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

[acemedium]

[Nah, she's not going to be fighting. Just hanging around homebase. But she grins right back]

Are you some kind of fancy swordsman?

[wilder]

[a shrug]

I guess. I'm a mercenary.

[acemedium]

Wooow, really? So does that mean you take on all sorts of gritty jobs?!

[wilder]

That'd depend on your definition of gritty.

[acemedium]

Oh? [Whether or not he had somewhere to be Maya had nothing to do but pass the time.... and for Maya, that usually meant being nosy and curious]

[wilder]

Usually I just fight monsters and escort people on their journeys, protect them from bandits and such. Lot of fighting.

[acemedium]

Woah! That is kinda gritty! And pretty cool! I had no idea you were such a tough guy! [Take that as you will, Zelos]

[wilder]

No idea? What's that supposed to mean?

[acemedium]

You seem like such a pretty boy! [She's saying this all cheerfully and excitedly] And now it turns out you're all rough and tumble, too!

[wilder]

[You can almost imagine the anime sweatdrop behind his head. He knows he's a pretty boy, his last life kinda thrived on that. But now when he's trying to pass as a devil-may-care mercenary? As vain as he is about his good looks, it's really not the imagery he's going for. ]

[Sigh. It'd be so much easier if he could grow facial hair. Or tan. That'd make him look more believable, right?]

[But hey, he'll remember to be more modest than anything at least]

That stuff's pretty standard work for mercenaries really. It's not like I wrestle bears with my bare hands or anything...