Ulrich Leland. Team I. B21, second floor.
"They are gone. Completely gone. This is unsettling. But now we can proceed."
Eyes on thermals and panorama camera, partically focusing on front and sides. Move towards marked center of the dome in front of the group.
((Since the camera probably can record in thermal, I don't think Mad Hatter is lacking that functionality - although, indeed, common cameras don't offer thermal view.))
Excellent, we are drawing their attention. It means that we're close to ... something they want to protect, apparently. Hasala, carry on with the surveillance, see if there is a suitable point of entry along the way.
Team I, advance in order. Morul, take rear watch; Ulrich, the front and sides. Use thermal vision to confirm their positions.
Advance towards the center of anomaly. Be cautious about shortest way out of the building (through the walls, if needed) at any given time. Look out for more "people".
And can we have a map again, please?
Team II, from what I can see, you could advance upwards through the ceiling with a few cuts of Han's monomachete. From the roof you could establish an alternative observation point, and then extract the initial observers from below - as one of the ways you could do that. And by "no-man's land" I was meaning the no-go zone; if there is no other way, camera and equipment could be moved into the open area, from where they would be picked up from above - keeping the safe altitude, of course.
Oh, and one more thing... While you are at it, I want you to strafe that pile of people with your laser. Remember that they don't "die" even with heads lacking, but probably can be inconvenienced by dismemberment and/or lack of limbs. If doing it while observing them doesn't work, consider closing eyes or using a Mad Hatter snapshot instead of video feed. The "foundation" of the pile has nowhere to go, anyway.
Spare them not; this an order. I take full responsibility.
It's not like that "War Crimes Tribunal" Steve always talks about would spare me anyway. ...And not that I'm going to go before it either way.
This is simply too good an opportunity to pass and too big a threat to overlook because they might still be alive on the inside.
Why would you need a map? You haven't moved. One person collapsed the ground along the way to the dome center, two people ran into that side room, and everything else has stayed exactly the same, other than the fact that now, if you were to walk over to the hole you entered from, there would be statue people piled up near it.
Now that you are moving, basically nothing changes either. You're flying because theres no floor, but there are still rooms off to the right, theres still a wall to the left,and the room you're looking for is directly ahead of you, at the end of this hall.
Now, then, the room you're attempting to get into, a dorm room which appears to be at the exact center of the dome, is closed and locked. It isn't, however, externally barricaded or otherwise shut off in the kind of way you'd expect a room containing an alien time stop thing to be. And considering the students apparently (if the reports from your room entering comrades are correct) had time to strip these nearby rooms for materials and to create all sorts of barricades, it doesn't seem like they left in a hurry. This doesn't bode well for this being the true source of the dome.
"Yes, messer-doctor."
Go with Team I. Keep in the middle.
I'm afraid you can not do that. See, they've split up. Maurice and Ulrich are flying over a collapsed hall, but you lack the ability to fly. Morul is still just hanging out in that other room, and you're with him.
And neither of you are watching the hall....Ah, but Aoshi is. Well, kind of.
The thing about cameras is: they're not continuous. 24 frames a second or there abouts. Thats not a lot of "Blind" time, but it's a bit. Luckily everyone has been nicely overlapping feeds. Usually.
Excellent, we are drawing their attention. It means that we're close to ... something they want to protect, apparently. Hasala, carry on with the surveillance, see if there is a suitable point of entry along the way.
Oh, and one more thing... While you are at it, I want you to strafe that pile of people with your laser. Remember that they don't "die" even with heads lacking, but probably can be inconvenienced by dismemberment and/or lack of limbs. If doing it while observing them doesn't work, consider closing eyes or using a Mad Hatter snapshot instead of video feed. The "foundation" of the pile has nowhere to go, anyway.
Spare them not; this an order. I take full responsibility.
Is that really necessary? They won't be going anywhere as long as I continue watching them.
Continue hovering in place. Maybe fly a little higher, if I can't keep the entire building in view at once. Keep an eye on the ground, so none of the puppets outside can enter the building, especially the puppet tower. Use thermal vision, I might be able to lock down some of the puppets inside the building, too.
"*Sigh*, dunno why I thought that, alright [DorsiDwarf], you go with [Swordsmith], get to the roof and be careful, keep your eyes peeled at all times."
((I'm on Team I, flying above another building. My character also has a higher rank than yours. 
))
You keep focused on all of the ones outside. You notice, however, that they're still moving. Not very much, but they're there. Ticks, twitches, like stop motion video slowed way down. Thats not good.
((Damn, I was sure I was told by someone.
Oh, here:
((Correct.))
((Right then.))
"Just set up a watch, for the time being, just staring at them will make them about as lethal as puppies, so two of us can just stare at them, saying when we're gonna blink while the other guy or gal tunnels through this bloody barricade.
...
Or I wire it up with explosives, either or.
...
Anyone have heat vision so they can see inside of this place?"
"We can watch together, everyone else can dig, no explosives, also we have heat sensors in our suits."
That I can see; I want to know your current plan of action and whether you believe you can deal with the situation by yourselves.
"We will tunnel into the building then find open ground or a denfensible position until then we just need to hold them off."
))
"*Sigh*, dunno why I thought that, alright [DorsiDwarf], you go with [Doomblade], get to the roof and be careful, keep your eyes peeled at all times.
Anyway, yo, boss, seems the crowd has thinned a bit now, we're still keeping watch but uhhh... Look out for a big influx of frozen."
Keep in position, alternating blinks with Corsair, is Pancaek still in the group?
"HAN! you heard our glorious leader, hack us a path upward through the debris. Lucricia with me, watch the statues. Also I need someone to watch thermal find out where those statues went"
Cameras can be picked up soon the statues are moving away
Commands, watch statues attempt to track their movements with a parallel thermal feed. Is Captain Pancaek still with the statues or has he dissapeared?
Hard to tell. He's definitely got a distinct, giant, buff outline when he's alone, but when he's in a group or even just standing with someone, the heat signatures get muddled. You...don't think so though, none of the signatures are 7 feet all.
"HAN! you heard our glorious leader, hack us a path upward through the debris. Lucricia with me, watch the statues. Also I need someone to watch thermal find out where those statues went"
Cameras can be picked up soon the statues are moving away
Commands, watch statues attempt to track their movements with a parallel thermal feed
"... I literally just said that, do you have everyone else on mute or something.
I mean, I'm right here, next to you, watching them In parallel with you, I wouldn't be surprised if you can hear me through the suit.
Also I'm blinking my eyes are watering."
Oh right, PW, if you missed it, I'm chucking Doomblade's character my Aster-Ex, he's the Uncon focused one, right?
also keep watching.
Okie dokie. Make sure someone moves it in the wiki.
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