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[Caellath]

((How many lights exactly do we have? That might affect precisely how many people I'd like. As in, if we have 9 I'd like two able-bodied people, if it's any less Milno alone should do the trick.))

((Milno and Faith are probably enough.))

Swap the G-shells for common ammo and get the standard one Simus was carrying. Total of three gauss rifles, with one being Feyri's (medium/long-range) and two being mine (standard).

Enter the portal, drag the material inside and move to the spot Faith wants to try and catch those shades. Probably halfway to the shack or closer.

[IronyOwl]

((Alright, that should be enough, though less than I'd prefer. Stupid shades and their ambiguous flight capability.))

"Alright, let's do this.

The plan is very simple. We have two lights aimed perpendicular to the main path. We turn them on. Someone able-bodied runs along the path, then stops and activates his own light parallel to the path. The result is a box of light at ground level.

Now, assuming these shades can't fly, and can just sort of hover, and can't climb over the light or anything, this means any shades inside the box are trapped. We then slowly close the box in, putting the container opening-first on one side. Shades avoid the onrushing lasers and are funneled into the box. Simple and easy.

The only things that could throw a wrench in that, of course, is if they can fly or otherwise get out of our one-light-high box. So, hopefully that doesn't happen, and they're not slain by being jostled by the box, or similar stupidity that leaves us handing Steve an empty box.


Oh and, we should probably figure out how many we want to catch. Um, I guess this is sort of a small box, so probably not that many... so maybe we want a smaller box than I was thinking of. Light box, I mean."

Enter portal, consider shade density from earlier experience. Find good spot, probably a ways from the portal like Milno says. Check diameter of the light beam generated by these.

[Knight Otu]

"Looks like Milno has things well in hand. And in more hands than I can lend at the moment, at that."

Get stasis'd

[IronyOwl]

"Yeah, guess so. You can still come watch if you want to, otherwise goodnight, Chin. Erm, sorry about that foot, again."

[Knight Otu]

"I'll live. Probably."

[Orb]

"Sorry, I'm out of here. I have seen enough people cut up in the last week to gain a new appreciation for my limbs. Also, I suggest leaving the camera on the shuttle. No reason to take a broken camera back out there"

Travis enters the 'cripple' shuttle and guards its inhabitants, waiting for lift off. He takes tally of the artifacts retrieved among those on the shuttle, having nothing else to do.

[piecewise]

((How many lights exactly do we have? That might affect precisely how many people I'd like. As in, if we have 9 I'd like two able-bodied people, if it's any less Milno alone should do the trick.))

((Milno and Faith are probably enough.))

Swap the G-shells for common ammo and get the standard one Simus was carrying. Total of three gauss rifles, with one being Feyri's (medium/long-range) and two being mine (standard).

Enter the portal, drag the material inside and move to the spot Faith wants to try and catch those shades. Probably halfway to the shack or closer.

I dunno where you're getting all these dang gauss rifles, but simus has a scoped rifle, which I assume is feyri's and thats it besides her grenade launcher.

You take all the stuff into the portal and follow faith around to where ever she wants to go.

((Alright, that should be enough, though less than I'd prefer. Stupid shades and their ambiguous flight capability.))

"Alright, let's do this.

The plan is very simple. We have two lights aimed perpendicular to the main path. We turn them on. Someone able-bodied runs along the path, then stops and activates his own light parallel to the path. The result is a box of light at ground level.

Now, assuming these shades can't fly, and can just sort of hover, and can't climb over the light or anything, this means any shades inside the box are trapped. We then slowly close the box in, putting the container opening-first on one side. Shades avoid the onrushing lasers and are funneled into the box. Simple and easy.

The only things that could throw a wrench in that, of course, is if they can fly or otherwise get out of our one-light-high box. So, hopefully that doesn't happen, and they're not slain by being jostled by the box, or similar stupidity that leaves us handing Steve an empty box.


Oh and, we should probably figure out how many we want to catch. Um, I guess this is sort of a small box, so probably not that many... so maybe we want a smaller box than I was thinking of. Light box, I mean."

Enter portal, consider shade density from earlier experience. Find good spot, probably a ways from the portal like Milno says. Check diameter of the light beam generated by these.

(anywhere around the early areas is fine.)
The beam of the light is a cone of light roughly 40 feet long and 20 at the end.

"Looks like Milno has things well in hand. And in more hands than I can lend at the moment, at that."

Get stasis'd

You get yourself stasis'd with with extreme prejudice.

"Sorry, I'm out of here. I have seen enough people cut up in the last week to gain a new appreciation for my limbs. Also, I suggest leaving the camera on the shuttle. No reason to take a broken camera back out there"

Travis enters the 'cripple' shuttle and guards its inhabitants, waiting for lift off. He takes tally of the artifacts retrieved among those on the shuttle, having nothing else to do.

You go and sit in the shuttle, looking over what you got. Looks like you got 3 artifacts, though you're not sure what they are.

[kisame12794]

((Milno: Rifle Magnet))

[IronyOwl]

((Hm... That'll complicate the plan slightly, but not severely.))


Position two lights so that the inner edges of their light beams should be parallel, far apart enough that I estimate we'd fill the box with shades without squishing them together too much, setting them back from the edge a bit to ensure the beam of light is around three feet high at its lowest. Place the metal box opening first into the darkness, just enough for the shades to be able to enter.

When Milno is in position, activate them both, forming what should be two sides of a very curve-walled box. Have Milno run down one side, then activate the lamp once he gets several feet out, completing the box. Then have him slowly bring the light in, while I even slowlier move the side lights closer to the metal box, slowly closing the lightbox.

Once the lightbox is basically as wide as the metal box and there's only a foot or two of darkness length left, put the lid on, slowly pushing it through the darkness to hopefully corral any remaining shades in. Cease operations if we start getting anything odd, like shades not moving as the light dissolves them.


((Also I assume Milno'd be okay with just following the plan this time.))

[piecewise]

((Hm... That'll complicate the plan slightly, but not severely.))


Position two lights so that the inner edges of their light beams should be parallel, far apart enough that I estimate we'd fill the box with shades without squishing them together too much, setting them back from the edge a bit to ensure the beam of light is around three feet high at its lowest. Place the metal box opening first into the darkness, just enough for the shades to be able to enter.

When Milno is in position, activate them both, forming what should be two sides of a very curve-walled box. Have Milno run down one side, then activate the lamp once he gets several feet out, completing the box. Then have him slowly bring the light in, while I even slowlier move the side lights closer to the metal box, slowly closing the lightbox.

Once the lightbox is basically as wide as the metal box and there's only a foot or two of darkness length left, put the lid on, slowly pushing it through the darkness to hopefully corral any remaining shades in. Cease operations if we start getting anything odd, like shades not moving as the light dissolves them.


((Also I assume Milno'd be okay with just following the plan this time.))

So you're basically forming a square with the lights and slowly moving the beams in to make it smaller? And if so, what about the top of this "Box"? Or the bottom.

[piecewise]

Alright, I Know what she's trying to do, so we'll just assume she shoved all the lights in and closed everything in nicely and then closed her box. Good?

[IronyOwl]

((Yeah. There is no top, bottom is ground; hence all the concern about shades being able to fly or similar.

And off we go!))

[piecewise]

You do that thing and close your box. You don't feel anything inside it or moving but you're not sure you would even if you had something.

[IronyOwl]

((Welp, that probably means we fucked up. Guess they can fly after all?))

Leave.

Try again in a different spot, with the remaining two lights raised and angled to provide a "roof," at least near enough to the box that the shades would have to realize the trap and leave before the lights got close, and not just swim out the top rather than into the box.

Then leave, stow cargo, get stasis'd.

[Orb]

((Didn't we come in not in stasis because the ship is in orbit? I mean it did just send another shuttle))