Off to work

[cityship]

||Attention, Attention,|| Stacy's voice rang out suddenly throughout the ship. ||Will the following personnel please report to the Obs Deck:||

||Michael Blanc,||
||Kazami Shiro,|
||Andrew Davis,||
||Aibghalien Marsai,||
||Spiderman--616 universe,||
||Julian Keller,||
||Nanashi,||
||Katara,||
||Lash,||
||Wags-Tail-Alot,||
||Phillip,||
||and Vita.||

||Attention,

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Arrivals

[cityship]

Those Stacy paged start coming in.

To protect the world from devastation!

[for_magic]

After hastily cramming most of his library into his portable hole, Aibghalien floated up to the obs deck with a look of complete confusion. He'd only been awake a short time, certainly not long enough to experience anything of this nature before.

Still, he can and does adapt. Heading into a warzone to destroy an opposing force was practically his bread and butter for entirely too long. One thing nagged him, though, and he spoke up to anyone who might be willing to answer.

"What's a Node?"

Re: To protect the world from devastation!

[cityship]

||Ohm command and control unit with powerful psychic abilities. Highly dangerous, but not present on this planet. The forces present appear to be just a small splinter force.||

[for_magic]

"Thank you," he said.

Then he began a quick inventory of his supplies -- shifting wands about, reorganizing scrolls in his case, checking his staffs... The basic necessities of a wizard going to war. At the same time, he can't help but wonder just how out-of-place he'll be, amongst the others paged.

Uh oh.

[kaya_waterwave]

Katara had responded quickly when she heard the summons, but her heart sunk a little once she read the stats. Fighting the Ohm wasn't the problem: if anything, that would be a relief from fighting within the crew. What had bothered her was the climate: it would be the first time she'd ever fought without any water handy. She had run through a few simulations in the desert, but there would be no Sensoriums to get her out. She had brought the blade Nanashi had given her, and mentally started to prepare herself.

She could already see there were others, and definitely some familiar faces.

Mission Start

[cityship]

||Preparations complete,|| Stacy says eventually. ||Entering planet's orbit. Beginning deployment.||

The doors to the Obs Deck close, and the whole room lurches slightly as the deck detaches from Stacy's main body, and after a moment, they're all weightless. They can see the planet through the window now, the brown landscape and orange clouds drawing ever closer.

It takes only a matter of minutes to reach the surface, and there's a slightly stronger lurch as the Obs Deck touches down, gravity returning to the room.

One of the massive walls opens up to form a ramp to the planet's surface, the rocky, windswept landscape and red-hued sky laid out before them.

||Ohm artillery appears to be most heavily concentrated about 1 klick northwest of your current position. I've marked it on your maps in your Omnicomms.||

||Good luck.||

Re: Mission Start

[twin_fans]

Kazami swears to himself silently. Stacy could've let him grab his motorcycle first. Oh well. He rubs his commring and looks at the others. Everyone's comm rings working? As he waits for the responses, he holds a hand up to shade his eyes as he scans the horizon for any sign of the Ohm. No point in talking, if there's a scout, someone might hear them. Keller, you're in charge according to the briefing. What are your orders?

Re: Mission Start

[lil_hellion]

Julian took a brief moment to look around. He really didn't have much time to find out about everyone's current skillsets, other than what was in the personnel briefs, but no time like the present.

«Loud and clear.» Julian was just a touch more sensitive than most other people to comm rings. «Watch the volume.»

«Here's the deal, the webhead is on the advance scout team, and take the werewolf with you. Get a look at what we're up against, and keep the comms open at all times.» Though he had a feeling he was going to regret that last order.

«Where's the elf?»

Re: Mission Start

[memory_hax]

Comm rings are coming out loud and clear on my end, replied Phillip as he left the book on his chair and headed out with the others, uploading a sequence of routes highlighted in varying criss-crossing colors into the Omnicom system. Like Kazami, he wished he had the Hardboiler or even access to the RevolGarry, but he figured it would have caused problems later. Adjusting volume on mine.

He looked around and decided after a moment, to doff his usual long coat and leave it there. He only had one thing from his home beyond the usual memories tucked into his pants pocket, and Fang was undoubtedly with him somewhere on this arid terrain. I ran some simulations mentally, and I can upload a quick map of routes we can take to avoid detection with a 72% probability of success to get in and out before they notice us. However I will require intel from the scouting team before we use any of the routes I've marked.