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. ]]

Comments

Haruto Souma | Distraction | Open to All

[ringwizard]

A

[If there's anything Haruto is good at, distraction is certainly one of them. In the black and green Hurricane Style, his wind powers both allow him to fly and to send troops flying. He doesn't seem to be having much luck against the planes overhead, though, and changes focus to ground troops for the moment, swirling between soldiers with kicks and swings of his sword. He doesn't notice he's bitten off perhaps a little more than he chew until he moves to use his Defend spell against more gunfire than he's really capable of dodging all at once and finds he doesn't have quite enough room for that. In a fit of panic, he instead summons a blast of air in the shape of a tornado without a spell, which doesn't stop but at least redirects the bullets.]

Well, this might be a problem.

[He jumps, supported by more wind under his feet. Just as he crests the top of his jump, he swaps rings, and after the blaring noise of the WizarDriver singing Lupacchi magic, touch to go, Copy plays through the air. Rather than one black-and-green Wizard landing gently on the ground, there are two.]

Looks like it's showtime.

[He jumps right back in. He'd never ask for it, but assistance would be appreciated.]

B

[Haruto had wanted to avoid using the Dragon's power lying dormant within him for as long as he could, but he's running out of mana. Turning into a Phantom isn't on his list of things to do before he gets home, so he steels himself, slides on an even more ornate red ring, and shifts forms to Flame Dragon. His new all-red coat and ornate dragon-head-inspired breastplate don't seem much different than his usual battle getup, though perhaps a little more eye-catching. What might be a little different is the way fire follows every swing of his doubled-up swords, every swing of his kicks, and the way the green eyes on his breastplate glow with light.

He's more reckless now, but he seems to take hits better. He's largely running interference, trying to keep the amount of mana he steals from the Dragon at a manageable level in order to not tempt fate, and if he drops in to help you out, he'll throw you a nod.]

Looks like we're coming up on the finale, doesn't it?