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[Caellath]

Milno shrugs.
"I had to carry people and a weapon, you did not take it back and your hand is shit, the doc's girl wasn't very good and loner likes to take solo missions, Chin is pretty bad as he is. If you felt so much for the damage it was caused, you can cry now."

"We didn't have many able-bodied people around. Didn't think he'd be stupid to the point of just waiting to be hit by the Wyrm. Living and learning." he completes with a grin.

[Nikitian]

(( Off for the next ~6 hours, feel free to post an action for my character in that time if the situation demands that.
I haven't yet done all I could to help Charro. ))

[piecewise]

"Damn it. And it sounds like the Wyrm is coming back for a second pass.

We need to figure out a way to get him back to ship before he rots, as well as getting us out of here without being trampled. And let me see if there's anything to be done for that."

Remember how long it'll take Charro to be unrevivable, and how far we are from the entrance to this place. Examine camera in detail, trying to determine if it can still record anything at all.

5 hours till he's just so much fertilizer. And it took you two days to get this far. Oh dear.

You look at the camera. The entire front of the camera is smashed and the lens is practically powdered. Yeah, thats not gonna work.

"Simus and other cripples left behind, I'm going to head out and explore what happened to the elevator. On the way I'll explore the numerous buildings between here and there, so I'll probably be out for quite a while"

Travis starts down the stone path. He explores the buildings on the way, trying to determine their function.

You peek into one of the nearest building and look around. The rooms here have the same rounded edges as the towers, but their walls and floors are dotted with raised edifices rather then sunken ones; horizontal shelves with a slight backwards tilt to stop things from rolling, great cubes and rectangles of stone forming tables or chairs, you can't say which. Thin tablets are scattered on surfaces, black metal chisels and instruments of unknown use squat on shelves and atop half finished tablets.

You walk a little further in and find a small room with a deep alcove in the center of the floor. In this alcove is a large puddle of black fluid. The fluid is rising and falling with the cycle of the sound from the citadel, getting a little higher each time, a little more solid.

Requiescat in pace, Charro Hootzal.
I... see. Your will be done.
With a sunken and uncharacteristically distant look on his face, Maurice lowered his faceplate. We still have about five hours before his remains finally expire; possibly a bit longer due to the cold atmosphere here and near the Fall (and the puncture of his suit). Maybe I'll be able to delay it even more.
[private channel to Milno] Just - in your professional opinion, can we - you - get Charro's remains back to the shuttle in time?
Think of a way to extend the amount of time before Charro is unrevivable.

[med:3+1]
If you chop off his head, expose his brain to the cold and proceed to sprint back to the elevator, rig the elevator to rise several times faster then it lowered you, and then sprint all the way back to the ship then maybe MAYBE he might make it. God damn it you're two days of walking away and you don't have anywhere near the supplies you'd need to adhoc cryo his brain....If only milno could fly.

"Fffffor crying out loud! Let's just grab everyone and everything and get out of here. We don't have the firepower or speed to handle that thing."
Get back on my one-and-a-half feet somehow, and hobble back to the entrance. Be ready to jump aside if that thing comes for another round.

"FFFFFFUCK THIS."
You start off back toward the citadel, running as best as a man with only an foot and a half can. You reach the outer wall of citadel 1 and start making your way around to the entrance.

[private channel to Milno] Just - in your professional opinion, can we - you - get Charro's remains back to the shuttle in time?

"He's gonna spoil like ham unless you find a way to make his expiration date longer."

Get the camera, stay out of the Wyrm's path and keep moving towards the main building. Put the G-ammo on the medium-range gauss and pocket the magazine with standard gauss rounds.

"He wasn't very smart, I'm actually surprised he made so far."

"I got some ammo that may work on the Wyrm at medium ranges, but the problem is that shooting it may end up as a worse disaster for the remaining team members. We don't know how this place works. Try to stay out of the path."

You grab the camera from Faith, switch out your ammo and charge for the main building, leaving the other members of the team in the dust. You run until you come across something different: A wall of black razor tree metal. The entire thing is vibrating at such a high frequency that it seems to be blurry, like a photograph with a wall smeared by motion.



Faith, Maurice and May feel the vibrations of the Wyrm's movement grind ever closer, a shaking, deafening wall of force baring down on them.

[IronyOwl]

"May, get Charro! Maybe if we move out of the way it won't try to hit us."

Get out of the anticipated path of the Wyrm, dragging Maurice along with me.

[Nikitian]

[private channel to Milno] I can chop off his head and expose the brain to utilize the cold temperatures, and then we can force the elevator to ascend at a much faster speed, so that a sprint to the shuttle may save him.
Be dragged out of the Wyrm's way. ((@IronyOwl Faith has that +1 to dex, Maurice's injuries confer him a penalty of -1, if I recall correctly, so I'll take up on your offer of help, if you don't mind. ))

[IronyOwl]

Be dragged out of the Wyrm's way. ((@IronyOwl Faith has that +1 to dex, Maurice's injuries confer him a penalty of -1, if I recall correctly, so I'll take up on your offer of help, if you don't mind. ))

((I believe she takes that -1 as a penalty for helping to drag you anyway, but yeah, that's still a net +1 from Maurice's point of view. Faith gets a somewhat worse deal out of it. ))

[PyroDesu]

((When ya'll come to pick me up on our way out, I'll carry the camera, to leave a non-cripple with their hands free. Fairly sure I can hang on to someone and hold it at the same time.))

[anailater]

((Can someone remind who killed me? Also I'ts my birthday in 3 days.))

[Nikitian]

(( Well, if you mean 'who cut my guts out?', then it was me 
Also, congratulations in three days! ))

[Caellath]

((Can someone remind who killed me? Also I'ts my birthday in 3 days.))

((Orb/Travis shot you, Nikitian/Maurice saved you.))

[private channel to Milno] I can chop off his head and expose the brain to utilize the cold temperatures, and then we can force the elevator to ascend at a much faster speed, so that a sprint to the shuttle may save him.

"You can go back, but if you rig that elevator to go faster and we all get trapped down here, I'm sure you know the consequences."

Go back a little, still out of the path and leaving lanterns/whatever can be used to illuminate the area near the wall, and watch what happens when the Wyrm approaches the wall. Then go back to the team, avoiding the Wyrm as always, and give the camera to one of them.

"This is very idiotic, but you can just leave already. Take the camera and I'll check if it is possible for me to record something with my suit's cameras."

Check once more if the rocket pods are working.

[Nikitian]

((@Caellath Just to make sure - that was the answer, and not just some advice on getting out of the danger's way, right? Asking because in the written form it seems a bit ambigous, though in-game it should be clear thanks to the intonation I'd hopefully be able to hear. ))

[Caellath]

((@Caellath Just to make sure - that was the answer, and not just some advice on getting out of the danger's way, right? Asking because in the written form it seems a bit ambigous, though in-game it should be clear thanks to the intonation I'd hopefully be able to hear. ))

((That "You can go back" was forgotten by me, actually. I think I was supposed to erase and replace it with something else.))

[anailater]

((Thanks for the answer/congratulation, now I know who to shoot later.   ))

[piecewise]

"May, get Charro! Maybe if we move out of the way it won't try to hit us."

Get out of the anticipated path of the Wyrm, dragging Maurice along with me.

[private channel to Milno] I can chop off his head and expose the brain to utilize the cold temperatures, and then we can force the elevator to ascend at a much faster speed, so that a sprint to the shuttle may save him.
Be dragged out of the Wyrm's way. ((@IronyOwl Faith has that +1 to dex, Maurice's injuries confer him a penalty of -1, if I recall correctly, so I'll take up on your offer of help, if you don't mind. ))

[Faith dex:3+1-1]

((Can someone remind who killed me? Also I'ts my birthday in 3 days.))

((Orb/Travis shot you, Nikitian/Maurice saved you.))

[private channel to Milno] I can chop off his head and expose the brain to utilize the cold temperatures, and then we can force the elevator to ascend at a much faster speed, so that a sprint to the shuttle may save him.

"You can go back, but if you rig that elevator to go faster and we all get trapped down here, I'm sure you know the consequences."

Go back a little, still out of the path and leaving lanterns/whatever can be used to illuminate the area near the wall, and watch what happens when the Wyrm approaches the wall. Then go back to the team, avoiding the Wyrm as always, and give the camera to one of them.

"This is very idiotic, but you can just leave already. Take the camera and I'll check if it is possible for me to record something with my suit's cameras."

Check once more if the rocket pods are working.

(Your suit's cameras are always recording)

You crack a glowstick and drop it near the wall before walking back a few feet and watching as the Wyrm grinds closer, watching for any kind of change as it passes.

(your pods still do not work)




Faith and Maurice do their best to get out of the way of the Wyrm, but can't quite escape, its battering ram skull clipping them as they hobble away.

[Faith end:4]
[Maurice end:4]

Faith is caught in the left foot  and cartwheels off into the dark, foot, ankle and lower leg all broken. Maurice catches the blow on his back, dislocating his shoulder, breaking his scapula clean in half and shattering his elbow joint.

[Maurice end:6]
Maurice grits his teeth and gets up, his arm hang limp and useless.



Milno watches the metal wall as the Wyrm passes, but there doesn't seem to be any effect.



Charro's body, still laying in the path of the Wyrm, vanishes beneath it's thousand fold feet, reduced to nothing but a fine mist of red and tiny bits of metal shrapnel.

[SeriousConcentrate]

(...You guys need to GTFO like right now before more of you get permakilled. O.o Camera's broke anyway...)