Time to tell the armorer about the need for fire. Afterwards, get on the roof for sniping.
You head for the armory, where you tell Matveenko you need fire to fight mind-control aliens. Matveenko gives you a neutral look and an incendiary grenade. He points to the label on it, which says, "DO NOT USE WHILE INEBRIATED". You try your best to look responsible and accept the grenade with a nod.
Then you climb to the top level of the ship, squeezing past the observation guys, and climb out onto the ablative hemisphere through a porthole. The view from here is good; you're quite confident in your ability to put a bullet through whatever you see.
Head for the guy in charge, whatever-his-name-is.
Give me a minute.
After some looking, you find Al-Radi on the fourth floor, in a small cubicle which he has claimed for his office. There's a desk and not much more. Hearing you enter, he looks up at you and asks,
"Yes, what is it?"
Commence operation fuck shit up, hit the convoy targetting the object they're towing. Hit it with the charge then drop the grenades on the vehicles doing the towing.
Send an open message demanding the camp surrender then count to 1 and fly in the drone. Blow it near the ship so it collapses on whatever the bomb doesn't destroy.
[3] The rigged drone swoops down on the hoverbarge, while your second drone gains some elevation to observe the results. The barge vanishes in a flash of white light while the jethovers veer and scatter to the sides, their towlines melted and burned by the explosive package. When the smoke clears, you can see that the hovers are pretty much all right, while the barge is lying flat on its belly, a huge jagged hole blown in its roof. It was a military model intended for troop transport, with sturdy armor, but the mining charge appears to have done that in. You see a few people stumble out, but it seems that the majority of the barge's occupants are dead and fried. However, with the load gone, the hovers pick up speed. Estimated time until arrival - two hours or less.
[3] You announce that you have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and they have a second until the gum runs out. Then you drop the kamikaze right near the base of the ship while the rest of your drones scatter. There's a brilliant flash that seems to distort the air around its edges. The ship rocks, but does not tip over; however, you doubt that was pleasant to anybody inside. One barrack building has been obliterated utterly, while the other is on fire - small figures are running about with buckets, trying to put it all out. The mining installation was a ways off the base, so it is unharmed.
((Okay, action time. Forgot to add it to my last talky-post))
Leave my own body and follow with my entity to some living organism that is a part of us and appears to be the nearest to the convoy.
[1] It's a small squirrel-like creature that scuttles across the frozen branches. You are having some difficulty controlling its small, agile form - it gives you a disembodied sort of headache. You spot the six hovers moving quickly forward, then decide this creature is certainly not what you need, and return to your own body, leaving the squirrel to its own devices.
When you're back in your own body, you do a quick calculation: if each of the jethovers is loaded to max capacity, they are carrying eighty-four soldiers.
((Okay, action time. Forgot to add it to my last talky-post))
Leave my own body and follow with my entity to some living organism that is a part of us and appears to be the nearest to the convoy.
Action: Follow likewise
[3] The thing you are currently inhabiting is a raptor-like creature like the one you saw in the tunnels: it has flat feet to run across the snow, and a sharp snout with a horn plate on the nose, probably for breaking the snowy crust to catch the rodents that scurry below.
The column of jethovers is approaching from the south; those are the same model as the sleek white machine you captured before. They are covered in soot and burn marks, but otherwise unharmed. A pillar of smoke is rising in the distance behind them.
((Sorry guise, accidentally totalled my PC, still have to un-total it. You could start collecting my excuses for being late or something.))
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