<span style='color:green'>"Thanks. Hey Terran, you might wanna try this..." *I hand Terran two of Wynona's francium flechette clips* "Grabbed em off Ed just before we left, just in case. Poor guy."</span> <b>Yes, I'm casting Summon Items. Sue me, we're gonna die anyway. <!--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 style='color:Purple'>"What good would trying to hide do? They can already see us!" [Hunts along the walls for any sort of maintinence vent, etc.] "Ya know what this reminds me of? That princess rescue scene in star wars where the princess shoots open a vent... only we have 10000 aliens chasing us instead of storm troopers!"</span> <b>Hey.. Xect can character jack.. can we DM jack? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--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 style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "Yea, well, let's just hope this plays out like a movie and we all get out alright." *takes the clip Night hands me and puts it into a quick access pouch* "That's the next one that's going to be used. I just hope the Kharaa are at least normal in the sense that they'd die from radiation, eh?" </span></span> <b>Ooo...it's like the end of the world. Everyone's getting rowdy!
Wait...it <i>is</i> the end of the AG: RPG world. OMG! RANSACK! PILLAGE</b>
<span style='color:red'>[The frontline of aliens scream as Wynona rips random alien limps to schreds and splashes green blood all over the aliens, but it doesn't seem to stop the aliens, they just run over the alien corpses as if nothing happened.]</span>
<span style='color:green'>[Not much happening, seems the bullets are just lost in the waves.]</span>
<span style='color:red'>[Bullets just ricochet off the walls]</span>
<span style='color:purple'>[You manage to find a narrow door into some maintenance access shaft. Has the usual "no access" sign.
Just then, something breaks the radio static: "..CK, thi... calling, do ... copy, ...eat ... you copy."]</span>
<span style='color:green'>"If we could box feed Wyn, we'd be right ...Hey, Khaim found a vent! In there!" *pulls out welder, ready to seal the vent behind us, then hears the radio* <i>"HEY! YOU'RE BREAKING UP! BOOST YOUR SIGNAL!"</i></span>
<span style='color:purple'>"GET IN HERE! WE'LL DEAL WITH THE BOMBER LATER!" *Jumps into the access vent* "Shade, weld that baby up as soon as Terran's in! Get over here Terran!"</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "Woo! Finally, a vent! We're saved!" *ejects the empty clip for Wynona and pockets it* *hops into the vent* "Alright, let's weld this thing shut and move on in. Let's first see where this thing goes to. It would really suck if thing cycled or something and spat us out into a turbine." *reloads Wynona and checks my ammo* "Plenty for the assault rifle, just about enough for Wynona. Damn, I'm surprised Ed died while he had this. Wynona is a bloody god." </span></span>
<i>Just before Terran gets into the vent, one of the skulks in front of the aliens scream and leap at him. Terran staggers for a few seconds, but hold out against the leap, throwing himself through the vent opening as the aliens start swarming around him, trying to get in.</i>
<span style='color:gray'>"I have no idea what's going on." [looks for an external IO port]</span> to explain: I want to try to find something off the ship I can get to.
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "Oh, what the hell! Get off of the blood vent!" [opens fire with Wynona one-handed in small burstswhile kicking any alien that gets too close] "Gib! Gib, damn you, gib!" *finding the recoil of Wynona a bit high to fire onehanded, switches to my assault rifle* "Meh, skulks aren't worth Wynona <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->. I'll hold them back, since they can only come at me one at a time and my trusty rifle cuts them down before they can really touch me. You guys keep going and find out where this thing leads to. I can make it...I think." </span></span>
<span style='color:red'>[A swarm of smaller aliens attempt to charge through the door, but the bodies pile up as Terran and Khaim empty their guns through the small opening.]</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> *watches in amusement as the bodies clog the vent opening* "Hey, who's hungry?! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->" *ceases fire and reloads my assault rifle* [takes out my welder and begins to create a nice thick jam of dead Kharaa bodies, cooking them into a nice unified piece of leathery carapace] "Well, the only way they'd be able to get that out is with Draino...a lot of it. We're safe for now. Onward?" </span></span>
<span style='color:purple'>*Watches in amusement at terran welds up the dead kharaa bodies to close the vent.* "Ok... Onward I guess, yeah..." *Crawls down the vent carefully after reloading his shotgun.*</span>
<span style='color:green'>"Heh. You'd never think a welder would do that." *starts crawling along the vent behind Khaim, one leg dragging behind* "Don't grab that leg, Terran, you're liable to tear it back off."</span> <b>Damn me and my need for sleep.</b>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "Tear it of you say? What did you reattach it with anyway? I'm just curious...<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->." *brandishes my welder* "Maybe we should try to uber weld your leg back? As in the armor around that area so it doesn't fall off completely. My welder of infinite kickass could probably do that <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->." *flicks it on and off a few times* "It's interesting how a wee tool of 5 res can do so much. It slices, it dices, it cooks aliens and melts mechs. Hell, I bet I could use it instead of this flimsy flashlight if it didn't make so much noise, eh <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->. Or eat itself alive." </span></span> <b>Sleep? Sleep is good. Nothing wrong with that. Besides, your character becomes immune to being eaten when your asleep. Nifty, no?</b>
<b>Lol, true.</b> <span style='color:green'>"Silk sutures. Why, what did you think I'd used? And yeah, sure, I'd let you weld the power armour back together if I hadn't taken that leg out of the armour to sew it back on. Those sutures'll tear right out if you put too much pressure on them, tho." *watches Terran playing with the welder* "You keep that away from my leg, you hear! Just because I can't feel it doesn't mean you get to play with it!"</span>
<i>The door seems to lead to a maintenance shaft running parallely with the main corridor. Should take you closer to the hanger.</i>
<span style='color:red'>[The weldholds while you move about 50 meters, then a large scream is head, and something large crashes into the blokade, shoving it all aside.]</span>
<span style='color:gray'>[There's loads of nodes, but anything going out of the ship system is blocked, locked down and guarded. But something is happening along maintenance shaft 5D in the physical world. You should be able to get to a security camera there.]</span>
<span style='color:green'>"Damn. We need to seal this puppy up properly." *lets terran get in front, then fires up welder and attempts to [slice a section out of the vent roof, and use it to seal the vent behind us]*</span>
<span style='color:purple'>[Covers Shade with my shotgun as he gets to work welding.] "Man, this is guna be one hell of a story to tell my kids... wait, I can't have any kids anymore. F#$#!"</span> <b>Whee! <!--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 style='color:gray'>"This is just great. Every node out of here is guarded by idiots who didn't even notice that entire sections of the system are going off line, probably some cowboy TSA guy tearing sections of the place apart. They'll just go down with the ship." *looks around and notices the mintenance shaft nano-grid interface* "Doesn't look too guarded, but something's definately happening over there" [attempts to access the maintenance shaft interface]</span>
<span style='color:red'><span style='font-family:courier'> "Well, that makes sense. What those <i>things</i> vomit is probably worse than Draino." *lets my rifle fall idly onto its strap while switching to Wynona* "Dropping down now. Checking perimeter and securing." *hops out of the vent, landing in to shaft with a mild thump* *my flashlight turns on immediately and Wynona gets a tight shouldering* [sweeps the area with my rifle, looking carefully with targets] "Well, you could always adopt...or get a transplant <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->." </span></span> <b>If our luck keeps up and dice keep rolling like that, we may just actually come out of this in one piece <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->.</b>
<i>Shade doesn't really get far trying to weld it loose. He drops the welder, and before he manages to pick it back up, the aliens have already broken through, with Terran and Khaim unable to hold them back. Terran starts screaming as the horde of aliens start eating away at him, biting whole pieces off his heavy armor.</i>
<b><!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo--> Do we really need to post anymore? Because I think that was like the epilogue...</b>
<span style='color:purple'>*Watches in horror, emptying the rest of his shotgun clip at the aliens on terran while backing away.* "Oh Sh*t dude... run!" *Turns around and sprints down the maintinence shaft towards the hanger while cycling through the radio channels again, trying to contact the bomber.*</span>
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*I hand Terran two of Wynona's francium flechette clips*
"Grabbed em off Ed just before we left, just in case. Poor guy."</span>
<b>Yes, I'm casting Summon Items. Sue me, we're gonna die anyway. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
[Hunts along the walls for any sort of maintinence vent, etc.]
"Ya know what this reminds me of? That princess rescue scene in star wars where the princess shoots open a vent... only we have 10000 aliens chasing us instead of storm troopers!"</span>
<b>Hey.. Xect can character jack.. can we DM jack? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
"Yea, well, let's just hope this plays out like a movie and we all get out alright."
*takes the clip Night hands me and puts it into a quick access pouch*
"That's the next one that's going to be used. I just hope the Kharaa are at least normal in the sense that they'd die from radiation, eh?"
</span></span>
<b>Ooo...it's like the end of the world. Everyone's getting rowdy!
Wait...it <i>is</i> the end of the AG: RPG world. OMG! RANSACK! PILLAGE</b>
<span style='color:green'>[Not much happening, seems the bullets are just lost in the waves.]</span>
<span style='color:red'>[Bullets just ricochet off the walls]</span>
<span style='color:purple'>[You manage to find a narrow door into some maintenance access shaft. Has the usual "no access" sign.
Just then, something breaks the radio static: "..CK, thi... calling, do ... copy, ...eat ... you copy."]</span>
*pulls out welder, ready to seal the vent behind us, then hears the radio*
<i>"HEY! YOU'RE BREAKING UP! BOOST YOUR SIGNAL!"</i></span>
*Jumps into the access vent*
"Shade, weld that baby up as soon as Terran's in! Get over here Terran!"</span>
"Woo! Finally, a vent! We're saved!"
*ejects the empty clip for Wynona and pockets it*
*hops into the vent*
"Alright, let's weld this thing shut and move on in. Let's first see where this thing goes to. It would really suck if thing cycled or something and spat us out into a turbine."
*reloads Wynona and checks my ammo*
"Plenty for the assault rifle, just about enough for Wynona. Damn, I'm surprised Ed died while he had this. Wynona is a bloody god."
</span></span>
[looks for an external IO port]</span>
to explain: I want to try to find something off the ship I can get to.
[Shoots back at the aliens following Terran with my shotgun]</span>
"Oh, what the hell! Get off of the blood vent!"
[opens fire with Wynona one-handed in small burstswhile kicking any alien that gets too close]
"Gib! Gib, damn you, gib!"
*finding the recoil of Wynona a bit high to fire onehanded, switches to my assault rifle*
"Meh, skulks aren't worth Wynona <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->. I'll hold them back, since they can only come at me one at a time and my trusty rifle cuts them down before they can really touch me. You guys keep going and find out where this thing leads to. I can make it...I think."
</span></span>
*watches in amusement as the bodies clog the vent opening*
"Hey, who's hungry?! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->"
*ceases fire and reloads my assault rifle*
[takes out my welder and begins to create a nice thick jam of dead Kharaa bodies, cooking them into a nice unified piece of leathery carapace]
"Well, the only way they'd be able to get that out is with Draino...a lot of it. We're safe for now. Onward?"
</span></span>
"Ok... Onward I guess, yeah..."
*Crawls down the vent carefully after reloading his shotgun.*</span>
*starts crawling along the vent behind Khaim, one leg dragging behind*
"Don't grab that leg, Terran, you're liable to tear it back off."</span>
<b>Damn me and my need for sleep.</b>
"Tear it of you say? What did you reattach it with anyway? I'm just curious...<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->."
*brandishes my welder*
"Maybe we should try to uber weld your leg back? As in the armor around that area so it doesn't fall off completely. My welder of infinite kickass could probably do that <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->."
*flicks it on and off a few times*
"It's interesting how a wee tool of 5 res can do so much. It slices, it dices, it cooks aliens and melts mechs. Hell, I bet I could use it instead of this flimsy flashlight if it didn't make so much noise, eh <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->. Or eat itself alive."
</span></span>
<b>Sleep? Sleep is good. Nothing wrong with that. Besides, your character becomes immune to being eaten when your asleep. Nifty, no?</b>
<span style='color:green'>"Silk sutures. Why, what did you think I'd used? And yeah, sure, I'd let you weld the power armour back together if I hadn't taken that leg out of the armour to sew it back on. Those sutures'll tear right out if you put too much pressure on them, tho."
*watches Terran playing with the welder*
"You keep that away from my leg, you hear! Just because I can't feel it doesn't mean you get to play with it!"</span>
<i>The door seems to lead to a maintenance shaft running parallely with the main corridor. Should take you closer to the hanger.</i>
<span style='color:red'>[The weldholds while you move about 50 meters, then a large scream is head, and something large crashes into the blokade, shoving it all aside.]</span>
<span style='color:gray'>[There's loads of nodes, but anything going out of the ship system is blocked, locked down and guarded. But something is happening along maintenance shaft 5D in the physical world. You should be able to get to a security camera there.]</span>
*lets terran get in front, then fires up welder and attempts to [slice a section out of the vent roof, and use it to seal the vent behind us]*</span>
"Man, this is guna be one hell of a story to tell my kids... wait, I can't have any kids anymore. F#$#!"</span>
<b>Whee! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--></b>
*looks around and notices the mintenance shaft nano-grid interface*
"Doesn't look too guarded, but something's definately happening over there"
[attempts to access the maintenance shaft interface]</span>
"Well, that makes sense. What those <i>things</i> vomit is probably worse than Draino."
*lets my rifle fall idly onto its strap while switching to Wynona*
"Dropping down now. Checking perimeter and securing."
*hops out of the vent, landing in to shaft with a mild thump*
*my flashlight turns on immediately and Wynona gets a tight shouldering*
[sweeps the area with my rifle, looking carefully with targets]
"Well, you could always adopt...or get a transplant <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->."
</span></span>
<b>If our luck keeps up and dice keep rolling like that, we may just actually come out of this in one piece <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->.</b>
"Oh Sh*t dude... run!"
*Turns around and sprints down the maintinence shaft towards the hanger while cycling through the radio channels again, trying to contact the bomber.*</span>