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

[deadelfwalking]

If you became a mercenary while still a child ... My world is beset constantly by war and other dangers of all kinds, but we generally do not send children into battle.

[sO YOUR WORLD MUST BE WORSE.]

[ino]

[LMFAO CLEARLY.]

Oh! Well, we don't generally get sent on missions we can't handle, of course! Every task is given a "rank" based on difficulty. When I first graduated from school, even though we're considered adults at that point ... a lot of our missions were more like menial tasks and chores than actual fighting. And any mission we went on at that age, we were accompanied by our teacher, who could protect us if we somehow got into a mission that was over our heads.

I mean, I'm not saying there's never been any conflict in my lifetime or anything, there's definitely been times when I was pretty close to getting killed. But they do their best to assign missions to people who are best suited for them.

[deadelfwalking]

[IT ALL STILL SEEMS QUITE SUSPICIOUS but that's ... not so bad, he guesses.]

An interesting system. [He glances beyond her, towards the open fields. He's ready to get this show on the road.]

So, then. Were you a victim of recent events, as well?

[ino]

Not me, but my best friend was eight.

[wait, "as well" ...]

So you got switched? And I missed it?! [POUTS ...]

[deadelfwalking]

I'm sure that was fun for you. [he tries to shrug, as though it wasn't a big deal.] Yes ... to a time before my death. Be glad; I was insufferable then.

[ino]

It wasn't so bad. We've been friends since we were little, so it wasn't like she didn't know me or anything.

[she grins]

Insufferable? No way ... I bet you would have been fun to talk to!

[deadelfwalking]

[Knowing himself as he does, he's sure he would have tried quite hard to get into this girl's good graces. He shudders at the thought.]

I'm grateful that we missed each other.

[ino]

[that gets a bit of a laugh]

What's that supposed to mean? Jeez ...

[deadelfwalking]

[SIGHS.] I imagine I would have been quite forward with you.

1/2

[ino]

... ?

[forward? for...ward ...]

2/2

[ino]

[ ... OH. lmao the image of him hitting on her makes her laugh a little]

Well, I mean -- who could blame you? I am pretty cute.

[TEASING ...]

[deadelfwalking]

[so utterly deadpan.]

Yes, Ino. You are, indeed, cute.

[and his other self would have been all too glad to let her know.]

[ino]

[SNICKERING.]

Wow, I can tell you really meant that.

[not that it bothers her, it's just more fun to troll koltira than it is to stare at a building forever]

[deadelfwalking]

I am nothing if not sincere.

[ino]

Uh-huh.

Well, in any case, it's not like there's anything wrong with you now. It's just interesting to see what people came from, you know?

[deadelfwalking]

[He quirks an eyebrow at her.]

'Nothing wrong with me'? Please.

[ino]

Well, maybe in your opinion there is. I just meant that I don't mind you the way you are now.

[deadelfwalking]

[He drives Byfrost into the earth, then leans against it, shrugging.]

Give it time.

[ino]

I've given you plenty of time, you just don't remember any of it.

[YOU'RE A BUDDY GET OVER IT KOLTIRA]

[deadelfwalking]

[HIS EARS FLATTEN.]

Whatever version of me that you knew is surely not exactly the same as I am. It's not wise to make any presumptions.

[ino]

[she just keeps a confident grin on her face]

You're so intent on making me dislike you.

[deadelfwalking]

I simply want everything to be clear, that's all.

[ino]

Fair enough.

[she'll put her hands on her hips, trying not to grin like a troll]

Thanks for clearing up that you're a decent guy.

[deadelfwalking]

[HE ROLLS HIS EYES, not that it's ... terribly visible, given the glow.]

Believe what you like. Time will out, I'm sure.

[ino]

I doubt that. I've dated worse.

[but she'll let it drop, glancing back to the building with a loud sigh]

So, think we're gonna be here much longer?