Personnel deployed to combat zone:
- Commander Kwas
- Lieutenant Princeps Augustus
- Lieutenant Myst Rose
- Ensign Guido Talbot
- Ensign Siegfried Farnan
- Ensign nos
- Ensign dmboogie
- Ensign Jacques Cousteau
- Able Seaman Sophie Aldred
- Seaman Virgil Griffiths
- Seaman Arilou
- Seaman Parson Gotti
Yana (via remote link): All right, people - Kwas will be overseeing this mission. Remember, standard sweep: five by five, top to bottom. Standing orders are to neutralize all Echo forces, then head belowdecks. Understood?
Kwas: Yessir. Aldred, you're with me. Princeps, Myst, you two take four people each. Princeps, you take the passenger section; Myst, you head for the bridge. Move out, people!
(CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK)
Myst: Echo on the upper deck!
Aldred: I see it. Taking the shot.
(THUPP-CRACKLE)
Gill Man: HURGH . . .
Aldred: Echo down.
(THUD THUD THUD)
(WHUMPH WHUMPH WHUMPH)
Gill Men (offscreen): HURGH . . .
Princeps: Hah, Echo's shitting himself today. Already he's making with the grenades, and he's not even throwing them in the right directions!
dmboogie: Well, we do have one small problem. Those grenades threw up a hell of a lot of smoke here in the passenger section.
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Princeps: . . . Point.
(CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK)
Princeps: Wow, they blew up the galley REAL good.
(CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK)
Myst: Hello, Echo.
(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Gill Man: HURGH . . .
Myst: Goodbye, Echo.
(CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK)
Princeps: Got two Echos outside the galley entrance.
(THUPP-CRACKLE)
Gill Man: HURGH . . .
Princeps: That's one.
(KZAAASH)
Gill Man: . . .
Princeps: And that's two.
(CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK)
nos: Got an Eek down this hallway.
dmboogie: I got'cha covered, nos.
(THUPP-CRACKLE)
Deep One: GURHURGLE.
nos: Got 'im.
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(CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK)
Talbot: Myst! BEHIND YOU!
(THUPP-CRACKLE)
Myst: Wha-?!
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(KSSHOW-CRACKLE)
Gill Man: HURGH . . .
(WHSS-THUD)
(WHUMPH)
Gill Man: HURGH . . .
Cousteau: That Eek, 'e blew 'imself up. What an eediot.
Myst: He was gunning for you, Jacques.
Cousteau: I know. But 'e obviously failed, oui? I believe the phrase is, "'E dropped ze ball."
Myst: *groan* And I thought Talbot's jokes were bad!
(CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK)
Talbot: Farnan, Echo outside the bridge!
(CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK)
(THUPP-CRACKLE)
Deep One: GURHURGLE.
Farnan: Not anymore, old chap!
Yana: The Alhazred's captain reports that was the last Echo topside. Kwas, take the team below - search and destroy!
Kwas: With pleasure, sir!
