"Uhh, no thanks. Not much to tour here, least from my point of view. Now, what is your name, and what in the hell are you talking about."
Keep aiming at the light, and make ready to warp out of there if shit hits the fan.
((Hello Timmy. Been a while. Maybe you want out?))
(You really have a bad habit with tempting fate with these artifacts, huh?)
[will:2]
You feel a sudden influx of fear as the thing grows closer. Your limbs feel heavy and don't move right, flailing around in the void, out of your control.
((So wait, is my head back on the ship or is it still with Stacy?))
((Still with Limpy, I mean Stacy))
Do....erm....useful...things.....like those things what were suggested to Mr. Repetitive (read: Gorat)
Also make sure my message to Grate went through.
You climb up onto the Cage and begin making your rounds, slowly wandering amongst the myriad catwalks and massive structural pieces of a cradle big enough to hold a ship like The Sword. You spy Feyri staring out into space nearby.
Quick! Do whatever we are supposed to do on the ship! Also ask,if I we can steal it later.
You open the door to the ship.
[intuition: 6]
WAIT A SEC! These guys are super spies and assassins and shit right? You can't just bumble into their ship! They HAVE to have traps. They have to.
You skitter away from the ship, hissing and pointing at the open doorway like a cat having a bad acid flashback.
-Away Team-
T. Stops suddenly, with a wide eyed blank stare as he completely rewrites exactly how much he knows about his crewmates and how little that is.
Bah. I'm sure someone will take care of the injured and dead.
One injured, one dead.
Needing pickup.
Quick! Play hide-and-go-seek with Jon on the ship! Jon loves Hide and Go Seek! Especially when he's armed! CONTINGENCY PLAN - HO
((I remember how when I started I wanted T. to be a silent, serious guy. I love how far out of the water that plan has been blown. Makes this more spontaneous and fun.))
(Welcome to ER. Your plans are the first thing to die. Followed shortly by your hopes and then you. )
[will:1]
Teal suddenly stops. His arm jerks out and he taps something into the keypad on Jon before lining himself up for a field goal and kicking the bomb up and forward. It spins off and into the repair pit below.
"AND IT'S GOOD!"
((Isn't Ares the name of one of the megacorps in Shadowrun?))
((Ares Macrotech. Mostly military tech.))
Is anyone not busy and willing to head down to the planet's surface to do stuff?
"...To clarify, I can go down and look for animals to test on? Like, now?"
Ask the above question. If yes, ask for directions, then head down to the planetary surface, with anyone who agrees to come with.
Once at the planetary surface, start looking for small animals similar to rodents, lizards, and other neat little critters like that. Keep within shouting distance of at least one other person and within sight of the Sword/its cage if someone is with me, or within a few minutes' run of the Sword/some sort of shelter leading to it if not. KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR HOSTILE PEOPLE.
Try not to look like a threat to anything.
((Oh geez, is Grate going to get captured and held for ransom?))
"Yeah, you can. There should be service lifts in the cage. Though you may want to bring feyri or someone else who can actually shoot a gun with you."
You head out to the cage and wander around until you find the lift, a tiny metal box without any doors and a bare and rudimentary control system. You wonder if you should head straight down or try and recruit people...
Oh, looks like Feyri is already on her way down! Very quickly.
... Have I mentioned how much I hate us? I hate us. Makes me wonder why I'm a medic sometimes...
Send 5 drones into the ship with orders to kill anything not HMRC inside.
If there aren't any enemies, run in and search the ship computers for information
[aux:4+1+1]
Your drones fly into the ship like drunken sparrows, bouncing around and producing some very poor video of the inside. From what you can make out, there's no one actually inside the cramped ship, just a cockpit, a few sparse living pods and the bare essentials of survival: food, water, a small infirmary. Eventually you hear a WOMP and the ship rings with the reverberation of an explosion in an enclosed space. Two of your drones go offline.
"Welp."
Take Thomas and self into cover. Prepare for shit to pop off.
I think Teal just popped shit right off into the repair pit...the repair pit that houses the support structure for all these cages oh god damn it.
Looks like there's a room, then. You want to go, Goran?
Head to the office with Goran, if he agrees to come. Take one of the drones.
Whats a Goran? Oh, a Gorat. I call him Chin. Or Gorat.
Lets see if he does....
Looks like there's a room, then. You want to go, Goran?
Head to the office with Goran, if he agrees to come. Take one of the drones.
-Home Team-
"Sure, let's go. Think the drone can check for the stuff Steve was worried about?" Gorat answers.
Head to the office.
Str 3; Dex 3; End 3; Cha 5; Int 4; Wil 12//Spe 0; Int 1; Han 0 (-1); Con 1; Unc 0; Exo 8; Aux 1 (+1); Med 0
Mk II Suit; Microwave PK Amp; laser rifle: normal cigarettes; blue smokes; datapad (with platformer shooter); nanoghosts; shock trigger (with Jack for this 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.
He Does! Oh golly gee! Is this the beginning of a beautiful bromance? Probably not.
Gorat and Leo band together and head up stairs and around to the office. It's a small room, not much more then a desk and a few cabinets with a single door and a window that looks out over the gangway and cage.
"Hey, wakey wakey"
"wha- why?"
"Because, if you forgot, you're standing in the middle of a warzone-to-be"
"right"
Keep in cover. Be on the lookout and ready to twist sod heads and deflect projectiles with my amp
You stand around, in cover and barely awake.
"God damn, this is the most boring goddamn insurrection I've been on since that time I was in a space union for space burger king."
"I can see, from what you just said, that this team isn't the most well oiled machine is it?"
follow Steves instructions to the singing robot
Do a one-legged dance away from the cage, get back to the shippety-ship with Xan and get some repairs and stuff.
Trendon and Stacy pass in the hall, and Stacy points Trendon back toward cages.
"Have fun with that." He sings before dragging himself off and back to the ship. Stacy makes it to the infirmary and hands of Xan's head before going to lay down in a bed himself. Trendon, in the mean time, wanders toward the cage area and comes across renen and his catgirl companion. The cages themselves are just beyond, but renen is making disparaging motions in their direction.
Will roll against depression and/or falling on stress. If at least 3 or more, then just..well, look into my scope and admire the scenery to get things off my mind. Focus on anything out of the ordinary and be a detective in admiring the scene.
[will:1]
....WELP
"Fuck this noise, I'm out."
You throw yourself off the cage.
"I realize that with this body and this suit that the chances of this doing anything more then maim me are minor, but still, it's the soul crippling depressive thoughts that count."
....
....
....
"Man this is a tall fucking building."
((Okay, I will be very busy for the next days. I did very badly in some tests. If anything happens, Lenglon, could you take control
of Renen for a while?))
Keep searching for enemies. Try to figure out where they might be.
You watch as Teal punts his nuke into the shipyard's substructure. You turn back around the corner and crouch down to pet the catgirl and stop the new recruit that just wandered down the hall from walking into a fireball.
"I believe" You say in a buzzing robot voice, "You may want to plug your ears."