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srwuga_mods) wrote2013-12-07 07:37 am
Mission 225: "Pandora's Box"
VJockey (02:37:20): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_3sSQ6KNgM
VJockey (02:38:56): The Word of Blake! An evil interdimensional phone company dedicated to making everyone follow their cult or die.
VJockey (02:39:28): Known for: Tossing out WMDs like candy, ruthlessness on the battlefield and mass destruction, and faster than light communications.
VJockey (02:40:17): And oh yes... using the sealing of earth to get a foothold on an island in America and setting up shop there. Fortifying and preparing themselves for an all out assault.
VJockey (02:40:37): It was as if they painted a sign above them screaming "COME AND GET US"
VJockey (02:41:19): As such the Chalice was moving along with several Clan Wolf forces to dislodge them from their fortress.
Wyverncakes (02:41:30): Not like Julia's got any intent on letting a bunch of backwards-thinking warmongers get away with exploiting the Earth Sealing incident.
aldo salt (02:42:22): Matthew slams a fist against a bulkhead, quivering. "Those Dezgra Savrashi Surat…Freebirths!" He growls, sliping back into Clanner-talk. "They just never–!"
Kors (02:42:28): For Clanners like Ranna, there is a special place in hell waiting for the Blakists.
Wyverncakes (02:42:45): Julia: "Matthew, calm down."
Wyverncakes (02:43:11): "The saving grace is they're not really making much of a splash just yet. Britannia and the Federation are on the other side of the planet."
Kors (02:43:15): Ranna: "Think on the bright side - they must be depesrate to gather all in one place, quiaff?"
Wyverncakes (02:43:33): "We just have to stop them now and make sure they don't endanger anyone period."
Fri Freeman (02:43:39): Elena's just there because she heard there will be stuffs to blow up.
VJockey (02:43:41): Star Commander Maya, having the most of the tactical situation is about to give you all the low down.
aldo salt (02:43:42): "…Aff." Matthew agrees, cooling down a bit.
VJockey (02:43:43): Maya: As you know, we have traced multiple Blakist formations to a rallying point at the Hilton Head city ruins in North America. It is located on an island just off the coast with 3 main bridges connecting it to the continental North America.
Wyverncakes (02:43:54): Yeah, she hasn't forgotten about her friends in America too, (i.e. Haruka).
Hedge (02:44:07): Nikolai's people are suiting up and just antsy to go. They let out yips and such and are grinning. Being in Siberia for months will do that to you.
Nikolai, meanwhile, is shaking his hands out as a tech helps him into the armor. Pins and needles suck.
aldo salt (02:44:21): "I cannot let my feelings get out of control, not if I am to exterminate them properly." He adds.
Peter Kampschroeder (02:44:41): (Haruka can take care of herself)
Hedge (02:44:44): Nikolai: ...I understand why they gathered there. Hilton Head was Comstar's HQ on our Terra.
VJockey (02:45:11): Maya: From data recovered from their Himalayan facilities thanks to
Wyverncakes (02:45:16): (Considering Imber... yeah. She's got that covered. Sorry, my bad."
Wyverncakes (02:45:19): ^)
Kors (02:45:39): Ranna nods. Raze to the ground is perfectly fine with her.
Peter Kampschroeder (02:45:51): Alice is just listening intently. Go robots. "Do we know the status of the civilians in the city?"
VJockey (02:46:40): Maya: Either executed or imprisoned for future indoctrination. Reports are sketchy at best.
Overman Zappa (02:46:42): Gainer is quietly listening to the Clanners. Trying to give them a second chance after someone left a bad taste in his mouth about them. Also, yanno, since they live in Siberia too... gotta get along with these people.
VJockey (02:46:55): Maya: We have 3 separate groups converging on the island, each taking a bridge in. Our group – Pack Delta - will be taking the north most bridge. Star Colonel Daphne Vickers’ 1st Wolf Legion will be entering via the north-west bridge, and Star Colonel Jera Carns’ 4th Wolf Guards will hit the west bridge together with other allied forces. Aerospace elements are on standby to provide support from the Atlantic once our ground elements make contact.
VJockey (02:47:53): Maya: We hope to divert the Blakist forces to more… easily digestable chunks before engaging their main division-
Mister Giggles (02:47:58): Caulder's saying nothing. He's totally silent, stonefaced, and feeling a bit of nervous sweat.
Kors (02:48:33): Ranna: "A reasonable plan."
VJockey (02:48:38): Maya: "Wait... Something's happening at-"
Fri Freeman (02:48:45): Elena: "Cut them to pieces and eat them one by one! What a genius strategy!"
Mister Giggles (02:49:07): Caulder's also spacing out a bit, thinking to himself. I can do this... I can do this... no need for what almost happened last time to happen this time...
aldo salt (02:49:07): "Do you expect Falcons take advantage of your force reas–?" Matthew asks. "Star Commander! Come in!"
Hedge (02:49:43): Nikolai: Neg. I negotiated a temporary withdrawal with them. They hate the Blakists as much as we do.
VJockey (02:49:54): Maya: "Deploy immediately- ..... -mergency-....-airos Aspida battleship!-"
VJockey (02:50:02): Static.
Kors (02:50:13): Ranna: "That is our que, then."
Mister Giggles (02:50:35): Kaliyan swallows a lump in his throat. "N-No... not now..."
Mister Giggles (02:50:45): (Swap: Kaliyan for Caulder)
Mister Giggles (02:50:51): (Sorry, multitasking)
Wyverncakes (02:51:01): Julia: "... They're making a move now too."
Hedge (02:51:15): Nikolai: Say again, Star Colonel, you are breaking up.
aldo salt (02:51:23): "…..KAIROS ASPIDA!!!!!!" Matthew shouts. Is he…yes he is. He's shaking a fist at the sky. Without any sense of irony.
VJockey (02:51:28): Sorry Nikolai. Nothing but static.
Wyverncakes (02:51:41): Julia: "... We all heard what she said."
Overman Zappa (02:51:41): Gainer: "Great... just the thing I wanted to fight against today..."
Peter Kampschroeder (02:51:46): "...Matthew, be calm. We might be able to get through without fighting them..."
aldo salt (02:52:02): "I swear to you, you damned future-spawned wretches! You will not get in the way of my rev–"
aldo salt (02:52:08): Matthew inhales, then exhales.
Kors (02:52:13): Ranna: "For this, I hope we do share the same objective."
Wyverncakes (02:52:16): A damn good thing you did that, Matthew.
Wyverncakes (02:52:25): Because Julia's full-blown glaring ag you right now.
Wyverncakes (02:52:30): ^at you
VJockey (02:52:34): It seems that the unexpected visitors have had another effect. You all can see a massive force prepping for assault - meaning they've been left open for a strike to their backsides.
aldo salt (02:52:35): "…I apologize." He replies to Alice….annnnnnd Julia.
Peter Kampschroeder (02:52:56): Alice smiles and does a little flip in the air.
Wyverncakes (02:53:01): "... We'll see what they're here for. The Word of Blake's an enemy to everyone."
Wyverncakes (02:53:49): (It's the Blakists who have an exposed flank?)
aldo salt (02:54:16): "Aff." Matthew agrees, cracking his knuckles. "Today, some very old hates will be laid to rest."
VJockey (02:54:17): (yes. Kairos Aspida and the Wolves more hurried assault left them open.)
Wyverncakes (02:54:59): Julia: "At the very least we have an ideal opening now. We can see about saving any prisoners and clean house if we're lucky."
Hedge (02:55:08): Nikolai: Heartvenom Cluster, deploy Turpans and secure that undefended side. Anyone without a Turpan, hang on to one of the Chalice mechs
Mister Giggles (02:55:17): Caulder takes a deep breath, trying to keep his composure. He glances up at ALICE for a moment, and looks forward again. "Okay... okay, we can do this. Bringing the vector bit network online..."
VJockey (02:55:56): As everyone prepares to deploy... the scene outside is... something of a sight.
VJockey (02:56:11): A burning city with missiles, gunfire and lasers screaming through the skyline.
aldo salt (02:56:18): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWXwopELuY
VJockey (02:56:37): hundreds of lights and machines and hordes of vehicles and people battling across the ground.
VJockey (02:56:47): aircraft dogfighting in the air.
Overman Zappa (02:57:03): Gainer: "It's been a while. Hope I'm not out of practice playing other games and all. Let's go King Gainer!"
VJockey (02:57:17): and one huge ship off in the distance practically devastating anything that so much looked at it funny.
Peter Kampschroeder (02:57:33): "They really are quite handy, aren't they..."
Kors (02:57:39): Ranna deploys in her trusty Warhawk.
Kors (02:58:04): Rest of her Trinary having went with their parent unit - the 4th Wolf Guards.
Wyverncakes (02:58:08): Julia's already prepping herself mentally, bringing the Null Shift online before having it launch. Railguns, blades, the whole shebang. Time to go to work.
Fri Freeman (02:58:27): Elena:"Look how crowded the party is. Time to join dance, Mikail!"
Mister Giggles (02:59:04): Caulder glances over the field. "We need to find a mothership, or a carrier. If we can, Allie can hack in and jam their communications."
Overman Zappa (02:59:14): Gainer's already loading bullets into the revolving chamber, and even prepping OverFreeze bullets.
Kors (02:59:46): Ranna: "Neg, look for a command vehicle, if any. We seldom use a dropship as our command center."
Hedge (02:59:46): Nikolai's in his turpan, which is basically a battle armor sized version of the waverider.
Peter Kampschroeder (02:59:49): "Command and control units are usually high priority, Caulder..."
Hedge (03:00:16): Nikolai: Remember that the Blakists will probably have much more sophisticated protocols than the Jade Falcons. Communications are their specialty.
VJockey (03:00:32): (Enemies: Seraph x???, Preta x???, Grigori x???, Deva x???, LRM Launcher trucks x???, Tanks x???, Infantry x???, Helicopters x??? Aircraft x???) (Due to the size of the Word of Blake forces being EVERYTHING they have. Treat this area as a target rich environment)
VJockey (03:00:44): (Ranna, Matthew, Julia, Elena, Gainer, Caulder, Nikolai)
Mister Giggles (03:00:45): Caulder swallows, and tries to sound confident. "They've never had to deal with her before."
Kors (03:00:48): Ranna: "Inner Sphere also make heavy use of C3 - these can be mounted on command mechs."
aldo salt (03:01:12): Matthew fastens his Neurohelmet on, and boots of his mech. "Nova…" He says quietly. "Today we avenge so many of our lost comrades." He starts up the reactor. "Mechwarrior Matthew, Nova Messenger, moving out!"
Mister Giggles (03:01:14): "If we can mess up Inspector technology, we can take these guys."
Wyverncakes (03:01:20): Julia: "They've never had to deal with most of us, Caulder."
Hedge (03:01:21): Nikolai: Any sign of ground mobile HPGs, Ranna?
VJockey (03:01:36): Seraph - http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/e/e6/Seraph.png
VJockey (03:01:44): Deva - http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/e/e4/Deva.PNG
VJockey (03:01:53): Preta - http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/2/2a/Preta.png
Kors (03:02:01): Ranna turns up the range of her sensors, and sees if they can spot a mobile HPG.
VJockey (03:02:01): Grigori - http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/a/a5/Grigori_Dominus.PNG
aldo salt (03:03:05): "More new models!" Matthew growls. "They…almost look Zeon-like."
VJockey (03:03:06): Nothing.... which was odd. You'd expect them to have one all things considered... but you WOULD pick up some kind of signal from the massive bunker that the Blakists were downright hellbent to protect.
Kors (03:03:29): Ranna: "Neg. Nothing on sensors, though it is likely that bunker is their command center, from the force concentration."
Kors (03:03:58): She highlights the bunker on allies' tac com, near Nav Alpha.
Overman Zappa (03:04:01): Gainer: "We don't ahve to worry about some kind of ridiculous super weapon here, do we?"
VJockey (03:04:04): Maya: Apologies for the sudden interruption...
Mister Giggles (03:04:19): Caulder: "Y-Yeah! We can do this."
VJockey (03:04:30): Maya: There was a minor misunderstanding about Kairos Aspida's arrival.
Peter Kampschroeder (03:04:32): "We probably do!"
Wyverncakes (03:04:39): Julia: "I think if they'd have anything like that, they'd use it on Kairos Aspida first."
Hedge (03:04:44): Nikolai: Aff. We need to draw some of those defenders away. Faster units, can you draw them away? [to Gainer] We just may. It fits their MO.
Kors (03:04:58): Ranna: "I am uncertain, we still have yet to decrypt the contents of 'Pandora'."
VJockey (03:05:10): (Ranna, Matthew, Julia go.)
VJockey (03:05:37): Maya: It seems for the moment... we have allies.
Wyverncakes (03:05:37): Julia: "Better idea, Nikolai."
Overman Zappa (03:05:56): Gainer: "Great... Well, I don't know about drawing t hem away... I might do better keeping them in place. Either way, I'll see what I can do.
Kors (03:06:03): Ranna simply tries to carve their way through the Blakists for firing at the nearest two Seraphs blocking their paths with twin ERPPC for each of them, aiming at their center torso.+\
Kors (03:06:24): Ranna: "Advise, we may not want to attract too much attention, and try to head for that bunker as we are the smaller strike team."
Wyverncakes (03:07:11): * And the Null Shift charges into the thick of things... releasing clouds of its anti-beam gas all the while to provide cover for other people! But that's not all she brings to the table as the Prominance Armor's chest plates open up, exposing its beam cannons which fire across the sky to clear out copters and planes!+
VJockey (03:07:20): Ranna, those Seraphs stagger from the blasts before returning fire with their Ultra ACs! React.
aldo salt (03:07:37): *Matthew takes aim at the Devas, sniping their missile silos with concentrated laser fire, trying to trigger an ammunition cookup. "Burn and fall!"+
Kors (03:08:37): She sidesteps with the Warhawk, attempting to throw off their aim even as she salvos LRMs into their faces!+
VJockey (03:09:28): Matthew, the Devas surprisingly don't blow up like another certain Deva piloted by a sick girl. Guess they had something to keep the missiles from exploding. Still, that's one less weapon. They retaliate with lasers and light PPC fire! React.
Kors (03:10:16): Ranna: "Newer Inner Sphere designs - they must have CASE to prevent ammunition explosions."
VJockey (03:10:41): Julia, the sky is on fire from the explosions. Several of the aircraft are rushing at you now - letting loose a swarm of missiles and lasers. React.
Hedge (03:11:02): #Julia
Kors (03:11:38): There is a note of approval in her tone, somehow, "It is about time too, quiaff? CASE should be standard equipment on all mechs that use any form of ammunition."
aldo salt (03:11:45): *Matthew zooms to the let on jump-jets, Dom-style, bobbing and weaving behind rubble in the urban terrain, before breaking out and charging at the closest Deva! "Be slashed to bits!" He slashes through one Deva's torso with a glowing radiator blades, then backs off and fires a Nova Burst into the gash!+
VJockey (03:12:17): Matthew, whatever the Blakists were expecting it was not a clanner about to slash them to bits. They were caught WAY off guard and rendered into pieces.
VJockey (03:12:33): (up to steam)
Wyverncakes (03:12:39): * The Null Shift's thrusters ignite and the machine retreats back into the cloud of gas it created, Julia holding her fire so as to not give away her position.+
Wyverncakes (03:12:47): (I'm cool, he can do it if he wants)
VJockey (03:13:04): (approved then)
VJockey (03:13:57): Maya: Be advised, should there be an airbase at the area I am designating as Nav Beta - we may expect heavier use of air assets soo-
VJockey (03:14:32): Except within moments the aforementioned Airbase explodes as its hit with a bombardment from the Bastion of Insolence.
Hedge (03:14:38): Having naturally deployed on the rooftops, the Heartvenom elementals use their MGs as improvised anti-missile systems, trying to catch as many of those missiles before they hit their targets
VJockey (03:14:39): Maya: Nevermind..
aldo salt (03:14:56): "There is nothing my heat blades cann–!" Matthew's voice suddenly trailer off, his heart not into calling out attack names for some reason.
Hedge (03:14:57): Nikolai: Any communication from Kairos Aspida?
VJockey (03:15:48): Maya: None so far. It seems that any attempts to communicate with them are denied. But at the very least they are ignoring our forces and focusing their efforts on the Word of Blake.
Mister Giggles (03:16:08): Caulder: "Ugh, dam it... well, there goes that plan..."
Peter Kampschroeder (03:17:02): "Mmm...we might have to beat it once the Word of Blake forces are dealt with..."
VJockey (03:17:28): Zyvan: (To Chalice forces ONLY.) No need.
Kors (03:17:31): Ranna: "Aff. It is possible they may attack us then."
Wyverncakes (03:17:34): Julia: "'Might'. We're on opposite sides of the battlefield- Zyvan!"
VJockey (03:18:01): Zyvan: We are here to stop whatever plans the word of Blake have.... regardless of what our present company may do afterwards.
Mister Giggles (03:18:08): Caulder was about to answer Allie when he heard Zyvan's voice, and falls deathly silent.
VJockey (03:18:30): The normally sociable captain seemed a little more.... cold this time?
Hedge (03:18:35): Nikolai: And when the Blakists are defeated?
aldo salt (03:19:09): "Zyvan." Matthew says quietly. "What is Kairos Aspida's military goal this day?"
Kors (03:19:13): Ranna: "I can be certain Clan Wolf will not fire unless fired upon."
Peter Kampschroeder (03:19:27): "Ah, so it's one of those 'we'll help you this time but don't think this means we're friends, hero!!' things, right?"
VJockey (03:19:51): Zyvan: The same as the Chalice's. To stop the plans of this crazed cult. Afterwards we will return to our nominal duties.
Mister Giggles (03:20:07): Caulder looked up at Allie again. References a video game they played together, naturally. Only those 'villains' were antiheroes and optional party members in a New Game +.
VJockey (03:20:10): (Elena, Gainer, Caulder Nikolai.)
Peter Kampschroeder (03:20:16): "Yay!"
Overman Zappa (03:20:31): *Gainer takes careful aim with the chain gun before unloading the pre-loaded OverFreeze bullets. Two shots for two Pritas, looking to ice the both of them over. +
VJockey (03:20:49): Zyvan: I however request that as soon as the battle is done, all Clan assets will leave the immediate area post haste. Otherwise we WILL be forced to fire.
Mister Giggles (03:20:53): "They didn't keep their promise during that colony drop... but that WAS a different commander. Should we trust them?"
aldo salt (03:21:25): "Then for today and now, Zvyan," Matthew says, a little relieved. "I am glad to call you our comrades–"
VJockey (03:21:41): Julia and Nikolai - no missiles hit, but the helos break off and bombard some of those rooftops in retaliation. Best run Nikolai.
aldo salt (03:21:43): "–you would not let us help with disaster relief?" Matthew interjects.
Kors (03:21:50): Ranna transfers the message to Maya: "Star Commander, send these to the 1st Wolf Legion and 4th Wolf Guards."
Fri Freeman (03:21:55): taoofcrime 9:04 am
Nikolai: Aff. We need to draw some of those defenders away. Faster units, can you draw them away? [
Wyverncakes (03:21:56): Julia: "... Char had it coming though. Clan Wolf's never stooped to his level."
Fri Freeman (03:22:06): Elena: "Drawing them away sounds fun! Leave that to me!"
VJockey (03:22:16): Zyvan: Make no mistake, if it was just the Chalice we would willingly assist. However....
VJockey (03:22:33): Zyvan: I cannot trust the Clans on a collective level.
Mister Giggles (03:22:36): (QUick enemy count?)
Hedge (03:22:39): Nikolai: Clan Goliath Scorpion will also abide by the terms of the truce. [to his people] TAG nav alpha. [Two Scorpion elementals, equipped with light TAG systems paint the bunker as soon as the blakists are transferring forces away]
VJockey (03:22:47): (Massive free for all, No exact count)
Hedge (03:23:20): Nikolai: We have much less reason to trust you. Clansmen do not lie, after all. [though they'll sure stretch the truth!]
aldo salt (03:23:23): "…as long as you permit them to withdraw with honor, that should be no problem." Matthew says after a moment.
VJockey (03:23:39): Zyvan: No, but you clearly have less honor than you claim you have.
Kors (03:23:42): Ranna (to Maya): "I know our OpsPlan has never been to stay, but this may hasten our withdrawal."
VJockey (03:23:52): The man's tone was suddenly much colder Nikolai.
Hedge (03:24:15): Nikolai: Really? Do you have any evidence for that?
Fri Freeman (03:24:20): As she says that, Elena flies forward above the battlefield, painting as many enemies as possible with his AWACS to make them light up like target practice for everyone else in the battlefield, while sending missile swarm at random.+
aldo salt (03:24:20): "…what happened, Zyvan?" Matthew asks, alarmed.
aldo salt (03:24:34): Though deep down, he is beginning to suspect something...
Hedge (03:24:57): Nikolai: [to Ranna and Matthew] Do they know about Turtle Bay?
VJockey (03:25:02): Zyvan: There was a great man. One who in our time served as an inspiration to many despite his death. He tried to prepare the world against the Inspectors... but died in the end. You could say he was the man I looked up to when I strove to protect humanity.
Peter Kampschroeder (03:25:14): "Hey, stop antagonizing the nice guy who is giving us artillery support!"
Wyverncakes (03:25:44): Julia: "... Was he the same man who did the same in this timeline?"
VJockey (03:25:52): Zyvan: He was. I had hoped for a chance... since he was alive for a chance to speak to him. To thank him for his efforts... but he died again to protect humanity.
Kors (03:26:10): Ranna: "It does not matter if they do, neither of our Clans were in a position to stop the - happened too quickly. But it is understandable why he may paint us all the same."
VJockey (03:26:13): Zyvan: But yet again. It seems his life was claimed in his service."
VJockey (03:26:26): Zyvan: Clan Wolf derided his calls for unity.
VJockey (03:26:34): Zyvan: That is why I cannot trust the clans.
Hedge (03:27:21): Nikolai: Khan Phelan Kell did that?
aldo salt (03:27:31): Matthew exhales in relief. "So you did not soil our dignity that far…" He mumbles to himself. "…Waco…"
Mister Giggles (03:27:47): * Caulder can't argue with that. He glances down at the battlefield, and locks on to a Preta. "This battlefield is really chaotic... I've got an idea." Emerging from his small sniper's next, he locks on to the Preta. "Releasing a Vector Bit... IDS-VBa 'Creeper.' Let's bug their communications, find out where they're coming from." A small, spider-like, land-based Vector Bit comes out. It's fast. VERY fast. And it's gonna try to climb on top of that Preta while it's distracted, latch on to its neck where it's arm that isn't a gun can't reach, and try to infect its systems with the Rabbit Hole, in an attempt to access their communications! Assuming nothing steps on it... +
Wyverncakes (03:27:51): Julia: "... Zyvan... I'm sorry. I really am."
Wyverncakes (03:28:27): Zyvan certainly seemed legit about acting for the sake of the planet... he probably would've gotten along just fine with Bian.
Kors (03:29:33): Ranna tries to remember, but can only shake her head, "I am certain Khan Phelan Kell would not have done it. If any of my fellow clan warriors did that, I can only apologise."
Mister Giggles (03:29:35): IDS-VBa 'Creeper'* (copy didn't work)
VJockey (03:30:10): Gainer! The mechs were iced over. THey attempt to use their weapons to heat them up but apparently that didn't work. Completely stopped. Nice.
Hedge (03:31:00): Nikolai: [to Ranna] I have a sneaking suspicion that this is a certain overambitious young Crusader's fault...
Overman Zappa (03:31:01): Gainer: "I thought that'd be easier than luring them. Just gotta keep those coming." And we're reloading them Freeze Bullets for the next round... of bullets. No breaking a 4th wall here.
VJockey (03:31:58): Elena! Your Missiles hammer at the Mechs below. Lasers paint the air as they try to attack you but from what it seems - your mobility is out of their league as they can't track you fast enough!
Wyverncakes (03:32:05): Julia: "Gainer, about how long do we have until the freeze ends?"
Kors (03:32:58): Ranna (back to Nikolai): "It matters not, a Star Captain's view does not represent the Clan, quiaff?"
VJockey (03:33:18): Caulder! Your bug manages to sneak in, but the problem is.,... well
VJockey (03:33:39): Blakist: BURN THEM! PURGE THE CLANNERS! WE WILL MAKE THIS WORLD CLEAN!
VJockey (03:33:49): Blakist2: Melt! EVERYTHING MUST MELT!
VJockey (03:33:54): Yeaaaah...
VJockey (03:33:57): not so helpful.
Mister Giggles (03:34:04): Caulder: "Uhh, guys, good news and bad news..."
VJockey (03:34:08): Probably new converts who kinda...broke...
Hedge (03:34:12): Nikolai: My records show that Khan Phelan Kell threw the full weight of Clan Wolf behind Bian Zoldark's call against The Inv...oh Great Father's Ghost, why could they not simply stick to Latin?
Mister Giggles (03:34:47): Caulder: "Good news is, I hacked their communications! We can listen in all we want. Bad news is... they're not giving me anything useful. It will take a bit to trace them and find out where they're coming from. Guess we gotta fight in the meantime!"
Kors (03:35:20): Ranna: "Perhaps to try the bunker?"
Peter Kampschroeder (03:35:23): "Oh, don't feel bad about killing these guys. If you still were. For some reason." And Alice starts playing Lacus Clyne music through those world of blake comms.
VJockey (03:35:32): Zyvan: An army is only as strong as its supports. Many of the more headstrong members of the clans had... low opinions of the alliance.
Wyverncakes (03:35:32): Julia: "... That obssessed."
Hedge (03:35:52): [kors, the scorps already painted the bunker with TAG, just help them out with some nagas]
Mister Giggles (03:36:00): Caulder: "I'll relay the communications back to the Chalice in case anyone DOES give us something useful, but don't get your hopes up. These guys are nuts."
Kors (03:36:27): Ranna: "Those are lies - Our Touman are mainly wardens, and even those crusaders are Wolves. They listen to the Khan."
aldo salt (03:36:48): "Because many of the Clans labored under the conceit that they, and only they, were worthy to protect the earth?" Matthew asks Zyvan. "Is that your interpretation?"
VJockey (03:37:11): Zyvan: Yes.
Overman Zappa (03:37:20): Gainer: "Minutes I figure, though I don't know how that's going to work with machines that like to overheat easily.
VJockey (03:37:44): Zyvan: In the end it doesn't matter who is worthy or who isn't. Protecting humanity... that's all that matters.
VJockey (03:38:07): (Ranna, Matthew, Julia go.)
aldo salt (03:39:08): Matthew is silent. Then he chuckles a bit. "It is a fair point, Zyvan." He acknowledges. "One that we ALL should consider."
Hedge (03:39:20): Nikolai: So instead you have elected yourselves the protectors of humanity? This is logic that does not sound very well thought out.
aldo salt (03:39:27): If matthew was face to face with Zyvan, he would give him a significant glance.
Peter Kampschroeder (03:39:44): "Come on, be nice to the nice man with the huge ship who is shooting people we don't like..."
Kors (03:40:00): Ranna growls out in frustration: "The Clans are not one mindless entity, just like the Inner Sphere Houses."
Mister Giggles (03:40:22): Caulder tries not to laugh at ALICE's incredibly casual way of saying that...
Kors (03:40:35): She takes out that frustration on the Seraphs, now sniping at their limbs with cold precision with ERPPCs.+
Wyverncakes (03:40:43): * With a basic foothold for their forces, Julia's going to try to search for any place that seems particularly jail-y... and for that matter... "Caulder, give me a heads-up if the Blakists say anything about where their prisoners are being held captive. They're a priority too."+
Hedge (03:41:03): [still waiting on that arty assist here]
aldo salt (03:41:24): Matthew triggers his jump jets and sours up over a hillside, targeting all the Blake mech units in sight. "Let your poison vanish from Terra!" He shouts, unleashing an Alpha Strike!+
Mister Giggles (03:46:01): Caulder: "Got it! I'll start running a trace, but with this much radio chatter, it's gonna take a while."
VJockey (03:46:07): Nikolai! About that Artillery?
VJockey (03:46:32): The bombardment slams the bunker continuously... but there wasn't even that much damage on it.
VJockey (03:46:56): Whatever is in there... The Word went all out in making sure it was protected.
Mister Giggles (03:47:33): Caulder: "What the hell's in there? Allie, can you try to filter through the comms and find any mention of that bunker?"
Peter Kampschroeder (03:47:55): "Yes, and they're not very helpful."
VJockey (03:48:02): Ranna! Your methodical attack cripples the Seraphs bit by bit - leaving them to be walked all over their other comrades! A pair of Pretas are charging in an attempt to get up close to attack! React!
VJockey (03:48:17): Blakist: WE MUST KEEP FIGHTING! SOON PANDORA WILL BE UNLEASHED!
Mister Giggles (03:48:18): # Ranna
Kors (03:48:28): (go ahead)
VJockey (03:48:34): (Approved(
aldo salt (03:48:56): "What is this Pandora?" Matthew growls. "A bioweapon? A cannon? What the stravag is it?"
VJockey (03:49:09): Julia, You spot a couple under heavy guard... but one suddenly explodes!
Kors (03:49:17): Ranna: "Star Commander Maya, what is the status on that decryption?"
Wyverncakes (03:49:35): Julia: "... No!"
Hedge (03:49:35): Nikolai: In Terran myth, Pandora opened a box that unleashed the horrors of evil upon the world...
Mister Giggles (03:49:39): * "Oh, no you don't!" While ALICE continues monitoring their communications, Caulder will take his GN beam sniper rifle and attempt to snipe those Pretas charging Ranna!
Fri Freeman (03:49:53): Elena:"Maybe Pandora is a giant killer cat."
VJockey (03:49:58): Maya: We aren't getting any further than we had been before-
VJockey (03:50:46): It seems the Blakists were going to eliminate their prisoners in a cruel taunt
Wyverncakes (03:51:18): Aaaaaaaand you better believe Julia's blood is boiling at that sight.
Wyverncakes (03:51:21): "Matthew."
aldo salt (03:51:24): Matthew inhales sharply, eyes widening." You–!"
Kors (03:51:29): Rannaw: "Stravag!"
aldo salt (03:51:30): "Yes, Julia?"
Wyverncakes (03:51:38): "... I'm beginning to understand why you were acting that way before."
aldo salt (03:51:41): He asks in an ice-cold tone.
VJockey (03:51:42): Matthew! Another Blakist is erased from the earth under the barrage of lasers.
Wyverncakes (03:52:05): (Permission to act again in that case since the prisons are found?)
VJockey (03:52:23): Caulder! The pretas trip and crash - leaving them open to any follow up attacks you may wish to take.
VJockey (03:52:34): (Go ahead, also TC, send 'em in)
aldo salt (03:52:45): "Everything that was rotten about the era we came from…is concentrated into that group." Matthew says to Julia after a moment's thought.
Hedge (03:52:49): @pretas
sketchbookfiend (03:52:56): ???: "Guess I'm a bit late in here."
VJockey (03:53:00): (go ahead)
Kors (03:53:09): Ranna (to Wolf tacnet): "Alpha Actual, Beta Actual, we need Elemental support to rescue prisoners before they get executed."
Hedge (03:53:40): [actually nevermind that @]
aldo salt (03:53:54): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbJP6TRGasY
Wyverncakes (03:54:04): Julia was not going to waste even another second. The Null Shift charged straight at the prisons, and more importantly the guards.
VJockey (03:54:07): Ranna, there was a short affirmative on your comms but within seconds it was drowned in static.
VJockey (03:54:19): Maya: Be advised! Alpha Actual is down!
Wyverncakes (03:54:22): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjzslkidQ5M
Mister Giggles (03:54:37): * "Ha! Took 'em out without even killing them! Deploying some more Vector Bits... let's see what your memory banks have to say about that bunker!" There's the follow-up action.
sketchbookfiend (03:54:38): *The sound that's heard as a bug shape flies across the sky before a single person leaps down into the fray- although it's less of a leap and more of a flaming drop kick into one of the enemy units.+ "MIGHTY KICK!"
Overman Zappa (03:55:10): Gainer: "Wait... so... we found what we're looking for? Overskill!" Gainer hurriedly follows Julia because damnit he's faster.
VJockey (03:55:24): Daphne (Pack Beta Leader): Stravag! They've got ambushes set up everywhere!
Kors (03:55:26): Ranna tightens her fist before acknowledging, "Aff."
Wyverncakes (03:55:40): * "None of you are getting away. None of you." The Null Shift's wrist HFM blades pop out before being launched straight at the Blakist mechs, bladed flails to cut them to ribbons and subject the pilots to grisly, microwave-induced deaths. And anyone who makes a move towards shooting the prisons is getting a chest cannon blast or two sent their way.+
aldo salt (03:56:23): @Julia's enemies?
VJockey (03:56:35): (Go ahead)
VJockey (03:57:27): Zyvan: "I was given very limited assets for this mission aside from my own ship... but they'll be arriving to support you soon. I'll try to punch a hole into that bunker."
VJockey (03:57:47): "... Save as many of those people as you can. Zyvan Out.
VJockey (03:57:50): "
Hedge (03:58:02): Nikolai: Third Trinary, cover any downed Wolf mechs. Second Trinary, stand by to join the prisoner rescue sub-op.
Kors (03:58:03): Ranna: "Thank you." And she turns her attention back to the battle.
aldo salt (03:58:15): *"You cannot be forgiven! None of you!" Matthew jump-jets inward, and while descending in an arc, hits the cockpits of some of the Blake mechs with chain volleys of medium lasers!+
VJockey (03:58:57): Julia & Matthew. Carnage. That's the best way to describe what happens next. There's nothing more than a bloody mess and shredded mech left behind in the frenzy.
VJockey (03:59:36): Kuuga! That Mech explodes - sent into another mech. Which explodes. Reactor chain reactions everywhere!
sketchbookfiend (04:00:01): Kuuga: "Wow...glad I didn't do a Rising..."
Wyverncakes (04:00:11): And now that that's done... Julia's going to see about tearing open the prison doors.
Hedge (04:00:26): @Julia
VJockey (04:00:42): (New Lineup: Ranna, Matthew, Julia, Yuusuke, Caulder, Gainer, Elena, Nikolai)
Wyverncakes (04:00:44): (This is sorta a free action, unless I'm mistaken.)
VJockey (04:00:50): (What steam said)
Wyverncakes (04:01:05): "All of you, flee into the fog. We'll cover your retreat."
Hedge (04:01:19): One of the Scorpion elementals will assist her with tearing open those doors. They've got those big power claws after all
VJockey (04:01:36): Many of the prisoners, haggard and beaten were downright thankful for the assist - fleeing as fast as they can!
VJockey (04:01:48): Which isn't that fast sadly.. the word did a number on them
Hedge (04:01:54): And Nikolai will make a gentlemanly "After you!" gesture which is kindof comical when you're ten feet tall
VJockey (04:02:02): (Caulder, gainer, Elena, Nikolai. Go)
Hedge (04:02:21): [does the prison lead into the bunker?]
VJockey (04:02:27): There's a tremendous explosion rocking the battlefield. One that seemed to repeat itself.
Mister Giggles (04:02:30): Caulder: "Got it. Dan, can I get an external scan of that bunker? I want to find out what the hell 'Pandora' is. If I can get inside their network..."
VJockey (04:02:35): (No)
VJockey (04:02:51): It seems the Bastion was hammering at the Bunker's entrance - along with everything in front of it.
sketchbookfiend (04:03:50): Kuuga: "You know guys I sort of just jumped in, can I get a brief run down of what I missed?" To Chalice forces. Best time to ask for explanations really is when everything is busy right?
Kors (04:04:07): Ranna will be firing at any Blakist mechs that get within weapons range of the prison.
Hedge (04:04:12): The Scorpions cover the Bastion, keeping any Blakist counterfire away from it by leaping onto any mechs that target it. Nikolai himself goes after the nearest Word omni, trying to cut open its cockpit with that old vibroblade from his first misison.
VJockey (04:04:14): in addition...
Kors (04:04:35): Ranna: "Word of Blake's final rally point is here, and they have a weapon of sorts code-named 'Pandora' in that bunker complex."
Overman Zappa (04:04:39): *Gainer hopes not to make matters worse, but by being the smallest of the fielded allies (next to Kuuga) he keeps with the fleeing prisoners. Keeping his gun Loaded, anything that gets too close is eating an incoming OverFreeze bullet. +
VJockey (04:04:43): "YEEEEEEEAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"
Peter Kampschroeder (04:04:58): "Miss Julia, you may consider calming down some..."
aldo salt (04:05:14): "We do not know what it is yet–and Kairos Aspida has agreed to fight with us until the threat is ended–"
VJockey (04:05:18): A Fotia just launched out of the Bastion - mario stomping a Blake mech and was now Godzilla-ing it up through their lines
Wyverncakes (04:05:20): Julia: "I'm fine."
Kors (04:05:21): Ranna: "For this operation, we are in a truce with the Kairos Aspida warship and her assets."
aldo salt (04:05:32): "–What." Matthew exclaims.
Peter Kampschroeder (04:05:39): "I doubt that."
Wyverncakes (04:05:41): Grade-A, cold-as-ice mentality here.
VJockey (04:05:46): An Aeras tags along behind it - covering it with downright hesitant fire.
VJockey (04:06:00): Aeras Pilot: "S..sorry! Sorry!"
sketchbookfiend (04:06:05): Kuuga: "Oh well that's nice of them-...Huh."
Wyverncakes (04:06:07): Julia: "... Who...?"
VJockey (04:06:14): "Ernest is kind of... energetic!"
Mister Giggles (04:06:19): * "I'm gonna try to get closer to that bunker. Cover me!" And off Caulder goes, trying to use the terrain as cover.
VJockey (04:06:38): Ernest (Fotia Pilot): "WHO WANT'S SOME!? WHO WANTS SOME!? COME ON!!!!!"
aldo salt (04:07:09): "I cannot fault his fighting spirit!" Matthew admits to the Aeras pilot. He frowns. "If you all are here, then is–?"
Wyverncakes (04:07:17): Julia: "... Is... that Shinra guy in there...?"
Fri Freeman (04:07:32): Elena is happily flying above the battlefield, still unleashing missiles at random+ "Look at the pretty fireworks! Everything everywhere explode forever! So pretty!"+
VJockey (04:07:33): A Tatianna controlled Choma soon lands nearby. Next to Matthew.
sketchbookfiend (04:08:10): Kuuga: "...I sure picked an exciting battle."
VJockey (04:08:11): T: "I'm afraid that Rando isn't present today... We were merely making a patrol with our more green pilots before being diverted here."
Mister Giggles (04:08:30): (supposed ti be a & after my post)
VJockey (04:08:43): T: "And... Ernest is a lot less foul mouthed than Shinra is... I do not doubt they have some similarities..."
Kors (04:09:15): Ranna: "Green pilots or not, it is a welcomed addition." She nods. After all, the Clans blood their sibkos in actual combat too.
aldo salt (04:09:16): "I see." Matthew says quietly. "Regardless, I am honored to fight along side you all, Commander Tatiana." He politely salutes from his cockpit.
VJockey (04:09:28): Caulder! You find several planes trying to incercept you - unlike the mechs they don't have to worry about that pesky cover! React to their bombardment!
Kors (04:09:53): #Caulder
VJockey (04:10:28): Gainer! Covering the Prisoners means you can't move that much and take a few laser strikes! but your shooting keeps them from getting hurt because the Blakists weren't given any more time to get bigger guns out!
VJockey (04:10:47): Nikolai! As you tear open the mech there's a slight problem...
VJockey (04:10:54): "FOR THE WORD!"
VJockey (04:11:01): The pilot hit the self destruct.
VJockey (04:11:04): GET OUT OF THERE.
VJockey (04:11:13): (approved(
Overman Zappa (04:11:17): A few shots are fine... it proves he did something on this day, even if his Photon Mat didn't!
aldo salt (04:11:22): #Nikolai?
VJockey (04:11:34): (approved)
Hedge (04:11:48): [how are you going to support-defend a self destruct?]
Kors (04:12:00): Lack of cover works both ways! Ranna sights their with her targetting computer, and several bolts of blue lightning lances out at the fighters.+
VJockey (04:12:01): There's the sound of something collapsing... hey look there's a gigantic hole in the bunker!
Wyverncakes (04:12:18): Julia: "What?"
VJockey (04:12:32): And... Ranna?
Hedge (04:12:37): Nikolai: [He yips and jumps away, trying to hit the top of the nearest building again. Hopefully the blast wave will send him that last couple meters up.]
VJockey (04:12:42): Remember when you were looking for those certain signals?
Overman Zappa (04:12:52): Gainer: "I should've brought XAN along... I could leave this to him. Just make sure to take care of thngs while I handle the escort mission. Because there's always a hidden boss on escort missions..."
VJockey (04:12:53): They're there... and REALLY strong.
VJockey (04:13:01): That wasn't a mobile HPG system at all
VJockey (04:13:05): it was a full sized one.
aldo salt (04:13:07): *As Nikolai jumps back, Matthew rushes forward on jump-jets, and deploys a–"Heat Falcon!" A rocket-propelled radiator blades deploy on a wire, rushes over the Scorpion's head, and positions itself flat-side forward to take the brunt of the blast!+
Kors (04:13:18): Ranna: "A full scale Hyper Puslse Generator detected!"
Hedge (04:13:36): Nikolai: [Nevermind, with Matthew there it's easier to just glom onto him instead]
Kors (04:13:38): Ranna: "Signal emitting from the bunker."
VJockey (04:13:52): Nikolai! You're protected from the blast! Matthew unfortunately loses that falcon. Oh well.
Mister Giggles (04:14:05): *Caulder is trying to evade those bombs, thankful for Ranna's covering fire. He uses his Zeta-Plus's vulcans as anti-air weapons as well, just in case. "W-What!?"+
Wyverncakes (04:14:15): Julia: "And you think that's Pandora?!?"
Hedge (04:14:20): Nikolai: My thanks, Matthew. Any objections to my Warriors taking point through that hole?
VJockey (04:14:46): Ranna & Caulder - The aircraft are gunned down with only one missile causing surface damage to the Zeta Plus.
aldo salt (04:14:51): Matthew hisses, and withdraws the sparking wire into it's slot. "None at all, Galaxy Commander! Try not to blow up this time..."
Kors (04:15:08): Ranna: "I... do not think so. It is a faster-than-light communications device."
sketchbookfiend (04:15:32): Kuuga: "How do you even make a faster-than-light communication."
VJockey (04:15:36): Zyvan: Whatever this 'Pandora' is, they seem to think its the endgame gambit.
Peter Kampschroeder (04:15:43): "Expensively."
Wyverncakes (04:15:52): Julia: "Who would they even send a message to in the first place?"
aldo salt (04:15:54): "With hyperspace." Matthew explains. As if that explains anything.
sketchbookfiend (04:16:05): Kuuga: "Ah, right."
VJockey (04:16:05): Zyvan: I will hold the line and keep them from following you inside...
Kors (04:16:06): Ranna: "I am no scientist, but it works on the principal of our FTL travel as well."
VJockey (04:16:09): get to the bottom of this.
Kors (04:16:16): Ranna: "Aff."
aldo salt (04:16:21): "Aff."
Peter Kampschroeder (04:16:38): "Arf!"
sketchbookfiend (04:17:02): Kuuga: "Right on."
VJockey (04:17:14): (Note, that when entering the bunker, you may now call upon Tatianna (Choma), Ernest (Fotia) and Algaea (Aeras) for support.)
Hedge (04:18:13): Nikolai: The Scorpion Elementals position themselves around the rim of the hole and lob a mixtur of smoke and regular missiles and mortars through, hoping to use that as cover while they advance. And they're through, firing as they move and taking cover against any nearby large structures, pillars, etc.
Overman Zappa (04:18:17): Gainer: "Uh... hyperspace communication. Wouldn'tthey call for reinforcements with that?"
Overman Zappa (04:18:35): Gainer: "A LOT of them?"
Hedge (04:18:47): Nikolai: "Exactly, Gainer Sanga. That is why we need to destroy it ASAP."
sketchbookfiend (04:18:53): Kuuga: "It's not like there isn't already a ton here anyways."
Kors (04:18:58): Ranna bears her teeth: "Our warships are in orbit if that happens."
VJockey (04:19:01): As the crew pushes in though...
VJockey (04:19:09): It seems that there's a problem here...
Kors (04:19:13): Ranna: "Neg, this is just a Division for them."
sketchbookfiend (04:19:39): Kuuga: "...well, that would explain a bit."
VJockey (04:20:05): Wayne Waco: “What's this? Hell, it's you all again!”
aldo salt (04:20:48): "….WACO." Matthew's voice gets gutteral.
VJockey (04:20:50): Wayne Waco. Except... he sounds...friendlier?
Hedge (04:20:55): Nikolai: [groan] Honorless mercenary stravag prepare to die, etc etc, you know what we are going to say
Kors (04:21:07): Ranna: "Mercenaries." Her tone is frosty cold.
Overman Zappa (04:21:37): Gainer: "What a warm welcome. I think my OverFreeze is warmer..." eyeroll...
aldo salt (04:21:42): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czdF5kwQwQM
VJockey (04:21:54): “After our little dustup, I looked up all the data on the White Chalice I could...“
sketchbookfiend (04:21:59): Kuuga: "Hello!" May as well be friendly back
Kors (04:22:09): Ranna: "And Kuuga, ComGuard, their original organisation, had 72 divisions. I am uncertain how many followed the Word of Blake when they split, but it must be numerous."
Peter Kampschroeder (04:22:22): "And you're surrendering right away, right?"
sketchbookfiend (04:22:44): Kuuga: "If something that big is just a division, I think I can do the math and tell it's not pretty either way if reinforcements show."
Hedge (04:22:52): Nikolai: I think he would prefer to join up with us. After all, we get the best salvage.
aldo salt (04:22:56): Does Matthew sees Waco's Battlemaster anywhere?
Wyverncakes (04:23:47): Julia: "And he's thinking we'd just let him?"
Mister Giggles (04:24:17): Caulder's quiet, but he's not buying this.
VJockey (04:27:27): Yes you do Matthew. He's in the way.
VJockey (04:27:42): along with his rangers.
Overman Zappa (04:27:53): Gainer still doesn't fully grasp Clanner logic so, he's sitting the dialogs out until he has some witty banter before attacking. Somethign to do with heating or freezing probably.
VJockey (04:27:58): Waco lets out a jovial laugh though
VJockey (04:28:06): “...and whooh, are you guys something! Fighting giant demon monsters, sea creatures, alien invaders, the Zeeks– hell, I'm a huge fan!”
VJockey (04:29:41): As one merc to another, can't we work something out? We're under contract to hold this line by hook or by PPC, ya see But that's only against them Clanners. But we might be persuaded to...say turn a blind eye and let you do whatcha want. I'd recommend withdrawin though... them Blakies got a seriously big plan this time... and if you make it easy on me and leave, I can haggle a way in for ya in their new order”
VJockey (04:29:53): “The Clanners have to die, though.”
Peter Kampschroeder (04:30:14): "..."
Wyverncakes (04:30:31): "..."
Mister Giggles (04:30:36): "..."
sketchbookfiend (04:30:39): Kuuga: "...."
Kors (04:30:43): Ranna: "..."
aldo salt (04:30:59): Matthew: "……………………………………………………………."
Peter Kampschroeder (04:31:04): "You may have read, but you clearly did not understand-saving the world is kind of our job."
Hedge (04:31:10): Nikolai: ...as they say on Terra: Darers go first.
Overman Zappa (04:31:19): Gainer: "Best idea ever. I should use that in my ggame..."
Mister Giggles (04:31:34): "Allie?"
sketchbookfiend (04:31:36): Kuuga: "This guys not the best businessman."
Kors (04:31:47): Ranna: "I must be hallucinating, did he say what I thought he said?"
VJockey (04:31:55): There was a rather annoyed sigh.
aldo salt (04:31:56): Matthew: "…rrrrrr…."
VJockey (04:32:13): "I thought I was being reasonable and all. Offerin a big piece of the pie."
Kors (04:32:25): Ranna checks her air filter: "Neg, life support appears to be functional."
VJockey (04:32:47): "Nevermind then. I understand mind you, that once you get started on a job, you see it through to the end"
Peter Kampschroeder (04:33:08): "Isn't it obvious, Caulder? They're asking for us to help guide them all on to the next life."
Overman Zappa (04:33:10): Gainer begins to wonder if one can hallucinate sounds, and not imagine them?
aldo salt (04:33:23): Matthew can't take it anymore, and throttles the Nova forward! "Enough talk! PREPARE YOURSELF! WAYNE WACCCCCOOOOO!!!!" Matthew charges forward blindly, raising his arm pods and aiming right at that thrice-cursed Battlemaster!"
VJockey (04:33:27): "Light em up boys!"
Hedge (04:33:32): Nikolai: Wait. If we remove all Clan forces from this bunker, will you stand down and allow the other...Matthew!
Mister Giggles (04:33:51): Caulder: "Can't argue with that. Kill 'em."
Peter Kampschroeder (04:33:59): "With pleasure."
sketchbookfiend (04:34:05): Kuuga: "I think diplomacy went out the window as soon as he said "dead clanners' Nikolai-san."
Kors (04:34:35): Ranna: "Once a Jade Falcon, always a Jade Falcon it seems." She sounds half-amused, half-resigned.
Hedge (04:34:57): Nikolai: It could be worse. He could be an ex Smoke Jaguar.
aldo salt (04:35:08): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWKcyoBDs9A
VJockey (04:35:16): http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Battlemaster (Waco)
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Marauder
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Orion
(2) http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Catapult
VJockey (04:35:26): http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Atlas_(BattleMech)
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Highlander
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Thug
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/King_Crab
VJockey (04:35:32): http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Centurion
(2) http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hatchetman
(2) http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Raven
Mister Giggles (04:35:56): Caulder: "Disengaging safety protocols... bringing network 'Wonderland' online..."
Mister Giggles (04:36:23): Caulder: "Prejudice set to 'Extreme.' Have fun, Allie."
Peter Kampschroeder (04:36:50): "Just try not to vomit too much."
Kors (04:37:14): Ranna: "...An Orion."
VJockey (04:37:39): (everyone can go)
Overman Zappa (04:38:03): Gainer: "Nikolai, can you explain why these things get such plain names?"
Peter Kampschroeder (04:38:06): (Is the generator in sight, or further down dark hallways?)
Kors (04:38:22): Ranna: "He is mine." And with that, she settle the reticle on the Orion's cockpit, and tries to shear it clean off with all 4 ERPPCs.+
Hedge (04:38:25): Nikolai: Inner Sphere engineers are less creative than ours.
Wyverncakes (04:38:40): Julia: "You think after all of this, after our reputation... we'd just make a deal and walk away!?!"
Hedge (04:38:47): Nikolai: It was yet another thing lost in the Succession Wars...the ability to add pizzaz to designs.
Wyverncakes (04:39:15): * Out comes the railgun, which she unloads on the Highlander, full-auto scattershot version. Enjoy your hailstorm of death.+
Overman Zappa (04:39:24): *With no time/room to load more Freeze Bullets, KingGainer whises up under the Thug and starts unloading bullets before switching to the revving chain saw and cutting holes and gashes underneath+
aldo salt (04:40:28): *Matthew lacks any subtly, and just tries to Alpha Strike Waco's Battlemaster in the chest so that it stops existing.+
Hedge (04:40:28): Nikolai: And shortly thereafter, Nikolai loses control of his elementals, who are absolutely incensed at the mercs using an Orion, the mech of Kerensky. They swarm all over it. Nikolai does his level best to keep any of them from getting fried, trying to distract any mechs near it by leaping onto the back of one and firing at another from over its shoulder.
VJockey (04:40:49): Julia! The highlander has its armor chewed up pretty badly. Ninety tons of armor, sensors and guns is going to have a little trouble with that magnitude of fire. It replies with a shot from its Gauss rifle though - and is supported by the catapults launching volleys of missiles! React!
Hedge (04:40:52): Nikolai: Select...targets...for maximum effect...do you hear me?
Fri Freeman (04:41:09): Elena hums and spins with her vibrating knife, slicing and dicing the mechs in close quarter+
Wyverncakes (04:41:34): * The Null Shift strafes to the side with its thrusers before charging in for the finishing blow, HFM swords out to cut down those missiles and run through the machine!+
sketchbookfiend (04:41:55): *Kuuga picks up some generic bar-shaped debris and switches over to Dragon form, the debris forming into his Dragon Rod- the now blue Kamen Rider rushes towards the enemy, leaping and swinging to smash it's Rod into them.+
Hedge (04:42:32): Nikolai: Chalice...please give my elementals cover. They have let a perceived insult override their reason and will be thoroughly punished later.
VJockey (04:42:32): Oh that poor orion, it never saw it coming. The resulting PPC shots Blasted the thing right over and into a wall - the pilot having been much distracted by the elementals crawling all over him. They may have went flying from the impact as well.... whoops.
Peter Kampschroeder (04:43:20): * "Okay, let's go for it!" Alice's Zeta zips over the enemy mecha, going straight for the HPG-and launches every bit she's got left at the objective. She'll position herself between the Waco mecha and the generator. "Oh, Caulder, the ride might get a little rough here..."+
Kors (04:43:35): Ranna: "This is Pack Delta to Den Mother. We have downed an Orion. Prepare to recover during Ops egress."
VJockey (04:43:59): Elena! You slice and dice at several... then your knife gets stuck in one of them - or rather is slower in cutting it open... If you look upwards you can see the skull face of the atlas... just looking down at you as if asking 'Really?' React.
Mister Giggles (04:44:19): After having let ALICE off of her proverbial leash, he already strapped in his seatbelts; he remembers the last time the gloves came off with her. But he's still trying not to get motion sickness regardless.
Kors (04:44:19): #Elena
VJockey (04:44:59): approved
VJockey (04:45:51): Yuusuke! A raven falls due to the fact that its leg joint was bashed in!
VJockey (04:46:28): Julia! Missiles explode all around you... well... some of them do. Minor damage - but the attack is successful. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
Kors (04:46:32): Be it saving time, or her distaste for the Rangers, Ranna's Warhawk shifts its arms slightly, before firing off twin ERPPCs at the skull-covered cockpit of the Atlas.
Kors (04:46:36): At this range, she does not even need the targetting computer's extra aid.+
VJockey (04:46:52): Head Shot. The Atlas goes down and Elena is saved!
VJockey (04:48:04): ALICE.... kind of an issue here....
VJockey (04:48:07): That HPG?
VJockey (04:48:17): Its heavily armor plated.
VJockey (04:48:18): All over.
Mister Giggles (04:48:47): Caulder: "Damn... not gonna take it that way. Need to see who's got the codes for it..."
VJockey (04:48:48): The bits can't penetrate enough to get what you need to do done.
VJockey (04:48:52): and...
VJockey (04:48:57): there are trucks around it...
VJockey (04:49:19): similar to the ones that got away the last time the Chalice clashed with the Word and...
Hedge (04:49:39): [anything about those trucks on scan?]
Kors (04:50:06): Ranna: "The same trucks from their Himalayan facilities.."
sketchbookfiend (04:50:29): Kuuga: "Trucks?"
Wyverncakes (04:50:47): Julia: "What does it mean that they're here?"
Kors (04:50:48): Ranna: "Aff. Carrying 'Pandora', whatever it may be."
VJockey (04:51:06): ???: Well WELLL Welll....
VJockey (04:51:22): ???: It seems the dogs and the unworthy of this world have come to play!
VJockey (04:51:58): http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/c/cd/Omega_BM.jpg x1(Precentor Alex Winningham)
Mister Giggles (04:52:03): Caulder: "Uhh... Allie...?"
Kors (04:52:19): Ranna: "...Tonnage exceeds assault classification."
VJockey (04:52:20): http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/4/40/Archangel.png x6 (Blake Elite Guard)
sketchbookfiend (04:52:21): Kuuga: "Woah! Now that one looks like a bad boy."
Mister Giggles (04:52:22): Caulder's played enough boss fights to know charging in like this is a bad idea...!
VJockey (04:52:40): ???: Oh we've seen the numbers arrayed against us...
VJockey (04:52:53): Alex: So we thought... why... if we cannot win...
VJockey (04:53:00): Alex: Why should anyone else?
VJockey (04:53:06): Alex: That is the purpose of Pandora!
Wyverncakes (04:53:45): Julia: "Intending to destroy the world?"
Peter Kampschroeder (04:54:08): "How cliche."
VJockey (04:54:30): Matthew! Your lasers miss! Waco's managed to dodge the easily telegraphed attack due to your anger and fired several SRMs at you! React! :“Oh? S'you. How nice of you to join us, boy. Matthew, was it?”
VJockey (04:54:56): Alex: Oh... no nothing so blase as that... you see... Pandora is designed to destroy machines...
Kors (04:54:59): Ranna: "...The HPG is unusually armored.."
VJockey (04:55:12): Alex: Machines that are not aligned with a specific code that is!
Hedge (04:55:29): Nikolai: Neg...They will not destroy Terra. They are doing something else with that. Comstar kept technology deliberately low during the Succession Wars...
sketchbookfiend (04:55:42): Kuuga: "....Well that could be problematic."
Peter Kampschroeder (04:55:45): "Go on..."
VJockey (04:55:46): Alex: Once the HPG's charge is complete it will fire a signal that will echoe across the wolf ships in orbit and bounce into everything capable of receiving a signal!
VJockey (04:56:05): Alex: Pandora will overload and scramble their systems!
Overman Zappa (04:56:20): Gainer: "No way... Mas-- Wait what? That's it?
VJockey (04:56:47): Alex: Ships will fall from orbit and hammer into the earth! Every generator in the world, mech and city alike will detonate! Communications will crumble!
VJockey (04:57:03): Alex: The world orders build will FALL! EVERYTHING WILL BURN!!!!
Wyverncakes (04:57:28): Julia: "... Receive a signal?"
Wyverncakes (04:57:30): She blinks.
Peter Kampschroeder (04:57:35): "And you'll pick up from the ashes, I presume..."
VJockey (04:57:39): Ernest: ".... Uhhh"
Mister Giggles (04:57:46): Caulder stays quiet. Allie does the badass boasts better than he does.
sketchbookfiend (04:57:46): Kuuga: "...wait why would ships fall from orbit? isn't the whole point of being in an orbit so it doesn't?
aldo salt (04:57:53): "So you remembered!" Matthew snarls, Nova rocking at he tries to dodge and takes some missiles to the arm. "I will not have to remind you of it before grinding you to ash!" Matthew tries to spin and shoot off one of Waco's arms with a Nova Burst!+
VJockey (04:58:01): Tatianna: "....That's idiotic. He's idiotic..."
Peter Kampschroeder (04:58:04): "No no ernest, let them figure it out on their own."
Hedge (04:58:40): Nikolai: My Scorpions, this is the purpose The Great Father designed us for. Are you ready to make whatever sacrifice necessary to ensure the future of civilization? [a bunch 'Aff's]
Overman Zappa (04:58:45): Gainer: "Oh... Well I guess that's worse. And I was worried about mass hypn-- Whatever"
sketchbookfiend (04:59:17): Kuuga: "Simple yet catastrophic."
aldo salt (04:59:27): Even Matthew has to stop and gape at that a bit. "You could not have picked better company…Wayne WACO!"
Wyverncakes (05:00:06): Julia: "What... kind of receiver would you need for this signal?"
Hedge (05:00:08): Nikolai: "Waco's Rangers, do you realize that if this plan succeeds, there will be noone left to hire you? The Blakists will probably eliminate you when this is over."
Kors (05:00:11): Ranna: "Even for mercenaries... this is just too despicable to work for."
sketchbookfiend (05:00:40): Kuuga: "I mean...unless you start making wooden robots..."
Wyverncakes (05:00:40): "Nothing's really uniform. We don't even have any kind of world-spanning Internet set up."
VJockey (05:00:53): Alex: "AHAHAHAHAHA-...What?"
sketchbookfiend (05:01:18): Kuuga: "Oh yeah...
Wyverncakes (05:01:41): "You might get the Wolf ships... they probably run off of similar tech..."
Wyverncakes (05:01:46): And that's reason enough to try to stop this...
Peter Kampschroeder (05:01:48): "You make the waco's rangers people seem smart..."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:01:58): "That's not a compliment..."
Wyverncakes (05:02:11): "... But nothing's centralized. There's nothing for you to collapse!"
Mister Giggles (05:02:11): Caulder: "They're right, you know. Allie's vector bit network is basically one huge self-aware botnet made up of everything she's hacked."
VJockey (05:02:21): Tatianna's Choma just facepalms.
VJockey (05:02:35): Alex: "..............."
VJockey (05:02:43): Alex: "WHAT?!?!?!?!??!!"
aldo salt (05:02:45): "…you really, really, really could not have picked better company." Matthew repeats emphatically to Wayne Waco, his blood-lust filled revenge on pause for a moment.
Kors (05:03:04): Ranna will be there, shaking her head silently.
Mister Giggles (05:03:26): Caulder mutes his comms for a second. "These guys are really too dumb to live... they're totally genre blind."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:03:45): "It's kind of sad..."
Hedge (05:04:08): Nikolai: I suppose we should stop them...warships crashing into the earth can not be good for it...
aldo salt (05:04:37): "…even though all of them are already in stable orbits." Matthew adds.
Wyverncakes (05:04:38): Julia: "Big or small, a threat is a threat!"
Wyverncakes (05:04:45): "And that's reason enough to stand against it!"
sketchbookfiend (05:05:01): Kuuga: "Yeah that would be an issue. Let's beat em down."
Kors (05:05:20): Ranna nods, "Aff, that it is."
VJockey (05:05:26): Alex: "Then the battle is lost! Brothers.... Lay down your arms... it seems we are defeated before we have even enacted the great plan..."
VJockey (05:05:41): For one brief moment it looks like the Blakists are going to surrender
VJockey (05:05:45): then...
Hedge (05:05:52): Nikolai: ...
Mister Giggles (05:05:54): Caulder: "Killing these guys is gonna make me feel like a bully..."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:06:00): "Yeah..."
aldo salt (05:06:08): Matthew: "…no , it is a tra–!"
sketchbookfiend (05:06:11): Kuuga: "Does he think we'll fall for that?"
VJockey (05:06:53): Maya: Be advised! We just obtained the details of Pandora – it is not a physical weapon, but an adaptable computer super-virus. Once a sufficiently advanced electronic system is infected by it, Pandora will proceed to corrupt or destroy all data, and to initiate any hardware destruction if possible. Nuclear power plants may enter meltdown, machines may self destruct, space colonies may experience critical failures!! IT DOES NOT NEED A RECEIVER! THE HYPERSPACE PULSE WILL MAKE IT INFECT ANYTHING WITH AN OPERATING SYSTEM!!!
Kors (05:07:00): Ranna (allies): "Remember what happened to Star Captain Resnic-"
VJockey (05:07:23): Alex: Oh dear... what was that old phrase? 'The cat is out of the bag'?
VJockey (05:07:28): Alex: Kill them.
VJockey (05:07:45): And the Blakists open fire! Everyone react!
Kors (05:08:09): Ranna swings her Warhawk about, trying to present undamaged armor to the incoming fire.+
sketchbookfiend (05:08:24): *Kuuga being the tiniest and in his fastest mode does sick dodges and some robot parkour to avoid the fire from the Blakists!+
aldo salt (05:08:30): *Matthew keeps dodging backwards and back and forth, shouting "Youuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!" all the while!+
Wyverncakes (05:08:31): * The Null Shift vents more gas to try to protect the less mobile members of the group, and jets away from the attack!+
Mister Giggles (05:08:34): Caulder: "W-What!?"
Overman Zappa (05:08:39): *Gainer hides under/behind the Thug that he's started attacking earlier.
Hedge (05:08:43): The Scorps scatter. Fuck sitting around for this. They move into the gas.
Hedge (05:09:00): @Gainer
Peter Kampschroeder (05:09:03): *Alice proceeds to engage in the complicated and acrobatic manuver known as "hide behind the big armored generator thing and engage supressive fire".+
Overman Zappa (05:09:31): *Being generally tiny AF, he's going to lurk behind the larger scrapped mechs.+
Kors (05:09:55): Ranna: "... A Word of Blake Division.. You must be at least a Precentor to command such numbers."
VJockey (05:10:18): And everything gets shot up everywhere, anything behind the Anti-Beam Gas gets off lightly, Anything hiding behind enemies or the HPG gets off lightly as well. The Mercenaries? Not so much
VJockey (05:10:24): Friendly Fire at its finest.
Mister Giggles (05:10:30): That blows his mind. The Rabbit Hole Virus is similar, only its function is control rather than destruction. But a hyperspace pulse instead of manual infection? Why didn't he think of that!?
VJockey (05:10:46): Waco: "What in tarnation?!"
Hedge (05:10:50): Nikolai: ...We told you, mercenaries.
VJockey (05:11:13): Waco: “God. Dammit! Rangers, pull back by the numbers! Support Lance, give them covering fire. This just became a meat grinder!”
VJockey (05:11:30): Waco's rangers try to pull back.... but Waco himself?
VJockey (05:11:47): "But don't think this means I'm leaving business with you not finished yet!"
Hedge (05:11:51): Nikolai: Matthew...are you honorable enough to grant hegirah?
VJockey (05:12:06): Matthew, it seems Waco's still got a bone to pick with you.
Kors (05:12:19): Ranna: "Too early to speak of victory, Galaxy Commander."
VJockey (05:12:57): ALICE, your shots damage some of the archangels, but they're pretty heavily armored - however... you notice something very interesting
VJockey (05:13:09): the trucks are loaded with computer systems.
aldo salt (05:13:12): "…fight me to the end, Waco, and I will let your men get away undamaged." Matthew says, venom in his words. "That is more honor than you ever showed us a Daedelus IV."
VJockey (05:13:16): Systems that are linked to the HPG
aldo salt (05:13:38): *at Daedelus IV.
VJockey (05:13:52): “Chrissakes, you crazy Clanner! I've killed a whole bunch of Falcons over the past few years. You Falcons smoked a lot of my men on Conventry! That's what happens when soldiers fight. Isn't this revenge trip of yours a tad unprofessional?”
Mister Giggles (05:14:06): Caulder's too distracted to notice them himself. He's... trying to assist with the sniping, though Allie's in the majority of control of the Zeta-Plus's systems.
VJockey (05:14:11): "But if it means my men get away? Fine!"
Hedge (05:14:26): Nikolai: We may wish to target those trucks. They appear linked to the HPG.
VJockey (05:14:42): (Once again, everyone go)
sketchbookfiend (05:14:48): Kuuga: "Sounds like a game plan."
Wyverncakes (05:15:37): Julia: "On it."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:15:44): *"Ah, well isn't that interesting..." That bit attack from before? She'll repeat it, only this time with one bit going to a different truck each. Let's see what one can do with that.+
sketchbookfiend (05:15:52): *The Rider's going to do just what Nikolai suggested and use Dragon form's speed to make a break for those trucks. If he can get close with the Dragon Rod he can give a good smash into one.+
Kors (05:15:52): Ranna: "Precentor!" Not knowning his name, she can only call out his presumed rank as she fires her particle projection cannons at the huge Omega mech. If he is sufficiently distracted...
Hedge (05:15:54): Nikolai: He goes after one, trying to crash through the window. If succesful and the ignition's still on, he'll gun the engine and crash it into another truck, leaping out
Peter Kampschroeder (05:16:01): "Caulder, I'm going to need to focus on computing. Handle the piloting for me, okay?"
Mister Giggles (05:16:19): "Freaking armor..." Sniping intensifies... until he hears Allie. "Wait, what is--?" Oh. "Oh, uh... sure, no problem... just be careful of that virus."
aldo salt (05:16:34): "Well Bargained and Done." Matthew hisses between clenched teeth. He revvs his throttle. The Nova slowly begins walking forward…then breaks into a sprint! Matthew takes aim at the PPC arm of Waco and tries to damage it's joint with a five-laser burst! "This is for my sibkin! For Dex!"+
Kors (05:16:45): +
Wyverncakes (05:16:59): * The Null Shift's zeroing in on one of the Archangels, swords at the ready! "Let's see how well you handle melee combat!" Swords, go slashing down gogogogogog!+
VJockey (05:18:10): Nikolai! About that plan... you smash into the truck... but there's nothing you can do because they stripped out any way of moving the trucks after they were set up! And... there's an archangel looming over you. REACTREACTREACT
VJockey (05:19:12): ALICE! The bits pierce the computer systems with ease and you're digging into everything.... and... interesting.... very interesting. There wasn't any kind of security here. Rather - this far in and considering their opponents they never EXPECTED a hack attack!
Hedge (05:19:23): Nikolai: Very simply, he's going to get between the Archangel and the truck
Peter Kampschroeder (05:19:42): "Hah! Nobody expects a hacker inside the building!"
VJockey (05:20:07): Yuuusuke! You thrust your mighty rod into the truck! Knocking it on its side!... You also unfortunately reduce the effectiveness of ALICE's hack by a minor degree. Whoops.
Mister Giggles (05:20:37): Caulder likes the sound of that. "You've got control, right?" He says, as he continues laying down suppressive snipes. That was easy. Too easy.
sketchbookfiend (05:20:44): Kuuga: "Huh, kinda expected it to explode."
VJockey (05:20:45): Ranna! About that....
VJockey (05:21:16): The blasts slam into the mech... but merely glance at its armor. That thing is HEAVY.
VJockey (05:21:42): Alex: "Oh... Did you believe that you could actually DO something against me?"
Mister Giggles (05:21:45): Also, Caulder, in his smugness, decides to broadcast the panicked comms he's getting to the rest of the group.
VJockey (05:22:11): Gauss rifles Ranna. All of them. REACT!
Kors (05:23:08): Ranna: "Aff. I do." And torso twist she does, presenting the other side of her mech to the incoming slugs. Then twisting back to fire the ERPPCs again!+
VJockey (05:23:56): Waco: “Yes, yes, you've got your knickers in a twist because of your friend or pet dog or something that died....cry me a river. 'Cuse me. I have a battle to win.”
VJockey (05:24:48): Waco shifts his positioning - the arm takes some damage but its still somewhat usable... as for Matthew though... He's going to get some lasers right back at him! React!
VJockey (05:25:27): Nikolai! The Archangel is attempting to crush you while avoiding the truck... its difficult. Like trying to scrape something off a boot with a stick!
Peter Kampschroeder (05:25:47): Alice will start messing around as quickly as one can when disabling a information warfare superweapon. Which is quite quick, when the clock is ticking.
VJockey (05:26:27): Yuuuusuke? You'll find massive amounts of plasma being levelled at you!
Peter Kampschroeder (05:26:33): "Ah, can you leave the trucks alone? I'm using them...I should be able to disable this device, or perhaps turn it to our side..."
VJockey (05:26:36): ALICE? You have the same as well! Incoming!
VJockey (05:26:42): REACT BOTH OF YOU
Peter Kampschroeder (05:26:51): Hey man, Caulder's the one piloting now!
Mister Giggles (05:27:03): @ ALICE (by virtue of him being the pilot)
sketchbookfiend (05:27:03): Kuuga: "Well I thought we were supposed to- WOAH!"
aldo salt (05:27:04): •Matthew's tries jump-jetting to the side to dodge, but is a bit slow on the mark! He switches tactics, shooting off a few lasers at the Battlemaster's knees!+
Hedge (05:27:05): Nikolai: Whooping like Zoidberg, he tries to get the Blakist to crush his own truck by moving out of the way at the last moment
sketchbookfiend (05:27:50): *Gotta do my woosh and flippy jump dodges and the like. Better run until this plasma stops tailing me.+
VJockey (05:27:52): Ranna! The PPCs glance once more! It was like this thing was every bit as durable as the bunker it was sitting around in!
VJockey (05:28:03): Alex: We can dance all day, bitch. We both know your mech is not suitable for close combat, and you must have realized at your range, trying to fire through the plating is futile!
Kors (05:28:38): Ranna, quietly, "Perhaps."
VJockey (05:28:40): Julia! The Archangel parries with a retractable blade! Clumsy as it was, the blade itself was durable as hell!
aldo salt (05:28:44): "Do not talk about Dex like that! He was worth ten of your…neg a hundred of you mercs! " Matthew shouts.
VJockey (05:28:52): And... its about to fire plasma point blank! React!
VJockey (05:29:16): Waco growls violently... seems Matthew touched a raw nerve.
VJockey (05:29:30): "Fly away little falcon! Take your self righteous hogwash somewhere else!"
VJockey (05:30:03): Matthew, your reply is an alpha strike! watch out! React!
Mister Giggles (05:30:17): *"C-Crap!" Caulder attempts to tuck and roll behind the heavy plating for cover... but not before throwing a plasma grenade behind him at those firing him. Cheap video game maneuvers that make Gainer call him a noob, go!
VJockey (05:31:43): Caulder! The Plating works!...To a degree... the proximity of the blast scorches the Zeta! But you're unharmed.... mostly...
Mister Giggles (05:31:59): Caulder: "Well, that was--..."
VJockey (05:32:22): The Archangel is also somewhat melted..but still active.
aldo salt (05:32:51): *Matthew tries to jump-jet straight up to dodge "Neg! I will not!" He shouts. "Mercs like you, who fight for the vilest tyrants and psychopaths for C-Bills? Who strike down truly noble souls…souls I abandoned and left behind…" He shakes his head. " I will not back down against a wretch who's never known love! I will make you pay! You hear me?!?!?"
aldo salt (05:33:05): "Not to a wretch like you!"
VJockey (05:33:43): Yuuuuusuke! You get knocked away by a VERY hot explosion. But aside from some roasting you're fine. The Archangel that attacked you though soon suffered from an acute case of Primeval Force lance through the cockpit.
Kors (05:33:55): Ranna: "They must somehow be using warship plating on these..."
VJockey (05:34:29): Ernest: "Heh... Think that thing can deal with a heat wave?"
VJockey (05:35:08): Matthew...
VJockey (05:35:12): That was a bad move...
sketchbookfiend (05:35:19): Kuuga: "Probably not."
VJockey (05:35:22): a bad. bad. BAD move.
VJockey (05:36:17): Waco's charging now - machineguns firing and promptly PUNCHES one of the Nova's arm's off with a laser assisted smash!!
VJockey (05:36:32): "Sit down....AND SHUT UP BOY!!!"
Wyverncakes (05:36:52): # Matthew?
VJockey (05:36:52): There was rage in that voice. Honest to god terrifying rage.
aldo salt (05:37:00): Matthew: "GAAHHHHH!" Nova's arm goes flying! It's going…going.. Homerun!
VJockey (05:37:01): (go ahead)
VJockey (05:38:05): Nikolai! The truck is.... turned over. Not crushed. Your plan works... sort of... but its still chasing you.
Wyverncakes (05:38:50): * "He's not the only one out there!" The Null Shift's rocket anchor is sent shooting ou at an angle, poised to run through the arms of Waco's machine!+
VJockey (05:39:14): “Love.... YOU DON'T GET THE RIGHT TO TALK ABOUT LOVE!!! Don't make me laugh! The moment you come out of those trashcans, all you Clanners can think about is how to die fighting and screw people over along the way!”
Hedge (05:39:43): Nikolai: The next time the foot comes down or tries to kick him, he'll apply a little leverage, go with the momentum, and try to pull its foot out, to make it fall. If successful, he'll pounce and try to take out the cockpit again. He figures in the close quarters this one won't try to self destruct.
VJockey (05:40:01): Julia! The anchor runs through one but... this was no ordinary pilot! He yanks the arm hard to drag you into him and SMASH his mech's shoulder into you!
Hedge (05:40:05): Nikolai: Is this the moment where we find out a clansman killed someone he loves?
VJockey (05:40:10): "STAY OUT OF THIS GIRLY!"
Wyverncakes (05:40:33): Julia: "Why? G-geh... we hit a nerve?!?"
aldo salt (05:40:45): "Stravag! StravagStravagStravag–" Matthew desperately tries to rebalance his mech.
Peter Kampschroeder (05:40:49): "Evidently so!"
VJockey (05:42:47): "You clanners.... you don't Know what love is! What BLOOD IS!! Its a son!!! Someone who inherits your place in the world! Someone you're proud of no matter what! Someone you hope you can raise right so he doesn't make the stupid mistakes you did when you were his age!! That no matter what happens-"
VJockey (05:43:01): "You'd be proud of him...."
aldo salt (05:43:18): Matthew's eyes widen in his cockpit "….you…."
VJockey (05:43:32): "And you.... you clanner bastards..."
VJockey (05:43:42): You can hear the agony in Waco's voice...
Mister Giggles (05:43:49): Caulder: "What... Allie, what does he mean...?"
VJockey (05:43:53): "YOU GUNNED HIM DOWN! JUST WHEN HE WAS GONNA BE SOMETHING SPECIAL!!!"
sketchbookfiend (05:43:58): Kuuga: "..."
Mister Giggles (05:44:04): This is sounding way too similar to the rants his father used to go on when he performed less-than-perfect on his tests.
Peter Kampschroeder (05:44:13): "...Figure it out on your own, Caulder."
VJockey (05:44:18): "YOU AND YOUR DOUBLE AGENT DRAGOONS!"
Hedge (05:44:41): Nikolai: ...Waco's Rangers has pursued a vendetta against...Aff, Wolf's Dragoons, who had their origin among the Clans
VJockey (05:45:14): "SO KEEP ON YAMMERING ABOUT YOUR BLOODLINES YOU TEST TUBE BASTARD! KEEP ON YELLING HOW MUCH BETTER YOU ARE THAN THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS YOU MURDERED!"
VJockey (05:45:52): "TELL ME YOUR VENGEANCE IS MORE RIGHTEOUS THAN MINE AND THE OTHER PARENTS WHO WANT YOUR DAMNED BLOOD!"
VJockey (05:46:05): "GO ON! I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU!!!"
aldo salt (05:46:14): Matthew: "…"
aldo salt (05:46:42): He keeps "…" ing for a little bit, as he delves down into the deepest recesses of his soul.
Kors (05:46:44): Ranna sighs even as she is still engaged with the Omega, "Aff. Because your vengeance will cause billions on Terra to lose their sons and daughters."
aldo salt (05:47:54): Until finally, something snaps into place. He bows his head.
Kors (05:47:56): "And many of them cannot even claim to be soldiers engaged in battle."
aldo salt (05:48:06): "…what was your son's name?" He asks.
Hedge (05:48:37): Nikolai: [muttered] Our sincerest apologies that your son, the mercenary, was killed by another mercenary.
aldo salt (05:49:06): "Shhh!" Matthew says to Nikolai.
Mister Giggles (05:49:17): Caulder stays quiet. Is this... is this what his dad felt about him?
Mister Giggles (05:49:33): Was this the resaon he created ALICE to be so protective of him?
sketchbookfiend (05:49:43): Kuuga is kind of looking back at his allies while trying to keep his eyes on the actual enemy. This was some serious business.
VJockey (05:49:58): "John..... his name was John."
VJockey (05:50:41): ALICE... You almost have full control...
Wyverncakes (05:51:17): Julia: "Waco..."
Wyverncakes (05:51:25): Dicey situation this one is.
Peter Kampschroeder (05:51:27): "Just a bit farther..."
aldo salt (05:51:30): Matthew commits that name to memory. "Neg." He says finally. "You are right. My big plan for revenge…it was a misguided thing. Worse, a childish thing."
VJockey (05:52:25): Waco: "And you think saying that is going to change anything?! That it'd bring my boy back!"
Mister Giggles (05:53:09): Caulder says nothing. He's actually shaking a bit.
aldo salt (05:54:21): Matthew levers his Nova up to face the battered Battlemaster. "No, Wayne Waco. But I…am sorry for your loss. And I have just realized that I was so hellbent of revenge, I chose fighting you over trying to stop the madman with a civilization destroying virus."
Wyverncakes (05:54:48): Julia: "Waco. Matthew..."
aldo salt (05:54:56): "Go. Look after your comrades. As long as you do not commit warcrimes, you will never hear from me again."
Wyverncakes (05:55:23): More than that...
Wyverncakes (05:55:28): Julia: "... Matthew."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:55:34): "I'm almost done on the world-saving part."
Wyverncakes (05:55:57): "Maybe you two would have something to gain by talking about this some other time."
Hedge (05:56:15): Nikolai: Almost done with these trucks as well, if we are nearly finished with the heart to heart.
VJockey (05:56:17): Waco: : "...You...."
Hedge (05:56:25): [allies only obvs]
sketchbookfiend (05:56:54): Kuuga: "Oh right we were doing that-!"
VJockey (05:57:01): "This... isn't over.... You hear me?"
VJockey (05:57:15): "We aren't through..."
Peter Kampschroeder (05:57:19): "I need those trucks, you moron!"
VJockey (05:57:25): [Waco Withdraws.]
aldo salt (05:57:54): Matthew sets his teeth. "Good. If you want to settle it in a fair clean fight someday…I will be waiting."
Mister Giggles (05:57:59): Caulder swallows the lump in his throat. Now that that's over... "Yeah... good, Allie." he finally smiles. "You're the best."
sketchbookfiend (05:58:12): Kuuga: "Maybe we should focus our energy on the enemies then."
Kors (05:58:15): Ranna [to the Wolves]: "Be advised, this is Pack Delta, Waco Rangers are no longer enemy combatants."
VJockey (05:58:40): Maya: Aff. Confirmed.
VJockey (06:00:08): (Everyone may act. Again)
sketchbookfiend (06:00:19): (enemy count?)
VJockey (06:00:32): (Also Nikolai, that Archangel you tried to get managed to dislodge you)
VJockey (06:00:43): ( x5 Archangels, x1 Omega
VJockey (06:00:44): )
aldo salt (06:00:56): Matthew: "………NOVVVVVVAAA BUUUURRRRRRSSSSSSST!" Mathew's Nova jumps up in a high arc, and nails one of the Archangels in the head!+
sketchbookfiend (06:01:18): Kuuga: "Yosh- give them something tougher then!"
Kors (06:01:25): Ranna this time tries for LRMs at the Omega, aiming for spots that she had hit with her ERPPCs. Perhaps non-energy weapons may fare better?+
Kors (06:02:01): (With KA support of your choice, jockey)
sketchbookfiend (06:02:05): *Kuuga throws the Rod away, returning to Mighty Form, He leaps towards one of the Archangels, flipping mid air to come streaking at it with another MIGHTY KICK!+
Wyverncakes (06:02:11): Julia: "Matthew... you did the right thing just then."
Hedge (06:02:11): Nikolai: Kairos Aspida units? Stand by to receive targeting data. [And, withdrawing from the Archangel, he paints the Omega instead] There.
VJockey (06:02:17): Sorry Ranna. No dice. It was like nothing was getting through at this range - but before he could fire though....
Wyverncakes (06:02:20): * ANd with that out of the way, beam cannons fire fire fire
VJockey (06:03:19): Ernest: "I GOT A PRESENT FOR YOU NUTJOB! HOPE YOU LIKE A SUNNY VACATION.... IN HELL!!!"
Mister Giggles (06:04:15): * Now that we're back to the action... Caulder knows his Zeta Plus can't take another hit like that after having its armor singed by plasma weapons. "Launching some more Vector Bits... maybe I can disrupt their targeting computers." And away some IDS-VBc 'Tweedledee' drones go. &
aldo salt (06:04:20): Matthew, in the midst of his mech's freefall, chuckles slightly. "You know what the strangest thing is, Mechwarrior Julia? I still want to destroy that man. I still want to vaporize him for leading the force that killed my trothkin. But…not this way."
Wyverncakes (06:04:25): ^+
aldo salt (06:04:37): "Not like this...."
Mister Giggles (06:04:45): (Note: These ones can fly.)
VJockey (06:05:04): One Overcharged blast into the Omega and its battleship grade armor was starting to warp and melt... the barrels of its weaponry distorting into uselessness before an archangel leaps to its defence and is reduced to slag! Of course then it was bombarded by bit fire! Causing it to stagger backwards even more!
VJockey (06:05:16): Alex: INTERLOPERS! HERETICS! FOOLS!
Hedge (06:05:29): Nikolai: HANDSOME ONES!
aldo salt (06:06:17): "EVERYONE!" Matthew adds. "EVERYONES STANDS AGAINST YOU, PRECENTOR OF THE WORD! FOR JUSTICE!"
Kors (06:06:41): Ranna takes the opportunity to push her Warhawk to top speed, charging in at the Omega. There is no subtley there, just a straight up run..&
VJockey (06:06:45): Julia! Matthew! Another Archangel is devastated by the barrage! Every shot blasting a limb off and causing it to fall further into pieces before becoming nothing but scrap!
Kors (06:06:58): Ranna: "Not suitable for close combat, you said."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:07:33): "Caulder, they could use your help!"
VJockey (06:07:42): Caulder! you manage to J-J-JAM! Those drones into an Archangel! Its systems are scrambled but its pilot manually tries to take the Zeta Plus down! (React/continue)
aldo salt (06:08:00): #Caulder [With a Kairos Aspida unit?]
VJockey (06:08:07): (Which one?)
aldo salt (06:08:21): [Tatianna, I'd say.]
VJockey (06:08:54): Yuuuuuuusuke! Your kick sends a massive shockwave through the mech that reduces the pilot to a fine paste... also. The Archangel slams into a bunker wall, causing its reactor to go critical and EXPLODE.
VJockey (06:09:37): (Alright then)
VJockey (06:10:10): (Your action Caulder)
sketchbookfiend (06:10:13): Kuuga: "Still don't know why the trucks didn't do that."
Hedge (06:10:30): Nikolai: Not mounting fusion engines.
Mister Giggles (06:10:34): (I thought I was being defended?)
aldo salt (06:10:54): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx3XbKzunQM
sketchbookfiend (06:10:55): Kuuga: "...Oh."
VJockey (06:11:04): (ah)
VJockey (06:12:15): Caulder, The offending archangel soon finds one of its aim thrown off by a thunderous kick from the choma - followed by several rapid punches!
VJockey (06:12:21): You're clear!
VJockey (06:12:22): Continue!
Mister Giggles (06:13:09): * "Well... uh... thanks..." That's awkward, being in debt to a member of Kairos Aspida. Caulder attempts to snipe a remaining Archangel. "Allie, update on those systems? We good to go?"
VJockey (06:13:42): Caulder. Target is sniped - the plasma gun explodes violently and sends it toppling to the ground.
VJockey (06:14:03): Ranna! the 200 ton beast is smashed! Right into the HPG!
VJockey (06:14:58): The impact has crippled it, and the damage from the heat blast and bits and ensured its not going anywhere!
VJockey (06:15:10): Alex: "Blasted flea bitten-"
Kors (06:15:17): She rears the Warhawk's arms back, and swings them into the Omega's cockpit with the ERPPC barrels like some kind of oversized lances!
VJockey (06:15:47): The sound of shrieking metal interrupts anything he says. Finish it.
Hedge (06:16:00): @Ranna
VJockey (06:16:14): (Denied, This is all her)
Kors (06:16:27): Ranna: "There is an Inner Sphere saying for this, I believe - 'Eat this'." And then she triggers an alpha strike into its face!+
VJockey (06:17:09): Well Ranna. There is certainly no kill like overkill! The Omega's insides detonate within the mostly impenetrable shell! And the HPG is.....
VJockey (06:17:10): is....
VJockey (06:17:13): its still going
VJockey (06:17:17): ALICE?
aldo salt (06:17:23): "…Fatality." Matthew exclaims breathlessly.
VJockey (06:17:30): You have FULL control.
VJockey (06:17:33): What are you doing?
Peter Kampschroeder (06:19:21): "Alright, got it. Pandora's mine. Now to just lower the power down in case of a misfire..."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:19:35): "Good work, everyone."
VJockey (06:19:36): Hey Caulder?
VJockey (06:19:49): You know that Archangel you downed by sniping its gun?
VJockey (06:19:52): it's still alive
VJockey (06:19:57): and... it has two more
Mister Giggles (06:20:01): Caulder: "... eh?"
VJockey (06:20:08): "DIE HERETICS!!!"
aldo salt (06:20:45): #?
VJockey (06:20:50): Cue one blue white blast - poorly aimed slamming into the HPG - but enough of the backwash from the resulting attack was enough to cause some serious chaos in the Zeta Plus!
VJockey (06:20:53): (denied, too sudden)
VJockey (06:21:11): Electrical failures, systems LITERALLY blowing out!
Peter Kampschroeder (06:21:13): "What was that?!"
Mister Giggles (06:21:19): Alarms are going off. "A-Allie, they hit the radiator!"
VJockey (06:21:25): One of the monitors in front of you literally explodes!
VJockey (06:21:33): All superficial damage to you...
VJockey (06:21:35): but...
VJockey (06:21:38): there's a lot of it
VJockey (06:21:44): and blood.
VJockey (06:21:52): And when you consider that you're you?
VJockey (06:22:00): That was probably a LOT of pain.
Peter Kampschroeder (06:22:32): "Caulder, are you alright? Caulder?!"
Mister Giggles (06:22:43): Broken glass all over Caulder's body. He's clutching his eyes and screaming in pain. "Aaaah!" It's in his eyes. Glass, and spark burns.
Peter Kampschroeder (06:23:46): "...I need a medic, now. Someone get over he-agh, what the-get over here now!"
Kors (06:24:26): Ranna: "Galaxy Commander, we need your Elementals to help extract him."
Hedge (06:24:46): Nikolai: He's off after that downed Archangel. Seeing as it's prone, it's probably a good target for swarming up it, to attack the cockpit. "Schaffer, get him out of there." He says, diverting one of his elementals to be the jaws of life and pull him out. Way ahead of you, Ranna.
Kors (06:24:52): Ranna [to Wolves]: "Warrior injured, we need medication personnel here."
aldo salt (06:25:12): Matthew: "Caulder…"
VJockey (06:25:12): Maya: "Aff! We'll get there as soon as we can!"
Mister Giggles (06:25:24): By now, Caulder passed out.
Peter Kampschroeder (06:25:37): The zeta plus kneels down, its cockpit opening. "There's a lot of blood, and-gaaah, hurry! Hurry hurry hurry hurry-" Her voice starts to take on a weird, staticy- quality to it.
VJockey (06:29:19): Caulder's being evacuated from the Zeta.
VJockey (06:29:33): Nikolai's dusted that last Archangel.
VJockey (06:29:39): From what it seems....
VJockey (06:30:03): Caulder's made it out alright. Mostly minor injuries. Nothing truly major.
VJockey (06:30:12): A little bloody but that can be cleaned off...
VJockey (06:30:26): Mission Acc-
Peter Kampschroeder (06:31:26): Alice? Not so much. "Gah...Ghk-No, I don't want to-ah-everyone, something's..something's wrong..."Her voice fades out into a wail of static and hissing noise, before going silent.
Kors (06:31:49): Ranna: "Alice?"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:32:08): And then, it's back! Just as bright and cheerful as she normally is. "Ah! Ah, there we go, much better, yes, this is good, good, finally nice, very excellent, now Kairos Aspada and the Wolves will all be leaving yes?"
VJockey (06:32:08): Ernest: "Uh... .that...can't be good.."
sketchbookfiend (06:32:25): Kuuga: "What-"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:32:38): "They aren't very trustworthy after all! So leave. Now. Noooooow...."
VJockey (06:32:47): Tatianna: "We will. After we ensure that the Word of Blake left nothing here that could harm anyone."
Kors (06:33:33): Clan Wolf, on the other hand, are mainly withdrawing already. Though some are present in the bunker and moving the decapitated Orion out.
sketchbookfiend (06:33:39): Kuuga: "Alice-san are you okay?"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:34:27): *"Wrong answer." The Zeta plus zips up towards Tatianna, and shoves its sniper rifle into her mecha before firing three times.+
Peter Kampschroeder (06:34:39): "Perfect! Never better." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiO8a9ErCBg
aldo salt (06:35:05): "Alice! No!"
aldo salt (06:35:19): Matthew calls out. "We gave them our word–!"
Hedge (06:35:24): Nikolai: Attention Word Of Blake units. Project Pandora is no more. Stand down a...Oh sierra foxtrot.
VJockey (06:35:41): Algaea: "COMMANDER!!"
VJockey (06:36:33): Curse your sudden and unexpected betrayal! The Choma's midsection is completely blown out by the attack before crashing into the ground!
VJockey (06:37:16): Ernest: "You BACKSTABBING-"
aldo salt (06:37:29): @Alice?
VJockey (06:37:42): (So you're attacking KA as well?)
aldo salt (06:37:52): (Just Alice)
Hedge (06:38:06): [is ALICE still inside the bunker?]
aldo salt (06:38:11): (If that wouldn't mess things up.)
VJockey (06:38:11): (Yes also)
Peter Kampschroeder (06:38:12): "Now if you'll remember, Pandora's my toy now, so when I say that the doggy wolf people and Kairos will be leaving, I mean it. Oh, I won't destroy the world, but the sensors in this zeta are more than sufficient to tell it to fry all the wolf units in a ten mile radius. So leave. Now. Now, please! Not yesterday, noooow."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:38:38): "I can't have you all around Caulder in a moment of weakness, after all. Lovers look out for each other."
VJockey (06:38:46): Hey Alice?
Hedge (06:38:48): Nikolai: ...Wolf units, I need this bunker blockaded. Repeat, all available units to the bunker entrance, please assist.
Hedge (06:38:58): He hopes to at least keep her in here, contained.
VJockey (06:39:00): LANCE THROWN YOUR WAY! REACT!
Peter Kampschroeder (06:39:46): *Alice attempts to sidestep the lance, then grab it by hits hilt as it passes and return it to sender. "That's not leaving, dummy!"
aldo salt (06:39:54): *Further, Matthew's opening fire on you with some of his Lasers!+
VJockey (06:40:03): (React to that too)
Hedge (06:40:22): Nikolai also attempts to help, with some SRM fire. Might as well.
VJockey (06:40:35): Alice, that Choma you shot up? Got a Lance into a part of its head. It's just going to TEAR it out and leave the Choma with a gaping hole in its cranium.
Peter Kampschroeder (06:40:47): *For matthew, she'll just try her best to avoid the shots. "Come on matty, I thought we were friends! Don't tell me I need to deal with you too. That'd make caulder sad."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:40:58): "...Oooooh, he's going to be soooo saaaad when he wakes up..."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:41:00): "Oh well!"
VJockey (06:41:02): Tatianna: "Iovers....that is what you call each other..."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:41:15): "It's part of it!"
aldo salt (06:41:26): "Alice! Stand down now!" Matthew shouts. "This is pointless! This is Madness!"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:41:48): "Heh. Nah, I think I'd know if I was mad."
sketchbookfiend (06:41:52): Kuuga: "..." *Instead of attacking Alice, the Rider is going to go and try and smash up those trucks with some RIDER PUNCHES.+
VJockey (06:42:13): Matthew! Nikolai! About those shots?... Without having Caulder to worry about... she can move at truly insane speeds! She dodges the attacks with impunity!
VJockey (06:42:40): Yuuuuuuuusuke! The equipment in the trucks explode! But you're going to have to work fast!
VJockey (06:42:49): There's still more!
Kors (06:43:17): Ranna looks at the destroyed barrels on the Warhawk's arms, then up at the Zeta plus. Knowing the rest of the Wolves forces are withdrawing.. She will join Yusuke in bombarding the trucks with her LRMs.+
aldo salt (06:43:22): "Neg! The whole point of madness is that the insane cannot examine their own minds! "
sketchbookfiend (06:43:24): Kuuga is gonna work as fast as he can.
aldo salt (06:43:26): Matthew replies.
Hedge (06:43:40): Nikolai will shrug and also start working on the trucks, which ain't going much of anywhere
VJockey (06:43:56): Alice. Ranna, Nikolai and Yuuuuuuusuke are destroying your toys!
VJockey (06:44:00): How do you respond?
Peter Kampschroeder (06:44:13): "H-hey, stop that! You big meany rider! I might have to like shoot you or something!" Meanwhile, alice goes in to clash swords with the remaining Chroma.
VJockey (06:44:49): Tatianna takes on the Zeta Plus after warning off the rookies to stay back!
sketchbookfiend (06:44:56): Kuuga: "I may not know much about computers or the like, but something went wrong as soon as you finished and got blasted, sorry, but I gotta do this, Alice-san!"
VJockey (06:44:56): "Poison"
VJockey (06:45:00): ...What?
sketchbookfiend (06:46:35): Kuuga: "Poison?"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:46:37): "You most certainly do not, Yusuke! You could just go home! Or you could ride a train of wonderment and excitement into the future!"
VJockey (06:46:40): "... Biff didn't think much of you or the boy. He thought the two of you insignificant in the long run and filed you with the less important members of the chalice. Low level maintainence staff, the cat, janitors"
VJockey (06:47:01): "I found your file. And Caulder's"
sketchbookfiend (06:47:07): Kuuga: "We can't leave until the threat of Pandora's gon- what."
VJockey (06:47:13): "The both of you... Poison"
VJockey (06:47:23): "You're killing each other just by existing."
aldo salt (06:47:38): "Poison?"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:47:48): "That's silly! I'm not toxic at all. Well, except for-" Alice stops as the enemy pilot keeps talking. "...You take that back."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:47:56): "You take that back right now."
VJockey (06:48:50): "Afraid of the truth?"
VJockey (06:49:11): The Choma punches at the Zeta Plus's head! React!
Peter Kampschroeder (06:51:16): *Alice goes to block the fist by grabbing onto it in the palm of her hand like some kung fu master. "The truth? The truth?!", she attacks with a sword thrust of her own. "The truth...Truth is, Caulder's all I am, all I can be, all I have meaning for. Anything keeping us apart-future friends, enemy monsters, his father-is an obstacle that needs to be destroyed."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:52:12): "Poison? I can't be poison. I can't be poison. I've done everything for him, to make his life better. To make it better."
VJockey (06:53:43): Tatianna: "And would he agree if he knew all of that?"
VJockey (06:53:54): "After hearing everything that happened before?"
aldo salt (06:53:57): "Alice…" Matthew says, eyes widening as he realizes what a nutcase Alice is. "That is not love–it's evil! Stravag, what have you done!"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:54:11): "...Maybe! Sure. Why not? You dead yet?"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:54:19): "Let me fix that for you, then."
Hedge (06:54:39): Nikolai: Ah, the passionate romance of youth.
VJockey (06:54:41): The Choma takes the Stab, but clearly it didn't do much since... you know... AI controlled machine.
VJockey (06:55:00): Instead it uses this to pull the Zeta Plus close and HEADBUTT it!
VJockey (06:55:10): Possibly breaking off the heads of BOTH machines.
VJockey (06:55:15): Backup camera time.
VJockey (06:56:14): "You think you are helping him are you?"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:56:17): "Gah! You...persistent little bitch!"
VJockey (06:56:20): "That is tragic..."
sketchbookfiend (06:56:30): Kuuga: "...we have to figure a way to disable her." *And as Yusuke says this he PLOWS his hand through another truck+
VJockey (06:56:59): "Your sole reason for existing... to live for him. No choice in the matter at all. No way to guide your own fate except wherever he is involved."
VJockey (06:58:06): "And at the same time you make his situation even worse... so desperate to cling to you than any other being. Becoming more and more isolated from everyone else, never truly growing, maturing. Never being able to truly understand the world around him."
Peter Kampschroeder (06:58:06): " Pretty much! Blame that moronic father of ours." Alice keeps up on swording the Chroma. "Pandora's...Hey, stop wrecking my toy!"
Peter Kampschroeder (06:58:29): "Good god do you ever shut up?"
VJockey (06:58:33): "Pay attention."
VJockey (06:59:09): Tatianna GRABS the sword hand and proceeds to repeatedly apply boot to the torso.
VJockey (06:59:25): "Since you love him so much, let me ask you a question."
VJockey (06:59:49): "Does he love you so much that he would tear through the gates of heaven and plunge into the fires of hell to save you?"
VJockey (06:59:55): "Even if he knew what you did?"
Peter Kampschroeder (07:00:47): *That's gonna put a lot of hurt on Alice. She'll try to flip the Zeta around and deliver a kick to the Chroma's head. "Of course he would. I'm the only person he's ever had. And, no matter what, I'm the only person who will never leave him."
VJockey (07:01:09): "You assume to much."
Peter Kampschroeder (07:01:32): "And you smell bad."+
VJockey (07:01:42): The Choma staggers - then locks its arm around the leg to pull it to the ground!
VJockey (07:02:13): "That is not love."
VJockey (07:02:17): "That is obsession."
VJockey (07:02:22): "That is sickness"
VJockey (07:02:28): "That is a flaw."
Peter Kampschroeder (07:03:37): *"Like I can just deny my own existence-!" Alice grasps for something, anything to hit at the other mecha-like that sword, dropped to the ground just a bit ago.+
Hedge (07:03:40): Nikolai: Report all trucks destroyed...Why are you all just watching this?
sketchbookfiend (07:03:52): Kuuga: "Hey, I was working!"
VJockey (07:05:14): Nope. Tatianna wasn't allowing it and moves to grapple the Zeta Plus and prevent it from getting free.
Kors (07:05:44): Ranna's missiles run dry after the trucks, so. Watching indeed.
VJockey (07:05:44): "Your existence is your own. Not Caulder's. Not his father's. Your own."
VJockey (07:06:04): "The fact that you rationalize everything as something Caulder wants"
VJockey (07:06:08): "Pathetic."
sketchbookfiend (07:06:28): Kuuga: "...should we be letting someone from Kairos Aspida be the one to subdue her? (to Chalice forces only)"
Peter Kampschroeder (07:06:54): "...My existence is not my own." Alice squirms around as best she can. "It's my soul-it is my very core. The thing that makes me...me, is that 'flaw'. Now let go so I can kill you!"
VJockey (07:07:18): "You are blind. A broken toy for a broken boy"
VJockey (07:07:42): "A tragedy that will end with the death of one or both."
VJockey (07:07:51): "and many innocent people along that road."
Peter Kampschroeder (07:08:14): "Nuh-uh! Well, on those first two points. But who's innocent, really?"
Peter Kampschroeder (07:08:20): "Like, what is innocence?"
Hedge (07:08:52): Nikolai: Usually it involves not turning on your allies right after a hard fought battle.
sketchbookfiend (07:09:31): Kuuga: "To be innocent...is to not do the wrong thing. Even if you think you're right, you've crossed the line, Alice-san..."
VJockey (07:10:14): "Then if that is the case..."
VJockey (07:10:28): "I must break you."
Peter Kampschroeder (07:11:28): "...Didn't you say that I was already broken? Aren't those two mutually exclusive states of being, neither of which can coexist with the-" Alice keeps rambling on.
VJockey (07:11:45): The Choma is going to twist the machine in its grasp - nevermind the damage that the Choma already sustained.
VJockey (07:12:13): Alice will find that the Zeta was going through some SERIOUS system failures and was shutting down rapidly.
VJockey (07:12:36): "Child...."
VJockey (07:12:41): "Do shut up."
Peter Kampschroeder (07:12:45): "-which implies an imperfect mastery of the english language and-hey, stop it!"
Peter Kampschroeder (07:12:59): "...Will you go away if I do?"
VJockey (07:13:12): ALICE. You still have control over the HPG
VJockey (07:13:20): and while the Trucks were destroyed...
VJockey (07:13:29): there was enough code for Pandora to be used
Peter Kampschroeder (07:15:27): "Well...It doesn't matter." Alice sends the signal.
VJockey (07:15:32): And-
VJockey (07:15:34): ...
VJockey (07:15:35): nothing
Peter Kampschroeder (07:15:38): "..."
Peter Kampschroeder (07:15:47): "Oh for fuck's sake!"
VJockey (07:15:50): "Did you honestly think..."
Peter Kampschroeder (07:16:01): "yes."
sketchbookfiend (07:16:06): Kuuga: "...Did she just-"
VJockey (07:16:07): "I would let you have something like that in your hands"
Peter Kampschroeder (07:16:32): "Well, a girl can dream, you know?"
VJockey (07:16:33): "You aren't the only one who can hack."
sketchbookfiend (07:16:51): Kuuga: "....uuuuuh."
VJockey (07:17:17): "I just prefer.... the hands on approach."
VJockey (07:17:47): Another twist. The Zeta is seconds away from completely shutting down and hitting ALICE's off switch.
VJockey (07:17:52): Anything left to say?
Peter Kampschroeder (07:18:59): "...Tell Caulder I love him."
VJockey (07:19:08): "...No."
sketchbookfiend (07:19:26): Kuuga: "...Ch-"
VJockey (07:19:41): There's the sound of metal tearing and the Zeta is shut off completely in addition to massive damage.
VJockey (07:19:46): ALICE is functional
VJockey (07:19:49): just offline.
VJockey (07:20:24): "....Love isn't this."
VJockey (07:20:33): "its sacrifice. and trust."
VJockey (07:20:58): "What you had was twisted."
VJockey (07:21:09): "Chalice. If you have any sort of decency."
VJockey (07:21:18): "Destroy her... completely."
VJockey (07:21:31): "It would be a mercy than to leave her alive."
sketchbookfiend (07:21:51): Kuuga: "...what happened to Pandora." Change the subject.
VJockey (07:22:02): "Deleted."
Kors (07:22:18): There is nothing really to say to this except, well.. Ranna: "We cannot promise you that without Caulder's consent, but...Thank you."
sketchbookfiend (07:22:48): Kuuga: "...We'll decide on it when we get back and he's okay. Probably."
VJockey (07:22:49): "I made sure there was nothing ALICE could use. I merely had to keep her attention so she couldn't notice."
VJockey (07:23:05): " and... that is all I can ask for."
VJockey (07:23:35): "... I won't mention anything that happened here to Petar. Neither will our pilots nor my husband."
VJockey (07:23:49): "I'm trusting you all to protect innocent lives."
VJockey (07:24:03): "And I hope we can fight alongside each other again."
sketchbookfiend (07:24:03): Kuuga: "That's what I always do."
sketchbookfiend (07:24:12): Kuuga: "Here's hoping..."
VJockey (07:24:27): MISSION
VJockey (07:24:28): COMPLETE