-As you arrive you get to peer down into a rocky valley. On the valley floor appears to be a small prefabricated colonial base with a few more spaceman soldiers in it, situated directly next to a small bucketwheel excavator. They're currently exchanging fire with what appears to be a few more of those robot soldiers from earlier - two of them are sitting on a ridgeline further down the valley firing machineguns at the base, while another four have taken cover behind some conveniently placed rocks and are closing in-
-The spacemen aren't getting many shots off - every time they lean out one of the machine guns tracks directly for them-
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"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."-Well, Gespenst, your shuriken flies straight and true. It's a bit of a long ways off, but you nail the shot and watch as the machinegunner falls over-
-The gunfire stops for a moment, then the machinegunner - as well as eight more regular robot soldiers, all of whom have apparently just come up from behind the ridgeline - focus fire on you and your friends-
-So, the downside to this is that now you and everyone else with you are being shot at. And these guys actually seem accurate; they're still dialing in their weapons, but those bullets are hitting awfully close. The upside, however, is that now the spacemen in the base down there are able to fight the robosoldiers encroaching on them on about equal terms-
-Ironscales, those machine gun nests are quite a ways away. Your run gets you started covering the distance, but you're being shot at by a lot of people right now-
-Rostam, right now it's pretty high unless you get your ass in gear-
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"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."-Here's a map of the area
◊ to help yourselves orient-
-Everyone running into the valley starts running into some rather conveniently placed rocks that let them seek temporary cover from gunshots if things get too hairy-
-Lovisia, they're pretty far down in the valley from where you are. Certainly not impossible to reach with a good run, but they're quite a distance away from you, and also they're now all angry and firing like a swarm of bees with machineguns-
-Rostam, it's pretty clear given how many are flying at you that you won't be able to cut every bullet coming your way in half. But so long as you play your cards right and use the rocks well, you can slice apart most of the ammo coming at you, which helps increase your odds of survival-
-Ironscales, right now the valley is large enough that you can't really stay away from it. You're already in it. Fortunately those rocks you're now in do wonders for breaking line of sight and a lot of ammunition doesn't hit you as the machinegunner needs to recalibrate every time it sees you
-Quartz, as you glide down you get shot at, but mostly by the soldiers near the lone remaining machinegunner, and not your actual targets. Still, you might want to roll Dexterity to avoid being poked full of holes and letting the ouch juice leak out-
-Lisa, your ninja skills mean that, combined with the rocky cover you start to advance into, you are protected from gunshots as you move forwards
- Albert , roll Small Arms to see how effective you are at sniping today. They're far enough off you need to put some actual effort into this... and also, you should probably move towards cover or you're going to run out of Biostorage space with all the bullets flying at you-
"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."-Rostam weaves in and out of the rocks in his path, like a drunk snake. He recognizes the sheer volume would make taking out these projectiles impossible when he can only barely see them, so he takes to hiding behind rocks and moving whenever there's a lull in the amount of lead flying through the air-
-As for avoiding the bullets themselves, somehow he's able to move that hunk of steel and deflect the bullets in a manner that suggests something is helping him to move this fast-
We Are Our Avatars Forever (Now on Discord by invitation, PM)-Rostam, the robots don't seem to notice your supernatural assistance as you arrive at the base. They just keep shooting like idiots, figuring that eventually they'll apply enough bullets to solve the problem-
-Ao, you too manage to make it to the base. By hiding behind everyone bigger than you are and intelligently using cover you're able to keep up with everyone else and make it to the outpost-
- Albert , who do you wish to target? There's the machinegunner, and also the eight regular soldiers. Your hunting rifle can only shoot one bullet per bullet, though, so you should probably make your choices pretty quickly-
-Lemmett, these robots seem easily bamboozled. Your clones take them on a ruse cruise as they are filled with bullets as soon as they appear, which has the beneficial side effect of drawing attention away from the rest of your buddies-
-Guy, you take cover. You can hear bullets zing as they ricochet off of the rock, but the rock's thick and sturdy enough that you aren't likely to get shot in the face during this encounter-
-Gespenst, your beam cannon manages to take out two of the robot soldiers on the ridgeline ahead before the rest of them and the machinegunner scatter to avoid being vaporized. Which means that immediately following this, everyone stops getting shot at! Nice work!-
-Quartz, you take a few bullets as you glide in behind the soldiers attacking the base, but it's nothing your shield can't keep you safe from as you land-
-Ironscales also manages to make it to the base-
-Lovisia, your suppression only makes the bots seek cover even harder as you brazenly run towards the base. You're not quite there yet, but you will be soon given your blatant disregard for hiding-
-The base itself is another dusty prefab like at No Refunds. There's a few buildings here, and the tiny bucketwheel excavator is off to the side. A cursory glance at the side of the base reveals that the excavator has been experimentally digging into the sides of the valley, but of course, it's not on and appears abandoned in light of the current situation-
-There's four or five spacemen at the farthest wall of the base, trading fire with the robot soldiers that Quartz is now behind. The spacemen are doing a pretty good job, too, because with a spark one of the robosoldiers falls over. Two of the spacemen are off to the side of the firing line; one of them is slumped against the wall and pretty obviously bleeding, and the other one is frantically treating the wounded man. Lying next to the two is an impressively large beige gun, that looks almost impractically huge-
"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."

-Well, as the two of you leave the forest, you can hear the rattle of machinegun fire in the distance-
-As well as anyone else who has deigned to follow either Rostam or Gespenst as they leave-
-You're probably on the right track-
"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."