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

[wieldertobe]

[ uncurling once he hears that, he peers up at Jesse hesitantly, before--

welp, clinging.

Riku isn't much of a clinging child. he prefers to be on his own, but in this kind of situation, he can't do anything but hold onto the nearest adult. ]

[ricin]

[Jesse takes a few seconds to survey the area, then makes a break for it. He's slower and clumsier than someone of his build should be, thanks to his attire, but having a kid in tow gives him an extra boost of willpower that keeps him from tripping or toppling right over. He doesn't stop running until they're deep within the camp, and then he kneels to lower the kid to the ground.]

Are you okay?

[wieldertobe]

[ he tries very hard to detangle himself from Jesse, but with him shaking, it's hard to do anything but sit. it takes a moment but he just forces his hands back down to his sides, trying to force himself still and unshaking again. ]

I'm--I'm okay.

[tweaker]

[Jesse nods, reaching out to give the kid a comforting pat on the head.]

That was some serious bravery, little man, but you can't just go out without backup, you know what I'm saying?

[wieldertobe]

[ that pat on the head is comforting in ways Jesse probably does not understand. Riku forces himself to think back to the last time his dad did something like that and finds solace in it. ]

Um...

No?

[ricin]

I'm saying don't go out there alone. Everybody needs someone watching their back. But you probably learned by now, huh. I won't give you a whole lecture about it.

[wieldertobe]

[ he bows his head and gives a little nod. ]

O-okay. Thanks.