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Repost 5 May

SystemPattern: Have we had any success in tracing the Cataclys yet?

Grul sits silently

.Brax: I can't say I have...reallly.

Universe Entire: Yes, actually.

SystemPattern: Excellent. Perhaps we can finally get this situation resolved.

Universe Entire: Des and I tracked him to the War Zone, of all places. I have no doubt he's cackling with Mio even now.

SystemPattern: We shall see.

.Brax: The War Zone?

Universe Entire: Yeah.

Universe Entire looks at Brax apologetically

Cham Masabi: Yea, well, jone's on them when we smahs their teeth in.

Cham Masabi: jokes* too.

Grul seems to merge, unusually, with the shadows

.Brax Glances at his security card for a moment, then sighs between his manibles "I suppose it would have to be a location I am not ready for yet.."

SystemPattern: I am ready.

Grul watches

SystemPattern: Ah, Rei. You are here.

SystemPattern: The Universe says we have a trace on Cataclys, so we can settle this whole issue once and for all.

SystemPattern: And I, for one, hope to end this.

Master of Darkness: Very good.

Burnum: Good. Let's just get on with it. I'm sick of all this waiting.

.Brax: Hmm...

Mio Matsuda nods at SystemPattern.

Cham Masabi: ((I can drop too, if needed and just listen in on local/coa))

Mio Matsuda looks at SystemPattern, then turns to Universe Entire. "So you've got a line on this 'Cataclys', then? Where's he holed up?"

Universe Entire: The War Zone, of all places.

Universe Entire: With Mio, I shouldn't wonder.

Burnum grunts. "Appropriate."

Master of Darkness 's eyes narrow

Zoe Dexter listens

SystemPattern: Have you confirmed they are indeed cooperating, then?

.Brax twitches his antenne

Universe Entire: Not confirmed, no. But the probability is pretty high up there.

Mio Matsuda chuckles softly. "Well well. Isn't -that- convenient. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, though."

Burnum: Then there's no reason to wait. Let's go there and kill them both.

Grul listens silently

.Brax: What should we expect to find when we go to their location?

Universe Entire: Fortifications, troops, and scads of double-dealing.

SystemPattern: We should be ready for anything, I would imagine. I cannot expect they will not have defenses.

.Brax: And what of the Rikti I have heard that patrol the location?

Burnum: You all talk too much......I could be there already, you weak-spined creatures. We need no plans, we need nothingmore than their deaths!

Master of Darkness: Destroying a time-travelling demon is no easy matter.

Burnum: We will not -talk- it to death.

.Brax: No. It is not. And it explains a few things that I have noticed.

SystemPattern: We head there, we survey the site, we see if there is any weakness in their defenses that can be exploited, and then we strike as a group with superior force.

Master of Darkness: Such as, Brax?

Burnum: Bah.

Universe Entire: The Rikti shouldn't be a problem. Grul and his troops will run interference on that end while we take care of Mio and Cataclys.

Universe Entire turns to the duur sitting quietly by

.Brax: Nothing that would be as easy to explain beyond the physical strain of Dizzyness and physical weakness I experienced from time to time, other then that, it's not something I can out right describe in simple terms that you would understand.

Universe Entire: That is the plan, right?

Grul: yes. that is his plan.

Universe Entire nods

SystemPattern: If we all are properly armed, we should move and survey the site, then. Rei, can you perform reconnaisance at the site?

Burnum raises his head, a mask of anger. "FINALLY. I go my own way. Let them fire upon me and they will -see- what power is."

Universe Entire: Give 'em what for, Burnum.

Grul: you will go, and this doom will end.

Master of Darkness: You mayneed protection from the corrupting influences there.

.Brax Reaches inside the skull on his chest for a moment, then an audiable click is heard before his body becomes sheathed in armor

Burnum growls, bumping past people, not even listening to Master of Darkness. "Look for the destruction. You will find me there."

Universe Entire waves at Burnum's departing back

.Brax: I hope I was told true that this Armor should protect me from more temportal incidents...

Master of Darkness: Nevertheless, I will perform a ritual to help stave off the corrupting effects and channel it through Cham.

Zoe Dexter: Well, while you are out there I'm going to be setting up the SD base as a haven against that death-pulse thing.

Universe Entire: Thank you, Dex.

Grul watches

Mio Matsuda bares her teeth in a grin. "One step ahead of you," she says. "Thanks to our sorcerous friend here," she inclines her head at Master of Darkness, "I was able to do some reconnaissance of my own."

Master of Darkness nods and smiles

SystemPattern: What data do you have, then? I am impressed.

Master of Darkness wrinkles his nose a bit

Mio Matsuda: His scrying spell picked up a major concentration of G-cells in the War Zone, which gave me somewhere to start from. My bitch of a sister built herself a fortified base right under the Vanguard's noses, in a network of underground tunnels.

Universe Entire nods

Master of Darkness: Indeed.

SystemPattern: Do we have data on what fortifications are in place?

Cham Masabi in a seemingly half-trance recites unfamiliar words from a book labeled "Rituals for dummies."

Mio Matsuda: Once I knew where to look, it was easy to track her... thralls coming and going. They've been scavenging the area for weapons and hardware and carting them back to her little fortress. Expect them to be armed with Rikti military ordnance.

Universe Entire nods

Master of Darkness nods, too

.Brax: Very well.

SystemPattern nods. "Anything further? How many points of access are there? I don't want her to be able to escape as we come.

Universe Entire speaks

Mio Matsuda looks to Universe Entire.

Universe Entire: The fortress warrens are pretty extensive, but I'll map them out for you. It would've been remiss of me to not look around the place I tracked Cataclys to.

Universe Entire: Besides, if we get separated, it'll be better to have two people that know how to get around in there.

SystemPattern nods. "They may be extensive, but how many points of access are there?"

SystemPattern: If there are few enough, we can ensure it ends here.

Universe Entire traces a pattern of lines in the air.

SystemPattern: I do not want to launch an offensive just to let our targets escape.

.Brax: Perhaps we should seperate into two teams... one team would go take one enterence point, while the other would arrive in a different location..?

Grul is not armed at the moment.

Universe Entire: Five.

Universe Entire: Six, if they finish digging out this tunnel. But I can collapse that in a hurry.

Universe Entire points to an imaginary spot in midair

.Brax: And which points are expected to be hidden escape routes?

SystemPattern: How stable are these five, assuming, say, somebody left a few hundred grams of antimatter in their mouths?

Universe Entire: -- -hundred- grams? I wondered who'd been raiding my stores.

SystemPattern: If we can cut off alternate escape routes...

Universe Entire: Seriously, that'll bring them down like that.

SystemPattern: Good. Then we leave one open.

Universe Entire: Of course, that's if the tunnels I detected and Mio's fortress are one and the same.

Universe Entire: If they're not, your data will change.

SystemPattern: So we can clear and hold.

Mio Matsuda grins. "I can't argue with your thinking on that." She looks at SystemPattern. "I know where three of those are. Two are personnel elevators, while -this- one-" - she points - "is a concealed door to what looke like a hangar."

Universe Entire: --ah, good.

Universe Entire looks relieved.

.Brax: And yet I get the feeling there's a trap at the end of this situation...

Master of Darkness raises his eyebrows

Mio Matsuda: That's where they were moving some of the bigger stuff by night. Generators, heavy industrial stuff, from the looks of it.

Universe Entire nods

Universe Entire: That jives with what I felt.

Universe Entire: And yes, of course there's a trap.

.Brax: Honestly, it seems too convienant that we would be given information that could trap our enemy in their lair.

SystemPattern: I think, perhaps, collapsing the elevator shafts and forcing entry via the hangar may be the best plan.

Universe Entire: ((eep.))

Universe Entire: They didn't exactly give it to us, Brax.

.Brax: Are you entirely sure it wasn't given to us..?

SystemPattern: What are the remaining two access points, then, Universe?

Master of Darkness raises and eyebrow and slowly turns towards Brax

Universe Entire: ... er ... tunnels dug to the surface.

.Brax: Something about this feels wrong... And feels like we are playing into enemy hands.

Master of Darkness: This is true.

Grul laughs quietly

Universe Entire: Something we should know, Son of Kas?

Grul: a trap. yes.

Grul: you will see.

Master of Darkness nods. "In deeed."

Universe Entire: I expect so, Keeper.

SystemPattern: In any event, I will assault the access points which are to be collapsed, providing a distraction for the rest of you. If I am able, I will rendezvous with the rest of you inside the base.

.Brax: I guess the only way to deal with the trap.. is to either avoid it... orwalk into it, Spring it, and hope we survive long enough to finish the job started.

SystemPattern: I have a launcher for the charges prepared.

Universe Entire: We'll try for the former but plan for the latter.

SystemPattern: I would suggest that you force entry as soon as the first charge goes off; the confusion may buy you time.

Universe Entire nods to System

Mio Matsuda looks at Brax. "Oh, the situation stinks to high heaven, Grasshopper," she says, with a sardonic twist to her lips. "She out and out dared us to come find her, which means she's planning to crush us like bugs once we get there. No offense."

Mio Matsuda: But I agree. I think there's more to you guys than she bargained for.

.Brax turns his head towards Mio for a moment "None Taken. And Let us hope I am wrong in more ways then I have yet mentioned.."

SystemPattern: Rei, I apologise that I cannot join the main assault team at first. I will rejoin you if possible.

Universe Entire: Well, if she thinks we're going to be easy to brush off, she's got another think coming.

SystemPattern: I believe, however, that ensuring your sister has no escape route and providing a distraction is essential to ensure we do not fail.

Mio Matsuda: It's not a problem. Keep safe out there. We'll try to save a piece or two for you.

SystemPattern: If I can have coordinates, Universe?

.Brax: How guarded is the Tunnel you plan to attack, System?

SystemPattern: Not guarded enough.

.Brax: Might I make a suggestion?

Universe Entire nods to Brax

.Brax: If you have a choice between the Heaviest guarded, and the Lightest guarded.. Which is the most obvious selection?

Universe Entire traces the pattern of lines in the air, feeding the tunnel layout into System's imaging recorder

SystemPattern: The lightest. But, again, I believe you should head through the hangar, which is not likely to be the access route Mio expects.

.Brax: Then if the Lightest is the most Obvious.. I suggest the Heaviest most fortified. Only because it would be a larger distraction, and it would also draw more resources from the other areas to even further thin the enemy.

SystemPattern: I believe you should assault the hangar, because it is the least likely for me to be able to block properly.

Mio Matsuda: There's one other thing.

Universe Entire looks at Rei

Zoe Dexter: What is it?

Mio Matsuda looks at everyone. "My fa-" She stumbles briefly, her pale cheeks pinking, then continues. "The Operative asked me to remind you all that Mio's heavily force-shielded. According to him, she can't generate the kind of power necessary to maintain ->

Mio Matsuda: that shield internally. He told me to tell you that there should be a broadcast power system providing her with the power she needs. Since the effective transmission range of an installation like that is limited, odds are it's somewhere within her ->

Mio Matsuda: stronghold.

Universe Entire: Definitely a critical target, obviously.

Mio Matsuda nods at Universe Entire. "We've got to take those out right before we hit her. Or at the same time, either or. Whatever we do, we can't give her time to get that shield back up."

Master of Darkness: Very well.

.Brax: Eliminating it during the fight would be more useful, as it might also make her cocky if she believes she's going to be able to protect her self during the fight.

Universe Entire: That'll take some awfully fine timing.

Universe Entire: Fortunately, my brother is on the job.

.Brax: Yes. It would.

Mio Matsuda nods at Brax. "Good point." She grins lopsidedly at SystemPattern. "Got a couple of grams of antimatter I can borrow?"

Universe Entire shakes his head slowly in bemusement

SystemPattern: I can divert some, yes. I've been setting aside fuel recently for demolitions work.

.Brax: Now.. If I may.. if there is nothing more we need to worry about.. perhaps we should allow Burnum's side of the plan to begin...

Mio Matsuda arches an eyebrow at Universe Entire. "I'd love nothing better than to behead the bitch personally, but I've probably got the best chance of finding the generator room and getting in there undetected. You guys know your stuff, but you're not exactly

Mio Matsuda: ...subtle."

Mio Matsuda looks pointedly at Burnum.

Universe Entire: We'll see how it goes. You might get your chance yet.

Master of Darkness cocks an eyebrow, "True."

Destiny Blinks timeshifts in

Universe Entire: Right, Des?

SystemPattern: I am ready to deploy at any time.

Zoe Dexter: Ok. Good luck in there. I'll go make sure the base is ready just in case.

Master of Darkness nods in acknowledgememt to Destiny Blinks

Burnum gives Rei a look. "I have your magnamimous permission to go?" he snorts, clearly contemptous of all this.

Destiny Blinks nods

Mio Matsuda: Heh, knock yourself out, Conan.

Mio Matsuda: Well, not literally.

SystemPattern: Is there anything further, or shall I deploy?

Burnum just grins slyly. "Don't worry. My previous compassion won't hinder me now." And with that, he stalks past everyone to leave.

.Brax as Burnum Walks by, he says "I'd wish you luck, but I know your part in this won't require such things.

Burnum lets the length of chain unravel into a length that clatters noisily behind him.

SystemPattern: Again, I suggest the assault team move in after the first blast.

Grul eyes Des

Fun with Hellgate

From this ... to this

Burnum in Tyrant's lair

At the entrance

Psyching up for the fight

Burnum and a rescued Statesman

Costume specs and scales

Falgo

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Dhari

Magic Tanker Stone Armor/Stone Melee Scales

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