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[Stirk]

Looks like we are pretty unanimous on this!

Produce 2 Oversights and a nice box for one of them.
Equip all our agents with pistols, armour, and a grenade.
Equip all but two agents with carbines, the last two get an oversight and extra grenades.

2 Oversights are produced (-40R) and the squad is kitted out as requested.

Phase 3/1: Battle Report

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The battle report room has at least two dozen monitors, most of which were off. The eight largest were currently active, each showing the POV of a camera (seven for the squad, one for the deployment vehicle). One of the men was fiddling with the Oversight. The vehicle's camera shows the team approaching the target, a multiple story hospital. Many of the windows were broken open, and the parking lot was empty hinting at an evacuation. The vehicle slams to a stop and the men immediately hop into action. The front door was blocked, something solved by a few kicks from one of the breachers. A snapped broom on the other side indicates the door had been bared. The lights were out and the hallway was dark, though light coming in through the windows was enough to see by. More interestingly the first enemies had been spotted. Three where humanoid, with green skin and an anemic build. Visible wounds covered their bodies, including missing jaws, eyes, and exposed pulsating brains in one case. These creature were dubbed "Zombies". One was a humanoid skeleton, yellow with age and cracked in several places. This creature was unimaginatively named "Skeletons". The zombies were not visibly armed and dressed in rags. The skeleton was equipped with a beat up sword and shield, and adorned with a simple metal helmet.

The Oversight is shown working properly, though they are unnecessary for these targets. The mission perimeters indicated they were going in loud, one of the soldiers immediately put a grenade to good use with a cry of "Frag out!". The following explosion took out two of the zombies. The skeleton was in the blast range, but apparently no worse for ware. The enemies began shambling forth as the soldiers released a burst of gunfire. Several hits crashed into the zombie's center mass to little effect, apparently just to see what would happen. The soldiers have enough pop-culture knowledge to finish with a series of head-shots. The skeleton withstands fire much better, its structure makes it a difficult target and it is apparently much more resistant. Bullets fly crack its ribs, pierce its helmet, and break its shield arm without noticeably slowing it down. But the drum of gunfire continues. It immediately falls apart after a shot to the leg, with the Oversight picking up "Something" leaving the now motionless bones behind.

The squad reloads before proceeding through the building carefully, checking each room with the Oversight before moving forward.  Nothing comes up for several floors. The group is shown preceding down the hallway when the Oversight picks up something ahead of them. The team halts immediately, looking for any sign of what it shows. A tense moment of nothing, then the team scrambles as a massive crack appears in the ceiling. It caves in moments later, with several zombies and a skeleton crawling out of the wreckage. The Oversight users check their tools to make sure nobody in in the way before shouting and spamming grenades on the grouped up enemy. Four explosions later, and all targets are taking down. The team continues to sweep the building, finding no other targets. Several more sweeps were performed to find any lingering invisible forces, but the test turn up clean.

A cleanup crew recovered the corpses and is currently performing medical evaluations on the soldiers to insure they are not infected in any way. The higher ups are happy with your performance, but are confident the mission was a simple one. In the end your budget increased by 120R.

Phase 4 Round 1
Dissection/Development Phase

180R
Current Designs:

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M4 Carbine: M9 Handguns: Interceptor Body Armor: M67 Fragmentation grenades
Low/Free/None.
Standard starting equipment. Some researchers theorize that the equipment you receive is old, damaged, or even sabotaged by enemy infiltrators. If true, than even producing clones in house would lead to more efficient weaponry.

SD1 "Oversight"
A basic handheld device with a small monitor attached to it. The device uses a combination of radar, infrared, and other techniques to locate other entities in the rough direction where it's pointed at. Anything detected shows up on the small monitor. The device is small and can be easily stored by anyone.
This device can be used by anyone and can be flicked on, improving our teams' spatial awareness at all times and keeping them from being caught unaware. It's recommended that multiple people get it to provide redundancy, but otherwise one person can operate the device while the rest have their weapons equipped, and the device can easily be stowed if needed.
Very Low/20R/Fragile, Weather Weak

Current Equipment:

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2 Oversights
1 Zombie Corpse (Damaged)
5 Zombie Corpse (Heavily Damaged)
Two Skeletons (Damaged)
Two Skeleton Shields/Swords/Helmets

Current Enemies:

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Zombies
Anemic green humanoids, typically with visible injuries that would normally disable a human. The field has shown them to be highly resistant to damage to anywhere that isn't the head. Slow, shambling, and weak they are no danger to our soldiers in open combat. As such they seem to prefer ambush tactics, and are apparently numerous enough that overwhelming numbers might become an issue in the future. The nature of their weakness means that most zombie corpses will not have intact brains when recovered, however it also means that "live" subjects will relatively simple to obtain. Soldiers are already planning to dismember a subject, and will attempt to do so if the mission is fully under control.

Skeletons
Human skeletons, often scratched and damaged. Field testing has shown them to be highly resistant to damage at all points on their body. It seems that they can only take so much damage before collapsing into a pile of bones (which primary testing has shown to be completely mundane). More interestingly, it seems that an invisible force is manipulating it like a puppet. Something is shown retreating from a skeleton on their "death". It can apparently leave the skeleton before death at will, and appears to have been used as a sort of scout for ambushes. They are all accompanied by a sword, shield, and helmet.

Current Technology:
None!

It is currently the Dissection/Development phase! I'll be around to price check any new technology if necessary.

[RAM]

The vehicle slams to a stop and the men immediately hope into action.

I expect that this contains a mistyped word, but choose to add it literally to my headcannon.

I would love to investigate this animating force, and congratulations on the oversight idea, it seems to have been needed!

[Hibou]

There's two things I'd like to check out this round:

1) Figure out the nature behind this "puppetmaster" controlling the skeletons

2) Look into a way of immobilizing these and other targets with less than obvious weak points.

For the second, I have an idea floating around for how we could go about it. Let me introduce to you...

SLUDG
(Semi-Liquid Uniform De-mobilization Glue)

The idea is that it's a cross between spray-able foam insulation and rubber cement.

(Side note: I am not a chemist so this is probably not accurate at all. I did my best but wikipedia can only teach so much.)
It's a two-step process, featuring one solvent with a special polymer inside stored in one container and another catalyst stored in another. These two are combined in a mixing chamber where the catalyst begins to neutralize the solvent, reducing its solubility. This also produces heat, which in part reduces the strength that the polymer chains have leftover. This mixture is them sprayed out of the nozzle, where the polymer chains cool and as they are no longer held in stasis inside the solvent they reform quickly into long, strong chains that form a thick ooze on whatever the mixture was sprayed on in a matter of seconds. The neutralizing solvent sprayed along with it releases gas bubbles as it undergoes the process, puffing up the goop until it expands and cools into a strong, stretchy foam that can hold a person and possibly something stronger in place where it stands.

The end product is a goop that can be transported in a liquid form and can undergo a chemical reaction on demand that can turn it into a foam that expands and then hardens or at least thickens very quickly as to immobilize whatever it's being fired at. This design hopefully can create a foam that will be strong enough to immobilize something with the strength of an average human, but later versions could up the ante to hold down something bigger like a werecreature or moving vehicle. Having a backup chemical that can dissolve the SLUDG is handy, but not necessarily required so long as the soldiers understand not to point the gun at eachother.

[Stirk]

SLUDG: Lets say 100R for level one, then doubling in price each level after that.

[RAM]

Can I get a price-check for:
Analyze the Oversight readings of theskeleton deaths?
Check the integrity and possible marketability(They might be of value as antiques or archaeological finds) of the equipment on the skeletons?
Braaaaaains?
Shotguns with incendiary rounds from the international arms market? Preferably metric...

[Stirk]

Can I get a price-check for:
Analyze the Oversight readings of theskeleton deaths?
Check the integrity and possible marketability(They might be of value as antiques or archaeological finds) of the equipment on the skeletons?
Braaaaaains?
Shotguns with incendiary rounds from the international arms market? Preferably metric...

Analyze the Oversight readings of theskeleton deaths?

Unlikely to yield anything of value, but it wouldn't cost anything.

Check the integrity and possible marketability(They might be of value as antiques or archaeological finds) of the equipment on the skeletons?

It would cost one of the equipment (as they would be "lost" when transferring them to antique specialists). Probably possible to get other information out of them at the same time with high success rate.

Braaaaaains?

A bunch of Zombie heads. Due to all the brains being filled with a large amount of shrapnel and bullets, you are unlikely to get much useful information.

Shotguns with incendiary rounds from the international arms market? Preferably metric...

Probably something to do in the design phase.

[RAM]

1 S.L.U.D.G.(100r/200r/400r...): RAM
1 - lvl1: RAM
0 Skeleton smoke(improbable):
1 Skeloot(-skeloot): RAM
0 Braaaaaains(-braaaaains, very hard):

[VoidSlayer]

I want to look at the sword and shield the skeleton had.  Where did they come from, how were they manufactured.  That might point to where the skeletons are coming from.

[Mallos]

Is there any chance for us to figure out the "force" moving the skeletons during this phase?

[Madman198237]

I'd propose a different technology than the sludge:

ABC Scrambler:
Aural, Biological, Chemical scrambler---these things wreck hearing, balance, vision, and even your sense of smell through a combination of a flashbang's extreme bright flash and deafening noise and an assortment of fun chemical irritants that do not hang in the air. They are specifically designed to incapacitate anything human or monstrous. We presume that the skeletons will likely be unaffected (Bright flashes, loud noises, and chemical irritants don't do much when you don't actually have eyes, ears, or a nervous system), but there's always the "Hit in head with moderately heavy thrown object" approach, I guess.

-----This technology will be a nice stepping stone to incapacitating grenades or even some sort of ammunition that scrambles targets' nervous systems and such. If your frags don't kill all your enemies, and the Oversight says something's behind that door, toss TWO frags, then toss in one of these things. Guaranteed to make the job easier. And less dangerous.

[Mallos]

I'd propose a different technology than the sludge:

ABC Scrambler:
Aural, Biological, Chemical scrambler---these things wreck hearing, balance, vision, and even your sense of smell through a combination of a flashbang's extreme bright flash and deafening noise and an assortment of fun chemical irritants that do not hang in the air. They are specifically designed to incapacitate anything human or monstrous. We presume that the skeletons will likely be unaffected (Bright flashes, loud noises, and chemical irritants don't do much when you don't actually have eyes, ears, or a nervous system), but there's always the "Hit in head with moderately heavy thrown object" approach, I guess.

-----This technology will be a nice stepping stone to incapacitating grenades or even some sort of ammunition that scrambles targets' nervous systems and such. If your frags don't kill all your enemies, and the Oversight says something's behind that door, toss TWO frags, then toss in one of these things. Guaranteed to make the job easier. And less dangerous.

I second this.

[RAM]

Can we attempt to improve our understanding of what parts of the oversight detected things and attempt to understand how to improve our ability to percieve this stuff?
Spectral Sensors

I am beginning to think that we may want to hold off on selling our loot until we can set up some obfuscation. It may be worth a design to set up some contacts to price-check our loot and look into its background without being easily traced...
Obfuscated public contact
Market prices
Historical analysis
Occult research

I would like to consider some sort of dedicated shield agents to block dragon-fire or terracotta javelins, and possibly lugging around turrets, like a minugun position or something. It'd be nice if our agents were ludicrously strong, even if it meant them also being ludicrously slow.
Powered lifting costumes.

[Madman198237]

What, do you want to bottle up those skeleton animating spirits, subvert them to our purposes, and have disposable, fashionably-clad 10th century armored knights backing us up as muscle?

Actually, next turn we should have more stuff to dissect with regards to the animating spirits, so next turn we could dissect a skeleton to figure out what exactly that spirit is.

That said, this turn I REALLY want to go for the incapacitation munitions. Frags don't usually kill zombies, it seems, so the ABC grenades ought to be a very valuable thing to have.

[Stirk]

Is there any chance for us to figure out the "force" moving the skeletons during this phase?

There is a very low chance of finding anything on the force with the resources you have, someone suggested looking at the Oversight readings.

I'd propose a different technology than the sludge:

ABC Scrambler:
Aural, Biological, Chemical scrambler---these things wreck hearing, balance, vision, and even your sense of smell through a combination of a flashbang's extreme bright flash and deafening noise and an assortment of fun chemical irritants that do not hang in the air. They are specifically designed to incapacitate anything human or monstrous. We presume that the skeletons will likely be unaffected (Bright flashes, loud noises, and chemical irritants don't do much when you don't actually have eyes, ears, or a nervous system), but there's always the "Hit in head with moderately heavy thrown object" approach, I guess.

-----This technology will be a nice stepping stone to incapacitating grenades or even some sort of ammunition that scrambles targets' nervous systems and such. If your frags don't kill all your enemies, and the Oversight says something's behind that door, toss TWO frags, then toss in one of these things. Guaranteed to make the job easier. And less dangerous.

Probably something you could already make in design phase without the need for special technology. Technology to boost its effects would probably be 50R per level.

Spectral Sensors-50R per level

Obfuscated public contact
Market prices
Historical analysis
^Can probably be combined to one 100R research, in addition to things like forming grey market transactions.

Occult research-Need more of a description to work with.

Powered lifting costumes-300R, probably somewhat difficult.

The above price checks are easy unless noted.

[Madman198237]

How much science fiction can enter into this game?