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[X] Retreat with Seil, but organize a counter attack, the main focus seems to be the Silver Tower
[x] Kidnap Victoria
[x] Assassinate Duke Feril
[x] Assassinate the Empress
 
[x] Retreat with Seil, but organize a counter attack, the main focus seems to be the Silver Tower
[x] Kidnap Victoria

By far the most interesting.
 
[X] Retreat with Seil, but organize a counter attack, the main focus seems to be the Silver Tower
[X] Assassinate Duke Feril
[X] Kidnap Victoria
[X] Assassinate the Empress
[X] Assassinate the other royals
[X] Blow up the Imperial Guard HQ
[X] Steal REDACTED

Screw it, going all in.
 
[x] Retreat with Seil, but organize a counter attack, the main focus seems to be the Silver Tower
[x] Assassinate Duke Feril
 
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The Armoury
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    You quickly alert Seil to the danger of the situation, he hits the panic button in the room and is rewarded with nothing as the security system is compromised, before rushing to a painting of calvary cruiser engage with a Jardinian frigate over a gas giant, yanks it down, and through a disguised panel activates the manual release for the armor shutters, which does crashing down over the windows, providing you with some security against the armored figures climbing up the walls if they were coming after you.

    "My lady there is a secure bunker at the bottom level, we will go there and take shelter." Seil says, as he pulls out a snubbed-nose pistol from underneath his servants clothes. You look him straight in the eye and inform him, "No, we are not going to retreat we will in fact take the battle to them." and storm past him, knowing that the best way to get what you want from him is to act yourself and force him to adjust himself accordingly. Muttering a curses he trails behind as you walk down darkened corridors of your level of the residences, panic staff and servants are milling about in a confused circuit, their scared faces illuminated by the blue emergency lighting that has now kicked in.

    You stop in the center of the hall, and take a deep breath and then say in your most authoritative voice, "My subjects we are under attack, but that is no reason to lose our head. You there, where is the nearest guard station?"

    A cleaning boy (a drone wrangler really) barely older then you blanches at being address by a royal, and bows, "Your majesty, the nearest station is level above below us."

    "Right, you will show us the way, you, you and you,' yuu pick out the most capable looking of the crowd, "Are to follow me, and help repel this assault, you" you pick out the most elderly and distinguished servant, "Are to take the rest to the shelters and await rescue."

    They stare at you, you take a step forward, "Are you incline not to follow royal orders at the palace? Now MOVE!" your voice trembles as you pretend you're grandfather yelling at cadets, a common enough occurence in your childhood.

    The sudden loud shout, plus the distant sounds of weapon fire outside, shocks them into action and you acquired three "boilermen" a traditional title for the workers who deal with difficult and dangerous palace systems, wearing heavy protective clothing you know from some experience that could give them a bit of protection against shrapnel and near misses discharges of weapons, they look a rowdy sort, but are currently cowed by your status and the seething with frustration armed figure of Seil behind you. Your merry little group takes the stairs down to the next level where there is a imperial guard station, a mini-fortified location guarding an armory as well as power and support systems cores for this level of the tower.

    The guardsmen (Sargeant Dalmin, and Corporal Lanksi) are quickly steamrolled by you taking authority, helped out by them hearing rumors about your impressive performance earlier, though they frowned on the the idea of arming the the boilermen with weapons, but you impress on them the need for numbers. None of the body armor they have in the armor fits you, but thankfully there is imperial guard skinsuit that you quickly under the privacy of locked armor door change into, that is capable of form fitting to your short size and providing you with a modicum of some protection. Ten minutes are taken to outfit your group and while you are changing you hear hear Seil ask a question you been wondering.

    "Why is there only two of you at this guardstation?"

    Lanski answered, "Cafeteria yesterday screwed up, about half the guards got sick from overripe daelshrimp from Krill, and to keep the numbers up for the the Emperor and other high value targets and people, they raided the smaller stations. Though as I say that it seems that maybe they didn't screw up and it was a deliberate action."

    You step out, out of the weapon's locker fully changed, holding a Spirespear-53, a famous hunting pistol for the wealthy nobility, in your hand as it was the only weapon outside of a practice blade you had any regular contact with, again thanks to your grandfather vocation, over engineered and overpowered, it was the only weapon you could handle that could put a dent into anybody wearing power armor as well.

    "The enemy has information superiority and knows how we will react in times of crisis, therefore it's incumbent upon us not to dance to his tune. Therefor we will counter-attack by."

    [] We'll take the trams into the Silver Tower, the enemy wouldn't expect that
    [] We'll continue to descend to a shared base level and assault the enemy form hopefully the rear
    [] We will ascend up the levels and take one of the sky bridges on foot to the Silver tower and link up with the defenders there
    [] Write-in

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    2 Imperial Guardsmen, 3 drafted civilians with arms, 1 bodyguard
    Enemy is crawling up your tower as well, but it appears to be purposes of taking a skybridge to the Silver Tower then dealing with you directly as well as frontal assault on the lower levels of the Silver Tower, that you been able to piece together. Not very many of them so far reported, but are in assault power armor obviously has a hacker or inside man on their side.
     
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    • [X] We'll continue to descend to a shared base level and assault the enemy form hopefully the rear
     
    [X] We'll continue to descend to a shared base level and assault the enemy form hopefully the rear
     
    [X] We will ascend up the levels and take one of the sky bridges on foot to the Silver tower and link up with the defenders there
     
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    [x] We will ascend up the levels and take one of the sky bridges on foot to the Silver tower and link up with the defenders there
     
    Personal thoughts: While attacking an enemy in a pincer is tactically superior, the forces we have are tiny. I don't know how many soldiers the enemy have, but I suspect it's enough that they would easily overwhelm what we've got. Joining up with the defenders seems like the wiser move.

    [X] We will ascend up the levels and take one of the sky bridges on foot to the Silver tower and link up with the defenders there
     
    [X] We will ascend up the levels and take one of the sky bridges on foot to the Silver tower and link up with the defenders there
     
    The Descent
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    • Thanks to @TaliesinSkye for the copyedit, let my eagerness to get something posted when I had a free moment of time get ahead of mine common sense to take a good long proof.

    "We will assault them from the rear and from the ground," you inform the men. Danmil looks like he going to protest, but a look from Seil and him shaking his head sadly stops him and then he gives a sloppy salute, "Well your highness, if you will at least give us Guardsmen the honor of the van?"

    "Of course," you nod, and with hint of relief, the two Guardsmen take up point, with you and Seil in the middle, and the boilermen trailing in the rear. As you descend you tell Seil to drop back and give pointers to the civilians on what to do. Before getting caught by the orbit of your family Seil was originally a sailor. Under the years of service to your mother he ended up watching her back as she charged into countless battles both in space and on the ground against pirates and even one renegade Free Star League mobile fortress. He's probably seen more action then the two Guardsmen combined.

    You stack up near the entrance to the stairs and the two guardsmen breach inside the stairwell before yelling clear. You follow along with the boilermen who look at the sheer number of stairs with disdain and fear. "We've got to go down all those stairs, it'll be hours before we get down."

    Danmil and Lanksi turn around and give them what your Grandfather in one of more colorful moments watching calvary nobles antics would describe as 'shit eating grin'. "We're not walking. Ready Lanski?"

    "Hell yeah, this time we get to do this without getting in trouble." The two stand back to the rail of the stairwell and flip over as though diving to the shock of the boilermen. They rush up to the rails and see the descent of the guardsmen slowed by the safety forcefields of the palace. They grumble before they leap off themselves. Seil grabs you in his arms and jumps while holding you despite your minor protestations.

    It takes three minutes at a gentle glide to reach the level you want, the men and Seil reaching out to that level's guardrails to lift them out of the safety field. Gravity takes full control as they land on the floor with the muffled thud and the formation quickly gets moving again through the red illuminated hall and corridors. You occasionally pass a terrified courtier, Seil directing them to the nearest shelter.

    There is a moment of excitement when get near the exit to the exterior of the tower as you spot some shadowed figure waiting in ambush. Not quite trusting who it is the guardsmen nod at each other and blend into the shadows, dodging around the various bits of furniture in the entrance lobby towards a giant metal block with a tree growing out of it where a figure lays in wait.

    "Glory to the Empire!" yells the figure as he spotted a flash of the Guardsmen movements and then distinctive sound of a McLan's Powergauss pistol opening fire. The McLan is rare and a favorite of the nobility. You cry out, "Hold your fire, we're friendlies, long live the Phoenix!"

    The firing stops and head pops up. "Oh, it's you your highness. Sorry for the shooting, but I killed a Jardini bastard trying to get into this building already." He gestures towards a limp body lying in a doorway, the automated doors bouncing off his body every few moments.

    The noble looks to be dressed in practical traveling clothes at first blush, but looking at them closer reveals they're tailor made for a noble with a gadget fetish and probably worth a fortune. He appears to be armed with dueling pistols, a dueling sword, and a heavy pistol. From his flippant demeanor he is obviously decently wealthy, somewhere in middle age with a slightly thickening midsection, a big smile under his floppy hat, and giant walrus mustache.

    "Ah our newest royal has come to my aid. What fortune. I'm at your service, your highness," he says.

    You quickly trade information with the noble, a certain Humphries de Brightstar (you recall him as a duelist of note and a big game hunter) and find that he been guarding the entrance to this tower. He noticed a lack of active counter-offensive actions taken by the Guardsmen within eye shot, but has heard signs of a big fight coming from the Silver Tower. He managed to shoot one of a two man team heading into this tower at ground level from an ambush position before engaging in a brief firefight with the other intruder who then disengaged.

    He hands you a pair of his hunting shades equipped with enough sensors to rival a power armor sensor suite. As you look at the tower through a variety of a sensor filters you can see there are five or so thermoptically camouflaged microdrones up in the air giving eyes in the sky to the enemy. You decide you need to make a choice about the drones before you proceed.

    [] Proceed and pretend you don't notice. You could probably lure them to send forces to ambush you, but you know about the drones so you could be on your guard.
    [] Shoot the drones. You will give them warning you are coming, but they won't know where you are coming from.
    [] Attempt to sneak past the drones. Very difficult, but doable with knowledge of the terrain from the Guardsmen and Brightstar's advance scanners.
     
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    • [X] Attempt to sneak past the drones, very difficult but doable with knowledge of the terran from the Guardsmen and Brightstar's advance scanners.
     
    [X] Procede, pretend you don't notice, you could probably lure them to send forces to ambush you, but you know about the drones so you could be on guard.
    Nothing like pulling a De Moya on our enemies eh?
     
    [X] Procede, pretend you don't notice, you could probably lure them to send forces to ambush you, but you know about the drones so you could be on guard.
     
    [X] Shoot the drones, you give them warning you are coming, but they won't know where you are coming in from
     
    This was enjoyable but really rough, so here's some complementary copy editing. In general keep an eye on proper punctuation for dialog and avoid run on sentences. Only use a comma to denote subordinate clauses where a period wouldn't work because the clause isn't a complete thought by itself. Commas are not for signaling verbal pauses, they have a specific grammatical role that's a bit different. They work that way because it's much easier on the reader to have punchy writing with short sentences than to have long sentences with lots of commas stacking up more and more clauses to keep track of.

    Also be careful about switching tenses. There was a bit of past tense mixed in while most of it is present.

    Aside from that stuff there were some assorted extra words and missing words. Probably editing artifacts from where you changed how a sentence is phrased. The best way to catch them is to re-read.

    Also, definitely spell it royal. Royale is French.


    "We will assault them from the rear and from the ground," you inform the men. Danmil looks like he going to protest, but a look from Seil and him shaking his head sadly stops him and then he gives a sloppy salute, "Well your highness, if you will at least give us Guardsmen the honor of the van?"

    "Of course," you nod, and with hint of relief, the two Guardsmen take up point, with you and Seil in the middle, and the boilermen trailing in the rear. As you descend you tell Seil to drop back and give pointers to the civilians on what to do. Before getting caught by the orbit of your family Seil was originally a sailor. Under the years of service to your mother he ended up watching her back as she charged into countless battles both in space and on the ground against pirates and even one renegade Free Star League mobile fortress. He's probably seen more action then the two Guardsmen combined.

    You stack up near the entrance to the stairs and the two guardsmen breach inside the stairwell before yelling clear. You follow along with the boilermen who look at the sheer number of stairs with disdain and fear. "We've got to go down all those stairs, it'll be hours before we get down."

    Danmil and Lanksi turn around and give them what your Grandfather in one of more colorful moments watching calvary nobles antics would describe as 'shit eating grin'. "We're not walking. Ready Lanski?"

    "Hell yeah, this time we get to do this without getting in trouble." The two stand back to the rail of the stairwell and flip over as though diving to the shock of the boilermen. They rush up to the rails and see the descent of the guardsmen slowed by the safety forcefields of the palace. They grumble before they leap off themselves. Seil grabs you in his arms and jumps while holding you despite your minor protestations.

    It takes three minutes at a gentle glide to reach the level you want, the men and Seil reaching out to that level's guardrails to lift them out of the safety field. Gravity takes full control as they land on the floor with the muffled thud and the formation quickly gets moving again through the red illuminated hall and corridors. You occasionally pass a terrified courtier, Seil directing them to the nearest shelter.

    There is a moment of excitement when get near the exit to the exterior of the tower as you spot some shadowed figure waiting in ambush. Not quite trusting who it is the guardsmen nod at each other and blend into the shadows, dodging around the various bits of furniture in the entrance lobby towards a giant metal block with a tree growing out of it where a figure lays in wait.

    "Glory to the Empire!" yells the figure as he spotted a flash of the Guardsmen movements and then distinctive sound of a McLan's Powergauss pistol opening fire. The McLan is rare and a favorite of the nobility. You cry out, "Hold your fire, we're friendlies, long live the Phoenix!"

    The firing stops and head pops up. "Oh, it's you your highness. Sorry for the shooting, but I killed a Jardini bastard trying to get into this building already." He gestures towards a limp body lying in a doorway, the automated doors bouncing off his body every few moments.

    The noble looks to be dressed in practical traveling clothes at first blush, but looking at them closer reveals they're tailor made for a noble with a gadget fetish and probably worth a fortune. He appears to be armed with dueling pistols, a dueling sword, and a heavy pistol. From his flippant demeanor he is obviously decently wealthy, somewhere in middle age with a slightly thickening midsection, a big smile under his floppy hat, and giant walrus mustache.

    "Ah our newest royal has come to my aid. What fortune. I'm at your service, your highness," he says.

    You quickly trade information with the noble, a certain Humphries de Brightstar (you recall him as a duelist of note and a big game hunter) and find that he been guarding the entrance to this tower. He noticed a lack of active counter-offensive actions taken by the Guardsmen within eye shot, but has heard signs of a big fight coming from the Silver Tower. He managed to shoot one of a two man team heading into this tower at ground level from an ambush position before engaging in a brief firefight with the other intruder who then disengaged.

    He hands you a pair of his hunting shades equipped with enough sensors to rival a power armor sensor suite. As you look at the tower through a variety of a sensor filters you can see there are five or so thermoptically camouflaged microdrones up in the air giving eyes in the sky to the enemy. You decide you need to make a choice about the drones before you proceed.

    [] Proceed and pretend you don't notice. You could probably lure them to send forces to ambush you, but you know about the drones so you could be on your guard.
    [] Shoot the drones. You will give them warning you are coming, but they won't know where you are coming from.
    [] Attempt to sneak past the drones. Very difficult, but doable with knowledge of the terrain from the Guardsmen and Brightstar's advance scanners.
     
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    [X] Attempt to sneak past the drones, very difficult but doable with knowledge of the terran from the Guardsmen and Brightstar's advance scanners.
     
    [x] Proceed and pretend you don't notice. You could probably lure them to send forces to ambush you, but you know about the drones so you could be on your guard.
     
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