Ariadne Guardpost Ii: The Evolution

Quaunaut · August 2003

Crap, I'm turning into a hipocryte, aren't I? Man, I must change t3h tags.

*gets up, going to the holo-room. Takes one of the HMGs they have sitting there, summons up 3 Onos, and just starts blasting, trying to calm down*

Vragnor · August 2003

"Only one holosight? *mumble* Fine, fine"
*Hears Khan's story*
"Heh, a sniper and black-ops, whats our next mission? Assassination of King Gorge?"
*Attaches holosight to lmg*
*Heads off to holo-room*
*Picks up gl and fire 4 rounds. Sees a suprised Quaunaut.*
"Need some help?"

BadKarma · August 2003

*taps vragnor on the shoulder*
"I dont know about him but i sure as **** do"

Lord_Darkness · August 2003

"Khan, jeez, I'm sorry."
*puts P229's safety on and puts it away*
"And I thought I had it bad when I found Erin's body back on the W.T.Hell."

spinviper · August 2003

*Pats Khan on the head*

"I'm Sorry /sincerely"

SilentMurderer · August 2003

"Yeah... You're right"
*Empties weapons with a surprising speed and accuracy*
"****!"

Frost, yellow's my colour!!

Night_Shade · August 2003

I have an avatar! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>
"Yeah, I could probably do with some target practice. Being a medic doesn't lend itself to wonderful weapon skills."
*heads off to firing range, takes an LMG off the rack and codes in some running and jumping skulks*
"I can hit them when they're still easy enough, it's the moving ones that get me. And you don't see too many still ones that aren't already dead."
*starts firing, scoring a rather low hit count*
"Damn it. Definitely need more practice."
*resumes firing, concentrating hard*

xect · August 2003

Khan, I'm afraid your background has a few points where it's in conflict with the NS backstory.

First, what has a black ops organization from Russia got to do with the Kharaa threat.

Second, why would a black ops group from earth go to the Ariadne arm to assist some wounded Frontiersmen.

Third, how would such corruption happen in the TSA, the institution that got the job because they were the only ones to stand up for human rights.

Fourth, what has a TSA general got to do with frontiersman missions (assuming that the mere fact that you survived going on board an infested ship means the frontiersmen was in charge

Sorry, I just can't get it to fit with the backstory of the frontiersmen at all.

spinviper · August 2003

HAHA! Xect's got ya!

343_guilty_spark · August 2003

Erm has anything happened ? So far it seems like we are just acting out a day on the space station.

Vragnor · August 2003

Heh, nice one xect.
Absolutly nothing has happened...'cept a good burn by xect

"Okay, this is your basic lmg. You hold it like this. No, thats the barrel."
*Shows Karma right way*
"Okay, heres the safety."
*Points at gun*
"Here's the clip ejection button."
*Points*
"Okay, Here's how you arm the gun."
*Flips safety, unloads, reloads, and fire a couple rounds*
"See, easy huh? Aiming's a lot diffrent tho."

Khaim · August 2003

*gets up from the table where khan and the rest are*
"Well, you guys seem to have everything under control here now that there are no knives flying across the room, heh. So I think I'll be heading back to my room now, catch up on my rest in case they actualy decide to give us a mission for once."
*beggins walking back towards his room, popping out a PDA and punching in various bits of data before putting it back in his belt pouch(couldnt think of a better word).*Certainly seems to stagnate a bit we have about 11-12 pages of talk now, not that a little chat is a bad thing.

343_guilty_spark · August 2003

It's like happy familys and it's boosting post counts <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>
* Wakes up, decides what to do, heads to the firing range and get's out pistol, aims at holographic Skulk and fires, Pistol flys out of his hand.
" Dam gun."

P-Khan · August 2003

For xects conflict with my story:

First: Russia is part of humanity, and the Kharaa infestation is a part of humanities's problem. Plus, who says Russia doesn't have colonies in outer space??

Second: Who says it was Adriane arm?? I just said we went to help some dudes, that's all. Nothing about comming to the Adriane arm.

Third: No institution is free from corruption. No government, no groups, nothing. Everyone has a price.

Fourth: It was a TSA BLACK-OPS. This might have been a bit confusing since I didn't exactly tell this.... <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Cyberoptic · August 2003

"Damn, I can't sleep. I jus' can't keep wond'ring when we'll getta some action."
*Seeing that in such a restless state sleeping would be impossible, I head to the gym to excercise for a while*

Quaunaut · August 2003

...

*straps the HMG and points his pistol at Vragnor* "Don't interrupt my practice. You got that?" *puts it away, and takes the HMG back up, and continues pummelling the Onos, calling up more every time one goes down*

Jaeger · August 2003

"Perhaps we could try NOT attempting to kill each other from here on out. I'd think our chances of survival a lot better against a three hive onslaught with teammates who aren't at each other's throats."
*aims LMG downrange, toggles a burstfire mode and sends three rounds into a ballistics wall*
"Besides, I wouldn't trust this "FriendlyFire" system 100%, if you know what I mean."
*checks scatter display on an LCD at his side, all three rounds accurate within 3 cm of each other*
"I'd rather a skulk be on that end, not another Frontiersman."

Quaunaut · August 2003

"Heh, I wouldn't trust that damned thing either. I still feel the scars and crap, even after those damned medpacks."*Finishes off the 3 Onos, and sets the HMG down, and just watches Jaeger's shots*

Vragnor · August 2003

"FF or not, i still almost pee my pants everytime a guns pointed at me. And I don't think it would be much help anyways, bullets are bullets...right?"

edit: i think i might learn how to map just to make these settings we are creating. the guardpost seems awesome

Quaunaut · August 2003

Amen to that. OOoh...maybe we could mod the single player NS(a different mod, just NS single player) with Adriadne...

But thats for later. RP now.

Night_Shade · August 2003

"Don't pooh-pooh friendlyfire. It might leave surface wounds, but that's a heck of a lot better than a bullet ripping straight through you, isn't it? Makes it a lot easier for us medics to clean up too." *grins*

Vragnor · August 2003

"Let me get this straight. These nanites somehow stop the bullet from going through your body? So what if you got shot in the arm? Would the bullet be stuck there, thus wounding you? Would the nanites push it out? A soldier who can't fight is as good as dead!"

i love criticism <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Night_Shade · August 2003

"No, they turn the bullet into a metal dust cloud before it hits you. I'm not sure how, but that's the end result. So instead of having a metal slug rip through your arm, damaging muscles and bone, your skin and armour get blasted with grit. It stings, but apart from some minor scarring there's no permanent or serious damage."
*hangs up LMG*
"Back in medic training, we were all shot at close range by FF-equipped LMG, HMG and pistol bullets, without any armour on. Then we got taught how to treat the resulting wound, using each other as test patients. I know what it's like to be shot, and believe me, your armour absorbs most of it."
*lifts up shirt, showing three scars of different sizes*

Mr_Headcrab · August 2003

*Ed looks over at Night's scars.*
"OUCH! that look like it hurt, almost as bad as...."
*Ed pulls ut his shirt a little, revealing a pretty nasty indented scar on his stomach*
"Thanks again for yanking that hunk of NyJack shrapnel out, Night."

Night_Shade · August 2003

*checks over Ed's scar*
"Yeah, no probs there. Only regret is that I didn't have my kit with me at the time. That scar's cleaned up better than I thought it would. You're damn lucky the shrapnel didn't get in deeper."
*looks down at own scars*
"Damn right they hurt. Your armour absorbs almost all of the impact."
*puts shirt back on, retrieves and reloads LMG and resumes missing skulks*

Lord_Darkness · August 2003

*returns to firing range to practice with shotgun, hears everyone talking about scars that they have*
"Those look pretty bad, Night. 'Course, they're better than this one on my face."
*points at long scar running down the side of his face, close to his temple*
"I got that when I was training with a weapon called a Kama, it's a forearm length sickle that you swing around on a loop of string at the end. You use them in a pair and swing them around your waist, neck, between your legs and so on, so forth. I had it in a bandage for over a month."
*grabs shotgun from rack and starts firing down the range at a holographic Lerk, darting around at high speeds, three shots later the Lerk fades away*

343_guilty_spark · August 2003

*Trys using the Shotgun, fires it, gun goes flying into air from the recoil, grumbles and walks out of the firing range.*

SilentMurderer · August 2003

Laughs a little at spark*
"Here, i'll show you."
*Shows spark how to use the shotty correctly*
*Sparl can actually shoot AND hit now!*

xect · August 2003

Russia could have colonies in outer space, but that doesnt make them Russia. Just like you aren't in America when you're on board an american spacestation. Being on an outpost owned by a country doesnt put you in the country itself

You said they had had a conflict with aliens. Since the aliens are in the Ariadne Arm, the ship must have been there too.

Sure, they might not be free from corruption, but the scenario of TSA officials executing soldiers doesnt really fit the TSA image.

And again, what the hell has a TSA black ops team got to do with fighting the aliens. The TSA are eager to demonstrate their worth, so they have no reason to keep the battles black. Also, TSA black ops teams have no business fighting with aliens. The battle against the aliens is handled by the Frontiersmen. So even if you were part of a TSA black ops team, you couldnt have been sent to the Ariadne Arm.

Sorry, but you either weren't part of a black ops team or you weren't dispatched to an alien scenario. The latter seems more likely since the TSA is a much larger organization and thus more likely to suffer from corruption (not to mention no frontiersman general would want the frontiersmen to lose, he's part of them. And he'll be out there in the Ariadne Arm with the rest of the frontiersmen)

As people start to finish eating, the large wall-screen in the mess hall announces a combined welcome briefing of new recruits and report from the latest research on alien lifeforms

Khaim · August 2003

*Sees a wall panel light up saying: report to the mess hall for briefing*
"Dang and I was about to go have a nice rest too..."
*Runs back to the messhall slipping a little on the slippery floor before taking a seat*
"At least we might actualy have some action for once."

Ariadne Guardpost Ii: The Evolution

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