<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>*scoops up as much ammo as he can* "Hey Comm, we're pretty low on ammo here... how about we secure this area, load up and then ship out?" "So Ven...if you don't mind my asking...is your infection a result of that leg wound, or were you another test?"</span></span>
<span style='color:purple'>*Flaps his arms a bit in the HA* "Hey look I'm flying! Ok, but seriously lets go finish off these aliens, all this talk of infected stuff is giving me the jitters." *Grabs a few more shotgun shells and starts off towards the waypoint, fiddling with things on his PDA as he watches the motion tracking.*</span>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>"hey, com. do they have two hives or three?" *grabs two clips of ammon, starts to move out* "interesting ven. its not like your being subsumed by the hive. just sorta linked up. makes you think that maybe all the aliens we face are indiveduals. not like drone fighters at all. godess, i pray thier not sentient. the waste of life and knowlage if they were..."</b> </span>
<span style='color:orange'>"If he does, you better watch it with that thing, don't forget what happened on the W.T.Hell" <b>"What happened there, can someone tell me, or at least tell me if I'd care."</b> *moves out with the others*</span>
<b><span style='font-family:Arial'><span style='color:0000CC'> *Picks up any remaining ammo packs to top off the ammo supply* "Lets make sure everyone's weapons and armor are in top shape" *Pulls out welder and goes around to each marine and gives their armor and weapon the once over*
"Spark, Shade. Is Ven going to be ok when we go after this last hive? Or do you think he's medicaly unfit to continue? We need to decide this now." </span></span></b>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>*moves out anyway* "You tell me, Grim. Nobody has ever seen the Kharaa actually infect a human before, apart from that failed rogue experiment. Besides, it's not like we could stop him following us if he really wanted to. He was shifting around that powersuit unpowered. Nobody's ever done that before, either." *slings GL over one shoulder* "I don't know what'll happen to him if we take down the last hive. In all previous observations, the Kharaa would slowly die out after the last hive was dead, unless they could put up another before they went or get near a whole lot of those healing chamber things. I can't honestly say I have any idea - but one of three things is likely to happen. One, he'll slowly die like the Kharaa - in which case it's med spam until we can get him back to the guardpost. Two, the bacterium in him will slowly die and his original physiology will take over again. Three, he'll be totally unaffected." *looks around at Ven, concerned* "But that's all pure speculation. I can't honestly say. Unless you've got any more info about your squadmate experiment to give us, Ven." *flips on radio* "Hey Mercura. You wanna know what happened on the WT Hell? We picked up Ed here, came across this new form of Kharaa, got our **** handed to us by em and ran like hell. Of course, nobody higher up in the chain of command believed us, and they sure as hell ain't gonna admit that we were right now that the new Kharaa have been springing up all over the place."</span></span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *looks around absently at the waypoint indicator* "Strange place...not quite what I'd expect to be a simple guardpost. 700 meters..." *starts march off, taking the right flank again* "I'll just try to stay next to Ven, you know, incase something bad happens and he needs protection...or he goes berserk and someone needs to hold him down...<!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->" </span></span>
<span style='color:orange'>"Terran, Ven can move in deactivated HA, there's no way you'd be able to hold him down." <b>"I meant in regards to the NyJack rounds for Wynola, it hasn't got a mission recorder and I've lost my link to Anthony's.</b></span>
<span style='color:white'> " Before i met up with the squad, i had an encounter with a Fade, Since i was solo, i needed more firepower, i slapped a NyJack clip in Wynona and took a serious chunk out of the Fade. Unfortunately, i ricocheted a round off somthing hard, i think it was his claw, mught have been the wall though, anyway, thew impact was enough to distort the round so the Nylon Jacket stayed in place. I shot myself with a 4.6 ounce hunk of Francium. The Nylon jacket prevented the normal reaction, but the radioactive decay remained. I later met up with the squad, Night cut the slug out, and then we blew up the W.T. Hell."
*Ed pets Wynona.*</span>
<b>Quick bit of info: NyJack rounds were banned from use decades ago for being too inhumane, Francium is a highly unstable metal, it reacts very violently with water, causing massive damage, even aa glancing shot is deadly due to radiation poisioning. Wynona's Designation is a Euasian Arms Manufacturing: Fusion Assisted Matter Accelerator- Prototype 9.0, or EAM FAMA-P 9.0 I'll soon be posting the technical scematics in the artwork forum <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
<span style='color:gray'><span style='font-family:Times'> "The infection?: Taking armour off in an infected place, don't do it people not the best idea I've had at all. The wound in my leg was casued by getting too close to a fade earlier on before I met you guys. Thing is my Kharra friend manages to stay alive even without an influence of a hivemind. This alone supports a very unknown theory that while the hive mind controls large amount of mindless drones it can also allow intelligent creatures to 'tap' the hivemind. At least thats why Fades seem to posess a sense of intelligence. At least thats what I believe." </span></span>
<span style='color:purple'><b> "Can we please get going already ! I'm getting hungry !" *His stomach rumbles, echoing in the room.* "Hope that didn't alert them, heh, Ven he seems to be okay in my view, though i'm pretty much lost on what to do, if he needs medical care guess me and Shade could help him somehow."</b></span>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>"hey sparks, we;re moving already" "geesh, ed, your gun sounds nastier and nastier. sounds vaugly familier... it wasnt made by omni-po, was it? no, it couldnt be. ild know if they did that sort of thing with the marrage coming up..." "scentient khraa mixed with non-scentient. wow, that reminds me of the whatumachalum... babblers. like the smart skulk and the dumb skulk. wonder whats gunna happen to the smart skulk <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> "</b> </span>
<span style='color:orange'><b>"Ed, I think it was the wall, part of the network was cut off suddenly, just before I was compressed onto that disc I was in earlier. AND I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A INTER-SERVER CONVERSATION WITH A FRIEND OF MINE!!!"</b> "What sort of program was he?" <b>"A Counter-Strike bot script. It was about a week before I understood a word he was saying."</b> "I'm not surprised. OMG, HAXHAXHAX, LOL, PWNED, N00B, l337, it's like trying to understand Chinese!"</span>
<span style='color:purple'><b> "OMG ? HAXHAXHAX ? LOL ? PWNED ? NOOB ? what are you saying ? Thats a crazy language you got there, hate to meet the country of it." "So they only have one hive left right ?" </b></span>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>*just because its been a day scince i said it, im moving out already* <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--></b> </span>
<b><span style='color:white'>"Yeah, should be one hive, and you'll be there in a moment. Just two more doors. Also, I must say I have no problem imagining Terran holding down Ven alone. Even though Ven can move an unpowered HA, I'd be scared if me managed to fight a powered one.</b></span>
<i>Right now, you're walking down a long access corridor. Every 100 metres, a security door blocks the corridor. You've been trough 3 doors so far, no trouble with aliens</i>
<span style='color:purple'><b> "So we kill this hive then go back home, far away from here ?" *He looks around hoping nothing will attack them.* "So commander could you like scan the hive and see if it's empty ?"</b></span>
<b><span style='font-family:Arial'><span style='color:0000CC'> "I agree with Spark, a scaner sweep would be good. I'd let us know if we could just walk in, or if we need to seige." *Pulls up faceplate* "Last chance for Jelly Beans" *Munches down some jelly beans from pouch* "Any one else want some?"
*Begins softly singing* "Oh, what do you do with a drunken marine? What do you do with a drunken marine? Oh, what do you do with a drunken marine? Feed him to the Onos......"
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *looks at Richer* "Hey, you better not feed <i>me</i> to the onos when I get my thang on after we smoke this hive." *looks around feverishly* "Eh, comm? I came prepared this time and brought the formula to make some m4g1c b33r. Could you get the system to start researching how to turn n4n1t3s 1nt0 b33r 4ft3r w3 w1n. b33r...<!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->" </span></span>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>"oh, i cant remeber the name of that launguage.... i swear i remember one of the ships AIs speaking it.... frell, what did she say?" *racks brain* "oh, yeah, i remember! it was 'roflmao, pwned 4 l337 uber haxor. u suxor, n00b.'"</b> </span>
<span style='color:purple'>"Heh, Sounds like a great language eh?" *Amuses himself trying to spin his shotgun around his finger like a old style revolver, then shoots himself in the face with it by accident, the FF system barely stopping the bullets and turning them into a fine dust* "Ach! Shtupid Shotgun!" *Spits the bullet dust out of his mouth* "Man... bullet dust tastes like chalk."</span>
<span style='color:orange'>"Ladies and gentlemen, the true reason behind the invention of the FF system." *gestures to Khaim* <b>"You know, if it was boggle doing that I'd be tempted to switch the FF system off for a few seconds."</b> "If you hate boggle so much just drop a building on his head." <b>"Gladly."</b> *an obs drops from the ceiling, hitting boggle right on the head* <b>"Next time it'll be a TF."</b></span>
<span style='font-family:Times'><span style='color:gray'> "Ok now that just wasn't called for impressive AI Lady, Boggle is a teammate and if you have a strange disire to go around placing buildings on peoples heads please don't we need Boggle alive and aware of his surroundings. Not passed out on the floor or dead. If you try and pull anything else like that we may have to corrupt your memory, flash your BIOS, alter your programming so you work out Pi exactly or even get you to search the internet for free porn or something" </span></span>
<b>I am a little bored, and we are getting pretty close to the end of the story, so I've decided to do some mock awards, kind of like at the end of a worms round.
Most likely to story jack: Venmooch
Most likely to complain about said story jack: Revenge
'That crazy psycho guy': Spinviper
Strangest Alter-Ego: Darkness & the AI
Yellow Bellied: Blackmage
Most likely to get devoured by an onos: 343 Guilty Spark(Go go darts <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->)
Most likely to kill him/herself: Mr. Headcrab
Strangest Backstory: Deaincaelo
Most posts: Duno, a dollar on 343 or nightshade though...
Caused the biggest arguments over 'Strategery': Richter Grim and Z.X. Bogglesteinsky
Most scientificly inept: Spinviper
The Scientific Genius: 343 Guilty Spark
Most likely to do random stuff that doesn't help: Khaim
He-Man: Venmooch
Water boy: Black Mage
Tron Replica: Mercura
Most likely to steal a line from a movie: Delta|Cpt.Terran
Where did that guy go...?: Cyberoptic
Longest times between posts: Quanaut
Hey now... Where did YOU come from?: Richter Grim
That 'I'll just follow you guys' person: Revenge
Turned a strange shade of green... no realy!: Venmooch
The Big Man On Campus: Xect
Guy most likely to attack you with a knife: P. Khan
Strongest Accent: P. Khan
Person that spawned the most items randomly: P. Khan
The lovers of m4g1c b33r: Delta|Cpt.Terran and Spinviper
Ok thats about all I can think of for now, hope that gets a good laugh <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
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"Hey Comm, we're pretty low on ammo here... how about we secure this area, load up and then ship out?"
"So Ven...if you don't mind my asking...is your infection a result of that leg wound, or were you another test?"</span></span>
"Hey look I'm flying! Ok, but seriously lets go finish off these aliens, all this talk of infected stuff is giving me the jitters."
*Grabs a few more shotgun shells and starts off towards the waypoint, fiddling with things on his PDA as he watches the motion tracking.*</span>
*grabs two clips of ammon, starts to move out*
"interesting ven. its not like your being subsumed by the hive. just sorta linked up. makes you think that maybe all the aliens we face are indiveduals. not like drone fighters at all. godess, i pray thier not sentient. the waste of life and knowlage if they were..."</b> </span>
"Commander, could you release the NyJack Round limiter on Wynona?"</span>
<b>"What happened there, can someone tell me, or at least tell me if I'd care."</b>
*moves out with the others*</span>
*Pulls out welder and goes around to each marine and gives their armor and weapon the once over*
"Spark, Shade. Is Ven going to be ok when we go after this last hive? Or do you think he's medicaly unfit to continue? We need to decide this now." </span></span></b>
"You tell me, Grim. Nobody has ever seen the Kharaa actually infect a human before, apart from that failed rogue experiment. Besides, it's not like we could stop him following us if he really wanted to. He was shifting around that powersuit unpowered. Nobody's ever done that before, either."
*slings GL over one shoulder*
"I don't know what'll happen to him if we take down the last hive. In all previous observations, the Kharaa would slowly die out after the last hive was dead, unless they could put up another before they went or get near a whole lot of those healing chamber things. I can't honestly say I have any idea - but one of three things is likely to happen. One, he'll slowly die like the Kharaa - in which case it's med spam until we can get him back to the guardpost. Two, the bacterium in him will slowly die and his original physiology will take over again. Three, he'll be totally unaffected."
*looks around at Ven, concerned*
"But that's all pure speculation. I can't honestly say. Unless you've got any more info about your squadmate experiment to give us, Ven."
*flips on radio*
"Hey Mercura. You wanna know what happened on the WT Hell? We picked up Ed here, came across this new form of Kharaa, got our **** handed to us by em and ran like hell. Of course, nobody higher up in the chain of command believed us, and they sure as hell ain't gonna admit that we were right now that the new Kharaa have been springing up all over the place."</span></span>
*looks around absently at the waypoint indicator*
"Strange place...not quite what I'd expect to be a simple guardpost. 700 meters..."
*starts march off, taking the right flank again*
"I'll just try to stay next to Ven, you know, incase something bad happens and he needs protection...or he goes berserk and someone needs to hold him down...<!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->"
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<b>"I meant in regards to the NyJack rounds for Wynola, it hasn't got a mission recorder and I've lost my link to Anthony's.</b></span>
*Ed pets Wynona.*</span>
<b>Quick bit of info: NyJack rounds were banned from use decades ago for being too inhumane, Francium is a highly unstable metal, it reacts very violently with water, causing massive damage, even aa glancing shot is deadly due to radiation poisioning. Wynona's Designation is a Euasian Arms Manufacturing: Fusion Assisted Matter Accelerator- Prototype 9.0, or EAM FAMA-P 9.0 I'll soon be posting the technical scematics in the artwork forum <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--></b>
"The infection?: Taking armour off in an infected place, don't do it people not the best idea I've had at all. The wound in my leg was casued by getting too close to a fade earlier on before I met you guys. Thing is my Kharra friend manages to stay alive even without an influence of a hivemind. This alone supports a very unknown theory that while the hive mind controls large amount of mindless drones it can also allow intelligent creatures to 'tap' the hivemind. At least thats why Fades seem to posess a sense of intelligence. At least thats what I believe."
</span></span>
"Can we please get going already ! I'm getting hungry !"
*His stomach rumbles, echoing in the room.*
"Hope that didn't alert them, heh, Ven he seems to be okay in my view, though i'm pretty much lost on what to do, if he needs medical care guess me and Shade could help him somehow."</b></span>
"geesh, ed, your gun sounds nastier and nastier. sounds vaugly familier... it wasnt made by omni-po, was it? no, it couldnt be. ild know if they did that sort of thing with the marrage coming up..."
"scentient khraa mixed with non-scentient. wow, that reminds me of the whatumachalum... babblers. like the smart skulk and the dumb skulk. wonder whats gunna happen to the smart skulk <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> "</b> </span>
"Heh I heard that!"
</span></span>
<b>Obvious Opposing Force Sound</b>
"What sort of program was he?"
<b>"A Counter-Strike bot script. It was about a week before I understood a word he was saying."</b>
"I'm not surprised. OMG, HAXHAXHAX, LOL, PWNED, N00B, l337, it's like trying to understand Chinese!"</span>
"OMG ? HAXHAXHAX ? LOL ? PWNED ? NOOB ? what are you saying ? Thats a crazy language you got there, hate to meet the country of it."
"So they only have one hive left right ?"
</b></span>
<!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--></b> </span>
<i>Right now, you're walking down a long access corridor. Every 100 metres, a security door blocks the corridor. You've been trough 3 doors so far, no trouble with aliens</i>
"So we kill this hive then go back home, far away from here ?"
*He looks around hoping nothing will attack them.*
"So commander could you like scan the hive and see if it's empty ?"</b></span>
*Begins softly singing* "Oh, what do you do with a drunken marine? What do you do with a drunken marine? Oh, what do you do with a drunken marine? Feed him to the Onos......"
</span></span></b>
*looks at Richer*
"Hey, you better not feed <i>me</i> to the onos when I get my thang on after we smoke this hive."
*looks around feverishly*
"Eh, comm? I came prepared this time and brought the formula to make some m4g1c b33r. Could you get the system to start researching how to turn n4n1t3s 1nt0 b33r 4ft3r w3 w1n. b33r...<!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->"
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*racks brain*
"oh, yeah, i remember! it was 'roflmao, pwned 4 l337 uber haxor. u suxor, n00b.'"</b> </span>
*Amuses himself trying to spin his shotgun around his finger like a old style revolver, then shoots himself in the face with it by accident, the FF system barely stopping the bullets and turning them into a fine dust*
"Ach! Shtupid Shotgun!"
*Spits the bullet dust out of his mouth*
"Man... bullet dust tastes like chalk."</span>
*gestures to Khaim*
<b>"You know, if it was boggle doing that I'd be tempted to switch the FF system off for a few seconds."</b>
"If you hate boggle so much just drop a building on his head."
<b>"Gladly."</b>
*an obs drops from the ceiling, hitting boggle right on the head*
<b>"Next time it'll be a TF."</b></span>
"Ok now that just wasn't called for impressive AI Lady, Boggle is a teammate and if you have a strange disire to go around placing buildings on peoples heads please don't we need Boggle alive and aware of his surroundings. Not passed out on the floor or dead. If you try and pull anything else like that we may have to corrupt your memory, flash your BIOS, alter your programming so you work out Pi exactly or even get you to search the internet for free porn or something"
</span></span>
*a few beeps are heard in the speaker, as the high-security systems are activated*</span></b>
<i>scan results appear on your hud. No hostile lifeforms worth noting, only a few skulks.</i>
Most likely to story jack: Venmooch
Most likely to complain about said story jack: Revenge
'That crazy psycho guy': Spinviper
Strangest Alter-Ego: Darkness & the AI
Yellow Bellied: Blackmage
Most likely to get devoured by an onos: 343 Guilty Spark(Go go darts <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->)
Most likely to kill him/herself: Mr. Headcrab
Strangest Backstory: Deaincaelo
Most posts: Duno, a dollar on 343 or nightshade though...
Least posts: Revenge
Most incorrect facts: Venmooch
Worst aim: Khaim
Best aim: Delta|Cpt.Terran
'That crazy militaristic dude': Z.X. Bogglesteinsky
Caused the biggest arguments over 'Strategery': Richter Grim and Z.X. Bogglesteinsky
Most scientificly inept: Spinviper
The Scientific Genius: 343 Guilty Spark
Most likely to do random stuff that doesn't help: Khaim
He-Man: Venmooch
Water boy: Black Mage
Tron Replica: Mercura
Most likely to steal a line from a movie: Delta|Cpt.Terran
Where did that guy go...?: Cyberoptic
Longest times between posts: Quanaut
Hey now... Where did YOU come from?: Richter Grim
That 'I'll just follow you guys' person: Revenge
Turned a strange shade of green... no realy!: Venmooch
The Big Man On Campus: Xect
Guy most likely to attack you with a knife: P. Khan
Strongest Accent: P. Khan
Person that spawned the most items randomly: P. Khan
The lovers of m4g1c b33r: Delta|Cpt.Terran and Spinviper
Ok thats about all I can think of for now, hope that gets a good laugh <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--></b>