Ariadne Guardpost Ii: The Evolution

Night_Shade · October 2003

Grumble grumble sleep grumble grumble... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>
*steps behind the turrets*
"****. This better not be like the last one!"
[opens fire at the skulks and lerk]

PFCNublar · October 2003

*hears the bang sound*
*turn around and sees the aliens rushing in*
"Oh my gaw...****!"
*shoulders CZU and starts bursting at targets*
*aims at the fade, trying to hit it in the upper abdomen*
*clicks empty*
*reaches for a mag, and finds I don't have anymore*
"What the...!"
*drops CZU and pulls out pistol*
*crouches behind a structure and opens fire*
*empties it at the fade and reaches for another mag*
*finds I have only one more*
"Christ...Last mag! Need some ammo over here!"
*loads it and beings firing at only what I can hit*

Jaeger · October 2003

[empties his pistol into the far corridor while sending the last of his LMG magazine into the onos]
*drops the pistol to the deck, reaching for his ammo and slamming a fresh magazine into his LMG*
*wraps the sling around his forearm while tossing another mag to Terran*
"Make it count!"
[pauses for a moment as he corrects his aim and fires, attempting to hit the onos in the eyes]
"Come on ****! Come get it! Here's some more!"

spinviper · October 2003

[fires controled bursts at the fades head]
[empties clip and takes out pistol]
[aims carefully for the fades neck and unloads the magazine]
*reloads*
"ohhh yeah!"

Rokiyo · October 2003

*Yelling over the gunfire*
"What are you crazy Grim? Those skulks will kill you just as fast as any onos, except that they are easier to kill... It's called target prioritisation!!! When all hostiles have equal firepower, take out the weakest ones first to reduce their total firepower more quickly!"
*Keeps burst firing at the skulks*

Remember: You are only supposed to have one set of [attempted action] brackets inbetween each of xect's posts. That means you cannot try a new action until your last one has been answered, and that you should put all the various details of your actions into only 1 set of brackets.

Also remember that the only person who has any control over characters other than his own is xect. So when writing *actions* or [attempted actions] you should always stick to writing the cause, and never the effect. *I fell over* is a million times better than *I fell over, and so everybody else stopped and waited for me to get up*. Similarly [I shoot at the gorge] is a million times better than [I shoot the gorge and it dies].

BlackMage · October 2003

how much of my hackery should go inside brackets?
"these turrets really need better target discrimination"
*crouches behind tf, opens a small hatch on the side and plugs in*
"nobody look, you never saw this"
*video from one of the turrets fills the screen, along with a keymap and a crosshair"
*moves crosshair over onos and holds down spacebar*
[turrets 1-12 begin firing at the object in the crosshairs, leaving the others (5?) to pick their own targets]

if you dont want my turret hack to work, get mercura to kick me out

Richter_Grim · October 2003

Sorry Revenge, I ment Jaeger, (I should pay better attention to the colour shades) Well, when I first posted the "Every one fire at the Onos" They were all out of immidate range(ie, the skulks and onos were out of melee range). The point was to try and either drop the onos, or cause him to
retreat. Now we are up to our eyeballs in skulks, AND the onos is hardly scrached. After xcet said that the skulks were among us, I switched to telling every one to start
fraging skulks, ecept the two shotgunners(read: they have the best anti-onos weapons) and Jaeger.

I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do. Hey they are your characters. I'm just havent seen any coordination
in the team, and that get's you dead. I hope you guys don't see this as me trying to take over the game,
I'm not, but my character is a solid solider, it's what he does and in a fire fight he will do what he can to
make sure every one comes home alive. So far all I've seen out of this group is a buch of something other
than soliders. The medics I understand. But, you can take all your black op training and super "I can mod anything on the spot to something better than the best reasearch teams could in six years" and all the other wacky things every one has for themselves, that's what you've chosen for yourselves to make you special. I'm a solider and I am trying to keep you guys alive.

Mr_Headcrab · October 2003

*Ed loads the first of the darts into Wynona.*
"Let's hope this works"
[Ed takes aim at the Onos and fires one of the "Special Brew" darts.]

343_guilty_spark · October 2003

*He reloads his shotgun, quite happy it hasn't flown out of his hand from the recoil and takes cover behind a RT, he thinks for a second about the odds then how he could boosts everyones morale, has he got a hyper injection on him?, he searches his belt then opens a satchel up full with syringes with a pale blue liquid in them, he takes one out and injects it into him, he discards the syringe and looks over the RT in time to watch Ed fire a dart, he takes aim at the onos and fires before aiming at a nearby skulk.*
"Guys if you need a booster come to me."

Lord_Darkness · October 2003

Jeez, AG 1 a shotgun was never dropped, and now, when two are dropped, I'm too slow to grab one.
[begins burst firing at any nearby skulks]
*hears Sparks remark about a booster and runs over to him*
"Hey, what are those things? Adrenaline-in-a-syringe?"
*opens comm channel*
"Mercura, Mercura can you hear me? Answer d@mn it!"
"What do you want, I'm a bit busy right now, I've had to resort to flirting with this one program to get some information out of him, and if it doesn't work, I'm gonna throttle him."
"Hey, I'm busy too. How much longer till you get those permissions?"
"Give me three minutes, if I haven't got them by then I'll give up."
"Well hurry up!"

Bogglesteinsky · October 2003

"well, thats just typical. No rest for the wicked"

*crouches down behind the turrets and builds the last of them*

deaincaelo · October 2003

yes, i noticed the lack of hardcore soldiers in the rpgs. guess everyone wants to be specilests. btw, we have two res nodes from marine start, and all the res nodes here (its what, 5 i think... have to go cheack). considering most maps dont have more then say 10 res nodes, how many does that leave?
" what do we even bother with turrents for, tell me please?"
*ducks and covers*
"and when do i get my jp, so i dont have to worry about getting eaten by an onos? you'ld think the frelling tsa is underfunded, with all the megacreds omni-pres. sends thier way for our shipping lanes"
*babbles on this way, hoping the aliens will just frelling die already*

Bogglesteinsky · October 2003

THERE IS NO 'N' IN TURRET. IT IS TURRET, NOT TURRE'N'T
"no gls, the armoury isnt upgraded"

Venmoch · October 2003

"Holy Crap this is not right, this is not right at all"
*looks toward fade that is towering over squad-mate*
"Damn!"
*Readys LMG*
[Charges fade and stabs it with the improvised bayonett]

Jaeger · October 2003

We're standing in the middle of a turret farm. We have 12(15?) turrets now picking and engaging targets. I'm not going to stand in the middle of a perfectly good farm when I have a lerk to my 9 or my 3 and an onos in front of me without trying to take them down first. Someone's already taking care of the fade, and (I hope) somebody besides myself is trying to nab the lerk. A decent turret farm is designed to overlap fields of fire and engage targets so you don't have to.

My character fights like a spacer would, approaching capital ships and ranged torpedo platforms first, leaving the deck guns and rearguards to handle the fighters, while clearing a path for the primary strike package to make their hits and go home.

Five skulks are nothing against those many turrets. Five skulks, a lerk, a fade, and an onos is. Take down the carrier group and the fighters are left without a base of support.

I'd rather a skulk got too close and leapt into the back of my leg while a nearby turret finished him off than an onos pitch me across the room like a hackysack.

Richter_Grim · October 2003

Thank you Jaeger. I'm glad to see someone understands what I am talking about. I mean realy, in a
game of NS, when I see a group of skulks, a lerk, a fade and an Onos, you drop the onos first. He's the biggest threat. He's the one that is going to cause the base to get wrecked, not the skulks, not the lerk. A
fade COULD wreck an uprotected base, but not a guared one.

Ok, I'm going to let the subject rest. I'm not trying to badger you guys or anything, but it might sound that
way to some of you.

We can discuss this in character later(If we survive that is).

Sorry for all the OCC posts, guess I should have joined earlier and gotten stuff like this hammerd out.

Sorry if I offended anyone, it was not my intention to do so.

xect · October 2003

With the massive fire, all of the smaller aliens go down. The onos is hit by the dart, and stumbles over it's own legs for a second before falling

Rokiyo · October 2003

Gah.... If I say ANYTHING in character to you, then I am talking to YOUR CHARACTER... My character might think your character is the biggest a-hole on this side of the galaxy, and I personally might think you the the coolest person ever... There was no need to react OOC, this all could have been discussed with in character disucussion during or after the battle (just after the battle would have made more sense).

As for wanting to take the skulks down first, the way I see it both a skulk and and onos will kill a player in 2 hits. I can pump 100 lmg rounds into an onos and reduce the group's deadliness by (assuming there are 5 skulks) by 17%, or I can pump 20 or so bullets into a skulk and reduce the group's deadliness by 17%... In a game of NS, base assaults involving only 1 onos always work so well because the onos draws all the fire, allowing the smaller aliens to work while the onos itself does very little. The onos is the pinacle of alien weaponry, but it requires all support from all the other types of aliens to work at it's full potential. if you take out the alien war machine's legs first, the body will surely fall too.

In your example Jaeger, I'd probably focus as much firepower on everything except the carriers, and once the carrier was alone and without support I'd sit back and take it out with relative ease...

"Pauses for a moment... Holy crap that wonder brew actually worked!"

*Looks around for a sec*

"Who was it that wanted to grab an onos tooth as a souvenier? I think you may have your chance now..."

*Runs over to the armour, grabs a LMG clip and loads it into his gun before cautiously approaching the Onos. Gun raised in the ready position, and cautious enough to keep out of reach of any of it's limbs*

Richter_Grim · October 2003

Revenge, like I said before, I ment to tell the two shotguners and Jaeger to fire at the Onos. I accidently
say Revenge, cause you booth used the green colour. I wasen't paying attention to the shades. So, I was
just trying to explain my mistake to you, not respond to your character OOC. When I saw your character's
response to mine, I wonderd what was going on(Jaeger had said he was shooting the onos in his last post)
and I wonderd why you had changed your mind. Then I went and looked back over the posts and realised
my mistake. Sorry. (Btw, on the servers I play on 1 onos base assault ends up with one VERY dead onos, shorty followed by the rest off the alien team. So that's what I based my strat on.) And no hard feelings
Revenge, I like you and your character <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> so lets just <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'> and <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif'>

 "What the hell droped that Onos? You shouldn't use the mess hall food like that, it's crule and unsual punishment." *Reloads weapons* "Is it dead, or just, um.... sleeping?" *Looks over the base* "Think we should finish fraging it, or just put a lot of mines around it so it'll die if it tries to
move?"

[If the team decides to group up and shoot it, I'll take part, but if not, I'll finish the prototype lab]

"Comm, I sugest Heavy Armor, but that's just my vote. If you go with JPs first, don't give me one. I broke
my leg twice learning to use those things and I'm still not any damn good with them"

Khaim · October 2003

*Calling from where the onos came from*
"Hey Xect, this door is toast man, unless you have some magical door sealing nano's we are going to need a turret or two here."
*Gestures to the broken door panel as he talks*
Revenge, richter, take it to PM guys o.O

Night_Shade · October 2003

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>My character fights like a spacer would, approaching capital ships and ranged torpedo platforms first, leaving the deck guns and rearguards to handle the fighters, while clearing a path for the primary strike package to make their hits and go home.</td></tr></table>
You've never played Master of Orion 3, have you? A carrier squadron's fighters pack a LOT of ordinance. You seriously want to kill the fighters before they ever reach you.
"Spark, I'm impressed. I didn't think that had any chance whatsoever of working. Bet you five credits the next one shrugs it off tho. Is it dead, or unconscious?"
*moves closer to the onos, and [checks for signs of breathing or a pulse]*
"Comm, can we stop the grid from recycling this? I, for one, would LOVE to study this thing's physiology. Not to mention the R&D boys, especially with the aliens changing so suddenly like that."

deaincaelo · October 2003

"um, shade. maybe not a good idea? its already developing an immunity, and only god and the hive knows how long it'll take before we have a rampaging onos again. Im all for studying it, but unless we can keep it sedated we just dont have the equipment. I for one dont want to be the one that goes down just so we can get a sample."
*gesticulates*
* <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif'> ^zzz ===> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif'> [chomp] <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> ===> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif'> ^zzz*

"and we do need to seal this place off" 

sorry that i put an n in turrets, but too bad. i've improved my spelling enough <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

343_guilty_spark · October 2003

*He stands there looking at the onos before clutching his fists and shouting.*
"YES !!!! I DID IT ! YES !!!!!!!!! OH GOD YES !!!!!"
*He dances round hugging everyone and kisses Ed on the cheek.*
"Thank you for hitting it, thank you thank you thank you you wonderful man."
*He looks down the corridor and shouts.*
" DID YOU HEAR THAT ? I GOT YOU !"

Venmoch · October 2003

*Wipes off Bayonette*
*Grimaces slightly as the fade blood is washed over hands*
"Well thats that I suppose, so where are we going after this? Any idea?"

Rokiyo · October 2003

"So are we gonna kill this thing or what? Or is it already dead? I say we just start pumping bullets into it, just incase...."

*Backs off slowly, and goes and takes 3 full clips from the armoury*

"Can't believe I forgot to reload my LMG back there... What's worse is that I didn't have any extra either, so if we hadn't of taken em down so quick I woulda been completely out of ammo...."

*Returns to the onos, gunned still raised and on high alert*

BlackMage · October 2003

i'm assuming mercura let me take the turrets
*tasks all turrets (1-15) to perforating the onos's carcass*
*sets contol timer to expire in 90 seconds, then return the turrets to their default firing systems*
*disconnects laptop from the tf, and deactivates adhesive*
*packs up cables, laptop to standby*
"and stay down m*********er"
...
"so, uh sparks .... that's the brew, eh?"
...
"comm, a little late, but can i take over a few turrets?"

P-Khan · October 2003

*sees Onos*
"I say kill the Onos, cut him and eat his meat. Onos meat is a fine meal"
*takes out knife, and licks the lips, almost drowling on the thought of Onos BBQ*

Venmoch · October 2003

"I agree killing it, the last thing we want is a slightly annoyed Onos, believe me they are not happy bunnys"

Bogglesteinsky · October 2003

*jumps onto the onos' back and starts trying to cut its horn off with knife*

"imagine how much the chinese would pay for one of theres horns huh?"

Rokiyo · October 2003

*I look on with a morbid fascination as I watch 15 turrets pummelling the carcass of this onos while another marine jumps on top amongst the roaring noise and flying bullets and starts trying to cut part of it off. I slowly back off again and start trying to wipe all the green goo that splattered onto me during the display off...*

Ariadne Guardpost Ii: The Evolution

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