Escape of the Clown Soldier

[VampyrBytes]

 

Welcome to Paradise

You are the medical doctor

You are a changeling!

 

Your objectives are

 

Absorb 3 genomes

Assassinate Lynn Fea the geneticist

Steal the HoP's jumpsuit

Escape on the shuttle or a capsule alive and free

 

I'm going to give you some ooc info as well, because it really added to the fun. Kiera Whiteman (me) and Lynn Fea (Social System) have worked together in genetics a fair bit in the past and had some fun rounds when one or both of us have been antags, so I was pleased when I saw my target.

 

Ok, I start getting my medical gear together and doing the usual doc stuff while I think how I'm going to play this. 10 minutes in I've decided my first priority is to get death sting, cos I know I'm unrobust in combat. Ok, best source of genomes for the unrobust is genetics, which is also where my target is. Just about to head over when Social says in admin chat that they need to admin. Damn. So I ask if they want to change my target then. Social laughs and decides to keep playing So now Social knows I'm after him, but ofc Lynn doesn't... this is where the fun starts

 

I stick to the plan and head to genetics to ask for a humanised monkey to practise surgery on. Whilst Lynn is fine with me, Social is telling me to fuck off (with a smile) in admin. Lynn checks if it's ok with the CMO, who green lights me getting the monkey. I'm fine with Lynn, even telling her I'll see her later :evil:, I take the monkey down to surgery and straight through to the maintenance tunnels. 1st genome absorbed, 2 to go until death sting. I wander off for a bit, not wanting to go back for another monkey too soon.

 

CMO asks what happened to the monkey over medical... shit, time to think fast

'It didn't make it, I think I need more practice"

"What were you doing to it?"

Shit, what surgery is likely to kill the patient

"Brain surgery"

"Ah yes, you need a blood pack when doing brain surgery, but don't waste them on monkeys"

Phew!

 

So I head back to genetics to get another monkey. Get there and Lynn's found camouflage. Hmm, that's not great, could really do with getting that myself. CMO comes over and asks Lynn for it... ah. "yeah, could I get it as well?" Lynn ends up giving me another monkey and camouflage. My leaving comment this time was 'This'll come in handy"

So that's genome number 2. Need one more for death sting. By this time there's been an announcement warning people that there's lings on board... Hmmm, that's not going to help

Go and find Lynn in the fitness room. In admin chat Social says 'this is when I die'... ofc it wasn't, still needed another genome. Asked for another monkey, Lynn came back to medical and gave me one. Ah, got death sting Head back to genetics, but Lynn's not there. Head to the crew monitoring comp, ah, in the kitchen. I go across to the bar. Lynn enters from the kitchen. Wh chat for a minute, then she gives me a huig and I give her a death sting Over Admin comes 'Bitch XD'

I act the concerned doctor and start rushing her to medbay... but ofc death sting puts them down, but lets them get back up for a bit before really kicking in... when she gets up she yells that I'm a ling over general.

 

Fuck!

 

Ok, ling's can deal with this... I leave Lynn where she is, head to maintenance and change into one of the humanised monkeys I fed on, hiding my ID in my backpack. Then head back to medbay. Sec's there putting Lynn into the cloner. I hang around outside and they disappear off once she's started cloning. In admin Social asks if I morphed into someone else, I answer ofc. I then head into genetics and act as any doc would, getting the corpse out of the cloner, putting it in a body bay. Lynn pops out of the cloner and staggers toward the cryotube. Quick death sting, put her in the bodybay, zip it up and stick it in the morgue. Job done.

 

Ofc now I'm left without an ID that's safe to use. So think about it for a couple of minutes, then head back to the morgue and grab Lynn's ID. Pay a trip to the HoP's and explain that I'm Lynn, but I did an experiment on my UI and ended up with a new name. HoP buys it and changes Lynn's ID to my name. Ok, I'm now a ling with full access to genetics and the morgue I eat a few more monkeys, get lesser form and range sting, then start working out how to get the HoP Jumpsuit. Decide I'm going to have to kill him for it, so I start wandering around waiting for him to come out of his office. No joy.

 

Then disaster strikes! Wandering along in medbay, minding my own business when suddenly I'm being targeted by a sec officer with a gun! I freeze. Another officer comes as backup. I'm asked why I'm not on the crew manifest. I explain that I'm Lynn and just changed my name genetically, and say they can check with the HoP. They say to put my backpack on the ground and I comply, realising as I do so that Kiera's ID ids still in there. Ofc, straight away they start accusing me of being a ling. I tried claiming that I killed Kiera, but they weren't buying it. One says into his radio that they're bringing me in for loyalty implanting.

 

Fuck that. As the one's cuffing me I death sting him and run from the other. I get tazered down. He starts bashing me with his stun baton... I'm already in pain crit so can't tell if he's stunning or harm batoning, so I hit regenerate. While I'm down I'm handcuffed and dragged to the sec office in medbay... right next to the disposals unit... Hmm, this has to be worth a try. The Sec officer is still batonning me to keep me down, but it's doing nothing as I'm effectively dead. So I hit the return to life, hit lesser form to get rid of the cuffs, and dive into the disposals. I make it to cargo alive, but I'm in a bad state, so I stagger over to the vent, collapse and start rejuvinating again. By the time I'm ready to return to life the officer's arrived and has just got a cargo tech to open it for him. I revive, hit vent crawl, hit a random one and head down. I come out at arrivals. Ok, what the hell do I do now... They'll have the AI looking for a monkey, if I transform I'll have no clothes or equipment which will be a dead giveaway.. where can I get some clothes and equipment. I then spot the gateway above me... ah

 

I head through and strip a clown soldier. Hmm, there's no way this disguise is going to work, if they spotted me just from not being on the manifest, they're going to get me like this.... (whatever my name was) as clown soldier isn't very subtle. But I've got no choice, I'll just have to hide out in a space pod until the shuttle's called and escape that way. I go back through the gateway, leave the gateway room and suddenly the emergency shutters come down everywhere and the air is searing my lungs... there'd been an anomaly explosion at customs. I stagger around for a bit trying to find a way out, eventually getting on the arrivals shuttle and regening. I wait a fair bit before returning to life. While I'm down there's a meteor shower and the shuttle is called.. When I revive I try to get on an escape pod, but can't get the airlocks to open. Ok, gonna have to try the main shuttle. At this point I notice that in the heat, my face had melted, so I'm now just Clown Soldier... ok, that's an improvement, but Sec's still going to be suspicious as hell.

 

Seems I was giving Sec too much credit... I head over to escape and wait patiently. There were several sec officers waiting, but noone batted an eyelid at the clown soldier. With about 4 minutes to go till the shuttle docked I spot the HoP waiting there. Hmm, can I? gotta try. I stroll over to where he is, death sting him, then wander away, to wait for a chance to grab his suit off him. Unfortunately Someone dragged him off to cloning (who heads away from escape when there's 3 minutes till the shuttle???). I follow, thinking to grab it while he's being cloned, only to realise I don't have access anymore. Back to the shuttle. I sit next to the door, thinking maybe I'll get another chance. Just before the shuttle leaves, the HoP comes aboard... naked!

 

Ah well, I got 3 out of 4, which isn't bad when so much went wrong, and the clown soldier lives to fight another day!

 

Kudos to Social for doing a great job at keeping OOC knowledge out of IC