One of you bulkier folk go take the adhesive off that one's mouth. You may want to communicate with them.
Look around for witches commies terrorists besides ourselves bad guys. If I see any, fry them.
You don't see anyone...
Yeah, I'm not going down there... let me know if they need medical attention once the area is secure, I'll give you drone support from here.
Scout out this section of concourse with 3 of the drones, look for other oddities, sods, or spooks.
IF no one else approaches the men, also send one drone for a fly by of the men in the center.
[aux:3+1+1]
The drones circle around the room and the men, looking for anything out of the ordinary...well, more out of the ordinary then the current situation at least. The men are very tightly bunched together, tied up so that their backs are all facing each other and then wrapped with a cord around their chests to hold them that way. It seems odd to you that they'd be so tied up like this, that this small handful of men would be bound in the middle of the hall here. Who would do this, and why?
Ask Steve: "Any chance those UWM spooks could be captured with their brain intact enough for interrogation? Or do they have some sort of brain destroying suicide switch? Should we attempt to bring one back if we can find him?
Also, what's stopping them from taking a shuttle or rocket bike to the hangar?"
@Defense team: "Any of you want to go to the infirmary and ask some of those injured civilians if they know anything about what's going on in that hangar and the rest of the base?"
Can I get that info? Please? Pretty please?
>There's a chance, I guess, but they have life locks just like the sods. You'd have to keep them alive.
Mostly for visibility sake. If this is as bad as I'm guessing, we really don't want people moving around in the open."Ugh. I hate math. Right. Defense team, I'll head further in, and act as an advance warning if I see any sods. I'll radio when I find something."
Carefully continue my way into the complex, preferably down an unexplored passage. Examine claymore for any settings.
((Yay, advance recon duty! Mostly doing this to give advance warning to the defense team, and to reduce the time it takes to reinforce a squad if need be. Although, I have my doubts about my ability in a direct firefight I can most certainly act as a distraction.))
So you want to break away from the group and head off in a completely different direction?
Ask Steve: "Any chance those UWM spooks could be captured with their brain intact enough for interrogation? Or do they have some sort of brain destroying suicide switch? Should we attempt to bring one back if we can find him?
Also, what's stopping them from taking a shuttle or rocket bike to the hangar?
Oh, and could you ask one of the nurses to question those civilians in the infirmary for anything they know about that hangar and the UWM people? Since my fellow HMRC members seem to be ignoring me."
@Defense team: "Any of you want to go to the infirmary and ask some of those injured civilians if they know anything about what's going on in that hangar and the rest of the base?"
Can I get that info? Please? Pretty please?
STEPHEN HAWKING goes to the infirmary and asks some of those injured blah blah anything going in hanger base blah blah what the first guy said I'm pretty useless out here and nothings happening anyfuck. When questioning them be sure to inform them I am the famous STEPHEN HAWKING who invented painkillers. That should make them like me.
((Wow, the tvtropes page for this REALLY needs updated. Especially the characters section, it has Miyamoto blank, doesn't even mention our new catgirl or Grate or hell it doesn't even have NYARS on there. Really tropers, wtf?))
There are only two injured people who are actually conscious right now. They seem somewhat willing to listen to you until you bring up the hanger. Then they immediately clam up, very obviously nervous.
((Wow, the tvtropes page for this REALLY needs updated. Especially the characters section, it has Miyamoto blank, doesn't even mention our new catgirl or Grate or hell it doesn't even have NYARS on there. Really tropers, wtf?))
((We're all busy unlike a few people and this is me saying 'you guys do it thanks' because I'm really not in a good mood to delve into banal banter only in this certain time >_<
Oh, and because you said wtf as if you can't do it.
That irked me too.))
"DOC! YOU BEEN BREAKING THE ANTI-GENETIC'S LAWS AGAIN?" She shouts down the hall at the infirmary.
"I'LL ALTER THE DNA OF WHO I WANT, WHERE I WANT AND WHEN EVER I WANT TO. GET OFF MY BACK WOMAN!"
((...Also I knew the Doc would've done something to make it 'anatomically correct' :X Glad it is anatomically correct that none of anyone else would notice.
Glad I know Lyra is in sane and holistically good hands.))
Feyri looked at Lyra at the AM's note as Grate was petting her.
"Anti-genetics law?..Erm, that means if your DNA is changed then-..."
Ugh great. Please medicine. The only knowledge I got out of you is that the HMRC is a bad place to practice genetics.
"You're feeling ok, right? If so, why don't us three go patrol the Sword now that everything is mostly ok.
"Why were you asking for lab rats Grate? If you wanted to test pills on them, you..you might really just want to ask the one who distributed them, or is in charge of any device distributing them.
"Because that's just wrong to see untested and unprovenly safe 'pills' being put to use if so."
Get cameras of the MK visor replaced with Cameyes--also try to inquire, then buy if possible, if they can be modified to see or sense the use of amps.
Thats gonna cost the price of the cam eyes, plus 2 for the armory master's work. That ok?
As per modifying them to see the use of amps, they already can, kind of. Technically, human eyes can too. Hard to miss when something bursts into flames. But if you mean "see the space magic and trace it back to its origin" no, they can't do that.
Stay away form the clump of men, making sure I can keep an eye on the entire room/my team.
You, like most people it seems, stay the hell away from the men and just sort of stand there, looking around.
Thomas realized he still hadn't tried to see exactly what the stealth paint did, and what he would look like sprayed down with it. Though he really should be watching, his curiousity won out for a split second, and he glanced at his arm.
Examine arm of suit. How does it look? Does it shimmer or what? Then go back to look-out mode.
It's sorta like this:
http://scienceinseconds.com/cmsFiles/pageImages/invisibility-cloak_69.jpgYou're not invisible, but you're much less visible then before.
Feyri looked at Lyra at the AM's note as Grate was petting her.
"Anti-genetics law?..Erm, that means if your DNA is changed then-..."
...
"You're feeling ok, right? If so, why don't us three go patrol the Sword now that everything is mostly ok.
"Why were you asking for lab rats Grate? If you wanted to test pills on them, you..you might really just want to ask the one who distributed them, or is in charge of any device distributing them.
"Because that's just wrong to see untested and unprovenly safe 'pills' being put to use if so."
Get cameras of the MK visor replaced with Cameyes--also try to inquire, then buy if possible, if they can be modified to see or sense the use of amps.
Message the Lab
I have two jars with tiny samples of probably medically useful venom. could you please tell me what effects it would have when injected? A cat will bring them to you soon.
then meow once, get up again, and take my sample jars to the lab. afterwards meander out to the hanger and gangway, and look around at how the place as been fortified. then after a few moments of looking around, and possibly interacting with anyone there, Hop up on top of the container castle or if there is a taller one, a large, elevated position, and lie down and sprawl myself out on top, where I'm hidden from the ground. turn one ear towards the gangway entry area, and the other towards my teammates, and lightly doze, alert to any odd sounds but otherwise resting.
("A cat will bring them to you soon." I can only imagine what sort of bizarre thoughts the R&D guys are thinking when someone tells them that and then something that is very clearly a half human, half cat hybrid comes and drops the samples off.)
You head outside and lay down on the boxes, listening for any incoming attacks. You are Lyra, psychic space cat.
Check the room that got blown up by the fire with the drone cameras.
[aux:2]
You forget how to turn the drone on and spend several minutes just staring at it.
((Wait, "Miyamoto de Bergerac"?))
((Oh hoh hoh, looks like we've got someone who got the reference here. That or you just noticed how weird the whole japanese-french thing is. ))
((The former.
And, frankly, in ER, a bit of mixing names from across the globe is nothing. We've got names not even from the globe!))
And I still think Lyra should wear clothes.))
((Um, she is. Just not pants. All pantses are clothes, but not all clothes are pantses.))
((Miyamoto))
((Bergerac))
((close, but not quite))
((Which half is wrong?))
"You're feeling ok, right? If so, why don't us three go patrol the Sword now that everything is mostly ok."
"Okay! That sounds like fun."
Jinx patrol. Join it after storing pill machine somewhere safe.
((We have lockers or something, right?))
"Why were you asking for lab rats Grate? If you wanted to test pills on them, you..you might really just want to ask the one who distributed them, or is in charge of any device distributing them. Because that's just wrong to see untested and unprovenly safe 'pills' being put to use if so."
"That crazy burny guy was okay, wasn't he? Well, as okay as he was before, at least. I just want to see what specific pills do."
You stuff your pill machine in your locker and then hang out with Feyri.
T. gives a grunt of surprise before checking out the unconscious people.
Boldly go where no man has before, which is up to the circle of unconscious and bound not-sods. After giving a once-over for explosives, and a twice over for things i'm not familiar with (re: Everything but explosives) Un-gag one and proceed to gently whistle, douse or slap them awake.
If the resultant person does not awaken, T. shrugs and moves on.
If the resultant person awakens, T. shrugs and moves back to allow someone else to question them.
If the resultant person dies, T. shrugs and continues to the next one.
[intuition: 6]
This isn't right. This is a trap. This is very clearly a trap. If someone is watching you right now, they could detonate that man bomb before you ever get close enough to see the explosives. Or maybe this isn't the trap. it's the bait to a larger trap? Maybe that was the plan, to scare everyone into inaction and then attack them while they're confused.
You back up and start hyperventilating.
Can you teach me how to find them? And I some more training too after this.
Keep in the guard, getting ready to enter bullet time. Send message.
They're smart and unfortunately well equipped to hide. Generally, the only real way to find them is to force them to make a move and then try to extrapolate where they are from that.
Beep Boop Guardbot.
Stand around in cover , look out for anything hostile or suspicious
Everything is suspicious, nothing is hostile as of yet.
"Who wants to go prod them?"
If no one volunteers, find something long to prod the unconscious men.
((XD at Her Doktor.)
You tear off a piece of decorative metal piping from a help desk. It's about 10 feet long. Seems like an adequate poke'n stick.
One of you bulkier folk go take the adhesive off that one's mouth. You may want to communicate with them.
Look around for witches commies terrorists besides ourselves bad guys. If I see any, fry them.
"Considering that they are both unconscious and very probably a trap of some kind, considering that who we're looking for pretty much specializes in unconventional warfare, I would say that is the worst idea ever! I propose we shoot one of them to check what's going on. Or... wait..."
Stacy quickly messages the other people on the other teams, who would presumably answer in a timely fashion.
Greetings!
I am sure you don't remember me. I have a question for you lot - have you, by any chance, tied up and left a group of civilians sitting unconscious in a circle? We seem to have encountered such a thing in the complex, and it is most curious.
Love,
Stacy Buttle.
Send message to the other teams to make sure. In any case, dance well back from the bunch of tied-up people and warn others to do the same.
You moon walk away from the cluster of people and spin in place, grabbing at your crotch.
>Alright people, recent events have made it clear that we've got unknown participants in this conflict. Probably Urban Executors. Maybe a shadow walker. This is the opposite of good. New precautions must be taken.
Avoid windows if possible.
Beware teammates acting strangely or showing signs of physical or mental damage.
Do not trust Civilians or those that appear to be civilians.
Report any and all feelings of mental intrusion or feelings of physical sickness.
Assume all sods are under the control of men trained specifically to deal with you and situations like this. No matter what they're armed with, consider them an immediate and significant threat.
No communications except via radio. Do not speak.
Attempt to disguise who is in charge. Cycle who takes point and who takes rear. Leaders will be the first targets.
And Team leaders, I'm rescinding the ban on civilian casualties. It's damn clear they're gonna try to use that against us and we cannot let them get that sort of upper hand. Attempt, I repeat, attempt to minimize them. Do not kill unless you must, but if you must, do not hesitate.
Miyamoto, I want you in that control room now. Just punch your way up through the floors if you have to.
Jim, I don't care how you do it, but get to that ARES node. You've got the mental capacities for it.
And Joker team. It seems we're having a change of plans. Milno, it seems like you and your two squadmates are in the best possible position to go hunting for these bastards. They won't see you as a threat as long as you maintain your cover. Leave your position there and head for the top of the building. There should be routes available for you in the maintenance sectors. You're looking for anything out of place.
Be advised. The standard armament for a Shadow walker includes a LESHO rifle and there's a chance they're using nuclear tipped shells. We're on a not dying in a thermonuclear fireball timer here.