Mission 01 - Recovery: Group 1

[cityship]

Cybil, Dr. McNinja, Dark Smoke Puncher, Plays-in-Traffic, One-Leaf-Ear, Geoff, and Dean all set off in one direction through the tall, skinny, blueish trees. Even the way the leaves rustles might have sounded a little different to some.

Occasionally, they came across strange trails in the underbrush, like a very small fire had scooted purposefully across the ground.

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Re: [First Discovery]

[godimgood.livejournal.com]

Geoffrey doesn't even know where to start with this one. It's long, flat, and has stripes.

Clearly it's meant to be a road, but what? It seemed like a lot of work, when paths, dirt, and cobblestones had worked for years.

"I don't think we should stay on the road," he commented, pushing the confusion aside. A road is a road is a road, Geoff. Instead, he thinks back to the experiences he does have. "We don't know who lives here."

Re: [First Discovery]

[wantstobebatman.livejournal.com]

Doc crosses his arms over his chest, frowning a little. On the one hand he likes the idea of them NOT traipsing through uneven ground and dense brush, but on the other... well, Geoff has a point.

Serendipitous roads in the middle of the forest almost always lead to traps (in his parents forest), ghosts (in his office forest) or a horrifying plot point and at least one death (in every horror movie that's any good).

That said, PAVED road with lines on it that's this overgrown. It looks carefully laid and then utterly disused. Logic says nothing's walked this road in ages.

"I'd be surprised if anyone lived here still given the sort of growth that's gotten through. I don't think anyone's used this in a LONG while."

He crouches down to touch the paving curiously.

Re: [First Discovery]

[pie-bitches.livejournal.com]

Well. That's odd. Random road in the middle of an alien planet. Dean doesn't like the idea of walking through brush either, because who knows what kind of things could be lurking, but then again...

"Looks abandoned to me," Dean remarks, staring at the road. "But that's probably what they want us to think. If we're going down the road, I call shotgun on not being the first one to die."

Re: [First Discovery]

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

"We're not exploring, yo. If the pod is down the road, we gotta go that way no matter, fer shizzle. And probably run into whatever mofos are down there whatever route we take," Dark Smoke Puncher said. At least, with the way things were going, they probably would. But mission objective was mission objective.

Re: [First Discovery]

[ihatefire.livejournal.com]

"I think we should stay off the road," says Cybil. "Ground near it doesn't look too difficult to walk over. Since the pod is that way, though, and we've got a little mystery going here, I do want to go parallel to it for a bit. See if we stumble across something that explains why it's here when Stacy said there were no people."

<-Just helping out with the comms things

[cityship]

They all get a call on the comms from Mal Reynolds.

«This is Six Lead--we've found the remains of some sorta city.. weather control devices and everything. Looks like everyone just, I don't know. Vanished. Might be some nasties out there to so keep y'alls eyes open. Anyone gotta pod status report?»

Re: <-Just helping out with the comms things

[cityship]

Chief adds:

« This is Five Lead. We may have found the reason for the empty city. There's some kind of bomb out here. Current theory is nanites. Possibly targeted all humans. No sign of them, if any are left they've most likely deteriorated and are not a threat. Have not reached the pod, but we're close. »

[cityship]

Nightwing chimes in next:

« This is Three Lead. That bomb would explain why there's signs of sentient life but not any actual life. And we actually already ran into at least one nasty, but we'll keep our eyes out for more. Hopefully, you're right about the nanites or whatever it was, Five lead. »

[playsin-traffic.livejournal.com]

Plays shakes his head. He's gone back to human for now and he scratches at his head with a shrug, "I'm with the boss-lady on this one... stick next to the road, not on it. Don't wanna get jumped or anything."

The transmissions are something else and he frowns, "...a bomb? Jesus Christ. Someone didn't like these people, huh?"

[wantstobebatman.livejournal.com]

Possible human targeted nanites? Oh lord this just got more and more nightmarish.

"I'd say 'didn't like' is an understatement of epic proportions." He heaves a sigh and stands again, brushing his coat off a little. (Hopefully there's a way for him to launder it back on the ship because it still smells like 'angry river'.)

"Alright, along SIDE the road then."

[godimgood.livejournal.com]

Geoff blinked at the rest of his group slowly.

Weren't leaders in potentially dangerous, rather military situations supposed to make decisions?

Without debate and repetition of one man's suggestion?

Shaking his head (and dismissing the future as weird again), Geoff started trudging along parallel to the road, moving far enough away that he could easily dive for cover if needed. Someone would probably follow him, at least.