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Voting closed: April 10, 2016, 09:48:36 pm

[heydude6]

"Nope, not as far as I'm concerned"

[~Neri]

"Has the Keep reacted to the UAV?"
"Has the UAV detected anything abnormal?"
"Have you attempted to send unmanned dronesquads into castles previously? If so, how did it react?"
"Plausibility of just launching artillery shells at it till we breach the Artifact Chamber?"
"Any hostiles spotted during the UAV observation?"

[zomara0292]

Squad update:

Spoiler: Dr. Nalvi: (click to show/hide)

Name: Tal Nalvi
Str:10
Dex:10
Con:10
Int:10

HP:15
Per:10
Will:10
Vig:10

Skills:

Xeno-Paleontology 2 - INT/VH:  (
Electronics Operation - INT/H
     †Sensors 1: (3)
     †Computer Hacking 1: (3)
Range Weapons:
     †Small Arms 1 - DEX/E: (1)
Melee Weapins:
     †Pole Arms 1 - DEX/E - (1)
Persuasion 1 - INT/H - (3)

Equipment:
10mm PDW (Free)
     2 mags (2)
Staff (Free)
5.56×45mm SMG (Free)
     1 mag (3)
Agent BUDs (Free)
Agent Helm (Free)
Fragmentation Vest (Free)
+Trauma Plates (10)
Rosetta Tablet PDA (10)
     Night Vision Sensor (Free)
Handheld Tactical Sensor Suite (10)
First Aid Kit (Free)

Money: 0
XP: 0

Updated skills and inventory.

Spoiler: Arthur (click to show/hide)

Name: Arthur
Str:10
Dex:12
Con:10
Int:8

HP:15
Per:8
Will:8
Vig:10

Skills:
Melee Weapon: Knife 1 (1)
Range weapon: Medium Arms 4 (10)
Movement: Acrobatics 3 (8 )


Equipment:
4.73x33mm Carbine: (Free on creation)
   3 50 round mags (Costing 12* to buy at 6* each.) One of them was also free

20mm Anti-armor Exp Arms: (comes with Carbine)
    1 5 round mag (comes free with purchase of new gun)
Melot Honor Knife (Free on creation)
Agent BUDS (Free on creation)
Agent helm (Free on creation)
Flak vest (free)
G-1 Offensive Grenade (Free on Creation)
Medkit (free on creation)

1* (Leftover of what is not spent)

And this is my updated character.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Aria Riverson

Appearance: A tall, pale woman of Caucasian descent. She has short, messy black hair, and green eyes.

Primary Stats

Str: 11
Dex:10
Con:10
Int: 9

Secondary Stats

HP: 13 (4xp)
Per: 9
Will: 9
Vig: 10

Skills:

Heavy Arms (3xp)
Explosives - Demolition (2xp)
Explosives - EOD (2xp)
Throwing (2xp)
Traps (2xp)

Equipment:

10mm PDW (Free)
Melot Honor Knife (Free)
Agent BDUs (Free)
Agent Helm (Free)
Fragmentation Vest (Free)
Storm Trooper Light Machine Rifle (20)
      100/100 Rounds. 1 clip.
3 G-1 Offensive Grenades (Free)
4 Credits

Spoiler: Vigil (click to show/hide)

Name:Vigil Hindson
Str:9 (10 points gained by removing 1 point of str)
Dex:11 (20 points spent for 1 point dex)
Con:10
Int:9 (20 points gained for 1 of int)

HP:12 (4 points spent to gain 2 hp at 1 hp per 2 points)
Per:11 (5 points spent for 1 point per)
Will:10
Vig:10

Skills:
Melee Weapon: Knife 1 (an easy skill, cost one point to gain (Cost 1x1+2 or 3 points to upgrade))
Melee Weapon: Sword 1 (an average skull costing 2 points to gain. (Cost 2x1+2 or 4 points to upgrade)
Range weapon: Small Arms 1 (an easy skill, cost one point to gain(cost 1×1+2 or 3 points to upgrade)
Movement: Stealth (cost 2 points to gain)
Lockpicking 2 ( hard skill cost 3 points to gain, 5 to level up ( Cost 3x2+2 or 7 points to upgrade))
First Aid  ( Cost 1 point to gain)
Equipment:
5.56×45mm SMG: (Free on creation)
   2 45 round mags (Costing 3* to buy at 3* each.)
Melot Honor Knife (Free on creation)
Sword ( Costing 5*)
Assault suit (Costing 15*)
Agent helm (Free on creation)
2* (Leftover of what is not spent)

XP:
0 (Left over from creation)

[vkiNm]

"No, so far the Keep have given no reaction to the UAV,

Everything on the other side of the gate is Abnormal, but if you're talking about tentacles bursting out of the grounds and the like, no. Although it is particularly foggy over there.

Unmanned dronesquads will either be too slow if it's big, or not heavy enough if it's small. Sending a whole squad of them will make the lighter one useless as the squad will only be as fast as the slowest member, and not to mention that drones are very unlikely to make it back to Evac point, so it's more or less wasting money. AND they are incredibly expensive compared to human operatives as well as lacking the ability to learn and get better from surviving operations.

Launching artillery shells will require artillery, which is big, expensive, difficult to get into position and will have no chance of running away if they something after them. Plus we do not know how volatile an Artifact is, if it manage to blow up because it's disturbed by artillery fire, we've no idea how big the explosion going to be. If it will wipe everything out nearby, if it will radiate the whole area, or if it will just opens a gate to hell itself. So while shelling a castle with Artillery is definitely possible, it's still too risky and expensive to do.

The UAV didn't see anything moving outside the keep itself, ambushes are unlikely but always a possibility."

[vkiNm]

Castle 2: Operation little house.

It's been a month since that briefing, everyone have more or less recovered, gears are picked and packed up into the armed APC that your squad has been assigned to. The vehicle lurched forward after been given the green light and rocked you all slightly in your seats, transiting from one side of the gate to the other did not 'feel' like anything. In fact, if your vehicles didn't have those small armored windows, you wouldn't have had realized that you crossed at all!


Fortunately for everyone, your squad did not have to drive all the way there. Once through the gate, A. Carmine, your driver, steers the vehicle into the designated spot where there was a metal base, where the work crew there spends several minutes strapping various cables to your APC.

After everything's strapped in, you hear the sounds of heavy engine starting up and large blades cutting through air even from the inside of your vehicle, and soon a lifting sensation as your APC lurched UP.

"We'll arrive at your AO in ten minutes. You'll have to make your way back yourself from there on out." came an instruction from the radio.


You've got about two - three turns to chatter it out. Don't expect the Carmine brothers to know any more than you do, though.
You've also got enough fuel to last for half a day's worth of continuous driving, and it shouldn't take you more than a couple hours to come back to the gate at most. There's also MREs and energy bars and juice boxes too in case anyone is hungry.

[~Neri]

"Upon arrival, we should circle the castle several times and scan it. Maybe test the range that the Keep will react at."

[vkiNm]

"Alright, I'll see about circling the keep. You might have to pop the scanner out of the car though, I'm not sure how well that signal of yours will do going through the plate armors." A. Carmine replied, nodding. Those who are especially perceptive would notice the man's hands gripping the controllers tightly and is shaking ever so slightly.

[~Neri]

Tal places his hand on said Carmine's shoulder. "Relax. The reason everything exploded last time was due to no caution, just keep a distance from the structure and slowly circle in. I'll open the upper hatch and scan as we circle. They shouldn't have anything that can easily keep up and tank the mounted gun's rounds at the same time. And just in case they do, we have a Gauss Rifle."

[vkiNm]

"Yeah, you're right.." The Driver Carmine nodded.

"And if that's not enough Dakka for you, we've still got the Bushmaster!" Added in the Gunner Carmine, gesturing at his station where he controls the 25mm machine gun that your vehicle is equipped with.

[~Neri]

"Yes we do."

"On another note: Last mission we lost radio contact with the other groups when they left our line of sight. Next mission I intend to acquire relays for us to set up to ensure contact with the APC. However expect to lose radio contact. The tablet ping oddly worked last mission, so ping us if you need us to pull out fast. We'll ping you if we need a quick evac at the entryway."

[Twinwolf]

Aria, not being much of a talker, is checking her weapons and armor. Don't want the armor to fall off, or for one of the weapons to jam or misfire.

[heydude6]

Arthur loaded his gun with normal rounds.

[zomara0292]

Vigil steadily and happily munched on an MRE and a energy bar. Almost as if he didn't have a care in the world.
"You shouldn't worry. They gave me 'Betsy' back. We wI'll be fin-*hack*" He coughed for a few seconds as food went down the wrong pipe, forcing him to bang his hand on his chest, to get it to go down right.
"Well. I will be fine, at least. Long as none of you shoot me in the back."

[Twinwolf]

Aria looks at Virgil. "I'll try, but not my fault if you decide to stand in front of me when I put down suppressing fire."

[vkiNm]

"They don't pay us enough for this shit, man." B. Carmine complained from his gunner's station as he does a few swivel tests with the turret.

"I just really hope everyone gets out of this alive. I hear that we wouldn't want to know the survival rate of new squads.. I really don't get why they're spending so much money on operations like this." A. Carmine said as he triple check that his carbine is where it is at the driver's compartment.

"Five minutes til we're at the AO." Came the radio again.