Log file opened at: 2/25/01 10:33:27 PM Marie wanders in. "Hello everyone." *** Arsenal is now known as Asineth Tessa: Hi! Asineth: hey, kids Marie: "Hello, Asineth." Tessa: *fiddles with something dangerously looking* Marie: "And Tessa." Tessa waves without looking up Asineth relaxes against her GB, almost bored. Marie pecks at a pocket computer as she sits on her GB's foot, idly glad that the sun isn't out. Tessa whistles and looks around for 'roid. Tessa: "That's funny..." Marie looks up. "What's that?" Tessa: "Where'd he get off to?" Tessa hops up and goes 'cathunting Asineth: "He'll be back." Asineth cleans her boom gun's barrel. Tessa: "I sure hope he's not getting into anything..." Tessa: "É, oh wait." Tessa: "Of _course_ he's getting into something." Marie goes back to the mini-PC, works for another few minutes and then shuts the thing off. "So what the heck is there to *do* out in the middle of nowhere?" Asineth: "Well, the last time I was in the middle of nowhere, I was headed someplace." Tessa: "Hunt small helpless critters just to see how far a radius you can spread the gore over?" Tessa: so she's a tad of a bloodyminded cute little tyke... Asineth: "Nah, I'm waiting for that next Skull Walker or Abolisher." Marie glances over at Tessa. "That's just sick." Tessa: "Thanks!" she grins happily at Marie. Asineth pulls out the saki. "Drink, anyone?" Marie blinks slightly. "Anyway, where *IS* the fabled opposition? Isn't this supposed to be a hotzone or something?" Tessa perks up. "Sure!" Asineth: "Nah, this is their scouting area." Asineth eyes the kid. "You sure you're old enough, squirt?" Marie: "Oh." She sighs, declining the drink. Tessa draws herself up to her ful 4'2'. "'Course I am!" Asineth: "Heh. I like you already, kid." *hands her a glass of saki* Marie: Glass? Marie: And I'm fairly certain that's sake. Asineth: Well, I don't have the saucers it's normally served in. Tessa: "hey! This is _cold_!" Asineth: "Don't guzzle it. Sip it." Marie sighs, leands against the leg of her GB. "If this is a scouting area, what exactly are we doing here again?" Tessa: "_Everyone_ knows you hafta serve sake hot!" Asineth: "Well, we're taking a break from shooting up Coalition idiots." Marie: "Ahh, I get it." Tessa sets her glass in the builtin microzapper. Marie hrms. "Something came to me, Asineth. Why'd you go and modify your Boy for close combat work? These things are more or less designed for long range slugging matches." Asineth: "In my line of work, you can't always stay at long range." Asineth: "So, I had a few close-range stuff added to it." Marie shrugs. "Then you're not placing your shots carefully enough." Marie: ;) Asineth: "There are times when hand to hand *is* necessary." Asineth: "You'll learn that soon enough, I suppose." Tessa: *snicker* Asineth: "Nothing is textbook perfect, out here in the real world." Marie winces slighly. "Well, I guess I'll just bow to your superior age and wisdom for now." Tessa: .oO( There goes Asi' again... talking about the 'Real World") Asineth: "Come on, I'll show you how to use those laser pylons as weapons. Just gotta place your kicks right." Tessa: oh btw, could ppl give me a basic rundown of GB's? Seeing as she's supposed to be an expert and all that. Marie: Soitenly. Asineth: if someone has a scanned copy of the thing... Marie: Actually, I've got a 3d render of the thing that I found. Asineth: cool Marie: DCC, or should I upload it? Asineth: upload it Marie: http://ham.and.cheese.on.rye.sandwich.net/glitter.jpg Tessa: going. Asineth: nice Tessa: siiiiiilllverrrrrr. Marie: The Glitter Boy is a suit of power armor developed by the US Gov before the Rifts. It's 10foot tall and, compared to anything developed afterwards, incredibly hideously durable for its size. It's armor's made out of molecularily compressed chrome for laser reflectivity. Asineth: only two known places in the Megaverse can create it... Asineth: Free Quebec's factory, and Freedom Station. Tessa: remind me to get Tessa a set of *good* shades. :) Marie: The only weapon on the originals is a high power railcannon over the right shoulder... hanging verticially in that render. It's powerful enough that it has to sink pylons into the ground to fire, and it create a tremendous amount of noise. Asineth: the shot of the boom gun is a round of 200 flechettes. Marie: Ars: Actually... they can make 'em on Phaseworld, and I think that Japan can make 'em too. Marie: 200 flechettes at Mach 5. Tessa: *FWOOM* Asineth: and the NGR.. I forgot about those two Marie: Yep. Asineth: Asineth's model has a vibrosword on the arm opposite the boom gun. Marie: Marie's is actually one of the original Pre-Rifts ones from a military cache "somewhere". It's been rebuilt and repaired quite a few times over the last few centuries though. Asineth: and, I was planning on a close-range gun of some sort on one of the other arms. Asineth: -other Asineth: like a PBC... Asineth: (ala the bionic weapon) Marie: Marie's has the upgraded sensor package common to the FQ Glitter Boys, but no additional weapons aside from the C-27 plasma cannon in the left hand. Asineth hrrms... Marie: "So, what's for dinner?" Asineth: "Rations." Marie: "Loooovely." Asineth: "Unless you want to boom gun a rabbit." Tessa: "Drat. There's never anything _left_ when we do that." Asineth: "Of course there ain't." Marie: "Seeing as how you could fit a rabbit down the muzzle of a boom gun... no." Marie: Dear *deity* I hope I didn't just give Tessa an idea. Tessa: Tessa: "Hey! That's right!" Marie: "What?" Asineth: "Don't. Even. Think it. Use hers." Asineth: "Scumbag!" "Is that a term of affection, or do you just not like me?" Asineth: %) Tessa wander over and stares trance-ishly at Marie's GB Marie: "Don't, please. If you want to kill stuff I'll... I'll lend you my pistol." Tessa: (ooc) durn, this girl is going places _all_ her own now... Tessa: (ooc) I love it when chars get lives of their own... Marie: *whispered* "Where did they find this kid?" Asineth: *whispered* "I think she found them." Tessa reaches out one hand and lightly taps the muzzle of the boom gun, breaks out giggling and dashes off Asineth: "Now, I'm worried." Marie: "Oh dear. She's not." Tessa: honest, I didn't *mean* for her to turn into a nutcase... Asineth: with her, it fits. Tessa: I know. that's what's worrying me.... Marie: Suuure you didn't. You're cleaning up the mess. Tessa: seeing as I started off by basing her char on me... Marie: *sweatdrop* Tessa: and no, I would *not* stick a rabbit up a boom gun Marie: You Empress or you Tessa? Asineth: "Where were you when they handed out the brains?" (Washu to Mihoshi) Tessa: me Empress. Tessa I'm not so sure about... Marie: "If she stuffs a rabbit up the barrel of my boom gun and fires it...." Asineth: "Well, it can't beat that one hobbit I blew up while he was cleaning the barrel." Tessa comes running back... Marie: "Hobbit?" Asineth: "Short little D-Bee." Tessa: there is a *BIG* grin on her face.... Marie looks at Tessa. "Now what?" Tessa: "heeheeeheeheeee" Tessa pulls a strange looking device out of her pink backpack. Marie: "Please tell me you didn't find a rabbit." Asineth: "Now, I'm worried." Marie: "I was worried before." Tessa: ...it seems to have ears. and a tail. and be made out of ultradense chrome. and be shaped roughly as ammunition for a boomgun... Asineth: "She didn't." Asineth: "She did." Tessa: "It's Bunnymo!" Marie: "What the hell." Tessa: "It explodes into fifty bazillion bouncing charges with short fuses." Asineth faints. Marie blinks a few times. "Will... that actually cycle through a boom gun?" Tessa: ok. it's settled. I love Tessa. Marie: *sweatdrop* Tessa: "Sure it will! After all, _I_ made it!" Tessa: and I am so posting this log to my website. Marie: "...... ohkay. Could you try it out in her gun though?" Tessa: "But she already volunteered your gun!" Asineth: "Not mine. I just had my barrel cleaned." Marie sighs. "Fine. If it breaks you're fixing it though." Tessa: "OK!" Tessa grins happily. Actually, the manic grin hasn't left her face the entire time. It just got impossibly bigger. Marie: "Asineth, should it matter if I fire the thing off? Will it get all sorts of people running?" Asineth: "We'll see." Marie: "Just asking... because if it destroys my gun that could be inconvenient." She starts walking over to her GB. "Okay, I'll try the Bunnymo... but I'm driving." Asineth saddles up as well, just in case. Asineth: "Well, the inconvenience is why I had my Boy modified." Tessa loads up the Bunnymo happily Tessa: "Ok, just besure to aim _LONG_." Tessa hops on her 'cycle , ready to race off to see the damage. Marie stands up her GB and glances around for a target... a tree, sand dune, hostile... whatever. Tessa: it doesn't matter what you aim at.... Marie: Well, I'm under the impression that it's supposed to hit something. Tessa: sure Tessa: "Just pull the trigger!" Asineth scans on radar... "Hrrm... Mark V APC at two miles off. Fifty says you can't hit the side loading door." Asineth: (that's at range, IIRC) Marie spots it. "At two miles, give me a break. Easy if this round goes straight." Marie sinks her pylons, aims, and pulls the trigger. Tessa: *FWOOM*.... *SPROINGLE*.... *boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM**boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM**boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM**boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM**boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM**boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM**boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM**boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM*..... Asineth: "Well, looks like you owe me fifty creds." Tessa: the apc and random items in a 5km radius get destroyed Asineth: "Cause you were just a touch off." Asineth: "You hit the cockpit." Marie blinks. "That was... unexpected. Shaddap." She runs a computer diagnostic on the boom gun to see if that screwed up the bore. Tessa claps her hands rapturously and hits the gas to go look at craters Asineth: (we'd be at the edge of the craters, if the blast radius of 5km Tessa: I know... :) Tessa: she _said_ aim _LONG_ Marie: "I'll be damned, the bore of the gun's still okay." She giggles slightly. "That was cool." Marie: 2 miles is about the end of the Boom Gun's range. Asineth: "*heh* That it was." Tessa: Marie: Somehow what I've heard of the Dirty Pair is coming to mind... Asineth: *heheh* Tessa: (snrk) Marie squints at the wreckage of the APC. "Twenty says you can't nail the second laser turret from the left on the side of the hull from here." Tessa whips out another Bunnymo round Asineth: "Easy shot. You'll still owe me thirty, though." Tessa: "Use this! Use this!" Asineth plants the pylons, and takes aim. Marie: "I'm good for it." Asineth: "No thanks, kid. Thanks anyways." Asineth: *triggerpull* *BOOOM!!!* Tessa pouts. "Darn." Asineth checks the wreckage. "Nailed it." Marie zooms in a bit. "Second from the left, not right." Tessa speeds off to dance in the craters Marie: Whoops... forgot the number of turrets. ;) Asineth: "There's only two turrets on the side." Marie squints. "Ah hell, that was a hole." Asineth: "Well, there *were*." Tessa: YOu see a hovercycle cavorting madly in the distance Asineth: "You owe me seventy, rookie. Maybe you can work it off with that Skull Walker that's coming into view." Asineth: "Middle leg on the right side. Double or nothing." Asineth: "Hit it, you owe me nothing." Marie: "Fine. Double or nothing, the smoke launcher facing u... okay, find. Middle leg." Marie adjusts her aim slightly and squeezes the trigger. I feel like actually rolling this. Marie: 19+5. Tessa: the maniacal giggling quadruples at seeing the Skull Walker go boom Asineth: "Nice shot." Marie: "Thanks." Marie: Ah, that was just one of the legs. Marie: "Think you can take the left eye?" Tessa: but if you'd used Bunnymo... Asineth targets the eye. "How much you willing to bet?" Tessa: besides, it's *cuter*! Asineth: (ooc it's more fun to take it apart piece by piece) Marie: "Let's keep it low... thirty?" Asineth: "Thirty. Fine." Marie: Exactly! How much fun is it to bet on something that'll make a 5km circle of craters? Asineth rolls for it as well... lousy juju... 5+6 Marie: Aww, just main body. Tessa: but Tessa just wants to see the craters! ;) Marie: We're potshotting a spider walker at 2 miles range. Wait a bit. ;) Asineth: "Well, I owe you thirty. But twenty says you can't put one up its left gun." Asineth: "And the shot *has* to go up its barrel."; Marie: "Aw, too bad... looks like you knocked out a tooth. Wait, *up* its left gun?" Asineth: "Yes, up the gun." Tessa comes cavorting back Marie shrugs. "Fine, a bet's a bet." Asineth: "Or are you not sure of yourself?" Tessa: "Craters! Yippee!" Tessa: *bounce* Marie drops to one knee and stabilizes the boom gun with her left hand, taking careful aim.... and squeezes the trigger. Marie: Odd. 'nother 19+5 Asineth: "*ouch* That had to hurt." Marie: Dunno if that's good enough... Marie chuckles and stands up. "Well, I can't tell from here... kill the thing off and go over to check?" Asineth: it is... dammit. Asineth: "Yeah... Tessa, load me up a Bunnymo." Tessa 's face breaks into a smile as beautiful as the rising sun at dawn Asineth: we've made a mistake... UL's gonna draw a Bunnymo. Tessa: "REALLY?!" Tessa: YES! Asineth: "Yeah, why should the rookie have all the fun blowing stuff up?" Marie: So what? That'd be funny. Marie: "'cause I can hit what I aim for?" Asineth: "Call your shot." Marie: "You're using a bunny?" Asineth: "Yeah, call the shot anyways." Asineth: "And I'll triple the bet." Marie: "We'll never be able to tell where it hits afterwards anyway... right eye." Marie: This one is going to be impossible to prove, y'know. Asineth: "Then watch where the explosion starts. Right eye it is." Tessa loads up the Bunnymo happily Asineth aims from the standing position, pulls the trigger. Tessa: *FWOOM*.... *SPROINGLE*.... *boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM* *boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM* *boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM* *boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM* *boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM* *boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM* *boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM* *boingBOOM* *bounceBOOM* Asineth: *BOOM!* Asineth: 18+6 Asineth: right eye blows first Marie giggles at the pyro display. "Damn, there it goes... what a light show though, eh?" Marie: Whee! We're covert ops... sitting here and potshotting CS vehicles for a subject to bet on. Tessa pings around in joyous rapture, arms ourstretched to the beauuuuuuutiful explosions Tessa: damn. I love Tessa. Marie: *muttered, too low for the radio to pick up* "Damn, there's something wrong with that kid." Asineth smiles. "It hit the right eye. You owe me, y'know. But the explosions are pretty." Marie: "Yeah, yeah, I know." Asineth: Glitter Boys do not covert ops make. Tessa pings around in joyous rapture, arms ourstretched to the beauuuuuuutiful explosions Tessa: UL: now we just need a pic of what happens _after_ %D Marie: GBs damn well *CAN* be used for covert ops. Not like this though. Asineth: no, *not* like this. Tessa: *SNRK* Marie: This is... only slightly more subtle than an assault with several regiments of GBs. Asineth: *heheheheh* Tessa: HEE! Asineth: what's the actual damage rating of the Bunnymo. Tessa: um.... Marie: Who cares? It's a plot device Asineth: (oh, and UL says you should name each individual Bunnymo.) Tessa: what's the boomgun? Tessa: Hey! that's It! Marie: The boomgun is already rather severe at 3d6x10 MD/shot. Tessa: (thanks UL! Tha'ts Perfect!) Marie: I don't think the MD of Bunnymo *SHOULD* be figured out. Tessa: Marie: consider that 2d6X 10MDC spread randomly across 5 km radious, roll d 20 to see if hit. Asineth: it's like a reflex cannon Marie: Heh. Marie hrms. Wonders what Lemmingmo will do Marie: ... somehow I don't think I should think about that too much. Tessa: *short range avalanche of 'small' fuzzy logic controlled explosives* Asineth: that'd be used on the rail gun of the GB7 Marie: GB7? Asineth: south american variant of the GB.. Marie: Oh. Tessa: nighters folxen Asineth: 4 weapons... one's a long-range laser cannon, another's a shorter-ranged rotary rail gun, the other two are short-range PD lasers Marie: 'nite, Yer Empessness in scary guise. Tessa: heeee!