Sweet!

Test Pattern 2010/03/02(Tue)19:01 No. 141322 ID: cfad4e
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Two hours have passed since the phone call.
I've repaired two of the rifles, though Mitzi claims she's never used a firearm before.

With my help, she's rigged the power supplies from the killswitch and the hallway to provide enough voltage to unlock the door and leave. Neither of us know what's beyond, what the rest of this facility is like, or who might be waiting.

My hearing has improved greatly. I can hear Mitzi's heart beating, her breath, the hum of electronics, the buzz of the lights, inaudible before. If only I could hear through the door. It's thick and heavily insulated. Pipes transmit some vibration, dampened too much to discern anything useful.

My nose is more keen. I've picked up many scents. Many humans, though it's hard to count without more practice. Mitzi smells different from them.

More recently, I've learned what the tails are for. Their sensory information has grown stronger, and gained meaning. I can feel vibrations in surfaces they touch, and localize sharp sounds even better than before. I can read air currents. Ones I wasn't even aware of before, entering and exiting tiny vents built into the walls, flowing over and around objects, down corridors, across floors. I can feel a room's shape.

Test Pattern 2010/03/02(Tue)19:01 No. 141323 ID: cfad4e
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But nothing will tell me what's past that door. Not until it opens.

>>141323
Well, better not wait any longer. If we've established that all you've got left to do here is open the door, then it follows that that should be what you do at this point.

Or, in a way that isn't torturous to read, open the door.

>>141327
Just out of curiosity, where are you? We can't see you for some reason.

Should we be deciding where to refocus your regeneration, then?

>>141331
All 3 parts, surface damage, immune system, and secondary senses aren't at 100% yet.

That being said, I'd respec to 1 part surface damage, 1 part immune system, and 1 part speed.

How many hours are left before the "rescue" team shows up? Have you destroyed all the cameras? Do you have the BACKPACK OF USEFUL THINGS assembled yet?

It'sss... so dark...
khh...iiill mmeee..

Test Pattern 2010/03/02(Tue)19:34 No. 141337 ID: cfad4e
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>open the door.
Of course. We made up my mind on that part. Only question is what to bring, and how to go about it. Should we hide as the door slides up, or rush out as soon as there's room to crawl? Should we spend an hour trying to get that heavy automatic weapon in the access room working, trusting in the voice saying we have ample time? Should I try to teach Mitzi how to shoot?

>Just out of curiosity, where are you? We can't see you for some reason.
You use my points of view, as I use yours. The real question is, why could you see me before? And I think we have an answer. I think you were making limited use of this blindsight before I could.

>Should we be deciding where to refocus your regeneration, then?
Not done yet. I feel there's even more to my secondaries than this. I guess it really is my birthday.

I can deal with the machines in my blood whenever I want, but this too will take time.

>>141337
Have you made out with Mitzi yet?

of course, if they were damaged how exactly would we be able to use them at all.
we could still see you even after you went through the microwave corridor and they were burnt.

>>141337
>I think you were making limited use of this blindsight
I guess. The only time we've seen everything in darkovision before now was when you got fried in the hallway. Then again, we're still not 100% on what we even are, and it's probably not especially important either way I'm thinking.

>what to bring
I was pretty convinced by the BACKPACK OF USEFUL THINGS somebody proposed earlier.

>time
Well, the phone said you had up to six hours two hours ago. I'm not your guy on figuring out how much you wanna push that. If the other guys figure you've got time, the automatic weapon working would certainly make this a lot more comfortable -- I mean, they've potentially prepared to "subdue" you, right? But I imagine they wouldn't be expecting part of the building's security systems to be firing at them. But like I said it depends on whether or not we wanna spend that much time on something. Dunno. Just sort of rambling, to be honest.

>teach Mitzi how to shoot
Well if you're gonna give her a gun you might wanna at least give her a primer.

>machines in your blood
I've always had a really bad feeling about these. If they aren't supposed to be there, and you've got time -- but that's the problem, isn't it? Guess I'm not really proving to be much help at all this time round.

Got all the cookies you need before heading out into the world outside? You already proved that your e-rats weren't microwave safe.

Honestly, aside from breaking all the cameras (which I assume you've already done) a quick perusal of your, ah, memories doesn't reveal much else to do here.

Two things - can you get Mitzi to open the door just a crack, or is this an all-or-nothing deal? Might be able to get some info before potentially letting an army inside.

Second, can you pick out the smell of her brother? Since he seems to be wandering around freely, horribly mutilating people and hotwiring the security systems, might be nice to track where he's been.

We like the old view better.

This here is what you should pack

BACKPACK OF USEFUL THINGS.
can of yellow spray paint
multitool
soldering iron
small power drill kit
scissors
roll of duct tape
roll of electrical tape
roll of scotch tape
2 pencils
2 pens
2 permanent markers
notepad
some small batteries that might be used in handheld devices
tiny shiny scrap of tasty metal
pry-bar
tranq tubes
S tubes
counter poison tube
stim tube
two-button scanner/transmitter thing
food and drink (space allowing)

>>141347
Add to that examining the manacles you saw earlier. I'm curious.

I'm still in favor of bleeding out some of that suppress, but I suppose I won't get enough support to convince you...

I thought your secondary senses were supposed to augment your primaries, not render everything in blind cave rat vision.

yes, an estimate of how long you think you may need to purge them would help as i figure most of the time would involve generous amounts of puke and aches everywhere. do not want to be someone potentially dangerous while you do that.
worst case scenario these things could do when activated is turn on and attempt to 'eat' their way out and shred anything in their way.

>>141364
Worse case scenario is instant death as they release poison into her system.

All they have to do is press one button that radios the kill signal.

You know what? Let's get those fuckers out of us before we open the door. Divert all resources to it.

Test Pattern 2010/03/02(Tue)20:34 No. 141371 ID: cfad4e
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>I thought your secondary senses were supposed to augment your primaries, not render everything in blind cave rat vision.
My eyes were closed. I can do both. Just gonna take some getting used to.

>>141371
I guess it would be pretty useful anyway. You could pretend to be asleep or unconscious and still be able to see.

Or you could use it to be able to see through smoke.

Test Pattern 2010/03/02(Tue)20:38 No. 141374 ID: cfad4e
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>This here is what you should pack
Okay. That should fit.

>Add to that examining the manacles you saw earlier.
Seems normal. One set goes on ankles, with adjustable hobble-chain, and another for wrists. I could probably break them. Not sure without actually trying to break them, though.

#1 get those fucking machines out of you.

How much time do we have left? How much time will it take to expel the machines? How much time will it take to get the big gun loose/working? How much ammo does it have? Is it like a .50 cal where it can get through 1 inch steel plate? How well can you move while carrying it? Am I asking too many questions?

>>141374
Okay the more I think about these nanomachine thingies the more paranoid I get.

Yea, go for a purge. Divert all resources to breaking them down and getting them out.

>>141399
I think we need to extract them whole. If they contain a chemical poison, breaking them down would release it anyway.

Yeah purge those machines you tubby lardass.

It might be better to have a head start on the armed guards that we KNOW will be coming in 4 hours now than to spend time removing a hypothetical backup kill-switch. They think we're sleeping in a tank at the moment, so they likely won't even have the hypothetical trigger with them.

Ignore this if the purge will only take an hour or so, but longer than that feels too long. No idea how much more facility we have to escape, after all. This is just a high security wing.

I also don't want to be a broken record here, but that also gives more lead time for the other escaped experiment that has proved to be incredibly smart, stealthy, violent, and prone to setting up time-wasting traps.

Penji, will you know if you smell him again?

Purge the machines now while the door is still closed. Plus, you've got a food supply nearby to refill your stomach with. It won't take very long, will it?

Speaking of food supplies, why don't you take apart that coil gun and get the superconductors inside? You said you wanted to eat some right?

>>141408
Coilguns don't use superconductors. It's probably just coils of copper wire.

Give Tazer-tits a quick kiss on the cheek. She's been very helpful and trusting.

>>141426
Maybe if combined with a hug, but not on its own.

>>141427
The hug goes without saying. It is like note reading.

>>141428
Agreed. Hugs are vital.

>>141430
I shall support this notion as well.

I vote against a hug. Can be kind of creepy.

>>141427
I vote hug Tazer-tits as well.

Test Pattern 2010/03/02(Tue)22:15 No. 141438 ID: cfad4e
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>Get those fucking machines out of you.
Okay, okay.

I spend the next twenty minutes giving Mitzi unenthusiastic drill instruction while I spit dark blood onto the floor.

She's a lousy shot, and likely to get worse in an actual firefight, but at least she's looking more confident. I also learned that the sabot rounds are caseless, while the FMJ rounds aren't. Mitzi runs through a magazine of the latter, and two rounds of the former. This leaves ten mags of FMJ, and (almost) two of sabots.

I think the machines are all gone, now. I still feel sick.

>will you know if you smell him again?
I don't think I'll be able to follow a trail. However, if I'm around him, he won't smell human. Unless he figures out a way to trick me.

>How much time do we have left?
The voice said within six hours, a little under two and a half hours ago.
>How much time will it take to get the big gun loose/working?
Not sure. Maybe an hour.
>How much ammo does it have?
One box of 100 rounds.
>Is it like a .50 cal where it can get through 1 inch steel plate?
Thereabouts, yes.
>How well can you move while carrying it?
I can lift a lot, but the inertia will make me less agile. And it's gonna be a beast to fire.

>Kiss Mitzi
I've got blood all over my mouth. Are you sure?

Yeah, try not to be puking blood and robots when you hug her.

>>141438
Well, you might want to wash up first.

>>141438
>I've got blood all over my mouth. Are you sure?
Better not.

How much longer do you think you'll be sick? If you got all the machines out of your blood, you should remove them from your mouth and face to make sure they can't get back in or something.

>>141438
Quite sure, just finish up with the bots, clean off a bit, and kiss away.
Don't forget the hug!

No, don't kiss for sure. And I'd advise against hugging.

Get the big gun rigged up and take it with you.

That's no good; one of the keys to accurate shooting is remaining calm and keeping your heart rate down.

That gun looks awfully heavy to be firing from a standing position. Is she as strong as you?

It doesn't look like she's using the sights correctly. Firing from the hip is for expert shooters and physicists.

As for a door plan, don't go rushing through; if there's a hostile resistance on the other side that's what they'll be expecting. If you plan on killing everyone between you and the exit, it'd be best to funnel them through a trap or two, or across an exposed bottleneck with lots of cover on your end. If there's going to be resistance on the other side of the door you really don't have any chance of sneaking out. The best you could do is wait for a team or two to get far enough from the door to where they couldn't help out a fast, hard push on the door, then slip through and bunker down somewhere. Of course the door controls are apparently on their side, and I doubt they'll be dumb enough to leave them open after they send a team or two in. In that case you'll have to take the entire team out in one go except for one or two people that you can beat whatever code word they're going to be using to open the door again, then surprise the door team with a nice big storm of bullets.

Unfortunately from the sound of the lady on the other line, it doesn't sound like getting through that door is going to be even remotely easy. She seemed concerned about your well-being though; if you're lucky you may be able to use that to your advantage, though that also seems unlikely since you saw for yourself you were dead and they somehow brought you back to life, and if you're just that valuable they could theoretically just do it again.

Worst case scenario, they just gas the whole goddamn place and send the team in hazmat suits. In that scenario you're probably fucked unless you can find an oxygen tank and some tubing.

I think we should take the gun loose. If they have heavily armored troops it could save us a lot of hassle. As it stands now we have basically just normal weapons. Penji would have to go berserker style to damage armored troops.

Test Pattern 2010/03/02(Tue)23:10 No. 141454 ID: cfad4e
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>kiss
>don't kiss
I have more important things to worry about!

Let's compromise.

"There," I say. "Now you can't say you've never used a gun before. And you're already getting better. Just quit taking your eye from the sight."

"Thanks," she says.

"If we get in a fight when the door opens, and you don't fuck up, I'll give you a kiss."

"...What?"

"You heard me."

She doesn't say anything, or look at me, staring at the doorway she's been shooting into, instead.

With that out of the way, should we salvage the big autogun first, or make a break for it immediately? Last call, here.

damn shit's gonna go down

so hard

make a break for it

if that doesn't work, autogun and >>141449

>>141454
>that conversation
You, um. You have... you have a "way with words." Yes. Let's call it that.

>gun or run?
Uhh.

Uhm...!

Fuck it, let's go for it.

Gun

>>141454
Screw the big gun. Heavy firepower is fine and everything but unless you have heavy enough firepower to take down the entire base it's not likely to do alot of good. Stealth and mobility is likely to be alot more useful.

multitask. gun AND run.

>>141454
Oh, I didn't know you even considered kissing an option. Interesting.

Let's get the gun. We can probably use it to great effect against the next bothersome enemy we come across. Like a security robot.

Go go go. Better to get out with enough spare time to not need a huge autocannon.

Crack the door, take a peek, take a listen, use your tails. Reassess from there.

As long as you realize that opening that door WILL trigger a high-priority alarm? Whichever.

every second we delay the people on the other side get better set up to prevent a breach. Break out now

Fuck the cannon. Lets get out ASAP.

Ride the cannon like a mechanical bull.

Get out ASAP, forget the gun.

Also.
>>Totentanz
Somebody's going to die here.

>>141546
Well, the connotations of the Totentanz (danse macabre, whatever you wanna call it) are along the lines of "everybody is equal in death, regardless of who they were in life." It's a very popular and enduring image in multiple artistic fields.

... Not especially thinking "everybody dies" is a fantastic outcome either, mind you, unless we can make that a particularly favorable definition of "everybody."

...stray thought but is Mitzi still running around barefooted?

I just remembered the boots from when we threw the kill switch and figured if we're running through a lab with gunfire going off there's a high chance of broken glass going everywhere.

>>141454
Penji, first, allow us to congratulate you on becoming certifiably badass.
Secondly, it can probably be safely assumed that there's a huge mess past that door as well.
We know that there are two test subjects unaccounted for in this section, and we just haven't found enough bodies to add up.

I say we just run it.

However, does that autogun look like it takes the same ammunition as your 13mm handgun? Can't hurt to top it off at least.

>>141875
nope, different ammo. Robot uses large caliber machine gun rounds and the big gun uses another type of large caliber round.

I think that's correct.

Test Pattern 2010/03/05(Fri)20:56 No. 142758 ID: cfad4e
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>That gun looks awfully heavy to be firing from a standing position. Is she as strong as you?
It's not heavy. At all.

>if there's a hostile resistance on the other side that's what they'll be expecting. If you plan on killing everyone between you and the exit, it'd be best to funnel them through a trap or two
Like what? And yeah, if I find hostiles, I was assuming the idea was to kill my way out or die trying, unless you have a better idea.

>Fuck it, let's go for it.
All right. Mitzi's already got the backpack and the boots you lot reminded me about. Couldn't hurt. Except that her footsteps are louder now. Not as loud as gunshots.

"Hey," I say. "I'm ready. Let's go."

"What about the big gun?"

"Gonna take an hour of work. We might not have an hour."

>>142756
>>142758
Ask Mitzy if there's anything she wants to do before we blow the door. If not? Do it.

agreed, open that door and kill anything that tries to stop you. things that don't stop you should be given consideration.

>>142758
Tell Mitzi to keep her finger off the trigger if she isn't already doing that.

Exit strategy is to pop the door and exit, sweep left, sweep right. Kill anything that isn't a mutant. The enemy's policy is kill on sight. Have no mercy. If you are a good enough shot go for the head. I don't think most helmets can take a solid shot from a rifle. Can you hit someone with the rifle without accidentally breaking it? If it seems like you can hit them, do that. It's much quieter. Order Mitzi to stay back in cover.

I take it there is some food and drink in the backpack.

>>142765
Now move out.

So, is the strategy to go charging out the door as soon as it's cracked open the first 18 inches?

I say taking a moment to use those new super-senses you've got is a better plan even if it means partially giving up the element of surprise. You've also got bulletproof cover to fight behind to go with your bullet-resistant face and torso.

The instant that door opens they are going to be radioing for backup. If we wait then they will take up positions in cover far away and wait for the heavy shit to get there. That will end badly. We need to kill them quickly.

Test Pattern 2010/03/05(Fri)21:36 No. 142777 ID: cfad4e
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"There's lights! Why didn't you disable them!"

"You're in a hurry right?" Mitzi says. "Besides, the ones on the other side-"

"Shh!"

>So, is the strategy to go charging out the door as soon as it's cracked open the first 18 inches?
It's that open.

Feels like a hallway. Twelve or so meters long. I can sense movement nearby, but not in a line of sight.

>>142777
Drop prone, open fire on any targets that aren't mutants. If you can hit their legs they will fall down and that will give you a shot at torso/head.

>>142777
That door's what, three inches thick?
Damn. We shoulda just blown the thing open. :/

Since the door retracts upwards you would need to expose quite a bit of yourself to look out there right now.
Keep back in case they rush the door, and get behind cover. Once you've got a firing line down the hall start looking for covered forward positions and prepare to move.

>>142778
Only shoot if they're hostile, maybe you can sneak past or something. Definitely find cover.

>>142781
Looks more like a foot thick. Plus we have no explosives.

I'm thinking we should try not to shoot unarmed personnel. Anyone with a weapon will probably try to kill us right off the bat, considering they really, really don't want us to escape.

anyone who knows you would most likely crap themselves thinking 'oh crap, it's loose.' cause the assistant guy sounded REALLY worried when you talked about your tube.

Guys. The first person to see us who gets out a message to HQ is going to have the entire facility worth of security on our asses.

K-I-L-L E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E or die.

Those are our options. There are no friendlies. If we let a single person get away we are fucked. Get prone. Open fire. That is standard procedure for a door opening like this.

Test Pattern 2010/03/05(Fri)22:06 No. 142791 ID: cfad4e
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>That door's what, three inches thick?
Five, I'd hazard. And it is taking its time.

>Drop prone
Another one of those tracked machines! Its scanners aren't visible, but the turret has a camera. It hasn't moved, so that's not the movement I sensed.

There are voices. They're heavily muffled. They probably don't realize I can hear them.

"Control, there's movement from the HS3 accessway!"

There's a pause. If there's a response, I can't hear it.

"Fuck your readings," says the same voice. "Bring the bot up to weapons free!"

what about restrain and question? would think someone would know something. maybe someone can tell you where you are from and why you were shot up.

Oh god damn it

if you think you can snipe it try to take out the camera, or just unload on the think so the whole front end caves.

>>142791
I REALLY hope that gun has Armor-piercing bullets.

>>142791
Fuck. Swap to flechete (if you can't do this quick enough, take cover further back). Open fire. Aim for the turret. You need to hit close to the barrel to hit the reloading mechanism and jam the gun. It's unlikely that you are in line-of-sight with any vital components to the bots operation.

I really wanted that big gun for something like this.

Are you good enough to hit someone taking a quick peek? You could try yelling that you are friendly and see if he sticks his head around the corner and take a shot at it.

>>142791
Can you put a bullet down the barrels on that? If you can, do so.
It'll cause a misfire, or at least a jam, meaning you can talk to the controllers.
You don't need to cooperate with them, but talking is always a smart move, if they can't shoot you.

>>142791
Fffffffff- guess we should have gotten the heavy gun. How did we kill the other robot again?

>>142801
By ripping and tearing its guts?

>>142791
Remember where the power source was on the other mech. These things are built on a standardized chassis, which means it'll be in the same spot.

However, try diplomacy before shooting, since things don't work so well the other way around.

Call out "Hold your fire! We're not hostile!"

>>Call out "Hold your fire! We're not hostile!"
>>we

You mean the security guard and Nyx are coming out? That is a very bad idea to say that.

Considering that Mitzi and Penji both regenerate to some degree, we can assume that they will shoot at us in order to pacify us.

We don't want to get shot, so SHOOT THE ROBOT.

>"Fuck your readings," says the same voice. "Bring the bot up to weapons free!"
I Don't think diplomacy is going to work here guys.

Test Pattern 2010/03/05(Fri)22:45 No. 142813 ID: cfad4e
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>I REALLY hope that gun has Armor-piercing bullets.
Loaded with FMJ. On the bright side, they're a little fancier than the name implies.

>if you think you can snipe it try to take out the camera
I open fire. Single shot, but squeezing the trigger as fast as I can.

Test Pattern 2010/03/05(Fri)22:52 No. 142815 ID: cfad4e
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Twelve shots. Most glance off the turret armor. I score hits on its optics. Eight rounds left.

"Shots fired! Shots fired!" I hear from downrange. "Bravo, defensive posture! Alpha, get here now!"

"What do I do?!" Mitzi screams.

>>142815
"SHOOT AT EVERYTHING THAT ISN'T ME!"

Tell her to get down, maybe out of LoS from the hall.

Then shout at the guys "Hey, what the fuck guys, throwing a robot at me immediately! Not cool!"

>>142815
Tell her to cover you. Stay back behind the door, and you'll give her a hand signal when it's safe for her to advance.

Let's go ahead and find out where Bravo is holed up.

advance, have mitzi cover you. if you can get to the bot you may be able to flip it and turn it into cover.

>>142813
Well, there goes our shot to either talk our way out or hit them up close.

Perhaps you could shout out "I'm getting out of here, and they don't pay you enough to try and stop me! RUN AND LIVE!"

Tell Mitzi to take cover.

I don't know what else to do. How do you feel about charging into a hail of gunfire?

You can do one of two things. Take cover and wait or advance and try to break out.

The bot is going to do one of two things. Open fire with all guns and move to get LoS with its cameras or not fire and move to get LoS with its cameras.

You have a 50/50 chance of doing the wrong thing and wasting an opening.

So I'll ask again. How do you feel like charging into a hail of bullets?

Tell Mitzi to get back, around a corner, and hold her fire. Advance, do not shoot anything that ain't a robot. If you can, flip over bot and use as cover. Shout about how much of a dick move to bring up the robots immediately, and how you wouldn't have shot if they hadn't brought out a goddamn robot can I get a human to talk to thanks.

We need to diplomacraft. I doubt the small arms could hurt you, though they might have SUPPRESS BOOLETS, which would be a pain in the ass, but they could probably kill Mitzi, and I'm trying for a good (lesbian) end.

Test Pattern 2010/03/05(Fri)23:33 No. 142849 ID: cfad4e
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>>142817
I gesture for Mitzi to get out of the line of fire and call out.

"Mistake! Don't shoot! Don't shoot!" I yell, and start moving forward.

A voice booms down the hallway.

"DROP YOUR WEAPON! PUT YOUR HANDS UP!"

It's coming from behind the robot, to my right. It doesn't have a line of sight. The robot starts moving forward. It'll be able to see me again any second.

"Scanner's showing nothing in the hallway," comes a second muffled voice.

>>142849
Close in to melee range and try to disarm them. If you can capture them alive that'll knock the odds in your favor pretty damn well.

>>142849
I see. Mitzi's brother blocked the scanners!

Get to the robot and shove its barrel out of the way, and keep the cameras from seeing you. Then point your gun right at the guy on the right.

Gesture to Mitzi to follow you in. The sensors can't see either of you and the robot will soon be disabled once we get close to it.

Swap mags and unload full-auto into the 4 sensors on its upper torso.

Tell them to retract the bot first, then you drop your weapon. Tell Mitzi to fire if it's a trap.

Robot is top priority at the moment.
No arms on this one? Get up there and take it out melee-style. Bet you can knock it on its side and use it for cover. If you are sufficiently awesome, shoot out the sensors while running full-tilt.

yell "OK I WILL"

but dont.

First living humans we've encountered and the idea was going for the run-and-gun approach?
They might not be a counter-suppressing Tozol and a half, but they do have more guns than we do.

Crouch down, get ready to -jump-, with the gun on the floor.
Yell "Friendly! Your robot spooked me!"
First sign of non-compliance or being fired upon, grab gun, dodge and disable the robot.
Just try to avoid human casualties, they REALLY don't like that. If you kill or harm any of their men, they'll probably kill you out of spite.

>>142849
Remember how you disabled the first robot? Flip this fucker over and rip out some wiring. Then let your senses assess how many people there are in the hallway and what they're doing.

This could also be a time for negotiation. Tell them that you don't really want to hurt them, you just want to know what you are and be free.

>>142897
>>142868

What are you guys talking about? These assholes tortured Mitzi with a rail gun among other horrible things. They don't deserve to live.

Run and gun away, take out anyone with a weapon. Unarmed scientists leave though, they're more likely to have answers.

You should avoid killing people until you really have to. The fact that they even bother to talk instead of just throwing something like incendiary charges or nerve-gas at you indicates that they ain't on a pure destroy mission. That'll change if you cause causalities. Equipment is ok to destroy though.

Remember that they expect, cause of your phone call, a civilian chick. Try to create a hostage situation with Mitzi, she looks human, and I guess she trusts you enough to fake it.
It's the only idea I can think of, unless you somehow assume you can regenerate through a hail of gunfire and maybe worse to slaughter a bunch of professionals soldiers.
You would die like a Sergal trying to attack Ride Armor without a proper Panzerbüchse

Also: you guys all remember that they promised to kill Mitzi if she was out of her cell right?

What kind of sissiy suggestions are those? Also, we must conserve ammo. Here is the plan:

1: GRAB robot
2: THROW robot at security guys
3: EVISCERATE what's left

What part of "The enemy's orders are to kill on sight" don't you understand?

They only reason they haven't opened fire is because they haven't seen us. I don't think some of you understand how this works. They will do absolutely everything in their power to prevent us from escaping. Mostly this involves putting lead chunks through our body.

No witnesses. No survivors. No mercy. Kill or be killed. You understand how this works. If you take someone alive, they get a 30-second interrogation followed by a broken neck.

>>142907
Would that make us no better than them? If so, how are we more worthy of survival than they?

>>142910
Because we don't turn Innocent young women into horrifying mutant abominations.

>>142910
Being worthy of survival has nothing to do with survival. You either survive or die. That is all, worthiness or morals doesn't enter into it.

Right now the enemy has a kill on sight order for anything coming out of that place. Those orders might change on the spot, not very likely but it's atleast worth it to give them a chance or survive.

If they don't take that chance then we kill them. For which I think our best bet would be to flip over the robot. Then use it as a shield and get Penji and Mitzi stuck in among them. At a range they can use superior firepower and numbers to their advantage, if we can get in among them we will be able to use vastly superior physical strength to our advantage while negating some of their numbers and alot of their firepower.

>>142911

And then torture them with rail guns.

Their orders were to terminate any escaped experiments. Dear Penji was merely pickled for a while.
There's still a small chance we can do this without violence, which would be much, much safer for everyone involved. Whatever set up everything until this point is loose and apparently very happy to kill.
Of course if the soldiers aren't open to diplomacy from something with four ears, Penji's proven quite capable at combat.

Remember that phone call? They knew about human-looking subjects, and they're willing to kill humans at the first sign of trouble.
Using Mitzy as a hostage would get both of you shot while establishing that you're openly hostile.

It's hard to convince people you've got peaceful intentions when they think they've got a huge advantage over you. If you disarm them without excessive force then you've got the advantage and your words become a lot more believable.

>>142913
That was the researchers, not the guards.
It's likely that the guards only knew it was a biolab for dangerous creatures, and they certainly didn't know the experiments that were being conducted.
The guards are an obstacle, not an enemy.

If you guys wanted to be going for the no kill clear, we should have been looking for the tranq gun, not the high powered shooty rifle. Attempts to make them not hostile through purely vocal means are just plain not going to work.

You can shoot to maim I guess, but Mitzi is not that good a shot.

But to more immediate concerns, I say Penji yells "Not till I don't see your fucking killbot!" and takes a few more shots at the remaining optics before it can see anything. Buy a few more seconds to see how things develop.

Why are you willing to get Penji shot to save the life of someone trying to kill her?

Think about that for a while.

>>142945
They don't WANT to kill anything, they're just under orders to do so.

Completely besides that, disarming and capturing them more than doubles the chance of getting out alive.
How, you ask? Simple.
1: The guards know the layout. Convince them that you just want to leave (which is basically accomplished by not killing them) and they can give you a rough sketch of the facility as they know it.
2: The guards are not paid enough to die for their job. Alive they can express this to other guards, which could make the escape significantly easier. "Hey, there's these two subjects coming. You can't stop them, but if you don't try they'll just walk right past you."
Alternatively? Ablative meat.
3: It gives you a chance to leverage what you know to get out. For example, telling them that you know an escaped subject is going around slaughtering people, and you'll track it down and take it with you if they let you walk out of there.

>>142953

Want or under orders is irrelevant, they're still gonna shoot us. Remember how scared they were of the mere prospect of Penji being awake?

Charge the robot at full speed, it can't target us at point blank and we can use it for cover.

Maybe people can live if they volunteer a surrender. Don't compromise our position at all for their benefit. They're horrible evil scientists, and they knew the risks when they signed up.

>>142954
The difference is significant.
Somebody who wants to kill you will try to do so even after they've been beaten.
Somebody under orders to do so will give up once they realize that they would probably die in the attempt.

>>142970
They aren't expecting an armor plated killing machine. The benefits of capturing them alive greatly outweigh the risks.
Once again, these are guards. They don't know what the company is doing, and they're just here for the paycheck. Their jobs are not worth their lives, and many of them probably have families at home.

>>142945
She would probably be fine being shot. Crazy regen after all. And I doubt most soldiers would shoot you if you weren't shooting them/threatening them.

Shout at them to pull back the robot, and you'll put your hands up, but continue to keep your weapon on the robot until they do so.

Here's an idea: get captured. You won't be worse off than when they put explosive rounds through your head.

Maybe but only as a last resort.

>>142905

Yes throw the robot no no don't do that.

>>142941

> "Not till I don't see your fucking killbot!"

I like this idea.

Also get close to the robot if you can't disable it. Nothing turns a man into a heartless psychotic killer than putting him in control of a robot from the safety of a bunker 6 miles away. Soon as those guns are on you, it's over.

>>142992
Seconding this.
Peaceful solutions are always preferable.

Peaceful solutions? Are you crazy? We are in a lab where the owners EXPERIMENT ON PEOPLE. Yeah, they'll let us go. Sure. I bet this all just a big misunderstanding. It's not as if they had us hooked up to some giant bug-zapper, just in case.

Penji, if you surrender to them you are going to die. I want to make that clear to you. Because I'll kill you if they don't.

>>143014
... and the GUARDS have nothing to do with that.
I'm pretty sure the guards would be absolutely horrified if they found out that Mitzy started here as an intern, if for no other reason than because that's going to make them question if any of the guards who "left unexpectedly" (And there are always a few) actually ever left. Not to mention concern for their own well-being.

>>143020

Or they'd obey orders and shoot on sight.

>>143035
Thus why you rush in and disarm them so you've got a massive tactical advantage, and then open negotiations.

Can you use your magic blindsight or your many ears to find out what kinda opposition you're actually facing?
Or any other sense you might have.

>>143035
Penji can take it. Didn't it take some ridiculously high-powered weapon to kill her, with a direct headshot? Sure, normal bullets would hurt, but I doubt it would kill her or disable her. This is why we told Mitzi to stay back, we don't know if she could take a bullet.

Suppress bullets would be something different, and is why I recommend shouting negotiations from behind cover, but not shooting at them.

...I always throught that Ringo's "liberal peacenik idiots" are just invention. You just had to prove me wrong, aren't you?

>>143330
No doubt these are the same Idiots who wanted Goshen to surrender to Shadran way back in after quest.

>>143330
You mean pacifists and optimists? No, no we're not invention.
From an objective standpoint, discussion is almost always preferable.
It's not an entirely peaceful and benign process, mind, debate favors the one with high ground, either moral or military.
In this case, we have moral, being that we just want to get out of here and live, and may have military, given that regeneration and fuckhard bones, not to mention absurd strength, and almost certainly extensive military training.
Also, I'd prefer that you not refer to people as "idiot" just because they have a position you disagree with, unless it's something completely indefensible, like intelligent design or eugenics.

but even if we have the high-ground if something is totally unable to be reasoned with then you cannot debate with it. if they all want to kill you dead they will refuse to listen and assume everything you say is a trick so you can kill them.
we can try your way a little but if they try anything it will be shoot everything that moves. deal?

>>143339
Incapacitate if possible, kill if not.
You're correct that discussion isn't always possible. I admit that.
When it is possible, it's always worth at least trying.

>>143336
I would have apologized, exept I am not sorry. "Idiot" is the only way I can describe someone who continue talking about "peaceful resolution" and "discussion" with PEOPLES WHO HAVE ORDERS TO KILL US ON SIGHT.
However, you are right - I shouldn't have wrote it. For that I can and do apologize.

>>143381
And I thank you for your apology, kind suggestion.

GUYS.

Discussion thread, PLEASE. Stop cluttering the main quest thread up.

>>143421
Right, sorry.

There's no way to be certain that any of the people you're currently confronting bear a direct responsibility for any of the atrocities you've witnessed in this den of abuse. Justifying violence as an ethically proper response by declaring them responsible for the abuses in that place is unwise.

Secure a defensible location and impose upon them that you are not something to be trivially disposed of. Open negotiations rationally and politely.

rape them to death if they betray you

>>143435

They're gonna shoot us! We don't have time to debate morales :|

>>142849
... Hey, Penji girl, is that a wall panel to your right? Think there's a space behind it to hide in?
Do you have time to check before the robot can see you?

Oh, if you get a chance shoot out the lights. Secondary senses ftw!

Those security guards seem like pretty stand up guys. We should try talking to them.

Just run up there and shoot the humans first since they seem to be fixated on their scanner, mayby they won't hear you coming. After that deal with the robot like before if it can even see you anymore without your nanites just like their scanner. Might be too much to hope for, act fast.

Ok, so we have "giant robot in the doorway syndrome" >>/questarch/103196
And we all know what happens when we attempt the "jump over the robot" maneuver >>/questarch/103360
Jumping over the robot is not an option.
Then we have the "hide out of the turret's firing arc" gambit >>/questarch/104049
And we all know how that goes. >>/questarch/104056
Hiding is not an option.
So then we come to the "grab the turret" dealie >>/questarch/104083 . Which results in the "neck grapple" problem >>/questarch/104099 . Which is solved by "footgun" shenanigans >>/questarch/104127 .
But we don't have a footgun.

So what did we learn from this?

Turret grabbing will work except that the bot has arms that will grapple us.
So
We need to disable the two arms on the left side.
And we do that by
Shooting the arms.
Which requires
Armor piercing ammunition.
Which we just so happen to have in the form of
8x5.8mm discarding sabot rounds.

But they aren't in the gun so our actions should be:
Reload the gun with a 8x5.8mm discarding sabot magazine.
And then
Open fire on the two arms on the left side of the robot.
While
Dodging turret fire by erratic movement.

Are there any questions?

>>143875
Hang on, this raises a point I'd like clarified:
If the rounds are 8x5.8mm Sabot, does that mean that the Sabot is 5.8mm, and the carrier is 8mm?
If so, what's the case length?
Was this already stated, and I just missed it?

>>143880
I'm not sure. It's only mentioned in the item layout in this pic >>/questarch/129117

I assume that it is similar to APFSDS. Nice and thin to penetrate armor better. Lousy damage but better than nothing.

Test Pattern 2010/03/08(Mon)19:38 No. 143972 ID: cfad4e
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>Kill!
>Negotiate!
I, Uh!
>Attack but go nonlethal / Flip the robot
Taking this option for now! I sling my weapon as I run, latching it to the harness.
>Dodging turret fire by erratic movement.
I dodge from where the barrels point. It sprays chaingun rounds into the hallway.
>Watch for the arms.
This one has some kind of ballistic shield in place of the arms, topped with a sensor package. There's a figure crouching behind.

"Subject! Subject inbound!" shouts one of the voices.

"HALT!" says the same voice, this time amplified rather than silenced by its mask.

>>143972
It's kill or be killed penji. KILL. THEM. ALL!

>>143972
Oh thank god. Grab the turret barrels and flip that shit.

Yell "Not if you keep trying to kill me!"

Push off from the side of the wall to swing around and smack the guy down.

>>143975
This. And while you're doing this shout "THEY DON'T PAY YOU ENOUGH FOR THIS SHIT!"

>>143972
Flip the motherfucker!

>>143978
Yeah, psychological warfare on those rent-a-cops!

>>143972
Keep dodging, and get close to it so it's harder for it to track you. Jump up on top of the turret itself so you're in its blind spot. Then we can disable/interrogate the humans.

 

>>143983
Protip: these guys aren't rent-a-cops.

Test Pattern 2010/03/08(Mon)20:19 No. 143999 ID: cfad4e
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The room ahead feels large and open, with a few large crates or cargo pallets. There are five distinct targets just ahead, including the robot.

Movement in red. Me in blue.

Since it doesn't have any arms lets try jumping over the bot (don't cross the firing arc) to the left side to use it as cover and flipping it towards the other peeps.

>>143999
The robot lacks arms. Lunge feet-first at the robot, then bounce off into the guards. You can stun one or two with the impact, and that'll put you inside the minimum effective range of their weapons.
At that point you can leverage your far superior strength to rip the weapons from them and toss them away before anybody can respond.

Well, on the plus side we've got the moral high ground now. We were just shooting at a robot. They're shooting at people. Tozols, anyway.

I second the "1) hurdle robot 2) flip robot for cover" plan over the "kung fu fighting against guys with guns with an angry robot at back" idea.

I'm pretty sure a show of force will be necessary, but maybe you can get them to surrender?

After you flip the robot make sure to smile pleasantly at the men. I'm sure it will calm them down.

Crap, there's too many of them. You're going to have to kill some.

Get the rifle ready, and open fire upon the ones hiding around the corner once you reach them. Take advantage of the element of surprise. Oh, and fire a few shots off at the one hiding behind the blast shield so that he can't tell the others when to fire.

Once you've taken out the troops hiding behind the corner, inject the one behind the blast shield with the SEDATIVE.

>>144019
I don't think we have enough TIME to flip the robot. That fucker's heavy and it took quite a while to flip the one that had arms.

Jump atop the turret and yell at them to turn it off. No killing.

Test Pattern 2010/03/08(Mon)21:04 No. 144028 ID: cfad4e
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>flip the tank
I run into it at full tilt. It weighs a lot more than me, so this does little. I manage to get below its traverse and lift, however. It pivots on the rear of its right tread as it rolls onto its side, still firing.

"Shit!"

"Engage! Engage!"

They start shooting.

Drop below the level of the gun and hip check them from all fours.

Yell at them in a very commanding tone to stop shooting while you run your jelly rolls behind the tank.

They have face concealing helmets.

You may kill them without consequences.

Spin the tank clockwise to make it into larger cover between you and them and get behind it.

If the guard starts to get out of the machine, put one or two rounds into his head. Open fire on the rest as best you can.

Yell "RUN YOU BASTARDS! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! I'M GOING TO KILL ALL OF YOU!"

Get behind the tank, start to drag it with you towards the cover to your left. Yell out for them to stop shooting.

Kick the first Doomguy, grab him with your foot-talon-thing and throw him into the other guy, saying "No, YOU HALT!"

It'll have to do until your one-liner skill levels up some more.

Get behind the tank and push it into the two mooks until it pins them into the wall.

You disabled the bot so for the next few seconds you can take advantage of psychological tactics. Trip them to disarm them--gun carriers never guard their feet, then use one as a human shield. The troopers probably will hesitate to shoot you then, giving you enough time to pull out your rifle while the bot recovers its standing position. Then, jump back onto the bot where its guns can't reach, carrying your prisoner. He can't bite you because of those ridiculous face shields, but watch out for hidden guns or other secondary ammunition.

If they continue hostile actions more than a second after that, open fire. If they calm the fuck down, get Mitzi out to cover them with her rifle.

>>144028
Grab one, use him as a shield, and make a statement.
Tell them to stop shooting, and think for a second if they want to piss off the heavily armed mutant who just flipped a veritable tank, and has an armored skeleton.

Frankly if you kill them all at this point it'd probably improve your chances a lot more than trying to negotiate with people shooting at you. Any obligation of diplomacy or mercy ceased the moment that bot opened fire.

Well, hell. If they're in melee range, a kick-grab on the closest actually doesn't sound like a terrible idea. Otherwise, spin the tank as you tip it for better cover.

Just remember - you're a Counter-Suppressing Tozol and a half. You can do this.

Your head voices sure go on overdrive when exciting things are happening! It'd be a shame if one of them got distracted in the middle of it all.

Hm...

...

I like ice cream.

I like ice cream but I can't eat it. That doesn't make me as sad as it should. I wonder why? Ice cream isn't good for you anyway. Do they call it ice cream or iced cream? I forget. I wonder why they don't call it frozen cream the way they call it frozen yogurt. Ice yogurt? It's hard to find that stuff. A lot denser than ice cream too. It helps if you soak the scoop in warm water first.

>>144050
There never was an obligation, but while you can go from talking to killing you can't go from killing to talking. Corpses are like that.

Disarm them, confiscate their weapons, take them captive. They do not pose a significant threat.

>>144028
Well they have opened fire. Negotiations broke down even before they began. And they have foolishly moved inside of melee range, now there is only course of action. Rip and motherfucking tear those sons of bitches new assholes. Maybe keep one alive to use as human shield while you get back into cover and Mitzi catches up with you.

Hey, maybe it's a bit late to be mentioning this, but does it take significant concentration to convert all your surplus bio-control to short-term work like generating adrenaline, suppressing pain, and rapid healing?

Because that would probably be really handy 30 seconds ago.

>>144079
No, just kill them. captives are only good for rape and penji's too classy for that.

Test Pattern 2010/03/08(Mon)22:53 No. 144087 ID: cfad4e
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>Use it as cover
I hold on as I get behind it. There's already some angular momentum, so I move it around rather quickly. They shoot me in the back twice, but the heavy slugs flatten and fragment against my bone plates.

I feel them moving out of easy melee range and spreading out, while laying down suppressive fire. I ready my rifle.

"Maintain base of fire! Did you see that? Operator, did you see that?"

A pause. I can feel the door that was to my right as I exited the hallway opening, and more movement from beyond.

"Why didn't you warn us?!" shouts the same voice. Difficult to keep them straight over the gunfire.

>>144087
Too bad you don't have any hand grenades. return fire if possible. if not wait Intill some of them have to reload.

stay down, after a while they may stop, don't come out yet. soon they will have the guy who pulled the short straw come over to check. the moment you see the guy grab him, disable and pull him next to you.

You've got a damn good angle at the group entering the doorway. You are shielded from the people already firing at you. Take out as many people coming through the doorway as you can. Fire 8 shots and reload. Take a little extra time to ensure they all hit. We have a great attack opportunity and it would be a shame to miss a single shot.

>>144087
Call out "BECAUSE I SAID I WASN'T THERE AND YOUR OPERATOR BOUGHT IT!"

Then follow that up with "I DON'T HAVE ANY BEEF WITH YOU GUYS! IF YOU STOP SHOOTING THEN WE CAN WORK THIS OUT PEACEFULLY!"

>>144087
Check out what opened that door. It's too blurry for us to make it out so we can't say if it's friendlies or hostiles. Return some fire against the guards, never stay out of cover for more than 3 seconds, preferably less than that, after each time you fire change position randomly to a new firing position and use single shoots, you don't habe enough ammunition to waste.

And get Mitzi up to the end of the hallway.

Signal to Mitzi that she should advance to your position.

Yell "RUN YOU BASTARDS! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! I'M GOING TO KILL ALL OF YOU!"

Is your side okay?

You need to say something to them, it might not work, but they at least need to know you're an intelligent being and not just a psycho monster. Try "Stop shooting at me, I haven't hurt any of you!"

Unwanted visitors through door #2. It would probably be a good idea to try to shoot them if they're carrying guns. Unfortunately it's a bit long range to try to incapacitating shots, but if you think you're up for it the joints will be more lightly armored. I say we go for foot shots if we get people in melee range though.

I don't see why we want Mitzi in the hall yet. She's mostly untrained and probably doesn't heal nearly as quickly.

"I'M WARNING YOU NOW THAT IF YOU KEEP SHOOTING I'M GOING TO SHOVE THOSE GUNS SO FAR UP YOUR ASSES YOU'LL BE PULLING THE TRIGGER WITH YOUR TONGUE"

Blind fire from cover, Gears of War-style.

>>144095
>>144122
Yelling at them is probably the best thing to do now.

Completely serious.

>>144096
>>144099
Mitzy is not bullet resistant. If she moves up, she's probably going to die.

Test Pattern 2010/03/08(Mon)23:59 No. 144149 ID: cfad4e
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I peek out to see if the new arrivals are friendly, and to make myself heard.

"I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT!" I yell. "I JUST WANT TO LEAVE!"

>>144144
Are you kidding? Did you SEE that video of her that freaked her out?

She has the ability to come back from serious wounds, if not fatal ones.

>>144149
Good. Now wait a second for an answer. If they keep firing, see if you can wait for one of them to reload and start firing again.

Test Pattern 2010/03/09(Tue)00:02 No. 144152 ID: cfad4e
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They're armed aGFRGJK!

Ow.
ALRIGHT ENOUGH FUCKING AROUND.

>>144150
She came back, but we don't know how much of that was on her own.
Regardless, she's not armored well enough to survive a hit to the head. If she gets wounded she'll be slowed far more than Penji.

Leave her back there until you've got a foothold, then we can consider moving her up.

Test Pattern 2010/03/09(Tue)00:05 No. 144159 ID: cfad4e
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I feel very disoriented. And symmetrical.

"Grenade out!" shouts one of the humans.

>>144159
Find 'nade.
Throw 'nade.
Plug ears.

>>144159

Dammit! If you hear the clink of a frag grenade near you, either dive for cover or throw it back!

Cherry-pick your targets for maximum accuracy.
Kill or incapacitate at your discretion.

>>144159
Look for the grenade via your secondary senses, then SWIPE it back at them. Don't actually grab it, just smack it.

Time to stop caring. If they're readying a grenade they'll probably have less guns aimed at you. Shoot the ones holding the grenade first.

well now we know for sure that nothing but heavy ordnance can do any real damage. be ready to tennis the grenade.

We could have killed 5 guys and you fucking tarts get us shot instead.

I hate you guys so much. I want to cry right now.

Well fuck now we have no opening and we lost tempo. Fuck you guys trying to get Penji killed. I'm so stuck on how much we could have done that you threw away. I can't even think of what to do with this shitty situation you put us in.

I hate you.

>>144164
This one.

Then after the grenade has gone off, gun them down.

Don't try to throw the grenade. They have a tendancy to explode in your hand when you do that. Dead serious I know someone that lost a hand that way. Just get out of the way. Fire at them as the shock wave from the explosion sets you aloft. Aim for the center of the forehead; that's where humans keep their brains. If you dive back under cover after it explodes they might hesitate again to see if it hit you.

>>144170

Hey hey it's not so bad. We got cover, we got precious time, and I don't think any voices are going to suggest that you don't kill anymore. Unless Batman posts here. What an asshole.

We can still recover this. Plus we gave them warning. Alien or not, no military court in the world is going to hold you accountable for killing them at this point. All we have to do now is survive.

I would have started making head shots as soon as they opened fire, but it's hard to get Penji to do that on a dime you know?

We are in a losing position. There are around 7 attackers. Penji has a concussion and can't aim straight anymore. There is a grenade about to go off.

Pull back into HS3 and seal the door. We'll take a few minutes to recover and then see about it from there. We've got the hallway of burny death. And a giant machine gun waiting back there. We'll pull something together.

I can't believe you guys blew this.

1. Vibration-sense at maximum.
2. Remove grenade from vicinity of self.
3. Clear your head.
4. Provide new map of enemy positions.
5. Shoot people in a hardcore manner.

>>144170
Well like I said before in >>143334. these are most likely the same morons that more-or-less handed Goshen's head on a sliver platter to Shadran.

>>144187
I was one of them. It changed me. Shadran dies. All of these fuckers die. I err on the side of me not getting hurt.

Children please, we just did this a couple posts ago.

>>144183

You... you honestly can't believe that we blew this?

Good idea though. If we can get the bulkhead doors closed they won't be able to shoot. But you know they'll come back with far bigger guns than we could ever jury rig in the lab. I'm telling you this is our only chance right now. Unless you have some idea how we can hide in the lab or escape another way. If they get word that the Tozol woke up they'll probably just nuke the whole place so hard it'll make Athelhom look like a roman candle.

Penji, if you stick your head out into the line of fire and us voices tell you to wait a second, DON'T LISTEN TO THEM. This is the second time jesus christ

yeah, some of the ones in here are all 'i dont care if they have the mega death ray and are known killers, we can just talk this out'

ignore everyone who just wants to talk it out, now is action time with death and guns.

>>144183
First: This is not 'blown' by any stretch.
Second: I said melee disarm and capture, not sit behind cover and do nothing. If she had engaged them in hand to hand combat right out of the hallway then they would have been taken down in seconds before they could even draw a bead.
Third: I told her to call out her lack of bloodlust because people had already positioned her badly and there wasn't much else she could do. Seriously, who thought it was a wise idea to have her take cover behind the robot when hostiles were close enough that they could flank her by taking two steps? Wait, wasn't that you?

Screw the inner debate.
Calm down, for starters.
Grab the 'nade, throw it back.
While it goes off, lay down some suppressing fire, then vault the 'bot.
Engage in melee, take a hostage, and threaten the others with your rifle.
Demand that they cease fire.
If they don't comply, start knee-capping them.
Be sure to use your tails to take the side-arm off the one you take hostage.

>>144159
When I said max three seconds that is provided that you're firing at them. Anyway nothing you can do about that right now. Throw or kick back the grenade.

Then get Mitzi up there and ask her if she can quickly unlock the door in the distance behind you while you provide covering fire. With your new head injury and them having got time to prepare mentally I don't think we should stay in this fight, getting away and resting some sounds alot safer.

Test Pattern 2010/03/09(Tue)01:10 No. 144224 ID: cfad4e
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>Look for the grenade via your secondary senses, then SWIPE it back at them. Don't actually grab it, just smack it.
Doing this, I start moving to kick the grenade before it finishes landing. And not a moment too soon. Several fragments hit me, but I'm lucky, and functioning. Any slower and I'd be in trouble. More trouble.

I should tell you that I can probably manage fast center-of-mass shots, or fast shots to specific body parts at very close range, but if you want me to hit specific body parts at range, I'll need to take careful aim.

Can you aim with your secondary senses? If so, shoot their arms.

>>144224
heh, I've got a fun plan.

Tear off the bottom, use it as a shield and charge.

>>144224
Center of mass shots. We're looking for quick injuries and kills and we shouldn't be worrying about their lives at this point. If one of them gets back up we can worry about pumping more lead into them.

This is war. You're a soldier. It's time to kill or be killed.

>>144224
Start shooting out people's right arms.

Go to the right side of the tank and lean out of cover only far enough to get a shot at the right-most guy. He will be the only one with LoS to you. Don't go far enough around that any others can get a shot at you. Put 2 into his chest.

Test Pattern 2010/03/09(Tue)01:15 No. 144234 ID: cfad4e
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>Can you aim with your secondary senses? If so, shoot their arms.
Not with that kind of accuracy! And my blindsight's a little wonky from the blast.

Sucks to be them then. Shoot center mass.

>>144233
This, but arms or head. Disabled or a quick death, no lingering.

>>144224
Ok there are three people visible to the left side of the robot, they're completly without cover. If the left side of the robot is 12 o clock then one is at around 12 and the other two would be at say 10. I would suggest shooting the one at 12 first, three quick shoots in the center of mass and then aim at the other ones at 10 o'clock use your bullte resitance and their lack of cover to take them down as well with 3 well placed shoots per person.

Then get Mitzi up there and ask about opening doors or moving the robot. If she can move it we could use it as a mobile shield and get closer to the guards.

>>144237
That's our left, so your right. Otherwise it's still correct.

Tear off the bottom? Hell, use the entire tank to pin a few of them to the wall if you can shove it fast enough. THEN tear off some armor plate.

But you can't do it while being flanked. Right now a few quick chest shots at the people advancing on your right should at least send them back under cover.

It'll also assess the quality of their body armor. Hopefully it won't come to needing aimed shots at necks and elbows to take these guys out of the picture.

>I should tell you that I can probably manage fast center-of-mass shots, or fast shots to specific body parts at very close range, but if you want me to hit specific body parts at range, I'll need to take careful aim.

Please read this carefully.
>fast center-of-mass shots
>fast shots to specific body parts at very close range
>if you want me to hit specific body parts at range, I'll need to take careful aim. (AKA slow)

Fast center-of-mass shots seem like a good choice until we need to do otherwise.

>>144234
This is a battle, stop fucking around. Take out the four guys in front of you with snapshots aimed at center mass. Do it before the others entering the room flank you and deny you the benefit of cover.

>>144246
The four guys on the other side of the robot are basically corralled in there. Take-out the new people first, since they have the most mobility and seem to be moving to cover.

>>144224
Start shooting center mass to see how good their armor is. That stuff looks like a hard ceramic shell, and I bet there's an extra bulletproof vest under it. Getting shot normally winds up not being lethal, but hurts a LOT and tends to take them out of action. Don't shoot again after you break through the armor.

They don't seem willing to negotiate, center of mass shots go!

>>144267
This seems a solid plan.

>>144234
Alright, diplomatic way didn't work. Time to KILL.

Center-of-mass shots at the people moving into the room seems a good idea, as long as it's fast snapshots at them as they move behind your cover.
If possible, try to put a round into the leg of the last guy to drop in the new group.
However, we definitely need to move into a more advantageous position. ... Uh. Any ideas, anyone?

>>144234
They talked you into poking your head out while I was asleep???

Agh.

Alright, let's go for some center-of-mass shots. I imagine those guys coming into the room are gonna be easier to hit from where you are than the guys over in the corner there.

>>144326

Let's sprint for that box thing after we've eliminated the ones by the door, shooting as we go.

>>144327
Bad, bad idea. We've got more cover here and known terrain to our back. Plus, those things look like wood crates...
I'm pretty sure this warbot is much better at stopping bullets.

>>144152
>>144149
holy shit i stop posting to control my internet habits and you guys tell the main character to stick her head in a hallway filled with people that consider her the biggest menance ever since the atomic bomb on sterois with stilts?

dont shoot. you just disabled their little tank, tooked a grenade shell at medium range. they are SO TERRIFIED of you that your conversations wont do much good NOW.

if you TRULY want to talk with them dont kill anyone. destroy the bot (since its a menance anyway), retreat to the back room while claiming truce. take pot shots at equiepment, more specifically, whatever seems to control the doors. also remember them you do have a tecnician to repair and that we are SO not leaving until we have a chat.

>>144234
You Can't retreat now. If you do, they'll seal that door again, and leave you to starve.
These guys won't listen. They'll probably kill your friend without hesitation if they get past you.
Take the body shots. They aren't guaranteed to be lethal but they can be incapacitating. This is a medical facility, there's probably help for them somewhere close anyway. Help you won't be getting until you can talk to whomever is giving the orders.

>>144224
*bleep*ing pacifists. Although I admit that their reject to your attempt to communicate make me feel better about killing them, I could sleep perfectly well without it.
>>144270 have right idea. Center of mass shots, start with FMJ to determine how well protected they are. Afterwards, if you didn't disabled them, shoot to kill. Start with ones near entrance, they look like they are trying to flank you.

Force them in to cover with suppressive fire from behind cover. Under no circumstances expose yourself to further direct fire, as they will now be aiming for your eyes or using larger weapons.

Retain the initiative and do not allow them time to regroup and recover their morale! Take a hostage if you can!

Fuck em' up until they surrender and/or beg for mercy.

Test Pattern 2010/03/09(Tue)18:58 No. 144553 ID: cfad4e
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>Humans moving to flank. Stop them.
Yeah, three of the new ones are moving. The fourth of their fire-team is trying to suppress me with something on full auto. The other team of four has backed away in a wide, staggered formation and is also firing to suppress.

I shoot at the three runners, while avoiding sight with the others.

One falls in a splash of blood and crawls into cover. Another stumbles but stays on its feet, and the third appears undamaged, though I'm certain I hit at least once.

Either these guys are very robust, or their armor is sapping most of the energy from even penetrating hits.

"Man down! It's got an LMG!" one shouts.

"No. It's a rifle!" barks another.

"It's an MG! It hit all three of us!"

Strange that I don't overhear more chatter. Perhaps their silencing gear blocks some, or maybe they're being closely guided by radio.

Magazine's empty.

are you shooting single shots more rapidly than an Machine gun?

Reload with mini-APFSDS. Go to right side of tank and sweep left. Open fire on other group. Pick them off one-by-one right to left only exposing yourself to one of them at a time.

>>144553
Can you spin the tank around and wrench the shield off of it?

>>144559
Following up on this, what kind of armor are they wearing? Anything that might look like a weak spot?

>>144558
me again
With this plan you can drop another 3 people easy. Don't waste this opportunity.

>>144553
they are well protected but dont seem to share all radio contacts, its possible they are overpaid rookies. meleeing them could become interesting but you dont have how to shorten that range completely. remember, they need heavy weapons to take you out, and under the tank you are a very good siting duck.

also it seems they will try to outflank you again if they really have silencing gear. ask to chat again before firing, claim you werent aiming to kill. take note on any extra-heavy weapons and grenades they may have.

>>144553
Shout back "It's a rifle!"

>>144585
NO.

Let them be confused. Any info we give them helps them. You don't tip your hand to an enemy trying to kill you.

Push the tank towards the original four guards. That will give you a better firing solution on the three behind the crate, and force the others into CQC range. Or pin them to the wall.

>>144586
Right, right.

Yell that it's a shotgun.

>>144585
>>144603
>>144553
Tell them that the gun is a fake and that you're actually shooting them with mind bullets.

>>144558
I like this idea.

>>144606
Now that's silly. First off, if they take it seriously, which they have good reason to, it would just strengthen their resolve that we're an inhuman killing machine experiment gone wrong etc etc.

Don't say anything about the weapons.

Don't reveal that you can hear what they say. If they don't know we can hear them, they might give away tactical information.

>>144631
Check your senses. We need to recheck their locations, and see if any are down.

>>144606
That is silly. Tell them it's your index finger instead.

Test Pattern 2010/03/09(Tue)20:40 No. 144636 ID: cfad4e
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>Reload with mini-APFSDS. Go to right side of tank and sweep left.
While the humans to my left are recovering, I switch corners, reload with sabots, and open fire. The target nearest the corner takes a dart to the chest before it notices. I traverse left and put two rounds in another human, then return to the first and shoot him in the head as a hurricane of fire surrounds me.

I take grazing hits to the arm and thigh, but the humans have switched rounds as well. The armor-piercing darts don't have a lot of stopping power.

>are you shooting single shots more rapidly than an Machine gun?
Of course not, but almost all of my shots are hitting. The humans are not nearly so accurate. They must think I'm firing dozens of times.

>Can you spin the tank around and wrench the shield off of it?
Not quickly. It looks very secure. I could try pushing the whole tank. Not fast enough to actually hit people trying to get out of the way, but it might startle them into retreating.

>>144636
if they are keeping the fire up, I'd go for the push the tank forward strategy

Angle the tank correctly for cover and start pushing it towards the two people you didn't shoot. Use your senses to scoot the tank to back them up to the doorway.

If you see a crippled peep still moving put one into his head before advancing further. Even after getting wounded there is a good chance they will try to shoot at you again if they can.

Can you tell how badly you wounded Mr. TwoShotsInChest? Did he fall over?

Don't kill disabled troopers. Once everyone is on the ground, then you can threaten them into submission.

>>144644
You do realize that the crippled guards are going to shoot Penji in the back of her chest with armor piercing ammunition that will get through her bone plates and tear into her internal organs, right?

>>144645
That's why we threaten to shoot their faces if they don't throw away their weapons.

And while we are working that out we aren't pushing the tank or worrying about the people flanking us. And that gets her shot in the back of the chest with armor piercing ammunition that will get through her bone plates and tear into her internal organs.

>>144646
>That's why we threaten to eat their faces if they don't throw away their weapons.

Fixed.

>>144652
When I said "after everyone is on the ground" I meant everyone.

But yes, let's push the tank into a better position.

Test Pattern 2010/03/09(Tue)22:34 No. 144718 ID: cfad4e
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I put my back to the robot and push, keeping my weapon shouldered. Bullet fragments itch underneath my skin.

"Fucking hell!" one shouts. "How do we stop it?"

"We need smoothbores! Gyrocs!"

"Grab the wounded and fall back. Marching fire. Eugen! Your satchel."

Damnit, they're going to use more explosives. Hows your blindsight?

>>144718
Do not let them mess with that satchel!

>>144718
Smoothbores? The only reason why they'd do something like that is if they're bringing in some sort of portable projectile cannon.

And I don't like the sound of Gyroc. It sounds too much like a fusion of Gyroscopic Rockets.

Think it might be time to drop prone, roll, and take some aimed shots at that group. You've got penetration instead of stopping power loaded right now, right?

Go for the legs. They're not going to satchel-charge the room for a bit longer if they're dragging away wounded, and that will slow them down. At that point you can probably close to melee and maybe get some hostages.