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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[skennen]

[Connor stares back at him for a moment before nodding. That might have been a nod of approval.

He holds his hand up - wait - and around the trunk he goes, his steps light. A thick bundle of vines reaches between their current tree and the next in line. Rather than jump, he hurries across the leafy 'bridge'.

Then he turns back again and whistles softly for Riku.]

[wieldertobe]

[ ooh...

this is a lesson in climbing trees that he never even thought of. vines and jumping--this is all things sora would learn in the future, and riku would be without a teacher. he mimics connor's movements; this time, he's more fluid as he quicksteps. when he finishes next to connor, he gives a silent exhale and a tiny whistle, quiet and chattering, and nods. ]

[skennen]

[One corner of his mouth twitches at that return whistle. If only this situation weren't quite so fraught with danger...

(And if only Kanen'tó:kon were here, that he might point out how easily this small child climbs trees to his friend.)

Connor looks around again, both checking for soldiers on the ground and searching for a way forward. Only one more tree between them and the massive ombú.]

We must go up first.

[He demonstrates by using the fractured bark of the tree to climb up to the next level of branches. From there he heads on across a branch that reaches nicely between the two trees.]

[wieldertobe]

[ he leans forwards slightly, sliding a little hand up the branch to watch connor as he moves, trying to see where he can mimic him.

riku is no eagle; he is something smaller, still young, just a little robin as he he hops twice to get to the edge, each tiny jump short; he tilts his head, trying to see the other side of the branch. an idea sparks in his mind as he climbs up--backwards. not quite because he wants to be fancy, but because he just isn't as big as connor, and to grab what connor had to push himself up, he'd have to be twice his size. with a few extra knobs on the tree, he's able to get right back to where connor is. ]