RE: Art of Domination Thread 04
11-05-2016, 07:40 AM
Seeker Drone surveillance reveals the form of the Walking Factory:
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Ghulls: We’ve designated it as ‘Chaos Bed’. There are braintrees attached nearby.
You: I’m assuming those balloons floating around are lightning relays?
Ghulls: Yes. They direct lightning to anything on the ground and in the air that gets close, as we’ve seen birds get fried as well.
Rainhar: So the monsters just pour out of its ass like some kind of super-diarrhea?
Ghulls: Uh, kinda. Chaos Bed seems to have a set pattern to produce units every four hours. The problem is that every time it produces, there are slightly more creatures in it than the last batch. We haven’t found any evidence of a portal being involved, though.
You: What about the monsters themselves? Do they look like they’re going in a specific direction?
Ghulls: From what we can tell, the creatures spread out in random directions, walk a few kilometers away then hide in sheltered areas like houses, caves, abandoned vehicles, ruins…
You notice Lagan is in deep thought.
You: Lagan? You got any ideas?
Lagan: Hmmm… the walking factory is going in circles, right Ghulls?
Ghulls: Yes sir.
Lagan: I think the Chaos Bed’s guarding something. It’s not behaving offensively, and neither are the things it’s making. Can we get a seeker drone closer to the center of the factory’s loop route?
Ghulls: On it. I’ll tell the drone controller to keep away from the factory itself.
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You: There’s a hole!
Ghulls: The drone is moving into it. Okay, so at the bottom…
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Rainhar: A missile?
Ghulls: Scans indicate that it’s highly radioactive. Leaking, even. It’s in no shape to detonate, but even if you just left it in the middle of a city, people will die very quickly.
Lagan: Ghulls, tell the drone controller to go deeper.
The drone moves deeper into the facility. There are no people here, just more and more leaking missiles.
Ghulls: All of their propulsion systems are still functional.
You: Ghulls, get me in touch with Iggy Smith.
Smith: Commander, how can I help?
You: We found a facility full of leaking radioactive missiles in Region 5. Do you know anything about it?
Smith: Oh shit, it’s still there? That’s the Waste Vault for a failed weapon project. It’s called Vault Ghastly. A few decades ago president Johnny Carmichael and his cabinet were trying to build nuclear weapons using a different kind of design, but ultimately it didn’t work out. When it was clear the whole thing was a bust, they tossed them down a hole in Region 5. Or rather, they just drove the missile launchers into it.
You: The old administration just left them there?!
Smith: Region 5 was always meant to be the dumping ground for the colony. From the beginning, it was designated as a waste disposal zone. However, during the first few years of the colony’s founding, there wasn’t much trash yet and some people started moving there because they were feuding with the other colonists. Also, some people just couldn’t afford the taxes in other regions.
Lagan: And they never left.
Smith: The people still in Region 5 are the descendants of families with feuds long forgotten, or those simply too poor to anyone else. The only reason they’re stuck there is because none of them can even buy a can of soup in the other regions. The whole place is just… trashland. The only sustainable kind of food they got there is just mushrooms and insects, which can deal with all the toxic stuff. Everything else is smuggled in from the other regions. Most of the water is collected via moisture from the air.
You: Okay, so these missiles in Vault Ghastly, are they operational?
Smith: Well, they can’t detonate, but you can certainly still launch them. The project was abandoned because the guiding system wasn’t accurate enough and the hulls were brittle. But yeah, you can definitely send them to another region if you wanted to.
You: Could our mutual enemy be trying to launch these things? There’s a walking factory going in circles around this vault, making more and more guards.
Smith: It’s possible, but I don’t know how they’ll do it. The missiles have no form of remote control; you have to be inside Vault Ghastly to launch the missiles, and anyone who gets close will just die from radiation poisoning.
Rainhar: What if they’re not planning on launching the missiles?
You: What do you mean?
Rainhar: We’ve seen portal tech work, right? Maybe they’re trying to set up a portal machine and just transport the missiles.
Smith: Shit, you’re right. They could just make a portal under a missile and have it drop somewhere else.
Lagan: But if that’s the case, why haven’t they started ‘porting these missiles?
Rainhar: Beats me, chief. Maybe they’re still preparing the portal machine or something.
Ghulls: Vora, what should we do about Vault Ghastly?
-We should get rid of that factory first. Eliminate Chaos Bed. (Form a plan of attack on the walking factory)
- Drop an Enderfist strike into the crater (Warning: Very strong chance of radioactive material being dispersed all over the Region and beyond)
- Send in Sonic Mechs to destroy or bury the missiles.
- Continue gathering intel about Chaos Bed and Vault Ghastly (Skips to Week 6 Day 6, also get reports on results of ongoing and completed operations like Operation Angry Nurse)
- Land the Enderfist on the crater, blocking its only known entrance. (Prepare for ship-to-factory battle with Chaos Bed)
- Something else.
>_
YOUR CURRENT FORCES
from me:
Ghulls: We’ve designated it as ‘Chaos Bed’. There are braintrees attached nearby.
You: I’m assuming those balloons floating around are lightning relays?
Ghulls: Yes. They direct lightning to anything on the ground and in the air that gets close, as we’ve seen birds get fried as well.
Rainhar: So the monsters just pour out of its ass like some kind of super-diarrhea?
Ghulls: Uh, kinda. Chaos Bed seems to have a set pattern to produce units every four hours. The problem is that every time it produces, there are slightly more creatures in it than the last batch. We haven’t found any evidence of a portal being involved, though.
You: What about the monsters themselves? Do they look like they’re going in a specific direction?
Ghulls: From what we can tell, the creatures spread out in random directions, walk a few kilometers away then hide in sheltered areas like houses, caves, abandoned vehicles, ruins…
You notice Lagan is in deep thought.
You: Lagan? You got any ideas?
Lagan: Hmmm… the walking factory is going in circles, right Ghulls?
Ghulls: Yes sir.
Lagan: I think the Chaos Bed’s guarding something. It’s not behaving offensively, and neither are the things it’s making. Can we get a seeker drone closer to the center of the factory’s loop route?
Ghulls: On it. I’ll tell the drone controller to keep away from the factory itself.
You: There’s a hole!
Ghulls: The drone is moving into it. Okay, so at the bottom…
Rainhar: A missile?
Ghulls: Scans indicate that it’s highly radioactive. Leaking, even. It’s in no shape to detonate, but even if you just left it in the middle of a city, people will die very quickly.
Lagan: Ghulls, tell the drone controller to go deeper.
The drone moves deeper into the facility. There are no people here, just more and more leaking missiles.
Ghulls: All of their propulsion systems are still functional.
You: Ghulls, get me in touch with Iggy Smith.
Smith: Commander, how can I help?
You: We found a facility full of leaking radioactive missiles in Region 5. Do you know anything about it?
Smith: Oh shit, it’s still there? That’s the Waste Vault for a failed weapon project. It’s called Vault Ghastly. A few decades ago president Johnny Carmichael and his cabinet were trying to build nuclear weapons using a different kind of design, but ultimately it didn’t work out. When it was clear the whole thing was a bust, they tossed them down a hole in Region 5. Or rather, they just drove the missile launchers into it.
You: The old administration just left them there?!
Smith: Region 5 was always meant to be the dumping ground for the colony. From the beginning, it was designated as a waste disposal zone. However, during the first few years of the colony’s founding, there wasn’t much trash yet and some people started moving there because they were feuding with the other colonists. Also, some people just couldn’t afford the taxes in other regions.
Lagan: And they never left.
Smith: The people still in Region 5 are the descendants of families with feuds long forgotten, or those simply too poor to anyone else. The only reason they’re stuck there is because none of them can even buy a can of soup in the other regions. The whole place is just… trashland. The only sustainable kind of food they got there is just mushrooms and insects, which can deal with all the toxic stuff. Everything else is smuggled in from the other regions. Most of the water is collected via moisture from the air.
You: Okay, so these missiles in Vault Ghastly, are they operational?
Smith: Well, they can’t detonate, but you can certainly still launch them. The project was abandoned because the guiding system wasn’t accurate enough and the hulls were brittle. But yeah, you can definitely send them to another region if you wanted to.
You: Could our mutual enemy be trying to launch these things? There’s a walking factory going in circles around this vault, making more and more guards.
Smith: It’s possible, but I don’t know how they’ll do it. The missiles have no form of remote control; you have to be inside Vault Ghastly to launch the missiles, and anyone who gets close will just die from radiation poisoning.
Rainhar: What if they’re not planning on launching the missiles?
You: What do you mean?
Rainhar: We’ve seen portal tech work, right? Maybe they’re trying to set up a portal machine and just transport the missiles.
Smith: Shit, you’re right. They could just make a portal under a missile and have it drop somewhere else.
Lagan: But if that’s the case, why haven’t they started ‘porting these missiles?
Rainhar: Beats me, chief. Maybe they’re still preparing the portal machine or something.
Ghulls: Vora, what should we do about Vault Ghastly?
-We should get rid of that factory first. Eliminate Chaos Bed. (Form a plan of attack on the walking factory)
- Drop an Enderfist strike into the crater (Warning: Very strong chance of radioactive material being dispersed all over the Region and beyond)
- Send in Sonic Mechs to destroy or bury the missiles.
- Continue gathering intel about Chaos Bed and Vault Ghastly (Skips to Week 6 Day 6, also get reports on results of ongoing and completed operations like Operation Angry Nurse)
- Land the Enderfist on the crater, blocking its only known entrance. (Prepare for ship-to-factory battle with Chaos Bed)
- Something else.
>_
YOUR CURRENT FORCES
from me: