| Enter the Swarm X: Swarm vs Auðumbla |
| Summary: | The Swarm returns, but seems a little rusty. |
| Date: | 27 Feb 2042 AE |
| Related Logs: | All swarms; continued in Running to Stand Still |
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| Black and cold and full of pretty clouds of confounding radiation. |
| Post-Holocaust Day: #366 |
[Hydra's MysteryMobile: Volans] This attack begins again exactly as they have every other time before, as if that unusual but not at all unwelcome respite never happened. Two raiders pop in not far from the CAP, and move immediately in to engage. Alert fighters are scrambled, and the battle is joined. Those clouds of radiation around Audumbla have (presumably) hidden the fleet these last few days but they prove a double-edged sword now, as they muss with DRADIS, making it untrustworthy and at times totally blank. It plays similar havoc with the rest of the equipment at an ECO's disposal, forcing everyone to rely more heavily on cockpit visuals than is normally ideal. One can only hope it does the same or worse to Cylon systems.
[BlackKnight-853: Khloe] So much for sanctuary. Having volunteered to take as many CAP rotations as humanly possible, Khloe Vakos' Viper speeds along through the clouds on an intercept vector. DRADIS is glitchy at best, but when the two undeniable contacts appear on her screen, she's quick to kick on afterburners and test her fate.
[TAC3] "Poppy" Khloe says, "Cerberus, Poppy, I read two contacts on DRADIS. Reading as hostile. Intercepting. Over. Meat, Poppy. On my six."
[BlackKnight-650: Cidra] The fact that the CAG holds dual qualification is more an academic fact than anything else around the Air Wing. Cidra is a bus driver, whatever else she might be on paper. She sits the occasional Alert shift or flies the occasional CAP, but her status as a 'Viper jock' is more urban legend than normal course or affairs. She was on Alert with the Vipers when the klaxons sounded, however, so she flies out of the tubes in a Mark VII. Her handling is unremarkable, perhaps notably cautious, but she's not the only one flying coy in the radiation soup that is Audumbla. She scrambles with the rest of the Alert fighters, forming up with Devlin.
[TAC3] "Toast" Cidra says, "Poppy, Toast. Copy. Alert fighters scrambling. Be with you in a moment." If she's discomforted to be flying a little bird in this environment, she doesn't let it show through in her tone over the wireless. "Decoy, on my six."
[TAC3] "Hosedown" Andrea says, " Poppy, Classy. You sure? Can't see too much of anything in this soup, and my DRADIS is reading zero."
[TAC3] "Poppy" Khloe says, "Toast, Poppy. Acknowledged. Try to avoid the trees this time, Major."
[TAC3] "Toast" Cidra says, "Poppy, Toast. No trees today."
[TAC3] "Freshmeat" Kaitlyn says, "Poppy, …Meat. Copy that, I'm right with you."
[BlackKnight-855: Devlin] As boring as sitting Alert status is, Devlin wasn't exactly complaining about the quiet shifts he's had the last day or two. Still, he doesn't complain when that quiet ends, either, launching rapidly, and forming up on Cidra's wing as assigned. He checks his instruments and gives DRADIS a whack with his fist before leaning forward a little bit further, peering through his canopy windshield as he flies.
[TAC3] "Decoy" Devlin says, "Toast, Decoy. Copy that. Pretty sure I've found your six."
[Harrier-670: Trask] Trask always knew that returning to Audumbla was a crapshoot, but it was a calculated risk he was willing to take. He managed to convince the CAG of his logic, and she managed to convince Command, so now all anyone can do is hope that these past few days of reprieve will have paid off. "Frak. We have stalkers, Snake Eyes. I guess our little vacation has proven to be boring viewing for the twisted taste of the Cosmos."
"Muthafrakkin' tin cans in my muthafrakkin' space," is the reply of Lieutenant Luther "Snake Eyes" Leroy, a recent transfer into the Harriers, himself rescued none too long ago from Tauron. "Time to take out the trash."
[Harrier-304: Andrea] Classy, unable to see much of anything, simply assumes that the Captain hasn't gone crazy as pushes after her so his ECO can offer support… if such support is even possible in all of this.
[Harrier-304: Bran] The peace and quiet of space… it's relaxing, it's enjoyable. It's interrupted. Pens is sitting backseat to Classy's bus-driving and like he's stated his DRADIS is nigh emptied of contacts. A moment later and it is flaring to life. "Confusing as frak," is murmured before he turns to call out locations to Classy. "Stick with your eyes, eh? I've got too much interference on my end. Lords willing, I can get these systems spooled in time."
[TAC3] "Bootstrap" Trask says, "Flight, Bootstrap. Confirming two contacts. Guessin' it's no one we care to see. Harriers, don't bother waiting for I-F-F. Better safe than sorry in this soup. Over."
[TAC3] "Poppy" Khloe says, "Classy, you've picked one up on your six. We're coming to engage. Evasive! Meat, my target, 7157-Yellow."
[TAC3] "Hosedown" Andrea says, " Poppy, Classy. I hear you, and appreciate the effort. But if they can hit me in this soup, they almost deserve me."
<COMBAT> Snake Eyes passes.
<COMBAT> Raider1 attacks Snake Eyes with KEW - Moderate wound to Engine (Reduced by Armor).
<COMBAT> Khloe attacks Raider2 with KEW - Serious wound to Left Wing.
<COMBAT> Cidra passes.
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider1 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider2 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider1 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider2 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Raider2 attacks Classy with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Devlin passes.
<COMBAT> Classy passes.
<COMBAT> Kaitlyn attacks Raider2 with KEW - Moderate wound to Weapon.
<COMBAT> Volans has started a new turn. Pose and choose your action.
<COMBAT> Raider-1859a has been KO'd!
<COMBAT> Raider2 has been KO'd!
[TAC3] "Hosedown" Andrea says, " Woo-hoo! Poppy, Classy! I owe you a beer for that one, sir, and since I know you won't drink it, when I drink it for you I'll be sure to do so with proper solemnity!"
[TAC3] "Poppy" Khloe says, "Good shot, Meat. Snake Eyes, Trask, this is Poppy. Sing out, looks like you took some fire. Classy, Poppy. You do that, but first, you have work to do."
[TAC3] "Freshmeat" Kaitlyn says, "Had some help on that one, Poppy, so right back at 'ya."
[BlackKnight-853: Khloe] In a combined effort between her and her wingmate, Poppy blasts through the Raider looking to chew on Classy and Pens. Barrel-rolling through the debris, Khloe's Viper now sets its sights on the Raider dogging Snake Eyes and Bootstrap.
[TAC3] "Poppy" Khloe says, "Free up the Raptors, Meat. Snake Eyes, Boots, this is Poppy. We're on our way. Keep shakin' it."
[Hydra's MysteryMobile: Volans] One of that first pair is taken out in a hail of fire, but, as always, others are close behind. As the assembled Air Wings of Cerberus and Areion come out to fight, dozens of Raiders pop in to engage them, quickly out-numbering their Colonial opponents.
[Harrier-670: Trask] "Godsdamn muthafrakkin' muthafrakker Cylons," curses Leroy. "Tryin' to turn all our horsepower into ponies. Can't frakkin' see a muthafrakkin' thing out here other than all this godsdamn frakkin' purple smoke or whatever this hazy shit is."
"Well, if you don't wanna be put out to pasture and turned to glue, quit frakkin' getting hit," Trask cracks back.
"Shiiiit."
[TAC3] "Bootstrap" Trask says, "Poppy, Bootstrap. Looks like our Check Engine light just went on. If you can give us some cover while we handle that, it'd be much appreciated. In this soup, electrical is temperamental even when /not/ contending with failing systems. Gotta be pre-emptive here. Over."
[TAC3] "Toast" Cidra says, "Poppy, Toast. Alert in range. Decoy, I see you back my six. Flight, watch your visuals and stay sharp on verbal position calls. DRADIS is a mess, do not get too much on top of each other."
[TAC3] "Decoy" Devlin says, "Toast, Decoy. I'm on your six, looks like… yeah, I've got a bandit headed your way from about 10 o'clock. I'm moving to engage."
[BlackKnight-662: Kaitlyn] A smile crossing her face as she watches KEW shread through one raider, Kaitlyn veers her Viper towards one of the new comers. After last time, she's not willing to leave any of the Raptors open, if she can help it. "This is horseshit with all this interference," she mumbles.
[Harrier-304: Andrea] Classy pushes the Raptor around, trying to present a more difficult target, though he seems to still have a friend. Ah, such is life.
[BlackKnight-650: Cidra] Cidra flies into the fray cautiously, not so much of the Raiders as of the spotty navigation of the gas clouds of Audumbla. Hands are tight on the control stick. She doesn't zig and zag all that impressively, but she does endeavor to stay out of the firing arc of her tail while not colliding with her wingman. Such is the fun of flying here.
[BlackKnight-855: Devlin] Devlin has, thankfully, got a visual bead on his target this time, since DRADIS is such an unreliable beast just now. What the CAG is lacking in evasive manuevers, he attempts to make up for in zealous defense, speeding after the raider targeting her and aiming straight for its glowing red eye — the easiest bit to spot through these clouds.
[Harrier-304: Bran] Toil away with his electronic toys, that's what Bran does. Between elusive targets and their current environ, it is tough frakkin' work back here in the bus.
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider1 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider3 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider4 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider5 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider6 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Raider6 attacks Snake Eyes with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Raider5 attacks Khloe with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider1 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider3 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider6 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Raider4 attacks Khloe with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Classy passes.
<COMBAT> Snake Eyes treats Harrier-670:
< Engine (Moderate): successful
<COMBAT> Raider1 attacks Cidra with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Kaitlyn attacks Raider5 with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Devlin attacks Raider1 with KEW - NEAR MISS!
<COMBAT> Raider3 attacks Classy with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Khloe attacks Raider6 with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Cidra attacks Raider1 with KEW but MISSES!
<COMBAT> Volans has started a new turn. Pose and choose your action.
[BlackKnight-853: Khloe] "Tricky bitches," Khloe mutters under her breath as she struggles to chase down Snake Eyes' Raider. It continues to evade her. But, fortunately for her own posterior, the two Raiders after her have similarly been confounded.
[BlackKnight-650: Cidra] Cidra manages to dodge incoming Raider fire, though her own also finds not its target. She takes an ever-so-slightly more aggressive approach, circling around for another pass. *RE*
[TAC3] "Toast" Cidra says, "Decoy, Toast. I shall be crossing into three-carom-niner in two seconds, be aware. Do not want to muss your flight path in this mess. Trying to get a bead on bandit's center. Cerberus, do you have an ETA for flight on FTL jump?"
[TAC3] "Decoy" Devlin says, "Toast, Decoy. Copy that. Changing course to three-four-carom-eight-seven now. That red eye's about the easiest thing to follow out here."
[TAC3] "Poppy" Khloe says, "Tricky bitches," comes across Khloe's wireless, easily missed. "Meat, Poppy. Ignore the frakkers on my tail. Help me with this one tailing Snake Eyes and Boots.""
[Harrier-670: Trask] "Hot damn! We're back in business, Bootstrap, baby," grins Leroy, his teeth oh so white against his mocha skin.
"Let's see about ruining the competition, what don't we, Snakes?" The ECO scans for more targets to attack.
[Harrier-304: Andrea] "I can't see shit in this, Pens," Classy groans as he looks every which way to figure out where the next threat might be coming from. "You have any advice on a course?"
[BlackKnight-855: Devlin] Devlin gets a shot off, but misses high, and the adjusts course so as to avoid colliding with Cidra. He keeps a close eye on the Raider's position as he does, and then tries to pick up its trail once again, either to nail it himself or drive it into the line of the CAG's fire.
[TAC3] Volans says, "Toast, Cerberus," Captain Price says over the wireless, "FTL is booting up, we should be good to go in approximately three minutes. We'll keep you posted."
[TAC3] "Freshmeat" Kaitlyn says, "Poppy, Meat. Copy that, I'll get right on 'em!"
[TAC3] "Bootstrap" Trask says, "Toast, Bootstrap. We're actually gonna jump? Odds are if they found us here, they'll be waiting outside, too. I say we use what cover we have in this haze and tell the Areion to prep their can of whupp ass. Over."
[BlackKnight-662: Kaitlyn] With that volley producing a whole lot of nothing - on both ends, something Kaitlyn is glad for after last time, she lets outs a sigh as she wheels back around. "Looks like these Cylons have hardons for Raptors lately."
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider1 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider3 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider4 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider5 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider6 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Raider3 attacks Classy with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Khloe attacks Raider6 with KEW - Serious wound to Cockpit.
<COMBAT> CREW HIT! Raider6 - Serious wound to Head.
<COMBAT> Devlin attacks Raider1 with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Cidra attacks Raider1 with KEW - Moderate wound to Left Wing.
<COMBAT> Snake Eyes attempts to treat Harrier-670 but Harrier-670 has no treatable wounds.
<COMBAT> Raider5 attacks Khloe with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Kaitlyn attacks Raider6 with KEW - Moderate wound to Body.
<COMBAT> Classy passes.
<COMBAT> Raider6 attacks Snake Eyes with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Raider4 attacks Khloe with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider1 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider3 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider4 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider5 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider6 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Raider1 attacks Cidra with KEW - Moderate wound to Body (Reduced by Armor).
<COMBAT> Volans has started a new turn. Pose and choose your action.
<COMBAT> Raider-2313s has been KO'd!
<COMBAT> Raider6 has been KO'd!
[BlackKnight-853: Khloe] To quote Pallas, "Yeah! Yeah! Get frakked, Get. Frakked!" Khloe's characteristic barrel roll through Raider debris is well-deserved, having managed to take out the cockpit of the flying Toaster despite flying topsy-turvy evasive maneuvers that might even make Dizzy, er, dizzy.
[TAC3] "Poppy" Khloe says, "Boots, Poppy. Not to brag, but I hope you caught that one on your rear camera."
[TAC3] "Bootstrap" Trask says, "Poppy, Bootstrap. I'll be beating off to that replay, for sure. Snake Eyes wants to show his gratitude with a bit of a swirl."
[BlackKnight-662: Kaitlyn] Kaitlyn can't help but cheer again, and if she could spare the attention she'd probably throw a little fist pump in there. The wide grin on her face will have to do the job for now. "Alright, that's two down. Let's see who's getting frakked next…"
[TAC3] (from "Bootstrap" Trask) Snake Eyes snaps, "What?" A pause. "Well, hell, he ain't lyin', Captain."
[TAC3] "Toast" Cidra says, "Decoy, Toast. Took a hard one to my hull, I think it scrambled my thruster controls. Need a moment to compensate. Keep on him. Bootstrap, Toast. Copy. Once we thin this herd a bit, should send an SAR bird to see what is lurking on the outskirts. This mess is mussing with the Cylons as much as us, so we have bought some time."
[Hydra's MysteryMobile: Volans] The raiders are still out in force, and while even more impossible to count than usual in this fog, even the clouds of Audumbla not sufficient to totally conceal the vast numbers of them that have arrived. A few go down here and there, but there are always more to take their place, not a moment of respite as ranks close near-instantly.
[BlackKnight-650: Cidra] Cidra does manage to clip the wing of the Raider as her guns sweep past it, but it opens her up to a hard strike to the body of her Viper. She spins, struggling visibly to compensate, though she does manage to regain control of her plane.
[TAC3] "Decoy" Devlin says, "Toast, Decoy. Copy that, I've still got visual, sticking on the target. I think… yeah, I think I've picked up one on my tail, heading… five-two-carom-three-niner? Might be carom three-eight, it's tough to tell my DRADIS keeps fuzzing out. Trying to evade."
[TAC3] "Poppy" Khloe says, "Meat, Poppy. I'm coming around, five seconds. I've got your six."
[TAC3] "Bootstrap" Trask says, "Toast, Bootstrap. Copy that. We've already taken one calculated risk. I say we roll the dice one more time. Recon will take some time, so let's get that Gun loaded. If we're gonna be blasted to bits, we might as well do it making a stand and not by gettin' ambushed in an attempt to get outta here."
[TAC3] "Freshmeat" Kaitlyn says, "Poppy, Meat. Copy that, headed to take one off one of the Raptors myself, thanks for the cover."
[Harrier-304: Andrea] Classy flies around, enjoying himself. It's nice when the swarm doesn't seem to find you particularly tasty.
<COMBAT> Raider4 attacks Snake Eyes with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Cidra treats Blackknight-650:
< Body (Moderate): successful
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider1 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider3 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider4 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider5 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Snake Eyes suppresses Raider3 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Raider5 attacks Kaitlyn with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Raider3 attacks Devlin with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Devlin attacks Raider1 with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider1 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider3 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider4 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider5 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Raider1 attacks Cidra with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Khloe attacks Raider5 with KEW - Serious wound to Engine.
<COMBAT> Classy suppresses Raider3 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Kaitlyn attacks Raider4 with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Volans has started a new turn. Pose and choose your action.
<COMBAT> Raider-3410p has been KO'd!
<COMBAT> Raider5 has been KO'd!
[TAC3] "Bootstrap" Trask says, "Corsair, Bootstrap. Can ExLORAD pierce through any of this? Over."
[TAC3] "Toast" Cidra says, "Decoy, Toast. I have got my systems as stable as they are getting out here. Retargetting on bandit one."
[TAC3] "Hosedown" Andrea says, " Poppy, Classy. Hot damn sir. Don't suppose I could talk you into marrying me, could I? That's one hell of a show you're putting on."
[TAC3] "Freshmeat" Kaitlyn says, "Poppy, Meat, That's some damn fine shooting back there!"
[TAC3] "Poppy" Khloe says, "Stow the compliments. We're not done yet. Get to work, people. Meat, you've picked one up on your six. Same as before; cover the Raptors and I'll cover you."
[TAC3] "Decoy" Devlin says, "Toast, Decoy. Copy that, sir. If you've got your bandit, mind if I take a shot at my own?"
[BlackKnight-650: Cidra] Cidra's Viper continues jerky evasives, albeit with less difficulty than it was showing a moment ago, as she endeavors to both navigate the difficulties of flying in the cloud and avoid the Raider on her tail. It's not terribly pretty but, so far, it's gotten the job done.
[BlackKnight-855: Devlin] Devlin does his best given the conditions, trying to avoid the raider on his tail while still taking aim at the one that continues to plague his wingCAG.
[Harrier-670: Trask] Snake Eyes continues to dodge the KEWs, and Bootstrap continues to work what mojo he can.
[Harrier-304: Andrea] Whoa, snap. They've got incoming. "Hold on, Pens! This could get a little rough!"
<COMBAT> Raider9 attacks Kaitlyn with KEW - Moderate wound to Body (Reduced by Armor).
<COMBAT> CREW HIT! Kaitlyn - Moderate wound to Right Arm.
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider1 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider7 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider10 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider3 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider9 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Raider7 attacks Classy with KEW - Light wound to Body (Reduced by Armor).
<COMBAT> Raider4 attacks Snake Eyes with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Khloe attacks Raider9 with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Kaitlyn attacks Raider4 with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Classy suppresses Raider3 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Cidra attacks Raider1 with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Raider1 attacks Cidra with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Devlin attacks Raider1 with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Snake Eyes suppresses Raider3 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Raider8 attacks Khloe with KEW - Moderate wound to Body (Reduced by Armor).
<COMBAT> CREW HIT! Khloe - Light wound to Right Leg.
<COMBAT> Raider10 attacks Classy with KEW - Moderate wound to Body (Reduced by Armor).
<COMBAT> Raider3 attacks Devlin with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider10 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider9 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider4 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider7 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider8 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Volans has started a new turn. Pose and choose your action.
<COMBAT> Blackknight-853 has been KO'd!
<COMBAT> Khloe has been KO'd!
<COMBAT> Khloe spends a luck point to keep fighting!
[TAC3] "Hosedown" Andrea says, " Flight, Classy. Took a couple of hits but I think we're okay. Takes more than a scratch to bring down a bus. How're y'all holding up?"
[TAC3] (from "Bootstrap" Trask) Snake Eyes manages to get a visual of Khloe getting hit. "Shit, Poppy. It's Snake Eyes. Sing out."
[TAC3] Volans says, "Flight, Cerberus. Two minutes to RTB."
[TAC3] "Bootstrap" Trask says, "Cerberus, Bootstrap. Have we even sent out a scout, yet? Over."
[BlackKnight-853: Khloe] So much for her hot streak. Khloe, quite simply, gets battered by Raider fire, which she rolls out of. A little bit of smoke puffs from the underside of her Viper, but the bird rights itself and she's back in the fight.
[TAC3] "Toast" Cidra says, "Cerberus, Toast. Permission to dispatch one of our SAR birds to scout the outer edges of the cloud. Get her there and back in a minute and a half."
[TAC3] Volans says, "Toast, Cerberus. One of the Providers is already on that. We should be hearing back from them within the minute."
[TAC3] "Poppy" Khloe says, "Snake Eyes, Poppy. I'm alive. Took a nasty shock to my leg; it's gone numb. I can still stomp on pedals. I'm still on your six, Meat. Keep up the assistance to the Raptors."
[TAC3] (from "Bootstrap" Trask) Leroy replies, "Poppy, Snake Eyes. The way you've been flyin', I will kiss your feet for coverin' my ass. Ask nicely, I might even work up to your boo-boo." He sounds like he has a good-natured grin on his face.
[TAC3] "Bootstrap" Trask says, "I told you he's down with the swirl."
[TAC3] "Decoy" Devlin says, "Toast, Decoy. Your bandit is coming back around at vector three-four-carom-two-niner, I can't get a clear shot without cutting across your path. Going to peel off and take a shot at the one on my tail, over."
[BlackKnight-662: Kaitlyn] Kaitlyn sees Poppy getting shot up, and is ready to make a check in on her - before KEW sputters her way, damaging more than just her Viper. "Frak!" is shouted as sparks fly in the cockpit, leaving a rather bad burn across her arm.
[Harrier-304: Bran] "I've got this distinct feeling that we're all going to die - well - at least just you and me, Classy. So I figure we give the Lords a right and proper show, a holy testament to Ares himself." Bran's words, they are nearly in a sing-song tone, and he uses that particularly pitched tone of voice to brighten the mood as their bus is peppered and sprayed by KEW. In the meantime, he's busying his hands with dialing out a new set of jamming frequencies to counterattack the nearby Raiders.
[TAC3] "Poppy" Khloe says, "You two knock it off. You're supposed to be flying and shooting, not fantasizing about my feet." Or any other body part. "Jam something, would you?"
[TAC3] "Toast" Cidra says, "Decoy, Toast. Copy. You go your way, I will go mine, and gods willing we shall meet on the other side."
[BlackKnight-650: Cidra] With the Raider swarm not thinning, with everyone's aim mussed in the cloud, Cidra noses her Viper closer for a more central shot at her target. Which opens her up more than her jerky evasives were managing.
[TAC3] "Bootstrap" Trask says, "Poppy, Bootstrap. Been makin' raspberry preserves for the past several minutes. Also: the only time I /might/ fantasize about your feet involves them kickin' the asses of some skinjobs and/or trash cans."
[BlackKnight-855: Devlin] Devlin doesn't join in the comms banter today, his focus in the cockpit all-consuming. The flips away from trailing Cidra's trajectory to take up his own, lips moving absently as he does, perhaps in silent prayer for the gods to favor his aim at least once tonight.
[TAC3] "Poppy" Khloe says, "I'm a stick, not a Marine, Boots. Keep dreaming."
[TAC3] "Bootstrap" Trask says, "That's the nature of a fantasy, ain't it?"
[Harrier-670: Trask] "I'd kiss her feet in gratitude, but I'd also do other things to some of her other body parts," Leroy relays to his ECO-slash-SL. "Know what I'm sayin', bro? You seen the /ass/ on that woman? Mmm-mmm-mmm. Zeus Almighty would surely tap that."
<COMBAT> Snake Eyes suppresses Raider3 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Raider7 attacks Classy with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Raider4 attacks Snake Eyes with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Kaitlyn attacks Raider4 with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Devlin attacks Raider3 with KEW - Moderate wound to Body.
<COMBAT> CREW HIT! Raider3 - Serious wound to Left Leg.
<COMBAT> Cidra attacks Raider1 with KEW - Serious wound to Left Wing.
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider10 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider9 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider4 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider7 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Trask suppresses Raider8 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Raider3 attacks Devlin with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Raider1 attacks Cidra with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Classy suppresses Raider3 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider1 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider7 with ECM. <unsuccessful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider10 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider3 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Bran suppresses Raider9 with ECM. <successful>
<COMBAT> Raider9 attacks Kaitlyn with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Raider8 attacks Khloe with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Khloe attacks Raider9 with KEW - Moderate wound to Right Wing.
<COMBAT> Raider10 attacks Classy with KEW and MISSES!
<COMBAT> Volans has started a new turn. Pose and choose your action.
<COMBAT> Raider-7157y has been KO'd!
<COMBAT> Raider1 has been KO'd!
<COMBAT> Raider3 has been KO'd!
[Harrier-670: Trask] "Can't say I ever really bothered lookin'," is Trask's honest reply. "S'far as I'm concerned, Poppy's Poppy." This status of non-sexual being is not an insult. No one in the Wing pings on his internal DRADIS in that respect. If he can't keep it in his pants — and, really, he can — he certainly isn't gonna let it run free in the Fighting Fourteenth. "I /can/ tell you that I wouldn't want to see the state of /your/ ass if ever she heard you say that."
[Hydra's MysteryMobile: Volans] While their vastly superior numbers continue to make things difficult for the Colonials, the Raiders are not having a particularly good night otherwise. The damage they've done thus far has been, at least comparatively, pretty light, while several more of their own in this sector are abruptly blown to bits by the Vipers. As abruptly as they arrived, they suddenly vanish, the clouds of the swarm winking out across the battlefield until in seconds all that's left are the remains of their dead and the Colonial Air Wing. Time to call it a night, it seems.
[TAC3] "Toast" Cidra says, "Cerberus, Toast. Cannot hardly read my DRADIS in this but I am showing enemy contacts have jumped *away*. Say again, no sign of Cylon contacts. Flight, Cerberus, confirm."
[BlackKnight-853: Khloe] "What the…" Poppy watches Raider wink out and her DRADIS confirm with the blinking-and-vanishing of symbols on her screen. "This can't be right."
[TAC3] "Poppy" Khloe says, "Toast, Poppy, are you reading what I'm reading? They just… frakked off."
[TAC3] "Decoy" Devlin says, "Toast, Decoy. I'm reading bingo enemy contacts. Can't see any, either. All the ones in my view just jumped out."
[TAC3] (from "Bootstrap" Trask) "Frak damn!" exclaims Trask. "Looks like they /bailed/." Vindication. His proposed gambit to come here appears to have paid off.
[TAC3] "Hosedown" Andrea says, " Flight, Classy. Looks the same from here. Bingo visible contacts, and DRADIS reading a load of nothing. Guess they like this soup less than we do."
[BlackKnight-650: Cidra] Cidra's Viper arcs rapidly away from the splintered remains of the Raider she was engaging. Eyes ticking from her swimming DRADIS to her now much-clearer visuals, and then back to her DRADIS.
[TAC3] Volans says, "Flight, Cerberus. We confirm a reading of zero enemy contacts on our DRADIS as well. Flight, RTB."