ABS FIESTA REDUX

[carolcat]

Talko seems to be in bliss. Jalko shoots up and approaches Cualli. He sniffs her inquisitively, the sneezes on her. The parks right next to Talko when done.

Jaakko waits for the bot to explain.

Cualli seems a little startled by the dog sneezing on her and wipes her arm off before petting both dogs at the same time.

: To shorten a long story: I am a trophy of war.

"Sounds like you weren't exactly brought here willingly." She pauses briefly. "Do you miss home?"

[Ad Bot]

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko interjects.

"He was found at Taiton, brought to McNamara airbase in shambles, taken by Tippy, and fixed by a technician named Yukamo. He's been traveling with us more or less ever since then,"

The dogs are pleased.

[carolcat]

Cualli frowns slightly at Jaakko, still fluffing the dogs. "Thanks, but I think he's more than able to answer for himself."

[Qwepir]

Mission Theme

"Whoa!"

Ellie deploys three flares and jinks. She also fires three AAMs at Transporter-3.

Tukreb base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of 2
AAM 1 provides penalty of 35
AAM 2 provides penalty of 35
AAM 3 provides penalty of 35
Flares provide bonus of 120
Test taken at 92
Roll: 68 - success
Test passed
You dodge the incoming all-aspects and fire your own at the transport. The Tukreb you drove off regains its composure and fires an aimed burst at you.
RAC accuracy 45
Experience provides bonus of 6
Aimed shot provides bonus of 10
Gun range provides no bonus or penalty
Test taken at 61
Roll: 65 - failure
Result: Miss
It misses.

"That VTOL is still in business. I have to work on my aim..."

Faw does an Immelmann and goes for another pass at the transporter, firing his flak cannon and a HSM at the crippled aircraft.

Flak Cannon accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of 2
Gun range provides no bonus or penalty
Test taken at 52
Roll: 38 - success by 2 degrees
Result: 2 hits to left engine
You knock out one of the engines and send it tumbling down, causing the missiles fired to be completely redundant.

Walter attempts to move his cross hair over Telarius and fires all seven weapons, Walter listens to the drone of the multiple weapons firing as he watches the unidentified plane evade.
"Let me pick up on that for you xiaomei."

UAC accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of 3
Aimed shot provides bonus of 20
Gun range provides no bonus or penalty
Evasive maneuvers provide penalty of 20
Test taken at 43
Roll: 79 - failure
Reroll granted by duplicate weapon: 83 - failure
Result: Miss

PPC accuracy 60
Experience provides bonus of 3
Aimed shot provides bonus of 20
Gun range provides no bonus or penalty
Evasive maneuvers provide penalty of 20
Test taken at 63
Roll: 25 - success
Result: 1 hit to fuselage

RAC accuracy 45
Experience provides bonus of 3
Aimed shot provides bonus of 20
Gun range provides no bonus or penalty
Evasive maneuvers provide penalty of 20
Test taken at 48
Roll: 90 - failure
Reroll granted by duplicate weapon: 61 - failure
Reroll granted by triplicate weapon: 88 - failure
Reroll granted by quadruplicate weapon: 4 - success by 4 degrees
Result: 4 hits to fuselage
Walt vomits a stream of shells so dense he feels his plane slow down from the recoil, and the Sol is reduced to wholly unsalvageable swiss cheese.

"stuff!"
Yui forms up with Faw and moves to eliminate the VTOLs, taking aim at Transporter 4 and firing the P3.

PPP accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of 2
Aimed shot provides bonus of 10
Gun range provides no bonus or penalty
Test taken at 62
Roll: 40 - success
Result: 1 hit to roosterpit
The pilot is vaporized by the impact, while the troops inside have their skin boiled away by the superheated gas rushing in from the roosterpit area. The transport crashes in the dirt, well outside the base perimeter.

Lorens drops two flare packets and maneuvers evasively, responding in kind with 2 AAMs of his own.

Viper base EV 68
Experience provides bonus of 2
AAM 1 provides penalty of 35
AAM 2 provides penalty of 35
Flares provide bonus of 80
Test taken at 80
Roll: 55 - success
Test passed

Tukreb base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of 6
AAM 1 provides penalty of 35
AAM 2 provides penalty of 35
Flares provide bonus of 40
Test taken at 51
Roll: 22 - success
The Tukreb dodges and opens fire on you with its gun.
RAC accuracy 45
Experience provides bonus of 6
Aimed shot provides bonus of 10
Gun range provides no bonus or penalty
Small target provides penalty of 5
Test taken at 56
Roll: 35 - success by 3 degrees
Result: 3 hits to fuselage
A little over a half dozen 20mm shells strike your fuselage, causing multiple structural alerts to pop up on your hud.

: [Squad leader is down! We need reinforcements!]
: [Understood, dispatching backup.]

Xiaomei and Yamato break towards the facility to put themselves between any more incoming transports.

"Sounds like you weren't exactly brought here willingly." She pauses briefly. "Do you miss home?"

: I do not miss where I was stationed as much as I miss having a purpose.

[Gojira]

Yui takes aim at Transporter 5 and fires two AAMs at Transporter 6.

[carolcat]

: I do not miss where I was stationed as much as I miss having a purpose.

"You want a purpose?" she asks, fluffing the dogs' ears. "Like some work, maybe?"

[Qwepir]

"You want a purpose?" she asks, fluffing the dogs' ears. "Like some work, maybe?"

: More work would be welcome.

[carolcat]

: More work would be welcome.

"With how eager there pilots are to break their very expensive, complex toys..." She glances briefly at Jaakko before focusing on the robot again, "I can always use the extra help. You ever done engineering work before?"

[Mr. Hurricane]

"That's part of the reason I brought him here. I'm sure there's more he could do to help, but we need higher clearence. You had expressed interest in him, so I thought perhaps you would welcome the help," Jaakko says.

The dogs are in bliss.

[ZombiLoin]

"Two transporters down, two left. Moving in for another shot."

Faw aims at Transporter-5 and dumps all his remaining RGMs at it.

[Badger]

Walter laughs at the sheer power from the weapons and then looks out his roosterpit again at the armour where the HDR has finally stopped.

"So much for the new paint job. When ground crew has time make sure you go identify the mangles of that tin can I just downed. Snowman I'm moving to support you, stay clear."

Walter lumbers the Shikra to bear down on Turkeb-3 and fires only his RACs

[Operator¹]

"Watch out Raiden, they called for help."

Ellie fires two seekers at Tukreb-4.

[NoZoner]

Several lights on the annunciator panel blink as the Falcon is hit with cannonfire.

"[huff] Alright, breaking left!, [huff]"

Lorens turns away from the Tukreb and forms up alongside the Shikra. No longer fighting g-effects, he relaxes his limbs and gut and catches his breath.

Wait, did he just laugh?

[Qwepir]

Yui takes aim at Transporter 5 and fires two AAMs at Transporter 6.

Transport VTOL base EV 50
Experience provides bonus of 4
AAM 1 provides penalty of 35
AAM 2 provides penalty of 35
Flares provide bonus of 80
Test taken at 64
Roll: 53 - success
Test passed
Transport 6 deploys its two flares to evade the all-aspects.

"Two transporters down, two left. Moving in for another shot."

Faw aims at Transporter-5 and dumps all his remaining RGMs at it.

Transport VTOL base EV 50
Experience provides bonus of 4
RGM 1 provides penalty of 15
RGM 2 provides penalty of 15
RGM 3 provides penalty of 15
Chaff provides bonus of 40
Test taken at 49
Roll: 17 - success
Test passed
RGMs are hopelessly ineffective at this range, and the transport easily dodges all three.

Walter laughs at the sheer power from the weapons and then looks out his roosterpit again at the armour where the HDR has finally stopped.

"So much for the new paint job. When ground crew has time make sure you go identify the mangles of that tin can I just downed. Snowman I'm moving to support you, stay clear."

Walter lumbers the Shikra to bear down on Turkeb-3 and fires only his RACs

RAC accuracy 45
Experience provides bonus of 3
Aimed shot provides bonus of 10
Gun range provides no bonus or penalty
Test taken at 58
Roll: 98 - failure
Reroll granted by duplicate weapon: 9 - success by 5 degrees
Result: 5 hits to right wing
You tear the wing right off the plane, sending it spiraling down and forcing the pilot out.

"Watch out Raiden, they called for help."

Ellie fires two seekers at Tukreb-4.

Tukreb base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of 6
HSM 1 provides penalty of 35
HSM 2 provides penalty of 35
Test taken at 11
Roll: 4 - success
Test passed
Luck is not with Ellie at the moment. Fortunately for her, in light of its squadmate going down, it changes targets to the more urgent target: Walt.
RAC accuracy 45
Experience provides bonus of 6
Aimed shot provides bonus of 10
Gun range provides no bonus or penalty
Colossal target provides bonus of 15
Test taken at 61
Roll: 4 - success by 6 degrees
Result: 4 hits to fuselage
It lays into his fuselage with the 20mm, tearing up the already weakened hull plating and destroying an intake. Walt's starboard engine is now on fire.

Two turns until point blank, and two turns until the transports can land. Walt and Snowman pick up some radar-guided missiles as a third VTOL wave of emerges from the clouds partway through missile range.
: Stay clear of the VTOLs, prepping shockwave.

"With how eager there pilots are to break their very expensive, complex toys..." She glances briefly at Jaakko before focusing on the robot again, "I can always use the extra help. You ever done engineering work before?"

: My work history consists only of janitorial work and animal care.

Eremit walks into the hangar to check Cualli's progress on his plane, then notices the crowd around it and decides he'd rather be somewhere else.

[carolcat]

: My work history consists only of janitorial work and animal care.

Eremit walks into the hangar to check Cualli's progress on his plane, then notices the crowd around it and decides he'd rather be somewhere else.

"You wanna learn how to help out in here? I could find you something to do. Maybe you'd-"

She trails off as she notices Eremit walking in. "Hey, this is your plane, yeah?" she calls. "It's done, come look it over."

Cualli glances at the robot and adds, in a tone that only he and Jaakko can hear, "Always good to check with the pilots ahead of time so they don't bitch at you at the last minute."