Ariadne Guardpost 3: "the Origins"

PFCNublar · February 2004

*catches the Grenade Launcher*
*lets my weapon drop to it's side*
[shoulders and then tries to fire the grenades right at the Onos]
"Jesus...these things better explode on contact with xenoforms like the manual said."
*tosses the empty GL to the armory*
[picks weapon up again and keeps on firing]


Meh...I used two action things, but they both deal with shooting Kharaa...so it should work out.

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /> Dark is out of the game. Hope he returns somehow...reinforcements?

xect · February 2004

Well, I'm afraid Dark will have to wait out for a few days :/

[You try to lockdown the door, and it works perfectly. The door closes an inch or two before the order is reversed and it opens again. The next few attempts get blocked as well.]

[Firing at the skulks, you hear a few screams here and there, and you drop one or two skulks. But there's still many of them, and they're all running towards you in one big mass.]

[You manage to take out a fade, then the second later another appears to suddenly boost to supernatural speed, standing just before you a split second later.]

[You notice a destroyed floor of the ship, a lot of mechs moving in formation, and a system-blocked elevator.]

Then they reach you. The onos onos from the right charges into Ed. He does not have time to jump for it, and his armor doesn't seem to stop much of the blow either. He screams as he's launched across the room, crashing into a few benches, flipping them over. There he lays, motionless, unconscious, with a large crack in the stomach of his armor, bleeding heavily. The other two go for Richter Grim and Kathos, who seem to be standing unwarily in the middle of the room. The onos have gathered far too much speed, and they react too slowly to even have a hope of surviving.

The skulks reach Terran first. They are swarming all around him, biting and leaping at him. Then a few of them start screaming, a high-pitched, urgent, scream.

The rest of the aliens are still in the corridors.

Ceanjia: "Well well, three down, five to go"

Night_Shade · February 2004

"F-ck you!"
*I [smash the butt of my HMG into the fade's face, then swing the gun around and unload into the skulks around Terran]*
"LOOK OUT! XENO!"

Khaim · February 2004

{Over Voicecomm} <["Awww Damn, you guys need to get here now or we're toast, we can't lock the doors to stop the reinforcements either!"]>
"Aaah Screw this, the damn CC isn't helping anything!"
*Drops a medpack on terran and 2 ammo packs right by the GL*
"Here goes nothing!"
*Slams the -Logout- button on the console and runs to grab the Grenade Launcher and 2 clips of ammo laying next to it and [opens fire on the on the aliens]*

Mr_Headcrab · February 2004

Gah! I lose my forum access for a week and i get tkpwned?!?! yikes

"Med...ic...."

xect · February 2004

Nothing to do with your abscense, just you happened to be the one coming up on the top of the dice :/

PFCNublar · February 2004

*gets knocked down by the oncoming skulks*
*tries to use my rifle as a barrier between a skulk that's on top of me*
*attempts to keep it from biting my face and to push it off*
"Arg...gerroff! Stupid little....OFF!"
*fires off a few rounds by reflex on the trigger while struggling*
*hears the scream and Night's warning*
"Oh me gosh!"
[tries to angle the skulk on top of me as a meatshield against the xenocide(s)]

Meh...fat lot of good a skulk will do against xenocides. I just hope the one I've got on me doesn't explode.

Someone should really help Headcrab. RPG players are dropping like flies with Xect rolling the dice like that. Or vice versa <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />.

Khaim · February 2004

ok, time to pull out the secret weapon... someone mail xect the loaded--er "special" dice. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

xect · February 2004

[you hit the fade poorly on one arm, but that seems to be it. As you spin around to fire at the aliens, it retaliates. You feel the pain searing through your left leg, or rather, the stump that was a leg before the fade cut it off. You never have time to fire, as you drop to the floor, fully conscious but in pain]

[You get out of the command chair, then run to the 'nade launcher, ready to fire the grenades.]

[You manage to pull up the cover skulk just in time for the first explosion. You feel the insane pressure of the blast as you are thrown to the floor, sliding across the floor. A second later, you realize that you've been blasted to the other end of the room, but thanks to the cover and your armor, you are relatively unhurt by the bone fragments from the explosion.]

Ceanjia: "Guess this is the part where you realize that maybe taking up the fight against that many aliens wasn't the smartest thing you could do. Really, experience should have taught you that when there's that many aliens, you call for the bomber. But well, you did, just forgot to leave the ship."

Khaim · February 2004

{Over Voicecomm} "Cean, do a dead man a favor here, and SHUT THE HELL UP!"
[Opens fire on the onos with the grenades then switches back to my shotgun]
{Yelling} "Terran, get that fade off of Nightshade and throw Ed one of those medpacks!"

PFCNublar · February 2004

*pushes the limp skulk body off me*
*ejects my clip and reloads while getting up*
*spots something fall off and Night Shade fall down*
"What the...holy!"
*hears Khaim's orders*
"Yea! You got it!"
*grabs one of my medpaks and chucks it underhand over on to Ed, trying to get it to land on top of him*
*whirls around and faces the Fade*
"Hey! Jackass! You take me down!"
[charges the Fade, firing my rifle shouldered, trying to tackle the fade away from Night with a shoulder down when I get within 2 meters]

I seem to be on a streak of luck or something. The dice haven't removed my head...yet <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

EDIT: Spelling

Khaim · February 2004

Hey, a dollar I go down this roll. ^_^ <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Khaim · February 2004

Sorry about the double post, but I just have to throw this in....

{Yelling over the gunfire} "Hey Terran, Remember when we thought W.T. Hell was as bad as it could get?"
*Kicks a medpack along the floor to Night Shade while firing*

Night_Shade · February 2004

Hmm. That fade just sliced straight through heavy armour. What'd it do, bloody roll natural 20 on to-hit and threat?
"AHH, F-CKING JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY!"
*Pulling the HMG up into the air, I spray it in the general direction of the fade*

Khaim · February 2004

The fade probably had focus ; ), either that or chets XD. Either way, it just owned your leg... I say we beat it to death with the leg, sound like a plan?

Night_Shade · February 2004

"It's just a flesh wound! Come here, I'll bite your kneecaps off! You yellow b-stard!"
the fade hax <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> either that or xect has his own set of special dice.
If you must beat the fade to death with my leg, please don't damage the soggy end, I may be able to sew it back on <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

Mr_Headcrab · February 2004

At least you guys were in HA, I got punted

Gwahir · February 2004

[searches for an auto-destruct command in one of the mechs]

I say you cut its leg off and beat it to death with that.

edit: either that or rip out its skull and bit it to death with that.

Mr_Headcrab · February 2004

Edited out the tardbness on my part

Lord_Darkness · February 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Khaim @ Feb 17 2004, 08:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> 
{Yelling over the gunfire} "Hey Terran, Remember when we thought W.T. Hell was as bad as it could get?"
*Kicks a medpack along the floor to Night Shade while firing*
  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Shameless rip from the barricade trailer for HL2.

'Remember when we thought Black Mesa was as bad as it could get?'
-Barney Calhoune

Gwahir · February 2004

Mr. Headcrab, the character Gwahir died. My new character is an AI. I'm no where near you, or I might be close, hard to tell, physics is kinda different here.

xect · February 2004

Quite a nasty roll yes, just about as tough as the one Terran used to come out of multiple skulks xenociding, and come out unharmed. Just the opposite way :/. In fact, Terran seems to be the only one in luck right now.

[The grenades land a few meters from the onos that just charged Ed, but it doesnt seem to really notice.]

[The fade bows over Shade lying on ground. It seems completely unaware of your charge as you slam right into it. A cracking sound comes from the fade's back as it falls screaming to the ground right beside Shade.]

[When the fade goes down, you instead shoot for the onos in the back of the room, the one that charged Ed. It's quite hard to hit when lying that way, but it seems a few of the bullets strike the target anyway.]

[There doesn't seem to be a violent self-desctruct method, but it might be possible to fry the control system in a few of them.]

Night_Shade · February 2004

*shakes fist at xect and his stacked dice*
Still, I've had good luck (relatively) through three roleplays, bout time I got seriously injured.
"Thanks Terran"
*I push myself up against the door frame and [fire my HMG at the onos from a sitting position]*

343_guilty_spark · February 2004

I say you just all F4 before someone gets hurt.

Night_Shade · February 2004

heh. OH NOES!! F4!!

Khaim · February 2004

*Grabs a couple of medkits off the ground and runs over to Night shade with the GL and it's remaining clip of ammo*
"Shade Take these, and Terran, here's the GL!"
*Tosses the meds at Night Shade and the Grenade Launcher at Terran before [Opening fire on the fade with my shotgun]*

Night_Shade · February 2004

"Thanks, but I think I'm gonna need a copy of your legs, Khaim."
*pours med nanites all over my stump*

PFCNublar · February 2004

*gets up a bit lightheaded and woozy*
"Yea...and stay down!"
*stomps the Fade's head in with my heel, just to be safe*
*turns around and picks up the Grenade Launcher*
"What? Ugh...this is great. Night's lost his leg, permanently by what I hear, and I've got a Grenade Launcher with no spare ammo."
[launches all of the nades at the Onos Night is shooting at, then drops it]
*reloads LMG before shouldering it and firing again at the same Onos*

Why is my luck so good? This is almost madness. Everyone around me is either maimed or dying (or was maimed earlier on in Khaim's case), and I'm just about dandy. Survivor's guilt?

Khaim · February 2004

Magnetized Dice <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif' />
*Watches Terran stomp on the fade's head*
"Well that thing's pretty damn well dead, now we just have some onos to deal with..."
*Helps Night Shade sit up before hooking a medpack up to Ed's armour*
"Hope that works"
*Turns back around and [Opens fire on the onos] with everyone else*

xect · February 2004

[You manage to take down the onos in the back of the hall, two left though.]
[A few hits. It seems to hurt, but the fade is still standing]
[The grenades bounce all around the onos, rocking it, but not quite stopping it. The LMG does the trick though, and the onos drops mere meters in front of you]
The last onos, seeing two downed mates, charges Khaim. Just as Khaim starts shooting, the onos gets to him. He barely has time to move aside, but gets away with just a fleshwound.

Ariadne Guardpost 3: "the Origins"

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