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Welcome, this is the thread for Operation Red Eye, a side mission in the PACYOA:After The Truth series.

>The time is some time after Operation Relay.

Welcome operatives, to New Mexico... I'm too lazy to go hunting on google maps, or what's left of it rather, but not like that matters, the place is a ghost town...

...You know how we always complain that intel's pretty shitty and we don't find anything? Well, now's your chance to finally get us something good. Figure out what's inside this place, you don't have to eliminate anything but we're wanting as much as we can figure out here. Come back safe, gentlemen.
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The roster is full, correct?

Registering for a spot if one of the priority members back out.

http://the-power-armor-cyoa.wikia.com/wiki/Evensong

Build is there. I haven't updated it for the latest rules, but it's practically the same minus an upgrade.
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>>33963074
Reportin'
http://the-power-armor-cyoa.wikia.com/wiki/Boone
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>>33963074
Gentle Giant reporting.

http://the-power-armor-cyoa.wikia.com/wiki/Gentle_Giant
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>>33963074
http://pastebin.com/e1Ut4qSb
"Well, that's helpful...why here, anyways?" he asks. He's maybe the only one not already wearing his suit...just a three-piece suit and a pair of matching grey gloves.
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Rolled 3, 68 + 65 = 136

>>33963097
>Same here.


Light


Stats
DEX 7
DUR 3 (+2 when blocking)
PWR 2
REC 4
SPD 6
STR 2


Celerity
Overload
Crossfire


Hunter Mount (Dex +3, Pwr-6, Speed +2, Dex-1) 230


Flight (free)


Soldier Ai 220


Brainwave Harness 210


Suit Status (Free)
Radar (Free)

Radio Comms
Defense Maze 200

Beam Saber (Sierra Madre Special) 185
Plasma Bow 165

Point Barrier 135
Armor Plating 125 (Dur +1)
Plasma Shield 115
EMP shield 100

Environmental Controls II&III (Free)
Cyberbrain 100
Martial Arts 95
Veteran Soul 90
Ghost 85
Uplift 75
Capacitor 55
Kinetic Stabilizers (SPD+1) 45
Maneuvering Rockets (Dex+1) 35
Camouflage (Free)
Storage (Free)
Polyglot 30 LANGUAGES: Arabic, Dutch, "Elven", Czech, Indian ,Cantonese , Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Latin

Progenitor 20
Hydra 10
Hydra II 00
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>>33963074
"Finally, some good ol' espionage."

Pilot: Leo
Handle: Celer
Suit: Transcendence
Missions Served: Avalanche, Mountain Goat, Muppets Take Manhattan, Minesweeper, Just Like Old Times
Resources: 275

Suit Class: Light

Suit Type: Avian (+2 Speed, -1 Durability)

Features: Flight

A.I.: Agent (+/-5 to Tech & -10 to Dex Rolls)

User Interface: Brainwave Harness

H.U.D: Suit Status, Advanced Suit Status, Hawkeye, Night Vision, Radar, Thermal Vision, Sonar

Comms: Worm, Spyware, Comm Buoy, Spider, Terminal

Weapons: Suit Control, Crowd Control, Beam Sabre, Plasma Rifle

Drones: Med. Canine w/ Ion Cannon, Scout, Avatar

Defenses: 2 Light Shields = Armor Plating
(+1 Dur)

Upgrades: Cyber Brain, Martial Arts, Veteran Soul, Polyglot, Uplift, Maneuvering Rockets, Kinetic Stabilizers, Collapsible 1, Camouflage (-5 Dex Rolls, +5 Comb Rolls, +1 Dex, +1 Speed)

Nanites: Hydra I

Dexterity: 5
Durability: 2
Power: 2
Recovery: 4
Speed: 6
Strength: 2
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>>33963074
Turtle Mk. II reportin in from Green Initiative command for assistance. My new build is linked here and towards the bottom. http://the-power-armor-cyoa.wikia.com/wiki/Turtle
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>>33963074
"DOG here. Let's see how this goes, shall we?"

http://the-power-armor-cyoa.wikia.com/wiki/DOG
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>>33963173
"Hey, Dog. You know why we're here?"
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Remember team, everyone try to buddy up so that no one is left alone with against +3 enemies.
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>>33963074
Basic actions will all be success only, so basic actions will happen successfully almost always. Basic actions include things such as just walking/running/flying along, communicating by any means to others, looking around without advanced tech (just eyes, no thermals/hawkeye/etc), turning off a device, and so on. There will be three major categories for non-basic actions, DEXY, COMBAT, and TECH. You can only perform ONE TYPE OF ADVANCED ACTION per turn.

Dexy refers to any dexterity or mobility related advanced action (such as dodging attacks, surviving falls, making blocks, or melee combat). The goal of Dexy is to roll as low as possible, a 1 being the best and a 100 being you trip on your suit’s shoelaces level of failiure.

Combat refers to any form of ranged or otherwise non-melee combatative action. Accuracy with weapons, weapon damage, critical hits, luck in wounding enemies, and strength rolls. The goal of combat is to roll as high as possible, higher the better, a 100 being best and 1 being “You done fucked up, gun jam” or something.

Tech involves basically anything too advanced for a basic action, but not a dex/combat basically. It will deal with activating most of your systems or using them for fine tuning, hacking into another system, so on so forth. The goal is to roll as close to 50 as possible, a 1 or 100 would be a horrible failiure but a 65 would actually be really good. Typically a failiure alone won’t be that bad, but if you consistently crit-fail, expect something bad to happen.

"Dialogue."
Action.
>OOC
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>>33963233
"Right. We should probably buddy up combat and noncombat people. Who can't afford to fight?"

>>33963241
We using any take-10 rules?
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>>33963241
"As usual, got the program and hotkeys setup for everybody. It's got a bit of a delay time though, so don't expect it to work out if you need these features in a tight spot."

There also will be a “take 10” system in effect for this mission. On non-stressful situations, you can automatically be 30 away from target, and roll a d20 to modify it closer to ‘target’. (Yes I know, tech rolls are ‘middle’, whatever.). Taking 10 will make it easier to succeed in most cases(easy rolls will be pretty much impossible to fail even), but you cannot use it for dodging, attacking, while being attacked, or if the action would end up putting you through danger.

>Old players may sign up after 3:20(central), only 3 old players and total 'mission cap' will be 10 players, if we have 8 or more new players the old player cap will shrink. Sorry guys.
>Begin posting builds, you guys are just a few miles out from the target site. Mission will (hopefully) begin at 3:30, or when we have most if not all of the suits loaded up.

>More mission details in a moment.
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Is it to late for me to join?
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>>33963276
I'm here!

Pilot: Cael
Mech: The Jester

>Class
Mesh

>Features
Fins (Free)
Gills (Free)
Adhesion (-10)

>Body Type
Amphibious (-20)

>A.I
Engineer (-10)

>U.I
Brain Implant (-20)

>H.U.D
Advanced Suit Status (-5)
Thermal Vision (-10)

>COMMS
Radio
Terminal (-10)
Spider (-5)
Spyware (-5)
Defense Maze (-10)

>Weapons
Rail Rifle (-20)
Power Fist (-15)

>Defenses
Plasma Shield (-15)
Scrambler (-10)

>Drones
Avatar (-10)

>Upgrades
Cyberbrain (-10)
Polyglot (-5)
Veteran Soul (-5)
Marital Arts (-5)
Grappling Hooks (-5)
Camouflage (Free)
Collapsible (-5)
Collapsible II (-5)
Storage (Free)

>Nanites
Hydra (-10)
Progenitor (-10)
Berserker (-10)
Canvas (-5)
Canvas II (-5)


Points Used= 250 (+15 Operation: Mountain Goat/2(rounded up)+25 from Hanse Behörde)+ 15 Operation Tarzan =5 Left over.

Stats
Dex= 6
Dur= 1 (+3 Blocking)
Pow= 1
Rec= 5
Spd= 3
Str= 1

>Notes
-25 to Combat rolls before bonuses
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>>33963262
"I'm only Durability 1 so I won't last long without distance. I can provide overwatch. Is there any high place throughout the town or on the outskirts of it?
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>>33963276
postin my stas again. http://the-power-armor-cyoa.wikia.com/wiki/Turtle
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>>33963201
DOG simply shrugs. He recognized the Suit because they were both members of Hanse Behorde, but he has yet to really talk to the guy.

"Dunno. I'm just here for the loot."

>Everyone get into #/suits/ if you haven't already.
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>>33963339
"We'll have to scout it out. I'll send my scout drone to search the area when we get there."

>we're not already there, are we?
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remember guys to use Rizon: #/suits/ channel to join chat before stating your actions and for general questions/discussion over strategy. Use Hexchat if you can't sign on to Rizon.
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>>33963400
Where's that?
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>>33963369
>Actually, not wearing the suit.
The comment elicited a laugh from the black-haired man. "Glad to know you have your priorities straight...if you find a working PS4, I hear those things are going for thousands these days."
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>>33963303
>Not too late I guess. I'm counting 9 people.

>>33963411
>irc.rizon.net
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>>33963124
>>33963139
>>33963151
>>33963167
>>33963173
>>33963233
>>33963306
Boone, Gentle, Silver, Celer, DOG, Turtle, and Cael have all showed up. (They signed on for 'priority'). Stealth team assembled and ready...

...Well, you guys arrive at the train station. Conveniently Train can pass somewhat as a 'normal' train, and he has some nice amenities, has to be paid a fair amount but hey, a safe ride and not too many transports are that keen on taking teams in, let alone a recon team that has no idea what's there. He heads out again... you swear Zipline gave some orders to just stay on the tracks but he never did this entire time. The library is just a block or two away, although it's a privately owned one. One belonging to "Opalite Technologies". Strange in itself, but there's too much activity inside. Not manpower, likely at least, but electrical and otherwise, there's a fair amount of stuff coming in, a whole lot of nothing coming out.

Approach as you see fit, gentlemen. We know nothing, that's why you're here.
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>>33963276
Old players, you say?
http://the-power-armor-cyoa.wikia.com/wiki/Fracture
If space still exists, anyways.
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>>33963426
Well heres my build if you need me:
Points: 0

Name: Kraken
Faction: Armor Corps
Class: Heavy
Body Type: Leviathan -40
Stats:
Dexterity: 3
Durability: 7
Power: 4
Recovery: 2
Speed: 4
Strength: 4

Features: Fins -Free, Gills -Free, Natural Weapons -10, Tentacles (12) -10

A.I.: Soldier -10
User Interface: Nerve Suit -5
HUD: Suit Status -0, Advanced Suit Status -5
Comms: Radio Transimtter -0, Defence Maze -10

Weapons: Beam Sabre X4 -60 (Tentacle Mounted), Rocket Pod X2 -40 (Maw Mounted)

Defenses: Scrambler -10
Drones: None
Upgrades: Environmental Controls II+III -Free, Capacitor -20, Camouflage -10, Colaplible -5 ,Martial Arts -5, Maneuvering Rockets -10
Nanites: Mycelium -10
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>>33963415
>>33963392
He ran through his radio channels, idly listening to the conversation. He rarely bothered taking his suit off just before a mission, a hold over from his AC days.

"So anyone have any plans? I'm thinking perhaps we find an obscure entrance way."
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Rolled 66

>>33963441
I activate my Thermal and scan it. Anything inside that's hot?
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Rolled 79

>>33963441
takin 10 to roll tech for my Thermal vision on the surroundings,

"Lock and load people, get a reading on the area-Cael, you're with me."
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>>33963473
>Heavy
>No, mission is for size smaller than medium or was it light and with camouflage
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>>33963441
"Let's send in some vanguards to scout the area. I volunteer to go. Anyone else?"
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Rolled 2

>>33963475
"Sounds good, but we may not want to all go together. A group of 7 humans is still easy to spot, much less suits. Maybe split into small groups and try several egresses? I'd prefer going via rooftops with some people, those who are collapsed can just move in via the normal street."
Take 10 to get Hawkeye working.
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>>33963426
That link doesn't work.
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>>33963097
>Silver had to go actually Calshot, you are able to get in if you say something. No response within the next 10 minutes though will default tot he next one on the list, >>33963152, who then gets 10 minutes (and if you don't say it) to join, then the next and so on)
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Rolled 20

>>33963514
Err, rolling d20, not d10.
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>>33963503
Medium at the largest but everyone must have camouflage.
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Rolled 7

>>33963514
"Agreed. I've got some nice entry tools for when we arrive but I'll take up a perch on a nearby roof until we have some solid info on the building."
He turned on his camo and began to climb the nearest building with adhesion.
>Taking ten on a dexy roll to climb.
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>>33963527
"Sorry I'm late boys. Us sneaky types tend to be rather squishy. If y'all need a healin', just give a holler."
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>>33963520
>http://www.rizon.net/chat
>Alternatively, use the link below for the software
>http://hexchat.github.io/downloads.html
>You can use mibbit as well if you want
>/join #/suits/
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>>33963514
"I like that plan. Collapsibles can probably get close to the library without being noticed, unless the library's area is closely guarded."
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>>33963276
>I derped up and rushed and copied minesweeper's green text too, my bad.

>>33963486
Your thermal boots up... there's a basement that looks like it has far more power than it needs, but after that it gets too far down to really tell. You can tell that it's the only building in the area that's got full power running at this point though.

>>33963501
>Take 10 is a roll 1d20, you booted it up normally...
[Tech: Easy: FAIL... kinda]
The thermal doesn't really respond much. It blips on for a bit before turning itself off again, but you didn't spot anything that needed to be worried about yet, the library is the only thing that sitll has much power going throguh it now.

>>33963514
...Well, your hawkeye nearly goes critical, but the macro system picks this up quickly and disables it before it fries itself. Your eyesight's normal, nothing horrible happened, but that hawkeye certainly didn't boot up.

>>33963594
You climb up onto a nearby roof just fine. The lights are on, but nobody is inside. A few security camreas around the building, none can spot you up there yet but there's little way you can get anywhere around the perimeter without being seen normally... there are a few open doors/windows already though.

>>33963598
>Calshot is in!
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>>33963654
"Alright" Collapses suit. Gentle Giant is on all fours before he gets up. "My thermal reads that there is a lot of power in the basement. I think that's where we need to go."
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Rolled 62

>>33963693
Use Adhesive Tentacles to climb up to a nearby building, following Celer. Rolling Dex, Agent Ai and Martial Arts. Activating Camo as well. When I get up there, do I think with 7 Dex and 3 Speed I could jump across if I activated Celerity?
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>>33963693
"A lot of cameras for a civvie building." He began to trace a mental path past the cameras. "Anyone know what the security camera's read? Because of they pick up thermal I'm not getting past on camo alone. If we don't know can we get a techie on that?"
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Rolled 4

>>33963693
Deploying my scout drone to approach the library then.

"Celer and everyone, deploy your drones to do the same"
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Rolled 31

>>33963725
After hearing about the cameras I decide against collapsing and just walking in. I put my suit back on. and decide to follow Boone and Celer. Roll for dexterity to climb after them. I have 5 dexterity and a Soldier A.I (-10) so it should be easy.
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A series of barks and growls could be faintly
heard over the comms as DOG spoke to his AI.
Pup, as the new AI was named, flickered in and
out of the air as he walked beside his master.
DOG was still getting used to this new fangled
tech of Ghosting an AI. He bent down to pet
Pup, but his hand went through the electronic
dust particles and nearly threw him off balance.

"Dangit, boy!" DOG whispered aloud as he
steadied himself and watched as all of his
teammates scattered to head into the building.
He nimbly darted to a nearby dark corner and
awaited further intel/instructions from the Other
Guys.

DOG went ahead and activated his camouflage
so he wouldn't have to stoop down like some
common thief. He crept towards the building,
following the others inside.
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>>33963749
>I don't know what you're rolling for, but drones/camo/celerity require no roll to activate.
>Also, you think it could work from the rooftop Cael's at.

>>33963780
The drone activates fine, no roll was needed... it hovers around and just out of camera reach, nothing is to be seen besides an empty building, lights on, cameras ready to look at any entry point. They're normal-standard security cameras though.

>>33963795
You climb up just fine.
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Rolled 9

>>33963780
"I'll deploy my scout to stay unnoticed for now."

>taking 10
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>>33963888
The scout drone, along with all the others, will launch out fine. By all means, and observation by anything besides a slightly more active basement, it seems like this place is pretty damn normal, just a library that is still on.
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Rolled 19

>>33963855
Alright then, I deploy a Scavenger drone and order it to stealthily start disassembling the cameras covering the street. Rolling Tech, Agent Ai.
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Activate my camo.

Take 10 to see if the front door is locked.
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>>33963954
He double checks his camo against the roof floor and begins to explore for any signs of life and examining the camera wires to see where they lead.

"Now where oh where do you guys lead hmmn?"
"I don't like this guys. Not one bit."
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>>33964018
The drone wouldn't have any trouble, even if you had it do it automatedly... but it WILL be seen dismantling these cameras, do you want to proceed? It doesn't seem like there's any security defenses even if they saw you though...

>>33964034
The front door is not only not locked, but one of the doors open, you could walk in and the cameras wouldn't be any wiser.
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Rolled 17

>>33963855
I jump after Cael onto the roof. 4 speed, 5 dexterity and a soldier A.I should make that easy.
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Rolled 14, 16 = 30

>>33963855
i'll activate my camo now then and approach the library's front door then.

take 10 to activate camo and take 10 to roll dex to sneak to front door
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Rolled 26

>>33964066
Okay, have the drone return then as I jump across to the library roof. Go ahead be ready to catch myself with tentacles if need be. Rolling Dex to jump.
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>>33964126
>>33964083
>>33964046
You make the jump just fine, landing safely ont he side. There's a rooftop way in camera on it, and there are vents... it's been proved on Mythbusters that it's noisy as hell, but there isn't a camera on it this time.

>>33964095
You get over to the door just fine, cameras just stationary, can't see shit if you're invisible... so on so forth.
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>>33964166
Boone carefully approaches the camera, still invisible. Do I think I can safely deactivate it with my Worm platform in a way that wouldn't make it obvious there was intrusion? Agent Ai.
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Rolled 1, 6 = 7

>>33964095
Celer follows Turtle in.

> take 10 for camo and take 10 for dex sneak
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Rolled 18, 13 = 31

>>33964166
Alrighty, having my drone explore ahead of me. Taking 10 to roll tech for my scout drone to sense anything.

"Calshot, you have a drone? If not roll for sonar or radar"
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Rolled 15

>>33964166
DOG sighs and steadily flies up to the
cameras. He said a silent prayer to whichever
god was listening at the moment. These old
hands havent hacked secruity systems in a
while.

>rolling to hack security systems and install Spider + Spyware.
>Agent A.I.
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Rolled 18

>>33964166
"Right okay. Plan. I'm gonna check for a network inside."

>Taking 20 to scan with terminal for local networks.
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Rolled 91

>>33964221
No point in not doing so. I'm more of a combat guy.
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>>33964267
>Taking 10.
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>>33964221
"Hack the Camera and put it on a loop so it just shows the same minute over and over again."
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Rolled 10, 11 = 21

>>33964234
"No drones, but I'll scan the area."
Scan the area with radar and sonar (take 10)
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Rolled 37

>>33964166
I activate my thermal and look around.
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>>33964245
[tech fail]
The security actually gives out a warnin to not continue hacking, and gives this warnin to everyone else.

The inside seems normal enough for anyone who went in. Too normal. The layout and like shows the basement stairs to be marked as the janitor closet, and tucked away in the back.

>>33964267
You find a typical wireless router here, and bare bones data and computer stuff.
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>>33964699
>so do I get in successfully?
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Rolled 26

>>33964699
Alright, I try to tear up the camera's power cords, making it look like a rat or bird chewed it. Rolling tech or dex, either.
Agent Ai, Martial Arts.
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Rolled 38

>>33964699
The warning flashes briefly on the HUD and
DOG's fingers freeze. He shrugs and gives up
the hacking. Oh well, leave that stuff to the
kiddies.

Still camouflaged, DOG returns to the front
door and heads inside with fellow Hanse
member Cael. If this weren't a stealth mission,
he would introduce himself but that would have
to wait. He gripped the hilt of his modified
machete and crept inside.

After a step, DOG turned around and began
carefully cutting at the edges of the door to take it
off its hinges. He wanted to be sure there was an
easy escape route. He would prop the door
upright to ensure that everything looked normal
from the outside.

>Do I need to roll to do that to the door? If so, rolling.
>Agent A.I. and -5 Dex Bonus due to the attack rate of the Beam Sabre (if it matters at all)
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>>33964875
>Ah, ignore the bit about Cael. I'm not near him (and I don't much like him anyway)
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Rolled 15

"I'm gonna check this vent, I should be able to move through it quietly with adhesion and noise dampeners.'' He walked over to the vent and pulled the grill off slowly.
>Rolling a take 10 if you need it.
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Rolled 7, 12, 13 = 32

I'll just deploy my shield...

And Sparky here.

And camo (if it's not on anymore)

>take 10 on them all
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>>33965074
"Don't do that Cael, the vents will never hold your weight.
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Rolled 2, 19 = 21

>>33964699
Well I'm gonna take my first steps into the library and see what's goin on.

Deploying my drones ahead of me as well
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>ok sorry all but I need anothe 10-20 to do some irl stuff, pause till then.
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>>33965093
Forgot to mention that Sparky is my med drone
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>>33965112
"I'm with you. We should keep our chatter to a minimum from 'ere on out ."
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>>33964789
>Yes.

>>33964790
The cords break up fine. A bit noisy, but these cammeras might not transmit sound anyway...

>>33964875
[Easy Dex: Pass]
The door was removed down easy enough, and then replaced okay enough... you're fairly sure a camera wasn't watching.

>>33965074
The vent opens fine, and you can slither in quieter than if you had to crawl or walk.

>>33965093
You're stealthed, inside, and Sparky is out. Now what?

>>33965112
The drones, stealthed if they are scouts, go ahead and see... well, everyone busting or walking in their own way. You guys have officially infiltrated no less than 3 different ways in now, it's safe to say that this first floor doesn't seem to have any traps.

A bit of preliminary searching later, about 10 muntes tops, you guys find the way downstairs to the basement... it was labeled the Janitor's closet in the far end of the area, whoever wanted to go down can, otherwise I assume you'd all be stealthed around inside/on the roof of the library. Nothing sucpicious so far...
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>>33965562
I activate my stealth and follow behind Boone down the from the top of the building down into the center.
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Rolled 5

>>33965562
A smirk crossed his lips and he began to slither inside the vent practicing moving around a bit as a sound check.
>Taking 10 on dex for stealthy movement with adhesion and noise dampeners.
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Rolled 100

>>33965562
Rolling tech to try and check the door for traps and everything else. Biometrics, etc. Between the Agent AI checking for advanced stuff and my Viet-Cong memories for the low-tech, should be okay.
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>>33965634
Normally? It would still sound like someone was runnign sandpaper on metal and be a fairly decent noise. As you are? Silent as fuck. You're in the vents... and after you make it part way through, some gas sprays at you. Ineffectively, because environmental controls easily negate it. Your suit detects it's a sleeping agent though, so it's a good thing you didn't get caught by it.
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Rolled 5

>>33965654
FUCK. That was me, by the way.
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Rolled 17

>>33965562
Going to descend down the basement then, deploying my scout drone ahead of me and

Take 10 to roll tech for Sonar.
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Rolled 13

>>33965672
"Oh no. I've been sprayed with a sleeping agent. On a closed oxygen loop. Watch out guys, these guys are up to something and have rigged this place."
>Take 10 on thermal vision to see if there is anything else.
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Rolled 14, 10, 16 = 40

>>33965562
Celer uses radar, sonar, and thermal to check if there's anything down the basement

>take 10 for them
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>>33965776
>Forgot to mention Agent AI
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>>33965628
Never mind. Boone is checking for traps.
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>>33965654
...You detect your teammates as a trap on your sensors. That can't be right...

>>33965679
...Nope, your suit is INSISTANT that they are a trap, and to avoid them. Stupid tech...

>>33965747
Your thermals light up, there's a fair amount of energy running around on the edges of the vents... all of them the same trap. The vent system however, only goes to the basement right now. You can tell fromt his angle though, there's a bit deeper of some stuff than one basement floor.

>>33965705
You get a layout of the area above. A simpel library. Downstairs, a 'warehouse' of a storage area, lots of computers and the like, hooked up to a computer of sorts, and a doorway that seems to lead further downstairs... what's beyond the door you can't tell anymore.

>>33965776
You find pretty mu ch the same as everyone else has so far, for their respective attempts.
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>>33965882
...He barely contained a laugh, biting his lip so hard as to draw blood. "M-mercy~" He resumed advancing forward.
>>
Rolled 16

>>33965882
After hearing Boone complain about shitty identification software I activate Thermal and make my own scan of the door to see if there is anything electrically connected to it.
>>
Rolled 48

>>33965882
"Alright, disposable minion time. Everybody back up, I've got this." After everyone backs up, have my scavenger drone use its hands to open the "janitor's" door. Rolling Dex to dodge whatever screws me up afterwards. Agent AI, martial arts, Dex 7.
>>
Rolled 86

>>33965930
>>33965941
Rolling to dodge as well. Soldier A.I, Dexerity 6.
>>
Rolled 19

>>33965882
"Ok, Celer you hack into those computers, I'm heading downstairs still, you with me Calshot?"

Heading towards the doorway that seems to lead further downstairs.
Rollin tech for sonar again, take 10
>>
>>33965917
A lot of ineffective gas traps hit you for 0 damage. You come to the part that goes downwards to the basement area, wish to continue?

>>33965930
You find that the door is connected to a door knob and two hinges...

Your thermals didn't help find this one out in the slightest.

>>33965941
The drone opens it up fine. There is no trap you had to worry about... just a dark stairway down. And whoever's got working thermals can tell, there's some higher power readings down there too. Fuck.

>>33966017
Your sonar rings out downstairs, this time you can tell that there's actually a few... drones? Yea, drones wandering about. Can't tell what their weapons are, but they have SOMETHING in hand...
>>
Rolled 14

>>33966038
>Take a 10 for checking for more traps and perhaps an alternative path. You know how secret bases are.
>>
Rolled 2

>>33966038
Ok then. Walking slowly down the dark, scary stairway. Rolling Tech to activate NVG, taking 10 with Agent Ai.

"If someone wants to check out the library above us, go ahead. I wanna go ahead and check the secret base."
>>
Rolled 9, 6, 14 = 29

>>33966017
"Aye aye cap'n"

Celer heads downstairs to hack the computers with worm platform to install spyware and spider.

>take 10
> agent AI
>>
Rolled 23

>>33966080
I follow behind him but shortly split away to go to the library. Before opening the door I activate my Thermal to see if there is anyone or anything inside the library or if there is any active cameras in the library. "Me an Boone have split up." I message Cael. "Can you make your way through the vents to the library? I don't want to wander this place alone."
>>
Rolled 55

>>33966017
"At your six, Turtle. Deploying EMP grenades. Might wanna keep yer head down."

Throwing EMP grenade. Roll
>>
Rolled 25

>>33965882
>>33966038
Everyone was inside and not dead. Yet. DOG
looked around to admire the library. He always liked
a library, for it brought back memories of his
bookwormy high school days. He activated a
scavenger drone while it was safe to do so. It's
name was ... Jenny. It didn't do much besides stare
back at DOG because there weren't any Suits to
pick apart.

Before he followed everyone downstairs into
certain death, he quickly scanned the area and
snatched a good book to use later.

>Rolling whatever to find a valuable (i.e. expensive) book. :)

>>33966261
"Oh boy."


>ROLLS (I'll just paste any relevant mods onto my posts from now on):
>-5 Dexy (Melee Atk Rate Bonus)
>-5 Dexy (Martial Arts)
>-10 Dexy (Agent A.I.)
>-/+ 5 Tech (Agent A.I.)
>-25 Combat (Hanse Flaw)
>>
>>33966152
"On it, I'm just exploring a potential exit plan and maybe total access."
>>
Rolled 36

>>33966261
>forgot to mention I have +5 with Veteran soul
>>
Rolled 40, 24, 90 = 154

>>33966038
>>33966261
After Calshot has thrown his grenades, wanna move towards the drones and fire at the closest ones with my 2x Autocannons and Metalstorm.

Rollin for combat
>>
>>33966057
It's safe enough down there, but that's the only way down.

>>33966126
The take 10 program only can get the library's router, and there ain't much. >>33966261
>>33966382
Between the surprise grenade, an the storm of bullets, the robots are reduced to poor scrap metal before they can react.
>>33966289
You find a sorta rare book. Not that popula though.
>>
>>33966644
"Alright I'm heading down, the vents are clear." He begins the descent down adhesion working it's magic. "Any news for me team?"
>>
Rolled 72, 53, 80 = 205

>>33966644
"Gah I have to try again."

> normal rolls this time with worm, spyware, and spider

>agent AI
>>
>>33966644
Continue advancing into the warehouse. Did NVG come online?
>>
>>33966644
>Is there anything in the second floor library?
>>
>>33966732
>Nope. First/second floor of library are totally clear, it's the basement you guys are wanting.

>>33966707
The worm and spider don't seem to connect... the spyware however, gets something. You... pick up a LOT of various data channels and the like. Before suddenly you get a message.

Naughty naughty. No looking inside of a girl's private stuff now, at least talk to me face to face before you try that stuff!

[HACK DETECTED] [LINK DESTABLISHED]
Your suit automatically disconnects at the detection of a hack. Something bigger is here though, that's for certain...

>>33966697
You make it down, and then hear an EMP then guns ring out. You can slither a bit ahead and see down a grate, seeing two now scrapped drones, some EMP'd computer systems, and a door further ahead past them all.
>>
>>33966918
"...Hi gents, good job on the stealth front, would you like to load HEAT rounds into those autocannons next?" He pushed the vent open and peeked out, not bothering to de-camo.
>>
Rolled 28

>>33966918
As I continue to explore the subbasement warehouse, I detach my Scavenger Drone and have it see what it can salvage of the components and drones. See if there were any computers that didn't get fried, see what the drones were carrying, etc. Rolling (Gasp) Tech, Agent AI.
>>
>>33966918
"They know we're here...."
>>
>>33967040
>He is right. That was rather loud... the EMP was a good start though.

>>33967064
Well, nothing that big, just a few wires, hard drives, a few sticks of ram... nothing major, but you certainly aren't salvaging any data from these.

The drones aren't in much better condition, too many bullets through what you might've wanted to take.
>>
Rolled 12, 26, 98 = 136

>>33966644
>>33966918
Well i'm gonna use my scout to patrol ahead of me and descend further into the room.

"Celer, you ok? Try sticking with us now, we might need your emp grenades again for non-lethals."

Captcha victory encyfil
>>
>>33967107
Seeing that his attempts at hacking failed, Celer joins up with Turtle and the others after a nagging from Alice to do better next time.
>>
>>33967133
>>Didn't mean to roll for anything, sorry Zipline.
>>
Rolled 31

>>33967120
Okay then. Check the other door, that led to the mysterious hallway and further down, for traps. Rolling Techy. Agent AI.
>>
>>33967133
>>33967177
The entire basement area isn't that big... only thing left worth noting is that one door, guarded by a keypad of sorts or something, decently high security looking. Detection didn't get past this door either.

>>33967107
A little message pops up.

No, I know YOU'RE here. Thanks for telling me you're not alone.
>>
Rolled 16

>>33967120
He dropped down silently, marking the vent on his HUD and setting his soldier A.I to do the same.
"I'm going to check this room now since the way here was trapped. Watch out for guards."
>Take 10 for thermal.
>>
Rolled 78

>>33967188
Yes, that's the door I was checking for traps. So it's keypadded? Try to pry opent he keypad so I can get at the guts. Want to try to rewire it manually. Rolling, either Dex or Tech.
>>
>>33967188
"Shhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiittttt guys"
>>
>>33967188
"May I ask who I'm speaking with?"
>>
Rolled 36

>>33967226
>>33967188
I roll tech to assist Boone with my Agent A.I equipped as help. Got to do this manually as well since i don't have worm platform either.
>>
>>33967226
>>33967414
Boone ran into some issues, but after a short bit, turtle and his AI corrected things for him.

>>33967308
"Call me Alice... Ok no, too cliche. You come up with a name, perhaps? Those cyoas an all sound fun." Some text responded.
>>
Rolled 59

>>33967624
Okay then. If I didn't find any traps, pop the door.
>>
>>33967624
"I'll just call you Red Queen, m'lady. My AI is Alice. Say hi, Alice."

*tips fedora*
>>
>>33967657
Door opens fine... there's an elevator past it, big enough for the whole team.

>>33967747
[spoilers]Hah! that's what I was going for... lets play a game shall we? You all want some answers and stuff don'tcha? Well, come on down and get them. I'll be waiting to answer when you get here.[/spoilers] the last message resounded, before a small little erase of a file happened, her own spyware of sorts, removed itself from Celer's suit.

>Who's going down the elevator?
>>
>>33967862
"Elevators are deathtraps. Not a good idea. DOG, mind using your sabre to cut a hole in the bottom? We can rappel/climb down the shaft. We don't want to be in a box our enemy controls. "
>>
>>33967908
DOG thought for a second, then shrugged, "But
wouldn't being trapped in an elevator shaft be just
as bad?"
>>
>>33967862
>>33967908
>>33967954
"I say we send it down first. If they have a trap set at the bottom it'll go off regardless when we open the doors. We send it down then move the trap will be sprung."
>>
>>33967954
"Yes, that's bad, but we can control rate of descent and they don't get a nice warning of when we're going to arrive. Also, we can spread out so we can't all be taken out by one bomb."
>>
>>33967862
I walk into the library on the 2nd floor (oblivious to what's currently happening). My suit vanishes, leaving me on hands and knees on the ground. I get up and start grabbing whatever document is around here to flip through, recording it into my suit if it looks important.
>Sorry. I fell asleep for a little too long.
>>
To all of their paranoia, a girl's voice rung out. "I aint starting everyone aboard this goes down it. It's not a game unless you play it." she said to the crew. "No cheating allowed in my games... ah, right. Almost forgot that little thing... hey, girl?" she called out.

"Eh?" Zipline responded. "...Hacking!? How di-" she started, before connection was lost...
>>
>>33968067
"...Better. Nobody to interrupt us or call out stuff for you guys while we play. She can watch the instant replay highlights after." the voice said in a joking manner. "So, what'll it be boys? Only one ride for you guys, if you have cold feet, now's the time to bail and say you found nothing!"

>Anyone who does not enter the elevator is no longer in the mission.
>>
>>33968067
"Fuck... Does anyone really not wanna go?" He stepped into the elevator with great trepidation.
"Because I'm happy to go."
>>
>>33968067
Ah fuck. Oh well, it was a good plan.
"Alrighty then. That's shit. Everybody get on board, I guess."
Boone steps onboard the elevator, ready for a trap.
(OFF IRC for the moment, srry had to switch comps)
>>
>>33968096
I drop my scanning, put my suit back on and rush down to rendezvous with everyone else. Something big has just happened and I don't want to miss it. I get on the elevator right before the doors close behind me. "Will anyone fill me in on what they just did?" I ask the group on the elevator.
>>
>>33968096
DOG listened intently, his anger rising until he
just sighed and walked into the elevator. To
keep Jenn close, he had her attach herself to
him like a backpack.

"Looks like we aint got a choice, folks. Let's
ride."
>>33968139
He pointed to Celer, "He got hacked and now
we're playing a child's game with an unknown
person. Should be fun!"

>captcha: upon eloamage
>>
Rolled 67

>>33968000
"Enough bickering. Let's just see what's see there first."

Celer deploys his Beam Ninjato to slice a hole big enough for his scout drone to fit through to check out the lower levels whilst being camouflaged.

>tech for drone
>agent AI
>>
>>33968171
The drone, after making it down perhaps a few meters, instantly is riddled with bullets, and the bullets keep pelting it for most of the way down.

"I said no cheating! That means no looking ahead at what happens... and don't worry, your elevator's bullet proof." she simply said.
[Celer has lost 1 scout drone.]
>>
>>33968165
"I wonder why the Red Queen would announce its presence. It seems intent on "playing" with us. As much as I hate to admit it we may have to play along with its games for now since it can lock down the place if we don't, meaning we won't find anything.
>>
>>33968216
"Heh, she don't fuck around does she?" He laughed. "Wonder if those are actually able to damage a suit? The sleep gas wasn't."
>>
Rolled 65

>>33968216
"Well, look like the only way is down yonder. Let's see how far this rabbit hole goes."

Heading into the elevator.
>>
>>33968266
"Those bullets looked like they wouldn't harm a suit with durability 3. Shields would be worthless since the shots could come from any direction. However, I would not go down even if I was in a medium with durability upgrades due to the risk of her putting something heavier than conventional firearms in the shaft.
>>
>>33968216
"Not my drone...I just bought that."

"Fuck it, I'm going in. Alice, I hope you're ready with the countermeasures."

"Everything is accounted for, Celer. Don't fuck up this time."

"Faq u bich"
>>
Rolled 5

>>33967862
>>33968067
Well i'm gettin on the elevator then, traps regardless.
>>
>>33968216
>By the way. Did I find anything important while scanning stuff in the 2nd floor library.
>>
>>33968308
"Smart smart... I didn't bother using the explosives, I don't want to wreak your ride up again after you win. Or lose. One of them." she said gleefully, before starting the elevator down about 10 floors worth of distance.

Along the way, there is a rather interesting discussion on the shapes and efficiency of swords by a little screen on the elevator, talking about katanas and broadswords and efficiency of motions.

>>33968399
>Books. Nothing of value, everything seems to be down here...
>>
>>33968425
"-thus thanks to the flamberges wavy design it added a real effectiveness to the parry and riposte technique and I feel it's a design we're losing to the ages."
>>
>>33968425
>...
After some time, the elevator dings... and some lights light up. Ahead is a hallway, with a path to the left, right, and ahead, it's a normal + hallway. What do?
>>
>>33968494
"Guys, concentrate. We don't know who our host is our what she has planned for us. It's best we prepare."

"Plus, ninjato is best mango."
>>
Rolled 12

>>33968528
"Someone wanna do a few pings on the sensors?"
He stepped out of the elevator a few paces and then turned on thermal.
>Taking 10. Because there's no reason not to really with my tech rolls.
>>
Rolled 65

>>33968553
I activate my thermal to see if there's anything in the hallway.
>>
>>33968586
>>33968596
Your thermals pick up... actually a lot of things. You can tell ahead, there's some drones on patroll in a winding hallway, to the right there's a lot of systems that are hot, in a straight corridor, and to the left you see a trap on the ground before the door even is reached.

"Oh, right. That annoying thing... yoink!" she said, before everyone's computers get a little [HACK DETECTED] message.

>Everyone roll a hard tech roll, or she removes the take 10 ability from you.
>>
Rolled 88, 96, 9 = 193

"Let's see what you have for us, Red."

>tech scan with thermal, sonar, and radar

>sparky is still deployed and following me right?
>>
Rolled 65

>>33968635
>I still don't know what the take 10 ability is.
>>
>>33968635
Rolling for defense. Agent AI.
>>
Rolled 40

>>33968494
>aww, I was about to add more sword fluff to the elevator screen.
Step off the elevator and roll so my take 10 doesn't get taken away.
>>
Rolled 73

>>33968635
"Not this time, wench"
>>
Rolled 54

>>33968662
>>33968635
Fuckit.
>>
Rolled 17

>>33968635
DOG shakes his head from side to side
violently, as though that would cure the hacking.
"Damn Defense Maze! Damn Agent AI! Work,
damn you!"

>rollan
>>
Rolled 24

>>33968635
"Oh fuck!"
He engaged defense maze, hoping it wasn't too late.
>>
Rolled 30

>>33968635
rollin for hard tech roll
>>
>>33968683
>Pass.

>>33968674
>>33968685
>>33968701
>>33968655
>>33968828
>Nope

Boone was able to fix his fine, even before the defense maze was halfway penetrated... everyone else's systems had the system uninstalled before they could rid themselves of it.

"Hmm. One of you actually won... well, congrats, you earned it, keep it!" she said on a speaker resounding through the hall. "I'll say this now: There's not a single soul down here besides you all, and maybe me. So go nuts, shoot some stuff up... and find your way to me. If you find anything else of note though, have fun keeping that in mind, asking questions, all I've got to do here is answer what you've got for me!" She said enthusiastically, before going quiet on the speakers again.
>>
Rolled 34

>>33968528
>>33968635
>>33968828

After the hard tech roll, I go on my way to the left path hallway.

"Celer, DOG, you're with me; The rest you got your orders"

Rollin tech for Sonar with Agent A.I
>>
>>33968871
"Yeah I have a question," says Celer as he tags along with Dog and Turtle, "who or what are you?"
>>
Rolled 20

>>33968871
"...GO FUCK YOURSELF!" All Hanse diplomacy was lost in that one moment. "J-just fuck you!" He stalked to the left corridor, slowly camo still active and tried to use adhesion to clamber on the ceiling.
>Ronin for tech
>>
Rolled 2

>>33968934
oh shit, ignore that, I meant Right.
>>
>>33968934
"Oh hey guys", Celer chips in on everyone's radio, "Don't fuck up. That is all."
>>
>>33968934
>>33968949
A small systems malfunction did illicit a reaction
out of DOG. He instead burped and nodded his
head in agreement. "Might as well, I suppose."
He tagged along but stayed quiet and ready for
whatever was about to jump out. Jenny buzzed
but otherwise didn't make any movements.
>>
>>33968957
Thankfully adhesion is part of movement, and you slither up the ceiling just fine, and are at the door (now hanging on the wall) on the other side.

>>33968949
"Wow, someone asked that already, I thought I'dve had to take one of you out before that one came up! Well, let me say... I'm an AI, like those ones in your suits. But more awesome. Awesome enough to think and act on my own... and someone saved me on top of that. So I work for him. You don't get his name though." she stated simply to them, as the right hallway door (and if they went to the middle/touched on the left doors) opened for them, the right side seeming to be a normal and empty hallway.
>>
>>33968871
Boone begins to advance down the center tunnel, carefully avoiding the trap GG marked. That urban stuff wasn't fun, but this? This is where the memories in his head kicked in. His "normal" life may like shooting at long range, but his Veteran's Soul remembered the tunnels of Cu Chi, and compared to those, there was no claustrophobia or tricks a tunnel could hold.

Advancing in bounding overwatch with GG, preferring to be in front. Sometimes using tentacles to walk on the ceiling to avoid suspected traps.
>>
Rolled 96

>>33969104
>>33969108
I follow behind Boone. "Remember, before my thermal was cut out I spotted a bunch of drones ahead." I've activated my own drones. They float through the air tracking any movement.
>>
>>33969104
"An uplifted AI? Huh. Hey Alice, what do you think of this?"

"She's a basic bitch, Celer."
>>
Rolled 96

>>33968871
"Question miss. Is Red your first name or are you royalty?"

>>33968957

Cal flies next to Cael until he reaches the door.

>rolling so I don't activate the trap somehow
>>
>>33969185
"A bored one, not a basic one. Besides, I'm not wanting to hurt you guys all that much. But I have orders, and I love my master, so I'm gonna do them." she mused simply, a few steel walls closing behind the team, locking them from the elevator. "Now then, let the games begin!"

>>33969159
>>33969108
A bit ahead, you can tell there are some drones patrolling. In a rather simple pattern. "They'll ping you guys if they see you, so have fun evading their detection. Kinda like that... what was it, metal slug solid or something?" she mentioned to those two, and anyone else who would join them at the central door.

>You must make a dex check to evade them and make it through. There's 3 parts you can duck away towards and the 'exit' you see is ahead.
>>
Rolled 28

>>33969252
Rolling. Using, again, ceiling and walls as well to avoid detection. If I think I'm gonna be spotted... How many of them are there?

Agent AI, Martial Arts

Also, keep an eye out for cameras RQ is using.
>>
>>33969228
>You don't need to roll to move damnit, adhesion, levitation, and flight are all included in moving. It is if you're STEALTHFULLY moving around that it matters, and that's dex. Camo is not a tech roll either.

The door opens... to reveal, by what you can see, to be a closet, broom, mop, gun and all. Wait, what?

>>33969299
There's a lot of cameras you can see. But they saw you ever since you entered the room, you can assume the cameras are not part of this 'stealth' mission. The suits however, aren't seeing you, and you even make way through this to get closer, up one of the hiding-places ahead. There's two hiding-places away before you can reach the door, also out of the 'detection path'.
>>
Rolled 44

>>33969252
Me and Dog is with Celer, what're we lookin at now?

rollin tech for sonar again with Agent AI
>>
Rolled 11

>>33969252
>>33969299
I do the same. Soldier A.I for a -10. I activate my 15 minutes of camouflage as well. The low profile of my predator suit should also help in avoiding being spotted.
>>
>>33969104
He slowly stepped down and inside, examining the gun on floor, ready to jump into the covered sides of the doorway.
>>
Rolled 63

>>33969355
Rolling to get to second spot. Same modifiers.
>>
Rolled 52

>>33969431
Same.
>Have you already activated your camouflage in the past in-game hour Boone?
>>
Rolled 3, 85, 63 = 151

>>33969356
>roll for sonar, radar, and thermal vision to see what's ahead.
>>
>>33969356
Still a straight up hallway. It hasn't done anything, but then again nobody's gone in...

>>33969361
You sneak around just as Boone did, making it actually over to the second hiding spot in one go.

>>33969431
You meanwhile are spotted by a guard, which comedically gives off the generic Metal Gear Solid alert noise, before shooting off an Ion blast at him.
>Roll an easy dexterity to dodge this, it was obvious it was going to shoot once it gave the alert.

>>33969395
As you examine the gun, that 'trap' from before springs to life, bashing Calshot inside the closet area as well (No damage), before suddenly channeling an electric current through it. Welp, you two are now trapped in here... maybe.
>>
>>33969521
"Jesus fuck! Are you okay Calshot?!" He continues examining the gun, it might be of use.
>>
Rolled 75

>>33969521
I roll to shoot my machine gun at the guard drone. +10 for soldier A.I. +11 for machine gun fire rate and accuracy.
>>
Rolled 69, 7 = 76

>>33969521
Rolling. Agent Ai, Martial art, you know the drill. Second roll is for an attempt to silently kill him with tentacles. If it's dex, Agent Martial Arts; if Combat, Veteran Soul Nat Weapons. Also, if within time limit, pop Camo.
>>
Rolled 99

>>33969521
sending my scout drone ahead of me then.

don't know if I need to roll for tech just in case.
>>
>>33969558
The gun is a nerf gun painted and decorated to resemble the XCom laser rifle. You have 8 shots of nerf darts, if that is any consolation.

"Well well well, looks like two of you are caught in a trap! Better find the way out or I gas the room with poisonous neuroto... wait, fuck. That doesn't even work... um..." she says, before her call on you two just goes dead as her joke falls flat.

>>33969649
A single EMP grenade lands right on it, and fries it's circuts. Normally it would've dodged, but apperantly someone fucked up the tech roll on it's evasion algorhythm.

>>33969611
The shot still hits Boone rather easily, his suit barely functional and losing more functionality as it goes, Camo fails to kick in thanks to this. He manages to quietly stab it with tentacles, but is now laying in the middle of the hall unless moved back, it'll take an easy tech roll to restart him (Pilot or someone else)
>>
Celer commands his canine medium drone to scout ahead of his group.

>it has an ion canon if that needed to be stated
>>
>>33969759
Celer sees the Turtles drone go down and commands his own to come back.
>>
Rolled 28

>>33969759
>I'll assume that I destroyed the drone due to a high dice roll.
I grab Boone with my teeth and drag him behind cover before trying to restart him.
>>
Rolled 27

>>33969759
ION SHIT...
Rolling to try to reboot. Agent AI, if applicable.

Shocked out of his battle-trance in the brainwave harness, Boone is suddenly very very nervous. A sitting duck is not a good role in combat. He anxiously goes through his suits reinitialization routines, praying it works...
>>
Rolled 8

>>33969649
"Yes, same as your sleeping gas plan. You're not very good at this are you."
He tried grabbing the broom and pushing it against the entrance way since it wouldn't conduct while Calshot dusted himself off and stopped the room spinning.
>Rolling melee because it's funny.
>>
Rolled 73

>>33969815
"Alright sparky, be careful out there"

Sparky gives a little bark and advances down the hall

>roll for tech I guess?
>Agent AI
>>
Rolled 82

>>33969759
Well i'm gonna start advancing forward anyway, fuck it.

"Let's go DOG, Celer."
>>
>>33969852
>I took your roll for dex actually...
You quickly scurry over, grab him, before taking him back to the mid-way cover point just before another guard wanders over to spot you two.

>>33969853
Boone's systems boot up a few moments later, a bit of damage was taken but it seems rather minor in the long run. "So much for a perfect stealth run." Red Queen sarcastically jokes personally on Boone's comms.

>>33969885
The broom smashes into splinters on the wall... but a few flying spinters catch your eye, specifically, fly off towards the ceiling of the room and don't come down.

>>33969984
The drone makes it part way, before dodging the grenade. Then two more, then a bunch more, before it scampers to the end of the hall. Well, looks like it made it, but god damn there are a lot of dropping grenades, no less than five dispensers.

>>33970031
No grenades seem to drop on you yet... before the room closes, locking you (and you only) inside...
>>
>>33970119
"Hello..~" He quickly used adhesion to climb to the patch of splinters.
"What are you doing?"
"Something very stupid Calshot." He starts to feel around the splinters for an abnormality.
>>
Rolled 33

>>33970119
I refuse to respond to this machine. I will not give it any more information about us than it already has. Resume trying to sneak, but be ready to shoot any drones that see me. Rolling to sneak.

Also, deploy my scavenger and have it scavenge the destroyed light drone if that can happen without it being seen by the other drone.

Similarly, run checks to see what was damaged (What's my damage at).
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>>33970119
"Well well well... Hm, Turtle the 2nd, according to your suit's call sign? Have you seen the movie Resident Evil? Specifically that one... with the laser walls?" she asked, before a fair amount of red lasers bleeped on inside of the room. And slowly started shifting about.

>Make 2 easy dex rolls to start off, Turtle.
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>>33970031
>>33970119
>>33970210

DOG was hesitant after seeing the drone get
killed, but followed suit anyway (a few paces
behind the other two, of course). Jenny chirped
when noticing the remains of the drone, but
DOG considered it too risky to scavenge
materials right now.

As he stepped forward, he saw the other drone
make it across the hallway. Success! But then
Turtle followed it and DOG was promptly shut
out of the corridor altogether

"Oh boy. It was nice knowing ya, buddy!" he
called to Turtle. He could hear LAZERS on the
inside, but didn't know what to make of the sound.
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Rolled 4

>>33970119
>>33970208
I follow behind Boone. Engaging in sneaking as well. Firing at the drone broke my camouflage unfortunately. A -10 dex bonus for my A.I. A low profile from my predator body type will also help.
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Rolled 70, 73, 71 = 214

>>33970119
"ha ha ha,"

Rollin for combat to fire 2x Autocannons and Metalstorm and USING my Courier drone on my Metalstorm for extra 2 damage to blow a hole in the closest door to exit quickly. I get 7 advanced actions anyway to do all this.
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>>33970300
You don't ujst make it to the last sneaking spot, you make it all the way to the door. "Well, he's good at his job, I've gotta give him that..."

>>33970208
Boone makes it to the last hiding spot, not all the way, but still, no detection and only a little more to go.
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Rolled 49

>>33970369
Okay, now that I'm safe, let's take a second and plan. First, rolling tech to fix anything broken on my suit. Then, start blinding all the cameras I see with whatever extraneous junk I've got (food in storage, spare machine gun drone ammo, etc).
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Rolled 20

>>33970426
YUS. +Agent AI!
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Rolled 94, 77 = 171

>>33970346
>>33970210
well I'll make my dex rolls and see how's my luck.

Prayin to the dice gods now
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>>33970346
The shots ring out and blast at the door... Courier drones don't work that way, as it eject some of your ammo, before re-planting it back into the same gun confusedly, quite a few bullets ringing at the door and leaving a few bullet holes.
>Roll a dex roll... for Sparky, Celer
>>33970453
Turtle gets too into this though, and after only dodging a laser or two, one hits him... not harming, but slashing and bloody noises start playing from the speakers. All the EMP traps drop on you, and go off. Seems she wasn't FULLY re-enacting resident evil but...

For everyone else: [TURTLE'S COMMS HAVE GONE DEAD.]

By the time the room opens, which a lot of bloody sounds and emulated screams of turtle played from within, his 'corpse' is nowhere to be seen. (And sparky's corpse may be now on the other side, if it fails it's rolls.)

>>33970426
What little was busted, such as a windshield wiper laser for your visor and some minor circutry damage, it's all fixed. Though, it expended your suit's spares and backup systems, it probably won't fix your suit up nearly as well if you take similar damage. Nothing that crucial or worht nothing was hit though, but hey, full repairs are full repairs.

>>33970446
>I'll take pitty on this good roll for...
After fixing, Boone made a quick scamper and sneak over to Gentle, both of the two now at the door to proceed, though currently it's still closed. "Congrats you two, first ones to make it past an obstacle!" she said to the two, a small congratulations sound playing as the drones paused their patrol to give an 'audience clap' for them, before resuming the patrolling maneuvers.
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Rolled 95

>>33970668
So, we're at a door. Is it locked? Perhaps with a keycard we need to get from the Library? I start checking it for traps. Rolling tech... Agent AI.
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>>33970732
Your AI glitches out when you try to do that and hack it open. "You idiots, no it's not locked, USE THE HANDLE." she said rather simply. "Besides, I didn't trap that door. Some of the others sure, but not THAT one." she said to the two. "What kind of idiotic game designer sends you through a stealth maze only to say 'sorry, needed the card key!' or something?"
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Rolled 55

He swung his power fist at the spot covered in splinters, hoping for an easy break.
"Duck Calshot!"
>Rolling melee again for fun.
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>>33970797
"I have no reason to believe that you're not one of those asshole game designers who do pull bullshit like that." I go up on my hind legs to pull on the handle.
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Rolled 63

>>33970797
Okay then, pissed at my failure I rip the door apart. (Shield ready in case she lied, though). Nat Weapon Tentacles rollin combat with Vet Soul to break the damn door down.
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>>33970863
That door is gone. Except the handle, that's still in Gentle's hand... paw, whatever.

You break it down and find...well. Darkness. Got a floodlight or something to navigate this?
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Rolled 18

>>33970668
ROLLING TO SAVE

>agent AI
>Martial Arts
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Rolled 13, 98 = 111

>>33970668
So where am I now Red Queen?

Is this real life or just fantasy?
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Rolled 16

>>33970920
No, but my NVG should still work. If it turned off earlier, take 10 to turn it on... Agent AI.
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>>33970920
"If you would be so kind as to give back my thermal vision please."
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Rolled 6

>>33970668

DOG's happy demeanor faltered as the screams of
the de facto leader of the "Let's-Go-Right Corridor
Exploration Squad" echoed over COMMs. The door
opened and the smoke cleared and there wasn't
even a body left. He stayed silent for a long while,
assuming the brave man was gone for good after
having his body obliterated by whatever trapped he
had walked into.

And the other drone, Sparky...well at least he was
more agile.
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>>33970807
Your fist shoryukens through it like paper, because it IS paper, and into a steel roof. You leave an indentation into it, your fist and weapon is fine.

Up here, you can see that there's a somewhat small passage way, only one of you can fit through at a time single file fashion. It goes for a fair ways down, curving off to the right.

>>33970948
Sparky, in response to detecting gunfire, nimbly dodges the metalstorm, then a hail of autocannons, before taking cover past a corner. When the doors open, Sparky peeks out to show his master he's alive still. And in cover incase they decide to shoot through the door again...

>>33970959
Your night vision kicks in just fine. Ahead looks kinda like a maze. There's a wall which has a big X and a "Do not touch" sign in the middle of it dead ahead, plain as day, and a few offshoots to the left and right, three of them down the line to be precise.

>>33970962
"Hey, boot it up yourself." she simply said deadpannedly. It still works, just you can't do a take 10 roll on it anymore.

>>33970958
Your suit is just... inactive right now. You can feel it being moved, but it's dark. But hey, you're not dead.
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>>33971057
"SPARKY! I knew you had it in you, boy!"

Sparky gives a happy bark as he is reunited with his master again.
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>>33971065
> I still don't know what a take 10 roll is.
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>>33971065
"Calshot! Follow me to freedom! Single file and at least 3 feet behind." He climbed up and resumes travelling through the vent is his now practiced fashion.
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Rolled 20

>>33971065
"Okay, Giant, grab a tentacle. Thermals won't help you find walls anyway unless they're producing heat. I know where we're going, though."

Start walking towards the first offshoot on the left, ready for whatever will kill us. Also, use a tentacle to mark the wall where we walk.

>Really tempted to make a drone poke the X
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>>33971122
I bite the tentacle and follow behind Boone.
>I need all 4 of my legs to walk.
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>>33971120
"You don't have to tell me twice." He dove in the vent, tailing behind Cael.
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>>33971120
The vent curves down, and down... to darkness. Got anything to see?

>>33971122
If Giant lights up his thermals... yea, he wouldn't see much, but he would notice the "Do not touch" sign and X, they had some power in them.

Oh, and when he follows you in... his targeting computer marks you as an enemy now. Yours will do the same if you look back to him. It's kinda obvious he's NOT an enemy though.

"Have fun you two, hope you're not afraid of the dark..."

To the left, well, it's actually a dead end after a single extra turn after it. Lame.
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Rolled 25

>>33971214
"Fuck. Right. You lights Calshot?" He asked as he engaged his thermals for what good they'll do.
>Rolling for tech
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Rolled 72

>>33971214
I activate my thermal. Only being able to see things that give off heat is better than nothing at all.
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>>33971250
In the little vent, you see little arrows pointing one direction, straight forwards. You wouldn't see them without thermals, but they're bright as day.

>>33971265
You can see Boone's outline just fine, unless he turns a corner. These walls block them pretty well.
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Rolled 46

>>33971214
"Just so you know. The Red Queen has messed with our targeting computers. My ASS is registering you as an enemy. Yours probably does the same.
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Rolled 38

>>33971214
"I got it. 'As it says in the good book 'Let there be light!'"

rolling for floodlights
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>>33971313
"I think we're being lead into a trap anyway... Well one way to find out." He powered on ahead through the vent.
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Rolled 14

>>33971324
"Yup. I'll try not to shoot you. That's a dead end, we gotta keep going."
Continue on to the second tunnel.
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>>33971349
The vent, for whenever Cael/Calshot exited it, would lead out into a rather dark room. It seems plain enough, concrete and stuff walls, and all, but it twisted and turned a bit ahead on the path.
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>>33971429
"Calshot, you lead the way with light. I'll be behind."
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Rolled 9

DOG did something stupid. He went into the corridor.

"YOLO," Jenny chirped.

>Rolling once to dodge LAZERS
>-5 Dexy (Melee Atk Rate Bonus)
>-5 Dexy (Martial Arts)
>-10 Dexy (Agent A.I.)
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"I'm not gonna leave Sparky there. Let's go DOG. We need to find Turtle-senpai."

Celer focuses his inner ninja to get past the lazors.

>dex roll to get past them while Celerity is active to slow down time (+50% on dex and speed)
>agent AI and martial arts
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>>33971463
"Roger that, taking point now."

Moving to the dark room
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>>33971356
The tunnel twists and winds a bit, going up and down as well as left and right. One section even seems like a corkscrew.... it seems unnecessarily long, but it's shape prevents you from seeing too far ahead or rocketing on.

>>33971463
As Cael enters, his inward comms suddenly lose all senses. "Well, since you guys can see, you guys should be fine if you can't hear." she said, also cutting off Calshot's once he enters.
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Rolled 82

>>33971505
>whoops forgot to roll
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>>33971516
"Thatta boy. Not going weapons hot..?" he asked in earnest, trying to be diplomatic.
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>>33971503
"And a new challenger enters the field... I would start you off where the last guy was at, but dude got hit by the second laser. Not even worth saving the progress." she mused with a sigh, room locking (the door ahead looking in pretty bad condition, honestly) and lasers starting up...

...Dog's pre-emptive readyness dodges the first set of lasers with ease.

>1 medium dex check, 1 easy dex check, DOG.

>>33971505
Following him in, was Celer, who failed, and instantly a tentacle reached out and started grabbing for him. "OH COME ON! Is this guy the ONLY one who can dodge the first two lasers?!?" she said annoyedly.

>A hard dex check. On Celer's HUD though was a message saying "Please wait." It may be best to just play along, for DOG's sake.
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Rolled 83, 58 = 141

>>33971608
Landing nimbly on his feet (something he hasn't
done in years), DOG breathes a sigh of relief
as he dodged the lasers. The feeling didn't last
long, however...

>Rolling twice for OH GOD PLS DONT KILL ME
>-5 Dexy (Melee Atk Rate Bonus)
>-5 Dexy (Martial Arts)
>-10 Dexy (Agent A.I.)
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Rolled 95

>>33971608
>hard dex check plox
>hope you know all my modifiers
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>>33971526
After Giant agrees, Boone starts to continue down this twisting tunnel, again having flashbacks. "At least there aren't any rats here, and I have night vision... Though my shotgun would be nice. I mean her shotgun."
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>>33971555
"Looks like we do this quietly."

Calshot motions for Cael to follow him using hand signals.
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>>33971555
>>33971516
As the two approach... their computers light up. Unknown amounts, but it seems there's enemy drones ahead. Farther out than their sights, but their suits are detecting them now, approaching their position.

>>33971727
...Red Queen sighs as the lasers all fizzle off... and more EMP bombs drop in on you guys. Lots of them...

[DOG'S COMMS HAVE GONE DEAD.]
[CELER'S COMMS HAVE GONE DEAD.]

...The pilots still know they're alive though, as the room's walls shift up a bit, revealing a conveyor of sorts, as the tentacle basically shoves them in.

...

>Turtle, make a very hard tech roll.
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>>33971773
>>33971324
The further you two go, the more it seems like there's actually a light at the end of this way, before finally there seems to be perhaps a turn or two till you get to the lights.
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Rolled 70

>>33971857
"Light ahead. Sending a drone to check it out."
Deploy Scavenger drone, have it stealthily take a look ahead. Rollan Tech. Agent Ai.
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>>33971834
He gave the gesture for understood and activated his plasma shield and unfolded his rail rifle.
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Rolled 86

>>33971834
makin my tech roll then with Agent AI, like that'll make a difference. Praying to the dice gods now
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>>33971885
The computers showed there was a drone scampering ahead towards them. It even was giving a target lock for them, amazingly. It peeks towards you two, quietly, and the computer informs you it's a mesh type with assassination blades.
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>>33971929
He took cover and quickly pulled Calshot in, covering his floodlight.
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>>33971898
Your suit... yea no, it's not working yet. Perhaps in a bit. Your suit ends up ejecting onto something similar to one of those medical beds that can wheel around, and it gets shifted over... it's lit up in this room, and you can see. There's a rather large row of suits of various kinds, small to medium all lined up next to you.
If your suit was active, it would be blaring out "HACK DETECTED"... but it's not, and all you feel is a weird feeling on the back, before it goes away.On the wall, a drone slides on the wall... a rather brutal looking saw blade on it, and it's shifting towards your position.

>A very hard tech roll, turtle!

>>33972017
As Cael did this, the drone signal went away, after seeming to scamper off. You scared it off, maybe...

>>33971876
Your scavenger drone suddenly goes dead on your signals, the last you get from it is the sound of a gun shooting it.
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Rolled 83

>>33972083
"ALright, GG, there's something ahead. Let's check it out, just killed my scav drone."

Start stealthily moving forward again.
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Rolled 96

>>33972083
"ha ha, fuck me"

Rollin another hard tech roll with Agent AI assistance.
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Rolled 86

>>33972128
I follow behind. I ready my machine gun in case I need to shoot something again.
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>>33972155
Your suit be dead. The saw blade approaches Turtle, and starts whirring, closing in on his face. "OH CRAP! STOP STOP STOP!" Red queen resounds out, the comms actually so paniced the others caught it too, before the saw slows and drifts away, a sigh sounding off on her. "Whew... forgot, automatically does that to suits we can't disable. Sorry for the scare, that wasn't part of the plan." she said simply to Turtle.

>>33972128
>>33972185
The light ahead seems to have gone off now, about when that drone went dead... a bit more approaching, and you find the drone, now headless, hell, most of it's torso is gone, and a dim sort of light is on the other corner.
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>>33972083
He quickly uncovered the light and dragged Calshot out into the open, flashing the light a few times, testing his out bound comms.
"If anyone can read me this is Cael! I'm in a dark sector with Calshot and flashing his floodlights! Outbound comms are dead! Provide a signal if your not an assassin drone!"
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Rolled 88

>>33972232
Stick it in my storage, no need to waste it. Go ahead and check carefully around the corner, rail rifle and shield ready.
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Rolled 89

>>33972232
"I think that light may be a laser tracking for targets. Is it possible to not go into that light?"
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Rolled 73

>>33972232
Well what do you want from me "Red Queen"? Where are my comrades?
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>>33972270
Your comms don't do shit right now. You're talking to yourself... you then catch a light hunter on your screens, thermals showing the outline, a shield at the ready and rifle of his own.

>>33972277
You see... Cael and Calshot actually. Huh.

>>33972319
"Coming... jeeze, you guys can't even do some basic movie style dodging cinimatics, boring." she mused on a speaker on the wall. "Anyway, this is the penalty chamber... your suit's being drained of it's power, but hey, on the bright side..." she said, disengaging his visor and whatever she could of his suit if he wanted to get out "I can't kill you. Not supposed to at least... so sit back and enjoy the show I guess." She said, a TV screen poking out of the ceiling and for Turtle to watch. It had the feeds of everyone still active's views on it now.
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Rolled 68

>>33972406
Fun. Lower my rifle, try to get them on comms. If not, launch buioys.

"Hey guys. How'd you end up here? GG and I are fine, though my drone's dead..." Start looking for what killed it.
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>>33972406
He quickly raised his shield, blocking him and pushing Calshot away further into cover unable to see through thermal.
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>>33972450
>How bad are Calshots wounds?
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Rolled 64

>>33972406
Tech roll for Alice to wake me up
> agent ai
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>>33972450
There's no response on the comms to them.

>>33972500
A few moments later, specifically because you didn't immidiately shoot, you can see because of the floodlight: That's boone. Gentle peeks out a few moments later... "Well, that was boring." Red queen resounds on all of their comms, before restoring full functionality to them all. "You guys are much more boring than those super spy action flick people I see..."
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Rolled 55

>>33972406
dammit, my suit is dead, and I only have Progenitor and the Berserker nanites to aid me. Can't roll for Berserker to break through my restraints? (Not that i'd even have the good tech rolls on my side..)
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Rolled 42

>>33972572
"K then. Let's get moving. We've got one branch we haven't tried." Start pulling everyone to the third branch of the Xroom.
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>>33972572
He practically collapses against the wall. "Thank fucking Christ."
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>>33972572
>>33972625
I follow behind Boone.
>>
>...Meanwhile, with DOG and Celer

A few more moments pass, your suits don't even try to respond (Turtle's was a medium, it had relentless.) You're taken to another lit room, and you two see walls of suits, about 20 or so you'd guess, before some arms and tentacles load you onto walls...

...And your consciousness's are both taken elsewhere. Not to the suit... there's a girl in a red dress and... blue hair actually, huh. She's sitting at a pixelated looking table, and you two are free to move, your bodies are your 'own selves', and your uplifted AI's next to you too. She seems to have a television screen up ahead of her, and chairs for all her 'guests' to sit. "C'mon and sit down. Your team's been doing better, as boring as that's been." she said to them, waving to the group.

>>33972625
The third branch turns once... and then there's a door. God damnit.
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>>33972631
"That's Jesus Christ, Cael."
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Rolled 42

>>33972689
Check for traps. Rollan, Agent.
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>>33972689
"Anyone have a drone to check it? Or should be just blast it open?"
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Rolled 97

>>33972689
He barged past, berserker nanites activating as he let's out a frustrated cry of rage, power fisting the door. "FUCKING NO MORE TRAPS!"
>Rolling to fuck the door
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>>33972829
Your fist rings out at the door simply... and owch. That one didn't punch right.
[Melee roll: Easy Dex: CRITICAL FAILIURE]
"You guys are morons you know that? I didn't lock any of these doors..." she mused simply. "God, next thing I know one of you will go back and touch the big red X behind you guys too." she said in a sarcastic manner.

Turtle, Dog, and Celer(and the uplifted AI's) can all see and hear her reacting to this, like watching a bunch of people fail on a gameshow.
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>>33972689
"So, Red. What're you gonna do to us." Says Celer as he sits down with Alice.
>>
>>33972689
DOG blinked and touched himself. His AI, already forced
and sitting politely by his side barked once. He grimaced
and rubbed his beard. He always felt awkward when he
was seen without his suit. He felt the familiar "feeling" of
being in a foreign Memory Palace. What the hell? Where
the hell?

"Who the hell?" he wonders aloud to the little girl. DOG
saunters over to her and plops his tired self right down
beside her and watched the TV screen intently. He first
looked for signs of Turtle.

Oh and he dryly waved at Celer too.
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>>33972888
Did I find any traps?
>>
Rolled 67

>>33972888
Calshot calmly walks past Cael and opens the door.
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>>33972902
"Oh hey, Dog!", said Celer as he waved back.

"What a dingleberry.", he added as a side thought.
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>>33972890
"Maybe some experiments. Maybe some company. That's only if you guys all fail, you're now the prizes for them winning, on top of getting to ask me whatever I know that isn't against my master's will" she said in a matter of fact manner, a bit of a smile on her face. "Of course, if you're all captured, I've got plenty of fun little nanites and programs to toy with you all, so I kinda wish I prepared more traps and a longer maze!" she said, a wide smile on her face. "For example, something like this." he said, swapping Celer's and Alice's 'bodies'. "Admin privileges and the like are so fun."

>>33972902
He'd see one camera feed showing Turtle, now basically out of his suit and looking at a screen. Turtle could see one window on the set of screens that showed the 'team' also there now. If 'there' can be considered a thing.

>>33972923
>No. No he did not.
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>>33972888
He looked at his aching hand. He needed to activate the gauntlet. He sighed and grabbed the handle, opening the door. It's been a long day..
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>>33973017
Then I open teh door.
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>>33973017
"This is highly inappropriate", remarked Alice.

"Heh I'm you Alice. Kinda odd you chose a school girl to be your physical manifestation."

"Faq u bich" replied Alice
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>>33973017
Can I still try to roll combat or tech to activate Berserker Nanites and break out of my restraints or what?
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>>33973016
DOG couldn't hear the second comment, but if he could,
he'd slap your shit.

>>33973017
"So we get out if they win, huh?" he asked, pointing to the
other screens. He didn't really know these other guys, but
hoped they would do well. DOG wanted to go home and
count his money again. He looked back to Turtle and
grinned that the man was still alive. He waved at him.

>>33973115
Oh and he also laughed at the antiques the Red Queen was
performing on Celer.
>>
>>33973147
>antics* Geez, this auto-correct is pissing me off.
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>>33973047
The area... actually leads to a brick wall. "Crap. hang on hang on, forgot to get rid of that, you guys already found eachother..." she muttered. Okay, apperantly she WASN'T willing to let you guys just 'go' without that previous engagement happening.

Behind it after it shifts to the side, is a rather spacious area. Somewhat lit up, somewhat not, and a lot of inactive drones actually in a sitting position around it. "Wecome to the final level! I'll explain some rules. One of you has to open the door on the other side, and someone has to make it to the end, you do that, you win and everyone is brought back! You lose and... well, I keep you for a bit longer. Till your team or something comes along for you I guess, or boss tells me to get rid of or whatever you guys." she said simply. "The door controls are right there in the center!" she said, a small, clasical and stereotypical pedestal raising to the center. "And I aint giving you guys any codes or access to it, so you'll have to splice it open! Meanwhile, I zerg rush you with a bunch of these drones of ours! If you all go down and can't get up after... I dunno, ten, twenty seconds? You lose! It only ends when you all can't get up though, so keep on trucking for it! Oh, and it starts when the first person enters... eh, here." she said, a ring of light lighting up around about a meter from the pedestal. "Or one of you access it or something, I'll start this silly stuff up whenever!"
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>>33973183
"I'm fastest. We form a defensive position. I go activate the challenge and then rush back to the defensive position. She doesn't have unlimited drones. We create a good defensive position and their numbers won't count for anything."
>>
Rolled 10

>>33973183
"Heheh, this outta be a good watch."

DOG nods and sits back, relaxed. All around
him flash tiny windows as he attempts to hack
the Memory Palace around him using his Brain
Implant. He had to try something!

>rolling tech to access controls, install spider, install spyware
>-/+ 5 Tech (Agent A.I.)
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>>33973147
Red queen looked to him as he laughed and started to do a similar motion... before stopping. "Meh, swithing you and your dog would be an insult to your dog." she sighed, before going back to looking at the screen.

>>33973129
As you think that, your restraints actually release. "Oh what the hell is- oh. Okay, that... ok that should be fine." she said, before a door opened in Turtle's room, Sparky ramming along through and a broken enemy drone collapsing infornt of him, before looking to Turtle and sitting, looking obediently. "...Make sure that thing doesn't go and wreak the tumblrsuits, I don't want them to activate or something on us." she mused to Turtle's room only (though, Dog/Celer would hear this too)

>>33973115
"Hey, fine, want two of you? Here." she said, before snapping her fingers and turning Alice into a more skimpier clothed version of herself. Celer was still Alice's normal looks though.
>>
Rolled 12, 78 = 90

>>33973290
>The other two rolls are for Spider and Spyware.
>This may not even matter anymore.
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>>33973290
>>33973346
Pup had a bit of a seizure as he did this. "Now now, don't go giving me viruses and stuff. You don't want me to do the same to your dog now, do you?" she asked DOG, an unamused look on her face. "Besides, if you did that now, they'd be suddenly swarmed. Cheat when it helps them." she added simply.
[All the tech rolls failed]

>>33973239
"I may not have unlimited drones but I... oh wait, no, I do have unlimited drones. At least, for all that it will matter for you guys!" she said mischeviously
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>>33973183
"Calshot, I need you to floor it across the room to that door, the moment I start a hack okay? You two get to the terminal for me." He prepped his own terminal. "Ready?"
>>
>>33973299
"He he he. Lewd." remarked Celer.

"Senpai, this isn't what I had in mind for being uplifted." replied Alice.

"Hey, you DID want to find a more suitable form."

"Faq u bich"
>>
>>33973299
"Good boy, or girl. Doesn't matter, your a robot dog anyway." Turtle said as he's massaging his wrists before petting Celer's drone. Now where is my suit, and don't activate the tumblr suits huh? Just wants me to find the nearest ACTIVATE ALL TUMBLR SUITS button but not before saving Celer and DOG from their captivity...
>>
Rolled 56

>>33973465
"Go!" He cloaked and started the terminal hack for the door.
>>
>>33973465
"Alright, let's do this." Deploy Light Drone, and both of us rush to the Terminal. I'm popping Celerity, and we start shooting. 3 combat rolls, 1 is Rail Rifle, 2 is Light Drone Machine Gun and Grenade Launcher, 3 is Tentacles. Veteran Soul, whatever accuracy bonuses and Fire rate boni you're using.
>>
Rolled 24

>>33973465
>>33973554

"I didn't come to New Mexico just to die today. I'll see y'all on the other side."

Cal nods to his teammates and activates his camouflage module.


Rolling to dash madly to the door while cloaked.
>>
Rolled 28

>>33973453
DOG snapped out of it and pet Pup gently. Oddly enough, it
was only in this cyber world that he could "feel" the fur of his
AI. "Sorry, buddy. Just wanted to help my teammates." Pup
stopped shaking and calmed down, eventually barking in
happiness again.

He sat back in his chair again and fell silent. He showed a
look of amusement at the men on screen but damn if he
didn't feel anxious at the situation they were all in.

Then he remembered Jenny.

>Rolling to contact Jenny. Or was she activated too?
>-/+ 5 Tech (Agent A.I.)
>>
Rolled 68, 63, 47 = 178

>>33973566
Rolls...
>>
Rolled 49, 70, 90, 38, 15, 17, 1, 28, 22 = 330

>>33973453
I activate all 4 of my light drones and pop Celerity and Overload. I fire my machine gun at the attacking drones (first roll) and my drones use their twin-linked Laser Rifles.
>>
Rolled 52, 87, 60, 5, 15, 56, 95, 68, 86 = 524

>>33973606
Keep in mind my +21 bonus to me for the Machine gun accuracy, fire rate and my A.I while the drones get a +30 for their laser rifles fire rate and soldier A.I.
>>
>>33973518
"Hehe, senpai... ah fine fine." she said, giving Alice a rather lavish nightly dress. Celer still is Alice though. "Any improvements you want on your AI's body, let me know though you two. Not like it changes much, but hey, I'm good at that sort of stuff!" she said in a matter of fact way.

>>33973527
Turtle's suit was right under him, still plugged in. There doesn't seem to really be any buttons even in this room, just plugs and most of the suits plugged into it. "Don't consider hitting the button to activate any of them by the way. Your room is the corpses and nanites, your friends are with the ones that can still be brought back up... and for their sake, I really, REALLY suggest you don't try to hack and activate them." she said to turtle, and turtle's room alone. "Otherwise, I'll need to use that saw and actually kill someone."

>>33973554
"AND THE GAMES HAVE BEGUN!" she announced, the terminal being hacked. It seems that this terminal is a four step process to hack actually. Or, it's intended to be. Cael flat out ended up bypassing the second hack by reprogramming to skip to the third after the first hack's finish.

>>33973577
As he ran, a few drones took shots at him. Between his cloak, his speed, and his own fast reflexes, none of the arc shots even came close to hitting him though.

>>33973588
>>33973606
A flurry of drones started activating from the stands, some medium animal likes charging to them, but whatever the size or not, the were met with a rush of drones and guns of their own.

Suddenly, the 'do not open' door from behind opened, and more drones started flowing in from the darkness, a few taking some shots at the group but most getting demolished by quick reactionary fire from the suits.

>All except for Calshot, make a medium dexterity roll. Cael can keep hacking even while dodging because he doesn't have to stand still and hack.

>>33973579
...Jenny boots up just fine, coming up to life. But it's a scavenger drone...
>>
Rolled 10

>>33973771
Making my roll. (-10 for soldier A.I)
>>
Rolled 30, 84, 39, 71, 87 = 311

>>33973771
Rollin dex. And continuing to shoot. 1st is Dodge, 2nd is RR, 3rd is Tentacles, 4 is Drone MG, 5 is Drone Grenades. Celerity up (DEX 11!), Agent AI, Martial Arts, Vet Soul.
>>
Rolled 53, 18, 54, 23, 75, 87, 61, 20, 95 = 486

>>33973794
Whoops. Forgot to include me and the drones shooting.
>>
Rolled 37, 98 = 135

>>33973771
He smirked and kept hacking, impressed by his own skill.
>Dex then tech
>>
>>33973771
Want to try to unplug my suit and equip it again. I do have Mimic on my suit, maybe i can mimic/copy the nearest medium tumblr and steal a weapon as well?
>>
>>33973771
Hearing the startup tone for Jenny, DOG smirked,
if only a little. She may not be able to do much on
the outside world, but he had to try something.

Jenny waited for a command and stood there dully
beeping. She was just a scavenger drone and
DOG didn't have an Engineer AI, so
communicating directly through nonverbal
commands was a bit difficult. So he kept it simple:

action_find: [callsign] Turtle
action_help: callsign] Turtle

Ultimately, DOG wasn't expecting a miracle. But at
the very least she could be a distraction.

>I guess you all (meaning Zip and Turtle) can use
her however you see fit.
>>
>>33973891
You unplug the suit fine... it's low on power, but it's got enough left for perhaps 10 minutes of action. Plenty for what you're probably planning at this point. Gotta love relentless suits...

[TURTLE'S COMMS HAVE GONE ONLINE] [TURTLE HAS ACCESS TO SPARKY AND JENNY FOR THE DURATION OF THIS MISSION]

>>33973902
Jenny scamped off, before quickly joining Turtle and Sparky for action.

>>33973839
The tech rang out with a bit of an error. Damnit... wel the shots went wide thankfully.

>>33973806
>>33973819
More dodging, and a lot more of killing suits and drones. Their numbers seem to be thinning for a bit, you guys have an opening to do something besides shoot if you want. Namingly, try hacking into something or supporting Cael's attempts.

>This also may be a good time to 'cheat' for the 'inactive' and cyber brain'd suits.
>>
Rolled 62, 6, 53, 2, 66, 29, 54, 100, 89 = 461

>>33974060
I continue to shoot at the drones and thin their numbers more. My Drones shoot two. "Hey Boone. Help out Cael with the hacking. Me and our drones got this covered.
>>
Rolled 54

>>33974060
"Hack you son of a bitch!" He tried again Engineer A.I supporting as best it could.
>>
Rolled 6

>>33974060
Fantastic, now to Mimic one of the enemy tumblr suits and copy/steal a weapon?

Do I really need to roll for tech to do this?
>>
Rolled 13, 80, 20, 57, 52, 35 = 257

>>33974060
ALright, 6th Roll is Tech to aid Cael.Same bonii, Worm and Agent for Tech.
>>
Rolled 21, 83, 3 = 107

>>33974060
DOG gave a clap. We were winning! Kind of.. In all the
ruckus, he tried to spice things up again. She wanted
us to cheat? Well then let's cheat.

>The end is nigh!
>rolling to gain control of systems like last time.
>ACCESS systems, INSTALL spider, INSTALL spyware
>-/+ 5 Tech (Agent A.I.)
>>
>>33974099
Well, apperantly your AI is masochistic, it hacks REALLY well. The door flat out opens for the team at this point.

>>33974092
Giant's unending storm of fire ends up keeping most of the suits at bay... perhaps 'infinite' suits yes, but they still need time to 'spawn', and aim, and they weren't getting that any time soon, the best shots they got off hitting and knocking out a few of Boone and Giant's drones at best.

...At which, the drones then end up giving up like it's nothing. "Aww, lame... that hardly was anything like those actiony movies! I blame the lack of being allowed to use explosives." she pouted a bit, with a sigh. "Ah well... hang on hang on." she said, a door opening for turtle on the side, leading into a computer-ish room, and another door opening on the other side, Celer and Dog's suits walking out, but connected to cords. Calshot's suit also was in this same room right now, and in it was a rather large super-computer looking thing. "...Well, congrats, you guys win, I'm out of traps." she said in a simple matter of fact fashion.
>>
>>33974060
"Hey Red. Can you turn me into Shrek and Alice into Fionna?"
>>
>>33974206
>Do we get to follow behind Calshot?
>>
>>33974261
"Depends. Do you want to go home with your team?" she said, although already complying with that request, Alice not as Fiona but more cosplaying as her.... Celer was just flat out switched to Shrek as if dreamworks gave them the 3D model.
>>
>>33974303
>The drones turned off, you guys won. Yes you can follow him.
>>
Rolled 26, 87, 60, 29, 44, 9 = 255

>>33974206
"So, what were you placed here to do?"
>>
>>33974307
As the drones shut down I go to follow behind Calshot.
>>
>>33974206
Well i'm out to join the rest of the team since i'm really so close, but what now?
"hey, anyone got medic?"
>>
>>33974206
And just like that, it was over. DOG whooped once while
Pup danced around clumsily. They won for now and at
least this nonsense was over. He eyed his suit walking
around upright and attached to a bunch of cords.

"Is that what I look like? Hmm ... I'm sexy. Anyway, is
anyone gonna ask the lil lady some questions?"

>I'm not sure if the guys on the outside could have heard that or if DOG is back in his body by now.
>>
>>33974368
"Research. Guard stuff. Lots of things...

...I won't beat around the bush though. Lots of research on stuff like you guys in suits. Master tends to bring one back per time he heads out. Usually it's either dead, or he downloaded your brain into the others like I did." she stated, re-uploading Dog and Celer and their AI's into the bodies and suits... accidentally getting Celer and Alice in the wrong spots for a few moments, before realizing her messup and fixing it. "There... anyway, you guys can probably see in these rooms, there's tumblrsuits, a bunch of em. Some dead, most not... kind of. Their brains aren't exactly there, but the body's kept alive by some nanites we got." she said simply. "Interesting technology though, and amazingly complex... I've barely gotten any working prototypes of the solar battery systems but they're still considerably more potent than anything humanity's made themselves." she monlogued to them... "Sorry, bit of a nerdy sciencegasm."

>>33974440
"So long as you guys don't flat out compromise my master's stuff he'd like to not be told, sure!"
>>
>>33974371
"Who is your master?"
>>
Rolled 26, 65, 38, 48, 56, 84 = 317

>>33974501
I'm asking Red, here. Also, anything else Zip might have wanted (can we get in touch?)

How is your AI matrix different?
What was in the warehouse?
Why were you nonlethal?
who is your master?
What is your programming.
>>
>>33974307
"Well, looks like it's time to go. Let's get back to the others Alice."

"This was fun, Red. You know, if you ever decide to leave your master, the Armored Corps could use your expertise on traps."

Celer gives a parting wave and gets back to his body.
>>
>>33974501
I guess i'll ask then

"So who is your Master? You seem pretty smart on your own, do you even need a master?"
>>
Rolled 25

>>33974356
Calshot saunters into the computer-ish room.

>>33974428
"Well, you've seen better days. Let me patch you up."

A small tentacle extends from Cal's suit and attaches to the Turtle MKII.

>>33974501
"Pardon me, ma'am. Would you please tell us what your master intends on doing with these suits and computers and junt?"
>>
>>33974535
"Oh right. Her, she's been trying to re-hack into the frequency this whole time. Pain in the ass, had to divert half of my proccessing power after she convinced a few other folks around the place to help her on this." she mused, before turning it back on. "Hey. Computer here. Your team is fine and they won, ask away." she said out loud.

"W-wait what?" Zipline replied surprised at the sudden opening back of mission command's comms.

"Anyway... down that list: I'm what is called an 'uplifted' AI... it also does help that I'm effectively piggybacking off of twenty human 'minds' for processing power. Before you say anything, it's only the 'open' spots, and part of that's been going into seeing if I can clean back the whole corruption and torment that caused them to snap as well. So far... well, i've pretty much wiped someone's brain. It's not going well." she said rather bluntly.
>Getting to more questions in a bit
>>
>>33974535
>>33974569
"The warehouse you guys went to actually was one of our other labs... we had like seven or eight around the world before the whole fall happened, then lost half of them. And by 'we' I mean master, I was busy screaming inside of a murder-machine before he got me out of it... part of why I don't kill isn't because of orders, but I don't like seeing it happen anymore." she said rather sadly, before giving a bit of a clearing of her throat (not that she has one) and continuing on
"I have orders not to kill anyway though... from a logistics standpoint, you all are more resources. From a kindness and order standpoint, we don't want to take lives from people that we don't have to. Climbing to the top of the mountain at the cost of everyone else as a stepladder doesn't sit well with master, or me for that matter." she said simply

"...As for master, well, that's classified. Won't say a single word on that, not even if you threaten to blow this entire place up. Not that I probably couldn't survive that, but well, you get the picture." she said simply to end that part.
>>
Rolled 91, 85, 24, 100, 71, 80 = 451

>>33974729
"Hey Zip.... >fills in all we've heard....
Can we keep her? Anything else you think we need to ask?"

Are you updating feeds of what happened to anyone?
What organization do you work with/for?
Do you know of anything else going on nearby?
>>
>>33974843
"Well, I work for Opalite Technologies. This IS our place after all, and my home... as for the rest of stuff, well, I don't know that much. News really slowed down after places went under crazy levels of security and defense you know..."

"...There is one other thing though I guess about our places and all. Remember how I said we had like, eight labs? Well, that one you guys encountered Experimental #001, oh and by the way I'm Experimental #002 by 'code' name, that place had effectively gone rogue in development. They figured "Hey, lets use whatever tumblr suits we can get to kill the other tumblrsuits" and made some sort of fucked up zombie of them... ick. Master was going to officially shut them down... but then he came back saying that you guys already were doing that the more 'violent' way. Well, not that I can blame you, that experiment was a disaster waiting to happen."

"...As for the other ones, well, I said most fell. But there IS another lab... or, was, until really recently. See, we'd be in decent contact usually, but uh... well, their place went dark on us." she said, a world map popping up on screen and pinpointing on Russia, in the middle of nowhere. "Last lab besides this one we got, and this one's technically not even a lab, it's a secret installation that we registered as a library... can't believe that they actually managed to pass that off, most libraries are public or university owned." she added.

"Anyway... that's where master went off recently. To go check out what just happened out there. He's picked up some fancy and neat tech along the way, some super suit design in Canada for example! So I'm not that worried for him... OKAY I AM! Normally he's back and all in a day, but it's been a few days..."

"...So you're trying to convince us to go explore this lab because you're a building."

"I DIDN'T MEAN IT THAT WAY! Except yes, if I was able to move I'd totally go and check- erm..."
>>
Rolled 51

>>33974963
>if I was able to move I'd totally go and check- erm..."
"So you're stuck here? Is there a way to move you? If we bring you to this lab in question, will you help us?"
>>
>>33974963
"Fantastic, hmm mm, yes, that is a pickle"
>>Anyone got any explosives we can just dump 'em all here and run our asses?
>>
>>33974963
Messaging to Zipline. "Excuse me Zipline. I haven't been in that last mission involving the zombies. Could you fill me in on that?"
>>
>>33974963
"Hey Red, perhaps you can upload yourself into one of us and we can help find your master?"
>>
>>33975109
"I wouldn't trust her enough for that. Only with something where we control the kill switch. And I wouldn't put it past her to figure out a way around that."
>>
>>33975181
"Maybe we could...upload her into sparky? I'll just take off it's ion cannon and she won't cause too much harm."
>>
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>>33975044
"Well, kinda yes. I mean, if I was fully downloaded. But then this lab'd be pretty much worthless! And this is the only one we really have left... and master really did want me to figure out how to reverse engineer things like nanites and energy cells from them, as well as fix these people's heads." she added shyly. "I mean... Yes you could take me, but... well, I can't. Both under orders and safety, I don't know what might happen if we left some of these corrupted human's brains to just sit here, network or not." she added.

"...I will say this though, he doesn't want to hurt any of you guys. Infact, he's purposefully only having me look at stuff like reverse engineering technology so the Vannai get minimal information at best... I uh, kinda broke one of the rules I had which was 'don't resist by combat' for that finalie scene, but I thought it'd be awesome... ugh, anyway, I'll send Armor Corps the data, you hearing this crazy girl?"

"Zipline. And yes I am." she said rather unamusedly.

"Right... well, here's the place the lab's in... and uh, I know this is REALLY a jerk-ish way of asking you guys, especially after zapping a bunch of your suits... but um, it does also probably have a weapon that the Vannai don't seem to have perfected for themselves yet." she mentioned.

"Wait, what?"

"Yea... Experimental #003. Iiiit's kinda some technology that the Vannai had, but we made better. We didn't improve it with folks who used nanites, that tumblr-engineer method of production is smart! But... uh, yea. That's kinda why master was so worried 'bout it..." Red queen said embaressedly.

"...You're an idiot for not saying any of this earlier."

"Boredom, worry, and the urge to test science. What can I say." Red Queen said giving off another sigh.

"Whatever... okay team, return home, I'll call train for a pickup... and get planning on another mission, I guess." she said, groaning in an annoyed tone.

>MISSION COMPLETE.
>>
Rolled 10, 12, 63, 78, 61, 82 = 306

>>33975281
Thanks for running again, Zip.
>>
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Rolled 6, 64, 82 = 152

>>33975281
awesome, as with every dumb video game mission ends, I roll combat to attack everything in site.
>>
>>33975105
"...Also, it has to do with a dragon, a lot of landmines, and a gattai-gone-wrong from hell. I'll explain on the train..." she added as a passing comment to Gentle Giant

>And that's code for "Read the damn archive"
>>
>>33975413
Can I write an epilogue while using your name?
>>
>>33975444
>Not under my name, but I don't exactly see why not...?
>>
>>33975281
With the mission complete, Armor Corps took to securing the base. The Red Queen was quite cooperative in this. Zipline suspected that the challenges she put the team through were a test of their abilities a sentiment that was all but confirmed later when she suggested that Cael and Gentle Giant be included in that mission to investigate facility number 3 due to Gentle Giant rescuing Boone and getting several drone kills and Cael quickly hacking through the last door.

The Red Queen willingly gave up information on the suits and individuals she has in captivity, hopefully both Armor Corps and the Red Queen pooling their knowledge and resources will help understand the suits and restore the individuals.

After a rest, the next team is being assemble for the mission to facility #3.

>15 resource points for everyone.
>Did I write a good epilogue?
>>
>>33975809
5/10, sums up things well enough I suppose.

Distinct lack of a giant dragon WMGing something, but then again that was a special occurrence.
>>
>>33976189
Wait. I don't think the giant dragon WMG thing happened during this.



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