* When we last left off, over 3 weeks ago Realtime, Our Heroes beat the snuff out of a couple of numechs! After getting past an abandonded upper floor, a shiznit of tripwire mines, and a nuclear warhead. * And that about sums up everything! [Date; Janunary 14th, 2087. Time; 1:33pm.] [Start] * You're all still on your way to the Big Room where the manufacturing is taking place, following the directions given by the map. Guy and Godhand are trailing behind, content to let Cliona and Smith take the lead. * Smith heads towards the manufacturing room! * Cliona follows after, guns drawns * You reach a long hallway, lined with office doors. According to the map, the big assembly room is beyond the hallway. Of note, though, are there shining red lasers attached to explosives, on each of the doors. Oh of _course_. Cover me. * Smith digs out her tools and goes to disarm them. * The sounds of machining and welding are strong in the air, as the volume seems to agree with the map. Everything is going on beyond the hallway. * Guy nods, and gets up reasonably close to Smith. "I gotcha back." * Cliona does as told, raising her gun and covering Smith as asked. * Smith effortlessly disarms the first layer. ( Clio, awareness roll! Smith, same, +2 penalty! ) * As Smith is disarming the first bomb, a soft, rhythimic sound is heard, and is pretty hard to tell from the background. In fact, noone notices it but Clio! * Cliona blinks and glances around for the source of the sound... -> -Cliona- You recognize it as the sound of booster engines. * Smith continues disarming bombs, since she hasn't noticed it. -> -Cliona- It's coming from the way you came, as well. * As Smith finishes with the first bomb, two numechs come to a stop in the end of the hallway that you came from. ( Clio, init! Everyone else, fail! ) ( Clio, go! ) * There's two numechs standing there, readying to open fire. They look more deadly than the last batch you faced, and there's some evident armor on them. * Cliona curses and whirls around aiming both her pistols at the head of the nearer Numech *zapzap* * Both of them hit, sizzling away armor and paint. The resulting damage strips away the the armor for one of the eyes, leaving one of them glowing a hellish red. * And before you can blink, the other one fires at Godhand, both it's arm-guns connecting solidly. * Godhand crumples silently, and One-eye shifts it's aim to Cliona ( Do I get an action this round? ) * One-eye fires, the shot going over the shoulder, and making a nice spiffy explosion in the cieling. ( No. =p Standard crappy combat round to knock out the not-here PC for now. =p ) * Re-init! And yes, you all know that there are Evil Nasties with guns. * One-eye is looking worse for wear than the other. It also has in place of a gun-arm, a nasty looking sharp... thing. The other one has two gun-arms, and is staying where it's at, and has a silvery paint coat. * Numech, One-eye/Guy, Smith, Clio * Silver Numech takes a potshot at Clio and Guy with each of it's arms! * Both shows go wild, going above Clio and below Guy. * Guy growls ferally, unslinging his sword, which ignites in a flash just as soon as it clears, and charges One-eye. * One-eye charges as well, drawing back it's nasty looking arm in preparation for a strike. * And Guy's sword hits first, leaving a deep gash in the innards of One-Eye. * One-eye gurgles, and explodes! * Smith! * Smith grabs her gun and the case and sets it up to block shots from the remaining mech. * Cliona takes aim at the head of the intact numech again and again fires off two more rounds. *zapzap* * Numech's head electrifies momentarilly, the shot short-circuiting several things. But it manages to keep standing. * Init again! * Numech, Clio/Smith, Guy. * Numech spazzes out, and fires twice at Clio, twitching angrily. That's definitely sheer hatred and malevolence on what's left of it's face. * Cliona erks and dives to the side, rolling out of the way. As she comes up, she levels her pistols and fires off a couple shots of her own. * Smith brings up Pina-chan and fires a round into the Numech. * The numech makes some sort of strangled electronic cry as Cliona evades the first hit, and again as it misses the second time. * One laser blast, and one shell from the Pinata stick rip the Numech apart from the inside. The fact that one of Clio's guns didn't fire for some reason dosen't seem too important. * Guy growls angrily, and goes to check on Godhand. * Smith glances at Guy, and seeing that he's handling that, goes back to disarming bombs. * Guy has a couple of scratches on him from being right next to One-eye when it blew up, but notihng serious. Damn... she dun't look good. Clio, git over here, help ma' out! * Smith disarms bombs! * The next tripmine is disarmed quite easily. 3 more to go! * 3 down! * And then there were none... The way is untrapped, but Godhand is still quite unconcious. * Cliona hurries over to Godhand as well, crouching down. I've got a couple Nanopatches... * Guy nods. "So do ah. Might not be enough to bring her 'round, 'doh." * Godhand is burned really badly, and she's bleeding in several places. * Cliona chews her lips... "We should try anyway..." Ah'll hold her, you put dem on. I got some in the pouch at my waist, if you dun't have 'nuff. * Guy elevates GH a little bit, so that it's easier to reach some of the spots. * Cliona starts applying the patches... * Smith keeps watch for stuff. * The bleeding stops in places where it's applied, after some moments. Dosen't do a whole lot for the burns, though. There's 2 major spots from where the two blasts hit, and they've now stopped actively bleeding. * While this is going on, nothing much else is happening, thankfully, besides the constant sound of activity beyond. * Godhand hasn't regained conciousness, either. * Cliona grumbles... "Someone's probably gonna have to carry her back to HQ..." * Guy grunts. "Ah was 'xpecting dat." Of course, if we leave to take her back know, they'll have time to set up even _more_ security stuff. Heh. I'm no good at dis compooter stuff. Will you two be ahble to take care of ya'selves? Hopefully. * Guy 's voice drops some, a little deeper, more concerned. "Ah think we should get tha missus here to a hospital or something." Clio, how's she look, good 'nuff ta move 'round? * The bleeding has stopped, and her breathing has settled to a more regular, if somewhat slow, rate. * Cliona looks GH over a bit more.. "She seems ok..." * Guy nods. "Ah'll take her to a hospital, den. Ain't a good 'dea to leave her around here." * Guy gently eases GH to the ground, and shifts the emply sword hilt arournd, securing it on his back. * Guy kneels down, and picks her up again just as gently, in his big arms. "Wish me luck," he says, in an almost non-accented voice. Take care... Ya too, ya hear? Both of ya's. I dun't wanna haveta come back and drag ya two up too. * Smith nods. * Guy takes a couple of steps, then stops. "Oh yeah. 'fore I forgit." * Guy reaches to his waist, and tosses a black pouch at Clio. Da rest of my patches. You guys'll prob'bly need im more'n me. * Cliona nods to Guy. "thanks. Ah'm off. * Guy reshoulders Godhand, and starts making his way back to the elevator. * Smith nods at the pouch. "Can I see that for a minute?" * When you do get to checking inside, there's 4 nanopatches, a long belt of silk, and some adhesive bandages. Hm. I'm still a bit hurt, but I think we should save those in case we really need them. Well. We'd better get going. * Cliona nods, "Right." * Smith heads towards the noise and stuff. * At a right angle to the hallway, is a very long room. It's divided into 3 main sections by shelves and steel walls, but not completely seperated. * Smith looks around inside to see if there's anybody in it. ( Er, I mean "lean in and looks around). * There's assembly lines, and they're defininitely active, welding and assembling and programming mech frames that are definitely designed for combat. * On the far end of the room, there's a control booth, and you can make out a figure in there. Should we try and kill it from here? ( @_@; ) * Cliona glances at Smith, "Is your aim that good?" Yeah. * Smith raises Pina-chan and looks at the figure through the scope. -> -Smith- You see yet another! Numech, wires running from it's chest and head into an unseen location due to the angle. It's got fairly heavy armor apparent, and it's head is glancing back at forth at unseen consoles. Hm. Heavy armor. * Smith replaces Pina-chan's current ammo with armor-peircing. * Smith shoots it in one shoulder. ( any preference on which arm? As it's purely cosmetic. ) ( /me arbitrarily picks "Left". ) * The shell goes clean through the shoulder. Whatever was attached to it falls limp. * Alarms sound! * Smith shoots the other shoulder! * And whatever was attached to the other shoulder -also- goes limp. * Smith rushes over to the control booth. * Clio, Smith, Y.A.N. (Yet another Numech!) * Clio's turn. * Cliona starts moving in, guns still drawn. She glances about for any other incoming hostiles. * There dosen't seem to be any other active forces, besides what's on the assembly lines. * Smith runs for the booth and stuff! * YANumech ducks, out of sight. * The assembly line stops. One of the ones that's completed, activates! * It's a shiny uncoated unarmored combat mech, with two gun-arms, and exposed joints. Seems all it's lacking is the armor and coating. * Reinit! * YANumech 's voice echoes over the speakers, "Eliminate the intruders!" * The newly arisen numech nods. "Hai!" * Smith shoots it in the face, since she won Init. * No sooner does it acknowledge the command, before it's head explodes. @_@ * Smith keeps running to the booth! * Cliona advances on the control booth as well! ( She asked me to NPC her for the remainder of combat. >.> ) ( Ah. ) * Another unarmored numech frame activates! * Reinit! * Smith, NekkedNumech/Clio, YAN. ( Is the door to the control booth open? ) ( Nope. ) * Smith bashes it with Pina-chan's case. * The door opens nicely from the impact. * And Clio shoots the newest canno-err, pistol fodder. * Which promptly falls down in a smoking heap of non-functional machinery. * Reinit! * Clio, Smith, YAN. * The inside of the booth has mostly shelves along the walls, except for the wall with the window that's facing out. There, there's a bunch of consoles, screens, switches, etc. * The numech in there is crouched, bending as far down as it's legs will allow. It's got a dull red coating, both arms are limp. One is a normal arm, and the other is a Big Fucking Gun. Probably a plasma cannon, by the looks of the cabling running from it. There's also two independently moving turrets on either shoulder. ( All of which I believe I took care of when I shot the thing through both shoulders. ) ( Ayup. Good thing too. >.> ) ( ^_^_V ) * There's also various wires running from the head and chest to various consoles. [End]