Ariadne Guardpost 3: "the Origins"

spinviper · December 2003

"Be Ready."

Gwahir · December 2003

Just a quick background reminder, the frontiersmen is the military arm of the TSA. It's just common that when people refer to the TSA, they mean the frontiersmen

"You keep working on the communications, I'll work on the other data, maybe it'll even the ground a bit"

Richter_Grim · December 2003

"Bah, I'll do it then."
*Enter's the outposts code and set's standred encryptions*

"Ariadne Guardpost , this is Frontiersman group Alpha. Requesting immediate renforcements. We have a priority one sitiuation here. Repeat, Ariadne Guardpost , this Frontiersman group Alpha requesting immediate renforcements. Priority one sitiuation. Over."

[If no response in 45 sec, set message to repeat]

"Ok, every one stay sharp. Let's see if we can raise the calvery."

*Reaching into his pouch for a few jelly beans, notices how few he has left*

"Ariadne Guardpost, requesting that you send one point five kilograms of jelly beans as well. I'm almost out.
Repeat, one point five K-G of jelly beans."

*Looks around at the team*
"Man, I hope they bring my jelly beans."

xect · December 2003

Just a reminder, the TSA has plenty of military. The frontiersmen are the alien-busting department. The TSA are the ones that keep the human rights of the universe safe from corporative interests. This example should summarize the TSA pretty well:
<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>"Tungsten Hill: Systemwide Corp. and the Taiwanese Republic "negotiating" a "policy dispute" while 6000 people, the live-in work force of the gigantic mining outpost, slowly starved to death. The TSA ran both blockades with minimal casualties, and evacuated the civilians … after TSA engineers repurposed the outpost's railguns, and made good on their threat to destroy any forces that interfered with 100 ton bullets of tungsten ore."</td></tr></table>
Also, that's what a railgun is in the NS universe, you are not likely to come accross one in the armory.

[You find some communication logs. In fact, they are the exact same as the ones you saw on the planet, except they are just seen from the other side and there is no record of communication with ANYONE except forthe planet station. Communication was encrypted in all transmissions]
[works fine, no need to hack]
[Establishes contact]
["insufficient personnel. Requesting situation checkup. Is it grave enough for vessel destruction, I repeat, is it grave enough for us pulling you out and destroying the vessel?"]

Gwahir · December 2003

huh, I was pretty sure I read in that article that the frontiersmen were the military arm, other points in it appear to be contrary to that. Still the TSA isn't all military, it just has military components

[works on getting a better map]

xect · December 2003

Ceanjia: "The blueprints should auto-construct, but it'll take a while connecting it to your nerves. Beginning it now."

Khaim - You feel a slight trickle in your legs, but it quickly grows to actual pain. After a while though, it slows down and becomes just a trickle. You can't move the legs, but you can feel something happening to them now.

Suddenly, a loud ZAAAP breaks the silence.

Terran and Darkness - Looking down the hallway you see it illuminated by a bright flash.jumps, seemingly quite normal. However, the armor immidiately registers it in a bright red flash upon the HUD minimap, her armor looks like the ones used by TSA heavy troops two years ago, and in holsters by her side hangs to pistols that would look like yours but for the huge scopes and the oversized barrels. She appears just below the roof, and falls to the floor...

Khaim - you see just about the same thing, only from above.

Khaim · December 2003

\o/ for rpg merges xD
OK fine xect you win <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

xect · December 2003

That'll teach me never to edit after posting <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> Must be making some minor adjustments to the post

PFCNublar · December 2003

*sees the flash and bang*
"F**k-OW! Target! Heavy at 12 o'clock! Let's go, Frontiersman! Repeat, Heavy armor!"
*hit the deck prone and opens fire in full auto*
"Come on! Get some! Yea, you know you like it!"
*reloads and opens up again*
*grimances as the muzzle flash illuminates the beads of sweat on my brow*

Gwahir · December 2003

*Judging the heavies too far for shotgun fire, Gwahir draws his pistol and [fires at the heavy armor]*

Night_Shade · December 2003

Well I certainly picked the right time to check the forums.
"Ho-lee ****!"
*crouches down behind Terran's prone form and [opens up with his HMG]*
*listens in on radio communications*
"HELL YES!"

Mr_Headcrab · December 2003

*Ed glances back over his shoulder at the HA beast
"Eeep! Wynona would just scratch the paint on that armor!"
*Ed goes back to the console*

[Ed attempts to interface with an expanded map of the ship, afterwards, Ed tries to access the deck Nano-grid and remedy the problem with the Nano-Gridlock]

Lord_Darkness · December 2003

*puts shotgun away for the same reason as Gwahir, draws P229s and fires them, John Woo-style*

EDIT: Forgot the colour tags.

spinviper · December 2003

*shouts in comm*

"Yes it is! Situation extremely grave!"

*Fires at the female HA*

xect · December 2003

Guess the game is a bit christmas-slowed. That's just how they work I figure.
<ul>
<li>Khaim: [Is busy feeling weird]
<li>Mechs: [Immidiately as the shape hits the floor, the mechs open fire, drowning the room in the insane noise of gunfire echoing off the walls]
<li>Draug: [Starts yelling, but the sound is drowned in the mech response. The instant the bullets start flying, she's already on her way into the nearby corridor for cover. A trail of bullets from the heavy mech guns follow her, and the rockets blast the cover platings off the floor where she stood. The path she flew can be clearly traced by the bent and crushed metal walls damaged from hundreds of heavy bullets impacting in the course of a few seconds.]
<li>Darkness: [Darkness lets off a cloud of bullets, but once he stops shooting, he realizes the target is long gone.]
<li>Gwahir: [Gwahir draws his pistols and fires a few shots, but since the Draug has dived for cover before the pistols even leave the holsters, he quickly stops.]
<li>Headcrab: [Ed gets into the system, but as soon as he tries to access anything but the communications, a message pops up: "disconnected by control". The computer stops responding]
<li>Terran: [Hits the deck and fires, but never really hits anything.]
<li>Richter Grim: []
<li>Night Shade: [Starts firing with the HMG, and the attempt to respond to the communication system drowns in the noise.]
<li>Kathos: []
<li>SpinViper: [Spinviper picks up the communication microphone and screams his response to the guard and screams his into it. The response almost drowns in the noise, though spinviper can make out a few words: ". . . . . .bomber. . . . . .estimated. . . . . . . . . . . .Request . . . . . . pickup. . . . . out."]
</ul>

Lord_Darkness · December 2003

*calmly lowers guns and reloads them*
"These mechs are gonna steal our kills soon, I just know it. You got that comm system running yet?"

PFCNublar · December 2003

*scans the area quickly, then looks back at the squad*
"Please...please tell me that one of you guys killed it. Please?"
*observes the trail of bullets going from the place it appeared to around the bend*
*crouches and shoulders weapon*
"Cover me you guys, I'm going to take a quick peek around that cornor to see if it's camping over there."
*creeps over to the cornor and then tilts self over so that only my upper torso and weapon are exposed*


Arr...Christmas. The Killer of Threads and the Bringer of Christmas Pai.

Gwahir · December 2003

[takes advantage of the moment of peace and attempts to figure out why the nano-grid is responding the way it is]

xect · December 2003

Just to clear out a misunderstanding here. The armor she's wearing isn't exactly a full heavy armor, as much as it is a heavier version of a normal armor (we're not unto the hydraulic levels. Call it a medium armor)
[It seems some dynamic entity on the network is preventing you from accessing outside data.]

PFCNublar · December 2003

The scene is quiet as I look at the thread. I think the thread will hold out and be alright.
The thread stops responding.
"Oh sh*t. Hold the wound!."
/me administers CPR

"Come on guys. I can't see anything down this hallway. I don't know if it's hiding or what. We need to make decision quickly. Set up camp, keep trying to fix the network, what? Time isn't in great quantity over here."
*returns to my normal post at the door*
"If that thing was just a scout, they are going to come back with more things. And nasty weapons. And then we're all gonna die."


Two quotes. See if you can figure out from where.

Khaim · December 2003

Well i'm out of action feeling all funky like ATM, so no postage for me, heh.

Gwahir · December 2003

did those buildings ever come down btw?

And I think we should have a phase in base, if we don't lets get one down.

"Camp is set soon, but if we can obtain full control of the nano-grid, we'll be in a better position. 1. we will know where they are even if they don't know where we are, 2. with auto-build permissions in place we'll be a able to phase anywhere and counter their personal phase tech."
[attempts to set the immutable attribute to the dynamic entity]

edit: oops, said entity when I meant attribute

Khaim · December 2003

yeah they did Gwahir.

xect · December 2003

It's christmas holidays, all forums die at this time.
<ul>
<li>Mechs: [The mechs quickly gather speed, sprinting towards the
corner. Once they get to the corner, they plant their legs firmly and prepare to
fire.]
<li>Khaim: []
<li>Draug: [The Draug is out of sight.]
<li>Richter Grim: []
<li>Terran: [Moves behind the mechs towards the corner. Between the
loud slams of the mech feet, he (and only he) hears a female yell around the
corner: "*KLANK*y! st*KLANK*eing! i*KLANK*ndly!"]
<li>Kathos: []
<li>Gwahir: [While you are attempting to perform the change, the screen goes black. White letters appear "Connection lost, please enter password to reconnect...
...
...
OWNED!"]
<li>SpinViper: []
<li>Darkness: []
<li>Night Shade: []
<li>Headcrab: []
</ul>

Ceanjia: "It's hopeless. Not even I can do anything when 344 is controlling the system. I managed to plant a few sneak backdoors around the system, but she planted and controls all the front doors, and most of the backdoors too"

Gwahir · December 2003

"Alrighty then, lets try an old and stupid trick then. Ever heard of denial of service attacks from a back when networking just came around? What if we kind of reverse it, get as many minor systems as possible to go around wrecking whatever havoc they can, and amidst the chaos, we just sail on through."
[sets all the minor system services on cycling requests, trying every port on whatever nearby system they can reach and then makes a run for the central core]
"Pretty soon, whatever the governing entity is will have to start letting things slip."

That is unless you mean my terminal has stopped funcitioning, in which case: [attempts to reinit the station]

Night_Shade · December 2003

*shouts* "IS EVERYONE OKAY!!?"
*moves up to Terran, ejecting his HMG clip and slamming a fresh one home as he moves*
Xect, do I have anything in my bag of tricks that'll determine whether or not a blood sample (for example) is human?

Kathos · December 2003

*Looks around with a dazzed look*
"Why did it run? Wouldn't it be better to just phase behind us or something?"
*Reloads rifle, seeing how little damage it did*
"Any chance of me getting a Nade Launcher and some sort of backpack?"

PFCNublar · December 2003

*checks self over*
"Took a little damage...but I can make it. Armor took most of that...shock-thing-whatever it shot at us."
*looks at the cornor again*
"Hey...did you guys hear something? I could of swore I heard somebody talking over there. I think it was talking..."
*tunes radio to an open channel and activates the speech unit on the Heavy Armor*
*deactivates encryption programs and broadcasts a message over to the corner*
"Hey! Identify yourself! We're TSA Frontiersman! Friendlies, if your not alien! Come on out and show yourself!"
*lets my weapon hang idly on its strap and walks over to the corner again*
*radios over to the squad on the secure channel*.
"I think there might be a survivor or somebody over there. You don't think Draug can still talk in English, do you? We should check it out anyway."

Gwahir · December 2003

"huh, you might be right"
*scrolls back the mission log hey it was done in six days and listens to it again*
"There's definately something human like, but we were told that they can speak English, still I don't quite trust a strange AI that claims to have faked a failed install"

Lord_Darkness · December 2003

"Gwahir, upload me into the network. Wreaking havoc's my speciality."
"Merc if you're going in there, don't crash the system or you'll kill yourself and every other program in there."
*stays guarding the door, P229s fully loaded*

Ariadne Guardpost 3: "the Origins"

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