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Neon Ten reports “I don’t see any way to restore the merchant vessels to their own control right now. I did shut down the missiles though.”
“Now let’s see what sort of modifications they did on that dragon’s vessel!”
As quickly as the sensor data comes in, Neon Ten is analyzing it and updating all stations with a summary of the enemy vessel.
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Naylor watches the other ship try to weasel away and thinks, "It is so tempting to fly circles around this one, a Flyby maneuver would be fun." They sigh quietly to themselves and continue in thought, "I am here to do a serious job, not to show off or hoon around. I should probably keep it simple."
Naylor then concentrates on a nice tight, tidy run while making sure to perform some interesting evasion moves.
"Hey Raatchet, you wanted a look up their skirts, will this do?"
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"She's using civilians? Does Triaxian law allow Frozen Trove to run roughshod over small enterprise?! I am DONE playing nice with this cowardly, despicable wyrm!"
Then she takes a deep breath, and asks in a calmer voice, "Valikar, do you want to take engineering, or do you want to fire the turret? I have a little trick that I do where I can fire all the guns at once from a given side, but if you want turret, I'll leave it for you."
Charli spends a resolve point, and let's loose with fire!
"You know what this is, coward? This is PAYBACK!"
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"Whoa, Charli! Remind me never to cross you. Not only do I want to not lose out on your wonderful tea, I never want you aiming guns at me.
"Had I known you were capable of such mayhem, I may have gone with the Flyby I was hankering to show off. Then you could have done as much damage as you want and still let Valikar punch them on the way through.
"Next time, next time"
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Brob moves to the Captain's chair, ready to inspire his vesk teammate. then a sudden inspiration and he opens the comms himself to sing.
"You're as cold as ice
You're willing to sacrifice those ships!
Take some free advice
Soon you will pay the price
I know
Have we met before? I thought things were fine
Our engines can roar, you'll leave this world behind
You're asking for death by throwing away
Those innocent lives, and soon you will pay!"
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Valikar looks slightly disappointed that Charli got to not only fire the BIGGEST gun, but TWO guns. He holds onto the controls for the turret tightly, and just gives the gnome a look that on anything less prickly than a vesk might be mistaken for pouting.
Despite his insistence on keeping the last gun for himself, he doesn't fire at first. He's rather distracted by all the explosions at Charli lands a couple nasty hits into the rear of the Frozen Trove ship. If he had lips, he'd have whistled. "You might be my new favorite gnome." His first favorite gnome, but she didn't need to know that.
Finally remembering his job, since he refused to leave the gunner's seat, he pops off a pair of twin laser shots into the exact spot Charli hit with her particle beam. "Heh, this is my kind of negotiating. You two insult them more so they know we're friends!"
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Looking over the scans, Raatchet says, "Naylor, unless we missed something, they have no rear weapons and their turret is only short ranged. If you can keep us behind them and farther than short ranged, we may be in a weapons blind spot where they cannot fire on us!"
Replying to Neon, Raatchet says, "I'll target their engines!"
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"Hmmm... Yah. Boring."
A look of sadness appears on Raatchet's face. Then he activates that sunbeam spotlight again but instead of a calm, proud smile, this time Raatchet's face twists into a look of maniacal madness!
"Forget what I said. Screw boring!
As sanity reasserts itself, Raatchet realizes the implications of his statement and he says, "Errr... Perhaps I'll be returning to engineering soon..."
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"I appreciate a good bit of excessively close interactions, but we have the advantage... no reason to risk it." He was old enough to keep a level head, even when alternatives are more interesting. Apparently Raatchet was not. Valikar just gives him a long look. "This from the one hacking my gear to send me files on non-violent resolution?" Then he just grins and shakes his head.
Back on the major issue at hand, he lines up the twin lasers and takes another shot at the back of the Frozen Trove ship.
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"Nice song, Brob!" Charli hums as she starts to look over the weapons, and then frowns as she looks at the unused nukes on the starboard side. "Naylor, I just realized that we're not making the most use of our broad arc weapon. Next time, let's have our starboard pointing at the enemy. That will allow us to use the Broad arc particle beam, the tactical nukes, and the turret. We'll have our three most potent weapons facing the rear of the ship!"
Unfortunately, the missile launcher is just a bit off calibration, and Charli's not sure that she can compensate for it with the pilot evading. Talking strategy sure is distracting! Still, the particle beam makes a satisfying hit!
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Neon Ten is already scanning the flight path and predicting crash location as the ship descends.
A few seconds after the enemy ship crashes, he announces “Well, they could have picked a better landing spot.”
Still reviewing the data, he says “They are precariously perched such that some cables are all that is keeping the ship from crashing over the edge of a cliff. I don’t know where the cables came from, but without them the ship would already be at the bottom of the cliff.”
Bringing up an overlay of the enemy ship with energy readings, he says “That isn’t the only problem. These energy readings are fluctuating wildly. I would guess their engine will explode within a few hours.”
“Get ready for a mile hike from the closest landing spot through the snow and cold.”
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"I guess we're following. Now, where's that landing site? Oh, I see. I agree, they could have chosen better. Let's see what our beautiful winged horse can do." Naylor quietens as they concentrate on maneuvering the ship into the landing zone, making sure to fly over the wreckage so the scientific types can take all the scans they want on the way in.
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"Hmm, that was pretty easy. For someone with a big, bad plan she didn't seem to be all that competent. Or her crew." Valikar checks to make sure his armor is set up to keep himself warm... cold blood and all, then drags himself out of his seat while both it and his armor squeak under the movement. "They have us some gear to protect against heat and cold. Some of you may want to use that."
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"Yup! Be done in no time!"
Raatchet picks up the capacitor, performs a manly strut walking to Charli and promptly falls clumsily head over tail landing at Charli's feet.
"Errrrr... Little known fact that all armor have codes printed onto the leg piece to indicate incompatibilities with certain upgrades.
"Don't mind me. Just checking to see if this capacitor is compatible..."
Raatchet takes a split second look at the legging portion of Charli's armor then scurries to his feet.
"All good! I'll get this thing installed!"
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Valikar will let Neon help him with transferring his armor upgrades over while he switches from the worn out Kyokor plate into the shiny, gold trimmed ceramic armor they picked up. It takes him a few minutes of work to get things snapped into place, even with the help of Doc Kemple and with Neon handling the more intricate parts. "I'm fine with it. We don't need any gnome-cicles."
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Seeing the fires, Neon Ten tells the group “Sealing your suits will prevent smoke inhalation.” Having said that, he seals his own and gets a fire extinguisher out of his pack.
Glancing at the crates, Neon says “House Zeizerer, the crates probably had weapons.”
Looking to Raatchet, he asks “Do you want any help on the lock or should I try to control the fire?”
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Charli seals her suit, and goes a little closer to examine the Shirren.
"Do you see how the shirren is held together by chitin and armor?" Charli comments, "When they crashed, the grenades strapped to his body exploded and..." Charli makes a face. "That is not how I want to go!" Charli picks up a patch that landed on the ground. "His name was Nelchik, and he was the gunner."
"House Zeizerer, the weapons dealers that Naiaj keeps using." Charli sighs. "Wanna bet they were the source of the beacons?"
"If you can put out that fire, Neon, that would be great!"
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After successfully landing the ship, Naylor prepares to exit with the team, double-checking their suits environmental protections and automatically visually checking each of the others to make sure all is in order before cracking the seals of their craft.
Once at the wreckage, Naylor pulls out a fire extinguisher to use as needed and starts poking around, investigating what they can and assisting team members when it would be useful.
Looking at the remains of the gunner is somewhat distressing and distracting. Also distracting is the sudden appearance of a water elemental though Naylor is quietly impressed at such use of magic.
Click. Whirr.
Brob steps up to aid Neon Ten with that Mysticism check, examining the whatever it is!
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As Naylor and Brob comment on the strange monolith, suddenly Neon Ten remembers something. Once he has finished summoning the Elemental, he asks it to quench the fires.
Double checking with his library chip, he then says “These ruins are from the Dragon Legion, which is the precursor to the Skyfire Legion.”
Smiling, he adds with a chuckle “It seems this post just helped take out another dragon.”
The water elemental gives a wave then goes to fight the fire.