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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[speakveryclearly]

Kanaya notices when the undying glow around her to which she is perpetually accustomed suddenly begins to dissipate at the edges. She pushes forward and finds the light she's producing barely cancels out the network of shadows surrounding--

And then she turns the corner, and there is Rose, the six-sweeps Earth Gothic angel (though she knows nothing of Christian heaven and does interpret angel in a fairly strict Hussnasty sense) of her memories. It was different, seeing her video post on her tiny tablet and here, cutting exactly the figure she's supposed to (six, for just a little while they can both be six) in the layered clothing she selected herself.

"How are you," she says cautiously.

[flightybookshrew]

[Rose only knows what Kanaya looks like from her investigation of the phones, and she still isn't precisely certain why the troll girl glows the way she does, but it isn't as though she can communicate that question properly.]

[She's honestly a bit fascinated though, watching her shadows trying to compete with that glow, and she watches it for a moment, the darkness straining against the light, before she actually looks up at Kanaya's face and shrugs.]

Hgrut.

[speakveryclearly]

[She sees Rose investigating her glow and - oh her heart is little and black for making her brighten up at this, but things being the way they are supposed to never cease to fill her with a secret and selfish sort of delight.]

You don't know what I am, do you? I'm your friend Kanaya, but I'm a rainbow drinker now.

[flightybookshrew]

[Rose shook her head at that question and frowned, sitting up a bit straighter and waving a hand as if to prompt for more information, since she can't ask for it.]

[speakveryclearly]

Uh...

[She frowns back and then raises her arms high in the stereotypical intimidating vampire fashion, baring her fangs wide, though the impression is undermined by her lack of cape and demure black nail polish.]

Bluh.

[flightybookshrew]

[Rose watches this, and then has to cover her mouth as she laughs softly...at least that sound isn't eldrich. And then she nods, to show she understands.]

[speakveryclearly]

[Heh. Looks like she got it kind of right a little. Brightens up, or really more undarkens the surroundings slightly.]

At least your form suits your weapon now if nothing else.

[flightybookshrew]

[Rose's laughter fades and she sighs at the wands sitting in her lap, picking one up and spinning it between her fingers absently. The dark aura around her increases almost immediately, and rather noticeably, though Rose doesn't seem to notice.]

[speakveryclearly]

Dark magic... [She stares, captivated in spite of her better instincts.] Really straight from the gods themselves?

[flightybookshrew]

[Oh hey, a question Rose can actually answer! Which she does, by nodding.]

[speakveryclearly]

[OK WHERE TO FROM HERE... uhhh...]

Don't get yourself hurt, now.