Chester takes a second to stare at the figure over the scope. The only thing he is able to say is:
- Holy crap!
Take another shot at the figure. If it seems to have some weak spots, shoot them. Otherwise, shoot it to the legs to stop it. While doing this, order sean to launch another grenade to footmen.
[initiative: 3 vs 6] You tighten your finger on the trigger to fire, but the soldier in the battlesuit fires first. [5-1] Suddenly, your left hand is a festival of pain, but you manage to fire despite it, aiming for the battlesuit's lower belly, where the leg mountings join the breastplate. [5+1-1] The enemy crumples back under your bullet, sinking to one armored knee. You can't be sure how deep it's penetrated, but it sure must've hurt.
Speaking of hurt, your left hand seems to be missing all of its fingers except the thumb and pointer, and there's a long but shallow gash on the arm. That's going to make stuff...difficult.
((FUCK. I REALLY HAVE TO PAY MORE ATTENTION.))
OPEN FUCKING FIRE WITH A GRENADE.
Seeing the battlesuit down on its knees, you decide that it's a good time to lob a grenade at it. You take aim through your Saigon's ballistic scope and pull the trigger. [1] It's off. Your scope is miscalibrated! Somebody must have borked it by accident back at camp. Fuck! Shoulda checked.
The grenade makes a much shorter arc than you expected it to, landing less than halfway between you and the battlesuit. [reaction:2] You stand there frozen with a mixture of horror and embarrassment. [luck:6] The fragments decide to be good boys and avoid fragging their master. Good for you. Williams appears to be shouting at you from beside the ship, but you can't hear her for all the ringing in your ears. Looks like you're temporarily deaf.
[suit:1(+1)]The battlesuit soldier fares less well, trying to roll away but failing - it looks like Chester's bullet did some damage. It (She? He?) stumbles and curls around its stomach. [luck:6] However, most of the shards miss the soldier, and what hits, bounces off the armor.
[3-2] Gunfire chatters at you from the direction of the downed jethover, setting the snow around you swirling. You turn to see the three troopers advancing to cover their leader. The fourth seems to have buggered off somewhere.
(( I haven't looked under the ship so meh, didn't know what it might be on top of. ))
Go round and find a good position to attack from cover then hide and watch the fighting.
Study the mech to find it's power source or weak spots. (( It's just a giant prosthetic after all. ))
You leave the ship and hide in a snowdrift off to the north side of it. Turning your goggles on, you observe the white battlesuit.
It is not so much a mech as it is a reinforced exoskeleton coupled with thick armor plating and, by the looks of it, also an advanced neural integration system that amplifies the user's reaction speed and adapts his nervous system to controlling an obviously inhuman body - its legs are long and apparently digitigrade, and they connect to hips that are too wide, giving the whole figure an exaggerated feminine appearance. The helmet is an elongated white thing with a trio of cameras on the front plate. This suit is not like the Flugel - it is intended for grace and agility, not brute force. Shame the pilot forgot about that fact.
The armor is weaker on the joints and a thin strip above the hips - where Chester shot it. Usually it would be covered by its upper body armor, but the suit sways when it runs. Lucky.
There appears to be an integrated machine gun in its right arm. You are not sure about the left, but you doubt it's empty.
As for the power source, the batteries don't need to be overly large, and as such are probably under the armor.
Williams:She runs out of the ship, shaken away from contemplating whether Daring Do is cuter than Derpy Hooves, just to see Sean nearly blow himself up with a grenade.
"What the fuck!? You tired of breathing or something?!"She runs forward, crouched low, to plop down into the snow beside Sean and fire several bursts of suppressing fire at the advancing footmen. [4-2] They crouch down low, but aside from that, not much is achieved. They are at least three hundred meters away, after all.
((Team Camp, sorry about the wait - I'm going to sleep now, but I'll update in the morning. Feel free to RP or something in the meantime.))