Day Six
The last Bionic was right there with them, right now, and it was killing.
Marines, this is it! Find the damn borg - do it now or we die!
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Everyone present was convinced Captain hollowkatt was behind it all. Even hollow himself wondered whether there might not be something to the accusations.
Allow me to cut the tension, comrades, burbled Csargo.
In a heartbeat she had put her nanoblade through Hollow's neck, but all were surprised to see that he had managed to raise an arm in salute before being perforated. What an honorable Marine.
Wait - that's illegal! Marines don't have swords...
Captain McGinty further considered the matter, then added:
And I'm certain I played a direct role in dishonorably discharging the last and only woman among us.
Dismissing pretenses, Csargo cast off the rest of her disguise. With an upward slash McGinty was torn apart. Captain Winston Hughes McGinty never knew what hit him as he dropped dead.
Hollowkatt was a
Winston McHughes was a
Many shouts of dismay arose, but even as dozens of lazer rifles clicked and clacked before her she charged at speed into the mass of men, faster than they could track her, expertly weaving her blade among them.
In less than a minute most of the remainder of the UMENSES remnant had perished. The scattered survivors had not been shooting much as they tried and failed to get a bead on the alacritous Bionic, unable at all to challenge Csargo as she bore down on Major Montmorency.
But just as she leaped at him with a swing, he deployed a magnetic pulse from his armor that sent her skidding into a wall, allowing a few opportunistic shots to put some flash in her.
Marines, this is all just part of Phase 18(a)(7)(c) of our Operation Blenheim! the Major announced.
Luckily for him, he had salvaged General Hankerchief's fiducial quantum state teleportation beacon, which could be used to recover any user from - theoretically - any spacetime coordinates within the solar system.
I shall return, my friends!
And with that he vanished from the scene.
As Csargo rolled back to her feet, she sensed that she ought to vacate the premises imminently. She recloaked amid some desultory fire from the survivors and sprinted for the surface.
Sergeant Lieutenant Visorslash surveyed the deplorable scene.
I think we're dead, right?
...
Some minutes later, a 500-ton conventional thermobaric device detonated over the busiest Ducky Sleaze Shameless Pizza outlet in the world, collapsing the uppermost level of the subterranean complex it capitated.
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Coda
Csargo gets promoted with extra mods for her victorious extraction; she will continue to rise through the ranks as the Bionics rebuild their operations on the Libertanian continent. Probably many setbacks arise for UMEN.
MAFIA VICTORY!
Csargo — Mafia Infiltrator (Framer)
Vroendal — Mafia Supralatus (Godfather)
Timsup2nothin — Mafia Operator (Goon)
Surprise! 
Story below
Laurentus ought to have submitted matching orders to me N4 to scan Csargo with Zelda, per the role info, but when he did he replied to Zelda but not to me, so I never received the orders. Thinking it was a misunderstanding, I offered Zelda notices about this oversight, but it never got fixed; indeed, Zelda probably wasn't able to apprehend the nature of the issue. Since Zelda's slot was the one acting/interacting, I decided I couldn't further the interaction on his behalf as a host (though in retrospect I might have come up with some very subtle nudges for Laurentus, to maintain neutrality).
The point of submitting matching orders - standard practice for all group actions on the Org - is that players can always lie to each other in private, and tell the host something else. Unfortunately, the system can also fail due to inactivity or miscommunication (as here).
So by mech Zelda performed a weak scan on Csargo, not a full scan. Here were the conditionals for Zelda's unreliable weak scan:
*Full-scan (partnered): 100% true unless framed or godfathered
*Weak scan (solo): 50% true, 25% insane (false), 25% fail with target notified that you visited them
*Deathscan (oracle): reports whatever the first eligible scan result is (but Framed scans are corrected)
Dolby counted Csargo as 95% truechecked, and in abstract, yes, a false oracle is something that should occur in this setup far less than 5% of the time. And yet it did...
Yes, this is all based on a freaking technicality, because we all know Laurentus genuinely intended to cooperate with Zelda.
Absent this flub, the trajectory was for Argon to F3/F4 against all VTs today.
ggs all
Sorry for the anticlimax.
See below for all the details.
FINAL TALLY
Hollow (4): Dolby, Winston, Hollow, Csargo
Living Players (---)
Dolby (Dolbster/Dolb)
Winston Hughes (Winston/WH/McGinty)
Csargo (Csar)
Laurentus (Laur)
Dead Players (13)
Raskolnikov (D1)
c4e5g3d5 (N1)
Timsup2nothin (N1)
El-ahrairah (D2)
Garden Gnome (D3)
Lewwyn (N3)
CutePanda (N3)
NANOOK (N3)
Ibn-Khaldun (D4)
pzelda (N4)
BorgPicard (D5)
Vroendal (D5)
hollowkatt (D6)
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