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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TEAM 7

[initiatesnpc]

Re: TEAM 7

[have_hat_will_travel]

"Heh... Now this is a little more my element," Pidonus declared, as she kept a forward eye on the environment ahead of her - she had exceptional night vision, after all.

"I've got an invisibility spell that'll cover all three of us, as long as we stay close... But it'll only work for twenty minutes, so we gotta use it only when ready," she noted to her two erstwhile teammates.

"This could be interesting."

[for_guild_justice]

Clive didn't know his teammates, and he really could care less about doing so at this point. He had shown up as ordered, found the strange looking female who was apparently also 'sneaky' and their technician who was to be protected. Beyond that, he could care less save for getting mission completed with success.

Glancing at the young woman, he kept to the rear of the group, shaking his head at how much she chattered so far. "Or it could be painful if you give away our location," he replied with of shake of his head.

"Does your invisibility spell cover noise as well as sight?"

[have_hat_will_travel]

"Nope, sadly. The ONE time Inspire Competence would be a useful song to know..."

[for_guild_justice]

Clive didn't pretend to know what an 'Inspire Competence' was as a song, and he wasn't much for singing to begin with.

"I suppose keeping quiet will have to come from innate skill then," he remarked dryly.

[have_hat_will_travel]

"Fortunately, I can fake knowing how to do that well enough to fool most people."

Which... Sounded completely and utterly stupid, and yet perfectly logical at the same time.

Notably, however, Pidonus seemed to shrink an inch; if Clive looked closely, the heels were disappearing from her boots. Based on her steps suddenly quieting significantly, the soles were also softer than before, now.

[for_guild_justice]

"Faking it doesn't make it a skill."

He was keenly aware of her descending height, but he only glanced at it between walking forward silently. He grunted softly to acknowledge her attempt before shaking his head.

"You should have done that at the start."

[have_hat_will_travel]

"No. But it still works."

Indeed, her steps were actually nicely quieted.

"Both of you, get over here. This spell only works in a ten-foot sphere around me."

[for_guild_justice]

He glanced at her feet, but decided to not argue any further on the point of her quietness. He knew better than to fight with teammates in situations where someone's death could come at any moment.

He grunted at her order, but he kept to the ten feet at the rear from her, especially now that he knew the dimensions they were talking here. "I'm where I should be, woman."

[have_hat_will_travel]

"Then let's keep it that way, and keep moving," Pidonus declared as she did... Just that.