Personnel assigned:
- Lieutenant Myst Rose
- Lieutenant Princeps Augustus
- Ensign Arilou
- Ensign dmboogie
- Ensign nos
- Ensign Jacques Cousteau
- Ensign x2wolf
- Ensign Siegfried Farnan
- Seaman Parson Gotti
- Seaman Sophie Aldred
- SWS - Coelecanth/Gas Cannon
Yana: All right, people, this will likely be our toughest mission to date. We're here to send Echo a message. You all know what that message is, right?
Princeps: Let me guess - "Mess with the best, die like the rest?"
Yana: . . . Yeah, that works. Let's roll!
(WHIRR WHIRR WHIRR)
Yana: Echo sighted at the entrance. Taking the shot.
(PSSHEW-KAWHANG)
Aquatoid: EEEOW!
Yana: Echo down.
◊
(CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK)
Myst: Clear to the south, except for some kind of pylons.
(WHIRR WHIRR WHIRR WHIRR WHIRR)
Yana: Well, you're new.
◊ Best you die, though.
(PSSHEW-KAWHANG)
(FZZT-CRACKLE)
(BLOOP)
(CRUMP-CRACKLE-FZZ)
Yana: My tank! You blew up my tank! I'm gonna-*FZZZT*
Princeps: Well, so much for the heavy fire support . . . Okay, people, change of plans! Circle around the back of the sub and make for the entrance!
Cousteau: Speaking of ze entrance, Echo is at it.
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Echo: WHISTLE.
dmboogie: . . . what kind of alien whistles when it dies?
Cousteau: I am sure I do not know.
(VWOINK-BZBZBZ)
(VWOINK-BZBZBZ)
Cousteau: No, no, you cannot make me keel my friends!
Princeps: . . . well, shit.
(CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK)
dmboogie: Got a bunch of Echos in here. Hey, Arilou, help me thin the herd?
Arilou: Sure thing.
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Echo: . . .
Arilou: Downed a whistler.
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Aquatoid: EEEOW!
Arilou: Aquatoid, Boogie?
dmboogie: You bet'cha. And another whistler in this room here.
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Echo: . . .
(CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH)
nos: Hey, whatever took out the Coelecanth also blew a hole in the colony.
◊ I think we should take advantage of that.
(CRUNCH CRUNCH)
nos: What the . . . shit, we got something here that looks like a floating brain with tentacles. Sophie, take it out!
Aldred: You got it, nos.
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Tentaculat: SPLORP.
nos: Nice shooting!
(CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH)
Myst: Got an Echo other side of the colony. Taking the shot.
Princeps: I'm with you, Myst.
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Echo: WHISTLE.
(CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH)
(WHIRR-CLUNK)
Arilou: Whoashit! Boogie, I need backup!
dmboogie: On my way!
(CLUMP CLUMP CLUMP)
(WHIRR-CLUNK)
(PSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Echo: WHISTLE.
dmboogie: One down!
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Echo: WHISTLE.
Arilou: And that's number two.
(SHLERK SHLERK SHLERK)
Myst: What the hell is THAT?!
◊
Princeps: You're asking me?
Arilou: What's what?
(CLUMP CLUMP CLUMP)
(WHIRR-CLUNK)
Arilou: Oh, that. I know what it is.
Myst: Care to enlighten us, then?
Arilou: It's something that's going to be dead in a minute.
Myst: Heh, might as well give it a shot.
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Hallucinoid: . . .
Arilou: Well, it's down.
(CLUMP CLUMP CLUMP)
x2wolf: Hey, nos, got a whistler down this hallway.
nos: I see 'im. Taking the shot.
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Echo: WHISTLE.
(VWOINK-BZBZBZ)
Cousteau: No, no, no, no!
Gotti: And there he goes, running like a panicked baboon.
(CLUMP CLUMP CLUMP CLUMP)
x2wolf: What the . . . some Eek abandoned its weapon over here.
(CLUMP CLUMP CLUMP)
nos: Surprise, Echo!
◊
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Aquatoid: EEEOW!
x2wolf: Okay, I'm heading into the central room.
(WHIRR-CLUNK)
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
x2wolf: Ow, shit! My arm! Have some focused ultrasonics, you bastards!
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Tentaculat: SPLORP.
x2wolf: . . . not the guy I was aiming for, but what the hell. PRINCEPS!
(CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK)
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Tentaculat: SPLORP.
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Tentaculat: SPLORP.
nos: I'm right behind you!
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Echo: WHISTLE.
nos: There's another pair up on the balcony!
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Echo: WHISTLE.
x2wolf: FIRE IN THE HOLE!
(WHSS-THUD)
(WHABOOM)
Echo: . . .
Princeps: Okay, people, into the lift! Move, move, move!
(CLUMP CLUMP CLUMP CLUMP CLUMP CLUMP CLUMP)
Princeps: . . . x2wolf, you coming?
x2wolf: I'm hurt pretty bad, Princeps. I don't think I'd do you much good down there.
Princeps: I understand. We'll be back for you.
