* Last time, on Extraction Xenophobe Armageddon!
<Smith> ( I kicked ass! )
* There were bombs! Smith disabled them all, but they were ambushed while so!
* Godhand got mauled, Guy, like a true gentleman, carried her on out to safety.
<Smith> ( Then I got to kick ass! )
* Then Pina-chan kicked ass, crippling the Important Looking Numech in the
 control booth!
* Our two heros made a mad dash, guns blazing, as armies of half-finished
 numechs tried to stop them. (Well, only 2.)
<Smith> ( I thought it was more like 3. )
* And that's a complete recap thus far!
<Smith> ( And then I bashed down the door. )
* Oh yeah. The Important Looking Numech is hunched down and trying to hide
 to no avail when Smith and Cliona arrive.
[Start]
* Smith points Pina-chan at it. "You. What do you do here?"
* YAN is a dull red. Both it's arms are inactive, and one arm is a Big Fucking
 Gun. The other is a normal arm, and both shoulders have small turrets on them,
 which are also not functioning. There's various wires running from it's head
 and chest to the various consoles.
* Cliona eyes YAN
* YAN stands up slowly, it's shoulder's occasionally emitting showers of sparks.
<YAN> You.... who are you? Who sent you?
<Smith> I hardly think you're in a position to ask questions.
* Smith fishes out her knife and hands it to Cliona. "Go cut him loose from
 those wires, please."
* YAN 's blinks, and the wires retract into it's body.
* Cliona nods and takes the knife, heading over to cut him free.
<Smith> Or that works, I suppose.
<YAN> Why don't you just destroy me now? I'm not going to tell you anything.
* Smith raises an eyebrow at Cliona. "Think this is good enough?"
* YAN crouches again, using it's ruined gun-arm as a crutch.
* Cliona shaked her head.. "We really should try and find out more than just that.
* Smith nods. "Hm."
* Smith idly pulls out Pina-chan's clip and replaces it with a full one while
 she thinks.
<Cliona> Maybe we should cross a few wires..
<Cliona> See if we can cause a painful short. n.n
* YAN crouches a little more, like it's preparing to pounce, glancing back and
 forth between the two like a trapped animal.
* Smith reaches over with her free hand and tries to pick up YAN.
* YAN is several times heavier than a motorcycle. And bigger than Smith, to boot.
<Smith> Damn. Wish I'd picked up that monowire switchblade I was looking at
 the other day now.
* YAN shifts positions, warily. "Cut the small talk, -human-."
<Smith> Then I could lop off the arms and legs to make it lighter. And I don't
 think we'll be able to get it to walk along with us while we go looking
 for other things.
* Smith aims at one of its hip joints.
* YAN is especially paying attention to Smith.
* Cliona takes aim at the back of the numech's head.
<Smith> Now hold still, okay?
* Smith shoots it in the hip.
* YAN winces.
* Smith then shoots it in the other hip.
* YAN falls to it's knees, staying upright using its gun arm as a crutch, and
 its other hand is gripping a console.
<Smith> ( ... I thought the arms were useless. )
<Smith> ( After I shot it rhoguh the shoulders. )
( Oh, right. )
* YAN dosen't grip the console, then. Just uses the one arm as a crutch.
* Smith nudges it over onto its back with Pina-chan's case.
<Smith> Okay, now that it's immobilized, let's try cracking it open and
 extracting the brain.
* YAN squirms frantically. Then it stops squirming.
<YAN> No choice left....
<Smith> Now now. No suicide bombs or anything. If your brains intact, you've
 got a chance of it being put back into something later.
* YAN 's eyes flash red twice.
<YAN> Too late!
<YAN> I can't allow anyone to know our plans!
* Smith grabs Pina-chan and pulls the case in front of her.
<Smith> When we get out of here, I'm getting one of those monowire switchblades.
* There's a small explosion from its head, and sounds of several smaller
 internal ones.
* And then nothing.
<Smith> ... Well, shit.
<Smith> _any_ of them important enough to have any useful info will almost
 certainly be equipped with that shit.
<Smith> Think we should call back to HQ and try for advice?
* The various consoles are unharmed.
*** YAN is now known as HunkaHunkaHotMetal
<Cliona> I think it might be a good idea.
<Cliona> If we don't have any information to bring back, then what's it matter
 that HQ had us bust this place up?
<Smith> If you've got any computer skills, you might try the consoles there. 
* Smith fishes out her cellphone and calls Cait again.
* You're pretty far underground. Your cellphone can't seem to get a signal.
<Smith> ... Of course.
* Smith snaps it shut and puts it away. "No signal."
* Cliona wanders over to the consoles and pokes a few buttons, trying to bring
 up the communications stuffs.
* Smith pokes through what used to be the important-looking numech.
* HunkaHunkaHotMetal is leaking oils and stuff. The head area is completely
 destroyed, and the cabling to the Big Fucking Gun is hissing and steaming.
* Clio: There's an building-wide internal comm system that you can access,
 but no long range equipment.
* Clio: The phone line seems to be disconnected, as well.
* Cliona curses slightly..
<Cliona> No luck. The phones out are down
<Smith> How about any useful info? Can you get at that?
* Smith looks out of the booth for any entrances other than the one they
 came in through.
* Cliona starts typing away, trying to access any nformation that seems of importance.
* There's just the one entrance. You can see the entire facility from the room, though.
* Smith keeps Pina-chan trained on the entrance.
( Clio, computer roll, Database spec. applies. )
<Ropponmatsu> Cliona: [2d6-2->4]
* Clio: You manage to find out what the Numech was doing while it was
 physically hooked up to it. There's numech schematics, delivery locations,
 and various other information.
* Smith looks over Clio's shoulder. "Can you transfer that to something portable?"
<Smith> ... actually, dump everything you can to portable media.
<Smith> Never know what the intelligence analysis guys could make of
 something that seems meaningless to us.
* Cliona shrugs and dumps as much of the relevant data as she can and some
 irrelevant stuff onto the CD.
<Smith> ( And when Smith says "everything", she means it. )
* Cliona figures that and dumps what she can onto CD. :P
* Several CD's, freshly encoded, emerge from handy slots to spit them out.
* Smith grabs them and sticks them somewhere safe inside Pina-chan's case.
<Smith> That everything you can get out of this?
<Cliona> Yup
* Smith nods and gets some Ackbar Compound and detonators and sticks it to
 the consoles.
* Cliona draws her guns and glances around. "Let's get out of here before
 reinforcements show up
<Smith> Hang on a minute.
* Smith does the same to the numech-building stuff.
<Smith> Okay, let's go.
<Ropponmatsu> Smith: [2d6-5->5]
<Smith> ( And I'm trying to blow up the equipment without comprimising
 structural integrity of the building. )
* Smith: You're fairly sure they'll blow up the way you want them to.
<Smith> Let's get going.
* Smith looks out down the hall, both ways.
* There's no sound, no nothing. Except for the bits and pieces of the
 previous numechs you fought.
* Smith follows Pina-chan down the hall in the direction we didn't come from.
* Cliona keeps her guns drawn and keeps her ears open for unsual noise..
* There's still nothing. Hallways and doors to various rooms are all you see,
 and they all have a thin layer of dust and cobwebs.
* Smith , after judging use safely away, pulls out the control and sets off
 the explosives.
* There's a loud BOOM! It echoes about and about and about, the multiple
 echoes and reverbarations making it seem louder that it should have.
* Smith fishes out the maps of the place and looks to see where to go next.
( The underground level is pretty straightforward. It's a big rectangle, and
 a lengthwise strip of it is rooms and offices. )
* Smith gets a different-color pen and marks where we've been so far.
* Cliona keeps watch...
* Smith then starts methodically searching everything else.
* The echo of the explosion finally dies away. And there's no sound of anything
 but you two. The automated AC seems to have quit following the explosion.
* Smith keeps marking up the map and searching until she runs out of map.
* You search, and find... nothing but empty rooms that look like noone's been
 there for ages. That, and the remains of the previous numechs.
<Smith> ... The _hell_? That was _IT_?
<Smith> Well, guess it's time to leave now, then.
<Smith> I'm not blowing the place up with that nuke in here, though.
( what were you expecting? A heavily manned -sekrit- facility? )
<Smith> ( ... How big was that numech-making room? )
( Pretty big. 'bout half a mile long, 40' wide. )
<Smith> ( Oh, okay. I was seeing it as smaller for some reason. )
* Cliona nods. "Allright then...;
* Smith heads to the elevator.
* Oh, look. The elevator isn't at your level. And the button to call it has
 been destroyed, thick lined burns all around and on it.
<Smith> ... I _thought_ there seemed to be an awfully small number of guards.
<Smith> You cany good with electronics?
* Cliona shakes her head.. "Not really.. I can try though..."
<Smith> Go ahead, I'll keep watch.
* Smith aims Pina-chan down the hall away from the elevator, since we should
 be able to hear it coming.
* Cliona fiddles with the wiring after prying the panel off...
<Ropponmatsu> Cliona: [2d6->4]
* Clio: You think you managed to get it working. A spark jumping from it, and
 the sounds of an elevator rumbling far above seem to confirm to.
* Smith turns to cover the elevator in case anything's riding it down.
* Cliona draws her guns and aims right at the elevator.. just in case..
* After an agonizingly long wait, the elevator doors open. And hey, there's
 nothing there.
* Except the empty elevator.
<Smith> ( I forget. This elevator have a roof? )
( wirecage elevator. wirecage roof. )
* Smith leans in and looks up.
( Like those construction elevators for building skyscrapers and stuff. )
* It's dark. The chain wobbles slightly from the slack of the elevator being
 at the bottom.
* Cliona steps into the elevator
* The thick blast doors are closed, too.
* Smith goes in and tells it to go up.
* Smith switches to non-AP ammo while the elevator goes up.
* The elevator creaks up! Soon enough, it gets pitch black. With your contacts,
 you can make out emergency light fixtures that aren't working.
* Smith aims up at the doors.
* Its a long ride, taking about 15 minutes to make it up. But up it goes, and
 the blast doors slide open as you near them.
* Cliona readies her guns as they near the top.
* The nuke and the tripmines are the way you left them. And your cellphone
 beeps. It has a signal now!
* Smith heads to the building's exit.
* And you exit. Hey, there's the unconcious body of Godhand lying by the
 exit. And no trace of Guy.
* Smith looks around.
<Smith> ( ... What'd the wall where Guy screwed up and hit it look like? )
( ... a bigger version of what the elevator call button looked like. )
<Smith> ...
<Smith> Aw fuck.
* Smith gets her cellphone and flips it open.
* Cliona curses and hurries over to Godhand
* Smith calls Cait.
* Godhand is breathing. Slower than you'd think is healthy, and not concious.
 There's also a moist towel on her head, which is a bit dirty from all the fog
 in the air.
*** Cait is now known as Cait_phone
<Cait_phone> Hey! How's it going?
<Smith> Good news bad news time.
<Smith> Good news: We got a bunch of data out of their computer.
<Smith> Bad news: The thing that seemed to be in charge self-destructed when
 it figured out that we wanted to probe its brain for info.
<Smith> Good news: We got out fine and destroyed their equipment.
<Cait_phone> Good news bad news good news bad news? This can't be good.
<Smith> Bad news: Guy left to take the wounded GodHand to get help. When we
 get out, we find he's used his funky sword to screw up the call button for the
 elevator and dropped her on the ground right outside the building.
<Smith> Oh, and he left the elevator up.
<Cait_phone> Oh dear. Is Guy there?
<Smith> Nope.
<Cait_phone> And... what about the nuclear warhead?
<Smith> It's still there.
<Smith> ... Although I'm not sure if it's counting down or anything.
<Smith> ... Er.
* Smith looks around for some kind of vehicle.
* No luck. The unmanned maglev station is still there, though.
<Smith> ( Oh. I thought it was a ways away. )
<Smith> Call you back.
<Cait_phone> Come back in one piece....
* Smith puts the cellphone away, grabs GodHand, and heads for the maglev station.
* Cliona helps Smith lift Godhand
* Smith has super-strength and does not need help.
* An empty maglev car comes to a sudden stop at the station, detecting people. Whee!
* Smith heads in.
* The maglev goes in a generic computers female voice, "Destination please?"
* Smith tells it the stop that the mansion is near.
* The maglev beeps, and waits for Cliona.
* Cliona does the same. o.o
<Maglev> My internal scanners have detected a person in critical condition.
 Would you like to go to the nearest hospital and notify them of our arrival?
* Smith looks at Clio.
* Cliona nods.
<Cliona> Do so, please.
<Smith> ( I assume that Isis has laws about reporting people with gunshot
 wounds and such to the authorities? )
( Ayup. )
<Smith> ( And what we're doing isn't precisely "legal", yes? )
( Correct. )
<Maglev> *beep* Commencing to the St. John's Hospital, level 173, Ferr.
<Cliona> (Clio's not exactly the most informed person in the world, even if
 she is a bounty hunter. n.n;)
<Smith> ( Yeah. Smith is going to put her down near the hospital and then
 leave, carrying Clio if nessacary. )
<Smith> ( How distinctive-looking is Clio, anyway? )
( There's a pic on the site. )
* The inertial dampener field engages, and Sssshooooommm! Off you go, at 500 mph.
* As a result, you make it there in just under 20 seconds.
<Smith> ( How close is the station to the hospital? )
* The doors slide open. "Medical personnel are en route to the station now.
 Please remain with the injured person for questioning."
( 'bout 3 blocks. )
* Smith nods.
* Smith heads out, sticks GodHand on the floor.
<Smith> ( Okay. Does Smith know if the maglev train will take them anyway? )
( It will. There's other people waiting at the station. )
* Smith steps back into the train.
* The maglev asks each of the newcomers their destination, and off it goes! A
 few minutes later, you're at the nearest exit to the mansion.
* Smith gets off.
* Smith heads to the mansion.
* Cliona follows.
* Biggs is standing guard. If you call sitting on his ass and adjusting his
 weapon with various tools and generally not paying attention standing guard.
* Smith eyes Biggs, then heads on in.
* Biggs dosen't even look up as Smith goes by.
* Cliona thwacks Biggs in the back of the head.
* There's a loud crackle from his rifle as his delicate work gets messed up.
<Biggs> Hey! What was that for?
<Cliona> Pay attention. >.> Fix that thing later. Here.
( Clio, awareness roll! )
* Smith just heads on in.
<Ropponmatsu> Cliona: [2d6-2->8]
* Clio: You spot Wedge over by one of the pillars. He waves, and grins.
 Damn he's sneaky.
* Cliona offers her pistol to Biggs. "You gonna need this, or is your gun
 still gonna work?"
* Biggs looks at it, poking at it with his tools. "... I shorted the power supply."
<Biggs> But it's okay. I got spares. Don't worry yourself over it, pretty lady.
* Biggs pulls out a laser pistol from his belt. Looks pretty heavily modified.
 "Guess I gotta pay more attention on the job."
* Cait is standing right in front of Smith. He dosen't look as peppy as he
 did before.
* Clíona holsters her gun and nods to Biggs. "Take it easy." She heads inside.
<Cait> Go ahead and relax and prepare. Full debreifing in an hour.
* Smith nods and goes to get out of her armor.
<Cait> You too, Cliona.
* Cliona nods and heads back to her room to take a shower.
[End]