After the VIs demonstration, Ashley replies; "Oh, that should be easy enough. I'll just get going then."After that, Ashley would leave and start going northwest toward the node.
Kalica makes a mad dash for the building, opening up an attack for one of the enemies. The armored one spun up from behind cover, aiming Kalica carefully... before striking her back with a round. The woman yelped in pain, feeling something spread across her back, instead of a round passing through her... and just like that, the entire backside of her clothing was gone. Without even thinking about it, Kalica dove through the broken window of the building, throwing her back against a wall. Kalica was able to glance out the window, spotting the movement of her enemies; they were trying to outflank her, it seemed.
Looking around her, Kalica quickly took stock of the building around her. It seemed to be a factory for manufacturing components for the Valkyrie Bikes. She had plenty of cover, but her enemies may also...
*moving along through the building she gave it a brief scout as she made way for where ever the door was finding a corner to hide against so she could wait for them to try and come in after her. so she could ambush them upon entry*
(move to other end of building and hide take cover at northmost corner)
Circe clicked her tongue in annoyance as her shot only struck the creature's armor. Seeing the being approaching her cover, she fired another shot at it before scrambling to higher ground.
((Fire on bigga, get some cover between the bigga and her.))
(Have we all headed out or are me and others still in the base, Sorry. My creativity juice had dried out and had a case of the lazies. I'll try to be more active )
Kalica moves through the plant, stopping at an assembly line used to place tires on the vehicles. She leaned out from behind her cover, watching as one of the green skinned creatures climbed through an open window, just on the other side of the chasis attachment. It hadn't seen her yet, and seemed to be confused with whatever area this was...
The hole in it's shoulder probably didn't help it think clearly either.
Enemy 3: Attacks Circe 4 times.
Attack 1: 13 + 2 = 15 vs. 6 (Autowin); Damage: 1
Attack 2: 15 + 2 = 17 vs. 8 + 4 = 12; Damage: 1
Attack 3: 20 (Natural 20) + 2 = 22 vs. 14 + 4 = 18; Damage: 2. ((Poor time for him to get a Natural 20.))
Circe's armor: 0/10
Circe's turn!
Knowing exactly how far the creature was from her, Circe spun up from her cover, taking aim and quickly squeezing the trigger... the gun jamming up on her.
"God damn standard issue weapons. Fucking things made from recycled beer cans." She scowled, dropping into cover to try and fix the jam. The biod stopped her diligent work, blinking at herself, trying to think of what odd bit of code would have made her say that sort of thing... because it had never left her mouth before. Just as she began to think about this (while working on her rifle), she heard the sudden grunt of one of the creatures, and much to Circe's surprise, realized the 'bigga' was aiming a rifle at her, able to see her from it's vantage point. 'Instinct' took over, with the bioandroid flinching away from the rifle as it sounded... impacted not with regular rounds, but an odd chemical that coated her side and back, dissolving away her clothes almost instantly. She looked up, confused, as the creature ducked behind cover, only to realize one of the none armor ones was scaling the wall outside. It was leaning in through the window, trying to aim with it's pistol; Circe threw up her hand in another instinctual reaction. The ball struck her palm, and it stung... but didn't really hurt. Circe wiped the odd chemical off on the wall, when all hell broke lose.
A barrage of the odd balls flew at her from all directions, as third of the group had made it up to her vantage point also. She tried her best to avoid the hail of chemicals, but in the end, every piece of Circe's clothing, save for her HUD indicator and a sock, were gone from her body. The biod quickly wiped some of the gunk away from her eyes, watching as the one near the window just stood there, while the other two reloaded...
1 Mile Northwest of Firelight: Carmina Delage's house, Convenience Store; Ashley and Hali.
The two women walk through the streets, pistols at the ready. Hali just sees destroyed and empty houses, but Ashley sees so much more... They pass by Carmina's house just a few seconds ago, a hole blown in through the side of the wall. She knew there there was a convenience store just a few blocks down the road, too... So many of her friends had been in this Colony, even though she had only been there for a few weeks..
((Post an action.))
Firelight Floor 2: Command Center; Laina, Reya, Annerose and Ruri
Kiera bit her lip, looking down at the four before her.
"My sensors have picked up an issue with Circe. Is anyone willing to go help her?" She asked the four women.
Current Open Objectives:
Activate Northwest Node (Hali & Ashley)
Activate Southwest Node (Circe)
Activate East Node (Kalica)
Activate Northeast Node (Kalica)
Find Commander Cassandra Winters
Ashley keeps her composure as she walks through the destroyed settlement, the foremost thoughts on her mind regarding where her daughter might be rather than where any of the people she'd known were. She didn't see any bodies, just destroyed property, so it didn't quite sink in that a good number of her former friends or coworkers might be dead. When she notices that she might know where she is, however, Ashley says; "There was a convenience store near here... We might be able to find some supplies there. C'mon, it should only take a minute and we might find something useful." Then, she starts leading the engineer toward the store.
*watching as the creature seemed to look about confused she would take aim and fire a quick burst at the beast hoping to catch it off-guard before ducking abck behind the line she was hiding at*
Seeing the dwindling number of people left to go out on missions, Laina steps forward to help Circe. "I was hoping to go and find more supplies, but keeping people safe is more important. I'll go help Circe, and then see if she can help me with bringing back some parts for the base." Quickly making sure her ammo and weapon were secure, Laina starts heading out of the base and towards Circe's position.
Circe didn't have time to consider her choice of words, immediatly pelted with the strange shots, not particularly suprised when she was once again rendered naked. "For fuck's sake." She muttered, looking around for options. Spying a building down from the rubble hill she was on, Circe figured that would be the best bet.
Taking her chances, Circe shouldered her rifle and turned to jump down the rubble pile before heading for the relative shelter of the building.
(Since it's not explicitly clear in the description (I guess), the only action(s) are: get to the building, take cover in the "relative shelter" of it)
(Well, I'm leaving the base right now and as the mechanic I'm not a super awesome solo character either, so you could follow me to go help Maiko's scout.
"I won't be as much use offensively, but it would be a good idea to have a doctor around incase someone is injured, to keep everyone in top shape. I'll go with you." Ruri said as she followed after Laina.
At 5'10", Cassidy matches the basic racial profile of the Asari, if a little on the tall side. Blue skin, hair replaced with a soft blue crest. That, however, is where the similiarities end. Where most Asari are born diplomats, peacemakers, charismatic and gentle in nature, Cassidy shows her "father's" side rather more significantly.
Instead of the clan markings some Asari bear, the self-proclaimed genius has had her features decorated with intricate, swirling tattoos in black, long, endless curves designed to draw the gaze, to entrap and confuse.. make the eyes hurt, in fact. Edged with gold, silver in places, these spirals curl up and onto her crest, too, and down beneath the collar of her jumpsuit. Some sort of metallic paint clearly went into their inking, too, as the edging seems to glint in the light..
In person, Cassidy is brusque to the extreme, with little patience for anyone who can't keep up. Which is just about everyone. Born with a ferocious intellect, but without any major qualifications because of her impatience, the Asari could lay claim to one of the greatest minds of her age.. if she wasn't so good at making enemies. Her impatience, and her arrogance (if well-founded), tend to irritate and set on edge everyone she deals with.
Background :
Cassidy is one of the few Asari with a human name - from her -very- stubborn "father". By her mother's account, a furious Irish redhead who refused to take no for an answer. She was serving as a diplomatic aide, an attaché to the human representative of the time, and Cassidy's mother, Keira Mri'Lori, was swayed by the first word from her lips. It happened to be "Hell", but that's in the details.
Of course, by the time Cassidy was born, her father was gone, and she was the first human/Asari cross in existence. Others would follow, of course, but Cassidy had the dubious honour of being first. Her intellect, of course, was realised, and she found herself in specialist education within the first five years of her life.
Normally, Asari vanish into these specialist schools, and never come out. They become the highest of the high-ranking diplomats, the decision-makers, the generals, the politicians, the scientists. Occasionally one comes to fame via the NewsNet for one discovery or another, but normally.. they vanish. Cassidy was a little different.
One after another, the schools, the colleges, the universities (though the Asari have a different name for a similar thing) threw her out. And not an ordinary expulsion, either. Cassidy was point-blank banned from ever coming within an astro-kilometer of their premises. In some cases, she was banned more than once, usually after being caught inside said premises against the first ban. The schools of Medicine, Astrophysics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Engineering, DNA studies, Quantum studies, Mechanical maths, and Higher Grade Maths.. all filed lifetime bans against her, citing improper conduct. In one apparently unconnected incident, she was also permanently banned from the School of Agri/Horticulture, and Anthropology, for "unethical use of lab specimens".
Before long, all gates were closed to the young Asari.. and without a qualification to her name, and steadfastly refusing the repeated offers from her mother's military contacts, she hopped the earliest ship to human space she could. There.. history repeated itself.
For the first century or so, Cassidy disappeared, while humanity expanded. Then the Newsnets discovered her, and for a while, she was the subject of every news story. Asari woman leading experiments into FTL travel? Cassidy. Asari scientist jailed after lab experiment gone wrong kills hundreds? Cassidy. Blue maniac on the run after illegal DNA cross-breeding viral trials? Cassidy. Asari arrested after elephant runs amok on space station? Cassidy. Every outrageous story, before long, had her tattooed face plastered across it.. and before long, news stations were just making things up, in order to keep up with the sheer madness of what she was doing.
It couldn't last, though. The week before the outbreak, the authorities finally caught up with Cassidy, wanted on a hundred worlds and banned for life on two hundred more. Her transport landed on Titan, bringing her to justice for crimes against the galaxy, on the very day of the attack. Now, though.. who knows what she'll do? Last news from Earth, was that in her absence, the good doctor has been judged guilty.. and sentenced to 18 death sentences, followed by 24 terms of life imprisonment. With that as it stands, her only option is to try and clear her name with something extraordinary. Like, say.. stopping an invasion.
Final Notes : Yes, if you've been keeping up with News, your character may recognise her. Feel free to bring up some of her more outrageous stories.. "Hey, aren't you that Asari who blew up the Death Star?" etc etc. She'll confirm or deny as I see fit . Look forward to playing with you!!
((Bit of a change up here. Hali's decided to stay with us, but with Keylo's lack of posts, I'll be NPCing Reya until he can post a bit longer. There are two Engineers now.))
Two Miles East of Firelight: Security Checkpoint Titan-3; Kalica.
Kalica: Attacks Humanoid 1
Attack 1: 19 + 3 = 22 vs 7 (Autowin); Damage: 1
Attack 2: 13 + 3 = 16 vs. 5 (Autowin); Damage: 1
Takes cover once more.
Humanoid 1 dies.
Humanoid 2: Makes unknown movements.
Humanoid 3: Climbs in through a broken window, looking around for Kalica.
Kalica waits for the creature to look away before she spins around and pulls the trigger long enough for two rounds to fly from her pistol, hitting the creature in the back. It tumbled over itself, dying almost instantly. She chuckled to herself, just as she saw another humanoid - the one wearing armor had climbed through a window and was scanning the factory for her...
One Mile Southwest of Firelight: Juniper's Apartment Complexes; Circe (and soon to be) Ruri, Laina
Circe: Runs over difficult terrain and towards a building; 3 EP.
Attack of Opportunity from Bigga, uses 1 EP:
Attack: 16 + 3 = 19 vs. 18 + 4 = 22; Miss.
Takes cover; 1 EP.
Circe takes a chance, especially after watching her clothes be disintegrated. Turning and leaping over the low wall, she felt something whiz by her right shoulder, then smash against the destroyed wall of the apartment. As she tumbled down the debris pile, she realized it sounded like glass shattering when the round hit the wall... but, instead of dwelling on that, she decided to book it towards one of the empty buildings, leaping through a broken window and quickly taking cover. Getting her rifle ready again, she pressed her back against the wall, the biod hearing a familiar voice:
"Circe!" Laina called out, "Kiera said you were in trouble! We're here to help!"
1 Mile Northwest of Firelight: Carmina Delage's house, Convenience Store; Ashley, Hali and Cassidy
Ashley decides to head towards the Convenience store, hoping there's some sort of useful products still left. So, turning right and heading down the street, she pulled the Engineer along with her, who seemed a little dazed. They went down the sidewalk cautiously, with Hali trained to keep an eye out for any movement... When they heard the noise of gunfire.
Still a block away from the convenience store, Ashley watched as a blue woman with odd tattoos on her body run around a corner, looking back the way she came with her pistol pointed in the same direction. When the human saw the tendrils, she immediately recognized the creature; but Hali, being the geneticist, was the first to point it out.
"An Asari," She said in a hushed tone. The two watched as the Asari ran right towards them - and then, literally, collided with Hali, sending the two toppling.
Cassidy groaned as she looked down at the human beneath her... and while her 'Father' hadn't been around after she was born, she had still seen pictures, and this human girl looked like... well, with the red hair and all, she looked like the woman who gave her some of her genetic code. Stunned at this revelation, she almost forgot about the drone that had been following her for over 30 miles.
Almost.
The robotic skeleton walked around the corner, holding it's pistol at the ready as it moved forward, it's red sensor locking onto the Asari and red head beneath her.
"HALT. PLEASE, REMAIN CALM. DROP YOUR WEAPON AND RAISE YOUR HANDS ABOVE YOUR HEAD. ANY MORE RESISTANCE WILL RESULT IN LETHAL FORCE."
"Hey..." Ashley said, looking down at the Asari, "Aren't you-"
She was cut off as a round left the robot's firearm, splitting the air between Ashley and the pile of Asari and human to her right. Apparently, the thing had authorized 'lethal force'.
"Blah!" Ashley sputtered as the robot started shooting at her, and causing her to raise her pistol and clumsily shoot back as she stepped backward reflexively. Just after her shot was fired, she tripped over a piece of debris and fell backwards onto her ass, landing with a thump and a quick exhalation. Luckily, however, that managed to put her behind a ruined vehicle, blocking her form the androids view. As she recovered, she fumbled another round into her gun.
(Take one shot with the Peacemaker and then take cover.)
With the instincts of a long-standing fugitive, Cassidy isn't dazed for long. She pauses for only the briefest of seconds, and that was enough. Red hair.. human. Not possible... right? Not here, surely. Besides, her sire would be dead by now, or at least aged..
With all this processed, the tattooed Asari scrambles to her feet, just in time for the Enforcer to catch up. Frozen between the human still sprawled on the ground and the easy cover scant feet away, she stops.. then swears in Asari, and stoops to loop one suited arm under Hali Qui's, and drag her towards the cover.
Dropping in to place her back against the armoured vehicle, and dump Hali unceremoniously beside her.. "No. I'm not. You humans... always mixing us up. Now can I suggest we forget the introductions for a second, and start destroying the killer robot on the loose..?
((Not sure if I can do that.. but get into cover, bringing Hali with me!))
