exsiliumlogs | MISSION: GET TO ZE CHOPPA

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. ]]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[no they are different!]

If these guys are trying to kill us, I'm not just going to let them walk away afterward. Justice isn't gonna do shit if they kill one of my friends because I didn't kill them.

I'm not saying you shouldn't do anything.

[ It's something of an impossible stance, and she knows it. But there's no middle ground. ]

It's just... they're only attacking us because we showed up out of nowhere. If there's another option, it's my responsibility to take it. [ Which means a whole lot of unconscious assholes left in her wake. ] Monsters deserve to die, but these guys are just normal humans.

You know, you'd be surprised at the kind of monsters "normal humans" can be.

[This is probably the first time Lilith's gotten legitimately mad in a while, mostly because now she has to remember Handsome Jack and all his dickery.]

[ Give it a few weeks, and she'll understand that all too well. Right now — she can't speak from experience, but she at least acknowledges the concept. ]

I know that! [ From how defensive she sounds, it's probably obvious she's never (knowingly) killed anyone before. ] And if someone was really that bad, I wouldn't argue about it. But we don't know anything about these people.

[Lilith just shakes her head. She hasn't had the privilege of living a life without killing people.]

Trying to save everyone without killing anyone doesn't work. You're gonna have to kill someone eventually, and the longer you put it off, the harder it's gonna be.

[ Neither has blue loser, she just doesn't know it yet. Oops. ]

If someone was really evil, I'd stop them. That stuff isn't forgivable. [ She shakes her head. ] But I can't forget about everything just because a few people deserve to die. That's not what it means to be a magical girl.

[Lilith seems to be about to open her mouth to say something, but she brings her gun up instead. She aims it at Sayaka and starts firing, the bullets all passing by her to rip apart the men who'd come up behind her.

There might be a bit of blood on her.

She takes a look around, noticing some more forces starting to approach.]

You figure out what you gotta protect, Sayaka, and then you do it with everything you've got. I dunno about you, but I don't leave people who want to kill my friends alive.

[ Blood splatters on her cape, and she flinches at the thud of a body hitting the ground. More than anything, she looks a little disturbed — less like a hardened magical girl and more like a fourteen year old in way over her head. ]

I do! [ Angrily, almost. Protecting others is what she's done all her life. ] It's just...

[ What would Mami say if she found out? She'd protected everyone back home without ever taking a life, and even if circumstances were different here...

Something moves beside them, and she lashes out; hitting the man in the head with the flat of her sword. ]

I can protect people without killing everyone else. We're not here for that! [ They'd be back within hours, the Initiative had said. All they needed to do was hold out. ]

[Lilith isn't really observant enough to notice what the tone of her voice might indicate. She knows Sayaka doesn't sound as confident as she usually might, but nothing beyond that. Probably a good thing for her.

Lilith just shakes her head.]

If people are out to kill you, you don't just tell 'em not to. You make sure they can never hurt anyone again.

[And Lilith leaves to do just that. She glows and vanishes from sight, the ground igniting as she passes over. A few people melt into sludge on the ground as she passes them, another group of them are rend and their body parts sent flying, and then she's gone.]

MISSION: GET TO ZE CHOPPA

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