He grins down at Jellena, "Any drop you walk away from, right? Don't know how you did it, but I'm glad you're... uh... alright."
His demeanor goes back to business as he looks back at the orb, "So the orders are to hold and protect the package until you get here? You mentioned a group. They here on Pandora? Or will they be coming with you?"
He lumbers to the pod's hatch as he switches his armor's sensors to active search, watching the debris, the area around the crash site, and looking to where he thinks he heard the other impact.
Aannra runs to the pod, Veldens shots taking out the snakes still moving before she even gets to them.
Hes a good shot,
Aannra she is nimble and fast, soon coming up to the side,
She is unarmed but you can see the shimmer of some kind of defiance shielding on her. Mind you, you can see she is running through a grass valley full of snakes. Behind her a man in full battle armor and someone's shooting with very high accuracy the snakes still alive that cone close to her.
"Are you always in a rush girl? I'm coming. Ain't no rush as I see it. " as he carefully picks his way through the debris and dead snakes to reach the pod.
"Someone may be trapped our hurt inside, if fire brakes out..."
"I have medic training, but I see your point, we will do it you way Bishnu, rushing in may be wrong"
Bishnu is walking in the open quite visibly.
Or you can take it Vel's way.
Once close she will Call out [ooc]She kind of got 22 to spot you Huc
"Bishnu, there is someones head sticking out of the pod, just told him not to shoot us and if they need help"
@Huk
::"HO! POD SURVIVOR, DO NOT SHOOT! We come to help, Are you all right, are there any hurt do you need assistance?"::
His face-plate drops into place.
As you get closer, you get a better look at the pod survivor in the hatch. He’s a few inches under six feet tall and nearly as wide as he is tall… heavily armed and armored in heavy infantry power armor with a truly massive sword/cannon hybrid weapon leveled at you. His face is covered by a face-plate, and when Aannra’s voice pops into his head, he cocks it to the side… keeping the weapon where it is.
When he speaks, it’s the booming, shout of a drill sergeant muffled by his faceplate. ”We’re doing just fine! But given the day we’ve had, you’re gonna have to tell us who you are before I can let you get closer. And spoken word will do just fine… get outta my head.”
"Like I said Aannra, not my problem. "
"err Ok Bishnu, not our problem"
She looks at the guy in the pod then back at Bish.
Then in a low voice says
"I'm going to go look at that ship wreck as well, may be good stuff on it."
She starts to talk in the direction of the cashed ship
"Got a bead on the big guy with the gun." He let's them know when the big man pulls out his gun. But then, as Bish turns around, and Aannra runs on, he drops back into clipped tones. "Bish, Aan off reservation, repeat, droid off reservation. Min time run to second crash site. Reverse and cover, Bish."
Speaking of fire the other ship explodes in several different spots and doors open. Marines in power armor just like Hucs begin to pour out of the ship with loaders of all kinds.
"If Jellena was able to pilot the pod correctly, yes at the angle it would need, you would have crashed hard, then you should be around my group. Look for an Elf named Velden, another elf named Aannra, a warrior in armor named bishnu, a large cat humanoid named Jak, a glowing tattooed human named Ida and Elo. I am almost out of juice for the day, have a good one and I hope to see you soon. Entirely possi..." The orb stops glowing.
Jellena asks, "Would you pass the orb to me."
The massive weapon remains where it is, though he looks slightly less prepared to use it on you.
Then his eyes slide past her to the soldiers. ”Uh… guys… marines are pouring from that other ship like pus from a pimple. What’s the likelihood that they’re just here to make sure we’re alright?”
One moment she in front of him, then next she almost by hes side.
As soon as she potted the troops coming of the downed ship she shifted back to him.
and gets down
@Bishnu
::All right I see your point here thanks, so what do we do now? O that the guy in the pod is calling us::
@Huk
::[i]you sound like they are not with you? if not best ask Bishnu what to do hes a veteran, I'm Aannra by the way."[/i}::
she dos this wile hiding.
Velden moves behind cover and aims at the marines pouring out of the ship, aiming at whichever one looks to be their leader. At the first round coming down range at Aannra or Bishnu, he'll let fly a flurry at that person.
She nods
and moves at speed, to the pod
once under cover says to Huk
::"Can you see how many made it out the ship?:;
She gets her Air-gun out,
The marines and loaders are basically just running out and away from the ship that is exploding right now. You can see them collecting around a bend from their ship. This takes about 10 minutes.
Perception check for Velden to see hand signs.
Yes, as I assumed Velden can see the hand signals, and all the weapons that the marines and loaders have.
Velden not only catalogues the weapons that the marines have, he also notes the rank marks on their breast plates, looking for the Marine with the highest rank mark. He then carefully aims at that Marine in case they start sending things down range.
His face-plate thunks back down as he grabs up the recharging Jellena, dragging the defibrillator even as she recharges.
Huc steps out of the pod and around to the side where Bishnu and Aannra are taking cover. He looks at Aannra, still cautious, ”You Velden? And Bishnu? If so, who’s your employer… I’m thinking we can help each other out with our new marine infestation.”
"Employer? I guess there's some guy called Five or something like that. He sent us out here. I have no idea why marines are dropping in here. If there's more of you in there, you might want to pull back to that tunnel over yonder. I'd say it's a hell of a lot more defensible than a downed escape pod. "
Huc shouts into the pod, ”Slim! Get yer skinny ass out here! I got Jellena. We’re moving out!”
The face-plate swivels back to Aannra and Bishnu, ”I’m Huc! Now let’s go make a nuisance of ourselves.”
"Bishnu here, and yes let's get back before this gets hairy. "
Avizzi's been sitting by, shaking his head, wondering how he got caught up in all this. I had rules, you know? Take certain kinds of jobs, watch my own back, keep careful, and then it all goes out the window and this happens. It's all Joe's fault, I bet. Assh*le.
He looks up and nods at Huc's comment on soldiers, instantly darting out of the pod and around to one side to get cover--where he nearly runs into an elf female and a human man. He brings the knives up in a defensive position until he hears Huc talk to them, and the man replies. "Okay, Bishnu, Velden? I don't know what the f*ck's going on, but we've got soldiers on our ass, and I don't like that. In fact, it kinda pisses me off. So we're getting the f*ck out of this, right? Bugging out hardcore? 'Cause that'd be my plan."
"We have people inside a tunnel back behind us, and we can't bug out without leaving them behind. I don't do that. We do have someone in an overwatch position who can provide cover fire while we make it back to the tunnel. "
In the 10 mins the troops are escaping from the crash ship,, Aannratakes 5 to jump into the pod wile Bishnu fills the pod guys in,
"Hi am Aannrra Blake nice to meet you"
she says to any one she meets
In the pod she opens up the pod seat, compartments in a fast search for, stuff.
She's looking for medical kits, food supply's, weapons (revolver or auto pistol would be nice), amunistion, frag grenades, C4, flares, water, servivul kits, walkei-talke coms and any other easy to take items.
She puts what she finds in her bag of holding, then jumps back out, ready to head off with the others,
"Blake?" Avizzi blinks and takes another look at the way the elf moves and notes the third eye. "Ah." A Replicant. More bot-people. Fun. He looks back to Bishnu. "Okay, I'm with you then. Safety in numbers, yeah? But if bugging out looks best, I'm for that. Let's get to the cave, though, 'cause fighting marines in the open ain't my idea of fun. I kinda prefer, I dunno, cutting their throats. In the dark. While they're asleep. Or maybe just burning down their encampment. Something like that, where I don't get shot." He glances around the edge of the pod, trying to see if the soldiers are coming over.
"ready when you are, Velden is potting for us, I'll signal him, see if we have a clear to move out. Don't worry about shots coming down as we make the dash, it's just him taking out the wild life."
Getting ready to make the dash across,
She hand signals to Velden for the all clear to move out.
Velden makes a sign back to Aannra, before confirming.
Enemy. 12 o'clock. Query. Confirm Hostile?
The marines are more focused on making camp and salvaging what they can. A few of them are watching you through binoculars or scopes.
Velden has eyes that rival many scopes.
She stows the stuff but one headset but the Echos, Handsets, she hands one headset and Echo to Bishnu, puts one on herself.
"Huk if that suit of yours have a head set, take the last Echo, then we have three sets for coms".
After seeing the signs from Veldon she says
"Velden says they are at our 12 and may be hostile. So they may shoot if we run. It's about 300' I can do the run in say 8 to 10 seconds, If I go 1st and if they shoot at me we will know they are hostile, once there I can give Velden a the other coms set I have and we can then coordinate.
She looks at the others to see what they think.
"Huc get into a firing position. She's gonna make the run and if they open up on her, lay down some cover fire. "
Waits for the green light from Bishnu to go.
Aannra, as she watches Velden, see's him make the signs for 'truce' and 'spotted enemy leader', but he doesn't seem to be making them at her. Finally, he drops an arrow about 15 feet from Aannra to make sure he has her attention.
Enemy request truce. Move out. Keep to cover. May be trick.
She holds her action as she sees thing, not sending the power.
"Velden just signed Enemy request truce. to Move out but Keep to cover. May be trick. Bishnu, you still want me to make the run?"
Avizzi laughs. "Yeah, truce. That sounds legit. I'm gonna take my chances running if that's not a problem."
The female form is easily carried on Huc's shoulder and arm as his other hand holds his blade.