Head to a bar. Get drunk. Ignore the insults from other soldiers.

Drink tea, drink strudels.

>You are David Lister

Where's Rimmer?

Apologized, you HAVE to run today's session like Sundays. The shorter, more frequent posts leads to more interaction and more fun.

Last time on ZEONQUEST

After a highly successful night raid, the Federation mounted a counter-attack by bombarding the base with unguided missile spam from 25 missile cruiser. Our party, fearing this was a diversion for some kind of invisible carrier spent the attack searching fruitlessly around the islands, dropping enough sonar buoys that a man can now walk from California to Russia.

In the ensuing cavalcade of missile fire, Hawaii lost 50% of it's MS forces, it's communications centre, 5 submarines from enemy subs and Hovis Goddard, our resident MA pilot lost his leg.

It is currently night, Engineers are working overtime to repair and salvage Mobile Suits, in some cases right on the beaches.

>>7718746

YOU HAD TO REMIND US D:

>>7718746

Now is not the time for crying. We must work to our strengths.

We need to hit them.

What are our operable MS and available pilots at the moment?

Drink the booze we got given.

OH FUCKING WAIT. >:

CURRENT SQUAD AND HANGER STATUS

HANGAR
2X MS-06F2 Zaku II's
1x MS-07B Gouf (Zolomon Custom)
1x MS-06K Zaku Cannon (Being Repaired)
1x MT-05 Hildolfr (Destroyed, salvageable.)

Pilots
Lt. David Lister (You)
Ens. Zolomon Ringo (Close Combat Specialist)
Cpl. Jolyne Brande (Long Range Support)
Pvt. 1st Elaine "Ruubens" Arronax (Multi-Skilled)
Pvt. 1st Hovis Goddard (WOUNDED - UNAVAILABLE)

We're like the drunken master. Booze unleashes our newtype powers.

Latecomer here.

Have we killed the Gundam yet?

>>7718826

Nope and it would most likely kill us... <_<

>>7718812

No marine MS?

>>7718812

I'd say we split off in pairs Zol and Jolyne and Lister and Ruubens.

If we can get marine suits, that would be so much the better, we can harass them in shifts.

>>7718812
Get to work on salvaging the Hidolfr. It's been extremely useful so far and we'll probably need it in the future. Assuming we can find a suitable replacement pilot, which might take some time.

At 9:00pm Acting Commodore Haylon calls a briefing.

"Well gentlemen, it's good to see so many of you up and about after today. I've been talking to the engineering team and here's our current force estimate. The estimate that about 75% of our forces can be repaired, most of which over the night. Our last minute counterattack of the enemy submarine fleet and the destruction of the Submersible Carrier pushed them back to the holding line they were using this morning. If we had the forces I'd suggest an attack to finish them off, but we just don't have it. So for tonight, we going to undertake a close patrol of the islands, looking out for enemy probe attacks.
One good thing to come out of this, with the destruction of their last carrier, we were able to call out for resupplies and the first of those planes arrived two hours ago."

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO TONIGHT?

ASIDE FROM PATROLLING, YOU STILL HAVEN'T HEARD FROM OOKAWARA OR CHECKED UP ON HOVIS YET.

>>7718839
>No marine MS?

Not in the hangar, the ones you were using ealier were loans from Hawaii Base. If you can persuade someone to give you theirs, then fine, but they're aren't any spares going around any more.

>>7718936
Check on Hovis. As a group, then a personal 1 on 1 talk to apologize to him.

Then go over to see Ook.

Eh? Jaburo assault? Never really followed this, has Garma blamed some stuff on the misfortune of his birth yet?

>>7718960

This.

>>7718951

Then we can see about some possible probing attacks.

Possibly go in quiet and deep, then hit a single ship with our beams then run away.

>>7718960

You all decide to try and find Hovis. You check in with the Triage tent to see if you can find him, you discover that he's been taken to Puna Community Medical Center to clear up space on the beach.
They have a number if you want to call him instead, or you can requisition a jeep (there are still plenty of those going around) and go visit him.
You can see Ookawara first if you want as well.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7718960
eactly this

rolled 91 = 91

HELL YEA GUYS! LETS MAKE DECISIONS THAT DON'T INFLUENCE THE GAME AT ALL!

FINISH TELLING YOUR STORY OP!

>>7718999
Go see Ookawara

>>7718960
Don't apologize to Hovis for his getting hurt. Apologize for our fuckup that made it more likely.

And, for that matter, do the same for the rest of the wounded.

Then, if there's a Z'Gok ready, we saddle up and attack the Feddies along with Zol and Ruubens. Because I can guarantee that they aren't going to expect us to attack after the general mess that was yesterday.

Oh yes, and talk to Ookawara about including some sort of hoverskirt on the Hildolfr after the rebuild, to allow it to move over water and safely fire its guns.

And as long as we're talking with Hovis, we may as well ask him for any advice he may have on MS/MA movement programming. He was part of the original test team, after all.

>>7718999
see Ook first, then to the jeep!

>>7719021

TO THE JEEP!

>>7719020
Yeah, speaking to the other wounded is a good plan.

>>7719053
Thanks. I think we have to, really. The sign of a great leader isn't that he wins all the time; it's that he takes responsibility for his mistakes and doesn't make the same ones twice.

>>7719053

This, before we do anything we talk to the wounded.

Its the right thing to do.

>see Ook first, then to the jeep!

Tracking down Ookawara is harder that it would first appear. Plenty of techs have seen him, but you never seem to catch up with him.
Eventually you reach the ruined remains of the Hildolfr. Half of it's drive train annihilated, lying on it's side, still smoking. Exactly like it was the day you met it.

"Damn. I guess that's the end of that then huh?" Zolomon comments.

"NOT! SO!" comes a made cry directly behind him. Zolomon jumps and ends up in your arms.

"... this is how shipping get's started Zolomon."
"Sorry."

Ookawara is behind you wearing an eyepatch.

>>7718936
One thing I just thought of: we'll have 75% of the suits back, but how are we on pilots?

>>7719104
Oh man, don't tell me he got hit too. Ask him what's up with the eyepatch, hopefully he's just feeling piratey today.

>>7719104

Is he alright?

Eyepatch is a lil badass, but we couldn't do as well as we have without Ookawara's technical wizardry

>>7718936
Send Zol out on the first patrol, so that we have time to see to the wounded without shorting the patrol squad.

>>7719104
OOKAWARA NOW UPGRADED TO
PIRATE OOKAWARA CUSTOM

>>7719142
HE LOOTS AND PLUNDERS THREE TIMES FASTER!

>>7719165
HE WRENCHES AND WELDS LIKE A TRUE GRAND MASTER

>>7719108

New pilots just came in on the plane, so the base is fine in that area.

>>7719104

Ookawara outlines his plan for the Hildolfr:

"Okay, a lot of it need to be replaced with stock parts, but the central chassis is still mostly intact, as is the main gun. So here's what I'm proposing: We shove in a basic Zaku torso and work around it with armoured modules, we add 4 hovercraft skirts units to support the thing and then a pair of 120mm Machine-Gun arms for close defense, two shoulder mounted rocket pods for medium fire support and a set of rear mounted double barrelled 90mm turrets to guard the flanks and the rear. Oh, and 300mm dead center in the middle. Oh, and don't worry about the patch, it comes off in a week."

TIME TO COMPLETED RHINOCEROS: 19 hours.

>>7719201
What?! HIDOLFR is evolving!

>>7719201

... I love that tech.

I love that tech so much. :3

... would uh... we be able to get a crack at piloting it?

When we talk to Hovis, ask his opinion on it? Also some piloting tips?

Any chance we'll be meeting a Katorki or something in the future?

>>7719217
Fuck. I can hear the tune in my head as well.

>>7719053
>>7719103

About the talking to the wounded plan, do you want to do it in the Triage tent, or at the Hospital they took Hovis to?
Also, keep in mind that nobody actually knows about your involvement with today, and a lot of them don't know who you are too well.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7719201
"..."

When Ookawara asks what we mean by that, tell him "sorry, the sheer amount of awesome in what you just said overloaded my mind, and I had to do a hard reboot."

>>7719258
Go to Hovis. We left him behind to go chasing a phantom enemy. He deserves our apology first.

>>7719258
The Hospital, I think.

Given the nature of a triage tent, it's probably more important not to risk disrupting the doctors as they work.

>>7719279
yea, Hovis was in our squad.
The rest are just rank'n'file soldiers, and dying is what soldiers do.

We should be a good squad leader and at least do what we can to ensure Hovis gets off this island and back to his home or whatever. Maybe we could recommend a medal for him? Something like the zeonic version of a bronze star or purple heart or something.

>>7719258
TOO THE JEEP

>>7719279
Yeah.

Admittedly, THAT FUCKING CARRIER did finally turn up. We just apparently somehow missed that it was submersible when we first saw it, and therefore were looking for the wrong damn thing.

>>7719244
>Any chance we'll be meeting a Katorki or something in the future?

Technically speaking, Katoki probably wouldn't appear until 0083, as that was his first official work for gundam (chronologically anyway. He got famous by designing the stuff from Sentinel)

But since you asked:

OMAKE

"I noticed you trying to pass of the design as something YOU came up with on the spur of the moment back there."

"No lip from you Kikuchi, without my teams 300 mil or the frame, your "Rhinoceros" would have never gotten further than your USB stick blueprint."

"WHAT YOU SAY!?"

"YOU 'EARD! COME OVER HERE AND I'LL HAVE YOU!"

"YOU AND WHAT SENSE OF DEPTH PERCEPTION!"

"WHY I OUGHTA!"

"Stop that. You're both being very silly."

"... yes Mr Nagai."
"... yes Mr Nagai."
"If you're bored and don't have enough to do, you can help me add these high explosive breasts to this Z'Gok."

"OH GOD RUN!"

>>7719346
I see what you did there. What's next, will we have an Ishikawa trying to kitbash a MS out of three Dopps?

>>7719346
Well, we could also see about getting this guy named Shoji Kawamori added to our tech team. That would presumably create The Ultimate Mecha Design Combination.

>>7719346

>TIME TO COMPLETED RHINOCEROS: 19 hours.

I need moar buckets.

Of course, once Hovis comes back to the unit, everyone has to give him a present: a shoe for whichever foot he lost.

Because ribbing each other is just how Nachtmaren Unit rolls.

Also, we should ask Elaine if she plans to replace her lost mustache.

>>7719287
>>7719279
>>7719302

You take a Jeep and following the directions, head off to the Puna Medical Center where Hovis and several other wounded have been sent to.
You drive up and park in the car park.
After 20 minutes of needless waiting, you are eventually allowed to see Hovis. (what is it with hospitals and needless waiting anyway?)

He is sitting up, reading a magazine and watching TV in a private room (a videotape presumably, with all of the Minovsky's still about.) He seems fine and healthy.

Well aside from the fact that he's missing all of his left leg past the knee.

"So. Hovis, how's the hospital treating you?"

"Oh, it's been pretty quiet I guess..."

FLASHBACK INCOMING.

>>7719437
I believe it's about time she leveled up to full Groucho Marx glasses.

OH BOY FLASHBACK

You are Hovis Goddard, 30 years old, estranged from your wife and daughter.

You wake up in a Triage tent after catching a Cruise missile in the face, in an attempt to cover a fellow MS pilot.
According to your watch it is still only 5:00pm. You can still feel the afteraffects of anaethstetic in your system.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7719481
PREPARE TO REMINESCE!

>>7719514
REMINISCING AT MAXIMUM POWER

"Gentlemen!" the base liaison calls. The Unit stands at attention. In these times, a Zeon liaison is the closest thing to a commanding officer the Nachtmaren has.

"At ease. I don't think I have to tell you about Odessa, I think you've already figured that out." A palpable wave of guilt and shame pass through everyone in the room, even the clean-pressed adjutant. "Be that as it may, Lord Dozle has something of a surprise for you."

The men looked at the messenger warily. News was far from good these days, and some of the men considered the best places to give him a beating if it came down to it.

"As you may or may not know, we have discovered the Federation's Headquarters. Your Unit is to be one of the select few assaulting it. Of course, we've begun to see that using Zaku's alone won't cut it. As such, high command has deemed it fit to issue these to you." With that, he waved in a courier with a small, square box. "This is a mockup of the suit that is currently being shipped to this station. I will also give you a combat technical schematic on this USB stick." Reaching into his pocket, he removed the slim device and layed it next to the box.

"Sieg Zeon!" The men hesitated a moment, but responded with a thunderous reply
"Sieg Zeon!"

>>7719548

Zeon handing out Gunplas?

I don't understand what's going on.

>>7719548

THAT's not what I'll be having you take on Jaburo with!

THIS is the sort of thing I'll have you invade Jaubro with!

>>7719512
Ask how the battle's going, and how soon we can be back out on the field.

>>7719617

You have just woken up in what appears to be a Triage center on the base. The missiles appear to have stop firing. AT BLOODY LAST.

It is 5pm, what do you want to do?

what the fuck is going on in this thread?

did apologised just forget his trip here?
>>7719548

did we abandon the flashback announced here?
>>7719446
>>7719512


SOMEBODY TALK TO ME I AM SCARED AND CONFUSED AND ALL ALONE HALP ME

Desert. It's time to reunite with my family.

>>7719625

You try to find an orderly, but one doesn't seem to be apparent. You notice you are currently hooked up to an IV, if you want to leave the bed to search for an orderly you will have to remove it.
You notice that your area of the tent is shared by 15 beds, 5 of them used (including your own.) none of them appear to be concious, all of them are sporting bloody bandages in some degree.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7719660
That guy wasn't OP.

And this is a flashback to another time he was in a hospital.

>>7719643
have generic and expected freakout at now missing leg.

get post traumatic stress disorder

get shipped home

beat my wife and kids, fall into alcoholism, get divorced, and ultimately commit suicide when Zeon falls, realizing that I sacrificed so much for nothing

>>7719672

Actually, you are now controlling Hovis for this flashback. Just after he woke up in the medical triage.

>>7719668

lets stand up

>>7719672
wait, I thought we were flashing back to just after Hovis woke up from emergency amputation surgery.

So Lister hasn't arrived yet, and we have no idea what is going on

Remove the IV, get out of the tent.

>>7719694
This is a long time in the past.

>>7719668
do we notice that we no longer have a freaking leg?

Look around for a crutch or something we can use as a makeshift crutch.
Find somebody with important looking rank insignia and try to get information on wtf is going on atm

>>7719701
oh, alright then.

>>7719694

Oh our sweet CO... we have to find him make sure hes ok, with his extremely sexy body that I often make comment about with rubbens.

>>7719705
WE STILL HAVE OUR LEG, THIS IS A DIFFERENT TIME HOVIS WAS IN THE HOSPITAL.

>>7719643

See if we're all intact, obviously.

>>7719705
For the third or fourth time, this is a flashback of Hovis'.

Signal for an orderly, ask for news from the front.

>>7719695
>>7719692

You remove the IV and attempt to stand up and find an orderly outside. You notice that you can't feel your left foot.
You pull off your sheets and notice that your left leg has been amputated just below the knee. Luckily you can still feel that your knee joint has rotation, so prosthetics wont be a probOWOWOW OWFUCK OW.

That was smart.

The IV drip could probably be used as an impromptu crutch, although it won't be much good on the sand which surrounds the tent. You will have to find a proper crutch for that.

ACQUIRED MAKESHIFT CRUTCH.

One of the other patients has begun moaning in pain.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7719735

Check next to his bed. There might be a syringe of morphine to adminster to him.

>>7719735
Wait, this is now?

What on earth makes people think this is a flashback to a different time he was in hospital? I thought it was pretty clear this is flashbacking to cover his time in the hospital that just happened.

>beat my wife and kids, fall into alcoholism

Become a space-shrimp fisher, find peace with god outside of established religion.

>>7719619
I expect it'll be more in beat with this.

>>7719735
POST HAWAIIAN BOMBARDMENT INJURY CONFIRMED

ACT ACCORDINGLY ANONS

>>7719735
get up and look for an officer or any other soldier. Pull him aside and ask for a quick rundown on the battle situation as it stands currently.

Leave the moaning guy. We're no doctor. Find a doctor. Crawl out of the tent. Look for a stick or some shit. Smell the burning wreckage. Shed a single tear.

>>7719752
A little bit before actually. At the moment he's still in the Triage tent on the base. He hasn't been moved to the hospital yet.

>>7719746

You shuffle over to him. He appears to be in great pain, and he is trashing slightly. There is a medical chart available, it tells you that this is Ensign Ryan Kirke, who has just had surgery to remove shrapnel from a lung.
There is no Morphine nearby. There is however an adjacent room in the tent, presumably used as a makeshift surgery. You can't hear anyone inside, but painkillers are sure to be found inside.

>et up and look for an officer or any other soldier. Pull him aside and ask for a quick rundown on the battle situation as it stands currently.

>Leave the moaning guy. We're no doctor. Find a doctor. Crawl out of the tent. Look for a stick or some shit. Smell the burning wreckage. Shed a single tear.

Whilst you can see some of the beach and base from the tent. You'd have to leave the tent to find a superior officer. Unfortunately, your makeshift crutch wont cut it over sand. So you'll have to find a crutch from somewhere.

No doctors are currently visible, there might be one in the surgery room.

>>7719899
lets just chack the surgery room, on another note, i just had a vision of bigro performing open heart surgery O_o

check suregery room, see if you can find the painkillers

This flashback is boring and seems pointless.

>>7719446
Are there no call buttons? I seriously doubt we're either qualified or in a condition to administer anything to this guy.

>>7719937
>i just had a vision of bigro performing open heart surgery O_o

OH GOD. I'M SEEING IT AS WELL! HIS NURSE IS A ZAKRELLO IN A NURSES SMOCK!

>lets just chack the surgery room

You shuffle into the surgery area. Shockingly there is a corpse right there on the table. He (you think) is horribly disfigured, a large lump of shrapnel in his chest and his face appears to have ground away. There is a large amount of blood on the table and on one of the tent wall facings.

There is: A mobile medical carrier containing scalpels and medication.
There is a table with a corpse on it
There is also a waste paper bin in the corner.
There is a biohazard bin in the other corner.
You see a pair of crutches next to the waste paper bin.

To your left is an open curtain leading outside.

YOUR ORDERS?

Let's go back to sleep and wait to be transferred to the hospital.

>>7720056
this, actually

>>7720047
Grab crutches and meds. Take some of the meds back to the other soldier and give him a shot of painkillers. If there's a local anesthetic, put a shot of that into our left knee. Then we go find ourselves an AA gun or something that doesn't require the use of both legs to man, and get back to work.

>>7720093
also, now that we have real crutches, we should fashion ourselves a peg leg out of the makeshift crutch we have.

>>7720047
we're not medically trained, proceed to crutches, proceed outside

>>7720093

I agree with all except the AA gun. We should really just go back. Wounded won't do anyone any good.

>>7720132
because, you know, Ookawara already has an eyepatch, and we've been sinking ships left and right in battles on the HIGH SEAS

NACHTMAREN PIRATES OF ZEON

>>7720147

Also, see if we cant find someone that isn't too busy and ask what the hell happened?

>>7720093

As you reach for the Crutches, you spot something shining in the bottom of the waste paper bin.

PROPER CRUTCHES ACQUIRED.

On closer inspection it appears to be a set of dogtags. This is odd, Dogtags normally don't get seperated from their owner. After a bit of shuffling, you manage to pick up the Tags and read the name:

"Ensign Ryan Kirke"

The Tags are covered in blood.

YOUR ORDERS?

SIEG ZEON

>>7720166
Well that's odd. Either someone made a mistake...or this body is Ryan Kirke. Hmm.

The feds planted a fake wounded spy?

>>7720166

Place them with the body. No corpse deserves to be unknown.

>>7720181

Which body? The one on the table or the one in the triage room?

>>7720193
ask the live guy his name. O_o im confus

>>7720193
dog tags go with the corpse

Let's amble over to the guy in the triage bed and look over his chart more closely.
When was he admitted?
What was his unit?

Let's find someone in white and notify them about this anomaly.
I suspect feddy treachery

Check both bodies for dog tags.

>>7720173
Yeah, I was actually thinking that too.

>>7719814
>>7719899
>>7720193

Ohhhh wait... um... crap I dunno.

Show somebody in white the dog tags. Ask if they pulled them off the corpse. If they did, mention the fact that the living guy next door has that name on his chart.

Either there was a fuckup, or the wounded dude is a spy. Either way, it needs to be checked out.

>>7720215

Could be that the body is not Ryan Kirke, and that Ryan Kirke is a deserter.

>>7720265
either way, we need to get to the bottom of this.

>>7720215
>Check both bodies for dog tags.

>dog tags go with the corpse

>Let's amble over to the guy in the triage bed and look over his chart more closely.
>When was he admitted?
>What was his unit?

>Let's find someone in white and notify them about this anomaly.


You move to put the tags back with the corpse, as you get a closer look at the grisly remains, you notice an electric bonesaw, heavily used adjacent to the poor sods head. You also notice something matte black and metal underneath his nearest arm. You lift it up to find a 9mm service pistol underneath.
The barrel is still slightly warm to the touch.

You take the gun and travel back to check the other man's tags and charts.
His charts reveal him to be part of the Communications and Computer operating team. His operation is recorded as taking place about an hour ago.

You can't see his dog-togs from where you are standing, you could root around his person, but that might wake him up.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7720302
I see no problem with waking him up.
Shake him a bit and ask him his name.
If he says Ryan Kirke, ask him where his dogtags are.

If he produces a second set, he's a spy. If he doesn't know, we can just chastize him and leave and continue sussing this issue out.

>>7720302
I smell conspiracy. Retrieve pistol from corpse, and if "Ryan" wakes up, grill him on the previous battle, how he got his wound, ect.

>>7720302
slap him to wake him up. then look for dogtags.

>>7720302
>>7720335
>I smell conspiracy. Retrieve pistol from corpse, and if "Ryan" wakes up, grill him on the previous battle, how he got his wound, ect.

NOTE: Remember that due to having to use crutches, you only have one hand free to do things at a time. You can't wake this guy up and cover him with the gun at the same time.
You can still wake him up if you want though.

Oh, one last thing I forgot to mention: The attending surgeon on Kirke was a one Dr Kelly Thistle. Not that this means anything just yet.

STILL WAKE HIM UP?

>>7720389

We're gonna have to...

>>7720389
yes, wake him up.
Keep the pistol hidden as an ace-ion-the-hole in case shtf for whatever reason.

There's no point in showing our hand right from the start

>>7720389
Sit down and poke him with a crutch until he does then. Keep the pistol hidden under our...hospital gown, I guess.

>>7720501

Work those fabulous glutes!

... sorry. I'll go...

>>7720501

I endorse this message.

>>7720546

This one as well.

>>7720414
>>7720447
>>7720501

You start poking him in/with the crutch (DELETE WHERE APPLICABLE) he seems to be stirring when a voice from behind you asks what you're doing.

He appears to be an MP with a 9mm SMG. He is with a nurse, she is wearing a fresh smock, but her hat has some blood on it, implying that she has recently changed.

"Where's Dr Thistle?" He asks.

"That's what I want to know." You tell him.

You then go on to explain the situation to him. The nurse goes and checks the operating room. It appears that she was called away from this tent to help deal with a major surgery in another larger triage. Dr Thistle was left to handle cases by himself. This is not unusual, Dr Thistle was the highest ranked doctor on the base.

You both decide to wake the patient up.

>>7720389
Shoot him with painkillers, then wake him up. He should be too groggy to pull anything.

Obviously, something is afoot. I think we should try and get a better positive ID on the guy in the OR. It looks like someone shot somebody and then tried to cover it up by fucking the body over with a bone saw to cover things up.

>>7720644

Also, ask the guard with the SMG to stay alert.

>>7720644
Delete where applicable?

>>7720644

The man wakes himself and when asked for his identity introduces himself as Ryan Kirke.
You produce the Dog Tags and inquire about the one's he's wearing.
He produces a set, and then appears confused when he looks at them.

"That's odd. Who's Omar Saluud?"
"Over here." sparks up a largish man of indian decent, who was apparently now awake.
His Dog Tags appear to belong to Aaron Huxley and his tags appear to belong to a late Jason Styner, who's body has already been taken away.

"I don't like any of this one bit, and where the HELL is Dr Thistle? That's it, all of you are coming to the local hospital and are confined to quarters until we figure out what's going on." The MP decides as he calls for more officers to help organise things.

>>7720757

Awwww crap.

One of these things is not like the other!

>>7720657
>Obviously, something is afoot. I think we should try and get a better positive ID on the guy in the OR. It looks like someone shot somebody and then tried to cover it up by fucking the body over with a bone saw to cover things up.

About half an hour later you have all have a nice ward all to yourselves, complete with a couple of guards.

You overhear the MP talking to his superior on the phone.

"... I'm having the local crime labs perform a DNA trace on the body now, but we won't know for sure until morning."

Whilst you aren't supposed to leave the ward, moving about and talking aren't proscribed. You can still talk to the MP as well, your position as part of an elite unit, and the help you've been so far give's you some clout over the investigation.

YOUR ORDERS?

Find out who Thistle is.

>>7720814
have we been searched and relieved of our weapon?

>>7720814

Ask for more MPs

A single guard for all of us doesn't bode well.

Also, lets see if we can chat with anyone regarding what they were doing at the battle?

>>7720852
>have we been searched and relieved of our weapon?

Yes. Unfortunately. You have been given a nice stainless steel crutch as compensation.

ACQUIRED STEEL CRUTCH

In a pinch this can double as a weapon.

>Find out who Thistle is.

You ask the MP (who introduces himself as Carl Lenworth.) about Dr Thistle.

"Doctor Thistle was probably the highest ranking doctor on the base, he was the Commodore's personal physician, and he had qualifications from Zum City Medical Academy. He's been here since we founded Hawaii as our Naval center of operations."

"Any idea why he would just up and dissappear?"

"No idea, were currently checking up on his accounts and what-not. But with all the damage to the base, it's going to be slow going."

YOUR ORDERS?

"Maybe this Thistle is a spy or double agent for the Feds, or wants to defect? The Feds stage an attack on the island, Thistle gathers some Zeon intelligence, uses the attack as a cover to escape with secrets and hand them off to the enemy."

>>7720919

THIS ENTIRE OP WAS TO INFILTRATE SPIES AND EXTRACT SOME AS WELL!

>>7720919
maybe dr thistle is the disfigured body back on the triage center operating table?

have them run a comparative DNA between the body and dr thistle's records.

>>7720964
Get on that one ASAP. And try to get a hold of the other records from that triage center to figure out who's been processed through it. If there's a name that doesn't match a living person or corpse, that's probably our guy.

>>7720963
That actually makes sense, given that the Feddies don't actually seem to have brought any troop transports to this party. I mean, yes, they've damaged Zeon's own naval assets badly, but by the end of this they're still going to have thrown away practically their entire remaining fleet.

So if this is just a raid to extract/plant spies, there must be some extremely juicy intel involved.

>>7720907
>A single guard for all of us doesn't bode well.

It's two guards actually, plus the MP you're talking to.

>Also, lets see if we can chat with anyone regarding what they were doing at the battle?

You ask about the battle.

"Well, that barrage hit us pretty good. We lost a fair few mobile suits in the exchange. Yours included from the sounds of things. We also lost a forward bunker and the communications center. Casualties are still coming in."

>"Maybe this Thistle is a spy or double agent for the Feds, or wants to defect? The Feds stage an attack on the island, Thistle gathers some Zeon intelligence, uses the attack as a cover to escape with secrets and hand them off to the enemy."

"It's hard to beleive that Feds could show that much organisation on the naval level all of a sudden. But I guess anything's possible."

The phone rings again, the MP picks it up.

"Lenworth. What? Really? How much? How often? Every month? Since June? Where to? Well find out! Also, you find that bodybag yet? Well? Where's the report!? I want it ASAP!"

He puts the phone down.

"Okay, well, here's the skinny, we've just pulled Thistle's bank accounts. It seems he was making withdrawls of 10,000 Zeon Dollars every month to a Side 6 bank account. With our comms array out though, finding that's going to be a needle in a haystack. We'd have to go through EVERYBODIES bank statements for people on the base and try to find a corresponding set of numbers. Lord only knows how long that would take, and how much clearance we'd need."

YOU NOTICE THAT CARL HAS MADE A MISTAKE - WHAT IS IT?
OTHERWISE: YOUR ORDERS?

>>7721023
I dunno, this still seems excessive. Devoting virtually all their remaining naval assets, including a submersible carrier, to an intel op? Its highly likely it was an objective, but I doubt that's all there was to it.

>>7721023
I thought the feddy troop transports were knocked out in the initial engagement a few days back.

Obviously they knew that testing was being done here for marine MS's, they probably are trying to get intel on what Zeon will be throwing against Jaburo.

From the looks of it, they've succeeded

>>7721046

how would we get access to this bank account info if we lost communications.

>>7721046
If the comm is down how can they know all this?

My thought on the mistake:

You don't need to find everybody's bank accounts.

You just need to find the records of long-distance transactions.

That's going to have been handled by either a bank or a wire service (if those still exist); I'm going to make a guess that Zeonic military comms are not going to be used as the primary method of handling mundane, non-secret tasks like this.

So just go to the local banks (and wire service) and request their records of transactions heading to and from Side 6, including the account numbers involved and the holders of those accounts.

>>7720964
this, it seems like his face was disfigured afterward....

>>7721046
For the record, Apologized, do you mean that Thistle was depositing Z$10,000 a month into a Side 6 bank account, or that he was withdrawing Z$10,000 a month from a Side 6 bank account? What you actually wrote doesn't seem clear on which way the money was going.

Indeed, if the base SatCom got blowed the fuck up, where did all this info come from?

>You don't need to find everybody's bank accounts.

>You just need to find the records of long-distance transactions.

Well, you're close enough.

You point out to Carl that he doesn't NEED to check everybodies bank statements, just the people in this ward, and even then only for long distance bank deposits. He agrees to your plan and makes the call. Around this time the report he was waiting for arrives. You ask if you can look at it whilst he's on the phone, he gives the okay.

You read the report. Dental records confirm that the body in the bag was indeed Jason Styner. It also notes that his Dog Tags WERE Dr Thistle's.

"Well, hopefully we'll get what we need from that. I was thinking, if you want, you could talk to some of the suspects for me, see if you can dig up any clues? I'll do it formally when I get the report anyway, but if you can dig up anything that might be useful first for me that would be great."

SHARING THE WARD WITH YOU ARE:
OMAR SALUUD
RYAN KIRKE
AARON HUXLEY

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7721163

Putting his money in some other guy's account.

>>7721197

The hardened back-up's kept in a secure reinforced bunker underground for EXACTLY this reason.

How can the dog tags be thistles if they have Ryan's name?

MAKES NO SENSE

Also, talk to Omar first.

Oh wait, Thistles' dog tags were on Styners body.

Ok, so he faked his death.

>>7721261
Different set of dogtags, I think.

>>7721212
Was the body in the bag the one that was on the table? Or was the guy who was shot in the head and then bonesawed to obscure a different corpse from the late Mr. Styner?

>>7721212
Let's talk with Kirke first.

Listen carefully to his voice; if he's actually taken a hit to a lung, his breathing is probably still going to sound a bit odd even after the shrapnel was removed.

>>7721261
>>7721313
>Was the body in the bag the one that was on the table? Or was the guy who was shot in the head and then bonesawed to obscure a different corpse from the late Mr. Styner?

The bodybag that was sent off was Styner. We still don't know who was the poor schmo on the table. DNA tests are currently be made by the local PD for us, but we wont have them for a few hours at the earliest.
You can ask Carl about the body on the table more if your want.

>>7721346

I agree with this.

To lay it out a bit, this seems to be the sequence we're running with:

Unknown Corpse -> Ryan Kirke's dogtags
Ryan Kirke -> Omar Saluud's dogtags
Omar Saluud -> Aaron Huxley's dogtags
Aaron Huxley -> Jason Styner's dogtags
Jason Styner's corpse -> Dr. Thistle's dogtags.

>>7721384
Thanks for that.

>>7721358
Ask if Dr. Thistle had any noticeable physical quirks. If he was likely to have been sleeping with one or more of the nurses, ask them too.

If he did, and those weren't on the parts of the corpse's head disfigure by the bonesaw, check the corpse for those identifying marks.

>>7721407
Good thinking.

ALSO, WHY NOT JUST CHECK FINGER PRINTS?

>>7721384
excellent, I was working on this exact thing. Thanks for saving me the trouble.

However, this raises another question:
Why even bother with these guys? Dr. Thistle is clearly the spy. Money Transfers, faking his own death, mysteriously disappearing. I mean come on.

Speaking of disappearing, have we had someone notify command to stop ALL outgoing traffic from leaving the island.

Furthermore, how much do you want to bet that the submersible carrier was the recovery vehicle to pick up Thistle?

Wait, did we check our own dog tags?

>>7721384
Find out when these three guys were admitted, when they were treated, and check those against the time that Styner's body was sealed up and taken out.

>>7721434
Because whoever Thistle was paying is also a spy, and we'd like to find that person.

>>7721439
Fuck, you're right. Do that right away.

>>7721434
It may be too late for that. When was the last time anybody saw Thistle? Also, could he have taken Styner's dog tags, and if so, shouldn't we put out an APB to detain anybody who has them?

>>7721484
He couldn't have taken Styner's tags, because Styner's tags were on Huxley. Who's with us right now.

>Let's talk with Kirke first.

You talk to Kirke about how he got into the triage in the first place.

"Well, I was working in CnC, trying to organise the supply line flow for ammo, when all of a sudden there's a gigantic bang and the roof falls in. Next thing I know, I'm being poked awake by a Machine Gun."

He appears to be heavy of breath, but not wheezing. His bandages cover his entire chest, a smattering of blood can be seen just below the collarbone.

He has a plastic bag containing what appear to be white mints. The bag has water droplets on it.

His army jacket is clean, his undershirt has spatters of blood on it. His shoes are brown leather borgues and are by his bed.

ANYTHING ELSE YOU WISH TO ASK.

Also, if Kirke does sound like he has a lung injury, we can probably eliminate him as a suspect. Mainly because he's not going to have been any condition to be shooting the other corpse, bonesawing its face off, and then swapping around everybody's dogtags.

2 things. Ask him what's up with the mints, but don't call them mints when he's asked about them.

Also, how do his shoes look?

>>7721504
Ah. Must have missed that.

>>7721510
Well, I'm kind of wondering about the mints. And more specifically, how they got water on them.

>Ask him what's up with the mints, but don't call them mints when he's asked about them.

"So what's in the bag?"

"Biscuits, they've gone stale and hard though. I was about to throw them out."

>Also, how do his shoes look?

Somewhat expensive looking leather brogues, there are a couple of dark spots on the front that you can't identify.

>Also, if Kirke does sound like he has a lung injury, we can probably eliminate him as a suspect. Mainly because he's not going to have been any condition to be shooting the other corpse, bonesawing its face off, and then swapping around everybody's dogtags.

He MIGHT have a lung injury, or he might be putting it on. You can't tell.

Pat him on his side, but in a friendly manner. If he gets all, "OUCH MOTHERFUCKER!" be all, 'My bad'.

We need to find out from the nurses and the charts when all of these gents were being treated. Because the dogtag swap probably couldn't have been taking place when there were multiple people moving around in the triage tent, and the shooting and murder of the non-Stayner corpse DEFINITELY couldn't have taken place when there were multiple people moving around in the triage tent.

We need to know who was likely to have been up and mobile before Stayner's corpse left for the morgue.

Gundam here your all fucked!

DR THISTLE WAS COLE ALL ALONG
YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE

>>7721637

You offer to throw his biscuits away for him, patting on the back as you do so.

"Nah, that's okay, I was just getting up for a slash anyway."

He grabs the bag from your hands and get's off the bed. He is signalling for a nurse.

>>7721600
Ask if we can have the biscuit bag.

Take one, toss one to him. Make sure the one we toss to him misses and nails him right where the blood spot is on his bandages. Not hard, mind, because we don't want to reinjure him if he really is hurt, and we don't want to give him a genuine pain reaction if he's faking it. But even soft contact should be visibly unpleasant for him given that IIRC he still hadn't been painkillered yet.

Then we take a bite of our own biscuit. Toss another one to each of the other guys, nailing them in their own presumed injuries to check for reactions.

>>7721723

Should he really be able to walk so soon after a field surgery?

Biscuits, I assume you mean cookies.

Well, he's lying.

>>7721732

Well, he IS signalling for a nurse.

You might be able to convince the nurse to do something for you if you're quick enough.
NOT LIKE THAT.

"LET ME HELP YOU"

>>7721774

*rapeface*

>>7721774
>>7721776

THERE WILL BE NO RAPE HERE.

MAYBE IF ZOLOMON OR JOLYNE GET A FLASHBACK

BUT NOT HERE.

>>7721757
Have the nurse poke him in the wound slightly to prove that it's there, and demonstrate why he shouldn't be walking around yet.

If he's actually hurt, he'll react to this.

>>7721723

take the bag now its not full of biscuits

This so far is a disappointment.

>>7721812
>take the bag now its not full of biscuits

How will you be taking the bag? Forcefully? Attempting to take it politely? Getting the MP to do it, or the Nurse perhaps?

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7721861
pull rank and tell him to leave the goddamn cookies where they are. Have the MP confiscate them.

Slit own throat.

"Wait sorry, that didn't happen. Let's go back and start again."

>>7721861
Just quietly go YOINK and snag the bag from him.

Take a biscuit/cookie out of it and try to eat it, to make it look like the real reason we grabbed it is because he was hoarding snacks and we had the munchies.

>>7721887
As Hovis, I don't think we outrank an Ensign.

>>7721887
He's technically a higher rank than you are.

You ask the MP to take the bag. Ryan has already gone into the Toilet, without help from a nurse.

"Well he's looking awfully healthy for a guy with a hole in his lung." You comment.
The MP signals for the other guard to follow Ryan into the toilet.
There's sounds of a struggle inside and the shout of: "Catch him! He's going out the window!"

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7721999surreal

this is awesome, re there mre like this

WELL WE'RE MISSING A GOD DAMNED LEG, THERE'S NOT A LOT WE CAN DO

>>7721999
Well, with only one leg and a crutch, we're not going to do much good for trying to run and catch him. I say we stay here and keep an eye on things just in case someone else is a spy. Also check our own dog tags.

>>7719201
YES! YES!! YEEEEEEEEESSSSS!!!

Use cripple speed and go beat the shit out of him.

>>7721999
If we can't crutch over there in time to stop him, lean out our own window and nail him in the back of the head or the kidneys by throwing our steel crutch at him bottom-tip first. We're an artilleryman, we can probably do the ballistics calculations for that without even thinking about it.

>>7722017
Yes. Have the Zeonic equivalent.

>>7722064
You hobble over to the window, and open it just in time to see him dash past. You pick up your crutch and hurl it at him.
It tangles between his legs and he faceplants strait into a sidewalk. He doesn't move from that spot, having knocked himself out.

Carl and the other Gaurd pick him up and drag him into a secure room.

Our crutch is now called Hildofr.

>>7722120
>>7722150
No.

Our crutch is now called Gungnir.

>>7722120

As Lister: You ever thought about playing baseball with an arm like that?

>>7722120

AFTERMATH

An investigation of the toilets reveal a bag in the u-bend, full of teeth.
The teeth are matched up to ones removed from the corpse on the table, and the dental records match that of Ryan Kirkes.
The identity of our supposed "Ryan Kirkes" is answered when a nurse recognises his Brogues as Dr Thistle's.
The final pieces of the puzzle's come in when they find a bullet hole in the roof of the triage and whilst searching through Kirke's affects they find incriminating pictures of Dr Thistle with Ladies.

Well, they're ladies NOW.

FLASHBACK ENDED.

>>7722120
Get our crutch back.

Turn to the other two guys and say "just to clear things up, are either of you two also Feddie spies? I want to know whether I'm gonna need more crutches later."

>>7722223

so he wasn't a spy just gay. and blackmailed. and confused

>>7722223

... ... ... ...

WAT

>>7722223
Ah what a tangled web we weave...

So where did the stale cookies come in to this?

>>7722223
Okay then.

So was he being blackmailed into spying, or just into paying lots of money?

I think we'd better take a look at the erstwhile Mr. Kirkes' stuff to figure out if he might have been selling stuff to the Feddies.

>>7722251
this

what the fuck is going on around here? Is this an episode of the twilight zone?

You are once again David Lister.

You are with Hovis Goddard apologising for searching for a phantom carrier whilst he was losing a leg.
He forgives you, but threatens to beat you to death with his Crutches (he has two now).

He doesn't appear to be joking.

YOUR ORDERS?

WAIT


What?

Give him one of our medals.

>>7722256
>So where did the stale cookies come in to this?

They were the teeth. Doc Thistle hadn't found a chance to offload them yet.

>>7722311
>He forgives you, but threatens to beat you to death with his Crutches (he has two now) if you do it again.

Fixed. Sorry.

>>7722311
Em, I think there are a fair number of people, me included, who would like you to explain the mystery again. It's very confusing.

And why did he threaten to beat us to death if he'd just forgiven us?

>>7722311
Tell him to not spend too much time lazing around here, because Ookawara's putting together a sweet new ride for him.

A ride which has to have some sort of spear/harpoon available as a melee weapon now.

Ask him if he has any advice, both as an older soldier and as one of the first generation of test pilots for Zeon's MA/MS programs.

>>7722311
Personally commision a robotic leg as a replacement, paid for out of our own salary... And have it be able to be reassembled into a workable sniper rifle BECAUSE THAT IS HOW WE ROLL

>>7722371
Commission it from scrap metal made from salvage Feddie Mobile Pods.

That way, no matter where he goes, he's always standing on the Federation's Balls.

>>7722371
This.

>>7722335

He'll be getting his own medal actually: (Pic related)

Your Pager goes off. Which is new, as usually your in too high a minovsky area for that to work. The message reads:

OOKAWARA: FEEL LIKE A SCAVENGER HUNT? CALL ME.

>>7722371
OHGOD THIS

>>7722437
PIRATE OOKAWARA SEARCHES FOR PLUNDER!

ARE WE MAN ENOUGH TO HEED HIS CALL FOR AID?

>>7722437
...He's wearing an eyepatch, and now he wants us to hunt for treasure? ...I wonder how effective a hook would be as a mobile suit scale melee weapon?

The thing I don't get is that they're ladies now?

Was he doing some controversial GRS?

Or what?

>>7722437
Hey-oooh. Scavenger hunts are fun. With possible fun salvage to be found.

>>7722437
AVAST! - GET A FLATBED TRUCK, FLY THE JOLLY ROGER, HUNT FOR PLUNDER!

>>7722483
I guess, which is weird, as you'd think there would be a lot more accepted on both sides by now

>>7722411

Please. This. Oh god please this.

It'll be a story we can have him tell the new recruits.

Seriously, what the fuck just happened?

>>7722499
I'm going to assume that these were post-op trannies where the operation didn't really obscure what they started as very well.

Which would probably have remained kind of weird, at least as opposed to ones where the operation actually worked as intended.

>>7722437
Not like we have anything else to do. Though we should have Zolomon, Zolyne, and Elaine ready to suit up at a moment's notice if the sea patrols find anything.

>>7722437
We'll have Hovis crutch up and come along.

We've got Ookawara with the eyepatch, Hovis with the impending peg-leg, and Elaine with the poorly-disguised gender. All we need now are an epic hat and somebody with a shoulder parrot and then between the members of Nachtmaren Unit we'll have a whole pirate.

>>7722483

Okay. To sum up what actually happened, because I've porably not been 100% clear.

Kirkes was blackmailing Thistle for having sex with ladyboys.
Kirkes end up in Thistle's triage with a punctured lung, whilst Thistle is operating alone.
Thistle attempts to take advantage of the situation and kill Kirke.
Kirke wakes up on the operating table and attempts to use his sidearm on Thistle. He misses and Thistle kills him with the bone saw. He then rearranges his face with iodine and cotton wool buds in his cheeks.
He swaps clothes with Kirke, pulls out his teeth and swaps the tags.
He then attempts to impersonate Kirke long enough to escape and defect to some village somewhere.

AND HE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU MEDDLING KIDS!

>>7722587
Well. This was less intriguing then I thought it would be. Ah well.

SIDEQUEST COMPLETED.

>>7722587
And come to think of it, in the OTL he presumably did.

I wonder what information he gave to the Feddies?

>AVAST! - GET A FLATBED TRUCK, FLY THE JOLLY ROGER, HUNT FOR PLUNDER!

You 'appropriate' a flatbed truck and drive to the base. You meet Ookawara at the MS hangar. The Commodore's aide is present as well.

"Boss. There's a couple of pieces I need to finish off the Rhino."

"The Rhino?" you ask.

"Uh, yes, that's what... were calling it. Anyway, here's a list of parts, you should find most of them on the beach. Though a couple of them might be in the ocean, don't bother diving if you don't have to though. I'm sure I can machine something up. Would be easier to find salvage."

The Aide speaks up.
"Uh. Although the Commodore is aware that as an independant unit he has no ironclad authority, he would appreciate it Lieutenant Lister would form a squad to send out on patrol with the base defenders? He suggested getting into contact with him at the HQ."

NOTE: ONLY RUUBENS HAS THE BACKGROUND EXPERIENCE TO SPOT THE PARTS OOKAWARA NEEDS. SHE WILL NEED TO BE ON THE SALVAGE TEAM.

The patrol mission can be anyone. But you get the impression that Acting Commodore Haylon would like to see David at some point.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7722752
Zolomon and Lister report for patrol duty

Ruubens, Ookawara, and Jolyne go scavenging

>>7722587
Oh. So wait, we're in the middle of a war at a military base and they're *still* going through optional surgery like that? That seems a bit irresponsible of Zeon to me. But whatever.

Time to go get parts so that we can have a RHINO!

>>7722752
Put Ruubens on the salvage team. Also Hovis, if he was able to crutch his way out of the hospital already. If not, then Jolyne goes with Ruubens.

We go and talk with Acting Commodore Haylon, and ask Zol to go requisition some suits for the two of us while we have our chat. Preferably Z'Goks.

>>7722752
zolomen and ruubens can go scavangins, us and jolyne report for duty erh, who else i miss?

>>7722791
I suspect that the ladyboys in question were civvies, who'd had their operations done at civvie hospitals.

>>7722772
This. It would be a great learning opportunity for all of them. Ruubens can learn to lead, Ookawara piloting, and Jolyne can finally get her feet wet.

>>7722772
This.

>>7722752
>>7722772
Find Ruubens an Acguy and Zolyne a beamspamable suit.

Lister and Zoloman can survive with whatever is left, though the suits we used before are prefered.

>>7722806
Actually, you know what? That's a good idea. Jolyne is pretty much the only one of our MS pilots we haven't done a two-man patrol with.

Zol, Ruubens and Hovis if he's crutching around go with Ookawara. Have Zol bring his Gouf along to do the heavy lifting.

We and Jolyne get ready for the patrol.

>>7722817
I like the way you think.

>>7722772
>Zolomon and Lister report for patrol duty

You meet up with Commodore Haylon in the CinC. It's less hectic than you recall seeing it, but there are a load of engineers trying to rebuild parts of it. Probably something to do with the Comms building taking a hit.

"Ah. Lister, good to see you back. We've got a couple of spare slot in our patrol circuit and we were hoping..." theres the sound of something powering up and behind him a couple of monitors spring to life.
"...ah, good. Our Laser communications are back online. Anyway, I'd like your unit to do an air patrol via Dodai around the Islands. They haven't made any probing attacks thus far, Intel thinks they're acting cautious now that they don't have any air support. A short two hour patrol should do the job."

>Ruubens, Ookawara, and Jolyne go scavenging

You send the three of them out beach-combing with the flatbed.

CHOOSE YOUR MOBILE SUITS AND LOADOUT?

>>7722936
First can we make sure that we can check to see if the Federation has any other submersible shenanigans?

>>7722936
"two hours? we'll do 3"

>>7722936
Us with El Grande Muerte, F2 upgrade, 90mm MG, head vulcans and Bazooka, extra ammo and crackers.

Zol with his custom Gouf, 2 Heat Hawks and an MG, plus all build in weapons, extra ammo, 1-shot panzerfaust.

Elaine with MG, head vulcans, Bazooka, extra ammo, crackers.

Jolyne in her Cannon Zaku, MG, Heat Hawk, Zaku Cannon, Head Vulcans, extra ammo, 1-shot panzerfaust.

>>7722966

If you can find a Marine Mobile Suit on the beach to use, you can do the patrol underwater if you so want.

Thread's now autosaging, start new thread?

>>7722936
"I'd like to clarify how aggressive our patrol is allowed to be. I'd also like to request, if appropriate suits are available, that the patrol consist of one marine MS and one Dodai-riding standard MS. Given yesterday, I don't want to risk missing the presence or absence of something because it was hiding underwater."

>>7722936
>>7722971
I concur with the three hours.

Lister: El Muerto Grande, 90mm, bazooka, couple reloads each
Zolomon: Zolomon Custom, 90mm, dual heat hawks, couple panzerfausts
Ruubens: Acguy, 90mm or whatever else Acguy's are good with
Zolyne: Zock or whatever that two-faced mobile suit is
Ook: Acguy

for the record, it's El Muerto Gigante

>>7723007
Yes to new thread. Suit loadout as per >>7723014; Zol on a Dodai in his Gouf, us in a Marine Suit (preferably a Z'Gok, if there's one available).

>>7723037
Sorry, even after five years of Spanish classes I still can't speak it. I'll try to remember that for the future.

>>7723014

Haylon informs you that he think's he's got the marine patrols covered at the moment. He seems somewhat dismissive.
Again, nothing to stop you from taking a MSM anyway and patrolling underwater. Just don't tell him that's what you're doing.

>"I'd like to clarify how aggressive our patrol is allowed to be.

He say's he doesn't expect any trouble after this evening. They wont get their fight back until tommorow when the other two fleets arrive.

>>7723006

Just so you know, the Scavenging team will consist of one person piloting a Zaku Tank (of which Ruubens has prior experience) and everone else in the flatbed, ferrying small parts across.

>>7722936
"If possible, sir, I'd like to request an extension to three hours, one extra pilot to join myself and Ensign Ringo on the patrol, and permission to engage Federation targets if the opportunity presents itself; in the latter instance, one suit would engage while the other two continue the patrol."

>>7723077
In that case, we quietly saddle up in a Marine Mobile Suit, Zol saddles up in his Gouf, and we attack. The Feddies aren't going to be expecting it, and if we can crush their remaining ships from the first two fleets now, that's fewer assets they'll have to add to the other Feddie ships coming in tomorrow.

>>7723077
>Just so you know, the Scavenging team will consist of one person piloting a Zaku Tank (of which Ruubens has prior experience) and everone else in the flatbed, ferrying small parts across.

Oh. Well then, I'd say let Elaine pilot the Zaku Tank, given her prior experience in it. Didn't she do something awesome with a Zaku Tank before she joined our squad?

>>7723077
Zolyne gets guard duty of the salvage team, then. Ookawara can enlist various grunts to do the ferrying.

I'm all for just going out and confiscating a Z'Gock for our patrol.

wait, who is Zolyne?

I thought her name was Jolyne

>>7723077
Make sure to request that Ookawara whip up some sort of Heat Harpoon as a melee weapon for the Rhino. If it's feasible, at least.

Hovis needs his throwing spear.

>>7723142
It is. It's just been misspelled a lot this thread.

>>7723142
Isn't it obvious? It's Zol and Jolyne's child.

>>7723155
well, if that's the case

GET THAT KID AN MS ROIT NAO!!

>>7723102
We're only supposed to be going on patrol. Launching our own private war against what's left of the fleet seems like a bad idea.

>>7723053
He wasn't correcting you on the Spanish, he was correcting you on what we'd actually named it.

IIRC, it was mentioned in an earlier thread that "El Muerto Gigante" is horrible Spanish, and that it should probably be something closer to "La Giganta Muerte".

no wars

Zoloman(Gouf) and Lister(ZakuF2) on Dodai's, this is a patrol and mobility is the most important asset we can bring to a patrol.

Jolyne on the Zaku tank, Ruubens, Hovis, and Ookawara in the truck

Let's get this moving people

>>7723176
At the same time, we don't want to give their surviving ships a chance to resupply or escape.

This isn't about making up for our fuckup earlier, not really. It's about not letting the Feddie remnants link up with the incoming Feddies and be able to launch a stronger assault against our own weakened forces tomorrow.

>>7723155
Shipping ensues.

>>7723077
Anyway, My suggestion is to go with Reubens on Scavanging mission, And call it a date whenever we can.

Then get punched in the face.

>>7723185
It´s not like Spanish is Davids first language anyway, The fact that it is horrible just add character.

>>7723185

Spanish isn't Lister's forte. Killing Feddies is.

Also, new thread, boss?

(And we should get a drawfag to get David holding his head, going crazy as the voices argue inside of him... IE, us all.)

>>7723214
I know. I was trying to reassure Researcher Sam that his knowledge of Spanish, or lack thereof, wasn't the issue here.

I saw this thread. And was hoping to see if there were any badass Zaku I moments.

Just wonderin'

>>7723221

I think this IS autosaging.

New thread? Also, remember to vote on the archive. :D

new thread OP

Hmm. You think we should call in to Garma and ask if there are any prototypes that need some field-testing?

A bit more firepower would definitely help us survive tomorrow.

>>7723210
Yes, but two extra suits might not be able to make too much of a difference; we're supposed to patrol, and if we encounter something then yes we attack but unless we're going out of our way to find the feddie forces we probably won't NEED a marine MS. We tried doing things of our own volition, and it cost us big time. I'm not saying it was our fault, but for the look of things we should probably stick to orders, or in this case, requests.

>>7723250
I doubt anything is going to make it from New York to Hawaii in 12 hours anyway

>>7723289
Hmm. You have a good point.

Ask the Commodore if he has some idea of where and when the fresh Feddie fleets are going to meet up with the remnants of the first two. If we can hit them while they're transferring supplies and personnel between the ships, we can do a lot of damage with less risk than usual.

>>7723078

I'll answer this in the new thread.

Continued: >>7723163

>>7723300
I thought he and Icelina were back at California Base at this point, given that it's GHQ for Zeon's Ground Forces.

And even if he isn't, California Base is probably where any new gear would be going first.

>WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO TONIGHT?

The same thing we do every night;

TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!