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Plumbum The Plum and Only from Chichester, United Kingdom Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
The Plum and Only
#2026: Aug 9th 2010 at 3:54:05 AM

"Tali, now!"

Tali hacks the mech nearest her.

Turns on it's master for 12 seconds

Curse the ill fortune that led you to me.
Flanker66 Dreams of Revenge from 30,000 feet and climbing Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Dreams of Revenge
#2027: Aug 9th 2010 at 3:59:13 AM

GHOST team move into a side street to regroup.

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Strigon Planet-Killer Since: Jul, 2010
Planet-Killer
#2028: Aug 9th 2010 at 6:53:17 AM

-The Missile pack HACS spot the AC-130 attack the position where their allies have been killed and fire a pair of HEAT missiles at it-

HACS with railgun: *uses advanced IR imaging tech to find the apache and fires a 20mm tungsten slug at it at speeds of over mach 7*

HACS 2: *dodges the unusual attack and pelts the alien with bullets whilst running backwards*

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Plumbum The Plum and Only from Chichester, United Kingdom Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
The Plum and Only
#2029: Aug 9th 2010 at 7:02:57 AM

>Shepard's team retreats, meeting the GHOSTs along the way. He instructs his team to hold fire, but keep weapons ready.

"What are you doing here? This is my mission."

Curse the ill fortune that led you to me.
Strigon Planet-Killer Since: Jul, 2010
Planet-Killer
#2030: Aug 9th 2010 at 7:06:38 AM

-The surviving paratroopers, all bloodied and battered from the airstrike, attack the GHOSTs with grenades before rushing in, guns blazing determined to take the bastards with them-

edited 9th Aug '10 7:06:58 AM by Strigon

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Plumbum The Plum and Only from Chichester, United Kingdom Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
The Plum and Only
#2031: Aug 9th 2010 at 7:17:30 AM

Shepard and crew get to cover. Shepard has taken a bullet to the face, but it's a grazing blow. Garrus took a bullet to the stomach, but his armor held. Tali has also taken a bullet, and has bad suit punctures.

"Tali! Joker, get the Normandy here, Tali has suit punctures. Tell Grunt he's up."

Quarians have such weak immune systems, so if their enviromental suits are breached, they could be dead. The Normandy is Shepard's ship. Joker is the helmsman. Grunt is a krogan. Look on the Mass Effect wiki for the individual squadmates, as I can't type fast enough on the phone.

the Normandy hovers overhead and drops Grunt in on a winch. Tali is put on the winch and extracted.

Curse the ill fortune that led you to me.
Flanker66 Dreams of Revenge from 30,000 feet and climbing Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Dreams of Revenge
#2032: Aug 9th 2010 at 7:21:51 AM

The C-130U is at high altitude. So high in fact, that it would be more or less impossible to see, even with advanced optics.

The HEAT missile runs out of fuel before it ever gets anywhere near the C-130U, which bombards the robots' positions.

The Apache is somewhat damaged, but it keeps flying (tossing a flurry of bullets the robot's way before returning to pinning down Jensen). Eventually it dumps all of its remaining rockets into Jensen's position and hides behind a series of buildings...

Remember those sub-munitions that Tornado dispensed earlier...?

One of the robots promptly sets off a powerful anti-tank mine.


Mitchell freezes and the rest of his squad ready themselves to fight if necessary.

"I was sent here to get rid of terrorists... and then things rapidly spiralled out of control."

He sighed.

"Needless to say, those robots are trying to kill me and my squad."

Almost casually the GHOSTs get into cover... and an A-10 strafes the surviving paratroopers with deadly accuracy.

edited 9th Aug '10 7:22:46 AM by Flanker66

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Plumbum The Plum and Only from Chichester, United Kingdom Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
The Plum and Only
#2033: Aug 9th 2010 at 7:26:17 AM

Shepard shouts to the GHOSTS.

"I'm not your enemy."

Shepard rushes over to the GHOSTS.

"Look, you need to send your strike team to flank them on the right, we have to attack them face on. I don't know who you are, and I fully expect a bullet in the back, but we've got to clear these paratroopers and mechs."

edited 9th Aug '10 7:27:15 AM by Plumbum

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Strigon Planet-Killer Since: Jul, 2010
Planet-Killer
#2034: Aug 9th 2010 at 7:31:57 AM

Railgun HACS: *runs frighteningly fast to cover and fires a rocket grenade at the Apache*

-The missiles keep flying...-

-The unlucky HACS is killed-

-The transport squadron arrives, drops more HACS and one very large crate-

HACS 1: *leaps towards Hume and brings his chainsaw down on the sniper*

-The missile HACS fire a trio of flechette missiles at the A-10, the missiles explode into a hail of white-hot armor-piercing shards of steel once they've gotten close enough-

Jensen and Lt are dead.

-The bombers en route to Audrey AFB are attacked by a flight of F-4Es-

edited 9th Aug '10 7:34:34 AM by Strigon

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yarrunmace Ghosts' Poet from Seine Since: Jun, 2009
Ghosts' Poet
#2035: Aug 9th 2010 at 7:34:00 AM

-a buttload of news helicopters emerge from the skies-

Woah. Looks like the word got out. RUN AWAY!

-takes recording equipment; runs out of sight-

you'll then have a grave in the clouds where you won't lie too cramped
Strigon Planet-Killer Since: Jul, 2010
Planet-Killer
#2036: Aug 9th 2010 at 7:35:41 AM

HACS commander: *as soon as he drops to the ground, he preps his HEL mounted on the arm of his suit and destroys the choppers with one sweeping motion from his deadly weapon*

edited 9th Aug '10 7:41:17 AM by Strigon

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Plumbum The Plum and Only from Chichester, United Kingdom Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
The Plum and Only
#2037: Aug 9th 2010 at 7:36:39 AM

Look, I need someone to help me. Take this. You can use it to overload the mechs.

>Shepard hands Mitchell an Omni-tool set with Overload

Shepard sends Grunt into the fray with a Claymore shotgun. Grunt uses Fortification, Garrus and Shepard provide sniper cover.

What is your avatar's name?

Curse the ill fortune that led you to me.
Strigon Planet-Killer Since: Jul, 2010
Planet-Killer
#2038: Aug 9th 2010 at 7:39:09 AM

I don't have a razing storm avi so I'll just stick with Doctrine Dark

-3 of the HACS open fire on the group, keeping them down with withering suppressive fire whilst running like madmen to be harder to hit and one of the HACS, on the roof of a building, with some decked out comms gear, blocks the communications with high-intensity jamming waves-

edited 9th Aug '10 8:02:49 AM by Strigon

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Flanker66 Dreams of Revenge from 30,000 feet and climbing Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Dreams of Revenge
#2039: Aug 9th 2010 at 9:19:30 AM

Ah, sorry about that.

Incredibly, the A-10 keeps flying, and strafes the HACS.

Hume gets out of the way fairly quickly, and thus only has a minor wound. Mitchell takes the Omnitool, shrugs, and then plunges the Omnitool into the robot that attacked Hume. The GHOSTs start moving in a co-ordinated manner through the alleyways...


The C-130U simply bombards the crates with its heavy weapons, and the second A-10 drops an 1000 pound JDAM on one of them.

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Strigon Planet-Killer Since: Jul, 2010
Planet-Killer
#2040: Aug 9th 2010 at 9:25:57 AM

HACS: AGH! *sees his suit failing* DAMMIT!!!

-The HACS dodge but one is killed by the attack and his suit promptly explodes-

-The large crate unleashes a powerful spray of beams against the incoming munitions, for it was no crate... but a Kraken combat mech-

Kraken commander: Show these dogs the meaning of terror.

-The Kraken unleashes a powerful laser that vaporizes the A-10 and deploys it's tentacle like legs and fires a spray of laser shots at the AC-130 again-

-From the other crates, More HACS come out of them-

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Flanker66 Dreams of Revenge from 30,000 feet and climbing Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Dreams of Revenge
#2041: Aug 9th 2010 at 1:03:42 PM

The C-130U does not have to maneuver very much because of its extreme attitude.

Another group of A-10s fly in and drop Napalm B on the Kraken and the newly deployed HACS.

Release the KRAKEN!

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Plumbum The Plum and Only from Chichester, United Kingdom Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
The Plum and Only
#2042: Aug 10th 2010 at 3:31:23 AM

Joker, there's something raining napalm on the battlefield. Power up the Thanix and take it out!

Joker being the Normandy's helmsman and the Thanix Cannon being a gun that fires liquid metal at relitavistic speeds

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Flanker66 Dreams of Revenge from 30,000 feet and climbing Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Dreams of Revenge
#2043: Aug 10th 2010 at 4:55:55 AM

The GHOSTs out-flank the robots and pour fire and UGL grenades on them.

"Thanks for the distraction!" Ramirez was yelling above the noise of gunfire.

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Strigon Planet-Killer Since: Jul, 2010
Planet-Killer
#2044: Aug 10th 2010 at 6:36:27 AM

-The Kraken is struck but it's heavy armor holds and the HACS near the Kraken jump away from the blast zone and charge the GHOSTs while the out-flanked ones are hit but return the favor with their M G3s-

-The missiles suddenly change direction-

Missile HACS: *uses remote control to guide the missiles*

edited 10th Aug '10 6:37:18 AM by Strigon

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Plumbum The Plum and Only from Chichester, United Kingdom Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
The Plum and Only
#2045: Aug 10th 2010 at 8:30:38 AM

>Although the shot is angled down to hit the AC-130, it misses the battlefield entirely. The battlefield is strewn with bits of plane.

Good job, Joker.

Curse the ill fortune that led you to me.
Flanker66 Dreams of Revenge from 30,000 feet and climbing Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Dreams of Revenge
#2046: Aug 10th 2010 at 2:40:00 PM

The GHOSTs scramble back into cover while Mitchell calls General Keating.

"General Keating, I don't care what's going on; I need whatever you have, and I need it now."

"Mitchell, what the hell are you playing at?! We both know that we've only got limited resources for this operation, and my superiors are already breathing down my neck..."

The old man adjusts his tie.

"...however, we could try for a repeat performance of the airstrike on the missile silo."

"Hurry up, sir."

With that, the link is terminated.

edited 10th Aug '10 2:40:29 PM by Flanker66

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Strigon Planet-Killer Since: Jul, 2010
Planet-Killer
#2047: Aug 11th 2010 at 11:16:06 AM

-The comms gear HACS has heard the entire conversation and is on the lookout for anything unusual-

Must... continue Aurelian war...

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Flanker66 Dreams of Revenge from 30,000 feet and climbing Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
Dreams of Revenge
#2048: Aug 11th 2010 at 1:58:51 PM

It's a secure link.

Mitchell sighed and moved backward, keeping his eye (and gun) out for anything.

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Strigon Planet-Killer Since: Jul, 2010
Planet-Killer
#2049: Aug 12th 2010 at 6:20:01 AM

The special gear allowed him to hear it.

-The Kraken trains it's cannons on the GHOS Ts-

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Artemis92 Cogito Gratia Cogitan from contemplation Since: Dec, 2009
Cogito Gratia Cogitan
#2050: Aug 12th 2010 at 12:04:05 PM

^, ^^I'm reminded of just how similar this game is to a couple of seven-year-olds playing cops-and-robbers (or spacemen-and-cowboys, or what have you). The things we think we outgrow... smile

edited 12th Aug '10 12:04:29 PM by Artemis92

Ponders too much; thinks too little. Currently goes by Knowlessman.

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