BadKarmaThe Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7Join Date: 2002-11-12Member: 8260Members
<b>Well, I have decided that this has gotten far to hard to follow so I think I'll just do something stupid and get my throat ripped out by th@ annoying kid</b> *looking around, a little impressed by the amount of men that showed up for Cpt.Terran. Apparantly they havnt noticed him yet* "Damn, I better just sneak out, these guys are getting rowdy" *Walking quietly down a corridor, he hears a strange, throaty noise directly above him. It almost sounds like someone chuckling to themselves. He looks up but theres nothing there... maybe just a faint outline of something. Puzzled, he stares at it....*
That_Annoying_KidSire of TitlesJoin Date: 2003-03-01Member: 14175Members, Constellation
<b>well, xect, badkarma is going to be offed by request, feel free to PM me with the names of anyone you want offed for hijacking the story, oh and it was a rather large fall...</b> *And it stares back* *he watches silently, puzzled at why this human has stopped, the human looks down for a second, hesitantly reaching for his LMG* "CLEANSE THE INTRUDERS!" *silently the invisible spikes on the claws retract, the cloak remains unbroken* *his front legs detach from the ceiling, he is almost on top of the human, he hunches back, chuckles again and let's out an autosomal scream as the leg muscles fire, leaping downards and plethera of thin red lines across the hapless marine* *Chomp* *the human grabs at the remains of this neck gurgling while falling to the ground, as soon as he hits the ground, the skulk is gone, disappeared back into the vents, waiting for the xectutice decsion from the hivemind, to strike again*
* I am walking down the hall, with a large cart full of supplies and armor i foraged from the armory, given our current situation i thought armorments would be nessesary. As i turn the corner i see to my horror, a skulk bite a guys neck then dash into the vents.*
* I stop moving the cart, and madly dash to the room with all the people , pistol still in hand, lmg holstered on my back.*
*hears two thuds outside* "yea, thats an intersting fact. porto-potties left in the docking hanger by the construction crew will not help us. No, we can just hold it or use the normal "bathroom" Euric. jesus, where do u get these-" *Lucid barges in, pale faced* "Sku.... Sku....Sku...." *somebody else says* "Holy crud! Karma's dead!" *person drags in the dead, decapitated body of BadKarma* *to self "Damn, that's what these critters can do. Sick sons of a biotch."* <b>a poor attempt at a recap so no one else suicides by being muted <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
BadKarmaThe Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7Join Date: 2002-11-12Member: 8260Members
<b>I decided that coming back as an alien would be kinda cool but I'll wait for xect to give the O.K. And I'll have to wait for th@ annoying kid to set up a hive I suppose.</b>
MouseThe Lighter Side of PessimismJoin Date: 2002-03-02Member: 263Members, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
*looks at Terran* "Trust me, if I had the option I would be up there with the rest of the officers. Hell, I even knew that they were going to leave. But, in a flash of stupidity I decided to hunt down the skulks that were causing the officers to freak out so much. And yes, I said skulks as in the plural. There are three skulks lying dead down in the engine room. And I could see some infestation starting to grow on the walls, which means they are going to start a hive soon. If they haven't already."
"damned comm...." "well, at least you're not a wuss like the other officers, drop us some stuff, and I guess we gonna check engine out" "comm can u get some jp and ha's going? u knever know what we gonna encounter out there"
"hey comm, i found this nanite fusion tool in the medlab. want me to see if i can adapt it for more mechanical uses? i could then feed the diagrams into the armoury where the nano-mechs can build you some more"
*grabs a GL*
"hey, comm, your the clever one round here. how do they get a large grenade to come out of these tiny barrels?"
<b> 100th post <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--></b> "hey bugs, what u wanna do with that, do it another time man, we got a kharaa infestation, and u are going to do a mechanics class, c'mon" "get your stuff bugs, we gotta check engine out" "WHO'S COMING?"
<b>Whoo, that's quite a lot of posts. And quite a lot of action <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->. got all scared when the thread wasnt at the top of the forums <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
<i>A llot of the assembled people are clearly not happy about the development. Waiting for a mission is one thing, suddenly being the ones under attack, and lacking the officers, is another.</i>
<b>Well, except for the fact that people are pulling 'nade launchers and HA suits out of the air, I guess the story is fine. You have to remember that those things aren't lying on the floor everywhere, there's an athmosphere reason the frontiersmen use the infected ships' own res, tehy can't afford all of their own eqiupment.
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<b>i suppose when carter turned up, someone assumed he had got in the chair and was dropping items at the request of his marines. I suppose the equipment could be damaged beyond repair during the recon of the engine room, leaving us to have to set up a res system cos we have no money left</b>
MouseThe Lighter Side of PessimismJoin Date: 2002-03-02Member: 263Members, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
<b>It does seem that way, although all I've done is followed steinsky and Terran in my wheelchair to the armoury. I haven't gone anywhere near a comm chair. Me thinks we should all just edit out posts and say that we all met up at the armoury</b>
* i notice a group of people then remember the skulk that killed kharma*
" Holy S*** guys, There a skulk runnning around in our ship. How did it get in here? and why isnt anyone hunting it?!"
* i look at the not so startled faces ad realize they knwo about teh skulk*
"well, im goin to go hunt it. Im gonna kill the thing and then im goin to shove my foot up its........umm.....what do they have?"
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<b> its supposed you be creepy j00 f00. now you have ruined the whole atmosphere</b>
"LUCID come back. you dont stand a chance."
"LUCID. GET HERE NOW"
*looks around at the amassed force. they are looking at him, expectantly. waiting. what for? to make a mistake so they can tear him to pieces? are they really that crazed with fear?*
"Listen up. the current situation is looking pretty grim. <b> i know its from op4, but i thought, wth</b> we dont know how many there are. we only know there are three less than there was. we need a small recon unit to check out the engine room. i will be honest. there is little hope of you comeing back, so you will get no goodies. vanilla marines. you hear me? i will be going as squad leader. Carter would, but until we can get some HA, hes useless. I ask for volunteers, three others."
"i heard your little speech, and i suppose ill volunteer."
* i look around forother volunteers*
"Cmon guys, were never gonna win if we dont go and check it out. Best we can do is live or die. Im willing to live, and die trying. SO LETS GO MARINES."
*I move over to a table, and roll up my sleeves exposing the Semper Fi tatoo on ym bicep.*
"Idiot. there is always one who belives the 'hey, theres an hmg at the bottom of that hole if you want it' "
*looks on in amazement as serveral of the younger cadets run and jump over the railings with shouts of 'Its miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine' and 'not if i get there fiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrst'*
"Don't go getting any ideas now J2, i was only joking"
"ok ppl, abviously nobody is coming, so let's move out. I'll go in front, I'm used to getting close and personal with these things, only I'm usually carying a shotgun. Carter, we've got no use for you in that weelchair, and you're the only officer around here, how about you get in that comm-chair, and drop us an res-tower on the way, that way if we don't make it back, at least u gonna get some res to build yourself a base"
"Ok squad here's the deal, I'm gonna go in front, u stay behind me, don't shoot eachother, make sure you've got a clear LOS befor u shoot, When we've got incoming, I'll crouch, so u guys can help me shoot the ****"
*starts to play with the pistol* *loads an armor pierecer into the "desperation barrel" under the primary barrel of 10 shots* *think to self "this is gonna get ugly, and i don't intend to die a slow death, if it should come to that"* *puts pistol back into holster* *radio crackles* "Captain! We've got to the Satalite communications bridge, and its not too damn pretty." McKnight reports back. "Such as..." I ask. "Extensive damage from some little dog things that bit the fack out of the console. Its gonna take a while longer. One of those...those...portal like thingies would be handy." "Roger...keep it secure and don't lost your position. We're gonna need a distress signal for backup on those infantry portal gizmos" *looks back at self, surveying how his men are in the field and in danger, while he is sitting in the secure comm area* "hell, i'm going to satilite communications. i didn't reject promotions so i could stay a captain for no damn reason." <b>Captain is a rank that is high enough so the NCOs respect you and low enough so you can still go into battle and shoot some folks <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> fun! oh, and thank you xect for not exploding when you saw we commandered your post</b> <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
*returns the salute to Lumberjack* "the situation isn't FUBAR yet...thank god." "I am guessing that you could hook on to some other units that are going to make a patrol pretty soon." *gestures over to j2pac, stiensky, and others* "i wish you the best of luck" *salutes, then walks out of the door, away from the comm area* *heading to Satillite Communications Bridge*
BadKarmaThe Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7Join Date: 2002-11-12Member: 8260Members
edited May 2003
<b>Ok ive decided to re-insert myself if that is ok. My name can be whatever.</b> *working busily at the computer console when cpt.terran walks in* "Hello sir, ive been trying to track any kharra lifeforms but I cant get a good fix. When I do though everyone should get a kind of motion tracking through thier HUD's. Oh and Ive taken the liberty to close all the ventilation shafts into this area. Funny thing though, nothing's working in the engine room, it's a blank area on my map. You should tell the recon team to keep on their toes in there."<b>P.S. If no one minds my name will be Taylor</b>
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*looking around, a little impressed by the amount of men that showed up for Cpt.Terran. Apparantly they havnt noticed him yet*
"Damn, I better just sneak out, these guys are getting rowdy"
*Walking quietly down a corridor, he hears a strange, throaty noise directly above him. It almost sounds like someone chuckling to themselves. He looks up but theres nothing there... maybe just a faint outline of something. Puzzled, he stares at it....*
*And it stares back*
*he watches silently, puzzled at why this human has stopped, the human looks down for a second, hesitantly reaching for his LMG*
"CLEANSE THE INTRUDERS!"
*silently the invisible spikes on the claws retract, the cloak remains unbroken*
*his front legs detach from the ceiling, he is almost on top of the human, he hunches back, chuckles again and let's out an autosomal scream as the leg muscles fire, leaping downards and plethera of thin red lines across the hapless marine*
*Chomp*
*the human grabs at the remains of this neck gurgling while falling to the ground, as soon as he hits the ground, the skulk is gone, disappeared back into the vents, waiting for the xectutice decsion from the hivemind, to strike again*
* I stop moving the cart, and madly dash to the room with all the people , pistol still in hand, lmg holstered on my back.*
* i break in to the room panting very very hard.*
"Sku.... Sku....Sku...."
*then i pass out*
"yea, thats an intersting fact. porto-potties left in the docking hanger by the construction crew will not help us. No, we can just hold it or use the normal "bathroom" Euric. jesus, where do u get these-"
*Lucid barges in, pale faced*
"Sku.... Sku....Sku...."
*somebody else says*
"Holy crud! Karma's dead!"
*person drags in the dead, decapitated body of BadKarma*
*to self "Damn, that's what these critters can do. Sick sons of a biotch."*
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th@ annoying kid set us up the hive
aliens win</b> <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
"Trust me, if I had the option I would be up there with the rest of the officers. Hell, I even knew that they were going to leave. But, in a flash of stupidity I decided to hunt down the skulks that were causing the officers to freak out so much. And yes, I said skulks as in the plural. There are three skulks lying dead down in the engine room. And I could see some infestation starting to grow on the walls, which means they are going to start a hive soon. If they haven't already."
"well, at least you're not a wuss like the other officers, drop us some stuff, and I guess we gonna check engine out"
"comm can u get some jp and ha's going? u knever know what we gonna encounter out there"
*grabs a GL*
"hey, comm, your the clever one round here. how do they get a large grenade to come out of these tiny barrels?"
"anybody want this nade launcher?"
"hey bugs, what u wanna do with that, do it another time man, we got a kharaa infestation, and u are going to do a mechanics class, c'mon"
"get your stuff bugs, we gotta check engine out"
"WHO'S COMING?"
<i>A llot of the assembled people are clearly not happy about the development. Waiting for a mission is one thing, suddenly being the ones under attack, and lacking the officers, is another.</i>
<b>Well, except for the fact that people are pulling 'nade launchers and HA suits out of the air, I guess the story is fine. You have to remember that those things aren't lying on the floor everywhere, there's an athmosphere reason the frontiersmen use the infected ships' own res, tehy can't afford all of their own eqiupment.
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"where.......am i?"
* i notice a group of people then remember the skulk that killed kharma*
" Holy S*** guys, There a skulk runnning around in our ship. How did it get in here? and why isnt anyone hunting it?!"
* i look at the not so startled faces ad realize they knwo about teh skulk*
"well, im goin to go hunt it. Im gonna kill the thing and then im goin to shove my foot up its........umm.....what do they have?"
<b>Figured id add a little humor, the storyt is getting a little creepy <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
"LUCID come back. you dont stand a chance."
"LUCID. GET HERE NOW"
*looks around at the amassed force. they are looking at him, expectantly. waiting. what for? to make a mistake so they can tear him to pieces? are they really that crazed with fear?*
"Listen up. the current situation is looking pretty grim. <b> i know its from op4, but i thought, wth</b> we dont know how many there are. we only know there are three less than there was. we need a small recon unit to check out the engine room. i will be honest. there is little hope of you comeing back, so you will get no goodies. vanilla marines. you hear me? i will be going as squad leader. Carter would, but until we can get some HA, hes useless. I ask for volunteers, three others."
*nobody moves*
"well come on then, dont all speak at once"
"i heard your little speech, and i suppose ill volunteer."
* i look around forother volunteers*
"Cmon guys, were never gonna win if we dont go and check it out. Best we can do is live or die. Im willing to live, and die trying. SO LETS GO MARINES."
*I move over to a table, and roll up my sleeves exposing the Semper Fi tatoo on ym bicep.*
"Read it and weep marines."
*looks on in amazement as serveral of the younger cadets run and jump over the railings with shouts of 'Its miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine' and 'not if i get there fiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrst'*
"Don't go getting any ideas now J2, i was only joking"
"No esuna, don't do that, We need u right now"
*checks his ammo*
"ok ppl, abviously nobody is coming, so let's move out. I'll go in front, I'm used to getting close and personal with these things, only I'm usually carying a shotgun. Carter, we've got no use for you in that weelchair, and you're the only officer around here, how about you get in that comm-chair, and drop us an res-tower on the way, that way if we don't make it back, at least u gonna get some res to build yourself a base"
"Ok squad here's the deal, I'm gonna go in front, u stay behind me, don't shoot eachother, make sure you've got a clear LOS befor u shoot, When we've got incoming, I'll crouch, so u guys can help me shoot the ****"
*starts walking towards the door*
*loads an armor pierecer into the "desperation barrel" under the primary barrel of 10 shots*
*think to self "this is gonna get ugly, and i don't intend to die a slow death, if it should come to that"*
*puts pistol back into holster*
*radio crackles*
"Captain! We've got to the Satalite communications bridge, and its not too damn pretty." McKnight reports back.
"Such as..." I ask.
"Extensive damage from some little dog things that bit the fack out of the console. Its gonna take a while longer. One of those...those...portal like thingies would be handy."
"Roger...keep it secure and don't lost your position. We're gonna need a distress signal for backup on those infantry portal gizmos"
*looks back at self, surveying how his men are in the field and in danger, while he is sitting in the secure comm area*
"hell, i'm going to satilite communications. i didn't reject promotions so i could stay a captain for no damn reason."
<b>Captain is a rank that is high enough so the NCOs respect you and low enough so you can still go into battle and shoot some folks <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> fun! oh, and thank you xect for not exploding when you saw we commandered your post</b> <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
*starts running to assembly area*
*salutes Terran*
"Sir! Where to? I'm aching to get it on, sir... unless the situation is fubar."
"the situation isn't FUBAR yet...thank god."
"I am guessing that you could hook on to some other units that are going to make a patrol pretty soon."
*gestures over to j2pac, stiensky, and others*
"i wish you the best of luck"
*salutes, then walks out of the door, away from the comm area*
*heading to Satillite Communications Bridge*
*working busily at the computer console when cpt.terran walks in*
"Hello sir, ive been trying to track any kharra lifeforms but I cant get a good fix. When I do though everyone should get a kind of motion tracking through thier HUD's. Oh and Ive taken the liberty to close all the ventilation shafts into this area. Funny thing though, nothing's working in the engine room, it's a blank area on my map. You should tell the recon team to keep on their toes in there."<b>P.S. If no one minds my name will be Taylor</b>