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[AoshimaMichio]

FUCKIN hell forgot about making post for this sorry intended to after I cinished work yesterday but things got in way. Will incoming post in several hours. Is it possible to act like I posted last turn too so I can put the actions for that in too or na?

Sure assume that you see pair of fiery smoke pillars in distance and at some point a flash followed by thunder from same direction, like star2wars3 did.

...can I fix the legs thing before the next deployment? Because the soldier not being mobile is kind of a huge nerf. 

Yeah, stuff gets fixed, rebuilt, replaced and restocked between tests.

[Xantalos]

Spoiler: Zane Tolouse moves into action! Contains a note for AoshimaMichio that pertains to how this 'whoops I accidentally missed the first turn' deal might be handled. (click to show/hide)

Right, good thing I got a hint of where the targets are starting off and such.

First turn retroactions:
Snipers: make their way to the tops of various different buildings. Look for better vantage points I can make my way to later, and keep an eye out for other supersoldiers. If I encounter ISIS people, firstly use telepathy to determine if there are many other members in that particular building. If there are too many to deal with quickly, leave and proceed to another building, using the ISIS dude's knowledge of the layout to navigate effectively. If there are enough to deal with quickly and quietly, use teleportation hax to kill them after using the telepathy thing to get their knowledge. Quietly, teleport their throats out. If I need a while to use the telepathy thing, only disable one of them and then use it. Intel is key.

Trappers: Go with three of the snipers including original Zane. Help with dealing with any ISIS dudes we may find in those buildings. Begin drone deployment - scout and such. Get some height, to give good intel. Put cameras at the entrances to the buildings we're in after they're secured, to make sure we know if anyone else enters.

Recon: Easy for now; three go one way down the road to the forest, three go the other way. Stay stealthy, eliminate any hostiles we see.

Second turn actions:
...sorry to be an ass, but there's too much that could've changed depending on what info I gathered in turn one. I assume I would've seen the smoke pillars and flash bang the first turn, so I would probably send at least one drone/recon team to investigate, maybe splitting up, but I dunno. I think what we may have to do is that you give me a summary of what happened in my first turn, tomorrow I quickly give you my actions for the turn, and you run that probably after the next one's been posted, after which I'll submit my actions for the turn that was just posted.

Sorry for the inconvenience, I got caught up in ... well, I didn't have a car when I thought I was gonna so I didn't have any time to really stop and do in-depth thinking about the thing.

[Sean Mirrsen]

((Okay, so the response is mostly positive. However I do think that it's probably a good idea to leave it till at least after the first round of testing, so that everybody has had a chance to meet each other. As we get near the end of the round, somebody remind me to ask for the visual appearances of the various soldiers so I can draw them then.))

[AoshimaMichio]

I won't be posting an update tomorrow. Probably will skip weekends altogether, because mostly during weekends I'm on a computer I don't particularly like using.

AoshimaMichio asked me a technical question about my soldier, so I am responding below.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

we never really discussed vision as being problematic for the swarm soul.

On the other hand, we have that whole robotic body stream of research, which undoubtedly would include cameras and such for navigation - like with the swarmbots and HKs. I kinda want to go OP and claim that he has a full suite of electormagnetic spectrum sensors, so he can see in visible light as well as all other types, but, even though I researched complete electromagnetic control, I don't know if it's quiiiiite justified.

I had assumed he used a "swarm eye" - basically designating part of the swarm to act as a human eye. that seems well within the parameters of the swarm soul, which can copy such delicate constructions as brains flawlessly. And my body reconstruction tech at least allows for the blueprint to be available.

At the very least he has tiny cameras mounted to swarmbots.

edit: p.s. Sean, the GM has spoken. Go for it with my soldier. Might want to spoiler each drawing so scrupulous soldier players can hold off seeing them until they have had enough contact to know anyway.

Spoiler: And Dustan (click to show/hide)

Swarm soul could indeed copy cell structure of eyes, but ultimately it needs something photosensitive to be able function as eyes. Specialized nanites could do that, but since they are specialized it means their partial destruction reduces visual capacity until replacements can be built, much like his nanite brain except he cannot fully rebuild his brain.

We could go with this?

The following spoiler may contain some information on my supersoldier. Please respect his privacy.

Spoiler: to AoshimaMichio (click to show/hide)

I don't think I gave renegadelobster immunity to the Monster Maker. If the virus acts on human DNA (like my healing virus) then he shouldn't be affected, but I don't know if you or I gave that detail. I mainly assumed he'd be shooting it far enough away from himself that this wouldn't be an issue. I forgot about the possibility of misfires, though...

Sean: That sounds like an awesome idea. I'd be happy to give you any details you need to draw renegadelobster.

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True, his DNA isn't entirely human anymore. Probably not even partially, so there's very little for the virus work on. But his BRAIN is still fully human and very delicious. In that case it is matter of luck whether he's affected or not. Imagine him going full berserk giant spider eating anything and everything he sees.

Shooting twice so close means twice the rolls. Cross your fingers.

Spoiler: @GM (click to show/hide)

 I'm pretty sure the tarantula body is not immune. Unfortunately. I'm really hoping I missed something and he did make the bodies immune but I don't remember it.

Spoiler: Stuff n' things (click to show/hide)

Shiiit. Run. This is the fastest body, let's put that speed to use. When I'm sufficiently far away hide again and look over the mortar. Try and figure out if the mortar is damaged or the rounds are. Inspect the standard mortar rounds as well. If it just looks like it was a misfire, fire another round at where the super hot air is. Be ready to run if it misfires again.

((Pre-post edit: Ninja'd by penguinofhonor.))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fastest and most agile. So the not-so-little jumping spider jumps south towards most immediate safety. You make the four meter jump easily without getting any running start, landing with all eight legs at same time. From there you jump again without wasting a single second to west putting the building between you and both MM rounds. Standing a moment next to the wall you think about your situation and area of effect of the MM round and decide this is still too close.

The road you are now on goes mostly west and east. Just few meters east the road branches to south leading to less open areas. Going there would put more buildings and distance between you and the MM rounds about to go off. You skitter two city blocks south along the road and stop by an intersection where you are fully surrounded by buildings. There's a road going east... wait no, that leads to shared backyard. Few cars are sitting there. So not really an intersection. Few meters south is real one, going to west and another twenty meters more going east. This road you are currently standing on continues further south.

Ah, your hearing is coming back already! Yay for superspeed regeneration! Just in time to hear first monster maker round go off unloading its payload, and few seconds later the second round goes off. Good time to check your equipment for failures. Hmm, the mortar is perfectly fine as far as you can tell. It's not the usual mortar you are accustomed to seeing, but still similar enough to make sound judgement. Rounds then? No, they are completely fine too considering their custom origin. Looks like simple misfire. Or perhaps it was the only dud in the stock.

Since it's all fine you try shooting again. Oh. Hmm. That probably went too far east... Btw, is this MM or standard round?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Squad 1: (me and clones 1 and 2 for future reference) Begin moving and breaching the upper floors, with me leading. Use camo matching the walls as closely as possible, then move in slowly and begin designating targets. have the clones move in and open fire afterward.
Squad 2:(clones 3 and 4 for future reference) Set up your harmonizer launchers with high magnification optics (Make them out of nanites if you have to.) and begin scanning for targets in the streets below. Armed targets first, then Civilians.
Artillery:(All drones, and any remaining clones) Begin moving from the container and scanning for targets in the nearby region. Swarmbots remain dormant for now, all hunter killer drones open fire if a target is spotted.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Squad 1: Your mostly metallic bodies have enough weight to make wooden stairs creak. You grimace and advance as quietly as you otherwise can. Next floor is apparently empty of people. Seems to be a workshop of some kind. Third floor has thankfully stone floor and has a store. As far as you can tell they are selling handmade small crafts here. Or used to; shelves are mostly empty and some have what looks like bullet holes. Looking from windows you can tell this place is a prime spot for a store. Right on outside goes probably biggest road of this pitiful city.

Highest floor is clearly a living space. It has seen better days for certain. Pale squares decorate walls where paintings most likely used to be. There's trash on floor that nobody has bothered to pick up. Using mind detection you locate the people here being all on single room. Using CH launcher here would be waste of perfectly good bullets and too loud too, so the squad readies their laser rifles (specify in future which weapon you are using). Silent weapon for silent assassinations.

The group of people here are mostly huddled together in two corners. One is alone in middle of room. Nice easy targets. You all get your aim ready and then you proceed to kick the door in and fire immediately at the target on middle making small zig zag motion for maximum cutting effect. The two others do equal small sweeps with their laser beams before you can properly see who your enemies are.

Well, shit. That was waste of time. You just killed civilians. A man, two women each with two children. Total 7 civilian corpses neatly sliced in pieces. Except the man. His face has nice Σ burned through. Dead all the same.

Squad 2: High magnification optics requires quality glass, which you do not have any. You can't really see any either here on rooftops. Though I imagine the gun having some sort of optics because it has a long range speed setting, which also doubles as armor piercing. Anyway, you don't see any civilians, or anyone really. You do however hear sound of a diesel engine from somewhere behind the main road. This main road, by the way, goes fairly straight towards the closest fire and... oh hey, something exploded over there, in mid air very close to the fire. And another explosion in same direction, though you don't see where it was. An echo, maybe?

Artillery: No spare clones. I assume every clone got a one swarmdrone control box, so only the two dudes on roof can use them. The swarm of twenty tennis ball sized drones float up making tiny "brrrrrrt" sound as they hover in place before making more noise by flying towards fires. Walker types jog outside of the container unseen and flyer types fan out in all directions. So far nothing new.

((Sure, that sounds great Sean))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Switch over to my laser rifle and head over to the occupied building.

((Question about my weapons, do they have anything like a strap or am I just carrying around a bundle of guns right now?))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The flamer has a strap sure. Laser has a clamp on your left hip where you can hold it fairly safely. The railgun... being rather big and heavy (3 meters long, mind you) most likely needs a heavy series chain if you want to carry it without using your hands. Let's say you have those so it isn't very quiet to walk with. It will definitely be on your way if you go indoors.


Straight forward, I suppose? Those heads popped from few different windows along the road, very unlikely you can get into them from same door. There's fairly good number of doors too. You cross over the road to first door, take out your laser and get check around before getting ready to bust in.

Thermograph and nightvision picks up something moving far down the road on right, about 250 meters away. That's... two something. Not humans. Dogs? No, dogs do not have six legs. And dogs actually have a head. Those don't and they have some large disk on their backs and a... tube? They move fairly smoothly, in very lifelike manner. But six legged things? Definitely something from your competitors!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Have drones remained stealth, keep 5 smg ones scout out north, and 5 south, grenade launcher drones (if any survive, pretty sure your response means they don't) and the remaining particle drones hover above the box firing at any and all heavily armed or armored hostiles that appear, any simple infantry are taken out by the rest of the drones.

Scouting drones will follow any hostiles seen till they are in range of the other drones and then open fire, or move away.
If the hostile moves away they will rejoin with the rest of the drone hoard

When legs done, move north east cutting though a side street and through some buildings, try to keep east of that smoke plume to the north I saw earlier and where that van was heading,

Fire at any odd signatures detected with heavy weaponry, try to take out any infantry in the way silently otherwise, avoid armored vehicles for now.

If a vehicle does get in the way,  test out the new "cutting laser" on it as drones take care of surrounding infantry.

Also what would the visual effect be of moving slightly faster then my stealth systems?
 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

That ISIS van was coming to you and it no longer exists, unless you count its millions pieces scattered across the landscape. The terrorists are likewise evaporated. So slightly invalid action. But drones can be sent scouting. All the smaller ones are fine. Let's see, total 10 small drones and 2 particle cannon drones. Let's say 5 have smg and other 5 have grenade launcher. So three smg drones move north and two south.

The tree going to north detects some flying object arcing to east. It seems to be fully ballistic, which indicates its point of origin fairly close to north. It will most likely fall hundred meters east of the fresh crater you made.

One of the drones going south detects a "major" road (eastbound) and what possibly could be a car being loaded with people. It's not in firing range yet.

And you prosthetics come along suprisingly nicely. You bend pair metal strips forming a cup for your stump, going up your calves a bit before bending back and under to where your feet are supposed to be. Then you wrap that in more steel sheets to keep them together, place them on your stumps and wrap even more steel to tie them in place. You stand up very carefully testing your makeshift prosthetics. Hmm, pretty nice. A bit bouncy. You pick up your heavy weapons one by one and prosthetics creack and give in a bit. Carefully, carefully man! After taking few experiment steps you come in conclusion "job well done"! Brain two takes control of one arm to give you a praising pat on your back.

Time to move out. There's something in north and something in south. And a pair of explosions in north. Not particularly loud or energetic ones. Nothing quite compares to the explosions your particle cannons can cause.

More Terrorizer to start. head away from the fire pillars for now and scrounge for the necessary equipment. Should any normal person get too close they are probably too far under the effects of the terrorizer to know how to use conventional weapons. That being said, use the minimum amount of force required to kill them. This means use the physical attacks against those without ranged weaponry. At the same time, try to do this stealthily.

Terrorizer has only two settings: on and off. And it's already on.

So best way is to move along the road and hopefully find a store selling anything televisions. You stroll along the road and listen sounds of madness reaching your ears from all directions. Inane giggling, angry shouts, screams of absolute terror. It's like walking in city sized asylum. Two people dance out of building on left, both on fire. Few moments later one starts eating other's throat out while the one being eaten starts singing a song that physically hurts your ears despite its low volume. Your zombies stagger even more than normally. you walk quickly past them.

And luck is with you! A store selling radios, televisions and other household appliances! You smash the window in and get yourself inside too. In a corner you find a half dressed woman eating circuit boards. She stares you eyes wide like a wild animal, mouth bleeding. She screech at you, grabs pair of broken radios and runs into some dark backroom. You let her be for now and instead scavange your necessary parts. You pretty much find all the electronic components you need except soldering iron. That may be found in backrooms if you think you want to bother that crazy woman.

Spoiler: Killerhellhound's thoughts (click to show/hide)

That could have gone better.
Alex, how are your hands?
That thunderclap did not seem natural.
Collect locals' weapons and ammunition, we'll have less trouble shooting weapons that can't hurt us.
Also free ammo we don't have to conserve.
Need to get out of sight and assess the battlefield.
Nearest rooftop should be good.
Get moving before the locals get brave and see us.

Spoiler: Action/question (click to show/hide)

But really, how's Alex's hands? At least that was conventional rounds..

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

His hands are physically intact. It didn't fully pierce superalloy plates on back of his hands, but it definitely crushed few control wires, and probably myomers too. Fingers are mostly useless, but thumbs still move. The weave on skin has broken much like it did when it was repeatedly fired at, so second shot would have gone through. He can still give people bitch slaps and use elbow tactics in hot dog kiosk line, but otherwise his hands are useless. It may be better to move him on autocannon duty and let others borrow his sidearm ammo and grenades.

Well fuck

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

We really should have brought a medic/repair bot as well.

Assault will investigate the movement while recon will go to opposite sides of the block and search for hostiles and support will wait to provide support to anyone who gets attacked or finds hostiles

Spoiler: Killerhellhound's thoughts (click to show/hide)

That could have gone better.
Alex, how are your hands?
That thunderclap did not seem natural.
Collect locals' weapons and ammunition, we'll have less trouble shooting weapons that can't hurt us.
Also free ammo we don't have to conserve.
Need to get out of sight and assess the battlefield.
Nearest rooftop should be good.
Get moving before the locals get brave and see us.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Collect ammo and spare weapons and after the movement is investergated move to the roof of that building to get a better view

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Recon north doesn't see much on ground level. Ther's open area between buildings on east side. Recon Harry reaches end of the road and peers in both directions of the new road. West continues uninterestingly, but from east, behind a large roundabout, you spy a headlights of another car coming. Over 300 meters.

Daniel and Erik both move to Harry while Felix waits in case Gunter needs help.

Assault team peeks in from the holes and listens carefully. They hear very faint whispers of a man and a woman. And maybe a baby babbling? It's very likely they are just unfortunate civilians who got caught in your crossfire. Have they seen you or not, that's not certain. May as well make the call and say they didn't. Unnecessary killing was never really your forte.

So the weapons. Every guy had a fairly new model assault rifle and two spare clips for them. On the car you find a pair of RPG's. Decent loot. Assault team moves onto rooftop using simple trick. One stands up and leans against wall, second sits little behind him, both offering their shoulders as steps to jump off. Third takes a bit of speed and jumps from their shulders as high as he can and basically runs up the wall right to the top. The the one sitting does the same, but using only shoulders of the one standing against the wall. He too gets up, but leaves half of his body hanging. The last on ground does his best wall running impression and catches tight hold of lower body of the second while first pulls them both up. Smooth, well practiced run.

Seeing assault team has made it up to roof, Felix moves north to assist Gunter.

Spoiler: Zane Tolouse moves into action! Contains a note for AoshimaMichio that pertains to how this 'whoops I accidentally missed the first turn' deal might be handled. (click to show/hide)

Right, good thing I got a hint of where the targets are starting off and such.

First turn retroactions:
Snipers: make their way to the tops of various different buildings. Look for better vantage points I can make my way to later, and keep an eye out for other supersoldiers. If I encounter ISIS people, firstly use telepathy to determine if there are many other members in that particular building. If there are too many to deal with quickly, leave and proceed to another building, using the ISIS dude's knowledge of the layout to navigate effectively. If there are enough to deal with quickly and quietly, use teleportation hax to kill them after using the telepathy thing to get their knowledge. Quietly, teleport their throats out. If I need a while to use the telepathy thing, only disable one of them and then use it. Intel is key.

Trappers: Go with three of the snipers including original Zane. Help with dealing with any ISIS dudes we may find in those buildings. Begin drone deployment - scout and such. Get some height, to give good intel. Put cameras at the entrances to the buildings we're in after they're secured, to make sure we know if anyone else enters.

Recon: Easy for now; three go one way down the road to the forest, three go the other way. Stay stealthy, eliminate any hostiles we see.

Second turn actions:
...sorry to be an ass, but there's too much that could've changed depending on what info I gathered in turn one. I assume I would've seen the smoke pillars and flash bang the first turn, so I would probably send at least one drone/recon team to investigate, maybe splitting up, but I dunno. I think what we may have to do is that you give me a summary of what happened in my first turn, tomorrow I quickly give you my actions for the turn, and you run that probably after the next one's been posted, after which I'll submit my actions for the turn that was just posted.

Sorry for the inconvenience, I got caught up in ... well, I didn't have a car when I thought I was gonna so I didn't have any time to really stop and do in-depth thinking about the thing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The first door snipers try turns out to be open. Ground floor is empty of both people and furniture. Second floor has only one room that isn't empty. It got a bed bunch of bottled spirits, empty bottles and one passed out man with a weapon. Looks like someone doesn't really care about the whole "no alcohol" rule. Whatever, easy pickings for you! You move ready to crush his windpipe in and pull info out of his mind.

The building is empty as you already know. It's his personal hideout where he goes drink his problems away. Nobody else has a key. Tal Afar has 500 men stationed around. Big kahuna resides in Tal Afar Citadel with 100 men and has it heavily fortified. If you follow the road to west and turn north form first intersection you basically have a straight road there. Rest of men are situated in biggest buildings scattered around the town, like a mosque 300 meters straight to north where he's supposed to be. They got snipers, lots of rifles, an RPG for each man, a plenty of AA turrets at the Citadel and few other key places, a bunch of C4 and other explosives if a suicide squad is needed. Rest of the buildings belong to civilians. Basically if the building has bigger doors than others around, you'll find ISIS warriors inside.

That's basically all info you needed from him, so you teleport his throat away and let him drown in his own blood. After deploying drones you have fairly good idea of your location. ((I hope that link works.)) And based on that you can tell, after peeking outside again, that the fires in west are about 816.18 meters away, and another is 361 meters north from that. Was that an explosion in that direction? Might have been...

Recons move south and northwest respectively some distance at which point thunder from west is heard. Recon south moves hurriedly to that direction by edge of forest and fields, but stop abrupty by first road they find when they start hearing voices from north west. Screaming, howling, shouting, singing... Sounds of confusion, pain, anger and fear. A cacophony of nightmares. Snipers move on roof top and take position, eyeing anything moving through scopes. They spot few people on rooftops in area where sounds come from. They... act weird. Jumping up and down, trying to eat each other, self mutilation, according the drones some people are on fire and dancing... Men and women, young and old, wives and husbands, parents and childrens. Insanity incarnate.

Recon north keeps going north until they hit a proper road going mostly west and east.

[NAV]

ATHATH!?

[Xantalos]

Spoiler: hmm (click to show/hide)

Recon South: That must be the effect of one of the other contestants. Carefully make our way through the screaming crowd thing - if I can get any residual thoughts that might indicate where the guy causing this is coming from, do so. Look for those seemingly unaffected by the effect and kill them. Stay hidden if possible, and if I spot any supersoldiers, assess if they have any vital parts and teleport those out. Throats or heads if possible. If I need to kill any of the crazy ones, do it quietly.

Recon North: Head to the Tal Afar Citadel thing that the sucker gave me the info for. Stay hidden, assess defenses. Any patrolling people or anything? See if I can provide opportunities for the snipers to make X-COM style squadsight headshots.

Drones: Head to those fires and the explosion. Try to get a view of whatever caused them from afar. General scouting along the way, stay stealthy.

Snipers/Trappers: Keep an eye out for any potential targets. If I spot any supersoldiers through squadsight/telescopes/drones/etc, try to score an early kill on them after determining if I can kill them in an early alpha strike.

Zane: Do as above, but also consult my stonemind counterpart to see if I'm not thinking of something.

[renegadelobster]

Spoiler: Stuff n' things (click to show/hide)

Heh. It was a Monster Maker. Search the area looking for combatants, use the mace on any I find. Go for stealth kills, otherwise go all jumping spider on them. Try and get up high to get an idea of the layout of the area. If I see a supersoldier in the distance, use a Monster Maker mortar round on them, then get the hell away. If it looks like they aren't affected, use a standard mortar round and run like hell away from them. I'll need a better plan then.

[spazyak]

Spoiler: action (click to show/hide)

use all vision modes, but  put significant emphasis  on non-photon methods such as magnetic detection and thermal, looking for any odd gaps of thermal radiation and displacancies that may be caused by photon dodge.

Drones to the north seek out the source of the projectile but do not attack yet until the rest of us meet up with it or we get in range of the cause. only follow.

Move north torwards the source of the explosions, stay off the main road and fire from the end of a secondary road or alley way.
 all gun drones, except the one detecting the vehicle (action for it below), sweep through buildings taking out any armed men found. Mortar drones and particle drones stay near me

Have the smg drones take out any lightly armored foes, mortar drones take out any entrentched infantry,

Any super soldiers or armored vehicles get 3 particle cannons to the face followed by a pike missile if they survive the particle cannon.

If I find a large group of people just start firing fragmentation grenades at each group of people to flush them out of cover before mopping them up with conventional weaponry

If I find any super soldiers entrentched in a building, level the particle cannons at the building (some distance away of course) and open fire. Then throuw in one chaff grenade, move in and sweep though avoiding the road and cut up any survivors.

Then move southwest cutting through buildings,

That drone to the south tracking the vehicle:
Have the the drone detecting the vehicle attempt to shoot the driver and passenger before flying away into a nearby building out the back door and then around to the back of the car and quickly taking out any survivors who emerge. Then move to meet up with us.

Spoiler: at he who spoons the demonic (click to show/hide)

Legs are good, might need to be carefull when running realy fast but should be fine forn normal movement.

[Xantalos]

Oh by the way I nominated this for the hall of fame thingy.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Spoiler: Killerhellhound's thoughts (click to show/hide)

Alex's hands are a mess. He should join the Support squad.
Should have brought tools. Idea for next time.
Could do a crude jury-rig for whole hand using wires from the sensors.
No fine control, but at least a kung-fu grip action.
Car incoming. These people are not our problem.
Get out of sight. Focus on finding other test subjects.
Observe surroundings, look for pockets of heat and activity.
No active radar yet. Let's not shout "we're here" in case anyone is listening.

((And on a side note, hands actually have most of their muscles in the forearms, so if anything the thumbs would be the things not working. Either that or the hits were to the forearms. No change either way, damage is damage.))

[Yottawhat]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Well shit, head to cover and try to observe the weird superscience's dogs.

[Xantalos]

Oh and Sean, for info about my guy's appearance, he's not really that anomalous - he's basically

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

twelve regular people to the outside eye. Maybe all of them would be wearing the same expression or somesuch?

[Ozarck]

Spoiler: Response to technical question, part 2 (click to show/hide)

That eye suggestion works for me, though I might suggest using specialized legos instead - less definition, but easier to replace, move about, etc, I think. either way, or both. Maybe it doesn't actually matter ... hmm ...

Digital cameras look very much like ordinary film cameras but they work in a completely different way. When you press the button to take a photograph with a digital camera, an aperture opens at the front of the camera and light streams in through the lens. So far, it's just the same as a film camera. From this point on, however, everything is different. There is no film in a digital camera. Instead, there is a piece of electronic equipment that captures the incoming light rays and turns them into electrical signals. This light detector is one of two types, either a charge-coupled device (CCD) or a CMOS image sensor.

fromhttp://www.explainthatstuff.com/digitalcameras.html

ccd and cmos work similarly, and could be an excellent basis for the digital eye. Of course, it means that, if there are blind spots for those devices (things that the device doesn't read, for example, or things that cause the device to malfunction) then they wold affect the eye as well.

Edit: Scientists, we did good. This is exciting! AoshimaMichio does good work as GM, too. No, great work!

[killerhellhound]

Spoiler: Killerhellhound's thoughts (click to show/hide)

Alex's hands are a mess. He should join the Support squad.
Should have brought tools. Idea for next time.
Could do a crude jury-rig for whole hand using wires from the sensors.
No fine control, but at least a kung-fu grip action.
Car incoming. These people are not our problem.
Get out of sight. Focus on finding other test subjects.
Observe surroundings, look for pockets of heat and activity.
No active radar yet. Let's not shout "we're here" in case anyone is listening.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The assault on top of the building will use their sensor's (minus active radar) and try to locate any other test subjects or pockets of interest while support will move to the other side of the building from the container recons will sneak that way as well staying hidden.

[Demonic Spoon]

Yeah, stuff gets fixed, rebuilt, replaced and restocked between tests.

Ah sorry, I was unclear again. I know we can repair stuff in between, I mean fix as in stop that from happening again.