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

[payback]

[A moment drags out. Rin stares at him intently. Her smile stays.]

Thanks. I hope it'll go well. As long as somebody finds this thing we're after! Everybody's got a good job to do and that's good, you know?

[ricin]

Totally.

[He's nodding and kicking at the dirt a little with the toe of his sneaker.]

[payback]

[Rin looks at him and then... reaches out and pats him on the shoulder. Jesse always gives off this feeling like he needs a hug and a solid meal. She has to react to it.]

You look different. Your hair is cute.

[ricin]

[He's surprised she does that. Most people don't want to touch him. And oh shit, did she just call him cute? The charm must be on today.]

Yeah? Thanks. I heard, you know, I get uglier. But I still got it right now, right?

[payback]

[She looks at him... her lips twitch a little... and then she laughs in his face. ALBEIT JUST BRIEFLY.]

Um, excuse me, got what? What have you got?

[ricin]

[Take the wind out of his sails, why don't you.]

Wow, harsh.

[payback]

[It's how she rolls.]

You're a sweetheart, but don't get any ideas.

[ricin]

Yeah, I learned my lesson.

[payback]

[Laughing at him again. She reaches out and - it would feel too familiar to give him a hug, he barely knows her at this age. But she pats him on the shoulder again.]

Are you doing okay?

[ricin]

Yeah, totally. Doing great. Barrels of fun. Out here. In the creepy jungle.

[payback]

Go back. Put the gun away. Wait it out.

[ricin]

No way. I ain't a pussy.

[payback]

What, you want to shoot something?

[ricin]

Uh, yeah? What else would I be doing with a gun?

[payback]

Well, just shooting stuff seems kind of unlike you...

[tweaker]

What're you talking about? I mean, I ain't psycho but this is a war, ain't it? Bring it on, bitches. I'm ready.

[payback]

Well yeah, but... [A pause.] I mean... it would be better if you all just didn't have to fight at all.

[tweaker]

Yeah, but they started it. Now we can't back down. Otherwise the terrorists win, yo.

[payback]

[She shrugs and - has nothing to say to that really. She fought on when everyone told her not to bother, too.

Senseless killing is distasteful but he's right. It is war.]