<span style='color:purple'><b> *He holds his shotgun like a club ready to hit Ven.* "Okay Ven what are you feeling ? Does your head hurt, are your reyes burning, tell me." *Grips his shotgun as though hes fearing Ven.*</b></span>
<span style='color:purple'> *Leans up against a wall and starts whispering low enough that hopefully no one can hear him*
"Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred."Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred."
*Begins loading shells into his shotgun*
" 'Forward, the Light Brigade!' Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew Someone had blunder'd: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred."
*Finishes loading his shotgun.*
"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred."
*Chambers a shell*
"Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air, Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd: Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not Not the six hundred."
*Pulls the shoulder piece back on the shotgun so it fits him*
"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred."
*Closes his eyes slowly*
"When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honor the charge they made, Honor the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred."
*Opens his eyes which have changed from a friendly, caring blue to the dark eyes of a man ready and willing to do what must be done*
"If Ven is in some kind of contact with the hive, can he tell us what I knows, or is he helping them more than he could help us?" </span>
<b>Note: Yus I did just copy the poem<a href='http://eserver.org/poetry/light-brigade.html' target='_blank'>The Charge Of the Light Brigade</a> into my post <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->, I was origionally going to just copy part of it, but I figured all of it could make the post a little more interesting.</b>
<span style='font-family:Times'><span style='color:gray'> "I don't know, something feels different yes, but I don't know how it feels different." *Gets up to feet and looks around* "My senses are screwed though and theres still a major pain in my chest but its not nearly as bad as what it was just a few seconds ago, and what the hell is this about my eyes anyway." *Looks around, suddenly looks a little uneasy* "And why exactly are you all looking at me like that?" </span></span>
<i>As you reach the engine room, you see a hive hanging above a huge nano-generator. The walls and the, now blocked, generator are covered by a mat of bacteria. No sign of any aliens though. The room is silent but for the weak pumping of the hive.</i>
<span style='font-family:Times'><span style='color:gray'> "Hey Urm Boggle, poke it again, I'm sure I felt something as you did." *Looks around as everyone seems to get really shifty* "Look guys what is it?" </span></span>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>*unfocused look* "ven, you've been... assimilated. we're going to disarm you now. then we're gunna kill this hive and its gunna hurt like hell. The aliens are already on thier way. to save the hive from us... and to save you." *disarms ven, assuming he doesnt prevent me* "khaim, ed. please cover us. everyone else, we gotta take down this hive ASAP." *give a 3..2..1 countdown to signal everyone's volly* *fires gl, in time with everyone*</b> </span>
<b><span style='font-family:Arial'><span style='color:0000CC'> "Good idea, Deaincaelo" *Helps disarm Venmoch* "Easy there buddy. You're going to be ok. As soon as we take care of this, we'll get you back to base and into a hospital ASAP"
"Ok, on three. One. Two. Three." [Pumps all grenades into hive, reloads, repeat] </span></span></b>
<span style='color:purple'><b> "Ven, remember that Dart Ed fired into the Onos? I would like to inject that into you, the theory is, it'll make the Bacterium inside think that the host has gone, in this case you and it'll dissolve into the nano-grid, well let's hear what Shade has to say about this, That or we could just send yo uto sleep and give you a hell alot of painkillers."</b></span>
<span style='color:White'> *Ed covers the rear, making sure whatever alien tries to come in, becomes a large bacterial stasin on the bulkhead.* </span>
<span style='font-family:Times'><span style='color:gray'> "Here you go, take the LMG, Pistol, Knife everything you may want to take the backpack too. I don't know what's still in there but I don't want to take any chances, someone deactivate the HA as well, I don't want to go postal on any of you." *Suddenly feels weak as HA is deactivated* "Jesus thing thing is heavy" *Collapses to ground in a sort of sitting position* "Someone get ready to hold me back as well because you never know what might happen" *Looks at Spark* "I don't really think slamming that stuff into me, no offence or anything but if what these guys are saying about my eyes is true than the Bacteria has gone a lot further than thought. It's probably safe to assume that the bacteria may have gone to the stage of controlling certain subconsious bodilly processes, however it doesn't appear the hive mind is taking over me it feels a little different, kinda like my mind has been extended, I can't quite describe it though. But getting rid of the bacteria may cause me to loose certain useful function like my heart. As you can guess, that isn't too good." *Looks around as the marines start to walk toward the hive guns ready* "Look guys I don't know how much the bacteria has affected my muscles, if the hive causes a kick reflex I may start flailing lots, that will either cause me a lot of pain or if I hit you a lot of pain. Stick some painkiller and knock me out if you have too just minimise the threat to yourself." *Relaxes and starts breathing heavilly to prepare self* *Marines in group start to shoot the hive* *Emits a scream that sounds like a primal scream* [Trys to stop self flailing around causing damage to the people around him] </span></span>
<span style='color:orange'>*fires shotgun into hive* "Now this is why I joined the TSA, other than the pay." *hears Ven scream* "That scream sound familiar to you guys?" <b>"Guys, watch out. Motion Tracking is showing that every alien on the ship is closing in on you, fast!</b> "Sh!t. I knew this would happen." *remembers something* "Cr@p, I left my PDA in the console, Xect, think you can get Mercura back on the PDA and bring her with you on our way out?" <b>"It won't work, those subroutines that Mage gave me have increased my filesize. I barely fit on the PDA before."</b> "Well think of something. Hey Mercura, I keep forgeting to ask you, what does it look like in there?" <b>"Well, have you seen that movie from 1982 called Tron?"</b> "You're kidding me, Disney actually got it right? <b>"Yup."</b> "Well, that answers one question."</span>
<span style='color:gray'><u>*looks at Ven* "Uhm.... I'm gonna do something with you, for our own safety" *goes behind Ven, with a small stone, which was removed from backpack* "You might feel a little pain....." [throws stone right at Ven's head, in the middle. The stone hits a nerve, which makes Ven uncouncious.] "Well..... now we just need to cary him around, not leaving him here" *takes out shotty and gets close to hive, shooting it a point-blank range*</u></span>
<b>duh, his backpack <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->. seriously P-Khan. talk about a story jack</b>
<span style='color:blue'>*reloads HMG and continues firing*</span>
<b>Who in the hell goes round with a stone in their back pack ? Khan you really shouldn't have said that.</b><b><span style='color:purple'> "Ven it won't stop your heart, your not a Kharaa..........i hope, me and Shade should discuss this." *Takes a Shot into the Hive and pumps the shotty studying Vens reaction, he looks up at the support beam that the hive uses to hang itself on the wall he thinks then shakes head and takes a Dart of Ed.*</span>[/COLOR]</b>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>*finishes GL clip, reload, repeat.* "remember, they have to think ven's one of them, if he's hooked up. we have to make shure they cant extract him. damn, when did the frelling khraa ..." "ven, tell us what your seeing. if your hooked into the hive..." *keeps emptying clips till the hive dies, then covers*</b> </span>
<b><span style='font-family:Arial'><span style='color:0000CC'> "Comm, give us a scanner sweep and let us know where that Onos is coming from" *Reloads GL* "Deaincaelo, sync with me and we'll frag that Onos straight to Hell" *links his fireing solution to Deaincaelo's hud* "Shotguners get ready for those fades to blink past the fron lines. Two HMGers nail the onos, every one else take targets of oppertunity."
*Crosses him self and says a prayer* "Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. "
[Procceds to frag the onos into oblivion] </span></span></b>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *hears Dea's suggestion someone should guard Ven* "Right then. Don't want to see what he becomes after a prolonged period, yea..." *talks a position next to him* *sees a fade thats coming in on the flanks moving unbelievably fast* "What the...no way..." *rubs my eyepiece, and looks again* *motion tracker is beeping frantically, a target sprite is now on the fade which is now just running at me* "Eh...guess I'm not seeing things then." *opens up in 5-10 round burts on the fade* "Oh yea, you want some more of this!" *starts stepping back, the fade starting to gain a lot ground* *weapon clicks empty* *grits teeth, gets my hands in a proper position to whack it with my rifle when it gets close in a few seconds* "OhshitohshitI'mgonnadie...AYIEE!!!" [brings the rifle in to whack the fade across the head, as it is now right in front of me] </span></span>
<b>lol @ useful item spawner</b> <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>*starts lobbing nades from his GL in the general direction of the aliens* "Spark, you're on your own here. I have <b>never</b> seen or heard of anything like what just happened to Ven. Short of filling him full of med nanoes, which I no longer think is such a good idea, I've got no idea what to do. And I no longer know if any of my anaesthetics will work." *reloads nade launcher, and continues with area supression* "Look at it this way. From what little I know of psych, he hasn't actually lost his mind, just made contact somehow with the aliens' hive mind. This may actually be useful to us." *more nades* "Maybe we should leave him be, and just keep an eye on him?"</span></span>
<!--QuoteBegin--xect+Oct 28 2003, 08:23 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (xect @ Oct 28 2003, 08:23 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <b>I wonder, how can ven's eyes turn red like an alien's when the aliens in NS have yellow eyes?</b> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> <b>Depends on what model pack you use. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--></b> <b>Update: For those of you who missed it, I posted two posts one after the other. The other one's at the bottom of p. 90</b>
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*He holds his shotgun like a club ready to hit Ven.*
"Okay Ven what are you feeling ? Does your head hurt, are your reyes burning, tell me."
*Grips his shotgun as though hes fearing Ven.*</b></span>
*Leans up against a wall and starts whispering low enough that hopefully no one can hear him*
"Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred."Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred."
*Begins loading shells into his shotgun*
" 'Forward, the Light Brigade!' Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew Someone had blunder'd: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred."
*Finishes loading his shotgun.*
"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred."
*Chambers a shell*
"Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air, Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd: Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not Not the six hundred."
*Pulls the shoulder piece back on the shotgun so it fits him*
"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred."
*Closes his eyes slowly*
"When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honor the charge they made, Honor the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred."
*Opens his eyes which have changed from a friendly, caring blue to the dark eyes of a man ready and willing to do what must be done*
"If Ven is in some kind of contact with the hive, can he tell us what I knows, or is he helping them more than he could help us?"
</span>
<b>Note: Yus I did just copy the poem<a href='http://eserver.org/poetry/light-brigade.html' target='_blank'>The Charge Of the Light Brigade</a> into my post <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->, I was origionally going to just copy part of it, but I figured all of it could make the post a little more interesting.</b>
"I don't know, something feels different yes, but I don't know how it feels different."
*Gets up to feet and looks around*
"My senses are screwed though and theres still a major pain in my chest but its not nearly as bad as what it was just a few seconds ago, and what the hell is this about my eyes anyway."
*Looks around, suddenly looks a little uneasy*
"And why exactly are you all looking at me like that?"
</span></span>
"looks like no-one's home"</span>
"Hey Urm Boggle, poke it again, I'm sure I felt something as you did."
*Looks around as everyone seems to get really shifty*
"Look guys what is it?"
</span></span>
*Gives ven a look like: What, you really didnt notice?*</span>
"ven, you've been... assimilated. we're going to disarm you now. then we're gunna kill this hive and its gunna hurt like hell. The aliens are already on thier way. to save the hive from us... and to save you."
*disarms ven, assuming he doesnt prevent me*
"khaim, ed. please cover us. everyone else, we gotta take down this hive ASAP."
*give a 3..2..1 countdown to signal everyone's volly*
*fires gl, in time with everyone*</b> </span>
"Ok, on three. One. Two. Three." [Pumps all grenades into hive, reloads, repeat] </span></span></b>
"Ven, remember that Dart Ed fired into the Onos? I would like to inject that into you, the theory is, it'll make the Bacterium inside think that the host has gone, in this case you and it'll dissolve into the nano-grid, well let's hear what Shade has to say about this, That or we could just send yo uto sleep and give you a hell alot of painkillers."</b></span>
<span style='color:blue'>*empties HMG clip into hive*</span>
"Here you go, take the LMG, Pistol, Knife everything you may want to take the backpack too. I don't know what's still in there but I don't want to take any chances, someone deactivate the HA as well, I don't want to go postal on any of you."
*Suddenly feels weak as HA is deactivated*
"Jesus thing thing is heavy"
*Collapses to ground in a sort of sitting position*
"Someone get ready to hold me back as well because you never know what might happen"
*Looks at Spark*
"I don't really think slamming that stuff into me, no offence or anything but if what these guys are saying about my eyes is true than the Bacteria has gone a lot further than thought. It's probably safe to assume that the bacteria may have gone to the stage of controlling certain subconsious bodilly processes, however it doesn't appear the hive mind is taking over me it feels a little different, kinda like my mind has been extended, I can't quite describe it though. But getting rid of the bacteria may cause me to loose certain useful function like my heart. As you can guess, that isn't too good."
*Looks around as the marines start to walk toward the hive guns ready*
"Look guys I don't know how much the bacteria has affected my muscles, if the hive causes a kick reflex I may start flailing lots, that will either cause me a lot of pain or if I hit you a lot of pain. Stick some painkiller and knock me out if you have too just minimise the threat to yourself."
*Relaxes and starts breathing heavilly to prepare self*
*Marines in group start to shoot the hive*
*Emits a scream that sounds like a primal scream*
[Trys to stop self flailing around causing damage to the people around him]
</span></span>
"Now this is why I joined the TSA, other than the pay."
*hears Ven scream*
"That scream sound familiar to you guys?"
<b>"Guys, watch out. Motion Tracking is showing that every alien on the ship is closing in on you, fast!</b>
"Sh!t. I knew this would happen."
*remembers something*
"Cr@p, I left my PDA in the console, Xect, think you can get Mercura back on the PDA and bring her with you on our way out?"
<b>"It won't work, those subroutines that Mage gave me have increased my filesize. I barely fit on the PDA before."</b>
"Well think of something. Hey Mercura, I keep forgeting to ask you, what does it look like in there?"
<b>"Well, have you seen that movie from 1982 called Tron?"</b>
"You're kidding me, Disney actually got it right?
<b>"Yup."</b>
"Well, that answers one question."</span>
"Uhm.... I'm gonna do something with you, for our own safety"
*goes behind Ven, with a small stone, which was removed from backpack*
"You might feel a little pain....."
[throws stone right at Ven's head, in the middle. The stone hits a nerve, which makes Ven uncouncious.]
"Well..... now we just need to cary him around, not leaving him here"
*takes out shotty and gets close to hive, shooting it a point-blank range*</u></span>
<span style='color:blue'>*reloads HMG and continues firing*</span>
"Ven it won't stop your heart, your not a Kharaa..........i hope, me and Shade should discuss this."
*Takes a Shot into the Hive and pumps the shotty studying Vens reaction, he looks up at the support beam that the hive uses to hang itself on the wall he thinks then shakes head and takes a Dart of Ed.*</span>[/COLOR]</b>
<i>Clicking sounds is heard all around you. A blinking fade, no, two blinking fades and an onos. And they're closing in fast.</i>
"remember, they have to think ven's one of them, if he's hooked up. we have to make shure they cant extract him. damn, when did the frelling khraa ..."
"ven, tell us what your seeing. if your hooked into the hive..."
*keeps emptying clips till the hive dies, then covers*</b> </span>
<b>edit: we're all color blind</b>
Er Xect, just a small question, am I knocked out or flailing or whatever? I can't really do anything until I know whats happened to me</b>
"Ed, ready those darts, they might have adapted though.</span></b>
fireing solution to Deaincaelo's hud* "Shotguners get ready for those fades to blink past the fron lines. Two HMGers nail the onos, every one else take targets of oppertunity."
*Crosses him self and says a prayer* "Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. "
[Procceds to frag the onos into oblivion] </span></span></b>
*switches targets from the hive to the onos*
[fires hmg at onos]</span>
*hears Dea's suggestion someone should guard Ven*
"Right then. Don't want to see what he becomes after a prolonged period, yea..."
*talks a position next to him*
*sees a fade thats coming in on the flanks moving unbelievably fast*
"What the...no way..."
*rubs my eyepiece, and looks again*
*motion tracker is beeping frantically, a target sprite is now on the fade which is now just running at me*
"Eh...guess I'm not seeing things then."
*opens up in 5-10 round burts on the fade*
"Oh yea, you want some more of this!"
*starts stepping back, the fade starting to gain a lot ground*
*weapon clicks empty*
*grits teeth, gets my hands in a proper position to whack it with my rifle when it gets close in a few seconds*
"OhshitohshitI'mgonnadie...AYIEE!!!"
[brings the rifle in to whack the fade across the head, as it is now right in front of me]
</span></span>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>*starts lobbing nades from his GL in the general direction of the aliens*
"Spark, you're on your own here. I have <b>never</b> seen or heard of anything like what just happened to Ven. Short of filling him full of med nanoes, which I no longer think is such a good idea, I've got no idea what to do. And I no longer know if any of my anaesthetics will work."
*reloads nade launcher, and continues with area supression*
"Look at it this way. From what little I know of psych, he hasn't actually lost his mind, just made contact somehow with the aliens' hive mind. This may actually be useful to us."
*more nades*
"Maybe we should leave him be, and just keep an eye on him?"</span></span>
<b>Depends on what model pack you use. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
<b>Update: For those of you who missed it, I posted two posts one after the other. The other one's at the bottom of p. 90</b>