<i>Hive is taking damage, appearantly the aliens don't care. Or do they? The ones of you who have sharp ears (and aren't too close to boggle's spraying) hear a distant chuckle.</i>
<span style='color:purple'>"Nah, you go ahead boggle, I'm just guna keep my back to this corner and cover... Not liking this, not liking this at all." *Keeps looking around trying to find anything unusual* "Hey... Wait a second... This is just like a big empty storage room..." *gestures around with his shotgun* "Don't these things normaly... grow... in damp, closed in, warm places? not in a cold, dry, open, storage room? Something funky is definately going on here... Ven, you wouldn't happen to know would you?"</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *looks around* "Hmm...it's quiet." *creeps near the hive* *whips out welder* *starts welding the hive* "Oh! I can draw picutures! See!" *shows of a little welded doodle of an octopus giving the finger eight times in the hive* </span></span>
<span style='color:purple'><b> *Looks round at the chuckling noise but ignores it, thinking it may be the others firing, he holds his shotgun ready and sits down watching the others shoot the hive.*</b></span>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>*empties a grenade clip at the hive, then reloads it* "This is easier to use than I thought. Hey, anyone else hear that chuckle?"</span></span>
<span style='color:orange'>"I'm with you Khaim, something's definetly wrong." *scans room, looking for anything out of place* <b>*races down narowing corridor, pushing my Light Cycle to its limit* "Come on, come on, there's gotta be a data stream out of here somewhere." *notices a swirling, glowing symbol up ahead* "YES!" *drives through data stream with barely a second to spare* "SH!T!!!" *pulls Light Cycle to a screaming halt just before hitting a young program, deactivates Light Cycle* "Where the hell am I?" Young Program:"You're in a Data Block Staging Area, we're all waiting to board a transport. It's right through there." *the young program points to a large archway on one side of the wall* "Where's it going?" Young Program:"It's going to the ships cargo hold computer. Some people are saying that they heard gunfire coming through some of the I/O Nodes." "Gunfire! Thanks kid." *runs and stows away on the transport*</b></span> <b>That whole bit with Mercura isn't known about to anyhuman on the ship as she wasn't near any I/O Nodes during it. The files that Mage said were Merc were some of her less used subroutines. But we don't know that.</b>
<b>EDIT: WOOOHOOOO!!!!! PAGE 100, AND MINE'S THE FIRST ONE ON IT!</b>
<span style='color:gray'><span style='font-family:Times'> "Guys, stop, they're waiting for something. They, they," *Concentrates a little harder* "They have a 'trump card', Oh dear god, its a trap, ITS A TRAP ****!" </span></span>
<b><span style='color:orange'>[In a huge (digital) flash, the data storage area in which Merc is located is flashed, leaving no trace of anything that was there.]</span></b>
<i>As you start readying for battle (those of you that did), a loud scream, followed by raging sound of thunder breaks the silence, and the aliens flood into the room.
You have time to see an onos, followed by a lerk, entering the entrance you used. To the left of that entrance is, or rather, was, a huge door. Trough the hole, two onos, two fades and a lerk rush into the room</i>
<span style='font-family:Courier'><span style='color:green'>"F--k." *brings his GL to bear on the door the two onos and fades just burst through, and [fires and reloads as fast as he can]* *shouts* "Come on, we can take em! HEY COMM, GONNA NEED SOME AMMO AND MEDS DOWN HERE!"</span></span> <b>Dungeon Master ends in 'master' for a reason, Dark, and I think you just found out why. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> Oh, and did I mention ICP's pale in comparison to ICE? Flatlined!</b>
cha. looks like she ran into some black ICE. just in comparison, ICP's can kill programs. ICE can kill people.
<span style='color:yellow'><b>"frell, gls into the corner. everyone, pull back against the walls" *moves into the corner, back against the walls* [fires gl at onos] "we gotta find some cover"</b></span>
<span style='color:purple'>"Well I can't say this suprises me really..." [Grins like a dead man and starts shooting at the fades with his shotgun.] "Hey, you got any more of that 'magical medicine' to kill those onos, spark?" </span>
<span style='color:gray'><b>*turns around* *Reloads both lmg and pistol* [Fires both of them each in one hand, due to the massive amount of aliens(and because of the hydraulics in each arm) its hard to miss, reloads and continues the onslaught of bullets]
"Woohooo! its a shooting range out here!"</b></span>
<b>Two things you can do to tempt fate: One, decide events yourself (like deciding when an exit appears) Two, taking the ease of something not really easy for given when out-of-character.</b>
<span style='color:blue'>[hits the lerk. the HMG seems to hurt it pretty bad.]</span> <b><span style='color:yellow'>[The grenade rolls along the floor, and explodes just when the onos runs by. The onos seems to linger in thought for a split second, then starts to move further into the room still trying to determine the source of the attack.</span></b> <span style='color:purple'>[Hits the fades with a few pellets, nothing they seem to notice]</span> <span style='color:gray'><b>[like some sort of miracle some of the bullets actually hit the aliens, and one of the fades is hit enough that it turns angrily to spin]</b></span>
<b>Spin, why is it your character is still using light weapons? With the info you sent me (good with heavy weaponry and hacking), I'd think he would be the last to pick light weapons, much less go dual with them.</b>
<span style='color:purple'>"Do you B*stards ever just DIE!?" [Gets out of the crouched position in the corner after reloading his shotgun and walks right next to the nearest fade, putting the shotgun to the thing's chest and firing]</span>
<span style='color:purple'><b> "Ed has my darts, tell him to fire them." *He picks up his shotgun and fires at the Fade hoping something might hit for once.*</b></span>
<span style='color:White'> [Ed takes aim, and shoots the nearest Onos with a MagicBrew™ dart.] *Once the dart is clear, Ed grabs one of the pink clips off his belt, the Skull and Crossbone emblem slides deep into Wynona as Ed locks the body down.* "Commander, Unlock NyJack fire mode, Please?"</span>
<b><span style='font-family:Arial'><span style='color:0000CC'> *Patches fireing solution into the huds of the other marines carrying GLs* "Deaincaelo, Nigh Shade, sync with me." *Aims for Onos* "On my mark...... FIRE!" [Attemping to get all 3 GLs to fire at the same Onos to take it down quickly]
"Damn it all, keep together people, and we will get through this." *Yells at aliens* "Die you freaks! Get off our ship!"
Comments
[Unloads clip after clip at the hive]</b></span>
<span style='color:blue'>"you guys attack that hive, i'll keep you covered"</span>
*Keeps looking around trying to find anything unusual*
"Hey... Wait a second... This is just like a big empty storage room..."
*gestures around with his shotgun*
"Don't these things normaly... grow... in damp, closed in, warm places? not in a cold, dry, open, storage room? Something funky is definately going on here... Ven, you wouldn't happen to know would you?"</span>
*looks around*
"Hmm...it's quiet."
*creeps near the hive*
*whips out welder*
*starts welding the hive*
"Oh! I can draw picutures! See!"
*shows of a little welded doodle of an octopus giving the finger eight times in the hive*
</span></span>
*Looks round at the chuckling noise but ignores it, thinking it may be the others firing, he holds his shotgun ready and sits down watching the others shoot the hive.*</b></span>
"This is easier to use than I thought. Hey, anyone else hear that chuckle?"</span></span>
*Ed covers any vents and/or the doorways*</span>
*Starts unloading nades into the hive and reloading as quickly as possiable* </span></span></b>
"Bah, we could blast them if they start attacking us"</b></span>
*scans room, looking for anything out of place*
<b>*races down narowing corridor, pushing my Light Cycle to its limit*
"Come on, come on, there's gotta be a data stream out of here somewhere."
*notices a swirling, glowing symbol up ahead*
"YES!"
*drives through data stream with barely a second to spare*
"SH!T!!!"
*pulls Light Cycle to a screaming halt just before hitting a young program, deactivates Light Cycle*
"Where the hell am I?"
Young Program:"You're in a Data Block Staging Area, we're all waiting to board a transport. It's right through there."
*the young program points to a large archway on one side of the wall*
"Where's it going?"
Young Program:"It's going to the ships cargo hold computer. Some people are saying that they heard gunfire coming through some of the I/O Nodes."
"Gunfire! Thanks kid."
*runs and stows away on the transport*</b></span>
<b>That whole bit with Mercura isn't known about to anyhuman on the ship as she wasn't near any I/O Nodes during it. The files that Mage said were Merc were some of her less used subroutines. But we don't know that.</b>
<b>EDIT: WOOOHOOOO!!!!! PAGE 100, AND MINE'S THE FIRST ONE ON IT!</b>
"Guys, stop, they're waiting for something. They, they,"
*Concentrates a little harder*
"They have a 'trump card', Oh dear god, its a trap, ITS A TRAP ****!"
</span></span>
<i>As you start readying for battle (those of you that did), a loud scream, followed by raging sound of thunder breaks the silence, and the aliens flood into the room.
You have time to see an onos, followed by a lerk, entering the entrance you used. To the left of that entrance is, or rather, was, a huge door. Trough the hole, two onos, two fades and a lerk rush into the room</i>
[shoots at lerk]</span>
*brings his GL to bear on the door the two onos and fades just burst through, and [fires and reloads as fast as he can]*
*shouts* "Come on, we can take em! HEY COMM, GONNA NEED SOME AMMO AND MEDS DOWN HERE!"</span></span>
<b>Dungeon Master ends in 'master' for a reason, Dark, and I think you just found out why. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Oh, and did I mention ICP's pale in comparison to ICE? Flatlined!</b>
<span style='color:yellow'><b>"frell, gls into the corner. everyone, pull back against the walls"
*moves into the corner, back against the walls*
[fires gl at onos]
"we gotta find some cover"</b></span>
[Grins like a dead man and starts shooting at the fades with his shotgun.]
"Hey, you got any more of that 'magical medicine' to kill those onos, spark?"
</span>
*Reloads both lmg and pistol*
[Fires both of them each in one hand, due to the massive amount of aliens(and because of the hydraulics in each arm) its hard to miss, reloads and continues the onslaught of bullets]
"Woohooo! its a shooting range out here!"</b></span>
One, decide events yourself (like deciding when an exit appears)
Two, taking the ease of something not really easy for given when out-of-character.</b>
<span style='color:blue'>[hits the lerk. the HMG seems to hurt it pretty bad.]</span>
<b><span style='color:yellow'>[The grenade rolls along the floor, and explodes just when the onos runs by. The onos seems to linger in thought for a split second, then starts to move further into the room still trying to determine the source of the attack.</span></b>
<span style='color:purple'>[Hits the fades with a few pellets, nothing they seem to notice]</span>
<span style='color:gray'><b>[like some sort of miracle some of the bullets actually hit the aliens, and one of the fades is hit enough that it turns angrily to spin]</b></span>
<b>Spin, why is it your character is still using light weapons? With the info you sent me (good with heavy weaponry and hacking), I'd think he would be the last to pick light weapons, much less go dual with them.</b>
[Gets out of the crouched position in the corner after reloading his shotgun and walks right next to the nearest fade, putting the shotgun to the thing's chest and firing]</span>
"Ed has my darts, tell him to fire them."
*He picks up his shotgun and fires at the Fade hoping something might hit for once.*</b></span>
*Once the dart is clear, Ed grabs one of the pink clips off his belt, the Skull and Crossbone emblem slides deep into Wynona as Ed locks the body down.*
"Commander, Unlock NyJack fire mode, Please?"</span>
<b>No lerk can withstand 2 HMG clips, even if they didnt all hit</b>
[Attemping to get all 3 GLs to fire at the same Onos to take it down quickly]
"Damn it all, keep together people, and we will get through this." *Yells at aliens* "Die you freaks! Get off our ship!"
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"i dont think this is gunna be enough"</b></span>