<span style='font-family:Geneva'><span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:green'> "Seconded." *Cataphract gets a little annoyed at the group's pace through the wires* "Screw this." *He shoulders his LMG and takes his combat knife out of its sheath. He begins slashing at the wires, careful to avoid red- and yellow-banded ones.* "You're all welcome to help out if you care to...and don't worry about electrocution, the suit's gloves are insulated." </span></span></span>
<span style='color:blue'> "Yea, it wouldn't matter anyway. Its better to die this way than get your leg ripped off and beaten to death with it by some evil aliens..." *feels for knife* "...ahh meh knife!" *starts to just rip the wires apart* </span>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:blue'>"ok, thats the worst of them gone. thanks for the help, i think the nanite fusion would have stopped before i had finished"</span></span>
<span style='font-family:Geneva'><span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:green'> "Sounds good to me. Comm, what's our distance to the targeted res node?" </span></span></span>
<b><span style='color:purple'>"Keep movin' people, aliens don't wait around for us to play 20 questions" *Looks at pistol a little, twirling it in his fingers* "Any alien interested in killing me have to take a bullet between it's eyes before it getting me" *Hopes commander can manage to somehow get grenade launcher ammunition* "Hey, civi, you seen any, like, alien buildings? I hear they have some pretty wierd stuff, wonder if we'll see anything up ahead besides bloodstains" *Looks around at the hallway they are in* "Too dark in here for my taste"</span></b>
<span style='color:white'> *looks around, sees junction number on wall*
"F-23-L, ...yeah, to the right, down the hallway a good 20 meters are 3 or so Spires of Pain, the ones that attack, and a Thumping Spire, the one that goes THUMP THUMP THUMP" *looks back, sees dusty console* ".... hmm...."
*walks over to console, tries to turn it on #SZZZZT!#* "dang, could have drawn up the floorplan....."
<b>I've got a classic shotgun, because it was my father's and he was in the TSA from the beginning, now I am a new recruit (in the frontiersmen). So its a family heirloom, plus, its good for close encounters. </b>
<u>"Sir, Pvt. TiberRaptor reporting. Other squads have suffered heavy losses, so I've been sent here to reinforce."</u> <u>*pauses as he checks his HUD*</u> <u>"Waypoint located. Commander, I'm moving out."</u>
<b>heirloom? fair enough</b> <span style='color:blue'><span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>*Gets out kharaa information sheet*
"The 'Spires of Pain' are Offence chambers. They fire balls of gloopy acid at any threat and the 'Thumping Spire' is a Defence Chamber. They make a thumping sound when they heal other kharaa life forms. We'd better not go that route until we have better fire power."</span></span></span>
<span style='color:gray'><b>*chuckles* "Lets get moving guys"</span></b>
<b>Alright penguin. Xect find him a nice way to die <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> maby he'll go rambo or somethin</b>
<i>Around another shelf with data discs you see the node, along with a nasty surprice. On top of the node stands an organic sack, looking like it's trying to suck the node empty as fast as possible. And as if that wasnt enough, a call from the commander breaks the monotone sounds of the boiler still working in this part of the ship: "Auch, we might be in trouble here. I sent another team to take another try at the secondary node. They took the route trough the mainframe room. They reported, quoting: 'the whole mainframe is covered by some slimy substance, almost like a jungle. Cables everywhere, hanging down like freaking wines'. That's as much as they had time to report before we lost contact. I think they have a hive building there."</i>
<b><span style='color:green'> "Well, WHAt are we waiting for, let go splatter some hive guts all over ourselves. YEEEEEHAWWW!!!"
* unholsters Deagle and heads for the res node with the sac on top of it*
"Oh yeah, im gonna splattter me self some alien guts all over the place, oh man, this is gonna be fun fun fun."
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I took the pistol off his head and accepted the commanders rant, Just cause i dont wanna write more. My deagle is from my great grandfather who served in The Great Desertcrisis of 2013. Hence desert eagle. He was pretty high up with his troops who presented him with it upon the "end" of the war. It ended up goin to me when my parent heard i could bring along weapons as they were short on funds in the TSA. And yes, they are ACTUAL deagle bullets for the time being. That why im not trigger happy, dont wanna blow a hole in the side opf the ship and suck all the oxygen out now do i <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->. NOW IM DONE TYPING CRAP!!!!!!!!</b>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:blue'>*runs over to lucid*
"HEY, STOP. dont shoot that thing."
*pushes the deagle so it points towards the floor*
"Remember when we killed that first skulk? yeah, pretty soon we had 2 more on us. That wasnt coincidence. I believe these kharaa use some sort of telepathy, hive sight to put it another way. when one of them is under attck, it sends a maesage to the hive, which, in turn, relays that message to all the other kharaa. The hive mind also knows the location of all kharaa beings, and can stimulate their visual cortex to show the exact location of the life form being attacked."
"you may be wondering what this has to do with a lone resourse collector. The argumant follows that if the mobile kharaa are linked into the hive mind, it would make perfect sense that the chambers are also linked."
*sees blank stares*
*sighs*
"What im saying is, if you even poke that chamber with your knife, every kharaa here will know about it and they wont waste any time getting here. We stayed by that secondary base too long. they have had chance to build up a large force. when they come, if we are not ready, we will die." </span></span></span>
<span style='font-family:Geneva'><span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:green'> "Thank you Mr. Optimism. The only problem with that is that if we DON'T attack this...pulsating <i>thing</i>, we definitely WILL die. The aliens will overrun us completely before we even get an observatory up." </span></span></span>
<span style='color:blue'><span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>"In that case...COMM. What do we do??"</span></span></span>
<span style='color:gray'><b>"Both of you are correct" "I suggest a few of us attack this Alien Res node not pulsating thinggy *looks at cata* and the rest of us cover, hows that?"</span></b>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:blue'>"sounds like a plan viper. maybe you do have a brain after all. hopefully we can take them out before they get to close."</span></span></span>
<span style='font-family:Geneva'><span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:green'> "Agreed. The sooner this is done, the better. Go to it Z.X." </span></span></span>
<span style='color:red'>"I vote for killing this thing, we can use the weilder and the shottie, those 2 should send this thing to whatever hell is reseverd for the khara before those little bugers can react, afterwords we can run, for build a firebase, heck we could make the base first if thats what the comm wants, and then blast this thing."
<span style='color:blue'> "Aww man...I wanted to like slice the thing off its foundations...then we could throw it down a bottomless shaft...where it would splatter and call all the other stupid aliens towards it, which would also jump down after it and splatter and die. That would be pretty cool." *sees the welder* "But...I guess killing it is fun too <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->" *looks around, and picks up a discarded pipe* *starts to beat the res tower with it* "Alien ****! Do you feel it!" </span>
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:blue'>*pulls out welder, sets fission to saftey maximum and rams it into the bulbous sac*</span></span></span>
<span style='font-family:Geneva'><span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:green'> "Now that's what I'm talking about." *Cataphract watches as green goo splatters onto the walls and the node* "Heck, why not?" *He takes out his knife and begins slicing at the two leg-like things coming out of the bulb* </span></span></span>
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"Seconded."
*Cataphract gets a little annoyed at the group's pace through the wires*
"Screw this."
*He shoulders his LMG and takes his combat knife out of its sheath. He begins slashing at the wires, careful to avoid red- and yellow-banded ones.*
"You're all welcome to help out if you care to...and don't worry about electrocution, the suit's gloves are insulated."
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*Hacks away at the wires*
"Yea, it wouldn't matter anyway. Its better to die this way than get your leg ripped off and beaten to death with it by some evil aliens..."
*feels for knife*
"...ahh meh knife!"
*starts to just rip the wires apart*
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"Well that was pleasent, shall we continue?"</span>
"Sounds good to me. Comm, what's our distance to the targeted res node?"
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*Looks at pistol a little, twirling it in his fingers*
"Any alien interested in killing me have to take a bullet between it's eyes before it getting me"
*Hopes commander can manage to somehow get grenade launcher ammunition*
"Hey, civi, you seen any, like, alien buildings? I hear they have some pretty wierd stuff, wonder if we'll see anything up ahead besides bloodstains"
*Looks around at the hallway they are in*
"Too dark in here for my taste"</span></b>
"F-23-L, ...yeah, to the right, down the hallway a good 20 meters are 3 or so Spires of Pain, the ones that attack, and a Thumping Spire, the one that goes THUMP THUMP THUMP"
*looks back, sees dusty console*
".... hmm...."
*walks over to console, tries to turn it on #SZZZZT!#*
"dang, could have drawn up the floorplan....."
*gets back in formation* </span>
<u>"Sir, Pvt. TiberRaptor reporting. Other squads have suffered heavy losses, so I've been sent here to reinforce."</u>
<u>*pauses as he checks his HUD*</u>
<u>"Waypoint located. Commander, I'm moving out."</u>
<span style='color:blue'><span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>*Gets out kharaa information sheet*
"The 'Spires of Pain' are Offence chambers. They fire balls of gloopy acid at any threat and the 'Thumping Spire' is a Defence Chamber. They make a thumping sound when they heal other kharaa life forms. We'd better not go that route until we have better fire power."</span></span></span>
<b>Alright penguin. Xect find him a nice way to die <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> maby he'll go rambo or somethin</b>
* unholsters Deagle and heads for the res node with the sac on top of it*
"Oh yeah, im gonna splattter me self some alien guts all over the place, oh man, this is gonna be fun fun fun."
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I took the pistol off his head and accepted the commanders rant, Just cause i dont wanna write more. My deagle is from my great grandfather who served in The Great Desertcrisis of 2013. Hence desert eagle. He was pretty high up with his troops who presented him with it upon the "end" of the war. It ended up goin to me when my parent heard i could bring along weapons as they were short on funds in the TSA. And yes, they are ACTUAL deagle bullets for the time being. That why im not trigger happy, dont wanna blow a hole in the side opf the ship and suck all the oxygen out now do i <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->. NOW IM DONE TYPING CRAP!!!!!!!!</b>
"HEY, STOP. dont shoot that thing."
*pushes the deagle so it points towards the floor*
"Remember when we killed that first skulk? yeah, pretty soon we had 2 more on us. That wasnt coincidence. I believe these kharaa use some sort of telepathy, hive sight to put it another way. when one of them is under attck, it sends a maesage to the hive, which, in turn, relays that message to all the other kharaa. The hive mind also knows the location of all kharaa beings, and can stimulate their visual cortex to show the exact location of the life form being attacked."
"you may be wondering what this has to do with a lone resourse collector. The argumant follows that if the mobile kharaa are linked into the hive mind, it would make perfect sense that the chambers are also linked."
*sees blank stares*
*sighs*
"What im saying is, if you even poke that chamber with your knife, every kharaa here will know about it and they wont waste any time getting here. We stayed by that secondary base too long. they have had chance to build up a large force. when they come, if we are not ready, we will die." </span></span></span>
"Thank you Mr. Optimism. The only problem with that is that if we DON'T attack this...pulsating <i>thing</i>, we definitely WILL die. The aliens will overrun us completely before we even get an observatory up."
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<u>*Looks around the base and notices a phase gate*
"Thank God."
*He steps onto it, and in a split second, is transported to another base*</u>
<b> And the waypoint should be the res node... I hope... </b>
"Let's hurry up and get the resource node. This place gives me the creeps."
*starts looking around frantically*
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"Agreed. The sooner this is done, the better. Go to it Z.X."
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<span style='color:yellow'>"Ahh ****! This is taking to long!"
*Unholsters Shotty*
*Fires away like a madman at the ResTower*</span>
<b>Do something!</b>
"Aww man...I wanted to like slice the thing off its foundations...then we could throw it down a bottomless shaft...where it would splatter and call all the other stupid aliens towards it, which would also jump down after it and splatter and die. That would be pretty cool."
*sees the welder*
"But...I guess killing it is fun too <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->"
*looks around, and picks up a discarded pipe*
*starts to beat the res tower with it*
"Alien ****! Do you feel it!"
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"Now that's what I'm talking about."
*Cataphract watches as green goo splatters onto the walls and the node*
"Heck, why not?"
*He takes out his knife and begins slicing at the two leg-like things coming out of the bulb*
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