| From: | ANGLISS@****.PSU.EDU |
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| Subject: | Grumble....Download time....gripe... |
| Date: | Wed, 3 Nov 1993 13:48:25 -0500 |
recorders.
Wonderful. Well, here it is. I took the liberty of editing out most of the
combat and body data that is normally portrayed in my eyes, and I have shrunk
the spectrum down to normal too.
*****Begin Download, Collussus Dual Video Recorder*****
It takes you a minute to realize that you are veiwing a dual image produced
by two eyes, and as you alter your sensors program, you realize that this is
how Collussus sees the world. Weird. You have never before seen the world
through another person's eyes when that person sees Thermographically, optically and in
the Ultraviolet(Low Lite) simultaneously. Add in the sinking sun and
moderate flare compensation around the far too warm house and it's no wonder
that Wizard said that Collussus went insane several times before adapting to g
his new bodys. This sight alone would do it for you if his editor hadn't
chosen this point to cut in and eliminate the dual smartgun crosshairs, the
rangefinder data, and a long list of internal data scrolling accross each eye.
You normalize out at Optical for now.
You are seeing the camp around you. Roxey appears to be off in never-never
land, likely Astral Projecting, with STREETWOLF watching over her somehow. AJ
has his back to you and is scanning the target house with binoculars. You
suspect that he is not thrilled at seeing the changes for himself, but is
not overly worried. He turns and begins to speak. Too bad Collussus forgot
to include the aural recorders too.
Everybody prepares and Collussus, you suspect, is communicating with FM and
Silver on contingencies. You notice AJ strip down to absolutely nothing and
then discorporate into a barely visible cloud of gas. Nice trick. He heads
off toward the house with the rest of the crew, including Collussus following
slowly. You notice that Collussus has waited until AJ is most of the way to
the house before an un-edited data squirt appears on the left eye-"Ruthenium
Engaged-Optical Visibility reduced by 98%" followed by "Internal Heat Sink
Operational-External Heat Signature reduced by 97%". You suspect that it'll
be rather difficult for them to catch you all that easily.
Slash, you notice, has taken what looks like a modified, long range rifle with
paintball ammunition and is scaling a large pine to where he can target the
automated guns. Ahh, AJ is almost there. Time to start. The terrain starts
picking up as you notice that Collussus is moving VERY quickly, much faster
than some small automobiles, and literally leaping over 3m boulders and around
small trees. You see arms and legs flashing into blurs. You figure that this
kind of stuff only appeared in Japanese Animae-until now. Unfortunately, the
target's house appears to have come on-line and the guns are active. You see
a large, rather modified GPHMG with an over/under grenade launcher configuration swing
into view, without Collussus slowing down, and you register that it is
firing...and hitting. Ouch.
Slash seems to have been targeting the guns rather well, and the combination
of acid and paint is destroying the optics and sensors of the guns, as they
begin to fire randomly into the trees, following a pattern that will hit Slash
eventually. That's about when you notice that the grenade that was just fired
explodes near the closest gun to Slash, taking it up in a ball of thermite
fire, and the concrete of the turret itself explodes as the awesome heat of
burning thermite violently explodes the airpockets in the concrete. However,
AJ is now in the building....and out of the building again. He must not have
liked the odds on taking down the target-nude.
Collussus takes off toward the house, targeting various sensors as he goes,
and having automated gun fire ricochet off his all metal body. All you can
see is the sparks and small explosions of rounds hit and bounce or hit and
explode. Collussus gets up right next to the house, slings the HMG, and you
see him start to help out AJ getting into armor and weapons. Then the world
tilts very akwardly as Collussus literally leaps vertically, grabs a hold of
the roof of the home(10m above his head), and pivots his body around it and
onto the roof, which appears to be sagging under his rather large mass. Baby
roars in(fraggin no sound...) and then begins to pulverize the front of the
house.
Until the last automated gun, a dual grenade launcher, regains it's sight and
not only lands a grenade directly on the new napalm dispensor on Baby, but in
the exact tree Slash is located in, blowing him out of it and taking down half
the tree too. The flare compensation kicks in as Baby gets engulfed in napalm
flame and Collussus literally runs toward the launcher, kicks in the lower
barrel, and then does the unthinkable-jams his hand into the upper barrel.
Luckily for him he's made of metal, plastic, and ceramic, cause this would not
only blow off any normal's arm, but the ensuing explosion of all the ammo in
both launchers would kill them off.
But Collussus only gets thrown WAAAAAAYYYYYYYyyyyy back, spins into some kind
of damage limiting acrobatic flips, and then proceeds to land badly. You again
notice an unedited message in the right eye, this time "Right Knee/Right Hip
damaged, maximum 80% of nominal".
By this time, most everyone is inside, Baby is slightly cooked but still up
and operational, and Collussus takes off again, but slower this time. He's
about go charging into the place when AJ steps infront of him and points out
the lovely c12 trap. He pulls off the combat axe(is that gleam Dikote?) and
begins to chop through the wall. Takes about 3 seconds and there is a hole
large enough to get a troll through, if there was one that needed to get into
the house. AJ and Collussus charge in just in time to see a large, heavily
armored door slam, and about 4 mages just about to spell the whole group.
That's when Roxey's favorite ally, MaxiMillion, decides to show up and barrier
the mages just long enough to allow you and AJ to rush to the door, hook your
fingers into the joint, and start pulling. You doubt that Collussus has the
time to see what is going on with the mages.
Amazingly enough, the doors begin to separate little by little. Neither
individual is exactly weak. Finally, after about 15 seconds, the doors(a total
of 10cm thick) are open and Collussus and AJ literally leap down the shaft,
with the axe still in Collussus' hands. When the fall stops, seconds later,
AJ seems a little stunned and you suspect that Collussus' right knee and hip
are damaged even more. And there's a rather large dent in the elevator where
he hit. The axe flashes too many time to count and there is a hole. Both
men fall through and take off toward what appears to be an underground garage.
The editor switches over to Thermographic and you see the traces of footsteps
heading off toward a now starting automobile. The rifle is useless, and an
axe just isn't designed for ranged combat, so there next appears an Ares
Preditor 2 in the remaining hand...until AJ stays it and takes off on the
hotwired Electraglide. Collussus would join him, if he could outrun the car,
which you suspect that the unedited visual recordings would say that he can't.
But he take off at his fastest speed toward the end of the tunnel, with the
editor switching to low light as he nears the end.
And he catches sight of AJ just as he's engaging with the one deadhead that
could get through the satellite jamming. The optics change really strange,
with one at full Optical Magnification and the other normal, really messing
with your depth perception and giving you a headache. But you see in the
magnified one a slight smile on AJ's face as he passes by the exploding
deadhead.
*****End Collussus Video Recording Downlink*****
Grumble, gripe, bitch, moan, complain]<<<<<
-- Collussus(13:57:37/11-03-54)
