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VJockey 8:14 am
(8:14:32 AM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYn2Q-kVNAk
(8:14:35 AM): ...
(8:14:36 AM): No..
(8:14:41 AM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC5AzFc3coo
(8:15:19 AM): Today is not a tale of bravery or heroism against the odds... well
(8:15:25 AM): not how you would usually have one...
VJockey 8:16 am
(8:16:33 AM): Roughly twenty four hours ago a distress signal went up in an isolated mountainous region in Europe.
(8:16:55 AM): There was no explaination as to who or more importantly why.
(8:17:17 AM): There were no military bases, and the area was more or less deserted
(8:17:53 AM): As such a small team was deployed via shuttle to the area under a bleak, starless sky
(8:18:18 AM): What are all of you doing at this moment?
wyverncakes 8:18 am
(8:18:54 AM): Ana is waiting somewhat anxiousy, twiddling her robot and organic thumbs.
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:19 am
(8:19:00 AM): Sharpening a knife.
Meraxa 8:20 am
(8:20:09 AM): Ken is meditating over some old scrolls, a quiet hum escaping his lips.
frifreeman2 has been invited. 8:21 am
Invitation result for buddy Fri Freeman : Fri Freeman is busy. 8:21 am
frifreeman has been invited. 8:21 am
tengusaur 8:21 am
(8:21:30 AM): Asagi is pacing around Blue One. Something about this is bothering him deeply.
(8:21:35 AM): Asagi: "If there are no bases and no settlements in the area... Then who sent the signal?"
(8:21:48 AM): Asagi: "Why is it blank?"
VJockey 8:22 am
(8:22:02 AM): Well Asagi
(8:22:11 AM): someone will be answering your question
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:22 am
(8:22:18 AM): Eva: "I'll stab that bridge when we come to it."
wyverncakes 8:22 am
(8:22:23 AM): Ana: "Well, someone must've found a way to send it..."
VJockey 8:22 am
(8:22:56 AM): Commander Antov: "Well... I've been getting an information feed from ESUN regarding this... I'm.. not exactly sure why but they're keeping us on a need to know basis for this..."
VJockey 8:23 am
(8:23:25 AM): Its clear that he doesn't like this any more than the rest of you would considering what happened the last time.
(8:23:43 AM): "Anyway... you should-"
(8:23:56 AM): The transmission is starting to be garbled with static.
wyverncakes 8:24 am
(8:24:28 AM): Ana: "Commander?"
VJockey 8:24 am
(8:24:51 AM): "-pr-ch... -m-ss-n... -rea... comin-..-p on the. -ountai-"
wyverncakes 8:24 am
(8:24:54 AM): "Commander are you there?"
VJockey 8:25 am
(8:25:23 AM): "-lite -aging- is sk-hy an-"
wyverncakes 8:25 am
(8:25:26 AM): She does what she can to try to boost the signal or change frequencies... all she manages to get is additionall static though.
VJockey 8:25 am
(8:25:35 AM): "My god..."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:25 am
(8:25:43 AM): Eva: "Is there supposed to be interference? A weather disturbance, or are we being jammed?"
VJockey 8:25 am
(8:25:51 AM): That was all you got before the comm completely cuts off.
Meraxa 8:25 am
(8:25:54 AM): Ken stops reading his scroll for a bit, raising an eyebrow. "I have a bad feeling about this..."
VJockey 8:26 am
(8:26:22 AM): Those of you who look outside and could make out a little of what the Commander said would see the mountain as well as an abandoned town at its base...
(8:26:29 AM): but that isn't exactly the main concern here
(8:26:30 AM): rather...
(8:26:42 AM): the mountain literally looked like someone tore it in two.
tengusaur 8:26 am
(8:26:53 AM): Asagi: "Damnit! So much for an information link. And..."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:26 am
(8:26:57 AM): Eva frowns.
tengusaur 8:27 am
(8:27:02 AM): Asagi: "...What happened here?"
VJockey 8:27 am
(8:27:47 AM): Shuttle Pilot: "Hard to tell... I'm not picking up anything from up here. No life signs, reactor emissions, radiation..."
Meraxa 8:27 am
(8:27:50 AM): Ken: ...the kind of power you'd need for that...
wyverncakes 8:27 am
(8:27:54 AM): Ana: "Great... finally get to see something worth talking about and we get cut off from the base..."
Meraxa 8:27 am
(8:27:56 AM): Ken: And there's NOTHING?
VJockey 8:28 am
(8:28:05 AM): "Not a thing..."
(8:28:32 AM): "Setting her down as close as I can to the mountain... do you guys think you can handle the rest from here?"
Meraxa 8:30 am
(8:30:42 AM): Ken: Looks like we'll have to. Check comms before we get out there. Bad enough to be cut off from the base - worse if we can't even communicate among ourselves.
wyverncakes 8:30 am
(8:30:51 AM): Ana: "Well, that's what we're here for."
VJockey 8:31 am
(8:31:01 AM): "I'll try to keep regular updates."
tengusaur 8:31 am
(8:31:10 AM): Asagi: "All we have to do is find the source of the signal... Let's go. This better not be a trap."
VJockey 8:31 am
(8:31:33 AM): The shuttle soon lands in the middle of the town square.
(8:31:50 AM): Dust swirls in the air as the hatches open to let you all out.
wyverncakes 8:31 am
(8:31:56 AM): After a few moments of checking... "Comms seem okay, at least the short-range stuff."
VJockey 8:32 am
(8:32:06 AM): There isn't any light for miles around.
wyverncakes 8:32 am
(8:32:16 AM): "Heading on out..."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:32 am
(8:32:22 AM): Eva: "If it is a trap, we'll just have to break through it." Eva brought the Albatross, this time. She's been feeling better, so maybe it won't go so badly?
VJockey 8:33 am
(8:33:11 AM): The signal's origin point seems to be coming from the very center of the broken open mountain.
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:33 am
(8:33:24 AM): Though it still has that splitting start-up pain, her knuckles going white around the handles as she gets it ready. It passes, and the black robot floats out of the shuttle.
Meraxa 8:33 am
(8:33:48 AM): ScarleTiger walks out in Beast Mode, headbeam lights shining from the eyes. "So, we taking it slow, or heading in fast?"
frifreeman2 has entered the room. 8:34 am
wyverncakes 8:34 am
(8:34:55 AM): Ana: "I'd feel safer if we stuck together... and I'm in no hurry to get far away from the shuttle."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:35 am
(8:35:05 AM): Eva: "Slow and steady wins the race."
tengusaur 8:36 am
(8:36:05 AM): Asagi: "Pay attention to anything out of ordinary. And don't go too slow; whoever sent this signal wants us to reach it quick."
VJockey 8:36 am
(8:36:24 AM): Now that Asagi mentioned it
(8:36:43 AM): as you move through the town to get to where the signal came from
(8:36:50 AM): you'd notice something very odd about the town
(8:36:51 AM): namely...
(8:36:57 AM): it was in pristine condition
wyverncakes 8:37 am
(8:37:15 AM): Ana: "What? That... can't be right!"
tengusaur 8:37 am
(8:37:48 AM): Asagi: "It's like all the people here just disappeared yesterday..."
VJockey 8:38 am
(8:38:11 AM): Indeed. Which makes things all the more peculiar...
wyverncakes 8:38 am
(8:38:16 AM): Ana: "But more importantly, splitting a mountain like that isn't just something you do without seismic disturbances!"
VJockey 8:38 am
(8:38:19 AM): wasn't this region supposed to be deserted?
(8:38:43 AM): Wouldn't that mean any towns in the area would have looked even the smallest bit aged?
Meraxa 8:39 am
(8:39:04 AM): Ken: ...Keep an eye on your sensors as we go through it.
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:39 am
(8:39:10 AM): Eva: "...Could it be a criminal outpost, I wonder..."
VJockey 8:39 am
(8:39:35 AM): Ken, the scarletiger's lights catch something
wyverncakes 8:39 am
(8:39:43 AM): Ana: "Or maybe like something set up for a weapons test sight."
VJockey 8:40 am
(8:40:02 AM): rubble
(8:40:06 AM): small amounts of it in fact
Meraxa 8:40 am
(8:40:40 AM): Ken: ...Hm? *The machine pauses, tilting its head to better shine on the area*
VJockey 8:40 am
(8:40:58 AM): Eva... you hear... and feel a tiny noise in your ear
(8:41:06 AM): like a soft, yet high pitched whine.
(8:42:01 AM): Its a mecha. A mass produced Huckebein to be precise. Crashed onto a building.
(8:42:08 AM): Looking around you can see other machines.
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:42 am
(8:42:19 AM): Eva: "Tch..."
VJockey 8:42 am
(8:42:30 AM): TSFs, Genoaces
VJockey 8:42 am
(8:42:44 AM): All with the same off camo color scheme.
(8:42:56 AM): Yet... something was wrong about them...
(8:43:12 AM): nevermind that the other buildings close by their crash sites were untouched
wyverncakes 8:43 am
(8:43:45 AM): Ana: "Eva, something the matter?"
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:44 am
(8:44:13 AM): Eva: "No, it's nothing..."
tengusaur 8:44 am
(8:44:22 AM): Asagi: "A battlefield? I can't tell who they belong to, though. And there's no sign of whoever they fought."
VJockey 8:45 am
(8:45:18 AM): Anyone taking a closer look would notice stains along the various joints and seams of the machines scattered across the area.
wyverncakes 8:45 am
(8:45:25 AM): Ana: "Their flight recorder might have something though."
VJockey 8:45 am
(8:45:35 AM): The worst of it coming from right below the cameras.
Meraxa 8:46 am
(8:46:10 AM): Ken: ...They seem to be... leaking?
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:46 am
(8:46:23 AM): Eva: "Wonderful."
wyverncakes 8:46 am
(8:46:34 AM): The Breaker goes over to inspect one, Ana debating whether or not to get out and look.
VJockey 8:47 am
(8:47:17 AM): Ana. As you get closer you'll notice that the stains seem to be recent... and seem to have something dripping down to freshen them up again.
VJockey 8:47 am
(8:47:33 AM): A very distinct red color...
wyverncakes 8:47 am
(8:47:52 AM): "Don't tell me..."
VJockey 8:49 am
(8:49:02 AM): At that moment a sudden screech rings over the comms. Intermingled with static.
(8:49:10 AM): "Stay with us."
wyverncakes 8:49 am
(8:49:13 AM): "A-ah!"
Meraxa 8:49 am
(8:49:47 AM): The ScarleTiger itself jolts back, Ken's hands having been a bit too firm on a the controls. "W-What was...?"
wyverncakes 8:49 am
(8:49:51 AM): Ana'd been halfways through getting her things so she could take an up-close look at the machine, but that settled it!
(8:50:15 AM): "Wasnt me... and if anyone else is out there, speak up now!"
tengusaur 8:50 am
(8:50:17 AM): Asagi: "Gah!" Blue One is looking around quickly, aiming its machinegun everywhere!
VJockey 8:50 am
(8:50:34 AM): Nothing... not a single movement...
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:50 am
(8:50:35 AM): The Albatross straightens up somewhat, peering across the sky. "...Hm."
VJockey 8:50 am
(8:50:45 AM): Except...
(8:50:57 AM): the lights in one of the houses lit up
(8:51:00 AM): and another...
(8:51:10 AM): all seemingly forming a straight trail to the mountain
Meraxa 8:51 am
(8:51:22 AM): Ken: ...An invitation, great.
tengusaur 8:51 am
(8:51:52 AM): Asagi: "Hey! Is anyone there? You better show up now!"
VJockey 8:52 am
(8:52:12 AM): Asagi...
(8:52:22 AM): "Stay with us..."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:52 am
(8:52:28 AM): Eva: "...I say we decline. And carpet bomb the area, just to be sure."
VJockey 8:52 am
(8:52:33 AM): The voice was young, female. Hissed right in your ear.
tengusaur 8:53 am
(8:53:31 AM): Asagi: "...!" He throws his head back rapidly, hitting it in the cockpit.
VJockey 8:54 am
(8:54:20 AM): Eva.....
(8:54:28 AM): you feel it more than you hear or see it...
(8:54:36 AM): but you know something is moving.
(8:54:44 AM): Behind...
tengusaur 8:54 am
(8:54:47 AM): Asagi: "...Damnit. I agree with Eva. This isn't normal."
VJockey 8:54 am
(8:54:57 AM): React.
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:56 am
(8:56:07 AM): *The Albatross turns suddenly towards the threat, spreading a barrier with its left hand and deploying the wrist-blade on its left.+
VJockey 8:57 am
(8:57:13 AM): Eva! You strike down one of the apparently dead machines before it could attack Asagi from behind!
(8:58:03 AM): Something splatters against your hand as it all folds onto the Albatross' arm.
(8:58:16 AM): It tries to reach towards you with leaking fingers...
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:58 am
(8:58:44 AM): Eva blasts it with them spread lasers.
VJockey 8:58 am
(8:58:45 AM): Everyone
(8:58:57 AM): As Eva blows the attacker apart
(8:59:04 AM): you see the other machines begin to rise.
(8:59:09 AM): No activation signs.
VJockey 8:59 am
(8:59:26 AM): Not even their camera systems are lighting up.
wyverncakes 8:59 am
(8:59:29 AM): Ana: "Eva what are you-"
(8:59:48 AM): The sounds of the machine coming online right in front of her brings her right back though.
tengusaur 9:00 am
(9:00:09 AM): Asagi: "...."
(9:00:21 AM): Asagi: "...Eva, can you feel them?"
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:00 am
(9:00:48 AM): Eva: "...I...Something like that, I think..."
VJockey 9:00 am
(9:00:54 AM): Enemies: Huckebein Mark II M x3, F-4 Phantom x3, Genoace x8
(9:01:16 AM): Initiative: Ana, Asagi, Ken, Walt, Eva
Meraxa 9:01 am
(9:01:42 AM): Ken: If it weren't for the lack of a black dome, I'd think this was more Walt's kind of thing...
VJockey 9:01 am
(9:01:42 AM): Eva... you can feel something.
Fri Freeman 9:01 am
(9:01:58 AM): Walt: excuse me
VJockey 9:01 am
(9:01:58 AM): But whatever it was it was definitely not normal.
(9:02:10 AM): (Ana, Asagi, Ken. Go)
tengusaur 9:02 am
(9:02:46 AM): Asagi: "So something abnormal is going on with them after all. Zombies... You've gotta be kidding me..."
wyverncakes 9:02 am
(9:02:59 AM): Ana: "Or something worse...!"
(9:03:36 AM): * Still, the Breaker takes out its Fracture Rifle, firing it on the Genoace right in front of it as she falls back!+
Fri Freeman 9:03 am
(9:03:51 AM): Walt: its always something worse
tengusaur 9:04 am
(9:04:34 AM): * "This better work against them." Asagi turns around, aiming the heavy machinegun in an over-the-shoulder gesture, and sends a long burst of fire towards the incoming Huckebeins. +
Meraxa 9:04 am
(9:04:41 AM): Ken: ...Walkt, where did you come from?
(9:04:44 AM): *Walt
VJockey 9:05 am
(9:05:45 AM): Ana! Asagi! Your shots land given the sluggish movements of the mecha... the hits blow out sections of armor and limbs...
(9:05:49 AM): but they still stand
VJockey 9:06 am
(9:06:00 AM): they bleed even more from their wounds.
Fri Freeman 9:06 am
(9:06:17 AM): Walt: i'm always here
VJockey 9:06 am
(9:06:31 AM): But as they shamble towards you, the both of you notice something
Fri Freeman 9:06 am
(9:06:40 AM): Walt: oh boy
VJockey 9:06 am
(9:06:53 AM): faint, flickering... vaguely human...
(9:07:03 AM): floating above the shoulders of the machines you shot.
(9:07:14 AM): wait... scratch that...
(9:07:20 AM): they're moving rapidly towards you.
(9:07:21 AM): REACT
Fri Freeman 9:08 am
(9:08:17 AM): walt: i cant decide which one do i prefer. That some secret clandestine brutal experiment happenes here and killed everyone in agony
wyverncakes 9:08 am
(9:08:23 AM): Ana: "There's something else with the machines...!"
Fri Freeman 9:08 am
(9:08:25 AM): Or ghost mech
tengusaur 9:08 am
(9:08:34 AM): * Asagi: "...They're piloted by ghosts..." No time to wait there and stay! He jumps back and into the air to avoid this sudden lunge, pulling out Blue Oe's spear to skewer the first enemy who comes in too close! +
Meraxa 9:08 am
(9:08:46 AM): Ken: ...Whatever! I'm going in! *ScarleTiger charges, unleashing its stock foota- I mean, claws, against a nearby Genoace!+
wyverncakes 9:09 am
(9:09:08 AM): * The Breaker's RE Drive kicks in and it bursts backwards as Ana switches targets to this strange enemy!+
griefgathering has entered the room. 9:09 am
drascin has entered the room. 9:10 am
VJockey 9:12 am
(9:12:02 AM): Asagi! The spear... does nothing...! In fact it just phases through the attack. Intangible... untouchable as it continues to move through. Right through your cockpit... hollow eyes... corpselike breath, a maimed face from the shatterd visor of its helmet. It moves straight through you. There's a horrific chill, a distinct feeling of violation... muscles twisting, lungs burning... and you may taste a little blood. Still. You're alive and within seconds everything almost feels normal again... but you know that isn't something you want to happen again.
VJockey 9:13 am
(9:13:14 AM): Ana. Your shots do nothing to the ghost, similar to Asagi's own attacks... however... as you move back... the ghost seems to halt and pull back to its machine...
tengusaur 9:13 am
(9:13:14 AM): Asagi: "Aaghh..." He shudders, clutching his stomach tightly.
VJockey 9:13 am
(9:13:54 AM): Ken! You tear open a genoace and shower the Scarletiger with blood! As chunks of armor fall off you see... well...
(9:14:10 AM): something was crushed under the armor plating...
wyverncakes 9:14 am
(9:14:27 AM): Ana: "Asagi, what happened?!?"
VJockey 9:14 am
(9:14:47 AM): Everything in your mind is telling you that you DON'T want to know what it is...
(9:15:11 AM): Like Asagi and Ana you have a ghost leaving the machine to assault you. React.
tengusaur 9:15 am
(9:15:45 AM): Asagi: "Don't let those ghosts touch you...!"
VJockey 9:16 am
(9:16:05 AM): (Walt, Eva go)
Fri Freeman 9:16 am
(9:16:08 AM): GHOs
(9:16:16 AM): T!
(9:17:03 AM): Walt: doesnt that prove life after death!?
tengusaur 9:17 am
(9:17:21 AM): Gritting his teeth, Asagi puts his hands back on the controls. This is a situation where focusing on the fight is crucial.
(9:17:37 AM): Asagi: "You can think about the philosophical ramifications later...!"
Meraxa 9:17 am
(9:17:42 AM): Ken: ...There's something in there... But... I don't... Ah! *The ScarleTiger kicks back, trying to leap away and land on its feet+
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:18 am
(9:18:15 AM): *The Albatross floats away from the shambling horde of mecha, and begins peppering them with spread lasers while her main chest laser charges. It then fires, a beam of firey death lancing out into the crowd.+
Fri Freeman 9:18 am
(9:18:21 AM): Walt: im in despair. This means even death wont be my final rest!
VJockey 9:18 am
(9:18:37 AM): Ken. You barely manage to evade the ghost... however a pair of Huckebeins are rushing towards you with knives! React again!
wyverncakes 9:18 am
(9:18:43 AM): # Ken
VJockey 9:18 am
(9:18:56 AM): Approved
Fri Freeman 9:19 am
(9:19:23 AM): walt pulls hos heat stake and tries to stab the nearest genoace in the chest+
(9:20:03 AM): walt: they say heat stake is useless eh? They laughed at us
Fri Freeman 9:20 am
(9:20:33 AM): They say are you going to fight vampires with that?
(9:20:44 AM): look whos laughing now!
VJockey 9:21 am
(9:21:00 AM): Walt! The stake breaks through the armor, sundering the hatch to the cockpit. For a moment you see the exsanguinated corpse slumped in the seat before it was crushed and burned. Blood all but streams out rapidly from the enemy Genoace, hands wildly trying to claw at Walt's. React.
wyverncakes 9:21 am
(9:21:29 AM): * The Fracture rifle opens fire again, this time Ana aiming specifically for the legs of the charging Huckebeins to try to stop their rush!+
VJockey 9:22 am
(9:22:49 AM): Eva! You damage several other Genoaces, the TSFs and destroy the Huckbein not attacking Ken... before the lance of energy slaughters many of them.
(9:23:11 AM): Even if everybodys cockpits are sealed though... there's a horrific stench of death working its way through.
Meraxa 9:23 am
(9:23:15 AM): Ken: Tch! Stand Up! *Skidding as the machine transforms mid-landing, Ken tries to have the ScarleTiger flip backwards to kick its would-be assailants!+
Fri Freeman 9:23 am
(9:23:24 AM): Walt parries rhe claw eirh his shield+
(9:24:03 AM): walt: is that your heart? Is
VJockey 9:24 am
(9:24:43 AM): Ken & Ana! The Huckebeins are sent crashing through several buildings. They attempt to crawl back towards Ken for another go, and their ghosts attempt to assault their attackers!... However they're just out of reach...
VJockey 9:25 am
(9:25:43 AM): Walt!... The Genoace scrapes at your shield before it collapses in the veritable lake of blood it let out. For a moment you see the ghost it had thrash wildly before looking as if it was burned alive into nothingness.
(9:26:35 AM): Enemies: F-4 Phantom x1, Damaged Huckebein & Ghosts x2, Heavily Damaged Genoace x2
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:26 am
(9:26:35 AM): Eva's breathing heavily over the comms. "Well...at least we know what the distress signal was about now."
wyverncakes 9:27 am
(9:27:40 AM): Ana: "Do we really though?"
Meraxa 9:27 am
(9:27:46 AM): Ken: But that doesn't explain what happened here... out of control grunt units wouldn't do damage to a mountain like that!
wyverncakes 9:27 am
(9:27:48 AM): "I mean... they're... ghosts!"
VJockey 9:28 am
(9:28:52 AM): Another burst of static
(9:28:57 AM): and garbled message...
(9:29:12 AM): but for Eva... it was crystal clear. Even if it burned her mind.
(9:29:13 AM): "Evaaaaa come to ussss... we're waiting for youuuuu"
tengusaur 9:29 am
(9:29:38 AM): Asagi: "Shut up...!"
VJockey 9:32 am
(9:32:06 AM): (Initiative: Ana, Asagi, Ken)
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:32 am
(9:32:21 AM): Eva starts clutching her head, the Albatross mimicing her movement. "Gah...I'd like it if...you stayed out of my head...Asagi...make a note. Definitely a trap."
VJockey 9:32 am
(9:32:27 AM): The Distress Beacon pings everyone loudly.
wyverncakes 9:32 am
(9:32:44 AM): Ana: "Eva... can anyone raise the shuttle?
(9:32:53 AM): "At this point getting out of here's probably for the best!"
Meraxa 9:33 am
(9:33:38 AM): Ken: ...I'll try. Shuttle 01, come in. Shuttle 01, do you read? *ScarleTiger draws its Scarlet Shotels, aiming to cut through the torso of the nearest genoace!+
tengusaur 9:33 am
(9:33:46 AM): * Asagi: "I think everyone figured it out already!" He rushes towards one of the previously damaged Huckebeins, spinning around and slashing Blue One's katana right at its cockpit with a wide strike! And then follows up by stabbing at the next one! +
VJockey 9:34 am
(9:34:08 AM): There's a crackle of static... Then...
(9:34:25 AM): Shuttle Pilot: "This is Shuttle 01... I read you."
wyverncakes 9:36 am
(9:36:04 AM): * "The situation here is something out of a horror movie! We need to get out of here!" The Breaker makes a quick pass at a mook, drawing its heat stake and driving it through the possessed machine's body to pin it to the ground!+
VJockey 9:36 am
(9:36:06 AM): Ken! Your Scarlet shotels cut through the Genoace's armor like butter as the metal and everything under it boils away. The ghost inhabiting it however punishes you for your attack moments before it dies. You feel a hand as cold as ice almost clutching at your heart before you're treated to the sight of a human being melting in front of you.
VJockey 9:37 am
(9:37:17 AM): Asagi! The Huckebeins try to stop you... but their movements were too sluggish, even if they managed to nick Blue One a little with their knives. The ghosts were almost upon you before they dissapated violently. Crushed this time.
(9:37:36 AM): Shuttle Pilot: "I understand... But I can't help."
Meraxa 9:37 am
(9:37:49 AM): Ken: ...H...Ha... *ScarleTiger stops in a jerking motion, Ken just... sitting there, horrified.* C-Copy that...
wyverncakes 9:37 am
(9:37:54 AM): Ana: "What?"
VJockey 9:38 am
(9:38:34 AM): Shuttle Pilot: She found me.
tengusaur 9:38 am
(9:38:52 AM): Asagi: "Who is 'she'!"
VJockey 9:39 am
(9:39:36 AM): Shuttle Pilot: "I'm sorry. I tried.... please.. please stay with us. Don't leave."
wyverncakes 9:40 am
(9:40:04 AM): "No... no!"
VJockey 9:40 am
(9:40:49 AM): Ana. As you impale the possesed machine and end its threat, everybody can see the shuttle slowly rising into the air... a pair of possessed Genoaces clinging to its sides.
wyverncakes 9:41 am
(9:41:13 AM): Everything was just taking a turn for the worse... and then the shuttle came into view...
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:41 am
(9:41:43 AM): Eva: "..."
VJockey 9:41 am
(9:41:58 AM): "We are waiting. Come to us. We want to see you face-to face."
tengusaur 9:42 am
(9:42:21 AM): Asagi: "Damn... We lost him."
wyverncakes 9:42 am
(9:42:25 AM): Ana: "I'd rather not!"
VJockey 9:43 am
(9:43:05 AM): Sadly Ana...
(9:43:10 AM): there may be no choice...
(9:43:26 AM): as if awoken by the Shuttle's second passing you can see something leaving the houses.
(9:43:29 AM): Ghosts.
(9:43:32 AM): More of them.
Meraxa 9:44 am
(9:44:52 AM): Ken: ...The people...
VJockey 9:45 am
(9:45:27 AM): "You have no choice. Come to us. Cometousnow. Nownownownow"
(9:45:38 AM): It was more understandable this time
(9:45:40 AM): more human
(9:45:46 AM): but.. that somehow did not help.
wyverncakes 9:45 am
(9:45:47 AM): Ana: "Nothing we can do for them though!"
VJockey 9:45 am
(9:45:56 AM): Especially when it was filled with maniacal laughter.
tengusaur 9:45 am
(9:45:59 AM): Asagi: "Okay, that's it. Let's get out of here!"
Fri Freeman 9:46 am
(9:46:11 AM): Walt: If i die can i choose where to haunt i wonder
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:46 am
(9:46:36 AM): Eva: "...Agreed. Walt, Ken, will you need assistance?"
Meraxa 9:46 am
(9:46:56 AM): Ken: I... I can handle it. Just fine.
wyverncakes 9:47 am
(9:47:07 AM): Ana: "Worry about dying later, Walt!"
Fri Freeman 9:47 am
(9:47:43 AM): Walt: may i ditch this mech and ride one of yours who can fly?
(9:48:40 AM): and get the hell out of here. Sorry bruno. You're a great genoace and all but you cant fly
tengusaur 9:49 am
(9:49:04 AM): Asagi: "Someone can just pick your machine up."
VJockey 9:49 am
(9:49:44 AM): Eva!
(9:50:10 AM): There's a proximity Alert on your screen
(9:50:15 AM): Directly behind you!
(9:50:57 AM): React!
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:52 am
(9:52:26 AM): *"!!" Eva whirls around again, shifting the Albatross's to the side and throwing up its barrier again, with its arms held crossed in front of it to block.+
VJockey 9:52 am
(9:52:40 AM): Eva!... There was... nothing there..?
(9:52:49 AM): The Proximity Alert is still blaring
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:53 am
(9:53:27 AM): Eva: "...? I may be having some mechanical failures..."
VJockey 9:53 am
(9:53:30 AM): Something drips onto your shoulder.
(9:53:34 AM): "Evaaaaaaaaaa."
(9:54:10 AM): A pair of hands slam down on your own, nails chewed up, fingers bloody.
mad4space@hotmail.com has left the room. 9:54 am
VJockey 9:55 am
(9:55:39 AM): "you'll stay, won't you? We can make you stay."
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:56 am
(9:56:30 AM): Eva: "...Oh." She sighs, and looks up.
mad4space@hotmail.com has entered the room. 9:56 am
wyverncakes 9:57 am
(9:57:01 AM): Ana: "Eva, what's happening?"
VJockey 9:58 am
(9:58:32 AM): A near toothless smile on bloodied lips greets her, as does a solitary eye. You can guess where the blood on the fingers came from.
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:00 am
(10:00:02 AM): Eva takes a deep breath, and steels herself. "There is...some quality of mine that you desire, yes?"
VJockey 10:00 am
(10:00:24 AM): "You are what they wanted me to be."
wyverncakes 10:00 am
(10:00:30 AM): Ana: "Eva... Eva what's happening to you?!?"
VJockey 10:00 am
(10:00:58 AM): "But I want to see what happens."
(10:01:08 AM): "When you meet him."
Fri Freeman 10:01 am
(10:01:15 AM): Walt: cant be something good thats for sure
Meraxa 10:01 am
(10:01:43 AM): Ken: What's it even... saying?
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:03 am
(10:03:18 AM): Eva: "...If I were to...do this...Would you...permit my companions to leave?"
(10:03:31 AM): Eva: "These people, and the shuttle pilot also..."
VJockey 10:05 am
(10:05:21 AM): "Your friends can lave."
(10:05:37 AM): "But the others are mine. minemineminemine."
tengusaur 10:06 am
(10:06:18 AM): Asagi: "Eva, what are you trying to do!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:08 am
(10:08:11 AM): Eva: "...That seems acceptable...Asagi, leave, and be sure to take Walt with you."
Fri Freeman 10:08 am
(10:08:38 AM): walt: but i just gp
wyverncakes 10:08 am
(10:08:51 AM): Ana: "Are you... going to be okay?"
VJockey 10:09 am
(10:09:27 AM): A low metallic shriek rings through the comms.
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:09 am
(10:09:41 AM): Eva: "Perhaps."
tengusaur 10:09 am
(10:09:44 AM): Asagi: "..."
(10:10:00 AM): Asagi: "...Are you absolutely sure about this?"
VJockey 10:10 am
(10:10:27 AM): "Time to go home. Home. To see him. Yes."
Fri Freeman 10:10 am
(10:10:52 AM): Get used to this place. Ghost are scary. But mortgagw rate back in the city is scarier
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:10 am
(10:10:52 AM): The Albatross floats up off the ground, and speeds towards the mountain wordlessly.
VJockey 10:11 am
(10:11:19 AM): The Ghosts still, and the possessed Genoaces drop from the shuttle as it hovers precariously
Fri Freeman 10:11 am
(10:11:38 AM): Uhm. Should we go after her?
VJockey 10:11 am
(10:11:44 AM): It seems that the rest of you can leave...
wyverncakes 10:12 am
(10:12:03 AM): Ana tries raising the shuttle again.
VJockey 10:12 am
(10:12:04 AM): but would you? Could you leave Eva behind to whatever is even causing all of this?
wyverncakes 10:12 am
(10:12:20 AM): "... If he's not okay... whoever did this didn't hold up their end of the deal."
VJockey 10:12 am
(10:12:26 AM): Ana gets some caughing and wheezing.
VJockey 10:12 am
(10:12:46 AM): "G...god..."
(10:12:54 AM): "...H..horrible... I.. I can't..."
tengusaur 10:14 am
(10:14:04 AM): Asagi: "...I don't think she's going to be okay."
VJockey 10:14 am
(10:14:53 AM): Its time to make a decision
(10:15:13 AM): Go after Eva? or use whatever respite you might have gained...?
wyverncakes 10:15 am
(10:15:57 AM): Ana takes a moment to mull things over before finally...
(10:16:29 AM): "... We need to know what happened here. And try to fix it... otherwise even more people could end up coming here!"
Meraxa 10:17 am
(10:17:36 AM): Ken: ...though if none of us make it, someone needs to send word back... or they'll come to solve what happened.
tengusaur 10:18 am
(10:18:46 AM): Asagi: "..."
Fri Freeman 10:18 am
(10:18:49 AM): Walt:Cant our ghost do that?
tengusaur 10:18 am
(10:18:54 AM): Asagi: "Damnit."
(10:19:11 AM): Asagi: "Send the shuttle back home! We gotta retrieve Eva!"
VJockey 10:20 am
(10:20:40 AM): Shuttle Pilot: "But you'll die in there!"
(10:20:57 AM): "Its horrible... you won't make it!"
tengusaur 10:21 am
(10:21:02 AM): Asagi: "...I'll do my best not to."
wyverncakes 10:21 am
(10:21:17 AM): Ana: "If we don't, nothing'll change and the next group that comes here will!"
VJockey 10:21 am
(10:21:28 AM): "..."
(10:21:38 AM): "Good luck then... god... you'll need it..."
Meraxa 10:21 am
(10:21:45 AM): Ken: Besides... we risk our lives every week.
VJockey 10:21 am
(10:21:50 AM): The Shuttle leaves...
(10:21:53 AM): and oddly...
(10:21:59 AM): the Ghosts simply watch and wait
VJockey 10:22 am
(10:22:48 AM): You don't know if they'll turn hostile if you move given how you are all not leaving.
(10:22:54 AM): Best to make for Eva now.
wyverncakes 10:24 am
(10:24:10 AM): Ana: "Alright then... after them..."
tengusaur 10:24 am
(10:24:20 AM): Asagi: "I made the mistake of wanting to go back once already." Blue One's boosters heat up and the machine takes off towards the split mountain.
Fri Freeman 10:25 am
(10:25:46 AM): Walt: i wish i ate more garlic at the cafetaria before i went here....
VJockey 10:25 am
(10:25:52 AM): As you approach the split mountain you can make out signs of something that was hidden within it.
(10:26:16 AM): Corridors, more machines, labs, storage rooms...
(10:26:43 AM): all leading to a massive central area in the middle of the mountain where the Albatross is.
(10:26:49 AM): Where the signal was originating from.
Meraxa 10:27 am
(10:27:23 AM): Ken: ...people were working here...
wyverncakes 10:27 am
(10:27:26 AM): Ana: "Was this a testing facility?"
wyverncakes 10:27 am
(10:27:49 AM): She looks over what she can see, comparing it to her own experiences with research bases...
VJockey 10:27 am
(10:27:54 AM): And the further in you all go...
(10:28:06 AM): you can all feel something at the very edges of your senses
Fri Freeman 10:28 am
(10:28:38 AM): Walt: once again i:cant decide if i prefer these ghost to have some horrifying scientific explanation or simply some peoples restless soul
VJockey 10:28 am
(10:28:50 AM): an itch at the back of your mind, a flickering at the corner of your eyes. Faint sounds that you're sure are there but are just too soft to even be sure of.
(10:29:13 AM): Though in Eva's case...
(10:29:18 AM): its all a whole lot worse.
VJockey 10:30 am
(10:30:29 AM): Indistinct whispers, somehow loud and soft at the same time. Ghost images of movement back and forth across the facility, and that feeling at the back of your brain felt like someone was literally clawing into it.
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:32 am
(10:32:08 AM): Deep breaths. It's just like that time after Alaska...
VJockey 10:32 am
(10:32:57 AM): Floodlights kicked in. Those that were still standing and those that were laying on the ground. They bathed the area in a sickly light. Several mummified corpses were scattered across the area. Standing, looking all the world as if someone hit pause they were still at work.
(10:33:10 AM): At the middle of it all was a cadaver.
(10:33:12 AM): A massive one.
(10:33:56 AM): Chained up between two pillars, several sections of its body carved open with numerous tubes and metallic attachments twisting along it.
(10:34:02 AM): As for its face....
(10:34:54 AM): it barely even had one. Everything either vestigal or a hollow socket... with the exception of a single blank eye.
VJockey 10:36 am
(10:36:14 AM): A figure seems to half-melt out of the Albatross...
(10:36:17 AM): "You all stayed?"
tengusaur 10:37 am
(10:37:06 AM): Asagi: "What the hell are you...?"
VJockey 10:37 am
(10:37:29 AM): A young girl. Barely in her teens. Pale, clad in a straitjacket with torn sleeves. A bloody smile and a single eye. She made herself look like the giant thing.
wyverncakes 10:37 am
(10:37:55 AM): Ana: "Yeah... we did."
VJockey 10:38 am
(10:38:02 AM): She giggles uncontrollably.
wyverncakes 10:38 am
(10:38:11 AM): "We want answers. Not just you... but about what happened here!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:38 am
(10:38:41 AM): Eva: "I had hoped you'd return with more reinforcements..."
wyverncakes 10:39 am
(10:39:08 AM): Ana: "The shuttle pilot's heading back to base..."
Meraxa 10:39 am
(10:39:10 AM): Ken: No... time. Sent pilot off anyway
wyverncakes 10:39 am
(10:39:21 AM): "If worse comes to worse, at least the Unity Group'll know."
tengusaur 10:39 am
(10:39:32 AM): Asagi: "Reinforcements will come when they come. For now, there's only us."
VJockey 10:39 am
(10:39:47 AM): The girl-thing leaps up and onto the giant corpse, sitting on its shoulder before shoving her hand into a section of its exposed spine, underneath several wires.
(10:40:03 AM): Its blank eye fixates on all of you.
VJockey 10:40 am
(10:40:41 AM): An assault of images. Several young children herded into the chamber. Locked inside for days? Months? Maybe Years?
(10:40:48 AM): Locked with the giant thing.
(10:40:55 AM): The thing that whispered to all of them
(10:40:59 AM): Dead yet not dead.
(10:41:06 AM): Silent, yet talking.
(10:41:17 AM): Many went insane
(10:41:19 AM): killing themselves
(10:41:21 AM): each other
(10:41:37 AM): some even doing as the girl did and died in the attempt to mutilate themselves
(10:41:55 AM): those that remained were taken away from the room
(10:42:04 AM): and when it came to the girl's turn. She just laughed...
wyverncakes 10:42 am
(10:42:11 AM): Inside of the Breaker, Ana just gasps out.
VJockey 10:42 am
(10:42:16 AM): and did all of this
wyverncakes 10:42 am
(10:42:24 AM): "These images...!"
VJockey 10:42 am
(10:42:44 AM): "Our lives."
(10:42:56 AM): "This is who we are."
(10:43:22 AM): "They wanted our minds open."
(10:43:35 AM): "They wanted his secrets.""̦̰͗̐̃̊̒̄̓́
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:44 am
(10:44:27 AM): Eva: "Urgh...That doesn't mean...you need to do what they wanted..."
wyverncakes 10:44 am
(10:44:51 AM): Ana: "Whoever... whoever was running this place is gone now too..!"
Fri Freeman 10:45 am
(10:45:03 AM): I guesa itd be tioo much to ask who are thet and what is he
Meraxa 10:45 am
(10:45:13 AM): Ken: And yet, both she and it remain...
wyverncakes 10:45 am
(10:45:36 AM): "Whatever you're trying to do now, it's going to hurt people who weren't involved at all!"
VJockey 10:45 am
(10:45:40 AM): She lets out a crazed giggle once more.
(10:45:49 AM): "We don't care."
(10:46:24 AM): "All we want."
tengusaur 10:46 am
(10:46:37 AM): Asagi: "I don't think talking will work. What she went through was too horrible..."
VJockey 10:46 am
(10:46:45 AM): "Is for everyone to stay with us."
wyverncakes 10:46 am
(10:46:54 AM): Ana: "Then putting her down...?"
VJockey 10:47 am
(10:47:27 AM): The giant convulses and slowly pulls at its chains and wires. Everything pulling taut before breaking apart.
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:47 am
(10:47:41 AM): Eva: "...Even if...even if we're similar, somehow...you know I have no intention of letting that happen."
tengusaur 10:47 am
(10:47:51 AM): Asagi: "Looks like it's the only way!"
VJockey 10:48 am
(10:48:26 AM): (Enemies: Giant & Girl)
(10:48:33 AM): (Walt, Eva)
(10:48:50 AM): There is a lot of movement from behind.
VJockey 10:49 am
(10:49:00 AM): It seems that the dead are marching towards you all.
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:50 am
(10:50:24 AM): *Eva opens fire on the girl with volley after volley of spread lasers, zipping around as she does so.+
Fri Freeman 10:51 am
(10:51:01 AM): Walt: Ghosts are weak againdt light. Lasers are light. Ergo...
(10:51:45 AM): Walt fires his dods gun toward the giant creature+
VJockey 10:52 am
(10:52:04 AM): Eva! The girl continues to laugh as she deftly dances away from the numerous lasers, across and around the many tubes and wires on the back of the Giant's skull. It doesn't seem to be at all bothered by the damage its taking. Her single eye fixates on you and you feel a sudden sharp spike of pain. React?
(10:52:45 AM): Walt! The beam drills through its flesh, cauterizing it and punching out the other side... it didn't seem to slow it down though and it swings one of its chains at you! React!
VJockey 10:53 am
(10:53:30 AM): (Ana, Asagi, Ken!)
wyverncakes 10:54 am
(10:54:08 AM): Ana: "A situation like this..."
(10:54:32 AM): The Breaker's Fracture Rifle switches to its largest, most cumbersome setting as a Balrog warhead gets armed!
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:54 am
(10:54:36 AM): *The Albatross reacts...by dropping to one knee, sparks jumping out across its frame and inside the cockpit. "AAAH!"
wyverncakes 10:54 am
(10:54:45 AM): "If it can damage that thing, or even bury it-!"
(10:55:05 AM): * She fires, intent on blasting that monster with as much firepower as she can manage!+
Fri Freeman 10:55 am
(10:55:28 AM): Walt ducks and protect his cockpit with both of his mech's arms
Fri Freeman 10:55 am
(10:55:55 AM): -
tengusaur 10:55 am
(10:55:59 AM): Asagi: "Perhaps its weak point is..." He circles around the gigantic monster, firing a bunch of missiles at it from a small hand-held launcher, but that's just a distraction. The real attack comes when they blow up - suddenly Blue One aims its beam cannon right at the giant's eye, and fires! +
Fri Freeman 10:55 am
(10:55:59 AM): +
VJockey 10:56 am
(10:56:22 AM): Walt! Your Genoace's head is absolutely smashed and the Mobile Suit itself is sent flying...
(10:56:24 AM): but...
(10:56:30 AM): You survive.
Fri Freeman 10:57 am
(10:57:53 AM): Walt: heads in mechs are superfluous anyway.
Meraxa 10:58 am
(10:58:41 AM): Ken: Gotta try... Kenkama! *Ken takes out the Scarlet whip... and plugs it into the base of a shotel. Now his reach is punctuated by a sharpened edge, as the weapon is swung, flaming bright, towards the Giant's body+
VJockey 11:00 am
(11:00:14 AM): Asagi! Ana! The many missile strikes, the Balrog in particular take out huge chunks of the thing's body. Bloody craters of flesh and bone are exposed and splatter to the ground - crushing the mummified remains of the people that had been here. A searing bolt spears it through its single eye. It falters... then fixes its sightless gaze on you. A horrific sense of foreboding grasps at you. Asagi... you would be familiar with the feeling as it's an extremely diluted form of what the ghost made you go through when it phased through you... and it only gets stronger.
(11:00:16 AM): REACT!
VJockey 11:01 am
(11:01:46 AM): Ken! Your weapon hacks open a part of its side, making it stumble momentarily and possibly giving Ana and Asagi a few more moments respite... however. The girl motions at you... several ghosts are torn free from the mummified bodies... and rush towards you in a swarm! React!
wyverncakes 11:03 am
(11:03:02 AM): # Ken
VJockey 11:03 am
(11:03:05 AM): Eva! Because of Ken's actions the pain fades... slowly... it might make it a bit difficult to focus though...
(11:03:10 AM): (Approved)
tengusaur 11:03 am
(11:03:42 AM): * Asagi: "Gah! At least it's working...!" Trying to kep his hands steady, he starts to evade, trying to put as many obstacles - columns, walls, lab equipment - between himself and the staring creature as possible! +
arachnion01@gmail.com 11:03 am
(11:03:47 AM): Eva: "Please...keep beating it up."
wyverncakes 11:04 am
(11:04:13 AM): * "You've... taken enough lives already!" Breaker's rifle switches back to its regular configuration and sweeps across the area, firing on both the ghosts and their original bodies for added measure!+
VJockey 11:05 am
(11:05:37 AM): (Walt Eva!)
VJockey 11:06 am
(11:06:44 AM): Asagi! While it worsens for just one moment, you manage to weave between enough obstacles that the Giant turns its gaze away from you.
arachnion01@gmail.com 11:07 am
(11:07:16 AM): *The Albatross isn't doing so hot...it's movements are slightly sluggish, and it has to struggle to its feet first. But it's still in the fight, and Eva takes her wrist blade and goes and shoves it right into that giant-then, she slices.+
Fri Freeman 11:09 am
(11:09:24 AM): Out of more precise aiming tool, walt raises his shield and bashes the giant with it+
VJockey 11:10 am
(11:10:11 AM): Ana! You manage to cut down the amount of Ghosts that Ken has to deal with to one.
tengusaur has left the room. 11:10 am
tengusaur has entered the room. 11:11 am
VJockey 11:11 am
(11:11:16 AM): Eva! Walt! The both of you proceed to maim and break the Giant's midsection, making it exremely difficult for the creature to maintain its posture as it begins to lean forward and twist in a sickly manner.
VJockey 11:11 am
(11:11:53 AM): The girl is running up along its spine to keep from falling off. Well.. less running... more hopping.
Meraxa 11:12 am
(11:12:46 AM): Ken: You... rest in peace! *Ken's apparent method of exorcism is to try and rip his Kenkama out and whip it into the enemy+
VJockey 11:13 am
(11:13:42 AM): Ken! The weapon goes right through the ghost. It was almost at your cockpit when the weapon destroyed the mummified body it belonged to.
(11:13:47 AM): Exorcism complete....
(11:13:51 AM): (Everyone. Go)
VJockey 11:14 am
(11:14:02 AM): (Before the army of the dear arrives.)
(11:14:05 AM): *dead
wyverncakes 11:16 am
(11:16:25 AM): * The Fracture Rifle begins firing both beams and physical rounds at the monstrous body again full force, cutting a line across its midsection! "Alright... fall... fall!"+
Fri Freeman 11:17 am
(11:17:03 AM): Walt: After thinking about it I wish the ghosts are simply restless deads instead of results of some horrifying experiment
arachnion01@gmail.com 11:17 am
(11:17:52 AM): *Eva zips up and towards the girl-the Albatross in its current state is not so fast, but it's still faster than walking-and raises her sword. "Goodnight," she says, and brings it down on the girl.+
wyverncakes 11:18 am
(11:18:10 AM): Ana: "But this way it means you will have peace when you die!"
Fri Freeman 11:18 am
(11:18:41 AM): Walt: thats true
(11:19:40 AM): He bashes the one eyed crearure again with his shield for good measure+
tengusaur 11:20 am
(11:20:17 AM): * "Haaaaa~!" Asagi rushes forward, hit katana raised upwards in a stabbing pose, and he plunges it right into the monster's flesh! But that's not all, as Blue One starts to move forward, slashing the blade over the whole length of the monster's body! +
Meraxa 11:28 am
(11:28:26 AM): Ken: Fall! *ScarleTiger slings it's Kenkama, attempting to hook, ignite, and pull down the great giant+
VJockey 11:30 am
(11:30:04 AM): The Giant's already twisted body is hammered again and again by Ana's shots, bones breaking under the pummeling from Walt's now increasingly gore and rot covered shield, and pulled forwards by Ken's attack...
(11:30:19 AM): Right into Asagi's own slash - neatly bisecting the already ruined beast.
VJockey 11:30 am
(11:30:41 AM): Flesh, metal and bone all parting from the strike with a horrific shriek.
(11:31:39 AM): As for the girl... she moved and weaved rapidly along the body as it fell to pieces, growing more crazed and enraged with each attack made upon the thing...
(11:31:54 AM): then she had no expression as all as Eva's blade made contact.
(11:32:37 AM): Both are dead...
VJockey 11:32 am
(11:32:56 AM): and just as the army of ghosts and possessed machines reach you...
(11:33:00 AM): they all come to a halt
(11:33:03 AM): thrashing
(11:33:30 AM): screeching loudly as the same horrific burst of sound ripped through the comms
(11:33:51 AM): then as one the haunted mecha collapsed
(11:33:56 AM): the ghosts dissapearing...
(11:34:14 AM): the lights in the area slowly flickering offline
wyverncakes 11:35 am
(11:35:22 AM): Ana: "That... got her."
(11:35:30 AM): "Right?"
(11:35:37 AM): "Eva... you're not... sensing anything anymore?"
tengusaur 11:36 am
(11:36:51 AM): Asagi: "Eva! Are you feeling alright?"
(11:37:09 AM): Asagi: "...Alright considering what happened, at least?"
arachnion01@gmail.com 11:37 am
(11:37:20 AM): Eva: "No, I...I don't. And I feel...bearable, at least."
VJockey 11:38 am
(11:38:23 AM): There's a crackle over the comms...
(11:38:26 AM): "Hello?"
(11:38:29 AM): "Hello?!"
(11:38:33 AM): "Is anyone there?!"
(11:38:38 AM): Its commander Antov!
wyverncakes 11:39 am
(11:39:23 AM): Ana: "Y-yes! Were alive!"
VJockey 11:39 am
(11:39:50 AM): "Thank god for small favors..."
(11:40:22 AM): "We finally got clearance about what was locked up there when your shuttle pilot came back."
VJockey 11:40 am
(11:40:59 AM): "We're sending another shuttle to come get you."
(11:41:12 AM): "Do you need reinforcements?"
wyverncakes 11:42 am
(11:42:06 AM): Ana: "It feels like the worst is over, finally."
arachnion01@gmail.com 11:42 am
(11:42:25 AM): Eva: "A warm blanket would be nice..."
VJockey 11:43 am
(11:43:09 AM): "A.. ah.. alright. I'll see what we can do..."
(11:43:31 AM): There's a slight burst of static again...
Fri Freeman 11:43 am
(11:43:32 AM): Walt look around
tengusaur 11:43 am
(11:43:56 AM): Asagi: "Reinforcements... I don't think they're going to be needed anymore."
VJockey 11:44 am
(11:44:17 AM): When the comms transmission clears there's something standing behind Commander Antov... then the image flickers and its gone.
(11:44:29 AM): "Lets just get you home..."
(11:44:43 AM): Mission Complete...
(11:44:45 AM): (?)
(8:14:32 AM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYn2Q-kVNAk
(8:14:35 AM): ...
(8:14:36 AM): No..
(8:14:41 AM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC5AzFc3coo
(8:15:19 AM): Today is not a tale of bravery or heroism against the odds... well
(8:15:25 AM): not how you would usually have one...
VJockey 8:16 am
(8:16:33 AM): Roughly twenty four hours ago a distress signal went up in an isolated mountainous region in Europe.
(8:16:55 AM): There was no explaination as to who or more importantly why.
(8:17:17 AM): There were no military bases, and the area was more or less deserted
(8:17:53 AM): As such a small team was deployed via shuttle to the area under a bleak, starless sky
(8:18:18 AM): What are all of you doing at this moment?
wyverncakes 8:18 am
(8:18:54 AM): Ana is waiting somewhat anxiousy, twiddling her robot and organic thumbs.
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:19 am
(8:19:00 AM): Sharpening a knife.
Meraxa 8:20 am
(8:20:09 AM): Ken is meditating over some old scrolls, a quiet hum escaping his lips.
frifreeman2 has been invited. 8:21 am
Invitation result for buddy Fri Freeman : Fri Freeman is busy. 8:21 am
frifreeman has been invited. 8:21 am
tengusaur 8:21 am
(8:21:30 AM): Asagi is pacing around Blue One. Something about this is bothering him deeply.
(8:21:35 AM): Asagi: "If there are no bases and no settlements in the area... Then who sent the signal?"
(8:21:48 AM): Asagi: "Why is it blank?"
VJockey 8:22 am
(8:22:02 AM): Well Asagi
(8:22:11 AM): someone will be answering your question
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:22 am
(8:22:18 AM): Eva: "I'll stab that bridge when we come to it."
wyverncakes 8:22 am
(8:22:23 AM): Ana: "Well, someone must've found a way to send it..."
VJockey 8:22 am
(8:22:56 AM): Commander Antov: "Well... I've been getting an information feed from ESUN regarding this... I'm.. not exactly sure why but they're keeping us on a need to know basis for this..."
VJockey 8:23 am
(8:23:25 AM): Its clear that he doesn't like this any more than the rest of you would considering what happened the last time.
(8:23:43 AM): "Anyway... you should-"
(8:23:56 AM): The transmission is starting to be garbled with static.
wyverncakes 8:24 am
(8:24:28 AM): Ana: "Commander?"
VJockey 8:24 am
(8:24:51 AM): "-pr-ch... -m-ss-n... -rea... comin-..-p on the. -ountai-"
wyverncakes 8:24 am
(8:24:54 AM): "Commander are you there?"
VJockey 8:25 am
(8:25:23 AM): "-lite -aging- is sk-hy an-"
wyverncakes 8:25 am
(8:25:26 AM): She does what she can to try to boost the signal or change frequencies... all she manages to get is additionall static though.
VJockey 8:25 am
(8:25:35 AM): "My god..."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:25 am
(8:25:43 AM): Eva: "Is there supposed to be interference? A weather disturbance, or are we being jammed?"
VJockey 8:25 am
(8:25:51 AM): That was all you got before the comm completely cuts off.
Meraxa 8:25 am
(8:25:54 AM): Ken stops reading his scroll for a bit, raising an eyebrow. "I have a bad feeling about this..."
VJockey 8:26 am
(8:26:22 AM): Those of you who look outside and could make out a little of what the Commander said would see the mountain as well as an abandoned town at its base...
(8:26:29 AM): but that isn't exactly the main concern here
(8:26:30 AM): rather...
(8:26:42 AM): the mountain literally looked like someone tore it in two.
tengusaur 8:26 am
(8:26:53 AM): Asagi: "Damnit! So much for an information link. And..."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:26 am
(8:26:57 AM): Eva frowns.
tengusaur 8:27 am
(8:27:02 AM): Asagi: "...What happened here?"
VJockey 8:27 am
(8:27:47 AM): Shuttle Pilot: "Hard to tell... I'm not picking up anything from up here. No life signs, reactor emissions, radiation..."
Meraxa 8:27 am
(8:27:50 AM): Ken: ...the kind of power you'd need for that...
wyverncakes 8:27 am
(8:27:54 AM): Ana: "Great... finally get to see something worth talking about and we get cut off from the base..."
Meraxa 8:27 am
(8:27:56 AM): Ken: And there's NOTHING?
VJockey 8:28 am
(8:28:05 AM): "Not a thing..."
(8:28:32 AM): "Setting her down as close as I can to the mountain... do you guys think you can handle the rest from here?"
Meraxa 8:30 am
(8:30:42 AM): Ken: Looks like we'll have to. Check comms before we get out there. Bad enough to be cut off from the base - worse if we can't even communicate among ourselves.
wyverncakes 8:30 am
(8:30:51 AM): Ana: "Well, that's what we're here for."
VJockey 8:31 am
(8:31:01 AM): "I'll try to keep regular updates."
tengusaur 8:31 am
(8:31:10 AM): Asagi: "All we have to do is find the source of the signal... Let's go. This better not be a trap."
VJockey 8:31 am
(8:31:33 AM): The shuttle soon lands in the middle of the town square.
(8:31:50 AM): Dust swirls in the air as the hatches open to let you all out.
wyverncakes 8:31 am
(8:31:56 AM): After a few moments of checking... "Comms seem okay, at least the short-range stuff."
VJockey 8:32 am
(8:32:06 AM): There isn't any light for miles around.
wyverncakes 8:32 am
(8:32:16 AM): "Heading on out..."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:32 am
(8:32:22 AM): Eva: "If it is a trap, we'll just have to break through it." Eva brought the Albatross, this time. She's been feeling better, so maybe it won't go so badly?
VJockey 8:33 am
(8:33:11 AM): The signal's origin point seems to be coming from the very center of the broken open mountain.
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:33 am
(8:33:24 AM): Though it still has that splitting start-up pain, her knuckles going white around the handles as she gets it ready. It passes, and the black robot floats out of the shuttle.
Meraxa 8:33 am
(8:33:48 AM): ScarleTiger walks out in Beast Mode, headbeam lights shining from the eyes. "So, we taking it slow, or heading in fast?"
frifreeman2 has entered the room. 8:34 am
wyverncakes 8:34 am
(8:34:55 AM): Ana: "I'd feel safer if we stuck together... and I'm in no hurry to get far away from the shuttle."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:35 am
(8:35:05 AM): Eva: "Slow and steady wins the race."
tengusaur 8:36 am
(8:36:05 AM): Asagi: "Pay attention to anything out of ordinary. And don't go too slow; whoever sent this signal wants us to reach it quick."
VJockey 8:36 am
(8:36:24 AM): Now that Asagi mentioned it
(8:36:43 AM): as you move through the town to get to where the signal came from
(8:36:50 AM): you'd notice something very odd about the town
(8:36:51 AM): namely...
(8:36:57 AM): it was in pristine condition
wyverncakes 8:37 am
(8:37:15 AM): Ana: "What? That... can't be right!"
tengusaur 8:37 am
(8:37:48 AM): Asagi: "It's like all the people here just disappeared yesterday..."
VJockey 8:38 am
(8:38:11 AM): Indeed. Which makes things all the more peculiar...
wyverncakes 8:38 am
(8:38:16 AM): Ana: "But more importantly, splitting a mountain like that isn't just something you do without seismic disturbances!"
VJockey 8:38 am
(8:38:19 AM): wasn't this region supposed to be deserted?
(8:38:43 AM): Wouldn't that mean any towns in the area would have looked even the smallest bit aged?
Meraxa 8:39 am
(8:39:04 AM): Ken: ...Keep an eye on your sensors as we go through it.
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:39 am
(8:39:10 AM): Eva: "...Could it be a criminal outpost, I wonder..."
VJockey 8:39 am
(8:39:35 AM): Ken, the scarletiger's lights catch something
wyverncakes 8:39 am
(8:39:43 AM): Ana: "Or maybe like something set up for a weapons test sight."
VJockey 8:40 am
(8:40:02 AM): rubble
(8:40:06 AM): small amounts of it in fact
Meraxa 8:40 am
(8:40:40 AM): Ken: ...Hm? *The machine pauses, tilting its head to better shine on the area*
VJockey 8:40 am
(8:40:58 AM): Eva... you hear... and feel a tiny noise in your ear
(8:41:06 AM): like a soft, yet high pitched whine.
(8:42:01 AM): Its a mecha. A mass produced Huckebein to be precise. Crashed onto a building.
(8:42:08 AM): Looking around you can see other machines.
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:42 am
(8:42:19 AM): Eva: "Tch..."
VJockey 8:42 am
(8:42:30 AM): TSFs, Genoaces
VJockey 8:42 am
(8:42:44 AM): All with the same off camo color scheme.
(8:42:56 AM): Yet... something was wrong about them...
(8:43:12 AM): nevermind that the other buildings close by their crash sites were untouched
wyverncakes 8:43 am
(8:43:45 AM): Ana: "Eva, something the matter?"
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:44 am
(8:44:13 AM): Eva: "No, it's nothing..."
tengusaur 8:44 am
(8:44:22 AM): Asagi: "A battlefield? I can't tell who they belong to, though. And there's no sign of whoever they fought."
VJockey 8:45 am
(8:45:18 AM): Anyone taking a closer look would notice stains along the various joints and seams of the machines scattered across the area.
wyverncakes 8:45 am
(8:45:25 AM): Ana: "Their flight recorder might have something though."
VJockey 8:45 am
(8:45:35 AM): The worst of it coming from right below the cameras.
Meraxa 8:46 am
(8:46:10 AM): Ken: ...They seem to be... leaking?
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:46 am
(8:46:23 AM): Eva: "Wonderful."
wyverncakes 8:46 am
(8:46:34 AM): The Breaker goes over to inspect one, Ana debating whether or not to get out and look.
VJockey 8:47 am
(8:47:17 AM): Ana. As you get closer you'll notice that the stains seem to be recent... and seem to have something dripping down to freshen them up again.
VJockey 8:47 am
(8:47:33 AM): A very distinct red color...
wyverncakes 8:47 am
(8:47:52 AM): "Don't tell me..."
VJockey 8:49 am
(8:49:02 AM): At that moment a sudden screech rings over the comms. Intermingled with static.
(8:49:10 AM): "Stay with us."
wyverncakes 8:49 am
(8:49:13 AM): "A-ah!"
Meraxa 8:49 am
(8:49:47 AM): The ScarleTiger itself jolts back, Ken's hands having been a bit too firm on a the controls. "W-What was...?"
wyverncakes 8:49 am
(8:49:51 AM): Ana'd been halfways through getting her things so she could take an up-close look at the machine, but that settled it!
(8:50:15 AM): "Wasnt me... and if anyone else is out there, speak up now!"
tengusaur 8:50 am
(8:50:17 AM): Asagi: "Gah!" Blue One is looking around quickly, aiming its machinegun everywhere!
VJockey 8:50 am
(8:50:34 AM): Nothing... not a single movement...
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:50 am
(8:50:35 AM): The Albatross straightens up somewhat, peering across the sky. "...Hm."
VJockey 8:50 am
(8:50:45 AM): Except...
(8:50:57 AM): the lights in one of the houses lit up
(8:51:00 AM): and another...
(8:51:10 AM): all seemingly forming a straight trail to the mountain
Meraxa 8:51 am
(8:51:22 AM): Ken: ...An invitation, great.
tengusaur 8:51 am
(8:51:52 AM): Asagi: "Hey! Is anyone there? You better show up now!"
VJockey 8:52 am
(8:52:12 AM): Asagi...
(8:52:22 AM): "Stay with us..."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:52 am
(8:52:28 AM): Eva: "...I say we decline. And carpet bomb the area, just to be sure."
VJockey 8:52 am
(8:52:33 AM): The voice was young, female. Hissed right in your ear.
tengusaur 8:53 am
(8:53:31 AM): Asagi: "...!" He throws his head back rapidly, hitting it in the cockpit.
VJockey 8:54 am
(8:54:20 AM): Eva.....
(8:54:28 AM): you feel it more than you hear or see it...
(8:54:36 AM): but you know something is moving.
(8:54:44 AM): Behind...
tengusaur 8:54 am
(8:54:47 AM): Asagi: "...Damnit. I agree with Eva. This isn't normal."
VJockey 8:54 am
(8:54:57 AM): React.
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:56 am
(8:56:07 AM): *The Albatross turns suddenly towards the threat, spreading a barrier with its left hand and deploying the wrist-blade on its left.+
VJockey 8:57 am
(8:57:13 AM): Eva! You strike down one of the apparently dead machines before it could attack Asagi from behind!
(8:58:03 AM): Something splatters against your hand as it all folds onto the Albatross' arm.
(8:58:16 AM): It tries to reach towards you with leaking fingers...
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:58 am
(8:58:44 AM): Eva blasts it with them spread lasers.
VJockey 8:58 am
(8:58:45 AM): Everyone
(8:58:57 AM): As Eva blows the attacker apart
(8:59:04 AM): you see the other machines begin to rise.
(8:59:09 AM): No activation signs.
VJockey 8:59 am
(8:59:26 AM): Not even their camera systems are lighting up.
wyverncakes 8:59 am
(8:59:29 AM): Ana: "Eva what are you-"
(8:59:48 AM): The sounds of the machine coming online right in front of her brings her right back though.
tengusaur 9:00 am
(9:00:09 AM): Asagi: "...."
(9:00:21 AM): Asagi: "...Eva, can you feel them?"
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:00 am
(9:00:48 AM): Eva: "...I...Something like that, I think..."
VJockey 9:00 am
(9:00:54 AM): Enemies: Huckebein Mark II M x3, F-4 Phantom x3, Genoace x8
(9:01:16 AM): Initiative: Ana, Asagi, Ken, Walt, Eva
Meraxa 9:01 am
(9:01:42 AM): Ken: If it weren't for the lack of a black dome, I'd think this was more Walt's kind of thing...
VJockey 9:01 am
(9:01:42 AM): Eva... you can feel something.
Fri Freeman 9:01 am
(9:01:58 AM): Walt: excuse me
VJockey 9:01 am
(9:01:58 AM): But whatever it was it was definitely not normal.
(9:02:10 AM): (Ana, Asagi, Ken. Go)
tengusaur 9:02 am
(9:02:46 AM): Asagi: "So something abnormal is going on with them after all. Zombies... You've gotta be kidding me..."
wyverncakes 9:02 am
(9:02:59 AM): Ana: "Or something worse...!"
(9:03:36 AM): * Still, the Breaker takes out its Fracture Rifle, firing it on the Genoace right in front of it as she falls back!+
Fri Freeman 9:03 am
(9:03:51 AM): Walt: its always something worse
tengusaur 9:04 am
(9:04:34 AM): * "This better work against them." Asagi turns around, aiming the heavy machinegun in an over-the-shoulder gesture, and sends a long burst of fire towards the incoming Huckebeins. +
Meraxa 9:04 am
(9:04:41 AM): Ken: ...Walkt, where did you come from?
(9:04:44 AM): *Walt
VJockey 9:05 am
(9:05:45 AM): Ana! Asagi! Your shots land given the sluggish movements of the mecha... the hits blow out sections of armor and limbs...
(9:05:49 AM): but they still stand
VJockey 9:06 am
(9:06:00 AM): they bleed even more from their wounds.
Fri Freeman 9:06 am
(9:06:17 AM): Walt: i'm always here
VJockey 9:06 am
(9:06:31 AM): But as they shamble towards you, the both of you notice something
Fri Freeman 9:06 am
(9:06:40 AM): Walt: oh boy
VJockey 9:06 am
(9:06:53 AM): faint, flickering... vaguely human...
(9:07:03 AM): floating above the shoulders of the machines you shot.
(9:07:14 AM): wait... scratch that...
(9:07:20 AM): they're moving rapidly towards you.
(9:07:21 AM): REACT
Fri Freeman 9:08 am
(9:08:17 AM): walt: i cant decide which one do i prefer. That some secret clandestine brutal experiment happenes here and killed everyone in agony
wyverncakes 9:08 am
(9:08:23 AM): Ana: "There's something else with the machines...!"
Fri Freeman 9:08 am
(9:08:25 AM): Or ghost mech
tengusaur 9:08 am
(9:08:34 AM): * Asagi: "...They're piloted by ghosts..." No time to wait there and stay! He jumps back and into the air to avoid this sudden lunge, pulling out Blue Oe's spear to skewer the first enemy who comes in too close! +
Meraxa 9:08 am
(9:08:46 AM): Ken: ...Whatever! I'm going in! *ScarleTiger charges, unleashing its stock foota- I mean, claws, against a nearby Genoace!+
wyverncakes 9:09 am
(9:09:08 AM): * The Breaker's RE Drive kicks in and it bursts backwards as Ana switches targets to this strange enemy!+
griefgathering has entered the room. 9:09 am
drascin has entered the room. 9:10 am
VJockey 9:12 am
(9:12:02 AM): Asagi! The spear... does nothing...! In fact it just phases through the attack. Intangible... untouchable as it continues to move through. Right through your cockpit... hollow eyes... corpselike breath, a maimed face from the shatterd visor of its helmet. It moves straight through you. There's a horrific chill, a distinct feeling of violation... muscles twisting, lungs burning... and you may taste a little blood. Still. You're alive and within seconds everything almost feels normal again... but you know that isn't something you want to happen again.
VJockey 9:13 am
(9:13:14 AM): Ana. Your shots do nothing to the ghost, similar to Asagi's own attacks... however... as you move back... the ghost seems to halt and pull back to its machine...
tengusaur 9:13 am
(9:13:14 AM): Asagi: "Aaghh..." He shudders, clutching his stomach tightly.
VJockey 9:13 am
(9:13:54 AM): Ken! You tear open a genoace and shower the Scarletiger with blood! As chunks of armor fall off you see... well...
(9:14:10 AM): something was crushed under the armor plating...
wyverncakes 9:14 am
(9:14:27 AM): Ana: "Asagi, what happened?!?"
VJockey 9:14 am
(9:14:47 AM): Everything in your mind is telling you that you DON'T want to know what it is...
(9:15:11 AM): Like Asagi and Ana you have a ghost leaving the machine to assault you. React.
tengusaur 9:15 am
(9:15:45 AM): Asagi: "Don't let those ghosts touch you...!"
VJockey 9:16 am
(9:16:05 AM): (Walt, Eva go)
Fri Freeman 9:16 am
(9:16:08 AM): GHOs
(9:16:16 AM): T!
(9:17:03 AM): Walt: doesnt that prove life after death!?
tengusaur 9:17 am
(9:17:21 AM): Gritting his teeth, Asagi puts his hands back on the controls. This is a situation where focusing on the fight is crucial.
(9:17:37 AM): Asagi: "You can think about the philosophical ramifications later...!"
Meraxa 9:17 am
(9:17:42 AM): Ken: ...There's something in there... But... I don't... Ah! *The ScarleTiger kicks back, trying to leap away and land on its feet+
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:18 am
(9:18:15 AM): *The Albatross floats away from the shambling horde of mecha, and begins peppering them with spread lasers while her main chest laser charges. It then fires, a beam of firey death lancing out into the crowd.+
Fri Freeman 9:18 am
(9:18:21 AM): Walt: im in despair. This means even death wont be my final rest!
VJockey 9:18 am
(9:18:37 AM): Ken. You barely manage to evade the ghost... however a pair of Huckebeins are rushing towards you with knives! React again!
wyverncakes 9:18 am
(9:18:43 AM): # Ken
VJockey 9:18 am
(9:18:56 AM): Approved
Fri Freeman 9:19 am
(9:19:23 AM): walt pulls hos heat stake and tries to stab the nearest genoace in the chest+
(9:20:03 AM): walt: they say heat stake is useless eh? They laughed at us
Fri Freeman 9:20 am
(9:20:33 AM): They say are you going to fight vampires with that?
(9:20:44 AM): look whos laughing now!
VJockey 9:21 am
(9:21:00 AM): Walt! The stake breaks through the armor, sundering the hatch to the cockpit. For a moment you see the exsanguinated corpse slumped in the seat before it was crushed and burned. Blood all but streams out rapidly from the enemy Genoace, hands wildly trying to claw at Walt's. React.
wyverncakes 9:21 am
(9:21:29 AM): * The Fracture rifle opens fire again, this time Ana aiming specifically for the legs of the charging Huckebeins to try to stop their rush!+
VJockey 9:22 am
(9:22:49 AM): Eva! You damage several other Genoaces, the TSFs and destroy the Huckbein not attacking Ken... before the lance of energy slaughters many of them.
(9:23:11 AM): Even if everybodys cockpits are sealed though... there's a horrific stench of death working its way through.
Meraxa 9:23 am
(9:23:15 AM): Ken: Tch! Stand Up! *Skidding as the machine transforms mid-landing, Ken tries to have the ScarleTiger flip backwards to kick its would-be assailants!+
Fri Freeman 9:23 am
(9:23:24 AM): Walt parries rhe claw eirh his shield+
(9:24:03 AM): walt: is that your heart? Is
VJockey 9:24 am
(9:24:43 AM): Ken & Ana! The Huckebeins are sent crashing through several buildings. They attempt to crawl back towards Ken for another go, and their ghosts attempt to assault their attackers!... However they're just out of reach...
VJockey 9:25 am
(9:25:43 AM): Walt!... The Genoace scrapes at your shield before it collapses in the veritable lake of blood it let out. For a moment you see the ghost it had thrash wildly before looking as if it was burned alive into nothingness.
(9:26:35 AM): Enemies: F-4 Phantom x1, Damaged Huckebein & Ghosts x2, Heavily Damaged Genoace x2
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:26 am
(9:26:35 AM): Eva's breathing heavily over the comms. "Well...at least we know what the distress signal was about now."
wyverncakes 9:27 am
(9:27:40 AM): Ana: "Do we really though?"
Meraxa 9:27 am
(9:27:46 AM): Ken: But that doesn't explain what happened here... out of control grunt units wouldn't do damage to a mountain like that!
wyverncakes 9:27 am
(9:27:48 AM): "I mean... they're... ghosts!"
VJockey 9:28 am
(9:28:52 AM): Another burst of static
(9:28:57 AM): and garbled message...
(9:29:12 AM): but for Eva... it was crystal clear. Even if it burned her mind.
(9:29:13 AM): "Evaaaaa come to ussss... we're waiting for youuuuu"
tengusaur 9:29 am
(9:29:38 AM): Asagi: "Shut up...!"
VJockey 9:32 am
(9:32:06 AM): (Initiative: Ana, Asagi, Ken)
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:32 am
(9:32:21 AM): Eva starts clutching her head, the Albatross mimicing her movement. "Gah...I'd like it if...you stayed out of my head...Asagi...make a note. Definitely a trap."
VJockey 9:32 am
(9:32:27 AM): The Distress Beacon pings everyone loudly.
wyverncakes 9:32 am
(9:32:44 AM): Ana: "Eva... can anyone raise the shuttle?
(9:32:53 AM): "At this point getting out of here's probably for the best!"
Meraxa 9:33 am
(9:33:38 AM): Ken: ...I'll try. Shuttle 01, come in. Shuttle 01, do you read? *ScarleTiger draws its Scarlet Shotels, aiming to cut through the torso of the nearest genoace!+
tengusaur 9:33 am
(9:33:46 AM): * Asagi: "I think everyone figured it out already!" He rushes towards one of the previously damaged Huckebeins, spinning around and slashing Blue One's katana right at its cockpit with a wide strike! And then follows up by stabbing at the next one! +
VJockey 9:34 am
(9:34:08 AM): There's a crackle of static... Then...
(9:34:25 AM): Shuttle Pilot: "This is Shuttle 01... I read you."
wyverncakes 9:36 am
(9:36:04 AM): * "The situation here is something out of a horror movie! We need to get out of here!" The Breaker makes a quick pass at a mook, drawing its heat stake and driving it through the possessed machine's body to pin it to the ground!+
VJockey 9:36 am
(9:36:06 AM): Ken! Your Scarlet shotels cut through the Genoace's armor like butter as the metal and everything under it boils away. The ghost inhabiting it however punishes you for your attack moments before it dies. You feel a hand as cold as ice almost clutching at your heart before you're treated to the sight of a human being melting in front of you.
VJockey 9:37 am
(9:37:17 AM): Asagi! The Huckebeins try to stop you... but their movements were too sluggish, even if they managed to nick Blue One a little with their knives. The ghosts were almost upon you before they dissapated violently. Crushed this time.
(9:37:36 AM): Shuttle Pilot: "I understand... But I can't help."
Meraxa 9:37 am
(9:37:49 AM): Ken: ...H...Ha... *ScarleTiger stops in a jerking motion, Ken just... sitting there, horrified.* C-Copy that...
wyverncakes 9:37 am
(9:37:54 AM): Ana: "What?"
VJockey 9:38 am
(9:38:34 AM): Shuttle Pilot: She found me.
tengusaur 9:38 am
(9:38:52 AM): Asagi: "Who is 'she'!"
VJockey 9:39 am
(9:39:36 AM): Shuttle Pilot: "I'm sorry. I tried.... please.. please stay with us. Don't leave."
wyverncakes 9:40 am
(9:40:04 AM): "No... no!"
VJockey 9:40 am
(9:40:49 AM): Ana. As you impale the possesed machine and end its threat, everybody can see the shuttle slowly rising into the air... a pair of possessed Genoaces clinging to its sides.
wyverncakes 9:41 am
(9:41:13 AM): Everything was just taking a turn for the worse... and then the shuttle came into view...
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:41 am
(9:41:43 AM): Eva: "..."
VJockey 9:41 am
(9:41:58 AM): "We are waiting. Come to us. We want to see you face-to face."
tengusaur 9:42 am
(9:42:21 AM): Asagi: "Damn... We lost him."
wyverncakes 9:42 am
(9:42:25 AM): Ana: "I'd rather not!"
VJockey 9:43 am
(9:43:05 AM): Sadly Ana...
(9:43:10 AM): there may be no choice...
(9:43:26 AM): as if awoken by the Shuttle's second passing you can see something leaving the houses.
(9:43:29 AM): Ghosts.
(9:43:32 AM): More of them.
Meraxa 9:44 am
(9:44:52 AM): Ken: ...The people...
VJockey 9:45 am
(9:45:27 AM): "You have no choice. Come to us. Cometousnow. Nownownownow"
(9:45:38 AM): It was more understandable this time
(9:45:40 AM): more human
(9:45:46 AM): but.. that somehow did not help.
wyverncakes 9:45 am
(9:45:47 AM): Ana: "Nothing we can do for them though!"
VJockey 9:45 am
(9:45:56 AM): Especially when it was filled with maniacal laughter.
tengusaur 9:45 am
(9:45:59 AM): Asagi: "Okay, that's it. Let's get out of here!"
Fri Freeman 9:46 am
(9:46:11 AM): Walt: If i die can i choose where to haunt i wonder
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:46 am
(9:46:36 AM): Eva: "...Agreed. Walt, Ken, will you need assistance?"
Meraxa 9:46 am
(9:46:56 AM): Ken: I... I can handle it. Just fine.
wyverncakes 9:47 am
(9:47:07 AM): Ana: "Worry about dying later, Walt!"
Fri Freeman 9:47 am
(9:47:43 AM): Walt: may i ditch this mech and ride one of yours who can fly?
(9:48:40 AM): and get the hell out of here. Sorry bruno. You're a great genoace and all but you cant fly
tengusaur 9:49 am
(9:49:04 AM): Asagi: "Someone can just pick your machine up."
VJockey 9:49 am
(9:49:44 AM): Eva!
(9:50:10 AM): There's a proximity Alert on your screen
(9:50:15 AM): Directly behind you!
(9:50:57 AM): React!
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:52 am
(9:52:26 AM): *"!!" Eva whirls around again, shifting the Albatross's to the side and throwing up its barrier again, with its arms held crossed in front of it to block.+
VJockey 9:52 am
(9:52:40 AM): Eva!... There was... nothing there..?
(9:52:49 AM): The Proximity Alert is still blaring
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:53 am
(9:53:27 AM): Eva: "...? I may be having some mechanical failures..."
VJockey 9:53 am
(9:53:30 AM): Something drips onto your shoulder.
(9:53:34 AM): "Evaaaaaaaaaa."
(9:54:10 AM): A pair of hands slam down on your own, nails chewed up, fingers bloody.
mad4space@hotmail.com has left the room. 9:54 am
VJockey 9:55 am
(9:55:39 AM): "you'll stay, won't you? We can make you stay."
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:56 am
(9:56:30 AM): Eva: "...Oh." She sighs, and looks up.
mad4space@hotmail.com has entered the room. 9:56 am
wyverncakes 9:57 am
(9:57:01 AM): Ana: "Eva, what's happening?"
VJockey 9:58 am
(9:58:32 AM): A near toothless smile on bloodied lips greets her, as does a solitary eye. You can guess where the blood on the fingers came from.
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:00 am
(10:00:02 AM): Eva takes a deep breath, and steels herself. "There is...some quality of mine that you desire, yes?"
VJockey 10:00 am
(10:00:24 AM): "You are what they wanted me to be."
wyverncakes 10:00 am
(10:00:30 AM): Ana: "Eva... Eva what's happening to you?!?"
VJockey 10:00 am
(10:00:58 AM): "But I want to see what happens."
(10:01:08 AM): "When you meet him."
Fri Freeman 10:01 am
(10:01:15 AM): Walt: cant be something good thats for sure
Meraxa 10:01 am
(10:01:43 AM): Ken: What's it even... saying?
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:03 am
(10:03:18 AM): Eva: "...If I were to...do this...Would you...permit my companions to leave?"
(10:03:31 AM): Eva: "These people, and the shuttle pilot also..."
VJockey 10:05 am
(10:05:21 AM): "Your friends can lave."
(10:05:37 AM): "But the others are mine. minemineminemine."
tengusaur 10:06 am
(10:06:18 AM): Asagi: "Eva, what are you trying to do!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:08 am
(10:08:11 AM): Eva: "...That seems acceptable...Asagi, leave, and be sure to take Walt with you."
Fri Freeman 10:08 am
(10:08:38 AM): walt: but i just gp
wyverncakes 10:08 am
(10:08:51 AM): Ana: "Are you... going to be okay?"
VJockey 10:09 am
(10:09:27 AM): A low metallic shriek rings through the comms.
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:09 am
(10:09:41 AM): Eva: "Perhaps."
tengusaur 10:09 am
(10:09:44 AM): Asagi: "..."
(10:10:00 AM): Asagi: "...Are you absolutely sure about this?"
VJockey 10:10 am
(10:10:27 AM): "Time to go home. Home. To see him. Yes."
Fri Freeman 10:10 am
(10:10:52 AM): Get used to this place. Ghost are scary. But mortgagw rate back in the city is scarier
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:10 am
(10:10:52 AM): The Albatross floats up off the ground, and speeds towards the mountain wordlessly.
VJockey 10:11 am
(10:11:19 AM): The Ghosts still, and the possessed Genoaces drop from the shuttle as it hovers precariously
Fri Freeman 10:11 am
(10:11:38 AM): Uhm. Should we go after her?
VJockey 10:11 am
(10:11:44 AM): It seems that the rest of you can leave...
wyverncakes 10:12 am
(10:12:03 AM): Ana tries raising the shuttle again.
VJockey 10:12 am
(10:12:04 AM): but would you? Could you leave Eva behind to whatever is even causing all of this?
wyverncakes 10:12 am
(10:12:20 AM): "... If he's not okay... whoever did this didn't hold up their end of the deal."
VJockey 10:12 am
(10:12:26 AM): Ana gets some caughing and wheezing.
VJockey 10:12 am
(10:12:46 AM): "G...god..."
(10:12:54 AM): "...H..horrible... I.. I can't..."
tengusaur 10:14 am
(10:14:04 AM): Asagi: "...I don't think she's going to be okay."
VJockey 10:14 am
(10:14:53 AM): Its time to make a decision
(10:15:13 AM): Go after Eva? or use whatever respite you might have gained...?
wyverncakes 10:15 am
(10:15:57 AM): Ana takes a moment to mull things over before finally...
(10:16:29 AM): "... We need to know what happened here. And try to fix it... otherwise even more people could end up coming here!"
Meraxa 10:17 am
(10:17:36 AM): Ken: ...though if none of us make it, someone needs to send word back... or they'll come to solve what happened.
tengusaur 10:18 am
(10:18:46 AM): Asagi: "..."
Fri Freeman 10:18 am
(10:18:49 AM): Walt:Cant our ghost do that?
tengusaur 10:18 am
(10:18:54 AM): Asagi: "Damnit."
(10:19:11 AM): Asagi: "Send the shuttle back home! We gotta retrieve Eva!"
VJockey 10:20 am
(10:20:40 AM): Shuttle Pilot: "But you'll die in there!"
(10:20:57 AM): "Its horrible... you won't make it!"
tengusaur 10:21 am
(10:21:02 AM): Asagi: "...I'll do my best not to."
wyverncakes 10:21 am
(10:21:17 AM): Ana: "If we don't, nothing'll change and the next group that comes here will!"
VJockey 10:21 am
(10:21:28 AM): "..."
(10:21:38 AM): "Good luck then... god... you'll need it..."
Meraxa 10:21 am
(10:21:45 AM): Ken: Besides... we risk our lives every week.
VJockey 10:21 am
(10:21:50 AM): The Shuttle leaves...
(10:21:53 AM): and oddly...
(10:21:59 AM): the Ghosts simply watch and wait
VJockey 10:22 am
(10:22:48 AM): You don't know if they'll turn hostile if you move given how you are all not leaving.
(10:22:54 AM): Best to make for Eva now.
wyverncakes 10:24 am
(10:24:10 AM): Ana: "Alright then... after them..."
tengusaur 10:24 am
(10:24:20 AM): Asagi: "I made the mistake of wanting to go back once already." Blue One's boosters heat up and the machine takes off towards the split mountain.
Fri Freeman 10:25 am
(10:25:46 AM): Walt: i wish i ate more garlic at the cafetaria before i went here....
VJockey 10:25 am
(10:25:52 AM): As you approach the split mountain you can make out signs of something that was hidden within it.
(10:26:16 AM): Corridors, more machines, labs, storage rooms...
(10:26:43 AM): all leading to a massive central area in the middle of the mountain where the Albatross is.
(10:26:49 AM): Where the signal was originating from.
Meraxa 10:27 am
(10:27:23 AM): Ken: ...people were working here...
wyverncakes 10:27 am
(10:27:26 AM): Ana: "Was this a testing facility?"
wyverncakes 10:27 am
(10:27:49 AM): She looks over what she can see, comparing it to her own experiences with research bases...
VJockey 10:27 am
(10:27:54 AM): And the further in you all go...
(10:28:06 AM): you can all feel something at the very edges of your senses
Fri Freeman 10:28 am
(10:28:38 AM): Walt: once again i:cant decide if i prefer these ghost to have some horrifying scientific explanation or simply some peoples restless soul
VJockey 10:28 am
(10:28:50 AM): an itch at the back of your mind, a flickering at the corner of your eyes. Faint sounds that you're sure are there but are just too soft to even be sure of.
(10:29:13 AM): Though in Eva's case...
(10:29:18 AM): its all a whole lot worse.
VJockey 10:30 am
(10:30:29 AM): Indistinct whispers, somehow loud and soft at the same time. Ghost images of movement back and forth across the facility, and that feeling at the back of your brain felt like someone was literally clawing into it.
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:32 am
(10:32:08 AM): Deep breaths. It's just like that time after Alaska...
VJockey 10:32 am
(10:32:57 AM): Floodlights kicked in. Those that were still standing and those that were laying on the ground. They bathed the area in a sickly light. Several mummified corpses were scattered across the area. Standing, looking all the world as if someone hit pause they were still at work.
(10:33:10 AM): At the middle of it all was a cadaver.
(10:33:12 AM): A massive one.
(10:33:56 AM): Chained up between two pillars, several sections of its body carved open with numerous tubes and metallic attachments twisting along it.
(10:34:02 AM): As for its face....
(10:34:54 AM): it barely even had one. Everything either vestigal or a hollow socket... with the exception of a single blank eye.
VJockey 10:36 am
(10:36:14 AM): A figure seems to half-melt out of the Albatross...
(10:36:17 AM): "You all stayed?"
tengusaur 10:37 am
(10:37:06 AM): Asagi: "What the hell are you...?"
VJockey 10:37 am
(10:37:29 AM): A young girl. Barely in her teens. Pale, clad in a straitjacket with torn sleeves. A bloody smile and a single eye. She made herself look like the giant thing.
wyverncakes 10:37 am
(10:37:55 AM): Ana: "Yeah... we did."
VJockey 10:38 am
(10:38:02 AM): She giggles uncontrollably.
wyverncakes 10:38 am
(10:38:11 AM): "We want answers. Not just you... but about what happened here!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:38 am
(10:38:41 AM): Eva: "I had hoped you'd return with more reinforcements..."
wyverncakes 10:39 am
(10:39:08 AM): Ana: "The shuttle pilot's heading back to base..."
Meraxa 10:39 am
(10:39:10 AM): Ken: No... time. Sent pilot off anyway
wyverncakes 10:39 am
(10:39:21 AM): "If worse comes to worse, at least the Unity Group'll know."
tengusaur 10:39 am
(10:39:32 AM): Asagi: "Reinforcements will come when they come. For now, there's only us."
VJockey 10:39 am
(10:39:47 AM): The girl-thing leaps up and onto the giant corpse, sitting on its shoulder before shoving her hand into a section of its exposed spine, underneath several wires.
(10:40:03 AM): Its blank eye fixates on all of you.
VJockey 10:40 am
(10:40:41 AM): An assault of images. Several young children herded into the chamber. Locked inside for days? Months? Maybe Years?
(10:40:48 AM): Locked with the giant thing.
(10:40:55 AM): The thing that whispered to all of them
(10:40:59 AM): Dead yet not dead.
(10:41:06 AM): Silent, yet talking.
(10:41:17 AM): Many went insane
(10:41:19 AM): killing themselves
(10:41:21 AM): each other
(10:41:37 AM): some even doing as the girl did and died in the attempt to mutilate themselves
(10:41:55 AM): those that remained were taken away from the room
(10:42:04 AM): and when it came to the girl's turn. She just laughed...
wyverncakes 10:42 am
(10:42:11 AM): Inside of the Breaker, Ana just gasps out.
VJockey 10:42 am
(10:42:16 AM): and did all of this
wyverncakes 10:42 am
(10:42:24 AM): "These images...!"
VJockey 10:42 am
(10:42:44 AM): "Our lives."
(10:42:56 AM): "This is who we are."
(10:43:22 AM): "They wanted our minds open."
(10:43:35 AM): "They wanted his secrets.""̦̰͗̐̃̊̒̄̓́
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:44 am
(10:44:27 AM): Eva: "Urgh...That doesn't mean...you need to do what they wanted..."
wyverncakes 10:44 am
(10:44:51 AM): Ana: "Whoever... whoever was running this place is gone now too..!"
Fri Freeman 10:45 am
(10:45:03 AM): I guesa itd be tioo much to ask who are thet and what is he
Meraxa 10:45 am
(10:45:13 AM): Ken: And yet, both she and it remain...
wyverncakes 10:45 am
(10:45:36 AM): "Whatever you're trying to do now, it's going to hurt people who weren't involved at all!"
VJockey 10:45 am
(10:45:40 AM): She lets out a crazed giggle once more.
(10:45:49 AM): "We don't care."
(10:46:24 AM): "All we want."
tengusaur 10:46 am
(10:46:37 AM): Asagi: "I don't think talking will work. What she went through was too horrible..."
VJockey 10:46 am
(10:46:45 AM): "Is for everyone to stay with us."
wyverncakes 10:46 am
(10:46:54 AM): Ana: "Then putting her down...?"
VJockey 10:47 am
(10:47:27 AM): The giant convulses and slowly pulls at its chains and wires. Everything pulling taut before breaking apart.
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:47 am
(10:47:41 AM): Eva: "...Even if...even if we're similar, somehow...you know I have no intention of letting that happen."
tengusaur 10:47 am
(10:47:51 AM): Asagi: "Looks like it's the only way!"
VJockey 10:48 am
(10:48:26 AM): (Enemies: Giant & Girl)
(10:48:33 AM): (Walt, Eva)
(10:48:50 AM): There is a lot of movement from behind.
VJockey 10:49 am
(10:49:00 AM): It seems that the dead are marching towards you all.
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:50 am
(10:50:24 AM): *Eva opens fire on the girl with volley after volley of spread lasers, zipping around as she does so.+
Fri Freeman 10:51 am
(10:51:01 AM): Walt: Ghosts are weak againdt light. Lasers are light. Ergo...
(10:51:45 AM): Walt fires his dods gun toward the giant creature+
VJockey 10:52 am
(10:52:04 AM): Eva! The girl continues to laugh as she deftly dances away from the numerous lasers, across and around the many tubes and wires on the back of the Giant's skull. It doesn't seem to be at all bothered by the damage its taking. Her single eye fixates on you and you feel a sudden sharp spike of pain. React?
(10:52:45 AM): Walt! The beam drills through its flesh, cauterizing it and punching out the other side... it didn't seem to slow it down though and it swings one of its chains at you! React!
VJockey 10:53 am
(10:53:30 AM): (Ana, Asagi, Ken!)
wyverncakes 10:54 am
(10:54:08 AM): Ana: "A situation like this..."
(10:54:32 AM): The Breaker's Fracture Rifle switches to its largest, most cumbersome setting as a Balrog warhead gets armed!
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:54 am
(10:54:36 AM): *The Albatross reacts...by dropping to one knee, sparks jumping out across its frame and inside the cockpit. "AAAH!"
wyverncakes 10:54 am
(10:54:45 AM): "If it can damage that thing, or even bury it-!"
(10:55:05 AM): * She fires, intent on blasting that monster with as much firepower as she can manage!+
Fri Freeman 10:55 am
(10:55:28 AM): Walt ducks and protect his cockpit with both of his mech's arms
Fri Freeman 10:55 am
(10:55:55 AM): -
tengusaur 10:55 am
(10:55:59 AM): Asagi: "Perhaps its weak point is..." He circles around the gigantic monster, firing a bunch of missiles at it from a small hand-held launcher, but that's just a distraction. The real attack comes when they blow up - suddenly Blue One aims its beam cannon right at the giant's eye, and fires! +
Fri Freeman 10:55 am
(10:55:59 AM): +
VJockey 10:56 am
(10:56:22 AM): Walt! Your Genoace's head is absolutely smashed and the Mobile Suit itself is sent flying...
(10:56:24 AM): but...
(10:56:30 AM): You survive.
Fri Freeman 10:57 am
(10:57:53 AM): Walt: heads in mechs are superfluous anyway.
Meraxa 10:58 am
(10:58:41 AM): Ken: Gotta try... Kenkama! *Ken takes out the Scarlet whip... and plugs it into the base of a shotel. Now his reach is punctuated by a sharpened edge, as the weapon is swung, flaming bright, towards the Giant's body+
VJockey 11:00 am
(11:00:14 AM): Asagi! Ana! The many missile strikes, the Balrog in particular take out huge chunks of the thing's body. Bloody craters of flesh and bone are exposed and splatter to the ground - crushing the mummified remains of the people that had been here. A searing bolt spears it through its single eye. It falters... then fixes its sightless gaze on you. A horrific sense of foreboding grasps at you. Asagi... you would be familiar with the feeling as it's an extremely diluted form of what the ghost made you go through when it phased through you... and it only gets stronger.
(11:00:16 AM): REACT!
VJockey 11:01 am
(11:01:46 AM): Ken! Your weapon hacks open a part of its side, making it stumble momentarily and possibly giving Ana and Asagi a few more moments respite... however. The girl motions at you... several ghosts are torn free from the mummified bodies... and rush towards you in a swarm! React!
wyverncakes 11:03 am
(11:03:02 AM): # Ken
VJockey 11:03 am
(11:03:05 AM): Eva! Because of Ken's actions the pain fades... slowly... it might make it a bit difficult to focus though...
(11:03:10 AM): (Approved)
tengusaur 11:03 am
(11:03:42 AM): * Asagi: "Gah! At least it's working...!" Trying to kep his hands steady, he starts to evade, trying to put as many obstacles - columns, walls, lab equipment - between himself and the staring creature as possible! +
arachnion01@gmail.com 11:03 am
(11:03:47 AM): Eva: "Please...keep beating it up."
wyverncakes 11:04 am
(11:04:13 AM): * "You've... taken enough lives already!" Breaker's rifle switches back to its regular configuration and sweeps across the area, firing on both the ghosts and their original bodies for added measure!+
VJockey 11:05 am
(11:05:37 AM): (Walt Eva!)
VJockey 11:06 am
(11:06:44 AM): Asagi! While it worsens for just one moment, you manage to weave between enough obstacles that the Giant turns its gaze away from you.
arachnion01@gmail.com 11:07 am
(11:07:16 AM): *The Albatross isn't doing so hot...it's movements are slightly sluggish, and it has to struggle to its feet first. But it's still in the fight, and Eva takes her wrist blade and goes and shoves it right into that giant-then, she slices.+
Fri Freeman 11:09 am
(11:09:24 AM): Out of more precise aiming tool, walt raises his shield and bashes the giant with it+
VJockey 11:10 am
(11:10:11 AM): Ana! You manage to cut down the amount of Ghosts that Ken has to deal with to one.
tengusaur has left the room. 11:10 am
tengusaur has entered the room. 11:11 am
VJockey 11:11 am
(11:11:16 AM): Eva! Walt! The both of you proceed to maim and break the Giant's midsection, making it exremely difficult for the creature to maintain its posture as it begins to lean forward and twist in a sickly manner.
VJockey 11:11 am
(11:11:53 AM): The girl is running up along its spine to keep from falling off. Well.. less running... more hopping.
Meraxa 11:12 am
(11:12:46 AM): Ken: You... rest in peace! *Ken's apparent method of exorcism is to try and rip his Kenkama out and whip it into the enemy+
VJockey 11:13 am
(11:13:42 AM): Ken! The weapon goes right through the ghost. It was almost at your cockpit when the weapon destroyed the mummified body it belonged to.
(11:13:47 AM): Exorcism complete....
(11:13:51 AM): (Everyone. Go)
VJockey 11:14 am
(11:14:02 AM): (Before the army of the dear arrives.)
(11:14:05 AM): *dead
wyverncakes 11:16 am
(11:16:25 AM): * The Fracture Rifle begins firing both beams and physical rounds at the monstrous body again full force, cutting a line across its midsection! "Alright... fall... fall!"+
Fri Freeman 11:17 am
(11:17:03 AM): Walt: After thinking about it I wish the ghosts are simply restless deads instead of results of some horrifying experiment
arachnion01@gmail.com 11:17 am
(11:17:52 AM): *Eva zips up and towards the girl-the Albatross in its current state is not so fast, but it's still faster than walking-and raises her sword. "Goodnight," she says, and brings it down on the girl.+
wyverncakes 11:18 am
(11:18:10 AM): Ana: "But this way it means you will have peace when you die!"
Fri Freeman 11:18 am
(11:18:41 AM): Walt: thats true
(11:19:40 AM): He bashes the one eyed crearure again with his shield for good measure+
tengusaur 11:20 am
(11:20:17 AM): * "Haaaaa~!" Asagi rushes forward, hit katana raised upwards in a stabbing pose, and he plunges it right into the monster's flesh! But that's not all, as Blue One starts to move forward, slashing the blade over the whole length of the monster's body! +
Meraxa 11:28 am
(11:28:26 AM): Ken: Fall! *ScarleTiger slings it's Kenkama, attempting to hook, ignite, and pull down the great giant+
VJockey 11:30 am
(11:30:04 AM): The Giant's already twisted body is hammered again and again by Ana's shots, bones breaking under the pummeling from Walt's now increasingly gore and rot covered shield, and pulled forwards by Ken's attack...
(11:30:19 AM): Right into Asagi's own slash - neatly bisecting the already ruined beast.
VJockey 11:30 am
(11:30:41 AM): Flesh, metal and bone all parting from the strike with a horrific shriek.
(11:31:39 AM): As for the girl... she moved and weaved rapidly along the body as it fell to pieces, growing more crazed and enraged with each attack made upon the thing...
(11:31:54 AM): then she had no expression as all as Eva's blade made contact.
(11:32:37 AM): Both are dead...
VJockey 11:32 am
(11:32:56 AM): and just as the army of ghosts and possessed machines reach you...
(11:33:00 AM): they all come to a halt
(11:33:03 AM): thrashing
(11:33:30 AM): screeching loudly as the same horrific burst of sound ripped through the comms
(11:33:51 AM): then as one the haunted mecha collapsed
(11:33:56 AM): the ghosts dissapearing...
(11:34:14 AM): the lights in the area slowly flickering offline
wyverncakes 11:35 am
(11:35:22 AM): Ana: "That... got her."
(11:35:30 AM): "Right?"
(11:35:37 AM): "Eva... you're not... sensing anything anymore?"
tengusaur 11:36 am
(11:36:51 AM): Asagi: "Eva! Are you feeling alright?"
(11:37:09 AM): Asagi: "...Alright considering what happened, at least?"
arachnion01@gmail.com 11:37 am
(11:37:20 AM): Eva: "No, I...I don't. And I feel...bearable, at least."
VJockey 11:38 am
(11:38:23 AM): There's a crackle over the comms...
(11:38:26 AM): "Hello?"
(11:38:29 AM): "Hello?!"
(11:38:33 AM): "Is anyone there?!"
(11:38:38 AM): Its commander Antov!
wyverncakes 11:39 am
(11:39:23 AM): Ana: "Y-yes! Were alive!"
VJockey 11:39 am
(11:39:50 AM): "Thank god for small favors..."
(11:40:22 AM): "We finally got clearance about what was locked up there when your shuttle pilot came back."
VJockey 11:40 am
(11:40:59 AM): "We're sending another shuttle to come get you."
(11:41:12 AM): "Do you need reinforcements?"
wyverncakes 11:42 am
(11:42:06 AM): Ana: "It feels like the worst is over, finally."
arachnion01@gmail.com 11:42 am
(11:42:25 AM): Eva: "A warm blanket would be nice..."
VJockey 11:43 am
(11:43:09 AM): "A.. ah.. alright. I'll see what we can do..."
(11:43:31 AM): There's a slight burst of static again...
Fri Freeman 11:43 am
(11:43:32 AM): Walt look around
tengusaur 11:43 am
(11:43:56 AM): Asagi: "Reinforcements... I don't think they're going to be needed anymore."
VJockey 11:44 am
(11:44:17 AM): When the comms transmission clears there's something standing behind Commander Antov... then the image flickers and its gone.
(11:44:29 AM): "Lets just get you home..."
(11:44:43 AM): Mission Complete...
(11:44:45 AM): (?)