You have just entered room "clickformacarpee."
CGNakibe has entered the room.
OMG Priam has entered the room.
Arch mage144 has entered the room.
Lithaladhwen: (Pre-emptive font GETTO.)
Arch mage144: (I've been idle because I've been eating and talking with Ashley about Star Wars of all things.)
CGNakibe: (I recall little of this "Fonts" thing)
CGNakibe: (Also I have determined that I liked Star Wars infinitely more before the "prequels" made things "clearer")
Lithaladhwen: (Yes. Brian an d I were discussing things, as I'm a big fan of the authorized fiction, and don't appreciate Lucasfilm endorsing one version of reality, and then making another that sucks.)
Arch mage144: (This whole conversation was spurred by my roommate's enormous Boba Fett stand-up.)
Arch mage144: (Like, life-size, the type you'd see at the theater.)
CGNakibe: (HAN SHOT FIRST)
Lithaladhwen: (Also, I don't know where Charles has been for three hours, but supposedly he'd be interested in RP things.)
T3chn0Namagomi: BACK
Lithaladhwen: ('sup G.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (So, will there be MAC with bishounen and stealth and, err, no piloting, today? XP)
Arch mage144: (This might be the case, but only if Charles shows up, otherwise I'm going to have to say that we've got too many missing people to continue. I'm willing to be missing Shini and replace him with Priam...)
Arch mage144: (But not to have two absent regular players.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (If Cha fails to show up, I will STAB THE FUCK OUT OF HIM WHEN HE DOES)
Arch mage144: (I would hate to have to put things off again, but I'm not sure what else to do.)
Arch mage144: (Oxblood not going to investigate Sentancorp would make no fucking sense.)
CGNakibe: (This RP also needs more Sigov. )
Lithaladhwen: (This RP needs more Sigint.)
MajorGeneralTso has entered the room.
Arch mage144: (I kinda assumed he'd be here because Charles is omnipresent on the internet)
Arch mage144: (The guy, as far as I can tell, has absolutely nothing else to do)
MajorGeneralTso: (*Lurk Lurk*)
T3chn0Namagomi: (...Not only that, but he is listed as neither Away nor Idle)
Lithaladhwen: (Actually, Nama, one of his SNs has been idle for three hours.)
CGNakibe: (He's at work now. I think.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (...)
CGNakibe: (He forgot to set Away)
T3chn0Namagomi: (AND HE REFUSES TO FUCKING TELL US ABOUT THIS IN THE THREAD?!)
Lithaladhwen: (Shaun: He works from about 5.5 in the morning until 2PM.)
CGNakibe: (Because he's USUALLY gone after about 1 PM)
Lithaladhwen: (He's not at work. He has a different job now. I bet he has a family thing.)
CGNakibe: (Point.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (THIS IS THE KIND OF FUCKING BULLSHIT THAT'S KILLED MACHINE KNIGHTS! Aside from Nev being a fucktard)
Lithaladhwen: (Also, those times are his time.)
Lithaladhwen: (I think that fucktardery is more relevant there.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (...
CGNakibe: (Doug? Several things did that. Not to mention including... to be honest, my ex being a bitch.)
Arch mage144: (Well, we all knew he was a weirdo.)
CGNakibe: (Nev helped lots, though! :D!)
PapatymisonN has entered the room.
Lithaladhwen: (Shaun: Are we thinking of the same person?)
Arch mage144: (Hey, what do you know.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (...THank god.)
PapatymisonN: (Holy crap I'm sorry!(
Lithaladhwen: (Because OH MY GOD was he a nutter.)
CGNakibe: (Charles? *STAB* *STABSTAB*)
PapatymisonN: (I fell asleep. vv)
CGNakibe: (You've got it, Ashley.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Now I won't have to unleash Neo-Granzon on you)
CGNakibe: (No no, Charles. Its "I Feel Asleep")
CGNakibe: (*gives Charles his Game Start pack of cigarettes*)
PapatymisonN: (*smokes the pack* Another.)
OMG Priam: (Holy garbage)
CGNakibe: (Cha: *loses life*)
Arch mage144: (OK, give me a sec to chew up some calcium carbonate and we'll start)
Arch mage144: <YOUR MAC GM>
T3chn0Namagomi: <TOO BISHY FOR MY SHIRT, TOO BISHY FOR MY SHIRT, SO BISHY IT HUR--*Shot repeatedly*>
PapatymisonN: <Slobbu.>
CGNakibe: <All Bow to the MAC Daddy>
Lithaladhwen: (Helena "Rei T'Halaan" Mazuo.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Full Metal Jacket is on in the other room.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (I do not know if this means good or bad things will happen. It does mean that R.Lee Ermey kicks ass, though)
Lithaladhwen: (HO CHI MINH IS A SON OF A BITCH)
Lithaladhwen: (GOT THE BLUE BALLS CRABS AND THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH)
Arch mage144: *Alright, so...*
Arch mage144: *The last time we left Delta Unit to their own devices, it was only a few minutes before a required meeting in the ready room with CO Giles Herzog before the unit would be dispatched on their latest mission...*
T3chn0Namagomi: *And they got to see hot lesbian action from Gamma Unit!*
OMG Priam: *If by "lesbian" you mean man-with-woman, then yes!*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Dude, both of those were chicks.*
Lithaladhwen: (They also fought over pudding once.)
Arch mage144: *Yeah, they were.*
Arch mage144: *Aaaaanyway*
Arch mage144: *Ready room?*
CGNakibe: *Poor Zeiren still doesn't understand that "Lesbian" is code for "Unavailable"*
Lithaladhwen: (Maybe someday.)
OMG Priam: (We can hope)
T3chn0Namagomi: *Reedii Ruumu!*
OMG Priam: *Is here!*
PapatymisonN: *glad he really doesn't find humans attractive, cuz they're crazy*
Arch mage144: *They sure are!*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Is not glad that he is within smelling range of Oxblood, and seems visibly disgusted*
CGNakibe: *would be Ready, but he's bored*
Arch mage144: Giles: Okay, Delta Unit. This is our official planning meeting for the infiltration of SentanCorp.
Arch mage144: Giles: I realize that the majority of you are not technically trained in infiltration techniques, but this is not particularly relevant to the issue at hand. I have confidence in each of you being able to improvise.
CGNakibe: *yawn*
T3chn0Namagomi: *sweatdrop*
PapatymisonN: *grin*
CGNakibe: What steps are going to be taken in terms of insertion and extraction in this case?
Lithaladhwen: IM: Like I haven't been doing so already....
CGNakibe: I mean, at this point we'd be better off going through the front door.
PapatymisonN: ...
Arch mage144: *a schematic diagram appears in holographic form before the unit, hovering the table*
Arch mage144: Giles: I'm inclined to disagree.
PapatymisonN: IM: Figures he'd be worried about insertion and extraction.
Arch mage144: G: SentanCorp has...well, it shouldn't be surprised that they have anti-espionage measures in place, so getting internal schematics is practically impossible.
CGNakibe: *nods*
Arch mage144: *the building is large, roughly square from a bird's eye view, and almost totally constructed of black metal*
T3chn0Namagomi: *nods* Like any good corporation.
OMG Priam: Magic-shielded?
Arch mage144: G: Definitely.
OMG Priam: *nods slowly*
CGNakibe: *yaaaawns* If it wasn't I'd be surprised.
Arch mage144: G: However, there are a few potentially vulnerable points. At least one of these is a ventilation system mounted on the roof.
Arch mage144: G: By bringing the unit in at a low altitude in a cloaked vessel, we ought to be able to insert you onto the roof without drawing too much attention to ourselves.
Arch mage144: G: From there, you can enter the building from the shaft on the north side.
T3chn0Namagomi: Quick way in, eh? I just hope that cloaking's up to code. *moves away from the orc*
OMG Priam: How do we avoid detection in the shaft? Vent ducts are long, hollow, and resonant.
CGNakibe: Only the finest. 9.9
Arch mage144: G: Once you're in, everything is up to you. The operation has none of the necessary information regarding the internal layout.
Arch mage144: G: You're absolutely right about that. My suggestion is to get to the "ground" as soon as possible. The more time you spend in the shaft, the more likely you are to be spotted.
T3chn0Namagomi: A couple of requests, if I may?
Arch mage144: G: If you have some magical talents that might afford a better way in, feel free to make a suggestion.
CGNakibe: *mutters* Oh, this one's gonna be wonderful.
Arch mage144: G: Yes, Zeiren?
T3chn0Namagomi: First, you said to report here to suit up for any gear that is higher than standard pilot gear. I take it we're going to get this now?
Lithaladhwen: IM: I don't know how much assistance I can offer in this case... the best thing I can do is attempt to pick off personnel.
CGNakibe: I hate to say it, but wouldn't this mission be better suited to the Shadow Hounds? I'd like to think we're good, but this is clearly stealth specialty.
CGNakibe: Something that we're really... well... not.
Arch mage144: G: I'm not interested in hearing any sort of negativity, Serran. The brass have selected you for this mission. Consider it an honor or consider yourself discharged.
Lithaladhwen: ....
Lithaladhwen: >_>
PapatymisonN: *tiiiiiiiiiiny snicker*
Lithaladhwen: IM: That was... a weird reaction.
CGNakibe: Just considering my squadmates, sir. *shrugs*
Lithaladhwen: I can try to take out personnel on an individual basis, but beyond that, stealth isn't generally my strength, either.
Arch mage144: G: That's correct, Zeiren, if you feel you need heavier armor than standard pilot gear for this particular mission, now is the time to request it.
CGNakibe: *siiiighs* IM: Gonna be a late night tonight.
Arch mage144: G: Heavy infantry dress is available, but keep in mind that the weight may be an issue when it comes to stealth.
OMG Priam: How long do we have to complete the mission?
T3chn0Namagomi: Second...it wouldn't be possible if you have any insulated suits, would it? I mean, seeing as one of our squadmates is rather detectable in ways other than visual and audial...
Lithaladhwen: *mentally runs through anything she could offer magically to help out*
Arch mage144: G: I'm not sure I follow.
T3chn0Namagomi: >_> He stinks.
Arch mage144: G: You have as much time as necessary, Serran, because no extraction will be provided unless you radio out for it.
PapatymisonN: ...
PapatymisonN: ...
CGNakibe: *Nods*
PapatymisonN: He actually has a point.
Arch mage144: G: If you are captured, MAC Igala will be required to disavov all knowledge of your attempts at infiltration.
Lithaladhwen: ...
PapatymisonN: (... groooooooooaner...)
Arch mage144: *disavow
T3chn0Namagomi: ...How encouraging.
CGNakibe: You never heard of us, you never saw us, don't know why we went AWOL. Classic.
Arch mage144: G: Oxblood, if you can't wear deodorant, that's not MAC Igala's problem.
Arch mage144: G: Your teammates seem to think it might be necessary for success of the mission. It isn't expensive.
OMG Priam: (=D)
PapatymisonN: ... It's... a natural musk ... for orcs.
PapatymisonN: Used as... ...
OMG Priam: Would it be possible to make a preemptive reconnaisance run before the actual infiltration?
OMG Priam: (brb)
PapatymisonN: ... attractant. >.>
Lithaladhwen: IM: The best thing I can probably do is help create cover of darkness for us, try to keep some sense of what's alive and moving in the area --namely humanoids-- and possibly quietly kill whoever makes trouble for us.
CGNakibe: Bait for any tracking beasts used to patrol the area, you mean.
Arch mage144: G: I somehow doubt that SentanCorp employs many female orcs as security.
PapatymisonN: I can handle it, though.
MajorGeneralTso: (Stealth Infiltration? Good thing I'm not here!)
PapatymisonN: IM: My girlfriend's going to be so angry... <.<
T3chn0Namagomi: Anyway...as for equipment...hmmm...
CGNakibe: *for once, Serran looks rather displeased by the missions*
Lithaladhwen: (Yeah, because "...." is the most disruptive and alarming sound ever.)
CGNakibe: *Or maybe he hasn't had enough sleep lately. Always hard to tell with him*
Arch mage144: G: Regarding your question about recon, we've done the best we can already without inserting undercover personnel, and there's no time for that.
MajorGeneralTso: (No No...I tend to make more...noise...than that. <.<...)
CGNakibe: (Ah, Has Ashley met Siyun? Lord of Destruction? >:P)
Lithaladhwen: (Ashley has only heard the name.)
T3chn0Namagomi: Any sort of personal knockout or stunning ranged armaments available?
MajorGeneralTso: (Doesn't seem so...Phooey.)
Lithaladhwen: (She didn't read as much of Amanda's RP as she should have.)
CGNakibe: (Lets just say that hearing the name usually involves hearing a loud "BOOM" not too long after)
Arch mage144: G: If you'd prefer stunners to your issued arms, you can have them.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Of coure, the upshot of this is...if we end up in combat with individual guards, I'm more in my element. All they'd have to do was kill one, and I could add an ally to our team.
T3chn0Namagomi: I meant keeping the issued arms as a last resort in case of a firefight.
Lithaladhwen: *sighs* IM: I have missed animating bodies.
PapatymisonN: *won't bother to mention he'll be showing up with his axe*
CGNakibe: If there's a firefight then we've screwed up.
T3chn0Namagomi: But having the stunner available as something to use otherwise.
Arch mage144: G: I didn't say we were going to take your blasters away. If you want stun rifles, that's your call, though it's up to you how much equipment you want to carry.
T3chn0Namagomi: Right.
Lithaladhwen: (Okay, Brian is telling me that to enchant her weapon I can try rolling this. *swallow* I get freaked out by the quick method of doing this, but....here goes.)
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 4 3
Lithaladhwen: (10<15 for the enchant spell.)
Lithaladhwen: (Let's check the ghost weapon spell!)
CGNakibe: (Victoly!)
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 2 2
Lithaladhwen: (8<16. Shit! She did it!)
Arch mage144: (Hoorj)
Lithaladhwen: (God. I was so scared and it wasn't even close. Jeez.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Stupid question)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Would they have personal use knucklebombers?)
CGNakibe: Here's a good question.
CGNakibe: Any idea what the uniforms for Sentancorp look like?
Arch mage144: G: The security uniforms? No.
CGNakibe: Since we didn't have any recon on the place, I figure we don't have any actual uniforms, but its at least worth something.
Arch mage144: (What?)
OMG Priam: (Back)
OMG Priam: (Shit! *scrolls*)
PapatymisonN: ... we are bringing cameras and stuff to download info onto, right?
T3chn0Namagomi: (Knucklebombers. Or if you haven't seen BGC, shaped contact charges mounted into gloves used to break stuff by punching it)
CGNakibe: Unless you like taking notes on your hands. I don't.
Arch mage144: G: The HUD of your combat dress includes a zoom and image capture function.
Arch mage144: (Also, er....no.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Pity.)
OMG Priam: We don't know how people are dressed when they enter the facility...?
Arch mage144: G: I imagine it varies by position. Security, scientists, and the "management" are presumably all dressed differently.
Arch mage144: G: If Makura were here, I'd ask him, but I've not been able to contact him.
CGNakibe: That makes sense. All I was hoping for was a Security uniform.
OMG Priam: Do we have any information on any of those uniforms?
PapatymisonN: IM: He's. In. Cahoots. e_e
Lithaladhwen: Is....is that allowed? To just disappear like that?
OMG Priam: Any video data on the garmentry at all? Even if it seems to be random, that would help.
Arch mage144: G: No. At least, not the information you want, I'm sure.
Arch mage144: G: He's on authorized leave.
OMG Priam: Permission to speak freely, sir.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Man. I guess it's different when your coworkers can't just POOF in front of you and demand you go do this or that.
Arch mage144: G: Granted.
Lithaladhwen: IM: You can... have private time.
OMG Priam: I feel we are terribly ill prepared for this mission. If there is a proper spot near the building where a man with a scope of some sort can capture video data on people entering the building, we can see how people enter the building
OMG Priam: .
PapatymisonN: Um, sir? You never answered my question about data storage devices.
PapatymisonN: Even songfile players would do...
OMG Priam: If we had mages running around hte building scanning for weaknesses, we would have more information--or at worst, we would know that the whole building itself repels magic entirely.
CGNakibe: He DID answer you, Oxblood.
CGNakibe: Its all in your helmets.
T3chn0Namagomi: He already said that it did.
OMG Priam: I don't mean to question the capability and effectiveness of the reconnaisance team, but it feels like they were as prepared for their job as we are for ours.
PapatymisonN: He said it took PICTURES.
CGNakibe: .... *siiighs*
PapatymisonN: He didn't say anything about actual FILES from their computers.
Lithaladhwen: The more limited magic use is within that building, the more limited my usefulness will be. If I cannot cast magic, my sole contribution will be hacking people apart with a scythe.
Arch mage144: G: This is all rather short notice. You're absolutely correct about the lack of information here.
T3chn0Namagomi: Then ask for a WRAP drive or somesuch.
T3chn0Namagomi: (XP)
PapatymisonN: Unless the programming script from the altered Tek units photographs well...
Arch mage144: G: Unfortunately, we have relatively little time, and the demonstration by Helena has motivated the brass to take immediate action, regardless of its cost.
OMG Priam: How immediate?
Lithaladhwen: Well, that's a good thing at least.
CGNakibe: We're going in soon, aren't we?
Arch mage144: G: You are to leave within the next few hours for a midnight insertion. I hate to say it, but this mission feels like suicide to me just as much as it apparently does to you.
Lithaladhwen: *shrugs*
Arch mage144: G: However, unlike the brass, I think you all have a chance to get to the root of this. You've proven yourselves to be an inventive lot in the past.
T3chn0Namagomi: Is there any personal cloaking gear available, by any chance?
OMG Priam: ....even if we had pictures for uniforms, we don't have enough time to fabricate them, with just a few hours...
CGNakibe: *sighs* I disapprove of suicide most of all. As such, we're going to get this done to the best of our collective ability.
Lithaladhwen: (Thanks, Vash.)
Lithaladhwen: (Big toys are fun, but you could get hurt! *breaks your mecha*)
CGNakibe: IM: However little that may or may not be. -.-
T3chn0Namagomi: If not, then requesting light infantry gear, modified for one stunner.
Lithaladhwen: IM: I may be able to take care of us if I can cast magic. If not, I'll be just another combatant, and that is... less than helpful. But we do what we must.
Arch mage144: G: Yes, Zeiren, there is. However, there is a limit to its functionality. You'll each be equipped with a personal stealth cloaking device.
T3chn0Namagomi: *nods*
T3chn0Namagomi: That's reassuring.
Arch mage144: G: But personal stealth devices aren't perfect, and they're very delicate. So if something goes wrong and it gets damaged, you'll have to rely on your own ingenuity.
T3chn0Namagomi: Duly noted.
CGNakibe: *nods*
OMG Priam: What exactly do these devices do?
Lithaladhwen: IM: I'm glad there's someone else here who doesn't know these devices backward and foreward.
CGNakibe: *mutters* Was hoping for something like that....
Lithaladhwen: IM: I mean, I can handle things like motorcycles and juice packs, but stealth devices require explanation.
Arch mage144: G: They create a displacement field around your body that allows you to blend in with surrounding objects, effectively rendering you very difficult to see.
Arch mage144: G: They also absorb sonic energy, muffling the noise your footsteps make.
OMG Priam: No heat masking?
T3chn0Namagomi: Then, requesting standard light infantry gear, modified for a stunner and personal cloaking device.
Lithaladhwen: ....*points at Zeiren* What he said.
Arch mage144: G: The visual displacement field also functions on the IR and UV spectra to a great extent, reflecting energy wavelengths slightly outside humanoid vision.
OMG Priam: I see.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Though I may just keep mine because it lets me cast magic. I don't know how much of a problem that'll be with the standard gear.
OMG Priam: (How big is a mage battlesuit, compared to the standard human frame?)
Lithaladhwen: IM: And I have REALLY missed the outer spectra. This should be nice.
Arch mage144: (Slightly larger by a few inches or so.)
PapatymisonN: IM: Ignored again. Whatever. I'll empty out my XCapsule and bring a cord if anything needs downloading.
OMG Priam: Request modifications to a battlesuit for stealth module, then. If possible, I'd like a little padding on the feet, knees, and palms, as well.
Arch mage144: G: Request granted, both of you. You'll find whatever you need in the lockers here in the ready room in about an hour.
Lithaladhwen: I guess all I need is the stealth whatevers on my already-modified suit.
Lithaladhwen: I mean, I've already got a custom suit. You don't need to make ten more.
Arch mage144: G: That was my assumption as well.
OMG Priam: I would also like a knife, as well.
Lithaladhwen: *stares at the other mage*
OMG Priam: Combat knife, that is. Of course.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Gods.
Arch mage144: G: The chameleon unit is a simple belt-like device, so it can be easily arranged for one to be affixed to your armor, Helena.
Lithaladhwen: IM: They don't carry melee weapons everywhere like we used to.
Lithaladhwen: *facetious salute to Giles*
Arch mage144: G: Noted.
OMG Priam: What's our escape plan?
Lithaladhwen: IM: I guess you don't need swords and knives most of the time when there are giant mechanized suits of armor lumbering around.
Arch mage144: G: Your extraction can be relatively "messy" if necessary. Someone will pick you up if you send an encrypted message to HQ requesting extraction with your coordinates.
Arch mage144: G: If you're deep inside the building, though, forget about it. You'll have to get to the roof or outside.
T3chn0Namagomi: Obviously, it would be more advisable to get to a window or, most preferably, to the roof.
OMG Priam: And to make the point clear, what is our objective, specifically?
OMG Priam: *sounds unpleased. This is nothing new.*
T3chn0Namagomi: To verify whether or not Sentancorp is involved in the creation of those Auto-A2s
Arch mage144: G: Correct.
OMG Priam: And if we find no such evidence?
PapatymisonN: IM: We will...
Arch mage144: G: You get the hell out.
Arch mage144: G: It will, if nothing else, confirm that SentanCorp is not involved.
PapatymisonN: IM: They are.
Lithaladhwen: Won't that, uh... cause problems if we find out there's no information and we still end up with a.... messy extraction?
CGNakibe: Indeed.
Arch mage144: G: Not according to the mission coordinator. I don't know all the details.
OMG Priam: Presumably we will be going in with our armors with MAC Igala's name removed, then.
Arch mage144: G: But try to minimize the "mess."
Arch mage144: G: Precisely.
OMG Priam: Greeeat.
CGNakibe: Hurts to be right, huh?
Lithaladhwen: Are we going to have a medic, or will that be my job?
Arch mage144: G: You will have no insignia of any sort, including rank patches or unit designations.
Arch mage144: Cecil: *raises his hand*
Arch mage144: *he's been rather quiet throughout*
Lithaladhwen: *grateful nod to Cecil*
Lithaladhwen: IM: No insignias? Maybe I can wear my own clothes. That'd be nice. I want to die in underwear I picked out myself.
Arch mage144: C: I'm really hoping you guys aren't going to need a medic...if I have to surgery on any of you in the middle of a hostile installation I'm not sure how well things are going to go.
Arch mage144: *to do
PapatymisonN: (Resh: Not the pink ones with little Grims all over them, right?)
Lithaladhwen: (She'd go commando before wearing those.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (GOING COMMANDO!)
CGNakibe: Thats... not exactly the plan I had in mind, Cecil.
PapatymisonN: (That'd make Zeiren happy.)
Lithaladhwen: (Yeah, I bet it would.)
Arch mage144: C: It's not my plan either!
CGNakibe: (I call for Bulletproof Nakedness!)
T3chn0Namagomi: I don't think anyone here wants to get in a fight.
T3chn0Namagomi: Clean in and out is the best option, but it is best to be prepared, just in case.
PapatymisonN: ... it's not number one on my priority list...
Arch mage144: (Women in bikinis, undergarments, or less have PD 2, DR 0.)
PapatymisonN: IM: It's not LAST, either...
CGNakibe: *mutters* They'd BETTER not. e.e
Arch mage144: G: I don't think I have to emphasize that bringing security down on you is going to create more trouble than it's worth.
Arch mage144: G: ...do I?
PapatymisonN: No, sir.
CGNakibe: *mutters* certainly hope not. e.e;;;
Lithaladhwen: No. It's okay.
Lithaladhwen: We get it.
OMG Priam: *moves on to the next point* What is considered to be an acceptable loss in this mision?
OMG Priam: *mission?
PapatymisonN: IM: You.
CGNakibe: Well, not the information. That's for sure.
Arch mage144: G: Acceptable by me? None of you. Nothing.
OMG Priam: In terms of equipment.
Arch mage144: G: Screw the budget. *smirks*
OMG Priam: That's precisely what I wanted to hear.
T3chn0Namagomi: Right...would a stun grenade be a viable option, then?
Lithaladhwen: *chuckles* Well. Oookay, then.
Arch mage144: G: It would in the budget sense, but those things make a lot of noise.
T3chn0Namagomi: True.
OMG Priam: Also requesting some sort of handkerchief-and-ether sort of device, as well. Some sort of easy, silent knockout mechanism.
OMG Priam: Chloroform, perhaps.
Arch mage144: G: Acceptable. I'll make sure it's included in your equipment.
Lithaladhwen: (Don't laugh, guys. Try to remember some of the basics of CQC.)
Lithaladhwen: (This is important.)
OMG Priam: (CQC?)
PapatymisonN: (Close Quarters Combat.)
CGNakibe: (Close Quarters Combat)
Lithaladhwen: (It's a Metal Gear Solid reference.)
Arch mage144: (MGS3 reference.)
OMG Priam: (Fair enough.)
Lithaladhwen: (And yes, MGS3 specifically.)
CGNakibe: Hm. IM: Lets see... rifle's probably overkill this time. The blaster should be enough for defense. Not what I'd LIKE, but its good enough...
CGNakibe: *fingers twitch just a bit* IM: Yep, this is DEFINITELY going to be annoying.
OMG Priam: I think we all should have that kind of way to take care of things in close combat. If I had it my way, all of us would have one of these mechanisms as well as a combat knife.
PapatymisonN: IM: ^_^ Now that I think of it, this may be... kinda fun. Just like being San Hunter from Sigint Cell...
T3chn0Namagomi: I'm actually better with my fists than a knife.
Lithaladhwen: I have magic and a scythe. At least one will work without magic...theoretically.
OMG Priam: I'm worried about people screaming in pain.
OMG Priam: That would be bad.
OMG Priam: *darkly*
CGNakibe: The chloroform's a good idea, at least.
Lithaladhwen: It would be. If they had time.
Arch mage144: G: Agreed. I'll make sure you have all the equipment you need.
Arch mage144: G: Like I said. Screw the budget.
Lithaladhwen: A lot of this depends on my ability to cast worth a damn in there. I can't tell anybody what I'll be doing until we know.
Arch mage144: G: I can't put a price on the lives of my unit members.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Yeah, okay Giles. That's really sweet. *mental eyeroll*
Arch mage144: G: If they're manufacturing these things, Helena, I doubt the whole place is magic-dead.
Lithaladhwen: Agreed. But I often use magic-shielded workspaces.
Lithaladhwen: Prevents unexpected reactions.
T3chn0Namagomi: Anyway, report back in an hour?
Lithaladhwen: I mean, I haven't done any experimentation in a while, but that's the kind of lab I personally prefer. They might do the same.
CGNakibe: That makes a kind of sense.
Arch mage144: G: Yes, an hour.
Arch mage144: G: You could be right, Helena, but you'll know as soon as you're in, won't you?
OMG Priam: *appears to be satisfied*
Lithaladhwen: I will.
PapatymisonN: *appears to not be*
OMG Priam: *as much as a man of his disposition can be, anyway*
T3chn0Namagomi: *nods* Requesting permission to depart immediately.
PapatymisonN: We dismissed, sir?
Arch mage144: G: Dismissed, if there are no further questions.
OMG Priam: *stands, salutes, exits.*
T3chn0Namagomi: None, Commander.
Lithaladhwen: IM: I have a professional interest in seeing their workspaces anyway. I wonder what they're working with nowadays.
T3chn0Namagomi: *stands, salutes, exits*
Lithaladhwen: IM: I bet it's weird. *smiles to herself*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Yes, he refers to him as Commander)
PapatymisonN: *does the same*
Arch mage144: (Timelapse 1 hour? I do have to go over system-related things as far as your new gear.)
OMG Priam: (I dig it)
Lithaladhwen: (Yes, this is good.)
CGNakibe: (This would be good, yes.)
Arch mage144: (OK.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Please. Assume Zeiren's been either trying to get into a stealth mindset or sneak peeks at girls)
MajorGeneralTso: (A good use of one hour.)
CGNakibe: (Assume Serran is busy wondering how not to let his teammates screw up)
Lithaladhwen: (Assume Hel is fantasizing about being in another mage's lab.)
PapatymisonN: *scrubs up, eliminating his beloved musk, and empties out his songfile player JUST in case anything bears downloading...*
Arch mage144: (A stunner a pistol-type weapon. It uses the beam weapons skill. Its RoF is ~3, SS 4, Acc 3.)
Lithaladhwen: (Gonna go through alllll their lab reports and things. Glee!)
Arch mage144: (A hit forces the target to roll vs. HT-3 to avoid falling unconscious. DR protects at a rate of 5 DR = +1 effective HT.)
MajorGeneralTso: (*Siyun's Lab is filled with only burnt paper and scorched steel.*)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Right!)
Lithaladhwen: (Siyun isn't a scientist. Mage-scientists are crazy and keep proper records of their madness.)
Lithaladhwen: (Anyone else is just playing, in Hel's mind.)
CGNakibe: (Also: Serran is packing along whatever passes for a memory stick, just in case)
Arch mage144: (A drugged handkerchief must be applied to the target's face to be effective; it is soaked in an anaesthetic chemical that forces an HT-6 roll to stay conscious. Armor is irrelevant unless airtight or a face-covering helmet is worn.
MajorGeneralTso: (Then you're precisely pointed out why he's no scientist. Psh. Records.)
Arch mage144: (It uses either base DX, an unarmed combat skill, or the garrote skill.)
CGNakibe: (Face-covering helmet? So there IS a benefit to the Stormtrooper design?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Karate?)
Arch mage144: (It has a range of C.)
Lithaladhwen: (Helena experiments on people. Dead ones mostly, but not always.)
Arch mage144: (Not karate. I'd allow judo.)
Lithaladhwen: (She hasn't gotten to play in a long time, but every now and again she took some time out for a vacation.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (See? Valthi troops have advantage to their masked helmets!)
Arch mage144: (Karate doesn't teach holds.)
Lithaladhwen: (A LAAAB vacation. ^_^ )
CGNakibe: (Well, TECHNICALLY... >:P)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Aw. Too bad then. Zeiren's not that good with it. He's got the stunner anyway. XP)
Lithaladhwen: (Now, now. None of that judo shit, Brian.)
Lithaladhwen: (No more of that.)
Arch mage144: (Any other numbers people need?)
CGNakibe: (One of those times of splitting things into Karate Hits and Judo Holds works against us)
Arch mage144: (Oh, regarding stealth devices; your effective stealth skill is +5 when you've got one.)
Arch mage144: (Since stealth defaults to DX-5, your effective stealth is equal to DX.)
CGNakibe: (Stealth being DX based for those not in the know.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Blaster pistol and light armor again?)
Arch mage144: (Unless you have stealth.)
Lithaladhwen: (Whoohoo. Effective stealth skill of 12.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Yay. Stealth of 13)
Arch mage144: (Blaster pistol is damage 2d + 6, SS 10, Acc 6, RoF 3, gets 20 shots per C cell, recoil -1.)
PapatymisonN: (How long the stealth belts gonna last?)
Arch mage144: (Light armor is PD 4, DR 40, with a helmet of PD 4, DR 18.)
Arch mage144: (Don't have to tell you that.)
Arch mage144: (If you make an electronics roll you might be able to figure it out by examining their condition.)
CGNakibe: (Evil GM! >:{)
PapatymisonN: (I'll say.)
Arch mage144: (Further questions?)
MajorGeneralTso: (...What system is this?)
OMG Priam: (GURPS)
T3chn0Namagomi: (GURPS 3e variant.)
MajorGeneralTso: (Ah...Kayo.)
Arch mage144: (When ready, we'll proceed.)
Lithaladhwen: (All's groovy here.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Right then. Ready, though nervous and wishing he put something into Stealth)
PapatymisonN: (Ready.)
CGNakibe: (What are you doing? Snake? SNAAAKE?!)
Lithaladhwen: (RRRGGGGHHHHH CRAB BATTLE)
Arch mage144: *Approximately an hour later, the group is suiting up in the ready room...*
PapatymisonN: (He's got a rocket launcher in SSBB...)
PapatymisonN: *straps his axe to his back*
T3chn0Namagomi: (He had a missile launcher in the MGS games, so...)
Arch mage144: (Oh, Priam. Your knife. Durh.)
CGNakibe: (Don't forget the Claymore mines!)
OMG Priam: (Yeah, that.)
T3chn0Namagomi: ...Don't tell me you're going to seriously consider USING that.
PapatymisonN: *puts on his stealth belt*
PapatymisonN: Let's just see.
Lithaladhwen: *passes her scythe from one hand to the other*
PapatymisonN: *activates it!*
OMG Priam: You'd rather die, I see.
Lithaladhwen: That depends. Will you laugh if I use a scythe?
OMG Priam: *Giles is there, y/n?*
CGNakibe: ... I'll say this once, Oxblood. No fighting if you don't have to. NONE.
PapatymisonN: *is the axe included in the not-seenness?*
PapatymisonN: Agreed.
T3chn0Namagomi: *holstering both of his pistols, and putting on his belt, making sure it's turned off for the time being*
PapatymisonN: Hey, is the axe visible?
Arch mage144: (OK, it's a very fine monomolecular knife. It deals either swing+1d/cutting damage or thrust+2/impaling damage. Range is C or 1.)
CGNakibe: I recall once being told not to use these things more than you have to. *said as he straps his on*
Arch mage144: C: Um...it blends in reasonably well with the rest of you.
PapatymisonN: *deactivates the belt*
PapatymisonN: Then it's coming with me.
T3chn0Namagomi: ...
CGNakibe: Is that a family thing? >.>
OMG Priam: *keeps it sheathed at the back of his hip, or at his leg, or wherever there is a place for it*
CGNakibe: IM: Or some sort of orc thing?
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: Who in their right mind uses an axe in this day and age?
Lithaladhwen: IM: I think I've used an axe before. When the hell did I do that?
Arch mage144: C: *nods* I can understand wanting to have it with you. You carry it in your mecha, don't you?
OMG Priam: *Giles here?*
Arch mage144: (No.)
PapatymisonN: Mm.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Seems like I've always had a scythe.
OMG Priam: (Damn)
Lithaladhwen: IM: Eh. Maybe I'm mistaken, or it was just once.
PapatymisonN: It's been passed down for years.
T3chn0Namagomi: *making sure everything, helmet-cam included, works...*
Lithaladhwen: IM: I bet I borrowed someone else's when I didn't have my scythe. But I can summon my scythe, or could at least. Fuck it. I'm confused.
Arch mage144: *All systems nominal.*
Lithaladhwen: IM: I'm not worrying about it. The past doesn't matter.
T3chn0Namagomi: Hey, Helena. Could you stand still for a second?
Lithaladhwen: *does so* Yeah, okay.
T3chn0Namagomi: *Picture TAKE!*
Arch mage144: *Holographic image capture getto*
T3chn0Namagomi: ^.^
T3chn0Namagomi: Thank you.
OMG Priam: *Is there someone at the equipment depot who might be able to answer questions?*
Arch mage144: *Nein*
OMG Priam: *Fux*
Lithaladhwen: Uh, yeah, sure.
Lithaladhwen: IM: What did he just do?
CGNakibe: ... Zeiren, delete that, now.
Arch mage144: (Collect wank material for later)
T3chn0Namagomi: Why?
CGNakibe: Or at least stop oogling Helena when we're supposed to be busy.
Lithaladhwen: ....
Arch mage144: C: *laughs*
Lithaladhwen: *laughs and facepalms*
PapatymisonN: *pats himself down, makes sure he's got his blaster pistol, his XCap, and anything else he needs*
Lithaladhwen: I'm too old for you, Zeiren.
OMG Priam: Ladies, let's get mature. We may be about to die.
Lithaladhwen: Oh, death. Lighten up.
CGNakibe: *Yawns*
CGNakibe: Maturity is for wimps. >:p
Arch mage144: C: Don't say that!
T3chn0Namagomi: If we're going to die, I'd rather enjoy the life I have left.
Lithaladhwen: If we're going to die, nothing can stop it. You go when it's your time. So just quit fretting.
CGNakibe: ... yeah, but that doesn't make this the time for pictures. Or Editshop.
PapatymisonN: We won't die, Cecil.
Arch mage144: C: I hope not...
T3chn0Namagomi: Now, now. I don't go and Editshop pictures or the like.
Lithaladhwen: *sighs*
PapatymisonN: We'll just screw up, kill a lot of SentanCorp security, and spend the rest of our lives in jail. ^_^
T3chn0Namagomi: *all systems functional!*
CGNakibe: What? Bad fanfiction then?
Lithaladhwen: Bad what?
CGNakibe: Don't ask.
Arch mage144: C: Jail? If SentanCorp is as horrible as you claim they are, we won't end up in jail!
CGNakibe: Some things are too horrible for mortal man.
T3chn0Namagomi: Please. I don't write fanfiction, and what I do write, I do better than that.
Lithaladhwen: Cecil, chill. It's fine. We'll be fine.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Mortals and their necrophobia.
Arch mage144: C: So you're admitting that you do write fanfiction, just that it's better than that?
Arch mage144: C: *blinks*
T3chn0Namagomi: No
PapatymisonN: *foregoes what he was going to say, and says* What Hel said.
CGNakibe: Sounds like it to me.
Lithaladhwen: What
T3chn0Namagomi: I'm just saying, what I've had to write in the past is better than fanfiction
Lithaladhwen: *What's fanfiction?
Arch mage144: C: Huh? Have you never used the internet before or something?
Lithaladhwen: I'm very busy with other things.
T3chn0Namagomi: Please, don't say you've NEVER taken high school literature class.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Used the what-now?
CGNakibe: Fanfiction is basically stories written by people who were fans of other stories. Usually they are sexual in nature and quite badly written.
OMG Priam: *walks out, towards the departure place land.*
Lithaladhwen: Oh, see. Now that's all I needed to know. Thank you Serran.
CGNakibe: Well, at least the BAD ones are.
T3chn0Namagomi: Again, I don't write fanfiction.
CGNakibe: But you said you write, just that you don't THINK its fanfiction.
PapatymisonN: In denial, then....
CGNakibe: That's what they ALL say, you know. >.>
T3chn0Namagomi: I have written. I went through school, you know.
Arch mage144: C: Okay, okay, we get it, you don't write fanfiction.
Arch mage144: C: Let's not get too distracted.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Their levity is good. It relieves tension and the fear of death.
Lithaladhwen: IM: All scared of death. They'll see. Once they die they won't be scared of it.
T3chn0Namagomi: *heads to the transportation point!*
CGNakibe: You guys try to follow my lead, okay?
Lithaladhwen: Yeah, sure.
Lithaladhwen: If you want.
T3chn0Namagomi: Right.
Arch mage144: *directly outside the ready room is a small hangar area with a parked aerial personnel transport ship...*
PapatymisonN: *heads that way...*
Arch mage144: *a pilot motions to the group as they come out of the ready room*
CGNakibe: *To Teh Ship~!*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Onto the ship!*
Lithaladhwen: *Onto the ship!*
Arch mage144: *Cecil boards behind the others, having not donned his armor's helmet yet and looking very nervous*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Was the camera flash or nonflash, by the way?*
Arch mage144: (Nonflash.)
PapatymisonN: (*puts on the Captain's Jacket and a Napoleon hat* To the ship!)
Arch mage144: (It's a holographic image capture. It requires no flash!)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Yay!)
CGNakibe: *patpats Cecil* Relax.
Arch mage144: C: Yeah...I'm working on it.
Lithaladhwen: (Go you. You've got a Helena 3D model. Now you can, like... make a Sim skin or something.)
Arch mage144: C: *fiddles with his medical bag and injects a prefilled syringe of something or other into his neck*
Lithaladhwen: .......
PapatymisonN: (... Yeah. Sims. That's what he'll use it for...)
Lithaladhwen: What was that?
OMG Priam: *is already in*
PapatymisonN: o.o
PapatymisonN: *saw the injection too*
Arch mage144: C: ...relaxation. *mutters and sits down before donning his helmet*
CGNakibe: Stims, Cecil?
CGNakibe: Those're addictive, you know.
T3chn0Namagomi: I guess it's a sort of mood relaxer. Guessing it might've been prescribed.
Lithaladhwen: ....*shakes her head quickly and briefly to dismiss the whole thing*
Lithaladhwen: IM: Not even thinking about it.
Arch mage144: C: Don't worry about it, Serran. Let's just do this mission and get it overwith.
CGNakibe: Yeah yeah, sure sure.
Arch mage144: *there is a brief jolt as the transport engages its retros and lifts off*
Lithaladhwen: (Cecil needs to dose before battle. The prozium helps his concentration.)
PapatymisonN: (Just as long as it augments his Gun Kata skills...)
Arch mage144: Speaker: This is your pilot speaking. ETA is fourty-five minutes and thirty-seven seconds. Be prepared for sudden drop at T-plus fourty-four minutes if necessary.
PapatymisonN: Not long now...
CGNakibe: (Cecil: *Devil Triggers*)
Arch mage144: Speaker: Stealth systems will engage at T-plus twenty minutes as we approach enemy airspace. You will be expected to depart from the dropship via anti-grav fall.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Oh, I liked that last time.
PapatymisonN: IM: Haven't they heard of cables anymore?
PapatymisonN: So, Cecil... what HAVE you heard about big, bad, SentanCorp? *smirk*
Arch mage144: C: Very little, really. I only did brief research on Quickipedia.
Arch mage144: C: And Makura never talked about it, so it's not like I can rely on anything he mentioned.
PapatymisonN: You seemed convinced that we'd never see the inside of a jail if we got caught...
T3chn0Namagomi: (Hm. Quick question. What're the general hit-location rules? Or, to be more exact, what're the penalties for aiming at certain locations?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Head, limbs, and the like)
CGNakibe: Well, if they're the people we're looking for, then we're just the people they're hunting for, if you get my drift.
Lithaladhwen: (AAGGHHHH QUICKIPEDIA)
Arch mage144: (Your characters don't know the exact numbers, so I'm not giving them to you. Suffice to say that aiming at small extremities reduces the skill of a good gunman to average accuracy.)
Arch mage144: (And aiming at something very small, like an eye, means he has a less than 50% hit rate, though he might hit something close by.)
CGNakibe: (*just doesn't look at the numbers*)
Arch mage144: C: If they're really doing something they're not supposed to, security has probably been instructed to shoot instruders on sight.
CGNakibe: And if they catch us then we become lab rats.
Arch mage144: C: We won't see public juries or trial. We'll be locked in an oubliette or used as test subjects. *shudders*
Lithaladhwen: *shrugs*
Lithaladhwen: I guess I'd make a good test subject. Hopefully we won't find out.
PapatymisonN: We won't.
CGNakibe: Feh.
PapatymisonN: Like I said, worst case scenario, we fail, we kill our way out, we get into NORMAL jail.
CGNakibe: We're going to find out other things.
CGNakibe: You ARE bloody minded, aren't you?
CGNakibe: No killing.
PapatymisonN: Not unless necessary, no.
Arch mage144: C: I think that's best case scenario if we're talking about failure...
CGNakibe: All that crap you see on TV about dead men not telling tales? Its lies.
Lithaladhwen: It's true.
Lithaladhwen: They are lies.
Lithaladhwen: I can prove it.
PapatymisonN: ... you can, can't you?
Arch mage144: C: You can talk to dead men, though.
Lithaladhwen: So what if I can?
CGNakibe: Helena's kinda cheating the point, but I think that still works. >:P
T3chn0Namagomi: If you start killing people mindlessly, we aren't going to try to get you out, just to warn you.
Lithaladhwen: Bah. They're there and they're telling tales. You just can't hear them. It's why they get so pissy.
Arch mage144: C: Huh. I never thought of it that way.
CGNakibe: Killing Spree is option F either way.
CGNakibe: As in "Fuck it, we're getting the hell out"
PapatymisonN: Agreed.
OMG Priam: *not disagreeing!*
Arch mage144: Speaker: Drop in two minutes. Prepare for insertion.
T3chn0Namagomi: Well, here we go for the grav-drop.
PapatymisonN: IM: ... that was fast...
Lithaladhwen: *grins*
Lithaladhwen: *this is her favorite part!*
Arch mage144: *the side hatch of the dropship opens...*
PapatymisonN: *cracks his knuckles and neck*
Arch mage144: *it's the middle of the night, pitch black outside, and no visible moon...*
CGNakibe: *Helmet, check*
PapatymisonN: Let's have fun down there... ^_^
Arch mage144: *below the dropship, the lights of the city are visible, and most notably the occasional lights from the SentanCorp building*
T3chn0Namagomi: No unnecessary conversation once we're inside.
Arch mage144: *from the air, it's square and plain-looking, much like the holos, with the exception of an enormous insignia that looks like the prongs of a three-pointed polearm*
CGNakibe: Keep all hands and arms inside the ride at all times, folks. And remember....
CGNakibe: No flash photography.
Arch mage144: C: Alright then! *jumps*
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: But, of course, nothing about non-flash. ^.^
CGNakibe: *Jumps*
T3chn0Namagomi: *jump!*
PapatymisonN: *leap!*
Arch mage144: (*plays MGS2 OST*)
Lithaladhwen: *yeah, follows*
PapatymisonN: (... wow. Yeah. I can have music playing! ^_^)
OMG Priam: *jump!*
CGNakibe: (*goes to play some Ghost in the Shell stuff*)
OMG Priam: (In between pauses, I'm playing as Deadpool in Marvel Ultimate Alliance. I think I win this situation.)
Lithaladhwen: (I may have a computer problem. My task manager is frozen.)
Lithaladhwen: (Okay, alarm over.)
Arch mage144: *the group descends toward the roof, falling through the air at the speed of feathers, silent as a swooping owl...*
PapatymisonN: *evaluates the situation on the roof, if any...*
Arch mage144: *...and with a very quiet thud due to the low inertia of the infiltrating soldiers, they hit the ground*
Arch mage144: *from here on out, text without action descriptors is Cecil's speech*
CGNakibe: *Lands, and does his best to assess the situation*
Lithaladhwen: (Noted, Herr GM.)
Arch mage144: I'm switching to subvocalized communications.
T3chn0Namagomi: *lands, and looks around for the ventilation entry*
PapatymisonN: Copy.
T3chn0Namagomi: (Subvocalized?)
T3chn0Namagomi: Roger.
PapatymisonN: *whips out his pistol. Cuz, y'know, pretending they're not in a hostile situation's just stupid*
CGNakibe: (As in you attach a mike to the throat and you can pick things up without actually saying em too loudly at all)
Arch mage144: (You can subvocalize words and they'll be played back from your allies' radio units, which are largely "soundproof" to anyone not wearing your armor.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Aha)
Arch mage144: (It's like wearing headphones, only even more precise.)
Arch mage144: (As such, you can speak without threat of someone hearing you.)
OMG Priam: *doublechecks the position of his knife and knockout masker, and checks the area.
OMG Priam: *
CGNakibe: Everyone good?
Lithaladhwen: (Shall we assume that's what we're doing when communicating then?)
Arch mage144: (Yes)
PapatymisonN: *now, where's that shaft he's heard so much about?
OMG Priam: (Aye.)
T3chn0Namagomi: As far as I know.
Arch mage144: *the roof is bare; to the north is a raised vent typical of industrial or commercial buildings*
OMG Priam: *will creep about the rest of the roof, looking for anything obvious to check further.*
Arch mage144: *there is no apparent surveillance on this level of the building, though there are searchlights sweeping around near the building's edges*
Arch mage144: *they appear to be automated*
T3chn0Namagomi: *heads for that slowly!*
CGNakibe: IM: Great.
OMG Priam: I'm going to look for another way in.
Arch mage144: *there is also a "fire escape" top floor door on a projection of the roof!*
Arch mage144: (Anyone who's been on the roof of a building before knows what I'm talking about.)
OMG Priam: There's a fire escape on this side.
CGNakibe: Security?
OMG Priam: More chance of people being on the other side, but we can check for noise before we go in.
Lithaladhwen: IM: I have no idea how to do this shit. Following the sneaky mortals.
PapatymisonN: Lead the way.
OMG Priam: It's more likely to lead into an actual room, too, instead of a clanking shaft.
Arch mage144: Donovan has a point. The ventilation system leaves us vulnerable if someone does hear us, and they resonate really loudly.
CGNakibe: *makes his way over to the door pretty silently*
Arch mage144: *as far as you can tell, no one knows you're here*
OMG Priam: A two-pronged infiltration is not a bad idea in this case. We have too many people to go into a single vent duct anyway.
Arch mage144: *nod from Cecil*
CGNakibe: Better than all getting caught at once.
Arch mage144: Okay, let's go three and three, then.
OMG Priam: No. Four this way, two in the duct would be better. Ducts are very small, and we need to be mobile.
PapatymisonN: I'll take the stairs.
Arch mage144: Hmm. Okay. *nods*
T3chn0Namagomi: Hmm...Taking the vent.
PapatymisonN: I doubt the shaft would be a comfy fit.
CGNakibe: Going with Zeiren.
Lithaladhwen: I'll go wherever people want me.
OMG Priam: You're coming here, Hel.
Lithaladhwen: ...'kay.
Arch mage144: Alright, I'm with you on the stairs, then.
OMG Priam: Oxblood, Helena, Cecil, and myself are going here. Zeiren and <name, sorry> in the duct. Keep in contact, and update eachother on the status frequently.
OMG Priam: (brb, phone)
PapatymisonN: (Serran, schmuck.)
CGNakibe: (Serran)
T3chn0Namagomi: Right.
Arch mage144: (Waiting for Priam to return.)
CGNakibe: (Also NO CELL PHONES DURING STEALTH MISSIONS. >:{)
Lithaladhwen: (Those names rhyme!)
OMG Priam: (Back)
Lithaladhwen: (ZER-ren, SER-ran.)
Lithaladhwen: (See?)
OMG Priam: Are you guys ready for this? *To the Duct crew*
T3chn0Namagomi: As much as I can be.
OMG Priam: If possible, I'd rather have you guys take a quick look around to see if you can find this entrance to check for the presence of tangos.
CGNakibe: Nope. I mean are we sure they CLEAN these things?
PapatymisonN: (Oxy: ... oop! *sets it to Silent mode*)
Arch mage144: (*laughing* Tangos? Someone's been playing too much Rainbow Six)
OMG Priam: Get moving as soon as you can. We'll go in as soon as we hear from you.
OMG Priam: (Tangos is the damn code for that shit and you know it)
Lithaladhwen: Presence of... *ignores the jargon*
OMG Priam: (also, I picked it up from Judo)
Arch mage144: (I'm pretty sure it usually refers to terrorists specifically, but we'll go with it. XD)
CGNakibe: Roger that.
OMG Priam: (It's like bogeys is hostile aircraft, tangos refers to hostile humans)
PapatymisonN: (Walter Tango Foxtrot.)
CGNakibe: *And now to the ducts.*
Lithaladhwen: (Whiskey.)
PapatymisonN: (That's the ticket.)
OMG Priam: (Ah, tactics skill! I love using you as a justifier.)
Arch mage144: *OK, duct people...there's a grate over the vents*
Arch mage144: *door people...the roof door is locked!*
OMG Priam: *in the interim, casts something.*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Anything he has, aside from the gun, that would help remove the grating, or whatever attaches the grating?*
Lithaladhwen: *takes a minute as people are shuffling around to bless herself*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Well, let's put it this way. Lowdown of miscellaneous gear?*
Arch mage144: (Your gun has a laser cutter setting.)
Lithaladhwen: *just a little bless spell*
CGNakibe: (The one time we could use a mechanic...)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Aha)
T3chn0Namagomi: *pulls out the blaster pistol, and sets it onto the cutter mode*
OnlineHost: OMG Priam rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 1 1
T3chn0Namagomi: Good thing I took this along...
Arch mage144: *the weakest point of the door is the hinges*
T3chn0Namagomi: *and tries to cut the grating out of the vent cover*
Arch mage144: *if they were to fall apart, the whole thing would clearly come off the frame*
CGNakibe: *Stands by for grate-catching*
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 2 6-sided dice: 1 5
Arch mage144: *it doesn't take much to cut through the vent--apparently, despite all the spy movies that have been released by this point, no one expects a break-in through the ventilation shaft*
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 4 5
OMG Priam: (Oh damn)
Lithaladhwen: (Success.)
OMG Priam: (=D)
T3chn0Namagomi: *Too easy!*
CGNakibe: (That's a bit high... >.>;;; )
CGNakibe: (Priam, make with Teh Blessings. >:{)
OMG Priam: (We're professional mages, here.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Her spells have a rank 15, it seems)
Arch mage144: (Success assuming a thing, which a book is being consulted for)
OMG Priam: (Make with the what now?)
Arch mage144: *the vent's grating comes off without any real hassle...*
CGNakibe: *Grabs the vent cover and puts it aside.*
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 3 5
Lithaladhwen: (Eh. Never mind. Too expensive a spell.)
CGNakibe: *Much wind out of the vent?*
Lithaladhwen: (Hot retcon-on-spell action.)
Arch mage144: *a blast of hot air assails the rhyming-named units*
CGNakibe: (Sexy!)
CGNakibe: Crap. System's on.
T3chn0Namagomi: Damnit.
OMG Priam: We have time to burn. Patience.
CGNakibe: I know, I know.
T3chn0Namagomi: Guess we should wait, then. *sets his pistol back to gun mode, reholsters it*
Arch mage144: (Hold on, I've got something in my eye)
PapatymisonN: (*pulls out that speck of sawdust*)
OMG Priam: Is anyone familiar with fire alarm systems like these?
CGNakibe: (*drags a log out of Charles' eye*)
Lithaladhwen: (I need to start having her bless herself the morning of a mission, because it lasts indefinitely. Someone remind me to do that shit.)
PapatymisonN: (*gets the Amazon out of Shaun's*)
OMG Priam: (*Pulls the Sears tower out of AM's ocular receptor organ*)
Lithaladhwen: (*pulls the Great City of Zimbabwe from Priam's eye*)
Lithaladhwen: (No keeping archaeological sites in there! Too moist.)
CGNakibe: Don't recall much about it right now.*
T3chn0Namagomi: (*pulls Japan out of Kai's eye*)
T3chn0Namagomi: Hell if I know
CGNakibe: *Goes over to take a look*
Arch mage144: (OK, we're cool.)
CGNakibe: (Mechanics? Computer Operation? If you want it I got it!)
T3chn0Namagomi: *waits by the vent to check if/when the hot air's going to stop coming out soon!*
Arch mage144: (Regarding the vent? You're nowhere near any sort of control system.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (I know)
Arch mage144: *however, the vent cycles off, conveniently, and the warm air blasting out ceases shortly*
T3chn0Namagomi: It's off.
CGNakibe: Well then.
CGNakibe: *goes over to the vent* Lets get crawlin.
T3chn0Namagomi: Right. *Stealth belt, switch on!*
T3chn0Namagomi: *And gets in*
Lithaladhwen: *looks to Donovan* You're the boss. I don't know anything about this stuff.
CGNakibe: *Switches on his own belt about now*
Arch mage144: *Zeiren gets all stealthy-like...and the two vent-crawlers enter, which involves a sudden drop down about four feet before they wind up on hands and knees*
OMG Priam: *sort of a grunt sound, which comes out pretty loudly across the subvoc unit.*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Conveniently, Zeiren's pretty damn light)
Lithaladhwen: *eyeroll*
Arch mage144: *the vent is only about as wide as a person's shoulders, so this is a hell of a squeeze*
Arch mage144: (Roll stealth, both of you)
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 4 6
T3chn0Namagomi: (...Hell)
OMG Priam: (LOSE)
Lithaladhwen: (Damn.)
Arch mage144: *BADUNKADUNKDUNK*
T3chn0Namagomi: (If I knew we were doing this, I'd have put points into it)
Lithaladhwen: (He's not packing back, Brian.)
Lithaladhwen: (That's what that sound means to me.)
Arch mage144: (I know that, Nama. *grin*)
PapatymisonN: (*stares at Hel's frosty, welltoned ass*)
OMG Priam: (*KER-CLANGENSPANGCLONK* better?)
Lithaladhwen: (Hey. That's pretty much what she's got.)
Arch mage144: *Zeiren manages to make a lot of clanging noises as he moves about, despite the efforts of his stealth unit to quiet the sound*
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 2 2
CGNakibe: (Smooth like silk.)
OMG Priam: (Smooth like butta.)
Arch mage144: *luckily, his partner is much quieter, so there aren't two morons clanging around in the air ducts*
Lithaladhwen: (I know that's puddin' because jello don't jiggle like that, as my dad says.)
CGNakibe: Could ya keep it down? SOME of us are trying to be stealthy here.
T3chn0Namagomi: I've never really DONE this before, you know.
CGNakibe: Oh, trust me, I know.
Arch mage144: *a short way down the air duct, Zeiren finds himself next to a grating on his right*
T3chn0Namagomi: *peeks through the grating*
Arch mage144: *through the grating, Zeiran can see what looks like some sort of employee break room*
Lithaladhwen: (Priam: What's the group doing that's headed through the fire escape?)
OMG Priam: (Waiting.)
Arch mage144: *there's a table in the middle with some chairs around it, and off to the side he thinks he can see a countertop*
Arch mage144: *no visible people in the room*
OMG Priam: I heard you girls stop bickering. Did you find something?
Arch mage144: (Roll perception plus or minus acute hearing--IQ roll)
Lithaladhwen: *smirks at Donovan's comment*
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 5 2
T3chn0Namagomi: (Err, was that me?)
Arch mage144: *you don't hear anyone, either*(
Arch mage144: (Yep, you)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Success!)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Er, wait. No. Wrong math)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Fucking dice hate me today)
Lithaladhwen: (Quit insulting them. They're trying.)
CGNakibe: Anything?
OMG Priam: (Sorry, Deadpool is being distracting)
Lithaladhwen: (You won't placate the random number generator withyour negativity. In fact!)
Arch mage144: *whatever the case may be, this is an optional route to get inside the main building from the vents if you don't want to kill your back crawling around*
CGNakibe: (You will anger the Dice Gods with that attitude. >:{)
Lithaladhwen: (According to the principles of entanglement, your negativity could be affecting the generators.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (I wonder if I can coerce them via Zankantou)
OMG Priam: (What are people's ranks in here, anyway?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (As far as we all know, Private)
Lithaladhwen: (Hel's of similar rank, only from special ops. She's only slightly outside their system of ranky things, as I understand it.)
OMG Priam: Private Zeiren?
Arch mage144: (Tek Private, Mechanic Private, Mage Private, etc. excepting Helena, who is Special Ops Mage, and Cecil, who is Field Medic 3rd Class)
T3chn0Namagomi: ...Nothing yet. Looks like there's a breakroom, but I can't tell if it's empty or not
OMG Priam: Image me.
CGNakibe: Me too.
T3chn0Namagomi: *Does so*
Arch mage144: *You can totally see what Zeiren is seeing*
OMG Priam: *since it's a holo, do I get 3d?*
Arch mage144: *Yes, but there's no way to see something that's outside Zeiren's field of view, so you're limited in terms of your angles*
OMG Priam: *checks around the model, then.*
CGNakibe: (Better question is if I can make skill rolls on this. >:P)
OMG Priam: (And whether Zeiren realizes that later he won't actually be able to see anything interesting in the picture that he didn't already see =O)
OMG Priam: (The picture of Helena, that is)
T3chn0Namagomi: proceeding to check the next grating ahead.
CGNakibe: (Heh)
Lithaladhwen: (He can't undress her with his holo-eyes.)
Arch mage144: (Electronics Operation [Communicators] or [Video Equipment] are applicable, potentially others if the default is suitable.)
Arch mage144: *Donovan can't see anyone in the breakroom*
OMG Priam: *He sure can't!*
OMG Priam: Anyone good with analyzing these things?
Arch mage144: You mean, the things where we can see?
CGNakibe: (How about Intel Analysis?)
Arch mage144: (Nope.)
CGNakibe: (Darn)
T3chn0Namagomi: (I've got Comm operations!)
OMG Priam: *Hits Cecil with the holo, since he was not sent it, I suppose.* If you can play around with this to get some intel, here's your new toy.
T3chn0Namagomi: (Should I roll that, or somesuch?)
Arch mage144: (That depends, what do you want to do with it?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Oh, just wondering, since Shaun mentioned his dealie)
Arch mage144: Hmm. It looks to me like a picture of a room. What am I supposed to do with this? *sounds confused*
Lithaladhwen: (I need to go do a thing. Be right back.)
OMG Priam: Sounds just like what a medic would say.
T3chn0Namagomi: *proceeds to crawl further down the vent, to the next grate*
T3chn0Namagomi: *If that's applicable*
OMG Priam: I'm going to presume from the resounding silence that even our miscellaneous team isn't sufficient for this kind of investigation. Wonderful.
T3chn0Namagomi: I'm a pilot, not a spy.
CGNakibe: *Does anything in the vid manage to stick out to Serran as potentially interesting tech?*
Arch mage144: *Not really. It looks like your typical employee break room, complete with boring white tiled floors and not-entirely-comfortable metal chairs with padded seats*
PapatymisonN: IM: *bored to tears so far...*
CGNakibe: Well, it seems like a standard enough break room.
T3chn0Namagomi: *so, crawling along!*
Arch mage144: *crawl crawl crawl*
CGNakibe: Possibly a good entry point to consider. Or an exit point.
OMG Priam: Damn, should have gotten minicams for this mission.
CGNakibe: *Crawl crawl*
T3chn0Namagomi: Too late now.
CGNakibe: Yeah, wish I'd remembered those myself.
OMG Priam: Thanks for that insight, Private.
Lithaladhwen: They should have gotten stealth operative for this mission. But that doesn't matter now.
Arch mage144: *there are some side branches to the vents, but they're to narrow for you to crawl through*
Arch mage144: *off in the distance you can see another grating*
T3chn0Namagomi: *peek through grating!*
CGNakibe: We have one. Its just not my primary focus anymore.
Lithaladhwen: *smirks*
OMG Priam: *starts playing around with his helmetcam equipment. Does it seem to have a streaming video option?*
Arch mage144: (Yep.)
Arch mage144: *through the grating, Zeiren can see a stairwell*
Lithaladhwen: IM: Having a special ops mage on this mission is surprisingly unhelpful isn't it?
OMG Priam: Zeiren, kick on your broadcasting of live video.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Because I'm not a damned spy! I experiment on dead people! I talk to dead people! Everything is about dead people!
T3chn0Namagomi: Roger. *does so, and decides to watch and listen for potential guard activity*
Lithaladhwen: IM: I don't spy on the living!
Lithaladhwen: *represses a sigh*
OMG Priam: Serran, keep an eye on that break room.
CGNakibe: Can-do.
CGNakibe: Considering coming through here instead of the fire escape, huh?
PapatymisonN: IM: Yeah, cuz coffee breaks are just insidious...
OMG Priam: IM: When did I become the commander? Pitiful...
T3chn0Namagomi: *Presence of patrols?*
Arch mage144: *on the stairs? Negative*
Lithaladhwen: (It is. If he said it aloud, Hel would agree.)
CGNakibe: How IS that door coming, anyway?
OMG Priam: I'd rather keep eyes on as many locations as possible.
OMG Priam: I can break the door whenever I feel like it. I just need you to tell me when it's safest.
Lithaladhwen: (Thanks Serran. Kai asked this before and didn't get an answer.)
Lithaladhwen: *leans on her big ol' metal staff and waits*
Arch mage144: The door is still closed and presumbably locked.
CGNakibe: *Crawls up to watch the breakroom, by the by.*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Any cameras or sensors he can see?*
Arch mage144: *none that you can see*
Arch mage144: *as Serran watches, he can hear the creak of a door!*
Lithaladhwen: (Oshits.)
Lithaladhwen: (It's Makura's sister.)
Arch mage144: *a drow in a white button-up shirt with a black-and-blue striped tie walks in, looks around, then walks out of his field of vision*
OMG Priam: (*Shin-ra theme*)
Arch mage144: *Serran can hear what sounds like liquid being poured*
CGNakibe: *watches carefully*
Arch mage144: *the drow walks back into his field of vision, holding a mug, and drinks from it*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Any doors from this immediate staircase point?*
Arch mage144: *a second drow enters Serran's field of vision, looking haggard--his tie is loosened and he has a very tired expression*
Arch mage144: *this drow is wearing a lab coat*
CGNakibe: IM: Coffee. I could use some of that right about now.
Lithaladhwen: (I bet he just got off the phone with the wife. Drow women are horrible nags.)
Arch mage144: *no, you'd probably have to go more up or down the stairs to find a door*
Lithaladhwen: (When they aren't murdering you.)
Arch mage144: D1: This is really wearing on me. How're things in the tech department?
T3chn0Namagomi: *crawls along, hoping to find another grate*
Arch mage144: D2: Fuck. I don't even want to talk about it. Is there any more coffee?
Arch mage144: D1: Sorry. I took the last cup.
T3chn0Namagomi: *Trying to be stealthy, anyway.*
Arch mage144: *you're at the end of the vent*
T3chn0Namagomi: (...Oh hell.)
CGNakibe: Possible paydirt...
Arch mage144: D2: Gah! This job sucks.
OMG Priam: (Terry Tate: *TACKLE* WHAT THE HELL MAN! YOU KILL THE JOE, YOU MAKE SOME MO'!! WOOOO!!)
Lithaladhwen: (...)
Arch mage144: (hahahahahah)
Arch mage144: (I remember that)
PapatymisonN: (I like it.)
CGNakibe: (Hahah!)
Arch mage144: D1: You said it.
Arch mage144: D2: Yeah. I don't know what's worse. The hours or the screaming.
CGNakibe: IM: ... screaming?
Lithaladhwen: (I LOL'd.)
Arch mage144: D1: Don't tell me about the screaming. I really don't want to know. There's a reason I work in the finance department.
T3chn0Namagomi: *How much distance from the stairs does it seem to be?*
PapatymisonN: IM: ... huh.
CGNakibe: *clicks over to record/broadcast this, yess.*
Lithaladhwen: *listens as of now*
OMG Priam: Find some other route in the duct. It has to lead elsewhere, vent ducts should be like a skeleton through the place.
Arch mage144: *there's maybe a ten foot drop down onto the stairwell if you break through the grate*
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: Fuck no, not going there.
Arch mage144: D2: You have it easy, shuffling numbers on spreadsheets all day.
OMG Priam: .....
T3chn0Namagomi: There's a couple of branches, but those are a bit too small.
Arch mage144: D1: I really don't care what you guys are doing in tech development. I don't think I actually have clearance to know anyway.
OMG Priam: Sure you do...*as if talking to this financier*
Arch mage144: D2: Yeah, I don't think you do either. Just don't worry about it. Just worry about how much it costs. I'm sorry we're overbudget.
Arch mage144: D1: *sighing heavily* The boss says it doesn't matter as long as you get results, so the budget just keeps going up.
Arch mage144: D2: Yeah, that's fair. So, how's your wife?
OMG Priam: im: Even if it's not what we're looking for, there's something the bigwigs here want, and bad...
T3chn0Namagomi: I either remain here or go into the stairwell, and given my options, I'm considering taking the stairwell.
Arch mage144: D1: Just between you and me? I'm thinking about getting a divorce.
CGNakibe: Tech mentioned screaming earlier.
OMG Priam: Wait, what?
Arch mage144: D2: What? Why? She's gorgeous!
Lithaladhwen: *all the little hairs stand up on the back of her neck*
Lithaladhwen: Really.
OMG Priam: Don't get out of the duct until you're sure you're safe.
CGNakibe: Something about having to put up with it long hours.
OMG Priam: Find other angles.
Lithaladhwen: Heh.
Arch mage144: D1: We have sex maybe once a month! I'm under a lot of pressure and need to unwind, and the woman doesn't even care!
Arch mage144: D2: Rough.
T3chn0Namagomi: I've checked here. No patrols have gone by for the whole time I've been there, and I can't hear anyone.
CGNakibe: *switches OFF the broadcasting about now.*
Lithaladhwen: *smiles at the conversation*
Lithaladhwen: IM: Yeah. Been there, buddy.
OMG Priam: I'm saying find more rooms.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Even if I kill you, I'm sorry you don't get more sex.
Arch mage144: D1: Eh, I don't know, maybe I can convince her to go on a second honeymoon or something when all of this is over.
T3chn0Namagomi: I'm telling you, I'm at the end, and the only branches are too small for me to fit through.
CGNakibe: Need me to stay here, or go out searching?
PapatymisonN: (If I were Sam Fisher, I'd snipe the both of them. e_e)
OMG Priam: Damn...
Arch mage144: D2: Good luck with that. I ought to get back to the lab. We're about to do some tests.
Arch mage144: D1: Tests?
T3chn0Namagomi: As such, I'm entering.
CGNakibe: *recording once more*
OMG Priam: All right, Zeiren. If you think it's safe, go for it. But take extreme caution.
OMG Priam: Serran, keep his six.
CGNakibe: Uh oh. They mentioned tests.
CGNakibe: Roger.
OMG Priam: Wait, right.
Arch mage144: D2: *shuddering* If I weren't being paid remarkably well for this, I'd just fucking quit. You don't understand what the tests are like.
T3chn0Namagomi: *tries to quietly open the grating*
OMG Priam: Stay, I want to hear this.
Arch mage144: (Roll stealth.)
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 5 3
OMG Priam: Zeiren, you'll wait if you want backup, too.
Lithaladhwen: ....I can imagine what they're like, actually.
Lithaladhwen: I'd like to hear this.
T3chn0Namagomi: (First successful roll!)
Arch mage144: D1: Yeah, well, you're being paid well because we in the finance department know you're working hard. Keep it up and you'll continue.
Arch mage144: D2: *shrugs* It could be a lot worse, I guess. Science has to progress forward, no matter what the cost.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Damn right, you crazy bastard.
Arch mage144: D1: The only costs I'm concerned about are financial, so don't say any more.
Lithaladhwen: IM: But... you don't fuck with their souls.
Arch mage144: *the grating is removed--by hand, no less--and Zeiren is holding it, so he's managed to make minimal noise*
OMG Priam: IM: Of all the employees in the building, we found the one that actually cares about confidentiality. Dammit.
Arch mage144: D2: Yeah, sure. Anyway, back to the lab. You just had to drain the coffee, didn't you? *walks out*
Arch mage144: D1: *shrugs, sips coffee, walks out after him with the mug in hand*
CGNakibe: *turns off transmission, looks around for any nearby intersections.
CGNakibe: Following those two could be useful to the mission.
OMG Priam: Not a bad idea. Keep an eye open for people to steal uniforms from.
T3chn0Namagomi: *tries to put it down inside the vent, quietly, so he can peek*
Lithaladhwen: (And....there's the White Barian kicking in.)
Lithaladhwen: (Swell.)
Arch mage144: *no problems here; Zeiren is now looking down into the stairwell...*
Arch mage144: *it looks like any other stairwell you might see inside a building that probably prominently uses lifts or elevators instead; it's more or less there as a backup*
Arch mage144: *it doesn't appear to be frequently travelled*
T3chn0Namagomi: Little traffic here.
T3chn0Namagomi: Kind of like with most stairwells...
OMG Priam: So much the better. Stay frosty.
T3chn0Namagomi: (Frosty?)
Lithaladhwen: IM: Stay what?
OMG Priam: See if you can head towards our location without attracting attention.
T3chn0Namagomi: (Doug does not know R6 lingo that well)
Arch mage144: It might be connected to the fire escape system. It's probably there only for use if there's a fire or something.
Arch mage144: (Stay cool. Stay sharp. Etc.)
CGNakibe: (Stay Cool.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Ah)
OMG Priam: (Mang, I have never even seen a Rainbow 6 game)
T3chn0Namagomi: Exactly what I was thinking.
Arch mage144: (I don't think that one comes up, just tango, which is counter-terrorist group lingo for terrorist since tango is phonetic alphabet for "T")
T3chn0Namagomi: *thus, tries to pull the hang-then-drop technique, for softer landing and great justice!*
Arch mage144: *grip gauge depletes for all of two seconds before Zeiren falls and lands on his feet without making much noise*
Arch mage144: *Zeiren is in the stairwell, on a secure landing--there are stairs up and stairs down, much like you'd expect in a stairwell*
T3chn0Namagomi: *And thus, heads up the stairs!*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Trying to be quiet, of course*
Arch mage144: *the "walls" are mostly greenish pipes and insulation, and this is clearly not meant to be pretty*
Arch mage144: *the floors are mostly plain dark grey cement*
CGNakibe: *Again, not much in the way of intersections by which Serran could follow the scientists, I take it?*
Arch mage144: *nein*
OMG Priam: This looks like a maintenance access staircase.
CGNakibe: Zeiren was right. Not really many other paths here you can take.
Arch mage144: *up one flight of stairs and Zeiren is at a door with large red letters that read "FIRE DOOR" on them*
Lithaladhwen: (You're on a floor that seems to have hexagonally-arranged hallways. In short: by MAC, the Drow are the beemen.)
OMG Priam: If you can find someone, drop 'em, and take their uniform; they're probably mechanics for the building.
CGNakibe: (Drow: You WILL be assimilated.)
T3chn0Namagomi: And now I'm where you're at. Fire exit
Arch mage144: *to the right of the door there is a red box on the wall with a white handle that Zeiren recognizes as a fire alarm*
OMG Priam: All right. Let me break this.
OMG Priam: Helena, Oxblood.
PapatymisonN: Mm?
CGNakibe: You sure?
CGNakibe: That door probably has a fire alarm on it, you know.
OMG Priam: I need you to make sure this door doesn't fall and....
T3chn0Namagomi: What he said.
OMG Priam: Hmm.
T3chn0Namagomi: Those things tend to go off when opened in any way
Arch mage144: Can you cut the connection?
OMG Priam: That itself might set it off as a failsafe.
Arch mage144: Hmm, you could be right.
Lithaladhwen: ...
CGNakibe: They ARE good with those.
T3chn0Namagomi: Anyway, we've got a way into the staircase, and a quick exit
CGNakibe: Let me take a look from your end, Zeiren..
OMG Priam: Well, we know the fire escape path is simple and straight. Any objections to taking it?
T3chn0Namagomi: *Stream transfer!*
OMG Priam: Alternatively, we could compel an evacuation by setting the fire alarm off.
OMG Priam: We should remember this for later.
Lithaladhwen: I'm following you. I'll adapt to whatever you're planning.
T3chn0Namagomi: Could be a decent one-shot distraction.
PapatymisonN: Me too.
CGNakibe: That's true.
Arch mage144: If we set it off now, though, and they evacuate, we won't be able to catch anyone if they're doing something suspicious.
OMG Priam: All right. Into the vent, guys.
CGNakibe: That's not the major thing I'm thinking about, though.
T3chn0Namagomi: Better on the way out.
OMG Priam: Don't forget to engage your belts.
CGNakibe: Want the break room secured?
Arch mage144: Alright, we'll go in through the ventilation shaft and into the fire escape.
PapatymisonN: ... will I fit? o.o
Arch mage144: Going to have to try, aren't you?
CGNakibe: Just think thin.
T3chn0Namagomi: If you don't, we'll just let the extraction crew get you out.
Lithaladhwen: *goes ahead and follows orders*
OMG Priam: I don't think we need it secured. Don't need to be in more places to be spotted.
OMG Priam: Unless we're in camo.
CGNakibe: Glad we agree on something.
T3chn0Namagomi: *turns camo off for the time being*
PapatymisonN: *does as Zea does, heading for the SHAFT*
Lithaladhwen: (Right on.)
Arch mage144: (SHAFT!)
OMG Priam: (SHUT YO' MOUTH)
CGNakibe: (Its one bad motha..)
Arch mage144: *Helena and Cecil enter the shaft, Oxblood close behind*
Lithaladhwen: (Just talking about airshafts.)
CGNakibe: (And we can dig it)
Arch mage144: *it's a tight fit, but the orc manages to squeeze in...*
Arch mage144: *the group worms their way through the vents and are now either outside the break room or the stairwell depending on personal preference*
Lithaladhwen: *follows Donovan, the only other mage!*
OMG Priam: *makes sure to be recording all of this videofeed data*
OMG Priam: All right. Serran and Helena, check out the staircase downwards, see what options we have.
T3chn0Namagomi: *turns stealth back on, and decides to go down as well*
CGNakibe: Suddenly I have to wonder how you got to be leader of this expedition. *crawls his way to the staircase*
OMG Priam: If you've got ideas, I'm listening.
Arch mage144: Initiative, I suppose. I don't know much about this, I'm just here to make sure you all survive...
T3chn0Namagomi: I don't know much about this stealth stuff as well.
CGNakibe: Don't worry 'bout it.
T3chn0Namagomi: *keeps one hand on his stunner, just in case*
Lithaladhwen: *follows Serran*
Arch mage144: Well, if the books I've read are any indication, the trick is just to be quiet.
OMG Priam: Hang back a little, Zeiren. I heard you in that shaft.
CGNakibe: Its hardly that easy, Cecil.
CGNakibe: Sometimes it actually works better with noise.
T3chn0Namagomi: That was a fall, not walking.
Arch mage144: And in Steel Sprocket Solid you lose points for killing people.
T3chn0Namagomi: Difference between the two. *creep, creep down*
CGNakibe: This isn't Steel Sprocket Solid, but they have sort of the right idea.
CGNakibe: Dead people tend to be noticable. Being sneaky means being not-noticable.
Lithaladhwen: ...IM: What the hell?
PapatymisonN: Sigint Cell's better. >.>
Lithaladhwen: Dead people are, but we can bring them with us.
T3chn0Namagomi: Oh, wait. He plays a Z-Crate, doesn't he?
Lithaladhwen: Keeps them out of the way, and gives us extra allies. Just something to keep in mind.
Arch mage144: *down the stairs...you're on another level of the stairwell, and there's a door out*
OMG Priam: Oh? How....sentient....are they, after they're dead and turned?
Arch mage144: *your general understanding of three-dimensional building layouts suggests that this door opens into the hallway outside the break room*
CGNakibe: *camo clicked on, just in case* Heard they're not th esharpest knives...
Arch mage144: *and whatever else is in that hallway, of course*
Lithaladhwen: Not sentient.
T3chn0Namagomi: *camo already on!*
OMG Priam: Conversational?
Lithaladhwen: I'd need to get the souls for that, and I don't go there.
Arch mage144: *there is of course another stair set down, because you're coming in from the roof and there are several floors to this building*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Decides to go down one more floor*
Lithaladhwen: At that point, it's either resurrection or lichdom. Neither of which I think is a great idea.
OMG Priam: So we can't use dead dummies as terribly good diversions.
OMG Priam: Even if they were commandible...
Arch mage144: *you're down a floor*
Arch mage144: *because you don't have x-ray vision, you have no idea what's through the door on this floor*
Lithaladhwen: Brief diversions maybe. I can keep them preserved enough that they look and smell okay.
CGNakibe: A wonderful time to discuss the merits of zombie minions, I must say.
Lithaladhwen: They just can't really ....yeah, Serran's right.
CGNakibe: *checks to make sure that his helmet doesn't have x-ray vision*
T3chn0Namagomi: *puts, well, his ear to the door, or where his ear would be, anyway, to see if he hears anything*
Arch mage144: *your helmet does not have X-ray vision*
OMG Priam: It is. We need to know what capabilities we have, because we'll probably need every one of them before the mission is over.
CGNakibe: *How about Z-ray? >:{*
Arch mage144: *make a perception roll, plus or minus hearing*
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 6 2
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 3 2
T3chn0Namagomi: (Success, barely)
Arch mage144: *you hear nobody outside the door*
Lithaladhwen: Well...*now that they're inside... she feels around in the astral to see if she can cast magic here*
Lithaladhwen: (What kinda roll do you want for that, Brian?)
CGNakibe: (Pass!)
Arch mage144: (An IQ + Magery roll)
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 2 2
Lithaladhwen: (Um. Succeed?)
T3chn0Namagomi: *opens the door just a crack to see if there's anyone there*
Arch mage144: *there is no dampening of the mana flow within the walls of the building*
CGNakibe: (A wonderful time for "Silence of Time")
Arch mage144: *the door opens...Zeiren peers out into the hallway and sees...*
Lithaladhwen: Okay. Well, I can create darkness or light as necessary, I can animate the dead, I can... hrm. Do my thing with ghosts to get information if need be... what else.
Lithaladhwen: Lot of plant magic that we don't need nowadays.
Arch mage144: *the hallways are carpeted with a lovely grayish-white upholstery, and the walls are painted a soothing burnt sienna*
Lithaladhwen: Then, you know. Killing people.
Lithaladhwen: What-have-you.
PapatymisonN: Which we probably won't be dong.
PapatymisonN: *doing
CGNakibe: If you must know, I took a few of the intelligence branch courses, so I'm competent in stealth and sniping operations. And I can fix my own mecha, thank you very much.
CGNakibe: Not exceptional in the stealth, mind. Competent.
Arch mage144: *down at the end of the hallway is a door, and the hall also goes to the left from the door Zeiren is peeking out of*
OMG Priam: Better than what else we have. You're our man.
Arch mage144: *midway down the hall are a three doors on the right wall*
T3chn0Namagomi: I can run fast. If I need to. I can also shoot things. And girls think I'm pretty. ^.^
Lithaladhwen: Agreed.
Lithaladhwen: And, uh...yeah, that's awesome.
CGNakibe: As they'd say around here.
CGNakibe: No hitting on women on the company's time.
T3chn0Namagomi: That's about it when it comes to outside of my A2
PapatymisonN: Prettiness should have never overtaken handsomeness for men...
PapatymisonN: Damn generation of wimps...
Arch mage144: *the doors are made of cheap-looking wood, probably artificial*
CGNakibe: Anything out there require keypad entry, Zeiren?
T3chn0Namagomi: Not that I can see so far. *peeks down the left, if he can*
Lithaladhwen: *raises an eyebrow at Oxblood but doesn't comment*
OMG Priam: Careful, soldier.
Arch mage144: *not without opening the door farther*
OMG Priam: Serran?
T3chn0Namagomi: *tries to do just that*
CGNakibe: Going out there. *turns on camo and peeks out the now-open door himself*
Arch mage144: *the door opens--to the left, flush with the wall where the door is, there are elevator doors*
Arch mage144: *further down the hallway opens up into a large room; no clear way to tell what's in there*
OMG Priam: Looks like we're clear so far. *goes down the stairs, waves for the others to follow.*
CGNakibe: .... Large room at the end of the hall. It... looks like an elevator on the left.
Arch mage144: *Cecil follows behind Donovan*
CGNakibe: I was hoping that tech head was staying on this floor.
T3chn0Namagomi: Elevators here, and I think some sort of room.
T3chn0Namagomi: *any electronics he can see?*
Arch mage144: Maybe several, it seems.
T3chn0Namagomi: *AKA: Cameras*
Arch mage144: *nothing, no cameras, no keypads, no apparent security measures*
OMG Priam: Listen the doors as we go, fellas. We can use any intel we can scrounge up. *picks a door, and does this.*
Lithaladhwen: *follows like a good soldier*
T3chn0Namagomi: Common sense, I'd think.
CGNakibe: Agreed there. We don't even have a layout here.
CGNakibe: Practically flying blind.
Lithaladhwen: *Any ghosts nearby, GM?*
Arch mage144: *a stairwell door, Donovan, or are you going out into the hallway?*
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 1 1
OMG Priam: *Out into that hallway.*
Lithaladhwen: (Success in her spirit lore shit.)
Arch mage144: *no ghosts nearby as far as Helena can tell*
Arch mage144: *OK, some noteworthy details*
OMG Priam: *The one where Zeiren and Serran recently crossed.*
T3chn0Namagomi: *and Zeiren tries to sneak out, and quickly move to a door, hand still on his stunner just in case*
Arch mage144: *down the hallway on the right are three doors; next to the first one is a sign reading "MEN", the second one has a plaque on it that says "JANITOR" and the third one says "WOMEN"*
Lithaladhwen: (She'll just keep a weather eye open for them. I'll roll every now and again.)
OMG Priam: *listens to JANITOR*
CGNakibe: Didn't know the janitors needed their own bathroom.
PapatymisonN: ... funny.
Arch mage144: *roll IQ +/- keen hearing advantage*
OnlineHost: OMG Priam rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 2 5
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: Right. Bathrooms and janitorial closet
OMG Priam: (ding)
Arch mage144: *you do not hear anything in the janitor's closet*
T3chn0Namagomi: *tries to instead go to the one at the end*
OMG Priam: *opens the door, slowly. If it creaks, he will stop immediately.*
CGNakibe: I'm NOT for trying the elevator.
Arch mage144: *the door opens without any real noteworthy sound...*
T3chn0Namagomi: Likewise.
OMG Priam: *looks around in here.*
CGNakibe: *looks the other way down the hall*
Arch mage144: *this is a very small room with some metal shelving*
T3chn0Namagomi: TOO much traffic there in any office.
CGNakibe: Not my main point, but yeah.
CGNakibe: Those also tend to be watched.
CGNakibe: You kinda don't want accidents.
Arch mage144: *there is a mop and bucket, several cans of spray paint, and a lot of cleaning supplies in bottles*
OMG Priam: *Any uniforms on the shelf?*
T3chn0Namagomi: *tries to listen at the door at the end of the hallway*
PapatymisonN: *the spraypaint. Is it black?*
Arch mage144: *hanging on the wall is some kind of smock*
Arch mage144: *you can find a couple cans of black spraypaint*
Arch mage144: *roll perception, Zeiren*
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 1 3
PapatymisonN: *takes one, stows it somewhere on his person*
T3chn0Namagomi: (Success-oh!)
OMG Priam: *tosses the smock to Cecil* Hang on to this.
Arch mage144: *it sounds like people are moving around on the other side of the door, probably a group of them; you can only hear noises of voices, not specific words*
OMG Priam: *as an afterthought, looks back to make sure everyone is optic-camo'd up*
Arch mage144: *Cecil takes the smock* Uh, okay.
Arch mage144: *camo's on unless anyone specifically has it off*
Arch mage144: *it's not perfect; you're not invisible, but it's entirely possible to "hide in plain sight"*
T3chn0Namagomi: This one's live. I'm not opening this.
CGNakibe: Hear anything?
T3chn0Namagomi: People. A group, at that.
Arch mage144: This is an office. People presumably work here. I think we must be in the cube farm section or something.
Lithaladhwen: *shudders*
Lithaladhwen: IM: Thought I left cubicles behind.
Arch mage144: I don't know where the research labs are, and we can't exactly go to the front desk and ask...
OMG Priam: Let's find an unoccupied room, get an idea of the layout of this floor.
CGNakibe: Nothing like the cubes to make this job seem better.
OMG Priam: A corp this big should have fairly uniform room structures per level.
T3chn0Namagomi: Indeed. Any deviation should signify something big.
CGNakibe: Agreed. So at the very least we should be able to guess some of the rest of the layout from here.
OMG Priam: Serran, do the honors?
Arch mage144: Maybe the bathrooms? We can put up one of these signs to keep people out if we need to hang out in there without being bothered. *points to a CAUTION: WET FLOOR sign*
T3chn0Namagomi: Good meeting place, as long as it's vacant.
OMG Priam: Not a bad idea.
CGNakibe: *Checks another door. Definitely not the bathrooms.*
Arch mage144: *it reads in three languages, namely Common, Elvish, and Nekonian*
CGNakibe: What? No toilet clog?
OMG Priam: Zeiren, what gender are the people in there? Mostly men or women?
Arch mage144: *hard to tell that from just the din of voices*
T3chn0Namagomi: Can't tell. It's just a bunch of people.
T3chn0Namagomi: I think that would be Cubicle Hell, so...
OMG Priam: Must be a lot, then, and probably a social gathering.
CGNakibe: Or the cube farms.
Arch mage144: *the only other door aside from the bathrooms and janitor's room is the one Zeiren is at; down the hall to the left is the elevator and past that the hallway opens up into a room with no separating door*
CGNakibe: I swear, all they need is someone banging a drum some days.
CGNakibe: Work! Work!
T3chn0Namagomi: I'm checking out the other end
Arch mage144: *according to a sign next to the elevator, this is floor 28*
OMG Priam: Twenty-eight...we've got our work cut out for us.
T3chn0Namagomi: *creep, creep...tries to peek into this room*
CGNakibe: *sidles up to the entrance of the room with no seperating door and peeks in*
CGNakibe: IM: Thank goodness for camo.
PapatymisonN: ... is there an index for what's on each floor?
T3chn0Namagomi: *okay, so we have two people doing the same thing. XP*
OMG Priam: (And only one has stealth skills =O)
Arch mage144: *the large open room looks like some sort of conference area; there's a very long table in the middle of the room with chairs down both sides*
CGNakibe: (One of these things is not like the other...)
CGNakibe: Found a conference room.
Arch mage144: *against the back wall is a fireplace, and hanging over it is a huge oil painting of a drow in armor*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Any papers?*
CGNakibe: Probably only useful to us in emergencies *Transmits images*
Arch mage144: *the left side wall has several large windows, and the right side wall has a lot of bookshelves*
Arch mage144: *there's some kind of wine credenza in one corner*
OMG Priam: Upscale.
OMG Priam: Probably not used often.
Arch mage144: *there are no papers or anything anywhere, but there's a ridiculous onyx statue of a falcon on the middle of the long table*
T3chn0Namagomi: Windows, which means this is another potential escape.
OMG Priam: I was thinking the same thing.
Arch mage144: *several crystal chandeliers hang from the ceiling*
CGNakibe: If it had a door I'd swear it was The Head man's office.
T3chn0Namagomi: ...Weird taste.
OMG Priam: Wait.
CGNakibe: ... Lets go someplace else for now. >.>
OMG Priam: This isn't an office....this is a dining room, some kind of entertainment chamber.
Arch mage144: *the elevator dings!*
OMG Priam: Positions!
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: SHIT!
CGNakibe: IM: Shit.
PapatymisonN: o.o
OMG Priam: Don't panic. We're invisible.
Arch mage144: *the doors open...and out steps a drow*
T3chn0Namagomi: *hides behind corner, hand on stunner*
PapatymisonN: Invisible-LIKE...
Lithaladhwen: *doesn't panic*
OMG Priam: Just stay still, and get away from the doors.
Lithaladhwen: (It's Makura's sister.)
PapatymisonN: *stays still*
Lithaladhwen: (Some one of these times, it will be.)
T3chn0Namagomi: (XD)
PapatymisonN: (*takes his towel with him*)
Lithaladhwen: (I say it's her.)
Arch mage144: *long white hair...civilian clothes, nothing as fancy as the businessmen that have been walking around...a very frustrated expression...*
CGNakibe: *does his best to blend into the woodwork of his new room. Probably hiding in a spot that seems out of the normal line of sight*
Arch mage144: *wait a minute...that looks like Makura!*
T3chn0Namagomi: o.o
CGNakibe: *Still transmitting*
CGNakibe: INteresting.
OMG Priam: You know this man?
Lithaladhwen: ...
T3chn0Namagomi: Huh. Makura's here.
Lithaladhwen: Oxblood, stay still.
Arch mage144: *Donovan, stealth check*
OnlineHost: OMG Priam rolled 3 6-sided dice: 6 1 3
PapatymisonN: I... am...
CGNakibe: He looks pissed.
OMG Priam: (Pass)
CGNakibe: But then, he ALWAYS looks pissed.
T3chn0Namagomi: When isn't he?
Arch mage144: (By how much?)
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 3 1
OMG Priam: (10 < 12)
CGNakibe: (Ow)
Lithaladhwen: I think I'd be terrified if he looked enthused.
CGNakibe: (Boo. Opposed roll.)
Arch mage144: Makura: ...what the hell? *seems to be staring right at Donovan*
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: Fuck.
OMG Priam: *moves, slowly, to one side*
PapatymisonN: ... oh brother...
OMG Priam: *hand going to the chloroform*
Arch mage144: M: *walking toward Donovan*
T3chn0Namagomi: *firing stunner?*
OMG Priam: *if he gets within one foot, or makes a sudden move, man, he is SO chloroformed*
CGNakibe: No noise.
Arch mage144: M: *raises a hand as if to poke Donovan...*
Arch mage144: *Make a DX roll!*
OnlineHost: OMG Priam rolled 3 6-sided dice: 2 2 5
OMG Priam: (Got it. JUDO CHLOROFORM STYLE)
CGNakibe: (Ninja Chloroform Jutsu.)
OMG Priam: (He actually has Judo =O)
Arch mage144: *Donovan brings up his arms, grabs Makura in a judo hold, flips him around, and shoves the chemical-soaked rag into his face*
Arch mage144: *the drow's eyes widen briefly*
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 4 5
OMG Priam: Oxblood, Hel. Stairs. Cover me.
Lithaladhwen: ....*does so*
Arch mage144: *he passes out in Donovan's arms*
T3chn0Namagomi: Bathroom. Now.
CGNakibe: Well, this is completely unexpected.
Lithaladhwen: Be careful with him, Donovan. No killing.
CGNakibe: He's kind of a friend of ours. Maybe.
PapatymisonN: *covering!*
OMG Priam: *takes him up the maintenance stairs*
OMG Priam: We have brief contact. Stay sharp, people. Don't want to make another mistake.
Arch mage144: *Cecil pokes his head out from the janitor's closet* Wait, stairs or bathroom?
T3chn0Namagomi: Okay then. Stairs...
Arch mage144: Right, stairs.
PapatymisonN: Stairs...
Arch mage144: *moves to the stairwell*
OMG Priam: We haven't secured the bathroom.
Arch mage144: *the party is now in the stairwell plus one unconscious drow*
Arch mage144: (BRB)
CGNakibe: ... did you manage to get lucky and see any keys in that janitor's closet?
OMG Priam: Ox, close the door behind me and check that closet again. Hel, stay with me.
OMG Priam: *removes the chloroform mask, puts it aside again*
OMG Priam: *takes him all the way to the top of the stairs, and sets him down*
CGNakibe: Well, this floor is mostly a bust.
T3chn0Namagomi: Eh. We've got someone to interrogate, at least.
OMG Priam: *Holocaps this guy's mug* You guys seem to know him. Who is he?
CGNakibe: *Heads back to the stairs*
T3chn0Namagomi: He WAS in our squadron, and then went on leave.
Lithaladhwen: His name is Makura.
Lithaladhwen: *sticks with Donovan*
T3chn0Namagomi: Yeah. A lot of people don't like him.
Lithaladhwen: And he's theoretically with us.
OMG Priam: A known double agent on our side? Or do we need to make sure he's immobilized?
Lithaladhwen: I don't mind him myself, but I guess the others do.
PapatymisonN: Can we torture him? ^_^
CGNakibe: (What was Makura's last name? Sentan? *checks*)
T3chn0Namagomi: He's the son of the CEO.
Lithaladhwen: Oxblood, don't you dare.
T3chn0Namagomi: Not a double-agent.
PapatymisonN: (Kuragari.)
Lithaladhwen: Let me talk to him.
Lithaladhwen: I can tell if he lies to me.
PapatymisonN: It's a joke...
CGNakibe: But yeah, he's Private Makura Kuragari.
CGNakibe: Left due to family business or whatever a little while ago.
OMG Priam: You got it. I'll stay with you until he wakes and we figure ths out. Serran, you're in charge of the infiltration from here.
CGNakibe: Double agent is hard to say.
OMG Priam: We'll keep you updated on the status as it happens.
CGNakibe: I'm still most interested in where that techie went.
T3chn0Namagomi: Could be anywhere by now.
CGNakibe: He's our only lead so far.
OMG Priam: You have heat sensors on your visual?
T3chn0Namagomi: *Would we?*
Lithaladhwen: Also, I'm inclined to think that because I'm a woman he might be less freaked out by having me question him. But who knows. *smirk* You all think I'm a spy anyway, likely.
T3chn0Namagomi: <_<; Actually, I didn't think so.
CGNakibe: (Yeah, would we have thermal sensing on our headgear?)
PapatymisonN: I'd still like to see the look on his face when he sees ME grinning over him.
T3chn0Namagomi: He probably wouldn't be as much scared as just disgusted
CGNakibe: Oxblood should be kept away from him just in case. >.>
Arch mage144: *No, no thermal sensors*
OMG Priam: My thoughts exactly. Like I said, Serran, you're running this mission for now.
PapatymisonN: I'll behave.
CGNakibe: No thermal scanning here, unfortunately.
Arch mage144: I can wake him up if you want.
CGNakibe: Damn shame too.
OMG Priam: Your call, Operative.
T3chn0Namagomi: Do that. We might get something from him.
Arch mage144: You want to make sure he doesn't have any weapons first?
CGNakibe: I want info. Building information at the least.
CGNakibe: I wouldn't be surprised if his first weapon is his fists and feet.
Arch mage144: *Makura is wearing an almost skintight black t-shirt of sorts and civilian jeans; there's something around his neck on a white cord, apparently tucked into his clothing*
CGNakibe: I do know that whatever the one room we didn't really check was, it probably wasn't anything we'd be able to use right now. It wasn't secure or securely locked.
OMG Priam: *pats Makura down for weapons, and checks this corded thing*
T3chn0Namagomi: *untucks it to see what it is. Keycard?*
OMG Priam: (Man, where is Zeiren anyway? I thought he was at the boardroom)
T3chn0Namagomi: (He went back to the stairs)
Arch mage144: *the drow doesn't seem to be armed as far as Donovan can tell, but on the cord is a photo ID card that indicates that he is Makura Kuragari*
T3chn0Namagomi: *checks the ID for any possible "floor access"*
Arch mage144: *it's labelled "PROVISIONAL - VISITOR ID"*
CGNakibe: *goes down the stairs*
OMG Priam: *tucks it back in*
Arch mage144: *back down the stairs Serran is8
Arch mage144: *
CGNakibe: Any ideas what floors he could access? If that's a visitor's ID then we at least will know where NOT to go.
Arch mage144: Alternately, if it's a visitor's ID he doesn't have access to anywhere useful.
T3chn0Namagomi: But if it shows what floors he DOES have access to...
OMG Priam: We'll see what comes out when the questions fly. You do your part, Serran.
T3chn0Namagomi: It shows what he doesn't.
T3chn0Namagomi: Alternately, we can check for "restricted floors".
Arch mage144: You want me to wake him yet?
T3chn0Namagomi: *heading down*
T3chn0Namagomi: Sure.
Arch mage144: *Zeiren follows*
CGNakibe: *peeks through the 22nd floor door, opening it gently*
OMG Priam: Operative Mazuo?
Lithaladhwen: Yeah?
OMG Priam: Cecil wants to know if you want him awake yet.
Lithaladhwen: I can just tell if he's been lying. I don't have to be the only one asking question.
Lithaladhwen: *questions
CGNakibe: IM: Would SO rather not be Cautious Cobra, or whatever the hell that guy's name was.
Lithaladhwen: I do need to be here, but I may need to spend a moment sifting through his statements magically. Make sense?
Arch mage144: *The 22nd floor looks a lot like the 28th floor; there are even bathrooms in the same place, but there's no huge meeting room on the left, just a hallway with a few more doors on each side that eventually turns back to the right*
OMG Priam: Drugs interfere with that at all?
CGNakibe: *Can Serran see any signs of importance from here?*
Lithaladhwen: Drugs? I don't think it matters. He'll still know if he's lying. He knows what's true and what isn't, likely.
Arch mage144: Probably not. If she's got a spell to detect lies, waking him up with inhaled stimulants probably isn't going to cause a problem with its effectiveness.
Lithaladhwen: That's all I need.
OMG Priam: *turns to Cecil.* You got the extra, then? Don't want to use it if we're going to need it later.
Arch mage144: *not here; he could go down the hall and turn right if he wanted to see what was down there--there are plaques next to the doors down the left hallway with people's names on them*
Arch mage144: *they might be private offices*
Arch mage144: I have plenty of medical supplies.
TheWaiChibiAngel has entered the room.
CGNakibe: 22 seems to be an office floor.
CGNakibe: (We gain x1 Shini!)
T3chn0Namagomi: Heading to 13.
OMG Priam: I don't see why not. Ox, let us know if the situation changes at the door.
CGNakibe: Lucky 13.
PapatymisonN: You got it.
T3chn0Namagomi: *does so*
OMG Priam: Bring him back, Doc.
T3chn0Namagomi: *First tries to listen in the door*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Er, through, you know.*
CGNakibe: *shuts door carefully behind him, checks 21* Doing 21 now.
Arch mage144: *Cecil pulls a small glass vial out of a compartment of his armor, holds it under Makura's nose, and snaps the end of it off*
Lithaladhwen: *sighs*
Arch mage144: *Makura stirs briefly and his eyes flutter open*
OMG Priam: Welcome back, Mr. Kuragari.
Arch mage144: M: *looks up at Cecil, and suddenly appears very confused*
CGNakibe: (How very Doctor No)
OMG Priam: *turns off subvoc for this*
Arch mage144: M: *then looks over at Helena and looks somewhat terrified*
Lithaladhwen: Hey guys. I think I should take off my helmet. So uh... yeah. He can talk to me and know who I am.
Arch mage144: M: *then looks around quickly and appears totally fucking lost*
Lithaladhwen: *subvocalized, of course*
T3chn0Namagomi: *tries peeking through the floor 13 door ever so slightly*
Lithaladhwen: *raises an index finger to her "mouth" outside her mask*
Arch mage144: M: *silent*
OMG Priam: Good boy.
Arch mage144: *13? How arbitrary*
CGNakibe: (Organization 13!)
Arch mage144: *oddly enough, there is no floor 13; the numbering system skips it and goes straight to 12!*
Arch mage144: *how peculiar*
CGNakibe: So much for floor 13.
T3chn0Namagomi: *Is there a missing door?*
CGNakibe: Standard building practicies. Gotta love em.
T3chn0Namagomi: *Or just skipped?*
Arch mage144: *no, there's a floor labelled 14 on the fire escape stairs and then you're on floor 12*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Ah, right*
CGNakibe: (Ah, Sideways Stories from Wayside School. ^^)
PapatymisonN: (Damn I loved that book...)
OMG Priam: (That was floor 19 and you know it)
T3chn0Namagomi: *Well, then. Floor 12!*
CGNakibe: (There IS no floor 19)
CGNakibe: (Duh. e.e)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Room 104!)
Arch mage144: M: *appears to be calming down a little, but seems very guarded*
OMG Priam: We've got a few questions for you.
OMG Priam: I advise you be forthcoming.
OMG Priam: Do you understand.
Lithaladhwen: Guys, I'm taking off my helmet, and if you're going to get pissed at me for it, say something now.
Arch mage144: M: I speak Common. I understand you quite clearly. What the hell do you want?
OMG Priam: What are you doing here?
T3chn0Namagomi: *peeking through Floor 12's door, then!*
Arch mage144: M: I happen to be visiting.
CGNakibe: *Sadly for Zeiren, there is no girl's locker room*
OMG Priam: Oh, you see, I wouldn't have figured that out. Thanks.
Arch mage144: *floor 12 is a bit different in terms of layout--you've gone below the cube farm/office floors, it would seem*
OMG Priam: Now, if you'll answer the question.
Lithaladhwen: *ignoring risk, she pulls her helmet off so he can see who she is*
T3chn0Namagomi: Guys, we've got a change.
Arch mage144: *instead, the door to floor 12 opens out onto a catwalk overlooking a factory floor*
CGNakibe: Floor?
TheWaiChibiAngel has left the room.
T3chn0Namagomi: 12. Factory floor.
Lithaladhwen: Do you see why we're suspicious, Makura? Talk.
Arch mage144: *there don't seem to be any people out there, just conveyor belts, robotic arms, and all kinds of other mechanical equipment*
Arch mage144: *the machines are assembling all manner of mecha pieces, primarily weaponry, and the entire process seems to be totally automated*
PapatymisonN: ... huh.
T3chn0Namagomi: Mainly weapons here.
Arch mage144: M: What? What are you doing here, Special Operative Mage Helena? *smirks* Come to find me because you thought I was AWOL?
Lithaladhwen: We weren't looking for you.
Arch mage144: M: Some of my family members work here. *directed to the still-helmeted Donovan* I happen to be visiting them.
Arch mage144: M: Somehow I doubted you were.
T3chn0Namagomi: *Anything that looks like the A2-core from earlier?*
Lithaladhwen: We're investigating potential manufacturers for those enemy machines.
Arch mage144: *nope, this is all just stock stuff, though it's hard to tell precisely what's being manufactured from this distance on the catwalk*
Lithaladhwen: We've heard some discussion that makes us suspicious of this place and, oh wonder of wonders, look where you've gone.
Arch mage144: *the catwalks extend over the factory floor in several different directions, creating a network of bridges from where it is possible to observe the operation of different machines*
Arch mage144: M: *nods* So you came here looking for evidence regarding the automated mecha...
CGNakibe: *Makes his way down to floor 14*
CGNakibe: *And takes a peek there*
T3chn0Namagomi: (AFK, bathroom)
Lithaladhwen: We have evidence, and I don't feel like sharing it right now.
OMG Priam: *makes sure to record all this audio*
Lithaladhwen: This isn't about what I know.
Lithaladhwen: This is about you. We're worried, Makura.
Arch mage144: *it's an office level a lot like floor 22, possibly excepting the fact that it branches out in three directions instead of two*
OMG Priam: *clicks off his camo, to save power.*
CGNakibe: An anomaly. good stuff.
Arch mage144: M: As am I. Why do you think I came here?
Lithaladhwen: Doesn't matter what I think.
Lithaladhwen: Matters what you're thinking, what you're doing. Care to share?
CGNakibe: *walks as best he can out into the hall towards the branching place* Going to investigate where this third hall goes. If I'm right it should overlook your factory floor.
Arch mage144: M: To be blunt, seeing Elsa out there on the battlefield left me more than a little suspicious.
Lithaladhwen: IM: Give me something, you crazy blue boy.
Arch mage144: M: I came here to find out what SentanCorp had been working on of late. At the moment, I have little information.
Arch mage144: M: And I will gather no more if I am knocked out and dragged into the fire escape.
Lithaladhwen: *smirks*
Lithaladhwen: *casts a spell!*
CGNakibe: *Serran can hear Makura over the comm or no?*
Lithaladhwen: *She wants to know whether he's lied to her yet, and can do this with her handy truthsayer spell.*
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 2 4
OMG Priam: *Yes, but not at full volume across the channel.*
Lithaladhwen: (Yeah, okay. Success. She knows if he's lied to her in the past five minutes.)
Arch mage144: *he hasn't*
CGNakibe: Well, now. That's nice to know.
Lithaladhwen: *more amused than surprised* Well. You aren't lying. Oxblood will be disappointed.
Arch mage144: M: My father has been too busy to grant me a personal audience, and as of yet I have not managed to gain access to the research labs.
T3chn0Namagomi: *tries to sneak onto the factory catwalk--is there anyone there he can see?*
Arch mage144: *nope; it seems like everything is automated as far as he can tell...*
Arch mage144: *roll stealth*
Arch mage144: *roll perception, too*
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 6 4
OnlineHost: T3chn0Namagomi rolled 3 6-sided dice: 1 2 1
CGNakibe: (Serran as well?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Success on both)
Arch mage144: (Sure)
CGNakibe: (I can see... I CAN SEE!)
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 3 2
OnlineHost: CGNakibe rolled 3 6-sided dice: 5 5 1
T3chn0Namagomi: (BIG success on perception. XP)
Arch mage144: *despite the fact that the catwalks make a lot of metallic echoing noises as Zeiren walks on them, he's quiet enough that the hums of machinery should drown out any noise he makes*
CGNakibe: (Stealth 8 < maxed out 16)
Arch mage144: *if there are people in here, he can't see any of them...but he spots an obvious security camera on the right wall*
CGNakibe: (And Perception is 11 < 15)
Arch mage144: *Serran is moving quietly through the hallway; there are a lot of names on plaques by the doors out here, and of course, there's an elevator, set of bathrooms, janitorial closet, etc*
Arch mage144: *the floor has lovely potted ferns in the hallway to add color*
CGNakibe: Meh. At least someone remembered to decorate this floor.
Arch mage144: *Serran hears footsteps behind him*
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: Fuck. Camera.
Arch mage144: *Zeiren notes that for a room this size, multiple cameras are probably required; but at the moment he can only see one*
Lithaladhwen: Makura. What will you do if I let you go?
T3chn0Namagomi: *Can he tell the camera's arc of vision?*
Lithaladhwen: I mean, really.
Arch mage144: *if he's been spotted, no alarms have gone off yet, so...probably not*
T3chn0Namagomi: IM: Better get out of here.
CGNakibe: *quickly gets against the wall, looks, and considers turning into the Men's room*
T3chn0Namagomi: *and so the halfdemon tries to move back into the stairwell*
Arch mage144: M: *shakes his head* Continue trying to find a way to access the basement level.
Arch mage144: M: I know more about the layout of this building than you do.
OMG Priam: *looks at Hel*
Arch mage144: *no problem on Zeiren's end*
Lithaladhwen: You do. You coming back?
T3chn0Namagomi: *close door!*
Arch mage144: *Serran sees a black-uniformed security guard, a drow, walking down the hallway toward him*
OnlineHost: Arch mage144 rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 2 5
Arch mage144: *the guard does not appear to see him*
CGNakibe: (Stealth is effective 18 with camo, by the by)
Arch mage144: (Yep.)
Arch mage144: M: Coming back? To Igala D? Not yet.
CGNakibe: (Guard on the same side of the hall as Serran?)
Arch mage144: M: However...
Arch mage144: (Yes.)
T3chn0Namagomi: *Do they get an audio feed, or not?*
Arch mage144: M: The upper floors of the building are all offices for the finance department, with some of the lower ones being offices for design, but all the really interesting projects are in the basement.
OMG Priam: (Of what? Makura?)
T3chn0Namagomi: (Yeah.)
Lithaladhwen: Noted. Tell you what. You come back, and come back with information... there'll be a lot less doubt about your loyalty. And there has been doubt. But your help would be deeply appreciated.
Arch mage144: M: SentanCorp's top security labs are all underground, but the elevator has no buttons for basement floors. *chuckles*
OMG Priam: (Yeah, you're getting an audio feed, but at a lower volume so it's easy to talk over it to eachother.)
Arch mage144: M: I intend to come back when I'm finished.
T3chn0Namagomi: ...Basement, huh?
OMG Priam: Do you know where floorplans are kept?
CGNakibe: *Guard seem ready for trouble?*
Arch mage144: M: A complete floorplan, one that shows all the hidden passageways that have been built in over time? No.
Arch mage144: *Not really, he looks bored, in fact*
OMG Priam: *clicks on subvoc*
OMG Priam: Anyone know much about building design and architecture?
CGNakibe: *Walks right past, making sure to keep to the wall*
T3chn0Namagomi: Not really.
Arch mage144: *the guard takes no notice of Serran*
Arch mage144: *he stops walking briefly, cocking his head to the side*
Arch mage144: *the guard suddenly yawns, covering his mouth with his hand lazily, and continues walking down the hallway*
CGNakibe: *stops, watching curiously*
CGNakibe: IM: Heh.
Arch mage144: Cecil: Nope.
OMG Priam: Long shot, but Ox?
CGNakibe: *quietly makes his way back into the stairwell, doing his best to make sure the door doesn't squeak*
CGNakibe: IM: Again, thank the Gods for camo.
Lithaladhwen: (Sorry. Charles and I are IMing. I didn't mean to cause distraction.)
Arch mage144: M: So, how much longer am I going to be interrogated by my unit?
OMG Priam: *clicks subvoc transmission off.*
OMG Priam: He check out? *to Hel*
CGNakibe: Walking past guards is fun.
T3chn0Namagomi: Heh. Try cameras.
PapatymisonN: Mm?
PapatymisonN: What do you want?
CGNakibe: I'd rather not.
Lithaladhwen: I believe you, because I can tell when I'm being lied to. *eye contact with Makura* Really.
Lithaladhwen: I can.
T3chn0Namagomi: Bunch of them on the factory floors.
OMG Priam: *click* You know anything about building design or architecture?
Lithaladhwen: But you won't be interrogated any more by your own unit. Not by me at least.
Arch mage144: M: *smirks* Sure. I happen to be telling you the truth. Glad you happen to be smart enough to realize it.
CGNakibe: If t he interesting stuff is in the basement... *as soon as he's in the stairwell the camo is clicked off*
PapatymisonN: ... use stone over wood. Less flammable.
Arch mage144: M: I predict that moron Oxblood would have shot me on sight if he saw me here.
OMG Priam: You too, Serran.
T3chn0Namagomi: *clicks off camo in the stairwell
Lithaladhwen: I'm not Oxblood. *puts her helmet back on*
T3chn0Namagomi: Heh. Unfortunately, you did miss his Armor getting blown to shreds.
CGNakibe: Building design? Not particularly. But Hm.
OMG Priam: All right. *clicks off*
Arch mage144: M: No, I can see that. *grins just a little* And smell it.
OMG Priam: Looks like we're done with you.
PapatymisonN: (Hey! He washed, I promise! ;_;
PapatymisonN: )
T3chn0Namagomi: ...First floor's the entrance, so...not touching that.
Lithaladhwen: *smirks inside her helmet* Take care, Makura. See you around.
CGNakibe: Ah, sanity.
OMG Priam: Far as I'm concerned, you can go. You stir up shit for us, we will come down upon you like the wrath of an angry god.
Arch mage144: M: Appreciated. What are you going to do? Continue investigating the building?
OMG Priam: That's our business, thanks.
OMG Priam: Oh, and a word of advice.
T3chn0Namagomi: *tries to go to the bottom of the maintenance stairwell, just to see*
Arch mage144: M: Such hostility. You ought to know by now that I'm on your side.
OMG Priam: Next time you catch a glimpse of something invisible, it would benefit your health if you pretended *click, goes invisible* you never saw it in the first place.
Arch mage144: M: Whatever you say, comrade.
Lithaladhwen: *shakes her head and chuckles*
OMG Priam: *clicks subvoc back on*
Lithaladhwen: *turns on her stealth gadget as well*
T3chn0Namagomi: *Lemme guess. Maintenance shaft stops at Floor 01?*
Arch mage144: M: *stands up, assuming he's not being held down, and brushes himself off*
Arch mage144: *correct...you're at what you presume to be the ground floor as indicated by the "B" on the door*
Arch mage144: *er. G*
CGNakibe: Don't go too far down, Zei. If you CAN get to the basement there'll be security.
T3chn0Namagomi: If we can find the way down, though, we should be good...
OMG Priam: *Heads for the highest floor accessible from the maintenance shaft.*
PapatymisonN: So now what?
Arch mage144: *that's 29, one more up is the roof*
OMG Priam: *listens at the door*
Arch mage144: *roll perception*
OnlineHost: OMG Priam rolled 3 6-sided dice: 3 2 4
Arch mage144: *you hear nothing*
Lithaladhwen: I trust Makura to get better intel than we can. What do you guys think we can do that Makura can't? What do you want to get done while we're here?
T3chn0Namagomi has left the room.
OMG Priam: (Not entirely sure what I'm rolling against, but that's probably a pass =D)
T3chn0Namagomi has entered the room.
OMG Priam: We can be invisible, for one, in the literal sense.
T3chn0Namagomi has left the room.
CGNakibe: (Priam: IQ, if memory serves.)
OMG Priam: He uses his advantages, we use ours.
OMG Priam: (Kay, well passed, then.)
AngryMechaFan has entered the room.
OMG Priam: *opens door, slowly*
Lithaladhwen: So we check for this mysterious basement?
Arch mage144: Yeah, but Makura can walk around without being invisible and no one will bother him.
CGNakibe: A powerful advantage, that.
OMG Priam: It is, but it still doesn't get him to the real sensitive floors without notice.
Arch mage144: He says the labs are in the basement. I'm guessing if they're doing secret experiments on human souls that they're doing it in the basement.
CGNakibe: So we can trust Makura. How much you wanna work for this basement?
AngryMechaFan: (What'd I miss?)
Arch mage144: (Nothing, really)
AngryMechaFan: Hmm...that one tech guy Serran talked about earlier was on this floor, so...
Arch mage144: You mean the scientist in the break room?
AngryMechaFan: Yeah.
CGNakibe: Elevator.
CGNakibe: Wanna bet its a keycard-based access?
AngryMechaFan: Probably is.
AngryMechaFan: Which means we've got to steal one.
OMG Priam: Makura mentioned it was a secret passage somewhere on another floor.
CGNakibe: Yeah, but which one would be likely?
OMG Priam: I doubt the elevator shaft itself goes to the basement.
AngryMechaFan: ...I just hope it's not a voice pattern.
OMG Priam: Though you're certainly welcome to jump into the shaft after the elevator goes up.
CGNakibe: Either way the elevator is out, I think.
CGNakibe: I mean, if we can get into the elevator itself its probably got cameras.
Lithaladhwen: Agreed.
CGNakibe: I don't trust these belts to do everything for me.
AngryMechaFan: ...Let's check the office floors that have electronic stuff.
OMG Priam: But the shaft is probably clean.
CGNakibe: Which still poses the problem of getting down.
PapatymisonN: I have black spray paint.
OMG Priam: I'm checking the penthouse level.
OMG Priam: *is there anything beyond this door? Has opened it!*
CGNakibe: *Sends a pic of the one meeting room* If you're looking for secrets, that's a good place to start.
Arch mage144: It's certainly ostentatious, at least.
Arch mage144: What better place to hide something than in plain sight?
OMG Priam: I guess you can check the falcon for moving parts.
CGNakibe: Cecil speaks wisdom.
AngryMechaFan: Yeah.
CGNakibe: Are you sure you didn't take the infiltration courses too?
Lithaladhwen: *obligatory ghost check*
OnlineHost: Lithaladhwen rolled 3 6-sided dice: 4 4 1
Lithaladhwen: (Success.)
AngryMechaFan: ...Let me take however long to get up there...
AngryMechaFan: *runs!*
OMG Priam: Don't bother. You search the lower levels.
OMG Priam: That's thirty floors of running, Private.
CGNakibe: Good excersize.
OMG Priam: *So, that area after the door.*
CGNakibe: Just make sure there's some executive girls at the other end...
AngryMechaFan: Most of the lower levels are factory floors, from what I'm guessing.
AngryMechaFan: *tries Floor 03*
CGNakibe: *makes his way slowly down to the lower floors.*
AngryMechaFan: *listens, at that*
Arch mage144: *Where is Helena?*
CGNakibe: *Clicks on the Camo and only opens the door enough for a quick peek at the ground floor*
Arch mage144: *machine noise from floor 3's door*
Lithaladhwen: *With Donovan*
AngryMechaFan: I was right. Factory.
Lithaladhwen: *Because he's the only other person who knows anything about how she works.*
Arch mage144: *Donovan is on what, 29?*
AngryMechaFan: *Stealth ON!*
PapatymisonN: (I have totally lost track of where Oxblood is.)
AngryMechaFan: *And peeks through, just to make sure*
OMG Priam: (At this point, people have entered and left that floor that he was guarding the door for, so wherever)
OMG Priam: (And yeah, Donovan is on 29)
CGNakibe: Eh. Might as well take a quick peek at ground floor.
PapatymisonN: (Then he's following Donovan as well.)
OMG Priam: The next question is, how long do we wait for Makura's intelligence. I don't know about you, but I didn't pack rations, and I'm not keen on the idea of a raiding mission into the company cafeteria.
CGNakibe: Hey, it's better than getting back to base for Meatless Tuesday.
AngryMechaFan: *peeking in the third-floor door.*
AngryMechaFan: Ugh. I hate Meatless Tuesday.
Arch mage144: We can always decide not to wait and do our own sneaking around, which is what we're doing. Who knows. Maybe we'll find something before he does.
Arch mage144: *the first floor is not a machine shop; in fact, as Serran opens the door, he notes the following*
Arch mage144: *he's staring out into a large and relatively open room that's highly ostentatious, complete with black marble floors, a fountain in the middle of the room with a huge statue of a dragoon, and a lot of white marble columns*
Arch mage144: *the door to the stairs and the elevator alike are behind an enormous "front desk" where a group of clerical staff members sit around in front of small-sized holoscreens with headsets*
CGNakibe: *Transmits just in case* As expected.
Arch mage144: *he can also see at least six security guards milling about, some of them stationed in front of the desk, some at the building's glass doors that lead outside*
Arch mage144: *third floor's a machine shop*
Lithaladhwen: (HAY GUYZ)
Lithaladhwen: (WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS CHAT)
AngryMechaFan: IM: Hn.
CGNakibe: Well, there's the fight we weren't looking for...
CGNakibe: *closes door*
AngryMechaFan: *heads up, checking the fifteenth*
CGNakibe: I'd hide an entrance to the basement there. But only out of spite.
Arch mage144: (My eyes are murdering me right now >.o)
Arch mage144: *okay, back to Donovan, Cecil, Helena, and Oxblood, who are on floor 29*
CGNakibe: (Need sleep? Or eyes that aren't as interested in stabbing you?)
Arch mage144: *down the hall and on the right there's a break room, you know that much; this floor is apparently pretty fucking small, because there's just the one hallway that you can see from the stairwell*
PapatymisonN: So now what?
Arch mage144: (I have a thought)
CGNakibe: Well, down is not good. Up may well be better.
Arch mage144: (My energy level and attention span are waning and I sense that people in this RP are a little disconnected and detached right now as well)
CGNakibe: And you're right, the science guy WAS on the 29th floor.
CGNakibe: (*Is using the RP Division technique*)
Arch mage144: (And I know for a fact that Kai and Cha are busy RPing out their own unrelated thing or at least heavily involved in it)
Lithaladhwen: (I am. I really cannot handle the wandering-through-hallways thing. Ever.)
OMG Priam: (So a decent drop point for the night, then?)
Arch mage144: (It's also 1:15 AM and to do something earth-shatteringly interesting, which I have planned to do, is a little beyond me at the moment to actually execute)
PapatymisonN: (... yeah...)
Arch mage144: (I think that we might be good to pick up next week or whatever, yes.)
OMG Priam: (Good times.)
AngryMechaFan: (Blarg.)
Lithaladhwen: ('kay.)
AngryMechaFan: (Well, at least I didn't die. Yet.)
Lithaladhwen: (Yet.)
Arch mage144: (Because right now before I can do the particularly interesting part of what's supposed to happen here I need to have more focus than I can manage.)
CGNakibe: (No no. We're saving that for later. >:{{{ )
Arch mage144: (And my eyes need to not hurt.)
Arch mage144: (So yeah, break here.)
AngryMechaFan: (Right.)
AngryMechaFan: (And now I'm torn between preserving CP for upgrade and using them on stealth next possible time)
Arch mage144: (I'm breaking my own personal GMing rules and boring my players in the process, which is a sign that I'm losing focus. So yeah. *nod*)
AngryMechaFan: Right then...
Lithaladhwen: </font>
Lithaladhwen: Font!
CGNakibe: Logged!
MajorGeneralTso: Whee!
PapatymisonN: Yo.
MajorGeneralTso: Hey.
PapatymisonN: Make Siyun.
MajorGeneralTso: ...He is made.
MajorGeneralTso: Oh wait. In a system?
PapatymisonN: Mm.
CGNakibe: A SYSTEM A SYSTEM.
MajorGeneralTso: ...GURPS?
PapatymisonN: It's easy if you have GURU.
MajorGeneralTso: ...Guh?
Lithaladhwen: I want some ghosts.
Arch mage144: Incidentally
PapatymisonN: It's a GURPS sheet makin' program.
AngryMechaFan: Wow. I seem to be the only PC Tek. Ever.
Arch mage144: The party is on the right track, and chances are that if I'm telling you that a floor looks a hell of a lot like another floor that means it is totally not important.
MajorGeneralTso: Blaaaah...New System boo...
Arch mage144: I guess if we drop back into character and everyone is actually paying attention we can stop at a more interesting point in like 15 minutes.
Arch mage144: Because to go beyond that point is going to turn into another 4 hours of RPing and I can't handle that right now.
AngryMechaFan: Naah. It's hard to get back in.
Lithaladhwen: I kept waiting for some resolution to that ghost check.
Lithaladhwen: It never came, so Hel had nothing to do.
Arch mage144: The only reason you didn't get one is that I had to spend 15 minutes describing all the floors Serran and Zeiren were running around on, if only in brief.
MajorGeneralTso: ...Has GURPS been identified as the usual system for MAC?
AngryMechaFan: Sorry about that.
Arch mage144: It's not your fault, it's mine.
PapatymisonN: http://www.aquariuscreations.com/GURU.html
CGNakibe: Metal Gear Serran. >:
CGNakibe: Its all about ME. And MY needs for ATTENTION.
CGNakibe: PAY ATTENTION TO ME! eVE
PapatymisonN: *BLAM!*
AngryMechaFan: I think I had to make the one guy who isn't that useful outside of his giant robot.
PapatymisonN: No.
Arch mage144: Whatever, I broke like half my own rules with this RP anyway, and I've spent the last two hours thinking about how there's chili and pasta sitting out in the kitchen that I should have put in the fridge four or five hours ago.
MajorGeneralTso: *Clicks provided link*
Arch mage144: Which ought to show you how distracted I am.
Arch mage144: I have to go put that away right fucking now or I'll have a nervous breakdown now that I'm thinking about it.
OMG Priam: I dunno, I still found it fun.
CGNakibe: Pasta is always an approved distraction.
AngryMechaFan: To be fair, I've been wasting time pretty much dissecting the pros and cons of varied mecha weapons and potential mecha upgrade paths.
AngryMechaFan: When I could've been talking to girls.
AngryMechaFan: At school.
PapatymisonN: Girls are good.
PapatymisonN: I like girls.
MajorGeneralTso: I find them troublesome, but only because I don't say anything about liking the girls I like to the girl.
PapatymisonN: They're deceptive, too.
Arch mage144: Well, I'm glad at least some of you enjoyed it. I promise next session will be more enjoyable and that interesting things will happen.
PapatymisonN: I can't trust women from behind unless I've seen the front.
Lithaladhwen: ...
PapatymisonN: Seriously!
Arch mage144: Wait. What?
PapatymisonN: They always turn out to be middle aged or something...
Arch mage144: Oh, I see what you're talking about.
PapatymisonN: "Oh wow... long blonde hair... nice legs... OH. She's forty five. OK... >.o"
Arch mage144: So put a paper bag over her head
PapatymisonN: Not that desperate.
PapatymisonN: ... yet.
AngryMechaFan has left the room.
MajorGeneralTso: ...Least you're keeping your options open with the ''Yet.''
PapatymisonN: I'd better. There are some days when I just realize "MAN I need to get laid.".
Arch mage144: Thread updated. Post Friday or Saturday preference for next week.
CGNakibe: Heh.
PapatymisonN: ... cuz MAN I need to get laid.
Lithaladhwen: ...
Lithaladhwen: I don't know and have no opinion.
Arch mage144: Can't help you.
PapatymisonN: Oh, I dunno, Brian... y'might... ^_~
CGNakibe: Beware!
Lithaladhwen: ....
Lithaladhwen: I don't like where this is going.
CGNakibe: My camera says that I do.
PapatymisonN: I'll be sure to get in some nice poses.
CGNakibe: I've never photographed pain being delivered before. >:p
Lithaladhwen: You can totally just get a syringe of pain.
Lithaladhwen: Just deliver it that way.
PapatymisonN: ... a meat syringe?
MajorGeneralTso: ...Sounds like you're planning to Marinade someone now.
PapatymisonN: In a manner of speaking, yeah. <.<
MajorGeneralTso: Fair.
MajorGeneralTso has left the room.
PapatymisonN has left the room.
Lithaladhwen: *lurks*
CGNakibe: HAY EVERYBODY!
CGNakibe: ITS LITTLE SLUGGER! ^.@
Lithaladhwen: ....
Lithaladhwen: Yeah, that. See you in a bit, Shaun.
OMG Priam has left the room.
CGNakibe: Minimum Wage Chop!
CGNakibe has left the room.