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 Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:50 am
Leon stopped abruptly in front of the pressure chambers, for some reason the emergency doors were shut, but there was no warning light. Immediately, he pulled out his work tools and tried to open the door. At the same time, he re-activated the communication link on the door.
Leon: "Is anyone in there?"
Leon noticed a figure run away to his right, and didn't recognize who it was. Which made sabotage a viable answer. Leon quickly turned to the pressure chamber doors, and began working as fast as he could. After a few tries and burns on his hands, the doors finally opened. Looking inside he saw two figures, he assumed that they were Odyssey members, but the clouds of steam had blurred the vision in the room.
Leon: "Quickly, find out what's wrong! We're under attack!"
He pulled out his communicator to try to get in touch with Crylic.
Crylic: "Great, I'll pay you 4,000 UC (Exchange Rate: 5.21 to the Dollar) for the mission, is that enough?"
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Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 11:29 am
Wind shook his head lightly.
Wind: "Just two thousand UC. Unless of course you think i'll be shot at, then it's three thousand. Though, you get a one thousand discount because I get to fly a stargazer. Haven't seen one in awhile and it's gonna be fun."
Wind simple looked around the room tapping on his head thinking of something.
Wind: "So, deal?"
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Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 5:38 pm
Crylic: "Alright, three thousand, since everything goes out of hand... most of the time."
Suddenly a small explosion rumbled the entire ship making everyone stumble inside the hallways. It sounded like it was coming from outside of the ship. Crylic's handheld communicator starting ringing, it was Leon.
Crylic: "Speak of the devil. You're on job as of now Wind."
Leon: "Crylic! We're under attack! Someone sabotaged the pressure chambers!"
Crylic: "That means someone doesn't want us to go anywhere."
Leon: "Wait, what do you mean?"
Crylic: "Other pirates want the treasure on Teran. So they're attacking us to keep us busy."
Leon: "So what do we do?"
Crylic: "I'm sure Steve has it covered. You get just get the Stargazer ready."
The emergency alarm seemed to have signalled on queue after Crylic turned off his communicator.
Steve: "A-A-T-TTTEENNNTION!! We're being attacked! To your battlestations!"
Crylic: "Wind, I guess you're with me. Lets head over to the loading dock, that's where they'll come from."
Leon was unsure of what to do. Get to the Stargazer or run into the pressure chamber. He decided the pressure chamber was more important, since they'd be able to run off into space if they attack was too strong. He picked up his toolbox and ran into the chambers.
Leon: "What's the problem with the machines?!"
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 7:04 am
Wind nodded.
Wind: "Yep, time for me to get in my interceptor and do the rounds."
He took off down the halls with Crylic.
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 1:08 pm
[Wow, is everyone busy this week or something?]
Crylic made his way to the Marketplace, it was slightly desolate as everyone had taken positions all over the ship. The most concentrated place was the loading dock of course, since it was the largest entry into the ship, well.. other than the landing gondola. However, it would require access to the emergency systems to be able to open it when the ship is still in flight.
Crylic: "Hurry Wind, I can hear the fight already."
Stopping near the main pass in front of the loading bay. Crylic observed the situation from the high vantage point. At the same time, he pulled out a rifle which had been attached to the back on his armour. The bay was split fifty-fifty, the invaders had taken the left side while the Odyssey's crew held strongly on the right. They would need to take out the defenses before they'd be able to head further into the ship. Outside, there were two gigantic ships, although in comparison to the Odyssey, they were quite small. Crylic noticed that they had no flag, which meant...
Crylic: "These guys aren't pirates, they're military."
A small explosion rocks the pass, while Crylic takes aim at the more armoured troops.
Mechanized suits, one of the many military inventions. However, these were small actuated suits that greatly enhanced the mobility and protection of ground-based troops -- they were known as Frames. These frames were developed as a pocket-sized version of their larger assault armours to ensure the safety of their invasion forces, since assault armour was too big to enter buildings or spacecraft (the Odyssey being an exception), and too slow to counter fast targets.
Crylic: "Looks like we need to steal some of that equipment. You ready Wind?"
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 3:12 pm
[Otter has resigned unfortunately, so I'll take control of his other characters. Also, I'm opening up registration again.]
Malkor looked back toward the doorway of the room. A human figure appeared through the steam, although, it was hard to see since everything was a brightly lit red and Meegua was clinging onto his arm which had startled him. The steam pouring into the room was loud, but he could hear a faint voice calling into the room. Then it suddenly dashed into the pressure chamber.
Leon: "Are you alright?!"
Malkor: "We're fine, just startled."
Leon: "We're?"
Meegua was hiding behind Malkor.
Leon: "Oh. Do you know what's wrong with the system?"
Malkor: "It seems like the the machines are leaking."
Leon: "Leaking? No that can't be it, these don't turn on unless the Phase Drive is running."
Malkor: "Then what do you suggest?"
Leon: "That the systems are fine. The system must be purging the particles inside as a precaution to the change in climate. Someone must have tampered with the weather settings in the room."
Malkor: "Got it. I'll head to the control room. Meegua... go hide somewhere."
Meegua: "...O-Okay."
Leon: "Sorry, but I have to be leaving now. Get the room back to normal. I need to head over to the Loading Dock."
Malkor: "But you're a mechanic! You shouldn't be in the frontlines!"
Leon: "Uh... I'm on Crylic's team for now. I need to prep his Stargazer."
Malkor: "That explains why Crylic was here earlier. Okay, uh.. be careful!"
Leon: "Right."
Leon ran out of the pressure chamber, and ran as fast as he could toward the loading dock. While inside the pressure chamber, Malkor took a deep breath and ran further into the room. The pressure chamber was fairly long and the control room was in the far back. Inside the room, it was getting hotter and much more humid as the steam poured in. There must have been a chemical in the pipes as well, since the air tasted sour. Putting a cloth over his mouth, he closed his eyes until he could feel a wall in front of him. Reaching for a door, he pushed it open as fast as he could. The metallic door was extremely hot, and he would have burned his hands if he hadn't had gloves on. Inside the room, it was cooler, but still irritating. The room was dark, but the consoles were still in one piece which illuminated parts of the room. So, somehow someone got into this room without being noticed and had enough time to do his dirty work. Immediately, Malkor jumped on to a chair and began working...
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 4:21 pm
Feara looks around before Ghosting through a wall
Feara: "Steam?-and a lot of it."
Feara started walking farther into the steam unaware of her slowly melting skin
Feara: "Hello?"
X-treme: "what's over there?"
He moves closer to the open doors before noticing the steam.
X-treme: "Feara"
a compartment of his chest cavity opens and what looks like a cross betwe=n a fan and a vacum cleaner comes out
X-treme:"I hope Feara's not here, clone skin can't take that much steam
He tuns the contraption on and starts vacuming up the air calling for Feara as he goes
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:46 pm
Wind scratched his head.
Wind: "I can't pilot one of those things. I pilot ships, read my lips, ships. Not giant mechanized combat killers."
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 10:08 pm
Crylic: "Those are Frames, they're just movement actuators, it's not like you need a field manual to use one of them. Just think of them as armoured suit."
More explosions rocked the hull of the ship.
Crylic: "Now quit whining and come."
Crylic jumped down into the swarm of militant threats. However, they were too distracted by the constant gunfire from the Odyssey's planted turrets. Crylic took cover and waited for Wind to jump down. There were more enemies than expected, the two ships outside of the Odyssey were now parallel alongside the Loading dock, and began to lay suppressing fire at the Odyssey. Immediately, you could hear the Odyssey return with it's own cannons, which was a bad mistake by the military.
Steve: "Ha! You think you can match the power of the almighty Steve?!"
A large energy blast shot toward one of the military ships.
That was the ships main hull cannon, Steve's favourite. The blast was large and accurate cutting a hold right through one of the ships. Steve had been hoping to get both in one shot, but the other had evade beneath the Odyssey. Leon had just made it into the marketplace and saw Crylic jump from the pass and wondered how he would get down as well. A stray cannon shell had landed nearby, startling Leon which almost knocked him onto his rear. Thinking that he had nothing to lose, Leon also jumped from the pass.
Crylic: "Watch where you land! ... Leon?"
Leon: "Sorry, I'm late!"
Crylic: "You haven't readied the Stargazer?"
Leon: "Something came up."
Crylic: "You know, I don't pay for bad service."
Leon: "You're not paying me."
Crylic: "Oh yeah. Duck."
An energy shot passes by Leon's head.
Leon: "Wah!"
Crylic: "Watch it, or you'll die. Uh oh, cannon... run!"
Leon: "Emergency Shield!"
An electromagnetic shield repelled the cannon over the pass, explosing in the distance.
Crylic: "Oh right. Mechanics have that."
Leon: "I usually don't bring it with me..."
Crylic: "Guess we're lucky today."
Leon: "Go kill something already. I'll head to the Stargazer."
Crylic: "I was thinking the same thing. Don't die."
Leon: "I'll try."
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 10:34 pm
Wind shrugged as he dropped down and sighed.
Wind: "Wouldn't you much rather have me flying the stargazer?"
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 10:47 am
Crylic: "Yes, but as you can see. There's about a thousand men between the Stargazer and us three."
Crylic fired a projectile from his wrist disabling an armoured lander.
Crylic: "Now give me a hand here."
Leon had rushed forward ahead of Crylic firing his gun at the same time. Sadly, he didn't even hit a single target; Crylic sighed at the fact and began to chase after Leon. He extended his two blades attached to his armour and began tearing through some of the armoured Frames. The armour on the Frames were fairly durable but thin which tore easily from Crylic's custom made weapons; although, it was reasonable for the thin armour since it was only meant to protect from small arms and increase movement while retaining a similar size of a human.
Crylic: "Ah, just over there. One of their convoys."
An energy blast gets deflected in front of Crylic.
Leon: "Hey, watch out!"
Crylic: "Saved again by the mechanic. Disappointing.. though I probably could have dodged that."
Leon: "I guess this thing is pretty useful after all! I'm going ahead, keep them distracted."
Crylic: "Hey, who's giving orders now?"
Leon: "Just do it!"
Crylic and Leon both ran for different cover after being fired upon. Leon taking the left route which had some protection since all the Odyssey's loaded cargo was usually positioned there for inspection. On the other side, Crylic ran into the open gaining the attention of most of the ground troop. Some were still distracted by the Odyssey's attack on the opposite side of the loading dock, which was separated by a huge gap where the freight ships usually docked. Both sides were at a stalemate which ended up at the situation as it was now. Crylic hoped to stir things up on their side so they couldn't continue shipping over reinforcements. Luckily, Steve and the navigational crew had taken out one of the two ships attacking the Odyssey.
Malkor: "Alright! I'm done!"
Dialling his communicator.
Leon: "Go for Leon."
Malkor: "The pressure chamber is fixed. What should I do now?"
Leon: "Uh... go to the bridge and tell Steve to do a Phase jump to the opposite side of Teran."
Malkor: "That's a good idea. We'll cut off their reinforcements."
Leon: "Uh... yeah. That's it."
Malkor: "You were thinking that we should run weren't you?"
Leon: "Uh... yeah."
Malkor: "There are enemies still aboard. They'll be there when we phase."
Leon: "Right. Whatever, just do it! *Explosion Sounds in the Background*"
Malkor: "Leon? Leon?! Agh, it cut off. I gotta get to the bridge."
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 9:22 pm
Wind hustled along behind them and shook his head.
Wind: "Why am I doing this!?"
He almost fell when the explosion hit and then he jumped behind some crates.
Wind: "I'm a pilot, not a soldier!"
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 9:02 am
[Eh. Looks like no one has any interest in this. I guess I'll solo it out then]
Leon: "Alright! I'm heading to the Stargazer... it'll take me a few minutes so stay alive!"
Crylic: "You don't have to tell me that!"
Leon headed into a hallway attached to the main loading area which lead to merchant bay 6. This was where most of the smaller spacecraft were stored. There weren't that many ships inside the area since it cost a small fortune to rent a small area due to the limited area to give out. On his way there, Leon encountered a couple of military combatants, raising his emergency shield in defense.
Leon: "Crap, who would have thought that they'd be in here!"
Searching around his pockets.
Leon: "Ah! It's the gun Ryn gave me!"
Leon opened his shield and fired the semi-automatic energy weapon at the two men. The one in front dodged the attack, but his unfortunate partner took the hit in the face. He wasn't going to be getting up anytime soon. Leon re-enabled his emergency shield as he noticed the last of the two charging up at him. He stopped right in front of Leon since he knew that his military issued rifle couldn't penetrate through the shield -- his combat blade was drawn from his vest as he intended to scathe Leon.
Leon: "Ack!"
Leon and his attacker fall down over top of each other.
Leon had instinctively pulled out his dagger when the man charged at him. They were now on the ground with the man over top of Leon pressing his blade against Leon's dagger which was slowly inching toward his neck. Leon struggled to fight against the man, but was being overwhelmed by his strength. He forced his knee at the man's chest pushing him off to a standing position, but that left him in a bad situation. Leon closed his eyes and tried to dodge the man's thrust of his blade.
Leon: "No!"
Silence... *thud*
Leon: "Wha- I'm still alive?"
Leon's gun had accidentally discharged when he struggled to dodge, which left a hole straight through the man's chest. Leon stood up and pocketed his gun, examining himself for any damage and ran over the Bay 6.
Leon: "..Whew. I'm tired. Alright, I can't slow down yet, lets get this Stargazer in working order."
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