RE: Art of Domination Thread 04
09-24-2017, 08:55 AM
(09-10-2017, 08:23 PM)smuchmuch Wrote: »I am also curious, what does our resident AIs ans rescues (that'd be Hawkeye and RealSmith) have to say about the 'Empty Grave', sounds ike something of interest.
Hawkeyes: Never heard of it.
Iggy Smith: The Empty Grave is a dimension meant for temporary storage. We stopped using it because every time we looked back in there, something was always missing. A belt buckle. A bullet. A book. Sometimes the thing that disappears is as a whole stack of corned beef. We stopped when corpses went missing.
You: What was causing it?
Iggy Smith: Never figured it out. Popular idea was that the Empty Grave wasn’t actually empty; something invisible lives there and it’s been doing who-knows-what with the stuff we put in it.
Rainhar: Hmmm… does it have a connection to the Polluted?
Iggy Smith: Yes, actually. Polluted keep trying to drag people into it. Don’t know why, because there is no direct connection to the Authors, far as I can tell.
So there’s another kind of entity living in this ‘storage dimension’.
(09-11-2017, 01:30 PM)Hypevosa Wrote: »If we can knock over the dummies in decoy phase to see if they are righted before they come back, and if we can observe if soldiers are actually moving at all between phases rather than being deconstructed and reconstructed in exactly the same spots, then we could glean more knowledge about "what" this thing is doing exactly.
The dummies, as far as your troops can tell, don’t return to their original positions when the ‘Decoy’ phases back in. The real soldiers are also moving in-between shifts, so they must be active while they’re in another dimension. Whatever this thing is, it doesn’t seem to affect time.
After your soldiers spend time observing this strange army base, a familiar voice is heard on the radio. You instinctively shudder when you realize what it is. It’s the Radio Entity. The Red Note.
Radio Entity: Welcome to the new and improved show, ladies and gentlemen! Season Two! Get excited!
You: Oh no.
Red Note: We got some new rules! Our sponsor, the Veriso Company, wanted to spice things up a little, so who am I to argue! Questions of Loyalty now has a new show format! First off, EVERYONE CAN BE A CONTESTANT! Yesiree! We open up opportunity for everybody to get the GRAND PRIZE! A free trip to the scenic Red Note Amusement Park! Ain’t that great, folks? NO QUESTIONS! That’s right, we just pullin’ names now! No barrier to entry!
Ghulls: Vora? We can’t jam the signal!
Red Note: Human, saramis, cat or dog, everybody’s welcome!
You: Shut off all the radios!
Everyone on the ground obliges, and thankfully, the Radio Entity is no longer heard.
Rainhar: This is going to be a problem. As long as this thing is out there, we can’t co-ordinate in real time.
Feathers: Veriso has somehow altered this creature to be even more dangerous. I recommend we find out where the entity’s physical body is and destroy it.
Your costumed hacker down at HQ yells.
Kuroda: Hey, what the hell?! The Red Note evolved???
Rainhar: More like our professor Veriso figured out a way to make it even more dangerous.
Lagantis: Has it been listening to us this whole time?
Kuroda: Ugggghhhh I really wanted to forget about this thing…
Feathers: Commander. I have a request. Please let me and Francoise listen to the entity. It has no power over non-organic life. The Red Note causes lungs to stop working and we have none. Connect us to the radios on planetside.
You think about it for a moment, and approve. The two synthetic advisors listen for about half an hour, and they share some information:
- The Radio Entity knows everyone’s name, and the names are selected at random.
- It has been actively listening since the Seeker drone entered the basement.
- It genuinely believes it’s hosting a radio contest show.
- The EMP-proof radios offer no protection at all from its effects. The Radio Entity actively seeks active radio devices and ‘forces’ its way through.
- The ‘new show format’ is that of a raffle; a random name is chosen and that person is the new target.
- It can only kill 1 person at a time, and does not require the question to be answered to activate the Red Note effect. It does need the target to be listening to the radio, though.
- Feathers and Francoise are ‘invisible’ to the Radio Entity. It showed no indication that it was aware of non-organic listeners.
Francoise: Commander, the Radio Entity’s physical vessel is hidden inside the base. We recommend dealing with it first. A small covert force can eliminate it, as long as they maintain radio silence. It will be in the shape of a red piece of paper, perfectly square.
Feathers: We also have the option of destroying the Phasemaker when the enemy’s base is in its ‘Vanished’ or ‘Decoy’ state. All projections indicate that this will result in Pioneer Base being stranded in an alternate dimension indefinitely. The Radio Entity will also be a non-issue.
Rainhar: Or we could try to kidnap Veriso and interrogate him first.
Lagantis: This is going to be risky. We can’t use radios at all without taking casualties.
Rainhar: Hold up. Maybe we can, I don’t know, use lights for signaling? Flags? Flares
Lagantis: We could do that, but the enemy can easily see what sort of commands we’re relaying. Drums and trumpets? No, the moment guns start firing those become worthless.
Rainhar: Grrrr… and we can’t use Usurpers either since their signals are blocked by solid things… Damn this Radio Entity!
Lagantis: We could plant explosives inside the base, start a fire and then force the occupants out. Smoke ‘em out. If they have fire extinguishers, Spec Ops can disable them first.
You consider your options. The Radio Entity is active and your are uncertain of what the base’s layout is. What order will you give?
- Send in Spec Ops to kidnap the professor.
- Send in Spec Ops to destroy the Radio Entity.
- Send in Spec Ops to do a full recon of the base’s interior.
- Destroy the Phasemaker.
- Steal the Phasemaker.
- Assault the base without the benefit of radio.
- Assault the base with radios on. (Casualties inevitable)
- A combination of the above.
- Something else!
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