By namite you mean the thermite stuff in your flame thrower?
((Indeed. That thing is called the 'namite thrower' (napalm+thermite) after all.))
"Hmm. I don't think we'll be able to wait him out. Steve said he could dig himself out, so we'll have to watch our six just in case.
Unless anyone has a better idea, we'll set up our trap now then go lure him out. All ok with that? Simus, help me check for a good spot. Anton, could you send a scout drone down to the building to see if you can find where he is/went to?
Jim, any suggestion from you? Or are you ok with the current idea?"
Think about whether namite fuel could be used as a trap, and look around for a good ambush site. Check mental reserve levels.
Faith action: continue to use high ground for good view of area, keep cycling with cameyes and warn if any change in surroundings (like heat signatures from below ground or something).
That fuel could probably be used, burying it and then detonating it or something similar. Problematically this area is extremely open, so ambushes are going to be hard. You'll have to draw him back, into the building or an enclosed space.
Your brain feels better, not quite 100% yet, but better.
Faith continues to keep watch but spots nothing as of yet. If he's alive, he's laying low.
"I can try, Commander, but these three have utterly refused to obey my commands after I updated their software. I think I invented a new form of AI, astoundingly true to life - "The Lazy Underling". I'll see about giving one of them a kick and sending it to scout out."
Take one of the drones. Perform visual examination and basic troubleshooting (make sure the power switch is set to 'on'). Apply light percussive maintenance. Try to send it out to get a close-up view of the crashed building piece, and see whether or not anyone recently tunneled out from under it.
[aux:I'm just gonna give you this one.]
The Drone examines the wreckage, slowly flying around and over it. The chunk of building has been folded in half and the impact crushed it flatter and buried it several feet in the ground. You can't tell for sure, but if there was someone entombed in that wreckage when it landed, they could have tunneled down and out of it and you wouldn't be able to see it like this.
Sure thing. And no, the suit doesn't let me be invisible, and I've just the same physical presence as normal unless it's phased out. It's mostly automatic, really.
Look around for decent chokepoints to trap.
((Watch us set up, and then the amp dude just gravity amps his way out of the hole.))
The closest one would be the entrance to the main building. The nuke has basically turned this already wide open area into a barren plain, so there's no real choke points outside of the main building. Or somewhere in the nuke crater, if you're feeling ballsy.
"It's getting to the point where I'm no fun anymore... I am sorry..."
Practice controlling the Scout Eyes, preferably both at once.
I'm gonna assume this is a "Charge my brain for an aux roll" sort of thing right?
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