<i>Ceanjia: "That sounds about right. Except I'm not sure I could be bothered to kill you myself. The aliens would do that just fine, not knowing that they're going down with the rest of the ship once the bomber gets his work done.
But what about it then? Do you all agree with Khaim, do we have a deal? I'm gonna need an answer soon. So?
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "Well, that's certainly good. Much better than I had expected." *opens up team chat* <i>Private Terran (TEAM): Well, even with a CC...we're going to need to think of a way to destroy the level, but still keep it intact. The best option we've got so far is to open the airlocks or something from the control room. I'd need to see the schematics of this level though. But it will either involve us blowing up a lot of areas of the ship, jettisoning them, or just depressurizing them. We've got some sort of enviromental protection from the Heavy Armor, so we could probably run for the lift back down before the entire level depressurizes too badly. We're also going to have to link up with our Draug/Human buddies. We could use their help. Or perhaps we could help them with what they're doing, if it's related to cleaning the ship out.</i> *over the public channel* "So, you dropping us our goodies or will we have to go on with out them?" </span></span>
<span style='color:green'><i>Night Shade (team): I don't think these are pressure suits, just fairly hefty air filters. The draug are working on taking out the security system completely anyway, from what I understand, so the extra time might be just what we need.</i> "Can we have 100 res? And this might sound like a dumb question, but what happens to you once the bomber's turned the ship into radioactive grit?</span> throw new ThreadDeathException();
<i>Ceanjia: "Heh, 100 res you say. Fine with me. You'll get a hundred res, a command console and 3 minutes."
Behind the lift door, you hear a set of security doors slam shut, then the lift opens. You see a large lobby, with a few benches along the sides, a number of office doors to the left and right and three large corridors, closed with heavy metal sliding doors, in the left opposite corner, right opposite corner and opposite wall.
"2 minutes 58 seconds..."</i>
<b>Ok, I lost it. You two A.I. will have to tell me exactly what you are doing. You are seriously confusing me now.</b>
<span style='color:purple'>*Runs out into the lobby* "You're S$#%ing me! We have to play a game of find the command console or something? Crap!" *Looks at the three doors* <i>Khaim (Team): Ok, we need to pick a door quickly. One probably contains the area leading to the draug etc, one probably has the console a little ways down, and one probably has controls for the deck... Of course that's all a guess.</i> "Caen, you skipped 2 minutes and 59 seconds."</span>
<i>Ceanjia: "Yup, skipped announcing that second. Didn't skip the second. But well, game is on. You seem to be nervous so I'll let you have your chair right where you stand."
The chair appears right before Khaim, built and ready.
<span style='color:purple'>"Well that helps at least... I think." -Rescount 100- *Gets in the Command Chair* {Over Voiceomm} "100 res, we won't be needing an IP, no reinforcements comming anyway, right? We will be needing an armory though, if we want any damn ammo, the rest of the ship is probabaly on nano-lockdown still, so an obs wouldn't be of too much use... We should probably try and get some res nodes up and a good res flow, then throw down some higher tech stuff, maybe try and knock out those oni then storm a hive?" *Drops an Armory in the center of the room* -Rescount 80- {Over Voicecomm} "If anyone has any objections to me commanding here, give me a yell, there's only 5 of us, not like it really matters all that much anyway."</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *looks around quickly and spots the armory* *starts building away quickly* "Oh my god. Alright, alright...we need a phase gate, so we can get from place to place quickly. And get us an observatory anyway. It'll decloak anything that tries to sneak into base." *keeps weapon shouldered and keeps scanning the area* *breathing starts to become rather audible* </span></span>
xect, I really would like to know what is happening with my character, you've posted 2 or 3 times and I don't know if I made it off the mech into the main system, if I'm able to find everyone or what...
<span style='color:purple'>"Rodger that terran, 1 obs, comming up, we already have phase tech from earlier, so we shouldn't need to research it." *Drops an obs a few feet from the armory, along the wall* -Rescount 55- (-25 for obs) "Lets see, 30 for 2 phase gates and 15 for a resnode, that'll leave us with 10, with a couple seconds from the node we'll have enough for a second." *Drops a phase along the opposite wall from the obs once it's completed.* "Now, we need to move out..." [Looks around the map for the deck controls and any resource nodes and places a labled waypoint on each. ('Deck Controls' and 'Resource Nozzle')]</span>
<b>That's because you two A.I.s have managed to completely and throughoutly baffle me. I have no idea whatsoever what you two are doing, are trying to do and have already done. Who is the user merc talked about, why is darkness accessing the main grid, what main grid is he accessing, what main system are YOU accessing, what ports is it that you keep opening and closing? I can't really update the status on any of you before you actually tell me what's going on.</b>
<span style='color:purple'>[Only node is outside the security doors.]</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *looks around* *sighs* "Alright then...I guess that's all. Now we just have to think and agree on a tactic. I still hold to either using the vaccum of space as a weapon or we could hook up with the others. Either way, we need to vote, like right now. Either way, I sure as hell hope whoever is in the CC knows the art of medspam." *wonders a bit* "I was wondering...could you name us Squad 5? Just for the luck, as we're going to need it <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->." *shoulders weapon and then walks up to the door* </span></span> <b>Ooo...uber skills of Squad 5...<!--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:purple'>-Rescount 40- *Opens the security door through the command chair and drops the node for Terran* <i>Khaim (Team): We should get that resnode up then probably drop A command chair in a vent or something nearby the deck's security access area, we might be able to relocate there while fending off aliens, then possibly depressurize the deck long enough to kill the aliens, or at least set them back so the bacterium has to rebuild the first hive.</i> [Looks for wherever any access controls for the deck happen to be and waypoints it, if there is such.] {Over Voicecomm} "Fine Terran..." *Hits select all then assigns everyone to 'Squad 5'*</span>
I'm trying to get into the main main system, merc said she knew some users, those would be the rest of our team, like dark before he died. The port is the way to/from the main system off the mech.
<span style='color:green'>"Like I said, these things aren't pressure suits, and I have no idea how they'll hold up to depressurising the deck." *I move up to the security door, taking point*</span>
<span style='color:purple'>{Over Voicecomm} "Yeah, well you got any better ideas? Maybe we can lend a hand with our semi-draug friends or something, cuz sitting here is going to get us killed anyway, why not die helping them or something... Well, crap, doesn't matter too much anyway anymore, our safe timer is almost out, guys, ready your weapons, we got a lot of alien fighting to do."</span>
wups. kneejerk. edited <span style='color:green'>*checks ammo count (125/0), then heads back to the armoury and pulls full ammo out* "That's better." *falls in behind Terran*</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "First thing we're going to need to do is at least secure this immediate perimeter. That means we need to disable any security systems in the area that are hazardous as well as kill off anything that bloody moves and screams." *quickly stafes though the door and then takes a knee* *glances for any targets left and right* "It's clear...I think." *runs up to the RT and crouches, covering the others as they follow* </span></span> <b>Kneejerk you shay? <!--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>Merc's trying to get into the mechs main system to take control of it, Gwahir caused what could be considered a diversion, if I remember correctly.</b>
<b>Gwahir, put your OOC comments in bold please</b>
<i>Darkness - Doesn't really seem to work. In fact, while you try to access the main system, the whole environment starts spitting out error signals. It last for a few seconds, then it's over...
Gwahir - You only just manage to escape the mech before the errors start flowing. A few seconds later, the flow of data stops, and the access to the mech system is blocked. In fact it looks like the whole mech was just destroyed physically, and Merc with it.
Rest - Ceanjia: "three, two, one, good luck". The doors open slowly, and on the other side of them is three long corridors. The guns that seems to have been protecting the security doors spin down. It doesn't take more than a few seconds before the first aliens start attacking. On you left is a few fades, and two onos, while an onos seems to be already charging down the right flank. In front of you, a lot of smaller aliens are attacking.</i>
<span style='color:purple'>*Swears loudly* *Spams a couple medkits by each person (4 people, 2 meds each, 2 res a med, 16 res gone)* <b></span> Our total inventory of buildings etc and the res spent on each: Armory: 20 res 8 Medpacks: 16 res Observatory: 25 res Phase Gate #1: 15 res Total spent: 76 res Remaining: 24 res 'Guess I didn't drop the res node, 'cuz we didn't open the security doors, lol. </b><span style='color:purple'> {Over Voicecomm} "You want to live? SHOOT!" [Attempts to lockdown 1 or 2 of the security doors from the command chair] {Over Voicecomm} "I'll get those doors locked down ASAP, you guys gotta kill the crap already in here though!"</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *raises rifle up and fingers the trigger* "Shoot them! Shoot them! If they close enough, they'll probably 'splode!" [starts to open fire at the little skulks] *sees more of them swarming around* "We need artillery! Get us a Grenade Launcher or mines! They're all over the place!" *empties clip and throws it at the oncoming Onos* [reloads and continues firing] </span></span> <b>Ooo...We seem to have created some sort of bootleg version of NS Combat <!--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'>*I [open fire at the fades], moving back from the doorways* "This is just like training!"</span> gg misplaced opfor quotes <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<span style='color:purple'>*Hears Dae over the radio* {Over Voicecomm} <["Holy S*** Good to hear you guys are alive! We're in HELL up here! 3 plus onos, a pair of fades, and skulks everywhere, and more on the way! Get 343 to get our floor number and get the hell up here QUICK!"]> *Swears and Drops a Grenade Launcher by Terran* -rescount 4- "We'll deal with the bloody lack of res later..." [Goes back to trying to hack the security doors into lockdown] {Over Voicecomm} "Guys, if you see a Fire Alarm or somesuch, hit it! It might shut the security doors!"</span>
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But what about it then? Do you all agree with Khaim, do we have a deal? I'm gonna need an answer soon. So?
Five, four...</i>
"Well, that's certainly good. Much better than I had expected."
*opens up team chat*
<i>Private Terran (TEAM): Well, even with a CC...we're going to need to think of a way to destroy the level, but still keep it intact. The best option we've got so far is to open the airlocks or something from the control room. I'd need to see the schematics of this level though. But it will either involve us blowing up a lot of areas of the ship, jettisoning them, or just depressurizing them. We've got some sort of enviromental protection from the Heavy Armor, so we could probably run for the lift back down before the entire level depressurizes too badly. We're also going to have to link up with our Draug/Human buddies. We could use their help. Or perhaps we could help them with what they're doing, if it's related to cleaning the ship out.</i>
*over the public channel*
"So, you dropping us our goodies or will we have to go on with out them?"
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"Can we have 100 res? And this might sound like a dumb question, but what happens to you once the bomber's turned the ship into radioactive grit?</span>
throw new ThreadDeathException();
RolePlayingGame.ariadneGuardpost.action = 1;
RolePlayingGame.ariadneGuardpost.liveByTheDice_DieByTheDice = 1;
System.err.println("Now we donce");
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<i>Ceanjia: "Heh, 100 res you say. Fine with me. You'll get a hundred res, a command console and 3 minutes."
Behind the lift door, you hear a set of security doors slam shut, then the lift opens. You see a large lobby, with a few benches along the sides, a number of office doors to the left and right and three large corridors, closed with heavy metal sliding doors, in the left opposite corner, right opposite corner and opposite wall.
"2 minutes 58 seconds..."</i>
<b>Ok, I lost it. You two A.I. will have to tell me exactly what you are doing. You are seriously confusing me now.</b>
"You're S$#%ing me! We have to play a game of find the command console or something? Crap!"
*Looks at the three doors*
<i>Khaim (Team): Ok, we need to pick a door quickly. One probably contains the area leading to the draug etc, one probably has the console a little ways down, and one probably has controls for the deck... Of course that's all a guess.</i>
"Caen, you skipped 2 minutes and 59 seconds."</span>
The chair appears right before Khaim, built and ready.
"2 minutes, 50 seconds..."</i>
-Rescount 100-
*Gets in the Command Chair*
{Over Voiceomm} "100 res, we won't be needing an IP, no reinforcements comming anyway, right? We will be needing an armory though, if we want any damn ammo, the rest of the ship is probabaly on nano-lockdown still, so an obs wouldn't be of too much use... We should probably try and get some res nodes up and a good res flow, then throw down some higher tech stuff, maybe try and knock out those oni then storm a hive?"
*Drops an Armory in the center of the room*
-Rescount 80-
{Over Voicecomm} "If anyone has any objections to me commanding here, give me a yell, there's only 5 of us, not like it really matters all that much anyway."</span>
*looks around quickly and spots the armory*
*starts building away quickly*
"Oh my god. Alright, alright...we need a phase gate, so we can get from place to place quickly. And get us an observatory anyway. It'll decloak anything that tries to sneak into base."
*keeps weapon shouldered and keeps scanning the area*
*breathing starts to become rather audible*
</span></span>
*Drops an obs a few feet from the armory, along the wall*
-Rescount 55- (-25 for obs)
"Lets see, 30 for 2 phase gates and 15 for a resnode, that'll leave us with 10, with a couple seconds from the node we'll have enough for a second."
*Drops a phase along the opposite wall from the obs once it's completed.*
"Now, we need to move out..."
[Looks around the map for the deck controls and any resource nodes and places a labled waypoint on each. ('Deck Controls' and 'Resource Nozzle')]</span>
<span style='color:purple'>[Only node is outside the security doors.]</span>
<i>Ceanjia: "one minute left."</i>
*looks around*
*sighs*
"Alright then...I guess that's all. Now we just have to think and agree on a tactic. I still hold to either using the vaccum of space as a weapon or we could hook up with the others. Either way, we need to vote, like right now. Either way, I sure as hell hope whoever is in the CC knows the art of medspam."
*wonders a bit*
"I was wondering...could you name us Squad 5? Just for the luck, as we're going to need it <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->."
*shoulders weapon and then walks up to the door*
</span></span>
<b>Ooo...uber skills of Squad 5...<!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
*Opens the security door through the command chair and drops the node for Terran*
<i>Khaim (Team): We should get that resnode up then probably drop A command chair in a vent or something nearby the deck's security access area, we might be able to relocate there while fending off aliens, then possibly depressurize the deck long enough to kill the aliens, or at least set them back so the bacterium has to rebuild the first hive.</i>
[Looks for wherever any access controls for the deck happen to be and waypoints it, if there is such.]
{Over Voicecomm} "Fine Terran..."
*Hits select all then assigns everyone to 'Squad 5'*</span>
I'm trying to get into the main main system, merc said she knew some users, those would be the rest of our team, like dark before he died. The port is the way to/from the main system off the mech.
*I move up to the security door, taking point*</span>
<span style='color:gray'>*follows terran*</b></span>
<span style='color:green'>*checks ammo count (125/0), then heads back to the armoury and pulls full ammo out*
"That's better."
*falls in behind Terran*</span>
"First thing we're going to need to do is at least secure this immediate perimeter. That means we need to disable any security systems in the area that are hazardous as well as kill off anything that bloody moves and screams."
*quickly stafes though the door and then takes a knee*
*glances for any targets left and right*
"It's clear...I think."
*runs up to the RT and crouches, covering the others as they follow*
</span></span>
<b>Kneejerk you shay? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
<i>Darkness - Doesn't really seem to work. In fact, while you try to access the main system, the whole environment starts spitting out error signals. It last for a few seconds, then it's over...
Gwahir - You only just manage to escape the mech before the errors start flowing. A few seconds later, the flow of data stops, and the access to the mech system is blocked. In fact it looks like the whole mech was just destroyed physically, and Merc with it.
Rest - Ceanjia: "three, two, one, good luck". The doors open slowly, and on the other side of them is three long corridors. The guns that seems to have been protecting the security doors spin down. It doesn't take more than a few seconds before the first aliens start attacking. On you left is a few fades, and two onos, while an onos seems to be already charging down the right flank. In front of you, a lot of smaller aliens are attacking.</i>
*Spams a couple medkits by each person (4 people, 2 meds each, 2 res a med, 16 res gone)*
<b></span>
Our total inventory of buildings etc and the res spent on each:
Armory: 20 res
8 Medpacks: 16 res
Observatory: 25 res
Phase Gate #1: 15 res
Total spent: 76 res
Remaining: 24 res
'Guess I didn't drop the res node, 'cuz we didn't open the security doors, lol.
</b><span style='color:purple'>
{Over Voicecomm} "You want to live? SHOOT!"
[Attempts to lockdown 1 or 2 of the security doors from the command chair]
{Over Voicecomm} "I'll get those doors locked down ASAP, you guys gotta kill the crap already in here though!"</span>
*raises rifle up and fingers the trigger*
"Shoot them! Shoot them! If they close enough, they'll probably 'splode!"
[starts to open fire at the little skulks]
*sees more of them swarming around*
"We need artillery! Get us a Grenade Launcher or mines! They're all over the place!"
*empties clip and throws it at the oncoming Onos*
[reloads and continues firing]
</span></span>
<b>Ooo...We seem to have created some sort of bootleg version of NS Combat <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
"This is just like training!"</span>
gg misplaced opfor quotes <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
"I knew I shouldn't tried to help her"
[Goes off in search of the users]</span>
<b>users=non half-draug marine team</b>
{Over Voicecomm} <["Holy S*** Good to hear you guys are alive! We're in HELL up here! 3 plus onos, a pair of fades, and skulks everywhere, and more on the way! Get 343 to get our floor number and get the hell up here QUICK!"]>
*Swears and Drops a Grenade Launcher by Terran*
-rescount 4-
"We'll deal with the bloody lack of res later..."
[Goes back to trying to hack the security doors into lockdown]
{Over Voicecomm} "Guys, if you see a Fire Alarm or somesuch, hit it! It might shut the security doors!"</span>