More fricking spiders!
Feb. 15th, 2003 12:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothToday was Chris' Friday Shadake game. The party accepted a mission on the 'or else we'll kill you' payment plan, but mostly because they had nothing better to do. Then, spiders.
Stupid spiders!
Drusilla offered us a job -- sneak into this huge federal government military ship pretending to be techs, install a backdoor patch, and somehow get out again without being killed despite the diversionary attack that would be staged to 'help' us. The job would pay well -- in addition to 'a lot of money' (although she refused to be specific), we would also not be targetted by assassins.
Like, whatever. Are there any assassins in the universe who aren't already after us?
Apparently, she'd been planning to pull the mission on her own 'till she was attacked and all her stuff got blown up. Apparently, only a small group of soldiers had twigged to the operation, and apparently they'd been the ones who attacked us, and apparently she was 'sure' the ones we'd let live wouldn't know anything, so apparently this *wouldn't* be a massive exercise in futility.
Whatever. All I know is that they're planning to have me dress up as a tech so that I can be muscle if something goes wrong. Like, say, the extremely paranoid military guards and guardian AIs noticing that one of the techs was a fricking otter pirate. Dru gave me one of those special coded N.A.M.E.s and entered it into their records, so everything would check out there at least, but I still think it'd go smoother if they left me behind.
I've never had the chance to fight real military, though -- like I said before, the guys we fought to rescue Dru were just 'special ops' -- so I didn't bring up how stupid this was. If something goes wrong, we even have permission to try to steal one of their Death Boats!
So, we prepared and made up uniforms and stuff, but then we had to go pick up this part from a warehouse that we'd need to install as cover for the patch install. I wasn't really paying attention, but somehow the warehouse turned out to actually be a whole swarm of those stupid spiders that attacked us before at the spaceport!
Six swarms, actually. They were tougher this time, and smarter, but with three of us pounding them with psi, and Blue opening up with his lasers after he finally got airborne, we eventually made them go insane and blow themselves up. No one was even seriously hurt, except for Ran, who tried to hide from them in a little metal shed. Great move, brave ninja. Lock yourself in a tiny room so that the spiders can surround you and chew through the walls.
He'll probably be okay, though.
And we got the stupid part, so we can go ahead with the stupid plan.
At least this will probably keep us from ever going anywhere near Earth ever.
last week next week
Afterwards, Lazar put a spell on me that was supposed to either make me more creative or give me brain cancer, and we talked about video games a lot.
Stupid spiders!
Drusilla offered us a job -- sneak into this huge federal government military ship pretending to be techs, install a backdoor patch, and somehow get out again without being killed despite the diversionary attack that would be staged to 'help' us. The job would pay well -- in addition to 'a lot of money' (although she refused to be specific), we would also not be targetted by assassins.
Like, whatever. Are there any assassins in the universe who aren't already after us?
Apparently, she'd been planning to pull the mission on her own 'till she was attacked and all her stuff got blown up. Apparently, only a small group of soldiers had twigged to the operation, and apparently they'd been the ones who attacked us, and apparently she was 'sure' the ones we'd let live wouldn't know anything, so apparently this *wouldn't* be a massive exercise in futility.
Whatever. All I know is that they're planning to have me dress up as a tech so that I can be muscle if something goes wrong. Like, say, the extremely paranoid military guards and guardian AIs noticing that one of the techs was a fricking otter pirate. Dru gave me one of those special coded N.A.M.E.s and entered it into their records, so everything would check out there at least, but I still think it'd go smoother if they left me behind.
I've never had the chance to fight real military, though -- like I said before, the guys we fought to rescue Dru were just 'special ops' -- so I didn't bring up how stupid this was. If something goes wrong, we even have permission to try to steal one of their Death Boats!
So, we prepared and made up uniforms and stuff, but then we had to go pick up this part from a warehouse that we'd need to install as cover for the patch install. I wasn't really paying attention, but somehow the warehouse turned out to actually be a whole swarm of those stupid spiders that attacked us before at the spaceport!
Six swarms, actually. They were tougher this time, and smarter, but with three of us pounding them with psi, and Blue opening up with his lasers after he finally got airborne, we eventually made them go insane and blow themselves up. No one was even seriously hurt, except for Ran, who tried to hide from them in a little metal shed. Great move, brave ninja. Lock yourself in a tiny room so that the spiders can surround you and chew through the walls.
He'll probably be okay, though.
And we got the stupid part, so we can go ahead with the stupid plan.
At least this will probably keep us from ever going anywhere near Earth ever.
last week next week
Afterwards, Lazar put a spell on me that was supposed to either make me more creative or give me brain cancer, and we talked about video games a lot.
