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[kisame12794]

"Xan, stay here with the rest of the group. I assume it knows what you are, and you can't really be disarmed. Besides, you're the highest ranking member of the group, and while I don't trust you, you've shown yourself to be capable of not dying. And really, if all you want to do is eat this thing, you can do that here. I'd rather you not eat it though, at least not while we're inside. And before you ask, Maurice is coming because he knows medicine better than I do, and I have a guess that we may need to separate our teammate from the rest of the place."

[Xantalos]

Very well, I'll not argue. Is there anything you want me to do while I'm out here, or just stand guard?

[kisame12794]

"Not particularly. Keep an eye on your team, and try not to piss this thing off."

Head into the tunnel.

[Xantalos]

Very well.

[Lenglon]

The waiting! It doesn't stop!

Nothing stops the wait train!

[renegadelobster]

Wait with the rest of the team, keep on chargin' my amp.

[Xantalos]

((After this turn I'm gonna stop charging because I'm afraid I'm gonna explode or something ))

[renegadelobster]

((Gah!! Don't give Him ideas!))

[Xantalos]

((Too late > ))

[piecewise]

Mark the location of the anomaly on some kind of map. Label it as "Really Hot Thing--Global Warming?"

Find another anomaly. Say...#1?

I think we're out of anomalies at this point. There are like 5 other people doing the same job.

Charge amp more while the team decides what to do.

At this point I think you have more then +6 dynamic charge. You could roll the dice and it could shatter into a million pieces and you'd still succeed.

Step back. Mark "my" anomalies on the map. Examine the ground surrounding the spike.

Spoiler: Gorat 'Chin' Ivanos (click to show/hide)

Str 3; Dex 3; End 3; Cha 7; Int 4; Wil 15//Spe 0; Int 1; Han 0 (-1); Con 1; Unc 0; Exo 9; Aux 3 (+1); Med 0
Mk II Suit; Microwave PK Amp; laser rifle; 3 tokens: normal cigarettes; blue smokes; datapad (with platformer shooter); nanoghosts; shock trigger (with Maurice for the mission)
Appearance: 5'11'', 170 pounds in a rather unmuscular frame, shoulder-long brown hair, short goatee, brown eyes, a rather long chin that earned him his nickname. Age 32
Half a robot foot. Robot right arm.

It looks extremely normal. That ground there is brutally uninteresting. Brain rendingly mundane.

The waiting! It doesn't stop!

You can cat if you want to, you can leave your cats behind. Because your cats don't cat, if they don't cat, Well then their no cats of mine.

"Well shit. Think this is it's way of telling us "abandon all hope, he who enter here"? Because I don't like it. Wait. I have an idea. Maurice, leave your weapons with someone, and follow me. The rest of you, stay put."

Give someone my rifle and the flamethrower. Engage loudspeaker.

"I think I understand. You want us to go unarmed correct?"

((Clever. Although, I'm not sure why it's not just morphing a mouth and talking.))

You hand your weapons off to another teammate. 

((I think the Overload is trying to tell you to disarm yourselves.))

Poke a pole close to the object. See where the border of the anomaly is. Mark it. Watch what happens to objects entering the border with cameyes.

The effect seems to begin fairly near the anomaly. And it seems like the objects are being heated by some sort of invisible projection from the rod. You can see it in the thermal camera.

Felix takes Morul's rifle and flamethrower for safekeeping, and then moves back up the tunnel a ways to wait.

You take the weapons and then back up. More firepower and less flesh? Sounds good to you.

Go grab a vacuum container while letting the thing stay where it is. Then put the thing* in the thing** using the thing***. Also, question.
(*artifact **vacuum container ***manipulator)

"Say, Steve, is there any particular weak spot in terms of our connection to the other remote defenses? A central hub, a communications line, something else we'd really need to defend if we wanna keep our turrets shooting?"

Spoiler: Current teams (based on player preference, not fixed): (click to show/hide)

Defense
-Pancaek
-Tavik
-Lyra
-Leo
-Steve
-Stacy
-Charles
-Simus
Assault
-Felix
-Gorat
-Lars
-Dudley
-Morul
-Thaddeus
-Teal
-Denzel
-Flint
-Milno
Reserve
-Xan
-Anton
Boarding
-Xan
-Felix
-Pancaek
-Jack
-Lars
-Auron
-Grate
-Dudley
-Morul
-Lyra
-Thaddeus
-Marceus
-Leo
-Skylar
-Denzel
-Flint
-Maurice
-Milno

unassigned/noncombat
-Grate
-Skylar
-Maurice

((Well, much more people for defense than I had anticipated. Oh well, we'll see once we have a bigger picture. Still, I might have to shift some people to assault or reserve if it's really necessary.))

((Hmm. Would Steve be willing to supply us with shields? I'm definitely on the 'squishier' side of the equation...))

((We might get a budget for 'loaning' stuff for one mission, so we might be able to supply some for you guys. ))

Anyways, for Radio's sake, posting my post in here: HQ Defense. An unfortunate necessity, since I would be great for combat (they can't even hit me point black, hooray for selective intangibility), but I need to remain in HQ to coordinate, both forces and manufacturing. Who says the machines have to shut down when there's a war on, after all? Might even be able to roll some stuff (Tanks, or IFVs, at the least. No battlesuits or whatnot, we want something that we can hop in and GO) for you guys right off the lines and straight into battle.))

((Kay then. I still don't think we'll be able to manufacture anything of note during the battle though. I mean, if we already have been building for several months, I don't see a few hours, or even days, making a huge difference. But hey, why not try right?))

((@RC: I think Assault and/or Boarding would work for Milno. Something that has to do with Joker's line of work would be nice, though I think opportunities for that would most likely appear during boarding.))

((Hmm, I think Reserve team will be the most, erm, 'jokery' since they'll be more autonomous, and mobile firepower is Milno's forte anyways. I'll put you down with assault now, but you can still chance if you want.))

You stuff the thing in the vacuum container.


>Nah. I designed this place well, with the exception of a few intentional weaknesses. But thats not one of them. The laser defense batteries have several methods of remaining in connection, including wired, wireless and an emergency quantum entanglement system. Plus they're smart enough to fire on their own, should they need to.

Keep on riding Xantalos like an Amp Charging BOSS.

ER: Were men ride dragons that used to be men; and both of them have pyrokinesis.

Step back and wait. Maybe juggle or something so PW doesn't get too bored.

You teach yourself to speak cat. You can now talk to The cat girl. Assuming she ever has anything to say.

Most gracious of you.

Stay with rest of group that's not heading further in, dynamic charge amp, etc.

And what negative side effects could it have on me if I consumed it?

It might consume you back. Or interfere with your ability to control your body. Don't know without testing it.

"Not particularly. Keep an eye on your team, and try not to piss this thing off."

Head into the tunnel.

You head deeper into the tunnel. Eventually, you come to a pit. This one is deep. Real deep. You can't see the bottom with your lamps deep. And it appears to be ringed with boney protrusions and strange feathery organs and cilia. When you turn your lamps off and your light amplification systems on, you can just barely make out a dim glow coming from somewhere far below.

[Sean Mirrsen]

((I suddenly feel like this is becoming less Fantastic Voyage, and more like some kind of Journey To The Sphincter Of The Earth.))

[kisame12794]

"Why am I doing this? I'm unarmed, inside a giant flesh thing, and I'm going deeper. Dammit."

Do I see any obvious ways down, as in, do the bony protrusions form stairs, or any other way I could climb down?

[Xantalos]

Is it possible to be even more of a cheap bitch charge another dynamic bonus? If so, charge bonus for shapeshifting. If not, just keep a lookout for stuff.

What if the core is destroyed before I consume it?

[GreatWyrmGold]

((I suddenly feel like this is becoming less Fantastic Voyage, and more like some kind of Journey To The Sphincter Of The Earth.))

((Oy, TV Tropes links are my schtick!))

Double-check, then head back to the ship glumly. Ask Steve if there's anything he needs help with.

[Toaster]

Journey To The Sphincter Of The Earth.))

((I see what you did there.))