((Aw man, it's on now.))
Back away from the hole quietly, stay at a distance from the others. Instant messaging time.
Dear Biggest Spoon,
It appears that one of our number has been impaled right through the face and vital organs by a storm of horrible semi-molten metal spears. He was the only one harmed. Just checking in, you see. I believe our amp-master is definitely down here, if you will allow me to make such wild speculations.
Love,
Stacy Buttle.
Don't make any noise.
You slowly crawl away from the hole, attempting to appear unimportant and not worth killing.
((It's smart of the Amper to hide in the dark, makes him tough to find while he uses ampsenses to not be bothered by it. And makes ambushing him hard, hell he just ambushed us. He had the advantage though, since we had to come to him. Now that we found him, it's a matter of eradicating him quickly before he makes more casualties.))
Upon recieving Stacy's message, Miya quickly contacted the Rapid Response team:
Amper located, he's in a big room beneath the nuked crater. If anyone's in a position to help, it would be greatly appreciated. Be warned, he's extremely dangerous, don't come alone or unprepared.
Miya action: get there as fast as I can, carry Lukas if I have to. Think about whether my laser could cut deep enough to hit the Amper from above, if I knew his precise location. Think about whether I could use the universal amp from this distance if one of my teammates relayed me his exact position.
((I'm sorry corsair, sucks for you. Those were some pretty bad dice rolls right there.))
Jim action: circle around and out of the way so he won't be hit by a second attack from that direction. Use cameyes to find target and relay this info to rest of team. If he throws stuff at us again, use matter amp to deflect it away from team. Use micro amp to either disable heat-based attacks (like the Amper did with Miya's heatcudgel) or push teammates out of the way with matter amp. If there's an opening, heatblade him in two (as in, create heatblade to bisect him, don't use a heat wave or something like it).
Both laser and Universal amp are perfectly possible if you have the correct location.
As per jim, there's no way for him to circle around. Basically:
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| Jim |
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Amper Attack ----> Dead Mike|
Over here _______| |
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The amper is over in the dark, hiding somewhere beyond the room Jim and the rest of the crew are in. He's shooting out through a pair of melted doors, into the room. Mike caught the attack, jim and everyone else scattered out of the way. The only way for jim to circle around would be to either charge straight through those melted doors or to bore is own tunnel into the connected room.
Simus sighed with relief, even with the dead man in her sight. She was just barely out of the way of the spikes, and her suit hadn't even needed to activate to protect her. And then she remembered a fact about amps: Line of Sight is required to target.
Swap through vision modes, attempting to locate the Amp user. If visual contact is made, relay his position to Miyamoto to cut in on him from above, if possible.
You scroll though your vision modes and look into the darkness of the room beyond. Unfortunately the room beyond is fairly large and filled with at least 6 support pillars; each large enough to hide a wheelchair bound psychopath. And, also unfortunately, if you're staring into that room, that means you're in the relative line of fire.
[dex:6]
You hurl yourself backwards as you start to feel a tingling in your chest. Your armor and synthflesh stop you from hurting yourself but you do bowl into Jim and end up tangled in a heap.
((Dubley Steptimus(the new guy) only has a laser rifle and some armour. He's gonna keep going unless someone tells him IC to turn back.)
Follow the giant robot tracks. Try to catch up.
Well, the two giant robots (One is synthflesh actually) are hanging around up on the surface where you are now, so finding them is pretty easy. Though they do appear to be running around a bit, staring at the ground for some reason.
Hey Steve i need a favor,
Miyamoto and Lukas have amps and super death lasers and stuff they could use but are prevented from doing so by line of sight right?
Well im mapping this tunnel in real time and if i were to send you the data you could feed it into their suit computers and have it appear on their HUD as a sort of holographic overlay showing the exact location of the tunnel and a rather accurate map of everyone's locations inside it.
any chance you could make this happen while i try to avoid impalement and incineration?
Loot the Michael for all hes worth, make mental note to invest in indestructium face armor.
relay my spatial co-ordinates to Steve along with real time telemetry from my mapping program and have him upload it to my entire team's HUD's, especially Miyamotos.
Try to spot Xavier, but also hang back with Michael's corpse and try to avoid being impaled or incinerated.
((What goodies did michael drop for me?))
Well, sending updates of your location to everyone is done, but here's the deal: Looting him means putting yourself in the line of fire. So, if you want to loot him you can, but you better do it fast.
I mean, technically that entire room is open to attack...but running into that hole is just making it that much easier for him.
"What in the six degrees of freedom is happening down there? I thought the guy moved off!"
Send LOS-drone down into the hole. Use its mapping sensors to feel out the underground space and maybe see if there's a crevice the Amper could be hiding himself in, and/or any other interesting points.
How far you want to send it? Because, with a good roll, you might be able to send it in and get a view of the guy in his hiding place and record the exact coordinates before he destroys the drone. Which could be very useful.
((Is it possible to purposely overload a manipulator? And if so is it also possible to put it on a timer to engage? If so, INSTANT HOLY HAND GRENADE!))
((Calculate something impossible and run like hell.))
(("Divided by zero" takes a whole new meaning.))
>Please don't destroy everything. We need this stuff. I will have you repair this crap by hand.