Nerv Bridge Simulator XIX - Quest

>Oh, by the way, weren't you supposed to have both Eileens? I only saw one tonight.
She was in a bad mood earlier, so we just let her be for a while. Hey, you mind keeping this Eileen occupied for a minute while I go check on the other one?

>Oh, by the way, weren't you supposed to have both Eileens? I only saw one tonight.

I think one of them tries to reinvent herself as a cynical misantrope. And it bothers me.

Oh, maybe it's just a phase? You know how it is with girls their age.

Sure, go ahead. This one is sleeping anyway,

[After knocking, you enter Eileen's room to find her sitting on her bed. She seems to have some kind of headache.]

Oh boy! The most exciting time of the week has finally arrived!

>You know how it is with girls their age.
I actually don't. I have no idea how this whole surrogate parenting thing works being an unmarried single man... maybe one of the other voices has a better understanding.

You feeling alright?

How you feeling Eileen? Hope we weren't too noisy with movie night.

Hey Eileen, you alright there? You've been a little out of it today, were you having a headache on the way back as well?

No that's okay. Even if Rachel was loud sometimes, I didn't hear much.

I've been getting these headaches ever since we came back from the medical ward. [She rubs her forehead.] I guess that's why I've been grumpy today. Sorry, Major.

Is that what it was? Oh Eileen, you should have said something.

How often do these happen? Want me to drive you to medical to get yourself checked out?

I-I don't- Ahg [She holds her head]

Major! What's-

[DECISIVE BATTLE PLAYS IN THE DISTANCE]

This is no ordinary headache.

...

...

If we're conscious: check on the others, call HQ, demand status report.

If not: suffer.

But this is NBS, we always suffer

>...What about your son, sir?

Oh this is gonna be great. I can already tell.

After those marks in the last midterms, I have no son!

>O_0.1
OOC:I may have an idea as to who this is

Florence's original?

>it's Ophelia

W-what? Who...?

My what!? Oh gawd this is one of the other voices doing isn't it? FFFFuu-uhhh I'll pick him up next weekend at 2?

youtube.com/watch?v=ddzqOugXW8M

The command frigate is the safest place he can be.

[The man turns toward you]
Mark are you alright? I need you here with me, this is not the damn time for one of your black-out for christ's sake.

Oh Jesus, we're at second impact aren't we.

Don't worry, I'm here. Give me a SITREP.

So the 'M.' on our ID doesn't stand for 'Major'?

I'm not alright, there's a bunch of voices in my head and also everyone's gonna die like almost right now.

Despite what our ID badge says, our first name is not Major.

Oh god

Sorry, Sir. What's the situation again?

S-sorry must have had a bit too much to drink.
Let me get my footing and I'll get to you.

Really should have brought my medicine, huh?
Don't worry, I'm not gonna fall apart on you just yet.

Why did "we" black out when Eileen was the one with the headache?

Shenanigans

We are both the angel

Dr. Hughes' team is preparing the contact procedure as we speak. If they're right on schedule they should've finished setting up the Crocea Mors.

We haven't got much time if we want to stop this.

It cannot be bargained with. It cannot be reasoned with. Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

Let's hurry then. We don't want to keep the world waiting.

But what is happening? where am I?

Care to debrief me on whats the situation right now?

Passive observation man. Don't clue them in.

Hopefully as bad as the infamous German Forklift Safety video.
youtube.com/watch?v=do7lYmr2fPs

Well, there goes my theory explaining why one Eileen was nice and the other grumpy...

youtube.com/watch?v=8wt8oWGDsVA

Get a grip, Mark.

Okay here's the situation.

We'll enter the complex through the Main Excavation Site, here. It should be lightly guarded, so we may be able to pass unnoticed. Still, I hope you're prepared to shoot, Mark. Our ID cards should still work, but we're supposed to be off-base, our colleagues will get suspicious if they catch us in there.

Our objective is the Super Solenoid Research Laboratories here. Once we're there Ophelia will be able to cause a cascading Anti A.T. Field reaction inside one of the prototype stored there. I hope it will be enough to destroy the egg.

>It will, Dr. Wilson. There won't be anything left of this complex.

Let's hope so.

But this means we'll have to go through the Containment Chamber, where Hughes' team is currently working on the Contact Experiment. There is probably two full security team stationed there.

Have you got any idea on how to approach this? There's only three of us versus 25 to 40 armed guards

Ahh jeez, I'm getting Kiryu Kai flashbacks here. What about the airstrip? Any way we can get in through there?

If we can't bypass the containment chamber then the best option is probably evading them, taking a lesser-trafficked route. Maintenance tunnels are great for this, observation catwalks too.

Storage should have spare hazmats. We put them on, grab random boxes and walk through Containment. If anybody asks we're fetching supplies for the lab.
There's the thing with our IDs, but nobody checks hazmat guys for ID.

If the HAZMAT idea doesn't pan out then we could combine [Disguise] with [Evade]. Snag some grey jumpsuits and toolboxes and pretend to be the maint crew or janitors. Either way, I don't fancy our odds if we're even in the same room as 40-odd security goons.

We need to establish a hit and run tactic here. There's no way that we can take down that many.

We can run interference through the main entrance to the containment chamber. Once we clear out any resitance in the West storage, Ophelia can take a subtle route to the containment chamber once we take the attention of the guards into the main excavation site.

We can then fall back into one of the facility rooms, and lock whatever teams we led out from entering the facility. This should buy us enough time to engage whatever forces remain inside, as well as letting Ophelia reach the main objective.

It's risky, but I don't think we have many options here.

Lets try this route.

We'll go through the west storage facility and enter the containment chamber from the side and travel along its outskirts. This will let us quickly slip through in the background and end up in the central computing facility. It's a bit out of our way, but it gets us out of the containment chamber faster. From there, we just head on over to the lab.

We're basically taking the long way around, but I think it might be safer since it gets us through the containment chamber faster.

I like it.

Does the facility have any advantageous air ducts or crawl spaces that we can enter and exit through?

I feel like this could make the sneaking approach easier. Also, what armaments are we taking with us?

This route together with HAZMAT disguise seems like the best option.

Offtopic: after seeing Ophelia normal looking here , remembering what she looked like in the hospital makes me really sad.

We always could. There's surely less guards there since they've been moved to the Containment Chamber. It would obviously give us less time to act though.

Good thinking. We'll have to get a big toolbox for our weapons. HAZMATs crew don't carry SMGs. We could also use the disguise to scare people into believing there's been a breach somewhere and the complex is being contaminated by something.

I agree, causing a distraction might be our best chance at succeeding this. Though I'm worried that letting Ophelia go by herself might be too big a risk.

Let's take this route. Passing by the west storage will let us borrow some HAZMAT suits and avoid passing through the centre of the Containment Chamber.

We have one SMG each. This is all I could get.

And yeah, there's many air ducts and maintenance tunnels, but I don't know them that well.

Alright, this is it. Let's go.

We can regroup at the far side of the containment chamber and proceed with the time we have onwards.

Anyways, let's not waste anymore time. Lock and load people.

youtube.com/watch?v=ikB4DwgNRDw

[Ophelia]
We have to do this, Mark. There's no going back now.

[Wilson]
There's two guys there. I can't see if they're guards or research personnel.

Your call, Mark. What should we do?

Lob a rock way over their heads as a classic distraction. If they turn around we can hold them up or take them out at our discretion.

"Let's take them out quietly, if we can't sneak by. No guns, not yet."

Sneak. Don't start shooting unless we have to.

CQC guys, nothing loud.

Potato chip their necks.

[Wilson]
Okay, Mark. We need a quiet 1d10 roll.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

H-H-Here we go!

Rolled 8 (1d10)

H-here I go!

Rolled 2 (1d10)

Rolled 5 (1d10)

Let's try a reroll.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

Sneaky Snek, Snaps Surveillance Specialists.

>6

[You quickly (and quietly) dispatch those two researchers. They never saw you coming]

[Ophelia]
This is where they excavated the Crocea Mors. It seems it's already been moved to the Containment Chamber, we must hurry.

[Dr. Wilson]
If we follow the orange cables we should end up in the West Storage Access Corridor. Let's stay on our toes.

"Remind me again, Ophelia. When we found the sword, was it attached to anything? I don't think I got enough sleep last night, so I can't remember."

Why are they posting so much security and research over a sword? I don't understand why they would do that.

Sword?

The Crocea Mors was Caesar's sword. It remains to be seen whether or not it's just some kind of code-word.

I think it might be this universe's Lance of Longinus.

The main piece had lots of fossilized pattern-blue residue. At least the samples they sent us at the computing facility were covered in them.

This was in the report our division director made. The one that was ignored and explicitly warned the U.N. to postpone any contact experiment. But then our whole division gets obligatory leave and people start disappearing.

Did they told you anything? I mean, you were one of the guard assigned to the computing facility.

"Honestly, I didn't want anything to do with it. I just tried to stay away. Level with me here, how bad is this? What I mean is, how expendable is the crew here? I'm willing to do whatever it takes, but I'd prefer not to kill any non-combatants unless this is really hairy."

[Ophelia]
...No one is getting out of this alive, Mark. You know this.

[Wilson]
Shut it, you two. I'm hearing voices up ahead.

Shit. They must've kept guards patrolling the West Storage Area.

Have we had these flashbacks before?

nope

There's no cover and nowhere to hide. This is going to get ugly.

Did we know that we were present at second impact?

I'm not so sure this is us.

Who else could it possibly be?

Damnit, we should have picked up one of their uniforms out there.

Let's hope we can engage quickly, and fast enough to do this.

I don't know, but why would we be called Mark here if we were always user before. I think we're viewing this from someone else's perspective.

...get him into...no time to...status of Fourth Child?

...fighting, goddammit!

One, at the beginning of the third thread.

Isn't user our last name?

Oh shit, we're needed!

Welp, sounds like we're pretty fucked up.

>Ophelia was once a person that we knew but have apparently forgotten
>the Ophelia supercomputer has a strange attachment to Major user and has been helping us out
>Florence has a very suspicious resemblance to human Ophelia and is hinted at having been artificially created
>Florence is either related to human Ophelia, or is a clone of human Ophelia
>the Major is similarly a clone of Mark
I just wanted to fight Angels and save the world. This is getting too heavy for me.

I think we may be Mark or Wilson's son. Take a look at the 3rd thread's flashback. Does that guy look like Wilson?

O-ophelia...
Ma-mark...
Wilson...

Doctor...is that you?