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Esper looked back to Azure, "Alright i've got a plan.. You get him out of here, if it's big usually means it's destructive, get to the others i'll distract it and lead it outside where we can take care of it properly." She was really just saying her plan instead of asking if Azure was okay with it because it sounded like they didn't really have time to formulate one. "Make sure to tell the others!" She dropped her guard and shield stepping into the center of it and grabbing the strap that she used to carry it, twisting her foot on the plate it expanded outwards ready to go. She kept aiming at the door, trusting Azure to take care of the Raccoon faunus. Whatever was behind there needed to have it's attention grabbed quick.
Esper watched as the man dropped his knives, keeping her gear up and at the ready but looking towards the door. "You need to tell me what's going on right now. We'll deal with whatever's behind door number one, and judge if it's too much for us. But you need to get away from your weapons, so that we can have security deal with you." She continued to stride towards him looking back to give a thumbs up to Azure before placing a hand to her ear. "Professor, Azure has made the man in here surrender, but he's talking like there's something worse, lots of smoke is pouring from the hidden door we found in the schematics. Kinda like there's dusted grimm behind it but i've never seen anything like this, what should we do?" Before a response could be given she planted her shield and gave her glaive a flick causing it to fold down into the long rifle mode, dropping to one knee and placing it on the top curve of her shield she took aim at the door. "All i'm saying man is that I suggest you get over here and tie yourself up before we're forced to take you down another peg."
Esper made it clear that she was moving towards this person in a mask, "Sir what are you doing out of uniform this late at night." She smirked, "You should show me your badge before I get all security on your backside." Her strides were powerful showing that she was not afraid of a fight if one occurred.
Esper looked back immediately and almost rolls out of her chair in a fluid motion, "Mister Goldberg there are unmarked people entering the facility, i'll contact my team and head out to investigate that noise be ready to call in any security and make sure that thing is recording!" She bolted to the door swinging her gear onto her shoulder as she went, it had been resting heavily into the control panel next to her all night, she pulled up her scroll and relayed information to her team. "We've got unmarked workers coming in from the field and a noise like metal on metal in the main factory room, I'm going to check out the noise, someone should come help me and the others go investigate the workers without suit trackers. Carmine, think that's a good plan? I'll try to stay out of sight for now but i'm not really the quietest person." She rushed, as quietly as she could manage, into the main room and pulled her shield keeping it close in case something dangerous was around the next corner.
Esper felt her scroll jingle in her pocket, but decided she should finish up this conversation first. "If school allows, I would love to continue to assist you with your security purchases. However remember that my calling is still as a huntress. Speaking of which" she pulled out her scroll and read the message, "It seems Professor Peach wants me back at our room so that we can get our first assignment. Um.. would you happen to have a downloadable map so i don't get lost again?" Map or not Esper would thank Mr. Sable and return to her room, plopping down on the bed and going over what she had slightly overheard on her approach to the office, she needed more information. She pat at her scarf and grabbed a few snacks until the others arrived and while they talked about what they had learned. "Well, Mr. Sable was talking to someone when i stumbled onto his office, but i wasn't able to get close enough to hear anything before the conversation had ended, but he sounded like he was done with a deal of some sort. Something about them being too close? But I don't want to go ahead and assume them is us." She rubbed at her temple for a moment, "Aside from that he seemed quite surprised that the thrasher was heading over towards Azure and Sham's direction and tried to call it off immediately threatening to fire whoever was on the other end of the line." She kicked herself up and pulled her scroll open pulling up a few parts that she had mentioned to Sable, "Of course I told him that there were issues with his current tech and he could buy some other products to make them more reliable, but even then I wasn't able to get into his board meeting, which I don't really need into. But I also don't want the workers to get injured if we aren't just dealing with Grimm. I will be allowed to shadow him a little so long as it is in areas that are not top secret, business standards still apply. Oh and he wants me to come back in a few days or when this grimm thing blows over to suggest more tech and show him about what he's got on the block to buy."
Esper grinned internally, "What If i could offer you a trade deal sir?" She took the water, "My mother runs a quite successful merchant barge in Vacuo, and well my entire life has been training myself as a huntress, and my mother and father teaching me how trade works." She laughed a bit, "I will agree though when you pull their proverbial pants down with your newfound knowledge it would be fun to watch. If you mention the possible contract with my family, you may be able to use it as a bargaining chip against the Atlas sales team."
Esper listed off a few brands before looking back out the window, she was prepared for the question."Actually yes I was wondering if i could shadow you for awhile, while we are here since i don't have access to everything myself maybe there's something I can see inside the factory. Make sure that if it is someone and not something attacking you that there aren't any dangers for the workers inside." She straightened at the back and smiled at him, "The others are far better trackers out in these woods anyway, my skills at tracking through the sands don't really translate well."
Esper moves closer to Sable and joins him in looking out the window, "I'm actually surprised you can't find good help. I mean I guess you'd get better if you were in Mistral, or Atlas. But the Threshers you've got are the FT-3 Model right? They've got a well developed hydraulic system, but there is a tiiiiiiiiny issue with their wireless connection box, that Atlas doesn't tell people." She punctuated the tiny bit by squeezing her thumb and forefinger together before letting up and continuing. "Most just install an off-brand trans-receiver and call it a day. But of course no Atlas salesman would tell you that without risking their job. They're also known to have a bit of an issue with their feed belt getting overheated in high stress situations or on particularly hot days. No real fix for that one though, but it makes them particularly unusable in hot climates like Vacuo, or near the western edge of Vale.." She looked over, "I could recommend a few brands for you to try out if you think that might help." Esper could rattle off about Atlas equipment for days strengths and weaknesses alike, but right now she needed to point out flaws in the current equipment hopefully to get on Sable's good side.
I think everyone would benefit from having a base range on your ranged weapon form. And also from a logic point of view if your ranged weapon doesn't start with range then.. it's not a ranged weapon like at all lol, so i would say you get the Shortest range for free, thus bringing the range cost of the other's down by 1 point. On semblance activation and the whole fatigue thing, I think if we go with a fatigue system from using semblances I would say you only take a fatigue after your semblance ends, meaning if you extend it using PP then you don't take a fatigue point after 3 rounds of using your semblance, that gives it a better reward at the risk so you aren't crippled completely if your 3 rounds of semblance doesn't really pay off, while at the same time still making it more risky to use. You may want to be careful with the fatigue thing if someone has a semblance that can't be turned off, Qrow for example. I still have to reread the aura shielding changes that were proposed been too long since i looked at em but i think it'd be neat to try it out if my memory is serving correctly. Stuff about big changes: On the subject of weapon stuff, the original rule set, had a weapon aug that was Dust Chamber, which worked fine, however the new set that was posted at the top of the previous discussion page had Simplified Chamber which negated the dust chamber effect. The existence of that augment suggests that all weapons can naturally load dust without augmentation so we need to decide can everything load 1 basic type of dust from the get go or do they start with no dust loading and have to take perks to use it at all. Or at the very least we could say all weapons can accept dust rounds in ranged form but not in melee, which would require the dust chamber augment. In the new system there were changes to the base damage of melee/ranged weapons and i'd point back to my previous comment about that damage if we end up switching to that. I still don't enjoy the fact that we have to spend points into 1-handed if we also want to take a shield, i see it making more sense to soak weapon points into being 2-handed and dealing a higher damage, or 1 1/2 handed so it can be used as 1 handed with another thing or 2 handed for the damage boost. I don't like the idea of making any of the powers that weren't originally out of the picture to be taken off of the list of powers to form your semblance, speaking of which i like the original semblance creation better. If you remove more semblances, Toughness and armor being the examples that were used before then some characters like Esper would then all but completely lose their semblance, and no one would be able to be that truly tanky combatant. As for intangible i believe a character like Blake technically falls under using that power when she creates her shadow copies, one can probably more likely argue that Ruby's semblance of bursting into rose petals incorporates the intangible power meaning it shouldn't be cut off. I think there should still be some semblances that can't be turned off, for example Qrow's bad charm. I think something like that would interfere with the whole stamina or round limit on semblance timers. Which means maybe you have to spend an extra PP to extend your semblance an extra 3 rounds once you activate it. But if you have a passive semblance then well you don't really have to worry about that. Smashing Dust craft and semblance activation into one skill kinda makes sense seeing as you use your aura to do both. Buuut adding yet another skill on top of our already hefty set doesn't seem right, cause it turns dust use into a necessary skill if you want to use your semblance. I really enjoy the original Semblance creation. I enjoy the 2.0 version of Aura soaking and semblance activation as well as the 2.0 version of Weapon crafting, though it does still need some tweaks here and there. Details can still be hammered out but if we put it down to a vote those are what i enjoy personally.
Epser perks up as she feels her Scroll vibrate, "Oh uh.. one second Mr. Sable. She turns around and opens up her scroll to hear Azure, "Oh yeah I'll ask if he can redirect it." She drops her voice low hoping to keep Mr.Sable from hearing "If not get up to the main compartment looks like a glass box, there's a manual override flip the switch. It should give you a few minutes while it cycles." "Uh huh yeah no problem Azure. She turned to look at Sable, "Sir could you shut off one of your thrashers it's getting dangerously close to the damaged area and might disrupt some of the evidence?"
Esper shoots ram rod straight as she realizes it was Mr.Sable. "Oh hello Mr. Sable, I was actually a little lost, your right it really is a giant maze in here in this well oiled machine. I hope you don't have a conference soon, I actually wanted to talk with you about the security drones you have currently, and maybe offer some advice if you'd like. I grew up tinkering with machines and i've studied a lot about Atlas designs before I even thought about coming to Beacon." She cleared her throat, "Uh that is if you think the advice of someone like myself would be useful to a powerful business man such as yourself."
Esper would prefer to stay in her current uniform for the time being, not that she hated wearing uniforms but she kind of did. She got a bit upset with herself in the maze of corners and cold steel. "Comeon you know how to navigate a desert with almost no landmarks but you get trapped in a box?" Hearing voices up ahead she tries to hone her hearing in on them but can't seem to make anything out more than whispers, as she continues through the labyrinth that is Sable Farm industries.
"Alright I'm sure i'll be able to find something to get on his good side. Azure, you and Shamrock could probably work as a pair to find the break in the defenses and the grimm. I mean it'd be much safer for two of you to be together if it is a nevermore." She shrugs a bit and reaches into her pack for a snack.
Esper has some good grimm knowledge, repair, and some survival those are the only skill i think might be able to go towards tracking down holes/grimm in this situation aside from the obvious notice skill. As for buttering up to Sable i guess telling him how he could maximize his available defenses might work for now, but i'm a bit lacking on ideas.. ooh maybe see if i can 'strike' a trade agreement that always works with politicians right? Other than Esper buttering up to sable i was going to jokingly suggest we might be able to have peach get closer to him since he seemed to have a small interest or maybe he's just shy i dunno.
Esper perked up at the planning, "I could look for gaps in security. Might be able to get a bit closer to Mr. Sable if you think getting on his good side will help keep his attention away. Might even be able to get access to some other areas that way. I mean I could always spout more security details about Atlas's hardware. Other than those I think i can cover ground more quickly than anyone else 'cause of Wander so i might be able to look around for that nevermore's nest if someone else wants to deal with Mr. Sable." She proudly pat her hefty weapon set, knowing it'd been a bit since she actually got to get out and ride with it.
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