trans_9 | System Shock - Fight the Power!

Gods could be too arrogant. Such was the case of SHODAN, who had turned the Pods into a nightmarish zone where she could freely amuse herself and torture those that had come here.

But arrogance breeds pride which breeds mistakes. Instead of killing everyone off, she had decided to do this more slowly – watch them suffer in a slow agony, and, therefore had not expected them to fight back.

It had been a lucky shot, really, one in a million, But one of the people present that day had accidentally shot a tiny, insignificant object. A tiny little drone, that, once it had been the source of the power damper, had fallen. The tables were turned, and the goddess had been forced to retreat from the pods.

Now she was on a panicked mode, not only because some of the other people on the ship had managed to work their way into her system files, using another AI to send pointless images and sounds to her, distracting her from her task, but they knew how they could defeat her and gain their powers back.

It didn't take long for the message to be sent out, as the word quickly spread. Find the tiny little creatures, and shoot them down. SHODAN couldn't work their shields properly and once they were found, it was only a short matter of time before the powers returned to an area.

It would take time, but, finally, the tide of the battle was turning on the side of the crewmen and women. In vain, she was throwing her all; even more strange robot creatures, attacking in packs, but with hope on their side, they could win this...

[OOC - OKay go for it! NPC players, feel free to NPC as many robots as you like. Players, once your powers return, feel free to make as much scrap metal as you like, no need to have people NPC for you if you just want to write tags of them kicking ass.]

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At least this run seemed to be going a little better than the last one. Cedric had made his way here with magic, but he was down to the bullets once again. He was quite lucky that he hadn't yet run into dampers being guarded with anything more threatening.

A shot hit the overturned table he was hiding behind, shoving pieces into him. He leapt out of his spot and rolled painfully, spotting another person's movement just before he fired again. "Who's there?"

"Fuu!" No time for a more formal introduction, unfortunately. The man inside fired again--Fuu decided that she'd better join him before one of them hit the other by accident. She popped up to fire again and then ran, hoping that there was a door or some other opening to the house near her position.

There was a hole in the wall around the corner. That would do. She aimed and fired more carefully. "Are you all right, gunman-san?!"

"Cedric," he called over his shoulder, shifting to let her near. "I'm as fine as I'm going to be. There should be a damper further up. Ready to charge it?"

He crouched and reloaded, ready to begin the awkward ascent once again. They needed to hurry---more robots were advancing through the stairwell they needed to hit, and quickly.

Fine as I'm going to be--Fuu wasn't sure yet whether that was up to her own definition of the word, but they needed to take care of the damper first.

She checked the settings on the phaser and nodded. "Yes. Just say when."

Cedric waited just a few seconds longer, for a robot to look for them in another spot. It was then clear.

"Go!" he yelped, leaping into the fray and shooting through the core. That robot slowed enough for him to pass, running straight at the damper. "Ready?"

These things were tough, he'd learned. They might both need to smash it at once.

Fuu fired another phaser blast after Cedric's bullet for good measure and rushed after him to the damper. She keyed the phaser up to the absolute highest setting. She'd kept it a bit lower, because of that setting's ability to vaporize organic matter, and she didn't want to accidentally kill a crewmate.

But at this range, power was more important. "Ready!" She aimed carefully at the dampener, prepared to fire.

System Shock - Fight the Power!

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