ABS FIESTA REDUX

[Qwepir]

Walter starts heading back with a bag slung over his shoulder and carrying the other in his hand, not paying much attention to the conversation.

"Let's just get this stuff back and then continue on to whatever else they need, we might get to go and look for wounded which would give us some free reign in the camp."

You bring the supplies back and are instructed to get more, this time with a hastily-scrawled list of some more specific items. Once back at the medical facility, Virvel again expresses her desire to go look inside the Mortuarium. Frisk just looks at Walter, expecting him to convince her otherwise.

"I'm sure she's alive," he responds, "You guys don't seem like you'd die all that easy, at least."
Xiaomei's proficiency in Gothic surprises Lorens. His curiosity derails his train of thought.
"... Do all of you guys know an EP language or is she the only one?"

: Just her. Why, do you guys have some Gothic speakers?

Xiaomei points out one of the Goths to the guard.
: May we borrow him for a while? We just need to ask him some questions.
: Yeah, sure. Just bring him back when you're done.

The guard points to the person in question and orders them out. Even with their apparently poor grasp of Aesthian language, the hand signals, simple verbiage, and implied threat of violence allow the medic to understand what's being said.

"I should have worn gloves for digging around in this stuff. I'm going to go check the other side of the pile."

Tippy's PER 33
Searching for a large item provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 43
Roll: 53 - failure
Test failed
Another few minutes go by with no finds.
: What's this thing look like, anyway?

[Ad Bot]

[Badger]

Walter starts heading back with a bag slung over his shoulder and carrying the other in his hand, not paying much attention to the conversation.

"Let's just get this stuff back and then continue on to whatever else they need, we might get to go and look for wounded which would give us some free reign in the camp."

You bring the supplies back and are instructed to get more, this time with a hastily-scrawled list of some more specific items. Once back at the medical facility, Virvel again expresses her desire to go look inside the Mortuarium. Frisk just looks at Walter, expecting him to convince her otherwise.

"I'm sure she's alive," he responds, "You guys don't seem like you'd die all that easy, at least."

Xiaomei's proficiency in Gothic surprises Lorens. His curiosity derails his train of thought.

"... Do all of you guys know an EP language or is she the only one?"

: Just her. Why, do you guys have some Gothic speakers?

Xiaomei points out one of the Goths to the guard.
: May we borrow him for a while? We just need to ask him some questions.
: Yeah, sure. Just bring him back when you're done.

The guard points to the person in question and orders them out. Even with their apparently poor grasp of Aesthian language, the hand signals, simple verbiage, and implied threat of violence allow the medic to understand what's being said.

"I should have worn gloves for digging around in this stuff. I'm going to go check the other side of the pile."

Tippy's PER 33
Searching for a large item provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 43
Roll: 53 - failure
Test failed
Another few minutes go by with no finds.
: What's this thing look like, anyway?

Walter goes to roll his eyes but stops himself with a long blink

"I'll go check it with her quickly while you go find supplies, probably just some empty operation room. We'll be back in no time."

[Tayasaurus]

: What's this thing look like, anyway?

Tippy stands up and dusts off her hands and throws her arms open wide.

"Like, huge. One of its more defining features is its barrel which is covered in a ludicrous amount of cooling fins. That and they actually had the decency to manufacture the majority of them with wood furniture."

Tippy tries the other side of the pile.

[NoZoner]

: Just her. Why, do you guys have some Gothic speakers?

Xiaomei points out one of the Goths to the guard.
: May we borrow him for a while? We just need to ask him some questions.
: Yeah, sure. Just bring him back when you're done.

The guard points to the person in question and orders them out. Even with their apparently poor grasp of Aesthian language, the hand signals, simple verbiage, and implied threat of violence allow the medic to understand what's being said.

Lorens watches the medic get up from his spot. The imp, despite keeping a straight face, seemed apprehensive.

"I think I heard one of our pilots speak it, don't remember who though. I think they spoke it natively," he notes, "I was just curious."

[carolcat]

: Yeah. Sort of. They were supporting the men on the ground and had me go shoot down a destroyer on my own. I nearly got fried twice.

She follows him. "A destroyer? Like, those big huge things?" Her eyes widen, expressing her concern.

[Qwepir]

Walter goes to roll his eyes but stops himself with a long blink
"I'll go check it with her quickly while you go find supplies, probably just some empty operation room. We'll be back in no time."

You enter the Mortuarium and find an awful lot of body bags.
: Huh. Well this is a room.

Curiosity gets the better of her, and she goes to peek inside one of the bags.
: Ouch, that looks painful. I think I can see skull.

Tippy stands up and dusts off her hands and throws her arms open wide.

"Like, huge. One of its more defining features is its barrel which is covered in a ludicrous amount of cooling fins. That and they actually had the decency to manufacture the majority of them with wood furniture."

Tippy tries the other side of the pile.

Now that she knows what to look for, Nagato starts trying to help
Tippy's PER 33
Searching for a large item provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 43
Roll: 20 - success
Test passed
Before long, you spot what you believe to be the receiver of the gun underneath some rubble.

Lorens watches the medic get up from his spot. The imp, despite keeping a straight face, seemed apprehensive.
"I think I heard one of our pilots speak it, don't remember who though. I think they spoke it natively," he notes, "I was just curious."

: Do you speak it? Could be helpful when asking this guy what he knows.

Xiaomei starts leading the medic to a nearby structure, and Yamashiro begins to follow her.

She follows him. "A destroyer? Like, those big huge things?" Her eyes widen, expressing her concern.

: Yes.

[carolcat]

: Yes.

"And you had to deal with that thing-" She stops herself, realizing what his answer will probably be.

"...I'm glad you made it back in one piece. I can't imagine what it felt like being on your own out there."

[Tayasaurus]

Tippy pulls out her pistol and sets it on a slab of concrete near her.

"Just in case... some versions of these rifles i had gathered from articles were paired with power armor, so if this is the PA type someone might be operating on whatever air is left in the suit underneath. Hopefully, this isn't the case."

Tippy begins digging to loosen up the weapon.

[NoZoner]

: Do you speak it? Could be helpful when asking this guy what he knows.

"Me? No. I wish."

Lorens follows the three into the structure.

... Was it really okay for those guards to let her take the prisoner so easily? He starts eyeing Xiaomei carefully.

[Badger]

"Satisfied? We should head back and help frisk now, I don't think there's anything else notable in here."

Walter does a look over of the room to see if he spots anything worth looking at.

[Qwepir]

"And you had to deal with that thing-" She stops herself, realizing what his answer will probably be.
"...I'm glad you made it back in one piece. I can't imagine what it felt like being on your own out there."

He shrugs.
: It wasn't so bad. At least I didn't have to listen to everyone else's squabbling.

Tippy pulls out her pistol and sets it on a slab of concrete near her.
"Just in case... some versions of these rifles i had gathered from articles were paired with power armor, so if this is the PA type someone might be operating on whatever air is left in the suit underneath. Hopefully, this isn't the case."
Tippy begins digging to loosen up the weapon.

After a bit of digging, you uncover the rifle and the rather graphically crushed person still holding it. Nagato bails as soon as you uncover the person's arm, and walks several feet away so she doesn't have to see the rest.

"Me? No. I wish."
Lorens follows the three into the structure.
... Was it really okay for those guards to let her take the prisoner so easily? He starts eyeing Xiaomei carefully.

Yamashiro sits the doctor down and immediately starts aggressively grilling him for information while Xiaomei calmly translates for her. Knowing neither Gothic nor Kintharian, you find yourself left out of the loop.

"Satisfied? We should head back and help frisk now, I don't think there's anything else notable in here."
Walter does a look over of the room to see if he spots anything worth looking at.

: Nah, man, this is fascinating! When I was a kid, I always wanted to be a coroner.

Other than what you assume to be some personal effects sitting on a table (a watch, some prayer beads, an Imperial service pistol, a necklace from which hangs a rune associated with Vildikar, some photographs, etc), and a lot of paperwork, there doesn't appear to be much else in the room. Aside from the body bags.
: That was a joke, by the way. You can laugh whenever.

[Gojira]

"It sucked. A lot, actually."

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko had been staring at the darkened skyline. He sees Tippy digging in the rubble and walks over, and is met with Tippy taking a huge gun from mangled arms.

"Taylor, what the forget?"

[Deoxys And One Noob]

As Hilbert sits on his bunk, he turns his mind back in time to when he first asked his parents why they moved to NAUC. He was 12 years old at the time about to start the boarding school, and his father told him the story. He had a Mercanan close friend who he kept in contact with, who told him about the Zentragothic government's corruption. With his wife, Hilbert's eventual mother, he left the Imperium before the Zentragothorum closed it's borders, and moved to the capital of NAUC with almost nothing but their clothing, gaining political asylum and a NAUC citizenship.

Now he jumps to the age of 15, where his love of flying was planted and bloomed. Sure, it was a stuffty single-prop that probably couldn't last a few hours of continuous flying, but back then, it seemed like a revolution. The skies were his now, achievements thought impossible to him before were now in his teenage grasp.

Ten years... ten years ago, I would have never thought I would be fighting against my own, using these wonders, innovations for death and destruction. Such is war.

It still doesn't stop him feeling guilty, really. He stops thinking for a moment and decides to take out a photograph of himself in the Air Force Academy, graduation period. There was Joel. Here's Farghan!

After looking around to see if someone's near him, he mutters ["That cracked me up, that goofy innocent tone. I wonder how he's doing?"] in Gothic, his tongue of choice. His birth language, or so he thought.

Graf decides to get up and head again for the mess hall. That's enough for a day. Too much thinking can clutter up the mind, it can stop you from doing the job well. And he had to, in the Air Force.

[Tayasaurus]

Jaakko had been staring at the darkened skyline. He sees Tippy digging in the rubble and walks over, and is met with Tippy taking a huge gun from mangled arms.

"Taylor, what the forget?"

"Yeah sorry you had to see that." Tippy says, though more directed at Nagato.

Tippy retrieves the rest of the rifle and looks it over for any damage.