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[Xantalos]

I'm pretty sure it was Xan's presence that contributed to the disaster in the making

[Doomblade187]

I think it was the most probable outcome.

Eh, it was just bad luck. I think that if it was team Shallow down there or a mixture of the two, we could had won without destroying the entire colony. But, hindsight 20/20 and all that.

Besides, like I said, this is technically all Steve's fault. Not gonna complain about him saving almost everyone in the most efficient way possible, it's what I would do, but he's the one who overloaded a manip. This incident is on him

The only way it would had been better is if he had written a number with nine digits.

We can still name it. Goop-9? Peace-9?

Meanwhile, I suspect something resembling AI on M21...

[Parisbre56]

Hmm... children sometimes twist the legs of their dolls... That must mean that... It's the ghost of a kid that merged with an alien artefact! It can only interact with the world when nobody is looking! The answer is friendship or maybe in the bottom of a well! It all makes sense now!

[Ozarck]

Well, you discovered what you needed to know: The colony was destroyed by the UWM, testing a very unusual auto-manip. We would have liked to get the auto-manip, but in practice with an Arbiter *right there*, that would have been incredibly dangerous or impossible, since you would have had to somehow disable the auto-manip without damaging it, while trying to keep an Arbiter from destroying *you*. And the auto-manip.

Now excuse me while I get some popcorn to go watch the escape. I plan to be quite entertained by it.

Don't get too cocky though. There's plenty of room for Joker to seriously cock up our mission, even without strange unknowns interfering. We may end up wishing we had been on 22 after all. Probably not, but ...

[Dorsidwarf]

I think it was the most probable outcome.

Eh, it was just bad luck. I think that if it was team Shallow down there or a mixture of the two, we could had won without destroying the entire colony. But, hindsight 20/20 and all that.

Besides, like I said, this is technically all Steve's fault. Not gonna complain about him saving almost everyone in the most efficient way possible, it's what I would do, but he's the one who overloaded a manip. This incident is on him

The only way it would had been better is if he had written a number with nine digits.

We can still name it. Goop-9? Peace-9?

Meanwhile, I suspect something resembling AI on M21...

I don't really think the Surprise Arbiter is actually a -9 event. I mean, it's fucking deadly as shit and we're gonna lose lots of our best if Steve can't GTFO them faster than it can shred their faces, but it's part of the mission, not a fuckup, and could theoretically have been killed turn 1 if lars had fired a shell into the container and hit the automanip that then blocked lyra's "DIE" amp attack

[Harry Baldman]

I don't really think the Surprise Arbiter is actually a -9 event. I mean, it's fucking deadly as shit and we're gonna lose lots of our best if Steve can't GTFO them faster than it can shred their faces, but it's part of the mission, not a fuckup, and could theoretically have been killed turn 1 if lars had fired a shell into the container and hit the automanip that then blocked lyra's "DIE" amp attack

The Arbiter isn't, but the manipulator overload sure will be.

And the automanipulators are the Arbiter's own - the one it was guarding, though, was the thing that was making the pulses and what likely killed all these people.

[Lenglon]

If nukes / gravshells had been fired, then I would have shielded the team.
Since they weren't, i looked at what other plans were laid, and the only one there was one asking for me to levitate it to immobilize it.
I evaluated that, and realized that it wouldn't work because of the AoP's wires, and I was unaware of its selfdefense automanips.
so I went for a direct Amp attack and positioned myself to be its primary target, hopefully buying everyone else time to escape. because conventional weapons would not work on it.

the only thing I would have done different in hindsight, is instead of attacking it directly I would have amped its crowdwire system and tried to make it slice itself apart with it.

that and hopefully not roll double-1's.

[AoshimaMichio]

I don't really think the Surprise Arbiter is actually a -9 event. I mean, it's fucking deadly as shit and we're gonna lose lots of our best if Steve can't GTFO them faster than it can shred their faces, but it's part of the mission, not a fuckup, and could theoretically have been killed turn 1 if lars had fired a shell into the container and hit the automanip that then blocked lyra's "DIE" amp attack

The Arbiter isn't, but the manipulator overload sure will be.

And the automanipulators are the Arbiter's own - the one it was guarding, though, was the thing that was making the pulses and what likely killed all these people.

I don't think this manipulator overload qualifies, since it was intentional. -9 incidents are accidental.

[Toaster]

I think it's worthy of a name, just not a -9 class event.  Thankfully, the name writes itself.






Arbiter-in-the-box

[Sean Mirrsen]

I think it's worthy of a name, just not a -9 class event.  Thankfully, the name writes itself.






Arbiter-in-the-box

Jack-the-Ripper-in-a-Box?

Speaking of which, does the Experiment-produced anomaly warrant a -9 title? It wasn't exactly intentional, but wasn't completely accidental either, Anton knew something bad would happen. He just expected something more along the lines of "huge explosion".

[NAV]

Speaking of which, does the Experiment-produced anomaly warrant a -9 title? It wasn't exactly intentional, but wasn't completely accidental either, Anton knew something bad would happen. He just expected something more along the lines of "huge explosion".

Nah, not unless someone dies from it.

[Hapah]

Speaking of which, does the Experiment-produced anomaly warrant a -9 title? It wasn't exactly intentional, but wasn't completely accidental either, Anton knew something bad would happen. He just expected something more along the lines of "huge explosion".

Nah, not unless someone dies from it.

If it ended with Heph turning into a snowball world, maybe.

[Twinwolf]

I just finished reading mission 13. Holy shit, that might have been the most perfectly executed mission in ARM- or HMRC for that matter- history. Basically nothing went wrong.

Summary written up, thoughts?

Spoiler: Summary (click to show/hide)

Mission 13 was a Spec-Ops mission, an assassination of an Earth Prime historian- Bala Melech- who knew too much, and grab or destroy the data he has. The mission began on the shuttle down, where the team was given fake identities, disguises, work papers for many jobs, and a lot of the local currency.

Milno informed the group that they are to be discreet as possible, be careful with amps, and try to take the target alive first, then take info from his brain.

They go to the target’s hotel, which seems to have been chosen out of desperation. For a while, the group does various things- buy the walkie-talkies they forgot, learn the somewhat strange variation of English the locals use, sweep their rooms for bugs. Eventually, they come up with a plan, posing as maintenance workers in the hotel.

The group plants cameras all over the hotel. They find a man they believe is the target in a room on the 6th floor of the hotel. He seems to be uncomfortable, but they can’t tell if it’s paranoia or if something spooked him. Lack of news indicate the former. Plans to breach the target’s rooms are made.

A guard approaches Milno and a teammate while they are surveying the 6th floor, and Milno manages to convince him not to shoot the two innocent inspectors. He fails to mess with the security camera, which was the big problem, but comes up with another plan. Lars uses an amp to mind control one of the guards, and knocks him out. It is repeated with the second. They then knock out the target.

Lars does a quick brain scan, after which he informs the team where the data they must collect is, and mentions that he seems to have a deathly fear of The Doctor. They then kill the target, after which they are ordered to get out of the city.
They leave with no issue, and are each given a sum of 10 tokens each for the perfectly done mission.

[Caellath]

Milno didn't fail to mess with the security camera as far as I remember. What happened was that it cut out for a few seconds but was successfully put on loop.

[Twinwolf]

Really? I remember that after he left the 6th floor and regrouped with the others, he said he did, and they made a point to avoid the camera later on.