The First Mission - (Chapter 1)

[Nolan Randall]

Nolan simply squacks the mic twice in quick succession. An affirmative without any words to confirm heard and understood.

[DM Spiral]

---Nolan---

Also, Nolan crashed the drone and hence wasn't able to gather any information.  Momo and Biscuit are currently trying to fish it out of a tree.


---Viego---

Viego managed to shadow Aaron the whole time watching his back without being detected by anything or anyone dangerous.

[Viego]

Viego waited for Aaron to make it back to him, watching his brothers back. Then they headed back to the APC and the others. Viego made sure check to see if they were being followed.

[Marcus Brand]

Marcus made another circuit before coming back to camp. There he posted up to wait for his brothers to make it back with more information.

[Nolan Randall]

Nolan comes out of the APC rubbing his head in frustration, and watches the dog boys try and retrieve the drone before the scouts return. He looks at Khayman.

"Remind me to book some training time flying that thing.. for ALL of us."

[MSgt Khayman Tamaroa]

Khayman was wearing his helmet so Nolan couldn't see the wide grin, though a bit of humor slipped from his lips at his response, Aye Aye Lieutenant, pretty sure most of us are in dire need of some drone training. He left off noting that the LT had crashing down to an art form.

[DM Spiral]

---Everyone---

Aaron and Viego make it back to camp without any issue to give their report.

[Nolan Randall]

So we have two gates in, an inactive skull walker handy by each gate, but not manned at the moment, unless they are sitting in there under tarps. The townsfolk are armed, and we have to assume they will be hostile if wwe just roll up."

"We need more intel. Aaron what do you think our odds are of infiltrating by night? I don't mean your odds, those are quite good, I mean your brothers, the master sergeant and myself?"

"If you get in ahead of us do you think you could sabotage a skull walker?"

[Aaron Brand]

Aaron scratched his chin thoughtfully for a moment. Couple ideas come to mind. We could make a big ruckus outside the town and see if that'll draw enough people out to sneak the squad in. Same deal with the skull-walkers; breaking a bot is easy enough if there's no eyes and ears on it. Aaron furrowed his brow as he thought about it some more. You said the townsfolk might be mind-controlled or possessed or something right? Problem is, we're dealing with civilians, plus I have no idea how a meat-puppet is going to react to any given situation.

Getting inside still leaves us with the same issue. He side-eyed Marcus' heavy dead-boy armor and smacked the chestplate a couple times. Visibility.

The other idea is...drop the armor and march right up to the gate as tired, traveling civilians. Maybe whoever or whatever is controlling the town will be enticed by fresh meat and let us in for a day or two.

Or- Aaron held up a finger and smiled. -we can give the drone another spin, see if we missed something important. Robotics aren't my specialty, but I do have ways of getting machines to whisper sweet nothings to me.

[Marcus Brand]

Marcus shrugged, "Well, if we go in as normal refugees with some sob story about being broke down or lost, it would give us a bit of cover.  Maybe find out which one or ones are the magic users bewitching people. If they don't try to enchant us right away, it could even give Aaron time to sneak out and disable those skull walkers. Do a bit more scouting inside on top of that. Unlike Viego, Aaron's invisibility lasts until he turns it off and takes none of his strength, so there is no time limit to how long he could poke around once we get inside."

"Of course we'd have to leave the Psi-Stalkers and the Dogboys out here. They stand out like a sore thumb, but at least we would have hard backup out here if things go south inside."