IHQ Training Room
This large, heavily armored chamber lies
between the Troop Hall and the Officers Hall. Large double doors lead
to either hall, so that the high command might enter at their leisure
to watch the training bouts. Two small stairways lead to armored
observation areas, one above each of the entryways. A standard training
drone waits next to the troop entrance until activated. The walls,
while heavily armored and shielded, also contain holo-projectors,
weapons mounts, shield generators, and cameras, allowing for any
opponent or environment to be simulated, while also allowing those
present within the armored observation area to watch and record what
goes on beneath them.
Contents:
Training Drone
Obvious exits:
South <S> leads to IHQ Troop Hall.
East <E> leads to IHQ Officers Hall.
Catechism is fiddling around with the training drone, flicking it
through the settings: Seeker, generic car Autobot, Aerialbot, tape...
She looks pretty cheerful, although that's typical for her. Catechism
talks softly to herself, "Hmm... want something different today..."
Ballistic hrmmms as he steps into the training room, eyeing
Catechism, frowning as she flickers with things, real opponents are
more interesting" smirking as he walks about the room, checking a few
things.
Catechism doesn't notice Ballistic's arrival. She's a little dense
like that sometimes. The coneheaded Seeker continues to flicker the
drone through different settings, never pausing on one too long.
Ballistic grunts and taps the femme on the shoulder "Ahem... like I
said, ma'am, a live opponent is much more interesting."
Catechism jumps! The funny thing is that she doesn't come down and
simply 'stands' in the air rather than failing. She looks startled and
then sheepish. Scratching the back of her helmet, she explains, "I
didn't hear you come in. Well, if you say so..." Catechism was looking
for something different, after all. She opens up with a lower-power arm
gun blast and darts backwards in the air.
Ballistic evades your Zap! attack.
Axis arrives from the IHQ Officers Hall to the east.
Axis has arrived.
Axis moves south to the IHQ Troop Hall.
Axis has left.
Ballistic blinks at the sudden assault, leaping back in suprise "Thats
a manner in which to begin" frowning as he brings his arms up, and
opens fire on the femme, rocketing backwards and away, to get some
distance.
<Attack:> Ballistic used laser. (&combatspam me=1 to stop
this.)
You evade Ballistic's arm mounted blasters attack.
Catechism jinks off to one side, the laser bolt whizzing by her. She
again aims and fires at Ballistic, keying up her disruptors, eager to
see what happens. The conehead's going to make a dedicated effort to
come out of this fight, if not the victor, at least a bit more savvy
about how Ballistic fights. Conversationally, she asks, "How are the
pointy sticks?"
You strike Ballistic with disruptor.
Ballistic snorts as he takes a blast across the arm with the
disruptors, arms still out, strafing left, head tipped "Working on it,
its being discussed by MSE..." twisting into a barrel roll as he opens
up.
<Attack:> Ballistic used repeating. (&combatspam me=1 to stop
this.)
Ballistic strikes you with Anti-Personal Mini-Guns for 8 points of
damage.
Ballistic's Anti-Personal Mini-Guns attack continues to sear away at
you, doing 4 damage.
Ballistic's Anti-Personal Mini-Guns attack continues to sear away at
you, doing 2 damage.
Ballistic's Anti-Personal Mini-Guns attack wears off at last.
Shockwave arrives from the IHQ Officers Hall to the east.
Shockwave has arrived.
Catechism winces as the mini-guns' spray bites into her armour. Ah,
that was odd. Now, what else does Ballistic have in his arsenal? She
leaps forward to close the gap between them and flicks out her knife.
The Seeker slashes at one of his arm guns, trying to see how he handles
close combat.
You strike Ballistic with combat knife.
Ballistic snorts as he is cut on the arm, backing off quickly as he
swings out with one fist, intent on clipping the conehead across the
face as he moves to get some distance.
<Attack:> Ballistic used punch. (&combatspam me=1 to stop
this.)
You evade Ballistic's punch attack.
Catechism ducks down, avoiding the other Seeker's swing. As Ballistic
tries to move away, she again lunges to close the gap and strikes out
with a kick, pocketing her combat knife for the time being. Catechism
does not intend to keep up the close combat very long, as she's not
very good at it, but the green and purple Seeker has proved that he can
hurt her if she keeps to ranged combat.
Ballistic evades your kick attack.
Ballistic dips and ducks back from the kick as he brings his rifle
around now with his arm that was free, opening up a full round of
blaster fire on his fellow seeker, grinning to himself, a range finder
snapping down over one optic.
<Attack:> Ballistic used ballistic. (&combatspam me=1 to stop
this.)
You evade Ballistic's Assault Rifle attack.
Catechism flips up and over his rifle bolts, grinning. Is that a range
finder he's got? Doesn't say much for the instrument, does it? She
narrows her optic band and reviews - first chance he gets, he breaks
away from close combat to get out the guns. So despite her lack of love
for close combat, Catechism flies by, reaches out, and ties to smack
Ballistic on one of his wings as she passes by.
You strike Ballistic with Bustified.
Ballistic snorts as he is smashed into by her wings and stumbles back
through the air, bringing his arms up again, opening fire on Catechism
as she streaks by, optics narrowed, face all business now.
<Attack:> Ballistic used smash. (&combatspam me=1 to stop
this.)
Ballistic strikes you with Both Barrels Mother Trucker! for 9 points of
damage.
Catechism decides, as various chucks of her armor holographically fall
off from the hit, that if Ballistic's going to insist on firing hurty
objects at her, she might as well do the same thing back. Catechism
flies up and away, smirks slightly, and says amicably, "You really
deserve that name, don't you?" Then, she keys up one of her own arm
guns, set to laser, and draws a bead on of Ballistic's wings, the same
one that she hit earlier.
You strike Ballistic with laser.
Ballistic smirks at Catechism, having fired almost no blaster weapons
other than slug fire types, blinking as he is nailed by the laser,
whirling out of control as armor flies off of his wing, hitting the
ground and rolling, snorting and whipping back around, firing his
pistol at the femme now "I have it for many reasons"
<Attack:> Ballistic used pistol. (&combatspam me=1 to stop
this.)
You evade Ballistic's Service pistol... OF DOOM attack.
Catechism grins as Ballistic whirls out of control. Now that's what she
likes to see! Although she's imagining an Aerialbot whirling out of
control rather than her fellow Seeker. Despite her daydreaming, she
manages to get out of the line of fire of the pistol of DOOM. Feeling
just a little cocky, she warms up her built-in magnetic coils, points a
hand in Ballistic's direction, and unleashes a blast of gauss.
You strike Ballistic with gauss.
Ballistic grunts as he takes the gauss in the chest and then rolls to
his feet, arms coming around again opening up with his vulcans, optics
narrowing again, leaping into the air, attempting to pepper the hell
out of his fellow aerial bot, ignoring the simulated leaking mech fluid.
<Attack:> Ballistic used repeating. (&combatspam me=1 to stop
this.)
Ballistic strikes you with Anti-Personal Mini-Guns for 7 points of
damage.
Ballistic's Anti-Personal Mini-Guns attack continues to sear away at
you, doing 3 damage.
Ballistic's Anti-Personal Mini-Guns attack wears off at last.
Catechism doesn't wince this time, when the mini-gun shots hit her.
Sure, she hurts all over, but after a certain level of pain, it all
starts to blend together. Pain may report valuable information about
how damaged she is, but in the end, it's just distracting. Drained from
the gauss attack, she switches over to her taser.
You strike Ballistic with taser.
Ballistic grunts as he is hit, mech fluid flowing like water, grunting
and he opens up with his rifle again, intent on putting the other
Seeker down on the ground, systems screaming at him to retreat.
<Attack:> Ballistic used ballistic. (&combatspam me=1 to stop
this.)
You evade Ballistic's Assault Rifle attack.
Catechism doesn't want to be grounded! To that goal, she zooms upward
and away from the weaponsfire. Laughing, Catechism looks down at
Ballistic. This is fun! After a moment of thought, she flips over into
her jet mode, and keys up her wing-mounted lasers.
Catechism transforms into her alternate mode: a F-35, Marine Corps
variant. Her feet flip up against her shins, her nosecone rotates
through her body and out in front where it belongs, her arms tuck into
her torso, and her wings rotate into position.
You strike Ballistic with laser.
Ballistic snorts and stumbles again as he is hit and whips up into his
own jet mode, going into a dogfight with Cate, working to get tone on
the jet, grumbling to himself, little beeping sounds going off in his
cockpit.
Ballistic leaps into the air, arms and legs folding into his body as
his head sinks in, cockpit swinging up to cover, wings folding back out
and into place as his missile systems drop into operational
positioning. Jet engines firing to life, propelling him forward.
<Attack:> Ballistic used rocket. (&combatspam me=1 to stop
this.)
Ballistic strikes you with Shark Missiles! for 14 points of damage.
F-35 <Catechism> is just a bit out of sorts from her
transformation, and takes the shark missiles to her tailfins, sending
her down into a spin. It takes judicious use of her aerobatic talents
to recover and stay aloft. Oh, she'll need to transform back to her
better armoured robot form soon if she wants to stay in the fight, but
for now... a present for Ballistic. One that should be right up his
alley.
Ballistic evades your rocket attack.
Ballistic barrel rolls, something about his movements downright
agitated as he whirls about and moves in for another round on
Catechism, disrupters opening up fire on the femme seeker. "Excellent
form, but you need to work on the ECCMs for your own missile systems"
chuckeling
<Attack:> Ballistic used disruptor. (&combatspam me=1 to stop
this.)
You evade Ballistic's The Canons of Doom! attack.
F-35 <Catechism>'s targeting systems are really rather sad
sometimes. Did I tell you that she missed Superion? She did. Still, the
F-35 dodges okay enough, avoiding the DOOM cannons. Still 'limping' in
the air, she bludgeons her way through the air for a low-powered
strafing run with her disruptor. Hazily, Catechism notes, "Ah someday,
if I get the energon for it."
You strike Ballistic with Disruptor.
Ballistic falls to the ground unconscious.
Training Drone hovers over to Ballistic and revives it with a quick zap
of energy. "You require additional training to defeat this unit at this
skill level."
Ballistic hits the ground as he is finally torn up, on his last legs
anyway, bouncing and rolling, laying there until the drone wakes him
back up.
F-35 <Catechism> transforms and touches down. She looks curiously
at Ballistic, something of an, 'I did that?' expression on her face.
That expression slides into a lopsided grin, and she exclaims, "Good
fight! It'll be even better to see you tear into the Autobot scum.
You're packing some heavy ranged attacks."
F-35, Marine Corps variant, transforms into robot form. Catechism's
feet unfold, her arms unfold out of her body, her nosecone rotates
through her body and ends up on her shoulders to expose her face, and
her wings rotate into position.
Ballistic shifts and flips to his feet as he transforms, grunting to
himself and nods "Haven't fought the Autobots for quite some time...
been trapped on the North Pole. I'm not sure with of the commanders had
me brought down for active duty"
Catechism is still grinning. She was put into stasis and was only
awoken about a year ago. She doesn't like to think about it too much.
So rather than explaining her own story, Catechism merely comments on
Ballistic's, "Well, I suppose we can always use more Seekers on the
active front. I'm going to head off. Watch duty."
The F-14 (Ballistic) suddenly turns upwards, throwing itself into a
stall as it twists and unfolds, cockpit lowering into the fuselage that
begins to form the chest as his head extends, arms and legs unfolding,
wings folding back, leaving Ballistic standing.
Ballistic nods at Cate and hrmmms "Would you wish to have company,
should things occur?" brow ridge raised.
Catechism shrugs and heads for the exit. "I guess, if you don't have
duty elsewhere." She doesn't wait for his answer. Reporting for watch
on time outweighs politeness.
Ballistic hrmmms and nods and pauses to check over his notes, to see
if he has other duties.