Not with a Bang: Finale

[voidtreckermods]

It's been a strange few days, between trying to complete all of the tasks needed to stabilise the solar stations and keep the shield going, keep the pandas and armadillos away and fix robots whilst smashing other robots. That's not even counting the strange events that kept happening.

They might have heard the news from those who had found themselves on a small adventure of their own that there were potentially dangerous saboteurs on the planet and indeed once they were aware there were more signs, things moved, pandas far more frightened than they should have been, robots back in areas that had been cleared.

But no sign of the saboteurs themselves as the days go on. Until the evening of the twelfth day of Imagination, the sixth day of the mission.

Everyone's SCA alerts them to an exclamation mark, the Western Control Station, where red and blue had initially went to initialise shields. Clicking on the exclamation mark will show the message. Danger: Control Station unstable. Attempt stabilisation. Situation critical.

A few seconds later there is another exclamation mark, this time on a solar station about an hours walk to the south. A herd of Violet Pandas are loose in Solar station #13, clear the station and minimise damage.

And a few moments after that there is a third exclamation mark, right where they are in the camp. Robot activity approaching. Any red team members who check will see many red rots approaching their camp.

Control Station

For those that decide to tackle this one it is clear the moment they arrive that things are not as they should be. A tree has fallen, or been felled and though it seems the station is designed to withstand falling trees it makes getting into it difficult.

Every alarm is blaring, and indeed when they get inisde their own alarms on their SCA start to flash amber. It's dangerous in here!

Something they will quickly have learned anyways. It looks like someone pressed every button, flicked every switch. Every guage is showing too high, every warning light is flashing.

It's going to take some very quick fixing before this place overloads and explodes. Hopefully their work on the stations in the last few days has taught them enough that with some very quick and diligent work they should get the situation under control.

Solar Station #13

To the south in one of the solar stations a very different situation is unfolding. Those that arrive here will find pandas... everywhere. Somehow they have gotten into the station itself and are busy chewing on wires, exploring machines they really shouldn't be exploring. Some are trying to climb the solar tower and others are just lying on the monitors, seemingly enjoying the lights.

Luckily it seems less damage can be done to the solar stations than a control station, but still, there are alarms and flashing lights and far too many pandas. It will be some work to clear them all out.

Base Camp

It doesn't take long for the robots to arrive. There are a lot, some seem very patched together, as if someone had gone around scavenging parts and remaking them. Some are large terraforming machines, others the smaller security drones. Some are even the automatons that were used for maintenance, yet here they were being put to another purpose.

As they approach the permitted of the camp they stop and six human figures step forward. All are armed with large rifle type weapons and a tall woman speaks in a loud, clear voice.

"You are trespassing on our land. You will leave this place or you will die."

She casually waves the robots forward, they attack.

Comments

[blitzcheer]

It's B's call that brings him back over, only catching partially what Light says. The air noisy with the battle around them, the large, heaping machines of metal noisy with each move they make. But he catches on that he wants B to keep back, and decides then to move on the shield attached to his forearm, kneeling with his sword temporarily on the ground.

"Here, lemme give you this- it's small, but it's stronger than it looks, like you." Some extra shielding never hurt anyone, after all. "You use it to bash up and protect yourself, you got our magic too. Back up people. Cover them. You're good at it. We'll deal with those guys and make them regret messing with us."

He speaks firmly, sure- confident.

[knifewithnoname]

She's in the emptiness so the annoyance at being kept away from where she wants to be doesn't penentrate the bubble. But it is annoying and she wants to go.

But this is a priest and a priestess. Both giving her a task elsewhere, both telling her to back people up. Tidus was handing her a shield and she took it with a nod.

"I will be making sure you do no be being flanked by robots."

[enthunder]

"Good." Her voice reflects Tidus's confidence, her own almost warm approval still fairly terse. They're manipulating the kid, but... nothing new, there. She'll be better out of the path of the unexpected. And she's in that weird in-between state where Light isn't even sure if she's hearing them.

It'll have to do.

"We're counting on you. You've got this."