avoid weird aliens, helping to haul people away is a good way to do it.
Pancaek, how are things on your end?"
Examine door leading upstairs. If it has a keyhole, borrow the key and use it. If not, shrug and knock politely.
Begin rounding up the hostages. Take a look outside at the other buildings in the surrounding area.So just to get this straight. You want to leave this building, walk to a neighboring one, take as many hostages as you can, at gun point, and walk them back into the diner.
"Can someone outside give me some info on what we have around here? Apartments? Shops? Office complexes?"
"Orders Miss Faith?"Gonna assume you followed her up to the second floor.
follow orders given, otherwise support/backup faith
Get up and ge to the edge of the roof. Look around with camaye zoom for cops/hostilesNo sign of them yet. Best you can see are some people still running from the diner a few blocks away. Everyone else seems to have huddled down in a building or at least off the streets.
Ask Yttra to take a look at my arm and put a splint on it, or whatever sort of wizardry can be done with the medkit. Head downstairs after, following whoever goes down.I hope she rolls 6 so I can have her splint your arm with his guts and then push you down the hatch into the yawning void below.
No, take hostages to another building, then take everyone in building number two hostage as well. Mainly, move everyone to another building.
"Burnout amp? From the sound of it, I'd wager that it fries your brain when activated? And I'd hold off on tossing that down there until we've had a better look. Someone with Cameyes wanna gaze into an abyss?""I'm guessing it's the same void we've been staring at, and thus isn't going to get any clearer with the hatch off."
"Hey, Faith, did that key work?""Uh, it did. You can... I'm a little busy right now, but if you don't mind three people who are a little odd and one of them's missing a head and they don't take offense to me handing you the key..."
"Oh dear, sounds like you've got quite the party going there. I'll come down and help keep our partygoers calm and docile.""Hey, Faith, did that key work?""Uh, it did. You can... I'm a little busy right now, but if you don't mind three people who are a little odd and one of them's missing a head and they don't take offense to me handing you the key..."
No, take hostages to another building, then take everyone in building number two hostage as well. Mainly, move everyone to another building.Alright, There are several buildings around here you could try to take over, but which one you want to take depends on how hard of a time you want to have and how many hostages you want to try and take in the new building. Ie, do you want to try to take one of the tenement houses on your own? An single story store? Do you want to try and take it with all these hostages in tow? Do you want to wake up the unconscious hostages, since they are, right now, still passed out on the floor with their hands bound. Or do you want to run over and take the building then move the people to it? In general, what kind of building do you want to take and how do you want to take it? Since I assume you have some sort of plan to go along with this action and, depending on how you carry out this action, it determines which rolls I gotta do. I would ask you in PM but you're not around right now, so we'll act as though this action took place this turn, if the roof falls in and would otherwise crush the hostages next turn.
@ piecewise: in case this still isn't clear, with 'hostages' he means the civilians in the diner, who are tied up and who survived the apc onslaught. He wants to transport them away from the diner.
"Okay, that's pretty weird. I've found a void here at the basement. Total darkness, I'm going to test if I can hear from it."Afraid it's gonna look back up at you?Find a large piece of debris and toss it down the steps. Pay attention to when I can't hear it anymore.Wait for someone to look into the abyss.
Turn on the APC's radio, try and find the police channel. Check if driver man is still there. Keep checking for cops.The driver is still there, looking a bit too non-chalant for whats going on. You click on the radio and scan through it, but an ordinary radio isn't the same thing as a police scanner. You can't find their signal, if they even transmit via radio.
"Burnout amp? From the sound of it, I'd wager that it fries your brain when activated? And I'd hold off on tossing that down there until we've had a better look. Someone with Cameyes wanna gaze into an abyss?"
Take a peek into the abyss, and turn on my headlamps. If I still see nothing, turn them off, and look with the light amplification mode.
Yttra doesn't find a medkit. She does find some strange pills, but having no idea what they do leaves them alone. Only one thing she can do, really.You squish his guts back in as best you can, making sure not to cause any undo harm, and bandage him up using a combination of plastic wrap, duct tape and strips of fabric from the cook's clothing. He's gonna have all kinds of sepsis from having his guts just laying on a dirty kitchen floor, but you hope the team won't be around long enough for that to be a problem.
Use med bonus to stuff Kyle's guts back inside and tie the dead chef's clothes around Kyle's midsection to try to make sure the guts stay inside.
@Taddock: "Uhh. Hang on. Umm. Kinda… guts… urgh." Then as an afterthought: "He didn't have any splints or anything. Wanna look for something that might work?"
"Umm... "
if one of them is slightly away from the others shield charge and lay the beatdown, if the one that is stirring is much further away then perform shield charge and lay beatdown
Faith gets out all of maybe 4 words, the bog standard "Hold on, we're not-", before the trio charges. The Woman charges Konrad and the man with the pattern on his arm bumrushes faith while the headless man runs off in the opposite direction, through one of the dividing sheets and off toward someplace unknown. Konrad raises his shield and charges straight at the woman, who jerks both her arms forward, apparently freeing herself from whatever was holding them back. She reaches out toward the shield as she runs and, as the two come together, her hands pass straight through the shield. Konrad sees it happen but only barely has time to evade, jerking his head and chest out of the way, but not his left arm. Her fingers pass straight through into his shoulder and her entire arm vanishes the instant it touches his flesh."Burnout amp? From the sound of it, I'd wager that it fries your brain when activated? And I'd hold off on tossing that down there until we've had a better look. Someone with Cameyes wanna gaze into an abyss?""I'm guessing it's the same void we've been staring at, and thus isn't going to get any clearer with the hatch off."
Faith held out an arm to let Konrad know to hold up a minute.
"Um... hello! My name is Faith. Might I ask who you are?"Threaten to molest their childrenDiplomacy! Wrestle them into submission if they attack.
Also make sure everyone else who wants it is getting a video feed of this.
"Oh dear, sounds like you've got quite the party going there. I'll come down and help keep our partygoers calm and docile.""Hey, Faith, did that key work?""Uh, it did. You can... I'm a little busy right now, but if you don't mind three people who are a little odd and one of them's missing a head and they don't take offense to me handing you the key..."
clamber back down from the roof, go to where Faith is. Should anyone grab a weapon/attack Faith/me, gives them a nice pulse of force to the chest with my mass amp
Change radio to music. Bolt out of the APC, grab my shield, then run back into the APC.You change the radio station. The driver changes it back. You glare at the driver. He glares back at you. Surely this shall be a be a battle of wits for the ages.
Alright. First one-story building across the street, whatever it is. Run over there, bust down the door, fire shotgun into ceiling. Command everyone to get down, anyone who doesn't comply has their jaw introduced to the shotgun's butt. Take everyone in this building hostage. This'll be phase one of the plan.You charge across the street, kick in the door of the nearest one story building, and fire your shotgun into the ceiling. The occupants of the building, all seemingly sitting in a large single room at cheap looking desks, look up with a start, some screaming.
"I'm moving. Get the hostages back in the restaurant ready for movement, leave the unconscious ones here."
Yttra examines her gut patchup job.You gather up some zipties, a long handled wooden spoon, and the rest of your supplies from the other surgery. That done, you check on Hasala. He's proper dead, the round punched straight through both lungs and tore off the bottom of his heart. He was probably unconscious before he even hit the ground and dead a few moments after that.
Huh. That kinda worked? I'm a *&^%ing nurse. Ha!
@Team: "Hey. Umm, anyone wanna help move these two back to the APC?" she says to the team in general, completely ignorant of the fight going on upstairs and the abyssal blackness problem downstairs.
She then looks at Taddock, flopping his arm up and down in front of her like some sort of wet noodle, and almost throws up again.
@Taddock: "*&^% doesn't that *&^%ing hurt!?"
*&^%, don't gotta be a nurse to know that $#@! ain't good.
Take spare plastic wrap and any remaining strips of chef's clothing. Go get some zipties. See if i can find something that could be used as a makeshift splint. Think about how i could apply these to Taddock's arm to make it less floppy (charge med bonus).
If there's room for another minor action, briefly check how dead Hasala is on the way past.
"Right, I'm going in. Whatever happens next, do not follow me, under any circumstance. In fact, shut the trap behind me, and if anything come out of the trap, get ready to shoot it, even if it looks like me. You got all that?"You climb down onto the ladder and wait as they close the door after you. Once it has been closed, you start down the ladder. Passing through the blackness is an odd sensation, a feeling of cold and vertigo, disorientation that leaves you unsure if you're climbing up or down any more. Eventually, after you've been climbing for what feels like several minutes, the feeling passes and you find yourself standing in a large drainage tunnel, a brickwork ovoid passage with a stream of grayish water flowing knee deep through it. You, however, are not in that water. The ladder lets you down on a wooden walkway which follows the right side of the tunnel off into the distance, around a bend in the tunnel maybe thirty feet away.
Enter the abyss. Make sure they close the trapdoor behind me.
"I don't like it, but I'll follow those orders."You close and lock the door as soon as Morul is safely inside.
Close the hatch after him.
"Run away!"Your arm suddenly begins moving of it's own accord: it drops your shield, grabs the nightstick from your belt and promptly cracks you in the back of the knee. You drop to the ground, forced to your knees by the blow. The woman is on you in an instant, wrapping herself around you in a full body embrace. And then she's gone. Your body jerks back up into the air, like a puppet on strings, and draws your laser rifle.
tactical retreat from frontline with weird people
"Alien fuckery!" Faith shouted over the comms as she rushed her attacker.
Rush wifebeater, break his arms.
Seeing the door fall into small cubes and hearing faith shout about alien fuckery, Pan jumps into actionYou charge up into the room. You see Faith round house kick a man across the room, and you see Konrad pulling is laser rifle out, but you don't see anyone else.
"Fethin' xenos, man."
Use mass amp on the woman and do the corkscrew manoeuvre, decapitating her. Afterwards, if the the man hasn't been succesfulyl dealt with by faith, do the same on him. Be ready to dodge back at all times should they start attacking me. I'd like to point out that I should have 30 willpower now, though IdiotsInspace still says 22. I'll update it on my sheet in the wiki, eventually
Hustle upstairs. If there's trouble take the best shot I have with the shotgun.You run up right behind Pancaek, waving your shotgun around with one hand.
((D'usse doesn't have a shotgun, at the moment. (http://einsteinianroulette.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_14#Provided_Gear)))((let's say she borrowed Yttra's, she's busy playing nurse anyway))
((D'usse doesn't have a shotgun, at the moment. (http://einsteinianroulette.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_14#Provided_Gear)))
((D'usse doesn't have a shotgun, at the moment. (http://einsteinianroulette.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_14#Provided_Gear)))
((I think I cleared that up before. Maybe the wiki's not updated?))
Get out of the car, load up on Armor, Shotgun, and Grenades.
Situation...normal?You spin on your heel, ignoring anything that might be happening in the second story room and walk back down stairs to get your arm fixed.
Go back downstairs to get amazing wooden spoon arm splint.
You carefully affix the spoon and zipties to his arm, resetting the bone so that the splint will hold it in place. That done, you make a sling for his arm out of some fabric and tie it around his neck. That should do for now.((D'usse doesn't have a shotgun, at the moment. (http://einsteinianroulette.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_14#Provided_Gear)))((let's say she borrowed Yttra's, she's busy playing nurse anyway))
Use med bonus to splint Taddok's arm with the wooden spoon, zipties, plastic wrap and cloth if necessary.
If for whatever reason that doesn't work, just tie his arm to his body in a crude sling made of ripped clothes and plastic wrap.
(also retroactively have given D'usse my shotgun for hostage-taking purposes)
'Alright, can you guys hear me? I'm in some sort of drainage tunnel, or maybe a sewer. Got a bend in the tunnel about thirty meters in front of me."The walkway doesn't extend behind you; all you see back there is ordinary sewer tunnel and the occasional vermin. Thus assured you're not about to be stabbed in the spine, you head forward, along the creaking walkway, until you reach the corner and peek around. This appears to be a side tunnel of sorts, an offshoot or tributary to this main branch. The smaller tunnel has only a thin stream of water flowing along its very nadir. The stream comes from a grate, which is set into newer looking brickwork wall, just below a large metal door, which is embedded near the center of the wall, several feet up from the ground. The walkway leads to that door, and two men are standing guard outside it.
Check behind me, then slowly advance down the tunnel, and peer around the corner.
Figure out how to best fire the shotgun with one arm, (Con bonus). If I can hear Morul say the following, "Yeah, I hear you."The con bonus we can do, but you can't hear morul.
Engage in epic change radio station battle. Keep eyes open for cops.You spend several minutes arguing with a man who barely speaks your language about which station to listen to, all the while changing the station only to have him change it back. He remains surprisingly passive amongst all this, staring out the window, changing the station without looking, and muttering about how Neo-slushnoir music is better then your Classic Punkmonk.
"...Can I come out yet?"
D'usse snorts the blood back into her nose. "ALRIGHT! ALLONS!"You quickly restrain everyone in the building and toss them into a corner along with the waitresses from the diner.
Restrain everyone in the little bonds building, keep the shotgun propped up in case they start acting funny. Afterwards, run back to the restaurant, and move all of the conscious restaurant hostages at gunpoint over to the Bonds building.
"Ayyo' team, I've secured the bonds building. Everyone busy?"((D'usse doesn't have a shotgun, at the moment. (http://einsteinianroulette.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_14#Provided_Gear)))
((I think I cleared that up before. Maybe the wiki's not updated?))
((PW writing about gangster catgirls is the best thing ever. I demand a new forum game.))You attempt to crawl over toward Konrad on just your hands. You do a pretty good job of it, all things considered, but he's faster at aiming then you are at scuttling. You manage to throw yourself out of the way as he sweeps a beam towards you, burning a black gap straight through the floor as it passes.
Faith looked wildly around her for a moment, trying to figure out what had just happened, before remembering Headless.
"Craaaaaaaap, headless psychic and bodysnatcher! Third one's in the sheets somewhere!"
Scurry at Konrad using just my arms (you know, like a native of this building), then pry his rifle out of his hands.
"Right, Faith, I'll try and see about the guy in the sheets."You scan around with your cam eyes but that fucking darkness is here too. This entire area is nothing but black. It's not natural, and it's very annoying.
Pan begins scanning around, tapping the nightstick against the wall.
"Headless man, come out to pla~ay"
Scan through the sheets with cameyes. If I see anyone that is not Faith, me or Konrad, heat 1 foot sphere by 150 degrees in center mass. If this proves effective, keep heating such spheres in different parts of their body until they are dead. If they seem resistant to this, pull them apart with mass amp. Be sure to remember to dodge if they should get too close
"HELP! HELP! I'M BEING PSYCHICALLY REPRESSED!"You can scream, but you can seem to do anything else. You have no practical control over your body.
become un repressed
"Awww I was gonna return that...."
consider if laser rifle can still be sold back for 2 considering that I didn't use it kinda
(("STEVE! Steve, we're under heavy fire, request immediate assistance! IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE!""Awww I was gonna return that...."
consider if laser rifle can still be sold back for 2 considering that I didn't use it kinda
((The gun has been used. The user doesn't matter. Also, nice priorities. :P ))
"Fethin' hell, Faith, the entire room is also pure black, I can't see jack shit in here. Do you think there's any chance we can get Steve to just glass the entire planet? Because this is getting pretty annoyi-""S'what they pay us for, and he's possessed!"
Pan sees Faith on the ground with Konrad still pointing the gun
"New blood, you better put that fething weapon down right now before I tear your goddamned arms off. I've had enough annoyances for one day."
"possesed? What kind of occult hellhole did we just enter? Ah well, what do you want me to do with him, decapitate?"
"Huh, looks like guard duty for me."@Jack: "Hey, where did… uhh, my partner, go?" $#@! what was his name?… well whatever.
Keep watch over the hatch and the stairs up, maintain Con bonus
"I can still hear you perfectly fine jackass""How wonderful for you. Sadly, you're still aiming the damn gun. Surely you realize we can't let you shoot at us again? We're in enough shit without our own people shooting at us...again. So my question stands, how shall I stop you from attacking us?"
"possesed? What kind of occult hellhole did we just enter? Ah well, what do you want me to do with him, decapitate?""What no, just get his gun and get ready when the lady reemerges!"
@Jack: "Hey, where did… uhh, my partner, go?" $#@! what was his name?… well whatever."Uh, would that have been a robot with goggles, calls himself Morul? If so, he went down the stairs. Told me to watch it and keep a close eye on anyone coming up."
"Yeah, goggles, that's him. $#@!. Okay."@Jack: "Hey, where did… uhh, my partner, go?" $#@! what was his name?… well whatever."Uh, would that have been a robot with goggles, calls himself Morul? If so, he went down the stairs. Told me to watch it and keep a close eye on anyone coming up."
"What no, just get his gun and get ready when the lady reemerges!""Right, I guess that works too."
"Lemme guess, he told you to lock it too, and not let anyone else down, right?""Yeah, that's pretty much what he said."
Peep head through the turret. What the shit is going on outside?Would seem so.
"You still there? Shit. Tunnel must block the signal, or whatever that void was. Guess I'm on my own."The man on the right looks fairly normal, physically, but he's wearing an...it looks like a scuba diver's mask and tank, but you can see water inside the mask. The second man, the one on the left, he's holding a rifle of some sort and looks pretty normal, though he also appears to be some what injured; he's got bandages over several places on his body and his neck is in a brace.
Did I notice anything strange about the men, or am I too distant to make out much detail? Can I get under the walkway, and would it be enough to keep the two men from seeing me? If yes to those questions, carefully get off and under the walkway, and slowly move closer to the two men, trying to stay quiet. If not, spend this turn charging an exo bonus.
"Awww I was gonna return that...."Assuming you survive and the rifle isn't destroyed, you can probably get 1
consider if laser rifle can still be sold back for 2 considering that I didn't use it kinda
Move the tables to barricade the front door and any other exits. Also reinforce the barricades with random miscellaneous crap lying around: Chairs, Shelves, Plants, Lamps, Boxes, Vending Machines, etc. Close and lock all of the windows. Strip the hostages, take anything useful such as money, wallets, phones, identity, weaponry, jewelry, electronic devices and so forth.You shove the desks and a fair number of filing cabinets and chairs over to the front door and pile them up against it. It's a bit useless, since the door opens out, but still.
Yttra finishes off her splinting job and immediately turns to begin dragging bodies to the APC. It's good to have something to focus on. Something other than the immense soul-crushing doom of whatever her life has become. Pushing guts back into bodies is rainbows and candy compared to thinking about what's going on.You get the APC backed up, the deaders strapped in, and the stuff stolen, but moving the rest of the unconscious people to May's anti-love shack is problematic because there's a giant wall of crap in front of the door.
She notices that Hasala had a shotgun, and moves to take that to replace the one she gave to D'usse, when she finds his goop thrower.
@Hasala who is dead: "Huh. I guess you didn't just spray it everywhere after all."
She's glad she can't see his face thru his helmet. This way she can kind of pretend he's just sleeping.
@Hasala who is dead: "I'm borrowing this."
Politely ask the driver to back the APC up to the entrance.
Drag Hasala and Kyle to the APC and strap them in.
"Borrow" Hasala's goop thrower, and also the spray bottle handily labeled "GOOP DISSOLVANT". And the flashbangs and artifact containers too. Why not.
If there are any civilians left in the diner, drag them across to the hostage building. Otherwise just go to the kitchen and stand around.
"Huh, looks like guard duty for me."Yep. Thats a hatch alright. Still a hatch...wait...nope. Still a hatch.
Keep watch over the hatch and the stairs up, maintain Con bonus
(("STEVE! Steve, we're under heavy fire, request immediate assistance! IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE!""Awww I was gonna return that...."
consider if laser rifle can still be sold back for 2 considering that I didn't use it kinda
((The gun has been used. The user doesn't matter. Also, nice priorities. :P ))
"Hey Steve? Really need some help here. Yeah I'm kind of shredding my team, but I had intended to resell this weapon as unused, so is there any way I could do that?"))"Fethin' hell, Faith, the entire room is also pure black, I can't see jack shit in here. Do you think there's any chance we can get Steve to just glass the entire planet? Because this is getting pretty annoyi-""S'what they pay us for, and he's possessed!"
Pan sees Faith on the ground with Konrad still pointing the gun
"New blood, you better put that fething weapon down right now before I tear your goddamned arms off. I've had enough annoyances for one day."
Kinetic amp air punch Konrad, aiming to disorient or disable.
"What no, just get his gun and get ready when the lady reemerges!""Right, I guess that works too."
Jerk Konrad's laser out of his hands with my mass amp. If the lady reemerges, rip off her head with mass amp.
Thanks Yttra!From what you can see as you run up, it appears that faith and pancaek are attempting to kill konrad.
Head back upstairs and try to figure out what in the hell is going on.
"Sorry! Physics!"You launch yourself forward like a Faith battering ram. You clip Konrad as you shoot past, spinning him around.
If my legs work again, jump Konrad and get his gun. If they don't work again, scurry-jump Konrad and get his gun. Try to come at him from a different direction than Pancaek in either case.
"Hrmm."You point at the scuba mask and jerk your finger up and back. The mask follows the motion, ripping itself up and then flying off down the passage, landing in the deeper water of the main tunnel. Then you thrust your fist toward the second man but nothing happens.
Using my mass amp, rip the mask off of Scuba man(right), and crush Bandage's(left) chest. If successful, run up and disarm Scuba man.
"Could someone just disarm me already this is getting boring"Huh, thats sorta fitting.[url]
see if I have enough control to turn on my radio and tune in to the local station
Keep guarding the hatch and the stairs.Man, it sure is boring around here. But you guess that this peace is what all true warriors strive for.
Try to disarm Konrad. If any new enemy combatants enter the room, give them a face full of shotgun.You change Konrad. Well, less charge, more run...well, lazily saunter towards Konrad, who has plenty of time to spin around and fire at you before you're even halfway to him. You leap to the side, dodging the laser fire and landing on one of the beds near the wall.
((edited for clarity))
"You two have fun disarming him. I'll just take a step back before you kill me, okay?"You yank the rifle out of Konrad's hands and place it neatly in your own. Konrad, thus disarmed, immediately charges toward faith, whose charge has left her partially embedded in a cot, tangled up in sheets and aluminum struts.
Get up and give faith and taddock some room to disarm konrad. If they are both not able to disarm him, jerk the rifle out of his hands with mass amp. If they are able to disarm him, wait for the woman to reemerge and heat 1 foot sphere 100 degrees on her head. Also keep an eye out on the rest of the room, just in case some enters. If another enemy enters, heat a sphere in their center mass.
Stare at dead people in APC.You grab your gear and run, screaming, into the diner. You stand there, screaming, and look around. When you don't find anyone, you run, screaming, into the kitchen. You find a few teammates and greet them by screaming, but no enemies. So you run, screaming, up the stairs and into the confused battle ground upstairs.
"Someone else has joined the battle to change the station! My job here is done. CHARGE!"
Grab my gear and find the action!
Make sure the building's back door is closed and locked, then try to figure out this goop thrower thing (charge con bonus) while nervously creeping upstairs. Don't enter the room where everybody is yet, just kind of peek in from the stairwell.You make sure the back door is locked- which honestly seems a bit silly considering the front of the building is a giant gaping hole at this point, but hey, whatever makes you feel better. That done, you mentally prepare to charge upstairs.
Use the mass amp to pick up Scuba Man's discarded tank, and smash Bandages in the head with it.You psychically whip the tank into the bandaged man's head. It clanks off with a distressing wet crack and his head goes limp and floppy on his broken neck. That doesn't stop him from continuing to advance though, in fact, he's now jogging towards you. You hear a sloshing sound behind you and spin around to see the water behind you distorting and moving in an entirely unnatural way. It flows up into the air, coils up with visible force, and then sprays towards you in a needle thin stream.
((Hrmm. Dice failure, or amp protection?))
"You know, if I wasn't sure something nasty would come out the moment I turn my back, I'd head upstairs."[Guarding Intensifies]
Keep guarding
Interrogate hostages."what?"
"So, any of you read any good books recently?"
Find out who the bad guys are. Lase Konrad!
Use dynamic con bonus to goop Konrad, aiming to immobilize. Also goop any teammate who is attacking another teammate. Hell, gooping everybody would be fine. Except Pancaek. Try not to goop Pancaek.
Grab Konrad's arms, but avoid letting him grab me if at all possible.
Stand back and let everyone else do their thing. If everyone fails to restrain Konrad, lift him into the air by his legs. Should the weird woman that possesed him reappear, heat a 1 foot sphere 100 degrees on her head.
I've had just about enough of this shit.(There's no small amount of irony here that Faith's Dex score is what let her go first.)
If it looks like Konrad is going to make it to Faith before anyone else can stop him, try to cripple his legs with the shotgun. If he does get stopped, engage any enemy combatants that enter the room.
"Alright motherfucker, now you die."You smash the swelling ball of water, or at least disrupt it enough so it can't attack this turn, but the ball immediately begins to reform, and the man with the bandages has turned the corner and got you in his sights.
Create a one meter circle of force above where I think Scuba man is, and smack the water with it. Hard.
((Water is incompressible, so if I create a large enough pressure wave, it'll pulp Scuba man.))
"I hate you all"Nah, this is some good goo, man. Like, some really good goo. You ain't going nowhere friend. Nowhere no how.
try and escape from goo then escape from house then hide in APC
Continue being a good guard.Guarding continues to intensify.
"Well, it was nice knowin ya all."
Goop Faith.
"I have no idea what's going on!"
When in doubt, electrocute teammates. Namely Faith.
"Steve, I hope you can hear me, because I really need you to shock Faith into unconsciousness right now. It seems alien fuckery has gotten control over her body"
Take a step back, attempt to contact steve to use Faith's shock implant. Try to use mass amp to lock her arms and the club in place, so that they are unable to be moved.. Should this not work and she gets to attack: evade, send a large blast of force her way to knock her back with amp and leg it out of there.
Retreat down the stairs.I rolled your dex's all at once you know, order that I quoted you with faith in last, since she's basically an NPC at this point. She has a +2 dex naturally.
Crush Bandages against the side of the tunnel.In this case, you do. Though ribs should be Costal support structures.
((Full robot, don't feel pain.))
"What the heck?"You point your rifle at the man who fell through the ceiling and he gives you a tired, dismissive glance before looking back up at the ceiling. You notice he's missing his legs.
Get ready to shoot stuff.
"Oh well time to be productive"You play a game of tetris, guiding the pieces with a little chin switch.
see if I can play any games on the inside of my helmet, that or watch a movie
Run around until I think I can contact Steve.>I am. In fact, according her brainwave functions,
"Shock Faith. Shock Faith NOW, she's been possessed by some kind of alien fuckery!"
If Faith shows up shoot with shotgun.
"You girls call that breaking my legs off?!"she's unconscious. [/color]
Drag myself over to my robot half-legs, and repair (Handiwork) them back on.
"Hey man, sorry I stepped out for a sec. So, what'd I miss? Why are we on the kitchen floor?"
"because we've lost our legs."
"Oh, sick, how'd that happen?"
"Faith smashed them with her magic club."
"Bitches be crazy. Why'd she do that, though? Was it sexual harassment?"
"Nah, I think she's possessed."
"Well you better unposses her soon then, up and at em'."
"For the love of the pantheon, don't touch her! Keep gooping her!"
Use mass amp to keep Fiath's body from moving. at all. keep her arms and legs and the club in compelete lockdown. Use the dynamic bonus for exo as we discussed in the OOC thread. Should the possessor-banshee-lady reemerge, release faith and use mass amp to tear the possessor into little fucking pieces
Put my faith in the goop and goop all the Faith. With all the goop. If there's any chance of a last-ditch adrenalin burst magically giving me plusses, go berserk.Ytta screams incoherently and just keeps pumping goop onto Faith (Hey-o), completely covering her in a dense, expanding mass.
Am I down at the end of the side tunnel? If so, look around for Scuba man's rifle, if he dropped it. If I find it, fire it at Bandages. If not, use my amp to create a fine mesh of force, and use it to shred Bandages.Well, scuba didn't have a rifle so...
Reattach my legs. For real this time.You reattach your legs alright. You weld them back on super good. Unfortunately you weld them back on to your chest so that you now have leg boobs.
"I'll take a dismissive look over being murdered any day."You switch your guarding attention from the hatch, where everything is quiet, to pancaek, who looks like he may need some guarding.
Protect Pancaek from hostile actions
Yttra keeps pointing her gun at the ball of Despair and squeezing the trigger until nothing but small impotent spurts of goop come out, dribbling uselessly onto the mangled floorboards. She looks around wildly for another weapon and sees only Lerman futilely trying to stick his smashed legs back on, and Konrad apparently unconscious and trapped by the earlier goo-shot. Out of options she does the only thing she can.You degoop konrad and drag him and lerman back to the apc. You make sure to kick lerman down the stairs, just for the fun of it.
Crawl / scramble over to Konrad and de-goop him with the spray de-gooper. Drag Konrad and Legless Lerman back to the APC in the least gentle manner possible.
Expedite Stockholm Syndrome.
Force hostages to enact a fanfiction. Now.
PLAY MORE TETRISYou realize you're free right?
Can I walk with leg boobs? If not, unweld them off my chest onto the stumps where my legs were this time.You can indeed walk with them. You've somehow run the stump wires, through your suit, and up to the chest piece of the garment. You do walk in a hilarious, slightly uncanny fashion though.
Crawl into a safe-looking corner of the APC, hug own preciously-still-attached legs and start shivering.I'd think you'd be more inclined to start banging on the driver's head and screaming for him to gun it, but hey, to each their own.
((WHoops, looks like I missed the update because I fell asleep. Ah well.))
"All right, I'm gonna try something. You may want to get ready to run"
Let the sphere down the hole in the floor and put it on the other side of the kitchen. Switch to a cameye setting that lets me see Fiath inside of the ball. Then release my power on the ball and instead focus on Faith's arms. Once she starts breaking free of the sphere, use mass amp to hold her hands behind her back, observe results
IF after a few seconds of hands behind back nothing seems to happen, tear off her arms with amp, just to be sure. If the banshee does come out, create a sphere of force in her center mass that expands violently and very shortly outwards, EG make a very short explosion of force inside of her.
Prime and lob a flashbang at the two, making sure I look away from the detonation. Then rush bandages, and attempt to wrestle the gun away from him. If, before I get there, he aims at me, jump into voidspace, take two steps, and then jump out, and, if in a position to do so, continue to rush him and take his gun.You hurl a flashbang towards bandages and then look away. A moment later your helmet's audio receivers cut out and you jump up and run for bandages, who seems...not so much blind as just distracted. You grab his rifle.
((I realize he has no head, but I'm out of ideas. And who knows, it just might work. Also, the Wiki says I have a flamethrower, even though I'm pretty sure I don't. Do your notes say I have one? I just want to make sure of the location of Schrödinger's Flamethrower, so I can update wiki accordingly and stop confusing myself.))
((she's waiting for more teammates to get in the APC))Crawl into a safe-looking corner of the APC, hug own preciously-still-attached legs and start shivering.I'd think you'd be more inclined to start banging on the driver's head and screaming for him to gun it, but hey, to each their own.
"SHIT!"You manage to yank the rifle out of your own hands and hurl it across the room. Then, perhaps caught up in the rush of actually being successful, grab scuba, pluck him out of the water and hurl him against a wall hard enough to leave a red starburst pattern.
Use my amp to toss the rifle away from me, making sure it doesn't land near bandages or Scubaman. Then yank sucbaman out of his bubble, and hurl him into the wall with the door. If he moves to get to the water, tackle him, and make sure he doesn't reach it.
((You still want that rifle Unholy?))
"Time to make do."You leave the APC and walk back upstairs, looking for something to shoot. You tactfully decide not to shoot your teammates this time.
Back up the stairs, find what I am shooting next.
Wake up?You wake up, though the only way you're really sure you're awake is that everything hurts. You feel like you're contained in some sort of black void, like you accidentally found yourself in the S&M club when the power went out. Cameyes don't show anything, and the only thing you can feel is that niggling soreness which is the most pain the synthflesh allows you to feel.
D'usse pulls her breastplate back on. "That's why abstinence is the only answer ever, chinennes."You go over to one of their desks and attempt to lay down across their keyboard. You lay down, stretch, accidentally roll sideways and fall off. You immediately pop back onto your feet and saunter around with a pleased look on your face, as though you totally meant to do that.
Embrace inner cat.
Wait in APC for teammatesWaiting in the APC, acting like an NPC.
"Okay, Jack, go around her and grab her hands. Hold them behind her back and for the love of the pantheon don't let go of them. Also, scream if you feel yourself being controlled.Faith is entombed in a highly dense foam sphere. How ya gonna get someone to grab her hands?
Hey Steve, you can stop zapping Faith if you haven't done so by now.""
"Oh yeah, let's have someone else touch her, great idea."
Keep holding her hands behind her back and order Alarith's character to go and grab her hands behind her back. Once Jack has grabbed faith's hands, stop using my amp. Observe results.
If Faith starts moving again, hold her hands behind her back with my amp once more
If nothing seems to happen, sigh a mental sigh of relief and look around for Faith's club, grab it if I can see it, use amp if I can't reach.
Shuffle back upstairs. Figure out what the evac procedure is.
"Owwwwww..."You can still speak, or at least think, over the coms. You're pretty sure you're still in one piece, you feel like it at least. Unless you've got a wicked case of phantom "everything hurts" limb syndrome.
Try saying something over comms, see if there's any response. See if I'm capable of movement, or at least figure out how much of myself I can feel hurting.
"Ugghhhhh.. time to go...."You drag yourself over to the scuba man, not easy considering your left arm is rapidly going numb...or more realistically just not obeying you since it still hurts like crazy. But you manage to get over to scuba and bash him in the head a few times. He doesn't move. Good.
Get up, and make sure scuba man is dead. If he isn't, forcefully apply my baton until he is. Then head back to the hatch, and knock.
((Daaaamn.))
Continue looking for things to shoot.Nothing yet.
Reload the goop thrower.You reload the goop thrower, tossing the expended tank into a corner of the APC, over next to the dead guy and the dying guy.
Make sure the rest of the room is clear; check behind all the sheets. Try to locate a door/stair/ladder to get further upstairs, but don't go up. If I see anyone I don't recognize, shoot.You sweep the rest of the room quickly, tearing down the sheets as you go and looking under beds and behind debris. Nothing. The door to the next level is on the far wall, and it's just as big and intimidating as the one to this one. But it looks to have a key hole, just like that last one, and there's probably a key that fits it on that keyring stolen from the Cook.
Utilize keyboard to go onto Internet. Be Internet cat.
"Faith, can you hear me?"Tomato pancaek? Yick.
If I can release my amp-grip without them being able to get from behind her back, do so and search for her club.
If I'm not sure that is possible, do not release hold and try to communicate with faith via comms
Tomato pancaek? Yick.((It was the first colour I could find that wasn't already used and I could easily remember. I'll probably change later when I find an IC reason to, because it's not exactly the best colour. I'm kind of growing to like it, though))
"Faith? Can you hear me? Whatever you do, don't struggle against my hold on your arms. It's vitally important to my health that you keep your hands behind your back. It seems the possessor-banshee can't gain control when your hands are behind your back. Also, I kind of put you in a sphere of fam and debris. And more bad news, my brain is starting to hurt, so I can't keep this up much longer. We'll need to find a way to secure your hands behind your back, fast""Yeah. Got it. Damn it. Metal? Some kind of harness out of... barstools or car doors maybe?
Orders?
Get out of APC and go back into diner radio faith and ask for instructions"UhQuote from: @FaithOrders?
Get out of APC and go back into diner radio faith and ask for instructions"UhQuote from: @FaithOrders?
Get a head count of everyone if you could. Everyone's dead or missing limbs, and I'm stuck in a ball so I can't count how much of a team we've got left. While you're at it, get an ETA from Steve on those police. This might turn messy real quick; I probably won't be able to handle them and Pancaek might be low on juice, so it could turn into a traditional firefight.
And see if Morul or Drusse are back. One went into the lower hatch alone, the other was messing with the hostages."
Um, we didn't take hostages here so I thought you should know that D'usse has probably disappeared and possibly taken other people hostage.
Faith made some sort of distressed coughing noise.Quote from: @FaithUm, we didn't take hostages here so I thought you should know that D'usse has probably disappeared and possibly taken other people hostage.
"Kay, just keep your hands behind your back, I'll dig you out and grab them and then we can both go and look for something to tie them up. You can help wiggle your way out when I've grabbed your hands. Do you feel any presence by the way? That possessor-banshee should still be inside of you.""No, and I can still feel my arms. They hurt, or as close as they can to hurt. Everything does."
I was more making a joke that a tomato pancake would taste bad.Tomato pancaek? Yick.((It was the first colour I could find that wasn't already used and I could easily remember. I'll probably change later when I find an IC reason to, because it's not exactly the best colour. I'm kind of growing to like it, though))
"Faith? Can you hear me? Whatever you do, don't struggle against my hold on your arms. It's vitally important to my health that you keep your hands behind your back. It seems the possessor-banshee can't gain control when your hands are behind your back. Also, I kind of put you in a sphere of fam and debris. And more bad news, my brain is starting to hurt, so I can't keep this up much longer. We'll need to find a way to secure your hands behind your back, fast"
"Fuck. Alright, I don't know if you can hear this, but can someone open the hatch, or at least unlock it? I know I said not to, but just do it."Bang
Keep knocking, and get out if the hatch opens. Charge an exo bonus.
You clasp your fingers together and try to make your shoulders touch. It's uncomfortable, but it's safe."Faith? Can you hear me? Whatever you do, don't struggle against my hold on your arms. It's vitally important to my health that you keep your hands behind your back. It seems the possessor-banshee can't gain control when your hands are behind your back. Also, I kind of put you in a sphere of fam and debris. And more bad news, my brain is starting to hurt, so I can't keep this up much longer. We'll need to find a way to secure your hands behind your back, fast""Yeah. Got it. Damn it. Metal? Some kind of harness out of... barstools or car doors maybe?
Damn it."
Keep arms behind back at all costs, be prize ball egg thing.
Carefully examine the goop thrower. Does it have any extra functions? Or just a "squirt" trigger?There are no extra functions built in that I remember radio adding. If this is incorrect, someone kick my braincase and remind me.
Maybe it vibrates.
Yttra snorts.
Lerman waves to Faith.You can try, I can't say if it will work or not.
"Hello, fellow teamkiller!"
Can I shoot through the floor with laser to the next level? If so, do so. Otherwise, scavenge weapons off of corpses.
Prepare lunch for the hostages.Not a lot of food around here. Unless you wanna order out using the computer.
You run around, doing a quick head count in the APC and the building itself. While you're in the kitchen you let Morul out of the basement.Get out of APC and go back into diner radio faith and ask for instructions"UhQuote from: @FaithOrders?
Get a head count of everyone if you could. Everyone's dead or missing limbs, and I'm stuck in a ball so I can't count how much of a team we've got left. While you're at it, get an ETA from Steve on those police. This might turn messy real quick; I probably won't be able to handle them and Pancaek might be low on juice, so it could turn into a traditional firefight.
And see if Morul or Drusse are back. One went into the lower hatch alone, the other was messing with the hostages."Quote from: @FaithUm, we didn't take hostages here so I thought you should know that D'usse has probably disappeared and possibly taken other people hostage.
FOLLOW FAITH'S ORDERS
"Kay, just keep your hands behind your back, I'll dig you out and grab them and then we can both go and look for something to tie them up. You can help wiggle your way out when I've grabbed your hands. Do you feel any presence by the way? That possessor-banshee should still be inside of you."With faith's help (and the de-gooper that Yttra helpfully volunteers) you mange to get faith free and then wrap her hands in successive layers of metal bars ripped from the cots. Individually they're pretty weak, but you cocoon her damn hands in them. It won't stop a serious effort to get free, but it should hold them against any accidental movement.
Scuttle towards the foam ball, dig a hole to Faith's hands, then grab her hads together behind her back and release my amp-grip when I've grabbed them. Then use free hand to break up the rest of the foam ball, ask Faith to wiggle her legs or something to help with this.
After she is out, look for something sturdy to tie them behind her back and do so. Then look for the amp-studded club
"I think I might have a way to deal with the police without getting into a firefight, although it's really iffy, and can just as easily backfire. Permission to go ahead with it?"
((I'm already free guys. Corsair's char let me out.))
While you're in the kitchen you let Morul out of the basement.((OH! So he did. Excellent, just as planned.))
"Essentially I'm going to try and convince them that there is something seriously wrong about this place, and impress upon them that everything we have done here was for the benefit of the community, and hopefully convince them to either help out, or at least not interfere. Best case, we get some armed reinforcements. Worst case, we start praying they're horrible shots. So, permission to go ahead?""Uh... how do you intend to get them to not shoot you long enough to explain this to them? Steve said they were coming in angry.
((I mean my teammates weapons, there has to be one or two dead teammates lying around.))((Yttra put all the dead teammates in the APC. She also stole their weapons already. Unless you want a shotgun, there's still a shotgun here.))
Hey hw long d–
Hey hw long d yu thnk yu cn stall m?
"Well, I was planning on standing out front with my hands in the air for one. As for their trustworthiness, as far as I care, as long as they aren't shooting at us, I'm good. For the most part, I'm hoping that the knowledge of the cult being evil or at least alien will get them to agree we aren't the problem. And really, do you have any better ideas?""I'm not going to stop you, but it sounds unlikely to work to me and I'm not sure how much of a position we'll be in to rescue you if it goes south. Remember that we've, uh... got some explaining to do, and they might not believe you about the cult. Best of luck if you're going for it.
Hey hw long d yu thnk yu cn stall m?
Can you resend that with proper grammar and syntax? Your message difficult to decipher in its immediate state.
I am moving everything to the APC you need to hide / move or something also wrangle cat lady sometime I am not going searching for some insane cat person and their hostages
"Thanks for the vote of confidence. Alright, Steve? Can you send me the video from the underground, starting after I rip the mask off of the scuba guy, and ending after I kill them? Also, is there any sort of rank I could pretend to have to make them more inclined to listen to me?"
"Once you are done and can slip away get into the APC so we can leave as soon as possible"
((Hey I've got internet again :)))You keep your shotgun trained on the robot man. He appears to have a nest of glowing termites eating away at his chest.
"Hey, is that someone at the hatch I hear? I'll see if I can help him. Oh hey, you made it."Go open up the hatch thenKeep the shotgun pointed towards Morul as his earlier orders stated.
((I mean my teammates weapons, there has to be one or two dead teammates lying around.))You get into the turret and shout for the driver to get in range of the road; which is a bit silly, since you're currently sitting on the road, but he turns the apc to be sideways, blocking most of the road in both directions.
Run back downstairs like a kid on Christmas Day and hop in the turret.
"Driver! Get me in range of the road!"
We're gonna assume you know how to work the coms unless you'd very specifically like not to know.((I mean my teammates weapons, there has to be one or two dead teammates lying around.))((Yttra put all the dead teammates in the APC. She also stole their weapons already. Unless you want a shotgun, there's still a shotgun here.))
So the army's almost here and we're still… i don't know what the *&^% we're doing.
Try to figure out how the suit's comms work and what they can do.Quote from: @KyleHey hw long d–
"*&^%"Quote from: @D'usseHey hw long d yu thnk yu cn stall m?
Oh $#@! is that goggles? He's alive!? Maybe he got the thing!
Yttra feels a small twinge of hope that the mind controlling alien overlord might have been shut down.
@Morul: "Hey! Hey the thing, did you get the thing? That *&^%ing thing in the basement, did you get it?"
"Look Morul I want to get us all moving before the police get here we need to run... I'll get the APC out of sight but in an alley nearby so you can slip away (or escape) easily"You direct the APC into the nearest alley way that will fit it, though only just barely. The man on the turret whines at you the entire time.
Get back in the APC and signal to the driver to move us into a nearby alleyway (Use pictures to communicate if necessary) with the rear-end facing back to the street we are in, if anyone is dead/unconscious get them dragged into the back.Quote from: @FaithI am moving everything to the APC you need to hide / move or something also wrangle cat lady sometime I am not going searching for some insane cat person and their hostages
"Thanks for the vote of confidence. Alright, Steve? Can you send me the video from the underground, starting after I rip the mask off of the scuba guy, and ending after I kill them? Also, is there any sort of rank I could pretend to have to make them more inclined to listen to me?"
Drop my weapons off near the door, and stand out front with my hands on my head. Hope they aren't as trigger happy as we are.
"I'll get by a windows or something. Just yell if they decide they'd rather gut you, and I'll try to do something. There are windows on the second floor, right?"You watch from one of the broken windows of the diner.
Scuttle over to a window or hole so I can see how Morul's plan goes while still being somewhat in cover. Meanwhile, rest my brain and try to get a feel for how much brain juice I have left.
Driver, move APC back in firing range of the road.belayed, possibly with a baton to the stomach
belayed, possibly with a baton to the stomach
"We are trying to NOT start a fire fight with the cops, manning a MACHINE GUN on an armoured personnel carrier is NOT helping that"
belayed, possibly with a baton to the stomach
"We are trying to NOT start a fire fight with the cops, manning a MACHINE GUN on an armoured personnel carrier is NOT helping that"
Lerman swots the interloper.
"Yes it is! You can have this turret when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. And even then, good luck! Because I will have welded it to my cold, dead hands!"
How much longer are you and the rest of the team going to be?, we are running out of time.
Driver, move APC back in firing range of the road.
Lerman gets about halfway through his order when Konrad thwacks him in the head with his baton.Driver, move APC back in firing range of the road.belayed, possibly with a baton to the stomach
"We are trying to NOT start a fire fight with the cops, manning a MACHINE GUN on an armoured personnel carrier is NOT helping that"
"Don't tell 'em anything. Got it. Not planning on getting arrested, but I'll keep it in mind."You don't have a whole lot of brain power, but you ready yourself to use it.
Await the police. Charge an exo bonus, just in case.
((I reeeeaaally hope I don't have to use my amp.))
"*&^% everything."You walk back to the kitchen and huddle in the corner with the riot shield in front of you.
Get out of the APC and away from the "where shall we park it" battle, carefully staying away from wherever the machine gun is pointing. Stop to gawp at the crazy glowy things slowly eating Morul. Carefully stay away from him too. Get back inside the building, go to the kitchen and stand by the hatch to the basement, just happening to hold the riot shield in between me and wherever the APC machine gun is. Point the goop gun at Faith.
@Faith and Pancaek: "There's something weird in the basement."
Go hide in the APC.You pass Yttra as she heads the opposite direction, and crawl into the corner of the APC, hoping its armor plating will provide a few seconds of extra living.
Round up hostages to the back of the building. Check barrier on windows/doors. Menacingly pump shotgun.You wrangle the hostages up and force them into the back of the building, specifically into a supply closet, and close the door. Then you go check to make sure the doors and windows are locked and that your rather ineffective barrier is still in place. Then you walk back and sit against the door to the closet, shotgun pointed at the entrance.
"Oh boy oh boy, this is going just great. I wish miya was here...he could just hulk smash this entire frakking building and be done with it."Whats happening with Morul seems to be that he's preparing for a showdown at high noon and that one of his arms looks like it's got the glitter cancer and is about to fall off, along with a chunk of his chest.
@Yttra "The basement? Could be. Best not to think about it, I doubt we'll get to finish our objectives here anyway."
@Lerman "Hey, mister I-love-shooting-teammates, I can see what you're doing from here. Get your grubby paws off of that machine gun before I make you. We ain't got no time for any more of your bullshit."
Keep an eye on what's happening with Morul. Be all zen and shit and rest my brain. Gauge how much brain juice I've got after brain resting.
"Oh, looks like I have better things to be doing."You hunker down in the entrance doorway to the diner and get yourself ready.
Take cover in the building close to the entrance and charge a Con bonus
"I said off the turret"
if lerman doesn't get off of the turret use extreme prejudice (possibly a exoskeleton boosted baton nut shot)
"Ha! Jokes on you! I don't have any meat limbs!""...I will, very calmly and patiently, remind you that we are on a mission and that you are supposed to do your job. You've already pretty much single-handedly fucked up this mission. So I will give you, very generously, about one minute to let this sink through your thick skull; Get off of the turret or I squish your brain."
Wiggle on the turret excitedly.Hey now, this is a family show.
"hope this works for us."You stay hunkered down in the door way, weapon at the ready.
Wait, maintain bonus.
"I said off the turret"
if lerman doesn't get off of the turret use extreme prejudice (possibly a exoskeleton boosted baton nut shot)
Swot this interloper! Weld my hands on the turret!
"I said off the turret"You both tangle up, fighting in a depressingly underwhelming fashion and end up rolling off the top of the APC and falling down behind it.
if lerman doesn't get off of the turret use extreme prejudice (possibly a exoskeleton boosted baton nut shot)
Yttra just sort of ambles off and climbs the stairs, for no apparent reason.The door to the third floor is indeed locked.
Go back up to the second floor. Look around. Check if the door to the third floor looks locked. Try to guess how long Morul has left before he dies of chestworms.
Pan scans around the street, trying to stay all zenThe police people are repleat with metal armor plating and weapons according to your cam eyes, but they are flesh and blood as well. Human, save for the occasional prosthesis and surgical pins.
"Man, I've got to keep real calm now, gotta get some brain juice back for when these police guys inevitibly open fire on us."
"So, you shouldn't try to work yourself up over something? Get angry?"
"No no, like, zen, man."
"Guess what?"
"what?"
"He's on the turret again"
"Lerman I swear to any god Lars can come up with, if you don't get off of that goddamned turret I will make your life a living hell with a lot of missing limbs. I'm tired of your shit, son."
Stay zen, gauge brain juice. Watch how Morul does, scan police people with cameye settings while we wait
"Greetings officers. Let's settle this peaceably. Now, I'd like to talk to the person in charge here."
Maintain the bonus.
Kill it! Kill it with turret!
"This is why I get to sit on the turret."
Currently fleeing, need support, Faith and Morul possessed, taken command of APC and evacuating as much of team as possible. Pancaek and D'usse need evacuation. Also shock lerman if he doesn't get off the turret within the next few seconds or attempts to fire. he is posing a serious threat to the survival of everyone in this APC.
Taken APC and moving majority of team away from problems, requested assistance from steve. Suggest working with D'usse
Try to stay alive.
-Konrad
Taken APC and moving majority of team away from problems, requested assistance from steve. Suggest working with Pancaek
Try to stay alive.
-Konrad
Affirmative, try and get everyone out of here alive or mostly in one piece. You have my permission to either ask steve to shock Lerman or use excessive force yourself if he becomes a problem.
Godsspeed.
((OH FUCK. Welp, time to see if I can take passengers.))You can't get control back, but you fight the cold, distant influence in your brain; struggling against a will greater and more prepared then your own. You can't get your hands to activate the suit, but at least you prevent your amp from firing or your body from moving.
Fight the mind control, and if I break it, grab Faith, and press the button on my voidsuit. If it doesn't work, use my amp to rip Faith's limbs off. Hope I don't overload my amp.
If I'm still conscious, try to negotiate with Anne. We can be reasonable about this. We can totally be reasonable about this.Faith's head squirms about a bit, seemingly possessed of a different consciousness then her body.
Somehow I can tell the driver to get us out of here.
"Ugh... shit morul...Okay then everyone I am now leader of this team and we are on the run, I will do my best to get us out of this mess."
Jump back into the apc and get driver to get us as far away as possible without being followed and to try not to attract too much attention doing so, belay counter orders, with violence if truly necessary, send messages to steve, pancaek and D'usseKill it! Kill it with turret!
"This is why I get to sit on the turret."
"LERMAN GODS HELP ME WE DO NOT NEED TO ATTRACT ATTENTION RIGHT NOW! GET OFF THAT TURRET"Quote from: @SteveCurrently fleeing, need support, Faith and Morul possessed, taken command of APC and evacuating as much of team as possible. Pancaek and D'usse need evacuation. Also shock lerman if he doesn't get off the turret within the next few seconds or attempts to fire. he is posing a serious threat to the survival of everyone in this APC.Quote from: @PancaekTaken APC and moving majority of team away from problems, requested assistance from steve. Suggest working with D'usse
Try to stay alive.
-KonradQuote from: @D'usseTaken APC and moving majority of team away from problems, requested assistance from steve. Suggest working with Pancaek
Try to stay alive.
-Konrad
Kill it! Kill it with turret! Cover retreat!
"This is why I get to sit on the turret."
"Why can't I catch a break."You cower as hard as you can, brick dust still settling on top of you from where the bullets strafed about a foot above your head.
Continue cowering and maintaining Con bonus.
"So, who do we want to win?"You scoot back a bit as the shooting starts and get maybe 2 feet before a bullet catches you in the nose and splits your head in half like a melon. Well great. You've lost the cam eyes, but you've still got other, lesser cameras to watch through.
"Not-faith and not-morul, obviously."
"Really, won't they just come back to finish us off?"
"Hmm, good point. So who do we want to fight most, 15 angry swat people or faith and morul?"
"I'll get back to you on that once our options start sucking less. By the way, people are talking to you."
@Yttra "No. I'm ready to make a retreat, but this place has annoyed me too much to just run away. But a slight tactical retreat seems in order, right now, I reckon."Quote from: Pancaek->KonradAffirmative, try and get everyone out of here alive or mostly in one piece. You have my permission to either ask steve to shock Lerman or use excessive force yourself if he becomes a problem.
Godsspeed.
scuttle back a bit, continue to overlook the standoff. Should someone attack me, defend myself. Should not-Faith and not-morul turn back towards the building, try and scuttle away to where D'usse is without being seen.
Look at the beds. Try to guess how many were in use, and thus how many cultists there might be.Someone has run through here, flipping things over and digging through, looking around for other hostiles hiding in the room. It's hard to tell anything with the scene disturbed as it is. You'd guess maybe 6-8 people?
rescue squad, please come in. This is Pancaek, glad that you're here. How briefed are you about the situation?
Right, yeah. So, most of the team is either dead or wounded. The majority just left on that APC you probably saw. I believe recruit Yttra is still with us here somewhere. Recruit D'usse is in one of the surrounding buildings as well, guarding the hostages. I'm currently inside of the diner, my legs are gone and my head was just hit by a gauss round. Faith and morul are somewhere here as well, but they are both possesed by cultists and hostile. And then there's the police, but I believe the local constabulary is the least of our problems.
I was able to restrain the possesion on faith earlier by forcing her hands behind her back, but the one that has possesed Morul brokek the chains holding her hands.
Also, perhaps we should send a message to miyamoto about recruit Lerman. The man has killed and wounded several teammembers and is a high threat.
So, how was your day?
I believe all of the wounded and temporary dead were on the APC. I don't know how much D'usse and Yttra will be able to help, but I can surely give it a shot. I don't have legs and my head just got split open like a watermelon, but I can still move and still have acces to some smaller cameras. So I should be able to give some support still.
Uh, situation update here. I appear to have been buried. Not sure where, I'll see what I can do.Can I struggle out of the rubble somehow, or am I packed in?
Quote from: Jack->PancaekUh, situation update here. I appear to have been buried. Not sure where, I'll see what I can do.
Good to hear you're still with us, jack. See if you can get yourself out. If you can, try and regroup with the rescue team. If you can't get out, just stay where you are, someone will probably be able to find you with your suit's signal
It seems Jack is also around here somewhere but he's buried underneath rubble.
Yeah, I think I can manage crawling to the entrance. Just be ready to pick me up, I'm in no condition to be out in the open with all the hostiles still around
"Orders?" Jack asks on the radio."According to Team Origin, there were civilians in that building over there along with an allied soldier."
rescue squad, please come in. This is Pancaek, glad that you're here. How briefed are you about the situation?((I'll just assume Pan said the same to Miya as he did to Flint, to save time.))
Get to the top of the building and look around, ready to avoid any incoming attack. If I locate Faith or Morul enter BT and prepare to attack."Permission granted, but be careful: it seems they can take control over bodies via touch, so don't let them. Do you have any ranged weapons? If not, you should wait with engaging for now, but stay ready for it. Or maybe provide targeting solution for Pan."
Renen here. I am at the top of a building right now. Will try to locate the problematic teammates from here. Miya, permission to use force?
I APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN DISCOMBOBULATED.
"Really? The helmet does nothing to protect oneself, I should know, my clan crack plenty of them during wartime with the gunend, my clan marks kept me from death more than these fishbowls, but, as you wish"
Put helmet back on in annoyance that noone can see my face
Require evac coordinates or other instructions.
Currently evacing wounded team-members from danger zone.
Quote from: @SteveRequire evac coordinates or other instructions.Quote from: @MiyamotoCurrently evacing wounded team-members from danger zone.
once apc is out of danger zone order driver to get to pickup point or location told by steve, send message to steve / miyamoto
"Understood, I'm just gonna wait here. I will act If something happens. Can someone tell me what is Faith's equipment?""As far as I know, she just has her synthflesh body and that amp club. The synthflesh was damaged, I believe. Didn't stop her from vaporizing my legs and destroying half of the city block, but you know."
Ah, perfect landing! Wish I had some music for that...Your cameyes are having something of a problem seeing. The dust and smoke has rendered motion tracking worthless, there's so much radiant heat from the fly over and something down the street that everything is just glowing an indistinguishable dull orange, and x-ray shows some stuff down the street, but none of it that looks like an enemy, just rubble.
"Everyone okay?" asked Flint as he got his mining laser ready, looking around for any potential threats.
Scan the area with cameyes (looking for living/moving things and anything out of the ordinary (beyond the obvious)) as I move towards Pancaek's position, so that I can carry him around.
If possible, try to help Jack out of the rubble along the way.
While doing so, be on the lookout for any danger, be it space magic or possessed teammates. Industrial Mining laser is in position for a sweep against any potential target's legs, ready to retaliate in case of danger.
Ask Steve the following: "Pancaek says some of our allies have been mind-controlled. Can you give us access to our possessed teammates camera feeds? Or their locations?"
EDIT: The building I pointed at was the one TCM is in.
Calmly take off my helmet, and look around calmly, with a smile on my face, and think of those good old days when I fought with my clan against those who called themselves civilizedYou take off your helmet and inhale a nice big lungful of burning hot, toxic rocket exhaust and powdered brick. The next 30 seconds are filled with painful hacking and coughing, which leads to you inhaling even harder, which leads to even more coughing. Eventually you put your helmet back on, blink the tears away and sniff until your nose stops running.
"Ahh yes, I know this smell, it brings back good memories, just like it was yesterday, smells all just the same."
Flint saves you from your rubble tomb, and you shrug off the rest of the rubble he missed. You're scratched up and a bit mangled, but not really any worse for wear then before. Well, one of your mechanical eyeballs is hanging out of your skull, but thats fine. Now you'll always have one eye on the ground.Quote from: Jack->PancaekUh, situation update here. I appear to have been buried. Not sure where, I'll see what I can do.Can I struggle out of the rubble somehow, or am I packed in?
I'm gonna assume you're now talking like Gilbert Gottfried (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1RcKJVbHA)Quote from: Pancaek->FlintYeah, I think I can manage crawling to the entrance. Just be ready to pick me up, I'm in no condition to be out in the open with all the hostiles still around
Crawl on my stomach to the diner entrance and be picked up by Flint
"Very well."
Go check on the building Flint pointed at.
"Hello?" Jack says into the rubble.
looks to FlintYou walk over to the building Flint pointed at and, after climbing through the smashed open storefront, find Someone in a MK I laying semi-conscious in a corner, near a closet that is screaming. Huh.
"Okay."
walk into building and look around
Charge dynamic uncon bonus.You climb up to the roof of a nearby building, but all the smoke and dust is making seeing anything impossible. You hunker down and wait for the dust to clear, getting yourself set up in a good shooting position as you do.
Climb a fire escape and try to get a good view of the diner and faith.
Fight the influence. If I succeed, call out "Come to me Anna!", and if it works, attempt to bind her arms behind her back with my amp.The consciousness in your head seems to recognize you, smile, and then promptly crush you into some obscure corner of your own mind, completely disconnecting you from your body.
((Please work please work please work.))
You skitter to the top of your building and look around. No sign of faith, but you can see morul standing on another nearby roof; an island of concrete and brick in a churning sea of dust. You concentrate and the world slows down.
Get to the top of the building and look around, ready to avoid any incoming attack. If I locate Faith or Morul enter BT and prepare to attack.
Renen here. I am at the top of a building right now. Will try to locate the problematic teammates from here. Miya, permission to use force?
((Sorry for late reply, had to work really late. Still, it seems Flint is doing a decent job right now, luckily.))>Shocking.Quote from: Pancaek->friendly commsrescue squad, please come in. This is Pancaek, glad that you're here. How briefed are you about the situation?((I'll just assume Pan said the same to Miya as he did to Flint, to save time.))
Relay info from Pan to rest of rescue team.
"Team, Flint has the right idea here. Everybody be careful and do not let any ally come close to you until that person is confirmed safe.
Pancaek, try to rip Morul's braincase out of his body with your amp, if you can get a lock. Secondly, anyone who has a clean shot should try to shoot off Faith's legs. Yes, I know that's dangerous for Faith, but letting that thing have her mobility is that even more so. We really don't want to give her any further chances to move or fight. We can try to tie her hands behind her back next, but we need to limit her mobility first.
Knuser, put your damn helmet on. I can't track your progress otherwise.
Steve, I need you to zap Lerman unconscious. Now.Get to the top of the building and look around, ready to avoid any incoming attack. If I locate Faith or Morul enter BT and prepare to attack."Permission granted, but be careful: it seems they can take control over bodies via touch, so don't let them. Do you have any ranged weapons? If not, you should wait with engaging for now, but stay ready for it. Or maybe provide targeting solution for Pan."
Renen here. I am at the top of a building right now. Will try to locate the problematic teammates from here. Miya, permission to use force?
Orders, some for Steve.
Wow.Man, so that's what competence looks like! Neat!
Wow.
Yttra watches in awe. Everything else so far has been… well, everything else. But this is unreal. It's like a scene from a movie. A scene from her favourite kind of movie.
Watch from the window, making sure to stay inside the building's protective shield.
Switch to Gungnir laser rifle, shoot anything hostile that comes near the APC.I believe you will find that you are unconscious.
Hell yeah some action! Cecil looks for some good throwing rocks to throw at people or a nice sturdy club like object to bash some skulls inYou gather a few halfbricks, the best kind of throwable object, and a long piece of rebar you find in the rubble. Beatings mode: Activate.
((EDIT:: Goddamn auto-correct. cloud-like object!?))
You have the driver pull into an alley a few miles away and unload everyone from the back of the APC. You have the wounded help you pile the dead up, kick Lerman off the turret and down into the alley, and then take your place in the passenger seat and wait for more instructions.Quote from: @SteveRequire evac coordinates or other instructions.Quote from: @MiyamotoCurrently evacing wounded team-members from danger zone.once apc is out of danger zone order driver to get to pickup point or location told by steve, send message to steve / miyamoto
stop apc out of the way get wounded out of apc
Enjoy the ride.You enjoy the "sitting in an alley with dead people" ride.
Stabilize self. Locate hostages. (Even though they probably won't be necessary anymore.)You feel mighty dizzy and dazed; everything is swimming and blurry in your vision, including the two guys in space suits standing over you. You wave at them, drunkenly.
"Well, I'm not in charge, technically. Miyamoto is. I'm just giving some advice when I can. If Miyamoto gives an order that contradicts what I said, then listen to him, he knows more."You receive a ping in your wristpad.
:P
Fire-team Leader, sorry. I missed that term.
Flint got his arms out of the battlesuit's control cuffs and typed a quick message in response while he continued walking forward.Quote:P
Fire-team Leader, sorry. I missed that term.
Don't worry, just making sure there's no misunderstanding.He had only worked with the girl on his first mission, but he remembered she was considerate of human life yet capable under pressure, traits that were both admirable and useful, especially on this kind of mission.
Glad to have you with us.
"That's much better, thanks. Mind if I tag along?""Sure. Three eyes are better than two." No, wait, I'm pretty sure that's not how it goes... Bah. "Just make sure to not stand very close to me. She's powerful and she's quick. I don't want her taking three of us out with one blow."
We'll assume that they were packed in a backpack sorta thing on the back of Paris' battlesuit, since there's not a lot of places to stick a crate of materials on a hotdrop.
Got it, Boss.
Cecil keeps back to the wall, brick in amp-hand, eyes on the field for Faith or Morul. (Charge... A brick would be unconventional, wouldn't it?)
"Flint, drop off the package Steve gave you, it contains the items I requested.""I'm dropping it off inside the diner. It will hopefully give people accessing it some cover."
"Rest of you, try to use the cover from the smoke or a building or something, but spread out. And prepare to either dodge or use your weapons if you can *.""I suggest we don't get too spread out though. That's just asking for her to take us out one by one or for people to get mind-controlled without us noticing. Better stay near other teammates."
"Are you sure that's a good idea? I'm not exactly quiet when I fly and I would be going up against a space wizard. Now, that might not be a problem for you mister "I'm a big fat avatar of war that can go toe to toe with an amp specialist" but I'd like to avoid having my body crushed if I could help it. The fact that I'm willing to risk my life if necessary does not mean you get to send me suicidal orders when there are alternatives. And I've seen videos of Renen taking care of a squad of sods in less than a second, I'm fairly certain he can approach Morul from behind, slice him up real nice before he has a chance to react and be back to cover in no time.
"Ok then, it seems Faith isn't out of action yet. Pan, I really really need you to rip out Morul's braincase now, that'll take out one enemy at least. Flint, position Pan so he can do that, if you can. If not, let Renen come over and take Pan off of you. Either way, try to make it quick, so pop out of smoke and immediately take him down, then get back in.
Renen, Auron, try to get a bit more concealed, at least until Morul's out of the way."
Jack takes out Shotgun before helping person in MK1 get up. Then initiate overwatch on the closet.
"Are you injured?" Jack asks D'usse after helping her/whatever up.
"You should be fine once you have been standing for a few seconds."Jack takes out Shotgun before helping person in MK1 get up. Then initiate overwatch on the closet.
"Are you injured?" Jack asks D'usse after helping her/whatever up.
"I'm a bit dizzy really...is there somewhere I can lie down?"
"I'm dropping it off inside the diner. It will hopefully give people accessing it some cover.""Very good, let's hope Steve delivered."
"I suggest we don't get too spread out though. That's just asking for her to take us out one by one or for people to get mind-controlled without us noticing. Better stay near other teammates.""Of course you should stay within visual range of a teammate, I'm talking about not ganging up like a bunch of ants to be taken down in one strike. "
"Are you sure that's a good idea? I'm not exactly quiet when I fly and I would be going up against a space wizard. Now, that might not be a problem for you mister "I'm a big fat avatar of war that can go toe to toe with an amp specialist" but I'd like to avoid having my body crushed if I could help it. The fact that I'm willing to risk my life if necessary does not mean you get to send me suicidal orders when there are alternatives. And I've seen videos of Renen taking care of a squad of sods in less than a second, I'm fairly certain he can approach Morul from behind, slice him up real nice before he has a chance to react and be back to cover in no time.
Even if we succeed, that will tire out Pancaek and he's the only one who can safely disable Faith, since he has done it before. Anything else we try is untested and unproven. And my armour means I'm much more suitable at facing Faith since her shockwaves will have less of an effect on me."
((And the mind controller is somewhere around here, even though I have no IC knowledge of him. I'd prefer it if the rest of the team didn't have to face a mind controlled Pancaek or a mind controlled battlesuit.))
"So, in short, unless you can give me a good reason why we should risk our lives doing something like throwing Pancaek into the air and then catching him after he's taken care of Morul, I will continue with my course of action."
"You should be fine once you have been standing for a few seconds."Jack takes out Shotgun before helping person in MK1 get up. Then initiate overwatch on the closet.
"Are you injured?" Jack asks D'usse after helping her/whatever up.
"I'm a bit dizzy really...is there somewhere I can lie down?"
And Flint did have a rather close and extremely dangerous encounter with a space wizard that ended very traumatically for him, so he has reason to avoid them. And I'm afraid of space wizards myself, so that might be my fear showing.
Feyri checked her MKIII suit and looked at Flint."I would appreciate a distraction, if you could give me one. Maybe fly behind the building Morul is on and 'make some noise'? That would probably make it a bit safer for me.
Need Aerial support or some covering fire?
Switch over to my echolocation visual filter and see if it can penetrate the smoke and dust floating around.Echolocation gives a bit better of a picture through the slowly dispersing smoke, but you still can't see Faith; she must be down in the rubble somewhere, hidden.
Use my dynamic bonus to melt faiths lower spine if i get a clear line of sight to her and shes moving slow enough that i can get a clear shot.
If i cannot see Faith, jump off the roof and through a window into the next building and begin working my way towards the crater through cover.
"That's strange, I didn't think closets are supposed to scream? New model?"You pull out the monorazor and slowly walk towards the closet, placing one hand on the handle. It's all very horror movie-esque
Charge uncon bonus, take out my blade, and prepare to open closet
Feyri awaited the comms to come in from the rest as she analyzed the area. Three people from memory, easily recalled, yet as if galaxies away, standing right by her side. She knew these people.You hand out the stun grenades and look around. You can see a hell of a lot of smoke and some buildings to either side that have seen better days. Everyone is moving off towards something down on the far end of the street, but you can't see what it is through the haze at ground level.
It seemed like forever since urban combat became a sight to feel for her, and she wished it would remain a memory. It reminded her of a nightmare that put her in all this, in the first place.
(Radio/Wristpad)
Everyone, keep vigil in mind and sight. Keep with your thoughts and recognize any stray or intrusive ideas. We're dealing with cult and 'magic', but I know there's a system to all this. Order in what we know as chaos, which they operate on, and which our allies have fallen under.
We're on the low ground. Check the higher locations for shooters or any approaching enemies--usually the more dangerous group, the people we must rescue and the cultists.
Cecil, I want you to take point, if we're moving and call out anything you find amiss. Auron, you're our spotter. Switch optics to check the area where our friends are and use any other device capable of sensing them. Priority: Faith. If we're encountering any civilians, armed and against us or any local police--do not shoot unless you're either sure they're hostile or being...magick'd. Use these otherwise but save them for any of our allies if they prove...uncooperative.
Flint is in charge, yet stick to the open places when there's lacking cover. We do not want to be recipients of amps and whatever kinetic forces they can bring, with gravity being against us in this case.
Distribute stun grenades to the rest of my team. 2x to Jack and Auron, 1x to Cecil.
Examine the immediate vicinity.Also give Cecil my Rotary Gauss gun.
Feyri clasped Cecil's shoulder and lit up a :( using her holodisplay.
Looks like someone went into war without ammunition...or a gun, for that metaphor, anyway.
But you've an amp. Use it well--always be aware of the hand wielding the glove.....And teach Cecil how to use it .__.Spoiler: Rescue Team Members (for memory ><) (click to show/hide)
Jack takes out Shotgun before helping person in MK1 get up. Then initiate overwatch on the closet.
"Are you injured?" Jack asks D'usse after helping her/whatever up.
Fight for control of my voice only. If I succeed, scream "Hit void button!".You are growing tired; it's hard to stay aware of whats going on, let alone influence it. You are growing very faint. So, you summon up the last vestiges of mental power and throw them out in one last attempt. You manage to get control, for just an instant. But it's long enough to slap the void button. You're instantly back in control of your body, standing in the void. Your nose and eyes are bleeding...wait..no they're not. You don't even have those parts anymore. But it feels like they are. You'd be weirded out by that if it didn't feel like you were dying.
((Maybe just fighting for control of my voice will make it easier?))
"That's much better, thanks. Mind if I tag along?"You do what most people do in these sorts of situations: you find the biggest, toughest guy and you stand behind him. Whether you intend to play backup to his advance or simply use his big metallic ass as cover, it's a good place to be.
Try to follow Flint
Try to fight reality and wake up. Should that fail, do unconscious person things.I think miya probably wants to keep you unconscious, so even if you woke up you'd just be zapped again. Your Reign of terror is over...for now.
((When I asked pw about those things I requested, he answered with this:QuoteWe'll assume that they were packed in a backpack sorta thing on the back of Paris' battlesuit, since there's not a lot of places to stick a crate of materials on a hotdrop.
"Ok then, it seems Faith isn't out of action yet. Pan, I really really need you to rip out Morul's braincase now, that'll take out one enemy at least. Flint, position Pan so he can do that, if you can. If not, let Renen come over and take Pan off of you. Either way, try to make it quick, so pop out of smoke and immediately take him down, then get back in.
Renen, Auron, try to get a bit more concealed, at least until Morul's out of the way.
Flint, drop off the package Steve gave you, it contains the items I requested. Knuser, quickly check what exactly is in the package.
Feyri, keep that Rotary Gauss gun. there should be a spare weapon in the care package. Or maybe give your electro-laser. You can use that thing best, after all, and we might need the firepower.
Rest of you, try to use the cover from the smoke or a building or something, but spread out. And prepare to either dodge or use your weapons if you can *.
Konrad, good work. Now, I'd like you to tell me exactly who was with you in the APC, and their status (dead, wounded, what wounds,...). Oh, and take away all of Lerman's weapons please. Just put them in the APC for now."
Ask Steve to continue telling us what Faith and Morul can see and hear.
((*= aka prepare a dynamic bonus for your weapon of choice or dex, if you can.))
Got it, Boss.You press scoot into the entryway of a nearby building and cower, waiting for the chance...scratch that, you're waiting for the various mindcontrolled whatever the fucks to give you no choice except to fight. You'd prefer not to have to fight faith with nothing but melee weapons, at least if any of the reports you've heard about her are true.
Cecil keeps back to the wall, brick in amp-hand, eyes on the field for Faith or Morul. (Charge... A brick would be unconventional, wouldn't it?)
Pan's split head gurgles some wordsEverything stay quiet for the moment, the dust and smoke slowly settling and dispersing. Morul is gone and faith hasn't left the crater she just dug. You concentrate, looking through flint's cameras, waiting. Tension swells in your chest.
"I'm with Flint on this one, just let Renen and his super cool "look at me I'm faster than everyone 'cause the doc likes me" body take care of Morul, if Morul is still alive in that husk. Stopping Faith once was bad enough, and at least then I could see her clearly."If I can see Faith at any point, force her hands behind her back with mass amp. If Flint attacks anyone else, heat 1 foot sphere in center mass of said target, unless it is Morul or Faith. If I can at no point see Faith or other hostiles, but I can see Morul, attempt to rip out his braincase with mass amp.
If absolutely none of the above happens, charge will bonus.
use flints cameyes if possible. Try and rip out moruls braincase if we can see him. Should Faith attack us, try and force her hands behnd her back with my amp.
if neither of these happen, chrge will bonus
Go to other buildings out of Morul's and possible enemies' vision. Put a hand on the sword's hilt and get ready to attack (dynamic bonus).
Hey Pancaek it's more like it went "Hey you will be my new arbiter prototype test. Try to be better than an Arbiter." And they are a tough type of soldier.
And how was Morul controlled? Was it by touch like Faith? I could try to cut off all his arms and legs. Is he equipped with any amp?
"So I'm Faith, you're Anne, I believe? Nice to meet you Anne, sorry about murdering your friends and trashing your house. Lovely weather you have here, and I love what you've done with the impenetrable alien shell."You try to speak but you can't; it feels like someone is forcibly holding your mouth shut. You try to speak with the pure mechanical voice box, which shouldn't need mouth movements to work, but even that remains silent. Hmm. That makes you uneasy.
Continue Speech Rolling Anne.
You sit down on the rear of the APC, ready to roll back into the vehicle proper should it start to move.Loot Hasala's corpse!Also hop back in the APC if it looks like it's about to take off.
Edited because dead doesn't mean dead.
((Yeah, I'm also not using knowledge you don't have. I'm using the information provided by Pancaek here:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138807.msg5490749#msg5490749
The OOC thing about the mind controller was just... What's the expression? Adding topping to the food? Anyway, it was a small argument that supported my position yet was ultimately unnecessary.
If you want to be totally realistic then, yes, in a real combat situation a man around his 70s probably wouldn't be able to process all that info Pancaek and his eyes are giving him so fast as to make a decision, but I think that's not been a problem in similar situations in the past. Maybe we can say it's the adrenaline?
And Flint did have a rather close and extremely dangerous encounter with a space wizard that ended very traumatically for him, so he has reason to avoid them. And I'm afraid of space wizards myself, so that might be my fear showing.
On the other hand, he was given no information that this might be transferable by touch, so he had no reason to believe using Renen might be bad. You never said not to touch enemies or possession might be transferable via touch. You said do not touch anything. Which I find it reasonable to interpret as "do not touch any strange object", which is a quite reasonable warning to give to HMRC newbies (or even veterans) on any mission. Notice how I never said anything about Faith's or Morul's possession, even in the form of actions, because I have no information of it.
So in Flint's eyes, you're sending him against something that can easily kill him for no good reason. He just wanted to make sure that there was a reason. But really, given Flint's character, you didn't even have to explain yourself. A "Look, just trust me on this, OK?" would have been enough for him, because he trusts Miyamoto.))
Flint stayed silent for a second.
"I... I see. I'm sorry for ever doubting you, sir."
Ask Steve the following: "I assume you've isolated the possessed's comms from ours, right? If not, could you please do so now? Still listen for info, if possible, but don't let them listen back.
Also, pleaser report any changes from their cameras or beacons to Miyamoto and the rest of the team, OK?"
Drop that crate Miyamoto had me carry inside/near the diner's entrance, so that it is concealed from the outside, if possible.
Fly towards the roof Morul is on.
If my cameyes allow me to see him, then put Pancaek behind my head and give him my camera feed so he can take care of him.
Else, punch the edge of the roof as I approach it from below to provide cover. As I rise through the cloud of debris, Pancaek should be able to use my cameyes to take care of Morul.
Regardless of whether or not the attack success, let myself drop down after the attack.
Stand with back against the wall next to the window, holding the goop thrower. Peek out, trying not to be seen. Charge dex bonus. Wonder what's gonna happen next.You stand next to the window, peeking out every so often as the new team members fan out across the battlefield. You're not sure they remember you're here. And you're honestly not sure if you should remind them; staying out of the way has saved your life thus far, and you see little reason to stick your neck out just yet.
wait for teammates in fight at diner to become wounded / dead, then get APC to drive by pick them up and get them to wounded pileYou put your feet up on the dash board and idly beat box to yourself while you wait. The driver reads a newspaper, seemingly completely unfazed by this entire situation.
"Uhh, so what now? Should we send people to investigate the diner while I wait for Faith?"
"Well, according to Steve, Faith is still possessed and moving somewhere underground. I think she might be tunneling for the diner's basement."Uhh, so what now? Should we send people to investigate the diner while I wait for Faith?"
Input: Details, Flint. What information are you getting? Is Faith in the skylines or ground level? I've my rotary prepped up and my team ready to-...well they're spreading out anyway.
"I... I see. I'm sorry for ever doubting you, sir.""Ah... Don't worry too much about it, I may have overreacted. Let's just try and finish this mission now, ok?"
Myamoto, Renen here. I will be just waiting for you to give me the order to attack. If that thing gets this body, things will turn bad."Understood."
I think Miya probably wants to keep you unconscious, so even if you woke up you'd just be zapped again. Your Reign of terror is over...for now.Oh yes, very. Lerman is out of the mission as far as Miya is concerned.
Open the closet, if it is a threat, slash it with my blade. If not a threat or it's dead, open up the package i'm supposed to open
"Well, according to Steve, Faith is still possessed and moving somewhere underground. I think she might be tunneling for the diner's basement.After hearing Miya's ideas, Feyri voiced her intent over the squad/team comms.
And Morul just... vanished. Don't know what happened to him."
((Oh, right, forgot to post an action, thanks for reminding me.))"Well, according to Steve, Faith is still possessed and moving somewhere underground. I think she might be tunneling for the diner's basement.After hearing Miya's ideas, Feyri voiced her intent over the squad/team comms.
And Morul just... vanished. Don't know what happened to him."
Hold all orders and ponder this: Redirect Cecil and whoever has a kinetic amp to create siesmic shockwaves through the ground. Punch it.
That will at least slow down Faith until we can get the APC moving. Why isn't anyone driving the vehicle anyway?
Flint--I'll be providing suppressive fire along with coordinating my MKIII if needed. Are you en route to the position?
"No objections here, old man. Go for it. Just try not to drop me, my day has been shitty enough as it stands.""Well, I'd tie you on me, but I want you to be able to move out of the way if necessary. You can slip into my backpack if you want. It'll be like the mommy robot carrying the baby, hehehe."
@TCM-
"How are you cat lady? Where are you from?"
You want me to punch the ground?Not while you're in a building, of course. Do it out on the streets.
@Miyamoto, private: "Any idea what we should do with the hostages? I was thinking of releasing them, telling them to get as far away from here as they can. But what if Faith or somebody else attacks them? I also thought about moving them to the diner, since it's more sturdy and would allow all of us to watch them more easily but there's problems with that too. Mainly them being mind controlled or coming under attack. Any suggestions?"
"Well, according to Steve, Faith is still possessed and moving somewhere underground. I think she might be tunneling for the diner's basement.After hearing Miya's ideas, Feyri voiced her intent over the squad/team comms.
And Morul just... vanished. Don't know what happened to him."
Hold all orders and ponder this: Redirect Cecil and whoever has a kinetic amp to create siesmic shockwaves through the ground. Punch it.
That will at least slow down Faith until we can get the APC moving. Why isn't anyone driving the vehicle anyway?
Flint--I'll be providing suppressive fire along with coordinating my MKIII if needed. Are you en route to the position?
Slowly realize that maybe this is hell and that I'm going to continuously relive bleeding out because my team mates don't want to let the dead and wounded get back to being useful.That Maybe this is hell? MAYBE?
The closet is filled with screaming civilians with their hands ziptied behind their backs. Yeah, alright, that makes sense. Sure. Why not.Open the closet, if it is a threat, slash it with my blade. If not a threat or it's dead,open up the package i'm supposed to open. Afterwards, take cover near hostages and charge con bonus.
Bored but alive, bored but alive...BORED EH?
Hey, Konrad? Why'd we dump the incap'd people on the ground in an alley?
Get out of the road and closer to a wall. Be ready to avoid any attack.
Steve, Miya. Where is Faith moving towards? Can you tell?
Cecil, suddenly realizing how idiotic it is to stand outside, decides to run over to the diner as fast as he can make it, keeping his monorazor prepped just in case something dives out at him.We'll have you follow Flint. He's a good guy to follow, and he's in the diner at the moment. Admittedly he's crawling around on hands and knees in the diner because he's so big, but hey, more cover for you.Get to the diner. Charge dynamic bonus.
Punch the ground while inside the Diner with my amp I guess. Better than eating tables.
Okay this time make it to the diner and follow my team leader to wherever we go. Charge dynamic Uncon bonus.
"Time to rest. Wonder why he isn't here. You know, I don't really care."You lay there, resting your head and doing your best to be as completely silent and unnoticeable as possible. No sign of timmy yet, but it took him a while to show up last time too.
Rest my brain, and begin building some mental defenses. Keep an eye out for any signs of Timmy.
((Got the funniest picture of Steve getting a "Morul Migurkeshin has logged out" message.))
"Uh, I guess I'll head back to the diner."You meet up with flint and fill another spot in the increasingly packed diner.
Yup, move back to the diner. Keep my eye out for weird mind control stuff.
You squeeze out of the diner and rocket on up to the roof, where you set down carefully, the roof making unpleasant crunching noises under your feet. But doesn't collapse and you don't fall through several floors back down to ground level, so everything is good.((Oh, right, forgot to post an action, thanks for reminding me.))"Well, according to Steve, Faith is still possessed and moving somewhere underground. I think she might be tunneling for the diner's basement.After hearing Miya's ideas, Feyri voiced her intent over the squad/team comms.
And Morul just... vanished. Don't know what happened to him."
Hold all orders and ponder this: Redirect Cecil and whoever has a kinetic amp to create siesmic shockwaves through the ground. Punch it.
That will at least slow down Faith until we can get the APC moving. Why isn't anyone driving the vehicle anyway?
Flint--I'll be providing suppressive fire along with coordinating my MKIII if needed. Are you en route to the position?
"Yes I'm on my way to the roof now. I'll stay here and keep a lookout. If your team encounters problems down at the basement, tell me and I'll come help. Me and Pancaek will do our best to assist."
Make my way to the roof of the diner. Stand there and scan the area with cameyes. Anything interesting in the surrounding area?
Can I see anybody approaching with the cameyes' zoom function?
If Steve can give me Faith's exact location and I can reach it, then prepare to dive and amp punch it from above. Also warn all teammates to get out of the way.
Else if the above is not possible and nothing hostile pops out this turn, take aim with the Rainbow Cannon and prepare to lay some Yellow mines on the road leading to the diner that the APC did not take and that Faith didn't destroy.
I'm assuming the diner looks something like this:Is this correct?Spoiler: ASCII map (click to show/hide)
((And someone update the wiki with the following please:Spoiler: Team 1 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Team 2 (click to show/hide)I'd do it myself but whoever is updating it is doing a very good job and I don't want to mess with their layout.))Spoiler: Team 3 (click to show/hide)
Did that guy just say my name?Staying frosty. Not getting sloppy, etc.
$#@! now this other guy said my name. *&^% he's giving me orders.
Guess i'll just keep doin what i'm doin. Close enough, right?
I wonder who "Knight" is.
Yttra pictures something wildly, wildly incorrect.
I wonder what's in the box.
Keep standing with back to the wall. Watch the door to upstairs, unless something more interesting happens. Stay tense (maintain dex bonus).
"No objections here, old man. Go for it. Just try not to drop me, my day has been shitty enough as it stands."Everything is quiet for now. Could be that they're preparing an ambush for you.
Hang on to Gilgamesh as we make our way to the top of the building. Look around for hostiles when we're there, try and get a feed from Flint's cameyes as well. Charge a WILL bonus
Understood, I will try to do my best. Team Three, let's enter the diner. Try to not touch anything there. If possessed Faith is coming here, there must be something bad around. Steve, can you give me the location of Faith right now?You scamper into the diner and wait near the hatch down to the basement.
Go to the diner and wait for team to get there to advance into the basement. Be ready for any incoming attack.
"Rodger."You join your team in the diner.
Go join team in Diner.
continue waiting for more teammates to be ready to ride the APC ambulance, play something other than tetris (Stupid T blocks)Hows about some Zenith (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCr5twS6xc8)?
"What foul sorcery is this?"
Scuttle out of my alley and cautiously grab any swat gear thats lying in the street nearby.
If i see Faith, incinerate her lower spine with my manipulator.
((Hmm. I have a problem: I don't want to leave the APC nor the wounded/dead alone, but stationing thea APCat the diner is dangerous, and letting it stay where it is means condemning at least one player to staring at a wall for a good while. Hmm. Wish I had npc's for this kinda stuff :/ (and no, I don't trust Lerman to do that, he'd find a way to screw up somehow.)
PW, if I left the APC without an active player, could I assume the driver notifies me in time if anything would happen to it? Cause if not, I'll be forced to have a player stand around and do nothing for a long time. Alternatively, could you tell me what we would need to do to get a shuttle down to evacuate our dead? If we could do that, then I wouldn't need to assign anyone to watch over them, andd all players that are still alive could actually play.
Wake up. Sit on floor of the APC until I find something to do.
-snip-"Sure thing, I'll just have to find a way down from the roof first. Headache's mostly gone. I'm pretty sure I can contain Faith for a while if we can see her before she attacks. Not so sure about the rippling wave of force, but I'm more than willing to give it a shot. Just to be clear, if I lose my arms as well then I'm definatly out of here. I mean I'm not giving up yet, but my day has just been real shit, ya know? "
-snip-"Sure thing, I'll just have to find a way down from the roof first. Headache's mostly gone. I'm pretty sure I can contain Faith for a while if we can see her before she attacks. Not so sure about the rippling wave of force, but I'm more than willing to give it a shot. Just to be clear, if I lose my arms as well then I'm definatly out of here. I mean I'm not giving up yet, but my day has just been real shit, ya know? "
Load the "dead" back into the APC, because why were they taken out?"They are out of the APC because it is safer when we need to pickup more wounded from the battlefield"
((... what's that logic? 'Yes I do think that if someone is dying it would be best to take them out of the heavily armored vehicle and increse the chance of dying because OTHER people may get wounded.'))Load the "dead" back into the APC, because why were they taken out?"They are out of the APC because it is safer when we need to pickup more wounded from the battlefield"
Unload wounded, possibly have wounded tug of war
((More along the lines of 'Take them out of the heavily armored vehicle heading towards an area stalked by hostiles who can breach or otherwise bypass said armor'.))((... what's that logic? 'Yes I do think that if someone is dying it would be best to take them out of the heavily armored vehicle and increse the chance of dying because OTHER people may get wounded.'))Load the "dead" back into the APC, because why were they taken out?"They are out of the APC because it is safer when we need to pickup more wounded from the battlefield"
Unload wounded, possibly have wounded tug of war
((Whose dumb plan is that? why not get them evacuated to a much safer place and then do whatever it is they're doing?))((More along the lines of 'Take them out of the heavily armored vehicle heading towards an area stalked by hostiles who can breach or otherwise bypass said armor'.))((... what's that logic? 'Yes I do think that if someone is dying it would be best to take them out of the heavily armored vehicle and increse the chance of dying because OTHER people may get wounded.'))Load the "dead" back into the APC, because why were they taken out?"They are out of the APC because it is safer when we need to pickup more wounded from the battlefield"
Unload wounded, possibly have wounded tug of war
((They have been evaced to a much safer place, now when the APC has to pickup more wounded the current wounded will be out of direct fire))((Whose dumb plan is that? why not get them evacuated to a much safer place and then do whatever it is they're doing?))((More along the lines of 'Take them out of the heavily armored vehicle heading towards an area stalked by hostiles who can breach or otherwise bypass said armor'.))((... what's that logic? 'Yes I do think that if someone is dying it would be best to take them out of the heavily armored vehicle and increse the chance of dying because OTHER people may get wounded.'))Load the "dead" back into the APC, because why were they taken out?"They are out of the APC because it is safer when we need to pickup more wounded from the battlefield"
Unload wounded, possibly have wounded tug of war
Once everyone is in the dinner, give the orders and enter the dinnerHe means basement.
The gear would all be at the bottom of the now visible crater down the street. You wanna go stick your nose into that?"What foul sorcery is this?"
Scuttle out of my alley and cautiously grab any swat gear thats lying in the street nearby.
If i see Faith, incinerate her lower spine with my manipulator.
I do believe you missed my action good sir.
I don't know what package you're talking about. If you're talking about the box Flint dropped in the diner, you're in entirely the wrong building.Just keep my guard up.Roll int to see if I feel something is off, then go open the care package."Keep an eye on me, gotta open this box up
Struggle against the proverbial hand over my mouth. Try to figure out if resisting or overriding it is possible.You're not sure if it is possible, but you are sure that you're not having any luck at it.
Piecewise, you missed my actions:Quote((Hmm. I have a problem: I don't want to leave the APC nor the wounded/dead alone, but stationing thea APCat the diner is dangerous, and letting it stay where it is means condemning at least one player to staring at a wall for a good while. Hmm. Wish I had npc's for this kinda stuff :/ (and no, I don't trust Lerman to do that, he'd find a way to screw up somehow.)
PW, if I left the APC without an active player, could I assume the driver notifies me in time if anything would happen to it? Cause if not, I'll be forced to have a player stand around and do nothing for a long time. Alternatively, could you tell me what we would need to do to get a shuttle down to evacuate our dead? If we could do that, then I wouldn't need to assign anyone to watch over them, andd all players that are still alive could actually play.
Could you run this please?
"Goddammit, it seems Faith made it to that basement already. Team 3, you really need to get going right the hell now. However, be careful when you enter, it would be the perfect moment for a trap. Hell, Faith could just stand on the other side of the blackness and swat you like flies as you enter. Anyone carry some grenades? Either way, you'll want to think about who enters first.
Pancaek, you're joining team 3 for the moment, or at least until Faith is confirmed incapacitated or dead. Auron, I'll need you to carry him, since he can't walk anymore and those newbs don't have the required upper arm strengthen. oh, and Pan, how's your headache feel like? You think you could manage a little rippling wave of force and have enough left for what's down there? In case there's nothing on hand to flush out what might wait beyond the blackness.
Also, would someone on team 2 please open that god forsaken care package and tell me what's in it. Seriously, people, it's opening a box, how is this so hard? What is this, a flying circus?
Flint, while you deal with the civvies you could consider building some barricades or something. Or maybe check out that hole Faith made. I'd ask you to send a team in to flank her, but you wouldn't fit and I don't think sending in Jack and a few noobs would be enough. Try to keep your troops productive if there's no immediate threat they need to take cover from. Oh, and from further viewing of the camera feeds it seems there is another cultist, a headless man or something, still around somewhere. Maybe scan with cameyes again to see if you can spot him. Or at least pop some smoke, just in case.
Team 1, I can't help but notice none of you have yet taken Lerman's weapons. Is there any particular reason for this?"
Watch the video feeds from the previous team in more detail (aka get IC knowledge I already have OOC).
Wake up. Sit on floor of the APC until I find something to do.Nope. Failed End roll this time.
That was a prompt answer. Way to sneak it in there before I'd even posted! Applying a light basting of electricity to his brain at regular intervals.Wake up. Sit on floor of the APC until I find something to do.
And for the record, Lerman stays zapped unconscious until i have a task for him.
Keep resting, keep watching for signs of Timmy.Nothing yet. You're starting to feel a bit better. Not great, but not "Oh god my brain is melting" either.
Fortify the first floor of the diner as well as a mangled, one armed robot can.You start flipping over tables and shoving wreckage over to the smashed open windows, forming adhoc barriers and walls of cover. They won't stop much, but they're better then nothing.
Load the "dead" back into the APC, because why were they taken out?
Wounded tug of war ensues. Or more like some sort of three stooges skit where one guy keeps loading a body and the other guy keeps throwing it back out and they're both baffled by how it keeps showing back up whenever they turn their back.Load the "dead" back into the APC, because why were they taken out?"They are out of the APC because it is safer when we need to pickup more wounded from the battlefield"
Unload wounded, possibly have wounded tug of war
perform last turns action of stealing swat gear.Again, only swat gear is down in a hole that faith is possibly in.
Enter diner and check whether or not pancaek could regain mobility using my exosuit.
If yes, remove my manipulator and loan pancaek my suit then change into whatever swat gear i recovered.
If no, keep suit and manipulato in place.
Regardless of pancaeks mobility raid the care package and grab a goop grenade or two.
((Oh, then I guess mining the road there wouldn't offer much. And mining or barricading the road the APC went through would mean making it harder for it to come back. So I guess it would be better if we just fortified our position a bit.))Fly, grab stuff, drop off pancaek, fly back up. Check
@Hostage Team: "Miyamoto wants us to release those hostages. If you can, please set them free and direct them away from the crater. I'll pop some smoke to cover their escape once it begins."
Fly down. Again. Drop Pancaek off in the diner. Take some smoke grenades from the crate. Then fly up to the roof. Again.
If my teammates are ready to release the hostages, then pop some smoke from the crate to cover their escape.
Else, prepare to manually pilot one of my automapping drones to that crater to see if I can find that tunnel Faith used.
Except if I can see no hole I could get a drone through. Then just keep looking around with cameyes. Can I see any civilians trapped in buildings? How about any helicopters or other flying things?
While I was flying up, did I see any open windows or anything else I could look/shoot through?
Be transported back to the ground by Flint. If Auron's exosuit works with me and lets me walk again, graciously accept the use of it. If not, just scuttle around on my arms.You're probably actually gonna be faster and more mobile on your arms, sadly. No legs makes it hard to use the machine that relies on legs to know when it should move. Will bonus charged, but same problem that I'm not sure goop grenades exist.
after this, go to the care package and grab a goop grenade. Also charge a WILL bonus, just in case.
Follow team 3. Stay in the middle of the group. Be on my toes. Charge dynamic bonus.Following team 3, staying in the middle, on your toes, and dynamic.
Everybody ready. We will enter the basement now. Feyri, can you be in the front ready to shoot anything that comes attacking or blocking us with your gauss minigun? Everyone else, weapons ready, we will try to stop Faith with the minimum sacrifices. Here we go.I'm just gonna assume team three, the composition of which I'm unsure of, has now all moved down into the basement, getting through the vertigo barrier without any problems. There is no sign of hostiles down here, though there are signs of Morul's fight with the guards. The door he was heading for is over toward the right, still unopened, in its little side path.
Once everyone is in the dinner, give the orders and enter the dinner's basement, following Feyri, ready to activate BT at any incoming attack. If there are explosive grenades to execute the plan of dropping a explosive grenade in and waiting for a while, then do it before entering.
((Thanks Parisbre56))
Team 3 will be responsible for clearing out the diner, starting with the basement since it seems that is where Faith is moving towards. This team is made up of Feyri, Renen, Auron, Cecil, Jonathan and Jack Hansan. Renen, do you think you are capable of leading this squad, or would you prefer I pick someone else? This team's job is to stop Faith if she is moving towards there, and try to find out whatever the cultists are hiding down there. If I have confirmation Faith is moving in that direction, I might send Pancaek down to support you with his amp."
Keep looking for hostiles or strange behavior.(("You notice a lot of dangerous psychopaths milling about the area. You feel confident the odds of them hurting you is high."))
You can assume the driver would call someone for help.And what about that medivac (=shuttle from the Sword to pick up wounded and carry them back)? Would that be possible? If yes, what do we need to do and where could we get it?
Also, that care package, if it's the box flint dropped, is everything you asked for in the beginning before they were sent down. Specifically: several big boxes that can be closed, long pliers and maybe a few canisters with thick smoke to lay down a screen. And some ammo tanks for the goop thrower.I asked for a few goop throwers, not just ammo for them. Would it be ok to say there are two throwers in there with two cannisters each?
Wounded tug of war ensues. Or more like some sort of three stooges skit where one guy keeps loading a body and the other guy keeps throwing it back out and they're both baffled by how it keeps showing back up whenever they turn their back.Ask Steve to give both of them (=Konrad (Corsair) and Taddok(Hapah)) a slightly painful, but not debilitating, shock.
About that: Did miya ever actually create a grenade form of that? If so, you get some, if not, they don't exist.I layed out the general idea/principle of it, but didn't finish it in tinker. Is it ok to assume they are there? I can type out all the details of how they'd work if you want me to. Basically, it's a timed grenade that has a very light explosive so that the chemicals get mixed and sprayed around in a medium radius (a few meters or so).
I'm just gonna assume team three, the composition of which I'm unsure of, has now all moved down into the basement, getting through the vertigo barrier without any problems. There is no sign of hostiles down here, though there are signs of Morul's fight with the guards. The door he was heading for is over toward the right, still unopened, in its little side path.
Still chillin', still watching out for horrible eldritch beings.The elder gods haven't turned their eyes upon you just yet.
((Just putting it down for PW in the thread so he doesn't have to go looking for it.))I described that a while back and don't feel like doing it again. Have a map.
Hey guys, a door. Should we go open it up? Cecil says, keeping an eye around the place for any sign of movement.
I mean, there's gotta be something back there if this is where Morul got fucked up, right?
Is it just the one door down here or is there other paths? What else can I see?
Grab some boxes if i didnt nab any artifact containers as i left the ship.You grab a pair of tongs and head downstairs to meet up with the rest of the basement team.
Head into the kitchen and grab some tongs before making my way over to the basement team.
((Any swat gear inside the crater is probably fucked, was hoping to get some that had been dropped by fleeing swat members after the fall.))
Keep looking for hostiles or strange behavior.Dooop doop dop. Not a whole lot to do to be honest, nothing is coming to murder you right now.
Find a nice place to hide.You cover your face with your hands and then slink into a corner.
"M'row."
Keep looking for hostiles or strange behavior.(("You notice a lot of dangerous psychopaths milling about the area. You feel confident the odds of them hurting you is high."))
Go downstairs, to whatever remains of the diner area. See if any of the unconscious civilians survived (the ones that never made it to D'usse's party because of the barricade, assuming the diner is where they still are). If any are alive, free them, wake them up, and shoo them away. Then open the care package Flint dropped. Get a smoke grenade or two and some spare goop-thrower ammo. A couple goop-grenades as well, if those are things that exist.You remove the rather silly riot helmet and place it in the box before grabbing some more ammo and a few grenades. You take a look around the diner after getting geared up. There's two corpses under some rubble, but no one left alive. Ah civilian casualties. Now it's a real mission.
Also if i still have a riot helmet absurdly balanced on my larger space-helmet and it isn't magically giving me endurance bonuses, leave it with the box of boxes.
In an emergency we could get a shuttle down, but lets try not to do that. Putting a shuttle down on the middle of the street is somewhat more obvious and slow then we'd like. Already did a hot drop, after all.QuoteYou can assume the driver would call someone for help.And what about that medivac (=shuttle from the Sword to pick up wounded and carry them back)? Would that be possible? If yes, what do we need to do and where could we get it?QuoteAlso, that care package, if it's the box flint dropped, is everything you asked for in the beginning before they were sent down. Specifically: several big boxes that can be closed, long pliers and maybe a few canisters with thick smoke to lay down a screen. And some ammo tanks for the goop thrower.I asked for a few goop throwers, not just ammo for them. Would it be ok to say there are two throwers in there with two cannisters each?QuoteWounded tug of war ensues. Or more like some sort of three stooges skit where one guy keeps loading a body and the other guy keeps throwing it back out and they're both baffled by how it keeps showing back up whenever they turn their back.Ask Steve to give both of them (=Konrad (Corsair) and Taddok(Hapah)) a slightly painful, but not debilitating, shock.
"If the two of you are done being stupid, you can stop throwing those men around and start doing your job. Just sit tight and wait until Steve confirms or denies medivac. And do what I asked of you earlier, namely taking Lerman's weapons away."QuoteAbout that: Did miya ever actually create a grenade form of that? If so, you get some, if not, they don't exist.I layed out the general idea/principle of it, but didn't finish it in tinker. Is it ok to assume they are there? I can type out all the details of how they'd work if you want me to. Basically, it's a timed grenade that has a very light explosive so that the chemicals get mixed and sprayed around in a medium radius (a few meters or so).QuoteI'm just gonna assume team three, the composition of which I'm unsure of, has now all moved down into the basement, getting through the vertigo barrier without any problems. There is no sign of hostiles down here, though there are signs of Morul's fight with the guards. The door he was heading for is over toward the right, still unopened, in its little side path.
You can find all the information about the teams on the appropriate wiki page. (http://einsteinianroulette.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_14#Order_of_Battle)
Note that Pancaek will be momentarily joining team 3 (aka team going into basement).
Finally, relay all relevant info from helmet video feeds to all teammates (that aren't possessed).
((Hey Pan, since radio can't get through the basement blackness barrier, could you put it into your action to inform teammates once Pan moves through it into the basement? Thanks.))
Use dynamic bonus to pilot the drone to the crater. Once there, try to locate the hole Faith used and take the drone through it until I reach the diner's basement or the signal cuts off.The crater is...well it seems solid. You don't see a hole at the bottom. You're sure there probably is one, but it's covered by rubble. She must have gotten down into the sewers but left the rubble covering the hole. Hm.
((I suddenly had an idea. This basement reminds me of something we've encountered before. Let's see if my hunch is right.))
Continue Three Stooges-esque corpse shuffle.Someone gives you the electrical equivalent of a poke in the eye.
Scuttle into the basement with the rest of team 3. look around. Follow the team. Should we find faith, force her hands behind her back with me ampYou join them down there, relaying Miya's info, and following along behind renen.
"Hey guys, Miya put me in your team for the time being. By the way, y'all know that we're cut off from the rest of teams now? No signals can leave or enter this place for some reason"
Ok, Pancaek, welcome to the team. Thanks for the info.
Look around the basement in BT. See if there's anything strange there. After that, try to find a way to open the door.
I'll let you have one more thrower.
Yeah, sure. We'll count it as done and there.
Making a map.Thanks for the generosity.
>Faith's signal has changed. She's still broadcasting darkness but her location is moving rapidly away from the diner. She seems to be in a sewer tunnel, but is following it away towards the north.
Damn. I should had kept Pancaek.
"Roger that Steve. Permission to pursue, boss?"
"Hah, but I don't NEED to go after her physically, boss. I can just collapse the tunnel she's in with a kinamp strike. Cut off her escape route. Or even just follow her to see where she surfaces."
EDIT: I'll assume silence means consent, so: Fly north, towards Faith.
If Steve can give me Faith's position or if I can track her with cameyes, try to kinamp punch the road some distance in front of faith to collapse her tunnel and cut off her escape route. Use previously acquired dynamic bonus if possible so that I do it cleanly, no collateral damage.
Ask Steve how possible it is that this is a deception and that her positioning signal and camera signal has been rendered unreliable. Ask him if he knows how can she see without cameyes or light amps.
Yttra notices Jack quietly keeping lookout in the hastily fortified diner."Hmm, yes that would be useful, I hear that we wan't to minimize civilian and military casualties. Thanks."
@Jack: "Hey. There's another of these things–" Yttra holds up her goop thrower– "in the box back there. It might be better than a shotgun. I dunno."
Well hurray for me. I didn't mention the eye. Or the missing arm. Or the gaping hole in his chest.
Once i notice bandages gun and scubas gear drop the artifact boxes over them and close the lids, use the tongs to push the artifacts in if necessary but try to touch them as little as possible@Piecewise
Reply to D'usse's Funny hiding, and charge con bonus"CHOO CHOO MOTHER FUCKER
Damn. I should had kept Pancaek.(I'm gonna assume "boss" in this instance is referring to miya, since he's coordinating the mission.)
"Roger that Steve. Permission to pursue, boss?"
"I have just had a horribly wonderful idea."You heft yourself back up to your feet and take a few steps. You try to step up, as though walking up stairs. It works and you rise a foot or so. You try to step down with equal success. You bend over and wave your hand around under your feet, fingers passing through empty space that is somehow also holding you up. That's weird.
Can I take a step up? Like climbing stairs? I wanna figure out if I am limited to left, right, forward, back, or if I can move up and down too. Either way, brace self for any incoming mindfuckery, and leave the void.
Follow the walkway East to the intersection.You carefully loot the area, to the surprise of absolutely no one. That rifle is going straight to Heph, by the way.
Once i notice bandages gun and scubas gear drop the artifact boxes over them and close the lids, use the tongs to push the artifacts in if necessary but try to touch them as little as possible
Use dynamic manipulator bonus to cripple any enemies that appear or remove any limbs that become infected with energy termites.
The sewer map is complex, but she seems to be following the main tunnel for now. She's heading straight north, towards a more densely populated and higher class section of town. You're not sure exactly WHERE in that section she's going though, since it just looks like businesses and office space up there.QuoteI'll let you have one more thrower.QuoteYeah, sure. We'll count it as done and there.QuoteMaking a map.Thanks for the generosity.Quote>Faith's signal has changed. She's still broadcasting darkness but her location is moving rapidly away from the diner. She seems to be in a sewer tunnel, but is following it away towards the north.
'Damn, that's suspicious. Whatever she did down there, I don't trust it one bit. Maybe it's time to retreat by now and cut my losses... Hmm. No, gonna wait just a bit longer. Gonna give them a chance to work this out.
So many unknowns, so much to lose.'Damn. I should had kept Pancaek.
"Roger that Steve. Permission to pursue, boss?"
"Sorry Flint, but permission denied. There's already a lot of manpower dealing with Faith and that basement, and those civilians are still not safe. Besides, you wouldn't fit, and I'm not sure Jack and three newbs would be up to the task of stopping Faith. However, if you want you can send one of your men down that door and tell the people there where she is heading, so they can pursue if possible. Tell that guy to get back after that though."
Continue tracking Faith's movements. Ask Steve for a map of the sewers, send it to ground team, and ask him to try and predict the path she'll take or where she's heading towards.
"Hah, but I don't NEED to go after her physically, boss. I can just collapse the tunnel she's in with a kinamp strike. Cut off her escape route. Or even just follow her to see where she surfaces."She's moving fast, really fast. The only way you'll be able to catch up is with your rockets, flying over the roof tops into a more densely populated area. Your choice.
Fly north, towards Faith, unless Steve says the kinamp plan won't work.
If Steve can give me Faith's position or if I can track her with cameyes, try to kinamp punch the road some distance in front of faith to collapse her tunnel and cut off her escape route. Use previously acquired dynamic bonus so that I do it cleanly, no collateral damage.
Ask Steve how possible it is that this is a deception and that her positioning signal and camera signal has been rendered unreliable. Ask him if he knows how can she see without cameyes or light amps.
You grab the goop thrower and continue to fortify the diner's entrance.Yttra notices Jack quietly keeping lookout in the hastily fortified diner."Hmm, yes that would be useful, I hear that we wan't to minimize civilian and military casualties. Thanks."
@Jack: "Hey. There's another of these things–" Yttra holds up her goop thrower– "in the box back there. It might be better than a shotgun. I dunno."
Well hurray for me. I didn't mention the eye. Or the missing arm. Or the gaping hole in his chest.
Look for and grab said goop thrower, work on making a shotgun nest. (Kind of like a machine gun nest, but for shotguns.)
Go down to the basement and tell team 2:You relay the message down to the people in the sewer once you get over the vertigo. You send them the videos again too, just in case they didn't get them.
"Hey. Bossguy says to tell you all that ‘Faith is quickly moving north and away from the diner.’" (then after a second's thought) "Other bossguy also sent everyone some videos of stuff i dunno if you all got them."
Wait a little bit for assurance that they got the videos (which they did) then climb back up the ladder to the diner.
If she's moving away from our area, then what in the world is up north? From memory, she only has a kinetic amp--and that's on her wrist. She can't travel back up if burrowed in that sort so she may either be looking for a way back, or there's something due North that catches her attention.Aid projection? Not sure what that means.
I'll try to project her location if anyone has details on what is up north, otherwise I'm making chase--she's a considered threat unless whatever has gotten into her has stopped. Has anyone found Morul yet? We were sent to evacuate them, and aid out.
<Respond via radio/wristpad>; Try to intuit any possible objective Faith is moving towards: Like, anything I saw earlier that could aid projection?
Follow group leader.You sit around in the diner and wait for shit to attack. No shit attacks. Great.
If Faith; hands behind her back with amp
If other hostiles; heat 1 foot sphere center mass
Of no faith and no hostiles, see If I can't help auron get scuba and bandage's stuff into the box with my mass amp, so that nobody has to touch it.
If no Faith and no hostiles and no helping; charge will bonus
((Assuming up on the map is north as per default mappy stuff))
So uh. That door over there looks like a good place to start.
Mind if I take a swing at it? It'd save you those bullets.
((Forgot we're in radio silence down here HAHA))
Yep punch that door down
Aid projection? Not sure what that means.o__O Maybe its a technical term somehow...
"I swear to god if you just broke my shiny new alien murder penis dispenser the second after i got it in its box i will murder you and mount your skull on my crotchplate."And I swear on your survival that if you speak once more like that again to your allies, you'll be happy to see a positive digit in that range.
"I swear to god if you just broke my shiny new alien murder penis dispenser the second after i got it in its box i will murder you and mount your skull on my crotchplate."And I swear on your survival that if you speak once more like that again to your allies, you'll be happy to see a positive digit in that range.
Feyri remembered Auron.
She didn't like him in this current timeframe.
But that was emotional reaction.
...Still.
((Alright what team am I currently in? Other than being with Renen?))Spoiler: Rescue Team Members (click to show/hide)
You see, you can't just go punching things when you know nothing about them. Boss Miya will get angry now. How is the condition of you all?
The ones that have robot parts and can walk come near me. And someone bring Pancaek over here.
"Oh really, what are you gonna do? Steal my crotchplate?
Im in a goddamn synth-body you idget, penises do not come standard.""
You see, you can't just go punching things when you know nothing about them. Boss Miya will get angry now. How is the condition of you all?
The ones that have robot parts and can walk come near me. And someone bring Pancaek over here.
"Oh bugger off, all i did was point out an error in the threat she made against me whilst attempting to violate my rights to free speech.""Oh really, what are you gonna do? Steal my crotchplate?
Im in a goddamn synth-body you idget, penises do not come standard.""
"Hey, be nice to Fey, ya frakking prick"
well you're not using my head as a goddamn synthdick."Seriously? That isnt even physically possible...
((I think you mean his head, not that other bodypart.))"Oh bugger off, all i did was point out an error in the threat she made against me whilst attempting to violate my rights to free speech.""Oh really, what are you gonna do? Steal my crotchplate?
Im in a goddamn synth-body you idget, penises do not come standard.""
"Hey, be nice to Fey, ya frakking prick"well you're not using my head as a goddamn synthdick."Seriously? That isnt even physically possible...
For clarification, your penis would become a protective holster for my future synthdick, not the dick itself."
((Yeah... editing with my phone causes... issues...))((And amusingly disturbing mental images :P))
This is getting boring but, defend ze hostages. Gee, I wonder what would happen if I sent this and tempted the almighty Steve.((I DID told you to let them free a few turns back so you could join the rest.))
((we were thrown away, but Pw said that people in synth bodies aren't actually hurt.))
Team, calm down. We don't need to start a fight within the group right now.
Even if it were bullets, we have to be cautious when we don't know the situation.
I need everyone that can attack from a distance prepared, we don't want any surprises.
((@Tiruin: Feyri is with Team 3.
@Pancaek: I thought that everyone but Renen was thrown away.))
"Ow." Jack saysYou get down from the wall.
Get off of wall. Inform team that I still live.
Can I assume I spent the last turn getting a dynamic AUX bonus? If yes, set the automapping drone after her. Much less conspicuous.Sure, why not. You send your drone after Faith, setting it to follow her from some height and distance, just so it doesn't get blown to hell.
Else get that dynamic bonus.
Exit voidspace. Brace self for any mindfuckery that may happen.You exit voidspace a good 3 feet above the roof and fall on your ass. That is the worst thing that happens to you though.
YesQuote from: piecewiseAid projection? Not sure what that means.o__O Maybe its a technical term somehow...
What it is, is trying to guess the location of a moving object or entity towards the presumed destination, usually an important location, like an exit point or evacuation site.
Hence me trying to recall in order to 'aid projection.'
...To project, as a verb? ._.
Sorry
What was the purpose of the nearby APCs, by the way? What was also the actual objective of the team before us?
<Response via radio/wristpad>
...((I am with Cecil right? And that means I got the reaction of his action?))
Yttra watches the corridor (thankfully not the one she's in) explode, embedding several teammates into the opposite wall.I Like how Yttra keeps being right next to or tangentially involved with all this insanity yet manages to come out basically unscathed and spends most of her time running around trying to get away from one clusterfuck and wandering into another.
Not my problem. Not my problem. Not my problem.
Climb back up to the diner.
…
As she climbs back up the ladder and thru the strange void-barrier, Yttra is struck by a horrifying epiphany.
$#@! maybe i'm not immune! Maybe i *&^%ing am being mind*&^%ed but he's not *&^%ing controlling me because he thinks it's *&^%ing funny!
In a cold dark senseless void Yttra suddenly begins to understand Steve.
This is getting boring but, defend ze hostages. Gee, I wonder what would happen if I sent this and tempted the almighty Steve.
"I swear to god if you just broke my shiny new alien murder penis dispenser the second after i got it in its box i will murder you and mount your skull on my crotchplate."(Box is closed and fine)
Visually verify integrity of termite gun and its containment box, make sure that shit aint leaking.
Move up towards doorway and if i see an enemy launch a white hot tripwire at kee height with my dynamic manipulator.
You see, you can't just go punching things when you know nothing about them. Boss Miya will get angry now. How is the condition of you all?
The ones that have robot parts and can walk come near me. And someone bring Pancaek over here.
Look around. See if the fleshy teammates are dead or not. Then look in the direction of where the door was. See if it's possible to see if there is any movement in that space. If anything appears, enter BT, take the weapon of one of the fallen team mates and get ready to shoot it or cut it with the sword if it gets close and is hostile.
Fucking hell!
Cecil tries to recover, his ears ringing from the blast.
Didn't expect the fucking forcefield behind the door, goddamn.
Wait for the dust to settle. Stay slumped against the wall. Will my eardrums to recover faster. Can I see anything?
((we were thrown away, but Pw said that people in synth bodies aren't actually hurt.))
Team, calm down. We don't need to start a fight within the group right now.
Even if it were bullets, we have to be cautious when we don't know the situation.
I need everyone that can attack from a distance prepared, we don't want any surprises.
((@Tiruin: Feyri is with Team 3.
@Pancaek: I thought that everyone but Renen was thrown away.))
Look towards destroyed door.
If Faith: amp force her hands behind back.
If other hostiles: Heat 1 foot sphere center mass
If none of above: charge will bonus
((Sadly, Feyri cannot see past the double parentheses. You're doomed. :I((Yeah... editing with my phone causes... issues...))((And amusingly disturbing mental images :P))
Rejoice that I fight for your right to speak."Oh bugger off, all i did was point out an error in the threat she made against me whilst attempting to violate my rights to free speech.""Oh really, what are you gonna do? Steal my crotchplate?
Im in a goddamn synth-body you idget, penises do not come standard.""
"Hey, be nice to Fey, ya frakking prick"
This is getting boring but, defend ze hostages. Gee, I wonder what would happen if I sent this and tempted the almighty Steve.
"Alright, I'm back. Care to bring me up to speed on what I missed? And no, I'm not mind controlled anymore."
Continue brain rest, and examine the extent of the damage to my body.
be helpful (if at all possible)
"Huh. When did you get here Miyamoto? And I don't have any weapons aside from my amp, and I can't really put that down. And I'm not possessed anymore. When I disappear like that, I REALLY disappear. Nothing gets in or out of the void. I realize why you're doing it, but Flint isn't going to be able to truly confirm anything. Face it, you're just gonna have to trust me, or shoot me now."
"Konrak, Taddok, you have my permission to leave the APC, with the dead inside, and come over to the diner to help. Be sure the APC is in a safe location before you do though. Report back in when you get here."M'kay!
"Konrak, Taddok, you have my permission to leave the APC, with the dead inside, and come over to the diner to help. Be sure the APC is in a safe location before you do though. Report back in when you get here."
((OOC note: yes, i know this is stupid and dangerous. But I feel really, really bad about condemning two players to staring at a wall.
Damn, I'm taking sods with me from now. Here's hoping pw will be lenient on this matter, cause if not I'll be forced to waste players for boring crap like this in the future.))
"Drop to your knees! (http://youtu.be/9GSpPLvJ85Y?t=4m48s) Keep your hands up and your eyes away from me! Do it! Do it now!"
Point my gun at Morul, just in case. Also move a bit once he loses sight of me, so that he can't hit me with a blind attack.
Try to keep an eye on that drone's camera. Anything interesting about the area Faith is moving towards?
((I hope you won't have Morul shocked or otherwise incapacitated if he complies, because that would be kind of a double standard.))
"Alright, I'm back. Care to bring me up to speed on what I missed? And no, I'm not mind controlled anymore."Morul is nice enough to comply with everything you ask him to do so you don't have to put bullets into him.
Continue brain rest, and examine the extent of the damage to my body. Comply with Flint.
Exit the building, and go to the crater. Look inside. If I find a way in, go down to further investigateYou head over to the crater and go a little way in, climbing over rubble and corpses. It looks like you might be able to get down into there with a little digging of rubble but...wait a sec...You can see the sewer down there and it doesn't look like what you've heard people on the radio talking about, it's a ceramic pipe not a big brickwork tunnel...Uh oh.
This is getting boring but, defend ze hostages. Gee, I wonder what would happen if I sent this and tempted the almighty Steve.
((Dude, those hostages are still there. Miyamoto directly gave your squad orders for releasing them in a safe, controlled manner. You bored? Then go do what you were asked to do several turns ago.))"Alright, I'm back. Care to bring me up to speed on what I missed? And no, I'm not mind controlled anymore."
Continue brain rest, and examine the extent of the damage to my body.
"Morul, put your weapons down right now, back away, then put your hands on your head and lie face-down so someone can come check you over. Failure to comply will result in immediate shocking or Flint opening fire. Sorry man, gotta make sure you aren't still possessed.
Flint, have you or someone on team 2 check over Morul, don't come too close. Confirm if he's still fully himself, and not mindcontrolled.
Steve, is there a surefire way to affirm someone isn't being influenced by something else? Some sort of litmus test you know of? Maybe the AM knows something?"
Talk, ask question to Steve.
EDIT: extra action from below: If Morul does not comply with Miya's orders, ask Steve to shock him unconscious. If Steve can somehow confirm remotely he's fully himself and without outside influence, disregard that order.
EDIT 2: he seems to comply in text, but not in his posted action yet, so wait with shocking for now.be helpful (if at all possible)
"Konrak, Taddok, you have my permission to leave the APC, with the dead inside, and come over to the diner to help. Be sure the APC is in a safe location before you do though. Report back in when you get here."
((OOC note: yes, i know this is stupid and dangerous. But I feel really, really bad about condemning two players to staring at a wall.
Damn, I'm taking sods with me from now. Here's hoping pw will be lenient on this matter, cause if not I'll be forced to waste players for boring crap like this in the future.))
Assuming nothing tremendously urgent is happening in or near the diner, Yttra heads back upstairs, sits down on a bed and starts watching the videos that Miyamoto sent. Specifically she watches from Morul's perspective, fighting alone in the basement, then from Konrad's, trying to escape as ghostly arms reach into his body, taking it over. She shifts uneasily as she watches a bandaged corpse take a scuba tank to the head, get smashed against the wall, and keep on walking. She flinches as Faith kicks a guy across the room so hard she damages her own legs. She clicks it off just as Konrad is being pinned to the floor by an expanding mass of fresh goo.You go back upstairs and...oh. There's a headlessman standing in the middle of the room. Guess they got tired of waiting for you to go upstairs.
Then she watches the hotdrop video again.
Go back to the second floor, sit down on a bed, and watch videos.
Cock shotgun, wait in anticipation.You cock the shotgun and anticipate at...something?
"Konrak, Taddok, you have my permission to leave the APC, with the dead inside, and come over to the diner to help. Be sure the APC is in a safe location before you do though. Report back in when you get here."M'kay!
If I'm within a mile of the diner, start heading there when the wounded are loaded into the APC.
You both start walking in that direction. It will take you a while to reach it though."Konrak, Taddok, you have my permission to leave the APC, with the dead inside, and come over to the diner to help. Be sure the APC is in a safe location before you do though. Report back in when you get here."
((OOC note: yes, i know this is stupid and dangerous. But I feel really, really bad about condemning two players to staring at a wall.
Damn, I'm taking sods with me from now. Here's hoping pw will be lenient on this matter, cause if not I'll be forced to waste players for boring crap like this in the future.))
"its Konrad sir"
head to the diner after reloading wounded into APC and moving out of the way
Great, everybody, try to record this whole room for Steve with your cams. Don't touch or enter in contact with anything directly. The chance of mindfucking is high. Also, I need one person to try and take samples of the corpse, as well as his cloak's since it can be useful for us to analise it.
Considering Morul, I think we have an Urban Executor here. I still remember my first mission. This is bad.
Protect from the effects of the grenade. After Feyri's flasgrenade detonates and it's effects are gone. Look around, try to record the room for Steve. Enter BT and move quickly around to prevent mindfucking, also prepared to enter combat with Faith in case she appears. Wait to see if someone goes to take the samples.
"Huh."
Look away from flash bang then enter room with shotgun at the ready.
Scuttle close enough so that I can see into the room.(you realize you're not on this team, right?)
Shield my eyes from Feyri's flashbang, then look at its effect.
Should something attack in response, use appropriate amp response to neutralize the threat.
"How interesting, didnt i find one of those cloaks back on haphaestus when we were stealing the place?
We thinking trap? Im thinking trap... theres no way the universe is so kind as to so quickly serve me up a replacement let alone on a golden throne unless it had some sort of evil trick up its sleeve."
Attempt to discern purpose of the egg domes via use of INT and AUX rolls.
Keep an eye on the dead guy and be ready to decapitate him with my amp at a moments notice.
Oh and put out an empty box just in case pancaek wants to levitate him out of the chair.
Feyri Hucks a flashbang into the room and it bursts as every takes cover. After the flashbang has finished severely menacing the walls, everyone piles in and looks around. The corpse on the throne doesn't get up and dance or attack and nothing explodes or starts screaming death curses at you, so there's that. Auron examines the egg machines and determines that they appear to have been part of the life support system for that chair and its inhabitant. They're still on, but they don't appear to be doing anything; the throne is in standby, and everything is just sorta sitting around idle. Hm.((Sadly, Feyri cannot see past the double parentheses. You're doomed. :I((Yeah... editing with my phone causes... issues...))((And amusingly disturbing mental images :P))
If I was mean anyway.))Rejoice that I fight for your right to speak."Oh bugger off, all i did was point out an error in the threat she made against me whilst attempting to violate my rights to free speech.""Oh really, what are you gonna do? Steal my crotchplate?
Im in a goddamn synth-body you idget, penises do not come standard.""
"Hey, be nice to Fey, ya frakking prick"
Rejoice that I'm going to pretend you said that wrong.
Feyri carried her Rotary gun and awaited the dust to settle. Gazing inside from her position, she looked at the rest.
We are all below a diner, agreed? Could someone inform me of why I'm looking at something that shouldn't be under a diner? Team two, ready flashbangs, do not pull the pin. Watch the area. Watch your thoughts.
Grenade out.
Approach VERY cautiously. Intuition feel, go.
Lob one flashbang in there. Obviously shield self against the effects at a distance.
"We come in peace!"
...I shouldn't have used the pre-recorder for this one.
You keep an eye on the drone cam. Faith seems to be moving through downtown and is heading out back into the suburbs beyond. You don't see any obvious targets in that direction, it's very odd.
>The only for sure way is a brain scan but we don't have the stuff for that in the suits. Less sure ways are to look at how he moves, speaks and reacts, as well as asking him questions only he would know. All of these things CAN be faked to make it seem as though he's not controlled, but doing so quickly, reliably and believably is difficult.
"its Konrad sir""Just a slip of the tongue, don't mention it."
(you realize you're not on this team, right?)
It seems we've found something special down here under the diner--seems to be taken care of at the moment. However...
I had this feeling someone is in, or will be facing dire danger. Probably in and around the diner area. Check your team, please.
Checking out those around her, Feyri radioed Flint.QuoteIt seems we've found something special down here under the diner--seems to be taken care of at the moment. However...
I had this feeling someone is in, or will be facing dire danger. Probably in and around the diner area. Check your team, please.
((Flint cannot hear this, radio from the basement cannot reach people on the street due to that 'vertigo' wall of blackness.))((Do I even know this o_o
((Flint cannot hear this, radio from the basement cannot reach people on the street due to that 'vertigo' wall of blackness.))((Do I even know this o_o
Or is this something I missed?))
"Yttra, get the hell out of there, gonna send you back up. And never do shit like that again without telling somebody about it goddammit."*$#@! like &^%$ing what?" Yttra says, already trying to get the hell out of there.
((Fudge, editing x_x))((Flint cannot hear this, radio from the basement cannot reach people on the street due to that 'vertigo' wall of blackness.))((Do I even know this o_o
Or is this something I missed?))
((Feyri went through that wall to get in the sewer basement. Check the beginning of the mission to, or more specifically this: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=138807.msg5371949#msg5371949))
Turn on the life signs monitor and make sure there arent 6 or 7 sets of life signs.
Gently push the corpse off of the throne and into a spare box using my reiterpallasch, or let pancaek do it with his amp.
"Yttra, get the hell out of there, gonna send you back up. And never do shit like that again without telling somebody about it goddammit."*$#@! like &^%$ing what?" Yttra says, already trying to get the hell out of there.
((Probably not the best mission to question him about.))((First mission they were both a part of that came to mind really.))
"Like going to the next level of the diner alone of course! What the hell were you thinking, going into hostile territory alone?""‘Hostile territory?’ I was *&^%ing going back to where i *&^%ing was 2 minutes ago. And it sure as *&^%ing %^&*worms didn't have a headless guy in it then. $#@!!"
Renen looks at Feyri.
You want to go upstairs... No problem, but it would be better if someone else also goes with you. I will stay here with the rest of the Team. It's better if all amp users stay here too.
Pancaek, don't move the body just yet. It's better to be sure of what we should do.
Feyri, since you will go upstairs, please send a copy of the video feed of what we saw to Steve and Miya and ask for an opinion of what we should do.
The ones that stay, get ready for anything suspicious.
I can't stop thinking about the strange fact that Faith didn't enter here. There is no sign of damage and she was going away from here. And he seems to be their idol.
Renen keeps moving around the room in BT. Get ready to avoid any sudden atack.
"All right, headed up now. Don't know how useful lethal force will be if it's headless, but I'm ready to apply said force."Is there something I'm not being briefed upon or did you just speak of headless beings?
Head up to find Yttra, shoot anything headless with the shotgun.
Pancaek, don't move the body just yet. It's better to be sure of what we should do.
"So. How's it going? Besides the fact that it's hit the fan again. Poor fan."You stand there with your hands in the air like you just don't care.
More brain rest.
"Hey, Steve? You know about amps, right? What's the range on those mind control ones? If I mind controlled someone on the ground and then sent him to orbit, at which point, if any, would I lose control?"
Watch drone. Watch Morul. Ask Steve.
If my second floor teammate asks help, edits will be made to this action.
EDIT: Grab Morul and head down to the hole Faith came out of.
If Headless has attacked by then, shove Morul through the hole so he can disable him (keeping headless' brain intact in the process, preferably).
If Headless has not attacked, then try to persuade him to stand down and drop to his knees, informing him that he will not be harmed if he does so. If he does not comply, proceed with above dismembering.
If at any point Morul does anything suspicious, rip him apart until only his braincase is left.
If Morul is unable to attack for some reason (or if his attack fails), try to dismember Headless by shoving the the cutting laser through the hole and firing.
@Jack, Flint, and the rest of aboveground team: "$#@!! There's someone on the second floor! He doesn't have a *&^%ing head!!""AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
If there's anyone other than headless in the room, immediately flee back downstairs. Otherwise attempt to goop headless, then retreat.
"Well everythings on standby but i stil cant tell what its supposed to do, lets loot the shit out of it before some cultist flips a switch and it magically reanimates this guy or starts spewing out clones or something."Lifesigns monitor? Oh yeah, It think I remember that thing now.
Turn on the life signs monitor and make sure there arent 6 or 7 sets of life signs.
Gently push the corpse off of the throne and into a spare box using my reiterpallasch, or let pancaek do it with his amp.
Damn corpse gives me the heebie-jeebies. Never did like old, dead things. Cecil accounted for, Boss.You give your flashbang to feyri, who seems to have extensive experience with them.
Hand Feyri my flashbang. Go look to see where the machines are pulling power from. That corpse gives me the creeps. Be ready to punch the everloving shit out of him if he so much as settles.
Didn't he lose his memory during that mission :PQuoteYou keep an eye on the drone cam. Faith seems to be moving through downtown and is heading out back into the suburbs beyond. You don't see any obvious targets in that direction, it's very odd.
((She might just be running in the hope of escaping and restarting the cult someplace else. Either way, I'm not dedicating any manpower to hunting her down until the diner and basement are secured.))Quote>The only for sure way is a brain scan but we don't have the stuff for that in the suits. Less sure ways are to look at how he moves, speaks and reacts, as well as asking him questions only he would know. All of these things CAN be faked to make it seem as though he's not controlled, but doing so quickly, reliably and believably is difficult.
"Hmm. Morul, suppose that Flint was a shuttle flying toward a meandering crystal, what would you do?"
Listen to his response, and observe his face and such through his suit sensors to try and determine if he's still being influenced.
((For the record, my plan was to wait until those two from the apc had returned, then I'd have assigned some of them to start sweeping the upper levels. Guess that plan got... forcefully accelerated.))
"Yttra, get the hell out of there, gonna send you back up. And never do shit like that again without telling somebody about it goddammit.
Jack Catar and Knuser, get up there and help Yttra, she's on the diner's second floor. Find her and regroup, shoot that headless thing if you see it.
Flint, watch Morul's reaction first, then check if you can help with the headless guy situation. Oh, and why in the name of all that's holy are those civilians still not gone? You have the people to do it for you even. Is this such a hard thing I'm asking of you? If you cannot complete such an easy task, I have to wonder whether putting you in charge of that team was a good idea."Quote"its Konrad sir""Just a slip of the tongue, don't mention it."Quote(you realize you're not on this team, right?)
Piecewise, for the moment Pancaek is indeed helping out the basement team, as per Miya's orders. Because I wanted him to be where we thought Faith would show up.
"All right, headed up now. Don't know how useful lethal force will be if it's headless, but I'm ready to apply said force."You head upstairs and find Yttra standing in front of a big pile of goo, screaming at flint, who is staring in through a hole in the wall.
Head up to find Yttra, shoot anything headless with the shotgun.
You charge a will bonus while sorta just sitting the hall, keeping an eye out for ghosts and ghouls.Turn on the life signs monitor and make sure there arent 6 or 7 sets of life signs.
Gently push the corpse off of the throne and into a spare box using my reiterpallasch, or let pancaek do it with his amp.Stay outside of the room if I can clearly see everything inside of the room from the doorway, otherwise go inside.
Help put the corpse into the box with my mass amp
Stay just outside of the room, observe what is within.
Charge will bonus
keep on walkenWalken (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ7z57qrZU8), eh?
Keep heading towards to diner. Stick to alleys/etc when possible unless the streets are deserted.Don't wanna become the Walken Dead eh?
You pace around the room. It's difficult to move in normal speed while in BT. Everyone else sees you pacing in an odd shutterstop manner, limbs moving insanely fast and then stopping, holding the pose for a half second, then moving again. You skitter around the room like a broken video feed of a stop motion animation.
Renen looks at Feyri.
You want to go upstairs... No problem, but it would be better if someone else also goes with you. I will stay here with the rest of the Team. It's better if all amp users stay here too.
Pancaek, don't move the body just yet. It's better to be sure of what we should do.
Feyri, since you will go upstairs, please send a copy of the video feed of what we saw to Steve and Miya and ask for an opinion of what we should do.
The ones that stay, get ready for anything suspicious.
I can't stop thinking about the strange fact that Faith didn't enter here. There is no sign of damage and she was going away from here. And he seems to be their idol.
Renen keeps moving around the room in BT. Get ready to avoid any sudden atack.
You head back upstairs and hear screaming from upstairs. You run up to the second floor door, shout that you're coming in and send a flashbang in ahead of you. As it flies in the "AAAAAAAAAAAAA" Becomes a "AAAAAAAAAAWha?" and then the bang detonates. You storm in a few seconds later and see three teammates, One of whom is wandering around, blind as her visor reboots. Flint and the damaged robot who are also hanging around in or near the room are giving you a rather confused look. Well, as confused as a robot and a wall of armor can manage."All right, headed up now. Don't know how useful lethal force will be if it's headless, but I'm ready to apply said force."Is there something I'm not being briefed upon or did you just speak of headless beings?
Head up to find Yttra, shoot anything headless with the shotgun.
What is the composition of the floor up there and the walls? Feyri said as she checked her other rifle, Also I copy, Renen.
Head upstairs with the weapon I can best say is suited for the occasion (ie Remembering if the rifle Anton gave me and its metallic conductive properties...following [Alarith's Character]
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If Alarith isn't with us and I'm being hilariously forgetful [as in, he's not of our team :V]:
I copy, Renen. Send support right after me. I know how short these feelings tend to last.
Head upstairs with the weapon I can best say is suited for the occasion (ie Remembering if the rifle Anton gave me and its metallic conductive properties, inspecting the Diner first floor and listening with sounds at maximum, before moving throughout the building [upwards]. If I detect any noise above, make sure to announce my presence, along with a flashbang.
Cecil, please give me one stun grenade. If I meet any resistance, it'll pay off.
Relay new information about the sewersYou send the info out to anyone with an active radio that can pick it up.
"Something doesn't feel right."You stick around in the basement.
Stay with the others that are staying in the basement.
She looked at Yttra, who she didn't know at all.She doesn't respond. Maybe because of the flashbang? But surely she should have recovered by now?
What's going on here?
Didn't he lose his memory during that mission :P((Yes he did, but we later told him what happened through dialog, so his character should know. Gonna assume he looked fine then?))
"Like going to the next level of the diner alone of course! What the hell were you thinking, going into hostile territory alone?""‘Hostile territory?’ I was *&^%ing going back to where i *&^%ing was 2 minutes ago. And it sure as *&^%ing %^&*worms didn't have a headless guy in it then. $#@!!"
@Miyamoto: "I gave the order. It's not like I can do anything else about it, unless you want me to start shocking them or shooting them for not obeying it. I'd do it myself, but the building is already unstable and I'm afraid the battlesuit could cause a collapse.""I know you won't like it, but yes Flint, if they outright ignore your orders for no good reason then you can consider shocking them. In a real military they'd get court martialed, and they'd be off much, much worse knowing the UWM."
"...you guys see any good movies lately?""I"m getting pretty sick of this. D'usse, if you don't start getting those civilians out of there now, I'm shocking you.
"Suspect incapacitated. Good job Yttra. Central, I need a drop off location."((Don't think Steve will want to send a shuttle down, since he answered this when I asked for a medivac:
In an emergency we could get a shuttle down, but lets try not to do that. Putting a shuttle down on the middle of the street is somewhat more obvious and slow then we'd like. Already did a hot drop, after all.
Feyri lowered her rifle and wondered."Wh–"
Given the stories she heard about this place--amounted to mere hearsay and rumors--this was a sincere thing.
Hug Yttra.
Are you alright?
Feyri followed her gaze."I think i just need to sit down." says Yttra, trying to sit down but stymied by the fact that she's already sitting.
Either its a cultist, or a non-sapient life form.
So even if 'he' didn't have a head, I believe it would not be something to existentially worry about. We may not be fighting with human species here. Or in the least modified ones. Have you encountered any other hostilities? Do you need a hand?
Feyri extended her arm with an open palm towards Yttra.
Well *&^% me that guy wasn't even joking."Hey if you guys aren't just 100% *&^%ing with me (which you are), and i see some headless abomination with 8 arms running towards me, i'm gonna shoot it in the *&^%ing torso with the shotgun. But if we bust into this place and there's just a bunch of people in a restaurant sitting down to dinner? I really don't think we should go around kneecapping random people who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time."
I'd recommend going for the center of mass personally, with failure drill being two to the chest and one to the head, fancy stuff like kneecapping people is liable to get you killed, of course, going into batlle is likely to get you killed so maybe you're feeling really lucky.
Also that failure drill is assuming whaterver you're shooting at has a head... check out the VR sometime, you might fight it...informative.
Now, exactly what makes you think that those((i knew id forgotten something...))
boxes you're carrying are large enough to fit an
entire 6 foot tall human being? You're not carrying
coffins around, are you?
"...you guys see any good movies lately?""I"m getting pretty sick of this. D'usse, if you don't start getting those civilians out of there now, I'm shocking you.
If D'usse doesn't start extracting civilians this turn, have Steve shock her. Mild shock, not debilitating.
"...you guys see any good movies lately?""I"m getting pretty sick of this. D'usse, if you don't start getting those civilians out of there now, I'm shocking you.
If D'usse doesn't start extracting civilians this turn, have Steve shock her. Mild shock, not debilitating.
"Civilians? You mean that those people are.....OOOOH."
D'usse confronts the civvies. "Alright fuckers, let's go!"
Escort the civilians to the place where we're escorting civilians. Wherever that is
((I really hope that destination is some sort of historical monument and not some kind of antimatter/Manipulator research centre.))
"Suspect incapacitated. Good job Yttra. Central, I need a drop off location."
Ask Steve the above. Throw one end of the rope I'm carrying thorough the hole.
"One of you, tie him up. Don't break the foam and do not touch him. Just tie him up real good like cattle. I'll pull him out of here."
Observe Faith. Observe sign. What is her destination? Does Steve know? Be ready to attack Morul/Headless. Keep telling headless he will not be harmed as long as he compiles.
EDIT: If headless is successfully tied, pull him out of the hole and airlift him up.
"Well. A startling display of competence has once again been overshadowed by idiocy. Good job team. So. I assume that blob is the guy you wanted me to dismember?"You're starting to feel back to normal, not quite there yet, still a little agitated and nervous, but you could definitely get some brain work done if you needed to.
The brain rest shall never stop. Try and figure out much amp juice I have.
It's all a little too much for poor Yttra.You sit down.
Sit down.She looked at Yttra, who she didn't know at all.She doesn't respond. Maybe because of the flashbang? But surely she should have recovered by now?
What's going on here?
Feyri lowered her rifle and wondered.Feyri really is just den mother around here isn't she? Taking in all young'ins and emotionally fragile people and giving them hugs.
Given the stories she heard about this place--amounted to mere hearsay and rumors--this was a sincere thing.
Hug Yttra.
Are you alright?
QuoteDidn't he lose his memory during that mission :P((Yes he did, but we later told him what happened through dialog, so his character should know. Gonna assume he looked fine then?))"Like going to the next level of the diner alone of course! What the hell were you thinking, going into hostile territory alone?""‘Hostile territory?’ I was *&^%ing going back to where i *&^%ing was 2 minutes ago. And it sure as *&^%ing %^&*worms didn't have a headless guy in it then. $#@!!"
"And you did so, without telling anyone what you were doing. That level wasn't secured, as shown by that headless cultist you've got there. You got lucky, though I'll also admit it was a very nice shot, but had you missed things could've turned out much worse. Next time, just try to tell someone of what you're going to do, ok? "Quote@Miyamoto: "I gave the order. It's not like I can do anything else about it, unless you want me to start shocking them or shooting them for not obeying it. I'd do it myself, but the building is already unstable and I'm afraid the battlesuit could cause a collapse.""I know you won't like it, but yes Flint, if they outright ignore your orders for no good reason then you can consider shocking them. In a real military they'd get court martialed, and they'd be off much, much worse knowing the UWM.""...you guys see any good movies lately?""I"m getting pretty sick of this. D'usse, if you don't start getting those civilians out of there now, I'm shocking you.
If D'usse doesn't start extracting civilians this turn, have Steve shock her. Mild shock, not debilitating.Quote"Suspect incapacitated. Good job Yttra. Central, I need a drop off location."((Don't think Steve will want to send a shuttle down, since he answered this when I asked for a medivac:QuoteIn an emergency we could get a shuttle down, but lets try not to do that. Putting a shuttle down on the middle of the street is somewhat more obvious and slow then we'd like. Already did a hot drop, after all.
Ask Steve if there's military or anything like it incoming Ask for possible locations in that sewer where we could cut Faith off, assuming she's heading for the location that sign points to.
"Team, secure that level, find the key for opening that door, and get ready to move out. We'll leave as soon as Konrad and Taddok are here. Flint, I will consider sending someone after Faith once basement team gets back, no sooner. Need your firepower in case military shows up.
Feyri, why are you not with your team?"
"Anyone want to help check the floor floor for more hostiles?"You tie up the big block of foam and Pancaek drags it out the window and heads up to the roof with it.
Tie up the headless dude without breaking foam. Go search the floor very carefully. If no one else volunteers be even more careful.
You, rather unceremoniously, yank the guy off his throne and proceed to basically crush him into the box, closing the lid on him with some difficulty. The noises a partially mummified corpse make when being folded into a small box are very unpleasant.Quote from: Piecewise.Now, exactly what makes you think that those((i knew id forgotten something...))
boxes you're carrying are large enough to fit an
entire 6 foot tall human being? You're not carrying
coffins around, are you?
break the dead guy's spine and dislocate his hips an shoulders then fold him up and stick him in a box whilst pretending hes a contortioninst.
You get the civies out of the closet and herd them out of the building, into the street and the back over towards the direction the apc drove off in. You cut their bonds while giving them a shove in that general direction."...you guys see any good movies lately?""I"m getting pretty sick of this. D'usse, if you don't start getting those civilians out of there now, I'm shocking you.
If D'usse doesn't start extracting civilians this turn, have Steve shock her. Mild shock, not debilitating.
"Civilians? You mean that those people are.....OOOOH."
D'usse confronts the civvies. "Alright fuckers, let's go!"
Escort the civilians to the place where we're escorting civilians. Wherever that is
Unless Renen gives other orders, keep looking for hostiles/booby traps/malfunctioning toasters from hellNothing, yet.
If any of these present themselves, defend myself and teammates with amps
If none of these present themselves, charge will bonus and poke my leg stumps
Head into the diner, see what those guys are up toCurrently? Not much. IN fact, is there even anyone on the ground floor of the diner? Everyone is up on the second floor, hugging. OR kidnapping headless terrors. One or the other.
>I have nothing near by yet, though I've been getting some excited chatter over the military band radios and communications I have ears on. As per Faith, if she's going to where that sign leads, she'll not be able to reach it underground. The only sewer line that leads out there is about a foot tall, a single pipe. She should have to surface shortly before leaving the suburbs. However, from what I can tell, the sewers the underground team are in now more closely match the sewers in that suburb then they do the area under the diner. You way want to send a runner to give them a warning.
Miyamoto, should I drop that guy off at the APC or leave him hanging around here? And do you want me to do anything about Faith?"
Steve, Miya, that's what we found there at the basement. Should we take the body? It seems it may actually be powering the machines instead of the other way around.
"Uhh, Miyamoto? If you've decided not to kill me, I can probably open that door. Or, you know, just kinda walk through it."
"So, uhhhh, you guys cool with me? Or is Flint gonna continue carrying me around like a robotic security blanket? Because I can be useful."
More brain rest.
"Uhh, aren't we supposed to search the top floors? Why are you shoving me towards the first floor?""Do you want me to drop you on the roof so that you can try to solo the top floors from above or do you want me to try and punch through the second floor when the last guy who tried that couldn't even make a dent to it? And before you say 'I could fly the rest of the team to the roof', consider that that would leave the first floor unoccupied and thus allow the people in the floors above to escape or hit the basement team from behind. So, unless you have a better idea..."
"Hey. The most dangerous ones here are your teammates. Even touching me was a bad idea. Bosslady touched that guy and then she went nuts. Now who knows where she is or what she's doing."Right. Many things go in the mind, and I doubly hate it when one tries to possess the one thing everyone has--free will.
"I could just walk through the door. Or through the roof. This fancy webbing I wear lets me do that.""Unless it can make you invincible, I'd prefer not to risk your life more than necessary unless absolutely necessary.
I don't mind contact with you, and given Flint's orders, how's about you and I clear the top floor?"I'll come." says Yttra, finally taking Feyri's offered hand and standing up.
Now tell me, what was the architectural design of the floor and walls above us? Metal or wood?"The outside's brick but the inside's mostly wood i think. But there's this weird shield on everything. Look you can see how someone shot the floor there and it burned a hole thru the wood but it didn't go into the diner. Uhh well the diner's a mess now, but you could see it before. It's cos of the shield. It stops guns and explosions and both bosslady and jayne couldn't get past it when they tried to break in from the outside."
"Oh? What's with the sudden change of heart? You were ready to kill me a couple minutes ago.""Sedate you through the temporary deactivation of your body. There's a difference. I don't kill unless I have to."
Feyri showed Yttra her other rifle."Conductive…" Some of these words are making Yttra's head hurt. "I think the barrier zapped someone so it'd probably stop electricity too, yeah. It's not metal tho, someone fell thru that hole over there into the kitchen."
So whoever attacked you is upstairs. Then there's some presumption that in between the wooden floor is something hollow or metallic? If, say, I fire this right above us, and given the conductive properties of this weapon's discharge, do you think it would be disrupted?
Feyri checked her Rotary.Feyri showed Yttra her other rifle."Conductive…" Some of these words are making Yttra's head hurt. "I think the barrier zapped someone so it'd probably stop electricity too, yeah. It's not metal tho, someone fell thru that hole over there into the kitchen."
So whoever attacked you is upstairs. Then there's some presumption that in between the wooden floor is something hollow or metallic? If, say, I fire this right above us, and given the conductive properties of this weapon's discharge, do you think it would be disrupted?
"If there's no barrier it would probably go thru. Could try firing a laser to test, if you have one. Or we could just find out who had the keys and try going thru the door."
Right into a trap.
"We are about to get company!"You kneel down and point your rifle down the other tunnel.
Get into cover and ready laser rifle.
You are fast enough to get up and send the video feed, but not quite fast enough to get back down again. Mainly because that vertigo barrier has the same time displacement regardless of speed of the entrant.
Go around moving in BT at BT speed, not at normal speed. Try to look arond for any traps or any enemy. Quickly go outside and send the video feed to Steve and Myia if Feyri didn't sent it. After Steve or Myia say something go back to the basement and get ready to fight what is comming to the basement.
Steve, Miya, that's what we found there at the basement. Should we take the body? It seems it may actually be powering the machines instead of the other way around.
"So, uhhhh, you guys cool with me? Or is Flint gonna continue carrying me around like a robotic security blanket? Because I can be useful."Alright, you're at 100%
More brain rest.
"Roger that, boss. Okay, you heard the boss. Through the hole, roboman."You toss morul through the window into the SECOND floor with Feyri and the rest of them.
Give Morul the keys if I can, then push him through the hole to the first floor.
Keep watching the drone. Is Faith going towards the suburbs or is she going towards that telescope?
Tie the other end of the rope somewhere so that headless is hanging over the alley near beside the diner.
"Don't worry, I won't leave you hanging."
EDIT: Oh, and does Steve know where that satelite dish in the roof is pointing towards? Or what that radio telescope is working on? What need does the UWM or this world in particular have for radio telescopes?
Get ready to search floors, I guess. Try to follow a tough looking person around.Feyri is pretty tough looking. You decide to stick with her.
Hustle upstairs to the second floor.You hustle up to the second floor and meet up with Feyri and the rest.
You fire up into the ceiling. The wood burns away easily, but something shimmers between this ceiling and that floor, a wall of boiling nothing that stops the laser dead and heats up to a cherry red in the process.Feyri checked her Rotary.Feyri showed Yttra her other rifle."Conductive…" Some of these words are making Yttra's head hurt. "I think the barrier zapped someone so it'd probably stop electricity too, yeah. It's not metal tho, someone fell thru that hole over there into the kitchen."
So whoever attacked you is upstairs. Then there's some presumption that in between the wooden floor is something hollow or metallic? If, say, I fire this right above us, and given the conductive properties of this weapon's discharge, do you think it would be disrupted?
"If there's no barrier it would probably go thru. Could try firing a laser to test, if you have one. Or we could just find out who had the keys and try going thru the door."
Right into a trap.
"Yeah, no. You throw in one of my stun grenades (which I believe is my last unless the rest I gave to the others are still intact) and announce our presence, I'll 'emphasize' our entrance."
Get to where Yttra announced; shoot it up as per training dictates. Be wholly aware--if I'm actually shooting an ally, or if our entrance is not met with immediate aggression, hesitate and examine the area.
"I have…" she checks "4 flashbangs. And 2 goo grenades. And 2 smoke grenades."You decide....not to flash bang yourself.
Ready flashbang. Carefully throw / roll / lob it into wherever Feyri breaches. Try not to *&^% up.
-inside of the 'basement'-
Scan around for hostiles or danger.
If Faith, hands behind her back with mass amp. If other danger, react accordingly. If nothing, charge exo bonus
"Looks like company, im gonna need more boxes."The thing that comes around the corner is probably Faith, but she's moving so fast all anyone can make out is a vague blur. Pancaek lashes out, but his reactions can't keep up with her movement, and he catches hold of air. Auron manages to create his tripwire and throw it out toward her, but the blur leaps and rebounds off the roof, dodging the attack and landing with a splash. Water sprays as Faith moves through it, seemingly ignoring both Auron and Pancaek, not to mention Jack who just barely manages to get a shot off at her and misses. She blurs into the room, skids to a stop and slams back first into one of the egg shaped machines. She turns and roars a challenge at the men assembled there, and then charges toward Auron.
Wait until the splashing gets a bit closer then finally use my dynamic amp bonus to create a white hot tripwire at waist height.
"Miyamoto, I really think you should let me or someone else go after Faith. She's clearly headed towards that telescope and we don't know what she'll do there. Ask Steve if you don't believe me."
Now to the stairs. The barrier is checked.
Feyri noticed others appear.
The rest of you, head to the basement--we'll be alright in clearing the upper floors.
"Feyri, it is you who was supposed to be in that basement to help your team, yet you abandoned them for no apparent reason. And now you're giving orders conflicting with mine. What the hell are you doing?"Following Renen's orders, sir. He told me to check the upper floors and sent another along with me. I had a feeling, unrelated to the giving of his order I believe, that something was wrong about the area.
"Feyri, it is you who was supposed to be in that basement to help your team, yet you abandoned them for no apparent reason. And now you're giving orders conflicting with mine. What the hell are you doing?"Following Renen's orders, sir. He told me to check the upper floors and sent another along with me. I had a feeling, unrelated to the giving of his order I believe, that something was wrong about the area.
"Then I guess I'll have to ask him what his reasoning was for sending you here. There are already enough people here for sweeping after all. Still, just keep doing as you were, but don't just go sending other people away. It's due to a lack of organizing and coordination this rescue party was needed in the first place."I copy.
I'll try to hold her down if possible. She's too much of a threat and has been too much of a pain in the ass to still play nice. Try and sever all of her limbs if you can. Whatever you do, don't touch her yourself. Afterwards I'll just put her bodyparts in one of those boxes with my amp, hopefully containing the thing possessing her
"Where do I report to now?"report to where I need to report to and be useful
Feyri, we will need your gauss rotary gun right now.
((So guess I am outside diner?))Quote from: @Miya"Where do I report to now?"report to where I need to report to and be useful
"Screw it."
Fire entire battery of laser rifle at Faith. Don't stop firing.
"OI! LOOK AT THIS!"
Holy flying FUCK this is faith?
Punch off a goddamn limb of hers I don't care which, cripple the fucker.
Throw a goop grenade at Faith and hope pancaeks wall of force propels it into her then get the fuck outta her way by using my jump rockets to dodge sideways or something.
Oh and try to hit her mace with my riot shield if it looks like i cant dodge her, better to lose an arm then a braincase.
I sent her as mean of communication between us boss. When I noticed it would take a moment for her to come back, I came here pretty fast just to send the video feed. And it seemed Faith was moving under there now. Feyri, we will need your gauss rotary gun right now.
Arrive at the basement, at BT speed. Check the situation of the Team. If Faith is still attacking, and no one can stop her, cut all of her members, starting by disarming her of the club and cutting her legs off. Backstep and toss the sword's handle away to avoid mindfuckery in case it seems the ghost-woman is trying to get to me. And never get out or stop moving in BT. If possible, after Faith is stopped or if I can't attack her, get out of the basement and warn everybody about the situation there.
Pan messages Renen directly, so Not-Faith can't intercept the message.Quote from: Pancaek -> RenenI'll try to hold her down if possible. She's too much of a threat and has been too much of a pain in the ass to still play nice. Try and sever all of her limbs if you can. Whatever you do, don't touch her yourself. Afterwards I'll just put her bodyparts in one of those boxes with my amp, hopefully containing the thing possessing her
Create a shockwave with enough force to blast away a synthflesh body, create this shockwave from between Auronand Faith, and towards Faith. After this, try and hold Faith down with my mass amp so that Renen can dismember her
Feyri, we will need your gauss rotary gun right now.
. . .
Right. Change of plans.
Feyri checked the rest, noticing how her danger senses were still prodding her side. She feared it had already happened, having heard the rest of Renen's conversation.
Hold onto my other rifle here, any one of you--I'm going down there.
Equip Rotary, head down with Renen. Provide fire support. Keep weapon at a ready-to-fire position.
Feyri remembered her second mission (technically M3) wherein her breaching methods were less than adequate.
Why do I forget these things at the worst of times.
"Okay, I feel pretty much back to normal as far as amp usage goes. So. Let's see about opening that door eh?"No cameras or peep holes. Just a door set into a wall, which is no doubt hiding a staircase.
Head towards the locked door to the third floor. Carefully examine it, and the surrounding area. Is there any sort of cameras, or peepholes that I can see?
((Ah, OK, in that case following her is indeed unnecessary. I just didn't know the signal had stopped.))
Land on the ground and aim at the basement door (or whatever is close to that if I can't see it). Prepare to fire a Green Shotgun blast with the Rainbow Cannon.
Let's see them try to dodge a wall of green corrosive energy.
((So guess I am outside diner?))Quote from: @Miya"Where do I report to now?"report to where I need to report to and be useful
Go to where the other people are and helpMuch pointing guns at doors.
See if i can find the keys we had before. If so and noone's like, shooting at the door, open the door. Otherwise charge dex bonus.You know where the keys are.
"Faith has the keys, doesn't she. Well shit. Alright, I'm gonna try something. Everyone stand off to the side of the door, just in case they're waiting."
Wait until everyone with me is no longer standing directly in front of the door shoving the out of the way if necessary, then use my amp to remove the pins from the door's hinges.
"Faith has the keys, doesn't she. Well shit. Alright, I'm gonna try something. Everyone stand off to the side of the door, just in case they're waiting."You yank the pins out of the hinges of the door and it falls open, revealing a staircase up to the next floor.
Wait until everyone with me is no longer standing directly in front of the door shoving the out of the way if necessary, then use my amp to remove the pins from the door's hinges. If it is heavily reinforced, just rip the damn thing down.
Ahh fuck! My fucking arm! Cecil moans, quite loudly. He isn't quite sure how he feels, at least physically. He's pissed and a little scared, his whole arm is just... Gone.You drag yourself back behind the throne, leaving a bloody smear the whole way.
Can I crawl the hell out of here? Or at least get behind something and stay hidden?
((I'm tempted to try a speech roll or to simply start punching my way through this diner, but let's not risk ruining this any more than it already is.))The area where faith's signal cut off is within view of the radio telescope; an enormous concave concrete structure in the hills outside of town. There are a few buildings, old homes, near by.
While aiming at the basement hole, use my drone to look around the area Faith was last in, the place her signal cut off. Anything interesting around there? Any buildings?"Faith has the keys, doesn't she. Well shit. Alright, I'm gonna try something. Everyone stand off to the side of the door, just in case they're waiting."
Wait until everyone with me is no longer standing directly in front of the door shoving the out of the way if necessary, then use my amp to remove the pins from the door's hinges.
((I think it's a heavily reinforced door, the kind of thing you'd find in a vault or bunker.))
Reload laser rifle.You reload.
Charge Con Bonus, and prepare to fire all I have if enemy. If not, keep up guard at door
Stand well back and wach Morul open the door. Maintain dex bonus.
Prepare Shotgun in case I need to be the hero.
Usefulness powers ACTIVATE, follow orders tooVarious kinds of waiting and preparing!
Seeing as NotFaith is pretty close to me right now, Use my mass amp to make a blast of force to punt her away from me. Don't skimp on the power, either. Like, try and gauge how much I'd need to punt her across the room, then try and double that. Make sure I'm not holding on to her when I make the blast.Your shockwave is less like the fist of an angry god and more like the stiff breeze of an apathetic superhuman breaking wind. You're not even sure if the thing controlling faith noticed it.
Once she's away from me, if I still have brainpower left, use mass amp to hold her down so my teammates can more easily deal with her.
If the blast doesnt work and Faith starts attacking me again, use a really really powerful shockwave to just blast her away again, because I sure as hell ain't dyin' in no basement.
Faith's Club is embedded in the wall farther down the tunnel, away from the ladder down and the cul-de-sac with all the machines. You run past her towards it, and she runs past you. As you tear the weapon out of the wall, she leaps toward Feyri.
Check where Faith's club is and take it. Send shockwaves in her direction, trying to avoid killing teammates while I keep my distance and move around in BT. If possible, destroy both of her legs using that method.
Activate rockets; get anyone not directly engaged with Faith out.Lets hope you roll well.
Keep watching out for possible incoming military intervention.((I'm pretty concerned as to the current description of my vicinity too...))
((Gotta wonder how Faith is leaping with a single leg and arm :o
Also, is it Auron or Faith that Feyri took with her? ))
Go upstairs with Morul. Flashbang whatever room / space is at the top of the stairs, before we enter. Use dex bonus to not mess up.Go upstairs after this. Give any hostiles shotgun rhinoplasty.
Keep watching out for possible incoming military intervention.((when did she lose her leg? She's lost one arm and badly damaged the other, but as far as I remember she still has both legs.))
How many levels/floors are there in that diner? Including the ground level, but not the basement.
((Gotta wonder how Faith is leaping with a single leg and arm :o
Also, is it Auron or Faith that Feyri took with her? ))
((Looks like I misremembered then.))
"Hey, Steve? Know anything about this place? Some history about this suburb? Was it built before the telescope or after? Anything interesting around here?"
((If the below is too much, just do as much as you find reasonable.))
Ask Steve.
What can I see on the Radio Telescope? Is it more like Arecebo (a stationary dish scanning one point of the sky) or can it move?
If it can move, would I say it's pointing roughly in the same direction as the dish on the roof?
Anything else interesting or strange about it? Strange men or helicopters flying around it? James Bond sliding in it?
Pilot the drone closer to the structures and see if they have anything identifying or anything interesting on them (like a sign or a flag) or near them (like a subway entrance or a monument).
Any sewer manholes I can see nearby?
Filler action (given that Piecewise seems busy and isn't able to respond to my query back there): Rocket BACK TO THE TEAM
> If Faith is alone (or in distance between anyone for a clear shot: Attack with Rotary gun [if the background is not in a probable case of structural collapse and there are no other allies in need of rescue)
> If any allies are need of rescue = Get rocketing them away.
> If fuel is out before rocketing them away--get the rotary to suppressive firing at Faith.
If I can somehow see Faith barreling towards my teammates, attempt to grab her legs with mass amp and hold her in place.
If I can't see Faith, chill on the floor and look at how damaged I am. Also try and retrieve my sliced of arm and look around the room a bit.
Stand up, dust myself off and look around.
Prepare dynamic manipulator bonus.
Be ready to fire laser rifle at faith again if needed.
(( No mindfuckery, great.))
Feyri, shoot now.
Start sending amp cudgel shockwaves in Faith's direction, at my full speed and in BT, without hitting Feyri and other team mates. Try aiming for Faith's sides. Go after my sword's handle and put it back in the hilt. Avoid friendly fire.
"Follow up behind me, and shoot anyone that isn't us."
Raise my riot shield in front of me, and head up the stairs. If I see anyone upstairs that isn't part of my team, use my amp to decapitate them.
Go upstairs with Morul. Flashbang whatever room / space is at the top of the stairs, before we enter. Use dex bonus to not mess up.
Cover the backs of everyone going upstairs, like a real SWAT Mission!
Go upstairs with Morul. Flashbang whatever room / space is at the top of the stairs, before we enter. Use dex bonus to not mess up.Go upstairs after this. Give any hostiles shotgun rhinoplasty.
Con bonus. Rip whatever enemy I put my eyes on to shreds with my Gauss. Proceed to grin like a maniacAfter clearing the way with a flash bang, the team heads up to the third story. This appears to be a more traditional level, with walls dividing sections of the building into rooms. At least thats what they would assume. Unfortunately the stairs lead up to a short hall that abruptly ends in a solid black wall, not unlike the walls which seem to separate off the different floors and protect the structure from collapse. Speaking of which, the entire building is suddenly groaning and shuddering....
"Got it, ready to kill."
Cecil pulls himself from behind the chair.As you lie behind the chair, trying to keep yourself from bleeding out, you hear something. It's a friendly computerized chime. Like "Da-ding!" It sounds very happy. You look over at the egg shaped machines along the wall and notice something. The one Faith bumped into has a little indent where she hit. The indent has bent a metal panel and, from what you can see through the gaps created by the bending, it depressed a button just under the surface.
Get help for my broken everything.
((Oh great, they infected Steve.))((Man, don't even joke about that. We'd be, like, 14 different kinds of screwed.))
((Nah, I refuse to believe that Steve could get infected by anything. Maybe the blackness of the building were actually some kind of living material and they just uploaded a titan blueprint into it. The entire building was actually a transformer all along!))((Oh great, they infected Steve.))((Man, don't even joke about that. We'd be, like, 14 different kinds of screwed.))
"That sounds bad."
Jack then goes over to Pancaek.
"Im going to pick you up now. Oh, and do you think we should let out of this tunnel?"
Upload complete? Why is everyone evacuating?
Quote from: Feyri to basement teamUpload complete? Why is everyone evacuating?
Right.Quote from: Feyri to basement teamUpload complete? Why is everyone evacuating?
"Well, chief, I think it's because we got Faith. So now that the immediate danger is gone, us wounded and crippled folks would like to skedaddle. Take myself for example, The only limb that's still attached to me is my one arm.
By the way, If you or Renen could pick me up and just pop back to the surface quickly and deposit me near Flint or the truck, that would be super."
Can I help support the building? If yes, do that. EDIT: Oh, but first, take a look at Headless, make sure he's still limp, unmoving and hanging over the alley.The Headless guy is still in place, wiggling his toes and fingers but otherwise not doing anything. You do your best to get into the building and prop up the ceiling you can reach.
If possible, have the drone approach the telescope and take a look around.
((Not much else I can do. Damn my giant size.))
"Uh, okay."
Get out of the building as per orders.
I guess someone finally got that thing in the basement.
I bet it was the girl with the rockets. She was nice.
GTFO of the dangerously unstable building.
"Everyone quick move move move!"
herd people out and away from the building
Getouttathere.
LEG IT!
Follow what needs following and kill what needs killingEveryone with any sense in their skullgoo stampedes out of the building and on to the street outside. They then stand there, staring at the building and it noticeably shifts and settles, leaning to the side and releasing bursts of dust as though the individual floors are being lowered back down on top of one another, whatever force was holding them up now dissipating.
Fuck. FUCK. GUYS SOMETHING FUCKING BEEPED GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF HERE.
Crawl into sight ASAP I don't want to get beeped at again.
How'm I feeling? Awake? Aware? Hearing Despair laughing at me in the abyssal caverns of my mind?You're awake, and suddenly in control of whats left of your body. You wiggle your stumps and yell for someone to grab you.
Pick Pan up then go up ladder.
"I man good with computers."
throw a box over whats left of faith and finagle it so i can carry her back to the ship without touching her.
Make sure i have all my boxes, if not grab the missing ones.
Follow mass exodus.
Feyri had one benefit of being in this type of body. She could communicate very easily in textual matters--the same amount of time it would ignite a thought, much shorter than if it were spoken.You've got plenty left.Quote from: Feyri to basement teamUpload complete? Why is everyone evacuating?
Having done that in a split-second, she checks her rocket fuel (as a quick action).
"You know, I bet that computer isn't actually important. Let's just get out of here and join the others, shall we? I've only got one arm left and I intend to keep this one."
Grab my sliced off arm. See if I can't help Auron collect Faith bits and put said Faith bits into the artifact boxes with my mass amp so nobody has to touch them. After grabbing arm and maybe helping put Faith in an artifact box, get carried upstairs by Renen. If I can carry Faith upstairs once she is in a box in my hammerspace, do so
Renen looks around...
How... What do you mean upload... Hey, somebody should grab one these eggs for Steve, now. I have a bad feeling, we should get out of here.
Grab my sword handle. Look around (in BT at BT speed) to make sure everything is all right. Help some of the injured team mates to get out of the basement, except Faith. If there is no time to look around, get out of the basement.
(those machines are too big to "loot" easily. )Right.Quote from: Feyri to basement teamUpload complete? Why is everyone evacuating?
"Well, chief, I think it's because we got Faith. So now that the immediate danger is gone, us wounded and crippled folks would like to skedaddle. Take myself for example, The only limb that's still attached to me is my one arm.
By the way, If you or Renen could pick me up and just pop back to the surface quickly and deposit me near Flint or the truck, that would be super."
Use rockets; get any incapacitated team members who are unable to get out on their own--if possible loot...one of the machines (the egg-thing?) if any space is left.
Leave basement. Examine surroundings--what could be meant by Faith's words?
"Everybody out of that building, now! I'm not losing people so close to the finish."
Ask Steve what exactly we'd need to do or where to go to get pickup.
''Damn, wish that basement team would hurry the hell up.'
He grumbled to himself.
"GET OUT! GO GO GO!"You wait until the rest of the team has run back down the stairs and the charge straight into the black wall. You bounce off like it's made of rubber. You shake your head and then enter the void and take two steps forward. When you exit, you're still in a black expanse of seemingly nothing, however there are about a half dozen people here, including one which is sitting on the "Ground" radiating pulses of darkness. You try to shockwave the group but the blast only travels maybe a few inches before dissipating. The men in the void are looking at you but not moving. You feel yourself slowing down as well, like you're trapped in molasses.
Make sure everyone starts getting out of the building, then charge into the black wall. If it lets me through, decapitate anyone that isn't a teammate. If it doesn't, enter the void, take two steps, and exit, then proceed to create a an amp powered shockwave with enough force to cause serious internal injuries.
"Boss, I really think we should do something about that dish. Do I have permission to..." Flint was unsure of what exactly he wanted to do about it, but he really felt like he should do something. "...do something about it?""You are right, we need to do something. However, you are too far away right now to make it in time I'm afraid. But some other people aren't.
I'd prefer it I could order someone with a MK3 and a heavy weapon to do something about it, since I'm here playing Atlas and I don't know what will happen if I stop. But I don't think there's anyone better suited for it than me.
Feyri, shoot at that telescope. Everyone else try to destroy it the best you can. Pancaek, I know you must be tired but we will need your help too. Destroy that.
((Remember, your target looks somewhat like this (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Arecibo_Observatory_Aerial_View.jpg). So you should probably focus on damaging this (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Arecibo_Observatory_Aerial.jpg) or the cables holding it.))
Nope. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=135884.msg5607394;topicseen#msg5607394)((Remember, your target looks somewhat like this (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Arecibo_Observatory_Aerial_View.jpg). So you should probably focus on damaging this (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Arecibo_Observatory_Aerial.jpg) or the cables holding it.))Spoiler: Isn't it something more like this, though? (click to show/hide)
"Hey Steve, what do you want us to do about the suspicious egg machines we found in the sewers?
They are too big to steal, hooked up to some life support equipment centered around a gaudy throne and a bodysnatcher used one to upload something.. we think...
Also we could use a pickup."
The APC heads back to the diner, ready to pick everyone up."Boss, I really think we should do something about that dish. Do I have permission to..." Flint was unsure of what exactly he wanted to do about it, but he really felt like he should do something. "...do something about it?""You are right, we need to do something. However, you are too far away right now to make it in time I'm afraid. But some other people aren't.
I'd prefer it I could order someone with a MK3 and a heavy weapon to do something about it, since I'm here playing Atlas and I don't know what will happen if I stop. But I don't think there's anyone better suited for it than me.
Basement team, do you see that satellite dish near you? Destroy it ASAP. The sooner the better.
Tell APC driver to come to the diner with all the wounded loaded.
Check how far basement team is, and if going to them (using the APC for transport) is feasible.
Tell Steve to put location of dish on team basement's HUD.
And ask him if the Sword has guns that could hit it accurately enough and with enough restraint to only destroy the dish.
@Miyamoto: "You know best. Call me if you have any more orders. I'll keep supporting the building and see what more I can get from this drone. Oh, and do you think we should get the satellite on the roof too?"You go up, smash the dish on top of the building and carry the headless down to the street to wait for the apc.
@Everyone nearby (not the basement team): "Take whatever you need from the building and then get out."
When everyone (except Morul, who doesn't count, since he is in his blackvoid dimension and thus safe no matter what happens) is out of the building, stop supporting it, go crush the satellite dish in the roof. Then grab headless' rope and take him to a different building so that he doesn't fall and die if the building collapses while we wait for the APC.
"Hey there, how's it hanging?" Flint was unsure about whether or not headless was capable of hearing and thus able to appreciate his grade-A puns.
Try to get the drone to take a look around the radio-telescope. Look at the receiver for anything suspicious or anything that could help the basement team destroy it and search for some sort of control centre for the dish. If I can find the control centre, try to use the drone to search it for any sings of being tampered with.
Attempt to decapitate the cultist radiating darkness with my amp, and bring my hand up to the button so I can press it quickly if I need to.You attempt to use your amp but can't even manage to activate it. The Cultists just keep staring at you and then, after a few moments of just sort of sitting there, dumbfounded, you find yourself somewhere else. Namely, you find yourself falling. You can see the curvature of the planet you're on; the darkness outside the luminous blue of the world. You jerk yourself around until you can see the ground far FAR below you. It's like looking down at a satellite image, slowly zooming in. You have no idea where you are.
Find a safe-looking curb, somewhere away from the swaying building, and sit down.You sit down and wait for the APC.
lead people back to apc then ask steve for directions to pickup location (and go there) also ensure to load woundedWaiting for it to get here, friend.
Head to the APCSEE ABOVE. IT IS COMING TO YOU.
Stop bleeding. Get as comfortable as I can while missing a limb and having two shattered.It is surprisingly easy to become comfortable while in shock. You just sort of lay on the concrete and don't feel much of anything.
Go to APC, as that seems to be the popular thing nowadays.IT'S COMING HOLD ON JESUS
Guys, Renen here. We got out of the basement but we are not in the dinner. We need a map with our actual location. Also, I think we are out of the city. Steve, could you send a shuttle to pick us up? And we will need help with looting some machines we found in that room. Faith is mostly a torso now, but we still don't wanna touch her. You never know with mind fuckery.
Guys, can any of you with a mass amp or manip put the rest of Faith's body in a box or something and carry it around with the amp/manip until we get to the shuttle?
Renen receives the order.
Roger. Feyri, shoot at that telescope. Everyone else try to destroy it the best you can. Pancaek, I know you must be tired but we will need your help too. Destroy that.
Move in bullet time to cut and destroy the satellite dish/telescope/moving equipment we were ordered to destroy. If I wouldn't make it in time, send amp club shockwaves instead.
Carry Pancaek if needed so he can get closer to the target.
"Tired? I'm not tired. Not at all. Yeah, let me just destroy a giant sattelite dish after getting my shit wrecked, hard. Just uh, heh" He waves his sliced off arm in the air "gonna need a hand here. Alse try not to get too close to the thing, I'm gonna try and make it topple over on itself. By the way, someone better get Faith in a box and get her back to the sword. She still has to pay for my legs."
If I have eyes on the sattelite dish, heat up part of the cables leading from one of the pillars towards the center bit so that the cables hopefully snap and the wieght of the dish makes it topple over. Like the exercise we did with the AM in VR. Get carried by Renen to get eyes if necessary
Feyri, shoot at that telescope. Everyone else try to destroy it the best you can. Pancaek, I know you must be tired but we will need your help too. Destroy that.
Got it, command.
Commit orders.
How are the people we're supposed to rescue doing? Is everyone hale?
Melt one of the horizontal supports holding up the telescope with my dynamic manipulator bonus.Even for Renen, it takes a minute or two to reach the dish, but soon everyone is there, flying on rockets or riding on teammates, and raining excessive amounts of destruction down on the obsolete radio dish. When the smoke clears, when Feyri stops shooting, Auron stops melting, Renen stops slashing and pancaek stops heat-slicing cables, there's little left of the beam guidence system except some melted and shredded metal towers and a lot of scrap laying at the center of a concave concrete dish.
Use jump rockets to get close if necessary.
I just left this damn thing...
Get back into the APC.
Get in the APC
Get into APC ensure stuff is on APC
@Everyone nearby: "Okay team. Everyone pack your things and get in the APC, now. Head for the spaceport. I'll come later, so as to not attract any more attention than necessary. If anything comes up, call me and I'll provide support."
Make sure everyone and everything is in the APC (including Headless, and any artefacts and equipment we have lying around). Then send it to the spaceport, unless Steve or Miyamoto objects.
Ask Steve: "Okay Steve, our team and the artefacts we have gathered are heading for the spaceport soon, unless there's something else you want us to do.
Could you send a shuttle to a location near the Basement Team?
Oh, and do you know where Morul is? Last I heard he used that fancy suit of his. I hope I don't have to dig him out of the building."
@Basement team: "I'm trying to arrange for Steve to send a transport near your location. However, it's very likely it's going to be a good distance away from the city. Do you think Feyri, Renen and Auron could carry you and the artefacts you've gathered to it?"
GET TO DA APCEveryone that is around to get into the apc scrambles in and Flint gives it a good rap on the roof to let the driver know to get moving. The APC peels out, rumbling off toward the space port at about as fast as an enormous metal shoebox can manage.
"Well its back to the basement i guess, steve wants those eggs gone and any data on them recovered if possible."You dig around in the basement, running your hands across the panels of the machines and jamming your fingers in whenever you found anything that seemed loose. Eventually you just tear one of the cables connecting to the throne and juryrig a connection to your datapad. You download as much data as possible but there's far more then can be held on your pad.
Head back to the basement and attempt to recover the egg data.
If it appears impossible for any of us to get the data, break open each egg in turn and steal whatever passes for computational equipment then melt whatever is left... unless it looks important/valuable in which case steal it too.
Wow I don't feel so bad... Everything's nice and fuzzy... Are we going now?Currently, since you were with the basement team but weren't brought along to kill the dish, you're laying in the middle of a cul-de-sac, bleeding out on the street.
I'm along for the ride man. Don't care what happens just let them move me or whatever. Numb is nice dude.
"Ummmm. Steve? Can you confirm my location? I seem to be getting ready for re-entry.">I suppose I should be inclined to ask exactly how you managed to get there, but it really doesn't matter at this point. You're actually on the complete otherside of the planet, somewhere above the Kármán line and descending. I don't suppose you have rockets on your suit?
If I don't receive a message from Steve, press the button. If I do hear from Steve, prepare a dynamic bonus to stop my descent.
((Oh.))
"So, Renen, what's the plan? Should we just move to the rendesvous after we grab as much stuff from the eggs as we can? "Keep on keeping on.
Hang on to Renen for now.
Yttra looks around.Morul is nowhere to be found. Huh...it's almost like he vanished of the face of the planet.
"Hey. Where's Morul?"
He was right there…!
Try to find Morul.
((Well, it seems we should have some psycho in control of the machine gun again.))((That wouldn't help much, considering it's out of ammo. :P))
@Miyamoto: "I can just go ahead of the APC and distract them. Shouldn't be that hard. Once I have their attention, the APC can just slip by using a side street."
Ask Steve to give me a good position for me to wait for the enemy so as to implement the above plan (distraction).
If Miyamoto's plan (alternate extraction point) is not feasible, then go to that intercept point. Bring a piece of rubble I could use as cover with me, if possible.
Once there, warn all civilians to get away while breaking the road with my robohands to disrupt traffic. Once the area is clear, get the rainbow cannon out, switch it to mine mode but do not actually fire it yet. Get behind partial cover if possible, so that I'm visible while not fully exposed. Oh , and remember to order the APC to take a detour to avoid them once I have their attention. Oh, and ask Steve if he knows what I will be facing.
((Oh dear, I'm unsure if I'm with the APC or ...something somewhere back with Unholy Pariah's char.))((Right.))
Inform Steve and attempt to stream the data up to him, if that fails perform the following conversations and actions.You set up the stream, running it through your suit instead, to save time and make it easier.
@Teammates "Hey guys ive got the egg data ready to download but i need more storage space, can you bring down some more wristpads?"
@Steve "Ive got access to the egg data but there might be too much for me to copy onto available storage mediums, if you decide to send a shuttle for us could you have someone put a high capacity storage device on board?"
Ask teammates to bring their wristpads over and try copying all the data off in sections on seperate devices.
((If the datapad can download it, and you have connection to Steve, you could just stream the info to him. Might take a while, but if the military isn't on to you it might be worth to consider.))
"Oh great, just what we needed. And here I though we'd be getting out of here.
Steve, next time, maybe try to tell us before they've mobilized.
Ask Steve if the APC could evade confrontation with the military by getting out of the city somewhere else and letting the shuttle arrive there.
Stand guard.Sit sentry
"Some weird cultist thingy. I dunno. Entered into a black void with a bunch of cultists, and then suddenly I was here. So, uh, can I get a pickup, or do I have to land for that?"You focus very hard on hurling yourself up and out of trouble. Perhaps a bit too hard. Your body, already damaged, gets hurled upward with enough force to tear your torso clean in two and leave your brain floating around in the upper half, nothing more then a right arm, head and part of your chest.
Using my mass amp, attempt to fling myself into a stable orbit, or at least away from the planet.
@Miyamoto: "I can just go ahead of the APC and distract them. Shouldn't be that hard. Once I have their attention, the APC can just slip by using a side street."
Ask Steve to give me a good position for me to wait for the enemy so as to implement the above plan (distraction).
If Miyamoto's plan (alternate extraction point) is not feasible, then go to that intercept point. Bring a piece of rubble I could use as cover with me, if possible.
Once there, warn all civilians to get away while breaking the road with my robohands to disrupt traffic. Once the area is clear, get the rainbow cannon out, switch it to mine mode but do not actually fire it yet. Get behind partial cover if possible, so that I'm visible while not fully exposed. Oh , and remember to order the APC to take a detour to avoid them once I have their attention. Oh, and ask Steve if he knows what I will be facing.
((so is Yttra in the APC?))Hard to search a pile of rubble, so we're gonna put you in the APC.
If in the APC make sure i'm wearing my seatbelt.
If not in the APC, search the wrecked building for a) Morul b) that box of guns and grenades that was on the ground floor.
Attempt to discern where my limbless eyeless teamkilling torso is currently located. First thing an ARM soldier needs to figure out under most circumstances, really.You have one camera left, located in your chest. It is showing darkness. But you know that before that someone picked you up and threw you in a box. So You'd assume you're still in a box. Hopefully, if things go poorly, you can just pretend to be some sort of macabre collectors edition trophy being shipped via space ebay (http://c534909.r9.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Dead-Island-Statue.jpg)and that these guys just intercepted you on the way to your actual destination.
Off to the APCIn the APC you go.
sit tightStand Loose
Actually, that's the plan.You pick up your delimbed teammate, who is becoming rapidly deadish. "You will not survive long without medical aid." You tell him. "I am requesting medical aid from our teammates. If it does not arrive, preservative measures may need to be taken."
Go back with the Team to collect some stuff and film the area, try to see if there are smaller data storage objects hidden within the eggs and take them.
If Auron's plans to get more info from the eggs works/is working, let him keep going.
Pick up Pufferfish's character if no one does so.
Then destroy everything else.
Ti, I feel like you're kinda outta the loop here. The diner collapsed like two turns ago, and you're at least 30 miles from it. The "basement" was actually a sewer on the outside of town and moving through that black barrier from the diner teleported you out to it. That barrier is now gone, so you are stuck out there.((Oh dear, I'm unsure if I'm with the APC or ...something somewhere back with Unholy Pariah's char.))((Right.))
Aid [Unholy_Pariah's character] in looting the area; intuition danger level in the diner upper levels; remind others that there are still hostiles about from Yttra's conversation earlier.
If I can somehow by the grace of God work a Gauss Rifle with one arm, hop into the turret and prepare to lay down the law on anyone that tries to stop the party bus. Otherwise, only get in there if nobody else does, and use the shotgun.Well, the turret has no bullets left, but you can sure as hell fire a shotgun from the hole it's sitting in. So you get up wedge yourself in place, ready to shoot the shit out of anyone who looks at you funny. Hmm. Chambering a round after each shot is gonna be awkward...
>Ok. The road that the apc took away from the diner is west, alright? The Air units are coming from the south, out of a air port in that direction. The ground units are coming from a military base to the north. I'm guessing police units might be coming as well, and they're from the east, the same way as last time. As per distracting them...about the only way to do that would be to cause enough damage or mayhem that they choose to focus on you.I'm guessing the spaceport the APC is going is towards the west, right? If not, then tell it to just keep heading west.
((Crisis averted????))((You're an arm and a torso in low orbit. This was the best possible resolution of things.))
((You're an arm and a torso in low orbit. This was the best possible resolution of things.))((Gotta sig that.))
((Perhaps I should had left my mining laser at the APC to use as a turret. Then again, they'd probably somehow slice the APC in half, so it's probably a good thing I forgot about that.))You could certainly fly them part of the way, but the apc is big and heavy, so you'd use your fuel up pretty fast.
EDIT: Wait a bit. Before I do anything else, could I perhaps just grab the APC or all the people and stuff in it and fly them to the spaceport before they reach us? Or is it a bit too heavy for me? If I can do it, then do that and disregard the below.
EDIT EDIT: Oh, and have that drone move away from the destroyed telescope's command centre and towards the basement team. Order it to land once there, so that the basement team can pick it up or use it if they want.Quote>Ok. The road that the apc took away from the diner is west, alright? The Air units are coming from the south, out of a air port in that direction. The ground units are coming from a military base to the north. I'm guessing police units might be coming as well, and they're from the east, the same way as last time. As per distracting them...about the only way to do that would be to cause enough damage or mayhem that they choose to focus on you.I'm guessing the spaceport the APC is going is towards the west, right? If not, then tell it to just keep heading west.
@APC: "OK team, we've got Air units coming in from the South and Military units coming in from the North. There may also be Police units coming in from the East or from somewhere else. I will try to get their attention long enough for you to escape, but be ready to defend yourself regardless, just in case some of them decide to focus on you. I will focus on the air units, since they seem to be the most immediate threat.
Oh, and you might want to look in your rear view mirror if you want to see something impressive. There's going to be fire in the sky."
Damage or mayhem... I don't want to hurt people. They are just doing their job, trying to protect this city and its people. They've done nothing wrong. But that doesn't mean I can't cause some mayhem... For the greater good, of course.
"Okay, you say you want a big distraction? Watch this."
Point the Rainbow Cannon straight up at the sky, fire some Violet Overcharge and some Blue Lightning shots to grab people's attention. Then fire a Red Plasma beam. That ought to be at least moderately distracting.
If I have time this turn, once Gilgamesh finishes rebooting, fly towards the South. Ask Steve if he knows what kind of Air units I'll be facing and scan the air for them using camEeyes. Remember to use their zoom function and if possible have one screen displaying thermal mode and another displaying motion detection.Spoiler: Red Mode notes (click to show/hide)
Dead? That sounds bad. I like being comfortable.It's starting to get strangely cold, despite the warm sun on your skin. You look back toward the city and see an odd cloud formation growing in the distance. Huh. Rain must be coming.
Continue enjoying shock.
"Steve, am I in a stable orbit, or hurtling away into the depths of space? Stable orbit is nice, depths of space, not so much. Also, how are the ground teams doing?"
Try and locate my lower half, and charge a dynamic bonus to retrieve them.
((Crisis averted????))
Wait for the first machine to finish then begin streaming the next.You get two done and tell other teammates to plug themselves in to get things moving faster.
Plug other teammates into other eggs if that would make this go faster.
@Miyamoto "Sir if APC is disabled should we attempt to move to the spaceport on foot or surrender?"As the APC rolls away from the combat zone, a few bursts of violet light illuminate the sky. And then lighting crawls amongst the clouds, leaping up from somewhere in the distance behind the APC. But the final lighting bolt you see rise from the ground is different; massive and oddly colored. It hits the clouds and bursts, spreading along them like water splashing out across the ground. The clouds begin to darken and crackling purplish lightning races along the sky. The clouds seem to boil and churn, their darkness spreading, chasing behind the APC and snuffing out the sunlight wherever they reached. Fat purple lightning begins to fall from the clouds, even as it crackles across and through them in spreading, fractal shapes.
Wait for awesome to occur in rear-view mirror, hope that they are distracted
Take Pufferfish character to the rest of the team. Look around, making sure that there is no sign of an incoming attack in the area the Basement team is. Ask for the progress on the data transference.Heh, well nothing going on over here. Yet. Data is about 25% or so. And no, you can't take an egg, but Auron has the corpse.
So, how much of the data has already been transferred? I don't like being here for more time than the necessary.
If possible, after the transference is complete, try to take one the eggs. Make sure that we are bringing the body that was on the throne.
"I suppose that's all I can ask for."You're on the wrong side to see anything interesting going on, unless you feel like having a "World without borders or war" epiphany like The Boss from metal gear.
Examine the planet below. Anything interesting?
Is it just me or is that storm over there bringing in some cold weather new friend? We should go there.You put more pressure on your injury and watch the lighting. It seems a bit too aggressive to be normal.
Admire the lightning strikes. Loll about a little and bleed a little less.
continue streaming each egg in turn. Ask politely for people to lend their suits.You finish with one egg and then proceed the semi-concious members of the team and forcibly plug them in. This makes streaming the rest of the data much easier and you're done within minutes.
Forcibly connect them if they continue ignoring me.
Assist in streaming the data if I can. Above all else, do not get seperated from the rest of the team.
Help Auron transmit the data, let him use the suit of the near-dead guy too. As soon as the streaming is done, escape with the team.Auron has forced his plug into you and is now streaming all over you.
@Everyone: "So... funny thing happened. Some kind of weird alien lightning storm inexplicably appeared over me and is slowly spreading ominously. In completely unrelated news, I accidentally discovered that the Rainbow Cannon can act as a sort of weather control device."Judging by the fact that your suit seems to be lulling in and out of functionality you're gonna guess that yeah, it's still drawing power.
Flint emitted a short, nervous laugh as he furiously typed on Gilgamesh's keyboards.
"Funny, right?"
Check whether or not the Gun is still drawing power.
If it is drawing power, then see if it is possible to somehow isolate the arm or physically disconnect it (some kind of maintenance mode maybe?) or temporarily disconnect the generator. If I can't use Gilgamesh's computers, then see if I can access his systems via my MK2.
If that doesn't work, then see if I can somehow make the gun stop whatever it is doing. Try moving it a bit or twisting the black part or maybe pulling one of those new things sticking out of it. Or maybe just change its mode to No Colour.
If that doesn't work, then detonate the claymore defense system on the upper part of the arm holding the gun so as to remove the armour and then try to sever it. Use the mining laser if I can't do it by pulling alone.
If all else fails, try removing the arm with the help of my monorazor. Get out of Gilgamesh if I have to.
If the gun is no longer drawing power:
See if I can somehow make the gun stop whatever it is doing. Try moving it a bit or twisting the black part or maybe pulling one of those new things sticking out of it. Or maybe just changing its mode to No Colour.
Start moving towards the west, towards the APC.
Unless I've managed to stop this storm, keep the gun over my head in Blue Lightning mode. Hopefully, it will absorb any lightning strikes directed at me.
If I've managed to stop the storm, then once Gilgamesh has recharged enough to fly, fly towards the APC.
If I haven't managed to stop the storm, then once Gilgamesh has recharged enough to fly, fly towards the cloud. Try sticking the black part of the gun in the cloud, hoping that it will absorb whatever energy it unleashed. Hope that Gilgamesh's electrical shielding will protect me if the gun doesn't.
...Guuuuuys? Drive faster!The murderstorm, as you put it, is definitely gaining on you, though it hasn't reached you yet. Lightning is falling like rain behind you and over to your right you can see at least 3 helicopters cruising low over the city and coming in this direction. Hard to tell if they're coming for you or for the lightning storm. Either way, not great. You decide to stay outside for the moment, at least to keep an eye on things.
If it looks like the murder-storm is going to get close enough to hit us, close the hatch on the turret if it has one.
EDIT: Before doing the below, see if I could get out and switch the gun to another mode (preferably No Colour Mode). Tie a sample container (or better yet several of them) at the end of one of those metal poles I have in Gilgamesh's backpack and use that to touch the Colour Selector Dial if it looks like the gun is dangerous to touch.You open the hatch just a bit and stick a pole out. You use it to flip the selector switch to one of the lines between the colors and the gun immediately powers down and contracts back into its normal shape. Whew. You quickly pull the pole back in and shut the hatch.
Else, pop that maintenance hatch open (by using the physical internal switch I found in tinker), get out and do whatever I have to do to shut this thing down.
If I can't get out, use that emergency release (NOT the escape pod function).
If I can't open the hatch, see if I could slice the cover or the 4 locking pins holding it with the monorazor.
((Note to self: get an on/off switch installed for that gun.))
"Steve, you've got eyes on the events, is there any way to patch me in or something? All I need is line of sight and I can assist. Well, line of sight and a whole lot of luck...."Steve sends you feeds of the current events.
Ask if Steve can send live video of the current events to me. Helmet cams, or cameras on the Sword, anything currently pointed at the teams.
Ask Steve to momentarily shut down power in Gilgamesh (hopefully also shutting down the weapon), then restart the suit if possible (do not shut down if remote powering-up is impossible).We'll belay that order since it wouldn't help now.
sit tight, wait for murder to beginStay frosty, get stabby.
Enjoy myself a ride. Charge a con bonus to jump out of the door and start firing at stuff when necessaryCharge a bonus to jump out of the back door of a moving car? That should be funny.
Unplug everyone then destroy the eggs and await pickup.You kick everyone back, unplugging them via force, and then proceed to smash up all the eggs with a chunk of debris. Once you're satisfied that they're broken beyond repair, you head back out and sit down on the road near the manhole, right in the middle of the cul-de-sac. You notice that someone is looking out of a window of a nearby house at you. When you look back they draw their curtains and hide. Hmph.
Keep on the lookout and ponder as to what exactly Faith referenced by that Upload back there--wonder if I've enough fuel to carry quite well everyone left behind back to the general area of the APC.You don't have enough fuel to carry everyone to the APC; and the rather scary looking storm hovering near the area they should be is making you think they're probably safer here anyways.
Subtly apologize to piecewise on being foncused .-.
What did Faith mean by the Upload?
Keep an eye on the Murderstorm. Close hatch if it gets close enough to zap us.The murderstorm seems to be falling back, or at least it's stopped advancing. Whew.
"...I"m a cat."Goodbye Cat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OeKbBNPTlk)
Is cat.
If the data has already been sent. Help unplug everyone and destroy the "eggs" before heading for our pickup place with the team.You join the rest of the highly trained and capable murders who are currently camped out in this little cul-de-sac like kids waiting for an icecream truck.
Hang onto Renen to get to the pickup with the team. Praise the pantheon my synthflesh body held up well enough to keep me alive and kicking, figuratively speaking.Heh. Kicking.
follow.I follow.
What did Faith mean by the Upload?"Faith didn't mean anything by it. We're not sure what Despair was talking about."
((@Radio Controlled: You might also want to tell the basement team that they have to get away from the city to be extracted, since they seem to be forgetting that at the moment.))((Weird how they forget that.))
Okay."Yaaay~ time to get out of this place."
Get out of the city and make the rest of team head to the pickup area too, silently. Take Pancaek with me. Wait for the shuttle away from the city.
Also take the semi-dead guy if no one does.
"Basement team, you need to get out of the city in order to get picked up. So get moving and be quiet about it."
"Suddenly, being stranded in low Kano orbit doesn't seem all that bad. Gonna try something guys. Hold on."Ok. I want you to go on google earth right now. Seriously, go. I want you to zoom out to low orbit and then spin the globe around to be on the opposite side of the world as where you live. Now try to imagine the exact location of your house on that globe. Exactly. Now spin the globe around, find the place you imagined and zoom in on it directly.
If I can see the armored police vehicles, attempt to rip one of the tires off the lead vehicle, and steer it into a collision with the other cars.
"Basement team, you need to get out of the city in order to get picked up. So get moving and be quiet about it."
Right, [Unholy_Pariah's character {Sorry x_x}], I'll take point from here on out.
Take point; move along with the rest. Keep aware of surroundings.
Continue awaiting pickup. Lead basement team even further from the city if necessary.
If no pickup arrives, go watch the news in curtains house.
Okay."Yaaay~ time to get out of this place."
Get out of the city and make the rest of team head to the pickup area too, silently. Take Pancaek with me. Wait for the shuttle away from the city.
Also take the semi-dead guy if no one does.
Get dragged along by Renen. Await sweet extraction
Follow team to pickup point.
Okay.The Basement crew immediately turns and makes a break for it, running, benny hill style, straight into the wilderness.
Get out of the city and make the rest of team head to the pickup area too, silently. Take Pancaek with me. Wait for the shuttle away from the city.
Also take the semi-dead guy if no one does.
"I'll see if I can do something."You could try that, but it would require opening the back hatch of the APC. You wanna do that?
use the goop thrower to leave a sticky trail behind, if that's not how the thrower works just stay out of the way.
Tape a smoke grenade to the roof and activate it, then toss a goop grenade behind us, as general bossyboots suggests. Make sure not to actually stick my head out there or anything. Just the grenades.
I wonder what happens if you die.
Maybe you can't. Maybe you just come back and everything happens all over again.
Yttra glances briefly at Hasala and Kyle. Kyle doesn't quite look fully dead yet, but it's probably just a matter of time.
Don't think smokes will work. Goop might, though.Yttra starts handing grenades up to Taddok who starts priming them and hurling them out the hatch.
Get back inside the APC. Take a flashbang, and toss it high up behind the APC out of the hatch. When I hear it go off, peek out and try to shoot out a tire of the lead car with the shotgun.
"MAKE A WALL!"You grab all the riot shields you can find and start wedging them up against the back door, yanking them out of people's hands half the time.
prepare riot shield for incoming fire if others available direct their users to do so or move them myself
Figure out if I'm in the woods or the APC or what.^
"Any objections from command, or worried teammates, before i fire the burny stuff at our pursuers?""Poke your weapon out the holes so that you can't hit us "
((Again I have a +2, but I'm also missing an arm.))
"All right then."If there's another hole that I can see/aim out of, shoot my shotgun out the back of the APC.
Fire the burny stuff off the back of the APC, take every precaution possible to avoid hitting our APC.
In that case, wait for pickup, and try and avoid hitting any satellites.Slap a comcast one for me.
((Dang. Oh well.))
Oh man I haven't seen trees in forever.You suddenly realize the absolute fractal nature of life, then have a small stroke and forget it.
Admire nature in my state of shock.
Figure out if I'm in the woods or the APC or what.You're in a box, in the apc.
Well, I think most of the people with body armor are going up there of their own accord, but we'll assume you shove yttra up there. She's got some body armor. Though she strikes me as someone who would struggle. A lot."Any objections from command, or worried teammates, before i fire the burny stuff at our pursuers?""Poke your weapon out the holes so that you can't hit us "
((Again I have a +2, but I'm also missing an arm.))
Place people with body armour behind riot shields, if there are any more riot shields put them up in front of cracked ones, ensure that wounded are far from wall
"All right then."If there's another hole that I can see/aim out of, shoot my shotgun out the back of the APC.
Fire the burny stuff off the back of the APC, take every precaution possible to avoid hitting our APC.
Give Jack said burny stuff (i.e. namite ammo for goop thrower) so that he can use it to fire at pursuers. If i can assist in some useful way do so, otherwise just hunker down.
"All right then."Jack pulls aside one of the riot shields and jams the barrel of the namite thrower through the hole. After that there's not much else to do but just hold the trigger and start wiggling it back and forth like a homicidal sprinkler. Taddock shoulders in next to him and starts firing his shotgun out a nearby hole, pumping it against the jagged metal between shots.
Fire the burny stuff off the back of the APC, take every precaution possible to avoid hitting our APC.
Can we assume the previous turn was a dynamic bonus?You'll be up to them at the end of next turn. The helicopters will be following though.
Regardless of the above, just go full speed towards the APC. Land between it and the police cars. Brace.
Punch Konrad.club back, harder
Is the APC close enough to the spaceport for me to do plan "Grab the APC and fly it to the spaceport" yet? If yes, do that.
Else, do an Immelmann turn (half-loop) so that I end up higher and facing towards the helicopters. Attempt to stay higher than they are and keep moving between them at high speeds, so as to make using their guns on me and acquiring a missile lock harder.
Try hitting their rotors or tails with the Mining Laser and Violet Mode to make them crash.
If they shoot missiles at me, use Indigo Mode and Mining Laser against them as a countermeasure while attempting to dodge.
If at any time the APC is ready to be evacuated, disengage and evacuate.
EDIT: If they are too many for the above tactic to work, then stay low, use the buildings for cover and take potshots at them while quickly moving between cover with rocket assisted jumps to avoid missile strikes.
"GOOD JOB MEN!"
be ready to reinforce defensive line by ripping off pieces of apc armor that are too damaged to be useful and reinforcing the shields with themPunch Konrad.club back, harder
Punch Konrad. Goop him to the wall.
Put down goop/namite thrower, fistbump Taddock, grab shotgun I hopefully strapped to my back.
Fistbump Jack. Reload. Poke my head out of the top hatch and be on the lookout for trouble.Everyone's celebrations/teammate conflicts inside the apc are brought to a rather abrupt halt went the entire thing jerks violently and then bounces into the air. The crew compartment gets shaken rather badly and the inhabitants find themselves slammed to the floor, the weightless, then slammed into the ceiling, then against the back wall, then the front then the floor again. When things finally stabilize for a moment they notice strange crushed indention s in the metal where something has grabbed them on either side of the vehicle and, judging from what they can see out the holes on the armor and the rush of wind, they're now flying.
UnstrokeWhat are you, a catholic?
Sit down and wait for pickup.Not much else to do.
Ask Steve if the APC getting grabbed was something of his doing, or not.((I believe that was me. Unless they have battlesuits, in which case the guys in the APC are completely screwed.))
(Here's hoping that was one of Steve's shuttles grabbing us for fast extraction...)
Ask Steve if the APC getting grabbed was something of his doing, or not.((I believe that was me. Unless they have battlesuits, in which case the guys in the APC are completely screwed.))
(Here's hoping that was one of Steve's shuttles grabbing us for fast extraction...)
I simulated a battle with an Arbiter while I was on ship and it brought me a question. Besides the cables that the Arbiters use and rockets, which other ways one can use to move while airborne? Also, do you have any suggestions for a long range weapon to fight an Arbiter?
((Shoot me. Was talking to Renen, and accidentally put Morul. x_x
Plan was to rocket to the APC...given the context of what I said 2 pages back. Argh!))
My accomplishments included helping to wipe out the southern forces with some unusually nice manipulator usage, accidentally ruining an ally's attempts to salvage a battlesuit by killing the pilot, hauling corpses, and failing to inconvenience medical or technical personnel in the slightest with my own squishy, shrapnel-laden flesh."
Uih, retelling of meritorious deeds. The one thing that had to be connected to my past. Why.5 tokens. Very Adequate. Good job not fucking anything up.
Feyri stood among the others in the debriefing and gazed around through the external sensor system.
Provision of fire support in neutralizing the threat of Faith. That is all.
Mmph.
Be assigned to any mission either Milno or Jim or Faith is on.
Of course, the only method that works best, on paper, and is hindered by personal inhibitions connected to traumatic events.
This is just glorious.
I will volunteer for the next mission. I basically did nothing but walk around and get my lungs burned, but, other than hitting a cat lady over the head, I didn't do anything bad, so... yay, I was just some guy.You got ganked really early so it would be unfair to penalize you for the failures of your team. 5 tokens.
It's been a minute! Let's see...Competent, but unfortunately Never quite in the right place to be terribly useful, beyond those keys. 5 tokens. Better luck next time.
-Tried to subdue, instead of kill, the Chef (his head got exploded)
-Found his keys (Why does no-one look for the keys?)
-Got friendly-fired, spent a few turns getting patched up (thanks yttra!)
-Tried to cripple whoever was possessed before Faith (Konrad, maybe? Too slow on the trigger, unfortunately)
-Swept the upstairs room to make sure no hostiles were being sneaky
-Babysat the APC after Escape #1Spoiler: Then SUPPRESSING FIIIIRE and very basic planning/coordination on Escape #2 (click to show/hide)
So, I tried to do right in my actions, but ended up being pretty low-impact (getting shot sucks) and I've got no alien swag to show for it.
So, what I 'did' this mission:I am questioning to pay you or not. Because paying someone to sit up in their ivory tower, commanding the peons while they lounge in total safety, sipping mojitos doesn't seem terribly fair. It might set a bad precedent to pay the commanders even when they don't get out there and work themselves. Then again, controlling people from an ivory tower is kinda what commanders are supposed to do. Hm.
-assembled the rescue team on a notice shorter than most dwarves
-commanded the mission from then on, gave orders, made teams, yelled at people, etc.
My contribution to the mission consisted of trying to goop the Chef, finding the twist-ties and tying up the diner hostages ((despite TCM's claims)), which may or may not have saved them from Lerman's rampage, and attempting to fortify the diner as best as I could (by pulling the Venetian-blind-like metal curtains on the windows down), before getting teamkilled.Pretty good. Not a whole lot that really influenced the mission terribly, but you certainly didn't do anything that made it worse. 5 tokens.
My contribution:Fair enough 6 tokens. The main reason you don't get more is the fact that fighting faith isn't TOO hard for you.You're kinda made for it, so it's a bit less impressive.
Leader of Basement team, fought controlled Faith;
Helped in the investigation of the Basement;
Helped in sending the information to Steve;
Helped in the destruction of the telescope;
Didn't fuck up greatly.
Pancaek, team cripple contributions:We'll repair you to full. It's the least we can do, honestly. Ya did good work. Despite continuous damage and increasing immobility you kept fighting and were actively helpful against possessed faith even when it cost the loss of limb and potential death. 8 token.
-disarmed the chef
-Tested out the hatch on top of the building
-got both legs smashed in by possessed Faith
-Stopped Possessed Faith once by forcing her arms behind her back.
-Got head assploded by Lerman
-Went into the basement and tangled with Faith, losing one arm.
-got hooked up to eggs to upload data, also grabbed my arm on the way out
By the way, pw, how much of my synthflesh body will I get back when we're on ship? Total tally is two legs gone, head like smashed watermelon and one arm cut off (that I have with me)
Faith:Is this because I forgot to pay you for that last one? Hm. Well we'll give you 10 and call it even for both.
-Helped ensure a modicum of restraint with regards to the diner's civilian inhabitants
-Discovered the sheath's remarkable reflective capabilities
-Helped confirm the sheath's complete blocking qualities, even to cameyes or when penetrated by wires
-Opened the door to upstairs with a key (we both know this is a challenging task for ARM personnel)
-Took out the long-distance blade slapper
-Tried to valiantly save a teammate with a minimum of damage (we both know this is always a terrible idea for ARM personnel, but maybe the thought counts...?)
Additionally, from last mission which I was told to bring up when doling out rewards for this one:QuoteMy accomplishments included helping to wipe out the southern forces with some unusually nice manipulator usage, accidentally ruining an ally's attempts to salvage a battlesuit by killing the pilot, hauling corpses, and failing to inconvenience medical or technical personnel in the slightest with my own squishy, shrapnel-laden flesh."
Achievements:The packrat strikes again. Not all of this is terribly useful, but the corpse at least lets us identify this guy, and the data on the eggs lets us hopefully decipher it and at least search for it later. The Termite rifle might be useful as well, if we can stop it from possessing people.
Faceplanted into upper floor shadow barrier after jumping off a roof thereby confirming its existence.
Explored the sewers a bit with my team.
Recovered the "Termite Rifle" safely.
Recovered "scuba's gear" because it was nearby.
Recovered the cultist "leader" so he can be revived on ship for diplomancing.
Fought in and survived "attack of the bodysnatched faith" unharmed.
Refrained from maiming teammates.
Recovered Faiths shattered remains.
Assisted in destruction of radiotelescope array.
Discovered how to access the egg data.
Streamed egg data to Steve and lead others in doing so.
Destroyed the eggs as per steves request.
Did not murder civilians or steal their possessions.
D'usse Resume:5 tokens. Good effort on whatever you were doing, but it wasn't really mission critical was it?
*Subdued civilians in resteraunt. Transported them from resteraunt to safer structure. Eventually escorted them out of danger zone. Casualties: 0
*Covered teammates/doors.
*Incremental assisting fire.
*Stalked signs of bad guys, forcefully cocking shotgun.
*Generally stayed out of bigger, scarier, more capable people's way.
Contributions:The headless is going to be transported to Heph and placed in one of the containment cells. What they decide to do with him, I can't say. As per what happened, we assume that the man in the throne had his memories, or maybe his entire mind, copied into those egg machines and that it was broadcast somewhere. Where? We don't know. At this point though, don't be surprised if he shows up again.
- Ordered people around a bit.
- Dug out Jack, who was buried under rubble.
- Tracked Faith with drone.
- Scouted telescope with drone and informed the team that it was moving.
- Carried Headless around.
- Smashed satellite dish in roof.
- Used Gilgamesh to help keep the building from collapsing long enough for the team to evacuate.
- Helped in evacuation, ensuring everything was loaded in the APC swiftly.
- Stayed back to provide a distraction for the military helicopters.
- Helped carry the APC out of there.
I am interested for Mission 17. ((It might be a good idea to put who is going where or who is interested in going where in the current mission page of the wiki.))
And a question if I may: Does Steve have any idea what happened this mission or why? What was going on with that telescope? Did they get anything out of Headless?
Valiant DeedsIt was very stupid of you to charge in alone. But you did do a good job fighting your way out. And breaking yourself out of the mind control. We'll go with 7, since without your effort Auron wouldn't have been able to gather those trinkets of his.
1. Sneakily gained entrance to rear of Café.
2. Killed Murderchef and took his burnout amp.
3. Scouted sewer area.
4. Killed Scubaman and Bandages the Rifle Zombie.
5. Attempted to negotiate with police.
6. Get mind controlled and releasedthe KrakenFaith/Anna.
7. Break mind control, and chill in the void for a bit.
8. Gain access to third floor.
9. Entered the ritual chamber.
10. Got teleported out of ritual chamber into space.
11. Chilled in space until pickup.
Think that about covers it.
Lerman:Mind control is something we can ignore. It's not your fault, not really; I won't hold it against you like I don't hold it against faith. The other things, however, are another matter. Blatant insubordination and endangering the lives of your team are not acceptable. Though, I must admit, not uncommon.
Flashbanged the team
Disabled half the team under influence of mind control with a machine gun
Wrestled with several teammates for control of the gun
Attempted to fight Faith, who chopped off his legs
Welded said legs to chest.
Sabotaged any hope of the police helping with another machine gun rampage
Shocked into unconsciousness.
Well, time for Lerman to run, I think.
Jack Catar's contributions:5 tokens. Fairly average after all. Good work with the thermite though.
Followed leader up to diner, worrying locals (-)
guarded door to weird basement (meh)
Tied up a dude and gave him to Flint (+ I guess)
Fired a whole bunch of namite at pursuing officials (+)
((I think that's everything.))
stuff Yttra did:Very good work for a newbie. We'll give ya 7. Good work on not dying or even being terribly injured.
* put Kyle's guts back in
* retrieved wounded/dead Kyle & Hasala to APC
* competently splinted Taddok's busted arm
* successfully disabled the posessed Konrad about 1 second too late
* assisted in successfully disabling the first posessed Faith
* retrieved wounded/gooped Lerman & Konrad to APC
* did some minor stuff like relaying messages and opening boxes
* captured a headless guy
* supplied namite for successful APC escape
Cecil's stuff:5 tokens. You've got a good amount of gusto, but perhaps not the best judgement. Oh well. Good work regardless.
-Punched a door really good.
-Tried punching possessed team-mate but mulched legs and busted an arm instead.
All in all, not bad for a newbie up against a synthflesh berzerkercleric I think.
Lets go...6. Seems about right.
Contributions for K. Cruze;
+Stalled the murderous gunfire of possessed lerman
+Moved wounded around to prevent unnecessary deaths
+Moved APC to prevent loss in faith.v.everybody firefight
+Protected wounded from injury by gunfire with armoured teammates and riot shields
-Was possessed
-Led to possession of faith
I am questioning to pay you or not. Because paying someone to sit up in their ivory tower, commanding the peons while they lounge in total safety, sipping mojitos doesn't seem terribly fair. It might set a bad precedent to pay the commanders even when they don't get out there and work themselves. Then again, controlling people from an ivory tower is kinda what commanders are supposed to do. Hm.
I agree with the above.No plans to do anything with them, so three tokens go to Paris, leaving me with 5
And I would like to request the 3 tokens I lent to Pancaek unless he has anything he wants to buy.
Hm, so I guess we didn't destroy the telescope in time. Do we have any idea what happened to the other "cultists"?
I agree with the above.You'd have to ask morul. He was the one that got closest.
And I would like to request the 3 tokens I lent to Pancaek unless he has anything he wants to buy.
Hm, so I guess we didn't destroy the telescope in time. Do we have any idea what happened to the other "cultists"?
Two tokens then.QuoteI am questioning to pay you or not. Because paying someone to sit up in their ivory tower, commanding the peons while they lounge in total safety, sipping mojitos doesn't seem terribly fair. It might set a bad precedent to pay the commanders even when they don't get out there and work themselves. Then again, controlling people from an ivory tower is kinda what commanders are supposed to do. Hm.
Heh, yeah, commanding is fun (it's even worse in real life, where the average footslogger gets hardly any credit while the brass run of with it). I'll be happy with what I can get.
Oh, and just to doublecheck, do I get any points to level up with?
((Though I could mention that I didn't physically join the rescue team in order to give other people a chance to play, and that I could easily have kicked of someone else to ensure own spot. I have no problem getting less than an actual participant, but I did put quite some work into the mission.))
Perhaps a future standard for "on high" commanders: Their pay starts at standard 5 tokens, but instead of going up for success, it's docked every time someone seriously screws up under their command. (Accidentally tasering a teammate isn't enough to be a problem. Killing a couple civilians is a token. Blowing up an important mission asset is two tokens. Manip overloads or anything that is referred to as X-9 afterwards drops the pay to zero.)I like this. We can do this if the people under him are willing.
To balance this out, commanders get access to the Shock Switch.
Late but here's my list of things I did.We'll give you 5 tokens, +1 extra token as apology for putting you in lerman's line of fire.
- Went into the restaurant.
- Got shot by a teammate and was rendered unconscious for the rest of the mission.
Perhaps a future standard for "on high" commanders: Their pay starts at standard 5 tokens, but instead of going up for success, it's docked every time someone seriously screws up under their command. (Accidentally tasering a teammate isn't enough to be a problem. Killing a couple civilians is a token. Blowing up an important mission asset is two tokens. Manip overloads or anything that is referred to as X-9 afterwards drops the pay to zero.)I like this. We can do this if the people under him are willing.
To balance this out, commanders get access to the Shock Switch.
Perhaps a future standard for "on high" commanders: Their pay starts at standard 5 tokens, but instead of going up for success, it's docked every time someone seriously screws up under their command. (Accidentally tasering a teammate isn't enough to be a problem. Killing a couple civilians is a token. Blowing up an important mission asset is two tokens. Manip overloads or anything that is referred to as X-9 afterwards drops the pay to zero.)I like this. We can do this if the people under him are willing.
To balance this out, commanders get access to the Shock Switch.
It might work better simply using it in the future since it wasn't decided ahead of time for this one, as well as he didn't lead the full mission, just the "de-screwup" part of it.
Helped fought Possed Faith.6. Lets go with 6.
Helped with retrieving info from that's egg things.
Helped Salsa's character dig D'usse out.
Didn't die or mess things up in general.