>>469750
They're five feet away with guns drawn.

Almost everyone of you has Bioarmor on.

Break them, warn the tank crew that shit's going down.

Neumono and people with bio-armor get in front of those that don't, and engage! Get our backup in here, and the rest of the troops be ready to deal with the backup these assholes just called in!

They're probably heading for the van as well.

Hopefully you left the mic on your comm-set open, so backup is already en route. Otherwise its going to be a few seconds until they hear the gunshots.

Grab Febo's collar and haul him back while you sprint forward. Close distance and meatshield for the rest. Unload into the non-neumono enemy first, and sweep into the neumono. Once in close combat range, pull your knife, use that bio-armor to your advantage, and RIP AND TEAR. Your kin should be right behind you doing the same.

Try to leave one of the neumono alive and with enough bits intact that they can speak. You need someone to take back to interrogate.

Kill them all. Non-neumono fall back.

>>469760
What he said. Agress!

I think shit just got real up in this.

Make sure to say "Gold balls are in your MOM's sand trap" before gunning them down.

1/2 Suggestion 2012/11/08(Thu)15:58 No. 469769 ID: c4e5c2
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Karri yanks Febo back, as she rushes forward with the other neumono to handle the enemy group. Febo still didn't end up lucky, as he takes a bullet to the shoulder after barely getting a couple shots off. The enemy group, does not look like they'll be able to outlast Karri's small group of 5 by any means, but she still yells to the radio jammed in her collar.

"Take out this group! Tank crew, shit's going down! We may be having to make a fast exit, so make your way to the tank if we have to run!" she yells softly enough to have her voice drowned out by gunfire so that she can't be heard by enemies.

2/2 Suggestion 2012/11/08(Thu)15:58 No. 469770 ID: c4e5c2
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Off in the bar, Karri's reinforcements leap out of their chairs, barely bothering to conceal their weapons if at all.

In what is probably not a coincidence, so does every single other patron, drawing guns and all. Everyone notices, and briefly freezes in awkward silence under the realization that everyone had reinforcements, and they were all sitting together.

A couple of explosions and more gunfire can be heard off in the distance, not in the direction of the tank, but farther than anyone of Karri's crew is.

The bartender dives behind the counter.

Like I said. This operation is a complete clusterfuck.

Let's try to negotiate our way out before this turns to a bloodbath.

...whatever your stupid ambush plan was, it's fucked, now. You really want to fight this out? Because you're not looking at an easy steal anymore.

Announce to all parties that they can have the fucking van. You are leaving.

All troops withdraw and return to base. Fire if fired upon.

I would like to remind everyone that none of Pilon's crew or Green Force are dead. If we leave now it will stay that way. If we fight for that van we will lose people.

>>469774
The only thing stupid here is suggesting to try and talk things out in the middle of a gun fight.
We didn't aggress these people, they attacked us so I don't know why you think they'd just let us leave because we called a time out.

Those in the bar, draw and aim, but don't fire. Announce you're doing this. Back out slowly, while saying that they all can have that damn cursed cargo; You're getting out of here while the getting is good.

Karri, only way to stop this from spiraling even further out of control is to do something drastic.

Once the tank crew has arrived, flip your communicator to all-channel broadcast, and yell out the order for them to target the cargo van with all guns. Once that gets everyone's attention, shout out that you are leaving the cargo behind, minus fifty grand, and getting out of here, and if anyone fires on or attacks your people in any way, your tank will blow their precious cargo to pieces.

>>469781
I can agree to this. If we blow it up we will still have a copy of some of the data.

If you can take down the leader and it isn't too risky to say it, tell them they could've just paid, and this situation would have been entirely different. Loud enough the radio collar hears it.
Then put a few rounds into their skull.

Suggestion 2012/11/08(Thu)16:59 No. 469791 ID: c4e5c2
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"Fire if fired on, but this is escalating too damn far!" Karri says, but tables are already getting flipped for cover, and the other patrons soon begin firing, leaving Karri's group little alternative but to fire back. The rest of everyone that was positioned in nearby alleyways get into a similar situation.

With cover fire, Karri is able to grapple the girl and toss away her gun.

"Tell your guys to stand down! You can have your van, we're leaving! You want to fight it out, you're as good as dead!"
"You stupid bitch, I'm not the one in command! You're fucked seven ways to sunday! We're taking over the whole outpost!"

"Merra!" Karri yells to her brother. "Order the tank crew to arm and aim the turret on the cargo van! They're going to blow it all up if this girl doesn't make an order to stand down and save herself from a slit throat!
"They're not going to stop until you're all dead, fucking whore! We can recover the molten gold if that's what it takes!"

>"Tank crew reporting! The turret will be ready in seconds, but Piles used the distraction to take a motorcycle and run away!"

Slit throat (make sure she doesn't live).
Blow up van.
Fighting retreat.

Do your best to get everyone out alive.

Alright. Kill the girl, slag the cargo, make a fighting retreat, focus on keeping alive. We're getting the fuck out of here. Kill who we have to, or who gets in our way. Fuck these assholes.

>Piles used the distraction to take a motorcycle and run away!
If he didn't get anything else, he's not worth chasing to recover a single bike. If we see him again, we'll shoot him. But on his own, he's probably going to get killed by his employer, or drive right into Zozu or Black Supernova or something. He's as good as dead.

We'll keep whatever money our surviving client has to give us (just the sheep at this point, I think?), drop em off somewhere, and make our way home. Hopefully the data we copied is worth something, otherwise this mission is a net loss in terms of resources spent and lost (even assuming we don't lose any lives). At least the contact with the BS leader is something.

"In the end we're really just the messengers, Zozu. And you never kill the messengers. I would have figured a crime family like yours would know and respect that."

And decapitate her. I know you can, a few extra quick chops from your strong arms will certainly do the deed than a simple throat slice.

>>469800

Decapitate AND shove a grenade down the hole.

Neumono can often survive being decapitated if they get medical attention remember?

>>469799
No point slagging all those Zeny, at the very least. Seriously, it's a pointless waste. If we're going to abandon the cargo entirely and GTFO with nothing to show for the mission, then we should just do that--but that may be premature, as those distant explosions suggest another group (perhaps the intended recipients) might be coming to join the party.

Don't slag the cargo van; It won't change a damn thing now, and will just waste ammo to spite them. They're still going to come after you for even having the gold in the first place.

Slit her throat ear-to-ear; Decapitate if not much harder. Clean up here, then order everyone to make a fighting retreat to the garage. Once everyone is in, tell the tank to fire the laser cannons on the entrances to collapse them, and on the vehicles near to them to set them on fire.

If it looks like you can still get the cargo van out of here, do so. Bring four of your kin in it to dump all the Zozu gold out the back as fast as they can as you drive off.

>>469802
Not, 'often', no. They need to be pretty tough to begin with, get medical attention quickly enough after not to bleed out, and then be kept alive for months afterwards while they regrow.

Even if she somehow survives this, I doubt the pirates are going to give her the loving care necessary to survive.

That's a waste of a grenade, and of time.

1/2 Suggestion 2012/11/08(Thu)17:44 No. 469810 ID: c4e5c2
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Karri decides to use her talking time for something that isn't a snappy one liner.

"Tank crew, hold off on slagging the van, but keep the tank warmed up! Boe, Green Force, give me status reports! Regroup at the bar, then we make a fighting retreat!" Karri shouts, making a few hard slices to decapitate the girl before leaping into the bar to assist. Karri can still hear some far off gunshots in another section of the outpost.

2/2 Suggestion 2012/11/08(Thu)17:44 No. 469811 ID: c4e5c2
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"Boe here! All of us are alive, several of us got shot but we're mostly okay, Rief and Falu got hit hard, but they can still walk!"
>"Green force reporting! Serri, May, Meiler and Ramo are wounded! Balthrop, Wendel, Mumu and maybe Cillo are dead! We're almost in the bar!"
"Keep coming, we're nearly done cleaning up here!" Karri says.

About then, the speaker systems to the whole outpost blares up once the far off gunfire dies down.

"Attention dear outpost! This outpost is now under the caring hands of the Zozu Family. Now before you get up in arms about it, we're extending a premium offers to anyone and everyone with a gun and half a slice of ambition. About a dozen or so, maybe more, people are on our hit list, and normally that is our dealing, but today, a 100 thousand zeny offer will go to anyone, for each head of our enemy that they turn in! Just tune in to any television announcement channel to see what they look like. I should also say that cooperation from any able bodied individual is mandatory. Happy hunting!"

>"This is the tank crew! The garage doors were just locked!"

"Hey! Hey, one of you non-Zozu goons, come over here!" Karri hears the bartender say.

Shit, we lost Wendel? There goes chain of command. Karri, you're in charge now.

See what the bartender has to say.

We need eyes on the outside. We need to know how many more Zozu forces are outside. How fucked are we here?

"We're not for hire. You can, however, catch a ride out of this now-hellhole if you'd like."

Tell both teams to grab dead and wounded and make an escape.

Tell the tank crew to blast a tank-sized hole through the garage door, or an exterior wall, whichever is thinner. Also to open up with the laser cannons with a long, low pulse, and start melting the doors to the outpost interior, and shove some of the other vehicles in front of them with the tank, then shoot them to set them on fire.

Get on over to the bartender, keep your gun trained on him, and tell him you are not a goon. Then lower your gun and tell him that if he's got a way out of this clusterfuck for you and your people, you're all ears.

>>469811
Well blow out the doors then! We need to find some way of talking back to this Zozu guy, and tell them what we were trying to do so he stops trying to kill us and starts trying to kill the real thieves.

Also, to everyone that wanted to take the deal: I TOLD YOU SO. If you wanted to help Piles we could've done so without taking the deal! The only thing we could've gained from this is getting a lead on Whiskers, and we were giving up a MILLION ZENY for that! Neither money nor compassion were the right reasons to do this. You guys fucked up big time. We ALWAYS risked getting shot and/or pissing off Zozu by doing this deal. I didn't think Zozu would've uncovered the whole operation and set a trap, but things aren't much worse than I expected honestly. We're just getting attacked by Zozu sooner rather than later.

Then we make them regret it. We slap them here, we slap them a few more times latter, and we live, then there goes the zozu reputation and they're open game like the rest of us.

"WHATCHA NEED BARTENDER"

>>469816
>>469817
No, we don't want to have the tank start shooting our way out of the locked garage until we know what the Zozu forces outside look like! We may be forced to hunker down inside rather than punching our way out.

Maybe the bartender has access to the base's camera feeds? That would be convenient.

>>469819
I'm not to sure Zozu has heavy forces outside. If they did, why would they need to put a bounty on our heads? They could have blown us up as we pulled out of the garage otherwise.

We'll stay in here until the exterior is confirmed clear, but remember that half the outpost is going to get greed-stupid and come after us soon. Best place to be then is in the garage with the tank's laser cannons on our side.

Speaking of the tank; If the garage isn't a war zone right now, the tank crew should pull it up to the cargo van and load that crate of zeny in, along with the historical records, just 'cause it's there and light.

Let's see what he wants.
>Wendel is dead
... Aw man he was cool...

>I'm not to sure Zozu has heavy forces outside. If they did, why would they need to put a bounty on our heads?
Why risk your own guys, when you can get someone else to do it for free out of fear, desperation, and greed? There's no way Zozu actually plans on paying that bounty- it's way too big.

If it works, it gets rid of us, and the most dangerous people in this base, nice and easy.

Suggestion 2012/11/08(Thu)18:41 No. 469836 ID: c4e5c2
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>How fucked is everyone?
Although she doesn't know how much activity in the outpost will rise to kill Karri and the others, the tank crew does report again.

>"Tank crew! They've just breached the h-" is as far as they get before Karri hears gunfire take them down. They, at least, are 100% fucked.

Karri leaps over the counter as she yells out to keep eyes out the windows and cover allies coming in.

"What do you want, bartender?!We're not for hire, in case it's something like that."
"No, it's not like that, but this outpost has been bustling the last day or two, and this explains why so many people came all of a sudden! Zozu must be swarming all over the place! A lot of these buildings are basically big panic rooms since this was once one big spaceship, and this bar is one of old rooms made to be self sustainable for awhile in the case of a hull breach. I've been trying to hit the damn button to seal us in, cause I'm not working with those Zozu scum upstairs, but I dont' want to shut it and be trapped with a bunch of armed people who don't want to be in here! Either all of you get in and we'll hold out, or get out and let me hit the button alone!"

Right, get everyone in here, then.

Since the tank's wasted, the van's lost. We just lost our paycheck. Our entire paycheck. God, what a fucking clusterfuck.

>all of you get in and we'll hold out
Sounds like a plan. We're outnumbered, outmaneuvered, and we need a defensible position. This seems like it. Get everyone inside, seal it up. A bars as good a place as any for a siege- at least it comes stocked with food and water.

I wish we hadn't hesitated to slag their fucking cargo. The tank crew doesn't have time now, assuming they're still alive.

"All survivors, get in the bar, now and report in!"

I'm chalking up all of Green Force as a loss, right now.

Ask him to to clarify how long is "for awhile," and for how many people? And for that matter, what makes him think the Zozu will go away before however long that is? They can and will siege this place until we all die a slow death of dehydration or starvation.

And another thing: How thick is the armor on this place? What can punch through it? 'Cause if the Zozu dig up a hull buster shaped charge or ship armor penetrator, we're going to get shredded if they use that. And they don't give a fuck about collateral damage.

>>469838
And what makes you think they would have just let us roll out of the garage that late in the game?

We AT LEAST need to get the tank back before we leave you know that right?

>>469856
The tank is GONE. It got blasted when the door opened back up! Did you not read the part about them being 100% screwed? We put it by the van expecting a small force to be here to claim it, not a force sent by Zozu to occupy the entire goddamn outpost.

1/2 Suggestion 2012/11/08(Thu)20:07 No. 469864 ID: c4e5c2
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"We're going to get in here, then you hit the button! How long can this thing last?!"
"It could could 40 people for about 30 days or so I figure, but that's if they let us sit idly by. The walls are thick, but not indestructable, so we may have to fight still.
"And how thick are the hulls?"
"It's not like I have the specifications, but this was build out of a warship, so I'd say pretty damn thick. Plus, it's got cameras on the outside, so we can see what they're doing and prepare."
"And what makes you think they'll just leave and not starve us out?"
"Nothing. Didn't know I was serving Zozu scum until just now. I just don't want them around is all, and I'm willing to lock myself in for even just a few minutes if it means delaying them."

The last few stragglers are able to get inside.

"I don't see much alternative, bartender. Close it up."

Asteroid Quest - Thread 2 END Suggestion 2012/11/08(Thu)20:07 No. 469866 ID: c4e5c2
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Wendel being dead doesn't change much for Karri being in charge, as he effectively gave her control once it turned out it was a surface mission. He likely would have spoken up if he felt strongly against Karri's decision, but that never did come around.

Once everyone is inside and the panic room is activated, the windows begin getting covered by solid metal coverings, while the building's own generator takes over.

Ultimately, 6 people were killed, while 5 more, 2 of which are Karri's siblings, need medical attention before they can consider fighting, leaving 19 currently able to defend right away.

There aren't 40 people in here, so rations will still last over 30 days. Karri knows that it won't take that long for Pilon and the trade hub to realize what's going on, nor would it take that long for the Zozu to break in and finish it. It's all she, and everyone, can do to give the Zozu as much hell as they can until that point.

Damn. That was quick. We're not really equipped to bust a siege. Uh... again.

Looks like we've got a good reason to call in that last Rokoa favor, though. We'll finally get to see her and Pilon in action at the same time!

...Dammit. With the way it turned out, I feel absolutely rotten for switching from the "take what you can and run" camp to the "let's make a deal" camp. Even though when I think about it, and figure that it was too late by then to get out anyway, it still feels bad. *sigh*

>>469874
We should have grilled them, checked the cargo, and left the job on the table as soon as we saw how jumpy piles was at first. I think by the time we left Nekto, it was too late to avoid running into Zozu. :/

>>469874
We could've been in a better situation to defend ourselves at least if we'd dropped the van and tried to leave. Would've lost less men, I expect.

Alternatively we could've spotted the off-color pin and gone "If you guys are Zozu then we've actually been trying to contact you.", or as soon as they gave the signal we could've tried to take them and find out who was behind it all, or ANYTHING other than playing it straight. Basically, by trying to make the deal, we implicated ourselves as part of the thief ring. It just doesn't make any SENSE to play the deal straight anyway! We're not part of the thief ring so we wouldn't get anything out of it that we wouldn't get more of by just taking the zeny from the van!

I just don't understand why people suggested to go along with it. There's no reason to.