<span style='color:red'>"Well if you guys are good, we'll be leaving." *Turns and walks of after Dee.* "Daz, this isn't over..." *Slings my rocket launcher over my shoulder and walks towards the armoury.* /Voice comm"Bill stay put. We might aswell meet you there." </span>
<span style='color:purple'>{Over Voicecomm} <["Back to the first order of buisness then... You guys deal with 344, we'll take care of the Kharaa, then meet up at the draug labs? Assuming we're all still alive that is."]> *Grabs his shotgun off the ground and a welder* "Terran, if you don't deweld this thing soon I might have to do it myself man, we're definately gunna need this." *Walks to the armory and grabs a few more shells for his shotgun* {Over Voicecomm} <["I should be able to access the command network remotely with some luck if we have a CC, or someone can stay back and command, either way, lets get moving quickly, I don't want to be here when more mechs arive... On that note, let's move the basecamp closer to the Kharaa, at least those things we can kill, and they'll attack the mechs too, and the Draug."]></span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *stares dumbfounded as the debris rains down of what was the mech* <"Well...we've actually held out quite nicely over here. Pretty good for mere men, no <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->?"> *looks at Khaim, and then the mech* "Alright, but if this thing starts shooting at me, and it doesn't kill me, I will beat you to death with your own PDA." *unloads all my engineering gear* *looks around and gathers all of the remenants of the other destroyed mech that are still working* [starts to repair the mech, using scrap parts and the welder as necessary] "Wow...this welder did quite the number. Why don't we just build a huge welder and weld any mech we see on sight? That'd be something <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->." </span></span> <b>Why are they posting in this thread? Aren't they supposed to post in the other one and then we read it (and vice versa), or did something change?</b>
<span style='color:green'>"Nice shot, Epoch." *I carefully put Darkness back down and make a quick check from outside his armour* "He's hurt pretty bad. *I strip off Darkness's armour and [start examining and treating his injuries, ignoring my own for the time being]* "We're definitely gonna need bigger guns. One of you lot wanna take that rocket launcher 344 dropped for us?"</span>
xect asked us to post in this thread for this combat only because our thread was a little messed up. xect though we were one place an 343 a completely different place. its fixed now.
<span style='color:purple'>*eyes terran suspiciously* "Fine then..." [Logs back into the mech to check and make sure the Friendly Identification shows us and the Spark-RPG people as friendlies, and all other lifeform types as enemies] "There ya go, and hey, if we need to, this baby could make a nice suicide drone."</span>
<span style='color:orange'><i>*hears familiar voices, but they sound very far away. Voice 1:He's hurt pretty bad. We're definitely gonna need bigger guns. One of you lot wanna take that rocket launcher 344 dropped for us? Voice 2:Fine then... There ya go, and hey, if we need to, this baby could make a nice suicide drone. A third voice starts speaking, a soft, female voice, one I haven't heard in years Voice 3:Anthony, don't give up. Try and stay alive. I can wait for you here for a lot longer. You need to help the rest of the human race, you have to survive! Anthony, I love you, don't give up.*</i> <b>"Why did I come out of sleep mode this morning, why?" *realises something, I holster my weapons and hold my hands up in a sign of surrender* "I give up, take me in."</span> She's gonna try and get closer to the command program and then overide him, letting her control the mech. It's a long shot, but you never know.</b>
<span style='color:green'>"It's over for now epoch, Maybe at my place we can then kill each other. If this fu*king missions ends" /voice comm "Yo bill Get me a grenade launcher over" <[You guys need any supplies? Or want me to help? Because i will help you guys]></span>
<span style='color:red'>[You try to repair, but you never really get that far, because the room starts shaking. The alarm lambs are blinking, and you begin to feel the wind blowing towards a small, but growing, crack that was just blown in the security wall. At this point, you realize that the door ought to have broken long ago, and that it must have been designed much better than anything you have heard off untill now. But still, it doesn't seem like it will hold out for much longer.]</span>
<span style='color:purple'>[You never get that far, unless you want to stand and keep trying?]</span>
<span style='color:green'>[No breathing, no pulse, no nerve activity. It's over]</span>
<i>Merc - They seem to accept, and start moving you to an isolated data block to avoid your interfering with internal data structures</i>
<span style='color:purple'>*looks at the security wall* "Uhm... Terran... Spin... Screw the mech... RUN!" *Runs for the exit of the hangar, waiting only long enough for Terran and Spin to get out before closing it off*</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "YOU BLOODY ******! WE TOLD YOU WE HAD THE SITUATION UNDER CONTROL!" *quickly grabs all of my personnal tools and then runs out of the hanger* *opens up a team chat message* <i><[Private Terran (TEAM): I would just like to let everyone know that the Docking Bay is closing in on us! I highly suggest getting far away from it until the emergancy breach doors close in!"]></i> *runs cradling all my tools* "Gah!! Run!! Run away!! Run far away!!" </span></span>
<i>Both of you get outside, slamming the pressure door behind you. Around 8 seconds later, you hear a loud, but brief, crashing noise as the security door is launched into space.</i>
<span style='color:purple'>*Looks over at terran then keeps running* "Come on! Lets get to the rest of the squad, I'm not sitting here in case that b*stard keeps firing!"</span>
<span style='color:green'>"God damn. He didn't make it." *walks up to the still-standing mech, and raps it a couple times* "Hey Merc, you still in there? Darkness didn't make it. You damn well had better." *Realising I'm still bleeding out of my shoulder, I strip off my HA and start [patching myself up.]*</span>
<span style='color:gray'>*a gray form, just beyond the edge of perception , hovers along with the group* "why didn't I bring a magazine along..."</span>
<!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> I want in...
<b>Sorry Gwahir, but it's kind of hard to find a way of fitting you in right now <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->. Tell people to post more so we can move on <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
<span style='color:purple'>*looks over at terran as he runs to the others at the communications area* "Well, I hope none of the cadets have to use that IP... How much would that suck, phasing into the middle of space...?" {Over Voicecomm} "Allright guys, we should get moving soon, our base is gone, no reason at all what-so-ever to stay here, lets head over to the elevator and decide what floor to go to from there, check your maps if you forgot where it is."</span>
<b>By the way, a good example of what happens when people who write forum software mess up compatibility with certain browsers (and no, I'm not an admin):</b>
<b>w00t, another firebird user. Thumbs up <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
<i>Ceanjia: "Well, if I was to try and eliminate the aliens, I would take the elevator upwards. It seems to me the smartest move considering the fact that the aliens are on the floors above you. And I suggest you move fast.
<span style='color:purple'>"Why. The. HELL. would I listen to you again?" *mutes Caejina's voice, letting it auto-translate to hud text instead incase she actually says something usefull*</span>
<span style='color:orange'><b>*leans against the wall of my cell, waiting for the guard shift, idly fingering the rod primative I managed to hide from the guards. It would be enough to fry the cells energy field, freeing me, and the stealth subroutines would be useful then* "If the guards don't change soon, I'm gonna have to pull the old 'help me, I've got a virus' trick"</b></span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *stops running and turns around* "Man...we are in the stuff now. No base! No CC! NO SUPPORT! We all know what happens, new doctrine or not, to marines with no base! They die! <i>They die!</i>" *takes a breath and then packs my gear back up* "Christ...we're going to have to somehow get 343 to drop us another chair...if the base we set up in Communications isn't wreaked and still has a chair. I don't even know if we dropped one there..." *ponders on what Ceanjia said* "I wouldn't go there. By aliens, I think she means the Draug...not our pals...the evil ones. The ones that take rockets in the face for fun. I mean, where are the Kharaa? We can them on, but not those bloody Draug. Not without a flame thrower or something along those lines. It was their last weakness one of our buddies told us before those mechs freaked on us." *gestures to Communications* "Either way, we should regroup and figure out what to do at Communications. We can pick up the rest of the team en route. They should be hanging out in the halls or Communications itself." </span></span>
<i>Ceanjia: "Question is, do you have a choice. Of cause, you're welcome to just stand still here and wait, but I'm not sure that'll improve your chances. Not that you have any chances in the first place. Perhaps you're right, you could just refuse to believe me and choose to stay, you might even be lucky the draug themselves come for you. Up there, they'll have to fight the kharaa to get to you
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*Turns and walks of after Dee.*
"Daz, this isn't over..."
*Slings my rocket launcher over my shoulder and walks towards the armoury.*
/Voice comm"Bill stay put. We might aswell meet you there." </span>
*Grabs his shotgun off the ground and a welder*
"Terran, if you don't deweld this thing soon I might have to do it myself man, we're definately gunna need this."
*Walks to the armory and grabs a few more shells for his shotgun*
{Over Voicecomm} <["I should be able to access the command network remotely with some luck if we have a CC, or someone can stay back and command, either way, lets get moving quickly, I don't want to be here when more mechs arive... On that note, let's move the basecamp closer to the Kharaa, at least those things we can kill, and they'll attack the mechs too, and the Draug."]></span>
*stares dumbfounded as the debris rains down of what was the mech*
<"Well...we've actually held out quite nicely over here. Pretty good for mere men, no <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->?">
*looks at Khaim, and then the mech*
"Alright, but if this thing starts shooting at me, and it doesn't kill me, I will beat you to death with your own PDA."
*unloads all my engineering gear*
*looks around and gathers all of the remenants of the other destroyed mech that are still working*
[starts to repair the mech, using scrap parts and the welder as necessary]
"Wow...this welder did quite the number. Why don't we just build a huge welder and weld any mech we see on sight? That'd be something <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->."
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<b>Why are they posting in this thread? Aren't they supposed to post in the other one and then we read it (and vice versa), or did something change?</b>
*I carefully put Darkness back down and make a quick check from outside his armour*
"He's hurt pretty bad.
*I strip off Darkness's armour and [start examining and treating his injuries, ignoring my own for the time being]*
"We're definitely gonna need bigger guns. One of you lot wanna take that rocket launcher 344 dropped for us?"</span>
"Fine then..."
[Logs back into the mech to check and make sure the Friendly Identification shows us and the Spark-RPG people as friendlies, and all other lifeform types as enemies]
"There ya go, and hey, if we need to, this baby could make a nice suicide drone."</span>
Voice 1:He's hurt pretty bad. We're definitely gonna need bigger guns. One of you lot wanna take that rocket launcher 344 dropped for us?
Voice 2:Fine then... There ya go, and hey, if we need to, this baby could make a nice suicide drone.
A third voice starts speaking, a soft, female voice, one I haven't heard in years
Voice 3:Anthony, don't give up. Try and stay alive. I can wait for you here for a lot longer. You need to help the rest of the human race, you have to survive! Anthony, I love you, don't give up.*</i>
<b>"Why did I come out of sleep mode this morning, why?"
*realises something, I holster my weapons and hold my hands up in a sign of surrender*
"I give up, take me in."</span>
She's gonna try and get closer to the command program and then overide him, letting her control the mech. It's a long shot, but you never know.</b>
<span style='color:purple'>[You never get that far, unless you want to stand and keep trying?]</span>
<span style='color:green'>[No breathing, no pulse, no nerve activity. It's over]</span>
<i>Merc - They seem to accept, and start moving you to an isolated data block to avoid your interfering with internal data structures</i>
"Uhm... Terran... Spin... Screw the mech... RUN!"
*Runs for the exit of the hangar, waiting only long enough for Terran and Spin to get out before closing it off*</span>
"YOU BLOODY ******! WE TOLD YOU WE HAD THE SITUATION UNDER CONTROL!"
*quickly grabs all of my personnal tools and then runs out of the hanger*
*opens up a team chat message*
<i><[Private Terran (TEAM): I would just like to let everyone know that the Docking Bay is closing in on us! I highly suggest getting far away from it until the emergancy breach doors close in!"]></i>
*runs cradling all my tools*
"Gah!! Run!! Run away!! Run far away!!"
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"Come on! Lets get to the rest of the squad, I'm not sitting here in case that b*stard keeps firing!"</span>
*walks up to the still-standing mech, and raps it a couple times*
"Hey Merc, you still in there? Darkness didn't make it. You damn well had better."
*Realising I'm still bleeding out of my shoulder, I strip off my HA and start [patching myself up.]*</span>
<i>Suddenly, the system alert starts howling:
"Red alert, Red alert. Hull breach at sector 10, hull breach at sector 10"
Ceanjia: "So, thing's falling apart now. Better hurry if you want to get things done. Tick tock goes the clock.
Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick ... tick tick tick tick tick ... tick tick tick tick ..."</i>
"why didn't I bring a magazine along..."</span>
<!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> I want in...
"AH, SHUT UP."
*Time unfreezes*</b>
"Well, I hope none of the cadets have to use that IP... How much would that suck, phasing into the middle of space...?"
{Over Voicecomm} "Allright guys, we should get moving soon, our base is gone, no reason at all what-so-ever to stay here, lets head over to the elevator and decide what floor to go to from there, check your maps if you forgot where it is."</span>
I've had a couple of mis-renderings of a page, where sig images were not placed properly, but not that.
Also a Firebird user.</b>
<i>Ceanjia: "Well, if I was to try and eliminate the aliens, I would take the elevator upwards. It seems to me the smartest move considering the fact that the aliens are on the floors above you. And I suggest you move fast.
Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick."</i>
*mutes Caejina's voice, letting it auto-translate to hud text instead incase she actually says something usefull*</span>
"If the guards don't change soon, I'm gonna have to pull the old 'help me, I've got a virus' trick"</b></span>
*stops running and turns around*
"Man...we are in the stuff now. No base! No CC! NO SUPPORT! We all know what happens, new doctrine or not, to marines with no base! They die! <i>They die!</i>"
*takes a breath and then packs my gear back up*
"Christ...we're going to have to somehow get 343 to drop us another chair...if the base we set up in Communications isn't wreaked and still has a chair. I don't even know if we dropped one there..."
*ponders on what Ceanjia said*
"I wouldn't go there. By aliens, I think she means the Draug...not our pals...the evil ones. The ones that take rockets in the face for fun. I mean, where are the Kharaa? We can them on, but not those bloody Draug. Not without a flame thrower or something along those lines. It was their last weakness one of our buddies told us before those mechs freaked on us."
*gestures to Communications*
"Either way, we should regroup and figure out what to do at Communications. We can pick up the rest of the team en route. They should be hanging out in the halls or Communications itself."
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Time is running out.
Tick tick tick..."</i>