<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/4/4c/ValerieStar01.png/468px-ValerieStar01.png)</div><tt class="bbc_tt"><strong>Name:</strong> <strong>Valerie Orion</strong> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=315224.msg15234052#msg15234052)<br/><strong>SP:</strong> 36 / 36      <strong>HP:</strong> 35 / 35      <strong>RP:</strong> 6 / 6<br/><strong>Weapon IN HAND:</strong> Azimuth Laser Rifle<br/><strong>Equipped Armour:</strong> Vesk Overplate I<br/><strong>Carried Weapons:</strong> Survival Knife, Tactical Semi-Auto Pistol <br/><br/><strong>Consumables:</strong> Rations x3, Intoxicant x3<br/><br/><strong>Spells/Abilities:</strong> Celestial Radiance 3 / 3, Envoy Improvisation</tt><br/><br/><hr/><br/>A drone. Well, fuck. She supposed it wasn't the worst thing in the world, considering that it probably meant that they'd set it up and left it to its own devices. Personally, she'd rather deal with a machine than an actual person. A pair of living, breathing guards would be harder to deal with for any number of reasons, but not least of all because they actually had the potential to be<em>smart.</em>An automated drone had systems and subroutines and protocols that you could exploit if you knew what they were, and they didn't really have any kind of problem solving abilities to speak of. If they were motion activated, they would lock onto the nearest source of movement and open fire, and they wouldn't usually register if the gunfire wasn't doing anything to slow it down. It would just keep firing until it ran dry, or the target disappeared...which gave them an opening to subvert it or skirt around it without much issue. Real people could problem solve, they could act in creative and intelligent ways, they could surprise you and - of course - if there were real guards standing there, they would eventually have to check in...which put you on a clock for how long their disappearance would go unnoticed for.<br/><br/>She pursed her lips together thoughtfully, eyes flickering over towards Lyssiah as she demonstrated her little hologram trick. If it was motion activated, that would definitely trigger it...but there was no real way of knowing if it was triggered by heat, or by motion, or if it had a more advanced visual-based system in place. She nodded at Lyssiah's question.<strong>"D' y' reckon it's activated by heat or motion? If Lyssie's l'il doppelganger trick can distract it, is there a side corridor or a little alcove y' can see that we can duck into when it's distracted?"</strong>She scooched over closer, trying to get a look at the video feed from Jules.<strong>"If we c'n get in close, we c'd get around it, or mebbe hack into it to serve our own purposes. I wouldn' mind havin' a gun turret t' pull outta my damn fine ass in a sticky situation, y'know what I mean?"</strong>She hummed softly, but that was pretty much the extent of her ideas. She wasn't a tech genius like these two bad bitches next to her. Her expertise was more in<em>people</em>than machines. Funnily enough, her skills were the kind you never really wanted to use on a mission like this, since it meant that you were close to getting caught. For the moment, she was content to take a back seat and let the experts figure out what could be done with the turret. She'd offer ideas, but she had no idea if any of them would actually work!