Brotherhood of the Machine (OOC Thread) {03}

[Azlan]

In front of the construction site, a small handful of zealots were standing guard and a few were patrolling the area.  One of the guards men suddenly peers out into the distance.
"Hey, did you see something move?" He asked.
"I didn't see nothin'." One of the others asked.
"I swear I saw something moving out there." The first one said.
"Then send the patrol out there if you're so worried about it." Another said.
The guard flagged down the patrolling guards and motioned them to go towards the area where he thought he saw movement.  The patrolling guards started heading to the clearing.

Is this coming towards Morgan's group?

[Tapewolf]

That was my assumption, since I didn't think the other group was in motion quite yet.  Just in case, I've tried to make my post fairly ambiguous in that regard.

[Ryudo Lee]

No, Exo's group.

[Azlan]

No, Exo's group.

O rly?

Gud

[techmaster-glitch]

I R teh return'd!

[techmaster-glitch]

Uh, Prof? A few things of note: one, Jexx's plasma doesn't explode, it just melts things; and two, while they do make some light, it isn't near enough light to reveal Jathon's position even though he's been seen anyway, it's only leading back to Jexx in the trees. That was the whole point of distracting the guards so Jathon and Mitchell can get back to Exo and the assault can begin in earnest.

While we'll have to wait for Ryudo now, I don't think an edit to keep things on track will be unwarranted. But that's just my suggestion.

[Prof B Hunnydew]

Sorry
Plasma cannon, I envisioned, would by like a flash lightening,  Beside you did them in sight of me, or almost in sight of me and the Private.  A flash of light, at the right time would give them a barring of me at least.  Well I will edit to reflect this.

  I'm also sorry, because I was working 60 hours last week and I had only had the web access for a few moments, I could only read the thread patches .  I should be better this week..

PBH

[techmaster-glitch]

No, Jexx's cannons just shoot balls of really really hot stuff. As for Jathon running off, there's not much we can do about that seeing as Arcalane's already posted, but oh well. It'll work out the way it works out.

EDIT: A cookie for whoever knows where Jexx's 'military' quote came from

[Azlan]

Plasma cannons tends to be impact weapons of all things... that and burny.


I'll have a response for the stealth team by Monday evening at the latest... things are a bit busy for me.   

[Tapewolf]

I had a quick check through the equipment handouts and it doesn't look like they were issued knives except on request.  Dorcan's response is to try and break the guy's neck.  If we decide they were issues knives as standard, let me know and I'll revise it.

[Azlan]

I had a quick check through the equipment handouts and it doesn't look like they were issued knives except on request.  Dorcan's response is to try and break the guy's neck.  If we decide they were issues knives as standard, let me know and I'll revise it.

I didn't think about it, as he would take it for granted... after all, Morgan diamond coats his small asian styled swords.


edit: I also will change my post if the guys that circled around first run into trouble.

[Ryudo Lee]

That worked out well.  Morgan and Dorcan seem to work well together.

[Azlan]

I really hate going in the front, but all my observations of the tower, from Ryudo, seem to have been rather general or not addressed.

I assume there is no rear entrance as the guys who checked around back were not spoken on by Ryudo.  Additionally, I think scaling the tower would be too easily spotted... though if anyone has an opinion on that or a better way to gain ingress it would be good to hear it, I can redirect in my next RP post.

edit: ah, interesting... I used egress instead of ingress, probably because I am stoopid... 

[Tapewolf]

What's the tower itself look like?  Does it have windows, for example?  I imagine if it did that they would be reinforced glass or barred, but in the latter case the bars might not have been installed.  That might provide some means of ingress.  OTOH if I was designing something like this I'd put the windows high up, which brings us back to scaling the tower.

There are other interesting ideas as well, though (which we haven't really prepared for, mind) like the air-conditioning or whatever they use for ventilating the building - especially if it has no windows.
Pity I didn't think of that at the equipping stage.  Releasing some kind of gas into said air system may have had fun results, though it would cause problems for most of the characters on the team, needing to breathe and all.

[Ryudo Lee]

Sorry, I missed the whole thing where people were checking out the tower.  Inattentiveness on my part.  The assumption is correct though, there won't be a rear entrance.  At least when it comes to their towers, the Brotherhood follows KIS (keep it simple), and so: one entrance, one exit.

As for the current state of the tower, it's only almost a third of the way built, so the group will find that only rudimentary infrastructure components are installed, as well as the computer systems they are supposed to hack.  Towers don't have windows, but this particular one hasn't had part of the wall completely built, and that's where the guards in the tower are shooting from.

As the group will learn when they infiltrate this tower, they get information about the outside world via several types of very sophisticated, cutting-edge surveillance equipment, some of it even Morgan hasn't seen before.  This tower in particular wouldn't have all the fancy stuff that a tower near a town will have, but the tower can be retrofitted.  Real super-future-spy stuff here, as well as being able to seamlessly tap into local phones and unencrypted/unprotected networks.  Information gathering is very important to the Brotherhood, as the group will learn when they examine the tower, and see what it's capable of doing.

[Tapewolf]

Amusingly enough my mental image of the towers was something a little like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Tower

[Arcalane]

I'll admit I was thinking more along the lines of a Necron Monolith in terms of style, only without the skulls, the huge gun emplacements and the giant crystal.

[techmaster-glitch]

My visualization is simply a basic medieval-shape tower, built out of black metal instead of stone with red Tron Lines, except I don't imagine them glowing so much, rather something along the lines of a paint job or decorative trim.

[Azlan]

I was thinking more along the lines of Tape's picture except with much less windows. 

[Tapewolf]

I was thinking more along the lines of Tape's picture except with much less windows. 

I've seen an anonymous building reputed to belong to the Royal Mint.  It was all black and glassy, with tinted windows which are probably reinforced to high heaven.  So my mental picture of the towers was a cross between that and a fortified version of the Telecom tower.  Particularly given the mental control broadcast theme of the previous mission.

[Azlan]

I hope to catch a nice picture of the BT tower in December, among other things.

I could see it as heavily tinted and super reinforced, advanced acrylics or something.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

I've seen an anonymous building reputed to belong to the Royal Mint.  It was all black and glassy, with tinted windows which are probably reinforced to high heaven.  So my mental picture of the towers was a cross between that and a fortified version of the Telecom tower.  Particularly given the mental control broadcast theme of the previous mission.

Seen the MI6 building in London? Very nice place, very posh.

... cameras on every single side of it. Multiple cameras. Oh, and the receptionist inside, apparently (someone else said they'd walked in there by mistake looking for directions) is behind thick bulletproof glass. Polite, but very very not saying anything, and watching you like a hawk...

he said he felt very uncomfortable...

[Ryudo Lee]

My visualization is simply a basic medieval-shape tower, built out of black metal instead of stone with red Tron Lines, except I don't imagine them glowing so much, rather something along the lines of a paint job or decorative trim.

This is close, just without the battlements, and some antennae on top.

[Azlan]

I'm leaning towards scaling the side wall, Dorcan has the grapple shot, so I'll be posting a direction to him to do it.

[Tapewolf]

I'm leaning towards scaling the side wall, Dorcan has the grapple shot, so I'll be posting a direction to him to do it.

So, in other words, we're going to climb up to the unfinished part of the tower and come in through the top?

[Azlan]

That's the idea, they should be expecting from ground level entrances... they probably won't be expecting us to come in from above and behind.

[Tapewolf]

Sounds good to me.

[techmaster-glitch]

By the way, just a clarification note...

Plasma cannons tends to be impact weapons of all things... that and burny.

Jexx's plasma weapons work more like regular Covenant plasma weapons from Halo, they pretty much only burn and melt and sting like a bastard. Impact, not so much. They are just bigger shots due to being light cannon sized.

That's why a single shot won't do much...but a stream of them will.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

I thought there were some guys up there.

I wonder how they'll cope with the grapple. Will they notice? Will Dorcan nail one of them through the chest? Or what...

[Tapewolf]

I wonder how they'll cope with the grapple. Will they notice? Will Dorcan nail one of them through the chest? Or what...

Dorcan's waiting on the goahead - my guess is that Morgan simply won't give it until they're gone.