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The shock chip is the one that does that - so technically any of us apart from Nik could become an avatar of Steve.

((I think we ate all of the food))

"This sounds agreeable."

For my part of the supplies, take as much of my flammable stuff as I can reasonably carry with my one functional arm.
Go second, that way I'm clear of any potential monsters waiting to nab someone but hopefully don't make the bridge fall.

I do not recommend alcohol. Drunk people are not themselves.

This.

Anyhow, my advice is practice. It sounds stupid as hell, but it's the only way I managed to be able to talk to people. Basically start by assembling a makeshift sheet of conversation topics in your head - weather (yes this actually works), stuff about yourself, etc, and maybe some ones depending on where you are - and just look for conversation opportunities. I've found a good opener that can be used a lot of places is to fake ignorance of something so you have both an escape route and legit reason to come over and talk to people. For instance if ... I dunno if you have buses where you are, but asking what time one of those comes opens up a whole new array of possible topics - say you ask and get the time, you can then lead on with something like 'thanks, I can't wait to get home and [do activity X that you might or might not actually be doing]. Basically just feel it out from there - but use those openers as practice, essentially, for having conversations. Who knows, you might make a friend by doing that.
The more you do it the better you get at it. Fake it till you forget you're faking it because at that point you're not faking it anymore. Etcetera.


Hopefully this theoretically helps.

Of course this happens the first time I go on a mission.

That said I'm the medic, I have a legit excuse as to why I'm not fighting.

Did you think you could get away with it forever?

Come on, this is definitely an ambush. We already have one UWM supersoldier here. What makes you think we don't have more? Like, for example, a Shadow Walker, loitering around the surface, shooting shuttles with his LESHO rifle. Then again it might be more automated systems and robots, if the UWM doesn't have a way to protect its organics from the sound wave.

All we need to figure out now is what the ambush is for.
Is it a general, "in case of sympathizers, kill everyone" force? That doesn't make much sense, since the UWM would probably like others to know what happened here for propaganda purposes, unless they think that knowledge of the weapon will make it harder to deploy it in the future.
Is it a "let the robots deploy the weapon and guard it until we send someone to pick them up" force? The AA defences make that a but unlikely, especially because they seem to be trying to keep us here. If they just wanted to defend this thing and keep it out of our hands, they would had shot at our shuttles. So they want to maintain the element of surprise and they want to kill us or at least stall us.

So the question becomes, do they just want to cripple or kill our special forces and don't care very much about the fact that they'll lose powerful troops and equipment because it's cheap and easy for them to replace it, but harder for us to find good troops? Or are they simply trying to stall us and keep the Sword in orbit so that they can do something horrible to it?

Manip overload, and run. And hope-hope-hope he wouldn't be able to outrun/dodge the explosion as well.

Seriously, these things can kill Avatars. How do you fight Avatars? Pouring out all you can, and hoping for the best. Same with Amp Specialists. Same with Arbiters of Peace.

Well, I'm going for the overload.  This can only go well.

These encapsulate my (and thus Xan's) reaction to this turn of events.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja6NCAav6pQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FjWe31S_0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo-KmOd3i7s

"...I have one working arm so I can't do stuff as well, I made the torch for us, and more importantly I'll set you all on fire if you fuck me over. So I'm not going for sure.
Who is it to be, then?"

You should probably specify how big the automanip is, otherwise you might be carrying around a car-sized thing with a gun attached to it.