During the Assault, before the Patch Note

[loyalrebel]

...how much longer until the cure-patch is ready?

The fight in Ophiuchus is looking like it is going to be very lethal very quickly if the silver power boost keeps up.

I can theoretically disrupt everything here, but I cannot guarantee the outcome of the disruption when it comes to the distribution of the cure-patch. It is something I believe the mark of the Arcana have given, breaking down order and communication.

If enough people agree it is a good plan in order to save lives on either side despite the risk, I can likely get in behind Trojan lines to hit their side and back out unharmed. If someone else with the skill is willing to hit the Defenders we can likely stall the assault for a time.

Again, the risk is that it will disrupt whatever distribution line is being used for the cure-patch.

If someone would be willing to pose this question to the programs as well, it would be wise. A decision needs to be reached swiftly, however.

Comments

[leftbehindagain]

We are quite literally on the point of a mass distribution, as soon as we get the Trojans' communications decrypted. Please don't do anything that might compromise the patch taking hold.

[loyalrebel]

Work faster.

This is swiftly becoming a slaughter.

If all you need is more power, my Atma magics are electricity and I can teleport wherever required.

[leftbehindagain]

We are working faster. If I think we'll need more Assistance than I can give my myself, I'll ask for it. It's not a question of power.

[loyalrebel]

They have an endless supply of bullets and are ripping through armor.

Get as much help as you physically can regardless of what you think you need.

[leftbehindagain]

Then distributing the patch is going to help the best. I have work to do.

[He's also not sure he can physically get anyone with the relevant skill set there before they finish, at this pace. Literally Almost Done.]

[youandyoualone]

Mayhap no one has told you this, but in my experience telling people to work faster on something they are already working as fast as they can on more often distracts them than actually causes the pace of the work to increase.

[vrepit_no]

We need to find a way to break the front lines apart and call a ceasefire. Hold off on that disruption as long as you can - the patch takes priority. It'll save more lives going online than anything else.

[loyalrebel]

The Trojans will not likely stop short of being slaughtered.

Which we can agree is to be avoided.

[vrepit_no]

So we need a strategy to keep them from getting to the other lines. We need to have the Defenders retreat, and the artillery needs disabling, and we get as many road blocks, barricades, and whatever else we can in place. If we've got stun weapons, great. Don't let them come to blows with anyone. Keep them focused and on the move.

[loyalrebel]

The Defenders are likely acting on orders from someone with a very high priority, unless someone with equal or higher gives the order... they will keep pushing.

[vrepit_no]

Which is why we need to find and reach their commander and convince them to issue new orders. Can anyone get a hold of SARA?

[loyalrebel]

Or refraction someone, give them top priority temporarily and override the order.



...how do you look in red?

[vrepit_no]

............It's worth a shot. How high up the chain of command can we get me.

[loyalrebel]

No idea. I do not have Priority.

They really need an emergency protocol for this sort of situation that does not involve removing priority all together.

[vrepit_no]

Agreed. I'm going to try and get a hold of SARA - If I can convince her, then this won't be necessary. While I'm at it I'll see if I can find out where the higher Priority Defenders are just in case.

Think you can do some sabotage and bring down some of those power stations?

this message brought to you by way too many Red Bulls

[failgoyle]

We are trying to work as fast as we can without setting everything on fire, so could you keep your pants on for five minutes we almost have it and everything is numbers and code right now and this isn't helping!

[loyalrebel]

Fires can be extinguished.

Technically I am not wearing pants, it is all one piece.

[failgoyle]

And people can get burned.

And they're metaphorical pants!

[loyalrebel]

Burns can be healed.

Death cannot be for the Programs that are walking in to this.

[failgoyle]

Okay but...consider...more Programs get hurt because whatever you do doesn't do what you think it's gonna do.

[triggerhappytraitor]

Do not use that skill.

It only causes damage and destruction. You would cause more deaths than you would prevent.

[loyalrebel]

[Malik is just going to livestream the destruction the Trojans are causing around him.]

[triggerhappytraitor]

[[Have a counter stream, even if very brief, of a line of unconscious, patched Programs, with a dataspike visible in Tachibana's hand before the feed cuts, and Tachibana mutes the Network so he can focus]]

[youandyoualone]

Or you might collect the data discs of the fallen so they might be brought back from death in time. I think that is a much wiser strategy than your theoretical disruption.

[loyalrebel]

There may be hundreds.

Preventing them from dying in the first place is less traumatic.

[youandyoualone]

And your means of prevention will quite possibly also prevent the mass cure that the team in Gemini is trying to effect.

[loyalrebel]

This is worse than the siege of Acre.

Artillery past canons and archers was a mistake.

[youandyoualone]

Yes, I know. I am not on the battlefield itself, but I am assisting the chirurgeon nearby.