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

where doing it man

[fortissimos]

Geez, seven years? I can't even begin to imagine that... [ How would you even deal, man. ] But you said he's back to normal now, right? Maybe it'll just fix itself.

[speakveryclearly]

[It would just be so, so awful if you suddenly lost and regained your memory, Sayaka. Wouldn't it.]

It was only just now on the mission. Nobody's selves were fixed during the whole...

I'm going to assume you remember two weeks of being a Transport. However long, nobody during that whole period.

[fortissimos]

[ SOME THINGS ARE BETTER OFF FORGOTTEN too bad it won't last ]

Yeah, I remember that. [ She'd woken up in a strange bed confused as all hell, but some people had helped explain things. That's when the confusion started. ] So... maybe this weird time travel stuff is fixing it? I don't really feel any different, though.

[speakveryclearly]

Well, maybe when you get back.

[She doesn't know Sayaka well enough to be sure of how she's different aside from having forgotten Exsilium until now, other than perhaps being slightly happier.

A kid has probably curled up on the floor and begun to sleep.]

[fortissimos]

[ Things will become clear Soon Enough. That's kawaii as hell, though, so she's just going to bend down with a grin to check on the sleepy kid. ]

They must feel pretty safe to sleep in a place like this, huh? [ +1 AWESOME POINTS TO ALIEN AND MEGUCA Kanaya you are getting a friendly shoulderpat after she stands back up. ] I guess we make a good team.

[speakveryclearly]

[She gives Sayaka a warm shojo look in return.]

I think we do. [Looking down at the kid from up here and sighing. Thumb being placed in mouth. So cute.] I love watching people sleep. [Hahaha plz not to be reading too deep into that] They're so peaceful.

[fortissimos]

[ SHE'S READING INTO IT ]

... Yeah, they are. [ no Sayaka give the weird alien person the benefit of the doubt she probably didn't mean it like that ] Just don't go breaking into rooms or anything, okay? That's not really normal for [ pause ] humans.

[ at least she said it as a joke. mostly. ]

[speakveryclearly]

Breaking into rooms? That would disturb the peace, Sayaka.

[Very fang-visible smile.


She said nothing about looking through windows.]

[fortissimos]

[ ??? ]

Uh... [ SHE'S HOPING 'DISTURBING THE PEACE' ISN'T THE ONLY REASON NOT TO DO THAT alien lady you are weird ]

[speakveryclearly]

[Willingly oblivious to Sayaka's perturbation, she turns her attention to that third child. tried to work in an Evangelion reference couldn't do it]

Hmm.

[fortissimos]

[ STILL KIND OF STUCK ON BEFORE not sure whether she should be rescuing the child from weird alien ]

Uh, I can probably handle this! [ sounding a little too eager to get between the two of them ]

[speakveryclearly]

[Turning back to Sayaka and definitely distanced from the kid now a bit]

Okay. I must admit I'm running out of "child" care ideas.