>>13634449
>MOVE as directed, exit vehicle to W

>Move 1 N, 2 NE.

>I remember directions this time.

rolled 7, 9 = 16

>still prone
>called shot to the bitank pilot in the bitank to the east, second roll to try again if this fails
>if first shot succeeds, scan the machinegunner
>more 3 north

Botting Lost
>driving the AAPC
>moving 2 SW, 1 W

"T'was fun here, but I want my meat back."

>DOWNLOAD self into own body.

rolled 10 = 10

I feel as though I'm looting abit too much right now
>I went in to get some civilians and a gun but now i have $1,000,000. I don't know what happened!

Get out of that building

Grab a rifle

Go north 3 into the big building

Time to snipe some bitank pilots

rolled 5 = 5

>>13634899
Oh wait i have another action (if picking up a rifle is free)

rolled 9 = 9

"Moving to engage hostile armor bearing RIGHT THERE HOLY SHIT SABOT OUT!"

>Jump onto the Balcony NE
>Move 2 NE
>Fire AP at Bitank

rolled 3 = 3

"-looks like you are having a space hell of a vacation there."

> Scan any remaining enemy Armor to get bonus to hit for allies.

rolled 1, 5 = 6

>Attempting to Hijack unprotected craft, and remote drive it into the Enemy Bitank at full speed.

The server for irc we are using is going down in a bit. If you need to talk to me directly for something while it is, my aim is KMC9987.

rolled 1 = 1

>Light green is Krieg's assumed location after movement.
>Leave the bitank, move as indicated.
>Standing jump onto the enemy bitank.
>Stab the mgR riding the bitank.

Seeing that Krieg missed the enemy bitank, and knowing he had to act fast, he bailed out, rolling onto the ground shield first. He ran straight at the enemy bitank, leapt up onto it, and made a stab at the most threatening target, this happening to be the machine gunner riding it.

"SUP, BITCHES?"

>>13635057

Blaze , jump attacks end your turn.

rolled 5 = 5

>>13634887
Standing up spluttering and coughing, Wolf deflects the offered aid.

"All right. I'm up, I'm up! What are you still doing here? There is a war going on!"

>Hard EXAMINE suspicious civilians.
>Use MOVE to pin or tackle whoever looks out of place. (Those not worried about bullets flying around, for example.)

>>13635094

>Well shit. Would a called jump attack to the pilot count as part of the same jump attack as the one I used to get onto the tank? Or am I just standing on the tank, not having attacked?

rolled 9, 1, 6, 7, 1 = 24

>>13635193
Some extra rolls for the pins and/or tackles.

rolled 6, 3 = 9

"Good going you ballsy affhole." Ender fumes.

>Single shot that Machinegunner.
>Arc shot that Bitank hiding behind the statue.
>Retreat 5 hexes west

Wolf:
>Everyone is suffering some manner of shellshock and the shaman doctor offering aid is more suprised that he spell worked.

rolled 6, 5 = 11

>Get in Ht, move 4l ne, homing missile the bitank fighting krieg
Trauma straps herself into the tank and gets it moving, unloading with it's missile banks at the bitank. She smiles at the "From Hider22" note

>>13635195

you killt the pilot

all armor , engaged...
Action phase over.

. . ..

missed some posts . enemy pahse

rolled 7, 7 = 14

>>13635300

After having put the Originals under scrutiny and not finding them wanting Wolf grabs the shoulders of the shaman.

"Good work, man. Now see to it that you lead your flock to safety. Just jump down to our main-force. They will protect you. Stick to cover."

>Roll for motivation.
>Does he feel off? Unreal?

>>13635673

Sent them to the hotel instead.

All enemies have initiated a self destruct sequence.

" We lost our ebb and flow. We've done enough damage for now. Detonate your clones- we're dusting off. That'll show em what siding with the xenos will get them more enemies than they have. "

". . . "

"We made it!"

>>13635809
"More INCOMPETENT enemies, more like! We were on *expletive* vacation and we kicked your sorry asses! Come back when you can challenge us, youmotherfuckers!"

>>13635809
"So much *explative* hate they'd try and kill us....*explative* kill people who had notthing to do with it...heh, i'd take the xenos any day" Dragon sighs before turning to look down to the others

"Ey yo, You all alright down there? Everyone still in one chunk?"

>>13635832

"Good work sir."

>>13635809

"Wait. That's it? Our simulations are harder!"

>>13635809

Blaze drew his sword from the pilot of the bitank just as everything exploded in his face, sending him flying backwards. He blinked a few times, looking up at the sky from the bottom of a large blast crater. He coughed a few times, shaking his head. He stood, plodding his way out of the crater towards Sgt. Krieg's pilfered bitank.

"Ow, shit, my back... did we win?"

>>13635848
>>13635914
"With all due respect, shut the *explative* up. Lot of people died and unlike us, they ain't coming back." Dragon hops off the building. "Let's get the hell out of here"

>>13635944
"I'm glad someone here has some perspective on this." Geist walks up to the AAPC and opens the hatch. He looks from Lost to Domino, "everyone all right in here?"

>>13635944

"Dragon. I can't do anything for them anyway, so I won't worry about it."

Trauma brings her comandeered Ht to the hotel where everyone's regrouping. She hops out, not even hiding the torn ragged hole through her stomach, "We're gonna need Abe to exosurgeon all these civilians. The worst part is that they ruined my swimsuit."
She walks over to Domino, "Hey, Little Brother, How are you holding up? Didn't get hurt, right?"

>Gone for two hours, come back, everything went well. I'm pleased.

>>13635809

Colonel Walker watched the screen as all the enemy combatants detonated. Cutting their losses, or was it that their purpose was never to actually capture the Hybrid? In any case, it was both good and troubling news, and something that ought to be reported to Fierstrom, Walker mused to himself, as he lit another cigar.

"Well Lovac, it looks like the threat is over, for now. I'm calling off my guns, however I'm still sending some men down to the surface to clear up the situation and take care of the locals until your people arrive."

"Himmel, return home. Pelican flight 1-1, move in to land and recover Bravo on the ground."

"McMillan, coordinate the ground efforts. Hartford, go figure out who let Domino out without an armed escort."

"Ground-side security team, continue to observe the situation. The rest of you on the ground, patch up the wounded, recover the bodies, and round up the civilians."

Walker disengaged the channels, and opened a private one to Inquisitor Fierstrom.

"Fierstrom, it looks like not everyone is happy with our 'treaty' with the Xenoforms..."

Pvt. Ceebee's flash-fried corpse continues to gently smolder from it's position at the edge of the beach.

>>13635994
Dragon drops his rifle "True enough sarge. Still, i don't see much of a point in celebrating. People with this much arms and armor throwing them away just to make a point? Let alone they didn't care who we were, they were just killing.....Doesn't sit well." Dragon takes his bandana off of his mouth and leaves it hanging around his neck.

>>13636005

"Copy that Trauma, Exosurgeon deploying to field, any units with triage experience begin assessing the wounded, and uploading reports to my HUD."

"Sergeant Wolf, I want you and Corporal Shot to move out and start looking for the injured. Bring them back to the hotel."

"Warsaw, Abe, start up a hospital for all the wounded."

"Sergeant Krieg, start putting out fires and collecting the dead."

"Sergeant Geist, I want you to start poking around. Investigate any of the remaining enemy bodies. Coordinate with the ground-side security team that I had placed earlier. They'll come to you."

"Corporal Lost, look after Domino. Don't let him too close to the civilians."

>>13635944
>>13635982
Shot pauses.

"...My apologies. It's... It's been a while since civvies were involved. Damn... Damn I didn't..." he palms his face and sighs. "Fuck.Hey, Walker!" he calls, adjusting his comm, "I would really fuckin' love to see Betsy again, can we get a pickup?"

Blaze walked away from the crater, stepping over the carcasses of two enemy riflemen as he walked up to the cliff overlooking the beach. His vision scanned across the beach's shore, the low hanging sun glistening against the waves. Blood ran towards the water from numerous corpses, mingling with the foam breaking against the shore from the tops of small white caps. He sighed, pulling his helmet off and running an armored hand through his short black hair. What a sight...

>>13636076
"...Yessir, Walker." Shot said, bringing the vehicle around.

>>13636076
"Affirmative. I also have two enemy fluxes captured, will upload them to Orbital Command for interrogation."

Fire, fire everywhere
Emergency use of war supplies for an off-duty unit
A report to be done for a non-field operation that involved dead civilians
A stream of complaints and requests in the inbox
An ulcer that meant sanitary treatment and a stay of duties, which included this vacation

A button that said DoD: Detonate on Death. In a suit that couldn't be turned on without the proper processes and permissions

"Christ's wounds, luck is not with me today"

"What are we wearing normally, Dragon? Full-face helmets, right. They didn't know what we looked like."

>>13636076
"Understood. I'll bring those that won't bleed out before the docs are here."
Addressing the civilians: "Any of you know first aid? Of course you don't. Follow me. We will rescue some lives!"
Wolf slings the rifle over his shoulder and marches into the village proper.
"Ender, get the wounded from the beach!"

>>13636102

"Colonel, I've just got word back from Orbital. Neither of the fluxes are talking, so no information there. As for investigating enemy bodies, well... they were very thorough in the detonations. There's nothing really left to investigate."

>>13636215

"Son, sometimes interrogating some flux will get you nothing. Go recover the bodies. We'll give them a body to feel pain in once more. In the meantime, I want all the information you can find - camera recordings, TA network information, their burnt-out uniforms and vehicles - everything that can be used to trace these fuckers. Because I want these people found, soldier. This wasn't an attack against the Federation - this was an attack on Bravo, on us. And it is an attack that must be answered with complete and utter annihilation of whoever perpetrated it."

"For unwarranted hostilities against a fellow Executioner Unit without good cause, this hostile unit has declared themselves to be traitors to the Federation. And for such treason, they must be crushed."

"They knew we were here and when. They came at us with a large fighting force. I'm sure they knew who we were. They just didn't care."

Dragon walkes over to his equipment and gets on a jetpack and armor. An effort to help anyone left.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm really good at killing people, but I'd rather only do it if there's something to gain. Protecting you guys, protecting myself, and shit but man, this just ain't right."

>>13636280
>>13636215

"Hey, there's an F up here some civies beat up, he's still fine"

>>13636280
"Yes sir..." Geist points over at some of the security team that just arrived. "Hey you, get some shovels and start scraping up these... bodies. No, I don't care how small the pieces and gibs are, Colonel's orders."

The sun rose. And the beaches were awash with blood. Behind him he could see the boy being tended to. So much blood was spilled for the choices they made a month ago. They wanted to survive, nay- they wanted to save a life. And they wanted to make a way.

And this was the effect.
Men with egos and guns, and lives to throw around crapshotted it all in an attempt to take them all into the night. Got a lot of people killed, theirs, his, civilians risked it all. But for what.

A message ? A kidnapping attempt ?

The sands kicked up as drop ships came in to assess the damage. The tan of millitary police jumped down and pointed guns at people. They were green, like touching a girl for the first time, green.

The enemy wasn't soft. But they died too easy. These people were not afraid to lose their lives.

They were not afraid to take it.

That was what they taught you in in clone conscription.
End the enemy. Whatever the cost.

He threw his helmet into the sand. This time the sun was rising. A new day. Cold mechanical hands dug in the sand as he sat down and stared out the sea.

The yelling of the millitary police surrounded him. Hounding him with questions like they owned the damn turf. Ender got up and punched the loudest motherfucker in the chest. The man went ass deep into the sand foam forming in his mouth. The other 3 tans went ghostly white as Ender's eyes met with them.

"Good," Ender fumes. his vox scrambler still projecting a monstrous voice, "you're frakking soldiers now.. who wants to die for their planet next ? "
He sat indian style on the sand. The other 2 walked away and inspected the situation elsewhere.

Ender takes his helmet on the half buried tan, and fishes out a box of smokes from his chest pocket.

"Shoot to kill next time.... "

The sun had just began to rise.

As the security went on tying to complete their assigned task, Geist walked back to the AAPC. With the hatch still open, he just stepped in and took a seat across from Lost and Domino, who was leaning against her after having fallen asleep. He took off the cloak and fidgeted with the armor, which having not meant to be worn over nothing but swim trunks was none too comfortable. After a minute or so, he seemed to relax and looked up at her.

"So Lost, what will you do when you become a legitimate?


>Going to sleep now, good night and see you all tomorrow

Requesting to get hyper mobility boots.
Using the mass acceleration technology used in Interceptors, the Gravity Boots increases my speed by 1 but also treats me as a dense object if I ever decide to run into someone with it. [most infantry charge at 6 spd]

That sound cool OC ?
[Im seeing that samus upgrade in my head where she turns to rainbows when running ]

>Obligatory post-RP block, away!


Walker sat in his seat, watching the various feeds on the screen. The flight of pelicans touching down onto the island, soldiers in tan fanning out as soon as the doors opened. A team of doctors strode from the doors, and quickly made their way to the makeshift hospital.

Local authorities already had the island cordoned off as clean-up crews arrived in HazMat suits from offshore carriers, jumping down from their helicrafts to begin the lengthy decontamination process to rid the island of the radiation.

Not like it mattered – this island, for all it’s worth, would most likely be closed down for at least a decade before anyone decided to set up business there once more. Already, Walker saw various officers getting into heated arguments with hotel and island staff over the damage this battle had cost their company. The only reason they left the members of Bravo who had fought alone was because they had defended the island and, up until a few moments ago, were customers.

It still didn’t stop a few angry civilians from trying to get into a yelling match with his men and try to send them into guilt trips.

Walker watched with an amused expression as Dragon decked a rather loud waiter. Apparently, this waiter was due for a promotion, and decided to berate the only soldier that wasn’t armed or built like a rock.

> > >

>>13637424

Typical. Oh, so typical. This was the only thing he hated about civilians – businessmen and corporations, for that matter. Unable to see the big picture, unable to even comprehend what just occurred, all they cared for was money and how the actions of others inconvenienced them. They didn’t care about what was right, or about honor, or dignity. No, all they cared for was the continuation of their little world, that they were always right and everyone who believed otherwise was wrong and ought to have their head smashed in for it.

Just like this rival Executioner Force. They couldn’t see past the fact that he had formed a “treaty” with the Xenoforms. They were still bitter and angry about the damage Humanity had suffered from the beasts. Walker suspected that Lovac was the same; however, confronting him on the issue would be worthless. He wouldn’t openly admit to his face his dissent – nobody would. And the people who would, would probably do it with guns, or simply refuse to step down, and it any attempt at discourse would be met with a shouting match.

Were they all so blind as to be unable to see just how much power had been gained? Did they all honestly believe that he and his men were “bug-lovers,” or traitors to Humanity? Even though they had risked life and limb to deliver this boon to her, so that she may continue to thrive and perhaps one day, blast the Exalted from existence?

Walker ground his teeth in disgust. If he ever met this unit, he would, without any hesitation, destroy them. Grind them into the dust, destroy everything they had and everyone associated with them, and –

> > >

>>13637435

He stopped himself. Wasn’t this what Fierstrom wanted, back when they met up a month ago, when she asked for the death of the Hive Queen? Wasn’t it he who slapped her, and berated her, and told her that this was all for the sake of the survival of the human race, and that their jobs did not permit them to entertain one’s ego?

Wasn’t he doing the same thing she had done, so long ago, when her mother was devoured by the Hive Queen?

“Damn it, this is going to make me a bloody hypocrite, ain’t it?” Walker muttered to himself as he lit another cigar.

There was no time for petty vengeance, no time to hunt this group of dissenters and quash them. Doing so would probably just make it worse, he silently mused to himself. He sighed. He would do as he told Fierstrom – he would put his personal grudge aside. If the trail went cold, then he would abandon it. If not, he would hand the evidence to Fierstrom. It would probably be better for them to be burned in the political arena as opposed to the battlefield by his hand

Walker puffed his cigar and stared at the screen. Huh. Geist and Lost sure were spending a great deal of time together.

>Done with obligatory text blocks!

> Body scans of the island has shown that single Raptor unit was recovered with her head intact after being dismembered by explosions.

As well, another Frozen soldier gave a more thorough sample of the genetic conditioners used for their men. Both their brainscans indicate that they answer to signals most similar to SIGMA forces. A special operations group that is known for being fielded without a preliminary report nor a debriefing report due to the secret nature of their missions.

Sigma Forces however, is best known for deployments in Political Hotspots, destabilizing seperatist factions, assassinating radical figureheads, and preliminary planetary invasion ops.

On another subject- the Island of 100+ inhabitants have suffered 85 percent casualties - with only 15 survivors remaining. It is very possible that Lovac is privy to the same information.

>>13637571

Meaning that I can't really touch them without opening up a warehouse of shitstorm. Great.

As much as I would LOVE to go track them down, kill them all, and use their skulls as wine cups, I must admit, destroying Sigma would likely have long-lasting effects in the political realm that would make Walker want to cap himself.

So instead, I'll hand this to Fierstrom to use this as political ammunition.

>>13636664

Lost looked fondly down at the little hybrid that had curled up against her, then up at Geist. Her eyes danced with a tender affection. Her voice was as warm as sunrays.

“I think… I think I’ll have some children.”

> Night all!

A single lightbulb swung in the barren concrete room. The wire that it dangled from extended upwards endlessly to a ceiling some matter of miles away. Though the wire was set to be unbreakable in this reality, it can also stand to be endless for no matter how far up one climbed they would always give in to the strain and then fall down a short distance back to the ground at the immediate sign of faltering. This prison was familiar to the two MarineDestroyers held captive, and knew of its traps. In the etha of PSICOMM, one was dreaming , so sleep was already an impossibility. But they could wait it out. Even if time slowed down to a hundred years, they could wait it out. Perhaps they can even cash in all their years to becoming an Inquisitor. That was a thought.

As they sat corner to corner, one of them looked ahead and broke out of his trance as soon as he saw a black dot squirming on the ground. And then another, and another, falling from a great height and making the puddle bigger.

>>

>>13637783
A smile grew across his face as he tried to picture in his mind what the children would be like. Would they be psychic as well? A young boy, attempting to read the minds of classmates during testing. A girl, freezing puddles of water after a rain. Or maybe, even one who could see the minds of machines?

"That would be nice, I'm sure you'll be a wonderful mother!"

The two men got up and looked up as a red light pulsated from the distance above. The pool of black had begun to form into a bloody mass where appendages came out and then sickly turned to a pair of twin girls equipped with a pair of safety scissors each. Seeing this, one of the men plunged forward to drive a fist down on one of them. His eyes and lips twisted with an expression of mad glee as he invented things to do to her mangled body once he was done. But his fists connected to the cold concrete floor and his target was already behind him. She moved so fast that when he finally heard the machinegun snips of her scissors, pain and tearing sensations travelled down the length of his skin as he burst in half. His skin stripped bare.

This wasn't supposed to happen.

The room lit red as blood covered the lone light bulb. The two girls advanced on the man. Moving in still shots, and flickering about without a sense of motion. These were not human poses, nor human movements. Scattered giggles assured the man that they were going to get what they wanted.

===

"It's done" Abaddon mused in his red throne. The feeling to his right hand returned.

>>13640826

>Mid-morning BUMP!
>And this is operating under the assumption that Abaddon was ordered not to simply RIP AND TEAR their flux/minds, but to "interrogate" them.

The crimson-armored avatar stood in Psi Comm, observing the seated figure.

"It is done," it muttered in an amused tone, flexing it's right hand.

"Good. I would have preferred it if we could have done it physically, but I suppose your method works just as well. So long as they suffered and you managed to pull something from their rotted minds, I can't complain."

The avatar folded his arms.

"But still, Sigma Force... I've heard nasty things about them, about the things they're rumored to do. While my boys can be ruthless in a fight, these guys are brutal and batshit insane out of it. From what I've heard, these guys are worse than the Xenoforms!"

Walker paused, then turned to Abaddon.

"No offense to you or Domino or anything."

The AI simply nodded from his throne.

"Unfortunately, this may mean that we can't touch 'em. While it wouldn't be impossible to find them and club 'em all, there would be considerable backlash for doing so, even if we managed to declare them traitors..."

Walker sighed, before turning away.

"Damn it all."

Okay, so from here, we have three choices for our next mission:

1. Kick Off - counter offense, as Orbital described it, the "big kick off behind the Iron Line." So it would have been option 3 from before.

2. Vengeance - we go and club Sigma, most likely. Not recommended without setting up the political situation so that we don't accidentally trigger a civil war.

3. The Push - Kruss Mission. As it says.

Personally, I prefer option 3 for the moment, just because I'm going to be rather busy this week.

>>13642306

I'm all for option 2, if we can manage to wipe them out without the backlash. I'd rather not have a variable factor like that still active by the time we try to launch an offensive against the Exalted. For all we know these guys might go as far as to attack us in the middle of a battle.

>>13642306

I'm all for option 3, but only if we do it Thursday or Saturday since they'll be the only days I'd be available to CO for it. Unless someone else wants to CO for it. Which is fine too.

Otherwise, I think we need to do something about Sigma first. If we just ignore them they could sabotage us when we least expect it and get us all killed. Like Walker said, though, that will take setting up.

Right, for those of you curious about the potential backlash with Sigma, I'll try to explain it to you.

As Orbital described earlier, Sigma is very covert ops, and they do a lot of dirty work, as described here >>13637571

This would mean that not only are they a valuable asset to the Federation in dealing with certain unwanted domestic elements "discretely," but they are, more than likely, some politician's favorite toy.

And as made obvious by their actions and what Lovac said, it appears as if not everyone in the Federation is able to get over their personal grudges or grief against the Xenoforms - hell, Walker had to slap Fierstrom from hers as well.

So destroying them as they are now would pose a significant problem in the near future. Ignoring the possibility that Bravo may be branded traitors for our actions, destroying Sigma would likely result in a loss of favor from High Command, as well as the ire of whichever politician/group was pulling their strings. Furthermore, it would be a blow to morale, would likely cement our reputation as being "bug-lovers" or "traitors to humanity," and would likely polarize the Federation's forces between those who hate the bugs, and those who hate the Exalted more than the bugs and therefore tolerate Bravo's actions.

So in short, killing them all, which appeals to me very much, would very likely result in a civil war scenario not unlike the rebellion of the Iron Line Veterans that happened in the past (fluff that Monday mentioned).

And this isn't even the worst case scenario that I've contemplated; merely the "most-likely" scenario based on the assumption that we WON'T be hung for slaughtering another Executioner Force.

>>13642497
>>13642306
Could we use the evidence of Sigma attacking us as political ammo? Maybe not destroy Sigma completely or something like that, but investigate them and discover who sent them after us. Then, BLACKMAIL! Or, we can decide what to do after we find out who sent Sigma.

So I guess I am voting for a variation of option 2. Not elimination, but find out enough information about who ordered the attack to get them to back off. Maybe even extort some funding from them.

>>13642497

You say that and all I can think is what happens if we ignore them? What happens if we find ourselves in another last stand situation holed up on some rock fighting a massive swarm of bugs and then these guys hit us too? They don't even have to be on the field to mess with us. These guys are covert ops, I wouldn't be surprised if they just hacked into PsiComm and started remote hacking our people.
These guys are too big a threat to just ignore, but that doesn't mean we have to kill them. We could get dirt on them or whoever is pulling their strings and get them to back off that way. We could bring up this attack against us with High Command without pointing fingers. If Sigma knows we know it was them that attacked it should put them on edge. Make them wonder why we wouldn't immediately turn them in. There's all kinds of things we can do to deal with Sigma without triggering a civil war.

Like Geist said. Politically.

Get the Lady Interest on our side. Get the -people- on our side. Sure, it's just one planet, but then, other folks will listen too. If we can, make Domino a public figure, the face of the Xeno, along with Found: Could you really hate a face like that?

Now is not the time for Bravo's 'usual' approach. Now is the time to dial up Evergrad, now is the time to do 'charity work', now is the time to worry about public image.

>>13642497
Option 3, but seriously is High Command retarded or something? Why would they let anyone get away with trying something that would risk killing Domino? They can detonate people for that crap! Why isn't there any detonation going on?

>>13642497
I'm in favor of moping the floor with them. An orginization like this isn't suposed to exist, they can't really go after us for taking out something that doesn't exist.

Finding hard evidence would be good but that's kind of hard to do, let alone "play"

Besides that i sudgest we ignore them, there will always be people that hate us and if they feel like sending people to their death to try and take us out so be it. More KP for me.

>And now for something completely different!

Eight in ten. That's how many naturally born children are inducted into CORE training when they turn five. The chance was slime, but it meant at least some children got to lead relatively peaceful lives. They could have a family if they wanted, raise children, grow old. Do all the things humans have wanted to do since they first crawled out of the mud. Even if the world around them was little more than ruins. Even if they had to labor day in and day out to fuel the war effort that kept them alive. These civilians could at least sleep soundly at night, secure in their underground bunkers. Safe from the ever present conflict on Kruss' surface.

Clones like Polaski, however, have no such chance. The men that had come to take him from the family unit he'd been given too were not unkind. They waited with relative patience as he said goodbye to the women that had raised him like a mother, as he said goodbye to the dozen other children that had been like brothers and sisters. Polaski would always remember the way the baby had cried when he'd finally had to pull his finger from her hand. She had been the only one to cry when he left. The only one that hadn't seen brothers and sisters leave before.

>>13643007

The elevator shuddered and groaned as it descended deeper into the planets surface. Polaski asked the men what was going to happen to him. Neither of them answered or showed any sign that they had even heard the question. It was the same answer he always got when he asked about the CORE training. People either didn't know, didn't care, or wouldn't tell him. It made Polaski nervous, not knowing, but there was nothing he could do. So he stared at the door and waited.

Eventually the elevator ground a halt, the whole thing shuddering as long worn out breaks stopped the decent. As he picked himself up off the floor, Polaski failed to notice how the two men pressed themselves against the sides of the elevator. The doors screeched as they opened, revealing what looked like a park. A park where someone had burnt all the grass, toppled and charred all the trees, gouged out large craters in the ground, broken half the rooms lighting, and scorched, dinged, and otherwise destroyed the normally pristine steel walls and ceiling. There was barely enough time to take it all in when the first bullet flew past the boys ear and pinged off the back of the elevator.

Polaski froze with fear as the bullets whizzed past him. He couldn't see who was shooting at him. Only the muzzle flash of a dozen different guns. “Run!” one of the men finally shouted, risking a limb to push Polaski out of the elevator. It was all the start the boy needed and he began to run forward, blind with fear. Ran, as the ground around him was peppered with weapons fire. He didn't make it far before he tripped over his own feet and tumbled to the ground. As he pushing himself back up, scrapped and bruised, Polaski noticed a ditch not far in front of him. Trembling, he crawled through the storm of bullets and rolled into the small depression. There, in relative safety, Polaski curled into a ball and cried.

>>13643021

>No it doesn't end here I'm just stopping so as to prevent MASSIVE BLOCK OF TEXT. More will be posted later

>>13642306
1 or 2

>Oooo, can we do 3? I think we're at a good stopping point and I'd to play Zephyr again! Yay crazy Russian antics!

Option 1 - 0
Option 2 - 2
Option 3 - 3

1 or 2 - 1
2 or 3 - 2

I'd say 2 or 3. While I prefer 2, 3 wouldn't be so bad. Especially if there might not be another Kruss mission before we end up finding them.

>>13640773
"Still, we've got a long way to go." He stands and walks over to Domino, carefully picking him up so as not to wake him. "We should get Domino back to the ship. Can't imagine we'll be staying around here much longer anyway." Reaching the open hatch, he turns back. "Are you sure you don't want to speak to your original before we leave here? Might not get another opportunity like this in a very long time. If you don't mind me asking, what do you have against her anyway?"

>>13643802

Another for 1 or 2. aint' I just indecisive.

>>13642306

3.

>>13642306

Voting for Option 3. Will give us time to iron out the Kruss and time to think on the Sigma situation.

Change my vote for 2

Orbital, ever thought about using virtual tabletop to run this a bit faster? Granted, explosions and building damage may take the same time and every thread would become first recruitment and later pretty images and RP.

>>13646707

Virtual tabletop ?

Like those fucking map programs ?
EEEEHHHHHhhhhhhhh.

I vote 3, in the hopes of getting some practice in.

I'll switch to 3, though after that we need to do two and decide how we're going to do that

So ill be opening this thread up for preliminary concept sketches for races and things. Since it is part of my homework.

Gonna heavily redesign Xenos from the looks of it so maybe ill tackle them first.

huhuhuhhu congratulations you managed to rip off from every scifi genre everrrrrr.

>>13650428
I see some starship troopers in the face, but i aint never done seen no god damn katana hands before

>>13645100

Lost's forehead wrinkled as she frowned with a sigh.

"It's... it's just that the whole reason I was cloned was to be a walking viral advertisement for Lady Interest. I wasn't given only the first thirteen years of her life because they wanted me have a different personality, but because of copyright infringement. If I met with her, she'd either not remember who I am, or would match me around like a toy soldier to her parties."


Her brow furrows even deeper in anger. "Did you know I'm not the only one out there? There are more of us. There's a Lady Interest in demolitions, in the navy, driving a tank... all because Prima Masquerade thought they could get a little publicity out of us. I don't even know if she signed off on the idea, or if it was just some suits in PR."

Lost gestures back towards the burning island. "You've seen, we all have seen her. WAY too much of her. I respect what she does... but at the same time there's a part of me that's mortified of that person on the billboards. That I'd ever do those things or... LOOK at that way."

Lost picks up her helmet and follows Geist out. In a less heated voice she said: "Even if I wanted to meet her, I'm sure she would have time for some knuckle-dragging clone."

>Good night all!

>>13650510
Dragon slides down the hill "More of you out there? I must have done something good in my past life" Detached, a joke he had no heart in. It didn't take an empath to know something was on his mind.
Peering into the APC to check on Domino, Dragon only shakes his head

"that's twice I wasn't there." He hits the side of the tank "*explative*" He puts his back against the metal hull and looks out to the burning buildings and craters. There's a long silence before he gets back to what he overheard

"Lost, I don't think it matters where ya came from. I wouldn't care if i had all the heads of the ODF in my veins, doesn't change who I am. Lady what's-her-face sounds vain as *explative* you shouldn't be pissed she doesn't think much of ya, you should be glad ya didn't turn out like that or whatever, right Geist?"

>>13650428

Going with the head design on no. 4 but now it's lookin like aliens / starcraft.

but heyyyyyyyy moutheyes.

>>13650510
>>13650720
As he carries Domino up the hill towards the shuttle, he continues talking as Lost and Dragon follows. "You really can't know how she is without talking to her though. At least, you'll never know for sure anyway. It might not have even been her choice. Course, she could be as bad as you say..."

As Lost gestures back at the island, he stops. "You're a good person, you wouldn't do those thing. Whoever Lady Interest really is, you aren't her. You may look similar, but you are your own person." He starts back up the hill. "Dragon's right though."

Finally at the shuttle, he straps Domino into a seat before taking his own. With the constant activity of the last day and night, exhaustion catches up to him and he drifts off to sleep.

>>13651025
I always liked mouth eyes though you really need to question how something like that would evolve. Tones of blind spots, let alone food getting in your EEEEEEYEEEEEEEE.

I supose they'd have armored lids or something

"So James." Shot called as they walked. The young man looked up. "How'd you live through that mess?"

James shrugged.

"You don't know?"

"Sir, there was a lot going on. I just ran and hid where I could. You know I'm just a specialist when it comes to psicomm psychology, sir. I'm no fighter."

"I suppose, James. Still, you could have stayed on the line. I was worried sick."

James said nothing, and they continued walking.

I'm going to bed, see you in 10 hours

This is like my fuckin art blog or something.
Thumbs for the first few pages.

>>13654561
is that suposed to be a face? because it looks alot like a face

Also good use of goddamn katana hands

>>13654638


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>>13655154
foundsresearchdocumentsonxenoevolution.png

>>13655209
more like DominoDrawsHisFriends.png

Speaking of, NEW BUG

>>13655437

The krullers are move OR act

>>13655870

buuuuuuump.

Also Orbital, are we still following the rule where achieving a spec class also awards one additional life?

>>13659375

That didn't stop happening !

so, how about that raptor card?

>capcha penfous expression

rolled 5 = 5

Rolling for the power of friendship!

Another bump, because I want to get around to writing more stuff and/or getting some pretty pictures in.

Also, for those of you who want to know, we are currently sitting on 406 points - 203 for ground/naval, respectively.

And no, I didn't buy anyone a new meatsuit. That's the price you have to pay for going on a vacation without me.

Killer Raptors
" Put a woman through a year of survival simulations in the jurassic period and see what happens "

>>13663199
Fucking beautiful.

>>13663199

after running some simulation rolls , Im changing the raptor's Cleave rating to a flat 7. So a long string of uninterrupted 7s yields the desireable amount of damage output.

this is temporary for now. As we will soon be retooling spec classes to balance with basic units.

>>13667159

That's cool. Do the raptors also have a SMITE attack?

Also, do you think that it might be better to simply wait until all the spec classes are unlocked before retooling them, so we can get a feel for what works and what doesn't, or are you doing simulated rolls?

Oh yeah, bump, because I want to see this thread alive for a week.