<b>You mean an exosuit, right? Exoskeletons are the stuff you're born with if you're a beetle :)</b>
<i>Spinviper, Khaim and Gwahir - Looking towards the wreck, you notice something strange at the wall beside the crash hole, just underneath a broken light. Something's wavering, like hot air, at the wall. It lasts for a few seconds, then it's gone again.
Gwahir - A dozen or so seconds later, you see the same thing in the shadow of a large crate, just behind Terran's back.</i>
<span style='color:purple'>"What the hell..? Hey no-one light a match or something, I think theres some gas or something that got released by those broken pipes... Damn I wish I had use of my legs right now, Hurry up silly nanites!" </span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *puts on some brand spanking new heavy armor* *holds my assault rifle* *looks at the mechs, then at a heavy machine gun, then back to my rifle* "Man...I suddenly wish God didn't make me suck with HMGs right around now." *picks up a welder and puts in the "Fourth Slot"* "Say, can you drop any of those new hand grenades I heard the techies babbling about? Something about command standard issuing them on Christmas." </span></span>
<b>Well, in NS 3.0 you can carry a welder and a pistol...so could we all do that now? And the hand grenades too. I mean, 3.0 is coming soon...<!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
Actually no Xect. Exosuits are the fictional anime versions. In real life they're still called exoskeletons.
<span style='color:gray'>"That's not moving like gas... its holding together too easily" *Fires his shotgun behind terran, making sure that all pellets miss him, but risking missing the target entirely*</span>
<b>I thought I left Khaim <i>in</i> the wreck...</b> <span style='color:green'>*suits up in HA and grabs an HMG, then looks down at Khaim* "Let's get you suited up." *grabs another HA, checks Khaim's back, [making sure his spine has healed], then if so removes the nanite IV and starts helping Khaim get into the power suit* "What gun do you want?"</span>
<!--QuoteBegin--xect+Dec 5 2003, 08:16 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (xect @ Dec 5 2003, 08:16 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <span style='color:green'>[You walk out the door. You dont get far before you see Khaim lying right beside the cockpit entrance. He's lying limbly on the ground below a shelf that seems to have cracked when hit by something. His torso seems strangely misshapen.]</span> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> <b>Just for reference...</b> <span style='color:purple'>(Assuming the nanites finished & made me able to move again o.o) *Gets up slowly using the hydrolic powered HA to help him move.* "Well I guess I'll be sore for a bit, but I can at least walk with the HA. Thanks shade." *Picks up a shotgun off the ground*</span>
<b>I hate to point this out, but the nanites weren't fixing your spinal nerves, just the bone. Unless xect says otherwise, consider yourself paraplegic.</b> <!--QuoteBegin--Xect+page 21--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Xect @ page 21)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:green'>[The emergency damage nanites did a good job. Securing the wound should actually only take a minute or two. The hard one's the paralysis, you surely won't be able to fix that one. The interesting, yet unanswerable, question is if anyone will]</span><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<span style='color:White'> "Woot, new toys. I'll just be happy when i can get thses old toys back up and running. Hint Hint to the Com." *Ed spins a NyJack Clip around on his belt.* "should be easy, click me and then click the little "Unlock" icon- What the!!!!" *Ed gets scared by the large amounts of lead being flung.* </span>
<span style='color:orange'><i>"Would you mind keeping the gunfire down, I've got a splitting headache over here. Hey, Ceanja, think Mercura can upload herself into one of those mechs and overide the current combat AI in their CPUs. She should be able to completly control it and she won't just be an annoying voice over the comm system for some of us."</i> <b>"What do you mean, annoying?"</b> <i>"You don't annoy me, but I can't say the same for the other members of the squad. Remember Boggle? Where is he anyway?"</i> <b>"He missed the shuttle out of the guardpost, don't you remember? You must've hit your head harder than I thought."</b></span> <b>Now that I think about it, will I be able to move soon so that I can grab some HA and a shottie?</b>
<b>Im glad you didnt die, Darkness. Crabby would have went postal if you did <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
<span style='color:green'>*deftly checks Darkness's limbs over for [any remaining signs of brokenness]* "Yeah, you should be fine. Just do me a favour and take it easy." *looks around, perplexed, at the sudden gunfire then shoulders his HMG, [looking for what was being shot at]*</span>
<b>DUH, mesed up there. Khaim is still inside the wreck</b> <span style='color:gray'>[The bullets slap into the crate. When the smoke dies out, the wavering movements are gone]</span> <span style='color:green'>[It's not getting any worse now, seems the bone is fine]</span> <span style='color:purple'>[Nope, can't get up.]</span> <span style='color:green'>[No problems there. He's gonna be a little stiff in the limbs for a while, but otherwise the nanites have him patched up pretty well] [Looking around, you notice that the air behind Spinviper seems to be wavering strangely]</span>
<b>Thought that might've happened. Okay, for continuity's sake, when I determined his spine had healed, I carried him out of the wreck and near the equipment pile. He's propped up against the armory. I was gonna do that anyway, but kinda got confused over where I was carrying him from. <!--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:green'>*squints, mutters "...the hell?", then [fires a burst of about a dozen rounds at the wavering air]*</span>
<b>My original post actually had me shifting you...then I read back and edited it out after getting confused as to whether or not you were already outside the wreckage.</b> <span style='color:green'>*waiting for aftermath of HMG burst* "We don't HAVE a comm...Gwahir, why not hook Ceanija up to the chair. She should be able to comm faster than any of us could. And she might be able to pull a few neat tricks with the gear."</span>
<b>Might be because the action of the air flickering a bit might seem limited to some <!--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:green'>[The bullets slam into the wall as the wavering disappears again.]</span>
<span style='color:gray'>[The bullets impact the walls, one after another. After a while, when you realize you are hitting nothing, the sound of your gunfire echoing in the great hall fades. And just then, you hear a deep, almost unreal, sound, just behind your back: "hree hree hreeee"]</span>
<i>Behind Gwahir, the shimmering air seems to materialize. A bent figure appears. Looks somewhere between a human and a skulk. Standing in a position that would impress any hunchback, it's large, jet-black eyes seem to absorb the surroundings rather than view them. His long and sharp teeth seem horribly out of place on his bold face. The arms are deformed, the left one much longer than the right, but both ending in long, sharp blades that shine in the bright light of the docks.</i>
<b>Er? So where exactly am I? Propped up against the armory or still in the wreck? o.O I'll just be chilling out all paraplegic like until i know for sure. o.O</b>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *looks at all the lead flying and does a "Cease Fire" hand signal* "Guys, stop wasting ammunition. I know they 'said' that armories give out free ammo, but there is no such thing as free lunch. There are only as many bullets as there are nanos, so save it. Besides, it's just gas that is...'looking' at us. What's the worse that could happen?" *sees that thing materalize behind Ghawir* "What the...****! DRAUG ON YOUR SIX, GHAWIR! GET DOWN!" [strafes over to the side to get a clear shot of the creature, then opens up] "Yea! Come on! You know you like it! Get some, you b*stard!" *tries to taunt the creature not to whack Ghawir* </span></span>
<b>Oh, I just hope those mechs know what Friendly Fire is</b>
<b> Leave to go help someone out and come back to all this fun.... <span style='font-family:Arial'><span style='color:blue'> *Equiped in HA, welder, GL* "Gwahir hit the deck!" [Slams nades into the beast]
"Suppresing fire! Gwahir, get out of there!" </span></span></b>
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<i>Spinviper, Khaim and Gwahir - Looking towards the wreck, you notice something strange at the wall beside the crash hole, just underneath a broken light. Something's wavering, like hot air, at the wall. It lasts for a few seconds, then it's gone again.
Gwahir - A dozen or so seconds later, you see the same thing in the shadow of a large crate, just behind Terran's back.</i>
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*puts on some brand spanking new heavy armor*
*holds my assault rifle*
*looks at the mechs, then at a heavy machine gun, then back to my rifle*
"Man...I suddenly wish God didn't make me suck with HMGs right around now."
*picks up a welder and puts in the "Fourth Slot"*
"Say, can you drop any of those new hand grenades I heard the techies babbling about? Something about command standard issuing them on Christmas."
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<b>Well, in NS 3.0 you can carry a welder and a pistol...so could we all do that now? And the hand grenades too. I mean, 3.0 is coming soon...<!--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:gray'>"That's not moving like gas... its holding together too easily"
*Fires his shotgun behind terran, making sure that all pellets miss him, but risking missing the target entirely*</span>
<span style='color:green'>*suits up in HA and grabs an HMG, then looks down at Khaim*
"Let's get you suited up."
*grabs another HA, checks Khaim's back, [making sure his spine has healed], then if so removes the nanite IV and starts helping Khaim get into the power suit*
"What gun do you want?"</span>
<b>Just for reference...</b>
<span style='color:purple'>(Assuming the nanites finished & made me able to move again o.o) *Gets up slowly using the hydrolic powered HA to help him move.*
"Well I guess I'll be sore for a bit, but I can at least walk with the HA. Thanks shade."
*Picks up a shotgun off the ground*</span>
<!--QuoteBegin--Xect+page 21--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Xect @ page 21)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:green'>[The emergency damage nanites did a good job. Securing the wound should actually only take a minute or two. The hard one's the paralysis, you surely won't be able to fix that one. The interesting, yet unanswerable, question is if anyone will]</span><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
*Fires a few rounds at where I saw the wavering thing*
"Comm, run a scanner sweep here!"[/B]</span>
*Ed spins a NyJack Clip around on his belt.*
"should be easy, click me and then click the little "Unlock" icon- What the!!!!"
*Ed gets scared by the large amounts of lead being flung.*
</span>
<b>"What do you mean, annoying?"</b>
<i>"You don't annoy me, but I can't say the same for the other members of the squad. Remember Boggle? Where is he anyway?"</i>
<b>"He missed the shuttle out of the guardpost, don't you remember? You must've hit your head harder than I thought."</b></span>
<b>Now that I think about it, will I be able to move soon so that I can grab some HA and a shottie?</b>
"Yeah, you should be fine. Just do me a favour and take it easy."
*looks around, perplexed, at the sudden gunfire then shoulders his HMG, [looking for what was being shot at]*</span>
<span style='color:gray'>[The bullets slap into the crate. When the smoke dies out, the wavering movements are gone]</span>
<span style='color:green'>[It's not getting any worse now, seems the bone is fine]</span>
<span style='color:purple'>[Nope, can't get up.]</span>
<span style='color:green'>[No problems there. He's gonna be a little stiff in the limbs for a while, but otherwise the nanites have him patched up pretty well]
[Looking around, you notice that the air behind Spinviper seems to be wavering strangely]</span>
<span style='color:green'>*squints, mutters "...the hell?", then [fires a burst of about a dozen rounds at the wavering air]*</span>
[fires at the wavering air as soon as Spin is clear]
"That isn't gas, something is in here with us."</span>
"What is that?"
*Raises gun*</span>
<span style='color:green'>*waiting for aftermath of HMG burst*
"We don't HAVE a comm...Gwahir, why not hook Ceanija up to the chair. She should be able to comm faster than any of us could. And she might be able to pull a few neat tricks with the gear."</span>
One thing I've noticed throughout this RPG is that xect is throwing action into your faces, most people act like nothing is happening...
<span style='color:green'>[The bullets slam into the wall as the wavering disappears again.]</span>
<span style='color:gray'>[The bullets impact the walls, one after another. After a while, when you realize you are hitting nothing, the sound of your gunfire echoing in the great hall fades. And just then, you hear a deep, almost unreal, sound, just behind your back: "hree hree hreeee"]</span>
<i>Behind Gwahir, the shimmering air seems to materialize. A bent figure appears. Looks somewhere between a human and a skulk. Standing in a position that would impress any hunchback, it's large, jet-black eyes seem to absorb the surroundings rather than view them. His long and sharp teeth seem horribly out of place on his bold face. The arms are deformed, the left one much longer than the right, but both ending in long, sharp blades that shine in the bright light of the docks.</i>
*looks at all the lead flying and does a "Cease Fire" hand signal*
"Guys, stop wasting ammunition. I know they 'said' that armories give out free ammo, but there is no such thing as free lunch. There are only as many bullets as there are nanos, so save it. Besides, it's just gas that is...'looking' at us. What's the worse that could happen?"
*sees that thing materalize behind Ghawir*
"What the...****! DRAUG ON YOUR SIX, GHAWIR! GET DOWN!"
[strafes over to the side to get a clear shot of the creature, then opens up]
"Yea! Come on! You know you like it! Get some, you b*stard!"
*tries to taunt the creature not to whack Ghawir*
</span></span>
<b>Oh, I just hope those mechs know what Friendly Fire is</b>
Fixed</b>
*Equiped in HA, welder, GL*
"Gwahir hit the deck!" [Slams nades into the beast]
"Suppresing fire! Gwahir, get out of there!" </span></span></b>