Ariadne Guardpost Ii: The Evolution

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  • 343_guilty_spark343_guilty_spark Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17462Members
    <span style='color:purple'><b>
    "But this won't happen to all bacterium, only the one on this ship will start building up immunities, besides we'll only use it onos, also the bacterium shouldn't get the feeling it's being threatened. Guess it's trial and error huh ?
    *Thinks for a abit watching the RT being built.*
    " So what are hives ment to do ?"</b></span>
  • BogglesteinskyBogglesteinsky Join Date: 2002-12-24 Member: 11488Members
    <span style='color:blue'>*looks up from building*

    "When a new hive is built, the hive mind gets stronger, and this is passed into the active kharaa, ganting them new attacks because of the increased strength. The greater hive mind allows extra "upgrade" chambers to be integrated into the kharaa, granting them new abilities such as self healing - regeneration or extra armour or carapace. The increased strength allows the hive mind to combine more than one chamber. R&D have identified three and named them acocrding to thier general area of upgrades, Defence, Movement and Sensory."

    "well, thats kind of it anyway..."</span>
  • deaincaelodeaincaelo Join Date: 2003-09-11 Member: 20739Members
    <b> deff, no outside, no crashes, etc. unless exact says so.</b>
    <span style='color:yellow'><b>" i dont think the bactirium could get to the point where it completely overwhelms our nanos. the nanos evolve too, they keep up with each other. the hives produce skulks. a little factory. "
    "hey, I'm getting a blip"
    *itchy feel in the back of the head*
    "i dont think its hostile"</b> </span>
  • RokiyoRokiyo A.K.A. .::FeX::. Revenge Join Date: 2002-10-10 Member: 1471Members, Constellation
    <span style='color:00FF00'>"Hey Boogle don't forget that the new hives unlock higher lifeforms too, each one carries large amount of genetic code that each kharaa can copy to itself while it gestates, however seeing as each hive can only hold so much information, new hives need to be.... Hold on... Isn't this the squad that got blown apart at W.T Hell? The one that supposedly lied it's rear end o..."

    *Cuts himself off, remember who exactly he was speaking to*

    "I mean... That uh.... That guard in uh.... Well he... Told me that you guys.... Um... Reported seeing things that don't exactly.... Fit in... You know, with the standard Kharaa profile... You know... Uh..."

    *Trails off, realising he that he was just simply digging himself a bigger hole*</span>
  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    Ransom's entrance will be explained a bit later (When he meets up with the squad.) If you read the intro chapters you will get a bit of info on Ransom (Shameless Plug)

    <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:gray'>

    Ransom creeped up the coridoor. As far as he knew he was still in Kharra territory. He looked at the walls and ran his finger down it. It was slightly moist. There was a slight green film on it. He wiped it on his uniform. The infestation was fresh. The bacterium seemed to be spreading. Suddenly the corridoor seemed to get much darker as he pressed on. He pulled out a flashlight and attached it to his LMG. Things were beginning to get bad. He had to keep alert in case of fade attack as well as keeping on the lookout for friendly marines.

    He had to get to them.
    </span></span>
  • BogglesteinskyBogglesteinsky Join Date: 2002-12-24 Member: 11488Members
    <b>Ven, try to keep with the posting rules ( i trust you read them) *normal actions go in asterixes* [actions such as shooting skulks go in square brackets] The DM will let you know if you were successful in his post OOC text goes in bold, DM storytelling text goes in italics. "speech goes in double quotation marks" You do not make the story, Xect does. When performing an action, dont talk about yourself in the third person. You are not saying what some guy did, you are that person (hence RPG) instead of he, if you must use a pronoun, use I. sometimes it is possible to get away without one altogether, Look at other people's posts and try to match your style to thiers, otherwise it gets very confusing for all of us if we are all writing differently.</b>

    <span style='color:blue'>"i dont know about that, you werent there on the W. T. Hell, but they had onos and they sure as hell didnt have three hives. The kharaa are evolving. More dangerous, even more deadly. I just hope the R&D boys can keep up</span>
  • 343_guilty_spark343_guilty_spark Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17462Members
    <span style='color:purple'><b>
    " It's kinda like Natural Selection isn't it ? You know survival of the fittest well , hopefully we are the better spieces."
    *Looks around.*
    " So these Skulks, they aren't THAT bad are they ?"</b></span>
  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    <b>This goes against everything in RP'ing before, So I'll grin and bear it. Even though it makes it so much harder to put any feelings or expression down.....
    At least I made an introduction....
    </b>

    <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:gray'>
    *Walks into the black corridoor as a mechanical noise starts to get louder*
    "Believe it or not most of us want to find out why we're here..."
    *{I have no idea why I started to sing softly, fear perhaps, or just because it made me feel more comfortable, who knows.}*
    *I Continue down the corridoor, still singing softly while holding the LMG out making sure I cover all available corners.*
    *Suddenly through a bulkhead I hear conversation and building. It must be the squad mentioned*

    [Bangs on bulkhead to try and attract attention]

    </span></span>

    <b> Dear God that was hard to do, and I still ended up doing a little prose (Hence the "*{" I'm trying to be polite....)

    A PM has been sent to xect however if the current "Stand-In" GM wants a copy of it I'll happilly ablige!</b>
  • 343_guilty_spark343_guilty_spark Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17462Members
    <span style='color:purple'><b>
    *The banging suprises him and he screams and drops his gun, he quickly picks it ups and holds it looking everywhere desperatly.*
    "OH CRAP, CRAP, CRAP, CRAP, what the hell was that ?"
    *Jumps to a conclusion.*
    " Oh crap again it's the Kharaa, what do we do ?"</b></span>
  • BogglesteinskyBogglesteinsky Join Date: 2002-12-24 Member: 11488Members
    <span style='color:blue'>*finishes building, pulls out pistol and gets down on one knee*

    "shhh"

    *motions for others to do the same*</span>
  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    edited October 2003
    <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:gray'>
    *Realising that banging on the door may not be the best idea after hearing weapons and much more panicked speech*

    "I'm a friend! Captain James Ransom. Callsign Venmoch Rogue Platoon. I'm here to help!"
    </span></span>

    <b>A simple edit to make things easier....</b>
  • deaincaelodeaincaelo Join Date: 2003-09-11 Member: 20739Members
    <b>as im in the CC and cant hear anything not patched into the com system.</b> <span style='color:yellow'><b>"guys, that blips right on you! I have medpacks ready. WTH is it? a fade already???"
    </b> </span>
  • KhaimKhaim Join Date: 2002-06-28 Member: 841Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    <span style='color:purple'>*finishes pulling terran off the ground, hearing Ven start calling out all his TSA information*
    "Hey Dae, thats not a fade unless those things learned how to speak english... And learn the TSA ranks."
    *Walks past the res node and looks around the corner, seeing Ven/Ransom*
    "Hey, try not to yell so much, ya never know what could be around here..."
    *Glances around to emphasize his point*</span>
    <b>Ven, the idea isnt for each person to write their own fanfic, its all part of one thing, and there is no main character, so dont make you're character a 'superman' or have an absolutely amazing background... It will end up killing the rp, we are already having people going nuts and practicly 'god-moding' and xect's only been gone a few days <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->.</b>
  • Night_ShadeNight_Shade Join Date: 2003-03-28 Member: 14985Members, Constellation
    <b>/me waits patiently for xect to get back and lay down some smack <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> And what's this about us regs god-modding, khaim?
    On a side note, if you've ever played D&D it's not that hard to express yourself within complex rules. And these aren't complex by any stretch of the imagination. Xect did ask if we wanted turn based combat <!--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='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"Hey revenge, you want me to surgically remove your foot from your mouth?" *grins*
    *finishes off the res node, and notices the new guy*
    "Hey, what's with the new guy? Jeez, you look like hell. Come over here, lemme check you over."</span></span>
  • Mr_HeadcrabMr_Headcrab Squee&#33;~ Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9392Members, Constellation
    <span style='color:white'> *Ed, after walking around for a good 5 minutes, sits on a crate and plays Solitare on Wynona's main view screen.*</span>
  • KhaimKhaim Join Date: 2002-06-28 Member: 841Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    <b>Shade I just meant people kind of overstepping their bounds, <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->, no h8. ^_^</b>
  • RokiyoRokiyo A.K.A. .::FeX::. Revenge Join Date: 2002-10-10 Member: 1471Members, Constellation
    <b>Venmoch, don't be surprised if we keep calling you by your forum name instead of character name for simplicity. If it helps, pretend that James Ransom's callsign is "Venmoch".

    As for avoiding the "god moding", I hope my character babbling away out of fear and excitement isn't being mistaken for anything that it's not... Feel free to react to my character exactly how you would when somebody in real life talk to much... Just tell him to shut up! But on the other hand, I do see your point Khaim, in that things have been getting too borderline too often, and in many ways I agree.</b>

    <span style='color:00FF00'>"What, you honestly expect me to believe that everything I was taught about the kharaa in boot camp is useless to me now? That these aliens have evolved radically beyond what they've been doing for over a year now, and that you were the first to see it? TSA command wouldn't have just shot you down like that if you guys were telling the truth, would they?"</span>
  • PFCNublarPFCNublar Join Date: 2003-04-23 Member: 15792Members
    edited October 2003
    <span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'>
    *me gets up with Khaim's help*
    "Thanks...No, I'm fine. Just a bit shaken up to learn that one of our teammates is a test tube baby. Never met one before, you see, but it sounds like they are genetically enhanced or something. Vatties must be pretty damn good at what they do I guess <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->."
    *me turns to Revenge*
    "Maybe so...maybe no. I think they just shot us down out of fear. Like I said before, if what we said is true, that would require a whole battle doctrine change. All of our old strategies get thrown out the window if Kharaa can evolve as fast as we saw. And the scary part of that is: They can. Oni charging us at one hive wasn't fun...neither was the gas."
    *looks at the door*
    *sees the person*
    "Hmm...well, looks like Kharra aren't all they're cracked up to be. Don't kill everybody on board before we get here...just most of em and rough a few up <!--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>Bleh, I'm sure Ven knows the rules just fine. He'll adjust, slowly but surely...<!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
  • deaincaelodeaincaelo Join Date: 2003-09-11 Member: 20739Members
    <span style='color:yellow'><b>"welcome aboard. glad your not hostile. I didnt think there would be fades so soon."
    " dont beleive all you hear about vatties. yes, we're good at what we do. but thier is always a compromise."</b> </span>
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <span style='font-family:Arial'><span style='color:gray'>*Getting sick of all this talking* "Guys, wouldya shut your mutha f***ing mouths. Your makin me nervous, and just cause I'm the computer guy doesn't mean I can't put a bullet in your head from any distance necassery"*spits on the floor*</span></span>
  • Night_ShadeNight_Shade Join Date: 2003-03-28 Member: 14985Members, Constellation
    <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>*looks edgeways at Quaunaut*
    "...Right. Yeah, revenge, TSA command had much the same reaction as you're having now. Denial is not just a river in Egypt."</span></span>
  • 343_guilty_spark343_guilty_spark Join Date: 2003-06-18 Member: 17462Members
    <span style='color:purple'><b>
    *Hugs Ven.*
    "I'm soooo glad your not a Kharaa, thank you, thank you , thank you. If you need healing and you want it done with modern technology go to Night, if you want it done with herbs an syrums come to me."</b></span>
  • BogglesteinskyBogglesteinsky Join Date: 2002-12-24 Member: 11488Members
    edited October 2003
    <span style='color:blue'>"Quaunaut, it wont work. FF systems are embedded into the bullets. All we would feel is a sting. Besides, all the TSA bullets come with 'Kharaa' engraved on them."

    *turns to Venmoch*

    "Nice to meet you, I'm Zed Bogglesteinsky, but my friends for some reason just call me Boggle. Im the resident technician. What do you specialise in?"</span>
  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    <b>Ransom was created as the main character for a fan-fic, don't worry he isn't a hero or anything of the sort. He's just a normal man caught up in the fight! Hell just for kicks I'll post the profile!

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    Name: James Ransom

    Age: 25

    Blood Group: AB-

    Nationality: Terran, British

    Unit: Rogue Platoon

    Strengths: Combat, Strength, Tactics, Awareness

    Weaknesses: Mechanics, Medicine, Discression (Doesn't always jump into combat head first. He will always wait a while trying to decide the best course of action. This wastes time.) Medical Problems caused by a bacterium infection on first mission with Rogue Platoon.

    Equipment: LMG, Knife (Currently being used as a bayonet), roll of Duct Tape, Flashlight, Pistol (No ammo) and Backpack containing medical slupplys and field rations and other useful stuff.

    Rogue Platoon: A group of elite TSA marines formed as a unique combat unit sent usually on reconnissance or tactical mission where the deployment of TSA forces is problematic. The existance of this group is only known by TSA high command (Basically the SAS of the TSA)

    Reason for being at Ariadne Guardpost: Rogue Platoon sent him in to assertain the likelyhood of a bacterium infection of the guard post. Has been investigating the lower levels of the Guardpost for alien activity.

    -----

    Basically Ransom's (Venmoch's) reason for being here is contained in the above as well as what hes carrying. And yes that infection was bad.

    I'll continue the story later!
    </b>
  • Night_ShadeNight_Shade Join Date: 2003-03-28 Member: 14985Members, Constellation
    edited October 2003
    <b>Right. Last time someone tried to be spec ops, he had his head blown off. You may want to see the last dozen or so pages from the first Ariadne Guardpost roleplay.</b>
    <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>*looks at Spark jumping all over Venmoch* "Down boy!"
    "Yeah, I'm Night Shade. Boggles, we call you that because bogglestinki...boggleski...your last name is too hard to say." *grins*
    "As for modern technology, Spark here thinks scalpels and sutures are modern. They work a charm in combination with med nanos tho."</span></span>
  • Lord_DarknessLord_Darkness Join Date: 2003-03-19 Member: 14685Members
    <span style='color:orange'>"Hey guys, now that that res tower is up how 'bout you get back here. Ed's starting to get slack in his guarding abilities, he's playing Solitare on Wynola."
    *turns to face the CC*
    "Dea, did you hear me before, I asked if I could play this disc through the command console?"</span>

    <b>If anyone's worried about it ruining the RP, it won't. It's sort of like character development, even though I'll get something out of it. It's only small, and probably won't help me in any way, but might be good for a bit of comic relief. You'll just have to wait and see what it is, I'll have the disc played after you're all back in base.</b>
  • MutaMuta Join Date: 2003-10-09 Member: 21539Members
    <b>-

    Name: John Maldock

    Age: 23

    Nationality: Terran, Unknown

    Unit: TSA, Level 1 Engineering

    Strengths: Engineering, commanding and driving people crazy

    Equipment: Pistol(Modified?), Knife and a wrench

    Notes: Orphan, found in an escape pod

    -

    Ok.. So my char phases to the phase gates can i get some info about that place? Didn't find any on the topic posts.. <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif'><!--endemo--> </b>
  • BogglesteinskyBogglesteinsky Join Date: 2002-12-24 Member: 11488Members
    <span style='color:blue'>"spec ops huh? Last time i met one of them, i blew his head off."</span>

    <b>yes, it was me, penguin was shooting at terran. I remember it well</b>
  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    edited October 2003
    <b>I don't see how Ransom is overpowered (Anyway he's here to help!), of course he could be but then again he has that infection so if I am becomming too powerful the GM could just play that card which effectively puts me out of the fight!</b>

    <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:gray'>
    "Its alright, I ain't here to kill you, just give you help. Something Rogue Platoon don't do very often. Its great to finally see you guys, I've been down here for about two days now. Sleeping with constant possible fade attack is something I only want to do once."
    *Shakes everyones hands*
    "I don't care how you treat this"
    *Takes off bandage showing deep wound in leg that hasn't started to heal over yet*
    "Just do it quickly, the dang thing stings badly....... Oh and if you pick up traces of bacterium don't worry, its a long story....."
    </span></span>
  • Night_ShadeNight_Shade Join Date: 2003-03-28 Member: 14985Members, Constellation
    <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"Well, that's a relief. Last spec ops tried to kill us."
    *checks out Ven's infected wound*
    "That looks nasty. I'm surprised you haven't been given topical antibiotics...wait a minute, did you say <i>bacterium</i>? As in Kharaa? I've never seen em do that before! Nor heard of it! Hey Spark, come over here and check this out! You have a seat on the node here. Put your leg up."
    *puts pack down, goes through it, pulls out an injector of med nanoes and an aerosol sterilising agent*
    "You've put medical nanites on it, right?"</span></span>
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