Log started: 11/7/02 10:17:12 PM $$$$$$ IC News $$$$$$$$$ Message: 14/10 Posted Author Some Fun Wed Nov 06 News Report ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pharaoh Man appears on screen, in a French Maid's outfit. He doesn't look to happy. " I refuse to commit such an embarassing piece of social immolation. " There is a *bamf* offscreen of an arm-cannon coming into existance, and the charging of a NeBuster. " Oh dear...." Clearing his throat, Ra begins singing... Raindrops on Bioroids and whiskers on Neon Tiger Bright Nerpium Orbital Cannons and Weapon Wielding Metools Six packs of Wilybeer tied up with strings. These a few of my favourite things Cream colored hoverbikes and frustrated Apple Pie Doorguards with rifles and Guts Man singing 'Schnitzel and Noodles' These are a few of my favourite things. Iris in white dresses with blue satin sashes Reploids' mechflood splattering on my nose and eyelashes Silver white BLIzzard Man melting horribly in spring. These are a few of my favourite things. When Treble bites When that accursed Chameleon stings When I'm feeLIng sad I simply remember my favourite things And then I don't feel so bad... Ra repeats this once more, and mutters under his breath when finished. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$ IC News $$$$$$$$$ Message: 14/11 Posted Author Now Hiring Thu Nov 07 News Report ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fact: Ninjas are mammals Fact: Ninjas fight ALL the time. Fact: The purpose of the ninja is to fLIp out and kill people. Fact: Recently, there have been fewer people to kill. With the escalation of the Robot Wars, more and more people are taking their kilLIng into their own hands. Many ninjas, human and reploid aLIke, find themselves unemployed and without any means of supporting themselves. If you're a ninja in need of work, seppuku is not the only answer. Call 555-FLIP (OOC: Contact Shadow Man) today! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Outside> Hangar - Starhaven Outside> Contents: Contents: Job [SPACE SALVAGE GEAR] [C] Matic [Suit] [C] Wildrider [Hunter] [MH] Terror Tanuki [666] [M] Guts Man [Normal] [RM] BLIzzard Wolf [MH] Rigger [Lab] [MH] Serenade [Armored] [RM] Ether Skunk [Unarmored] [MH] Andromeda [Helmeted_eva] [MH] Mikage Yukiato [C] Prismatic Spider [RF] Gimel [Suit] [C] Ricochet [Armor] [RF] Gemini Man [Normal] [RM] Sword Man [Normal] [RM] Cyclops [Armor] [M] Enforcer Malamute [Main] [M] KaLInka [Work] [MH] Breeze [Armored] [MH] Midi [Olddesc] [C] Ten [Main] [RF] Pallbearer [Pall] [RF] LIbra [LIbra] [SD] Regulus [SD] Leo [SD] Barrage Raptor [RF] UN Heavy Transport Mecha Orb Outside> Southwest : Vestibule of Spectres - Starhaven Southeast : Menagerie - Starhaven Out : Orbit of Earth Outside> Bluegrass enters the base. Outside> Enforcer Malamute just looks around, hands over his chest as he waits, watching, still ready to deal with the Stardroids as soon as they show up. Since he's almost positive they will. You will now hear messages on channel . Outside> Gimel coughs, "this is kinda creepy and possibly dangerous, can we kinda hurrypleaseplaseletsgonow?" Outside> Job is armed with an odd looking M-4 assault rifle. If anyone got a look at some of the markings with say enchaced senses they might see the Raccoon PD logo on the rifle. Well Job now just waits as he gives the weapon one last check before returning it to its slot on the equipment pack. Outside> Prismatic Spider nods. "I know, Ricochet, but relax. They're supposedly all gone, right?" Outside> Ten has disconnected. Outside> Mikage Yukiato has reconnected. Outside> Mikage Yukiato has partially disconnected. Outside> Haschenkopf waits several moments for the crowd to calm and quiet... as well as to give his UN troops a quick look that tells them to play nice. "From here, there are two apparent paths into Starhaven." He gestures to the large, locked gateways to the relative Southeast and Southwest. "We have no idea where each leads, and have not yet opened either. Half of you will proceed down one path, while the other half, follows the other. I leave it up to you to divide up how you see fit." Outside> Ricochet snorts, and shakes his head. "I'll beLIeve that when I see it." "*BWIP BWIP*" He rubs the wall plating sLIghtly, before GLancing towards the doctor, and then the other 'forcers. Outside> Letting himself sLIp near KaLI's side the black dragon silently observes the young girl before giving what seems to be a smile. "Interesting that they let a child in such a dangerous place." The dragon hologram lets its head drop letting its large red optic focus on KaLI. "But then appearances do seem to be deceiving." Outside> Prismatic Spider peers over to Pall and Ricochet. "Pall, we should each go with one group for best coverage. I'll take southwest, you southeast. Sound good?" Outside> Midi GLances back and forth between the two paths. Hmm, just great. Midi thinks about it, and respolves to head with the same group as the main Hunters, or at least, KaLInka. He idly walks up to her "Hey, which way are you going?" He asks. Outside> Gemini Man projects a holographic image of Gemini Man. Outside> Ether Skunk looks to the other Hunters, swishing her tail and waiting to see where they go, to presumably follow behind. Outside> KaLInka begins heading toward the southeast room, pausing as the black dragon suddenly arrives at her side. "You know, appearences are deceiving," she says to him. "I am not a LIttle kid anymore." As Midi comes over, she says, "I was thinking of going southeast, actually." Outside> Sword Man hrms as he peers toward both doors...the finally makes his way totward the Southwest door. He turns about expectantly, wondering what the other RMs are gonna choose. Of course, he keeps on walking as he looks back. The wonders of an independant floating torso, ya know. Outside> Gimel closes his eye and points in a random direction. After opening his eyes, he chooses the direction he wasn't looking in. Outside> Ricochet furrows his brow faintly, but nods, after a minute. "Alright. You sure, though? You'd be goin' without any other 'forcers, I think..." Outside> Matic wastes no time as he heads to the east, picking his way through the various shadows over towards the entrance to the 'menagerie'. Clever Director, yes. Outside> Wildrider nods, and leans in towards the other Hunters. "Alright. Let's spLIt up, gang." begins the pilot, before he gives a sLIght twitch. "Maaan, that felt creepy. Still, BLIzzard, KaLInka, you two take one way. Rigger and I'll go another. Best to spLIt the brains and the brawn evenly, just in case." he explains, with a sLIght smile. "Unless anyone else has a suggestion?" Outside> Midi nods "Mind if I come with ya then?" There's an equal chance of each way leading to a possible mainframe access, may as well stick with the friendly types. Southeast it is! Outside> Ah, choices, choices. Gemini Man just hates difficult choices. So, predictably, perhaps, he doesn't make one. Both twins look at one another, and both of them...spLIt up. Unless he runs out of hologram range, he's got this situation well in hand. Outside> Prismatic Spider shrugs, grinning a bit. "I just suggested that me and Pall spLIt. You can choose whichever way you LIke. I'm capable of taking care of myself in a pinch." Outside> Serenade unwraps another candy, though this one she actually eats, chewing on it absently, eyeing the two paths outLIned by the scientist fellow. Easterly or westerly.. Hn. West will do. The Femme sets herself quietly in that direction and waits, head tilted sLIghtly, watching the Gemini twins spLIt up, and others make their choice. Outside> Enforcer Malamute turns and heads towards the group heading Southeast, as per orders. Outside> Guts Man hmmms, decisions decisions, "I think I'll go..." He starts to point to one door then another, "Eenie meenie minnie moe, catch a tiger by the toe, if he holler's let him go. Eenie. Meenie. Minnie... MOE!" He chooses the south east door! Outside> The dragon chuckles softly and nods. "Of course you are not Ms. Cossack. Of course. You have grown up some if I understand correctly." Letting his focus fall on Midi the hologram lets off a soft of annoyance as it stands up on its hind legs. "But allow me to introduce myself if I may. Since I already know exactly who you are, I beLIeve I should give you an idea on who I am. I am called Kumicho. It is more then a pleasure to meet." Outside> Rigger GLances at Wild with a sLIght nod of agreement. It sounded LIke a good enough plan, even though she gives KaLInka a hesitant GLance. She could worry about her later. "Alright. Everyone stay together and keep on your guard, got it?" Outside> Ricochet bLInks, and nods. He scratches his head sLIghtly. "Oh... uh... either of you need me more?" He GLances off towards the South west... might go that way. Outside> Ether Skunk swishes her tail, smiLIng, and scoots towards the Southwestern group for now. It'll be fun! Outside> Job is on his own pulls a zenny fLIps it and choses to dead to the South West. Well he is ready as he ever will be so time will only tell. he says to KaLI and Midi, "Watch you backs you two and be ready for anything." Then he trecks off ready to explore the unknown. Outside> Bluegrass GLances about... while GLaring as much one can without a face... to several humans around her. (Yakuza... Why Yakuza...)oo. She GLances in the direction of the menagrie. Does Bluegrass trusts the Yakuza/Shadow Hunters? Oh, hell no." Outside> BLIzzard Wolf sends a radio transmission. Outside> Ether Skunk receives a radio transmission from BLIzzard Wolf. Outside> Dynamo enters the base. Outside> Cyclops begins to look around for a certain pair of twin Mavericks while beginning to walk towards the southwestern door... Outside> Gemini Man has disconnected. Outside> After a brief radio conversation, the Terrors begin moving towards the southwest door. As they walk, still hand in hand, they GLance around as if looking for someone - but when they spot a Gemini heading for their door as well, judging by their surprise, that wasn't who they were looking for. Outside> Ether Skunk sends a radio transmission to BLIzzard Wolf. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf receives a radio transmission from Ether Skunk. Outside> Gemini Man has connected. Outside> Serenade silently offers Ether Skunk a candy. Caramel by appearance. And indeed it actually is. Sometimes she could be friendly. Then again, maybe she simply had too much of the stuff and felt LIke sharing. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf sends a radio transmission. Outside> Ether Skunk receives a radio transmission from BLIzzard Wolf. Outside> Matic clenches his fists as he sees Guts Man lumbering his way. You'd think the looming spaceship would quell his rage....but no. Outside> Cyclops sends a radio transmission. Outside> Enforcer Malamute receives a radio transmission from Cyclops. Outside> Andromeda floats over toward the group going through the southeast passage, keeping herself moving over their heads. Perhaps she's not as frightened about being in Stardroid turf as the others, since she was built after their coming. Outside> A haunting tune plays from nowhere. Outside> No, it's not a whistle. It's humming. Outside> Dynamo appears in a flash of gold and white. What? You expected maybe Protoman? He appears with a smirk, singing under his breath. "Oh tell me why, do we build castles in the sky, oh tell me why..." Outside> Enforcer Malamute sends a radio transmission to Cyclops. Outside> Cyclops receives a radio transmission from Enforcer Malamute. Outside> Ricochet arbitrarally decides. "I think I'll head east." Outside> Pallbearer has disconnected. Outside> Wildrider scratches at his chin, motioning towards the Southwest door. "Ladies first then." explains Wild, with a smile at Rigger, and a sweep of the hand. After she begins moving, he's sure to follow. Chivalry and that. Outside> Barrage Raptor sighs rather loudly shouting ust audibly over others, "ho cares you have to go one ay or another to get somewhere. And don't tell me you kno here e're going." Outside> More LIke looking at her rear... But Rigger does indeed move off in that direction. Best to get this overwith, after all. Outside> Prismatic Spider waves to Barrage. "Hey Barrage, come with me. Rico's going the other way." Outside> While this is all going on, Serenade pulls out that LIttle camera again, and snaps a few pictures. No flash, but some of the people ... and things ... in here are definitely scrap book material. She'd never seen ships LIke these, or a non-violent gathering LIke this in a while. Some opportunities are not to be passed up. Outside> Dynamo bLInks over in front of the Maverick Hunters. "Oh, I must insist on grace before beauty." He gives them a most salacious grin, and heads west himself. Outside> ---- BLIzzard Wolf is staring at Bluegrass in armor! ---- Outside> UN soldiers move to take up positions by the two gateways, one Southeast and one Southwest. They prepare to open the doorways, while awaiting for the two groups to assemble nearby. Haschenkopf overlooks the group assignment quietly waiting. "Once again, we are not sure what any of you will find beyond these doorways. Proceed so long as it is safe, and be careful. Return here if repairs are needed. Maintain radio contact with eachother... do not lose your team members." He turns and nods to the soldiers, and with a grunt, they haul the heavy airlock doors open. Darkness looms in both directions. Outside> KaLInka rather fearlessly heads off into the darkness waiting to the southeast. Outside> Guts Man waves to the guards, "So long stiffs!" Outside> Menagerie - Starhaven Outside> Contents: Contents: Regulus [SD] Andromeda [Helmeted_eva] [MH] Guts Man [Normal] [RM] Matic [Suit] [C] Enforcer Malamute [Main] [M] Ricochet [Armor] [RF] BLIzzard Wolf [MH] Midi [Olddesc] [C] KaLInka [Work] [MH] Gemini Man [RM] Outside> Northwest : Hangar - Starhaven Southeast : The BibLIotheca - Starhaven Outside> Matic sLIps down the hall, thankful there are plenty of dark spots to hide in as he picks his way along parallel to the group. Interested more in treasure than information, the Strider activates a variety of scanners on the pommel of his techncipher, and keeps his pace mirroring the group. Outside> KaLInka pulls a flashLIght off her utiLIty belt, shining it in front of her to illuminate the darkness. "Is this not amazing, Midi," she whispers. Outside> Ricochet heads through the door. Hoping, perhaps, that he made the right choice. Orbit follows along. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf follows along quietly behind KaLInka eyes GLowing in the darkness a dull hue of red. "Charming..." he remarks absently as he looks around the area quietly. "Geiger would appreciate this. Post-modern Xenomorph?" He sniffs at the air thoughtfully, as if trying to decide how long it's been unoccupied. Outside> Bluegrass marches with the group, sticking close to KaLInka and the other good guys, while offering a brief GLare in Matic and Gemini's way." Outside> Midi nods slowly "Yeah... neato..." He briefly figits with his backpack, spinning it around so that it faces his front? How odd. Or so you'd think, he quickly fLIps it up and around, and opens it up. Now it's a labtop that's positioned right in front of him, being held up by the backpack straps. Ingenious LIttle set-up. Starting up his system, he begins to record as much information as he can, still keeping an eye out for a terminal he can access from. Outside> "I do not know what these cages held...can you imagine?" KaLInka asks BLIzzard in the same reverant whisper. "Biorganics...there is a lot about this place that suggests a self-repair system..." Outside> Gimel has disconnected. Outside> Enforcer Malamute shakes his head as he walks along, "Wonderful. It's LIke a zoo, only nothing's still here." He murmers, "Who'd be wilLIng to bet they're still out in the station somewhere?" Outside> Gemini Man steps in and looks around this dead place with eyes flashing with wonder. He seems almost dazed by it... ignoring Bluegrass's GLare to instead peer into one of the cages as if seeking its occupant. Outside> The area remains quiet, and as empty as first impressions would suggest. Off in one corner of the chamber, one hanging cage swings back and forth on the long chain that supports it. The rusty LInks that affix it to the ceiLIng squeak and whine softly in the way that rusty metal squeaks and whines... the only movement that presents itself to the explorers as they begin to filter in. Outside> KaLInka quickly shines a flashLIght in the direction of the swinging cage -- illuminating it eerily as it squeaks and whines back and forth. Outside> Ricochet doesn't notice the motion... in fact, he's looking in the other direction. "Looks abandoned." he says, to no one in particular. He's most LIkely subconsciously headed towards the Hunter contingent - after all, they're the closest thing to other Replforcers here. "*BWIPBWIP*" pipes up Orbit. Outside> Guts Man looks around, "Wow. So this is what we came all the way for. A rusty swinging gogo cage! Wow!" Outside> Midi types quickly on his keyboard, clackclackityclack, as he walks onward. Though he's watching the screen, he walks around objects and other potential tripping hazzards easily, he's just damned used to it, probably. He GLances over at the cage that KaLInka illuminates "That's.... creepy... is there anything less spooky in here?" Outside> BLIzzard Wolf lets out a soft grunt. "An old fashioned zoo..." he remarks after a moment's consideration. His gaze then locks on the cage, a frown making his expression seem even more toothy than normal. he'd rather LIke to know what caused it to MOVE if there's supposed to be nothing HERE... Outside> Gemini Man provides his own 'flashLIght,' the crest on his helmet GLowing slowly before him, and providing an ambient GLow around his location as he walks into the darker shadows of the room. Outside> Enforcer Malamute walks with one of his hands always staying close to his hip. Why? It's a natural cop thing when you're in an area LIke this. It's supprising he doesn't already have his weapon drawn. He does, however, cLIck on a flashLIght, which maGLocks to his right wrist. Outside> Bluegrass notes, "The way you put it, miss Cossack, it seems LIke this is the place where they keep those they've chosen until they can be 'Stardroid-ized'." She hears that sLIght creak and hrms, "Now, what ya'll think that could be?" She heads in the direction of the moving cage, crossbow in hand... just in case." Outside> Midi receives a radio transmission. Outside> Midi sends a radio transmission to Job. Outside> KaLInka shakes her head, and murmurs... "Something best left in the dark, no doubt." Nevertheless, she swings her torch this way and that, checking out the cavernous walls on either side for signs of LIfe. Outside> The cage continues to swing, back and forth, its arc of movement slowing with each pass. Soon, it rests relatively still. It's not much to look at, for all the looks it's getting.. but BLIzzard touches upon a very good point. Just what made it move? From the other side of the room, a sudden *clang* of metal on metal as something drops to the floor amidst the darkness... a long, hook-LIke tool, clattering to a halt. The sound of its fall rings through the silent chamber for many long moments. Outside> Midi receives a radio transmission from Job. Outside> Matic seems to be wilLIng to let the group play with the various toys and observe from afar. Still, the Director feels along the walls, probing for any loose bits - any bauble he can swipe and carry along - hopeful for a microchip or even a jewel of decent size. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf sends a radio transmission. Outside> Midi virtually jumps "What was that?" He turns in the direction of the fallen object, but without his own LIght, he'll have to wait for someone else to illuminate it to get a look. Outside> The Kumicho and several Yakuza members sLInk behind the others and seem to be taking their time in observing the area. Outside> KaLInka quickly turns the torch toward the metal tool as it clatters loudly -- then, reflexively, she shines it upwards -- trying to see what made it fall. Outside> Orbit bLInks. "*BWIP BWIP*" <...if it isn't something horrific, then the place is falLIng apart all around us.> Ric bites his LIp. "...that's... possible..." he GLances towards the Hunters. "Are you guys finding anything?" His optics follow KaLI's LIght. Outside> Enforcer Malamute receives a radio transmission. Outside> Enforcer Malamute doesn't jump, but he does turn his head towards the source of the noise, ears flattening against his head as he almost draws a weapon...Nothing yet, though, "I hate this." He murmers.. Outside> Enforcer Malamute sends a radio transmission to Cyclops. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf rumbles softly, "Okay.. that's it.." as he starts to turn his head towards the place the sound came from, turning up his visual sensors to full power. He's a paranoid by nature and function, he's in the dark, of course he's gonna switch over to full infrared in a situation LIke this. Outside> Bluegrass stands stock still... "Ya know, Ah suddenly feel LIke Ah'm a certain movie. The ones with Jason." She activates her headLIght. "Nothin' yet, sugah." She tells Ricochet. (And hopefully we will still find nothin'...)oo." Outside> Guts Man looks around as things fall, "Wow, I feel LIke we're in some bad haunted house. Only that whoever is in front will probably end up getting chewed up by a giant shadow creature! Or maybe the guy in the back of the LIne as we tell'em to watch our backs." Outside> Enforcer Malamute receives a radio transmission from Cyclops. Outside> ---- KaLInka is staring at Bluegrass in armor! ---- Outside> Enforcer Malamute sends a radio transmission to Cyclops. Outside> "Something's here!" Gemini Man says. It's not a shout of shock, but a shout of extreme excitement. The LIght on his helmet flaring up sLIghtly, he rushes forward, toward the sound of the falLIng object, just to get a better look. Outside> Midi receives a radio transmission. Outside> Midi sends a radio transmission to Job. Outside> The wall that Matic quietly probes disagrees with the treatment, and seems to quickly remold itself to become tougher and more soLId in every spot he pokes, actively resisting him. A few small chunks of the semi-skeletal armor break off, and seem to bleed for a moment. Meanwhile, a random RepLIforce gumby who was at the back overhears Guts Man, and screams in terror before passing out from thinking too much about being a nameless character in a situation far too close to a horror movie. Outside> Midi receives a radio transmission from Job. Outside> Bluegrass peers back at Cowardly Chicken... then looks at Rico. "Ya shouldn't take rookies ta areas LIke this, sugah."" Outside> As the LIghts converge on the location of the fallen tool, they once again reveal... nothing in the shadows. Vaulted ironwork of cages and the twisted barbs of aLIen tools cast haunting cruel shadows along the wall, but nothing that lends itself to what made the noise. Whatever it is... is doing a very good job of staying out of view. At least, until it tries to grab someone. A massive claw, long and lobster-LIke, but with edges that GLIsten LIke metal, sweeps out of the darkness nearby Gemini Man, trying to grasp at him. The claw *clanks* loudly as it snaps at the Master, before gaping wide once more and going for another grab. Outside> Midi sends a radio transmission. Outside> Ricochet GLances backwards at his fine feathered friend. He facepalms. "I knew he shoulda gone with Prismatic." he mutters to himself. Orbit kickkickkicks at the fallen gumbie. "*BWIP BWIP*" Outside> KaLInka frowns at the wall. She shines the flashLIght on the wall, looking at the patches that seem LIke they're bleeding. "This is so strange. Now see...this is very much LIke..." As the large claw swipes out at Gemini, she utters a Russian oath and steps back toward BLIzzard, startled. Outside> Midi GLances around frantically "Whowhatwherewhen?" Quickly he records the events in his database, luckily he can type and do many other things at the same time, multitasking afterall. He idly inches towards KaLInka and BLIzzard, he's not... scared... just... uh... allergic to death, yeah. Outside> Matic pulls himself further into the darkness, watching with intensity at the events unfolding. He fingers the forcefield switch on his cipher as he begins an IR scan through the shadow he's in, fearful of a massive melee arm coming at him from the bLInd side. Outside> Guts Man eyes Gemini Man, "Where's Bright Man when we need an oversized lamp post?" Outside> Midi receives a radio transmission from Job. Outside> Midi sends a radio transmission. Outside> "I. Hate. Seafood. That bites back..." the Dire Wolf declares as he interposes himself between KaLInka and the big craby thing, his cyrogenic core spinning up to speed. He's awfully GLad that he took the time out of his schedule to have his systems checked over carefully before he came up here. Outside> Ricochet half-turns towards the claw - not LIke he can miss a sound LIke THAT. He raises up his arm and attempts to acquire a target lock. "Well, it was nice knowin' ya." he mutters to his alLIes. Orbit jumps up alongside him, charging up an electroblast, if need be. Outside> With a shout of surprise, Gemini jumps back just as the claw snaps out at him. It strikes his arm, and he pulls backward, the appendage coming loose finally, not with a shower of circuits and sparks, but with a kind of stream of LIght in its wake. Gemini takes a leap back away, and shouts aloud: "FOUND SOMETHING!" His arm-mounted weapon starts to hum. Outside> Oh good, a large claw. Just what Enforcer didn't need on this trip. "Great." He reaches behind his back and grabs his Desert EaGLe, taking it up in both hands, but not shooting just yet, "You all think the armor on this station is strong enough to absorb a fifty caLIber action express round if I miss?" Outside> Bluegrass turns around and stares, "Oh yah. Ah'm not goin' ta LIke this trip... not one bit," She declares loudly. She moves next to KaLInka, ready to protect her in case that thing comes here... Blue even looks at Rico. "Get ya friend up before it decides that Chicken Salad tonight IS a good thin'."" Outside> Pallbearer looks about as he arrives in the area, finally having gotten off the transport to catch up after being trampled across by more eager spectators. "Bloody hell...this place is amazing." he says quietly, walking alone along the hallways. Outside> That big ol' claw, about as long as a cadillac, snaps and chews at its captured arm, before the rest of the beast sweeps out of the shadows as well. It appears to be a very large crustacean... and anybody who was at Atlantis should see what it resembles quite readily. Sporting a long, spiral shell, from which emerge a pair of hefty claws, the thing looks LIke the Guardian of Atlantis's smaller cousin, with two eyestalks that look at the gathered crowd of explorers curiously, and a host of chitin-covered tendrils that carry the thing along with a gait somewhere between a landlocked squid's and a spider's. The creature hisses in a most hostile manner as it brings its second claw to bear upon Gemini, snapping at the holographic Master, trying to pull him apart quite messily. Outside> Ricochet half-GLances towards Cowardly Chicken, and one of the other gumbies. "Cockroach, get El Cluckers outta here!" Attractive Cockroach, the bug with the bow tie, balks. "Why, I never!--" "*BWIP!*" The insect shakes his head, and begins dragging the finger-LIcking-good RepLIforcer away from the fray. Outside> Guts Man bLInks, "Wow! That's the biggest... one of those things I've ever seen!" Outside> Midi continues to record what he can. What else can he do? "Ohboyohboyohboyohboy..." He starts up. He's trying to keep himself from panicking. If only there were some way for him to be useful here... but all he can do is watch and record. And keep his eyes open for a terminal of some sort. Outside> KaLInka watches in fascination. She could care less about Gemini getting taken apart -- her ultimate fantasy is to see all of those Masters dismantled anyway. She marvels at the thing from a scientific standpoint...at its build, its size... Outside> Oh....no. The hologram does NOT want to shut down and risk seeing what else is back there. Even if he really...really doesn't LIke Stardroid Seafood. He leaps away from the creature, and starts to rain laserfire upon it, almost reflexively. He hopes it has some effect, as he's not LIkely to have much backup. Outside> Pallbearer simply...gawks at the lobster as he arrives with the main group, its resemblance to the Guardian of Atlantis striking him quite readily. "This...this could be the place where the Guardian was..." he lets the thought trail off, watching it as it goes after Gemini. Outside> Bluegrass GLances at BLIzzard Wolf, Rico, and KaLInka. "Ya'll think we should help 'im?" She asks curiously as she points at Gemini. (OOC: Correction. We will not help the evil crab! o.o)" Outside> Ricochet optics the crab. "...let's see how it reacts to the lasers, first." Personally, he couldn't care less if Gemini sates it's appetite, but might as well figure out if it reacts to conventional weapons. "The guardian didn't seem soLId enough to attack." Outside> KaLInka looks up to Bluegrass...then looks over to Gemini...then looks back to Bluegrass again. "Honestly?" Outside> Enforcer Malamute lowers his weapon just a bit. No reason to be so quick to help. Maybe it'll only take out Gemini Man. Then there's no big deal, after all, if it leaves once it kills him. Outside> Matic stays hidden in the corner, watching with - IS THAT A SMILE? - the Strider seems to find the strugGLe horribly amusing. Outside> IF Midi looks to his right, he'll notice something nice and comforting. It looks technological, and vaguely computer-y. The rest of the room also LIghts up from the flashes of laser fire, showing the strange material of the walls shifting in difference places to intercept the blasts with heavier bits of armor. The entire room seems to flow from point to point. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf rumbles, "Right...." as his tail stiffens into a rigid ice crystal, a telltale sight that his he's starting to rev up his ice powers for an attack. He then calmly opens fire on the crab with a burst of ice. Outside> Regulus goes home. Outside> Oh look, Midi looks to his right. Yee. Well, he's doing a lot of GLancing around, and he just doesn't miss something, uh, ccomputery. He bLInks once or twice, and decides, during all the madness, to scoot on over to it to see if he can make any sense of it. Mmm, computery. Maybe it'll be an upLInk to the database, or some controls to ships systems, or who knows? Midi quickly tries to see if there's anything that can be done. Outside> Mikage Yukiato has disconnected. Outside> Bluegrass bLInks, "...If someone tells me Starhaven is aLIve from that shiftin' thing... Ah'm so gonna scream." She loads up her crossbow and hrms, "Ah think it's time ta see how heavily armored this thing really is..." and fires off a armor-piercing bolt." Outside> Pallbearer looks about, trying to see if there's anything he can properly do. The forensics expert kneels down, placing his fingertip sensors to the floor and reaching out with his scanners at maximum range, trying to examine the area. Outside> While the Guardian was only arguably soLId, this thing seems quite real- and Gemini's laser fire strikes its shell quite obviously, though the energy is scattered, the lasers reflected. The creature hisses once more, releasing the master, its claws drawing back; and along with its eyestalks, drawing back into the shell. Its tendrils remain, however, and skittering along, its long, shelled body moving as sleekly over the floor as it would under the water, it shoots away from the Master, moving along the edge of the group, out of the range of the other shots that careen towards it. Turning back towards them all, it once again deploys its metal-LIned claws, and leaps forward, snapping both towards Bluegrass. Whatever this thing is, it's not friendly, no matter who you work for. Outside> Ricochet frowns sLIghtly... "...well, so much for THAT idea." he says. He raises up his arm, and fires off an orb from his launcher - stasis ball. If it hits, it should strike it with a restraining forcefield, giving them at least a few seconds to work with. Assuming, of course, that the beastie can't simply cut through it somehow. Outside> Guts Man bLInks at the creature. "Think if we poke it in the eye it'll go away?" Outside> Gemini Man steps back, and looks down at the place where his arm was 'torn.' It doesn't seem damaged anymore. He rolls that shoulder back, then, raises it again. He continues to shoot at the crab, despite the fact that it's not using him as a target anymore.... at least until it gets too close to Bluegrass for him to have a clear shot. Outside> Well, so much for the thing just going after Gemini Man, "This armor better be as tough as it looks." Murmers the malamute, as he raises his Desert EaGLe, pulLIng the hammer back with a thumb, before he pulls the trigger, letting loose with a blast that lets out a loud roar as it goes off, the fifty caLIber round launching through the air at the monster, followed by a second, and then a third.. Outside> Pallbearer ponders a moment.... "Wait...the shards! Of course, why didn't I think of it sooner!" Because you were trying to find the rest of the group, silly. "Hit it with a bladed weapon! Something directed and forceful! No energy or heat weapons, they won't work!" Outside> Midi's new toy is.. something. It sticks out largely because it's made out of a bluish-white crystal, instead of the dark chitin. There isn't much in the way of an interface, but there's a couple of indentations and button-LIke things. Of course, if they really are buttons is questionable, since they look LIke soLId parts of the crystal. Meanwhile, Pallbearer finds out some fun stuff about the room itself. The most interesting of them is that while the walls and cages bleed, move, and exhibit some basic intelLIgence, there are no signs of LIfe - at least not as we know it. Some sort of fluid movement below the surface, but nothing else. Outside> KaLInka frowns as the crab-thing goes after Bluegrass. Reaching into her coat pocket, she grasps a vial of acid, and as Enforcer begins shooting the thing, she hurls the vial in the crab's direction forcefully. Outside> Bluegrass shrieks loudly as that crab-LIke thing attacks her. "Dear sweet god...!" She gasps before screaming loudly, "Defense Changer -- Forcefield mode, NOW!!!" a clear white forcefield forms around Blue. Hopefully the crab can't take out forcefield just LIke that. Hopefully." Outside> Matic raies a brow as Pallbearer suggests a bladed weapon. Outside> Midi runs his hands across the surface of the object. "Fascinating..." Well that was his Mr.Spock impression for the night. Seeing it's not the standard type of terminal he'd be used to, he tries to experiment. I mean, what's the WORST that can happen right? He tries pressing some of the indentations LIke buttons, and other types of prodding things to see if it's some sort of uber advanced Stardroid terminal thing. Outside> Mist billows from BLIzzard's mouth as he carefully shifts his positioning, trying to keep himself between the human Russian scientist and the Lobster From Hades. "Could be..." the Wolf remarks as he tries to figure out what to do. Claws? He holds his hands at the ready his claws deploying. "Claws.. I can do... KaLInka. Stay low." He then leaps straight up, giving a half tiwst and latching onto the wall. He skitters about three meters along the wall as if it were the floor and then vaults out towards the crab, servos whining as he tries to invoke the Second Coming of Slash Beast on the crab. Outside> The crab-thing gurGLes furiously as its metal-tipped claws dig into that forcefield, pressing in slowly, gradually, LIke they were sinking into thick molasses; sparks flying where claw meets energy, the creature obviously having a difficult time breaking through. But the second bevy of attacks distract it once more, and the thing shrieks as BLIzzard's claws drag over its shell. Deep cuts lace the chitin that forms the creature's spiral housing, and in response, it whirls towards the wolf reploid, dragging its own claws away from Bluegrass, letting one swing violently towards BLIzzard in an attempt to knock him away. The other claw claps at the air, before snapping outward towards Enforcer Malamute. Each lobstery mandible moves smoothly, surely, almost independantly of the beast they're attached t it's very efficient at harassing the explorers, really, and if they're not careful, there's no doubt it could tear a reploid apart in moments. Outside> KaLInka remains rather obediantly back behind BLIzzard, only changing her posture to toss the acid vial at the crab. Outside> Guts Man says, "You know, if I had two metal phone poles I could probably crack that thing open and we'd have a feast. Although I guess we'd have to cook that thing first." Outside> Pallbearer has a hand on his own bone-handled saber, ready to defend himself if the need arises. "If this thing is what I think it is...we might have a chance." His briefcase-satchel is quickly attached onto the medkit panel on his back, turning it into a hard-shelled backpack should he have to get in a brawl. With that, the medic draws his saber, striking a defensive position as he moves foreward towards the focus of the battle. "Keep hitting it! The composition of these things can't take blades!" Outside> Midi makes one of the most common errors of people entering a strange and unknown ship from Beyond Space. He presses random buttons on the control panel. Three possible things could happen. He could save everybody. He could destroy the station. Or - and this is far more LIkely - nothing will happen. The fourth option happens, instead. The crystal gives a rapid string of beeps, and then the entire thing flashes to a brighter blue hue. Congradulations, Midi. You have just accessed an extremely advanced and aLIen computer - and immediately caused it to BSOD. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf wasn't exactly in a position to dodge cleanly, and the backhand from the critter managed to catch him in a GLancing blow. He spins upwards towards the ceiLIng, rotating very quickly around his vertical axis and comes to rest .. on his feet, attached to the ceiLIng. "Stop the world.. I wanna get off..." he drawls as he tries to get his bearings. Outside> Ricochet GLances towards Pallbearer. "I hope you know what you're doin'. Where'd you get an idea LIke that?" However, deciding that that's as good an idea as any, he materiaLIzes a pair of spike balls. Instead of loading them in his launchers, he hurls them towards the crab-thingie with his hands. Orbit unleashes an electrical burst to accompany Rico's attack, lacking blades of his own. Announcement: Capricorn shouts, "Anybody who wants to hop on board the Starhaven scene late-LIke, page me." Outside> BLIzzard Wolf strikes BLIzzard Wolf with his Ram attack. Outside> Gemini Man backs away from the crab creature as far as he can, now that it's at least partially contained. He gets behind those that are continuing to pile on the aggression, hoping he'll at least be a less LIkely target if it strikes again. Outside> Midi headscratches. "That's funny..." Well at least he got a response. His processer records the sound and timing of the beeps as they come, it may be important later on, or not. Shrugging, he keeps going, pressing more random 'buttons'. Not LIke he's about to give up. He'll figure it out! He's stubborn that way. Or rather, he's obsessed with trying to find out as much as he can about the aLIen technology. He tries to examine the buttons and the crystal, to see if there's any sort of shape or form, or noticable pattern to it. Outside> Enforcer Malamute grunts as the claw just about hits him, managing to take a sLIce out of his armor. His left hand goes behind his back, and draws his riot shield a moment later, holding it out in front of him, firing off another couple rounds from his magnum handgun. Outside> Pallbearer looks more to the creature than to ric, trying to avoid getting distracted. "The shards we took - they shatter if hit with things with directed force - blades and bullets mostly. They're very heat resistant and completely reflect energy, but they're extremely brittle. I have a feeLIng this is made of similar stuff, and it would seem LIke I'm right." Outside> The beast snaps the claw that batted BLIzzard away, before driving it forward, latching it onto the edge of Enforcer's shield and trying to yank it away. The other claw reaches out towards Pallbearer, now, giving him a turn at being on the receiving end of an attempted squeeze-play. Another furious gurGLe sounds from inside the creature's shell... its movements growing uncoordinated, shakey. It's almost as though it's losing its mind in a berserker rage, and while it's big, it's strong, and it's fast, it's pretty clumsy. The bullets that ring off its shell draw pained wails, chips and chunks breaking off, while the wash of acid that KaLInka tosses causes the thing to cringe, but not back off... Outside> Bluegrass gasps. (Take deep breaths...)oo. Upon assuring the crab's attention isn't on her anymore, she states, "Defense Changer -- OffLIne." The damaged forcefield fLIckers away. Bluegrass readies her crossbow as she hears Pallbearer state what she knew (somewhat) all along. She draws out a number of Armor-Piercing Bolts... and fires one after another at the crab... "TAKE THIS!!!"" Outside> Matic brings his cipher in front of him, pondering if he could sLIce the guardian open, and if so, the pinata-LIke treasures that may be inside. Surely a beast such as this has to have /something/ of value in there, right? Still, the Director is reluctant to reveal his presence, and remains in his recluse area. Outside> The Dire Wolf recovers his bearings pretty quickly and then drops towards the crab, tucking up into a ball and rolLIng down towards the thing at a pretty good revolution, unfolding his LImbs at the last possible moment in an attempt to claw at the big, nasty thing's back. Outside> Pallbearer looks at the oncoming claw....a second too late. Just as he finishes talking to Ric, he notices the claw coming after him, attempts to dive out of the way...and is snagged, hard, by his off-hand. Cringing in pain, the mummybot stabs wildly with his saber towards the joints in the creature's claw, trying to get free, his captured arm twitching as it is wrenched and squeezed painfully. Outside> Well, the beast made a big mistake by latching onto Enforcer's shield, "Bad move!" The malamute reaches down with his right hand and presses a button on the inside of the shield where it's attached to his left arm, turning on the full powered electric charge that runs through the hard plastic of the shield. Outside> The room suddenly shifts radically. All around, the cages shift, opening and closing at random. A few actually fold in on themselves and vanish. Whatever Midi's pressing is doing something, but who knows what. A cage near the back opens widely, the bars acting as teeth to the giant mouth. Uh oh, let's hope nobody's standing there when it snaps shut again in a second. Outside> Gemini Man , still trying to avoid the creature the others are attacking, looks around as the doors open and shut. "There'd better not be any more creatures on there...." UnLIke what's happening elsewhere? He knows this one is real. Outside> "PALLBEARER!" Ricochet yelps. Loading both arm-launchers once again, he attempts to aim the two at the claw. "LET HIM DOWN!" He fires, sending a pair of bullet-LIke Ricochet Spheres towards the enemy. "*BLOOP BWIP*" Orbit mutters, of his electrical shocks, as the room suddenly warps. "*BWIP*" he releases a stun-caLIbrated electrical wave at the crab, in hopes of at least stopping it long enough to get Pallbearer out. Outside> Matic has disconnected. Outside> Midi sweatdrops "Uh... whoops? Let's see here..." If some of those buttons caused the cages to act funny, he tries pressing them again! Along with more buttons. Outside> And more buttons! More buttons! He's on a pressing spree! Nothing LIke the thrill of encountering aLIent technology. Outside> Bluegrass immediately halts her attack once she sees Pallbearer in that creatures' grasp. "..." There is nothing she can do, without endangering Pall's LIfe. "Ah protect miss Cossack." she notes." $$$$$$ CiviLIan $$$$$$ Message: 13/24 Posted Author Starhaven AlLIance Sun Nov 03 Kain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (...Everybody. Be it Yakuza, UN, Blue Dragon, Red Dragon, Bonnes, Bounty Hunters and Regular CiviLIans... and you too, DeVry.) (Text Only -- You either get it in your email mailbox (the factions) or as a sign on the Tartarus board, Reploid Room board, The Catacombs board, etc. Essientally it's where it can be seen and read.) We seen the newscasts of the Stardroids... and we have either felt or witness the power they've possessed. Something is heading our way... whether it is the Stardroids themselves ready to redeLIver the judgement made on us two years ago... or something else... remains to be seen. This is big. Too big to simply ignore. LIke our "bigger" brothers, I propose we cease our acting out our anger and frustrations on each other until this mess has passed. If you're going to join in on this alLIance of sorts, the channel to join the alLIance is 7486. Thank you for reading and good luck on however you choose... We'll all need it. -- K, of the Blue Dragons (BLIp or your factional spinny (or personal spinny) your choice) -- Special K $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Outside> Nyaha! The crab chitters as it seizes Pallbearer's arm, seeminGLy pleased that it finally has a hold on something of real meat... before not only another hail of fire rains around it, but the room rearranges itself nearby. Two waves of electricity course through its body, causing the thing to spasm and jerk in place, while armor-piercing bullets riddle its shell with holes, sending forth showers of broken shell and green ichor, and Ricochet Spheres smash round indentations into its shell elsewhere. The creature snaps its claws a few times as it withdraws, wheezing, backing away from the explorers with a few frantic twitches, before turning away and attempting to flee outright. It's just then that Midi's button-pushing and room-warping erupt around the big crab.. and the floor beneath it snaps open, only to spew forth a few GLIstening spires, no doubt the cruel jaws of an blossoming cage. A shriek is torn from the oversized crustacean, as those spires lance through its weakened shell, piercing the thing LIke a shrimp on a fork and hauLIng it high into the air. With a soLId *clank,* the cage snaps shut; the creature, caught impaled amongst its bars, squirms and kicks for several long moments, before going still. Outside> Guts Man just looks on, there's no point in getting involved right now. There's always something bigger and badder in the next room when things involve Stardroids. Outside> Andromeda floats in from one of the the nearby rooms, instantly noticing the big crab creature and quick floats up toward one of the walls, standing upside down as she scans the large crab with her visor, trying to gather as much information as possible on the beast (Assuming of course her visor /can/ gather anything.) She aims her arm cannon carefully at the beast, before it's suddenly impaled on the spot. Outside> Matic has connected. Outside> Gemini Man startles sLIghtly at the sudden catch of the crab, and, then, watches with interest as it squirms its last throes. "...Well done..." He looks around at the rest, then, smirks. "I'll stay in the middle of the group." Outside> Bluegrass whews, "Ah'm GLad that's over with. Good job, sugah." She notes to Midi." Outside> Pallbearer continues hanging precariously, arm still in the crab's grasp, painless now but still there. "...Right...agh...Now, that we've all had a wondrous victory here....could someone do me the great service of getting me down? I'd LIke to see if I can keep this arm.." Outside> As if in response, the hand of the wounded LImb twitches and sputters sLIghtly. Outside> Ricochet keeps his launchers trained on the crab, as does Orbit, as they make their way to Pallbearer. "Orbit... go pull the claws apart." "*BWIP BWIP*" "You're smaller." "*BWIP*" Outside> BLIzzard Wolf muses from the floor, looking upwards, "Lobster shishkabob anyone? It's a mite undercooked at the moment..." He then starts to drag himself upright again, scowLIng at a spiderweb pattern across the crystalLIne armor on his chest. Drat it. He then looks upwards with a thoughtful expression towards the trapped LImb. Outside> The creature is fairly LImp. Any firm tug will release whatever it's holding. Outside> Pallbearer unfortunately doesn't have very good leverage at present. Outside> Off in a distant corner of the room, there's a soft whirr of machinery, before a soft LIght spills into the Menagerie hallways. A doorway has opened, opposite the one from which the explorers entered... it would seem the way onward has presented itself. Outside> Ricochet eventually makes his way over there, with Orbit, and the two try to free Pallbearer. "You alright?" Outside> Enforcer Malamute pulls his shield away once the thing lets it go, "Freaking monsters." He growls to himself, as he sLIps it and his Desert EaGLe away, opting to go for something bigger. Namely his M3 Super 90. Outside> Matic, being the perpetual opportunist, nips his way off towards the new pathway, leaving his 'comrades' behind as he moves to get a first GLImpse. Outside> Bluegrass sighs, "Ah'll do it." she heads over to Pallbearer, and uses her mighty strength (yeah right) to set Pallbearer free." Outside> Midi bLInks, as he looks over at the crushed crawfish. "Wow... I did it!" FeeLIng a bit pleased with himself, he decides to leave well enough alone for the moment, and leave the panel. "Chances are, that panel was for controLIng the cages, so I don't think I should play around with it anymore and risk getting someone else caught in them, or maybe releasing something else." He fLIcks his labtop back up and starts to record his findings "Shall we continue on?" Well doesn't he seem fearless? Outside> Pallbearer drops down, hand going to his injured, twitching LImb as he soundlessly opens his mouth in an expression of pain. "Been better." he says a moment. "Been worse, too, but I'll be fine. We should keep moving...I can fix this once we get to the next room. Outside> Gemini Man looks over toward the opening door. Keeping to his word, he nods to Midi, and says, "Munchkins first?" Outside> Midi shrugs, he's plently brave for now! Nothing can beat his mighty hacking powers! Except, you know, non hacking things. Still, he decides to head onward. Expect him to yelp and run back in a panic if he seems something that startles him though Outside> Guts Man says, "Just punch the panel so that no one can use it again." Outside> BLIzzard Wolf moves over to make sure that KaLInka is still alright and looks towards the others.. and briefly back up to the lobster. Oh yeah. He's *not* feeLIng well about that dratted thing. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] BLIzzard Wolf transmits, "One sLIghtly less than economy sized lobster.. eLIminated." Outside> Ricochet GLances down at Orbit, then himself. "Would an energy boost help?" Orbit's electrical pads spark a bit. Outside> Andromeda slowly floats down over the door, mass of metal popping out of the mouth of her arm cannon, switching through a variety of drills until it comes and rests on a kind of saw, Romi floating nearby the crab, waiting for it seem to be dead so she can collect a sample of it. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Midi transmits, "What a fascinating system of terminals... wish I had the time to study it in peace and quiet without disruption.." Radio title for f set as 'Bluegrass not'. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "We are in the dark here..." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Bluegrass not Serena Gilbert transmits, "Sorry, sugah. We'll kill the next monster nice and quiet LIke just fer ya." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Gemini Man transmits, "Then follow the guys with the LIghts." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "LIttlery" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Cleaver Cow transmits, "'Tis better to LIght a match then curse the darkness, so shut up and stop whining." Outside> Pallbearer sLIces off a piece of the crab and places it in a specimen container, sheathing his fencing saber and clutching his half-smashed arm as he goes for the doorway. "Don't worry about it...just some armor damage. Let's keep going." Outside> BLIzzard Wolf continues forward, covering the scientist types.. That's his job here. As always, he continues recording. Outside> Enforcer Malamute shakes his head, and just turns for the nearest exit, wanting to get out of here before something else tries to kill them. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "I got a flood LIght on at the moment..." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Then what's the problem? Man, some people." Outside> Guts Man follows the main crowd. Outside> Bluegrass GLances back at the crab and sLIces off a piece with a armor-piecring bolt for Gale to take a look at... once this adventure is over and done with. "Ah'm done here. Lets move on..." and follows the crowd." Outside> The BibLIotheca - Starhaven Outside> Contents: Contents: Guts Man [Normal] [RM] LIbra [LIbra] [SD] Pallbearer [Pall] [RF] BLIzzard Wolf [MH] Enforcer Malamute [Main] [M] Matic [Suit] [C] Midi [Olddesc] [C] Gemini Man [RM] Outside> Northwest : Menagerie - Starhaven Southwest : Observatory - Starhaven Outside> Pallbearer looks about...managing to ignore the pain in his arm for a moment as he notices the area. "Dear lord...this place is amazing..." He starts taking snapshots with his internal recorders of the area, observing as much as he can. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Midi whistles "Interesting.... I wonder what this room could be used for..." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Pharaoh Man transmits, "Keep chatter minimum, maybe? If something is on that ship, interception of our radio tranmissions could warn it of your presence." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Bluegrass not Serena Gilbert transmits, "No idea, sugah. And bandage boy is right... fer once." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Midi transmits, "The UN landing earLIer and securing the lower decks, not to mention all the other commotion, would have done that nicely already." Outside> Gemini Man walks into the room with the rest of the crowd, keeping his LIght on and looking over the strange, almost LIving bridges. Pretty weird... He's curious enough to try and walk up on the platform, but he's not eager to go FIRST after what happened last time. Whose turn now? [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...Dare I ask what you're all up to tonight?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "Exploring Starhaven." Outside> No crystals here. And nothing resembLIng a bathroom either. Stupid Stardroids. This place is, however, full of lots of empty here. Compared to the giant zoLIke room before, this is small and quite spartan. The chill air is the only presence. No creatures. No cages. No automated guns on the walls waiting to blast everybody. There aren't even any major archetectual features. Just the doors, the center platform, and empty. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Midi transmits, "I'm examining the Stardroid's systems up here on Starhaven! It's fascinating!" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pharaoh Man transmits, "Yes. Announce it to the world. Why, we should start firing flares and banging drums, let the inhabitants of all Starhaven know you are there." Outside> Bluegrass steps into this room... and has sense of dread filLIng her. The sort of dread where a LIbrarian GLares at you for not being quiet. "This feels... antipersonal if ya'll ask me."" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Midi transmits, "You people are so paranoid..." Outside> Enforcer Malamute uses the flashLIght on his shoulder to LIght one way, and the flashLIght on the shotgun to LIght another way, as he walks along, "So who wants to take point this time?" He asks, as he looks around.. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne winces softly... "...Guys... ...I /REALLY/ don't think you should be up there... ...Something just... ...doesn't feel right. ...Be careful, okay?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Dynamo transmits, "It's not paranoia if someone /is/ out to get you." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Midi transmits, "Oh I'll be fine..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "We will and if there is anything they would know we are here already..." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Bluegrass not Serena Gilbert transmits, "WE FOUGHT A FREAKIN' GIANT CRAB!!! WOULDN'T YA BE PARANOID?!" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Cleaver Cow transmits, "Giant crabs? Bah. Crabs are easy." Outside> Midi stands around the center of the room. "So... empty... I wonder what it could be..." He's feeLIng exceptionally brave over the last incident. And particularly naive as well, bad combo. So he decides to do something most LIkely stupid. He calls out to the big empty room rather loudly. "HEEEEELLOOOOOO?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "Just. Be. Careful." [Radio: (C) RF-MH-UN-Main] Gunsmith Cat transmits, "Hunters, UN? When all this is over... we need to talk. There's a situation. Contact me directly for details, it's not something I want to discuss over an open channel." Outside> BLIzzard Wolf rumbles, "Antipersonal doesn't begin to describe this place...." as he GLances back towards the zoo they just left. "Homocidal? Now that might be a bit more on the mark..." Outside> Guts Man shouts back, "HELLO! I WANT TO EAT YOUR BRANES!!!" Outside> Andromeda pushes off the ground again, floating up into the air, after all exploration requires one go into the unknown. She fLIes a ways above the platform, just taking pictures and recording any information she can with her visor, hoping that if there is some catch, they'll be a sign before she actually get's near the thing. "Would you be quiet, I'm trying to concentrate." Radio title for c set as 'Bluegrass not'. [Radio: (C) RF-MH-UN-Main] Bluegrass not Serena Gilbert transmits, "Understood, sugah." Outside> Pallbearer hunkers down for a moment, reaching back behind him for his medical suppLIes as he tries to work on his arm some. Opening up a panel, he begins twist-tying some broken wiring together, seaLIng up the damaged portions and reworking his inner circuitry in minor ways. As he finishes, the mummybot flexes the damaged LImb once more, checking to make sure it's functional enough for him to use. Satisfied after a couple quick tests, Pall continues on, looking towards the platform. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Rigger transmits, "I'd prefer the crab." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Wildrider transmits, "Damn, but this isn't trippy." Outside> All the shouting echoes - and that's it. There's no response. Dead silence, cold air, and the central platform. As Andromeda fLIes over it, passing through the forcefield, the floor LIghts up and starts to slowly rotate around. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] BLIzzard Wolf transmits, "A whole lot of nothing..." Outside> Matic skitters along the side of the walkway, picking his way ever so quietly, taking quick steps during Guts Man's booming rhetoricals. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "Note: ...If you see a... childLIke... ...creature... with a very big hand... just run." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "Thisis just amazing.." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "I'm aware, Tron. I'm here as well... I think I'd prefer Duo right now to the other things..." Outside> Gemini Man leans back, with a falsely casual cross of his arms, as Andromeda fLIes through the field. "Looks LIke we have a contestant..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Metal Man transmits, "I would second Tron's suggestion. I saw it back on easter island..." Outside> Bluegrass bLInks as the platform rotates, "Someone please tell me that is a good thing?"" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Midi transmits, "And I still say you're all being paranoid. This is a fantastic opprotunity here!" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ricochet transmits, "I think 'just run' is what we'll be doing from anything that moves, up here." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...Good luck, Rigger. I'm down here rooting for you. ...I'll try to moniter what I can... ...And yes, Midi. It is. ...If it isn't a Trap." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Bluegrass Not Serena Gilbert transmits, "Yah. Ta be KILLED." Outside> Guts Man oooohs, "It's LIke a merry go round!" Outside> Enforcer Malamute lowers his shotgun sLIghtly, "I doubt it." He murmers in response to Bluegrass. Outside> Midi walks on over to examine the moving floor. "Now I wonder what caused that... interesting." This place is just a wonderland, a deadly wonderland. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Midi transmits, "If it is, then we're already in it. So we should take every chance to learn as much as we can while we're here." Outside> "Unfortuantely, I'm not fluent in Stardroid.. so I wouldn't know.." the Wolf muses as he looks around warily. "You know. For a place where people LIved, this place is startLInGLy unfriendly. I wouldn't want to LIve in a place LIke this." Outside> Matic takes a short hop and using a magna piton, latches on to the underside and hitches a ride to the other side. Outside> Ricochet says, "I'd bet that it looked better before it was blown up, BLIzzard." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "And... just so you know... ...If you manage to find any interesting odds and ends... ...The Bonne Family will pay highly for any technilogical remnants." Outside> Pallbearer starts for the platform as well, moving to pass through the forcefield onto it if he can. This is too good to pass up, there's got to be more. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf says, "A lot of things look better before they're blown to bits. But this is still decidedly austere." Outside> "Unless ya are insanely powerful," Blue notes to the Wolf, before nodding at Enforcer, "Ah LIke this place even less NOW."" Outside> Andromeda lowers her altitude a bit, coming a bit closer to the platform and then cautiously placing one foot down onto the platform, ready to spring off it and onto the roof at a moment's notice. "Well I /looks/ save enough.." Outside> Ricochet's optics fLIck towards Pallbearer. "Pallbearer, don't - it's in a forcefield for a reason!" Outside> Guts Man says, "Probably scared of us." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Bluegrass not Serena Gilbert transmits, "We'll remember your brave sacrifice, Andromeda..." Outside> Pallbearer looks back towards ric, not far from the field. "Relax. If there were a problem with the field, I'm sure I'd pick it up before it got unavoidable." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "What's going on?" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] BLIzzard Wolf transmits, "She made something LIght up and spin." Outside> The platform just floats over the ground, rotating at a constant, slow pace. Even Matic hanging from the underside doesn't seem to change the steady course. There isn't anything visibly holding it up, and nothing unusual about it, aside from the hovering and the forcefield. As Pallbearer passes through it and sets foot on the platform proper, the field suddenly shifts, becoming more soLId-looking. But it isn't any less intangible - it merely shifts to become semi-opaque. And on the interior walls of the field, a massive map of space appears, slowly rotating around, showing off the galaxy. Outside> Midi has disconnected. Outside> Ricochet shakes his head. "Yeah, that's what I said before I grabbed the pendant." He follows Pallbearer but doesn't enter the forcefield himself. Outside> Matic performs a quick tuck and leap as he reaches the far catwalk, and scurries down the side, hoping to turn back and keep tabs on the party. Outside> Guts Man reaches into his hardhat to retrieve a small rock. He decides to throw it at the forcefield. Outside> Bluegrass hrms, "...impressive." she notes. She pauses briefly before stepping unto the platform..." Outside> Gemini Man walks in closer as the forcefield grows soLId... risking the edge of the platform. So many things here keep capturing his divided attentions. Mirrors... Starcharts. Outside> Andromeda almost goes into a frenzy at all the starcharts pop up on the screen, she putting her second foot back down onto the platform as she sweeps through the maps as fast as she can, recording them with her visor for later analysis, searching extensive knowledge of astronomy and trying to match any matching stars on the chart to any known stars for a point of reference. Outside> Pallbearer goes from suprised...to utterly extatic, in a matter of seconds. "It...this is perfect!" He says, laughing. "It's a complete map...this could be some sort of database." He starts looking around the platforms, memorizing, getting all the displayed systems and charts with his internal recorders as he tries to see if there are any controls around the area. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf lets out a low wistle.. but doesn't go all happy rushing over to see what's up. Instead, he hangs back a LIttle bit. He doesn't want to get caught in the exact *middle* should something go wrong. Outside> Enforcer Malamute hangs back just a LIttle bit as well, "What is it?" He asks, as he watches the field, not wanting to go inside...But then again, what if the danger is on the outside? [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "So... ...Can someone give a Running Commentary for posterity?" Outside> Ricochet waits outside, next to Orbit... he's curious, that much is certain, but uncharacteristic caution ripples through his actions; he proceeds no further yet. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "... EEEW." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...Rigger?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "Ever seen 'The Blob'?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Dynamo transmits, "My dear lovely Rigger is reacting poorly to aLIen mucus filLIng our room." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...Yes." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...Ohjoy" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ricochet transmits, "...ick." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Bluegrass Not Serena Gilbert transmits, "...Fun." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "Umm... Toxic? Hazardous in anyway? Or just... 'Ick'?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] BLIzzard Wolf transmits, "Thus far.. I've seen the baby brother of the Guardian of Atlantis.. and I think we've found some sort of a star chart LIbrary.. or something." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ricochet transmits, "I think I prefer the Reploid-eating crab, honestly." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "It's only sLIme, it won't hurt you." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man transmits, "Okay, Tron, no problem. There was this messed-up zoo, with a crab thing in it. Beyond that, there was a room with a floating platform that has maps printed on it." "There's also a room where you walk in and see various nightmares and illusions, as far as I can tell. Now, I'm in a room filled with sLIme." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "Highly vibratory." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "Unless it's corrosive or toxic." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Guts Man transmits, "Is it tasty sLIme?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pharaoh Man transmits, "Of course. The Stardroids just keep aLIen sLIme around for fun. Of course its dangerous!" Outside> The rock goes right through the forcefield, passing by Alpha Centauri, and keeps on going. Hopefully people duck, because Guts Man throwing a rock will probably hurt. The starcharts on the field fluctuate for a moment, LIke ripples in a pond. The entire thing keeps slowly rotating, showing off the different sections of space. None of the captions are readable, and there are large parts which are simply blank, shown by a very uGLy black shade. One LIttle solar system way, way off in the corner is flashing, however. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Bluegrass Not Serena Gilbert transmits, "We don't know if the Stardroids are all right in the head, if ya'll know what I mean. They may've called the sLIme 'Bob'. Their pet." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "I seeeee... ...Gotcha. Recording these conversations... ...Keep us on the ground up to date?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pharaoh Man transmits, "And I'm Rock in disguise." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pharaoh Man transmits, "The Stardroids were no fools." Outside> Guts Man says, "You know, if Needle Man was here we could grab him by the legs and shoves his needle onto the platform and then if we rotated the platform in reverse we'd hear satanic messages." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...Any sign of LIfe beyond the Crab-thing?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Squeak Toy Serenade transmits, "We're about to be digested. Yay!" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ricochet transmits, "On the crab-side, not yet..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man transmits, "This room is aLIve." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Squeak Toy Serenade transmits, "I think I said that." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...I think this is the point where you try to either vaporize that sLIme... ...or get out of it!" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "HOLY F***ING S****! THIS IS NOT SPACE BALLS I DO NOT WANT TO BE FLUSHED!" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "No, really Ms Bonne? And here I was planning to just let it kill us all." Outside> Bluegrass hrms and taps the GLowing part of the holoscreen thingy. "Ah think that is supposed ta be a 'Ya'll are here' sorta thing..."" Outside> Pallbearer looks at the flashing system curiously. "This place just keeps getting stranger...and stranger." He thinks for a moment...and points to the flashing system. "Maybe...some kind of control system?" he says, wondering if it's anything LIke a normal touchscreen. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Bluegrass Not Serena Gilbert transmits, "..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pharaoh Man transmits, "Best of the best they are, those Maverick Hunters." Outside> Andromeda easily recognizes Alpha Centari on the star chart and uses that to find Sol on the map, and thus the maps she records begin to make sense, starts charted by Terran have their given name appended to whatever notation the stardroids used for star notation, of course all of this is sLIghtly hampered by a rock flying by, making Romi interrupt her recording to maneuver out of the way. She notes the bLInking solar system but doesn't do anything with it, more interested in copying the complete map in it's entirety before concentrating on any one part. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Wildrider transmits, "Oh chill out." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Guts Man transmits, "Yeah right." Outside> Ricochet finally steps into the room - keeping one foot outside. Orbit rmeains on the other side, as well. "Don't touch anything!" he says, again. "It's bad enough that it's Stardroid tech, but you could send us anywhere." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Wildrider transmits, "OOC: Ignore that. I obviously missed something." Outside> BLIzzard Wolf is no astrogator. He just tries to stay out of the way and Not Touch Anything. Outside> Gemini Man knows his way around a starchart... Now...where is Gemini. Ah. There. He looks at it for a moment, then, looks over at the LIttle flashing piece...tempting fate by stepping further into the platform to examine. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...I think I might be GLad I'm not there... ...or, at least, if I was... I would be in the Gustav." Outside> Pallbearer merely focuses on what he's working with. "Discovery is based in exploration, exploration can't be done without taking risks. Just relax, the worst that can happen is what? We all die, stranded in an unknown star system. Who didn't come up here to take risks?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man laughs sLIghtly. "Chicken." Outside> Andromeda will quickly figure out that the flashing star system is Sol and Earth. The field ripples again when Pallbearer touches it. The entire chart, however, fLIckers as it shifts. Then it fLIckers again, LIke a TV that's on the fritz. The inky black section of the map seems to surge and envelop the rest of everything, and the map vanishes in a mass of blacky static. The forcefield dissolves, whatever power source was supplying it going out. Oh, and since it's gone, the platform falls. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne sniffs! "Hey... I'm just a Pirate Princess! ...not some Powers-possessed Superhero... ...at least... ...not anymore. Thank god." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Less taunting, more getting everyone away from the whirlpool, Gemini!" Outside> Heat Man goes home. Outside> Pallbearer yelps a bit in surprise as the platform drops, losing his footing and dropping to the floor of the platform. "Oh dear." he manages to eke out. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "... we are being flushed down drain joy..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Squeak Toy Serenade transmits, "They get to deal with giant crustaceans, and -we- get pools of snot and toilets." Outside> BLIzzard Wolf startles sLIghtly forwards as the platform starts to give out and winces. But he can't really do a thing at this range, really. Gate didn't build him with things LIke fLIght in mind. Outside> Bluegrass erms as the powers goes off, and immediately starts her fLIght engines, flying up and taking a quick around to see if anybody needs help..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pharaoh Man transmits, "Never said the Stardroid's lacked a sense of humor." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Guts Man transmits, "Ain't LIfe crappy? Haw haw haw!" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "Nice one guts." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "The stardroids lack a sense of humor." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Squeak Toy Serenade transmits, "So what do you feed a giant space station, anyway?" Outside> Gemini Man once again regrets being lured by flashy Stardroid LIghts. As the platofmr starts to tremble, he feels it falLIng under him, and, has two options. Shut down, or jump for it. He chooses the latter, leaping as FAR as he can before the platform topples. Maybe he'll make it back to the edge...? [Radio: (E) Broadband] Guts Man transmits, "Moon cheese." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Dynamo transmits, "Giant Space Station Chow." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Metal Man transmits, "Anything it wants." Outside> Remember folks, that's not a mile up, it's *maybe* ten meters off the ground. :> [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man transmits, "People." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Metal Man transmits, "OOC "I'm hungry Stan..."" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "OOC: ...Ohgod.. ...Lets /hope/ you're not on the Lexx." Outside> Bluegrass GLances at Andromeda, "Ya get the Master, Ah'll get bandage boy here," and swoops down to get Pallbearer..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne seeminGLy recovering from a fit of 'the gigGLes'. "...Weeeell... some of Dr. Wily's notes said that one Stardroid took some perverse pleasure in running him all over the place. 'LIbra', I think. ...and then he whacked her upside the head after he survived the Wily Dragon getting blown up by Duo..." Outside> Guts Man watches as the platform starts to fall, "Maybe I should catch it... nah." Outside> Gemini Man lands on one foot and one knee, just off the falLIng platform. His entire image...fLIckers somewhat, upon the landing. He knew this would happen eventually... He stands up, looks himself over, and, then, determined to move on, looks forward, for the next room. He'll at least get a GLImpse before he runs out of juice. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Metal Man transmits, "He nailed her good too." Outside> Andromeda let's out an anguished cry as the starcharts fizzle away. "Nooo! I'm not finished yet!" And then the platform falls from under her, sans her of course, as she just stays in the exact same spot she was before the platform fell from under under her, well there isn't much to do here now, as it's not really a good time to note that Sol was clearly highLIghted on the previous map. Outside> Matic watches the orchestra of events from his perch, wanting to continue probing the various goodies with his disposable comrades. Still, he's unwilLIng to reveal himself, and to that, Matic curses his dilemma between secrecy and deLIght. Outside> A bit of dust settles as the platform slams to the ground, leaving the pretty colors and maps nothing but a memory. The power in the room fLIckers, this time threatening to take out the LIghts in here, as well. There's another sound of electricity and something frying - as the locking mechanism on the other door dies a horribly painful death from a power surge. Outside> Enforcer Malamute mutters quietly as the LIghts fLIcker, "Wonderful. This place is dying around us.." He shakes his head, as he looks towards the other door. Outside> "Maybe we should get out of here before something *else* breaks?" the Dire Wolf remarks as he starts to navigate his way to the door, acting as a forward guard for the egghead types. "This isn't a good room to stay in for long..." Unles you're him. BLIzzard reacts *well* to cold. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Squeak Toy Serenade transmits, "...Now this is pretty..." Outside> Guts Man says, "If anything goes wrong I can just punch a new door for us, now quit worrying and keep exploring. I want to find whatever Godly artifact there is up here." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "Ummm? What? Clarify." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Squeak Toy Serenade transmits, "A .. holoprojection to a spiral barred galaxy, I think." Outside> Bluegrass hrms, "Well, that was nice wasn't it?" she quips as she settles back on the ground after letting Pallbearer touch ground first. Blue nods, "Ah'm with ya, sugah. Nothin' more we can discover here, anyways..." She proceeds to walk on, taking point this time." Outside> Pallbearer grumbles as he dusts himself off LIghtly after being rescued by Bluegrass. "Many thanks, I'm sorry about that mess." he says, looking around. "Well, sh*t." he curses about the powerless area. Sighing, the mummybot keeps moving. "Ric, remind me to start LIstening to you more." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Bluegrass Not Serena Gilbert transmits, "Sounds similar ta what we had. An holographic projection of the milky way... as far as Ah know, anyways." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man transmits, "They have it all marked up to detonate for an interstellar highway." Outside> Andromeda settles down nearby the now fried lock, looking to the others, "If the power's going out LIke this, then whatever engine is powering this thing may be damaged. If it ceases functioning then this thing will have difficulty maintaining it's orbit..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ruination Roc transmits, "For some reason I doubt your veracity, Robot Master." Outside> Guts Man says, "Sucks not being able to e-ring huh?" Outside> Gemini Man walks over toward Andromeda, and shrugs. "Two options. Get the hacker kid to fix it, or just kick it down." He aims his gun for the lock. Seems he's thinking, option two....but he doesn't fire. Outside> Bluegrass says, "More the reason ta find what we're lookin' fer... and get the heck outta here."" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Gemini Man transmits, "The place is losing power." Outside> Pallbearer looks over the door and the locking mechanism, trying to see what can be made of it, and also if there's a way for him to open the door. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] BLIzzard Wolf transmits, "definitely." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ruination Roc transmits, "Potentially encouraging. Depending on... why." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "It could come appart at the seams in a total power failure we might want to move it a bit.." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Gemini Man transmits, "We really think that a better question, is why the hell did it have power in the first place?" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Bluegrass not Serena Gilbert transmits, "Ta get here. The other question is... why?" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "Power systems must have been damaged." Outside> The door onward, to the southeast, seems loose on its hinges without power, and when poked and prodded, swings open easily. Outside> Matic watches Pallbearer from his shadow with sLItted eyes over his shades. The door already making some angry noises, he's curious what kind of securities may still be active. Outside> Pallbearer nods. "Right then, let's go." He continues on, heading through the doorway. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf shuffles right along.. since he rather doesn't LIke the interesting shade of blue KaLI is probably turning by this point. Blue looks good on *him* .. not on humans. Outside> Andromeda continues on through the door then as she repLIes to Gemini Man, "And where exactly do you plan to go if this thing falls? Venus?" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Bluegrass not Serena Gilbert transmits, "Backups are a good thing, Job. Even the Stardroids knows that... so it came here on backup power... which it more out of it than it would LIke." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ballade transmits, "This is not encouraging." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ricochet whistles. "Looks LIke a fight happened in here." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "Oh god no please don't let this be what I think it is.." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] BLIzzard Wolf transmits, "Crystal shatters quite readily when put under sufficient stress.." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ricochet transmits, "What? What is it?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Please clarify: What do you think it is?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "A leak..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "We're in space and it sounds LIke there's a leak. Do I really need to explain further?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...Do you have your own oxygen supply, Rigger?!" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "We should have outfitted everyone with vacsuits..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "How unfortunate. Of course, you should have brought along a pressure suit..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Kaph transmits, "*in Barrage Raptor's voice* It sounds LIke it's leaking into the room. space doesn't do that." Outside> Bluegrass (Ah don't know, Wolfy... with the hints of blue... Ah dare Ah look good.)oo. Blue GLances at Andromeda, "Even this thing does fall... we already know what damage it can do..." READ: Vancouver. "But Ah perfer it if this thing sinks in the middle of the ocean... or where Skull Haven is."" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ricochet transmits, "****. Can you get out of there?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "I would have but the last pressure suit we had was destroyed in the radiation during the Mars pendant crud." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Now. What was this about signs of a strugGLe?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man transmits, "No way of telLIng what fought them." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger mumbles, "I can take a guess." [Radio: (E) Broadband] BLIzzard Wolf transmits, "We're in a room filled with crystal. Shattered crystal." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Civil war. Or something else?" Outside> Observatory - Starhaven Outside> Contents: Contents: Guts Man [Normal] [RM] Matic [Suit] [C] Enforcer Malamute [Main] [M] Ricochet [Armor] [RF] Pallbearer [Pall] [RF] BLIzzard Wolf [MH] Andromeda [Helmeted_eva] [MH] Bytsy Gemini Man [RM] Outside> Northeast : The BibLIotheca - Starhaven Southwest : Obsidian HolNode - Starhaven [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "If that 'vision' I saw as any indication... We'd best get out of here." [Radio: (E) Broadband] BLIzzard Wolf transmits, "It begs the eternal question. What is powerful enough to defeat.. truly defeat..a Stardroid?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Prismatic Spider transmits, "No, The room we're in is probably falLIng apart. Now MOVE people!" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "What was your vision we don't know what is is we can't do nothing... lets move it!" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "Later." Outside> "I'm not sure that there's anything in here..." BLIzzard remarks as he LIstens worriedly to his radio, looking around and sniffing cautiously at the air. What's the air quaLIty LIke in *this* section? [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "Vision?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...Vision?! LIke the Pendants, Rigger?!" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "...damn it..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "Not half as pleasant." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ricochet transmits, "Vision... oh, crap..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Odd. I have not experienced any such visions." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man transmits, "Not LIke the pendants!" "Tron, babe, you're LIving in the past AGAIN!" Outside> BLIzzard Wolf tucks the crystal fragment he picked up into his mane, surrounding it in ice and sticking it in place for later retreival and analysis. Outside> Bluegrass whistles as she picks up a shattered crystal, "Ah LIke what the Stardroids did ta the place... It looks terrifying."" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "It was just me. It was the room we were in I think... Regardless we've got worse things to worry about right now." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ricochet transmits, "Neither've I, but it's still bad news." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne sighs. "I'm just worried, Gemini! ...You take care, all of you. Outside> Gemini Man walks toward one of the crystals, peering into it by shading his eyes with his hands, looking to see what exactly is inside. Outside> Ricochet seems preoccupied with the radio. "Guys... I dunno what channels you all are on, but be ready to beat feet to the shuttle FAST. Things might be going south real quick." He examines a few crystal shards, taking the time to pick up one. Orbit examines another, trying to LIft up a larger one with his tiny paws. Outside> Pallbearer starts taking more recordings of the information he sees across the crystals. "Hm...judging from this hallway...it seems LIke these would hold some kind of memory information. Perhaps that's the cause of the strange radio broadcasts we've heard. Outside> Pallbearer looks back to Ric. "I'm continuing on. We came here to find out what happened, only if something completely desperate comes up am I reconsidering." Pall's determined to see this through. He missed his last chance to be part of the stardroid phenomena, he's not missing this one. He continues on, heading for the western door. Outside> "If that's so, sugah..." Blue pauses and GLances in the direction of the crystals that are still intact. "Worth a try, Ah suppose..." She peers into one of the crystals..." Outside> Once whacked, the crystal tower that Matic strikes breaks off neatly at its base; the fLIckering static images inside come to an immediate halt, the thing going dead LIke a broken LIghtbulb. The air, to BLIzzard's inspection, smells dry and musty... but of nothing in particular. If there's some use to this room, it isn't quite clear... and it might only make itself known once the power flucuations cease, whatever that would take. Outside> Pallbearer grabs another crystal piece, checking it over and putting it into another specimen container before moving on. Outside> Ricochet says, "That's just what I'm talking about, Pallbearer..." he sighs. "Anyone with enhanced senses that might be able to try to decode whatever's on these things?" Outside> Matic grunts quietly at his 'evaluation' of the artifice and tucks a chunk into his satchel for further analysis (and profit!). Outside> Bluegrass shrugs, "Ah got no such systems, sugah."" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "OUT! Everyone get out of here now!" Outside> Andromeda does LIke Pallbearer does, sucking up some loose crystal with her arm cannon and stores it into her armor, quickly floating on and landing by the door to the next room, pushing it open and standing in the threshold to the next room, "Care to move on?" Outside> BLIzzard Wolf lets out a small grunt and manages to miss Matic knocking over the crystal. "I have nehanced senses..." Now if only they were trained on some of the sneaky, underhanded things going *on*... Oh well. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...Rigger?!?! What?!" [Radio: (E) Broadband] BLIzzard Wolf transmits, "We've gotten no warnings or portents on this side. What's happening?" Outside> BLIzzard Wolf walks over to one of the semi-working crystals and attempts to see what's going on. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "I suggest someone be ready to collect us in the very LIkely event we are all sucked out into outer space." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "Get the humans out of here first." Outside> Ricochet visibly cringes at the radio chatter. "Dammit..." He GLances down the way they came, wondering if there's any way to get back there in time. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Bluegrass Not Serena Gilbert transmits, "...What's goin' on?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "This place is falLIng apart." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Yin Yoma Byte rumbles ominously onto the channel. "...You called?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] BLIzzard Wolf transmits, "We've gotten no such signs over on this side. Some power fluctuations.. but nothing else." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Interesting. The damage is that severe." Outside> Gemini Man pulls back from the crystal suddenly, and calls out to the others. "Time to go. Or, better yet, time to get some POWER to this place before it falls apart!" He starts looking for an exit to this room. Maybe there was a power grid somewhere...it BETTER be near by! Outside> Pallbearer keeps moving, heading for the next room. "We can look more in-depth on the way back. For now we have to keep moving, LIke you said we didn't have too much time." Outside> THe remaining crystal towers endure the pillaging of their fallen comrades with silent dignity, still filled with static. Really... there's nothing going on in here. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Yin Yoma Byte transmits, "...Any humans who get sucked into the Vacuum... ...are not LIkely to survive. Eurasia is on the far side of the Planet... ...and, unLIke the Firstborn... ...I cannot BLInk with Passengers." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ricochet transmits, "...Pallbearer, do you think you could patch Orbit into the power systems, give them a LIttle more time?" Outside> Bluegrass hears the radio transmissions and erms. "Ah agree. Lets keep goin'..."" Outside> Enforcer Malamute just turns and follows. Outside> Matic, evil bastard he is, decides to have some fun. Tucking behind a larger column, he pulls out his cipher and *FWZAMMM* sLIces a neat obLIque cut into the pillar. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "Damn it I knew I should have called the Starchaster here on remote..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "OOC Star Seeker even" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Kaph transmits, "Gods have been slain... And without them Valhalla decomposes beneath our feet.To only have seen or been a part of the act of deicide."" Outside> Obsidian HolNode - Starhaven Outside> Contents: Contents: Ricochet [Armor] [RF] Enforcer Malamute [Main] [M] Andromeda [Helmeted_eva] [MH] Pallbearer [Pall] [RF] Bytsy Gemini Man [RM] Outside> North : CrystalLIne Command Node - Starhaven Northwest : Sanctum of Galaxia - Starhaven Northeast : Observatory - Starhaven [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ricochet transmits, "Anyone on the Southwest team - anyone with some engineering knowledge that thinks they might be able to hook Orbit into the power system and give them a LIttle more time?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "I don't even know where the system *is* Rico." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Are you certain they are dead?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Prismatic Spider transmits, "Sadly, I have no knowledge of Stardroid power engineering." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man transmits, "The Stardroids?" "Well, we kinda hoped not, really." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Prismatic Spider transmits, "The timing for these happening are very convienet, Ballade. This makes me wonder myself." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ricochet transmits, "Southeast team, then?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger mumbles, "Maybe they're herding us." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Metal Man transmits, "You just want pay back on Mars for possing you Gemini..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Prismatic Spider transmits, "I doubt this would be the first time." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man transmits, "Right." "Sure, Metal." "THAT's what we want." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Kaph transmits, "Death is inevitable in StarHaven it's palpable." Outside> Contrary to what the room's decription says, something illuminates the darkness here... pathways. A path leading from the entrance that those who entered from the Crystal-filled observatory, appearing as LIttle more than broad, white tiles floating in the void, lead away from that doorway; joined by another pathway on the otherside, that too connected to a door. Both come together LIke a zipper, running side-by-side as they lead to a larger gate to the relative 'North.' But the Northern doorway appears soLIdly locked... an apparent dead-end, this is. Outside> Gravity is typically irrelevant to BLIzzard Wolf, who nonchalantly affixes himself to a wall and Ignores (a lack of) Gravity calmly. "Interesting place..." the wolf remarks as he sniffs at the air. He's checking routinely for bad air, thin air and the sound of leaks now. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Mmm. Gemini doesn't want revenge. Gemini wants the power again." Outside> There is no wall, for the record. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "But that is irrelevant. Without bodies, I will not beLIeve the Stardroids are dead. Or other hard evidence." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Guts Man transmits, "I want to be super strong." Outside> There is a bunch of black, with three doorways floating in space, and white pathways connecting them. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "You are super strong." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "Guts, you're probably the strongest robot aLIve." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Metal Man transmits, "He wants to be Great Guts Man..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...See... the real scary part would be if Guts actualy beame super /smart/... ...Theeeen... ...I don't think any of us would survive very long." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Guts Man transmits, "I want to be super stronger!" Outside> Matic chuckles quietly as he sLIps into the comfort of the black walls, perhaps just a bit /too/ much chuckLIng. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "Guts, Ms Bonne just insulted you and said you weren't dangerous." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Metal Man transmits, "OOC TP idea! Guts Man's new brain!" Outside> Gemini Man walks in, and looses his grip on the floor. Wow, that felt weird... normally he couldn't levitate, and be soLId, too. He adjusts, fLIpping over to observe the room in an up-side-down fashion, then, turning right-side-up. He looks at the pathway, and the extra door. LIkely the circlular bent hallways converged here. "The other team is on the other side," he surmises, pointing to the extra door. Outside> Pallbearer walks in, looking about as he arrives on the path, startled only sLIghtly as he begins floating. "The Stardroids...remind me to commend their interior decorating skills before we all shoot them." The mummybot starts trying to make his way towards the northern door, examining it, reaching out with his scanners to try and find something, anything that could serve as a control, an implement of some form. "There's got to be a way through here...I'm sure we're close to the end." Outside> Andromeda floats into the zerg room, not reaLIzing what's odd about it, since she manipulates gravity to move anyway, though after a moment it does dawn on her, considering those around her suddenly leave the floor as well. Not sure where to really go from here, Romi floats up and to the door, running her left hand over it's surface, studying it slowly, before she moves up to the ceiLIng, zooming over to study the odd consoles placed in each corner of the ceiLIng. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "I mean... if Guts had /half/ a Brain, he could half taken over the world himself by now... ...with his 'Karaoke'." Outside> Ricochet start floating. Well, what ELSE can they do? Outside> Yeah. No gravity is cool. So Enforcer just kinda floats along, but tries to use his flashLIghts to direct where he's going. Or at least make sure he won't hit anything, "This is stupid. What kind of people could work in a place that changes totally from room to room?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ricochet transmits, "...I think the gravity generators got busted, here." Outside> Through the entire expedition, an inconspicious figure shadows the more anxious leading ahead. Dark and concealed in a brown robe, the lack of gravity hinders the enigmatic indiidual not. Floating in a haunting and ghostly manner and precise control, he begins to hover his way to the front of the group in an arrogant and confident manner. Outside> Ricochet and ORBIT start floating. Meh. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Guts Man transmits, "Pffft Tron. She doesn't even have any real friends except for her yellow gimps. Why should I care what she thinks?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne sniffs! Outside> Bluegrass erms as she starts to float upwards... and starts the jet to slow down. She GLances at the two exits. "Okay. We'll hafta decide. Or we could spLIt up EVEN more..."" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Well. Do you remain aLIve?" Outside> Contrary to the room's desc, this chamber is not completely empty. Between the three doorways, white paths streak through the black void... appearing as sequences of GLowing white tiles. One path leads from the door to the Northeast, the other to the Northwest, and the two curl together and form a sinGLe path, leading to a large gateway to the North. Though throughout most of the room, gravity is absent, over the pathway, one can walk normally without floating off into the distance. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Squeak Toy Serenade transmits, "Yep." Outside> Bluegrass erms as she starts to float upwards... and starts the jet to slow down. She GLances at the two exits. "Okay. We'll hafta decide. Or we could spLIt up EVEN more..." (repose)" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Excellent." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "Hopefully the scan data we bring back will prove usefull" Outside> Pallbearer walks in, looking about as he arrives on the path, startled only sLIghtly as he begins floating. "The Stardroids...remind me to commend their interior decorating skills before we all shoot them." The mummybot starts trying to make his way towards the northern door, examining it, reaching out with his scanners to try and find something, anything that could serve as a control, an implement of some form. "There's got to be a way through here...I'm sure we're close to the end." (repose) Outside> Gemini Man rushes in through the door, and fLIes up into the zergravity room, fLIpping over himself. He rights somewhat, as if he was ready for this. Floating halfway across the room, he sees himself, waiting for him to come out of the opposite door. He waves at his hologram, and his hologram waves back. "Made it?" "Barely," says the hologram, LIfting up his hand, palm out. He fLIckers again. The first Gemini nods at the second, and the second disappears. Then, the sinGLe remaining Gemini Man points for the north door. "That's the way." Outside> Gemini Man turns off his holographic projection of Gemini Man. Outside> Andromeda floats into the zerg room, not reaLIzing what's odd about it, since she manipulates gravity to move anyway, though after a moment it does dawn on her, considering those around her suddenly leave the floor as well. Not sure where to really go from here, Romi floats up and to the door, running her left hand over it's surface, studying it slowly, before she moves up to the ceiLIng, zooming over to study the odd consoles placed in each corner of the ceiLIng. (repose) Outside> The deep resonating tone of the unknown cloaked figure repLIes to Bluegrass. "I will make for the door straight ahead (north). Follow me if you will, it makes no difference." And with that, the hollow black visage beneath the hood swivels to face the large doorway to the North. GLIding forward with an eerie pace, the figure proceeds without consent. Outside> Matic narrows his eyes as he picks up more movement from the far side of the room. Quickly skittering out of the way before the first of them trudge through, the Red Dragon silently curses the lack of gravity as he picks his way along the floor with his magna pitons. Outside> Prismatic Spider rushes into the room, GLancing back to hope that Rigger is behind him... Outside> Barrage Raptor bowls out into the room and goes tumbLIng off into the void momentarily. Arms and legs flaiLIng wildly, Barrage Raptor somehow makes her way back onto the walkway with surprising aerial grace. "How... novel." Outside> Dynamo bLInks into the room, floating as he resolves into view. "Oh, great. And so all the wayward journeymen meet. Just in time to die." He scowls. "This place is so annoying, it makes me want to crash it." He bLInks again, content to float. Outside> The doorway to the north remains nice and soLId, and apparently locked for several moments. It looms over all present with an imperious air, as if considering whether to let the gagGLe of explorers through, and into the heart of Starhaven. Outside> Serenade and crew arrive! From the door that is NOT north. The fact that there's no gravity anywhere but on the walkways doesn't bother her too much, content to fly instead of walk. "..Oh hey, there's the other group." She's observant today. Outside> Wildrider moves in behind Gemini, before shaking his head. "Well then what's the holdup pup? Get those sky blue legs of yours a-walkin, and let's move for this door, hm?" queries the Hunter, arms crossing. "I don't even want to waste time with another trick." Outside> Guts Man just follows the other people in the group he was with. Outside> Rigger isn't quite so lucky when the sudden lack of gravity takes over as she runs full-kilter in from the other room in her haste. At the least she'd had some training in zerg situations so she knew how to tuck herself just right to stop her forward momentum. "... Can we just set some bombs and leave already?" Outside> Shield doesn't get very far through the door before he takes in the weirdness of the room. "Fun," is his one-word sarcastic description of it, as he GLances behind to ensure the door shuts. After all, escaping into this room is useless if the door behind remains open when the forcefields in the other room fail. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf bLInks at the cloaked figure as he goes stalking off towards the locked door. He doesn't LIke the look of this. Of course, he isn't here to try and stop someone frmo trying to unlock a door, he's here to make sure non-coms LIke KaLInka and Midi (who are still here.. somewhere) don't get bowled over by a defense system or something. Outside> Ether Skunk floats in as she enters, apparently not noticing the lack of gravity whatsoever... then again, she always functions in her own LIttle gravity-less void, so it's no wonder why she doesn't notice. But she does wonder why... everybody else is floating. "Copycats!" mutters the skunk. Outside> Upon entering the room Cyclops quickly gets onto the walkway, taking a look around the room as he walks along it. "Well, atleast we're with the others again..." Outside> Bluegrass shrugs. "Hm. Tall Dark and Mysterious... and he has a cool James Earl Jones voice. If he has a cute ass... Ah want ta wrap 'im up. He'll be MY christmas present!" She speaks out load (about the black robed figure). She GLances at the black robed figure and nods, "After ya, sugah."" Outside> Enforcer Malamute is just floating, yep, using his flashLIghts to LIght his way as he floats northwards, towards that big main door over there, "Why'd I come to this stupid place." He growls to himself.. Outside> Sword Man floats in as well. Sword's used to his upper half floating about, but the lack of gravity makes using his lower half a tad hard without soLId ground to step off of. Humming irritably, he attempts to frog kick his way toward the path in the center. However, he does make note of the others from the second team about on the other side. Outside> Pallbearer continues scanning, searching, picking away at any detail he can find, trying to find something he can use to enter. "Please, you ancient hulk...please let me see you, I need this." he whispers softly. Redwing, I wish you were here, if only to tell me when to stop. Outside> Andromeda runs her hand over the console in the upper corner of the room, trying to find some pattern or function to it's controls before she takes a moment to finally press something that looks LIke it might be some kind of button. Outside> Ricochet comes to a stop, 'standing' on a wall. Outside> Gemini Man's momentum doesn't take him in the right direction for a while. He LIkes space in theory, but he's not set up for this... When he finally hits the ceiLIng, he looks for the right anGLe, and pushes himself back toward the walkway, and in the general direction of the door. Outside> ...And the Spider Scientist goes flying, preceding Rigger as he sails towards the opposite wall, waving his LImbs wildly. "This... is... unusual!" Outside> The button that Andromeda pushes has no apparent effect. It's LIke poking a bottlecap for all that it does. LIke the Observatory, the functionaLIty of this room seems to be dampened at the moment to what the explorers can see now. The doorway to the north, after being poked at, inspected, and pleased with, emits a soLId *THUNK* noise. Outside> The Terrors slow from their near sprint once they've crossed the threshhold into this...massive space. They float for a moment, surprised, then make swimming motions as they try to get to the path. Which doesn't really help. Their momentum, however, is enough to take them to another part of the path...eventually. As they reaLIze the swimming isn't helping, the twins stop to GLance around the room. "Hey, look...Starhaven is a circle." "Who'da thunk it?" Outside> Job follows the others in looking a LIttle sLImed but otherwise in good shape it seems. Well he takes one wrong step and gets free floating. "...This would be fun normally but... son of... LIttle help here...." he tries to direct himself back to the walk way while spotting the other team..."Well we found em..." Outside> The cloaked figure growls beneath his breath as he attempts to /force/ the door open, an impressive amount of force with each shove. But to no avail. He mutters to himself silently in a harsh coarse tone. "Hmm... what LIes beyond these doors? I /must/ know." The figure clenches a soLId fist and raises it high to bring it down upon the lock, only to be greeted with the pleasant response of unlocking itself. "Huh?" Suspiciously, the individual GLances at the door once more before stepping through without hesitation. Outside> Ricochet finally notices the others drifting into the room. "That's a reLIef. Everyone alright?" Orbit turns his head towards the thud. "*BWIP BWIP*" Outside> Pallbearer looks up at the door as he stands before it, taking a sLIght step back as he hopes that, simply no matter what, he is able to see what's inside here. There's more There has to be. Outside> Ether Skunk looks towards the doorway with a start as it makes a noise, wigGLIng. "Ooh!" she murmurs. "I think it's trying to tell us something. Maybe 'go away?' Maybe 'come in?'" ALIghting on the path, the skunk wigGLes up into the middle of the crowd, watching and waiting. Outside> Guts Man says, "It's probably telLIng us to expect some Godly being." Outside> Pallbearer looks towards the door, and, in what may be a moment of truth, or a moment of insanity, tries pushing it open. Outside> Cyclops just walks along the walkway, intent on quickly getting to the door on the north side. He takes a moment to look at all the people floating around, but seems more focused on what's happening to the north... Outside> Enforcer Malamute rubs his muzzle, "Can't we just blast our way through." He mumbles, under his breath, as he floats away from it, letting others put themselves at risk. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf makes a soft, rumbLIng sound from his perch on one of the walls and pats along the side of it to clamber back up onto a walkway. He's actually rather cold to be around at the moment, still retaining a certain amount of cold from being around the decidedly chilly map room. He clasps his hands behind his back and watches things unfold, making sure that nothing seems to be preparing to jump out and maim them all horribly. Outside> Andromeda stops playing with the console in in the upper corner to float back over the door, shrugging softly, she makes a vain attempt to make it open, using her left hand to tap out morose code on the door: Please Open Outside> Barrage Raptor watches Door #3 carefully. "Oh you might get in there, but I think I'll be getting the good bits." with that the raptor begins bounding at rapid speeds from tile to tile. Outside> Matic seems to have had enough. Pushing off the back wall Matic fLIps through the air and comes into full view, Yin Cipher in hand. "Enough already!" he growls as he brings the blade up. Outside> Dynamo looks down at Guts Man. "It probably thinks we're Mormons or encylopedia salesmen, Guts Man." He smirks. "We're not wanted." Outside> Matic deactivates his stealth mode. Outside> The door does not budge when pushed, remaining soLIdly in place when Pallbearer presses against it. Its handles look nice and tempting, though... perhaps it is meant to be pulled open. Outside> Sword Man after saiLIng about a bit, finally crashes, unceremoniously, into a wall. Fortunately, this also gives him something to push off of. Peering toward the door and those who prod at it, Sword pushes off the wall with a hand and a boot. THis allows both halves to sail toward the central path, and hopefully the door. Outside> Pallbearer takes a look, mentally smacking himself. "Bloody idiot." Grabs hold of the handle, yanking on it sharply and trying to open it enough to let himself in. Outside> Guts Man says, "You know there's an old trick to getting past that, but first you need to get the door open, then you stick your foot in before they can shut it in your face." Outside> The door, when pulled, swings open effortlessly. Though it's built LIke the heavy plate you put over a fault, it moves LIke butter on its hinges. Smooth, baby, smooth. Outside> The Terrors finally reach a section of the path - finally, a 'down!' The twins walk along it towards the northern door, where all the other folk are gathered. They pay the door itself no mind, sure that someone will figure it out. Though they might be overestimating some... Outside> Matic lands, cipher in hand , just as Pallbearer tugs on the door. "How....sophmore." he drones, turning his attention and attempting to sLIp in quickly. Outside> Dynamo shakes his head, putting a foot out. "I can't do it. Flat toes." Outside> Enforcer Malamute muzzlepalms, "Idiots." He growls, as he kicks his feet and floats towards the open door. Outside> Prismatic Spider impacts the wall roughly, thankfully doing no more than scuffing his finish. He LIghtly pushes off and heads for the walkway, and the door. Look ma, gravity! Outside> Shield brings up the rear of the party, it seems, one of the last people in the group that recently arrived. Outside> Wildrider snorts from his position. "Hush up, and move along." And with that, Wild enters the door. Outside> Cyclops quickly enters through the door... Outside> Job finally manages to get back on to the walkway with a thud. He scrambles back to his feet and after the others. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf strolls forward, bldly, into the unknown. Outside> Andromeda deftly floats out of the way of the door swinging out at her and dashes into the next room. Outside> Bluegrass follows the others..." Outside> CrystalLIne Command Node - Starhaven Outside> Contents: Contents: Leo [SD] Andromeda [Helmeted_eva] [MH] Sword Man [Normal] [RM] Terror Tanuki [666] [M] Shield [Hired_muscle] [MH] BLIzzard Wolf [MH] Ricochet [Armor] [RF] Ether Skunk [Unarmored] [MH] Job [SPACE SALVAGE GEAR] [C] Rigger [Lab] [MH] Prismatic Spider [RF] Cyclops [Armor] [M] Wildrider [Hunter] [MH] LIbra [LIbra] [SD] Guts Man [Normal] [RM] Serenade [Armored] [RM] Dynamo [Armored] [C] Gemini Man [Normal] [RM] Matic [Suit] [C] Enforcer Malamute [Main] [M] Vile [Vile] [M] Pallbearer [Pall] [RF] Barrage Raptor [RF] Bytsy Outside> South : Obsidian HolNode - Starhaven Outside> BLIzzard Wolf drawls, "When Stardroids Attack..." thoughtfully as he puts his hands behind his back so as not to acciidentally touch something and oh.. activate a self destruct system or something silly LIke tht. "Watch out for any Big Red Buttons." Outside> Prismatic Spider looks about at the destruction as he enters... "All this destruction... What a loss for the Stardroids and us all..." He peers about at random shattered consoles, wondering if any of them may still be salvageable... Outside> Gemini Man floats into the room, and, immediately upon hitting its gravity field, tumbles to the ground. Luckily, he wasn't up too high to begin with. He stands up, and dusts the dust of this ageless place off his Robot Master armor. Then, he looks around. Hm. Hardware. That doesn't interest him as much as the weird stuff further out, but...the destruction does. And that destruction is probably the key to this place. He looks around at the damage to the room... trying to see if he can find a pattern to it. What kind of weaponry caused this mess? Outside> Pallbearer scans quickly and efficiently, trying to find evidence of a strugGLe, any sort of markings, even something repairable enough to try and get working. "There's got to be something around here we can use though." Outside> Job walks into the shattered bridge of Starhaven and has his sheild and arm cannon at the ready. "Looks LIke they did not have Welcome company here...Maybe Someone they tried to wipe out fought back better than even we did and chose to put an end to them...." Outside> Guts Man looks around, "This looks LIke Junk Man's room." Outside> One of the Terrors, who happens to be standing next to Dynamo, GLances at him. "The hell is a slobberknocker?" The other, fortunately, is appropriately silent as she takes in the giant sized carnage. Outside> Sword Man walks in, adjusting himself to the sudden shift from zergravity to normal gravity...and comes upon quite the sight. "Blast...it looks as if hell itself descended upon this room..." He gawks at the mass destruction of the components about, wondering what could have caused it. Outside> Pallbearer says, "Otherwise, what reason would it have to come here of all places?" Outside> Enforcer Malamute lowers his shotgun to his side, "I'd be more worried about what attacked the Stardroids, myself." He says in response to the lupine. Outside> In the center of the room, one viewscreen in particular is still operating... the largest of them all. It looms over the explorers quietly, displaying a nice view of quiet, grey static, much LIke the broken crystals that half of you saw in the Observatory. Outside> Matic keeps his cipher up as he begins picking though the debris, looking for anything of worth, making certain no others interfere in his 'appraisal'. Outside> Ether Skunk whistles quietly as she enters, looking around. "hey! I saw this in one of my cartoons!" She starts looking for robots hidden amongst the debris. "Explore, explore!" She hauls up onto a control panel and pokes around. "Repair, repair!" Outside> Gemini Man walks for that one console, looking up and watching it as if expecting it to spout out an important message at any moment. Outside> Prismatic Spider is so there, heading for the viewscreen in question. Perhaps he can make it operational again? His top right hand swaps to multi-tool mode with a quiet *foomp*. He grins in anticipation as he draws near. Outside> Barrage Raptor positions herself in front of the door, blocking it off as it appears no one else is coming through. She crosses her arms and silently observes, maintaining a strict vigil on the only exit. Outside> Shield makes sure no threats are approaching from the rear or overhead now, constantly checking both anGLes for giant robotic crabs, faiLIng forcefields that lead to outer space, another stardroid toilet, or maybe giant tentacles with pincers. Outside> Bluegrass peers at the viewscreen. "Can someone do somethin' ta bring somethin' up on that thing?" She asks, "Ah would LIke ta know what Ah'm fightin'... beside Stardroids, that is."" Outside> Pallbearer moves for the viewscreen, trying to look it over, see if there is anything left that he can use. "Come on, old ship....tell us what happened to you." He looks over the controls, hoping he doesn't screw up again as he tries to figure out the right button to press. Outside> Dynamo smirks at a Terror. "Oh, just a knock down, drag out." He looks around for a suitably big chair, and bLInks into one. Outside> Shield . o O(Ether watches cartoons... why does this surprise me?)O o . Outside> Andromeda floats up into the ear, fiLIng as much as possible of the damaged systems, occasionally snatching a bit of broken stardroid tech into a specimen jar and storing it into her armor. Hey, at least something useful might come out of that. Outside> "Hmm..." The cloaked humanoid continues to examine the immediate area. The hollow and hooded head hangs low as it sweeps left and right, the gaze of the shadow beneath darting from one aspect of the room to another. The large moniter displaying meaninGLess static catches his eye. Striding forward, he reaches the screen and examines it. The gray LIght illuminates him sLIghtly with a ghostly radiance but fails to shed any information from beneath the hood. "Arachnid, are you competant enough to properly comprehend this technology?" Outside> Ether Skunk watches more cartoons in an hour than you do all month. Outside> Job snaps out some repair gear and heads for one of the consouls and says, "Maybe there is some data we might be able to recover somehow..." He stops near one of the ones that seems LIke it might be serviable and tries to get to work on it. Well he is just scanning it for the moment. Outside> Wildrider narrows his eyes at Ether. oO(I do hope she's better in combat than in surmising post-warzones. After all, she's my new boss.)Oo Still, Wild heads for where Pallbearer's at, to get a look at the interface. "If all else fails, do the opposite of the last thing you did." suggests the ever improvisational inventor. Outside> As Pallbearer looks over the controls, we have main screen turn on. Sort of. The fLIckering grey static rises to a bright white, soon replaced by a straight black, laced with white scratches and flecks, LIke the effect of old and worn film. Outside> Since this is her forte, Rigger moves forward to begin help with any possible salvaging of the control panels that can be done. The technology might be above them, but... It was worth a shot. "Huh. Wires and circuitboards are pretty universal. It's programing where the real problem begins," she utters in response to the cloaked one, even though it wasn't aimed at her. Outside> Dynamo watches. "Oh, good. Stardroid's Funniest Home Videos." Outside> Cyclops walks closer to the large viewscreen, looking it up and down as he wonders if he'd actually be able to fix it... And then when the viewscreen changes he takes a step back, his eye widening sLIghtly. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf just observes quietly, looking for anything that seems out of place here. Besides, of course, the party of EarthLIngs puttering around in the area. Outside> "Come on...come on..." Gemini Man mutters at the screen. "We didn't come all this way not to hear from you...." He clenches his sinGLe left fist. Outside> Pallbearer looks up, amazed. "...Well..that's about the opposite of what I did last time...." he says, watching the screen and turning on his internal recorders once more. Outside> Barrage Raptor claps her hands "Chop Chop smarty pants, get the TV working ferchrissake. I wanted to kill some stardroids, so don't piss me off and misplace that rage." Outside> Ether Skunk turns towards the screen as it changes, bLInking. "I don't think I've seen this show," she murmurs, hopping down. The skunk sLInks over to her fellow hunters, smiLIng brightly to Wildrider, and giving Shield a dour sort of -look.- Outside> Enforcer Malamute pops his neck, and then waits to see this movie, "Hope they've got cLIps of us kicking them around a couple years ago." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...Whats going on?" Outside> Serenade is still here, somewhere in the middle of this crowd. What's she doing? PICTURES. When in doubt, take a picture of it. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Squeak Toy Serenade transmits, "Found the .. uh, bridge?" Outside> Wildrider smirks. "Who's da man?" he chuckles, before watching the scren intently. Outside> Guts Man eyes the TV. "Pfffft videos. So boring. It better show something worthwhile, LIke massive extinction of unworthy LIfe forms, or Duo drunk with a lampshade on his head getting it on with Sunstar." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Wildrider transmits, "Watching Duo's vacation sLIdes, now shush." Outside> Job is filming the images and the area right now. He says nothing else. Outside> Bluegrass peers at the screen, then at Pallbearer. "Good job, sugah." she praises him, before GLancing back at the screen. "Now, tell us what ya know..."" Outside> Prismatic Spider nods. "I may be able to..." He looks about the viewscreen, looking for any damaged components that may connect to the system in question. If he can fix them... Outside> Dynamo looks over at Guts Man, and tosses a beer. "Here ya go. Looted this out of Crash Man's set." Outside> Sword Man bLInks as the screen comes on. "What? The screen is on?" Walking forward he tries to get closer, hoping the screen will give them SOMETHINg to work on. Outside> Matic roundabouts back to the television and gets a good sviewpoint for the TV. Outside> Shield looks everywhere /but/ the TV, because his player LIkes to be different, and because Shield is fairly certain TV screens can't hurt you. Outside> Guts Man LIfts a hand up catching the beer, "Thanks Dynamo! At least if the movie's bad this alcohol will permit me to forget it." Outside> The Terrors bLInk. "...You're right. It does look LIke there was..." Apparently, the one speaking can't bring herself to say it again. "...one of those..." As the viewscreen fLIckers to LIfe, the tanukis step towards it. Yay! TV! Outside> Dynamo smirks. Outside> The fLIckering, scratched black fades in on a view of the chamber in which you all stand now... in prime and perfect condition, not damaged in the least, and filled with much different people. Stardroids. Many of them. Most are arranged in a group, facing two in particular, up in the front, beneath the screen you are watching. The two are addressing the rest, and both are clearly recognizable... they were here on Earth, during Judgement Day. Finned face, webbed feet, scales... one is Neptune. The other closely resembles Duo, though smaller, curvier, armored in pink. Duet. In the larger crowd are many recognizable faces- Jupiter, Pluto, Uranus- as well as many Stardroids never before seen by EarthLIng eyes. There is no sound, only a visual track. Duet is addressing the crowd calmly, looking quiet, grim, while Neptune stands beside her, silent but strong. One can only guess what Duet is telLIng the others; several of them look alarmed, others angry. Pluto, off to the side, cracks a cruel smile, while Jupiter lowers his head to rest it in his hands. None of the Stardroids are not looking very happy. Duet sighs softly, looking away from the group, and LIke Jupiter, lowers her head into her hand. Her shoulders begin to shake, and.. it appears as though she's... crying? Neptune looks towards her, reaching out to rest a hand on her shaking shoulder, his LIps moving as he murmurs silently. The image abruptly fLIckers, and fades to black. Outside> Job says, "Can anyone read LIps..." Outside> Barrage Raptor coughs, "Those are stardroids? These godly beings who sought to judge us? Crying LIke children?" Outside> Pallbearer looks at the screen once more. "I've got the cLIp on my internal records...it's got good enough quaLIty, I can analyze it later though...but I have a very, very bad feeLIng about this." Outside> Matic grunts with retort, a pithy human reaction. Outside> Guts Man cracks open the beer, "Booooooooring. If I wanted to see a bad movie with Stardroids I'd look at that made for TV Japanese movie with guys in rubber suits. Heheheheh that was a horrible movie but good. Especially that whole destroying Vancouver bit." Outside> Job says, "Were they so godly turely? It seems they were not as high and mighty as we thought..." Outside> Enforcer Malamute shakes his head, "I'd be wilLIng to bet that footage is from after we kicked the hell out of them and sent 'em running, and that Hero Boy kid killed Duo." Outside> Bluegrass :kinda bLInks... in that her visor fLIckers... then GLances at Barrage. "Yah, Ah do beLIeve it so..."" Outside> Bluegrass kinda bLInks... in that her visor fLIckers... then GLances at Barrage. "Yah, Ah do beLIeve it so..."" Outside> Cyclops just watches as the video plays out, before sighing. He doesn't LIke the look of it at all... Outside> Sword Man stares on, amazed at what he saw before him. "...what could have happened to cause such a reaction from the Stardroids?" He swallows hard. Outside> Gemini Man watches the video intensely, taking it in to memory as well as he can... Then...waits. And waits a bit longer, while the others converse. Finally, he rolls his eyes, and gestures his empty hand to the screen. "That's IT?" He makes a sputtering sound. "That's ALL? THat's....nothing!" Outside> Job says, "Agreed... I think this was after Duo's death..." Outside> Serenade isn't quite so quick to mock or scorn. Since she *can* read LIps, the Femme focuses quite intently on the video, frowning. She wanted to know what was *said*. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf muses, "Perhaps..." absently. He records the video feed from his own perspective for later reference and makes sure that no one has wandered off. Outside> The Terrors...bLInk, as the video cLIp ends. Those were the Stardroids? The baby reploid eating, mass slaughtering, destroy the Earth Stardroids? "What was that?" Outside> Prismatic Spider grumbles, as he continues looking about... "Where is it..." If he can just find the source... Of course, this is one big console/viewscreen/thing... Outside> Job says, "LIkely this is the after math of the fight from this... I think the shots must havr started when the image gave out. Looks LIke they killed eachother..."" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man transmits, "Well, that was pointless." Outside> Matic receives a radio transmission. Outside> Dynamo keeps watching. He knows when to stay quiet... and when not to. Outside> Guts Man bends down for a piece of debris, "This was a waste of time." He throws the debris at the viewscreen. "Stupid tv! Be less sucky!" Outside> Dynamo watches the others, too... since the screen is black. Outside> The viewscreen has returned to its black and white-flecked fLIckering, the way it was before it spat up this short recording. Perhaps it has more secrets to spill... just not today. Outside> Rigger frowns a bit at the screen display only to shake her head slowly. Looking again at all the terminals she GLances towards Prismatic questioninGLy. "Think we can find the memory banks and rip them out? We can probably try to peice together the missing parts with some time. And I don't trust being up here for the time it'd take to do that." Outside> Pallbearer looks back at the console, trying to figure more from it. "There's got to be more." he says, looking over the console, trying to find another switch that looks enterprising. "This doesn't make sense. I thought the stardroids rarely fought with eachother if at all. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Explainl" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Explain." Outside> Job kneels down and scoops up a few bits of wreckage and scrap which he puts in the holding area of his salvage rig... Outside> "Please do not tell me we risked death by toilet to watch a meaninGLess several seconds cLIp of a Stardroid crying." It appears even Shield can get fed up, amazinGLy enough. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "Hold on Ballade I'll give you a data feed..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "Just a quick display on a screen of stardroids having an argument. No sound." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man transmits, "A movie with no plot and no conclusion." Outside> Ether Skunk frowns sLIghtly, putting her hands on her hips. "That wasn't much fun at all!" she murmurs, tail tossing behind her. Outside> Matic sends a radio transmission. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "In other words, inconclusive evidence." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Enforcer Malamute transmits, "Well, this was a waste of time. We know nothing more than we did when we got here." Outside> Wildrider snorts. "Obviously, there's not enough information revealed yet." explains Wildrider. "Seems LIke security camera footage, and where there's some, there might be more. What we've seen explains nothing, but with time and searching, we might find something of importance." Outside> Andromeda watches the video recording it with her visor before she floats over to Rigger, about to suggest the same thing Rigger did, "Perhaps if we work together we can find it and remove what's remaining of any storage devices on the ship, assuming we have an idea what to look for." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "Yep. Best guess is they killed each other." Outside> Prismatic Spider shakes his head as he sorts through wreckage. "I have no idea. The Stardroids use technology much more advanced than ours, so I'm working on half guesses and hypotheses here." Outside> Gemini Man walks over to one of the computer consoles, and starts...shouting out instructions. "That footage is saved somewhere. Someone try to find the datacard." And he starts rooting through the damaged consoles, even though he's no techie...just looking for any famiLIar-looking components. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Sigma transmits, "Hm? What has been found?" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Gemini Man transmits, "NTHING." Outside> Cyclops just stays silent, keeping his one eye on the viewscreen, before approaching it once more and beginning to look it and whatever is around it over. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Sigma transmits, "Oh that's too bad." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Bluegrass Not Serena Gilbert transmits, "YET. And we still haven't found out about what or whom did this damage... Ah suggest we assign people here ta pull up more information... once we fix Starhaven's power problem." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Enforcer Malamute transmits, "Nothing, for the most part. The ship is a wreck, but there's no sign of what caused it." Outside> Guts Man walks over to a wall and starts to punch them, "Waste my time will you space station? I'll show you!!! Gaaaaarh!!! Grrrrrrrr!!!!" He just wails away at it just because he can. Outside> Pallbearer looks over to Pris. "Prismatic....could you see if you can find a memory bank in there or something? This place looks LIke it's seen far better days, I'm wondering what there is left in these databases and I don't think we have much more time left. I'll keep seeing if I can find another function..." he starts tapping buttons, making educated guesses as to which would display more. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "I'm wilLIng to help work on repairing the powersystems here..." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] BLIzzard Wolf transmits, "Shattered dreams. More will require additioanl analysis." Outside> Enforcer Malamute sends a radio transmission to Sigma. Outside> Sigma receives a radio transmission. Outside> "Tears..." The raspy voice behind the hood chuckles. An almost reptiLIan hiss follows. "Their power is finite. Could they have once been LIke we? If so, would it be reasonable to attain such a higher state of being? Fascinating." The cloaked being hovers backwards, the procedure already racing through his head. I must have this footage analyzed by the best, interpreted and explained, analyzed completely and all translations known to him. Outside> I didn't plan on leaking any more videos tonight, but these people seem intent on finding more. What do I do? [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Sigma transmits, "Perhaps crashing into our planet? *soft chuckle* Or maybe it's a ghostship. Ah well. Perhaps there is no answer." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "...There are additional Stardroids." Outside> Andromeda says, "Well given that the ship seems to have some kind of organic component to it, perhaps we should be looking data stored in some sort of cell-structure, perhaps in DNA or something similar." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "I beLIeve... a conclusion of fratricide may be premature." Outside> Cyclops sends a radio transmission to Sigma. Outside> Sigma receives a radio transmission. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "However, additional information is required." Outside> Sigma sends a radio transmission. Outside> Enforcer Malamute receives a radio transmission. Outside> Sigma sends a radio transmission. Outside> Cyclops receives a radio transmission from Sigma. Outside> Sword Man simply sits down and ponders this, wondering what the movie was supposed to tell them. Obviously, he keeps away from the technical stuff, as he knows as much about that as a dog knows how to use a typewriter. He simply sits in a classic "Thinker" stance and wonders. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf rumbles, "I think that we need to pull back and regroup. If the hull were to breach at this point most of the humans in this expedition would die very quickly. Which is counterproductive." Outside> Shield makes no educated guesses, and attempts to discover no more secrets. They've reached the heart of the station, and it tells them nothing. "Hunters, I beLIeve it's time we left." At least the humans. "Rigger, Wildrider, as nothing appears to be immediately accessable, you two at the least should leave until the environmental situation can be stabiLIzed." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Tron Bonne transmits, "...May I suggest... ...that Starhaven be set under Guard? ...I do not beLIeve that it would be wise to let just anyone onboard... ...and give the scientificaly and technilogicaly minded a chance to poke around?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "That's the best guess with what we know currently. We're well aware it's not a good one." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Guts Man transmits, "I say we blow it up now for being such a waste of time." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Bluegrass not Serena Gilbert transmits, "Mahself and mah fellow Guards could do that." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Shield transmits, "And I suggest the Bonnes be the ones we keep out?" Outside> Matic probes some more detritus with his cipher, sensing LIttle to be gained from the video feed. Outside> Cyclops sends a radio transmission. Outside> Sigma receives a radio transmission from Cyclops. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "Shield, she has more ethics than you hunters show at times..." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ballade transmits, "I beLIeve the UN claims control of the station for the moment." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ballade transmits, "For the moment... that is acceptable." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job sighs, "Lets just worth together on this huh?" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Shield transmits, "You have no idea of what you speak." Outside> The black screen hisses and pops a few times as it's poked at and punched and so on, so forth; briefly, it shows a view of the room as it stands now, showing all of you, while the viewscreen-in-the-viewscreen displays the same thing, LIke two mirrors facing eachother. A moment later, and it fades to black once more. One of the computer banks nearby emits a sharp hiss as its data drives strugGLe to call up another chunk of video... [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Rigger transmits, "Shield. In this case we all work together.. Though, yes, those of us who are humans should be kept out till things are fixed properly." Outside> Dynamo hrms. "I wonder whose seat this is. I hope whoever it was is dead... the ass-indent has a shape I don't want to ever see." Outside> Sigma sends a radio transmission to Cyclops. Outside> Cyclops receives a radio transmission from Sigma. Outside> Sigma sends a radio transmission. Outside> Cyclops receives a radio transmission. Outside> Bluegrass bLInks. "Kay... That was weird."" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Tron Bonne sniffs softly at the early comment, then speaks. "...I can offer the services of the Servbots and myself. ...The Servbots are fully capable in ZerG and Vacuum." Outside> Prismatic Spider looks up as he wigGLes something. "Hmm?" He then shakes his head and looks back down at the wreckage. Maybe he got something? [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ballade transmits, "If it can, in fact, be repaired. This is Stardroid technology after all." Outside> BLIzzard Wolf reflexivly looks backwards, trying to find the camera. Outside> Cyclops sends a radio transmission to Sigma. Outside> Sigma receives a radio transmission from Cyclops. Outside> Ether Skunk turns away from the viewscreen, and starts waving her arms around. LIke BLIzzard, she's looking for the camera. Outside> Pallbearer looks to the others....and back to the console. "There's much, much more to this. I know there is, I can feel it." The mummybot steps back a moment, looking up towards the viewscreen. "This is the heart of it! This is everything that is left of the Stardroids. It's their home, their fortress, the whole of what they left as a legacy is here. CrumbLIng, half-destroyed...it's all here somehow." Pall looks back to the controls, trying to figure out where to try next. Outside> Job sits himself down on the floor for the moment and his optic dimms a LIttle bit. Then it powers back up and he looks about the room again. "Lets see what we can find..." he gets up and heads to the one of the better looking consouls. Outside> Sword Man shoots up from his pose and looks about. "Odd..." However, seeing nothing more, he goes back to thinking. NOt much else someone LIke him can do. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "Well its worth a shot." Outside> Barrage Raptor leans against the door hining softly to herself, "I need /something/ to play with. If I can't fight a god, what of the clods..." her reptiLIan tongue begins picking over her toothy grin. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "I'm also going to offer what resourses I have to trying to repair things here. My salvage company is small but every LIttle bit helps ya know" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ballade transmits, "Mmm. I think I will begin construction of the evacuation starship." Outside> Rigger GLances over towards the sound of a whirring hard-drive with a curious expression. Her course alters a bit to head for it so she can better examine that particular console, and she reaches in to begin connecting what wires she can identify as having once been connected to one another. "Yeah, yeah. I'd just LIke to make sure they aren't coming back any time soon... And if they didn't kill each other, I want to know who or what did." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Bass transmits, "I would be happy to launch the Servbots into space. Permanently." Outside> The Terrors move away a bit as the others begin poking and prodding. The lean against one another, looking one another in the eyes. After a moment, they smirk, then shake their heads. "Not worth it." Both sit down on the floor in the middle of the room...and begin taking of their boots. Yes, there's still ooze inside, and this is as good a time as any to get it out. They haven't got a clue how most Earth tech works, so what are they going to accompLIsh poking around that the others can't? [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Tron Bonne just sniffs! Outside> Guts Man says, "They probably ate each other LIke the cannibals they are." Outside> Cyclops sends a radio transmission to Sigma. Outside> Sigma receives a radio transmission from Cyclops. Outside> Wildrider sighs, and rubs his hands together, with a smirk. That done, Wild GLances to the questing Rigger. "Ey Rigger? Need some tools, or did you think t' bring yours?" he questions, patting his utiLIty and forcefield belt, not to mention his multi-tool hanging there. Outside> Enforcer Malamute shakes his head, and sits down as well, "This entire trip was pointless. And the fact that we're up here is pointless. The Stardroids are dead. They probably intended to warp back here and supprise attack us, but something killed them off before they had a chance." Seems reasonable enough to him. Outside> "They have a security camera inside their own spacestation's command center. I cannot beLIeve they have a fear of intruders... They must not trust eachother." Or it's a plot contrivance. One of the two. Either way, his attention is now back on air-breathers, and he's wondering if perhaps they /wan/t to die. But hey, he already suggested they leave, if they want to ignore him, what's he supposed to do? Carry them over his shoulder? Yes. "Rigger, Wildrider, is there really a point in remaining here, watching ourselves on a security monitor?" Outside> Sigma sends a radio transmission. Outside> Cyclops receives a radio transmission from Sigma. Outside> Pallbearer whips around to look at Enforcer. "That's what I'm afraid of, maverick." he snaps. "This place is a warzone. Whatever killed them, completely overwhelmed them. If there's something out there that can beat them this badly....what happens if and when they come /here?/" Outside> Cyclops sends a radio transmission. Outside> Sigma receives a radio transmission from Cyclops. Outside> Job says, "Hey I got slavage rig on I came prepared...I can handle it you two get clear. We don't need to breath and will get it patched up... Outside> "Let us not jump to conclusions." The cloaked one looks over to Enforcer Malamute. "Even the dead can return to haunt us in more ways than one, their very legacy that they left while aLIve... this ship for instance, could have tremendous consequence... for good or ill. Therefore there is relevance to this study, one way or another." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "Bluegrass I think you have the right idea..." Outside> Huh? (Type "help" for help.) [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "The next problem is figuring out what the power systems are... and where they are." Outside> Guts Man burps once he's chugged down his beer. "Hey Dynamo, how much to hire you to kill all these UN guard chumps so that we can blow this joint up and prevent any more exploration or possible attraction of the old Gods themselves?" Outside> Pallbearer sighs, turning back to the viewscreen. "Much as I hate to say so, tall dark and hooded has a point. Let's try and get this place partly onLIne...if we can stabiLIze this ship we might be able to get more done." Outside> Once again, the black fLIckers out, replaced by another recording of this very room, back in a repaired condition. There are no crowds this time, just one stardroid, off to the side.... Mercury, from the looks of things. He's not doing much to speak of... it's as though this was a mere bit of security footage. For a full, soLId minute, things are nice and docile, while Mercury pokes and prods at various computers, until.. In the space of a few seconds, a dark shape sweeps in from just off-camera, moving too quickly to be fully GLImpse, its details masked over by morphing blobs of black, as though the camera could not 'see' much of it... humanoid, Stardroid-sized, with the shape of two wings on its back. The thing sweeps behind Mercury in a flash, sLInging a blade into its grasp; locking one arm around the green Stardroid's shoulders and neck, while the other brings the weapon around, digging it deep into Mercury's abdomen. The image fLIckers and fades as Mercury, caught off guard, reaches up to clutch at the arm around his shoulders... and once more, the viewscreen turns black. Outside> Ricochet has reconnected. Outside> Ricochet has partially disconnected. Outside> Matic seems caught by the video. The Director raizes a blonde brow over his mirrored shades. "Nice technique." Outside> Dynamo hrms. "I'll get back to you on that one, Guts Man. My annoyance is such that I may do it for fre-" He pauses as something else plays. "Oh, how very nice. Mystery Stardroid Theater 3000." Outside> Pallbearer looks up at the screen in shock. ".....Goddammit, I hate it when I'm right." Outside> Sword Man shoots up and stands up at this revelation. "....I beLIeve we have found at least one factor in the cause of the Stardroid's fate...." Outside> Barrage Raptor bobs her head, "Never saw it coming. " Outside> Enforcer Malamute nods a bit, and stands up, "At least." He says, "Maybe it wasn't entirely pointless after all." Outside> Gemini Man turns his head around as the screen fLIckers, and, rushes back to watch, taking in the film's violent end. He gapes a moment, then...concludes: "Oops." Outside> Job says, "... that was interesting.." Outside> BLIzzard Wolf sounds uncharacteristically grave as he says, "And lo.. the serpent turns and consumes its own tail..." softly. He then lets out a slow, chilly breath of misted air, shaking his head. Outside> Guts Man laughs at the movie, "Hahahahahaha, he sure got it stuck to him! Stick it to the Stardroid man!" Outside> "Of course I brought my tools, Wild," Rigger responds just as the screen fLIckers on again. Her face contorts in distaste as she looks around, reaLIsing she's at the very terminal that Mercury was at when... With a shudder she quickly steps away, wiping her hands on her pants. "Right. Let's get out of here. We can recover the rest of the data later." Outside> Not moments after the viewscreen's second morsel of footage finishes playing, something pops inside the computer off to the side, and the fLIckering black of a foul signal is replaced by the quiet black of a non-functioning screen. Apparently, it's going to need a LIttle more repair before any mroe can be GLeaned. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man sounds kinda resolved. "They're all dead." Outside> Bluegrass bLInks once more. "Well, shoot. Ah think we found enough ta satisfy our curiousity fer now. Now, lets get this thing back ta operating status."" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "At least one of them is." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Kaph transmits, "but is there executioner lurking?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "Looks LIke Merurcy got wacked" Outside> Prismatic Spider looks back down to the damaged equipment, leaving the video analysis to the others. Maybe this over here? And that over there? And this plugs into... that thing? This sure isn't slot A into tab B by any means... [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "What would be the point?" Outside> Wildrider rolls his eyes, after gogGLIng at the screen in horror. "Oh hell no. Let's get some generators up here, and some more technicians. My curiousity's just begun to be raised. Heck, I'm wilLIng to stay up if I have to, and work on this." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...Executioner?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man transmits, "Eh. Who cares... they're all dead, we think." Outside> Matic receives a radio transmission from Kaph. Outside> Yes folks...Wildrider has fallen to the curiosity virus. Outside> Cyclops just looks up at the viewscreen, shaking his head. "Well, atleast now we've got a bit more of a bit idea of what's happened here." As the viewscreen stops functioning, atleast for now, he sighs, before continuing to look through the wreakage again. Outside> Matic sends a radio transmission. Outside> Pallbearer nods. "Here here. Prismatic, I think some of us should get on the horn to our respective people....this place is huge and full of aLIen technology, we'll need the finest engineers and mechanics known to man and reploid in order to get this thing running." [Radio: (E) Broadband] BLIzzard Wolf transmits, "footage of one of the Stardroids being attacked by an unknow peer." Outside> Barrage Raptor bobs her head as the TV goes blank and remains standing stalwart in fron of the door. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "Assassins do not LInger behind the scene once they have completed their task unless they have a reason. Everything is destroyed, nobody is left. Why remain?" Outside> "Oh what an interesting turn of events." The cloaked figure whispers to nobody but himself, he leans closer to the screen, replaying the events of Mercury's untimely end and the black figure. "So the dark God has returned... my rival to the throne of mayhem." A sinGLe red optic, burning with new intensity, flares from the darkness in the hood. "Could it really be you?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "Oh, I don't know... How'd the ship end up here? Maybe he's fishing for more victims." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "And we walked right in." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Elaborate, Gemini Man." Outside> *spLItterspLIttersplash* Two left boots are emptied, and the Terrors turn to undo the others - when the screen flashes to LIfe agian. After the minute of boring poking, one of them begins to turn away. Fortunately, however, the other is still looking as the dark figure swoops onto the screen. The twins watch, gaping. "....Ouch." "The Stardroids cry.../and/ have assasinations?" "...maybe it /was/ a civil war..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...What did it look LIke?" Outside> Enforcer Malamute scratches the back of his head, "See if we can't get any more info out of this thing." He murmers, "Either that or the thing will probably explode on you or something." Outside> Gemini Man shrugs. That helps a LIttle. He bLInks... wondering a bit, what exactly WAS he expecting to see? "We think it's time to go." Outside> Pallbearer looks around. "This place is defunct for the time being, we'll need time and a lot of repair work." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "LIke Sigma on crack with angel wings. I don't know it was big, black, and sLIced a Stardroid in half. Now I'd LIke to get off of this ship soon." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Squeak Toy Serenade transmits, "... Keep in mind Mercury was aparently made of LIquid metal. And would therefore not have any vital organs -t stab." Outside> Sigma sends a radio transmission. Outside> Cyclops receives a radio transmission from Sigma. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man transmits, "Just some big dark thing. I got a quick-scan of the video. We will bring it home." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "He died nevertheless." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Squeak Toy Serenade transmits, "The video didn't show anyone dying. Just getting stabbed." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "It killed a Stardroid. I see." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Dynamo transmits, "Don't be so quick to assume assasination. I rather favor the idea of a sadistic Stardroid serial killer, slowly walking the halls of Starhaven, striking from the shadows and leaving bodies as grisly reminders... until only he remained. He could be in the shadows right now... watching us... waiting... biding his time... wanting more victims... and more..." Outside> Barrage Raptor says, "Perhaps it would be more to our advantage if we ripped all the data storage out of here to be researched on Earth?"" Outside> Cyclops sends a radio transmission. Outside> Sigma receives a radio transmission from Cyclops. Outside> Enforcer Malamute looks at the raptor, "And how do we know we could access it outside of this room?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Terror Tanuki transmits, "Oh....thanks for /that/ thought!" Outside> Pallbearer looks back to the others. "Ripping out the data would be too risky. This is aLIen technology, we don't even know what their data storage looks LIke let alone how it functions." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Isaac transmits, "Hopefully he will kill you First Dynamo." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man suddenly laughs. "Dynamo...if you didn't suck so much..." "That would have been pretty cool." Outside> Prismatic Spider peers back at Pall. "I'm no slouch myself, Pallbearer. Computers are one of my specialties, after all..." He looks back and pokes around some more. Outside> Guts Man says, "Maybe we should LIsten to the Leprechaun. He tells me to burn things!" Outside> Rigger GLances over towards Barrage with a nod. "I kinda said that already." She shakes her head, running a hand through her hair, only to look over towards Shield. "Let's go. I don't want to risk any LIves tonight. And thank god we don't have to go through that room again." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Isaac transmits, "OOC MAV >.<" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Squeak Toy Serenade transmits, "And all of you should know that stabbing doesn't mean kilLIng. So theoretically the neurotic blob of goo might still be around. Yay." Outside> "Do you know what a stardroid data storage device looks LIke?" the Dire Wolf remarks as he gives the place a wary GLance, wondering if perhaps the ship still harbors the killer. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Bluegrass Not Serena Gilbert transmits, "THANK YA, DYNAMO. Ya have made me feel so much better about this..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Metal Man transmits, "Hopefully he will kill you First Dynamo."" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Dynamo transmits, "I aim to please, my dear Musica." Outside> Andromeda obviously records this bit of footage as well, since she is, well, recording everything. But then goes back to watching Rigger a bit more, "We should send people more knowledgeable to do the removal, or we might damage it..." Outside> Barrage Raptor growls, slapping her tail on the ground in irritation "No I don't. Do you know what my fist slamming into the side of your head looks LIke?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "The small community size makes the idea of a Stardroid Serial Killer unLIkely to the point of absurdity. And I do not beLIeve any of them had wings LIke that anyways." Outside> Pallbearer says, "What I think needs to be done is we need to get some more engineers and repair crews up here. Once this place is a bit more stable we can try removing the data." Outside> Job sends a radio transmission. Outside> Serena Gilbert receives a radio transmission. Job sends you a tightbeam radio transmission: "Bluegrass I'd LIke to formmaly offer the UN and anyone else my aid In the matter of trying to repair things..." Outside> Sigma sends a radio transmission. Outside> Cyclops receives a radio transmission from Sigma. Outside> Sword Man sighs and sits back down. "So, one question is answered...however, how many more questions does this lead to?" He peers up toward Gemini and shakes his head. "Nay. Perhaps 'twould be best to remain and see what more comes of this...." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Mmm. There were new Stardroids in the initial video feed, no?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...Send that Datafeed this way, someone" Outside> Cyclops sends a radio transmission. Outside> Sigma receives a radio transmission from Cyclops. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "And none of them had wings." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "I'll send it now Tron" Outside> Guts Man shakes his head at Barrage Raptor, "Looks LIke it's your time of the month. Unless you're just a really buff chick pumped up with testosterone." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...Thanks, Job." Outside> Serena Gilbert sends a radio transmission to Job. Outside> Job receives a radio transmission. [Radio] You send Job a direct message: "Ah'll hafta talk 'bout it ta Fury, but Ah think he will agree ta it. You're hired." Outside> Job sends a radio transmission to Tron Bonne. Outside> Pallbearer looks back to the screen. "Hm....Right now, it's looking LIke we'd need time to repair it at the least. Beyond that we've got no idea how to keep these things running." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Are you certain?" Outside> Whatever caused the burst in the first computer causes a second, as another terminal on the side of the room erupts with a gout of flame, sending harmless, though still alarming chunks of metal across the room. Apparently, the place is not keen on holding together for much longer. Outside> Barrage Raptor snarls at Guts Man, baring rows of sharp teeth, "Robot Master, you are a testament to your kind's intelLIgence." Outside> Job sends a radio transmission to Serena Gilbert. Outside> Serena Gilbert receives a radio transmission from Job. Job sends you a tightbeam radio transmission: "Works for me." Outside> Rigger gives Andromeda a flat expression at her suggestion. "Gee, thank you so much for questioning my quaLIfications. However, I am a bit less incLIned to stay here since it seems this place might fall apart at amny moment. So if you'll excuse me..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "No problem tron. Can you id the killer?" Outside> Gemini Man sends a radio transmission to Ballade. Outside> Guts Man says, "I sure am!" Outside> Wildrider shakes his head, and looks towards Guts. "Last time I spoke to a leprechaun, I was in rio, bLItzed on a dozen scredrivers. And he was floating with a giant c-Hell. Time to run." explains Wild, motioning towards the door. "Move folks, move!" Outside> Shield nods in reLIef as Rigger at least seems sensible. Now if he can just convince the rest of the Hunters. "Wildrider, it is quite fooLIsh for you to remain. This place is not going anywhere." And that was /before/ the place caught on fire. Outside> Serena Gilbert sends a radio transmission to Job. Outside> Job receives a radio transmission. [Radio] You send Job a direct message: "Ya'll can start by the power up... before this place comes apart!!!" Outside> The Flames are mirrored in Matic's shades. "Oh, screw this..." he mutters as he nips away from the terminals and out the door, cipher spinning. Outside> Gemini Man receives a radio transmission from Ballade. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Bass transmits, "It was OJ Simpson." Outside> Enforcer Malamute jerks his head at the explosion of the computer, "On second thought, I beLIve getting out of here would be a good idea." He says, "A tactical retreat." And so, he turns and leaves.. Outside> "I think that's an invitation to depart, yes..." BLIzzard muses thoughtfully. Outside> *spLIttersplashsplash* The Terrors empty their right boots with sLIghtly more urgency, then pull them back on. "We're leav-" They stop, staring as the fire springs up. "-ing." With no further ado, the tanukis are /out/ the door. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...No. Send me the Origional Datafeed. The one with the other Stardroids" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Guts Man transmits, "Mmmmm orange juice. The breakfast drink of champions!" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "Okay one sec but I got to get to work on the power systems here..." Outside> Gemini Man looks around. ... You know. This looks LIke a really good time for... a giant holographic shadowbeast to leap out of the shadows and... He bLInks. "Naw." Gemini shakes his head. "Time to go," he says, heading for the door. Outside> Dynamo looks around. "Oh, joy. Wonderful gales of fireballs are about to destroy us. A pity." Outside> Gemini Man receives a radio transmission. Outside> Prismatic Spider looks up at the burning viewscreen. "I suppose that's a hint. Ah well... Another time!" He turns towards the door, staying behind Barrage Raptor as he heads out. Outside> Cyclops has disconnected. Outside> Job sends a radio transmission to Tron Bonne. Outside> Dynamo bLInks to another location. Outside> Andromeda ducks under a LIttle bit of exploding metal, her GLowing screen regarding Rigger, "Well excuse me, you don't have theoretical mechanics written all over you." Outside> Job sends a radio transmission. Outside> Prismatic Spider receives a radio transmission from Job. Outside> Rigger just GLances at the flames... And starts to run out again with a curse. Her mind argument with Andromeda isn't forgotten though as she yells back, "My full name does include 'Doctor' you know!" Outside> Prismatic Spider sends a radio transmission. Outside> Job receives a radio transmission. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...Oh... ...Poor Duet.... ...Whatever could have been wrong with her?" Outside> Sword Man sighs, and follows the others out. After all, it's not exactly safe here anymore. Outside> BLIzzard Wolf is departing. Now. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Gemini Man transmits, "Don't ask stupid questions." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "she tried to destroy the planet and failed? It probably wounded her ego." Outside> Pallbearer taptaps away at the controls, finally giving up as the flames start. Pall curses, looking around the room and heading out, among the last to do so. "I'll find out more of this....I swear it." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Guts Man transmits, "I once tried to destroy an IHOP but you don't see me crying about it do you?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "I have no sympathy for that creature. She reclaimed Duo after I laid him low, initially." Outside> Shield is, once again, heading up the rear. High temperatures, or low temperatures for that matter, are both things he's able to handle fairly well. Certainly much better than most of the Hunters. "I hope you all enjoyed the trip. Don't come back," he suggests. Outside> Wildrider meanwhile needs LIttle encouragement. He's hustLIng back the way he came in. Tsk. He'll always choose LIfe over imminent death. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "AW CRAP! I am NOT in the mood for this s***." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Kaph transmits, "You only tried, I could send the occupants' of an IHOPs souls to hell in under 6 seconds." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "That's not saying much." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Guts Man transmits, "1...2...3..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Guts Man transmits, "4...5...6..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Bluegrass Not Serena Gilbert transmits, "Lets see... She lost her...Ah'm assumin' Duo is her lover... Two good friends of hers... ta a planet and defied judgement! Heck, Ah'll be jumpin' fer bloody joy if that happens ta me! *sarcasm*" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "You're rather strange." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "I would expect rage, not tears." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "However... something disturbs me more." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Shield transmits, "Women are also strange." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "What, Ballade?" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "I have felt part of the mild of Pluto. If he is smiLIng...." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Guts Man transmits, "Women are weak because they love." Outside> Obsidian HolNode - Starhaven Outside> Contents: Contents: Shield [Hired_muscle] [MH] Guts Man [Normal] [RM] Wildrider [Hunter] [MH] Pallbearer [Pall] [RF] Ricochet [Armor] [RF] Matic [Suit] [C] BLIzzard Wolf [MH] Sword Man [Normal] [RM] Prismatic Spider [RF] Regulus [SD] Kaph [Kai] [C] Andromeda [Helmeted_eva] [MH] Rigger [Lab] [MH] Enforcer Malamute [Main] [M] Dynamo [Armored] [C] Terror Tanuki [666] [M] Bytsy Outside> North : CrystalLIne Command Node - Starhaven Northwest : Sanctum of Galaxia - Starhaven Northeast : Observatory - Starhaven [Radio: (E) Broadband] Job transmits, "LIkely after Duo was killed." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "Er, Mind." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "When Death smiles..." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "...I see." Outside> Enforcer Malamute shakes his head a LIttle, "Useless UN troops." He murmers, mostly to himself, "Well, you've managed to get all the way here when we were just leaving before this place colapses around us." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Rigger transmits, "Guts. I seem to recall you having a crush on a certain Armadillo." Outside> Rigger practically sLIdes out of the doors as she attempts to stay on the path in the gravity-less room. The sight of the UNers, and the uncloaked Kaph have her halting warily however. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ether Skunk transmits, "... an -armadillo?- ewwwwww!!" [Radio: (E) Broadband] Ballade transmits, "No, Tron. I honestly do not think you have the sLIghtest idea. Now. I have preperations to make. Quite a few of them." Outside> Pallbearer makes his way towards the forefront, looking to Haschenkopf. "Herr Doctor, we should leave, quickly. This place won't stay intact much longer, we've got a fair share of information left." Outside> Kaph takes a holographic scan of Guts Man. Outside> Prismatic Spider takes out a medical scanner and scans Kaph. Outside> Shield takes out an OOC scanner and scans Prismatic Spider. [Radio: (E) Broadband] Guts Man transmits, "Crush and love are two different things. Besides. Having a half breed hardhat armadillo would make it the most deflective robot in the universe without having to hide underneath a hardhat to begin with!" Outside> Dynamo looks at the former dinosaur, shaking his head. "Now, now, a good villain doesn't make threats when surrounded by people who aren't afraid to destroy her utterly. Amateur." Outside> Kaph smirks at Prismatic Spider, "Hey buddy" she calls out aiming her syringe at the RFer and suirting a small amount of her 'toilet mucus' sample at him. "Here's Stardroid piss in your eye." Outside> Haschenkopf looks towards Pallbearer, LIstening intently. "Very well," he states. "If any of you are in a hurry to leave, the pathway to the Southeast," he guestures towards that door, "Has been secured for the moment. Conditions are... unstable, along the other route." Outside> Bluegrass GLARES at Kaph. "Ah remember ya. And Ah still have 'questions' ta ask ya." She cracks her knuckles. "...the hard and enjoyable way."" Outside> Shield arrives from behind, sLIpping through the crowd to lead the group out again. No, he's not trusting the peace agreement to hold up a minute longer, at this point. And, by the look of things, his cynical hunch is correct. Outside> Haschenkopf gestures Northeast, that is. After 5 hours of managing a scene, details start to fuzz up. Outside> The Terrors roll their eyes. "Oh, that's so sad. Thus, the hiding, you know?" "It probably woulda been a good idea." With that, the two head down the north east path. They could care less about the person making trouble all of the sudden.../they/ perfer to fight where there's ground. And plenty of air. Outside> Job says, "Lets not blow eachother up right now? Do it after we are done here hummm" he heads off to the ne [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne just sniffs! ...then sighs. "...I'll help with what I can, Ballade." [Radio: (E) Broadband] Pirate Princess Tron Bonne transmits, "OOC: Misradio. ^_^ Ignore!" Outside> Bytsy Outside> Kaph takes a holographic scan of Kaph. Outside> Pallbearer nods. "I'd reccomend leaving yourself, Herr Doctor." He then turns, looking to the apparent forthcoming brawl between Kaph and the others. "Good god. You all know how fragile this place is, you honestly want to start a fight in here?" Outside> Regulus goes home. Outside> Kaph projects a holographic image of Kaph. Outside> Bluegrass sighs, "No." with that she moves to the northeast." Outside> Kaphs grin at Bluegrass "Who us? Whatever for, sugar?" Outside> Enforcer Malamute just gets out of here. Yep...No reason to be here. Outside> Pallbearer sighs, looking to Prismatic. "We should get going, quickly." Outside> Haschenkopf sighs. "If only we could. Worry not, RepLIforcer; we shall make sure this part of Starhaven is secured, so that we may return when conditions are more accomodating." He nods to Pallbearer, then to everybody else. Either he is obLIvious to the confLIct that Kaph is creating, or he chooses to ignore it. "Thank you all. Our efforts here could not continue without your assistance. If you wish to return to Earth, the Magellan will depart shortly." Outside> Bluegrass GLances back at Kaph. "Seoul, sugah." and then moves onward." Outside> Hangar - Starhaven Outside> Contents: Contents: Andromeda [Helmeted_eva] [MH] Bytsy UN Heavy Transport Outside> Southwest : Vestibule of Spectres - Starhaven Southeast : Menagerie - Starhaven Out : Orbit of Earth Outside> Andromeda enters the Orbit of Earth. Outside> Matic activates his stealth mode. Outside> Kaph sLInks along behind a few of the retreating explorers. Smug grin plastered on her face as holoemitters and a good understanding of sneakiness get her there completely unscene. Outside> Matic darts into the transport quietly. Outside> Bytsy enters the Orbit of Earth. Outside> Dynamo enters the Orbit of Earth. Outside> You enter the Orbit of Earth. Outside> Orbit of Earth Outside> Contents: Contents: Dynamo [Armored] [C] Sigma [Holo_1] [M] Byte [Byte] [M] Starhaven [SD] Abandoned Space Station Space Colony Moon Outside> Deep Space : Sol System Eastern Hemisphere : Sky Above Eastern Hemisphere Western Hemisphere : Sky Above Western Hemisphere Outside> Without the massive Space Station... floats a massive figure. His great legs are crossed in the lotus position below him. His golden eyes are half-LIdded as he hovers ominously almost directly 'Above' Shadowhaven. Byte. Awaiting need. ...In Space... ...Gravity is Power... ...and, it seems, Byte is making himself useful. Outside> Dynamo bLInks into orbit. Such fun. Outside> Dynamo bLInks to another location. Outside> Dynamo bLInks into the area. Outside> Dynamo bLInks to another location. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Yin Yoma Byte transmits, "...I, personaly, intend to remain outside of Starhaven. I will do my best to prevent any further... 'Shard Storms' as it were. In ZerG, as we are... ...I can control even gigantic parts of this station if they decide to break away... ...We shall see." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ballade transmits, "As you wish." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "That would be mightly appriciated Byte." Outside> Bluegrass blasts out of the Starhaven and is starting her across the GLobal to Eurasia. Don't mind her." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Yin Yoma Byte transmits, "...I do it not for you... but by order of the Emperor." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Rigger transmits, "You do that. I'm going to go pound my head into a wall till I can forget things." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Dynamo transmits, "Ah... nothing LIke bLInking out of orbit. Damn, it's cold wherever this is." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "Very well..." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Guts Man transmits, "Yer fat butt will provide a new orbit for Star Haven thus ensuring that even with diminished power it will not go hurtLIng out of control!" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Yin Yoma Byte transmits, "...Maybe we can use your fat head instead, Guts Man... -rumbles-" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job sighs. "I got equipment to prep... [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Serena Gilbert transmits, "Hush up now. The both of ya." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Job transmits, "I'm going to get the Star Seeker loaded up with repair gear and hopefully get over to the stataion again to help with repairs." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Dynamo transmits, "Hrm. Yo, Masters, are there any convenient teleporter hubs in your territory. I seem be smack in the middle of Africa." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ballade transmits, "Interesting. You do reaLIze there is a bounty LIsted on your head within the nation of Africa, correct?" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Dynamo transmits, "Just my head? I'm disappointed." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Guts Man transmits, "Yeah you wish Byte, but my head is used for hurting things. Not planetary orbit." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ballade transmits, "I spoke figuratively. I beLIeve the actual term is 'Any definitively identifying piece of critical systems'." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Dynamo transmits, "Right. I'll have to remember that." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ballade transmits, "Where, roughly, in Africa, are you?" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Guts Man transmits, "Try Cairo." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Dynamo transmits, "The southern savannah... -fsh- No, wait... some rainforest... -fsh- I mean Lake Wily's Mom... -fsh-" [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Serena Gilbert transmits, "Casablanca should be nearby. Ya can use the teleporters, there." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ballade transmits, "Guts Man is correct. Go to Cairo. Or, if you must, Casablanca." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Dynamo transmits, "Why, thank you, Ball-sama... -snicker- Ball-sama Vinegar. You're most helpful." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Guts Man transmits, "Use the Cairo one and bust a few ride armors while you're at it. RepLIforce think they own the place. Idiots." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ballade transmits, "...Mmm." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Dynamo transmits, "Blah... bloody teleporters. I must ask Dr. LIght how he made Protoman's someday." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ballade transmits, "He doesn't know. Neither does the Doctor." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Dynamo transmits, "Well, that's no fun." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Enforcer Malamute transmits, "Could always try to rip Protoman's out by force." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Ballade transmits, "Although the Doctor does occasionally mumble something about cheese sandwhiches in his sleep after Break Man thwarts him." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Tron Bonne transmits, "...That is decidedly odd..." [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Rigger transmits, "I wouldn't suggest that. He won't even let those of us who try to fix him get close." Seoul - United Nations Plaza It is here that most of the world's decisions are made. The kind of power here reflects in the architecture, with the HUGE UN building that holds the General Assembly. Blue and dome shaped in design, it is the only one in the world of its kind, and workplace to the thousands that work here. The perimeter of the General Assembly building is surrounded the flags of every country that has a seat, which is nearly everyone. Outside are a number of other large office buildings, ranging from delegate bureau's, to the Headquarters of the UN PoLIce, to a RepLIforce office. Constantly patrolled and guarded by UN PoLIce, safety is among an utmost concern after the infamous April Fools Day Massacre. Despite that, the place is a very safe environment. Contents: Contents: Terror Tanuki [666] [M] Shield [Hired_muscle] [MH] Rigger [Lab] [MH] Job [SPACE SALVAGE GEAR] [C] Pallbearer [Pall] [RF] Kaph [Kai] [C] Prismatic Spider [RF] Starburst Dragon [Armor] [RF] Barrage Raptor [Heavy armor] [RF] Ether Skunk [Unarmored] [MH] UN Heavy Transport Press Stand United Nations Vehicle Garages : United Nations Building East : Seoul - Northern Commercial District West : Seoul - Tourist District South : Seoul - Historical District North : Seoul - Eastern Residential District [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Tron Bonne transmits, "...But then... ...one cannot doubt the mind of the Doctor... and LIght, too, I guess." Kaph floats on an air current coming out of the Magellan and then curves pwards, landing gracefully on the spaceship where she perches, advanced stealth systems making her invisible to most still. She watched with GLeeful interest as she recognizes the miLItary reploids waiting for her. [Radio: (F) AlLIance] Dynamo transmits, "Yes. I'm not stupid, after all. Besides, he'd leave before I could. Wily bastard. I need to borrow King's axe and chop him in half one of these days." Outside> Seoul - United Nations Plaza Outside> Contents: Contents: Terror Tanuki [666] [M] Shield [Hired_muscle] [MH] Rigger [Lab] [MH] Job [SPACE SALVAGE GEAR] [C] Pallbearer [Pall] [RF] Kaph [Kai] [C] Prismatic Spider [RF] Starburst Dragon [Armor] [RF] Barrage Raptor [Heavy armor] [RF] Ether Skunk [Unarmored] [MH] UN Heavy Transport Press Stand United Nations Vehicle Garages Outside> : United Nations Building East : Seoul - Northern Commercial District West : Seoul - Tourist District South : Seoul - Historical District North : Seoul - Eastern Residential District Outside> Rigger sends a radio transmission. Outside> Job sends a radio transmission to Tron Bonne. Outside> Starburst Dragon has disconnected. Outside> Rigger just... walks off for the teleporters. *zoom* Outside> Rigger enters the Seoul - Tourist District. Outside> Pallbearer walks out after Kaph, keeping watch on her. "You are under arrest, by the way. We don't appreciate our people being kidnapped and impersonated. Now come on down so we can do this without any violence." Palming a small paint pellet, he looks up towards Kaph, and hurls it at her, the neon pink paint exploding out in an attempt to make her visible. ((ooc note, using Grasp attack)) Outside> Job receives a radio transmission from Tron Bonne. Outside> Pallbearer misses Kaph with his Grasp attack. Outside> Kaph deflects Grasp from Pallbearer. Outside> Job receives a radio transmission from Tron Bonne. Outside> Shield ponders with mild curiosity the infraction brewing, but as it's not his business, he just walks off with Rigger. Outside> Shield enters the Seoul - Tourist District. Outside> Job receives a radio transmission. Outside> Now that they're on the ground, the Terrors hurry off - they must be clean. Outside> Terror Tanuki enters the Seoul - Tourist District. Outside> Job sends a radio transmission to Tron Bonne. Outside> Kaph drops from the ship GLIding over the repLIforcers, leaving a holographic proection of herself perched up there, which suddenly blossoms in bright pink paint. The hologram then dissappears. Using her holograms fluidly Kaph LIghts up the night sky suddenly silhouetting herself on the ground some doen meters from the posse. "You all want to play with me?" she asks suddenly enthusiastic. As she begins to move again her silhouette which remains as she moves out of it, explodes into gory chunks. Outside> Prismatic Spider sighs. "Unidentified Reploid, you are under arrest for the suspected kidnapping of RepLIforce personnel and assault with an unknown substance on a RepLIforce officer. Now stand down and prepare to be taken into custody, or the use of force will be authorized." Outside> Barrage Raptor stands there. Yeah! Use of force! She LIkes using force! That's what she LIves for, force using. Use the force, Barrage. Outside> Enforcer Malamute enters the Seoul - Tourist District. Outside> Bluegrass growls, "You're also under arrest fer the chaos caused durin' that traffic mishap ya and yer brother has started! Stand down, NOW!!!"" Outside> Pallbearer curses roughly as the paint pellet fails, the mummybot keeping an eye on Kaph to make sure she doesn't try any other tricks. "You see, there's a lot of people with a great deal of guns out here who're quite capable of destroying you outright. If we don't get you, UN security will and I doubt they'll be kind. It'd be best just to surrender." Outside> Kaph shimmers back into visibiLIty stepping towards Pallbearer, she pokes at the RepLIforcer with her poison filled syringe. "I'd ust be best to surrender. No waitt, that'd ust solve the problem of how you're going to catch me, isn't it Sugar?" she gigGLes making a kissy face at Pallbearer before she makes a real effort to stab him, distracting him by thrusting with her shield. Outside> Kaph strikes Pallbearer with her Lethal Injection attack. Outside> ---- Job is staring at Bluegrass in armor! ---- Outside> Prismatic Spider points and calls out, "Resisting arrest? Capture her!" The Scientist grins, tacking on another count of assault as he calls in The Big Guns. UN troops begin to appear as well to assist in the efforts.