[X] Attempt to communicate with Waltz directly.
-[X] Tacit Ronin should try sending the message 'Ally' toward Waltz in Morse Code, first by light, then by horn if lights get no response.
--[X] Then, once Tacit Ronin has finished, Jagdhund should try doing the same thing, directing the signals at Waltz directly.
[X] Attempt to analyze whatever it is Waltz and his minions are doing, see if there's any pattern or anything that could be taken as an attempt to communicate on their part.
- Tacit Ronin's Drift.
...Okay, this is going nowhere.
Nowhere? Wow, you don't say. Trying to speak English at a pair of floating spikes that came off of a freaky meat jaeger that doesn't speak English is going nowhere. Gosh, whoever would have guessed?
Ash, the least you can do is not snipe back at me. I didn't even finish my goddamn statement.
Oho, really? Well, let's hear it, "master tactician".
...First, shut up.
Second, shut up.
Third, maybe these things aren't real kaiju-- like, remotes or something. We should try talking to the seijin itself, not its dummies.
...
What the hell, can't go any worse than the rest of this.
[---]
The jaeger turns towards the swiftly approaching seijin, letting the others focus on the spikes. Closing another kilometre rapidly, the biomechanical being starts to surface.
It's bigger.
Waltz stands just over 80 meters now-- not including its cannons-- far taller than the real Coyote Tango was. Its body is clad in steel-flake armour, oily black coolant dripping from between the seams. Its joints look fleshier and more developed, ropy muscles gleaming like electrum cables. Even its 'eyes' seem more defined, the cobalt visor gleaming on its head, alongside many similar lights across its entire body. No longer are there only two cannons-- now, four spires grow from its back, pointing up to the sky-- while six sockets sprout from its spine, four filled with spikes identical to the ones floating ahead. Waltz doesn't look like some ramshackle fusion of machine and monster-- it looks
complete.
This is a
Seijin.
But Tacit Ronin isn't intimidated.
[---]
Meanwhile, technicians turn to the scanner system, attempting to analyse whatever it is that Waltz and the oddities-- tentatively named 'WZX-01' and 'WZX-02'-- are actually
doing.
(
7)
Unfortunately, the most they can gather is the presence of... signals. The techies don't know
what they are, only that they're present-- hell, even their
nature is hard to isolate. As to how to tap into the signals? As if.
[---]
Tacit flares its lights a few times, drawing the seijin's attention. As it advances towards the shore, Waltz's head darts over, the lights across its body shimmering with energy as its pace slows. The jaeger practically belts out their message, repeating the Morse five times.
And then Jagdhund repeats as well, flashing the same message five times as well. Waltz glances between them, its shimmering speeding up momentarily as it looks at Jagdhund...
For a second, the cobalt lights all turn off, leaving the seijin grey and almost statuesque. Then, a flare of light. Every pit flashes a brilliant blue for a second, before dying back down to grey. And then a second flash, lasting for three-- before the creature finally dims, returning to the shimmering state of before.
A
WZXs 01 and 02 are now 1.5 kilometres from Tacit (15 units). Jagdhund is 2 behind Tacit, and the airforce is 5 behind Tacit. Waltz is ~3 kilometres out. I am continuing to switch between capitalizing and not capitalizing Seijin/Jaeger/Kaiju.
And it is also my birthday.
