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Basarin said:
"Funny how things work, huh?" Ichiro agreed. "For all I know, I could've been a submarine or a computer unit or....or something.
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Submarine or speedboat. Or a speedboat that transforms into a submarine and talks like KITT

Basarin said:
"Because I don't see anywhere they could've made a Proving Grounds or anything like that, do you?"
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Perspective. The sea itself would be the Proving Grounds. There would be lots of target bouies floating about. Of course under the old dice system, can you imagine our rolls when watertightness is a factor?


[X] SAI-01 Banner - Goes underground
[X] SCR-03E Thunderbolt - Stays above ground
 
not sure how sending her down there is going to work? if she was not in her machine there might be a small chance of sneaking into something.
but if she goes in full armor i think thats bigget then banner is?

even if banner does have bigger guns
 
@Basarin now you are making me consider 'What Ifs' for if we chose either the oil platform or the missile silo as a base now and how radically that would have changed the quest or not.

Could the silo have been converted into a big mecha launch tube for example?

[X] SAI-01 Banner - Goes underground
[X] SCR-03E Thunderbolt - Stays above ground
 
[X] SAI-01 Banner - Goes underground
[X] SCR-03E Thunderbolt - Stays above ground

Oh so many questions. We absolutely would not have gotten as far as we have if we had taken this place. Just from what I have read the details on it. I already hate it. So we really lucked out when we took the abandoned school option way back at the start of the quest. If we get lucky, we might be able to take the facility intact and convert it into a DFRI base for underwater operations. The Union has to know by now about the underwater stuff that is going on, so they are probably working on a plan for an underwater super robot program that is still in the works.
 
Negation said:
Perspective. The sea itself would be the Proving Grounds. There would be lots of target bouies floating about. Of course under the old dice system, can you imagine our rolls when watertightness is a factor?
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From their perspective, they wouldn't have thought about that.

In the first thread, the inevitable 'Mother Base' jokes came, and I admit that the comparisons were pretty accurate. Mother Base held Metal Gear ZEKE inside of it, so it's far from impossible to imagine that the Beowulf equivalent in that timeline could have had their own dedicated hangar platforms. Or, for that matter, their own proving grounds.

Massgamer said:
@Basarin now you are making me consider 'What Ifs' for if we chose either the oil platform or the missile silo as a base now and how radically that would have changed the quest or not.

Could the silo have been converted into a big mecha launch tube for example?
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Ayup. I imagine if enough people got on board, there could have been a 90s style launch sequence to go with it.
 
Thors_Alumni said:
] SAI-01 Banner - Goes underground
[ SCR-03E Thunderbolt - Stays above ground

Oh so many questions. We absolutely would not have gotten as far as we have if we had taken this place. Just from what I have read the details on it. I already hate it. So we really lucked out when we took the abandoned school option way back at the start of the quest. If we get lucky, we might be able to take the facility intact and convert it into a DFRI base for underwater operations. The Union has to know by now about the underwater stuff that is going on, so they are probably working on a plan for an underwater super robot program that is still in the works.
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I doubt we'll make it into a DFRI base. On the other hand I could see Brigadier General Peters talking to some like minded Navy officers and setting up a amphibious focus branch of the Super Robot Defense Force at the facility.
 
part of me wonders if we went with the oil rig if we would have had a more biological bent to our "robots" since the sea is kaiju territory so I could see us going more the mecha Godzilla route then the transformers route.

[X] SAI-01 Banner - Goes underground
[X] SCR-03E Thunderbolt - Stays above ground
 
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    • Mixture of potential COVID exposure scare, and a business trip that requires me to study and take tests before I take off for it soon ate up way too much time, which is why this is a week later than it was supposed to.

    0941, 22 June A.D. 2073
    Derelict Oil Platform - Internals

    "Anyone find any light source down here?"

    "The schematics aren't exactly a help - this whole     area officially doesn't exist and we apparently should be getting water pressure warnings just by standing here."

    "Dunno about you, but I'm pretty sure I'm not floating in rusty ocean water."

    Ichiro tuned out the comms chatter - the Third Reconnaissance, by dint of having been one of the longest serving groups in the DFRI, seemingly took that as license to not pay too close attention to pesky things such as 'communications discipline' or anything like that. No, the few that were able to come down on the first elevator descent were in a constant state of slowly making their way through cramped corridors and reconfiguring into Jackal forms, headlights dimmed as nigh vision and thermals were alternated in use.

    Ichiro himself couldn't go into the various side passages - he simply was too bulky for that. But the main thoroughfare of what was starting to look more and more like a transportation hub could accommodate him just fine, his own optics flickering between several other vision depths that humans couldn't. "Now, if I were Ocular, where would I be hiding?" he muttered to himself. His CPU was constantly creating a three-dimensional wire frame map that fed back to the other Jackals, who in turn updated his map with their own, leading to an ever expanding and refining map creeping over the official schematics that loudly insisted they were just trying to make this all up.

    His optics noticed more and more details. A lot of the rusting was uneven, as if someone had tried to put up a half-hearted deception campaign even as far as down here. Some of the lights and other pieces of industrial equipment were either too dilapidated, or were too well cared for and used. But there was no one here. Almost as if this was used infrequently - but still used, for all that.

    "What's it look like down there?"

    "Oh, so I got the creepy murder basements and now you're curious?" Ichiro snarked back at Jessica.

    "Murder basement?"

    "Nah, nothing so exciting. More weird than anything - there's...uh." Right as Ichiro turned the corner, he saw a far, far more cavernous chamber. "...let me just show you," he weakly said.

    "Signal's a bit crap, but...wait. What is this?"

    Ichiro didn't answer. His own processor was still trying to parse it - it was a dry dock facility with literally no way in or out. Two large circular pylons sat on opposite sides of dock facilities that would have not looked out of place on a more reasonable sea level, sitting dark and dormant. And even now, he could still see the detritus of people who had not been so careful as to clean up after themselves. "...um."

    Ichiro's elegant answer didn't really elaborate anything - and soon, it didn't have to, as another signal immediately pinged back at him. A flutter of metallic wings later, and Ocular sat perched on Ichiro's shoulder. <It took you all long enough to get here.> In between the strange chirps and record scratches he produced on the normal audio spectrum, Ichiro could make out what he was saying well enough. <What, did you all forget I was on the submarine?>

    "I wasn't even there for that, man," Ichiro grumbled, even as he was happy to see him again. "Gimme a break."

    <No time, no time.> Ocular's head tilted sideways in much the same way an owl's would. <Or did you all not notice the many, many alarms you all tripped just by coming down?>

    "What alarms-?"

    <Yes, exactly. The human group you were all pursuing use this as a rest stop, but->

    Ocular was cut off as the pylons began to spark, then arc with energy. The lights, flickering and dimmed as they were, suddenly came to life with all the crystal clarity of a modern facility as more and more energy began to arc between the pylons, the darkness of the artificial cavern beginning to clash with what looked more like natural sunlight.

    <-but I don't know that they value it that highly or not!>

    With a final pop of light, the pylons then erupted, sparking and smoking before sputtering into flames. But that was the last thing on Ichiro's processing. Not when he was witnessing an honest-to-Metatrine teleportation.

    Especially when, now floating nearly serenely in the water, was what could only be described as a naval frigate. With its guns turning towards him.

    <We may want to dodge.>

    "Good plan."

    Both humanoid and avian mecha scattered as the first burst of high explosive shells ripped through where Ichiro had just been standing, the blast echoing loudly in the confined spaces.


    "The hell is-?" Ichiro's feed had just cut off - but Jessica had seen enough. More of the Jackals were reporting similar weirdness going on down there - weird pylons that were beginning to deposit what looked like the Tank-Mobiles that Richard had started off fighting, along with something that she couldn't make out through the bad signal deterioration.

    "Unmarked aerial signatures," one of the outlying V-33 pilots chimed in. "Bearing 275."

    Jessica sighed. "They can't keep doing this," she grumbled to herself. "Okay, fine. Fine." The C-Crystal began to shine brightly as it reacted to its user's intent to fight. The K-Suit's helmet slid over her head, obscuring her face with the stylized visor and mask. "Get the Buster Armor down right now," she ordered. "And try not to - "

    The nearest V-33 abruptly swerved out of the way, a high speed projectile shot barely clipping its wing as the errant round splashed into the water. Already the rest of the First Experimental Wing were scattering to avoid more of the incoming shots, and the remaining Jackals on the surface of the platform were already taking up firing positions, their feet clattering loudly against the metal surface.

    Jessica just wasn't expecting to see opposing V-33s lumbering out of the cloud cover.

    "Going hot, going hot!" The pilots at least were not too phased by the strange arrivals, and as the air began to fill with gunfire and missile contrails, Jessica saw one more strange addition to what was clearly a Westphalian cleanup crew.

    A cargo airliner, with what looked clearly like cannons strapped to beneath their wings.

    "...I think I owe Erika an apology about the Westphalians' dumb ideas," she muttered. "Thunderbolt! Come here!"


    If there was one thing most people probably did not expect to see, it would be a tank fighting a gun battle with a naval frigate in an enclosed space. But here they were.

    Ichiro's tank form skidded behind a makeshift storage shed, his tracks squealing in protest from the sudden speeds and turns he was forcing himself through as another high explosive round missed. Not bothering to wait for an accurate solution, Ichiro's cannon fired back, the energy blast ripping through the shed and boiling some of the water as it also just barely missed, the paint peeling away from the miss.

    Another round came a little too close, and the tank was sent flying, clattering onto its side. Against a normal tank, that would have been a death sentence - but here, Ichiro reconfigured, coming back up to a kneeling firing position as his offhand braced against his gun arm to fire a few low-powered snap shots before leaping out of position again. Smaller machine gun rounds were ricocheting off of his body armor, but he didn't want to stay too long in one place to push his luck.

    Really wishing I asked Galbinus how he does that energy halberd thing!

    Gritting his teeth, Ichiro began to charge forward, his gun arm raised the whole way as he began to fire more and more shots. Yet even as he got closer, and weaving his way around the high explosives' trajectories, something about this whole scenario - aside from the teleporting - wasn't making sense. There were no thermal signatures that matched a crew in there at all - what was going on? Not even Ocular could find any 'person' inside there at all.

    Well, they'd figure it out when he blasted them. Ichiro leapt right from the edge of the 'harbor,' his gun arm pointed towards the 'bridge.' As much crap as everyone gave him about it, it clearly worked the last time - !

    He just wasn't expecting a massive arm to backslap him away.

    As Ichiro's bulk slammed into the wall, creating a him-shaped indentation, he watched with incredulity as the top of the frigate began to configure. The bridge began to lift upwards, the top half splitting apart to form bulky, rudimentary arms as a boxy 'head' unit emerged, the rest of the command module forming the torso.

    Ichiro pried himself out of the wall, sighing more than anything. "Oh, you've gotta be shitting me."


    Jessica learned very quickly one thing about these V-33s - these were the older models.

    The Thunderbolt's fist slammed through one of them, barely slowing down her flight path as she began to pinball her way towards what she assumed was the command unit. All around her, a somewhat manic firefight had erupted as both sides were shifting between high speed and high altitude chases or clunkier VTOL duels. But the V-33s could practically hover just above the ocean's waters in their weird boxy mecha modes, firing from angles that the purely airborne opposites didn't really have.

    "Cyclone Strike!" Forcing the Thunderbolt into a larger group of the enemy V-33s, the jet turbine engines roared to life as miniature tornadoes formed around Jessica, creating a small localized funnel of water and wind viciously tearing through her enemies as she spun herself around, the water and wind either literally sinking them or flinging them off in some approximation to outer space. Barely even waiting for the funnel to end, she used the wind current's momentum to fling herself away, straight towards the cargo plane.

    A high speed round glanced off of her, knocking her off course, but Jessica righted herself back as she dodged another. It was a big, cumbersome target, and it didn't have machine guns - she doubted it could do much to defend against close combat!

    Which was why she was rudely surprised when the wings began to retract, revealing two larger arms. Jessica pulled away, unsure of what exactly was happening - but there was no denying that a crude robot frame was emerging. As arms emerged from where the engines would be, bringing the mounted guns with them, the rear of the 'plane' folded forwards and split apart. More weapons ports began to emerge, and a boxy 'head' unit emerged from the top.

    In her own light suspended cockpit, Jessica's eyebrow twitched. "What the hell-!?"


    Vote for each, choose one!

    [] Take the 'frigate' head on. With the Buster Armor, you can overpower it!
    [] Find a weakpoint or something you can exploit - even with the Buster Armor, you're not sure what else that thing can do.
    [] Write-In

    [] Draw its attention while letting the V-33s pick away at it - best to be cautious around the latest Frankenmech the Westphalians cooked up.
    [] Take it head on - there's no problem you haven't solved before by smashing it to pieces!
    [] Write-In
     
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    • [X] Find a weakpoint or something you can exploit - even with the Buster Armor, you're not sure what else that thing can do.
    [X] Take it head on - there's no problem you haven't solved before by smashing it to pieces!

    I'm leaning towards these options for now, unless anyone has better ideas.
     
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