MISSION: GET TO ZE CHOPPA

[initiatesnpc]

Date & Time: August 23rd, 2753 (OOCly forward-dated to the 1st)
Location: Uruguay National Defense HQ
Characters: All transports!
Summary: All transports are sent back to Uruguay to download a self-aware AI before it gets bombed out of existence by an early incarnation of the UE. Time distortion effects will be set right either on the way there or on the way back, according to player choice.
Warnings: violence, action movie tension, 3 terabytes of foot fetish porn.

The Transporter drops the entire transport population into what will quickly be established as Home Base, a mile from the vast, sprawling facility that is Uruguay's National Defense HQ. The low roar of helidrones moving above is pervasive, but the black ships can only be glimpsed here and there through the thick cover of trees overhead. If you keep calm and quiet, it's likely you won't be spotted. It's the UND HQ their attention is on, after all.

The population is quickly sorted by attending Initiate employees according to who volunteers to fight and who volunteers to protect, along with those with enough skill to access the computers, and those with enough skill to get them there. The fighters move out first, off to intercept the early UE's ships and ground troops, and to draw the automated defense systems of the facility alike. They'll be in a crossfire, and neither side will be happy to see them there.

The techies and their escorts are sent out far more quietly, in groups of three. Their task is to sneak past the front lines and into the facility itself. There might be alarms and automated defense drones, so those escorts may well be called on to earn their keep. The Initiative can't give any information about which building will house the AI's mainframe, that information was long since lost to history. All they can do is send out enough people to hope that one of them manages to find it.

And remember — as soon as the UE troops withdraw, there will only be minutes until the bomb drops. Everyone would do well to work fast.



[[ Mission information is here, and the techie/escort teams, along with their hacking results, are here. Each techie/escort group will have their own established thread, but Team Distraction and Team We'll Stay Here, Thanks are welcome to thread where ever and however they like! The newbie log that goes up on the 1st will also encompass the arrival back in Exsilium, if you'd like to play that out as well. ]]

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[incendiarism]

You wanna make a bet with me?

[He leans back, one hand on his hip.]

Don't come crying to me when you lose, then! Because when you do lose, you'll have to...

[He pauses for dramatic effect.]

Treat me to dinner or cook for me, for a week! Without any help. How's that?

[peachbaths]

That's... [ Judal, what are you doing? Making a princess cook for you...! ] That definitely won't happen! Because - I'll win for sure!

[ Now she has to do extra good on this, or she'll be Judal's personal cook. That's awful! ]

[incendiarism]

If you can take out more enemies than me, that's fine.

[He lifts back into the air a little above her, leaning down as he talks.]

But you won't!

[Game, start, it is, then.]

[peachbaths]

We'll see! [ As the game begins, drones start coming out of the forest behind them, shooting at everything that moves. Time for Kougyoku to make the first move. By controlling the water in the atmosphere, she creates a hurricane at the tip of her sword that blasts the robots away. ]

[incendiarism]

[Kougyoku gets the jump on him at the start, but Judal isn't too far behind her when he creates some icicles from the same water, taking them out a few at a time. He's fast and thorough enough at it that he manages to keep up alright, for the moment.]

Is that all you can do? You'll have to try harder to win against me!

[peachbaths]

[ So what if I said Kougyoku splashed water on him before taking on a few more drones that were flanking her.

What if it actually happened. ]

[incendiarism]

[In that case, Judal uses a tornado to knock her over, attempting to steal her targets while she's on the ground. All after a small shriek of indignant rage, of course.

Enjoy that sand in your face, old hag.]

[peachbaths]

Oof!

[ Rude, Judal.

She eventually recovers and controls the wet sand, forming it into a nice ball and throwing it at the Magi's back! It's on. ]

[incendiarism]

Hey, what do you think you're doing, old hag!?

[Having a wet sand ball thrown at you hurts, but that borg around him is protection enough against a small attack like that. The attempt is enough to really irritate him, though, so enjoy that sudden pile of drones he's re-routing with his wind magic towards Kougyoku.]

[peachbaths]

[ judal you cray ]

You hit me first, stupid!

[ Kougyoku easily slices through those drones with Vinea's sword and magic. But she doesn't do anything more than that! She's nice ok. ]

[incendiarism]

[Yes. Yes, he is.]

You threw water at me first, you cheating idiot!

[He gestures with his free hand to his soaked clothes. Super rude, princess!!]

[peachbaths]

I didn't do that...! Anyway, it's just water, Judal. Sending those things against me was unfair!

[ STOMP STOMP STOMP ]

[incendiarism]

You're just angry that you're losing, even when you cheat.

[Judal flips his braid over his shoulder and starts wringing it out. It's going to be so heavy now, gross.]

Besides, it's not like you can't handle them, anyway. You're not that weak.

[peachbaths]

Yes, but - it's rude!

[ Blasts the incoming drones from behind Judal away with water while he's taking care of his ratchet ass weave. ]

[incendiarism]

Who cares if it's "rude"?

[Screw this noise, man, wind magic to the hair fixes everything. Except that braid, which is now a total mess, but he can fix that later.]

You've got weird priorities, you know that?

[peachbaths]

And you should work on yours! [ She points her sword at him this time, water at the ready. ] If we are to have a challenge, let's do it properly!

[ This can only end badly. ]

[incendiarism]

You wanna go head-to-head with me?

[He's kind of disbelieving that she can do it, but he raises his wand, forming ice above his head.]

Fine! If you get hurt, it's not my fault, got it?

[Judal, you are going to die.]