<span style='color:White'> *Ed shoots the P.A. Speaker in the wall with his pistol* "<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>SUYF!</span>" *Ed heads for the location labled "Armory". Ed seems distant.* "... Im going to get some ammo..." </span>
<b>Dunno about Firebird, but I use full Mozilla on linux, and I have weirdness with nested quotes.</b> <span style='color:green'>"Hm..You know, we could just ask those Draug that are on our side where the Kharaa are. Either that or we get in touch with the bomber, have a right whinge at em for nearly killing us, get picked up and let the nukes do the work." *leans against a wall* "Damn, what I wouldn't do for a 40mm gattling cannon right about now. Crude, but effective. Wait a sec..." *I go over to the exploded mech, and [try and salvage one of its machine guns and ammo stores]* "Someone wanna give me a hand here?"</span>
<span style='color:orange'><b>*sees the guards move away* "Now's my chance." *pulls out Rod primative, pulls the two halves apart and touches the ends of both to the field, light shoots out in all directions before the field collapses, I jump through just as the field reforms and run towards the nearest door*</b></span>
<b>Darkness, this is the last time I say it, STOP STORYJACKING! I never said anything about them placing a guard at the isolated data block, let alone the guard turning his digital back to you.</b>
<i>Ceanjia: "Tick tick, do you realize that they've probably evolved another onos or two while you've been standing here."
Merc - Sitting in the cell, you notice something approaching. Doesn't look like a guard, more like another A.I. Then it starts sending messages to you:
Unknown A.I.: "So, guess you ended up in here. Pretty hard to get out, but I could help you. Come on, follow me. But make sure you don't cause any interference in the system, those guard algorithms are nasty. Don't worry, I'm not hostile. I have been here for a while, but lying low I have made sure no one found me. Could call me an undercover A.I. Was created way back as an experiment, but they forgot about me."</i>
Looks like the other rp is starting to fall apart, maybe it's time we fall back to the guardpost, eh? BTW I'm going to assume me and terran reached the others, if we didn't, tell me and I'll edit the post. <span style='color:purple'>*stops running when he reaches the others* "Well guys, that nuke solution is starting to look better and better, what do ya say we head over to the next dock, radio that bombing jackass, and have him pick us up?" {Over Voiceomm} "Ed you comming? We're going to extract I think, we'll bring Darkness' body with us." *Walks over and picks up darkness body by the arms* "A hand here? --Oh, and someone get merc please"</span>
<span style='color:azure'> *Ed turns on his Comm, his voice is deadpan "And what about the Friendly Draug? Just gonna blow em up? I'm fairly certain i know one of em from somewhere, Deja` Vu's a painin the---." *Ed trips over somthing* "Feck! Ow! What the heck is this?" *Ed picks up Epoch's Flamer from the deck.* "... could be useful, the tech boys on the station would love to see this." *Ed Slings the Flamer and keeps heading for the Armory* "...I still need ammo..." </span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "Yea, I'd have to say. Although we can't just leave them here. Jeez, alright." *grabs Dark's legs and lifts* "Okie...we drag this bloody rag of man into Communications and dump him into the middle of the Turret Farm? Ought to keep the pesky aliens off him." *puts him down in the Farm and then pats hands down* "Christ...blood. And it's starting to smell funky too." *grabs radio gingerly with my bloody fingers and radios the other team* <[Say...where are the Kharaa anyway? Are they actually up there, or is that bloody AI lying again? Oh, and see if 343 can drop us a CC or something. We lost ours when the Docking Wing sucked on itself.]> *looks at Ed* "Armory? We don't have one, I think. The last armory was in the Docking Wing, and that got sucked out. You better not think you can waltz out of an airlock to grab ammo from that armory." </span></span> <b>Yea, I honestly can't remember if we dropped a CC in Communications, or an armory even. The only things that are there for sure are a Turret Farm and a Phase I believe. Someone help me clarify?</b>
<span style='color:purple'>"Well damn, I guess that means we're not bailing then, oh well... And I was hoping to come back in one piece today... but then again, I already lost my legs earlier, can't get much worse than that I suppose..." *Heads off to the armory marked on the map* "Come on guys, maybe we can find some better weapons at that armory, and Ed might need an escort, with only 5 of us left we won't have much of a chance split up."</span> And yes, theres only 5 of us left alive, Ed/Mr. Headcrab, Me/Khaim, Terran, Shade, and Spinviper, thats it I believe.... Darkness is dead, Gwahir is dead, boggle is back at base scrubbin the decks, others have dropped out over time, etc.
<span style='color:orange'><b>"I don't care who you are or what your history is, just get me out of this cell and give me control of this mech and I might see if I can get you an internet server or something. I know some users." *follows the AI's orders exactly*</span> I know that can't be Ceanja/344 because this is inside the mechs personal mainframe.</b>
<span style='color:gray'>*Keeping as stealthy as possible, I lead Mercura to as safe a sector as possible* "Take over? That's not easy, and impossible if you want to be quiet about it."</span>
<b> How exactly did you pick up Merc when she's not in the PDA? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo--> </b>
<i>The friendly draug confirm, the aliens are really a few floors above you.
Ceanjia: "So, that's another Onos. And I can tell you I never saw such a well-defended hive. But then again, no frontiersmen ever let the aliens live for that long before responding either. So well, I guess that's sensible enough. Not that it helps your chances."
Gwahir - it seems they haven't even noticed you freeing merc. The whole data block is clear though, so it will be quite easy to flash if they find out you're there.</i>
<span style='color:gray'>"We're safe for the moment, but don't do anything stupid, if they find us here we won't have time to react before we're deleted." "I might be able to get you out into the main system through a port I know of. Why do you want to take over?"</span>
<b><span style='color:orange'>"My user put me in here to take over this mech to help him and his friends kill the Kharaa on this ship. He risked his life to get me in here and I'm not gonna fail him."</span></b>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "Yes...the armory. Ought to have some spare bewmsticks or something. Maybe a bigger bag. And some food." *forms up behind Ed* *while walking, hears Khaim's comment* "Hehe...you lost the better part of you. Har har har. Maybe they have a spare mojo in the armory <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->. We can dicuss and formulate a plan better there." </span></span> <b>Yes...I am still waiting for what you guys think we should do. I'm still waiting on if xect will decide to somehow give us a CC, since I take it we don't have one.
Oh, and Onos have fixed hitboxes. A waste of 100 res now <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->. The apparently like to suck in any and every shot fired in their general direction. And mines.</b>
<b>If you're gonna have a CC, that is <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And even with fixed hitboxes, that many onos is no walk in the park <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
<i>Ceanjia: "Now, seems the draug are coming for you and the bomber is closing in to pass a bomb into the penetrated hull by the docks, you might want to get going. Don't trust your luck down here, wouldn't be wise. Oh, and by the way, they evolved another onos just 5 seconds ago.
<span style='color:azure'> *Ed looks at the ceiling* "How many more frelling speakers do i have to shoot before you get the idea? SHUT YOUR DIGITAL BLOWHOLE! PSYCOLOGICAL WARFARE NOLY WORKS IF YOU SEEM TO BE A NEUTRAL PARTY." *Ed sprints down the corridor, turns the corner and enters the Armory. [Grabs as many high Explosive things as he can, and hauls out of there and towards Ventilation access.*
"... I have a promise to keep, plus the binary siren has a point for once, this deck's gonna be depressurized soon, I assume Communications has an emergency blast door, but Ventilation will lead us to the rest of the ship, and hopefully to victory. " </span>
<span style='color:gray'>"Very well, I have no idea why I'm sticking my code out for you." "You'd better be both pretty stealthy and have something more potent than a disc with you" *Attempting to evade all notice, he takes Merc to the entrance of the core* [scans the area to see what they're up against]</span>
<b>Nah, gwahir's another AI, not 344 I think, they're in a Mech anyway, not the main system.</b> <span style='color:purple'> "Ed has a point, lets get moving..." *Sprints after Ed to the ventillation area and pulls out welder in one hand* "Hey Ed, I got this welder if we need to open or close any of the vents. Also, what do ya think, will the Heavy Armor fit in those ventillation ducts, or should we all ditch them?" *Mutters under his breath* "I'm so going to effing kill that bomber pilot..."</span>
i was actually wondering something... why is it so hard for an AI to hack into a mech compared to a human? the only reason i can think of is its straight 344 vs. whatever AI for controll of a mech, and 344 uber pwns all other AI's in the system (what with being the station AI and all).
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"<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>SUYF!</span>"
*Ed heads for the location labled "Armory". Ed seems distant.*
"... Im going to get some ammo..."
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<span style='color:green'>"Hm..You know, we could just ask those Draug that are on our side where the Kharaa are. Either that or we get in touch with the bomber, have a right whinge at em for nearly killing us, get picked up and let the nukes do the work."
*leans against a wall*
"Damn, what I wouldn't do for a 40mm gattling cannon right about now. Crude, but effective. Wait a sec..."
*I go over to the exploded mech, and [try and salvage one of its machine guns and ammo stores]*
"Someone wanna give me a hand here?"</span>
"Now's my chance."
*pulls out Rod primative, pulls the two halves apart and touches the ends of both to the field, light shoots out in all directions before the field collapses, I jump through just as the field reforms and run towards the nearest door*</b></span>
<i>Ceanjia: "Tick tick, do you realize that they've probably evolved another onos or two while you've been standing here."
Merc - Sitting in the cell, you notice something approaching. Doesn't look like a guard, more like another A.I. Then it starts sending messages to you:
Unknown A.I.: "So, guess you ended up in here. Pretty hard to get out, but I could help you. Come on, follow me. But make sure you don't cause any interference in the system, those guard algorithms are nasty. Don't worry, I'm not hostile. I have been here for a while, but lying low I have made sure no one found me. Could call me an undercover A.I. Was created way back as an experiment, but they forgot about me."</i>
<span style='color:purple'>*stops running when he reaches the others*
"Well guys, that nuke solution is starting to look better and better, what do ya say we head over to the next dock, radio that bombing jackass, and have him pick us up?"
{Over Voiceomm} "Ed you comming? We're going to extract I think, we'll bring Darkness' body with us."
*Walks over and picks up darkness body by the arms*
"A hand here? --Oh, and someone get merc please"</span>
*Ed trips over somthing*
"Feck! Ow! What the heck is this?"
*Ed picks up Epoch's Flamer from the deck.*
"... could be useful, the tech boys on the station would love to see this."
*Ed Slings the Flamer and keeps heading for the Armory*
"...I still need ammo..."
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"Yea, I'd have to say. Although we can't just leave them here. Jeez, alright."
*grabs Dark's legs and lifts*
"Okie...we drag this bloody rag of man into Communications and dump him into the middle of the Turret Farm? Ought to keep the pesky aliens off him."
*puts him down in the Farm and then pats hands down*
"Christ...blood. And it's starting to smell funky too."
*grabs radio gingerly with my bloody fingers and radios the other team*
<[Say...where are the Kharaa anyway? Are they actually up there, or is that bloody AI lying again? Oh, and see if 343 can drop us a CC or something. We lost ours when the Docking Wing sucked on itself.]>
*looks at Ed*
"Armory? We don't have one, I think. The last armory was in the Docking Wing, and that got sucked out. You better not think you can waltz out of an airlock to grab ammo from that armory."
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<b>Yea, I honestly can't remember if we dropped a CC in Communications, or an armory even. The only things that are there for sure are a Turret Farm and a Phase I believe. Someone help me clarify?</b>
"The Ship-board Armoury on the HUD, where the Draug went for ammo."
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<b>It's somthing Daza and i talked about in private</b>
*Heads off to the armory marked on the map*
"Come on guys, maybe we can find some better weapons at that armory, and Ed might need an escort, with only 5 of us left we won't have much of a chance split up."</span>
And yes, theres only 5 of us left alive, Ed/Mr. Headcrab, Me/Khaim, Terran, Shade, and Spinviper, thats it I believe.... Darkness is dead, Gwahir is dead, boggle is back at base scrubbin the decks, others have dropped out over time, etc.
*follows the AI's orders exactly*</span>
I know that can't be Ceanja/344 because this is inside the mechs personal mainframe.</b>
"Take over? That's not easy, and impossible if you want to be quiet about it."</span>
Oh my god Gwahir's an AI! How did that work?
*Runs after ED*
"I'll cover you or something..."</b></span>
<i>The friendly draug confirm, the aliens are really a few floors above you.
Ceanjia: "So, that's another Onos. And I can tell you I never saw such a well-defended hive. But then again, no frontiersmen ever let the aliens live for that long before responding either. So well, I guess that's sensible enough. Not that it helps your chances."
Gwahir - it seems they haven't even noticed you freeing merc. The whole data block is clear though, so it will be quite easy to flash if they find out you're there.</i>
We can quickly leave?
or an enemy can quickly wipe the data and delete us.
"I might be able to get you out into the main system through a port I know of. Why do you want to take over?"</span>
"Yes...the armory. Ought to have some spare bewmsticks or something. Maybe a bigger bag. And some food."
*forms up behind Ed*
*while walking, hears Khaim's comment*
"Hehe...you lost the better part of you. Har har har. Maybe they have a spare mojo in the armory <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->. We can dicuss and formulate a plan better there."
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<b>Yes...I am still waiting for what you guys think we should do. I'm still waiting on if xect will decide to somehow give us a CC, since I take it we don't have one.
Oh, and Onos have fixed hitboxes. A waste of 100 res now <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->. The apparently like to suck in any and every shot fired in their general direction. And mines.</b>
And even with fixed hitboxes, that many onos is no walk in the park <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
<i>Ceanjia: "Now, seems the draug are coming for you and the bomber is closing in to pass a bomb into the penetrated hull by the docks, you might want to get going. Don't trust your luck down here, wouldn't be wise. Oh, and by the way, they evolved another onos just 5 seconds ago.
tick tick tick tick"</i>
"How many more frelling speakers do i have to shoot before you get the idea? SHUT YOUR DIGITAL BLOWHOLE! PSYCOLOGICAL WARFARE NOLY WORKS IF YOU SEEM TO BE A NEUTRAL PARTY."
*Ed sprints down the corridor, turns the corner and enters the Armory. [Grabs as many high Explosive things as he can, and hauls out of there and towards Ventilation access.*
"... I have a promise to keep, plus the binary siren has a point for once, this deck's gonna be depressurized soon, I assume Communications has an emergency blast door, but Ventilation will lead us to the rest of the ship, and hopefully to victory. "
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"You'd better be both pretty stealthy and have something more potent than a disc with you"
*Attempting to evade all notice, he takes Merc to the entrance of the core*
[scans the area to see what they're up against]</span>
<span style='color:purple'>
"Ed has a point, lets get moving..."
*Sprints after Ed to the ventillation area and pulls out welder in one hand*
"Hey Ed, I got this welder if we need to open or close any of the vents. Also, what do ya think, will the Heavy Armor fit in those ventillation ducts, or should we all ditch them?"
*Mutters under his breath* "I'm so going to effing kill that bomber pilot..."</span>