soulping | Sci-Fi Mini Event 2

[You find yourself in an armory. There's benches, both to work at, and just to sit down. There's maps of star systems, planets, coordinates you don't really understand, no matter how long you look at them. And, yes, since it's an armory, there's armaments. Plenty of them. On one end of the room, there's four small chambers, each with an silhouette of person in a suit of armor over them:

One is a large, muscular person, holding a machine gun in their hands.
One is a much more diminutive person, manipulating a wrist-held device of some sort.
One is a person crouched down, holding a sword in both hands.
The last has no weapon, but instead has energy radiating from the palms of their hands.

If you step into one of these chambers, they'll open, and in a short time, you'll be augmented with the armor and weaponry of your chosen loadout. On the other side of the armory is a shooting range. If you step into one of the booths, holographic enemies will appear for you to practice your new weaponry on. Beyond that, you might as well relax. Things will get crazy soon enough.]

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OCHRE - HEAVY
CALLIE - SHADOW
TAMA - SHADOW
LION - ARCANITE

Edited 2015-10-01 23:07 (UTC)

[If you haven't chosen your loadout, or if you'd like to change your chosen loadout, reply to this comment!

Be sure to choose your loadout before the start of the game or one will randomly be assigned to you!]

[choosing The Arcanite!]

Are we preparing for a mission...?

[Missing his bike, his face is still kinda messed up from that stupid Magical Girl game. He's nettled.]

Guess so.

[He looks at the chambers.]

....I guess we're supposed to choose one of these.

[Checking out the loadouts.]

Hopefully this time there won't be any interruptions if I find a particularly interesting hologram.

[looking over his face...but choosing not to question it for now]

That does seem to be the case. I wonder if they're for equipment...

[taking a closer look at the last one]

Guess so.

[He looks over them.]

They all seem pretty much the same to me.

What about a hologram?

Programs, basically. I wouldn't worry about it, dear.

The images seem to indicate a difference in body type and weapon...Perhaps it's a way to help find the ideal weapon to choose.

[having been here the entire time, really, Ochre almost immediately walks into the heavy's booth.

Sorry everyone, he wants the gun.]

[Rolled a 1d4 for Tama, his class is The Shadow]

[Alright. You've chosen your loadout. You've equipped your armor. You've tested your weapons. You all find yourselves before a glowing blue pad on the ground, large enough to fit all of you. A voice buzzes in your ear.]

"Alright, squad, eyes up. I'm Sparks, I'm gonna be your support for this mission. In case y'were catchin' up on your beauty sleep during the debrief, here's the long and veiny of it. Princess Stela, a diplomat from Europa (y'know, one of Jupiter's moons?) was abducted by Space Pirates and taken hostage. Now the problem with this, is Princess Stela was spearheading a collaborative initiative between us in the Milky Way and the rest of the organized races in the galaxy. Trade routes, travel rights, collaboration between Earth and Europa's militaries and other races to hunt down the Space Pirates...so yeah, you can see why they had a problem with it. Basically, the initiative is on ice as long as Stela's in pirate hands.

To complicate matters further, the pirates are demanding the typical stuff for her release, y'know, cash, ships, weapons, a bunch of their imprisoned scumbag buddies released back out into the wild...aaaand, here's the kicker; the Europans are actually considering complying! That would be a real bug in the rest of the galaxy's bonnet, so, y'know, we on Earth, we like to keep things smooth. So rather than let this become a problem, we went looking for Princess Stela, and, surprise, we found her! She's being held in a pirate ship in low orbit above an alien planet. Our advance scouts set up a teleport pad that'll take you right on to their ship, so, here's what you're gonna do. You're gonna jet up in there, find the princess, gently and eloquently convince the pirates to hand her over, as only professionals of your standing are capable of doing, then get the heck out of there and to the extraction point as soon as possible.

No pressure, but... ...well. I'm not saying galactic peace hinges on this, but, just make sure if negotiations break down and the lead starts flying, that Princess Stela keeps her head down. Like I said, no pressure."

[With that done, it's time to step on to the pad and get going. Once you're all on, you feel a feeling of weightlessness take over your body...then suddenly everything around you blinks into darkness and you're no longer where you started.]

[Weight comes back to your body and you can feel your feet underneath you again. You can take a look around and see a lot of big metal crates stacked on top of each other. You and your squad in particular are right behind a really big crate that keeps you more or less obscured from sight. Up above, there are catwalks. A few Space Pirates patrol the catwalks, glancing around occasionally, but your squad is outside of their field of vision.

A short distane away, but still mostly in cover, is a wall-mounted computer console. After you take some time to look around, you hear Sparks again:]

"Ooookay, squad, looks like we've got you somewhere in the ship's cargo hold. You should be nice and tucked out of the way, but still, don't make too big of a fuss unless you wanna attract some undue attention."

"First things first, you gotta find out where the princess is. This ship's too big to just stumble around, so either find something to hack into and get the lay of the place, or take one of the crew and squeeze it out of 'em. Your call. But if you kill one of 'em, it won't be too long before the rest of 'em find out. Then, uh, won't matter where you squeeze yourself, you'll have LOTS of company."

[Soooo, basically, the subtle approach may be worth exploring first.]

Less anyone knows how ta hack, and's doin' it right now, I say we get onna them ta talk.

[Guess who doesn't know how to play 'subtle'?]

Edited 2015-10-01 23:18 (UTC)

[checking out the surroundings, and heading for the console]

I don't see why we can't go for both.

[He looks at the sword in his hand.]

This thing can probably hack, but not in the way he's thinking.

Are any of us computer geniuses, or what?

Sounds good ta me.

Anyone see onna those assholes we can grab without the other's noticin'?

More of a pilot, but I can give it a shot. We'll see what the AI here is up to.

Be "gentle." It might be their first times.

[going ahead and trying to access the computer]

[There's pirates up above on the catwalks. They're all pretty isolated. It wouldn't be too difficult to sneak up one of the ladders and drag one of them back down here.

Trying to access the console just gets you a bunch of walls and password blocks in alien languages. Looks like it's a no-go without some serious hacking prowess.]

Right, onna you sneaky assholes, go get me someone, I'll make him talk.

I'd like to help with the talking. I'm certain we can give them reason to be...agreeable.

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