Team AJim turned to Simus. "Well, you're the diplomat. Let them know we're here, why we're here, and what I personally will do to each and every one of them if they don't come along peacefully. It involves collapsing this entire building on them. With my mind." Orders given, Jim leaned on the wall to wait.
One "We're here to get you out, noncompliance will lead to painful death" speech coming up then, just one moment.
Simus dismantles the primitive alarm, and keeps the wire.
Through her speakers:
Anyone in there, we are coming in to extract you. If you resist, my squad leader feels like demolishing your building, with you still in it. Come out, and you will be sent topside in a Peacekeeper APC, and become their responsibility. Do not make this more difficult than it needs to be. Once again, we have been sent to pull you out, so the UWM forces topside can come in and figure out what happened here without interference.
[Team A Medic - Mesk]
Look pretty.
"Man, this has sure been a long minute."
Simus cuts the alarm and then yells a combination greeting and ultimatum toward the stairs. A few moments later a man, flanked on either side by several other men and women, come down the stairs.
"What will happen to us then?" The man in front asks.
"What about our homes? Our things?" Another asks.
"Yes, and is it safe? We have have children, we can't bring them into a warzone."
The group begins demanding answers all at once, shouting at you and trying to talk over one another.
Team B[Team B Leader=Milno]
Milno sighed. That was obviously easier said than done; what were they expecting? "What do you want as proof? Rainbows and puppies? You may not have not noticed, but I'm flying around in an exoskeleton while carrying military weaponry and I doubt the police here had any of these."
"We found the policemen dead on the floor above this one, all of them apparently killed by escapees from the prison. If you have any idea of how we could prove we are not from the police, then I'd be glad to listen to it."
Answer them.
A
Jim
Simus
Bruce
Mesk
Ashley
B
Milno
Lars
May
Thomas
Kyle
There is a long pause. You can just barely make out the sounds of indistinct whispering in the building before someone finally answers you.
"Send..." more whispers, "Send someone in. Without weapons!"
Team C((You missed Radio's action.))
Stacy, Team C Radiohead, Outside Radio Building.
"After you, Mr. Flint. Hopefully the people on this level don't have high explosives."
Follow behind Flint into the building.
((Indeed he did, but it doesn't really matter, I'm just standing outside waiting to come bail you guys out anyway))
Action same as previous one.
((You missed Radio's action.))
Stacy, Team C Radiohead, Outside Radio Building.
"After you, Mr. Flint. Hopefully the people on this level don't have high explosives."
Follow behind Flint into the building.
Name:Flint - Team C - Housing block C, outside the radio station
"Since they didn't react so well to the suit the two previous times we encountered any survivors, I'll leave it here and hope I don't get shot in the face." Flint said while getting out of his mining exosuit.
Get out of the exosuit and enter the building. Start exploring, gauss rifle at the ready. Try to not alert the whole building that we're here.
"Well, shall we?" Flint said, motioning towards the door.
Flint steps out of his exoskeleton and leads the way into the building with Stacy in tow. The pair search through several levels of nothing but blackened and ashen ruin before finding something interesting. It's a door, quite a large door and constructed out of heavy metal. It's scorched from the fire and locked tight.
Team DTeam D Leader Faith, D Block
"Hey, gentle there," Faith said gently to Sambo. "This guy looks like he's not doing so well.
But yes, we're here to protect you, and everyone on the upper floors has already been, well, killed or evac'd."
Talk to guy, examine him for wounds after Sambo pulls him out.
Grab guy and pull him outside the door.
"Yeah, they're all gone mate. We're here to rescue you from them. Out of interest, who were they anyway? Are there any others in this house? Or along the street that you know of? We'll protect you."
((Never, ever looking at Faith's butt again. Unless.........never mind 
))
Bishop frowned as he gazed along the street. He had a bad feeling...
"I'm still not picking anything up along the street guys. This is starting to get weird... I mean, if this is a habitation sector, wouldn't there be more than just one guy? I think something might be wrong..."
Do a quick check of the room I'm in again, to see if anyone is sneaking up on me, then keep watch on the street. Something's up...
Bishop spins in circles, rifle raised, constantly looking around for a threat he never finds. In the mean time Sambo, showing his usual tact, throws the man's door the rest of the way open and drags him out into the street despite his protests. Faith sighs and shoves Sambo aside so she can talk to the man after Sambo finishes his own interrogation.
"Them!" the man says, spinning around and trying to keep everyone one of you in sight at the same time, "The doctors, the police, the rioters, the deepers," He points at Faith, "You're not one right? Just using the suit? They probably would have killed me already. Everything was falling apart. My neighbors tried to leave. D block. Were going to take one of the ships upstairs in the hanger. Try to fly somewhere. I stayed. Knew they couldn't get anywhere, that they'd starve in space. Did you find their ship? Are the Deepers gone? And the doctors. They're the worst, they're the worst. Both are murderers but the doctors don't care. They burn with their victims."
The man doesn't seem hurt but he's a raw nerve, jabbering and muttering constantly, mostly to himself. He shrinks back every time you get near him.
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