<span style='color:gray'><span style='font-family:Times'> "Hive sight? No nothing like that yet...." *Under Breath* "Screw this those guys need my help, I ain't gonna sit and watch them die!" *Concentrates* *Still under breath* "Damn my muscles feel strange, well I can't really know what to expect." *Screams again*
[Trys to stand up in Heavy Armour and charge the nearest fade and punch it] </span></span>
<b><span style='color:purple'> "Ven mind yourself !!!!" *Helps Ven by shooting at the Fade with hi shotgun, hoping to hit it.* "Ric, don't try and convert to me to Christianity."</span></b>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>"ven, stay out of combat!" " we could hook him up to the hud if we had the right equipment, but we dont. and the data-filters needed to interpret the mind are huge. I've seen the remote command hookups on capitol ship drones. not to mentioon the feedback would fry the piolet every once in a while." </b> </span>
<b>I realize that ven having hivesight is obvious to all us here, but it wouldnt be to any given TSA marine. we've seen it, and how it works when we play aliens, but our chars dont have that edge.</b>
<b>It's also documented in the TSA manual, Dea.</b> <span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"That's where it came from, Viper." *scoops up another four grenades, slaps them into his launcher and lobs them at the onos* "Whoa! Ven, take it easy!"</span></span>
<b><span style='font-family:Arial'><span style='color:0000CC'> "I'm a soldier, not a missionary, Spark. I find it abhorrent and repulsive to see someone force their views on someone else, no matter how much they think they are trying to help them." *Reloads* " If you can't convince someone that your philosophy is the right one by how you live and act, then you have no reason to tell them otherwise."
"DIE!! Die you thrice damned aliens! <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> every <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif'><!--endemo--> , <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif'><!--endemo--> , <!--emo&::lerk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif'><!--endemo--> , <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> , and <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> you see." </span></span></b>
<b>sorry, im just saying that we probly wouldnt know too much about whats happening to ven in charicter. all the maual really says is that there is a hive sight, and it is tied to "normal" sight and sound. we would know he's seeing things, maybe even what sort of things in a general way. but we wouldnt know, for instance, that a paraed marine is a yellow dot so far away. or any of the alert messeges he doesnt hear himself, like if we attacked him and the aliens got a messege cause of it.</b>
<span style='color:#666000'>"mercura ... use the stealth systems ... and send them soltare, make sure you stack the cards [bulletspams at anything that moves] *seeks possible cover*</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "Oh yea...that'll smart...quite..." *checks bio readings in my HUD* *its all green* "Euh...nothing more than just bruises. I'll be fine. I think you should be trying to keep Ven stable. He might go into shock if he's linked ot the bacterium with us kicking this much ****. The pain must be horrible for him." *reloads and checks grenades* "2 left...more than enough." *looks at Ven who seems to be in quite the amount of pain* "Poor b*stard...couldn't we get him on a morphine drip or something?" </span></span>
<b><span style='font-family:Arial'><span style='color:0000CC'> "Good job team. Now let's finish that hive" *Reloads and starts pounding the hive* </span></span></b>
<span style='color:orange'>"Finally their dead." *wipes some Kharaa blood off and starts to pound the hive* "That wasn't exactly what I had in mind, Boggle. I was actually wondering if Ven would know how many hives these things have. If we need to, Mercura can go in to the ship's network and put the engines into overload. But that's only if we need to." <b>"ARE YOU NUTS! If I sent the engines into overload, there wouldn't be enough time to get me out of the system!</b> "Forget I suggested it then. Sparks, you still got that sample from the Onos we killed in nano control?"</span>
<span style='color:purple'><b> "Yep still got it, i'm guarding it with my life, so no worries about losing it." *Stares at the Hive then at Ven.* "What should we do ? If we kill the hive will it kill Ven ?" </b></span>
<span style='color:666000'>"if you need those engines blown just get mergura to open a door for me, then get out. i got the rest" "orders, comm? how about some turets?"</span>
<span style='font-family:Times'><span style='color:gray'> *Breathes heavilly in the still unactivated Heavy Armour* "I'll be fine, one last thing too do." *Walks up to have*
[Punches hive trying to tear a hole in the side]
*Grimaces* "I doesn't hurt, its more an impression of pain rather than pain" *Looks at hand covered in Kharra gloop* "So she was right...."
<span style='color:purple'>*Rests against the wall trying to calm himself after the fight* "Heh, nice stuff eh?" *Grins at all the dead aliens and begins to reload as he notices ven punching the hive* "Having fun over there Ven? A little payback or something?" *Bends down to cut off a fade's claw-hand as a souvineer, then straps it to the leg of his HA where it won't get in the way.*</span>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>*studying Ven closely after the battle* "Interesting. Well, in my opinion you're good to hold a gun. Hold still." *walks round behind Ven and [punches in the activation code]* "There. Tell you what, the research boys are gonna wet their pants when we get back. Dea, give him his kit." *remembers leg wound* "Heh. I wonder what that leg of yours looks like now. Hey Ven... 'she'?"</span></span>
<span style='color:orange'>"Mage, I'd take longer to send a person down there, besides, if Mercura's right, there wouldn't be enough time to evac the ship before it turns into a mini-supernova." <b>"Of course I'm right, why wouldn't I be? You're talking to the program who beat the latest version of Encarta Encyclopedia in a game of Trivial Pursuit."</b> "Okay... I find the thought of two programs playing Trivial Pursuit a little strange." *continues to pound hive after watching Ven punch it* "Ven, you realise that you just moved in deactivated Heavy Armour? Those things couldn't be moved by the strongest human alive without it being activated. Those hydraulics are there for a reason."</span>
<span style='font-family:Times'><span style='color:gray'> "Yeah I do know I just managed to move the unactivated Heavy Armour, however I'm not quite a 'man' anymore am I?" *Looks at Night Shade* "Don't worry, someone back a Rogue Platoon, on of my fellow squad members, she, was a test. By the TSA to use bacterium to boost their soldiers. She was infected by the Bacterium and then they monitered her development. Usually all the test subjects would die during transformation she didn't. She then gained a strong link with the hive mind but her physical attributes weren't altered. Thats what the TSA were hoping for. But didn't get. The experiment was classed as a failure. Too expensive in manpower, resorces and the bacterium affected a few things depending on the infected person." </span></span>
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<b><span style='color:purple'> " I think we should really inject you with one of my darts, you never know it might cure you, i'm feeling lucky anyway."</span></b>
<span style='color:blue'>Like someone who is tuned into the voices of the hive mind. He hasnt been able to broadcast on any suffcient power to disrup them, but just listening in will tell us a whole lot about the activities, making sure we are not ambushed, finding out where their defences are being built. just general intelligence.</span>
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"Hive sight? No nothing like that yet...."
*Under Breath*
"Screw this those guys need my help, I ain't gonna sit and watch them die!"
*Concentrates*
*Still under breath*
"Damn my muscles feel strange, well I can't really know what to expect."
*Screams again*
[Trys to stand up in Heavy Armour and charge the nearest fade and punch it]
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"Ven mind yourself !!!!"
*Helps Ven by shooting at the Fade with hi shotgun, hoping to hit it.*
"Ric, don't try and convert to me to Christianity."</span></b>
<span style='color:gray'><b>"Onos... it should be OH NOS!!!"</b></span>
" we could hook him up to the hud if we had the right equipment, but we dont. and the data-filters needed to interpret the mind are huge. I've seen the remote command hookups on capitol ship drones. not to mentioon the feedback would fry the piolet every once in a while."
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<b>I realize that ven having hivesight is obvious to all us here, but it wouldnt be to any given TSA marine. we've seen it, and how it works when we play aliens, but our chars dont have that edge.</b>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"That's where it came from, Viper."
*scoops up another four grenades, slaps them into his launcher and lobs them at the onos*
"Whoa! Ven, take it easy!"</span></span>
"DIE!! Die you thrice damned aliens! <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> every <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif'><!--endemo--> , <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif'><!--endemo--> , <!--emo&::lerk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif'><!--endemo--> , <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> , and <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> you see." </span></span></b>
[bulletspams at anything that moves]
*seeks possible cover*</span>
<i>One by one, the aliens drop dead. The fade hits Terran with two slashes, but no one is seriously wounded</i>
"Hey Terran you okay? Want a booster ?"</b></span>
"Oh yea...that'll smart...quite..."
*checks bio readings in my HUD*
*its all green*
"Euh...nothing more than just bruises. I'll be fine. I think you should be trying to keep Ven stable. He might go into shock if he's linked ot the bacterium with us kicking this much ****. The pain must be horrible for him."
*reloads and checks grenades*
"2 left...more than enough."
*looks at Ven who seems to be in quite the amount of pain*
"Poor b*stard...couldn't we get him on a morphine drip or something?"
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*wipes some Kharaa blood off and starts to pound the hive*
"That wasn't exactly what I had in mind, Boggle. I was actually wondering if Ven would know how many hives these things have. If we need to, Mercura can go in to the ship's network and put the engines into overload. But that's only if we need to."
<b>"ARE YOU NUTS! If I sent the engines into overload, there wouldn't be enough time to get me out of the system!</b>
"Forget I suggested it then. Sparks, you still got that sample from the Onos we killed in nano control?"</span>
"Yep still got it, i'm guarding it with my life, so no worries about losing it."
*Stares at the Hive then at Ven.*
"What should we do ? If we kill the hive will it kill Ven ?"
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"orders, comm? how about some turets?"</span>
*Breathes heavilly in the still unactivated Heavy Armour*
"I'll be fine, one last thing too do."
*Walks up to have*
[Punches hive trying to tear a hole in the side]
*Grimaces*
"I doesn't hurt, its more an impression of pain rather than pain"
*Looks at hand covered in Kharra gloop*
"So she was right...."
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"Heh, nice stuff eh?"
*Grins at all the dead aliens and begins to reload as he notices ven punching the hive*
"Having fun over there Ven? A little payback or something?"
*Bends down to cut off a fade's claw-hand as a souvineer, then straps it to the leg of his HA where it won't get in the way.*</span>
"Interesting. Well, in my opinion you're good to hold a gun. Hold still."
*walks round behind Ven and [punches in the activation code]*
"There. Tell you what, the research boys are gonna wet their pants when we get back. Dea, give him his kit."
*remembers leg wound*
"Heh. I wonder what that leg of yours looks like now. Hey Ven... 'she'?"</span></span>
*gives ven his gun back*
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<b>"Of course I'm right, why wouldn't I be? You're talking to the program who beat the latest version of Encarta Encyclopedia in a game of Trivial Pursuit."</b>
"Okay... I find the thought of two programs playing Trivial Pursuit a little strange."
*continues to pound hive after watching Ven punch it*
"Ven, you realise that you just moved in deactivated Heavy Armour? Those things couldn't be moved by the strongest human alive without it being activated. Those hydraulics are there for a reason."</span>
"Yeah I do know I just managed to move the unactivated Heavy Armour, however I'm not quite a 'man' anymore am I?"
*Looks at Night Shade*
"Don't worry, someone back a Rogue Platoon, on of my fellow squad members, she, was a test. By the TSA to use bacterium to boost their soldiers. She was infected by the Bacterium and then they monitered her development. Usually all the test subjects would die during transformation she didn't. She then gained a strong link with the hive mind but her physical attributes weren't altered. Thats what the TSA were hoping for. But didn't get. The experiment was classed as a failure. Too expensive in manpower, resorces and the bacterium affected a few things depending on the infected person."
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" I think we should really inject you with one of my darts, you never know it might cure you, i'm feeling lucky anyway."</span></b>
"Like bait ?"</span></b>
*sets waypoint, 700m out a large door in the side of the room*</b></span>