RE: Art of Domination Thread 04
10-05-2017, 10:41 AM
(09-24-2017, 11:07 AM)smuchmuch Wrote: »1)We have Keymaster open a portal in pinonneer during the 'normal' phase.
2)Soon as the portal is opening, we send some flashbad and EMP
3)Spec ops slips in, release a bunch of the newly develloped SID drones slipps out.
4)The drones send info back the the AIs at base. Map as much of the base as possible
Keymaster opens a portal to the base’s interior. Your troops throw in an EMP and flashbang, but they are spat back out.
Keymaster: Living. Things. Only.
Annoyed but determined, Spec Ops 1 enter through the portal and they find themselves in an unoccupied room. Some kind of food storage. No cameras either. It seems we’ve lucked out this time. Your soldiers deploy the prototype drones, which automatically scan the base. Your invisible troops return to base via portal, and everyone waits for the map intel.
After about five minutes, the prototype SIDs finish scanning the base and send back maps of the interior. The AIs, Francoise and Feathers, add labels based on the most likely uses for the rooms within.
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Feathers: Scans indicate there are 29,900 enemy troops within. There are also 60 Hovertanks, all stored on the first floor.
Ghulls: Wait, what’s with that enormous bedroom?
Feathers: It is as it says. It belongs to Veriso. From recordings within the base, he may no longer be human and requires a lot of space. To the scans, he looks like a bulbous mass of flesh with no limbs. He’s 5 metres tall and 4 metres wide.
Lagantis: I guess we can rule out abducting him, then.
Rainhar: Hmmm… we could just… plop a portal under him.
You: Rainhar?
Rainhar: What? If he’s huge and immobile… we could just drop him into HQ. No risk!
You: We don’t even know what he looks like. He could be some kind of blob that spews out acid or mind-controls people. He could be in Dominator Form.
Lagantis: Regardless of what he is, we now know the layout and troop numbers. Does the laboratory contain any hidden monsters?
Feathers: No, general, but there is something else.
Lagantis: What is it?
Feathers: The laboratory is completely electrified. There is also a gatling gun stored inside it, attached to the antennas outside.
Francoise: Our best guess is that it’s an anti-Darangium point-defense system. There are hidden hatches on the first floor and the roof directly above the gatling gun.
Rainhar: So their plan is to just shoot the shell as it comes down from orbit?
Francoise: It’s fairly simple and crude, but if even one of the gatling gun’s bullets hits, it would be enough to protect the base from a direct hit. The antennas may be tuned in to detect the specific radiation coming off of the shell. Scans indicate no living operator, so it must be fully-automated.
Feathers: We have also confirmed the location of the Red Note. Fire or simply tearing the red piece of paper should be enough to kill the Radio Entity.
Okay. Veriso is some kind of giant creature. There is a gatling cannon that can shoot down the Enderfist’s artillery. We also know for sure where the Red Note’s physical body is. What’s our play here?
- Take out the gatling gun first, then begin the assault in earnest by opening a portal just outside the base.
- Destroy the gatling gun, then threaten the enemy with an Enderfist strike.
- Destroy the Red Note first.
- Open a portal into Veriso’s bedroom and kill him.
- Open a portal into Veriso’s bedroom and abduct him.
- Destroy the Phasemaker.
- Something else!
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