IC:

Hembar looked a little surprised at Mars' outburst, but then she answered, "Well, it's your choice. But you're not the only one who can avoid being shot, so I'm willing to help you, whether you want to run or stay. But we do need to solve the problem of Anni getting into trouble for being seen with natives. That's why I think's it best if we make it look like she was made to help against her will. What do you think, Anni?

OOC: Yay, action time

IC: Borso twitched, did a forward roll on the floor and sprang into action. "Where the..." It took Borso a while to realise he had been napping. "Oh, Flad... it's you. So, what's up?"

IC:
Flad replied to Borso; "The lab door has been broken and I have heard lots of banging from inside. I think the native may have escaped and has locked himself inside with another Slig. I could use your help, we need to find something long, hard, most probably metal..." Suddenly a thought occured to Flad "Odd, we could just use one of our guns. How could I have been so stupid." He said, "Ok, I have an idea: The door opens partially so I can open the door with my gun and hold it open while you go through first. We capture The native, help out the Slig and everythings fine. Well, we better get to the Lab as quickly as possible"

OOC:
Of course it's obviously not going to be that simple :p
Luckily SU-01 is there so that should buy some time for the Muds :).

Ooc: ..... Mkay.

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Ic: Opril was still wandering around at the production line, unaware of the intense action taking place on the first floor. "Wow, this is slightly less intriguing then I thought it'd be."
He said, while taking a seat on a a near by box.

OOC: you'd think he's hear my EPIC HERO MUSIC :D!

ooc: Mars, that's the sort of ooc I was talking about. Please don't do it, except as part of an IC post.
If you're posting IC, you can make little comments like that. If you're not, then don't. It just fills up space quicker.
Man, I was hoping to finally get to interact with Mars and Hembar some more...

IC:
Anni nodded; it sounded like a fairly good plan, "Maybe you two should go, and then I'll go and get the slig out of the cage. I'll tell him I came to speak to Mars, and found him already out of his cage." She glanced towards the door. "I don't know how much longer they'll need to get through."


In the production lines, Jim was beginning to decide that Ralph wasn't as weird as he had previously thought. He seemed unusually down-to-earth compared to the other people in this place.
He looked around as a door opened and saw a rather creepy-looking vykker (Opril) walk in.
He whispered to Ralph, "You know, it's probably a good thing Anni's not here. She hates vykkers." Then he called out to the vykker, "Are you lost?"

I was trying to be funny.

I'm rather convinced no one on the internet cares for comedy anymore.

IC: "Using my gun as a crowbar eh? Sounds kinda stupid." Borso paused, "Just kidding, come on let's get this open." Borso jammed his gun in the gap, using his arm to act as a lever. "Oh wait, you said you wanted to run in?", Borso waited for Flad to place his gun in the doorway too, so he could lever it enough for it to open.

OOC:
Small problem:
SU-01 is in the way so Flad and Borso can't yet try and open the door.
Lets just say they are just arriving at the lab :). It'll give the Muds more time and SU-01 could help out too.

I'll wait for a bit before posting IC, just in case Ench comes and posts as Erp.

-----IC-----

SU-01 waited a few seconds. Everyone in the room failed to identify himself so he decided to force the door open. He was still on low alert so he warned everyone inside.

"I'm going to enter the room and make sure everything and everyone is alright. Please stand back from the door if you can. Opening door in 5...4...3...2...1..."

He used one of his gun like a ram. The door fell on the ground and SU-01 went inside the labs, standing in front of the door to block the way out. The blast had thrown some dust clouds in the air so he waited for them to dissipate. He was now sure that he was facing three Mudokons. When his vision got clearer, he looked at them one by one. He first saw the paramite-friendly Mudokon he met earlier. But when he spotted the native he escorted out of the factory several minutes ago and the other native that was responsible of his malfunction, he immediately went on maximum alert. He aimed his guns at both Hembar and Mars.

"FREEZE !"

His guns started spinning, ready to fire. He was about to call for reinforcements through the whole factory speakers system but the voice in his head was back. His robotic and living half were struggling in his "head". His guns were spinning and stopping at random and the only thing that could be heard from him was "KILL'EM !" and "ABORT !" orders looping endlessly. "CONTROL SYSTEM OVERLOADED. SWITCHING TO MANUAL MODE". Finally ! His robotic part had just gave up. His guns stopped and his eyes went back to green.

"What are you all doing here ?" he said with his not anymore robotic voice.

-----OOC EDIT-----

Gretin, do you want me to remove or edit my post and delay my entrance in the labs ? I can do it for your and everyone else's convenience, no problem. Just ask ;)

EDIT 2 : Arggh ! Two new posts already ! I think it's gonna be a little more difficult to "undo" my action now...If it's what you wanted X)

OOC:

Well, I guess so much for us on the inside having a little more time...

Mars, there are plenty of people who appreciate humour here. It's just that little posts like that make it harder to follow the flow of the IC posts. We're not humourless robots ;)

And I just want to say something which is not supposed to be digging at anyone. I just want to say, with a role-play, you may find that one of the most fun parts of the game is just interacting with other characters, having conversations etc. Obviously action can be fun too, but the problem that comes up when we have too much action is players argue because obviously no one wants their character to lose as such. Whereas when we just Work at Rupture Farms, it gives your characters a chance to talk and make friends, and the players often make friends too ;) And of course, sometimes there'll be conflicts between characters, because of differing personalities or opinions, but that creates drama which makes things interesting without any of the players getting angry about losing a battle or something :D

Like I said, this isn't aimed at anyone in particular, and it's just my opinion so others may not agree, but I would suggest once this native episode is over we try to settle things down a little ;)

I'll wait until Mars or Opril post IC before I post IC again.

EDIT: And I just realised how much of a hypocrite I must look, having this OOC post here now :p

EDIT x2: I sent you a PM Jimmy, basically don't worry about it :p

Ic:
Opril, bored of sitting there in the production line.. took off toward the lift.
He took the lift to the first floor, and would have continued going up until he noticed the strange going's on taking place near the lab area. "What on Odd?" He said to himself, making his way to the corner. He peeked around, watching the snoozer enter the labs, after ramming the door to the ground with a loud -THUD-.

OOC: Are we behind SU-01? Has the robot seen us (Borso and Flad)?

OOC:
I agree with this suggestion entirely :)

I don't think SU-01 has seen Flad and Borso, so... Lets go join in :p.

IC:
Flad was walking with Borso to the lab, a short distance from R+R. Suddenly a loud Thud was heard "Odd, what was that" Flad said and began to run in the direction of the lab, his pants screeching and clattering. He could see a Snoozer standing through the doorway, "I guess we won't need to worry about that door anymore," Flad said to Borso.

He continued running until he reached the lab door, currently being blocked by the snoozer. He found a small opening between the Snoozer's leg and the wall and slipped through, unaware that he was being watched by a vykker. Flad walked beside the snoozer noticed the native and raised his gun "Freeze!" Flad then realized that the Snoozer's eyes where green. "Wait. green means everythings ok." Flad thought to himself and lowered his gun. A part of him was relieved that he didn't have to use it. "What's going on here? That's the native that should be locked up. Flad looked at Mars and raised his gun again. "For a terrorist your not doing that much terrorising, no sabotage, no rescues. What are you doing here?"

[-- Erp --]

While he was looking round for something to do, Erp heard someone talking behind him and he whirled around to see a Mudokon standing there.

"... to take us to our work areas," he was saying. "My name's Slen."

"Uh, I'm Erp," said Erp. "Say, are we supposed to be getting an escort or something? To take us to our work areas?"


[-- Tok --]

Tok was furious. The Mudokons had locked him in this cell and left. He could he them talking quietly in the next room, and then there were shouts and and more talking, and through all this he was locked in a lab cage without any pants on.

When he got his hands on that terrorist - !


[-- ooc --]

I haven't posted for so long :P

IC:
Opril, watching intensely decided to approach the two sligs (Flad, Borso) After seeing
the Snoozer had settled down. "Well, well.. having trouble with this one are we?"
He gestured at Mars. "I've an ingenious approach to this, if your willing to let me operate on your little terrorist." While telling the two about his idea, Opril adjusted the lens to his thermal reading scope.

I'll IC post sooooooon....

IC:

"You know, it's probably a good thing Anni's not here. She hates vykkers." Jim informed Ralph quietly as they saw a vykker (Opril) enter the production lines.

"I don't much like them myself," Ralph muttered, "them and their sadistic experiments."

Appearing to have either not heard or just ignored Jim's question, the vykker promptly got up and left the area again. Ralph looked across at Jim with his eyebrows raised, then shook his head and said, "Well, good riddance I say."

<•-•-•-•-•>

Anni had just agreed to execute their plan when the robot SU-01 spoke again, "I'm going to enter the room and make sure everything and everyone is alright. Please stand back from the door if you can. Opening door in 5...4...3...2...1..."

"This can't be good..." Hembar quietly said to the other two mudokons

Then there was a loud smash and the lab door came crashing down on the ground. Hembar quickly tried to position herself where she could defend both Anni and Mars from a possible attack while the robot entered the doorway and stopped, waiting for the dust to clear.

Then it suddenly seemed to go berzerk for a few seconds, after which is seemingly calmed down and said "What are you all doing here?"

Hembar gave Mars and Anni a look as if to say What's wrong with this thing?, but then one of the sligs from before (Flad) came running in and aimed his gun at Mars, asking him, "For a terrorist your not doing that much terrorising, no sabotage, no rescues. What are you doing here?"

Following him came a new vykker she hadn't seen before (Opril), who started talking about operating on the younger mudokon.

"If you so much as lay a finger on him, I will personally make sure you never operate on anyone ever again," she threatened, "He's just a kid!"

-----IC-----

Before someone said anything, a slig managed to enter the room. He lowered his gun and spoke to one of the Mudokon.

"Everything is under control. This mudokon (he looked at Mars) has escaped from the detention area. He found himself in this room with these two others employees (designating Hembar and Anni). The previous Vykker who used this lab left quite a mess behind him so they must have been send to clean everything up. Anyway, no reinforcements are required at the moment. I was about and I'm going to taze the fugitive so he won't go anywhere but in the cage he belongs to."

He aimed his gun at Mars chest and winked (sort of) at him without the slig noticing it. He shot a sticky tazer bullet at the Mudokon. He set the intensity low enough to be harmless. He hoped the Mudokon would understand his plan and would fake the electrocution.

IC: Borso entered the room shortly after Flad, holding his revolver in both of his hands. Borso listened to what the Vykker had to say. "This Mudokon is not avaliable for experimentation at this time. The boss wants him alive." Borso pointed his revolver at Mars before entertainingly twirling it and placing it in its holster.

Tazers... Borso didn't like them, he didn't trust them. Something wasn't right about this. Still, the Slig looked like a decent guy.

Okay, I just had to walk in the freezing snow for about a mile. Give me a couple of minutes for my hands to unfreeze.

Ic:
Opril sighed out of anger, pulling his Lil' hacker knife from his belt.. running his
lower left arms claws up and down the blade of it calmly. He turned his head to the slig
(Borso), saying to him, in an ill mannered way, (You wouldn't deprive me the chance to
try out my new procedure would you? Because if you were to do that.. there's no telling what I might do." Opril again ran his claws to the blade's tip, then spun it around in a circle on his upper left arms index index claw. "Trust me, ask anyone from my old work place.. you don't want to get me aggravated.. in fact, you want to keep me on the exact opposite side of emotion from aggravated, so c'mon, we're all on the same side here." Opril moved in close to Borso, hugging an arm around his neck, whispering. "You know, we Vykker's have operated on our selfs until we found out a way to increase our lifespan by a hundred and twenty years!
allow me to try my procedure of this Mud, and I'll perhaps give you the same surgery?"


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Ooc: Not to get off topic, but Ba-Jeezus it's cold where I'm at today.

OOC: Alright I can feel my fingers :P.


Mars

IC: Things were a blur. There was a crashing noise, a slig's voice, Mars couldn't keep up. Suddenly the damn snoozer who had been driving him crazy since the start showed up. He...?...was that a wink...um...er...whatever. Following this 'wink' the snoozer fired a tazer of sorts, it nailed Mars in the chest. Out of expectations and over-reaction, Mars fell to the ground. But strangly, it didn't hurt. Mars guessed the snoozer had figured out what was going on. Maybe. Mars faked passing out and waited for ANYTHING to go right.

Krivzee

IC: Well, apparently that was over. Krivzee looked at Guekko. "So what now?".

Mars, how many times to I have to tell you? Stay on topic! I won't ask again. There was absolutely no reason for this message. If you're gonna post, post. If you're not ready to post IC, do not post to tell us you aren't going to post!
Wait until you're ready to post IC, and then post! But don't post ooc when you don't need to! No one cares about waiting another hour for you to post!


IC:
Anni's cunning plans were ruined by the opening of the door; suddenly things weren't looking so good, but the snoozer didn't seem to consider her a danger; for whatever reason, it didn't seem to be matching her with the two natives. Hopefully, the sligs would accept its presumption.

Then it shot Mars and he collapsed, and she gasped and ran and crouched down beside him. He didn't look like he was badly hurt; she was still breathing...

Then a vykker came in and asked to operate on Mars. Anger flared in her and she looked up, glaring at the vykker; "He's not some animal!" She yelled, "You can't just treat him like one!"

OOC: Oh dear...a vykker in the presence of Anni...I forgot about this...

IC:

Hembar was surprised as SU-01 fired at Mars, but she had caught the "wink" before the shot. She moved towards him as he fell to the ground, but Anni was faster and crouched down beside him.

Then the vykker (Opril) started insisting on operating. Anna yelled angrily at him, but Hembar, now feeling a little more confident about their situation added,

"He's taken care of now, so you can save your 'operation' for someone else. Besides, I doubt the boss would be very happy about a vykker operating on anyone in this factory without permission!"

Ic: Opril's conversation with borso was interrupted when Anni had yelled at Opril.
"He's not some animal!" She said. Opril turned towards her, looking down, all of his arms on his hips angrily. "You can't just treat him like one!" She yelled again at him.
"Ha, you really think you can count yourself as equal to us vykker's?.. to me, all of
you savages are lower life forms, besides.. this operation could better the life's of you
creatures." Opril took a few steps closer to Anni, holding his lil' hacker saw out, letting her see her own reflection on the blade.

IC:
Flad cringed as the Snoozer's tazer hit Mars and he (Mars) fell to the floor. Suddenly an argument broke out between Anni and Opril over whether the Vykker could operate on Mars. Flad approached them, "Whoah, nobody's operating on anyone. We have much more important things to do, such as getting this native back in a cell to start." Flad said and gestured to Mars lying on the floor. "We just need someone to open the door to the cells and the rest of us can put the native into another cell. I volunteer to stand guard to make sure he doesn't escape again."

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Slen and Erp where talking in the Visitors Train Station.

"I thought there would be an escort here by now." Slen said "I s-suppose we should go find out what's going on. I d-don't want to anger the boss by not being at my s-station."

OOC: I really should keep better track of this thread, I keep getting lost

IC: Guekko had kept quiet, just standing behind Krivzee as the Snoozer questioned them. He wouldn't have been able to say anything without stuttering anyway, and that would possibly have made someone think he were lying and would have again run the risk of getting shot. He breathed quite a loud sigh of relief at what the Snoozer said and its subsequent disappearance. He gave Krivzee a look with the tilt of his head.
"No more b-breaking into doors."

-----IC-----

Everything was going as planned. SU-01 froze in place.

"Incomming orders...Aknowledge.

To every security guards present. I have send a situation report earlier and I just got new orders. Since this is the second escape attempt that occur in this room, it has been judjed inappropriate for detention purposes. According to my instructions, I am going to escort this prisoneer to a more secured room and stay there until further notice...Your instructions are to get back to your guard posts immediatly. Message send by a rank 2 or higher executive with correct accreditations."

SU-01 went close to Mars, who apparently got his plan and was faking inconsiousness. He had his back turned to all the sligs and the Vykker. A small display appeared under his eyes. It was usually used by Vykkers engineers during maintenance, but now it was displaying a blinking message : "YOUR CLEANING JOB IS DONE. FOLLOW ME OUT". He made sure only Hembar and Anni could see it. He then picked Mars up in his robotic arms. He turned around, ready to leave the room. Looking at Opril, he said :

"You are not registered in the employees database so I assume you are a new recruit. You should head for the boss office and get all the paperwork done."

He took a few steps, half-way from the exit.

IC: 'Yuk', Borso thought to himself. He could smell the Vykker's breath. It was like a mix between burnt meat and minty mouthwash. Borso allowed Opril to let go before continuing. "Be that as it may, orders are orders".

Borso listened to Anni. 'Technically it is an animal. It's OUR animal', he thought.
Borso sighed, 'I had better follow Flad... I suppose.'

[-- Erp --]

"Um - well, I guess we could try find the boss's office," said Erp. "C'mon, let's go!"

[-- Tok --]

He heard shouts, mutterings and finally what sounded like a tazer being fired. "Let me out!" he yelled, grabbing the bars and shaking them furiously.
There was a splintering noise as the door started to lean outward. Tok stared at it for a moment. He was free...!

The door tilted, slowly, back toward him.

"Oh noooooo - !"

There was a crunch, and he was pressed to the floor of the cage by the rusty door. "Ow. Ow. Ow." he muttered, slithering backwards out from under it.

"Okay, now I'm free! I'm gonna teach that terrorist that he'd never been born!"

He jumped nimbly over the fallen door and scurried across the floor of the labs to where his flypants were still coughing miserably in a heap. He pulled himself into them, pulled the choke and slowly eased the joystick upwards.

He rose into the air. At last! He'd been stuck in the stinking cage for an hour. He choked his way over to the lab door and opened it, somewhat awkwardly.

In the room there were some Mudokons, some Sligs, a Snoozer and even a Vykker.

And there on the floor was the terrorist - !

"Right!" he said to the crowd. "I'm here to take this sitooation under control. I'm gonna take this here terrorist down to the warehouses on the ground floor and lock 'im in there 'til we find a better place. The rest of you, go do some'in."

[-- ooc --]

I have nothing to say ooc.

ooc: Uh, Ench, you kinda missed Jimmy's post methinks.
EDIT: Ah, i see you've edited. I'll edit my post to fit yours.

IC:
Anni was sort of gently pushed aside by the snoozer as it picked up Mars, and she was mildly surprised by its... non-aggressiveness. And by the message it was flashing them. She glanced sideways at Hembar, wondering what the native mudokon would do, but she made up her own mind and nodded to the snoozer, rising to her feet and following it as it walked out, her head bowed in a show of faux meekness for the sligs.
Then the slig they locked up burst into the room and yelled at them to give Mars to him. She looked over her shoulder, hoping he wouldn't recognise her and said, "The robot is taking him somewhere more secure than this!" She wondered how true her statement was, but at least if the snoozer tried anything, she would know it.


ooc: Jimmy, if you want to walk, you can assume Anni will follow. Though when they're clear of the sligs, she might want to start asking questions.
Forgot to do Jim earlier.

IC:
Jim was still pulling levers and watching dials in the production lines. "They're pretty creepy, I guess," He responded to Ralph, diplomatically. "I prefer them to sligs though. I always freeze up around sligs... Anni's been a while; maybe we should go and see what's going on? I don't wanna find out she's been leading the native around the factory and getting herself into trouble."

IC:

"I always saw sligs as being kind of pathetic," Ralph replied to Jim, "but it's vykkers who put me in this body."

"Anni's been a while; maybe we should go and see what's going on? I don't wanna find out she's been leading the native around the factory and getting herself into trouble."

"Good idea, but... what about our posts?" Ralph asked, "Things might not be so good for us if we left and something went wrong..."

<•-•-•-•-•>

Hembar was even more surprised now when the snoozer (SU-01) made it's announcement and discreetly commanded her and Anni to follow it out with Mars. Hoping the vykker (Opril) would take the robot's advice, she shared a glance with Anni, then decided to play along for now at least. She certainly had some questions for it when they got out of here though.

Then the slig who had been locked up (Tok) came through the door and tried to tell them all what to do, "Right! I'm here to take this situation under control. I'm gonna take this here terrorist down to the warehouses on the ground floor and lock 'im in there 'til we find a better place. The rest of you, go do some'in."

She thought about answering, but decided against it - someone else could do that, since the slig probably wouldn't listen to her as a mudokon anyway.

IC: "That's nice Tok, but I think the robot has everything under control mate." Borso gestured to the big robot. Borso took a glance at Anni, studying her fragile form for a brief moment. He then looked at Opril, Vykkers were always bending the rules and trying to do anything to get experimental samples... well he wasn't going to let this one wall all over him.

[-- Tok --]

"Everything under control, huh? Well, I'm your superior officer," - yeah, that'd work - "and I'm sayin' this Snoozer has no authority over a Slig, right? So git, Snoozface, an' I'll take this terrorist faggot down to the basement!"

IC:
Flad was about to pick up Mars when the Snoozer announced that it recieved orders to move Mars to another location. The Snoozer approached Mars, turned to the two Muds, turned back and picked up Mars. As the Snoozer was leaving it turned to Opril; "You are not registered in the employees database so I assume you are a new recruit. You should head for the boss office and get all the paperwork done."

"Well i'm not a registered employee either, so I better get to the boss's office too." Flad thought and then noticed Tok talking to Borso. "Your a superior officer?" Flad said, "That order the Snoozer has, came from a ranking executive. I'm sure Glukkons outrank Sligs here. Either way we have all been ordered to return to our posts. Since I don't work here, i'm going to see about getting one. I already know my way around this floor now, so i'm on my way to the Executive office." Flad began to leave the Lab, as he left he looked at Opril. "It looks like we're going the same way. I can take you to the boss's office if you want." He said to Opril and left the Lab, making his way to the Executive Office.

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"O-ok" Slen replied and began to follow Erp through Rupture Farms.
"So, um, do you know your way around? I'd hate to run into any Sligs, especially since we're on our own. They might try to shoot us or something."

-----IC-----

Without turning back SU-01 said to the new slig (Tok) :

"I might not have any authority on you but the orders I've received are from a level 2 or higher executive. So they're either from the Head of Security, the Boss or his assistant and I doubt you have and will ever have more authority than they have. Now, you should and must apply your orders which are to get back to your guard post. And may I remind all of you Sligs what happen if you disobey an order ? Everyone know that Skillya, your queen prefers her slig meat roasted. Now excuse me, but I've orders to accomplish...and you too."

He took a few steps out of the room. His radar indicated him that the two Mudokons were following him. He decided to take a longer path to the basement. That way, he will be able to check several time if someone is following them or not.

OOC: I'm not a ******!!! You know what I mean...Tok.

Ic:
Opril was none to happy about not being able to operate on the Mud,
then being given order's by a machine to top it all off. "You are not registered in the employees database so I assume you are a new recruit. You should head for the boss office and get all the paperwork done." Opril inhaled deeply, letting out a long and loud sigh; "Your probably right, I should go register."
He began to follow behind Flad, seeming fascinated at why they seemed to be
taking orders from the Snoozer. "It looks like we're going the same way. I can take you to the boss's office if you want." Flad had said to Opril.
"Yeah, thanks.. I'm not really sure where I'm going." Opril said, while walking beside Flad at the same pace as he was walking. Opril began muttering to himself while following the slig "Maybe I could take that Snoozer offline... hm."