CNR Laboratory, Ceres
Feb 2nd, 2398
14:55 GMT
Avis-Mergulus AKA Anton "Tosha" TeremnoiPiloting (2)Engineering Technician (1)Acrobat (1) You climb out of the trench and make your way to the goal. The missile launchers, having no guidance system themselves, remain triggered as you walk down the second lane.
While you are listening for a response, the entire visual feed cuts out abruptly. You feel your limbs missing once again, this time without any dialogue explaining what just happened.
Following the period of nothingness, you regain consciousness, this time inside a different kind of robotic unit, with normal, humanlike fingers and a head with actual eyes. You seem to be stuck inside a dark, cylindrical chamber by yourself, however. There are some sounds--mostly footsteps--coming from one of the walls.
darkpaladin109 AKA David "Pirate Dave" SmithCloud Health: 100%
Defender [1/3][5] You strip metal off of the wall panels, revealing a nigh-impenetrable carbon layer just centimeters beneath. Regardless, you have enough material at your disposal to create a shield large enough to protect your body from the rocket's explosion and shockwave. You step out and grab the laser turret's attention, getting painted and triggering the rocket launch. The missile comes quickly and hits you before you can react to better position the shield. The cobbled-together metal shield is blown to bits, but your body survives the blast.
Despite surviving the explosion, your body seems to be suffering from the missile's EMP. Your nanites fall to the ground, while new ones come in and replace them, automatically moving in and trying to bridge the gaps left in the fried circuity controlling your arm. The emergency response built into the nanite system amazes you for the few moments you get to witness it. After some time, however, everything suddenly goes black and you lose all contact with the unit.
You come to in a different body, this one more like your original human one. You are currently inside some dark, cylindrical chamber. You hear voices and footsteps through one of the walls.
Samarkand AKA Felicia Hasting[4] You once again attract the turret's attention, this time with a smaller cloud that can only maintain the incandescence for a limited time, judging by the rate at which the nanites are rotating out of the cloud to avoid combustion. You hurry around the room, crossing the bridge. As your incandescent cloud disappears, the turret resumes scanning. Fortunately for you, the turret rotates clockwise and turns to face your original starting location, giving you time to skip across the lane and reach the end without attracting its laser again.
As you await some congratulatory speech, some kind of compliment, or
something, at least, the lights cut out. You immediately lose contact with your body and go back to your prior limbo-state for quite some time before waking up again inside a dark cylindrical chamber with a new body. No nanites, though. There are footsteps coming from outside the chamber, but none of them are close by.
Comrade P. AKA Hamilton TeromoSidearms (2)Swordsman (1) You zoom in on the body, observing it as it stands idle and looks around the room nonchalantly. It doesn't seem to mind the sparking nanites orbiting it.
More dialogue comes in:
"It's a glitch in the system that I haven't fully resolved. A duplication--I will explain later, but we cannot let the exercise continue or we will have a major security breach. Cut the power now!"Everything goes dark. No more voices or text. You hear nothing and see nothing for what feels like forever due to the lack of stimulation. Finally, you wake up inside a new body, this time inside a strange cylindrical chamber with no lights.
Chromatic Wasp AKA Chandler DavisComrade P. AKA Hamilton TeromoPhysician (2)Marksman (1) Everything that happens to the others happen to you. ((No action, so I can't really make this roll interesting in any way
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*Directed at everyone*
The thick, heavy doors of your metal chamber slide open, revealing the same lab you saw earlier in the day. As you regain your senses and get used to the normal feet on your new unit (As opposed to the clawed feet on the previous bodies, suitable for climbing rather than walking), a man wearing a light-blue collared shirt and back slacks walks over. He carries with him a smartphone which he sets aside in his right pocket as he talks. You all recognize him by the voice.
"Hey everyone, I'm Alex, the doctor here in charge of the project, if I didn't tell you before. You probably recognize me by my voice. I was with Colonel Sanders, the Central Navy officer in charge of overseeing what happens here and protecting the base.
I am so sorry for what just happened. I really am! It is entirely my fault that what happened with Hamilton happened in the first place. However, I have a small thing to ask of you guys before I hand you over to the colonel. I want you to go into the exercise room and terminate whatever threat is in there. You will have nanites with you, although I would advise that you try to keep them away from the threat if possible as you can lose control of them. This will be your last test. Please ask your questions now, although keep it quick. We have to move now before the colonel gets back."
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