[START SESSION.] You have all been loaded into a van (no, Robert, not your van) and driven to where tonight's mission is. On the way, Dejiko gave a briefing in which she summed up the mission objectives as "Grab anything that looks important and blow up the rest." ( In our last episode, Mad Dog was making a powerful argument for the world being made of Love and Peace... ) (*ka-chak* You gonna die.) (I like this one. ^_^) * Robert is, strangely enough, not carrying his SAW for the night. He's dressed in his tactical armour and a dark brown trenchcoat. The van has just stopped, and the engine has been killed. Dejiko comes around to the sliding side door and opens it so you can all get out. "Alright, cadets, here we are." Beyond her, you see a school. Cadets? * Marguerite tosses her braid and grins. * Robert hops out. * Togo steps out of the van, and looks around. Dejiko begins walking towards the school, and motions for you all to follow. * Robert falls into step. * Marguerite slings her satchel over her back, and slips out of the door. She follows eagerly after Dejiko. * Togo follows... (Um... bleh. Be right with you.) (Assume I'm following along and being obnoxious.) (Heh. Will do.) ( Not a problem! =P ) Dejiko reaches the door, and fiddles with the lock for a second before opening the door. She holds it open for you all. "Please, make yourselves at home." As you say. * Robert steps inside. * Marguerite looks around cautiously, then continues in. * Togo walks in warily, eyeing Dejiko as he passes On the other side of the door is an open area. Directly across from the door is a reception desk. You have to go through another locked door to get on the other side. One of the doors bears a sign marked "Office". Various banners are hung here and there. Mostly general shows of school spirit, a few calling specifically for the defeat of an opposing basketball team next week. * Robert looks around. ... After you're all inside, Dejiko walks over to the office area and opens the next door. She holds this one open as well. "Wait by the elevator in the back. Anything that looks important, huh? * Robert goes into the next room and looks for the elevator. Robert finds it easily enough. Strangely, despite being on the first floor it only has a 'down' button. * Marguerite blinks a few times, then continues on. * Togo walks, hands by his guns. * Robert pushes the 'up' button. ( *whap* ) (?) ( oops, misread orders. ) ( *snerk* ) (Robert breaks a finger on the hard metal pannel where no 'up' button is.) ( thought she said "wait _in_ the elevator in the back." ) "Yo, Robert." *ch-chak* "The orders were wait, GI Joe. Cool your jets." Dejiko joins you all, briefly looking over the elevator. Hey, I'm cool. There are, in fact, a series of *ch-chak*s and a *K-THUNK* as Asa primes all his weapons in order. The hell's this about, Dejiko? I graduated from high school already. ... bitter about not being voted homecoming queen? * Asa snerks at Togo. "As bitter as you must have been about WINNING it." Dejiko presses the 'down' button with a closed finger. "Everone stand against the wall to the sides of the doors. Just in case." Heh. (Ouch.) * Robert puts his back to the wall. I was voted homecoming queen, scarface. I decided to stay home and get drunk instead. * Togo shrugs, then gets against the wall, guns drawn * Marguerite backs up. Dejiko leads by example, standing to one side. * Asa is Solid Snake, international man of mystery. ( "Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in..." ) ( O_O ) ( Hey, she said Scarface. =P ) There is a cheerful "ding" and the elevator opens up. Dejiko quickly waves a hand in front of the open door, and walks in when there is no gunfire in response. She holds the "doors open" button. "All aboard." * Robert gets in the elevator. Interesting school. * Togo gets on, fitting the silencers onto his guns as he does Sound supressors? Above you, you see several places where screws once held something to the cieling. * Marguerite pulls out her MP5 and screws on the silencer. Never know... we might need to be subtle. Why bother, with me here? I couldn't be subtle if my life depended on it. Thinking again, she slips the laser sight onto it as well. Well, maybe then. But only a little. (Curses. Make that a /me.) If Mad Dog can get subtle, so can you. * Robert eyes Mad Dog. Once you're all aboard, Dejiko pushes the button marked "B". The doors slide shut and the elevator begins to descend. Feh. Subtlety requires INTELLIGENCE, Togo. Dejiko clears her throat meaningfully. * Asa steps into the elevator, holding up the DE in one hand. "Mad Dog, using a silencer. I never thought I'd see the day." He stows the DE and takes out a silenced Walther PP7, humming the Bond theme. * Togo shrugs again Eh, I can be subtle. If I have to., Oh great. Here I am, the only one without a sound supressed weapon. * Asa grins faintly. "Besides, if there's trouble you can just transform." He reaches to a belt pouch and takes out an honest-to-god tricorder, flipping it open. Guess that means you get to SCARE them with your Big Bad Marine Self. * Togo grins faintly. "Then you obviously have the requisite intelligence, hmm?" Dejiko speaks up. "The basement of this school houses, or used to house, a laboratory where human beings were... 'augmented'." She says the last word as if it tastes bad. * Marguerite shoots Togo a glance. "I have quite a bit more intelligence than a silencer requires." ... crap. Mad scientists. Sounds fun. Wish my high school had been this interesting. Oh, joy. Cybernetics is always the most fun game. * Togo cocks his head at Mad Dog. "Never said you didn't." * Asa eyes Togo. "Glad to see I don't count anymore." He looks to Dejiko. "Is there something we're looking for in particular?" * Togo turns to Asa. "You're special too." "We made a raid on the facility recently in order to rescue a certain individual. They may have closed down shop as a result, but then again they might not be that bright. As I said earlier, we are here to find anything important, anything that might qualify as evidence, and then to make sure that the rest is torched." * Asa smirks. "Not short bus special." Damn. That means we can't torch and burn as we go. I hate that. Interpret it how you will. "Asa, since you're doubtless the most technically inclined amongst us all, you'll be doing most of the looking. After we're done, Marguerite will plant the explosives she brought around the facility, and we will leave." * Marguerite looks to Dejiko. "So, are you accompanying us on this run, or are you gonna use "NINJA DEJIKO VANISH" or something?" Dejiko smirks. "I'm accompanying you, of course. For the most part I'll be the tour guide, since I've been here before." * Asa tightens his smile. "Well, isn't it nice to be special." What fun. That it is. * Robert pulls his SAW out of his trenchcoat. Suppose I better get ready. So.... were we planning on standing around, or at any point do I get to shoot things? * Robert goes through the startup sequence. The elevator comes to a halt, and there is another cheerful "ding". The doors open. * Asa holsters the PPK and whips the tricorder forward. "Onward, away team. Dilithium awaits." He steps out of the elevator. * Robert swivels to put the elevator in his line of fire. ( Elevator doors, even. ) On the other side of the doors is a hallway with five doors on each side. There is the faint smell of smoke in the air. * Togo steps out to cover the other side. * Marguerite sniffs, then strides out ahead of Togo and Asa./ * Robert steps out of the elevator slowly, swiveling back and forth, covering lots of area. Dejiko steps out and looks around. "Asa, come with me. The rest of you, start searching the rooms. Give a shout if you find anything especially out of the ordinary." * Robert nods. "Yes, sir." Gotcha, ma'am. * Togo nods. "Work our way down the hallway. Got it." * Marguerite lifts her MP5 and grabs the handle on the first door to the right. * Robert takes up a position across from the first door. * Togo sets up behind Mad Dog to cover her (DUzzit open in or out?) Dejiko walks down to the fourth door on the right side of the hall, and fiddles with the lock. * Asa nods at Dejiko. "My fun glowing technological doohickey says you should try the 'Maintenance' door, Marguerite." (All the doors open in.) "Unlocked. Hm." * Marguerite raises her eyebrow. "Maintenance? WHy there first?" Dejiko opens the door and motions for Asa to follow. Whenever he feels like it, of course. * Asa smiles beatifically, waving from behind Dejiko. "Fun!" He then walks in after her purpleishness. ... maintenence it is Eh. Sure. * Marguerite turns to the door (Whichever it is) and turns the handle, slamming into the door as she does so, and rolling to put the door to her back and her gun in front. * Robert swings around to face the doorway, ready to ventilate anything hostile. * Togo steps in and around the door, checking the other side Margie> Inside is a metal shelf with various cleaning agents. A fire extenguisher lies empty to one side. There is also some sort of doodad with a small, bright blue cylender. It is marked with as many warning signs as will fit upon it's surface. (UM fuck hold on. Mouse batteries died.) ( ouch. ) (o/~ Pause o/~) (Alright.) (o/~ Resume o/~) * Marguerite eyes the cylinder. * Robert swings back around, watching the hallway for trouble. Should probably leave that for Asa to look at The warning labels make it clear that it isn't a good idea to fiddle with this device. They never bother to say what it is, although there are warnings of "heat, radiation, and possible explosion". 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Marguerite (2d6-1) and gets 8. Eh. Fucked if I know what it is. Move on to the other rooms? And I doubt Scrubbing Bubbles are what Dejiko was reffering to when she said interesting. Next room. * Robert takes up a position across from another room. * Togo walks over to the first door on the left. "You wanna go in first again?" * Marguerite strides out and back to the first door. Yep. * Marguerite repeats the first process, making sure the bang end of the gun points towards the evil people. * Togo follows, facing the opposite direction * Robert covers them, as usual. ( Standard police cover tactics! w00t~ ) Inside this door is some sort of surgical arena. ... aww shit. Wonderful. Paging Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine..... There is a single steel bed with lots of sharp pointy things dangling from some miscellaneous device. 5'll get ya ten they were getting test subjects from the school... sick bastards... Well, that would be the point of setting up under a school, I suppose. Zactly. Also the last place people'd look for a evil lab Note to self. Pointy thing in first room. Shall we move on? Yup Coo. * Robert backs out of the room. (Repeat procedure for donne #2 on right.) (Er. DOOR.) ( Yup ) Inside is what looks like a recovery ward. Everything is nice and clean, and the bed is made. ( Indeed. ) Yay. They haven't fired the maids yet, anyways. Well, at least they give you a nice place to heal. * Robert backs out of the room and goes to the next. Looks like the GCI recovery area... * Marguerite strides out. "Room 2, bed. Next." (Repeat procedure, Door #3.) ( 2nd door on the left, repeat entrance procedure. ) Inside is another recovery ward. There is someone lying on the bed, and a great deal of blood has, at some point, fallen fourth from a perfectly round wound in the sideof his head. Some of it isn't dry yet. Sweet jesus. Hm. * Marguerite checks his pulse. Fresh wound... maybe a few hours old. He's very dead. You also notice something odd about his wrist; it seems to be all one piece instead of several small bones. What the hell kind of experiments are they doing here? Ones involving blood and things, I suppose. What the HELL does it matter, Mr. Marine? Mind checks. Margie, you get the -1 bonus for your mechanics skill. 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Marguerite (2d6-1) and gets 11, a CRITICAL FAILURE!!! "God hates you, and so do I." 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Robert (2d6) and gets 7. Fucked up ones... let's hope some of these bastards are still around. I wanna give 'em a lesson in medical ethics 2d6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Togo (2d6) and gets 11. (You are so dead. Dead dead dead.) ( What?! ) (Fucking bitch.) None of you figure out what happened to him. Might wanna let one of the others know, tho. ( Wow, I failed miserably... ) (I just said that.) Another thing for Asa to look at... next room Right. Room #3, Dead guy. Moving on. Next. (Reapeat Blah) ( 3rd door on the right, etc ) Beyond the next door is an office. You see where the smoke was coming from; the contents of the trash can, desk, and finling cabinets were all burned. The desk's built-in coputer has been destroyed rather thuroughly. Bah. Not much here, either. Might wanna take the computer, see if the techies can salvage anything... not much else * Marguerite eyes the computer. You'd be amazed at what they can salvage. (Roll to see if I can find anything resembling a hard disk. Computer skill.) 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Marguerite (2d6-1) and gets 8. Hell. Try again. (GODDESS CHRIST, I HATE YOU! HATE YOU! HATE YOU!) 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Marguerite (2d6-1) and gets 2. Much better. (Bloody fucking HELL.) Margie notices an area where he hard drive probably used to be. There's a lot of broken circuit boards and such lying around, too. (I take it that means I'm not going to be able to find it.) ( 3rd room on the left now? ) ( Think so. ) (Depends on if I can manage to get ANYthing.) (Yup.) (Aight.) (process, blah, door, blah.,) The next door has another recovery ward, all nice and clean. ( Relax. Random is random. It's not like the dice are rigged against you, man. ) Joy. Next room. Next. Asa and Dejiko're are in the one on the right... 4th on the left now (ditto) The last door contains another recovery room. This one's been ransacked. There are signs of a fight; like a crater in the far wall. * Marguerite eyes the room. "Huh." We need to sift through this stuff? Can't hurt. * Togo looks at the crater. "Looks like somethin' either got out, or made a hell of an effort tryin'." Let's see what we can find. (Reboot.) Should I keep watch, or help sift? *** Asa has quit IRC (Quit: Chronos, you JERK. ) The crater is about two feet deep, and eight feet in diameter. There is an imprint in the center that looks like a fist made it. (And pause.) ... sift. I'll keep watch. *** Chamboi has joined #chibirpglite (BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA) *** Yu-Mei sets mode: +v Chamboi *** Chamboi is now known as Asa (Anyhow.) (Resume.) Yes, sir. * Marguerite blinks at the fist imprint, then blinks again. * Robert carefully sets the SAW down in a clear spot and begins looking through some of the litter. How big's the fist imprint, Mad Dog? Bigger than your hand? (Nothing is bigger than Mad Dog's head.) (SHe's like a fine English beer.) It's about the same, funnily enough. (Long story short. Do we find anything?) Nope. Right. Next room. * Robert hefts the SAW again and follows Marguerite out the door. * Togo hmms... Yeah, fifth room on the right. ( ad infinitum... =P ) The last room is an empty storage area. Very empty; they cleaned it out pretty good. Right. Time to go talk to Asa. * Togo looks around. "One more to go." As you say. ( 5th on the left, I think ) ( Yep. ) (Oh. Right, one more then.)( This one contains a bank of computers lining three of the walls. Lots of monitors, lots of keyboards and shiny buttons, all of it busted to hell and gutted by fire. * Marguerite eyes it. "Asa's gonna go fuckin berserk." ... another job for the techies Such a tragic waste of equipment and information. Right. Time for Asa. I wanna blow this place the fuck up and leave. Yeah. I don't wanna stay here any longer than I have to. Let's get what we need and wipe this the hell of the planet * Marguerite heads to the room Asa and Dejiko are in. Dejiko and Asa step into the hallway. "What did you find?" We found CRAP> * Robert defers to Margie or Togo. A pointy thing, a dead guy, and a gutted computer. * Asa snerks as he walks out behind Dejiko. "Lingo for 'If this blows up, it's your fault." A bunch of busted up computers... techies might be able to find something. Dejiko frowns. "'Dead guy'?" Speaking of blowing up. Hold on a sec. Yeah. We found a shiny blue cylinder thing in that Maintenance room. Guy with a hole in his head. Fresh wound Circle cut into his head. And one of the recovery rooms shows signs of a fight... big crater on the wall with a fist print about the size of Mad Dog's hand * Asa eyes Mad Dog and grins. "It's a mini-fusion generator. Be sure we get plenty of time to leave once the C4's set." Aw, HELL yeah./ O_O * Marguerite runs to the room to plant some of the C4 directly on the generator. Other than that, not much. All the paper files and stuff are burned to hell. "Marguerite, go ahead and... yeah. Togo, Robert, show me the dead guy." Might wanna take a look at the guy... none of us had a clue what was done to him. * Togo shows Dejiko said dead guy * Asa sings: "School's out. For. Summer! Schooool's out. For. EVER!" * Robert snerks. Dejiko barely manages to contain her disgust upon seeing the dead guy. "He was already changed. They killed him rather than let him get out." ... changed? 'changed'? The hell was going on here? They giving school kids super streng- * Marguerite strides back. "THAT'S gonna go BOOM." * Asa mmms, inspecting the computer room. "None of this is salvageable. Most of what we can use, we've already got in this thing." He pats a mini-CPU tucked under his arm. * Togo stops in mid-word. ... If the firefight didn't get it, the heat did unless it was in a hardened box. (...Now where did THAT leap of logic come from?) ( The crater made by a fist the size of margie's. ) "If you look closely you'll see that the rim of the wound is metal. Part of the 'augmentation' process was replacing the skeleton with a very sturdy form of steel. The muscles were replaced, too, but we don't know what with. We were hoping to find out on this little trip" ... ( Plus a conversation Togo had in the Tokyo tower game... ) "I see you've figured it out, Togo. Care to share with the others?" Please say they didn't call it 'adamantium'. Rina (Rin'as MUCH smaller than I am, Robert.) (That was not her fist.) Dejiko nods at Togo. "Yes. She was a victim of this facility." Super-strong high school girl. She mentioned that she spent time in the GCI med ward... )FUCK= *** Asa has quit IRC (Quit: Leaving ) .........? ( ??? ) Urm. Pause? (keyboard went gefuxxort.) *** Asa has joined #chibirpglite *** Yu-Mei sets mode: +v Asa (*SMACKS Cham's loaner laptop*) Resume. Anyway... put two and two together. Plus, it makes sense... she's how Dejiko knows about this place, presumably * Marguerite blinks. "Huh. Figured she was modded or something, but nothing to that extent." * Asa coughs, loudly. "Hey. HEY." "Yes, Asa?" Consider this an order: Rina's status is not to be discussed, PERIOD, until further notice. * Togo spits. "Freaking psychos..." We're all bitter and cynical and that's fine, but she's just a kid. Yes, sir. * Togo nods. Eh. Whatever. Everybody's got their own problems. * Yu-Mei nods. "Good call, Asa." ( who is Rina, though? I don't recall meeting her. ) (Robert> That's cause you weren't in the invasion of the OCRs.) ( Ah, I see. ) * Marguerite smacks her hands together. Right. The c4's set. This place is gonna pop like matter'n'antimatter. Good. Or close enough to destroy the place. Sure to be an enjoyable explosion. Well, if that's the case, I'm getting my well-toned ass out of here and I suggest you do the same. * Marguerite chuckles. "Right on that ass of yours, Asa." Dejiko nods. "Everyone into the elevator, then." * Togo follows * Asa grins and swivels his hips. "Buns of steel." He winks, bundles up his prize, and hits the elevator. * Robert gets his ass to the elevator. Dejiko enters the elevator, holds the door, yadda yadda. * Marguerite (ignores Robert's ass.) * Marguerite pulls out the detonator and gets a gleam in her eye. The doors close and the elevator begins to ascend quietly. * Asa eyes Marguerite. "Are you familiar with nuclear physics, Mad Dog?" Only as a hobby. Why, you referring to the fact that the c4's gonna destabalize the reactor? Basically. And that we're about to make Hiroshima look like a Chinese New Year firecracker, so if you even LOOK at that detonator wrong before we are well out of range I am going to kill you as the blast hits, I swear. Oh, if you insist. I swear, you never want to live on the edge, Asa/ Emphasis on 'live'. Bah. A few thousand rads never hurt anyone. ... * Asa grins. "It's not the rads, it's the sudden cellular destabilization at the end." ... riiiight well, that's always fun. (LOng elevator ride.) Yes, exactly right. I do so love being a biomass melange shortly before I'm imprinted onto the nearest wall in black. Hey, I bet we could elevate that to the next fad art form. The elevator finally pulls to a stop. Yes, it was a long ride. "Yes, make love to the a-bomb, sweetie. Irradiate me, darling." "Have your silhouette preserved forever! Only three thousand bucks a shot!" Darwinism at work? What a camera. I gotta write that down. Such a marvel in the field that'd be,. Just point and shoot. And shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot... Heh. So, were we planning on getting off? The doors open and dejiko steps out, looking around. * Asa nods, bundling up the CPU again and stepping off. * Marguerite trots after, carefully caressing the detonator. * Robert steps out, swinging the SAW around, expecting trouble. * Togo steps out, hands still by his guns Dejiko ushers wou all out, making sure to lock the doors afterwards. Soon you are all out on the front lawn of the school. Wai. So.... why are we not running? Because the evac isn't KITT. (Cham's AFK.) (Damned if I know. That was a long elevator ride, tho.) Heh. No, no it's not. Where the fuck's the van? Speaking of which, where's the fucking van? The van is right where you left it, of course. ... ( Heh ) Let's get away from this firepit. Rright. Session Time: Sun Sep 23 00:00:00 2001 Uh, yeah. We saddle up and leave now. * Marguerite climbs in and prepares to enter the detonator code. NOT YET! NOT YET! I don't care how many fossil strata there are between us and it, NOT YET. * Togo climbs in. "Let's get the hell... outta here..." Dejiko hops into the driver's seat and starts the engine. * Robert climbs in after putting away the SAW. * Robert slams the door closed behind him. I'm just gettin' ready, you crazy Limey! Don't get your Union Jacks in a bunch! "All aboard." * Asa grins. "It'd just be a shame to lose someone as sexy as me." Yeah. A shame. And as special. At least he has sex appeal, you eunuchs. Let's go. * Asa stifles whatever response he had. "She wins." The van luches ahead, and soon you're putting distance between yourself and the school. Who needs sex appeal when you've got big guns? * Asa grins at Robert, whipping out his LAW. "WHy not have both?" Do the words "penis envy" mean anything to you, Mr. Marine? Isn't that something that women have? * Marguerite grins. "Yeah. It is." * Togo shrugs. "Happiness is a warm gun and a warm corpse." * Marguerite looks out the window. "Far enough yet?" Don't forget the fast car, Togo. The van pulls to a halt at a stoplight. * Asa knocks on the box in his lap. "Fear not, it's all in here. We can make you better, faster, stronger. Metallic, even. Always hard." He looks out the window. "Yeah, now's good." (Drumroll, please.) ... don't even kid 'bout that. * Marguerite grins, and punches in the code as quickly as lightning. "BOOM, BITCH!" Sorry, I prefer to avoid the cyber-psychosis. The ground rumbles, and the van hops about three inches into the air, it's suspension squaling as it lands again. There is no bright blast or audible kaboom. Sweet Lord. * Asa looks back. "Damn. When they put bomb shelters under schools, they ain't kidding." ROCK! YEAH! IT'S almost BETTER THAN SEX! * Togo taps his shades, then shrugs. "So much for the fireworks." * Asa grins at Margie. "At least with this you always get a bang when you want it." Hey, I happen to be a liberated woman. [END SESSION.] A liberated woman with a pullstart vibrator, I'm sure. :P