Welcome to Response Team Omicron. An actual play based on no room for a wallflower in the Lancer tabletop RPG, both by massive press. This narrative takes place in 5014 You two years prior to the standard starting year of Lancers core rules on the planet are Senya. For more on Lancers universe, we have a primer released if you want to get a feel for the status of union and 5014 you or you can check out Lancer on h.io/massive Press links will be in the description. Tonight we're going to get started with the character descriptions and introductions everyone gathers and briefings based on myriad the spaceship that they're travelling on before they land on the planet Earth.
Runway:Winston Allen is around two metres tall and Carmel skinned his facial hair is cramped neatly and he is adorned in the most recent fashions from the Omni net he always seems to be confident and not out of place always seem to make sure that he is in the most optimal position for the best framing.
Big Sis:Sitting next to Winston you see a shorter woman, five foot two athletic build, so rather small compared to everybody else in the room. The first thing you notice about her though is her deep purple hair wavy and about chest length half up, half down. She's dressed in a fairly clean heart suit, sitting there not really talking to anybody but listening in to what Winston is doing, always paying attention to his conversations and what's going on within that drone footage. But a green eyes are also watching very closely everyone else in the room, reading this situation, keeping a very close eye on people's attitudes and what they seem like they're about to do overall, reading the situation very carefully and constantly.
Snyders Return:So what you see sat at the briefing table, Tyler sort of some pretty sort of straight up in the chair in his chair, his posture verging on sort of was rigid. It looks to me about six feet tall and lean toward build. You can tell Tyler's physically fit. But his his face has almost like a hawk, the set of features quite narrow eyes. Longer, curved nose. And similarly a permanently clenched jaw is dark brown hair is sort of swept and pull back with the exception of a single sort of spike of, of hair that sort of comes down and hangs close to his right eye that every so often he'll sort of try and push back with the rest but it sort of drops and bounce bounces back into position. He sent with a book in hand that he is looking at quite studiously places it flat on the briefing table, and then picking it back up to flick a couple of pages. And as he flicks the pages you can see there seems to be a series of mech manoeuvres and pilot or Lancer pilot manoeuvres he seems to be studying and occasionally sort of taking a pencil out to one of his pockets, making some notes. His dress is quite quite formal in some respects he bears coloration of the landmark and accompany though not as vivid it seems to be dulled a little bit and almost like a second string colour theory sits and when he's not sort of reviewing the book scanning across the table, sort of looking at those around him not aggressively in that respect, but in more calculated demeanour, clearly looking a little bit tired, maybe still a bit groggy from first waking up and sort of adjusting to to real space. Yeah, was
Rainmaker:Val bizarre is a taller, genial man, with dark brown skin and golden undertones that match the yellow of his eyes, dark brown hair and a rather colourful priests robe, complete his description. Underneath it, you can catch a glimpse of his flight suit or his just outer cryo suit.
Ranger 1:I'm Travis Marshall. Not really much to tell about me. But if I got to describe myself I guess I will. I keep my hair rather regulation short, as they'd say. I tend to keep my attire rather utilitarian, I guess you would say always wearing my heavy assault harness. My got pockets for everything I got a dump pouch I got mag pouches for I mean just about any weapon I want to use. I got various buckles and things everywhere that I need to keep my gear cinch together. I mean, my face definitely looks younger than I feel. I'll say that much. I've been through a lot you can tell. Tell that with my my eyes I guess. I don't know what people say. But uh, I mean what else I like fingerless gloves like keep my keep my hands ready for what I need to do when he's done. Just don't stare too long. You might wait sort of fight.
Skip:Skip his five, six, pale and slender with blue eyes. He has short black hair that is usually a little bit messy. He almost never goes out without his dark green turtleneck these days, originally saved it from when he needed to good luck, but it's taken a habit to always have to get on him. It's riddled with small holes due to its constant use and stuff. He typically wears it with dark green or black pants. Assuming he isn't wearing his mobility suit. He doesn't often wear accessories but often has three small pouches on his right hip, and a holster on his left for his gun. The pouches contains manages ammunition for his pistol and a set of throwing knives.
Fen:There in total, eight of you around a large table that is in one of like debriefing spaces apart this cruiser there are a few of them. And who is the last person to come in?
Rainmaker:Alright, it's me. Beth is our Bob is our motto. You know, I will say I just cannot get over the fact that we live in a galaxy where magic is basically real, but we cannot overcome gravity. There's something kind of comforting in that. Maybe that's just me. Don't speak at once. So grim and solid.
Runway:No, I'm just contemplating how you find the constant of gravity to be incredibly reassuring, my friend. But uh, it's one of the interesting points. I haven't spent a lot of time in space. So this is all new to me. The boots really helped though.
Snyders Return:Don't humour him. Calmly sit down. Both is up, please. Have a briefing to get on with
Runway:but I like humouring people I totally like humouring people I humour everybody. Like, come on, like Smile for the camera Tyler.
Snyders Return:Not today, not today.
Rainmaker:Let me just take my seats. And we go.
Fen:As you said, one of the I one of the heads of the table, a woman who has long black hair in the black hard suit with the blue and pale yellow colours of landmark colonials flag, kind of accenting. This heart suit is a woman named Megan huel. Who is your commanding officer. She introduced herself to you all a few months back when CRT Omni cron was originally being formed. She kind of as Bob Lazar sits down, looks around and goes alright, we can get on with this. So, we are as you can no doubt tell here does anyone so in a little while we'll be hitting our one drop ship and going down to the surface the ship the myriad will stay in station for as long as we needed to. And then we will when the response has been completed, we will head out of system sorry with that, we have to go over a few company directives as well as our mission here. With fi inclusion of our PR staff, you all are considered CRT operatives until the end of this response to crisis. And until then, you are considered also to be faces of landmark colonial staff. Should it need be and we reached that point we are also to secure patient's casket as well as anything else that might be considered vital to landmarks success here in her Senya both myself and care will be going down the dropship with you, I will be likely be remaining in the wherever they have set up their space for us to direct a lot of the briefings along with our nhp Flashpoint and care will probably be in the field with you all during questions so far
Rainmaker:what kind of thing would landmark consider critical for the success of a mission like this? Or is that a need to know
Fen:I can give you more general version A assume that if we ever reached that point where we need to secure critical assets, we will be more dictated more explicitly what needs to happen. Usually these end event usually our attache is to whatever nhp is administering the colony. So whoever is working in maintenance being the human liaison for nhp patients who would likely be considered a critical target or high value. Um, outside of that there's usually maybe a backup or two of the nhp somewhere along in the car and the colony that will also be high value essential personnel equipment so had engineers had the science teams stuff like that if we need to well, which we probably will we are given obviously authority to operate where needed within her city. And unless we do something that breaks Union law or implicates landmark management somehow we can justify pretty much about anything just as long as not like war crimes if I need to say that
Runway:No, no, that sounds that sounds right.
Rainmaker:I shudder to ask what the other CRTs are like a
Fen:lot of the CRTs and care kinda goes a lot of the CRTs are a individual stands up as he's saying this individual that goes by the name care LaBrecque another individual you guys have spent the past few months with most of it on nice so really the past few weeks was individual is a little bit a little bit taller than Megan but not by much around six one and is wearing the more olive drab and Brown of what you guys would notice the landmark colonial security where a lot of the security officers or security forces were wearing olive drab colouring to match local environments more so than the blue and yellow their standard of their like their their banner and flag and he'll stand up and go blah CRT is usually come from Union navy like I have and Magan or where you come from Union auxiliaries or Less. Less honorbound means like mirror smoke and stuff like that. Just kind of depends on the new picture who takes the job No wonder you need a PR team Yeah, I'm working out kind of chuckles at the pier and all that and goes alright, anyway sorry. And then gestures back to Megan thing was alright, but yeah, that's usually why outside of that, we will have to assess session situation when we get to the ground and hopefully provide assistance where we can further questions comments concerns
Snyders Return:we are we expecting any resistance on the ground?
Fen:Well, you know in Tyler you would know this as well based on the original briefs and stuff like that evergreen colony Saturday distressing no after coming in contact with unknown hostile actors in a more serious presence you know through various logs and stuff and but the all of you would know that leading into this that her Cynthia and well evergreen colony has been harassed by I've looked to be almost like pirates or raiders for off and on for about two or so years prior to this. It'd be small though and pocketed stuff wouldn't be anything serious. It's just recently that it has stepped up into something more with more weight to it and that's what the distress call was for. And so you would know that and megogo Well, it's more than likely we can encounter some resistance given the fact that there are non hostile actors still present in in and around well not in but around evergreen colony in the forests and once we have routed those out, though, probably very little afterwards. We'll have to see when we get on the ground
Runway:are we printing on site or are we printing here and dropping in
Fen:printing on sites? Okay, you have enough space for a schedule printer in here? Well, he's not one that wouldn't take more weeks than we have time for but they have a schedule two down there so it'd be more than quick enough you all would know as well that schedule two printers are a level of schedule or a level of 3d printer that prints just about everything in the land Mansur world. Yes, printing on site. And we'll probably have a couple, maybe a day or two to settle in, get a lay of the land before we're giving any more serious instructions we are. I am planning officer of this unit until we basically totally leave. But we will be getting any kind of directives that involve her evergreen colonies defence from patients. So mission mission planning and execution will be done with nhp patients final authority for mission planning and briefing. So
Rainmaker:and by by printing we mean Flash 3d printing that the complex parts that create our mechs as we all know and are familiar with but you know, someone listening to this might not be familiar with.
Snyders Return:Very much so.
Fen:So we're all of you back home gesturing towards Winston's 3d drones. Not 3d Drum but Winston's drone that is a that's what that's for.
Runway:Just another day in the life of landmark colonial
Fen:indeed
Runway:raw. Where who I know is who I think should I be running? Don't bother. Okay, that's that's not a really a thing. At least not where I'm from. Alright, cool. That's that's your thing. You have a catchphrase. Good job. Tyler. You're getting the hang of this.
Snyders Return:I'm sure my personality will develop in my hate for you. It'll be equal I'm sure.
Runway:That's incredibly grim. We should probably fix that.
Snyders Return:Coffee we'll fix it.
Fen:Care gonna mix from where he's going to SAT and just goes, alright. Well, um, I mean, the final order of business going into this is probably getting an HP Flashpoint online. So probably need your help with that. Bob Lazar.
Rainmaker:And that's what I'm here to do. Let's go. Let's go wake up the big fella
Fen:so both of them will head off to start up the nhp Flashpoint. What did the rest of you want to do with your prep time for heading to the dropship
Runway:Oh, Winston's gonna get with Olivia to discuss angles and things like that as well as possible loadout changes for their frames depending on the situation when they get down there. He will also make comment that there'll be lots of walls for skip to hold up
Skip:Schiphol kind of just like not confused slightly and he's going to be making some last minute changes to his loadout and also finishing up that drawing that we mentioned that might not be talked about and what the other people see but but the point five
Fen:doing next explain for people who Okay,
Skip:so there was this simulation that we did where everybody except for skip kind of did find it skip made one particular very large mistake. Um, and in response, which was basically diving directly in front of like the heavy hitter of the enemy thinking that they were sneakier than they really were, um, getting caught and taking a shotgun blast to the front of their Mac like and so the drawing is something that he has to like remember that moment and learn from it, which is just his point of view in that moment staring down the barrel of the shotgun.
Fen:So that is depicted on the on this drawing you have as you're finishing it up, I will Tyler's anything you wish to do prior to the dropship.
Snyders Return:While Winston and Olivia having a discussion of tactics, Tyler will get some coffee sir to one side with his manoeuvres manual and start reciting it for homework effectively, very well.
Big Sis:While having the conversation with Winston Olivia also the Clipboard is checking not just their gear, but everyone else's gear as well, making sure we have everything we need before we head down and all of that don't want to get down there and realise we're missing something
Fen:I will cycle back around to Baltazar care lead you to a small four foot by two and a half foot box. And you would know this to be the casket of an HP Flashpoint. With nhps, they are always dictated by the real space by casket. That is where they where they actually reside. And while they interact, usually with the world through AMI net, and subalterns, which are robots that are basically human max size or not, not max size, but human sized robots. And they need to interact with the world physically. They will usually interact through comms and other stuff like that all done through this casket. As you activate it, both Azhar, you are greeted with a familiar voice. I think this is one you have. You have met a few times. After a brief moment you hear from kind of like a speaker on the casket itself goes, Are you meeting with me?
Rainmaker:Good morning Flashpoint. It's nice to see you as well. It's too early for the shit. While it's too early for most things. But here we are. You know, I was just telling care here my good old brother. casket is such an interesting term for where you live. Most people think of it as a coffin. But the word has its origins as a box for containing jewels. And sometimes I wonder, do you think of yourself as a corpse or as a treasure?
Fen:I kind of thought you were going with this as like a gem bit and I was very confused as to why you would consider me as such. But I asked me whether or not I consider myself as such. And really, you're asking this far too early.
Rainmaker:Well, we may all die horribly on this mission. So I wanted to get the philosophising out of the way Fair enough.
Fen:Can I think of myself as both?
Rainmaker:Yeah, I see no reason why not you'd make an exquisite corpse perfect.
Fen:Hello, being a corpse a flashpoint we'll reach out to all of you through your various slates data pads and such. Just a simple message across all of your your screens as like a note like a like a message like a direct message but into a group text. Just saying from an HP flash point. I have woken up. Um, so like, give me like 20 minutes. And I think it comes across both of your data slates as you two are talking. Olivia. Can Winston. I wonder
Runway:if Tyler knows about me robot coffee.
Big Sis:I'm guessing that was just a turn of phrase, but I don't know.
Runway:He seems very much the coffee connoisseur of the group.
Big Sis:He does. Yeah. He's always drinking. We'll
Runway:know what to get them in the gift basket later. Just a whole mess of coffee. make things easier.
Big Sis:I will make a note of that good call.
Runway:He's very grim. I don't know what happened to him in his past to make him so grim. But he's so very grim. At least he doesn't snap to attention. Like, like, like the other one. Well, those are his fun. No, he's he's an skip in the walls. That man is just all angsty personality. I don't know what happened to him either. It's I'm gonna get to the bottom of it though. We're gonna find out skips past I feel that's a whole like three or four episodes probably. But yeah.
Big Sis:Probably they're a good group that they've they've held up watched our backs in the sim combat side. Yeah. No.
Runway:Baltzer knows how to grab people that was interesting to watch. He was like picking them up and slamming them around. I am not good at that. Fighting with the with the melees at all. But yeah, so I sync if we're gonna be next to each other and partner up I think the way to go is with the heavy machine gun because I think if the combat taking place in mid range I'll be able to be more effective and helping everybody early on with that. But yeah, yeah, that makes
Big Sis:sense. Just remember if once you start firing and you get behind me yet well,
Runway:the frame you have is like so big. So cool though. I thought about maybe getting a bigger frame later, but I don't I don't think that's me. I don't see myself in the Big Frame roll. By Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. You You were a little worried about this whole going into a combat zone thing but I think it'll be fine. It's just like some pirates. It's some unknown hostile actors.
Big Sis:Let's Let's check back in about that. After we've experienced some actual combat Sure.
Runway:That's fine. Put that on my to do list check it and come back to that conversation.
Big Sis:Do you want me to make a note I made a note of it this
Runway:time we I had made a note my own I made my very own note. I haven't Pressey C CIT let them come back to this conversation. Yep. Made my very
Fen:own Travis walks by as a two year adding this and goes oh that's good you can make notes
Runway:scan great and make a note I'm not Olivia is way better notes.
Fen:Continues does not stop later. There's a peace sign behind him as he walks Alright, there we go. As you all prep living, you're checking off everybody's gear making sure it's all there. You see somewhere in this conversation you don't see you know, you didn't remember adding this but you see listed under HB Flashpoint you have the casket and three subalterns you don't remember adding that at all but it's definitely there
Big Sis:I have to tell him to stop playing around in my notes
Fen:you get a message make me
Big Sis:I am the wrong person to deal with Flashpoint
Fen:but it then changes it from three subalterns to two subalterns
Rainmaker:see there isn't so much a right answer as there is an answer and you know I'll take whatever we can get
Fen:so as you get all this stuff packed into a nice decent sized drop ship that can fit all of you pretty comfortably I mean it's comfortable it's not super comfortable as it is it you guys are strapped down into it it does not have is not a pressurised bulkhead. So once you guys get into it and get out into the vacuum of space you guys will just be in your heart suits, fall on hard suits and all that and everything else is strapped down you guys have a few of the deckhands and like crew rolling the of the myriad helping you out putting all this stuff in I gotta see the scene we're all like all these deckhands are helping and you guys are gonna walk in with your own gear then Olivia is just kind of checking it off as you all come in the to subalterns are rolled on to like on like a pallet and unit like there's like a little like thank you message on to like one of the like deckhands that's using like the crane to load it in like a crane or something like that from HP Flashpoint after a moment you all are sitting strapped into the cargo bay of a dropship you hear over the comms some of the flight chatter as it gets clearance for departure out of the hangar it is I want to say it's like that cool pressure barrier thing of eggs they have a lot of movies where like stuff can go through it but pressure like the mystery pressure cannot
Rainmaker:cool blue glowy forcefields
Fen:Yeah, went on. And you guys see out the windows, the grey sphere that is her centre and you see it has like it kind of slowly rotates with the the grey clouds kind of shifting over the planet below. You guys would know as part of the briefing packet you guys got from landmark that the earth or its percent or Scindia has earth like atmosphere and earth like gravity you guys are coasting through kind of coming into burn you kind of start to feel the the pressure and kind of atmosphere begin to kind of rock the ship and kind of hear the wind shear you know, atmosphere as it is entering in.
Runway:So as we're hitting reentry, one of the few times that like Winston's like I swagger and super celebrity kind of goes away like he's sitting next to Olivia he like, actually takes her hand and grips that kind of tight. And like is very clearly like, unsettled a little bit by re entry
Big Sis:over because we're humble they did our heart suits, right? Yes, these
Fen:are columns within each other and stuff like that
Big Sis:overcomes just a Winston. You know, your sister would be proud of you. I don't think she ever imagined you doing something like this.
Runway:We just got to get to the ground, that's the, that's the part got to get to the ground.
Big Sis:We're gonna get to the ground regardless,
Runway:in where you don't have to worry about let's let's get to the ground in one in one piece.
Big Sis:Deep breaths It'll be over soon.
Fen:That's that. And the rocking kind of begins the steady out a little bit. The flight calm voice chops in goes about 30 minutes out. Keep your helmets on something like that Kevin's not pressurised, and all the outside atmosphere, it's probably not enough for you guys to thrive on. Welcome to the scenario.
Rainmaker:A luxury world to be certain. You know, people pay a premium.
Fen:As you're saying this belt as are, you guys hear a distinct like, soft hum of like a tone, solid monotone as it begins to kind of, kind of flickers in for a moment. And then you all here kind of static. And as you guys kind of continue down and kind of you're now a good way kind of coming through the clouds. The tone, you then hear it begin to be very rapidly. And as it's beating, you guys then feel a good amount of G horses. As this dropship soars off of its designated course for trying to write itself. To the fly con, come back in. We've got to miss a lock on us. Please hold on Brace for impact. You guys continue to swerve a fair bit. I would like liberals from all of you, please.
Big Sis:I rolled up 14. Nice.
Fen:You were keeping cool for the moment.
Runway:Is it just grit or if we have an appropriate trigger but that work as well?
Fen:Hmm. If you have an appropriate trigger, I feel like you could add it for your plus too.
Runway:Sure. Sounds good. Then I will do such so if your drive be relaxed, you
Fen:have a problem? Yes, they comments around. Yep. So
Skip:then I got a whopping six.
Fen:Your survive is usually when you're on the ground. So this is a little bit out of your depth 13 The 13 Awesome. You are staying cool.
Rainmaker:17 here. Gotcha.
Fen:And then Tyler
Snyders Return:it'd be MeV doesn't help when you're trying to speak
Fen:1111 Okay, so I think everybody except for skip Skipper is doing pretty okay Skipper your anxiety is starting to creep up at you because you're pretty seasoned with some tough things. None of which is being actively shot at while you can do nothing about and strapped into a cargo bay of a dropship
Skip:Yeah, and I'd imagine just in general he's not very experienced with and reentering atmosphere
Fen:and that as well as you guys weave back and forth eventually hear the tone clear as you guys are currently working your way back towards the original flight pass. And flight con come back on everybody's still kicking back there
Unknown:yep, strapped in. Looks like we're all in one piece.
Fen:Sounds good. Just had a little bit of interference from something.
Rainmaker:So I mean, that was lucky missiles on us
Fen:wherever it is, these registers really have some serious equipment.
Rainmaker:I guess that's why we're here Hmm. I suppose so. And then kind of addressing the skip. Just remember this is people pay good money for this. They want this sensation of gravity like it is on cradle.
Skip:Something tells me they usually don't pay for the missiles to be involved.
Big Sis:And that we've had Right now they're not involved skip I saw you working on your prototype but again why don't you tell us about it while we take the rest of this trip to land
Unknown:okay
Skip:it is currently it's still the whole like scorpion tail thing going on. Um so it's basically just like an extra appendage for stabbing but now I have it working written energy weapons so it can diversify the type of you know type of hurt I can put out on people it's not just knives now there's electric knives.
Big Sis:And I keep asking them questions just keep them distracted until you get to the ground
Fen:as you guys are as you're about to ask your second question Olivia there's no sound that precedes this but you all feel it as the drop ship is impacted from the left side if you feel it more than hear it but for I'm going to say I see both Olivia and Paul as well as Megan and care are along the right side of Hussein like both of us are each on two sides of this. For both of you on that side, you see the exit opening that has now been formed by this shell that has gone through this and you feel the ship kind of start to wobble and tumble. And as you all unceremoniously begin to head toward the ground there anything that you guys say to each other before you guys
Snyders Return:about does it look from your side
Fen:great yeah pretty damn bad. Megan what are we doing? Not much we can do back here besides Hang on.
Runway:We get through this we print on the ship from now on. Agreed absolutely want to pay for a bigger ship we can have a bigger ship I will put that sponsor money towards a bigger ship
Fen:and I would love one more set of grid rolls as you all collide and the crunch and crash of tree wood on metal as you guys break into the canopy and onto the the lovely terrain terra firma
Runway:apparently 18 Apparently I rolled an 18
Big Sis:I also wrote an 18 Good roles good ones
Runway:Yeah, because we are also a narrative mode so we don't get our cool bonded bonus right now.
Fen:Yeah
Snyders Return:you're 1313
Fen:and then Jr
Rainmaker:Yes, I got an 11
Fen:Awesome. Okay, so an undetermined amount of time passes. And then you guys snap open awake you guys are still generally in your harnesses. Some might have like unlocked like a little bit but not enough to cause you any serious trauma there is two exceptions to that however the two being both Travis and care Travis from what you can tell has fallen out of his harness is crawling on the won't be the ceiling of the drop ship if it were right side up. But it is now the floor as gravity as once again take it home with you all. And the other exception is care who is fully missing from the drop ship. And as you all come to consciousness Negan kind of is one of the last ones kind of look around my cup and look around and go status report well here's Where's care fuck I'm not sure care. Are you still up? Guess you're nothing on the comms after a moment. And then after that moment you see Megan opens up her harness to drop out in her in our hearts who she checks looks you can kind of see where she pauses for a moment you probably could surmise to check oh two levels and like stuff like that for atmosphere and then she takes her helmet off and just shouts care care you still here and kind of merely begins like Go and check there is what looks to be like an opening that uh, sheared in between where both Olivia and Winston are and where care and Megan was On the right side of the aircraft when it was properly right side up, and she kind of looks through it, but she looks and goes That's fine to him. But everybody else okay.
Runway:All right ish Winston is going to turn on his mag boots so he doesn't fall out of anything because he gets out of his harness and he's gonna go check on Travis to make sure he's not dead. Like
Fen:it's gonna make me another great rule
Runway:sure good old five. So, go 505
Fen:You will you are able to detect that he is breathing you do see a spot where his heart suit has been breached by what looks to be like some of them the bulkhead another one of the spots where trees and it had a fight and bulkhead loss and credit this sharp edge that it looks like Travis has fallen on to or like fall it fell onto and then then rolled off of is still alive from the looks of it, but is not in good shape right now.
Runway:So on the lovely list of equipment we took I cooked her cook directed took corrective, which is for stabilising people in the down and out situation. So I would like that to apply that to him. So he does not die, you can certainly do so. And I can totally mark my one usage of that now and not have it for later. But I definitely thought about doing that to make sure he does not pass from the mortal coil.
Fen:Yes, and you're absolutely able to do that. And with that the it seems to take hold, patching up that section, where his where that part suit is breached, to the point where it is now not going to be life threatening both the physical damage as well as the hearts damage. Or the rest of you do you guys come to consciousness?
Rainmaker:Now let me get this harness off someone.
Big Sis:Be there in just a moment? No, get myself out using the same method that Winston did. Over to help. Oh, sorry. Gravity is really reassuring, isn't it?
Rainmaker:A it's a constant. One thing we can control.
Big Sis:And I attempt to help him but I am five two, so I don't know how well that's going to go.
Fen:Technically, that is a failure. The harnesses I'm gonna say jammed in case and then Negan kind of looks over CZ struggling with it kind of walks over and then just full on punches it with a with one of our fists at one point and then just kind of pulls like the two fragmented sections of where we usually like connects to the rest of harness up. Belts are you kind of unceremoniously topple out as a result but you are free of your hardest
Skip:show off. Skip is gonna do the same method or at least attempt and try to open up the harness
Fen:I don't think I would say if you were trying to open it up yourself you do not need to. Okay, we settled feel like that needs to be a rule
Skip:all right. I was used I'm sure if it was January I would say years this
Runway:is my ever casting drone around
Fen:it looks like it is still strapped with the rest of your stuff on the top on the what is now the ceiling which is what's the floor all of your gear looks mostly intact surprisingly, based on how well it's been strapped down. You summarise the one thing that isn't really strapped in so is one of the subalterns has fuckin got jostled loose in the in the fall. It is now like crashed into like where the the wall meets like where the the front cabin used to be. From what you would know, Baltazar it's probably not functional anymore. But other than that the rest of your stuff looks mostly intact some of the stuff may be damaged on the inside. So but you can find out Winston if you go to open up find your drone, you can never find it it's still functioning.
Runway:So I once we get everybody situated up and about I can ask Olivia to pull up her pad and like go through the passive feed to see if we see what happened to our missing so
Rainmaker:you go through that I'm going to I'm going to take a peek outside make sure we're safe. Might want to shut us
Runway:you might want to draw your weapon before you do that.
Skip:Yeah, I will go with you. And Neil pull out his knife.
Fen:Tyler as you as everybody's Making plans What do you
Snyders Return:Tyler is monitoring things going to sort of just cool down over the over the cons how's everything looking looking down there as he starts to manipulate the the harness
Runway:looks like most of the gears intact Travis is stabilised but still out we're missing our XO and it looks like about Azhar and Skipper going to go look on foot around Olivia and I are going to review the footage from the drone to see if he passed by it and a point to see if he was mobile or not.
Snyders Return:Okay, I'll get down what do you need me to do?
Runway:Turn to mag What else should we be like what else is what else is a good way to search for him right now?
Fen:Those are probably my two best options on foot if he's no nearby I assume he probably would be either part of the flight path that led us in the crash or has gone somewhere else maybe in search of health and time that we're out looking at how long we're out though I wouldn't say that he's gotten far right morbid thought but we should probably see if there's anything left to the pilot
Big Sis:I was just thinking that
Snyders Return:I can do that issue
Big Sis:they may know where we came down as well.
Snyders Return:I can do that if you were doing stock taking here with Megan and skipping bath Zara stepping out I don't mind going around to the carpet
Fen:There you go then cool sounds like planes right I get on the horn with the ship and see what they can track and whatever shot us down or when we launched the missile let y'all know when I want to find out if anything she's trying to achieve will follow both belts are and Skipper out but we'll adjust heading to not be with you guys as much as trying to find a spot to get a radio or an omni net signal up to this the ship that cruiser they guys came in on as both of the I would say actually the four of you in total including Megan stepped out you guys step out into a a decent spring day in her Cynthia, it is overcast at the moment, but looking like it's about to start pouring down rain again. There are thunder and thunder clouds off in the distance here. They're kind of roll of rumble of a little bit of thunder. As you guys are acclimated it's cool. Not cold, but the mugginess is definitely present as you guys are getting used to it. Especially if you guys well, you guys don't take off your hard suits. You guys would not feel any of this. But for Megan at least negatives experiencing this. As well as you guys can kind of see the condensation almost form a little bit on the faceplates of your hard suits. And it is it looks to be about midday when you guys are finally touching down unceremoniously
Rainmaker:where we crashed on the ground or like it up in a tree.
Fen:You guys initially hit trees but yeah, ended up on the ground. And you guys kind of seem to have stopped and almost kind of crunched into a little bit a rather large tree that is one of the bigger ones in this kind of forest area. And as you guys go outside and look for the for care, I'd love rolls from both of you if you have a patient applicable skilled triggers. I think you'd
Rainmaker:emphasise skilled with investigating. Okay, a spot
Fen:spotting both spot and investigate might be used will be useful here. Tyler, you go around to the front, there is very little that remains of the pilot. The kind of hole that you see in the front is one that just almost kind of takes the entire cockpit section out with it or did when it made impact. There's a little bit of red that is currently kind of drying near the exit hole along kind of one of the cockpit windows. But other than that there is nothing that tells the pilot so for the roles for grid 21 or 21 Yeah
Rainmaker:21 Gotcha. 21 This guy 21 sick that junk that that that jetpack works yeah, let's put this to the test and both Azhar fires up his own hard suits Mobility Suite kind of boost up and get a good view
Fen:it is I'll do this on your way up that you run into where care is unceremoniously dangling by his own heart so you're in pieces of it that Gotch that has been impacted by a branch and cut through it It all seems probably at least maybe damaged part of him in his maybe a spine area you're not quite sure there's no obvious blood coming out of it if there is any. But it definitely is not. It is what has kept him up there instead of him falling to the ground I would say with 20 ones that you guys are able to recover him using both your mobility suits as well as your just the roles you have so you were successful in both finding him and recovering him he is also in a critical condition we'd consider down and out in terms of the game mechanics
Rainmaker:Lucky for you I'm here brother
Fen:he is still unconscious but
Rainmaker:no I mean I just say that to his to his unconscious body Fair enough. And I will take out my corrective and apply it to him
Fen:Buck Yeah. Alright, but he has stabilised
Skip:so he is no longer down and out.
Fen:Yes.
Skip:Okay, then can I use a patch to get him back in a decent enough condition if he's no longer down and
Fen:out? I would say so. I don't say why not.
Skip:Alright, cool. Then I will do that. I'll take out the patch. And let's get you a working just use it it restores them to half their HP gotcha. I think I have to throw that out now the last one as
Fen:well it has been used so whenever you guys perform a full rest you'll get your uses back of it. Okay after you see him kind of pop away he goes oh well that's one way to drop in kind of looks after the both of you might to thank both of you for keeping me off ice for a while longer
Skip:I don't know if thanks would be in order but we did get you back in here.
Rainmaker:You can call us call us even before the time you still my bunk back before we parted ways.
Fen:You still remember that? It kind of sits up flexes fingers and toes kind of seem kind of stretch a little bit.
Rainmaker:Take it easy we live in the future but not that far in the future.
Fen:Future is a relative term these days you know that
Skip:if you need a minute I can make this whole being out in the open thing a bit safer. No pull out a camo cloth like it it's a lot less mundane than it sounds and you'll just like lay it over him
Rainmaker:we found our missing teammates over the comms I'd like to do a little bit more reconnoitring see if the the L z is safe
Fen:about that point that Jose with your 20 ones you both clock will looks to be about a five or six individuals well let's be wearing kind of ponchos over what looks to be kind of military gear that are is not very well fitting but functional. They are weapons are at like a low ready not directly aimed at you guys but definitely not you know at a place where they could use them if they need to. And they do not say anything at first until what looks to be kind of one of the leaders judging by both our kit and that she has like a feature the thin exoskeleton instead of a hard suit of any kind, as well as a third arm that is helping support roll it to be like an anti armour weapon and otherwise looks being like kind of a military fatigue outfit and body kit goes through the pilots are supposed to be coming in today.
Rainmaker:We came in Are you the ones that shot us?
Fen:Well it'd be really rude of me to shoot down people that are going to help wouldn't it?
Rainmaker:You know, you never know. Doesn't hurt to ask. We are crisis response team Omicron
Fen:Well, lovely to meet you. I'm Bravo Dora the head of the militia here at Evergreen. Guys. I'm fine. See if that helps anything on your crash landing. Right, you three all that's it?
Rainmaker:I know there's more back in the ship along with all our gear. We're just about to see if this place was safe. See if whoever was taking potshots is still around.
Fen:Hmm It's possible there's a sniper in the area so
Rainmaker:well, let's lead them back to where everyone is. Shelley.
Fen:You guys aren't far. Like it's you see kind of where like the scraping of this landing comes to a halt. And you guys are kind of at where that landing that goes. The scraping kind of begins. And you lead everyone else back the the militia kind of seemed to follow you. Man kind of looks up and goes. Well, somebody found us they've gotten gotten hurt anything yet from Myriad. So either they're having so many troubles or This is worse than we thought.
Rainmaker:Probably those
Skip:usually both.
Rainmaker:This is Bravo hoorah. Belt Azhar skip. And then the one over there with a camera and the drone is Winston. The sensible one here who will probably outlive us all just for pure reasons. practicality and pragmatism. And perhaps genuine empathy is Olivia. And the the person trying to look as inconspicuously like a soldier as possible is Tyler, I believe.
Fen:Pleasure to meet you. Real quick, as you both kind of look up from where you guys have been looking at the drones footage. I get a great role from both of you. Sure, it's applicable skill?
Runway:What is it? What is an applicable skill trigger for that particular thing? I don't think I have any more.
Fen:Let me I'll just dive through what you have and say I would say you could do an accuracy from your background. Cool. I will do that probably in lieu of any skill triggers. Yeah, I would say that that makes the most sense of
Runway:okay, my six says no, so it's all on Olivia
Fen:1212 will be successful. So Winston doesn't catch it at first but Olivia you see it after a moment you kind of see where the drones kind of looking up from the gear that has been kind of stored with you see roughly everybody in the the cargo bay of this dropship and you see roughly about before you see when was the big stuff you kind of scrub it back and forth you see a spot where it looks to be like a secondary hit kind of goes and makes a dent in the cabin between where to where you are Olivia and where care is and then a tree hits further in clips, care and drips him and his entire harness out where and then you can kind of see them fade out of the view. In addition to that, you see kind of where from this, this vantage point you see where a couple more kind of bumps that you got to do correlate with where they are now from where they hit you see it has been is taking a few shots since it was tumbling into tumbling towards the ground. So but you also know from when you saw earlier, I would say you are Yes. I think that is what you got it from
Big Sis:Is this about the time that the others return?
Fen:Yes, I think it's about the time. I would say that Baltazar returns routes are skipped and care return.
Big Sis:I look up care
Fen:is looking pretty Alright, it looks kind of like he's struggling to move one of his legs properly still, but other than that he seems to be doing okay.
Big Sis:Now look about him. How are you still up and about
Fen:modern technology and too generous pilots.
Rainmaker:We live in the future.
Big Sis:Wave the tablet I'm pretty rough. I'm impressed.
Fen:He kind of turns you do see where this branch has fully impaled through his hard suit. And you see kind of where it has like it has forced the heart suit out and you can only assume that at one point his body went equally in the other direction around it but his body is kind of settled back to its normal positioning. But so there's just like this half moon kind of spot in the back of his hard suit that is just you can see right through it to the other side of the forest floor.
Big Sis:I can I shakes off a shiver doesn't say anything else about it
Fen:right Pleasure to meet you all and brotherhood Dora. I am the leader of the militia here at Evergreen we are about 15 minutes that way she points about behind her and to her right a little bit why don't we get you back with us and then we'll get up we'll send more more of us out to gather your gear that sounds good to everyone.
Runway:Look to Meg for the SOP she is the commanding officer
Fen:she gives a quick thumbs up so hopefully we don't want anybody on the wheel
Rainmaker:we heard there's a sniper about
Fen:yes, there's a sniper about so keep our heads low
Snyders Return:on the cockpits a mess so we're not having a pilot taking us out of here at any any moment now.
Fen:I would say you don't have a ship taking you out of here as well so I'm sorry to hear the pilot is gone Are we all set to move?
Runway:Yep, I have. I have the drone start scouting a bit ahead and activate my stealth hard suit. So I am the visible as we're approaching through the area.
Fen:Gotcha. One of the militia members will pick up Travis and kind of put him in a loose Vironment scary and you all head throughout the forest falling brotherhood Euro eventually the forest clears into what looks to be a nice clear cut plane along this opening and then off in the distance you see these few kind of skyscrapers that look to be wrapped up in almost plastic kind of darting it up from this wall that surrounds the colony that you have seen in your reports to be every as you guys approach you see a few drones kind of lift up from behind the wall and start making their way out. Before brava kind of just waves them back in with one of our hands the other is kind of still resting on the grip of the arm the her weapon her anti armour weapon. And you all make your way to Evergreen because otherwise uneventful is it begins to rain on the way as you guys make the crossing. Make your way across the clear cut. The rain kind of begins in earnest and you kind of feel the the dripping in your heart suits as it kind of bounces off things. Megan, while carrying the hard suit helmet under one arm does not put it back on. Care leaves his on and I would say both. He is probably the slowest member of the group. He's still struggling with one of his legs from where you can tell but he continues on and doesn't really say much about it.
Rainmaker:Beth is our joins Megan and taking his helmet off
Fen:you are hit with the kind of cool but muggy air of the spring in her Cynthia. As well as feeling the rain kind of begin to be in to kind of pour down on you and make your hair wet. Megan, Megan care are quiet, as well as Bravo and the rest of the militia. Unless you guys strike up a conversation over the course of the final trek into evergreen.
Runway:Not until we hear we're clear of a sniper, no talkie talkie that's a good way to get shoddy shoddy. Yeah. Yep.
Skip:I will say that when we go to move out, skip is going to put the chemical that he previously had set down for the whole resting situation over his shoulders. So you basically have just like a head and the rest of his body is on visible it's just a bobbing head he's got to be able to see
Fen:Yeah, make sense. Um, as you guys you guys get through the walls of her Cynthia the walls are not particularly super high, they are roughly six feet and made a box to be kind of like a a mix of prefab kind of concrete 3d printed structures, as well as filled in you kind of can see from where they're still kind of finishing up some building up a couple will be filled in with both like mud and like logs to help fill them out. As you guys go through the the entrance to evergreen and you get through the kind of the gate kind of opens and closes behind you guys. They kind of lead you through as kind of a you guys break into the camp brava kind of goes, we'll get your particular sorted out. So that way you don't have to get followed by drones or some of the turrets that we have planted around here she kind of points over to kind of some of the corners of where these walls meet there are a few well it'd be pre established autumn autonomous turrets that will that are kind of seem to be kind of lazily scanning over the field and maybe if we're lucky, we'll put some mines down don't get hit by those either. So welcome to Evergreen she kind of gestures to the the muddy turn streets that you guys are walking into the ground is soggy here as it kind of has been since the time that you guys like really arrived on evergreen it's it makes kind of a slow walking a little bit slower. You see people that kind of our basically will hurry along from like overhang to overhang to overhang kind of you see a couple of our crouched over some goods to kind of keep them from getting too soaked in the rain. The prefab buildings that make up most of the streets of evergreen are just splattered with mud and stuff like that from the you know weeks of rain they've had here the kind of you also will see above you kind of triggered here it just kind of pouring down as the the gutters of this of these prefab buildings just full of water constantly. You kind of all see as you're kind of your eyes gaze over the kind of upper portions of these structures powerlines just kind of criss crossing it is definitely clear that it's been there are parts of this that look very well prebuilt and you can see off in the distance those skyscrapers I mentioned earlier that are in fact wrapped in some kind of plastic. And then you also see the more just normal buildings as they are right now that are being that are much more used. As you guys approach kind of an intersection, you guys see a trooper one of the militia individuals standing there and he is fully up against a wall the kind of right wall right from where your guys are walking down this road. The wall that is of this building, He's pressed up against it. And you kind of see him holding a shattered piece of glass and kind of looking through it kind of turns and looks at brava looks back over here and goes careful. Flavia likes the street, so be quick. So, as you all cross, do cross country Clear.
Rainmaker:Coat. Definitely. Gotcha.
Skip:That's like asking do you choose to die?
Fen:I'm just asking.
Runway:I'll actually try to take the time to peek around the corner some because it's miserable to see if he can see where a vantage point would be.
Fen:You can kind of see off up in the distance, there is what looks to be a hill. That would be a good Overwatch spa for almost the entirety of evergreen and specifically the routes that cut across it from the way you guys entered. And after, are you the last to go, Winston?
Runway:Sure, I'll be the last to go.
Fen:Okay. Somebody else got hurt across you're looking as you after you, you run across you see these pair of individuals look that'd be like their mid 30s kind of hurting across after you guys and right as they break past the midway point and finish going across it aside. You get the cracker high powered sniper rifle going straight down the alleyway. Thank you for listening to Response Team omnicar. Our cast this evening has been Adam Powell and a wooden first strike Jr's embrace, Paul marching and Shane Murray. You can find links to each of the social media handles in the podcast description. This podcast is storyteller edited and produced by LG digital content creation and consulting by animal produced with screencast and Adobe edition with additional sound effects and music from Epidemic Sound. Once again, thank you for listening