House 26!
You walk to house 26. Door. Locked. Fuck.
((@GM: Can Milno see Nicholas spazzing on the ground?
Also, damn those intuition rolls.))
"There is a group of civilians heading south. I think they'll commit suicide by laser fence."
After warning both teams about the civilians, Milno keeps flying erratically, narrowing his eyes in suspicion.
Keep flying, turn on the motion sensor (if it proves more problem than it is worth, turn it off again) and try to find anything outside and around the house that can be controlled by the killer, be it a dog, bird or human.
Think about where the attack towards Mesk may be coming from and eye the fleeing civilians once more. Is there something chasing them or any crazed person in their midst?
(you can, yeah.)
The people in the field don't look like they have anyone obviously crazy in their midst, at least as far as you can tell. And the only thing they seem to be running from is the burning neighborhood full of homicidal spacemen. Fair enough.
You take a look around for any sort of small animal or the dogs or anything that the killer could be controlling. You notice that there are small animals around. In fact, there are lots of them; small flying rodent looking things in the trees and along the tops of houses. They're practically ubiquitous as pigeons around here, so much so you didn't even notice them till you started looking. Oh dear.
Maurice to all points, it seems that the killer's established a link to Kyle. Kyle's resisting it, but I'm unsure for how long. I'll be taking his weaponry for the moment.
Steve, is it possible for you to say... lock the joints of these suits to immobilize the person inside without harming them?
Maurice: Relieve Kyle of the microwave manipulator and taser glove if possible. Then drag his body out the back door and into a completely different house, hopefully outside of the killer's vision.
Kyle: Lay as still as possible and let Maurice help.
>Not unless they've got a MK III.
Kyle's twitching comes to a sudden stop and he lays still. You approach him cautiously.
"Kyle? You ok, buddy?"
Kyle answers by suddenly rolling to his feet and sprinting away from you and out the front door, toward the central intersection. As he goes you can see him open the cover of his manipulator. Oh, thats not good.
Jim's action: Try to think about where the killer is or how he is managing to attempt to control Mesk.
[int:5] Well, chances are that he saw Mesk enter the building somehow, and that he knew the inside of the building, so he guessed where Mesk was. That means he must have eyes on at least the front door.
"Jim, you wanna help me make a back door?"
Try whatever mental techniques I know to block out interference as I use a combination of cutting torch and monatomic razor to make a back door.
[Aux:3+1] You cut a hole just large enough for you to crawl through out of the wall. It's still stuck in, so you try to kick it out. [str:1] You kick it with your broken foot. [end:4] OW! You hop up and down, holding your foot for several seconds.
Steve, these numbers are a kind of coordinate in a cartographic system. Please tell me what system it is and where it leads to, if you can. Also, can you translate the coordinates to the old Cartesian system? Thanks.
Renen asks this to Steve in a private channel.
>Thats the problem, there are hundreds of systems of measurement that this could be for. These coordinates could vary massively depending on what system he was using, if they have any meaning whatsoever; it could be for a planet, a star system, a galactic map or anything in between on several dozen different systems of measurement. You humans have never been good about establishing a single standard.
Regardless, you should remember what this guy is good at; what he was trained to do. He could be feeding you nonsense to keep you distracted.
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