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[forsaken1111]

(o..okay? I meant to start from my last post, with something emerging from underground. Generally you guys post suggestions and then I combine them into the next part of the story.)

[Acanthus117]

(Oh, sorry. I got carried away with the idea of Lovecraftian beasties being used in the military. Okay, so she should tag the thing... tank... whatever it is coming out of the ground with a phosphorus flare, making it a prime target for Thrashers/mortars)

[NUKE9.13]

The dreaded MOLETANK erupts from the earth, the drill at its front spinning wildly, its primitive treads clawing it out of the tunnel it has dug. When it has emerged fully the hatches on the side open and machineguns emerge, and it begins to gun down men left and right as it trundles towards our trench.

Spoiler: Basically this but with a giant drill on the front (click to show/hide)

[Digital Hellhound]

The tank stops moving for a minute, and unloads a squad of soldiers in powered armour suits, carrying massive machineguns. They spread out and advance along the tank.

[Armok]

bump

[Digital Hellhound]

Bumpity-bump-bump.

[forsaken1111]

(I was busy this weekend.)

I am surprised by the emergence of the Moletank. Its bit pushes through the earth and the spinning treads fling mud dozens of feet into the air. As it slams back down to the ground, hatches along its side open disgorging squads of power-armored soldiers. They deploy along the tank as the steel beast itself turns and begins to rumble in our direction. Machine gun turrets swing out from its side and rake the trenches, forcing me to duck down under cover. I hear a high-pitched whine as several of the soldiers' weapons discharge. I don't know what they are, but they make a great flash and pop when fired, and chunks of earth vanish.

I peek above again, reaching back for a phosphorous grenade. My hand is guided by inhuman instincts as a hurl the grenade, and the grenade bounces off a soldier's head before bursting. The white phosphorous burns at his suit, and he screams as he falls. His death sends up a cloud of white smoke, marking the location.

A lieutenant near me is shouting into the radio, something about fire support, when a wooden fragment blown out from a nearby impact slices through his neck. He falls back, fear in his eyes, as he slowly bleeds out. The radio handset falls into the mud, but I can hear a voice on the line. I pick it up and listen.


What do I hear?

[Caesar]

"Mark the area to strike with a flare gun!"

The radio goes silent.

[NUKE9.13]

"Forget about Freeman!"
(j/k lol
oh gods i did not just type that)

[Armok]

Flying monkeys attack, then evryone starts dancing, and soon the entire sim crashes and the synthetic voice asks you to stand by while waiting for tech support. (seriusly, it was just geting sillier and sillier, we can save it by saying somone was messing with the sim.)

[Digital Hellhound]

Flying monkeys attack, then evryone starts dancing, and soon the entire sim crashes and the synthetic voice asks you to stand by while waiting for tech support. (seriusly, it was just geting sillier and sillier, we can save it by saying somone was messing with the sim.)

Vetoing this.

(Wut, how is this getting sillier and sillier?)

[Caesar]

Flying monkeys attack, then evryone starts dancing, and soon the entire sim crashes and the synthetic voice asks you to stand by while waiting for tech support. (seriusly, it was just geting sillier and sillier, we can save it by saying somone was messing with the sim.)

Vetoed. It is not only silly, but it also suggests something silly as a solution on a (non-existent) problem concerning silliness. Therefore, it is too silly to be considered.

[forsaken1111]

Flying monkeys attack, then evryone starts dancing, and soon the entire sim crashes and the synthetic voice asks you to stand by while waiting for tech support. (seriusly, it was just geting sillier and sillier, we can save it by saying somone was messing with the sim.)

(Which part did you find silly?)

[NUKE9.13]

Flying monkeys attack, then evryone starts dancing, and soon the entire sim crashes and the synthetic voice asks you to stand by while waiting for tech support. (seriusly, it was just geting sillier and sillier, we can save it by saying somone was messing with the sim.)

(Veto. What is so silly about a moletank? Ok; it is not realistic, but it is a simulation. A training simulation. Facing a terrifying yet slow and predictable foe is an excellent way to learn combat techniques.
Also, veto my own suggestion about the radio saying 'Forget about Freeman!'
A serious suggestion follows)

You look around; there is no flare gun nearby, and the burning soldier is not the right colour.

A glowing figure appears again, superimposed over your vision. It is of a figure striking a pose, with fire emerging from their fingers.
'To use Pyrokinesis, think 'Operation 3''

[Armok]

(the moletank, power armor, blatantness of our abailities... Seems like a genre change. maybe silly wasn't the right word. I think the game shuld keep being lovecraftian, not a watered down 40k)

(Ninjaedit: good point, nevermind my sugestion. Still, thinking "operation someting or another" shuld NOT be how they are activated in the real world...)