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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[foolofatook]

Oh, no no. A Hobbit is what I am. It is my race. Peregrin Took is my name, but everyone calls me Pippin.

[He gives a practiced bow.]

And your name, my lady?

[ringletted]

Oh! I've never heard of a Hobbit before.

[But that could explain the height.]

A pleasure to meet you, Pippin. My name is Snow.

[foolofatook]

There are few who have. I do not believe worlds outside my own have them, nor were we well known in our own until recently.

A pleasure for me as well, Lady Snow.

[ringletted]

There aren't many of you, then? Or else your world must have been very large, if not many there had heard of you.

[foolofatook]

We live in but one area of the world, and it is quite isolated from other parts by the wild. And we Hobbits like to stay out of the affairs of the Big Folk, for the most part, though I am not such a person.

[ringletted]

Is it curiosity or a thirst for adventure that makes you different from the rest, then?

[foolofatook]

Oh, a little bit of both, I'd reckon! We Tooks are seen as a strange sort -- still respectable, mind you -- but we enjoy going on adventures. And I have been called quite curious by nature.

[ringletted]

I'd like to hear about these adventures, if you're willing! Though waiting until we're not in anticipation of an attack would likely be best.

[foolofatook]

[His face lights up, but then it dims and he nods, turning serious.]

Quite right, Lady Snow. I should not wish to be distracted from our duty.