Topic: Game Thread - A noisy Awakening (Read 143161 times)

Drakilian · « **Reply #450 on:** August 18, 2015, 12:43:02 am »

Steve whips out the Needler.

"SUCK ON THIS ALIEN SCUM!"

He fires on the elite he'd avoided before slamming on the accelerator.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #451 on:** August 18, 2015, 12:46:43 am »

Jackson checks on Mik, is he still alive after Steve's atrocious driving?

Not Aman · « **Reply #452 on:** August 18, 2015, 05:47:56 am »

Nina changes tactics and fires at the crowd

Daedalus · « **Reply #453 on:** August 18, 2015, 07:40:11 am »

Derek also goes full auto on the aliens.

Forge · « **Reply #454 on:** August 18, 2015, 10:47:47 am »

Steve opens fire with the needler, sending half a clip at the elite, however his wounds Drag his aim down and he does not get it to look on or track so the needles scatter above it's head as it ducks out of the way. He then sees them aiming at him again and slams the gas down, wheelspinning and speeding away as Derek turns in his seat to fire back at the crowd of aliens, sadly Steve's driving throws his aim wide and the best he manages is a few bolts hitting a Jackals shield before the gun overheats and the cooling vents pop out.

Jackson carefully checks the patients in his care and finds that they are all still stable however that could change and he notes that Steve is also looking close to passing out from his current wounds.

Rouge then swings round their hog in a full drift, allowing Nina to strafe the entire front of the alien grouping as she shouts at them in old Russian. Between the skilled drifting and her targeting she blasts full auto in a huge arc right through the crowd at waist/ chest height (depending on the alien.) 3 Grunts and a Jackal fall under the heavy fire, whether wounded or dead Nina can't tell as Rouge lines up with Steve and they speed away North again.

Just not before they face the return fire. One large plasma ball blasts out at them but passes between the Hogs harmlessly and a sniper beam appears a few inches from Derek's head, it seems like the aliens are having difficulty with the Hogs driving patterns. Then two plasma bolts head right for the rear of the passenger hog. Jackson ducks, narrowly avoiding one as the second hits him clean in the arm causing searing pain to shoot through his body.

The Hogs then finally get out of range driving North

Sethaniel · « **Reply #455 on:** August 18, 2015, 12:04:16 pm »

Jackson immediately tends to himself. Then--

well,I suppose I should help Steve. if he passes out, we'll,crash. Unless. . .
Jackson assesses his chances of being able to take over driving if Steve unfortunately fails to respond to treatment.

Daedalus · « **Reply #456 on:** August 18, 2015, 12:24:14 pm »

OOC: ha! ^

"Frekkin shit that was close." Derek mumbles to himself.

"Jackson, you okay?" He shouts as he releases full auto on the aliens

Not Aman · « **Reply #457 on:** August 18, 2015, 12:28:23 pm »

"Nina kick ass!" Nina shouts as the drive away

Forge · « **Reply #458 on:** August 21, 2015, 02:56:27 pm »

The team heads away North as Derek waits for his gun to cool then sprays some plasma back at the rapidly disappearing aliens. He knows he can't hit them at the increasing range but it looks good.

Jackson gives himself some first aid with the bandages and reduces the pain then checks out Steve. It looks like Steve is in pretty bad shape but is holding on for now. He will almost certainly die if he so much as falls out of the hog wrong though. His armour seems to have held... For now at least.

Nina shouts put her triumph and soon they all see the Rocky shale area ahead, large boulders and small whale hills block line of sights everywhere, the Hogs will have to go half speed to be safe.

Drakilian · « **Reply #459 on:** August 21, 2015, 03:05:31 pm »

"Stupid rocks"! Steve shouts as he is forced to move much slower to traverse the terrain.

"Guys, keep a look out, the ships'll catch up with us soon at this rate!"

Forge · « **Reply #460 on:** August 21, 2015, 03:10:33 pm »

Steve is suddenly cut off by a blinding light to the south, quickly followed by a huge explosion and a stockade which is strong enough to batter everyone and lift the Hogs onto two wheels for a second. S few mote seconds of pure silence pass while it occurs to everyone that it was not a normal self destruct explosion, that was clearly a miniature tactical nuke that went off where the base used to be...

Drakilian · « **Reply #461 on:** August 21, 2015, 03:19:24 pm »

"Hoooollleeee shit that was awesome!!!!!!" Steve exclaims as he slams back onto the accelerator.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #462 on:** August 21, 2015, 03:25:37 pm »

Jackson briefly contemplates shoving Steve out of the hog, before turning his attention once more towards trying to help navigate.

Not Aman · « **Reply #463 on:** August 22, 2015, 01:12:33 pm »

"Good that we left." Nina says, as she makes sure to look around for more dropships

Forge · « **Reply #464 on:** August 22, 2015, 01:27:02 pm »

Both Nona and Jackson have an eye on the skies so notice that once their eyes recover from the flash there are several fewer drop-ships over the base compared to before and the Frigate size ship has turned sideways in the air a little, probably from the shockwave.

There are no enemy ships near them however Jackson Notes two things

1. They were just pretty close to a nuclear explosion so they better all be getting rad-meds soon.
2. They still have several minutes of travel ahead before they reach the evacuation point and there are signs of enemy ships ahead of them.

This observation does come a couple of seconds too late as they round a small Hill to find two shield Jackals and three grunts right in their path.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #465 on:** September 04, 2015, 04:48:02 pm »

Jackson starts thinking about where he could get rad meds.

Forge · « **Reply #466 on:** September 04, 2015, 04:56:46 pm »

It occurs to him that any well stocked medical room would have some, which means in the crater that used to be the base there would be some nicely atomized ones or they would have to wait till they were abourd a UNSC space ship frigate class or bigger

Drakilian · « **Reply #467 on:** September 04, 2015, 05:16:21 pm »

"Yeahahahahahahahahha!"

Steve keeps on pushing onto the accelerator.

"DIE GRUESOMELY MY FRIENDS!"

Not Aman · « **Reply #468 on:** September 05, 2015, 01:43:30 pm »

"Foward!" Nina shouts, countinuing to aim at whatever aliens show up in their path.

Forge · « **Reply #469 on:** September 08, 2015, 04:34:48 pm »

Things seem to go well, the Hogs plot through the aliens too slow to get away as both Jackals turn onto lumpy smears on the ram bars of the Hogs and under their tyres. Nine then sprays her turret right across a grunt who is knocked several feet back from the sheer number of bullets it took.

Then the last two return attacks. One fires it's plasma and misses by several feet but the second throws a grenade... Which stick clean to the side of the passenger hog.

Jackson leaps clear from his seat in the rear just in time as the grenade goes off, causing the hog to roll and come to rest upside down and smoking against the nearby slope.

Jackson rolls to his feet facing the enemies as Rouge spins his hog back round for another pass.

Derek then earns his keep by dropping one of the grunts in a hail of plasma, wounding the second at the same time.

Steve is alive but KO and still in the hog. Mik... Has passed away from the grenade damage and his previous trauma.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #470 on:** September 08, 2015, 08:18:39 pm »

Jackson runs for the nearest cover that isn't the crashed hog, obviously trying to avoid being shot.

Drakilian · « **Reply #471 on:** September 08, 2015, 08:20:13 pm »

"zzzzzzz"

Not Aman · « **Reply #472 on:** September 08, 2015, 11:28:07 pm »

"DIE IN RETRIBUTION!" Nina shouts, firing at the grunts

Forge · « **Reply #473 on:** September 09, 2015, 03:05:27 pm »

The wounded grunt knows what is coming. The roaring vehicle that literally just crushed his brethren has swung around again with the roaring animal on the rear gun spinning up the barrel, there is the animal with one of their plasma repeaters taking aim. One is running away for cover but that won't change anything. It had destroyed one of their vehicles and probably killed some of them with it's grenade. It is a good death.

The grunt screams out a challenge as it takes aim with its plasma pistol, firing wildly at the front of the arrpoaching hog as bullets and plasma tear it to pieces.

The hog skids to a halt to allow everyone to regroup as Rouge gives the news "The Evac is just round the next hill, but you gotta see this." His words are punctuated by an alien drop ship flying Sputh overhead, probably having dropped off its troops.

The group drags Steve from the wreckage of the hog, knowing that it won't be starting again and they all edge up the hill to see their chosen evac. sight...

Orange flairs burn in a clearing of shale and loose rock making a large circle of rising smoke, a pelican comes roaring in and briefly flairs it's engines but then banks suddenly and roars away again as two of the strange alien aircraft from earlier get on it's tail and chase it from the evac. while trying to down it. They see Marines arranged in a ring withing the smoke trying to hold position against Cov. Attacks on all sides using the larger rocks and some crates as sparse cover. It is clear that the marines are being over-run with several already dead on the ground. The team heads the shouts as an officer calls retreat to Evac. Alpha when the nearest marine seems to double check his HUD and suddenly runs right at them “What the hell! I saw friendly on my HUD but you're cadets? Get out of here! This evac. Is over-run, Alphas the last one left! Go now, we will hold then long enough for you to retreat.” He turns and runs back to a rock to fire.

They are left with a choice, their surviving hog has the turret but cannot hold all of the survivors. They could head to alpha taking turns to ride or they could stay and fight. Either way, someone needs to wake Steve up without killing him.

Not Aman · « **Reply #474 on:** September 10, 2015, 10:03:05 am »

"Nina say we go alpha." Nina says.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #475 on:** September 10, 2015, 10:23:23 am »

Jackson nods. "How many people can we fit in the hog? Three or four?"

Forge · « **Reply #476 on:** September 10, 2015, 12:33:50 pm »

Rouge looks at the hog doubtfully "Well the driver, passenger and Gunner are safe." then kicks the footplate once or twice "maybe one person holding on each side for a total of 5 but they would have to hold on REALLY well to not fall off and get hurt."

Sethaniel · « **Reply #477 on:** September 10, 2015, 04:38:50 pm »

"Okay. We have two options.

One: rouge drives, I'll be passenger, Nina as gunner, and Derek on outside.
Two: I'll drive, rouge can be gunner, Steve passenger, and Nina & Derek on outside."

Sethaniel · « **Reply #478 on:** September 14, 2015, 09:03:09 pm »

Against his better judgement, as team medic, Jackson can't just allow Steve to die. He enthusiastically slaps him "to wake him up."
He'll keep trying until either Steve wakes up, or there's something better to do.

Not Aman · « **Reply #479 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:41:02 pm »

"I should always be gunner." Nina says. "I best"

Sethaniel · « **Reply #480 on:** September 15, 2015, 01:56:00 pm »

"Option one it is, then!"

Daedalus · « **Reply #481 on:** September 15, 2015, 06:35:52 pm »

"Works for me." Derek shrugs. "That cockroach dead yet?" He asks and points to Drak.

Not Aman · « **Reply #482 on:** September 16, 2015, 04:12:55 pm »

Nima shakes her head.
"Nina not sure we leave Drakilicious. We may need him, and Nina not evil. He still live."

Drakilian · « **Reply #483 on:** September 16, 2015, 04:16:19 pm »

"Zzz, zzzz"

Forge · « **Reply #484 on:** September 17, 2015, 02:43:36 pm »

With some attempts at waking Steve including some slapping he still does not come round so he gets shoved into the passenger seat while Nina takes the gun.

Rouge and Derek are left hanging dangerously off the side as Jackson drives.

Things actually go very smoothly until a strange aircraft is spotted coming their way just as they approach the Northern path into the woods. Jackson floors it to get up speed for evasion and Rouge and Derek both immediatly fall off, unhurt but no longer on the hog.

Nina and Jackson both notice somthing is off though, it appears less like it is dancing in the air and more like it is limping with sparks coming off it. It does however turn towards the hog for an attack.

Steve then finally makes his save roll and wakes up!

Not Aman · « **Reply #485 on:** September 17, 2015, 04:32:45 pm »

"It Limp in Air since Nina hit it!" Nina cheers as she fires another set.

"DIE ALIEN SHIP!"

Drakilian · « **Reply #486 on:** September 17, 2015, 06:53:30 pm »

"DEATH TO ALL UNHUMANS!" Steve cries out as he jumps awake.

He takes a look around then and wonders - "Oh, hey, where are we guys?"

Sethaniel · « **Reply #487 on:** September 17, 2015, 08:19:38 pm »

Jackson drives back to get Rouge.

Forge · « **Reply #488 on:** September 21, 2015, 06:52:01 pm »

As Jackson swings around to pick up his fallen comrades Nina opens fire, her shots are good but hitting a moving target in the air is tricky and they skim by it without doing any damage. Then Rouge, who is Sprinting back to the Hog Shouts "Take it Down Nina!".

The enemy craft closes in and the entire party sees the glow forming in the front, they know this means one of theplasmabombs bs is moments from firing. Nina then hears Rouge's shout and feels energy surging just enough to take aim again... Firing a stream of full auto mounted machine gun rounds clean into the nose of the craft, turning the sleek brightly coloured ship into an explosion in milliseconds. (Nice extra sucess to finish it off there).

The team regroups and is faced with a choice, there is the open route through the trees that the hog could take, it is off road but leads right to the evac. Or they could dismount and approach on foot through the trees either to the Northeast of the open path or to the SouthWest of the open path.

Drakilian · « **Reply #489 on:** September 21, 2015, 07:02:50 pm »

"Ooh, look at all the pretty colors" Steve says dizzily.

Sethaniel · « **Reply #490 on:** September 21, 2015, 07:49:00 pm »

Jackson assesses the paths for potential threats & such.

Forge · « **Reply #491 on:** September 21, 2015, 07:58:06 pm »

Quote from: Sethaniel on September 21, 2015, 07:49:00 pm

Jackson assesses the paths for potential threats & such.

Jackson notes that the open route will be faster but more likely to encounter enemies than going by foot, he can't currently see any threats though

Not Aman · « **Reply #492 on:** September 22, 2015, 01:15:11 am »

"Nina crushes ship!"

Sethaniel · « **Reply #493 on:** September 22, 2015, 06:22:08 am »

"Yes, Nina. Yes you did."

Assuming everyone is back on board, Jackson guns the hog through the straight shot to the evac. There's probably enemies waiting, but enemies are everywhere.

Forge · « **Reply #494 on:** September 25, 2015, 09:21:57 pm »

Jackson guns the hog through the relatively open path to the Evac, instantly dislodging his passengers once more. After collecting them and using a more sedate pace for his driving they come close to the evac point.

They hear the thrumming noise moments before hearing the heavy chain guns fire as a falcon Assult helicopter swoops overhead, blasting rounds into a banshee which quickly succumbs and explodes in the air. As the helicopter swoops the Orange smoke from the evac flairs is Funneler through its rotors, the evac couldn't be more than 50 metres away.

Unfortunately there is a small enemy vehicle along with several grunts and an elite between them and it. The enemy however has not spotted their approach due to the rather loud and dangerous human aircraft circling the sky very near them. The party gets the ambush advantage.

Drakilian · « **Reply #495 on:** September 25, 2015, 09:36:28 pm »

Steve starts sneaking up on the aliens, his needlers primed and ready for action.

He pops up suddenly, loudly proclaiming:

"AWW YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!"

Before unloading at the elite.

Not Aman · « **Reply #496 on:** September 26, 2015, 11:58:26 am »

"BOOM!" Nina shouts, firing a rocket at the enemy vehicle.

Forge · « **Reply #497 on:** September 30, 2015, 11:07:01 am »

Things go down pretty quickly once the team moves forward, Steve sneaks closer with a fair degree of Stealth only to be instantly noticed by the elite, is seems their training goes further than just screaming commands. However that is what it does, alerting the other aliens to their presence as it sprays plasma at the hog behind Steve, deeming it the bigger threat.

The Aliens start moving and the alien vehicle moves fastest of all, firing a twin stream of plasma at Steve just as he finishes firing half a clip of needler at the elite, he dives for the ground and feels the heat of the plasma passing over him. He knows for sure that it would have killed him outright had he failed to Dodge.

Nina's rocket then lights up the battlefield as it seems perfectly onto the front of the small hovering vehicle dealing damage right to the engine resulting in a massive explosion and shrapnel that sadly misses killing anything but definitely looks pretty damn awesome from Nina's perspective. It was worth her time training with the targeting system afterall. (Nice critical for the instakill)

Jackson is moving at the same time and swerves away from the incoming plasma, and the plasma fire from the first couple of grunts before a couple of shots finally hit the vehicle, however none stun it and Jackson is mostly protected from damage by the vehicle structure... The engine is making some strange noises though and he is sure he can see smoke from it too.

Derek and Rouge then open fire, Rouge nicely knocking a grunt back with a wound and Derek missing a blast of plasma but getting it under control for the second shot and badly burning another grunt.

The remaining handful of grunts waver but stand firm, preparing grenades and plasmas for the second round right up till the moment Steve hears the loud mix of explosion and splitting noise nearby. He lifts his head to see a pink cloud where the elite had been along with a dead grunt which had been beside it, his needles had landed too.

The grunts then break but two light up grenades in each hand and charge the party while the rest scatter...

Not Aman · « **Reply #498 on:** September 30, 2015, 11:21:29 am »

Nina cheers as the car explodes.
"NINA IS BEST RUSSIAN!" Nina shouts, as she wuickly swaps onto the mounted gun and full autos the two grunts.

Drakilian · « **Reply #499 on:** September 30, 2015, 01:31:19 pm »

"Aghhhhhhhh!"

Steve runs, trying to get out of range of the grenades

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