"So. How's it going? Besides the fact that it's hit the fan again. Poor fan."
More brain rest.
You stand there with your hands in the air like you just don't care.
"Hey, Steve? You know about amps, right? What's the range on those mind control ones? If I mind controlled someone on the ground and then sent him to orbit, at which point, if any, would I lose control?"
Watch drone. Watch Morul. Ask Steve.
If my second floor teammate asks help, edits will be made to this action.
EDIT: Grab Morul and head down to the hole Faith came out of.
If Headless has attacked by then, shove Morul through the hole so he can disable him (keeping headless' brain intact in the process, preferably).
If Headless has not attacked, then try to persuade him to stand down and drop to his knees, informing him that he will not be harmed if he does so. If he does not comply, proceed with above dismembering.
If at any point Morul does anything suspicious, rip him apart until only his braincase is left.
If Morul is unable to attack for some reason (or if his attack fails), try to dismember Headless by shoving the the cutting laser through the hole and firing.
>Theoretically infinite. Once you have control, it's much easier, but as long as you know where the target is in relation to you, you can do it. Of course, because humans have difficulty processing distances greater than a few miles at best, most people are effectively limited to that range to start a connection. @Jack, Flint, and the rest of aboveground team: "$#@!! There's someone on the second floor! He doesn't have a *&^%ing head!!"
If there's anyone other than headless in the room, immediately flee back downstairs. Otherwise attempt to goop headless, then retreat.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
You spray white goo at the headless man until he is plastered against the floor, his hands and feet being the only things remaining uncovered. They wiggle.
You look up as you hear to door to upstairs slam shut and lock again.
"
Thats right you better run! Please don't come back oh god oh god."
A moment later a battlesuit slams into the wall next to you and starts shouting over its speakers about coming quietly and the utility of unbroken kneecaps.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
"Well everythings on standby but i stil cant tell what its supposed to do, lets loot the shit out of it before some cultist flips a switch and it magically reanimates this guy or starts spewing out clones or something."
Turn on the life signs monitor and make sure there arent 6 or 7 sets of life signs.
Gently push the corpse off of the throne and into a spare box using my reiterpallasch, or let pancaek do it with his amp.
Lifesigns monitor? Oh yeah, It think I remember that thing now.
Anyways, There's lifesigns in the room, but none that you can't account for as teammates. The corpse and the machines are all as lacking in life as Simus is lacking in warmth and compassion. And sexuality. And humor. And...well this isn't going anywhere is it.
Now, exactly what makes you think that those boxes you're carrying are large enough to fit an entire 6 foot tall human being? You're not carrying coffins around, are you?
Damn corpse gives me the heebie-jeebies. Never did like old, dead things. Cecil accounted for, Boss.
Hand Feyri my flashbang. Go look to see where the machines are pulling power from. That corpse gives me the creeps. Be ready to punch the everloving shit out of him if he so much as settles.
You give your flashbang to feyri, who seems to have extensive experience with them.
You look around but can't seem to find where the machines are getting power from. The only cords going into them are coming from the throne. Maybe the throne is powering then?
You keep an eye on the drone cam. Faith seems to be moving through downtown and is heading out back into the suburbs beyond. You don't see any obvious targets in that direction, it's very odd.
((She might just be running in the hope of escaping and restarting the cult someplace else. Either way, I'm not dedicating any manpower to hunting her down until the diner and basement are secured.))
>The only for sure way is a brain scan but we don't have the stuff for that in the suits. Less sure ways are to look at how he moves, speaks and reacts, as well as asking him questions only he would know. All of these things CAN be faked to make it seem as though he's not controlled, but doing so quickly, reliably and believably is difficult.
"Hmm. Morul, suppose that Flint was a shuttle flying toward a meandering crystal, what would you do?"
Listen to his response, and observe his face and such through his suit sensors to try and determine if he's still being influenced.
((For the record, my plan was to wait until those two from the apc had returned, then I'd have assigned some of them to start sweeping the upper levels. Guess that plan got... forcefully accelerated.))
"Yttra, get the hell out of there, gonna send you back up. And never do shit like that again without telling somebody about it goddammit.
Jack Catar and Knuser, get up there and help Yttra, she's on the diner's second floor. Find her and regroup, shoot that headless thing if you see it.
Flint, watch Morul's reaction first, then check if you can help with the headless guy situation. Oh, and why in the name of all that's holy are those civilians still not gone? You have the people to do it for you even. Is this such a hard thing I'm asking of you? If you cannot complete such an easy task, I have to wonder whether putting you in charge of that team was a good idea."
"its Konrad sir"
"Just a slip of the tongue, don't mention it."
(you realize you're not on this team, right?)
Piecewise, for the moment Pancaek is indeed helping out the basement team, as per Miya's orders. Because I wanted him to be where we thought Faith would show up.
Didn't he lose his memory during that mission
"All right, headed up now. Don't know how useful lethal force will be if it's headless, but I'm ready to apply said force."
Head up to find Yttra, shoot anything headless with the shotgun.
You head upstairs and find Yttra standing in front of a big pile of goo, screaming at flint, who is staring in through a hole in the wall.
This is weird.
Turn on the life signs monitor and make sure there arent 6 or 7 sets of life signs.
Gently push the corpse off of the throne and into a spare box using my reiterpallasch, or let pancaek do it with his amp.
Stay outside of the room if I can clearly see everything inside of the room from the doorway, otherwise go inside.
Help put the corpse into the box with my mass amp
Stay just outside of the room, observe what is within.
Charge will bonus
You charge a will bonus while sorta just sitting the hall, keeping an eye out for ghosts and ghouls.
keep on walken
Walken, eh?
You'll be there at the end of the next turn.
Keep heading towards to diner. Stick to alleys/etc when possible unless the streets are deserted.
Don't wanna become the Walken Dead eh?
Renen looks at Feyri.
You want to go upstairs... No problem, but it would be better if someone else also goes with you. I will stay here with the rest of the Team. It's better if all amp users stay here too.
Pancaek, don't move the body just yet. It's better to be sure of what we should do.
Feyri, since you will go upstairs, please send a copy of the video feed of what we saw to Steve and Miya and ask for an opinion of what we should do.
The ones that stay, get ready for anything suspicious.
I can't stop thinking about the strange fact that Faith didn't enter here. There is no sign of damage and she was going away from here. And he seems to be their idol.
Renen keeps moving around the room in BT. Get ready to avoid any sudden atack.
You pace around the room. It's difficult to move in normal speed while in BT. Everyone else sees you pacing in an odd shutterstop manner, limbs moving insanely fast and then stopping, holding the pose for a half second, then moving again. You skitter around the room like a broken video feed of a stop motion animation.
"All right, headed up now. Don't know how useful lethal force will be if it's headless, but I'm ready to apply said force."
Head up to find Yttra, shoot anything headless with the shotgun.
Is there something I'm not being briefed upon or did you just speak of headless beings?
What is the composition of the floor up there and the walls? Feyri said as she checked her other rifle, Also I copy, Renen.
Head upstairs with the weapon I can best say is suited for the occasion (ie Remembering if the rifle Anton gave me and its metallic conductive properties...following [Alarith's Character]
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If Alarith isn't with us and I'm being hilariously forgetful [as in, he's not of our team :V]:
I copy, Renen. Send support right after me. I know how short these feelings tend to last.
Head upstairs with the weapon I can best say is suited for the occasion (ie Remembering if the rifle Anton gave me and its metallic conductive properties, inspecting the Diner first floor and listening with sounds at maximum, before moving throughout the building [upwards]. If I detect any noise above, make sure to announce my presence, along with a flashbang.
Cecil, please give me one stun grenade. If I meet any resistance, it'll pay off.
You head back upstairs and hear screaming from upstairs. You run up to the second floor door, shout that you're coming in and send a flashbang in ahead of you. As it flies in the "AAAAAAAAAAAAA" Becomes a "AAAAAAAAAAWha?" and then the bang detonates. You storm in a few seconds later and see three teammates, One of whom is wandering around, blind as her visor reboots. Flint and the damaged robot who are also hanging around in or near the room are giving you a rather confused look. Well, as confused as a robot and a wall of armor can manage.
Relay new information about the sewers
You send the info out to anyone with an active radio that can pick it up.
"Something doesn't feel right."
Stay with the others that are staying in the basement.
You stick around in the basement.
Faith, monitored by Flint, has made it into the suburbs, which look significantly older then the main part of the city. Probably some of the original structures in the area. He notices something as he flies down the street above her, headed for some hills in the distance. A green sign which appears to be announcing some sort of destination in the distance, toward the area the road is leading.
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