Episode #11: Macross Idols

[Dyson]

He nods in agreement while taking a seat at the bar, "Agreed..." Gravis throws back another and slams it down.

[Zen]

And by that you mean 'Lack of,' right? Came Nickie's immediate and mental response, adding a little to the snarky tone of it by placing her hands on her hips and glaring a bit at the Dance Instructor with a hint of a raised eyebrow. She obviously didn't act on it as she was still a little timid when it came to personal conflict with people (the sole exception being the proper pronunciation of her name) , as well as the fact that such a response would have an immediate failed effect from a girl who just fell on her ass, and Nickie wasn't about to risk a black mark on her permanent record for a small moment of satisfaction.

That all said, she didn't find herself against thinking about the entire thing. Ms. Moon was a lot less fear inducing than her last teacher, who she was still convinced could read her mind.

Nickie did eventually answer her instructor, a quick and quiet "Okay," left her lips in a slightly squeaked pitch, the young star scrambling to her feet and heading to the door, a quick pause to readjust her hair into a simple pony tail before walking out into the hall and towards the headmaster's office.

[aythati]

Tuuva is rather dejected at the result, "Guess I'm not as used to the 22 as I though, so much for showing off to the new chaps... Oh well duty calls" Tuuva gets his game face back on and broadcast to his squad, "You heard the lady, set course for that remote sensor, and maintain formations."


OOC:
darn there goes Tuuva's heckling plans,

Actions move at cruising speed toward the sensors, in a delta formation.

[Roy Focker]

NICKIE

INT. PLANET EDEN - GOVERNMENT RUN TALENT SCHOOL - HEAD MASTERS OFFICE - DAY

A voice from within invites Nickie inside.

CHOZEN
"Enter."

Professor Chozen keeps his office in a very old world university style.   With wall to wall book cases filled with dusty books and plenty old chairs and even older looking table.  Chozen himself appears Japanese.  A single Katana on display confirms this.  To one side of the room is large window over looking the School's parking lot.   An olive skin bald woman wearing a fur coat sits in a chair across from him.  Two large brutish looking men in suits stand against a wall near the book cases.

WOMAN
"Is that her?"

CHOZEN
"Why yes it is.   Come in come in.   Don't be shy Monique.   I want you to meet Miss Dublet an image consultant and her um..."

DUBLET
"My assistants.  To stay in style 24/7 one must have a few pairs of strong arms to carry the shopping bags."

She gets up from the chair and comes over to Nickie.

DUBLET
"Now then.   I think we should have a good look at you.  Turn around for me please."

There a light knock on the door.   One of Miss Dublet's Assistants looks over towards it.

CHOZEN
"Ah that must be Miss Moon.   Good ahead and let her in."


TUUVA

EXT. NEWPORT COLONY - SPACE - REMOTE SENSOR - DAY
Magnum Force has traveled to the edges of the Newport Colony.  They are so far off that their own sensors within their  VF-22 can't detect the U.N. presence of the colony.  Only communications signals travel this far.   A stationary remote sensor allows them to keep an eye on this area of space.   From a Optically enhanced distance there is no visible external damage.  It will have to be examined up close.  The Sensor is about twice the size of Battroid and just a third as thick.


GRAVIS

INT. BAR - NIGHT
With two more shot glasses in his hand and the bottle in the other the Tender ask Gravis.

BAR TENDER
Two more for you Soldier?

[Dyson]

He grins, "Just pour me a glass of Crown, straight up." Gravis turns around in on his stool and observes the crowd.

[gasstank]

As General Taylor enters the room he can see two generals physically present and the remaining attendees on video screens.  Two of the Generals are bickering back and forth like he finds most men and women of power do. “Oh if only something would happen to interfere and breakup the signals of the heads on the screens.” Taylor things to himself, waiting for the other members to notice his entrance. Taylor hates being interrogated by those whom can’t even be bothered to at least degrade him in person.

“…the Colonist of Huntington.   How are they doing?" Taylor attempts to respond in a respectful but non defensive manner. “They are being seen to by our top facilities and I was overseeing their care while waiting for my next orders. They are all doing well considering what they’ve been through.  Unfortunately our scientists are unsure if they will ever recover from their current state. The least we can do is make sure they are cared for properly until that time.” He despises idle chit chat, being forced to wait for the real interrogation to begin.

[aythati]

"Karl, go and take a closer look, we will keep an eye out for any trouble" Tuuva give out this ordesr then transforms in to battleroid mode and keep an eye on his sensors for anything suspicious.

[Zen]

Nickie started making a whining sound as Ms. Dublet neared her, finding herself somewhere between timid and panic, and bumped into the door as she tried to step away from her. And always willing to do what's she's told (especially when it's asked by her school headmaster), Nickie then whirled the door open and for the first time she found herself happy to see Miss Moon, as she would make an excellent human shield at that moment.

The girl rushed out, trying to sneak by the person at the door and quickly position herself to be mostly hidden from the crazy looking bald lady and her two hired goons. So quickly in fact, she didn't even check to see if it was in fact Miss Moon at the door or not.

"Umm, sir? May I ask what's going on?" She tried to ask in a calm and polite tone, quickly adding, "And are my parents okay with it?"

[Roy Focker]

TUUVA

EXT. NEWPORT COLONY - SPACE - REMOTE SENSOR - DAY



Tuuva and Lenny now in Battroid mode take guard positions at different corners of the remote sensor while Karl takes a first hand look at the Remote Sensor.  As soon as Karl's VF-22 touches the Sensor he triggers a large Electro-Magnetic Pulse.

KARL
"YAARRGHHHHH!!!!!"

A booby trap has been activated.   In addition to the pulse.   Karl has been fried by a high voltage discharge.   Tuuva's sensors are rendered useless by the pulse and a scrambler wave being broadcast from the remote sensor is blocking communications.   He'll have to depend on good old fashion eye sight along with VF optical systems.  Like well positioned cockpit rear view mirrors.  Tuuva can already see an object in one of them.   Looks like Lenny is charging at you.

OOC

Continuing with the earlier test.   Now you're moving around against another.   This Map is lacking Hexes but Move Allowance is still in place.  You are still moving ten hexes forward followed by a Right turn but we are Rolling to see if that turn is successful instead just counting out the Hexes.

MANEUVERING
Any time you try to make a Mecha Fighter do something unusual, you’ll need a Maneuver roll. This is done by combining
your Mecha Reflexes + Mecha Piloting and a die roll vs. a roll and a Difficulty Level based on the type of maneuver you’re
making (see below), plus any appropriate modifiers for weather, pilot or air conditions.

• Easy (change altitude, hover, rotate, swerve, take off/land or tight turn) 10
• Average ( emergency stop, pull out of a dive, regain control from a stall, pull away or U or reverse) 15
• Difficult (maneuver thru or under and regain control from spin) 20
• Very Difficult (flying at low altitude between skyscrapers in the middle of a massive earthquake) 25
• Nearly Impossible (approach of SDF-1's bridge with all of its guns shooting at you) 30
• Special Combination (maneuver that would of required multiple actions to perform) +5

If the maneuver isn’t described above, pick the closest appropriate one to work from. If the roll is successful, you will be
able to pull the maneuver off.

Special Combination/Stunt Maneuvers
Pilots are limited to their number of actions per round. In most cases this is two actions. With air combat these actions are
typically Flight Movement and Shooting. There are times when a Pilot wants to perform a maneuver complex enough it
would require the use of multiple actions.  Here’s a simple cheat to use combination maneuver without expending more than one
action. Just increase the Difficultly Level by one (or +5). There is most likely a core part of the maneuver. That part is the
base Difficulty.  Any complex set up or addition to that core will just make things more difficult.

Option: Multiple Actions
Special Combination is essentially a Multiple Action Penalty. The same reasoning behind using this Penalty to perform
some Flight Move Allowance Stunt could be used in executing a complex Attack. Like grabbing hold of another Mecha and
kneeing it in the Torso. A Pilot could simply perform this with two actions and two attack rolls or they just roll for one
attack. This single attack roll is made more difficult by a penalty of -5.

Tuuva's VF-22S (Lt. Blue VF-22)
Mode: B
MA: 0

Lenny's VF-22S (Red VF-22)
Mode: B
MA: 0

Karl's Fired VF-22S (Dk. Blue VF-22)
Mode: B
MA: 8


GRAVIS

INT. BAR - NIGHT
Tender pours Gravis a glass of Crown.   Looking at the crowd Gravis can see it has thinned out some since he entered.   Clientele is mix between shady characters, drunks with money and people enjoying the night life who dropped in for a drink.  The Tender cups his hands and makes an announcement.

TENDER
"LAST CALL!"


TAYLOR

INT. PLANET EDEN - NEW EDWARDS - CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY
The Politician listens with a well trained concerned look on his face.

BUTT KISSING POLITICIAN
"That is very unfortunate.   We should make an effort to have our Governments Sound Technologist look at the matter.  Perhaps their knowledge can help the colonist with sound Sound Therapy."

STRIKER
"We could cure them instantly if the dammed Basara was still around.   Our most powerful Spirita Weapon and the Macross 7 allows him to leave their ship to wander the galaxy for all these years."

NOBODY
"General Taylor.   We are all aware from the reports about the threat the enemy posed and how they were countered.  Large Scale Spirita Collectors depended on a Ship to fly in its path.  That depended on the Over-Ride virus.   From my understanding 85% of our combine fleets have installed programming to prevent that virus.   With a month a 100% should be ready.  Enemy leader was killed when one our pilot collided with her escape vehicle.  They have no leader and lost their ability to use their secret weapons.  I read that several of their ships escaped the battle.   Do these still pose a threat?" 


NICKIE

INT. PLANET EDEN - GOVERNMENT RUN TALENT SCHOOL - HEAD MASTERS OFFICE - DAY
Nickie started making a whining sound as Ms. Dublet neared her, finding herself somewhere between timid and panic, and bumped into the door as she tried to step away from her. And always willing to do what's she's told Nickie then whirled the door open and for the first time she found herself happy to see not Miss Moon but that quiet and strange untalented Girl Preity.  There was no way to sneak by Preity as this girl was holding up a large pistol right in Nickie's face.

CHOZEN
"Of course your parents are...Who's that?"

Preity fires off two rounds past Nickie's ear.   They hit and bring down one of Dublet's assistants behind Nickie.   He drops the pistol he was pulling out of his jacket.  With a free hand Preity pulls Nickie out of the room if hasn't left already.

PRIETY
"Come with me if you want to live."

Dublet and her other assistant draws hidden guns.   Priety fires a few more round in the room before she starts to run down the hall.   After reloading she fires at a large window at the end of the hall cracking the glass.   She quickly turn her head back to Nickie and gives her a smile before she smashes out through the window and down to the street below.   And Nickie is doing what?

[aythati]

Tuuva makes a quick evasion maneuver to try to avoid Lenny's charge . "Damn comms is out.. not sure if its intentional." Tuuva readies his weapon and tries to see if Lenny is giving out any distress signals.


Actions: Just dodge, and ready the weapon. Awareness roll to see if Lenny is at least trying to tell Tuvva not to shoot him.

[Dyson]

Gravis grins as he gulps down the glass, "WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" He slams the glass down, "Refill...and, pour me another." He's finally getting buzzed as he takes a look in the crowd and decides tonight he shall set his targets on a blonde or brunette, but he's in the mood for a Meltran, red or green hair...hopefully he can scope one out and he was pretty good at spotting ones women with fake hair color.

[Roy Focker]

TUUVA

EXT. NEWPORT COLONY - SPACE - REMOTE SENSOR - DAY

(Same Positions/Same Map)


Lenny's Message is quite clear.  First he wants to kick Tuuva's face in and them his wants to shoot him full of bullets.   It's a hard message for Tuuva to comprehend.  If Tuuva just stopped dodging he would understand the message more.

OOC:
Tuuva's VF-22S (Lt. Blue VF-22)
Mode: B
MA: 0

Lenny's VF-22S (Red VF-22)
Mode: B
MA: 0
GP Ammo 9/10, 9/10

Karl's Fired VF-22S (Dk. Blue VF-22)
Mode: B
MA: 8


GRAVIS

INT. BAR - NIGHT

Gravis last drink is poured by the Tender.   Looking around he can't find his green or red haired Meltran on any Meltran for that matter.   They might have already left.  He does see at least two interesting beauties.  A blond with curly hair wearing fish net dress over a bikini and green hair girl.   Her hair is dyed.


NICKIE

INT. PLANET EDEN - GOVERNMENT RUN TALENT SCHOOL - HALLWAY - DAY

Preity has jumped out the window.  Nickie is standing in the hall.   Dublet and her Assistant are firing off a sub machine gun and a pistol down the hall.  Since Preity is no longer in the hall it must mean their target is Nickie.

[gasstank]

“Perhaps their knowledge can help the colonist with sound Sound Therapy." General Taylor nods slightly in agreement. “Any help would be greatly appreciated.”

“They have no leader and lost their ability to use their secret weapons.  I read that several of their ships escaped the battle.   Do these still pose a threat?" With confidence in his analysis of the incident Taylor answers NOBODY’s question.  “Their Sprita Collectors and Yaz are indeed gone but I do not believe that she was acting alone.  The majority of her ranks were filled with mercenaries, that and the cost of building the Sprita collectors would have required vast financial backing. I’m confident that there are other parties in play whom have not reveled themselves as of yet. There were several of these Collectors at Hungtington which means that they have the capabilities to build more.  We are currently unware of their building process but chances are they’ve already well underway replacing the ships they’ve lost.  So to answer your question I believe they are very much a threat.”

[aythati]

"After a few more dodge attempts Tuuva decided enough is enough "Well if its a fight you want..." Tuuva spins his mecha around to facing Lenny head on, then engage his boosters just as Lenny charges again to swivel just past him, adjusting his vectors once more to face Lenny at his right flank, Tuuva center's his sights and fires a quick burst.

OOC:
(1st action) 1 MA to change facing 2 MA move, then 1 MA to change facing again 
(2nd action) Shoot at Lenny
using the special maneuver rules we are still stuck to the MAX MA a turn right? But we can now basically move full ma and attack(s) but at a increasing penalty?

Hmm Lenny and Karl is that from the Simpsons?

[Zen]

Nickie was a little shocked as the gun went off and her classmate fired the gun near her head and ran out through a window. It was the sound of other guns being drawn and readied that shook her out of it, Nickie bolting for the window as the gunfire renewed, aiming to jump out of it prepare herself to either land on her feet or land with a roll.

My parents are okay with me being shot at?! Her mind shouted at her, trying to decide if this was marginally better than being chased by a mecha or not.

[Actions!]
1) Run to window
2) Jump from window and (hopefully) land properly.
Free: Curse parents, repeatedly and furiously.

OOC: Pardon my lack of post previously, on a steady stream of nightshifts and I thought I had another day for that last update.