CHAAARGE

No charging in. I would rather not fall a ludicrous number of feet because of bravado. By the looks of it, the enemy air ship's flight system is controlled by those blue crystals, yes? Those break and it loses power, correct? Does your air ship have a cannon of some sort? Because this may be important on our whole escape plan.

Simply put, that is a large ship, you are small. Not sure if you are quicker, but you could likely skim the edge of the floating ruins easily while they cannot get to close. Use that.

Use the various grooves, holes, debris and such as means to not only avoid getting hit, but also as short cuts or ways to avoid direct line of sight. Just make sure you keep moving and that you do NOT move in a straight line. It's harder for their guns to lock on you if you move erratically and that may be key to our survival.

If you make it back to your ship and they follow you AND you have a cannon, fire ONE shot at one of their crystals. Shouldn't sink them outright, but it might slow them down or possibly make controls a lot harder for them.

>>390669
Use the island itself as cover. Hide behind it, over the edge.

>>390708
you hit a spike for 100 yards? don't think so. hitting those things isn't exactly a cakewalk.

ANIMATED Sethrine 2012/03/06(Tue)16:06 No. 390772 ID: c460ad
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I take off for the bottom of the island. More cover there, and they might not spot me there.

Sethrine 2012/03/06(Tue)16:10 No. 390774 ID: c460ad
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*THUK*
Shit. Was that what I thought it was?

yes but they can't get a bead on you. have your friend get under the island below the clouds. then circle it a bit and drop.

stay under cover, maybe they'll move in to get you and that's when you jump onto the ship and, uh, bring a sword to the gunfight.

What is below the ruin, and how far down is it? If it is something like a cloud layer or trees, dropping downwards might be viable.

>>390774
Yep, they spotted you. We've got some sort of view window now but I can't quite make out what's on it just yet. You're gonna want a pickup from your buddy. Maybe you should like, try to make your way over to his cloud while keeping behind the island.

Sethrine 2012/03/06(Tue)17:20 No. 390834 ID: c460ad
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*THUK*
>>390782
But sure how much of a chance I'd stand against a ship full of heavily-armed pirates, but I've got nothing better right now.

>>390775
>>390789
Nobody knows what's under the clouds, only that nothing that goes below the them ever comes back up. I'm not going down there, and neither is Keira.

>>390802
>We've got some sort of view window now but I can't quite make out what's on it just yet.
Looks like the room with the model airship and the Junk-Crystal-Thing.

>Maybe you should like, try to make your way over to his cloud while keeping behind the island.
Might work if I'm fast enough. If I'm fast enough, and it's not too far between this island and that cloud Keira's hiding in.

I need to make a move quick. They're gonna find a way to flush me out sooner or later.

hmmm... i think we got the window for a REASON. let's wait a little be longer see if something moves into view of it.

>>390834
Oh, that's an actual window, then. Reviewing the history, it looks like that was there all along! I thought it was a painting, but it was an alternative exit. We probably should've used it. Drat. Well, you can just go back inside and wait for the pirates to come in to get you, then take them on in melee? It's either that or find the location of your ship to see if it's possible to get to it.

Hey, are you able to read the writings in the 'museum'? Maybe we can, if not... then we'd be able to tell you what the mysterious objects do.

Sethrine 2012/03/07(Wed)15:14 No. 390992 ID: c460ad
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I land inside.

"Seth, they're boarding the Ruin. Expect company in less than three minutes. Another one followed you by air."

>Hey, are you able to read the writings in the 'museum'? Maybe we can, if not... then we'd be able to tell you what the mysterious objects do.
Nope. Nobody can read it, that I know of anyway.

grab the model ship thign and drop it on the guy following you

>>390992
What weapons do you have? Also um, take a closer look at some writing, maybe hold us up to it so we can look at it. Maybe there's something here of use that we can activate.

what's with the blue spikes jutting out of your back?

>>391004
blue crystals are apparently a main component in flying machines.

Sethrine 2012/03/07(Wed)16:56 No. 391012 ID: c460ad
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I hold you to the plaque.
First Modern Multiple-Passenger Flying Machine
Built in 1123AI by Aurine M.D.
See projector for details

So we can read it. It says the little airship is a model of one of the first multi-passenger airships.

>>391012
It says:
First Modern Multiple-Passenger Flying Machine
Built in 1123AI by Aurine M.D.
See projector for details

if we can get the projector on it could be a great distraction. the projector is most likely the thing with the ring of crystals.

1/2 Sethrine 2012/03/07(Wed)18:33 No. 391049 ID: c460ad
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>>391014
>>391019
I'm sure the eggheads'll love that. Me?

2/2 Sethrine 2012/03/07(Wed)18:36 No. 391052 ID: c460ad
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I couldn't give two flying shits about that stuff.

PIRATE: "Well... Fuck."

wave bye sarcastically and if you can grab the crystals that popped off. having extra probably can't hurt. and if the projector can come off the stand it could be useful if re-rigged. have it set to project what looks like you and then people will think you are one place when you are actually somewhere else.

Ask your pilot if any of them are carrying weapons.

This one doesn't seem to have. Make sure he doesn't grab you or anything!

Flip him the bird

Sheesh, you think they would at least put a protective cage over those vital and easily breakable spines...

These guys are bound to have communicators, so they will be hearing your position from this guy shortly. You need to relocate, probably around the outside of the ruin. (Now that I think about it is there a chance they have something that can intercept the signal from your communicator?)

>>391093
maybe they need exposure to operate properly? basically they are ether exposed or don't do the floaty thing.

Sethrine 2012/03/08(Thu)14:03 No. 391208 ID: c460ad
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>>391055
"Bye."
PIRATE:"Bitch! She's got the Crystal, I repeat, the scavenger's got the Crystal! She's on the third floor down, near the window overlooking the west side!"

>if you can grab the crystals that popped off. having extra probably can't hurt.
Tough to go anywhere without trippin' over one. Besides, it'd put me in wing's reach of him. I'm sure he'd love to try to take me with him.

>and if the projector can come off the stand it could be useful if re-rigged. have it set to project what looks like you and then people will think you are one place when you are actually somewhere else.
What part of "nobody's ever turned one on" did you miss? I don't know if I, or, hell, even Keira can make it work. Besides, it's welded down.

>>391088
>Flip him the bird
Uh, what?

>>391075
Don't even need to ask Keira about that one. The guy I just doomed's got a sword. I'm sure the rest are armed. They're PIRATES for Gods' sakes!

>>391102
I'm not an expert or anything, but that's what Keira says about em'

I hear voices yelling down the stairwell. They sound pissed.

climb up.

again, tap us to the crystals on the projector.

actually just noticed, on the bottom of the projector stand is a hole.

Shit they're after us too. Why the fuck but don't answer that now. You have to keep us out of the pirate's hands at all costs! Can you just skim the lower cloud layer to make it look like you fell in? Even if you get to your ship unseen they'll just hunt around until they find it, while you're stuck hiding in a cloud. Man, this sucks.

Sethrine 2012/03/08(Thu)15:28 No. 391233 ID: c460ad
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I try putting you into the hole on the projector. I hear the machine whirr something in a language I can't understand.

"Ignition key accepted. Starting playback from last known point."

Sethrine 2012/03/08(Thu)15:30 No. 391236 ID: c460ad
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"...despite mocking from his colleagues and lack of funding, Dr. Aurine continued his reasearch into countergravity, finding..."

I pull you back out, there's no way I'm leaving you in that thing. I keeps going. The yelling from the stairwell is getting louder.

hide in the stuff on the ceiling. they will probably get distracted by the working projector and you can get the drop on them.

also it's the story of where your flying machines come from.

why not keep it running as a distraction? you could jump on 'em while they check us out.

>>391236
Are those curtains hanging from the ceiling? You could tangle everyone up in them.

Too bad we don't have time to rummage in the storage unit for some sort of weapon that we can turn on.

Sethrine 2012/03/08(Thu)18:27 No. 391275 ID: c460ad
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>>391243
>>391238
Already done.

>>391239
*Yawn*
Tell it to Keira when we get back. She might care.


Dog Pirate:"The hell is that thing?"

Bat Pirate:"Ah-ha, Ah-ha, so that's what those things do!"

Lizard Pirate:"Guys, Wer supposed to be lookin' for the scavenger, 'memeber? Somethin' ain't right here. She's suppos'd to be here."

Damn. Looks like they're armed to the teeth. Looks like that bat's got a crystal rifle too.

Looks like one with melee weapons who is under you and two others with ranged. If you drop on the lizard-man you could probably do away with him and get the one with the rifle due to the awkwardness of rifles in close quarters, but that would still leave the one with the crossbow...

Can you flight pack accelerate with enough force to let you quickly shove the sword guy (or his body) into the crossbow pirate?

does that crystal rifle have spikes sticking out the top? if so then yeah, ram lizard into dog, spin around and kick the rifle up so the guy spikes himself, keep momentum and sword next guy.

Or we could just stay up here until they check the other room.

Hmm. You could take out the one with the gun first, steal the gun, and use it to kill the other two. Or just take the one with the gun hostage.

If you do go for a quick end for the Lizard, be sure to use his body as a meat shield. Not sure how good the penetration power is, but having a body in the way is always a plus when dealing with twitchy gunners.

stab the rifleman dead and quickly put the burly guy between you and the crossbowman.

Sethrine 2012/03/15(Thu)16:34 No. 393086 ID: c460ad
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"...welding a standard catalyst crystal to a power crystal..."

>>391278
>Acceleration
The counter-grav pack doesn't push me anywhere. Only makes me near-weightless.

Expect less frequent updates. Classes started back up, so I've got less time to work on this.

If the anti-gravity field extends to things you are carrying you can probably use it to make the bat near-weightless so you can use him as a shield against the lizard's strike while taking cover behind the pedestal from the crossbow pirate.

throw dude at lizard. duck behind pedestal. crossbows only get one shot between loads. then rush them.