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

[deadelfwalking]

I cannot, Ico. [He sighs, dropping down to his haunches.] Someday you will learn to accept what I tell you. I hope.

[hornedomen]

[He sat down and carefully placed the sword across his lap. He lowered his head, feeling that he had upset Koltira again.]

I don't understand.

[deadelfwalking]

[Koltira sighs. He kneels beside Ico, and tries to speak as gently as possible.]

Ico, I am not angry. But you must learn that there are some things you cannot change, and the facts of my existence are among them. My body was created through inherently evil magic. I can only manage it--never dispel it.

[hornedomen]

[His brow knit as he tried to understand what Byfrost had to do with what Koltira told him.]

Do you mean it's normal for Byfrost to do that?

[deadelfwalking]

[Okay, well, he has to admit that the miasma is new.]

I--I am not sure about its current state, honestly. I presume it's part of the evolution I was told about upon arrival.

[hornedomen]

The Initiative did that?

[He clutched his own sword.] They were going to do that to this sword. But I asked them to change it back. Maybe they'll know what to do with Byfrost.

[deadelfwalking]

It's more correct to say that Byfrost has done it due to the Initiative. I doubt they understand--or can alter--the sword's own magic.


Do not worry about it, Ico. If it becomes a problem, I will handle it.

[hornedomen]

[Ico did not look happy with that, but he nodded.]

Okay. Be careful, Koltira. I'll stay here and protect the base.