<span style='color:gray'><u>*goes towards armor and starts building it* "Man, nanotechnology and natural medicine should always work together. I'm feeling great with that juice sparks, and those nannies you gave Shade.... man.... I'm not even bleading now"</u></span>
<span style='color:gray'><span style='font-family:Courier'>"Hmmm thats odd, these skulks....they just rushed in. Iv'e spent over a year studying their behavior and they still surprise me. Still, i woulden't expect this kind of behavior unless their certian we'll be easy prey." *Reloads and helps build the armory* "lets hope i'm wrong eh?" *smiles*</span></span>
<span style='color:white'> "As long as i have Wynona, the Pointy Kittys dont stand a chance" *Ed hugs Wynona, then gets back to guarding, completely forgetting that turrets ARE setup and working*</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *stumbles out of the bathroom, breathing hard* *starts to fall but catches self against the opposite wall with arms* "Stupid...freaking...medicine..." *starts to inch towards the armory, holding abdoman* *walks up the the guard booth* "Hello, I'm Private Delta. I'm quite late for my shift since I had...severe stomach problems from medication." *the guard tuts me then opens the door, waving me in* "Thanks..." *me inchs in, bent over a bit from the pain* *gears up* *pops a few painkillers to get rid of the pain along with some anti-diareahha pills* *can now walk feebly over to the IPs* *attemepts to hide it from the Staff Sargeant* *tells my tale to the Sargeant, and gets folded into the next group of men to be phased in after being diciplined about a million things I should of but didn't do during my dilemma* *takes position on the IP, waiting with the next wave of men to be phased* *as I mull over my past experience, the room flashes before my eyes in a bright flare of blue*
*I warp in on the IP* *me steps off, coughs a bit to articulate, then begins to quote* "Hello. Excuse me please, sirs. I was told to report to Blood Gulch Outpost #1 and report to whoever is in charge." </span></span>
<b>I'm baaack. Got things sorted out, so yay. Above post is my ingame reason for my absence. I've read up, and I have to say, I like the new way of judging how attacks work. Nice idea on xect's part. Hope the temp DM continues with it.
Ah yes, and a cookie to whoever knows where that quote that is <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->.</b>
<span style='color:gray'><u>*sees Terran* "Hey man, you finally apeared" *stops building armory, and goes greet Terran* "Missed quite a show here. Some skulk rush..... and I was the first person to get injured...... crapy thing"</u></span> <b>Gonna act a bit like DM now. Armory done</b>
<b>Good thing you're back Terran. What happened by the way? (sorry, kinda deleted the PM you sent me)</b>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"Yeah, Spark doesn't like my so-called "high tech" medicines, and I don't like his herbal remedies, but they do work well together. Except when there's weird side effects." *winks at Spark* "Anyway, nothing high tech about this gear, except the nanobots - all tried and true methods of stitching people back up. Hey, Terran! Where've you been?"</span></span>
<b>A girl! A girl! See! Pink armor!</b> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <span style='color:green'>"Hey Terran, I'm Jaeger. Nice to have an extra hand here." *safes his LMG, places on the deck near the turret factory* "Well let's see, Onos as bad as they say? Aside from the occasional "mah buddeh was crawlin on the deck sayin "hey man... ah can't feel muh laigs" and ah told him "son... yew ain't got no laigs..."" stories, then nah, a single Onos isn't much of a big deal. You just need a coordinated fireteam to bring it down." *pulls out a ration bar from a belt pouch* "Then again, this isn't Sigma K., and you're not fending off a dozen of them at once from behind a corrugated steel barricade with a couple hotwired siege guns and six LMGs as your only speakable defense."</span>
<b>"hey, where'd my body go? you gotta be kidding. darnit you guys!" "Tucker did it!"</b>
<span style='color:blue'>"glad you could join us Terran. You missed some action already"
*points to the bodies piled up in the corner*
*grabs some spare clips from the armoury and puts them in pouches on belt. grabs some more and fills pockets up. clambers back on top of the boxes*</span>
<span style='color:purple'><b> *Stamps foot.* " HEY !!! My herbal medicnes don't have <i>that</i> bad of a side effect, think of them as a booster....with herbal medcines in them." *Grumbles about something of nano junk.* " Let's not start a argument." *Sits down and waits for something to happen.*</b></span>
<span style='color:gray'><u>*sits down by the TF and takes out a vodka bottle* "Not exactly the right time, but we could tell some war stories..... it wouldn't be that bad" </u></span>
<b>Ed would do well to remain guarding for a while, we've only finished 1 or 2 of the turrets (maybe 3, I dunno...) <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
<span style='color:00FF00'>"Don't worry Terran, I was late for the mission too... However in my case it turns out there was a bunch of us flown into the wrong Guardpost. Command blames us, but I don't see how over a dozen of us on a 40-passenger transport could have all gotten it wrong especially when all 15 of us were assigned to this place... Luckily I was the only one of us assigned to a squad currently on a mission..." *Checks each of the buildings over, nodding in satisfaction as his HUD reports each one as complete and fully operational, frowning slightly as he arrives at the second, unbuilt, infantry portal. He immediately begins work on it* "And Jaeger, outnumbered almost two to one by Oni? I think I woulda crapped myself and starting running as fast as I could! How did you take them all down? Seiged em all to death?" *Pauses building for a moment to look over his LMG* "These things don't <i>look</i> like they could stop an Onos...."</span>
<span style='color:white'> "You'd be surprised how evil those Onos are, last time i messed with one, i was doing cartwheels and ripped a panel off the armory, WITH MY FACE." *Ed continues walking around on guard*</span>
<b>back. if we aren't gunna have a com for an entire week, mind if I jump in the cc? treat it like the com temporarily logged off or something in a real game? esp. as we already have a DM. and btw, I am the only girl here, right?</b>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>" hello, terran. I'm Dea, nice to meet you. The cleanups just about done, so all there is left to do is hump the armory <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->" "comm, comm?" [jumps in CC]</b> </span>
<b>I don't see the point dea, we wont be finding anything even remotely alien or building anything for the next week <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Well... We *could* go out and claim a res node.... That wouldn't be TOO bad would it? But we should focus more on scouting if we're going to leave the base...
And the pink armour thing is a Red vs Blue reference I think (I've only watched up to episode 13 or 14, I've gotten a little behind this month... So I'm not 100% sure), So as far as I know, yes you are still the only female.</b>
<span style='color:00FF00'>"So we have Jaeger's crew taking down and dozen Onos on one hand, and Ed here having an Onos use him for some impromptu panel beating on an armoury? Heh... Seems these aliens have problems with rookies too... Though uh... Know I really have to ask the BOTH of you... How are you still standing... and more importantly... BREATHING?"
*Looks horrified at the the thought of having to one day face an Onos himself...*</span>
<span style='color:green'>"Simple answer? Siege them." *notes Revenge's reaction* "Don't spread this around. If the echelon ever found out my last unit did this, I'd be on charges. Our commander dropped an armory in the middle of a corridor chokepoint, and disabled it. Without recognition from the nanogrid, the sieges registered it as a hostile target and opened fire. While they were busy, we smashed their firing controls and the siege guns were frozen on their last orders. All that was left was waiting for the Onii to storm the corridor, and we poured as much fire as we could into the ones that got inside the sieges' minimum range." *pulls out an LMG magazine from his belt pack* "It also helps to have plenty of these."</span>
<span style='color:orange'>*puts last CZU clip into belt, begins programming armoury to make .357 cal ammo for P229s, gets zapped* "Ah, sh!t! Piece of junk." *kicks armoury* "Terran, you're just in time. Think you can hotwire this thing to give me ammo for my P229s?" *hears talk about Oni* "You guys got off easy. First time I fought an Onos, I had every bone in my body broken. And I think my leg was crushed paper thin. It's amazing what med nano dispensers can do isn't it? What happened after that, anyway. Last thing I remember before passing out was that I said something about a frieght train. Next thing I know, I wake up on a door-turned-stretcher, Night's holding my P229, I lost the other one, and I'm all in one piece."</span> <b>Dea, I'm almost positive you're the only girl on this thread. I'm not sure about the rest of the forum though.</b>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"Don't get your knickers in a twist, Spark, I never said anything about your herbal stuff on its own. Just in combination with the nanobots." *walks over to armory and starts filling up his ammo pouch* "Yeah, you were in pretty bad shape Dark. I'm surprised you didn't wind up with bones looking like spaghetti after the nanoes were done. They must've fixed that bug." *grins* </span></span>
<b>/me walks up to Khan and spams the use and flashlight keys <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
<b>oh, ok. sorry about missing the red vs. blue referance. i never heard of it. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> and even though we are not likely to do anything major in the next week, we could cap a res node, drop an observatory, something like that. i'm open to suggestions. or we can chat for anouther week <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->. doesnt matter. </b>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *smirks* "Oh come now. I missed all that because I came in 30 minutes or so late? Madness <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->. Hope you didn't get banged up too bad P-Khan. Last mission I got tagged and almost bagged <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->." *me looks at Dea* "Ah, we have a new face. Female too. Salutations ma'am." *me takes a small bow* *sees Dark kick the armory* "Whay, that's not the best thing to do to the most vital gizmo in the whole damn base." *walks over a bit to the armory* *adds a few more lines of code on the balistics of the P229 round and then hits enter* *a beep is given off in affirmation* "Done. You should test fire the first clip of rounds you get from it to make sure it isn't off. I don't exactly trust my hand at messing with this sort of stuff. Should work fine though." *looks at Revenge* "Don't worry. Won't be that bad...facing an onos. Hell, you won't even be facing it. You'll be running away from it probably along with the rest of us <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->." </span></span>
<b>I was gone because it was quite hard during my first week of school. Schedule was a bit hectic till I sorted it out, so I couldn't really post in the forums. But I'm back, yay.
Yay, I know don't feel so odd. I'm not the only one who watchs Red vs Blue <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->.
"If we get out of this thing alive...I'm gonna kill both of yeh...<i>slowly</i>."</b>
<span style='color:purple'><b> *At the mention of spaghetti his stomach rumbles.* "Er have we got any food in this place ? I didn't eat much before we left."</b></span>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>*tosses Spark one of his spare ration bars, leaving 2* "Here you go. Save some for later, I don't have much left."</span></span>
<span style='color:purple'><b> *Munches it quickly, starts choking, drinks water from his flask and gasps.* " Thanx, want some ?" *Breaks a bit off and starts wondering.* "Could nanites or nannytes watever be programmed to destroy something instead of cure ?"</b></span>
<span style='color:00FF00'>"Hmmm I dunno guys... I wanna believe that those Onos aren't so bad... It's just that.... No... Nevermind, just forget it...."
*Looks uncomfortably at his feet for a while before finishing the IP*</span>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"What...no-one's told you about Tau Ceti 8?" *gets a blank look* "Some corporate scientists were working on a type of nanite that would self-replicate and seek out and destroy the Kharaa bacterium wherever it was found. The initial trials were successful. What no-one counted on was the bug in the nanites' reproduction code. The initial release of nanites worked as expected. The ones that had been created by other nanites, however, thought *everything* was Kharaa. You can guess what happened to the outpost after that. The TSA was called in, and wound up nuking the entire surface of the planet into a sheet of glass from orbit. Nothing survived." *walks over to the res node and kicks it* "That's part of the reason why these are so tightly controlled."</span></span>
<span style='color:white'> "If I remember the atricle right, all nanites are hardcoded to not be able to destroy, sxome R&D guys back in the mid 21st century made some "Assassin" nanites,damnt things went haywire. took out a lab, and cause the quarintine of San Delarosa island. Of course, i could be wrong. " *Ed goes back to guarding*</span>
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"Man, nanotechnology and natural medicine should always work together. I'm feeling great with that juice sparks, and those nannies you gave Shade.... man.... I'm not even bleading now"</u></span>
*Reloads and helps build the armory*
"lets hope i'm wrong eh?"
*smiles*</span></span>
*Ed hugs Wynona, then gets back to guarding, completely forgetting that turrets ARE setup and working*</span>
*stumbles out of the bathroom, breathing hard*
*starts to fall but catches self against the opposite wall with arms*
"Stupid...freaking...medicine..."
*starts to inch towards the armory, holding abdoman*
*walks up the the guard booth*
"Hello, I'm Private Delta. I'm quite late for my shift since I had...severe stomach problems from medication."
*the guard tuts me then opens the door, waving me in*
"Thanks..."
*me inchs in, bent over a bit from the pain*
*gears up*
*pops a few painkillers to get rid of the pain along with some anti-diareahha pills*
*can now walk feebly over to the IPs*
*attemepts to hide it from the Staff Sargeant*
*tells my tale to the Sargeant, and gets folded into the next group of men to be phased in after being diciplined about a million things I should of but didn't do during my dilemma*
*takes position on the IP, waiting with the next wave of men to be phased*
*as I mull over my past experience, the room flashes before my eyes in a bright flare of blue*
*I warp in on the IP*
*me steps off, coughs a bit to articulate, then begins to quote*
"Hello. Excuse me please, sirs. I was told to report to Blood Gulch Outpost #1 and report to whoever is in charge."
</span></span>
<b>I'm baaack. Got things sorted out, so yay. Above post is my ingame reason for my absence. I've read up, and I have to say, I like the new way of judging how attacks work. Nice idea on xect's part. Hope the temp DM continues with it.
Ah yes, and a cookie to whoever knows where that quote that is <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->.</b>
"Hey man, you finally apeared"
*stops building armory, and goes greet Terran*
"Missed quite a show here. Some skulk rush..... and I was the first person to get injured...... crapy thing"</u></span> <b>Gonna act a bit like DM now. Armory done</b>
<b>Good thing you're back Terran. What happened by the way? (sorry, kinda deleted the PM you sent me)</b>
*winks at Spark*
"Anyway, nothing high tech about this gear, except the nanobots - all tried and true methods of stitching people back up. Hey, Terran! Where've you been?"</span></span>
<span style='color:green'>"Hey Terran, I'm Jaeger. Nice to have an extra hand here."
*safes his LMG, places on the deck near the turret factory*
"Well let's see, Onos as bad as they say? Aside from the occasional "mah buddeh was crawlin on the deck sayin "hey man... ah can't feel muh laigs" and ah told him "son... yew ain't got no laigs..."" stories, then nah, a single Onos isn't much of a big deal. You just need a coordinated fireteam to bring it down."
*pulls out a ration bar from a belt pouch*
"Then again, this isn't Sigma K., and you're not fending off a dozen of them at once from behind a corrugated steel barricade with a couple hotwired siege guns and six LMGs as your only speakable defense."</span>
*Jumps on him and hugs him*
"Where did you go?!??!"</b></span>
<span style='color:blue'>"glad you could join us Terran. You missed some action already"
*points to the bodies piled up in the corner*
*grabs some spare clips from the armoury and puts them in pouches on belt. grabs some more and fills pockets up. clambers back on top of the boxes*</span>
*Stamps foot.*
" HEY !!! My herbal medicnes don't have <i>that</i> bad of a side effect, think of them as a booster....with herbal medcines in them."
*Grumbles about something of nano junk.*
" Let's not start a argument."
*Sits down and waits for something to happen.*</b></span>
"Not exactly the right time, but we could tell some war stories..... it wouldn't be that bad"
</u></span>
<span style='color:00FF00'>"Don't worry Terran, I was late for the mission too... However in my case it turns out there was a bunch of us flown into the wrong Guardpost. Command blames us, but I don't see how over a dozen of us on a 40-passenger transport could have all gotten it wrong especially when all 15 of us were assigned to this place... Luckily I was the only one of us assigned to a squad currently on a mission..."
*Checks each of the buildings over, nodding in satisfaction as his HUD reports each one as complete and fully operational, frowning slightly as he arrives at the second, unbuilt, infantry portal. He immediately begins work on it*
"And Jaeger, outnumbered almost two to one by Oni? I think I woulda crapped myself and starting running as fast as I could! How did you take them all down? Seiged em all to death?"
*Pauses building for a moment to look over his LMG*
"These things don't <i>look</i> like they could stop an Onos...."</span>
*winks*</span>
*Ed continues walking around on guard*</span>
and btw, I am the only girl here, right?</b>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>" hello, terran. I'm Dea, nice to meet you. The cleanups just about done, so all there is left to do is hump the armory <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->"
"comm, comm?"
[jumps in CC]</b> </span>
Well... We *could* go out and claim a res node.... That wouldn't be TOO bad would it? But we should focus more on scouting if we're going to leave the base...
And the pink armour thing is a Red vs Blue reference I think (I've only watched up to episode 13 or 14, I've gotten a little behind this month... So I'm not 100% sure), So as far as I know, yes you are still the only female.</b>
<span style='color:00FF00'>"So we have Jaeger's crew taking down and dozen Onos on one hand, and Ed here having an Onos use him for some impromptu panel beating on an armoury? Heh... Seems these aliens have problems with rookies too... Though uh... Know I really have to ask the BOTH of you... How are you still standing... and more importantly... BREATHING?"
*Looks horrified at the the thought of having to one day face an Onos himself...*</span>
*notes Revenge's reaction*
"Don't spread this around. If the echelon ever found out my last unit did this, I'd be on charges. Our commander dropped an armory in the middle of a corridor chokepoint, and disabled it. Without recognition from the nanogrid, the sieges registered it as a hostile target and opened fire. While they were busy, we smashed their firing controls and the siege guns were frozen on their last orders. All that was left was waiting for the Onii to storm the corridor, and we poured as much fire as we could into the ones that got inside the sieges' minimum range."
*pulls out an LMG magazine from his belt pack*
"It also helps to have plenty of these."</span>
"Ah, sh!t! Piece of junk."
*kicks armoury*
"Terran, you're just in time. Think you can hotwire this thing to give me ammo for my P229s?"
*hears talk about Oni*
"You guys got off easy. First time I fought an Onos, I had every bone in my body broken. And I think my leg was crushed paper thin. It's amazing what med nano dispensers can do isn't it? What happened after that, anyway. Last thing I remember before passing out was that I said something about a frieght train. Next thing I know, I wake up on a door-turned-stretcher, Night's holding my P229, I lost the other one, and I'm all in one piece."</span>
<b>Dea, I'm almost positive you're the only girl on this thread. I'm not sure about the rest of the forum though.</b>
*walks over to armory and starts filling up his ammo pouch*
"Yeah, you were in pretty bad shape Dark. I'm surprised you didn't wind up with bones looking like spaghetti after the nanoes were done. They must've fixed that bug." *grins*
</span></span>
Just say that I followed you guys around and so on. If you guys need something to do with electronics you guys can 'use' me, ok?</b>
and even though we are not likely to do anything major in the next week, we could cap a res node, drop an observatory, something like that. i'm open to suggestions. or we can chat for anouther week <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->. doesnt matter. </b>
*smirks*
"Oh come now. I missed all that because I came in 30 minutes or so late? Madness <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->. Hope you didn't get banged up too bad P-Khan. Last mission I got tagged and almost bagged <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->."
*me looks at Dea*
"Ah, we have a new face. Female too. Salutations ma'am."
*me takes a small bow*
*sees Dark kick the armory*
"Whay, that's not the best thing to do to the most vital gizmo in the whole damn base."
*walks over a bit to the armory*
*adds a few more lines of code on the balistics of the P229 round and then hits enter*
*a beep is given off in affirmation*
"Done. You should test fire the first clip of rounds you get from it to make sure it isn't off. I don't exactly trust my hand at messing with this sort of stuff. Should work fine though."
*looks at Revenge*
"Don't worry. Won't be that bad...facing an onos. Hell, you won't even be facing it. You'll be running away from it probably along with the rest of us <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->."
</span></span>
<b>I was gone because it was quite hard during my first week of school. Schedule was a bit hectic till I sorted it out, so I couldn't really post in the forums. But I'm back, yay.
Yay, I know don't feel so odd. I'm not the only one who watchs Red vs Blue <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->.
"If we get out of this thing alive...I'm gonna kill both of yeh...<i>slowly</i>."</b>
*At the mention of spaghetti his stomach rumbles.*
"Er have we got any food in this place ? I didn't eat much before we left."</b></span>
"Here you go. Save some for later, I don't have much left."</span></span>
*Munches it quickly, starts choking, drinks water from his flask and gasps.*
" Thanx, want some ?"
*Breaks a bit off and starts wondering.*
"Could nanites or nannytes watever be programmed to destroy something instead of cure ?"</b></span>
*Looks uncomfortably at his feet for a while before finishing the IP*</span>
*gets a blank look*
"Some corporate scientists were working on a type of nanite that would self-replicate and seek out and destroy the Kharaa bacterium wherever it was found. The initial trials were successful. What no-one counted on was the bug in the nanites' reproduction code. The initial release of nanites worked as expected. The ones that had been created by other nanites, however, thought *everything* was Kharaa. You can guess what happened to the outpost after that. The TSA was called in, and wound up nuking the entire surface of the planet into a sheet of glass from orbit. Nothing survived."
*walks over to the res node and kicks it*
"That's part of the reason why these are so tightly controlled."</span></span>
*Ed goes back to guarding*</span>