"WHY DOES THIS THING EXIST"
ACTIVATE PLAN: I'M NOT SUICIDAL.
RUN AWAAAAYYYYY.
Edit: Gimme some mechanical muse, too.
Well, in the direction you're running, you quickly hit the edge of the anamoly and find that the invisible wall that was there before is still there. At least here.
I am only relaying their message...
...Old Apparatus...
...Moth Kingdom...
...Rails crossing the sky...
Great.
Be aware. Observe surroundings. Try to be whole. Brain, soul and mind goes back where they belong. Into the body. And the amp. And the thing that lives inside the amp. Back in.
Unless something exceptionally unusual is observed from current position.
Well you regain consciousness, but you also see that ineffable
something that got yanked out of you down on the ground.
Utilise grenade launcher to put a great big HE grenade into the most damaged-looking part of the circle, then run like stink for the breach in the shield.
((PW my clf3 was from the PAWN not grenades))
"As you command sir"
fly fast as possible towards the big hole avoiding varied death rays by moving in a sine curve pattern to the hole. If it is the outside then go through and begin transmitting to steve and continue moving away from the dome so that I have a chance if any murder lasers come for me. If not our world then don't go through get close while remaining a bit out of sight and begin HMRC standard wierd shit testing guidelines
Grenades, bullets, whatever. Same deadly gas.
You fire one more HE grenade and then both of you make a run for the breech in the wall.
You both make it out and onto the devastated black plain beyond. That thing's shot has scorched a massive swath of countryside expanding outward. You can't see where it ends; if it ends.
once more with gusto. It's bound to succeed if I just keep trying, durr.
Also, if I do shake free of the whatever's hold, immediatly use mass amp to propel myself away. Just, away from wherever I am, fast like.
So, you manage to
kinda break free. Not entirely, but enough to focus your amp and hurl yourself back. You don't escape the anomaly, but you land near the break in the wall. Your body is still frozen and doesn't react, but your mind is mostly under your control for the moment.
"I can mine it. Just let me know if you're going to be in the way."
Place the aster-ex in the path of the dark figure, unless Maurice plans to engage directly. Either way, take a step outside of the boundary and take environmental readings before stepping back inside.
"Place"? As in run up into that thing's path and line of sight and just set and explosive down in front of it?
Just checking.
:Steve, are you receiving this transmission?:
Attempt to contact Steve (or the unnamed ARM vessel in orbit, that works too) via suit comms. Don't bother with going for the QE communicator if that doesn't work; just continue to continue observing. Be prepared to dodge if our friendly neighbourhood space magic god tosses a reality bomb at the bystander several hundred meters away, for some reason. Contribute generator-powered laser rifle, if my teammates' efforts to disrupt the circles before SM-god-possessed Morul reaches them don't look to be enough.
...Also keep an eye on Ulrich; if said SM god tosses a reality bomb at him, stop whichever I'm doing at the moment and use my mass manipulation amp to yank his unconscious body out of the way. (Horizontally and towards my position, specifically.)
Well, you're not outside the dome, so no signal.
Blackened wasteland - is it the real world (ground everywhere damaged by the attack of the flame figure), or an alien dimension (it's not black because of the attack, it's that world's natural color)? The sky color should be the dead giveaway, I assume.
Someone, get Ulrich's QEC pack and try contacting Steve!
Konrad, get out of the dome and record the transition data! See if the world outside is our universe, or not.
Funny how this mission's main objective can still be salvaged. Possibly. At the cost of a life.
Lucricia, Han, whoever of you still have the aster-ex, see if you can lay a mine in its path!
Eddie, keep firing on the circle!
Send another incapacitating shock to Pancaek. Pray that he might snap out of the circle - if he is there.
What is Ulrich's condition, by the way? What do medical sensors of his suit show?
Okay, time to think things over.
Let the brain race in search of an answer to this situation, to dealing with the flame-sheathed creature. Think about it. My own health and survival do not matter, but the future of humanity and victory in this war (in tiny bit affected by my personal efforts) does. What should I do, if anything at all? ((Once upon a time it was Int, but now it's... Mind? GenKnow?))
Oh, and... let's consider it too. Specifically, let's see what my intuition (as fickle and unreliable as she is in my case) has to say on the idea of boldly charging the alien entity and attempting to initiate a mind duel with it - to free Morul from the pyramid god and to free the pyramid god from Morul. ((Intu, please.))
And finally - let's hear Mechanical Muse too. Any port in a storm.
It appears to be the real world, just thoroughly beaten up by space magic.
Well lets see...I'll be nice and say you don't send that shock since you probably should see his vitals spasm when he gets out of the thing's control. Otherwise you would shock him back unconcious.
He's back awake now. No damage visible on the medical sensors. Passed out for unknown reasons.
Nope, still intuition. Gen knowledge is sort of a catch all + Lore/world info stat.
Intuition... hmm. Lets roll mind. Ah. Well 6 and 2 respectively. Thats unfortunate
I understand...
...Book of Divination...
...How He Loves To Sink A Ship...
...I'm Transmitting Tonight...
Now, let me ask you something: Your wiki inventory, what all of that is on your person right now?
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