Rhona W

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

"Ken," Blade replied, although the connection was abysmal due to the interference from the metres of rock between them, and the increased magnetic interference in the area. "Open fire at your discretion. Try and get 'em to stop if possible - but don't hesitate to fire if you're in danger, or they ain't co-operatin'".
The channel dissolved into squealing static before shutting off, and he grimaced; the Badlands characteristic interference had been bad in the area to begin with. Under this much rock, it wasn't surprising how much worse it was.
"Press on," he advised the others, squaring up on Christa's side. He'd swapped over to laser-comm and touch-comm as the interference was ruining regular comms. "Chris, keep moving to the right. Reeza, follow up with me. I'll back up your CQC. Adrian, keep our rears covered!"
The mapping data from Christa's GEAR - corrupted and incomplete over the satellite link, due to the interference - came through. It was enough to go on, and gave them a better idea of the mines' layout. Most of the tunnels were collapsed; one of the large aquifers beneath the Badlands had been struck, and flooded half the mine, and collapsed other tunnels. Only a few survived. The large cavern they had initially entered was the main chamber, with a second somewhat smaller one beyond. Tunnels radiated out from both, though only two survived intact. One was the one Esailia and Mike had taken, and were pressing down. It looped around in a U-shape, leading back into the second cavern, with the second tunnel on the opposite side, and forming a mirror shape - loosely, at least. All the tunnels were, naturally, big enough for GEARs, as they'd been used to excavate the tunnels in the first place.

In the tunnels, the infantry squad and Nawlins' accompanying GEAR were drawn up to an abrupt stop as a barricade across the tunnel opened fire, the men and women beyond the rag-tag collection of mining equipment, crates and whatever else employing medium machine-guns and an automatic grenade launcher to pin the group into place. Shouted voices rose in pitch, yelling for non-existent reinforcements, and arguing on whether to evacuate or not. One firm voice mentioned to fall back to the second line. Rifle fire crackled in response, adding to the torrent of firepower directed their way.

In the main cavern, Blade pressed onward, shooting up one of the modified GEARs, which toppled sideways into a heap under the volley of 20mm shells. The remaining five hostile GEARs, minus those taken down by Blade and Christa, spread out as much as they could. It was possible to make out a further, slightly lower-ceilinged cavern beyond an arched tunnel to the rear, where the GEARs had emerged from.
A catwalk around the mid-level of the cavern was littered with equipment and boxes, and from there, a handful of Arvarans dressed in rag-tag combat gear fired gamely down at the Roughriders GEARs. Employing assault rifles, they could do little damage to the machines - but no doubt some of them had heavier weapons, or had them on the way. The fear was confirmed as Silverwinds' GEAR resounded to a CLANG of a hit, and status boards flashed red, sensor feeds flickering and greying out from one sector of the external view - Grenade launcher, he thought with a grimace, before angling the Harlock's head upward, and strafing a section of the catwalk with minigun fire from the machines' head-mounted guns.
Unfortunately, the momentary distraction cost further, as a burst of heavy machine-gun fire from the cavern floor slammed into the machines' leg, breaching the armour and cutting a control line, freezing the limb into place.
"Dammit," he muttered. "An' that's only the infantry".
The GEARs around them grew more daring, despite their hodge-podge armour, and opened fire on the group with their patchwork weapons. Autocannon fire lashed out at the group of LDF machines, reaching out to hit them as hard as possible.

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

I was waiting for a couple of people to post - I'd been assured they were going to do so.
With nothing forthcoming, I'll make a post either later tonight (GMT) or early tomorrow morning.

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

Cool cool, it's all good!
Just waiting for our two new posters to join in. I'll give them until Friday evening to make a post, before I come back in with another GM post to move things along again. I don't intend this battle to last long, as we've had quite a long action scene already, and I'd like to move things back to a bit more character interaction and some discussion of what's going to happen next IC.

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

MachineSoul said
I will post today. The inactivity on the IC is worrying :/

Thanksgiving.
Despite the fact holidays mean people aren't at work/school/crimefighting/whatever, paradoxically it tends to lead to less posting on the board instead of more.
I'll temporarily hold the banhammer back a couple of days as a result. That said, it hasn't been a week yet anyway.

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

That gif. It... scares me.

Brilliant stuff though, Es!! Well done to the utmost in doing so well on your tests!!

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

I'll let you know if anyone drops out - with how many players there are at the moment, I'm going to have to be strict and not let anyone else join. Sorry man!

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

New post is up! A little bit more action. This shouldn't be a long fight, just letting our new twosome get some knocks in before we get onto the debrief and some more plot driving things on. Everyone's free to have a bit of autonomy in this one. The main objective is to keep the infantry squad covered while they find the hostages and rescue them, before we wipe out the GEARs.
Sorry there's not as much for you to do this time Cart! I'll make up for it next time. You can always help with getting Kuraiko out of his GEAR though.

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

Blade's GEAR scooted along beside the all-terrain vehicle. Inside, the fox's expression was one full of cloudy anger and sadness. Aidan's message had come in, and it had cast a bleak outlook over his mood. Even Reeza's familiar voice on the radio did little to perk him up, as did the report in from Christa, the other new member of the team.
"Reeza; I wish it was a better time y'all were joinin' us. Same fer you too Sovereign. But glad yer both here. Proceed as directed, we'll all rendezvous at the mine" and get some payback, he added to himself.
The waypoint drifted closer on the HUD, and he tried to pull himself away from the looming thoughts of darkness at Arcade's loss, and whatever Kuraiko's state could be. He clenched his hands tighter around the GEARs' controls willing away the trembling in his hands, and the hunger burning in his gut and mind for a drink to take the edge off, to number the insistent thoughts, and instead turned his attention to the C3i readout, hovering the air to one side.
"Coming up on the waypoint," he announced over the commnet. "Nawlin, Keel, we're closing from your six. Utility chopper from the Claw is en route too to take care of Kuraiko too."
The Harlock drew up alongside the pair of GEARs, and he acknowledged them with a dip of the machines' head.
"All right," he affirmed with a strong tone. "Here's how we're going to run this. The GEARs will go in ahead, and take the brunt of the hostile firepower, while eliminating enemy GEARs or other strongpoints for heavy weapons or other equipment. The fireteam will move behind, as well as acting as spotters; mop up any enemy shooters on foot, and designate or call out targets for us to hit. It'll be like we rehearsed and drilled. We work together - smooth and fast, fast and hard. Ken; I reckon once we smash in the front door and hit 'em where they're hiding, there'll be runners. Chase 'em down and stop 'em from getting away. If you can't, at least get a fix on their direction, so we can follow 'em up." He paused for a moment, considering his next words before he spoke.
"We've lost one man, and we're another down. I dunno about you, but I ain't in much of a mood for lettin' a bunch of bandits think they got one over on us, or that they can beat the LDF and leave us hurtin'. So, we show 'em what skill and smarts are, what our trainin' does fer us, and we smack 'em down hard. Do it like you know how to. Let's go".

The Support helicopter from the Claw arrived over the horizon almost as soon as he finished talking, with the Skyhawk not far behind. The Claw itself wasn't far behind, having moved up to a support position. Blade reloaded the rifle on the Harlock, and advanced to the mouth of the mine, the rifle held ready much like one of the infantrymen scaled up to two or three times their original size.
"Stand ready!" he called, waiting for the others to fall in at the other mineshaft entrances. "Remember, move in an keep pressing them!"
As soon as the team were assembled, Blade moved in. The tunnels were big enough to move two abreast, despite the irregular walls and surface. As soon as the tunnel widened out into a cavern, they came under fire.
The bandits had gathered their remaining GEARs in the caverns and tunnels, along with other vehicles and numerous armed personnel. The gunfire was defeaning, especially with the heavy weapons of the GEARs. The machines were much like those encountered in the irrigation facility: refitted civilian machines with military-grade weapons and sensors, along with infantry wearing heavy armour and carrying quality weapons. Again, the incongruity of it alarmed him, but that was something to be thought of later. For now, the fight was on.
They were outnumbered; roughly two to one. But their GEARs were higher in quality and sophistication, despite the advantage. They could win it out, if they fought well.
"Esailia," he called over the comm system. "We'll keep you covered! Locate the hostages, and call in if you need fire support from us! Nawlin - move with Esailia and keep her covered. Everyone else, spread out and advance!"
He rattled off a burst of fire from the autocannon at a GEAR that poked out of cover to fire, following it up with a burst of head-mounted minigun fire at an infantry unit attempting to use the distraction to flank around behind them on a catwalk. The battle was going to turn into a chaotic mess, but they'd opened strong. All they had to do was keep up the momentum.

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

I won't manage to get one up tonight anyway, so you're free to get one in.
Also, I forgot and thought you had already >.>

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

Well, that's cool - In that case, I'll get a post moving things on to the next scene, since everyone's put one up.