<b><!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->*starts to open fire on the closest skulk, spread letting some lead hit the one on the left a bit<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> thats the one i was talkin bout, im not that sure with para, xect suposed to be in charge of everything involving the aliens, but who knows</b>
<span style='color:blue'> "Yea, I'm fine viper. Just a little dizzy from pulling that thing out. Musta been barbed or something." *starts to reload* *attempts to fire* *gets an error on the HUD. Weapon overheating. Estimated Time till Use again: 2 minutes* "AHHH! WHAT THE ****!" *feels holster for pistol, finds none* "****!" *remembers back in the beginning, when BadKarma gave me his pistol* *reaches into cargo pants pocket* *pulls out pistol and starts firing* </span>
<b>Terran, if you'd been parasited I guess you'd have felt it <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> </b>
<i>One by one, the skulks are killed. A single skulk got pretty close, but none of them close enough to do any damage.
When the sklulks are dead, the commander's voice is heard over the communications grid: "Everyone allright? Seems they don't want you to be where you are. I've gained complete control of the nano-network back here, so I'll have a few medpacks ready for Terran if he's still alive at the time of return. Might be hard to help you if you die before that though. The unknown being isnt far away, updated your waypoints. ?t's not unknow any longer though, I got access to a camera somewhere on his route, doesnt seem to be a frontiersman, rather a surviving civilian. Didnt think it was possible to survive these things unarmed, but it seems he's still alive. By the way, now that you're there. This place is a lot closer to their hive, we're gonna need a forward base there, so once find the survivor, I'll initiate the construction of the basic structures. There's even a resource outlet in there somewhere, that might prove usefull."</i>
<span style='color:blue'><b>*stands up slowly, puts arms down by sides*
"nice to know the comm got the nano network back online."
"if you weren't parasited terran, it must have been the smell blood of blood in your bandage. Before you put the rest of the mission at risk i will have to seal that wound"
"When im done with terran ill see if i can dry your gun out a bit with my welder Marik"
</b></span><b>im thinkng scent of fear about the blood thing. ill edit if im wrong but i really really want to attack terran with a welder.
<span style='color:blue'> *looks at Boggle* "Alright fine. Have your fun you sadistic maniac..." *pops out empty pistol magazine* *bites down on it as Boggle welds* "I hope you had fun there Boggle. I won't let you do that again <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->" "So, were gonna siege them I guess. Beats running in there guns ablazing." *smiles* "At least I will be able to do something around here. Can't wait to build something...you know why? It calms me!" </span>
Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
<span style='color:purple'> *The fight done, I lower my borrowed pistol and hand it butt-first back to Delta* "Thanks, Delta. Don't know what on earth happened to my LMG." *I walk over to pick it up again, and give a good, long look at the trigger -- nothing's obstructing it.* "Sorry Boggle, it doesn't look like anything a welder can fix up without dismantling it a bit, and this isn't the time or place to do that. I'm not having this thing go out of commission on me again in the middle of a firefight." *Slings LMG back over shoulder, holds standard issue pistol instead.* "Alright, time to find that res node. First one to make a flatulence joke about the gas plume above it has to eat a full bowl of whatever's left over from our breakfast this morning when we get out of this mess." </span>
Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
<span style='color:purple'> " 'That f'in civilian' happens to be our best chance of finding out what the heck happened here. When was the last time you heard of anyone surviving this long alone, much less unarmed? We bring him in, and the R&D boys will go nuts. Twenty creds and a round of drinks says that if he hasn't gone crazy from being here for so long, he'll go insane from the attention he'll be getting back at base." </span>
Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
<span style='color:purple'> <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> "Somehow I get the feeling that's not standard sugar substitute." [/sarcasm] "Did you get a hold of that on this ship, or did you bring it with you? If it's got any smell associated with it, you may be just as bad as Delta's bloody arm over there. I hope you can explain to me otherwise." </span>
BadKarmaThe Advanced Literature monsters burned my house and gave me a 7Join Date: 2002-11-12Member: 8260Members
*He looks around, and not having fired a single shot at the skulks, he dosnt have to reload.* "Heheh, this is uh, gettin kinda hot isnt it? heh, uh you know what, I think i'll join frosty on point, why not."
<span style='color:blue'><b>"Hey comm, do you think you could get a message through to that civvy telling him we are on our way and to stop running. unless..."
*swallows hard and finishes the sentence talking only to himself*
...unless he knows something we don't..."
"OK guys, lets keep moving. the amount of time we stay in one place is directly proportional to the munbers of pieces we will be going home in. personally, i would like to try that number to a mimimun."
<span style='color:blue'> "You right, it wasn't that bad, Boggle. Even though I'd have the comm drop a large, heavy object on me <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->" *goes over to Silent* "You okay? You seem to be disturbed." </span>
Marik_SteeleTo rule in hell...Join Date: 2002-11-20Member: 9466Members
<span style='color:purple'> *Looks at Frosty and absent-mindedly takes the LMG* "Um, thanks. I'm fine with the extra weight, but I figured an extra gun is just the sort of thing you'd want to hold on to"- [to Jack]"Sugar? You said it <i>is</i> sugar? Jeez, have some sympathy, will you? Save that for the civilian, he may not know where his next meal will come from or if he'll <i>be</i> one." *re-assumes position at rear guard* "Once again, ready when all of you are. Comm, if you could just waypoint us to wherever you plan on making that forward staging base..." </span>
<i>From the other side of a thin metal-plate wall, a scared voice is heard:
"Get away from me, GET AWAY from me". You recognise the sound of heavily explosive rounds hitting a target, you've heard it once in a while on the training range when you were allowed to use it. The now wellknown scream of a dying skulk is heard trough the silence. A new sound follows though, a flapping of wings like a large bat.</i>
<span style='color:blue'> "Commander, we've got the waypoint and the target in sight. Inbound hot. CONTACT!" *fires off some rounds at the flying creature* "Get that thing away from the civilian! I'll try to draw it towards me, and then one of you go and grab him!" *starts to hit the taunt button and fires off some pot shots* "Hey! You ****! C'mon!" "You wanna piece of me, boy?" *looks around* *finds a piece of metal on the floor* "I may regret that..." *throws it at the creatures head* </span>
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"Eat This!"
"Terran You okay?"
*helps terran*
*Shoots everywhere*</span>
<b>Did i hit?</b>
"Yea, I'm fine viper. Just a little dizzy from pulling that thing out. Musta been barbed or something."
*starts to reload*
*attempts to fire*
*gets an error on the HUD. Weapon overheating. Estimated Time till Use again: 2 minutes*
"AHHH! WHAT THE ****!"
*feels holster for pistol, finds none*
"****!"
*remembers back in the beginning, when BadKarma gave me his pistol*
*reaches into cargo pants pocket*
*pulls out pistol and starts firing*
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<b>Thanks Frosty. I edited that part out.</b>
<i>One by one, the skulks are killed. A single skulk got pretty close, but none of them close enough to do any damage.
When the sklulks are dead, the commander's voice is heard over the communications grid:
"Everyone allright? Seems they don't want you to be where you are. I've gained complete control of the nano-network back here, so I'll have a few medpacks ready for Terran if he's still alive at the time of return. Might be hard to help you if you die before that though. The unknown being isnt far away, updated your waypoints. ?t's not unknow any longer though, I got access to a camera somewhere on his route, doesnt seem to be a frontiersman, rather a surviving civilian. Didnt think it was possible to survive these things unarmed, but it seems he's still alive. By the way, now that you're there. This place is a lot closer to their hive, we're gonna need a forward base there, so once find the survivor, I'll initiate the construction of the basic structures. There's even a resource outlet in there somewhere, that might prove usefull."</i>
"nice to know the comm got the nano network back online."
"if you weren't parasited terran, it must have been the smell blood of blood in your bandage. Before you put the rest of the mission at risk i will have to seal that wound"
"When im done with terran ill see if i can dry your gun out a bit with my welder Marik"
</b></span><b>im thinkng scent of fear about the blood thing. ill edit if im wrong but i really really want to attack terran with a welder.
pweeeeeeese xect</b>
*looks at Boggle*
"Alright fine. Have your fun you sadistic maniac..."
*pops out empty pistol magazine*
*bites down on it as Boggle welds*
"I hope you had fun there Boggle. I won't let you do that again <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->"
"So, were gonna siege them I guess. Beats running in there guns ablazing."
*smiles*
"At least I will be able to do something around here. Can't wait to build something...you know why? It calms me!"
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*The fight done, I lower my borrowed pistol and hand it butt-first back to Delta*
"Thanks, Delta. Don't know what on earth happened to my LMG."
*I walk over to pick it up again, and give a good, long look at the trigger -- nothing's obstructing it.*
"Sorry Boggle, it doesn't look like anything a welder can fix up without dismantling it a bit, and this isn't the time or place to do that. I'm not having this thing go out of commission on me again in the middle of a firefight."
*Slings LMG back over shoulder, holds standard issue pistol instead.*
"Alright, time to find that res node. First one to make a flatulence joke about the gas plume above it has to eat a full bowl of whatever's left over from our breakfast this morning when we get out of this mess."
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"It was just an f'in civillian? Whatever, let's just get there quick..."
</span>
" 'That f'in civilian' happens to be our best chance of finding out what the heck happened here. When was the last time you heard of anyone surviving this long alone, much less unarmed? We bring him in, and the R&D boys will go nuts. Twenty creds and a round of drinks says that if he hasn't gone crazy from being here for so long, he'll go insane from the attention he'll be getting back at base."
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*looks around*
*pulls out a bag witha white substance in it*
*clears throat
"What about betting on these... eh?"
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<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
"Somehow I get the feeling that's not standard sugar substitute." [/sarcasm]
"Did you get a hold of that on this ship, or did you bring it with you? If it's got any smell associated with it, you may be just as bad as Delta's bloody arm over there. I hope you can explain to me otherwise."
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"Heheh, this is uh, gettin kinda hot isnt it? heh, uh you know what, I think i'll join frosty on point, why not."
*Walks back into the Teams middle*</span>
*swallows hard and finishes the sentence talking only to himself*
...unless he knows something we don't..."
"OK guys, lets keep moving. the amount of time we stay in one place is directly proportional to the munbers of pieces we will be going home in. personally, i would like to try that number to a mimimun."
"If we get home that is."</b></span>
"You right, it wasn't that bad, Boggle. Even though I'd have the comm drop a large, heavy object on me <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->"
*goes over to Silent*
"You okay? You seem to be disturbed."
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*Resheathes belt knife, reloads revolver, pulls lmg from strap on back and hands it to Marik, pulls belt knife back out again.*
"Not like i was planning on using it anyway" </span>
*coughs*
"Eh.. it isn't that bad. Its mostly sugar..."</span>
"i see."</span></b>
"Hey, I figured, what the hell maybe i'd go up front, why the hell not, cant get any worse huh?
"Now i hate to say it but....I told you so"
</span></b>
*Looks at Frosty and absent-mindedly takes the LMG*
"Um, thanks. I'm fine with the extra weight, but I figured an extra gun is just the sort of thing you'd want to hold on to"-
[to Jack]"Sugar? You said it <i>is</i> sugar? Jeez, have some sympathy, will you? Save that for the civilian, he may not know where his next meal will come from or if he'll <i>be</i> one."
*re-assumes position at rear guard*
"Once again, ready when all of you are. Comm, if you could just waypoint us to wherever you plan on making that forward staging base..."
</span>
"Get away from me, GET AWAY from me". You recognise the sound of heavily explosive rounds hitting a target, you've heard it once in a while on the training range when you were allowed to use it. The now wellknown scream of a dying skulk is heard trough the silence. A new sound follows though, a flapping of wings like a large bat.</i>
*Kicks down a metal plate*</span>
"Commander, we've got the waypoint and the target in sight. Inbound hot. CONTACT!"
*fires off some rounds at the flying creature*
"Get that thing away from the civilian! I'll try to draw it towards me, and then one of you go and grab him!"
*starts to hit the taunt button and fires off some pot shots*
"Hey! You ****! C'mon!"
"You wanna piece of me, boy?"
*looks around*
*finds a piece of metal on the floor*
"I may regret that..."
*throws it at the creatures head*
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