Re: Scene 6 - Suds Galore!
OKAY, SO HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CHAOS (I'M CONSOLIDATING YOUR POSTS AND REPOSTING THEM TO SHOW THE ORDER OF THE STORY:
Rob "oofs" as the WarScrubber knocks him down. He is filled with utter terror as the thing turns around, putting him in the line of fire. He drops to the ground, pulling something from his belt and reaching under the bot momentarily. He then rolls out of the way, going for the nearest safe place that is far away.
Something is attached to the bottom of the warscrubber...and it appears to be blinking more and more rapidly each second!
beep...beep...beep...
Ginger doesn't hear what the others are talking about in the storage room, but she clearly sees Rob afix something to the robot. Her eyes go wide. "Don't tell me that's a tactical nuke!"
Rob peeks up from his cover at Ginger, eyes perplexed, "Tactical Nuke? What is that? It sounds cool, be definately out of my clearance level... how have you heard of such a thing?"
Ginger runs through the door into the reactor room since Gunther's still in the storage room trying to shoot her down. "Follow me!" she says to the others still in the room with the war scrubber.
Ginger makes it safely to the reactor room.
The warscrubber seems to ignore the grenade on itself. In an eerily robotic and booming voice, it says, "I MUST CLEAN YOU...AND ALL PERPETUATORS OF SPAM!"
beep...beep...beep...
The warscrubber fires at Peter...it is a missile that...hits him square on the arm...and takes it off just above the elbow, cauterizing it. Peter now only has one arm! (Wounded level: MAIMED.) Luckily, it is not the arm he shoots with. But his PDA is blown to smithereens upon impact, his hair is scorched and frazzled, some holes are burnt in his uniform...and, oh yeah, did I mention the arm?
BEEP...BEEP...BEEP...
OOC: In case you haven't noticed, 2 things to point out here: (1) Those who do not post frequently lose out on two things -- (a) the ability to use perversity points to affect rolls, which comes in very handy in battles like this, and (b) they tend to become the targets of the enemies; (2) where you see the "..." often means a die roll is happening to determine the outcome.
The warscrubber is also swinging around to get its flamethrower in range.
...Ginger has made it a safe distance away.
...Rob is hit with flames as he flees to hide. (He is WOUNDED.) The back of his uniform is on fire, and the hair on the back of his head has burnt off. It is quite a disgusting smell!
MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE STORAGE ROOM NEXT DOOR:
Gunther says: "Get the traitor! I'll handle the paperwork." He says this to the rest of the team still in the storage room as he starts to scribble on his loyalty officer notepad.
Dexter has the thermos in one hand and Gunther's PDA in the other, still assessing the PDA. Then Dexter hands the PDA back to Gunther with a politely scolding look then a smile. "Seems to be in order. Please take better care of your equipment in the future! You know the consequences, I assume." Dexter keeps the thermos in hand and pulls out his own PDA.
Gunther says: "Thanks Citizen Dexter-R, your loyalty will be noted by the computer, and will be recorded in my book. Now go after that traitor before she endangers the mission with her communist ways." Guther checks out his own PDC.
Vicsis has observed all of this through the unblinking eye of the multicorder. "Gunther appears to be trying to fill our heroic team leader with laser blasts in the middle of a tactical combat situation. That's probably not the only thing he'd like to fill her with. Perhaps his hand is suffering from a malfunction." Hearing sounds from back in the other room, she turns around and takes note of the Warscrubber's new flamethrower. "Oh, now it has a flamethrower. It's lit some boxes on fire. It's probably going to burn someone alive. Rob's probably responsible for that," she notes innocently. He was hanging on the back of the insane bot, after all. "I bet he likes it hot."
CL is squeaking while he moves away from the door and asks Gunther, "Where did the 'traitor' go?"
Gunther-R says as he scribles a bit more into his notepad, "She is in the other room! The Clone Ginger-R is a Commie as she tried to access classified computer info. Not only that but she accused an innocent loyalty officer of treason. Go after her and make sure she is arested and is able to respond for her crimes against the computer! At any rate, don't let her escape!"
CL says: "Gunther keeps yelling traitor. Gunther, do you remeber the story of the trouble-shooter who called Communist? Its a fun story with a good moral. The RED Clearence trouble-shooter didn't like another trouble-shooter and called him a Commie. The computer checked and he wasn't. The next day, he did it again to the same result, and the computer said he commited treason and he was punished." CL says in sing-song form, "Don't be the shooter who called commie."
Gunther makes more notes. "Mmmokay." he says after scribing.
Vicsis keeps the multicorder pointed vaguely towards the lethally upgraded scrubber, jiggling her hand so the recording will come out all 'actiony' and full of movement. Since Vicsis is in the storage room and the robot is in the workshop, she has to open the door between the rooms and stand there to do this.
She takes a moment to examine her automatic hammer, trying to divine its purpose. She tries to pass it off to Dexter, since he's the equipment guy and probably knows everything there is to know about automatic hammers.
Dexter is engrossed in his PDC at the moment and ignores the auto-hammer and the human attached to it.
Vicsis gently tosses the hammer aside.
Then she turns to CL, getting an upclose zoom of him. "Who do you think the traitor is, and why?" She lets the door between storage room and workshop swing closed, which probably saves you all since the robot was just turning in the direction of the door with its flamethrower turned to "Super Spout" mode. You can no longer see what's going on in the other room.
OOC: We have been calling it a PDA, but in looking at the rules, I realized it is called a PDC:
You each have the Series 1300 Personal Digital Companion (PDC). The 1300 Series uses voice profiling technology, so it only responds to the sound of its designated user's voice. (It is much better than the 1200 series, which required thumbprints to unlock...there were just too many incidents of Troubleshooters missing thumbs with that series.)
You can talk to your PDC:
Example:
Troubleshooter (TS): PDC, what is my schedule?
PDC: Loading...9:00 to 9:45, interrogation by Internal Security...9:45 to 10:00 mandatory Bouncy Bubble Drink Break...10:00 your trial begins and is broadcast live on "What is Treason?"...
TS: Wait! That's not my schedule!
The PDC has:
A calendar with your schedule on it.
An address book. (You can add citizens to your book by name, like what Marco did when he took your info.)
Camera: It takes countless high resolution pictures. They are stored for only a millisecond before automatically being sent to Internal Security where they are scanned for evidence of treason.
Phone: It has a mobile phone and answering system for you.
Messages: It receives and sends messages (like a blackberry).
Self destruct mechanism: This is a handy feature. You can set it to self destruct and use it as a grenade. This popular feature has increased in use 68% this quarter alone!
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:17, Fri 22 Aug 2008.